With a large number of new recruits, Beiwei Army, and Xianping Army went to Nanhetao one after another. Although the local area gradually reclaimed many military farms, they could not bear the supply of food. Of course, there were also training sites in various parts of the capital, but the effect was much weaker.

So Pei Ji was transferred to Xiazhou again. This man had great political achievements in Lingzhou, and his decisions were fair and the Qiang believed in it. At the same time, he developed water conservancy and attached importance to agricultural production. He was a rare good minister and general who was both civil and military.

Xiang Minzhong happened to enter the Western Prefecture and carry the burden, and Wang Xian was slightly inferior in ability.

So he transferred Wang Xian to Dingzhou and was appointed as the governor of Shannan East Road. He was in charge of the Dingzhou Road Army and the deployment of the Dingzhou Road Army and the commander of the Hebei Metropolitan Transportation Commission. He was asked to take charge of Hebei border defense affairs. Later, when Kong Shouzheng proposed, he added the three routes of Zhen, Ding and Gaoyangguan Road, and Xu Bianqi was deployed.

This appointment has a background. The Liao Kingdom is ambitious and can invade south at any time. However, the generals and dragons in Hebei are headed by each of them. They are not strong enough to fight. They must have a high-profile person who understands military affairs.

Wang Xian is undoubtedly competent.

But there will be personnel transfers next.

Wang Huaji was dismissed from the prime minister as his official official.

He did not make any mistakes, nor was it because of Song Jiu's relationship, because there were new appointments below. With Feng Zheng and Chen Yaosou as the ministers, Xue Ying, Liang Ding and Yang Yi as the masters of the imperial edicts, wouldn't Yang Yi be more intimate in terms of relationships?

The main reason is that Wang Huaji stayed in the Secretariat for too long. He had to retreat if he didn't go up for five or six years.

The theme of the official system of the Song Dynasty was the top and bottom.

This is not only civil officials but also military generals.

Song Jiu suddenly thought of Wang Anshi's military strategy, but at that time, even a military leader dared to occupy Yizhou. If he wanted to be the king, how could he say it?

As Feng and Chen were appointed as the head of the Privy Council.

Wang Qinruo returned from Xichuan and was promoted to the position of governor.

But this kind of continuous changes in personnel and affairs made Song Jiu feel nervous about time.

He could not stay in Zhongshu all his life. Once he was transferred in a few years, all plans would be ruined. Can others take the lead? He was very suspicious.

For example, one day, Wu Shu, the official of the official, suddenly had a whim and saw too much about the Spring and Autumn Period and wanted to promote the chariots in the army.

Zhao Heng agreed with it.

Many people were silent. Yes, the Spring and Autumn Period recorded that the chariot was so awesome. Why is it gone now? Only a few ministers opposed it, but they couldn't tell why.

Song Jiu had no choice but to explain that the chariots came in handy in the Spring and Autumn Period. One was a gentleman fighting, unlike now, where all kinds of strategies were used to win the war. The other was mainly targeting infantry. For example, when Zhao fought against the Hu people, they did not use chariots, but changed to Hu uniforms and learned from Hu cavalry. Then in the Han Dynasty, the cavalry invented chassis, which could make the cavalry make more flexible movements on horseback. The speed was not as fast as that of a simple cavalry, and the cost was higher than that of a cavalry. The flexibility was insufficient, so the chariots were eliminated.

When he mentioned it, Zhang Qixian suddenly remembered something. That is, the Tang Dynasty prime minister, the house manager, seemed to have used a chariot to deal with the rebels in Guanzhong, but he was defeated in that battle. Forty thousand soldiers died tragically.

So Zhao Heng no longer mentioned the chariot.

Otherwise, a major disaster would come over the Song Dynasty.

So Song Jiu accelerated his pace.

First, I proposed something.

The wind blew, captured Youzhou, and then destroyed Youzhou City. The Song Dynasty also paid a heavy price, spent countless money, and a most important ally completely destroyed. But the harvest was also great, and many nobles were captured from Youzhou, asking Song Jiu to send them to the mine to dig one by one.

But Zhao Heng was soft-hearted. After he ascended the throne, he issued an edict to release these people and rewarded some idle officials to raise them in the capital. Among them were some relatives of Han Derang's family.

Why do you need to raise these people?

Whenever Song Jiu saw them, he was always unhappy.

Therefore, they simply proposed to exchange them for the people Xiao Yanyan went south to capture, and then show weakness to Xiao Yanyan and discuss peace.

Tian Xi went to Liao Kingdom as an envoy, and it was okay to replace people, especially Han Derang's tribe members. Xiao Yanyan has always expressed concern. But peace talks cannot be made. Yes, you must hand over the territory of Feihu Pass, Lingqiu County and Zijing Pass, Panguan and Shenwu City.

This is a bit hard to say. Pianguan and Shijingtang, Shenwu City, were not ceded to the Liao Kingdom, but were owned by the Northern Han Kingdom. However, with the repeated invasions of the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom's rescue, it gradually swallowed up this area. In history, the Song Dynasty has not taken it back.

As for Zijingling and Feihu Pass, Lingqiu County was ceded to the Liao Kingdom, but Yizhou was later taken down by Chai Rong. However, Yizhou was hanging alone in the north of Yishui. Most of the Song Dynasty occupied plains and could not be defended. Therefore, after the wind blew, Song Jiu still proposed to give up Yizhou, Jintaitun and other places, but in turn, occupied the highland of Zijingling and built Zijing Pass.

Xiao Yanyan went south last year and wanted to take back Zijing Pass. Yelu Xizhen was not dead yet, so she sent people to inquire. The Song Dynasty was stationed in Zijing Pass. The entire army was stationed in Zijing Pass. The military discipline was strict. Moreover, the Feihu River Valley was behind it. Although it was not large, it could grow crops, raise cattle, horses and sheep, which was enough to ensure the supply of the garrison. In addition, the terrain of Zijing Pass was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Yelu Xizhen was afraid of accidents and suggested that Xiao Yanyan cancel the attack.

Tian Xi didn't know this inside story, but he knew the importance of Zijing Pass. If Zijing Pass was lost, Feihu Pass might not be able to protect it. Once Feihu Pass was lost, then the front line in Hedong and Hebei would be equal to being two in Taihang Mountains and each fights.

The same is true for Pianguan and Shenwu City. Once lost, Shengzhou, which was established shortly, will be difficult to preserve.

Without agreeing, Tian Xi came back, and the two sides exchanged prisoners and exchanged thousands of people. However, many people still had not been exchanged, so they asked Xiao Yanyan to send him to the Shangjing area of ​​Zhongjing and became slaves to various tribes.

Of course, the result of this mission was that tens of millions of Song people felt ashamed.

The late emperor asked for peace, but he asked for peace twice, but he did not agree, and he had to fight. The new emperor asked for peace and still disagreed, and he also offered reasons that people could not agree, but he still wanted to fight. Are the people of Song really that weak?

Song Jiu didn't care much about the anger of the people and the weakness of the verbal impeachment of Song Jiu. At least his goal was achieved, and the peace talks shut up from then on.

Then I did the second thing.

Work with Wang Qinruo to improve the commercial tax.

Song Jiu was in Suzhou and heard many complaints from merchants that the commercial tax rate was too high. In fact, Song Jiu had reformed the commercial tax law once, for example, he had to collect taxes once every state. Now it has been changed to calculating taxes once a time, which has reduced the number of exploitation of merchants.

However, it is still very high. For example, if you transport goods from Suzhou to Jingcheng, Liangzhe Road, Huainan East Road, Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road, and two percent of the residence tax, the tax rate will almost reach 14%. This is still close. If you transport goods from Jinghu South Road, or Guangdong and Guangxi, Bashu to Beijing, the tax rate will double.

Therefore, Song Jiu carried out the second commercial tax reform.

The tax on the road continues to increase in the unit of road, and the tax on the road shall not be counted within the state.

The tax rate was lowered to two percent.

If it is a large-scale transaction, if the commodity value exceeds 1,000 guan, the tax and housing tax will all drop to 1.5%, and if it exceeds 50,000 guan, the tax will be reduced to 1.1%. Although the tax rate will become very low, those who can evade taxes will be those big merchants.

The court uniformly printed tax invoices, using tax invoices as certificates. When goods arrive on the other side, they must hold all residence taxes to tax invoices, make them checked at the transaction place, and hand over the tax invoices. They can only trade them. Otherwise, regardless of both the buyer and the seller, they must be severely punished and confiscated. The lightest ones will be fined more than five times the price, and the worst ones will be exiled.

To prevent clerks from extorting, the dry goods pallet inspection time shall not exceed half a day, and the fresh goods pallet inspection time shall not exceed half an hour. If the two parties conflict about the value of the goods, the dry goods will be drawn from each category of merchants' goods, plus two-thousandth of the storage cost, and the government will deal with it if they are not taken within one month. The fresh goods are calculated based on local prices. If there is indeed a move by clerks, the merchant can complain to the government, and they will also be severely punished. If there is a powerful or a big businessman making unreasonable trouble, it is equivalent to tax evasion punishment. The person in charge is light and the person in charge is exiled on the spot, and the person in the serious is exiled.

and several regulations,

In fact, it is to lower the tax rate to give small and medium-sized businessmen a glimmer of chance. Then it is to order the powerful and the big businessmen to pay taxes, and finally it is to prevent clerks from extorting and committing evil deeds.

When it was just started to implement it, it caused a lot of trouble. The merchants continued to evade taxes, the clerks continued to extort, and even found fake tax invoices. However, when severe punishment was punished, it was opposed by many scholars and officials, saying that gentlemen should not speak of profit.

Song Jiu said rudely: "No profit is right? OK, from today on, we will stop paying officials' salaries. Do you agree or reduce the salary to the Tang Dynasty level. Do you agree?"

It took more than two years of trouble before it gradually calmed down and began to reduce commercial tax revenues rapidly, and it was not until the third year that it gradually remained flat.

However, this reform greatly prospered business development.

Moreover, Song Jiu's reform has a very good background, that is, the continuous invasion of the Liao Kingdom has brought a sense of crisis to the whole country.

Winter is coming, which means another good time for invasion.

Countless troops of the Liao Kingdom went south. After hearing the news of the Liao army heading south, Li Jixuan, Yang Yanzhao, Yang Si and the eunuch Qin Han and others quickly discussed at the Polu Army City.

The main force was led by Qin Han and Li Jixuan, 30,000 Song soldiers, and all cavalrymen. They set up a formation against the Polu Army City, preparing to fight the Liao army head-on. Yang Si and Yang Yanzhao led 6,000 cavalry to the Yangshan area in the west, preparing to encircle the Liao army's rear route. Zhang Bin, as a vanguard, ambush the Liao army first at the entrance of the Great Wall on the edge of Yangshan, and by the way to cover the ambush of the second Yang. Wang Xian summoned a large army in the rear to prepare for support or expand the results of the battle.

In mid-October, the vanguard of Liao Kingdom, who invaded the south, set foot on the Song territory. However, the drizzle and the muddy road made the vanguard general, the crown prince of Liao Kingdom, frown.

Why doesn’t it snow, but it rains instead?

First of all, the bow strings of the Liao army were cortical and were useless after being soaked in rain. The Liao army, which could not use bows and arrows, would undoubtedly greatly weaken its combat effectiveness.

But at this time, the Liao army saw that the Song Dynasty was weak and forgot about it. Although they knew that the rain was not good, Yelu Longqing continued to order the march.

Maybe he thought Fan Yanzhao, the number one heavy general in Hebei, had just died of illness.

But he forgot that the two brave generals of the Liao Kingdom also died. However, in the Song Dynasty, Li Jixuan, Jing Si, Wei Neng, Yang Si, Yang Yanzhao, Tian Min, Zhang Ning, Qin Han and others were becoming increasingly mature, and there was a tiger hidden in Chenzhou.

Regarding generals, the Liao Kingdom is already at a disadvantage.
Chapter completed!