Dayuan Jingzhao Yin Lian Xixian immediately invited him to come in after receiving Hao Ren's visit, this Wanhu of the Jin family is now in charge of the Han Prefecture soldier system, according to preliminary calculations, Dayuan hopes to get 30,000 household soldiers. This is not an ordinary poor man's infantry, but 30,000 cavalry. According to Mongolian regulations, one person has three horses. Not to mention the level of this configuration, just thinking about the restoration of the government military system in Han made Lian Xixian feel excited.

Seeing Lian Xixian, Hao Ren sold a little before talking about his purpose, "Lian Jingzhao, have you heard of a passage." The stone man has one eye, beating the Yellow River all over the world. ”

Lian Xixian didn't expect Hao Ren not to talk about the current key construction of the government army, but to talk about religious topics, and finally adjusted his thinking to catch up with Hao Ren's thinking, Lian Xixian said with some hesitation: "...... I seem to have heard someone talk about this in recent days. ”

Looking at Lian Xixian's surprised and even somewhat reproachful expression, Hao Ren explained: "Jing Zhaomo thinks I'm troublesome. Recently, the capital has been in chaos to such an extent, don't you think you should take care of it? ”

Lian Xixian did not object, nor did he express support. Jing Zhao Yin is an ancient Chinese official name, one of the three officials who governed the Gyeonggi region, namely Jing Zhao Yin, Zuo Feng Yi, and Right Fufeng. Equivalent to the mayor of today's capital. As the supreme administrator of the capital, Lian Xixian did know that many religions were stirring up, but Dayuan is now the coexistence of five religions, and the religious policy of 'pay Lao Tzu on time, Lao Tzu will allow you to preach' for religion. Even if Jing Zhaoyi wanted to do something, he was actually very limited in what he could do.

Hao Ren said with a tough attitude: "I'm ...... Da Yuan allowed all religions to preach because the people needed to pray to God and worship Buddha on weekdays. But it is not for these sects to stir up the world and make profits from it. If they are so excessive, don't blame the court for using thunderous methods. If Lian Jingzhao thinks that you are short of manpower, we can mobilize the pro-army to act. ”

"This doesn't have to, this doesn't have to!" Lian Xixian hurriedly declined. Most of the capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the movement of troops must be ordered by the emperor. Jing Zhaoyin is responsible for managing the capital, where can he casually let other armed forces enforce the law in the capital.

Seeing Lian Xixian's expression, Hao Ren smiled and said, "There is no need to worry about Lian Xixian's governance. As long as you feel that you should take action against those sects that fish in troubled waters, I will continue to talk to other rulers about this matter. When the time comes, everyone will come up with an idea together and ask the prince to preside over the matter. ”

As soon as he heard that the crown prince Zhenjin was presiding over the matter, Lian Xixian's expression immediately relaxed. He immediately replied, "It would be great if the crown prince presided over the matter." ”

The crown prince Zhenjin is the person who the Confucian ministers of the Great Song Dynasty really like. Although there were also defeats when Wokotai destroyed Jin before, he was beaten by the monk Wanyan Chen, but those defeats were not seen by the Confucian ministers themselves, and in the end, the Jin Kingdom was also wiped out by the Mongols. In comparison, although Kublai Khan was very martial artistic, he even almost destroyed the Song Kingdom. But in the end, he still failed to achieve this great feat. Not only that, but Kublai Khan also fought defeats that his ministers had seen.

The most important thing is that Kublai Khan is in charge. After three years in charge, the ministers were far more disgusted with Kublai Khan than they had shown.

As for the crown prince Zhenjin, this young man had been worshipping under the Hanchen teacher along with many Mongolian clans since he was a child. The crown prince was particularly fond of Confucianism, and although he was a Mongolian, he could be considered a Confucian student. Lian Xixian and others have heard Prince Zhenjin say many times that after he takes power, Dayuan only needs two religions, one is Confucianism and the other is Buddhism. Kublai Khan was a Confucianist and a Confucian pope. The real golden prince is a Confucian student, and the attitude of the Confucian minister towards the two can be imagined.

Seeing that Lian Xixian was convinced, Hao Ren immediately went to his teacher Hao Jing. Hao Jingnai is an institutional faction, although he also uses the gods and ghosts of science to engage in politics, he himself is very disgusted with the end of the world. Listening to his disciple's opinion on wanting to clean up this group of scum, Hao Ren expressed his support at the time.

In the following days, Hao Ren continued to connect. Try to establish a suppressive cult alliance with the crown prince as the core.

The days flew by, and in a blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth month of the first year of the Great Yuan Dynasty. That is, on the eighth day of the eighth month of the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren of the Great Song Dynasty had already led the troops to Luoyang City.

For Luoyang, Zhao Jiaren's impression is Luoyang water mat and beef soup. The Luoyang Water Banquet began in the Tang Dynasty and is one of the oldest preserved banquets in China. Luoyang water mat has two meanings: one is that all hot dishes have soup, soup and water; The second is a hot dish, after eating one dish of Luoyang water seat, it will be served again after withdrawal, and it will be constantly updated like flowing water.

Luoyang is surrounded by mountains, and the rain is little and dry. In ancient times, the weather was cold and no fruit was produced, so the folk diet mostly used soup to resist the dryness and cold. Zhao Jiaren did not have a high evaluation of Luoyang Water Seat, but he had a very high evaluation of beef soup. It's a delicacy you've never tasted anywhere else.

Looking up at Luoyang City, Zhao Jiaren only felt that this city was so small. Before he could take a closer look, someone shouted, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

Turning his head, he saw the signal fireworks of the enemy attack rising in the sky in the distance, which should have been released by the vigilant cavalry. At this time, the Song army had not yet been able to fully assemble under the city of Luoyang, because Luoyang was a basin, and the Yellow River passed through the basin. The troops couldn't count the marches, so they presented a long snake formation. Thinking that the Mongol army was not passively beaten in the city, but ambushed in advance and carried out a surprise attack on the Song army.

The Song army had already made a plan for this kind of thing to happen, and as soon as the fireworks were launched, some musket troops threw off their backpacks and went in the direction of the enemy, forming a line in a place suitable for defense.

Looking at the neat response of the musketeers from afar, Zhao Jiaren felt very refreshed in his heart. The technology of smelting pig iron in blast furnaces and wrought iron and steel in stirring furnaces has become a cutting-edge technology. Steelmaking requires higher temperatures, which is a matter of materials science. In addition to the carbon in pig iron, this high temperature is not used, and wrought iron technology is the first to make a breakthrough.

The musketeer barrel equipped by the current musketeers is made of wrought iron, which is first rolled into an inner barrel with a piece of wrought iron, and then wound on the outside with a piece of iron to make a barrel. The barrel is then internally machined with a hydraulic boring machine. The processed barrel has a uniform inner diameter, and the toughness and solidity are extremely strong. A fire cap excitation device is installed behind the barrel, and after being mounted on the butt, the main part of a front-loading smoothbore gun activated by a fire cap is completed.

The accuracy of this firecap smoothbore gun is not much stronger than the arquebus used by the Song army before, and its biggest advantage over the arquebus is that it is cheaper and has a higher rate of fire. Trained musket shooters use paper-shelled bullets that can fire six rounds a minute, which is more than the rate of fire of archers who have a range of more than 100 meters. Such an advantage has already made Zhao Jiaren acceptable.

The Song army in the actual battle did not disappoint Captain Zhao, and the Song army, which had already had an early warning, only took five minutes to cause heavy casualties to the Mongolian troops who rushed over. The brave men were killed and wounded, and the rest of the Mongol army immediately turned around and fled. With the troops of the Song army covering the flanks, the rest of the Song army continued to march according to the plan.

Zhao Jiaren was very satisfied in his heart, he did not personally participate in the construction of the army, and one of the purposes of personally leading the troops here this time was to see how the combat effectiveness of the army was.

When the Song army assembled under the city of Luoyang, the battle after that was uneventful. In Anqing, in Nanchang, in Ezhou, in Bianliang, in Jinan, and in Qingzhou, the siege routines of building high platforms have all played a role. In Luoyang, this tactical routine is still working very well. Luoyang could not be considered a small city either, and it took four divisions of the Song army two days to completely conquer the city.

To the regret of the Song army, it was the cavalry commanded by the Mongol Wanhu fierce Huachi who attacked the Song army before. Fierce Huachi was originally a defender of Bianliang, and when the Song army attacked Bianliang, he escaped because he led the cavalry outside, and this time he still led the cavalry outside, so he escaped the fate of being annihilated again.

On August 12 of the fourth year of the Republic of China, four of the fifty carrier pigeons released flew back to Lin'an from Luoyang, bringing back the news that Zhao Taiwei had recovered Luoyang. On 13 August, the cities south of the Yangtze River, which had been connected to cable telegraphs, were the first to receive news of their victory through newspapers. Less than ten days ago, Jiangnan had learned that Taiwei Zhao led an army of 100,000 to build a dam on the river, recreating the grand act of blocking the mouth of the Han Dynasty more than 1,300 years ago, and forcing the Yellow River to return northward. The capture of Luoyang again this time made Jiangnan excited again.

After Wen Tianxiang, the governor of Songjiang Prefecture, learned the news, he rushed to the courtyard excitedly, bowed to the north, and then fell to the ground and cried. Although Mrs. Wen knew that her husband had a heroic personality and was easily excited, she didn't know why Wen Tianxiang was so excited. She didn't dare to pull Wen Tianxiang up at first, but later she saw Wen Tianxiang crying first, then laughing again soon after, laughing for a moment and crying again. She was worried that something would happen to her husband, so she dragged Wen Tianxiang up from the ground with the attendants.

After being dragged up, the prefect of Wen didn't talk nonsense, he immediately ran back to the study to pick up a brush and write an article, and after revision, he copied two copies, one was sent to the local "Songjiang Daily", and the other was ordered to be sent to Lin'an immediately, and the article was submitted to the readers of the "Great Song Daily".

When Wen Tianxiang finished finishing it, Mrs. Wen took the draft and read it. What was somewhat unexpected to her was that Wen Tianxiang's article had very little ink on the military victory, and the focus was all on Zhao Taiwei personally leading the troops to recapture the old capital, and then recapture the Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum, so that the ancestral mausoleum could enjoy the incense. Since then, the ancestors of the Great Song Dynasty can be worshiped at four o'clock. The heroic spirits of the famous ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, such as the tomb of Gao Huaide, the tomb of Cai Qi, the tomb of Bao Zheng, and the tomb of Kou Zhun, can also be peaceful.

Wen Tianxiang's article was sent from the telegraph office to the editorial office of the newspaper "Da Song Daily" in the afternoon of the same day, and the editorial staff were moved to tears by the fierce and generous article after reading it. The editor didn't notice the fact that Taiwei Zhao had recaptured the ancestral tomb. The propaganda content is still Zhao Taiwei's exploits in recapturing Xijing Luoyang. Now, of course, Wen Tianxiang's article should be placed on the front page. Even though it was already evening, the editor forcibly adjusted the layout and added it.

On August 15, the fourth year of the Great Song Republic, the latest "Great Song Daily" was delivered to all subscribers. After reading Wen Tianxiang's article, Xiong Shang, the acting secretary of the Ministry of Rites, first sneered, and then couldn't help laughing. Although it was a loud laugh, there was really no real smile in his voice.

PS: The next chapter is updated tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning.