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When Zhao Ji heard Tong Guan ask for money, he immediately collapsed and said to himself: "Why do you want money again? I don't have the money to build a garden, so how can I get this money!"

The emperor was in a dilemma, and someone else shared his worries.

who?

Cai You.

Because he successfully persuaded Li Yan to accept the recruitment, Zhao Ji was overjoyed and regarded Cai You as the three departments of Kaifu Yitong. His favor to Cai You was even better than before. Cai You could even meet Zhao Ji at any time and rest in the palace with Wang Fu.

Cai You often told Zhao Ji a dirty joke I heard from outside the palace, enriching Zhao Ji's boring spare time, and often said to Zhao Ji: "The so-called ruler should regard the world as his home and peace as his entertainment. How much time can be done? How can he work hard alone?"

After hearing Cai You's words, Zhao Ji became even more aggressive, collecting strange stones and rare birds and beasts all over the country to fill the Shoushan and Genyue.

It can be said that Cai You is definitely Zhao Ji’s good friend.

Since you are a good friend, how can you not stand up and support Zhao Ji at this time?

Cai You jumped out and said, "Who doesn't know that the people in western Beijing are famine this year, and the Huaidong is severely drought. The government can't even pay the disaster relief money and food in the two places. How can you give it money? Besides, your Western army has been fighting with Xixia for many years, and they can't fight without seeing each other. Why do you fight for money when the government suppresses bandits?"

Tong Guan really didn't want to pay attention to Cai You, a guy who only knows how to eat, drink, have fun and flatter, but people like Cai You can be considered dead if they make salt but vinegar. Therefore, even if they are as powerful as Tong Guan, they can only explain to Cai You patiently: "The families of the Western Army are all in the west. If they don't fight with Xixia and are attacked by Xixia tigers and wolves, their families will have to be killed or kidnapped by Xixia when they are young. Therefore, even if the military sound is insufficient, they have to fight with Xixia..."

Of course, things are not just as simple as Tong Guan said.

In fact, not all the Western Army cannot get the full military sound. Tong Guan's direct troops can always get the full military sound. The reason is nothing more than that Tong Guan's direct troops were tilted towards his direct troops when allocating insufficient military salaries from the court. I'm sorry for those direct troops who are not Tong Guan. It's not that I, Tong Guan, did not send you military sounds, but that the court did not send enough military sounds. In addition, Tong Guan's direct troops can still get the full military sounds and maintain their peak combat power in recent years. This is also the main reason why Tong Guan has fought well in the west.

But the bad thing is that Liu Fa's defeat this time saved most of Tong Guan's direct troops, and Tong Guan's control over the Western Army greatly reduced.

Moreover, that battle was a victory or a defeat, and the Western Army was the clearest.

Moreover, it was also clear within the Western Army whether it was a great defeat caused by Tong Guan or a great defeat caused by Liu Fa.

In short, without sufficient military sound, Tong Guan was really unsure to lead the Western Army to pacify Tian Hu and Wang Qing.

Therefore, Tong Guan bowed to Zhao Ji and said, "I am willing and confident to destroy the two thieves of Tian Hu and Wang Qing for the official family, but without military news, I am really unable to explain to the brothers of the Western Army, and I am really afraid that the brothers of the Western Army will not understand the difficulties of the official family!"

As a minister, Tong Guan could only say that to this extent. He could not say that the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, right?

Cai You opened his mouth and wanted to say a few more words to Zhao Ji!

But Cai You really couldn't find an excuse to speak for Zhao Ji!

In the end, I could only close my open mouth again!

Zhao Ji was silent for a while, then looked at Wang Fu.

Although Wang Fu is now appointed as the special promotion and young master (right prime minister), Zhao Ji, who has been in charge of Wang Fu's money, did not deprive Wang Fu of the responsibility of managing money, so Wang Fu still helped Zhao Ji manage the money.

Seeing Zhao Ji's opinion, Wang Fu could only leave the list: "Reported to the officials, in recent years, there have been either severe droughts or floods in various places. The tax revenue is less than 70% of the bumper year, and the disaster area has to be saved. The Ministry of Revenue is really out of money. Just as Lord Cai said, people in western Beijing are famine and there is a severe drought in Huaidong. The two places should have allocated money and food for disaster relief, but because the Ministry of Revenue has no money, it has been postponed until now that the disaster relief money and food have not been allocated."

Zhao Ji was actually very clear about what Wang Fu said, because last time Wang Fu transferred the last 15 million guan of money from the Ministry of Revenue to the eunuch to save time, he had already explained to Zhao Ji that the Ministry of Revenue had no money.

Zhao Ji was frowning!

Suddenly seeing Cai Jing, Zhao Ji asked, "Is there any way for the Grand Master?"

Cai Jing was silent for a while and said, "The only way to enable the pile sealing warehouse."

In the early Song Dynasty, the gold and silk collected by various separatist forces were confiscated to the capital, and placed them in another warehouse to store them, called the sealed pile warehouse, and the surplus was also stored in this warehouse every year.

In the era of Zhao Kuangyin, "Taizu set up Fengzhangku separately and once secretly said to his close ministers: "Shi Jin (Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin Dynasty) cut off Youyan to bribe the Khitan, so that the people of one side could limit the external environment. I feel very sympathetic. If you want to wait for the 300,000 to 500,000 yuan in the ku, you will send an envoy to make an agreement with the Khitan. If you can return to our land, you should spend all this gold and silk as a redemption value. If you say no, I will disperse the wealth and recruit warriors to attack you."

From Zhao Kuangyin's words, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Kuangyin's obsession with the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Not only Zhao Kuangyin, but also emperors of all dynasties in the Northern Song Dynasty, all had the lifelong wish of recapturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Some people may wonder why the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were so persistent in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun?

It’s really because the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are too important.

The terrain of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is condescending, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and has great geostrategic value. If you get it, you will no longer have to worry about the nomads in the north coming to the Northern Song Dynasty as if you are visiting your own back garden.

(In the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall was built here to block the nomadic peoples in the north.)

After hearing Cai Jing's announcement of the opening of the pile sealing warehouse, Zhao Ji's head shook like a rattle and said, "No! The ancestors have given me some advice. This pile sealing warehouse can only be used to reclaim the sixteen states of Yanyun. Although I can't bear to have never filled the pile sealing warehouse, I can't use the money in the pile sealing warehouse. If so, what are my current ancestors in the future?"

Without wanting others to focus on the topic of Fengzunku, Zhao Ji directly changed the topic and said, "Taishi, you just said that Daming Mansion, what's wrong with Daming Mansion?"

Cai Jing hesitated a little!

Now Tian Hu and Wang Qing have rebelled. If Li Yan leads a large army to attack the Song Dynasty, then the Song Dynasty will be in danger!

It is true that Cai Jing is a treacherous minister. He is greedy and uses his own power. In order to gain power and to gain Zhao Ji's favor, he doesn't even need the bottom line of the prime minister. He supports Zhao Ji to build a large-scale construction and labor service, supports Zhao Ji to cast nine tripods, build a Mingtang, build a Fangze, establish Taoist temples, make "Da Shengle", formulate fate treasures, etc. Cai Jing's crimes can be said to be endless.

But as the prime minister of the dynasty, Cai Jing actually had a big view of the situation. The most important thing is that Cai Jing was too smart and knew that there was no end to the collapse of the nest.

To be honest, if Cai Jing had not supported Tong Guan's recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which led to the Jingkang shame, and was the ruling man at that time, he would have been blamed and would not have become one of the six thieves.

You should know that Cai Jing made contributions to the Northern Song Dynasty and even to the entire Han people.

During Cai Jing's reign, the implementation of the social assistance system was extremely rare in ancient history. The nursing homes, Anjifang and Luzeyuan systems he implemented were undoubtedly the peak of the development of the Northern Song Dynasty relief system, and was unprecedented in Chinese history, even above the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

It was Cai Jing who scaled and institutionalized social relief activities.

During the Chongning period, Cai Jing presided over the "Chongning Xingxue", which was the first of the three Northern Song Dynasty's educational campaigns. The main measures include: setting up local schools across the country; establishing a three-level academic system system that connects county schools, prefecture schools, and Taixue; building a new Biyong and developing Taixue; restoring the establishment of medical science, establishing a junior college in mathematics, calligraphy, and painting; and expelling the imperial examinations, and replacing the school with the school to select scholars. This is a concentrated reflection of the Northern Song Dynasty's "promoting culture and education" policy and played a major role in the development of the education cause of the Song Dynasty.

In short, Cai Jing is treacherous, but he is not incompetent.

Therefore, although I wish I could crush Li Yan's bones and ashes, Cai Jing still said: "Now, the leader of the Daming Mansion, Zhang Shan, reported that the Erlongshan bandits attacked Chao Gai, Song Jiang attacked the Daming Mansion, and the Secretary Liang Shijie died in battle..."
Chapter completed!