Chapter 715: A Profiteer-like Army
This time, Ximenqing couldn't stand it anymore, so he slapped Guan Qi on the back of the head and returned the pony to the Xixia girl. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ximenqing painstakingly explained to the girl: A lollipop can't be exchanged for a horse, and people don't treat it like this. bullying a little girl like this, that's really a Buddha and a fire.
Liang Hongyu, as a field gendarmerie, observed when she took Xiao Song Xiang to pass by, and found that this Xixia girl was a bit of Jiangzhou's "little confused" style.
So Hutouyu drove the yellow dog over and gave the Xixia girl a big white rabbit toffee.
This is unique and only Liang Hongyu has it.
So the little Xixia confused gave the foal that he had just brought back to Liang Hongyu.
Ximenqing finally fainted, but this time he didn't dare to say that Liang Hongyu was a Mengren.
So in the end, Liang Hongyu got the foal. Liang Hongyu didn't understand that this was taking advantage of a big advantage, she felt that her White Rabbit toffee was unique.
But I don't know why, Ximen Qing also began to have a little conscience, although he didn't dare to take advantage of Liang Hongyu, but he found that the Xixia confused girl had a cough formation, so he found it and gave a few cough pills.
The characteristic of that little Xixia confusion is that he stuffed something into his mouth when he got it, so he took five cough pills in one go.
Ximen Qing jumped up angrily, pinched the little girl's mouth, reached in and took out the cough pill, and ordered: Only eat one, one at a time, twice a day.
Well, after eating one, the little girl felt that it was bitter and not delicious at all, so she didn't continue to eat more, and kept it for later......
The Song army's entry into Western Xia did not disturb the people, and the reputation of benefiting the common people of Western Xia was spreading infinitely.
No one knows what the hell the "People's Liberation Army" is, but this is exactly Gao Fangping's propaganda caliber, this time the troops are not to invade Western Xia, but to "liberate the toiling masses of Western Xia". What the hell is true.
In short, Guan Qi, Ximenqing, these guys don't believe in this theory.
However, I can't stand the fact that there is really a group of Xixia people who believe it, when it comes to building momentum, propaganda caliber and so on, Gao Fangping is the most obscene person in this era.
In addition to Han Shizhong, who is best at this kind of work, in fact, the gendarmerie led by Liang Hongyu is the most popular. Then the political commissars of the Young Army are also very good at this kind of work, so yes, since entering the Western Xia ruling area, Gao Fangping's department is different from Liu Yanqing's department, which is the most hated, and has hardly encountered any resistance.
The Tangut bordermen could see that this was a caravan, not an army, and although they had terrifying armor, they were different from the past, and hardly bullied the Tanguts unless they were attacked.
Don't talk about this era, even the later generations of Jiang Guangtou are such obscene and treacherous people, and when his ruling area faces this set, he is also a tofu knife.
Therefore, although the border people of Western Xia, who lived a hard life, did not know what liberation was, they increasingly did not reject Gao Fangping's army. The so-called good reputation was accumulated bit by bit under Gao Fangping's strict order, starting from entering the territory of Western Xia. This is the intention of Gao Fangping to strictly grasp politics and discipline.
In fact, it can't be said that Gao Fangping is too good, but the Western Xia regime is too bad, so these border people don't have much sense of belonging.
The people of Western Xia are different from the people of the Great Song Dynasty, they are a very direct group of people, whoever is strong will follow whomever is strong, and whoever is strong will be just. Under this premise, as long as the rulers are not too discouraged, they generally go along with it, but on the whole, they have little faith or sense of belonging to the ruler.
Because they are not having a good time, the rule of Western Xia over them is much more backward than that of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is basically similar to the feudal system in Europe. Everything they have is the lord's.,Even if the sinicization has been relatively serious now,There's nothing fixed that belongs to them.,Say migration.,Say war.,You can drain the middle-aged men in their family.,Say requisition.,All their horses, cattle and sheep were taken away at no price.,Used to fight with the Song State.。 Those who were not convinced and resisted, of course, did not have to wait for the Song army to come, they were killed by their own people first.
This is the reason why the Western Xia was able to fight the Great Song Dynasty at a very low cost, which is actually the essence of traditional farming against nomadism.
But this is a drug use model, which leads to a lack of sense of belonging to the whole people. There is no sense of justice or injustice, war is simply something they survive and have to accept.
Along with the entire Song Dynasty history, once nomadism is sinicized to a certain time, it will inevitably bring a serious decline in combat power until the death of the country, which is almost a theorem. This was true of the powerful Liao State, the Western Xia State, and later the stronger Jin State.
The essence is that nomadic warfare has always been based on brutal and inhumane rule, and aggression is carried out at almost no cost. If the Great Song Dynasty wanted to equip a 100,000-strong cavalry, the price would be so great that it was not enough for the Queen Mother's underwear to be taken out and sold. However, nomadism can do it in minutes.
So this set of nomadism is an advantage, but it is also their fatal flaw: once they are sinicized, after they have a sense of belonging, it is impossible for them to give up everything and bring their own lunch boxes to fight. But playing Hanwa's set of productivity, their skills are too far behind, so they only weaken day by day until the country is completed.
Yes, the big send-off is so strange, under the leadership of the faint monarch and a group of corrupt officials, the powerful Liao State and the Jin State have been boiled to death......
What a hell of a failure!
This was the most common kind of complaining thought in the Great Song army.
As soldiers, who didn't want to go to the enemy's house to get some things from the Tanguts, and touch their women.
Yes, everyone wants to, but unfortunately it won't work this time, I thought that I could have too much fun with the big hero Gao Fangping to march into Western Xia, but it was more than being a grandson in the Song State itself, and I was stunned after endless battlefield meetings, and was brainwashed by the political commissars to become a pretending saint team.
The big-headed soldiers have the strength to kill, but they have to pay for eating some things from the Tanguts?
Speaking of which, things here are ridiculously cheap. Maybe the border people of Western Xia have never seen the copper coins of the big-headed soldiers, and maybe they have become accustomed to being taken by the military master without being paid, so this time they accidentally obtained the copper coins, and all of them were regarded as treasures. So one copper coin can buy a whole bunch of things.
This is a huge business opportunity in any case, but in the past, such business opportunities have been undermined by war and political tensions between the two countries.
In the past, the Tangut people had little productivity, but they relied on the Hexi Corridor, with endless cattle and horses, and endless resources. However, the repressive policy of Western Xia was not allowed to exchange markets with the Song State, and even if there was a small amount of transactions, they were all official markets. The so-called official market is that the things of the Tangut people were confiscated by the Tangut government and sold to the red-topped merchants of the Great Song Dynasty according to the situation.
Of course, some merchants in the Song State were bold enough to secretly smuggle materials into the border to trade with the Tanguts, but in view of the long-distance transportation and bandits, the loss was too great and the cost was too high. And because the cultivators wanted to raise an overstaffed Western army, it was almost legal to draw about two layers of caravans from the border.
In addition, the risk of entering the territory of Western Xia is also very large, and facing the strangulation of the Western Xia army, so all these problems are eventually transformed into the cost of the caravan, which is manifested in the terminal The price is too high, and not many people in the Western Xia can afford it.
These are the reasons why the border trade between the two countries cannot be opened, and they are also the reasons why the border people of Western Xia feel that the things of the Song Kingdom are extremely expensive, and they must pay a big price if they want to. That's why there are jokes such as exchanging horses for cane sugar.
In fact, if it is changed, it will be changed, which may not be a loss for the Tangut people who do not know arithmetic. If you don't change it, if Brother Cha wants to enter the army, those things will be unconditionally handed over to the Western Xia government, so it will become a cavalry known as invincible in the Great Song Dynasty. But even if they snatched things back, they had nothing to do with these Western Xia civilians.
On the contrary, because they were annoyed by the fighting, the border people would be retaliated against by the Song army.
Yes, the seed master likes revenge and likes the iron-blooded policy, which is why Gao Fangping didn't want him to come this time, he is very hated by the Xixia people. On the contrary, Tao Jiefu is much more obscene than the old species, after all, he is a literati, and when the old Tao Rong was on the border, he was relatively kind to the border people, and there were many preferential policies to attract the border people to settle down in the Song Kingdom.
To sum up, the smooth march was actually a commercial victory. In the end, everything in the world is a matter of money.
To put it bluntly, Gao Fangping used the reputation of marching into the army to protect Guan Qi and Ximenqing in a risk-free and low-cost business. Of course, this is not possible in normal times, the bandits in the northwest and the toll fees of the cultivators can teach Guan Qi to be a man.
Then Gao Fangping also used the reputation of "liberation" to protect the border people of Western Xia to obtain the materials they needed from the Song State at a relatively cheap price.
Yes, in general, the Tanguts got more and cheaper than usual. After all, the exchange of war horses for cane sugar is only a few, and it is also the early stage. As for the back, Gao Fangping has always adjusted his policies in a timely manner, and he will not let Ximen Qing and them be too pitiful, and their appearance still can't be too ugly.
So after such a long period of education, Guan Qi and Ximenqing decided to change their ways, and instead of exchanging one bag of cane sugar for other people's horses, they generously exchanged three bags of cane sugar for it. Enough is interesting, the Tangut people like them very much.
Gao Fangping can only smile bitterly at the two sharks, that is really a change to them, Gao Fangping can no longer ask for more, and he can't ask so much, after all, this time Gao Fangping is the head of the march, not a field accountant.
Under such a favorable situation, Gao Fangping's troops took Pule City in mid-March, with almost no resistance.
In the face of tens of thousands of troops, and in the face of Gao Fangping, the invincible commander who defeated the 400,000 army of Chage, the god of war in Western Xia, the hundreds of Western Xia defenders in Pule City had run out as early as the day before yesterday.
Between the good reputation since entering the war zone, Pule City is only a few Western Xia nobles have run away, and most of the Western Xia people are still left, what should they do without heart and lungs. There were even quite a few Western Xia people who had prepared things and were waiting to trade with the Song army.
Because they heard that Song Jun didn't kill people this time, and there were many good things to trade, they planned to exchange some to enjoy themselves.