There are many wastelands in the upper reaches of the Kuye River, and Zhong Hao plans to organize people to open up wasteland in the Kuye River Basin from Linzhou City to Liangu County.

Although it is now the beginning of May, and the traditional food crops such as rice, wheat, millet and millet have passed the solar term, it is still possible to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted late, and at most they will be harvested later, so as long as they are harvested before the weather gets colder, there will be no problem.

After several years of planting and promotion, the potatoes and sweet potatoes in Jingqiang Village have a large planting area, which can provide seedlings of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court added Liangu County to Huangyangcheng in the northwest of Linzhou, and since then, this Liangu County has been one of the three counties of Xinqin, Liangu and Yincheng owned by Linzhou. The three counties of Xinqin, Liangu and Yincheng in Linzhou were all built along the Kuye River. Liangu County is located in the upper reaches of the Kuye River, while Yincheng County is located in the lower reaches of the Kuye River.

Linzhou is already close to the Songxia border, this Liangu County is located in the northwest of Linzhou, naturally closer to the border, if there is a war in Songxia, this Liangu County is the first to bear the brunt.

But then again, most of the territory of Western Xia opposite this Liangu County is desert and swamp, and there is no permanent Western Xia army, but it is more careful than Yincheng County in the face of the pressure of the county seat of the Western Xia Left Divine Warrior Army. There was a big war in Song and Xia before, and although the Western Xia had also marched from here, it was not the focus of the Western Xia attack.

Of course, this Liangu County is not as strong as Linzhou City, and it is located at the forefront of the Song-Xia border, so once there is a war, it is still very dangerous. However, although the cavalry of the Western Xia people often came to the Great Song Dynasty to attack and harass, and often attacked the fortresses of the Great Song Dynasty, this attack on the county seat still rarely happened. After all, the current alliance between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia is still peaceful, at least on the surface.

Although there were attacks and conflicts between each other and conflicts in the border areas of the Song and Xia dynasties, they tacitly did not make things bigger. Therefore, the residents in this Liangu county are quite safe, because when the Western Xia cavalry invaded the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, they would generally only attack some small forts, and basically would not attack the county seat. Because once the county town is attacked, then the matter will be big, and this will give the Great Song Dynasty a truth, and he can denounce the Western Xia for breaking the covenant. Maybe the Great Song Dynasty will close the mutual market and the market again, and impose economic sanctions on the Western Xia, which the Western Xia does not want to see.

The upper reaches of the Guye River in the northwest of Linzhou are indeed a very fertile place, and they are facing less pressure from the Tangut people, so Zhong Hao chose this place as the place to Tuntian.

The southwest of Linzhou is facing the land of Yinzhou in Western Xia and the left-facing Shenyong Army, and the pressure is increasing, and it is not very suitable for cultivating wasteland.

This Yinzhou belongs to the old base of the Western Xia, the Western Xia has been operating here for nearly two hundred years, deep-rooted, compared to the desert and barren places on the opposite side of the northwest of Linzhou, more valued by the Xixia people. However, in the territory of Xixia opposite Liangu County, there are only a few places such as Dijinze and Anpingze that are inhabited, so the pressure is less. If the Tangut people were from the border of Liangu County, they would need to make a lot of detours.

Speaking of which, the five states of Dingyan are also the base of the Xia people. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huangchao Rebellion was uprising, the Tang King passed on the King of Qin. The Dangxiang clan Youzhou Assassin Shi Tuoba Sigong sent troops to help Tang and defeated the Huangchao rebels. During the battle, Tuoba Sigong's younger brother Tuoba Sizhong died in battle, and Tang Xizong gave Tuoba Sigong Dingnan Wuzhou as a fief, and named it "Dingyan Military Festival Envoy", and was later named Xia Guogong and given the surname Li.

Since then, the most important branch of the party, the Tuoba clan, changed its surname to "Li", and had its own territory, occupying the five states of Dingyan until the reign of Taizong of the Song Dynasty.

During the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, Li Jitou was sacrificed to the Great Song Dynasty, and the five states of Dingyan were included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. However, Li Jiqian, a disciple of the Li family, was unwilling to lose the Li family's difficult five states, so he rebelled with some people. Although the Great Song Dynasty repeatedly defeated Li Jiqian and beat him to flee in embarrassment, it never destroyed Li Jiqian, but allowed Li Jiqian to finally occupy a foothold in the five states of Dingyan, and gradually expanded his power, forming a de facto secession, until Li Yuanhao brazenly proclaimed himself emperor.

The previous leaders of the Xia people were all in Xiazhou, and the leader of the Xia people was named the Duke of Xia because he was in Xiazhou, and when Li Yuanhao founded the country, because he was the Duke of Xia, he was named "Xia"! It's just that the land of the five states is too close to the Great Song Dynasty, and if the capital is settled here, there is no depth buffer, which is more dangerous, so Li Yuanhao led his troops all the way to the west, occupied the Ningxia Plain under Helan Mountain as the foundation, and built the capital in Xingqing Mansion under Helan Mountain and west of the Yellow River.

Xingqing Mansion "controls Heshuo in the north, leads Qingliang in the south, and according to the upper reaches of the road, chokes the key points in the west", and its geographical situation is much superior to that of Yin and Xia. From the perspective of the economic environment, agriculture and animal husbandry in the surrounding areas of Xingqing Prefecture are relatively developed, and the relatively stable irrigation agriculture in the Yellow River basin can ensure the military and civilian food supply in the city.

In addition to the original Tang Lai, Hanyuan ancient canal and other irrigation benefits, Yuan Haoshi also built the "Haowang Canal" on the alluvial plain at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, which is more than 200 miles long, so that the agricultural and animal husbandry production in the suburbs of Xingqing Mansion has been greatly developed, and it has become one of the grain bases and important pastures in Xixia.

Xingqing Mansion is really a place where you can be called a king, Li Yuanhao's vision is accurate, and he is one of the best in this era, but it is a pity that he, like all the grassland kings, will inevitably be arrogant and complacent at the peak of his career, and finally end up being killed by his own son, in fact, this is a common disease of the grassland people, and many of the leaders of the grassland people are like him.

In the Great Song Dynasty, when the Tangut people were mentioned, they would be considered barbarians and savages, and they did not know that this ethnic group had begun to appear its own writing, its own intellectual system, its own religious beliefs, and its own political system.

The fierce folk customs are a characteristic that the Northwest ethnic groups must have, otherwise the harsh natural environment will make them slowly disappear in the long river of history. The party members used to be famous for their fierceness and good fighting.

After arriving in Hexi, Zhong Hao can be regarded as having the most practical understanding of this country, in terms of official composition, they are no different from the Great Song Dynasty, Zhongshu, Privy Council, Three Divisions, Yushitai, even Kaifeng Mansion are copied, Yiwei Division, Official Planning Division, Acceptance Division, Farmland Division, Qunmu Division, Feilong Academy, Mokan Division, Wensi Academy, Fan Xue, Sinology. It's all in one.

Many people in the Great Song Dynasty always regarded Western Xia as a local separatist force, and with an in-depth understanding of Western Xia, Zhong Hao found that this separatist force was already a very complete country. Although the Western Xia were vassals to the Great Song and the Khitan, the Western Xia had effectively completed their independence.

However, although the Western Xia set up the capital in Xingqing Mansion at the foot of Helan Mountain, it has not given up the operation of this difficult five states. There are many lakes and dense water networks in Yinzhou, which can be called the land of fish and rice. Xiazhou is also a place where the land is fertile, while Yanzhou produces green salt. If the Xixia people manage it well, they will naturally be able to ensure that the people of Wufu are abundant.

Therefore, the people of the Western Xia have always been very troubled and laborious in the operation of the five states. It is precisely because of this that the Yongxing Military Road of the Great Song Dynasty, the Jinning Army and Linzhou on the Hedong Road opposite the five states are still under great pressure. Therefore, the Yincheng County area directly opposite the Left Wing Divine Warrior Division is obviously not suitable for use as a base for Tuntian reclamation.

Of course, this is in the Guye River valley between Liangu County and Linzhou City, and this pressure is not small, mainly to face the continuous attacks of the Western Xia cavalry. If there is not enough military strength to guarantee it, I am afraid that this kind of crop will become a meal on the plate of the Tangut people.

It is to reclaim the barren tuntian fields in this section of the cave river valley between Liangu County and Linzhou City, and the cooperation of the Linzhou garrison is also needed.

It was about 20 miles from Linzhou City to Liangu County, and Zhong Hao initially planned to set up three strong fortresses in this section of the river basin to send troops to garrison in order to protect the crops. Of course, in case the Western Xia cavalry came to attack, these forts were also places where the soldiers and civilians of Tuntian took refuge.

These forts do not need to be as strong as Jingqiang Village, and it does not take so long to build them. Zhong Hao felt that as long as this fortress could be used as a garrison to resist the party's cavalry, it would be fine. The cavalry field combat ability of the Western Army is not much worse than that of the party cavalry, and now with the assistance of the earth-shaking thunder, even if it is a field battle, there is no need to be afraid of the party cavalry.

Therefore, as long as this fortress can be used as a simple basis for the garrison, the garrison can decide whether to fight or defend the party cavalry according to its own situation. It can be said that with this fortress, these garrisons can have more choices, and the initiative of whether to fight or defend is in their own hands.

This matter of opening up the wasteland is inseparable from the coordination with the garrison of Linzhou, and now the Linfu Soldiers and Horses Division does not have a general manager of soldiers and horses, and Zhong Hao can only contact the Linzhou garrison in the name of the state government.

Of course, according to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, this local government has no power to mobilize the forbidden army. The magistrates of the Great Song Dynasty were also very taboo about making friends with the local garrison. The most guarded against in the Great Song Dynasty is that this warlord is bigger, and this local official and the local garrison make friends, which is naturally an opportunity in the eyes of those officials in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, Zhong Hao had the same advantage, and he himself was secretly instructed by the official family to come to Linzhou to implement this strategy of attacking Hengshan. The reason why the official family sent Zhong Hao to Linzhou was because he had a close relationship with these garrisons in Linzhou, so Zhong Hao was naturally not afraid of people saying that he colluded with the local garrison.

It is said that the local government has no authority to let the local garrison do this and that, and without orders, these forbidden troops cannot be transferred at will. Although the garrison of Linzhou belongs to the Western Army, the Western Army also belongs to the forbidden army sequence.

However, this matter is nothing to Zhong Hao, and his Taishan father-in-law is the handsome minister of the Hedong Shuaisi. This allowed the Linzhou garrison to help carry out the affairs of this cave and river, as long as Zhong Hao coordinated with the Linzhou garrison, he would naturally be able to get the order of this commander.

As for the manpower of the more than 20 miles of Kuye River valley between Liangu County and Linzhou City, it is also a problem.

In fact, before the establishment of the Western Xia state, there were many people living and cultivating in this area, but with Li Yuanhao becoming the emperor and the official establishment of the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty's patience with the Western Xia was completely to the limit, and several major wars broke out between the two sides.

The several major wars between the Song and Xia, Linzhou here are one of the battlefields, and the Western Xia army has ravaged here several times, especially after Li Yuanhao's victory in the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the Battle of Linfufeng was launched immediately, and it swept the three states in the west of the Song River. Except for the city of Linzhou and the city of Fuzhou that were finally defended, the rest of the fortresses, county seats, and even Fengzhou City in the three states of Hexi were all broken by the Xixia people.

The people of Linzhou naturally suffered countless casualties in those wars, and most of the rest fled to Hedong.

Even now, the Western Xia army often roared in, roared away, and often attacked and disturbed, because the people in these places could not live in peace, and most of them left their homeland to other places. Therefore, the area from Linzhou City to Liangu County is very desolate.

Zhong Hao felt that he should still be the same as when he was in Tuntian in the lower reaches of the Kuye River, and he should mobilize some Xiang troops from the east of the river to Tuntian to reclaim the wasteland.

The Jingqiang village in the lower reaches of the Guye River was founded by the original Xiangjun Pingxi Army, and now a lot of fertile land has been reclaimed around the Jingqiang Village, and has successfully established itself in this Hexi land. This is closer to the Qingyang Village of Linzhou City than Jingqiang Village, and it was also built from the Pingqiang Army of the Hedong Army, and now the development of Qingyang Village is also good, and the wasteland around it has also been reclaimed.

Speaking of Zhong Hao's Cave River Tuntian matter, it is already quite an achievement in the lower reaches of this Cave River. He felt that the Qingyang Village and Jingqiang Village in the lower reaches of the Guye River were already short of manpower, and he should go to the Hengshan area to recruit some Shengqiang tribes.

This Zhong Haoxin selected this Linzhou City to this Liangu County and the upper reaches of the Guye River, and he felt that he should also transfer one or two Xiang troops from the east of the river. Although this army is unbearable, it is an army after all. This army is naturally easier to manage than those ordinary people, even if the management is harsher and the conditions are worse at the beginning, these people can only endure it. Besides, most of those box troops were originally composed of homeless people who couldn't survive, and the treatment of this box army was extremely poor, and the conditions were almost here, they estimated that they could accept it, anyway, it would be more miserable where this box army went. Of course, if it is in this Tuntian, there can be some good results, it is estimated that these Xiang troops will soon be the same as the Pingxi Army's Jingqiang Village and the Pingqiang Army in Qingyang Village, and they will take root here to reclaim the barren Tuntian.

This point of the Xiang army is considered to have some advantages over ordinary people. The household registration management of the Great Song Dynasty was relatively relaxed, and if some people who fled the famine were recruited to reclaim the wasteland, I was afraid that once there was danger here or the interests of the reclamation of the land could not meet their expectations, maybe these people would soon leave again.

It was Zhong Hao who decided to let Hedong Shuaisi mobilize one or two van armies to reclaim the barren tuntian.

The boss of this Hedong Shuai Division is Zhong Hao's Taishan father-in-law, and let his Taishan father-in-law transfer one or two van troops to Tuntian for use, which is naturally very easy to do.