In the single-wheel village, Liu Sheng crossed his hand to Qingning Deguang: "Taiwei nobleman, I don't know why you came to this remote place?" ”

Qingning Deguang looked at Liu Sheng and said: "I heard that a few days ago, there were people of the tribe who wanted to vote for their own country?" Why don't you accept it? ”

Liu Sheng said: "Tai Lieutenant, the Song army on the other side is strong, and he just killed the Khitan lord two months ago, how dare you provoke them?" ”

Qingning Deguang shook his head again and again: "What words!" Accepting the clansmen, how did it become a flirtatious Song army! Hequ was not a Song land, it was nothing more than the Khitan and two emperors standing side by side, and they had no intention of competing with the Song Kingdom. Since there is a tribe of their own people there, they want to vote for it, and it is a matter of course! I have come to accept them on the orders of the Prime Minister. After throwing it over, it happened to cultivate the wasteland of the nearby Kuno River. ”

Liu Sheng was shocked when he heard this: "Captain, this matter can't be helped!" We accepted the people who came over, and the officials of Song Guohequ Road came to ask what to do? If you return it, you will lose your country and hope. If I don't pay it back, how can I resist them as an army advances? ”

Qing Ning Deguang said: "My country has already negotiated peace with the Song State, how can they start a war lightly?" Come to ask for the population, you just don't know it! ”

Where is Liu Sheng willing to believe such words? Just don't from. The wasteland in the area of the Quye River, and the grain harvested after it was opened, were all privately owned by the Pang family, and were not taxed or paid. For the sake of his family's selfish interests, where can Liu Sheng afford this responsibility?

did not hide the insatiable greed of Pang, and after mastering the government, he only knew how to be greedy for money, and he was especially not satisfied. The party has a special social system, and the court does not have much money, most of which is used by various families, and there is not much to hide and be greedy. His idea hit the wasteland of the Quye River.

Quye River was originally owned by the Song Dynasty, but because of the war with the party, it was divided into a forbidden area, and the land on the west bank for dozens of miles was all uncultivated land, so it was abandoned. Because there was no patrol all the year round, he instructed his retainers to continue to invade the farm. Dulun Village is located in the upper reaches of the Quye River, located on the east bank, and is already the most prominent place of the party to the Song Dynasty. Accepting the Song Realm to surrender to the people, how could the Song Dynasty not take the opportunity to pull out this place? Why did the Khitan go to war back then, Liu Sheng hasn't forgotten it. Isn't it that Yuan Hao accepted the party item of the Khitan realm to surrender to the people, and fought for several years.

Qing Ning Deguang came on the orders of Pang who did not hide it, so it doesn't matter what Liu Sheng thinks. The reclamation of the wasteland of the Quye River has tasted the sweetness without hiding the false Pang, and it is on the rise, and a large number of people are urgently needed. As for the Song army to go to war because of this, he did not believe it.

Seeing that Liu Sheng did not comply, Qing Ning Deguang said: "You don't need to be willing to do this, just follow the orders of the Prime Minister." Tomorrow, I will send someone to let those who are interested in coming over to come here to see me! They'll come, and I'll arrange for it. ”

Liu Sheng said: "But the officials of the Song State came to me to ask for someone, how should I reply?" ”

Qing Ning Deguang said impatiently: "Just say that you don't know!" If they raise troops to come, the prime minister will bring soldiers to the rescue! ”

Liu Sheng was silent, didn't say yes, didn't say disagree, just stood there silently.

Qingning Deguang breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The owner of the village, after the people threw it over, they opened the Quye Riverland, and it was the Prime Minister's own food. Now the government and the government are decided by the minister of state, and if you do things for the minister, there will be benefits in the future! ”

Liu Sheng smiled bitterly: "What my subordinates are afraid of is that if they don't get benefits, they will ruin their future first!" ”

Qing Ning Deguang squeezed out a smile: "What are you afraid of?" As long as you take someone over, I will go back to the prime minister and let you go elsewhere as an official. When the time comes, you will be promoted to a ruler and given you money and food, and it will not be better than in this desolate place! ”

Seeing that Qingning Deguang was struggling with each other, Liu Sheng sighed: "Taiwei, don't forget today's words, my net worth and life are all here." Take the Fan Department of the Song Realm, and then transfer me to another place. There are less than 1,000 soldiers and horses in the single-wheel village, and it is a long time to die when it comes to 300 miles of road in Dongshengzhou! ”

Qingning Deguang promised that as long as someone took it, he would go back to report that he had not hidden the false accusation, and transferred Liu Sheng back to Beijing for reuse.

Forced to have no choice, Liu Sheng had no choice but to find his own soldiers to come over, and according to the previously agreed method, let him go to the Song Realm to find Tuoba Wubu and Liang Sanhammer and others. These Tibetan tribes, who had been killed in large numbers and in constant turmoil, had gathered in the area between Daqingshan and the Yellow River.

Dongsheng Prefecture Ya, Du Zhongxiao was dealing with official documents, Liu Ji walked in quickly, and said: "Jingluo, the new news, many Tibetan departments in the north are about to go to the Xia Kingdom." If they pass, they will be in turmoil! ”

Du Zhongxiao raised his head and said, "How many?" Who is the main one? ”

Liu Dao: "It is estimated that there are more than 2,000 accounts. This kind of thing used to be dominated by party members, but this time it is different, in addition to party members, there are also Turkic and Tuyuhun, Rouran and other departments. Most of these people have been severely punished for selling Song slaves and maids! ”

Du Zhongxiao stood up, walked a few steps, and asked Liu Jidao: "What does Zhizhou think?" ”

Liu Ji was stunned for a moment and said: "Wen Yan soothes, I'm afraid it won't work." I want to send troops to keep an eye on them and drive them all east of the Yellow River!" ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "The nomadic herding of the Tibetan Department is to live in pursuit of water and grass. Monitoring is not the way to do it until it becomes a pastoral pastor. Seeing that the New Year is about to pass, and it won't be long before they will have to look for pasture, what should they do then?

Liu Jidao: "According to the meaning of the scriptures, it doesn't matter?" Someone took the lead, and I don't know how many people defected behind, how to explain to the court? ”

Population is an important indicator of the effectiveness of officials' governance, and a large number of people defected, and Du Zhongxiao and Liu Ji were responsible. There is not much population in Hequ Prefecture, so if the people escape, it will become a white land.

Du Zhongxiao pondered for a while and said, "It is natural to let the defection work, but it is not a way to forcibly stop it." The most effective way to attract the population is to win the hearts and minds of the people. The so-called rule of the world, far away people return to themselves. It's just that we are different here, the pastoral has not yet begun, and the benefits of governance have not yet been revealed. severely punished the trafficking of Han slaves and maids, and lost the hearts of the people. It has lost the hearts of the people, and there is no way to recruit them, so it is a matter of time before they defect. ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao turned around and said to Liu Ji: "It's better to be sparse, but we must block it now." We block, naturally make people doubly resentful, and there will be constant turmoil behind. If we don't block it, then we can only let the party members block it. Zhizhou, you send someone to monitor closely, as long as someone escapes to the party, immediately write a letter to the Dulun Village, and let the party send people back! ”

Liu Jidao: "What if the party refuses to return it? ”

"That's going to be easy. In the past two months, many people have been punished and exiled in troubled times. Those who are dissatisfied with this are really not easy to win their hearts, and we need time. But the army is here, and it is not so troublesome for the party. If the party does not return the people, then send a large army, first plow within a hundred miles of Fengzhou, and rebuild Fengzhou City! ”

Liu Ji thought for a while and said: "Within a hundred miles of Fengzhou, there is only a single wheel village in the party, and the meaning of Jingluo is to attack there?" ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "A lonely city, what good is it to attack it!" If you don't enter the single-wheel village, pull out all the party forts opposite Linzhou and Fengzhou! ”

Liu Ji was taken aback and hurriedly said: "The party has been fighting with this dynasty for several years, and I don't know how many forts there are opposite Linzhou. Mostly in the valley, it is not easy to march, and it is even more difficult to attack. After a slight storm, send out a great army. ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Zhizhou, now it's not as good as before, there are artillery in the army, what's the matter with those walled forts?" A walled fort, in which there are twenty or thirty soldiers, and the most are only one or two hundred. As long as the wall is broken, it is not to be slaughtered. This battle does not require many men and horses, as long as a battalion, and then cooperate by the Linfu Road, it will be devastated. It didn't take much effort to dismantle all the forts in that area and burn them to the ground. ”

Linfeng Province, known as the Three Prefectures of Hewai, west of the Yellow River, was at the forefront of the fight against the invasion of the party, and the two sides had been at war for many years. The terrain is rugged, the ravines are crisscrossed, and the transportation is inconvenient. Both countries built numerous forts and occupied important places. In peacetime, it was used as a base to cultivate the land in the river valley, and in wartime, it was defended by the walled fort. Almost all of the people in that area lived in the forts.

The Song army had artillery, and the forts that were once impregnable were now mostly useless. The fort is not a city, most of them rely on the terrain, and the walls are not strong. As long as the artillery carried by horses is used, it is enough to blast away.

There were too many of them, and there weren't many soldiers in each fort. Many of the fortress guards had only one or twenty soldiers, and no amount of extra food could support the out-of-production population. In peacetime, it is theoretically dominated by the strong men of the half-soldier and half-civilian households. As long as the walls fall, where will these people be able to hold on? As long as one or two thousand people, with the cooperation of Linfu Road, the fortress within one or two hundred miles can be swept away.

Du Zhongxiao had already seen the forts in that area, and he was dissatisfied with the alternation of canine teeth. If left unchecked, it can support the incoming party army and cause a catastrophe. This side has to use forts against forts, wasting manpower and material resources in vain.

Occupying the Hequ area, the Song army obtained a direct route along the Yellow River to attack the Qilian Mountain, and there was no need to fight with the party in the Hengshan area. Carry out the necessary sweep and remove the hidden dangers of the back road is the only thing to do. As long as it is breached, it is much easier to tear down and burn it without occupying it.

The two Khitan emperors fought each other, and there was no threat for a short time. The Song army was going to fight, and the target should be the party in the west. At present, within the party, there is no hidden monopoly of power, greedy for money and stubborn for self-use, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Du Zhongxiao's troops were limited, and he could not defeat the party in a short time, but his strength was still enough to fight a limited border war.