The sky was a little dark, and there was a star and rain silk, although the sun could not be seen, but the cool drizzle hit the face, cool and intoxicating.

"Shizi, spring is coming," Wang Ju said.

After a long time on Guangnan West Road and Jiaozhi, Wang Judu is about to forget the taste of spring and winter. Of course, if you want to see the "taste" of winter in Dali, it is actually very simple, all the way down, until you hit the edge of Dali, you can see what the taste of winter is. But you can also go all the way south and see what summer is like again.

However, from Shicheng County all the way to Dali City, the scene here is indeed very beautiful, the scenery is picturesque, the mountains are green, the wild flowers are everywhere, and the lakes are like mirrors.

But Duan Zhengming was born here and grew up here, but he can't feel it.

He asked: "Shaobao, when will you use troops in Dali City?" ”

"Don't worry, yesterday Yang Yizhen sent an envoy to say that I promised that the three families would compete for power, depending on their respective skills, if defeated, I would withdraw from this land, and if he won, he would surrender. So he surrendered. ”

"Is there such an agreement?" Duan Zhengming's eyes immediately widened in dissatisfaction.

"Da Shizi, don't be excited, after you showed up, Yang Yizhen sent an envoy to ask if it was true or not, I said this. But why say this? In fact, the reason is very simple, if you want to end this war quickly, you must gather all their main forces and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

In fact, the real reason is that although the scenery here is good, there are many areas with treacherous terrain that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Just like Yanda used troops in Wumeng and other departments in Dongchuan County, such a large half-county land can only be about the same as the area of Meishan. Twenty thousand troops. And it was a lot of information. He also transferred a large number of Ukrainian barbarian leaders from the First Battle to persuade them, and with the advantages of having a detailed barbarian army in the north to cooperate with the attack, he used his troops for several months.

If you develop at this speed, you don't want to get Dali smoothly.

Of course, if the battlefield can be ended quickly, the damage to the people will be very small.

"So I used some means," Wang Ju explained, but it wasn't that he had a good temper. The main thing is to appease. In any case, if the country is ruined, no matter how good the temper is, it will be unhappy. Just like Li Yu back then, he also wrote a fate-breaking sentence in that situation, so the country can't afford to look back at the bright moon......

However, he has always brought the Duan brothers with him, these brothers can be unhappy, but they can't be seriously dissatisfied, if that's the case, Wang Ju has no choice but to finally lose his word and bring them to the capital.

Duan Zhengming silently stared at the green grass under his eyelids and asked, "Shaobao." How to reply. ”

"I agreed, and allowed him to surrender. However, they had to send their family and important cronies to the capital, and ask His Majesty to give them an official position. And he must surrender within a month. Still, guess why he surrendered? ”

"I don't know."

"Because I saved your brothers, and even used you to use the banner of the army, and used to kill the traitors and execute the chiefs, although the Gao family has bad intentions, it has not directly harmed your Duan clan. Yang Yizhen almost slaughtered your Duan family, I let him go, how can I fight the banner of exterminating traitors again? ”

"So he faked?"

"It's not a fake surrender, seeing the strength of our army, he is somewhat afraid in his heart. However, as far as I know, although the battle of Longling caused his troops to suffer very heavy losses, there were still some deserters who took advantage of the mountains and forests one after another and fled back. Therefore, Yang Yizhen still has a considerable number of troops in his hands, and there are many steep terrain behind Dali Mansion, which is difficult to overcome. It's really not good, I can escape to the boundless Tengchong Mansion in time, and when I get to Tengchong Mansion, even if I have a million male divisions, it will be difficult to search for them one by one. ”

"Shaobao, he is hesitating."

"Exactly."

"In the end, what will he choose?" Duan Zhengming asked nervously again. He didn't want Yang Yizhen to really become an official of the Song Dynasty in the end.

"He sent messengers to ask for surrender, and I thought about it for a while before I made this request. In fact, this is a more demanding requirement...... In addition, I also have to make some arrangements, especially Tengchong Prefecture, I must send a force to the western part of Dali City before using troops in Dali City. ”

"Diancangshan?"

"It's impossible to point Cangshan, it's too close to Dali City, about Yunlongzhi on the east side of Nushan Mountain."

In fact, when they arrived at Nushan, the sea gradually increased, and the temperature became very low, but they were not suitable for Wang Ju's army, after all, most of them were recruited from the tropical area of Guangnan West Road. Therefore, Wang Jucai made a request to the imperial court to let Kumamoto bring 10,000 horsemen from the northwest region over.

Duan Zhengming thought about the original terrain of Dali and said, "If that's the case, he can also retreat to the Moutong Mansion, and even cross the Gaoligong Mountain and enter the boundary of Tengchong Mansion." The Yang family's lair is in the territory of the Moutong Mansion. ”

"I will have a way to deal with this, but I say this, I just want to tell the prince one thing, why Yang Yizhen is reluctant to go to the capital, he thinks that if he goes to the capital, he will become a prisoner, I'm afraid you also have this idea. But I don't want to go to the capital, or occasionally go to the capital to meet my majesty, and then I can come back, and I hope that the prince will cooperate with the court. I used the army in Dali, not only to open up the territory for the imperial court, but also to benefit the people of this side. The imperial court is also not thin on the people, but neither I nor the imperial court will tolerate rebellion. By the way, Dali's future tax system has formulated a ......"

Wang Ju talked about the future taxation of Yunnan Road.

Duan Zhengming was speechless, this tax is simply too low compared to Dali's tax. Moreover, although the levy money was levied, all the people in the whole territory were exempted from forced labor, although Duan Zhengming was not very clear about the current tax situation in Dali, but he also knew that it was often possible to exempt the levy, which was the biggest policy preference for the local area, such as the Wuman Department.

In fact, the problem is more complicated than he thought.

For example, what about the copper coins of the conscription law?

Relatively speaking, Dali is still relatively backward, at most compared with Jinghu South Road, and even less than Guangnan East Road. Of course, that's it, and there are also advanced civilizations around here.

Therefore, Wang Ju was helpless, and invited craftsmen to look for copper mines in Dongchuan Mansion.

He still remembers that in the history of the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan copper once produced more than 10 million catties per year, and the output reached almost ninety percent of the national output. More than half of these copper mines are located in Dongchuan Province.

In fact, any mineral deposits are mined now. It's all a serious waste. The utilization rate is not high, not to mention the waste of a large number of associated mines.

But what to do? Who made the national currency grossly insufficient?

We can only hope to get a large amount of silver from the Japanese state, and then set up a bank in the future, so that silver, copper coins and silk coins can be circulated with each other to see if the situation can be changed. As for Jiaozi, he also has a pessimistic attitude, the printing cost is too low, and everyone's understanding of the economy is limited. If all currencies are replaced by jiaozi, sooner or later it will bring heavy disasters.

Therefore, it is necessary to have sufficient local currency, which not only meets various taxes, but also further promotes the development of business.

Where does Duan Zhengming know all the inside stories in between? He walked away, suddenly raised his head and asked, "Shaobao, don't want them to surrender?" ”

"Of course, if Dali is difficult to treat in the future, the main reason is toast...... If the barbarian leaders and the powerful of the tribes surrender, it is inconvenient for me to execute them. But they can't be forced to fight to the death. That way, even if they are defeated. Our army will also suffer heavy losses. ”

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he rode back to Shanxi's mansion.

Shanxian City was breached, Baozhou City surrendered without a fight, and the soldiers of the Gao family in Xiushan City also lost their morale, plus Wang Ju let his men transport a large number of siege equipment, and soon let Hebin attack the city.

In fact, Wang Ju's method of using troops is very simple, that is, he attaches great importance to intelligence, as well as a large number of movement tactics, constantly absorbing the enemy's forces to the terrain that is favorable to him, or weakening the enemy's troop movements, so as to annihilate them.

Compared with the later TG army, Wang Ju's tactics were weak. However, it can barely deal with the Western Xia army, let alone Dali's army.

Therefore, there are often large-scale night battles and night marches, and only night marches can send troops to the environment they want unexpectedly.

However, such marching operations have relatively strict physical requirements for the officers and men of the three armed services.

He Bin finally got old, ran around repeatedly, and immediately fell ill after attacking Xiushan City.

Wang Ju had no choice but to let Qu Zhen replace He Bin, and let He Bin go to Shanyan City to recuperate.

He Bin was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed and recuperating, when he saw Wang Ju coming, he wanted to sit up, but Wang Ju hurriedly helped him down.

He Bin said: "I'm afraid I will become the second Wang Jixun." ”

There were two famous Wang Jixun in the Song Dynasty, the first Wang Jixun was Zhao Kuangyin's brother-in-law Wang Jixun, the son of Wang Rao, a demon who ate human flesh.

The second is the famous brave general Wang Jixun, who often uses iron whips, iron lances, and iron sashes, and is called Wang Santie in the army.

Wang Ju comforted: "The city is like spring all year round, suitable for recuperation, and the general, you think too much." When Dali City is recovered, I will let my subordinates push you to Dali City and see the scenery of Dali City. ”

He Bin said in a trembling voice, "I'm afraid it won't work." ”

"No, it won't." Wang Ju comforted him again, went out and asked the doctor, "How is General He's condition?" ”

The doctor shook his head.

Wang Ju's face was a little ugly.

But Wang Ju is also helpless about this, just like Tao Bi, who also died of illness this spring.

It is a human being, and it has to be born, old, sick and die.

But this incident also gave Wang Ju a wake-up call, so he ordered Yao Lin to replace Yanda. Although Yanda is more experienced, Lao Yan is also getting old, and drilling around in these mountains and forests is also very hurtful.

Wang Ju said in a low voice: "Try to heal, I only ask for one point, try to keep the general for a month and a half." ”

Die before leaving the school, often making heroes cry.

Wang Ju didn't want to have this encounter with Bin.

"Well," said the doctor.

Wang Ju returned to the front line.

Yan Da and the others also heard the news and rushed over to inquire.

Wang Ju shook his head and said: "General He is in danger, I now ask the doctor to hang General He's life as much as possible, and it is best to delay it until the pacification of Dali City." ”

Yan Da said: "There is a lack of lone generals in the army. ”

Now the army has successively promoted many generals from Guangnan West Road who can fight, and some generals are as brave as Qu Zhen and other generals, but they live in the border area, and they have been in the army for a short time, and even many people can't read a single big character, so the overall situation is much worse.

In addition to these generals, the Song Dynasty also placed some generals in Liangguang, such as Hu Guanglin and others, but these people's military talents could not satisfy Wang Ju.

It's still okay to be a partial general, but Yanda refers to the main general, the main general who can really take charge of himself.

In some ways. Yao Xiong and Miao Lu are lacking. Although their military talents are not bad. It can actually meet Wang Ju's requirements. At present, there are only three people in the army: Yan Da, Yao Lin and He Bin, and Qu Zhen can only be said to be improvised.

"It was my mistake," Mr. Wang said.

When he came to Guangnan at that time, the Liao State was blackmailing, the Xihe time rebellion, and the Western Xia began to invade again. Therefore, there were no undue demands on the imperial court, including the support of the generals.

After its practical soldiers Dali, Wang Ju felt that the main general was lacking.

But at that time, the Tuner will come. It doesn't work much, at least they are very unfamiliar with this group of troops in Quang Nam.

He said again: "That's it, anyway, the overall situation has been decided, General Yao, you and Yao Xiong go south together." ”

"Whoa."

"Remember, there's only one month."

"Don't worry."

Time is pressing, but I still need to prepare some things, such as food and grass, and some armor.

At this moment, Wang Ju suddenly received a brainless edict from the imperial court.

Wang Ju read the edict. General Yan Da called over and asked, "General Yan, I heard about the battle of Fuliangjiang." You and Miao Lu wanted to cross the river and defeat the rest of Jiaozhi by victory, but Guo Gong was angry when he heard this, and sent an envoy to chase after him, wanting to cut off the two under the banner, but fortunately Zhao Du rescued you and saved your lives. ”

"Why did Shao Bao ask about the past again?"

"It's about the movement of the court." Wang Ju said solemnly that Yan Danai is a gentleman, and no matter what mistakes Guo Kui makes, he has always been reluctant to say it.

Yan Da thought for a while and said: "At that time, we defeated the Jiaozhi army in Fuliangjiang, and General Miao and I were indeed planning to cross the river, and Guo Gong also sent an envoy to chase us back, saying that he would not obey the military order and be beheaded under the banner, which was Guo Gong's shame and anger, and I believe that Guo Gong would not really behead us under his banner." I don't know why Shaobao asked about this again? ”

"General Yan, you have been in the south for a long time now, and now almost all the troops in the army are from Quang Nam, they are not afraid of the scorching heat here, and they are relatively resistant to malaria. And I took all the precautions, but a small number of sergeants still died of malaria. ”

"yes, if only we could cure this malaria."

This is really difficult, Wang Ju knows that artemisinin can be cured, but in this era, how to refine artemisinin, Artemisia annua is Artemisia annua, and there are many in the south, but it does not mean that there is artemisinin.

"General Yan, since Guo Gong chased you back, Jiaozhi asked to surrender, your three armies stayed on the north bank of the Fuliang River, and there was a long period of time, resulting in an increase in the military epidemic, so Guo Gong was anxious to retreat, Tao Bi blocked it, Guo Gong was angry, and withdrew with the Chinese army overnight without issuing a military order, causing a mess in the army. This can also be explained by the delay in Guo Gong's attempt to surrender, but before Guo Gong entered Jiaozhi, he stayed in Yongzhou for so long, isn't it very strange? ”

"I don't really understand, it's just that Guo Gong is high and powerful, and he is cold by nature, not like Shaobao, I can't question it." Yanda sighed.

"You come to see this edict."

Wang Ju handed this brainless edict to Yanda to watch.

The edict said one thing, Luzhou Man made trouble again.

This was a muddled account from three years ago. At that time, the people of Naxi and Luo Gou were fighting for a fish basket (a bamboo fishing device placed at the mouth of the weir). The people here are all relatively fierce, the two clashed, fought with each other, and one Luo Gou was killed by the people of Naxi. Luo Gou was angry, saying that the Han killed me, and the official did not taste the price of my bones, but exposed it. So rebelled.

Mu Jue, the prison envoy, said that Naxi is only a few miles away from Luxi, and Luo Gou is only a few miles from Naxi.

If you don't do a good job in the court, you can send someone to argue, and if you kill someone, you can ask the court to hunt down the murderer, but you can't rebel at every turn, so what's it for?

So the imperial court asked Han Cunbao to lead the troops to attack it, and Han Cunbao summoned the chief of the returned state in the south of Luzhou to beg for his brother, and begged for the fifty-six villages, and all the thirteen hoards of Luogou begged to surrender, so the troops were dismissed. Then in the second year, that is, in the first year of Yuanfeng, the beggar brother came to Jiang'an City with 6,000 soldiers, and said no, I worked hard for the court, and the court at least had a reward. But now that I've leveled Luo Gou for you, why haven't I caught anything? So often come to make trouble, Luzhou Zhizhou Qiao Xu sent someone to take the initiative to contact the beggar brother, and swore an oath with him, that is, a mutual oath, the Song Dynasty gave him an official position, gave him the right to rule, but nominally had to submit to the Song Dynasty.

Luzhou Tong sentenced the family and the country to dissuade him, saying that swearing about something is not enough to demonstrate. Nothing to do today. And ask for it. It's a futile insult.

This is also practical, just like Wang Ju's use of troops in the south, if he has enough ability, will he agree to this oath, directly stuck, and then divide the cultivated land equally, and change the land to the stream.

Qiao Xu didn't listen and gave gold and silver. The beggar brother was desperate, so he sent his younger brother Ah Zi and the barbarian slave Sha Zi Ayi to swear an oath in Jiang'an, the county seat on the Yangtze River.

The benefits have also been obtained, and the daimyo has also been obtained, so forget it.

However, the beggar brother saw that the officials of the Song Dynasty were weak, and he happened to have a grudge against the leader of the Yilao Barbarians in the northwest, but behind the Yilao Man was the Shujing Man, and the Shujing Man, under the leadership of the leader De Xiang, swore an oath with Kumamoto to return to the Song Dynasty and never invade the Song Dynasty. And this time it doesn't matter if it's a show. still really sent troops, and indeed cooperated with Yanda to sweep down the departments of Dongchuan County. Therefore, the beggar brother did not dare to retaliate and kill Yimao.

After the oath is over. I was also the barbarian leader of the Song Dynasty, so in the name of killing Luo Gemu Village in Yimao's sphere of influence and owing him old taxes, I also won over the Yizhou Barbarians on the southwest border of Luzhou and besieged Luo Gemu Village.

According to the original agreement between Shujing Man and Kumamoto, there was a vendetta, and Han was rescued. But this agreement is not to deal with the beggar brothers, but to prevent the Wujing Barbarians from falling to the Song Dynasty, and the Wuman tribes use troops to fall to the Song Dynasty, so they do not dare to fall to the Song Dynasty without the guarantee of the Song Dynasty.

Now that we have this agreement, and we are loyal to the Song Dynasty, we have just cooperated with you to take down the barbarian tribes, why do we tolerate the beggar brother to use troops against us?

Therefore, when he killed a mao, he asked Ren Guangxiu, the official stationed in Shujingman.

Ren Guangxiu couldn't figure out what the hell these adults above were doing, so he went to Jiang'an to report the emergency.

Jiang Anzhi County A Zongfan persuaded the beggar brother to withdraw from the army, but the beggar brother did not listen, and A Zongfan had to report to Wang Xuan, the capital supervisor of Zikui Road.

Wang Xuan then joined forces with Wang Jinyan, the inspector of the capital, and Guo Yan, the governor of Jiang'an, and arrived at Luogemu Village with 800 officers and soldiers. Then go to war immediately, or retreat. But this Wang Xuan began all kinds of strange things.

Wang Xuan thought that it was only a barbarian department, which was easy to deal with, but in fact, it really could not underestimate this returning state, it had two counties of Xuyong and Gulin in later generations, although the land was vast and sparsely populated, but only in terms of area, it was not much smaller than the area of Luzhou, coupled with the support of Yanzhou barbarians, and now the number of troops has reached 6,000 people. Eight hundred against six thousand, Wang Xuan was a little weak-hearted, so he sent an envoy to shout, we will go to war.

Although the Song army has few troops, but the beggar brother is not stupid, there are few troops here, and I don't know how many troops there are in the rear. The Song Dynasty really sent troops, and he was also weak in his heart, so he said, I swore an oath with the Han family recently, and I didn't dare to offend the Han.

The beggar brother softened, but Wang Xuan hardened......

Anyway, in this world, go forward, go back, you really can't be soft, if you are soft, you will be bullied.

So he insisted on going to war.

The beggar brother was even more worried, so he said, "We barbarians dare not be evil first."

Wang Xuan further asked Ren Guangxiu to go to supervise the battle, Ren Guangxiu was also bold, suddenly rode to the front of the battle, said a few very annoying words to the beggar brother, and then stood on the hillside.

The beggar was furious and surrounded him. Wang Xuan and his son Wang Hu fought hard, but the beggar brother was weak and ordered the withdrawal of the army.

The barbarians of Yanzhou were in a hurry, drew knives on the ground, and said, We follow you, follow your orders to move, once you retreat, the Han people will kill us. And you will not think of asking for our taxes in the future.

There are two backgrounds to this, one is that Yanzhou is in Luzhou, and the return state is in the south of Luzhou.

The second is that some tribes also attach importance to taxes, whether it is Luo Gemu Village or Yanzhou Man, not only can they collect taxes, but also part of the commercial tax. The southeast of these two regions is the southeastern Zhuyi that makes the king feel pain, and the southwest is the Wuman tribes. That's a lot of money.

In the past, the taxes of Luo Gemu Village belonged to the return state, but after killing a dime and swearing an oath with Kumamoto, he no longer paid taxes like a beggar brother. Therefore, the beggar brother has formed a grudge with Kill Yimao, and the beggar brother is referring to the old tax.

The beggar brother had no choice but to go to war.

Eight hundred or six thousand can also be done, but it is definitely not Wang Xuan's eight hundred officers and soldiers.

So first Wang Jinyan was killed, and then Guo Yan was killed in battle, Wang Xuan knew that he would be defeated, and reported his son Wang Hu, and said, I should die for the king's business. Wang Hu said, the father died here, what will the son do?

Both father and son were killed in battle.

He died a heroic death, but can this battle be fought like this? Have you figured out the enemy's situation? Fighting in a hurry, can you fight with 800 against 6,000?

The edict is the story of this battle.

Yan Da put down the edict and asked strangely: "Why did the imperial court notify Shao Bao in the form of this edict?" ”

If it is in the area of Rongzhou, it can still be said that it belongs to the scope of Wang Ju's opening of the border, but this is a rebellion in the south of Luzhou, and it has nothing to do with Wang Ju's fart. Or Wang Juzhi Privy Council, this is a professional official, not a bad official, not a real prime minister of the Western Mansion.

"It definitely has nothing to do with me, but I'm worried about Wu Gong." Wang Ju said. (To be continued......)