"Your Majesty, I, scholar, do not know about military affairs, so I should not talk about military affairs. However, today I will be ordered to send the Jin Kingdom to work hard for military affairs. If there is any inappropriate statement, please forgive me."

Today is the day when Wu Haowen goes to Chongzheng Palace to resign. He is now the Shaoqing of the Honglu and the Minister of the Special Order of the Datong Prefecture! He also received the secret mission of selling the country and seeking honor!

In the past few days in Kaifeng Prefecture, he also heard about the "Four-way Destroy Jin" proposed by Zhang Li, the representative of Feng Ming. Although the Song Dynasty made a lot of progress in military affairs, the court was still a leaking sieve. There was no such thing as keeping it confidential at all! If the Zhou Dynasty wanted to destroy Jin, it would not have been known to everyone when the decision was not decided.

Although I knew the "State of Destroying Jin Jin in All Parts", Wu Haowen should not be the original intention of selling the country and living a life of miserable life.

"Mr. Wu is my confidant. If you have something to say, it's okay."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wu Haowen bowed, "I think it is better to seek others than to seek others. If the court wants to destroy the Jin Kingdom, there is no need to pretend to be Liang, Zhou and Western Liao. These three are not one mind in the Song Dynasty! And our Song Dynasty has thousands of miles, with billions of people, and the country is sufficient, and it can be called a prosperous and prosperous man. There are countless people who dare to fight and fight. If the money can be used to do its best and the men can do their best, what is the point of being a barbarian country in the north? Even if it is swallowed Zhou and destroyed Liang, it is not impossible.

If wealth cannot support soldiers, soldiers cannot defend the country. A country of thousands of miles, hundreds of millions of people cannot be united. The safety of the country is to balance the power of all parties. These strategies to destroy gold in all parties are to break the balance of all parties. This is a major matter for the country. Please think twice."

This statement seems a bit outdated!

But it is indeed a safe saying. If it were more than ten years earlier, Wu Haowen would definitely not be able to say it when he first entered the officialdom.

Now he has wasted his officialdom for many years, and he was idle because of Wu Haogu, and he has time to study the new and old knowledge.

He was able to first-class high school in the imperial examination, so his IQ was definitely not low. He was not old and had accumulated a lot of experience in officialdom. He naturally looked at the problems more thoroughly, and he also had the reference to Zhou State. Of course, it can be seen that the Song State was rich and weak.

But seeing the reason does not mean that it can change anything!

Because changes, especially earth-shaking changes, usually mean huge shocks.

"What is the use of money and the ability of a scholar to do his best?" Zhao Ji asked.

"Like the Zhou State." Wu Haowen replied, "The Zhou State uses its land to support the soldiers, and uses business to enrich the country, and uses its strength to support the soldiers and strengthen the soldiers and strengthen the army, and protect the industry and commerce, so that the industry and commerce can be integrated with the country. This is the foundation of Zhou! And our Song Dynasty has different national conditions, so we cannot use the law of storming Zhou, otherwise the world will be in chaos..."

"Can't you practice the method of tyranny of Zhou?" Zhao Ji frowned, "But now many scholars envy the prosperity of Zhou and think that the method of enriching the country and strengthening the army of Zhou is feasible. Wu Qing, what do you think?"

Of course, the Zhou Kingdom is an enviable country. The country is prosperous, the people are rich, and the soldiers are strong! Although traditional Confucian scholars and officials look down on them, some scholars who have been influenced by the new learning have wanted to take Zhou as their teacher.

Even among the low-level civil servants who came from the imperial examination, there were many people who wanted to take Zhou as their teacher, and reform and strengthen the country.

"The way to change ancestors should be cautious and cautious!" Wu Haowen said, "The Zhou State was a country that was first developed, and took the land of Yan and Liao, rather than establishing a foundation in the Central Plains. It was like a piece of white paper that could be fully utilized. And our Song Dynasty, for tens of decades of family and country, and was superior to the five seasons of Sui and Tang dynasties. All kinds of systems were not formed in one day, but were accumulated over hundreds of years. It should not be easily changed, otherwise the country would not be in a state!"

"What method cannot be violent?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"Among all the laws, the law of land is the most unavoidable!" Wu Haowen said, "The violence of Zhou was to use land to raise warriors. The land of Zhou, of which more than 80 million mu, all raised knights and government soldiers. There were knight manors and more than 200,000 houses. They were all official land and were indivisible.

The wealth of a country is ultimately based on land. Zhou State raises warriors with 70% or 80% of the national wealth, how can the country not be strong? How can the people not be violent? All land is given to warriors, and the national use can only be derived from industry and commerce. How can the country not pay attention to industry and commerce? Therefore, the fundamental of Zhou law lies in land! Can our dynasty give all the land of 90% of the world to armor?

If you can, you can get millions of heroes in a few years, and you can quell the gold and destroy the Zhou Dynasty, it is no problem!

If not, how can we follow the law?”

Wu Haowen is not wrong. Wu Haogu's method of strengthening soldiers was the fundamental reason to use most of a country's wealth to raise warriors.

Although most of the taxes in the Song Dynasty were used to support soldiers, the proportion of taxation itself to a country's wealth was low.

The tax revenue of powerful countries in later generations could reach more than 20% of GDP. However, the Song Dynasty did not have such tax collection ability. It would be good if the government could receive a few percentage points. The officials in charge had to at least make the same amount. Moreover, many gentry and merchants had the means to evade taxes, so the tax pressure for ordinary people was very high and there was no room for increased income...

On the other hand, the Zhou State did not use taxes to raise soldiers, but instead used land to raise soldiers, directly distributing most of the country's farmland and grassland to military citizens. Although on the surface, the Zhou State's military expenditure was not much, most of the GDP of a country was actually used to raise soldiers. Of course, the income obtained by the knights of the Zhou State and the soldiers of the palace were far greater than that of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

With the guarantee of income, the morale and combat effectiveness of the troops are of course guaranteed. The most important thing is that those military citizens really regard themselves as the masters of the country. Most of the wealth of the country is theirs. They are not the masters, who is the master? The head of state Wu Haogu is about to be finished, and they have to become paupers, and their wives and children at home will starve to death.

Therefore, when it comes to survival, these military citizens will fight to the death. Moreover, if I die, I will have a son, my brother will have a younger brother, and even the elderly and women may go to the battlefield... So the Zhou army is an invincible army!

Although there were many new-style officers in the Song Dynasty, ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers were too poor. There was no property worth their desperate defense, so if you encounter a real strong enemy, you will definitely get into trouble.

Zhao Ji sighed: "Our dynasty has also raised soldiers for tens of decades, but it's a pity that all the soldiers they raise cannot fight with their swords..."

"Your Majesty," Wu Haowen said, "The people raised by our dynasty are used to safeguard the country. The people raised by the tyrant Zhou are used to resist foreign powers. Therefore, although my brothers have been traveling thousands of miles to the country, they dare not be the emperor and have to hold the sign of being the emperor. This is the reason!"

Wu Haogu’s “the world is for the public” does not mean seeking benefits for hundreds of millions of working people, but seeking benefits for hundreds of thousands of citizens. Most of these hundreds of thousands of citizens are military citizens, so the Great Zhou Dynasty shared the world with military citizens. The rulers must constantly meet the needs of military citizens for land so that the country can move forward smoothly.

Therefore, in the long run, the Great Zhou Republic is a very expanding country. Every generation of heads of state must conduct military expansion in order to fight for land for new military citizens.

But the land in the world is always limited, and the land with higher value is even more limited, and people's desire to occupy land will always be more than land...

In addition, maintaining a balance between military citizens and industrial and commercial citizens, as well as between the upper class wealthy families of the Republic and the grassroots military citizens. It is not easy to say, but even more difficult to do!

In fact, the four unified dynasties in Chinese history, including Qin, Han, Sui and Tang, have more or less military merits, which means relying on military landlords to defend the country. However, this route has reached the end because it cannot find an expansion object that is both rich and weak.

Zhao Song's route was to simply give up expansion and concentrate on peace of mind. Therefore, the land and military service in the Song Dynasty were decoupled (in most cases), and it was not the military landlords who mastered the vast rural land, but the literati and official landlords who passed on poetry and rituals. They used the imperial examinations, rather than military merits as a means to maintain and improve family status.

Of course, the landlords of the literati and official business were not excluded, and there were many landlords who also engaged in business and handicrafts. The difference between them and the military landlords of the Zhou State was mainly in two aspects. One was that land was private ownership, which was mainly obtained through transactions (whether the transaction was fair is another matter); the other was that the imperial examination was the main upward channel and the official was the best means of making money.

In other words, the literati in Song State relied on buying land, while the military citizens of Zhou State relied on enfeoffment; the literati in Song State relied on greed to accumulate money, while the military citizens of Zhou State relied on robbery, and they were not good people!

However, the literati who relied on embezzlement was relatively safe for the emperor. In the history of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were indeed few emperors who were pulled from the throne by their subordinates. In the previous dynasties, they were usurping the throne and plotting against each other. The profession of the emperor was really too dangerous...

Zhao Ji now understood these tricks, and he sighed: "I have been practicing the ancestors for tens of years. How could I change it at any time? Moreover, all the scholars and officials are all... Who else can the country rely on if it does not rely on them?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Wu likes literary and moral principles. "The court and the literati rule the world, but not the literati and the citizens of the literati. If you abandon the literati, there will be no Song world."

The so-called "abandoning" scholars and officials means stopping the imperial examination and re-dividing the land!

The population of the Song Dynasty was at least eight times that of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the land (cultivated land) was at least five times that of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If you divide the land, make military achievements, and abolish the imperial examinations, millions of heroes can also be obtained! There is a million army that grants land, and it is no problem to pacify the Jin Dynasty and destroy the Zhou Dynasty.

But the question is, what did the Song Dynasty rely on to carry out such intense reforms?

Zhao Ji sighed: "Mr. Wu, I already know... So I have my own opinions and will not be influenced by the scholar's crazy words. Just let go and negotiate with the Jin Kingdom, even if you have a million-dollar monies, you can still give it to the Jin people."

Wu Haowen bowed a long time, "Your Majesty is wise!"

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