Chapter 22: Expediency

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The county is floating in front of the pool, and the waves are moving far into the sky.

On a good windy day in Xiangyang, stay drunk and mountainous.

When Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote this poem, the Tang Dynasty had just begun to decide to develop the south of the river, and the Han River became an important transportation route to communicate the north and the south, this river of more than 3,000 miles started from the Qinling Mountains, and flowed all the way through Xiangyang in Hanzhong to Ezhou to join the river, connecting the Guanzhong Plain and the Jianghan Plain into one.

At the beginning of the year, the Yuan people launched a war to seize most of the Jinghu North Road, including Ezhou, the entire Hanshui basin fell into their hands, so the original front-line base in Xiangyang Prefecture moved forward here, thanks to the convenient transportation conditions in the lower reaches of the Han River, a large number of grain, heavy armor, ordnance and even horses and sergeants through guò amphibious, a steady stream of convergence towards Ezhou, which contributed to the establishment of Jinghu Xingzhongshu Province in advance, and most of the civil affairs were handed over to the new provincial right Cheng Lian Xixian to deal with, And Pingzhang Ali Hague is mired in a mountain of military affairs.

"The war has not yet begun, the consumption of grain and grass has more than doubled, not long after the rule here, the people are still suspicious, and if they are in a hurry, something will happen, if the Song people's fine work is mixed with a handful, in the blink of an eye, you and I will sit on the crater, Ali Hague, you should think about how to make those soldiers eat less than I have to fight with me."

In the lobby of the former Song people's deputy envoy Si Yamen, who had not had time to hang up the sign of the province, Lian Xixian unhurriedly crossed his fingers to calculate the accounts for Ali Hague, who came in a hurry, this year is a bumper year, and most of the local acres have been harvested, but it takes time to pay taxes and put them into the warehouse, and you can't directly send troops to the people's homes to rob it.

After the army collapsed in Jiankang, nearly 100,000 people were like locusts, wherever they went, where they ate up, several states along the river were deeply affected, and the bad influence caused by it cannot be eliminated to this day.

From Lian Xixian's original intention, it was best for this new province to be tax-free this year to show the benevolence of the new dynasty, but now that the war is imminent, all the people must be in power, so he has to do his best to maintain it, and the people are not against him is his bottom line.

"You don't want to think about it, if you transport a stone of corn from the nearest Henan and other places, the consumption on the road is as high as half a stone, if you go a little further and send it from Shandong, Hebei or even Gyeonggi, it will be the price of two or three stones, which can catch up with the local cattle and sheep prices. Such an expensive grain is offered by the upper and lower belts of this dynasty, you don't understand the official, so why don't you understand the difficulty of the Great Khan, can you succeed? ”

"It is with this in mind that I came to discuss with you, you are afraid of the people's rebellion, I am afraid of the soldiers' rebellion, these are guest troops, and they have nothing to do in peacetime, you let them eat less of a meal and a half, and it will be a big mess if they delay the drill. This is the frontline place, I don't know how many spies are staring at you and me outside, Lian Mencius, you talk about benevolence and righteousness, but this official is that cruel person? To tell you the truth, Yangluo Fort was already under martial law before he came, and Ashuhan led the cavalry to patrol day and night, for fear of a little chaos, but if the food did not arrive, even if he had great ability, it would be useless, and you don't want to end up like this. ”

Lian Xixian was silent, both of them had difficulties, but the biggest difficulty was that the war could not be launched for a long time, and these increasing soldiers became a burden on the local area, and the grain was sent over like a flowing water, but now it has almost reached the point where there is no food to be sent, and if there is no cantonment on the front line, the enemy can only be fed with food, will the Song people let them get their wish like they did at the beginning of the year?

"I can transfer some from Chang Ping to you, and then I want to borrow from a large family, and use the autumn tax as collateral, this is already the limit, the method of raising taxes you said will never work, and it must be implemented, unless you let the Great Khan withdraw me and hand it over to you."

Ali Hague went this way in person, it was impossible not to let him take it back at all, Lian Xixian almost gritted his teeth and said his bottom line, and then forced him to resign on his own, Ali Hague of course understood this truth, but he was still a little unwilling.

"Anyway, I've already opened my mouth, I might as well borrow more at a time, the autumn tax is not enough, I will use the Song people's treasury as a countervail, forcing them is better than forcing the people, no matter how tight they are, they will not be able to rebel."

Lian Xixian did not answer, it is impossible for them to rebel, but these people represent the wishes of the people, and how many gentry interests are involved in the back, when the time comes, I am afraid that before the war starts, the officials will drown the two people in front of them, as the saying goes, a penny is difficult for a hero, and a grain of rice can also be difficult for two prime ministers, Lian Xixian shook his head but not to refuse, but helpless.

The matter is so big that there is a result, after drinking tea for a while, Ali Hague is going to get up and say goodbye, he is really a little uneasy about Yangluo Fort, there are a lot of new sergeants recently, the camp in the fort has long been insufficient, how to arrange it reasonably is also a big deal, the distance from the near and far places should be noted, the more people, the easier it is to make trouble.

"Prime Minister, most of the capital from Xiangyang Mansion is urgent."

Before he could retreat, a scribe hurriedly walked in with a piece of paper, and the last few words made Ali Hague stop, and his eyes were stunned.

The moment he took the paperwork, Lian Xixian's eyes shrank a little, and the fire paint on it was covered with the seal of Zhongshu Province, which was not unusual.

And a smaller seal is the real reason why he attaches importance to it, that is the private seal of Zhongshu Ling, the highest governor of Zhongshu Province, and the person in charge of this position is the crown prince Zhenjin!

Carefully pick open the seal, the inside is only two pages thin, one page, Lian Xixian's breathing became a little short, he carefully looked up word by word before he found Ali Hague's gaze, and handed the paper over.

"As I said, you and I were grabbed by Ali Hague with the paper, Lian Xixian just began to read the second page, the things on this page made him feel a little embarrassed, and when he put it down, his brows were already tightly wrinkled together, and Ali Hague, who was not far away, showed a trace of excitement." The Great Khan made a move. "He knows very well why Ali Hague is like this, the peace agreement is a foregone conclusion, although the mission was slaughtered, although it was a little unexpected, it was not their turn to ask the truth, which means that the war is imminent, if there is no second page attached." yes, the Great Khan did it. The literal meaning is the same, but the meaning inside is completely opposite, Lian Xixian sighed leisurely and handed him the second page in his hand. Ali Hague obviously hasn't recovered from the excitement yet, so in the above content, his face has become a little distorted, and with his rough shape, he will definitely think that this is a rage, and Lian Xixian certainly understands that this is a transition from surprise to overwhelm, and finally turned into disappointment. They knew about Atahai's return from Xuzhou, they originally thought that they would accept some secret order, but they didn't expect it to be to quell the rebellion, there is no news in the northwest, and something happened in Liaodong again, and nearly half of the moon has passed, and if they don't do it, they will miss the best opportunity, not only will the risk increase greatly, but even their former opponents have recently changed their appearance, and they frequently show another attitude. Needless to say, the new Jiangzhou of the Song people has been preparing for war since his arrival, and he has built a city wall to recruit soldiers. Anqing Mansion, which is close to Qizhou, Zhang Chengxuan, who is very capable of fighting, is also moving frequently, and even began to evacuate the people from the border, Huaixi, the official surnamed Li who succeeded Xia Gui personally appeared in Guangzhou and other places along the border line of Anfengjun, and recently heard that he was going to Haozhou, and the peace agreement signed before did not serve the purpose of paralyzing the Song people at all, is it because of this, the Great Khan made a decisive move? In such a situation, can it still be sent on three fronts? From the perspective of the national situation, Dayuan is now different from the past, Ali Hague believes that only with the soldiers and horses gathered in the area of Yangluo Fort, he has the confidence to go straight to Jinghu, although it may not be able to achieve the effect of breaking through the bamboo at the beginning of the year, and he is still confident that he will cross the river and reach the city of Jiankang. As for the future, he is not Boyan, and the number of people will fight for the defenders of the Song people, how can he be so stupid that people will be defeated in a night attack. But the two of them know their Great Khan very well, and the reason why they have gathered so many military forces is to go down with one drum, and they don't want to have any accidents, how long will the chaos in Liaodong last? No one is sure, so the expedient measures just agreed upon, I am afraid that they will continue to be implemented, and both of them are bitter in each other's eyes, and they can't help but have a taste of sympathy. "Prime Minister Pingzhang, it's not good." There is no way to get rid of the annoying things, and when he hears such a tone again, even the good-tempered Lian Xixian is a little angry. "What's going on?" "Outside the city" came to report that it was a new annexed army thousand households guarding the door, and his subordinates were all locals, and they had not been replaced in order to show that they had not been replaced, and they were usually conscientious, who knew that they would be so uncomposed, and they didn't get to the point after saying a few times outside the city. Ali Hague's face changed suddenly, could it be that the Song people heard the news and went directly to the city? Originally, he wouldn't think so, but he had seen the Song people's cousins in Chizhou, so he had to have an extra heart, that Li Dashuai, who was in charge of Jianghuai, might really be able to do this kind of thing, and the gathering place of the army, Yangluo Fort, was in Huangzhou downstream, and there was no preparation here! This book is from/book/html/16/16078/