After entering the winter, Wang Ningan took the initiative to attack, and constantly sent elites from Lanzhou and Qingtang to attack Liangzhou and Ganzhou.

Ice and snow are not suitable for large-scale operations, but are an excellent opportunity for small-scale attacks. After a few years of exploration, the Yamaji Battalion has found a way to fight in cold climates.

Dressed in thick winter clothes and fur for warmth, they haunt the wilderness on horse-drawn sleighs. Equipped with fierce fire oil and gunpowder, they could easily destroy some of the tribes' grain stations, burn down the barns, and frightened cattle, sheep, and horses, and run around.

Under the continuous attack, the Western Xia had to choose to shrink its forces and concentrate its main forces and manpower in Ganzhou and Liangzhou.

Western Xia is a very tenacious country, the party members will not admit defeat easily, even in the face of Genghis Khan, they can still fight bloody for decades, far stronger than the Jin State.

Therefore, anyone who wants to completely destroy Western Xia by force will have to pay a heavy price.

Including Li Liangzuo and Liang Yishu are waiting, as long as the winter passes, they will lead their troops to cross the Tengger Desert to support the defenders of Ganzhou and Liangzhou, and they are still actively contacting the Liao State and the Qarakhanid State.

He even sent envoys to the more distant Great Eclipse to persuade them to send cavalry to defeat the Song people in the Western Regions, and when the time came, they would unite and attack the Great Song together.

Li Liangzuo racked his brains, did not let go of any possibility, took out a hundred times his wisdom, and vowed to defeat Wang Ning'an and regain the land of Western Xia.

In the face of Li Liangzuo's efforts, Wang Ningan did not feel much surprise except for a trace of admiration.

He's got enough cards!

With the concentration of manpower and troops in the Western Xia into two cities, a fatal problem arose, that is, food shortages and soaring prices.

The nomads have no experience in managing huge cities, take the Liao State as an example, in addition to Yanyun, their Zhongjing, Shangjing, and Tokyo will not exceed 100,000 people at most, and the so-called city wall is a circle of earth enclosures.

Why is the emperor of Liao keen to make bowls at four o'clock and has no fixed residence?

In fact, you might as well change your thinking, if the emperor of Liao does not wander around, but stays in a city, countless officials, tens of thousands of leather room troops, plus other people and horses, at least two or three hundred thousand people gather together.

It only takes one summer for the city to become a sewage overflow and poop everywhere...... A plague can completely wipe out Daliao!

Because of this, the emperor of Liao is in one place, and he will not stay for 100 days, and in summer, he changes his residence more frequently, and the sanitary environment should be something they really care about!

Western Xia is not much better than Liao, a large number of people are concentrated in the city, first of all, sanitation, drinking water, food, order, these most basic things, must be solved.

For the Great Song Dynasty, this is nothing, with the civil official level of the Great Song Dynasty, it is easy to manage a city of hundreds of thousands of people, or even millions of people.

But the Western Xia did not succeed, and they concentrated the population of three or five times more than usual in Ganzhou and Liangzhou. The result was chaos, with people everywhere, tents of all kinds, livestock and people mixed up, and dung piled up.

Luckily, the weather was cold, otherwise the smell alone would have been enough to make people despair.

If sanitation is bearable, the lack of clean water, fuel, and food has driven many people crazy!

They had to melt the snow and use cow dung as fuel, and many people were infected with dysentery because of unclean drinking water, and they were weak in the cold, and their eyes were so bright that many people would freeze to death when a snowstorm came.

Food prices are also like chicken blood, soaring every day.

There was a black market in both Liangzhou and Ganzhou, where a cow could be exchanged for a stone of grain, a sheep could be exchanged for a tea brick, and a horse could be exchanged for a thick cotton coat.

Although the top brass of Western Xia desperately ordered a ban on the black market, instead of achieving any results, many generals and many tribes were involved, and they used the black market to make a fortune.

For example, Wei Mingshi monopolized the tea business, and they split a whole tea brick into four pieces and sold it for four times the price. The Liang people buy furs, and a herdsman needs to take 30 sheepskins in exchange for a cotton coat.

The price of white flour and rice is several times higher than that of beef and mutton...... Ganzhou and Liangzhou, all the economic order has been disrupted, and it is a complete mess.

The nobles of Western Xia crackled and calculated, and they smiled when they saw a lot of money fall into their pockets. It's just that they don't notice that in the streets, there are so many pairs of angry eyes staring at them.

Many people, fed up with the chaos in the city, absconded.

But how could the upper echelons of Western Xia allow the cash cow to escape, they immediately scattered cavalry, wantonly arrested, and even threatened that whoever escaped would fornicate with the Great Song Dynasty and would be severely punished......

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It was Wang Ning'an and Wang Shao who formulated the strategy to deal with the Western Xia, and in the face of the chaos of the Western Xia, the two of them were also a little dumbfounded, especially Wang Shao, he was shocked, he really couldn't imagine that the nobles of the Western Xia were even more ruthless than the Great Song Dynasty when they attacked their herdsmen!

It's just a way to live!

"Lord Wang, I have already ordered the people from the Silk Road Bank to sneak into Ganzhou."

Wang Ningan said: "What is the situation, are they willing to take the bait?" ”

"Well, many Western Xia nobles also feel uneasy, they are willing to transfer their family property to our bank to ensure safety, Lord Wang, if it goes well, before the beginning of spring, the wealth of the two cities can be squeezed dry!"

Ridiculous no?

The nobles of Western Xia actually handed over their property to the enemy for safekeeping?

Are they crazy?

Of course, they are not crazy, on the contrary, these people have calculated very clearly, the current Western Xia has been in turmoil, at least in the Hexi Corridor, the foundation of rule has collapsed.

Once the Song army came, their property would be wiped out.

If it is deposited in the bank of the Great Song Dynasty, it can still be safe, and Song Jun will also open the net, and when the time comes, they will be able to be a rich man and continue to live a good life.

There are no stupid people in this world, especially those who are powerful and powerful, and if you think people are stupid, it only proves that your horizons are not broad enough to see where the real interests lie...... For example, many people ridiculed the bureau and said that his judgment was wrong, but who ever thought that as a pure soldier, how could he understand that the generals of a country, from the minister of defense to the commanders of the three armed services, were all bribed.

When the moldy army came, they surrendered one after another, and even if the soldiers wanted to fight hard, there was no one to command.

The stupid big wood was stuffed into the rope sleeve, and it was not wronged at all!

Today's Great Song Dynasty, facing Western Xia, is also a one-sided advantage.

Wang Ningan suppressed it by force with one hand, and relied on the black market with the other hand to disrupt the economy, Liangzhou and Ganzhou are like two big watermelons, which are ripening rapidly, just waiting for Wang Ningan's army to pass by and swallow it directly into the stomach.

"When the spring flowers bloom and the army is ready, we will be able to take the Hexi Corridor." Wang Shao was full of confidence, and suddenly he shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Lord Wang, seeing the ferocity of the Xixia people, Xia Guan feels that our internal fighting is nothing. ”

Wang Ningan chuckled, "Watching from the sidelines is completely different from being in it." Zichun, can you endure the endless infighting in the imperial court? ”

Wang Shao smiled bitterly, "Lord Wang, the lower officials really don't understand, why the queen mother is also involved, their Cao family ......"

"Say no more!" Wang Ningan suddenly waved his hand and stopped Wang Shao, he said sharply: "The queen is the king, we are the ministers, you have been an official for many years, don't you even know the duty of the monarch and the minister?" ”

Wang Shao could only bow his head and remain silent, sat for a while, and then got up and retired.

sent Wang Shao away, Wang Ningan's face was very ugly.

Empress Cao would jump down and intervene, taking Wang Ningan by surprise.

Queen Cao has always been virtuous and virtuous, and she is a benevolent mother of the country, and it is surprising that she will help the old faction. Although there is a so-called alliance, maybe the queen will also be coerced, but Wang Ningan estimates that most of the queen Cao is also willing.

The Son of Heaven is old, the crown prince is young, and there will be a period of time in the Great Song Dynasty when the power of the queen mother is better than that of the emperor.

Empress Cao is a heroine of Jiangmen, and it is impossible for her not to see this.

Wooing some power, cultivating cronies, consolidating power, and fighting for a more advantageous position is something that even anyone would do.

And in history, Empress Cao was also on the side of the opposition, Wang Anshi's resignation and the abolition of the new law were inseparable from her, and sometimes, Wang Ningan had to sigh at the strength of historical inertia.

Even though he changed a lot of things, many times, he still couldn't completely turn things around.

What's wrong?

Are Chinese people inherently aggressive?

Is there a root inferiority, as some people say?

If you only look at 5,000 years of history, it may make sense.

But looking at the four seas, compared with all ethnic groups, frankly speaking, the Chinese people are very restrained, although the infighting has never been uninterrupted, but in addition to the change of dynasty, the situation of blood flowing into a river is rare, at most from the capital to Huangzhou, from Huangzhou kicked to the ends of the earth.

Don't talk about it far away, let's talk about the Western Xia people in Ganzhou and Liangzhou.

Exploitation and oppression have reached an outrageous level, and the soldiers have looted and executed the fleeing herdsmen, with cruel methods and no mercy...... In contrast, Da Song was ashamed of himself.

The reason why there will be infighting, to put it bluntly, is that there are not enough resources, just like a wild beast, if the prey is sufficient, the lion will also be very generous, and even allow other animals to share his food, but when the prey is scarce, the predator's infighting is inevitable.

The battle of the imperial court will not stop because he brought the Qiying Society and Wen Yanbo to the Western Regions.

Because there are so many resources, you can't fight it!

No one is immune.

If you want to solve the chaos in the capital, the best way is to throw out a huge amount of resources, so that all factions can satisfy their appetites, so that they will not continue to fight frantically and ruin the good situation.

This bit of land and pasture alone is not enough to make everyone crazy, it is necessary to find something that can really make people crazy...... "Lord Wang, General Murong sent a letter, and they found a lot of tombs. Chen Shunzhi sent a letter from Murong Qingchen to Wang Ning'an.