Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 80 I know the answer!

The messengers came and went quickly on the streets.

After that, it should be reported through various levels and then delivered to my father's desk.

Zhao Xin was not at all anxious about this.

Because there’s no use in being anxious!

At his age, even if the West beat him to pieces, he wouldn't be able to go to the battlefield in person.

Instead, he patted Zhao Xun's thigh and consoled him, "Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities to achieve great things in the future. I'm not in a hurry, so why are you in a hurry?"

Then everyone looked at Zhao Xin.

The kind that requires you to look down.

You are only four years old!

Of course you are not in a hurry!
……

It was already evening when Zhao Xin returned to Miao Niangzi's courtyard.

I've been wandering around Tokyo these days and I feel like I've gained a lot of knowledge.

He already knew the prices of some of the most basic things.

For example, the price of pork is generally thirty cents per pound. Zhao Xin naturally considered whether he should open a restaurant of his own, or increase the treatment and improve the food for his soldiers.

Assuming that each person eats 250 grams of braised pork, and there are 517 people here, he would have to buy 260 kilograms of pork for one meal.

In this way, the price of pork is about eight strings of cash.

Adding other ingredients, firewood money and so on, this meal would probably cost more than ten strings of coins.

For this meal, Zhao Xin had to sell forty pieces of cloth.

can only say……

This month's output of 6,000 pieces of silk is still too little.

Next, we will need to continue expanding the scale every six months or even three months.

of course!

We also have to gradually expand the raw materials and sales channels first.

After returning to Madam Miao's courtyard, Zhao Xin went to chat with Madam Miao first.

But he didn't expect that Madam Miao had been looking for him for a long time.

Said: "Why did you come back so late? Your father has been looking for you for a long time."

Zhao Xin thought, could it be that something big really happened?
Then he asked, "Where is Daddy now?"

Madam Miao said, "I guess he's still waiting for you at Tianzhang Pavilion."

Since it happened an hour ago, Madam Miao didn't know whether the emperor had gone somewhere else.

That's all I can say for now.

Zhao Xin was about to sit down when he quickly left the stool and said to Madam Miao, "Then I'll go to Tianzhang Pavilion now."

Madam Miao asked, "You don't want dinner?"

Zhao Xin lay on the table, grabbed some cakes, and said, "Let's eat this first."

It took a while before they reached Tianzhang Pavilion.

really!

His father is in there at this moment.

but……

The Song Dynasty really does not have any talent at all.

In the past, there were Lu Yijian, his teacher, and Zhang Fangping, but now there are only his teacher and Zhang Fangping left.

When Zhao Xin arrived, he bowed earnestly, as if he were a little adult, and then asked, "Dad, why is Lu Yijian missing?"

Zhao Zhen also replied: "You are here, but Lü Yijian is ill and can't come."

Zhao Xin also looked at the map in front of them.

You will probably know what is going on.

Said: "Fighting again?"

His teacher Yan Shu said, "An urgent report came from the front that Li Yuanhao was attacking again. Ge Huaimin, deputy commander of Jingyuan Road, led his troops to fight back, but once again he disobeyed the instructions and was besieged and defeated by Li Yuanhao. It is hard to predict what will happen next."

Zhao Xin looked at the map and said, "What a pity! I'm still young! But why is it always like this? Shouldn't you reflect on it?"

Good guy!
It actually made them reflect!

But who knew that after Ren Fu, there would be another Ge Huaimin.

They didn't want this kind of thing. The three of them stared at Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin also asked: "Is Ge Huaimin dead?"

Yan Shu also replied: "He died in battle."

Zhao Xin then asked: "Why do the generals of our Song Dynasty not value their lives so much?"

Zhang Fangping said: "It is probably because all these border generals are greedy for military merit."

Zhao Xin also said: "I simply don't understand. If you want to be greedy, you should also think carefully about whether you can survive, right?"

Zhao Zhen quickly interrupted Zhao Xin and said, "Zui Xinglai, now is not the time to listen to your complaints."

Zhao Xin also said: "Dad, I'm not complaining, I'm summarizing my experience of failure. What on earth is going on in Ge Huaimin's mind? This is really puzzling."

Yan Shu said, "If a general wins a battle, he will be rewarded generously and promoted. It's like if you chop off the head of a Western bandit, you will be rewarded with ten strings of cash. In this way, the general will naturally fight bravely."

Zhao Xin's eyes widened and he asked, "Really?"

Yan Shu said: "I am just giving an example, but it is similar to this. Moreover, using money to buy the heads of Khitans, twenty pieces of silk for one Khitan head, has been around since the time of Taizu."

When Zhao Xin heard that there was such a good thing, he slammed his hand on the table and said righteously: "Daddy! I want to kill the enemy too!"

His father rolled his eyes at him and said calmly, "I think your butt is itchy!"

Zhao Xin added: "If it's twenty pieces of silk for one head, then I can understand this underestimation of the enemy. After all, twenty pieces of silk are enough to buy four cows. If it's donkeys, it can also buy two. If it's sheep from the northwest, it's enough to buy forty."

Zhao Xin's words stunned everyone.

You are the only one who can count, right?

But don’t tell me!

His calculation was quite correct, almost accurate.

As for why donkeys are more expensive than cows...

That's of course because there are far fewer donkeys than cows.

As the saying goes, things are rare.

Just as Zhao Xin and Zhao Zhen were confronting each other with their eyes, Yan Shu interrupted the father and son and said, "Duke Shou, I said, that was just an example."

Zhao Xin also said: "Since it's just an example, why are they so willing to die?"

Zhang Fangping also said: "Of course it's because if you win the fight, you can get a promotion. Although it's not as bad as saying that one head will get 20 pieces of silk, but the final treatment will definitely not be too bad."

Zhao Xin looked at his father and said, "I remember that before, when Ren Fu died in battle, it seemed that he gave the other party a lot of rewards. I thought that this was unclear rewards and punishments! Now, as expected, another Ge Huaimin has appeared."

Yan Shu added: "But if those who died in battle are not properly compensated, how can the soldiers be willing to work hard in the future?"

Zhao Xin: "Ren Fu and Ge Huaimin both disobeyed orders and acted on their own, which led to the great defeat. Their courage is commendable, but disobeying orders is disobeying orders. I remember that you even gave them a promotion after their death. I think this is a bit inappropriate. Aren't you encouraging them to continue to die?"

Zhao Zhen also said calmly: "Then tell me, what should we do?"

Zhao Xin said, "The merits are merits, and the faults are faults. Let the past be the past. From now on, we should inform everyone not to waste the lives of the people of the Song Dynasty because of their own selfish desires."

What Zhao Xin said certainly makes sense.

only……

Zhao Zhen was still very hesitant.

Because you gave money, at most a few more soldiers in the army would die.

When all the soldiers die, they can be replenished.

But if you don't give them money, or even rewards, then what will you do if the soldiers become discouraged and stop trying their best?
therefore……

Zhao Zhen had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue to reward them with money.

Zhao Zhen did not agree.

Zhao Xin understood that his father was not going to listen to him.

But that’s right!

What our Great Song Dynasty lacks the least is money. If we don’t give out money, all the soldiers in the army will rebel, and that would be a major event that would truly shake the foundation of our country.

In fact, the salaries of military officers in the Song Dynasty were higher than those of civil officials of the same level.

This is a case of paying military officers high salaries.

"Dad, do you disagree with me?"

Zhao Xin asked.

Zhao Zhen replied: "Your words make sense, but... it's not the right time to bring them up."

Zhao Xin said, "Okay! I know it's not the right time to say this. I just want to say that this is the root cause of our repeated failures! It seems that military officers are despised by civil officials, but we can't blame the civil officials entirely."

(End of this chapter)