It is very similar to Wang Anshi's idea later. The Northwest War in Qingli brought more thinking to Zheng Lang. Without a strong financial surplus, the country would not have enough economy to launch a major campaign and conquer Western Xia. As for Western Xia alone, if the sixteen states of Youyun are recovered, more economy will be needed.

History has a reference, Han and Chu hold each other, the most powerful person is Xiao He, his management in the rear, so that Liu Bang's front line is defeated, the Han regime will not collapse, and finally there is the power of Han Xin, but several years of battles, but also Chu's vitality has been exhausted, this is the truth that cannot be seen.

When the three countries faced each other, they were all trying to manage their own rear.

Unless the Tang Dynasty, it was a thunderous force that dominated the world, but there were so many elite soldiers and fierce generals in that generation? Maybe Di Qing could be tortured to death in that era.

The surrounding environment of the Song Dynasty is equivalent to an enlarged version of the Three Kingdoms. The Khitan, Western Xia and Song, as for Dali, Tubo, Jiaozhi, Goryeo, and Uighurs, they are considered second-rate countries, and there are also Champa and so on, which can be ignored. The confrontation between the three countries is the mainstream of this era. It is impossible to rape the other side one day in the military, so the main thing is to fight for your own strengths, the economy.

Zheng Lang has an advantage over Wang Anshi in this regard.

There is a gold finger.

If nothing else, his political life can be close to seventy years old, fifty years of operation, and the time given to Wang Anshi is only more than ten years, the same work, a person takes five years to complete, a person takes one year to complete, the former can be compared with the fineness of the latter?

Going south is an important move, and the most important thing is not Liangguang, but Jinghu Road!

Liangguang is good, but it is too far away from the capital, unlike Jinghu Road, there are Xiangshui, the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, even grain can be transported to the capital.

How important Jinghu Road is, just talk about Hunan.

Now Jinghu South Road is not Hunan. The northern and western parts of Hunan belong to Jinghu North Road, and there is an embarrassing Banmei Mountain in the middle. However, many areas of Hubei belong to Jingxi Road, and the development of Hunan only surrounds the area of Dongting Lake, which belongs to Jinghu North Road. It has nothing to do with Jinghu South Road, and has about 200,000 hectares of cultivated land.

In history, the rudeness and cruelty of Yuan Meng, the data cannot be known, and by the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was a controversial figure and the emperor who most represented the grassroots. He hated corrupt officials, attached importance to agriculture, and restored the cultivated land development of Dongting Lake, once again bringing the cultivated land area of Hunan to more than 300,000 hectares in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The conversion was because of a woman, the Zodiac Po.

Cotton is far more efficient than rice fields, but it is difficult to manage, but for the densely populated Taihu Lake basin, there is no labor problem. So the original Suhu is ripe. The world is ripe, Changhu is ripe (Huzhou Changshu), and the grain output in the Taihu Lake basin is declining. The Ming Dynasty had to shift its focus to Hunan and Liangguang. The previous proverb has become the lake is ripe, and the world is full. Two lakes, two wide. Some people say that the cultivated land area of Hunan once reached more than 1 million hectares, but this is an exaggeration, but the grain supply from Jiangnan to the capital reached 85 percent in Jiangxi's two lakes and two Guangzhous, while Taihu Lake and Jiangdongwei accounted for only 15 percent. As a result, Changsha took the latter and became the first of the four major rice markets.

However, the Ming Dynasty's control ability was too weak, the tax system was backward and unreasonable, and the people were really rich and the country was poor. There was no grain storage, no money to transport in time, the Xiaoice River led to a great drought in the northwest, and the major landlords were selfish, so the peasants revolted, and finally the country was gone. The landlords themselves became slaves of the country.

Hunan was abandoned again, although the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to it, and Hunan's grain production once again occupied an important position, but it did not recover to the heyday of the late Ming Dynasty for a long time.

If you want to develop Hunan, Jinghu South Road is the main development zone, because of the forced Meishan barbarians, the entire Jinghu South Road is backward in agriculture.

However, unlike the Liangguang barbarians, in the eighth year of Kaibao, Meishanman once attacked Shaozhou and Tanzhou, when the Song Dynasty did not rule the world and was unable to divide it. After Song Taizong pacified the Southern Tang Dynasty, he sent troops to Meishan, killed thousands of people, aroused the anger of Meishan Man, the Song army withdrew, Meishan Man's left leader Fu Hanyang led the barbarians, and invaded again, Song Taizong ordered Zhai Shousu to transfer Tanzhou soldiers to suppress and capture 20,000 people. Meishanman finally realized the strength of the Song army, so as soon as the Song army came, he fled to the deep mountains and old forests, and as soon as the Song Dynasty army left, he came out of the mountains to harass.

Zhao Kuangyi was furious and classified Meishan as a forbidden area, and the people outside the mountain were not allowed to have any contact with the people in the mountain, whether it was commerce, agriculture, or others.

Closed for more than half a century, it is even more backward and barbaric.

A few years ago, Zhao Zhen changed his strategy and sent Liu Yuanyu, the governor of Tanzhou, into Meishan, to communicate with the barbarians, publicize the decree of the imperial court, and appease and win over with good words.

According to some ministers, this Meishan is not cured.

Looking at the two barbarians again, it seems to be more of a headache, but it is not. Jiaozhi disregarded, mainly to destroy, do not want to operate to destroy, withdraw, the chaos is Jiaozhi people's own. Temo Road and the western part of Yongzhou, Ziqi have thickness and depth, which can be used as a buffer zone with Dali, and it will be operated without being obeyed, and it will have little impact on the core area. Then there is the Wuling area, all of which are barbaric, but the thickness is thin, and after the road is opened, they can see the changes, and under the drive of the barbarian, they will change their original living habits. There are also many raw barbarians in other areas, all of which lack thickness. In a sense, they are not much different from the Han households, as long as the policy is appropriate and they do not discriminate against them, the two Guangxi can be smoothly developed.

But what about Meishanman.

The upper and lower Meishan Mountains are thousands of miles away, east of Tanzhou, south of Shaozhou, west of Chen, north of Ding, including Lizhou, Tanzhou and Dingzhou part of the area, most of Chenzhou, half of Shaozhou, covers an area of 50,000 square kilometers, to have a length, to have a thickness, to have a terrain, the mountains are high and forested, the road is rugged. There is more than half a century of isolation, backward and barbaric. To be honest, if you want to fight Meishanman, the difficulty is no less than conquering Cochin, not defeating Cochin, but conquering, and the difficulty of conquering Cochin!

Zheng Lang consulted with Zhang Kang and Zhang Qi, and even went to Jingnan Mansion (Jiangling Mansion) to ask Li Suzhi some information about Meishanman.

In fact, as early as before Zheng Lang arrived in Lingnan, Li Suzhi was already operating Jinghu South Road, including opening several wide avenues with Jiangnan West Road, so that Wuling Shengman could be naturalized. Teach the local barbarians to farm, and change the original slash-and-burn farming method.

In the past three years, Li Suzhi has laid a solid foundation for Zheng Lang.

However, for Meishanman, Li Suzhi still has no good way.

The method was come up with Zhang Qi. Zheng Lang's original plan was to calm first and then rule, and the people did not dare to move to the Xiangshui Valley.

Zhang Qi is both in peace.

He was a Han who grew up in Fuzhou, and he did not reject barbarians and Tibetans, and he stayed on Jinghu South Road for a long time, so he had this idea.

Do not approve of forcible expropriation, the area is too large. With few troops in hand, if he wanted to use strong means to completely subdue Meishanman, Zhang Qi estimated that at least 150,000 troops could barely achieve it. It is impossible for the imperial court to agree, and it is not worth it.

He believes that to deal with Meishanman, it is necessary to attack the heart and attack the city.

Continue to use Zheng Lang's strategy in Lingnan to carry out thunderous strikes against a very small number of diehards, so that other departments can be deterred. The vast majority of the tribes were also able to reform the mainstay. The main thing is to win over, and we can no longer implement the closed strategic approach as before.

It's hard to be sensitized, and the thickness is so deep. He came up with another solution. Stupid, but it can work.

Cut Meishanman.

With the road cutting, first build three longitudinal roads, three longitudinal roads, so that Meishanman cut into sixteen irregular areas, each small area area is only a few thousand square kilometers, but it is not enough, each small area in the construction of ten roads. There were twenty-five intersections inside, forts were built, and soldiers ranging from 200 to 500 were stationed. In the future, it can also be used as a place for mutual markets in the future.

Because of these forts, the thickness of these forts will not exceed fifty miles long, and the width will not exceed thirty or forty miles, and the soldiers can quickly reach the place where the accident occurred, and even each fort can at least cooperate with the other four, and at most six or seven forts. It can form more than 1,000 soldiers in two days, which is enough to deal with any large barbarian army, and if it is a particularly large barbarian army, it can close the fort and defend itself, waiting for more troops to continue to arrive. The total strength of the army is less than 10,000 soldiers, and if it is properly governed in the future, it can be replaced by local barbarians to break up the pressure of the imperial court garrison.

The process of building roads and military villages is a flat process. While building roads and building villages, because of the road cutting, the terrain gradually became thin, the Song army went deep, and could communicate with these barbarians to pacify, otherwise Meishan could not communicate, if they were not satisfied, they would use the cutting into small areas to reduce the difficulty of suppression.

In addition, on the basis of the original Li Suzhi's governance, some small water conservancy projects were further built by the local people, mainly to the west of Xiangshui, so that these barbarians could watch and continue Zheng Lang's means in Liangguang. Of course, this labor force and the number of troops are very demanding, but we can start with the four large areas and 16 small areas on the west side of Tanzhou. The other twelve large areas are more difficult and can be placed next year. Let Tanzhou first form a powerful security area, and next year the people can be relocated and developed on a large scale, and there are laborers and some militia, and even the local barbarians see the benefits, and cooperate with the Song army to extend to the depths of Meishanman.

In this way, it is estimated that there will be battles, but the scale of the battles will not be too large, and the financial pressure will not be great.

The only downside is that it takes a little longer.

Zhang Yu's strategy was adopted by Zheng Lang, and in the era of Song Shenzong in history, Meishanman was collected, and this strategy was also used more, attacking the heart as the top, turning the barbarian into a Han, pacifying and retracting, opening the original closed situation, and then using the army to deter, and finally solved the Meishanman problem. There are still some troubles, but not too much. Therefore, Zhang Dian happily wrote "Kaimei Mountain Song" and "Brother Out of Meishan" (see related works).

Zhang Qi only provides a guideline, and there are many specific things.

After some discussion, Zheng Lang inspected all parts of Jinghu South Road. Different water conservancy in different regions, Jinghu South Road is different from Liangguang, and Jiangdong Wei is also different, one is the dolder, similar to the polder, but the people of the two lakes do not call the polder, but call it the polder. The second is the dam field, because there are many hilly areas and developed water systems, and some river valley basin terrain is formed, which lays the foundation for the construction of dams that can be cultivated and planted. The third is the weir field, the inevitable product of the mountainous terrain. The fourth is Tangtian.

This pond is not the pond of the Qiantang River, the scale of that pond is very large, and the pond on Jinghu South Road is mostly similar to a real pond. The difference with the weir is that the weir is more expensive, the effect is better, and it can be irrigated and drained, but the pond is not good, it is only used for water storage and irrigation, and there is a lack of drainage system. Because the water system of Jinghu South Road is developed, the hilly terrain occupies the main part. The formation of fragmented cultivated areas, this kind of terrain construction weir is too expensive, with ponds to replace, but can achieve obvious results. The big ones can irrigate thousands of acres. The small ones are dozens of acres, and a few acres are not indispensable. The cost is not high, dig a pond, there are ditches to connect the best, no, you can rely on the water and rainy rainwater to store water, the cost is very low. When the pond was dug out, it became arable land around it. These ponds can also raise some fish and shrimp to subsidize the livelihood of the people.

Tangtian will become the mainstream type of cultivated land in the mountainous area of Jinghu South Road.

As well as some pitian and terraced fields, of course, the cylinder car and keel car are indispensable.

In short, the cost is not as high as Liangguang, and it can be very fragmented.

At the same time, he sent people into the mountains to negotiate with the Meishan barbarian tribes. There is a master and a secondary. The Lord is the ministry of the four regions that are coming. There were no immigrants, and there was no request for financial support from the imperial court, but only a large amount of gunpowder. With some weapons, the financial and tax revenues of Jinghu South Road were intercepted. Thanks to Li Suzhi, after Li Suzhi's governance, the financial revenue of Jinghu South Road has increased a lot, which can allow Zheng Lang to have an expenditure of nearly three million yuan. It may not be enough, and when it is not enough, ask the court for it. Whether it is enough or not depends on the scale of the war.

When autumn came, Zheng Lang took 30,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 people to the edge of Meishanman, and began to build roads in the east from the south of Dingzhou to the west of Tanzhou and the middle of Shaozhou.

It's been too long. No matter what Zheng Lang said, a series of battles took place one after another.

At this time, all kinds of bad news came out of Zhao Niannu.

Zheng Lang was thunderous.

In fact, he also understands the truth, and he himself said that as an emperor, he has the greatest power in the world, as the lord of the world. It cannot be said that the minister is happy, he himself must live a happy life, and he must lead by example, hard and simple. But the indescribable friendship between him and Zhao Zhen made him lose his temper.

But the matter is important, the imperial court spent a lot of money for Liangguang, not only the development cost of nearly 70 million yuan, but also the large amount of military expenses and rewards that were wasted by Nong Zhigao. A lot of money was also spent on Liangjing Road, and so many avenues came out, all of which were smashed out of money.

Li Suzhi carried out some small-scale development, which was also smashed with money.

More than 10 million taels have been spent before and after, and if you spend it again this year, it will be close to 20 million. It's not a small number, a Liuta River is so important, how much money can the imperial court spend?

Hold back your anger and get on with business.

Very sensibly did not bring anger to government affairs, continued to receive the heads of the ministries very warmly, talked with them, and persuaded them, in the past, you had grievances and grievances with the court, but now the court has given you a chance, why continue to resist to the end? See what kind of life you're living now?

I even invited some of the larger tribes and some appealing clan leaders to Lingnan and let them go to Lingnan to watch. Even if some tribes provoked, Zheng Lang repeatedly persuaded him, even if he delayed the speed of road construction, he would caress again and again, and it was really not possible to take force measures. He also said to these patriarchs, "If I am not afraid of you, no matter how powerful you are, there are also Jiaozhi strong, and there are only about 20,000 regular soldiers used by Liangguang, and if Jiaozhi is big, the court will be defeated." Now there are more soldiers on Jinghu South Road than there were regular forbidden troops in Liangguang at the beginning, can the imperial court be afraid of you small tribes? Even if the entire Meishan barbarian joins forces, I can also defeat you calmly.

They are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, why bother to meet each other?

But if they are not convinced, they will be forcibly beaten, and they will be beaten hard, which is also the method of Zhangdun in history. He went to Jinghu South Road, he didn't believe in evil, if the Song Dynasty was great, he couldn't deal with the Khitan, but he couldn't make a country out of China.

So the soldiers divided into three ways and attacked decisively. Many ministers are worried that it is quite easy to fight Meishan, and they have tried before, but they are a piece of super kraft candy, and the army is coming, defeated, retreating, letting, avoiding, and hurriedly drilling into the mountains one by one, and then the army withdraws, and comes out again, and can retaliate frantically. Why Zhang Dian was able to succeed in the end, at least basically the word success can be used. It is precisely because of one dozen and two strokes, beating is a hard beating, caressing is caressing with heart, turning barbarism into a man, treating it sincerely, respecting and not squeezing out, focusing on governance, supplemented by suppression. And with various strategies to win the hearts of ordinary barbarians, some ambitious leaders were forced to flee to the south, and there was no place to take root, so they had to flee south.

The trouble of Meishan was resolved.

In this regard, Zhang Qi, Zheng Lang, and Zhang Dian have similar methods, but their respective situations are different, and the specific details are also different.

Suddenly, the two tribes were all wiped out, and it could not be regarded as extermination, but the family of its leader was destroyed, and all the property and land in the clan were equally distributed, so that they could choose an elder to manage it.

Hearing this news, some tribes finally stopped resisting, and the people at both ends of the first rat asked to see Zheng Lang to negotiate, and continued to drill into the depths of Meishan unruly.

October is coming, and most of the good news comes out.

At least by the end of the first month of next year, the first barrier will be built.

However, Zheng Lang is worried about Zhongzhong, and the whereabouts of Zhao Niannu and Liang Huaiji are still unknown. Soon it will be cold, and there may be a thick frost in the north, where did these two flee to? Is it really impossible for people to destroy corpses?

But there's another thing that joins in the fun.

Chenzhou Xiaxi has changed quite a bit. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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