Li Gang is an old minister and a famous prime minister. Although he has experienced so many things, he no longer claims that he is a famous general.
But it should not be said that as a serious Jinshi in the second year of Zhenghe, he has served as Taichang Shaoqing, Minister of the Ministry of War, Shangshu Youcheng, and now Prime Minister. He, Li Gang, has definitely made great progress in becoming a famous official. .
In the eyes of Yue Fei and Zhao Huan, this time the Jin people directly caused a big delay, so their response could only be to bite the bullet.
Choose good places in various places, find key places for colic, and build Wubao camps.
Their compromise is to reduce this intensity.
Relying on the dangerous places in various places, there are many grain storage places, strategic points and transportation thoroughfares in various places to build camps and forts.
In other places, beacon towers were used instead.
Although this can only be used to warn rather than limit oppression, it is still a method. However, even if it is regarded as a labor force for money and food, and people eat what horses chew, it can completely collapse the Song Dynasty, which has just breathed a sigh of relief. die.
Li Gang, on the other hand, directly chose to find another way and chose a completely different approach.
"Your Majesty, although the Jin people's methods are beyond our expectations, we are not unable to use them to our advantage.
King Yun previously recruited a large number of refugees to build many fortifications and camps. This was a good idea, but we cannot let them finish building this camp and then turn around to build another camp.
We cannot reduce the size of the camp and replace the camp with a beacon tower.
On the contrary, we will increase the scale and strengthen the scope of the camp. We will even expand it, and then expand it. At least each camp must accommodate the food and daily life of three thousand people! "
And this distance is mainly from a hundred to a hundred and fifty miles, and then a large number of camps are built.
But after the construction is completed...just let these refugees settle on the spot. "
Zhao Huan and others were a little confused by what Li Gang said before, but his last words made Zhao Huan slam the table.
"good!"
Zhao Huan is not a fool. He has made rapid progress over the years. After Li Gang finished speaking, he understood what Li Gang meant and thought.
To put it bluntly, Li Gang's method was not to build a camp, but to appease the refugees on the spot.
To put it more bluntly, it is to resettle directly on site, gather people into villages, villages into towns, and towns into cities!
This is the oldest method of building a city. It does not involve mobilizing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of corvees to build it specifically.
Instead, let the people gather together to live in a village, and then let these existences gather together and become a town.
When there are more towns, they will naturally gather into a city.
This is a natural thing, but it takes a long time, and Li Gang took a chance.
What makes Da Song feel embarrassed now is money and food.
Money and food are needed to appease the people, money and food are needed to relieve the victims of disasters and refugees, money and food are needed to feed and drink the soldiers, and money is needed to feed and drink the corvees.
This future life, this future life, in short, all kinds of money.
Li Gang's method is to spend all the money in one place.
"Let the displaced people we accept build camps, build houses, reclaim fields, and then resettle them on the spot. Then we can put the costs of resettling the people and building camps into one place.
After that, we will select young men from the common people and old soldiers from the army to train them. There is no need to train them into elites who can fight in battle.
Their role is to protect their own place of survival.
In this case, there is no need to allocate troops and horses, just use them as soldiers, cultivate the land and cultivate the land, and practice and train with guns in their spare time.
Weapons such as shields, spears, and knives were also allocated to them, as well as simple divine arm crossbows and other items.
Let them take care of themselves and meet their own survival needs, and we will complete everything here.
The consumption is greatly reduced.
At the same time, we don’t need to worry about providing them with grain and fodder every year. Instead, we can provide them with two years of supplies, as well as the cattle and farm tools needed to open up wasteland.
When they take a breather and harvest the reclaimed fields again, we can start collecting taxes. "
"Prime Minister Li's words are indeed for the sake of the country. If this happens, we, the Song Dynasty, will be able to have enough food..."
"It's still not enough." Li Guang said suddenly, making the scene awkward again.
The name Li Guang is indeed ordinary, but this person is anything but ordinary, and Zhao Huan also has a heavy responsibility for this person.
In Zhao Huan's perception, he, Li Gang, Zhao Ding, and Hu Quan are known as the "Four Famous Officials of the Southern Song Dynasty". Not to mention, he himself was also a serious descendant of the Tang Dynasty royal family.
Descendants of Li Jing, King of Ruyang in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, it is embarrassing to say this identity at this time, but it shows that his inheritance is still there, and his knowledge is far beyond the average person.
In the fifth year of Chongning, he passed the Jinshi title and served as the magistrate of Kaihua County. He moved to Chang County and became familiar with the county. He governed the local area for more than ten years and was finally promoted to Yousi Jian, in charge of regulations, admonitions and edicts. He was an admonishment minister.
Compared with several other people's ability to seek the country at every turn, Li Guang is indeed inferior in this regard.
But Li Guang also had something they couldn't match, and that was his remonstrating character.
He was outspoken and dared to remonstrate. Whether it was Zhu Chong, the father of Zhu Meng, the favorite minister around Zhao Ji, or Qin Hui at the peak of history, he would dare to scold him if he felt there was a problem.
Moreover, his popularity was so high that he could not be tampered with easily. Qin Hui and others had nothing to do with him.
If you let this kind of person govern the place, he will definitely be able to do it. After all, as a remonstrator, you are not a troll. You must be polite and polite when you scold him, and you must give the reasons and solutions for scolding him.
This ability and vision are very powerful.
At this time, Li Guang still saw the loopholes in Li Gang's previous plan, and then interrupted everyone's excitement.
"Your Majesty, please also ask for a map!"
After getting the map, Li Guang directly circled areas one by one on the map with his hand pen, mainly on Hedong Road in Shandong.
"What Mr. Li said before certainly makes sense in theory, but please forgive me. Mr. Li's previous strategy was a bit too taken for granted.
In all previous strategies, there are several prerequisites that must be met.
One of the Jin people really sat back and watched us do this!
This is the most difficult to guarantee. Even if a certain family doesn't know what happened to the Jin people, they still really can't bear it.
In short, they suddenly switched from offense to defense, which is an opportunity for me, Da Song.
But this opportunity won't be that easy.
Not to mention that it is just a temporary strike, even if Wanyan Sheng dies suddenly, even if we and the Jin man form a brotherly alliance again, we will wait for the opportunity together.
But the Jin people's fast horse riding will continue to deepen.
Even in the absence of a major war, their tactics of scattered cavalry wandering around will completely become a big trouble.
How is the farmland and water source we are waiting for?
Even if I wait to dig a well in the camp and then put all the farmland in the camp, what about the scope?
How big of a camp will we build?
Even if we are frugal in spending, under the manpower and material resources...
Let’s talk about soldiers and horses. Can these soldiers and horses be stationed in such a large area?
If they only relied on these soldiers who had just picked up weapons, could they hold on to such a long line of defense?
I'm afraid not!
Secondly, how many refugees need to be gathered into so many camps?
I have been suppressing the speed of gathering the refugees before. If we let it go completely, I am afraid that King Yun will not be able to hold on for even half a year and will be exhausted to death in the court.
And with this military expenditure, after the victory of this battle, do we need to reward the soldiers? We are waiting to see if we need to gather the corpses of the soldiers.
The soldiers of those soldiers still need pensions, and their families also need pensions.
What to do with the money?
Even if a soldier is given a pension of ten thousand dollars, this is already a figure that almost triggers a mutiny. But how many people died in our army?
In the Battle of Guanzhong alone, tens of thousands of people died.
Ten guan for one person, one million guan for 100,000 people...and this is still a very low pension, and does not include land for his family or support for his orphans and elderly people.
If there were... I'm afraid it would be no less than a million dollars a year!
If we recruit hundreds of thousands or even millions of refugees, we in the Song Dynasty will still have some money and food in two years, but it will not be spent in this way.
Almost all the houses that should be ransacked have been ransacked, and even the four main halls of His Majesty's palace have been emptied.
Your Majesty, if we continue this process, all we can do is reduce the amount of copper and mint inferior coins, or simply... kill the goose and get the egg!
The most important thing is the fourth!
Officials, if the officialdom that has just been cleared up is going to be so troubled, do we need to place officials and generals?
Li Xiang's method is somewhat similar to that of the soldiers of the past. Nowadays, it is naturally good to do special things at special times.
But Li Xiang's method is not that practical for me in the Song Dynasty.
There are many problems and a lot of expenses. With the current situation of Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it cannot sustain it. "
Li Guang spoke unceremoniously and refuted Li Gang, which made the situation very embarrassing for a time, but Li Gang was Li Gang after all.
After a brief moment of surprise, he stared at the map for a long time and finally bowed to Li Guang.
"I'm so reckless."
"Prime Minister Li, you can't do this. How dare you and me, my colleagues in Paoze, do this?"
"However, although my plan is full of problems, the idea is indeed correct. Instead of thinking about it from scratch, it is better to think of ways to solve this problem."
"Easy solution, money!"
"How to solve the problem with money?"
"This...is not a certain family's way!"
"..."
Seeing that the scene was in a stalemate, Zhao Huan was about to do something to ease the atmosphere, when Yao Pingzhong, who was stationed outside, suddenly loudly reported.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zhao is back and is now asking to see Your Majesty!"
"please come in!"
"Please come in quickly!"
The excited sounds spread outside the palace gate, which also represented the excitement of Zhao Huan and others.
When it comes to making money, it still has to be Zhao Ding and Zhao Kai.
"See Your Majesty..."
"Don't be too polite. Zhao Qing came here in such a hurry. I guess he knows that I am worried about money and food. I wonder what Zhao Qing has in mind?"
"Easy, make peace!" Zhao Ding chuckled, "There is no money in the Central Plains, but there is money outside. We are familiar with making money through business!"
