With this finance, Song Jiu felt confident.

The first thing is to control the plague between the river and Liangzhe River.

Song Jiu implemented large-scale isolation in Suzhou and improved his dietary habits. The plague was gradually controlled, but it did not stop and was still spreading.

The prescription of a doctor is more effective. Although Song Jiu doubted it, it was better than not, so he allocated a sum of money to buy a large amount of herbs again and quickly transported it to Liangzhe. This plague made the Song Dynasty a little miserable, and Liangzhe gradually became a major taxpayer in the Song Dynasty. The drought and plague caused the taxpayer to Liangzhe this year. Even so, Song Jiu still exempted all the two taxpayers from Liangzhe in a year. There was no way, and the people of Liangzhe quickly got out of the shadow of disasters and plagues, otherwise the harvest next year would still affect it.

In addition, the Yellow River has a shortage of embankments and the Bashu rebellion...

No wonder Zhao Heng said I was tired.

There are still areas where the tax-free areas include Bashu and the prefectures and counties that are affected by the Yellow River. If there is no threat from the Liao Kingdom, such tax exemption from time to time will be a disguised return to the people. Moreover, the proportion of the two taxes in the country's income is gradually decreasing. However, those clerks may be very miserable and lack an important excuse for greed.

But this year it will give Chen Shu a headache, not only the tax exemptions in these areas, but other incomes are also decreasing.

However, Song Jiu's various expenses continued to increase next.

Oppressed by the Liao Kingdom, the imperial court further transferred the people on the Hebei border to the south, and then recruited Ding Zhuang in Hebei to enter the imperial guards. There were several conveniences. First, due to the Song Jiu's strategy, a lot of arable land was moved out to allow the imperial guards to garrison the fields at a very early stage. However, these imperial guards were not all in the capital area, and most of them were garrisoned in various places. Therefore, a lot of arable land was rented for the people to cultivate, which caused a lot of disputes. With this expansion of the army, the area of ​​the military farm became tense, and at least there would be no large-scale rental of species.

Military farming is to reduce the national supply and increase some of the soldiers' income, and it is not to let them become bigger landlords.

Secondly, a large number of Ding Zhuang entered the imperial guards and moved out a lot of arable land to resettle the people who moved from the north.

This is the reason on the surface...

In fact, this is an expansion of the army.

Oppressed by the Liao Kingdom, the number of imprisoned troops is slowly increasing, but now the total number is only 370,000 to 80,000 troops. With this number of troops, it is still not enough to defeat the Liao Kingdom.

So Song Jiu has to look at the financial situation of the three departments.

Expanding the army means an increase in military expenditure.

The military expansion lasted until June of the following year. Not only did Ding Zhuang be selected from the people, but also some powerful and skilled wing soldiers from the northern wing soldiers entered the ranks of the imperial guards, and then some people were selected from the victims to supplement the wing soldiers.

There is no way to do this, the country still needs the soldiers to do things.

Until June of the following year, the number of imperial guards expanded to an astonishing 460,000. In fact, it included more than 120,000 rural soldiers of various forms, such as the rural soldiers in the north, the rural soldiers in the northwest, the rural soldiers in Bashu, the local soldiers in Jinghu, Guangdong and Guangxi, the rural barbarian soldiers... and more than 190,000 soldiers, and the number of soldiers reached an astonishing 770,000. At this time, the number of households in the country was only 6.8 million. Thanks to Song Jiu for the increase in the number of households, otherwise it would be even smaller.

Therefore, some redundant soldiers began to appear.

However, compared with history, because the military farming system was implemented since the beginning, the income of soldiers increased by a part of the time, and the national supply pressure was a little lighter.

But not only is the increase in the number of soldiers, but the cost of weapons and equipment is also increasing, which also leads to the rapid increase in military spending.

Some polite officials opposed this, but what surprised them was that no one from the emperor to the priest was obedient.

Increase the number of impeachments and improve armor and weapons. It is only the first step.

The Beiwei Army was established, led by Jing Si, Yang Yanzhao, Zhang Ning and Yang Qiong, but the Beiwei Army also had to be garrisoned. Moreover, the strange system of the Song Dynasty was the rotation system. Therefore, the main generals were almost changing individuals. Now, the four Beiwei Armys, only Yang Yanzhao, did not disperse because of Song Jiu's face. Although the others were not dispersed, the main generals were all replaced, and most of them were in garrisoned. In fact, it was equivalent to dispersing, and even the training was a little relaxed.

This time, Song Jiu picked it up again, but after changing the main general, Tian Min led most of the troops to continue training in the northwest.

Then Yang Qiong was transferred to the northwest again, and a special army was established to select 30,000 light cavalry from the light cavalry to establish the Xianping Army.

Use the name of Zhao Hengnian as the army!

This is undoubtedly the training of the most powerful light cavalry to make up for the lack of speed of the Beiwei Army.

However, if you want to form combat power, there will be several years. If what Song Jiu said will happen, then you will start to race against time now. Not only will the Xianping Army take time to train, but the newly recruited banish soldiers will also take several years to train.

Next, a sum of funds was allocated to allow the generals on the front line to set up scouts to inquire about the information of the Liao Kingdom.

However, two people were mobilized.

The first one is Cao Wei.

Instead of arranging Cao Wei to Hebei, he went to Weizhou.

This is a very important position. There is no major problem in Xiazhou for the time being. Although Xiao Yanyan became interested in it, because the Song Dynasty used Nanhetao as a training place, there were always tens of thousands of troops, and most of them were cavalry, which effectively shocked Xiazhou and Lingzhou areas.

Moreover, the imperial court has done a good job in the policy of this region. Over the years, most tribal life has been well improved.

But the situation in Weizhou is still very complicated. Qinzhou is south of Weizhou. Whether it is Weizhou or Qinzhou, there are many Qiang and Tubo people living in it. Let alone the Tubo people in Liugu tribes in Lanzhou and Liangzhou. In fact, the scope of Weizhou controlled by the Song Dynasty was only in the central and eastern regions.

The Tubo people had no big problems. They all scattered and lost their sense of aggression.

But there is one place, Lingzhou!

To control the Lingzhou area, there must be a good road, one is to go from Qingzhou to Yinchuan Plain, two is to go from Yanzhou to Yinchuan Plain, three is to go from Weizhou to Yinchuan Plain, and four is to go from Lanzhou to Yinchuan Plain.

This is why the Song Dynasty eventually lost Lingzhou in history.

Weizhou also opened roads at that time, but there were not many garrisons, let alone Lanzhou. Li Jiqian controlled Yanzhou, so there was only one road left for rescue. Once controlled, Lingzhou would become a place to fly.

If Weizhou and Lanzhou were all in the hands of the Song Dynasty at that time, would Li Jiqian get Lingzhou?

Only by effectively controlling all the three prefectures of Qin, Wei, Lan, and Yinchuan Plain and Shaanxi form a whole, can it not become a place to fly.

Otherwise, Lingzhou will still be in danger.

The Liao Kingdom once conquered Xixia, and most of them had to start from Datong and then arrive in Nanhetao. This was the closest road, otherwise it would be inconvenient for transportation provided by logistics. But if there were troops below 20,000 troops, then there would be many roads to reach Lingzhou. If you detour from the north of Yinshan and directly reach Helan Mountain, you would threaten Lingzhou. Or you would win over the people of the rush and advance into Juyanhai, then you could directly threaten all the Hexi areas of the Yinchuan Plain.

Therefore, let Cao Wei march into Weizhou, at least all the Tubo tribes in Weizhou area will be subdued. Then the northwest will become a whole and can effectively defend and manage.

Again, Pei Ji was transferred from Lingzhou to Dingzhou and cooperated with Fan Yanzhao.

This pair of combinations is still not as good as Pei Ji and Li Jilong's combination back then. However, Pei Ji's military ability is not bad. He has been in Dingzhou for a long time and is more familiar with the situation. Compared with other combinations, it is still very good.

If Dingzhou is stable, Hebei will be stable!

This time, Wang Xian had limited ability, but the three prime ministers of the Secretariat, Song Jiu, Zhang Qixian and Xiang Minzhong were familiar with military affairs and kept asking for help when discussing affairs through the Political Affairs Hall, but no major mistakes were made. However, the minor mistakes were still not stopped, which led to the impeachment of Yanchen from time to time.

Moreover, the Secretariat was not a harmonious man. Zhang Qixian was a generous man. Li Feng and Xiang Minzhong were quiet, so they were not very harmonious. It happened that the court meeting in the winter of this year, and Zhang Qixian became drunk and almost fell to the hall. The censor impeached Zhang Qixian, but Zhang Qixian had nothing to say, so he could only say that I was a little cold and drank to control him, so I got drunk. Then he was dismissed from the prime minister as his official.

Then Zhao Heng asked if Lu Mengzheng could use it?

There is still no share of Kou Zhun.

It’s not because Zhao Heng doesn’t thank Kou Zhun, but in fact Zhao Heng is a very nostalgic and grateful person.

It was mainly Kou Zhun himself.

He is not in good condition in Dengzhou now, although it is on Jingxi Road, the entire western states of Jingxi Road have not developed in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But Kou Zhun lived the most luxurious and destitute life of the Song Dynasty in Dengzhou. He also liked to drink, not only drank, but also did not drink less, while drinking. He was also very happy and singing. Moreover, because of his reputation, countless literati and elegant guests came here, so the Dengzhou Prefecture Office sang and danced all day long.

Moreover, Kou Zhun’s favorite thing is the Takuji dance. The dancer requires at least twenty people, and at most forty or fifty people. Then the wine is brought up and the lights are lit. Candles are still very expensive in the Song Dynasty. However, at night, countless huge candles even the stables and toilets were lit. When you wake up the next morning, the tears of candles shed can be as high as the tears of the candles that trip up.

As soon as the sky was dark, countless beautiful dancers, beautiful singing and dancing, fine wine and food, and brightly lit palaces made it difficult for visitors to tell whether it was day or night. Once they walked out, they had to support the wall, otherwise they would fall down when the sky was spinning...

This kind of lifestyle made the generous man Zhang Qixian stunned.

Therefore, Zhao Heng thought of using Kou Zhun several times, but he was unanimously opposed by several prime ministers.
Chapter completed!