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    Zongze and Zen Master Dahui passed each other at the door, and Zen Master Dahui saluted Zongze.  ¡òLiterature Museumr />

    Chao Yong saw Zongze coming in, poured a cup of tea for Zongze with his own hands, and said with a smile: "This is tea cooked by the monks of Jingshan Temple. Lord Zong, please try it."

    Zongze quickly took it with both hands, thanked him, took a sip, and praised: "Jingshan Temple's tea-ordering skills are indeed well-deserved."

    Chao Yong said with a smile: "If you lose your ambition by playing with things, it would be better to use the time you have to deal with military and political affairs."

    Literati in the Song Dynasty loved to travel, drink and talk, and recite poems and compose poems. For example, the great poet Su Shi spent more time traveling, reciting poems, and studying winemaking, cooking tea, and eating than dealing with political affairs.  It was not that Su Shi was so dissolute, but that most scholars behaved this way.

    Zongze is one of the rare scholars who is diligent in government and loves the people. Hearing this, he solemnly said: "The prince is diligent and can be taught by his subordinates."

    Chao Yong nodded and said: "The mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are also beautiful, and it is easy for people to fall in love with the mountains and rivers. But since you are an official, you must take political affairs as your first priority. If you want to fall in love with the mountains and rivers, then resign and become an idler.  Okay, so as not to mislead others or yourself. The atmosphere of officialdom must not be bad.¡±

    Zongze heard what Chao Yong said and "knew" why Chao Yong could invent so many things.  Physics is definitely not theology, but a science. It¡¯s just that it hasn¡¯t been published yet, and the world doesn¡¯t know what physics studies.  Just like the mathematics taught by the prince, it actually just introduced some new numbers, symbols, and algorithms. It is essentially arithmetic, not a new knowledge.  Spend all your time on a subject and you will gain something.

    A few days after Chao Yong went to war, the mirror shop began to sell glasses, magnifying glasses and telescopes in small quantities. Each item would attract the attention of Tokyo's powerful people.

    For a time, Tokyo mirrors were expensive.

    Some shrewd businessmen bought it from Tokyo and traveled day and night to the south to sell it, charging double or even several times the price.  Although it was reported through Daliang Di.  Everyone in the world knew that those items were sold by Mirror Store, but Mirror Store only opened stores in Tokyo, and the supply exceeded demand, so many wealthy households in Jiangnan were willing to pay more for these items.

    It can be said that before Daliang soldiers and horses entered Jiangnan, Yinjing took the lead in entering Jiangnan.

    Zongze said solemnly: "The prince has given me some good advice. I dare to ask the prince to leave a calligraphy treasure and hang it in the yamen, so that I can always be vigilant."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "Forget it, my writing is not as good as Zhao Ji, Cai Jingna and others. I won't show my shame. I invited you here because I want to talk to you about political affairs. There are refugees everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. If you wait for the imperial court to enthrone you,  It will take many days to go back and forth. So I want you to take office tomorrow and start by opening sales homes, nursing homes, Anjiyuan, and Luzeyuan to help the people. "

    Zongze nodded and said: "The prince is kind, but he recruited 200,000 soldiers and horses before, which depleted the treasury. Now the treasury of each state is empty. The imperial court has waived the agricultural tax, and there is no hope of autumn tax. I am afraid I can only wait for the imperial court."  Allocate money and food.¡±

    In the past, every time the girders were laid down.  They would kill corrupt officials and evil gentry everywhere, and the confiscated money and grain would be enough to cover local government expenses. Some state capitals would even pay excess money and grain to the court.

    After the amnesty was granted to the whole country, corrupt officials and evil gentry everywhere were afraid of losing their heads.  I wish I could tie myself up and lock myself up at home to avoid doing evil.  No matter how many local and state governments clean up, they won't be able to catch many evildoers, and there will naturally be even fewer people who can confiscate their homes.

    Chao Yong nodded and said: "When I came here, the imperial court had decided to confer knighthood in Jiangnan. Those who donate 100,000 guan of money or 50,000 shi of grain to the imperial court can be granted the title of baron. What can you do?"

    This is not the first time Chao Yong has used this trick. He had exchanged a lot of money and food in Xixia.  It was not promoted in various places after that, but it was because he didn't want Daliang's title to become worthless. Now the imperial treasury was also a little nervous, and it would take longer to transport money and grain from Tokyo. Only by quickly stabilizing the rear could Chao Yong continue to transport troops south.

    After the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, there were three other families with larger military forces in the original Song Dynasty territory. They were Lu Shinang, who occupied the south of Jiangnan East Road and the north of Fujian Road, Li Gong, the pacifier of Guangdong Road, and the Vietnamese Li Dynasty who stole Guangxi.  On Jinghu Road and Kuizhou Road in the west, some state capitals were affiliated with Daliang, and some were affiliated with the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were all nominal, and the state capitals were basically in a state of autonomy.  Once Daliang wiped out the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinghu Road and Kuizhou Road were basically pacified.

    Li Gong, the pacifier of Guangdong Road, has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on Guangdong Road. Although the number of troops is not large, it is the most important soldiers and horses of Chao Yong.  Under the Song Dynasty system, even the pacifiers along the way could not fully control the troops and horses along the way. Li Gong was able to control all the troops and horses on the Guangdong Road because of Liu Huasan.

    Liu Huasan was also the leader of the peasant uprising, and he started the army before Fang La.  Zhao Ji had set up Huashi Gang for many years, and the people in the southeast had already been miserable. Therefore, Liu Huasan revolted on Jiangnan West Road in the first year of Xuanhe.  However, due to suppression by the Song Dynasty, he had no choice but to lead his troops south to Guangdong.  Although Liu Huasan's uprising was not as good as Fang La's preparations for the Zhou Dynasty,?, but he also had quite a few heroes, so he was able to move from Jiangnan West Road to fight on Fujian Road and Guangdong Road, making it impossible for the Song Dynasty to destroy them.

    After Liu Huasan fled to Guangdong Road, Zhao Ji appointed Li Gong as the pacifier of Guangdong Road and asked him to lead his troops to annihilate Liu Huasan.

    Speaking of which, Li Gong is quite a legend. He was smart, studious, and motivated since he was a child.  He received honors in both the county and township examinations, but failed in all three examinations of the Ministry of Rites.

    However, Li Gong did not give up because of this, and resolutely gave up writing and practicing martial arts.  In the first year of Daguan, he went to Beijing to participate in the martial arts competition and won the first prize in Wu Kui.

    During the Daguan period, ethnic minorities rioted in Yizhou, Guangxi. He was ordered to suppress them, and he was able to fill his right position because of his merit.  Later, he entered Ce Nandan Prefecture, where the local ethnic minority leaders paid money to join him, and Li Gong was promoted to a martial arts master.

    In the second year of Xuanhe, the peasant uprising army led by Liu Huasan grew stronger and fought from Qianzhou and Jizhou on Jiangnan West Road to Guangdong Road.  Song Huizong saw that none of the generals sent before could destroy Liu Huasan, so he hurriedly added one person each to Jiangxi and Guangdong to set up military ministers to punish and jail, and to divide the capital into prisons. Li Gong also served as the pacifier of Guangdong Road, commanding the troops to annihilate them all the way.  Liu Huasan.

    Because Liu Huasan had many heroes under his command, Li Gong could not quickly destroy Liu Huasan. However, Li Gong also continued to weaken Liu Huasan's strength. It was not until July of the third year of Xuanhe that Li Gong captured Liu Huasan and completely pacified him.  Liu Huasan Rebellion.

    In May, Tong Guan sent someone to contact Li Gong and asked Li Gong to join him in allegiance to the Southern Song Dynasty.  Li Gong only pledged his allegiance to the Southern Song Dynasty after hearing that Zongze, Jiang You and others had become officials.  However, he refused the order from the Southern Song Dynasty to attack Lu Shinang, and instead continued to annihilate Liu Huasan in the territory.

    Li Gong also wrote a letter stating that Liu Huasan was no less a confidant than Lu Shinang, and he spent a lot of effort to surround Liu Huasan.  Once Liu Huasan is allowed to escape.  It won't take long to make a comeback.  But the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were still very suspicious of him.

    As soon as Li Gong wiped out Liu Huasan, the Vietnamese Li Dynasty invaded Guangxi.  Tong Guan's order to Li Gong was to guard Guangdong Road. However, Li Gong did not resist the order this time and actively rectified his troops and deployed Guangdong defense.

    As for the Vietnamese Li Chao who stole Guangxi, he was also an old acquaintance of the Central Plains.

    Since the establishment of the Li Dynasty, it has continued to harass the borders of the Song Dynasty and plunder people and property.

    Li Qiande is the fourth emperor of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam and has just ascended the throne.  The Li Dynasty sent troops to invade the Song Dynasty and conquered the three prefectures of Yong, Qin and Lian. After conquering Yong Prefecture, they killed more than 50,000 people in the city.  After that, the Song Dynasty sent troops to defeat the Li Dynasty and invaded the territory of the Li Dynasty.  Several state capitals of the Li Dynasty were captured.  However, after the two countries reached a peace agreement, the Song Dynasty returned the occupied state capital to the Li Dynasty.

    After the peace agreement was reached, the two countries generally maintained peace.

    Unable to defeat the Song Dynasty, Li Qiande turned his attention to the Champa State in the south, sent troops to defeat the Champa State, and made the Champa State worship him every year.  He also promoted Confucianism in the country and held imperial examinations.  According to law, under Li Qiande's governance, the Li Dynasty's national power became increasingly strong.  The Li Qiande period was also the era when Vietnam's Li Dynasty had the strongest national power. The Niuhou barbarians (Tai people) in Masadong in the Tuojiang River Basin in China rebelled several times.  They were all wiped out by Li Qiande himself.  In the first year of Xuanhe, hundreds of people including Wei Pang, the cave chief, were captured, which greatly damaged the vitality of Masha Cave.

    It was not until June that the Li Dynasty learned that Liangshan had captured Tokyo, and Li Qiande immediately assembled 100,000 troops.  Waiting for accurate information to be found, he immediately used the excuse of rescuing the Song Dynasty.  Send troops to Guangnan West Road.

    When the Thirty-Sixth Dongmen of Yongzhou heard about the change of dynasty in the Central Plains, they also followed the Li Dynasty to cause chaos.  Within a few days, Yongzhou was defeated, and then headed eastward, hoping to capture Guangdong Road.

    It was only after Li Gong led his troops to resist that Li Chao's offensive was contained.

    Li Qiande sent people to recruit Li Gong to surrender. Naturally, Li Gong, the top military scholar in the Central Plains, would not seek refuge in a small barbarian country, let alone not fall behind yet.

    The southern troops have always had low combat effectiveness, but the troops under Li Gong have been fighting Liu Huasan for more than a year, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.  Therefore, although the military strength is not as good as that of the coalition forces of the Li Dynasty and the Thirty-sixth Dongmen of Yongzhou, they can still resist the Li Dynasty due to the favorable geographical location.

    Li Qiande could not attack the Guangdong Road, so he had to return to attack the entire territory of Guangxi.

    By September, the Li Dynasty had captured the entire territory of Guangxi, and sent troops to plunder Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road from time to time. However, they always looted and then returned to the entire territory of Guangxi, and did not steal any more cities.  Obviously knowing that the Li Dynasty was not able to absorb more land, and the news that Daliang was sending troops to Jiangnan, he wanted to wait and act.

    Li Gong needs to guard against Li Chao in Guangxi and Lu Shinang in the north, but the soldiers and horses in Guangdong cannot move anywhere.

    When Zhao Zicheng and Tong Guan asked to surrender, Chao Yong asked them to order Li Gong to surrender to Daliang, but it took only five days for Tong Guan and Tong Guan to send the message.  It would take a month for the messenger to bypass Lu Shinang's forces.

    Of course, regardless of whether Li Gong surrendered or not, Chao Yong would lead his troops to attack Lu Shinang.

    If Lu Shinang is wiped out,If Li Gong has not yet surrendered, Chao Yong will lead his troops to wipe out Li Gong, and then attack the Li Dynasty soldiers and horses in Guangxi, and then attack the Li Dynasty.

    It can be said that Chao Yong's task in going south is very heavy. Although these forces combined are not as good as Xixia, the journey is much longer.  And the further south you go, the hotter the weather becomes, and the greater the possibility that soldiers will contract the plague.  Therefore, before Chao Yong went on the expedition, he ordered the miracle doctor An Daoquan and ten imperial doctors, as well as a large number of medicines to prevent and treat the plague.

    The biggest enemy in the Southern Expedition is the weather, not the opponent's soldiers and horses. The elephant soldiers of the Yue and Li Dynasties look powerful, but they are a joke in fighting. They can be defeated by long knives and powerful crossbows. This has been verified by the Song Dynasty.  Moreover, after elephants are in pain, they often turn around and run away, disrupting their own camp.  There is fire and thunder in the beam, and it is not difficult to kill the elephant, let alone frighten the elephant.

    Thirty-six Dongman are superstitious about ghosts and gods, so Chao Yong brought Hou Jian and the spaceship with him when he went south. The main purpose was to deal with Dongman.

    Zongze nodded and said: "There are many wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. One hundred thousand gu is just a drop in the bucket for them. If they can sell their titles, they can exchange them for a lot of money. Fifty thousand gu of grain is not much for the big families. The land in the south of the Yangtze River is much larger than that in the north."  The land has a large yield, and one acre can yield three or four dan. Fifty thousand dan is roughly the rent of 500 hectares of land for a large household in one season. There are many large households in Jiangnan with thousands of hectares of fertile land. If Jiangnan had not been in drought for two consecutive years, the land would have been in constant war.  The price of food in Jiangnan is not so high. One hundred thousand guan or fifty thousand shi of food is not too much for them, but they are not fools. In the past, they may have paid for food to please the court.  Buying a title, but after Daliang's amnesty, they don't have to worry about their past sins, so I'm afraid there won't be many people who are willing to buy a title. "

    During the Song Dynasty, the status of merchants had been greatly improved, and many high-ranking officials in the court were from merchant families.  Coupled with the proliferation of clans in the Song Dynasty, many merchants paid to marry clan girls, making themselves relatives of the emperor and gaining some false officials.

    Businessmen are accustomed to spending money to buy status, but in the Song Dynasty, it only cost a few thousand yuan to marry a clan head.  Those with higher status only have tens of thousands of strings.  From the perspective of a businessman who can put a price on anything, one hundred thousand dollars for a baron in Daliang is undoubtedly a bit high.

    Every change of dynasty is a redistribution of wealth. Although the world's wealth cannot be distributed equally to everyone, it can make most of the rich households of the previous dynasty bankrupt and be replaced by the dignitaries of the new dynasty.  Otherwise, the rich will continue to accumulate.  It is very likely that you will have wealth that rivals the country, and you will inevitably have the desire to interfere in politics.  In the past, commerce was underdeveloped, and there were no rich people in the Central Plains, but there were wealthy families with big surnames. Their wealth consisted of a large amount of land and people.  Therefore, the Tang Dynasty vigorously suppressed the wealthy families and separated them.  After the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, all the wealthy families that used to dominate the local area disappeared.

    But the Song Dynasty produced new unstable factors.  That is a wealthy businessman, whose wealth can easily reach hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.  There are also many landowners with thousands of hectares of fertile land, and because of the introduction of Champa rice, the yield per mu has greatly increased.  Rent can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.  From the same land, the harvest of the Song Dynasty could be more than twice that of the Tang Dynasty.  In terms of wealth alone, ordinary landowners in the Song Dynasty were no less inferior to the wealthy families with surnames that had been passed down for hundreds of years in the Tang Dynasty.

    This is the progress of the times and the result of the development of productive forces.  Improvement of people's living standards.  It is not necessarily the result of the imperial court, but the progress of mankind as a whole.  If compared horizontally with other countries.  Only by improving more can we prove the merits of the imperial court. It is just a vertical comparison. If we look back on old scores, no nation will stand still.

    Most of the big households in the north were liquidated, but the rich households in the south of the Yangtze River were amnesty, and there were more rich households in the south of the Yangtze River than in the north.  Naturally, Daliang will not allow these large households to expand without limit. Otherwise, within a few generations, these wealthy households will really be as rich as the country.

    Land auctions have begun in the north, but before Chao Yong went on the expedition, the court decided not to sell the land in the south for the time being. The land in the south of the Yangtze River should be reserved and slowly distributed to retired soldiers. Otherwise, it is very likely that the land in a county will belong to the same family.  This is unacceptable to Daliang.

    Everyone in the court has not considered this issue. In the past, officials and nobles could be exempted from labor and taxes, but Daliang has exempted all labor and taxes, and only commercial taxes are left, but they can no longer be reduced or exempted.  It was impossible to grant political privileges. He did not want to grant privileges and wanted to sell his title. This really stumped everyone in the court. In the end, Chao Yong came up with the idea.

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "A nobility academy will be opened in Tokyo. Only those with titles can enroll. I am the academy leader."

    Hearing this, Zongze couldn¡¯t help but his eyes lit up and said, ¡°The prince teaches knowledge?¡±

    Chao Yong nodded and said: "All the courses of the Noble Academy will be formulated by me personally, including classics and meaning, physics, mathematics, riding and archery, etc. I will teach from time to time. My children will also study in the Noble Academy in the future."

    In fact, Chao Yong had the idea of ??planning courses for his children very early on. He knew what the world was like.?, naturally he would not let his children learn only poetry and classics.

    Once the world is unified, the number of his children will definitely increase explosively, and his children alone may be able to form an academy.  Once the lecture begins, Brother Liangshan will definitely be tempted. It is not easy for him to turn the Royal Academy into a royal academy and refuse Brother Liangshan.  Simply turn it into a noble college. Anyway, the old Liangshan brother will not be without a title.

    Zongze smiled and said: "Okay, this benefit alone can make the rich in the world flock to it. Even if they don't want it themselves, they will definitely buy a baron for their children."

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    Chao Yong also knows this problem. Rich families have many wives and concubines. Not only the legitimate sons and concubines fight, but also the fights between biological brothers are very fierce.

    The status of a baron is not valuable, but the opportunity to enter a noble college is very rare. Whether it is the curriculum formulated by the prince himself or the opportunity to get to know the high-ranking nobles in the college, it is very rare.

    It is completely conceivable that in order to grab this quota, the families of wealthy families will be very upset.

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "I can't control this. The bastard of the old brother Liangshan may not be able to get a title in the future. Maybe there is a rich man who sends all his children to the aristocratic academy in one go."

    Zongze nodded and said: "Maybe it is true. If I had money, I would definitely send all my grandchildren to aristocratic colleges."

    Chao Yong smiled and said: "With Master Zong's talents, you will be able to manage Jiangnan in an orderly manner. The court will be indispensable for your title. But this conferment is also of great significance to the court. If you sell ten barons, I will give them to you."  A baron, a hundred, and I¡¯ll give you a viscount, a thousand, and I¡¯ll give you a count.¡±

    Zongze smiled and said: "A hundred should be no problem. If you only let Zhejiang Lu be knighted, there should be hope for a thousand."

    "One hundred is ten million. The emperor granted the world a general amnesty and exempted them from their sins. Now it would not be bad to use a virtual prince to take out all their money."

    "With the prince thinking about it, it's difficult for them not to pay for it. The mirror shop's products are also generously donated by the world's richest people. I'm afraid the prince will make new things in the future to make money from the rich people."

    ps: (Thanks to the book friend "¡ó©mArctic ¤ÅÃÛÀ¶" for the reward)
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