As Cai still had predicted before, because the speed of stepping on the White Army was fast enough, he was caught off guard by the unsuspecting Pingzhou defenders.

As a result, Wang De sent people to disguise themselves as Goryeo people to seize the gate of Pingzhou City, and then sent elite soldiers to rush into the city and capture the vital Pingzhou City in a battle.

After that, Wang De garrisoned the city of Pingzhou while dividing his troops to recover other parts of Pingzhou.

By the time Li Yanxian led the New Eighth Army to Pingzhou, Wang De had already recovered most of Pingzhou.

After Li Yanxian took over the defense of Pingzhou from Wang De, he went to Pingzhou with Li Yanxian as a political cadre, and immediately liberated the slaves and maids in Pingzhou and conducted a public trial of the elite class in Pingzhou.

After that, the members of the Political Department and the Recruit Department recruited 15,000 Korean soldiers from among the Goryeo slaves and Goryeo Liangren, and carried out political education and recruit training.

A few days later, Ta Kyungjun led 50,000 Goryeo Northwest Army south.

Wang De and Li Yanxian relied on the fortifications of Pingzhou to firmly block the 50,000 northwest Goryeo north of Pingzhou, and even severely damaged the Northwest Goryeo Army in the first battle.

On the other side, after Liu Qi and Han Shizhong led the eastern and western armies to the south, they easily captured many prefectures and counties where the city gate was removed by Yan Guangxiao and them, and the city wall was stripped off by Yan Guangxiao.

Soon, Cai still sent a large number of capable officials, such as Qiu Yi, Guo Yong, Tang Chong, Chen Kangbo, Hu Shijiang, Zhang Kejian, Li Shi, Gao Xu, Xiao Rong, and Cao Yongyi, with a large number of experienced cadres, political cadres, and recruit trainers to catch up with Liu Qi and Han Shizhong respectively, and went to the areas they had captured, and then launched a vigorous slave and maid liberation movement and a powerful public trial movement in those areas, and then recruited Goryeo slaves and maids and Goryeo Liangren from those areas to form slave and maid soldiers.

In this way, the armies of the east and the west, fighting all the way, not only did not fight less and less, but fought more and more.

Later, Liu Qi and Han Shizhong coincidentally chose to divide their troops to recover the southern region of Goryeo.

In this way, Liu Qi and Han Shizhong recovered the southern part of Goryeo much faster.

On this day, Zhao Ding, Song Jiang, Zhang Wei and other officials from Taiwan, as well as Wang Sanniang, Liang Hongyu, Fang Baihua, Chen Jingu, Zhao Sanliuniang, Jiang Qin'er and other dozens of Cai Ying's wives and concubines and Cai Zhen's eight sons and daughters came to Goryeo, and with them came 30,000 elite soldiers.

(By the way, the affairs of Taiwan, Cai is still handed over to Jiang Xingzu - Jiang Xingzu is one of the first people to talk to Cai Ying, and he is also one of Cai Zhen's fathers-in-law, the key is that this person is upright and loyal to Cai Zhen.) ）

At this point, Cai Ying's heart was relaxed.

With a wave of his hand, Cai still handed over all civil and political affairs to Zhao Ding, all the affairs of the Political Department to Song Jiang, and all the financial matters to Zhang Wei, and he was only responsible for military affairs.

This made Cai Yan, who had previously grasped everything in the military, civilian, government, and finance, finally breathe a sigh of relief.

As soon as Zhao Ding, Song Jiang, Zhang Wei and others came to Goryeo, they were absolutely reused by Cai Zhen.

The point is that Cai is still no longer what it used to be, he is already the king of a land, and he is expected to recover Goryeo, which has been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, and become a real monarch, and now they are all important ministers of a country.

Therefore, Zhao Ding, Song Jiang, Zhang Wei and others are all full of energy and ready to do a big job.

Soon, Zhang Wei submitted a long list of seizures to Cai:

“…… About 3,750,000 taels of gold and 19,470,000 taels of silver...... The law driving is a five-wheel deputy chariot halo thin ceremonial guard, the queen below the chariot brin halo thin ceremonial guard, the prince and the kings below the chariot halo thin ceremonial guard, the hundred official chariot chariot ceremonial guard, ritual utensils, legal objects, ritual scriptures, ritual diagrams, Taile Xuan frame, music dance, music diagram, Shunwen Erqin, Nuwa Sheng, Confucius crown, picture knowledge, bamboo slips, ancient paintings, teaching workshop musical instruments, music books, movements, sacrificial vessels, Mingtang Buzheng Zheng Asana, Eight Treasures and Nine Dings, Yuangui Zheng Gui Daqi, armillary sphere, bronze carving, a total of more than 5,000 pieces...... 623 catties of real pearls, 1,603 catties of jade, 1,200 catties of coral, 1,500 catties of yards, 114 catties of northern pearls, 136 night pearls of the West Sea, 19,000 catties of cinnabar, 25,000 catties of crystal, 29,840 catties of flower rhinoceros, 1,460 catties of ivory, 170 catties of borneol, 40 leaves of gold bricks, six pairs of helmets each of Mr. Wang's burning gold, Chen Tuo's burning gold, raw gold, and armor gold helmets, one hundred pairs of gold stalks, golden horseshoe, golden pestle knives, one hundred and twenty-five pairs of gold zuozi, one hundred pairs of jade zuozi, flower rhino belts, gold belts, and gold beltsMore than 120 jade belts, gilded belts, goldfish bags, etc., the king of Goryeo divided 20 pieces of money, 40 pieces of silver, the queen divided 10 pieces of money, 22 pieces of silver coins, 30 silver stoves, 1 gold stove, 30 gold tables, 112 silver chairs, 78 pieces of gold bowls, 4 gold buckets, 1,200 pairs of gold plates, 80 pairs of gold bowls, 52 gold soup bottles, 1,300 glass bowls, 1,600 glass trays, 600 coral trays, 900 yard trays, One hundred pearl fans, thirty red fans, thirty blue fans, fifty Xingluan fans, twenty large fans, twenty fan cars, more than 25,000 red copper artifacts, and more than 83,000 exquisite pottery...... More than 5,193,000 horses of silk cloth...... More than 43,700 war horses...... There are more than 360,000 pieces of weapons of various types and more than 138,000 sets of armor...... More than 17 million stone ...... of grain"

Although he knew that there would be unimaginably many seizures this time, Cai still never expected that there would be such an increase!

However, if you think about it, it is actually normal, this is the accumulation of more than 200 years in Goryeo, and the key is not only the accumulation of the Goryeo court, but also the accumulation of Goryeo nobles, which is really normal.

By the way, this is only the income of the city of Naseong, not counting the income of Nanjing, Tokyo and other prefectures in Goryeo.

After reporting this, Zhang Yu asked Cai to send someone to the recovered land to verify, seal and transport back the seizures of the various armies.

With a wave of his hand, Cai still agreed, and Cai still sent 3,000 of his pro-army to Zhang Wei, just in case.

As a king, you can't be without money.

Not to mention the normal state expenses, even the usual rewards, they all get a lot of money and goods.

Of course, Cai Yi, who has taken over more than ten generations of Liao and Goryeo and has accumulated hundreds of years, should not be short of money in this life.

But then again, who thinks about money.

What's more, Cai still has money, but there are also a lot of women and children - at present, Cai still has more than three hundred wives and concubines, if you add his female officials, female guards, and palace maids, although he does not have three thousand beauties, he definitely has one thousand beauties. There are already thirty-four children, and that's not counting the forty or fifty who are still in the womb. If these are also counted, Cai can still almost overshadow Zhao Ji. The key point is that Cai is still only 21 years old, and in the future, whether it is the number of women or the number of children, it will definitely increase.

In addition, Cai still has hundreds of civil and military officials, hundreds of chamberlains, tens of thousands of personal soldiers, hundreds of thousands of troops, and millions of people.

All in all, Cai is still extremely expensive, and it can even be said that there is no upper limit.

In this case, Cai still accumulates more, and there will be nothing wrong with it.

In terms of military affairs, although Cai still has been personally in control, for the sake of insurance, Cai still transferred Chen Yu and asked him to set up the shelves of the Privy Council to assist him in taking charge of this complicated war.

Actually-

Cai still not only transferred the Privy Council back from Yanyun, but other departments also transferred back from Yanyun one after another.

At the end of the fourth year of Xuanhe, the first batch of people from Yanyun landed in Licheng Port.

There are 100,000 people in this group, and about all of them are from Shuozhou, Yingzhou, and Ulzhou, and they are also the most loyal to Cai Yi.

Cai still deliberately told that all these people should be arranged in the Kaijing area to become the basis of his rule.

In this group:

Those who were willing to enter the city, Cai still sent people to break up the houses of the Goryeo nobles who had been seized by the Jin Wu army and sell them at a low price—the city here refers to the county seat around Kaegyung, not Naseong. In the imperial city of Luocheng, Cai still left it to his children and grandchildren to live. The inner city of Luocheng was all rewarded by Cai Yi to the civil and military officials under him. Even the houses of the magnates in the outer city of Luocheng were still dismantled by Cai and given to the families of the soldiers of the Jinwu Army.

For those who did not wish to enter the city, the local officials would accompany them to choose a place to establish their own villages.

And whether they enter the city or not, they can get what Cai still promised, regardless of men, women, old and young, they can get ten acres of land-the first few batches of people who came and got all the good land of the Goryeo nobles in the Kaegyung area. Those who came later and chose to live near Kaijing could only reclaim the wasteland by themselves. Otherwise, they had to go to other regions to get a share of the fertile land of the Goryeo nobility. This can also ensure that the people from Yan Yun will not be concentrated in one area.

At the beginning of the fifth year of Xuanhe, the people who were willing to go with Cai in Yundi had either gone to Goryeo, or had already arrived in Jizhou to prepare to board the ship, and the worst ones had already withdrawn to Confucianism and Fuzhou, preparing to go from Juyongguan to Yanjing, and then from Yanjing to Jizhou, and then from Jizhou to Goryeo.

By the way, in order to ensure the credibility of the military tickets, Cai still ordered that before the Qianzhuang withdrew, the military tickets scattered in the Yanyun area would be recovered with real money, and the grain that could not be taken away would also be distributed to the people in the Yanyun area.

This also makes Cai's reputation in the Yanyun area even better.

At this time, the situation of Zhao Song has undergone a lot of changes.

Because of the two defeats in Baigou and Liangxiang, Tong Guan has lost Zhao Ji's trust.

But—

Because Zhao Ji still needs Tong Guan to recover Yanjing, he has not moved Tong Guan for the time being.

But Wang Hao and Liang Shicheng saw Zhao Ji's intentions, so they jointly recommended Tan Zhi to replace Tong Guan as the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong, Yanshanfu Road and Hebei Road.

Tan Zhi's prestige and power cannot be compared with Tong Guan at all, Zhao Ji was worried that Tan Zhi would not be able to take charge of such a big matter as recovering Yanyun, so he only appointed Tan Zhi as the envoy of Hedong and Yunzhong for the time being (that is, Cai Zhen's original official), and let Tan Zhi be responsible for recovering Yundi.

It was also Tan Zhen's luck that not long after he took office, the Liaodong government withdrew the people who were willing to go with Cai in Shuo, Ying, and Weizhou.

After Tan Zhi learned about this, he hurriedly contacted Cai You, Cai Xuan, and Ma Kuo, and asked them to discuss with Li Gang about the delivery of Shuo, Ying, and Weizhou.

Soon, Li Gang, on behalf of Cai, agreed to hand over the three states of Shuo, Ying, and Wei.

Tan Zhi was overjoyed and immediately reported the matter to Zhao Ji.

When Zhao Ji heard the news, he was also very excited, and immediately renamed Shuo, Ying, and Ulzhou as Shuoning Army, and ordered Tan Zhi to quickly send troops to guard the town.

After Tan Zhi received Zhao Ji's order, he sent Hedong generals Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong to lead the army to defend the palace.

In this way, without much effort, Tan Shu recovered the three states of Shuo, Ying, and Wei.

This made Tan Zhi feel very proud.

And yet—

At this time, the situation in the cloud region is very complicated.

The Jin army had expanded to the border of Western Xia, and Li Qianshun felt that Western Xia was facing a serious threat, and he did not dare to continue to take in Yelu Yanxi, who had recently taken refuge in Western Xia.

Yelu Yanxi then left gloomily and returned to Jiashan, intending to organize the army to make a comeback.

In order to protect himself, Li Qianshun decided to claim vassal to the Jin State, and the Jin State agreed.

After the Western Xia became a vassal, the Jin State promised to cede a large area of land north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan, and west of Yishi Ila Tululuo to Western Xia.

Western Xia, on the other hand, promised not to rescue Yelu Yanxi again.

In order to further implement the peace agreement with the Western Xia, Wanyan Zonghan sent Salumu to secretly envoy to the Western Xia, and specifically refined the land promised to the Western Xia into: Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, Hedong Douda, Sira, Haodong, Yeque, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda, Yumin, and the two armies of Jinsu and Heqing in Hexi.

Wanyan Zonghan's condition was that Western Xia must send troops to attack Linzhou (later Shenmu, Shaanxi) in order to contain the momentum of Hedong and Yundi.

Wanyan Zonghan's purpose in making such a deployment was to open a net to capture Yelu Yanxi, and secondly, to wait for an opportunity to make a move on Yan Yun and mix the water, so that there would be chaos between Song, Xia, and Yan Yun, and Jin Guohao would take this opportunity to digest the land and people of Liao.

These secret transactions between the Jin State and the Western Xia were not known to the Great Song Dynasty.

Tan Zhi did not focus on the matter of delivery clouds, and his mind was mainly used in China.

Soon after Tan Zhi took office, he heard that Chang Shengjun and Guo Yaoshi had been reused, and the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts decided to expand the Chang Sheng Army and use the Chang Sheng Army to garrison Yandi in the future.

After Tan Zhi heard about this, he suggested to Zhao Ji that another army of about 50,000 people should be formed in Hedong, mainly recruiting Han people in the Yun and Shuo areas, and letting them garrison in the key places of each state and county, called the Yisheng Army, and let Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong serve as the main and deputy commanders, so as to garrison Yundi, and can be used to resist the Changsheng army, and can also make Guo Yaoshi fearful.

Zhao Ji, who was preparing to establish a new army, felt that Tan Zhen's proposal was very good, and quickly approved it.

Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong were both Hedong guards, and they were familiar with the topography and population of the Yunzhong region.

As soon as they received the order, they began to recruit troops.

They selected those who were young and strong from among the "returnees", registered their names, established military registrations, and paid military salaries.

In the Song Dynasty, there were so-called "reformed people", "returning Ming people" and "returning people", and these people were some special groups, which were formed by the Song Dynasty in dealing with the relations with the surrounding ethnic minorities and their state power.

A person who was originally from the Central Plains, who later fell into Fanbang, and later returned to the Central Plains, is a person who has returned to righteousness due to self-righteousness.

Returning to the Ming refers to people who are not from the Central Plains, but ethnic minorities outside the Central Plains.

The people who returned to the dynasty specifically refer to the Han people who were originally from the Yanyun region and returned to the Song Dynasty.

Due to years of war, a large number of displaced people have arisen in the Yanyun area (including Hedong and Hebei), and they are now basically "returnees" and meet the conditions for recruitment.

So, they came to sign up and join the ranks of the righteous army.

Due to the generous treatment of the soldiers of the Yisheng Army, it even attracted many soldiers of the Changsheng Army to secretly come to enlist.

Guo Yaoshi was very panicked about the establishment of the Yisheng Army, especially since there were constantly sergeants in his team who secretly went to join the Yisheng Army.

This also gave Pharmacist Guo a headache.

And this incident also made the two armies (that is, the Changsheng Army and the Yisheng Army) stationed in the Yanyun area in the future have a lot of contradictions from the beginning of their construction.

But—

In any case, with the expansion of the Changsheng Army and the establishment of the Yisheng Army, the Great Song Dynasty finally had two "reliable" and "combatable" armies......

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