Ren forged and said: "The world's salt is just pool salt, sea salt, well salt, mineral salt, the Song Dynasty is dominated by pool salt and sea salt, sea salt is produced in the southeast coast. Nowadays, I am afraid that only Jingdong has a small amount of sea salt in Daliang. The main production area of Zhongyuan Pond Salt is now also in the hands of Tian Hu. There were very few salt-producing areas that the imperial court could control, and the salt wells in the northwest became more and more important. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "What Ren Gong said is that it seems that this salt well really can't be given up." However, the removal of all harsh taxes should be enough to settle these people. ”

Ren Liang said: "Most of the people in the fourth road of Yan Yan now make a living from farming, and the land was divided in the Song Dynasty, and the agricultural tax and harsh taxes were exempted, which was still very attractive to them. However, the people of Xihe Road were still mainly animal husbandry, and the Song Dynasty had rarely been able to collect taxes from them before, so it was irrelevant to them. ”

Chao Yong originally thought that he came to the northwest just to fight against the Western Xia people, but he didn't expect that the Song Dynasty had controlled Shaanxi for so many years, and there were still so many problems. It seems that immigration is the best way to conquer, let the Han people become the mainstream in all places, and the Fan people become a minority, and there should be no waves. It is best to let the Han people and the Fan people live together, and integrate the Fan people with the huge base of the Han people.

However, these things have to be done slowly in the future, and the top priority is to defeat the Western Xia and maintain stability. If you want to fuse the Fan people as quickly as possible, you have to disband their tribes. Whenever you do this, I'm afraid it will cause a backlash. Only when the Central Plains is unified, can he free up his hands to deal with disobedient fans.

Ren Liang took a sip of tea and said, "After talking about the other five roads, there will be the Yongxing Army left." The Yongxing Army is the best way, and there are Yanyan Road and Huanqing Road in front of it, and the Yongxing Army has not experienced war. In addition, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to commerce, and the commerce of the Yongxing army was very developed. The Guanzhong Plain is fertile for thousands of miles, and agriculture is naturally good. The territory is dominated by Han people, as long as the officials rule Qingming, the Yongxing army does not have to worry about rebellion. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "Don't hide it from the prince, the reason why the imperial court did not move officials from all walks of life in Shaanxi is just to maintain a stable rear and fight against Western Xia." When the Western Xia is defeated, the government will be rectified. ”

Ren Liang said with a smile: "I naturally know this, there are many smart people, and there are not a few officials who have recently abandoned their official positions and fled south." ”

Chao Yong didn't care about the government, and said, "The court sent someone?" ”

Ren forged and said: "There are not enough officials available in the court, so the emperor asked the lower officials to recommend some officials from the Yongxing Army, and sent some Jinshi who had just been promoted. In fact, the officials of other roads can also be adjusted, and the soldiers and horses of the western army are mostly concentrated in a few generals, and there are some prefects who are the governors of the state, and they are in charge of the army and the people. There are also some state capitals that use civil officials as governors, and these civil officials were sent by the Song Dynasty, and the imperial court will not have much impact on adjusting their official positions. However, in this matter, it is best to ask the old man about it, he knows this Shaanxi matter best, so as not to have some civil officials and Jiangmen have private contacts. ”

The Song Dynasty was already very taboo about military generals, and military generals rarely made friends with civil officials in order to avoid the emperor's suspicion.

Chao Yong heard Ren Liang say this, thought about it, and said: "Ren Gong said that the old breed has an intelligence system?" ”

Ren Liang nodded and said: "The first person of the seed family, Shi Heng, subdued many Fan tribes at the beginning, and the seed family will be able to rely on the Han people to collect news, and they can also rely on those people to collect news, and the ability to collect news is not inferior to that of Western Xia." ”

Chong Shiheng is the founder of the general, not only outstanding in martial arts, but also very strategic, and good at dealing with the Qiang people.

When Fan Zhongyan inspected the border, he learned that many Qiang tribes in Huanzhou secretly contacted Li Yuanhao, the lord of the Xia State. Fan Zhongyan immediately thought of Chong Shiheng and transferred him to be the governor of Huanzhou to pacify the Qiang people.

Niu Nu, the chief of a tribe of the Qiang tribe, is usually very stubborn, but when he heard that Chong Shiheng was coming to take office, he ran far away to greet him.

Chong Shiheng agreed with him that he would go to his tent the next day to comfort the tribe people.

Unexpectedly, that night, heavy snow fell in the sky, and the snow was three feet deep.

Chong Shiheng's attendant persuaded: "The ox slave is fierce and cunning, difficult to trust, and the road is difficult to walk. ”

Chong Shiheng was unmoved, and said: "I am befriending the Qiang people with faith, how can I miss the agreed date?" ”

So, Chong Shiheng braved the heavy snow to go to the appointment.

The snow was falling, and the Qiang people thought that Chong Shiheng would not come to the appointment. But I didn't expect Chong Shiheng to come in the snow, and he didn't bring many people and horses, so he didn't mean to guard against them.

Seeing that the Qiang people were so trustworthy, and they trusted them very much, they were all moved to bow down.

Another time, Chong Shiheng invited another Qiang chieftain Mu En to the military tent to drink and feast, and when he pushed the cup and changed the lamp, Chong Shiheng called a beautiful maid to come out to persuade him to drink, and Mu En saw the beauty, and his eyes immediately lit up.

After three rounds of drinking, Chong Shiheng got up and left for a while.

When Mu En saw that Shiheng went out, he didn't take the maid seriously, and immediately flirted with the maid.

At this time, Chong Shiheng suddenly rushed in, very surprised, very angry, Mu En was shocked, ashamed, and hurriedly fell to the ground to ask for guilt.

Unexpectedly, Chong Shiheng turned his anger into joy, and gave the maid to Muen very happily.

Since then, Munn has been loyal to Chong Shiheng and has served with death.

Whoever has a heart in the Qiang tribe, Chong Shiheng arranged for Mu En to lead the army to conquer, and he was invincible and invincible.

It was through these means that Chong Shiheng subdued more than 100 Qiang tribes.

Every time the Western Xia invaded, there would be a Qiang people to report the news, so Chong Shiheng had never been attacked by the Western Xia.

In the process of garrisoning Qingjian City, there was a general under Chong Shiheng who made a small mistake, which made Chong Shiheng angry.

Chong Shiheng went against the usual normal state of loving soldiers like children, and ordered the soldiers to punish him with a cane, and watched from the sidelines, so that people could be tortured severely.

Whether it was the general begging for mercy or his subordinates interceding, Chong Shiheng was unwilling to forgive this person.

The cane punishment of Chong Shiheng completely knocked out a piece of the loyalty of the general, and before the injury healed, he left without saying goodbye and went to the account of Li Yuanhao, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Li Yuanhao saw that this person was scarred and hated Chong Shiheng to the core, so he took him as a confidant and allowed him to freely enter and leave the Privy Council, the highest military organ.

Who knows, a year later, General Fan unknowingly returned to Qingjian City and brought back a large number of military secrets of Western Xia to Chong Shiheng.

At this time, the Western Xia people knew that this was a kind of Shiheng's bitter meat plan, and it was precisely because everyone didn't expect that Fan people would work so hard for Shiheng that the bitter meat plan could be successful.

It can be seen that the means of the world balance.

(To be continued)