Judging from the reality, it is not feasible to use the method of expanding the recruitment of official positions to curb vicious intravenous rebirth and win over the hearts of the people.

The phenomenon of redundant officials in the north and south Song dynasties has proved this bankruptcy.

Blindly expanding the scale of admissions will only cause serious redundant officials. In addition, high welfare for officials will only drag the finances to death. The Northern Song Dynasty suffered losses, and the Ming Dynasty could not continue to suffer.

So Su Yonglin thought of a way to go out.

After the development of business and technology, government departments will inevitably need to respond, and professional departments need to be responsible for these new social components. At that time, it is natural to increase the number of officials.

Not only that, when these industries develop, more job demands will arise in society, which will distract some people from their attention and prevent people from simply using the imperial examination as the only way to rise.

This is the development of domestic demand brought about by social development, which can curb vicious intravenous...

At the same time, Su Yonglin also plans to increase foreign demand by expanding territory, not only setting up local positions, but also overseas positions, so as to transfer some excess internal talent pressure.

Needless to say, expanding territory, this is one of the future national policies of the Ming Dynasty.

The newly acquired territory also requires officials and government officials, which will also generate demand for social production positions. Local jobs will be transferred out after they are saturated, which is also an effective way.

Su Yonglin knew that the British Empire was a master of this. The local area was small, but the number of overseas territories was large. It successfully transferred many conflicts for many years. It was not until the competitors rose one after another that they had to retreat to the second line and become a complete messenger.

If you want to avoid vicious competition, you must open up the pattern and go out.

The vicious intra-revolutionary period in the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly because they could not get out. After their thoughts were rigid, they could not get out, and there was no way out. As the population grew, they could only get out.

And if you go out, you will open up a whole new world.

Although Su Yonglin only controls northern China at present, his eyes are scanning the surroundings and all the places suitable for opening up the border.

Of course, the Southern Song Dynasty was the first to be affected.

It was also quite coincidental that when Su Yonglin was ambitious to start to collect manpower and material resources in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty also learned that the Western Xia was completely fucking and that the Ming Dynasty set up a Hexi province in the former Xixia area.

The Western Xia, which had been difficult for several generations of emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, could not handle the situation in the hands of the Ming Dynasty for three or four years, could not hold on. A rebellion almost destroyed the country, and another rebellion came and was sent completely.

Xixia, as an independent country, has ceased to exist. From now on, there will be only Hexi Province and no Xixia. The potential Northwest foreign aid of the Southern Song Dynasty completely disappeared.

The ministers who were still silent about not being able to reach cooperation with Xixia to suppress the Ming Dynasty. While they were embarrassed, they also felt a great sense of crisis.

The reason is no different. The Ming Dynasty's annexation of the Western Xia was too terrifying.

After all, it was a war country with the potential to mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Faced with the complete annexation of the Ming Dynasty, it did not mobilize the entire country's army to launch even one desperate battle with the Ming Dynasty.

He had not even had a national war, and he sent it only after launching two rebellious military operations.

In the face of the continuous fierce attacks of the Song army during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song and Emperor Renzong of Song, the Western Xia Dynasty won many victories under the leadership of Li Jiqian, Li Yuanhao and others. It once formed a three-legged stalemate with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and its reputation was greatly shocked.

How strong was the Xixia back then?

Although they continued to weaken afterwards, they could not border them until the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed. The Northern Song Dynasty, which was more than ten times larger than it, could not destroy it and regain its former land in Hexi.

The Liao and Jin countries also had no choice but to use this piece of braised candy.

That was more than two hundred years of entanglement.

Xixia, which was established in a mere Hexi land, is so tenacious.

The Ming Dynasty has only been established for five years, and it has been less than five years since its establishment. Xixia was annexed, and it was still annexed by local wars.

According to the reward of Guanzhong's spy, during this rebellion, the Guanzhong garrison in the Ming Dynasty showed no sign of large-scale deployment. It seemed that the rebellion was solved by relying on the original garrison in Hexi.

After annexing the Xixia province, no rebellion occurred in the former Xixia area, and the wind was calm and the people seemed to have very happy acceptance of the fact that the country was destroyed.

Then things just passed.

As of the date of the information being issued, the intelligence personnel of the Southern Song Dynasty court disguised as merchants in Guanzhong did not hear any news of turmoil in the ancient places of Xixia.

The merchant who transported cattle and sheep from Xixia to trade in Guanzhong market had no words.

An intelligence officer and a businessman from the Dangxiang clan had business dealings in the past. This time he came to Guanzhong to buy sheep and met him. After a while of negotiation, he was surprised to learn that the Dangxiang people living in Hexi now had no opinion on the demise of Xixia.

"Sad and angry? Why?"

The merchant of Dangxiang laughed and spoke proficient Guanzhong Chinese dialect.

"Before the Ming people came, those bastard officials wanted to suck up all my family's assets. Every year, in order to do business with stability, I have to respect the high and small officials and those officers for about 60% of the money I earn.

Now that the Ming people are coming, as long as I pay taxes on time, I don’t ask me for an extra penny. The road is easier than before, and the horse bandits cannot see it. None of the officers and soldiers guarding the passes have blackmailed me, and they have not seized my goods and prevented me from passing, nor have they snatched my cattle and sheep. Why am I so sad and angry?"

The intelligence personnel of the Southern Song Dynasty were very surprised when they heard this.

"You are not Han people, so those Han officials in Ming Dynasty will not make things difficult for you?"

After hearing this, Dangxiang Merchant shook his head with some emotion.

"It's really not. We don't talk about this at all, and the government doesn't promote it. We just say that everyone is a native of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of whether it is Han Dangxiang or Khitan Xi. Anyway, in my opinion, the Ming government treats us equally and has no differences. We also encourage us to intermarry and live together."

"This...really?"

"Of course it's true. My eldest brother's son married a Han girl before the New Year. I also had a friend's daughter who also married the son of a Han merchant family at the beginning of this year. On the day the two families got married, the local government sent people to celebrate and gave gifts."

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The intelligence personnel of the Southern Song Dynasty did not know what to evaluate this, so they could only write this matter in the information and sent it back to the Southern Song Dynasty together.

The Privy Council is now the Privy Council who is in charge of the collection and analysis of external intelligence in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Privy Council will collect the information collected by the foreign spies, analyze it together, and then hand over some meaningful essence to the senior management of the Privy Council.

So this matter was placed on Chen Kangbo's desk as important information about the Western Xia and learned about it by Chen Kangbo.

After reading recent information about Xixia, Chen Kangbo felt deeply worried.

"The Xia people are mostly addicted to the good governance of the Ming Dynasty and do not want to restore the country. It is very difficult to instigate the Xia people to launch a rebellion to restrain the Ming Dynasty. If you restore Guanzhong, there seems to be no chance in the short term."

After seeing this information, Yu Yunwen, Yang Wanli and others felt very helpless.

At the end of September last year, before the Xixia rebellion broke out, Wu Lin, who was guarding the border of Sichuan, received a notice from the powerful people of the Xixia.

They hoped that the Southern Song Dynasty could reach an alliance with them, attacked the north and the south together, defeated the Ming Dynasty's rule in Guanzhong and the northwest, restored the situation of the border between the Western Xia and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the two countries fought against the Ming Dynasty together.

At that time, Wu Lin was very moved and happy. He felt that there was another opportunity in front of him and could not give up anyway. So he immediately reported to Lin'an and sent the news to Lin'an with a 600-mile rush day and night.

He wanted Lin'an to make a quick decision, whether he should take the opportunity to send troops to respond to the Xixia rebellion, and he should not miss the opportunity and never come again.

Although the Privy Council, which has not yet completed the reorganization, has not been dealt with many things, it has responded very quickly, just to make a little more time when making a decision.

Some people think that this rebellion should be responded to and attempted to seize Guanzhong. This is the last chance and cannot be missed. Otherwise, once the Western Xia is over, it will be difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty to have another chance to go north.

However, some people think that this rebellion cannot be responded to, because the timing is wrong, Guanzhong is no longer so easy to attack, and the powerful and powerful people in the Western Xia are just dragging people into the water and cannot support them.

Yu Yunwen, who has always adhered to the offensive concept, unexpectedly chose a conservative attitude this time and suggested to Chen Kangbo not to act rashly, nor to send troops at will.
Chapter completed!