"Write to Your Majesty, and say that the official is grateful, and he must be optimistic about and manage Ganliang Road, so that it will become the northwest gateway of the Great Song Dynasty. I would like to suggest again, ask Your Majesty if you want to let Ganliang Road pay taxes to the imperial court after two years, and if you want, please send the stubborn people and displaced people from other state roads to this official. Those people are wastes and burdens in other places, but after arriving at Ganliang Road, they are treasures, not only can save a lot of money and food for the imperial court, but also can be soldiers to fight wars and create wealth for the country. ”

For Gao Cuifeng's reminder, Hong Tao understood it, but he didn't have any feelings. The political struggle in the court is too complicated, and I can't play with those professional politicians if I am reborn eight times, so I simply don't play politics with them.

Aren't the ancients cloudy, and they want to overcome the enemy's shortcomings with their own strengths, where are they long? Compared with these ancients, playing industry, economy, science and technology, and military are all advantages.

So, now let's focus on themselves, they play their own and play their own, and see who plays fancy, plays beautifully, and has good results.

As long as he can keep the Ganliang Road for his eldest brother and always remember to put control in the hands of the emperor, nothing will happen.

The reason why this place was given to itself, and no one strongly objected, was because it was unsafe and sparsely populated. If they are garrisoned by other forbidden armies, they will have to worry to death just by transporting grain and grass.

These people didn't give up the sweet and cool road because they didn't have a rut, but they were ready to see their own jokes. As long as the peace talks between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty ended, Western Xia would be able to free up their hands to ponder Liangzhou.

This strategy is to rush them, they will never give up, without this, Western Xia is equivalent to more than half of the country, and whoever becomes the emperor of Western Xia will not be able to bear it.

Once Ganlianglu often had friction with the Western Xia army, he couldn't take a big advantage, and he relied too much on the blood transfusion of the Great Song Dynasty treasury, then his life would be sad.

The emperor's trust is not unlimited, he has to decide according to the pros and cons. When the pay is greater than the gain, giving up a brother-in-law is a fart, even if he gives up his own son in exchange for the balance of the court, he will nod and agree without blinking.

Hong Tao has been prepared for this situation for a long time, didn't you let me guard the country in the bitter cold land, and I don't want to spend too much money, so you can't let you take advantage of all the benefits, so you have to give me some policies.

We don't want money, food, or a single soldier in the imperial court, and we will return it to the country to solve the big problem of displaced people, are we embarrassed to say that we will not give it? As long as you give it, you will be sure that you will let the ancients see what it means for all the people to be soldiers and to feed the war with war.

After the construction of the new Ganzhou city and the beginning of Xiluosa's westward expedition, it is necessary to let those professional politicians in the court see what the Silk Road is. When the time comes, the taxes of the first and cool roads can cover more than the entire northwest.

Gluttonous? You have to endure the cravings and want to reach over and get the ready-made? Don't even think about it. Even the emperor and his courtiers, they probably haven't seen a pioneer or a cowboy of the Song Dynasty. If you want to snatch the land from them, unless you send a forbidden army to smash the Ganliang Road, whoever comes will be bled on your head.

This is only the pioneers of Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, if you count the inland merchants and family forces radiated by this trade route, as long as the emperor does not want to break the net, no one can take here. Even if he removed himself and replaced Wang Anshi as a pacification envoy, he still had no temper.

What is it called? This is called a fait accompli, bottom-up reform. I am afraid that the ancients have not seen such a method, and they are only familiar with the peasant uprising.

Those practices are too low-level, too untechnical. Let's not fight, don't make trouble, don't shed blood, and quietly get things done! It is only good for the country, and there is no harm to outsiders if they want to take the opportunity to stir up.

Once this state of affairs appeared, the Western Xia, Liao, and Uighurs were not worth mentioning. As long as the emperor dared to order every enemy city captured by the new army to give half of the land to the veterans, pioneers, and displaced people, he would be equivalent to an additional army of hundreds of thousands of people who had spared their lives.

The new army opened the way in front, and they followed behind to consolidate, killing all the way, grabbing all the way, building all the way. If a man tosses a man, it will be worse than a plague of locusts. The place where you pass is like a burning prairie fire, and you don't want to repeat it at all, and you will minimize the cost of war, and maybe the more you fight, the more you will increase the revenue of the national treasury.

After this piece was sent, Hong Tao patted his ass and returned to Huangzhou. It's almost the end of the year, and after a year of busy work, even if you don't want Lian'er and Ziju, you have to show up in Huangzhou and cheer up the people who work with you.

Let everyone know that Lord Shuai Si has not forgotten the big guys, and he has been grabbing things in front of him, and if he grabs a good one, he will come back and share it with everyone. So everyone has to do this next year, try not to distract Lord Shuaiji, so that by the end of next year, there will be more good things to distribute.

Now that Ganliang and Liangzhou have become roads, the Lanzhou line has advanced more than fifty miles to the north, and Jisang City is also controlled by Wang Hou, then Huangzhou is considered a big rear, and even Mawei City has to be counted as a rear.

Is it so nervous to go back to the rear? Hong Tao felt that it was enough to have 200 special forces and Wasp and Jiang Erlang to follow, and all the new troops would stay in Liangzhou and Ganzhou under the command of Wang Da, assisted by Miao Kui, Yan Liming, and the Youth League, at least there would be no major problems before spring came.

"Look, this is the Xiongguan that is called a husband and a man, it turns out that it is a sentry at all. Erlang, this official gave you 200 special forces, how long will it take to take this pass? ”

A few hundred meters away from Wusheling Ridge, Hong Tao stopped the convoy, pointed to the circular building in the distance, and challenged Jiang Erlang with oblique eyes.

The original Wusheling Pass has long been demolished, and the cliff path that can only accommodate two box cars has been more than doubled. On the east side of the road is still the Gulang River, which roars all day long, and the cliff on the west side is only more than two zhang high, and the steep slope behind the cliff is gone, and it has become a cliff that is more precipitous than the cliff.

And on top of this cliff, a three-storey building was built out of gravel and lime. It's like three cylinders stacked on top of each other, one thinner than the other. It's a bit thick and a little short to say it's a tower, and it's a bit tall to say it's a fortress.

The most vivid metaphor was that the ancients couldn't imagine, but Hong Tao knew in his heart that this thing had nothing to do with the tower and the fortress, it was a large cannon tower, a huge gun tower, and a three-story one.

The turret can accommodate up to 200 people to eat, drink and live for two months, because the cliff below the turret has also been hollowed out, and it looks like three floors from the outside, but in fact it is five floors inside, and the lower two floors are filled with weapons and cans. It is more convenient to drink water, and under the cliff is the Gulang River.

The original road was blown off from here, and a steel-and-wood bridge was built on top of it. But there is a gap more than three feet wide in the middle of this bridge, and unless it has wings, no one, horses, or vehicles wants to pass through.

If you want to pass, you need the consent of the defenders on the turret, and then they will shake the winch from the turret to pull the iron chain, pull up the two planks under the gap, and the bridge will be passed. As soon as the winch is loosened, the planks fall to both sides, and the bridge breaks again.

It's too hard to attack this bridge, it's useless to just pull the planks from one side, and the other half is on the other side of the bridge, if you pull it from both sides...... Since everyone can go over to the bridge, they still attack a hair, don't you want to go over when you pull it up?

Even if the planks could be pulled up against the rain of arrows from the defenders, the bridge would not necessarily be passable. Because the defenders still have one last resort, which is called breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat.

As long as the bridge tended to be undefended, the youth regiment officer in charge of guarding it would order the bridge to be burned. The bridges are made of wood and can hardly be extinguished when the oil mixture is poured. The bridge was burned out, and only the steel skeleton was left to pass.

Of course, you can also go to the neighborhood to cut down trees, and let the accompanying carpenters process the planks on site and then pave the bridge. Burn it again and spread it again until the garrison has all the mixed oil. As long as you are not afraid of many dead people, theoretically speaking, there is no moat that cannot be attacked.

The reason why Hong Tao spent several months of effort to transform Wusheling into a more defensible and difficult to attack was not that the Western Xia army would bypass Liangzhou City and go straight to Mawei City or Jisang City, but that the main defense was the Great Song Dynasty army.

If one day the emperor and his ministers really look at themselves unpleasantly, and they will not only withdraw themselves but also take their own lives, Wusheling is an excellent barrier against the Great Song army.