Now it's time to turn your attention back to the battle, if you can really save the horse and take Liangzhou, this great battle planned and successfully carried out by yourself will not only be successful, but also an unprecedented success.

As a result, the strategic situation of the two countries in the Song and Xia will completely change, the Great Song will become the dominant party, and the Western Xia will become exhausted. What credit is this? Li Xian wakes up with a smile every time he thinks about it.

Two days later, the striker Li Zhong came to report that Jisang City was occupied without much effort, for a simpler reason, there were no defenders there anymore. Where have the defenders gone? They all went to camp five miles away.

Why don't some cities go to camp in the wilderness, do they say that these Xia people are not used to living in houses, so they have to lie in tents to fall asleep? It's really not, the Jisang defenders ran out for only one purpose, to avoid the plague.

Pestilence! This word made Li Xian tremble. The Xia people were afraid of the plague, and Song Jun was also afraid, but what Li Zhong said later made him feel relieved.

Jisang City is not plagued, but surrounded by corpses. These corpses all floated down from the upper reaches of the Gulang River, and there are countless of them, anyway, the place near the Gulang River in Jisang City is a backwater bay, and the wharf is built here.

But since 10 days ago, the corpses have been floating down the river, washed by the current, and just silted up in the backwater bay. Except for the water surface near the opposite bank, which is more than ten meters wide and has not been blocked, the entire river channel is almost full.

In this season, so many corpses are soaked in water, and the smell can be smelled from two miles away. There was really no room for people in the city, so the guards had to abandon the city and run away with people to live in the wilderness.

Who are the corpses in the river? This is what Li Xian cares about the most. The upper reaches of the Gulang River are very close to Liangzhou City, if they are all corpses of the Song army, it means that Liangzhou City has been recaptured by the Western Xia army, and the horse Wang Shu is also very lucky, and the purpose of his trip has to be changed.

But Li Zhong said that he had personally gone to the river to see it, and it was really a few miles away that he could stun people. People must not be able to distinguish between them, but the armor or something must be distinguishable, and it is basically all the Western Xia army.

This was also confirmed by the defender of Jisang City, who of course had also checked it, and knew that it was the Western Xia army. The one who wears the khaki yellow clothes and pants is the Gansu Military Division, and the one who wears the white linen clothes and pants is the Baimaqiang Town Military Division.

This guard general may have been frightened by the corpse that could not be seen at a glance, and was a little suspicious, but it was the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals who went down to earth to kill these two military commanders who were known for their fierce battles.

It is also said that there are heavenly soldiers and generals stationed on the Wusheling Ridge dozens of miles to the north, and several groups of soldiers he sent to inquire about the news only came back, and he was scared stupidly, and he could only say one word all day long, Tianhuo! It's raining down!

At this point, Li Xian was relieved that the Wusheling Pass was still in the hands of the Song army, and Liangzhou City was very likely to be fine.

As for what Tianhuo is, he seems to have heard Tong Guan say that the new army of Huangzhou with a horse is accustomed to using a rocket launched with gunpowder, as well as a fire oil bomb that can make the sword soft, presumably the chattering soldiers of Jisang City were frightened by those things.

Speaking of the deeds of this concubine, Li Xian still admires it, the Great Song Dynasty has been founded for almost a hundred years, and there are many people who have entered the dynasty to be concubines, and there are many young talents who have married princesses, but there is really no such extreme as Wang Xu.

This was originally a merry and talented man, and his painting was a good Danqing, and his uninhibited style was also a unique skill. The absurd things he did in the Horse Mansion were widely circulated, and his friends in the DPRK and China were also extensive, and his reputation was both good and bad.

At that time, he hated this colt even more, because he was not only bad to the eldest princess, but also very disrespectful. Li Xian, a eunuch, saw the eldest princess of Shu in the palace, and he didn't hate this imperial sister who was gentle to everyone, and felt that she was very unworthy of marrying such a husband.

But since Wang Shu fell from a horse and injured his head a few years ago, and thus lost his heart and went crazy, the situation has taken a 180-degree turn.

He suddenly got better to the eldest princess, not like pretending, it is not uncommon for two people to ride around the streets of Kaifeng, and it is said that a flying eagle club was built specifically for the eldest princess.

Now this sport has become popular in the government and the opposition, and even the families of the border army generals have asked people to buy flying eagle equipment from Kaifeng to play with it. If this is not good for his daughter-in-law, Li Xian can't think of anything to praise, anyway, he doesn't have a daughter-in-law, so he can only rely on imagination.

The Flying Eagle Club is not just a game, it has long been a very profitable business. Even if there are craftsmen imitating flying eagle tools in all the Great Song Dynasty cities, the flying eagle tools produced in Kaifeng Flying Eagle Society are still exclusively for the royal family.

Even if your craftsmanship is good, without this royal brand, you can only be inferior in price, and the consequence of this is that whether the eunuchs and wealthy families can really play the game of flying eagles or not, they must also prepare a set of flying eagle equipment to show their identity.

If the Flying Eagle Club is Wang Xu's unintentional insertion of willows and willows, and he has achieved a business by mistake, then everything he does afterwards is very purposeful and very successful.

The Baohuitang printing machine has almost taken over the temple scripture business in Kaifeng, and the grade of which temple will be looked down upon by the believers if it does not use Baohuitang to print it.

This thing is really not a rumor, and there is no royal promotion, as long as the scriptures from the treasure painting hall and the books of other workshops are put together, people who don't know how to read will prefer the former.

Clean, tidy, the paper is thicker and more structured, moisture-proof is better, the font is clearer and neater, what is a book, what is 10,000 copies. These advantages are unattainable by other workshops, and it is not without workshops that have tried them, but they have all failed.

This is not the best thing about Treasure Painting, its specialty is fast plate making. How fast is it? A manuscript of tens of thousands of words is handed in early in the morning, and as long as you can afford the urgent fee, and dinner is not served, you can put your book on the table first.

Even if you don't spend money on urgency, at the usual speed, your book can be printed in three to five days, and you can print as much as you want, and there will be no more rigid interruptions in between. Even if you want to reprint it after ten or eight years, you don't have to spend a lot of money on stereotypes, and you can still print it at any time.

Why is this method the most powerful? Very simply, it doubles the cost of publishing books, and also increases the speed by several times, more than ten times, dozens of times, and the more words in the printed book, the more obvious the effect.

So what's the benefit of that? Too much. For readers, books used to be half a life, and it was too expensive to read more than they could afford to buy, and they couldn't afford to wait if they wanted to write too slowly. One of the hard conditions for what is called Confucianism is to see how many books you have in your home, most of which are still manuscripts.

With Hoedo, there is hope that this problem will be solved, and the price of books will decrease, the number of books will increase, and it will be easier to circulate, collect, and publish.

When there are more and cheaper books, the speed of knowledge dissemination will be accelerated, the cost of learning will also decrease, and the number of people exposed to knowledge will increase exponentially. Don't look at it as just a small change, it has accelerated the pace of social progress in disguise, and it is not an exaggeration to say that its merit is in the future.

But now it is not easy to find Bao Huitang to print books, the imperial court handed over a lot of official documents and account books to Bao Huitang for printing, it is really not for the sake of the eldest princess and the emperor's face, but the quality is really good.

No one dared to fight the crooked idea of Bao Huitang, because since the horse went out of Beijing, this printing workshop has been under the supervision of Changgong. Who has nothing to do with the emperor's favorite sister, isn't that awkward.

Someone asked, why don't you open more treasure halls, so that you can meet the needs of society and the market? It seems that the king of the horses is too busy anymore, because then a new gadget has appeared, Ugin Xing.

The Flying Eagle Society and the Treasure Painting Hall are well-known in the upper echelons of society, and the most they can come into contact with are intellectuals and eunuchs, and they really have nothing to do with ordinary people.

But Wujin Xing is different, it not only produces beautifully cast stoves of all sizes, but also has a special pankang business. From Emperor Shenzong to ordinary people, it seems that they can't do without its products, let alone the honeycomb charcoal it sells.