"Mandarin Duck is only 600 miles away from Jiehe Commercial Market......"

Zhao Ji's face was gloomy, holding the music sent by Su Zhe from Jiehe Shang City in his hand, and looking at a large number of ministers below.

His current mood is like riding a roller coaster, full of ambition for a while, as if he is the second Khan of the sky; After a while, I was scared to death, as if I had an attack of hereditary bilicity.

And now it looks like it's time for hereditary bilidiasis to flare up! This is a mental illness, but there is no psychiatrist to treat him, only a group of ministers with long beards and a little short of knowledge have bad ideas in the Chongzheng Palace.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry," the sick Su Dongpo comforted Zhao Ji, "The city of Jiehe Shang City is strong and dangerous. On the water of the Jiehe River, they are also the boats of my Great Song Dynasty, and even if the Khitans have fast horses, it is impossible to tread on the water. ”

"With soldiers Guiqi, if the Khitans are determined to go south to war, they will not garrison Mandarin ducks, and let the envoys tell us. What's more, Hebei Jingluo appeased Han Zhongyan and knew the soldiers, so His Majesty did not need to worry. ”

Li Gefei also followed the teacher and said words of comfort to Zhao Ji, but Zhao Ji's brows furrowed. Can Han Zhongyan be called a soldier? He's just an old nerd, the Liao people are coming, what can he do?

"How about transferring Gao Yu to Hebei?" Zhao Ji suddenly had an idea, "Let him be the head of the soldiers and horses of the east and west roads of Hebei, and put the soldiers of Hebei in order." ”

During this time, the hottest topic in the court, in addition to the suppression of the Western Thieves and the resistance to the Khitan, was to reform the military system and revitalize the government soldiers.

Because Tong Guan, Gao Yu and Wu Haogu all reported in the chapter on the outstanding performance of the 5,000 soldiers belonging to the Sanzhi Forbidden Army in the Battle of Tongwan.

These soldiers were only short-trained, and when they used spears (foot squads) with a length of about one and a half zhang, they were almost impossible for the enemy to resist when they attacked in a dense and tight formation.

In the bloody battle at the gap in the city wall, the Western Thieves threw 2,000 garrisons and more than 2,500 iron harriers to attack. However, it was unable to break through the defense of the Song army's pikemen, which was less than 5,000 people, and finally paid heavy losses of more than 2,700 people.

The casualties of the Song army's pikemen were only five or six hundred, of which less than three hundred were seriously wounded or killed.

Not to mention the government soldiers who "can only carry hoes", it is difficult for even the elite of the Western Army to achieve such results, right?

Therefore, after watching the concerts of Tong Guan, Gao Yu and Wu Haogu, public opinion in the court overwhelmingly began to praise the government soldiers and belittle the recruitment. There are also many officials who simply suggest that the recruitment of troops should no longer be effective, and that the government military system should be fully restored. In the future, the Great Song Dynasty used government soldiers to fight the world.

At the same time, the controversy about the left and right list of Jinshi is also much smaller - I just don't know if the officialdom of the capital of the government is at the beginning, is it possible to attract enough talents to apply for the exam?

Well, everyone's interest in Biyong Academy and Yuntai Academy Palace will also decrease a lot, right?

"Your Majesty," Zhang Kangguo, who knew the affairs of the Privy Council, was still relatively calm, and he played, "Although Gao Yu can fight, he can sweep the river and Huang, reduce Renduo, break the unification of Wan, and defeat Brother Cha, and even the battle is not all because of the ability to use soldiers. There are also the students of the Military Academy, the house of Kaifeng Mansion, and the land of Shuofang Road...... Without these three things, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for a tall woman to cook without rice. ”

As soon as Zhang Kangguo mentioned the house, Zhao Ji couldn't help but be annoyed. He is not a stingy official, even though the more than 2,000 houses given by Wu Haogu without authorization are worth 6 million, Zhao Ji is not distressed. But the problem is that the treatment of the imperial warriors is too high, which has caused the dissatisfaction of many civil officials - the hierarchy of civil and military is being broken!

The salary and benefits of the imperial warriors are already comparable to those of the Beijing officials, and now they have obtained a large amount of real estate because of the reward method of cutting off their heads for houses. This made the civil officials who had lived in Kaifeng Mansion for many years red-eyed.

Don't underestimate the 3,000-tainted "tube building", of course, it doesn't take much effort for civil officials to come up with this money. However, Beijing officials and people are selected with a legitimate income, which they cannot afford in a lifetime. The youngest is from the ninth grade official, and the year's salary is only 144! 3,000 is not enough for 20 years.

And most of these civil officials have been brainwashed by "their own golden house in the book" since they were children, and now there is not even a tube building in the book, but a vulgar martial artist who cut off his head to earn credit got the tube building...... Isn't this a "self-owned gold house under the knife"? Is Emperor Zhenzong's "Encouragement of Learning" to be changed to "Shangwu Chapter", what Qianzhongsu, Golden House, and Yan Ruyu are all exchanged for the heads of Western thieves and Khitans?

Is this still the Great Song Dynasty? Isn't this a tyrannical Qin who uses military merits to deceive people's hearts? Da Song Ke must not follow the old path of tyrannical Qin!

Therefore, at the same time as adding officials to Wu Haogu, Zhao Ji also wrote an edict, seriously criticizing the line of real estate rejuvenation pursued by Wu Haogu, and ordering him not to use real estate as bait to motivate soldiers to fight to the death.

"The real estate of Kaifeng Mansion can't be easily granted to soldiers!" Zhao Ji gritted his teeth and said, "The martial arts performance in front of the emperor is no longer held regularly...... However, there is nothing wrong with giving the meritorious soldiers the law of granting fields, and the Privy Council and the Ministry of War should discuss and come up with a method as soon as possible on how to reward them. ”

"Commandment."

Zhang Kangguo, the secretary of the Privy Council, and Liu Kui, the secretary of the military department, both received the holy decree. Zhao Ji nodded, with a little relief in his expression.

The reason why he resolutely gave up the incentive method of "exchanging houses for heads" was not only because of the dissatisfaction of the civilian officials, but also because of the combat effectiveness shown by the government soldiers in the battle of Tongwan.

Since there are cheap and sufficient government soldiers, what do you need expensive house slave warriors for? Therefore, Zhao Ji just stopped "exchanging heads for houses", and did not stop "exchanging heads for land". Of course, more land cannot be given, it must be capped at 250 acres, and it can only be given to the wasteland in the border prefectures and counties, not to the fertile soil in the interior.

"Your Majesty," Su Dongpo, the right prime minister, sat on a pestle at this time and spoke, "Now the Khitan is asking for a price, and it has put on a posture of being overwhelmed by soldiers, so you can't take it lightly."

Therefore, Lao Chen suggested that the offensive against the party in the northwest should be suspended. The eastern line can stop at Yanzhou and Hetao grasslands, and the western line can relieve the siege of Qinwangchuan City and abandon the Liangzhou strategy. Finally, it is allowed to be a vassal of the Qianshun land. ”

Zhao Ji's expression became very entangled, and Su Dongpo meant that he would settle it when he saw it. And let go of a way to live, and then concentrate on dealing with the Khitans - so that most of the Khitans will also retract.

After all, Da Song now looks very capable of fighting, and there are famous generals like Gao Yu. Moreover, the internal instability of the Liao State was also unstable, and the obstruction of the divination was uncertain, and the birth of a girl was out of control. If the Liao State was determined to go to war, once it was defeated by Gao Taiwei, Zhu Bu and the Jurchens would take advantage of the situation. Daliao will be wiped out!

But now is the perfect time to perish or force the thieves to move westward. As long as Qin Wangchuan is in hand, the Hexi Corridor is in danger of being closed by the Great Song Dynasty. The thief had to choose between moving west immediately and giving in completely.

And Gao Yongnian, who was besieging Qin Wangchuan, seemed to have a method that could quickly break through Qin Wangchuan City - the method of blasting the city wall in the cave!

"Your Majesty, the city of King Qin Chuancheng is about to be destroyed, wouldn't it be a waste of all your efforts to give up now?" Cai Jing had been observing Zhao Ji's expression, and he smiled, "Maybe now that the city is broken, is it possible that we still have to return the territory we have won so hard to the Western Thieves?" ”

The battle of Qinwangchuan began in early March, and the main force of Hexi Road commanded by Gao Yongnian finally advanced to Qinwangchuan and completed the encirclement after pulling out a series of western thief strongholds such as Zhuoluo City, Shuibo City, Gaizhu City, and Renshou Mountain City.

However, Gao Yongnian's army did not have professional engineers, and the construction capacity and the three direct forbidden troops were not of the same level, so without one or two months of construction, it was impossible to complete the construction of the cave.

Moreover, the Western Xia army in Qin Wangchuan City already knew how Tongwan City was breached, so they had already made preparations. A large number of Semen knives (i.e., knife carts) and reserve troops were prepared in the city. Once the walls collapse, they can be blocked in time.

In addition, the two brothers Qianshun and Chage are also desperately mobilizing troops in Xingling Prefecture, and now they have replenished the Iron Harrier and the garrison, and they can go to Qinwangchuan at any time!

However, Zhao Ji didn't know these situations, he only knew that the thief was already standing on the edge of the cliff, and as long as he pushed a little harder, he might be able to solve the problem once and for all.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji's expression softened a little, "The eastern line ends at Yanzhou, and the western line ends at Qinwangchuan...... After the defeat of Qin Wangchuan, Xu Qianshun and the Chage brothers reformed themselves. As long as they are willing to enter Kaifeng Mansion to apologize, I will treat them like sons, no longer pursue their crimes, and still let them govern the eight prefectures of Xing, Ling, Wei, Liang, Gan, Su, Gua, Sha, etc., and can also give Qianshun a name for the protection of the capital of the Western Regions, and let it take the land of the four towns in the west.

As for the Khitan, they can divide the land of the Hetao with it, so that they can be regarded as having gains, and they will not meet my sword soldiers. ”

The Son of Heaven finally gave up and destroyed the Western Thief in one fell swoop! Su Dongpo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it would be easy to do now.

Cai Jing said again at this time: "Your Majesty, the minister suggested that Wu Haogu be transferred back from Shuofang Road, and that he should be under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou and soldiers and horses, and that Cangzhou soldiers and horses should be stationed in Jiehe Shang City to guard against Khitan. ”

Once Cangzhou soldiers and horses enter Jiehe Commercial City, it will also mean the end of the era of high autonomy of the commercial market, and it will be reduced to a semi-autonomous commercial city similar to Haizhou Jingdong Commercial City.

Although Wu Haogu can still cover the sky with one hand in the administration of Cangzhou Prefecture and the jurisdiction of soldiers and horses, as soon as his term of office arrives, others will be able to take over the defense of the Shang City. It can even further move the state governance of Cangzhou from Qingchi County to Jiehe Shang City......

Of course, Su Dongpo knew what Cai Jing meant, but he did not come forward to object. Because there was no reason to object...... Now that the soldiers of the Liao State are about to crush the border, how can Jiehe Shang City be so rich and unprepared?

Unless this conflict between Song and Liao can end in a short time, at least the Liao State has to give up pressure on the riverside, then Cai Jing's proposal is very necessary!