"Zi'an, there is no evidence..."

Under the cover of the imperial court, most people believe that the assassination case was from Xixia, but Lao Wang would not really believe that it was from Xixia. So who would it be? Wen Yanbo is undoubtedly the biggest suspect.

For hair.

Without evidence, what can I do with Wen Yanbo?

If Wang Ju asked Wen Yanbo to be the one who was made by him, Wen Yanbo could impeach Wang Ju and falsely accused the old ministers of the three dynasties.

You should know that Wen Yanbo is not fighting alone!

"Prince, do you think I can make all maritime merchants obey orders?"

"Zi'an, why did you ask about this?"

"Prince, it's very important."

"I'm afraid it's difficult."

"That's it. Wen Yanbo killed Zhang Mu by chance, and I can't seek justice for him. If the merchants were extremely disappointed, and like in the past few years, all the merchants did not go through the Maritime Bureau, but used private merchants to enter and exit? That's fine. What kind of changes will they cause if they interrupted the provision of gold and silver to our dynasty?"

"Bank Department?" Lao Wang shivered.

If it starts, that's fine. The key is that the Qingmiao Law is abolished now, and large livestock and non-commercial houses are not included in households.

This is nothing more. Just as Wang Ju said, the ones who are not taxed are the subject of taxation, and the ones who are not taxed are the subject of house taxation. If you don’t talk about other cities, just talk about the capital city, at least one hundred thousand families can vary. If you collect the house tax system according to the court, you can at least one capital city to charge a house tax of millions. However, let alone the capital city, how many house taxes were levied in the entire Song Dynasty in one year.

Therefore, it doesn't matter. The key is that the Secretariat has issued an edict to notify all prefectures and counties across the country. In accordance with this new edict, re-verify the households of the people of each prefecture and county. This means that half of the first-class households will become second-class households. Half of the second-class households will become third-class households, and half of the third-class households will become fourth-class households...

If there is no subsidy from the bank, whether it is exempt from labor or two taxes, the court will wait and cry.

"Duke Wen would not ignore the general situation like this."

"Prince, a Huashan earthquake. It was used by Duke Wen to attack the new law, so the curtain was opened for the use of natural disasters to attack the new law. So there was a Zheng Xia case, a Sima Guang and others impeachment, Duke Jiefu was dismissed! Also, the Dongming County incident, the prime minister's case, and the Zhang Mu case... all have a vague relationship with Duke Wen. However, if you really want to find a handle for him, you can find nothing. If you don't look for it, Duke Wen is everywhere, including my ambiguous relationship with the eldest princess, he can also find out. In terms of scheming, no one of the five gentlemen of Qingli, Fan Pang Fuhan, can match Duke Wen!"

"It seems...it's not possible, Zi'an, let's go to meet the official family."

"Prince. I want to avoid suspicion, so I won't go."

"Okay, I'll come and go."

Lao Wang went to see Zhao Xu.

Wang Juze sat down to handle official duties. The clerk came in and said, "Taibao, Shilang Xu and General Yan asked for a meeting."

"Let them come in."

General Xu, the Minister of War, and Yan Da, deputy commander in front of the hall, were brought in.

First, General Xu made a speech: "News came from Shaanxi that Xixia is also very embarrassing."

"This is inevitable, but Mr. Xu, you must also order the soldiers on the front lines in Shaanxi to pay attention that Western Xia is not our dynasty, especially the Liang clan, who is an extreme military and deposed warrior."

"The main reason is that these two defeats are too bad." Xu Jiang sighed.

Wang Ju said that six years is actually the recovery time for at least three or four years. If it was the original, there was no need to pay attention. When Wang Ju returned to the capital in the front, Xixia immediately stopped the battle behind him.

"It's okay. Although our dynasty was defeated miserably, the country was huge and could be delayed. It was still possible to do it without seeking attacks, but only seeking self-protection."

May be gone.

Wang Ju said to Yan Da: "When did you go back to the capital?"

"Prince, after I led my troops to fight with Bagan in the south, because the weather was too hot and I was unwell, I got sick after the war, and the official issued an edict to let me return to Beijing."

No matter what, Lao Yan is getting older.

Wang Ju sighed in his heart and said, "Is it okay elsewhere on Yunnan Road?"

"It has basically been calmed down, but in some remote mountainous areas, Mr. Zhang is still helpless."

"That's fine. As for those remote mountainous areas, we have to be detained and appeased in the future. The focus of the country will eventually be the north. If the north can stabilize, the south will not be troubled."

"In fact, as long as Xixia can be wiped out, the situation in our dynasty will immediately change."

"It's not that easy... I won't say this anymore. General Yan, I invite you here, mainly because I want you to do something."

"Prince, please give me instructions."

"Let's see," Wang Ju took out a map of Kaifeng area: "Two defeats, including some soldiers in the capital, died tragically in the northwest. Therefore, I issued an edict to select strong people from Baoding to serve as imprisonment soldiers. I want you to take them to train. In addition, there is a pastoral area here."

This pastoral area is located at the junction of Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, with an area of ​​more than 2,000 hectares, but some of them were occupied by powerful people.

Wang Ju said again: "I plan to sort out this pastoral area and further expand the number of new recruits. As for the forbidden soldiers in the city, if they are over fifty years old and weak, even if they are not weak, they are not generals over fifty years old, and they will be retired."

"This idea is good. The combat effectiveness of the injunctions in the city is too poor. But even so, how many injunctions can be placed in this pastoral area alone?"

Even if five or six thousand imperial troops are added, it will be useless on the battlefield of Song Xia.

"I know, however, if the army is expanded in Shaanxi, in this situation, the people will be like a frightened bird. Who would like to join the army? Even if the recruitment is expanded, they are mostly lazy or rascals. It is better not to expand. So I drag it on and see what the situation will be next year. But if you want to attack the summer, you must prepare from now on."

Wang Ju took out another big map, which is a map of the northern part of Hedong Road. He pointed to Shizhou and Lanzhou and other places and said, "There are still several pastures in this area. Although the imperial court has officially used them to herd horses one after another, it has not been used well. Therefore, I plan to draw out another 6,000 hectares of pastures from here to resettle the border troops."

"If that happens, the court will have a serious lack of ranches."

"General Yan, if even I and Mr. Zhang work together in a few years, I can't take over Xixia, who else do you think can take over Xixia in the Song Dynasty? Be at ease to defend. Don't dream anymore, then why do you need a large ranch? If you can take over, there will be a land of Xixia. How could the court lack horse shedding places? And once the attack on Xia begins, Fulin Road is particularly important. First, we must cooperate with Shaanxi's six routes to attack Xia, and second, we must prevent the Liao army from going south. We must place the new border army on Fulin Road. That's not the case.

It's possible. But there is no problem in the two states of Shilan. Moreover, Hedong is mountainous and narrow, and the people are in distress. If the court provides more than ten chunks of money and silk every year like Zheng Baiqu, and then allocates them enough arable land. I believe it will be welcomed by many young men. Then more than 6,000 hectares of arable land can be expanded to at least 15,000 border troops, and they are located in the two states of Shilan. If you go north, you can support Daizhou, cross the Yellow River, and support Fulin Road."

Yan Da asked carefully: "Can the court's financial resources keep up?"

Don’t think that if you only expand the enrollment of 20,000 banished soldiers, you have to give the relevant armor. If you set up cavalry, you must prepare war horses for them.

But Wang Ju's various measures seem to have spent a lot of money after he came back.

"This is not a big problem." Wang Judao.

As long as the silk scoop can be recognized by everyone, 100 million yuan can be issued in the next two years, which is equivalent to making nearly 30 million yuan of profits in disguise. However, the number of silk scoops is larger now, but there are more than 20 million yuan, which is enough to cover these expenses.

As the two were talking, Xiaohuangmen came in and said, "Taibao, the official family said that you will go to Yanhe Palace to meet."

"Okay," Wang Ju turned his head and said to Yan Da: "That's it. You see if there is anything else to add. Write me a musical script."

As he said that, Wang Ju went to Yanhe Palace.

Zhao Xu was looking at the urgent comments from Hangzhou Maritime Bureau in distress.

"See Your Majesty," Wang Ju gave a big gift.

"Wang Qing. Did Zhang Mu beat him to death?"

"Is it true that this memorial cannot be seen alone. But Mr. Wen must be biased in his judgment of the case. If it is indeed as stated in this memorial, it can only prove that the deceased was beaten by Zhang Mu, and it was not Zhang Mu's first move. Then the deceased was helped back to the Li family and died the next day. This period is enough to have too many things happening. The first is where and when did he vomit blood and initiate death?"

"It was at the Li family that night."

"Your Majesty, is in the Li family, but where is the Li family? At the door, living room, or a house of a servant, beating at dusk, but after returning, he vomits blood, or at the first, second, and third, someone saw it? These are all subject to investigation, but Duke Wen beheaded Zhang Mu without asking questions. Could Duke Wen beheaded an official who knew nothing about it? Of course, I don't know if Zhang Mu was beaten to death now. Also, I don't know how far the brothel where Xiuxiu is is from the Li family. If so, killing someone will pay for his life, even if Duke Wen decides arbitrary case, it is not considered to be a waste of human life."

This statement is quite fair.

"What if it is?"

"There are family rules and the state has national laws. Then I will appease the merchants on the other side. Could it be that they can beat people to death because of their contributions? But I have never understood why the court transferred Duke Wen to Hangzhou?"

"Zi'an, this is my idea," Wang Gui blamed himself.

“Why?”

"Last year, your Majesty needs to call you back to stabilize your morale, but Duke Wen has always been hostile to you in Luoyang, so Duke Wen must be transferred from Luoyang. However, no matter where he is transferred to the north, there will be someone who will respond to Duke Wen. If you can be transferred to the south, only Jiangning and Hangzhou can resettle Duke Wen."

Lao Wang’s idea cannot be said to be wrong. He can only be transferred to the south to eliminate Wen Yanbo’s influence.

But if it is transferred to Jiangning, would Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo have a king-to-king?

There is another reason Wang Gui didn't say, that is, in a sense, Wang Gui was also disliked when he saw Wu Nan beat the governor Zhou Xun. Of course, it was impossible to transfer Wen Yanbo to Quanzhou and Guangzhou, but transferring to Hangzhou was also a deterrent to Haike.

However, on the other hand, if Wen Yanbo did too much to Haike, the court could further punish Wen Yanbo so that Wang Juhao could come back to do things.

But although Lao Wang was kind-hearted, he never expected that a murder case would be beaten.

But Zhao Xu was very angry. Huang He asked Wen Yanbo to go to Hangzhou. Wen Yanbo kept saying on the way that the maritime merchants were rebellious and beat Zhou Xun when they grabbed Zhou Xun. The old minister was afraid.

This is called fear!

So he said, "Let the censor Wang Huan go to Hangzhou to check it out."

The main reason is that the memorial of the Maritime Bureau is difficult to explain clearly, and no one can tell whether the person was really beaten to death by Zhang Mu.

Yes, it is a saying. No, it is another saying.

…………

"Zhu Dalang, this price is wrong."

"Mr. Qi, what's wrong?"

"There are rumors in the northwest that due to poverty in the West, the whole country mines Helan inkstones. Helan inkstones should be cheaper. Why are you still increasing the price?" Qi Yuanwai said with some unhappiness: "We are all old acquaintances."

"Just Agent Qi is just an old acquaintance, so he gives you this price. Think about it, where did the Helan inkstone be picked from?"

“Helan Mountain.”

"It's Helan Mountain, but it was mined from the cliffs of Helan Mountain. It's Helan Mountain. Do you know that it's several times higher than Yushan. Think about how difficult it is to mine. Although there are still goods now, the Xixia country will mine it. It won't take long to take all the easy-to-mapped places. At that time, its price will be even higher than Tao inkstone and Duan inkstone."

Helan Mountain, so... far away!
To be continued...