Approaching Qingchi City, the outside of Qingchi City has changed.

This side of the canal to the west is full of newly built houses, mostly simple houses, but there are also people who have actually built yards on both sides of the avenue outside the city, and there are all kinds of shops.

Near the southeast direction is the continuous barracks tent, the tents are all neatly arranged ironclad queues, there are also many simple houses outside the barracks, small merchants doing all kinds of business, 50,000 soldiers with a good level of consumption, it is really not a small business.

Huge funds are all spent in a county, the changes brought to this county are unimaginable, from Qingchi to spend a huge amount of money, all kinds of raw materials from all over the country to Qingchi concentrated, the flow of people and logistics to Qingchi City brought earth-shaking changes.

Even those who set up street stalls to sell tea can earn several times more.

A large number of farmland houses have been built, and the tenants have lost the land they cultivated, but most of them have a better livelihood, even the smallest business, they can make a lot of money, and they can sell countless pancakes a day with their burdens. There are countless helpers on the wharf, even if they do hard work, but there is too much work, too much to be busy, and so much that the wages are rising.

This is the so-called investment effect, even if Zheng Zhi did not really carry out much investment operations in industrial production, most of them just spent money to buy things, but the diffusion effect of the economy also appeared.

Everyone says that Zheng Xianggong is good, but they don't know what Zheng Xianggong is good about, only that after Zheng Xianggong came, it became easier to make money and it became easier to support his family. The people's minds may be so simple, and the people's hearts are so simple.

Hearing that Zheng Xianggong led his troops to defeat the Xixia people in the northwest and wiped out the Xixia Kingdom, the entire Cangzhou was boiling, and it seemed that this glory did not only belong to Zheng Xianggong alone, but to the entire Cangzhou and all the Cangzhou people.

Zheng Xianggong came back from Tokyo after receiving the emperor's reward, and the team returned to Cangzhou from the wind and snow, and returned to Qingchi, Qingchi City boiled again, and 10,000 people went out of the city to see the national heroes of Western Xia, and 10,000 people came to see this heroic army.

It's still cold, but the atmosphere is hot to the highest temperature.

There was a sea of people at the gate of the city, and it was the Xu family who also came to the top of the city.

But everyone didn't expect that Zheng Xianggong did not enter the city, but went directly to the barracks.

There were also Li Gang, Pei Xuan, Zhu Wu and others at the head of the city, and when they saw that the team of men and horses turned directly to the barracks, they hurriedly went down to the city to beat their horses and go to the barracks.

At this time in the barracks, the horn company camped, and the iron armor of the 50,000 army was shining, Zheng Zhi looked at the ironclad soldiers who were assembled in an orderly manner in front of him, and the speed was also extremely fast, and Zheng Zhi nodded again and again.

The method of military training is actually very simple, and there are not so many complicated theories. In fact, all you need is a well-quality grassroots instructor, enough money and food, and the spirit that these grassroots instructors give to the soldiers.

Obviously, Zheng Zhi can meet these three conditions, grassroots officers are too important for a unit, whether it is training or really fighting, grassroots officers with extremely high military literacy determine the combat effectiveness of a team.

These soldiers of the Western Army are the seeds of this army, and Zheng Zhi is also committed to continuously improving the military quality of these grassroots officers.

There is also a team of people under the stage, which is Mi's. Mi Zhenwu was offstage, and Mi Zhenwu seemed absent-minded at this time, and he didn't seem to have any energy.

Zheng Zhi deliberately looked at Mi Zhenwu a little more, and the problem of the disposal of party members is obviously the most important problem now, and it is also the first problem that needs to be solved.

The horses are also on the way from the northwest to Cangzhou, if you want to talk about cavalry, Zheng Zhi can instantly set up fifty or sixty thousand, but the control of these fifty or sixty thousand party members is the main thing, where does Zheng Zhi dare to give these party members fifty or sixty thousand horses and five or six weapons.

The training of an army actually does not need to be assessed more, Zheng Zhi stood on the platform, watching the speed of these soldiers, the neatness of the queue running, and the spirit of the phalanx. It is enough to give a counterinsurgency criterion.

The combat effectiveness and bloodiness of this army, the battle formation is the training ground. Blood and death are the driving forces of growth. But before that, these soldiers also need a review close to the battle array, just like Tong Guan did in the northwest back then.

One by one, the generals stepped forward to report the report, and slogans were shouted everywhere.

Zheng Zhi just stood motionless on the platform, took off the iron helmet on his head and put it in the hands of Niu Da beside him.

The 50,000 troops in the audience have been assembled, and the generals have also stepped forward to report.

Everyone stood motionless, and Zheng Zhi also stood motionless.

Zheng Zhi didn't mean to give an inspiring speech, and without amplification equipment, Zheng Zhi's loud words could not reach everyone's ears.

Even if Zheng Zhi stood like this, standing in front of these 50,000 people, he seemed to be expressing a thing to the 50,000 soldiers in the field.

The 50,000 soldiers in the audience also seemed to feel Zheng Zhi's speechless expression, the mighty soldier standing motionless on the stage, the mighty soldier standing in front of everyone, was Zheng Xianggong, the Zheng Xianggong that everyone could hear from the head of the team every day, the Zheng Xianggong who was usually discussed among his comrades, and the Zheng Xianggong who destroyed the Western Xia Kingdom in World War I.

It's the handsome Zheng Xianggong of everyone present!

It's Zheng Xianggong, the boss of everyone present!

It is Zheng Xianggong, who everyone present needs to follow his orders without hesitation!

It is Zheng Xianggong, who allows everyone present to receive a rich salary every month!

The gathering of troops is complete, and the drums behind him stop!

There was a sudden loud bang in the air: "Meet Zheng Xianggong!" ”

With a loud bang, there was the sound of iron armor striking, and the sound of kneeling on one knee.

Zheng Zhi raised his hand slightly!

There was another uniform sound of ironclad armor, and everyone stood up.

Zheng Xianggong still didn't say a word.

I don't know how long it took, Zheng Zhi suddenly turned his head and stretched out his hand. Niu Da hurriedly handed over the iron helmet that Zheng Zhi had taken off before.

Zheng Zhi took the iron helmet and slowly put it on his head, and the cold and piercing feeling of the iron helmet spread directly to his ears and neck.

Zheng Zhi finally spoke: "In order, from east to west, one battalion after another marched through Jiangtai!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers in the audience hurriedly turned on their horses and conveyed the order to the ears of the commanders of each battalion.

It was a parade without any preparation.

Wait until the drums on the stage sound again.

From the east, hundreds of pace-takers, lined up, armed with spears, strode forward.

This was followed by the infantry of another battalion, and the unprepared parade was not so strict and accurate in terms of cohesion, but the process did not drag on in the slightest.

Zheng Zhi looked at the columns of soldiers walking in front of him on the platform, as if this kind of ceremony had an inexplicable cohesion, and it seemed that it could also bring glory to these soldiers, and let these people who were originally at the bottom of the society burst out with a lot of self-confidence.

Zheng Zhi is also thinking in his heart, the reform of military etiquette should be promoted, although it is not necessary to use the hand salute of later generations, but there should also be a unified military etiquette. Military etiquette can obviously also increase the sense of honor of a soldier.

The origin of the modern military salute came from the British navy, when the British navy defeated the Spanish Armada, the British queen wanted to go on board the ship to reward the navy, but the British navy at that time was basically part-time pirates, so the British navy was composed of pirates.

Most of the pirates were rude and uneducated low-level people, and they had never seen a few women, let alone many aristocratic women, let alone the Queen of England. In order to prevent these pirate soldiers of the navy from ramming the queen, it was stipulated that when the queen boarded the ship, all the navy soldiers covered their eyes with their hands and were not allowed to look at the queen.

This is the origin of the modern military salute. Later, it developed into placing the palm of the hand on the temple near the eye, and no matter how you put it, the military salute is mostly the same all over the world.

When the scoring ceremony was over, Zheng Zhi waved his hand and ordered: "All disbanded and brought back!" ”

It is 50,000 horses, and an order to disband, and hundreds of soldiers must run around.

Zheng Zhi stepped down from the general platform and went straight to the big tent of the Chinese army, followed by dozens of civil and military officials. Now Zheng Zhi's core has developed to dozens of people.

The brazier had already been prepared in the big tent, Zheng Zhi was the first, and took off the leather gloves on his hands, which were made of sheepskin, black and yellow, and were sewn under the city of Lingzhou. In ancient times, it was not without gloves, but animal fur was really not enough, so it was mostly used to make cold things such as large coats. The soldiers also wrapped their palms in linen cloth to protect them from the cold.

"Where are the people of the tribe of Li?" Zheng Zhi asked.

Pei Xuan hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Xianggong, the people who went to the Li tribe according to the instructions of Xianggong's letter, they are all in the barracks, two thousand one hundred and twenty people. ”

"What about the women and children who have been in the past? Haven't arrived yet? Zheng Zhi asked again.

"Xianggong, Qin Feng sent a letter, saying that according to Xianggong's orders, most of the women and children who had been looking for Xiangli in Western Xia were killed when Xianggong attacked from afar. There are only two or three hundred left. Pei Xuan replied again.

Zheng Zhi nodded, and it was only at this time that he knew that there were tribes in the tribe he slaughtered, and even at that time, Zheng Zhi didn't know whether he had leveled those tribes. He only said: "Who is the leader of the people of Xiangli now." ”

"Xianggong, the leader of the Xiangli people is now the son of Xiangliqi." Obviously, the first batch of Xiangli people was sent to Cangzhou, and Pei Xuan also received Zheng Zhi's letter, and the Xiangli people did not suffer much.

"Well, bring this to Lead!" Zheng Zhi nodded and ordered.

When Pei Xuan heard this, he went out of the big tent to bring people. Zheng Zhi spoke again: "Pass Mi Zhenwu over!" ”

Order the soldiers to go down and summon people. Mi Zhenwu's situation in recent months has been really bad, Zheng Zhi went on the expedition, and the entire Mi man was disarmed and placed under house arrest in the barracks, and Mi Zhenwu was placed under house arrest and detained under solitary house arrest and was not allowed to see anyone. It wasn't until the news of Zheng Zhi's victory reached Cangzhou that Mi Zhenwu was a little freer, but he was also heavily monitored, and he accidentally landed on his head. Life and death are all on Pei Xuan and Zhu Wu.

This feeling is obviously like a year, when I heard that the Western Xia Kingdom was destroyed, and even all the royal children of the Western Xia were slaughtered by Zheng Zhi. Mi Zhenwu is even more depressed, the country is ruined, the land has fallen, and there is even no longer a party in the world, how can you accept it!

Mi has become an outcast in this world and an orphan in this era. There is no more hope, no more tomorrow. The thoughts of rebellion, the motivation to run away. All of a sudden, everything seemed to come to naught, and everything, the last pillar in my heart, had no direction.

The Zheng Zhi he saw on the stage exuded a feeling of invincibility, which constantly impacted Mi Zhenwu's heart and constantly suppressed Mi Zhenwu's heart of resistance.

The two of them brought it one after another, and each knelt in front of him.

Zheng Zhi didn't say much, and said directly: "To Lide, where is the Li clan going now?" ”

Xiang Li was a few years older than Mi Zhenwu, a very strong man, obviously growing up with all kinds of food, a lot of stubble on his head, and a long beard on his chin.

Hearing Zheng Zhi's question, Xiang Li raised his head, obviously understood Chinese, and replied directly: "Zheng Xianggong, I don't know where to go to the Li family. ”

Xiang Lide is obviously speaking in his heart, although now in the Great Song River thousands of miles away, although he is well fed and clothed every day, and even has a supply of good wine, Xiang Lide's heart seems to be dead.

From the beginning of the expedition with his father, to the loss of his sons and daughters of the same clan, only 2,000 of the more than 20,000 men remained, and the tribe was also slaughtered. Suddenly, his father was inexplicably assassinated by Wei Ming Renming above the city, and he was also imprisoned, starving and cold. At that time, Xiang Lide still had hatred in his heart, hating Wei Ming Renming, who pushed his tribe to destruction, and Zheng Zhi, who slaughtered the women and children of his tribe.

When he starved and froze in the snow for a few days, and was dying, he knew that he was going to die, and that he was going to die simply, and that there was no point in dying. Everything, to Lead's hatred, hatred so much that he didn't even have the strength to grit his teeth. Hate is only waiting for death, and death is liberation.

Lying on the ground and dying, Xiang Lide, saw the Song army rushing into Lingzhou City, the slaughterer was originally a party member of his compatriots, and he smiled slightly at Lide, and he only felt a sense of happiness in his heart, that is, he felt that there was someone to accompany him, and it was best to have the enemy who killed his father Wei Ming Renming to accompany him, and the culprit who buried his entire tribe Wei Ming Renming was buried with him, and the death was probably worth it, and it was more liberating.

Wei Ming Renming was dead, but Xiang Li De was not dead, and the Song people actually saved him.

All this was beyond Xiang Lide's own expectations, and it also made Xiang Lide, who came to life, even more confused. There are still 2,000 children of the same clan around him, but the benefactor who saved his life was the Song man who slaughtered the women and children of his own tribe.

It wasn't until today that Xiang Lide saw Zheng Zhi for the first time, and he heard Zheng Zhi ask such a sentence. If you want to say that Xiang Lide wants to kill the Zheng Zhi in front of him and avenge the women and children in the clan, maybe Xiang Lide has this idea, but it's a pity that it's too unrealistic. The idea had just been born, and it immediately disappeared.

Zheng Zhi didn't expect that when he asked, Xiang Lide answered with such a sentence, but with such an answer, Zheng Zhi already understood the thoughts and feelings in Xiang Lide's heart.

"As the leader of the Xiangli Ministry, you are also responsible for more than 2,000 Xiangli people. Since you don't know where to go, then go to Cangbei and settle your clansmen ten miles south of Mi first. I'm going to send you a few thousand more women and children. Restore the tribe first. After a while, I will go to Cangbei and ask you again. Zheng Zhi said. Obviously, Zheng Zhi is not kind, but is ready to take care of these beneficial people. The family can be established again if it is gone, the woman can be sent again without Zheng Zhi, and the child can be reborn if there is no child. Zheng Zhi just needs to rekindle the hope of life in Xiangli, and everything will return to the original again. Trauma can be buried deep in the heart. Family can bring laughter.

Looking at the current Mi tribe, it is the best proof that with new children, there is new hope. With new hope, it is Zheng Zhi's bargaining chip.

Xiang Li De didn't think much about it, and it was impossible to think of the viciousness in Zheng Zhi's heart. Even Mi Zhenwu, who was in the middle of it, never thought about his new tribe in this regard.

Xiang Lide was still so confused, Zheng Zhi waved his hand, and Xiang Lide was taken down.

Zheng Zhi's eyes were already fixed on Mi Zhenwu.