"Report!" A spy Pegasus came over and sent news to Wang Ju.

It was not the news of Yang Yizhen's move, nor the news of the Gao family's army, but the battle report sent by Yao Lin. Wang Ju opened it and looked at it, frowning slightly.

"Could it be that General Yao lost?" Huang Hua asked.

"It's not a loss, Brother Alcohol, you see." Wang Ju handed the battle report to Huang Hua.

"It's still underestimated." Huang Hua said after looking at it.

But it is not Yao Lin's underestimation of the enemy, including Wang Ju this time.

In fact, in the previous battles, Wang Ju was very cautious, such as Ziqi, first using the name of building roads, and then deliberately cowardly attracting the main forces of each department to the meadow, and annihilated it in one fell swoop. Then he forced the barbarian chiefs to hand over the children in the village, moved out the practice of Guangnan West Road, and carried out the second wave of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land. In this way, Ziqizhou will be successfully in his hands.

The Wuman was still like this, almost attracting the main forces of the Wuman to the border of Ziqizhou, and once again attracting the Wuman forces to the bank of the Wenshui River, which was relatively flat, and forced them to surrender in one fell swoop. In some tribes, all the big and small leaders were captured alive, so the next step was also a smooth transition to the governance stage.

Even on the Wumeng side, after sending people to learn detailed information, Yanda's army went north.

But only Luo Dianman's side was in a bit of a hurry.

At the beginning, Yao Lin used to be relatively smooth, the army went all the way deep, and continued to fight the local tyrants to divide the fields, but when they went deep to Puning Mansion, that is, the Yelang Kingdom of the Han Dynasty, they were subjected to Luo Dianman's stubborn counterattack, and both sides suffered heavy losses in this battle, although Luo Dianman was defeated, Yao Lin's subordinates also lost nearly 3,000 people. It can be said that the army suffered the heaviest losses in the west.

There will inevitably be losses, but this is not Wang Ju's original meaning, at least he doesn't want to trap the army in the bitter place of Southwest Yi.

And time can't be delayed.

Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "Purple Mountain." Immediately return to the rear, transfer 10,000 troops from the rear from Guanshan to the north, and go forward to support General Yao Lin. ”

Wang Ju went west, and the troops he brought with him were not much, mainly because of supply difficulties. Including Jiaozhi's side, there are only 10,000 of He Bin's subordinates. The rest was eaten together in Guizhou or Yizhou.

It is this part of the army that is being transferred.

After Wang Ju finished writing the order, Wang Zishan rushed back to Guangnan West Road with a few guards. Wang Ju went into the house again and brought the map to watch.

However, the mountains and rivers marked on the map are limited, not that there is none, but that there is no relevant information.

In fact, since the Han Dynasty. began to gradually manage this area, and in the Song Dynasty, it was laissez-faire and opened the entire history of the Northern Song Dynasty. The battle that took place on Kuixia Road. However, it is the area south of the Yangtze River, and most of them are often invaded by barbarians, so they have no choice but to open the border. But this kind of laissez-faire has made this area more closed and backward, and the more backward and off-road barbarians it is. This is the truth of history. So Wang Ju couldn't see anything on the map.

It's not that it can't be operated, if the Song Dynasty let Wang Ju sit on the power of Guangnan Road and Dali Road in the future, and slowly operate it for ten years, this area will still be solved sooner or later.

But this is not possible.

Wang Ju reluctantly put down the map. He also sent an order to Yao Lin, and the land in the rear was divided. But there should be no more division of land in front of it, and the Tusi system should be retained, so as not to provoke the stubborn resistance of these barbarian leaders. Mainly to win over, this win is not to win over ordinary barbarians, but to win over real barbarians, supplemented by deterrence. It is better to send an envoy to inform the barbarian chiefs of all tribes after a beautiful victory, and force them to be convinced, even if it is enough to make a show. Then quickly put the campaign to an end.

After the two orders were issued, Qiong Niang walked in and said, "Official, Xiao Huang has it." ”

"Oh, go check it out."

These are two ponies adopted by Wang Ju.

There are four kinds of horses in Dali, Wumeng horse, Dali horse, Tengchong horse and Tubo plateau horse.

Both the Umeng and Dali horses are very short, but they can barely make war horses. One-third of the horses formed by Wang Ju are these two horses, and there are also local horses on the West Road of Guangnan, and there are very few horses on the Tubo Plateau and Tengchong horses.

There are also two kinds of horses, namely two kinds of dwarf horses from the southern region of Yongzhou and Dali.

These two ponies can be ridden, but they cannot be used as war horses.

But they also have their advantages, they are hard-working, and they are not picky about feed, and they are relatively easy to feed. It is impossible to be a war horse, but the livestock that can be used to pull goods is first-class.

Wang Ju also encouraged the local people to breed, at least better than donkeys.

Then the various stewards went to Dali to buy horses, and by the way inquired about information, as well as some other arrangements, such as Zheng Xuanhe went to Moutong Mansion to fish, such as Jiang Qing and others went to Dali Mansion to fish for people, but some stewards were not very clear about horses, anyway, most of the horses were not tall, so some Dali ponies were also bought.

It's not that they don't work, but they can't be used as war horses, so Wang Ju has no choice but to sell them to ordinary merchants to pull goods. But in this way, it must be a loss, one is a war horse, it doesn't matter if the price is higher, and the other is a pack ride, if the price is high, it will not be cost-effective.

One day, Qiongniang also went to look and saw a golden pony with big eyes and a long mane, which was very cute, so she wanted to take it in.

Then take it in.

As a result, the little yellow horse hooked up with a little flower horse, so Wang Ju had these two pets in his family.

It's a pet, not a mount, Wang Ju also has other mounts, brought from the northwest, some are not adapted to the southern weather and died, so Wang Ju added a few taller Tengchong horses.

In Wang Ju's eyes, these horses are really effective horses, and even Wang Ju plans to cause a big horse eater, of course, it is not introduced to the Song Dynasty, there is no good breeding ground, even if it is introduced to thoroughbreds, it cannot be well crossed.

This is intended to be introduced to the continent on the other side of the ocean, and crossbred with the Jurchen horses that were originally introduced, to see if they can produce a better horse breed.

The actual goal is the same, that is, to find a way to make the horse taller and more able to endure hardships, so that it will be more powerful on the battlefield.

But in fact, after these two little cute children arrived at the Wang family, they were more popular than other war horses.

Wang Ju walked to the stables to look, and the little black and white cow-like horse licked Qiongniang's hand affectionately with his tongue. However, he looked at Wang Ju with arrogant eyes.

Joan Niang giggled.

"It's not a horse, it's a cow, it's the most useless cow." Wang Ju said dissatisfied.

Under the care of servants at home. The pony was so fat that it looked like a fat cow.

However, the yellow female was a little better, and Wang Ju touched Xiao Huang's belly.

Sure enough, it looked like she was pregnant.

"If you like it, you can have a few more horses." Wang Ju said.

"Bring it back to the capital?" Qiongniang asked.

"Hmm."

"That's great." Qiongniang said happily that she understood her husband's intentions and brought them to the capital to make pets for several children.

Xiao Huang didn't know what was good, but she was happy to see the hostess. He also stepped on his hooves with joy, as if he were dancing.

Wang Ju hugged his head and said, "It's not right to sell cute children." It's the most invincible young woman who sells cuteness. ”

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"Go, go," a fierce aunt walked out of the restaurant and drove the Duan Zhengming brothers far away.

Duan Zhengming said in his heart. We're not beggars. I don't ask you for food.

But smelling the fragrance of tsamba, Duan Zhengming couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Jiang Qing dragged him to the side and whispered, "Da Shizi, come with me." ”

He took the Duan Zhengming brothers to a clear pond and said, "Look at it. ”

Duan Zhengming and Duan Zhengchun buried their heads in the water, and the figures of the two brothers and sisters appeared on the water, with ragged clothes, yellow faces, hunger and thinness, and almost none of them were human.

"Shizi. It's not that I mean to torture you, that's all. to take you out of the city. We're out of town today. ”

A few beggars slowly walked towards the city gate.

There are many people in Dali City, Yang Yizhen can not block the city gate all the time, more than ten days later, the city gate is opened again, let the people in and out, but the inventory is very strict.

Duan Zhengming suddenly lowered his head and said, "You can't go out of the city." ”

"Why?"

"There is a man at the gate of my house." Duan Zhengming said in a low voice.

These days, he asked about his family several times, Jiang Qingdu said that he didn't know, and in the end Duan Zhengming didn't ask again, but he also knew the result in his heart. It made him sad.

However, Yang Yizhen only killed the immediate family members of the Duan family, and the servants would not kill them. There was a servant of Duan Zhengming's family at the gate of the city, cooperating with the officers and soldiers of Dali to watch the pedestrians.

Needless to explain, Jiang Qing also judged that after Yang Yizhen's men broke through Duan Zhengming's house, they found that the two brothers were missing, after all, they were Duan Lianyi's own nephews, and Duan Lianyi had never been childless, so Duan Zhengming's brothers were theoretically one of Dali's future successors. Yang Yizhen must have attached great importance to this pair of brothers.

After searching the whole city to no avail, let the subordinates of Duan Zhengming's family stand at the gate of the city to prevent the Duan brothers from escaping.

It's a bit tricky.

"Go back." Jiang Qing said.

A few people retreated to a broken temple, in front of the temple is a fish shop, on the side is a big garbage push, the smell is sky-high. It was this harsh environment that allowed them to escape Yang Yizhen's arrest.

As it approached dusk, several wild dogs rummaged through the garbage heap for food, and one dog found a large bone, and the other wild dogs went up to fight for it, and then fought, and the dog was defeated, and let out a whimpering of dissatisfaction as he ran away.

Duan Zhengchun felt like this wild dog.

Actually, it's okay, if Wang Ju is not influenced by someone, why bother fishing for their brothers, there are not too many children of the Duan clan.

If that were the case, they would have been killed by Yang Yizhen's men a long time ago.

Duan Zhengchun said: "I miss Niangniang. ”

Duan Zhengming closed his mouth, he not only thought about his parents, but also the little lady of the Dong family he was engaged to, and he didn't know what happened to the Dong family, he didn't dare to ask anymore these days.

Duan Zhengchun asked Jiang Qing again: "No one resisted that rebellious minister and thief?" ”

"Second son, who do you say is resisting? Except for the Gao family of Shanxian Mansion, who has the strength to resist the Yang family? ”

"What about the people?"

"We have ten taxes and one in the Great Song Dynasty, and you have ten taxes and three or five taxes in Dali, counting on that people to support your Duan clan?"

"It won't be that heavy." Duan Zhengming said with wide eyes.

"Da Shizi, you have fine clothes and food, of course you don't know, but your Dali taxes are so heavy."

"Where is that heavy tax spent?"

"How do I know?" Jiang Qingyi spread his hands and said.

It's not that so many taxes all go into the treasury, but most of them fall into the hands of various powerful people, and it turns out that Nanzhao maintains the original ecology. However, after Nanzhao captured a large number of craftsmen from Bashu, he brought advanced craftsmanship and a luxurious life. Just like Dali's bamboo cane, also known as the golden rattan cane, an ordinary cane, but inlaid with gold on the outside of the cane, the craftsmanship is extremely complicated, so after the Song Dynasty, it has become an extremely expensive super luxury.

The various aristocrats wanted to maintain such a luxurious life. How can you not harsh the people?

Of course, it was not the Song Dynasty that was heaven, and the Song Dynasty had many powerful households. The rent they collect also reaches nearly half of the people's income, which is the same as the nature of Dali's ten taxes and three five.

But compared to Champa, the two are far inferior. The Shudras of Champa and Tianzhu were even more miserable.

That is, the people of Dali can barely live. But he lived a very humble life, so after Yuan Ming entered Dali, he rarely encountered strong resistance.

Jiang Qing couldn't explain this truth clearly for a while, so he said again: "Da Shizi, this time you understand the reason why our family's Shaobao can quickly settle down the barbarians." ”

"So can he sustain his spending on ten taxes?"

"It's a good question for you to ask, it's really hard to maintain spending on one out of ten, but there are other taxes, such as business taxes."

"Isn't that a crowd?"

"The Great Prince. You escaped that day, though you were dressed as a servant. But the underwear is embroidery, do you think ordinary people can afford to wear embroidery? So from whom does this commercial tax amount to the tax levied? We also pay a heavy tax, but this tax is levied evenly, with the poor leviing less and the rich leviing more. So the people support it, but you Dali this kind of tax, how can the ordinary people support your Duan family? ”

Jiang Qing beautified the tax system of the Song Dynasty.

From the time Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, he proposed Qi people, theoretically wanted to tax in this way, but the actual implementation was not the same thing.

Even if Wang Ju further "gathered people and taxed" on Guangnan West Road, he did not really realize that the poor were taxed less or no tax, and the rich were taxed more, and the necessary involvement was unavoidable.

"The Gao family controls the government ......," Duan Zhengming explained.

"That's because your Duan clan is not capable, otherwise how can you let a minister control the government. Just like our family, Shaobao, has such great talent, but he has always been loyal to the official family. ”

"If it weren't for your family's Shaobao soldiers, how would the Yang family dare to do this?"

Without Wang Ju's use of troops this time, Yang Yizhen would have dared to do it, but it was a little later.

Jiang Qing didn't know, but he still sneered: "I don't have the ability, why blame others?" Just like Guo Gong went south and did not annihilate Jiaozhi, is it to blame the Zhancheng State and the Zhenla State for breaching the contract and not sending troops to cooperate? ”

Duan Zhengming was dumbfounded.

"Dashizi, you believe in Buddhism, what is the purpose of the Buddha? Save the people, all beings are equal. Shaobao this time is to save your people living in dire straits, and I hope that the prince will cooperate. ”

Duan Zhengming still didn't speak.

Jiang Qing said again: "And whether your Duan clan can be preserved or not is all in the thought of the great prince." ”

Let's just say it, we risk our lives to catch people, just hoping that your two brothers will play a role in the future and help Wang Ju Dali quickly settle down. However, Wang Ju really has no ill will towards their brothers, and in his future planning, he arranged a better future for the brothers.

Jiang Qing didn't speak anymore after speaking, the group of wild dogs were still fighting over that bone, Jiang Qing also watched them fight boredly, and suddenly his eyes lit up......

It was getting dark.

Ignoring the stench around them, the brothers fell asleep tired, hungry and worried.

At dawn the next day, they were called out by Jiang Qing and came to the city gate again, where a group of beggars were fighting and blocked the city gate. The three beggars on one side were Jiang Qing's subordinates, and the number of beggars on the other side was even larger, but Jiang Qing's three subordinates fought very tenaciously, and they were beaten so that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and they continued to tear and beat.

Duan Zhengming didn't know why, but Jiang Qing said in a low voice: "You brothers are separated, and you go out of the city one after the other. ”

If you can't stay together, then it will be easy to be recognized by the servant of Duan Zhengming's family.

"Second brother, you go first." Duan Zhengming said.

Duan Zhengchun wanted to push back, but Jiang Qing urged: "Hurry up." ”

Another of Jiang Qing's subordinates forcibly took Duan Zhengchun to the city gate, and the other side was still beating, and the servant of Duan Zhengming's family also watched the group of beggars fighting with amusement.

"Second son, go." Jiang Qing's subordinates shouted in a low voice.

The two beggars, all smelly, and the rest of the soldiers didn't pay much attention to it, allowing the two to escape. But the soldiers could not allow the two groups of beggars to fight any further, and one by one they came up and shouted. Scatter them.

"Let's go." Jiang Qing said again.

If you don't leave, it's too late, as she spoke, she took Duan Zhengming's hand and rushed to the city gate. Then. Just as the servant also looked over, Duan Zhengming hurriedly lowered his head, and his heart was beating.

The servant didn't see Duan Zhengming's face, only saw a forehead, which felt familiar, but then he was frightened away by the smell of Duan Zhengming's body.

The two managed to escape from the city.

Jiang Qing continued to flee with them, fleeing to a mountain on the edge of Ershui. On the hill there were two scribes leading horses. Seeing them coming, he said happily, "Brother Zongzheng, you finally escaped?" ”

Jiang Qing nodded.

It's not easy. If it weren't for seeing the group of wild dogs fighting last night, he wouldn't have thought of today's plan, and it was because he saw that group of wild dogs fighting that he came up with a solution. In the morning, let three of his men find another group of beggars at the city gates. Deliberately conflicting. Then they tore and beat and led them to the gate of the city. Otherwise, there is still no way to escape.

"Ryohei, did you bring any food here?"

"Yes," said the scribe who said the word Ryohei, taking out a piece of beef from his horse.

"Two sons, please use it." Jiang Qing said.

Duan Zhengming's brothers devoured and ate, and when they were about to finish, Duan Zhengming said, "Don't you eat?" ”

"You thought of us after eating?" Jiang Qingle was happy, and said, "It's okay." We're not hungry these days, and that's why we've been starving you. It is the hunger and thinness that makes you dirty and smelly, that it is not easy to be recognized. The eldest son, the second son, have suffered hardships, don't blame him. ”

"No, I want to thank you for saving my life."

"I can't thank us for this, I want to thank our family Shaobao," Jiang Qing finished speaking, whispered to the other side with the two scribes, walked back and said, "Two princes, the Gao family has raised troops." ”

"The Gao family raised troops?"

"This throne, the Yang family wants to sit, and the Gao family also wants to do it for a long time. We ask you a word, there are two options. Now your brother is a strange commodity, and a strange commodity can live. The Gao family is preemptive, if you two brothers are obtained, it will occupy the righteousness even more, and the Yang family will be in danger. Shaobao wants to save the people of Dali, and he also wants to get the two of you, so he can quickly quell the Dali rebellion and return the people to a truly happy life. So now I give you a choice, if you want to be the emperor, you can only go to the Gao family, and if the Gao family wants to fight for more righteousness, maybe they will support one of your brothers to be a puppet king of Dali. But after Dali settles down, your brother's life is in danger. After all, the Gao family has endured it for so many years, and Gao Zhisheng is also old, so they can't afford to wait. However, if you don't believe in Shaobao, although there are many checkpoints along the way, we will also protect your brothers to go down to the southeast and go to Shanxian Mansion. The second choice is to defect to our family Shaobao, Shaobao will not support you to continue to be the king of Dali, but will give your brother a promise, he will ask the official family for your brother for a county king with a different surname, and it can be hereditary county king with a different surname, and there is a proper fief salary, as long as your children and grandchildren do not rebel in the future, their children and grandchildren can share the wealth with our Great Song Dynasty. Then we will retreat to the northeast and go to Dongchuan County first, there are not many checkpoints in this area, and the inventory is not strict. ”

After all, he is a barbarian with a straightforward personality, and Wang Ju does not hide it, so he asks his subordinates to directly tell the stakes and let the Duan brothers choose. However, if the Duan brothers didn't know the general situation and chose the Gao family, Wang Juzhen would let these subordinates cover the Duan brothers to go to the Gao family.

Then in the future, Wang Ju will vigorously support the Yang family until the Gao family is defeated, as for what will happen to the Duan brothers after the defeat of the Gao family, Wang Ju will not care, and then fight against the Yang family.

It's a little more complicated and a little more thorough.

Anyway, Duan Zhengming will not be forced, and the twisted melon is not sweet......

Jiang Qing saw Duan Zhengming's mouth open and said, "Don't be in a hurry to answer, my three subordinates haven't come out yet, you have to wait for them, you can think slowly." ”

Duan Zhengming thought for a long time and asked, "Didn't Shaobao say that there are no intentions for us in Dali?" ”

This is a big problem, Wang Ju's approach seems to be very beautiful, not only sent someone to fish out their brothers, but also opened the skylight to say bright words, and it seems that the choice is not bad. Now Duan Zhengming just wants to live, what will he think about the emperor. However, Wang Ju is not keeping his promise, how can Duan Zhengming believe it? (To be continued......)