Three days later, the army left Luzhou City.

Then he went north to Shouzhou and stayed for two days, and only after the forbidden troops originally stationed in Huaixi Prefecture gathered over, did he begin his official return.

At this moment, it is already early autumn weather, although it is hot in the afternoon, but it is already slightly cool in the morning and evening, and the road is dawning and overnight, but it is not long before it has entered the border of Gyeonggi.

Zhao Ta sent 70,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses returned, not only collecting the remnants of Deng Xun's military army, but also bringing back the forbidden army that surrendered to Wang Qing and other parts of the surrendered army.

This part of the army, Zhao Ta probably picked up a majestic posture, innocent roots, and was accepted by the homeless people, and planned to be incorporated into the box army after returning to Tokyo.

Flags were displayed along the way, and there was no crime in autumn.

The people all knew that when the two kings of the dynasty rehabilitated Huaixi and returned triumphantly, they watched from afar, pointed boldly and whispered.

However, after entering Gyeonggi, this situation became enthusiastic, and when interspersed with the counties under Kaifeng Prefecture, there were more people, and the shouts continued, most of which were singing praises of merit.

Zhao Ta couldn't help frowning when he saw this scene on the horse.

It is a good thing that the people love it, but Gyeonggi Province is too close to Tokyo, so it is inevitable that someone will write it down and then report to Emperor Dojun.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance back at Jiang You behind him.

Originally, Jiang You was in a car, but after entering Gyeonggi, he said that he had to get off the car and ride a horse, and at this time he was talking to Deng Xunwu, Wang Xiang and others.

Deng Xunwu and Wang Xiang didn't have much energy at this time, and kept sighing, the two of them only thought about how to ask for guilt after returning to the court, and didn't care too much about the shouts of the people, Jiang You was different, looking around from time to time, and listening to the praise in the noise.

It's just that he didn't show any special expression, and always looked serious and slightly happy, which is very in line with the current situation of triumphant return.

Zhao Ta looked back at him, Jiang You immediately bowed slightly on the horse, and said, "What does the prince command?" ”

Zhao Ta shook his head with a smile and did not speak.

The scenery on Gyeonggi Road is good at this time, and after several counties in Kaifeng, you can see wheat fields on both sides of the official road.

There is a lot of water in Kaifeng, and the fields in Gyeonggi have always had good harvests, although the land annexation in various places has become more serious in recent years, but the area around Kaifeng Province is slightly better in comparison.

After all, there can be no displaced people in Gyeonggi itself, and once there are displaced people in Gyeonggi itself, even if the imperial court has never turned a blind eye to land matters, it will definitely intervene.

The Great Song Dynasty was different from other dynasties in dealing with land annexation.

For this kind of serious shaking of the foundation of the country, the Great Song Dynasty court has always ignored it, not to mention letting it go, but also sitting idly by.

This also caused the Song Dynasty to have continuous rebellions and uprisings, ranking first in all dynasties.

The reaction attitude of the Great Song Dynasty to turn a blind eye to land annexation and not stop it is nothing more than two reasons.

The first is Emperor Taizu's promise to release military power with a glass of wine, allowing high-ranking officials to annex a large amount of land as a compensation for these people's deprivation of military power.

And this situation became more and more intense, and other officials followed suit, and later Yang Jian and other eunuchs also began to take advantage of it, which has become a means of accumulating wealth.

The aristocratic class has a huge power, and if you want to stop it at this time, it will inevitably cause a strong backlash, and with the increasing power of the Great Song Dynasty, the power of the aristocratic class is deep-rooted, and there is no strength to fully stop this kind of behavior.

The second is that in the more than 100 years of the Great Song Dynasty, although land annexation was powerful, in fact, the level of agriculture was highly developed, including the level of production has also been greatly improved, and the problem of land annexation has activated the commercial economy, and a large number of other industries related to business have appeared, which can make some people rely on their livelihoods.

The Great Song Dynasty encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, and in the case of land annexation, many peasants still went to open up wasteland, which also allowed some advanced agricultural technology to be discovered and used, which stimulated a great increase in grain production.

At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty vigorously developed the manufacturing and textile industries, promoted the development of these industries, and alleviated the land problem, which was actually the basic national policy of the Great Song Dynasty to govern the country.

However, the implementation of this national policy must depend on the large amount of wasteland within the national territory. Although the Great Song Dynasty had a large population, in fact, there was still a lot of wasteland at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which also happened to meet this point.

Throughout the dynasties, land has always been the foundation of the country's survival. In order to maintain and consolidate the rule of the imperial court and stabilize the order of the people, the rulers of various dynasties would use various means to curb the phenomenon of land annexation, but the Song Dynasty ignored this phenomenon and developed industries such as textile manufacturing and commerce, and used these to alleviate the contradictions caused by land annexation and stimulate economic prosperity.

But Zhao Ta knew in his heart that this kind of development was actually deformed, and it was to drink to quench his thirst!

Everything is still based on the fact that there must be a waste of land to open up and a business to operate.

The reason why there are so many displaced people running around every year is that there are fewer and fewer wastelands, and even if some are opened, they will be annexed again in a short time, and there are more such cases, and gradually no one is willing to open up the wasteland, and it is also for the officials and men to make wedding dresses, and in the end it is not their own.

As a result, the begging of begging, the scurrying of chaos, the uphill of the mountain, the rebellion of rebellion, will only increase.

As for business, the most feared thing is to fight, once a war starts, especially a national war, then a country that relies on commerce and trade to prosper is very easy to collapse, after all, it is the era of cold weapons.

Zhao Ta looked at the wheat fields on both sides of the official road, and his mood gradually became heavy, and at this time, a few horsemen in front of the army galloped quickly, and saw that they were dressed as eunuchs in the palace.

Yao Pingzhong, who acted as a vanguard in the front, brought these people to Zhao Ta, and it turned out that Emperor Daojun had a will to come down.

Zhao Ta called for the army to stop, and then received the order, but it was Emperor Daojun who was very concerned about the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army's recovery of Huaixi this time, and wanted to hold a consolation army outside the southern gate of Tokyo.

However, the time is not set for today, but tomorrow morning, so it was ordered that Zhao Ta and the army stay outside for one night and not enter the city for the time being.

Zhao Ta calculated the distance, it is only thirty miles away from Tokyo at the moment, and there is no county in front of it, but there is a town that can garrison troops, otherwise there are wheat fields on both sides of this official road, and there is no place to set up camp.

He glanced at the sky, and gave a few orders to Yao Pingzhong, asking him to take the Xiang army and the baggage to the town to arrange the camp, and the army moved forward slowly after the fall.

It wasn't until the sun turned west, turning a touch of rouge, that the army slowly approached the town.

There are only about ten miles left from the city of Tokyo, and a large camp has been set up outside the town, and then the cooking pot has begun, and as the fireworks gradually rise, the camp is a little lively.

After dinner, Zhao Ta sat bored in the tent, so he summoned Shen Fei and asked him to select ten people from the Scarlet Pioneer Regiment.

The Scarlet Vanguard is his personal guard, occupying the establishment of the forbidden army, which is considered his own benefit.

However, Zhao Ta usually does not call the people of the Scarlet Pioneer Regiment, and when he is in Tokyo, he is either thrown to the military camp to practice with the Ma Bu Army, or he is thrown to Xu Ning, and Xu Ning is allowed to teach the hook and sickle technique alone.

This time he brought out the Scarlet Pioneer Regiment in this conquest of Wang Qing, but because he infiltrated Luzhou in his own house, this group of people followed Zong Ze, and after several battles, he also made a lot of contributions, and no one was damaged.

After a while, Shen Fei brought someone over, Zhao Ta was already standing outside the tent, the teenagers saw Zhao Ta saluting, Zhao Ta glanced at them one by one, and finally his eyes fell on Shen Fei, and said, "Go to the town with this king." ”

The teenagers all said yes, and there were excited expressions on their faces.

Originally, they were not very old, and they were just fun-loving and noisy, and they were okay when they were in Tokyo, and they could go out for a walk by stealing air, but in the past few months, Wang Qing has been conquered, either staying in the army, or fighting on the battlefield, they are all young in nature, and they have long been a little panicked.

At this moment, the sky has not yet darkened, the sunset is obliquely shining on the town, the golden glow is spreading, and the cooking smoke is curling, reflecting a suburban market scenery.

The tent of the large army camp was set up outside the town, but the town was not affected, neither ordered a curfew, nor prevented the people from going out.

The town is called Lanxia, it is said that it was not originally called this name, and when Shenzong had a time when the king went out to return to Beijing, he returned late, and settled in the town.

At that time, it was about spring, according to the identity of the king's minister, no one would stop him from entering the city at night, but after arriving at the town, he saw that the town was full of sunshine at dusk, and the scenery was beautiful, so he stayed overnight, and inscribed a poem, named after Lanxia, and the town has called this name since then.

Zhao Ta and Shen Fei walked into the town, although Shen Fei and the others were wearing military uniforms, but when the town was having dinner at the moment, there were not many pedestrians, and a few of them didn't care when they saw it, after all, the forbidden army was really not a rare thing for people in these suburban towns.

There are two roads in the town, one is the main road, the bluestone is paved, it looks quite neat, there are some shops on both sides, etc., because of the time, it is closed for most of the time, and the other is interspersed in front of the people's houses, which is an auxiliary road.

Zhao Ta led people to walk slowly, at this time the air was wafting with the aroma of food, some people on the street directly put the small dining table outside the courtyard, and some people simply squatted under the big locust tree on the side of the road, holding a thick bowl, squatting on the ground to eat and drink.

Most of the shops on both sides of the main road were still open at this time, and the town was originally small, so it was impossible to maintain these many shops, but this is the main road from Gyeonggi to the south into Tokyo, and there are many traders and travelers, so it is bustling and prosperous on weekdays, and business is easy to do.

There is also a green building in the town, although it is not dark at the moment, but a series of red lanterns have been picked out, there is that sister painted her eyebrows, wiped the official powder, not to say beautiful, but it is also attractive, sitting upstairs and looking down.

Most of the sparse pedestrians on the road walked here, showing some sneakiness, at first they did not squint, their heads were held high, and when they got closer, they felt the emptiness around them, and suddenly raised their heads to take a look.

The sister's eyes immediately lit up, waving the silk handkerchief in her hand, her eyes seemed to be hooked, and she just wanted to say something hearty, but unexpectedly, the man turned his head quickly, and his feet sped up, as if he had done something heinous, and ran away.

Seeing this, my sister laughed angrily upstairs, and scolded in her mouth: "There are things with a thief's heart and no thief's guts......"

Zhao Ta and his entourage walked and stopped, while tasting the scenery of the town, while talking about the battlefield situation of the day, and then came to the front of a tea shop.

Looking at the face of the signboard, it is called Zhuxian Tea Shop, Shen Fei said: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid this is not opened by the people from Zhuxian Town." ”

Zhao Tan nodded, Zhuxian Town is forty or fifty miles away from Kaifeng, it is the largest town under the counties of Kaifeng, and it is far more prosperous than this Lanxia Town.

At this time, there were not many customers in the tea shop, and the business at dinner and evening was weak, and looking from the window, there were only three or five tables sparsely sitting inside, but there was a faint sound of storytelling.

Zhao Ta walked to the door, and saw that the storyteller was an old man, with white beard and hair, wearing a green cloth shirt, and his face was full of traces of vicissitudes left by the years, and he was telling a story about King Yue sweeping the north.

The king of Yue is Luo Tong, the grandson of Luo Yi, the marquis of Jingbian of the Sui Dynasty, and the son of Luo Cheng, the prince of Yue in the Tang Dynasty.

Luo Tong white horse silver gun, thirteen years old commander sweep north, is the first of the second generation of Sui and Tang Dynasty heroes, to Xue Rengui to conquer the east Luo Tong is already a few enemies in the world.

The storyteller is talking about the entanglement between Luo Tong and the Turkic princess at this moment, that is, the marriage before the battle, and the regret after the battle, over and over again, which is embarrassing.

Zhao Ta shook his head when he heard this, asked the others to wait outside the door, and led Shen Fei into the store alone.

At this time, I saw that on the other side of the storyteller, there was a little girl with braids and a red shirt, with a small jade-like face and eyes like paint, which fell on him at this moment.

"I've grown taller again,......" Zhao Tan muttered, found a table and sat down, and a store brought a tea brand.

After a while, the tea was served, the old man continued to tell the story, and the little girl next to him showed a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth, walked over, poured tea for Zhao Ta, and then looked at him.

Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and wanted to touch her head as before, but then he paused and said, "How old are you now?" ”

The little girl said, "Eleven." ”

Zhao Tan smiled, withdrew his hand, and stopped talking.

After listening to a book, Zhao Ta got up, Shen Fei left a silver tael on the table, and Zhao Ta said, "Let's go." ”

The little girl's eyes moved, and she said "heh" softly, followed behind Zhao Ta, and sent him out, until she couldn't see her figure, she turned around and went back, looking very happy......

On the second day, a grand ceremony was held outside the south gate of Tokyo to welcome the triumphant return of the army.

Emperor Daojun would not come forward in person, and sent Bai Shizhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to preside, because the previous two crusades against Wang Qingdu were defeated, so this time he had to celebrate with great fanfare to save face, and even read the holy decree for a long time.

Next came the various rewards, the merit book had already been sent to the Tokyo court, and although the promotion of the generals in the army could not be carried out here, the rewards for the small soldiers were directly distributed.

According to the promise of the thieves on the battlefield at that time, the court was not stingy, and large boxes of copper coins and silver were distributed, causing the soldiers to constantly shout Long live the official family.

The Great Song Dynasty court never withheld these rewards, and Emperor Daojun also had to make an appearance for the forbidden army and the people to see, as long as you can win the battle, the court will definitely be true to its word, and will not spare money.

At the same time, Emperor Daojun is making such a big fanfare, in fact, he has to show it to the Western Army, even if I don't use you, I can win the battle.

The consolation ceremony ended in the morning, and the entire city of Tokyo was almost boiling, and almost everyone knew about this great victory.

Then the soldiers returned to the camp and waited for the order to take a holiday.

The handsome generals entered the city, and Zhao Ta was directly summoned to the palace.

(End of chapter)