The Chinese army slowly came to Wuyanqian Gorge, where the terrain is very treacherous.

Behind is Hulu River, south is Zhenrong Village, and Mount Meru, there is a more sinister road at the end of Mount Meru, that is Shimen Gorge, that is, the South Gorge of Wuyan in the mouth of the people, and the Smokeless Front Gorge, also known as the North Gorge.

To the north, it gradually penetrated into the territory of the Western Xia people, and to the west was Tiandu Mountain.

No one has been paying attention to it before.

After Zheng Lang proposed, Lao Chong immediately saw the strategic position of this place and suggested building a city here.

Zheng Lang vetoed, the other three roads did not cooperate, only one of his own Jingyuan Road to build a city here, and he had to fight to the death with the troops of the Western Xia Dynasty, as long as the city was built, Yuan Hao must have to fight to the death, what kind of result would it be?

The old man sighed.

I had no choice but to agree with Zheng Lang's approach, compress the space, and consume the national strength and troops of Western Xia to the greatest extent.

But at this moment, many people came from the north one after another, and under the leadership of the soldiers, they rushed to the south.

This time a flower bloomed, and the Song army was forced to be both soft and hard, so that the villages north of Tiansheng Village moved south to Weizhou on a large scale again.

But Zheng Lang didn't really do anything to them.

The ethnic policy was also appeased, such as the extermination of the three Qiang tribes, and finally returned to the Song Dynasty.

It is best to be able to win over, once the vendetta begins, this is the real border people, a stone's throw away from the territory of Western Xia, and will sneak into the territory of Western Xia at any time. Because of hatred, they will become the diehards of the Tangut people and the army of the Tangut family.

Violence can only be used when it is absolutely necessary.

Just like Yuan Hao's slaughter of Fengzhou City, the result was very terrible, and since then, the people who survived on Fulin Road, he didn't want to recruit again.

Thinking of this, he whispered an order to the guards around him, and the guards went down to order all the armies, as long as these people entered the Tiansheng Village, they should not be treated kindly.

The army encamped again.

The sky is about to be dusk, full of yellow grass, and the beam is bloody.

A group of centaurs appeared on the horizon in the distance.

When he got closer, Fan Chunyou turned over and dismounted. Since preparing to come to the northwest this year, Zheng Lang sent out all the students, Wang Anshi stayed in Jiangning, and his father Wang Yi has not been in good health since the year before last, so he let him stay in Jiangning to serve his father. Yan Rong stayed in the capital, and the Fan brothers returned it to his father.

Anyway, I'm also on the front line, everyone is each other, you better go back to your father and be nurtured by his virtues.

In fact, Fan Chunyou went to Fan Zhongyan's side, did many things for Fan Zhongyan, and became Fan Zhongyan's important helper. But in line with history, in order to solve problems for his father, he stayed in the northwest and did not go to the test.

But Fan Chunyou still respects Zheng Lang very much.

Over the years, he has not only learned a lot of Confucian knowledge with Zheng Lang, but also learned to be a man and an official, bowed down and said: "I have seen Dr. Zheng." ”

"I heard you're in Slender Waist City too?"

"Hmm."

"How......?"

"I heard that Dr. Zheng personally came to Tiansheng Village and sent a large army to Wuyan Gorge, so I rushed over."

"Your father told you?"

"Yes."

Zheng Lang Yile, he made such a big move, Fan Zhongyan probably guessed something in his heart.

Still didn't expect Fan Zhongyan, the military concept is different, and after that, Fan Zhongyan may not send troops to cooperate. Even if it is cooperation, it is also limited, it is closer to Fulin Road, once Yuan Hao returns to the army, Fan Zhongyan's reinforcements will bear the brunt, and he will be distracted by it.

But he was very curious about the attitude of this former student, and asked: "Fan Dalang, if I send an army to take the initiative to attack Western Xia, what do you think?" ”

"Doctor Zheng, you really want to attack Western Xia?"

"Don't you approve?"

"I don't know...... said," Fan Chunyou said, and said, "Doctor Zheng, be careful. ”

"I've always been very careful in what I do," Zheng said.

Zhao Xun asked him to lead the team to start the first battle, and Zheng Lang gave him a note. The first battle attack is supplemented by attracting the enemy to come to the ambush circle. Not only did they have to attack the enemy, but they also had to capture a group of people, so they sent scouts to carefully check how long it would take to ride horses and how long it would take to walk on horseback. That is, when retreating, while escorting the captured people, soldiers and even monks, it is necessary to calculate how long it will take to complete each section of the withdrawal. It can't be fast, it can't be slow.

And it is very likely that there will be tens of thousands of enemy troops gathered behind him, and they can catch up at any time.

That's a lot of difficulty.

After Zhao Xun watched it, he was silent for most of the day.

Zheng Langcai said, let Di Qing personally lead it.

But Zhao Xun also has an important task.

This style of play is so precise that every tea time must be calculated, the person who plans must be wise, and the person who executes must be smart.

But after careful analysis, Zheng Lang is still the kind of play that would rather use more brains and achieve fewer results than be safe. For example, he has not yet sent troops, and the rear is arranging joint defense to prevent the enemy from following his pace, encircling Wei to save Zhao, and going straight to the rear of the Zhenrong army from his other road.

This style of play has a high win rate. But there are still shortcomings, and there is no guarantee of victory in a hundred battles, and there are too many unknown surname factors on the battlefield. Stricter requirements for commanders and generals. Although it is stable, it is a battalion step by step, and every step must be accurately calculated, and there will be no miracle like Huo Quai's soldiers going thousands of miles.

It seems that he is attacking the territory of Western Xia with troops all the way, but he is actually outrageously cautious.

The probability of winning is high, but there will not be a miraculous victory like Wang Shao.

This is the result of his careful predestined results.

Even the old man once offered a strategy, the troops went out of Tiandu Mountain, attracted the main force of Western Xia, and then sent a group of elite soldiers to quickly pounce on Lingzhou City. Regarding the concept of materials, Zheng Lang is the same as Zhang Kang, except for a small number of livestock, other materials can be burned but not carried, otherwise it will slow down the speed of the army.

If you take Lingzhou by surprise, put a fire, and burn Lingzhou to the ground, the people of Western Xia will be terrified and directly shake the loyalty of all departments to Li Yuanhao. At that time, Zheng Lang suddenly thought of the story of Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan, and Wei Yan also asked Zhuge Liang to surprise his troops out of the Meridian Valley and go straight to Guanzhong, but Zhuge Liang refused.

Because there are countless unknown surnames, Zheng Lang still vetoed it.

Successful Yuan Hao will be very sad, if he fails to succeed, his army will fall into the rear of the enemy's territory, and it is possible to be completely annihilated, Zheng Lang does not dare to bet.

Including this flower that is blooming right now.

The Song army was rampant, and some Western Xia generals were moved and wanted to fight. However, the scouts were sent to take a sneak peek, and these petals were all cavalry, constantly flowing, and difficult to ambush. If the ambush is not good, it will be surrounded by several other petals at any time.

Directly attacking the Chinese army, as long as it rushes in, the Chinese army of the Song Dynasty defends, and other petals are close layer by layer, and their own troops are insufficient, they will still fail.

I could only watch depressedly as this flower pillar slowly entered the Wuyan Gorge and approached Tiandu Mountain.

"Doctor Zheng, the imperial court sent a newspaper."

"What newspaper?"

"The imperial court rewarded the big family Li for borrowing 200,000 yuan to the imperial court, and because of the national crisis, the upper class households were ordered to pay a certain amount."

Zheng Lang was stunned.

He knew this history, because after three years of war, the treasury was empty, and Zhao Zhen hit the idea on the big family.

Normally, you who have money, the richer you are, the less you pay taxes to the state, and I can only tax the poor and middle-aged households. Now that the national crisis is at hand, it is time for you to contribute.

borrowed 200,000 yuan from the Li family, made a blank sheet of paper, and later gave it to several empty petty officials. Not only the Li family, but also many large families, using the name of science and distribution, forcibly collect wealth, most of them reach tens of thousands, and some of them have thousands of yuan.

The big and rich families who can be targeted by the imperial court, let the emperor wipe his face and take advantage of it, do I still want you to do a few hundred?

This is the most interesting scene when Zhao Zhen was in power.

It seems that he has really collected millions of dollars.

But Zheng Lang sat down and thought about it for a while, it was definitely not Zhao Zhen's idea, most likely it was a method that Zhang Dexiang came up with.

The people of the Song Dynasty were indeed rich, and many scholars were very puzzled when they read Sima Qian's "Biography of the Colony of Goods", Sima Qian said that Fan Jia had 50 million yuan, that is, 50,000 yuan, and said that he was a high-ranking man.

Is this a lot of money? Then the Song Dynasty should not have too much high money.

Seems insignificant!

The Chinese family has a lot of money of 50,000 yuan, and it is not enough to pass it on in history.

The property of 50,000 is just the wealth of the Chinese family, it is too common, why should it be recorded and circulated in the annals of history?

How much does it take to be considered rich? The middle one saved 350,000 yuan, and the upper one saved 300,000 yuan. Sima Guang's Gao Yun could only be regarded as a middle household in the capital of the Song Dynasty. The family property reached 300,000 yuan, and it was barely a household in the capital. According to the calculation of purchasing power, a family property of more than 100 million yuan, and then deducting the bubble economy calculation of high-priced houses, then it is possible that 300 million yuan of family property can barely be counted as a household in Tokyo.

The truth is revealed, and it is very perverted.

Except for some high-ranking officials, such as the Zheng Lang family, if nothing major happens, no matter how the Zheng family spends, the wealth they have accumulated will be very amazing.

Business, the Song Dynasty was prosperous, and many people seized the opportunity and were exposed overnight. There was once a broker who worked as an intermediary for several big businesses, and the only intermediary fees he received made him have assets of more than 100,000 yuan in a few months.

Seafarers also belong to the top rich people.

In addition, there are usury, and the victims even have officials. Some officials have just begun to take office, they are low-level officials, their income is small, the cost of entertaining them is large, and they have to prepare their lines and deal with their superiors, so they also fall under usury. Song Zhenzong saw that it was not good, so many usury merchants chased their own officials to ask for money, what kind of system, so he deliberately issued an edict, and the new and first officials could not get rich power money, double the interest, and repay it to the office, where they were inspected.

I don't care if you take usury and collect interest, but don't dare to hit my officials.

Yes, no interest can be charged, when they go to work to get their salaries, when can they pay you back.

But who takes this edict seriously?

People continue to be tricked.

Before Wang Dan was underdeveloped, he was a small official, and the salary of high-ranking officials was high, but the salary of low-level officials was not high, and some of them were less than 1,000 yuan a year.

Zhang Dexiang also fell for the trick, his mother died, he was doing a funeral, and he was only a county magistrate at that time, not greedy or dirty, and his family was not good, so he borrowed 800,000 yuan to save the emergency. As a result, he went to the capital to take up his post, but the loan shark merchant chased him and begged for it, and did not let him go to the capital from Yushan. Yes, I have to repay my loan shark first.

Not only did he have the principal of 800 yuan, but there was also a lot of interest, and Zhang Dexiang lost a lot of face, but fortunately, the great monk of the temple in Yushan came forward and paid for him to repay it, and the loan shark released him.

Therefore, Zheng Lang immediately thought of this method of killing "killing the rich and saving the country" in his heart, most of which Zhang Dexiang came up with.

What Fan Chunyou said is not that the Buddha hates the rich and kills the rich, but that they all come up with this crooked idea to accumulate wealth, how much pressure is on the country's finances? You must be cautious when you play.

It is likely that this idea was born under the influence of Fan Zhongyan.

Zheng Lang disagreed.

Although it was a little unexpected for him, because of himself, he was much better than in history.

Due to financial pressure, Zhao Zhen looked at the officials below to find ways to collect money in order to collect the funds needed in the front, and even collected the taxes of the people in five years, six or eight years in advance.

For those poor people, can this tax be levied in seven or eight years?

But what is the result of the nation's efforts?

The actual sacrifice of Sanchuankou was less than 10,000, more than 10,000 in Haoshuichuan, and 70,000 in Dingchuan. Every time it gets more serious than the last, does Zhao Zhen still have the courage to fight?

And killing the rich can also kill a small kill.

In addition to the Li family, there are not many other families, hundreds of thousands of family properties, is it too much for you to collect thousands of yuan?

Zheng Lang did not encourage hatred of the rich, and the concentration of wealth created many big capitalists, which would be beneficial to commercial circulation. But they have to pay at least one tax, but the richer and more privileged they are, the less they will pay taxes. And some merchants fish and meat in the country, or usury. These three are the ones that Zheng Lang hates the most.

asked: "Fan Dalang, Sun Tzu said that soldiers, national affairs, should not be careless." Why did he go to the state of Wu and lead the army with Wu Zixu many times to attack the state of Chu? Almost every year, the war continues. ”

"Why?" Fan Chunyou was at a loss.

"The state of Chu is strong, wealthy, has a large number of generals, and the number of people is more than ten times that of Wu. The state of Wu was small, with only the southeastern land, and the hostile Yue kingdom in the south. Only when the lord of Chu was faint, he launched a continuous attack, and every time he defeated the Chu [***] team, it was consuming the strength of Chu and demoralizing, and when he saw the arrival of Wu soldiers, the Chu army would be afraid. Although Wu himself was under pressure, he could loot some of his wealth from Chu to supplement his own supplies, and because of his great victories again and again, he inspired the people's will and cohesion. After a few years, he disappeared and entered the capital of Chu in one fell swoop. If it weren't for luck, Ruoda's Chu State would have been erased from the map by Wu State. If you look at the present, our army only has a passive defense, and the enemy is all cavalry, always fighting more and less, defeating again and again, and defeating more than a dozen times. No matter how rich our country is, it has also been lost, and the former of Chu is the future of the Song Dynasty. ”

Fan Chunyou was even more dazed.

This theory is obviously very different from his father's theory.

Zheng Lang said again: "There are many ministers in the court who want to negotiate peace, including your father. Although humiliated, there is no need to fight, and the country and the people will be safe, and there will be no current financial pressure. But what kind of person is Yuan Hao, a wild wolf who can't be fed. Who have you ever seen who can train a wolf to be a watchdog? If you want to make peace, you must give him great benefits, get this benefit, recuperate again, and recuperate. Then the attack continued, and I had to increase my chips. In order to defend, countless troops were stationed on Zhulu in Shaanxi. In a hundred years, our dynasty will surely perish, and you and my descendants will become slaves of the country. ”

Fan Chunyou was dumbfounded.

Zheng Lang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Since you are here, march with me." Strive to surpass your father in the future. ”

In short, Fan Jiashiro is not a bad one.

Confined to the bureau, it is not like he knows the future history, and his vision is different, Zheng Lang is not jealous of Fan Zhongyan's conservative approach.

It is other people who are jealous, Yang Kai and others, who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and very hypocritical.

Don't underestimate these people, the generals of Fulin Road are in battle, and it is these gentlemen who almost completely wiped them out.

But there was a little unhappiness in my heart, the imperial court newspaper was sent out from time to time, since it was sent to Fan Zhongyan in the slender waist city, and it was also sent to Weizhou, Ge Huaimin, an old boy, actually didn't send someone to send it.

Let's bear with it.

The next day, the Chinese army set off again slowly.

Seeing that the middle of October had passed, Zheng Lang was not in a hurry or impatient, and slowly went west.

He was slow, but the Western Xia side was in a panic, mobilizing troops everywhere and rushing to Tiandu Mountain to prepare for defense.

The three armies were about to haunt Yanxia, and when they arrived here, they really belonged to the Western Xia border, and Zheng Lang suddenly ordered the three armies to retreat.

They forcibly swept away most of the people of all ethnic groups and returned.

The generals of the Western Xia were so angry that they almost spurted blood, it turned out to be a bluff, but it was actually for the people.

One by one, they gritted their teeth with hatred.

Rushing to come, he couldn't stay in Tiandu Mountain, so he had to withdraw angrily.

When he went back, Zheng Lang took a shortcut and went from Shimenxia to Haoshuichuan. Before arriving at Haoshuichuan, Shi Congguang came to the Chinese army with some baggage, Zheng Lang summoned all the generals, including Fan Chunyou, and waited for everyone to sit down, Zheng Lang said: "Our army went and returned, although the enemy made a false alarm, but he looked down on us even more, and he was even more unequipped. ”

The Song army is weak.

Between advancing and retreating, it will make the Tangut people more relaxed.

This kind of tactic of hypocrisy and reality, and more disguise and deception, is what Li Yuanhao likes to use the most, and Zheng Lang returns his body almost intact.

Zheng Lang said again: "Therefore, I have prepared the following arrangements, Di Qing. ”

"In?"

"You lead seven thousand cavalry and rush up to Tiandu Mountain at the fastest speed, the target is ......" Zheng Lang looked at them one by one on the map, and finally said: "Tiandu Grottoes." ”

"Boom!" Not only Fan Chunyou, but also many generals fainted.

Tiandu Mountain is very important in the position of Western Xia, Yuan Hao set up 12 supervisors a few years ago, and its left wing Shenyong is stationed in Tiandu Mountain. Three years ago, Yeli Yuqi led 50,000 troops to garrison Tiandu Mountain, known as the king of Tiandu. In the spring of this year, Yuan Hao was gathering 100,000 troops from Tiandu Mountain to attack Jingyuan Road, and the soldiers infested Yanxia, went to Haoshuichuan to set up an ambush, and defeated the Song army in Haoshuichuan.

At this time, there were no 50,000 people in Tiandu Mountain, and after deducting some people who could not be summoned immediately, there could only be 20,000 or 30,000 people at most, and they were scattered everywhere. Relatively easy to attack.

But the Tiandu Mountain Grottoes are different from other places.

There are many monasteries here.

Yuan Hao believed in Buddhism, and the Tiandu Mountain Grottoes were connected to Xiaoguan in the south, which was also the outpost of the Song Dynasty and the gateway to the Central Plains. So every time Yuan Hao invaded Tibet or the Song Dynasty, he had to go to the temple here to burn incense and worship the Buddha.

However, according to the tradition of the Tangut people, they often stay in one room to worship ghosts and gods, and they dare not live in it, which is called a god, and the master sits next to it.

In order to prevent the soldiers from being disciplined and using the Buddhist resort as a place to play, Yuan Hao built a palace on the edge of the Tiandu Mountain Cave Temple. Later, Yuan Hao met a peerless beauty here, his daughter-in-law did not move the family, and staged a farce that did not love the country and loved the beauty, which caused the father and son to turn against each other and gave Zhao Zhen a great opportunity. Otherwise, if Yuan Hao continues to live, no one knows what fate the Song Dynasty will usher in.

The status of its palace is not so important, and when it is hot, it comes to escape the heat.

But in the eyes of the Song people, the surname is different, how can it be that it is also Yuan Hao's palace, and its status is no less than that of Xijing Luoyang in the Song Dynasty. Some people even directly regard this palace as Yuan Hao's palace.

Not in summer, the palace here is also inhabited by many nobles of Western Xia.

Zheng Lang directly ordered Di Qing to lead 7,000 people to attack the palace of Western Xia, how could everyone accept it immediately?