In the afternoon, An Huaman launched another attack, but because of the feint attack, there were heavy casualties. This time he only attacked twice and then retreated.

Li Guangzhong shot out the battle report with an arrow, Mengchong sent troops to pick it up and sent it to Longshui City.

In the battle report, Li Guangzhong said that he had obtained 212 levels, and it is estimated that the barbarian soldiers who were killed and injured in Anhua were five times more likely than this basis. In order to express his determination, the war report wrote in a sonorous manner: "Although I was grateful to the barbarian soldiers for one day, I was deeply grateful to the emperor. Even if there was one soldier and one soldier, I would not retreat! Please rest assured! The mountain is there!"

Zhao Qin sighed: "Who said that I am not a weak general in the Song Dynasty? Is this a general who is loyal and righteous and good at fighting?"

At that moment, Zhao Jin asked someone to take out three hundred straits first, and asked Meng Chong to send them to the pumping tower and to deliver them to the wooden barrel for reward. In addition, Feng Shenji also asked him to take the wooden barrel of the pumping tower to Yishan Village at night, and reward Li Guangzhong with a pair of armor and Chen Erxin with a sharp knife. Feng Shenji once again gave him a condolences to the soldiers.

The soldiers of Yishanzhai were immediately shocked and repelled three attacks from the Anhua Barbarian Rebels the next day. However, the Anhua Barbarian Rebels had experience in siege and did not have many beheadings this time, but only got 176 levels. However, there were probably 1,560 casualties in Anhua Barbarians. Even if the Anhua Barbarians have tens of thousands of troops, they cannot withstand such consumption.

Feng Chang'er had no choice but to order the city to siege first and build siege equipment. In fact, the so-called siege equipment is just an excuse. What kind of siege equipment can Anhuaman create? Take a step back, even if there is this technology, advanced siege equipment requires a large amount of fine iron and bronze as components. Where does Anhuaman have these components?

Build by yourself? Anhuaman has this technology and this material. He has already made weapons. Why is it that there are tens of thousands of troops now? Thousands of people are fighting with bamboo spears?

On the fourth day, the Song army had already lit up the smoke from Anhuaman's false cooking, and then calculated how many soldiers were from the amount of other cooking smoke. A scoop was often a large iron pot, which could cook about twenty-five people. Of course, this is not absolute. After all, Anhuaman is a coalition force, and there are many miscellaneous ones. There are not enough large iron pots, and some of them use their own pottery pots to replace them.

There are inevitably differences for this. But Ma Yu dared to pat his chest and told Zhao Chen that the Anhuaman army in front of him would definitely not exceed 35,000 troops!

Zhao Jin nodded, turned around and said, "We will discuss the military later! Come on Matixia too!"

Ma Yu was stunned and said, "Prince, what's wrong? I feel like there is nothing wrong!"

Zhao Qian shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, you will think of change. For four consecutive days, the Anhua barbarian rebels were attacking Yishanzhai but failed. Time would only be beneficial to our army, and they would inevitably..."

Speaking of this, Zhao Feng suddenly stopped.

Ma Yu was surprised and looked at Zhao Qian's surprised gaze, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

The Anhua barbarian rebels were like a torrent that was disbanded, heading towards the west. It should be noted that Longshui City is located in the east! In other words, the Anhua barbarian rebels are retreating!

"King... Prince! An Huaman... An Huaman has actually retreated!" Ma Yu couldn't help but speak incoherently.

Zhao Qian took a deep breath and said, "Go back to the yamen!"

After pausing, Zhao Qin said to Ma Yu: "You send me immediately to Meng Chong and ask him to take someone on a boat to investigate and see if the Anhuaman rebels are really retreating!"

You said and said, the atmosphere that had become slightly relaxed because of the withdrawal of Anhuaman rebels, and it became even more solemn again, and it was even more solemn than before.

"Prince, why don't you lead the troops to cover up and kill now! It's better than going to the deep mountains and forests to start a war!" Zhang Hanyang suggested.

Chen Guo, the commander of the wing soldiers, quickly opposed: "No! Who knows if An Huaman made two preparations and left ambush while withdrawing the troops! How can we fight on the plain? It is important to know that the troops who were guarding the city and the Yishanzhai have not been available for a while after several bloody battles. The troops that can be used are only 2,400,500! The An Huaman rebels are twelve or three times our strength! How can we fight on the plain?"

Ou Zhenglong said irritably: "This is not, that is not, it is useless for us to talk nonsense here!"

Zhao Qian thought about Chen's proposal, then shook his head and said, "I have seen the retreat of Anhua barbarian rebels. Although it is not in good order, it is definitely not the kind of panic. Morale is still there! Taking advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, there is no way to talk about it. Sending troops is just a battle in the wilderness, and it is difficult to win!"

Du Xiansheng hesitated and said, "Prince, have you asked the court to allocate money? The court's money has arrived, and it is still no problem to form a one- or two thousand soldiers! With these forces, plus the recruitment forces you have decided to recruit, including Heyizhou, Rongzhou, Guizhou, Xiangzhou and other states, there are nearly 10,000 troops. I think I can take down the Anhua barbarians!"

Just as Zhao Qin was about to speak, Zhao Yingwu's voice sounded outside. "Prince, the court's reading has arrived!"

Zhao Bi was immediately excited and shouted: "Send it up!"

Not to mention Zhao Feng, the other senior officials in Yizhou were also excited and more than ten eyes were staring at Zhao Yingwu. Zhao Yingwu, who was not sure about the situation, was numb to his scalp. What happened to me today? Could it be that he was wearing the wrong clothes? Or had he become handsome?

Although thousands of words flowed in his heart, Zhao Yingwu still delivered the court's reply to the desk in front of Zhao Chen. Zhao Chen quickly opened it a look of anticipation at the beginning, but in just a moment, a dark blue look appeared on Zhao Chen's face that could not be completely concealed.

Meng Fang, Feng Shanji and other civil officials looked at each other and exchanged tacitly.

Peng Rui did not have this look and asked excitedly: "Prince, how much did the imperial court say to allocate? But there is one million guan!"

Zhao Qian raised a finger with a dark face.

Peng Rui also felt the atmosphere a little strange at this time, but he just asked, it was hard not to answer now, right? He hesitated and said, "A hundred thousand coins? It's too little!"

Zhao Qian threw a memorial on the desk and said, "It's not a penny!"

The lowest unit of money stipulated by the imperial court is money, but the people have a smaller unit, which is very equal to one penny.

Meng Fang hesitated and said, "Prince, what's wrong with this... what's wrong? No matter how short the court is, it's not like this, right?"

Yan Shiliang sat on the side with his eyes obscenely and glanced at Meng Fang with contempt. This is a problem of whether the court has money or not. It must be a good thing that Zhang Shixun, the old fox, did!

Zhao Qian said with a dark face: "The remarks say: The northwest is about to use troops, and money and food are shortages. Anhua barbarians are just a disease of scabies. I heard that 'brothers work together, and they will cut off gold.' You can work together on Guangnan West Road, and you can definitely achieve that although you are not brothers, you have the heart of brothers. However, you are worried that Anhua barbarians will need to use troops, so the two taxes paid in autumn and summer are reduced by half. I hope you can encourage you!"

"What!"

There was an uproar in the meeting hall, which was even more shocking than Zhao Feng's announcement that the Anhuaman rebels had withdrawn.

Although I knew that Zhao Qian could not lie about this matter, Meng Fang couldn't help but say, "Prince, let the officials see!"

Zhao Jin was not bothered Meng Fang's impolite behavior. He threw the scriptures to the ground. In other times, someone would definitely dare to impeach Zhao Jin for contempt of the court. However, the scriptures of the court were too cruel and ruthless, which made everyone in the court dissatisfied with the court. After seeing this move, many people had a hint of relieving their hatred in their hearts, and subconsciously ignored Zhao Jin's disrespectful behavior.

Meng Fang picked it up and looked at it with all his eyes. His face turned pale and made people worried about whether this Yizhou magistrate would suffer from cerebral hemorrhage.

After a while, Meng Fang suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, collapsed on the chair, and said weakly: "What the prince said is as written in the scriptures!"

Although I had already known it was true, I was confirmed again and it still made everyone in the meeting hall feel incredible.

"Are all the husbands in the court idiots? Are they all pigs? Don't you know the situation of Guangnan West Road? It's okay if you don't allocate money, but you even have to pay the money from Guangnan West Road!" Feng Shenji said hatefully.

"Pigs are smarter than them!" Chen Guo said gritting his teeth.

Chen Guo was from Yizhou. It can be said that if the Anhuaman rebellion was unstable, it would have the greatest impact on Yizhou. How could Chen Guo have no objection to his hometown?

"The most important issue now is raising money! If there is no money, maybe the plan for recruiting troops this time will have to be changed!" Du Xiansheng said weakly.

Yan Shiliang hesitated for a moment and said, "Prince, there must be money in the inner treasury!"

The others were immediately excited and looked at Zhao Jin with hope. Yes! Why didn’t I remember that Wei Ye is the only brother of the official family today! He spoke. How could the official family not allocate money?

There was a strange phenomenon in the Northern Song Dynasty: the emperor was rich and the three officials were poor.

It was not that the emperor was greedy for the country's money, but that the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty had a unique income, first of all, the imperial farm, but this was actually just a small head. Where was the big head? It was the commercial tax and the gold, silver and silk cloth offered by the local government. Just like the gold mine that Zhao Qian dug in Shandong, the big head was actually taken by the emperor, and only the small head was from the Sansi envoy.

In terms of commercial taxation, there was a decree: "When merchants and tourists from Sichuan and Shaanxi sold silver, they heard that they were sold by officials, and they added 1,000 iron coins every two, and delivered them to the warehouse to collect their palms. After the order was issued, they would be allocated."

How rich is the treasury? In the fourth year of Jingyou, the treasury supervisor of the internal warehouse reported: "The annual amount of money was 600,000 yuan to help the three officials, which began in the third year of Tianxi. At that time, the edict issued a notice to prevent the three officials from having any false loans. It was only four years since the second year of Mingdao, and the amount of money and silk that was lent to more than 9.72,000 yuan was lent. Please use the edict of Tianxi to reprimand it."

The general idea here is that you have to give Sansi 600,000 guan every year, which started in the third year of Tianxi. At that time, the emperor agreed to give you Sansi so much money every year, but you can't make a second loan! From the second year of Mingdao to now, it's just a year of death, but the money borrowed by Sansi is more than 9.172,000 guan. Please ask the emperor, you, the old man, to issue an order, you can't do this anymore. I can't stand it!

Also, let me say something off topic here. Sansi never paid back the money from the emperor. Because when the emperor called for repayment, Sansi envoy said with confidence: All this money was for you to govern the Song Dynasty by the Zhao family, and it was not my own. If you want to repay it, please go to the people of the world!

What should the emperor do? It was not withdrawn. So, under the last resort, I decided to "devour 600,000 yuan in annual money to help the three departments". I will give you some money every year, so don't make the idea of ​​hitting my private treasury again.

Dreams are full, reality is skinny, and the emperor's small vault is actually being made up for the enemy all the time.

Zhao Qian hesitated in his heart. Since Yan Wenying was demoted and Lu Yijian was demoted, Zhao Qian felt a sting in his heart. He felt that Yan Wenying was not the only one who got involved with Concubine Yang Shu. The younger brother borrowed money from his brother. This was easy, but it made Zhao Qian feel awkward. To put it bluntly, it was easy for Zhao Qian to borrow money from Song Renzong, and it was easy for Song Renzong to agree to borrow money, but Zhao Qian was equivalent to owing Song Renzong a love, and owing it may be a love from an enemy. What a irony thing?

"No!" Zhao Qian refused decisively.

Yan Shi felt something in his conscience, and his body trembled slightly, causing people to lower their heads inexplicably.

Meng Fang stood up excitedly and said, "Prince, why can't you?"

Chen Guo echoed: "That's it! Prince, there is an official who has allocated money to quell the Anhua Barbarian Rebellion in just around the corner!"

Zhao Jin said expressionlessly: "Because the treasury has no money! In order to pacify the Western Xia, the court has emptied the treasury. As far as the king knows, except for the money from the treasury sealed treasury, there are only 3,000 treasurys left in the treasury, which will be used for daily use by the imperial palace!"

The Fengzunku was established by Taizu of Song, for the purpose of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. The money of Taizu of Song Dynasty was explained and could only be used on the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. This money can be used to redeem the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun from the Liao Kingdom, or as military expenses for attacking the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

After hearing this, Meng Fang, Chen Guo and the others were really hard to say.

In order to strengthen the accuracy of this news, Zhao Qian's eyes fell on Yan Shiliang, who was hanging his head and said, "Yan Zhongguan also knows this. You can ask him if this is the case?"

The eyes of the others involuntarily fell on Yan Shiliang. Yan Shiliang had no choice but to raise his head, revealing a somewhat far-fetched smile, and said, "Prince... what the prince is saying! That's right!"

A strange color flashed in Du Xiansheng's eyes, and he felt thoughtful.
Chapter completed!