On December 20, the New Year's Eve was approaching, Lingquan Palace and Zichen Palace were where the first major court meeting after Zhao Kai ascended the throne was held.
Because Zhao Kai's Da Song Dynasty was "re-opened", it has always been a bit like a grass-roots team. There are only a few people inside and outside, and they all do the work of several people, and there is no time to get together to work. General Assembly. Moreover, there were not many people gathered, and it didn’t look like a big court meeting.
However, with the successive defections of Shaanxi generals and Luoyang scholar-bureaucrats, Zhao Kai's men finally seemed to have a lot of talents, and they could hold a decent court meeting.
And there are indeed many important matters that need to be carefully discussed with the ministers below.
The first big thing is of course that Zhao Kai's Chang'an court is going to move eastward and southward!
Although Shaanxi is close to Guanhe, Guanzhong is no longer a land of abundance! After settling the Fifth Route Army Mansion and the Tiance Hou Military Mansion near Chang'an, Shaanxi's "grain receiving land" has been less than 2 million acres. Even if they work hard, their annual income is only more than 200,000 kilograms of wheat... This income is used to subsidize the expenses of the military government along the five routes, and not even a bushel of wheat can enter the treasury of the Chang'an court.
As for Hedong next door, the financial situation is also not optimistic.
Because the Fen River Valley, the richest land in the east of Hedong, has just been ravaged by gold thieves, don't expect any land tax in two or three years. Moreover, Zhao Kai placed three military mansions, including Tiance's former army, Tiance's right army, and Tiance's left army, in the Fen River Valley. Linjunfu was also set up in the east and north corners of the river, and Taihangjunfu was set up in the eastern mountainous area of Hedong.
These five military mansions now have nearly 70,000 military households - they are all military mansions, but the number of military households under their jurisdiction is very small. The Tiance Jiufu has the fewest people, and each mansion has only There are more than 10,000 households. The second prefecture in Hedong has more households, with a total of about 40,000 households. The five prefectures of Shaanxi have the largest number of people. After careful counting, there are still nearly 170,000 households!
Adding up the sixteen military mansions, there are now as many as 300,000 military households in the Chang'an imperial court... Finally, they are not inferior to the Jin Kingdom and the Western Bandits in terms of number.
According to statistics from various military governments, when a household of soldiers is resettled, on average, they need to divide 150 acres of farmland and 100 acres of shady land, or give 400 acres of shady land rights - the so-called shady land is tax-free private land linked to military service, which can be used as a whole Monopoly and inheritance, but new landowners had to undertake military service.
In short, once ordinary land is registered as military service, it will be firmly tied to military service!
Utility soldiers who have not yet been allocated land can receive 100 acres of "shady farm rights" when they join the army (200 acres were initially given, but have now been reduced by half) to offset part of their military pay.
The Fu soldiers themselves could also choose to receive more "shady farm rights" to offset the land grant - that is, they did not need the official land, but exchanged one acre of official land for three acres of shady farmland to obtain the shady farm rights.
The advantage of this arrangement is that powerful landowners from Hedong, Shaanxi and other places who are willing to fight for the country can be included in the military system, and there is no need to use official land to fulfill their duties.
The disadvantage is that the land tax revenue in Shaanxi and Hedong, the two "blood tax places", is almost nonexistent... Even if there is still some commercial tax (excluding salt tax), it is used to maintain local government offices and subsidize local people. The military mansion and garrison are all spent.
If Zhao Kai did not go eastward, not only would the land of the remaining five Tiance military mansions not be secured, but the daily expenses of the imperial court would also be in difficulty. In addition, there were too many military households under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Route Army in Shaanxi, and Shaanxi simply did not have that much land to allocate to them, so some of them had to be relocated.
Therefore, for Zhao Kaiyan, there is no "safety" at all, and don't think about "farming for a few years" with the danger of Guanhe River... If you think like this, you are waiting for death!
As for developing industry and commerce in Shaanxi and evolving into capitalism... it is even more unthinkable!
Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty had no soil for the development of industry and commerce at all, and the foundation of industry and commerce was not even as good as "Qingtong"!
Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was the starting point of the Silk Road after all!
By the Song Dynasty, the Silk Road had been rerouted, and most of them took the sea route. The remaining small businesses had to bypass the Xixia wolf, and most of them took the North Road directly to Yanyun.
Therefore, after integrating the military forces of Shaanxi and Hedong, Zhao Kai had to go out and seize territory as soon as possible!
We have to wait until the excitement of the big guys is over before we can let them bring their own dry food to help fight!
Therefore, the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council were preparing to send troops to fight throughout the winter!
The final plan has now been drawn up.
According to this plan, the troops of the Chang'an court will be divided into five groups, one going to Sichuan; one going to Jingzhou; one going east to the Guangwu Mountain-Kaifeng Prefecture line; one going to Hedong; one going to Shaanxi.
Among them, the two routes into Sichuan and Jingzhou are expected to mobilize 50,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilians!
From the east to Guangwu Mountain-Kaifeng Prefecture, at least 100,000 troops and 30,000 civilians must be dispatched!
The rest of the troops will stay in Hedong and Shaanxi. No special mobilization is required, as long as they serve in turns.
The coach of the journey to Sichuan was Zhao Bushi, the king of Hanzhong - the king of Hanzhong entered Shu, and he knew it would be successful as soon as he heard it!
The one who entered Jingzhou was the King of Xiangyang, Zhao Shuxiang... In his previous life, Zhao Kai felt that the King of Xiangyang in "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" was awesome, so he gave this title to Zhao Shuxiang, which should also strengthen his reputation. Bar?
The one who stayed in Hedong was Zhao Zhi, the acting king.
The person in charge in Chang'an is Zhao Kai's eighteenth younger brother Zhao Zhen. He has just been named Lingwu King and should be very effective.
"Soldiers, generals and civilians will need to dispatch 200,000 people..." As soon as the court meeting began, Zhao Kai discussed the issue of the scale of the troop dispatch, "With so many people, the food and salary expenditure must be a lot, right? Can Are you responsible?"
The soldiers who had been allocated fields were naturally obliged to bring some of their own dry food, mules and horses, and some of their equipment! However, the time for the previous service is limited, including the time on the road, the maximum is 120 days a year. During these 120 days, the expenses the court has to pay are limited, but after this period, it will have to spend money to retain people.
In addition, "limited expenses" means that if there is no war...if there is a war, then the money will be like water!
The answer to this question was from Zuo Prime Minister Lu Yihao, who was in charge of financial expenditures. He immediately came out and said to Zhao Kai: "For officials, it costs nothing to go south to Sichuan and Jingzhou. Each state capital on the North Road of Sichuan and Jinghu has savings, and How dare they fight against the heavenly troops led by the kings of Hanzhong and Xiangyang?
Therefore, what needs to be prepared is the military expenditure for the eastward march. According to the strategy entrusted to the ministers by the Privy Council, these 130,000 people must pay full military pay and labor money, and rewards must be prepared... Every month, preparations need to be made We have 3.6 million guan worth of goods in reserve, but we need 3.6 million guan for one year!
In addition, these 130,000 people plus the livestock accompanying the army consume a lot of food and grass every month... Just rice, wheat and bean cakes need to be prepared for 70,000 shi a month, and this is still transported to Guangwu Mountain. Number of camps! "
"Are you all there?" Zhao Kai didn't want to hear Lu Yihao's report and asked directly about the results.
"Yes!" Cai Mao, who is in charge of financial revenue, said out of the way, "so that the officials know that at the beginning of this month, all the 3 million stone and rice given to the court by the King of Jinling have arrived in Xiangyang!
With these 3 million stone meters, the army coming out from the east can maintain in Guangwu Mountain for at least six months! "
The King of Jinling mentioned by Cai Mao refers to Zhao Huan... Zhao Huan did not declare himself a minister, but gave him 3 million shi, so Zhao Kai did not call him a "thief", but "King of Jinling". Call him by his name.
"With these six months, the emperor's uncle and the King of Hanzhong should be able to equalize Sichuan and Jinghu, right?" Zhao Kai immediately laughed, "How much Shu brocade and tea can Sichuan pay in a year? How many Jianghan can Jinghu pay in a year? Rice? Is it enough for us to eat?"
It's really tragic to say that Zhao Kai, the newly reopened Song Dynasty, really "has no money"...there is a huge shortage of copper coins! The Song Dynasty already had a shortage of copper coins, and the "money shortage" in Shaanxi and Hedong, which were underdeveloped in industry and commerce, was even more serious! As for the more valuable gold and silver, the shortage is even worse.
Therefore, Zhao Kai's court had to use silk instead of copper coins to pay and reward the officials and soldiers below. Nowadays, most consumers in Chang'an market are wandering around with a bag of silk on their backs. When buying things, they pay with silk, and merchants have to use rulers to measure...
However, Shaanxi and Hedong do not produce silk, so the "currency" of silk is also very nervous now!
The main purpose of Zhao Kai sending Zhao Buji to send troops to Sichuan was to obtain enough Shu Brocade and tea - the value of tea was no less than that of Shu Brocade, which was used to exchange horses with the Xibo (Tubo) tribe. And Shaanxi and Hedong do not produce tea...
As for the rice from Jinghu Lake, it was even more important to Zhao Kai’s court - it was a matter of eating!
For Zhao Kai, whose ruling center is Shaanxi, Hedong, and Henan, his food is never enough!
The only way to obtain food is Jinghu!
It’s not that Sichuan, a land of abundance, doesn’t have rice, but that Sichuan rice has to be transported along the Yangtze River, the Han River, and then the Baihe River to Nanyang, and then transported overland to Luoyang or Guangwu Mountain... In the evenly matched North-South War, this The supply line is the lifeline of the Confederate Army!
Because the canal line to the east will be washed away by the Yellow River water released by the Northern Army at any time!
The Duanping invasion of Luo in history suffered a disastrous defeat because the logistics line was destroyed... Of course, if the Southern Army was as destructive as Zhu Yuanzhang, then the Northern Army would be useless!
When he thought of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kai turned the topic directly to the new year's name for the coming year. He coughed: "The New Year is approaching, and the matter of the new year's name must be finalized! The Confucian officials in the court drafted a few for me. I am not very satisfied with it, so I have been delaying it until now. When I reviewed the three armies a few days ago, I thought of an era name, which is just in line with the current situation!
I want to take Hongwu as my reign name! A Hong person means great, a warrior means strong soldiers and strong horses! So starting from next year, it will be the Hongwu Year of the Great Song Dynasty! "
The imperial soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, plus Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu and the reopening of the Song Dynasty... Zhao Kai has copied all the homework he can... he should be able to go straight to Huanglong and sweep the grassland, right?
