The wine feast in Qingshan Tower lasted for nearly an hour, and it was not until the sun set in the west that they dispersed. Du Zhongxiao instructed his entourage to give each of these little leaders a horse of silk as a reward, in order to reward them for their hearts to the court when their homes were broken and displaced.

The border silk is several times that of the mainland, which is extremely precious here. The small chieftains were rewarded, and all of them were grateful, and swore to serve the court. Du Zhongxiao comforted him and watched everyone leave.

The clans in this area are sandwiched between the three major powers, and it is the norm to swing around, and their verbal allegiance is of little practical significance. In fact, among these people, many of them still have official notices from the Great Song Dynasty, and some of them have a coincidence and a nominal official rank higher than Du Zhongxiao. Of course, this kind of official has neither a fortune nor a status, but is just a kind of honor for people who show off their own people. Now that the Great Song Dynasty is weak, no one has mentioned that he has been an official of the Song Dynasty. Not to mention that there are still some of them, nominally both as officials of the Great Song Dynasty and as Khitan officials.

Seeing that most of the people got on the ferry and headed towards the opposite shore, Du Zhongxiao shook his head with a smile. If you take what you just said seriously, you may regard the places on the other side of the river for hundreds of miles as the land of the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact it is not like that.

Slowly pacing back to the military village with Liang Sheng and others, Du Zhongxiao saw that most of the shops in this area were Han people doing business. There are many aliens in the slave servants below. Except for some sergeants, most of the people who came here to buy goods were Tibetan people from the mountains. Their attire is different, and they are not fluent in Chinese, which can be seen at a glance. The days of grazing in the mountains were very difficult, and people continued to flee to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

When he arrived at the gate of the military village, Du Zhongxiao whispered to Tao Seventeen beside him: "The fragrant cloth that was talking in the restaurant in front of me has been following behind me, and I want to have something." Go and give a command, and in half an hour come to my lodgings. ”

Tao Seventeen forked his hand and promised, turned around to look, and sure enough, he saw the figure of Xiangbu at the corner of the street.

Coming out of the restaurant, Du Zhongxiao noticed that Xiangbu did not leave with the other little leaders, but followed behind. Du Zhongxiao didn't doubt that he was fine, first, he wouldn't be so stupid, and then he asked in the restaurant, and he could feel that he had a deep affection for Da Song. This is not surprising, these Tibetan tribes have moved to the vicinity for hundreds of years, and they have always been ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty, and they are originally the people of the Central Plains.

In the vast area of the northwest, the most widely distributed are party members, but it cannot be considered that party members are devoted to the party. For them, the most important thing is their own tribe, and there is no unified national understanding. Especially in this area, the familiar Tibetans who have a lot of exchanges with the Han people, in their eyes, the Han people in the Central Plains are closer. Those barbarians who shave their hair and are easy to obey, burn, kill and plunder them, are the enemy.

After Yuan Hao's rebellion, the Linfeng Prefecture area, which was mainly attacked, was originally dominated by party members. Although they are of the same clan, they did not delay the party members to massacre and loot property. Including Tanglong Town, if it weren't for the poor rule of the Fengzhou Wang family and the Fuzhou Zhejia, some of them would not have defected to the party.

After entering the military village, Du Zhongxiao gave a slight order, returned to his residence, and called Feng Yuan over.

The guests and hosts sat down, and Du Zhongxiao said: "I looked around today, and there are big merchants here." Although I didn't look carefully, I could see that there were not many businesses that were bigger than outsiders. ”

Feng Yuan gave his hand: "The small one has accumulated some money in Bingzhou before he came here to do business." The Volcano Army is a remote place, there is no big business to do, where there will be big merchants. The little ones wouldn't have come here if they hadn't had no choice. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Don't look at the small place, if you manage it carefully, you can also make a lot of money." The party and the Khitan are at odds, and within a thousand miles, if the party wants to sell goods to this dynasty, they can only come to this small place. Although Fuzhou also has to set up a field, it is inconvenient for the people in the north. ”

Feng Yuan said: "What the official said is true. However, it is difficult to travel here, so you can only do some light business. Now that there is a fur yard in the state, it is good that in the past, it could only sell some medicinal herbs and felt blankets, but in fact, there was not much business to do. ”

"It's going to get better, there's a crowd to gather, there's business to do. I've prepared some food and drinks tonight, and I'm talking with the staff while drinking. Now I have some chores to handle, so I'll go back and clean up, and I'll send someone to call you when it's dark. ”

Feng Yuan got up and thanked him and said goodbye.

Du Zhongxiao sat in his residence and closed his eyes to recuperate, thinking about the next step. The wasteland in the valley must be developed, and as long as the area is cultivated into farmland, the Volcano Army can be self-sufficient in food. In such a place, there is food and everything.

As a prefect, Du Zhongxiao went on the horse to manage the army, and dismounted the officials and people, and in principle, he could mobilize all the soldiers and horses in the territory. However, both the forbidden army and the Xiang army have their own competent yamen, and it is not a place where they can meddle casually. The intellectuals had to ensure that they were supplied with money and food on time, and they could also be sent to march and fight, but they could not interfere in their daily affairs. Their military status and day-to-day management belong to the Sanya, and the magistrates generally do not ask.

This relatively closed management system is quite inconvenient for the state troops located in the border areas, and in recent years, the status of the township soldiers along the three border roads has risen correspondingly. A large number of soldiers were used on Linfu Road on Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road, and Hebei began to develop large-scale teaching and parade of township soldiers from Pang, which actually started the precursor of the armor protection system. The forbidden army is the best of the best, whether it is the source of troops or equipment, including training, it is far from being comparable to the Xiang army and the township soldiers, and it stands to reason that the combat effectiveness should be the strongest. However, on the battlefield, with the loss of a large number of elites, the number of elites swelled rapidly, and the combat effectiveness declined sharply. On the Shaanxi Road, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was no longer comparable to that of the archers of the Tibetan army, and it was contemptuously called the Eastern Army.

Du Zhongxiao was not familiar with the war mode of this era, not only because of the restrictions of the system, but also because he could not strictly train the forbidden army, and because he had nowhere to start. For him, the easiest thing is to make guns and cannons as quickly as possible, and make up for the disadvantage of the current Song army with technical superiority. And the army that can make Du Zhongxiao organize as he wants can only be the township soldiers.

The Volcano Army is located on the border, and almost all of them are soldiers, and there are plenty of soldiers. 3,000 households, not to mention more, 500 township soldiers are very easy. Based on what he has learned these days, five hundred musketeers in his hands are enough to sweep hundreds of miles north of the Yellow River. If you can make proper use of the attached Fan households and organize a Fan army, it is not impossible to recapture Tanglong Town.

Thinking of this, Du Zhongxiao smiled self-deprecatingly. He is now a state-level commander, but he only dares to think about the size of the army of five hundred people, and the Volcano Army, which is the same as Xiazhou, is really larger. If it is in the interior, except for the army, it is just a small county.

At this moment, Tao Seventeen came to report that the incense cloth had arrived. Bring people in, and Du Zhongxiao ordered to give a seat.

Xiangbu looked cramped and uneasy, rubbed his hands and said, "In front of the officials, where is there a small seat?" According to the law of the imperial court, the people of Tibet are not allowed to sit with the chief officials of the prefecture and county. If the official has something to say, he should just stand and listen. ”

Du Zhongxiao is no longer reluctant. In fact, the court stipulates that above the public court, the officials are not allowed to sit with the Han officials, and the Han officials are there, and the people can only stand regardless of the officials and the people, and there are no such rules in private.

Looking at the fragrant cloth, Du Zhongxiao said: "Leaving the restaurant, I saw that you couldn't go around, but something happened?" ”

Xiangbu smiled all over his face: "It turns out that the officials all see it in their eyes, and the small ones have something to say." North of the Yellow River, it is now said that there are 14 ethnic groups, but in fact, we only had seven ethnic groups before, and the remaining seven ethnic groups were relocated from Fuzhou and Fengzhou due to the war. The land there used to be barren and unproductive, but now there are more family tents, and life is becoming more and more difficult. The little one heard that there are a lot of idle fields in the Volcano Army, and he wants to take the clansmen with him, and he also asks the officials to be thoughtful. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded and did not speak. Before, he was still strange, he looked through the archives and said that the seven tribes and fourteen tribes of the Tibetan people on the other side of the Yellow River had two numbers, and he thought it was wrong, but he didn't expect it to be because some of them had moved in in recent years. The year before last, when Fan Zhongyan was in Shaanxi, he also suggested that the Volcano Army and Fuzhou secretly recruit these small Tibetan tribes. However, the incense is brought up first, and there must be some benefits.

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