"Your Majesty, I heard that the governor Zhang built Pingxia City in the northwest, is there any such incident?" Fan Chunren asked.

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"Your Majesty, no, Taibao, you must stop it."

"Haha, haha." Wang Ju said two times.

Fan Chunren also belongs to the Gouhe School, but it is not as excessive as Sima Guang.

If the Liang family sent an envoy to ask for peace last year, then let's get along. Xixia needs rest and rest, and Shaanxi Road needs rest and rest. If you want to fight Xixia, Shaanxi Road must recover first. What is the big rear? Shaanxi Road is the real big rear!

But don't expect the Song Dynasty to give you another gift.

Liang is not happy anymore, we have all asked for peace. Why don’t you send silver, silk, and tea?

Therefore, this policy of buying security is unsatisfactory, and the Liao Kingdom can still be a little bit reasonable. Apart from the small-scale grass-rooted valley of border residents, since the Chanyuan Alliance, the Liao Kingdom has never sent large-scale troops to the south, but did Xixia really buy security?

If it weren't for the continuous blood transfusions to Xixia over the years, would Xixia's poor economy still be so rampant?

However, this has become true. If we don’t send money, we will attack your Song Dynasty. So Xixia came again, invading three times in a row, aiming at the security army twice. Once, it suddenly invaded the security army, almost scaring Xie Jingwen to death. Fortunately, there was Liu Shaoneng in the city, so he immediately organized defense, so that Xixia did not succeed. Another time, invaded Jintang City. The lord of Jintang City was Fu Shaoting. He didn’t know what to use troops. If Liu Changzuo had not led the cavalry to repel the Xixia people in time, Xixia would have captured Jintang City.

Then Liu Changzuo wrote to the court, Emperor, you can't play like this. The security army was not the security army of the past. Since the victory in Qingzhou, not only did Qingzhou advance towards Hengshan, but the security army also advanced forward. However, under the leadership of Xie Jingwen, the entire security army's defense system did not move. On the contrary, after two mistakes, he did not review himself. Instead, he blamed the generals and soldiers.

It was not for Zhao Xu, but for Wang Ju.

The court issued an order to appoint Liu Shaoneng as the magistrate of the Security Army and ask Xie Jingwen and Fu Shaotingjing to be.

Wang Ju asked in Yanhe Palace: "Mr. Xie, Fu Zongzheng (Fu Shaoting's graceful position and official Zongzheng). You went to the northwest and truly valued harmony, but why did the people of Xixia choose you?"

The two were frightened and dared not speak.

"Although you want to be harmonious, they don't take it as a matter. Instead, because you don't understand the military, they just take action on you."

Fan Chunren said: "It's not true that Zi'an. If the court gave him annual tribute, perhaps Xixia would not invade."

Wang Ju originally wanted to say that after two fierce battles, the Shaanxi Road was in trouble, but the Xixia was even more difficult. It doesn’t matter if the Shaanxi Road was in trouble. We can allocate grain and money from other roads to support, but who will support the Xixia? And they may be less than 700,000 households now, and now they will give the annual gift again. When they arrive at the border, the value of these silver tea and silk may be less than 500,000, but after crossing Hengshan, it will be worth at least 600,000 yuan. Not much in the Song Dynasty, but in the Xixia, the breath will be breathing. Give me a three-year gift in a row, and you still tell me whether I can fight Xixia?

But he was too lazy to explain. He only said one sentence: "Your Majesty, it's better to give Xixia ten thousand sets of armor and ten thousand divine arm bows immediately. I believe that Xixia will not invade the Song Dynasty in two years."

Isn’t this a swear word?

However, the truth is the same, because peace cannot be bought. The sooner the Xixia recovers, the larger the scale of the invasion will be.

Finally, the imperial court issued an order to Xie Jingwen as the governor of Suizhou. He made a mistake and was promoted from the magistrate to the magistrate. Regardless of whether the state was a backward state or not, it was considered to have fallen lightly.

Fu Shaoting was also regarded as the Sanmen Transportation Commissioner. Although this person was dogmatic, he was considered a moderate school like his father and was OK to the people. The Sanmen Transportation Commission was very important in the future. Even if the court spent a little more money, he could not be too harsh on the people. Therefore, Wang Ju made such arrangements.

This seemed to be a signal, so people began to evade taxes again, which led to Wang Ju's ruthless moves, and successively assigned more than 50 clerks, more than 80 managers and servants, and even directly attacked the powerful merchants himself. More than a dozen large merchants and major households were assigned to Shaanxi for "labor reform", which prevented the deterioration of the commercial tax again.

Wang Ju shouted two hehe, and Fan Chunren immediately retreated.

It's better not to offend this kid.

And if you continue speaking, you must ensure that Wang Ju can say extremely ugly things. At least Wang Ju can ask, Fan Youcheng, do you understand the military?

Zhao Xu was too lazy to explain. Of course, he was still a little nervous when he was about to fight.

So he looked at Wang Ju.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, I was in Huachi County, and Zhang Zhifu was the signing judge in Qingzhou. He came to Huachi County for business. I had a long talk with him for a long time, especially in military understanding. I thought it was a man of heaven. Therefore, in the battle of Qingzhou, I asked Your Majesty to come to Qingzhou to serve as a magistrate in order to prepare for a think tank. The outside world said that I was good at military leadership, but it was actually wrong. What I was good at is water conservancy and economy. Therefore, whenever I went to a place, I attached importance to roads and water conservancy construction, and the people quickly became richer. Just as Guangnan West Road was as barren, but under my governance, a solid foundation was laid."

This is undeniable, Guangnan has indeed become better now.

"As for military affairs, I am a little weak, but I am aware of myself. The Battle of Dashun City was based on the Battle of Cai and Qingzhou, and Zhang Zhifu served as an assistant. In the battle in the south, I asked Yan Da and other generals many times, and also asked His Majesty to transfer Yan Da and others to the south, so that Jiaozhi was wiped out and Dali was taken down."

Lao Yan stood on the west side, so moved that she didn't know what to say.

"At the beginning of Xining, it was Wang Shao, and then I arrived at the minister. After the minister left, when the country was in large-scale wars, it was necessary to rely on Zhang Zhifu. This is just like during the Three Kingdoms, first Zhou Yu, second Lu Su, Lu Meng, and 6 Xun. Although the three internal affairs were the worst, Eastern Wu was the worst. It was presided over by four generations of ministers who knew military affairs. Eastern Wu lasted longer than Shu."

"Oh, what about the man Zhang Zhifu."

Wang Ju really wants to say, Master, you are thinking too far!

But I still thought about it seriously and said, "Zen Shidao."

Wang Ju really can't remember what Zhong Shidao did in history. He only remembered one thing and one sentence, and one thing was that Zhang Gang was commanded by Zhang Gang in the name of the success of the Tokyo Defense War, and the actual commander was Zhong Shidao. Therefore, there is another saying, "The Master is immortal, and the Northern Song Dynasty will never be destroyed."

"What about Master Zhong?"

"Your Majesty, who can know after him?"

Zhao Xu was happy, and the ministers on both sides also laughed.

But Wang Ju really knew that there were too many powerful men behind him, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie and Wu Lin brothers, and Liu Qi. These five people took out any one of them, which was better than Master Zhong.

But none of these five people were born now.

But so what if there are many fierce people? There are these five unparalleled generals. The Southern Song Dynasty did not accept the Central Plains, and even used twelve gold medals to force Yue Fei from Zhuxian Town.

Thinking about it makes people speechless.

Others don’t know that on the contrary, many military generals and officials envied, because Wang Ju said that if you think about the future future of the Master’s Way, it would be said that you have reached the top.

Zhao Xu opened his mouth and wanted to say, no wonder you transferred Master Zhong to the West Road in Yunnan. It turns out that he is trying to sharpen his growth.

Now Zhao Xu finally felt this real method of cultivating talents, but unfortunately he woke up a little late.

Everyone scattered the court.

But Shen Kuo chased after him and said, "Zi'an, remember Yongle City."

This is his kindness.

"Is there any difference between Yongle City and Pingxia City?" Wang Ju asked.

"It seems to be almost the same."

"It looks like the same, but it's too different. Will the water shortage in Pingxiacheng first?"

Not to mention the Hulu River. Because its terrain is flat, low-lying and humid, even if there is no Hulu River, you can still get water by digging a few wells in the city.

"Let's talk about public opinion. Since Weimingshan defected to my Song Dynasty, the people who had a good impression of me have migrated to the south of the Dali River. The brides of all ethnic groups who continued to stay in the Dali River can be said to have no good impression of our dynasty, but will the brides of all ethnic groups in Pingxiachuan be hated to our dynasty like the brides around Yongle City?"

This cannot be underestimated. It can play an important role in the ear and eyes when it is critical.

Moreover, Zhang Shi had already gone to Pingxiachuan at this time and made targeted arrangements.

"It seems that Yongle City has Mizhi villages in the east and Futu villages in the south to support them, but Mizhi and other villages are separated by Wuding River and many mountains, so the so-called support is just the so-called. Xifutu village was recovered shortly after it was regained, and it was lonely outside the river. It can play a lot of support role. Yes, Pingxia City was built together, and it is also isolated in the north, but below it is Dingchuan Village, Xining Village, Gaoping Village, Tiansheng Village, and especially after Mr. Cai went to Weizhou, he built military farms here. Not only were there a large number of troops, but there were also many archers with strong combat power."

Now these archers have been adapted into border troops together, but it also shows that its rear foundation is far better than that of Yongle City.

So this is a strategic plan that is highly imaginative, seemingly dangerous, actually not dangerous.

Wang Ju named it Pingxiachuan, which is actually called Huluchuan. However, from a bird's eye view, the entire Huluchuan on the surface is a slender shape, but in fact it is a Saturn compressed into two-dimensional shape. The two ends are slender and the middle is large. This big place is Pingxiachuan named by Wang Ju, where the new city is built.

How helpful will such a large plain with abundant water and grass have to the poor Xixia?

This article is not critical, mainly because of its military role. It is Xiaoguan above, Tiandu Mountain to the west, Huanzhou to the east, and Zhenrong Army below. As long as this city is successfully built, the people of Xixia will no longer be able to pose a threat to the flanks of Huanzhou. Then, the Song army can threaten Xiaoguan and attack Tiandu Mountain at any time in the west.

Think about it, will Liang fight desperately when he hears this news?

Moreover, if Wang Ju wants to conquer the summer, he also needs this city. If it is too far away, the transportation of grain and grass is a big problem. However, how much labor will be saved when conquer the summer?

There is no need to say this to Shen Kuo.

"Brother Cunzhong, let's talk about the military talent of the chief general, how can Xu Xi compare with Zhang Zhifu?"

There are four reasons, which are enough.

Shen Kuo was a little bleak.

It would be great if he had heard Zhong Yan's words at the beginning. In short, this great scientist was not so kind-hearted. Why did Xu Xi be favored by Zhao Xu when he heard Xu Xi's words? Shen Kuo wanted to curry favor with him but did not curry favor with him, but fell into the mud pit.

Wang Ju said again: "Brother Cunzhong, the situation will be a little better this year."

Wang Ju transferred Shen Kuo to this new machinery company as the manager. Shen Kuo couldn't figure out the truth, so it was not a place to deal with it. He also went to Beijing to work in Beijing, and was very happy and came to Beijing immediately.

Then he was stupid.

Then he said, this name is not good.

Wang Ju changed his name to Qiwujian, but Shen Kuo was still unwilling to do so. Qiwu was not a good name in this era, and it was easy to remind people of strange skills and tricks, so Wang Ju changed his name to Liminjian. Shen Kuo was the envoy of the people.

Shen Kuo didn't say anything.

However, the problem arose again. The money was spent, and the profit was very small. Many stocks were unhappy. Shen Kuo was troubled by the quarrel. He wanted to stack his hooves. Wang Ju had no choice but to cast various iron tools last year, such as kitchen knives, scissors, hoes, hatchets, sickles, etc. Wang Ju distributed five million guan to several new state troops in Miaoshizhong. He took out a portion of them, purchased a large number of agricultural tools from Liminjian and transferred them to the south by ship.

Moreover, the quality is indeed good, and it is a large-scale new method of production, with relatively low cost. It is very popular in the market. However, some ministers said that they compete with the people for profit. Wang Ju didn't say anything at all, because this is the general trend, and large-scale workshops will inevitably replace small handicraft workshops.

This made Shen Kuo breathe a little slow last year.

By this year, the steam engine and some machinery have been further improved, and many people have seen their benefits, and finally someone has purchased it and some have purchased it. Slowly profits will keep up, and Shen Kuo’s pressure should be relieved a little, so Wang Ju asked this.

Shen Kuo was still a little unhappy.

"In ancient times, many people have passed away for generations, such as Shennong, tasting hundreds of herbs, doctors, small roads, Du Kang made wine, winemakers, Lu Ban, carpenters, and even entered the current market. In fact, my misunderstandings are very deep and I don't believe it. As long as you do it well, many descendants may not remember Mr. Cai, Mr. Zhang and Prince, but they must remember you. Besides, before my dynasty changed households, the number of people below the fifth grade was at least 40%. After changing households, the number of people below the fifth grade was at least 50% after changing households, and after changing households, the number of people below the fifth grade was at least 50%. However, except for the newly migrated people, the number of people below the fifth grade was less than 10%! Why, it is precisely because of the importance of these small roads that bring many benefits to the people. Brother Guanzhong, and his vision should be long-term. Just like me, the bank office has finally been gradually improved, but I will leave the capital next year. Have I ever complained?"

"So fast?"

"A gentleman's words are as good as he can."

"The banking department is really good."

Up to now, the amount of silk for printing and dyeing has exceeded 200 million guan. The most important thing is that Wang Ju raised the interest by one cent, attracting many people to deposit, and increased the amount of deposit to 130 million guan. In addition to silk for trading, there are also a large amount of copper coins.
To be continued...