Upon receiving the news that the Kingdom of Jin had begun to overhaul the trenches on the southwest border, Zhao Tuo was delighted. Through a wonderful performance, he not only subdued the Mughal tribe, but also dragged the Kingdom of Jin into a new arms race.Back then, the Qin Dynasty annexed six countries and owned the world, but the Great Wall project not only consumed a huge amount of money from the country, but also because it recruited hundreds of thousands of peasants, destroyed the economic foundation, caused a lot of anger and resentment, and finally closed in the peasant uprising.

The modern Soviet Union straddles the Eurasian continent and was once the largest country in the world. Its economic strength and military strength are among the best, but it was still dragged down in the arms competition with the United States.And similar dramas are also constantly being staged. Whenever a country strengthens its armaments, the other party has to follow suit in order to maintain the balance of military power. The most expensive stuff.

In the same way, the current strength of the Kingdom of Jin is not comparable to that of the Qin Dynasty back then. Most of the money is invested in it.The defense against the Song Dynasty is not just about repairing the boundary trenches, but there are follow-up investments, not only to increase the number of troops, but also to prepare weapons, which is a militaristic thing.

The people of the Kingdom of Jin have to pay heavy taxes and serve the country's endless corvee, and the young and old have to be recruited at any time to prepare for the expedition. People's livelihood is difficult and resentment is growing.Unbearable people continued to cross the border and fled to neighboring countries. For this reason, Jin Guo continued to have quarrels and conflicts with other countries, but it was still difficult to restore the situation. It can be said that the Jiehao project is really a waste of money, but it is facing increasingly powerful and aggressive forces. They had to do it again in the Song Dynasty.Tighten your belt and get this project going!

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In April, Zhao Tun left Bianjing in the name of inspecting the summer harvest work.These few years.It has become normal for the emperor to go on tour, and the officials are gradually getting used to it.Not only will he no longer persuasion like in the past, but will actively prepare.And when Zhao Tun went out of Beijing, he was not as grand as other emperors like to engage in such grand ostentation. It was often accompanied by a brigade of guards and a brigade of internal guards. Although there were 5000 people, there were Zhen Fusi troops responsible for peripheral security along the way, but it was still considered. It's easy to get on the light car.

Now that the relationship between the emperor and the empress is harmonious, Zhu Shuzhen is busy with newspaper matters every day, unwilling to go on tour with the emperor, so she stays with the empress dowager to supervise the country.But those imperial concubines had long thought of going out of Beijing, so they accompanied them.However, Shang Shusheng had already made arrangements. Li Gang and Xu Jingheng were old and not suitable for long-distance travel, so they were accompanied by a temporary team composed of the right minister Chen Yu, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council Zhao Yi, and officials sent by various ministries to assist in handling government affairs.

Sheng Jia and his party were not in a hurry, they stopped and stopped across the state and across the government. He was watching as he walked, firstly to see the production recovery after the disaster.Estimate the output of summer grain and urge the sowing of autumn grain to completely eliminate the impact of the severe drought; secondly, check and accept the results of water conservancy facilities and road widening projects that have invested huge sums of money to see if there are any tofu projects.In the future, it will harm future generations.

When we arrived near Luoyang, it was the summer harvest season. When Zhao Tun saw a large field, he stopped to look at it, and went to the field to see the growth in person.Estimate the output.Everyone knows that the emperor is not only good at fighting and governing the country, but he also grew up in the countryside.The five elements and eight works are proficient in everything, and the work in the field is not a layman.He couldn't hide any tricks from him at all, so the local officials were all trembling when accompanying him, lest the emperor find fault.

Zhao Tun spent the Dragon Boat Festival in Luoyang, and instead of going to Yanfang Lake in Yanjing to escape the summer heat as usual, he went west to Hedong.He walked this road many times back and forth, so he is naturally very familiar with it. He thinks that he went to the northwest from this way to build a world and laid a solid foundation for today's achievements. However, since the end of Jingkang's army returned to the east, he never went back. pass.

After a large-scale renovation, the road is much flatter and wider than before. Now, after walking this road for more than ten years, Zhao Tang naturally has a special feeling in his heart. This road has carried too much excitement, sadness, and uneasiness. and sad.It's just that the boy over flowers back then has reached middle age, and the little prince who doesn't know where he is going is also the lord of a country. Some of the people who accompanied him have passed away, and some have reached their dying years.

Zhao Yu has been in power in Hedong for more than ten years. He used benevolent government to enrich the country and strengthen the people, and defended against powerful enemies to expand the territory. Loved and loved, and he also regards Hedong as his base, and he receives a warm welcome wherever he goes.After entering Taiyuan, the Zhizhisi Mansion where he lived for many years has been transformed into a palace. The layout inside basically remains the same, but things are different. The master and Huang Daguan are far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and the chance of him coming here again is no longer too much.

Revisiting the old place, Zhao Tun and several concubines are not unfamiliar with this place, especially Zhemeiluan's family is from the east of the river, so they are more familiar, so they send a letter to Fuzhou to let the family come to get together.Unexpectedly, this caused Zhao Xin and Yu Liyan to feel homesick. Zhao Tang thought that one should not favor the other, Datong is not far from here, so he simply moved to the mandarin duck park to escape the summer heat and imitated the emperor of Liao Kingdom while playing and playing. Office, just to see Da Song's new land.

So after staying in Taiyuan for a few days, I drove to Datong again.Yeluyu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately led his troops and a part of the Krupp army out of the mansion for [-] miles to Shuozhou to meet them, and happily welcomed the emperor and concubines into Datong.At this time, it was the eighteenth day of the sixth month, according to the Khitan national custom, the Yelu clan should host a banquet, and the Xiao clan, the uncle of the country, should be invited.Now the Yelu family has lost the country, and the Xiao family has also become the imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, but the custom is still there, so the current patriarch of the Yelu family, Yelu Yuxuan, hosted a banquet for the emperor and his party.

After the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, the scattered Khitan people gradually returned to their old places. Datong Mansion has become one of the most important gathering places. Although they lost their privileges in the past, the Song Dynasty did not treat them slowly, and treated them equally with the Han people.More than ten years have passed, and those princes and nobles also knew that there was no hope of restoring their country, so they became obedient citizens with peace of mind, while ordinary people felt that their life was better than that of the Liao Kingdom, so why should they miss that stupid Yelu Yanxi Palace has gradually integrated into the Song Dynasty.

Now both the Yelu and Xiao clans have women who are married to the current emperor, and they are very favored, and now the emperor is actually 'accompanied' to go back to the hometown to visit relatives, and they feel that they have a good face.And Yu Liyan and Zhao Xin each became the glory and backer of their own clan, and of course everyone tried their best to please them.It was also rare for Zhao Tun to be generous, so he spread a lot of rewards, so everyone was happy.

Zhao Tun also went to the village to do as the Romans did. According to the Khitan custom, he set up a tent in Thirty Li west of the palace on the day and night before the Ghost Festival, and prepared wine and food.The next day, the chiefs of various ministries were invited to "welcome the festival", and the banquet did not return to the palace until sunset.On the [-]th, I went to the west to send off the festival, and the accompanying army made a lot of noise three times before it was over.With such a gesture, he not only gave the two imperial concubines good looks, but also sent a signal that Da Song respected the customs and beliefs of all ethnic groups and would not force them to change their customs in order to weaken their resistance.

After the festival, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Zhao Tun invites brothers Yelu Yuxi and Xiao Chongjian to go to Yuanyangbo to escape the summer heat. The days are happy and happy, and he also relaxes his spirit rarely.But the good days are always short-lived. The northwest is temporarily stable, and Dali in the south has problems again...

Since the Great Song Dynasty supported Duan Heyu to come to power again in the eighth year of Xingguo, he vigorously developed the friendly relationship with the Song Dynasty, paid tribute every year, and sent people to the court every year.But as he got older, establishing a crown prince became an inevitable problem, but he had eight sons, all of whom wanted to be kings.At the time, Gao Liangcheng, the left minister, and Dong Mituo, the right minister, each supported a prince, and the other princes also wooed their trusted tribes and fought openly and secretly, fighting to the death.

And when Da Song solved the Dali problem, he left behind a tail.At that time, the ministries of Dongchuan County, Jianchangfu and Shicheng County proposed to break away from the Dali Kingdom and belong to the Song Dynasty.Zhao Tang was unwilling to affect the newly normalized relations between the two countries because of this matter, and ordered his envoys to "persuade" him in every possible way, but all the ministries had decided.So Song 'suggested' not to accept their attachment for the time being, and the three counties set up a special area for them to self-govern for a period of three years. At that time, they will decide whether to stay or not, and neither country will interfere at that time.

These three counties have abundant reserves of copper mines, but unfortunately they are all controlled by the Great Song Consortium, which tightly binds the interests of both parties.However, the influx of a large amount of capital and population also provided an opportunity for the development of the three counties, enabling them to end the life of slash-and-burn farming and live an enviable life of "people of the Song Dynasty".As soon as the three-year agreement came, they proposed to join the Song Dynasty again.

In order to take care of Duan Heyu's face, Zhao Tong postponed the deadline for another two years, and accepted the three counties as citizens of the Song Dynasty in the 13th year of Xingguo.Since then, the Song Dynasty has implemented the policy of confinement, using the chiefs of various tribes as officials, and dispatching officials to the three counties to assist in the implementation of governance. The central government also allocated funds to improve local health, education, and people's livelihood, and taught them to grow new crops and develop commerce. Allowing them to take part in the imperial examination freed the three counties from poverty and ignorance.

The huge changes in the three counties naturally attracted the attention of some tribes who had been on the sidelines. They also actively moved closer to the Song Dynasty in order to obtain equal treatment.As long as those in power are not fools, no matter what, they will not allow their own people to fight for independence. Naturally, their proposals were flatly rejected by Duan Heyu.When these tribes saw that the literary ones were not good enough, they changed them to military ones, and civil wars inevitably occurred.

Duan Heyu, the king of Dali, felt that he was powerless in the face of internal strife and external rebellion, while Dali Song had a positive attitude, saying that he believed that he had the ability to solve his own problems, and he did not want to interfere too much in his internal affairs.Faced with an increasingly chaotic situation, he decided to become a monk in the Zen position...

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