After hearing what Feng Mingshan said, the muscles on He Li's face were slightly cramped.

He just discovered that he might have made a huge mistake. Now the Song Dynasty may not have the power to fight a large-scale war!

Because the Song Dynasty now implements a recruitment system! With money, if you have money, you will have money and soldiers. If you have no money, you will have a strong country... you will have a strong army!

The opponents of the Song Dynasty, Dazhou, Dajin and Liang, did not have such problems. The Dajin was a tribal military system, and the Dazhou and Liang both linked military service to land. Almost all the land of a country was distributed to soldiers. Therefore, the Zhou, Jin and Liang Kingdoms had the ability of the "no money" to bear in the Song Dynasty.

Taking the Great Zhou as an example, there are 80 million mu of land raising soldiers. By rotating planting, you can harvest tens of millions of stones of grain a year. You can also raise many cattle, sheep and horses.

Even if Wu Haogu didn't give a penny of military pay, the knights and soldiers under him would still live a very comfortable life. Wu Haogu gave the order, and they still helped fight.

On the Song Dynasty, although there is an annual income of 100 million yuan (including money-induced income), it actually can't raise too many soldiers. It sounds like a lot, but it is not as good as the Dazhou Knight Manor. The Mansion Bingtian Village harvests more than 100 million stones of grain in a year! These grains are worth more than 200 million yuan in the metropolis of the Song Dynasty. If cattle, sheep and horses are added... the income of the "poor Zhou" soldiers is actually far from the "rich Song" streets!

Among the 100 million soldiers of "Fu Song", at most 70% of the soldiers were raised. Among the 70% of the imperial guards, wing soldiers, various ceremonial guards, and various idle military officers who could not fight would have to eat at least half. The ones that could be used for the new army were 35 million soldiers. According to the estimated cost of 50 soldiers per year for a soldier and the military capital was lost, it could support hundreds of thousands of people.

But recruiting soldiers to fight requires a lot of rewards! Can these soldiers and generals be very poor on weekdays, and they have to try hard to blackmail after finally getting on the battlefield?

If the battle really starts, the 35 million military pay cannot actually maintain much force. It would be nice to have more than 200,000 people. This force seems to be a little less than that of Zhou, and there seems to be no big advantage over the Jin Dynasty.

Moreover, the Zhou State used at least 100 million yuan of wealth (considering the operating costs of the farm) to maintain more than 200,000 troops. In comparison, the more than 200,000 new troops in the Song Dynasty could only be divided into 35 million yuan. Therefore, the income of the Zhou State soldiers was twice as high as that in the Song Dynasty... Who is poor and rich in the Song Dynasty or the Zhou Dynasty?

In addition, the Song Dynasty is now in a depression, and the Xia tax seems to be not collected in an orderly manner. Can the new army be maintained by more than 200,000? In this state, can we still fight with Zhou and Jin?

The four directions destroy gold... If the gold is really destroyed, I am afraid that the next unlucky one will be the Song Dynasty!

Thinking of this, He Li's body shook slightly.

...

"The king is in charge. The Emperor of Song Dynasty wanted the immortal sheep, Tianma and Taurus on our grassland, so it was easy to say. Well, although it was a little expensive, but we Jin people always talked about the real price when doing business, and the things must be excellent!

In this way, can you give a sheep 30 shits, a horse 300 shits, and a cow 300 shits?"

The person who was discussing business with Wang Fu was Wanyan Xiyin, the Minister of the Great Jin Dynasty in Tianjin.

After 800,000 yuan was ruined, Datong Mansion was naturally full of shouting and beating, but shouting and beating are two different things. There is also a Great Zhou Kingdom next to the Great Jin Kingdom! Wanyan Aguda only wanted to blackmail some money from the Great Song Dynasty, but he never thought of defeating the Great Song Dynasty and letting the Great Zhou reap the benefits of the fisherman.

In Aguda's view, the Song Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Jin Dynasty were clearly three-legged tripods. The Zhou Kingdom was the real strongman among the three-legged ones! With this strongman staring at him, even if the Jin Kingdom broke through Kaifeng Prefecture, it was just a front drive for Zhou.

So when Wang Fu found Wanyan Xiyin and stated that he wanted to buy cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland at a high price, Aguda immediately instructed Xiyin to open a sky-high price to slaughter the State of Song.

Although Wanyan Xiyin has seen the world in Tianjin Prefecture, she still lacks imagination when doing business and slaughtering customers. After thinking, it is really a sky-high price for a thin sheep, a thin horse, and a stupid ox on the grassland.

No matter how expensive it is...it is beyond Wanyan Xiyin's imagination.

"Okay, okay," Wang Fu nodded repeatedly and said with a smile, "Immortal sheep, Tianma, Taurus, it is normal to be more expensive. Otherwise, we will first have ten thousand sheep, one thousand horses, one thousand cows, a total of 900,000 yuan... Let's pay a deposit of 300,000 yuan first. How about delivery in Tianjin within one month?"

"One month?" Wanyan Xiyin thought for a while. Time was a little tight, but I could catch up with it after working harder, so I nodded, "Okay, one month is just one month!"

Looking at Xi Yin's expression, Wang Fu couldn't help but laugh. It would take a month to raise 10,000 sheep, 1,000 horses, and 1,000 cattle in Tianjin? It took an hour to go to the cattle, sheep and horse market in Beicheng, and it would not cost 200,000 yuan.

It seems that these Jurchen barbarians are still honest!

Just when Wang Fu felt that the Jurchens were honest, Wanyan Xiyin suddenly smiled and said, "Wang Waizhi, have you heard of a four-way destruction plan?"

"That's all nonsense." Wang Fu remained silent, "If my court had the intention to destroy gold, how could he buy cattle, sheep and horses from you at a high price?"

"But the Song and Jin Alliance has not succeeded after all."

Wang Fu smiled and said, "A covenant can always be made. As long as there is no annual quota in the covenant, the court will be able to explain it. As for buying fairy sheep, Tianma, and Taurus a year, it will be no less."

"But who will the alliance between us target?"

"This..." Wang Fu was stunned, "The two countries have a good alliance, who else should I deal with?"

Wanyan Xiyin shook her head and said in confusion: "Shouldn't allies help each other? If the Song Dynasty receives attacks from other countries, shouldn't I, Dajin, send troops to help?"

"Other country means..." Wang Fu asked tentatively.

Wanyan Xiyin said: "Of course it's the Zhou Kingdom! Wu Haogu always claims to be the kingdom of the world!

There are more than Yan, western Liaoning, and eastern Liaoning!”

Wang Fu was still silent. He couldn't see through Wu Haogu's thoughts. But he could see through the official Zhao Ji's thoughts. Zhao Ji's thoughts are just two words, afraid of trouble!

It is a big deal to anger the Jin Kingdom, but it is even more tiny to offend the Zhou Kingdom.

Wanyan Xiyin saw Wang Fu silently, thinking that the Song and Jin Alliance's defense of Zhou was too big, and the other party was unwilling to get involved. So he smiled and said, "Wang is worse than to do this. When the cattle, sheep and horses gather together, I will personally escort them to Kaifeng Prefecture and arrange them."

Of course, Wang Fu understood what Wanyan Xiyin meant... He wanted to negotiate with the Song Dynasty court in person.

"Okay, I will definitely make arrangements." Wang Fu nodded.

Wang Fu didn't want to participate in the joint Jin defense of Zhou or the joint Zhou destroy Jin. Because in his opinion, both of these things were quite a bit stubborn. It would be better to finish this minister safely and steadily, and then go back to Kaifeng Prefecture to be promoted. Either one side is a polite minister or a minister in the court.

...

After seeing off the Song Dynasty Minister Wang Fu, Wanyan Xiyin immediately wrote a memorial to Wanyan Agu, and asked his personal soldiers to ride on horseback to Datong Prefecture, Datong Prefecture, and was preparing for a new round of invasion!

If the huge sum of money to buy cattle, sheep and horses were not received, a famine would definitely occur in the Datong Prefecture area next spring. So Aguda must go south to grab grain!

So after the Song Dynasty court refused to pay 800,000 yuan in annual monies, Aguda began to gather troops and prepare to go south.

Of course, he didn't want to fight all the way to Kaifeng Prefecture. He just wanted to go deep into the Taiyuan Prefecture and grab it.

After the memorial to stop the robbery was issued, Wanyan Xiyin went to the Head of State in Republic Square to ask for a meeting with Wu Haogu.

He had already made an appointment with Wu Haogu, and the reason for the meeting was that the Jin Dynasty's decision to give up Bei Goryeo.

Goryeo Kingdom was very uneasy during this period. Although Wu Yanchong's son Wu Sizhao received support from the Zhou Dynasty, he still could not suppress Yin Yanchun, who controlled the Bianwu team.

Moreover, Wu Sizhao himself was also cowardly and was afraid of going to war with Yin Yanchun. So in the spring of the second year of the Republic, he chose to retreat. He left Hanyang Prefecture, Nanjing, Goryeo, and retreated from the sea to his native Haizhou and lived in seclusion.

After mastering the government affairs of South Goryeo, Yin Yanchun continued to contribute to the Zhou State and maintain relations; on the other hand, he was actively expanding the military ranks and preparing to unify the Goryeo State in the Northern Expedition.

Originally, Wu Haogu was not worried that Yin Yanchun would play with her, because Northern Goryeo was protected by the Jin Kingdom. Even if there were only a few hundred Jin soldiers, it was enough to suppress Yin Yanchun.

But at this moment, Jin Guo actually chose to quit!

Once the Jin Kingdom retreated, Taku Junjing's troops would definitely not be able to protect Pyongyang. Goryeo unification is inevitable. Yin Yanchun's reputation will definitely reach its peak. Then he will be able to compete with Dazhou.

So Wu Haogu is considering whether to send troops to Goryeo these days.

With the strength of the Zhou army, it is certainly a must-win for sending troops to Goryeo. But what after the victory? How will the Zhou State govern the Goryeo Peninsula? Build another puppet?

Or just stop doing it and reunite the country and make up for the matter?

But it is necessary to annex... Goryeo has been independent of China for hundreds of years. Now that it has suddenly annexed, the people of Goryeo will definitely not be attached. I am afraid it will take a lot of effort to suppress it!

Therefore, the Dazhou government and the Senate had been arguing endlessly over the period of time over the annexation or indulging in Goryeo.

During the debate, two forces coveting the territory of Goryeo Kingdom appeared. They were Ma Zhi and Guo Yaoshi. Now Ma Zhi is entrenched in the triangle area bordering Goryeo, Jin and Zhou Kingdoms, occupying the territory called Yanbian Prefecture (the original Kai, Ding, Bao, and Xuan). He has 30,000 military households under his command, which is very difficult.

Guo Yaoshi was arranged in Tongzhou, not in the later years of Tongzhou, Beijing, but in the later years of Siping City. It became a buffer between the Zhou and Jin dynasties, and life was not easy.
Chapter completed!