The content of the decree may seem simple, but it contains a lot of content. The main purpose of praising himself as Huo Qu's illness is not to say that he has made meritorious contributions to expanding his borders, but to warn himself not to be too ostentatious, so as not to die young like Huo Qu's disease. By the way, I reminded myself a little, don't think too much, don't forget that the eldest princess and her daughter are still in Kaifeng.

The last sentence contains more content, at this time, the court has not yet made up its mind whether to fight or make peace, and the emperor himself has not the right to speak in the court, so he can't give clear instructions. I didn't want my brother-in-law, who was accustomed to fighting, to return to the dynasty early, so he simply threw it in Liangzhou as a chess player.

As long as he and the new army occupy Liangzhou and Ganzhou, not only will the Great Song Dynasty gain absolute initiative in the negotiations with Western Xia, but the emperor himself will also be able to occupy an advantageous position in the power struggle.

It's not easy to be a politician, every sentence you say has several meanings, everything must be linked to power, and you can't be sloppy at all.

"Wang Er, write a chapter for the officials, first talk about the situation in Liangzhou and Ganzhou, and talk a little more miserable, mainly highlighting the threat of the yellow-headed Uighurs and yellow-headed Tatars."

Without Lian'er, the matter of writing official documents was handed over to Wang Er. In fact, their generation has more advantages, and the culture and customs of the Song Dynasty are clear, but there is another mode of thinking in their bones, and they don't delay anything.

"Do officials want more rewards with Your Majesty?" Wang Er himself is a very introverted child, this kind of official document can be written with a pen, without pondering, but he has feelings when he writes.

"That's all you have, no matter how much you reward, it's someone else's reward, and you don't have to rely on your own hands to hold it steadily. The official will teach you another allusion, it is called raising Kou self-respect! I think there was a general named Wu Sangui back then, and he ......"

Reward? Hong Tao never thought that he was a prince and a young prince, so where could he go if he was promoted again. The soldiers of the New Army were also less interested in being promoted, preferring to fight more battles and accumulate military achievements to gain more land.

The reason why Ganliang Erzhou is said to be so difficult and dangerous is mainly to protect his rights. If you tell the emperor that Liangzhou and Ganzhou are full of fertile soil and mountains and grasslands, and you can raise tens of thousands of male soldiers casually, it is estimated that you will not have a few days to jump.

If you have to be transferred out of here every minute, you have to send a prison army that is even more annoying than Wang Zhongzheng, and you have to find a general who is very bad with you to lead the troops to deter, such as Chong'e.

But will the emperor believe it? Ganliang Erzhou is the granary and main horse-producing land of Western Xia, and I dare not say that it is richer than Xingqing Mansion, but it is definitely not a barren and poor place.

Hong Tao felt that not only Emperor Shenzong would believe it, but also the ministers of the court and the central government would believe it. Why? Because of Li Xianbei. He must have reported the situation in Liangzhou to the emperor and the Privy Council before himself, and in order to show that he was right, he had to say that Liangzhou was worthless.

In fact, Li Xian is not talking nonsense, no matter how rich the place is, it will become dilapidated after a big war, and then catch up with a notorious general like Wang Xu, who likes to slaughter cities, then this place will not be able to slow down for several years.

In ancient times, the land of abundance had to meet two conditions at the same time, the first was the natural conditions, such as the land suitable for cultivation and grazing, the river, the climate, and so on. Second, there must be enough population, and if there is no one to work, the good land will become barren.

In the eyes of those who do not know the truth, Ganliang Prefecture is an area with a serious lack of population. The king of horses not only slaughtered the city, but also captured the people and herdsmen for hundreds of miles around to sell slaves, which is simply a stupid way to kill chickens and take eggs.

Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Li Xian, and Chong E will inevitably think that Wang Xu, the concubine, is a wicked person who does not know how to govern the place, and he can only win by luck and momentary bravery. But it's relatively easy to get a place down, and it's even harder to get it right.

In their case, they must first appease the local people, whether it is tax cuts or relief, anyway, they must do enough tricks to buy people's hearts, and they must also strictly enforce military discipline and not disturb the people, in order to win the support of the local people and quickly make the local area prosperous again.

Now that the population has made the Pony King Huo Huo Guang, naturally no one wants to clean up this mess. Not to mention how difficult it is to restore the productive economy, it is very problematic to just gather food and grass to feed the army brought with it.

Without enough food and salaries and far away from the big cities on the border of the Northern Song Dynasty, once the Tanguts sent troops to attack, they would definitely fall into a dilemma of not being able to run away and not being able to defend it.

This black cauldron should be carried by the horse Wang Xu, isn't it possible to get food from Huangzhou, everyone will see how long you can toss. Huangzhou is not a rich place, and if you want to hold the two states of Ganliang, it is not possible to do it with three or five thousand soldiers and horses.

If the horse king can be slaughtered by the Xixia people, the city is broken and killed, this ending can satisfy the interests of most people in the court.

"Why are the emperors and ministers reluctant to let the officials win the battle?" Wang Er understood this allusion, but she didn't quite understand what the imperial court thought. Attacking the city and plundering the fortress was obviously beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty, not only did they not help, but they even looked forward to the failure of the horses than the Xixia people.

"It's called the butt deciding the head...... The ancients cultivated themselves and ruled the country and leveled the world, emphasizing that individuals and families should be in front of the country, and only by getting both things done well can they get the country. In a sense, this order is not wrong, but everything has a degree, and not everything is best if you do it to the extreme. The emperor and his ministers simply took personal and family interests too seriously, and even neglected the importance of the existence of the state. This kind of thinking needs to be changed slowly, not overnight, nor can it be persuaded in a few words, and it needs to be shown to more people with practical actions. This is what the officials are doing at present, and you will have to take over when the officials are no longer able to do it. ”

Why, this word is the best answer and the hardest to answer. Hong Tao has summed up several lifetimes, but he still can't accurately explain the ambiguous relationship between people and rights.

It seems that there are always people who are particularly attached to this thing, and there are still a lot of such people, and no one can change this situation until a consensus is reached, even if you kill all the people in power and replace them with a group of youth league members.

Ten years, twenty years, fifty years, and a hundred years later, the state has returned to before, is it possible to kill again and change another wave of people? If you continue to kill and change like this, when will you be a leader?

Every time a wave is killed and a new batch is replaced, the country will bleed once, which is a dead cycle that does not work. If the ancients hadn't realized this, Hong Tao must be able to understand that he didn't want to repeat this process anymore, and the only way was to make most people change their inherent ideas.

This task is much more difficult and complicated than the overthrow of a dynasty directly, and there is not even a clear goal in sight. However, Hong Tao has experienced the baptism of power, and he knows that the Jinhe Empire cannot solve this problem for a long time, and can only lengthen the cycle, and there is no point in doing it again.

It's snowing, goose feather snow, the first snow of the winter this year. The grasslands, farmlands, forests, post roads, and mountains instantly became the same color, and only the city of Liangzhou in the distance still remained blue-yellow. The newly built city wall can't be climbed by people, and even the snowflakes can't stay, exposing it alone in the vast snowfield.

"Lao Miao, what are they doing on this cold day?" There are still dozens of miles away from Liangzhou City, and Hong Tao found a strange phenomenon, there are still groups of people on such a big snowy day.

They were in groups of three or five or ten or twenty people, and they cut down many tree trunks from the forest in the mountains to the south, sharpened one of them, and smashed them into the ground, which looked like a scattered half-cut telephone pole from a distance.

"They are the pioneers recruited by adults, and so far there are three out of seventy households registered in Liangzhou, and I heard that there are still people coming from Mawei City in the near future. The good land over there has been divided, and the mountains and forests are not allowed to be cultivated, and many families who can't get good land when they go late plan to come to Liangzhou to try their luck. ”

Miao Kui also put on the cashmere jacket of the new army, and he no longer looked like he was covered with bright armor. It looked more powerful, but it was colder in the Northlands winter.

"Pioneers? These poles are the boundaries of the land they demarcated? When he left Liangzhou, only more than ten families were willing to come, most of them were still Tibetans, but he didn't expect the number to increase several times after dozens of days.