Throughout the winter, the powerful ministers of Western Xia were busy holding the little emperor Liang Zuo in the palm of their hands, cleaning up the mess after his sister was killed, and had no energy to provoke conflicts. Zhe Yinghui, who returned from visiting relatives at her mother's house in Fuzhou, said that a large number of glassware fired from quartz sand purchased from the feudal department had been baked, and large vats of meat made from cattle and sheep bought from Fanbu had also been hoarded, but the Yellow River was frozen and could not be navigated, and the land route was not easy, so most of the products could only be stored in warehouses in Fuzhou and could not be transported.

Nowadays, the glassware and even flat glass of the Great Song Dynasty are commonplace, only because the sand from which the glass is fired contains impurities, and these glasses have more or less some color. There are high-quality quartz sand mines in the feudal area near Fuzhou, and such quartz sand can be used to burn pure and colorless glass, and the value is naturally much higher than that of ordinary glass. Fuzhou is the later Yulin Fugu Town, which is also the place where the ground is full of coal, and there is the trona in the Wushen Banner and Etuoke Banner Lake in the later generations, as long as there are craftsmen, how much glass can be burned.

But Fuzhou has a problem, which is that it is almost an enclave. The Western Xia occupied a large area around Hengshan, so that the connection between the two states of Linfu and the Yanyan Road in Shaanxi Province could only rely on a narrow strip along the Yellow River, and the connection with the Hedong Road had to pass through the Yellow River, not to mention the inconvenient and very unsafe transportation. Now that winter has entered and the Yellow River is frozen, the transportation between Linfu and Yanzhou can only rely on rugged and unsafe land routes, so it is naturally difficult to transport bulk commodities out.

If Li Buqi did not come to the Great Song Dynasty, then the Linfu was just a stronghold for the Great Song Dynasty to contain the Western Xia people, and the imperial court would only maintain its existence, but the situation was different when Li Buqi came to the Great Song Dynasty. Li Buqi will make everyone realize that Linfu is a cornucopia, and it is strange that the imperial court does not fight to open up the communication with Linfu. And in order to open up the transportation of Linfu, it is necessary to attack Hengshan, where the Western Xia relied to establish the country.

This Hengshan is not only the main grain-producing area of the Western Xia, but also the Hengshan Qiang soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and they are also one of the main combat forces of the Western Xia army. The Great Song Dynasty captured Hengshan, and Western Xia lost half of his life.

During the previous Western Xia invasions, most of its troops were in Hengshan for food. Therefore, Hengshan is the advance base of the Western Xia, as long as Li Buqi takes down Hengshan, he will push the defense line of the Western Xia back to the desert for hundreds of miles, and all roads on the edge of Shaanxi can breathe a sigh of relief.

The Tangut people also understood the importance of Hengshan, so during the Yuan Hao period, they built more than 300 walled forts in the Hengshan area, allowing the local Qiang people to guard the dangerous passes against the attack of the Song army. Subsequently, the Western Xia continued to build more walled forts in Hengshan, and according to Li Buqi's intelligence, there are currently more than 400 walled forts in the Hengshan area. Just uprooting these four or five hundred walled forts is a big project, so Li Buqi can only slowly figure it out, and before he has a force in his hands that is enough to fight a decisive battle with the Tanguts, he can only use pillboxes against pillboxes.

In order to build the walled fort, Li Buqi mobilized 50,000 people for Yanyan Road. These people were surprised to find that the situation of this year's husband was very different from previous years, and there was meat when they ate! In the past, only pickled vegetables were served.

When it's time to eat, wooden barrels of all sizes will be pulled to the room, and when the lid is opened, it will be full of salted pork, mutton, and even beef. Although this thing is only sprinkled with a little spice, and it is very salty, but it is also meat, as long as you put a little dried vegetables to stew an oily pot, the people who can rarely eat meat at home will not pick and choose, and each one has to have an extra bowl of rice.

This is another thing that surprises them. In the past, you didn't want to eat more on the construction site, but this year it's basically enough. This can be fed, and there are a lot of equipment and livestock to help with the work, and there are officials who use gunpowder to dig ditches, saving a lot of effort, these people feel that this year's husband is the most enjoyable. However, after seeing the young Three Princes personally inspect the construction site, and chatting with them kindly, and promising that Shaanxi will gradually reduce forced labor, these people think that the benefits must be brought by the Three Princes, at least in gratitude for the mercy of the current officials.

Before the beginning of spring, the errand service was over, and the 50,000 people were going home. On the way home, they were arranged to pass through Fuzhou and Yanzhou, so that on their way back, they would stop by to transport products to these two factories. At this time, the products that could not be shipped from Fuzhou and Yanzhou due to road problems were easily transported to Jingzhao Mansion, and these people who served could also get a little salary. Although the money is not much, it is also a way anyway, and this money is almost equivalent to picking up for nothing, and the common people naturally praise the saintliness of the official family again.

The praise of the people to the official family was also spread by the newspapers and newspapers of the palace, so that everyone knew that the three princes were diligent and loved the people. A group of people in the capital preach every day how smart the four princes are, and they are weak if they can write splendid articles. The common people are more concerned about whether the official family can let them work less and live a good life, as for whether they can write and draw, what does it have to do with the common people? At most, it's just an after-dinner conversation.

Of course, the common people will not explore whether this large vat of saltwater-cured meat was made by Li Buqi in imitation of the seafaring food of the British Navy in the sail era, and used the money obtained from the issuance of treasury bonds to buy it as military rations. After such an operation, the scale of meat processing plants in Yanzhou and Fuzhou could be rapidly expanded, and the military rations of the Song army in Shaanxi Province could be rapidly upgraded.

Li Buqi only stared at the workshops on Yanyan Road and Qinfeng Road in Shaanxi for a winter, and only set up a Haoqiang who relied on the powerful backstage of the capital to collude with officials to steal and sell grain and horses and a few officials who colluded with him, but he only did this one thing and did not chase after him, and finally sent Haoqiang's family and several convicted officials to the matter.

But no one thinks that Li Buqi will continue to do nothing, because it is not in line with his style, and he used to make a big disturbance everywhere he went. So at the beginning of spring, including the imperial court, they were waiting for Li Buqi to make a big move, but what everyone didn't expect was that Li Buqi did make a move, but it was not to rectify the rule of officials, nor to attack Western Xia, but to concentrate a group of elite soldiers and strong generals to suppress bandits.

Li Buqi attached great importance to this crackdown on bandits, and concentrated 20,000 troops from Jingyuan Road, 3,000 militiamen from Zhao Sheng on Yanyan Road, 500 cavalry from the feudal domain, and troops from Wang Chongji, Yao Ji, and Liu Changzuo of Qinfeng Road, and leveled several cottages where large bandits gathered in Shaohua Mountain and Shangluo Mountain. This campaign against bandits was so powerful that even the Western Xia spies knew about it, so the Western Xia side concluded that Li Buqi had no intention of provoking a war on the border, at least temporarily, so they sent troops to Fuzhou again to cover his people to cultivate the land on both sides of the Quye River. The people who were driven out of the land by the Tangut people all moved into the city to work as workers, and there was no movement, and it seemed that the Zhe family no longer wanted to fight for that place. At this time, the Tangut people became bold, reclaimed a large area of land for cultivation, and built three walled forts on the west bank of the Quye River.

This incident caused Li Buqi to be severely criticized by the Privy Council, but that was all. Li Buqi has accumulated a lot of character in the past few years, and the emperor and the common people know that he dares to march in the Liao State and dare to enter the miasma of Jiaozhi, will they believe that Li Buqi only knows how to hold money and is afraid of the Western Xia people? What's more, didn't the newspaper say that "if you go outside, you must first settle inside", the third prince is the commander of the soldiers, and he has suppressed several cottages where the officers and soldiers have been helpless, who can say that Li Buqi did not work?

By the beginning of April, Li Buqi had disposed of nearly 10,000 captives who had exterminated the cottage. Li Buqi gave them two routes, one was sent to Guangnan to serve hard labor, and the other was to go overseas. Now that rumors of fertile land overseas have spread throughout the Great Song Dynasty, most of these captives are willing to go overseas.

Now when the wheat on both sides of the Quye River was yellowing and about to ripen, the 20,000 people quietly set out from Shaohua Mountain and went north along the Yellow River to Linfu.