A few days later, Yang Congyi took Luo Cong, Xue Wang and other three teams of people and horses to leave Liuqiu, urging the horses to rush to Huaixi.

Before leaving Liuqiu, he asked Shen Jin to send someone to the Guangzhou shipyard to try to let them build more sea ships, and the fleet will be used to go to sea next year.

The conscription team rode the excellent northern war horses, marched all the way, and marched for more than 4,000 miles in a month, and finally arrived at the Anqing army around the Lantern Festival.

Then the three of them went their separate ways, Luo Cong went to Luzhou, Xue Wang went to Huangzhou, and Yang Congyi stayed in Anqing.

Yang Congyi came to Huaixi many times to recruit, in addition to the army, other officials are quite familiar with him, plus he is generous, the local government actively assists, the government is everywhere to post recruitment notices, and lead the soldiers of the elite army to go down to various towns and villages, so the recruitment preparations are carried out very smoothly.

According to Yang Congyi's deployment, a team of 50 people, just five fires, each fire went to a county, responsible for the specific recruitment of a county.

Xue Wang and Luo Cong's recruitment methods are basically the same as Yang Congyi's, which is the fastest and most convenient recruitment method they have discussed on the road.

At the end of February, people from all walks of life gathered in Huaining County, and the recruitment effect was quite significant, with a total of more than 5,000 people.

Then everyone boarded the river boat recruited by the Anqing government on the Yangtze River and went straight down the river.

In less than ten days, he left the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then transferred to more than 20 sea ships prepared in advance by Lu You, and went south downwind to Liuqiu.

In late March, more than 5,000 new recruits arrived in Liuqiu to begin a six-month intensive training camp in the newly established camp.

This new army was led by Luo Cong and Xue Wang, and according to the plan, after three months of intensive training, the whole army would conduct an assessment, of which 2,000 people would be selected into the Jingwu Army, and the rest would be added to the Huiyi Guard, and then the training would be carried out separately.

The training of the new army officially began, and it was soon on the right track.

After inspecting the camp and seeing that the training life of the Jingwu Army, the Escort Army and the New Army was going well, Yang Congyi left Liuqiu with Shen Jin, and they still had a very important thing to do.

The 50,000 catties of iron promised to Yan Yong last year had to be sent to Liaoyang.

In this matter, Yang Congyi told Shen Jin early on that the source of iron is not a problem, Quanzhou is also one of the top foreign trade ports in the Song Dynasty, although the imperial court prohibits the private transportation of iron and coins, but there are no longer a few of them shipped abroad every year, not to mention that they preside over the return to the Yi Department, and it is actually very easy to get iron.

The question is who sent 50,000 catties of iron to Liaoyang, is it Yang Congyi or Shen Jin?

Wan Yan Yong's matter is quite complicated, whether he will cause an incident, what will happen, it is related to whether the Great Song army can resist the question of whether Wan Yan Liang's army can cross the river, if he starts at the right time, Wan Yan Liang will be chaotic, if he can't get started, the Great Song Dynasty will be in danger.

Yang Congyi had seen Wan Yan Yong, and it was best for him to go north in advance to urge Wan Yan Yong to get up at the right time, but if the Jin people went south, he had to be on standby in Liuqiu, and he couldn't help but participate in this battle. Although theoretically speaking, the time of the Wanyan Yong uprising should be earlier than the time when the Jin army arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, who can guarantee that Wanyanliang will not invade the south in advance?

The two places are thousands of miles apart, and they don't have skills at all, and if they go to Liaoyang, they can't take care of the Yangtze River.

"Brother Yang, I'll do the affairs of the north, I will assist Wan Yan Yong to start an incident when the Jin army goes south, and plan for the defense of the Yangtze River." Shen Jin knew Yang Congyi's difficulties, but he hadn't seen Yan Yong, and he was not confident that he could complete the task.

"It's okay, I've already met with Yan Yong and his uncle Li Shi before, and although they refused to rebel in front of me, I know that when the sword hangs on the top, they will definitely consider the proposal to rise up and ascend to the throne. I have already released some fake news to them, saying that Gao Cunfu, the deputy left-behind guard, is plotting to get rid of Wan Yan Yong, and worries about Wan Yan Liang, after you arrive in Liaoyang, you can continue to make a fuss about Gao Cunfu and put pressure on Wan Yan Yong and Li Shi, but don't show evidence. After confirming that Yan Liang tore up the peace contract and began to invade the Great Song Dynasty, he could directly send them the certificate that Gao Cunfu was going to kill Yan Yong and force them to rebel. If they are not confident enough, they might as well spread the news in Dengzhou and Yidu Mansion first, saying that Yan Yong, who stayed behind in Liaoyang, had already started an incident in Liaoyang, and recruited loyal people from all over the world to set up another imperial court. All these things must be done at the right time, not too early or too late. Yang Congyi told Shen Jin his thoughts.

"Okay, I'll pay attention."

Teaching people to rebel is generally difficult for scholars to accept, and they don't even dare to think about it. But this matter is related to the life and death of the Great Song Dynasty, Shen Jin had to accept this idea, only if the Jin country is in turmoil, the Great Song Dynasty can block the invasion of the Jin State.

After several days of preparation in Quanzhou, as the north wind weakened and the south wind appeared, Shen Jin left the port from Quanzhou with tokens, more than a dozen sea ships and hundreds of people, and sent 50,000 catties of iron to Liaoyang Mansion.

Before leaving, Shen Jin sent a letter to his family again, asking them to bring their family to Quanzhou before July, and he didn't know if his parents, wives and children would listen to the persuasion.

Yang Congyi went home to live for a few days, personally went to the shipyard to inquire about the shipbuilding progress, the Huiyi fleet is a large shipbuilder, their order shipyard does not dare to be sloppy, has been working overtime to catch up, build a good one, deliver one, all sent back to Liuqiu, the whole progress, he is quite satisfied.

Then, he led two teams of men to Mingzhou, one was to inspect the shipyard's shipbuilding progress, and the other was to repair the old site of the Changguo Xuanwei Army, which would become their new camp in a few months.

After a delay in Mingzhou for a while, a few days later, in early May, Yang Congyi returned to Lin'an with a team of elite soldiers.

Lu You, who stayed in Lin'an Huiyi, was very busy, day by day to contact the wealthy businessmen, sign contracts, purchase goods, from mid-March, a month and a half, the purchase intention reached has been more than 8 million, this is not counting several major official kilns and Jinghu, Jiangnan several large-scale brocade courtyards. According to his own estimates, in late May, the procurement will end.

Yang Congyi does not need to participate in the procurement supervision, he had to recruit all kinds of craftsmen before, but now he has the required talent flow to go to sea, except for Langzhong, of course.

Therefore, it is no longer as laborious and laborious as before. Even later, the office of the return office is directly set up in the port of Quanzhou, and it is not impossible for merchants from all over the country to ship the goods to the port and then sign the procurement contract, after all, it is running around and delaying a lot of time.

Yang Congyi had discussed this idea with Lu You before, but it was not easy to implement it at present, because they didn't know if the imperial court would suddenly suspend the return to Yi.

After returning to Lin'an, Yang Congyi did not participate in the specific procurement matters, he first wrote to the imperial court, and reported the Huiyi supervision of the replacement of the formation of the Huiyi escort team, the procurement of goods and the progress of the fleet building, and waited for further instructions from the imperial court.

Then he went to the Privy Council to coordinate the application for an order to return to the Yi Escort to go to sea.

The Hui Yi Guard is a subordinate guard force of the Hui Yi Division, strictly speaking, it is not an army, in fact, it is not necessary to apply for an appointment, so this appointment is a dispensable thing in the eyes of the Privy Council, and it doesn't matter if it is given or not, since the Hui Yi Department wants it, they will not say that they will not give it.

Yang Congyi quickly got the transfer order that the Huiyi Guards allowed to transfer out of the Liuqiu training camp, and then took the transfer order to the ordnance station to receive armaments and ordnance materials, the equipment scale is 5,000 people to fight three battles, and the number of applications is not much different from before, but the type of ordnance and military materials has changed slightly, and there are slightly more ** weapons such as earthquake thunder, but this does not affect the signing of the guards in the ordnance station.

A few days later, according to the signing of the ordnance office, Yang Congyi took a team of sergeants to the Zuo Armament Depot, collected the ordnance and armament needed for the five thousand people to fight three battles one by one, transported them to the Qiantang River to load the ship, and transported them along the river to the old place of the Xuanwei Army in Changguo County, Mingzhou.

With the time coming to the middle of May, Lin'an City is as prosperous as before, the market is full of people during the day, the whole Lin'an is also brightly lit at night, inside and outside the West Lake, you can hear the song and dance of the warbler everywhere, the teahouse restaurant, from early morning to dusk, there are countless idlers in and out at any time, and you can not feel the atmosphere of the coming war at all.

In the Great Song Dynasty, the two factions argued endlessly every day, and went down to the court, let go of the ya, listened to music, drank wine, and enjoyed singing and dancing was their life, and war and peace had nothing to do with them.

Outside the court, even the high-ranking officials above the temple no longer discuss the national affairs of the Song and Jin dynasties, and ordinary people will not care, and pleasure is what they pursue.

Moreover, in the eyes of the Lin'an people, the Jin people are thousands of miles away, and they don't have to worry about them at all, they have not crossed the Yangtze River for more than 30 years, even if the war breaks out again, the war will only be north of the Yangtze River, and it has little to do with Lin'an.

Therefore, even if someone occasionally talks about wars and disputes in the court, they are quickly covered by other more relaxed and joyful topics, war and peace are the affairs of the court and the official family, and they only need to enjoy life, without having to contribute money, let alone effort.

Yang Congyi, who was very concerned about the news of Jin Guo, took the time to visit Sun Miao, a colleague of the former palace commander, after the military equipment left Lin'an.

After decades of not seeing each other, those insignificant misunderstandings between them back then have long since disappeared.

Sun Miao is now second only to the Lord of the Military Case, if he is lucky enough, he can go further, but according to him, his chance is not great, and there are many people staring at that position.

And what is even more chilling is that the current commander of the front division of the palace is no longer Yang Guogong, but Zhao Mi, the commander of the Ma Jun Division. In order to control the front division of the palace, he couldn't wait to transfer the old department from the Ma Jun Division to the front division of the palace, and many important positions were replaced, among which the errand grinding case has been completely replaced.

Hearing this, both of them sighed.

Sun Miao was envious of the current Yang Congyi, saying that he took the return to the Yi Office alone, although he did not have much power, but he wanted money and wealth, unlimited scenery, and was rewarded by the imperial court, and his future was unlimited.