The pretty little Liu wilted at this moment.

Walking out of the big tent, he faltered, and lost his soul. Then he turned his head to look at the barracks, and he also saw that something was wrong.

Of course, it's definitely not right, this is the main body composed of the Northwest Army, even if there are Beijing soldiers in the original capital, all the old, weak, sick and disabled will be cut off, far from the army she saw before.

But the difference is still the commander-in-chief.

The Song army has always been not weak, including the Southern Song Dynasty, and some battles are still remarkable, and the weak one is a redundant word. It is not that all the old, weak, sick and disabled are eliminated, the number of troops is reduced, and the redundancy is solved. It's one-sided. This redundant word is very complicated, first of all, the system, the army is divided into three, the Privy Council, the three yamen and the locality, if you add grain and grass and logistics, it can be divided into four parts, the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, the main generals do not know what the captains under them have the ability, how to command and arrange? A large number of second ancestors were stuffed into the military camp as generals because of Enyin, Cao Wei and Wang Kai, that was a special case, but more people were Ge Huaimin. How can these people lead troops into battle? The literati were the commanders, the eunuchs were the supervisors, and Zheng Lang was also a special case, like Di Qing who was placed under Han Qi's tent, he didn't dare to say anything. Knowing that the commander's strategy was wrong, he didn't dare to say it, and in the end, Wu didn't bother to think about it. Except for a small number of troops and soldiers, the army is all from the capital, where there is danger, they will be transferred, I don't know the local terrain, customs and climate. Preferential maintenance made the generals corrupt and degenerate, and even caused the soldiers to gradually degenerate, idle, and some forbidden soldiers could not pick a little thing, and they had to hire people to pick ......

All these things really constitute a complete redundant drawback.

But it also depends on the fact that if Song Jun is placed in Yue Fei's hands, the nature is completely different. Zheng Lang definitely can't catch up with Yue Fei, but he gave Di Qing the power to practice, and he didn't despise the soldiers like other ministers, he cared for them very much, and used the soldiers for his purposes.

After staying for more than a month, this Song army has undergone earth-shaking changes.

But it's not something that Liu can see.

I just vaguely feel that this Song army is very strong. With countless thoughts in his heart, he finally turned over and got on a horse that he had stolen from that state and county, and fled south.

Zheng Lang began to move again.

The time is ripe.

The first one surprised him a little, cotton.

Self-promotion. It has been several years, since the beginning of the promotion, it is more than 500 years of historical time and space, some more than 900 years of historical time and space, the most advanced planting methods, single plant nutrient bowl transfer, cut off the male stubble. Ridge and so on, and the emergence of advanced deseeding and textile machinery.

The speed of promotion is not fast, the seeds have an adaptation period, the cotton seed is not very good, the yield is low, although there are economic benefits, but it can not attract the attention of the world. However, because of the most advanced planting methods, the cotton seed gradually degenerated. Until this year, the harvest of one mu in some high-yield fields was close to 300 catties of seed cotton, and the average yield was more than 200 catties. Compared with the original, the production has almost increased by 100 catties. It is less than one-third or one-quarter of the output of later generations. But it was already considerable, and cotton cultivation began to spread throughout Koto.

Zheng Lang repeatedly said in the court that the reason for the rebellion was not only the incompetence of the officials, but also the pressure of the army and the people, Zhao Zhen was very cautious, and when the autumn tax came up, he asked Xu Yuan to take out four million tax money, one million yuan to buy additional grain, and three million to buy a batch of cotton jackets and quilts.

It has been transferred to the north one after another, and some of them have been transported to the capital. Distributed to Jingxi Road in the form of labor relief.

With food and clothing, who wants to rebel?

Although it is half-fed and half-fed, it is stronger than rebellion.

Zheng Lang personally suppressed it, which put a lot of pressure on the military officials of various states, maybe Zheng Lang would not necessarily be in the eyes of Yan Shu and Han Qi, but he would eventually become the prime minister of the dynasty. Participating in political affairs, if ranked according to the size of the right, it is only ranked after Yan Shu, Zhang Dexiang, and Jia Changchao, and before Du Yan and Fan Zhongyan. …,

Fan Zhongyan's new policy also stipulates that political performance should be used as the criterion, rather than the previous mistake as the criterion for political performance. The pressure from both sides made the military officers and officials of the western states of Beijing very afraid.

The incompetence of some officials also made Zhao Zhen angry, and it was rare to deal with it so severely, including Liu Zhi, who was transferred to Yingzhou to serve as the governor, and under Zhao Zhen's anger, he stripped off his official hat and exiled him to Lingnan. Lao Liu is over sixty years old, and he cries like a tearful man, but if he cries in front of Zhao Zhen, it still works, when he is old, let you go, and go home to rest. But in Yingzhou, he cried and fainted, and Zhao Zhen couldn't see it, so he asked the officials to forcibly send it to Lingnan. Han Gang, as Han Yi's son, did not end well this time, and was also exiled to Lingnan. The relevant officials dealt with a dozen in total. This forced the remaining officials to brace themselves.

Liu Zhi said that there were no officers and soldiers in Dengzhou, but it was really wrong. Although Zheng Lang cut it, there are still 400,000 soldiers in the Song Dynasty, and more than 500,000 of various errands, and the errand servants are also called servants, not necessarily Zhuangding, archers and servants, but these three account for at least half of the servants. Whether it is a box soldier or a servant or a strong man, they all have the duty of catching thieves, and there are more than 600,000 people, but the Song Dynasty only has 300 or dozens of state capitals, and a state is apportioned, not counting the forbidden army, and a state has an average of 2,000 people, so why raise them? Is it really just for moving things? Then why are the common people still burdened with such heavy conscription?

There is another difficulty, the homeless. There were wandering people everywhere, and it was really difficult for officials to distinguish between bandits and homeless.

With the continuous transfer of disaster relief resources, coupled with all kinds of heavy pressure, the officials cheered up and did things carefully, first of all, they organized the displaced people, they didn't eat and drink, and they didn't blame you for wandering around, now they have some to eat and drink, and they are still wandering, what do you want to do? When it came to Yugong, there were projects everywhere, only water conservancy, and the Song Dynasty was busy for ten years. Otherwise, after Fan Zhongyan's reform of heavy agriculture, Wang Anshi also launched a larger farmland water conservancy law. Hardly even need to look at it, sit in the state office and think about it, there are projects popping up.

When there was order among the homeless, the bandits had fewer places to hide.

The officials cheered up, urging their officials and officials to arrest, as well as generous bounties for whistleblowers, the court said that bandits and thieves were actually righteous soldiers, and a group of people had to be at least dozens. Even though the mountains are lush and forested, the clumsy and backward productivity has led to the existence of a large number of firewood, charcoal and hunters in the mountainous areas, and the range of activity is not smaller than that of later generations, dozens of people carry weapons and food, and even looted wealth, even the tall Bears Ears Mountain, some people will see it.

Moreover, the reward for reporting is very generous, ten times for one person, and hundreds of dollars for dozens of people, which is a lot of income for any family below the third class. So the people who reported it did not know how many. Everyone wants to get rich, especially those who made a fortune in the Song Dynasty are not ashamed, but proud.

With the concerted efforts of many parties, banditry in Xiangzhou, Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Ruzhou, Yingzhou, Suizhou and other places was gradually eliminated. Only the two rebel armies of Guo Miaoshan and Zhang Hai were too large in number, and the officials were helpless, and they still arrogantly operated in Shangzhou, Junzhou, Jinzhou, Guanghuajun, Fangzhou, and the Qinling Mountains south of Jingzhao. There are also three rebel army activities in Tongbai Mountain, and there are also righteous army activities in Bear's Ears Mountain, but Zheng Lang led the army to climb the mountain, only climbed for two days, and fled in a hurry. Flee to the south.

Zheng Lang led the army to attack Tongbai Mountain, and the tail end of Tongbai Mountain started from Tangzhou, crossed the northeast of Suizhou, and extended to the Xinyang Army.

A total of three rebel armies fled into Tongbai Mountain, the scale of the two rebel armies was not very large, only more than 100 people, under the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, like two lost dogs. Running around, Zheng Lang didn't pay attention to these two rebels, and sent two battalions of cavalry. Let the officials of the Sanzhou Army send officials to cooperate with the local people to exterminate them.

There is also a group, totaling nearly 300 people, concentrated in the area of Suizhou Manjian Mountain, and built a strong camp on the mountain and the former Great Wall of Chu, and a large number of looted weapons and food were stored in the village, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. …,

Suizhou An Zhizhou led hundreds of troops to attack, but was beaten and fled, but it was still good. Regardless of the danger, Anzhizhou personally came to lead the troops into battle. After the defeat, he sent someone to inform Zheng Lang that we were not inactive, not greedy for life and afraid of death, but the bandits were too powerful, and my subordinates were not their opponents. Let's ask Xianggong to come and help us.

Zheng Lang led the main force into the territory of Suizhou.

An Zhizhou led the bureaucrats to meet him from afar, and came to Zheng Lang, An Zhizhou said: "Zheng Xianggong, the lower officials are incompetent......

What should I do, if I lose the battle, I can only say that I have no ability. If the rebel army is strong, no matter how strong it is, can it be stronger than Yuan Hao's main force?

Then he secretly glanced at Zheng Lang with his small pean-like eyes to see Zheng Lang's reaction.

Zheng Lang's face was very calm, and he said, "Report to me about the situation of this bandit, and also, transfer a few locals who are familiar with the environment to be my guide." ”

"Whoa."

Slowly lead the army to the Manzhuan Mountain, look at the mountain, the mountain is very tall, the main peak reaches more than 1,000 meters, since the mountainside has generated a strong cloud and mist, like the sea is magnificent, like ten thousand horses galloping, the top of the mountain is submerged in the cloud and mist.

But the good news is that the state capitals are pressing, and the rebel army will not bloom in all directions as before, which is what Zheng Lang is most worried about. Now the gradual concentration is conducive to extermination.

A small official in the county brought a few mountain people, not Han Chinese, barbarians dressed up, but there are more barbarians living here, unlike the barbarians in the south, most of them have been sinicized.

Zheng Lang and Di Qing rode around, and asked these mountain people about the terrain and climate, and asked very carefully. Then facing the cottage of the rebels, re-entrenched the camp. Only then did he officially talk to An Zhizhou, there were more than 200 people in the rebel army, close to 300 people, and Anzhi Prefecture was not very clear how many people there were. The leader's surname is Hou, called Hou Xiaoliu, who is Xiaoliu, and there are five brothers and sisters above, the family is poor, the strength is great, and he has been doing evil since he was a child. Not a good guy anyway.

Zheng Lang didn't take it seriously, a simple reason, there are village tyrants and city tyrants in the evil township, but what is the crime of rebellion? If you don't push it to the extreme, who wants to rebel? The real reason for the rebellion is certainly not as Anzhizhou said.

There is no investigation, no matter what the reason, there is only one solution, surrender or extermination.

There was no Mo Chiao's surrender, and when he came, he wrote a letter to explain the situation to the imperial court, although there are still bandits below, but the situation is better than before, first solve several bandits in Tongbai Mountain, and force the remaining bandits to Zhang Hai and Guo Miaoshan together, let them gather, and then attack with Han Qi from the south and north of the Qinling Mountains. On that side, Han Qi also started to act, and there was no time to delay.

He took a team of cavalry to inspect the surroundings of the camp of the righteous army, discussed with Di Qing while watching, and when he came back, he sat down again, and said to An Zhizhou: "You guys will camp first."

Take a break and deal with this group of robbers tomorrow. ”

"Tomorrow?"

"Well, go ahead." Zheng Lang patted him on the shoulder and said.

An Zhizhou went down suspiciously, Zheng Lang began to transfer troops, first called a battalion of soldiers, and constantly climbed the mountain training, the more outstanding battalion of infantry troops, and selected five people from it, these five people only talked about the ability to climb the mountain, and they were the champions in the army.

Zheng Lang said that mountain climbing is not only about climbing mountains, but also about mountain roads, but also rock climbing!

A primitive rock climbing, with no advanced tools to use, relying only on clever skills, with the help of some protrusions on the cliffs, sturdy ancient vines and trees, to climb some seemingly difficult cliffs. Only a small number of people were selected from the army to train in rock climbing. One is for the present, and the other is for the future of the South.

One by one, the night began to get dark. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )