Autumn goes to winter solstice, and the north wind and heavy snow have caused the temperature in Tokyo Bianliang to drop sharply. The once lively capital of the Song Dynasty was nowhere to be seen on the streets.

However, unlike outside, the Privy Council Hall, which had five or six smokeless charcoal furnaces, was warm as spring. Sun Tu was sitting there and had to wear a single dress. It was enough until Tong Mu and his friends pushed the door and brought a cold wind into the outside room, which made him look down at the Chinese textbook and raised his eyebrows and looked up.

Tong Mu and Sun Tu have become increasingly close in cooperation in recent years. At this time, there is no apology. While wavering hands, letting the servants beside him prepare tea for him and others, patting the snow marks on the shoulders and saying, "Did you read the Northern Military Newspaper that was sent in a hurry last night for 600 miles?"

As the prime minister and the Grand Tutor of the court today, Tong Mu is naturally very well-informed. Even if it is a military matter that has nothing to do with him, he can grasp the information at the first time. Sun Tu didn't care about this and nodded slightly: "That's right, but in order not to disturb me, the Privy Council didn't know about this until I came to the yamen just now. Fortunately, there was no major change in front of me, otherwise I wouldn't have severely punished them for delaying military aircraft."

Although he said this very seriously, the smile on the corners of his eyes and mouth still revealed that Grand Marshal Sun was not really angry, but was in a good mood. After all, the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty has been frequent and good news since September, and in October, even the Liao Kingdom was taken over by Yue Fei's army. It can be said that by then, the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty had achieved complete victory. The next thing was the regular pursuit of the northern expedition of the north, expanding the results of the battle, and stabilizing the newly acquired Liao Kingdom city.

So even if Sun Tu only saw the battle report today, it doesn't matter. Tong Mu knew this and joked: "It's time to remind them, after all, this is one of the rare things that can make you Grand Marshal Sun work hard."

Just as he said this, Sun Tu was suddenly stunned, and then he laughed on his back, acting extremely happy and joyful, which made everyone around him a little confused. I wonder why he was so happy. It was impossible that he laughed because of Tong Mu's joke, right?

Even Tong Mu was smiling at him for a while and couldn't help but say, "Qianli, what are you laughing at? Is there another great victory on the front line? It's not right. Now the forces in the Liao Kingdom have moved west with Yelu Dashi and dare not fight with us. What other good news can there be?"

Sun Tu then stopped his smile and happily handed over the battle report in his hand: "Look. If you really want to say that human calculations are worse than God's calculations. Sometimes even God stands on our side."

Tong Mu quickly reached out to get the battle report and swept it quickly with a glance. After seeing it, his face also showed ecstasy, and even his body trembled slightly: "It's really God helping me! I really didn't expect that things would develop like this."

Their performances naturally aroused the curiosity of several other officials. Until Tong Mu handed over the war report to them and circulated them, everyone laughed in a burst of tsk sounds: "There is such a thing. I didn't expect that the Liao people would meet the Xia people when the whole country moved westward, and the two sides fought like this..."

It turned out that in late October, the Liao army and the people who were heading west were actually ordered by the Song Dynasty. They were reluctant, but had to come. They could only delay the 100,000 troops of Western Xia, which had to be delayed again and again, collided with them head-on.

Logically speaking, it is difficult for these two sides to meet at that point in time. After all, the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty was almost over, and the Western Xia army should have already entered the Liao territory early, so the Liao Kingdom could naturally find ways to avoid it. But, the Xixia people who were selfish and wanted to preserve their strength kept dragging them and marched slowly until October. They came to the vicinity of the Liao Kingdom's Xijing, thus colliding head-on with the Liao people's brigade.

To put it, the Xixia people were smart this time and shot themselves in the foot was a little good. In the situation at that time, neither the Xia army nor the Liao army had room to hide, and in the end they could only start a war in a hurry and kill both sides.

Judging from the strength of both sides, the Liao army actually had an overwhelming advantage. But because they were migrating this time, they had too many people in the team with their families, which bound their hands and feet, which led to the extremely unfavorable battle against them from the beginning. They could only distribute some of their troops to deal with the Xia army, but the main force had to retreat behind and focus on defense.

This flattened the strength between the two sides. In addition, the commander of Xixia was also a person who was good at grasping the enemy's weaknesses, and soon formulated a tactic to continuously harass the people of the Liao people and make them lose their own position, which even brought a major blow to the Liao people.

As a result, after more than ten days of tug-of-war attack and defense, both sides suffered heavy losses. More than half of the 100,000 Xixia troops were lost, and the Liao people even paid 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers to be killed in battle, and countless casualties of the people. This made the Liao people even worse, and the situation was really at a precarious level.

Such a killing of the two enemy countries and the heavy casualties made people happy, but what made Sun Tu feel even more happy was the heavy price paid by the Xixia people for this self-righteous cleverness. If they had not been hiding and delayed the troops and horses coming from the west, this battle that would have hurt their vitality would not have happened. It really made people feel a sense of pleasure that would have exclaimed.

Tong Mu and others were also happy and said bluntly that this was the retribution of the people of Xixia. Who told them that they had been unwilling to obey the court's will to send troops as soon as possible? The losses are greater than cooperating with the Song army to attack Liao.

"The officials thought that such a good news should be passed on to the world as soon as possible so that the people of the world would be happy."

"Of course, the Chinese New Year is coming, and no news is better than the attacks between Liao and Xia and both injured." Sun Tu also smiled and said, "By the way, how have you done to gather the wealth of Liao? There are still many people inside and outside the capital waiting to get back their capital and get interest."

It turned out that after the Liao people moved westward, the Song Dynasty sent many officials to Liao to receive the property that the Liao people could not take away hastily. You should know that the reason why the army could make the rapid advance of the Northern Expedition was to issue national bonds and strengthen the Northern Expedition with the wealth of the people. Now that the war was won, it is naturally time to fulfill its promise, and it is time to repay the principal and interest to the people.

Tong Mu laughed as soon as he heard this: "When the Taiwei said, I came today to discuss this matter with you. In fact, in the past two days, relevant property has been sent to Beijing. If it is calculated based on the profit of 20 to 30% of the previous set, the expenses will be quite large. I am afraid that there may not be too much left to the treasury court at that time."

"Since we have agreed to the people of the world early in the morning, we have no way to go back on our word, otherwise how can we win the trust of the people? What's more, those are just floating wealth. For the court, conquering the entire northern Liao Kingdom, their land, cities and people's population are the most important, and they can add strength to us in the future. Therefore, all these property can be delivered to the people who have bought national debts in the form of interest and principal, as long as they can be enough to pay rewards and food to the soldiers." Sun Tu waved his hand and immediately made a decision.

After pausing, he smiled and said, "What's more, my family has paid a lot of money for this treasury bond transaction. I can't let my family suffer losses because of business and private affairs, right?"

This last sentence immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter. In fact, it was not only him, Tong Mu, and the officials who were now standing on Sun Tu's side who also paid more or less to buy national debts. This was not only support for the court and Sun Tu, but also to increase income beyond the salary.

Tong Mu immediately gathered in the fun and said, "Oh? But I don't know how much national debt you have bought this time?"

"Not much, it's only 50,000 yuan." Sun Tu smiled: "I heard you are the same?"

"Yes, I also bought 50,000 NTD bonds and kept them at home. To be honest, I am really worried about the chaos on the front line these few months, which will cause my money to be wasted. You know, that is all the wealth I have saved for many years."

Sun Tu smiled and nodded again: "Who said no? If it is really defeated, our whole family will have to drink the northwest wind." As he said that, he burst into laughter, and then the officials around him laughed together.

It is obvious that the two most powerful people in the court today can only take out 50,000 guan to buy national debts, which can be seen that they are indeed not as greedy and value selfish interests as those in power in the past. You must know that these 50,000 guans are indeed a big figure among the people, and are money that countless people will never make in their lifetime, but for officials, it is just a trivial matter.

When Liang Zhongshu celebrated Cai Jing's birthday, he would prepare a treasure of 100,000 yuan for his father-in-law every year, and this was just one of them to flatter Cai Jing's annual offerings. If all of them were added together, this number would be as rich as a country. But obviously, Sun Tu, who had a higher goal, was disdainful to use his power to seek such selfish interests for himself.

It is also because of this that the Song Dynasty today has eliminated the extravagance and corruption that was originally, and has made the people live a better life. Now there are continuous victories and the benefits of national debts with capital and profit, which has made the people of the Song Dynasty live a more prosperous life, and has also made Sun Tu's reputation among the people and the court reach a new peak.

Today, people in the world have gradually forgotten that there is a puppet-like emperor Zhao Ji in the court. In the eyes of countless people, the Taiwei Sun Tu is the only person in power who can determine the direction of the entire country and the people in one sentence.

There has even been a saying among the people that in the future, Taiwei Sun would kick Zhao Ji, the puppet emperor, away, and then sit in the most precious position in the world, just like the Cao Wei generation of the Han Dynasty and the Zhao family generation of the Zhou Dynasty!
Chapter completed!