Chapter 1187 Wen and Wu

After chatting with Li Xinniang, Su You asked, "What has Shaanxi Road Jiyisi been doing recently?" ”

Tong Guan said: "Just as he was about to report to the Duke of the Kingdom, Lord Xia sent someone to send a message, saying that he was willing to exchange Quye Henan for the support of the Great Song Dynasty to help him get rid of the Liang family's relatives and seize power. ”

Su You smiled slightly: "Driving tigers and devouring wolves is not a fuel-efficient lamp......"

Tong Guan said: "The news was sent through Yu Zang Huama, who is Bingchang's brother-in-law and has always been dissatisfied with the Liang family. ”

"Xia Ting ordered him to suppress Li Wenzhao, and Yu Zang Huama negotiated peace with him in order to preserve his strength."

"After this situation was grasped by Wang Chudao, through coercion and temptation, now Yuzang Huama has become an important chess piece in our Western Xia."

Su You asked, "What about Qiqi?" ”

Tong Guan said: "The news sent by Qiqi is indeed another set, saying that the news of the usual changes is already known to the Empress Dowager Liang, and the Liang family will not sit idly by, but now it is just a trigger." ”

"Usually there is no chance, but this is the opportunity of the Great Song Dynasty."

"There will definitely be chaos in Xixia next year, and then we will see how the opportunity is used."

Su You only remembered the defeat and loss of the Wulu Xia in history, but the details of the previous foreplay were not very clear, and now it seems that most of the contradictions between the emperors and queens of Western Xia reached the point of irreconcilability, which created an opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty.

Whether it's right or not, just take advantage of the opportunity.

Thinking of this, Su You asked, "Is there a trust?" ”

Tong Guan shook his head: "I just got in touch, but Yu Zang Huama said that at my Zhengdan court meeting, Lord Xia will send an envoy to celebrate, and the envoy is Li Qing, and he will discuss this matter with my court secretary at that time." ”

"Wang Chudao has asked Li Qing to carry a letter written by Lord Xia, and asked Yu Zanghua Ma to agree to our spy team to pick up Li Qing and ensure the success of the mission."

Su You: "Since Qi Qi said that the situation is under the control of Empress Dowager Liang, do you think it can be successful?" ”

Tong Guan said: "What if you let Qiqi be responsible and facilitate this? ”

Su You glanced at Tong Guan: "A poor Qi for a Li Qing?" Do you think it's worth it? ”

Tong Guan said: "Then if the Empress Dowager Liang really controls the situation in Western Xia......"

Su You said: "I can't control it, we have more means now." And the Western Xia problem can't be solved by Empress Dowager Liang controlling a court, understand? ”

Tong Guan admired Su You's overall view: "Then do we still have to send a team?" ”

Su You said: "Of course, this must be sent, but we must tell them to protect themselves, and if the conditions do not allow, they can give up their goals." ”

"Also, at most, you can only carry cold weapons and earth-shattering thunder."

Tong Guan nodded: "Understood." ”

Su You said: "Compared to this, I care more about our side, how do you get along with Wang Hou and Li Yong?" Wang Hou has been working for more than ten years, and his experience is much more experienced than yours. ”

Tong Guan smiled: "Don't worry, there is no one in the world who I can't handle." ”

The sand table deduction is not something that can be completed in a while, not to mention that Su You has also considered several presets, so it takes more time.

In the past few days, I have to have a party with my old subordinates, and finally take a carriage to Weizhou.

In the past 20 years, the road situation has improved a lot, and the roads in Shaanxi can even be said to be the best in the whole Song Dynasty.

This reminded Su You of Yunnan during the self-defense and counterattack war in later generations, when Yunnan's road construction was more than ten years ahead of the country.

Weizhou, now is the first male city in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, the city wall has been replaced with cement, there are four fortresses on one side to support, the surrounding mountains are built to build a fortress, the thunderbolt cannon and the Shenwei general cannon are not equipped because of secrecy, but the steel arm ballista is placed in the horse-faced wall and the fortress at the head of the city like money.

Such a big city, in addition to being cut off from reinforcements and supplies, is occupied by enemy troops for 500 miles in the rear, and it is actually impossible to attack it by hard attack.

However, the country is not at risk of mountains and rivers, and not many of the big cities in history have been forcibly attacked.

At the south gate of Weizhou, two big men on Shaanxi Road, Fan Chun and Lu Huiqing, were waiting for Su You's arrival in the heavy snow.

Behind them, there is also the newly arrived secretary of the transfer department, Bi Zhongyou.

Fan Chun is far superior to Lu Huiqing in terms of temperament, but his political talent is average, and it was not until Bi Zhongyou arrived that Fan Chun breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Huiqing has a lot of actions, especially on top of the decree. Most of Wang Anshi's new law provisions were made by Lu Huiqing in Sinong Temple.

This is also where Lu Huiqing was criticized, Su Shi once said with great fanfare that the formulation of the decree by Sinong Temple itself was illegal, and he did not admit it.

But I have to say that Lu Huiqing has made great achievements in the reform faction of the new law.

Fan is purely a conservative, and Shaanxi is also a stronghold of conservatives and reformists, and Lu Huiqing has a weak foundation here, but he can't stand up to his many ideas.

His goal was to put Xiang Yong and Fan Ding.

Shaanxi Yiyong and Fan Yong are important supplements to the regular army, and it can even be said that this is the second echelon of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

Su You's improved armor protection law also makes use of these forces, but it is more inclined to believe that they are still people's forces, mainly responsible for stabilizing and consolidating law and order in urban and rural areas.

However, Lu Huiqing obviously did not think so, he believed that the combat strength of Shaanxi Yiyong and Fan Yong was only stronger than that of the Fourth Army in Bianjing before the transformation, and such a combat force was scattered in the countryside by Su You, which was a huge waste of human resources of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, he suggested that the law of protecting the armor should be truly implemented, and that the township Yong and the fan brave should gather at the state capital at the spring and autumn two o'clock to check and review, and once there is a war, it can also make up for the lack of combat strength.

This move met with resolute opposition from Fu Bi, Sima Guang, and Fan Chun, but Lu Huiqing was a person who had participated in politics, and he also had a secret box in his hand, so he directly skipped the transfer department and sent the secret performance to Zhao Xu's case.

This directly made Fan Chun tear his face with him, and the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.

Fan Chun immediately impeached Lu Huiqing for his great achievements, despised his superiors for making every effort to use the people's strength, and listed the labor of the people of Shaanxi - river control, canal construction, grain transportation, city repair, defense assistance, supply and transportation, and there was no rest all year round. Lu Huiqing was purely Hu Lai, and asked the imperial court to transfer him out of Shaanxi.

His views are exactly the same as those of Sima Guang, who once pointed out sharply that it was not a problem of insufficient troops at all, but a problem of insufficient combat strength.

Sima Guang saw the key, the problem of redundant troops in the Great Song Dynasty also existed in Shaanxi at that time.

But he could not solve this problem, he insisted on the professionalization of the military, and did not let the civilian people take on military tasks.

Because for Shaanxi at that time, it was the naked oppression and exploitation of the people, and it was useless.

worked hard all his life, even if he didn't die on the battlefield, after being discharged from the army, he had nothing to do, he had no standing cone and no tiles, he became a refugee, and after his death, he was sent to a mass grave and buried hastily, and he never experienced the taste of being a human being in his life.

He believes that the task of guarding the frontier should be completed by the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and if the forbidden army cannot be completed, it will be the pot of the forbidden army, so it should be drilled, selected generals, and strengthened combat power, so that they can be competent.

But this kind of thinking is also too idealistic, the forbidden army has long been corrupt and degenerate, and if you don't take money, you won't move your nest, and you will scatter and flee when you take the money out of the city gate, and you will already be stuck in the mud and not on the wall.

When Su You arrived in Weizhou, he first transferred two local tyrant troops from Shuzhong into Shaanxi, so that the Western Army could see how much the serious elite could get in a month.

Then vigorously engage in land, industry, trade, and equipment, and sell them at a price.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the next step is to eliminate the troops.

Use hoarding and controlling cranes as a template to select and train elites, and those who are not qualified are released to be ordinary people, and they will no longer become a burden on the army.

And those who stay are those who are confident that they can eat this bowl of rice, or who desperately want to eat this bowl of rice.

The Royal Military Crash Course has trained a lot of grassroots officers who know the orders of the new army in batches, even if they only replace the weapons with crane crossbows, riding knives and earth-shaking thunder, the excellent performance of the Western Army after that has made the court very excited, and even promoted the military reform process of the Great Song Dynasty.