In just a few days, the Great Song Dynasty sent troops one after another, sweeping several large tribes on the border, announcing Cao Wei's strong return with a thunderous momentum, and for a time the various tribes on the border were also silent, and even many tribes braved the severe cold and withdrew their tribes' stations to the north for dozens of miles to avoid Cao Wei's blade.

The tribes that were swept away were all tribes that dared to enter the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to loot before, and Cao Wei also used this incident to warn the tribes on the border, and if anyone dares to enter the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to do illegal things in the future, these tribes will be their fate.

Of course, in addition to deterring the tribes on the border, Cao Wei's real target is actually the party members, to be precise, the party members headed by Li Deming, because just before Cao Wei took office, the party members secretly accumulated troops on the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and even attacked a walled city in the Great Song Dynasty, which is also one of the reasons why Liu E reinstated Cao Wei as a quick official, because only Cao Wei can make the party members feel jealous.

Sure enough, Cao Wei's series of actions quickly had an effect, not only did the various ethnic groups on the border express their submission, but Li Deming's side was also immediately honest, not only retreated the troops, Li Deming also sent people to Gyeongju to discuss with Cao Wei, saying that he wanted to build a large construction project in Xingzhou and build a palace city, so he wanted to trade some needed materials with the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Deming actually wants to use this incident to tell Cao Wei that he has already planned to build a palace in Xingzhou honestly, and he will definitely not use troops against the Great Song Dynasty again, which can be said to be a disguised subduedness.

Li Zhang can't intervene in these border battles for the time being, but the purpose of his coming to Gyeongju has been achieved, and the musket battalion performed well in the first battle, although there are many problems, but many of them are common problems for new recruits on the battlefield, which can be solved naturally as long as they see more blood in the future, and there are also some problems such as cooperation with other arms, and there are also problems such as the defects of the musket battalion itself.

However, the above problems can be solved slowly, and the most important thing now is to expand the scale of use of muskets, so in addition to the good news sent by Cao Wei to the capital, Li Zhang also personally wrote a letter to Liu E to introduce the results of the musket battalion in detail, of course, some shortcomings are not hidden, after all, this is more real, and it can convince the suspicious Liu E.

It is worth mentioning that after the battle of Zhangshanbu, the prestige of the musket battalion also started at once, after all, in addition to killing or capturing, there are many people from Zhangshanbu who escaped, through the mouths of these people, but also let the outside world know the musket This weapon, and the people of Zhangshanbu were killed by the musket, and the power of the musket was exaggerated a lot, and in the end, some people even said that the Song people knew magic, and the soldiers of the Song people on the battlefield could breathe fire in their hands, and every time they sprayed fire, the enemy could fall, and no one could stop them.

Originally, the musket was also in a state of secrecy in the Great Song Dynasty, even after the musket battalion came to Gyeongju, only a few senior generals such as Cao Wei knew, but after this battle, the musket could no longer be kept secret, and many people inside already knew it, but for the speculation of the outside world, the Great Song Dynasty did not deny or admit it, anyway, the more exaggerated the power of the musket from the outside world, the stronger the deterrent of the musket on the battlefield, which was also a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty.

"Got out of gas?" Or the tavern where mutton was eaten last time, Li Zhang poured a glass of wine for Jin Shan and asked with a smile, during this time, Jin Shan continued to return to the mine, but changed to a supervisor, the purpose was to take revenge on those who had bullied him.

"It's so relieving, Brother Li, you didn't see how we cleaned up those bastards, this is simply the happiest thing I've ever done in my life!" Without waiting for Jin Shan to speak, Di Qing took the lead in shouting.

In contrast, Jin Shan next to him smiled calmly and said: "I finally gave this evil breath, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have to swallow my anger in the mine now." ”

"What are you talking about among friends, I actually have good news to tell you today!" Li Zhang smiled again at the moment, he didn't ask Jin Shan how he took revenge on those people, because the people who are kings and hegemons in places like mines have almost no good things, even if they are killed, they deserve it.

"What's the good news, it's not going to be to transfer us out of the mine, right?" Di Qing asked again excitedly while nibbling on mutton at this time, although he was young and impulsive, he was not stupid, but very smart, but he had not yet learned to control his emotions, so he usually seemed immature.

"Haha, it's pretty much the same, but you still stay in the mine in name, but in fact you can regain your freedom, you just need to go to the mine every three months to sign in!" Li Zhang laughed again at this time, he had thought about transferring Jinshan and them out of the mine, but recently he had found a better way.

"How can there be such a good thing?" Di Qing couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Li Zhang's words, if it was really like what Li Zhang said, then they were actually no different from normal people.

"I'm afraid the mine is not so easy to release people, Li Zhang, you must give the mine some benefits, right?" Jin Shan still asked very calmly.

"It's not a good deal, it's just that ten prisoners of war will be used to replace your work, and the work done by these ten prisoners of war will be counted on your head in the future!" Li Zhang smiled again at the moment, Hu Yan kept his word and they broke the Zhangshan Department and captured a lot of prisoners of war, so Li Zhang discussed with the mine supervisor of the mine, and then the other party agreed to exchange ten prisoners of war for the freedom of Jin Shan and Di Qing.

"Ten people for two people, the mine supervisor is really a good calculation." Jin Shan couldn't help but smile when he heard Li Zhang's words, the mine has a fixed number of ores mined every month, and if the mine supervisor can't finish it, he will be reprimanded by the superiors, so for the mine supervisor, the more people under his command to open the mine, the better, and it is naturally undesirable to exchange two people for ten people.

"It's just a prisoner of war, this time Huyan kept his word and they destroyed the Zhangshan Department, and the prisoners of war alone brought thousands of people, most of them were women and children, and some were captured on the battlefield, these people have the blood of our Song people on their hands, and it is already cheap for them to let them live and open mines." Li Zhang said indifferently at this time.

When he said this, Li Zhang suddenly thought of something again, and asked Jin Shan again: "By the way, except for the fact that you can't leave Gyeongju now, everyone else is like ordinary people, have you ever thought about what to do?" If you want to join the army, I can arrange it for you. ”

"This ......" Jin Shan was also stunned when he heard Li Zhang's words, because he didn't expect him to regain his freedom so quickly, so he didn't have any plans for the next thing, but Di Qing next to him wanted to say something excitedly, but seeing that Jin Shan didn't speak, he also held back his words.