Fu Song

In the court battle, the Jiangnan faction did lose, but their local foundation is still extremely strong.

Jiangnan, based on the fact that the clan power is entrenched in the region, has a strong basic base among the people.

After hundreds of years of operation, it is already too big to lose.

Using basic materials such as land, textile machines, and mulberry mountains, countless people were tied to a chariot with them.

Like Jiangning, there are about [-] people who rely on the textile industry for a living. Looking at the entire Jiangnan, the population is even larger.If you really want to completely become the opposite party with the other party, let alone other things, as long as one link in the chain mastered by these people causes you some problems, the entire upstream and downstream business will come to a standstill.

And people who live on this need to eat.

If the livelihood of tens of millions of people suddenly has problems, the impact will be great.

Therefore, although they won a complete victory, Xiao Cheng had no choice but to allow Si Junchao and the others to retreat unscathed.

In fact, in the past court political struggles of the Song Dynasty, it was a habit not to kill them quickly. Those who lost were just far away from the real side.

Few people raised their butcher's knife and killed their political opponents.

Because no one knows, will the next winner be himself?
If he raises the knife, what will happen next time he loses?
This rule was broken when Cui Ang was in power.

But in Jiangnan, Si Junchao and the others felt that such a tacit understanding with Xiao Cheng could still be reached.

Xiao Cheng won, but he didn't run away from them. Originally, Si Junchao was ready to go fishing in Lingnan, but now in Jiangning, Si Junchao still has a place. He was still the guest of honor whenever Zhong Zhong held a banquet, and the Chief Assistant Xiao Cheng would send people to discuss certain policies with him from time to time.

The pioneer group was Xiao Cheng's idea to Si Junchao, and then Si Junchao organized and implemented it.

The Southwest Department has been working on a pioneering group like this for two years.

This pioneering operation began when Xiao Cheng led his troops northward.

Xiao Cheng knew very well that when they all left, Annan's situation would inevitably be repeated.

Therefore, he asked the wealthy gentry in the southwest to organize such a pioneering group to enter Annan. He didn't ask them to maintain the situation.The chieftains of Jili Prefecture in Qianzhou were suppressed by Xiao Cheng for many years. Now Xiao Cheng not only let them go, but also gave them a sword. Naturally, they set off excitedly with their people.

For Xiao Cheng, why not kill two birds with one stone!

Some of these pioneering groups made a lot of money, while some were unlucky and failed in the struggle with the local area, leaving no bones left.

However, for the imperial court, it has no impact. On the contrary, it is more beneficial to the local security in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi.

This year, people from the Jiangnan faction joined.

Unlike those pioneering groups in the Southwest who had limited strength due to being suppressed by Xiao Cheng for many years, the pioneering groups in Jiangnan were rich and powerful.

In just one year, these pioneering groups plundered a lot of wealth outside.

This is also the reason why Xiao Cheng said that they were so happy to miss Shu.

In Jiangnan, it is true that they make a lot of money, but no matter how powerful they are, they still prefer to abide by certain rules, because there are still restraints between them.

Now that they stepped out of the country, they suddenly discovered that as long as the knives in their hands are sharp enough, the rules will no longer exist.

The leaders of the Jiangnan faction also feel that since they have lost power now, picking up money in another place can be regarded as a good compensation.

After the southward pioneering groups made a lot of profits, those who were originally engaged in maritime business were also moved, so one after another offshore pioneering groups were also established.

It's just that if you want to go by sea, the cost you have to pay is much higher.

Ordinary families can't afford it.

And the Zheng family, as the leader on this road, also gave some families a lot of practical and sincere help, making these families embark on this bloody road smoothly.

The interests of the Zheng family's pioneering group are fundamentally in the Wa country, and the joint pioneering group of the Si family and Xu's family is now wreaking havoc in Java!

What Xiao Cheng needs most now is stability.

Only when it is stable can the policies formulated by the imperial court be implemented.

Only when the policy is put into practice can it produce practical effects, can the country become truly rich bit by bit, and the soldiers and horses become stronger day by day.

Compared with the current Liao Kingdom, Song Dynasty can only be regarded as a younger brother.

But as long as the little brother is strong enough, like a sharp iron nail standing upside down on the ground, when stepping on the huge foot of the Liao Kingdom, it must seriously consider whether it will be pierced by the iron nail. A pair to wear.

What Xiao Cheng wants to do now is this.

Then, we can talk about the Northern Expedition.

There are many boasted prosperous times in Chinese history, but even in these prosperous times, there are still a large number of people who can't eat enough and don't wear warm clothes.

Food is never enough.

Sometimes the so-called good harvest is just a corner.

Looking at the whole area, the food currently produced is far from enough.

Don't look at the dozens of large warehouses near Jiangning that are full, and the price of grain has been reduced to less than ten cents a bucket, but in many farther places, some people still can't afford it.

Because of the road traffic, even if there is food, it cannot be transported. If it is transported, the price will rise to the point that the poor cannot reach it.

Troubles come out of poor mountains and bad waters.

I can't even eat enough, I'm going to starve to death, what else can I do if I don't rebel?

Therefore, food has always been Xiao Cheng's most concerned point.

Producing more food and improving more crops is the top priority of the court.

Agriculture is the foundation, and no agriculture is unstable. These experiences are the experiences summed up with blood and life in the past dynasties.

But in the south of the Yangtze River, because of the huge benefits of the silk textile industry, a large amount of farmland has been converted into mulberry fields for planting mulberry leaves, raising silkworms, spinning silk and weaving silk. This is an unchangeable fact.And the lack of food in the south of the Yangtze River will push up the price of food in the whole Song Dynasty, so Xiao Cheng can only focus on the two lakes and two provinces.

Huguang is familiar, the world is full, but Xiao Cheng firmly remembers these few words!
It's just that although Huguang has been vigorously developed at the moment, it is still far away from the goal he wants to achieve in Huguang, the world is full of it!
Unlike the tyrants and dignitaries in the north who desperately annexed land and caused a large number of farmers to lose their land, in these places, there is actually a large amount of land that has not been reclaimed.

What these places lack most now is not land, but people.

So now Xiao Cheng's land policy in these places is to encourage everyone to open up wasteland.

Wealthy families are encouraged to occupy these lands in the form of large farms.

The agricultural tax in the Song Dynasty has always been very low.

It's just one out of ten.

When Xiao Cheng came to power, the agricultural tax was fixed in units of mu.

An agricultural tax of twenty cash per mu.

If you produce [-] catties of grain per mu, you only need [-] Wen, and if you produce [-] catties per mu, you only need [-] Wen.

This can encourage farmers to find ways to increase production and income.

The attitude of the past to hope for the harvest will naturally die.Instead, everyone started intensive cultivation and began to yearn for high-quality seeds.

In Lianghu and Guangxi, Xiao Cheng now doesn't have to worry about land annexation at all.

Or that is a question for future courts to consider.

Now Xiao Cheng only hopes that more land will be developed.

And the rise of these large farms also made the slave trade of the Pioneering Group more prosperous.

The Jiangning court headed by Xiao Cheng pretended to be deaf and dumb.

As long as you don't sell the people of Song Dynasty as slaves, it is acceptable.

These large farms require a large number of people to work.

Compared with the agricultural policy that vigorously encourages the reclamation of barren fields to increase income and production, Xiao Cheng has made greater strides in business.

Song Dynasty's commercial policy was originally very loose, but when Xiao Cheng came here, he completely relaxed the restrictions on doing business.

There is no such thing as this anymore.

Within the jurisdiction of Da Song, anyone can go wherever he wants.

Every citizen of the Song Dynasty will have a small wooden sign made by a special organization.

All the identity information and appearance characteristics of this person are marked on this small wooden board. With this small board, you can go wherever you want.

Of course, if anyone wants to forge this small card, it's fine if they don't get discovered. Once they are discovered, they will be beheaded immediately.

The freer flow of personnel has also promoted the further development of commerce.

The imperial court encourages business, and when doing business, as long as the value of the goods is less than ten guan, the tax will be exempted.

Xiao Cheng wanted to encourage the circulation of goods in this way.

Xiao Cheng didn't pay much attention to the attack launched by the puppet Qi and puppet Zhao.

Now he launched the Northern Expedition and waged war against Liao on a large scale. He really had more plans but not enough power.

But just defending the current border is more than enough.

Xiao Cheng could even pat his chest and say that if he wanted to, he could take back Kaifeng now, and it would not be impossible to send Qu Zhen, a traitor, to the vegetable market to have his head chopped off.

It's just that he doesn't want to do it yet.

Although the existence of the false Zhao and false Qi was a scar on the face of the Song Dynasty, it was also a buffer zone between the southern regime and the Liao State.

Now the Liao state is still driving the puppet Zhao and puppet Qi to attack the Song Dynasty. Once the Song Dynasty defeats these two puppet regimes, it will directly confront the Liao people, and the intensity of the war will be completely different.

Xiao Cheng has no confidence to start a full-scale war with Liao at this time.

The military newspaper in front is sent to Xiao Cheng's desk every day in the form of eight hundred li urgently.

The battle situation on the front line has stabilized and entered a stalemate.

As long as it enters the stage of stalemate, it is impossible for the other party to persist for a long time.

Because they have no money and no food.

The support given to them by the Liao Kingdom is limited and comes at a price.

For the Liao people, the pseudo-Qi and the pseudo-Zhao are nothing more than consumables.

The memorials from Qinfeng Road and Yizhou Road brought a smile to Xiao Cheng's face.

Li Shilong, the governor of Yizhou, and Li Chunfeng, the appeasement envoy of Qinfeng Road, finally made it clear about the horses and horses, and they no longer warmed up.

Or they also saw that after the Jiangning court gained a firm foothold, its power became stronger and stronger, and it already had the power to fight the Liao people, so they no longer sat on the fence and waited and watched.

After all, if one really defected to the Liao people, although prosperity and wealth are indispensable, infamy is also indispensable.

Now that Da Song has calmed down, he will naturally continue to be a loyal minister and filial son of Da Song.

Therefore, Li Shilong sent an army to cross the Qinling Mountains and attack Hanzhong.

At the same time, Li Chunfeng also sent a large army to attack Fengxiang Mansion under the control of the puppet Jin Dynasty, which occupied part of the Shaanxi-Gansu Road. At the same time, Zhang Yunsheng, the general of the Western Army in Luowu Town, also sent troops to Hengshan to attack Fenzhou. For a while, the puppet Jin was attacked from three sides.

Although this attack was more symbolic, Yeluzhen, the southern king of the Liao Kingdom in Xijin Prefecture, had to respond.

Because he can't make a strong reaction, if he can't give strong support to the fake Jinliu Quanyi, then the three-way attack is likely to turn from fiction to reality.

Once Liu Quanyi of the Jin State suffered a complete defeat, and part of the Shaanxi-Gansu region and the Hedong region under his control were lost, the Southern Song Dynasty would be completely connected with the Western Army.At this time, the combination of the financial resources of the Southern Song Dynasty and the bravery and skill of the Western Army would cause even greater troubles for the Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, compared to Qu Zhen, it is obvious that the safety of Jindi is more important.

The existence of the Jin State cut off the connection between the Western Army and the Southern Song Dynasty. At the same time, it would also make Li Chunfeng on Qinfeng Road half-hearted and not give up his efforts.

After Gao Yingxiang from Dongfang Xingyuan got through the initial period of embarrassment, he finally recovered now.

The Zhongwuping navy active in Nansi Lake and the Shi Congming navy who entered the Huaihe River Basin fought alternately, causing turmoil in Qi.

The disaster in Qi, the war was not going well, and the riots of the people were one after the other. After Zhong Wuping obtained a large amount of food from Gao Yingxiang, he recruited soldiers and bought horses to expand his strength. He was no longer willing to stay in Nansi Lake. , but began to establish a base on land.Now it has occupied several counties.

Because of the navy as a guarantee, there is no place to focus on the Qi State's campaign. If you have too many people, he boards the boat and runs away. If you have fewer people, he can rely on the convenience of the navy to go around to your place. The rear surrounds you and swallows you in one gulp.

Even though there were still thousands of Liao cavalry helping in the battle, Qi felt that it was powerless and its strength was exhausted.

"There should be one last attempt!" Xiao Cheng said to Lu Wenhuan, looking through the information collected from various places, "This war is definitely going to end, but I think Yeluzhen will not be willing to end like this. So, they choose a place and concentrate all their strength to make a big fight, what if they win?"

"There is such a possibility!" Lu Wenhuan said: "If there is such a war, then the officials think they will choose Teng County of Qi State, after all, Zhong Wuping has already established a considerable scale there, which has deeply penetrated into the Qi State. A thorn in the borders."

Xiao Cheng shook his head: "No, when they attacked Teng County on a large scale, Zhong Wuping would run away, and they would get nothing, but once their army withdrew, Zhong Wuping would go again. , Therefore, they will definitely choose a place that we cannot back down."

"Sui County!" Lu Wenhuan said, looking at the map.

"Exactly!"