~.< Shuhai Pavilion >-~     Chapter 394 Golden Arrow

Zheng Ping sat in front of Zheng Lang, patted the horse's back with his little hands, and shouted: "Daqing, Daqing, run quickly."

Xiaoqing was old and could not run. Zheng Lang quickly returned to the Central Plains and rode other horses. However, Xiaoqing was raised in the Zheng family since childhood and was very humane. Zheng Lang was reluctant to abandon it, so he rode more often. He slowly carried Zheng Lang and his two daughters, and was riding on the green plain.

Zheng Hang was giggling behind Zheng Lang.

The people in the distance were very moved to see this warm scene.

After a walk around, Zheng Lang rode Xiaoqing back and continued to watch the people repairing water conservancy.

Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road are mainly in the Wei River Basin, and the Wei River also has tributaries such as Qinqi River, Xianshui, Huluchuan, Jingshui, Beiluo River, Fengshui, among which the Jingshui and Beiluo River basins have the largest area and water flow, but the most silt and sand are also the most.

Clearly distinguishing means this situation.

The Wei River is a good comrade. The river water in the upper reaches is clear, but the Jing River and Beiluo River pass through the Loess Plateau, bringing huge mud and sand, so the waterway is turbid.

Many rivers in the Jingshui tributaries of Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road are still very clear and the harm is not great.

Since the middle of the river, the river has become worse.

The mud and sand block the waterway, which is the same as the two Zhejiang Donghu Lake, which cannot save water. When the water is large, the river channel will be shallow and flooded. Therefore, since ancient times, Guanzhong has built many water conservancy projects in order to survive and cultivate, including the Sanbai Canal.

The upper reaches of Qinfeng Road and Weishui River basin are slightly better, but Huanqing Road is mostly Jingshui River basin, and Jingyuan Road also has a part of Jingshui River section. It is not within the range of Sanbai Canal, so Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang did some small maintenance and sorting.

There is also military farming.

Zheng Lang's military farming began last year, and all kinds of corn and sorghum were planted, and some beans were also planted.

May has grown vigorously.

A large number of trees were planted on the banks along various river sections to protect the river embankments. This project was not only on Jingyuan Road, but also on his suggestion, trees were planted on the entire Jinghe River, including Jingyuan Road, Yongxingjun Road, and Huanqing Road.

It is not difficult. There are many mountainous areas and many forests. There are many messy trees growing in the forest, which are very crowded. Digging them out and moving them is a good sapling.

It will improve, but cannot be completely solved because of excessive grazing and cultivation. The water and soil in the entire Shaanxi and northwest region are slowly deteriorating. Once rain comes, under the rain, rolling mud and sand gather in various rivers with the rain.

The Jing River is still the turbid Jing River.

But treatment is better than not. Surprisingly, the French and Qiang people of all tribes know the benefits of planting forests. They have opposed the Han people cutting down trees many times and transforming the plains covered with grass into plowing fields. There have been many conflicts.

This is a subconscious original understanding of the environment.

Zheng Lang wanted to plant forests, and these French sons were more cooperative than the Han people, which was a good situation.

So Zheng Lang used the money obtained from Shiyi to plant trees behind Jingyuan Road, and planted trees one after another as long as it was a barren slope that could not be cultivated.

It will take a long time to achieve results. The upstream area is located on the front line of the war and dare not plant trees in a variety of ways to help the enemy hide their whereabouts. The negative impact of land reclamation and grazing and the increase in population on the environment offsets our own arrangements. The trees have been growing from seedlings to trees for several years. Therefore, by May, the rain increased, and some minor problems occurred in various rivers and streams, which affected the military farming.

Zheng Lang kept coming out to inspect and take remedial measures.

After the people were built a section of river embankment in the water, it was dusk.

Suddenly the sky became dark, and a drizzle drizzled in the sky for a while. Zheng Lang said, "Everyone, go home."

Everyone scattered with a bang.

Zheng Lang also brought his wife into Chongxin County.

It was dark and the rain was a little heavy. It hit the leaves outside the government office, making a rustling sound like a silkworm eating mulberry, which actually had a strong charm of rainy days in the south of the Yangtze River.

An iron hoof came in a hurry.

When they arrived at the county government office, the soldiers turned over and dismounted and found Zheng Lang to report: "Zheng Xianggong, Yi Shijilu led 15,000 cavalry to raid Agan City, but the blind felt was defeated. Most of Agan City were destroyed. General Wang Ji led 3,000 cavalry to chase him."

"Let's go," Zheng Lang left behind several wives and concubines, got on the horse and left immediately.

Cui Xian's eyes were a little resentful, but she didn't make any noise.

My husband didn't tell her some plans, but he knew the status of Agancheng in his husband's heart at home and some plans and signs on the map.

The control of Agan City in the hands of the blind felt is equivalent to the control of the husband, which can provide an important security guarantee for Kangu. It can directly point to the Huizhou area controlled by Xixia and point to Lanzhou City. In order to quickly build this city, the husband also sent thousands of soldiers to assist, but unexpectedly there was a problem. This is a big deal, and the wife can only support it.

On the evening of the next day, Zheng Lang came to Langgang City and summoned the generals to discuss.

With many people and great power, Zheng Lang never thought that his own wisdom would be above the group. Many strategies in the northwest were mostly passed on to discuss them before making a decision.

Even if he decides, he should listen to everyone's opinions and make up for the missing and make the strategy more perfect.

This is a commendable state of humility.

Di Qing has not spoken.

Things are not as simple as it seems. After Zheng Lang returned from the capital, Yuan Hao had no movement. Even Kou Bian was just a small Kou Bian, which was not very harmful. Zheng Lang was dealing with water conservancy and military farming affairs, and Yuan Hao also restored his energy to domestic production.

The Song Dynasty war required logistics supply, and the Xixia attached more importance to logistics supply.

More than a month after the Battle of Agancheng, the people of Xixia did not make any noise. Unexpectedly, Zheng Lang had to go to the rear of Weizhou to inspect the military farmland and water conservancy, and Xixia suddenly launched it.

It seems very unreasonable.

After using Zheng Lang's strategy, it was quite effective.

From the Five Dynasties to Liangzhou, an alliance centered on the Liugu Fan tribe was formed in Liangzhou. The Liugu was the Gulang River Valley, Huangyang River Valley, Zamu River Valley, Jinta River Valley, Xiying River Valley, Dongda River Valley, and there were also Zongjia below, Dangzun, Yanzang, Pan Dushiji, Minuo, Tiliu, Fangdan, and Duxun. At its peak, there were 70,000 soldiers with 80,000 soldiers. Forced by the Western Xia, 5,000 horses were offered to join forces with the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty defended passively. In this harsh environment, it still defeated Li Jiqian's army, and Li Jiqian himself died in the trap.

The Liugu tribe was defeated, and Siduo surrendered to the sage. The Liugu tribe alliance in the 85th year was officially destroyed. Some tribes fled to Hehuang, some were forced to move to Jingyuan Road, and some were left behind and surrendered to Xixia.

In short, the strength is far inferior to that of the beginning. Yuan Hao did not send troops to support him. Zheng Lang was in the blind felt or Zheng Lang's help. The two teams up to take back Helan and the two states at any time.

But it is impossible.

The Song Dynasty was huge and could be hindered a lot. Zheng Lang could not count on domestic troops, nor could he count on other groups. He had only one group of troops to fight against Yuan Hao, and he was at an absolute disadvantage on the card.

In this kind of comparison of troops, Zheng Lang had to adopt a conservative policy to lure the enemy into his own territory, rather than sending troops to the Western Xia territory.

There are three possibilities. The first is Yishijilu's spontaneous revenge operation. The battle of Agan City was defeated, and his prestige declined. He also established a new city on the east bank of the Agan River. He pointed his sword at Lanzhou, released the prisoners of war and won the hearts of many people, and was forced to send troops to establish his authority.

The second possibility is that Yuan Hao instructed the Song Dynasty to send troops to help and set up an ambush and annihilate it. No matter what, Aganhe has an important strategic position for both sides.

The third possibility is that Yuan Hao used the Lanzhou Hu Hu to attract the attention of the Song army, resulting in the empty army of Zhenrong, and the east and west attacking the west, waiting for the Song Dynasty to send troops to Aganhe to attack the Zhenrong army. Not to mention that the autumn grain is far from coming, the more careless you are, the easier it is for Yuan Hao to succeed.

Everyone talked and had no good ideas. Zheng Lang suddenly missed the old generation, so he looked at Di Qing again.

Di Qing said: "Zheng Gong, you can learn from Fan Jingliu."

When Fan Zhongyan was in Yanzhou, he only built a city and did not attack. When he was in Xixia, he sent troops to harass him and defeated the Xixia people through the fortress. He never pursued him.

If you really lose, I won’t chase you, and if you lose fake, I won’t chase you. For example, football, from goalkeepers to strikers, they are all super big men of two or three, but these big men don’t attack. They hold hands from the beginning of the game, pulling from one side of the goal to the other side of the goal. Let’s see how you kick the ball into my goal.

It is very effective, including Pang Ji, and he also followed this policy and quickly built a solid defense line on Yanfu Road and Huanqing Road. But the disadvantage is that this policy is a strict defensive policy achieved by completely abandoning offensive means.

As long as this policy is followed, there can only be one way to negotiate peace! So whether Fan Zhongyan or Pang Ji are firm peace talks.

Di Qing didn't mean that, but Zheng Lang had already understood and said, "Get a thousand arrows."

Zhang Ji asked his subordinates to carry a thousand arrows, and Zheng Lang said again: "Give them a pen and ink."

He wrote a Song character on the five hundred command arrows with pen and ink, and another sub-character character on the other five hundred arrows, and then ordered Zhang Ji to say, "Send someone to put on golden paint."

Golden Arrow!

Tubo lived in tribes, each with armor, but no leader was in charge. It was usually scattered in mountains and rivers. When encountering battles, they were in harmony with each other and led by arrows. This habit has a long history. For example, the ten Western Turkic surnames in the Tang Dynasty passed on orders with arrows, and the Tubo people also had this custom. The Song Dynasty successfully opened the border in Xining, and Wang Anshi wrote a poem saying that the Qiang soldiers had no arrows since then, and the Han Jia is not yet able to understand. This poet is full of spirit, and this custom is still preserved in various Tubo tribes, and during the Jin Dynasty, the Tubo tribes were still passed on orders.

Also known as arrow.

However, the composition of the various foreign peoples in the border areas of the Song Dynasty was very complicated. The obvious ones were the Tubo people, Dangxiang people, various Qiang people, Uighur people, Tuyuhun people, and Fanhua Han people. They could also find ethnic components such as Turks, Huns and Tiel people.

There are blood feuds inherited from history, new feuds arising from fighting for excellent river valley pastures, and hatred wars that arise from religious beliefs, especially the most conflicts between the Dangxiang people and the Tubo people. The wars of various ethnic groups convened by the arrows may not be able to solve all the problems, and the tribe leaders will not foolishly fight all the strong men in their clan for hatred, so they invite authoritative foreign officials or Han officials as mediators.

Some people took the initiative to ask the Central Plains Dynasty to send Han officials to preside over government affairs. They even heard that there were good Han officials, so they took the risk of robbing officials and forced them to preside over local government affairs. For example, Chen Yanhui, an escort in Jingzhou, Later Jin, went to Liangzhou to announce the order to appease the emperor, so they were forcibly robbed by Liugu tribes and established as the governor. But they may not be happy. This governor can only play the role of a mediator. If you do not do well, you will still be expelled. Li Wenqian of the Later Tang Dynasty and Shen Shihou of the Later Zhou Dynasty were driven out by the tribes of Liangzhou because they could not appease the crowd.

This mediation process must not be in accordance with the Song Dynasty, but must be sent to both parties for inquiries according to the wishes of each race. A killed one person in your army and gave you ten sheep compensation. B said that if it doesn’t work, you should ask for at least one hundred sheep. Can you be less? Think about it again and talk about the reasons. After deep thought and persuasion, B said that at least thirty sheep will be compensated. Then to the A, it will not work. B does not meet the compensation for ten sheep, and at least thirty sheep will be required. Often, it takes several times before the two sides can form a peaceful agreement. Including conflicts between the Han people and the British people in the Song Dynasty, this method is also used to resolve it.

Some officials saw the inconveniences, such as Fan Yong and Fan Zhongyan, who made treaties, laws and regulations in their territory, and reformed foreign laws, achieved good results for a time. Many foreigners were used by the Song Dynasty, which was called harmony. After harmony, it was an oath.

The Tubo people broke arrows to make oaths, killed sheep, dog, monkey, and dog, and donkey, and killed dog, horse, ox and donkey. The Qiang in Maozhou set up one cattle, sheep, pig, thorn, and plow, tied swords to the oath field. The chiefs gathered, and everyone passed by the sword, stabbed cattle, sheep, pig, and pig blood, dug the ground to make Kan, tied a Qiang maid in a pit, added a thorn to the maid, hit it with stones, and buried Kan with soil. The oaths were bloody, but they also represented the importance of vows. Once a tribe made a vow, if there were tribes who did not comply, all tribes would be ashamed of it.

When Zheng Lang came to Jingyuan Road, in addition to using various comforting methods, he gradually faded these habits.

Including the custom of passing arrows, there are usually orders, and all handwritten books are used instead of command arrows, and then they are taught to farm and learn Chinese characters in order to achieve final assimilation.

The re-use of the Golden Arrow is a regression in ethnic policy.

It's not only this one but others.

It is hard to know that compared with the Xixia country, Jingyuan Road actually has not many troops.

You cannot take into account both the blind feeling from beginning to end, and the military strength will be seriously insufficient.

Compared with weakening the Western Xia, Zheng Langning chose to make a partial regression.

The so-called brushing of gold paint is not poured with gold, but with copper water.

Zheng Lang passed down golden arrows and asked the chiefs of Jingyuan Road and all tribes under the clans of the Xiaowu tribe to go to Kangu to discuss the oath.

A few days later, Zheng Lang came to Kangu in person.

Although some concessions were made, the oath meeting was very successful. Almost all tribes and Qiang in the territory were ordered to come to Kangu.

Zheng Lang used golden arrows as orders, which also won the favor of many people, which was respect for their customs and habits. The twenty-two tribes of Kanbo, including the border Nuzhe Valley, all sent elders of various tribes to attend the meeting. The six tribes of Yulezang in Xixia, Huizhou, and the Wang family and the four tribes of Tubo also quietly sent people to Kangu to observe.

Of course, all this is based on great victory after victory.

The market also had some effects.
To be continued...