The so-called ransacking of houses is nothing more than the complete liquidation of certain courtiers.
They may have made mistakes, or they may have done the right thing but were politically wrong, so they must be completely liquidated to warn those who come after them not to imitate them.
For now, it means confiscating the homes of all the bastards who need to be punished or even beheaded or exiled because of the defeat in the war.
This alone is not enough, some bastards who do not have to have their homes searched must also be sentenced to have their homes searched.
One of these guys is rich, one is rich, and the Song Dynasty's money is in the hands of these bastards, and they can be copied accurately.
Especially Wang Quan. Although this bastard has his subordinates who are also eating the free wages, he is definitely the one who eats the most. It is right to confiscate his house!
Zhao Jun was overjoyed and immediately did as Zhang Jun said and sent people to raid Wang Quan's home.
I don’t know if I don’t copy this, but I will be shocked when I copy it. Good guy, the free salary of Wang Quan is really not free.
It owns 60,000 taels of gold, 880,000 taels of silver, and 1.16 million pieces of silk. It owns more than 200,000 acres of land and more than 500 houses in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It also owns cities such as Jiaxing, Lin'an, and Jiankang. More than a hundred shops.
How can this be described by a wealthy family?
He is clearly extremely wealthy.
This time it all belongs to Zhao Xin.
Zhao Hao was happy, but also very angry. With the normal salary and benefits of the royal power, he would never be able to accumulate so much wealth. This wealth was definitely accumulated by eating the flesh and blood of soldiers, and it was all national taxes. People's fat and people's ointment.
A royal power can accumulate such a large amount of wealth, but what about others?
Zhao Min seemed to have turned on a switch. After ransacking Wang Quan's home, he also ordered the homes of seventeen officers headed by Zhao Mi to be ransacked. The gains were quite rich. Together, they could almost equal the wealth of several Ming and Song wars. War reparations.
Can the court make up for the shortfall by co-authoring a house raid?
That's okay.
Zhao Xun suddenly became rich and rich, and many things were quickly solved and implemented.
Then, Zhang Jun gave Zhao Hao another suggestion, saying that since ancient times, making money has been nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Now that revenue cannot be increased for the time being, the only option is to reduce expenditure.
How to reduce expenditure?
Throttling certain unimportant people.
Officials can't cut costs because they need to do things. Grassroots officials can't cut costs because they need to run errands and do chores. Then we can only cut costs on those useless people who only know how to eat but don't know where the food comes from.
Zhang Jun's suggestion is to first reduce expenditures on those Northern Song Dynasty clans.
The so-called persimmons must be picked on the weak. These people were released by the Ming army. They made no contribution when they returned to the Song Dynasty. Instead, they spent a lot of national money in the Song Dynasty to support them.
At that time, Zhao Gou had actually tried his best to reduce the funds to support them, but it was still quite a lot, especially those who were close to Zhao Gou. They were raised according to the method of raising a clan in the Northern Song Dynasty, which cost a lot.
Not only are these guys useless, but they also put political pressure on Zhao Hao when the Ming army besieged Lin'an. Isn't this revenge?
When Zhao Xi thought about it, he thought it made sense. These guys could only live on expensive food. They had suffered for so many years and had not made any progress at all. Their eggs were useless. Why should we spend so much money to give them good food and clothing?
Especially Zhao Tiezhi and Zhao Wanshi, these two impure bastards actually covet his throne. What a joke!
no!
So Zhao Hao ordered that the monthly salary and welfare of these Northern Song Dynasty clan members be reduced to one-third of the original. Zhao Tiezhi and Zhao Wanshi directly lowered the monthly salary and welfare to one percent of the original, which was only enough for them to have a simple meal. Maintain food and clothing.
This was a serious blow and saved a lot of money.
However, the amount of money was still relatively small, and there were few things that could be done. Therefore, Zhao Jun wanted to attack a larger group of officials, but he was afraid of the officials' protests, so he asked Zhang Jun what to do.
Zhang Jun suggested that Zhao Chun should set an example and reduce the royal family's funds, and use this as a basis to reduce the salary of the entire court officials and local officials above the county magistrate.
But the salaries of grassroots officials and petty officials must not be touched.
Zhao Jun was puzzled, so Zhang Jun explained it to him.
"For officials of a certain rank, they either have land or property at home, or they have some shady personal income. This is relatively common and cannot be controlled. But if their salary is reduced for this reason, they will never be unable to afford it.
But for the lower-ranking petty officials, some officials in the government office commonly known as Qingshui Yamen, and the low-ranking officials who have no rank, a considerable number of them really rely solely on their salaries to support their families, so their salaries have been cut. , the Song Dynasty will be unstable because of this. "
Zhao Jun understood the joints involved, so he decided to follow what Zhang Jun said and cut himself first, reducing one-fifth of the royal family's expenses.
Then he announced that he would reduce the salary of officials above a certain level in the imperial court, by the same amount of one-fifth.
Then he adopted Zhang Jun's suggestion and had someone write a declaration in which the emperor and his ministers shared the joys and sorrows and overcame the difficulties together, declaring that when the country was facing financial difficulties, it was necessary for the emperor and senior officials to share the joys and sorrows and tide over the difficult times together.
So please be understanding and stop arguing.
Because the court officials had exerted political pressure on Zhao Xun before, begging him to announce his surrender, many court officials had little confidence in Zhao Xun, fearing that he would expand the scope of revenge and involve them.
Now that he is setting an example by reducing the royal family's expenses, and then taking advantage of officials, they have no confidence to quarrel with Zhao Xun, and the power should be regarded as the atonement fee for the emperor.
So Zhang Jun's cost-saving strategy was determined.
Such a calculation did save the Southern Song Dynasty court a considerable amount of money. This saved money was treated as military expenses and handed over to the Privy Council for disposal, and the Privy Council used the money to rebuild the army.
Because the previous army happened to be disbanded and no longer existed, it was more convenient and easier to rebuild it. As long as you choose the right people, it is not difficult to rebuild a reliable army.
After an inspection by the Privy Council, it was decided to appoint Li Xianzhong, the former Chizhou Dutongsi Dutongsi, as the new Jiankang Dutongsi Dutongsi. He was promoted to one level and appointed to establish and train the new army of Jiankang Prefecture.
The Zhenjiang Dutong Division was handed over to Wang Fang, Liu Qi's only surviving general.
Because of his heroic resistance, the Southern Song Dynasty retained more or less face. Zhao Hao admired Wang Fang's courage very much and ordered Wang Fang to be appointed as the commander-in-chief of Zhenjiang, recruit and train new troops, and guard the city. Zhenjiang Dutong Division.
In addition, after careful investigation, they decided to appoint Shao Hongyuan, commander of the right army of the Infantry Guards, who was once known as Guan Yu and Ma Chao's bravery, as the commander of Chizhou's capital. They also started from scratch, recruited and trained themselves, and made Chizhou the capital of Chizhou. The commander-in-chief's troops mobilized.
After the actual battle situation this time, the imperial court decided to give the Zhenjiang Dutong Division and Jiankang Dutong Division a rated number of 50,000 troops each, while the Chizhou Dutong Division increased to 30,000.
If the Zhenjiang Dutong Division had enough troops, perhaps Liu Qi would not be defeated so quickly.
As long as there is a courageous general in the Jiankang Dutong Division, he will not let tens of thousands of troops disperse without doing anything.
If Chizhou Dutongsi had more troops, he might not be able to let the Ming army march in without any scruples.
For these three selected brave generals, Zhao Hao had high hopes for them and allocated special funds to them. There was no intermediate link. He just wanted to train three elite armies at the most critical place on the Yangtze River defense line no matter what, so that these three The army guards the safety of Jiangnan.
With the loss of Huainan, Zhao Hao would never again experience the situation where his army collapsed at the first touch.
Once that happens, Lin'an cannot defend it at all.
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