When Cui Xian and her entourage arrived, Jingyuan Road was busy.

The first is military training.

This training is not the training of the army before the Song Dynasty, but it has evolved again on the old method.

The implementation of the City Easy Law, Jingyuan Road had money in his hands, and Zheng Lang began to implement it.

Let the army take one capital as a unit, and the official establishment of the Song army also starts from one capital, with one hundred people as one capital, five as one battalion, five battalions as one army, and ten armies as one box, or under the front of the palace, or under two guards. But the establishment is often dissatisfied.

It also depends on the individual's ability, no matter what he does, sometimes there are only about 200 people in a battalion, or about 100 people, and this vacancy is sometimes clear, and sometimes it is eaten by the generals.

Those who are in charge will be close to saturation.

The army in Zheng Lang's hands also can't really reach this number, but basically no generals dare to eat empty salaries. For this matter, Zheng Lang dealt with sixteen middle and low-level generals in a row, drove them out of the northwest, and killed seven people who were seriously greedy for ink.

and took the opportunity of reorganizing the old and disabled personnel to integrate again. More than 72,000 troops, strictly divided into 150 battalions and 750 capitals, are theoretically close to the saturation of the establishment.

The other three roads are also being reorganized.

Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji have many shortcomings, but they also have many advantages. All three of them are courageous people.

It is these people who have laid a good foundation for the strength of the Western Army in the future!

Then Zheng Lang gritted his teeth and ordered the three armies to train in peacetime, compare every ten days, and take out 20,000 yuan of property, no cash, but folded into relevant cloth and cotton products as a reward. Archery (archers occupy a major position in the Song army, and the Song Dynasty attaches great importance to bows and arrows), horsemanship and weapon killing, all have rewards, in order to encourage backward soldiers, the ranking of each small competition is recorded, and the top ten people who have improved are rewarded separately.

In fact, it is an additional reward for soldiers and boosts morale.

Zhang Kang and others also did similar things, and the money and silk from the state treasury were rewarded to the soldiers to stimulate their morale.

But in doing so, it was a big trouble, after the war, the imperial historians began to look for trouble, Song Xi and other imperial historians impeached Zhang Kang for taking out the inner treasury money and buying the hearts of the military. There is no merit, there is a debasement!

Of course, there is nothing wrong with impeaching Zheng Lang.

As Cui Xian said, officials, leave some shortcomings, lack is a compliment, but it is actually self-pollution. Otherwise, the credit is too great, and it will attract jealousy. Zheng Lang will not take the initiative to spill dirt, but he has done a lot of things that violate the laws of the ancestors and the court system, which is also a vacancy. Don't care about that.

It has nothing to do with the impeachment of the speech official, and the main thing is that it can have a good training effect.

20,000 pieces of property went down, and one of them was nearly 30 pieces of property. The amount seems small, but once in ten days, as long as you are willing to work hard, thirty or six times in a Chinese New Year's Eve, you can get thirty rewards, it will be very considerable. As for the warriors in the army, they may even get two rewards at a time, then they will get seventy times in a year. This is not impressive, it will be several times more than their military salary.

As for some soldiers who are not physically fit and do not seek to improve, this training system will be very sad.

But it doesn't matter, Zheng Lang is also preparing to disarm three times, each time with four to five thousand people, and these soldiers will be the main targets of disarmament.

Even in order to train archers, there was a small competition once a month, and 20,000 archers were divided into small competitions in each county, and the former also had a part of the reward. Won the first place in the capital three times in a row, and gave a small red flag.

When the news spread, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and Pang Ji were all envious, but the money that came from them, could they learn Zheng Lang's city law? hesitated together, so they watched how the imperial court dealt with Zheng Lang's market change this time, and if it passed, they would also come to learn.

In fact, this is a series of plans, and not many people know about it.

Including disarmament, after three disarmaments, the regular army on Jingyuan Road will only have 60,000 people, but there will be more than 10,000 cavalry. The burden on the imperial court will not be much lighter than the burden of 70,000 troops in history, but the combat effectiveness of the army will become stronger.

This is the theoretical number of troops.

Once the battle begins, or the battle of Dingchuan begins, a large number of soldiers will be sacrificed.

Adjustments are to be made.

Di Qing and Lao Chong both agreed to this proposal.

As famous generals, they can better know that there are not many soldiers, but the meaning of refinement.

If the overall combat effectiveness of the army keeps up, even if there are 10,000 fewer people and the defensive strength decreases, the actual strength will keep up.

And there is an elite army in hand, which can be attacked and defended.

Then a controversial thing was done, retreat.

The question is complicated.

First of all, Lingzhou, to start from earlier, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lingzhou has become the territory of Qianghu, and during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, all the north was a piece of Huyin, not to mention. After the Sui Dynasty, the Lingzhou area was still dominated by Hu people, and in the hands of Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Hu people and Qiang people were settled, including Tuyuhun, Tiele, Uighurs, and Dangxiang. Later, Lingzhou was lost to Tibet, which made the ethnic composition of this area more complicated.

Because of its conservative policy, the Song Dynasty only had a restrained mentality towards Lingzhou, and Li Jiqian, with the support of the Khitans, invaded Lingzhou, which caused a lot of controversy in the Song Dynasty. It seems that it is of little use, and it is difficult to manage this place, and not only does it not bring benefits to the imperial court every year, but it brings a serious burden.

Of course, there are various reasons for the loss of Lingzhou, and mentality is only part of it.

The loss of Lingzhou, it is difficult to say that the Song Dynasty lost Lingzhou, at least at that time the Lingzhou Han accounted for a small proportion, the Song Dynasty was only a bondage, sent a small number of troops to manage here, the actual management ability is very weak.

But it was the loss of Lingzhou that made the Tangut people finally grow.

If you don't abandon the idea of expanding your territory, even if you lose it, even if you support the two regimes and compete with Li Jiqian, it will be beneficial to the Song Dynasty.

No one could have imagined the consequences, until Li Jiqian entered Lingzhou, occupied the Yinchuan Plain, and broke through the city of Huizhou, which directly threatened the security of the Silk Road, that the Northern Song Dynasty had to re-examine and manage the abandoned areas. Therefore, he took the initiative to advance the defense area to the upper and middle reaches of the Qingshui River, in the area of the Qingshui River valley at the eastern foot of Longxi. Li Jiqian attacked the Shucang Department of Huizhou again, and the Shucang Department returned to the Northern Song Dynasty, and Huizhou became the Mi Prefecture of the Northern Song Dynasty, and deployed troops in Xiaoguan (Haiyuan Li Wangbei), a traditional strategic place for nomads to go south, to prevent Li Jiqian from worrying about going south.

Fourteen years later, in the third year of Zhidao, the Zhenrong Army was formally established in the upper valley of the Qingshui River, and the military city was located in the middle of Xiaoguan Road, which is now Zhenrong Village. The defense area has a significant feature, it leans on Longshan Mountain (Liupan Mountain) in the west and the ancient Great Wall in the north, which can be defended by taking advantage of the mountain and the ancient Great Wall. Another function is to facilitate the delivery of military rations to Lingzhou. Later, Li Jiqian asked for ministers, and the Song Dynasty took the initiative to retreat the defense area to the north bank of the Ru River, more than 40 miles east of Zhenrong Village, and created Dongshan Village, and abandoned the Zhenrong army to defend it.

This negative way is still going on now, and ah, immediately give wine to meat, fight, hurry up and find a way, never thought of taking the initiative to find a fighter. In fact, after the Northern Song Dynasty began to change its policy, it was very depressed and depressed, but in this case, the Western Xia was not as good as a year. If it weren't for the sudden rise of the Jurchens and the nonsense of Song Huizong, the Northern Song Dynasty might even completely wipe out the Tangut people within a few decades.

Of course, fooled.

The negative policy finally made Lingzhou fall away.

In order to protect the safety of the Hexi Corridor, in the first year of Xianping, Kaiyuan Fort (Guyuan Kaicheng) was set up in the southeast of Zhenrong Village. In the second year of Xianping, Anbian Fort was set up between Kaiyuan Fort and Wating Village, and the Dongshan Cottage, Kaiyuan Fort and the traditional sand castle on the six plates echoed from afar.

In the sixth year of Xianping, Pengyang City (Pengyang Baiyang City) was set up in the east thirty miles of Dongshanzhai again, and in the first year of Tianxi, Qianxing Village (Pengyang Wangwa Town South) was built. It also placed Feijing Fort in the jurisdiction of Qianxingzhai.

In the first year of Tiansheng, the Tiansheng Village (Guyuan River Township) was built in the upper valley of the Ru River to control the Caiyuan River Thief Road in Lanzhou. and in the west of the high flat village.

In the sixth year of Tiansheng, Yuan Hao successively captured Ganzhou and Liangzhou, although the two states have not been under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty, but the Hexi Corridor finally fell into the hands of Western Xia, and the relationship between the two countries underwent a strategic change. The Song Dynasty had to further strengthen the defense of the northwest. So in eight years, Sanchuan Village was placed at the eastern foot of Longshan Mountain. The defensive line also crossed the ancient Great Wall.

Strictly speaking, the area of restraint in the northwest of the Song Dynasty was shrinking, and the area of actual control was increasing.

In addition, the lion fort was set up in the southwest of the Zhenrong army, and the Sichuan fort, the dry ditch fort, the dry river fort, and the Zhaofu fort were set up near the Sanchuan village.

Last year, Yuan Hao besieged Sanchuan Village, and it was Sanchuan Village and the four fortresses attached to it that were captured.

Zheng Lang and Di Qing arrived, repaired these forts, and set up Gaoping Village (Guyuan Touying Town), Dingchuan Village (Guyuan Zhonghe Township), and expanded Liu Fanbao (Beiqingshui River, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City).

In addition to these large forts, there are also some small forts. This is the main defense of the Song Dynasty at the junction of the Western Xia Jingyuan Road.

After these fortresses were connected to the defense area of Huanzhou, the Zhenrong military defense area was as large as the Qingshui River valley area south of Xiaoguan and north of Kaichengling, and the Ru River, the Red River, and Anjiachuan River basins, tributaries of the Jing River (now the Qingshui River Valley area of Haiyuan County, most of Yuanzhou District, the eastern part of Jingyuan, all of Pengyang, and the southeast of Tongxin).

From the map, the Song Realm almost stretches to the foot of Tiandu Mountain, and it is not far from the Yinchuan Plain. However, the actual control ability is limited, and the influence of the large area north from Qianxingbao and Tianshengzhai is not as good as that of Western Xia. Including the Qingshui River Valley, there are large areas of idle fields, which are also mostly occupied by Western Xia.

It was this area that Zheng Lang retreated to.

Forcibly relocated all the former people of this line to the south.

In order to prevent the tragedy of Li Shibin, he moved to the south of Weizhou.

There are also many tribes who are reluctant to migrate.

In fact, the situation is very clear, the tribes loyal to the Song Dynasty, Yuan Hao repeatedly went south, but also suffered from aggression, the Song Dynasty took the initiative to resettle, and could not ask for it. Almost all of them left on their own initiative. Some tribes also thanked them a thousand times, which made the Tangut people afraid.

Those who were unwilling to migrate were almost all tribes that had fallen to Western Xia.

Zheng Lang did not move, and continued to send the officials to probation.

Those who do not listen will not move.

This will be a good place to test the army for archers and Qiang people in the future.

But now I didn't say it, everything was arranged for the next battle.

In the future, it will not be polite, until this area is swept into a vacuum, and then the army will be slowly sent north, and the tribes in the south will be compressed with the army. In this way, the loyalty of the people in the occupied areas can be assured.

Otherwise, the current northern part is nominally the occupied area of the Song Dynasty, but it is actually the racecourse of Yuan Hao.

But his move made Fan Zhongyan shocked, as soon as the Song army withdrew, the Western Xia people would fill this vacuum, and Zheng Lang withdrew more ruthlessly, including Xiao Guan's troops also withdrew one after another. The people who stayed behind are also the people who sincerely obey Yuan Hao, which is equivalent to losing the territory and losing the land.

It happened that Zheng Lang was also about to contact him, so he wrote a letter to explain the reason and mentioned one more thing.

There are three powerful tribes in the Yuanzhou region and the southwest of Huanzhou, namely Mingzhu, Zhanzang and Kangnu, who are very tough and often violent to the people in the defense area. Wang Yaochen also deliberately mentioned this matter to the imperial court. Teng Zongliang also deliberately found Zheng Lang and said Zheng Xianggong, you have to find a way to exterminate these three.

Zheng Lang knows this history, these three departments are not so easy to exterminate, although the imperial court has an edict allowing each ministry to use its own armed forces to go to the levy, and the materials and spoils of war belong to the respective levy departments, but who dares to go to the levy?

In the end, it was Fan Zhongyan who solved it.

Until October next year, Fan Zhongyan heard that the imperial court edict Jingyuan sent troops to discuss the pearl and the destruction of Tibet, and the upper recital on the pearl to destroy Tibet can not be attacked, indicating that the pearl to destroy the Tibetan two tribes is dangerous and unattackable, and Gao Jisong has tasted the loss of the teacher. Usually still harboring the opposite side, now to ask for it, will be with the thief as the inside of the surface, south into Yuanzhou, west of Zhenrong, east invasion of Huanzhou, the border is not in trouble. It is advisable to take the thin waist and gourd spring as a fortress barrier in the north, so as to cut off the thief road, then the two clans are safe, and the road of Huanzhou Zhenrong is thorough, and there is no worry.

Until the fourth year of Qingli, under the coordination of Fan Zhongyan, he first used a plan to slow down his Western Xia to help, and then let Chong Shiheng and Jiang Kai build a thin waist city. The three Qiang people saw that the foreign aid of the Western Xia was cut off, and because of Fan Zhongyan's kind words to appease, the three tribes returned to the imperial court, which seriously weakened the strength of the Western Xia people.

Moreover, the slender waist city is only 37 miles away from the Dingbian village of Huanzhou, 60 miles to the west of the Zhenrong Army Ganxing Village, and 70 miles to the south of Liuyuan Town of Yuanzhou, and the passage of each state is opened, so that Huanqing Road and Jingyuan can also be connected with each other on the front line, echoing each other from afar, and the military significance is more prominent.

Zheng Lang shamelessly plagiarized Fan Zhongyan's wonderful idea.

There is no way, when Fan Zhongyan comes up with it, it will not be until next year, and when it is implemented, it will not be until the year after tomorrow, so I can't wait.

For Fan Zhongyan, Zheng Lang did not hide it, and said the military arrangements of Jingyuan Road, now it depends on it, if Yuan Hao personally conquers Fulin, he will have a battle. Further weakened the power of Western Xia in the south, and took advantage of the situation to build cities.

It can't be built now, if Yuan Hao is in Xingzhou City, he will definitely send troops to support, plus the cooperation of the three departments, the inside and outside attack, even if the two departments send large soldiers and horses, they may be defeated. If Yuan Hao leaves Xingzhou City and goes to Fuzhou, which is farther away from Longshan, it will take several days for only one news to be delivered. Not only can you calmly fight a beautiful counterattack, but you can also take advantage of the situation to build a city. By the time Yuan Hao's army returned, the city would have been built long ago.

The city of Thin Waist and military operations are very secretive, and not many people know about it.

The imperial court also heard about this, but just as the ministers were discussing, the news of the great victory also reached the capital.

As long as you win, you can toss as much as you like.

But Zheng Lang's retreat is also a kind of fear.

That's what you want.

August came, and soldiers were sent to open up the wasteland one after another, but in order to open up the wasteland smoothly, they began to deal with some people, strongmen!

Because the border land of Jingyuan Road has not been planted for many years, the soil is fertile, and the people of Guanzhong call it a place of ointment. There are many archers' families and people who are floating in the hinterland, who ask to see the officials of the walled city, first stab the back of their hands, and wait for a free place to occupy it, which is called a strongman.

It's good to be able to grow crops, what Shaanxi lacks now is grain and grass!

There is a large amount of grain and grass, even if it is purchased in the hands of the people, it is better than transporting grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River, saving a lot of freight and loss.

However, these strongmen colluded with the officials of the walled city, not only did they not pay any taxes, but even encouraged the officials of the walled city to build a walled wall to protect them, and also used the power of the officials to forcibly seize the land of the Tibetan department for cultivation. As soon as the Western Xia army came, they immediately fled with their families, and after the incident, they came to cultivate again.

These strongmen became one of the thirteen charges that Han Qi used to attack Liu Hu Xiushui Luocheng, saying that Liu Hu Xiushui Luocheng was built by these strongmen, and the implication was that he was bribed by these strongmen.

This is a fallacy.

But not only did they not contribute to Jingyuanlu, on the contrary, they did play a lot of counterproductive roles.

Zheng Lang sent people to check the land of the "strongman", which belonged to the archers, and distributed it according to the fields given to the archers by the imperial court. Those who are not archers are treated according to the imperial court's policy of land reclamation, those who are exempt from tax continue to be exempt from taxes, and those who exceed the tax exemption period must pay taxes, and at the same time bear the relevant conscription.

The preferential political axe is still there, but it is not allowed to run away, let alone forcibly occupy the land of the Tibetan households, so that the Fan and Han families can cause contradictions and disputes, and it is not allowed to collude with the generals and bribe them, otherwise the cultivated land will be confiscated and severely punished according to law.

I'm not afraid that you are a strong man, no matter how strong you are, you can't be stronger than those smugglers!

Cui Xian arrived in the hustle and bustle of Jingyuan Road.

came a little late, Zheng Lang's second mother was sick, so she stayed in Zhengzhou to take care of her for a period of time before leaving.

But bring one person, Zheng Lang's good brother, Wei Jiasanlang Wei Tianlong.

Seeing Zheng Lang, Wei Sanlang ran over happily and wanted to hug Zheng Lang, but his elbow stretched out and retracted.

Now the status difference between the two is too great, and they dare not be as unscrupulous as before.

Zheng Lang took the initiative to stretch out his hand, hugged it, and said, "Third Brother Wei, I haven't seen you for a few years." ”

"Yes, I haven't seen Zheng Xianggong for several years."

"Don't, keep calling me Brother Lang."

killed Wei Sanlang, Wei Sanlang didn't dare, hung his hands and didn't know what to say, and glanced at Jiang Xing'er with his eyes.

Jiang Xing'er walked over and said, "Third Brother Wei wants to come to the northwest to join the army. ”

"In the army?" Zheng Lang glanced at Wei Tianlong, the block is there, and he usually communicates occasionally, in the letter Wei Tianlong said that he usually practices horseback archery, but Zheng Lang asked worriedly: "Third brother Wei, your father agrees with you to join the army?" ”

"Agreed." Wei Tianlong said with his chest straight.

agreed, so he talked for more than ten days, and almost killed his old father to death.

In the end, his mother agreed, what should I do, I like martial arts, and Zheng Lang is in the northwest to take care of it, although there is danger, maybe I am lucky, I can win a half-official position, although the military general is not valuable, it is stronger than the current identity of cloth.

"You have thought about it, there are many dangers in staying in the Northwest Barracks as a soldier now. In particular, although Jingyuan Road is calm at the moment, the war will continue in the future. ”

"Zheng Xianggong."

"Brother Lang, count, call me Da Lang."

"Big ...... Lang, as a prime minister, you are not afraid of danger, what danger am I afraid of? ”

"I stayed in the northwest, but I won't go to the battlefield to fight, you have to go to the battlefield to fight as a soldier, and the two situations are different."

"What are you afraid of, what is that class, and you still put pen to paper to join the army."

"It's Ban Chao, and the pen is from Rong."

"Yes, Ban Chao."

"You uneducated guy, you want to join the army, I wrote a letter to ask your family, your father does agree, I will approve you to join the army. For the time being, you stay in Weizhou City and train with the army, if you can't endure this hardship, you can also go back as soon as possible. Also, there may be a battle in the future, you can watch the battle with me and then make a decision. ”

"Okay."

Let the guards take Wei Tianlong down to rest.

Only then did he talk to his wife and concubine and asked, "Is Erniang cured?" ”

"Okay, but Er Niangniang's health is not as good as before." Cui Xian said.

Zheng Lang sighed, not knowing how to say.

"A few ladies were very angry and asked why you went to the northwest and didn't go home to have a look."

"When I go to the Northwest, can they rest assured? For the sake of quiet ears. ”

Jiang Xing'er smiled at the corner of her mouth, and there is a story, I heard that her son went to the northwest, and several mothers were worried and dissatisfied, but in the end, she was the vice minister of Xifu, and she had a few joys, so she was ready to kill pigs and sheep to celebrate. He even prepared a grand sacrifice with the old Song Bo to worship the ancestors of the Zheng family.

But Zheng Lang didn't stop for a moment and left Zhengzhou, and several mothers were angry.

It is also a kind of small citizen mentality, the cave room spends candle nights, when the gold list is inscribed, and the hometown meets the old acquaintance, in fact, the last joy is not right, and it should be honored to return to the hometown.

It's not that a few mothers are honored to return to their hometowns, but their sons are honored to return to their hometowns, which makes them more excited than their own glory to the township, but Zheng Lang ......

Afterwards, Zheng Lang repeatedly pleaded guilty, and several mothers were still unhappy.

Cui Xian said: "Official, this time the northwest is over, you should be a Beijing official, don't be the prime minister, otherwise you will be young and have high merits, and you will be jealous of the ministers, but you will not do it for long." Even if he served as a third envoy, the capital would be longer. Close to Zhengzhou, a few mothers can also take a look from time to time, and there is no shortage of money at home, it is better to buy a house in the capital and take a few mothers to live. My mother is old, my father is also old, and last year I put forward a request to the imperial court for Zhishi, although it was not approved, it was time for Zhishi. There are also Si'er, Xing'er, and Huan'er's families, who can also get together from time to time. ”

"Okay, that's what you see."

After all, the Northwest will have to stay for a long time, maybe two years, maybe three years.

But if Zheng Lang, the Beijing official, doesn't want to be, it's best to serve as the prefect of a nearby state capital, and the capital will be more troublesome in the future, even more troublesome than Yuan Hao.

Not said.

hugged two daughters, one on each side, and kissed one on the mouth, Zheng Hang was so frightened that he cried, but Zheng Ping shouted happily: "Daddy, I miss you." ”

Jiang Xing'er angrily slapped Zheng Hang's little buttocks.

"Xing'er, the child is small, I haven't seen you for a few months, it's normal to don't know me, you can't fight."

But Cui Xian was not very happy, the two daughters of the Zheng family made Cui Xian seem to be unable to be a person when she stayed in the Zheng family.

Soon after the arrival of his wives and concubines, Li Zhengyuan also arrived in Weizhou, bringing with him a large number of weapons, including knives, axes, and hook sickles that Zheng Lang had ordered in the capital, as well as a batch of stone throwers and a large amount of gunpowder.

The stone throwing machine was successively put into each village, and the horse chopping knife and horse chopping axe were rushed to the original road when the imperial court weapons arrived, and they made a batch of them and handed them over to the soldiers for practice. It was also put into the market one after another, but the gunpowder was not distributed. This is reserved for critical times and is used as a secret weapon to win.

There was also a dispute in the court over the use of gunpowder.

Used in mining, no one doubts, improve the speed of mining, increase efficiency.

Lack of money, as long as you can make money, there will be less controversy now.

But when it comes to military use, some ministers are worried. The big city and the big village can be held without gunpowder, and the small village and small village can't be held with gunpowder, unless the soldiers guarding the village would rather not be a prisoner and live, ignite all the gunpowder, and die with the enemy.

There are very few soldiers who are not afraid of death like this.

Then the gunpowder will fall into the hands of the enemy.

It was of little use in the hands of the Song army, and the enemy could disperse the attack and reduce the lethality of gunpowder. However, in the hands of the enemy, the head of the city wall was densely guarded by Song soldiers, and the field battle was dominated by infantry troops, which marched intensively, and the lethality was very great, and the enemy was like a tiger with wings.

Don't say that it is inexplicable, in the era when Wenchen is in charge of the whole [***] government and the status of military generals is low, any demon moth can be produced in the military.

The gunpowder matter is small, the heavy literature and military affairs are small, and even took the initiative to return the territory and military strongholds exchanged for countless soldiers to the enemy free of charge.

Therefore, Shaanxi No. 4 Road will only be issued to Zheng Lang's Jingyuan Road, and it may be issued, but it depends on Zheng Lang's use of Jingyuan Road before a decision can be made.

Zheng Lang did not object to it, just to keep it a secret.

Sent someone to call Di Qing and Seed Master Heng, and brought gunpowder to a small valley, and sent soldiers on both sides of the valley to block it, and then let people test its power.

It was still an explosives bag, and at Zheng Lang's request, some iron nails and tribulus terrestris were put in it, and the power generated when the gunpowder exploded was the first kill, and the flying iron nails and thistles were the second kill.

After the old seed and Di Qing saw the test, their eyebrows fluttered.

But like Zheng Lang, he was very worried about how to use it. When it's impossible to engage in battle, have soldiers tie up powder packets, set it on fire, and charge into the enemy's army. And there are not many soldiers who are willing to be this human bomber.

It is even more impossible to throw it by hand, each bag wants to be powerful, at least more than ten catties, in order to constitute lethality, so heavy, how far can it be thrown by hand. With a catapult, is it impossible for the two armies to calmly use a trebuchet when they are fighting?

Zheng Lang said: "Take your time, work together, and finally come up with a way." ”

That's it.

Then Zheng Lang wrote a recital to Zhao Zhen.

said that the matter of the city was easy, not only brought a batch of income to Jingyuan Road, but also used this part of the income to train the army. But there will be a part left, and reducing the military expenditure on Jingyuan Road is also equivalent to reducing the burden on the imperial court.

Then he wrote a detailed history of the market law, and talked about the drawbacks it produced one by one.

The imperial court also had a market change, and the government's and the purchase of the department were not counted, which was a disguised exploitation of businessmen, only "buying" and not selling. However, in disaster years, the imperial court occasionally contributed money to forcibly buy grain, or often closed the grain and sold it to the people at a low price to suppress the price of grain, which was also a kind of market change.

But it is not permanent, and the intention is also good, and it does not hinder business development. Less harm is more. Not only food, but also other daily necessities for the people, if there are merchants hoarding Juqi, the imperial court can also adopt a similar market law to control prices and give the people more ways to live.

But once the national surname Xiangjing Yuanlu is now playing like this, then there will be endless troubles.

The reason why the city is easy to set up in Jingyuan Road is because of the special situation of Jingyuan Road.

Now it is organized by the imperial army, but it has prospered backward commerce and brought the needs of the people of all ethnic groups. There are disadvantages, but there are fewer disadvantages and more benefits, which is different from the situation in the Central Plains.

And the circulation of goods can play a role in bringing together some ethnic groups, at least the blind felt was completely tied to the chariot of the Song Dynasty.

There is also an intention, to the west!

Zheng Langwei said.

However, the situation of the four roads on the edge of Shaanxi is different, Jingyuan Road is the best, and there are blind felt and other tribes behind it, and the depth is large. The second is Qinfeng Road, although the radiation range is wider, but in the rear, there is a part of commercial circulation, if it is not properly operated, there will be disputes. Huanqing Road and Yanyun Road cut off contact with the Xixia people, and there are few differences, which is where the success of the old species in Qingjian implements the city. However, the radiation range is very small, and the obtained is not as good as the original road.

This is Zheng Lang's suggestion, where to go, let the court decide.

But in the implementation of the city on Jingyuan Road, please Your Majesty, you don't have to worry, the harm is very small.

With the knowledge of later generations, Wang Anshi and Wang Shao's success and failure examples can be used as references, and Zheng Lang explained the truth very clearly in the twists and turns.

And then the second thing.

Tuntian.

Zheng Lang of Tuntian is not very much in favor of him, he is here, he has done a lot of good surname measures, the rent is small, only half a bucket of grain per mu of land is rented, and the Fan households are strictly left with enough grazing land, and the archer field is not encroached upon, and at the same time the Qiang people and the Fan people are taught to farm.

Zheng Lang looked at the income of Tuntian very lightly, on the contrary, he valued the grain.

If all the more than 4,000 hectares of cultivated land can be harvested, plus the cultivation of the Sanbai Canal, at least Jingyuan Road can achieve self-sufficiency in grain.

Although it is said that it is purchased with money, what is the difference in cost between buying it locally and transporting it from Jiangnan? Actually equals making a profit.

But sooner or later, the tuntian will be handed over to the Tibetan people for cultivation.

Afraid that the imperial court would not understand, Zheng Lang said the reason again.

In addition to these policies, Zheng Lang planned to sit and watch his movements when Yuan Hao returned after the war, and if he prepared for war, he would hire some scholars to teach the people to read and write.

This is cultural assimilation.

There are only two people who have done the best job of ethnic integration in China, one is Tuoba Hong, who has allowed most of the Xianbei people to integrate into the Han people, reducing conflicts.

One is Zhu Yuanzhang, who issued an edict to let the Mongols and Semu people listen to the Chinese (Han) for marriage, and do not allow this kind of self-marriage, violators of eighty rods, and men and women are slaves. In addition to forced intermarriage, it is forbidden to use Hu clothes, Hu language, and Hu surnames.

Later generations of brick families lamented that many foreign languages and customs disappeared, so many people criticized Zhu Yuanzhang's policy for being stupid.

Brick families who hold this statement may account for more than eighty percent.

But in later generations, the Han people accounted for more than 90 percent, and the country was stable, who thought about the role of Zhu Yuanzhang's order?

Or prohibit intermarriage between ethnic groups, must maintain their own language, customs, and stay together, originally they thought they were Han Chinese, but also to find out the historical roots, saying that you are a certain ethnic group, expanding the race, and the number of people of different ethnic groups, encouraging them to have differences in cultural living habits, many brick families are also working hard for this, and even bewitching the state apparatus to cooperate.

But what about the consequences?

Zheng Lang wrote this, thought about it, and suddenly laughed. There were some stupid people in the Song Dynasty, who were the limited surnames of the times, why were there so many stupid people later?

I don't understand, it's been a thousand years, and I don't need to think about the rest of it. Keep writing.

But the effect of cultural assimilation may not be very large, why the Han people have not been able to blend with the nomads, it is the difference in lifestyle, one is nomadic and the other is farming.

Therefore, first tuntian, or use soldiers to cultivate it themselves, or rent the people to farm, and let the Tibetan and Qiang people familiarize themselves with farming, and then hand over the tuntian to them, lightly distract them, and assimilate them from the way of life. With all the assimilation of culture and way of life, contradictions and conflicts will inevitably decline.

Otherwise, even if the imperial court rules here, there will still be some tribal rebellions and turmoil in the future. Only when the majority of the people were assimilated could the imperial court really say to rule the land.

Finally, I talked about Sanbaiqu.

The imperial court lacked funds, so the third envoy asked the third envoy to sell the deed shares of the five-cent Ping'an Prison, but Ye Qingchen must get more than 8 million yuan of income before he could sell the five-cent deed shares.

The position of the Ping'an Prison in the imperial court is very important today.

In June, except for two ships that sank due to the typhoon, all other ships returned to the sea, and the harvest was huge. In addition to gold, silver, copper, and iron, the ships that went to the south brought all kinds of jade, precious stones, coral, hawksbill turtles, and spices. Excluding expenditures, revenues amounted to more than 6 million yuan. The imperial court only occupied fifty points of eighty-five points, and it also divided nearly four million points.

There are also tariffs of various state capitals, industries driven, and commercial taxes brought to the imperial court, which are all included in the income of each state capital and cannot be calculated.

The replenishment of gold, silver and copper, which increased the currency, gradually promoted the prosperity of commerce, and reduced the loss of cloth and silk transactions, is incalculable.

In fact, some officials began to regret that they could not sell those deed shares. If this development continues, it is possible to reduce the imperial court's income by 10 million per year.

Selling deed shares is immediate money, and if you sell them at most, you will collect 40 million yuan of wealth for the imperial court, and the loss in the next four or five years will exceed this figure.

Zheng Lang didn't think so.

If it is operated in the hands of the imperial court, just because of greed for ink and inaction, it is not a loss of 10 million yuan of income, and the court will not be able to get one-fifth of it, and all of it will go into the pockets of officials. Therefore, it has always been required to open five or five times, and mutual constraints will expose all kinds of problems sooner or later, but it will prolong the life of the safety prison.

The deed shares had to be sold, but they could be sold twice, and the income made him feel unsatisfactory. Too little.

But if you want the imperial court to make peace, the treasury must be leveraged.

There is a Sanbai Canal, which cannot reduce all the pressure on the treasury, but after the successful repair of the Sanbai Canal, Shaanxi can achieve self-sufficiency in grain to the greatest extent, and the grain alone will invisibly reduce a lot of pressure on the imperial treasury.

Tell the reasons one by one, and then let the guards paint and send them to the capital on fast horses.

didn't let Li Zhengyuan leave, let him wait a few more days, see the news of Fulin, there may be a war, let him supervise the war, and by the way, report the battle he saw with his own eyes to Zhao Zhen.

As soon as he was sent away, the spies sent to Fuzhou rode fast horses and sent the news back, and Yuan Hao led a large army to invade Fuzhou.