On the twelfth day of the first month of the fifth year of the Great Song Dynasty, outside the Wansheng Gate in the west of Kaifeng Prefecture, there were crowds of people.

At this moment, the westward expansion project of Kaifeng Fucheng has been basically completed. In addition to the capital construction in the new Kaifeng Mansion Xicheng, a series of constructions have also been carried out in addition to the huge amount of money that has been spent on the expansion of the city.

A wide avenue extending from Kaifeng Fucheng to the northeast Mudagang Racecourse Palace has also completed construction. Along the road, every few miles, stood a tall and sturdy red castle, surrounded by a ditch. Apparently a military city for garrisons!

The Mu Daogang Horse Farm is also different from the original, from the original imperial horse farm with no defense ability, to a military base that takes into account various functions such as horse breeding, troop cantonment, and training. At the same time, the Tiansi Palace for Zhao Ji was also built here, which was actually a fortress surrounded by walls made of red brick and rammed earth.

This series of military projects is, of course, the product of the confrontation between the Imperial Martial Arts and the Song Liao. Although the Imperial Martial Arts was canceled not long ago, there is no longer such a murderous and expensive class as the "House Slave Warrior". However, the renovation project of the Tiansi Prison Horse Farm was planned for a long time, and it was impossible to give up halfway, so it was completed at the end of the fourth year of the construction of the Yasukuni Prison.

According to the planning of the two prefectures, the new Tiansi Palace, Tiansi Horse Farm and Tiansi Camp can be used as the garrison of the knights and soldiers - the combat effectiveness of the knights and soldiers has been tested, and it must be stronger than the Sanya Forbidden Army, so it should be deployed near the left side of Kaifeng Mansion as a supplement to the Kaifeng Forbidden Army whose combat effectiveness is equal to zero.

The garrison of the soldiers of the Imperial Front Three Direct Army who were transferred back from Lingzhou was also placed in the Tiansi camp a little distance from the Fengfu. Of course, the number of the three direct armies in front of the emperor will also be canceled, and the knights among them will be temporarily disbanded - they have been serving for too long, and it is time to go home to give birth to and educate the little knights. The thousands of house slave warriors took turns to return to Kaifeng Mansion to reunite with their families, and most of them were still stationed in the Tiansi camp, maintaining daily training, and waiting for the final settlement decision of the imperial court.

For these thousands of veterans who really fought tough battles, the two government governors are inclined to turn them into the core of the new government soldiers. It is not very reassuring to completely use the right list of jinshi to command the new government soldiers, and there are not so many right list jinshi available.

Therefore, Cai Jing, Su Dongpo and Zhang Kangguo all thought of using these veterans who fought terrified on the battlefield as the backbone, plus the officers of the forbidden army, plus the right list of jinshi, plus a huge number of Xinfu soldiers, to form a new army with real combat effectiveness.

When this new army is trained, it will probably be the time to recover Yanyun!

Now the training of the new army in Kaifeng has not yet begun, but thousands of imperial warriors were still gathered on the day when Zhao Qianshun, the king of Xiping, arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, wearing helmets and armor, holding spears, and lined up on both sides of the brand-new official road outside Wansheng Gate!

These are really tough soldiers, just standing there, raising their eyes and feet, the murderous aura they exude made Zhao Qianshun and his party who were riding on the official road a little chill down their spines.

And Kaifeng Mansion from top to bottom, naturally it was also disturbed by the grand event of Qianshun's entry into the court. This is a great victory that has never been seen since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, except for the destruction of the Northern Han and Southern Tang Dynasty and Houshu! And the strength of the Western Thief, how can it be compared to the weak and incompetent Hou Shu Southern Tang? Even the brave Northern Han Dynasty relied on nothing more than Taiyuan Jiancheng. In terms of population, troop resources, and combat power, where can it be compared with the western thieves who can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn?

So when Qianshun and his party approached Wanshengmen, both sides of the official road were already crowded with people from Kaifeng who were watching the excitement. There are also many small merchants and hawkers, carrying baskets and carrying burdens, selling food along the official road, which is really a picture of a peaceful and prosperous world.

Seeing the thriving scene of the Great Song Empire, Zhao Qianshun, who was already the "king of the dead country", also sank to the eighteenth floor underground. Although Niu Shuwen, the envoy sent by the Liao State, repeatedly promised that after he and Princess Cheng'an of the Liao State got married, they would be able to return their home to both husband and wife.

But how valuable is the guarantee of the privy deputy envoy of the Southern Court of Liao?

The "father" in the Qionglin Palace of Kaifeng Mansion wants to keep him filial piety in Kaifeng Mansion, and he still dares to say a word?

However, even if Zhao Ji didn't need him to stay in Kaifeng Mansion to fulfill his filial piety, his mood would not improve much. Because there is no longer a big white country! He is no longer a vulture, but the envoy of the Hexi Festival of the Great Song Dynasty and the protector of the capital of Anxi. This is not a nominal downgrade, but a real loss of the foundation of the country. Half of the land was lost, and it also included Lingzhou, a good land known as the south of the Yangtze River. The population has lost at least forty percent, including the most productive Han Lingzhou and the most combative nation, Ding Zhuang.

By the way, even the concept of party and nation is not allowed to be retained. In the future, there will be no party members in Hexi, and everyone will be Han. Even Zhao Qianshun himself is now a Han Chinese. Changed into Han clothes, grew his hair, and combed a bun, except that the bun was a little small, it was no different from ordinary Han men.

Moreover, this kind of change cannot be limited to the upper echelons of the Hexi Army, but must be completely reduced from top to bottom. I can't deal with it indiscriminately, because there will be a big sect of Laoshizi who will return to Hexi with Zhao Qianshun - if he can go back at all!

As the name suggests, the Great Sect is to educate the Zhuyi in Hexi, and they have to be educated into Han Chinese...... It's not okay to resist indoctrination, Gao Yu is still waiting in Lingzhou City to lead troops to Hexi to convince people with virtue!

How many so-called party nationals are there now? Can you afford to kill Captain Gao with his troops? It's all for you to kill, and you don't have to educate you......

Of course, there is hope. Xiao Heda, who set off from Kaifeng Mansion to Mu Daogang to greet Zhao Qianshun, brought a piece of good news that made him cry and laugh a little.

That Rausch Sect is not only disciplined, but also usurious - I really don't know how these two things are connected? In short, the Great Sect raised 5 million yuan of capital from the monks, Taoist priests, and Confucians of the Great Song Dynasty, so it was possible to lend money to the Hexi Army. Moreover, they are also ready to use the form of money lending to support the Hexi Army's crusade against Anxi.

Although it is ridiculous, this is the only way to get military expenses for the Hexi army. Because the Great Song Dynasty will not give the Hexi Army a penny, the Hexi Army was a thief not long ago! If you don't extinguish you're already very polite, and you still want money? Dream on!

And who doesn't know that the Hexi Army's crusade against Anxi is to grab territory for themselves? Of course, the Great Song Dynasty was happy to see both the "Western Thieves" and the Black Khan Uighurs lose each other, but it would not spend millions of dollars on the "Western Thieves" as military expenses.

Therefore, if Zhao Qianshun wanted to open up a new living space to the west, he had to accept the help of the Great Education Corps.

As for how many conditions will be attached to the help of the Great Education Corps that will make the Hexi Army feel uncomfortable, Zhao Qianshun can't control it at all now, because survival is the most important thing!

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On the new, tall and sturdy Wansheng Gate City Tower, at this time, with the full honor guard of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Jun Rongzhi's musicians played the sound of drum music, and a pair of strong warrior armor in front of the royal class appeared brightly on the Wansheng Tower, extending to both sides on the left and right, and standing in their respective positions.

And then there are scattered commanders with imperial equipment, and the main function of these is that most of the samurai who pretend to be are lords, and they are just qualified to be promoted. Now they are all coming out one after another, as if they are singing a big opera, and they are standing on the Wansheng Tower. After that, an apricot yellow cover appeared on the Wansheng Tower, under the cover, is the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, the heavenly khan of the four seas, wearing a dragon robe, wearing a long-winged gauze hat, sitting on the chariot. Behind Zhao Ji was the chariot on which Concubine Xiaoliang was riding, as well as the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty and the envoys of various countries in Kaifeng Mansion. There are also several eminent monks, Taoist chiefs and great Confucians. All of them followed Zhao Ji and started from the Western Imperial City, and walked all the way to Wansheng Tower along the tall and wide city wall (the Western Imperial City and the West City of Kaifeng Mansion share a section of the city wall). Wu Haogu was also among them, wearing a purple official uniform with a curved collar and big sleeves, holding an ivory wat board, wearing a hood on his head, and wearing a fish bag on the leather belt around his waist, swaggering among the ministers of the martial arts.

Upstairs in Wansheng, the official throne had already been set up, Zhao Ji slowly stepped down, walked to the throne to do a good job, and placed a pestle on the side of the throne, which was for Concubine Xiaoliang. Behind Zhao Ji and Concubine Xiaoliang, there were a group of high-ranking officials and dignitaries from various countries, standing in shifts, waiting for Zhao Qianshun to go upstairs to see his father and emperor.

"Long live the saints, long live, long live!"

As soon as Zhao Ji sat down, the people and officers and soldiers downstairs in Wansheng began to shout long live, and the sound of cheers shook all directions. Zhao Ji's face was full of smiles, he raised his hand to signal, and the cheers were still unsubsidising, and gradually stopped.

Looking at this scene, looking at the people of the Hexi Army who had arrived at Wansheng downstairs and were standing on the official road and looking up, Zhao Ji smiled and looked around: "Wu'er Qianshun has arrived?" ”

On the left and right of Zhao Ji, there were Cai Jing, the left minister, Zhang Kangguo, the privy councilor, and Cao Yu, the commander of the palace, and the right minister Su Dongpo was on leave because of his serious illness and did not appear on the Wansheng Tower.

Hearing Zhao Ji's question, Cai Jing stepped forward with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, the King of Xiping has arrived at the bottom of the city tower, and he is waiting to be summoned." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, and asked softly, "Where is Wu Haogu?" ”

Immediately, Xiao Huangmen, who followed Zhao Ji, summoned Wu Haogu to him, and Wu Haogu hurriedly saluted, "Chenwu Haogu is here." ”

"Da Lang," Zhao Ji said with a smile, "Gao Yu and Tong Guan are not in Kaifeng Mansion, so it's up to you to take Wu'er Qianshun upstairs." ”

"Commandment." Wu Haogu saluted, turned around and walked towards the staircase of Wansheng Tower......