King Huai stood up, and the look on his face suddenly became serious.

He really doesn't know much about the government, but he believes in the current ministers of the court.

Especially Yu Gong, King Huai specially sent someone to investigate, this is a very dedicated old courtier, no selfishness, and he is not the kind of person who makes money and sells officials.

Whether it's his protégé or not, if you can do it, he will use it, you can't do it, no matter how good the personal relationship is, it will let you get out.

For example, Zhu Fuzi, who is a scholar who knows everything about the subset of classics and history. But let him be an official in the court and handle government affairs, but he can't do it, and in the end he can only return to his hometown.

There are also a few ministers, and King Huai has also done to understand, although he is a little selfish, but he is indeed a capable minister.

King Huai is not the kind of lord who is out of tune, he knows very well what kind of minister should be used.

Wei Guogong was different, he regarded these military ministers as the cornerstone of Great Xia.

"What I want to discuss with you at the moment is a big deal, I want to know what you think of the new policy of the public, Xu Fang, what do you think of them, this is related to the future of the development of Great Xia."

"Lord, since you asked here, I'll tell you, according to it, I'm a rough person, and I can still say a few words in military affairs, and government affairs are really rusty. However, I know that what is good for the community and the people must be a good thing, and no matter what problems exist with the new policy, at least the majority of the people support it, and that is enough. ”

"My little girl and I also learned about it privately, and she said that the new policy can make the people more industrious, pay more attention to the crops in the fields, and the people are willing to grow more fields and collect more grain, and the people will not have to worry about hunger, and the population will increase, and the country will be stronger."

"The little girl came back from Yangzhou last time and said that Tonghai has begun to try to plant a kind of rice this year, according to Yuan Rui, at least 600 catties per mu. She also said that Yuan Rui bragged and told her that in the future, she would harvest at least 1,000 catties per mu of paddy field, Lord Wang, 1,000 catties per mu! The paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River can feed the entire people of Daxia, at that time, not to mention playing thorns, you can fight a few more! ”

Looking at Wei Guogong's somewhat excited expression, King Huai understood that for so many years, he was afraid of lack of food, the soldiers lacked food and clothing, and they were desperate with foreign enemies on a hungry stomach, and they had paid too much sacrifice to survive the current situation.

"What Yuan Rui said, the yield per mu is 1,000 catties, why don't I believe it?"

King Huai was very interested in this, "He even knows about Nongsang?" How do I feel that he is less and less like a scholar! ”

"Lord Wang, during this time, the little girl has been on Jijiazhuang's side, but I have heard a lot of interesting things, fish farming in the rice field has been around for a long time, but raising ducks is the first time, it turns out that many farmers do not dare, for fear of spoiling the seedlings. There is also a small paddy field that Yuan Rui has set up and only planted the kind of specially selected large ears of rice, which is the third year, and last year I heard that he harvested more than 580 catties per mu. Yuan Rui told the little girl that if he didn't have 700 catties this year, he would give the little girl a gift alone. ”

"More than ten days ago, the little girl had already gone to Yangzhou, saying that she wanted to watch Yuan Rui harvest rice with her own eyes, that is, to personally verify how much an acre of land can be harvested?"

Wei Guogong was a little helpless, no matter how he felt that Yuan Rui was under a trap, leading his daughter to take the bait step by step.

"Seven hundred pounds, this is a big deal, okay, good, as long as it is really achieved, I will also give a gift to my little sister."

"By the way, what's the little sister's bet?" King Huai suddenly remembered something.

"Yuan Rui wants the Guogong Mansion to have 10,000 acres of fertile land in Yangzhou, what to plant and how to plant, he has the final say!"

"No, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the Duke of Wei has taken advantage!"

Wei Guogong smiled awkwardly, he did think so when he heard this bet.

This kid doesn't really have any thoughts, it's clear that he is giving a gift to his daughter.

King Huai looked at the look on Wei Guogong's face, and immediately understood, and couldn't help but smile.

"Lord Wang, for the new policy, the little girl said, Yuan Rui seems to have a lot of opinions, the prince might as well take the time to ask, and besides, he is a subordinate official of the palace, and he should have contributed to the prince." Wei Guogong hurriedly diverted the topic.

King Huai laughed, and then remembered that Yuan Rui really belonged to the palace, and this kid didn't run away!

"He also discussed with my second child that many of the current new policies are more appropriate, but there are also many that are wrong."

"Jun'er said, what, what is one-size-fits-all, this kind of will not work, it must be adapted to the times, it must be adapted to local conditions, anyway, there are many ways, and such a shrewd person as the second child has been blinded by him."

King Huai was stunned, adapting measures to the times, adapting measures to local conditions, high, isn't this how to fight!

Great Xia is indeed too big, north and south, east and west, the crops planted are different, and the harvesting time is different.

As soon as the court's policy goes, it will be the same, and this is indeed wrong.

Yuan Rui once gave an example that the Miao people had no surplus food, and the government still had to collect their grain, which was wrong.

This kid seems to be thinking deeply, and he needs to find a chance to ask.

In the future, you must not let this kid be idle, lazy people need to beat, looking at this kid all day long, King Huai is uncomfortable, others are afraid that he can't see it, he is afraid that he will see it.

On June 28, the twelfth year of Xining, the battle report of the great victory at the border pass arrived in the capital.

Pingliang general Tang Tianfang led 150,000 border troops in Longzhou, 30,000 Miao soldiers, and 30,000 wolf soldiers.

After five days of fierce fighting, almost all the 100,000 troops who were going to invade were annihilated, Lei Zhen, the chief of the ebony army, and many generals of the tribe were killed, and more than 158,000 captives were rescued.

This news soon let the people of the whole capital know, and they immediately swept away the haze of some time ago and rejoiced.

The hundreds of officials in the court are also cloudy, the smiles on their faces are back, and everyone is talking and laughing together, unlike in the early stage, everyone has to be guarded against, for fear of being caught by the inspector and impeached.

However, many people ignore that there is another line in the battle report, which shows that 58,700 border troops were killed in battle, but only more than 4,600 were seriously wounded, which is very different from previous wars.

They ignored it because in previous battles, if they killed and injured 100,000 Hua Ting, their own casualties would be more than 100,000, but this time it was only 60%, which was already very good.

The heaviest losses occurred among the 20,000 Flower Thorn elites who surrounded and annihilated Balmu, and the combat effectiveness of the Flower Thorn people really cannot be underestimated.

When they found that they were besieged by multiple troops, they didn't panic much, and they kept using thousands of troops to charge the besieged border army, and at the same time they were constantly observing the weaknesses of the Great Xia army.

It can be said that for two whole days, the Great Xia Army did not make any progress, although it made the thorns pay thousands of casualties, but it exposed the shortcomings of the Great Xia Army.

On the third day, the Thorns continued to try to break through, but their troops were rarely used.

On the fourth day, in the evening, the Thorns actually used 5,000 men at a time to launch a charge, facing the weakest gap in Great Xia's troops.

On the fifth day, after paying the price of nearly half of the people, the siege of the new chariot of Great Xia was broken, and more than 10,000 people successfully broke out of the siege.

The border troops gathered behind the chariot quickly surrounded them, and the two sides began to fight head-on.

In just two hours, the Thorns paid nearly 5,000 casualties to break through again, and the border army directly killed nearly 20,000 people.

It can be said that if General Tang hadn't arranged wolf soldiers as the second line, once the flower thorns got out of trouble, it would not be easy to catch up.

The wolf soldiers gave full play to their advantages at this time, and in the face of these tall and big thorns, the wolf soldiers gave full play to their flexibility and strong squad cooperation.

Many of the wolf soldiers were equipped with sickles and wooden handles, and they were not afraid of the cavalry at all, one holding a rattan armor and one holding a sickle, and they cooperated tacitly.

The flower thorn man was instantly stunned, he had never seen such a way of playing.

They only target a single person, and no matter how many troops there are, they seem to have divided the work in advance, two or three, three or five against one each.

No matter how many teams they are divided into, there will be as many corresponding people as they come, and there is no preparation for the Thorns to assemble again.

In less than an hour, half of the Thorns fell off their horses, most of them gasped, but they also took a breath, and they were directly cut off by the wolf soldiers with knives behind.

Of course, there is also a problem with this style of play of the wolf soldiers, that is, they can't completely surround the flower thorn people, and if they really want to run, they can still run away.

In the end, under the desperate protection of Balmu's own soldiers, nearly 2,000 people fled into the desert with Balmu.

Although 18,000 elite people were annihilated in this battle, more than 25,000 people were killed by the border army, more than 3,000 were killed by wolf soldiers, and countless people were wounded.

Although the 60,000 border troops on the other side finally left all 30,000 of the Chinese army in the Great Meadow, they also lost 26,000 of their own casualties, which can be said to be basically equal.

That is, Liu Xiaochun's fighter plane was well grasped, and he exchanged less than 2,000 deaths for 30,000 flower thorn people to become grassland ghosts, taking a big advantage.

As for the 20,000 flower stabbing men of the rearguard, General Tang didn't want the casualties of the soldiers to be too large, and he was also afraid of causing harm to the people of Bingzhou, so he directly used the charging function of the chariot.

More than 20,000 people took care of more than 100,000 people, somewhat reluctantly, and the Thorn people arranged heavy troops in front and behind, and some cavalry interspersed with patrols in the middle.

General Tang arranged some cavalry to attack on the flanks, and then used chariots to form an isolation between the cavalry and the people, and encircled the people in the middle of the chariots.

After successfully separating the Thorn people from the people, the cavalry continued to shrink the encirclement, used a large number of bows and arrows, and then used chariots to charge and divide, and after one day, all 20,000 Thorns were annihilated, and less than 3,000 were killed.

The biggest gain of this battle was not how many enemies were annihilated, but the successful rescue of more than 100,000 people who had been taken captive, and it can be said that these people were the ones the border army cared about the most.