In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, it was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
The long and boring Spring Festival holiday is finally over. Official Zhao Kai once again sat in the Yuanhe Hall in the Imperial City of Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing to accept the worship of hundreds of officials.
The annual holiday of the Northern Song Dynasty court started from the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month and lasted until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a full twenty-day holiday. However, the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty, who had been relieved for twenty days, were all in high spirits, shouting long live to the aloof Zhao Kaishan, without any signs of holiday syndrome.
Zhao Kai, like everyone else, was full of energy. When he saw the officials bowing to him and saluting him, he couldn't help but laugh, "Hahaha, flat body, flat body!"
Everyone still bowed in accordance with the rules and then took their seats, divided into two groups, civil and military, standing on the left and right of the main hall.
Zhao Kai looked at the ministers below and said with a smile: "Time flies so fast! In the blink of an eye, I have been in the imperial court for ten years! Many of the ministers were with me in Hedong. Are you a veteran of reopening the Great Song Dynasty? The great cause of reopening the Great Song Dynasty should be completed by this year... When I completely surrender the Wu Kingdom in the southeast, complete the unification of the two Song Dynasties, and make the world first-class, I will I will not treat my loyal ministers and generals badly if I also give you officials, nobles, lands and houses!"
Up to this point, his words were all good things, his tone was brisk, and he looked like he was about to laugh out loud. But then the topic changed, and his tone gradually became lowered: "But it is difficult to conquer the world, and it is even harder to govern and defend the world! No, our world in the Song Dynasty was almost taken away by gold thieves... What a peaceful and prosperous age it was during the Xuanhe period? It will be gone if you say no! How many good families were ruined, and how many prosperous and peaceful cities were turned into white ground. Even Bianliang, Tokyo, was flooded by gold thieves and flooded by the Yellow River. It is still a wasteland to this day. It’s desolate!
It can be seen that what Sun Tzu said in "The Art of War" is right. Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival. They must be observed! "
As soon as he said these words, the ministers below were stunned.
what happened? The world is at peace, shouldn't we talk about practicing martial arts and cultivating literature and resting with the people? Why are you talking about war again?
Many of the ministers in the Yuanhe Palace were well-informed. They already knew that after Zhao Kai completed the unification of the world, he would turn his main energy to civil affairs and make great efforts to rectify taxation... so the court The civil servants in the army were vaguely looking forward to the good days in the future, while the military attachés were somewhat worried.
Zhao Kai's speech continued. He said: "Now the unification of the world is imminent, but what I want to tell you is not to let the horses go to Nanshan and store the swords and guns in the warehouse, nor to rest with the people and rule by doing nothing. It is to continue to organize the army. Jingwu must maintain the combat effectiveness of our Song Dynasty soldiers for a long time. Because although the Central Plains is about to achieve peace and tranquility, it is still surrounded by powerful enemies from all directions. Only with strong troops in hand can the Song Dynasty have real long-term peace and stability."
This statement is a bit "not quite correct". The Central Plains are at peace, so why are we still afraid of enemies from all directions? And who are the enemies on all sides? It seems like a gold thief is more capable of fighting, right? But no matter how good the gold thieves are, they can't break through the bastions at Yanshan including the Shanhaikou bastion and break into the hinterland of Beijing Road, right?
Moreover, the city walls of Xinshun Tianfu City will be completed by the end of this year. The large bastion with eight sides and sixteen corners will also use strong and durable rammed earth-covered brick walls, and two trenches will be dug outside the city.
Let alone the golden thieves, such a fortified city was incapable of being broken even by the Song Army itself, which was powerful in attacking fortifications!
However, no one of Zhao Kai's heroes came out to remonstrate... Because everyone knows the allusions of the cunning rabbit dying and the lackeys being cooked; the high bird disappearing and the good bow hidden; the enemy's country being destroyed and the conspiring ministers perishing!
Now there are not many rabbits in the Central Plains, only one Zhao Huan is left, and it will be gone soon... What will all the heroes who are "lacquering dogs" do then? There is danger!
Therefore, Zhao Kai's theory of "surrounded by powerful enemies" is quite in line with everyone's wishes.
Zhao Kai saw everyone nodding in agreement with his point of view, so he laughed again: "To maintain a strong army, it is not enough to rely on a government army system alone... Although my government army system is compared to that of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it already has Great changes, such as setting up special camps and military envoys to protect the interests of the government soldiers. For example, the government soldiers were given pastoral villages in places outside the Great Wall, Hexi, Yangshan, and Yinshan, and the military government was also allowed to set up its own administrators. The regiment was responsible for running schools, schools, racecourses, charity warehouses and other affairs, and also instituted the law of joining the army in place of one's father.
But in the future, the enemies will be in the Western Regions, in the grasslands, in the cold places of the Northeast, and even on the other side of the ocean! Those places are vast and far away from the Central Plains. The war cannot be ended in a short time. Therefore, the farms and pastures of the vast army cannot be supported at all... The court must have a large amount of taxes! "
Among them, Zhao Kai's definitions of "cunning rabbit", "tall bird" and "enemy country" are different from the following officials.
Zhao Huan is by no means the last cunning rabbit in the world... There are still many cunning rabbits in the world, and we can't catch them all!
Therefore, the imperial eagle dogs of the Song Dynasty had to work even harder!
Zhao Kai went on to say: "That's why I set up a transfer envoy road in addition to Yingtian Road and Jiedu Envoy Road. From now on, Yingtian Envoy Road will support soldiers, Jiedu Envoy Road will be developed, and Transfer Envoy Road will be responsible for providing money and food... ...The combination of the three will allow our Song Dynasty to maintain a strong army for a long time, and continue to open up new territories and eradicate hidden dangers outside the Great Wall and overseas!
We can't just wait for those hidden dangers to grow from weak to strong like the golden thief, knocking on the door, and then think of ways to resist. Moreover, the Western thieves have already fled to the west, and they still use the name of the Tang Dynasty. This is really a thief's evil spirit!
In addition, Yelu Dashi recently sent an envoy to report that a group of gold thieves on both sides of the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest showed signs of moving westward in a large scale. I have a hunch that this group of gold thieves is likely to become bigger after it reaches the West, and it will definitely be a serious problem for the country in the future!
Therefore, we must take a preemptive strike and nip the danger in the bud! "
He is creating public opinion for future global colonization!
In his opinion, Zhao Huan, the rabbit, was vulnerable...Whether he caught it or drove it away, he could definitely get the land of Southeast Nine Roads.
After the Southeast Ninth Road is obtained, of course we will begin to colonize the world... Time waits for no time!
Zhao Kai is already in his thirties this year... We are in ancient times, and the medical conditions are not very good! If there are "fifty years on earth", how many years are left? Even if he can live to be seventy or eighty years old, compared to the long history, it will still be extremely short, so some things must be carried out quickly.
And he allowed or even intentionally drove the enemies to flee. On the one hand, he wanted them to "serve as kings", and on the other hand, he was preparing excuses for his future expansion.
Historically, it is said that the Ming Dynasty's seven voyages to the West were to find Emperor Jianwen, while the Manchu Qing's recovery of Xinjiang was the result of a hundred-year war with the Junggars... Enemies are sometimes the driving force of progress!
He talked a lot, and the officials below finally understood what he was thinking. Zhao Kai's words at the first court meeting after the New Year were just a declaration that in the future the battles will still be easy to fight, and the great achievements will still be easy to establish!
In addition, Zhao Kai's announcement also pointed out the direction for the nine southeastern roads that now belong to Wu State - most of them will become transfer roads specifically responsible for paying money!
In the future, there will be seven roads including Beijing Road, Hebei Road, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Hexi Road, and Datong Road, and maybe one Guangxi Road will be added, which will be mainly responsible for raising soldiers and fighting... These camps The soldiers provided by Tianshi Road and Jieduzhi Road are all army troops. How to send out the navy will have to wait until the southeast is leveled.
The other branches of the Song Dynasty were mainly responsible for paying money and food. As long as they paid enough money, they could develop the economy without worrying about national defense issues.
Moreover, Zhao Kai would not do the same thing as Yingtian Road on these payment transfer roads - Yingtian Road had no private fields except for a small amount of Yongye fields belonging to the soldiers and nobles.
This means that the land on Yingtian Road is prohibited from buying and selling, and it cannot be annexed. The amount of land owned by the landlord is determined by the title and rank. In this case, of course there would be no land market, no buying and selling, and no mortgages. Although businessmen cannot buy land after making money, landowners do not mortgage or sell their land in exchange for funds to invest in industry and commerce... For the Southeast Roads where industry and commerce are developed and land sales and mortgages are frequent, land sales and land purchases are frozen. State ownership will definitely trigger a financial crisis.
The transfer envoys under Zhao Kai did not suppress mergers, and their economic policies were similar to those of the Wu Kingdom under Zhao Huan. They were even more conducive to the development of industry and commerce... However, because of the "large scale" of the Yingtian envoys in the north, "Confiscated" still inhibited the industrial and commercial development of Sichuan and Jinghu Roads.
Now that we are about to take the southeast, Zhao Kai certainly does not want the merchants, gentry and landlords in the southeast to resist the heavenly soldiers because they cannot understand the difference between the camp field road and the transportation road.
After understanding Zhao Kai's thoughts, Chen Ji, the Grand Prime Minister of the East Mansion, stood up and spoke, "Official sage! As long as we, the Song Dynasty, have the soldiers from the north and the wealth from the south, we will be invincible in the world. Golden thieves and western thieves They are nothing more than sluts, and they can be eradicated sooner or later... However, there are still some pedantic scholars and foolish loyal ministers in the southeast who do not know the talents and strategies of the officials, the strict military discipline of our Song Dynasty soldiers, and the desires of the officials. The national policy of using the wealth of the south to support the soldiers of the north is still confusing King Wu in an attempt to resist the heavenly soldiers!
I suggest that I take advantage of this opportunity to go south to worship Confucius and hold a Confucian conference in Qufu, inviting scholars from all over the world to come to Qufu to discuss the great ways and preaching of Confucianism... All Confucian scholars with outstanding knowledge and government officials You can grant them official positions and make them famous all over the world. As long as the famous gentry and scholars from the southeast come to Qufu, the officials can explain to them our dynasty's method of governing the country with equal emphasis on civil and military affairs. "
"Okay!" Zhao Kai cheered loudly and nodded with a smile, "The method of holding the Confucian sect conference is very good. The Confucian sect has not held such a grand event for I don't know how many years... Confucian sect great talents can't just think about it. If you want to be an official, you have to learn a lot!"
