Zheng Lang stared at the vast Yinshan Mountains in the north and said, "There is another reason, that is, overseas. // The fastest update //[This article comes from]"

"There are many intentions to establish Zhenyuanjian, and money is not a problem for the court." After selling some islands, they collected more than 40 million yuan in cash. It seems to be a huge number, but in fact, compared with more than 200,000 square kilometers of land, this amount of money is nothing.

But with this money, it was enough to provide military expenditures for the Song Dynasty's expedition.

And there is another intention. In recent years, several major battles have been launched, and the whole country has been in great difficulty. It has not been clear when the war against Xia in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, and new bank debts have been accumulated because of the war.

It was not until last autumn that it was finally clean. Zheng Lang was not in the capital. It is said that after learning the news from the Sansi that day, Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu almost cried with joy, and then feasted the ministers in the palace. Gao Taotao personally showed his head and raised his glass to the ministers and said, "Today, the Ai family was very happy, and finally returned the burden of Emperor Renzong and the late emperor."

The main reason is that Zhao Shushi accumulated a debt, but Zhao Shu was finally Gao Taotao's husband. If he had to join Renzong, Zhao Shu would have a smaller responsibility.

This process took fifteen years, not the five years that Han Qi said. Of course, many major things were done in the meantime, resolving the seven-year drought in Xining and regaining Hehuang and Xixia.

Then on New Year's Day this year, Zhao Xu had a rare opportunity to take out 10 million yuan in money to reward officials and soldiers.

This repayment is not rare, but it is rare that it has never been exploited from the people. The country has been living a tight life in the past decade, but the private economy has flourished, and many powerful and wealthy businessmen among the people have accumulated terrible wealth.

It would be terrible if this wealth was not diverted.

Of course, we cannot provide guidance to real estate, nor to stocks.

Zhenyuanjian will play a role in the middle, except at the beginning, the court will send officers and soldiers to suppress it, and then not only hand over the management rights, including management rights, public security rights, etc. to the island owners. There are farmlands, minerals, spices, and local specialties in various places. They can develop planting and breeding, industry and commerce. However, they do not spend money after paying the auction money. If they want to convert wealth from these lands, they have to invest in road water conservancy and reclamation. They need to invest more money before they can get a reward.

Zheng Lang said that he should treat the people who have moved to the Central Plains well and formulate various policies to protect them. In fact, it is not necessary. The island owners will treat them well for the time being. Could it be that the local indigenous people manage them?

But this is not in Lingnan, but overseas.

If life can be barely passed, who would be willing to leave his hometown and go overseas? Some people would even beg rather than go, and the country is so peaceful.

The court didn't care and wanted to mobilize them to help them. The island owners could only use the poor households to go there. If they wanted to survive, they had to care about their food, drink, housing and use. That's it. Not many people were willing to leave, but they promised various benefits, so some people left, and most of them were people in the southeast coastal areas. This would cost another batch of money. Then the pressure of wealth accumulated in China was relieved.

In fact, the difficulty lies in the beginning, because Ping An Supervision Bureau has close contact with overseas contacts. After several years, these migrant people will live better and better in foreign lands, and more poor households will be willing to leave their homes and go overseas to make a living.

However, the population pressure is not great now, and the increase in population within at least ten years will not bring significant contradictions.

After the passage last year, the twelfth lunar month began to stir, but the result was not very ideal. The area was not small, and the number of households allowed by the imperial court was also quite large. The island owners used all kinds of means to make the island owners move out only tens of thousands of households, rather than the more than 700,000 households stipulated by the imperial court.

Zhao Xu also wrote a letter to joke about Zheng Lang. In fact, he was still very happy in his heart, which shows the court's attraction to the people and the people's recognition of the court.

The economy did not bring difficulties to the Song Dynasty, and they would even make a little profit. Even in the future, the court did not expect it to make much money. However, overseas development will make industry and commerce more prosperous, and then commercial taxes will gradually increase, and the court will obtain some invisible income.

The difficult thing is the apparent army.

After taking the money from various powerful people, the court needed to dispatch troops overseas, which gave the Khitan some illusions.

In fact, it would be a mistake for the Khitans to think this way. Now overseas is the Nanyang. The weather is humid and hot, and the imperial court does not dispatch many banish soldiers. Most of them use thick silk from the south to transfer village soldiers and some militias they hired from the past.

The focus of the entire Song Dynasty's military strength was still in the north.

Now that this situation occurs, there are two ways to deal with it. One immediately arrests these rebels. Without them as an internal support, the Khitan dared not send troops. The other sat on their way to their development and led the Khitan army to the west and fight in the previous battle.

Zheng Lang analyzed these situations and asked: "Sixth Prince, what do you think should be?"

This is Zheng Lang's inspiring education.

"Can you win the battle with the Khitans?"

"If we say that before, when our dynasty had not signed the Chanyuan alliance with the Khitan, the two sides actually had a victory or defeat. However, the Battle of Gaoliang River cast a shadow on everyone. But to be fair, the combat effectiveness of the Khitan army was still above the combat effectiveness of our dynasty army. But now our dynasty weapons are far more advanced than the Khitan. In the Battle of Hehuang and Xia, many soldiers were tempered in actual combat, and obtained the northwest and a large number of cavalry. The Khitan lord and mediocre ministers were not as clear as our dynasty politics. If there were no other factors, our dynasty army could have a slight advantage compared to the Khitan, and at least both sides could remain equal."

"Then you can play a fight."

“Tell me why.”

"If the war requires money and silk, our dynasty will repay the debt, so don't worry about money and silk."

"It can also be considered a reason."

"The people on Lingxia Road are not as loyal as Hebei and Hedong, but the court has done its goodwill. This is the home court of our dynasty."

"It can also count."

"I have lived in the shadow of the Khitan for many years, and now my country is strong, so I should fight to wash away this shadow and the shame of the past."

"Yes, it's a big reason."

"And also the military capabilities of Duke Zheng."

"Haha, I am not the leader of military affairs, but there is one person."

"who?"

"Zhang Yu."

During the War of Xia, Zhang Feng was transferred to Beihetao, and felt a little unhappy, but when he saw Wang Guo's fate, he should be glad now. In fact, Zheng Lang attaches great importance to Zhang Feng, and even believes that only two people could surpass Zhang Feng, Yue Fei and Meng Gong. It is not that others are not good, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Li Jilong, Cao Wei, Wang Shao, Di Qing, Han Shizhong, Di Qing, Li Bao, Liu Qi, Yu Jie, and Du Gao can all be regarded as famous generals, but these people will not exceed too many compared to Zhang Feng. As for Cao Bin, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun, it is easy to wash and go to bed.

Zheng Lang asked again: "Your Highness, although the national fiscal situation has improved, the national treasury does not have much surplus. The war with the Khitan cannot be solved by spending millions of cranes, and it will reach tens of millions of cranes, or even hundreds of millions of cranes. If that is the case, what should we do?"

Zhao Xu thought deeply, and it was obvious that this question was beyond his age.

Most of the day later, Zhao Xu asked back: "Mr. Zheng. What should we do?"

"So quickly and quickly!"

"And there is another reason, because the Western Xia established orthodox two traitors Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. Although our dynasty spent countless money and even His Majesty agreed with the old minister's suggestion, he adopted the trade law of the entire Lingxia Road salt administration to resolve the conflicts between the salt administration. However, some nobles were obsessed with the old Xia Kingdom. Before it was pacified, they could suppress it, but after pacifying it, they could only comfort it. But these people always had the dream of restoring the country, and the Khitan was on the side to be bewitched, which was ultimately a hidden danger of Lingxia Road. It was not easy to act. If it was not easy to act, it would make the people resent. Once it broke out, it could be suppressed with justification and completely solved this disadvantage."

Zheng Lang began to sit down and think.

I told Zhao Xu a lot. It was just a flexible way of education. With his ten-year-old age, Zheng Lang couldn't expect Zhao Xu to have any good ideas.

Li Xian was excited: "Mr. Zheng, I want me to be the military supervisor."

"Aren't you afraid?"

Li Xian was depressed and could not answer.

...

April is coming in the blink of an eye.

Zheng Lang wrote a statement: I was young and slutty, but later I held my own words and said that Emperor Renzong of the Empress Dowager Zhangxian was appointed to the suburbs and ridges. As a young man knew the important task of peace in Hangzhou, I became more and more frivolous... Anyway, he was given heavy burdens for several emperors, but did not do it well, and made many mistakes. For example, today, he was a little peaceful and old, so he asked Zhao Xu to allow him to retire.

Zhao Xu disagreed and wrote a letter to blame Zheng Lang. The Master said that the country is clear and clear, and when you are born, you will be alive in the northwest. Why do you ignore the people of the country and demand a retirement? No one in and outside the court and the country impeached you. I don’t allow it, and I have to stand at my job.

Zheng Lang wrote another memorial, saying that before the attack on Xia began, the old minister said that when the Western Xia incident happened, I would retire and return home. Now the road to Lingxia is peaceful and I have something to say and must be followed.

Zhao Xu did not reply. At the court meeting, he also started a dispute over Zheng Lang's incident in the newspaper. Is it an oath important or a state matter important?

As the news came out, not only the people from Lingxia Road were trying to keep them, but other scholars from all walks of life wrote letters to the court to keep Zheng Lang. Fan Zhongyan was good at moral integrity, but Zheng Lang had a good temper. The reform caused a lot of controversy, but he did not cut it off with one stroke. Instead, he used various means to resolve it. There were few people who hated and loved many people. Even if people were in the northwest, they were occasionally working hard in state affairs. And for the sake of the country's wind and rain, they would go wherever they needed to go immediately and never care about official titles and titles.

When he reaches his height, he needs to look up to him. Even the sergeant and doctors attacked Wang Shao, Guo Kui, Gao Zunyu, but he did not dare to attack Zheng Lang.

Especially for the people of Lingxia Road, Zheng Lang's methods were not soft, such as the cruel suppression of the attack on Xia, but he was very attentive and fair in his governance. In the past few years, he has traveled to every corner of the 15 prefectures of Lingxia Road, mediated conflicts and disputes for various tribes and asked the people about their well-being.

And unlike other Han officials, Zheng Lang never had any discrimination towards the Qiang people and the French people. At least he did the big words written by Zhao Xu: respect, mutual assistance, friendship, and win-win!

When he heard that Zheng Lang was about to retire and left the northwest, many people felt like they had lost their parents.

In this atmosphere, Zhao Xu was even more unauthorized.

Although Zheng Lang stayed in Xingqing Mansion, people were somewhat uneasy.

Just when the passers-by in Lingxia were uneasy and worried, the Khitan suddenly used the banner of helping Li Bingchang to rule and return the homeland of Xixia, and divided into four groups to attack Lingxia Road. The troops were not very strong. Tiyin Yelu Tan and the six Xi tribes Tuli Yelu Guosan led 40,000 troops from the Jinsu army to the west, one pointed to the prefecture and the other pointed to Yinzhou. Yelu Yannu, the general of the right gate, led 20,000 troops from the Heqing army, and pointed to Dijinze. The northwest route recruitment commander Yelu Alu Saogu led 20,000 Baidadan and Dadili tribes, and deployed the troops recruited by Si's mother's troops, and went out of Yinshan and directly pointed to Beihetao. Yu Gunan, the chief of the Bu Bu, led 30,000 troops to attack Helan Mountain. The Khitan army directly under the Khitan army had only 60,000 troops. The rest were coalition forces of the Khitan dependent tribes.

However, it was not when Yelu Yange's troops went to Xixia. At that time, the Song Dynasty had nearly 600,000 soldiers and more than 200,000 civilians in Xixia. Yelu Yange did not dare to move. At this time, the Song Dynasty stationed only less than 40,000 imperial guards in the entire Lingxia Road, and there were still 10,000 or 20,000 foreign soldiers. And because Zheng Lang was about to leave, the people's hearts were a little confused. At least no matter how they changed, the ministers coming were definitely not as good as Zheng Lang in government affairs. There was still the confidence...

There were not many soldiers and horses. However, they surpassed the Song Dynasty on the cards.

In terms of justice, Li Bingchang was supported and also received support from some people in Lingxia Road.

It came very suddenly again, with some surprises.

Moreover, after three and a half years of governance by Zheng Lang, the Song Dynasty invested heavily, and the Hetao in the north and south were full of forbidden pasture areas. The woods and grasslands were everywhere in June. It was the time for grass to grow in many places. Corn and wheat were planted in many places, far from the bitter Western Xia before. You don’t even need to bring food and grass for this trip.

The four groups of soldiers came in a mighty manner, with extremely fast speeds, and headed south all the way.

Although the two countries are peaceful on the surface, but in fact they have their own ideas, it is true that they have not started a war for a long time.

When Zheng Lang heard the Khitan army coming, he was a little confused and had to mobilize the troops of the prefectures of Lingxia Road to the front line.

At this time, the Western Xia royal family members Wei Shi Awu, Wei Ming Mahu and others joined forces with some of the original Western Xia nobles and tribes to launch a riot in Xingqing Prefecture, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou and Shixian in the rear.

Xingqing Prefecture was in charge because Zheng Lang was in charge and left-behind troops. Although hundreds of people suddenly launched a riot and were quickly defeated. Most of them were killed on the spot, and only a few escaped. However, the other three prefectures and counties, due to the time of military force, the scale of the riots quickly grew and spread to the tribes outside the city.

In other words, the Song army in the front was fighting fiercely with the Khitans, and the soldiers who rebelled by the Dangxiang tribes in the rear were likely to join forces with the Khitans to attack the Song army.

The scale of the rebellion was expanding rapidly, but the changes in the states over the years are obvious to all. There are not many tribes and people who are truly willing to participate in the rebellion. So these rebels burned, killed and looted in shame and anger.

Until the situation gradually became worse, Li Shunqing, the governor of Qingzhou, and Zhongyi, the governor of Fuzhou, led 10,000 cavalry from the two states to support him.

But as soon as we set off, the speed of the two armies became fast. In addition, many roads have been repaired over the years, and the transportation has been convenient, which has further increased the speed of the march.

As the two Song troops arrived, the rebellion was quickly strangled.

Almost at the same time, the Daizhou Magistrate You Shixiong led Hedong general Zhang Zheng and others out of Yanmen Pass and quickly captured Khitan Wuzhou.

The two generals Li Hao and Yao Xiong were out of the Volcanic Army. At this time, the entire force of Khitan's west and east Shengzhou was withdrawn. They fought with the Song army on the banks of the Quye River, and the cities were empty. The two generals quickly captured Ningbianzhou City, Jinsu's army city, and rushed towards Heqing's army city.

Wang Hou's troops went out of Yinshan again. In fact, there were many valleys in the vast Yinshan. It was too easy to lurk a small army. But this Song army happened to cut off Yelu Alu Saogu's retreat. Another one was the Zubu army that attacked Helan Mountain. However, Zheng Lang did not take them seriously, not because he was not brave, but because the Song Dynasty had close trade and Zubu trade exchanges over the years and had a very friendly relationship. Although Yu Gunan and the two patriarchs whom he loved were loyal to the Khitan, most of the tribes of the Beizhubu tribes did not hate the Song Dynasty. Even some soldiers in their own tribes were full of yearning for the wealth of the Song Dynasty. The troops themselves were not very strong, and the morale was not strong enough to harm them.

Only then did Zhang Yu appear on the front line.

He deliberately transferred him over, but in order to make the other party look down on him, he deliberately concealed the news.

Under his command, Zhe Kexing, Zhe Keshi, Gao brothers, Yan Da, Qu Zhen and other generals officially fought back in Quye River, Di Jinze and Fengzhou City.
To be continued...