Chapter 604 Prime Minister (2)
Helan Mountain is getting closer and closer, and the small wine store has arrived. ( .) Anyway, Wu Zang Epang would never dream of Your Highness here. But, but..."
"But what?"
"The night is long and dreams are too many. I heard that I did not hide a bounty of 1,000 taels and 5,000 sheep. I secretly sought out your highness. My subordinates rescued your highness. I had to call more than a dozen warriors from the clan to participate. But people's hearts were unpredictable. I stayed for a long time. Seeing that the possibility of your highness ascending the throne was weakened, I was afraid..."
This is the strategy taught by Zheng Lang.
The little prince is so fooling, and the key is to convince the Khitans that the Khitans are not so easy to fool.
Reason for not leaking water.
Brother Ning Ling was imprisoned for several days and became more and more discouraged. Finally, he compromised and wrote a letter, which was written on the letter according to the reasons fabricated by Wei Tie. He expressed his loyalty to Liao Xingzong and asked Liao Xingzong for help. After receiving Brother Ning Ling's letter, Wei Tie asked Jiang Hui to go to the Khitan.
The whole process is strictly investigated, but there is no ban on commerce.
During the Battle of Hequ, Xixia suffered heavy losses. In addition, Yuan Hao was greedy for the beauty of his family and was extravagant. The lives of the people in Xixia were very hard, and he had to try to improve the lives of the people. It was not for the people, but for his status.
The Western Xia can achieve today, thanks to the Han people from previous dynasties. In order to govern this place, the Qin Dynasty built the Qin family canal, which has been used to this day, and can irrigate more than 900 hectares of land. For the Western Xia, more than 90,000 acres of cultivated land is a considerable area. The Guanglu Canal was built in the Han Dynasty, which was later destroyed. It was re-driggered during the Tang Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, the Han Yan Canal was built in the south of Lingzhou, and the Tang Lai Canal was expanded. It was the largest main canal in the Western Xia territory. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Aishan Canal was built, and the fields were irrigated to 1,000 hectares. The Sui and Tang Dynasties built a seven-level canal, and Guo Ziyi defeated the Tubo army here. But here, more than 30 years later, the Northern Song Dynasty defeated the Xia in the five routes and the Western Xia Dynasty defeated the seven-level canal, resulting in the defeat of the Song army.
During the reign of Emperor Muzong of Tang Dynasty, a special canal was built, which irrigated 600 hectares of land. The Tang Dynasty built eight canals such as the Censor Canal, Hu Canal, Baijia Canal, etc., which could irrigate more than 500 hectares of land. In addition, there were canals such as Shangshu. The construction of these canals made Western Xia more developed agriculture and supported the war between the Western Xia against the Song Dynasty and Tubo.
As for the Haowang Canal built by Yuanhao himself, because there were no relevant water conservancy experts, the site was selected and it was not chiseled in the end. Zheng Lang didn't know this. Influenced by some experts later, he believed that the Haowang Canal had a huge role, but in fact it was nothing.
But sooner or later, Zheng Lang will know that he has made a mistake in his judgment. He used to have too little intelligence work on Xixia, so he could only analyze problems based on some data in his mind. As large-scale scouts sneak into Xixia, these intelligence will continue to be truly feedback.
The Xixia inherited the large number of water conservancy projects built by the Han dynasty in the past. The best one was Li Deming, dredging them one by one to make them practical. On the contrary, Yuan Hao only squandered them, and these water conservancy projects in the previous dynasty were not expanded in his hands.
After Wuzang promoted Li Liangzuo to the throne, he issued some orders to repurpose his limited national strength, renovate some water conservancy, and expand the scale of reclamation. As the prime minister, Wuzang Epang was not weak. Although it caused Li Yuanhao and his son to kill each other and wanted to harm Li Liangzuo, he could make some contributions to the stability of the transition time of Xixia.
In addition to agriculture, there is also commerce.
The Western Xia was poor and had to support the Khitan and Song dynasties.
Therefore, the investigation was very strict, but the commercial exchanges with the Song Dynasty and the Khitan were not cut off, and even the expansion of commerce was encouraged.
Yang Shousu was bewitched by Zheng Lang and proposed to secretly open up the Wushan Road, trade with the Dadanjiu tribes and Beishubu tribes, transport their production to the Song Dynasty for sale, and earn a huge profit difference.
No consent was hidden.
Under such circumstances, Jiang will successfully arrive in Jinsuzhou.
I can't go any further, so I ask to see the slaves from Linya Yelu Gao in the south.
This is a Khitan minister who is good at military affairs.
It is not necessarily a compliment, it is just good at military affairs, lacks a little bit of diplomacy, and lacks lofty vision. It is exactly what Zheng Lang needs.
Because he is proficient in military affairs, Gao's slave knows the importance of Ning Ling Ge, and he also thinks that Ning Ling Ge is a strange product.
Such a major event happened in Xixia. Just on the east side of Xixia, Yelu Gao's slaves must have heard of the news. As expected, Zheng Lang expected, Yelu Gao's slaves almost couldn't calm down after seeing the letter and said, "You told Your Highness the Crown Prince of your country, please rest assured, our Khitan will definitely send troops to attack the thieves for him."
"General Yelu, but our Highness needs His Majesty Liao to personally approve it." Jiang Hui calmly put his own request as Zheng Lang's instructions.
"OK."
Yelu Gao's slave carefully settled Jiang Hui and wrote a letter, deliberately explaining the importance of Ning Lingge and sending the letter to Zhongjing with the fastest horse. Liao Xingzong was very miserable. First, Zheng Lang escaped, and then his mother. If his mother hadn't deliberately opposed him and sent someone to the Song Dynasty to threaten to reveal the truth, the two countries would not clear the scouts at the border, then someone from the Song Dynasty could spread the news to Youzhou faster, and Zheng Lang could not escape. However, his mother could not kill him. She had to continue to use means to win back her mother's heart. She did not go to Liaodong to do a spring bowl. In the first month of the year, she hunted in Yuanyangluo to make more convenient accompanying her mother. Then Xixia sent a delegation to report the demise and presented good falcons to Liao Xingzong to please Liao Xingzong. Then she led all the ministers to congratulate Xiao Nojin in Salala.
It is closer to Suzhou, Jin and is closer than in Liaodong, so it gets news faster.
The two letters arrived at the same time. After seeing the letter, all the king and his ministers were very happy.
Although there was a defeat in Hequ, in the hearts of the Khitans, the military power was still the best in the Khitans. Otherwise, the young prime minister of the Song Dynasty would not have been so afraid of the Khitans, and then to the Song Dynasty and then to the Western Xia. The Song Dynasty could not chew on the Western Xia, but the Khitans made a mistake last time.
Moreover, after the Khitan founded his country, he had never suffered such a great defeat and lost all his prestige. Even the most conservative ministers were unwilling to give up this great opportunity. Besides, their conservativeness was only conservative to the Song Dynasty and could get a lot of benefits. What benefits could the Xixia give? Yes, an obedient Xixia give benefits, but can the Xixia people be obedient now?
The death of the hero Yuan Hao is a great opportunity. If you get Brother Ning Ling again, it will be almost like a tiger with wings.
A letter was immediately returned, almost written in the form of a Chinese letter and brought to Jinsuzhou.
I originally wanted to send an envoy to visit Ning Lingge himself, but was rejected by Jiang Hui. I just asked them to send troops to the north of the desert to prepare for the response, and hurried back with Liao Xingzong's letter.
It took only a month and a half to go back and forth, so Weitie was surprised by its speed.
Jiang Hui did not know that Liao Xingzong was not in Liaodong, but in Zhongjing, Khitan, was also confused.
Of course, fast is best.
Even here, it is not a place to stay for a long time.
With the letter, Wei Ti sneaked into the basement from the kitchen and handed the letter to Brother Ning Ling.
Brother Ning Ling finished reading the letter with the oil lamp, raised his head and said, "How about not moving the queen?"
"It's not a good thing. Wuzang thought it was her father who hid His Highness, which made him suspicious and had strict supervision."
"Can you bring her a letter for me?"
Wei Tie is so terrible that you have reached this point that you are still obsessed with this woman!
Chapter completed!