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Zhang Jian and Duan Tianshui have already gone to Huating County, but few people in Huangpu River know about it for the time being.

This canal can not be solved by drawing a line, you have to go down to observe the specific topography of the local area, the direction of the flow of each river, and the flow of water, in order to determine the specific location, depth and width.

At the same time, it is necessary to carry out some dredging and dredging of various tributaries, and arrange a large number of steep gates, that is, various locks and locks.

No matter how capable Duan Tianshui is, it will take several months.

But there will be no conflict in time, because the official construction of this canal will not be until the end of autumn, so as to avoid the flood season, the water level is relatively low, and the people are just in the time of agricultural slack, when the construction can really begin.

Therefore, after Duan Tianshui went down to inspect, he wrote a plan and handed it to Xiuzhou, and then transferred some money from the finance of Liangzhejiang Road, and then the construction could begin. And it is because Liangzhejiang Road has handled this canal plan in a low-key manner, which will not alarm many people.

However, the appointment of the two still caused some controversy.

Think about it, how many powerful sons and daughters and four or five top jinshi are waiting in line for the imperial court to be on an errand, but now the imperial court has let two people from Xu officials serve as the magistrate and the lord of the county, can everyone be happy?

Cai Qu's answer is also simple, although Zhang Jian was born as a Xu official, but from the Mizhou City Bo Division, to the Mizhou Bank Affairs, and the Beijing Bank Department, they all proved his talent, and the country must employ people on the basis of merit.

As for Duan Tianshui, it is also very simple, although Huating County is the largest county in the southeast, but the entire central and southern part of Huating is low-lying, often suffering from waterlogging, and there is no shortage of water control talents in the country, but these people cannot let them only serve as the main body of Huating County, and in the case of not finding a good candidate, Cai did choose Duan Tianshui.

and Jia Kang.

Zhang Duan and the others are a little better, after all, they are low-level officials, but the appointment of Jia Ling has aroused many objections.

Back then, Jia Kang tossed Suzhou to the point of "anger and resentment", and now the imperial court has transferred him to Liangzhejiang Road, what does it mean?

But these controversies have not been loud, and the eyes have been attracted by the northwest.

The imperial court tore up the peace agreement, issued an edict to cut down the summer, and at the same time issued an edict to issue treasury bonds!

Wang Ju was very extravagant in his use of soldiers.

There is also a large number of immigrants, the cost of resettlement, subsidies, these costs are also very staggering.

In addition, considering the inconvenience of transportation in some areas, resulting in extreme backwardness, it is necessary to overhaul the roads.

In the future, a Great Wall will be built in the north one after another.

It's not that with the Great Wall, you can be safe, the Ming Dynasty has the Great Wall, and the Tatars still go south to plunder. Yang Liulang planted trees in Hebei and dug deep lakes to form a green Great Wall, and during the time of Song Zhenzong, the Liao army also moved south.

But with the Great Wall, the thickness of the defense was undoubtedly increased. Just like the Tang Dynasty, because the clouds were in their own hands, the Turks did not dare to go deep into the Central Plains when Wu Zetian went south, and the back road would be cut off, and once the back road was cut off, it would mean that the whole army would be wiped out. Or like the Liao State that time under the city of Shanzhou, they did not have the strength to go further south, with the Song Dynasty reinforcements coming in a steady stream, Song Zhenzong came to the front line in person, and there were more than 100,000 Song troops of Wang Chao in Dingzhou, and the Liao State was really dangerous that time.

However, Wang Chao is too unlucky, so the two countries will "reconcile".

These require a lot of money, and the treasury is not enough, so Zhao Ji and the Zaizhi are very worried, so Wang Ju came up with this method that is not a solution.

With the help of the banking department, the state issued a total of 40 million yuan of treasury bonds, with an annual interest rate of four cents, which was one cent higher than the deposit of the banking department itself, in four batches, each batch of 10 million yuan, and the first batch was repaid by the bank the year after that, and the interest of 800,000 yuan was also included. In the second batch of the year after the year, 1.2 million yuan of interest will be repaid. And so on, the interest will be repaid 1.6 million yuan in the third year, and 2 million yuan in the fourth year.

These treasury bonds were distributed in batches throughout the country according to the economic conditions of the state capitals, and the people spontaneously went to the various banks with money and silk to subscribe until they ran out.

Of course, in the year after that, the northwest should be basically stable, and as long as the country no longer uses troops on a large scale, according to the current state revenue, a large surplus will be generated every year, which is not a heavy burden.

In fact, as long as no large-scale wars break out in the northwest, more than 10 million yuan can be saved a year in military expenses alone. Think about it, because of Western Xia, how much money did the Song Dynasty spend in the past 80 years? Direct and indirect, it can reach more than one billion, or even two billion!

Everyone is not too unfamiliar with this model, for example, the arrears of various states in the past are actually national debts in disguise.

The big purchase on the other side is also a kind of national debt in disguise.

But the problem is not that, but whether to fight or not.

At this point, everyone suddenly realized that they dared to love the emperor, Wang Ju and several prime ministers, and played Liao as a monkey.

The majority of those who cheered for the decisive step taken by the imperial court accounted for the majority, but there were still many "elites" who were seriously dissatisfied with this.

The source of this kind of thinking comes from Zhao Kuangyin's jade axe to paint the Dadu River, and the development of countries in the border areas will not benefit much, on the contrary, it will waste a lot of hard-earned money of the people of the Central Plains, and if there are several major rebellions, it will be even worse.

It's better to leave it like this, although the territory is not large, but it can run a Taiping country.

If this is the case, then it is also said, and the more Guan Jian goes on, the more he has a deformed idea, that is, super war weariness. Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was quite good for us to occupy the south, and we were still promoted to become rich, so let's negotiate peace with the Jin people.

Then Yuanmeng came, if the two Song Dynasty did not squeeze out Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, and then reused the two Wu brothers and Liu Qi, Kuang Fu Central Plains, with a unified Central Plains Dynasty, could Yuanmeng destroy the Song Dynasty?

And this terrible thought is like a plague, one generation after another.

In the end, it is not good for the common people to be patriotic, but thieves! I'm afraid that even Qin Hui and Wang Jingwei don't dare to say that patriots are patriotic thieves.

Of course, like those elites, this part of the scholars did not want the Song Dynasty to perish, but they were afraid that if they could not destroy the Western Xia and provoke the Liao State, the Song Dynasty would be in danger. It's better to be like now, if you are softer, you will be softer, and if you kneel a little, you will kneel a little, and we will still be promoted and rich. However, compared with the Song Dynasty, **** is more complicated, for example, Nokia sued Huawei, as one of the most competitive enterprises in the country, the state should support it, no, Nokia is suing Huawei in the front, and China Mobile and Nokia signed a $1.5 billion cooperation agreement.

As a result, the court received many letters of impeachment.

Some people say that the country has occupied the mountains and rivers, and it is impossible for the Western Xia to endanger the Song Dynasty, and it is useless to get rid of the cold land outside, destroy the letter and break the contract, and provoke the worries of the Liao State.

In terms of water and soil, Western Xia seems to be mostly a cold place, and outside Helan Mountain are two large deserts, although they are not as bad as in later generations, but they have also deteriorated very seriously. The Nanhetao was slightly better than later generations, but it was also seriously deteriorated. Even to the west of Lingzhou, it is still dominated by the "Hanhai" terrain of the dry plains.

However, this is not the case, although the overall topography of Western Xia is very bad, the Beihetao is still okay now, and the area around the Yellow River, as well as the Hexi of Xingqing Prefecture, is still mostly fertile soil, not to mention the fertile and commercial value of the Hexi Corridor.

At the same time, there is also the benefit of green salt, as well as a large number of pastures, even if the imperial court can wisely protect the water and soil in the future and reduce the scale of the pastures, but because the door is opened, a large number of war horses and livestock can also be purchased from the Western Regions.

But these people just can't see it, they can't see it!

Some people say that "the east of the river is churning, and Shaanxi is boiling", "the crying is all over the house, and the resentment is raised above Haotian." ”

In this battle, all the volunteers, Baojie, and Fan soldiers in Hedong and Shaanxi, as well as the archers, strong men, and border soldiers on the Hedong Road, came in handy together, and there were also some van soldiers, ordinary people, but the latter was only responsible for the escort of materials in the Song Dynasty, and most of the former entered the enemy's territory.

Especially the people of Hedong, who have not been in war for a long time, how can the people not be afraid, how can their families not be worried, and it is inevitable to cry goodbye.

In fact, it's really okay, in the previous few years of war, the Song Dynasty got a large number of prisoners of war, so it saved a lot of manpower, and even in the past few years, not many people have been used.

As for these militiamen, the imperial court also gave them a salary, and if they entered the enemy's territory, killed the enemy, or captured the enemy, they would also have a large reward, and if they died, the court would give a generous pension. In order to prevent the generals and officials from withholding, every militiaman who entered the barracks would send someone to read out these regulations. Wang Ju also planned to send special personnel to the state capitals after the war to check the payment of these salaries and incentives, and severely deal with those who deducted them.

However, the two-way agricultural production must have been greatly destroyed, but to destroy the Western Xia, these losses are worth it, think about how much Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty paid in order to defeat the Huns?

But I still can't see this.

However, this is not what Cai Qu is worried about, what makes him distressed is that he used many old parties, and because these old parties were appointed one after another, many new parties were dissatisfied, especially because Lu Gongzhu and others were reused, so this voice against the war was particularly loud, so many new party ministers kept questioning Cai Qu, and even it seemed that Wang Ju did not intend to pursue that one earth, so many new party ministers asked Cai Qu why he didn't send someone to investigate?

This Yitu Gaitian obviously evolved from the rumor in Western Xia, but why did he arrive in the capital quickly! In the middle of the river, there is a man in the east of the river......

Cai did say he had a headache.

After reading the letter, Wang Ju showed a wry smile on his face, in fact, in the final analysis, Cai Qu's control ability is very poor, and he, the prime minister, has been doing it for a long time, no matter whether Zhao Ji will die or not, it is time to back down...... As for those who attacked the battle of Vasha, soon they would not make a sound.

Putting down the letter, Wang Ju came to the big tent of the Chinese army and asked the seed master: "Is there any news from General Yao?" ”

"It's fighting."

It was a beautiful victory.

50,000 enemy cavalry pounced on Yao Lin's camp, and the entire Song army camp was forced by the terrain to form a moon bud shape, but this kind of military camp was easier to break because it was thin.

Therefore, tens of thousands of enemy cavalry rushed into the moon bud at once, and it was not until near the camp gate that the Song army began to counterattack, but it was a fierce counterattack.

It is true that the tens of thousands of township soldiers in Hedong are similar to the people, and they do not have much combat effectiveness, but in fact, there are three powerful armies in the camp of the Song army, one is the nearly 20,000 border soldiers trained by Yao Lin, and they have crossed the Yellow River several times to attack Yinzhou, and have accumulated some actual combat experience, although they cannot be called the most powerful army in the Song Dynasty, but the combat effectiveness is not weak.

There is also a group composed of the Baojie army of Huanqing Road and Yanyan Road, although the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Fan army on the edge of the edge, but it is also not to be underestimated.

Finally, there is an army composed of the fallen army of the border and the strong men and horses of the Tibetan army.

There was hardly any warrior from these three armies who was not familiar with bows and arrows, and they were heavily armed, with the best armor and the best bow and arrow weapons, and nearly half of the soldiers were using improved divine arm bows. Although it has been corrected to reduce the tension, its penetration and range are still far ahead of ordinary compound bows.

Moreover, the number of troops of the three armies is also quite large, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and it happened to be in the moon buds, and in an instant, countless enemy horses were shot and fell off their horses.

Finally rushed to the front of the camp fence, although the Song army's trench in order to confuse the enemy, and in order to save strength, the Song army only made one appearance, but the camp fence was real, and behind the camp fence, there was a second line of protection formed by a column of baggage trucks full of goods twisted together.

Tens of thousands of enemy cavalry attacked hard for nearly an hour and paid heavy casualties, but they were never able to form a fatal threat to the Song army. Then these enemy horsemen came up with an idea, attack with fire, I don't want these materials, but you Song Dynasty don't want these materials either, but thanks to Liang Yiqi, because Hori opened the Lingzhou River, so the surrounding area is full of water, Yao Lin had already intended to camp in the evening, so he led a few small canals into the barracks, and tens of thousands of people, they put out the fire in the back.

In fact, as time went by, many people were not afraid, they picked up the bows and arrows in their hands, and also began to counterattack, after all, the imperial court has a rich reward for military exploits, killing or capturing an enemy, the reward is twenty yuan, and the cavalry is forty yuan, if it is the leader, the reward will be doubled.

But this was not fatal, just when the enemy pounced on the Song army's camp, Zhang Shouyue and Zhi Keshi each led three or four thousand cavalry from Pule City and Yaode City, one left and one right, and pounced on the enemy's two flanks. At the same time, outside Lingzhou City, Wang Ju also ordered nearly 20,000 cavalry to rush to the enemy's rear.

After receiving the news that several reinforcements were about to arrive, Yao Lin immediately ordered to open the baggage convoy of the Chinese army, and the baggage sent over this time not only had grain and grass, but also a large number of weapons, which were produced from last autumn to this spring, because the ice and snow blocked the road, and they had to be sent to the front line in the future, so they had to be sent to Lingzhou with this batch of materials.

These weapons also included 200 off-road guns, and Yao Lin ordered the three armies to carry the cross-country guns to the camp fence and began to fire at the enemy cavalry.

Originally, they were helpless against the Song camp, and with this sharp weapon, the enemy cavalry had to retreat in embarrassment.

But now it's too late to escape, there are more than 10,000 horses on this march, many of which are indeed pack horses, but that's just for show, and the rest are all real war horses, but mixed with such a huge transport team, ordinary people can't notice it.

Seeing that the enemy was about to flee, the more than 7,000 cavalry mixed in the army turned over their horses one by one, and bit these enemy horsemen to death, and then Zhang Zhi two cavalry killed them.

The Xia army was defeated, and they ran away one by one, but they didn't escape for long, and a large force of cavalry in the direction of Lingzhou was killed again.

In this battle, nearly 20,000 enemies were killed and more than 11,000 enemy soldiers were captured, and less than half of them were able to escape.

Yao Lin then interrogated the prisoners of war before he learned the truth.

Last year, the Liao State was worried that the Song Dynasty would destroy the Xia, but because of the containment of Liaodong, the Liao State had no choice but to order the Divination people to support the Western Xia when they were in the critical period.

The Song army attacked Xia, Xiao Liang asked for help from Liao, and the Liao lord immediately ordered the divination people to send soldiers and horses to aid Western Xia, and now the leader of the obstruction is Yu Guhao. Yelu Hongji let his son be friends with him, but he can think of his closeness to the Liao State.

After hearing that the Song Dynasty sent troops, Yu Guhao immediately led more than 30,000 horsemen to Helan Mountain, but from the beginning, Liang Yikui started the idea of logistics of the Song army, not that he was stupid, but that the Song army was mostly infantry, and the logistics consumption was large, so logistics often became the key to expeditionary operations, so Li Jiqian and Yelu Xiuge used the logistics of the Song army to open the gap and achieved good results. So Liang Yikui arranged these tens of thousands of cavalry in the provincial city of Weicheng on the bank of Camel Harbor (Dusitu River, also known as Kushui River).

This place is outside Helan Mountain, and it is impossible for the Song Army's intelligence network to extend to this area.

It should be said that Liang Yikui is still relatively rational, from the beginning he only wanted to force the Song army back, and did not have the mentality of defeating the Song army. The logistics were cut off, and hundreds of thousands of Song troops had to eat and drink, which forced the Song army to withdraw its troops and go back.

However, he was unlucky, he met Wang Ju and Zhang Qi, and even Wang Ju thought of Pei Xingjian's grain cart hiding tactics from the beginning, but he was vetoed by Zhang Qi, which was a special case and could not be copied. At that time, Zhang Kai put forward the idea of using some main forces to disguise themselves as civilian men and mix into the logistics army to set up ambushes.

But at the time of Taiyuan City, this decoy tactic had not yet taken shape.

It wasn't until Wang Ju turned around from Hedong that he went south from Fuzhou to Gyeongju and heard the news of Hei Khan's dispatch of troops and was forced to advance the battle plan by nearly a month, but in this way, logistics was even more of a problem.

Therefore, Wang Ju repeatedly negotiated with generals such as Chong Shixiong and Zhang Shouyue, and finally came up with this bait strategy, and even deliberately slowed down the time to conquer Lingzhou City.

Then Yao Lin led such a huge logistics team over, and when it was time to start, he saw that the logistics team of the Song army was huge, and in order to prevent accidents, Liang Yiqi also deliberately transferred thousands of cavalry from Hetao and Youzhou, so that the enemy cavalry force reached nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses.

The result was a fiasco, and Yu Guhao, the leader of the Divination Blocker, was taken by Zhi Keshi and his men, pursued for more than 20 miles, and was beheaded under the horse.

But...... The Liao people finally made a move.

"Taibao, do you want to send an envoy to the Jin Su army to question the Liao State?" Kumamoto asked.

In fact, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the original territory of Ningbian Prefecture, as well as the Jinsu Army and the Heqing Army above the Song Dynasty, all belonged to the Shengzhou territory of the Song Dynasty, and the partial pass in Shuozhou, the Liao State in Hedong, also belonged to the territory of the Song Dynasty, but later they were successively lost to the Liao people and the Western Xia people. In the third year of Qingli, in order to ensure logistics security, Liao Xingzong snatched the original Central Plains Shengzhou boundary from the hands of the Western Xia people, and moved some of the people over, and placed the Jinsu army and the Heqing army.

If the Song Dynasty recovered the entire territory of Western Xia, it would still be a big trouble for the two armies and one state in the future, and it would be like a thorn in the border of Hexi.

However, once the Song Dynasty officially recovered this small area, it would mean a full-scale war with the Liao State, so including Wang Ju, it would be as if they could not see these two armies and one state.

"Blame?" Wang Ju smiled, what are the so-called questions and protests, Wang Ju has heard enough of them. He said again: "Let's deal with it coldly, after all, there is still a difference between the official dispatch of troops by the Divination and the official dispatch of troops by the Liao State, and there is room for relaxation." But the Liao State officially sent troops, and there was only war. Xiong Gong, the country is the same as people, the softer it is, the more people bully, and the more afraid of something! ”

"Xiong Gong, don't think I'm radical, in fact I should be considered a conservative, if I were radical, with the current situation of the three armies of my dynasty, I would have shouted the slogan of recovering Yanyun a long time ago, instead of even the second army of Hexi in Liaoguo and one state would not dare to move. However, no matter how conservative they are, there must also be some compromises and humility between countries, but there is one thing, we must not bend our backbones. If the spine is bent, then it will never be straight. ”

The alliance of the Song Dynasty is not useless, but the biggest flaw is that this backbone is bent, so in history, the later Song Dynasty has never straightened up, even if there are fierce generals like Yue Fei.

In the battle of Lingzhou River, the Western Xia people in Lingzhou City did not know. Lingzhou City has long been surrounded by soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty.

The Song army only besieged it, and it was surrounded for nearly twenty days, and it did not launch a strong attack, and it may be captured, but Lingzhou City is prepared this time, and it will inevitably have to pay a huge sacrifice.

However, the Song army did not just surround it, these days, several soldiers and horses outside Lingzhou City, forcibly built more than a dozen earth mountains, which are higher than the head of Lingzhou City.

But it can only mean that the Song army can suppress the firepower of the Xia army in the city in the local area, which does not mean that with these dirt mountains, Lingzhou can be easily taken.

Wang Bei rebelled, and Beizhou City is a good example, and the Western Xia's attack on Rouyuan Village is also a good example.

The sun has risen again, and the time has entered the end of April, but in Lingzhou, it is the time when it is not cold. According to the previous practice, the Song army was going to build earth mountains again, and the Western Xia would definitely not sit idly by and watch the Song army raise the earth mountains one after another, so both armies inside and outside the city would use bows and arrows to suppress each other.

On this day, the Song army was different from usual, not a single soldier carried the soil and mud to build the earth mountain, but did not see the Song army raise the siege equipment, some Xixia people looked at the various earth mountains, and then they were instantly dumbfounded...... (To be continued.) )