Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Gao Qiu said kindly, "Your Majesty, it's been a long time. I really miss you."

"Lieutenant Gao, what exactly do you want to do?"

"It's nothing, you see, I sent away the people outside, it's just a misunderstanding." Gao Lian walked inside with a person carrying wine and meat.

"Your Majesty, you haven't had dinner yet. I brought it for you specially. The wine was given to me by the government."

With Gao Lian's appearance, he looks like a kind and friendly uncle next door, coupled with his white and fat appearance, his face is harmless to humans and animals.

The so-called reaching out and not hitting smiling people, King Pu walked over and sat down, still looking at Gao Qi with some vigilance.

"My lord, let me tell you, today's matter is a misunderstanding! I, Gao Qiu, guarantee my character! It is a misunderstanding!"

"Come, come, king, Royal Wine! I brought it, and I brought several pots here!"

Gao Qiu poured it himself first, and drank a bowl by himself, saying that it was not poisonous.

King Pu hesitated for a moment, looked at the meat again, swallowed his saliva, and started to eat.

After drinking several bowls, King Pu put down the kitchen knife and began to eat heartily.

"Your Majesty, let me tell you, today's matter is all caused by the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and it has nothing to do with me!"

"Department of punishment?"

"It's that Qin Hui!"

"Oh! So it was him!" King Pu was furious, "I will definitely not let him go!"

"Yes! Come, come! Your Majesty, drink again! After drinking, you can rest assured to drink today. Leave the rest to me, Gao Qi, and I will take care of it for you!"

"Oh! Taiwei Gao, it's better for you! This king will definitely go to the officials to praise you afterwards!"

"It's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about."

King Pu drank heavily, and when he got drunk, he vaguely saw Gao Qi as if he was taking something.

He asked curiously: "Captain Gao, what are you doing?"

"Oh, it's all right, my lord, you can continue to drink, I'm holding a three-foot white silk."

Chapter 83 The treasury is cleaner than my face

On the second day, early in the morning, Gao Qiu waited outside Wende Hall.

"What! King Pu committed suicide in fear of crime!" Zhao Ning was taken aback, as if he didn't know about it at all.

Oh, why is King Pu so hard to think about it!

Word spread quickly.

Li Gongyan, Minister of Dazong Zhengsi, was about to go to the emperor to report about King Pu, but when he heard that King Pu had hanged himself, he was a little confused for a while.

Since he committed suicide in fear of crime, does that mean that King Pu acquiesced to all the crimes?

This way things will be easier to handle, let's use King Pu's case as a model to rectify the clan!

Two days later, King Pu's family property was traced out.

A total of 100 million guan, 30 guan more than the previous statistics.

The most important thing is that Prince Pu has 10 mu of fertile land!

In this way, the focus of the problem has been drawn to this at once.

Well, now there is an extra 30 guan, and the money is basically in the account.

Then pay the salary.

First pay all the army's salaries.

Then the salaries of the officials were distributed, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion were distributed first.

When Zhao Ning saw the salary reported by the Ministry of Household Affairs, what the hell, Kaifeng Mansion alone will pay 100 million yuan!

Officer: Tyrant!You disregard human life, you are a tyrant!

Zhao Ning: Come on, pay your salary!

Official: Your Majesty is holy!Your Majesty is holy!

The immediate lack of money has finally eased, but basically there is not much money in hand.

The more than 500 million yuan is enough to deal with it for two months. After two months, the local fiscal revenue should be collected!

On May [-]th, early in the morning, Zhao Ning rode a horse, put on armor, and led the squadron in front of the palace, out of the palace.

Wait thirty miles outside the city.

Who are you waiting for?

Of course it was waiting for Zongze.

In the morning, Zongze crossed the Yellow River and arrived in the capital.

From a long distance, he saw flags flying in front of him.

"Zong Shuai, that's the emperor's driver. The emperor came out of the city to welcome you."

When Zong Ze heard this, he immediately galloped over on his horse.

After that, Zong Ze got off his horse and stepped forward: "I see Your Majesty, how dare you bother His Majesty to go out of the city to greet you personally, I deserve death."

Zhao Ning's heart fluttered, and he got off his horse, and came to support Zong Ze: "Zong Shuai, you have finally come to Beijing."

"Keep the officials waiting for a long time!"

"It's okay! It's okay! Quickly follow me into the palace, and you and I will have a chat!"

Everyone enters the palace.

Just at this time, the news of Li Gang's entry into the capital came again, and they were announced into the palace together.

At this time, in Wende Hall.

Zhao Ding, Li Gang, Zhang Jun, Zong Ze, and Zhang Shuye are all here.

This is the first core team formed by Zhao Ning.

The next important person to change the game.

Zhao Ning said: "All the ministers have come, so I will make a long story short. The Jin army will definitely attack again at the end of November or early December this year. Our time is very tight."

"I only have one request to you all, to repel the Jin army."

He stood up and walked to the map.

"You all must have read my article "On the Early Stage of the Song Army's War", right?" Zhao Ning's eyes fell on Li Gang. Li Gang was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Farmer in the field.

"Li Xianggong?"

"Report to the official family, and the minister has read it."

"What objection do you have?"

"I don't have any."

"That's good, let's go directly to the whole. The next stage of the battle between Song and Jin is a stalemate between the two sides. Our goal is not the Northern Expedition, but to drag the battle into a protracted war."

"So, I want to build such a line of defense in Shaanxi and on Hebei East Road."

"The roads in Shaanxi are under the charge of Zhang Jun, and 30 troops have been invested."

"Hebei West Road and Hedong towns are under the charge of Zongze, and 15 troops will be deployed to defend Xijing and Tokyo with Daming Mansion, Huazhou and Weizhou as defensive lines."

"Hebei East Road and Jingdong Road, hundreds of miles deep, are the defenses for the eastern front, where 15 troops are stationed, and Li Ganglai is in charge."

"Are you all right?"

"I know that you are worried about military expenditures. There is no need to worry about military expenditures. I will give you sufficient support."

It is impossible not to worry. In the past, the annual military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was as high as 3000 million guan.

Now the treasury is cleaner than Zhao Ning's face, how can we fight without money?

In other words, right now, when Li Gang leaves for Hebei East Road, he must pay his salary in order to appease the morale of the army.

It can be said that most of the soldiers and civilians north of the Yellow River are eager to send money.

"Officials, ministers..." Li Gang was about to speak.

Zhao Ning seemed to see Li Gang's thoughts, and he said: "I will give Li Xianggong a million guan, and you go to appease people first."

Li Gang was stunned for a moment, and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Zongqing's people in the Cizhou government quickly reported that all the military and political affairs of the center line defense were assigned to the Military and Political Yuan, and Zhang Shuye would make military and political arrangements and distribute military rations."

Zong Ze said hastily: "I thank the officials."

"With such an arrangement, do you have any objections?"

"The minister has no objection."

The next step, of course, is to settle the accounts. According to the total troops invested and the total organizational system, calculate the total cost that needs to be invested in the front line.

In the next few days, the total budget for the West-Middle Front was reported.

3000 million guan!

That's right, 3000 million guan.

The most important thing is not the salary, the salary paid to the soldiers is only more than 200 million guan.

But the cost of food and grass, the cost of transporting food and grass, the loss of food and grass, the salaries of soldiers and civilians, and the construction of many city walls all require money.

In addition, there are many refugees in the north and the disaster is serious, so the money for disaster relief is also included.

For Zhao Ning now, this is simply an astronomical figure.

Excluding Shaanxi, King Qin's army, the garrison of the capital, and the salaries of officials, only 122 million coins are left for the money just obtained from the house raid.

In the next three months, Zongze built a walled city north of the Yellow River with 500 million guan.

On May [-], Zhang Jun got up and rushed to Shaanxi.

A few days later, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye accepted Zhao Gou's [-] King Qin's army at Li Gudu and began to reorganize their troops.

On May 25, in order to stabilize the hearts of Hebei and Hedong as soon as possible, Zhao Ning swiped a pen: Hedong and Hebei will be exempted from taxes for five years.

As soon as the news came out, the Tokyo Daily immediately published the headlines.

Tax free?

This is benevolent government!

This time, people's popularity is not only in Kaifeng Mansion, but also in Hebei and Hedong roads.

These two places have been damaged by the war, and they can't collect much tax. It's better to exempt them, and they can keep people there to ensure sufficient human resources for the front line.

Everything is arranged one by one.

At this time, Wanyan Zonghan, who was in Taiyuan Mansion, finished reading the report on Longde Mansion.

He said, "How did Zhang Bangchang react?"

Wanyan Xiyin said: "Zhang Bangchang was very scared when the spies reported it back."

"Send a message to the past, if he dares to mess around, kill him."

"Kill him, who will be the emperor of Chu?"

Wanyan Zonghan said coldly: "The Song Dynasty surrendered so many ministers, just support another one."

What he was talking about was the Chu Kingdom that had just been established in Longde Mansion.

It was the result of collective discussions when the top Jinjun returned to Taiyuan.

From the south of Taiyuan Prefecture to Huaizhou.

From the south of Zhendingfu to Huazhou.

The large area in the middle was only attacked by the Jin army and was not occupied. The soldiers and civilians there still have hearts towards the Song Dynasty.

If no measures are taken, the Song Dynasty can take back this large area in a very short period of time.

Therefore, in order to delay the time, the senior officials of the Jin Army asked Zhang Bangchang to proclaim himself emperor and Jianyuan in Longde Mansion.

This is so embarrassing.