"The country must keep the right way to seek wealth. Last year, we cannot take too much... and within ten years, it is impossible to reach this number again..." Zheng Lang said.

Last year, officials further decreased, and the mining pits and farms lost weight, and their expenditures also decreased. However, many wars broke out in the northwest, which still brought the expenditure to more than 13500 million yuan last year. Among them, Cheng Shimeng presided over Shaanxi water conservancy, which increased the grain in Shaanxi, reduced the grain transportation costs in the border areas, and the charity club's charity expenses. Due to the good weather last year, most of the charity expenses were invested in Shaanxi to rescue the people affected by the war. However, last year's hidden fields and reports restricted the active surnames of major households to donate. But in fact, they reduced the pressure on the court.

In terms of saving money, Zheng Lang almost achieved the ultimate goal. I am afraid that Wang Anshi, who has changed from history, would not be able to do this.

There was no war, but there were also expenses such as water conservancy, roads, disaster relief, and various unexpected expenses. From now on, the normal expenses of the Song Dynasty would not be less than 130 million yuan each year. If there was a major disaster or a large-scale battle, only God knows how much money could be spent.

Also, it is impossible not to hold the Nanjiao Festival until now, and the Nanjiao Festival will be more than 20 million yuan at a time.

After several years of layoffs, the number of officials has dropped to 18,000, and the number of officials has dropped sharply by one-sixth. However, it has not been compensated for four years. Once supplemented, more than 2,000 officials will be added at one time, and the expenses will surge again.

But last year's revenue also hit a staggering number.

Zheng Lang is not the right way, but refers to the surge in commercial taxes. The others have not increased much, and the real increase is only two taxes, which are more than one million. The other items either increase or decrease, almost the same, and the total increase is only more than two million.

This is a manifestation of not conserving the people.

There is also the money in the shop, which received more than 7 million yuan, and the wine business in Hedong has earned more than 9 million yuan. However, under the supervision of the reporting system, the commercial tax increased by more than 15 million yuan in just eight months! This surge almost brought the income to more than 211 million yuan last year! And the surge was the commercial tax and wine business auction, mainly money and silk, with a higher gold content. It turned into money, and the annual income exceeded 200 million yuan last year! This made the surplus of nearly 9 million yuan last year after repaying the debt of nearly 70 million yuan last year, and the reason for preparing the inventory of gold and silver.

However, it cannot be announced!

The dispute over the harsh commercial taxation has subsided slightly, and the storm of the investigation of hidden fields has not yet subsided. The country's income has surged to such a point, and it is mainly due to the harsh commercial taxation. Then the wave has not subsided, and the wave will rise again. What cannot be announced is the inventories of gold and silver. The banking surveillance seems to be in a long time because of the burden on the banking surveillance. In recent years, a large amount of gold and silver has not been brought by Japan, but also by many gold and silver. The official price of gold and silver has not moved, and the actual private price has begun to be lowered, so many voluntary stocks of Ping An surveillance took the initiative to hand over gold and silver and let the court use it to mint coins. Once the news of the increase in the banking surveillance stocks came out, more than 100 million yuan of real money must be prepared as a guarantee for Jiaozi, and the price of gold and silver will rise again. If used properly, secretly exchanged, or directly intercepted from the Ping An surveillance, the court can save millions of voluntary money in disguise. On the contrary, the cost may increase.

The means are abnormal and the income is not normal.

First of all, Hedong Wine Service will not only disappear next year, but will also reduce its income by 400,000 to 500,000 yuan each year within ten years.

The money in Fangchang will also decrease accordingly. In the past two years, Fangchang has received more than 10 million yuan, but many of them have been in three or ten years. On the average, it is only more than 4 million a year, which is less than 6 million yuan in Yuanfeng in history. On the contrary, the scale is larger, not only more than fangchangs have been given up, but many pit mines have also been given up. However, considering that the implementation has only begun, the Fangchang pit mines have been made by the court's poor profits. Knowing that it was caused by the minor officials, the merchants have no confidence in what happened. Therefore, the court in history only received more than 1 million yuan. After long-term implementation, the money in Fangchang will be more, but it will inevitably be sharply reduced next year.

Finally, there is commercial tax. This year's commercial tax will not be considered. It may not be considered within fifty years. Even if it is restored to the previous year's level, it may not be known because the tax rate has been lowered.

But it was already very good. Zhao Xu said excitedly: "If you keep it right, you will be righteous. Zheng Gong, can you tell me that Chen Shunyu's report?"

Tax evaders were not only scholars and officials, but also many powerful merchants. In his later years, the minister Chen Shunyu of Renzong deliberately submitted a memorial to this situation, and he pointed out that there were many wealthy merchants, with arks in the water and a horse in the land. There were many officials who traveled thousands of miles apart, which meant that there were no corpses. This was the so-called conscription of the people but not merchants. Wu and Shu were thousands of miles away, and the wealthy merchants and merchants sent people to bribe officials in advance. The boats were loaded with heavy loads, and there was no pain in the passage. In other words, the only people who could actually collect commercial taxes were small and medium-sized merchants and people. They even directly named Zheng Hao, a silk merchant in Xiaoshan, who had accumulated taxes, and those who did not have taxes were tens of thousands. That is, at least evaded taxes were more than 100,000 yuan. Because of this memorial, the Zheng family was targeted. This time, the Zheng family was also shot. Zhao Xu deliberately sent someone to investigate secretly and then publicly tried the fine, and the amount of the fine reached more than 200,000 yuan, which almost destroyed the Zheng family.

"Your Majesty, the people are your Majesty's people, the merchants are also your Majesty's people, and the literati and officials are your Majesty's people. If a policy is implemented in a long and effective manner, all people must consider it good..." Zheng Lang tactfully advised.

"Oh, I won't talk about this anymore. Mr. Zheng, can you see the Northwest Good News?" Zhao Xu asked.

"I haven't seen it, but I've heard it."

"Escape from the wind, Zhong Yan, is a powerful general of the Song Dynasty," Zhao Xu said happily.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "It's too close to Yinxia, ​​too far from Suizhou, and too long the defense line. Your Majesty still wants to issue an edict to make Zhong Yan be careful. Pride is failure!"

Zhong Yan's victory in Mahuchuan and fought fiercely with Xixia Yu Shengping. Zhong Yan asked his general Gao Yongneng to lead 6,000 cavalry to meet the enemy. The five battles in Xixia were unfavorable, and great storms arose, so the people of Xixia fled. The news came back to the Song Dynasty. Everyone was stunned at first, and then felt proud. Zhong Yan's city of Luowu, and then fought with Xixia people at Shangbingling and was defeated. Therefore, Zhong Yan built Yongle City on one side, and built Yongle City in Hexi in Luowu City, and Funing Old Village in southwest of Yongle City. He followed this line toward Linzhou to repair three wild springs, Tuhunchuan, Kaiguangling and Jialuling four villages, each forty miles apart, connecting Hedong.

With the seven villages together, the situation in Xixia is in danger.

But were the people of Xixia willing? As long as the Song Dynasty occupied the two villages of Luowu and Yongle, the two countries would not die. Otherwise, sooner or later, all the two states of Dongheng Mountain and Yinxia were occupied by the Song Dynasty. Now Zheng Lang does not want to engage in a large-scale war with Xixia, nor is it the time for a final battle, and Zheng Lang does not want to place the direction of the battle in Yinxia, ​​but in the southwest direction.

However, it was Zheng Lang who persuaded him that he would listen to the great victory in Zhong Yan at this time?

The war continued, which seemed unfavorable to the Song Dynasty and even more unfavorable to the Western Xia, so Zheng Lang watched and did not intervene.

In fact, some officials have a graceful attitude, but they also see some problems. For example, Luowu City is more than 100 miles away from Suizhou. The roads are difficult to test, the beams are narrow and difficult to provide for wages, and there are no wells and springs in the city to provide them with drinking water. On the contrary, it is very close to Yinzhou, only thirty miles away, and the roads are connected to, and the people of Xixia can attack them at any time.

After Zheng Lang reminded him, Zhao Xu sent Li Ping and Zhang Jingxian to inspect.

Also, the foundation is weak, not like other places in Shaanxi, with a good rear. The east side of Suizhou is the Luliang Mountain and the Yellow River. Suizhou itself does not have much ability to take on logistics, and it must transport grain and food from farther away to a truckload of money and silk.

In order to provide his logistics, the court had to issue an edict to support the surrounding areas. After the Censor Fan Yu arrived in Hedong, he wrote a letter saying that the 300,000 people transferred their wages to the road, and the fees were 5 or 6 million, the servants were exhausted from transferring, the wine merchants were trapped in compensation, the taxman was poor in peace, and the ministers were afraid that the people would be unable to bear their lives. In fact, after this battle, the logistics waste alone reached 7 million.

The improved exemption law has been promoted for many years, but the border prefectures, including most areas of Kuixia Fourth Road, and the entire Shaanxi Road, are still implementing the servant law. First, let the scholars and officials look at the situation on both sides, and second, they are too much labor and cannot afford it. If the exemption law is implemented, plus the cost of 300,000 labor, the cost will be even higher.

Of course, the court saved money and made the people suffer.

After Zhang Jingxian and Li Ping went down, they also said when they saw the scene along the way, "When they entered the Fuyan Realm and asked for the benefits and disadvantages of Loucheng, no one said anything." The people who saw the haggardness of the people on the road were seen, and the teachers and brigades gave a pity."

Zheng Lang handled it in time in the Secretariat, otherwise it would be 90% possible, causing more than 2,000 soldiers in Qingzhou to rebel, and Guanzhong was stumbled. However, this battle still added a heavy burden to the people of Shaanxi. Zheng Lang did not stop it because the burden brought to Xixia was heavier.

At the moment, Liang did not know the future development and suffered several defeats. He was depressed in the country and had to send envoys to ask for help from the Khitan.

This situation is quite similar to the vulgar Japanese country in later generations, but it should be said that the Song Dynasty was more competitive at this time.

Although Yelu Hongji was dissatisfied with Xixia, he did not want the Song Dynasty to swallow Xixia. Xu Fa's 300,000 soldiers were helping him. Don't take it seriously. How much money would it cost to send a 300,000 army? Besides, the Khitan was conquering the five Jurchen countries, so it was impossible to withdraw troops. This was to give the people of Xixia courage to draw an empty cake.

Regardless of whether it is true or false, Liang's confidence is revived.

Military is the position of the Western Prefecture. Zheng Lang only used the convenience of the Secretariat and the Three Sessions to reduce the hardships of the people and soldiers. His main focus was on checking hidden fields and auctioning some future manors. He also established schools.

Nearly two million yuan was taken out of the fine, and some money was drawn from the treasury. More than 800 schools were established in Guangdong, Guangxi, Lizhou Road and Zizhou Prefectures, and the Shuman District of Jinghu South Road. The children were mainly recruited to target the children of the barbarians, allowing them to learn some Confucian books, read and read literacy, and even under the leadership of Shen Kuo and Shi Heng, a more simple book on the study of the matter was compiled, which was promoted and selected in some schools, which was equivalent to later primary schools in various regions. Not only these more than 800 schools, but also various academies, provincial schools, charity schools, and rural schools in the Song Dynasty, which could give 300,000 to 400,000 people a study opportunity every year. It will play a positive role in further enhancing people's wisdom.

However, more than 800 schools in the barbarian areas not only enlighten the people's wisdom, but also help the integration of barbarians and the peace of the region.

This area is not a big area west of Jiangling and south of the Yangtze River.

Zheng Lang went south to Tanzhou, and died for a lifetime. He spent a lot of money and sacrificed many soldiers to take down the embarrassing country, China's ban on Meishan. There was peace in most areas of Chenzhou now, but the situation was still not ideal to the west of Chenzhou to Jiangling.

In the first month of the year, when the war in the northwest was at its most intense, the barbarians in the south rebelled.

There are three tribes of the mad man Li Guangji, Wang Yan and Liang Chengxiu in Nanchuan and Ba County, each with thousands of local residents. However, if you want to get rich, you have to enslave the diligent Han people. Therefore, you use your power to tempt the Han people. If you do not follow, you will immediately lead someone to slaughter them. Not only will you kill people, but you will incorporate the land that was reclaimed by the murdered Han people into the tent. As for the customers who invest in the recharge, it is called taking the tax. The tax is based on the lixus, and no official dares to collect it from them. Or you can hide criminals and "heroes" from all over the country.

The palace also dared not ask. Sometimes it robs the border people, sometimes it can reach hundreds of families, and is called the slaughter of the Liao people. What I am not dealing with the people of the Song Dynasty, but the bad slaughter of the Liao people. If the government pursues the people, it will be called the Liao people fleeing to the south, and there is nowhere to be known. It even makes the two banks of the Yangtze River in a radius of hundreds of miles. With the compromise of the officials of the Song Dynasty, the three barbarians became larger and larger, especially Li Guangji, who bribed the people of prefectures and counties to observe the movements of the Song officials, and built castles to strengthen themselves, repairing weapons and armor, and were troubled by them far and near.

This habit is a good tradition left by Nanzhao.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao plundered the Han households in Sichuan as slaves, and Nanzhao was developed. Nanzhao was replaced by Dali, and Dali was in a closed state and was not evil to the Song Dynasty, but would not be friendly. If Di Qing had not taken charge of the city of Chanshan, he would have almost never sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to congratulate him!

From south of the Yangtze River to Dali, although it was clearly defined as the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty, the local barbarian leaders wanted to do whatever they wanted and continued to retain the fine traditions of Nanzhao. Although the foreign households in Qinzhou were brave, they were proud to marry the Han people. However, the barbarians here may not be very brave, but they regarded the Han people as the best slaves, becoming the darkest area of ​​the Song Dynasty.

The transferee Sun Gou could not bear it, so he asked the military envoy Feng Yiyu to tell Li Guangji that Liang Chengxiu was a guest of land, and to obey the orders and to work hard, otherwise he would advance to fight for poverty and refuse to listen. So he asked the Nanchuan County inspector Li Zongmin and the Chief Supervisor Li Qing to lead the troops to attack. However, the news had long been made known to Li Guangji. When the Song army was in the Shaxi border of Mulanzhai, Li Guangji's ambush was out, the Song army was gone, and Li Zongmin and Li Qing died in battle.

The report came to the court and there was a lot of discussion.

However, Zheng Lang was very evil and issued an edict, drawing 100,000 yuan in taxes and 100,000 pieces of cloth from Chengdu Prefecture Road, so that Sun Gou could recruit bravely and destroy his three tribes. It was a tribe that was destroyed, not a subjugation.

Fu Bi said: "Xingzhi, the court has done a lot of trouble now."

Zheng Lang said: "Yan Kingdom, aren't you afraid of another generation of Nong Zhigao in Yuzhou? Will the story of Nanzhao be repeated?"

In a word, almost all ministers who were ready to oppose him shut up automatically.

The three families of Li, Wang and Liang are not as powerful as Nong Zhigao, so they cannot be underestimated. Each family has thousands of households and gathers a large number of desperate people. Each person can easily gather thousands of troops. If the three families are combined, it may not be able to turmoil the entire Bashu, but it is enough to make Yuzhou earth-shaking.

Then things will be big.

It is not that serious. In fact, Zheng Lang's anger was because of the national plot and he could not stand some southern barbarians who regarded the Han people as pigs.

In March, Yuzhou was ready, and the two gave money and asked Du An, the rich man from Yuzhou, to recruit thousands of warriors to attack. Sun Xionger personally supervised the army and attacked the Qianzhong soldiers. Du Liang fought against him, but it was not good. Kumamoto led the officials to come and killed Liang Chengxiu on the spot. Li and Wang led the people to protect Heiyaling. Kumamoto led the Guizhou soldiers to Heiyaling from the small path. He advanced at night. Li and Wang were defeated again. In a panic, Li Guangji fell off the cliff and died. Wang Yan tied himself and surrendered.

Zheng Lang was not allowed to order Sun Gou to kill all the criminals who committed crimes. For this area, the court was not cruel, but too soft and lacked deterrence. He allocated 300,000 yuan to build roads and build schools and water conservancy, and built the Nanping Army to build the Nanping Army, and set up two counties in Longhua Nanzhou. Sun Gougong added the Nanping Army to the Zhizhao Wenguan. Releasing Han slaves, more than 1,000 Han households were selected, and each was divided into their own territory, and legislation was made, and the Nanping Army was used as a sharp knife to penetrate into the south of the Yangtze River. If there were any barbarians who were dissatisfied, or if they continued to do evil, they would be sentenced to privately servile Han slaves and kill them without mercy.

The four routes of Kuixia are actually not difficult to deal with, they are trivial, with many mountains and forests, and the various barbarians are like lice. They are not bad at slapping one mouthful, and they can be killed calmly if they catch them, but they are very troublesome to catch them. The main focus of the court is still on the northwest.

Liang received the promise of the Khitan, and the 300,000 Khitan army blinded her eyes. Instead of attacking Luowu City directly, she besieged Shunning Village. In the northwest of the Baoan Army, Jintang City was like a sharp knife inserted into the Baoan Army, making the Baoan Army and Dashun City unable to connect to the front line, and making the Song Dynasty like a thorn. Shunning Village is the same. Its existence is fifteen miles northeast of Jintang City, so that Jintang City cannot connect to Hengshan, making Xixia uneasy to sleep and eat.

More than 10,000 Xia cavalry surrounded Shunning Village outside the trenches. He knew that Jing Sili, the son of Jingtai of the Baoan Army, did not examine the number of people, and supervised the generals to fight, but were defeated when they were in trouble. The encirclement was said to be afraid of people. A prostitute in the city told the story of Li's family. He asked to retreat to the enemy, climbed to the city of Yan and raised his clothes to resist and scolded him, and all the Liang family were**. The people of Xixia were shooting in the city. The soldiers used shields to protect Li's family. No one could beat him. The Li family revealed his ugly face. It didn't matter if the soldiers in Xixia were talking about the gossip of his empress dowager. But the generals did not dare to listen. They were afraid that the Liang family would send people to kill them, kill people to silence them, and asked for food shortages, and they would evacuate them in a mess.

When the news arrived at the capital, Zhao Xu sighed: "Although we retreat, our dynasty is ugly."

Keep shaking his head.

In fact, Xixia attacked Shunning Village because she wanted to attack the east and west, but she just surrounded the points and attacked the support instead of attacking.

What should I do? Last year, so many people did not take a decent Dazhai Fort in Qingzhou, and there was even an iron hedgehog with iron hair on the other side of Jingyuan Road. There was also Qinzhou, but the terrain was the same as that in Luowu City in the Song Dynasty, and it lacked thickness. The Song Dynasty was in the east and Tubo was in the west. It was possible to disturb it, but the real threat was not great. I could only start with Shunning Village.

Shunning Village failed and officially launched an attack on Funing Village.

At this time, a weakness of the Song army was exposed.

That is the number of troops.

The Song Dynasty gave Zhong Yan a 20,000 army, which was quite a lot. If it was used to station in Suizhou, from Huaining Village, Heishui Castle to Dalihe, and then to Suizhou City, there were also Weimingshan tribes who helped him, and his strength was very considerable. Even if Xixia dispatched 100,000 troops, it would not succeed.

However, the operation of Funing Village, Yongle City, Luowu City and other four camps led the front to pull the Dali River to the nose of Yinzhou, and then spread to the northeast Yellow River, connecting Linzhou, and the length of the front increased by 6 or 700 miles, the road was not easy to walk, the troops gradually dispersed, and the defense strength decreased. There was also a fatal one, a fort was built, if tens of thousands of civilians did not come, it would take at least a few months to complete. At this time, the general Yan Da was in Shurawu City, and Zhao Pu led his troops to build Funing Village with a spring snow. Zhong Yan himself had to station in the commander-in-chief of Suizhou City, while Zhe Jishi, Gao Yongneng and other famous generals were stationed in Xifutu Village, which was newly occupied in the northeast of Suizhou City.

If Funing Village is repaired and there is a city wall to defend, the situation will be better. Guan Jian is only a wall foundation at this time, and there is no danger to be managed. Liang Yiming gathered the troops of the 12 military supervisors to launch an attack on Funing Village. I don’t know how many troops are everywhere, swarming in the mountains.

When Zhong Yan heard about it in Suizhou, he was confused and wanted to summon Yan Da to rescue him. However, the difference in strength between the two sides was too big. Even if Yan Da was very brave, he could not make up for it. He would still die when he went to rescue him. However, if he did not rescue him, Zhao Pu's army would be defeated and could not start a battle for a while. The judge of Gu Zhuanyun, Li Nangong, looked north and burst into tears. Soon after the fierce battle, although the Song army caused severe damage to the Xixia people, only half of Funing Village was built because there were no soldiers to help him. More than a thousand Song troops were destroyed, and several artillery pieces were lost. However, this thing was not useful to the Xixia people. Without shells, it could only be regarded as an expensive bronze ware.

Funing Village was lost, and the Song army, who was building Yongle City, had to cross the Wuding River and retreat to Luowu City. Liang Yi buried Cui Da, the capital of the Funing Village prisoner, and came to Luowu City to surrender. Cui Da came to the city and shouted loudly: "Small thieves, the food is gone, and you are about to go, so you should stick to it."

Before he could finish calling, Liang Yimang angrily asked someone to pull him back and chop it into meat sauce. Then he besieged Luowu City. Most of the Luowu City had been built and had a large number of defending weapons, which could not be attacked several times.

Until then, the king and his ministers let go of their fantasies together.

The seven villages have all had strategic significance, but if they have strategic significance, they must have a premise and take it down. If they can't take it down, no matter how important it is, it is still a waste. However, the people of Xixia were killed by the Song Dynasty army before and fled. Even if Zhao Xu was in the capital, he had the intention of underestimating the enemy, and the front line Zhong Yan.

Guo Kui also opposed Zhong Yan's radical move. His idea was the same as Zheng Lang. Although it had strategic significance, the front line was too long and the supply was very inconvenient. It could be conquered, but it was not very meaningful to send troops to Luowu City. However, Madogawa and Lizengping were very good. If they were to stop at that time, the merits would be complete. The occupation of Luowu City was not perfect, but too full.

With repeated victory in the first month of the year, who can Guo Kui convince?

The bad news was quickly passed to the capital with a quick foot delivery. Zhao Xu finally surrendered and issued an edict to withdraw his troops from Luowu City. Yan Da brought the guards to the south to evacuate the baggage. Liang Yimeng ambushed all the way and retreated to Suizhou City. Almost all the baggage was lost, and only a dozen cannons and the Divine Arm Bow desperately brought them back.

Luowu City was lost, and Xiangya, the general of Xixia in Yinzhou, led tens of thousands of troops to compete for the deserted villages. The deserted villages were connected to the Sanquan villages. On the west side of the Yellow River, the deserted villages were closest to the Xia Realm, only ten miles away. Qingzhou instructed Wang Wenliang to lead his troops to fight back, outnumbered, and retreated back to the half-built deserted villages and asked for help from Linzhou. Wang Wenyu, the chief supervisor of Linfu, led a large army to come. Xiangya ambushed troops and waited for the Tuhun River (Tuwei River) to wait for it, but he could not win. At night, people sent to surrender with swords. Wang Wenyu's general was in trouble and surrendered to the Song Dynasty the next day.

At this point, the battle of Luowucheng ended. Although the deserted village was preserved, the loss of Luowucheng was still like a knife inserted into the passage from Linzhou to Suizhou. However, Suizhou was also like a knife inserted between Yinxia, ​​and launched an attack on Yinxia at any time. It once again formed a staggered situation. If there were rewards and punishments, Zhong Yan was trapped in Funing Village and was responsible for the establishment of the Ruzhou delegation and the resettlement of Tanzhou. Han Jiang was defeated and was appointed as the governor of Dengzhou as his official position.

But not many ministers impeached.

In the end, he strongly defended Luowu City and developed seven villages, resulting in defeat. However, in many battles, the Song army won the few and performed well, and the casualties rate in Western Xia was more than three times higher than that of the Song Dynasty. In addition, this battle caused Luowu City to be burned and abandoned Lujing within a radius of 300 miles, and the old and young were displaced, and the southeast of Yinzhou was completely defeated. He also suffered repeated defeats, especially Huluchuan, and the Song Dynasty was defeated, and the Song Dynasty was absolutely granted, and the Western Xia gradually became in poverty.

Have made achievements and have made achievements.
To be continued...