Now there is money, crossbows and bows, and the rest is sent to the front line through the roads in Jingxiang and other places, because the northern line does not dare to go, can only take the southern line, but the roads in the south of the Yangtze River are densely covered with water networks, and it is very difficult to transport a large number of materials, and the government also needs to find a special dart shop or business.

If the Song army sends someone to transport it himself, the cost is not small, and if you find a dart company to escort it, the cost is not small, if you find a commercial house to bring the goods by the way, the relative cost is lower, but at this stage, the most capable of transporting bulk goods, the largest merchant in addition to Richanglong, which one else?

From this point of view, because there are still tens of thousands of Black God crossbows in the warehouse of Hangzhou Xicheng Iron Factory, and the arsenal has started the production of rifles with all its might, the Black God crossbow is equivalent to the backlog of discontinued products, for Xiao Ming, the backlog of inventory is the most important, and it is better to donate them all, on the other hand, this part of the money for transporting goods has fallen into Ri Changlong's pocket.

Xiao Ming has some special arrangements for military mobilization, Yue Fei's army goes north to confront Liu Yu's army, with Yue Fei's talent, it is only a matter of time before he defeats Liu Yu's 300,000 army, the military situation in Shaanxi is more urgent, and it is almost impossible for Xiao Ming to mobilize his private army, so it is necessary to let Yang Qizhong's camera go south.

Jin Guo is now in a situation of being caught between two sides, they don't even know it themselves, and Jin Taizong doesn't seem to be aware of this problem, and sent Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongqi as envoys to envoy Western Xia, but Cao Ju and Yang Qizhong's attitude towards them made Wanyan Zonggan and the two feel that Western Xia is not what they think now.

When the Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains on a large scale, some people once proposed to attack the Western Xia, on the one hand, the Western Xia was Xiao Ming's sphere of influence, and many Jin generals felt that it was not suitable to collide with Xiao Ming in the Western Xia, on the other hand, some people said that the Western Xia place was too barren and there was no need to rob that land.

In addition, the entire Western Xia is currently occupied by an army of more than 100,000 led by Yang Qizhong, and after receiving the artillery supported by the Golden Legion of the Western Regions, the combat power has been greatly improved, and the Jin soldiers are not willing to touch this hard bone at all, and compared to the Western Xia, the army of the Great Song Dynasty is much weaker, it is better to solve the Song Dynasty first and then seek Western Xia.

However, the process of the Jin soldiers attacking the Central Plains was not smooth, and now that Liaodong was occupied by Xiao Ming, the crisis of the Jin State was becoming more and more serious, in addition to consolidating the occupied areas of the Central Plains, it was a natural and inevitable choice to continue to strengthen the military pressure on the Song army in Shaanxi.

In this case, the battle of the monk Yuan finally broke out between the Jin and Song dynasties, in May 1131 AD, the Jin army general did not immediately lead the troops out of Fengxiang, Ulu, Zhihe from Jiezhou, Chengzhou out of the Dasan Pass, the troops went north, attacked the Wu Yu army, and the two Jin armies tried to meet in the monk Yuan.

Wu Jue ordered the generals to form a formation, take advantage of the favorable terrain, and take turns to attack the Jin army led by Ulu and Zhihe, who arrived first. The Jin army can't fight if it wants to, and there is no way to retreat. The area around the monk's original area was full of valleys, the roads were many narrow and narrow, and the strange rocks stood on the walls, and the cavalry of the Jin army all lost their power, so they had to abandon the cavalry and fight on foot.

The Song army, under the leadership of Wu Jue, waged a life-and-death struggle with the Jin army and defeated the Jin army. The Jin army, which retreated to the area of the scalper, had an unstable foothold, and happened to encounter a strong wind and rain, the Jin army was demoralized and unable to launch an attack, so it had to flee in embarrassment. At the same time, the attack launched by the Jin army led by Wu Li in the direction of Jianxiao Pass was also repelled by Yang Zhengsuo, the general of Wu Yu, thus breaking the plan of Wu Li and Ulu and merging the two armies with Shang Yuan.

The victory in this battle greatly boosted the morale of the Song army, and the good news had not yet come out, Xiao Ming's 50,000 black god crossbows to support Wu Jue had arrived in Shu from the waterway, and the front line of Yun 3 in batches, which was entirely thanks to Richanglong's powerful cargo transportation capacity, they were completely transporting goods on the Yangtze River, and Richanglong's more than a dozen large steam paddle wheels played a huge role in this.

The defeat of the Jin army in the first battle against Shangyuan made the rulers of the Jin Dynasty very angry, and "they must take the throne". So the marshal of the Jin army, Wanyan Zongbi, that is, Jin Wushu, personally went out, gathered more than 100,000 troops from all over the country, erected a pontoon bridge, crossed the Weishui, and connected the bead camp from Baoji, and built a stone for the city, and confronted the Song army under Wu Jue, preparing for a decisive battle with the Song army.

At this time, the two brothers Wu Jue and Wu Ling were very difficult, because the army ran out of food! After the Battle of Fuchuan, Wu Jue collected the defeated Song army everywhere, and held the pass according to the danger, and there was a lack of military armor and other materials.

The local people were extremely supportive of this Song army, and organized people to send them food, which made the Jin army very angry, so in the occupied area, a ban was issued, and the policy of protecting the army was strictly forbidden to flow any grain to the Song army, and an ambush was set up on the way to kill the people who went to send grain to Wu Jue! But the people who risked the forbidden food delivery continued to go.

Wu Jue was very moved by this, and persuaded everyone several times not to take any more risks, but the people were grateful for his favor to the local people, and they still did the same, so the current situation of food shortage in Wu Jue's army was alleviated. At this time, Jin Wushu led an army of nearly 100,000 people, which caused a great shock to some of the generals of the Song army.

The monk was far away from the mainland, although it was dangerous but the supply was difficult, seeing that the Jin army was strong, and the strength was several times with me, many officers felt that there was no way out, so they thought about kidnapping the Wu brothers and surrendering to the Jin Wushu, seeing that the situation was getting worse and worse, Wu Ling found that his subordinates looked at him wrongly, Wu Ling found his brother and revealed the intentions of these junior officers to Wu Jue, and suggested that he make a quick decision.

Wu Jue immediately convened a meeting of officers at all levels, spread all his belongings on the table, and it was only a few hundred taels of silver, and he said to the generals: "The country is in danger, the emperor is covered with dust, and the people of my generation of military are dying on the battlefield to repay the country's kindness, but now that the Jin army is strong, some people are afraid that their lives will be difficult to preserve, I don't blame him, please scoop it on the table and go home!" ”

All the generals were stunned, Wu Jue said again: "The husband is loyal and filial, I won't stop those who are willing to go, but those who stay will kill the enemy with me and serve the country, we can go home to do filial piety, and those who stay are loyal, no one is considered a deserter who escaped, everyone chooses to become benevolent in different ways!" ”

His sincerity finally touched the generals below, and everyone said that as a soldier, he should be loyal to the country, how can he go home to fulfill his filial piety! So everyone worked together, accumulated good soldiers, defended the fence to the death, and vowed to fight to the death with the gold soldiers, and the momentum of the whole army was also greatly boosted!

After the Jin soldiers formed the village, they couldn't wait to attack the monk Yuan, and the battle was launched, at this time, the black god crossbows sent by Xiao Ming finally came in handy, Wu Jue ordered the generals to choose strong bows and strong crossbows, and shoot them repeatedly, the bows and arrows were endless, and they were as numerous as rain, "Search and search......!" The sound is endless.

Wu Jue seized the advantageous opportunity and sent the strange army to attack from both sides, blocking the Jin army's grain transportation channel, the Jin army was in a predicament, and the Wushu saw that the situation was not good, so he took the road and fled. Wu Jue took advantage of the victory to pursue, set up an ambush in Shenkun, the Jin army was in chaos, and the Song army attacked in the starry night and defeated the Jin army.

Even when the Jin Wushu supervised the battle, he was wounded by an arrow, and fled in desperation, he ran away, but the soldiers below failed to escape in time, and were besieged by Wu Jue led the army with the cooperation of the righteous army, and the battle lasted for three days, and the Jin soldiers were defeated, losing one-third of the men and horses and retreating.

Monk Yuan a battle, captured more than 300 leaders of the Jin army, more than eight soldiers, captured tens of thousands of armor, brilliant results, after that, the Jin army in the attack on Rao Feng Pass, Xianren Pass and other places, due to the stubborn resistance of the troops led by Wu Jue and Wu Lan brothers and the support of the local people, suffered a heavy defeat, forced to retreat to Fengxiang, temporarily gave up the attempt to attack Sichuan, so that its key offensive failed.

After the news reached Hangzhou, Gaozong was overjoyed! Not only that, soon Yue Fei of Hubei pacified the rebellion of Yang Mo of Mingjiao, and marched north to Yuncheng and encountered a siege of 100,000 Qi troops, Yue Fei led his troops to win all seven battles, annihilated more than 40,000 enemies, and the seven armies were defeated, Yue Fei went to Guangde again, won six battles, captured the enemy general king, captured more than 40 rebel leaders, after this battle, the Qi army collapsed and retreated to Jingdong Road.

Xiao Ming issued a commendation, and Wu Juejun and Yue Feijun became the two most famous armies of the Great Song Dynasty, Wu Jue was promoted to the envoy of the Zhenwu Festival, and Yue Feisheng was promoted to the envoy of the Zhenning Chongxin Army! The situation in the whole country was very good, so there was a voice in the DPRK and China, and everyone unanimously demanded "Northern Expedition!" ”

However, the Northern Expedition was not simple, first of all, it required a lot of money, although the rich places in the southeast could provide military supplies, but you spent all the money, and the common people would not do it, although there was no infrastructure construction at that time, but there were too many places where a country needed to spend money.

Not to mention anything else, just in terms of a city, at least the city wall repair, sewage projects, garbage disposal, etc., these are all costly, just like Hangzhou City, the population has almost exceeded two million, this may be the largest city in China except for the original Tokyo Bianliang accident, just the daily garbage generated tens of thousands of tons!

Xiao Ming is not a material at all in internal affairs, but fortunately, the weather is good in the imperial court now, and it can be regarded as the youngest generation since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, and many young and promising officials are contributing their talents, but Hangzhou is after all Xiao Ming's nest that has been operated for many years, and he is really unwilling to turn it into the Lin'an Mansion of the Southern Song Dynasty in history!

So in the idea of trying to persuade Gaozong to move the capital, Xiao Ming began to use his brains! But he also knows that this is not an overnight thing, so he is not in a hurry, take his time, and it depends on Gaozong Zhao Gou's reaction, but Zhao Gou feels good about Hangzhou now, at least he still enjoys it in the mountains and waters.

Xiao Ming sat in Hangzhou, served as the military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, and had the title of marquis, plus he was the head of the world's largest business, Ri Changlong, but he didn't even have a marquis mansion in Hangzhou, which made many young officials very appreciative, and even regarded him as their idol and admired him very much.

Some people worship themselves will form a force, of course these people are from the Xiao faction, but everything has an opposite, naturally there will be some people who are not used to Xiao Ming, saying that he is rude and rude, and there are those who control the government, but Xiao Ming really can't worry about these things, and he has to worry more about things.

First of all, the expansion of the shipbuilding base in Hangzhou, because Gaozong now also has a strong interest in overseas trade, so now the entire Great Song Dynasty attaches great importance to the shipbuilding industry, so that the resources in this area are inclined to the shipbuilding industry, of course, these resources will fall into the pocket of Xiao Ming of the Hangzhou shipyard.

Soon after Zhao Gou took the Jiaolong warship to the sea, he set up an official agency of the Imperial Ship Department of the Great Song Dynasty with a stroke of his pen, and the chief envoy was Xiao Ming's master craftsman Meng Kang, who made every effort to organize and plan the current shipbuilding industry in China.

Soon there were a large number of shipbuilding workshops and craftsmen in the whole of China, these places were most concentrated in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Weihai and Mizhou, and the Hangzhou shipyard was also responsible for the shipbuilding of the Yangtze River and inland waterway shipping, and the Hangzhou shipyard was also the strongest in terms of technical strength.