It was late March, and Zheng Lang went to the suburbs again.

This year is the second year of planting grains, and the area is much better than last year, but it is still used as a seed, so I can explore the best planting methods. It will not be promoted until next year. Under the leadership of Zheng Lang, the major leaders in the North Korea often come to check it. In fact, this is an attitude.

In history, cotton extended to Fujian in the Song Dynasty. Because no one paid attention or moved to the north, cotton was not promoted in the Song Dynasty, and it can even be traced back to an earlier time. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Tang soldiers stationed in the Western Regions planted grass cotton seeds, that is, cotton, but no one thought of bringing it to the Longyou area. Therefore, no one in Lanzhou and other areas planted cotton. By the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally issued an edict to encourage the planting of cotton. Cotton was promoted nationwide, which allowed many people to wear clothes and no longer fear the cold winter. The Ming army could officially station in Liaodong, let alone create a developed economy in the southeast.

But there were few talented and stubborn people. Later, the Ming Dynasty emperors were inferior to the other. Various grains appeared one after another in the Ming Dynasty, but because no one encouraged promotion and research and development, they had never played their role. It was not that mixed grains could make people tired of eating them. Not to mention ancient times, just say that in the Song Dynasty, the staple food of one meter and two beans was expensive. If you eat water chestnut rice every day, it would be the best, but it was impossible. Sometimes it was seasonal, and it was too expensive. Wheat food was not bad. Although there were many wheat brans in the wheat noodles, it was for the vast majority.

For the people of the north, they usually have to use millet and sorghum as the main food, and even some people in water towns use water cucumber as the main food. It is good to stir-fry water cucumber as vegetables, but can it be used as the staple food? Not only that, the economy is far better than before, and now some poor people have to dig wild vegetables to fill their hunger when spring comes. As for the Jurchens, they are even worse. They are half hungry and are half hungry, hunting, planting, fishing, and nomadic. In order to survive, I don’t know how many tragic stories happened.

Therefore, it is not enough to have seeds. The court must pay attention to it. As long as it is paid attention to, it can be promoted quickly.

There are many crops brought back, including flowers, fruits, vegetables, and the most important grains now, including some taro, peanuts, pumpkins, etc., which can also be regarded as miscellaneous grains to satisfy your hunger.

These grains will bring many changes to the present.

How many changes will occur? Zheng Lang is looking forward to it as the lush and various grains are growing.

After reading it, he gave a few instructions. Zheng Lang returned to the capital.

As soon as I returned home, the concierge reported that it was someone from Hehuang who asked for a visit.

Under Zhang Shi's forced force, some uncooperative foreign waiters had to send troops to help. Zhang Shi immediately organized them into the army and immediately sent them to the front line. It was the front line. It was impossible for Xixia to sit on the sidelines of the Song Dynasty to obtain the Hexi Corridor and send troops to counterattack.

The soldiers of these tribes were originally forced to come. The morale was not strong, and they had not been trained, and the military discipline was scattered. After the two armies fought, Xixia miraculously discovered that when fighting with the Song army, they used to win less and lose more, but now they win more and lose less.

This allowed Liang to see the light.

But it was exactly what Zhang Yue wanted to see. Anyway, behind it was the tall city wall. Xixia was not good at attacking cities, which made the Liang family feel illusion that no matter how much wins or loses, or how much wins or loses, every battle will cause sacrifices, waste money, and increase the burden on the people.

The two armies were exhausted, and the Xixia people suffered casualties, and the Song Dynasty also suffered casualties, but the casualties were the children of these disobedient Fanhou. Why not use the hands of the Xixia people to weaken their strength?

It is clear that it is weakening. When the war comes, Zhang Feng dared not use them because of this contradiction and a little hatred. Not to mention anything else, he still knew that Gao Xianzhi was defeated by the Great Food. If it were not for the betrayal of the Geluo people, how could Gao Xianzhi lose so badly?

Therefore, the Song Dynasty now made Huizhou, Liangzhou and Lanzhou a huge meat grinder, not only to grind the Western Xia soldiers and the wealth of Xixia, but also to grind these disobedient Fan Hou subordinates.

Seeing this situation, everyone was sitting in pain and did not dare to resist. It happened that spring was in full swing, and Hehuang was building roads, and the roads were much more developed than before. So they made an appointment and quickly came to the capital. They were guilty and did not dare to see Zhao Xu immediately, and were afraid of not seeing him.

So I found Zheng Lang first.

Zheng Lang saw him.

More than twenty envoys came, and half of them had attended the Fanhou Conference, including powerful races such as Dong, Xi, Pao, and Xinmu. Of course, if they were not strong, they would not dare to have bad thoughts and were not qualified to disobey Song Chaoyang.

However, each has its own reasons. The Xi tribe was sitting there because the Song Dynasty did not completely hand over Xige City to Xibawen, but instead used it as the military city of the Jishi Army. The Pao tribe let Wang Shao kill him miserably. It would be a good thing not to rebel, and he would not expect them to be loyal to the Song Dynasty. The Jishi tribe also let Guo Cheng kill him so hard that he could flow. As for the Dong tribe and the Xinmu tribe followed Dong tribe, there was no accident. Moreover, Zheng Lang was very suspicious of one thing. In history, Guizhang entered Taozhou many times, which turned Taozhou upside down. Dong Jin did not ask about it openly, but the Guozhuang tribe was in the south of Guzhou and the north of Jishi Army. If you want to enter Taozhou, you must drive the Xi tribe away, but there were also in front, either along the Dajishi Mountain, along the Mubo tribe, or entering Taozhou from the Dong tribe. Zheng Lang estimated that Guizhang caused trouble to Taozhou, and most of the Dong tribe was the Dong tribe to open the passage and secretly support it.

But it may not be that all the foreign soldiers in Huangzhou are slanderous. For example, the two brothers of the Yanan tribe, Chuezhe, Mizang, Miaolong, etc., all had tens of thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers under their tents. This time, they all took the initiative to cooperate with the Song Dynasty's recruitment.

In short, there are three reasons for the disobedience against Song Chaoyang. First, Wang Shao killed him fiercely and developed some resentment. Second, he was loyal to the major tribes of Dongwu. Seeing that Dongwu had not moved last year, he learned. Third, he was dissatisfied with some of the handling of the Song Dynasty, such as the Xi tribe. But he had one common feature: these tribes were all very large and had a little capital to resist the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang asked them to sit down.

These people began to complain.

Zheng Lang asked: "What did you say about the swearing?"

In order to govern Hehuang, or even in the future, the Xixia Corridor, the Xixia implemented not the Song Dynasty's policies, but the Fanhou system. For example, taxes are levied based on the population. This tax is not taken seriously, and it is not as much as the dividends paid by the criminals to the Fanhou. However, taxation means that the court can truly govern here. On the west side of the Chiling, they cried and shouted that the Song Dynasty would collect this tax, and the Song Dynasty would not collect it. The number of cents means that the number of cents has the right to speak before and after the rankings of the military rankings of each state, and the contracts of the criminals are granted according to the number of cents. This is enjoyment, but it also requires paying. The number of cents requires the amount of military service.

In fact, the so-called military service is the battle against Xia.

Is it impossible to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun and bring Tubo soldiers to Hebei in one go? It is impossible. The Tubo people are fierce on the plateau and eat more when they arrive at the plain.

But now, is it possible to only enjoy rights and not pay obligations?

The alliance did not talk about the attack on Xia, but talked about the recruitment.

This is the Blood Alliance. Zheng Lang himself cut his fingers and bleed into the wine. He vowed to drink the bloody wine with the tribes.

The Song Dynasty implemented it, and the facts were done very well. Even the money and silk used for the basic construction of Tubo exceeded the numbers he mentioned at the Mongke. Hehuang has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes in recent years. But now these twenty or so monks have not done what the Mongke said.

Take a reasonable point in everything.

Zheng Lang only said one sentence, and he could only admit his mistakes.

Zheng Lang said again: "In fact, I was the first to be the magistrate of the clerk. If you continue to not obey the order, the third step is to reduce or obtain information as a custody contract, and use these custody contracts as rewards and allocate them to other custody guards. If you don't listen, the fourth step is to wipe out! I believe that many custody guards are willing to cooperate with the court, see your demise, get your people, and get your custody contracts."

But Zheng Lang still gave them a chance. He went to Xifu to ask for a warrant and asked them to go to Liangzhou, informing Zhang Ju to suspend it.

However, there is no need to consume any more at this time. And at this time, less than 20% of the subordinates of each tribe are left.

These people left the capital and hurried back to the northwest with warrants.

The court formally ordered the soldiers of various armies from Hedong, Hebei to the capital. However, they were asked to come to the capital for military parade without saying that they would attack Xia.

There were 110,000 people in total, with some mixed members, mostly village soldiers, and a few guards, strong men and some archery militias from the bow and arrow clubs.

This part of the army was not the main force, but was used as a civilian in the early stage. It was used to transport food, grass and supplies, and also entered the northwest under this name to avoid waking up the Khitan too early. There were also imprisoned soldiers, with not many people, only 250,000, most of which were already in Hehuang, Shaanxi. This time, there were not many imprisoned soldiers dispatched. One was to confuse the Western Xia and Khitans, and the other was that the number of imprisoned soldiers was declining.

The Xining reform, including political economy and military, has many aspects of military reform. One change is to gradually reduce the number of imprisons and increase the number of rural soldiers. After the reform, the number of imprisons has remained at around 600,000. To this day, including the number of imprisons that have been sacrificed, only 580,000. The reduction of imprisons is not very powerful, the most powerful one is the wing soldiers. The Song Dynasty clearly stipulates that the task of the wing soldiers is for hundreds of soldiers. For example, the Zhuangcheng Army builds cities, works as courtyard soldiers for weapons, bridges, roads and roads to build roads, shipyard soldiers for shipbuilding, rivers and clear troops for transportation, laziness to punish the wing soldiers for entry, guarding the prison cities, etc.

At first it was not set up for war. When there was a disaster, the victims were organized into the army to raise them for labor and to provide for the victims. The intention was good, but the money for raising soldiers was still from the people, so it became one of the heavy expenses of the Song Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Zheng Lang, the goal of using labor to provide relief during disasters was lost. As for the construction of labor in various places, large-scale construction was also used in the year of disasters. Or the court directly allocated funds, the significance of labor was further weakened. Therefore, after the reform, Zheng Lang reduced it to 270,000 people, and later security guards appeared. Many Fangchang Hedu auctioned, which increased the prevention and control of theft by the township soldiers, and further weakened the role of the soldiers. If it were not for some effect, the organization of the soldiers could be directly cancelled.

After the cuts were gradually reduced, only 170,000 soldiers were left.

There are only 700,000 soldiers left in the ban wing. If there are no village soldiers and Baoding, even Zhao Xu would not be too relieved. Therefore, the number of village soldiers increased. The number of village soldiers increased by 250,000 from the 190,000 after the reform. This is a positive restructuring. First of all, the cost of raising one army soldiers is equal to raising two village soldiers, saving a lot of military expenses. Secondly, the cost of raising an army soldiers is high, but the price of the capital is high, and the family of the army soldiers may not have no worries about food and clothing. However, as village soldiers, the family is not living in the capital with high prices, and there are some camps in each station, which makes them increase their income and the court's expenses are reduced.

The soldiers themselves, the family has fewer worries and reduced the family's separation caused by the garrison of the forbidden soldiers. Third, the indirect costs, there are camp fields in various places, but will the injunctions farm? Therefore, these camp fields are mostly rented to local people to farm, causing various contradictions. However, the township soldiers do not have this problem. The food is released in front and the food supply is reduced in the rear, which is equivalent to saving a lot of money for the court. Fourth, the township soldiers live in the region and are familiar with the local environment and climate, especially the mountainous areas in the south, which has a greater role than the imperial guards. Fifth, the township soldiers are formally organized, reducing local military service and allowing the people to relax.

However, under the Song Dynasty system, Zheng Lang did not dare to cut the number of imprisoned soldiers excessively, maintain it at 600,000, and did not dare to increase the number of rural soldiers excessively. It was weapons, and the supply of imprisoned soldiers was also given priority, and then rural soldiers and foreign soldiers.

It was precisely this situation that the Song Dynasty established 40 troops, which only included more than 200,000 imperial guards. Others included 110,000 troops in Hebei and Hedong, as well as the rural soldiers in Shaanxi and a small number of foreign soldiers. However, it was far from these 40 troops. Although 250,000 imperial guards were dispatched this time, there were all 90,000 imperial guards in Shaanxi, and 100,000 foreign soldiers in Shaanxi and Hehuang. The troops who had clearly participated in the war reached 550,000. Not only that, once the Xia Dynasty was attacked, Zhang Qi would also mobilize tens of thousands of foreign soldiers and Uighur soldiers from the four prefectures of Gan and Liang. There is no calculation of more than 200,000 civilians.

This will be the largest military mobilization in the history of the Song Dynasty. Not only more than 800,000 soldiers and the people were involved in combat or logistics transportation, but also 5,000 artillery pieces, 200,000 god-arm polos, horse yellow bows, new armor, and other weapons. Before the war alone, the court spent 110 million yuan to prepare a large amount of food, grass, weapons, armor and various other materials.

However, after Xixia lost the Hexi Corridor, the whole country moved for assistance, and the troops could not exceed 500,000, and the financial situation was even more messy.

Compared with the morale of the people, finance, military and weapons, the Song Dynasty's attack on Xia was almost a crushing blow.

And what's even more terrifying is that the Song Dynasty has other backers. As Zheng Lang, who is about to go to the front line, with such a great advantage, he is still trembling with a trembling mentality to avoid the story of the failure of the five routes in the history of the Song Dynasty. He even brought Wang Gui to the point of maintaining support from the rear.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, and the rural soldiers in Hedong, Hebei are gradually arriving. (To be continued...)
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