In Yonghe Town, Xiangzhou, in an abandoned temple where King Yun Zhao Kai temporarily settled, a few tea cups were emitting a delicate and changing fragrance.
Zhao Kai rarely changed into a moon-white loose Confucian uniform and sat leisurely on an armchair with Lu Yihao, Cai Mao, Chen Ji, and a man in his fifties who had a baby face and a pair of The men with big eyes and long beards drank tea and talked together, chatting and laughing, it was so leisurely.
This somewhat "cute"-looking man in his fifties is a local snake in Xiangzhou, the head of the Han family in Xiangzhou, and Han Xiaozhou, who currently knows the affairs of Xiangzhou.
Zhao Kai is very familiar with Han Xiaozhou. In the memory of this life, he has known this "baby-faced uncle" since he was a child. But what left the deepest impression on Zhao Kai now was not "Uncle Han's baby face." But after the original Zhao Kai took over the post of Imperial City Secretary, he would receive secret reports about the Han family in Xiangzhou from Wang Xiaode at regular intervals!
The Han family, which is almost the guardian of Prime Minister Zhou, is of course under the strict supervision of the Imperial City Department!
Moreover, the operation to monitor the Han family in Xiangzhou was not carried out under the orders of Zhao Ji, but started when Zhao Ji's father, Song Shenzong Zhao Xu, asked Han Qi to serve as the "judge of Xiangzhou" for the second time... This is not the case in Song Dynasty. Deep down in his heart, Shenzong hated this "hero who made decisions in the two dynasties" who supported the old party, but he had already decided at that time that the Han family in Xiangzhou would "preserve Xiangzhou for the rest of his life."
The Han family was originally a wealthy family in Xiangzhou, and received the courtesy of being the guardian of Xiangzhou. From the perspective of the officials of the Song Dynasty, of course they had to be careful to avoid "Han Lushan" and "Han Siming".
However, the Han family in Xiangzhou has always been relatively well-behaved. In addition to occupying a large area of land in Xiangzhou, and building the Zhoujin Hall in Anyang City, which is one of the four major gardens of the Song Dynasty, they have also run some low-level projects. The Confucian Academy seems to have done nothing else...
In the eyes of the "real Zhao Kai" earlier, the Han family in Xiangzhou was simply a reassuring model of powerful men. But in the eyes of this "genius Zhao Kai", the Han family has done nothing in Xiangzhou that is conducive to resisting the Jin Dynasty, so the significance of "sealing" Xiangzhou to the Han family is close to zero.
Looking at Han Xiaozhou's baby face, Zhao Kaixin said: If the Han family can't help me get the land inspection in Xiangzhou done this time...then your family's "Xiangzhou Million Stone" "It's time to come to an end.
Thinking of this, Zhao Kaien coughed, ended the pleasantries, and started talking about business. I saw Zhao Kai with a serious face: "Han Xiangzhou, everyone understands the current situation in the world. The peaceful and prosperous era is gone, replaced by the chaotic era of the Warring States Period!"
What? Is this the chaos of the Warring States Period?
Everyone who was drinking tea with Zhao Kai in this room frowned - how is that possible? It's just a group of gold thieves who want to extort millions of coins and maybe seize some land in the Song Dynasty. They are not a personal problem at all. How could there be chaos in the Warring States Period?
"Your Majesty," Han Xiaozhou twirled his beard and whispered, "It has been some time since the golden thieves have been stationed at the gates of Kaifeng Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion... If they can't attack for a long time, it seems that they are at the end of their war effort. Moreover, King Qin's army from all over the country has gathered around Kaifeng Mansion. If the king can lead the brave men of Hebei to the south of the Yellow River in Kaifeng in time, and join forces with other armies to attack the gold thieves outside Kaifeng, perhaps within ten months, the world can return to peace. "
Zhao Kai smiled faintly and turned his attention to his chief historian Lu Yihao and Sima Chen Ji, "Changshi Lu and Sima Chen, do you think there will be peace in the world within ten months?"
"No!" Lu Yihao's answer was very straightforward, "Your Majesty, I fell into the hands of the enemy when I was in Yanshan Mansion. After that, I spent many days in the Jin camp and saw with my own eyes how powerful the Jin thieves were. They were far superior to the imperial army, let alone the righteous army. Today, the number of gold thieves who have penetrated into Kaifeng Prefecture is between 50,000 and 100,000, and the number of gold thieves besieging Taiyuan is no less than this number. There are also gold thieves in the Yanshanfu Road area. The total number of gold thieves from these three groups should be at Around 200,000. And how many forbidden troops are there in Hebei, Hedong, Jingji, Jingxi, Jingdong and other places? I'm afraid it's less than 200,000? In the past, when Tong Taishi led 200,000 elite troops to attack Yan, tens of thousands of Liao soldiers were defeated. The exhausted army was severely defeated. Today's two hundred thousand gold thieves are dozens of times more powerful than the tens of thousands of Liao troops. How could they be defeated by the imperial army of less than two hundred thousand?"
"Is it possible to negotiate a peace?" Han Xiaozhou asked, "The gold thief may have come here for wealth and money. I heard that the gold thief also wanted to negotiate a peace... I, the Song Dynasty, have a lot of money, can't I give them some?"
Chen Ji shook his head and said: "Recently, the Marshal's Office received reports from the Hedong Army. Although the Golden Thieves' West Route Army did not break through the city of Taiyuan, they did break through many prefectures and counties around Taiyuan. Apparently they wanted to swallow up the land east of the river! If the Golden Thieves really want to negotiate for peace, Sincerity, how can we waste time and effort to attack Hedong Prefecture and County at the expense of casualties? It can be seen that the peace negotiation of the gold thief is completely fake and is deceiving us! "
Why is it that the gold thief deceived us? Han Xiaozhou said in his heart: It was King Yun who deceived the gold thieves by negotiating a peace. He took advantage of their unpreparedness to launch a sneak attack, killed the gold thieves' prime minister, drove away the slave Guo Yaoshi with the third surname, and scared away Linzhang. The golden thief's soldiers and horses... If he makes such a fuss, the golden thief may not even be willing to negotiate peace with our Song Dynasty!
Zhao Kai glanced at Cai Mao, the transshipment envoy, and Cai Mao immediately said: "Sifu (characterized by Xiao Zhou), in fact, our government's financial income is limited, and its expenditures are huge. Since the founding of the country, the state has been very tight, and we can't afford it at all." I don’t have much money to pay tribute to the gold thief! The price offered by the gold thief is to give 30 million yuan in goods at a time and another 3 million yuan every year. I’m afraid the court won’t be able to come up with that much money.”
That's not to say that the official family is too spendy... Han Xiaozhou started to slander Zhao Kai's father again! This official has a prosperous family and spends money like a flood. He has squandered the national treasury. Now I am afraid that he can't even get the money to beg for mercy from the gold thief. He is really ruining the country and the people!
It seems that Zhang Dun's treacherous minister has a good taste in people - King Duan is frivolous and cannot rule the world!
Compared with his son, King Yun, the frivolity of this official is simply not on the same level! No matter how frivolous the officials are, they will not go to the battlefield to fight with the golden thief... and ruin the promising draw!
Thinking of this, Han Xiaozhou had to sigh, nodded and said: "It seems that this draw is difficult to achieve... But if we really want to fight the golden thief to the end, we will have to spend more money, right? How much income can the imperial court make in a year now? How many fixed expenses are there? Even if it saves some more, how much surplus can it have? How many forbidden troops can be supported with this amount of money? The golden thieves are deployed in Hedong, Yanshan, Hebei, Gyeonggi, etc. Earth’s 200,000-strong army can also match the one-million-strong Forbidden Army of our Great Song Dynasty, right? But how can our Great Song Dynasty afford a million-strong Forbidden Army?”
"How come you can't afford it?" Zhao Kai smiled coldly, "How much land does it take to raise a Western Army archer?"
"We need 200-250 acres," Cai Mao replied. "The archers in Hedong are given less land, only about 100 acres."
"Based on the Western Army, how much land is needed to raise 1 million troops?"
Chen Jidao: "Based on 200 acres, 200 million acres of land are needed."
Zhao Kai turned to look at Han Xiaozhou, "Prefect Han, do you know how many acres of land there are in the world?"
Han Xiaozhou thought for a while and said, "About five or six billion."
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "Okay, it can support 3 million warriors! With this number, why worry about the golden thief not being wiped out?"
"Your Majesty," Han Xiaozhou knew what Zhao Kai said was wrong and quickly reminded him, "Most of the 5 to 6 billion acres of land in the world are owned by owners, and official land does not account for much. How can it be all given to warriors?"
"Han Zhizhou is wrong!" Zhao Kai said loudly, "In the whole world, is it the land of the king? On the shore of the land, is it the ministers of the king... Those who are the ministers of the king, of course, have the responsibility to kill the ranks with guns and spears. !”
Han Xiaozhou opened his mouth wide, too shocked to say a word. He just stared at Zhao Kai blankly.
"Besides, there are so many desolate fields in the world!" Zhao Kai added, "In the east of Xiangzhou, I saw many desolate fields... Since their owners cannot keep the land, I will allocate it to those who are willing to keep it. Warrior, what's wrong?"
What? Han Xiaozhou was shocked. A lot of the land east of Xiangzhou belongs to my family! What do you want to do?
Zhao Kai looked at Han Xiaozhou and said, "Prefect Han, the solitary king now orders you to inspect the land in the four counties of Linzhang, Tangyin, Anyang, and Linlu. All desolate and ownerless land will be returned to the Yingtian Division of the Generalissimo's Mansion. !”
Han Xiaozhou's face turned livid, and he said to himself: Well, King Yun, you are a bandit king... You have only been in Xiangzhou for a few days, and you want to rob my family's land, and you want me to help you rob it!
This is really unreasonable!
Zhao Kaize looked at Han Xiaozhou fiercely, as if to say: Why don't you rebel? You can try being Han Lushan and Han Siming! In this way, the lonely king can confiscate all your property!
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