"Okay, that's not a problem!"
Old Man Xia applauded, and the door of the tearoom opened. Three low-ranking officials in Tsing Yi walked into the tearoom carrying three boxes. After placing the boxes on the coffee table, they turned and left without saying a word.
"The general information is in these three boxes. You have ten days to take a look at it slowly, but before that I must tell you some important information!"
Fang Fang glanced at the three boxes and nodded towards Old Man Xia.
It looks like there are three boxes, but the actual box is not big and the thickness is less than one finger. The contents inside should not be very big. This is consistent with the general information given by Old Man Xia.
Compared with the internal data, the equation is now more curious and needs to be told by Xia Abacus personally.
These contents will definitely involve the expenses that Wu Dynasty will need in the future.
This kind of expenditure is simply impossible for outsiders to calculate.
"First of all, the news of the Jurchen surrender should have been exposed. We don't know for the time being what went wrong, but it is true that the Song people have already taken action. We have lost the opportunity to push the war to the territory of the Song Dynasty. Hexi is the Three Kingdoms After the handover, including Hou Tang who is watching from the side, he will be even more chaotic than Xuzhou next!"
"Secondly, after watching the battle for a year, the Liao people intend to go south again. The specific time of action is unknown? It is difficult to say for the time being. Whether it will be beneficial to us."
There were three fingers in the depths of Xia's abacus, "Finally, the Ministry of Household Affairs currently has only 2 million funds left to mobilize, and this is after taking into account the land tax in various places!"
Three pieces of news, each good news.
Behind every message is a huge expense.
Although the Wu Dynasty is currently in alliance with the Ming Dynasty, the power of the alliance is limited after all. The Wu Dynasty can watch the Ming and Song armies fight against each other for eight months. Next, the Ming Dynasty will also watch the Wu Dynasty fight against the Song Dynasty alone, and even Therefore, the attack on Jingzhou was slowed down.
When children play house, they only pay attention to one thing: hello, me, hello, everyone. When fighting between countries, they always only pay attention to interests.
However, these three news seem to be expected.
Difficult!
"So, based on the worst-case scenario, how much will the gap be?"
"Six million taels, this is my calculation based on the war in the coming year!"
It is now the end of August, and snow will fall in the north in September. At the same time, the entire Song Dynasty begins to cool down on a large scale. Although the Song people are rich, the Song court has no money. If the problem of redundant officials and redundant personnel cannot be solved in one day, the Song court will not Want to be truly wealthy.
Not to mention that in order to prevent the Liao people from interfering, the arrangement was just to appease and delay. This year, the Song Dynasty will send more annual coins to the Liao country than any other country.
Compared with the important land in Hexi that the Song Dynasty had always wanted to capture, what the Song Dynasty was really afraid of was the Liao Kingdom.
No matter how ferocious the Wu Dynasty was and how prosperous the military was, the warriors were at least Han people and had the same roots as the Han people in Kyushu. However, the Liao people were a foreign race. Those who regarded the Han people as two-legged sheep were the ancestors of the Liao people. Now they just pretend to be like humans. They are still alien in nature.
Besides, given the current situation, how could the Liao people not give it a good try?
"After all, the landlord's family has no food left!"
The level at the same time, Fang Fang said with a mocking smile.
For the Song Dynasty, regardless of whether it was from official history or from another world, Fang Fang didn't have a good impression of it. If it weren't for the fact that he was a Han dynasty and was more or less protecting some Han people in that chaotic era, he would just settle down and do everything. The style of appeasement, I don’t know how many people in the past life wanted to kick the Song people out of the ranks of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Weakness is not the original sin, the original sin is cowardice.
He obviously has the strongest financial resources, an endless stream of good generals, and the most prosperous Central Plains culture, but the weakness in his bones cannot be eliminated. Under the huge contrast, love has turned into hatred.
"The landlord has no money, so he can't resist the fact that the elders have money. It seems to be just a test at the moment, but if a certain flaw is revealed, believe me, someone will pay to help fight this war!"
Hexi was the geographical center of the Song Dynasty, but the Wu Dynasty that occupied Hexi did not necessarily have the right time, place, and people.
The strength of the Wu Dynasty was mainly concentrated in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou, not to mention leaving it alone, but its substantial weakness was real.
It is not difficult to increase troops and dispatch generals. What is difficult is how to send a large amount of materials across the towering and twisting Taihang Mountains during the period when the Yellow River is frozen.
At this point, the Song Dynasty had an absolute advantage.
"Anyway, no matter how bad the situation is right now, it can't get much worse. You can just do your thing with peace of mind. Of course, if you have any surprise plans, you can also come up with them!"
After all, everyone knows that in the Song Dynasty, there were no Jurchens. Even if there were hidden dangers, they could not be solved by a few special forces.
The orthodox Han dynasty, no matter how wealthy the family is, is a vampire, basically the bottom line must be maintained.
The Song Dynasty was broadening its scope, and they still had a basic understanding of war.
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"Xiaohu, get ready. You may not have any rest next time, so let others come over to help!"
After returning to the house and putting down the three wooden boxes, Fang Fang gave instructions directly to Xiaohu.
"I'll get ready now!"
Xiaohu nodded. He had nothing to say. What Old Man Xia gave him was now bigger and more important than anything else.
Although he didn't know what he was going to do, Xiaohu could tell from his posture that he was preparing to fight at night.
Not to mention, when Fang Fang left the tea room, in addition to the desk clerk who was moving things, there were six captains of the desk clerk who carried foxes behind him, which symbolized wisdom.
"What should you do? No need to consider us. It will start in half an hour!"
Fang Fang said to several fox-faced messengers.
After eight months of contact with the Documents Department, he still has the necessary knowledge. In addition to wearing a fourth-class divine beast mask and having specific responsibilities, the members of the Documents Department are not intelligence personnel at most, but documents wearing fox masks. , official.
The information is not enough, so I keep it in the text.
The Documents Department is not so much a department for intelligence collection as it is a department for intelligence analysis. It is not unreasonable for the Documents Department to be number one in the six countries within three hundred years.
It is a pity that the Office of Documents failed to inherit the wisdom of the first chief of the Office of Documents, and could only do things within the rules. It was missing a head and lost some agility. Faced with anything that went beyond the boundaries, the Office of Documents was blinded. Otherwise, the counselor that the Wu Dynasty desperately sought, the Great Sima, would need to be found from outside, and he could just find it directly from the Office of Documents.
"Master Fang, we are old acquaintances. If you need anything, just give me your instructions!" the leader of the fox-faced man opened his mouth and said.
"I thought the figure was familiar before, but I didn't expect it to be you?"
"Fang Sheng, you can say whatever you want. There is no taboo. Don't say that we are here today. In fact, according to the rules, we will all be old acquaintances with you in the future. We call it "Diandian" among us!"
Fang Fang curled his lips, "Then reveal your face!"
It sounds nice and point-to-point, but how is it possible in reality?
Hearing this, the person stiffened, clasped his fists and leaned forward, saying, "It's better not to make this joke."
Officials above the court may be familiar with someone from the Documents Department, but it is absolutely forbidden to reveal their faces.
"That's nonsense, see you in half an hour!"
