Since the outbreak of the plague in Tokyo and the withdrawal of the army, Wan Yan Xian has been busy in the past few months, and finally quelled the plague in the army, and Emperor Jin ordered him to exterminate the anti-Jin rebel army in Hebei and Hedong.

Wanyan Xian also sat in Yanshan Mansion and ordered Zong Han and Zong Wang to be responsible for suppressing the uprisings and rebellions on Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

The Marshal's Mansion is the original Liao Palace, he is now the emperor's younger brother, and the palace maids and concubines in the original palace have all become his women, enjoying the imperial life of the three palaces and six courtyards in advance.

In the morning, Wanyan Xiyin was also listening to the report of Wanyan Xiyin in the study, Wanyan Xiyin is one of the few people in the Wanyan family who is both civil and military, and he is currently in charge of the government affairs of Hedong Road and Hebei Road, and is also responsible for intelligence collection in the Song Dynasty.

"I have received accurate information that Li Yanqing has served as the envoy of the Third Route in the Northwest, and he is currently leading the army to Jingzhao, and it is estimated that there will be war in the Northwest."

Wan Yan Xian also pressed his temples, and said with a headache: "Now is the period of military recovery, we have suffered heavy losses by fighting Bianliang once, and we have lost 100,000 people in battle together with the plague, and the wolf lord is very dissatisfied with us, if I can make a big move, I would have led the army to sweep the Song Dynasty a long time ago, the timing is not right!" ”

Wanyan Xiyin whispered: "Did we lose a lot last time?" ”

Wan Yan Xian also sighed, "The war dead are mainly Bohai soldiers and Khitan soldiers, the Jurchen losses are not big, but the plague Jurchens died 30,000 people, the wolf lord is very annoyed by this matter, he also wants to appease the Bohai Great Chief Avuna, and promise to make the daughter of Avulna a concubine, they reached an agreement, the Bohai tribe will rest for a year, and the wolf lord also has the heart to stop fighting for a year, restore military strength, and wait for next autumn to attack the Song Dynasty." ”

Wanyan Xiyin rolled his eyes and said: "It's better to let the Han soldiers go out to fight in Guanzhong and surrender more than 200,000, it's a pity not to get up." ”

Wan Yan Xian also took a few steps, and finally decided: "Just use the Han soldiers of Yanshan Mansion, and the Han soldiers of Hebei will also deal with Zongze's army and bandits from all over Hebei, and I will write a letter to Li Qianshun to cooperate in this northwest offensive." ”

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After a full year of absence, Li Yanqing finally returned to this deep and thick yellow earth, Li Yanqing has always had a special affection for Jingzhao Mansion, otherwise he would not have called his army Jingzhao Army.

On the morning of that day, the army entered Tongguan, and Cao Xing led more than a dozen generals out of Tongguan to welcome Li Yanqing's arrival.

The two laughed and hugged, and Li Yanqing punched Cao Xing's shoulder socket, "I heard that you are a father?" ”

Cao Xuan raised two concubines in Tongguan, one of them gave birth to a son not long ago, which made his grandfather Cao Ping very unhappy, you must know that Cao Xuan and the Gao family were married, and the eldest woman had not yet passed the door, and the son had it, which made it difficult for his grandfather Cao Ping to explain to the Gao family.

Cao Xing smiled bitterly and said: "Then what's the way, the Gao family has big rules, and it must be delayed until August to get married, and I can't let my son stay in his stomach all the time and not come out!" ”

Li Yanqing slapped him, "What are the big rules, people are in the mourning period, of course not, forget it, I won't tell you, you can explain to the old man yourself, and tell me about the battle situation on Qinfeng Road." ”

"I don't know the specifics, but I heard that the Western Xia army attacked Fengxiang Mansion three times, but they were all repelled by Liu Tao's army, and they didn't attack again, and the two sides were in a state of confrontation."

"Do you have any contact with Fengxiang Mansion here?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

Cao Xuan nodded, "You can contact with Eagle Letter, but you can't get there directly, you have to take a turn in Jingzhao Mansion." ”

"Good! I'll write a text message to Liu Tao, and you can help me transfer it to him. ”

Li Yan immediately wrote a short message in thin silk and handed it to Cao Xing in a letterbox.

After resting in Tongguan for a long time, the army continued to move westward, but Li Yanqing and Liu Tie led 3,000 troops to Fengxiang Mansion, which is today's Baoji, is the west gate of Jingzhao, once lost, Jingzhao Mansion will face a huge threat.

Although the 3,000 army did not have many troops, they carried a thousand flying fire mines, which was enough to resist the siege of the Western Xia army.

Li Yanqing knew in his heart that Shaanxi Road and Qinfeng Road were the dishes of the Jin Kingdom, and the reason why the Western Xia army attacked Fengxiang Road was actually to consolidate the occupation of Xihe Road.

At the same time, Li Yanqing ordered Wang Gui to lead 7,000 cavalry to Gyeongju, Li Yanqing had an intuition in his heart, he was sitting in the three towns in the northwest, and Wanyan Xianye was afraid that there would be a moth, and Tongguan and Pujin Pass must enter a state of war to prevent the Jin soldiers from crossing the Yellow River to kill.

At present, there are 100,000 Song troops on the Northwest Third Road, in addition to Li Yanqing's 50,000 Jingzhao Army, there are also 25,000 people on Shaanxi Road and 25,000 people on Qinfeng Road.

In addition, cavalry is also a big problem, if you don't take back Xihe Road, there is no place to raise horses.

Li Yanqing ordered the army to be stationed outside the city, he himself led hundreds of cavalry from the east gate into Jingzhao City, the prefect Ma Shan greeted him from the city with a smile, the original prefect Yang Xuzhou was transferred to Bashu, Li Gang took over as the prefect of Jingzhao, but soon, Li Gang was transferred to Tokyo to serve as the prime minister, and Ma Shan, the original general judgement, took over the post of prefect naturally.

Ma Shan had an excellent relationship with Li Yanqing, but now that Li Yanqing is in a high position, he needs to double his stammer.

"Humble Ma Shan, see Taibao!"

Ma Shan also wanted to greet Li Yanqing a little more relaxed, but Li Yanqing was wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, and his aura was too powerful, Ma Shan was immediately frightened, and stepped forward to bow his eyebrows.

"Ma Tongju, I haven't seen you for a long time, no, it should be called Ma Governor's Mansion now, congratulations on Gao Sheng!"

"In front of Li Taibao, where can I be considered a high promotion, ashamed!"

"That's it!" Li Yanqing smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Get on the horse and talk!" ”

Ma Shan was flattered, hurriedly turned over on the horse, and led Li Yanqing into the city.

Compared with last year, Jingzhao City was obviously much more lively, and at this time, Ma Shan asked in a low voice: "I heard that Gongxiang Cai has passed away?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "He died half a month ago, he is eighty years old, and he can be regarded as a long and good death." ”

Ma Shanluo was a little sad, "It's a pity that I can't give the old man a ride." ”

After Cai Jing's death, he restored his title to Lu Guogong, nicknamed Zhongping, and Zhao Gote prepared his descendants to return to his hometown for burial.

Cai Jing's death has gradually faded away in the imperial court, but he didn't expect this Ma Shan to still remember.

Li Yanqing didn't say much about it, his eyes looked at an open space.

Li Yanqing remembers very well that next to the East City Gate is a large open space, which has been abandoned for decades, overgrown with weeds and infested with wild foxes, but the wasteland has disappeared and is full of houses, but it is very simple to build, all of them are made of mud, and even the door is made of rough wooden planks, which is completely the appearance of a slum.

Ma Shan saw that Li Yanqing had been looking at those mud houses, so he explained: "Those places were built by immigrants who fled from Hedong, and it was originally the land of Ci'en Temple, so these refugees were asked to temporarily set up tents, but as a result, they directly built houses, and Ci'en Temple had no way, and it was useless to complain to the government." ”

"How many refugees have fled from Hedong Road?" Li Yanqing asked.

"A total of three batches of escaped, more than a million people, but most of them scattered to Bashu, Hanzhong, Fengxiang Mansion and other places, there are about 300,000 people left in Jingzhao Mansion, and we have 100,000 people in Jingzhao City."

Li Yanqing's heart moved, isn't this a good source of soldiers? He asked again, "What do 300,000 people do in Jingzhao Mansion for a living?" ”

"There are all kinds of things, the most are tenants, rent other people's land, and work as a guy in the restaurant in the store, the first few months are really chaotic, and the government can't take care of it, and then slowly they are also smooth, and they melt into the Guanzhong, although most of them are more difficult, but they have something to eat!"

"Then why didn't the marshal think about recruiting soldiers from refugees?"

Ma Shan smiled bitterly and said, "Recruiting soldiers costs money!" The existing soldiers are difficult to raise military spending, where is the surplus money to recruit new soldiers? ”

"But I know that the imperial court has used all the taxes of the three roads in the northwest for military expenses, and has also transferred a large amount of money and grain from Bashu, is the military expenditure still not enough?"

Li Yanqing was really a little puzzled, he didn't say anything, he had made careful calculations, in addition to paying military expenses, there should be spare money to recruit soldiers on the side of the Seed Master Dao, with the experience of the Seed Master Dao, he would not be unaware of the pain of insufficient troops when facing the attack of the East and West.

Ma Shan scratched his head a little embarrassed, "I don't know much about this, I just heard a few words from the marshal, I really don't know the specific situation, otherwise I will ask Wu to join the army to talk to Taibao." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "This matter is very important, I need to immediately ask Yan Senjun about the situation." ”