Chapter 324 Geng Gong of the Great Song Dynasty
It's just that this master is not easy to choose!
Shazhou is the land of tigers and wolves, Gaochang Uighurs, Qarakhanid, Western Xia, and even Yelu Dashi in the north.
However, the latter has already moved south.
It was because he had already marched south that the Muguls were relieved to invade the south, and Yelu Dashi left 10,000 men to continue to garrison in the vicinity of Kedun City, and then he led 20,000 cavalry southward, aiming directly at Qarakhanid, or Eastern Qarakhan. The Qarakhanid is divided into two parts, the eastern Qarakhanid controls the north of the Syr Darya River, the seven rivers, plus Kashgar, the capital city of Balasagon is roughly equivalent to the broken leaves, but Khotan is also under their control, and the Western Qarakhanid controls the river and part of the Ferghana basin, and the capital cities of Bukhara and Samarkand.
As for faith, it goes without saying.
But at this time they were all vassals of the Seljuk Turks,
According to the time, Yelu Dashi should almost reach Yemili, that is, the modern Xinjiang Emin......
It was from there that he began his real conquest of the Western Regions.
So he actually withdrew from the war in the East, although at this time he was still a Liao minister, but obviously had little interest in the exiled court in Yanshan City, he was not loyal to a puppet of Wang Yue, with his mind of course understood that this Liao emperor was just working for Wang Yue in the end. But he also knew that he couldn't beat Wang Yue, or even the Jurchens, and even if he fought a decisive battle with Mengwu, it would be difficult to win steadily, so why didn't he go to a better place to bully a group of opponents who were obviously easy to bully.
Over the years, he has done a good job in intelligence work in the Western Regions, and he knows very well what the level of the scum there is, and 20,000 well-equipped Khitan cavalry is enough to sweep away these messes.
On the contrary, it is hopeless to stay in the city of Kedun.
Because whoever the final victor of the Eastern Battlefield is will not tolerate him being there.
But even so, the Song army that was going to Shazhou was a lone expedition, and they had to face not only the complicated local situation, but also possible enemies in four directions.
Including Western Xia.
This has to be a true warrior.
It's not enough to say that they are like Ban Chao, they have to be Geng Gong for Da Song!
"Call Li Xiaozhong, it's boring to affect him now!"
Wang Yue said.
Li Xiaozhong or Li Yanxian is indeed very boring at present.
Because the two brothers have already died of old age.
It is said that at this time, the seed master is already seventy-five, and the seed master is also sixty-seven, and now the internal situation of the Great Song Dynasty is so weird, these two old men are not interested in continuing to mix, but as the result of the internal division of the Western Army system, his nephew Chong Wei was appointed as the envoy of Jingyuan Road, and he can be regarded as a part of these small warlords in the Western Army system.
But the problem is that there are too many generals under the breeder, there are more wolves and less meat, and a Jingyuan road is obviously not enough, you must know that Zhang Jun, Wu Jue, and Li Xiaozhong are all under the hands of the breeder, and it is easy to say when they fought before, but now that they don't fight, they will immediately start to discord internally, and Li Xiaozhong is obviously not Zhang Jun who is good at sycophancy, nor is he cunning and cunning like Wu Jue.
He is an upright general.
So......
He was ostracized and sent home.
In fact, with the end of the Northwest War and the warlordization, there was more or less infighting within each family of the Western Army.
For example, Yao Gu obviously couldn't control Han Shizhong, who was the strongest in Yan Road.
And the curved end has also been overhead Huanqing Road to set up a system.
Because Yao Gu is old, although there are brothers Yao Pingzhong and Yao Youzhong, these two talents are obviously unable to compare with Han Shizhong and Qu Duan, and can only rely on Xuanfu to make the monk Fang Baojian maintain, or rely on the authority given to him by Wang Yue to maintain, but it is not very effective to speak, like Yan Yanlu and Huanqing Lu have actually become small warlords under him, a big warlord.
Especially Han Shizhong, who also has a close relationship with Wang Yue.
It's the same with Xin Xingzong.
He has a lot of brothers, and he also has a descendant who can fight, and his control is slightly stronger.
But it didn't work.
For example, the current Qin Fenglu has been de facto controlled by the veteran Guo Cheng, who is not outstanding in his own talent, the key is that he has a son named Guo Hao.
Xin Xingzong couldn't suppress Guo Hao.
Wu Jue can't even do it!
In short, at this time, the Western Army has really begun to become arrogant and fierce because of Wang Yue's indulgence, which is also the reason why the brothers of the Seed Master Dao are old, and the two of them are too old to be interested in entanglement with these guys. A bunch of old guys are a little powerless now, they really can't hold down these young people, and it won't be good if they don't retreat bravely one day.
Including folding can be asked there is the same.
Although he has the strongest control over the Zhejia army, he can only control the Jinzhong Plain with Taiyuan as the core, and it is Wang Yu who really has the final say in the Zelu area.
Wang Yu still has the most elite Shengjie army in his hands, this army has been expanded to 20,000 with the support of the Zelu gentry, and they have actually formed a separate force, which can not be managed anyway, but Wang Yu cannot be said to be a warlord, because he listens more to the words of the court, and he is the main local supporter of the ministers of the court outside.
Anyway, it's a psychological comfort.
The ministers of the court and China also knew that it was impossible for Wang Yu to really do anything, but having such an army in Zelu would make them feel not alone after all.
In short, this is the current Great Song Dynasty.
Wang Yue really controlled Hebei, Yanshan, Jingdong East Road, and the imperial court nominally controlled Jingxi Road, Gyeonggi Road, Jingxi East and West 2nd Road, and Wang Yu listened to them on Zelu, but in fact, as long as Wang Yue spoke, they still had to listen honestly. Then except for the areas controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty, the rest are similar to warlord secession, and the various systems in the northwest make it impossible for even military and political officials to be appointed by the imperial court, and they are all solved internally and then reported to the imperial court for approval.
This is also the result of Wang Yueyao.
He just wants the warlords of the northwest to be divided, where the real danger is gone, and the Western Xia has suffered heavy losses after being beaten once, and at this time he can't swallow this breath.
But if you really let go of your hands, Han Shizhong can beat them.
In fact, the horse bandits on the Yan Road still often wander to them, breaking through a village from time to time to take the population away, and then running to the side of the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Xia people have to face the elite of the Yan Road in pursuit, and the population taken by the horse bandits finally goes there......
Of course, it is the Yan'an talent exchange market!
Han Shizhong is poor there, how can he get rich if he doesn't engage in talent exchanges?
In the final analysis, Western Xia is nothing more than a past envoy of the difficult army, can't the envoy of the army of Bao Dajun defeat the envoy of the difficult army?
Since the security problem in the northwest is no longer a problem, then Wang Yue doesn't need to care, what can they do with the warlord separation? He's going to pick up the stick, do these people dare to resist? Including their internal arrogance and fierce generalization, he also encouraged, so that they can continue to divide internally, and in the end, when he starts to clean up, he will have no courage to confront him. Then you might as well have a glass of wine to release the military power or something, and give some industrial and commercial benefits, such as a mine for their family, and a part of their stocks, to ensure that their children and grandchildren are rich and noble, and let them honestly hand over power.
and those who refuse to hand it over will be killed.
A country that has completed the modern military system and entered the industrial age cannot solve this kind of petty warlords, then it is really nonsense.
As for Li Xiaozhong, he is just an unlucky person out of this warlord's separatism.
He is currently at home.
He is a close confidant of the seed master, but he does not have a good relationship with the seed master, who listens to Zhang Jun, and then can't provoke Wu Jue, and Zhang Jun and Wu Jue don't like the upright Li Xiaozhong, and finally everyone works together to squeeze him out.
In this way, Li Xiaozhong can go to Shazhou to start a career.
He's certainly capable enough.
There is no problem with his character, he and Wang Yue are good brothers, and they are also from Longxi.
He simply selected 3,000 cavalry, matched each of them with two horses, and then took a camel to carry supplies, and then went on an expedition or to assist the Han people in the Shazhou area, and quickly controlled the three states of Shaguasu, and there would be no problem with future development, because he would control the commerce of the Western Regions. As a special dispatch by Wang Yue, Xin Xingzong will try his best to ensure his logistics, although in fact there is no logistics, Xin Xingzong can transport him with a pitiful number of military supplies, across a thousand miles of plateau no man's land!
Such logistical supplies are just talk.
But these warlords in the northwest will definitely support him, because in this way they can control the trade in the Western Regions, and all the trade to the Western Regions, no matter which route they choose, will go through this area, and not only the Western Regions, but even from Shazhou to the south, there is also a trade route that bypasses the Tibetan tribes and leads directly to India. As long as Li Xiaozhong really controls this area, then all the warlords in the northwest can use his protection to carry out trade in the Western Regions, completely avoiding the middleman of Western Xia.
After opening up the Hehuang, the Great Song Dynasty could indeed bypass the Hexi Corridor, but when the two states of Guasha were controlled by the Western Xia people, most of the trade had to go through this area, and the only real bypass was to go from Qinghai to Datuncheng, and then continue to Khotan. But this road is really thousands of miles of uninhabited land, starting from Xining in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau no man's land has to travel 3,000 miles to Ruoqiang, this route to the south is Hoh Xili, such a trade route is really better than nothing.
But it's not the same when you get Guasha 2.
And once this plan is completed, the financial resources of the Western Xia will be cut off, they will no longer be able to get the coins, and they will be looted a lot, and if they lose the trade and blood supply of the Western Regions, it will not be long before they will have civil strife.
At that time, you can take advantage of the opportunity, they are a good place to grow cotton.
"Then they will send an order to the Xuanfu envoys and envoys in the northwest, they must gather 3,000 elite cavalry, 6,000 war horses, and 3,000 camels, and assemble in Xining, and everyone must carry supplies that can last at least a month and the necessary war materials, and they must arrive in Xining before the end of June this year.
Wang Yue said.