At the end of March, the new Ganliang Road was slightly appeased, Wang Hou! Huangzhou Special Zone and Ganliang Road are combined into one, which is still a special zone, and is called Ganliang Road, which governs Liangzhou.

This is also the only candidate proposed by Emperor Shenzong, and Hong Tao naturally has no opinion. Wang Hou is not enterprising enough, but it is enough to keep it, coupled with his relationship with Wang Shao, he will not mess around in Ganliang Road. As long as you can follow the rules, it will be the biggest gain, and let the people of Ganliang Road adapt to it for a few more years, and that set of rules will take root.

However, the promotion society was not at ease with the newly appointed commander, and immediately suggested arranging several sets of backup plans. As long as Wang Hou dares to go against the grain, stop it immediately, and get rid of it if he can't stop it. Hong Tao also agreed to this suggestion, but did not give them the right to act, only the right to supervise.

Mainly considering that Wang Shao is old and in poor health before, he will hang up one day if he can't keep it. As soon as Wang Shao died, Wang Hou may not be afraid of his life-saving grace to his father, and keeping these means is to deal with possible accidents in the future, so he can use them when he is busy.

When I saw my own troops again, they were already moldy in Jinmingchi. In order not to make trouble for themselves, Hong Tao did not allow them to enter the city casually, they could only go to buy daily necessities once every ten years, and they could not carry weapons, and they were not allowed to use force regardless of any treatment.

At this time, it was finally possible to get out, and not only the new army was ecstatic, but even the Jews had packed up their carriages and horses early, and were eager to get out of this big cage as soon as possible.

"Hold your son and ride with the official!" Sidi didn't dare to take it back to the house, and his son didn't dare, he hadn't seen it for several months and said that he didn't want it to be a lie, and he even thought about his son and his son with his mother. As soon as he came out of Jinmingchi, Hongtao showed his true face, and he also took care of women and children in the name of beauty.

The Daimyo Mansion was called Beijing in the Song Dynasty, but it was not the Beijing City of later generations, but the meaning of accompanying the capital in the north. This city has a long history, there was it in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was called Guixiang County at that time, and later it became Weizhou, and the Tang Dynasty only enabled the ancient name of Daimyo County to be the Daimyo Mansion, and it was really valued in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In order to consolidate the defense line in the north, it was used as the northern gate of Kaifeng Prefecture. Don't look at the history of the Daimyo's Mansion for seven or eight hundred years, but the current castle is new, built by Emperor Injong.

Hong Tao knew that the Daimyo Mansion was originally the Water Margin, and Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Zhongshu was not the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion. But in Hong Tao's mind, he really couldn't find a city corresponding to this historic city in later generations.

Say it's Handan, the location is indeed about the same, but on the map of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is obviously a county seat called Handan one hundred miles northwest of the Daimyo's Mansion. Say that it is Liaocheng, Shandong, and there is also a Liaocheng on the map of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is located about 100 miles northeast of the Daimyo's Mansion. If you want to say that it is Puyang, Henan, the map of the Northern Song Dynasty is not happy, and there is also a Puyang county seat one hundred miles south of the Daimyo's Mansion.

The Daimyo's Mansion is located in the middle of the triangle formed by Handan, Liaocheng and Puyang, guarding the north bank of the Yellow River and the east bank of the Guangji Canal. Hong Tao doesn't have Google or Baidu maps in his head, so he can't remember that there is a historical city here.

He has opened a travel agency, but anyone who can count the ancient city must know that there must also be a tourist route, but there is no Daimyo's mansion. He felt that it was not that his memory was too bad, but that the ancient city must have changed its name, or it had been destroyed because of the war, and it had not been handed down at all.

Hong Tao guessed half correctly, the Daimyo's Mansion was really not preserved, but it was not destroyed by the war, but was buried alive by a flood of the Yellow River, and its fate was the same as Kaifeng. The real Kaifeng City of the Song Dynasty was also buried by the Yellow River, and the Kaifeng City seen by later generations was rebuilt by the Qing Dynasty.

But why did the Northern Song Dynasty build a large city here mainly for military purposes? Could it be that one more city could stop the Liao army from moving south?

This question, before crossing Hong Tao was also very puzzled, the Liao cavalry wanted to go south without having to attack the Daimyo's Mansion, and the people bypassed the North China Plain in the east. There are so many places on the Yellow River, just find a place to cross the river.

It sounds reasonable, but it doesn't make sense. This is a typical way of pondering the minds of the ancients with the thinking of later generations, and the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth.

In ancient times, there was a distance limit for fighting a war, and both infantry and cavalry needed to have a stable logistical supply line. Once this line is threatened, the army charging in front is in danger of being surrounded and starving to death at any time.

Although the land of the Daimyo's Mansion is not as dangerous as the dangerous terrain of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, it is also a place where soldiers must fight.

To the west of it is the Taihang Mountains, which is not conducive to large-scale cavalry activities. Not far to the east is Mount Tai, don't look at it is not a large mountain range, but the east and west run through more than 400 miles, which can also be regarded as a barrier against cavalry.

The Daimyo's Mansion is located between the Taihang Mountains and the Taishan Mountains, and is backed by the Yellow River. Siege, the Liao people are not good at attacking the city, besiege it, the logistical pressure is too great, go around and ignore it, the Song army in the city can come out at any time to cut off the grain route, it is really not easy to do.

Some people say that the Daimyo's Mansion is far from the Yellow River on the map, that is the map of later generations, the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty has been changed three or four times, this section is further north, and the Daimyo's Mansion is almost equal to the north bank of the Yellow River.

In addition to the relatively dangerous terrain, the Daimyofu is also a transportation point connecting the North China Plain and the Henan Plain. Not to mention the Yellow River, its downstream water is gentle enough to enter the sea, but due to sediment accumulation, there is a lack of ports with suitable water depths.

But when the flood comes, there must be a port, whether by digging or bombing, the Daimyofu must have a deep-water port within a year.

In addition, the Yongji Canal also passes through the west side of the Daimyo's Mansion, which is part of the Sui Canal, which connects the Haihe River with the Yellow River and leads directly to Luoyang, the western capital. From here, get on the boat to Luoyang, turn a corner, follow the Tongji Canal to the Huaishui Basin, cross the Huaishui into the ditch, all the way south is the Yangtze River, straight to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, the best thing that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did in office, benefited future generations, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal of later generations was also dug on its basis.

This artificial canal connects the four major water systems from the Haihe River and the Yellow River in the north to the Huai River and the Yangtze River in the south. If these water systems are regarded as a net, they basically cover more than half of the Central Plains Dynasty, and they can cover both the east, west, north and south.

Not to mention anything else, Emperor Shenzong's eldest brother is cheating himself every time, but this time Hong Tao wants to thank him, it is really wise to let him come to the Daimyo's Mansion to plan the Northern Expedition, with such convenient transportation conditions, it is not a pit to the end, this matter can be done!

It is more than 400 miles away, and all of them are official roads with the highest specifications, so there is no trouble in walking. As soon as I stepped on the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River, a layer of black shadows appeared in the distance.

"My lord! My lord! The lower official greeted him late, and forgave him...... "The telescope was just raised and not focused on it, and a few fast horses ran under the river embankment, and a few people rushed up with shouting and shouting.

"Lao Gao, you are also the supervisor and judge of the two roads, why are you so embarrassed. Could it be that the local government is looking for trouble again? Miao Jundu, maybe this is the first battle you command the new army, and let the generals move! ”

Putting down the binoculars, Hong Tao recognized that the first one to climb up was Gao Cuifeng. He's so miserable, he was wearing a camouflage uniform of the new army, and now he can't tell the color, black and yellow. Not a new style, but soot and yellow mud, as if they had just crawled out of a mine.

"Trumpet gathering!" Miao Kui was also rewarded by the emperor after returning to the capital with the horse, and is now the commander of the first army of the New Army of the Great Song Dynasty. However, his army is not yet fully organized, and there are only 1,000 soldiers at present, and the remaining more than 400 engineers and 200 special forces are not under his control.

Don't look at the lack of manpower, but the Miao army is full of momentum, and he must understand in his heart the combat ability of the new army, a thousand is a thousand, and he is really not afraid of three or five thousand forbidden troops, who he loves!

"General Miao, General Miao, don't be in a hurry, the lower officials have never been aggrieved, if you want to say who made me like this, then ...... Then I have to ask the superintendent......"

Gao Cuifeng panicked when he saw that the new army was really starting to get ready to go, this Hou Ye had madness at his roots, if he didn't stop him and really slaughtered the Daimyo's Mansion again, it would be a lot of fun.