Zheng Lang moved to Yunzhou again, and below Yunzhou was Liangshan Lu.

This time, the management of the river made Liangshan so important, not because of the heroes of Water Margin, but its location. Liangshan Mountain has Ji River in the northeast, Xiji River (Wuzhang River) in the west, Wenshui River in the northeast comes from Zibo Prefecture, Huangou reaches Nanqing River, Xuzhou, and directly connects to Huai River. Now there is a new canal.

The new canal was not expanded with the help of Huangou. From Shouzhang to Liangshan, it reached Rencheng. It is very similar to the Grand Canal of the Yuan Dynasty and is slightly different. The rivers are still preserved and form a complex water network with the new canal as an irrigation system and navigation system.

Liangshanpo is so important that it is beyond remarkable.

Because of the dense population, the south is fighting for space with mountains and seas. Moreover, in the large Liangshan Pond, many people began to fill the lake and surround the fields, asking Zheng Lang to dig them one by one. Anyway, there are many debts and people are not bad, and the blank checks are opened wildly. Just to compensate for the occupied arable land and house debts, Zheng Lang paid nine million yuan of scattered shares.

Then dig the Liangshan Pond deep, increase the lake embankment, and cut off all the reeds, water shield, wild flowers and other economic crops by the lake.

It seems to be a protective effect on water and soil, but they will also cause a large amount of silt to form and silt the lakes.

After two years, Liangshanpo finally became a clear lake, and there was no sight of thousands of miles of reeds and a shady green scene. If there were heroes like Song Jiang, it would be very difficult to hide mountains and rivers and pool Liangshan.

The introduction of Huang into Ji is even more different from the Yellow River. Later, although the Yellow River meets Ji River, the Ji River disappeared at that time. The river also started from Pu Pu to Zhencheng in the south, and came to the Ji River in the Dong'a River. But now all the old paths of the Yellow River are not on this line, so from the north of Fan County, it almost follows a straight line to Dong'a. If you walk closer to the road, the two waters are only a few dozen miles apart, but the river direction becomes steep, sand will be generated at the bend, and the river water will become very rapid and impact the river embankment.

After repeated investigations, after taking this road, the benefits are straight, which guarantees the safety of the river embankment, and the disadvantages become very long. It will last more than 200 miles, and more engineering and arable land disputes will occur, and more money will be used.

Zheng Lang simply transferred to Yunzhou.

No one makes a fuss about Chuzhou Han Xin.

Zheng Lang himself said that Zhao Zhen issued an edict. If you do something, it is just boring to find it. But it is too easy to do something.

Everything is mainly about river management, and it is not time to settle it yet.

But Zheng Lang felt taboo in his heart that he actually lived in Chuzhou for a short time. He almost stayed in Qizhou last year and moved into a nest.

Zheng Lang didn't have to read the imperial court's newspaper for such a big incident, and he had known it a long time ago.

Zheng Lang was preparing to see off the four students in Yunzhou.

Because of his contribution to the management of the river, the court moved Wang Anshi to the Zhizhizhizhizhiyuan again. These two positions belonged to the first-level official positions of the Song Dynasty. In front of them, there were only twenty or thirty top officials. The two refused again. Pang Ji wrote a tactfully, urging you not to cherish your golden wool clothes, and advised you to cherish your youth. The flowers bloomed and you must be broken, so don’t wait until the flowers are empty to break branches. If you can go up, just go up, and don’t go up again. If you drag it down, you may not expect a good result until the end of the management of the river.

Written for Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang smiled and followed Pang Ji's opinion. After his advice, the two of them received the imperial edict.

By the way, he brought Su Su from all over the world to Beijing to take the science test.

Before leaving, Wang Anshi asked, "Duke Zheng, why aren't these states accepting them?"

When he asked, Sima Guang also pricked up his ears and listened. As the Zhijianyuan, he was in charge of impeachment. The northwest was even more important and he was paying attention to it instinctively.

"These several states are the foundation of Xixia. If they are taken down, Xixia will be defeated with us."

The first one cannot be passed. Once the two countries have a war, there is insufficient money and money, they can only strip the people again. Not only will the river be governed will become a problem, but the final result may be even more miserable than the Qingli War.

"Di Qing successfully captured several states under the banner of supporting the royal family of the Western Xia. If he had not forcibly attacked these states under the banner, even if there were no troops here, it would have become very difficult." Zheng Lang said this and suddenly thought of Yongle City. Song built Yongle City in the three states of Xia, Yin and You. Xixia sent 300,000 troops to attack. Zhong Yan believed that Yongle was not far from the ancient city of Yinzhou, and there were no cliffs on three sides without water springs. He strongly advised that building the city in Yongle would inevitably fail. Xu Xi angrily scolded Zhong Yan and submitted a report to the court to impeach Zhong Yan's arrogance. He also transferred Zhong Yan to Yanzhou, and Zhong Yan was resentful. Later, the Western Xia soldiers arrived, but Zhong Yan did not rescue him, and more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians were gone.

It seems that Zhong Yan and Xu Xi’s mistakes are made.

Implement careful analysis, not only that, but also the local customs and environment.

"In the civil war in Xixia, the people of Xixia didn't know where to go. Once they turned to foreign enemies and worked together, hundreds of thousands of troops might come, and even the Khitans would participate. In this civil war, the people in Xixia were living in poverty, and many tribes would complain and hate the Lixia Dynasty. However, our dynasty occupied the six prefectures, which just allowed Xixia to divert the conflict and invisibly resolve the pressure on Xixia. This is the third reason."

"The supply is long, and most places are short of water and wind and sand, which is at a disadvantage. At this time, several cities are not suitable. If you want to attack Xixia, the Khitan should attack from Beihetao, and operate several strongholds before Beihetao, spanning Helan Mountain, and Xixia is in danger. When Liao Xingzong attacked Xixia from Nanhetao, he not only did not understand military affairs, but also underestimated the enemy and was eager to achieve success. The choice of his own terrain was wrong. If our dynasty wanted to attack Xixia, ancient and modern times, like during the Eastern Han Dynasty, he did not launch an attack from Yinxia, ​​but mostly from Jingyuan Road."

"So that's it, why didn't Mr. Zheng say it?"

"No need to say, someone will be moved in the great victory, but our dynasty, like the Khitan, has been peaceful for a long time and is content with pleasure. The main war faction has very little voice and will not be passed in the end if he wants to occupy the six cities. However, Pang Chun's crisis has been temporarily passed."

First, Fu Bi resigned from his official position because of his mother's death and went home to mourn.

Then Tang Jie impeached the Deputy Envoy of Privy Councillor Chen Xuyin and formed eunuch Shi Zhicong and Wang Shining. Chen Xu argued with him. The two of them had a dispute. Chen Xu was the governor of Dingzhou, Tang Jie was the governor of Hongzhou, and the involved minister Zhao Yan was the governor of Qianzhou, Fan Shidao was the governor of Fuzhou, and Lu Hui was the governor of Jiangzhou. Bao Zheng was appointed as the Deputy Envoy of Privy Councillor and Cai Xiang was the envoy of the Three Divisions.

If Sima Guang and Wang Anshi who entered the dynasty were added, it would be gradually beneficial to Zheng Lang.

Bao Zheng and Cai Xiang are definitely Zheng Lang's people, but Zheng Lang knew in his heart that since he served as the envoy of the Three Divisions, Bao Zheng has been dedicated and troubled by financial pressure, so he will definitely not survive this year.

A hundred days later, Zhao Zhen seized the love and issued five edicts, but Fu Bi refused to accept it. So he replaced Fu Bi as prime minister with Pang Ji. All the ministers impeached him endlessly.

It just so happened that Di Qing had a great victory, which relieved Pang Ji's pressure.

He is also a skilled person, otherwise he would have been attacked by many polite officials in this position, and if he were others, he would have fallen down long ago.

Sima Guang looked at each other and smiled.

Zheng Lang was afraid that he would participate in the dispute between Pang Han. He said, "Jun Shi, why are there many people who impeach Pang Chunzhi?"

"In the past, he was close to Jia Changchao and Yan Shu, but he had many disagreements with the gentlemen."

"It's not only that. Look at the two courts, how many people have not served as politicians?"

Sima Guang carefully savored the fruit, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There is nothing wrong. I started my own business and knew the inside story of Yanchen. So in order to prevent Yanchen from impeachment, what is the supreme law?"

"It's not to do it, it's not to do it."

"I'm here again. Pang Chunzhi can leave whenever he wants, and stay whenever he wants. Not only you, but I can't protect him. All the prime ministers are from the ministers, and they each form a group, which is even more unfavorable to Pang Chunzhi."

Sima Guang was extremely melancholy and often heard Zheng Lang say that there are two ministers in the Song Dynasty who are the most capable. Di Qing is the Great Wall in the northwest, and Pang Ji is the mainstay of the court. Why is this happening?

Zheng Lang didn't say anything else.

Of course, he was also moved, but reason defeated **.

In fact, there was a weapon that had not been taken out from beginning to end. After several years of development, the maturity of artillery technology and the maturity of artillery technology not only means the birth of a powerful weapon, whether it is gunpowder, shells, or cannon bodies, which means that many technical difficulties have been overcome. In the end, these technologies will be transformed into civilian use, into technological power, and into production. Now, under the leadership of Shi Heng, two larger cannons, short-barrel cannons, which have another name, Fran cannon, which is three meters long and weighs more than 600 kilograms. The mother gun has nine sub-guns, and the firing speed is faster. But there is a serious difficulty. The length of the cannon body is very dangerous to open the flower bullet. Two or three out of ten will explode, and there is no need for two or three out of ten or two or three out of ten, and two or three out of ten, and this cannon has no practical value. Then Zheng Lang asked Shi Heng to add a piston seal ring inside to solve this problem. It still doesn't work, so the cannon body is shorter, but it affects the launch.

The second is the red cannon. The red cannon has more advantages, long range and large shells, but its disadvantages are more significant. It is too heavy and difficult to move. Although the cannon bore is thick and not easy to explode, the copper cannon barrel is ultimately a defect. Once fired, the cannon barrel will easily become weak when it is hot, which affects the range and accuracy.

Zheng Lang couldn't help but think of steel again. He didn't know if this kind of steel is now considered steel or the best cooked iron.

He only knows rough theory, and the others are blind people touching elephants, so the progress has been very slow.

However, the tiger squat cannon can barely come in handy.

But it was useless, I just didn't want to wake up Xixia.

Today, many ministers still hold the introverted idea of ​​peace as the most important thing. If they see this powerful weapon, Li Liangzuo has always been a good son. Anyone who wants to send troops to Xixia will be faced with endless opposition.

Therefore, hide it from its weakness.

As Zheng Lang said, the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was not the Khitan, or even the future Jurchens and Yuanmeng, but himself, his own inner restrained and cowardly spirit of infighting.

If you want to fight, you must distinguish the object.

Four students left Yunzhou.

Then the controversy stopped, and a news came from the front line that Di Qing became seriously ill. At first, Zheng Lang thought it was fake and didn't care. He was indeed seriously ill, with years of accumulated injuries and back cervical diseases. In addition, he was old and weak, this time he went north, Di Qing personally went to fight to kill the enemy many times, causing the old injury to recur and fell ill in Hongzhou City.

Without Di Qing, who will guard these six cities?

The court finally calmed down.

But now it is still a mess. Di Qing is sick and does the business one by one. Wei Minglang sent someone to negotiate with Di Qing, but Di Qing didn't know the court's dynamics and dragged the envoy. Even Li Liangzuo and Liang came to the front line.

As the Western Xia began to gather a large army, no one dared to take action. The country was destroyed and the family was ruined. At this time, the Song Dynasty was forced to do so, and the loss was not worth the loss. He sent an envoy to beg Di Qing again, and sent a quick horse to the capital of the Song Dynasty. We are good people of the Song Dynasty, not Wuzang Epang, your majesty, you must distinguish the object, and what we agreed at the beginning.

Di Qing also fell down at this time and wrote a memorial to the capital, saying that I was seriously ill and that the military supervisor Shi Quanbin could prove it. And Xixia gathered more than 100,000 troops, and if they did not return, a large-scale battle would break out. Therefore, the king and his ministers finally agreed to return the six cities to Xixia.

No handing in hand immediately.

The Jiubao Village was built before Quye River. It turned out that more than 90% of the places occupied by the Western Xia Dynasty were captured in more than a dozen fortresses. Then thousands of soldiers entered one by one, so that the barriers, including Fengzhou, were blocked in the rear.

Another five thousand township soldiers were transferred to the ground. Although more than a dozen forts stood west of Quye River like giants, the people still dared not farm. The township soldiers were transferred to the past. The more they worked, the more they earned, and the village soldiers came from the farming and harvested themselves. The grain was still the center of the Linfu Road. If they were transferred from the Central Plains, the freight of a bucket of grain plus wasted losses, the price would reach 500 cents and 600 cents, which was almost ten times the price of the capital.

All the six prefectures and prefectures were opened to win people's hearts. Of course, some dissatisfied tribes, especially the remnants of Mozang Epang, but God knows if it is the remnants of Mozang Epang. Some tribes were loyalists of the Li Xia Dynasty. After being discovered by the scout, Di Qing decisively ordered the generals to find excuses to suppress these tribes one by one.

The chaos brought about by Wuzang Epang is indeed not easy to distinguish.

Wei Minglang protested many times and refused to listen.

He also used grain and cloth and tea to exchange almost all the livestock in the six states.

The Song Dynasty still lacked livestock, including the north, and there are still many gaps in large livestock. The Song Dynasty prohibited the price difference, which led to a huge difference. For example, a cow, driven by the south, also rose in the north, and a good scalper price of more than five shreds of money. It is almost equivalent to three pieces of silk.

But in the Western Xia territory, the price of silk rose and the price of cattle fell. At one time, a piece of silk could be exchanged for four or five cows. A good cow could be exchanged for three. Now, a piece of silk is exchanged for one cow. All tribes are happy to smile. The same is true for other livestock, including good horses.

The best horses in the Song Dynasty came from prefectures, due to the terrain and water and soil. But the best horses were not only in prefectures, including the Hetao area, but also in the six prefectures that were temporarily occupied by the Song Dynasty. The Xixia horses here later had a nice name, Hetao horses, Khitan horses, that is, Mongolian horses were more hard-working, but the Hetao horses were taller, with strong explosive power and fast speed. After four or five months, the Song Dynasty got more than 40,000 good horses. Although it was a transaction, it was the most cost-effective transaction since the founding of the Song Dynasty. A high-quality cow arrived in the Song Dynasty, the price was only one piece of silk and two shreds, but the price was six or seven shreds on the Khitan order, which was not a good cow. It was four or five times the difference.

I got the advantage and even bought the people's hearts.

The emperor and ministers of Xixia were so anxious that they jumped, but they were unable to get into trouble again. Because Di Qing began to prepare to withdraw his troops, he first evacuated from Xiazhou and handed over Xiazhou to Li Liangzuo.

The king's army, the benevolent and righteous army, neither burned nor robbed nor plundered, and brought so many scarce supplies to the states. Do you have the nerve to use troops to fight each other? At one time, many tribes wanted to follow the Song army south under the influence of the Song army. This is also forbidden. Why the influence is to let you stay in the territory of Western Xia, and let you cooperate when the Song Dynasty sent troops in the future.

Di Qing and his generals sent these tribes one by one and said, "Muzang Epang plotted to rebel and chaotic politics. Since the Xia Kingdom surrendered to our dynasty, our dynasty should send troops to help the royal family. But if you take you in, what is the king's army? Now, the remnants of Wuzang Epang are eliminated one by one, so you can live a good life."

Most people took it seriously, at least the Song Dynasty did this, so they saw each other off the street and bid farewell to each other. Then they gave up Shizhou, and some of the troops retreated from Hengshan to Hongzhou and Longzhou. However, Di Qing had sent people to draw a detailed map in the Hengshan area.

More and more people were seeing each other, and some tribes were crying and finally saw the dawn of peace. Most of this was brought by the Song Dynasty. When Wei Minglang saw these situations, he frowned, but he couldn't do it and had to greet him with a smile.

It was not until September that the fort villages west of Quye River in Linzhou were repaired. After the soldiers entered, the Song Dynasty handed over Yinzhou and Suizhou to Xixia one by one. The civil war in Xixia that lasted for more than a year ended, but Xixia was full of clay and killing each other, as well as the Song army killed nearly 100,000 strong men died in this inexplicable war. After the Song army handed over, many tribes continued to revolt, further pushing Xixia to the edge of the cliff.

It was only two years later that Xixia gradually recovered some vitality. But at that time, the military and civilians died in this turmoil, with more than 200,000 people. In a sense, the strategic plan that Zheng Lang and Di Qing had been successfully discussed in advance was successfully implemented.

He also stopped the Khitans from entering in time. After receiving the letter of help from Mozang Epang, the Khitan king and his ministers had a dispute over this. The main reason was that the Khitan's vitality was also severely damaged, and many powerful people did not want to start a war. Then the Song army sent troops. Seeing the Song Dynasty sending troops, Yelu Hongji also wanted to get a bargain and gathered tens of thousands of troops to cross Yinshan and attack the southwest. However, after receiving the news that the Song army began to evacuate, the Khitan had to withdraw the army again.

There were still people in the court who opposed it, but the river engineering construction was carried out again, and the opposition was very weak.

The minister stared at the northwest again.
To be continued...