Chapter 367: A gentleman, a king is a son (IV)

Zheng Lang also had some comments and sighs about the defeat of the Xixia battle in Zheng Lang’s mind. How can a great national hero not make people sad if he beats this way!

In fact, Yuan Hao beats this way, it’s dog feces!

The defense line of more than two thousand miles was long for the Song Dynasty, but also long for the Western Xia.

In history, Fan Zhongyan, Zhang Guan and Pang Ji went to the Third Route in early October. As various routes and the deployment of the cavalry and infantry troops of the route, they deployed strategically to appease the border recruitment envoys. However, the battle of Fulin Road lasted until the twelfth month. In two months, the commanders of the four routes did not take any action.

If Fan Zhongyan had achievements and cooperated with Pang Ji, the Western Xia people's Yanzhou, Hongzhou and Youzhou could be captured. If Zhang Guan had achievements, the entire Tiandu Mountain, Weizhou City, Mingsha City, and even Lingzhou were within the attack range of the Song army. If Pang Ji had achievements, Yuan Hao was defeated several times in the end, and another new force would come. Yuan Hao could bring back more than one-third of the army, thank God.

At this time, each of the borders of Shaanxi was not all the same, and each of them had countless armies in his hands.

During the Battle of Dingchuan Village, several people made mistakes again.

The battle lasted for a short time, but how fast would the scout news be? Pang Ji could spare at least twenty days to take advantage of Yuanhao's main army to the south, and join forces with the Zhe family army on Fulin Road to attack Yinzhou and Shizhou, and even cross the Wuding River and launch a decent attack on Xiazhou.

Maybe they are civil officials and have poor military cultivation, so I can't imagine this strategy to explain it.

But we can see some of the shortcomings of Chinese officials from them.

Most of the time, civil wars are dragons and foreign wars are insects, passive defense, peace is sought.

Don’t seek merit, but seek to be without mistakes, and be vigilant and protect yourself.

One person is a dragon and three people are insects. They don’t know how to cooperate and fight each other.

Except for Zhang Guan, the rest of the people were considered good, but they could find one or two of the three shortcomings. This made Yuan Hao’s pig-like fighting style succeed every time.

But this time, a huge spider web has gradually opened.

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Zheng Lang closely monitored the war on Fulin Road.

After receiving the scout's report, my heart calmed down.

As long as Zhang Kang goes to Fulin Road, this victory will come.

Before this, some fragmented battles occurred. When the Mizang tribes saw the Song army building Xiyao City, they felt that the crisis was coming. They gathered the strong men of the three tribes to counterattack the construction site of Xiyao City. But if they lost the support of the Xixia people, what were they?

He attacked three times in a row, left hundreds of corpses, and was defeated and returned.

It has nothing to do with Zheng Lang, but is a counterattack battle commanded by Jiang Kai in Fan Zhongyan's territory.

But unexpectedly, he asked He Yan to go to Lanzhou to observe the war on Fulin Road, which made everyone feel unhappy.

In Lanzhou, it is not in Taiyuan, and it seems to have nothing to do with Yang Kai. But Yang Kai had associations.

You are on Jingyuan Road, not on Yanfu Road and Taiyuan or Fulin Road, the war that happened on you is nothing to do with you.

He had another ghost in his heart, thinking that Zheng Lang was deliberately sending someone to Lanzhou to observe the situation and wanted to target him, so he took the initiative.

A memorial was submitted to impeach Zheng Lang's Yifa.

There is no saying that the military farming was done, Fan Zhongyan was doing it, and Pang Ji was doing it, the form was different, but the nature was similar. Unfortunately, the journey was too long and the loss was too great, and the court's finances could not bear it, so it was best to solve it locally.

Not only do you need to eat, but soldiers also need to drink wine in order to keep the cold. This wine is not made of water, but also needs to be made of grain.

Who dares not let soldiers drink? Some ministers themselves have a good alcohol tolerance. They are eating wine themselves and not let their subordinates eat wine?

Specializes in impeachment of the market.

If it weren't for the critical war, it would be easy to find trouble for the Shiyi Law.

First of all, he talked about Sang Hongyang. The key to Sang Hongyang's reform is to be salt and iron, even and lose. This reform was not even as good as Wang Anshi. It was the name of not being constrained by the people, but in fact it was a disguised tax on the people, businessmen, and wealthy people.

The advantage was that Emperor Wu of Han was defeated and his country was empty because Sang Hongyang's reform allowed the country to survive the crisis smoothly.

The disadvantage is that it has put a heavy burden on all classes. Later, Huo Guang killed the whole family.

In fact, Emperor Wu of Han also saw the troubles brought to the country by reform. It was only implemented twice when the national fiscal crisis was in progress. Once the crisis was overcome, the law would be immediately suspended.

This is the earliest method of equalization.

I won’t talk about the benefits, but only the disadvantages. Zheng Lang’s market is different from Sang Hongyang, but the core idea is very similar, and it is even more radical than the equal-to-date method. However, the difference is that Zheng Lang is only implemented on the Jingyuan border, while Sang Hongyang is implemented nationwide.

It is this border that has infinitely reduced the various disadvantages of the Market Change Law.

Yang Kai automatically ignored it, not saying that the disadvantages were reduced, but saying that the front was fighting and the military was in critical condition. Zheng Lang did not get permission from the court and misappropriated the military funds allocated by the court to do business, causing the soldiers to be vigilant for profit, the morale of the army was dispersed, and endangered the security of the front line.

It's very easy to wear a hat.

But Yang Kai also knew that the country's financial difficulties are now in trouble, and this alone cannot defeat Zheng Lang.

So I said the last one.

It is to get money, but this money is not used to reduce the country's financial pressure, but to buy the hearts of soldiers. Let's look at the official position, and the deployment of the cavalry and infantry forces in this route to pacify the border recruitment envoys. The deployment of the cavalry and infantry forces is to control all the troops, the management envoys are to control civil affairs and finance, and the pacifier envoys are to be in charge of the army's mobilization.

What else can’t be managed by the civil and financial and military powers of Jingyuan Road?

This strange position was proposed by Zheng Lang, who went to Weizhou in person to command the three armies. Now he ignores the safety of the country and uses the money from doing business to buy the morale of the army. What do he want to do?

Don't ask whether you believe it or not.

As long as he leads to the separatist rule of the Tang Dynasty, even Lu Yijian will make him feel uncomfortable.

The memorial arrived in the capital.

At this time, Zheng Lang's memorial also arrived in the capital.

This memorial is very long, and it talks about the pros and cons of market and military farming, both of which are expedient measures and cannot be promoted nationwide, including military farming. In the future, except for archer fields, the rest must be handed over to the people to cultivate. The country cannot greed for this money. If Shaanxi produces grain, it is equivalent to saving a lot of money.

He also talked about Sanbaiqu and Qigu.

Although some people in the court still raised objections, most people agreed that it was nothing else and they were really short of money.

The main reasons for shortage of money are the northwest. The places where money is used are the consumption of weapons and armor, the subsidies and military pay for soldiers, the cost of building forts, the pension of casualties by the family, and the cost of food logistics. The final expenses account for a large proportion.

As long as some military farms and Sanbaiqu appear one after another, Shaanxi's grain will be self-sufficiency to the greatest extent. This alone can save millions of chunks of traffic in a year.

Until now, no one thinks that if the Western Xia country is destroyed within three or two years, it is possible to continue to fight. In ten or twenty years, or finally reconciliation, a large number of troops will still be stationed in the northwest to defend.

There is no war, and the emergence of these arable land will also be helpful to Shaanxi's civil affairs.

So we began to discuss the sale of the contract shares.

Zheng Lang made the precedent, and it was not difficult to implement it. An imperial decree was issued to allow merchants from all over the country to participate and write a small piece of paper. How much money should I give to concentrate the money, distribute it according to the proportion of the money, and then give the covenant shares and collect the money. No matter how big the powerful is, he would not dare to joke with the court.

Money and silk are collected from the hands of powerful households.

Of course, the income must be shared according to the contract stocks in the future, otherwise no one will be able to withstand such a big deal.

Then he received a memorial from Yang Kai.

Not to mention, there is still a market. No one said that Zheng Lang learned from An Lushan, but some people questioned it. The court has already given so much military expenditure, so why should we use Shiyi's money as a reward?

For a small amount, 20,000 guan in ten days, how many guan a year?

Is there anyone who trains in this way?

How much does it cost to study like Zheng Lang in the country and raise more than one million troops?

If nothing else, the soldiers of the other three armies will be unbalanced.

So Lu Yijian asked the clerk to copy the copy and sent it to Jingyuan Road, asking Zheng Lang why he did this.

Lu Yijian is not malicious, but a false questioning, but a reminder.

He was incompatible with Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Yin Zhu and others, including Fan Zhongyan. Although he was forgiving the country, he would not be very happy with Fan Zhongyan.

He is not evil to Zheng Lang, and he observes his expressions and looks. With his extraordinary intelligence or his scheming and sloppyness, it can be seen that although Zheng Lang is not his own person in this way, he will not be Fan Zhongyan's own person in this way. Because of his son, he secretly helps him.

A copy of the memorial is transferred to Weizhou.

At this time, Zheng Lang was ready to start the war, but after receiving this dungeon, he was furious.

He could see clearly what Yang Kai did, but this is what the officialdom is like. Or, Pang Ji, Fan Zhongyan, and Han Qi were not doing well, but who would do better than them?

Moreover, Fulin Road performed very magically and would not affect the overall situation, so he did not say that he only recorded the achievements of each soldier so that he could seek justice for them after the war.

Since I want to provoke me, let’s see who is better!

I sat in the chair and thought for a long time.

No matter what, Yang Kai made him disgusted.

Explain again, anyway, the battle is coming, and I have talked about the scout. When Kang Deyu returned, he probably heard about the court.

The scout brought the news back, but he could not tell the truth of it, so he had to send someone to inform Fulin Road to make arrangements. But Fulin Road was related to the most important gate in the northwest of the court, and he was afraid that these ministers would not understand it, and even more so that Zhao Zhen would not understand it.

Give an example, I understand how powerful the Tang Dynasty army was. Why did the Turks invade Taiyuan and Lanzhou repeatedly?

Our dynasty's military is so weak. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, how many times have the Qiang people and the Khitans been in the city of Taiyuan?

Why? Because I wanted to invade Taiyuan from the north and northwest, one gate was Yanmen Pass in Daizhou and the other gate was Fulin and the other gate was Fulin. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been many fierce battles in Fulin and the reason is that it has not been lost. Taiyuan has ensured peace in the rear and the capital is also safe.

This explanation can probably be understood even if Concubine Miao can understand it!

Therefore, the Zhe family requested to move inward several times, but the court did not allow it. It was precisely for this reason.

Fulin Road must be rescued, but I was in Jingyuan and it was beyond the reach. If I wanted to save it, I could only take the method of surrounding Wei and saving Zhao.

However, although the imperial court sent many soldiers this time, there were few new soldiers and weak soldiers, and I was not the only one who was disarmament. Fan Zhongyan was doing it, and Pang Ji also asked the imperial court to cut short and weak soldiers and increase combat effectiveness.
To be continued...