Twenty-eight water villages were built on the Hutuo River first, and thousands of sailors were dispatched to patrol day and night in warships. In winter, warships do not work, but the water village does. This is not to regard the Hutuo River as a border, and the north has given up.

Instead, it was used as a second line of defense, and almost all of the northern states except for the West Mountain were disabled, and most of the people in this area were moved to the south of the Hutuo River.

That is, the Liao army invaded, and they didn't want to immediately rely on the grass valley to get supplies.

This one is deadly.

The Liao army is a soldier when it goes out, and it is a people when it returns, and the supply of the marching army is relatively small, but it must also be supplied.

Just like Liaodong, Song Jiu asked Yang Yanzhao to go to Liaodong, that is, let Wu Xuanming empty the tribes around Changchun Prefecture in Huanglong Prefecture, without the people, there is no supply, if the Liao State wants to clear up, it must bring supplies, in the vast sparsely populated Liaodong, the forests are tightly clothed, swamps are all over the field, the Liao army takes supplies to clear and suppress, how difficult it is, and Wu Xuanming will also use his familiarity with the terrain to invade the grain and grass. But when a large number of people arrived, there was a scene of prosperity in the rear.

It will be destroyed, but if the Liao State wants to destroy Wu Xuanming, it will become more and more headaches.

Mainly unlike the obstruction, they have become a trend. Of course, the obstruction also gave the Liao State a headache, and soon after, Yelu Xian personally conquered the desert and exterminated some rebellious tribes. But this grudge must be growing.

Then it forbade the merchants to carry out any trade activities in the Hutuo River more and more, there are people in Hebei, most of them are soldiers, they are in the tuntian, they are farming, but the needs are provided by the imperial court, and you are not required to trade. This is to prevent Liao spies from infiltrating the border.

There is no effect, there is, this is exactly this one. Gradually the altar of Jerusukgo was laid.

But this article was proposed by Zhao Kuangyi and had nothing to do with Song Jiu.

Then there is the transfer of border generals. Lao Song came back, after Zhao Kuangyin's death. Lao Song is Zhao Kuangyin's little father-in-law, and he feels that something is wrong, so he makes a big fuss, and Zhao Kuangyi is also quite happy, after all, Lao Song's bloodline is a golden bloodline, and his influence is not small. But Empress Xiao Song was a little sad, and when Zhao Kuangyin entered the palace, she was a little confused, and said to Wang Jien: "But Defang is here?" ”

The husband died. He just wanted Zhao Defang to be his future successor, and he wanted Zhao Kuangyi to come.

Originally, it was forgotten, but I don't know how the matter of Lu Dao spread out. This made Zhao Kuangyi very unhappy, but considering his influence and his father's loyalty to him, he was named Empress Kaibao and ordered her to move to the West Palace, and last year she moved to the East Palace, with a slightly higher salary. It was bought by the old Song Dynasty for the Song Dynasty on the front line. However, Lao Song did not perform well, and it will not be easy to say in the future. Xiao Song is Pan Lier's best friend, and seeing her best friend depressed in the deep palace, Pan Li'er is helpless.

But it doesn't matter. Xiao Song married Zhao Kuangyin, and Lao Song gave birth to many daughters, so he will have many capable sons-in-law in the future. Kou Zhun, Han Chongxun......

Cui Yanjin took over Lao Song's position. But this is in Bazhou, although it is also within the range of the Liao army. But it's the range of the attack. Cui Yanjin was not very satisfied, but there was no way, he had made some merits by following Song Jiu, but he was not as meritorious as Li Jilong, and this merit could not forgive him for the mistakes he made in the battle of Qigou Pass.

Although Tian Chongjin's performance was not cowardly, he had many shortcomings, so Li Jilong replaced Tian Chongjin as the capital of Dingzhou, and then transferred Yuan Jizhong and Jing Si, who were originally able to fight by Tian Chongjin's subordinates, to Li Jilong's account.

After Jing Hei's deeds were learned by Song Jiu, he had already told Zhao Kuangyi, but the battle ahead was important, and he was not transferred to the capital for the time being.

But the other person, Song Jiu, didn't notice it.

At the same time, Guo Shouwen and Fan Tingzhao were also transferred, who were respectively transferred to the deployment of the capital of Zhenzhou and the deputy deployment of the capital of Zhenzhou, and Pei Ji, a general who had previously performed well, was transferred to the governor of Dingzhou.

He also selected 1,000 people from the Yizhou warriors to form heavy cavalry.

Song Jiu's pursuit of speed, reforming the armor, and reducing the weight of the armor should have had an effect, at least during that retreat, the soldiers did not slow down the speed due to the infantry armor. However, there is a slight deficiency in the vest, the infantry is light, but the cavalry does not have a speed problem, and the war horses ridden by the Song army are mostly horses from the Northwest River, which are large and explosive, but they are slightly more delicate than the Khitan, and there are no Khitan horses, that is, the Mongolian horses of later generations can bear hardships and stand hard work.

But this doesn't matter, Song Jun doesn't have the idea of going straight to the desert now, and this Hetao horse is enough.

As for lightness and speed, why do you need to be so fast with heavy infantry. Of course, the light cavalry still has a role, but Li Jilong also mentioned one thing when talking to Song Jiu, that is, in addition to the light cavalry, it is also possible to build a heavy armored cavalry, although the weight will be heavier, but for the tall northwest war horse, this weight will not make it slower than the Khitan horse, at least not much slower than the Khitan cavalry in a short period of time. However, from people to horses, with full armor, the power of charging into battle will be stronger.

Li Jilong reminded that Song Jiu also realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding and was always thinking about Genghis Khan's army, is it possible?

In fact, the Western Xia Iron Harrier and the later Jin State Kidnapper Horse are also good, at least they will not be eliminated for now.

Therefore, the cavalry was made into a heavy cavalry, named the Jingsai Army, and kept it strictly secret, only a few important ministers in the court and a few senior generals stationed in Hebei knew the road.

Li Jilong also proposed Tian Min to be the commander of the Jingsai Army.

Song Jiu was a little familiar with this name, but he checked it later and learned one thing. This person is quite similar to Jing Si, very capable of fighting, Cao Bin set off from Baigou Road to Zhuozhou again, Yelu Xiuge heavy cavalry came to harass, on the other side Wang Jien was anxious, what happened on your side, why don't you tell the Sprinkle family? Therefore, the Zhao brothers said that Song Jiu had good bones, but Lu Mengzheng thought that Song Jiu was missing his bones. Compared with Cao Bin, Song Jiu is not very evil to the eunuchs in the palace, and generally does not like to offend people. Unless you mess with him.

It's not useless, these eunuchs are not evil to Song Jiu, but Song Jiu has a good grasp of the scale, he only looks at it from a distance, does not play closely, although he respects it, he doesn't get close, Zhao Kuangyi doesn't doubt it, and the eunuchs occasionally say good things. Although Song Jiu was not the prime minister, it was not easy to be like a tumbler in the Zhao Kuangyi Dynasty, and the blowing of these eunuchs in the palace played an immeasurable role in the middle.

But at that time, Wang Jien also knew some about the situation, so he recruited warriors to write to Cao Bin. Tian Min, a tooth official, was recruited, and this time it took a few days. When Tian Min looked for Cao Bin with a letter, Cao Bin had already arrived in Zhuozhou. It went well when I came, so I stayed in the barracks for the time being.

Later, Zhuozhou was in critical condition. Cao Bin wanted to send some important information to the rear, so he sent fifty strong men to send Tian Min back. As a result, he was surrounded by a thousand-strong Liao army on the road, and a bloody battle began.

Of the fifty selected brave soldiers in this battle, only Tian Min and two survived, and the others all died heroically. It is said that Tian Min alone killed nearly 100 Liao soldiers at that time, and the rest of the Liao soldiers were scared back by him. Later, Cao Bin recommended it, Li Jilong recommended it, and Tian Min began to take the position.

However, except for the two surviving Song soldiers. Who will prove it? Song Jiu didn't believe that the Song Dynasty had Yang Ye and Jing Si, two brave generals with hundreds of people, and there could be one more. This reminded him of the blood-stained demeanor, and the exploits of war can also be faked.

But Song Jiu really thought wrong this time, this is another super super brave general.

In addition to Tian Min, Yin Jilun, who performed well last year, was relocated to the northern frontier capital inspection envoy. As well as some of the original famous generals, this time Hebei is really starry, and the stars are like clouds.

However, Brother Yelu Xiu was notorious, and Zhao Kuangyi was still not very relieved, and asked Song Jiu: "Will there be a crisis in Hebei border defense?" ”

listened to Song Jiu's suggestion. Don't think about the Northern Expedition for the time being, and restore the vitality of the people in the country first. As for Hebei, strengthen border defense. However, the Hebei border defense can not be held.

Then Zhao Kuangyi stared at Song Jiu.

Song Jiu is a crow's mouth, before the Battle of the Gaoliang River. It's not good, it's not good. Before the Battle of Qigou Pass, Song Jiu had been hesitant. Something big happened again. At present, the various measures for Hebei's border defense have Song Jiu's suggestion and Li Jilong's suggestion. There is also Zhao Kuangyi's suggestion. If it doesn't work again, Zhao Kuangyi's poor self-confidence will all be crippled.

"There should be no crisis. At least last year's tragedy won't happen," Song Jiu said, he recalled the time around the Spring Festival in his mind, but in fact, in the back, various armies were dispatched one after another, and he led the army to approach the main army of the Liao State, and most of the plans were from Li Jilong's hands. Although there was no great victory in the back, there was no heavy sacrifice due to command errors, and the Liao army was forced out of the Song realm, and Li Jilong had a credit. However, in the face of Brother Yeluxiu, Song Jiu said very conservatively.

"That's good," Zhao Kuangyi was afraid that Song Jiu's crow's mouth would say something bad again.

When Song Jiu returned home, he knew that his daughter was angry, but what if it was really there? When the time comes, if you marry with a big belly, you will laugh to death, and you will be angry with your wife. So I prepared for a quick fix.

The future son-in-law was called in for several hours to talk about his heart, and he had to accept his own subsidies with his poor pride, and he could not destroy the relationship between the future husband and wife because of these subsidies. Otherwise, even if her daughter was unhappy, Song Jiu would directly disagree with this family business.

It took most of the day to convince.

The most Lu also took care of the son-in-law's face and self-esteem, the dowry is the deed shares of the 50,000 gold shop, the Jiaozi issued by the 30,000 gold shop, as well as gold and silver jewelry, a set of houses in Hezhou, all of which are hard goods, but the appearance is inconspicuous, hundreds of thousands of dowry, and there are only dozens of people who marry themselves.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether you are poor or rich, as long as you are good to your daughter.

But this family affair still attracted complaints from his mother-in-law and the sideways eyes of many people.

Song Jiu did not dislike the poor and love the rich, and married his eldest daughter to a son of a poor family, but a very bad thing happened in Qinzhou. Li Yi, the official of Qinzhou Liquor Farm, is very rich in his family, and there are hundreds of servants alone, because he is rich, he also has dealings with some powerful people in the capital.

The strange official system of the Song Dynasty, except for Guangnan is exempted from military service, officials are recruited, and officials have the right to speak, except for a few academy children in other regions, most of them are local heroes who serve as officials, either rich people, or Song Jiang, these fierce people, if the officials are capable, they can also control the power in their hands, if they are incapable, they can often make the rights of officials empty.

With this Li Yi, all the officials in Qinzhou except for the county guard were afraid of him. There are hundreds of families in Qinzhou who owe him usury, this is not a loan from a gold shop, the interest rate of usury in the Song Dynasty is often terrible, the highest can reach 300 percent a year, that is, if you borrow 10,000 yuan today, you will have to repay 40,000 yuan with interest next year.

As long as he gets this thing, half of the people can't pay it off, so Li Yi used the power of the government to ask the people for this usury, making the bottom a miasma. Qinzhou observed that Feng Yan did not cooperate, you collect usury and rent, and the government can't manage it, but why use the government's strength to collect it for you?

One day when Li Xin rode out on horseback, Li Yi asked the slave to forcibly drag Li Yi off the horse and humiliate him in every way. Li Yi let him talk about it, but he asked Li Yi to buy the officials and detain them all. It wasn't until the posters who went to Qinzhou to buy horses from the imperial court came to Qinzhou that they brought this piece to Zhao Kuangyi. Zhao Kuangyi was furious and issued an edict to arrest him, but before the edict arrived, the powerful people in the capital reported that Li Yi fled. Zhao Kuangyi was even more angry, and under strict supervision, Li Yi was arrested in the Hao family, a wealthy man in Hanoi, and sent to Yutaitai and killed. When the people of Qinzhou heard that Li Yi had died, they drank and celebrated.

This case seems small, but it is not simple behind it.

Ancestral family law, ancestor, Zhao Kuangyin, Zong, Zhao Kuangyi, Zhao Kuangyin is martial arts, Zhao Kuangyi is Wenzhi, and some good and bad systems in the Song Dynasty in history were perfected in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi. There are a lot of bad ones, and there are a lot of good ones.

For example, the humanization of the Song Dynasty, which is the so-called Qi Min policy.

The so-called democracy, or Li Shun's equal wealth and poverty in the future, or this Qi people policy, don't take it seriously, anyway, Song Jiu has never seen the real equality of everyone, so he can only say that if he does it well, he can get as close to this goal as possible.

Compared with the previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty did a good job. One of the biggest contributions is the promotion of this Qi Min system in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi.

For example, when he tried cases, he always favored the disadvantaged. For example, in the imperial examination, Li Fang's son Li Zongge, Lu Mengzheng's cousin Lu Mengheng, Wang Ming's son Wang Fu, and Xu Zhongxuan's son Xu Zhiwen were admitted to the Jinshi, and their results were also good. Although it is a vague name system, Zhao Kuangyi still said: "These are the children of the powerful, they compete with the children of the common people, even if they are promoted with their own talents, the people will say that I take care of them." ”

As a result, all of them were disqualified.

After hearing this, Pan Li'er felt very lucky, her husband did a good job, and the two children were all sent to the academy.

In fact, this is to give more opportunities to the children of the poor.

It can't be the so-called Qi people, but at least in a sense, it reduces the people's resentment due to the inequality between the rich and the poor.

However, what does Li Yi's incident mean, the officials below are going against the trend. From the ventilation reports of the powerful in the capital, the ticks up and down, to some inaction of the officials in Qinzhou, this is not my fault, but the fault of the prime minister.

Song Jiu's crow's mouth worked again, but not militarily, but in Li Fang's fate.

This incident happened something similar to something very bad, Zhao Kuangyi's dissatisfaction was accumulating, and it was this time to wait for Zhao Pu to enter Beijing. (To be continued......)