One Piece of Song Dynasty

Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding both felt that something was wrong with Li Gang's three strategies for revitalization. As for the wrong method, they didn't think through it for a while. The next day, they were walking on the street and met Song Qiyu. They told him Li Gang's three strategies for revitalization. When Song Qi heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and laughed wildly: "Recruit soldiers, buy horses, and raise people's wealth. I laugh at Li Gang's three strategies, none of which are feasible."

The two asked: "Why can't any of them work?"

Song Qiyu analyzed it one by one: "Let's talk about recruiting soldiers first. If each county recruits two thousand soldiers, it will cost tens of millions of dollars a year. Where will the army's salary come from? Then let's talk about buying horses. Strong horses in the northwest are not available, and weak horses in the southeast are not available. What kind of horse to buy, especially this one Raising people's wealth to support the military is nothing more than raising people's money to knock out the bones and suck out the marrow. Don't scrape off all the people's wealth. The day the people's blood is scraped off, that is when the country will perish. By then, will there be any need for the Jin army to go south?"

Zhao Ding and Zhang Jun looked at each other, and they both felt that Song Qiyu's few words were to the point, and they couldn't help but look at Song Qiyu with admiration. But Song Qiyu also had a fatal problem, which was arrogance. He would gasp if someone said he was fat. In the end, it was this problem that cost Song Qiyu his life. Song Qi saw that the two people admired him more and more, and he laughed again: "As for why the chariot is the nemesis of the cavalry, it is even more perverse and the most ridiculous thing in the world. I will go up and refute Li Gang one by one."

"Li Gang is in Daxing and committed a false case. The Prime Minister of Song Dynasty has just returned to the court. At this time, I am afraid that I will give an edict." Zhao Ding expressed his worries, and Song Qiyu gasped again: "What are you afraid of? I, Song Qiyu, am advising the emperor, not to the emperor." He Li Gang"

"Li Gang is a cruel man. My husband insists on going his own way and does not listen to advice. I am afraid that he will suffer disaster starting from today." Zhang Jun also reminded him. But Song Qi Yue shook his head and left early: "It's a joke. I'm going to court now. Let's see what Li Gang can do to me."

"Song Qi's life is at stake, oh, what can we do?" Zhao Ding became uneasy, and Zhang Jun thought for a while and came up with an idea: "I have to quietly pull off his upper arm to save his life."

The two shook their heads and sighed as they walked through the streets, which were filled with stragglers and people doing small businesses. Wang Gui squeezed out from the crowd watching the announcement, ran towards Yue Fei who was drunk on the roadside, shook him and said repeatedly: "The imperial court has set up a Hebei conciliation department, wake up, Yue Fei, do you know who the Hebei conciliation envoy is?"

The reason why Yue Fei was so drunk was because a few days ago, Yue Fei, as a military attaché, had overstepped his duties and was expelled from the military. Depressed, down and out, in embarrassment, trapped in Nanjing, with a bleak future, coupled with a love of wine and a greed for alcohol, all these combined together, he could only use alcohol to anesthetize himself.

It is not difficult to see from this incident that although Yue Fei is a thoughtful person, he likes to go his own way and does not shy away from the deep and shallow in doing things. So when he was finally shaken awake by Wang Gui, he heard that Zhang Suo's Hebei Recruitment Department was recruiting troops, and he had His friend Zhao Jiuling had a good personal relationship with Zhang Suo, so he immediately took Wang Gui across the river and went to Zhang Suo without hesitation.

At this time, the city of Tokyo was devastated, the streets were littered with rubble, and the people were in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and thin skin. This was what Zongze saw when he first arrived in Tokyo. He was very sad and understood that the first priority after entering the city was to solve the problem of food.

As soon as he settled down in the Tokyo Stay Bureau, Zongze took two of his subordinates and patrolled the streets while it was dark, and saw soldiers mobilizing civilians to clean up the corpses everywhere. Because there are people in the city eating corpses, and if people eat dead people, a plague will break out. If prices are not stabilized, the people in the capital will starve to death. Zongze was anxious when he looked up and saw a street shop steaming steamed pancakes. He couldn't help but be very happy. This meant that after the army entered the city, daily order was restored. Otherwise, whoever dared to steam pancakes would have been robbed by the hungry people. Zongze went over and asked casually: "Shopkeeper, how much does one pancake cost?"

The shopkeeper replied: "Thirty coins a piece, how much does the military master want?"

Zongze asked: "Why is it thirty cents and not three cents each?"

The shopkeeper said: "You are talking about the old emperor's calendar before the Jin soldiers attacked the city. Now that the price of food is soaring, I am still losing money and making a profit."

A cooking cake costs thirty cents, which is as much as a liter of noodles. Who can afford it? Zongze returned to the station, asked the quartermaster to fetch water and noodles, and steamed a pot of cooking cakes with his own hands. He wanted to find out how much a cooking cake should cost based on the current price of food.

Before midnight, the huge drawer lid is opened, and steaming hot cakes are freshly baked. Zongze personally supervised the quartermasters, weighing the cooking cakes and calculating the calculations at the same time. The final result came out. According to the current price of white flour on the market, one cooking cake was only a penny. This piece of cake has risen three or four times, and speculation in extraordinary times can cost lives. Zongze immediately ordered that if he added another two cents, the steamed buns would cost ten cents each. Anyone who paid more than this price would be killed. Just announced it

With the announcement of the notice, people began to buy cooking cakes enthusiastically.

A group of soldiers passed by along the street, beating gongs and shouting: "General Zong has ordered that all thieves who steal stolen goods will be beheaded in accordance with military law." A row of businessmen with signs saying "Unlawful and profiteers" were escorted by soldiers and chanted. The gong passed by. The people all praised him, and it was the elders and ministers who had a solution.

At the same time, the north bank of the Yellow River is also filled with smoke, the Jin military camps are dotted, and the sound of golden drums can be heard. Zongze got the report that only scattered troops of the Jin army were stationed by the Yellow River, and the main force was repairing siege equipment in Zhending Huaiwei. The Jin army will attack the city at any time. Our army must reserve food as soon as possible and recruit bandits to surrender.

As soon as the food problem was solved, Zongze stood on the city tower all day long and pointed to the other side. He ordered the construction of a chain of pearl villages along the Yellow River and the construction of twenty-four chain fortresses outside the city. This could not be said to be a copper wall or an iron wall. His Jin army dared to come. , you will definitely be attacked from both sides, and you will not be able to care about each other. Zongze was issuing orders and arrangements when suddenly a scout came to report that Wang Shan, the rebel bandit from Hedong, was pressing down on the border with troops to attack Tokyo. Zongze was shocked: "Where are Wang Shan's many troops and horses now?"

The scout replied: "Fifty miles away from the city, it is said to be ." Wang Shan, the person who came is not good.

In the evening, Wang Shan's bandits were coming from all over the mountains and fields along the official road. Wang Shan, who is riding a horse in the middle, is a big man, with a muscular body and a fierce and arrogant attitude. Seeing the team in front of him suddenly stop as if facing a formidable enemy, he couldn't help but look up and was startled. Zongze was seen alone and riding, blocking the road ahead. Zongze Tima approached slowly and shouted loudly: "Zongze, the prefect of Kaifeng who stayed behind in Tokyo, came to persuade you to surrender."

Wang Shan couldn't believe his eyes and couldn't help laughing. Zongze came to Wang Shan and said with tears: "The imperial court is in crisis. If there are one or two people like the public, how can there be any danger of foreign invasion. Now is the time for you to make a contribution. Don't lose the opportunity."

Wang Shan was moved to tears and said: "How dare you not serve the imperial court." So he surrendered.