In the blink of an eye, in February of the sixth year of assimilation, the Western Xia entered an important opportunity for peaceful development, at this time, there was no war in the Western Xia, either inside or outside, the Western Xia fully entered the mode of economic development, and the entire land of the Western Xia was undergoing this change; At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty was also undergoing this change.
In the first month of the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Yingzong died, and the crown prince Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, which is the Song Shenzong who had a life in history; When Emperor Shenzong ascended the throne, the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty faced a series of crises, with huge military spending, a bloated bureaucracy and a large number of government expenditures, and a large number of annual coins given to Liao and Western Xia, which caused the Northern Song Dynasty to lose money every year.
In addition, the rampant smuggling activities in Western Xia made the finances of the Great Song Dynasty difficult, and in such a situation, the young Song Shenzong decisively used a group of courtiers such as Wang Anshi to change the law, and at the same time deposed a group of important ministers such as Lu Gongzhu and Ouyang Xiu who opposed the change.
Let's turn our attention to the Western Xia again, with the support of Li Liangzuo, Zhou Shengcai proposed to establish a production base experimental site has achieved great results, although this experimental site is small, but the input and output have formed a great contrast, and at the same time reduce the dependence on the Great Song Dynasty goods, Zhou Shengcai in Li Liangzuo's support, let the courtiers see the huge benefits brought by the establishment of the production base.
In the end, the courtiers discussed, and Li Liangzuo decided that the Western Xia would establish production bases for goods in Hehuang and Ningxia, which were mainly light industrial commodities such as silk, cloth, porcelain, and paper, which had low production costs, but had a broad market and fast recovery costs.
By controlling the Silk Road, the Western Xia continuously transported silk, cloth, paper and other materials to the countries of the Western Regions, so that merchants reduced the number of merchants who sold these from the Great Song Dynasty, because selling from Chang'an or Luoyang in the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Regions was bound to increase the cost due to the long distance, so it was better to choose to purchase them locally in the Western Xia.
In addition, after half a year of development, the Western Xia purchased a large amount of tea, grain and other materials from the Great Song Dynasty through smuggling channels and hoarded them, and in addition, the cured meat, jerky, furs, medicinal materials and other materials purchased by the Northern Liao were continuously transported to the Great Song Dynasty, and a lot of wealth was earned by buying and selling the Western Xia.
With the improvement of the living standards of the people of Western Xia, Li Liangzuo once again set his sights on the army, and now the army of Western Xia includes 100,000 central troops and 120,000 border troops, with a total strength of only 220,000; This is already very insufficient for the Western Xia, whose territory has been greatly expanded, and the expansion of the army is imminent, because Li Liangzuo has already planned to use troops in the next step.
Although the proposal of the border army and the government soldiers was put forward very early, due to the financial problems that have been put on hold, and now that Li Liangzuo has money in his pocket, it is natural to realize the original idea, and a complete military system is of vital importance to a country's national defense and security.
Xingqing Mansion Palace, today is the Great Dynasty Meeting, Xingqing Mansion officials at all levels have arrived, compared with five years ago, the appearance of these officials has all changed, since the assimilation reform Li Liangzuo has raised the official's salary three times, even if an ordinary county order has 200 yuan per year, which is a lot of money at this time.
You must know that after five years of reform, the price of grain in Western Xia has been stable at 400 Wen, one stone per stone is equal to 60 catties, the consistent money of Xixia is 800 Wen, 200 Guan is 1,600 Wen, and the total grain is 400 Shi, if a family is a family of five, the family is quite rich in filling in a few servants, and there is a reward from the emperor every New Year's Festival.
Officially, because of such an economic foundation, Li Liangzuo once again carried out a drastic reform of the army, and at the beginning of the court meeting, all the ministers bowed to Li Liangzuo and said: "Meet His Majesty the Emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ” Li Liangzuo waved his hand and said, "Everyone, please get up." ” "Thank you, Your Majesty."
The ministers rose up and thanked him.
At the beginning of the court meeting, Li Liangzuo issued an order to demote the two county orders that served in the Hehuang area, in fact, these two county orders did not make any big mistakes, that is, because the political performance was not improved, although the officials of the Western Xia were very rich, but the requirements were also very strict, and they must have political achievements every year, which not only looked at the local taxes, but also included the income and living conditions of the people, as well as the local grain production or the development of animal husbandry, etc.
The requirements for political performance are so strict, not to mention that there are people who dare to be corrupt, once the corrupt officials are discovered, no matter how many, they will be beheaded, and their families will be sent as slaves.
After deposing the two county officials, Li Liangzuo said to the ministers: "Now that the country is also rich, many of the military policies formulated in the first year of assimilation should also be implemented; First of all, the Central Army and the Border Army, I decided to abolish the left and right sides and the twelve military divisions, with the expansion of the territory of our Great Xia Kingdom, the military strategy formulated by the first emperor is no longer enough to deal with today's situation; Therefore, I decided to make a new military division of the country, first of all, the Ningxia area, where the national capital is located, will be garrisoned by the main force of the Central Army, 70,000 troops; The border armies of the Hetao in the north and the four states in the northeast were formed into the Hetao Army, with a strength of 50,000 troops, and were commanded by General Jila Siyi; The Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate was stationed in the area north of Yinshan, and the strength of the Anbei Army was 30,000, with Li Xiaoren as the commander and Hua Ma and Mu Zheng as the deputy commanders; The Anxi Protectorate was stationed in the Xizhou region, and the strength of the Anxi Army was 50,000, including 20,000 central troops and 30,000 border troops, with Li Chahan as the commander; The Hexi area was garrisoned by the Flying Tiger Division of the Central Army, and the garrison of 30,000 troops was commanded by the Xili Division; In the Hehuang and southeastern border areas, the Hehuang Army was formed with a strength of 70,000, of which 50,000 were stationed in the Hehuang area and 20,000 were stationed in the southeastern border states, with Li Yanzong as the commander and Qin Hu as the deputy commander; The second is the government soldiers in various places, starting from this year, the government soldiers system in various places will be established one after another, all the young and strong must be trained in the government in the agricultural slack, and the cost of training will be borne by the imperial court and the young and strong respectively, and the weapons and armor required by the government soldiers will be responsible for the unified responsibility of the imperial court. ” According to the new division of military regions and the distribution of troops, the strength of the Western Xia was restored to 300,000, including 120,000 central army and 180,000 border army, for the Western Xia, the current 300,000 troops are enough, of which the purpose of the Hehuang army is mainly to guard the Hehuang and guard against the Great Song Dynasty, the task of the Hetao army and the Anbei army is to monitor the two Liao, and the Anxi army is mainly to fight against the Black Khan army.
Although the territory of the Western Xia expanded a lot, it was still in a land of four wars, in which case the Western Xia had to maintain enough troops to protect their territory, and the establishment of the government soldiers would become a supplement to the army; Now the population of Western Xia is nearly six million, and once it is wartime, Li Liangzuo can arm an army of 600,000, of course, this is also the limit of Western Xia.
"Your Majesty Shengming, Your Majesty Shengming" the ministers patted their asses together.
Li Liangzuo continued to say to the civil and military officials: "Recently, there have been border troops complaining that the treatment is not as good as that of the Central Army, today I am here to tell you that these generals, whether it is the border army or the Central Army, we will all treat them equally; But there are only so many places in the Central Army, if the border army wants to become the Central Army, then defeat them, I will hold a big competition in the whole army every year, as long as you can defeat the Central Army, then the positions of both of you will be changed. ” Li Liangzuo's practice led to the formation of a competition between the central army and the border army, and under this competition, the combat effectiveness of the Xia army was greatly increased, and this was the best way to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army in peacetime.
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