[Second update, ask for red tickets, collect]

When Wang Shao finally persuaded Gao Zunyu to ask the Son of Heaven directly for money to speed up the implementation of Kaibian Hehuang, it was already the end of April. The wheat has already been tasseled, and the heavy desire to hang down, and the leaves are gradually yellowing, and in a few days, when it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, it can basically be harvested.

Shen Qi, the capital transfer envoy who came to Qinzhou for the volume of barren fields, has also been there for a few days, but he has not shown the attitude of going down the Weishui River to check the number of barren fields that should be reclaimed, but going to banquets day after day, drinking and chatting.

After another busy day, Wang Shao was idle and asked Han Gang casually: "Which house did Shen Zhuan go to for today's banquet?" ”

It seems that Dou Shunqing and Xiang Bao are entertaining together. I didn't inquire about it, and I didn't know if it was unclear. ”

After the Shaanxi capital transfer envoy came to Qinzhou, he was good at dancing with long sleeves. Li Shizhong gave him the wind and dust, and he did not shirk. Dou Shunqing set up a banquet to invite him, and he happily went to the banquet. The day before yesterday, Gao Zunyu and Wang Shao set up wine together in the newly opened Wanqing Building, and he also went to drink happily.

Han Gang heard that Li Ruoyu came to Qinzhou last time, but he didn't go to a banquet, and he made a full appearance of Yan Luo Bao Lao with a straight face - naturally, this is just a matter on the surface, and secretly how much benefit he and Wang Kechen took from Li Shizhong and Dou Shunqing, it is impossible for outsiders to know Lu Dao.

Shen Qi's style is puzzling, no matter which side he is biased towards, the opposing side can take his frequent attendance to the banquet and make his testimony unconvincing.

So Han Gang was no longer interested in guessing which side Shen Qi was on. Anyway, Wang Hou and his entourage should be in the capital around the Dragon Boat Festival. As long as they offer the sand table, it doesn't matter which side Shen Qi helps.

Just because Han Gang had such an idea, the next day, when he heard that the envoy finally stopped going to the banquet, but left the city to go to the northwest to do business, he didn't pay much attention to it.

But a few days later, two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Han Gang was taken aback when he heard that Shen Qi had arrived at the last place on this trip to inspect Aratian.

"Shen Xingzong has arrived in Gangu City."

Gao Zunyu said after entering the door. Since the day before yesterday, Gao Zunyu sent a request to the capital, Gao Zunyu waited for the court's reply every day, and he was very impatient. But he still has to do things, and he is also very enthusiastic about making meritorious contributions. Every day, he came to the official hall where he was doing business, asked Han Gang to open the pavilion, turned the library upside down, and turned out all the documents about the Ministry of Tibet to read it carefully.

But today, Han Gang met him in Wang Shao's official hall, and he happened to hear the latest news about Shen Qi.

"Arrived in Gangu City?" Wang Shao stood up to greet Gao Zunyu, and asked with some doubts, "What is he going to Gangu City for?" It's time to go to Guwei! ”

"Is there something wrong," Han Gang also doubted the reliability of Gao Zunyu's news. "It's the same way to go to Guwei Village, and if you see him in Fuqiang City, you don't necessarily go to Gangu."

From Qinzhou to Gangu City and Guwei Village, the first half of the journey is the same, until Fuqiang City, only one to the north, the other to the west of the parting ways. I can't see that someone is going to go west around Longcheng County, or enter Fuqiang City, so I say that he is going to Gangu.

"There's no mistake, I heard it directly from Li Shizhong."

Gao Zunyu's identity is special, although he is now on Wang Shao's side, but Li Shizhong and Dou Shunqing's official hall, he can still enter correctly.

"What exactly is Shen Xingzong thinking?" Wang Shao's head is almost written with a question mark, he and Han Gang like to calculate step by step, the most annoying thing is the guy who doesn't play cards according to reason: "He went to Gangu to test what kind of wasteland, where the four thousand hectares of fields are all clear, and they have already been measured!" ”

Gao Zunyu shook his head: "Who knows what Lu Dao thinks, just don't delay our business." ”

Han Gang rubbed his temples, and he also had a headache: "It's not a good time to go to Gangu now." After the Dragon Boat Festival, the wheat should be ripe. The Western Thieves' grain stocks last year could not support a large-scale operation, so it was just a trick in Gangu a few days ago. Even if there was a battle in Gyeongju, which claimed to be 100,000, in fact, more than 10,000 people were dispatched at most, otherwise the 3,000 soldiers led by Li Xin, Liu Fu and Chong Xun would have been wiped out long ago, and they would not have been Li Fugui's turn to kill. But this time is definitely completely different, it will not be a lot of wind and rain, in order to grab the new grain from the border land, the West Thief really has to work hard - no matter what year it is, this year will be no exception. ”

If we make a simple summary of the strategic goals and combat goals of the party members, it is seven words - grabbing food, grabbing money, and grabbing women. As for bigger, longer-term plans, they don't. Li Yuanhao shouted the slogan of fighting to Chang'an and separating Guanzhong, but after fighting a few battles with the Song army, although they all won, the loss of Western Xia's national strength was greater, and they couldn't support it to continue the attack. In his life, he failed to break through the mountainous areas of northern Shaanxi, and he was hundreds of miles away from Chang'an.

Under the huge gap in national strength between the Song and Xia countries, no matter how many tactical victories the Western Xia achieved, they could not turn it into a strategic victory, but they still kept attacking. Not only to replace defense with offense, but also to protect oneself, but the barren production of the Western Xia country could not satisfy the insatiable desires of the party nobles, and in order to maintain cohesion, it was necessary to keep looting.

The Liang siblings, Empress Dowager Liang and her brother Liang Yiburi, are now ruling Western Xia, and as Han Chinese, they do not have deep roots. In order to maintain the Liang family's unstable dominance, it was not enough to rely on internal pressure, and it was necessary to continuously win victories in foreign wars, that is, against the Song State, and grab enough spoils to distribute to the major tribes to buy people's hearts.

Gao Zunyu and Wang Shao also fell silent together. Every year after the wheat is ripe, it is the time when the western thieves begin to move, up and down Qinzhou, which one does not know the way, this matter is not surprising at all, the border villages will be on guard at this time, but this time, Shen Qi is in Gangu.

In silence, Wang Shaotu said with a smile: "A few days ago, Qingping music was still singing at the banquet, if it is ...... today"

A rush of footsteps interrupted Wang Shao's words. The sound of footsteps rushed from the front yard, bypassing the courtyard where Ji Yiwen was located, and went all the way to the pacification envoy hall in the back yard. Wang Shao glanced at Han Gang, Han Gang knew how to go, and in a blink of an eye, he hurriedly walked back, and his face changed a little, "Gangu is in a hurry!" ”

Wang Shao stood up violently again, his face turned pale this time, and he looked shocked: "Really fighting?!" ”

Han Gang shook his head: "I didn't have time to inquire in detail. However, the messenger came back from a hurry, and it was not a trivial matter to look at his expression. I'm afraid that the western thieves will light a beacon fire if they go a little further. ”

"Will something happen to Shen Xingzong?" Gao Zunyu immediately asked, he had only thought about Shen Qi's possible encounter with the Western Thief before, and he didn't take it seriously. But he would never have thought that the party members would really come and not delay at all.

"What do you care about him? It's up to him to live or die, and it's not our turn to worry about it. Wang Shao stood up violently, found a map of the edge of the four roads that he had stored in the hall, pointed to it and explained to Gao Zunyu, "If it is normal times, Qinzhou's side must be biased." There is Huanqing's Malingshui not to go, but to come and take Gangu Road, the Xixia people will not ask for trouble.

But now it is time for the wheat to ripen, and the thief's purpose is food. The fields on both sides of the Maling River are not larger than the Gangu, and it is impossible to have more wheat than the Gangu. The western thieves will not let go of either way, even if they can't grab new grain, they will burn the wheat fields, so that the border fort can only rely on the rear to transport grain up this year. This will do them a lot of benefits for their offense in the fall. ”

"Liu Changzuo is already in Gangu City. Zichun, haven't you praised him many times? With him here, you shouldn't have to worry about Gangu City, right? Gao Zunyu asked Wang Shao.

"Gangu, I'm not worried. I'm worried about Gu Wei and Wei Yuan. For the habits of the western thief, the Fan side is also well aware. The previous time Mu Zheng suffered such a big loss for the Shuotuo Department, this time he will definitely take advantage of the fact that the western thieves transferred Liu Changzuo, and the troops of Gu Wei and Weiyuan were empty, and they would retaliate. ”

He turned his head and said to Han Gang: "Yukun, I'll go to Li Jingluo to report, you go and get ready now, and follow me to Guwei Village in the afternoon." ”

When Gao Zunyu heard this, he immediately shouted: "Zichun, even if you want to go to Guwei Village, I will go with you." ”

Wang Shao raised his head and looked at Gao Zunyu. The day before yesterday, Wang Shao knew in his heart that the attack of the party members was just a show, and the 2,000 soldiers and horses that Liu Changzuo brought to Gangu City could come to help at any time, so he took Gao Zunyu to Guwei Village with peace of mind. But this time the situation is different, whether it is a thief or a thief, they all have to play for real. If something happens to Gao Zunyu, he will be in trouble here.

Wang Shao hesitated again and again, but seeing Gao Zunyu's insistent look, he finally nodded, "Then please come with me." ”

The so-called sitting words and deeds, Wang Shao also went to Guwei a lot, in the morning to deal with the trivial matters, hurriedly said hello to Li Shizhong, who was about to go to Longcheng County to sit in the town, and in the afternoon with a group of guards, with Gao Zunyu, Han Gang out of the city, to Guwei Village.

The entourage brought by Gao Zunyu in the team was extremely nervous, and their faces were tense as if half of the population in the family had died at once. And the atmosphere on the road was much more tense than when they walked by half a month ago.

Although the news of the Western Thieves' intention to invade has not yet spread, the people of Qinzhou have been in battle for a long time after all, and they know when the Western Thieves will attack just harassment, and when they will attack desperately. In Qinzhou, such a tense atmosphere has to be repeated many times a year,

I really don't know when this kind of nervousness is over, Han Gang rode on the horse, and couldn't help but think in his heart.

In his mind, it was actually very simple to deal with the party members. It is to let them attack more than worth the loss every time, and they will continue to bleed them, while the high walls and deep bases are strictly defended, and at the same time, they will steal the air into the territory of Western Xia to sweep up, and after one or two decades, Western Xia will inevitably collapse. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the government decree changed three times a year, it was even more unrealistic to maintain such a strategy than to gather a large army and directly attack the territory of Western Xia.

It was dark late in the summer, and although Wang Shao and the others walked late, they had a lot of way. At nightfall that day, the group rushed to Sanyang Village, which was more than 100 miles away. In Sanyang Village, they saw a familiar team:

"Isn't this Shen Zhuan's carriage and horse?"