Almost all the small nobles were released as soon as they were said. They gathered together in Lanzhou City and released them all back. There was only one person who betrayed Xixia and made money for the people of Xixia. Chen Duo, who wanted to make military achievements, came to the city of Xizhou with Liang Yongneng. He was captured alive and then dismembered. Zheng Lang was never ruthless when he executed the traitor.

After leaving Lanzhou City, Liang Yimeng turned his head and shouted loudly to the city, "Zheng family, I will avenge this hatred."

"This kid," Yan Da wanted to rush out of the city and catch him back.

Zheng Lang stopped him. Yan Da was puzzled since Zheng Lang released Liang Yi and buried him. He couldn't help asking: "Duke Zheng, why should he release him?"

"General Yan, is he Meng Mingshi or Bo Zhu?"

With this, it was enough to release several members of the Liang family. Releasing several members of the Liang family and these nobles had other intentions. Li Bingchang grew, and the later party and the imperial party had a prominent conflict. In history, the time for the Song Dynasty to attack Xia was right, but the command commander was not selected well, the food and grass were not prepared, and even the local terrain was not noticed. Therefore, the Liang family was asked to dig the Yellow River embankment and the Song army was defeated. Zheng Lang also needed this kind of situation, so he deliberately said that Meng Mingshi gave the Liang family a step.

Otherwise, the Liang family would be in danger. Once the Liang family fell, the royalists would take the throne. In order to overthrow the Liang family, they would have been temporarily in harmony with the Song Dynasty. This was temporarily. Zheng Lang never thought that if the person in Xixia would be able to maintain true peace with the Song Dynasty after he came to power. But a temporary reunion gave the domestic conservatives reason to oppose it. How can the victory of the destruction of Xia be guaranteed!

So after Liang Yi was defeated, he went back arrogantly.

Continue to let go.

This replay is about the people. The Western Xia has occupied Lanzhou for a long time. There are many Dangxiang tribes and Dangxiang nobles inside and outside the city of Lanzhou. There are some Dangxiang tribes, including Kangu. Zheng Lang gathered them together to discuss and treat those who are willing to stay. The Khitan can tolerate the Han people of Youyun, and the Song Dynasty can also tolerate the Dangxiang people in the Lanzhou area, but they must be loyal to the Song Dynasty. Those who are unwilling to stay, whether they are Dangxiang people, Tubo people or Qiang people, let them go back, including their tribe's property, and they are all taken away. Zheng Lang welcomes him, but those who are left must have strict conditions. If they rebel in the future, Zheng Lang does not mind killing the clan.

It is to kill the clan, just like to Guizhang's family, rather than killing individuals.

This is to purify the Lanzhou area.

There are many benefits to getting Lanzhou, but Lanzhou will be at the forefront in the future. Zheng Lang didn't want the Xixia people to learn this trick in the future, causing Lanzhou to be attacked inside and outside, and lost again.

Some people stayed and some left. The people who left included some foreign people. In the past, when the Western Xia obtained Lanzhou and Kangu, they advocated for the tiger. Now the Song Dynasty has recovered and many tribes hated them. If they stayed here, they have lost their space to survive.

Zheng Lang politely sent them away.

Then let it go. After the counterattack in Guweicheng began, many Lianglan tribes rebelled against the water, and there were also tribal warriors who had not rebelled against the water. Zheng Lang did not suppress these tribes. However, the extra rewards for the rebellious tribes were actually a disguised secret support.

Liang Yimeng brought 150,000 troops and Meile Baoxi's army. The garrison in Lanzhou had a total force of nearly 190,000. The area where the real tragic battle was in Guweicheng. Later, most of the battles were one-sided battles, especially at the Ruzhagukou, which was almost a battle of urging and urging. More than 90% of the troops were captured, resulting in more than 100,000 prisoners of war. But 65% of them were soldiers who came to the Liangzhou and Xizhongcheng areas of Kangu.

The prisoners of war in Xizuncheng and Lanzhou areas must have been released, and more than 10,000 prisoners of war in Liangzhou areas were identified.

All the soldiers of various troops cooperated with the counterattack were released, not only released, but also divided a portion of the war horses, weapons and supplies from the spoils, and let these people take them back. As for how the Xixia people viewed these tribes in the future, Zheng Lang ignored it. However, I believe that the Liang family was also in a difficult situation. If they were suppressed, Liangzhou would be unstable, which might make the Song Dynasty easily obtain Liangzhou again. If they were not suppressed, more tribes would secretly meet the Song Dynasty. This has laid a ** bag for Liangzhou.

There are also some tribes who are not evil with the Song Dynasty and are released back, including friendly tribes in other areas of Xixia, and all prisoners of war were released unconditionally. Zheng Lang took the initiative to treat the disabled, and after his life was guaranteed, he sent them back one by one. However, for the tribes that were shady in Liangzhou and the people of Xixia to the end, these prisoners of war were all imprisoned.

This time, there were more than 20,000 people.

The last time was released, there were the disabled soldiers in Xixia, but they did not enjoy such good treatment. As Liang Yimian fled to Huizhou City, Zhang Feng led the army to the city of Huizhou, showing off his might, and then he threw the wounded soldiers outside Huizhou City and returned to Kan Valley. However, when he returned, he brought some tribes who defected to the Song Dynasty and sent them to Lankan to resettlement.

As for whether the people of Xixia would treat these wounded soldiers, Zheng Lang ignored it. This posed a small problem for the Liang family. If they were not concerned, all races would have complaints. If they were in charge, not only would the treatment costs, but also the serious injury and disabled people, but also a batch of resettlement costs, which would make the pitiful economy of Xixia even worse.

At the same time, Zhong Yi was hit by a hundred poaches and sent troops to Liangzhou again.

Zhong Yi captured Lanzhou City, and Zhang Feng blocked Zhong Yi, but Zheng Lang knew what was going on. Getting Lanzhou has pros and cons, and the pros and cons outweighed the disadvantages. The courageous spirit of Zhong Yi and Guo Cheng is worth learning, but they are Guo Cheng, which is Zhong Yi, and has a certain judgment ability. Few other generals can have their military cultivation. If they fight each other, it will inevitably lead to various bad phenomena. Moreover, Zheng Lang attaches great importance to military discipline, more important than Wang Shao and Zhang Feng.

How important is military discipline? Look at Taizu's People's Liberation Army, Qi's Army, Yue's Army, or compare Li Guang and Cheng's ignorance. Sima Qian desperately called for justice for Li Guang and his son, which led to Wang Changling writing about how many military achievements Li Guang has, but he made the generals in Longcheng not teach Hu horses to cross Yinshan. For example, Li Ji specifically killed his son-in-law in order to correct the military discipline.

Zheng Lang had not yet been hardened to learn from Qi Jiguang's son-in-law and Li Ji killed his son-in-law. However, he did not expect that the Song army generals would make wrong judgments in the future, so he arrested Zhong Yi and beat a hundred military sticks. Zheng Lang didn't even listen to Zheng Ping's pleading for mercy.

Seeing that Zhong Yi was so angry that his skin was cracked, the generals grinned and sweated coldly.

Then Zhongyi soldiers came out of Liangzhou and made meritorious service.

This was a feint attack, which was Zhang Shi's idea. The Song Dynasty's acquisition of Lanzhou would inevitably lead to a counterattack from the Xixia people. But as a scholar-official, Zhang Shi also knew that the financial situation this year was very bad. But the more at this time, the more we could not be conservative, and use shallow attack instead of defense, which would affect the judgment of the Xixia people and force the Liang family to accept the opinions of the Xixia Gouhe faction.

After hearing Zhang Feng's words, Zheng Lang smiled.

Because of the conservative party's erasure of Zhang Shi, many people did not notice this famous general for a long time. Until Zheng Langlin traveled through time, many people took out Zhang Shi's achievements from Haohan's history. A few people finally listed Yue Fei, Meng Gong, Li Jilong, Wu Jie, Cao Wei, Du Zixin, Pan Mei, Cao Bin, Zhang Shi, and Di Qing as the top ten famous generals of the Song Dynasty. Of course, this ranking was also wrong. Cao Bin was not good at that time, if there were some military capabilities, he could take down the Southern Tang Dynasty. Cao Bin's achievements were not to take down the Southern Tang Dynasty, but to not kill the people. As a military strategist, Cao Bin was far inferior to Han Shizhong, Wang Shao and others. Some people also listed Zhang Shi as the second Confucian general after Wei Rui. This is a bit overestimated. As a Confucian general, Zhang Shi could not reach the height of Pei Xingjian.

But in the era of the two sects of Shenzhe, the military abilities of Zhang Wang and Wang were indeed unparalleled. Whether in the Northern Song Dynasty, or in the Western Xia and the Khitan, even if it extends to Jiaozhi and Uighurs, there is no military strategist that can match it.

The Battle of Zhang Yue's famous battle was the Battle of Pingxia City, which was a surprise attack on Tiandu Mountain. Before that, it was famous and had a shallow attack tactic. After Sima Guang came to power, he overthrew everything from the new party. Several villages were returned to Xixia, and even returned Xihe to the people of Xixia for a while. Someone reminded him, Lord Sima, you have made a mistake. Xihe belongs to Tubo, not Xixia, and Sima Guang stopped. Otherwise, Xixia would be able to easily obtain Xihe Taomin.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Feng came to the northwest in a simple manner. Due to the domestic political situation, he did not dare to fight back, so he invented the tactics of shallow attack. All generals rely on the forts on the front line and launched harassing attacks on the Xixia, but they could not go deeper to prevent the middle-aged man from coming back. In fact, this tactic is an extended version of the strategy written in the memorial after the Qingli War. However, the people of Xixia were not vegetarians, and the two sides fought each other and had a victory or defeat. Therefore, Zhang Feng strengthened the tactics of shallow attack, and sent out various posts to monitor the front line, and distributed scouts to inquire about the enemy's intelligence to ensure that each shallow attack would not fall into the enemy's ambush, and every counterattack of the enemy could be prepared in time.

Zheng Lang adopted some of Zhang Feng's practices one by one decades ago. This is also the guarantee of many great victory.

It was this shallow attack tactic that made the Song Dynasty not lose its front line in the conservative atmosphere for more than ten years. Later, Zhezong took power and all the soldiers received practical training, and their qualities followed one by one, and finally achieved the brilliant victory in Pingxia City.

In history, the tactics of shallow attack are forced by the political situation. At this time, the tactics of shallow attack are forced by the finance.

This time the troops went out of Liangzhou to attack or to have a feint, not a real attack. The army crossed the Yellow River with great might, conquered several fort passes in succession, came to the city of Liangzhou, and forced Xixia to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to guard Liangzhou. Then Zhong Yi brought some Liugu tribes to the Song Dynasty and returned to Lanzhou.

Zhong Yi's troops were out of Liangzhou, but Lanzhou was disbanding the army. The coalition forces of various tribes were disbanded one by one, but the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty did not disband. Zhong Yi's troops went out of Liangzhou, Yanda and other generals divided into groups and entered Huangzhou, and all the troops entered Shengduo Valley, joined with Guo Cheng's army, and attacked Maoniucheng west. They joined with Wang Shao's army, and attacked Xilanzong Fort in the south of Qingtang City. They went south along Hezhou, met with Xibawen's army, and attacked the Dong clan.

In such a difficult situation, the Song Dynasty was still cruel and almost wiped out the 150,000 troops of Xixia, and launched a large number of troops, which directly affected the autumn harvest of the Xixia people. In a short period of time, Xixia could not fight back, and even could not protect itself. She watched the Song army rampant unscrupulously in Huizhou and Liangzhou.

Dong Wen had to send envoys to surrender, and put forward several conditions to surrender to the Song Dynasty and obey the Song Dynasty's command, but he had to retain his status and ruling power in the Qingtangcheng area.

Zheng Lang did not agree.

It was not until the Song army took over Maoniucheng and Xilanzong Fort and compressed the Tubo people on the Huangshui line that Dong Ji sent a second wave of envoys to agree to Zheng Lang's request that the Song Dynasty could accept Dong Ji's surrender and also classified Lijingcheng, Qingtangcheng and Zonggecheng, as well as the areas to Xilanzong Fort in the south and Maoniucheng in the north as Dong Ji's sphere of influence. However, this sphere of influence was jointly managed with the Song Dynasty. Dong Ji had to accept the garrison of the Song Dynasty and demarcate some areas as military farms for the Song army. The Song Dynasty still made Dong Ji the leader of Tubo in Huangzhou, but it was only nominally The great leader, except for Qingtangcheng, cannot intervene in other areas of economic, political and military affairs. The Song Dynasty still asked them to recognize Dong Jin as the sect leader of the Tubo people west of Chiling, as well as the grass-headed Tatars and yellow-headed Uighurs. However, the sect leader must be the Song Dynasty. If there is a major decision, Dong Jin must cooperate with the court to persuade and persuade. Dong Jin usually has certain military rights, but at the critical moment, he must cooperate with the court to recruit soldiers or make major civil decisions, and the court must also support the court. The court allows Dong Jin's descendants to have hereditary rights.

Four conditions are relatively strict.

In fact, Zheng Lang was not very satisfied. He originally planned to defeat Dong Wu and agreed to Dong Wu to discuss peace, so Dong Wu was no longer qualified to negotiate terms.

But Zheng Lang has difficulties with Zheng Lang.

The first winter is approaching. In mid-October, the weather gradually becomes colder. If you continue to fight, Dong Wen will still lose, but will suffer major casualties.

The second is financial pressure. The battle started in June and lasted for four months. The cost was huge. Zhao Xu even had to take out seven million yuan from the warehouse. The charity association mobilized various major households and donated five million yuan to support the previous money battle, so he barely survived the financial hurdle. However, because of the high cost, it had a heavy impact on grain storage, and the purchase of grain storage decreased, which gradually increased the price of grain. Since autumn, the drought has gradually eased. Because many water weirs were built and farming was used, Zheng Lang knew in his heart that this wave of drought will last until next year.

But the drought next year is not as severe as before. The court must have money if there is no food. If there is money, a large amount of food can be collected from the south. This principle is the same as the demise of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty's treasury had money, a large amount of food could be collected to support the people of Shaanxi. With food, even if they are half dead, there would not be many people who revolt with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Without Li and Zhang, the Qing Dynasty would not have succeeded in entering the pass. Now, once the grain storage is empty and the national treasury is empty, there will be big chaos next year.

Third, domestic pressure.

Not only conservatives, but also reformists, especially Wang Rong, proposed the law of exemption from practice.

A simple explanation is that the exemption method is to pay the exemption to the market every month based on the profits of each store. However, it is not the municipal affairs, but the local governments pay the exemption to the government. They no longer take turns to provide the government with physical goods or manpower, buy, buy or other miscellaneous taxes.

This reform is quite similar to the Ming Dynasty's whip method. Zheng Lang even doubted whether Zhang Juzheng's whip was inspired by the method of not practicing.

Maybe it is an advanced reform, but if so, Zheng Lang would not worry about it.

Just like the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, the Tang people benefited, and many laws of the Tang Dynasty led to the resentment of the people, but they were learned from the Song Dynasty. Or Wang Mang's reforms, in the eyes of later generations, all the tenth reforms were advanced, but Wang Mang died because of it.

In fact, it is not as simple as the above sentence explains. First of all, it is a group business. The various expenses of the Song Dynasty included money, silk and materials. Some of the materials came from the physical tax paid by each prefecture and county, and some were obtained through science and technology and purchase.

The literati and officials were ashamed of talking about business, so when buying, they were divided into responsibility to various groups. The group bank paid its obligations and also gained some rights, such as monopolizing the businesses in various regions, having the right to forcibly distribute goods in and out, or even forcing small stalls and hawkers to join the bank.

This sharing process is very unfair. Powerful merchants enjoy great monopoly rights, while small and medium-sized merchants enjoy less rights, but they have to pay more legal gifts and buys. In the middle, the court paid equal payments for goods and gave at least one capital. However, under the exploitation of governments and regiments at all levels, the money received by grassroots merchants was less than 30%. In other words, the more people who bear and buy the more they buy, the greater the loss.

Zheng Lang carried out some reforms, but like levying past business tax, it was meant to reduce the burden on some small and medium-sized merchants, and even made it clear that households below the fourth grade, whether merchants, craftsmen or farmers, the court shall not assign any and buy any legal services. However, it did not touch the root of it.

The rules of exemption from practice are different.

The first one forced the profits of the shops to share the interests of the scholars and officials and the powerful, especially in the capital, where many goods have to be purchased every year, half of which are from the purchase of science and technology and the purchase of them. I don’t know how muddy the water in the middle is.

Once the exemption method is implemented, it will undoubtedly stand against all powerful people.

If it is the first disadvantage, Zheng Lang may be able to make up for it, and there is another disadvantage, that is, it is purely for money. No matter how many materials are paid or bought, the court did not have any intention of stripping them. It was just that the powerful and officials were stripped down from one layer to another, which led to it becoming one of the burdens for small and medium-sized merchants. The most correct way is to correct them step by step like Zheng Lang, and reduce the burden on small and medium-sized merchants, although it is mixed.

However, after the implementation of the law of exemption, what should I do if the various materials needed by the court are needed? Could it be that the court sent officials to buy them in person? Therefore, the legal provisions and purchases will continue to exist. The actual behind-the-scenes discussion of the law of exemption was to make money for the country under the banner of benefiting the people and loving the people. It was this attempt that made it far less than the One Whip Law to become one of the good policies in history. Because of this, after the introduction of the law of exemption in history, the implementation of the law of exemption in history caused greater public grievances.

Maybe Wang Rong wanted to do something big, maybe he saw the expenses brought by the rescue drought and the Northwest War. He wanted to reduce the burden on the country and clear the problems of buying a science and technology, and finally introduced the most worrying method of exemption from doing so.

Wang Anshi was a little suspicious, but Lu Huiqing strongly supported it. Zheng Lang happened to arrive in Lanzhou. Wang Anshi wrote this new law in the letter with a fast horse and asked Zheng Lang.

This made Zheng Lang smell a little conspiracy, and Zheng Lang was always worried about Lu Huiqing. There were many reasons for Wang Anshi's resignation in history. Lu Huiqing made an indelible contribution in the middle, just like Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi's fight for the boss was also one of the reasons for the failure of the Qingli New Deal.

Zheng Lang immediately wrote the reasons in the letter one by one and brought them to Wang Anshi.

The second is Han Qi. The Song Dynasty was fighting and the Khitan was oppressing. Zheng Lang secretly gave Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie a lot of benefits, alleviating some of the pressure on the Khitan. Only Zheng Lang and Zhao Xu knew about this, but no one else knew about it.

But Yelu Yixin saw that the Song Dynasty was fighting while suffering from drought, and knew the opportunity and sent envoys to force themselves. So Han Qi wrote a letter asking the court to stop the war in time and focus on the people. Otherwise, the Khitan and Xixia jointly sent troops and the Tubo people took the opportunity to rebel again, and the Song Dynasty would be in danger.

It seems to be very reasonable, but in fact, was the Song Dynasty just so conservative?

Due to financial pressure and the drought is continuing, Han Qi has a market statement. In fact, these people don’t know how much resistance this will bring to the northwest? The war is going on in the front, but the rear is dragging it back.

Many people are not convinced of Han Qi's statement, and Zheng Lang has never expressed his opinion on this. Wen Yanbo and Han Qi's transformation was very serious in their later years. The northwest was a great victory. In history, Han Qi's approach was even more excessive. Wang Anshi went on, but the new policy continued. Khitan took advantage of the crisis of the Song Dynasty and used an envoy to blackmail. Han Qi not only did not give any advice, but wrote a letter to abolish Wang Anshi's seven methods. The first was Goryeo's tribute, which was the backyard of the Liao Kingdom. The Song Dynasty did not stretch out so long. The second was to capture Hehuang and seize the 52 forts in Xixia, which would make the Khitans worry, today Tubo, tomorrow Xixia, the day after tomorrow, will it be a Kitan?

Dan? Third, he planted willows in Hebei. The Song Dynasty planted a green Great Wall on the border of Hebei. All the Liao people were cavalry. They could not stand this. They should cut them all away, so that the Liao cavalry was rampant in Hebei to show that the Song Dynasty was not hostile. The fourth was the Baojia method, and the whole people were soldiers. The Khitans felt insecure and delayed farming production. The fifth was to build cities in Hebei. The Khitans were disgusted. The sixth was to produce various advanced weapons, divine arm bows, and new chariots, which allowed the Khitans to see that the Song Dynasty had been preparing for war and were dissatisfied. The seventh was to set up generals in the country, and the power of military generals increased.

These seven points not only made the Khitan resentful, but also the farmers were angry at the brink of the country, and the merchants sighed at the road, and the officials were uneasy to share the positions, so they were all dismissed and even returned to Xihe.

It was this kind of nonsense that many people applauded and cheered. Fortunately, Han Qi died soon after.

Because it was Zheng Lang, because it was a great victory, and there were changes in Zheng Lang's approach, the results were different, Han Qi did not propose the abolishment of seven articles, but he still crossed time and space, and proposed the statement that several countries joined forces. Did the Khitans have this vision? Some people have this vision, the benefits of peace, the enjoyment brought by annual tribute, the benefits brought by mutual trading, and the humble attitude of the Song Dynasty. Who can convince other Khitan nobles to send troops?

However, they are not time travelers, and few of them can have a long-term strategic vision. Therefore, some practices of the reformists and conservatives made Zheng Lang very worried. The main reform achievements have not stabilized. Once the Xixia is recovered, the debt will be paid clearly and the finances will improve. Old officials will die or retire one by one. In this moderate reform atmosphere, officials who grew up gradually take over, and the reform results can be called stable. Not only these officials, but even officials such as Xiao Su and Fan Chunren are different from history under the influence of Zheng Lang, and many people can have heavy responsibilities.

But Zheng Lang is also worried at the moment, after all, he is not in the court.

Therefore, the war ends early. I won’t fight anymore. How can you fight?

The last one is Dong Wen and his son. Dong Wen has appeal, but his life is not long-lasting. Although Aligu is an anti-Song faction, he is an Uighur and has no appeal. As long as Dong Wen's power is compressed into a narrow range of Qingtang City, even if Aligu rebelled, it will not be a great harm. If the Song Dynasty successfully destroyed Xixia, Aligu would probably have to be a good grandson.

When Dong Wu was surrendered, he did not take him to the capital like Mu Zheng, and worship Zhao Xu, but Dong Wu and his son had to come to Lanzhou to attend the Fanhou Conference.

It turned out that it was planned to be held in ancient Weicheng, but because it was unexpectedly obtained from Lanzhou, it was held in Lanzhou.

This is a great fusion gathering. (To be continued. Mobile phone users please read it.)
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