This kind of good thing really has to be paid for by themselves.

In fact, now the military expenses of the Western Army are solved by themselves, and the imperial court no longer pays military salaries and food to the Western Army, but it also no longer asks for their taxes, in short, everything is solved by themselves, at most, Wang Yue provides them with loans when necessary in banks around the country, but they also have to repay when due, that is, the interest is more preferential than others......

In particular, in the risky investment of foreign expansion, there is no additional risk interest, or even a reduction in interest, which actually encourages them to plunder outside.

It's mostly a talent deal.

Wang Yue: Because of the expansion of coastal fisheries, the demand for qualified personnel is increasing, and the important income of the Western Army is now to collect qualified personnel for him, and they have begun to develop to the plateau.

This is also why the interest should be reduced.

Talent trading is the most important thing, and there is no expectation of making money from loans at all.

However, because of the complete delegation of power to them, each family is doing very well......

Although they also cry poor.

For example, under the banner of supporting the emperor, coaxed some from poor Zhao Huan and the imperial court, the latter often squeezed some money out of their teeth in order for the Western Army Group to advance and retreat with them, after all, this is a force that can really resist Wang Yue, in the eyes of those naïve civil officials, Wang Yue has not usurped the throne, that is, there are still the Western Army, these Great Song Dynasty loyalists.

Even these bastards sometimes even lied to those in the South.

The latter is even easier to deceive.

These guys secretly scolded Wang Yue at their envoys, and the officials in Sichuan would happily pay for it, and then fantasize that when Wang Yue attacked Sichuan, these guys would raise the banner of rebellion.

But in reality, none of these guys are really poor.

Yao Gu, needless to say, he has a real rich land, Han Shizhong mainly relies on talent trade in Yanyan Road, and also sells oil, which is an important source of his wealth. The Xin Xingzong brothers mainly relied on the trade of the Silk Road, whether they ended up using the middlemen of the Western Xia, they were the main trading channel after all, and there were also the main horse farms in Huangzhong and the trade of Tibet, and Guo Hao controlled the trade with Sichuan.

And the Northwest is not incapable of self-sufficiency.

This era has not yet reached the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the key is that the water conservancy facilities in Guanzhong have not collapsed.

Especially the Fengli Canal.

This irrigation system could irrigate 35,000 hectares at this time.

3.5 million acres.

In this way, one acre of watered land can produce two stones of millet, and this Fengli canal alone can feed a million adult men.

But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, it was at most a few thousand hectares of irrigation.

The decline of Guanzhong was due to the collapse of these irrigation systems, the shift of the political center to the east, the weakening of the importance of Guanzhong, the weakening of investment in the maintenance of water conservancy facilities, the accumulation of sediment for many years, and most importantly, the damage of war. Especially the nomadization of the northwest under the rule of the Mongols, poor Dayuan with Jingzhaofu as the core, plus the surrounding Fengyuan Road including Huazhou, Yaozhou, Qianzhou, Shangzhou and other five states, all add up to only 30,000 households, but the Northern Song Dynasty alone Yaozhou is 100,000 households.

Jingzhao Mansion has 230,000 households!

In the end, Guanzhong, which was once prosperous, became a place of poverty completely.

But not at this time.

Because it was a Western Xia combat base, the Song Dynasty still attached great importance to the maintenance of water conservancy facilities in Guanzhong, and even more so after it became a warlord, after all, they were in charge of themselves.

Yao Gu, as a native of Chang'an, and as a big landowner in Chang'an, all made great efforts to maintain these water conservancy facilities, and even took out loans to build a lot of new ones. Moreover, they also have a common ATM in their hands, that is, the salt pond, the huge salt pond in the east of the river provides them with a steady stream of funds, and they can only be said to be limited warlord secession now, after all, it has only been a few years since they were given power.

Yao Gu is indeed a little unable to control the arrogant generals, but after all, he has Shang Fang's sword and Wang Yue's support behind him.

The proud soldiers and fierce generals do like to do their own thing, but they still have to eat the millet in the pass after all.

It's not to the point of order collapsing.

With Wang Yue pressing on top of their heads, it is impossible for them to reach the real collapse of order.

In short, at this time, the strength of the northwest families was sufficient, and they were fully capable of supporting Li Xiaozhong's western expedition in partnership, and when the western expedition was successful, they would support it even more, and at that time Li Xiaozhong estimated that self-sufficiency was no problem......

He was nothing more than a lack of food.

However, it is not very lacking, it can be developed into the most important Han settlement area outside Yumen Pass, where it must be suitable for farming, can not take the modern Dunhuang area and Dunhuang at this time compared with the crescent moon spring at this time is estimated to be more than 200 meters long, five meters deep complete version, rather than the modern artificial lake that needs artificial water replenishment. Three thousand cavalry to go there is basically enough, the so-called melon king only has a thousand cavalry in the summer, and the logistics capacity of Western Xia also determines that it is impossible for them to go on a large-scale expedition there.

If Li Xiaozhong can really take the three states of Guashasu, then he will really rebuild the Guiyi Army.

As for Liu Xi, the other things that need to be dealt with by Wang Yue here are the wars in the north, but there is no change in either Jinzhou or Xuanda, the only thing that has changed is that Lou Mu once again broke through Bei'anzhou, and Xiao Gan also fled to his Tiewa Oolong Hall again. Immediately afterwards, Lou Mu attacked Gubeikou, but was stubbornly resisted by the defenders, and at the same time Xiao Gan's Xi army attacked again, and then Chang Sheng's army counterattacked, Lou Mu had to retreat, and abandoned the Bei'an Prefecture he had previously captured.

In fact, Xiao Gan deliberately threw it to him.

He and his goddaughter's plan was to deliberately throw Bei'an Prefecture to him, and then let him storm the fortified fortress of Gubeikou, at that time Xiao Gan attacked him on the flank, he could not hold it and could only withdraw his army, and the main force of the Changsheng army would give him a heavy blow when retreating.

In the end, Lou Room failed miserably.

In this whole series of battles, he lost more than 5,000 people.

However, he also pinned down Xiao Gan and Chang Sheng's army, so that the latter could not reinforce the Liaoxi Corridor, and while attacking Jinzhou head-on, Mu Han also sent Yinshu to bypass Jinzhou and sweep south.

The main thing is to grab grain.

Anyway, Han Qingmin gave up Jinzhou City and retreated to Shengshan City, he could have bypassed, but Chi Zhanhui was not a fool, he also gave up the cities in western Liaoning, fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, withdrew the population to Shangzhou City, and then the main cavalry force withdrew to Peach Blossom Island. It was Wang Yue's private territory, and it was also a logistics base in this area, not only the grain transported in the south and the canned food for fishing were piled up there, but also a strong fortress, at this time, the sea was frozen, and you could also step on the sea ice and land directly.

Yinshu can attack Laizhou, and the cavalry over there will attack the rear.

The latter needed to cross two hundred miles of no-man's land from Jinzhou, and then attack the fortified city of Laizhou, and also have to deal with the cavalry raids that landed behind.

Attacking Peach Blossom Island is a good choice.

But they have to step on more than ten miles of ice, trebuchets and the like, they don't have to think about it, they just ride horses to hand-to-hand combat, but even with the Jurchen elite, they have stepped on more than ten miles of sea ice that looks like the Martian landscape, and used bows and arrows to top people's fortresses and firearms, which is obviously too exaggerated. There is a brigade of Changsheng troops stationed on that island, as well as 5,000 Liao cavalry, in fact, most of them are also Jurchens, Chizhan Hui himself is a Jurchen, a Sinicized Jurchen, and it is not the cannon fodder of the Ming military households who were abandoned by Yuandudu on Juehua Island.

In short, the silver art can take the red light or helpless......

These two people were originally generals of the same level, and Chi Zhanhui was originally a general of the same level as Yinshu Ke in the Jin Kingdom in history.

This war has really become a full-scale war outside Cyprus, so to speak.

Even Ma Kuo's Ming army did not fight many times during this time.

However, the latter itself is also containment, preventing the Ming army from reinforcing Jinzhou, so the battle between the two sides is not very fierce, that is, the Jurchen army crossed the Hunhe River to attack and harass, but Ma Kuo directly fortified the wall, and all the militia retreated into Liaoyang City, leaving nothing in those small cities outside. He was unable to attack Liaoyang, and he failed to even attack Shenyang, but the small Jurchen cavalry from Kaizhou through the mountains to the west often engaged the militia in small battles in the southern Liaoning area.

Both sides have won and lost each other.

Anyway, the Jurchens on the eastern road couldn't threaten the Ming Dynasty at all, they just entangled with each other, and in fact, Ma Kuo often sent cavalry to attack the Jurchen tribes in the mountains.

"The king is really ......"

Liu Xi thought about it with a smile......

"The king is really wise, this hand to support Liao, Xi, and Ming, so that our Great Song Dynasty can almost be said to sit back and relax, let the outside of the plug fight blood flow, we just sit firmly in the rear."

He went on to say.

Obviously, these smart people have seen Wang Yue's strategy very clearly.

This guy keeps saying that he is like a brother to those messy peoples, and even personally makes the king of the Ming Kingdom, but in fact, he uses these people as cannon fodder, just like Tuoba Tao shouted back then, they are not from my own country, even if you kill, it is a good thing for me to kill whichever you kill. The Jurchens killed the Xi people, the Great Song Dynasty happened to take over the vast mountainous area north of Yanshan, the Jurchens killed the Khitan, the Great Song Dynasty happened to receive Liaoxi and even Linhuang, the Jurchens killed the Bohai Sea, and the Great Song Dynasty just restored the Han and Tang dynasties' rule over Liaodong.

It's really cunning!

"Don't talk nonsense, I am sincere to my brothers of all nationalities, you see that I even have Jurchen women in my family, I really want to help them."

Wang Yue said.

"Well, that's the lower official who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

Liu Xi said perfunctorily.

"But they really need to be rescued, hurry up and end the trial of the Emperor, I still have to save these brothers of all nationalities!"

Wang Yue said.

"After all, the Emperor Taishang once reigned over the world, since he has been arrested, how to deal with it is nothing more than a sentence, why bother to make a public trial to humiliate the people?"

Liu Xi said.

"If there is no justice, what shall I do with him?"

Wang Yue replied very dryly.

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