The streets of Lin'an City are as prosperous as ever.
Bustling pedestrians, row upon row of shops, everything so comfortable and affluent, unknowingly, the war that concerns the fortune of the country a thousand miles away, and the quarrels about tax increases in recent months are as far away as they have happened in another world. general.
Bao Daren raised his head and let out a long sigh.
The work of levying taxes has been implemented for more than half a month, but there are still nearly half of the shops. After finding various reasons, they have not paid a penny and a half so far.
The sudden withdrawal of the Jurchen army made it even more difficult for me to make this additional donation that I was just about to embark on a little track.
My own proposal for adding these two donations is aimed at creating a world of prosperity and prosperity, but in any case, it is ultimately based on the procurement of military supplies to deal with the tens of thousands of urgent military conditions. Get the full support of Yue Fei and implement it.
Now that the Jurchen army is leaving Shehong County, it is undoubtedly that these two plans of their own have almost completely lost the need to continue to exist in the eyes of everyone.
What's more, in the mouths of Lin'an people, any news on the front line will spread very quickly, and without exception, the most popular and always the most exaggerated version.
Even I just learned the news from Yue Fei this morning, but only this morning so far, at least dozens of people of all kinds have been waiting for him to question him, Hongxian Guanhan has already wiped out the millions of Jinren army, why? Want to collect money everywhere in the name of munitions? !
Even a few officials who had been sympathetic to him at this time have all hinted at him in various ways that things may change with time, so they can stop!
If he really gave up, he would be completely exhausted and resolve the current predicament. Maybe he would really choose to let go. After all, he was exhausted physically and mentally in just half a month.
Unfortunately, he knew in his heart that this was absolutely impossible.
There is no turning back arrow in the bow.
First of all, the series of plans for the addition of these two donations were originally quite complete. The people at the bottom will undoubtedly be the biggest beneficiaries. This is just the beginning. The general plans have not been implemented, and the people have not yet been able to get them personally. Li, because of this, Bao Daren has absolute confidence. If he can implement all the strategies he has planned before, in at least half a year, the common people will be well-received, and naturally they will understand that they are implementing it. The painstaking effort of these two donations is lonely. And if the plan is cut in half at a time when almost everyone is condemning these two donations, undoubtedly in the eyes of everyone in the future, these two donations will be regarded as things that should not have appeared since the beginning. If there are similar measures to be accepted by the people, I am afraid that it will take ten times more effort than it is now.
Secondly, Confucian scholars talked more about morals, ashamed to plan actual benefits, and did not support this kind of change, which was in their own expectations. But what I didn’t expect was that the plan to increase donations was passed with Yue Fei’s strong support. Therefore, Qin Hui’s intentional or unintentional bridging between the fire was originally just simple and simple. Plans related to the national economy and people’s livelihood seem to have become a concentrated flashpoint of the increasingly tense relationship between the growing military commander system and the self-reliant and orthodox civil service system since the Song Dynasty’s Southern Passage.
So the current success or failure of these two donations has actually completely transcended the two donations themselves, and has become a duel between the civil service system and the military service system.
Although Yue Fei is focused on state affairs and never had such an idea, the officers at all levels who participated in these two donations at his order have already had deep grievances against the civil service system, and there are many rumors. Under constant circumstances, they consciously or unconsciously, they have also understood these two simple plans to increase donations as a signal of an attack by the military commander system against the civil service system.
So really stop collecting donations at this time, don't say yourself, even if Yue Fei personally ordered it, I'm afraid the officers would not agree.
What's more, most of those soldiers have long been forged in the iron and blood, and the rigid temperament of going straight and preferring to bend is now. Now Yue Fei orders them to fight against the provocations from the civil official system. There is nothing wrong with self-abiding, but there are several old men from Yue Fei’s past who have ran to question Yue Fei face to face, asking him if he had become less courageous after a near death, and how could he give way to everything like this and ask for everything. .
Only then did Bao Daren understand Yue Fei's prudence and hesitation before deciding to implement these two donations.
At this time, regardless of whether Yue Fei would like it or not, regardless of the nature of the contradiction between him and Qin Hui, in the eyes of everyone, the growth and decline between Yue Fei and Qin Hui's forces has become a weather vane for the growth and decline of forces between the military commander system and the civil service system.
With Yue Fei’s unique prestige in the military and his current position in Lin’an, if he chooses to stop collecting these two donations at this point in time, he will definitely be regarded as representing a major setback for the military commander system. It is bound to lose his reputation in the army, and Qin Hui took advantage of the momentum to make the limelight even more. In this way, the emperor’s official family’s use of Yue Fei to contain Qin Hui might not be as safe as before. If it goes down like this, I’m afraid it’s even worse. It will be related to the national fortune of the entire Song Dynasty.
Move the whole body by pulling a hair.
Therefore, the current collection of these two donations can hardly be stopped by anyone who has the ability to stop.
Bao Daren turned a corner of the street, the sun was getting higher, but the morning mist hadn't cleared, and everything in front of him still had a vaguely shadowy feeling.
Bao Daren gave birth to a stupefied feeling about the future of this era, and he could no longer understand the slightest bit of it.
Since the emperor's official family, who had almost changed himself, rescued Yue Fei alone and expelled the emissary from the court, this period of history seemed to have embarked on a track that was almost completely unfamiliar to him.
It is precisely because of this that I can see the hope that half of the original holds, and that I can re-think about doing something in this era.
just…
There was another faint sound of shouting and cursing in front of him, and the sergeant who cleared the way quickly stepped forward to check it out. Bao Daren couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Without waiting for a report, he can also roughly know what is going on in front of him.
Since the beginning of these two donations, there have been quarrels, big and small, in Lin'an.
He stood still for a while, but he did not see the sergeant turning back, he groaned slightly, and then he sighed and walked towards the quarrel.
Perhaps no matter what time and space he is in, he can only be a small person, without any ability to lead change.
Perhaps, the original career of acting crazy and stupid is more suitable for me.
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The neighing and running of the Jurchen horses broke the silence of Shuzhou City in the morning.
At the head of Shuzhou City, with the gate closed, the Sergeant of the Song Dynasty, who had a bow and knife in his hand, looked at the Jurchen cavalry under Shuzhou City, who was not moving slowly in the line.
After Zhao Kuangyin’s heart-lifting shot yesterday, they had long forgotten that the Jurchen cavalry that patrolled the city was the Jurchen cavalry that crossed the world. They had forgotten that the number of people gathered in the city was more than ten times more than the defenders in Shuzhou city. The 300,000 army, they only hope that they can fight and fight heartily like last night's supervising army generals, to bloom the blood and leakage of the great Song man.
What they think is not how to defend, but how to win.
So early this morning, seeing the Jurchens lined up below the city and preparing to attack the city, none of them was eager for the legendary supervising general to be able to take advantage of the power and vigor. , Take them, open the gate of the city, go out and kill a damn happy person!
Kill them, throw away their helmets and abandon their armor, kill them personally, and kill them so that these Jurchen people know what price they need to pay if they want to ride the horse on the ground of the Song Dynasty.
However, watching time pass bit by bit, watching the Jurchens unhurriedly set up their army at the entrance of their camp, the omnipotent supervising army general in his mind stood alone in Shuzhou City. Head, as if standing as an immovable statue, did not open the closed door at all to lead them out to fight.
"Boom... boom... boom..."
The dull sound of war drums from the Jurchens rang unhurriedly throughout the world.
There was a sneer at the corner of Zhao Kuangyin's mouth.
finally come!
He knew that Wang Gui would understand why he would not go out of the city to pursue the pursuit when morale was high, but chose to stand behind closed doors, and let the Jurchens line up and organize calmly under the city of Shuzhou.
At the moment, Shuzhou City should be controlled by his own unscrupulous descendant. With his character, it is absolutely impossible for his army to take the initiative to attack when the army is under pressure. If he puts on an offensive posture, I am afraid that after yesterday's battle, the old rival Han Chang, who has lost his arrogance, will notice the difference. This is certainly one of the reasons why he chose to stay behind closed doors, but it is by no means the most important reason.
After all, if you can get angry and completely dissolve the Jurchen's offensive while Han Chang has not recovered, most of it can also make the suspicious Jin Wushu unprepared and choose to abandon Shunchang and move. Shuzhou City, so as to achieve their goals.
However, yesterday, when he shot back the 300,000 army of gold men with one arrow, when Han Chang moved his division to retreat, he discovered that his expectations seemed to be somewhat different from what he had imagined.
He fought in all directions throughout his life and broke countless countries. He is known to have overwhelmed 63 states with one stick. He has an almost unintelligible intuition and insight about everything in the army.
So he discovered that this army at the moment when Han Chang was retiring and transferring, seemed to hide some things that he didn't understand for the time being.
And the rhythm of the Jurchen army's unhurried rehearsal this morning confirmed his judgment yesterday.
His own arrow actually only smashed their vigor, but never defeated the army's confidence in breaking through Shuzhou City? !
This is definitely not a normal response!
No matter how Han Chang originally despised his former unscrupulous descendant, after yesterday's arrow, this contempt should have long since disappeared.
Any general who has been in the army for a long time should understand that what he is facing is a difficult enemy.
What's more, they originally understood that the guard at the head of Shuzhou at this moment was the Great Song Yue Family Army who had defeated the Jurchen cavalry.
Moreover, this Jurchen cavalry was still a tired division who had just fought hard at the Hongxian Pass for half a month, and had tasted the great Song army.
How can they maintain this near-blind confidence
Do they really have any mysterious hole cards that they don't know
He turned his head and saw Wang Gui's solemn eyes.
He knew that Wang Gui was also aware of the unusualness.
Wang Gui may not be as good as himself in terms of combat experience, but he is definitely much richer than himself when it comes to dealing with Jurchens.
When the sun shines on his face, it gradually has the meaning of blazing heat.
The Jurchen's drum of war gradually became more urgent.
There was a faint sound of horseshoes.
The Jurchen finally moved.