Sima Guang's letter was sent to Zhao Xu.

After reading this, Zhao Xu sighed: "Our Sima Xianggong..."

Zhao Xu knew Sima Guang's temper well.

He is almost the same as Mr. Ao from Jiangning.

The same stubbornness, the same bad temper, and the same stubbornness.

Even eight horses can't pull back what has been decided.

Zhao Xu never expected to change Sima Guang's thoughts - even in a modern society, there are still a large number of old people whose thoughts are deeply ingrained and cannot be changed.

It's useless to reason with such people.

Because their worldview has been fixed.

Either follow them or ignore them altogether.

However, Zhao Xu could not ignore Sima Guang because he coveted Sima Guang's political legacy.

Therefore, Zhao Xu could only sigh and said with great righteousness: "To accept the filth of the country is to be the master of the country..."

"This is a crime I must bear!"

He then approved Sima Guang's letter: The public, the minister of the country, the minister of the state, the minister left behind by the emperor's examination, should take care of himself, and don't be troubled by trivial matters...

He politely declined Sima Guang's request to see his Majesty.

At the same time, imperial doctors continued to be sent for diagnosis and treatment.

He even more orally told Sima Kang: Your father, you are a minister of the country! If you don’t bother with the doctor’s instructions, why should you alarm your father?

At the same time, an edict was issued to punish the king with thirty kilograms of copper and three years of hard grinding to serve as a warning to others.

The reason is also very simple - Sima Gong, a national stockholder, why bother him with trivial matters?

Sima Guang, however, refused to give in. He continued to write to the emperor the next day, requesting his majesty to see Du Dui, and interceding with the king, saying that he was a gentleman with a heart for the world, and begging for your majesty's forgiveness.

Zhao Xu got the book, but still did not allow Sima Guang to enter.

But to give Sima Guang face, he reduced the copper fine in Wang's confrontation to ten catties and the grinding period to one year.

Amid this tug of war, the Ministry of Revenue led by Zhang Heng submitted a budget for the Yulong First General to move to Yongzhou this year.

Five thousand people moved to the defense, because they were all forbidden to join the army. Each person was paid one thousand a month, which was 60 million yuan in twelve months, which was about 80,000 yuan.

In addition, the regular supplies of clothing materials, cloth, special supplies, salt, etc. given in spring and summer are 30 guan per person per year, which is 15,000 guan for 5,000 people.

There are four cavalry commanders in the Tenth Command. Considering the long-distance transport of horses, it is neither economical nor easy to cause the death of horses.

Therefore, the price for buying horses is specially listed, and Guangxi has a company to buy Yunnan horses from Dali and other places.

One Yunnan horse is counted as fifty guan, and four cavalrymen are commanded. Each Yunnan horse is calculated as two horses, and a total of four thousand horses requires 200,000 guan.

Expenses for the maintenance of soldiers' armor, equipment, fodder and other expenses are 500 guan per month and 6000 guan per year.

In accordance with Zhao Xu's decree, the Ministry of Household Affairs also added a relocation fee of 1,000 guan per month, but they had to return to Beijing to pay, which was another 8,000 guan.

In this way, the total expenditure required for the first general Yulong to move to Yongzhou is 390,000 guan per year.

Among them, 200,000 guan is for the cost of buying horses.

After deducting the cost of buying horses, the actual military expenditure is about 109,000 guan.

Of course, this is only the maintenance cost of Yulong No. 1 General himself.

Once a war breaks out, there will no longer be such a small amount of money.

Sun Tzu's Art of War says: Every method of using war... costs a thousand gold a day, and then a hundred thousand troops can be raised!

But that was still a general statement from the Spring and Autumn Period.

In the Song Dynasty, fighting was very expensive.

Especially the Imperial Guards in Beijing, if you want them to work hard, you have to give them enough rewards!

Although it is not possible to shoot an arrow, you have to give a reward for one arrow.

But Qiu Ba people really only care about money.

No matter how much money you give, you will contribute as much effort as you can. This has been a tradition since the Five Dynasties.

After all, the Imperial Army only had a monthly salary of one thousand cash. Taking into account the clothing materials, salt, pickles, special supplies, and festival rewards issued in spring and summer, it only amounted to two or three cash a month.

For such a small amount of money, who will work for you?

Therefore, since Xining, the military expenditure of the Song Dynasty has increased sharply, reaching around 40 million dollars every year!

In the Song Dynasty, the annual income was only a little over 60 million yuan.

Military expenditure accounts for 60% of fiscal revenue!

This is the result of the huge increase in national income after the Xining Reform!

It is no wonder that the old party literati and officials complained and denounced the militancy.

Therefore, Zhao Xu knew that it must be profitable.

No more losing money!

Fighting must be for the purpose of making money!

As long as we can win the battle and make money at the same time, we can appease the dissatisfaction of the scholar-bureaucrats.

After reading Zhang Heng's budget documents, Zhao Xu ordered them to be copied and sent to all the officials in the capital.

At the same time, it was also sent to the two palaces.

After reading the two palaces, I finally had no objections to the invasion of the south - such a small amount of money was just a drop in the bucket.

Even if multiplied by ten, it is still only a small amount of money.

If you really only need a few hundred thousand guan, you can conquer Jiaozhi and give yourself some relief.

That’s really a good deal!

So, he happily approved Zhang Heng's budget and ordered Yousi to prepare money and silk.

…

When the budget table made by Zhang Heng was delivered to Zhang Dun.

Zhang Dun has completely packed his luggage and received the decree to leave Beijing tomorrow.

Zhang Dun looked at the expenditure items listed in tables on the budget book in his hand.

Everything is clear and natural, without any stagnation, almost at a glance.

"Ziping does have the talent to govern the world!" Zhang Dun sighed with emotion.

The fourth son Zhang Yuan, who was about to go south with him to Guangxi, whispered beside him: "My uncle once told me that the budget was prepared with the palace's permission..."

"Huh?" Zhang Dun had naturally heard some rumors.

It is said that officials often directly command the Ordnance Supervisor by hand-written edicts and surrender, focusing on the affairs of the Ordnance Bureau, East and West Dyeing Institute, and Ayajin Institute.

According to legend, the emperor's edicts often contain strange words and characters that are difficult for the world to understand.

Similar numbers and symbols can often be seen on the sand tables made by Shen Kuo collected in Chongzheng Hall, Zichen Hall and other places.

It is said that all the characters and symbols of the Western Regions are recorded in ancient books, and officials are good at copying them and using them specially.

The governors have now become accustomed to and accepted these things that seemed strange at first, and even started to use them in daily office work. Related numbers and symbols can often be seen in their memorials and texts.

Recently, there is also a legend circulating in Su Song's area - the emperor gave Su Gong the symbols of the Western Regions for calculation purposes. Su Gong used them, praised his simplicity, and regarded it as the way of arithmetic.

Therefore, Su Song established a math school next to Kaifeng Fu School.

Recruiting "people who are good at arithmetic" from Bianjing, and promising that after graduation, if they pass the examination, "I will ask the emperor to grant him an official position according to the rank of a skilled official."

At the same time, this arithmetic program does not charge tuition fees, and you can enroll as long as you pass the exam.

Therefore, a large number of children from poor families in Bianjing signed up, and within ten days, they were blessed with more than 300 lives.

Su Song divided them into three categories: "adult", "young man", and "child". Each category had a studio, imitating the story of Taixue, and established a chief of the studio and a professor.

It is said that Cai Jing also attaches great importance to this arithmetic. In more than ten days, he has visited the arithmetic class several times in person to encourage students.

He also said that in the future, when recruiting officials in Kaifeng Prefecture, priority should be given to mathematicians.

There was no reaction from Taixue.

Because originally, in addition to Taixue, setting up special schools to train criminal names and other courses were supporting measures for the establishment of schools in Xining.

Therefore, the students of Taixue were "happy to see the success".

Many Taipei students even occasionally take time to visit the arithmetic school to inspire "arithmetic students".

Zhang Dun naturally knows why?

Imperial students are scholar-officials and the future masters of the country and the world.

After graduating from arithmetic, criminal justice and other courses, he was just an official and a miscellaneous person.
To be continued...