Article 572 The situation around the Great Song Dynasty 2

The essence of the entire southern Yunnan is on several lakes, except for Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake, most of the other freshwater lakes come from high mountains. Therefore, Dali City, which is backed by Erhai Lake, is enough to support more than 100,000 people from Dali City.

The new land reform was also implemented in the surrounding areas of Dali City, although each person could only get about three acres of land, but Duan Zhengming took the initiative to exempt the next five years of land tax, which has allowed the people of Dali City to support their families. If you are more diligent, it is not difficult to be a worker in Dali City in the spare time, so that the family can eat meat at all times.

However, in Dali City, there is another change, which Cai Xuan did not expect.

Most of the royal family and subjects of Dali believe in Buddhism, which is well known, but since Duan Zhengming returned to power, the followers of Guanyin Bodhisattva began to increase greatly, and the golden boy and jade girl in front of his seat have also become a necessary figure. When he saw this statue, Cai Xuan was still taken aback.

This was not promoted by Duan Zhengming and the Seven Color Collar Organization, but by the people who moved to Dali City on their own initiative.

Cai Dao's influence, without his own knowledge, had begun to gradually go beyond the scope of the Great Song Dynasty, and with the strong performance and cultural spread of the Great Song army, it began to spread to the surrounding countries that admired the Great Song culture.

Of course, Duan Zhengming of Dali made such great efforts to establish and train his own forbidden army, of course, not to be an enemy of the Great Song Kingdom, but to prepare to recapture the land that had been captured by the Great Yue Kingdom in the past.

Since the loss of the natural barrier of Hengshan, the Western Xia has lost the strength of the country day by day, and has almost lost the ability to attack on a large scale again, and the loss of Lanzhou City once again has also made it impossible for them to get in touch with the Tibetan tribes. And their poor record is also unconvincing to the Tibetan ministry.

Therefore, under the strong impetus of Zhao Xu and Zhang Dun, Wang Hou and Wang Gan's work of conquering and surrendering at Xihe Road progressed very smoothly.

Taking advantage of the warring states between the two sides of his tribe Blind Expedition and Longshuo, Wang Gan Shangshu took this opportunity to send troops to conquer these two tribes.

After Zhao Xu allowed it, after the Song army entered, Blind Zheng and Longshu both surrendered to the Great Song State. After that, Zhao Xu changed Qingtang to Shanzhou and Miaochuan to Huangzhou.

What made Zhao Xu a little embarrassed was that Mu Zheng's son Long Yang accepted his surname and changed his name to Zhao Huaide. But Blind Zheng took the initiative to ask to change his surname to Cai, and in the end, for the stability of the newly attached land, Zhao Xu had to grant Blind Zheng's request, and Blind Zheng changed his name to Cai Huaidao. After hearing this, Cai Dao couldn't help but complain, this blind sign is really blind.

Now, counting up, there is only one enemy left in the Great Song Dynasty - the Great Liao Kingdom.

In fact, the situation of the Great Liao State itself is also quite poor.

Several faint monarchs took turns to succeed to the throne, and Yelu Hongji was the emperor for nearly forty years, and the entire Great Liao Kingdom was full of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, while His Majesty the Emperor himself was indulged in safaris and a life of extreme luxury.

It was not only the people at the bottom who were overwhelmed, but also the soldiers who accompanied Yeluhonki on the safari. Naturally, they don't get as much salary as officers, and they are indeed at the mercy of His Majesty the Emperor and generals in the cold northeast. Freezing to death and frostbite are commonplace.

The road is in sight, and the people have vegetables.

In fact, these did not fundamentally touch the foundation of the Great Liao Kingdom, but Cai Dao did not forget that in the jungle of the Northeast, there was also a smart and ferocious hungry wolf, with a group of fierce wolves sharpening their sharp teeth on the side, ready to bite and even devour their original owners at any time.

Perhaps inspired by the constant attacks of the Japanese invaders, Wanyan Aguta finally turned his attention to the already extremely weakened Goryeo Kingdom for the time being. Cai Dao was detained in Bianliang City by the double orders of Zhao Xu and Empress Dowager Zhu, and could not move.

Therefore, the ten-day tour of Goryeo that he had planned had to be put on hold.

However, Cai Dao sent a letter to Takagi Shinyouemon and Cai Sansi, asking them to send a clipper to inform the other Jurchen tribes he had supported in the northeast region, to keep an eye on the recent movements of the Wanyan tribe, and to send Hosaku to infiltrate the border northwest of Goryeo.

As soon as there is any wind and grass there. The two of them immediately sent out a large army at sea.

On the one hand, it was possible to take advantage of the fire to loot the wealth and population of the Goryeo Kingdom.

On the other hand, they can also find a good opportunity to receive the king of Goryeo or members of the Goryeo royal family who are willing to flee and help them escape from Kaegyong and temporarily flee to Jeju Island.

In case of a later development, Choi Daohao's division became famous and sent troops to assist these royal family members to recapture the Goryeo Kingdom from Wanyan Aguta.

In the direction of Hedong Road, Zhang Lei is in charge of Taiyuan Mansion, and he is becoming more and more handy. Although he is a centrist, he is not one of those conservative old-fashioned old pedants, so in Hedong Road, he did not reject the implementation of the new law, but he supervised the implementation of the new law more closely than other officials, and the officials who implemented the new law were also more strict.

Therefore, although the speed of implementation of the new law in the whole Hedong Road, especially in Taiyuan Province, is slower, it is the place where the people have the least complaints.

However, due to the existence of the Zhe family, and the fact that the manpower of the entire Hedong Road has not yet recovered, Zhang Lei's failure to promote the armor protection law on Hedong Road.

Regarding this, Zhao Xu and Zhang Dian also agreed with Zhang Lei's approach, so they did not force Zhang Lei to do so.

In Hebei Lianglu, under the control of Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze, the armor protection law has been secretly restored in its territory, no, in order to prevent the people from resisting, under Zeng Zhao's suggestion, the current armor protection law has been changed to a vest, renamed and renamed and called the militia law.

This seems to be child's play, but after it was really implemented under Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze, the effect was surprisingly good, of course, there is also a relationship between these two powers whose abilities are too strong.

Changing the name is a change of soup in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of the people, the militia law is to make them have the ability to ensure the safety of their families and property.

So, starting from last year, Zhao Xu secretly promoted the two of them to their official positions, and specially made them concurrently serve as the militia envoys of several states bordering Liao. Of course, Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze's main energy will still be on the civil affairs under their jurisdiction, large-scale militia training and some hidden defense facilities, and the two of them will be handed over to their chosen right-hand men, Guo Kui's two grandsons, Guo Shuyong and Guo Shukang.