I traveled with them to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 78 Priority in choosing a spouse

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'Is this too slow?'

Ye Shiyun felt that Zhao Ya was too greedy.

With these three tactics, as long as the government orders are implemented, she can earn 6.5 million strings of cash in just a few months. Moreover, these are long-term benefits and will definitely ease the financial pressure of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Even so, Zhao Ya was still not satisfied.

"The emperor is too difficult to serve, huh!"

Of course, Ye Shiyun, who had been trained by the feudal system for half a year, certainly didn't dare to say such outrageous words. She could only shake her head and say, "I don't know how to do it."

Zhang Chun glanced at Ye Shiyun and thought to himself, "What's the point of having a good brain? You don't even know what he really wants. No matter how much you do, you won't get to the point."

At this time, Zhang Chun, who had guessed that Zhao Ya wanted to quickly resolve the issue of overdue military pay, said to Zhao Ya: "I have a plan that may help the emperor solve this urgent problem."

Zhao Ya looked at Zhang Chun and asked, "What good ideas do you have, my beloved concubine?"

Zhang Chun complained in her heart: "When there is something, you call me Ai Fei, when there is nothing, you call me Chun Chun. You are really a snob!"

Zhang Chun said, "When the late emperor first ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager was ruling the country from behind the curtain, and Sima Guang was the prime minister. While they were feigning illness at home, they submitted a memorial, suggesting that the seven forts captured by the Song army, namely Mizhi, Futu, Saimen, Yihe, Wubao, Jialu, and Anjiang, be returned to Western Xia first. As for Lanzhou and Dingxi City, they could discuss it later..."

To put it simply, under the leadership of Gao Taotao and Sima Guang, the old party returned a lot of territories conquered by Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi and others. Zhang Chun advocated that these people could be labeled traitors and their properties could be confiscated.

Many corrupt officials abuse their power for personal gain and become extremely wealthy. If we arrest a dozen or twenty of them, wouldn’t the problem of financial difficulties be solved?
The reason why the Old Party returned the land was not just because there were serious political differences between Sima Guang and other members of the Old Party and the New Party. The opening of the Xihe Frontier was the achievement of the New Party. After Sima Guang came to power, he tended to abolish the relevant achievements in order to completely deny the New Party. It was also because Sima Guang and other members of the Old Party had a strategic misjudgment. They believed that it would be difficult to eliminate the Western Xia even if they took Hehuang. The economic strength of the Hehuang region was weak, and it was difficult to rely on it to develop the army to attack the Western Xia. Its strategic role against the Western Xia was limited. In addition, the opening of the Xihe Frontier was extremely costly, and the cost of maintaining the Hehuang region was also very high. The court was facing great economic pressure at the time, and they believed that it was difficult to bear.

It cannot be said that Sima Guang and others have no reason at all.

But in Zhang Chun's view, or in the view of people in later generations, ceding the territory that Song Shenzong and his ministers had spent huge manpower and financial resources and had countless soldiers die on the front line to the enemy was no different from treason.

Must be liquidated.

In fact, these people had been purged as early as when Zhao Xu took power.

For example, Sima Guang was stripped of his posthumous title, his stele was destroyed, and he was later demoted to the deputy envoy of the Qing Navy, and then to the military officer of the Zhuya Army.

However, in Zhang Chun's view, this level of liquidation can also be called a liquidation, and such traitors should have their homes confiscated and be executed.

Fearing that Zhao Ya, the indigenous emperor, would be bound by the ancestral precept left by Zhao Kuangyin that officials should not be punished, and would refuse to punish traitors like Sima Guang, Zhang Chun further advised Zhao Ya: "Now that the government wants to leverage its military might, how can it not boast of its achievements? And how can it allow people like Sima Guang to disregard the blood of hundreds of thousands of soldiers for their own selfish desires?"

Zhao Ya, who is also a modern person, thinks that what Zhang Chun said is right. It is really unfair to the soldiers who shed blood and sacrificed their lives on the front line to let Sima Guang and other traitors go so easily. It makes their efforts meaningless.

The key point is, we can't deny the contributions made by the military over the years when we may have to rely on the military to fight the war?
As for how to do it, Zhao Ya felt that he had to start with the grievances between the old and new parties, that is, let the new party stab the old party, and then he would just have to make the choice he wanted.

"We need to have Li Yan thoroughly investigate the assets and past experiences of these ministers, lest they mistakenly copy the names of those incorruptible officials. Not only will they not make any money, but they might also be criticized. That would be too much of a loss."

When it was Li Lin's turn, she said, "I can make black gunpowder. With this as a base, and Jiaojiao's cooperation, I can surely make the divine weapons Thunderbolt, Tiger Crouching Cannon, or even the Great General Cannon. Combined with my Great Song Divine Arm Bow, we can create the invincible Divine Machine Battalion. Your Majesty, I beg you to recruit 10,000 new troops and have me build two battalions for you. That way, even if we face an enemy ten times your size, we can still defeat them."

Zhao Ya thought: "Grenade, mortar, the general cannon should be the red cannon, plus the combination of the divine arm bow? It's quite interesting."

Li Lin knew that because she was a woman and too young, she couldn't immediately convince the public and the soldiers. Therefore, it was not appropriate for her to take charge of the army immediately. She had to take it step by step. So she took the initiative and said, "I will only formulate the army construction and training plans, and I will not personally lead these two battalions for the time being." Then, Li Lin began to promise Zhao Ya: "If the emperor follows my advice, you will surely have two invincible armies, and there will be no worries in the future."

Zhao Ya, who really wanted two combat-capable personal armies, was somewhat tempted.

The key point is that Zhao Ya felt that Li Lin's intention to build these two battalions by referring to the method of the Ming Dynasty's Shenjiying should be reliable. After all, the thunder bomb and the tiger squat cannon were not very impressive technologies, but the red cannon was still a bit difficult.

More importantly, Zhao Ya felt a little uneasy because he didn't have two combat-ready armies.

So Zhao Ya said, "First, you and Jiaojiao develop the Thunder Bomb and the Tiger Crouching Cannon. Let me see their power, and then I will make the decision."

Li Lin was delighted. She thought to herself, "As long as Zhao Ya agrees to let me build these two armies, I will be able to take command of them sooner or later. After all, apart from me, no one else can fully unleash the combat effectiveness of these two armies."

The six time travelers ate their meal until dark.

Except for Ma Xiaojiao's four daughters, everyone else had a round belly from eating so much.

It is not difficult to see that the four girls' lives in Cide Palace were indeed very hard.

As the dinner drew to a close, Li Lin and Yuan Qingcheng were both worried. They were terrified that Zhao Ya would ask them to sleep with him that night.

Ye Shiyun would flirt with Zhao Ya from time to time. It was obvious that she had suffered enough and wanted to follow Ma Xiaojiao's path to get out of poverty and live a rich life with food and clothes provided for her. She didn't want to be a lowly palace maid anymore.

In addition, Ye Shiyun has another unknown secret.

That is, in her previous life, she was a person of stone, not a qualified woman at all, and she didn't even know what it was like to be a woman.

Now, she is finally a normal woman, and of course she wants to try what it feels like to fly to the sky as those women often talk about.

In order to achieve this goal, Ye Shiyun deliberately made a charming pose towards Zhao Ya when no one was paying attention, trying to attract Zhao Ya's attention.

However, what made Ye Shiyun look unhappy was that in the face of her temptation, Zhao Ya remained unmoved. He was nothing like those men who chased her and licked her desperately in her previous life. She only needed to beckon her fingers and those men would do whatever she asked them to do.

Ye Shiyun was very angry: "Little brat, you actually turned a blind eye to my charm. You have successfully angered me. Wait for my discipline!"

Zhang Chun, on the other hand, was sitting on the Diaoyutai, because she felt that today, among all the women, she performed the best and should have the priority to choose a spouse.

Zhang Chun firmly believed in her judgment of Zhao Ya, that is, the reason why Zhao Ya was so indulgent towards them was mainly because they were useful to Zhao Ya, not because they were all pretty.

Therefore, Zhao Ya's logic for visiting them must be to clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments, rather than to see who is better at flirting.

Zhang Chun glanced at Ye Shiyun without leaving any trace: "You are smart and you understand men, but you don't understand the emperor. How can you compete with me?!"

really!

Zhang Chun is right again.

After dinner, Zhao Ya ordered crisply: "Chunchun stays to sleep with me, you guys go and have some rest..."

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(End of this chapter)