The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1363 Powerless to start a war

And Zhong Jian's answer did not meet Zhao Dongting's expectations.

After pondering for a while, he folded his hands and replied: "Go back to the emperor, the Ministry of War has now ordered the Shuzhong Military Region, Xianglong Military Region, and Jiankang Military Region to transport food to the major cities in the front line. It should be able to support the army for half a year. Dali Military Region Food and grass should be safe in a short period of time, but...if the frontline war lasts for a long time, the food reserves in the Xingguo Military Region and Zhenguo Military Region may only support the frontline army for half a year at most."

"Half a year..."

Zhao Dongting pondered softly, "It's almost the same."

Now the frontline food and grass in various places can be supported for half a year, and there are food reserves in the Central Plains.As long as the war does not expand too much, the completion can be supported until the next autumn harvest.

What made Zhao Dongting a little worried was that Diabolo and the others led the army forward, and it was unknown whether they would need a lot of food and grass.

It is impossible to allocate all the grain reserves in the country.

I only hope that people like Diabolo and Gu Junying can fight smoothly, and it is good to support war with war.

He shook his head, and asked Zhong Jian again: "Didn't I already order to buy grain and grass from the people in various places, what's the matter?"

Zhong Jian looked at Zhu Hecong with a wry smile, and said, "Now the common people have some surplus food in their hands...it's just...the finance department can't allocate much money anymore."

The conundrum seems to wrap around money again.

Zhao Dongting looked at Zhu Hecong, who also had a bitter face, waved his hands and said, "Then let's save some money first, or let all localities pay taxes in advance this year."

Immediately there was light in Zhu Hecong's eyes, "How long in advance?"

Zhao Dongting said, "Let's do it in June! In the past, the tax collection is done at the end of the year, but this year we will do it twice."

"Yes."

Zhu Hecong was full of excitement, and quickly agreed.

With Zhao Dongting's instruction to collect taxes in advance, this will undoubtedly solve the urgent need of the Finance Department.If you borrow some more from the bank, you won't be as tight as you are now.

At this time, Zhong Jian seemed to be thinking of something, looked at Zhao Dongting, and said, "Your Majesty, Miss Xieyuan Wen Qingshu of Changsha raised a total of 23 taels of silver and donated it to our Ministry of War. Do you want to hand over these silver taels to the national treasury?" ?”

Zhao Dongting looked at him amusedly, and waved his hands, "Come on, these silver taels will be handed over to your Ministry of War for free use!"

There was also light in Zhong Jian's eyes, "Then the silver, food and other things donated by various places in the future?"

Zhao Dongting was very generous and said, "It's all transferred by your military department."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zhong Jian was overjoyed.

Then, he, Zhu Hecong and Li Qingyun left the Imperial Study Room.

Zhao Dongting sat in front of the desk and muttered to himself, "Even our Great Song Dynasty is so poor, I still don't believe that your Yuan Dynasty can be much better."

The two countries have conquered for so many years. Although the Song Dynasty often dealt with enemies from all directions, the enemy has never won a victory in the northern border. The loss of soldiers alone may cost millions of people.And their rapid expansion before was completely supported by war, and they didn't have much surplus food, gold and silver accumulation.

Zhao Dongting didn't think the situation in the Yuan Dynasty would be any better than that in the Song Dynasty.

It was a difficult battle for him to fight, and it would only be more difficult for him to fight with real gold.If you really want to continue to gather troops to confront each other on the frontier, the enemy will definitely not be able to hold it before Song Dynasty.

Zhongdu.

When Zhao Dongting Xuan Zhongjian, Li Qingyun and Zhu Hecong were discussing matters in the imperial study, Yuanhuang Zhenjin was also discussing matters.

In his imperial study room, there are Yeluzhu, Sangge, Harbala and others.

The ministers who were left behind by Kublai Khan were basically all here.

Although the frontier war in the Song and Yuan Dynasties is now starting, it is natural that people of Halbala's level will not be mobilized at the beginning.

Zhen Jin kept rubbing his head, very distressed.

After a while, I looked at Brother Sang, "Is it true that there is no food and silver in the country?"

Sang Ge sighed and shook his head: "Your Majesty, these years of conquest against the State of Song, our court... our court is really close to the limit. In the past, most of the taxes were used to feed the frontline army, which caused the people's livelihood in our country to be far inferior to that of the Song State. .If we continue to forcibly increase the tax, I am afraid that before the Song army invades, our Dayuan will already be... full of wars."

"Can……"

Zhen Jin said: "The Song army has already entered Nanjing Road. Can our Nanjing Road garrison drive them out in a short time?"

As he said that, he suddenly looked at Halbala, "What about the army that has entered Xixia now?"

Halbala replied: "Return to the emperor, the army has sent a message that our army has blocked the Song army outside Weizhou City, and it is in the stage of confrontation."

Zhen Jin nodded lightly, "Their rations, grass and military pay are all in charge of the original families of the Xixia Army Commander, so it's better not to rush forward, but to confront the Song Army."

Then he rubbed his forehead in distress, "The most important thing is those Song soldiers in southern Xinjiang. I already have a terrible headache. Do you have any good ideas?"

Yeluzhu cupped his hands beside him, "Your Majesty, haven't you already sent envoys to condemn Emperor Song? Maybe...Emperor Song will retreat because of this?"

"Humph!"

Zhenjin snorted softly, "They suddenly attacked Nanjing Road, just to deter me. If I don't let Qing Yuan wait for the Lu army to withdraw, it's no wonder that Song Emperor would be willing to withdraw easily! I sent envoys there, and you are not unreasonable." Understand my intention, don't say such things in the future."

"The minister is guilty..."

Yeluzhu backed away slowly after hearing the words.

Zhenjin seemed to be unable to hold back his boredom, and waved his hand, "Since you have no good ideas, then go all out to raise food and grass first! As for the southern border, let's block the Song army first, and never allow them to break through more Many cities."

After the words fell, his eyes also looked at Halbala with some sharpness.

Halbala hurriedly cupped his hands, "The minister accepts the order."

They also agree with Zhen Jin's point of view on frontier affairs.

Now the national treasury can only support daily expenses. Except for the states on Nanjing Road, if we want to mobilize military horses from other roads, we will definitely not even be able to supply food and grass.I can only hope that the Song Army will not make a big fuss.

Zhao Dongting can imagine that the enemy is struggling now, and people like Sang Ge and Yeluzhu can also guess that the current situation of Song State should not be too good.

In the final analysis, in fact, neither of the two countries has the foundation for a full-scale war now.It just depends on whether you can stop it in the end.

Zhen Jin just said that it is only necessary to prevent the Song Army from breaking more cities, and probably decided to swallow his breath and let the Song Army occupy the few two cities.

They are now plotting to become those small countries that consume less energy.

Walking out of Zhenjin's imperial study room, the humerus ministers of the Yuan Dynasty looked at each other and couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing softly.

I really don't understand why the Song Kingdom can have such a rich heritage in less than ten years.

They don't support war with war!

The monarch of the Song Kingdom is indeed a genius of heaven.A genius far beyond their imagination.

Among them, no matter who is going to be the Song Emperor, it is absolutely impossible to develop the Song Kingdom into this state.More likely, it should have been destroyed in successive wars.

North of Huainan East Road, outside Sizhou city.

As an important city in the southern border of the Yuan Dynasty, Sizhou is an important place for military strategists.Even in normal times, there are a total of [-] soldiers hoarded.

After Wen Qi led the Tiangang Army to get here, he organized two sieges but failed to make any achievements, and was repelled by the defenders in the city.

Both armies were wounded.

Then under the order of Su Quandang, Wen Qi stationed his troops more than ten miles away from Sizhou City.No longer attack Sizhoucheng.

The defenders in Sizhou City guarded the pass, only seeking stability, and did not go out of the city to actively seek war.

It was overcast.

The atmosphere in the Tiangang Army's military village also seemed a little dull.

The Tiangang Army was an invincible army before, and it has never encountered such a situation.It was actually blocked by the Yuan army outside Sizhou City.

Although they clearly knew that this was the reason why the Yuan army possessed firearms, seeing the sudden increase in the strength of the former enemies, the generals and soldiers of the Tiangang Army were naturally still a little depressed.

(End of this chapter)