Winter in Chang'an has finally arrived.

This year's winter was much stronger than that of Jingkang in the fifth year, and since the beginning of winter, most of the days have been sunny and not very cold. At the end of the year, it was like a lot of snow. In this way, insect control and irrigation after winter save a lot of effort. During the Song Dynasty, agricultural technology had made great progress compared to its predecessors. During the time of Taizong, there was a "farmer" who was responsible for teaching farmers to improve farming techniques and increase the yield per mu. At the beginning of the country, the yield of one mu was only two or three stones, and at this time, the emperor paid more attention to agricultural technology than the previous dynasty, and many support and teachings, and in many places, especially in the Jinghu area, the yield of a single mu could reach more than eight stones.

Guanzhong has been ruined, and even if Zhao Huan starts to clean up, it is impossible to restore the old view in just a few years. Moreover, according to Zhao Huan's cognition, he knew that the best protection method in Guanzhong at this time was to reduce the resident population, restore forest vegetation, and dredge the original water conservancy project. Moreover, in terms of grain production, Guanzhong still cannot be compared with Jinghu and other places.

Rao is so, this year, the people of Guanzhong are overjoyed when they see the promise of a bumper year.

The emperor could not exempt the people of the world from paying taxes, and took a lot of care of the Guanzhong where he was stationed, exempting a lot of miscellaneous taxes, and even making the people of the entire Guanshan Sixth Road praise the Son of Heaven Shengming.

Tongguan is the front enemy of the Song army facing the enemy territory, although it is a dangerous and majestic pass, it is still heavily guarded. In the past few days, the snow has been falling heavily, day and night, and the entire Guancheng is shrouded in white snow. Qianli Valley Road is full of snow, the surrounding mountains are pure white, the road is also covered by snow, there is no good way in the world, if you want to sweep the snow on the avenue by manpower, it is pure fool's dream.

The wind and snow were raging, the sky and the earth were pure white, and the generals guarding the pass were also slack, and everyone knew that the cavalry of the Jin soldiers had no reason to dispatch in such weather.

Moreover. Rumors are spreading, since the beginning of the summer, the Song and Jin armistice, after the autumn of the gold lord Wanyan Wu begging to buy the death of illness, the temple name Taizong, his nephew Wanyan Hethorn succeeded to the throne, several lords and factions of the clan nobles grasped the power, and even won the trust of the Thorn. After joining forces from top to bottom and squeezing out Zong Bi and other main battle factions, they were bent on making peace with Song Yan. The two countries exchanged documents, and Song had already signed a letter to the Privy Counsellor Duan Ming Palace, Han Xiao's stomach was in Jin, presiding over the peace affair. Because the emperor was bent on recovering all his homeland, the two countries could not negotiate peace, and it dragged on until the end of the year.

In this way, there was no big war, and there were very few conflicts on the border, only the Xiangyang Song Army. Because the main general Yue Fei saved the idea of battlefield training. From time to time, they crossed the border to fight, and battles on a scale of less than 10,000 people occurred from time to time. Generally speaking, the entire six years of Jingkang except for the battle of Taiyuan at the beginning of the year. The long border between the two countries is mostly crossed in peace.

The day was approaching evening, but the soldiers who were looking into the distance in the city suddenly noticed that the sound of the horn was about to rise, and the whimpering was in pieces, and it was extremely terrible in the ice and snow.

The officer responsible for guarding the castle is not low, and he is the general who commands a regiment.

The new military system has been handed down, and after the law is being enforced, it is another major change. Each army is 30,000 men, and it is commanded by a unified system. Each army is divided into three divisions, with 10,000 people, commanded by a deputy commander, and each division has three regiments, with a number of generals and deputy generals, and then battalions and teams under it. Such a military system is already the same as the three-three system in later generations. Moreover, there are military ranks, a large number of professional sergeants, and there are non-stop training of officers in the martial arts hall.

Correspondingly, the status of military attachés has been continuously improved. The privy envoy was already at the same level as the prime minister, and in this year, the importance of the privy envoy was still above the prime minister. The rest of the generals at all levels are no longer below the civil officials of the same level in terms of salaries, rewards, titles, and the awarding of land and property, and the restructuring of clothing.

At the end of the year, the army got the news that the martyrs' shrine was built in Chang'an City, which was different from the previous dedicated to the generals, as long as they sacrificed their lives for the country in the future, the tablet could enter the shrine and be worshiped by incense forever.

In this way, the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and many things did not need to be ordered by the generals, and their own junior officers and experienced non-commissioned officers stepped forward.

Hearing the sound of the horn on the city, a small group of cavalry guarding the leeward of the city had already prepared to stop, and when the order of the general guarding the gate came down, they immediately opened the city, and the horses' hooves were obtained, galloping towards the visitors in the distance.

Half an hour later, the cavalry went out of the city to check the ground and returned from horseback, and the leaders of the capital got off their horses, and immediately rushed to the top of the city.

When I entered the enemy's building, I saw that several commanders who had been warming the fire were standing still, two young generals were covered with snow on their faces, and they were sitting next to the brazier like a golden sword, and a few soldiers didn't care about themselves, only holding a towel, and patting the snow on the general's armor and neckline.

The general who guarded the city was originally under the command of Han Shizhong, but last year due to the battle of Tongguan, he was transferred from Zhunnan until now.

Seeing that his subordinates were all staring blankly, Wang Quan glared and said, "Who is outside, have you found out clearly?" ”

"I found out, it's indeed Lord Han and his party."

"Hmm."

Wang Quan nodded, ignored the capital, turned to the two generals and smiled: "The calculation time is about the same, and it is really Lord Han." ”

The two young generals glanced at each other, immediately stood up, and instructed the king, "Come with us to greet Lord Han." "Yes, as ordered."

Shicai Natou glanced at his general with strange eyes, and he was puzzled. The two generals in front of him also wore a gold star on their shoulders, and their military ranks were the same as the generals, but they didn't want General Wang to be so respectful to these two people.

Wang Quan didn't care, shouted loudly and ordered his own soldiers to line up, and when they arrived at the bottom of the city, they were in the same column with the two generals who came in a hurry, and rushed towards Han Xiaoyu and his party outside the city.

Han Xiao's stomach had already set off in early winter, and he had been on the road for more than two months, if he had arrived in Chang'an by himself, there were quite a few people in the team who could not afford to offend, the other party was pampered, and he almost lost his life on the road after a few years of driving, and he couldn't bear this responsibility at this time, and secondly, he really didn't have the identity to force the other party to hurry.

At this time, he saw from a distance that many people and horses under the city were coming, so he deliberately slowed down his horse's pace, and then shook off the snow on his cloak, but his hands were cold and purple, but he couldn't care about it.

When Wang Quan and the others arrived, Xiaoxiao jumped off the horse in the heavy snow and bowed to Han Xiao's stomach. Han Xiao's stomach was not moved, his right hand was raised weakly, and he said with a smile: "Generals are exempt from courtesy, this day is cold, why bother with these false courtesies." ”

The general at the head raised his head and smiled at Han Xiao's stomach: "One is to welcome Lord Han, and the other is to accompany His Royal Highness, and the etiquette cannot be abolished." ”

"Oh? It's General Fei. ”

Han Xiao's stomach couldn't help frowning when he saw that it was Fei Lun who came to greet him personally.

The pedestrian division, which has been personally rectified and strengthened by Zhao Huan, already has the power that no one can tell. The prostitutes in the streets, the little two in the teahouse hotel, and the merchants and soldiers are all likely to be people from the pedestrian division. After various improvements and evolutions, various methods of spy surveillance have been reborn in more than a year. Han Xiao's stomach is far away in Shangjing, the country of Jin, and he has heard of the name of the pedestrian division for a long time. In order to deal with the pedestrian division, Jin Guo was also forced to set up a corresponding agency, but in terms of strength and efficiency, there was a big difference.

Such spy agencies, such as the Imperial City Division of the Northern Song Dynasty, are actually insignificant in the eyes of scholars and doctors, and are extremely unliked. At this time, in wartime, the pedestrian division is to spy on the enemy's intelligence, and no one has anything to say, so everyone has to be secretly careful.

And Han Xiao clearly understood in his heart at this time that the power of this Fei Lun command was extremely great, and the weight of power was unimaginable to ordinary people, and it was impossible for him to come in the wind and snow at this time, just to welcome his own book-signing privy.

The kings mentioned by Fei Lun are referring to the princes of the clan who followed Han Xiao back to Chang'an this time.

The peace talks between the Song and Jin countries reached an impasse. The Song Dynasty insisted that the Jin State follow the agreement when they cooperated to destroy the Liao, not only to return all the lost land now, but also to return the sixteen states of Youyun.

In addition, the years of coins are cloudy, and don't even think about it.

Such a tough attitude was also extremely unexpected by the lord and faction of the gold country. Song Liao has been fighting for many years, and even if he wins, he mainly calms things down. Although Zhao Huan tended to be tough after returning to power, Jin always thought that he was in order to keep the territory and the throne, but he never thought that Zhao Huan, who was weak like a slug, was so strong.

In desperation, Jin Guo had no choice but to throw the chassis out when the peace talks were about to break.

The return of Kaifeng and the land south of the Yellow River, the Song Dynasty ceded Hebei, and at the same time, according to the practice of the Liao State, gave a certain annual tribute to the Jin State, then the two countries could sign a peace treaty and keep peace forever.

If the peace negotiation of the Jin State was just a gesture and temptation when it was released to Qin Hui, this time the peace negotiation was sincere and sincere, and it was simply full of goodwill.

Because Jin Guo refused to release Zhao Ji for a long time, nothing was achieved for a few months, and Han Xiao was ordered to return to Chang'an. Several nobles of the Jin Kingdom actually set up a banquet to send each other, and there were many flattering and compliments during the banquet, in short, they taught Han Xiao to explain their difficulties to the emperor after returning to China, and they also gave out all the chassis, hoping that Zhao Huan would accept it when he saw it, and when the peace talks were held again in the next year, a peace agreement could be reached.

Han Xiao naturally disagreed with this kind of peace treaty, but as a minister, he didn't have to reply on behalf of the emperor, and the banquet was just perfunctory. And after the dismissal, he took a long breath, since Shi Jingtang lost the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Han people in the Central Plains have never raised their eyebrows like this, watching the other party bend their waists and ask for peace!

It's just that he was happy at that time, and when he was leaving, Jin Guo did not let Zhao Ji return to Chang'an at the last moment, but sent Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and Zhao Shu, the king of Su, as well as more than a dozen emperors who were robbed that day, and hundreds of other officials from the distant clan, and let Han Xiao bring them back to Chang'an to show his sincerity.