Di Jinze is located in the grassland desert north of Xiazhou. It has abundant water and grass, and many tribes. It is a major settlement of the Dangxiang tribe. There are no cities here, and the tribes are nomadic on the grasslands and have no fixed place to live. Xu Ping's previous life was a continuous large desert, but this era is different. There are no large deserts, not even quicksand, many lakes, and endless grasslands.

Quyechuan, a tributary of the Yellow River, originated from the lake here, and then entered the Song Dynasty and passed through Linzhou.

In the eastern part of Dangxiang, Yinzhou and Xiazhou in the upper reaches of Wuding River were semi-cultivated and semi-grassing places where people were densely populated to pay for food. Dijinze was the hinterland and provided a strategic depth. The Song army crossed Hengshan several times and was unable to occupy Yin and Xia, and the existence of Dijinze was an important reason. The remaining soldiers of Dangxiang always hid here after being defeated, waiting for Song army soldiers to fight back.

Now it's different. After Cheng Keshang returned to Hongzhou, all the Dangxiang tribes had surrendered to the court. Fang Xie, the governor of Yinxia Road, took charge of Xiazhou and firmly controlled the situation. Without Yin, Xia's manpower, material resources, and land Jinze retreated from Yinxia, ​​he obediently obediently and surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Moreover, the Kuracai and other tribes here have been in trade with Linfu Road, making great profits, and have no intention of resisting. The Song army on Linfu Road went up against the Quye River, and did not encounter resistance when they arrived here.

At the northeast corner of the land Jinze, at the source of Quye River, Zhe Jimin sat in his big tent and listened to his younger brother Zhe Jizu reporting on the recent military situation.

Finally, Zhe Jizu said: "Today, Lai Shoushun from Tanglong Town has already voted for the Khitan."

Zhe Jimin's face darkened: "Is the news conclusive? This is a big deal, no mistakes are allowed!"

"Conscious! There is news in Fengzhou that Xiao Puda of the Khitan is sending troops to Tanglong Town."

Zhe Jimin nodded without saying a word. Lin, Feng, and the three prefectures have always been closely related. Moreover, Tanglong Town was once the territory of the Zhe family. Zhe Jizu was so sure that the news was true. However, now Tanglong Town is nominally a Volcano Army, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Linfu Road. It is just that there is a conflict with the Khitan, and it has its own Gao Daquan who has already stationed troops on Hedong Road.

Among the three states, Linzhou was close to the mainland. After returning to the Song Dynasty, the court's actions were the most violent. It took only 10 or 20 years to go to the vassal state. Fengzhou was the northernmost. Before Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, he was actually treated as a vassal state. The salary of the prefect was comparable to that of the foreign officials, so the Wang family was always the poorest. However, because the Wang family was weak, Zhao Zhen ascended the throne and raised their treatment after Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, they pushed the boat and let the court institutions enter there. The trade led by the Sansi made a lot of money in Fengzhou. The Wang family went from the poorest family to the richest family in recent years. Now, the most stable Zhe family was not in a good situation and did not take advantage of the large-scale expansion of the Sansi a few years ago. With only territory and power, they could not become officials from the court, and they could not make money from the lower class.

Seeing that his brother didn't speak, Zhe Jizu said, "Tanglong Town is close to Fengzhou, and is on the back of the road of Changlin Mansion. If the Khitan sends troops from there, our backyard will be unstable. Brother, should we send a partial army back to the rescue?"

Zhe Jimin shook his head: "This time I joined the Dangxiang, I brought the imperial soldiers. Without military orders, how dare I divide the troops? As for the Khitan invasion, they will win and capture the Rong army first! General Gao led the main force of the Rong army to garrison in Daizhou, and the Khitans don't want Yunzhou anymore? Don't worry, even if there are a small number of Khitan soldiers and horses going to Tanglong Town, they are just pretending and there will be no large army."

Zhe Jizu nodded and stopped talking.

This time, Zhe Jimin made a desperate bet and resigned as the governor of the prefecture. He brought troops from the three prefectures to the Dangxiang as the official affairs of the Goulin Prefecture Route Army Company. His identity was no longer a vassal state, but a chief official of the court, and he would no longer make a small calculation of his own territory.

It is obvious that Dangxiang was destroyed, Lin, Feng, and the three prefectures had completely lost the conditions for being vassal states. In the future, the prefectures and prefectures will inevitably become normal prefectures like the other two prefectures. Instead of waiting for the court to give up the power of the vassal states in the future, it is better to take the initiative to hand over it and take a gamble on the future status. After no longer being vassal states, the Yang family and the Wang family lived more comfortably than before. Compared with the wealth and wealth of the Rong clan, the local emperors in the remote small prefectures were not as attractive. Not to mention that with the magistrate and the dispatch of the judgment, Zhe Jimin had no choice but to decide on the affairs of the prefectures and prefectures alone.

Through Yang Wenguang, Xu Ping signaled that Zhe Jimin and Di Jinze's Dangxiang tribe to do business, and he let the branches of Sansi enter the Fuzhou. Nowadays, financial independence is meaningless. The big part of commercial trade is in the hands of Sansi, and the biggest income of the Zhe family has become to share money from Sansi. Instead of doing this, it is better to open a shop and do business with his own business.

Since then, Zhe Jimin has been in contact with Yang Wenguang, and he knows a little bit about the situation of the Longyou Army. This time he joined the Dangxiang, he met with Yang Wenguang stationed in the Kelan Army. After getting his tips, he resolutely gave up his status as a Shizhen Town in the Prefecture and became a full-time official. His future and family's future status were all based on the military achievements made after joining the Dangxiang. How could Zhe Jimin turn back in the Tanglong Town? He would not go back even if the Khitan really attacked the Prefecture.

After a while of silence, Zhe Jizu said: "For the news the day before yesterday, Xu Dupu Army had passed through Huehua and left Helan Mountain. I think it would take a long time to go to the Heishan Military Supervisor Office. When the Longyou army arrived at the foot of Wula Mountain, we, Fang Jingluo from Yinxia Road and Fan Jingluo from Fuyan Road, will come there to discuss the overall situation."

Zhe Jimin said in a deep voice: "We are waiting here, waiting for Fang Jingluo and Fan Jingluo. This time, Cheng Keshang led the Dangxiang army as the vanguard, and the stationed in Jinze to prevent the Khitan. Yeli Wangrong led the Dangxiang army on Xingling Road, and went straight to the foot of Wu Lashan Mountain to recruit Dangxiang in the south and north of the mountain to prevent the Khitan from taking the opportunity to attack. Dangxiang Xin was attached, and people were unstable. If they wanted to contribute, the court would have a large army to monitor. As long as the imperial army was weaker, they might repeat it, and even switch to the Khitan."

Zhe Jizu nodded: "Yes, this matter is really dangerous. We have more than 30,000 troops and horses, and Cheng Keshang has more than this number of Hengshan Army. I don't know how many soldiers and horses Fan Jingluo brought. There are large troops stationed on Fuyan Road, and there is no big battle. There should be more people coming."

Since it was to drive the tiger and swallow the wolf, it was inevitable that the Dangxiang army would fight against the Khitan in front. It was also an excuse to really fight with the Khitan, and the Song army did not defeat the alliance. Of course, Xu Ping did not necessarily want to fight with the Khitan. As long as the Khitan army started the war first, Dangxiang's more than 100,000 troops would cross the border to seize several states dominated by the Dangxiang tribe, and the Song army would support it later.

After re-contracting, Yeli Wangrong unified more than 70,000 Dangxiang army, and Cheng Kesheng had more than 50,000 people. This is all the remaining army except Hexi, and the Zhan Fu and the village women of the entire Dangxiang area have been disbanded and transformed from mutiny. Xu Ping did not intend to let them go back to these 120,000 to scatter and disrupt them after the war, or reorganized into other armies, or moved to other places for camps, land affairs or inspection departments, and raised by the court with their families. Like other military treatment, they are considered as veterans, but they are no longer allowed to return to their hometowns, but start a new life in other places.
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