It's already midsummer, but the climate in Lingzhou, which is located in the northwest, is still cool, and it is a good time to go out of the city for hunting.

There are mountains, rivers, pastorals and boundless prairies and deserts outside Lingzhou City, both the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River and the majesty of the outside of the Saiwai, and the folk customs and morale here are also very different from the Central Plains. The city here is full of martial artists, and it is the hometown of Western Xia, although the imperial examination was also opened, but how can the tradition of martial arts and light literature be changed?

Moreover, Gao Yu, who now rules Lingzhou, has a large number of knights and military soldiers in the countryside near Lingzhou. The atmosphere of learning bow horses, hores of hunting, and heavy martial arts permeates the inside and outside of this Saiwaixiong city.

Wu Haogu rode on a horse, looking far and near, the wide official road and the nearby grassland, full of young men in fresh clothes and angry horses. There were quite a few people playing polo, some servants with bows and arrows, looking like they were going to hunt in the nearby mountains, and even a few women were riding horses and carrying bows and arrows, swaggering along the road.

There is no man or woman who is like a talented and beautiful woman!

Seeing this scene, Wu Haogu's eyebrows gradually twisted. Today is the day he left Lingzhou and returned to Kaifeng Mansion, and Gao Yu also took his staff and retainers out of Lingzhou City to see off Wu Haogu. Because of Wu Haogu's requirements, the group did not play the flag, and they didn't even wear official uniforms, but just walked in micro-clothes.

"How? Dalang, is there too many idle people waiting around? Gao Yu seemed to see Wu Haogu frowning, "Let's play the flag." ”

Wu Haogu shook his head: "When everyone is in high spirits, why disturb the interest of others?" ”

"But Da Lang, your interest is not high, are you worried about Hebei Xuanfu's affairs?"

In Gao Yu's opinion, Wu Haogu must be worried about serving as Hebei Xuanfu - this Hebei Xuanfu is a hotter dispatch than Northwest Xuanfu. It seems that Xuanfu Hebei No. 5 Road seems to have a lot of power and heavy troops. But in fact, the five roads in Hebei have their own commanders, and these five commanders are not under the jurisdiction of the Xuanfu envoy, not to mention the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the five routes.

The so-called Hebei Xuanfu is completely an empty and bare-bones errand, which is even worse than Gao Yu's Northwest Xuanfu. There is also a Lingzhou in the northwest Xuanfu, as well as a general of soldiers and horses and thousands of knights.

However, the ancient Hebei Xuanfu did not concurrently serve as the state capital, nor did he have soldiers and horses directly under the central government. It's actually good not to have soldiers and horses in the state capital, and it's not bad to be a high-ranking and vacant official, and to eat, drink and have fun all day long. However, under the agreement of the two governments, they sent an extremely hot dispatch to Wu Haogu - to rectify the Hebei Forbidden Army!

Wu Haogu now has an empty name, no real power, and has to rectify the intertwined Hebei forbidden army, and the most difficult thing is that Hebei does not have as many official fields as Shaanxi and Northwest that can be allocated to soldiers.

Although the income from 200 to 250 acres of land is not comparable to the income of a soldier of the Forbidden Army, the income is from a capitalist point of view. There are no conditions for the development of capitalist agriculture in the northwest and Shaanxi at all, and the proper feudal agricultural line is followed. 200 to 250 acres of land in the northwest is basically a rich peasant. If they can also be exempted from tax and forced labor, the income from these lands will be enough for the family to drink spicy food and raise a group of livestock. You can't live such a life with a military salary of twenty or thirty taels a year - this is actually very understandable, the net income of planting 200 to 250 acres of land for a year is certainly not twenty or thirty taels, but the grain that can be harvested, and the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks that are fed by one's own family, have to be bought in the market of the big city, and two hundred taels cannot be bought.

This is because the transportation in the northwest and Shaanxi is inconvenient, and the cost of commercial circulation is very high. Therefore, in the central cities of Jingzhaofu, Weizhou, Yanzhou, and Lanzhou, the prices in the places where the army is stationed are more expensive than those in Kaifeng. But in the remote villages of northern Shaanxi, Xihe, and Shuofang, agricultural products are not worth anything at all, except in the year of a catastrophe.

As for what kind of capitalist planting industry should be developed in Shaanxi and Shuofang to grab the big market on the southeast coast, Wu Haogu, who is a capitalist himself, knows that he is dreaming.

Now even the war horses of Shaanxi and Shuofang are not as good as the boundary hippos......

And this kind of closed and backward economic outlook, in fact, also has a good side, that is, it allows Wu Haogu to smoothly implement the reform of the "land military service system" in Shaanxi and Shuofang - on the one hand, the imperial court saves a lot of expenses; On the one hand, the living standards of the Northwest Forbidden Army improved after they were converted into Tianfu soldiers. A proper win-win situation, naturally there is not much resistance.

But the same thing is unthinkable in Hebei.

First of all, Hebei does not have so much official land to allocate. There wasn't much official land there, and in the past few years, more than 3,000 knights have been placed there, and this alone has cost four or five million acres of land! Except for a part of it that Wu Haogu acquired in Beicang Prefecture in his early years, the rest of the land came from official fields and official pastures. After this round of distribution, there are not many official fields on Hebei No. 5 Road, not enough for more than 100,000 soldiers to be allocated to the Tianfu Army.

Moreover, the pacification of Hebei Wulu and the Hebei transit ambassador are most likely unwilling to cooperate so much to take out the precious land.

If you want to reduce the distribution, for example, a soldier will give a hundred acres. Then the income from the land is far less than the income of the Hebei Forbidden Army - the Hebei Forbidden Army is different from the Western Army, they pretend to be soldiers, each has another livelihood, and in addition to military salaries, there is another income. Where is like the Northwest Forbidden Army, there is no other way to make money except to fight for life and death.

Therefore, the method of using land to settle government soldiers will not work in Hebei at all!

Secondly, the Hebei Forbidden Army has been war-free for a hundred years. It has long been unfamiliar with the military, and there are a lot of various stereotypes and bad habits. Most of the officers and soldiers have their own businesses, and being a soldier has become a side job. How can this kind of soldier oil be put in order well? Reluctantly using them as a new army will only lead to the destruction of the new army.

Moreover, there are still a large number of military attaches and miscellaneous military ministers in the Hebei Forbidden Army! Most of these people have backgrounds, and there are people covering them, and no one can take them seriously. If Wu Haogu dares to touch their cheese, he is making enemies of the entire Eastern Army system.

If they don't move, then the Hebei New Army doesn't have to look at it, it must be a tofu army that is about to collapse at the touch of a button.

Of course, Gao Yu understands the routine, so it's embarrassing for Wu Haogu to think about it!

The errand of Hebei's army rectification is simply that Su Zhe and Zhang Shangying conspired to make a trap for Wu Haogu to drill!

"It's not hard to get an errand in Hebei." Wu Haogu smiled, "The whole army of the Son of Heaven is nothing more than to take Youzhou in the north in the future...... Youzhou is not difficult to get, it is enough to have more than 10,000 elite infantry, and there is always a way to pull out this bit of soldiers and horses. ”

Is Wu Dalang talking in his dreams?

Gao Yu was a little stunned by Wu Haogu's words. The dignified Liao Kingdom, 10,000 infantry and a few thousand knights can be defeated?

Actually, Wu Haogu is telling the truth. Now that even Yelu Dashi has been sent to the Western Regions, in the future Northern Expedition, who else in the Great Liao Kingdom can defeat him? Moreover, now the Yanyun Hao clan of the Liao State has long been integrated with the Jiehe Shang City, which is nothing more than a few more festival envoys. What Han family, Zhao family, Liu family, Ma family, Zhang family, Li family or something, one family and one jiedu envoy, and ten of the fourteen states of Yanyun will be sealed, and they will probably be able to enter Yanjing without blood. If it doesn't work, give a few million...... Everyone is their own person, what can't be discussed?

10,000 elite infantry plus 3,500 knights are just used to drive away the Khitan cavalry that went south to rescue, not to attack the city.

And what made Wu Haogu really frown was actually the folk customs near Lingzhou.

The folk customs of Lingzhou are not like Kaifeng Mansion, nor like Jingzhao Mansion, and the gap between Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City is even greater, but it is a bit similar to the Liao State Xijin Mansion I saw eight years ago.

These teenagers who travel on horseback don't seem to be much different from the children of the wealthy families in Youzhou! These people should all be the children of knights and officers who were placed near Lingzhou, and perhaps some of the children of the former Western Xia warriors who took refuge in Gao Yu.

Will these people become a new Guanlong military group in the future?

On Shuofang's side, there is no possibility of taking the capitalist road at the moment, and there is no way to play the imperial examination...... In the northwest, a proper feudal military group! Will they be willing to obey the Great Song Dynasty with Zhao Ji as the core in the future?

……

"What's going on with this Sriwijaya City Inspection Division, Sriwijaya Inspection Division, and Aceh Inspection Division? Is Ji Yizhi on an envoy or going to war? Why did you still take the island to grab the land? ”

"Does he count as a provocation?"

"It's definitely a provocation! And it's also for a Rausch South Heart Island......"

"An envoy casually uses troops overseas, Ji Yizhi is too disagreeable, right?"

"Maybe it's forced by the situation?"

"Yes, it says that his fleet defeated a giant who had been a plague to Srivijaya for many years in the Srivijaya Strait. The king of Sriwijaya was grateful and fearful of the comeback of the giants, so he dedicated Nanxin Island, which is located at the entrance of the Sriwijaya Strait, to the ...... of our dynasty."

"What are you kidding? A million taxes a year! Srivijaya is dedicated to us? ”

"Mistaken, right? A million! Kaifeng Mansion only collects hundreds of thousands of commercial taxes a year, and this broken island can collect one million? ”

"If there is really an income of one million, this side provocation is worth it! Ji Yizhi still has merit. ”

Kaifeng Mansion, the West Imperial City, and the Political Affairs Hall are meeting between the two governments today. At the beginning of the meeting, everyone talked about the piece of music that Ji Yi had just received from Nanxin Island.

The content on the piece is too outrageous, and the Great Song Dynasty accidentally had more land overseas! And it's also a good place to generate income. At least 1 million yuan can be handed over to the coastal city shipping department in a year!

This number is also too scary, and it scares the important ministers of the two governments in the political affairs hall to forget their righteousness.

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