Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Song Jun still didn't come out.

On the fourth day, the Jin army continued to scold and fight.

Song Jun couldn't continue to come out.

Although Zhang Qing made a wrong decision on the battlefield, it is clear that he made the right overall key decisions.

From the beginning of the siege of the city by the Jin army, the Song army was cut off from food supply. At this time, the Song army could not wait, because once it dragged on, the food in the city would gradually decrease, which would affect morale and even order, which was not good for the Song army.

You can't count on Han Shizhong to come to the rescue, can you?

You just brought 2 people to Xijing, and when you turned around, you asked for help from the general manager of Jinglue?

What is the use of such subordinates?

After a bitter battle, Zhang Qing asserted that the situation on both sides had changed.

The casualties of the Jin army were not small, and it was impossible to go deep into one place and wait for a long time.

After all, the Jin army went all the way south, attacked many Goryeo prefectures, and accumulated a lot of hatred.

Hate is such a thing. When you are strong, everyone is afraid of you and dare not act recklessly. Even if you punish others arbitrarily, others will only dare to swallow your anger.

But once your strength weakens, those who hate you will start to test and find that you have really weakened, and some people will dare to jump out and make trouble.

The current situation of Jin Jun is not dangerous, but it is not optimistic either.

The two sides began to confront each other like this.

At this time, Zhang Qing also began to send military reports to Han Shizhong, reporting the basic battle situation in Xijing.

In this head-to-head confrontation between Song and Jin at the end of the seventh year of Jingkang, neither side took advantage, and a summary was made based on a close match.

However, judging from the detailed report, there is still a gap between the Song Army's frontal field combat capabilities and the Jin Army's.

This gap is also normal. How many years has the Golden Army fought?

How many years has it been since Song Jun re-emerged?

It's not normal if there is no gap.

On December 28, seeing that the seventh year of Jingkang was coming to an end, Zhao Ning couldn't help feeling emotional.

Time flies so fast!

In a blink of an eye, it has been six full years since I came to Da Song.

He summed up that he has done a lot in the past six years.

For now, the internal and military affairs of the Song Dynasty have been strengthened to varying degrees.

But only to varying degrees.

It is not so easy to truly restore glory to a country plagued by many diseases.

How many outstanding people in ancient and modern times have racked their brains to make the empire under their governance unprecedented, but how many have succeeded?

This also proves that it is extremely difficult to make a country strong and prosperous.

Zhao Ning, who finished writing "Dialectics", has already started writing "The Wealth of Nations".

"Dialectics" is a philosophical work of human beings' clear cognition of the world, and it is an indispensable thinking logic for the development of theoretical science.

But only it, also does not work.

"The Wealth of Nations" written by Zhao Ning combines Adam Smith and Taoism.

That's right, it is Chinese Taoism.

In fact, throughout human history, the rise of the British Empire has two magic weapons: one is the steam engine, which represents productivity; the other is "The Wealth of Nations", which represents the formation of a modern division of labor system.

Only with a system of division of labor can the potential of the state apparatus be brought into full play.

It is the first time that human society uses capital to practice economic laws, although Laozi has already put forward a view similar to the theory of the wealth of nations in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

Chapter 648 Economy and Finance Are Parts of National Strength (Third)

If there is no "The Wealth of Nations", maybe the future policy of changing rice to mulberry will become a laughing stock, or even a tool for bureaucrats to collect money.

Policy implementation is not just a bureaucratic matter.

In particular, it involves multiple complex factors such as agriculture, planting and commerce, and people's livelihood guarantee.

It is composed of various natural environments, people of all classes, and factors such as currency and economy, and the people in it may change all the time.

The gathering of huge interests makes those who participate inevitably become extremely greedy, and those who have power in their hands become easy to obtain benefits.

In the end, the national policy of changing rice to mulberry may not be pushed forward, the pockets of those in power will be bulging, and the fields of ordinary people will have no harvest, which is counterproductive.

So, the operation of many things in the world does not shift with the shift of personal will.

As for the basic operation method of changing rice to mulberry, Zhao Ning already knew it well, but he needed someone to implement it according to his set of ideas to ensure that it would be effective and not cause anger and resentment.

Prime Minister Zhao Ding and Household Minister Mei Zhili walked in and interrupted Zhao Ning's idea.

"His Majesty."

Zhao Ning stopped writing.

"Your Majesty, this is the imperial court's expenditure this year." Mei Zhili submitted a financial summary.

Zhao Ning began to look.

Most of the time, people can spend money comfortably without looking at the accounts.

But when I look at the accounts, my head gets bigger.

In the seventh year of Jingkang, Shaanxi's basic military expenditure was 600 million yuan.

There are currently more than 1 people who died in the battle of Weirongzhai, and the pension is as high as 30 or more.

Wu Jie in Hedong also spent an astonishing 300 million yuan on military expenditures.

As for the military expenditures of the two roads in Hebei, they add up to nearly 400 million guan.

As for the expenses of immigrating to Fuzhou, 200 million guan has already been spent, plus the 300 million military expenses of Liaodong, the total is 500 million guan.

And Annan also invested a high investment of 100 million guan.

There is also a navy of 100 million in the South China Sea.

It has reached an astonishing 2030 million!

Looking at the salary of bureaucrats this year, the good guy has directly increased to 1400 million!

This is also the result of the expansion of township officials, state-owned commercial companies, and banks.

Just these two, it has reached 3430 million.

Not to mention the local Xiang army, the guard brigade stationed in Gyeonggi.

Calculated in this way, it has reached as high as 3600 million.

In addition, official expenses, the cost of maintaining the station, etc.

In the end, it directly exceeded 4000 million.

Look at income again.

Zhao Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief, this year's income has reached 4900 million!

It is a normal income, not counting the income of any copy of the house.

Zhao Ning quickly flipped through it again.

Mei Zhili stated on the sidelines: "Your Majesty, on Jingji Road, Lianghuai, Liangjiang, and Liangzhe, all criminal and prison divisions have started to separate grain storage companies one after another. This policy is indeed effective."

"After the Grain Storage Co., Ltd. was responsible for its own profits and losses, all localities distributed a part of the grain that had been hoarded and left unattended, and sold it to the market, making considerable profits."

The former granary, which was unified under the jurisdiction of the Changping Division, has become a concentration of bureaucrats who want to carve up at will.

But now, after the reform of the state-owned commercial company, every entry and exit of the self-financed profit and loss is recorded on the record, unless false accounts are made.

Of course, there are false accounts, but it is also equipped with audit verification.

This is indeed more labor-saving than in the past.

"In addition, Tokyo Post wants to apply for a budget of up to 100 million."

"Let them go to the bank to borrow money, they can't go to the bank to get money for everything."

Mei Zhili said: "They are worried that the establishment expenses will not be managed well, and they will owe money to the bank, and the bank will not let it go."

"What!" Zhao Ning lost his temper immediately, "I'm afraid I owe money to the bank, so I asked the treasury to get the money? If the management is not good, the money from the treasury is not money?"

"This……"

"What does the General Administration of State-owned Commercial Corporations do? All state-owned commercial corporations have allocated start-up capital, and now they are still asking for money. In the future, all state-owned commercial corporations will either earn money by themselves or borrow from the bank. They are afraid of offending the bankers. Are you not afraid of offending the treasury?"

"Your Majesty, this year Northwest purchased a total of 10 horses at a cost of up to 1000 million yuan, of which 600 million yuan was used in banknotes, and 400 million yuan was used in copper coins and tea. The horse configuration of a military town."

"The 600 million guan banknotes were printed from the bank and have not been included in the national treasury for the time being, but the 400 million guan notes have to be included in the national treasury."

Zhao Ning continued to read.

The food purchased from Champa actually made a fortune.

Each stone can earn 700 coins, because the bank printed money to buy it, and earned a full 300 million coins.

It is tantamount to directly printing money to plunder the labor force of Champa.

In addition, trading with Japan also earned nearly 30 guan.

Zhao Ning felt that Japan made a little less money.

"How many war horses does Yue Fei have now?"

Zhao Ding said: "This year's deployment has reached 1 horses, and the number of cavalry has reached [-]."

This scale is already very impressive. When Huo Qubing swept Hexi, he only used [-] cavalry, about [-] horses.

If the Jin army really comes to invade, Hebei can completely accompany the Jin army to conduct large-scale and deep high-mobility operations.

"How many war horses did Han Shizhong equip this year?"

"Han Shizhong allocated [-] horses, which have been dispatched to Fuzhou area one after another."

"Can there be more?" Zhao Ning looked at the map of Liaodong, "Liaoyang to the north of Fuzhou is a plain. If Han Shizhong can train me a group of elite cavalry, we can quickly fight against the hinterland of Liaoyang at any time, and advance and retreat freely. If the Yalu River If it is controlled by our army, it will be able to constrain the Jin army on both sides in Liaodong."

"The overall situation is certain, so I can destroy Xixia with peace of mind!"

"According to the news from the northwest, the Xixia people are strictly investigating the smuggling of horses recently." Zhao Ding said, "Maybe the Xixia people also noticed our cavalry during the battle at Weirongzhai."

"Let Orihiko find a way to increase the price, and there must be a brave man under the heavy reward." Zhao Ning said quite proudly, "Paying banknotes is still in the same industry in Xixia. Anyway, the money for buying horses is printed and counted as special funds for the country. , How much was a horse before?"

"One hundred guan is already very high, it has risen to 150 guan for one horse!"

"Will this release a large amount of banknotes to the northwest and cause prices to rise?"

"It's the domestic price rise in Xixia, which has nothing to do with us." Zhao Ning pointed out the key to this kind of succinctly. Individuals will not consider the interests of the group."

He went on to say: "From the moment Li Qianshun accepted the banknotes, he began to dig his own grave. Huizhouzhen can be closed at any time, but the banknotes that have infiltrated into Xixia are held by many Xixia people, and he himself has a lot of them." Is he willing to abolish the banknote immediately? Buy it for me, buy a large number of horses, buy it regardless of the cost, and I want to arm a large number of troops in a short time!"

His eyes quickly fell on Goryeo, and he continued: "The Jin Kingdom will not give up on Goryeo easily. I need a group of cavalry to defeat all anti-Song forces in Goryeo, including the Jin army! Master Goryeo! Prepare for the follow-up full-scale Northern Expedition!"

Chapter 649 Treasury: I've been under a lot of pressure recently! (first update)

Zhao Guan's family is thinking about fighting every day, and their appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

This made Mei Zhili's dark circles even heavier. From a distance, he looked like a chubby panda.

And every time Boss Zhao said that he wanted to equip this one and kill that one, Mei Zhili's heart beat wildly.

If the leader opens his mouth, the following will break his legs!

"Your Majesty, this is next year's budget and the treasury revenue estimate." Mei Zhili submitted another report.

Zhao Ning glanced at it briefly, but didn't pay much attention to it.

He said casually: "If I want to completely turn Xixia into my Great Song territory, how much will I invest?"

Mei Zhili was a little confused by the sudden question from Zhao Guan's family. He was still talking about Liaodong and Korea just now, but in a blink of an eye he jumped to Xixia.

"That depends on how long it takes to destroy Xia."

"You can follow the next five years." Zhao Ning turned to look at Mei Zhili, "I mean, in the next five years, all the military forces in Xixia will be completely destroyed, and effective local officials will be established to relocate the population there."

Mei Zhili looked at Zhao Ding for help.