"Xixia!" shouted together.

Zheng Lang was mixed with joy and sorrow. He wanted this effect, but what happened later could not be predicted. When the chiefs were quiet, Zheng Lang said again: "Everyone also knows that the lords of our dynasty have been diligent and loved the people. As a result, they have great governance and wealth. All of us are loyal to our dynasty. With the degree of wealth in our dynasty, we will not make money from you. It seems that you have no wealth that the court sends people to exploit."

A burst of laughter came from below.

Zheng Lang said that they were poor, but they were poor...

This is the strength of the Song Dynasty. It is not interested in opening borders, and only seeks restraint and comforting the borders, and cannot use the means of collecting coins, which is too much of a loss of identity. Some other means were used, such as buying a horse at a high price, and giving generous rewards in normal times. As long as everyone is loyal to the Song Dynasty, they will not only not exploit you, but also treat you so well.

However, some officials below did not do well because the policies were very vague. Some officials made money by themselves, or for political achievements, and some people disliked the foreigners. Some foreigners were not good, and they were hungry wolves that could not be fed. There were often some small rebellions in the border areas. However, the scale was not large except for the time of Nong Zhigao.

This strength must be revealed. In order to launch a war, Li Yuanhao was very strict with the tribes. Zheng Lang said that it was to make a contrast in the hearts of the heads of all races. He continued: "My dynasty is also wrong. He was confused by Li Yuanhao before and wanted to mediate in the center, so that your tribes were wronged."

The leaders of the clan sighed a little.

It is not shameful to take the initiative to admit mistakes, and the Master also encourages that you can correct them. The only one sentence that works warms everyone's hearts.

Continue to continue: "The court has not provided you with good protection. But it will not happen again since then!"

Another loud shout came from the sky.

Zheng Lang turned his head and looked at the blind wu and asked, "Dianwu, are you willing to put aside your own clan and tribe's concepts. From then on, give all tribes and tribes a fair concept and fair handling method to lead them to create a prosperous, stable and prosperous life?"

"I'm willing." The voices of the shiver were trembling with excitement.

"Would you always be loyal to my Song Dynasty court?"

"willing."

"Please worship our emperor to the east."

The blind felt was beneath the ground, and respectfully bowed three times and nine times.

"Please bow to all the clan leaders."

The blind felt saluted the heads of each tribe, and these heads also returned the salutes one by one.

Zheng Lang looked at the people again and said, "The chiefs of the two states of Lanhui are blindly rude and put aside their family's views and are willing to handle the affairs of the tribes with a fair and just heart. Are you willing to help him fight against powerful enemies outside and create prosperity inside?"

Some people agreed, some hesitated.

This is the ethnic conflict in the northwest. Not only Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, Qinfeng Road, Yanfu Road and Fulin are all there. Many tribes in Jingyuan Road are loyal to the silence, especially the large number of Tubo Liugu tribes who fled to Jingyuan Road. However, in the silence, many tribes still do not surrender to the silence. Not only the Dangxiang people, even some Tubo people, were not very willing to silence them. There are various reasons, including conflicts arising from the pastures, personal grudges, and forced by Dangxiang. For example, the 22 singbo families in Nuzhe Valley (Lanzhou Xiaguanying District), have 2,000 entries and more than 2,000 armored entries. However, they are located in the middle of the Huizhou area controlled by the silence and the Xixia region, and the wind can only blow both sides in order to seek peace and survival.

Zheng Lang also said: "If you are blindly illegitimate and unfair in the political affairs, you can come to Weizhou to seek justice. If Weizhou handles unfairness, you can go to the capital to appeal to the court. Wang Yuan came with a pen and an imperial letter."

That is, the blank imperial edict issued by the imperial court to all walks of life.

Fan Zhongyan asked for what Han Qi wanted first, and then Pang Ji and Zheng Lang also asked for a batch, and there were a total of 100 blank imperial edicts. It was not long before Zheng Lang had not filled it in.

Putting the imperial edict on the table, Zheng Lang said: "There are a total of 100 imperial edicts here. I will entrust 100 officials on behalf of the court. You will elect representatives, and they will represent your tribes to discuss matters and assist the blind filth in the Lanhe Prefecture government affairs. You will put forward your own ideas from the side. If you think the blind filth is inappropriate, you can come to Weizhou to appeal as the imperial official."

A pseudo-democratic mechanism is implemented.

It is not rejected by the blind felt. The tribe who should be loyal to him will be even more loyal to him because of Zheng Lang's order. The tribe who is not loyal to him will be restrained because of Zheng Lang's order. At least there will be no conflicts. Some tribes who are hesitant can also be relieved because of this order.

Those imperial edicts were officials, which was equivalent to being unsuccessful in receiving the salary of the Song Dynasty. They gathered together again to discuss, and after a while, they pushed out one hundred leaders according to the population ratio. Zheng Lang did not immediately write the imperial edict, and used an inkstone to suppress the imperial edict, and said, "Blind felt, I will make a request to the court to serve as the Lanhui Road Observer, deal with the Lanhui Ergang, and have the right to surrender and conquer the enemy's troops. If the Xia thief attacked, he could order the two prefectures to hold the golden arrows. The enemy was in great force and could make a request for reinforcements to Weizhou."

As he said that, he brought out the five hundred golden arrows with the sub-word written on them and said, "But you must keep the oath you just made."

"Here." said Xiao Wen loudly.

He was full of energy for a moment, thanking Lingxi, which meant that the Song Dynasty forced the leader of Lanzhou and Huizhou, and even the leader of the Liugu tribe at that time.

According to the customs of Tubo, we made a great oath.

Only then did Zheng Lang write a book.

The chiefs also knew the benefits of giving the letter to win over the hearts of the people.

Not only the tribes in the abdomen, but also the twenty-two families of Kanbo also participated.

He asked them to swear again, and then he sent the golden arrow to the blind medic.

Moved by the blind felt, he suddenly said, "Bundle Ma Jiling."

His subordinates did not move, and his eyes hesitated.

"go!"

Zheng Lang didn’t understand why, who is this Ma Jiling?

After a few Tubos pushed a bright young woman, and Zheng Lang asked suspiciously: "She...?"

"Mr. Zheng, she is my beloved concubine."

"Why do you tie her up?"

"Mr. Zheng, I want to use human sacrifice to express my loyalty to the court."

Zheng Lang almost vomited blood and said, "Let her loose. I feel like it. Why do I recommend you to the court to observe the Lanhui? I want you to lead the people to live a happy life. This people are not only the people of all ethnic groups, but also your family. It is the beginning. I don't like it if you use it as a sacrifice. I am your woman and your people, and the same is true for the people of the Song Dynasty.

I thought to myself that there were also people from the Tubo people who sacrificed this barbaric thing.

This policy has both pros and cons.

From then on, all ethnic groups in the Lanhui who had not occupied Xixia would be united as much as possible to defend against Li Yuanhao's annexation.

The disadvantage is that Zheng Lang is also afraid that he will not lose his tail after being blind.

I can't divide the troops and take into account that I came up with this solution.

If you don’t oppose Zheng Lang, this method is very effective. As an individual, the Tubo people are a nation that is tough and good at fighting and is proud of death in battle.

You cannot die of old age, only death on the battlefield is glorious.

Is it scary to have this idea?

There is also a movie with this concept, the Jurchens, especially the Jurchens, so their combat power is extremely strong.

After Tubo declined, the Tubo tribes scattered from Helong to Shaanxi, including the northernmost prefectures, and these remains of the tradition of respecting bravery and martial arts. Therefore, historical books record that they grew up in the border and learned about the mountains and rivers, knew that the people in the West were fake, their talents were brave, and they were not afraid of fighting. The country has always been blocked by vassals. They are good at shooting and enduring hardships. They go up and down the mountains like flat ground. When there is a battle, they will be together with each other and pass arrows, and follow the flow. Fan Zhongyan also wrote a letter saying that familiar households love the land, protect the elderly and the weak, and cows and sheep, and when they encounter thieves, they can block the Han households.

Master Fan also has the idea of ​​the Han Dynasty. We use these Fan Zi to protect the safety of the Han people.

The court truly realized that these Fanzis had strong combat power since the outbreak of the Northwest Battle. When Di Qing fought south, he only used a few hundred Fanzi soldiers to be invincible, and defeated Nong Zhigao's 30,000 troops in front of Kunlun Pass. Zheng Lang and Shimenchuan won two great victories, and the hundreds of Jurchens and some Fanzi cavalry he brought also showed strong combat power.

Today, the Manghui can maximize the use of these foreign soldiers to block Xixia in the Qingshui River, Gaolan Mountain and Agan River.

The disadvantage is that the reason why these monks did not become powerful is because they were partial and disunited. If there was no such incident as Yi Shijilu's destruction of Agan City, Zheng Lang even silently regarded this differentiation to facilitate jurisdiction.

Suddenly, I thought of the difficulties when Li Shimin settled the Turkic family.

No decision can be seen at the time, and only after that can we recognize all kinds of disadvantages.

I don’t know what my change will bring to the Northwest.

After singing and dancing, Zheng Lang watched Agancheng himself.

It is difficult to build and easy to destroy.

After more than a month of construction in Agan City, most of it has been completed, and now there are broken walls everywhere.

He took out tea cloth worth 200,000 yuan, and drew 20,000 archers from Jingyuan Road to assist the reconstruction of Agan City. He then built Dongguan Fort, Dingyuan City, and Xincheng along Nuzhe Valley to Niguyu to protect each other. He renovated Huining Pass, the former Chongqing-Tang Dynasty, the former Tang Dynasty, northeast of Qingshui River, to protect the commercial roads between Nigu and Jingyuan Road.

It was one step further than the original passive defense idea of ​​the Song Dynasty, but Zheng Lang's approach was still a kind of passive defense. It only used the influence of the two tribes in Lanhui Prefectures that were not occupied by the Western Xia to gather together the imperial court to defend together, and at the same time provided a batch of weapons to increase their combat effectiveness.

Jingyuan Road did not take the initiative to set up more troops here.

If the troops are insufficient, and once the troops are increased, the burden on the court will increase, so this policy with mixed pros and cons has to be adopted.

But the effect appears immediately.

Seeing Xiuguan City everywhere on the banks of Qingshui River, Xixia often sent troops to harass her and was defeated by various troops many times.

The scale of the war was not large, which in turn proved Yuan Hao's ideas and dynamics. Before the autumn harvest came, he did not dare to launch a large-scale battle.

Zheng Lang did not move in Kangu and returned to Weizhou soon.

The rear was developing, and the front was continuing to practice. Unlike last year, a large number of cavalry were added this year. Di Qing often took them from Gaopingzhai, heading north along Huluchuan, and heading to Wuyanqianxia to train. Xixia also often sent troops, and since Wuyanxia, ​​it has been active in Xiaoguan.

That is, with Wuyanqianxia as the axis, one is in the southeast and the other is in the northwest, and time is training to attack, but both sides are tacitly understanding and not sending troops.

This is the calmness on the surface, the waves below are surging and undercurrents lurking, and each is making arrangements. Whoever wins and loses can only be seen after autumn.

However, when Zheng Lang was in Weizhou, he was not stunned.

Just a few days after returning, Sanbaiqu sent someone to call Zheng Lang to go.

The Han Dynasty governed Guanzhong and built Zheng Guo Canal and Sanbai Canal. Due to some problems in the engineering of Zheng Guo Canal, it was blocked one after another from the end of the Han Dynasty. By the Tang Dynasty, it basically disappeared except for the upper reaches and Baiquzhen. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty collectively called the two remaining canals Zheng Bai Canal, and the northernmost point was Taibai Canal. The branch leading from Taibai Canal to the south was called Zhongbai Canal, and then the Zhongbai Canal extended south to the Xiabai Canal. Therefore, Zheng Bai Canal was gradually called Sanbai Canal.

The Tang Dynasty was very concerned about it and built a solid General Yishidi dam, which was 100 steps long and wide. It was built with stones and connected between cast iron ingots, which was very similar to the Qiantang River Fish Scale Pond proposed by Zheng Lang. However, the Jing River water contains too much sand, and some powerful people wantonly built water and water grinding on the canal, causing a large amount of water loss, although the diligent irrigation area is gradually decreasing from 10,000 hectares to several thousand hectares.

It was even worse during the Song Dynasty. It turned out that the Zhengbai Canal could irrigate forty-five thousand hectares, but only two thousand hectares. The Song Dynasty did some repairs because the political center was transferred from Guanzhong to Henan, and they all went in a hurry and did not achieve much effect.

Especially because of the long-term immersion and changes in the terrain, the Jing River is steep and deep, and the water level gradually drops, forming a large suspension difference between the canal estuary, and the water level is lower than the canal estuary, so the water cannot be directed. When the water rises, there are many river sandstorms in the old canal, which floods and causes disasters.

Zheng Lang adopted the later suggestions of Zhou Liangru and Hou Ke to build a weir from Hongkou to block water, that is, starting from Zhongbai Canal, use a dam to block Jingshui, and then open a new canal from Hongkou to Yunyang, also known as Taibai Canal. Because of its high terrain, it can control a large area. Although it is less than 45,000 hectares at its peak, it can reach an area of ​​35,000 hectares. In order to prevent flooding during flooding during floods, all of them are built with stone. Some flood discharge gates were built to prevent floods from rushing into the irrigation area. Reduce mud and water silt into the river canal, and set up a clear pond to further sediment and enter the new canal.

These measures were all good strategies for water control during the Xining period of the Song Dynasty.

Under the investigation of Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan, it is more perfect than the original historical water conservancy.

The solution is good, but there are still disadvantages. If you use a lot of money, no one can estimate how much money you spend on such a large-scale project.

Even if all the nine million stagnants of money sold by the contract stocks were allocated, there were still big men in the court who were worried that they would not spend enough money.
To be continued...