Said to let go, almost all a number of small nobles were screened out, gathered together in Lanzhou City, all released back, only one person, defected to the Western Xia, collected wealth for the Western Xia people, and gave advice, because he wanted to make military merits, he came to Xizhou City with Liang Yongneng, and was captured alive and then split into corpses. For traitors, Zheng Lang has never been soft on executions.

Out of Lanzhou City, Liang Yibury turned his head and shouted loudly to the city: "Zheng Jiazi, I will avenge this revenge." ”

"This kid," Yanda wanted to rush out of the city and get him back.

Zheng Lang stopped it, Yan Da was very puzzled since Zheng Lang released Liang Yi to bury him, and couldn't help asking: "Gong Zheng, why did you release him?" ”

"General Yan, is he Meng Mingshi, or Bo Yao?"

With this article, it is enough to release several members of the Liang family. The release of several people of the Liang family and these nobles, there are other intentions, Li Bingchang is growing, the contradiction between the Hou Party and the Imperial Party is prominent, the Song Dynasty in history The timing of the summer attack is right, but the commander was not selected, the grain and grass were not prepared, and he did not even notice the local terrain, so he let the Liang family dig the Yellow River embankment, and the Song army was defeated. This kind of momentum Zheng Lang also needs, so he deliberately said that Meng Mingshi was to give the Liang family a step down.

Otherwise, the Liang family will be more auspicious. As soon as the Liang family fell, the royalists ascended to the throne, and in order to overthrow the Liang family, they would temporarily make peace with the Song Dynasty. For the time being, Zheng Lang never thought that after the Western Xia came to power, he would be able to maintain real peace with the Song Dynasty. But a temporary reluctance gave the domestic conservatives a reason to oppose it, and if they were not in unison, how could they guarantee the victory of Vaxia!

So after Liang Yi's defeat, he went back arrogantly.

Keep putting.

This replay is the common people, the Western Xia has occupied Lanzhou for a long time, and there are many party clans inside and outside Lanzhou, as well as party nobles. Including the Niche Valley, there are some party clans. Zheng Lang gathered them together to discuss, and those who were willing to stay were treated equally. The Khitan can tolerate the Han people in Youyun, and the Song Dynasty can also tolerate the party members in the Lanzhou area, but they must be loyal to the Song Dynasty. Those who are unwilling to stay, whether they are party members, or Tubo people, Qiang people, let them go back, including their clansmen's property intact, and let them take all of them away. Zheng Lang who left was welcomed, but those who stayed must have strict conditions, if they rebelled in the future. Zheng Lang didn't mind the Zhu clan.

It's the Zhu clan, just like the ghost Zhang family, not killing individuals.

This is to purify the Lanzhou area.

There are many benefits to getting Lanzhou, but Lanzhou will be at the forefront in the future. Zheng Lang didn't want the Western Xia people to learn this from him in the future, so that Lanzhou would be attacked inside and outside, and he would lose it again.

Some stay, some leave. Among those who left was some of the Tibetan people, who had advocated for the tiger when the Western Xia had taken Lanzhou and the Shrine Valley. Now that the Song Dynasty has recovered, there are many tribes who hate them, and if they stay here, they have lost their space to survive.

Zheng Lang politely sent them away.

Then put it again. After the start of the counteroffensive in Guweicheng, many Lianglan tribes rebelled against the water, and there were also tribal warriors who did not oppose the water, and Zheng Lang did not suppress these tribes. However, the additional reward for the anti-water tribe is actually a disguised covert support.

Liang Yi buried an army of 150,000 men, as well as the army of Meile Baoxi. The total strength of the garrison in Lanzhou reached nearly 190,000. The area where the real tragic battle was in Guweicheng, and the later battles were mostly one-sided battles, especially the battle of Rusha Valley Pass, which was almost a withering battle, and more than ninety percent of the troops were all captured, resulting in more than 100,000 prisoners of war. But sixty-five of them were soldiers who came to the Liangzhou and Xizhicheng areas of the Shrine Valley.

The prisoners of war in the Western Envoy City and the Lanzhou area must have all been released, and more than 10,000 prisoners of war in the Liangzhou area were screened.

For the soldiers of all the departments that cooperated with the counteroffensive, all of them were released, not only released, but also a part of the spoils, war horses, weapons and materials, and let these people take them back, as for how the Xixia people would treat these tribes in the future, Zheng Lang didn't care. However, I believe that the Liang family is also very difficult, if it is suppressed, Liangzhou is unstable, and the Song Dynasty may easily get Liangzhou again. If it is not suppressed, more tribes will secretly fight with the Song Dynasty. This is to plant an explosives package for Liangzhou.

There were also some tribes that were not bad with the Song Dynasty in peacetime and were also released, including friendly tribes in other parts of Western Xia, and all prisoners of war were released unconditionally. For the disabled, Zheng Lang also took the initiative to treat them, and after their lives were guaranteed, they gave dry food one by one and sent them back. But for the tribes in Liangzhou who went to the end with the Tanguts, these prisoners of war were all imprisoned.

This time, there are more than 20,000 people.

The last release, is the Western Xia disabled soldiers, but they did not enjoy such a good treatment, with Liang Yi buried to escape to Huizhou City, Zhang Qi with the army to escort these wounded soldiers, to Huizhou City, show off their might, then these wounded soldiers were left outside Huizhou City, back to the Niche Valley. But when he returned, he took some tribes who defected to the Song Dynasty and sent them to the Lan Shrine for settlement.

As for whether the Western Xia people will treat these wounded soldiers, Zheng Lang doesn't care. This has created a small problem for the Liang family, if it is ignored, all ethnic groups will have complaints. If not, not only the cost of medical treatment, the seriously injured and disabled, but also a number of resettlement costs, will make the poor economy of Western Xia even worse.

At the same time, after receiving a hundred rods, Chongyi sent troops to Liangzhou again.

Chongyi took Lanzhou City, and Zhang Qi blocked it for Chongyi, but Zheng Lang knew what was going on. There are pros and cons to getting Lanzhou, and the pros outweigh the disadvantages. The brave spirit of Chongyi and Guo Cheng is worth learning, but they are Guo Cheng is Chongyi and have a certain ability to judge, and few other generals can have their military cultivation height. If each of them fights on its own, it will inevitably lead to all kinds of bad phenomena. And Zheng Lang attaches the most importance to military discipline, more than Wang Shao and Zhang Qi.

How important is military discipline, look at Taizu's People's Liberation Army, Qi Jiajun, Yuejia Army, or compare Li Guang with Cheng Buzhi, Sima Qian desperately shouted for Li Guang's father and son, causing Wang Changling to write but make Longcheng Fei General, not to teach Hu Ma to do Yinshan, how many military exploits does Li Guang actually have? Another example is that Li Ji specially killed his son-in-law for the sake of military discipline.

Zheng Lang hadn't hardened his heart to learn Qi Jiguang's beheading and Li Ji's killing of his son-in-law, but he didn't want the generals of the Song army to make wrong judgments in the future, so he arrested Chongyi and beat a hundred military staffs. Even Zheng Ping came out to plead, but Zheng Lang didn't listen.

Watching the kind of friendship crack the skin and flesh, the generals grinned, cold sweat trickled.

Then the soldiers went out of Liangzhou and made meritorious contributions.

This was a feint, and it was Zhang Ji's idea. The Song Dynasty's acquisition of Lanzhou will inevitably cause a counterattack by the Tanguts. But as a scholar, Zhang Kai also knows that the financial situation is very bad this year. But at this time, the more conservative it became, and the shallow attack replaced the defense, which affected the judgment of the Tangut people and forced the Liang clan to accept the advice of the Xixia Gou Peace faction.

Zheng Lang smiled after listening to Zhang Qi's words.

Because of the conservatives' erasure of Zhang Qi, many people did not notice this famous general for a long time. It wasn't until Zheng Langlin crossed over that many people turned out Zhang Ji's achievements bit by bit from Haohan's annals. A few people finally listed Yue Fei, Meng Hui, Li Jilong, Wu Jie, Cao Wei, Du Zixin, Pan Mei, Cao Bin, Zhang Qi, and Di Qing as the top ten famous generals of the Song Dynasty. As a military strategist, Cao Bin is far inferior to Han Shizhong, Wang Shao and others. Some people listed Zhang Qi as the second Confucian general after Wei Rui. This is a bit overestimated, as a Confucian general, Zhang Kai has not reached the height of Pei Xingjian.

But in the era of the two sects of gods and philosophers, the military abilities of King Zhang and Wang were indeed coquettish. Whether in the Northern Song Dynasty, or in the Western Xia and Khitan, even if it extends to Jiaozhi and Uighurs, there is no comparable military strategist.

The battle of Zhang Qi's fame is the battle of Pingxia City and the surprise attack on Tiandu Mountain. Before that. It is a well-known and shallow offensive tactic, and after Sima Guang came to power, he overthrew everything in the New Party. Shuzhai was returned to the Western Xia, and even returned the Xihe River to the Xixia people for a time, but someone still reminded him, Lord Sima, you are mistaken, Xihe is from Tubo, not from the Western Xia, and Sima Guang stopped at this time. Otherwise, Western Xia can easily get Xihe Taomin.

In this situation, Zhang Qi came to the northwest in a simple manner, forced by the domestic political situation, he did not dare to counterattack, so he invented a shallow attack tactic, and the generals of all roads relied on the various forts on the front line, and each launched a harassing attack on the Western Xia, but could not go deep, so as to prevent the ambush from coming back. In fact, this tactic is an extended version of the strategy written on the postlude of Fan Zhongyan's Qingli War. However, the Tangut people were not vegetarians either, and the two sides fought each other's victories and defeats. Therefore, Zhang Kai strengthened the tactics of shallow attack, stationed various posts on the front line to monitor, and widely distributed scouts to probe the enemy's intelligence, so as to ensure that every shallow attack would not hit the enemy's ambush, and that every counterattack of the enemy could be prepared in time.

Some of Zhang Qi's practices were adopted by Zheng Lang decades ago. This is also the guarantee of many great victories.

It was this shallow offensive tactic that enabled the Song Dynasty to maintain a conservative atmosphere for more than ten years without losing the front line. Subsequently, Zhezong was in power, and all the soldiers received actual combat training, and their quality kept up one by one, and finally achieved a brilliant victory in Pingxia City.

Historically, the shallow offensive tactics were forced by the political situation. At this time, the shallow offensive tactics were forced by finance.

This time the troops out of Liangzhou is a shallow attack is also a feint, not a real attack, the army crossed the Yellow River with great force, Lianke Shubao Pass, came to Liangzhou City, forced Western Xia to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to defend Liangzhou City, Chongyi then took some of the six valleys that defected to the Song Dynasty, returned to Lanzhou.

The soldiers of the friendship army went out of Liangzhou, but Lanzhou was disbanding the army, and the coalition forces of various ethnic groups were disbanded one by one, but the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty were not disbanded, and the soldiers of the friendship army went out of Liangzhou, Yanda and other generals divided the road, entered Huangzhou, and marched all the way to Shengduo Valley, joined Guo Cheng's army, and attacked Maoniucheng to the west. All the way to join Wang Shao's army, to the north to attack the Xilan Zong Fort in the south of Qingtang City. All the way south along Hezhou, he joined up with Xibawen's army and attacked the Dong people.

In such an embarrassing situation, the Song Dynasty still brutally almost wiped out the 150,000 troops of the Western Xia, and mobilized troops in a big way, which directly affected the autumn harvest of the Western Xia people.

Dong Yu had to send an envoy to ask for surrender, and put forward several conditions, surrender to the Song Dynasty, obey the command of the Song Dynasty, but retain the status and right to rule in the Qingtang City area.

Zheng Lang did not agree.

It wasn't until the Song army took Maoniucheng and Xilan Zongbao and compressed the Tubo people on the Huangshui line that Dong Yu sent a second wave of envoys and agreed to Zheng Lang's request, and the Song Dynasty could accept Dong Yu's surrender, and also divided Lijing City, Qingtang City and Zongge City, as well as the area south to Xilan Zongbao and north to Maoniu City as Dong Yu's sphere of influence. However, this sphere of influence was jointly administered with the Song Dynasty, and Dong Yu had to accept the Song Dynasty's garrison and set aside part of the area as the Song army's tuntian. The Song Dynasty still made Dong Yu the big leader of Huangzhou Tubo, but it was only a nominal big leader, except for the Qingtang City area, Dong Yu could not intervene in the economic, political and military affairs of other regions. For the Tibetans west of Chiling, as well as the grass-headed Tatars and yellow-headed Uighurs, the Song Dynasty still asked them to recognize Dong Yu as their suzerain. is just the suzerain, the suzerainty must be the Song Dynasty, if there is a major decision, Dong Yu must cooperate with the imperial court to persuade and persuade. Dong Yu usually has certain military rights, but when he is critical, he must cooperate with the imperial court to recruit soldiers, or when major civil decisions are made, he must also support the imperial court, and the imperial court allows Dong Yu's descendants to have hereditary rights.

Four conditions, relatively strict.

In fact, Zheng Lang was not very satisfied. Originally, he was going to defeat all of Dong Yu's first part before agreeing to Dong Yu's peace, so Dong Yu didn't even have the qualifications to negotiate the conditions.

But Zheng Lang has Zheng Lang's difficulties.

The first winter is coming, and in mid-October, the weather is getting colder, and if you continue to fight, Dong Yu will still be defeated, but she will pay heavy casualties.

The second is fiscal pressure. The battle began in June and lasted for four months. The cost is huge. Even Zhao Ji had to take out 7 million money from the inner treasury, and the Charity Association mobilized various large households and donated 5 million yuan to support the previous money to fight, which barely survived the financial hurdle. But because of the high cost. It has had a heavy impact on grain reserves, and the purchase of grain reserves has decreased, so that food prices have gradually risen. Since the late autumn, the drought has gradually eased. And because of the construction of many water weirs, the use of farming, but Zheng Lang knew it in his heart. This wave of drought will continue until next year, but next year's drought will not be as severe as some time ago. If the imperial court has no grain, it must also have money, and with money, it can requisition a large amount of grain from the south, which is the same as the nature of the fall of the Ming Dynasty. If the treasury of the Ming Dynasty had money, it could requisition a large amount of grain to support the people of Shaanxi. Without the uprising of Li and Zhang, the Qing Dynasty would not have succeeded in entering the customs. Now, as soon as the grain reserves are empty and the treasury is empty, there will be a big mess next year.

The third is domestic pressure.

It is not only conservatives, but also reformers, especially Wang Yan, who proposed the exemption law.

To put it simply, the exemption method is to change services to the city every month according to the profit of each line of shops, but now it is not the city to change services, but the local government pays the exempt money, and no longer takes turns to supply the government with goods or manpower, and buys, and buys, and some other miscellaneous taxes.

This change is quite similar to a whip method in the Ming Dynasty, and even Zheng Lang is very skeptical that Zhang Juzheng's whip is inspired by the exemption method.

Maybe it's an advanced variation, but if that's the case, Zheng Lang won't worry about it.

Just like the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty fell, the Tang people benefited, and many decrees of the Tang Dynasty caused the people to be angry, but they were borrowed by the Song Dynasty. Or Wang Mang's change, in the eyes of later generations, nine times out of ten are advanced changes, but Wang Mang perished because of it.

In fact, it is not as simple as explained in the above sentence, first of all, the group line. In the Song Dynasty, there was money and materials, and some of the materials came from the in-kind taxes paid by the prefectures and counties, and some of them were obtained in the form of distribution and purchase.

The scholar was ashamed of the business, so when he bought it, he was responsible for the division of the group, and at the same time, the group bank paid the obligation, but also got some rights, such as monopolizing the business in various regions, and having the right to forcibly distribute the goods in and out, and even forcing the small stalls and hawkers to enter the industry.

This apportionment process is very unfair, because the big businessmen who have a lot of monopoly rights enjoy a lot of monopoly rights, while the small businessmen who enjoy few rights have to pay more for the rations and buys. In the intermediate process, the imperial court paid the same amount of money for the goods, at least one of the capital, but under the exploitation of the government and the regiment at all levels, it went to the hands of the grassroots merchants, and the payment for the goods was less than 30%. That is to say, whoever bears and buys the more quantity, the greater the loss.

Zheng Lang carried out some reforms, but it was the same as the levy of the previous trade tax, which was the same meaning, reducing the burden of some small and medium-sized merchants, and even clarifying that households below the fourth class, regardless of merchants, craftsmen and peasants, were not allowed to pay any and buy money. But it didn't get to the root of it.

The rules of exemption are different.

The first forced apportionment of the profits of the scale of the shops touched the interests of the scholars and the big families, especially in the capital area, which had to buy many goods every year, half of which was obtained from the distribution and purchase, and the water in the middle did not know how muddy.

Once the exemption law is implemented, it will undoubtedly stand on the opposite side of all the powerful and powerful.

If it is the first drawback, Zheng Lang may be able to make up for it, and there is another drawback, that is, it is purely for the purpose of collecting money. No matter how many departments are allocated and bought, the imperial court does not have any intention of stripping, but the middle allows Haoqiang and officials to strip them layer by layer, resulting in it becoming one of the burdens of small and medium-sized businessmen. The most correct way is to correct it step by step, just like Zheng Lang. Lighten the burden on small and medium-sized businessmen, although it is and dilute mud type.

However, after the implementation of the exemption law, what should be done with the various materials needed by the imperial court? Could it be that the imperial court sent officials to buy it in person? Therefore, the company will continue to exist. Behind the scenes, the actual exemption from the law is opened, that is, under the banner of benefiting the people and loving the people, they are collecting money for the country. It is precisely this attempt that makes it far less than a whip law to become one of the best governance in history. Because of this, after the introduction of the exemption law in history, the implementation was not effective, which caused greater public resentment.

Maybe Wang Yan wanted to do something big, or maybe he saw the cost of relief drought and the Northwest War. wanted to reduce the burden on the country, and by the way, clean up the shortcomings of buying and matching with the department, and finally launched the exemption method that Zheng Lang was most worried about.

Wang Anshi was a little suspicious, but Lu Huiqing strongly supported it, and just when Zheng Lang arrived in Lanzhou, Wang Anshi wrote the new law on the letter with a fast horse and asked Zheng Lang.

This made Zheng Lang smell a hint of conspiracy, and Zheng Lang has always been uneasy about Lu Huiqing. There are many reasons for Wang Anshi's resignation in history. Lu Huiqing made a lot of contributions in the middle, just like Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi's struggle for the boss was also one of the reasons for the failure of the Qingli New Deal.

Zheng Lang immediately wrote down the reasons one by one on the letter. Bring it to Wang Anshi.

The second is Han Qi, the Song Dynasty is at war, the Khitan is oppressing, and Zheng Lang secretly gave Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie a lot of benefits. Relieved part of the Khitan pressure. Only Zheng Lang and Zhao Ji knew about this matter, and several scouts knew about it, but no one else knew about it.

But Yelu Yixin saw that the Song Dynasty was fighting on the one hand. While suffering from drought, he also knew the timing, and sent messengers to be aggressive. So Han Qi wrote a letter asking the court to stop the war in time and focus on the people. Otherwise, the Khitan and Western Xia joined forces to send troops, and the Tubo people took the opportunity to rebel again, and the Song Dynasty would be in danger.

It seems to make sense, but the essence is that the Song Dynasty is so conservative?

Because of the financial pressure, the drought is continuing, and Han Qi's statement is quite marketable, but in fact, these people don't know how much resistance this will bring to the northwest? The front is at war, but the rear is dragging its feet.

Many people are not convinced by Han Qi's statement, and Zheng Lang has not expressed his position on this. Wen Yanbo and Han Qi have changed very seriously in their later years, the northwest is a great victory, and Han Qi's approach is even more excessive in history, Wang Anshi went down, but the new deal continues. The Khitan took advantage of the crisis of the Song Dynasty to send an envoy to blackmail, but Han Qi not only did not come up with an idea, but instead wrote a book and abolished the seven laws of Wang Anshi. The first is the Goryeo tribute, which is the backyard of the Liao State, and the Song Dynasty should not stretch out its hand so long. The second is to capture Hehuang and capture the fifty-two bars of Western Xia, which will make the Khitans worry, today Tubo, tomorrow Western Xia, the day after tomorrow is not Khitan? Third, Hebei planted willows, the Song Dynasty planted the Green Great Wall on the border of Hebei, and the Liao people were all cavalry, and they couldn't stand this the most, so they should all be cut down, so that the Liao Iron Cavalry could run rampant in Hebei, so as to show that the Song Dynasty had no hostility. The fourth is the armor protection law, all the people are soldiers, the Khitan has no sense of security, and it also delays agricultural production. The fifth is to build the cities of Hebei Province, which the Khitans are disgusted with. The sixth is the production of various advanced weapons by military equipment, such as divine arm bows and new chariots, so that the Khitan people are not satisfied with the Song Dynasty's constant preparation for war. Seventh, the art of war is set up throughout the country, and the power of military generals is increased.

These seven articles not only made the Khitan resentful, but also the domestic peasants were angry with the road, and the chiefs were uneasy to work together, so they were all abolished and even returned to the Xihe.

is this kind of, many people applauded, but fortunately, Han Qi died not long after.

Because it was Zheng Lang, because it was a great victory, and because of the change in Zheng Lang's approach, the results were different, Han Qi did not propose to abolish the seven articles, but he still crossed time and space and proposed the idea of several countries joining forces. Did the Khitans have this vision? It is that someone has this vision, the benefits brought by peace, the enjoyment brought by the annual tribute, the benefits brought by mutual trade, and the groveling attitude of the Song Dynasty, who can persuade other Khitan nobles to send troops?

However, none of them are traversers, and few people can have a long-term strategic vision, so some of the practices of reformers and conservatives make Zheng Lang feel very worried. The main achievements of reform have not been stabilized, and once the Western Xia is recovered, the debts are clearly repaid, the finances improve, and the old officials die or retire one by one, and the officials who have grown up in this moderate reform atmosphere gradually rise to power, and the results of the reform can be called stable. Not only these officials, but in fact, even officials such as Xiao Su and Fan Chunren, under the influence of Zheng Lang, are also different from history, and many people can take on heavy responsibilities.

But at the moment, Zheng Lang is also worried, after all, he is not in the court.

Therefore, end the war early, I won't fight, how can you fight!

The last one is Dong Yu's father and son themselves, Dong Yu has appeal, but his life is not long, although Ali Gu is an anti-Song faction, but he is a Uighur, no appeal, as long as Dong Yu's power is compressed in a narrow range of Qingtang City, even if Ali Gu rebels, the harm is not great. If the Song Dynasty succeeded in destroying the Western Xia, Ali Gu estimated that he could only be a good grandson.

Dong Yu was surrendered, not like Mu Zheng, escorted to the capital, and worshiped Zhao Ji, but Dong Yu and his son had to come to Lanzhou to participate in the Fan Hou Conference.

It was originally planned to be held in Guweicheng, but because it was unexpectedly held in Lanzhou, it was held in Lanzhou.

It was a gathering of great integration. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )