I am not Song Qinzong

The imperial court can send envoys into the Liao Dynasty, one to explore its reality, so as to plan for the use of troops, and the other to test and redeem the five states.

The boy thought that having tens of millions of coins would be enough. "

Redeeming the five states sounds depressing, but in fact, this has always been a good option for the Song Dynasty.

Probably because of the early days of the founding of the country, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin set up the silk storage department, which was specially responsible for saving money and silk for the redemption of Yanyun sixteen prefectures.

It's just that Zhao Kuangyin's sudden death made this plan come to an end without a problem.

But this option has never been ruled out, and it is mentioned from time to time.

And if you calculate it carefully, the cost of recovering by force will not be less than tens of millions, and even if the war goes wrong, it may be more.

Of course, this option ignores the encouraging effect of war victory on the people.

Zhao Huan can't help it, the imperial army is so rotten and unable to change, for the sake of national security, he has to compromise.

"Why don't you join forces with the Jin people to attack Liao Dynasty together? Wouldn't that save a lot of money?" Zhao Ji asked again.

The annual income of the Song Dynasty was around 2000 million yuan, which is indeed very rich.

However, redundant soldiers and redundant officials cost more than half of the cost. In addition, Zhao Ji was greedy for pleasure, and the extravagant expenses were incalculable, not to mention the family's great business, and money everywhere.

Therefore, the court is also tight.

"It is feasible to destroy Liao, but not even gold." Zhao Huan decisively rejected this proposal.

"Today's Liao and Jin Dynasties are just like Dangxiang and our dynasty, and Jurchen is many times stronger than Dangxiang.

When he retired from the court yesterday, the boy asked Liu Kai about the northwest affairs. He said that the imperial army was corrupt, and seven or eight out of ten were vacant, and most of the rest were old and weak, which was really unusable.

The reorganized generals are available, but only ten generals.

The Northwest has been at war for a long time, and even so, let alone Hebei has been peaceful for a long time, and the forbidden army is completely unusable. "

Zhao Huan stopped, glanced at Zhao Ji, and hoped to have an in-depth discussion on this issue.

It would be great if Zhao Ji was persuaded to make up his mind to rectify.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji just listened quietly and didn't intend to speak.

Reluctantly, Zhao Huan continued: "Hebei is not Northwest either. Because of the constant threats from the party, the people dare to fight with martial arts. There are native soldiers, fan soldiers, and Baojia available. How can the villagers of Hebei use them?

Moreover, Youzhou is a prosperous place, Khitan still has fighting power, and the people have been separated from the Central Plains for more than two hundred years, and they have not regarded themselves as Han people for a long time.

Once defeated, they will inevitably scramble to rebel and switch to the Kingdom of Jin.

At that time, the Kingdom of Jin was in a natural danger. Seeing that our country was weak, why not take advantage of the situation and march into the army?

The defeat in Hebei must be empty. I am afraid that the Kingdom of Jin will reach the city of Tokyo without any effort. "

"The Kingdom of Jin is so cruel, and our country has robbed Youzhou, isn't it an enmity with him?" Zhao Ji asked.

It was said that Zhao Huan's head was as big as a bucket.

If you want to show off your power with troops, but you don't want to reorganize your military equipment, if you want to make meritorious deeds, you will have scruples and dangers.

Fuck it!

Zhao Huan kept his complaints in his heart and said: "I mean, the Xixia should be destroyed first, and at the very least, they should be beaten severely so that they will not dare to provoke the border again.

If you search the country like this, you will get hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.

The army was divided into two groups, all the way across the sea to go straight to Yanshan, to seize the important places, and prepare gold people according to the danger, sweep along the way and recover the five states.

After taking down the five states, immediately send capable ministers to rectify government affairs and establish a defense line. As long as the speed is fast enough, they will be able to stop the Jinren. "

"Let me think about it." Zhao Ji stopped his son's long speech, and asked again: "Your birthday will be tomorrow, do you have any appeals?"

What the hell?

Zhao Huan was completely dumbfounded.

The discussion of national strategy, which was fine, suddenly turned to celebrating birthdays. It's almost...

Speechless.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Huan said: "The country's foreign troubles have never ceased, and my child intends to follow the example of Taizong Taizong and conduct relative conquests, so he practices his personal guards diligently for future preparations.

It's just that fifty personal guards are not enough, Hai'er begged his father for permission to restore the three hundred personal guards in the East Palace.

In addition, Hai'er also wants to recruit some young talents to accompany him, but it is not easy to arrange them, so I implore the emperor to allow Hai'er to set up some subordinate officials. "

Zhao Ji asked, "Is there anyone to choose for the subordinate officials?"

"Zhou Tong, the teacher of the Imperial Boxing Gym in the capital, and his son Zhou Yunqing have entered the East Palace, and they can serve as guards. In addition, Ren Yu, the steward of the mansion, is very talented, and can serve as Prince Zhan's servant. The rest...

Hai'er wanted to invite Liu Ziyu, the son of Liu Kai, to wash the horses for the prince, but he didn't want to join the East Palace, so he had no choice. " Zhao Huan replied.

"How did Geng Nanzhong give up?"

"He only looks at Shangshu, why has he ever looked at the East Palace?" Zhao Huan complained.

Geng Nanzhong's main job is the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Prince Zhan's job is only part-time.

Naturally, he hoped to become a minister, so naturally he paid less attention to the Eastern Palace.

After all, Zhao Ji is in good health and has at least 20 years to live. For some people, this time is too long.

It's okay to not concentrate, the main reason is that this guy is the main peace faction, Qin Zong was detained, and there is a reason for his bewitching.

So, of course Zhao Huan would not keep him.

At the top, Zhao Ji thought for a while, and said: "The restoration of three hundred personal guards is a system, and it can be implemented by itself. As for the full-time officials, it still needs to be decided by the court."

"Thank you, Daddy." Zhao Huan thanked him slightly depressed.

The subordinate officials are to improve the status of their subordinates and also provide benefits. If the subordinates are nothing more than rank, in fact, money is easy to talk about.

But without an official position, it is equivalent to a black household. Some people who value official status may not want to come.

After thanking him, Zhao Huan said again: "Father, I have one more request."

"It's okay to say so."

Affable, and indeed a good father.

"My son is worried about the corruption of the imperial guards in the capital, so I want to review the selection, but I've been pissed at Gao Qiu recently, I'm afraid it's inconvenient, I beg my father to review it with my son, so that I can see what the imperial guards look like."