Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

In short, there is nothing they can't do, only you can't think of it.

For the landless, this new policy is naturally a matter of great joy.

Especially a group of refugees in Tokyo City, as well as landless people in other state capitals on Gyeonggi Road.

At present, Zhao Ning has more than 70 mu of fertile farmland obtained from the confiscation of the house, and each household is divided into 5 mu on average, which can also be distributed to 14 households.

With 5 people in each household, 70 people can be fed.

Moreover, the imperial court collects 20 catties of grain per mu, and 70 million catties can be collected for 1400 mu.

Counting the consumption on the road (consumption is the grain consumed on the road when grain was transported in ancient times), the conversion finally reaches 60%.

There are also 840 million catties, which can feed 28 frontline troops for a month.

How did the Zhongshizhong be wiped out in Taiyuan?

It was because there was no food, the soldiers mutinied, and the Jin army took advantage of it.

Why is there no food left?

Was it the lack of food in the Song Dynasty?

no!

In the Song Dynasty, there were already 7.2 million mu of fields in the Shenzong era. During the Zhenzong era, Champa rice was introduced, and the yield of the fields increased significantly. This is the key reason for the population explosion in the Northern Song Dynasty.

There was no shortage of food in the Song Dynasty, but the food just couldn't reach the front line.

Don't you see, the food in the houses of the big families in Tokyo City is about to rot, and the soldiers on the front line are praying for a bite of food!

This is the most fundamental reason why the Great Song Dynasty was defeated!

Why did the Five Routes of Xia in the Shenzong era fail?

It is also because the food cannot be delivered to the front line, the logistics collapse, and the front line collapses without a fight!

Otherwise Xixia would have been wiped out decades ago.

After the promulgation of the New Deal, Zhao Ning sneaked out of the palace early in the morning to see the reaction of the people.

The folks are talking about it tightly, but there is no big splash.

At noon, some refugees went to report to the Department of Agricultural Affairs of the newly established New Deal Yamen.

Zhao Ning saw a few refugees wearing commoner clothes who did not know how many years they had been wearing, walking out from the Department of Agricultural Affairs, with the most innocent smile on their faces.

"We have fields!"

"We also have fields!"

He saw one of the men coming out, squatting under the big tree in front of the Secretary of Agriculture and crying loudly.

There were also people dancing in the open space in front, as happy as a simple child, and the people around looked at them with surprised eyes.

Of course, they not only received the good land certificate, but also the seeds.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Ning sighed in his heart: The common people just want a few acres of land and enough to eat. Is this too much?

This is far from excessive, this is the most basic and simple requirement.

After staying near the Secretary of Agriculture for a while, Zhao Ning left and returned to the palace.

The current "equal land lease" is just the beginning.

Supporting new policies will also come out one after another in the future to assist "equal land renting".

Its ultimate purpose is to disintegrate the annexation of the rich and powerful on the land, regain the country's right to control the price of grain, and become a link in the national war system of the Song Dynasty.

This kind of new policy will definitely touch the nerves of the interest groups of the entire Great Song Dynasty, but it has only just been released now, and the scale is small, so it has not caused much impact.

This is why it was first implemented on Gyeonggi Road.

As a reform special zone, Gyeonggi Road should take a step first to make the model smooth and smooth, and then immediately implement it to the military town area north of the Yellow River.

As long as the military towns north of the Yellow River can make this model go smoothly, not only will the cost of war be reduced, but the common people will all be grateful for the holiness of the Son of Heaven.

With the hearts of the people in hand, and a new army just formed, I hope that interest groups will jump out and oppose my new policy at that time!

Chapter 97 Alliance with Xixia?

On June [-], Zhao Ning suddenly arrived at the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Qin Hui brought forward Sun Fu, the former acquaintance and privy secretary, and arranged a room alone.

When Sun Fu saw the emperor, he was so excited that he knelt on the ground: "The sinners see Your Majesty!"

Zhao Ning looked at Sun Fu. For more than half a year, Sun Fu lived a very poor life in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and lost a lot of weight.

However, Zhao Ning had already told him not to torture Sun Fu.

This person, Zhao Ning, is very useful.

Stupid is a bit stupid, but loyalty must not be doubted.

Zhao Ning said lightly: "Get up and talk."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After a moment of silence, Zhao Ning said: "The Jin army has withdrawn, and it will be in April."

"The sinner heard the jailer mention it in the prison. Your majesty is holy. Under your majesty's holiness, the gold thief retreats. God bless my Song Dynasty."

"All right, all right, I'm not here to listen to what you say."

Sun Fu was a little embarrassed, he said: "I don't know why Your Majesty came to such a dirty and filthy place to meet the criminals?"

"You almost ruined Da Song, do you know that?"

"The guilty minister is introspecting every day. The guilty minister wishes to die in prison, but every time the guilty minister thinks of his father's concern for the country, he thinks that if there is still a chance, the guilty minister must atone for his sins and share his worries. !"

Damn it!

Zhao Ning finally knew why Song Qinzong Zhao Huan liked to use Sun Fu.

This guy is loyal, and he speaks nicely, no wonder he has mediocre ability and can be a member of the same privy.

Zhao Ning was silent for a moment, and said: "According to your crimes, I should have executed you long ago."

"The guilty minister has nothing to say, if your majesty lets the minister die, the minister will die immediately."

After another moment of silence, Zhao Ning continued: "But when Guochao is employing people, remembering that you were loyal to me in the past, I can give you a chance to make up for your mistakes."

Sun Fu was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "Please make it clear, Your Majesty."

"The gold thief has indeed retreated, but at the end of this year, he will definitely use troops against us. I need to make adequate preparations. I need someone to go to the Xixia Kingdom."

Xixia is the name of people in the Song Dynasty.

Xixia itself is called Baigao Daxia, and Xixia is a derogatory name.

"I want to open up and do business with the Xixia Kingdom."

"I want you to go on an envoy to the Xixia Kingdom, are you willing to go?"

Sun Fu pondered for a long time before he came back to his senses. He said: "Why does Your Majesty want to do business with the Xixia Kingdom? My dynasty and Dangxiang are feuds, and Dangxiang is a subject of my dynasty. If you dare to rebel against the kingdom of China, your heart is not good." punish!"

Fuck!

Zhao Ning wished he could pick up the Yanmo on the table and give Sun Fu a hard blow.

Why can't you turn the corner!

No wonder he ran to invite Guo Dashen to dance at the top of the city.

Now is the time to talk about feuds?

I don't know that Da Song and Dang Xiang are feuds?

I don't want to abolish party items?

Does Da Song have that strength now?

Now Da Song is protecting himself, do you understand self-protection!

These words cannot be said to a courtier.

He said euphemistically: "Based on the current situation, Dangxiang will be stabilized, and Dangxiang will have an interest relationship with Song Dynasty. As long as the Jin army's offensive is defended by the end of this year, we will strengthen cooperation with Dangxiang and form an alliance with it in the coming year."

"Can this work?"

"It's fine, you just have to do what I tell you."

"You are going here to reach a deal with Brother Li Cha, the powerful minister of the party. I am willing to open up a larger market and allow the salt of the party to freely enter the territory of the Song Dynasty. I also promised him to give him silk at a low price."

Brother Li Cha is a member of the clan of the party, with military power in his hands, and his speech in the Xixia Kingdom Hall is very important.

Instead of giving the lord of Xixia the old coins, it is better to have interests with such powerful ministers.

In fact, a large part of the war between Song Dynasty and Dangxiang in the past 100 years was due to the competition for salt.

If there is no benefit, there is no early development, and the country and the country only have interests.

The officials in the court of the Great Song Dynasty were better at doing business than one another.

Many people scolded Sima Guang for abandoning the lands of Longyou and Hexi recovered by Wang Shao, calling him a traitor.

That is from the perspective of future generations.

Sima Guang's thoughts are definitely not out of betrayal, but out of business.

The Song Dynasty had a fiscal deficit every year, and the salaries of officials increased year by year. After Wang Shaotuo bordered Huangshui, the territory of the Northwest of the Song Dynasty was indeed enlarged, but the court had no money to support an army there.

In other words, it has been recovered, but it cannot be supported.

If you can't afford it, you will lose it sooner or later, so why not take the initiative to sell it.

That's the principle.

In the century-long war between Song and Xia, the Great Song Dynasty invested huge manpower and material resources to destroy the party, not only for the sake of the heaven and the country, but more practically because of the green and white salt produced in Wuchi and Baichi in Xixia.

The salt supply in the northwestern region of the Song Dynasty relied on Jiechi salt from Hedong (Shanxi), which was expensive and bitter.

Since the Dangxiang rebellion, Song Taizong banned the entry of green and white salt, and the two sides started a century-old trade war.

Later, it resumed and was interrupted again. The two sides fought for a hundred years. Although the border trade existed, it could not come to the fore.

Zhao Ning's strategy this time is to simply formalize the mutual market, and allow Brother Li Cha's people to make money in the territory of Song Dynasty, and give silk at a low price.

This is better than giving money directly.

If you give money directly, Brother Li Cha will be happy for a while at most.

If he is allowed to send people freely to Dasong to sell salt, the money will continue to flow.

And give brother Richard silk at a low price. Brother Li Cha monopolizes luxury goods in the country, which can be said to have further improved his political status.

Li Cha is short of money?

Of course he wanted money, so he was allowed to come to Dasong to sell salt.

But wouldn't it be better if his political status was also improved?

The military is the foundation, but economic cooperation can be deeply bound.

Stabilize the party item first, and then bind it in depth after the Song-Jin war at the end of this year is over.

In this way, part of the soldiers of the Jin army were allocated to the party.

Zhao Ning continued: "The Kingdom of Jin will definitely send envoys to the party. You don't have to pay attention to this. Talk to Brother Li Cha and settle the interests. He is the key person, you know?"

"I understand."

"Tell me again what I meant just now."

Sun Fu repeated it and added his own understanding.

Zhao Ning stopped, finally relieved.

Sun Fu was stupid in the military, but he was not dull in the administration of officials. This was the characteristic of most civil officials in the Song Dynasty.

When I met the military, I was stunned, and when I talked about doing business, I was a different person.

"You are going to the northwest now. Go see Zhang Jun first. I have already sent a secret letter to Zhang Jun. He will cooperate with you. He will also make arrangements for everything after that."

"Yes."

Finally, Zhao Ning said: "Many people in the court impeached you and asked me to kill you and even ransack your home. I thought you were loyal and couldn't bear it, so I took all your wives, children, and old mothers to Bianjing. You don't have to worry about it." .”