Zheng Ping sat in front of Zheng Lang, patted the horse's back with her little hand, and shouted, "Daqing, Daqing, hurry up and run." ”

Xiaoqing was old and couldn't run, so Zheng Lang quickly rode back to the Central Plains and rode another horse. But Xiaoqing has been raised in the Zheng family since he was a child, and he is very familiar with the surname, Zheng Lang is reluctant to throw it away, so he usually rides more. Slowly carrying Zheng Lang and his two daughters, galloping on the cyan flat river.

Zheng Hang was giggling behind Zheng Lang's back.

The people in the distance looked at this warm scene and were very moved.

After going around, Zheng Lang rode Xiaoqing back and continued to watch the people repairing water conservancy.

Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road are mainly Weishui Basin, and Weishui has Qinqishui, Xianshui, Huluchuan, Jingshui, Beiluoshui, Fengshui and other tributaries, among which Jingshui and Beiluoshui Basin have the largest area and water flow, but also the most sediment.

This is the case.

Weishui is a good comrade, the upstream river water is clear, but Jingshui and Beiluoshui pass through the Loess Plateau, bringing huge sediment, so the waterway is turbid.

Many rivers of Jingshui and Jingshui tributaries upstream of Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road are still very clear and not very harmful.

From the middle of the river, the water becomes harsh.

The sediment will block the waterway, and the two eastern Zhejiang indiscriminate lake is a surname, and the water can not be saved. When the water is large, the river is shallow and floods. Therefore, since ancient times, in order to survive and cultivate, Guanzhong has built many water conservancy, including the Sanbai Canal.

The upper reaches of Weishui on Qinfeng Road are slightly better, but Huanqing Road is mostly a Jingshui basin, and Jingyuan Road also has a part of the Jingshui River section. Not within the scope of Sanbai Canal, Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang did some small maintenance and tidying.

There is also Tuntian.

Zheng Lang's tuntian started last year, and all kinds of corn and sorghum were planted, and some beans were also planted.

In May, it has grown vigorously.

A large number of trees were planted along the banks along various river sections to protect the river embankment. This project is not only on Jingyuan Road, but also on the banks of the Jing River, including Jingyuan Road, Yongxing Military Road, and Huanqing Road, and trees are being planted along the entire bank of the Jing River.

It is not difficult, there are many mountainous areas and many mountain forests, and there are many chaotic trees growing in the mountain forests, which are very crowded, and they are good saplings to dig them out and carry them.

It will be improved, but it cannot be completely solved, because of indiscriminate grazing and reclamation, the water and soil in the whole Shaanxi and Northwest regions are slowly deteriorating, once the rain comes, the rain washes down, and the rolling sediment gathers into the rivers along with the rain.

Jing water is still muddy Jing water.

However, it is better to cure than not to cure, and surprisingly, the Tibetan and Qiang people in all parts of the tribe all know the benefits of planting forests, and they have repeatedly opposed the Han people to cut down trees and transform the grassy Pingchuan into cultivated fields, and there have been many conflicts.

It is a subconscious primitive perception of the environment.

Zheng Lang wants to plant forests, and these Fanzi are more cooperative than the Han people, which is a good situation.

So Zheng Lang used the money that the city could easily obtain to plant trees behind the entire Jingyuan Road, and as long as it was a barren slope that could not be cultivated, trees were planted one after another.

It will take a long time to achieve the effect, and the upstream area is located on the front line of the battle, so it is difficult to plant more trees to facilitate the enemy's hidden whereabouts. Reclamation and grazing, the negative impact of population growth on the environment, offset their own arrangement, the trees from seedlings to grow from a tree for several years, so in May, the rain increases, and there are some small problems in the rivers and streams, which affects the tuntian.

Zheng Lang kept coming out to inspect and make remedial measures.

After leading the people to build a section of the river embankment in the river, the sky was dark.

Suddenly, the sky became dark, and there was a drizzle in the sky for a while, Zheng Lang said, "Everyone, go home." ”

Everyone dispersed with a bang.

Zheng Lang also took his wife into Chongxin County.

The sky is also dark, the rain is a little heavier, densely hitting the leaves outside the official office, making a rustling sound like silkworms eating mulberries, and it actually has a charm of a rainy day in the south of the Yangtze River.

An iron hoof hurried in.

When they arrived at the county office, the soldiers turned over and dismounted, and found Zheng Langyu to report: "Zheng Xianggong, Yi Shijilu led 15,000 cavalry to raid Agancheng, but he was defeated blindly, and Agancheng was mostly destroyed, and General Wang Ji led 3,000 cavalry to chase after him. ”

"Let's go," Zheng Lang left a few wives and concubines, and immediately got on the horse and left.

Cui Xian had some resentment in her eyes, but she didn't make a sound.

Her husband didn't tell her about some of her plans, but some plans at home and the signs on the map knew the place of Agan City in her husband's heart.

The city of Agan is in the hands of the blind felt, which is also equivalent to the hands of the husband, which can provide an important security guarantee for the valley of the shrine, and can directly point to the Huizhou region controlled by the Western Xia, and the sword can be directed at the city of Lanzhou. In order to quickly build this city, the husband also sent thousands of soldiers here to assist, but he did not expect that something would go wrong again. This is a big thing, and as a wife, you can only support.

In the evening of the next day, Zheng Lang came to Cage Pole City and convened the generals to discuss.

There is great strength in numbers, and Zheng Lang never thought that his wisdom alone would be above the group, and many strategies in the northwest were passed on to the generals and ministers for consultation before making decisions.

Even if he decides, he must listen to everyone's opinions, fill in the gaps, and make the strategy more perfect.

This is a commendable state of mind.

Di Qing never spoke.

Things are not as simple as they seem, after Zheng Lang returned from the capital, Yuan Hao has not moved, even if Kou Bian is only a small Kou Bian, and it is not very harmful. Zheng Lang was dealing with water conservancy and tuntian affairs, and Yuan Hao was also restoring his energy to domestic production.

The war of the Song Dynasty needed logistics supply, and the Western Xia paid more attention to logistics supply.

More than a month after the Battle of Agan, the Tanguts did not make any movement. Unexpectedly, Zheng Lang just went to the rear of Weizhou to inspect Tuntian and water conservancy, and Xixia suddenly launched.

It seems very unreasonable.

After using Zheng Lang's strategy, it was quite effective.

Liangzhou to Lanzhou since the formation of five generations of the alliance centered on the six grains, the six valleys are the Gulang River Valley, the Huangyang River Valley, the Zamu River Valley, the Jinta River Valley, the Xiying River Valley, the Dongda River Valley, and the following Zongjia, Dangzun, Yan Zang, Pan Poison Shiji, Minuo, Liu, Xiangdan, Du Liu and other large tribes, at the peak there are 70,000 or 80,000 people. Forced by the Western Xia, 5,000 horses were sacrificed to ask the Song Dynasty to join forces, and the Song Dynasty was passive in defense, and in this harsh environment, Li Jiqian's army was still defeated, and Li Jiqian himself was killed.

The Rokutani army was defeated, the Duo Governor defected to the Governor, and the eighty-five-year-old Rokuya Alliance officially perished. Some tribes fled to Hehuang, some tribes were forced to move to the territory of Jingyuan Road, and some tribes stayed and submitted to Western Xia.

In short, the strength is far less than at the beginning, Yuan Hao did not send troops to support, Zheng Lang was in the blind felt, or the blind felt was in the help of Zheng Lang, and the two joined forces, and the two could be recovered at any time.

But it can't be.

The Song Dynasty was a huge country, and there were many constraints, Zheng Lang couldn't count on domestic troops, nor could he count on other roads, only one way of troops, and Yuan Hao was confronted, and the cards were absolutely inferior.

With this contrast of forces, Zheng Lang had to adopt a conservative policy to lure the enemy to fight in his own territory, rather than sending troops to the territory of Western Xia.

There are three possibilities, the first is the spontaneous revenge action of Yishi Jilu, the battle of Agan City was defeated, his prestige declined, and he set up a new city on the east bank of the Agan River, pointing at Lanzhou, releasing prisoners of war to win the hearts of many people, and was forced to send troops to establish his authority.

The second possibility is that Yuan Hao instructed the Song Dynasty to send troops to help and set up an ambush to annihilate him. In any case, the Agan River is strategically important for both sides.

The third possibility is that Yuan Hao used Lanzhou Qunhu to attract the attention of the Song army, which led to the emptiness of the Zhenrong army, and the sound of attacking the east and the west, and waiting for the Song Dynasty to send troops to the Agan River to attack the Zhenrong army. Don't say that the autumn grain is far from coming up now, the more careless he is, the easier it will be for Yuan Hao to succeed.

Everyone gossiped and didn't have any good ideas, Zheng Lang suddenly missed the old species, so he looked at Di Qing again.

Di Qing said: "Zheng Xianggong, you can learn from Fan Jing. ”

When Fan Zhongyan was in Yanzhou, he only built a walled city and did not attack, and in the Western Xia, he sent an army to harass and defeated the Western Xia people through the walled fortress, and he never pursued it.

I won't chase you if I'm really defeated, and I won't chase you if I'm fake. For example, in football, from goalkeepers to forwards, they are all super big men of 2.3 meters, but these big men do not attack, and they hold hands from the beginning of the game, pulling from one side of the goal to the other side of the goal. See how you kick the ball into my goal.

It is very effective, including Pang Ji, who also followed this policy and quickly built a solid and solid defense line on Yanjun Road and Huanqing Road. But the disadvantage is that this policy is a strict defensive policy achieved by completely abandoning offensive means.

As long as this policy is pursued, there can only be one outcome, negotiate peace! Therefore, whether it is Fan Zhongyan or Pang Ji, they are both staunch peacemakers.

Di Qing didn't mean that, but Zheng Lang already understood and said, "Bring a thousand arrows." ”

Zhang Qi asked his subordinates to bring a thousand arrows, and Zheng Lang said again: "Bring pen and ink." ”

Write a Song character on the 500 arrows with pen and ink, and write a subcharacter on the other 500 arrows, and then instruct Zhang Yu: "Send one to be painted with gold paint." ”

Golden Arrow!

Tubo lives in a group of tribes, each has its own armor, but there is no leader to take charge of it, usually scattered mountains and rivers, once encountering a battle, the same evil, the arrow rate, its flow from the flow. This custom has a very early history, for example, the ten surnames of the Western Turks in the Tang Dynasty used arrows to pass orders, and the Tubo people also had this custom. The Song Dynasty succeeded in opening the border in Xining, and Wang Anshi wrote a poem saying that the Qiang soldiers have not passed arrows since then, and the Han armor is now unresolved. It is the poet who is high-spirited, and this custom is still retained in the Tibetan tribes, and the Tibetan tribes still have orders and arrows passed down during the Jin Kingdom.

It is also called passing arrows.

However, the composition of the Tibetan people in the border areas of the Song Dynasty was very complex, and there were obviously Tubo, Dangxiang, various miscellaneous Qiangs, Uighurs, Tuyuhun and Han Chinese.

There are blood feuds inherited from history, new feuds arising from the struggle for pastures in the fine river valleys, and hatred wars that occur due to religious beliefs, especially the conflicts between the Dangxiang people and the Tubo people. The people of all ethnic groups convened by Chuanjian to start a war may not be able to solve all problems, and the chiefs of the various tribes will not be stupid to fight to the death for hatred of all the strong men in their clan, so they invite authoritative officials or Han officials as mediators.

Some took the initiative to ask the Central Plains Dynasty to send Han officials to preside over government affairs, and even heard that there were good Han officials, so they did not hesitate to take the risk of robbing the officials and forcibly let him preside over local government affairs. But not necessarily happy, this festival can only play a mediator role, if you do not do well, you will still be expelled, Li Wenqian of the Later Tang Dynasty, Shen Shihou of the Later Zhou Dynasty was expelled by the Liangzhou tribes because they could not appease the people.

This mediation process must not be in accordance with the laws of the Song Dynasty, but must be in accordance with the wishes of all ethnic groups, send people to both sides to inquire, A killed one of your subordinates, and gave you ten sheep in compensation. B said no, at least a hundred sheep. Can it be less, you think about it again, and say a bunch of reasons. After much thought and persuasion, B said, at least thirty sheep will be paid. And then to Part A, no, B is not satisfied with the compensation of ten sheep, at least thirty sheep. It often takes several runs before the two sides can reach a peace agreement. Including the Song Dynasty, when there was a conflict between the Han and the Tibetan people, this method was also used to solve it.

Some officials saw the inconvenience, such as Fan Yong and Fan Zhongyan, who made treaties in the territory, made laws and decrees, and reformed the Tibetan law, which once achieved good results, and many of them were used by the Song Dynasty, which was called peace. After the break of peace, there is an oath.

The Tubo people folded the arrow for the oath, the small oath to kill the sheep and the dog and the monkey, the big oath to kill the dog, the horse, the cow and the donkey, the Maozhou Qiang put the cattle, the sheep and the pig thorns each one, the sword was tied to the oath, the chieftain gathered, everyone gathered from the sword, the blood of the cow, the sheep and the pig, dug the ground for the kan, tied a Qiang maid in the pit, added the thorn to the maid, hit it with a stone, and then buried the kan with soil. The oath is bloody, but it also represents the importance of the oath. Once an oath is made, if any tribe does not obey it, all the tribes will be ashamed.

Zheng Lang came to Jingyuan Road, in addition to using various pacification methods, he gradually diluted these habits.

Including the custom of passing arrows, there are orders in ordinary times, all of them are replaced by handwritten arrows, and then they are taught to cultivate and learn Chinese characters in order to achieve the final assimilation.

The return to the use of the Golden Arrow now is a retrogression of national policy.

It's not just this that goes backwards, it's something else.

I don't know that compared with a country in Western Xia, the Jingyuan Road has really few troops.

It will not be able to take into account the blind felt from beginning to end, and the number of troops will be seriously insufficient.

Compared with the weakening of Western Xia, Zheng Lang would rather choose local regression.

The so-called gold paint is not poured with gold, but with copper water.

Zheng Lang passed on the golden arrow, and asked the chiefs of the various tribes of Jingyuan Road, as well as all the tribes under the blind felt, to go to the Niche Valley to discuss the oath together.

A few days later, Zheng Lang personally came to the Shrine Valley.

Although some concessions were made, the oath meeting was a success, and almost all the tribes in the territory were ordered to come to the Shrine Valley.

Zheng Lang used golden arrows to make orders, and he also won the favor of many people, which was a respect for their customs and habits. The twenty-two clans, including the shrine wave of the border Nusha Valley, all sent elders from various clans to attend the meeting. In the territory of Huizhou and Western Xia, the six tribes of Yule and Tibet, the Wang family and the four tribes of Yu, the Tibetan tribes also quietly sent people to the shrine valley to observe.

Of course, all this is pinned on one big victory after another.

Shiyi has also had some effect.

The commerce between the Song Dynasty and the Tibetan Dynasty was very developed, but it was mainly on the line from Qinzhou to Qingtang, because of commerce, Qinzhou and Qingtang became the two metropolises of the West. The road from Weizhou to the west to Lanzhou was originally an important Silk Road, but because of Western Xia, commerce shrank. The implementation of the market has also brought benefits to the ministries.

The blind felt personally greeted the land of nearly 100 miles, and was very moved.

Under the passive defense policy of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has always used the relationship with these Tibetan tribes in the past to let you fight each other, and we see that side is loyal to our dynasty, only providing some weapons to help, and rarely sending troops.

This policy was not done very well, in fact, the prosperity and wealth of the Song Dynasty had a fatal temptation to these Tibetan people, otherwise there would not have been a matter of borrowing seeds. However, although this wealthy dynasty had a favorable opinion of it, it could not provide them with shelter, so some tribes were coerced by the Tangut and eventually defected.

Zheng Lang went abroad in the true sense of the Song Dynasty this time, and supported the Tibetan Ministry with an active and high-spirited attitude.

Helping the blind felt up, Zheng Lang said: "Blind felt, I told you that I would go to the Shrine Valley. ”

"Thanks," said Blind Felt gratefully.

I didn't go before, because I took into account the reaction of the Tangut people to me. This time, it is support. If you go and go, you are all thinking about yourself, what else can you say!

"Let's go to the Niche Valley."

"Zheng Xianggong, I will swear an oath of loyalty to the imperial court on the oath."

"I believe it."

Slowly arrived at the valley of the shrine.

When the chiefs of all tribes and clans arrived, Zheng Lang did not say military strategy, but asked the chiefs of all tribes to sit down and talk, divide the sphere of influence of each tribe, and negotiate and mediate one clan.

It lasted for a total of five days, which was very cumbersome, Zheng Lang wore out his mouth, and finally divided their respective territories properly, Zheng Langcai summoned the heads of the clans and said: "Everyone, since the regions of each ministry are properly divided, then I will talk about the right thing." What is here, you also know in your hearts, it is the Silk Road. But since the three generations of Hao thief's ancestors and grandchildren are ambitious, they have turned it into a purgatory. Originally, here, there are mountains, rivers, rich pastures, and important trade routes, which can be pastured, cultivated and traded. But what about now? ”

Just one sentence made many people bow their heads.

Without the city, they would be almost the same as the Jurchens in the Northeast.

"There is some hatred between you, not the deep enmity between the Dangxiang people and the Tubo people, in Yanzhou, there are many Tubo people and Dangxiang people, but why can they all coexist peacefully? It's not a religious contradiction, the gods you believe in want you, as their people, to have a happy life, instead of killing each other as today. Why are there so many deep hatreds that cannot be resolved? I believe in Buddhism, Taoism, Taoism, and other religions in the Central Plains, and I have not seen the people killed because of this. As a Fan and Qiang people, your surname is bold and unrestrained, and you are broad-minded, why can't you let it go? ”

The chiefs bowed their heads again.

"Without vendettas, would your people be better off? Do you remember what it was like here a few decades ago? Rich and powerful. It is precisely because of the many contradictions within you that Li Deming took advantage of the relationship between the Dragon Clan, the Mysterious Order, and the Luo Dan to the party, plotted against the Six Clans, attacked and killed the Pan Luo Branch, and the Six Valleys Department has declined since then. Look at today, if it weren't for my help, what kind of life would you usher in? ”

Is it reasonable, how many people can say Zheng Lang?

"In the past, there was a tribe in Qinghai called Tuyuhun, and King Achai brought ten pairs of chopsticks before he died, and said to his ten sons, one chopstick can be broken, can ten pairs of chopsticks be broken? The ten sons united as one, and Tuyuhun became strong from then on. You have the best land, the strongest warriors, why can't you unite and let the thieves disintegrate and divide one by one? Speaking of this, Zheng Lang said loudly: "Who is our main enemy? ”