"This is a dog, and in the future, Xiangfan's manor and fortress, as well as Xiangyang's business, will be handed over to him to take care of. Where the officials are useful, they can be sent at will. If you need money, send someone to Yueyang to inform me that I have already bought a house in Yueyang, and I will take Yueyang as my home in the future. Liu Tingmei said: "The officials are responsible for guarding Jinghu, and it is also within our duty to cooperate from the sidelines. ”

"Soon it won't be." Zheng Yunming pointed to the outside of the courtyard and said: "You see that the deputy capital is so busy inside and outside, I will rush to Sichuan to defend against the Mongols in the future." The affairs of Jinghu will be handed over to Yang Luo and Bai Yijie in the future. However, Liu Weng can rest assured, I have already explained to the two of them, whether it is Liu Weng or Liu Weng's agent, they will take more care, and I have also told the envoy that I hope to strengthen the cooperation with the Jinghu locality, so that the upper and lower levels are one, and the people are united, and Liu Weng does not have to worry. But there is another thing for Liu Weng to do. “

When he opened his mouth to tell what he wanted to order, Liu Tingmei naturally wanted to handle it properly, so he hurriedly asked what was important.

Zheng Yunming said: "You immediately write to Cao Wenqi, his manor is near Ezhou, and ask him to immediately select a thousand young and strong people who have not yet married from Zhuang Ding to wait in Ezhou." In the past, he always boasted that he had no chance to join the army and serve the country, but today he was given this opportunity. When my army arrives, we will set off for Sichuan. ”

Liu Tingmei immediately agreed, and immediately sighed again.

Zheng Yunming heard the unwillingness in his tone, so he smiled: "Liu Weng thinks I didn't give you a chance to serve in the army?" ”

Liu Tingmei also smiled bitterly: "Back then, Jinghu talked about the experience of joining the army, and I was the hero of the group, but I didn't expect that today Zhang Bo has become the commander of the navy, and Lao Cao is going to Sichuan to kill the enemy, and I have become a useless old man." ”

That being said, Zheng Yunming's conquest of Cao Wenqi also has his own considerations. Cao Wenqi has been doing business in Sichuan for many years, and knows the customs of Sichuan, mountains and rivers and geography well.

"Liu Weng sponsored the construction of the Tulong First Army, and my department has it in mind, as for the battlefield battle, you are my old-timer. These things to serve the country should be left to our young people to do. ”

Zheng Yunming was very humble in his mouth, but he made up his mind in his heart that it was impossible to resist the Mongol offensive and not have a good relationship with the local tyrants. But the relationship with the local tyrants must not be too close, otherwise let these people control the local military and government affairs, not only will the people be oppressed and there will be no place to stay, and even the imperial court's control over the local government will be strictly weakened. This is the reason why the successive dynasties severely suppressed the signs of feudal towns. The reason why he has no experience in water warfare is that Zheng Yunming has no experience in water warfare, and he urgently needs Zhang Boe's experience in boat operation and appeal among fishermen to conquer Cao Wenqi, because Cao Wenqi has many connections in Shu and can quickly dredge up the relationship with the middle and lower class people in Shu.

But Yi Qiē had to be more careful, he was not born to be wary of the local tyrants who rose up. It is not that there is any doubt about their patriotism, in fact, these people who take the border area as their hometown and the imperial court have a high degree of interest in resisting foreign captives, Zheng Yunming has no doubt about their loyalty and patriotism, but sometimes people are indeed involuntarily, and when their political and military power swells to a certain level, all the patriotic hearts of loyal monarchs will be diluted by the enthusiasm for safeguarding local interests.

Therefore, he can't accept Liu Tingmei, a local tyrant who once served as the commander of the army, if he continues to be promoted, he will be a real tail. Even if he didn't have the heart of rebellion, the imperial court would be wary of Jinghu because of this, and for the entire Jinghu or Zheng Yunming personally, it might be a benefit and a hundred harms.

Shanyan comforted him, and continuing to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Jinghu was the best choice for Zheng Yunming.

Zheng Yunming also received Chen Jiao and his entourage, who had returned victoriously from the north. Chen Jiao went deep into the enemy's territory for hundreds of miles, came and went, made a lot of achievements, and also suffered a lot, but the greatest achievement was that they went deep into Henan with hundreds of people, disguised as Mongolian cavalry, carried hundreds of banners, large and small, and mobilized the people of Henan to accompany them to make a strong momentum, creating the illusion of the Song army's large-scale attack on Luoyang Prefecture, and knocking a decisive blow to the retreat of the Mongolian army.

"This is called guerrilla warfare!" Zheng Yunming said with a smile: "What is guerrilla warfare, guerrilla warfare is when a monkey gets into the belly of a ghost and turns him upside down!" Today, there are only a few hundred troops, and the role they play is greater than that of dispatching 5,000 or 10,000 troops. This kind of guerrilla warfare needs to be practiced more in the future. But this alone is not enough, although you are forced to coerce the people to attack this time, but if you really want to make trouble in the rear of the enemy, you have to fall on the four words of connecting Heshuo. Only by mobilizing the people under Mongol occupation could it pose a sufficient threat to Mongol rule. Of course, I won't force you to do this, you need to slowly understand how to connect with Heshuo, how to not only operate behind the enemy, but also to take root in the enemy's control area. ”

Having said that, but today want to connect with Heshuo, it is not as easy as the Shaoxing year, the people of the north of the Shaoxing year have some feelings for the Great Song Dynasty, and their hearts are towards the Zhao official family, and the people of the north have experienced more than 20 years of war, and have long been accustomed to being ruled by the Mongols. If you want to connect with Heshuo, you must use a little last resort.

Zheng Yunming knew this, of course, but he was more convinced that the Mongols were not yet accustomed to being the masters of the Central Plains, and that their policies would make it less difficult to connect with Heshuo. And if you want to make the entire Heshuo an ally of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, a few hundred Chen Jiao alone is not enough, and it needs the policy support of the whole country.

But this does not prevent this matter from starting from now, Zheng Yunming is not worried that this matter will be stalled because of his departure, because the three giants who are currently in charge of Jinghu: Zhao Kui, the envoy of Xiangyang, Bei Zhijie, the deputy envoy of Jiangling, and Meng Hui of Huangzhou, are all keen to recruit northerners, and Zhao Kui and Meng Heng's subordinates each have tens of thousands of northern troops, and they are more enthusiastic about planning the northern land than Zheng Yunming.

What they may have overlooked is the economic side of things.

Before setting off, Zheng Yunming specially summoned Xu Shiqing and the leaders of the mines in Jinghu, and the support of the forging and smelting industry composed of miners and blacksmiths was indispensable for the construction of a stable anti-Japanese war base. Jinghu was originally not a mineral-rich area, but it was not impossible to find a little ore in Sanxiang. Now the Hanyeping steel combination that is being fully promoted will not be talked about for the time being. There are gold mines along the Yangtze River, copper and silver mines in Ezhou, and lead and tin ore in Yiling, all of which are the most needed support for the Jinghu defense area, which is in the midst of a long war.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty relied on the east wind of the two roads to open Jinghu Lake, and constantly put pressure on the mineral industry of the two lakes, so that the mineral development of the two lakes was in an abnormal state. Three hundred years later, many of Hubei's mines have been gradually depleted. After Bai Yijie took charge of Hanye's Pingping mining and metallurgical affairs, the first thing he carried out was to extensively explore the new ore veins in Pingxiang. Fortunately, it is quite rewarding, otherwise how to improve the efficiency of the existing mine will only add to the depletion of the ore veins.

Now Zheng Yunming wants to extend this measure to the entire Jinghu and make a rough combing of the possible mineral resources, which requires the cooperation of a large number of miners who know how to explore ore veins. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, Zheng Yunming has also inherited the habit of using economic means rather than government coercion to advance local affairs. Since he became the secretary of the transit department, he has twice announced that he has raised the purchase price of gold, silver, copper, iron, lead and other minerals purchased by the government.

On the other hand, Zheng Yunming also advocated the widespread promotion of the application of steel filling technology, steel filling method since the creation of Qimu Huaiwen, now only a very small number of people use, the main reason is nothing more than the cost is too high, and there is not much actual market demand. Zheng Yunming and Zhao Kui discussed, even if Xiangyang Prefecture was in financial difficulties, it still allocated a sum of money to purchase a certain amount of steel trained by the steel filling method every year. And there is no restriction on identity, anyone can sell the high-quality steel to the government, and the government chooses the best one to buy it. In this way, the blacksmiths of Jinghu worked hard to study the defects of improving the steel filling technology.

Naturally, these are expensive projects, and since Zheng Yunming took office, many of them have been promoted that require large investments. The cost of his money is so frightening that the transfer department and the chief bookkeeper of the local state and county all call Zheng Yunming a glutton, describing him as devouring money so fast that even a gourmet. In order to fill such a big financial and tax hole, Zheng Yunming must raise a few chickens that can lay golden eggs.

In the two counties of Zhijiang and Yichang, the government has a large number of military tuns, which are cultivated by the soldiers of Jiangling. Zheng Yunming consulted with Zhao Kui and recruited the displaced households in the north to convert all these tuntian fields into cotton fields. Vigorously expanding cotton planting is Zheng Yunming's established policy, cotton cloth as a trading commodity, in this era is a real best-selling goods, especially in the trade with the north, cotton cloth is one of the big items. The reason why the cotton planting area has not been extensive is not that there are no markets, but that it is limited to backward technology. The technical problems that cannot be solved in a series of links from seed removal to spinning to weaving make cotton cloth costly, the market shrinks, and cotton fields cannot become a pillar industry in Hubei.

For this reason, Zheng Yunming asked the merchants of Guangnan Road to go deep into the Li villages in the south to learn the local textile technology, and after taking up an official position, he even sent a special person to Yazhou to hire several highly skilled Li weavers to Hubei, so that they could teach the local weavers a complete set of spinning and weaving techniques. It will take time for the technology to be rolled out, but with the backing of the government and the lure of profits, a whole industrial chain of cotton production is taking shape.

Before Zheng Yunming set off, Bai Yijie finally had time to deliver the two completed cotton cloths to Zheng Yunming. The quality of these two cotton fabrics is finer and smoother than that of cotton fabrics woven using the ancient methods of the Central Plains, and even the finest fabrics produced by traditional techniques cannot be compared.

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