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Volume 2 Chapter 849 Cold Treatment

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    Wang Ju is reading a letter from Cai Que.  Zhang Jian and Duan Tianshui have already gone to Huating County, but not many people in Huangpu River know about it yet.  This canal cannot be solved by just drawing a line. You have to go down and observe the specific local terrain, the flow direction and water flow of each river, in order to determine the specific location, depth and width.  At the same time, some dredging and repairs must be carried out on each tributary, and a large number of steep gates, that is, various ship locks and sluices, must be arranged.  No matter how capable Duan Tianshui is, it will still take several months.  But there will be no conflict in time, because the official construction of this canal will have to wait until after autumn to avoid the flood season. The water level is also relatively low, and the people have just reached the slack time for farming, and then the construction can really start.  Therefore, after Duan Tianshui went down to inspect it, he wrote a plan and submitted it to Xiuzhou. Then he transferred some money and silk from the Liangzhe Road Finance Department, and then construction could begin.  Moreover, Liangzhe Road has handled the canal project in a low-key manner, so it will not alarm many people.  However, the appointment of the two people still caused some controversy.  Think about it, how many children of powerful people and top-ranked scholars are lining up to wait for appointments in the imperial court. Now the imperial court has appointed two subordinates to serve as the magistrate and director of Jianxian County. Is everyone happy?  Cai Que¡¯s reply was simple. Although Zhang Jian was born as a subordinate official, his talents have been proven from the Shipping Department of Michigan City, to the Banking Department of Michigan City, and the Banking Department of Capital City. The country must employ people based on merit.  As for Duan Tianshui, it is also very simple. Although Huating County is the largest county in the southeast, the entire central and southern region of Huating is low-lying and often suffers from waterlogging. The country has no shortage of water management talents, but these people cannot be allowed to serve as just one Huating County.  The boss was weak, and when he couldn't find a good candidate, Cai Que chose Duan Tianshui.  and Jiaquan.  Zhang and Duan were better off, as they were low-level officials after all, but Jia Quan's appointment aroused opposition from many people.  Back then, Jia Quan brought so much trouble to Suzhou that "the sky was angry and people were resentful", and now the court has transferred him to the Liangzhe Road. What does that mean?  But these controversies never got louder, and everyone¡¯s attention was attracted to the northwest.  The imperial court tore up the peace agreement and issued an edict to conquer Xia. At the same time, it also issued an edict to issue national bonds!  Wang Ju used troops very extravagantly.  There will also be a large number of immigrants, the cost of resettlement, and subsidies. These costs are also very staggering.  In addition, considering the inconvenience of transportation in some areas, resulting in extreme backwardness, it is necessary to overhaul roads.  In the future, a Great Wall will be built in the north one after another.  It¡¯s not that with the Great Wall, everything will be safe. In the Ming Dynasty, with the Great Wall, the Tatars still went south to loot.  Yang Liulang planted trees and dug deep lakes in Hebei to form a green Great Wall. During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Liao army continued to move south.  But with the Great Wall, the defense thickness will undoubtedly be increased.  Just like the Tang Dynasty, because Youyun was in their hands, the Turks went south during Wu Zetian's time and did not dare to go deep into the Central Plains. Their retreat would be cut off. Once their retreat was cut off, it would mean the annihilation of the entire army.  Or like the time when the Liao Kingdom was at the foot of Chanzhou City, they had no strength to move further south. As reinforcements from the Song Dynasty continued to come, Song Zhenzong came to the front line in person, and there were hundreds of thousands of Song troops from Wang Chao in Dingzhou. The Liao Kingdom really  It's really dangerous.  However, Wang Chao is too dissatisfied, so the two countries should "reconcile".  These all require a lot of money, and the treasury is running out of money, so Zhao Xu and the governors are very worried, so Wang Ju came up with this impossible solution.  With the help of the Banking Department, the state issued a total of 40 million treasury bonds with an annual interest rate of 4 cents, which is one cent higher than the Banking Department's own deposits. There were four batches of 10 million treasury bonds each. The first batch was repaid by the bank the year after.  It also includes interest of 800,000 yuan.  The second batch will be repaid with interest of 1.2 million yuan in the year after next.  By analogy, the interest of 1.6 million dollars will be repaid in the third year, and the interest of 2 million dollars will be repaid in the fourth year.  This batch of treasury bonds is issued in batches across the country according to the economic conditions of each state, and the people voluntarily go to various offices with money and silk to subscribe until supplies are exhausted.  Of course, by the year after next, the northwest should be basically stable. As long as the country no longer uses troops on a large scale, based on the current national income situation, a large surplus will be generated every year. This is not a heavy burden.  In fact, as long as no large-scale war breaks out in the northwest, more than 10 million yuan can be saved a year in terms of military expenses alone.  Think about it, because of Xixia, how much money did the Song Dynasty spend on silk in the past eighty years?  Directly and indirectly, it can reach more than one billion yuan, or even two billion yuan!  ??We are not too unfamiliar with this model. For example, the accumulated arrears of various states in the past were actually national debts in disguise.  The big purchase on the other side was also a disguised form of national debt.  But the problem is not that, but whether to hit or not.    At this point, everyone suddenly realized that the emperor, Wang Ju and several prime ministers had treated the Liao Kingdom like a monkey.  The majority of people cheer for the court to take this decisive step, but there are still many "elites" who are seriously dissatisfied with this.  The source of this idea comes from Zhao Kuangyin's jade ax painting of the Dadu River. Countries in the peripheral areas will not benefit much. On the contrary, it will waste a lot of hard-earned money of the Central Plains people. If there are several major rebellions, it will be even worse.  .  "It's better to leave it like this. Although the territory is not large, it can run a peaceful country.  If this is true, then it is true. The further Guan Jian went on, the more he developed a deformed idea, that is, he was super war-weary.  Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was good for us to occupy the south, and we could still get promoted and make money, so we should negotiate peace with the Jin people.  Then Yuan and Meng came. If during the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were not squeezed out, and the Erwu brothers and Liu Qi were reused to help the Central Plains, and a unified Central Plains dynasty was formed, could Yuan and Meng destroy the Song Dynasty?  And this terrible idea is like a plague, getting worse every generation.  In the end, people¡¯s patriotism is not a good thing, but a thief!  I am afraid that even Qin Hui and Wang Jingwei would not dare to call patriots patriotic thieves.  Of course, like those elites, these scholar-bureaucrats did not want the Song Dynasty to perish, but were afraid that if they could not destroy Xixia and angered the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty would be in danger.  It's better to be as we are now, be softer if we are softer, kneel a bit more if we kneel a bit, and we will still get promoted and make a fortune.  However, compared to the Song Dynasty, it is more complicated. For example, Nokia sued Huawei. As one of the most promising companies in the country, the country should support it. No, Nokia was suing Huawei earlier, and China Mobile and Nokia signed a US$1.5 billion cooperation.  protocol.  Therefore, the imperial court received many impeachment memorials.  "Some people say that the country has already occupied the power of mountains and rivers. It is impossible for Xixia to harm the Song Dynasty. It is useless to gain access to the cold land outside the Great Wall. It will break promises and treaties, which will anger the Liao Dynasty.  From the perspective of water and soil, Xixia seems to be mostly a cold place. Outside the Helan Mountains are two large deserts. Although it is not as bad as in later generations, it has also deteriorated very seriously.  Nanhetao is slightly better than later generations, but it has also deteriorated seriously.  Even to the west of Lingzhou, there is still a "vast sea" terrain dominated by dry plains.  However, this is not the case. Although the overall terrain of Xixia is very bad, Beihetao is still OK now. The Yellow River area and Hexi of Xingqing Prefecture are still fertile soils, not to mention the fertility and commercial value of the Hexi Corridor.  At the same time, there are also the benefits of green salt and a large number of pastures. Even if the court can wisely protect the water and soil and reduce the size of the pastures in the future, because the door is open, a large number of war horses and livestock can still be purchased from the Western Regions.  But these people just can¡¯t see it!  Someone else said, "Hedong is churning, and Shaanxi is boiling." "Cries spread throughout the buildings, and resentment rises above Haotian." In this battle, all the volunteers, Baojie, and Tibetan soldiers in Hedong and Shaanxi, as well as the archers on the Hedong Road  , strong men, and border soldiers were all used together, and there were also some side soldiers and ordinary people. However, the latter were only responsible for escorting materials within the Song Dynasty, while the former mostly entered the enemy's territory.  Especially the people in Hedong, who have not experienced war for a long time, how can the people not be afraid, how can their families not be worried, and crying goodbye is inevitable.  In fact, it was really good. In the past few years of war, the Song Dynasty obtained a large number of prisoners of war, thus saving a lot of manpower. Even in the past few years, it has not used many civilians.  As for these civilian militiamen, the court also paid them a salary. If they entered enemy territory, killed the enemy, or captured the enemy, there would be generous rewards. If they died, the court would give generous pensions.  In order to prevent generals and officials from embezzlement, every civilian militiaman who enters the military camp will have someone read out these regulations.  Wang Ju also plans to send special personnel to various state governments after the war to check the distribution of these salary awards and severely deal with those who defraud them.  However, the two lines of farming production must have been greatly destroyed, but if Xixia can be destroyed, these losses are worth it. Think about how much price Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty paid to defeat the Huns?  But this kind of thing is still not visible.  However, this is not what Cai Que is distressed about. What worries him is that he has used many old parties, and because these old parties have been appointed one after another, many new parties are dissatisfied, especially because Lu Gongzhu and others have been re-employed, so this period of opposition  The sound of war was particularly loud, so many ministers from the new party kept questioning Cai Que. Even Wang Ju seemed to have no intention of pursuing that one person, so many ministers from the new party asked Cai Que why he didn't send people to investigate?  This earth-covering sky clearly evolved from the Xixia prophecy, but why did it reach the capital so quickly!  Hedong in the middle, there is a person in Hedong Cai Que said he had a headache.  Wang Ju read the letter with bitterness on his face.Laugh, in the final analysis, Cai Que's control ability is very poor. In addition, he has been the prime minister for a long time. Regardless of whether Zhao Xu will die or not, it is time to give in As for those who attack the Battle of Xia, they will not  It will make a sound.  Putting down the letter, Wang Ju came to the Chinese army's tent and asked Zhong Shidao: "Is there any news from General Yao?" "The battle is underway." This was a beautiful victory.  Fifty thousand enemy cavalry rushed towards Yao Lin's camp. Due to the terrain, the entire Song Army camp was arranged in the shape of a moon bud. However, this kind of military camp was easier to break because of its thinness.  Therefore, tens of thousands of enemy cavalry rushed into Yue Ya at once. It was not until they approached the camp gate that the Song army began to counterattack, but it was an extremely violent counterattack.  It is true that the tens of thousands of rural soldiers in Hedong are almost the same as civilians and do not have much combat effectiveness. However, there are actually three powerful armies in this Song Army camp. One is the nearly 20,000 border soldiers trained by Yao Lin, and several times  Crossing the Yellow River, attacking Yinzhou, and accumulating some practical experience, although it cannot be called the most powerful army in the Song Dynasty, its combat effectiveness is not considered weak.  There is another group composed of the Baojie Army on Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road. Although its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Tibetan army on the margins, it cannot be underestimated.  In the end, there is an army composed of Yuanfan's fallen troops and Fan's strong men and horses.  Almost all the soldiers in these three armies are not familiar with bows and arrows. This trip made them fully armed with the best armor and the best bow and arrow weapons. Nearly half of the soldiers used improved divine arm bows.  Although corrections have been made to reduce the draw force, its penetration and range are still far ahead of ordinary compound bows.  " Moreover, the three armies had a large number of troops, with more than 30,000 troops and horses. They happened to be in Yueya, and countless enemy cavalry were shot over and fell from their horses in an instant.  Finally, they rushed to the camp fence. Although the Song Army's trenches were only made to look like a trap in order to confuse the enemy and save energy, the camp fence was real, and behind the camp fence, there were also people twisted together to fill the trenches.  The second line of protection is formed by the train array of goods.  Tens of thousands of enemy cavalry fought hard for nearly an hour and suffered heavy casualties, but they were still unable to pose a fatal threat to the Song army.  Then these enemy cavalry came up with another idea, attack with fire. I don¡¯t want these supplies, but you Song Dynasty don¡¯t want these supplies either. However, thanks to Liang Yibu, because Hori opened the Lingzhou River, there were swamps everywhere, and Yao  When Lin Zao planned to camp in the evening, he led several small canals into the military camp. There were tens of thousands of civilians, and they just put out the fire behind.  In fact, as time went by, many civilians were no longer afraid. They picked up the bows and arrows in their hands, and also started to fight back. After all, the imperial court had generous military merit rewards. If an enemy was killed or captured, he would be rewarded with 20 coins.  , the cavalry is forty, and if it is the leader, the reward will be doubled.  But this was not fatal. Just when the enemy rushed towards the Song army's camp, Zhang Shooyue and Zhe Keshi each led three or four thousand cavalry from Pule City and Yaode City, one on the left and one on the right, to attack the enemy's flanks.  At the same time, outside Lingzhou City, Wang Ju also ordered that nearly 20,000 cavalry be dispatched to rush towards the enemy's rear.  After receiving the news that several reinforcements were about to arrive, Yao Lin immediately ordered to open the Chinese army's baggage convoy. The baggage sent this time included not only grain and grass, but also a large number of weapons, which were produced from the autumn of last year to the spring of this year, because  The roads were blocked by ice and snow, so they had no time to send them to the front line, so they had no choice but to send these supplies to Lingzhou.  These weapons also included two hundred cross-country guns. Yao Lin ordered the three armies to carry the cross-country guns to the camp fence and start firing at the enemy cavalry.  Originally they were helpless against the Song camp, but with this sharp weapon, the enemy cavalry had no choice but to retreat in embarrassment.  But now it's too late to escape. There are more than 10,000 horses in this march. Many are indeed pack horses, but they are just for show. The rest are all real war horses, but they are mixed in such a huge transportation team.  , most people just don¡¯t notice it.  The more than 7,000 cavalrymen mixed in the army saw the enemy preparing to flee. They got on their horses one by one and held on to the enemy cavalry. Then two cavalrymen broke out and killed them.  The Xia army was defeated, and they fled one after another. However, not long after they escaped, a large group of cavalry from the direction of Lingzhou arrived again.  In this battle, nearly 20,000 enemies were killed and more than 11,000 enemy soldiers were captured. Less than half of them escaped.  Yao Lin then interrogated these prisoners of war and got the truth.  Last year, the Liao State was worried that the Song Dynasty would destroy Xia. However, due to the constraints of Liaodong, the Liao State had no choice but to order the divination people to support Xixia during the Guanjian period.  When the Song army attacked Xia, the Xiaoliang family asked for help from the Liao Kingdom. The Lord of Liao immediately ordered the Zubu people to send troops and horses to help Xixia. Now the leader of the Zubu people is Yu Guhao.  Yelu Hongji asked his son to be friends with him, thinking about his closeness to the Liao Kingdom. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?After the Song Dynasty sent troops, Yu Guhao immediately led more than 30,000 cavalry to Helan Mountain. However, from the beginning, Liang Yibu had an idea of ????the Song army's logistics. It was not that he was stupid, but that the Song army was mostly infantry, and logistics consumption was high.  Therefore, logistics often becomes the key to expeditionary operations, so Li Jiqian and Brother Yelvxiu both used the Song Army's logistics to open gaps and achieved good results.  So Liang Yibu arranged these tens of thousands of divination cavalry in Shengwei City on the bank of Luotuo Port (Dusitu River, also known as Kushui River).  This is outside the Helan Mountains, and it is impossible for the Song Army's intelligence network to extend to this area.  It should be said that Liang Yibu was relatively rational. From the beginning, he just wanted to force the Song army to retreat, and did not have the mentality of defeating the Song army.  Logistics was cut off, and hundreds of thousands of Song troops had to eat and drink, which forced the Song troops to withdraw their troops.  But he was unlucky and met Wang Ju and Zhang Kai. Wang Ju even thought of Pei Xingjian's strategy of hiding troops in grain trucks from the beginning, but Zhang Kai rejected it because it was a special case and could not be copied.  At that time, Zhang Kai proposed the idea of ??using some of the main troops to disguise themselves as civilians and sneak into the logistics army to set up an ambush.  But in Taiyuan City, this bait tactic had not yet taken shape.  Until Wang Ju made a circle from Hedong, went south from Fuzhou, and came to Qingzhou. When he heard the news that Black Khan had sent troops, he was forced to advance the battle plan by nearly a month. However, this made logistics even more of a problem.  Therefore, Wang Ju repeatedly negotiated with Zhong Shixiong, Zhang Shouyue and other generals, and finally came up with this bait strategy, and even deliberately slowed down the time to capture Lingzhou City.  Then Yao Lin led such a huge logistics team over. When it was time to take action, he saw that the Song Army's logistics team was huge. In order to prevent accidents, Liang Yibu also deliberately transferred thousands of cavalry from Hetao and Youzhou, making this visit  The enemy's cavalry strength reached nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses.  The result was a disastrous defeat, and Yuguhao, the leader of the divination-blockers, was killed by Keshi and led his men in pursuit for more than 20 miles, before being killed by his horse.  Butthe Liao people finally took action.  "Taibao, do you want to send an envoy to Jin Su's army to question the Liao Kingdom?" Kumamoto asked.  It turns out that the Liao Kingdom and Xixia were bounded by the Yellow River. The Liao Kingdom's territory in Hexi was only Ningbian Prefecture above the Song Dynasty's Volcano Army. In fact, in the early Song Dynasty, the original Ningbian Prefecture territory, as well as the Jin Su Army and He Qing Army above it all belonged to the Song Dynasty's Shengzhou  The territory, as well as Pianguan in Shuozhou of the Liao Kingdom in the east of Hedong, also belonged to the territory of the Song Dynasty, but they were later gradually lost to the Liao and Xixia people.  In the third year of Qingli, the Liao State invaded Xia. In order to ensure logistical security, Liao Xingzong snatched the original territory of Shengzhou in the Central Plains from the Xixia people, moved some of the people there, and placed the Jin Su Army and the He Qing Army.  If the Song Dynasty regains the entire territory of Xixia, these two armies and one state will still be a big trouble in the future. It will be like a thorn piercing the border of Hexi.  However, once the Song Dynasty officially regained this small area, it would mean a full-scale war with the Liao Kingdom, so Wang Ju, including Wang Ju, seemed to be invisible to these two armies and one state.  "Accusation?" Wang Ju smiled. Wang Ju had heard enough of the so-called accusations and protests in his two lifetimes.  He added: "Let's deal with it coldly. After all, there are differences between the Zulu people's sending troops and the Liao's formal sending of troops. There is room for relaxation. But the Liao's formal sending of troops will only lead to war. Mr. Xiong, the country is the same as the people.  The more soft you are, the more people bully you. The more you fear, the more likely you are to get what you want!¡±  Instead of not even daring to move the two armies and one state of Hexi of the Liao Kingdom, no matter how conservative they are, countries must also make some compromises and compromises, but there is one thing: you must not bend your spine, then it will never be bent again.  It can¡¯t straighten up.¡± The Chanyuan Alliance of the Song Dynasty is not without merit, but its biggest flaw is that its spine is bent. Therefore, in history, the Song Dynasty never straightened up again, even with the emergence of powerful generals like Yue Fei.  The Xixia people in Lingzhou City didn¡¯t know about the battle at Lingzhouchuan.  Lingzhou City had long been surrounded by soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty.  The Song army only besieged for nearly twenty days without launching a strong attack. They might be able to capture it. However, Lingzhou City was prepared this time, so a huge sacrifice would have to be made.  However, the Song army did not just besiege. In these days, several soldiers and horses were outside Lingzhou City and forcibly built more than a dozen earthen hills, which were higher than the head of Lingzhou City.  But it only means that the Song army can suppress the firepower of the Xia army in the city in some areas. It does not mean that with these mountains, Lingzhou can be easily captured.  Wang Bei's rebellion, Beizhou City is a good example, Xixia's attack on Rouyuan Village is also a good example.  The sun rises again, and the time has entered late April, but in Lingzhou, it is a time of neither cold nor power.  According to previous practice, the Song army will build earth mountains again, and Xixia will definitely not.As the Song army raised mountains of earth, both armies inside and outside the city would use bows and arrows to suppress each other.  On this day, the Song army was different from usual. Not a single soldier carried earth and mud to build the earth mountain, but they did not see the Song army lift up their siege equipment. Some Xixia people looked at the various earth mountains, and then they were instantly stunned.  Eye¡­¡­    
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