Chapter 728: Cowardice (I)

"Bang Dang" was hit by a Tangut man, and the wall collapsed, but people still couldn't get into it. Come on,.!

The situation is very dangerous, and the actual whole process only lasts a minute or two, in this short period of time, it is all about gambling and luck, but without this risky method, after tonight, there will be no life, no strategy.

Then it hit again, and the surrounding walls were crumbling, Liang Huaiji was anxious, roared again, and once again stabbed a non-standard short spear into the stomach of a Xixia man.

Seeing that the Xixia man was rolling over in pain, Zhao Niannu shouted, "Little Jizi, okay." ”

Liang Huaiji's performance tonight was too brave, and he killed two Western Xia people in a row.

This made the remaining four Xixia people hesitate slightly, in fact, they were all ready to die, what were they afraid of, this was the natural fear of human beings for the danger of the seven hundred and twenty-eight chapters, causing them to hesitate for a moment.

Hearing the shouts and howls inside, the Song army outside became even more anxious. When Yang Guiguo's body swayed, Wang Song's body also swayed, and the two of them kicked on a stone almost at the same time, and a crashing sound came out, and a small gap finally appeared at the entrance of the cave.

"Enter," Wang Song roared.

Regardless of the small gap, it is necessary to drill into it.

The four Tanguts choked up, heard the noise outside, looked back with tearful eyes, and when they reacted, two Tanguts pounced again, and a Song soldier had already drilled in. The firewood wall that Zheng Lang built in the middle also played a role in blocking the line of sight.

The three of them fought fiercely, and the Song soldiers who came in were defeated and retreated, and they were slashed by knives in several places on their bodies, and they were lucky to have armor to protect them, which was not enough to be fatal, but Wang Song killed them again. Wang Song is old, not as good as he was back then, but he can't be underestimated, he barely drew and moved out the space behind him. Another Song soldier got in, and at this time, the wall inside knocked down a large piece, Wang Song was so anxious that he yelled, desperately injured himself, and forcibly forced the Xixia people on the left with his companions to retreat, and squeezed his body in.

The two Tanguts wanted to drill a short spear into it and waved it constantly, but Liang Huaiji and Zheng Lang's short spears also played some role, and Zhao Niannu and Wu 728 Chapter 728 had no effect at all, and the Xixia people suddenly used their knives to pick up the short spears. Wang Song shouted: "The thief will kill him from behind."

The crisis finally passed, but the cave was too small, and the Xixia people were still resisting stubbornly against the cave wall, but they didn't care about Zheng Lang's four people.

Zhao Niannu has never had such an experience when he is so old, and he jumped happily: "Zheng Xianggong, it's so exciting." ”

None of them had a good impression of Zhao Niannu, Wang Song and Zhang Kang, thinking that if there was no Zhao Niannu, Zheng Lang would never have such a danger.

Looking at the lively little princess in front of her, Wang Song frowned, but because of her identity, Zun Song still gave a salute, hugged the injured elbow, came to the four of them, and said in a low voice: "Zheng Xianggong, Your Royal Highness the Princess, only me and Zhang Zhizhou outside know that Her Royal Highness the Princess is trapped in the cave." Before leaving, Zhang Zhizhou instructed me to inform Zheng Xianggong of this matter. ”

If it really leaks out, there is no way, and it is better not to leak it if it is not leaked.

After speaking, Wang Song took out a large firecracker from his arms, lit it, and threw it between the two Tangut people who resisted back-to-back.

"Why did you bring firecrackers?"

"Zheng Xianggong, his subordinates are informing the outside, Zheng Xianggong, you are safe, and those prisoners" Wang Song made a gesture.

Zheng Lang frowned, this was definitely not what he liked.

But the matter has come to this point, it is too late to stop it, and he also made a gesture, Wang Song understood, retreated slightly, and Zheng Lang explained a few words to the Wuyi family, Zhao Niannu and Liang Huaiji.

The battle has ended, and the people are hanging on the top of the cliff one by one, looking at the starlight in the sky, Zhao Niannu jumped happily, locked up for more than 70 days, this is the first time to breathe the air outside.

However, after wandering for a few months, he tasted all the ups and downs, and he grew up quickly, and after coming out of the hole, he has been standing behind the Wu Yi clan, like a little follower of the Wu Yi clan. In fact, many Song soldiers are also inexplicable, where did this come from two more people out of thin air?

Seeing Zhao Niannu standing behind the Wu Yi clan, it was also not easy to ask.

Zhao Niannu's identity is really inconvenient to disclose, not only because she is a princess. The Northern Song Dynasty has some Tang style, the atmosphere is still very open, the concept of chastity is not strong, divorce happens from time to time, Chai Rong's adoptive father Zhou Wei specially married a widow as the queen, and some people take prostitutes as wives, or descendants, such as Fan Zhongyan's Mrs. Ru, who said that Fan Zhongyan did something wrong? No. But Zhao Niannu is different, even if she is a virgin, but before she divorced Li Wei, she was still a married woman.

The two identities are superimposed, and then it is rumored that she and Zheng Lang are trapped in a cave, forced to sleep together due to the cold, if the three of them die, it is a poignant legend, but the three of them are alive, no matter what story happens, Zheng Lang is finished, the royal face is also finished, and it is even possible that under the persecution of the ministers, Zhao Niannu is also finished.

The identity of the Wu Yi clan is also embarrassing, it has nothing to do with whether she is a widow or not, the widow doesn't matter, the main thing is that she was the queen of Western Xia, this time in order to rescue Zheng Lang, she was alone as a bait, and was captured by the enemy into the cave, the south is preached, for Zheng Lang's reputation, the same, death is also a sad legend, but alive, Zheng Lang's ass is no longer as clean as before.

It's slightly better than the negative impact of Nian Nu, but who dares to ask if there is no shift?

Zhao Niannu's identity was covered up in this way.

Zheng Lang looked at the night sky, the second half of the moon, the semi-circle moon barely rose into the middle of the sky, the moonlight was light, the night breeze was cool, the mountains were gusting, and he was finally free.

But as of today, it is no longer the same.

Although Zheng Lang finally realized what Fan Zhongyan meant when he said the way out in the cave.

Seeing the soldiers staring at him curiously, Wu Yishi turned his eyes to Zheng Lang, his eyes were soft and a little naughty, Zheng Lang arched his hand and whispered in her ear: "This is the second favor I owe you." ”

"How do you repay it?"

Zheng Lang was speechless.

Slowly return to Huixi City.

Zhang Kang also did "clean" over there and returned with the officials.

It has nothing to do with Zhao Niannu, Zhao Niannu let the Wuyi clan take it away.

Seeing Zheng Lang rescued safely, all the soldiers in Huixi City cheered together.

But they don't know that it's no longer different, at least if they want Zheng Lang to travel lightly like before, it's no longer possible.

Looking at everyone, Zheng Lang said, "Let's go back to Tanzhou." ”

Huixi City is not the focus for the time being, and Ximan does not plan to operate it seriously, even if Meishanman is managed well in the future, Ximan is just guiding them to change their way of life, plus Sinicization, and will not move many people over, this has to wait, wait for all the Kuixia area to be conquered. However, Zheng Lang thought seriously in the cave, there is still a Liuta River, and he has planned to give up the fourth road of Kuixia and will operate, but that is the future, and he can't step too tightly now. Therefore, Ximan will serve as an important buffer zone. With the existence of Ximan, the barbarians in the west cannot harm the residents of Jinghu South Road, which is being developed.

Tanzhou is the key object, and along the new road forcibly built by Zhang Kang, he is close to Tanzhou.

It has not been repaired yet, and it will take at least a month before it can be completed. Even if the road is built, it is still a dirt road, not a road, with the help of explosives, but the production conditions and technical constraints make the road construction cost high and the speed is slow.

But under this construction, Zhang Kang and Zhang Tian behaved very tough and domineering.

Zheng Lang said this in Lu Ping, and he didn't have the wisdom to come up with Fan Zhongyan's way out, but in some details, Zheng Lang's vision was far ahead of Zhang Kang and others.

The ultimate means of governing the south is to change the land and return to the stream!

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, they have learned from Zhuge Liang's experience in governing the southern barbarians, used barbarians to govern barbarians, gave ethnic minorities the status of hereditary leaders, rewarded them with official positions, and carried out indirect rule. The slight difference is that the Tang Dynasty forcibly used force to cooperate, while the Song Dynasty favored huā money to buy security.

Zheng Lang is both civil and military, but he has gradually denied his own balance.

This balance is really difficult to grasp, or at this time, he gradually begins to sublimate to the realm of looking at mountains or mountains.

Try not to manipulate the art of balance, but find a standard to enforce it.

Therefore, when I think of the Qing Dynasty's reform of the land and return to the stream, this stream is not an exiled official, but a mobile official.

Hereditary creation of a lot of bad factors, unscrupulous killing of the people, especially the Han people are often mutilated, this is also a very strange scene, the two major dynasties of the Song and Ming dynasties are Han regimes, both ignore this matter, but the attention is paid to the Qing Dynasty.

However, as technology and productivity improve, so does the ability of a country to control its territory

If it is not the Tang Dynasty, the area of the Tang Dynasty is not large, and most of the area cannot be controlled, this is not that the Tang Dynasty is bad, productivity and technology are constrained, think about it, if the Tang Dynasty occupies Persia, how long will it take to come and go, if there is a war, and there are no big rivers to send materials directly to Persia, you can only use a small cart to push it, so that the people can use a small cart, full of materials to push from Chang'an to Persia? God is in tears.

An obvious example, Yuan and Mongolia occupy Asia and Europe, occupy it easy, use war to support war, and lay down an unprecedented territory, can this use war to feed war, and when governing in the future, what will the local people think in their hearts? The territory is large, how many years can the country be founded, and all the decades will collapse! Therefore, Zheng Lang wantonly looted in Jiaozhi, don't throw it away after grabbing, it doesn't matter if you rob it. Of course, if Shi Heng's wisdom followed Zheng Lang's ideas and invented rifles, cannons, trains, and railways, then with the economic foundation and population base of the Song Dynasty, it would definitely be able to reach Central Asia with the actual control ability of the territory.

Zheng Lang came up with this idea, more or less influenced by the restrained policy of the Song Dynasty, he was influencing the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was also influencing him.

The Qing Dynasty's productivity gradually increased, technology developed, and the Kangxi rule strengthened its ability to control the south. Therefore, the policy of changing the land and returning to the flow was adopted, one is from the top down, first changing the Tufu, and then changing the Tuzhou. Then seize all favorable opportunities to implement the trend, such as the extinction of the heirs of the local officials, clan disputes, the establishment of liuguan, or the vendetta between the local officials, and send the liuguan to take over after the pacification, or after the rebellion and crime, they were suppressed by the imperial court, dismissed for crime, and appointed by the liuguan, or the local people applied to change the land and return to the liuliu, and the imperial court "obeyed the will of the people" to forcibly remove the local officials and changed them to liuguan.

The Qing Dynasty had many bad things, such as being born in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and giving preferential treatment to the Manchu and Mongolian Hui, which caused the Northwest Massacre. Many bad things have happened in the process of changing the land and returning it to the river, but in general, after the implementation of this policy, the south has become more closely connected with the Central Plains.

Zheng Lang did not completely copy it.

He also had some hazy ideas before, and he was approaching it, focusing on sinicization, and at the same time transferring more local officials to other places, such as the local officials in Yongzhou, transferred to Yizhou. This is done subconsciously, and there is no thought of changing the land.

After reflecting on many previous practices in the cave, this idea finally became clear.

Still can't copy the Qing Dynasty's land reform and return to the stream, first sinicization, envelopment, and then move to other places to serve, everywhere. This process must be gentle, even if it is slower, and it will not provoke civil unrest. The second is the co-governance of the barbarians, a feudal state set up barbarian officials, common governance, the imperial court must send good officials, meritorious people are rewarded and relocated, step by step let the barbarians identify with the Han officials to govern them.

Recognition is the mainstay, and Grace is still the main core in the process of Enwei and Grace, and Wei only plays an auxiliary role.

I made some explanations with the officials, and by the way, I inquired about the government affairs and water conservancy of Jinghu South Road between the wells, and entered the Meishanman area.

Let Zhang Kang be frightened, many barbarians entered the mountains to evade, Zheng Lang sent soldiers to invite them, not to come, not to blame, to come, more welcome. Warm words and comfort to all the barbarians who came and received them warmly.

In this line, there was a group of people hanging behind them, a carriage, and two women were sitting in the carriage.

The identity of one of them was known, but the officials kept silent.

Hearing that Zheng Lang was rescued safely, Cui Xian took Xing'er and Zheng Lang's five mothers, and the two daughters to Qixing Town despite the officials' obstruction.

Zheng Ping and Zheng Hang came up from afar, rushed over from left to right, hugged Zheng Lang, and giggled one by one.

Zheng Lang scratched their faces.

Then he strode over, told a few mothers to confess, and listened to a lot of complaints, Zheng Lang had no choice but to make promises.

I did it wrong.

Cui Xian wanted to complain, but Niangniang had already said enough, and she didn't say anything more with a smile.

Xing'er and Si'er's eyes were full of tears, and the corners of their mouths showed smiles again.

There were also many officials and soldiers present, and Zheng Lang said to them: "Let's go back and talk." ”

The Zheng family is also like a harem, with extreme yin and yang decline, five mothers, five wives and concubines, two daughters, and only one man, Zheng Lang.

Entered the house.

It turned out that Qihan Town was only a small village, and after the imperial court closed Meishan, it was not allowed to enter the market with Meishanman, but there were still some people who did not want to enter the mountain to trade with Meishanman. In addition, there are still some local people, so a small market is formed here. But it cannot be called a town.

Its geographical location made Zheng Lang attach great importance to it, and later Zhang Kang forcibly opened a road to Chenzhou, and some people saw its effect. If you don't govern Meishan, it is a plain area, and once Meishan is governed, it will produce great commercial value here, after all, there are some good things in Meishan.

As a result, some merchants came to set up shops, liquor stores and inns, and finally had the taste of such a market town. Cui Xian lived in an inn, and the conditions were relatively simple, but it was better than living in a tent.

Sitting down, the family asked.

Zheng Lang was vague and apologized to several mothers, especially Yue'er, whose eyes have been swollen from crying in the past few months.

Cui Xian sent a few women out, stayed behind to talk to Zheng Lang alone, and asked, "Official, how are you wrapped up with that immobile queen?" ”

deliberately bit the word queen very hard.

It's not that I'm jealous, but that the identity of the Wuyi clan will bring a lot of trouble.

Zheng Lang sighed: "It doesn't matter if you don't move the clan, there is another person who matters." ”

"Who?"

"Your Highness the Princess."

"What princess?"

"Her Royal Highness the princess fled to Huixi City and asked me for help, I heard the news and was going to take her back to Huixi City for a long-term discussion, Zhang Pingmeng broke out and took me into a cave with Her Royal Highness the princess and Liang Huaiji."

"How's that good?" Cui Xian was anxious when she heard this.

"Now there are only a few people who know about this matter, they will not leak it, don't worry. There is another troublesome thing," Zheng Lang said, saying what happened in the cave.

"You say she has?" Cui Xian almost fainted.

The Zheng family is thin, and after that, this is also the reason why she puts Yue'er by her husband's side.

But her husband's fertility has always been very poor, and Yue'er has not moved, but she has been ambiguous with the princess so many times, and there is a queen?

I can understand that in that environment, anything can happen.

Cui Xian couldn't sit still, stood up and walked around, muttering, "What should I do?" What to do? ”

This time, my husband was almost stabbing the sky. !!

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