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Chapter 65: ZTE's Strategy

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The mat was not rich, there were no silk and bamboo singing and dancing, nor did it recite poems and essays, Prince Yun) together, chatting happily about the style outside the border and the scenery of the desert, and looking forward to one day the horses and grasslands.

The king left a deep and good impression on the generals of the Northwest.

The king has a noble and pampered status, but because of the poor northwest and the disaster in Guanzhong, even in the New Year, his meals and clothes are simple and simple, and there are no silk and bamboo singing and dancing, which makes the generals admire him. The king is talented and has excellent poetry and lyrics. When he was in Bianjing, he was famous and famous. He naturally recited poems and sang zithers during the meal. Therefore, the generals were very nervous when he sat down, fearing that he would make a fool of himself. Unexpectedly, Prince Yun was very considerate, careful and thoughtful, and did not talk about poetry and songs at all. Instead, he drank with the generals. The topics were all the desert outside the border that the generals were very familiar with, which moved the generals very touched.

The banquet did not end until late at night. The generals and officials were still in high spirits, gathered together in groups of three to discuss tomorrow's itinerary. A group of generals made an appointment to visit Taiyuan, a place of dragons and excitement. Most of the people in Hulien Mansion set foot in the Song Dynasty for the first time and saw their dream homeland for the first time. They were very curious about everything about their homeland, and were very excited and excited. The people of the Northwest Army had no choice but to accompany them to have fun.

Officials from various departments in Shaanxi and Hedong invited Hu Tu, Ma Liang and others to discuss the transfer of Yi. The northwest will not fight, and the next thing to do is to make money. The hungry people in Shandong in Hebei and Shandong were in chaos, and the government's finances must be invested in quelling rebellions and relief. Of course, the money and grain allocated to the northwest must be reduced. In addition to doing a good job in farming and animal husbandry to ensure that the people are well fed and well-dressed, they must also vigorously carry out the situation to return to Yi. The government wants to make money, officials want to make money, merchants and the people also want to make money.

Li Hu, Zhe Yanzhi, Zhang Xiaochun, Huang She, Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong and Li Zongzhen gathered in Wang's study to talk about the situation in the world.

Everyone knows what the king is worried about, so the topic is naturally inseparable from the riots of hungry people.

Zhe Yanzhi and Yuwen Xuzhong are most familiar with the government. They say one thing and one thing, and analyze and in detail the future situation.

What is the reason for the riots of hungry people? The court imposed violent taxes. Why imposed violent taxes? Because the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition required money. In addition, the court had to support the army, officials, monks and Taoists every year, and to ensure that the emperor had to build a large-scale construction, disaster relief, etc.... The court's annual taxes were not enough to support these expenses, so it tried every means to increase taxes, but the people could not survive and rebelled. [Ten thousand ^ volume ^ book ^ house - provide the latest chapter reading}

Now that the Northern Expedition is over and the Western Expedition is over, is the court's money enough? Or is it not enough, because it requires money to suppress the rebellion, and it requires money to provide relief and restoration of stability in the riot areas. There are two ways to not enough money. One is to the court revise the national policy, and the other is to intensify the exploitation of the people.

The amendment of national policies touched the interests of Bianjing. For example, the cancellation of the Huashigang, the cancellation of the ban and the Xicheng Shatian District. The emperor was advised to stop building construction, streamlining institutions and officials, reducing institutional expenses and official salaries. The amendment of the official selling policies such as the official salt system, reducing taxes in disaster-stricken areas, etc. All of these policies violated the interests of Bianjing. It is impossible to modify Bianjing.

This is the only way left. The more you become more aggressive in exploiting the people. The consequence of exploiting the people is that the scale of riots is that not only hungry people are rioting, but even ordinary people have to join the riots. The larger the scale of the riots, the more the court will increase its recruitment efforts, allocate more troops, create more weapons, and need more food. As a result, more money is needed. The court will not have enough money. Then it will be a clever name and then increase taxes. In this way, more people will not survive. Therefore, the scale of the rebellion will be out of control.

This is a vicious cycle. The only way to prevent the vicious cycle is to modify the national policy. The premise of modifying the national policy is to drive away all the treacherous and slanderous people in the court now. Otherwise, the more they change, the more chaotic it will become. For example, Hua Shigang. Tong Guan finally took the opportunity of Jiangnan rebellion and asked the emperor to cancel it. But a few months later, the prime minister and the king rebuilt Yingfeng Bureau because he was short of money. The result can be imagined.

If it cannot be stopped, the scale of the rebellion has seriously endangered the safety of the country. At this time, Bianjing will be crazy and out of control. Corrupt officials will take the last chance to make a fortune. The rich merchants will make a fortune in the country. At the last moment, they will be crazy and stab the body of the Song Dynasty with a fatal blow. The people will also lose their minds. They will destroy the Song Dynasty desperately in order to survive and survive.

"How long will it take?" Yuwen Xuzhong stared at Prince Yun's face that had become very ugly. He said mercilessly. "At least one year, at most two or three years. The rebellion will sweep across Hebei, Shandong, Central Plains, Jianghuai, Jiangnan... The Song Dynasty was unable to support it and was dying."

"There were traitors and treacherous dynasties in the courts, and the mountains and fields were like Hong, and no one could escape this fate." Li Gang continued, "But the Song Dynasty has not yet reached the point of collapse. The Song Dynasty still has the opportunity to revive. As long as someone raises the banner of revive and sweeps away the treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous treacherous trea

"Your Highness should bear the responsibility of ZTE." Zhe Yanzhi did not do anything at all.

He directly made the words clear, "Your Highness is in Taiyuan, with Shaanxi, Hedong, and a tiger steed, and a 500,000 army in the northwest. When the time comes, he will go to Zhongyuan in the name of serving the king, and then the great cause of revival can be determined."

Speaking of this, Prince Yun and the people in the northwest are actually planning to rebel. The people in this room are rebellious. Even if Prince Yun does not have this intention, he cannot escape the blame. Once the matter is leaked, he will die.

The king's heart was trembling, fear came like a tide, and he could no longer remain calm, and the only remaining courage disappeared.

Wanting to rebel is completely different from planning to rebel. The people of Northwest have forced him to a dead end this time.

Li Hu sat next to Prince Yun, and he could feel the deep fear in Prince Yun's heart. People are too afraid and easily do something wrong. At this time, they should give Prince Yun the courage and give this young prince some confidence.

"Are we going to give up?" Li Hu asked, "We must consider that if Hebei is in chaos and riots are in the Central Plains, then the northern barbarians must go south. The Jurchens, Khitans, Dangxiang people and the desert all may go south to plunder, especially the Jurchens." After pausing, Li Hu said again, "Everyone should remember how the Khitans destroyed Shi Jing and captured Bianjing. The Khitans took advantage of the opportunity of the civil war in the Central Plains to vent, and the situation was unstoppable. If..." The Jingkang shame in the story appeared in Li Hu's mind again. He could not let this scene appear in the real world. "If the Jurchens captured Bianjing, we will become sinners for the ages."

Zhe Yanzhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Will Bianjing agree to let the prime minister go south to quell the rebellion? Bianjing doesn't believe you at all, and he is even more afraid that you will take the opportunity to cause trouble to the Central Plains, and you do have the possibility of trouble to the Central Plains."

Li Hu didn't understand.

"Your army is all from the Han people in Liaodong, from Han people in Yanyun, from Bohai, from Khitan people, from Xi people, and even from the Shubu, Wugu, from Dili, and from Shiwei people. In the eyes of the Song people, your army is a foreign army. Do you know the consequences of such an army going south to suppress the rebellion?" Zhe Yan said straight, "You can imagine how much anger the people of the Song Dynasty will arouse when your army picks up a sword to slaughter the rebels? How much anger will it arouse if Bianjing uses the help of the foreign army to quell the rebellion? You are not to quell the rebellion, but to intensify the conflict between the Han and the Chinese and the public and the conflict between the officials and the people. I can conclude that in a short period of time, the scale of the rebellion will not increase by twice, but one hundred times, and the people in Hebei, Shandong and even the Central Plains will participate in the rebellion, and the situation will deteriorate faster."

Li Hu and Huang She looked at each other, understood, and had a clear idea. It would probably take a long time for the people of the Song Dynasty to accept the Tiger and Lieutenant Army.

"I can garrison the northwest instead of the Northwest Army." Li Hu suggested again, "This way the Northwest Army can quell the rebellion. I am in the northwest, and you are in Hebei, Shandong and Central Plains, which can also achieve the goal of threatening Bianjing."

"This is impossible." Zhe Yan shook his hand repeatedly, "Bian Jing will not agree first. Secondly, if you transfer the main force to Shaanxi, what do you use to restrain the Jin people and Xixia? If you are not strong enough, Xixia and Jin people will join forces to fight Datong. If Datong is lost, the Northern Barbarians can go south from Yanyun. We will lose one thing, how can we resist? Isn't the situation in the Song Dynasty completely out of control?"

Li Hu pondered for a moment and asked again: "According to your opinion, I am in Daibei, and if you are in the northwest, will the Beilu go south?"

"Of course." Zhe Yan said straight, "Although your Daibei is in a difficult situation, you can get our strong support from Shaanxi and Hedong, so that you can restrain the Xixia to the west and attack the Jurchens east. Xixia goes south... The Xixia people are beaten up by us. They have no food or drink, and they will go south to plunder them even if they fight to the death. Therefore, the Xixia people may have a great chance of going south in the near future... If the Xixia goes south, the Tiger Lie Army can attack Helan Mountain from Daibei; if the Jurchens go south, the Tiger Lie Army can kill Zhongjing and Shangjing from the collapsed ridge; if the Khitans and the Desert Fans go south, you can block them with Yinshan, so as long as you station troops in Daibei, the Beilu will not have the chance to go south."

"We will resolve the crisis in Bianjing. Once the rebellion endangers the safety of Bianjing, Bianjing will inevitably rescue the northwest. We will then kill Bianjing directly in the name of serving the king, let Your Highness ascend the throne and become emperor, eliminate the traitors, modify the national policy, and quickly quell the rebellions in various places. In this way, the Song Dynasty can usher in the period of revival."

When the king heard this, his courage came again and his confidence was also there. In fact, what he was most afraid of was Li Hu going south. His views on this were the same as Bian Jing. The requirements of the Northwest General Sect were relatively low and he was loyal to the Song Dynasty, but it was hard to say that Li Hu and his Hu Lie Mansion were difficult to say. Once it was a disaster to the Central Plains, the consequences would be unimaginable. Now after hearing Li Hu's question and Zhe Yanzhi's explanation, he understood that the people in the Northwest did not want the Hu Lie Army to go south. This would be easy. In the future, they would not be afraid that Li Hu would cause trouble to the Song Dynasty.
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