Jiuweiju, the capital of Bian, the Great Song Dynasty.

Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Wen Yanbo, Zeng Gongliang, these four people can be said to be the central nervous system in the high-level rule of the Song Dynasty. Although in the Song Dynasty, where imperial power is supreme, according to the political rules of imperial power and prime ministerial power, it is not an exaggeration to say that these four people can be called most of the brains of the Song Dynasty. If the "brain" of Emperor Zhao Xu is added, the "brain" of Xiao Wang, the matter on the ground of the Song Dynasty can be mostly handled.

There were many taboos in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. It was very confusing to gather a few people together and sit in a restaurant like this. Today, people who can have such faces are probably the only ones who can have this ability besides the emperor. However, such gatherings can make the officials of the Song Dynasty even more excited. Generally, after such gatherings, the court will definitely have a relatively large action. In the past, only Wang Anshi had the ability to publicly summon the ministers of the two prefectures to discuss matters in his mansion. After communicating with each other, whether they object or form a unified opinion, they would then go to the emperor to request the sages.

However, since Wang Anshi became a prime minister, except for Sima Guang and others who went to Wang Anshi's home in the early days with private friendship, Wang Anshi did not even have a formal summons. The reason is that the political ideals of the conservatives and reformists are too different, so the two parties cannot be solved by simple communication. Moreover, the leader of the reformists Wang Anshi is famous for governing "Laozi" and "Mencius". "Laozi" talks about the art of power struggle throughout the article, so it goes without saying that this "supportive" political means really make conservatives worry.

In this case, only Wang Jinghui can have this capital to do the communication bridge between the old and new parties. In addition, the political attitude of Xiao Wang’s prince consort is somewhat "neutral" to both sides. If one side is too strong, Wang Jinghui’s political attitude will definitely change - Wang Jinghui is not a fence-between, he has the ability to increase the strength of the weak side, no matter whether Sima Guang or Wang Anshi is at a disadvantage. Although some things are clearly not right, due to the political balance of the Song Dynasty, there will be no tragic scene of the one-sided "Xining Party Controversy" in history, and he will still make a balanced move - this is also his helplessness.

Wang Jinghui's "Hot Theory" has also won a wide market in the political circle of the Song Dynasty with his personal strength. Due to his identity, it is not a follower. However, at least in the current situation where the two factions have the relative concept of governing the country, the "Hot Theory" is a relatively gentle banner that can attract the attention of scholars all over the world. The people gathered under the banner of the "Hot Theory" include both reformists and conservatives. Wang Jinghui's approach to this is just the four words "harmony with light and dust", among the four most powerful people in the court. Zeng Gongliang

He admired Wang Jinghui the most, and Wen Yanbo was also because of the War to Destroy Xia. This "cold-faced Privy Council" praised Wang Jinghui many times in public, and the relationship between the two gradually heated up. However, three of these four people were Wang Anshi's opponents in politics. According to the history of Wang Jinghui's time and space. Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and Zeng Gongliang had long been taken out of the capital of Biandu by Wang Anshi. Feng Jing, the son-in-law of Fu Bi, who should have served as the political affairs of the government, is still in the position of Deputy Privy Councilor.

Even though Wang Jinghui had the ability to gather these four people together to eat on a table, the meal was not so delicious. At least the atmosphere on the table was stiff, and the kind of coolness and pleasure of gatherings of all the unknown people. Fortunately, Wang Jinghui himself was not willing to talk more about the important things at the dinner table. Eating was just a reason. The real meat was played at a small meeting after the meal. Besides, he loved food. Naturally, he was unwilling to let down the chef's efforts. The five people at the dinner table each had their own thoughts, among which Wang Jinghui was the most happy. While falling chopsticks and flying, he talked about some interesting things that happened in Biandu recently. This food appearance had no sense of humility, which made the other four people a little dazed.

Unlike the outside world's guess, the reason why Wang Jinghui invited four people to the party this time was not to discuss how to divide the military achievements of the Northwest. Wang Jinghui was not interested in the competition for the military achievements of the Northwest. If he could exchange his military achievements for money, he was willing to intervene in this matter. In Wang Jinghui's view, instead of trying his best to compete for fame and fortune, it would be better to strengthen the governance of the newly added territory in the Northwest. In Wang Jinghui's eyes, the first point of the Great Song Dynasty's destruction of Xia was that it could save nearly 10 million chunks of military expenditure per year; the second was to make the animal husbandry resources of Xixia. If it was not possible to manage Xixia well for the use of the Great Song Dynasty after obtaining Xixia, the task of destroying Xia was only half completed.

The room Wang Jinghui used to entertain guests was the sixth floor, the highest level of Jiuweiju. There was only one private room on this floor. When he designed this private room, he considered that he would meet important people here in the future, so the confidentiality skills were done to have reached the end, so there was only one private room on this floor. In addition to the restaurant, there was also a small room for guests to rest. Today's "informal meeting" was chosen in this small hall.

After Wang Anshi and others finished, Eunuch Zhao poured tea for everyone. At Wang Jinghui's instructions, Eunuch Zhao walked to a wall and pulled up the curtains that blocked the wall. Wang Anshi and others looked at the large map behind the curtains that actually occupied a wall. This map was made very special, including the entire Western Xia territory, the north of the Song Dynasty and most of the Liao Kingdom. However, just looking from the map, there is no doubt that the focus of today's discussion is the Western Xia.

"My gentlemen, Xixia thought it was destroyed by our Great Song Dynasty, but the war also destroyed the economic foundation of the entire Western Xia. For the long-term development of the Great Song Dynasty, Xixia must be used by our Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, managing Xixia is the most important thing for the Great Song Dynasty at present. You are also very clear that the emperor is young and capable, and he is determined to complete the unfinished achievements of Taizu Taizong and recover Yanyun. However, the Liao Kingdom is not so powerful and the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty is somewhat congenital, so restoring the governance of Xixia is even more urgent!

"Wang Jinghui took a sip of tea and said lightly that everyone here is a talented person, belonging to the two major political factions in the court. If he wants to add himself, it represents the three major governance concepts of the Song Dynasty today. Even Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and Zeng Gongliang are both conservatives, but their political ideals are much different. It is not easy to let them speak out. It is better to start by throwing bricks and attracting jade to trigger the following topics and earn more space and benefits for themselves.

After hearing this, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang moved slightly. Although they did not want to earn the merit of destroying Xia, it does not mean that the people under their command do not have this insignificant idea. More importantly, the two parties have a momentum and luck in their struggle. If you don’t fight, the party will fall behind. Since the reform camp raised the banner of reform, they have been in trouble and change, and have been restrained many times. In the end, they have to rely on Wang Jinghui to help them overcome the biggest crisis of the reform camp - all the droughts in Hebei. Wang Anshi's status has not been as stable as before. Whether it belongs to the Lu Huiqing sect, the yamen sect who have set up sects or Wang Yun, they all advocated the use of Wang Shao's performance in the battle to destroy Xia to compete for merit. The top priority is the merit of building strategies and making statements.

"The battle to destroy Xia was originally relatively stable and promoted. At that time, in order to leave a way out, he plundered Xixia to consume its national strength. However, the war went smoothly later. This method of consuming its national strength has obviously become a big problem now. It takes countless money to recover. What are the tricks to change it?" Zeng Gongliang said with a smile.

"The plunder of Xixia to consume its national strength was the advice of the students at the beginning. It seems that the students are too young and have not had a long-term vision. It is really too erratic! However, in order to make up for the previous losses, the students have also come up with corresponding countermeasures, but you need to give suggestions for details to avoid repeating the same mistakes!"

Zeng Gongliang is undoubtedly the representative of the Hebei system, the most powerful among the conservatives. However, the Hebei system officials have a deep relationship with Wang Jinghui, and there are too many financial entanglements. Although there were some unpleasant things on the Liao Dynasty some time ago, for the sake of money, the Hebei system officials also accepted the mediation of Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang. After all, the prince-consort in Xiao Wang now has too much of their money in his hands, and this money can only be quickly and stabilized in Wang Jinghui's hands.

If the prince-consort of Xiao Wang let go, wouldn’t it be impossible to get back and forth in the air?! Speaking of which, Wang Jinghui intended to set up a trap to allow the forces of the Hebei system to integrate into his business plan, and also formed the biggest political backstage for himself. The economic relationship between the two sides became closer, which made the political alliance between the two sides stronger, and because these wealth was operated by Wang Jinghui. The Hebei system could only be led by Wang Jinghui.

"Restoring the lost land in the newly recovered land is naturally very important, but this fiscal expenditure..." Sima Guang repeated the old tune again. This historian who has been famous for his eternity undoubtedly did not have a "gentleman" demeanor in Wang Jinghui's eyes. He held the money bag tightly with his palm. But even Wang Anshi had no way to deal with him. The conflict between the two was mostly caused by the start-up funds for the reform, but now it is really difficult to "stand against our husbands" - Wang Jinghui is closely watching the door of Guanghui Warehouse, and this often closed position must be included in the scope of the local statistics. The two major sources of wealth that have been implemented and promoted in history were guarded by Wang Jinghui, especially Guanghui Warehouse. Wang Anshi could not get a penny from it - this is all for disaster victims and emergency funds for disasters in various places. After the severe drought in Hebei, Wang Anshi did not dare to make a fuss on Guanghui Warehouse.

"It is naturally a cost to restore the economy of Xixia, and there are quite a few. However, this time the students invite all gentlemen to come here to gather. The most important thing is to come up with a way to solve this problem of financial resources and share the worries of the emperor!" After Wang Jinghui finished speaking, Eunuch Zhao took out four memorials and distributed them to everyone: "This is just a superficial plan of the students. Please also ask all gentlemen to judge whether it is appropriate."

After receiving the memorial, Wang Anshi and others took a closer look. Wang Jinghui's memorial described a huge economic plan. The method adopted by this plan has included all the adopted economic regulation methods. The salt fields in Xixia have been opened to a limited extent, but Wang Jinghui not only involved this aspect in the memorial, but even further proposed the opening of mine operations.

Since ancient times, the most profitable business is to operate a monopoly industry. Judging from the history of Xiao Wang's father-in-law making a fortune, it was because he had run several kinds of business that others could not do to make a fortune, or his important pillar industry printing industry. If the merchants in Jiangxi had not been able to touch Han Qi, then the then chief assistant, probably Wang Jinghui's commercial printing library would have been unified, even if he was forced to sell his printing technology later. However, with the Yangtze River as the boundary, the northern region still belonged to Wang Jinghui's world, and even the southern newspaper industry was also the territory of the prince-in-law. The wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang printing industry, which were once rich, could not move to this by Wang Jinghui.

However, people like Wang Jinghui are unique after all. The monopoly industry in the eyes of the merchants of the Song Dynasty was of course the salt, tea, mining and other industries controlled by the court, and they kept taking advantage of loopholes. They bribed officials to intervene and get a share of the pie, but only those who benefited for a while were even more jealous of the officials in the long run. The first thing that political factions bear is the merchants who depend on a certain faction, and there are many families who destroy their families - it really responds to the famous saying of wealth and danger.

As the War of Destroying Xia slowly subsided, in order to ensure that the court's fiscal expenditure would not be affected by the War of Destroying Xia, Wang Jinghui took the opportunity to propose the policy of opening up the salt industry in the Western Xia to private merchants and was agreed. The merchants of the Song Dynasty could enter the salt industry through open and upright channels for the first time. Although merchants could enter the business fields of the salt industry and tea industry through various means in the past, it was undoubtedly a dream to want to operate the mines. This time, Wang Jinghui set his sights on the mines in the northwest. This was for the Song Dynasty.

People are definitely an irresistible temptation, and at the same time they will have an unparalleled impact on the court's long-standing mining monopoly business policies. In Wang Jinghui's view, whether it is the salt industry or the mining industry, these industries that were previously monopoly business have too many disadvantages. Not to mention the low production capacity and quality, it also produces a large number of corruption. The mutual infight between the political factions in the court will have a huge impact on these two industries, which is extremely unfavorable to the country and the people.

Originally, Wang Jinghui wanted to take advantage of the severe drought in Hebei to attack the mines in various places in Hebei, but in the end he could not bear to put the victims in dire straits. Moreover, at that time, the one who had the most grain reserves in Hebei was not the local tyrants in Hebei, but his son-in-law. If the mines were opened to raise funds for disaster relief and food, the local tyrants and merchants in Hebei naturally agreed, but he himself would inevitably be suspicious of ministers in the court. However, the Western Xia was different. The smelting metal in Xixia was very primitive, and a large amount of mine mining was still in its early stages. Even if the Song Dynasty wanted to do it alone, the development cost alone would be enough to make Sima Guang, a wealth-keeping slave, afraid, and even Wang Anshi would not be interested in this. If you want to use the Western Xia mineral resources for the Song Dynasty, the fastest way is to open it to merchants and use the power of merchants to quickly complete the initial stage of Western Xia mineral development.

In addition to minerals, there is also the issue of the use of many prisoners of war in the Western Xia War. In the past, the total total of prisoners of war in the Song and Xia War was only 150,000 or 60,000. However, this time it was the battle to destroy the country, and the number of prisoners of war was as high as 400,000. This was the result of excluding those temporary recruits of the Dangxiang people. There was no problem with buying so many prisoners of war Wang Jinghui, but the number was too large, so many that the important officials of the court could not sleep.

Wang Jinghui, the prisoners of war, is naturally Han Xin ordered more troops, and even twice as much as possible. He also has a place to find work for these prisoners of war. Although the transportation network of the Song Dynasty was very developed, it was still very backward in Wang Jinghui's eyes. Compared with the transportation network that was closely connected to spider webs in later generations, the transportation in this era is far from the development of the South and the South Oceans. These require prisoners of war. Because the Song people had a strong rural concept, they had to rely on natural disasters to immigrate on a large scale, and there were no need to have so many concerns when using prisoners of war in Xixia. Facts proved that under the threat of swords and guns, the prisoners of war in the past that killed people without blinking were very "cooperative".

Due to the large number of Dangxiang prisoners of war produced in the Battle of Destroy Xia, although there was no "diplomacy" interference, the court still couldn't make any decision on the whereabouts of these prisoners of war. Of course, Wang Jinghui pretended not to know. With the relationship with Zhong Yan and Wang Shao and other generals of the Xia, these Dangxiang prisoners of war were still in Xixia, but they had begun to start to repair the walls and roads of Xixia under the strict surveillance of the Song army, and some were also used to repair farmland and water conservancy facilities and reclaim wasteland to grow crops. However, the current Dangxiang war

The prisoner can be said to be half of the capital contribution from Wang Jinghui and the court to support him. This is not a good idea. Now Wang Jinghui does not have so much patience to wait. There must be an explanation for the ownership of prisoners of war. In fact, even if Wang Jinghui masters these prisoners of war, his work is of great benefit to the Song Dynasty. Although Wang Jinghui himself can make a certain profit from it, it is still very meager. He can't figure out why the court is not just a little bit and has to carry such a big burden and hesitate.
Chapter completed!