"Huangzhou is a special zone chartered by the imperial court, what is a special zone? The law that the ancestors did not do. Besides, Liangzhou is not a Great Song city, so why respect the laws of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Hong Tao didn't do this all to make money, he just wanted to use this method to indirectly remind the Song people that fighting a war is not only not a matter of losing money, but also a big deal to make money. Of course, you have to win, and if you lose, you will definitely lose, or you will lose big.

When people have gained tangible benefits from the war, those who have benefited will look forward to winning the war every day, and those who have not benefited will also be ready to move. The war and military expenses invested are the same as the investment in trading, as long as they are managed properly and with a little luck, not only will they not lose money but also make a profit.

As long as most people are no longer afraid of war and try to win it, the imperial court will not shy away from the issue of foreign wars, and the emperor and ministers will not frown at the mention of war.

The Song people are accustomed to doing business, so let them give full play to their advantages. As long as there is subjective initiative, with the national strength and population of the Song Dynasty, coupled with its own fuel, no country can resist the Song people who treat war as a business.

"But the war in Liangzhou is not over, and anyone is willing to take this risk?" Jiang Erlang has not yet figured out what a special zone is, and he doesn't want to bother with it. Even putting aside the issue of the law, he felt that this buying meeting was still not feasible.

"Well...... I'm going to try it first, and I'll see when the time comes. However, don't delay the looting, as long as it is not the Great Song City, the official will grant you unlimited rights, even if it is a Tubo person. ”

Is there anyone who is willing to run to a war zone to take risks? Hong Tao really didn't dare to assert. But he was prepared that not a single customer would come, and that the captives would be taken care of by himself.

A batch was transported to Weiqiao Town first, and the Zhou family would not mind mining with slaves who did not pay wages, and the Wu family and the Hu family would not care that the small workers who did rough work were Fan people.

Then send a batch to the workshop in Huangzhou, it's time to explode production capacity. He is about to expand the new army, and it is not too much to send all kinds of equipment and ammunition.

Finally, Hong Tao also has a big wholesale customer, that is, the uncle of the crown. His fleet must have arrived, and the maritime merchant has always been bolder than any merchant. The use of some slaves to work on sea ships or docks can effectively reduce labor costs, why is the Wang family not happy?

Even if the Wang family is also an advanced industrial and commercial household that abides by the law, Hong Tao still has a place to arrange these prisoners. There is at least one limestone mountain to the west of Huangzhou, which was accidentally discovered while training with special forces. What can limestone do? Burnt lime, that is, cement.

This thing Hu Jia Chouer has been tested in a kiln in Weiqiao Town, and it can't be said to be very successful or qualified, at least the cement burned can be used. It was only in view of the fact that there was no suitable source of limestone near Weiqiao Town, let alone so many manpower, that the lime kiln was temporarily put on hold.

The mountain in the west of Huangzhou City is very suitable, using Huangshui to push the stone mill to grind the stone, directly build a few calcining kilns under the mountain, and then use explosives to open the mountain and quarry, and the rest of the work is done by slaves.

Problems such as pollution, noise, environment, and work-related injuries are all saved, and the burned cement does not need to be sold, and can be consumed by the workshops in Weiqiao Town and Huangzhou alone. Of course, they can't all be used by them, and most of them have to be shipped to Liangzhou.

The city is so important that Hong Tao plans to build it into an artificial moat. Not to live in, but to become a huge barracks and arsenal.

In the future, the weapons and equipment, food supplies, and new recruits transported from Weiqiao Town and Huangzhou over long distances will all be concentrated here, and this new city will also become the main stronghold of its new army.

From here, you can go all the way to the Western Regions along the Hexi Corridor, and there is no danger along the way. From here to the south, they could deter the Tibetan tribes, and as long as Liangzhou was still in the hands of the Song Dynasty, they would not be able to advance eastward on a large scale.

To the east, it was a smooth way to attack the capital of Western Xia, and after that, the Western Xia people had to fight on two fronts, not only to guard against the Song army that swooped down from the Hengshan area, but also to always guard against the threat from the west, and the difficulty of defense was doubled.

But when it comes to attacking, Hong Tao doesn't want to go in any direction for the time being. Through this battle of Liangzhou, he can see that the enemy army in front of him is not terrible, but the terrible thing is the Great Song colleagues hiding behind him.

In order to limit the imperial power and prevent the deepening of reform, these grandsons even did not hesitate to bet on the fortunes of the country.

Is it true that the Song army can't break through Zhuo Luo and the Southern Army Division to go north from Lanzhou? The answer to this is clearly no. There is also a post road from Lanzhou to Jisang City, and it is connected with the post road in Liangzhou.

It was only 500 miles along the main road, and the cavalry could reach it in six or seven days at the latest, and there was no obstruction along the way, and the only moat, Wusheling Ridge, was also controlled by the new army.

Whether it is Li Xian or someone else, in the face of more than 20,000 enemy troops in Zhuo Luo City, there are at least several ways to drag down its main force, and then send a cavalry army to make a detour to the north, without bringing any grain and grass at all, and when you arrive in Liangzhou City, you will have everything.

But none of these obvious methods can do it, which has to make Hong Tao have an idea in his heart.

Looking at what happened next, the Privy Council suddenly let Wang Zhongzheng take over the command of the Huangzhou army on the grounds that the war was tight, and also blocked the border. All of this is so tightly coordinated that it is impossible to justify it to say that no one is behind the scenes.

However, Hong Tao still has nothing to do with these people. Li Xian could completely excuse it by saying that the weather was bad, that the Tanguts showed signs of increasing their troops, that the transportation of grain and grass was delayed, that the Qingtang soldiers had escaped from the battle, and so on, to prove that Lanzhou had done its best, but could not smoothly go north to support Liangzhou.

Moreover, people can also beat a rake, accusing the horses of not informing the friendly troops of their whereabouts in advance, and even the Privy Council and the emperor did not tell them, so they raised troops to raid Liangzhou without authorization, so that the troops and horses from all walks of life could not be rescued in time.

Don't say that Liangzhou City is not lost, even if the responsibility is lost, it is on the side of the horse, and even if the war on the side of Lanzhou is unfavorable, the horse can be taken out to talk about things.

Even if this bad debt is hit in front of the emperor, the eldest brother can't be completely towards himself. Most of the courtiers will 100% stand on Li Xian's side, and in the end, in order to take care of the overall situation, they have to take the blame themselves.

Now that he can think about the ending clearly, Hong Tao simply took the right to act as if this incident had never happened, and he didn't talk nonsense except for taking back the command of Huangzhou.

Now that the struggle has entered into substance, the other side is no longer satisfied with making a stumbling block for himself in the court, but is busy jumping out and making ruthless moves. What does this mean? It means that they can't wait. In other words, if the reform continues, the core interests of those people will be touched.

What would they most like to see? is to go to the emperor with a look of anger, grievance, and unwillingness to ask for an explanation, and then fry it into a pot of porridge in the court.

In this way, we can find excuses to influence the deepening of reforms, and of course we must put aside huge controversial matters first, and it is not too late to continue to implement them when we have clarified them.

This also gains time, which is important to both attackers and defenders, and defenders are relatively short of time, and they will do everything they can to delay it.

I must not give them this opportunity, and they must not think of using this trick again. Because he will not go anywhere, Liangzhou City will not be handed over to anyone, or no one will want this city, including Emperor Shenzong.

The reason why Hong Tao has this certainty is not that no one can see the importance of Liangzhou City, but that this city has been abandoned. There will be no more villages and herdsmen within hundreds of miles around it, and any Great Song Dynasty general stationed in such an important city will not bring less people, starting from 20,000.

However, with the loss of villages and herdsmen, all supplies had to be transported from Lanzhou by camel caravans, which was a bit of a large workload and particularly uninsured.

Because the area controlled by the Song army was not all along the way, the Western Xia army was known for the rapid transfer of cavalry, and if it was not good, it would have to be robbed of grain and grass, and then the defending army would be starved into a deflated bedbug and defeated without a fight.

Even if someone really dares to take this risk, don't even think about defending Liangzhou City, it will soon become full of holes. Hong Tao didn't want the captured captives to stay in the sun all day to catch lice, so he found some work for them.