"Zi'an, how to treat it?" Tao Bi asked.

The imperial court transferred Wang Ju to Guangnan, Tao Bi was very happy, Wang Ju knew how to use troops than Guo Kui, at least not like Guo Kui who used troops inexplicably.

And the emperor also issued an edict promising the right to act cheaply with Wang Ju, and also issued an edict that officials in all states and ministries must obey Wang Ju's transfer, which shows that this matter is not over, so there is still hope for "revenge".

Just like Wang Ju, if he saw the people of Gyeongju suffer like this, what would he think in his heart?

However, Tao Bi is still very sensible, the emperor is not done with this matter, and he still wants to destroy Jiaozhi. However, if Wang Ju learns the practices of the Jiaozhi people, even if he occupies Jiaozhi, he will not be able to govern it in the future. This is not like Jiaozhi, people are purely making a lot of money, and then they withdraw the army.

"Tao Gong, what if I solve all the contradictions between the two?"

"Impossible...... bar. ”

"If one qiē is understood in terms of what is possible and what is impossible, I would not have come to Quang Nam. Do you think you can really kill Cochin? Even if I lead my army to break through Thang Long Mansion, what if that little monarch retreats into the vast rainforest with his ministers? ”

The big guys in the court said several times after Wang Ju, and they had a little understanding of the south, but it was still very vague.

But Tao Bike knew the result.

Wang Ju is not untargeted, and in the next few hundred years, Jiaozhi did just that, and finally forced back the iron army of Yuan and Ming.

Once caught in this situation, it has little to do with national strength, even Afghanistan can still trap Soviet imperialism and American imperialism in a quagmire war, unable to advance or retreat.

However, fortunately, the country has not been established for a long time, and there is no support from other major powers.

However, as long as Cochin does so. The Song Dynasty had a headache.

It's not that Tao Bi doesn't understand military affairs. Because I understand. I thought about it and was at a loss.

Half a day later, he said: "Zi'an, if the means are too cruel, I'm afraid the court will criticize you." ”

"So I need Tao Gong's cooperation."

"Zi'an can hate more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians, and even if the old man gives up this official uniform, he will cooperate with Zi'an. But I don't know what Zi'an will do? ”

"Tao Gong, I won't come forward directly, even the imperial court didn't have to come forward directly. Rather, there may be an external force. Constantly invading Cochin, their approach became more violent. ”

"In this way, the old decay is even more supportive."

However, Tao Bi also had a misunderstanding, the north of Jiaozhi is the Song Dynasty, the northwest is Dali, the southwest is Zhenla, and the south is Zhancheng. However, the current Jiaozhi is slightly different from the Jiaozhi County of the Tang Dynasty, and its territory extends much to the west and south, that is, it has opened up a lot of new territories, although it is placed in the Song Dynasty. The area is negligible, but for cochin. That's a lot. Then it means that in its more than 100 years of founding history (Wu Dynasty, Ding Dynasty, Li Dynasty), it has been expanding. However, this process of expansion will inevitably provoke enemies on all sides, so it has a bad relationship with Zhancheng, Dali and Zhenla.

If Wang Ju can make good use of the external relationship of Jiaozhi and vigorously support a certain country, it seems that he will be able to do what Wang Ju said.

If that's the case, what's the matter, even if these countries are turned upside down and the country is ruined, it can only be called the best.

"Tao Gong, but I need you to help me."

"Zi'an, just give me the order."

"I want to defeat Jiaozhi Yi, but it is difficult to eliminate Jiaozhi, so I promised the court three to four years, three years for the shortest, four years for the long, and the actual plan is to solve it in two to three years. But so many soldiers and civilians have died this year, whether it is Guangnan or Jinghu, it is mainly to pacify. So the first step is prevention, you can't listen to the words of Jiaozhi, they don't keep their promises, this year the army is pressing, and they can surrender to our DPRK and sue for peace. Once the army withdraws, it may invade again. ”

"It's really possible."

"Therefore, it is necessary to build two lines of defense, the first line of defense starts from Ruxi Village in the southwest of Qinzhou, and goes all the way to Yongping Village, Frozen Prefecture, Shun'an Prefecture, Guihua Prefecture, and Ande Prefecture in Luzhou, and build checkpoints in dangerous places, or rebuild the original checkpoints."

This is the original Song Dynasty control zhì area, which is basically the Sino-Vietnamese border in later generations, but slightly more southerly than in later generations.

The reason for this border is also because of the topography, except for a small area on the coast, the rest of the border is mountainous, which is convenient for both sides to hold. Now Cochin has been returned to the disputed five states, and Sumao Prefecture is in the coastal area, such as the south of the former village.

Menzhou is in the south of Luzhou, Guangyuan Prefecture is in the south of Guihua Prefecture, but in the north of the Zuojiang River, Langzhou is the Langshan area, on the other side of the Zuojiang River, south of Qiyuan Prefecture, and Silang Prefecture is in the west of Guangyuan Prefecture.

In fact, the area of the six states in the south is not small, for example, Guangyuan Prefecture has tens of thousands of square kilometers, although most of them are mountainous areas, but from a military sense, they occupy a condescending situation.

Therefore, Wang Ju said: "Then in the important places in front of the five states and the seven source states, then set up checkpoints." Although these states are difficult to defend, with them, the army can enter Cochin at any time and cannot be lost. ”

In fact, Wang Ju intended to make them a buffer zone, but it was really not easy to build a strong defense line over there, Tao Bi didn't think much about it.

"And then recruit a lot of native soldiers." After Wang Ju finished speaking, he gave Tao Bi a few pieces of paper.

This is a very targeted recruitment.

First, it is mainly native soldiers and barbarians, but it is mainly barbarians from the southern states, especially the six southern states. Because Wang Ju wrote a sentence on the paper, in order to recruit more native soldiers from these six states, he could use the number of people to reward each person. The more you raise, the more gifts you will give to the people.

As for the rest of the region, it's just how much is raised.

The second is to buy Yunnan horses, from Dali where to buy horses, although the horse is relatively short, the explosive force is also poor, may adapt to the local weather, on the other hand, the forbidden cavalry brought by the northern horse, this southern expedition, also died more than a third. Moreover, these Yunnan horses were more hard-working and hard-working, so they trained a "southern cavalry" in Guangnan.

The third is the time limit, this time it is a real recruitment, the time is only four years, only four years of recruitment, after four years, most of these soldiers are allowed to go home. Anyway, Wang Ju didn't say anything inside. Of course, Wang Ju promised that within four years, he would be destroyed. After extinguishing the cochin. If there are a lot of native soldiers. There is no need for so many native soldiers. Hence the four-year period.

Fourth, because of the tight time, it is necessary to unite with the local recruits on the border troops trained by the imperial court to prepare for the checkpoints and fortresses of the two lines of defense in front. The rest of the recruits were brought to the rear for assembly training, but where to train, Wang Ju also did not mention. In fact, there is another intention here, that is, the southern states are not loyal enough to the Song Dynasty. These conscripts were brought to the rear for training, and some kind of Cheng dù was also a kind of hostage.

The conditions were a bit harsh, and there were not no clever people among the barbarians.

Therefore, Wang Ju's treatment is very generous, after each Ding Zhuang participates in the recruitment, the government will give him the equivalent of 30 yuan of goods for a year, which is for himself and his family, and the armor and food and accommodation when he trains and fights are provided by the government, and he does not need to bear it. If there is a meritorious service, there is another reward. If it is sacrificed or maimed. Each person is given a pension of 50 to 100 yuan according to the level of merit.

But considering the situation on Quang Nam West Road. It's not about money, it's about things.

In fact, since the Northern Song Dynasty, Guangnan West Road has been developed one after another, such as the Ling Canal, after two expansions, it can now be navigated more than 1,000 ships, although only a few dozen tons, but that is equivalent to the load of more than 200 vehicles. For Quang Nam, which has backward transportation, it undoubtedly saves transportation costs. At the same time, some officials who have made achievements have built some water conservancy and pitian in Yehonzhou County, as well as Wang Jutiyì's water dam, and then taught the people to plant textiles, and some scholars and doctors taught the local people to read and write, and set up education.

Therefore, including the Li people of Hainan Island, half of them can speak Chinese, sometimes they wear Hanfu to come to the Fang market to trade, people are difficult to identify, until the evening according to their customs, blowing the horn as a trumpet, gathering and returning, everyone knows that there is a large group of Li people just now came to the Fang market.

This is a good phenomenon, isn't it a bad family? Don't talk about national independence, the higher the degree of independence of various nationalities, the more chaotic the country.

However, the West Road of Guangnan is still dominated by barbarians, despite the rebellion of the Five Dynasties, and a group of Han people came to Lingnan in their clothes, coupled with the gradual attention of the Song Dynasty, the rapid development of agriculture, handicrafts, transportation, and commerce, but in general, it was still one of the most backward areas in the Song Dynasty.

Even in the early Song Dynasty, there were many ugly customs, such as killing people and sacrificing ghosts, in order to sacrifice ghosts and gods, a big living person, or a small child, or a little girl, was tied up and killed alive. But under the guidance and prohibition of Song Dynasty officials, this phenomenon became less and less.

There is also an ugly status quo, that is, there are many tribal barbarians in Yongzhou, and the men are lazy, idle all day long, but let the women work. This made Wang Ju speechless.

In this case, money is often given, and they may not be able to have a comprehensive understanding.

So Wang Ju secretly sent people to investigate last year, and the specialties in various places, as well as the shortcomings, were not given money, but what was lacking in various places, and they would be given.

Tao Bi was startled when he saw the list behind.

But then he was happy, knowing himself and knowing his opponent, in order to win a hundred battles, the more important Wang Ju paid attention to intelligence, the greater the certainty of future victory, not like Guo Kui, who was fighting in a daze.

"Zi'an, how many soldiers do you plan to recruit?"

"The more the merrier, it is best not to be worth 100,000 native soldiers, so that we can be sure to level the Jiaozhi."

"100,000 native soldiers? It takes a lot of money. Tao Bi was startled and said.

Jiaozhi invasion, Qinlian Yong Sanzhou is the hardest hit area, but the area of Yongzhou is too large, but the various ethnic groups on the road of Jiaozhi attack have been injured, and the rest of the places have been lucky to escape.

Moreover, Wang Ju's recruitment targets are not only Jiaozhi, but also other state armies.

Although Guangnan West Road is very backward, there are still many Ding Zhuang, but most of them are not on the household register.

And Wang Juchu's salary is very high, this is Guangnan West Road, not the capital where the price index is frighteningly high.

Wang Ju came down this time, it seems that he does not have as much power as Guo Kui, and he can't touch the affairs of Jinghu Road, but in Liangguang, the actual power is higher than Guo Kui, not only the right to act cheaply, but also an additional economic envoy, and at the same time, the imperial court issued an edict to let the officials of all states and ministries obey Wang Ju's orders.

However, with the economy of the two provinces, it is difficult to support this huge recruitment plan.

"Tao Gong, don't worry about the money and silk, since I said it, I will be sure to raise this money, and it is hired with goods, if the transportation is done properly, it can actually save one-third of the expenditure. At present, the main task is how to recruit so many native soldiers in the shortest possible time, not only to recruit but also to train intensively. in order to form combat effectiveness. ”

You can't even have money. Moreover, some of them are unruly and unruly. It doesn't refer to the command of the imperial court at all, and it is actually very difficult to raise so many native soldiers in a short period of time.

Tao Bi pondered.

Wang Ju asked again: "Have the people captured in Jiaozhi been returned?" ”

"No, only Huang Jinman and others defected to our dynasty and returned the thousands of people who were distributed to them to our dynasty, and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are still in the enemy's territory."

Hundreds of thousands may not be, but hundreds of thousands of people must have them.

"Didn't you say yes, please return it?"

"That promises to count on Cochin."

Wang Ju's eyes lit up. There are two sides to things, and this has become a good excuse for yourself.

But what about these people?

As long as their plan is executed, the entire Cochin is a super slaughterhouse, and these people may bear the brunt.

Tao Bi said again: "And after I withdrew from the army, the eunuch Li Changjie in Jiaozhi wrote a poem rampantly, and settled in the mountains and rivers of the southern country, and it was completely divided in the book of heaven. How to invade against the captives, you and others will see the defeat. ”

After finishing speaking, Tao Bi trembled with anger.

"Oh." Wang Judao seems to be a little familiar.

He thought about it. He said, "I'll write the recital." ”

He knelt down on Tao Bi's desk and wrote this recital, and talked about the people. Said the poem. Your Majesty, big guys, this is what Jiaozhi thinks now, don't hide your ears and steal the bell, and deceive yourself.

There is one more thing, which concerns armor.

Under the impetus of Wang Ju, now seventy percent of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty have changed their clothes, and half of the soldiers have changed their new armor. But that's fish scale armor, of course, in terms of defense, fish scale armor is very advanced, but it is the same as plate armor, too heavy, even if Wang Ju used new steel, and made repeated improvements, the weight still reached thirty catties, the weight is a little better, at least much lighter than the original armor of the Song Dynasty. The main thing is that it has poor air permeability.

Therefore, Wang Ju asked the imperial court to let the military supervision armor start work in full force and create a batch of chain mail, which is said to have been transmitted to the Central Plains from the Western Regions. Although the weight is relatively light, only about 20 catties, but because the qualified chain mail system is also complicated and cumbersome, the cost of armor is not the cost of steel, but the main cost is the cost of making the cost, which also means that the cost is still very high, but its defense is relatively poor, so it was gradually eliminated in the Song Dynasty.

But now Wang Ju asked the Ordnance Supervisor to put it on the stage again, what he wants is this breathability, it is too hot in the south.

However, in these southern countries, including Cochin, the bow and arrow are not very sharp, so the defensive requirements for armor can also be appropriately reduced.

In fact, as early as the seventh year of Xining, Wang Ju said that now the overseas stalls are almost all chain mail, but Wang Ju didn't mention it.

But all the bigwigs in the DPRK and China thought that Jiaozhi was a small country, and it was destroyed with a wave of their hands, but after making these chain mail, a pair of armor cost dozens of times, and it was not applicable to the northern battlefield, which was purely a waste, so it was not adopted.

I don't know if the court will listen to it this time, if it doesn't listen, Wang Ju will have to do it alone.

"Chain mail?"

"What does Tao Gong think?"

"It's a good idea, no wonder Zi'an wins every battle."

"Don't overestimate my ability, in terms of military level, I am on par with the eunuch you mentioned, and it can even be said that he is even better than me."

"How is this possible?"

Wang Ju smiled, this Li Changjie put aside the enemy and me, he is indeed a rare general, and has nothing to do with eunuchs.

According to the news from Huang Liang, it was this person who defeated the Champa army a few years ago, and Li Changjie chased him to Zhenla and captured the king of Champa (III) alive.

Then there was civil strife in the city, and Dharavaman defected to the Li Dynasty, hoping that the Li Dynasty would drive the new king of the city of Champa (the third) from the throne for him, but this time Li Changjie did not succeed.

But in this battle, Champa fought very badly, but Champa was not honest, they sent a messenger to tell Wang Anshi, we took the initiative to attack Jiaozhi, so that Jiaozhi weakened to "the rest of the crowd is not ten thousand", if the Song Dynasty sent troops, our two countries joined forces, and Jiaozhi was destroyed in one fell swoop. Wang Anshi didn't know what to do, and he didn't send a scout to investigate, and he and Zhao Ji hurriedly ordered Guo Kui to go south. As a result, Guo Kui's army threw dead bodies all the way, but the army that occupied the city did not even see a single shadow.

Therefore, this Li Changjie, if evaluated fairly, can almost reach the height of Zhang Qi and Wang Shao.

It's just that Jiaozhi's national strength is small, which restricts the development of his talents.

But Wang Ju is not afraid, even if Li Changjie is a god of war like Yelu Huge, Jiaozhi is a small country after all!

Wang Ju wrote the fold and stamped it, and this had to be sent to the capital by a fast horse.

The two continued to discuss for a long time, and Wang Ju left the state office, and Wang Ju came to Wang Zichuan to find a good inn. Xie Chen asked, "How is Tao Gong?" ”

That left poetry book, right Sun Wu, don't take it seriously, there is Han Fan in the northwest, what army has a Han, Xixia Wen's heart is cold. There was a fan in the army, and the Western Xia was shocked when he heard it. That can't be taken seriously, if Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan had such great ability, the Qingli War would not have been fought so badly.

Don't say that the Song army is weak, and don't mention the tenacity of the Song army soldiers in Shuichuan and Sanchuankou, let's just say that Chen Qingzhi, the combat effectiveness of the army he led to the north should be weaker.

If Tao Bi really has the skills of Wu Qi's grandson, this battle will not be defeated either, so what about Guo Kui, he can still command Guo Kui in the air.

It can only be said that Tao Bi understands military affairs a little, which is also satisfied, at least better than not understanding.

However, what they were most worried about when they came here was that Tao Bi loved the people, and it was a good thing to love the people, but they were afraid of "fraternity", so it would be difficult for Wang Ju's plan to be realized, after all, Yongzhou is the real front line.

Wang Ju said: "Fortunately, the evil of Jiaozhi is too powerful, even Tao Bi hates them to the core." ”

Xie Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Guan Jian is Yongzhou, so after Wang Ju received the appointment of the imperial court, he quickly rode to Yongzhou, and even the people of Quanzhou did not know that he had left.

But he said a little unhappily: "However, when we talked to the people just now, because Su Lubu deliberately crusaded against you, many people heard that Zi'an was coming, and their expressions were a little resentful and hateful, and there were very few people who supported it. (To be continued......)