"Yi An, I really want to talk to you about the national affairs seriously." Zhao Pu said weakly.

If it were said that Zhao Pu was kind to Song Jiu half a year ago, I'm afraid his two sons would not believe it.

But the huge drought caused Zhao Pu to suffer with Halley's Comet. The drought was aggravated, and the Liao Kingdom invaded repeatedly, and Halley's Comet dragged out its long tail.

The whole country is terrified.

It is still continuing to circle around the earth. It will take a long time before it leaves the earth's orbit and disappears into the sky.

Therefore, the huge demon star above his head was hung. Zhao Kuangyi was afraid and avoided the main hall and gave up regular meals. He said to the prime ministers: "The long star shows changes, which is a mistake for the heavenly warning of the king. You should be afraid of practicing and recuperating. You hate Xiaowu and drink to persuade him. You are so crazy and confused. What should you do if you don't die? Today is not a mistake in current affairs, and is it blocked by the situation? What crimes are the people? If you blame me, I will punish me. I dare not be afraid of defamation and answer the miscondemnation of heaven!"

At that time, the Battle of Xuhe had just begun.

If he was defeated, Song Jiu might be miserable. However, the Xuhe War was not only won, but also because Song Jiu instructed to delegate power to Li Jilong, giving him the right to mobilize any army in Hebei during the war, which led to this battle being even more brilliant than the victory of Tang He.

Then it has nothing to do with Song Jiu, and military.

After Song Jiuyi's struggle, the people celebrated, and even Zhao Kuangyi simply went to Hezhou to watch a Cuju competition, which attracted countless people to cheer. Is that still Zhao Kuangyi's responsibility?

Zhao Pu said again: "Let's do this, how about the appointment with Yi An Yu Changqinglou?"

Changqing Tower is also the top official store in the capital, just south of the imperial city, on the right side of the Imperial Street, opposite the Wusi Sanjian Street.

Song Jiu originally wanted to refuse, but they were the two most important bosses of the East and West Mansions, so they were both in front of the court or at the court. At this time, they stood together. Of course, no one dared to come forward and listen to what they said, but 90% of the people would feel curious.

Song Jiu thought about it and said, "Okay."

From a fair perspective, Zhao Pu is definitely not as good as Xiao He, Fang Du and others. Although the founding people went from chaos to rule, people were at ease. The population base decreased, arable land and other resources were not tight, many powerful people died in the process of replacement, and the disparity between the rich and the poor was not serious, so the founding of the country was most likely to produce a virtuous minister.

But it cannot be said that Zhao Pu is like Li Linfu.

However, from Song Jiu's perspective, I wish this person could die early and be reborn early.

He has lived almost in the shadow of this old man for half of his life.

Zhao Pu looks very pitiful now, but Song Jiu does not feel any sympathy in his heart.

Walking towards the Privy Council, Wang Xian asked, "Yi'an, what did Zhao Pu say?"

Wang Xian is a good guy in Xifu, but he is an authentic general.

In the early Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was a bit conscientious in suppressing military generals. When Zhao Kuangyi Dynasty changed its roots and encouraged him, but Zhao Kuangyi could not blame him. At that time, most of the military generals were Zhao Kuangyin's confidants. Look at the Five Dynasties. With military power in his hands, there would be regimes. Power came from the real gun. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi was worried and did not have that confidence.

The Buddha does not know whether there is cause and effect, but everything must have cause and effect!

Song Jiu did not say that at that time.

After Gao Lianghe's failure, Zhao Kuangyi became even more confident and his military power was tighter.

It should be said that it has little to do with Zhao Pu, but after Zhao Pu got up the second time, it played a role in aggravating Zhao Kuangyi's various measures.

In other words, one of these two people is wind. The other is fire. The wind ignites the fire, and the fire blows the wind, the louder it becomes. The root cause is Zhao Puqi's head, and Zhao Kuangyi did it more thoroughly. Zhao Pu consolidated this more thoroughly.

However, under Song Jiu's careful operation, the soldiers were first ruralized, the disguised military farming system, the high-paid pension rewards, and the border generals were given certain freedom, and more border forts were built. Except for the ones that were not done well in the future, the others were done well.

Especially the cost of raising soldiers, as long as the battle is not started, the annual military expenses may be reduced by more than half compared to history, but the income of soldiers has increased significantly on the contrary. At least now, there are military prostitutes everywhere in the military camps, but very few people want to find soldiers’ wives to be military prostitutes, but it also brings a negative effect, that is, the cost of visiting prostitutes is increasing...

This was the first thing Song Jiu did. After all, Zhao Kuangyi had just taken office for a while, and the system of the governor was indeed very bad. Song Jiu did not take big steps, and strengthened his troops as the auxiliary, saving the cost of raising soldiers and increasing the income of soldiers.

Returning from Liaodong, he mainly managed the northwest. This is the most controversial thing that Song Jiu did. In fact, its significance is even more extraordinary, no less than taking back Yan Yun, but who knows? In addition, it is to deepen the military system reform in the early days of Taiping Xingguo and observe the military talents of the generals.

After returning from the battle of Qigou Pass, Song Jiu's movements were still very small. He either recruited Fan Qiang cavalry in the northwest to train tens of thousands of light cavalry, not heavy cavalry like Jingsai Army, and even tried to let Yang Qiong train these tens of thousands of light cavalry according to the wolf pack tactics of Yuan Meng as he remembered.

The advantages and disadvantages of the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry were shown in both Li Jilong's battles. The lethality of the heavy cavalry of the Jingsai Army almost stunned everyone, but its speed was indeed a problem.

Moreover, it is difficult to raise Hetao horses in Hebei.

But it cannot be called a big deal of movement.

Until this time, it would be fine to improve the fortress system. The main ones are the first two.

The first is the system of the Staff Department. It turns out that the military consuls' power is basically participated by the prime ministers of the East and West governments. Even if Song Jiu had not played a key role in the two battles, Zhao Pu would not have to come back, and Li Fang would have taken away the rights of the Western Palace. However, now it is clearly stipulated and handed over to the veteran generals to deal with, that is, let real insiders make decisions. The emperor has only the right to decide and participate. The East Palace will go to the side to enjoy the cool air. That is, the capital only has the general plan, and the details are completely handed over to the frontline generals to handle. Even the emperor's formation map is gone, so the rights of the military generals will gradually increase.

The second is the temporary granting power, just like Li Jilong's temporary authority this time to calm down Mo Cang Ying and Ba Xiong Qi Shen Zhao's Thirteen Prefectures Army deployed, and in fact, it is also further improving the treatment of military generals. In fact, the rights of the Western Prefecture gradually increased, otherwise the Western Prefecture would have been just an empty ambition at one time.

The third is to promote it, giving honor to the soldiers.

This almost completely destroyed the system of Zhao Pu's decree and suppressing military generals.

Wang Xian is a military man, not a civil servant. Therefore, he is very happy.

But he was also worried about Zhao Pu.

"Don't be afraid, the demon star..."

When Wang Xian thought of the long-tail comet, he laughed.

The demon star is good, the drought is good. It has nothing to do with the Western Palace!

Let the East Mansion go in chaos.

"Yi An, if His Majesty agrees, then who will enter the Staff Office?"

This is not easy to deal with. The founding generals Shi Shouxin and others could not count. After the founding of the Song Dynasty, they almost never participated in the war. Among the veterans were Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Murong Yanzhao, Tian Chongjin, Cui Yanjin, Liu Tingrang, Li Jilong, Cui Han, Mi Xin, Yuan Jizhong and others. Most of them died, including Cui Yanjin. He wanted to use that strange strategy to clear his name, but as long as Bazhou was idle, he was depressed, and died last year. Can the remaining people, Yuan Jizhong and Pan Mei, Cui Han be transferred back?

Or second-class veterans, such as Li Jinqing, Yang Mei, He Jijun, Li Hanchao, Guo Jin, Niu Sijin, Wang Zan, Zhang Baoxu, Lu Huaizhong, Wang Jixun, Ding Deyu, Zhang Yantong, Liang Jijiu, Shi Gui, Tian Qinzuo, etc., also most of them died.

If this candidate was more than a decade ago, it would be a problem ten years later.

Song Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Prince, you are wrong. This position is a part-time job. If you have something to do, you will be vacant. It is easier to choose candidates, such as Cao Bin, Mi Xin, Tian Chongjin, Liu Tinghan and others. In these two battles, some generals have emerged one after another. With a little tempering from the court, the veterans who are on the front line can gradually get these veterans out of the gates and return to the capital to enjoy a happy life in their old age. Then they can be successively appointed as candidates for the Staff Office."

“That’s right…”

"Don't think too much. If your Majesty hadn't agreed, he deliberately trained young and middle-aged generals on the front line. If this continues, the country's important generals will be out of reach. If there is no far-reaching worry, there must be immediate concerns." In fact, there are still several candidates in Song Jiu's mind, such as Cui Han, An Shouzhong and others, who can be transferred back to the capital one after another.

However, it was the part of Hedong, and Song Jiu was very sad.

My father-in-law can't get promoted, so it's better to come back to retire. But who can replace him? Or where can I find another Li Jilong?

However, this reform came in time, otherwise the Song Dynasty would be ashamed of later generations. In fact, the system of suppressing literature and dethroning military affairs, and guarding the internal and external emptiness will be taken.

That is even more terrifying than General Zhong Congyu.

What is to defend the inside and the outside? To put it bluntly, civil wars, external wars, or foreign wars, or to be more blunt, fierce to the inside and weak to the outside world; the common people are not people, pigs and dogs, foreigners are not ambitious barbarians, but great masters and ancestors. Then they fight in the nest, so powerful, and then worship foreign countries, so powerful...

After the deposit, Song Jiu came to Changqing Tower.

The two of them asked for a private room and sat down separately.

Zhao Song meets, but in fact, since Zhao Pu and Song Jiu walked into Changqing Tower, I don’t know how many pairs of eyes were staring at Changqing Tower. Even the little yellow gate hurried into the palace to report to Zhao Kuangyi after hearing this.

The two of them arrived, making the Changqing Tower messy.

However, the two of them didn't care about this. Zhao Pu waved to the supervisor of Changqing Tower: "Select a few dishes at will, go down."

I will send you the uncles who came to serve.

At first, Zhao Pu looked at Song Jiu with some complexity. In terms of credit, he was the founding of the country and must have been above his son. However, in Zhao Kuangyi Dynasty, this son's credit was above him. Unexpectedly, the boy who was ignorant of the importance of the past actually grew to this point.

Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his heart, Zhao Pu said: "Yi'an, you have the intention of pioneering and enterprising. I agree very much, but the country is inside and not outside, so I will show you something."

Take out a booklet from your arms.

When Song Jiu opened it, he found that it was south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River, which was the number of households in the territory that had existed since the founding of the Song Dynasty. It turned out that a large area of ​​land north of the Yellow River in Hebei was also from the Song Dynasty, but due to the war, Zhao Pu deliberately did not count it. Then there was another data, that is, the number of households migrated over the years, including some people migrating north of the Hutuo River, some people captured or brought by Yanyun, Liao Kingdom, and people who were forced to migrate by force in the northwest, were mostly scattered in the southern part of Hedong, Hebei and the western part of Beijing. These people also deducted them, so the speed of the increase in the number of households can be seen.

Then there is another household statistics for Lingnan.

There were only 170,000 households in the Southern Song Dynasty, but now it has reached 380,000 households. The number of households that Song Jiu and Pan Mei moved from Jiaozhi has also doubled.

However, the Song Dynasty used to operate for a longer period of time, and the increase rate was only 30%.

This shows the harm of war on the people.
Chapter completed!