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"My husband, how many good news should be written to the official?"

Liao Yingzhong put down the military newspaper and whispered to ask Jia Sidao about walking around the wooden map painted with the terrain around Yangzhou. Jia Sidao could conceal the casualties of the soldiers of the two Huai army. However, the Huaidong Venture Department (Huaidong Financial and Fu Chief Office) printed a few times to serve military salary, but it was under the strict supervision of the Lin'an court! Even a powerful official like Jia Sidao could not do much.

The officials in the Song Dynasty were not good at fighting, but they knew the tricks of how to firmly control the army - the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were all mercenaries who worked hard for money and food! As long as the civil and military generals and officials who were in charge of the front line could not control the source of funds, the officials could seize their military power with an edict! Yue Wumu of the Gaozong Dynasty and Yu Qiaoyin of the Lizong Dynasty could be said to be broken into the word "money and food". If any general and military leader held military power in one hand and financial resources that were enough to support the army, the officials in the Song Dynasty would not be able to do anything to him!

Moreover, even if Jia Sidao could control the Huaidong Venture Department, it would not be possible to use the financial resources of Huaidong all the way to support the 170,000 or 80,000 Song troops in Lianghuai - of course, they were on the books, but in fact they could fight, no less than 120,000 to 130,000. However, the 120,000 troops consumed every year was astronomical. Even in a relatively peaceful period, the places in Lianghuai could not support themselves. Moreover, the two Huaihuai are now being ravaged by Mongolia, so there is no need to rely on taxes this year.

Although Huaidong Xiangsi had the power to issue Huizi since the Xiaozong Dynasty. However, this Huizi was not a real copper coins after all. Moreover, since the Duanping period, the huge military expenses brought by the Jin and Song wars and the Mongolian and Song wars made the Southern Song finance bankrupt. In order to cope with the increasingly huge military expenditure, the Southern Song court suspended Huizi's recovery. Huizi in the Song Dynasty was similar to bonds, divided into one world and one world issuance. When the new world issuance, the old Huizi was recovered, but there was no interest and it had to be recycled at a discount. The result of the suspension of recycling made Huizi increasingly depreciate. If the court had not transported grain from Jiangnan and supported by goods, the number of Huizi issued by Huaidong Road would be meaningless waste paper!

To explain, although Huizi depreciated greatly, the Southern Song Dynasty court could use the "hebuy" method to purchase private property based on the depreciated Huizi's currency value to cope with military and official needs. Compared with the later Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the financial and commercial tax system of the Song Dynasty was indeed efficient and not a little bit. Huizi can be regarded as bonds to a certain extent. The "hebuy" and "bobuy" systems (of course not "buy" all the goods, but only part) seemed to be the state intervening in the market economy on the surface, but by the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, using Huizi to "hebuy" and "bobuy" was already a de facto physical tax. Although physical tax was not an advanced tax system, in an era when the prices of commodities, especially imported goods, it was indeed an effective tax method. At least enough wealth could be obtained to maintain the long-term war with Mongolia!

The Lin'an imperial court, which controls the rich land of Jiangnan East, West, Zhejiang East, West, Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road, which has not been ravaged by war, is also the only central government in the world that can provide certain food, salary and wealth to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty. This is also the real reason why the Lin'an imperial court has been maintained to this day...

The greatest reliance of civil officials like Jia Sidao can drive the army of more than 100,000 in the Huaihe River, and it is also the continuous source of energy to ask for financial resources from the officials in Lin'an to feed the soldiers below - but this wealth is becoming increasingly difficult to get... This is why Jia Sidao must describe yesterday's heavy-hit battle as a great victory.

If it weren't for the great victory, how could the Song Dynasty officials, who were quite tight, be willing to give out wealth and reward the soldiers?

If there is no generous reward, even if the Heavenly King descends to earth, don’t expect these generals in Yangzhou to fight to the death! But the problem is that the Song Dynasty officials are not fools. If the Lianghuai Fufu Department reports the number of lost weapons and armor equipment to Lin'an, plus a mere 500 Tartar heads, the water for this victory will be a bit too high!

So when he heard Liao Yingzhong’s question, Jia Sidao just sighed softly: “How else can I report it? Of course, I reported it truthfully… The court is going to send someone to test it! The northern Han Er and the Tartars look different and cannot be concealed!”

Although the appearance of the Han people in the north and the Mongols is not very different, the officials sent by the Ministry of War are all experts and can be recognized at a glance.

"My husband, if we feed the people sent from above, it's okay to report more beheading..." Li Tingzhi suggested in a low voice.

"No, no... Ding Qingpi's eyes are not blind!" Jia Sidao pressed his temple.

Ding Qingpi is the nickname of Ding Daquan, the right prime minister and Privy Councillor who controls the government.

Jia Sidao is now leading the two prime ministers, the Chief Minister and the Chief Minister. He is also the younger brother of Emperor Lizong's favorite Concubine Jia (has been dead for many years, but he has left a daughter for Lizong. This daughter is also the only child who grew up in Lizong, so he naturally regards him as a pearl in his hand). He is in Lianghuai and Jinghu for 18 years... Everyone knows that once Jia Sidao repels the Mongolian army that invaded the south, he will definitely enter the prime minister! Such a person is not suppressed by Ding Daquan.

The day when Jia Sidao entered the court was the time when Ding Daquan and his followers lost power! Therefore, Ding Daquan would never miss an opportunity to pull Jia Sidao down from the position of ambassador of Lianghuai.

"It's better to report it to the truth!" Jia Sidao snorted, walked a few steps anxiously, and whispered, "The official family knows the difficulties of my comfort ambassador... Now that the country is in danger, I can only coax the warriors below! If they don't feed them, it will be as difficult as Sichuan Road!"

After the Southern Song Dynasty court rectified Yu Jie and his confidants, the Song soldiers in Sichuan were in a state of great rebellion. The Song army in Longqing, Mianzhou and other places launched an opportunity, which gave the Mongolian army an opportunity to take advantage of, resulting in a large area of ​​land in northern and western Sichuan falling, which also allowed Mengge's troops to reach east Sichuan.

"I have to do this." Li Tingzhi and Liao Yingzhong looked at each other, and felt that there was no other way. As he said that, Liao Yingzhong was about to leave and prepare to report to Lin'an, but he heard a loud noise outside.

"My husband, my husband! Great joy, great joy!"

Hearing the word "breathful" and the three people in the hall looked at each other, but they didn't understand what was going on? Could it be that Sichuan won? This was not a big joy for Jia Sidao and the others...

The one who walked in was not someone else, but Jia Sidao's aide Liang Chongru. He was a commoner and had no dispatch. However, after the war yesterday, Jia Sidao felt that he was still engaged in military affairs, so he entrusted him with a Wu Rui army to write a good text. In fact, it was a military Chinese document, and asked him to count the losses and gains of the Wu Rui army.

The Wu Rui army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of yesterday. Not only did the commander Lu Zhaolin be killed, but even the commander of the left and right armies of the Wu Rui army (the commander of the central army was Lu Zhaolin) and more than half of the chief generals and deputy generals did not come back. The whole army was panicked, so naturally no one went to count the results of the battle. Therefore, in the battle reports that Jia Sidao received now, there was no one who belonged to the Wu Rui army.

"Where does the joy come from?" Jia Sidao frowned and asked, "Maybe Lu Youwu is alive again?"

On the battlefield, it is common for generals to be misreported to die, but even if Lu Zhaolin does not die, there is no great joy.

"It was a victory. The Wu Rui army won 411 Tartars' heads in one battle yesterday, and the Mongolian Han army had 215 Tartars, and 48 war horses were also plundered..."

"What?" Jia Sidao was stunned and blinked his eyes, "Fu Liang Yi, have you been deceived by the warriors below?"

"It's true! My husband, I'm pinching my nose and counting my heads in the warehouse. After counting, I vomited all over the floor..."

"Hmph, who knows whose heads are?" Jia Sidao said coldly.

"There are horses, forty-eight tall horses, with shoulder heights almost five feet. There is no fake one, right?"
Chapter completed!