At this time, the Great Song Dynasty already had the most primitive artillery. The stability and security were very poor, and Cai Dao did not pass on some of the knowledge he knew about making artillery to the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervisor. He just asked Cai You to increase the intensity of the reward, and gave heavy rewards to those craftsmen who succeeded in catching up with the performance of the artillery, and that's it.

Second, it is a sapper shovel.

This thing has become a necessary weapon for the forbidden army's tuntian soldiers, and now, everyone knows the benefits of this thing.

Even ordinary peasants would buy a handful at the Ordnance Prison if they had money in their hands, but what ordinary people bought was an abbreviated version. There is no tungsten alloy in it.

Cai Dao knew that there were a lot of tungsten mines on Jiangnan West Road, so he mined them and transported them to Bianliang City through the ships of the Cao Gang. Craftsmen use the new ore to add steel to prototype new alloys. Tungsten, if added to steel, later became cannon steel. Tungsten steel has a large proportion and is made of a very heavy alloy, but the tools made from it are also very hard.

After forming, it must be sharpened with water to sharpen the blade of the sapper shovel.

Third, it is a steel frame that can be combined.

The steel frame is composed of horizontal and vertical steel pipes, at this time it is impossible to make screws and nuts, Cai Dao let the craftsmen think of the method, is to leave holes of the same size on the steel pipe, when combined, insert a small steel rod in the hole, and use a big hammer to punch the two ends of the steel rod crookedly to fix the entire steel frame.

However, apart from Cai Dao, even the craftsmen who made these things couldn't guess the purpose of these things.

Cai Dao also sent people to collect a large amount of eiderdown in the south.

At this time, Jinxi County on Jiangxi South Road made a lot of war money because of this.

This is what Cai Dao didn't expect, at the beginning, he woke up the old prodigy Fang Zhongyong, and before leaving, he not only gave the Fang family the secret of how to grow rice, but also mentioned in passing, so that their family can raise more ducks and geese.

Who knows, the Fang family not only made a fortune because of this, but also drove the people of the entire Jinxi County to become rich, and Jinxi County has also become a well-known and wealthy hometown of the entire Jiangnan West Road.

When Zeng Gong returned to his hometown, after hearing the news, he also personally visited Fang Zhongyong.

However, at this time, both Zeng Gong and Fang Zhongyong have long since passed away.

Su Shi of Hangzhou also died of illness the year before last.

On the contrary, it is the super old prodigy, Cai Dao's fellow villager Cai Boyu is living more and more prosperous, after Cai Dao served as the Taishi, this old man also forced his great-grandson to Cai Dao.

But in Jinxi County, Cai Dao spent money to buy nearly ninety percent of the duck down he needed.

Duck down is naturally used to make down jackets, but unfortunately, at this time, there is no windproof clothing material, Cai Dao can only order the garment master to weave the cotton cloth into a thick canvas.

In addition to the use of ships, a large number of cattle and horses were needed to transport grain. The number of horses in the Great Song Dynasty has risen now, but most of them are horses that can only be used for transportation, and the quality of a large number of war horses is not good, and this situation is difficult to improve in a short period of time.

Moreover, if a large number of domestic horses and cattle were requisitioned, it would inevitably affect the economic development of the Great Song Dynasty.

In order not to affect the economic development of the country, Cai Daoyou spent a lot of money to buy 100,000 Dian horses from Dali.

This number is indeed a little difficult for today's Dali Kingdom, because, now, even Dianchi Lake is under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Kingdom. But this thing is like a woman's cleavage, and you will always get it if you squeeze it.

The shipyard of the Cai family in Xianyou County was also temporarily requisitioned by Cai Dao.

This is the top priority of the overall strategic plan.

For the next period of time, as long as time permitted, Cai Dao ordered the craftsmen of the shipyard to make every effort to build large fortune ships, and there was no need for warships at this time. Because, the people of Liao have always paid little attention to the construction of the navy and navy. On the contrary, there were many more large ships in the hands of the merchants of the Liao State than the army of the Great Liao State.

Of course, food is indispensable, and in order to prevent variables in his strategy, Cai Dao's war with the Liao State entered a protracted war.

Therefore, Cai Dao is prepared in two aspects.

First, Cai Dao secretly wrote a secret letter to Cai Jing, Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze.

The three of them were ordered to stop the people of Hebei from planting rice and wheat on their own land, and that they must all grow soybeans and alfalfa.

Second, his government in Jiangnan began to transport grain from the government treasury from west to east.

For example, the official treasury of Jinghu and Lianglu left a year's grain storage and transported all other grain to Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road, and then the grain from Jiangnan East and West Road was transported to Liangzhejiang Road, and the grain in the treasury of Liangzhejiang Road had already been transported to Tamluo Island.

This is called tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall.

After planting these two crops, the people of Hebei and the two roads immediately retreated and moved to the prefecture or prefecture cities in various places, and their families were also settled by the prefects and prefectures in various places as soon as possible. During the whole process, those poor students of the Shaozhuang faction who graduated from Taixue will play a role in organizing, guiding, and contacting the local government.

After Cai Dao took office as the Taishi, the first personnel decision was to send these graduated students, after interviews, inquiries and screening, to Hebei Lianglu as the chief, and then as the township head, and the Jinshi of Wuju in these years will also be sent to Hebei Lianglu as the pavilion chief.

In order to prevent the county seat from being breached, Cai Dao even ordered Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze that they must defend the county seat, and from the beginning of winter, they can start to transfer the people in the county town behind the Song-Liao border to the state capital and the capital city step by step.

For this reason, Cai Dao also deliberately took out the horse-drawn sleigh, an artifact transported in the snow that had not been taken out.

After the autumn harvest, all the 700,000 Tuntian troops in Luoyang Mansion were summoned to Bianliang City, ostensibly for winter training, but in fact, they were asked to wait here, and the remaining 200,000 soldiers of the Standing Forbidden Army remained in Bianliang City.

On the border of the entire Hebei and Hebei roads, except for the local men of Yanzhao who were recruited step by step by Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze with Cai Dao giving them sufficient money over the years, Cai Dao did not send a single soldier there.

In addition, a new armor protection system has been established step by step over the years, and the entire Hebei has relied on these border armies and armor protection to defend the city, but there is no attack at all.

From Cai Dao's various measures, there are already many people of insight in the Great Song Dynasty who have guessed that Cai Dao is likely to start a war against Liao in the short term. Many people are watching to see Cai Dao's next move, but the strategic intentions he is showing now are not clear.