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"What I'm asking is, do you have a plan to defend the city?"

Zhang Shuye said confidently: "The city of Tokyo is as solid as gold, and the armaments on the towers are in order. As long as the sergeants perform their duties, and the officials insist on the main battle, and stick to it for several months, King Qin's army will definitely arrive, and the gold thieves will penetrate into the hinterland of our Song Dynasty. Never dare to stay for a long time, I believe that as long as we persist for a few more months, the gold thieves will definitely retreat like last year!"

"Good! You're right!"

Zhao Ning agrees with Zhang Shuye's point of view. The Jin people went deep into the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, and all roads in Hebei and Hedong have not given up fighting against the Jin.

As long as the city of Tokyo can hold on, over time, the Jin people will actually face logistics and food problems, as well as an increasing upsurge of anti-golden upsurge.

At that time, they will find that they are surrounded by soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty who want to attack them.

Even if they were able to fight again, it was impossible for the Jinren to swallow up Da Song in such an environment with such a long front.

If the Jin people can swallow them all, after Jing Kangxie broke through Kaifeng City in history, the Jin people can continue to go south, or attack other cities, but they choose to return to the northeast quickly.

It is because once the war enters the stage of protracted war, what is fought is not just tactics, but resources!

Zhao Ning is very clear about the current situation of the Song Army.

The Jin army has strong combat effectiveness, and they want to fight quickly, not for a long time.

Then I will fight them for a long time!

Zhao Ning said: "I will entrust the defense of Tokyo City to you to take care of it. It doesn't matter what others say, but what you say counts!"

Zhang Shuye was taken aback. He quickly stood up and saluted: "Officials, ministers will swear to defend the capital, but He Li and Xianggong are in charge of the defense now. To increase the chaos, I think it is not feasible."

Zhang Shuye deserved to be Zhang Shuye, he knew the stakes.

The favorite trick of the Song Dynasty emperors was to assign multiple people to be responsible for one thing, to restrain each other, and to prevent one person from monopolizing power.

After all, Zhao Kuangyin was dressed in a yellow robe back then, so Zhao Song was naturally worried that another minister would follow Zhao Kuangyin's example.

Many people restrain each other to prevent one person from monopolizing power, but when something happens, no one can make the final decision. Everyone pushes each other, and things are often delayed like this.

In fact, it is still the same now. Prime Minister He Li is the coordinator of the defense, but Sun Fu is the guardian envoy and is also in charge of defending the city. Zhang Shuye is also in charge of defending the city. Liu Kai (ge, second tone) also raised the four walls to defend.

After all, there are four people in charge of guarding the city.

Both Zhang Shuye and Liu Kai had fought in the Northwest and had ample military experience, but their official positions were lower than those of He Li and Sun Fu.

He Li and Sun Fu are really two idiots, and Guo Jing's oolong was thought up by them.

Zhao Ning said calmly: "You sit down first, sit down."

Zhang Shuye sat back.

"I didn't say to appoint multiple people to coordinate. I only let you alone to coordinate. No one is allowed to intervene. I will handle He Li's matter. You don't need to worry about it."

Zhang Shuye didn't hesitate, and said: "The minister accepts the order."

It would be much more convenient if one person was in charge.

At the beginning of this year, the Jin Army besieged Tokyo City for the first time, and the defense of the whole city was coordinated by Li Gang.

The advantage of one-person overall planning is that there is no need to get into disputes, and orders can arrive quickly.

This is definitely the best policy in special times.

"Early tomorrow morning, I will announce this to the courtiers, and I will definitely take the lead!"

This time the Jin army came very fast, Qin Wang's army could not arrive for a while, so he had to defend Tokyo City first, in order to pull the situation into a protracted war.

What is the most important thing for Tokyo City now?

Is it armaments?No, there are still many black military technologies in the Song Dynasty.

So what is the most important thing?

It's the emperor's attitude!

It is a resolute attitude to the main battle!

Right now, the hall is full of peacemakers and capitulators, the city is in chaos, and ghosts and ghosts have come out.

Guo Jing is one of the typical ones.

When the country will perish, there must be evil spirits.

The evildoers mentioned here are not monsters, but those villains with evil intentions.

They just want to make a fortune at this time.

There are many, many more hateful than Guo Jing.

Song Qinzong in history swayed from side to side, killing a good situation alive!

Therefore, the emperor must insist on the main battle!

Zhao Ning said, "Go back and have a good rest."

The emperor's tone was firm and calm, giving people a sense of steadfastness, Zhang Shuye was a little surprised for a while.

He seemed to feel that the emperor suddenly changed a little.

After Zhang Shuye left, Zhao Ning asked the servants to notify the ministers tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, send someone to find someone to come over.

Who?

The former boss of the imperial guards, the shining superstar in the Song Dynasty football world, the football king Gao Qi!

Before Gao Qiu arrived, Zhao Ning first dug out the financial revenue of the Song Dynasty for the past few years and began to look at it.

The financial yamen of the Song Dynasty was called the Sansi, the Department of Salt and Iron, the Department of Duties, and the Department of Households, which were in charge of the total revenue and expenditure of finance and taxes.

The emperor has a copy of the document here.

Zhao Ning watched quickly, and the more he watched, the more frightened he became.

Chapter 7

Good guy!

Was the Song Dynasty rich or not?

Rich!

Insanely rich!

Was the Great Song Dynasty poor?

Poor!

Terribly poor!

Fu refers to officials and nobles who are rich.

Poor refers to the poorness of the court and the common people.

When people in the 21st century mentioned the Song Dynasty, they said that the Song Dynasty had a prosperous business, but Zhao Ning looked at these taxes and expenditures. No matter how developed the business is, this way of spending money can't stand it!

What the hell, officials have high salaries.

The annual expenditure of officials is really too high!

Moreover, the annual military expenditure is no longer described as running water, but as a waterfall!

No wonder that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing wanted to play the game of minting big coins and rolling wool, because the expenses were too terrible.

Behind the prosperity, the national financial crisis has become increasingly serious.

With so much military spending, why is the military still so weak?

It seems that the officials of the Song Dynasty were not polite to drink the blood of soldiers!

So the question is, how much money do you have now?

There are still 50 guan (a guan is equal to about one tael, calculated according to the grain price in the Song Dynasty, guan is equal to about 500 yuan).

This figure cannot even afford the salaries of officials, let alone military expenditures.

That is to say, the mess that Zhao Ning took over now is not only the foreign enemy soldiers coming to the city, but also the court's accounts are in the red.

In fact, the finances in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty have been in deficit. There are many reasons for this, which is a later story.

No money, what a fart!

The Song Dynasty had a two-tax law, that is, two taxes in summer and autumn. This year's autumn tax has not yet been collected.

Another part of the imperial court's income comes from the forbidden income.

The so-called banned income is the income of the state monopoly.

However, due to the war and the siege of Tokyo City, these are basically in a semi-paralyzed state.

Zhao Ning suddenly felt a mountain suddenly pressing down.

The situation he faces is definitely not as simple as a strong foreign enemy.

The internal worries are even worse!

The Great Song Dynasty supported the bureaucrats and the powerful with the heavy taxation of the people across the country.

And because it faces military threats from several parties, military expenditures have increased every year.

Zhao Ning still doesn't know how much of the huge military expenditure has been embezzled.

He quickly flipped through the fish scale book again. Although the fish scale book was incomplete, after looking at it, Zhao Ning instantly had the urge to flip the table.

His previous career was dealing with money, and he was extremely sensitive to data and money.

According to the limited information in the Fish Scale Book, the current land annexation has reached a heinous level!

According to some historical records, the state of land annexation at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was that the elite class had mastered more than 80.00% of the land, and the elite class had the privilege of partial tax exemption.

Coupled with the policy of not suppressing land mergers adopted by the Northern Song Dynasty, the dignitaries are still frantically annexing land.

The intertwined interest groups involved may not be clear for a while.

Half an hour later, Gao Qiu went outside Wende Hall.

Gao Qiu was shaking right now, not from cold, but from fear.

Why did the emperor summon him suddenly?

I have already resigned from office and retired to embrace my sister, and I don't participate in the court struggle anymore, why did I suddenly find myself on my head?

Along the way, he stuffed Wang Huaiji with a bulging money bag, and asked Wang Huaiji in a low voice, "Wang Zhongguan, what do you want me to do?"

"Senior officials, I don't know, the officials suddenly said they want to see you."

Gao Qiu felt uneasy, but he didn't ask any more questions. After he came, he just stood outside obediently.

Wang Huaiji walked in and said cautiously: "Officials, Gao Qiu is listening to the announcement outside."

Zhao Ning didn't speak, Wang Huaiji thought he didn't hear, and repeated: "Officials, Gao Qiu is listening to the announcement outside."

"understood."

Zhao Ning continued to look through the tax revenue, getting more and more angry.

This old Zhao family is really used to living a peaceful life, spending money indiscriminately!

For example, it is recorded here that Tong Guan bought an empty city with 100 million coins!

How much is 100 million Guan?

In the Song Dynasty, especially during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court minted coins indiscriminately, commonly known as blind money printing machines, and 100 million Guan was equivalent to about 5 million yuan.

An ordinary person in Tokyo earns 20 coins a day, and 100 million coins equals 10 billion coins. It takes 5000 million days, or 14 years, for an ordinary person to not eat or drink.

This incident happened in the seventh year of Xuanhe, that is, three years ago, when Song and Jin were still allies, and together they destroyed the Liao Kingdom.

Tong Guan led an army of 20 to attack Youzhou, and was pressed down by thousands of Liao troops on the ground and rubbed back and forth a hundred times. Later, Youzhou was taken down by the Jinren.

Tong Guan, an old witty ghost, discussed with Song Huizong: The officials and ministers have a trick up their sleeves. Let's buy Youzhou Mansion directly without 100 million yuan!

That's the thing, after the 100 million coins are spent, you must find a place to get them back, so Zhao Ji said to Cai Jing while drawing and writing: Lao Cai, I have no money, what are you doing?

Cai Jing waved his hand: Officials, let's continue printing money!

Zhao Ning continued to watch patiently, and after finishing some reading, half an hour had passed.

He took a deep breath.

Of course, the mess of the Great Song Dynasty was definitely not formed during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. Many policies at the founding of the country had problems. After more than 100 years of accumulation, the country was riddled with holes.