- Liang Shan

"Big brother, the feeling here is really good, it's more military than Neihuang." Yue Fei wiped his sweat and walked to Jiang De's office with Wang Gui and others, Jiang De put down his pen and said with a smile, "Of course, what about Master?" ”

Wang Gui took the tea next to him, poured a cup, took a sip and said, "Master said to go to Yuncheng County to have a look, and said that he wanted to know what the new countryside under the governance of Liangshan was like. ”

Jiang De shook his head and sighed, "What kind of new countryside, but in addition to some landlords with many bad deeds, plus there are a few people who understand agriculture to help the people farm, build some roads, and give children a chance to study, I told you before, productivity will determine everything, and under the current productivity, many of our things are not easy to change." ”

Wang Gui scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "What the eldest brother said is still so difficult to understand." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also very surprised, Master is willing to come to Liangshan to have a look, I still remember that when he first knew that I was here to pull the flag and gather troops, he almost killed me." ”

"Huh? Is there such a thing? Tang Huai said in disbelief.

Jiang De nodded and continued, "Yes, but since the official family appointed those Taoist priests as officials, the master has changed a little. ”

Yue Fei sighed and said, "Master should be a little disappointed in today's official family, but big brother, aren't we really rebelling?" ”

Jiang De looked at Yue Fei and asked, "What is rebellion?" As long as our hearts are towards the people, then we are not rebelling, even if it is today's official family, if there are no people in our hearts, then he is a rebellion, and he has created a rebellion against the people of the whole world! ”

This kind of rebellion naturally conflicts with Yue Fei's concept of loyalty since childhood, Yue Fei fell into contemplation again, but Jiang De is no longer worried, since Yue Fei is willing to come to Liangshan, Jiang De knows that the foolish and loyal Yue Fei in his memory has disappeared, and now Yue Fei has a new three views without the influence of Yao.

Xu Guanzhong walked in at this time, he was followed by a young girl, Xu Guanzhong bowed to Jiang De and said, "Lord, look who is coming." ”

The girl who came had a small face, red lips, apricot eyes, and a petite figure, Jiang De smiled at a glance, "Sister Wu Di, why did you run this trip yourself?" Running all the way, hard work, right? ”

Wang Gui whispered to Zhang Xian, "There is a Huadiao sister in the cottage, and there is also a sister Wu Di here, our eldest brother is amazing." ”

Wu Di looked at Jiang De, who had grown a lot taller, gave a salute first, and then said, "Wu Di of the Wu family shipyard has seen Xiao Langjun, this time the matter is important, how dare you be sloppy, and dare not take others lightly, so I will take this trip by myself." ”

Jiang De nodded, expressed his approval, and then said to Yue Fei and the others, "Okay, a few of you go out first, I want to talk about something, by the way, Yue Fei, a few of you will go to the Golden Gun Camp to learn from tomorrow, Xu Jiaotou's sickle hook marksmanship is a unique in the world, especially Tang Huai, don't you also use a sickle hook gun, take this opportunity to learn more." ”

Tang Huai sighed, and left together after a few urines, Jiang De asked Wu Di to sit down, asked Xu Guanzhong to pour Wu Di a cup of tea, and asked, "How has the ship been built in the past year?" Short on money? ”

Wu Di thanked Xu Guanzhong, took a sip and said, "Back to Xiao Langjun, everything is going well in the construction of the warship, Xiao Langjun's drawings are very correct, including the two sand ships handed over to Xiao Langjun last time, two Fu ships and four sand ships have been completed, all of which are large ships with more than 2,000 materials, and there are four Fu ships and eight sand ships that are still under construction. ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "Good job, those two sand boats have already gone to sea, now calculate the time, they should have already returned, but the ships have no weapons, they are not warships, and the next thing is to find a way to arm these ships." ”

In order to prevent detection by the government, the ships built in Mingzhou were not equipped with any weapons, but left a place for future installation, and the ballistas used on the ships would be built in Yangsan and transported to the sea before being assembled.

Xu Guanzhong said to Wu Di, "In the past year, we have also experimented with a lot of ballistas used in ship warfare here, but no matter how many experiments there are, they are not as good as the actual combat tests, and I don't know what happened to Wu Junshi going to Goryeo to talk about renting Jeju Island." ”

"Jeju Island?" Wu Di asked curiously, "Could it be the island between Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom?" I once heard from a merchant who came and went. ”

"That's it, it's a military location between Goryeo and Japan, and it's also an important source of taxes for Goryeo, I asked Wu to lease a port there in the name of Song merchants, so that it can become our military port in the future, but in my opinion, it's not very likely, even if Wu Yong is ready to bribe Goryeo's important ministers." Jiang De didn't have much confidence in Wu's idea.

At this time, the king of Goryeo was called Ruizong in later generations, at this time he had been on the throne for ten years, the age was only in his thirties, it was the peak period, he was not long after he ascended the throne, Yin Qian and Wu Yanzhong conquered the Jurchens, but they won first and then defeated, speaking of which, Goryeo was the first eastern country to suffer from the Jurchens, Wang Yu began to pay attention to the country after losing the war with the Jurchens, first strengthened the exchanges with the Liao State, and obtained the canonization of the Liao State, and then strengthened the exchanges with the Song State, not only learned Zhao Ji to believe in Taoism, Also greatly promote culture and education, learn the new law that the Song State is implementing, although the martial arts are insufficient, but the culture is more than enough, and it can be regarded as a middle-class figure among the Goryeo kings, the most important thing is that at this time in the Goryeo court and the opposition, there are no powerful ministers, Wu Yong wants to bribe a few of Wang Mata's favorite ministers to let Wang Mata give up the important port, it may be really a little naïve, but there will be no loss anyway, Wang Mata will never dare to do anything to the big businessmen of the Song State, so Jiang De also let him give it a try. What's more, at least in this way, some information about Goryeo should be in hand.

"Mr. Xu, I will let Mr. Gongsun and Sister Wu Di get in touch later, and Mr. Gongsun will be responsible for the construction and transportation of the ordnance." Jiang De said to Xu Guanzhong, Xu Guanzhong answered, and took out a letter from his arms, "By the way, lord, this is a letter sent by Commander Lei, the blast furnace on Ciyang Mountain has been successfully built, ask the lord if he wants to see the refining of the first furnace of iron." ”

The name Ciyang Mountain is not obtained in vain, Jiang De suspected that there was iron ore on this mountain when he first heard this name, and after using the points to exchange for the books of later generations, he found that there was iron ore on Ciyang Mountain, and it was also a shallow iron ore, which was extremely rare in ancient times with low productivity, and there were many coal mines in Yanzhou, almost 4 percent of Yanzhou's land was buried with coal, which had the premise of practicing steel.

As originally introduced, the minerals of the Song Dynasty were all state-owned, managed and produced by various mine supervisors in various places, but the miners and guards of the mine supervisor did not even have the strength to fight back in front of Lei Heng's battalion of Liangshan Army, Lei Heng did not kill all the people of the mine supervisor according to Jiang De's instructions, but let the miners vote by secret ballot to execute those who had greater grievances, and then used money to buy the position of the mine supervisor for Lei Heng, and then, as long as the iron ore originally given to the imperial court was guaranteed, If you mine more, you can unknowingly become the income of Liangshan.

As for the output of iron ore, since the use of gunpowder to blow up the mountain, the amount mined has been as much as three times the original, and now the problem is not that there is not enough ore mined, but that the iron-making blast furnace in Ciyangshan is too small and can only be redesigned.

It just so happened that Jiang De let the industrial zone transport cement, high-temperature refractory bricks and other materials, and built a new blast furnace in Ciyang Mountain, saying that it was a blast furnace, which was a standard obsolete industry with large pollution and small output in later generations, but for the Song Dynasty, the ten-meter-high earth blast furnace was already an out-and-out new technology.

Jiang De smiled and said, "This is a good thing, Duan Jingzhu and Lu Zhishen went to the Jurchens, they should be back soon, and then we will need to exchange iron weapons for Jurchen horses, and now the iron tools in our hands are far from enough." ”

Xu Guanzhong sighed, "Yes, the blades we originally captured have already been issued to the sergeants, if we hadn't found an iron mine that could smelt iron and make soldiers, we wouldn't even be able to expand the army in the next step." ”

As he was talking, a person walked in, and said to Jiang De with a stern face, "Lord, something happened, and a small official we sent to Yunzhou was killed. ”

"What?" Jiang De frowned and asked, "Who did it?" ”

The person who came in was Xiao Rang, and in addition to being responsible for the spiritual construction of the Liangshan Army, his indoctrination battalion also began to be responsible for selecting suitable candidates in the Tianxiang Academy, and then placing these people who were dissatisfied with the Great Song Dynasty into various important positions in the prefectures and counties around Liangshan.

Xiao Rang replied to Jiang De, "It is Zhang Ze, a student who was placed in Pingyin County, Yunzhou, to serve as a criminal Cao, according to the information we got the report, Zhang Ze arrived in Pingyin County and found that there were many old cases in the local area that had not been solved, so he began to investigate, and later found out that Zhujiazhuang on Dulonggang in Pingyin County was suspicious, so he went by himself, and within three days, Zhang Ze's head was thrown in front of the gate of the county, and a note was nailed to the door of his head, with the words Liangshan thief Kou written on it! ”

"Bang!" The teacup in Jiang De's hand was smashed to the ground and shattered, Jiang De squinted his eyes and said, "Zhujiazhuang in Dulonggang? Well, I don't have time to clean you up, but you're messing with me! ”

After speaking, Jiang De asked suspiciously, "Then how does Zhujiazhuang know that this Zhang Ze is from my Liangshan?" I remember that these people are all students of Tianxiang Academy to the outside world, and they have nothing to do with me Liangshan, even if they themselves know me Jiang De, but they don't know Liangshan. ”

Xiao Rang nodded and said, "That's right, so my subordinates think that this should be a frame-up by Zhujiazhuang, after all, at the government level, as long as it is a thief in Liangshan, it will be killed if it is killed." ”

Jiang De smiled angrily and said, "This is being blinded by him, I think it must be Zhang Ze who found out some of their corrupt things, they don't want to expose it, so they kill people and kill them, saying that they are thieves in Liangshan, and it is not easy for my Tianxiang Academy to come forward to retaliate, and Liangshan does not have this person, and he will not look for him, but it is wishful thinking!" ”

Xu Guanzhong said to Jiang De: "I always listen to the times of Zhujiazhuang, saying that Zhujiazhuang and the three villages of Lijiazhuang and Hujiazhuang next to each other protect each other, and claim the king in the Dulonggang area, the three Zhuangzi add up to three or four thousand households, one or two thousand people, if it fights, it is not a problem for Sanzhuang to get together four or five thousand soldiers and horses." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "It's just some country bullies, bullying some people by virtue of the terrain, just right, I remember that Lian'er still has a marriage contract in the hands of that Zhujiazhuang, this time it will be a new hatred and old hatred together, but it is happy!" Let the nearby counties and villages know the majestic strength of my Liangshan! ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said, "That's right, let's not say that this Zhang Ze is our person, even if it is not our person, a bully like Zhujiazhuang should be eradicated by us!" ”

Jiang De said to Wu Di, "Sister Wu Di, this is unfortunate, there has been no war for more than a year, but today I met it." ”

Wu Di's eyes lit up and said, "Xiao Langjun, is this going to send troops?" Can I go along? ”

Jiang Dewei "This march is nothing else, even the commander in the army is at risk, Wu Di, you still have to play in the mountains for a while, think that Zhujiazhuang is only a few thousand township soldiers, can it hold up my army for a few days?" When I return, I will accompany you to see the scenery of Liangshan, Xu Junshi, beat the drum and gather the generals! ”

The Liangshan snare drum, which had not been beaten for a year, was beaten again, and the leaders of the battalions in Liangshan heard the drums, and while asking each other, they hurried to the mountain.

Qin Ming was the most angry, he stomped his feet out of the queue and said, "Village master, that Zhujiazhuang is just a small village village, it should be so presumptuous, please allow me to send troops, I only took the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and I killed him!" ”

"That's right, the owner of the village, I am training in the mountains every day, and the brothers are going crazy, not to mention that Zhujiazhuang is so rude, it is really self-defeating, and please ask the prospective brother to go out of the mountain and destroy him!" Liu Tang also screamed.

Jiang De looked at Chao Gai, and Chao Gai arched his hand to Jiang De and said, "Please also show the owner of the village!" ”

Jiang De nodded, waved his hand and said, "Brothers, I wish Jiazhuang many injustices, and our army will win this battle!" Listen to the generals! ”

"Huh!" Everyone clasped their fists to express their obedience, and Wu Di, who was watching, was secretly speechless, and also looked at a few people next to him rubbing their hands excitedly, this is what the army looks like in their hearts.

"I personally fought in this battle, Mr. Xu was the military division of the army, Dai Zong was running for the opportunity, Huang Xin led the headquarters as the vanguard, Qin Ming led the cavalry battalion, Xu Ning led the Golden Gun battalion, Niu Gao Li Zhong led the guard battalion, and Du Qian led the headquarters as the Chinese army...."Jiang De nodded at the general, looked at Yue Fei and said, "Yue Fei, are you willing to participate in the war?" ”

Yue Fei was a little contradictory, he had also seen Liangshan's style these days, and knew that Liangshan's soldiers and horses would not kill innocents indiscriminately, but he was still a little resistant to sending troops to the village, Jiang De saw that Yue Fei didn't speak for a long time, so he looked at Wang Gui next to him, Wang Gui immediately raised his hand and said, "Big brother, I'm willing to go, I'm willing to go!" ”