The second step is to immediately form an army of more than 30,000 and a navy of more than 20,000 after the wharves and barracks are built. The bases under the Huaixi and Northern Branches began to recruit displaced people, and in the first three years, they could first recruit 30,000 to 50,000 displaced people to open up wasteland and farm.

At the same time, establish and improve the organizational structure. The Shandong Branch of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce was established, Fang La served as the president of the Shandong Branch and the general manager of the Liangshan Soldiers and Horses, Zhu Wu, Yang Zhi, Fang Tianjie, Shi Wengong and Ruan Xiaoer served as the deputy general managers of the Soldiers and Horses, responsible for the training of the Horse Infantry Army, and Zhu Wu was the military counselor. Ruan Xiaoer served as the commander of the navy and Ruan Xiaoqi served as the deputy commander. Chai Jin, Wu Song, Wu Yong, Hu Jinshan, and Jiang Jing served as vice presidents of the branch. Chai Jin was in charge of the Crouching Tiger Villa and the trade of Jin and Liao, as well as the purchase of war horses. Wu Song, Wu Yong, and Hu Jinshan were in charge of the branch's commercial affairs, and Jiang Jing was in charge of the financial accounts. Yan Qing, Dai Zong, Xiao Rang, Li Kui, Huang Fu and others stayed in Cangzhou as Chai Jin's assistants. Yan Qing took two hundred soldiers from the special training camp to stay in Cangzhou and obey Chai Jin's dispatch. Huangfu went to Liangshan as the commander of the veterinary battalion to be responsible for the treatment and prevention and control of diseases of horses, pigs and cattle in Liangshan, and Huangfu Xiang was the deputy commander of the deputy commander, responsible for the treatment and prevention and control of diseases of war horses and pigs, cattle and sheep in Cangzhou. Bai Sheng went to the special training camp to receive special training and prepare to carry out a secret mission.

After Fang La left, Wang Yin was in charge of Jiangnan administrative affairs, and Lou Minzhong was in charge of special zone affairs. Luda and Fang Tianjun were transferred from overseas to Kaifeng Mansion for listening purposes. After Zhao Chongyang released all the news here in Cangzhou, he began to ask everyone here in Cangzhou to take action immediately.

In mid-February, Zhao Chongyang returned to Kaifeng Mansion under the escort of a special training camp led by Qiu Qionghu. On the second day, he sent a letter to Cai Jing, and on February 16, Uncle Yin Zhang of Kaifeng Prefecture received a notice from the Ministry of Officials at night, and went to the Ministry of Officials to serve as the right attendant, and the official was promoted from the third grade. The vacant post of Yin was temporarily replaced by Zhao Chongyang, who knew the same thing, and since then the highest administrative power of Kaifeng Mansion has fallen into the hands of Zhao Chongyang.

After acting as the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Chongyang took part of his private catch and draw a part of it among public officials, and Gan Yuming and Lin Chong were jointly responsible. At the same time, self-defense personnel with good skills, young people, and good physical fitness were transferred from various places to Kaifeng, raising the number of people in the special training camp to 2,000. The coaches are Qiu Daoyi, Shi Qian, and Qiu Qionghu in turn, and Lin Chong, Zhao Chongyang, Pang Qiuxia, Qiong Ying, and Fang Baihua sometimes help with training.

The Qingming Festival is coming, the first generation of hybrid rice is ready to start trial planting, dozens of male and female domestic slaves rushed from Nanjing Prefecture, under the leadership of Fang Baihua and Pang Qiuxia, began to plant hybrid rice according to the method of Zhao Chongyang's aid, in the first year, it is planned to plant 60 acres. At the same time, the experimental base for cultivating hybrid rice seeds last year will be tripled, and new hybrid rice seeds will continue to be cultivated......

became the acting government Yin, Zhao Chongyang's reputation in the capital was even louder, and he also became the target of various bigwigs and forces from all sides. Zhao Chong was once again reused, and everyone knew that he had taken Cai Jing's path again. But other forces do not think that Zhao Chongyang must be a figure in Cai Jing's group. The reason why Cai Jing helped Zhao Chongyang must have received enough benefit fees from Zhao Chongyang.

Therefore, not long after Zhao Chongyang took charge of Kaifeng Mansion, Wang Hao also sent someone to invite him to drink tea in the mansion, and the leaders of eunuchs such as Liang Shicheng and Li Yan often sent people to spread the word, saying that the two fathers-in-law were very optimistic about him. Although Gao Yu did not find Zhao Chongyang in person, Gao Yanei has always been in contact with Zhao Chongyang. Only Tong Guan has always been uninterested in Zhao Chongyang, thinking that Zhao Chongyang is too little to do, and he is so famous, and Zhao Chongyang does not take the initiative to give him some decent gifts, so he always likes to say bad things about Zhao Gongzi in front of Zhao Ji. For those powerful people who wooed him, although Zhao Chongyang did not deliberately stammer, he also prepared wine in the Zhuangyuan Building and invited them to dinner, and gave some glass products that were not valuable in Zhao Chongyang's opinion, such as a few glass jades, earrings, rings, wine jugs, wine glasses, etc......

In the blink of an eye, in April, Zhao Chongyang got another opportunity for meritorious service promotion.

Things have to start with the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, a general with great military achievements. This Jiangmen is the Yang family. The story of the Yang family was a household name in the early Song Dynasty. In several major battles between Taizu and Taizong in the Liao and Song dynasties, Yang Jiye led the Yang family to die, and Jinsha became famous in the first battle, but it was also greatly damaged. Later, although the center protected the country, because Yang Linggong persuaded Taizong to keep his promise, he was passed on to Zhao Dezhao, but was suppressed by Emperor Taizong, and was even framed by the traitor Fan Renmei, and was obviously destroyed.

Later, they moved back to their hometown of Hedong and gradually faded out of the upper stage of the Northern Song Dynasty. After a few years, Renzong was in power, sent the generalissimo Di Qing to conquer the west, and the young general of the Yang family, Yang Wenguang, went out on behalf of his father. Yang Huaiyu, the current head of the Yang family, is the youngest son of Yang Wenguang, and later became a general under Zhe Keqiu.

In the early autumn of last year, Western Xia invaded Feiyun Castle, and Yang Huaiyu and Zhe Ke begged his cousin Zhe Ke to rescue each other with 5,000 cavalry from their respective headquarters. Yang Huaiyu led the troops first, and Zhi Ke was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, deliberately distanced himself from Yang Huaiyu, and fell far behind. Li Chengshun, the commander of Western Xia, knew a lot about the soldiers, and originally planned to ambush him halfway. Detection of reinforcements divided into troops, and the front team is the famous Yang family horse. So he decided to let go of the striker and focus on fighting the people who were greedy for life and afraid of death.

According to Li Chengshun's deployment, it is necessary to first eliminate the men and horses of Zhe Ketong, and then block the retreat of the Yang family's soldiers and horses, and attack the men and horses besieging Feiyun Castle before and after, leaving Yang Huaiyu's men and horses here. The abacus played well, but Li Chengshun overestimated the combat power of the Western Xia army and underestimated the combat power of the Yang family.

Let's say that Yang Huaiyu led the 5,000 cavalry of his headquarters to hurry overnight, and the fourth day of the six-day journey arrived at dawn. Li Chengshun did not expect that neither would the enemy army attacking Feiyun Castle.

At this time, the people and horses of Zhe Ketong had only walked more than half of the distance. Just after camping overnight, he was surrounded by Li Chengshun's 15,000 men and horses.

Fortunately, they were camped on a hill, and after Zhi Ketong found that he was surrounded by Western Xia men and horses, although he was afraid, but now he was isolated and helpless, so he had to cheer up his spirits, while encouraging the soldiers to take advantage of the favorable terrain to hold on to help. While letting the soldiers tie up a long rope, he hung his two nephews, Zhi Yanzhi and Zhi Yanping, from the cliff in the rear, and thought of going back to the camp and Feiyun Castle for help.

After the two fell off the cliff, they stole the horses of the Tanguts, one rushed back, and the other drove to Feiyun Castle. As a result, Zhe Yanping's horse had a problem halfway, delaying the time to return to the camp to move the rescue troops, and when Zhe Yanzhi arrived at Feiyun Fort in a day and night, the battle between Yang Huaiyu and the Western Xia people was in a state of anxiety, and there was no way to draw troops at all.

It was a night when the northwest wind was strong, Yang Huaiyu sent people to sneak through the summer camp, and set fire in the camp behind the Xixia people. Due to the fire in the back camp, the Xixia people had to run to the front, running less than half a mile, suddenly ambushed the soldiers, several waves of arrow rain in a row, 20,000 Xixia people and horses went to six or seven, and Yang Huaiyu led people to rush into the enemy army for a while, and finally the enemy deputy commander Li Yuhu, the nephew of the Western Xia Emperor, fled back to the Western Xia in a hurry under the escort of hundreds of dead soldiers.

However, due to the late arrival of the rescuers in the base camp and Yang Huaiyu's rescuers, Zhi Ketong led the troops to hold out for three days and three nights. In the early morning of the third day, the defense line on the mountain was breached, and the army of Western Xia poured up the mountain like a tide. Half an hour later, rescuers from both directions arrived almost simultaneously, but by this time, the battle was almost at a speed, and Zhi Ketong had already died. They rescued only a few hundred remnants.

Li Chengshun was caught between the two support armies, and in this battle, the casualties were even more serious, and the 20,000 main forces led by his nephew were almost completely wiped out. Therefore, from both a strategic and tactical point of view, the Great Song Dynasty achieved a major victory. And Yang Huaiyu, with a tired army of 5,000 from afar, plus 3,000 defenders of Feiyun Castle, actually defeated the 20,000 elites of Western Xia in one fell swoop, which was really a rare victory.

But it was because of the deliberate delay of the fighter plane that Zhi Ketong died, he was the cousin of the commander Zhi Keqiu, not only did he not report his military exploits for him and asked for a reward, but also to treat the crime of "his poor rescue and causing his colleagues to die in battle". Not only was Yang Huaiyu unconvinced, but the soldiers who followed him were even more unconvinced. At that time, the two members of the Yang family, who followed him to fight, grabbed the weapons of the guards in the Chinese military tent and protected Yang Huaiyu from the military camp of the Zhejia army. In order to allow Yang Huaiyu to return to the Yang family's army smoothly, Yang Zaimeng asked Yang Yizhong to protect the main general first, and he waited for the 100 guards outside the camp to break off.

In the end, the sacrifice of Yang Zaimeng and 100 guards won time for Yang Huaiyu to return to his military camp. That night, Yang Huaiyu counted several major crimes that could be saved, and sent people to report to several other commanders in the Western Army, such as Seed Master Dao, Seed Master Zhong, and Liu Yanqing. asked them to explain to the imperial court and Tong Guan on their behalf, and he took 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 infantry to his hometown Hedong. When they arrived in Hedong, coupled with the addition of displaced people along the way, Yang Huaiyu's men and horses reached 80,000 in a few months. Yang Huaiyu's rebellion flew into the capital like snowflakes, and when the Zhangzhang in the Seed Master Dao and the Seed Master arrived, Tong Guan had already ordered Zhi Keqiu and Liu Yanqing to lead the troops to conscript.

The Yang family has been loyal and good for generations, and Yang Huaiyu never thought of rebelling with his family. But now the situation is pressing, and the Yang family can't be wiped out because of his foolish loyalty. He also heard that General Tong Guan personally led an army of 150,000 to crusade against him, so he decided to move his family to Taihang Mountain, temporarily relying on Taihang Mountain to deal with the imperial court.

There are several fierce generals in the Yang family's army, the first Yang Zaimeng has been killed in battle, and the second Yang Yizhong, in his thirties, both of whom are Yang Huaiyu's nephews. In addition, Yue Zhan, Meng Yunfei, and Jiao Yunlong are also veterans of a hundred battles, but they are all forty years old. These three people are the descendants of Yue Sheng, Meng Liang and Jiao Zan, the generals who followed Yang Liulang and Marshal Yang to guard the three passes.

When Tong Guan adjusted the people and horses to arrive at Yang Huaiyu in Daxing Mountain in March, he was led by the above generals, relying on the right time and place, and Liu Yanqing lost his armor and abandoned his armor, only to know that this Yang family would be really difficult to mess with, but at this time, Tong Guan was difficult to ride, and when he was unsure of raising the flag, the representatives sent by the seed master and the seed master arrived.