"Your Majesty, the minister heard that Zhang Zhizhou was repairing Xia City in the northwest, but is there such a thing?" Fan Chunren asked.

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, no, Taibao, you must stop it."

"Hehe, hehe." Wang Ju let out two hehes.

Fan Chunren also belongs to the Gou Harmony faction, but not as excessively as Sima Guang.

If the Liang clan sent an envoy to ask for peace last year, then make peace. Xixia needs to recuperate, and Shaanxi Road needs to recuperate. If you want to fight Xixia, Shaanxi Road must first recover, what is the big rear, Shaanxi Road is the real big rear!

But don't expect the Song Dynasty to give you any more years.

The Liang family is not happy, we are all invited to make peace, why don't you Song Dynasty obediently send silver silk cloth tea over?

So this policy of buying security is unacceptable, and the Liao side can barely say it, except for the small-scale grass valley of the border people, since the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Liao State has never sent a large-scale army south, but did the Western Xia really buy it?

If it weren't for the continuous blood transfusion of Western Xia over the years, would the poor economy of Western Xia still be so rampant?

However, this has become the truth, if we don't send the silver over, we will attack your Song Dynasty. So the Western Xia came again, invaded three times in a row, and twice aimed at the security army. A sudden invasion to the city of the security army, almost scared Xie Jingwen to death, fortunately there was Liu Shaoneng in the city, and immediately organized a defense, so that the Western Xia did not succeed, and one time, invaded to the Jintang City, the Jintang City Lord is Fu Shaoting, where does he know what to use soldiers, if it is not for Liu Changzuo to lead the cavalry in time to defeat the Western Xia people, let the Western Xia break through the Jintang City.

Then Liu Changzuo wrote to the imperial court, the emperor. Princes. You can't play like that. The security army is not the security army of the past, since the victory of Gyeongju, not only Gyeongju advanced to Hengsan, but the security army also advanced, but under the leadership of Xie Jingwen, the entire defense system of the security army did not play a role, on the contrary, after two mistakes. Instead of examining himself, he blamed the soldiers.

It's not for Zhao Ji, but for Wang Ju.

The imperial court issued an order appointing Liu Shaoneng as the commander of the security army, and let Xie Jingwen and Fu Shaoting return to Beijing.

Wang Ju asked in the Yanhe Palace: "Duke Xie, Fu Zongzheng (Fu Shaoting Enyin official Zongzhengcheng), you went to the northwest, and you really value peace, but why did the Western Xia people pick on you?" ”

The two were frightened and did not dare to make a sound.

"Though you want to value peace. They don't take it seriously, but because you don't understand the military. So I picked you out. ”

Fan Chunren said: "Zi'an, it's not, if the imperial court gives him the New Year's coin, maybe the Western Xia will not invade." ”

Wang Ju originally wanted to say that after two fierce battles, the Shaanxi Road was difficult, but the Western Xia was even more difficult. It doesn't matter if the Shaanxi Road is poor, we can allocate food and money from other roads to support, but the Western Xia is in difficulty, who will support? And they may be less than 700,000 households now, and now they are given the New Year's gifts, and when they reach the border, these silver tea silks may be worth less than 500,000 yuan, but after crossing the Hengshan, they are worth at least 6,700,000 yuan. Not much in the Song Dynasty, but in the Western Xia, this breath will be breathless. Give a three-year-old gift in a row, and you still let me fight Xixia?

But he didn't bother to explain, and only said: "Your Majesty, it's best to give Xixia 10,000 sets of armor and 10,000 divine arm bows immediately, I believe that Xixia will not invade the Song Dynasty in two years." ”

Isn't that swearing?

However, the reason is the same, because peace cannot be bought, the sooner Western Xia recovers, the larger the scale of the invasion will be.

In the end, the imperial court issued an order, and Xie Jingwen knew Suizhou, made a mistake, and was promoted from Zhijun to Zhizhou, regardless of whether this state is a backward state or not, it can be regarded as a light haircut.

And with Fu Shaoting as the three doors of the shipping envoy, although this person is more dogmatic, but like his father, he is considered a moderate, and he is okay with the people, and the future of the three doors is very important, even if the court spends a little more money, it cannot be too harsh to the people, so Wang Ju has this arrangement.

This seems to be a signal, so some people began to evade taxes on a large scale, causing Wang Ju to be ruthless, and successively assigned more than 50 officials, more than 80 stewards and servants, and even directly attacked the powerful businessman himself, and more than a dozen big businessmen and big lords were transferred to Shaanxi for "labor reform", which prevented the re-deterioration of the collection of commercial taxes.

Wang Ju said twice, and Fan Chunren immediately retreated.

This kid, it's better not to offend.

And if you continue to talk about it, you can make sure that Wang Ju can say extremely ugly things again, at least Wang Ju can ask, Fan Youcheng, do you know the military?

Zhao Ji didn't bother to explain, of course, if there was really going to be a fight, he was still a little nervous in his heart.

So looking at Wang Ju.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, the minister was in Huachi County, Zhang Zhifu was in Gyeongju as a signing judge, he came to Huachi County on business, I had a long talk with him, especially in military understanding, the minister thought it was a celestial. Therefore, after the Battle of Gyeongju, I asked His Majesty to come to Gyeongju to serve as a general judge in preparation for the think tank. The outside world says that ministers are good at the military, but in fact they are wrong, and the ministers are best at water conservancy and economy, so everywhere they go, ministers pay attention to road and water conservancy construction, and the people have quickly become richer. It is as barren as Guangnan West Road, but under the rule of the ministers, a solid foundation has been laid. ”

It's undeniable that Quang Nam is really getting better now.

"As for the military, the minister is slightly weaker, but the minister has self-knowledge, the battle of Dashun City, is the battle of Cai Gong, the battle of Gyeongju, with Zhang Zhifu as an assistant, the battle in the south, asked Yan Da and other generals many times, and also asked His Majesty to transfer Yan Da and other generals to the south, which was to pacify Jiaozhi and take Dali."

Lao Yan stood on the west side, moved...... I don't know what to say.

"At the beginning of Xining, it was Wang Shao, and then he arrived as a minister. After Kechen left, when the country fought a large-scale war, he had to rely on Zhang Qianfu. This is like the Three Kingdoms period, first Zhou Yu, second Lu Su, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, although the internal affairs of the three countries, Eastern Wu is the worst, presided over by four generations of ministers who understand military affairs, and Eastern Wu lasted longer than Shu. ”

"Oh, what about after Zhang Qianfu."

Wang Ju really wanted to say, Your Majesty, you're thinking too far!

But he still thought about it seriously and said, "Planter Dao." ”

What the Seed Master Dao did in history, Wang Ju really couldn't remember clearly, he only remembered one thing and one sentence. One thing is that the Battle of Tokyo was successful, and it was nominally commanded by Zhang Gang. The actual commander is the way of the master. Hence another sentence. The teacher is immortal, and the Northern Song Dynasty is immortal.

"The Planter Dao...... And what about after him? ”

"Your Majesty, after him, who can know?"

Zhao Ji was happy, and the ministers on both sides were also happy.

But Wang Ju really knew that there were too many powerful fierce people in the back, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Wu Luan brothers, Liu Qi, these five people took out the one casually. It's also more powerful than the way of the planter.

But now none of these five people have been born.

But what if there are more fierce people? With these five unparalleled generals, the Southern Song Dynasty did not take back the Central Plains, and even forcibly recalled Yue Fei from Zhuxian Town with twelve gold medals.

Just thinking about it makes people feel speechless.

Others don't know, on the contrary, many generals and military ministers are envious in their hearts, because of Wang Ju's words, think about the future of the future of the Dao of Cultivation, it can be said that the clouds are soaring.

Zhao Ji's mouth opened, and he wanted to say, no wonder you transferred the Seed Master Road to Yunnan West Road. Dare is to sharpen its growth.

Now Zhao Ji finally faintly felt this real way of cultivating talents, but unfortunately he woke up a little late.

Everyone dispersed.

Shen Kuo chased after him. said: "Zi'an, remember Yongle City." ”

This is his kindness.

"Is there any difference between Yongle City and Pingxia City?" Wang Ju asked.

"Seems to be about the same."

"It looks similar, but it's too bad, first of all, is there a shortage of water in Pingxia City?"

Not to mention the Hulu River, because its terrain is flat, low-lying and wet, even without the Hulu River, you can get water with a few wells dug in the city.

"Let's talk about public opinion, since Wei Mingshan defected to my Great Song Dynasty, the people who have a good impression of my Great Song Dynasty have migrated to the south of the Dali River together, and the people of all ethnic groups who continue to stay in the Dali River can be said to have no good impression of our dynasty, but will the people of all ethnic groups where Pingxiachuan is located hate our dynasty like the people around Yongle City?"

This should not be underestimated, it can play an important role in the ears and eyes when it is critical.

Moreover, Zhang Qi had already gone to Pingxiachuan at this time, and made targeted arrangements for this.

"It seems that Yongle City, there are Mizhi Zhuzhai in the east, and Futu Zhai in the south should be supported, but Mizhi and other villages are separated by the Wuding River and many mountains, so the so-called support is just the so-called. Not long after the recovery of the fine floating map village, it is lonely outside the river, how much support can it play. Yes, Pingxia City was built together, and it was also isolated in the north, but below it was Dingchuan Village, Xining Village, Gaoping Village, Tiansheng Village, especially after Cai Gong went to Weizhou, he built Tuntian in this area, not only a large number of garrisons, but also many archers with strong combat effectiveness. ”

Now these archers have been reorganized into a border army together, but it also shows that its rear foundation is far better than the rear foundation of Yongle City.

So this is a very imaginative strategic plan that seems dangerous but is not dangerous.

Wang Ju named it Pingxia River, in fact, it is still called Hulu River, but from a bird's-eye view from the air, on the surface the whole Hulu River into a slender shape, in fact, it is a Saturn shape compressed into two dimensions, the two ends are slender, but the middle is very large, this very big place is the Pingxia River named by Wang Ju, and a new city is built here.

Such a large Pingchuan with abundant water and grass will be of great help to poor Western Xia,

This article is not critical, mainly its military role, its top is Xiaoguan, west is Tiandu Mountain, east is Huanzhou, below is the Zhenrong army. As long as this city is successfully built, the Tangut people can no longer threaten the flank of Huanzhou, then in turn, the Song army can threaten Xiaoguan, and the west can attack Tiandu Mountain at any time.

Think about it, will Liang be desperate when he hears this news?

And Wang Ju wants to cut down the summer, and he also needs this city, which is too far away, and the transportation of grain and grass is a big problem, but how much labor will be saved when transporting grain and grass to Pingxia City in advance?

There is no need to say this to Shen Kuo.

"Brother Cun, let's talk about the military talent of the main general, how can Xu Xi compare with Zhang Zhifu?"

There are these four reasons, and that's enough.

Shen Kuo was a little gloomy.

It would be good if I listened to the words of the seed at the beginning, in short, this big scientist is not so kind-hearted, why did he listen to Xu Xi's words at the beginning, Xu Xi was getting Zhao Ji's favor, Shen Kuo wanted to stammer...... As a result, instead of stammering, he fell into the mud puddle.

Wang Ju said again: "Brother Cunzhong, the situation is a little better this year." ”

Wang Ju transferred Shen Kuo to this new machinery company as a manager. Shen Kuo couldn't figure it out. It was not the placement that was processed. And when I went to the capital to do the capital, I was very happy and came to the capital immediately.

And then stupid.

Then he said that the name was not good.

Wang Ju changed his name to the Strange Things Prison, but Shen Kuo was still unwilling, Strange Things were not a good name in this era, and it was easy to think of strange tricks and tricks. Therefore, Wang Ju changed his name to Limin Jian again, and Shen Kuo was the envoy of Limin.

Shen Kuo didn't say anything.

However, the problem came again, the money was smashed, the profit was very small, many deed stocks were unhappy, Shen Kuo was annoyed by the noise, so he had to pile up his hooves and not do it. In desperation, Wang Ju asked this so-called Limin Jian to start casting all kinds of ironware, such as kitchen knives, scissors, hoes, wood knives, sickles, etc. It just so happened that Wang Ju allocated five million yuan. For Miao Shizhong to develop a few newly acquired state troops, and take out a part. A large number of agricultural tools were procured from Limin Jian and transferred to the south by ship.

And the quality is really good, and it is a large-scale new method of production, the cost is relatively low, and it circulates to the market, which is very popular. However, another minister said, "Compete with the people for profit." Wang Ju was silent at all, because this is the trend of the times, and large-scale workshops will inevitably replace small-scale handicraft workshops.

This made Shen Kuo breathe a little easier last year.

Until this year, the steam engine and some machinery have been further improved, and many people have seen their benefits, and finally some people have purchased them one after another, and some people have purchased them, and slowly the profits will follow, and the pressure should be relieved a little more, so Wang Ju asked.

Shen Kuo was still a little unhappy.

"In ancient times, there were many people who have been famous for centuries, such as Shennong's taste of herbs, doctors, and small roads. Du Kang makes wine, and the winemaker also. Lu Ban, a carpenter, can't even enter the stream. In fact, I have a deep misunderstanding, I don't believe it, as long as you do a good job, hundreds of years later, many descendants may not remember Cai Gong, Zhang Gong and Wang Gong, but they will definitely remember you. On the other hand, before we changed our households, the number of people below the fifth class reached at least 40 percent, and after the change of households, the number of people below the fifth class reached at least 5 or 6 percent. However, on the other side, except for the newly migrated people, less than one percent of the households below the fifth grade! Why, it is precisely because of the importance of these trails that they bring many benefits to the people. Brother Cun, and take a long-term view, just like me, the banking department is gradually improving, but next year I will leave the capital, have I ever complained? ”

"So fast?"

"A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase."

"The banking department is really good."

Up to now, the amount of silk payment for printing and dyeing has exceeded 200 million guan, the most important thing is that Wang Ju raised the interest by one percent, which attracted many people to deposit, and Shengsheng raised the deposit amount to 130 million guan, in addition to the silk payment, there are also a large number of copper coins.

That is to say, Wang Ju said that the copper coins that are not in circulation among the people are forced out, and as long as they go to the banking department, they can be put into circulation in the market in the form of loans. So the number of loans reached 190 million.

Moreover, so many copper coins have been recirculated from the rigid collection, plus these 200 million silk transactions, although the currency is still tight, but it is many times better than the original.

It is equivalent to revitalizing the economy of the entire Song Dynasty at once.

Moreover, there are so many policies that benefit the people.

That is, from this year, the economy of the Song Dynasty finally changed quantitatively.

However, it is only a quantitative change, not a qualitative change, if you want a qualitative change, unless Wang Ju continues to preside over the Zhongshu for ten years, then the huge quantitative change will turn into a qualitative change.

However, this is not possible.

In fact, it doesn't take ten years, as long as there is one more year, the situation will be better, which makes Wang Juyi a little sad when he thinks about it. But how? It was in the past three years that he had the opportunity to exchange for despite the fiasco in the northwest. Otherwise, he will not be able to enforce the tax of Qishang.

Shen Kuo obviously didn't know what Wang Ju was thinking, but he was indeed a scientist, if the craftsmen brought by Wang Ju were strictly regarded as engineers of this era, at least low-level engineers, Shen Kuo was not very clear when he first arrived in Limin Prison, but after only one year of study, he became an expert, and now Shen Kuo can be regarded as a senior engineer.

He said: "This year's profit is okay, at least there is one explanation, but I want to do one thing, I don't know if it will work?" ”

"What?"

"I want to tune a better steam engine for Sanmenxia."

This is also what Wang Ju once said, but Wang Ju was speechless, this kid is not for technology, or for merit. If it becomes. He's got it. You can get out of the Limin Prison. Wang Ju stood for a while before saying: "Brother Cunzhong, you can't take such a big step, if you really want to, start with the minecart first, then the difficulty of the technical requirements is slightly lower." If it succeeds, it can be further improved, and then it can be used for Sanmenxia transportation. ”

But this is a good thing, and Shen Kuo is an insider. So Wang Ju added: "Once this matter is successful, you will shine in the annals of history!" ”

…………

Zhang Qi looked around at the generals.

Wang Ju and Shen Kuo still have one thing to say, that is, at this time, the Jingyuan Road soldiers are strong and strong, and it is unimaginable, especially this general.

The main general is Zhang Ji, the general judge is Lin Guang, the general manager is Miao Lu who has just been transferred back from the south, the deputy general is Qu Zhen who escaped from the defeat of Yongle City, and the horse infantry is Li Shen, this eunuch may not be familiar to future generations. But he can also fight well and excel in martial arts. originally served as the governor of Xihe Road, and let Wang Ju be transferred to Jingyuan Road as the capital supervisor.

These are just the four bigwigs in Weizhou, and the front line is even more powerful.

Zhenrong army is Yao Ji, as well as the inspection envoys and the generals and soldiers, they are not only generals, but also have a battalion of officers and soldiers, the soldiers will go with the generals, will lead the troops, and at the same time serve as the owners of the villages, such as the owner of Dingchuan Zhai is the son of the seed Pu, and the owner of Xining Village is the brave general Wang En, but this Wang En is very interesting, when he first joined the army, he will be very timid, and he will run away at every turn, so Miao Lu and Qu Zhen are very repulsive to this person, but let Zhang Ji know the hero and stand on the front line, and it is a very critical Xining Village, There is also Yao Gu, the lord of Gaoping Village, and Wang Guangzu, the lord of Tiansheng Village.

This is not over, mainly in the future Pingxia City, so the lord of Pingxia City is Guo Cheng, and there are also three generals Jia Yan, Liu Fa, and Wang Shu. At the same time, Yao Xiong was also transferred back from the south by Wang Ju this year, and just arrived in Weizhou to serve as the governor of the Deshun army.

In addition to these generals, there are also brave generals such as Zhi Keshi, Wang Wenzhen, Li Zhongjie, Guo Jingxiu, and Liu Sunchen, a large machine gun, in Weizhou.

Some were transferred to Jingyuan Road by Wang Ju in advance, and some were recommended to Zhang Qi later, such as Zhi Keshi, Liu Fa, Jia Yan, and some were discovered by Zhang Qi himself, such as Wang En, Wang Shu, and Guo Jingxiu.

Zhang Qi saw everyone, then looked at Guo Cheng again, and said: "It's not early, I want to rest, General Guo, you have wine and food here." ”

"Zhang Gong, yes, many of these people are Tibetans, and they love wine and meat the most, but the wine is a little poor."

Zhang Ji couldn't help but look around, he came to Weizhou at the end of the year before last, and last year he trained the whole army and placed the generals, and it was not until June that he began to do it.

Wang Ju did create enough conditions for him.

Not only did it give him rights, but it also provided him with many brave generals, a large amount of grain, grass, materials, armor and money, and many other conditions.

For example, the new armor protection law and the horse protection law.

Because of the righteousness and courage to protect the armor and the horse, how many Shaanxi people have suffered?

So after the promulgation of the new law, the people of the entire Shaanxi Road cheered, although there are still horses, but the court no longer forces the people to buy horses out of their own pockets, or the dead horse, what will be compensated, don't be mistaken, a dead horse is also valuable, mane and horse meat, even in Shaanxi Road, will be sold for several times, at least the five money can be offset, or there are six seven to ten runs, but those horses are younger, can be raised for several years, when there is a horse in the hand, can not farm can not pull goods? Although the second horse, but that is only relative to the war horse, a horse that can be used for ten years, ten years later, only pay ten times, and you can sell a few dead horses for money, not too cheap!

At least this kind of people's sentiment is conducive to Zhang Kai mobilizing the people to come over to build the city.

And because he had money in his hand, Zhang Kai did not harass the people, for example, in order to build the city this time, he prepared more than 3,000 large cars and thousands of small cars, all of which were purchased by the government out of his pocket, and did not forcibly requisition the people, and at the same time prepared more than 10,000 head of livestock and more than 10,000 people's husbands, and the government also paid some rent, and the people gave ten yuan per person, when it was repaired, when the government issued this money to the people.

With so many people's livestock and vehicles, they can be repaired very quickly, and this new city can be built in two months at most, and ten yuan is a lot of money for the people in the border area.

Therefore, before the Tangut people did not even notice it, the people came to Pingxiachuan, and at the same time, various materials for building the city were also transported to Pingxiachuan, and at this time, a foot-high wall foundation had appeared.

So much so that Zhang Qi sighed in his heart, how can it be easy to do things if you have money......

He nodded and said, "It's worse." ”

Qu Zhen whispered: "Gong Zhang, this is not good. ”

This is the front line, located in the enemy's territory, and the city wall has not yet been built, so how can you take the lead in taking the generals to eat and drink.

Zhang Qi's face was extremely solemn and said, "A certain arrangement has its own." ”

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Guo Cheng is the most addicted to alcohol and eats the most.

Zhang Qi asked: "General Guo, the construction of Pingxia City has begun, what do you mean?" ”

"Zhang Gong, in the opinion of the last general, it is necessary to use the mountain shape in Shimenxia in advance and place a strong army, just in case."

Guo Cheng's words are referring to the terrain on both sides, Zhang Qi suddenly built a city, and the Western Xia must have been caught off guard, but the number of troops sent was less, and it was not enough for the Song Dynasty to eat Pingxia City.

Don't think that there are only more than 10,000 people in Pingxia City, as well as four generals and soldiers including Guo Cheng, a total of seven or eight thousand people. At the same time, these soldiers were also cooperating with the construction of the city, and they had to immediately build the city wall to a similar height to be foolproof.

At the same time, it guards the safety of Pingxia City.

If there were more troops, it would take a while, so the Song Dynasty could build the walls before the arrival of the Western Xia army. With the city walls in place, the next step can be implemented.

But what Guo Cheng said was that he was worried that there would be accidents.

The Western Xia army wanted to attack this new city, first, from Xiaoguan, the road was relatively flat, but it was not easy to hide, and the narrow river terrain was also conducive to the Song army to set up an ambush. Therefore, the best choice is to come from Tiandu Mountain, Tiandu Mountain past, is Wuyan Gorge, this canyon terrain is complex, if a stranger enters, you can get lost. If the Xia army did well enough, quietly came out of Wuyan Gorge and crossed the Shimen River, it would soon approach Pingxia City.

At that time, everyone was still building the city, and in a hurry, maybe there would be another tragedy in Yongle City.

Therefore, Guo Cheng made this suggestion, using the mountainous terrain of Shimenxia to station an army in advance, not to build a city for the time being, but to build a camp to guard Shimenxia.

"What else?"

"Duke Zhang, Western Xia has always wanted to take back Lanzhou, and has hoarded a lot of troops in Tiandu Mountain, so they may come quickly." (To be continued.) )