More than 20 years after Zhao Zhi ascended the throne, after hard work and a series of reforms, the strength of the Jin Dynasty has been greatly restored. It can be said that in the first fifteen years of Zhao Zhi's rule, he was saving money, frugality internally, forbearing externally, and political stability internally. Zhao Zhi did this and achieved good results. The strength and strength of the central imperial guards were gradually restored, and the finances were also very abundant.

However, everything has two sides. Although the court's practice has enriched the central government, it has greatly aggravated the difficulties of local finances. What should we do if the local government has no money to pay? We can only increase taxes on the people.

After Zhao Zhi ascended the throne, the Jin Dynasty was already in a turbulent manner. It was a last resort to reform taxes and collecting the central government. By the 12th year of Guangyuan, after more than ten years of development and the gathering of wealth in the world, the foundation of the Jin Dynasty, including Fengjing, had been greatly restored. At this time, Yang Daosi and Liu Jie jointly issued a memorial to reform the tax policies of the local and central governments, which was actually a significant reduction in the proportion of money and grain paid by local governments to the central government, and eliminated many unnecessary taxes in order to reduce the burden and pressure on the people.

The suggestion of Yang Daosi and Liu Jie was approved by Zhao Zhi. If the taxes were really reduced significantly, the tax burden of the people in the world would be greatly reduced and the people would be at peace. The implementation of this policy would be beneficial to the people and the world should be stable for a long time.

But the bad thing is that the Jin Dynasty turned danger into safety, national strength gradually increased, and the country's form improved, as the emperor, Zhao Zhi's mind changed. At that time, most of the military, financial and material resources of the Jin Dynasty were concentrated in Anbei and Longyou, and used to deal with foreign tribes. In the internal affairs, Zhao Zhi endured for so many years and suffered so many years of grievances, and should also vent his anger and prove himself. He wanted to expand the power of the imperial guards, which required money, and the tax was reduced in a comprehensive manner, and the central finances were greatly reduced. What did Zhao Zhi use to expand the central guards?

Therefore, although Zhao Zhi agreed to the reform plan of Yang Daosi and Liu Jie at that time, he did not change it all at once, but divided the world into three steps, that is, divided into three parts, Jiangnan, Shannan, etc., and Hedong, Henan, etc.

Whoever changes first, who should do it later caused a great political turmoil at that time. In the end, Yang Daosi won. The Jiangnan region represented by him was the first to change first. From the 13th year of Guangyuan, taxes were greatly reduced. Jiannan, Shannan and other places began to be synchronized with taxes in the Jiangnan region from the second year, that is, the 14th year of Guangyuan.

It was originally nothing to be late for a few years, but from the tenth year of Guangyuan to the twelfth year of Guangyuan, the Hedong area in Henan Province had been drought for three consecutive years, and the situation was already very bad. By the fourteenth year of Guangyuan, the situation still did not improve. Natural disasters were part of it, and there were great reasons. Zhao Zhi's efforts to use disaster relief in order to expand his army were naturally quite limited. In addition, he saw that taxes in other regions were greatly reduced, but he still suffered countless persecutions and provoked by those who were interested. The time was in the fifteenth year of Guangyuan. As the eve of tax reform, the White Turban Army rebellion broke out in Henan Province, and its scale expanded rapidly. Zhao Zhi thought he was very powerful, but now he realized that he could not control the overall situation at all. In the end, he had to rely on local vassal states to suppress the White Turban Army rebellion.

As well as the later Battle of Jiangnan and the First Battle of Longyou, the Jin Dynasty achieved a series of brilliant military victories for the Hu tribe in Monan, but what is behind it? The national and material resources accumulated hard by the Jin Dynasty since Zhao Zhi was in power for more than 20 years, have been exhausted.

Four words suddenly flashed in Huang's mind, from prosperity to decline.

At present, the Jin Dynasty has directly controlled more than 500,000 troops. All the major vassal states in the world respected them. On the surface, it seems very powerful, but in fact it has been a strong outside and a middle. The beginning of its transformation should have started from the death of Liu Jie's scholars and Yang Daosi. After them, the political situation in the court began to change. Although there were factions and struggles in the past, Yang Daosi and Liu Jie were suppressed. Everyone knows that the overall situation is the priority. Now, who is still in charge of those? The chaos in the political situation will inevitably lead to a decline in overall strength. The national strength of the Jin Dynasty will gradually decline. Now Zhao Zhi, the prestigious old emperor, is still in power, and it is not very obvious. The situation will not lose control. But what after Zhao Zhi? Who can play this big game of the world?

The reason why Li Zhong would rather ignore the seven states in the western Longyou area than to disintegrate Tubo from the inside was to make plans for the future, because only when Tubo itself undergoes qualitative changes can the Hu tribe stop the Hu tribe and attack the power of Tubo with the greatest strength. In this way, in the next few decades, Tubo will not pose a threat to the Jin Dynasty. Even if the Hu tribe is strong in the future, the Jin Dynasty will only need to face one enemy of the Hu tribe.

Huang figured it out, looked up at Li Zhong, with an unconcealed look of respect in his eyes, bowing and saying, "Master, what do you want to do?"

"wait."

Li Zhong looked at Huang deeply, and then a smile appeared on his face that was very late at night: "Gowa is not going far away, how can others have a chance?"

At the same time, sixty miles away from Wu'an City, an army of more than 10,000 people was advancing rapidly.

Huang just thought of the things in his heart and did not say them, but there was a person who thought of them and said them, and this person was Sima Tu.

Wang Renzi ordered a retreat, not a swarm, but instead he led the main force to cover the people's retreat to Wuzhou. Li Zhong led 10,000 troops from his headquarters, and retreated in battle. As an obstacle to cover the main force's retreat, most of Li Xun's subordinates were dissatisfied with this order, but Li Xun finally chose to obey. At this time, if everyone had internal conflicts, they would be dead.

Five days have passed since he was fighting and retreating. Wang Renzi sent people to Huizhou for help several times, but there was no news. The 60,000 army led by Li Zhong did not take any action. An hour ago, Li Xiao rushed back and said that Li Zhong would not send troops, and everything depends on himself.

Li Xun was puzzled. Why didn't Li Zhong send troops and refuse to save him when he was dead? He told Sima Tu this doubt, who said roughly the same words as Huang Susi thought.

After listening to Sima Tu's in-depth speculation, Li Xun was very shocked. After a while, he stretched out his thumb and exclaimed: "I always thought that only Fan Zhongyun was good at grand strategy and long-term vision, but I didn't expect you to have this ability."

Sima Tu smiled bitterly and said embarrassedly: "My lord, I don't have this ability, and my vision is not so long. What I said just now was what Mr. Fan said when he was chatting with me before leaving. When the lord asked this just now, I said it. If I really ask the fundamentals, I can't think of such a deep-seated question."
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