Tong Yong shook his head: "My Lord Taiwei, part of our old guns are sold to the T|s, and some are sold to the Koreans. Now that all the old guns have been cleared, Tianjin is going to take 11,000 shots, and the Koreans have bought 20,000 - like you said, the market is saturated.

The guns in the arsenal are all new guns, and the anti-rust oil on the guns has not been wiped off, if your soldiers are allowed to use them, where will we find fools like Tianjin merchants and Koreans, who are willing to buy the old guns we have used - Lord Taiwei, the old gun market is saturated. A new gun can be bought at a good price, but it is still a new gun, a new gun, an obsolete goods, plus an old gun, who will bear the price loss? ”

Zhao Xing said in a deep voice: "I don't bear this price loss, and I can't let the state bear it-in any case, this is an internal fight, and both sides of the fight are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and we can't let them bear our losses anymore...... In this way, bring ten new guns, and some handibals in my house, and take all these handcuffs back, and we will bring ten quick guns and handcuffs.

Anyway, we're not here to kill, we're here to stop the fighting, so we're going to take 3,000 men and horses, let them all mount their horses, and make a cavalry long-distance run, and I'm going to test the power of the dragoons......"

Wan Qiyong raised a finger and said mysteriously: "I can give the Taishi an extra help - the rear-loading cannonballs required by the Taishi, this time they have made one, just one, the cannonballs are only ten rounds, but it is a flowering cannonball, the Taishi can carry this cannon, it is said that the soldiers have tested two shots with this cannon, and the power is very commendable." ”

Zhao Xing groaned. Voice: "Well, flies are also meat, and it is better to have a cannon than nothing." ”

After a pause, Zhao Xing turned around and told him to follow. The officer: "Remember to remind me, stay away from me when you fire the cannon, this is its mother's test cannon, it has only fired two shots, don't go wrong at the critical moment." ”

October 20. First, Zhao Xing's army went south; On the same day, the Arab Hajj mission arrived in Hangzhou, and they happened to pass by Zhao Xing, but this mission did not stop at the headquarters of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau, and with the help of the Quanzhou merchants, they directly changed into river boats in Hangzhou and rushed to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, which had come to demand that the Great Song Dynasty open up the firearms trade.

At the same time, Deng Yufu led the Europe. The merchant ships finally arrived in Canton, and after making contact with the white merchants stationed in Guangzhou, they were grateful for the religious tolerance of the Great Song Dynasty, and they later began to march to Hangzhou under the guidance of the Cantonese merchants, who had "directly" approached Zhao Xing to negotiate the opening of the firearms trade.

Also in the same month, it was transported back from the road branch. A large number of Arabs arrived in Hangzhou, along with thousands of Arab captives, some of whom were to be tasked with translating the plundered books into Song and turning them into the knowledge of the Great Song Dynasty. The other part directly entered the Great Song Guangji Hall and became the service personnel of the free medical system of the Emperor Song Dynasty.

The face of the Emperor Song. The appearance can be described as changing three times a day, but the movement speed of Zhao Xing's dragoons is unbearable. Originally, Zhao Xing thought that the cavalry would travel like a train in a day, but he forgot that this speed only appeared in the middle - the horse had to eat grass, drink water, and rest. But the horse is also a standing animal, so everything is done in standing, if you keep whipping the fast horse, the horse can also run according to people's wishes, run until death, no longer have the strength, the horse will die directly.

ZHAO Xingdi. The cavalry did not move fast. Because his horse is not like a Mongolian horse. It can tolerate poor living conditions. These delicate horses are particularly troublesome to feed. In order to maintain combat effectiveness - that is, not to let the horsepower run out and die. The distance he marched every day was even shorter than the daily limit of the infantry. So much so that this cavalry raid turned into a tedious marching torture.

But. The soldiers were very interested in the march. Zhao Xing, who has already sealed the position of Taishi, patrolled the periphery of his territory. Although Huainan East Road has become the jurisdiction of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau. But Qin Guan is still a transfer envoy on Huainan East Road. Sycophant Mao Zemin is the governor of Yangzhou. Thereupon. Zhao Xing went all the way south. It became the object of the magistrates along the way.

End of October. Zhao Xing led the army into Huhuan Mountain. Local officials throughout the prefecture and half of Fujian jumped on the fast horse. Coming to his marching route. These people can't get to the front. But they stood by the side of the road waiting to be heard. On the one hand, being so attentive is for the sake of familiarity. On the other hand, it is because the state is too poor. They expect to get more financial allocations for their counties.

Only after passing Pujiang City (Shenqiu Mountain). Civil and military officials from Jianzhou (Jianyang) in Fujian Province have been waiting on both sides of the road. These officials are standing on the land of Liangzhelu Prefecture. Greetings to the marching troops in Middle-earth. Zhao Xing walked in the marching column. I nodded my head at these and said hello. The attendants took their hands one by one.

But one young official was adamant about not following the crowd and handing over the famous assassin book. He raised his notebook. Zhao Xing shouted at Zhao Xing, who was riding a horse and passed by: "Taishi." I am Liu Qiucheng, the supervisor of Jianzhou Fengguo, my uncle. Xia Guan is Cheng Xia's brother-in-law. It's also an uncle's wife. ”

Zhao Xing tilted his head to look. This person's appearance really has the image of Cheng Xia's wife.

Cheng Xia's wife, Liu, is the girl that Zhao Xing rescued on the way to Quanzhou for the first time with his children.

Zhao Xing remembered that Miss Liu's parents had been killed, and it seemed that after she returned to her relatives, her relatives always wanted to divide up the property left by her parents, and refused to admit that her father was a foreign girl born outside the country......

It seems that with Zhao Xing's prominence, with Cheng Xia in the capital

The more expansive he is, the more he now gets acquainted with heavyweights like the prime minister of the dynasty, the family of Cheng Xia's wife family began to stammer.

Zhao Xingyi waved his hand and beckoned: "Keep up!" ”

The young man walked up to Zhao Xing, respectfully handed over the notebook, and reported his resume: "Uncle, I am the third year of Naiyuan Fu and the third rank of Jinshi - the patriarch once sent us a letter, and now I am the ......supervisor of Fengguo (Fujian)"

The third year of Yuan Fu was the year when Song Zhezong died. Emperor Zhezong died in February, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, an Enke was held that year, which was the year when Zhao Xing began to "wholesale" Jinshi in large quantities. In the third year of Yuanfu, coupled with the first year of the Yasukuni period in the later Jianzhong, Zhao Xing purchased the imperial examination questions through Ma Mengde and Cheng Xia, and arranged a large number of disciples to participate in the imperial examination.

Chen Shidao and Li Di were also promoted in the middle of that year, but these two were in the second list, and they were unwilling to be officials under Zhao Xing, so they were assigned to Jinghu North Road through the normal election of officials in the ministry, and they were serving as magistrates under Xie Lin.

Zhao Xing pointed at Liu Qiu. Cheng, said with a smile: "You have only been a jinshi for a few years, and you have directly become the supervisor of the seventh grade, and the official nephew of Liu can be promoted fast enough." ”

Liu Qiucheng is actually the same age as Zhao Xing. is almost a few years old, he is in his early thirties, but Cheng Xia is Zhao Xing's student, he is Cheng Xia's brother-in-law, and his generation is there, so he can only obediently listen to Zhao Xing's call of a nephew.

Zhao Xing's words. Embarrassed a little, he smiled and said, "Flying across the sea, Xiaguan has flown over the sea." Xia Guan was originally from Fujian, and originally expected to return to Fujian to be an official, but after a little bit of work in the Ministry of Officials, he got a seven-rank official position, which is the 'right' generation, Xia Guan thought that after this term of office, he could find a regular position. ”

Zhao Xing asked casually: "The matter of Yiwu is you. You know? ”

Liu Qiucheng nodded: "Yiwu is mountainous, there is little arable land, and the people there only have a few points of land for each family, and the soil can't feed their families at all, so there are many laborers in the family who go out to do business and go to the sea." Three years ago, my uncle's student, the Cheng family, discovered a variety of mineral deposits in Yiwu, so the Yiwu people began to abandon the land and enter the mine to work. In the past few years, he has gradually become rich.

Uncle's South. The Bureau of Foreign Affairs has a mineral law, which stipulates that except for gold, silver and copper mines, other mineral deposits can be mined by private funds, but the profits earned by the mines need to be kept by the local government. The state is not under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau, but the local village elders will be powerful, and in recent years they have begun to take over the local reserves, making Yiwu rich because of the mine. The county next to it looked red, thinking that this mountain was shared by everyone, and the Yiwu people could not be allowed to enjoy this mine exclusively, so they fought.

Now, the fight has lasted for more than a month, the legend is that the whole family of Yiwu people mobilized, the father died on the son, the eldest brother died on the brother, I also heard that even the teenage children also carried knives, the two sides fought very fiercely.

A month ago, the losing party besieged the county government and demanded that the county official come out to do justice, and on the other hand, the Yiwu people, who had a slight upper hand, were afraid that the county official would speak for others, so they mobilized the people to besiege the city, and the county official sent someone to report the ......emergency."

Zhao Xing listened and nodded silently.

Although Zhao Xing's army did not pass by Feng Guojian, Liu Qiucheng still found a place and entertained Zhao Xing as the chief officer, and even the soldiers enjoyed a sumptuous meal...... Since Zhao Xing's reform of the coinage law, the money supervisors in various places have a part of the autonomy to use leftovers to add new money, which makes the position of the money supervisor a lucrative official title.

Feng Guojian's position is not "pointing officer", Liu Qiucheng lied to Zhao Xing, he must have spent a lot of money to get this official position, and Cheng Xia also contributed a lot of efforts in it. However, Zhao Xing was not interested in these details.

The wealthy Fengguo Prison entertained Zhao Xing extravagantly, and Zhao Xing's soldiers also received a consistent reward for each of them, and the satisfied soldiers said goodbye to Liu Qiucheng and continued to go south, and Liu Qiucheng got Zhao Xing's promise to patiently continue to stay in the Fengguo prison position, waiting for Zhao Xing to correct him.

At the end of November, Zhao Xing came to Yiwu, the fight is still ongoing, today is a 1,000-person fight, Yiwu dispatched 3,000 people, and the neighboring two counties jointly dispatched about 6,000 people, at this time, it has been two months since the start of the machinery.

Two months, most of the Yiwu people who participated in the war were wounded, Zhao Xing held a telescope on a nearby hill and looked over, and found that Yiwu people were all wrapped in sandbelts, and the weapons in their hands were woodcutters and hoes, most of the woodcutters had been cut off and had teeth, and the hoes were missing teeth, but these mutilated weapons did not hinder the fighting of Yiwu people at all.

The scene was very chaotic, at the feet of Zhao Xing, in the valley of the two mountains, east and west, all of them were people who were slashing and killing each other, there were countless corpses on the ground, and there were injured people, Zhao Xing looked at it with a telescope for a long time, turned his head and asked his son Zhao Yun next to him: "What do you think?" ”

Zhao Yun glanced at his master Jin Buji, raised his binoculars, and commented while looking at the battlefield: "This is a brawl-level melee, and the two sides are neither organized, nor coordinated, nor planned. In my opinion, the battle is like this, there is really no level, no coordination, no outflanking, no luring of the enemy, no flanking, not even a reserve, let my father's student fight, the scene is better than this. ”

Zhao Xing asked Jin Buer again: "What do you think?" ”

Jin Fuji held up the binoculars and replied while observing, "Yes."

There is synergy, I think they actually have synergy, a village of people in the end of T3, but lack of a higher level of organization......"

Zhao Xing's telescope saw a corpse squirming underground, no, it was not a corpse, it was a person whose right hand had been cut off, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, bandaging his broken arm, the sweat beads were rolling on the man's forehead, but during the whole bandaging process, he didn't say a word.

There were quite a few tough guys like this guy in the field, and many of the wounded were wrapping their wounds on their own, and when they were wounded, they picked up the mutilated machete from the ground and staggered to the side of the leader, ready to join the next attack.

Zhao Xing couldn't help but shiver, he put down the binoculars, and said with palpitations: "I fought from the south to the north, to the south, I have fought with the fierce Seljuks, to the north, we have also seen the fierceness of the Liao people and the Jin people, but I have never seen this kind of terrifying fierceness."

Look at these people, what beliefs support them to fight, I select soldiers all over the country, the southern soldiers have a reputation for not daring to fight, although the Qin soldiers are brave, but they are corrupted quickly, and after fighting under me for a few years, they ask to retire.

Look at the people in the field., this is a team of wounded soldiers, everyone is wounded, and there are many new wounds. I know that the Qin soldiers, who are known as brave and fierce, will inevitably begin to waver as long as the casualties reach one-third. And this team is 100% wounded, they are still fighting, fighting to the death! ”

The Qin soldiers under Zhao Xing quickly decayed. The reason for this is the same as the reason why the southern soldiers are not good at fighting. China's development of the south is relatively late, and as long as the rich southern region is willing to work hard, there is no need to worry about supporting itself, so they rarely work hard, and there is no price for them to work hard.

Life of Qin Bing. In a difficult environment, they fought every year for hundreds of years, which developed their character of daring to fight...... But Zhao Xing's treatment was too generous, and the soldiers were no longer willing to work hard after being soldiers for a few years and earning enough money.

What's bad is that Zhao Xing's treatment of veterans. Yu is also very generous, most of the veterans can learn a vocational skill in the veterans' association, and many people jointly funded, opened workshops, relying on the convenience of Zhao Xing's sea trade, began to be a businessman, therefore, most of the Qin soldiers to Zhao Xing, after a service period, they have shouted to retire, which makes Zhao Xing often complain: "The training fee is in vain!" ”

Mr. Kameyama is a native of Fujian, and he also follows. Zhao Xing came and acted as Zhao Xing's translator - because the state dialect was too difficult to understand and there were many languages. Hearing Zhao Xing's emotion, he immediately continued: "Taishi, haven't you found the north from the south and have been looking for good soldier seedlings, no, there is a group of good soldiers in front of you!" ”

Zhao Xing didn't know. Dao, the troubles he encountered were also the troubles encountered by the famous general Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, due to his early intervention, it also made the time of the discovery of mineral deposits in Yiwu mentioned the Song Dynasty, and this weapon fight was also advanced to the Song Dynasty.

Sneak in. The Yiwu County Commander who came to greet Zhao Xing carefully reminded Zhao Xing: "Tai Lieutenant, the people of Yiwu have suffered heavy casualties, this weapon fight has been hit on this, and the Tai Captain's soldiers have also arrived, so it is better to quickly separate the two sides of the weapon fight." ”

Zhao Xing smiled and shook his head: "How to divide it, all the people present are my Great Song people, I can't aim my guns at my own people...... Let me think. ”

Zhao Xing was thinking there, and the other officials did not urge, they waited patiently, and the fight in the field continued.

Don't blame the officials for their good nature, sitting and watching the life and death of the villagers, in fact, the clan surname fighting is a stubborn disease in ancient China, and there has never been a shortage in all dynasties, even in modern times, local officials are at most suppressed and not reported - they are also the emperor's workers, and they come to the local government to be officials just to support their families.

Therefore, the magistrates of all dynasties have turned a blind eye to this kind of clan surname fighting, and waited until both sides of the fighting had no strength to fight, and asked the government to come forward to adjust, and the government only then played 50 boards, striving to calm the people.

Zhao Xing stood on the top of the mountain and thought, the people below had already seen the appearance of this army, they didn't care about it, they still fought in full swing, because the local people knew that this kind of thing was always that the people did not raise officials and did not hold them accountable.

The officials are all self-contained, patiently waiting for Zhao Xing to come up with a way, Zhao Yun's young state of mind, can't bear his temperament, he urged: "Father, you think slowly, it's better for us to divide into several teams, block the mountain pass, and then the big team of people and horses rush down to separate the two sides of the fight......

Zhao Xing frowned and looked at the scene of the fight: "No, the people are already red-eyed, go down now...... Our war horses have been cultivated for more than ten years, each horse is a good breed, worth thousands of yuan, the dragoon equipment, no 10,000 can not be built, and such expensive equipment is damaged on the civil armament ......"

Yang Shi squinted his eyes and reminded meaningfully: "A bird can't fly without a head, and a snake can't fly without a head." ”

Zhao Xing's eyes lit up, and two officers at one point: "The two of you, each take two companies to the two mountain passes, to make a large group of people and horses ambush, and when the arrangement is in place, blow the trumpet signal, as soon as the cannon here sounds, you will rush out and fire the gun together - don't point the muzzle towards the people, and release the empty gun into the sky." ”

The two officers took the order and left, Zhao Xing waved again, and several craftsmen ran over happily, and asked with a blank eye: "Taishi, do you want to test the artillery?" Over here? ”