Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 1120 Planning for Northwest Stability
Relatively speaking, the second-class military route in the border areas is mainly based on the economic and strategic appeasement system, and the transfer envoys can only be subordinated to it. This is completely different from the route in the interior. After all, the defense of the border areas is important.Although the roads in the inland are each responsible for their own duties, they must be based on transshipment envoys, and financial power is what the court values.

Zhong Lirui said that he was not happy, it was a lie, he was a high-ranking official, but he was only the Chief of the Privy Council, usually he had no real power, and he didn't have that much power. He was reused by Wang Xiu, known as the most authoritative Du Chengzhi since the founding of the country, and even replaced the Privy Envoy to guide the Northwest War.

Compared with the economic envoys in the border areas, Du Chengzhi is really nothing. If he can serve for a few years, his future is absolutely bright.

He Wei smacked his lips and said in a deep voice: "The Northwest War is gone, but the situation is very complicated. This is not a good place!"

Cai Yi looked at He Wei playfully. This guy had made enough money to go up another level, and he was still making sarcastic remarks in front of him. It has a lot of meaning."

"My lord, this matter has not gone through the two governments, so it is too early to say." Zhong Lirui concealed his inner thoughts, and he had to be cautious before making an official announcement, so as not to spread the news and be stabbed in the back.

Cai Yi didn't care, shook his sleeves and said, "Those quarrelsome fellows just don't like others, so you don't have to worry about other people's gossip. With a solid decision, you have made a great contribution. People, the appointment is a foregone conclusion, and no one can say anything against it."

Zhong Lirui smiled, of course he knew that no matter whether he saved the defeat or assisted Wang Xiu in fighting the Northwest War, his merits were well-deserved, and he was recognized by the two governments, and no one could find fault with his eggs.

However, people's hearts are the most difficult to guess. No matter how capable and successful you are, there will always be people who say that grapes are sour. Slanderous rumors in scholars are not to be played. Then the taste changed, and said immediately: "My lord's words are reasonable, but it's better to be cautious, lest people catch the rhetoric."

"It's good if you can think like this. It's just that Lingxia Road is just being built, and the imperial court cannot support a huge garrison. The situation is very complicated, and there are many internal and external troubles. Can there be a good composition?" Sooner or later, it will be abolished, and his thinking is basically settled, that is, he will go to Shaanxi Road to serve as the transfer envoy of the capital, and he will be on a part-time mission to promote Changping official affairs and master the goods and storage of the Eighth Road.

The throne of Shangshu has not yet been warmed up, so he came to Kaifeng, and now he is going to the northwest. It may take a few years to appreciate the prosperity of Jiangning.

However, he didn't take it seriously. The appointment of the Yongxing Army to know the military and the transfer envoy of the capital of Shaanxi was definitely a turning point in his life, and it was also Wang Xiu's powerful help to him. For the situation in the Northwest, a large number of layouts are needed to implement the New Deal in the Northwest.

Similarly, Zhong Lirui also knows that Wang Xiu has completed the layout of the five roads, relying on Wang Qingzhu to secretly push the flames, and only needs capable people in place to implement the two-bank law, as well as other policies, and the Northwest is the rest. heavy.

Letting Cai Yi control Shaanxi's goods and storage is not intellect, but requires his own people to control the power of Shaanxi Road. The most subtle thing is Lingxia Road. With what as an assistant, let him control the military and political power of Lingxia to form an iron triangle , the intention is very deep.

Lingxia is an area that has just been recovered, and stability naturally overwhelms everything else, but it is necessary to see that there are a lot of opportunities among the unstable factors.

The war destroyed a large number of old nobles, and also created a group of new nobles, who are in urgent need of profit distribution. This is the perfect opportunity, and chaos will lead to great order.You have to have the courage and ability to break the original economic foundation and establish a new system. The key lies in how to deal with the complicated situation and simplify the negative effects to a controllable range.

This requires a contest between the old and the new vested interests. Even if the new vested interests rise successfully, they lack the background to compete with the old ones, and can only rely on the Great Song Dynasty to fight.

However, the old vested interests are not easy to get along with. They also have the value of being wooed by the court. This forces the new vested interests to fully support the policies of the court and support the new policy of the court on the premise of protecting the final bottom line.

In order to survive, the old vested interests must either fight against the imperial court or attach themselves to the imperial court. No matter what they choose, the imperial court will benefit the most.If you resist, then unite with the new vested interest class to destroy it; if you depend on it, it will be easier, and everyone will discuss and share the results together.

However, everything depends on stabilization before it can be gradually realized. To put it bluntly, it is how much deterrent power the imperial court has left behind.

According to Wang Xiu's vision, the best way to prepare for the implementation of the two-bank method on Shaanxi Road is Lingxia Road. As long as the trial is successful on Lingxia Road, the whole of Shaanxi will be half successful, even easier than the Fifth Road.

The idea is beautiful and operable, but the danger is indeed not small, and the conflict of interests alone makes him a little scared.

"It seems to be calm now, but in fact there are still some people sneaking around. Not to mention Wulahai city, even the battle in Hexi, we can't let Lingxia stay out of it. The forbidden army should be reduced to the minimum level, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to stretch our arms and legs." He In order to keep a low profile, those many years of being a judge were not for nothing, especially the two years of his career as a judge, which broadened his vision a lot, and he could see many problems.

"Wen Shi doesn't know what to think. Lingxia Road is so important. As long as there are two armies, one of them must recruit party members." Cai Yi was very dissatisfied. The Jin army occupied it, and it was impossible for the imperial court to maintain a strong force on Lingxia Road. It was difficult for the two armies to support it.

Zhong Lirui frowned slightly, his idea was to set up a battalion, maintain three armies and one brigade, with a strength of more than [-] troops.However, Wang Xiu disagreed, and only let the western guards stay with one army to be stationed. They were recruiting strong men from Hengshan to form an army. Where opinions differ.

However, he still supported Wang Xiu's proposition, and said with a bit of worry: "Now, I'm not worried about those brats, but the big clans that belong to the imperial court."

"Well, those big clans are greedy, they don't want to expand their power all the time, and they want to take advantage of every bit of profit, that is, there are only a few people in Wei Li, Xi Yuli, and they understand the rules." He Wei was also very dissatisfied, he and Xin Bing The civil servants who presided over the recovery of the lost land knew a lot about the tricks in it, and could see the distress in calm.

(End of this chapter)