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Volume 2 Chapter 851 Double Insurance

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    "Is this Mogusi unreliable?" Master Zhong asked with either joy or worry.  Wang Ju spread his hands. This was the first time he heard this name, so he didn't know it was unreliable.  However, Wang Ju was stunned and said: "Jianzhong, you must immediately lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and return to Yanzhou first." Mogusi sent a piece of information saying that the Liao Kingdom suppressed the Liaodong rebellion and the army retreated. This statement  Not too accurate.  Not long ago, several fast ships arrived at the Port of Michigan carrying many family members of the Jurchen leaders. Mainly because of the cold weather in the north and the sailing against the wind, they arrived at the Port of Michigan relatively late.  The reason why the families of these leaders came over was because the failure of the rebellion was a foregone conclusion. In order to stabilize the hearts of the leaders, Lu Hui persuaded them to transfer their wives and children. However, Lu Hui still did not say that they would transfer to the Song Dynasty, but that they would transfer to the Song Dynasty.  To the Japanese country.  But Lu Hui also asked that after arriving at the destination, if the arrangements are in place, let their family members draw some specific characters or tokens, but only they know these characters and tokens.  There is no way, there are almost no literate people who give birth to girls.  The people of the Central Plains have been hospitable since ancient times, and they were of great help to the Song Dynasty.  After arriving in Mizhou, the imperial court immediately issued an edict, asking Mizhou officials to immediately provide a large amount of housing, food, clothing, money, and silk, and they must be properly arranged.  It was safe and sound, far exceeding the expectations of these family members. They naturally handed over their safety seals to Lu Hui's men. Some smart ones could even use these seals to express more complex meanings. Not only did they come here safely, but they were also safe.  It's good here.  Lu Hui¡¯s men returned to Liaodong with some supplies that were in short supply in Liaodong and these seals. They had no worries and could all work hard.  This is also the arrangement Wang Ju asked last year, and the difficulty of handling it is very low, so Wang Ju doesn't care too much.  But after the ships arrived, Lu Hui also asked his subordinates to send a piece of valuable information.  Of course, by this time, the imperial court also understood the significance of Liaodong's containment for the expedition to Xia. After receiving this information, it immediately delivered it to Wang Ju by special foot. Therefore, at least Wang Ju had a clear understanding of the Liaodong battlefield.  The scale of this rebellion in Liaodong was very large. It once captured Yinzhou and almost threatened the safety of Tokyo City of the Liao Kingdom. Then it set up an ambush on the banks of the Huhan River and drowned tens of thousands of Liao troops. This made Yelu Hongji furious.  An army of two hundred thousand was launched.  "Subsequently, thousands of soldiers and horses on the other side withdrew from the Yalu River, and took the opportunity to blame Goryeo.  But Lu Hui and several generals stayed behind, leading these unborn girls to continue fighting against the Liao Kingdom.  Lu Hui did a good job this time, but he was not as talented as Wanyan Aguda. Under the repeated encirclement and suppression by the huge Liao army, and the fighting lasted for so long, the people of all tribes were also harmed, so the Liao Kingdom used some co-optation policies.  After dividing some tribes, and with the cooperation of these tribes, the rebels were gradually annihilated or forced to surrender. Now they no longer have guerrilla tactics, but have become hiding in the east tactics.  Lu Hui had no choice but to lead the rest of the group across the Hun Tong River and sneaked into the Nasugu Deren area, which had extremely harsh terrain and was filled with cold forests, swamps and grasslands.  In other words, since the autumn of last year, some of the main troops of the Liao Kingdom have withdrawn from Liaodong. However, the Song Dynasty's intelligence network in the Liao Kingdom was not developed and they did not find out.  But fortunately, Lu Hui understood the importance and saw the Liao army withdrawing. He once again led the remaining troops across the Huntong River and attacked the newly established strongholds of the Liao Kingdom. As a result, the Liao Kingdom had to leave nearly half of its troops to continue the cleanup.  Then the cold winter comes, and the sky is covered with snow, and everyone takes a rest together.  However, because of Wang Ju's order, the fleet on the other side sent many valuable supplies by ship this winter, including cold-proof supplies, food, weapons, medicinal materials, etc., allowing the troops to have a good rest.  Today in spring, the ice and snow have not melted yet, Lu Hui led them to continue fighting against the Liao army.  But it cannot be said that Mogusi¡¯s information is useless at all. It is still valuable.  Because it revealed two pieces of news. The first one is that this spring, the Liao Kingdom may have wiped out many rebels again. The remaining rebels are no longer enough to threaten the stability of Liaodong, so the Liao Kingdom withdrew the rest of the main army.  .  Of course, as long as the other side continues to support various supplies, this group of rebels will never make a serious mistake without six or seven years.  Perhaps Goryeo did not have the guts to agree to some humiliating conditions for Liao. Perhaps Liao had a choice between retaliating against Goryeo and rescuing Xixia, and finally chose to rescue Xixia.  Wang Ju then asked Zhongshi Dao to detach a force and retreat to Yanzhou.  Teacher Zhong left the tent and went down to count the troops.  Wang Ju asked people to bring up the emissary sent by Mogusi, then took out a large map, and first said: "Your leader?In secret, someone is very welcome, but it's just a few verbal messages, how can someone believe it?  "Zhe Keshi stood aside to translate. Because Zubu has been isolated from the Central Plains for a long time, few Zubu people can speak Chinese, so they have to communicate in Dangxiang language. "General, you must believe it.  "    "believe?  We, the Song Dynasty, have no grudges against you for blocking the divination, but you did not care about being thousands of miles away and came from the desert to the Xia Kingdom to attack our army. Is this the reason for you to believe it?  Moreover, your leader also asked me to provide weapons. If your leader gets these weapons and uses them to fight our army, wouldn't it be a big joke?  " "No, no.  " "Words are unfounded, but it depends on actual actions. Since the Lord of Liao ordered you to enter Xiazhou City, when you go back, tell your leader to enter Xiazhou City immediately, and then kill all the Xixia officers and soldiers in Xiazhou City.  Then send someone to inform my officers and soldiers in Yinzhou to hand over Xiazhou City to them.  "Without the Liao Kingdom's orders, it was very easy for this divination cavalry to enter Xiazhou City. As long as they entered the city, the Xixia people were unprepared and easily completed Wang Ju's instructions. This is the certificate of surrender.  The secret envoy looked troubled. The Song people were happy by doing this, but the Liao Kingdom was desperate. "Are you not as good as a group of uncivilized female immortals?  The Liao Kingdom was already in decline and could no longer be called the overlord of the grasslands.  Moreover, giving birth to a girl is really isolated and helpless, but as long as you divination people abandon the darkness and turn to the light, we, the Song Dynasty, are standing behind you.  " If Zhao Xu is alive, he will definitely provide disguised support to the divinationists. He may not send troops to help, but he can use other methods. But if Zhao Xu dies, it will be hard to say. However, Wang Ju is definitely not a liar! "I will take you with me.  Take a look at some armor.  " It is impossible for the divine arm bow and artillery to support the divination people, and the court cannot agree. But the Song Dynasty had no shortage of other sharp weapons. Wang Ju asked Wang Zishan to bring several sets of vests, sabers, and a new type of bow and arrow. It was still  Composite bows, but as the Song Dynasty continued to expand its territory over the years, especially the Hehuang area, it obtained a large number of war horses, and thus armed many cavalry. Wang Ju found that the original bows and arrows were not suitable for cavalry use, including the original two.  There are three kinds of composite bows, including black lacquer bow, yellow birch bow, white birch bow and hemp back bow. So Wang Ju asked the bow craftsman of the weapons supervisor to make repeated improvements and develop a new type of bow, which was quite similar to the Ming Dynasty Xiaoshao bow and the Western bow.  Of course, Wang Ju didn't know what the Ming Dynasty Xiaoshao bow looked like. Its range and penetration were not as good as those of the original compound bows, but it required lower pulling force and faster arrow release.  Simple, this also means that although it shortens the shooting range, it is more convenient and faster to release arrows. After repeated improvements, it has been widely promoted among the cavalry of the Song Dynasty. What is the power of these armored bows and arrows?  The soldier had experienced it personally. Wang Ju asked the emissary to experience it personally, and then said: "As long as you can complete a certain condition, a certain person will send you out of Yinshan, and I will immediately give you 10,000 sabers and sabers like this."  War bows, and also deliver to you one hundred thousand arrows and five thousand sets of horse armor.  " Excluding shipping costs, the cost of this batch of weapons alone reached more than 200,000 yuan. But as long as the Zubo people turn against the Liao Kingdom, it will be worth it. Not only this condition, but there is another condition that makes the Zubu people even more excited.  Wang Ju brought him to the map again, pointed at the map and said: "Our army will be able to defeat Xixia soon, and an army has already arrived at Juyanhai.  " This emissary was confused. Wang Ju added: "The price of your fortune-telling horses is low, but in our dynasty, a good war horse can cost fifty or sixty guan, and an ordinary war horse can also cost 30 guan.  Do you know how much money is worth?  To me a piece of coarse silk is worth only a small amount of money.  " The current Guan is Xinguan, and the standard price is one thousand cents. If you are in a silk-producing area, you can actually buy a very good piece of silk with the same money! " No need to compare with this, Wang Ju is really worried about these divination people.  I don¡¯t know the relevant prices. Why do you say this? There is really no shortage of war horses in the Liao Kingdom. Just like in May of the previous year, the Liao Kingdom checked the number of herd horses in the country and found that the number of herd horses reached one million due to increased breeding, so they rewarded them.  Each group of herding officers. This is only the number of herding horses according to statistics. The actual number is far more than this number. But as "strategic weapons", the Liao State would rather freeze the horses to death and prohibit tribes from using war horses to trade with the Song Dynasty.  Therefore, horses here in the Song Dynasty were extremely expensive, but the prices of horses in some remote areas of the Liao Kingdom were frighteningly low. Therefore, a strange trade occurred. Xixia used green salt to transport it to the Western Mountains of the Liao Kingdom and exchanged it for the Bai Dadan people.  A large number of war horses, the good horses are kept, and the bad horses are sent to??Anjun traded with the Song Dynasty.  For just a little green salt, he got a large number of good horses, plus various Song Dynasty commercial goods.  Bai Dadan's side is even better, not too far away from Xixia and Song Dynasty. Xiangsheng Jurchen's side can often get a good horse with an iron pot.  Although the price of a divination horse cannot be as low as this, it is still surprisingly low. One or two pieces of rough silk can be exchanged for a good horse.  The reason Wang Ju said this was to tell him that our Song Dynasty had captured Xixia and also Juyanhai. There was still more than a thousand kilometers from Juyanhai to the core area of ??Zubu, Woluduo City, but Juyan  There are some nomadic tribes in the northern part of the sea, just because they are chasing water and grass, and they have no fixed place to live. Most of these nomadic tribes are divination people.  If the trade route is opened, the Zubu people can go south from Juyanhai along the Ruoshui River to Ganzhou, or go east to Helan Mountain.  Now that the Song Dynasty occupies these areas, it means that war horses can be traded fairly.  "You don't expect to sell a horse to the Song Dynasty in exchange for thirty pieces of silk. You can at least get ten pieces of silk."  What does that mean?  There is more.  Wang Ju continued: "The only neighbors to the north of Juyanhai are you, the divination people. However, to the northeast of you are the Menggu tribe, Dilieba tribe, and Chazha tribe. To the north of you are the Meiliji tribe,  Orang changed the ministries, and to the northwest of you are the Nianbage tribe and the Jiajiasi tribe. Compared with you and others, they lack all kinds of goods from the Central Plains, and the horse prices are even cheaper!  More big animals, sinews and fur. Do you understand what I said? "Can this emissary still not understand?  This means that just one transfer can bring huge wealth.  Poor, maybe for them, hundreds of thousands of fine silks are unimaginable wealth.  And there is another thing. The so-called prevention is not a whole. It covers the vast area from Juyanhai to the north of Yinshan Mountain, to the west of Heiche Shiwei and Wugu Dilie, to the south of Meiliji Department, and to the east of Nianbage Department.  The scope of the Yubu Department occupies almost half of the desert.  The southern ones are called the Zubu tribe, which is actually composed of many large and small tribes. The northern ones are called the Northern Zubu tribe. There are nine large tribes in the Northern Zubu tribe alone, so they are also called the Nine Tribes of Dadan. Even though the Liao Dynasty  The state canonized Mogusi as the new leader of the divination people, but he could not fully control all the divination ministries, not to mention that Mogusi was about to betray the Liao Kingdom.  But with the benefit of this trade, Mogusi can win over many tribes to strengthen his own power.  It wasn't over yet, Wang Ju said again: "A certain person also promised to trade not only our ordinary goods, but also a large number of weapons and armor." This time the spy's eyes really lit up.  Except for horses, cattle and sheep, everything on the grassland is lacking, including water, cloth, tea, ironware, and all kinds of living utensils But for the divination people, the most lacking thing is weapons.  After this battle, the Song army will seize a large number of Xixia armors, and 90% of them will be eliminated.  ??Also, after Wang Ju returned to the capital from the other side, he once again conducted a strict review of the weapons inspection. Dozens of officials and craftsmen were sentenced to exile, and four serious embezzlers were sentenced to abandon the market.  As a result, the armory of the military was once again completely renewed, and the imperial court was financially healthy. Over the past few years, almost all the weapons and armor of the three armies had been replaced.  Unqualified, backward, and bulky armors were gradually eliminated, but these eliminated armors became a trouble.  If you reheat it, the loss will be too great. If you don¡¯t reheat it, it will take up space, and you will have to send someone to manage it.  The armor Wang Ju mentioned was exactly these two batches of armor.  After the Battle of Lingzhouchuan, the divinationists saw how advanced the weapons and armor of the Song Dynasty were.  But the Song army also saw how backward the divination armor was.  These armors may not be appreciated by the people of Goryeo and Xixia, but to the divination people, they are treasures.  If you really feel bad about it, you can also sell these armors for the price of a kitchen knife and give half to the fortune teller.  At least something is better than nothing.  This secret agent would not have expected this, but what made him happy was not only that he could obtain more powerful weapons from the Song Dynasty, but also a season.  It will be after the autumn when the matter is over and the army returns to stop the divination, arrange the exchange of goods, materials and livestock, and win over the various ministries.  This can be a sad season for tribes across the desert steppes.  Because shortly after autumn, it means the arrival of severe winter.  Often a heavy snowfall will freeze most of the livestock to death. It is not only dangerous in winter, but also in spring. If you encounter a late spring cold, it will be more harmful than a cold winter. For example, the Liao Kingdom encountered a rare late spring cold in the past few years.  Suddenly it snowed more than ten feet, killing seven or eight horses, and countless other livestock died of freezing.  So as soon as autumn comes, all the grassland departments start to get busy, providing fodder and warm things to keep out the cold.Supplies, tents, etc.  Therefore, as long as the prices of commercial goods in the Song Dynasty were reasonable, herdsmen in each tent would be willing to sell their livestock during this season if they had a large number of livestock.  In fact, Wang Ju also thought of this, and in order to prevent the Liao Kingdom from sending troops to suppress it, if Mogusi truly fell in love with the Song Dynasty, then this autumn there would be a rare large-scale transaction.  Wang Juzhen dare not say what attitude the Song Dynasty will adopt after Zhao Xu's death in the future, but as long as this year's transaction goes smoothly, the fortune tellers will obtain a large number of weapons. In fact, for them, the most critical thing at the moment is not the lack of various weapons.  Grow commercial goods, but weapons!  Only with sufficient weapons can we fight against the Liao Kingdom in the future. If nothing happens next spring, Wang Ju may be able to continue to support a batch of excellent armors. In addition, the batch of armors after autumn will be sold at a low price of half-sold and half-given.  The price is traded to the fortune teller, so Wang Ju is not deceiving the fortune teller.  As for whether Mogusi will fail, without that ability, why would you be a mob!  Wang Ju asked the emissary to return to Huangyangping with those sample weapons. With the conditions he gave, I believe that Mogusi would definitely be moved.  Just watching his leaving figure, Wang Ju secretly said in his heart: "Double insurance is available." Then Wang Ju wrote a memorial and sent it to the capital on a fast horse.  Now the possibility of the Liao State sending troops has been infinitely enlarged, especially in Hebei. Regardless of the many forts and trenches built, these are all false. After all, most of them are flat places with no danger to rely on. Therefore, fighting in Hebei depends entirely on  Now that the soldiers have mastered their skills, Hebei really cannot take it lightly.  As for this letter reaching the capital, it will trigger a crazy backlash from some scholar-bureaucrats, but Wang Ju doesn't care I'm afraid you will settle the score in the future?  
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