Chapter 484: Thoughts on Qingtang's Future
Now everyone is very bloody and admires the big goose. They thought that there was such a safe opportunity to meet the teacher because "the Great Demon King's words, Zhuo Luolanbu was so frightened that he retreated seventy miles."
As a result, the small Zongcheng, a dilapidated area smaller and more dilapidated than the backward county town, now formed an overwhelming number of refugee camps and guerrilla camps. By the way, now they are not called guerrillas.
This time, for the first time, the people of Hehuang saw the advanced power of the Great Song Dynasty and the terrifying logistics force.
Now that this winter is approaching, everyone is looking forward to it with tears in their eyes, only to see that the continuous ship is transporting more and more materials to Zongcheng.
Everyone has experienced war, and the original government may not be very gentle, everyone knows how expensive the cold tents, quilts, and food are at such times.
But now, these materials controlled by the Song Volunteer Army can be enjoyed by the people for free, and those who have no place to heat themselves only need to register to enter the public heating field, where there is a steady stream of coke made by the Song Dynasty to provide everyone with a safe haven. It won't be very warm, but it can guarantee that you won't freeze to death.
Those who do not have food can get a bowl of paste-like porridge that is said to be made of feed for free every day, and they will not be able to eat enough, but they can ensure that those who do not have food will not starve to death.
Of course, the supplies are limited, mainly for the combat soldiers, and by the way, they can barely ensure that the people will not starve to death or freeze to death. It is not impossible to eat better, and there are many Song profiteers who are providing a variety of goods and services along with the grain transportation team.
These people who cost money, have gold and silver, have furs, and have cattle, sheep and horses, can be exchanged with the Song merchants.
It's not clear whether it's cost-effective or not, but at least in Zongcheng, Wang Yan's intervention is clearly priced, and it will not be snatched away casually, and it will not be confiscated casually, and it can be guaranteed to be exchanged for what the people want.
There are also criticisms, and some voices are accusing the Song people of being profiteers and the exchange conditions are not preferential enough. The family was in the southern district at the time, and Zhuo Luolan ordered to buy supplies from the people at a very convertible price.
There is really no way about this, this is the foolishness, this is the power of propaganda. As a result, including Wang Yan, as well as the Song merchants concentrated in this area, without exception, were poking Zhuo Luolan's backbone and scolding her for breaking the rules of the market.
Damn, the gold and silver she used to buy grain were obviously snatched from Huangzhou City after Huangzhou was defeated, but on the contrary, it became her reputation, which led to a lot of pressure on Wang Yan to maintain stability now.
Fortunately, she has a good plan, and Wang Yan has a wall ladder. If you want to say that it is obscene and insidious, Da Yan asks himself who he will not lose.
Wang Yan personally wrote the script and directed and acted in a drama that won the hearts of the people.
It's very simple, find a little girl with a relatively clear skeleton among the Qiang people, give her two lollipops, and promise to give five more lollipops after the deed is completed.
The little girl hugged her little lamb, looking like she had no mind to change things, went to the Song Shang stall where there were many people to put down the lamb, took a piece of pastry and a rattle and ran. This counts as a transaction.
At that time, everyone at the scene was anxious about this girl, thinking about how they could need a lamb in exchange for these things?
At that critical moment, the big goose who had been ambushed in advance jumped out and dragged the little girl with the image of being close to the people, and persuaded a lamb to exchange for more things. and angrily reprimanded the profiteers from Funing County in public, saying that they should "make the real price clear and not allow people".
So the scene received a lot of applause. As soon as it spreads ten, ten spreads hundreds, the popularity of the big bird will be greater, and the pressure on maintaining stability will be reduced. Afterwards, I gave the little girl three more lollipops.
This is the festival of the Great Bird, even in this temporary stronghold during the war, there are still many public representatives and instructors working on the surface, and the two-pronged approach, and the Wild Goose has also prepared a lot of lollipops in the dark, and there is an underground water army. This water army is composed of baby soldiers, because dolls are better to fool.
In this way, in the extremely grassroots refugee area of Zongcheng, Wang Yan was promoted as a god, and the volunteers were also mythologized.
The Song army, which fought thousands of miles in the sea of corpses and blood, has only 1,970 people left. And they look very rustic, even more earthy than the clothes of the Woo Troop cavalry. But it is brave and unstoppable, and many people believe that now that there is a Funing army here, even if it is only less than 2,000 people, the Western Xia army will never be able to defeat it.
Some people even believe that with more than 1,900 people, this army can easily enter the Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia in the cold winter.
Because many people have discovered that this army not only has an artifact flintlock pistol, but also a sharper "fire dragon".
Yes, now the nickname of the field artillery is called the Fire Dragon, the Volunteer Army Department has thirty guns, the next order has not yet been delivered, there are seventy on the way, but it is also soon.
This kind of extremely irresponsible remarks and praise once made Wang Yan angry and jumped. Do Lao Tzu have such gods? With such 2,000 guns, you want to enter Xingqing Mansion? It is hoped that the Liao State and the Western Xia court do not think so, otherwise the situation will change further.
In view of this, Wang Yan convened a meeting of deputies and various instructors, and demanded: The correct way of propaganda is to exaggerate the will of the Song army, but not to exaggerate the results of the battle, to publicize the Song army's "benevolence and love of others", to publicize that the Song state and the Song army have made very big sacrifices and paid a very big price, so they can barely achieve a temporary balance in the Hehuang area, but there is still a long way to go in the future.
And it can't be "a word from the Great Demon King, Zhuo Luolanbu is so frightened that he retreats seventy miles", let alone "2,000 people can enter Xingqing Mansion in winter".
If it is so promoted, Yelu Hongji will not be able to sit still, which is very unfavorable for future deployment......
On November 15, the weather was already very cold, and the lord of Qingtang officially led the team into Zongcheng.
He was accompanied by the remnants of less than 2,000 soldiers composed of four guerrilla detachments, as well as many people who had followed the guerrillas along the way to take refuge for warmth and food.
Wang Yan and Mu Guiying personally went out to welcome Sanli.
It was not the first time Mu Guiying had seen him, but it was the first time that Wang Yan had seen an old man in his early sixties at this time, who looked inconspicuous and looked a little thin and short, and the usual fierce aura on the Qiang people was almost non-existent, giving people the feeling that he was an elder in the twilight.
Wang Yan took the lead in clasping his fists and saluted: "The Great Song Dynasty Privy Decree Wang Yan has seen the general. ”
"You're welcome."
After getting off the horse, the first thing the old man did was to pull the young Dong Yu forward together, and said with a posture of introducing the successor to Wang Yan: "There are many places where the dog needs to be carried by the public in the future. On behalf of the whole clan, he is grateful to Xianggong and to the Song Dynasty Volunteers for everything they have done for the people of Hehuang. ”
After that, the old tears took Wang Yan's hand and sighed.
After being polite to Dong Yu again, they drove to Zongcheng three miles away.
According to his father's instructions, Dong Yu also patted the horses and said: "The Hehuang region can get this situation, it all depends on the commander of the Xianggong army to fight for thousands of miles, even the famous general Zhuo Luolan was also deterred by the tiger of the Xianggong, and retreated seventy miles from the mouth of the Southern Zongzi, otherwise we would not be able to enter the Zongcheng smoothly to be protected." ”
Wang Yan smiled but did not speak.
He was a little sad, and he felt that his son was a little stupid and couldn't speak. The so-called "Hehuang area can get this situation is all up to the public" is a bit out of place, at least in the wrong way, because now that I have entered Zongcheng all the way, I will cry again.
Most of the people gathered gathered around Zongcheng as refugees, and the scene of scars, blood and tears, and chaos was a scene.
Even if it is such a scene, it is a situation where Wang Yan fought thousands of miles, but it was too miserable.
Thinking that he was just a child, he occupied the gimmick of his life experience and became a puppet of religion and power in the Hehuang region, which he used to rule the region. In the words of the Han family, this process is called "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
With the growth of age, with the help of the power of the Song State, the slowly mature Ao Gang gradually got rid of all kinds of evil forces, unified the tribes, and gradually governed Qingtang in an orderly manner, with a population of 3 million, becoming the most powerful regime after the division of the Tubo Dynasty.
During the more than 20 years of his rule, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and with the help of the Song State, agriculture, animal husbandry, and commerce and trade all made great progress.
Before the invasion of Western Xia and the fall of Huangzhou, according to his own statistics, the official surplus grain accumulated in the granary of the Hehuang area amounted to more than 9 million catties.
The former river was such a rich and abundant place. Only the male lord who cares about the territory and wants to live for a long time will be relieved to see such a prosperous world, and cry when he looks at the current scarred.
Qingtang horses are also famous, the Song State needs war horses, in order to maintain the long-term peace and stability of the Hehuang region, the Great Song Dynasty canonized the annual tribute to the Great Song Dynasty is one hundred and thirty war horses.
Khan, this number is a bit of a joke for the national level, but as far as Wang Yan, a series of officials in the Privy Council, knows, it is true, at least the list submitted to the herd priest is one hundred and thirty horses.
But it is also a heart and gift list, in this era, Qingtang and Dali were the only regimes that accepted the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty and paid tribute.
Speaking of which, the Western Xia also theoretically accepted the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty, but on the contrary, the Great Song Dynasty gave them money every year so that they would not fight the Great Song Dynasty.
In addition to the number of tributes, Qingtang's annual export trade to the Great Song Dynasty included many items: nearly 3,000 war horses, furs, blankets, leather tents, wine, iron ore, etc., and at the same time, it also exchanged a lot of daily necessities for the Qiang people from the Great Song Dynasty.
In the past, the river could see the fat cattle and sheep everywhere from the fat grass, and the herdsmen would lazily graze the cattle and sheep, waiting for the arrival of the Song caravan, although they were also profiteers, but they would bring some novel and advanced thinking, some bizarre stories, and many daily necessities that everyone needed.
But now, because of this war, I don't know when the prosperity of the past will be restored.
The wounds will always heal, but there is one precondition: with the help of the Song volunteers, the evil Western Xia army must finally be defeated and driven out of the land.
Thinking of this, maybe I was really tired, I lost any interest, and said "People are easy to get tired when they are old" and left to rest.
Dong Yu stayed by Wang Yan's side, and at the same time he also brought a young man with a wolf's waist and a tiger's back, and the young man introduced himself as "Qingyi Ghost Chapter".
The difference in stance leads to the fact that what everyone sees becomes a little different. Now Dong Yu and Qingyi knotted the ghost chapter as a hero, counting on Wang Yan to finally annihilate the Western Xia people in this area, and pay for the blood debt.
But ask yourself, since entering Zongcheng, Wang Yan is actually different from what they thought.
It's all about interests, Wang Yan doesn't want to see too much bloodshed, after reversing the strategic situation, in his heart Wang Yan doesn't want to see the Western Xia army really annihilated here, which will cause the Western Xia to be relieved for many years.
The excessive injury of Western Xia indicates that Qingtang's dependence on the Great Song Dynasty will decrease in the future. That's it.
If you just defeat the Western Xia and don't let them be too seriously injured, and retain the hatred between the Western Xia and the Qiang, the Western Xia army can retreat, and it will become an eternal threat to the Qingtang region.
Otherwise, as a party to the alliance, because of the face of the fight, the Great Song Dynasty is embarrassed to forcibly garrison the army.
These are what Wang Yan thought in his heart during this period, this is very dirty and political, but where to find politicians who are not dirty? On this issue, Wang Anshi's father will be more obscene than Wang Yan's thoughts, don't look at him as upright.
The risks have been taken and the costs have been spent. If Qingtang is not "recovered" with the help of this period, more people will die in this area in the many years since Wang Anshi visited the prime minister, and it will be necessary to carry out years of conquest and tug-of-war, until many years later, Tong Guan, Wang Hou, Liu Fa, and Seed Master Dao, whose hundreds of thousands of troops have almost emptied the treasury, can enter this area and solve the Qingtang problem.
This is Wang Anshi's obsession. Even in those tense years with Western Xia, Lao Wang never forgot this rich region. In history, when the Qingtang problem was solved, Wang Anshi was buried deep in the loess, but even though he was the world-famous Cai Jing, the super traitor carried by Wang Anshi, he also inherited the will of the old king until he won the battle in Qingtang.
Standing on the relatively low and desolate city wall, looking at the chaotic and miserable scene of the Qiang and Han people, Wang Yan thought about this. This seems a bit ironic, and there are some bitch arches who think: As a responsible big country, with the human rights situation of the common people in the world, this military veteran is stationed in the Song Dynasty.
Because the male lord is still there, and respects his spirit and face, Wang Yan does not need to turn this area into a Great Song administrative region now, just effectively control it.
As for what to do in the future: one generation will do the same thing, and leave it to the obscene and rotten politicians in the future to solve these problems.
Wang Yan knows that his historical mission is "not to finish everything", is it really done, and it prevents future generations from agreeing? That is called high merit and shaking the world, the more you do, the faster you will be denied after abdication!
If it is generally done on the upper side, and there is not much shadow and pressure on future generations, then unless they dig their ancestral graves, they will generally not be hacked too badly, because there is no need for that.
Only the truly earth-shattering peerless greats, as so big in the sky, that people can't catch up, will encounter the all-round denial of the latecomers.
This is politics, and it is not subject to the will of politicians.
However, in order to retain the main force of Western Xia without being injured, there must be one condition: Manba does not slaughter Xining Prefecture. If he really did it, Wang Yan would have to annihilate the Manba tribe no matter how unwilling he was, and help the Song regime to come with sufficient compensation in order to maintain the justice of the Song army, and only then did he show that the Great Song Dynasty was a responsible power. That's where the difficulty lies.
In this way, Dong Yu, Qingyi Jiegui Zhang, and Wang Yan are all thinking about the "future situation of the world" in their own minds......