Chapter Seventy-Nine: The General Trend of the World
Time was passing slowly, and in the blink of an eye, it had been two full years since Li Xuan came to this plane, and it seemed that after leaving the rivers and lakes, time had suddenly accelerated.
Of course, in the past two years, Li Xuan has not been idle, on the contrary, most of the time, he is busy, especially after the founding of the dynasty, there is less and less leisure time.
Martial arts will naturally not fall, as an alternative plane traveler, he is destined to carry out the road of the emperor from scratch again and again, the practice of the emperor's martial arts "Yellow Emperor Heart Sutra" now seems to be not just a record of the art of war and internal strength so simple, since the founding of the Tianlong plane, every expansion of the country, every promotion of the people's heart, and even every decision made, while combing the country, the true qi in the body will also appear in different ways, and the effect is even better than the harmony with the yin and yang of women.
It is still the third realm, and every promotion of the Yellow Emperor's Heart Sutra seems to have an invisible threshold preventing the breakthrough, and it takes a certain opportunity to enter the next realm.
There is only one year left before his return, which sounds like a long time, but for Li Xuan, it is far from enough, his goal is to integrate all the resources of this low-martial world and provide him with an endless stream of manpower and material resources in the primordial plane.
The Fang La uprising in the south of the Great Song Dynasty is still continuing, but at this time, anyone can see that the rebel army that was still arrogant last year is basically at the end of the strong crossbow now, and Fang La finally failed to resist the temptation of the emperor, and ascended the throne in Hangzhou in mid-September last year.
Although it was because of Zhao Min, the other party made a killing move, but in the overall situation, the Song Dynasty was the main enemy of the Han Dynasty, the enemy of the enemy. Although they may not really be friends, but at some point, they can be used, in short, in terms of momentum, the Han Dynasty in the north chose to support Fang La's behavior, and even sent envoys with national gifts. On the day of Fang La's accession to the throne and proclamation of the emperor, he went to Daohe and sent 5,000 war horses and 10,000 sets of excellent equipment.
For the righteous army who lacked military supplies, this gift was big enough, at least to arm all the elites in Fang La's hands, which were not much, to the teeth.
Of course, the gift was still exchanged, and as a return gift, Fang La sent a large number of people, and reached a long-term intention with the Han to exchange the population for huàn equipment, although there was some impulse to drink to quench thirst. But Fang La is also helpless, since Zhao Min left, all kinds of problems within the rebel army that were not a problem when Zhao Min was in the army have been highlighted, the internal generals and strategists began to fight for power and profit, and the external Song Dynasty also began to use various means of division and disintegration, so that the territory of the rebel army was reduced by one-third in just a few months.
Although the population is important, the current population is for Fangla. It has become an invisible burden, so it is. In the end, it will definitely be a big disappointment, but if you don't do it, I'm afraid that the emperor who hasn't done it will also be driven down, in the face of this internal and external dilemma, Fang La can't think of a better idea to solve the current dilemma.
However, as a steady stream of people were sold to the north as cattle in general, the group was initially gaining momentum. The rebel army, which has the potential to sweep the world, can be regarded as coming to an end, even with the support of the north, it is only a lingering breath.
Compared with the declining strength of the Southern Rebel Army, another force formed by heroes has entered the eyes of the world.
Eight hundred miles of water is parked in Liangshan, but the leading figure is not Song Jiang. Although it did not declare independence, but in the Qingzhou area near Liangshan, it caused a huge repercussions, and even the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court suffered a big loss in its hands, not only failed to exterminate, but lost the army, so that the other party's power was stronger, faintly, and the south of Fang La, a south and a north, echoing each other, so that the court could not concentrate on dealing with Fang La, and also gave Fang La a chance to breathe.
Eight hundred miles of water in Liangshan, it sounds very bold, but for the great Song Dynasty, in fact, it is just a mustard of moss, which is not a big deal, but it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, surrounded by water, and the people who are entrenched here are not ordinary bandits and water bandits, no matter the training or equipment or anything, they are by no means comparable to ordinary mountain thieves and water bandits, and even the current imperial court forbidden army may not have the other party's sophisticated.
In the past, many thieves and bandits who gathered in the mountains and forests, coming and going like the wind, when they couldn't deal with it or didn't have much energy to deal with it, most of them would choose this trick.
That leader is not a fuel-efficient lamp, with Liangshan's current military appearance, even if he wants to take down a few county seats, it is not impossible, but Liangshan is taking the route of elite soldiers, not caring about the surrounding cities at all, and he is not guilty of the people, and even many times will help the surrounding people, although he does not occupy the city, but he has a sufficient base of people, even if the court wants to sneak attack, it is secretly sent out by those ubiquitous Diao people, so that the other party has a defense, and the result is naturally a failure.
Even with the national strength and heritage of the Song Dynasty, in several encirclement and suppression of Liangshan failed, it was also a wound, the war together, 10,000 taels of gold, if you really calculate it, with several battles of encirclement and suppression of Liangshan, the real loss, I am afraid that 10,000 taels of gold is just a drop in the bucket, such a loss, even the Song Dynasty is a little unbearable, the final result is that it was expected to be completely pacified at the beginning of the year, and finally failed to really pacify, but made Fang La after a period of rectification, regain a firm foothold, At the beginning of the year, I won a few small battles, but I completely made up for the lost morale, and I really gained a firm foothold.
Of course, trade with the Han continued, but the initial population had been canceled in favor of grain, farming tools, and various artisan skills in exchange for support from the North.
For these things that happened in the Song Dynasty, it is naturally difficult to hide from Li Xuan's ears and eyes, and Li Xuan did not say much about Fang La's refusal to continue human trade, after this period of population trade, now the sixteen states of Yanyun and even western Liaoning are sparsely populated, and the situation of alien races has also been alleviated, and the proportion of Han people has increased a lot, which is also convenient for Li Xuan's rule.
Now that there is a change of grain and grass, it is also in line with Li Xuan's mind, at the moment, for him, the most urgent need is not the population, but the grain and grass that need to be prepared for the general attack on Western Xia, but Fang La's transaction is just in time.
In short, the time of most of the year was stumbling, but Li Xuan had done all the preparations for attacking the Western Xia, and the next thing to do was to completely occupy the Western Xia within this year and quickly stabilize it, so that the pattern of the world would change from the former five countries standing side by side before he left to a situation of confrontation between the two heroes. (To be continued......)