In the Northwest Army, there were no Uighur battalions.

Nearly 30,000 Uighur soldiers, scattered and filled the battalions, did not come out alone this time.

Yang Lin simply handed over the Han troops in each battalion to them as well, anyway, it was not much difficult to eliminate the Uighur thieves, and the most difficult thing was to determine their hiding place.

The seven Uighur generals also enjoyed the ability to command soldiers and horses far higher than their official positions, and after a great general's addiction, each of them commanded no less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and hunted down the scum of the clan everywhere in the northwest like sweeping away the four evils.

Hezhou, prefect's yamen.

Yang Lin sat in the courtyard, cross-legged to listen to Lu Qian's report on the follow-up of the Battle of Jinliao, and there was a commotion outside.

"Shaozai, what about Shaozai?"

Song Jiang's very recognizable voice came, and after a while, a little black fat man rushed into the courtyard, smiling, eager to put his face on it.

"Shaozai, Xiaguan Song Jiang, meet Shaozai."

Yang Lin laughed, the black guy in front of him was born with an affinity.

He is close to his friends, whether they are his superiors or subordinates, from the bottom of his heart.

If you haven't seen you for a long time, you will miss it from time to time, and when you see it, you will be really happy.

It is no wonder that he is thriving in Shandong, how many reckless men are willing to die for him.

"Shaozai sits in Bianjing, he has a heavy responsibility, he is not light, there must be a reason, Song Jiang is a border official, it is really difficult to see Shaozai."

Yang Lin has always been hard-mouthed and soft-hearted to his own people, and without being polite to the Uighur generals, he scolded with a smile: "I transferred you to the northwest, not to let you miss the old all day long, how about it?" ”

Song Jiang was not polite, found a small bench, sat down in front of him and said with a smile: "Shaozai, the bottom-up reform of the Western Army has achieved initial results.

Xiaguan promoted a large number of grass-roots officers with no background, all of whom had little to do with the Western Army generals' families, and they had made great contributions in the past, but they were not promoted for a long time. Oh, by the way, it's about the same as Han Shizhong.

Anyway, now that the Western Army is expanding strongly, it won't be long before their hundreds of thousands of people can only be used as a vanguard. ”

Yang Lin nodded secretly, he kept provoking wars in the northwest, and he originally planned to train his troops, but he didn't expect it to have this effect.

As long as they can restrain the Western Army, they will have to completely rely on themselves, and when the time comes, they will really have to rely on them to contribute.

Now the Jurchens are famous all over the world, but they have always been regarded as the imaginary enemies of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Lin is the only one.

has been silently preparing for so many years, and that one is all to prepare for the future battle of Song and Jin, if you can't win like this, even if you don't fuck it, anyway, your ability is all used.

Song Jiang saw that Yang Lin was a little stunned, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and said, "Shaozai? ”

Yang Lin came to his senses, no longer thinking about these messes, hooked Song Jiang's shoulder, and said: "You have been the head snake in the northwest for so long, you have to save a few pots of good wine, do you come to me empty-handed to eat and drink?" ”

Song Jiang smiled, the two of them entered the courtyard together, put a table of wine and food, Song Jiang familiarly beckoned Lu Qian and Lu Wang to come, and lost a table of wine and food under the tree.

By this time of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song people had gradually begun to eat at one table, but the formal occasion was still one person per table.

Today are all close brothers, under the mountain locust tree, Song Jiang just swallowed a mouthful of crispy roasted fish, scalded his tongue, and said slowly: "Shaozai, we often hear people say that the waist is wrapped around 100,000 yuan, and the crane is riding down to Yangzhou." In my opinion, this Xiazhou area is not much different from Yangzhou.

Especially in the area of Xiazhou, because of the benefits of the reopening of the business road, the south and the north are in Jia, the shops are lined up, running around Khotan, and the population is dense, which is really the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Yang Lin slapped the table and scolded: "Such a good place, Lao Tzu walked from the south to the north, and he didn't see a gift-giver, so he really doesn't take Shaozai seriously." ”

"Xu is Shaozai is upright, so scared that they don't dare to openly bribe."

Yang Lin is also joking, he now holds the economic lifeline of the Great Song Dynasty in his hands, and there are four city divisions in the east, which monopolize the smuggling activities with Goryeo Dongying;

Huainan has an old bank of the Banzai camp, which takes advantage of the convenience of building Genyue to wantonly produce and sell illicit salt;

The Northwest Horse Market, the Tea Market, and the recently emerging mutton market all have the shadow of the Banzai Camp.

Every year, in addition to the millions of inner mansions handed over to Zhao Ji of Huizong, he often took them out to build buildings and houses for the emperor, and almost single-handedly provided food and clothing for the concubines, emperors and princes of the entire imperial family.

Rao is like this, he is still rich, not to mention asking for bribes, he even often helps his subordinates.

Han Shizhong's soldier 1 ruffian, all the armor, blades, and horses were all taken from Zhaodefang.

When the wine was half-drunk, Yang Lin lowered his voice and said to Song Jiang: "Gongming, I intend to attack the Qarakhani, you make overall arrangements in the northwest and prepare for me." ”

When Song Jiang heard this, he was shocked, the Qarakhanid is not a weak country, and once a war starts, it may be a big war.

However, the northwest is now prosperous to a bottleneck, and the reason for this is the Qarakhanid Dynasty.

I don't know if Shaozai also noticed this, the Qarakhanid is a *** country, they are extremely xenophobic, and only allow caravans of big cannibals to pass by.

In this way, the *** monopolized and isolated the east-west trade routes, and made huge profits from them.

If the gap of Qarakhanid is opened, the east-west trade route will be unimpeded, the prosperity of the northwest will be further enhanced, and the prosperity of the ancient road will be restored.

"Outside the Yumen Pass, it was almost annexed by the Qarakhanid, and the Hu people of the Western Regions here were dissatisfied with their policies. In order to promote their own religion, these people killed monks, burned scriptures, and slaughtered the people. ”

Yang Lin waved his hand and said: "This matter is no longer feasible, but must be done, after I return to Bianliang, I am bound to persuade the official family to send troops to the west." It's time for the soldiers and horses you recruited in the northwest to pull them out and test the moisture. ”

Convincing Zhao Ji to go west was simply too simple, and Chi Yangzi pinched his fingers and knew that the west expedition was providential.

The second-in-command of Shenxiao Taoism, with the will of heaven to persuade the first hand to go west, is as easy as persuading him to build Genyue, Zhao Ji originally wanted to do it, but he was afraid that he would not be able to do it.

Song Jiang took a few wine glasses, waved them simply, pointed and said: "This is Kereh, this is Qarakhani, and this is now the territory of the Great Song Dynasty." In our westward expedition, we must first cut off the foreign aid of the Qarakhanid, and if we do not fight, once the war starts, it is better to occupy Samarkand with the momentum of a thunderbolt and capture its king alive. ”

Yang Lin was very self-aware of his half-command of the level of the battle, and said: "When the time comes, you people will discuss, I will only look at the results, at most I will remember the benefits of Lao Tzu, and give me a few princesses or something." ”