Then Zheng Lang smiled.

Zhao Xu asked: "Duke Zheng, why are you laughing?"

The older generation of ministers passed away one after another, and even fewer people knew about Feng Gao and the five others. However, Zhao Shu knew that Zhao Xu knew that the rules formulated when the secret camp were established were personally managed by the emperor to keep the secrets. Although Zhao Shu didn't have much affection for Zheng Lang, this country was the Zhao family's country, not the Zheng family's country. He occasionally became crazy, but he was not a fool. He knew the seriousness and did not disclose it. Later, these information was transferred to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu also knew that it included asking Zhou Yuan to go to Weizhou in person to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

Zheng Lang doesn’t understand, and Zhao Xu doesn’t understand either.

Zhao Xu asked, and Zheng Lang replied: "Your Majesty, there are two ways to do this. The first thing is that Wang Shao and Zhong Yan don't know the importance. Are they such people?"

"Probably not." Zhao Xu said.

If so, an edict must be issued immediately to stop military operations, otherwise he will be defeated.

Zheng Lang said again: "There is only the second one. They have clever arrangements. I can't even understand this arrangement. It means that their plans are far-reaching, so this battle will be won."

"Mr. Zheng, do you think Wang Shao is better than you?"

"Your Majesty, don't be too arrogant. I have a little bit of economic and government affairs, but I may not be very good at military affairs. I have won many great victories in the past because I have used military generals and some famous generals to plan with them, obediently obey their opinions, and feel at ease with them, so I always win more than lose less. Your Majesty, our military seems to be weak, not because the soldiers are not brave. Instead, the generals control the system, and the eunuchs and military supervisors often intervene in command. The court insists on forcing remote control thousands of miles away. Although the generals delegated power to the border generals and ministers during Renzong, they often use literati to command. How many literati are good at military affairs?"

"This system is not very good."

"Your Majesty, just know. In fact, the two ancestors each have their own systems. Taizu always explains tasks and precautions before the general leaves. That is Taizu's good at military affairs. Therefore, he quickly recovered the military one by one after another. Then Taizu fell ill and collapsed suddenly, Taizong ascended the throne, and adopted this method. However, Taizong was good at internal governance and was slightly weaker in military affairs. Gradually, the court controlled the remote control, literati and supervisors intervened, and the military supervising participated in command. This direction was already wrong. The correct family law of the ancestors was to explain military goals when the generals left, and after the operation was over, they quickly regained the military power of the generals. It can not only ensure that those who know how to do command the battle, but also ensure that the Anshi Rebellion will not happen. However, Your Majesty cannot say it, and once it is said publicly, it will cause some controversy."

"Sit down and watch?"

"There is no need to sit and watch, you can do it without saying anything, so that the result after the action will slowly change everyone's thoughts."

"I understand," Zhao Xu also smiled.

The gentry and officials in the court did not know the inside story, and they all argued that Wang Shao's actions were inappropriate. Even if they took in some defected tribes for revenge, they would send troops moderately. But why did they attack the Guan Zhikou? The Guan Zhikou was lost three times, but then Xixia strengthened it and raised it. It was also condescending and placing it on the mountain rocks. It was impossible to use the ** to explode. The military arrangement was wrong. However, they could only argue about right and wrong, and they could not interfere. The information came to the capital and then went from the capital to the front line for ten days. It was already fighting, and everything was too late.

The offensive and defensive battle begins.

...

The sky was gloomy and snowflakes rolled over.

At this time, the entire gourd river would often fall snow, but there was a hint of worry on the face of old man Bi Rong Wei. He looked into the distance and saw that under the large and thin areas of ice and snow, there were mostly yellow alfalfa. What they yearned for the most in Songjing were these purple treasures.

Alfalfa was used to be both Song and Xia countries, and few people planted it deliberately. Most Xixia people regarded them as wild vegetables for emergency treatment or for grazing. Since Shaanxi began to grow them in a large scale, they did not see any benefits at the beginning. Later, the popularity began. Alfalfa was covered with mountains and fields on all the soil slopes in the Song Dynasty. All tribes finally benefited, and they didn’t even need to graz. The cattle, horses and sheep had enough grass to raise them fat and strong. Some people also learned about them in Xixia, but they were not successful.

There is an important difference between the two.

If the people are allowed to plant spontaneously, they will most likely not achieve success. If they are planted by the government, they will not know what they will be embezzled by various officials. But if the court allocates a little money and the government leads the organization and forces the people to plant it, and uses it as an important basis for evaluating the political achievements of officials, and planting it quickly.

Furthermore, the Song Dynasty planted in an organized manner. After planting, grazing was prohibited in many areas. Cattle, horses and sheep can be raised, and even more are encouraged to raise cattle, horses and sheep, but it is not free-range. Alfalfa has extremely strong vitality, just like leeks. After cutting, one crop will grow again. This is the origin of its becoming the king of forage. If it has not grown after being released, the cattle, sheep and even the roots will be gnawed, and the meaning of planting will be lost. The two methods of planting have almost ten times different benefits. Knowing the benefits, Xixia is a system of various departments, and the administrative binding force of the government is far less than that of the Song Dynasty, so it cannot be implemented well.

When the Song and Xia started the war, the people on the borders of the two countries were very hard. The Song Dynasty was rich and the people were not very harsh, but the people on the border had to bear high labor and military service because of defense, which was still very hard. However, because of the heavy labor, the court exempted taxes, and most people lived a better life than the people in Xixia. Zheng Lang entered the Secretariat and successively laid off a large number of soldiers and military service. Even Cheng Shi Meng went to the west. Starting from the two prefectures of Wei and Qin, he started to build water conservancy and encouraged the people to grow food. In addition, the breeding industry brought about by the alfalfa was not an animal husbandry, but most of them became a breeding industry. The gap between the people of the two countries became increasingly wide.

This is the reason why many tribes yearn for the Song Dynasty.

Ten days ago, the Song army took the initiative to climb over Douling. Xixia people would not take it seriously in the small villages like Xiangbi Village, which had only sixty or seventy households, nor the Song people would not take it seriously. But the Song army took the initiative to attack and broke through various small hills. The old man Bi decisively led the people of the village to climb over Douling. In order to find the happiness they dreamed of, regardless of the big dog, two and four households and children who were hitting the army, they rushed to Suizhou and came to the Song Dynasty.

When they really arrived in the Song realm, the people in the village were a little confused. Do they really get the happiness they dreamed of?

Bi Rong Wei Juan hurried at the entrance of the tent, surrounded by densely packed people who fled to the Song territory. Not far away was the tall Pingxia City, and you could see soldiers patrolling the city.

Several flags were desperately inspiring the whistling northwest wind, as if they were about to break through at any time.

Just when the old man Pen was confused, a middle-aged man, with many soldiers, opened the city gate and rode towards him on horseback.

When he arrived in front of the fleeing people, the middle-aged man said, "Please ask the heads of the villages to come out and speak."

The old man from pen came out.

There were 23 villages in total, and more than 10,000 people successfully climbed over Douling and came to Song.

Even so many villages cannot catch up with the Qingning tribe. The Qingning tribe is very friendly to the Weiyi clan. In the north of the former Wuyi clan, the two tribes were close to each other and had marriages. The Weiyi clan rebels and surrendered. The Qingning tribe was excluded by the Western Xia, with more than 3,000 tents, nearly 20,000 people, and more than 6,000 strong men. Because it was a little distance from Douling, the tribe was large and slow to move. Li Kaitai caught up, and most of the heroes were brutally killed. Therefore, Wang Shao was angrily sent troops to reward the revenge.

But who can know the truth?

Wang Shao rode on the horse and kept shaking his head. Zhang Zhifu was too vicious, so he learned from Mr. Zheng. Learn a ghost! However, Wang Shao had to admit that Zhang Shi's various "vicious" ideas were quite effective.

Looking at the twenty-three tribe chiefs in front of him, Wang Shao said, "You first report the number of households in each village, distinguish between the ones below five and more than five. I will use it urgently later."

The twenty-three tribe chiefs were either panic and confused, or were surprised and excited, and went down one by one.

The twenty-three villages are big and small. The big ones can reach more than 400 households, and the small ones can reach more than 30 households, with a total of more than 2,400 households. After recording the numbers reported above, Wang Shao said: "Tell me a few things. You are only part of the clan tents of our dynasty, and there are more clan tents to contact our dynasty in advance. Because Xixia sent a large army to garrison the reward and relocation, and the means were extremely cruel, the clans did not dare to join our dynasty. The Huaide army's military strength was finally limited, so 3,500 people were drawn from your villages, cooperated with our dynasty to send troops to stolen the reward and relocation, and seized the reward and relocation. The north gate opened, and more clan tents would pour into our dynasty together. I believe you can understand that, not for other reasons, but many of these clan tents have their own relatives with you, so you must not be saved."

Some people say yes, while others remain silent.

Wang Shao did not explain any more, and sucked it out. When he arrived in Song Dynasty, what else could he do? He said: "The second is the problem of food and clothing. It is the middle of winter. You left your home in a panic and came to my country. There was a shortage of food and clothing. Therefore, we solved this problem first. I just asked you to count the number of households and households. If you don't ask about the rich and poor, I will solve the problem of food and clothing immediately. For households with more than five households, there are two beds of cotton quilts, and one bed for each of them to keep warm. Then one is a cotton coat for each person and a bucket of food. After it is distributed to you, we will talk about the settlement issue."

After Wang Shao finished speaking, he left. After a while, the yamen officials and soldiers took a large amount of clothes, quilts and food to the tents of various tribes, and distributed quilts and food one after another.

Just the first hand, everyone feels at ease.

Whether it was clothing, quilt or food, when it came to Pingxia City, it became expensive and became expensive. In this action, the Song Dynasty had to spend at least nearly 10,000 yuan.

Especially food.

It was definitely due to luck that Xixia could establish a country for so long. It was almost defeated by the Khitan of the Song Dynasty many times and was defeated by the Uighurs. It just so happened that the Khitan took action and was defeated by the Tubo. The internal part of the Tubo was split and defeated by the Khitan. It happened that Yelu Hongji, the unscathed lord, succeeded to the throne, was defeated by the Song Dynasty, and the Jin people rose.

In order to support the existence of the country, Xixia also attaches importance to the small number of agricultural students, such as wheat, barley, buckwheat, millet, barley, japonica rice, glutinous rice, sorghum, beans, peas, black beans, beans, hemp, and barnyard. As long as it can grow something that makes people fill their stomachs, people will be encouraged to plant it.

However, under the military's dethronement, the people often did not have enough food, which led to the people of Xixia who mostly used wild vegetables to fill their hunger. Various wild vegetables names: fermented beans, fermented wool, fermented wool seedlings in spring, fermented wool seedlings in summer, chickens, fermented wool leaves in autumn, fermented wool leaves, grass in the sky, sand storage onions, wild leeks, frost-resisting, gray strips, wormwood, and fermented pine nuts. It is not that the people in Xixia who like to eat wild vegetables, so the reason why they studied it so deeply was for the sake of the year! If the people of the Song Dynasty could live to this extent, it would probably be that Zhao Zhen would not even feel like drinking soup when he was alive.

Especially this year, there are only five major events that can be recorded in history. The Song Dynasty conferred Li Bingchang as the king of the country; the Song Dynasty was conferred the rituals of foreign countries; the Song Dynasty exchanged Tumen and the forts; the Liang family thought that the Song Dynasty was easy to bully and did not intersect the forts, but wanted to exchange small for big and heavy for Suizhou, which led to the destruction of the relationship between the two countries; the Song Dynasty officially city Suizhou. The fifth thing was that the Western Xia was famine!

This year, the Song Dynasty drought spread throughout the north. It included Shaanxi and Xixia, the Song Dynasty and Jiangnan food supplements. Where can I transport grain to the Western Xia to rescue disasters?

Almost most people live a life of morning and night.

When the food was distributed in front, the smoke from the cooking station was vented, and every household was burying the pot to cook.

Wang Shao and Cai Ting walked out of the city again, looking at the pale and thin people, eating like wolves and tigers, said: "Teacher Cai, if you continue like this, a bucket of rice may not be enough for them to eat for five days."

"Wang Zhijun, let's stop taking the rebels and betrayals. If you take it, look at the Jingshui River will build a lot of water conservancy next year. If the weather is better, Weizhou itself has sufficient food. It can save money. Now, it will be too expensive to settle them like this."

"I know, you don't know about the other side of the reward and movement."

"I really don't write a memorial to explain it to the court?"

"Teacher Cai, don't write. The more you explain, the more troubles you get. I'm afraid that even Mr. Zheng would not agree. After all, the means are too cruel."

"Is it your idea? Or Zhong Ye's idea?"

"It's not my idea, nor Seed King's idea, but Zhang Zhifu's idea."

Cai Ting also smiled helplessly and said, "Let's just do it, call them over and talk about the placement."

He summoned more than 20 tribe chiefs and introduced them to them. Such a big thing would be impossible without Cai Ting's consent. Cai Ting then told them about resettlement, which is also the top priority that these foreign and Qiang households and a few Han households are most concerned about.

After the outskirt, they imagined that they would follow the Wuyanqian Gorge and arrange to go to Tiansheng Village, or follow the Huluchuan, from Pingxia City to Lingping Village, Gaoping Village, and Zhenrong Village. After Cai Ting said that, the twenty or so people were a little surprised.

Since Zheng Lang punished the rebellion of the Jinming Village tribes, he would arrange for all the surrendered tribes or forcibly captured tribes to the rear. The difference is that the tribes that took the initiative to surrender will not be dispersed, and the tribes that forcibly captured or hostile tribes will break them up. However, they will not be arranged on the front line, so as not to be successfully exerted by the Xixia people.

Looking at the shock of everyone, Cai Ting said, "You come and join us, Da Song, will believe you."

They were still confused. Did the Song Dynasty change their minds? Of course, they arranged nearby, adapted to the soil and water, and the rich water and grass of Wuyanqian Gorge and Huluchuan, and were able to farm and herd, which was a first-class and good place, and they all left with satisfaction.

Cai Ting looked at their backs and said, "Although your ideas are a little bit confusing, the technique of adaptation is very similar to that of Mr. Zheng."

After Wang Shao explained the reasons for these arrangements, Cai Ting also agreed with them.

The next day, the minor officials and some generals in the army took their respective tribes to settle down. The cost was very high. Even though they had been preparing since autumn, they had prepared food and grass, including a lot of grass. If they wanted to survive this winter, they would have to reinforce a lot of food from the rear.

The battle in the north began.

Zhang Qi led the 5,000 Song army and 3,500 temporarily recruited men of all races, and set off to the Guan. After leaving Xiaoguan, Zhang Qi called Liu Changzuo and gave a few instructions carefully. Liu Changzuo was dissatisfied.

Zhang Feng whispered: "Are we really avenge the Qingning tribe?"

"Yes, I don't understand."

"This is a way to do it, including those villages that have come to our dynasty. In order to arrange them, the court may waste at least 20,000 yuan of money, but they must be arranged well and set an example. But if there are too many, the court will not be able to come out so much money. Since it is an example, it cannot be too far from the enemy's territory, so they are arranged in Huluchuan and Wuyanqianxia. However, if it is not done well, it will be backfired, so they will be asked to smoke some strong men and then..."

"I understand, but this, this... is a bit cruel."

"It can't be considered cruel. It has a longer intention. Maybe you will know in a few years," said Zhang Shi. Wang Shao did not reveal Zhao Shanjin's true identity, but said that it is possible that the secret service camp will instigate this person and let Zhong Yan and Zhang Shi not disclose it. Before this, Zhao Shanjin should not be too embarrassed. Then the three of them discussed a series of plans. How to make Zhao Shanjin not embarrassed, and to achieve military goals, and to prevent these tribes from being deceived by the Xixia people again. Therefore, this attack and rewards were brought into the military operation.

There were 8,500 soldiers, and there were more supplies. There were 3,000 civilians behind them. The soldiers were very powerful. Liu Changzuo led 3,000 cavalry out of Xiaoguan first. They each had their own horses and used them as vanguard troops. They used the speed to set out first, and opened mountains and split roads and built bridges. The Qiang soldiers were not concerned about it. Xixia did not have much force in the revelation and moving mouths, and it was possible to massacre the Qingning tribe who was unprepared, but they might not have the courage to go out to the pass and fight head-on against the powerful Song army. Moreover, there were more than 5,000 troops behind. They walked in the back and followed closely.

Crossing the Xiaoguan Canyon with a dangerous terrain, there is another natural danger, the navel pass. On both sides are towering mountains, and it is difficult for apes and birds to cross. The cliffs in the middle are steep, like a protruding navel. The Hulu River comes down from the south, squeezes out a valley and flows northward. Due to the terrain here, after Zheng Lang leaves Jingyuan Road, a series of battles occurred, and both sides want to set up checkpoints here. They are all destroyed by the other side.

Later, when they saw that they failed, the guards of both sides tacitly set up a post across the Hulu River to serve as a warning.

In the middle of winter, even building a floating bridge was spared. Liu Changzuo took three thousand soldiers and stepped on ice. Crossing the Hulu River, the sound of alert horns sounded from the enemy's outpost opposite.

Liu Changzuo said, "Let's camp here."

Everyone was excited and there was nothing else. Going forward was just a reward. Before the main army could catch up, everyone was not confident, especially those soldiers of all races who defected to each other.

After getting off the horses together and preparing to camp, Liu Changzuo sent a scout to the front to inquire. Shortly after the scout left, he rode back and said unhurriedly: "General Liu, the enemy has left the Venerable Pass and Ruokou Pass and rushed towards our army."

"Get on the horse and prepare for the battle." Liu Changzuo shouted.

After only a while, the Xixia army rushed over and watched teams of people coming out of the canyon, Liu Changzuo shouted: "Go."

Instead of retreating, he led three thousand soldiers to meet them.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Changzuo was the first to rush to the enemy, stabbed the big gun in his hand, and stabbed the enemy soldier's armor deeply into the man's chest. Liu Changzuo picked him hard and took off the man's war horse. Regardless of whether this man was alive or alive, he rushed towards the second man.
To be continued...