Before Wang Shao sent troops, Xixia sent troops to Mazhishan on the border of Wusheng Army, not to help, but to have other plans.

Zheng Lang and Zhao Xu joked: "Your Majesty, Xixia has opened an office in the two prefectures."

Otherwise, why did the Xixia people react in advance before the edict was sent to the front line? Zhao Xu was also very depressed, so he discussed some arrangements about Xixia with Zheng Lang, all in secretly asking questions in the name of summoning to the palace for lecturers.

But before Hehuang used troops, Zhang Dun went south. He went south to manage the North and South Jiangman and Xiazhouman. The North and South Jiangre refers to the Yuan River basin. The Yuan River comes from above Chenxi, including various tributaries, collectively known as the Nanjiang River, which is to the west of Chenzhou to the southernmost part of Sichuan, and a large area in northeastern Guizhou. The Beijiang refers to the barbarians in the area of ​​Youshui, a tributary of the northeastern Yuanshui. The Beijiang River in a narrow sense refers to the Peng family, and the Beijiang River in a broad sense also includes a small number of barbarian areas north of the Peng family. The Nanjiang River is larger and more complex, with four prefectures of the Shu family, four prefectures of the Tian family, and five prefectures of the Xiang family. Each prefecture is almost the same as the twenty prefectures of the Peng family.

Xiazhou Man is also the barbarian area in the Three Gorges area.

Although it was not the original Forbidden Meishan, the court could not interfere, let alone really govern.

This doesn't matter. The most important thing is that some barbarians are arrogant and illegal, plundering and selling Han people. As Zheng Lang said, we should not look down on the barbarians and the foreigners. Since we are Song people, we are all family members. The Han chauvinism is unbearable, but we cannot enslave the Han people. Why do the Han people become cattle and horses in the southern wasteland?

First, Zhao Ding wrote a letter, and the chiefs of Xiazhou Dong were too heavy to be stripped of, and ordinary barbarians asked to be attached. It was impossible to be attached, and even if there was a law to be resettled, those barbarians could not let the court bring barbarian slaves out of the mountain. This was a tactful request to use the help of good public opinion to let the court remove the thorn of the Xiazhou Man.

Zhang Qiao, a commoner in Chenzhou, wrote a letter to talk about the interests of the North and South Rivers. Zheng Lang spent a lot of money to manage Meishan and killed many people. This is also a must. If he does not kill, he cannot establish authority. But power is the auxiliary, establishing kindness is the main, building roads, and teaching farming etiquette. Gradually, he became naturalized. In the spring of last year, Daxing School taught it to study, and even allocated one or two places for the scientific examination every year. He took care of Meishan Man, selected the best, and made an exception to admit Jinshi. Meishan Man gradually stabilized, Chenzhou Man ran very early, and in the era of Taizu of Song, Chenzhou Man earned tribute. However, Peng's family was always at the two ends. When Zheng Lang went south, a series of wars broke out. Later, Zhang Kang and Zhong Yan defeated him, causing him to divide. However, they were not so loyal to the court.

The Song Dynasty developed the Jinghu South Road, and the phenomenon of slashing and fire farming in the Xiangshui area was almost extinct. Many roads were connected to Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangnan West Road, and the commercial atmosphere gradually became stronger. Therefore, some barbarians had the intention to become the Song people. Zhang Qiao wrote this word "People's Wish" in a book. In the past, it was difficult to operate the North and South Rivers. Barbarians would be dissatisfied and conquered by force, and a tragic war would inevitably occur, but now they can be operated.

Two books were reported to the court one after another.

Many officials looked at Zheng Lang at the same time.

Kuixia Road was Zheng Lang's unfulfilled wish, and he had experience in managing the south.

Zheng Lang said: "You can send an important official to investigate and prepare for the scriptures."

This time, there was no opposition. Zheng Lang couldn't help but look at Feng Jing and others and smiled for the last time. Unlike managing Hehuang, it was the border. These barbarian areas were in the Song Dynasty and had never surrendered to the court. They rebelled and returned. There were many bad phenomena, and their power was weak. In addition, if they were managing the south, the court would probably not be able to distract from Hehuang, so everyone did not object.

But everyone was wrong. Can't we manage Hehuang at the same time by operating the south?

Issuing an edict to ask Zhang Dun to visit Hubei Road. It is not possible for the time being that the Nanbei River and Kuixia Man should eat them all in one breath. First, I prepared to make the Sutra of the Gorge Man.

The candidate recommended by Zheng Lang.

Everyone looked at Zhang Dun suspiciously, it was a joke. Can you go south? Could it be that you and your cousin Yiyàng are also military strategists?

Zhang Dun said in his forehead: "Duke Zheng, I will definitely live up to the heavy trust of the court."

Zheng Lang smiled again. This was a fierce man. Zheng Lang admired him very much, even if he was a villain. Zhang Dun quickly rode south, not to Jinghu North Road, but to Sichuan, and first came to Nanchuan County. Xiazhou Man included the vast areas of southeastern Sichuan, Chongqing and western Hubei. Zhang Dun was not familiar with this, so he had to find a familiar and capable official to guide him. Sun Gou! Before Zhang Dun arrived in Nanchuan, and behind him was like the court recommended one person, Zhang Shangying.

It is said that after Zhang Dun went south, he was extremely talented and insulted the counties and counties, and no officials dared to talk to him. Zhang Shangying, the magistrate of Nanchuan, was angry and rewarded him. He was so arrogant that he wore Taoist priests' uniform and talked with Zhang Dun calmly and happily. Zhang Dun was very surprised and thought he was a capable person, so he was recommended to the court. He was a great talent. He was wronged to use it by my side, and the court was very useful.

Seeing this name, Zheng Lang smiled bitterly.

He was indeed a great talent. After Zhezong took power, the first person to recall was Zhang Shangying. The first person Zhang Shangying dealt with was Su Dongpo. But he was not alone and had too little hope. As the other person came back, Zhang Dun, Fan Chunren, Lu Dafang and others were so scared that they wrote their resignation when they heard Zhang Dun come back. Then they led all the ministers like pugs and yiyàng to the city gate to welcome him. The beginning of the Shaosheng liquidation, Su Dongpo Zizhan went to Danzhou, Lingnan, Su Zheziyou, but there was no Yuzhou, but he had the name Tian, ​​went to Leizhou, and Liu Zhi's name Xinlao, and went to Xinzhou. Legend has it that Liu Anshiyi's life is good, so go south to Zhaozhou, and you will be lucky to kill you. There are also Lu Dafang, Liang Tao, etc.

But all of this started with Sima Guang.

He overthrew all the new laws in a frantically manner, and returned the occupied Xixia cities one by one regardless of everything, suppressing them regardless of everything, and even letting Cai Que die of illness in Lingnan without mercy.

In fact, since then, the party struggle has been very crazy. Gao Taotao hopes that his son Zhao Xu will die early and reincarnate early. Xiao Zhao Xu hopes that his grandmother will meet the wronged King Luo earlier. Gao Taotao even sits with the ministers and watches the ministers slander their son, and Zhao Xu sits with the ministers slander their grandmother.

But aside from all this, Zhang Dun and Zhang Shangying, who are not pillars?

And it was not like this at the beginning. When Zhang Shangying arrived at the court, the first thing he did was to submit a memorial saying: Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, there have been dozens of things to change Zhang and transform. The three biggest things were: one was exempted from military service, the second was Baojia, and the third was the market. Third, get the person and talk about it slowly. It would be profitable: it was not the person. If it was urgent, it would be harmful. I hope Your Majesty and the ministers would rest quietly and choose people to do it. If one thing was not finished, one thing would be revived. Even if the master Chen was in the field and planned, Mo Di would never see the success.

He directly mentioned the two most important things in Wang Anshi's reform. One is that he did not win people. The other is that he did not win people, but instead became urgent. Therefore, there are many controversies, and many reforms did not gain benefits but instead harmed them.

Wang Anshi still has a chance. For Wang Anshi's reform, it is actually wrong to write that Fu Bi is an opponent. Fu Bi is not opposed, but opposition is too urgent, so that Wang Anshi will be more steady. Therefore, Wang Anshi will suppress it. This is a towering tree standing in front of Wang Anshi, which can shelter Wang Anshi Zhao Xu. It can shelter the wind and rain for reform. Once Fu Bi left, all the moderates were disappointed together, and Wang Anshi could only use "villain".

All of this is now closely related to him. Zhang Dun was not brought up by Wang Anshi, but he personally picked up by himself. Then look at Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Das and Su, Lu Gongzhu, and Fan Chunren, all of them are their students.

Now that Zhang Dun brought Zhang Shangying up again, everyone had a headache when they thought about it.

I was not exempted from Baojia City. Let’s see what Zhang Shangying said this time. I really said that as soon as Zhang Shangying came to the court, he wrote a memorial to talk about the hidden field. The court investigated the hidden field in large quantities, which was comparable to that of the ancestors. It was very urgent and the people were more resentful. So I should try it slowly.

I suddenly talked about the center of the problem.

This citizen refers to two types of citizens, the former is an ordinary citizen, and the latter is a powerful man.

In history, the area of ​​cultivated land in the Song Dynasty was only 200 million mu in household registration. If the official land and tax-free land were abandoned, the actual two taxes were less than 200 million mu, but more than 40 million mu had to be completed. In addition, various miscellaneous taxes and surcharges were added to the payment of five dou of grain. It turned out that the output was only a little more than two stones. What else could be left if the five dou of grain was paid?

Now the output has increased, gradually exceeding two and a half stones, and a large-scale investigation of hidden fields has brought the area of ​​cultivated land to more than 640 million mu. Zhang Shangying said it is equivalent to his ancestors, which means that the 525 million mu of acres during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty. Although it has increased by 120 million mu, the cultivated land brought by the development of the south and Jiangdongwei in recent years has almost reached 120 million mu of acres, so it is equivalent to his ancestors. It is not high, but it is only equal. However, its progressive significance is extraordinary. The two taxes are very high this year, reaching 54 million in total, but the taxes are paid are more than 600 million mu of arable land. If the official and hidden fields are abandoned, of course, the powerful fields are mostly not to mention the found that they are not to mention the I hope they share the additional tax, but the two taxes must be paid, which is equivalent to 400 million mu of acres. With the additional tax, the average tax for ordinary people is less than three bulls per mu. However, since the locust plague at the end of this winter, it has been reduced every year. After the severe drought, the two taxes in the imperial court did not increase much, and gradually remained at 45 million. In fact, the tax on the people was only a little more than two bulls acres of acres. From this time, the theoretical ten-payment of one has reached. The people's living burden is half easier. If a fourth-class family with forty acres of arable land was barely able to maintain food and clothing, but now they can accumulate more than ten stones of food, and can achieve real food and clothing.

The people were happy, but the powerful people were always unhappy, and they just did not pay surcharges. The two taxes had to be paid. If they owned thousands of acres of arable land, they would often lose hundreds of stones of food a year. No matter how humble the court made, the world was still surging because of this large-scale investigation. The controversy caused by the large-scale investigation of hidden fields was no less than that of Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law in history. If there were no temptations from the prisoners, Zheng Lang would start to betray his relatives just because of the hidden fields.

Zheng Lang was too ruthless and too anxious.

After seeing the book, Zheng Lang smiled bitterly, he was ruthless and anxious, but he couldn't force himself. The disaster was coming soon, who dared to move? He could only take the lead and take advantage of the favorable news brought by the bank to implement the hidden fields. After the facts and spring investigation, Zheng Lang was not prepared to investigate the hidden fields in the future. He would only investigate three or four states, and would not be like this now, and he would investigate dozens of state prefectures.

After seeing this, Zhao Xu was appointed as the Censor of Supervision.

Zhang Shangying also immediately wrote: "Wang Tingyun, the Ministry of Justice, has to be arrested and reported. Now, the Daming Prefecture, Qi, Bao, Xing, Mozhou, Shun'an, Baoding Army reported forty-nine cases, but the thirty-nine cases have not been arrested, and the arrests have not been completed. He entered the court because it was not in accordance with the law and did not dare to report the report. The Locust was arrested several times, and the officials of the residence detained the documents and returned the letters. They must wait until they were shot out before they could hear them. Your Majesty wanted to be afraid to rectify the law at this time. It would be too late to answer the above and ask the people to hide the rules."

Zhao Xu, the emperor, ordered all the roads to transfer and comfort the department. In the future, there will be disasters and injuries, so he will be heard from the paintings.

Wang Anshi expressed doubts: "Your Majesty, although there is a locust plague, it is still not serious. The affairs of the various sanctuary departments are heavy. What time do you have to deal with minor disasters?"

Zhao Xu smiled but refused to answer.

The locust plague is really coming at the end of the year. However, Zheng Lang has no choice. It did not emerge in the Song Dynasty, but flew over from the Liao Kingdom. Does Zheng Lang have the right to order the people of Liao Kingdom to kill locusts? This is the real depression.

All the ministers passed. However, Wen Yanbo took the lead in Luoyang and made the court dispute over whether to send troops to Hehuang.

Zheng Lang was so angry that he told a story: "Niu and Li fought against each other, and Li Deyu was demoted to Sichuan. Xidamou, the western Sichuan Weizhou, admired Li Deyu, and the family and the city of Weizhou came to surrender. Niu Sengru did not care about the consequences. In order to prevent Li Deyu from making achievements, he bewitched in front of Emperor Wenzong and had a feud with the Tubo people for a city. Be careful of the other party sending troops. In the past, Ruchuan went straight to Pinglianggu, and could reach the city of Xianyang in less than three days. Three days ago, Ruchuan went to Xianyang City? Is Tubo a god general? Wenzong actually believed that he handed over Xidamou to the Tubo people. Victoria was also returned to Tubo again, but the whole family of Xidamou was beheaded at the border. Since then, no Tubo people dared to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. It harmed the Tang Dynasty and even harmed our Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Xu misunderstood and said, "Although I issued an edict to allow the captured people in Xixia to return to Xixia, it was only the volunteers who asked them to return. All those who were involuntary will be taken in. I will never let it happen to me when encountering Weiliang's tragedy in the mountain."

"Your Majesty, I am not referring to this, but Hehuang. The soldiers in the front immediately fought bloody battles for the safety of our Song Dynasty, but there were many constraints in the rear. The situation was similar to the Niu Li party struggle. If they opposed it for the sake of opposition, they would turn right and wrong, black and white. Wouldn't the soldiers on the front be disheartened?"

This problem is very serious.

After Zheng Lang repeatedly said that Zhao Xu was increasingly resentful about party struggles, and he repeatedly said at court meetings that all ministers and workers were not allowed to form cliques.

With just one sentence, Feng Jing, Lu Dafang and others dared not speak out.

This is also the second time that Zheng Lang has used bad language to evaluate Wen Yanbo. It is okay to point fingers at the reform. You can take it slowly, but the front will start fighting immediately and the back is drawing a ladder, which is fatal.

The war begins.

Wang Shao first renovated and expanded the ancient Weicheng. This was the original Weizhou city site of the Tang Dynasty, and the terrain was very important. More than ten years ago, in order to seize the ancient Weicheng, Fan Xiang had a conflict with the local foreigners, sacrificed heavily, and was demoted by his official position.

Now ancient Weicheng finally played an important role. Then Wang Shao wrote to the court to build an army in ancient Weicheng. The army here was not the army, but the army of the state army, and the nature of the Huaide Army. Since then, the court officially began to operate with ancient Weizhou as the center. Including Baoshun, it directly became the real people of the Song Dynasty.

While transporting a large amount of weapons, materials and food to Gu Weicheng together, Zheng Lang gave a large list, between eight million yuan and ten million yuan, Wang Shao, you should take it yourself. But Wang Shao wants very little, and he is most interested in one is armor and the other is the Divine Arm Bow.

It turned out that the Song Dynasty armor was very miserable. The standard armor could weigh more than fifty kilograms. If the gunman armor was built according to the standards, it could weigh fifty-three kilograms, the archer armor weighed forty-seven kilograms, and the light and heavy crossbowman armor weighed thirty-seven kilograms. However, there were even more bulky. The plate armor from medieval Europe could weigh ninety kilograms. Although it was big and wearing this armor, Genghis Khan could only wait to die when he came.

The main reason for this was that the smelting technology could not keep up. By the Qing Dynasty, the technology had been followed, but it was replaced by cotton armor, which was iron leaf armor. In Europe, thermal weapons gradually emerged. The armor first developed into full-body armor, and then disappeared into the long river of history, becoming a local steel breastplate and helmet. In short, because of Zheng Lang's appearance, the entire technological evolution was in chaos.

The smelting technology is improved, and the original armor can no longer be used. After the experiments of craftsmen and the guidance of Zheng Lang's physics, Song Jia's appearance also undergoes some subtle changes with the materials, such as the armor's appearance, which has a large number of angular designs. This design can change the ballistics of the arrow stone and avoid direct impact. However, it is not the bulky full-body armor of Europe, which is more similar to soft armor. The defense is not strengthened, but the weight is reduced by more than ten kilograms, and the cost is further reduced. Wang Shao doesn't care about the cost. He is concerned about the speed of the soldiers after the weight drops.

In fact, the technology can still be improved. Zheng Lang only remembers that when European armor gradually disappeared in the 17th century, the Italian plate armor weighed only forty-five pounds, which was far lighter than the Song and Ming armor, but its defensive power could offset the attack of primitive musket bullets.

According to the current requirements of the Song army's armor and defense strength, the weight of the armor can be reduced to less than 30 pounds, less than fourteen kilograms.

It has nothing to do with armor design, but the smelting technology has not reached the level of Europe in the seventeenth century.

This was his idea, but for the Song Dynasty, it was a huge surprise.

At least all kinds of things appeared, which gradually increased the number of students studying physics to nearly a thousand. Not only did the court pay more and more attention, but some powerful people also paid attention to it. Wang Shao didn't know the process, he only knew the role of the new armor, and he had just come out and asked Zheng Lang to help him and asked for a dress-up change.

Zheng Lang agreed.

A large number of divine arm bows were provided.

In other words, Wang Shao only asked to mobilize several generals and transfer thousands of soldiers from Jingyuan Road, and then there was no more. He asked for money. Now Qinzhou has money, and he needs more than 800,000 mu of land to buy land. Is there still a shortage of food? However, he asked that once Hehuang is recovered, the court will pay some money and silk to build roads for Hehuang. Only when the roads are clear can effective management be carried out, Zheng Lang agreed one by one.

But at the beginning, Wang Shao had an argument with the generals. Wang Shao did not send troops to the Wusheng Army. Instead, he attacked the Qiang people Mengluojiao, Maer Shuiba and other tribes in the southeast of the Wusheng Army. Jing Sili was puzzled. He said: "Wang Fu, shoot the horses first when shooting people, and capture the thieves first when capturing the Wang, why not advance to the Wusheng Army, but attack the Qiang people, and there are many mountains and forests..."

"General Jing, if he attacked Wusheng Army City, will the Qiang people, as a lackey of Tubo, go to rescue them? If he attacked Qiang people, how many owners would fight for the dog? Maybe they would also have to look at the true strength of our army and keep their siblings in hand to take over Wusheng Army City?"

Jing Sili and the generals believed and suspected it. The Song army set out and headed towards Mabang Mountain (southeast of Didao County) in the Taoshui area southeast of Wusheng Army. The terrain of this area was dangerous. The mountains were not only tall and dangerous, but also because they were close to Taoshui, the water was abundant and the forests were also very lush.

When the Song army came, the Qiang gathered in a dangerous place on Mabang Mountain, Zhuniuling, and was in high positions and waiting for battle.

The Song army has arrived.

Seeing the Qiang soldiers on the mountain, the Song Dynasty soldiers hesitated again. Miao Shu said: "General Wang, you should ask the court for artillery more at that time."

Wang Shao snorted coldly: "Can artillery break the rocks after the Qiang enemy lies behind the rocks? Now that the enemy occupies the dangerous place and cannot leave, we can only return in vain. The army has entered the dangerous place and is about to capture the dangerous place."

After saying that, he ordered all the troops to climb over Mabang Mountain and come to the bottom of Zhuniuling. Standing on the ridge and looking at the ridge, Wang Shao said, "The soldiers are killed, and those who dare to retreat will be killed."

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were wearing heavy armor and climbed up the ridge. At first, the Qiang people did not move, until they climbed to the middle of the ridge, making the steepness on the ridge. Only then did the Qiang people fall down with the rain of stone arrows. Suddenly, the Song army screamed in tears. There was no way to attack, so the Song army had to retreat.

Some people looked at Wang Shao and dared not speak, otherwise they would resent Wang Shao. Lord Wang, if you can't attack like this, the sacrifice would be very heavy. At this time, Wang Shao glanced at Dongfang and said, "Your Majesty has great trust in me, what's the pity for me to die?"

He thought more about it. Once Hehuang was defeated, not only him, but also the emperor would make things difficult for him. Zheng Lang and reform would be implicated, and even leveraged the overall situation of the country. Then he made an amazing move, took off his official uniform, exposed the armor that Zheng Lang gave him, and held a long spear, and rushed up to Zhuniuling with the first one.

Who is Wang Shao? He is a Jinshi, a civil servant in the country. He also has the achievements of the Huluchuan victory and has a bright future. As a literati, he actually took the lead in rushing upwards. Almost instantly, all the soldiers' blood was boiling, and their blood surged up the forehead, and they rushed up the ridge with no chance.

Although some soldiers were caught in arrows from time to time, some soldiers hit stones, rolled them to the foot of the mountain, screaming repeatedly. The Song army did not stop and climbed up the ridge like crazy. Some Qiang people were frightened to see the Song army so fiercely.

Tian Qiong was the first to risk his life to rush up to the head of the ridge, waving the big sword in his hand. Before the people behind came up, Tian Qiong was stunned by all the Qiang people. Seeing Tian Qiong's sword down, the head flew up. The Qiang people put down their weapons and fled to the back of the ridge without any chance.

The Song army then chased afterwards, killing countless enemies. In this battle, countless leaders and armor were obtained, and their clan tents were burned. The entire Taoxi earthquake was shattered. The real enemy came, and there were still two. Mu Zheng heard from Hezhou that the Song Dynasty sent troops and asked his great leader Xiao Kui to send troops to help. He brought Wusheng Army City leader Blind Medicine and the four kings of Qusa Qus to send troops to Mabangshan, preparing to use the terrain to familiarize themselves with the Song army.

Another enemy was very hidden, from Xixia. The Song Dynasty obtained the ancient Weicheng, and Tubo defended the Wusheng Army City. The Western Xia journey to the south was blocked. The traitor Jing Xun offered suggestions to let the Liang family find its place. It happened that Wang Shao was promoting Rong Ce to Xixia, and Xixia sent scouts to Qinzhou to pay attention. When the Song Dynasty was about to send troops, Xixia gathered troops at the Xia and Fan border, not to assist Xixia, and there was no good intention. The Song army sent troops, and the Xia army was invaded in the East Valley, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity to take over the Wusheng Army City when the two countries were fighting.

At present, Wang Shao only knew Mu Zheng's men and horses, but he didn't know the military horses of Xixia.

When Wang Shao heard the scout coming to report, he thought for a while and made Jing Sili. Wang Cun led the troops and horses supported by Jingyuan Road to bluff in Zhuniuling to show that he was not suspicious. Wang Shao himself also went straight to Wusheng City from the Donggu Road trail. Both armies were in Donggu, but the Xixia army was far away from the north of Donggu Road and came out of the Mazhi Mountain and did not know each other.
To be continued...