Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 56 Fantasy
Recently, the small life is very moist, like a hot spring stream.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Jurchens would go south in a few years, Zhao Cheng really wouldn't want to make a fuss, just like this in Chizhou, looking after his wife and teaching his daughter, studying and farming, and sometimes going out of the city to find the female bandit Bai Chenxiang to have an affair. Beautiful pastoral life.

It's a pity that Song people are destined to be harassed all the time. After Kou Zhun basically settled the Liao people, he faced the threat of Xixia.After Wang Anshi's policy basically settled Xixia and Qingtang, he faced the rise of the Jurchens.

After the Jurchens were bulldozed, they had to face the most ferocious Mongolian Tatars in history.

So the conclusion is that we must toss and can't stay in Chizhou forever.

In addition to a comfortable life and stable studies, the sales and influence of "Lanruo Temple" are rising steadily.And the new script "Happy Three Kingdoms" is also in production.

Zhao Cheng still has character, and he didn't write scribbles because of the profits from the sale, but he still racked his brains, because the better "Lanruo Temple", the greater the profit of the next "Happy Three Kingdoms".At the same time, as a literati who writes books and talks, he will also gain more gimmicks and attention.

"Lanruo Temple" plays with suspense, a simple mountain, a temple, not many people, and a woman who never showed up, and a dog who joined later.

The story is simple and compact. The biggest highlight is that the three people can neither leave nor die. They are full of suspicion, sometimes hostile and sometimes cooperate. They dare not share the same bed, but after they are separated, they care about each other. This kind of mentality of wanting to cooperate and want to fight at the same time leads to a simple and powerful story tension.

This is the characteristic of "Lanruo Temple", but such a story also means that the writing is not long.

The third episode is being written, and Zhao Cheng has informed Old Chen that the whole "Lanruo Temple" will end in the third episode, and I don't want to go into the water. This kind of story is not suitable for forced water, otherwise it will hurt people's popularity and cause readers to run away.In view of the fact that he was earning almost the same amount, Old Chen also agreed...

Ms. Cai has been very free recently, and she has been chasing "Lanruo Temple" fiercely. She finds this story more and more interesting.Originally, it was possible to catch the author for a dictation, but Shuang'er caught an illiterate, and the talk was indeed about Lanruo Temple, but Guijiaoqi would only repeat what had been published, and finally drove away in great disappointment up.

Miss Cai is now more and more curious about the person who wrote the story, not just the story itself.

And Cai Zhizhou has been very busy recently, not busy chasing stories, only worried about more and more copycats under Chizhou's rule.

Recently, someone was killed by bandits, and a small caravan was hijacked.If it is unbearable, these things are actually normal in Song Dynasty, and they will always happen, so they can be tolerated.I just said that I don't know how long it can last, it seems that it will detonate sooner or later.

It's not that my daughter and Su Zaifang's thinking is really wrong. What Cai You said at Weishan Academy was very loyal, but it may not be all the truth.Speaking of suppression, as an official, Cai You certainly doesn't like bandits under his rule. Apart from making the officials look stupid and cowardly, the most important thing is that the bandits are diverting the interests that should belong to the officials.

It's just that suppressing bandits is indeed very risky. If the bottom line is not clear, and there are no good generals and elite troops, more serious problems will arise.

For this reason, the instructions from Zhongshumen have been there for a long time. It was his father, Lao Cai Xiangye, who said in his own handwriting: "You can't suppress the bandits. Once you get into a war, you can't win it for a short time. On the contrary, the coin casting of Yongfengjian in Chizhou lags behind." Even if it stagnates, the imperial court will definitely fall into a bigger financial quagmire in the case of insufficient copper.

Cai You didn't just listen to his father blindly, and even had contradictions and disagreements on some issues.But on this issue, Cai You knows that his father has tried his best. During the Song Dynasty, he could not solve the problem of deflation from the beginning to the end. Some time ago, because of copper shortage, he had to spend too much money by "being the top ten money", which eventually brought bad results and bad governance. And financial chaos.

There are reasons for Cai Jing's inconsideration when it comes to the top ten money, but there is also his helplessness.If the implementation is good, if the people trust Cai Jing and the officials listen to Cai Jing, then currency has always been just a symbol, let alone ten, even if it is ten thousand, it can be used as a piece of paper.

The real problem lies in the ability to execute. In order to maintain an advantage in the struggle with political opponents, Cai Jing needs party members. In addition to the unique rules of the Northern Song Dynasty, the scholar-officials are not dead. While he has a large number of party members, it also represents excessive corruption, which will inevitably lead to wealth accumulation becoming the norm.

Then every level is fishing and looking at the money, and it really fails to be the top ten money.

On this issue, my mother-in-law is right.Cai You doesn't want to speculate on how much responsibility his father should bear now. If the old guy collapses now, it will be very detrimental to the entire Cai family.

There is one thing that Cai You thinks the old guy is right: it is not suitable to suppress bandits, there are no elites, and there is no time to use generals. In a short period of time, we will not be able to win. In addition to the huge impact on people's livelihood, Yongfeng Prison should probably be closed. When the war broke out, copper could not be transported in, so how could the life-saving coins be transported out of Chizhou?
Although they look ugly now, at least they have achieved a balance with the Shanzhai for the time being. They haven't joined forces yet, and they don't dare to snatch the government's copper transport team for the time being.At the same time, the copper mines they privately mined and the copper coins they minted privately continued to flow into the Song Dynasty's economy, which also alleviated the money shortage to a certain extent.

"If there is an internal war and the 'copper coins' of the southeast government and the southeast bandits are greatly reduced and flow into the economy, then I will Song Yaowan."

This is the spirit of the basic instructions sent by Cai Jing to the southeast roads of the basic plate.

The good thing is that the southeast roads have always been Cai Jing's basic territory, a wealthy place, and the gentry and clan are too powerful, so this area has been least affected by Zhao Tingzhi's policies, and has not yet clearly broken with the gang copycats.

As for the southeast, especially the north where the folk customs are strong, there are already many hidden dangers. Under Zhao Tingzhi's intensified policy, the fugitives have obviously gone everywhere. There is also a tendency to aggregate with each other.

How to solve these problems is obviously a political problem rather than a simple Song law problem.If it is possible, Cai You knows that his father Cai Jing also wants to make a big move to wipe out all the bandits in the world. The problem is to beat the bandits!
Narrow down to a specific place, like Zhao Tingzhi, once he sent troops, he couldn't beat the bandits. It's not just as simple as the government losing face, it will make the bandits see the weakness of the government, and then more people who want to get something for nothing will join the bandits The team speculates, and even the army and its generals have a chance of defecting to the cottage. This has already begun to happen in the northern border.

It is very simple to explain this from the perspective of human nature. The officers and soldiers are also human beings. Seeing that they cannot defeat the bandits, they lose their lives. However, they can drink and eat meat when they join the village. They wear the golden belt of murder and arson while waiting for Zhao'an. This climate has formed and the credibility of the court has declined. When it reaches a threshold, the world will be in chaos.

After much deliberation, Cai You couldn't figure out what to do, so he picked up the policy theory from Zhao Cheng and looked at it carefully.

This idea is really novel.Playthings can indeed distract people, but the problem now in the Song Dynasty is that it is too lax, and the officials themselves are having fun and getting drunk.The bandit gangs are waiting for the opportunity with all their strength, and gradually transition from loose to centralized.

To a certain extent, this student named Zhao Cheng is right, let these bandits relax slowly for more entertainment, and by the way, slowly and implicitly implant some ideas, let it take time to really dispel their thoughts, but kill their anger , to ease some time out is possible to do it.There is no need to violate the existing policy tone of the father.

This is the role of the literati.It's a pity that the real literati in the Song Dynasty pretend to be noble, and what they write and say is really lacking in interest. They talk at length in the clouds, let alone illiterate bandits. Sometimes even Zhang Ji doesn't know what they are talking about. .This is the characteristic of being ungrounded.

"It would be great if the author of "Lanruo Temple" and Zhao Cheng were the same person."

So Cai You had some unrealistic fantasies.

(End of this chapter)