In fact, Zhao Kuangyi’s words just now had subtexts. Why is this happening? Is it because I have bad character and God punished me?

Look at the past two years, there have been so many disasters, but when I suppress the third brother again, can I not misunderstand it? So Zhao Pu, you have to bear it for me.

Zhao Pu is even more cunning. He has heavy water when he was Yao, and severe drought when he was soup, let alone you and me.

Zhao Kuangyi is about to fall. After so many disasters, I am uneasy in the palace. Can you still be calm and let me wait patiently. What is the reason for this?

It’s a pity that Song Jiu didn’t hear it.

So Zhao Kuangyi forced Song Jiu again, but the truth was not very happy. You love the people, so you really don’t care about it in order to fight Zhao Pu.

At this time, he had completely forgotten the feeling of Zhao Pu's suppression.

But he misunderstood Song Jiu. Song Jiu was indeed thinking about a method, but did not pay attention to the implications of their words. He explained these types of auxiliary dikes in detail.

Then he said: "What Zhao Fu said is right. If you build two remote dikes from north to south in the river, it will be unrealistic with your current national strength. However, the water dividing between Wangmang River and Ling River is also ineffective. The reason is very simple. Not to mention the huge cost, the lower reaches of the Yellow River are mostly mountainous areas. Only Mengchanhua is low-lying on both sides, and the water flows to the lower places. Therefore, it is often on this section of the river, either forcibly rushing south or forced to north. The diversion is too far from this section of the river, so the water dividing effect is not good."

"What you said."

"But Zhao Fu also has some ideas that can be implemented, but if you want to change it, you don't need to store water from the remote dike, and you won't use it to divide water in the east. You can find some low-lying places in the two rivers, preferably saline-alkali areas, and build a Dayue dike separately in the rear. During the flood season, the water is not big. If the people farm, if the water is large, they will evacuate the people in time and release the water to release the flood. When the water fades away, the water will be drained, and the precipitated silt can improve the soil and make up for the losses of the people."

This is a solution.

But it is also very troublesome. That is home. When the flood is released, how many people are willing to leave their homes?

However, when it is absolutely necessary, it is at least better than what is now that the Gangbanghedong has been flowing to Pengzhou. And you can usually provide some subsidies, such as tax exemption, etc., to make compensation. It depends on what the court thinks and what the local officials think.

Song Jiu said again: "There are still some ways now. After all, the population is not too dense, but it may not be troublesome. Therefore, if there is no accident so often in fifty years, there is only one way to build an auxiliary dike outside. It does not occupy the land of the people. It does not need to migrate the people and resettle the people. If it is reasonable, it will also play a role in shaving the sand."

"Building a dike outside the river is even more expensive." Song Qi said.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the prime minister of the Western Prefecture must have a military experience in the future before he can be competent. The prime minister of the Eastern Prefecture must serve as the chief of the three prefectures to be competent, otherwise it will be easy to work behind closed doors and delay national affairs."

Song Jiu sarcastically said.

Although Song Qi is very old, he used to be a deputy. However, he was once accomplice with Zhao Pu when he was a judge of Kaifeng, which made Zhao Kuangyi angry in Longzhou and never had any experience of officials from other places.

The facts are not as complicated as Song Qi thought. These external auxiliary dikes mainly reduce the water pressure below the main dike. Therefore, you can take mud from the river when water is too late, or take mud from the dike, build shoals, and then build dikes on shoals. Do you really build dikes in the river, have this ability now?

"It also requires a lot of labor and money." Wang Ming said honestly.

"Well, but it doesn't have to be so urgent. It can be done according to national strength. It is not a matter of demanding overnight success. However, in my opinion, it is better to build this year. Some dangerous river sections will be repaired first."

"Why?"

"Your Majesty uses the forbidden troops to block the gap. There is no need for the people. Now the flood is vast and the home is flooded, and people are in panic all day long. If it is not organized well, the people will accumulate grievances and may change. But in a while, the river water will disappear. Once the river water disappears, people will gradually become stable. However, in so many areas, people are displaced, and even Luoyang, Shaanxi, Hebei, there are many people who have no grains due to flooding. Can the court not provide relief? At this time, labor can be used for relief. Therefore, when the water level disappears in autumn, the construction cost is the lowest."

Everyone was bowing their heads to think about the feasibility of Song Jiu's strategy.

Zhao Fu opened his mouth and finally said nothing.

Experts will know if there is any one.

I don’t know how much money I use, but I know that Song Jiu’s method is so smarter than him.

Song Qi was not convinced and said, "Your Majesty, disasters are coming and the national treasury is tight. If the construction starts again, please stop the work in the northwest. Moreover, I think it is just to deal with first-class thefts, and the state's expenses are huge, which is quite worth it."

On the surface, this sentence makes sense.

Isn’t Li Jiqian just a bandit? What kind of climate can it become?

Song Jiutai made a big fuss.

Now choose one of the two, one is river engineering, and the other is the northwest, river engineering is the most important thing.

The truth is very vicious.

If the northwest stops, it means that the court acknowledges that Song Jiu is a joke, but how much money has been spent on this joke?

If it is not stopped, it is because the northwest has caused shortage of funds and prevented the river construction from starting, Song Jiu is not aware of the general idea.

Song Jiu's eyes finally shone coldly.

Grandma, do I have a grudge against you Song Qi?

But Song Qi had no choice. If Song Jiu shines again, he would feel very bad. When Zhao Pu fell, could Song Jiu still tolerate him? This is a force to put on airs and fight against Song Jiu.

Song Jiu turned his head and called an eunuch, asking him to go to the Western Palace to bring the things that Wang Ming gave him.

Let's speak with facts.

After a while, Xiaohuang Sect took the account book from the Western Palace and Song Jiu handed it to Zhao Kuangyi: "Your Majesty, please see."

This is the gift Wang Ming gave him.

The Western Prefecture did not ask the cashier, but the three departments were perfected by Song Jiu, and the accounts gradually became clear. Therefore, the three departments could obtain the three-year national military expenditure of Taiping Xingguo.

When Song Jiu was looking through the account book, Wang Ming asked the minor official to give Song Jiu a statistics on the national military expenditure cashier from June last year to June this year. However, what Song Jiu has now is the "updated version", which is the military expenditure from August last year to August this year.

This military expenditure includes soldiers' salaries, pensions, weapons expenses, and other military-related expenses such as fortification construction on the front line, as well as aid to Liaodong.

It seems that Song Jiu spent a lot of money this year, building forts and roads in the northwest, partial subsidies to Fengzhou, aid to Liaodong, and an additional 30,000 rural soldiers. Hebei and Hedong also added some forts...

However, after the statistics of the three departments, the facts not only did not increase compared with the three-year military expenditure of Taiping Xingguo, but on the contrary, it also decreased by more than 500,000 yuan.

Zhao Kuangyi was shocked after seeing it.

However, after thinking about it carefully, I realized that the military expenditure of Taiping Xingguo in three years was quite large. Because of the preparations for conquering the Northern Han Dynasty and even trying to take back Yanyun, the Song Dynasty expanded its army to more than 300,000 yuan.

Now the number of soldiers on the front line has increased. The rewards and pensions have increased, but in fact there was no major war on the front line since last summer, so the rewards and pensions have been almost neglected. This has increased a lot of superficial expenditures, but the cost of raising soldiers is declining.

Because of Song Jiu's regulation, not only 70% of the banished soldiers in the rear turned into rural garrisons, but also the front line was also raising pigs and sheep.

If the supply of troops in many areas is not coming, they will be almost self-sufficient. Saving a stone of food on the front line may be equivalent to saving ten stones of food in the rear! Especially in the future, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song even a bucket of millet is worth a few cents in the rear and a dou of millet to transport it to the front line, which can be worth thousands of cents.

In history, Zhong Shiheng started to gain merit in the northwest camp, but later, because most of them were urban soldiers, the historical records show that the playboys actually asked the urban soldiers to do a good job of farming? It was Song Jiu who led the urban soldiers to the rural soldiers. Especially the soldiers recruited later stationed in the countryside together. They were usually farmers and were used to farming, so they went to the front camp and quickly achieved merit.

This is also a retro.

Song Jiu's method was to improve the field of the Tang Dynasty in Qinghai and other places.

But it was very hard in the Tang Dynasty, without garrison and not much subsidy. But this was the result of the economy. If it were like the Song Dynasty, the military expenditure might have been more than 100 million a year at its peak, then the Tang Dynasty would have been over long ago.

Not novel, but the savings are amazing.

For this reason, Song Jiu continued to regulate in the Western Prefecture, further reducing unnecessary military expenditures for the court.

This resulted in a result. It seems that Song Jiu spent a lot of money over the past year, but he actually didn't spend much.

Song Jiu offered it to him not to seek credit, but he had too many credits. He didn't have to seek credit to make Zhao Kuangyi disgusted. But Song Jiu used it to explain a truth. There would be errors in this statistics, but it would not be a difference of two million. The military expenditure might not be used less in that year. But how much is the surplus of the treasury? How much is the surplus now? Not to mention disaster relief, the cost of blocking the gap comes to the internal treasury, and disaster relief measures have not been fully implemented. If there was the surplus of that year, even if there was this major disaster and the military expenditure was not overdrawn, it would be enough to be safe.

It was not because the Western Prefecture used more money, but because something happened to the Eastern Prefecture.

Song Jiu handed it up and said nothing.

The Northwest explained it countless times. As for the Hegong, since Guo Zhi left, the East Mansion has become Zhao Pu's private residence. Can it be implemented by himself?

Zhao Kuangyi sighed.

One mountain cannot withstand two tigers, why did I have been with Zhao Purong for so many years back then?

I saw that it was time to choose.

So he said, "Let's go."

Chen Congxin said: "Your Majesty, that river craftsman..."

"Ask again."

Song Jiu sighed in his heart, it was useless to see him along the Yellow River for two days in heavy rain, but it seemed that he had nothing to do.

Everyone retreated, and Chen Congxin suddenly caught up from behind and whispered in Song Jiu's ear: "There is such a big disaster, the Prime Minister has made mistakes. It has nothing to do with you, but the Eastern Palace has made mistakes."

Song Jiu stared at him and shook his head with a smile.

This person is Zhao Kuangyi's confidant and Zhao Pu's political enemy, but not his comrade-in-arms.

He was not very careful.

Logically speaking, disasters have been happening in the past two years, especially such major disasters. If Zhao Pu is a little more skilled, he must be responsible. Even if he talks about the principles of the weather, can he deny the existence of gods? The response of heaven and man is still the mainstream of this era.

But I can't say it myself.

First, if you say it yourself, it will make Zhao Kuangyi disgusted.

Second, if you think about the distorted things, why are there disasters? The demons that Zhao Pu and Zhao Kuangyi have caused, but Zhao Pu and Zhao Kuangyi have the share.

In fact, the people are beginning to discuss, what will happen if they say it themselves?

But Song Jiu didn't know that Zhao Kuangyi had started to force the palace. After only a few days, Zhao Kuangyi called Zhao Pu to a lecture: "I regard all people as my sons. I think of their hard work in farming and the cost of military and national affairs. I wish I could all be exempted. Therefore, I ordered the two-month tax payment deadline to be specially extended by one month. However, officials did not follow the imperial edicts, and they were like wolves and tigers, and beat the people as usual. This matter was particularly harmful to the harmony, and the local officials should issue an edict to strictly implement it."

Zhao Pu immediately went to write a draft edict.

After writing the previous edict, Zhao Kuangyi called him again and cursed: "What are the disaster relief officials you sent to do? I heard that they all stay in the capital and do not leave. If they don't go to the local area, how can the tax exemption be implemented? What should I do if local officials delay paying taxes?"

Zhao Pu's head was sweating.

When the edict was issued, Zhao Kuangyi called Zhao Pu again and rebuked: "The Jinghu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huainan and other prefectures provide money and silk every year, but what these officials thought? When they saw that the people were rich, they asked him to transport money and grain to Beijing. They were all honest and foolish, and they had no skills to control the emperor. The oar workers and boatmen were all stubborn people. How could these high-ranking households be their opponents? This made many people bankrupt. It was a tragedy on earth."

Zhao Pu was stunned when he heard this.

These areas are not Guangnan, and the exemption law was implemented. According to the Song Dynasty's military law, all third-class or above households served as servants. They were not allowed to be escorted. Who would be escorted?

But knowing that Zhao Kuangyi was picking the eggs, he had to write an edict vaguely, which was to send the fang officials from now on and not disturb the people again. Isn’t the fang officials still the fang officials?

However, Zhao Kuangyi was also anxious. Mr., you must let me tell you to leave.

Therefore, I deliberately left all the ministers and said in front of everyone: "The affairs of the state cannot be treated as big or small. They have all their benefits. I have recently compared them and saw that each of the vines cuts off seven or eight out of ten (referring to the tax vines and tribute vines transported to the capital for furniture), but the vines are only produced in the south, and transported to the capital from 7,000 to 8,000 miles away. How difficult it is! I also saw that the workshop made weapons, and only half of the iron was used. If only the part of the tribute vines available, if the iron was made into weapons and handed over, wouldn't it reduce the labor of the people? The world is unlimited, but officials cannot provide me with longitude. This is a small matter, and there should be more than this, so you and others think about it."

The implication is that, how do you, the prime minister?

Zhao Pu, don’t you understand yet?
Chapter completed!