Only then did Yan Da stop the three armies, sit on the horse and laugh.

Liang Yi regrouped his men in the distance in a panic and sent scouts back to investigate, of course, he also knew that it was Song Jun who teased him.

He was so angry that he couldn't do it, but in the face of tens of thousands of prisoners of war, he had to swallow his anger and send someone to "question" Yanda.

Yan Da looked at the messenger who was pale and came to "question", and shouted: "Send an order to your family and country to receive prisoners of war thirty miles away." ”

Although the prisoners of war are nothing once they lay down their arms, Liang Yi thought that Wang Ju would not kill him, so in order to establish his prestige, not only did his cronies come to receive the prisoners of war, but also came to Huaiwei Fort with soldiers and horses.

Only then did Wang Ju let Yan Da lead thousands of cavalry out of the fort to scare him, and let Liang Yi bury a small face and make a fool.

Liang Yi was buried, so he had to re-lead the three armies, retreat to a distance of thirty miles from Fort Huaiwei, and stop again at the Beiluo water.

Wang Ju stood on the top of the city and watched, and when he saw the Xia army retreating westward, he did not embarrass Liang Yi and buried him, and went down to the city and came to the east of the city.

To the east of the city was an open field, where more than 40,000 Western Xia prisoners of war were gathered at this time. When they were finally able to go back, the prisoners of war were overjoyed.

Wang Ju walked over with the guards.

Tens of thousands of people, although they are not camped, but only assembled, and they are also dark and oppressive, and there is no edge in sight.

However, after the battle of Rouyuan Village, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can no longer bring visual impact to Wang Ju.

He winked as the guards moved forward, and in a moment these guards and soldiers had to maintain order, and at the same time immediately took on the role of messengers. Otherwise, Wang Ju would have torn his throat, and not many prisoners of war might be able to hear him clearly.

Wang Ju saw the guards lined up. He began, "Ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to let you go back soon. But before I release you, I have to say a few words. He took you prisoner and made you work to atone for your crimes. Some of you have gone to Guanzhong, and some of you are in Gyeongju, Huanju, but have you seen the living conditions of the people of the two countries? Because your invasion, as I said to some of the ministers, has caused misery among the entire people of Shaanxi. The people have no means of making a living. But how does it compare with your Western Xia? ”

Some people say that Song Chao is rich, but it really doesn't put it in Wang Ju's eyes.

However, compared to the previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty was indeed the richest dynasty.

Although there are still many poor people, what should we do with this backward productive force?

For example, Jiangdongwei, which has the highest grain yield, is only five or six hundred catties in two and three seasons, and the highest recorded yield per mu is only seven or eight hundred catties, which is too high to be higher.

Or like this salt transport. It lasted for nearly one hundred and ten days, including the nearby state armies at its peak. Almost 80,000 households and nearly 200,000 people participated, and the actual green salt transported back was less than 4 million stones.

However, this has been beyond everyone's expectations, including Wang Ju himself, in his calculations, at most 2.5 million stones. Of course, he underestimated the heavy damage that this war had inflicted on Western Xia, and at the same time, he had been grinding for a long time, so that the withdrawal time was a month later than he expected.

So in this backward era, you can't ask too much.

At least no matter how bad it is, it is much better than the living conditions of the people of Western Xia.

After Wang Ju and the other heralds finished transmitting, he said again: "Could it be that China's land is fertile? Everyone, please see, this is Shaanxi, except for Guanzhong, almost all of them are mountainous and ravine-beam terrain, but look at your Western Xia. Yes, it is mostly saline-alkali land, the Gobi Desert, and the desert, but in addition to these, there are also the North and South Loops, although the South Loops have deteriorated because of overgrazing, but along the Yellow River, it is still a piece of soil. And there are also Lingchuan Plain, Xiaochuan, Hexi Corridor, Juyanhai, and Weak Water River, which of these places is not a good place for survival? It is the saline-alkali land and the benefit of green salt. Besides, you only have 700,000 households in Western Xia, why are you so poor? ”

The area of Western Xia is not small, but the desert Gobi terrain occupies two-thirds.

However, Wang Ju pointed out a key point, that is, there are few people.

Let's compare, at least the area of the flat river area in Western Xia is definitely better than Shaanxi Road, but how many people does Shaanxi Road support? Although the number of households does not seem to be much more than that of Western Xia, the number of mouths per household is better than the proportion of Western Xia, and if you include the households that are not included in the household register, the actual number of mouths may be twice that of Western Xia!

Wang Ju paused, there were too many people, and the messengers had to convey it slowly.

After a while, Wang Ju said, "You elders should be able to remember, what was your life like in the past few years? During the Qingli War, what was the situation of your Western Xia? The people almost survived by digging gophers and eating the bark of Guanyin. Your Li Yuanhao of Western Xia negotiated peace with our dynasty and made a will, China loves peace and abides by its promises, so it is not allowed to make enemies with our dynasty in the future. Later, Li Yuanhao went, and did not hide the government, although there was invasion and farming, but the two countries still maintained peace. Including your ancestors, when he began to take office, he took the initiative to discuss with our dynasty how to return the Quye River area that had been invaded by the Han family. However, because your first lord set up the Liang clan as the queen, under her bewitchment, your first lord tore up the peace conference and came to invade our dynasty. What did you get as a result? Back then, the Qingli War was unprepared for our dynasty, but now it is prepared, can you really defeat Ruoda China in Western Xia? Think back to what your life was a few years ago, and what will it be like a few years later? And I also boldly say here that after you go back, life will be even more miserable! ”

Someone sobbed.

"Why do you want to fight, so many people died in your Western Xia, and so many lovely soldiers died in our Great Song Dynasty. I don't understand, what do you Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia want to do? ”

This is a seed, and Wang Ju planted it inadvertently.

"A certain Wenchen who was born in Jinshi has read a lot of books, especially Xue Rengui's life. He set the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows and killed all the hundreds of thousands of captives. As a result, decades later appeared in Hebei, and the Turks fled. Because China is benevolent and righteous, and does not like to kill and poke, Xue Rengui was demoted because of this. Later, he went to Dafeichuan and adopted the policy established by those civil servants, and treated the Tuyuhun people who fell to Tubo well, and did not commit murder. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Tuyuhun people joined forces with the Tubo people, and Dafeichuan was defeated. 50,000 officers and soldiers. 50,000 people. Almost no survivors survived. Therefore, the best way to deal with these untrustworthy peoples in Western Xia is to kill until you are cold. Including you, I originally planned to let go of at most a third of the people, and prevaricate the mouth of the minister who didn't understand anything. But now that so much has been released, it is a certain soft-heartedness. However, you have all recorded in the policy, and if you offend our dynasty again next time, it will fall into the hands of someone. Surely you will be worse off than dead! ”

Reason first, then intimidate.

Because Wang Ju had a hunch that he would fight against Western Xia in the future, and the scale of that battle might be far better than this one......

What he said would quickly spread by these tens of thousands of mouths in Western Xia, and it would play an unimaginable role at that time.

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he slowly released the prisoners of war.

The battle of Gyeongju will not really end from now on.

However, there were some controversies coming from the court.

The scolding of ancient people was not as colorful as that of later generations, and the things of Tian Shewen and Zhuzi were considered very powerful. Wang Ju directly scolded the shaft on the fold. This must have upset many people.

This is one of the great sins of impeaching the king.

But in general, Wang Ju did a relatively smart job. It seems that mistakes big and small keep coming, but in fact, they have never left people with a real handle. Even this shaft is, to put it bluntly, this victory is so glorious, but because of the compromise of the court, continue to release prisoners of war, continue to give them gifts, and even make the envoy go to summer and still be in Youzhou, Wang Juneng is not angry, angry, but said a heavy word.

The second charge was that many prisoners of war were sold. The imperial court issued an edict, but Wang Ju was still selling prisoners of war, which was a violation of the edict. This one was a bit of a problem, but in general, most of the POWs were released. And with the popularization of gunpowder, some pits and mines are getting deeper and deeper, which means that there are more and more dangerous accidents, and it is better to use prisoners of war than ordinary people.

In fact, Western Xia was also satisfied when he saw Wang Ju release so many prisoners of war.

However, it may be used to plug Wang Ju in the future.

However, Wang Ju was not afraid, because soon a new war was coming, and that was Xihe......

Can Western Xia not send troops? As soon as the troops are dispatched, this peace agreement will be torn up.

The third charge is spending. But this was not a crime, but a pretext for some ministers to oppose the war.

This battle cost more than 36 million (Guanpi Stone).

In fact, this calculation is incorrect, because the most consumed in this battle is grain and grass, grain is stone, and grass is a bundle, but the equivalent ratio is very low. In fact, the cost of the war was less than 25 million.

Wang Anshi went crazy amassing money, and even the follow-up materials had to be deducted in order to issue green seedling loans.

It happened that the withdrawal of troops from the front line was delayed, and the amount of green salt obtained was better than Wang Ju imagined, so dozens of forts were built, and most of the expenses were taken from this salt profit, and some money was taken out from this salt profit to buy some grain.

This amount of money is not small, nearly 2 million yuan, which is almost half of the current interest of the green seedlings loan.

To put it mildly, the direct and indirect one-year profits of the war were almost enough to guarantee the war expenses by cutting the forbidden army several years in advance, finding out a large number of empty salaries, and the system of crossing the river in the workshops, the profits of the gunpowder itself, and the increase in the production of pit mines, the kapok division, and the dividends of the sugar mills.

In order to explain for Wang Ju, Zhang Duan deliberately calculated the accounts, and then went to the book.

But who treats him as one thing, everyone doesn't see it at all, and then uses this expense to write a book, Majesty, look, although this battle was won, but it cost so much money, if there is no such war, almost the two taxes of the whole country can be saved a year, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

The admonition book kept coming, and finally Zhao Ji couldn't bear it anymore and said: "After the Qingli War, the country rarely used soldiers, so the king of Liao said that Renzong was in power, and he didn't know soldiers for forty-two years. But what about the country's finances, and what about the people? ”

The hole hasn't been filled in yet!

Zhao Ji asked very dissatisfied: "300,000 Xia Kou invaded, is this battle also wrong?" Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been rare victories, is it also wrong? ”

However, this became the norm in the Song Dynasty.

Don't talk about Wang Ju, even if Wang Shao has expanded his land for thousands of miles, there are still many scholars and doctors who are looking for trouble with Wang Shao.

Let's see how Wang Shao left Xihe for the first time in the future?

And this strange disease seems to have spread to the Liao State, the Liao State Zhunbu and some of the Uighurs rebelled, Yeluchao led his troops to suppress it, and then the fun Yeluhong gene Yeluchao of the Liao State killed too many people, and the rice monks were in Nanjing (Youzhou) and Zhongjing.

Therefore, Wang Ju said that the Liao State would not send troops, because the Liao State gradually became the same as the Song Dynasty, Wen Tian and Wu Xi.

Wang Ju continued to monitor the Xia people, after all, so many prisoners of war were released at once, as long as weapons were issued to them, tens of thousands of troops appeared.

However, Liang Yibury did not have the courage to do so, and slowly left with the prisoners of war.

Wang Ju then returned to Gyeongju.

This Zhiju has been in time for almost half a year, but the time in Gyeongju is less than a month.

After the salt was transported, the officers and men still had a large number of livestock and vehicles in their hands, some of which were distributed to their families as rewards, and some of them were sold cheaply.

These accounts were very chaotic, but fortunately, Zhu and Li's ten merchants drew out more than 90 economists and stewards in advance, so there was no confusion in Yan zhòng. Of course, this big deal is also a tempering of these economic people and stewards.

In the future, they will be of even greater use.

At the end of the day, Wang Ju personally thanked them one by one and let them go back.

The rest of the reward distribution was handed over to the various officials in Gyeongju to deal with.

Wang Ju then asked about the Gyeongju Development Fund.

Zhang Qi said: "Fortunately, it's just that the people save for one more year, so they can only be issued for one year." ”

If you don't have savings, you don't dare to lend it, after all, it is also a new thing, and everyone is not familiar with it, so you are afraid of accidents.

It is this year's savings, and Wang Ju's reputation will account for half of the credit. Most of the people believed that Wang Ju would not covet their wealth, otherwise he would not have stored it.

Later, Wang Ju was transferred away, God knows whether the government will admit it in the future, if you meet a lord like Jia Fan, you wait for the people, and the officials are not corrupt, how can they support their families, then what should I do?

"It's really possible," Mr. Zhang said.

Don't talk about Jia Fan, if you change to the previous Sun Wei, maybe it will happen.

Wang Ju walked a few steps, thought for a while and said: "It's okay, it's really like this, change this system again, only accept the people's savings for one year, and let them change back to the time limit if it exceeds one year." ”

"You say ...... a year?"

"I offended Gong Wen this time, and I'm afraid I can only stay in Gyeongju for a year."

"Ugh."

"Brother Qianfu, why are you sighing? It's not worth it now, but it's worth it in the future......"

"Will it be worth it in the future?" (To be continued......)