Under the efforts of the peace-loving Wu Haogu, there seemed to be a glimmer of peace between Song and Liao. However, this glimmer of light is too faint and weak, and it is really not capable of piercing the war clouds that shrouded the east road of the Great Song River.

For the Great Song Dynasty, the current situation in Hedong can be said to be extremely corrupt. Yanmen was broken, Xinzhou fell, and hundreds of thousands of Liao soldiers swept in, surrounding Taiyuan, the capital of Hedong.

The water leaks out, and the news doesn't work either.

Zheng Juzhong, who has arrived at the Privy Council of Linfen, the capital of Jinzhou, and Zheng Juzhong, who is in charge of the military affairs of Hedong, Hebei and Youzhou, is at a loss these days except for constantly strengthening the city defense of Linfen.

Under his repeated supervision, the defense of Linfen City has been strengthened a lot. There were already many refugees fleeing around the city, and all those who had the strength to do so were recruited to work with two meals of bread and hot soup a day. Under the supervision of the soldiers of the Kaifeng New Army brought by Zheng Juzhong, they desperately dug and stacked stones, repaired the dilapidated city outline, widened and deepened the trenches outside the city, and repaired the city defense equipment one by one.

The states of southern Jin also borrowed Zheng Juzhong's orders, and asked them to do their best to recruit the government soldiers, except for leaving a little to strengthen the defense of the state, most of them had to be sent to the Linfen army.

These days, tens of thousands of people have come one after another, and they have all been stuffed into the sequence of the Kaifeng New Army by Zheng Juzhong. The original one general was expanded to eight generals. The total number of regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers is almost 50,000 or 60,000.

There are a lot of people, but the lack of weapons and equipment is to the point of despair. Most of the weapons in Hedong were stored in Taiyuan Mansion and the state military treasury located at the frontier. The most important institute is in the Datong prison within the boundaries of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Now that Taiyuan is under siege, most of the communications between Linfen and the frontline state armies have been interrupted, and Datong Jian has long been controlled by the Khitan army.

Therefore, most of the newly expanded soldiers of the eight generals only have short guns, simple knives, soft bows and cloth clothes, and they have no ability to fight in the field at all. It made Zheng Juzhong very headache!

However, among the armies gathered in Jinju, there is also a special elite of soldiers and horses! Not to mention the armor, pay off the cavalry! Tens of thousands of cavalry, one man and two horses, and many western horses.

But this army gave Zheng Juzhong even more headaches.

Because this army was not the economic army of the Great Song Dynasty at all, nor did it listen to the command of Zheng Juzhong, but the utility army that Tong Guan entrusted Zhang Yuan to recruit in Hexi, known as the "Winning Army". It is said that in order to invite these tens of thousands of horses, Tong Guan spent 1.5 million military expenses!

But the victorious army, which has already taken 1.5 million, is not satisfied! Their two generals in charge of the army also approached Zheng Juzhong from time to time, wanting to ask for another 500,000 yuan, and also asked Zheng Juzhong to pay 50,000 yuan a month, and if he wanted to send troops, he had to pay double salaries......

It's crazy about money!

Mo said that Zheng Juzhong had no money in his pocket at all - the money on Hedong Road was held with Cai An, the transfer envoy of Hedong Road, and he was trapped in Taiyuan City. Even if you have money, you can't give it! Because there are now 9 generals in Jinju, 8 of them will not see a lot of money at all, and even food and clothing are difficult, give the Changsheng army 500,000 generals, how will the team be brought in the future?

Therefore, Zheng Juzhong rejected the request of the two generals of the winning army, Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan, and ordered them to obey the command of Liu Yanqing, the commander of Hedong, and not to think about going to Taiyuan Mansion to ask Tong Guan for money.

Zheng Juzhong didn't give money, and Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan had nothing to say. Because they signed a contract with Tong Guan, Zheng Juzhong did not owe them. These knights all believe in heavenly reason, so they are more reasonable, and they are not the proud soldiers of the fifth generation of Tang Ji. However, it was impossible for them to obey Liu Yanqing's command. Liu Yanqing didn't give money, and he wasn't a great teacher sent by the Great Education Regiment, so why should he command?

Therefore, Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan ignored Liu Yanqing at all, and went back to the station to pack up and go north to see if there was a chance to enter Taiyuan and ask Tong Guan for money, but if it didn't work, they would cut off hundreds of Liao people's heads, so that they would have the capital to bargain with Zheng Juzhong and Qian Gai.

But it is not easy to go north to Taiyuan, how much is the consumption of tens of thousands of soldiers and 40,000 horses? Now relying on the military transport department to barely supply, there is no meal. How can there be a surplus of food to supply the army to the north?

So Su Zhihuan and Feng Mingshan thought of borrowing grain from the wealthy families in Jinju. Of course, you can only borrow it, not pay it back. If you still have to go to Tong Guan and Cai Anzhi, as long as you get these two goods out of Taiyuan City, you are afraid that you will not be able to pay tens of thousands of stones?

But how could the landlords here in Jinju agree to such a promise? It's not impossible to borrow grain, most of these landlords are scholarly families, and they are all good landlords who love the Great Song Dynasty and love the official family, as long as the official office of Jinju gives an order, they are willing to borrow.

But where did Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan command the government of Jinju? Even if Tong Guan Tong Xuanfu's henchman Lu Qian came forward, it was useless. Lu Qian is just a military attaché, and he is also a pawn of the eunuchs. The current governor of Jinzhou and the transfer envoy of Hedong with the army Qian Gai is a descendant of Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, and a jinshi in the Yuanfeng period, who has long been a big man in the local area to pacify the envoys. How could it be possible to look down on Su Zhilian, Feng Mingshan, Lu Qian and the like? Besides, this is not legal, if Qian Gai agrees, he must not let the impeachment of Yushi stink?

But Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan, who couldn't get the endorsement of the Jinzhou government, still didn't give up, and they couldn't give up! Mercenaries are a business for both of them, their own business! Zhang Yuan just acted as a middleman and made it convenient for them, and was not responsible for the bottom line. It was they who signed a contract with Tong Guan and took a down payment of 1.5 million to recruit knights. 1.5 million is a lot, but when it comes to 5,000 knights, it is only 300 per person. And among these 5,000 knights, there are also high-level and low-level knights. Because mercenary regiments also need officers! Ordinary knights in the poor countryside west of the river may be able to attract them for 300 yuan. There are high-level knights with rich battlefield experience, and this number cannot be recruited.

So Su Zhilian and Feng Mingshan also advanced a lot of capital! It's a high-risk, high-reward deal. Su Zhihuan and Feng Mingshan gambled not only their own lives, but also a large amount of capital. If everything goes well, you can naturally reap huge profits by dividing the spoils and bounties, and maybe you can also get high-ranking officials in the Great Song Dynasty, which will be developed.

But the two of them didn't have much money themselves, so they borrowed usury from the Shaolin Temple in Liangzhou, and mortgaged all the income from their own estate. If you don't pay the account, you're going to go bankrupt!

Forced into desperation, the two mercenary leaders were unreasonable, and let people kidnap the heads of several of the largest gentry families in Jinju, forcibly borrowed 10,000 stone of grain and a large amount of forage, and further demanded that each family provide people.

This can be regarded as a hornet's nest!

At this time, in Zheng Juzhong's public hall, several elders of the Jinju clan were complaining to Zheng Juzhong. And Zheng Juzhong also looked a little thinner, and his eyes were helpless and confused. He didn't sit either, just paced in the hall. Liu Yanqing, a general transferred from the Western Army, stood aside, lowered his head, and didn't say a word, just listening to the complaints of a group of old scholars.

"Prime minister, when did our Great Song Dynasty have a martial artist who is as domineering? If we kidnap a few rich people and extort some money and supplies, we won't talk anymore. But the Sun family, the Liu family, and the Li family are all civil officials of Zhishi! Among them is Mr. Huo Shan, Mr. Huo Shan is our great Confucian in Jinju......"

"Prime minister, the most hateful thing is not that he kidnaps people to blackmail money and food, but that group of vulgar martial artists who don't know a basket of big characters still call themselves Lao Shizi Tianli Confucianism, and they will gather together every morning and evening, reciting "Tianli Xinshuo", and insisting that it is the highest classic of Confucianism, which is really insulting to holy learning!"

"Prime minister, this group of domineering warriors is simply a traitor who has no king's law and no court, it is really hateful, if they are allowed to do mischief, they are only afraid of the fierceness of the disaster, and they are even better than the Khitan!"

Originally, Zheng Juzhong just listened quietly to the complaints of these Jinju scholars. Now that his army is short of food and salary, it is naturally difficult to restrain him, and he extorts some civilian property, as long as it is not excessive, he will turn a blind eye. Even if it's a bit arrogant, now is not the time to settle accounts. After all, he, the cardinal minister who leads several military affairs, is simply an empty shelf, and the troops that can fight are all scattered, what should I do if Yelu Yanxi calls?

He also listened to the complaints of these Jinju gentry. As long as Yelu Yanxi can be stopped, these are not problems. The Great Song Dynasty still has money, but it is too late to send it over for the time being. He has already asked for food and pay, and it will be there in a while. If Su Zhilian and Fengmingshan's cavalry can really fight, even if they can win a small victory, they can cut down hundreds of Khitan armor heads. Hundreds of thousands of dollars is not a trivial matter?

But when someone mentioned "The New Theory of Heavenly Principles", it made his cheeks twitch violently. "The New Theory of Heavenly Principles" and "The Theory of Heavenly Principles" seem to be similar at first glance. However, in fact, there is an essential difference, the latter emphasizes the hypothesis of heavenly principles, highlights the Confucian tradition of the harmony between heaven and man, and the correspondence between heaven and man, and makes Confucian ethics and morality a part of heavenly principles. Although in the eyes of orthodox Confucian scholars, this set of theories has been a bit deviant, but it is still acceptable. The "New Theory of Heavenly Principles" takes a big step forward on the basis of "The Theory of Heavenly Principles", and does not mention any hypotheses and true theories, but directly refers to "Heavenly Principles" as the origin of all things in the universe, and also lists Zhou Gong, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, etc. as the ancestors of Tianli, declaring that "Reason and Destroying Demons" can "become benevolent and sanctified". It's just a religion in the cloak of Confucianism, and it's a bit of an evil one!

And what makes Zheng Juzhong even more vigilant is that "Tianli Shuo" and "Tianli New Shuo" are both classics of the so-called doctoral group controlled by Wu Haogu!

Wu Haogu was already a rebellious minister and thief, and his doctoral group had long been spurned by Confucian orthodoxy, and many people of insight had already called for the destruction and banning of academic works related to Wu Haogu, such as "The New Theory of Heavenly Principles", "The Theory of Heavenly Principles", "The Theory of Posiology", "The Theory of Reason", "The Theory of Analysis" (the translation of "The Theory of Logic"), "The New Theory of Metaphysics" (the translation of "The Original Geometry"), "The New Theory of Metaphysics" (the translation of the Later Volumes of Physics), and so on.

Unexpectedly, the group of Hexi utilitarians hired by Tong Guan were also believers in the "New Theory of Heavenly Principles", and it seemed that they had to use thunderous means to rectify them!

If this group of arrogant soldiers can be subdued, it will be much easier to relieve the siege of Taiyuan.

The imperial court is now urgent, and I can't wait to solve the predicament of Taiyuan immediately!

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