Whether it is the Jin-Liao alliance, or the Song-Jin alliance, as well as a series of changes such as the fall of Cai Jing and disarmament, the intelligence network of Zhao Chongyang, the king of Dasheng, will send the information to Da Nang, the capital of Dasheng State, in a timely manner, but after all, it is completely separated by the ocean, and the distance is thousands of miles away. It took at least 40 days from the time the information was received to the time when the instructions were received.

In response to the issue of disarmament, Zhao Chongyang sent letters to Zhe Kehe in Xingqing Prefecture, Zhong Shi Zhong in Taiyuan, Yang Huaiyu in Taihang Mountain, and others, asking them to resist the pressure of food and salary, raise grain and grass by themselves, resolutely not lay off troops, and promised to support Zhe Kehe and Zhong Shi with 1 million yuan each every year for the two of them to buy grain and grass.

And let Lu Junyi assist Zhong Shidao to divert the 40,000 Zhong family troops in the Daimyo's Mansion, Zhongshi Dao kept 10,000 for himself, and the grain and grass were supplied by Lu Junyi. Lu Junyi himself left 5,000 men and horses by his side, 5,000 to Cangzhou and Chai Jin, 5,000 to Dulonggang to Li Ying, and the remaining 15,000 to Shuibo Liangshan to be reorganized by Fang La.

Regarding the alliance of Jin Liao, the Dasheng high-level leaders headed by Zhao Chongyang also believed that Dajin from Wanyan Aguta, Wanyan Gao to Jin Wushu and others were all unprofitable guys, not to mention that they took the initiative to make peace and curry favor with Liao, which must have a conspiracy.

After analyzing and demonstrating, especially after knowing the requirements made by the Liao envoy to the Song court, he came to the conclusion that the two countries might jointly attack the Song Dynasty, but the time was still uncertain.

Later, I thought of the severe drought in the north, and there must have been a lot of victims in the second half of the year. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang issued a notice to prepare warehouses in various places and sell a large amount of grain for storage, and strive to reach 800,000 stone in Jiangnan, 50 stone in Shandong, and 200,000 stone in Huaixi.

At this time, all parts of Dasheng Country had been stabilized, and Fang Tianjie, Li Jun and others had successively seized a number of places in Nanyang, and after receiving refugees sent by Ruan Xiaowu and Qian Xiaobo, they happened to be sent to various places for resettlement in a planned manner.

It's just that in this way, after receiving the urgent distress information from Taihang Mountain, although there is grain in the local area of Dasheng Country, it is used to help the refugees who are transported, and they dare not transport grain from the local grain to support.

Zhao Chongyang immediately convened a joint meeting of the military giants, the prime minister and the ministers in Da Nang to discuss countermeasures.

At the meeting, everyone spoke freely and put forward many good suggestions. At the end of the meeting, Zhao Chongyang issued a call for "establishing a consolidated Taihang Mountain base area", asking all parts of the Central Plains to support food and local support workers in Dasheng Kingdom, and asked Fang Tianjie and Li Jun to suspend the opening of overseas territories and return to Da Nang immediately.

In the two years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 2,000 people from the Central Plains have not been admitted to the Jinshi.

Zhao Chongyang asked the cabinet headed by Zong Ze to interview these people in batches, and then put them in certain positions to see if they were competent. Those who are competent continue to do grass-roots leadership work, and those who are not competent go to schools to teach, and those who are not competent go to various departments as civil servants (scribes) to do some copying and writing work.

At this meeting, it was decided to let the seven generals of Wu Song, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Qiu Qionghu, Di Lei, Shi Zhongyu, and Luo Yanqing go north with 300 people working at the grassroots level to support the Taihang Mountain base area, and there were 1,000 special combat soldiers who set off with them.

After the meeting ended, Zhao Chongyang, the king of Dasheng, simply put on makeup, and set off north overnight with Shenxing Taibao Dai Zong.

After Zhao Chongyang left, the queen and several princesses were naturally not at ease, so Zhao Fujin asked Yang Zaixing and Hu Sanniang to take a hundred palace guards to protect Fang Baihua, Pang Qiuxia, Duan Qiaoqiao and others to go north with Wu Song and others, and meet Zhao Chongyang in Taihang Mountain.

In addition, after Wang Zhennan and Wang Yan and others in Jiangnan received Zhao Chongyang's notice to buy grain and store grain, they did not dare to be slow, and Hanyang, Jiangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Yangzhou and other places bought a total of 600,000 stones of grain within two months.

Below Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Xishan Island, Qingxi County, Jinhua and other places purchased a total of 700,000 stones, Wang Yanren stored 300,000 stones of grain in the cold hole of Fangjiazhai Bangyuan Cave, plus the original storage of 200,000 stones, Bangyuan Cave stored a total of 500,000 stones of war preparation grain. The rest of the 400,000 stones were all stored in Nanjing.

After receiving the rescue from Taihang Mountain, Wang Yan asked Qian Xiaobo and Xie Bangjin to organize all the small and medium-sized ships in the south of the Yangtze River to transport 100,000 stone of grain from Yangzhou to the north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Damingfu, and informed Wang Daping, Lu Junyi and others to organize carriages and other carriages at the Taimingfu wharf, and after the grain ships arrived, they were transported to Taihang Mountain in time.

At the end of August, 100,000 koku of grain arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion. At this time, the first batch of 50,000 stone grain from the Shandong base area had arrived in Dingzhou, a region near Yangjia Dazhai in Taihang Mountain, and it was only two days away from Yangjiaping.

The Taishou here is Cai Jing's protégé Jiang Wenbo, and now that Cai Jing has fallen, he also knows that his Taishou will not be able to work for long, so he is not particularly concerned about political affairs.

Originally, ten days ago, he received an order from Shangfeng to strictly inspect the caravan heading north, and not allow a grain to be transported to Yangjia Dazhai near Wutai Mountain. But he didn't let Dong Ping, the chief of soldiers and horses, lead the troops to guard the official road every day, and only let the head catcher and dozens of errand soldiers accompany him here for routine business, and after collecting a few toll money, they were all released.

At noon on the 26th of August, a large caravan came, and the carriages stretched for more than 20 miles, and there was no end in sight, and there were 2,000 carts if there were not 3,000 carts.

Jiang Wenbo had never seen such a huge caravan in his life, and he thought that he could make a big deal of money this time.

Immediately have someone put in place the obstacle that is blocking the vehicle's progress.

In a few moments, the caravanserais approached. Walking in front were more than 100 cavalrymen, and when a man in his thirties saw that the tolerance of the government was blocking the way, he made a gesture and stopped the carriage.

He jumped off his horse, walked towards the checkpoint, and arched his hand to Jiang Taishou, who was sitting on the public desk on the side of the road: "I don't know what this adult is called?" Below is Li Ying from Dulonggang, Shandong, who helped Wantong Chamber of Commerce transport a batch of goods north, and asked the adults to raise their noble hands and let them go. ”

"This official Dingzhou is too shou Jiang Wenbo, and I am ordered to check here whether passing vehicles are smuggling grain and salt and iron tea to Liao, please take the initiative to cooperate. In addition, a toll of 10 cents per vehicle is paid. ”

"Oh, didn't it last year that only salt and iron tea were banned? Why is there a food embargo this year? Li Ying asked.

Jiang Wenbo: "We only received a notice from Shangfeng a few days ago, emphasizing that not a grain of grain is allowed to go north. ”

"Master Jiang, do you think this is okay? We were carrying a lot of goods this time, and there were 2,000 wagons, and if they were to be inspected next to each other, it would take at least two hours or more. This is the main road from south to north, and our carriage occupies the official road, which interferes with the movement of other vehicles. ”

Li Ying beckoned to his subordinates, and his subordinates jumped off the horse and came over from the carriage, Li Ying took out a dozen silver tickets from his arms and handed them to Jiang Wenbo, "Here are one thousand taels of silver tickets, which are specially given to adults for their hard work." In addition, there is a thousand dollars here, which is just our toll. ”

Jiang Wenbo smiled all over his face: "Is this too much?" ”

"Not much, not much, just willing to ask adults for convenience."

"I also know that the Wantong Chamber of Commerce has always been law-abiding. Han catches the head, let it go, this is the hard line given by the owner of Li Zhuang, and I will share it for everyone. ”

Han Zhutou asked the messenger to move the barricades, and the caravan's carriage began to move north again.

Li Ying asked a subordinate to take fifty horsemen to explore the road, and he continued to chat with Jiang Taishou on the side of the road.

Jiang Taishou waved his hand, and a messenger brought his own stool and asked Li Ying to sit down. Li Ying asked a cavalryman to take a shiny metal square bottle (kettle) from his horseback, and when he saw that there were several earthen bowls for everyone to drink water on the desk, he picked one up and poured a piece of water from the bottle.

Yo, it's not water, how can water have a strong aroma of wine. Smelling the thick aroma of wine, the wine worms immediately jumped up their throats.

"Isn't this the fairy drunk that the rich drink? I had a drink at Taishou-sama's last time. ”

Jiang Taishou said: "What? Still remembering that taste? ”

While everyone was talking, Li Ying had already poured half a bowl and handed it to Taishou, and then poured two bowls of wine for the people to drink. Li Ying raised the sprinkler pot: "Today, Mengjiang Taishou and all the officials and brothers Gao Yi, I would like to give you a cup." ”

When one pot was finished, one of the soldiers brought another. Most of the hours passed, and ten pounds of wine (twenty catties) were drunk before and after, and the carriage was finished. Behind the carriage, a handsome young man led more than 200 horsemen.

The young hero arched his hand on horseback and said, "Brother Zhuang, don't finish drinking, leave a sip for the younger brother." ”

Li Ying smiled and said, "Brother Shixiu, are your two pieces long gone?" With that, he handed over the wine bottle.

Shi Xiu was not polite, took the wine and drank it with a grunt. After a few big sips, he replied: "I just can't see the wine around, as long as there is one around, I grab it and drink a few sips for a while, and then a few sips for a while, and it will soon be finished." It's not like I haven't drunk in two days, and I'm really a little hungry. ”

After the carriage passed, Li Ying and the others also got on the horse and bowed to Jiang Tai: "Thank you for your care, there will be a period later." With that, he chased the caravan with his horse.

The chariot is chariots, the horses are dashing, and only the smoke and dust are floating in the air.

Jiang Taishou said: "Today's harvest is not small, you don't have to guard the checkpoint anymore, let's go back and have a good time." ”

Jiang Taishou ordered the men to leave, and suddenly a few hundred paces away, a man came with a horse and a gun, and shouted loudly: "Those carriages are full of food, and they can't be released." ”

Not far behind, hundreds of horsemen came quickly, splashing dust all over the sky......