Chapter 1,349 Western Development

Fu Bi was in Xijing and told Cai Que that Cai Que was a villain and should not be used in a big way. He should not listen.

The turmoil in the court caused by Yuanfeng's restructuring did not exist here in Su You, because now his level has been further advanced, that is, three divisions and three ministers.

As long as he is not demoted, it is just a matter of not entering the court. Once there is an edict, he must be at the level of a minister.

Otherwise, you have to transfer to the right class and be granted the title of county king.

This kind of thing cannot be done, so Su You repeatedly emphasized that the legitimacy of the Song Dynasty's acquisition of Xixia was an edict to "give up the country", rather than the Song Dynasty "seizing the country".

This was an important weapon against the Liao Kingdom's subsequent diplomatic offensive. A group of Liao-phobic patients in the Song Dynasty could only describe themselves as grateful for Su You's operation.

You must recognize it, and you must recognize it quickly!

However, in this way, the quality of Ping Xia's achievements was slightly worse. From the Duke of Fu to the Duke of Shu, the court no longer had the reputation of treating him poorly.

Now that Su You had to accept the second son of Feng Yin, Zhao Xu thought that by opening this gap, he could continue to add official titles to flat pot colanders in the future, which was considered a good "progress".

Only Cai Que still wanted to reward Su You, thinking that otherwise it would not be enough to show off his meritorious service.

It was not until Zhao Xu finally said that if you want to make trouble again, I will have to ask the Duke of Shu to come back to take up your position, Cai Que calmed down.

However, these were just "justifiable on the scene". Deep down, Zhao Xu still felt that he owed Su You a little.

So Zhao Xu cited the old court rules and the story of Cao Bin's destruction of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and prepared to reward Su You with 800,000 coins.

Su You resolutely refused to do it and wrote a letter to His Majesty saying that this was also wrong.

Cao Bin destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty and received 8 million yuan from the Southern Tang treasury, so his reward was worthy of his achievements.

The Xixia royal family destroyed itself and was not asked for by its ministers; the Xia Kingdom did not perish, but was demoted; not only did it not bring much money, but it also required the court to continue fighting for ten years of poverty alleviation.

This is completely different from King Cao Lu taking the sacred land south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the minister's achievements can at most be regarded as solving one of the border troubles of the Song Dynasty, and are not equivalent to the achievements of King Cao Lu.

Eight hundred thousand guan is obviously too high. I don't want to be rewarded. I just want to ask for some policies from your majesty.

One is to open the Huangsong Bank in Sanlu, the hometown of Xia State.

The second is that all the original Xia border trade bans will be lifted.

The third is to set up markets in several border areas of the original Xia Kingdom to attract border tribes to trade.

The fourth is that just as the Song Dynasty sent envoys and internal officials to go with Pu Shan to the South China Sea this spring to prepare boats and plan to visit Daxi Prefecture, the Song Dynasty should also send envoys and internal officials to Hexi and Mobei to conduct foreign affairs activities.

The fifth problem is the population problem. It is necessary to follow the example of the Han Dynasty and strengthen the Xiang army from the interior to Hexi, and then set up settlements outside.

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The population of Xixia has always been a mystery, and even the number of troops is not very reliable.

The most detailed record is probably the record in "History of Song Dynasty: Biography of Xia Guo".

“Seventy thousand people were sent from Hebei to Mount Wulahu to prepare for the Khitan;

Fifty thousand people including Hongzhou, Baibao, Anyanzhou, Luoluo, Tiandu, and Weijingshan in Henan are in preparation for Huan, Qing, Zhenrong, and Yuanzhou;

There are 50,000 people on Youzhou Road in the left wing, in preparation for Yan, Lin, Mansion;

There are 30,000 people on the Ganzhou Road in the right wing, in preparation for the Western Tibetans and Uighurs;

There are 50,000 troops stationed in Helan, 50,000 troops in Lingzhou, and 70,000 troops in Xingqing Prefecture in Xingzhou.

A total of more than half a million."

After the war, Su You felt that this number was relatively reliable. Among the regular troops that the Song army annihilated this time, they included 70,000 troops from Xixia preparing for Khitan; 100,000 preparing for Song Dynasty; 30,000 preparing for Qingtang Dynasty; and Ren Duo was alone.

Xingqing Mansion brought 70,000 people across the Yellow River, plus the remaining 30,000 scattered people, the total number is about 300,000.

The remaining 200,000 are Xia's servants.

If the army figures are correct, and according to the Xia system, one soldier is sent out from every four dings, then the number of dings in Xixia should be around four million.

These young people, plus an almost equal number of women and children, should be around eight million.

This number is much higher than what many experts have inferred, but they are not to blame, because even the Xia people themselves do not know how many people they have.

Because there were still a large number of nomadic tribes, the Xia people themselves did not include them in historical data.

Wen Yanbo once said that the population of Shaanxi Province can be equal to that of the entire Xixia area, which is the base number that everyone can control.

Of course, even based on the eight million people, about one million have been recruited by the four groups of Shannan and Shaanxi, more than 300,000 have disappeared in the vast dry sea, and 200,000 have disappeared on the way of the army's conquest. For example, they almost let

Of the tens of thousands that Wang Zhongzheng lost his head and were burned to death in Jialuchuan, there are only about six million left in the area managed by Su You.

Most of these six million are scattered in the vast territory of more than ten thousand miles that "ends with the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north."

The areas controlled by the Xia Kingdom were mostly deserts and Gobis, and about half of the land was not suitable for human survival. Therefore, its population density was far lower than that of the areas controlled by the Northern Song Dynasty, even lower than that of Hebei.

What Suyou can currently control, that is, the stationary farming Han people, and a few population settlements along large pastures, oases, and rivers, less than half of them, only about two to three million.

These two to three million people are basically distributed in the two major river systems of Jiuyuan within Taotao, Xingqingfu outside Taotao, and Juyanze and Xiutuze in Hexi.

The land is truly vast and sparsely populated.

Therefore, regarding the issue of rewards for this war, Su You suggested that the court should always use land as a reward.

But this will encounter a problem, and it is very serious - the group of men with outstanding military exploits are all important supporters of the imperial court, professional soldiers.

It was impossible to get them to lay down their weapons and go to the local landlords.

The final result of the negotiation was that the court exempted the rent of this part of the land for ten years.

Huangsong Bank and Sitong Company participated in the process and separated the ownership and management rights of this part of the land.

The Huangsong Bank endorsed a loan of five million yuan to Sitong Company, which used them as rent capital to lease the land from the soldiers for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The profits obtained were divided into three parts, one part was returned to Huangsong Bank, one part was given to the meritorious soldiers, and the other part was used for the northwest operation of the firm.

This is actually an installment payment for the military merits of the soldiers, but the down payment alone can satisfy the soldiers, not to mention that there will be ten years of benefits in the future.

And ten years later, these lands will still belong to the soldiers!

Sitong is also short of people, but Sitong is specialized in doing this. They can recruit the population of Xia State to do this. This is very important for Su You to promote new agriculture on the third road, transform the local economic structure, and change the ethnic attributes of the Xia people.

There are great benefits.

After being trained, these people will become obedient citizens of the Song Dynasty and professional farmers. Ten years later, they will also be the first batch of takeovers of this land.

This measure greatly reduced the financial burden caused by merit rewards. The Duke of Shu was really capable of what others could not do. He allowed the court to gain face and keep dignity in the great cause of Ping Xia.

There are already a lot of Han people in Xixia, and Su You is confident that if farming is used instead of animal husbandry, as long as everyone compares production value without using knives, the Han people and the Tibetan people who choose the Han lifestyle will soon become the mainstream in this land.

Coupled with the ruthless invasion of culture, food, and living habits, the Dangxiang nation will soon be integrated into the national family.

In view of this self-confidence, Su You finally obeyed Wei Mingji's cry and applied to Zhao Xu to grant permission to the existing Xixia books and inscriptions, as long as they did not have any transgressive words, such as Buddhist scriptures.

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Xixia writing was created by Nori Renrong out of hand. The strokes are very complicated, not friendly to memory, and are more difficult to understand than Chinese characters.

It is different from the writing created by later generations of Vietnamese and Koreans. At least it is concise and easy to remember.

Therefore, Su You knew that this kind of writing would have no vitality if it were not for the forced intervention of political forces. After the Xia Kingdom re-implemented Chinese characters, Xixia writing was destined to be eliminated by history.

What is different from history is that this kind of writing has only been promoted for a few decades, and there are not many scholars in Xixia now. Su You feels that his ability to promote Chinese characters is many times better than Li Yuanhao.

There are many aspects of political management, so everyone is busy.

It was not for nothing that Chaogu had monopolized the post of secretarial officer of the Xixia Privy Council for decades. He had too many excuses for the demoted officials in Xixia.

Even after Xixia was pacified, Su You simply changed the secret police under Chaogu into law enforcement officers.

The nature of this kind of law enforcement officer is very similar to the law enforcement officers among immigrants in the western era of the United States. This is the only pitiful legal force that Su You can add to the vast pastoral area of ​​Xixia.

If the Xia people in the past were too loose in their management of the pastoral tribes, they were too strict in their management of the Han people responsible for farming.

Su You designed the balance of Xia State's political situation very carefully, so he was very confident in this team, and even dared to let go, and took charge of the construction of workers and peasants himself.

The first step was to free the serfs.

There was no way, Zhuangzi's masters had all died in the war, and the serf managers could only become officials.

Decades of exploration are not in vain. Now Su You has many successful models in its hands - the Shuzhong model, the Weizhou model, the Zhejiang and Zhejiang models, and the Nanhai model.

The current Ningxia model is a combination of several models.

Ningxia has the advantage of salt and iron, as well as the Silk Road. This is very similar to the South China Sea.

Jiuyuan, Liangze, and Xingqing Plains have agricultural foundations, which is very similar to the Liangzhe Road.

Local products and developed varieties can be compared to Weizhou, which has a similar climate.

In terms of economic structure and financial instruments, it is basically the same as in Shuzhong at the beginning - a blank slate.

The only thing that needs attention is the large number of Tibetan people and the impact of the nomadic way of life.

But this is similar to the Hehuang Minzhou that has been successfully explored.

So Su You was very busy, but very happy. The damn war was finally over, and it was finally his turn to use his strengths.
Chapter completed!