In late March, Zheng Lang went to the suburbs again.

This year is the second year of growing cereals, and the area is much better than last year, but it is still used as seeds, and by the way, I am exploring the best planting method. It will not be promoted until next year, and the major bosses in the DPRK and China, driven by Zheng Lang, often come to check, in fact, this is an attitude.

Cotton in the Song Dynasty in history extended to the Fujian region, because no one paid attention, or moved to the north, cotton has not been promoted in the Song Dynasty, and can even be traced back to earlier times, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the Tang soldiers stationed in the Western Regions planted grass cotton, that is, cotton, but no one thought of bringing it to the Longyou region, so no one in Lanzhou and other areas did not plant cotton. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally issued an edict to encourage the planting of cotton. Cotton was only promoted throughout the country, which made many people wear clothes and no longer be afraid of the cold winter, and the Ming army could be officially stationed in Liaodong, not to mention that it created a developed economy in the southeast.

Later, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as one, and all kinds of miscellaneous grains appeared in the Ming Dynasty one after another, but because no one encouraged the promotion of research and development, they have not played their role. It's not that miscellaneous grains can make people tired of eating, don't say ancient, just say that the current Song Dynasty, the staple food is one rice and two beans are expensive, if you eat water chestnut rice every day, it is the best, but it is impossible, one is seasonal, and the other is too expensive. Wheat food is not bad, although there are many wheat bran in wheat noodles, but for the majority of northern people, they usually have to take millet and sorghum as the staple food, and even some people in the water towns take cucumber as the staple food, cucumber is still good as a vegetable stir-fry, can it be used as a staple food? Not only that, but the economy is far better than before, and now there are still some poor people who have to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger when spring comes. As for the Jurchen side, it was even worse, half of the time half hungry, hunting. Farming, fishing, nomadism, in order to survive, I don't know how many sad stories have happened.

Therefore, it is not enough to have seeds, the imperial court has to pay attention to it, as long as it is paid attention to, it can be quickly promoted.

There are a lot of crops brought back, there are flowers, there are fruits. There are vegetables, and there are grains that are most important now, including some taro, peanuts, and pumpkins, etc., which can also be used as grains to satisfy hunger.

These grains will bring many changes to the present.

How many changes will there be, looking at the growth of various grains in the lush, Zheng Lang is quite looking forward to it.

After reading it, I gave a few words. Zheng Lang returned to the capital.

As soon as I returned home, the porter said that he was from Hehuang and asked to see him.

Under Zhang Kai's compulsion, some uncooperative waiters had to send troops to help. Zhang Qi immediately incorporated them into the army and immediately threw them into the front. It was the front line, and it was impossible for the Western Xia to sit idly by and watch the Song Dynasty get the Hexi Corridor and send an army to counterattack.

The soldiers of these tribes were originally forced. Morale is not high, and there is no training, and military discipline is lax. After the two armies fought, the Western Xia miraculously found that in the battle with the Song army, there were fewer victories and more defeats in the past, but now there are more victories and fewer defeats.

This made Liang see the light.

But it is exactly what Zhang Qi wants to see, anyway, there is a tall city wall behind it, and the Western Xia is not good at attacking the city, so it has to make the Liang family have an illusion, whether the Western Xia is winning less and losing more, or winning more and losing less, but in every battle, there will be sacrifices, money will be wasted, and the burden on the people will be increased.

The two armies were consumed, the Western Xia people had casualties, and the Song Dynasty also suffered casualties, but the casualties were the children of these disobedient Fan Hou's subordinates. Why not use the hand of the Tanguts to weaken their power.

To be clear, it is to weaken. When the war came, because of this contradiction and slight hatred, Zhang Qi didn't dare to use them, not to mention anything else, Gao Xianzhi's defeat in the Great Food Lesson he still knew, if there was no betrayal by the Qarlu people, how could Gao Xianzhi lose so badly.

Therefore, now the Song Dynasty has made Huizhou and Liangzhou and Lanzhou a huge meat grinder, not only to strangle the Western Xia warriors and Western Xia wealth, but also to strangle these disobedient subordinates.

Seeing this situation, each of them sat like pins and needles, and did not dare to resist, just in the spring flowers, the river and the road was overhauled, the road was far more developed than before, so they made an appointment, and quickly came to the capital. As a thief, he didn't dare to see Zhao Ji immediately, and he was afraid that he wouldn't see him.

So I found Zheng Lang first.

Zheng Lang saw it.

More than 20 envoys came, and half of them had participated in the Fan Hou Conference, including the Dong tribe, the Xi tribe, the Bao Russian tribe, the Hu tribe, and the Xinmu tribe, which were powerful races.

However, each has its own reasons, and the Xi people sit back and watch it because the Song Dynasty did not completely hand over Xige City to Xibawen, but used it as the military city of the Jishi Army. The Russian tribe let Wang Shao kill miserably, it is a good thing not to rebel, let alone expect them to be loyal to the Song Dynasty. The same is true for the Yi clan, so that Guo Cheng can be killed. As for the Dong clan and the Xinmu clan following Dong Yu, there is no accident. And Zheng Lang is very suspicious of one thing, the ghost chapter has entered Taozhou many times in history, turning Taozhou upside down, Dong Yu didn't ask about it, but the Guozhuang tribe is in the south of Kuozhou and the north of the Jishi Army, if you want to enter Taozhou, you must drive the Xi people away, but there is still in front, either along the big Jishi Mountain, along the Mubo people into Taozhou, or from the Dong people into Taozhou. Zheng Lang estimated that the ghost chapter made chaos in Taozhou, and most of it was the Dong clan who opened the passage and secretly supported it.

But it may not be that all the Fan Hou in Huangzhou are all yang and yin, such as the two brothers of the Wen family of the Yaran clan, the Fan Hou of the big clans such as Blowing Fold, Mizang, and Miaolong, all of whom have tens of thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers under their accounts, and this time they all took the initiative to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to recruit troops.

In short, there are three reasons for Song Chaoyang's disobedience, one is that Wang Shao killed ruthlessly, which caused some resentment, and the other is loyal to Dong Yu's major clans, seeing that Dong Yu had not moved last year, so he studied. The third is that they are dissatisfied with some of the dispositions of the Song Dynasty, such as the Xi people. But there is a common feature, these tribes are very large, and they have a little capital to resist the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang asked them to sit down.

These people began to complain.

Zheng Lang asked, "What did you say about the oath at the beginning?" ”

In order to govern Hehuang, and even govern the Hexi Corridor and Western Xia in the future, the implementation is not the policy of the Song Dynasty, but the Fanhou system, such as the taxation of people, this Ding tax is not serious, it is less than one-third of the dividends paid by the eunuchs to Fanhou, but the taxation means that the imperial court can really govern here. On the west side of Xiangchiling, crying and shouting begging the Song Dynasty to collect this Ding tax, the Song Dynasty will not collect it. And the number of dings. It means that the state military has a lot of say before and after the ranking, and the share deeds of the supervisors are granted according to the number of dings. It's enjoyment, but there's also paying. The number of dads is the amount of military service.

In fact, the so-called military service, that is, the battle of this war.

Is it possible to recover the sixteen states of Youyun in the future and bring the Tubo soldiers to Hebei in one bite, that is impossible, the Tubo people are fierce on the plateau, and they will rest on the plains.

But now. Is it possible to enjoy only the rights without paying the obligations?

The league did not say anything about Vaxia. But when it comes to conscription.

This is a blood alliance, Zheng Lang himself also cut his fingers, put blood into the wine, and swore to drink the blood wine with the clans.

The Song Dynasty carried it out, and the fact was that it was done very well, and even the money and silk used for the construction of the foundation of Tibet exceeded the amount he said at the league meeting. Over the years, Hehuang has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. But now these two dozen or so candidates have not done what the alliance said.

Everything is taken care of.

Zheng Lang only had one sentence, and he could only admit his mistakes.

Zheng Lang said again: "Actually, I originally appointed Zhang Qianfu. If you continue to disobey orders, the third step is to reduce or take the news that you will be the prisoner of the deeds, and use them as rewards to distribute to the other candidates. If you don't listen again. The fourth step is to exterminate! I believe that there will be many people who are willing to cooperate with the imperial court, see your demise, get your people, and get your prison deed shares. ”

But Zheng Lang still gave them a chance. went to Xifu to ask for a warrant, asked them to go to Liangzhou, and notified Zhang Qi to stop.

However, there is no need to consume it anymore. And at this time there were less than twenty percent of the tribes left.

These people left the capital and hurried back to the northwest with warrants.

The imperial court officially ordered that the soldiers of various groups of armies in Hedong, Hebei Province be transferred to the capital, not saying that they would be killed, but that they would come to the capital to perform military parades.

There are 110,000 people in total, and the members are a little miscellaneous, mostly village soldiers, as well as a small number of Baoding, Zhuangding and some militiamen from the Bow and Arrow Society.

This part of the army is not the main army, it is still used as a civilian husband in the early stage, escorting grain and grass materials, and also entering the northwest in this name, so as not to wake up the Khitan prematurely. There are also forbidden soldiers, the number is not much, only 250,000 people, most of them are already in Hehuang, Shaanxi, this time there are not many forbidden soldiers, one is to confuse the Western Xia and Khitan, and the other is that the number of forbidden soldiers itself is declining.

Xining's restructuring includes political, economic, and military reforms, and there are many aspects of military restructuring, and one change is that the forbidden soldiers have been reduced one after another, and the number of township soldiers has been increased. After the restructuring, the number of forbidden troops has been maintained at around 600,000, and to this day, including the forbidden soldiers who have sacrificed, the number is only 580,000. The reduction of the forbidden soldiers is not too great, the most powerful is the box soldiers, and the task of the box soldiers in the Song Dynasty is clearly stipulated to be for a hundred servants. For example, the Zhuangcheng army built the city, the courtyard army was used to make weapons, the bridge army built roads and bridges, the shipyard army was used to build ships, the river Qing army was used to govern the river, the army was used for transportation, the lazy forbidden soldiers were punished to prohibit them from entering the box, and the prison city was guarded, and so on.

At first, it was not set up for war, once there was a disaster, the disaster victims were incorporated into the army to raise them for labor and compensate the victims, the intention was good, but the money for raising soldiers still came from the people, so it became one of the heavy expenses of the Song Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Zheng Lang one after another, the goal of using workers to bring relief during disasters and pacifying the victims has been lost, and as for the construction of military service in various places, large-scale construction has also been done with disaster victims in the year of disasters, or the imperial court has directly allocated funds to do it, and the meaning of labor has been further weakened. Therefore, after the restructuring, Zheng Lang was reduced to 270,000 people, and later there were security supervisors, and many Fangchang River crossings were auctioned off, which increased the number of township soldiers and Baoding to prevent theft, which further weakened the role of the van soldiers. If it does not have some effect, the establishment of van soldiers can be directly abolished.

After successive reductions, there were only 170,000 soldiers left at this time.

There are only 700,000 forbidden soldiers left, if there are no township soldiers and Baoding, even Zhao Ji will not be too relieved, so the number of township soldiers has been increased, and the number of township soldiers has increased by 250,000 since 190,000 after the restructuring. This is a restructuring with positive significance, first of all, the cost, the cost of raising one forbidden soldier is equivalent to raising two township soldiers, saving a lot of military spending. Secondly, the soldiers themselves, the cost of raising forbidden soldiers is high, but the price of the capital is high, and the families of the forbidden soldiers may not have to worry about food and clothing, but as a village soldier, the family does not live in the capital with high prices, plus there are some camps in each station, so that they can increase their income, and the court expenses are reduced, but as the soldiers themselves, the family has less worries, and reduces the pain of family separation caused by the rotation of forbidden soldiers. The third is indirect costs, there are camps in various places, but will the forbidden soldiers farm? Therefore, most of these camps are leased to local people for planting, which has caused all kinds of contradictions. The township soldiers did not have this problem, and when the food was produced in the front, the food supply was reduced in the rear, which was equivalent to saving a lot of money for the imperial court. Fourth, the township soldiers live in their own areas and are familiar with the local environment and climate, especially the mountainous areas in the south, and play a greater role than the forbidden army. Fifth, the township soldiers were formalized, and the local military service was reduced, so that the people could relax their pressure.

However, under the system of the Song Dynasty, Zheng Lang did not dare to excessively reduce the number of forbidden soldiers, maintaining it at 600,000, and did not dare to excessively increase the number of township soldiers.

It is precisely this situation that the Song Dynasty established the 40th Army, which only included more than 200,000 forbidden troops, and the others included the 110,000 troops in Hedong, Hebei, as well as the township soldiers in Shaanxi and a small number of Tibetan soldiers, but it was far from these 40 armies, although 250,000 forbidden troops were dispatched this time, there were. All the 90,000 township soldiers in Shaanxi will participate in the war, and there will be 100,000 soldiers from Shaanxi and Hehuang. The number of troops who explicitly participated in the war reached 550,000. Not only that, once the summer is defeated, Zhang Qi will also mobilize tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers and Uighur troops from the four prefectures of Ganliang. This is not enough to count more than 200,000 people.

This will be the largest troop movement in the history of the Song Dynasty, not only with more than 800,000 soldiers and civilians engaged in battle or logistical transportation, but also 5,000 artillery pieces, as well as 200,000 polo balls and horse yellow bows, as well as new armor and other weapons. Before the war alone, the imperial court spent 110 million yuan to prepare a large amount of grain, grass, weapons, armor and other materials.

However, after the Western Xia lost the Hexi Corridor, the whole country mobilized to help, and the number of troops could not exceed 500,000, and the financial situation was even more of a mess.

If compared with the morale of the people, as well as factors such as finance, military strength and weapons, the Song Dynasty's summer attack was almost a crush.

And what's even more terrifying, the Song Dynasty has other back-ups, as Zheng Lang, who is about to go to the front line, under such a big advantage, he also has a trembling mentality, and he is afraid that the story of the failure of the five roads in the history of the Song Dynasty will be staged again, and even in order to maintain the support of the rear, Wang Qi will be taken down.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, and the township soldiers in Hedong, Hebei Province are gradually arriving. (To be continued......)