When Zhang Tingguang led the cavalry division back to the court, Zhao Xiaoxi personally led hundreds of civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty to go out of the city five miles to greet him. This treatment, for Zhang Tingguang, who has been in the army all his life, is also an honor worthy of pride in his life.

Thinking about the past when he was almost asked for a crime and went to prison, he looked at Zhao Xiaoxi, who is now the emperor. The cavalry commander, who had commanded the army for many years, couldn't help but burst into tears. If there was no emperor, what would he be today?

In the sound of long live the mountain call, Zhao Xiaoxi ordered people to read out the will, Zhang Tingguang for his meritorious work in opening up the soil, and officially awarded the title of Dingbian Marquis. This means that he is the second emperor since Qiao Feng.

With this title, Zhang Tingguang can open a mansion in the capital. As long as he can always enjoy Jun's grace, then his family, like the Yang family, will become a new martial arts family in the Great Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as a step to the sky.

Zhang Tingguang, who knelt down to receive thanksgiving, handed over the Daliao jade seal and the Khitan battle flag to Zhao Xiaoxi. The onlookers also seemed as excited as the New Year's Day. After all, this is the first real big victory since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty!

After handing over the jade seal and battle flag to the eunuch beside him for safekeeping, Zhao Xiaoxi said, "Tingguang, are you ready for what I told you before?" If you are ready, let those soldiers who are loyal to the country enter the city first! ”

'The last general's decree! ’

As he spoke, Zhang Tingguang quickly walked to a group of disabled soldiers in the middle of the team, who needed the support of the soldiers. In front of the crowd of onlookers, let them enjoy the face to face and enjoy the grand treatment of being the first to enter the city.

Looking at these excited and tearful disabled soldiers, Zhao Xiaoxi said very seriously: "All the soldiers, for your contributions, I and the people of the Great Song Dynasty will remember it. This is the honor you deserve to enter the city for the first time.

I said in my early years that we should not let our soldiers shed blood and tears for our country. I hereby solemnly promise. As long as you live for one day, I will hand over someone to feed you for one day. Even if you return to your hometown, the corresponding bereavement will be a lot. ”

Although they had known for a long time that they had been injured this time, they did not have to be like the disabled veterans in the past. In the end, it ended up unmanaged. But now that they heard Zhao Xiaoxi's personal promise, the wounded soldiers were naturally grateful.

With the promise made by Zhao Xiaoxi, the people also saw that after the new emperor took office. The promotion of martial arts seems to be much more high-profile than in previous dynasties. This tradition of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts seems to have been broken in the hands of Zhao Xiaoxi.

Everyone knows that with Zhao Xiaoxi's words spread today, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely move forward bravely in the future. If a good man is not a soldier. Perhaps it should be swept into the dust of history.

Now the Song army, which has changed its military system, has reduced its numbers a lot. But the corresponding treatment and the corresponding training have been improved a lot. Some children of poor people's families want to get ahead, and joining the army seems to be the best choice.

accompanied Zhao Xiaoxi to walk in person, and took these disabled soldiers into the city, and the sound of long live the mountain never stopped. Recently, the Great Song Dynasty has also won a great victory over the Liao State. It can be said that it fell into a jubilant atmosphere.

Even if the Western Xia and Tubo were prepared, they faced this jubilant victory of the Great Song Dynasty. I was also very surprised and shocked. Compared with Western Xia, he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that they were finally on the right team.

On the Tibetan side, I really feel that the situation is worse. In the face of the border army of Dali and the Great Song Dynasty, the morale of the people who are getting higher and higher, their morale is getting lower and lower. Many people feel that there is another Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains.

The Great Song Dynasty annexed the Great Liao. Now it is undoubtedly the most powerful. If they make any more military moves, the target is in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Tubo State, except for them, there is no second one at all. Western Xia was also apprehensive, not knowing how Zhao Xiaoxi would treat them.

The Western Xia was able to establish a country, and more of it also occupied the Hexi Plain, which was beautiful and fat. For this treasure land. I'm afraid that Da Song will not be able to give it to others. If the Great Song Dynasty attacks, what choice should they make?

In short, when Zhao Xiaoxi feasted the ministers and meritorious generals and rewarded the soldiers of the army. The emperors of these states all felt an invisible oppression. Even Goryeo, who barely survived, was equally frightened.

Originally, I thought that the money owed could be delayed. Now it seems that if the Great Song Dynasty can't find an excuse to annex them, this compensation should be repaid as soon as possible. But how can you repay it as soon as possible?

In order to ensure the unification of the country, the emperor of Goryeo could think of a way to raise taxes. It's really not good, just find some domestic fat sheep, do something to rob the family and exterminate the family, and prepare this silver to pay off the debt as soon as possible.

didn't know that this kind of thing was exactly what Zhao Xiaoxi wanted to see. In time, this Goryeo dynasty will automatically perish without the Great Song Dynasty sending troops. When the Goryeo Dynasty fell, the Great Song Dynasty swallowed it again.

In many people's opinion, the morale of the Great Song Dynasty should be raised again. When he attacked the Great Liao before he attempted to resist the Great Song Dynasty's Tubo. Zhao Xiaoxi, however, issued an order to withdraw the troops deployed on the Tibetan border.

Such a move, not to mention that the people of the Great Song Dynasty can't understand it, even the people of Tubo can't understand it either. But Zhao Xiaoxi didn't think about it at all, they needed to understand that the withdrawal of troops was more out of domestic construction considerations.

The victory of the battle of Liao conquered Liao, and the natural people's hearts of the Great Song Dynasty were cohesive, and the morale of the army and the people was high. But Zhao Xiaoxi knows the truth that if you are warlike, you will die. At present, the imperial court is more, it is still necessary to rectify the people's livelihood and restore the tattered situation in the war zone.

Managing such a large country is different from managing Qiongzhou and Ryukyu. The gap between the rich and the poor between the north and the south in the Great Song Dynasty made Zhao Xiaoxi also clear that the reason why the north was poor was more because of war and threats.

Even if the Great Song Dynasty was in the north, except for the cities around the imperial city, the life of the people was better. The lives of the people in other border areas can be described as miserable. If you don't govern it, how can you talk about the word Mingjun?

The Great Liao was destroyed, and the founding emperor of the future Jin Dynasty was cut down. suppressed in Zhao Xiaoxi's heart, the disaster of the country's death that he was worried about came to an end. What he wants to do now is to lead the Great Song Dynasty to prosperity and strength.

A large number of border troops were transformed into tun border troops, and while participating in training, they also began to build border troops. In response to these border soldiers stationed at the border pass, Zhao Xiaoxi also gave strong financial support, and the people who moved to the border to reclaim the border.

At the same time, Zhao Xiaoxi's policy of ethnic integration also began to unfold in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty. The Chinese pinyin promoted in Ryukyu and Qiongzhou, along with batches of scholars, began to go to the border to teach and educate people.

In order to make these young scholars willing to go to the border to teach the culture of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Xiaoxi specially formulated. Similar to the incentives for side teaching in later generations. This reward will be reflected in their future achievements in the examination.

If you also get into the Jinshi list and have participated in the branch education, you will be given priority to take up official positions. This means that if you want to take the lead in the imperial court in the future, it is necessary to participate in this kind of support at least once every two years.

In addition, Zhao Xiaoxi gradually reduced the concept of exclusive Confucianism and opened another engineering college in the imperial city. The original Tianzi Academy, Zhao Xiaoxi didn't pay much attention to it, and paid more attention to this newly opened engineering college.

In Zhao Xiaoxi's view, there are too many scholars in the Great Song Society. And there are too few skilled craftsmen who know how to invent and create. This concept must be changed, so that the people of the Great Song Dynasty can truly enjoy the changes brought to life by cultural creation.

In the face of the constantly advancing civil official imperial history, Zhao Xiaoxi did not dispute with them at all. Bring them and move them to a firearms workshop on the outskirts of the Imperial City. Let these civil officials take a look at what the power of science and technology is.

Looking at these earth-shattering cannons, as well as the power of hydraulic locomotives, these are also scholars of Wenchen. For the first time, I also felt that there was no such thing in what they learned except for the Ming Rite Knowledge.

When Confucian culture meets advanced technology, they also know that this emperor told them in this way. From now on, the Great Song Dynasty will enter the era of a hundred schools of thought, and the weak scholars who read dead books and read dead books will not be so popular.

For some children from poor families who can't afford to study, entering the engineering departments opened in various prefectures and cities is also a life-changing opportunity. At worst, they can graduate from the Faculty of Engineering and get a salary that is no worse than that of officials.

Even ordinary people are beginning to notice something around them that is constantly changing. The official roads of those prefectures and cities are now all paved with hard cement roads, and special carriages have begun to transport passengers to and from various places.

The things in the shops in the city were just as fresh, and many of them had never seen before. And the cotton cloth made in large quantities makes the people feel that buying a set of clothes for their families does not seem to be as expensive as before.

As long as the people are willing to work, they can find a job in the capital city. No matter how much you pay, if you work for a while, you can bring back some food and silver to your family to subsidize your family. This kind of day is beginning to get better, and the people have experienced it for themselves.

The real rapid changes were the coastal cities of the Great Song Dynasty. With the establishment of one pier after another, there is also a port city next to the pier. The fishermen who used to rely on the sea for food found that their rotten fish were worth more than before.

Merchants who come to the port every day to receive the goods are constantly sent to the inland places by sea and ice. While the merchants made money, the people in the inland also tasted the taste of seafood, and the fishermen naturally benefited a lot.

In addition to investing a lot of money, improve the official road conditions of the cities of the Great Song Dynasty. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, Zhao Xiaoxi naturally knows it. This kind of cement technology has matured, as long as a few more cement plants are opened, it can supply the needs of road construction all over the country.

As for the stone labor needed to build the road, the young and strong people were summoned by each prefecture and city to build it, and the imperial court subsidized a part of the silver. Naturally, this road was quickly built, and while the government benefited from it, the people everywhere also benefited.

In the face of this situation of major road repairs in various cities, the ministers still felt that this was a bit of a waste of money and labor. But with the construction of the road, they really found that the road was convenient for commerce, and the commercial tax of each city also increased several times compared with before.

Looking at this somewhat unexpected situation, the ministers also began to learn to be smart. As long as Cho Hyo-seok strongly advocates the implementation of the policy, it will no longer be obstructed as before. Because of the end, most of them were slapped in the face after a while! (To be continued......)