It's the height of summer, June 20.

Although many Great Song Dynasty lands fell into the hands of the Liao State, in fact, the Liao people could not actually control those areas, which was at most an official statement that Lao Xiao reported to Yelu Hongji with gold on his face.

In fact, even if the Great Song Dynasty is cowardly, the cohesion is still there, not to mention the brainwashing of the leader of the Great Demon King. As a result, resistance is now everywhere in the enemy-occupied areas, the guerrillas are becoming more and more slippery, and the militia is daring to fight.

This will undoubtedly greatly delay the formation of an effective occupation by the Liao army.

This was not only because of the Great Demon King's policy at that time, which caused many of them to have no worries, but also because Xiao Hui couldn't control his teammates well.

At this time, the loopholes in the logistics line of the Liao army are getting bigger and bigger, and Lao Xiao's mobilization and overall planning ability of logistics cannot be said to be bad, but he has lost at least one grade compared to the big demon king. They also couldn't control the lightning tactics of those northern tribes who were happy to achieve great successes, and under such logistical pressure, they had to requisition the "people's fat and people's cream" from the occupied areas.

This is, of course, an act of pulling hatred. Now that there have been casualties and things have been robbed by the Liao, the dare warriors were born from this worry-free group, and there are more and more of them, and there is a tendency to almost multiply and expand the virus.

In any case, the Great Demon King's strategic buffer layer has been fully formed, and it lasts until this time in mid-June, and the advance speed of the Liao army stops at the quasi-second-line defense circle, let alone advance quickly, it is difficult to push further.

Now that the battle line has been stretched to such a large size and the logistics are very porous, Lao Xiao has not dared to give the order for a general attack on the second-line town.

On the other side, the Great Demon King sitting in the Song Kingdom's Mansion got another respite.

But Wang Yan did not let up. The rest now is to prepare for the next round of more fierce attacks, and Wang Yan knows that this buffer will not be too long.

There is no doubt that Lao Xiao's goal is to push the Daimyo's Mansion, and after the size of the Daimyo's Mansion determines that after they obtain it, the logistical pressure of the Liao Army within a year will basically be gone, and even more troops can be invested to participate in the effective occupation.

It is reported that Zhuo Luolan has entered Lao Xiao's handsome account as an "external staff" and participated in decision-making, so the Great Demon King clearly realizes that the mistakes made by Lao Xiao will be reduced in the future.

From now on, the Great Song Dynasty will have about sixty days at most, and it will face a real dark night, and it will be attacked by the second round of blitzkrieg of the Liao State. The quasi-second-line defensive circle is 100% untenable.

The reason why it is estimated to be 60 days is to refer to the continuous operation of the logistics line of Liao, but slowly rather than without interruption. So time is their "cache", and now they have appropriately stopped and waited for grain and grass, and in the season near the autumn harvest, taking the daimyo's mansion directly is one of the few options.

Now is the last respite for the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Demon King who planned to give up the quasi-second coil before the war started, has been deploying the battlefield of the Daimyo's Mansion.

During the previous retreat from the north, the heavy artillery deployed on the front line did not mean that it could not be taken away, but it was okay to forcibly take it away.

But the Great Demon King issued an order to "hurry up and withdraw people, blow up all clumsy offensives, including heavy artillery, and we don't want and can't leave it to the Liao".

This policy is actually Wang Yan's smoke, in order to confuse the Liao people. In order to cause signs of panic in the Great Song Dynasty, it caused the inertial thinking of the Liao people that "there are not many heavy artillery in the Great Song Dynasty".

But in fact, today's industrial capacity of the Great Song Dynasty is based on the industry that Wang Yan moved inward at that time, not the hundreds of heavy artillery that were blown up in the north as smoke.

To take advantage of this period to deploy more than 1,000 Shenwu heavy artillery pieces at a predetermined location in Beijing, this is easy for the current industrial scale of the Great Song Dynasty, even 10,000 heavy artillery pieces are not a problem.

The reason why there is no heavy bet of 10,000 doors is that the Great Demon King is not sure in his heart whether the Daimyo's Mansion will be the turning point of the Song-Liao War?

At the earliest, the world war envisaged by the Great Demon King when he deployed the internal relocation of the industry took into account the conditions of "the fall of the Daimyo's Mansion".

But because the Great Demon King came to power ahead of schedule, there were variables either early or late.

In short, no matter what, the end of August, sixty days later, will be the most important moment in the Great Song Dynasty.

It has already been confirmed that the first generation of strategic bombers could not enter service at this point in time. If there is a tendency for Beijing to fall, and the Beijing aircraft factory and wind tunnel must be blown up, then the take-off of the first generation of strategic bombers will be extended by at least another four to five months.

But in any case, we must try to fight a large-scale battle in Beijing. For this strategic interception, the Great Demon King used all his prestige, pulled the greatest hatred in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, defeated more than 100 army tigers, and reorganized more than 300,000 barely usable field troops. Their quality is still not good, but they will participate in the largest battle of this era with a belief that has never been seen in the history of the Great Song Army.

In order to further cooperate with these strategies, in the early morning of June 21, the Great Demon King wrote a letter to Gao Zhisheng of Dali on the old desk.

As the minister and actual controller of Dali during this period, Gao Shi has nothing to do with how obscene he is politically, but now he has to ask him.

In the letter, the Great Demon King said frankly: "As a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty, you Dali theoretically need to send troops to help the suzerain. But now I know your country's thoughts, and the Song people will reason with themselves and will not embarrass your country. But in fact, the world war has begun, and now troops are being sent everywhere to fight, and once the results of such a situation are produced, your dovish thinking that Dali is content with one corner will be shattered. This is the law of history. ”

"The laws of history determine that they are all hooligans, and my Song Kingdom must be the most gentle and polite, and it can also bring the people's livelihood benefits to you Dali, and at the same time, as the suzerain, we are the country that dislikes to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Gao Xiangming, I assume that this time you sit and watch the situation, and in the end, when my Great Song Dynasty is defeated, and the Western Xia or Liao Kingdom is fully bordered by your Dali, where is the way out for your Dali Buddhist thinking? Will they still be like my Song people who will not interfere in your internal affairs and will not harvest the interests of your country? ”

"Your country and Jiaozhi have always had heart problems, and the Jiaozhi people are more aggressive, and they are less likely to harass you, in addition to your relative poverty, the biggest reason is that my Da Song is still located next to Jiaozhi, which makes them have some scruples. If my Great Song Dynasty fell, Jiaozhi participated in the war as the first to correspond to the vanguard of the Liao State, as a meritorious hero, it is the rule to divide the war dividends after the war, in terms of the lord feudal system of the Liao State, you Dali and the Liao State have no good fate, how do you think the Jiaozhi people will treat you at that time, and what role will the Liao State play in it? ”

"Don't talk about these 10,000 steps back, at the critical moment, your country will not send troops to show its determination, and do not make its own due obligations for human justice, in case my Song Kingdom does not die, withstands the pressure of the world war, and the strategy gradually changes from contraction to expansion, even if I am generous at that time, but how will the people of the Great Song Dynasty and the bureaucracy of the Great Song Dynasty view the status of Dali, this is not all I can control."

"The rise and fall of the world has its own responsibilities, and I sincerely suggest that your country should do something at this time, and follow in the footsteps of the Great Song Dynasty as a vassal country. I don't need your country to really send troops, I just need your country to make military deployments on the border to scare the Jiaozhi people and let them slow down, so as to cooperate with the launch of a new round of policies in Guangnan, and that's it. You must be aware that there is no need to be careful about offending them now, because you are already hostile to them. In the early morning of June 21, Song Guoshu sentenced Wang Yanshu to respect Gao Zhisheng, the minister of state of Dali. ”

After writing it, I read it again, and at the same time reached to the side to take the tea bowl to cool it, but found that the tea bowl was empty and no one added water.

At first glance, Xu Le was sleepy and dozing off beside him, so he slapped the table and said, "Why are you still stunned, dreaming that it is raining or marrying a daughter-in-law?" Don't hurry up and add water to the master. ”

After Xu Le woke up, he smiled and said: "I dreamed that you were sympathetic to your subordinates and gave you a lot of overtime allowances. ”

As he spoke, he added water to the Great Demon King.

However, there is no overtime allowance, and the "cold drink fee" for this turtle son was not cut because his little sister was pitiful. His sister is a friend and classmate of Erya, and after hearing Erya, she gave her little sister some dried fish, and her little sister could eat it with relish for a morning. And will pretend that they have finished eating, but secretly take some home.

Er Ya didn't know what his little sister was doing with the dried fish slices back, but Er Ya had given Zhang Xiaohua and Sanshao, this kind of fish was usually thrown away after two bites, and they felt that the dried fish made by Er Ya was not famous and tasteless, and they didn't like to eat it.

After adding water, Xu Le said very long-windedly: "I thought I was going to be scolded by you, why did I hide again?" ”

The Great Demon King was not busy with anything else, and asked, "How is your little sister's grades?" ”

"Little confused, if she is half as smart as me, I will rest assured, and I don't need to worry about her in the future." Xu Le said worriedly.

The Great Demon King said: "It's mainly a matter of the field, you have to teach her according to her aptitude, and it's good to find a suitable entrance for her." Over the years, my Great Song Dynasty has changed a lot, and many people with specialties and crafts have a better life, and being an official is no longer the main way out. ”

After chatting a few words about this, Xu Le said again: "By the way, Xianggong, Lu Huiqing is too scheming, you give him such a heavy appointment at this juncture, and hand over Guangdong to him." Will it be too ......?"

Wang Yan frowned for a moment, and then said softly: "Xu Le, one day in the future, if I am not in the center, don't talk about Lu Huiqing again, otherwise there will be trouble, do you know, don't think that he is easy to provoke, don't think that he is as gentle as me." ”

Xu Le couldn't help but be startled, and stuck out his tongue, but he still said curiously: "Conggong handed over Guangdong to Lord Lu Huiqing, and the previous battle in Guangxi was not good, you withdrew your father's Guangdong army deployed in Guangxi, this should be a big problem in Guangdong, right?" ”

Wang Yan nodded helplessly and muttered, "Yes, Guangdong is going to be in turmoil." It is impossible to expect Ouyang to cultivate and educate and solve the problem of the most serious clan thinking in Guangdong, old Ouyang is a good person, but he can add fuel to the fire and lead to the complete detonation of the Guangdong minefield in the darkest period of our Great Song Dynasty. ”

After a pause, he said: "The reason why I have come to oppose the clan and the religious atmosphere is because to a certain extent, the existence of these two is to seize power from the government. Moreover, under the soil of clans and religions, any small problem can be infinitely magnified, and now there are frequent chaos in the southern region, and once a fight occurs, it will be on a scale of hundreds or even thousands, and this is the pot of the village sages and cult leaders. ”

"The problems in Guangdong during this period should be viewed independently, and the religious problems are not as serious as those in other ways, because Guangdong's clan thinking is stronger, and religious preaching has been beaten out by those village sages many years ago and then ran away, especially in the Chaoshan area."

Finally, Wang Yan said: "Now there is a fatal problem in Guangdong that the private production flux is very large, and it accounts for a large proportion in our Great Song Dynasty. Then my Great Song Dynasty lacks copper and they have copper, so there will naturally be countless moths. This is a matter of interest. ”

Xu Le said curiously: "Since there is copper, there should be money and wealth." Then why is Guangdong a backward area of our Great Song Dynasty? ”

Wang Yan said: "It's very simple, although there is a large number of copper smelting industries in Guangdong, it is not the people's own, and a large amount of surplus value has been taken away by the villagers. ”

Xu Le didn't figure it out, and asked, "It's unreasonable, why can the townsmen take away other people's fruits?" ”

Wang Yan said: "Because according to the opinions of the old masters of Confucianism: if the father wants the son to die, the son cannot live." The clan has its own clan law, and can execute its clansmen in the honor of the family law at will. The judges of our government dare not kill the people, and the village sages dare. The judges of our government did not dare to take the money, but the village sages dared. The poor people under the command of our government judges do not make any effort to grind foreign workers, but the village tyrants under the command of the village sages work very hard, persecuting the villagers ruthlessly. This is the nature of gangs, and it is a triad that properly matches religious thinking. So what do you do if you change it? In the case that the government itself is a big mountain, in addition to paying national taxes, the common people also have another big mountain that is the 'sesame oil money of the ancestral ancestral hall'. Xu Le, ask yourself, will the demands of the underworld gangs be gentler than the official tax rate? ”

"......" Xu Le was speechless.

Wang Yan continued: "In such a climate of collapse of official governance, on the one hand, the deflation of our Great Song Dynasty court, but the domestic copper court could not get it, and on the other hand, the flow of oil from the township and the rich turned all the hard currency into private coinage and hid it in the cellar, which is the source of the contradiction. ”

"This is a distributive misstep at the macro level of the country. But at the micro level, Guangdong is facing a specific problem: Now the first mine has been detonated, that is, Qujiang County. ”

"Where there is no other industry, the people have a strong smelting technology and foundation, and almost the entire county people make a living from copper production. After the people produced copper, a large amount of surplus value was taken away by the village sages, and they themselves accumulated a small amount of copper. Since the beginning of the previous year, due to the change in the situation in the East China Sea, after the silver from Wadao in the Great Song Dynasty was cut off, domestic copper became more scarce, and the policy of the three divisions was to step up the persecution of local governments, especially Guangdong, to collect copper to the greatest extent and include it in the treasury of the three divisions to fill the gap. ”

"In this case, in order to whitewash their political achievements, Qujiang County has made a big jump with insufficient foundation, and Qujiang County has no mass base, so in order to correspond to the copper collection policy of the three divisions, it adopts the situation of Guangdong Road officials handing over the white strips, and takes away the copper in the hands of copper households, which finally leads to the inability to cash."

Hearing this, Xu Le thought for a while and said: "Objectively speaking, the lower officials think that there is no big mistake in Qujiang County in theory, and since it is a policy of the three divisions, they have to implement it." It is also impossible to buy copper money and silver at the same price, otherwise when copper is purchased, the imperial court also pays copper, so it will not be able to alleviate the lack of hard currency? ”

Wang Yan smiled and said: "In the general direction, the problem you said is not big, it is indeed the truth. At that time, the policy of the three divisions also mainly promoted paper money, that is, Jiaozi. The problem was that the person Bao Zheng hated the most at that time was Cao Ji, so he did not agree to go to Guangdong to exchange money by Cao Ji's bank. Instead, use Guangdong's own official Jiaozi. Okay, Lao Bao's intentions are generally correct, but I have to ask if it is possible? Under the lack of credibility of the government for a long time, even when the government itself collects taxes, he doesn't want his own official friends, and he still wants the people to forcibly accept it, is he a god? ”

"The people's request is very simple, he doesn't care whether it's copper money or paper money, he only asks for the same 'white strip' that can be exchanged for the materials he wants, then he trusts, if he can't exchange it, he doesn't trust. It's such a simple truth. ”

"Now, the maximum production capacity of civilian goods comes from Cao Ji and Ye Qinghua, which means that their Bank of Communications has the strongest payment capacity in the Great Song Dynasty. The only private Jiaozi recognized by the imperial court and even the local government are mainly these few. Basically, it can also be seen that the common people can only cash in smoothly if they hold the friends of these families, and they can buy the civilian goods they want. ”

So there is a vicious circle, on the one hand, Bao Zheng does not let go, on the other hand, Qujiang County boldly takes away the copper in the hands of the people, which continues to involve the number of people in the county, but the people in their hands can not be cashed, they ask Qujiang County to return the copper to them, which is of course not excessive. Well, Quyang Zhixian has no level, but he really doesn't have a sage and a scoundrel, he admits to taking copper, and admits it, but now the whole country is short of copper, and he really has no copper to pay to the people. ”

Speaking of this, the Great Demon King took a deep breath and concluded: "Now you know, why did I urgently withdraw the Guangdong military system that had entered Guangxi to participate in the war at that time to deploy? ”

Xu Le also felt wrong, "It makes sense, when the clan forces in Guangdong are so powerful, there is no religion to contain them, and the interests that originally belonged to the clan have been taken away by the government and cannot be dealt with, in this case, many areas in the southeast are making trouble, and the imperial court and the forbidden army have no policy correspondence, so it is difficult to ensure that those village sages do not incite trouble." Oh no, they don't even have to instigate, in the case of official political mistakes, they will cause chaos with just one sentence. ”

Wang Yan nodded: "This is the reason why I appointed Guangdong to Lu Huiqing, it's not that Guangxi needs him on the battlefield, Guangxi actually I can send someone else." However, to solve the Guangdong problem, it is none other than Lu Huiqing. ”

Xu Le said: "But the resolution of the Renming Hall meeting, Ouyang Xiu is the 'commander-in-chief' of the education in the south, will your arrangement be ......?"

Wang Yan sneered: "Rely on them, you won't know when the Great Song Pill will be released." Let me tell you, the people who really support the politics of the village sages in my Great Song Dynasty are Wen Yanbo and Ouyang Xiu, the old masters. In this way, you can imagine what means Ouyang Xiu will use to solve the Guangdong problem. I don't need to ask, I know that he will be lazy in government, will compromise, will hand over all the grassroots politics to the village sages, and bow and say, 'You old people and village tyrants have worked hard'. Compared to my policy, this is called losing power and humiliating the country, and children know that if food is not grown in the field, other weeds will go in. I have frequent problems in the Great Song Dynasty, and I don't go to the countryside because of the government's rights. Just because the people who share the world are the village sages, not the people. It's because they didn't understand the truth that the people are the most important and the society is secondary. ”

At this point, the Great Demon King knocked on the table and said, "To put it bluntly, this is incompetence and laziness. The official ignored the interests of the people, entrusted the matter to the village tyrants, and participated in the dinner and night banquets of the village tyrants and village sages every once in a while, drank some wine, touched the thighs of the aid girls, and received some small bribes by the way to gain respect. You don't have to break your legs, you don't have to pull hatred, you don't have to face the verbosity and complaints of the stinky folks, and you don't have to solve the suffering at the bottom. Of course, such officials are easy to do, the problem is that they are easy to do, they are deceitful, but what is squandered is the credibility of me and the emperor! Damn, it's unbearable, I really want to smash these temples and clan ancestral halls, smash these bureaucratic luxury desks. It's not that I'm worried about the country and the people, but because of my interests, they didn't do anything for me and the emperor but they gave us enough negative impact, and it was all a chaotic existence. ”

Seeing that the Great Demon King was originally good, the more he talked, the more angry he became, Khan, Xu Le was careful that if he continued, as soon as he went violent, he took the ministers, including Wen Yanbo, Ouyang Xiu, and Sima Guang, to sacrifice the flag, and the politics were in chaos.

So Xu Le hurriedly said: "Xianggong is angry, you have done your best." Now is not the time to talk about these things, but to concretely solve the problems of Guangdong. It's night, so hurry up and wash and sleep. ”

"Hey, what are you guys doing here! I can't sleep right now! Is it funny to forcibly tie me to bed? ”

The Great Demon King continued to scold, but he was forced to sleep by a group of secretaries.

In the end, the upper and lower levels are also subject to the system, and the Great Demon King has a premonition that one day he will be offered to these turtle sons as gods in this cardinal mansion, which is even a kind of house arrest, and in the end the world will still be messed up by them.

I'm afraid that the Great Demon King will leave Bianjing and pull his own team to scare them, and at most it will only delay the restoration for a few decades, this is the "lifespan" theory in the laws of the universe, and the universe itself has a lifespan to abide by.

So wash and sleep, one generation does one generation, the Great Demon King thinks that his mission in the Great Song Dynasty will be completed in a few years, and he has to learn to let go of it when he picks it up......