Zhang Jinping is about to give birth, and there is no joy, but worries all day long.

She feels that something is wrong, and her father-in-law may rebel!

"Why didn't my sister go out for a walk today?" Zheng Yuanyi asked, still holding a child in her arms.

The child's name is Zhu Kang, and he is Zhu Ming's eldest son.

The name is very arbitrary, and the Golden State is conceived, which belongs to Ankang County.

Zhang Jinping smiled reluctantly, supported by the maid, and walked out with a big belly.

Walking around the courtyard, Zhang Jinping looked towards another courtyard, but after all, he couldn't bear it.

Everything will wait until the child is born.

Wen Xiaomei couldn't hold back, and blocked Zhu Guoxiang in the study at this moment: "What is Xianggong doing to train soldiers?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang smiled: "Of course, it's to guard against thieves." ”

Wen Xiaomei said: "It is enough to guard against thieves and thieves in one or two hundred villages, and you need to draw more villagers?" Two days ago, I was wandering the streets, and I heard some women chatting about the men's drills in the family. I asked a total of 10 women, and eight of them had sons or husbands who were serving in the army. ”

"Alas!"

Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "What does my little sister think I am going to do? ”

Wen Xiaomei was silent for a long time, then raised her head and asked, "Raise troops...... Rebel? ”

Zhu Guoxiang asked rhetorically: "How can you think so?" ”

Wen Xiaomei said: "I really can't think of anything else besides rebellion, I need to transfer most of the young people in the township to practice." And it's not been a month or two, it's been a lot of practice. ”

Zhu Guoxiang didn't know how to explain, so he could only say perfunctorily: "Next year or the year after, my little sister will know what my father and son are going to do." ”

Wen Xiaomei asked, "Discussed with Da Lang?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "Yes." ”

"Really, you don't want to rebel?" Wen Xiaomei still can't rest assured.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The troubled times are coming, and we must prepare in advance. Has my little sister read history? ”

Wen Xiaomei said: "I have only read "Historical Records". ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Read the Book of the Later Han, the Book of Sui, and the Book of Tang, and you will know that the world of the Great Song Dynasty is going to be in chaos. ”

In fact, Zhu Guoxiang has not read these history books, and his historical knowledge stays at the stage of middle school textbooks.

Zhu Guoxiang finally perfunctory the concubine and went out to board the ship to Jinzhou.

Yang Zhi is training troops in Tiemao Village, Jinzhou, and has assembled a force of 200 people. The foundation here is thin, the number of villagers is not large, and recruiting 200 people for training is the limit, otherwise it will affect the production of the iron smelting field.

Iron Hat Village does not use rattan armor, from the squad leader and above, the officers all wear armor.

The shape of the armor is a simplified version of the Song Dynasty Buren armor.

As for why the allocation should be reduced, it is because most of them fought in Sichuan in the early stage. Fifty or sixty pounds of foot armor is really not conducive to mountain activities, and it is necessary to reduce weight to ensure flexibility.

And the ordinary soldiers, in the Song Dynasty, seemed very extravagant, equipped with all color chain mail (due to the lack of quantity, not all of them have been installed, and they are being intensified).

"How's the drill?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Yang Zhi was quite excited: "The training book compiled by Zhu Xianggong is really amazing, and it is better than the method of the forbidden army. ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "He is talking about the army on paper, there must be some omissions, when you train troops to fight, you can modify the inappropriate places." ”

"Yes!" Yang Zhi gave up.

Zhu Ming's so-called military training book combines the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", "The Practical Record of Military Training" and the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness".

Yang Zhi said again: "In the past six months, I have recruited dozens of hunters in the mountains, all of whom have had a very difficult life. The young and strong people in the village mostly work in the iron smelting field, the forging field, and the armor field, so they really can't be transferred too much to practice. ”

Most of the weapons in Daming Township and Jintan Village were made by Iron Hat Village.

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "You are indeed short of manpower here, you can recruit some more hunters to train firecrackers." If the food is not enough, I will contact foreign merchants to bring the grain. He also advised, "Pay attention to prevent information from leaking." ”

Yang Zhi said: "Since the training of the army, it has been forbidden to enter and leave at will. Set up a card outside the village to intercept it, and kill it directly if you don't listen to the advice! ”

"Well done." Zhu Guoxiang approvingly.

At this time, the governor of Jinzhou was called Han Zhao, a native of Yingchang (Xuchang). There are no factions, and they come up with pure qualifications.

The little old man is not a good official, and he can't say how bad he is.

Anyway, the transfer envoy gave the task, and Han Zhao tried his best to raise it and let his subordinate officials step up the collection. If the tax is really insufficient, they will be scolded, and then what should they do.

In today's Jinzhou City, the specific government affairs have been controlled by Xu officials, and all of them have been promoted by Zhu Ming.

But these officials were divided into two factions, and they did not like each other, and occasionally they would tear each other down. This is also a situation created by Zhu Ming, he didn't believe anyone at the beginning, and deliberately left two groups of people to check and balance each other.

Zhu Guoxiang inspected Tiemao Village for two days, and then took a boat to Jintan Village in Yangzhou.

On the side of Jintan Village, the person in charge of training is Li Jinyi, who is also the prototype of Lu Junyi in "Water Margin".

In "The Remains of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty", which is closer to historical facts, Li Jinyi planned to kill the sergeant and rescue Yang Zhi, and then everyone ran to Taihang Mountain to fall into the grass together. Later, Song Jiang ranked the thirty-six generals, Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong) was the first, Li Jinyi (Lu Junyi) was the second, and Yang Zhi became the third.

When Zhu Guoxiang arrived at Jintan Village, Li Jinyi trained more than 260 soldiers. For the time being, there are only weapons, no armor, and they will be brought in before the troops are raised.

Jintan Village is too close to the state capital, and outsiders have been forbidden to enter and leave at will.

Whether it is a merchant who comes to buy paper, or a villager who comes to buy salt nearby, they all trade at the entrance of the village.

……

Muzhou was officially renamed Yanzhou, taking the meaning of strict management.

Shezhou, officially renamed Huizhou, takes the meaning of bondage.

These two places are where Fang La started, and most of the backbone of the righteous army came from here.

In July, Fang Lazhan died in the mountains of Guiyang (Rucheng).

still fell into the hands of Han Shizhong, not because the world line was restricted, but because Han Shizhong didn't want to die when he started a war.

In the summer in the mountainous area of Guiyang, there is a miasma everywhere, and the forbidden army, the western army and the southern army surround Fang La in several mountains, and everyone finds a place to rest and wait for autumn.

Han Shizhong led a small group of troops, carrying the scorching heat to search the mountains, scratching his tongue and forcing Fang La's whereabouts.

After determining the situation, he only had twenty or thirty men in his hands, but he set fire to the mountain at night, and then went straight to Fang La's base camp.

The veterans who followed Fang La to fight thousands of miles were already seriously attrition due to miasma. Under the low morale, they were attacked at night, thousands of old thieves were crushed by Han Shizhong's twenty or thirty people, and Fang La himself died in the chaos.

The elite old thieves, who had only more than 1,000 people left, scattered and fled to Jinghu South Road, where they continued to fight under the leadership of Fang Qifo.

At this point, there are still two remaining parts of the Fangla rebel army.

One is led by Fang Qifo and flows towards the mountains of Hunan.

The first group was led by Lu Shinang and Yu Daoan, and was active in the mountainous areas near Wuzhou (Jinhua), Chuzhou (Lishui), Wenzhou, and Taizhou.

Most of the forbidden army and the western army were withdrawn, and the remnants of the rebel army were handed over to the local forces to deal with. Just in case, they also left a few thousand forbidden troops, and ordered them to do it within this year.

Han Shizhong, who has made great contributions, is not in a good mood, and his military exploits have been robbed!

The forbidden army and the western army went north in batches, and when Han Shizhong was waiting for the ship in Jingkou, his good brother Wang Yuan recruited prostitutes to relieve his boredom.

There is a woman surnamed Liang who is proficient in poetry and ink, and she is also born with divine power to hold a strong bow.

Han Shizhong was surprised and asked, "Where is the sister's origin, she is both civil and military?" ”

Liang's daughter said: "My grandfather and father were both Chizhou officers, and when the imperial army did not arrive, they were ordered to exterminate Fangla. Due to the ineffectiveness of the war and the loss of the city, he was convicted and put to death, and the slave was also used as an official prostitute in Beijing. ”

Han Shizhong sighed and said: "Alas, the big turban has no strategy to please thieves, but it is our unlucky people, and in the end, we will affect our families." ”

"The world is hard, and there is no other way." The Liang woman was saddened.

Han Shizhong poured her wine, and drank it himself: "Although I have made great achievements, I am also very unlucky, and I have been robbed of my merits many times." ”

Both of them were frustrated, and they chatted extremely speculatively.

Seeing this, Wang Yuan said with a smile: "The two talented women are as good as me." ”

Han Shizhong's old face was flushed, and the Liang woman bowed her head and was silent.

They were drinking flower wine here, but Chen Ziyi, Zhu Ming's old acquaintance, was drinking sullen wine in another camp.

The direction of Chen Ziyi's attack was southern Zhejiang, and he was in charge of dozens of people. When chasing and killing the rout, he rode a horse and captured the thief chief Hongzai, who was also the leader of a party, and occupied most of the state at its peak.

Chen Ziyi was also robbed of his credit, and he only got the position of the head of the horse army, and he could command a hundred cavalry.

"Straight sissy thief!"

Half-drunk, Chen Ziyi scolded and smashed the wine jar fiercely.

The various thief chieftains under Fang La's command were all rewarded by the court. After saying that he has beheaded Hong Zai, he can directly give the right military doctor (Zheng Liupin military attaché), and what is the matter with giving a horse army head?

The more Chen Ziyi thought about it, the more angry he became, and he gradually became discouraged.

He thought that as long as he fought to the death, he would be able to get ahead with his skills. Now Fang knows that he is very wrong, and his promotion does not depend on his ability, at least not the ability to kill the enemy, but on the need for someone above him, and he must know how to send money.

Fang La is dead, and the remnants are nothing more than grasshoppers after autumn.

Tong Guan, as the commander-in-chief, was crowned Taishi and Jin was crowned Duke of Chu because of his merits, and he was ready to move and constantly provoke the emperor to cut Liao.

Tong Guan claimed that he had a hundred elite soldiers under his command, first subduing the Western Xia, and now pacifying Fangla, and was a first-class strong army in the world. And the Liao State has declined, was beaten by the small state of the Jin State to lose the city and lose the land, the country is even more civil unrest, the Great Song Dynasty soldiers arrived, the Liao army and the people will inevitably surrender.

Song Huizong, who was going to delay a few years and then attack Liao, was a little moved by Tong Guan's words.

Wang Huang, who opposed the war against Liao a while ago, was actually moved, mainly because his finances were a little more generous.

First, the south has been decided, and military spending is not so large.

Second, the economic money collected in the southeast has been extended to Lianghuai and Gyeonggi, and millions of taxes can be collected.

The eunuch Li Yan founded the Xicheng Institute and frantically exploited Jingdong, Jingxi and Lianghuai, and this thing alone can generate two million yuan of income every year.

The three-pronged approach has achieved open source and reduced expenditure.

Wang Hao felt that the imperial court was no longer short of money, and Tong Guan said that once the Great Song Dynasty sent troops, the Liao State would inevitably surrender to the wind, and it was completely possible to recover Yanyun in a quick battle.

His foundation as a prime minister is too shallow, Cai Jing has many henchmen, and he can't be squeezed out at all, and Cai Jing may make a comeback at any time.

If he can recover Yanyun, Cai Jing will never want to come back!

Wang Hao began to look at Tong Guanmei, the two quietly discussed the plan to cut Liao, and brought Cai You in, and the three of them planned to cooperate to get this great achievement.

(End of chapter)