Li Zhongyi raised soldiers, and he has always had high salaries and high treatments, and the pensions of the soldiers who died in the war were also very high.

It is a good thing that the soldiers dare to fight, but once the army suffers a great defeat, the treasury of the imperial court will immediately be tightened.

Therefore, before each battle, Li Zhongyi always has to calculate the benefits and efforts between victory and defeat.

All in all, if you can't fight, try not to fight, lest the high pension crush the financial revenue of the imperial court.

Song Yunxiang has followed Li Zhongyi's side for many years, and he naturally understands Li Zhongyi's thoughts. This time the cutting of Shu, the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, which is very conducive to the ambush of the Shu army.

If you are not careful, you will easily fall into the ambush of the Shu army, and once the loss of the dead exceeds a certain number, the imperial court will definitely be unable to bear it.

"Your Majesty, the minister has always thought that the Shu Kingdom is not difficult to destroy." Song Yunxiang has been nesting in Fengzhou in the northwest for three years, and the corresponding topography and reality of Shu have long been touched.

Li Zhongyi saw that Song Yunxiang was aiming at the sand table, so he led him to the edge of the sand table, and said with a smile: "Since I invited you here, I naturally want to listen to what you have to say." ”

Song Yunxiang picked up the slender wooden pole on the side of the sand table, pointed to the line of the Qinling Mountains, and said: "There are mountains and obstacles here, and there is almost no way to go except for the Golden Bull Road. However, with the help of the Jialing River, the speed of our army's southward movement will not be too slow. ”

"The minister was not idle in Fengzhou, and built a total of thousands of small grain ships, as well as a number of wooden valves. The entire army only needs to move along the river valley, only afraid of floods...... "Song Yunxiang has been preparing for three years, and the harvest is really not small.

"What if the Shu army condescendingly throws stones?" Li Zhongyi asked Song Yunxiang with a smile.

Song Yunxiang clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the minister means that the grain goes to the center of the river, and the army goes to the two sides......"

When Li Zhongyi heard this, he instantly understood in seconds, dared to be affectionate, and walked on the grain ship in the Jialing River, true and false, false and real, just waiting for the Shu army to intercept the grain ship.

From the south side of Daba Mountain, the mountain road to transport grain to the Shu army is also rugged and difficult.

This also means that there can't be too many Shu troops stationed in the mountains, and there are only 30,000 to 50,000 people who die.

According to the battle plan of the General Staff Division, there are 50,000 elite soldiers and horses on each of the northern and southern fronts. In this way, it can induce the Shu army to divide the soldiers into two ways.

In addition, Zhao Laoqi led the attack of the water division, which would not only contain Lin Renzhao's troops, but also firmly attract the troops sent by Meng Chang to monitor.

Lin Renzhao led more than 60,000 people, although he took refuge in Meng Chang, but this is a double-edged sword.

While Meng Chang was proud, he would definitely send troops to guard against Lin Renzhao. Otherwise, what if there was an internal emptiness in Shu and Lin Renzhao would fight back?

In this way, the strength of the Shu army between the Qinling Mountains and the Daba Mountains will not exceed 50,000 at best.

Moreover, these 50,000 people are still 50,000 people in an ideal state. After all, except for the Qiang Han Dynasty, no matter which army of any country, there is the ugly phenomenon of eating empty quotas.

With Song Yunxiang's understanding of the Shu army, among the ten percent of the troops, eating up forty percent of the empty military salary can be regarded as not so greedy.

Therefore, in fact, the Shu army is only 30,000 people at most.

However, the strength of the Qiang Han Dynasty to the west was a solid 100,000 people. They also carry artillery and cocktails.

Historically, when the Song Dynasty destroyed the Shu Kingdom, there were only more than 40,000 soldiers on land.

Now, Li Zhongyi with more than ten times the strength of the army, like Mount Tai pressing the top, pounced on the Shu army, if he still does not win, it is better to find a piece of tofu to kill him.

In the future, what Li Zhongyi is most worried about is that the generals of the unified army do not care about the bloody sacrifice of the soldiers in order to grab the merits.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi brought Song Yunxiang to Jingzhao Mansion, not to discuss the battle plan, but to tell Song Yunxiang that he must not be greedy for merit.

Since ancient times, many examples of winning more with less have proved one point: those who are greedy for merit will be defeated!

In history, when the Northern Song Dynasty and the party were fighting, the cause of the defeat of the Song army, without exception, was greed for merit and rashness, so that they fell into the ambush of the Western Xia people.

Li Zhongyi naturally didn't want generals in his army to be greedy for merit. Therefore, Song Yunxiang was summoned thousands of miles away, and he asked for his life.

Song Yunxiang has been following Li Zhongyi for a long time, and he naturally knows that if he falls into an ambush and causes too much loss, he will not be able to bear the consequences.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the ministers must be cautious in their use of troops." Song Yunxiang is not a stupid person, Li Zhongyi has repeatedly emphasized the principle of prudent use of troops, how can he take it as a deaf ear?

The capital city of Kaifeng.

"Xianggong, Xianggong Liu ordered someone to send a post." The chief housekeeper handed Liu Jinshan's name card to Fan Zhen's hand with both hands.

Fan Zhen took the name post, looked at it intently, and couldn't help but smile.

Today's Fan Qian, although he has left the political hall, does not have half of the real power. However, the tiger will not be overwhelmed, and there are still many protégés promoted by Fan Zhen who are officials in the court.

Last time, in order to save Yang Jiong's life, Fan Zhen was forced to hand over his protégés to Liu Jinshan to lead.

This time, Fan Zhen risked the world's condemnation and mainly wrote to intercede on behalf of the murderous court Shouli, which would definitely alarm the cabinet and Li Zhongyi.

Since it was Liu Jinshan who came, this means that Li Zhongyi has already sent a reply.

Fan Zhen smiled and said, "Then it will be about after the tenth day." "He's idle at home anyway, he has nothing to do, and he's not in a hurry.

After the big housekeeper took care of the visitor, he returned to the inner study, but he saw that Fan Zhen was in a very good mood.

The chief butler asked Fan Qian: "Xianggong, do you have a happy event?" As soon as he said that, he regretted it.

With Fan's temper, as long as he doesn't want to say something, even if he uses a knife to pry, he can't pry it open.

Unexpectedly, Fan Zhen took the initiative to give the answer: "Since I sent Liu Jinshan to persuade me, then I happen to have some things to explain clearly to Liu Jinshan." ”

The chief housekeeper understood the subtext, so he smiled and said: "After all, Chai Shouli is the biological father of the first emperor, and if you don't look at the monk's face, you always have to look at the Buddha's face, right?"

Fan Zhen waved his hand and said, "With my understanding of Li Zhongyi, Chai Shouli will be punished by Ming Zheng. ”

"Oh, why is that?" The chief butler had actually thought of the answer, but because of Fan's rare interest, he deliberately praised it.

Fan Zhen smiled and said, "If I didn't guess wrong, Li Zhongyi still remembered to use me." ”

"Ah, it's ......" The chief butler was surprised inexplicably, and he was speechless for a while.

I think that at the beginning, when Fan Zhen was the prime minister, the prestige of his big butler was even more prominent than that of the five important ministers.

"Xiang, Xianggong, really, really?" The chief butler was speechless, but he didn't notice this detail.

Fan Zhen frowned, glared at the big housekeeper angrily, every time there is a major event, there is a quiet cultivation effort, and it is all lost.

As a former prime minister who has tasted power, Fan has been cramped at home for three years, and he has long been idle.

Some time ago, under the guise of speaking for Chai Shouli, Fan Zhen played the concert strongly, waiting for Li Zhongyi's recruitment.

Now, since Liu Jinshan has sent people to the door to send a post, it is conceivable that Li Zhongyi must have been touched and has the mind to revive the quality.

In the cabinet, Liu Jinshan received a reply from the servant, and Fan said that he would make an appointment to meet after ten days.

Liu Jinshan smiled slightly, Fan Zhen was obviously holding a shelf and wanted to elevate his identity.

Governing the country according to law is the basic principle set by Li Zhongyi, and it has been practiced to this day.

Even if Fan Zhen is a former prime minister, he is just a fallen phoenix, how can he think too much?

Standing in Liu Jinshan's position and receiving the people of Fan Qian's family, it was just a matter of taking advantage of the trend.

The emperor disliked party strife the most. If it weren't for Li Zhongyi's acquiescence, he would not have dared to openly accept Fan Zhen's latent forces by borrowing Liu Jinshan's 800 guts.

However, since he has received the old forces of Fan Zhen, among the people who don't want Fan Zhen to go out of the mountain the most, Liu Jinshan is of course one of them.

Li Zhongyi has been the ruling king since he was the king, and until now, he has finally sat firmly on the throne.

Now that he has secured the throne, for a talented former prime minister like Fan Zhen, if he can use it, everyone will naturally be happy.

However, Fan's quality is different from that of ordinary ministers, and he is a former prime minister who has tasted arbitrariness.

Li Zhongyi was a little uneasy after all, so he secretly ordered Liu Jinshan to let him contact Fan Zhen privately and listen to Fan Zhen's views on the current situation.

If Fan Zhen is still the old-fashioned so-called "rest with the people" strategy of governing the country, then Li Zhongyi will not bother to deal with him anymore.

After all, three-legged toads are hard to find, and there are still fewer humans who want to be officials?

Li Zhongyi also thought about it, and it was impossible for Fan Zhen to stay in the capital when he returned to the mountain.

Otherwise, with Fan's qualifications and ability, Liu Jinshan is afraid that it will be difficult to suppress him.

Suzhou, located in Huainan Road, is close to the coast, backed by the Central Plains, and connected to the ancient city of Xuzhou in the north.

During the Zhou Dynasty, Qiyi was built, and during the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the opening of the Tongji Canal (Bianhe) section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it was placed in Suzhou, which was an important birthplace of Chu and Han culture and Huaihe culture.

Suzhou is close to the Huai River and the Yangtze River, and as a typical land of fish and rice, Suzhou is extremely rich in products.

However, since the land restriction order and the profit restriction order were promoted, the situation in Suzhou has gradually become unstable, especially in Hongxian.

"Yu Cun Zheng, the village Xie Daguan, whom you asked the villain to monitor, suddenly left the village today. Alas, the villain did not dare to get too close, and told him to slip away halfway. ”

Li Daonan, the village leader of Xiejia Village, was originally the team leader of the fifth compartment of the imperial forbidden army. Because, he injured an arm in the battle, so he was transferred to Xiejia Village and took up the post of village leader.

Xiejia Village is the largest and most populous village within a hundred miles of the vicinity.

According to Li Daonan's statistics, there are a total of 237 male villagers in Xiejia Village, with nearly 10,000 acres of cultivated land.

Of course, more than half of the nearly 10,000 acres of cultivated land was originally the property of Xie Daguan.

Xie Daguan's name is Xie Chaowu, his ancestors were born in the military, and after three generations of efforts, before Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, the Xie family had more than 7,000 acres of good watered land.

It's a pity that after Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, the land restriction order promulgated made Xie Daguan suffer heavy losses.

Although, Xie Daguan also relented and distributed the land to the children and nephews in the family. However, as far as Li Daonan knew, Xie Daguan was just unconvinced.

Once the time is ripe, Xie Daguan will definitely contact the gangsters and make trouble.

Therefore, in view of this, Li Daonan has been sending people to secretly watch every move of Xie Daguan.

Sure enough, after the issuance of the profit restriction order, Xie Daguan began to jump up and down, going to the county seat for a while, and then to the state city for a while.

In the end, Xie Daguan hooked up with a group of bandits thirty miles away from Xiejia Village.

It was discovered that Xie Daguan colluded with the bandits, but it was actually an accident. The main reason is that Xie Daguan is so bold that he actually led the four leaders of the bandits down the mountain and lived in the Xie family's mansion.

Coincidentally, the four leaders of the bandits were recognized by a soldier of the township army.

So, Li Daonan hurriedly went to find Tingzheng Zhang Xuqiang. Zhang Xuqiang used to be the head of the Fourth Army, and after he was transferred, he became the Tingzheng of Bali Pavilion.

It is said that Tingzheng is actually the head of the township and the head of the township police station, who is responsible for the comprehensive management function, and is also the commander of the township militia battalion.

After learning that Xie Daguan had hooked up with a bandit, Zhang Xuqiang immediately realized that what was originally an internal contradiction suddenly rose to the height of the contradiction between the enemy and me.

Now that he knew that Xie Daguan was colluding with the bandits, Tingzheng Zhang Xu Qiang didn't say a word, and led Li Daonan into the county seat.

The attitude of the county inspection envoy is unusually clear, and the evil is eliminated. However, after catching the bandits and catching the double, taking the thieves and taking the stolen goods, the inspection envoy asked Zhang Xuqiang and Li Daonan to hold back for the time being, waiting for a favorable opportunity, and then wipe out Xie Daguan and the bandits.

Now, because of the experience of suppressing bandits, I tell everyone that we can't startle snakes.

For example, if there are bandits in County A, under normal circumstances, the township army of County A will not be mobilized. Instead, they secretly assembled the township army of County B, quietly stationed in the reserved assembly area, and when the time was ripe, they all went out.

Today, Xie Daguan suddenly left Xiejia Village, and Li Daonan was keenly aware that the enemy might not be able to wait.

"You take this letter and go to Zhang Tingzheng." Li Daonan wrote an encrypted letter and ordered someone to bring it to Tingzheng Zhang Xuqiang.

After Zhang Xuqiang received the letter, he immediately sent someone to the county seat to inform the inspection envoy in charge of public security.

About three hours later, the garrison of the county seat and the township troops from other places rushed to the mountains and forests near Xiejia Village.

The leader of the team was the county inspection envoy himself, who mobilized a total of 200 Xiang troops and 500 township troops.

The county inspection envoy used to be the deputy commander of Li Zhongyi's Qinya battalion, with the surname Zhou Chongde and his face being long.

The army was dispatched, in order not to alarm the bandits, but just gnawed on dry food with clear water.

Zhou Chongde held a telescope in his hand, carefully observed the movements of Xiejia Village, and then turned his head and smiled: "When the surnamed Xie leads the bandits into the village, let's quietly surround them and strive to catch them all." ”

Zhang Xuqiang said with a smile: "If you defeat Xie Daguan, Huangtian will be at least nearly 10,000 acres more." ”

Li Daonan did not take refuge in the mountains and forests, but presided over the defense plan of the township army in his village in the village. After all, the main target of Xie Daguan's people was him, and if he wasn't in the village, the bandits would probably not dare to enter the village.

Zhou Chongde nodded and said: "It's good to have more imperial fields, once the local disaster occurs, everyone can also have land to plant and eat." ”

Zhang Xuqiang has been in charge of the pavilion for more than a year, and he knows the situation of this pavilion well.

He sighed and said, "There have been constant droughts and floods in the area, and there have been nine years of hunger in ten years. Alas, when it comes to the year of hunger, it is the time when Xie Daguan makes a windfall. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Zhou Chongde also sighed and said, "When I was young, my family also had more than a dozen acres of land, and I didn't make a lot of money, but I didn't go hungry. The straight mother thief, the family suffered two natural disasters, and all the land was sold to Liu Yuanwai. ”

"Yes, I don't hide it from Zhou Inspection, I raised my hands to agree with the emperor's land restriction order and profit restriction order. The role of the two rights and the restriction of interests is obviously greater. After all, the thieves who openly rob the land of the common people are in the minority. Most of the local people make a fortune by lending. ”

Zhang Xuqiang knew very well in his heart that the land restriction decree issued by the emperor could still endure even if the interests of the rich landowners were damaged.

However, the profit restriction order issued by the imperial court really dug up the root cause of the big landlords' sudden wealth, no wonder Xie Daguan would collude with the bandits.

"Xu Tingzheng, you can see it very accurately, that's what happened." Zhou Chongde sneered, "Don't talk about it in other places, there are no less than ten big landlords in this county who have their heads cut off by this official. ”

Zhang Xuqiang also smiled and said: "Xie Daguan is really dizzy, for the sake of profiteering, he dares to collude with bandits, it is simply self-inflicted. ”

After all, Zhou Chongde was the deputy commander of the Qinya battalion, standing tall and seeing far, he said: "The emperor once said that as long as there is enough profit, the big landlords even dare to unite and pull the emperor down." ”

"They're dreaming, and as long as we're here, their heads are waiting to move." Zhang Xuqiang controlled the township army of more than a dozen villages, and he had at least 300 people at hand, and under normal circumstances, it was completely enough to deal with just a few bandits.

However, Zhang Xuqiang is a person who understands, since the township army was mobilized from other places to help, the number of people participating in the suppression of bandits would rather be several times more than less.

After all, the rural army in other places is not familiar with the place, although they can beat the bandits by surprise, but they also have the disadvantage of geographical advantages.

In the dead of night, Xie Daguan really led the bandits, and there were more than 100 people.

Among these bandits, there were actually more than a dozen archers, and under the leadership of the big leader, they quietly approached Xiejia Village.

Now that the bandits had already swept away, Zhou Chongde did not hesitate to order, so that the official army and the township army quickly launched a battle formation and quietly touched behind the bandits.

With the intention of calculating and unintentional, and being prepared to attack unprepared, and the official army and the township army attacked inside and outside, the bandits quickly collapsed.

Xie Daguan wanted to flee with the bandits, but unexpectedly, because of the consistent pampered relationship, his legs and feet were not angry, so he broke his foot and asked Li Daonan to catch him.

In this battle, the bandits were almost completely wiped out, except for a few bandits who escaped, most of the bandits were either killed or captured.

When Xie Daguan was pushed in front of Li Daonan, Li Daonan couldn't help sneering: "Xie Daguan, I heard that you want to take Li's life?" Hehe, Li is standing in front of you, waiting for you to take a knife to get it. ”

Xie Daguan knew that he was in a catastrophe, and he was so frightened that he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground for a while, like a mess of mud.