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In fact, it is not far from Li Cun's territory to Yanjing.

Moreover, you can take the waterway all the way, that is, take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and go directly to Yanjing.

But—

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this era is not called the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this era is not as straight as the later generations to Yanjing.

- The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was rebuilt by Kublai Khan's order, he dug up the Jeju River and the Huitong River, and opened up the Tongzhou River to the Qingjiang River in Jiangsu, and the south of the Qingjiang River directly used the Hangou and Jiangnan Canal of the original Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this era is still the one dug by Yang Guang, with Luoyang as the center, and is divided into four sections: Jiangnan River, Hangou, Tongji Canal and Yongji Canal.

However, although the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this era is more than 900 kilometers longer than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in later generations, because it is a continuous waterway, the volume and speed are still far from being comparable to the land route.

But the problem is that the Zhao and Song dynasties did not let Li Cun take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

——Zhao Jijun was afraid that Li Cun would attack Tokyo Bianliang City directly and destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Li Gang negotiated with Li Bangyan and Wu Min many times, but Li Bangyan and Wu Min were sure not to let Li Cun go to Tongji Canal and Yongji Canal, and even put on the attitude of "If Li Cun has to go through Tongji Canal and Yongji Canal, their Zhao Song Dynasty would rather give up letting Li Cun help Zhao Song Dynasty recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun".

Li Gang had no choice but to come to Li Cun to explain the situation, what should I do?

Li Cun called Li Bangyan and Wu Min over and asked bluntly, "Your emperor is afraid that I will attack you with false ways."

Li Bangyan and Wu Min did not speak, and used silence to show that the Zhao Song Dynasty was very worried about this matter.

Seeing this, Li Cun said, "When I was in the land, it was better for my army not to take the waterway, but only to ask me to take the waterway with grain and grass, how about it?"

As soon as Li Cun's remarks came out, the officials of the big cadres immediately objected one after another.

You must know that in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Li Cun has prepared a full 3,000 ships of grain and grass this time.

That's all, and that's not all.

- There are two more parts. Some of them are transported by sea, and the number is about the same as that of those by water; A small part of it is also transported by road.

There is no way, because there is the Zhao and Song Dynasty in the middle, Li Cun must be prepared to transport more grain and grass to Yanjing when the two sides are still in the honeymoon period, so as not to cause the failure of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future due to lack of food or something.

In addition, the Yanyun area has been fighting for many years in the past few years, and the people in its territory have no time to farm, so they must be extremely short of food, and Li Cun still has to prepare emergency food for the millions of people in the Yanyun area.

- Although the area of the Yanyun region is small, its status in the Liao State is very high. Liao has a total population of about 10 million, of which Nanjing Dao (Yandi) has a population of more than 2.2 million, Xijing Dao (Yundi) has 1.7 million, and the total population of Yanyun area is nearly 3.7 million, which is one-third of the total population of Liao. Moreover, the Yanyun region is also the most developed agricultural area in Liao, and a large number of military and financial resources of Liaoguo depend on Yanyun area. Therefore, if there is no food in the Yanyun region, then there will definitely be no food in the entire Liao country. And Hedong and Hebei are not rich in grain. Therefore, if Li Cun didn't bring enough food, he wouldn't have a place to rob it.

In addition, the north is not as good as the south, and after a few months, it will become extremely cold, so Li Cun also prepared a lot of cotton clothes and things for winter.

And the volume of sea freight is large.

However, except for the Jiaodong Peninsula, a port with extremely incomplete facilities that Li Cun had just borrowed from the Zhao and Song dynasties, there was not even a single port on the long coastline of the northbound road, and there was no way to supply the Daqian's fleet and shelter the Daqian's fleet.

This undoubtedly makes sea freight risky.

Besides, you can't put all your eggs in one basket, can you?

Li Cun stopped the shouting of his subordinate officials, and said lightly: "If his family dares to touch my grain and grass, I will immediately start an all-out war against his family, and destroy his family first."

Li Bangyan and Wu Min's faces darkened when they heard this, but they thought about it, Li Cun only used the Tongji Canal and the Yongji Canal to transport grain and grass baggage

, then their Great Song Dynasty will withdraw the troops on the Song-Liao border some more, and they don't have to worry that Li Cun will pretend to attack them.

After consulting Zhao Ji, Li Bangyan and Wu Min agreed that Li Cun's grain and grass baggage could go through the Tongji Canal and Yongji Canal, and took the initiative to say that Li Cun could send an army of no more than 10,000 horses to escort grain and grass.

Zhao Jijunchen was actually reluctant to send Li Cun to escort the army with grain and grass, but the problem was that the territory of the Zhao and Song dynasties was not safe now - there were peasant uprisings in Hebei and Shandong again.

Zhao Ji Junchen was very worried, if Li Cun did not send troops to escort the grain and grass, and Li Cun's grain and grass baggage was robbed by those bold ant thieves, then the Great Song Dynasty might have a big deal.

Li Cun was not polite to Zhao Ji and his ministers, and directly sent the old and steady Xie Yuan to lead 10,000 Jinwu troops to escort this part of the grain and grass to the Song-Liao border by water.

In addition to the two large quantities of grain and grass baggage by sea and waterway, Li Cun also used the more than 3,000 war elephants he brought back from the Indochina Peninsula, 30,000 Dali horses bought from Dali Guoqiang, and more than 100,000 people to transport a batch of grain and grass baggage by land.

However, the amount of this batch of grain and grass is not much-except for the nearly 300,000 soldiers and civilians who eat on the road, it is estimated that there will not be too much left after arriving in Yandi.

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Li Cun's army was about to reach Liaocheng, and Li Cun didn't see Zhao Li leading his 8,000 soldiers to catch up.

In this regard, Li Cun couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Li Cun even thought that even if Zhao Li could only bring 5,000 people, he would give him a acting commander first.

Who wants to ......

Just when Li Cun felt sorry for Zhao Li, the sentry suddenly came to report that there were 8,000 soldiers wearing the uniforms of our cadres in front of him.

When Li Cun heard this, he smiled: "I will be good in the future!"

Li Cun then ordered, "Call Zhao Li to see me."

Soon after, Zhao Li was led to Li Cun.

Li Cun asked, "How many of my 8,000 soldiers did Aiqing bring to me?"

Zhao Li bowed and said, "It should be eight thousand, but it is actually eight thousand, and there are many people."

"Okay."

Li Cun said happily, "Zhao Li listened to the seal."

Zhao Lilang said, "The minister is here."

Li Cun looked at Zhao Li and said, "I have specially appointed Zhao Li as the commander of the subordinate soldiers, and the subordinate soldiers are my third pro-guard army."

He has become a military member since he was white, and he is also the leader of the emperor's personal guards, although Zhao Li is very calm, he still can't help but forget to thank him at the first time.

Thanks to Liu Xuan, he reminded Zhao Li: "Don't hurry up and thank you."

Only then did Zhao Li react, and he hurriedly bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty Xie."

"Excuse me."

Li Cun also said: "You go back and report the meritorious person, and then write a recommendation, the soldiers are the soldiers, I am not ready to add others to my soldiers, and in the future, my soldiers will be filled by my Chu people for the battle losses and expansion."

Zhao Li was even more happy, so that he could explain to his brothers when he went back.

Zhao Li understood that His Majesty was helping him deal with the aftermath.

With such a considerate emperor of courtiers, what can Zhao Li say besides serving his death?

Zhao Li bowed to the ground again: "No!"

Li Cun instructed Zhao Li, "Train the troops well, don't fall into the prestige of the soldiers in the east of the Yangtze River", and then asked Zhao Li to go north with the soldiers and the army, and at the same time change the equipment for combat.

After walking some distance further, Li Cun summoned Zhao Ding and Qin Hui, the companions sent by the Zhao Song Dynasty.

These two people were wanted by Li Cun and the Zhao Song Dynasty.

According to Zhao Jijunchen's intentions, Wu Min and Ma Kuo were sent to serve as companions.

But Wu Min is okay to move his mouth, but in fact it is not very useful, and Ma Kuo's ability is mainly reflected in diplomacy, and he is not the managerial talent that Li Cun wants.

Besides, it is rare to have an opportunity to pick people from the Zhao and Song dynasties, and of course Li Cun has to pick two useful ones.

The Zhao and Song dynasties didn't want to make any more extraneous complications because of this trivial matter, so they put Zhao Ding and Qin

Hinoki sent it over.

Li Cun said to Zhao Ding and Qin Hui, "I heard that the Xiangzhou soldiers are good, so I want to go to Xiangzhou to recruit some brave warriors, and tell you two, lest you two think that I am going to fight your family's famous mansion."

Zhao Ding hurriedly stopped: "We will reach the border in a few days, why should Your Majesty make a branch at this time?"

Qin Hui also said righteously: "If Your Majesty feels that there are not enough soldiers and horses, you can discuss with my Great Song Dynasty, how can you vainly recruit the people of my Great Song Dynasty?"

Li Cun smiled and said, "I'm just talking to the two of you, not asking for your opinions."

After that, Li Cun waved his hand and sent Zhao Ding and Qin Hui away, and then Li Cun personally led the front army, the rear army, the Tabai army and 8,000 soldiers, as well as some of the people who transported grain and grass to Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, and the other armies continued to advance to the Song-Liao border under the leadership of Han Shizhong and Wu Jue, and joined the grain and grass baggage that went to the Song-Liao border by water and sea.

Actually-

It was very troublesome for Li Cun to toss like this.

But Li Cun felt that Yue Fei was worth such a toss.

Thousands of troops are easy to get, and one is hard to find.

Zhao Ding and Qin Hui were afraid that Li Cun would clash with someone halfway, causing the two families to fight, so the two discussed, and finally Zhao Ding followed Li Cun on this trip.

Along the way, there is Zhao Ding to communicate, who dares to stop Li Cun's tens of thousands of troops?

So there was nothing to say all the way.

Soon, Li Cun came to Tangyin County, Xiangzhou.

Here, Li Cun played out slogans such as "Recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun", "My Han Land Has Been Caught in Hushou for 200 Years", and "Xiangzhou Can Have Good Han People".

At the same time, Li Cun sent people to post the recruitment policy everywhere, and also told it in the form of shouting.

Roughly speaking, the selected dare can get 20 acres of fertile land, and the family members, regardless of men, women, and children, can get 5 acres of good land, and the brave can get one and a half acres of good land and two dollars per month, and the generals will increase five acres of good land and half a month for each promotion, and their families will give priority to arranging work......

In short, Li Cun took a two-pronged approach, opening a big net and waiting for Yue Fei to take the bait......

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Yue Fei was born in the second year of Chongning in a village in Yonghe Township, Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, Zhendingfu Road, Hebei Province, ranking fifth, the first four elder brothers all died early, there is a sister in front of him, and a younger brother below.

Yue Fei's father's name is Yue He, and his mother is Yao.

It is rumored that when Yue Fei was born, a large bird flew over his home, so Yue He named Yue Fei "Yue Fei", and even Yue Fei's character "Pengju" may have come from this.

The conditions of Yue Fei's family are relatively poor, and the fields owned by his family are so barren that the income from the family's hard work cannot make all the old and young people have enough food and warm clothing.

And Yue He's health is not very good.

Therefore, from the day Yue Fei was able to participate in labor, he helped the family to work.

Yue He has a bit of culture, so he can teach Yue Fei to read and write, and often tells Yue Fei about the deeds of some heroes in history.

This had a great impact on Yue Fei.

It may be because he has been helping the family since he was a child, or it is more likely that he is talented, Yue Fei has more strength than ordinary people since he was a child.

——When Yue Fei was not yet an adult, Yue Fei was able to pull a strong bow of three hundred catties.

Yue Fei's fellow countryman Zhou Tong was a person with high martial arts skills and good at riding and archery, Yue Fei studied with him for a few years, and then learned all his kung fu back.

Yue Fei's grandfather, Yao Daweng, was very appreciative of his grandson Yue Fei's martial arts, so he asked Yue Fei to learn martial arts from Chen Guang, a famous gunman in the county.

This makes Yue Fei's marksmanship invincible.

Yue Fei got married at the age of fifteen and married Liu, who was slightly older than him in the same village.

The following year, she gave birth to her eldest son, Yue Yun.

Because of having a family, the expenses are even greater.

Yue Fei could only go to the Han family in Dayjin Hall in Anyang County to be a villager.

During the time when the Han family was a guest, Yue Fei shot and killed a rebel leader named Zhang Chao and helped the Han family repel the rebel army.

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Previously, Yue Fei became a guerrilla, that is, an archer.

However, within a few days of doing this job, Yue Fei was fired for drinking and making mistakes.

At present, Yue Fei is idle at home, and is being nagged by the Liu family, "The food at home has bottomed out", "My father-in-law has no money to get medicine", "Yun'er is running out of food......

Yue Fei was also worried about making money - he was thinking about whether to join the army to make some quick money or something? I heard that Song Liao was fighting, maybe he could make a meritorious contribution or establish a career or something.

At this moment, Yue Fei's eldest brother Yue Heng, cousin Yao Zheng, friends Gui Zhang Xian and Wang Gui and more than a dozen people came to find Yue Fei together.

Before the people entered the hospital, Yue Heng shouted: "Yue Fei, the emperor wants to drive Yanjing in person to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and now come to our county to recruit guards, and if you choose, you will give twenty acres of fertile land, and your family will give each person five acres, and the monthly money will be five and five, and you will be able to have three monthly money when you are a chief, I will go quickly, otherwise when the emperor chooses enough, I will not be able to choose."

When Yue Fei heard this, he hurriedly called his younger brother Yue Fan to follow Yue Heng and the others to sign up.

The registration went smoothly.

Yue Fei also won the position of the head of the capital because of the comprehensive conditions such as winning the championship with bows and arrows, being able to ride horses, good marksmanship and superb martial arts, commanding 100 people, 4 yuan a month, and directly received half a year's military salary and 45 acres of fertile land.

In addition, as long as Yue Fei brings his parents, wife Liu, and son Yue Yun, they can each get five acres of fertile land.

Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Yue Heng, Yao Zheng and others also received a lot of promotions - the worst of them was Shi Chang.

It's just one thing, that good field is not in Xiangzhou, but in Ezhou, they have to move their family to Ezhou.

However, the court said that it would arrange a residence for them.

Where is Ezhou?

Yue Fei and the others all didn't know anything.

can look at the rich and generous appearance of the imperial court, and the good land and real estate must be indistinguishable.

Many people have already gone home to pick up their families, and Yue Fei and others are also preparing to go home to discuss with their families about moving their families to Ezhou.

On the way, the careful Zhang Xian said to Yue Fei, "Fifth brother, why do the imperial court's troops wear black, and don't my Great Song army wear red?"

Wang Gui said with a smile: "You don't care if he wears black and red, after all, it is my Han army, this silver money is not fake, and he can recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, no matter what it does."

Zhang Xian thought about it, these big-headed soldiers, they are just soldiers to eat food, maybe they will die in a battle, what do you want to do so much?

Even Yue Fei was thinking that it was good to be able to become an officer directly without starting as a soldier, but the imperial court still recognizes talents and values talents.

Yue Fei and Yue went home and talked to Yue He and the others.

Yue He said that Ezhou is on the edge of the Yangtze River and is a larger state than Xiangzhou.

Liu was not in the mood to listen to Yue He talk about geography to Yue Fei and Yue, he just stared at the small forty taels of silver in Yao's hand, his eyes were hot, and he said excitedly: "No matter where Ezhou is, as long as the officials and the sixth brother go to serve as the emperor's personal guards, my family can have nearly 100 acres of good land, and a lot of monthly money, so I don't have to be hungry and clothed anymore."

Yue Fei and the others heard the same.

After some discussion, the family decided to move to Ezhou.

The next day, Yue Fei, together with Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Yue Heng, Yao Zheng and others, took their families to report.

The imperial court's Jiyi text told Yue Fei and others to immediately enlist in the army and go north with the army, and their families had their own special people to send them to Ezhou by big boat.

Yue Fei and the others did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly bid farewell to their families to receive military uniforms and become a member of the glorious cadre army.

After Li Zheng used a clairvoyant mirror to see Yue Fei and the others change into the military uniforms of the Qianjun from a distance, he smiled: "Yue Fei is mine."

Then, Li Cun instructed the people in charge of resettling the families of these recruits to send the families of Yue Fei and other recruits from Tangyin County to Ezhou properly......

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