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This will be a series of counter-espionage strategies. The south targets the Nori brothers, and there is another one in the north.

The old generation was led by Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang cooperated, which was almost a perfect match made by heaven.

However, different political ideas are destined to be omnipresent.

Fan Zhongyan submitted a memorial, focusing on horses. Since ancient times, cavalry may not be beneficial. In the Tang Dynasty, we cut the formation knives, cut the horses, cut the axes, and hooks and sickles, and spears can often break them... Horses along the border are hundreds of millions of years old. If they are dismissed, they will be defeated by the military, and if they are carried out, they will be trapped in China.

This music has many backgrounds.

The northwest was lost, and the Song Dynasty lost important horse herding places, and there were always lack of war horses. Most of them bought war horses from foreign countries, and the sources were very complicated, including Tubo, Uighur, Khitan, Western Xia, and the barbarians along the border.

After a long period of time, problems arise one after another. When you buy horses back, you have to raise them first, so you have to free up some areas as pastoral supervisors. The pastoral supervisors occupy large areas of land, and they need officers and soldiers to be responsible for raising them, wasting land and money. The management is not properly managed, and a large number of horses and dead horses were generated. The location and climate are incorrect. After a few years of herding in the Central Plains, even if the horses survive and their quality declines, they cannot be regarded as war horses. The pastoral supervisors are located in places with abundant water and grass. In the absence of land in the Central Plains, they are mostly occupied by powerful people. There are only two places suitable for raising horses in the Song Dynasty, from Fulin to Shizhou, Lanzhou to the side of the Fen River, with more good seeds, and then to Huanqing.

I don’t know the excellence of foreign horses, and I think that Liangzhou horses and Tubo horses are the best, and the Khitan horses are quite poor. Khitan horses are also Mongolian horses, so they are really bad? Tubo horses are tall and explosive, and they are better than fighting in cold plateaus. However, Mongolian horses are hard-working and hard-working, which is not comparable to Tubo.

I had to buy it and died more. In order to prevent the number of horses from being reduced, I had to buy it again. In fact, since the Song Dynasty's alliance, there were few wars in the Song Dynasty. Buying horses became almost a routine formula, just to appease the barbarians and barbarians in the border. For example, Shaanxi gave 40,000 taels of silver and 75,000 pieces of silk every year. Not only in Shaanxi, but also in the Hedong Volcanic Army, Lizhou, Weizhou, Maozhou, Xuzhou, and Nanping Army all had horse quid fields. The horse prices ranged from ten to fifty cents according to the level.

What’s interesting is that the volcanic army has only ten to thirty horses. The best horses in Lizhou can reach more than fifty horses, and the meaning of comforting is clearer.

However, after buying these horses, most of them died along the way, and they were like military rations in the northwest. They packed them to merchants, horses, food and housing, and horses were given to horses, and horses were paid for. Each horse was more than fifty cents, because the merchants "contracted the households" and the mortality rate was lower than the court's own horses. They served on the road properly, and the quality of the horses transported back was better.

I can only say once again that the big pot rice is indeed a bit harmful.

Trading is carried out in barter. For example, a Chinese-funded Lizhou horse requires 350 kilograms of famous camellia (a discount of about 30 cents per kilogram), six taels of silver, six pieces of silk, six pieces of catkins (each of about 50 cents), and one piece of green cloth (more than 500 cents), and more waste is caused by transporting horse-dumping materials.

In order not to seriously reduce horses, the Song Dynasty required nearly one million chunks a year to avoid severe reductions of horses. This is the origin of the passage mentioned in Fan Zhongyan’s memorial.

The mortality rate of horses in the Song Dynasty can also be seen from another aspect.

A horse can live for at least twenty years, and if it is good, it can reproduce offspring. Over the past twenty years, the number purchased by the Song Dynasty plus the number of young horses that reproduced, and the abnormal mortality rate is not high, the number of war horses in the Song Dynasty can reach at least 300,000.

Inappropriate horse herding is also one of the disadvantages of the imperial court.

This shows that Fan Zhongyan has turned his attention to people's livelihood and restored his domestic vitality.

However, it is a bit uncommon to add a sentence that cavalry may not be beneficial since ancient times.

In the book, Song Qi followed the advice and said: I believe that the court and the enemy will not pursue them in depth. They will beat them and stop when they reach the frontier, but they will not wait for the horses, but they will be able to use their steps... There are few horses, and people are not accustomed to cavalry, and they will always come to the thief. The court often uses the enemy's strengths to defeat them, so there is no reason to win ten battles.

It seems to make sense. The Song Dynasty's policy was to eliminate the accumulation of defense. When the enemy came, they drove them away and chased them to the border, and they did not have high speed requirements. Moreover, there were few horses, and people rarely rode horses and were not good at riding skills. Using cavalry against cavalry is to abandon one's own strengths and use one's own weaknesses to face the enemy's strengths, and they will be defeated in the battle.

These are all products of civil officials' lack of understanding of military affairs.

The book caused some controversy.

At this time, Fan Zhongyan and his party in the northwest had many political achievements and military achievements, and their reputations had reached a higher level, and many civil officials agreed.

But I can't explain why, could I cancel the cavalry organization that had just been established in the Fourth Shaanxi Route? So the court used a newspaper to send these controversial voices to the northwest, allowing the generals and ministers of the northwest to discuss.

Zheng Lang was anxious when he saw this.

The reason for slowing down is that the Khitan will mainly provoke the Khitan and the Xixia people to launch a war. With a long-term plan, the Xixia must eventually be destroyed. Otherwise, there will be Xixia in the west and Khitan in the north, and the Song Dynasty will not be powerful for 10,000 years.

If you want to pacify Xixia, how can you be without cavalry?

I wrote a letter immediately, it was impossible for cavalry to be invincible. There are some cases of infantry defeating cavalry, but the proportion is very small. Normally, cavalry always has the advantage. The Tang Dynasty had Modao warriors, so why did they have such a huge cavalry? Did infantry use to pacify the Turks?

Even if the court is decadent and does not want to make progress, don’t say anything that is not open to the edge, that is a way to cover up the ugly. If possible, Xixia really doesn’t want to destroy it, and Youyun’s Sixteen Prefectures don’t want to take it back? Then, will Taizong and Zhenzong be broken?

In this case, retaining cavalry is also useful. In the battle of Haoshuichuan, it is not far from Zhenrong Village. Why can't reinforcements arrive in time? It's not as fast as possible! Why did Shimenchuan win two great victories because he had a powerful cavalry in his hand. The most effective time to annihilate the enemy is not when fighting or gunpowder explodes, but when the enemy is defeated and pursued. If there are no cavalry, all are infantry, the cavalry can retreat calmly and will it be defeated. On the contrary, they can be put together and then wait for an opportunity to fight again. One drum is done, two drums are exhausted, and three drums are declining. It is not victory, but it is very likely to win first and then defeat.

The imperial court cannot pursue the enemy's territory, which is the result of passive defense.

We must defend passively, and we must also have a powerful cavalry in the country to prepare for unexpected accidents. The great talent of Song Dynasty, don’t forget that the Song Dynasty could not attack the enemy and spread the war to the core area of ​​the enemy, but the enemy could spread the war to the core area of ​​the Song Dynasty. It has only been thirty years since the battle in Chanzhou! Don’t you know this?

Zheng Lang had not said anything. If he hadn't come to Weizhou, Yuan Hao would have to ride a horse to walk under Chang'an City in a few months.

The Song army was not good at riding skills, but riding skills could not be trained? The combat effectiveness of the army was not only personal force, but also the command art, morale, discipline and other factors of the generals. Even if the riding skills were slightly inferior, other aspects could be compensated.

Although Fan Zhongyan focused on people's livelihood, he had a good intention to do things in pedantic ways. In several wars, Fan Zhongyan did not personally command it. He only knew how to defend the way and did not attack. You don't understand military affairs, and you can't ruin the country with big words. You don't understand. Don't talk nonsense and harm the country!

However, Zheng Lang also admitted that the court's Ma Zheng had many mistakes.

The four routes of the imperial court can shed horses, but the number of horses can be limited, so there must be a limit on the number of cavalry. For example, the Jingyuan Road is flat and most vulnerable to enemy attacks. You need to leave 15,000 official cavalry and 10,000 foreign cavalry. The Huanqing Road each has 4,000 official cavalry. The Yanfu Road each has 5,000 official cavalry and 5,000 Qinfeng Road is located in the hinterland. The Fan Qiang is not evil to the court now. Three thousand foreign cavalry is enough. Then there are 49,000 cavalry in the four routes, and there are 22,000 foreign cavalry. There are no worries about pastures on the edges. You can also echo each other. The plains are shallow grass, and you can go forward and deterrent, and the cavalry should be the tenth infantry. The mountains, forests, rivers, and dangerous entry and exit, and the infantry should be the tenth cavalry. The infantry and cavalry are mixed, which is the plan of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It takes time to attack and defend, and it is the necessary way to maintain the country.

As for the remaining old and sick horses, a batch of good horses are left to be kept outside the herdsmen's supervision and raising, and do whatever else they should do. It is best to hand them over to the people to farm, or to pick up goods from merchants and travelers, which is their real purpose.

This is controversy. Both people's livelihood are concerned. The one that is controversial is this destruction of accumulation!

Write it and send it to the court with a fast horse.

After several years of fighting, the country could not open the lid of the pot, and the people were also very resentful. In addition, the court forced the people, most of the ministers, including Zhao Zhen, all wanted to seek peace.

No matter whether you are right or wrong, you must provoke a war between the Khitan and the Western Xia within the past two years. But you cannot let this group of scholars do anything, and the 25,000 cavalry organization that he had finally trained was cancelled.

Then he looked at Wang Ning and said, "Continue to report."

It is the counter-espionage plan on the other side.

Honest people are easily bullied, but they are also popular. Wang Yong and Wang Ning walk in the Western Xia territory in a low-key manner. They are originally from the Western Xia territory. They are very careful and no one doubts.

The two of them received the news and lurked back to report. They asked Zheng Lang to ban him and not come back without any major events, so as not to arouse suspicion.

An important thing will be done this year.

Wang Yong intentionally or unintentionally persuaded some merchants in Xixia to take him to conduct business in Baidadan's territory.

The Baidadan tribe was also called the Wanggu tribe. During the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs were destroyed by the Khikas. One of them traveled south and lived in the Yinshan area. It was also separated from the Shatu tribe led by Li Keyong and later surrendered to the Khitan. Because of its obvious differences in appearance and customs from the Tatars in the north, the Liao and Jin Dynasties called them Baidadan, and the Mongols and other northern Tatars were black Tatars.

The area is mainly composed of the Baidadan race, as well as Khitans, a few Han people, as well as some Dangxiang people and Tuyuhun people. The Tubo people can be seen in prefectures, but it is rare in the Baidadan tribe.

When Xixia went to Khitan from Xingqing Prefecture to the east, crossed the Yellow River from Hue to south, and from the Gobi Desert in the Nanhetao Desert, directly to Dongshengzhou of Khitan. It was not the main body of Baidadan. Some Dangxiang people in Baidadan's tribe lived a hard life with Tuyuhun. Some tribes were not on the business road, but instead sold war horses to Xixia, sold from Xixia to Khitan, and even brought good horses back to China.

Zheng Lang made this idea.

The difficulty is a bit high. After all, there are some taboos when it comes to contact with Dangxiang people in the Khitan. However, merchants always go for profit. After hearing Wang Yong's instigation, some merchants agreed to make the move.

When he entered Jiashan in early May, Jiashan later had a nice name, Daqingshan. It was within the Baidadan area, far from the Khitan Dongshengzhou, where many Dangxiang tribes and Tuyuhun tribes were scattered here. Under Wang Yong's intention to bewitched, the group met Qu Lie, the governor of Shanxi in Khitan. This governor could not be taken seriously. Just like the Song Dynasty appeased the Fan border, it was a honorary position that made some ethnic minorities on the border submit. Qu Lie was an authentic Dangxiang person.

When the fellow villagers saw the fellow villagers, they were crying. Qu Lie warmly entertained the group of people, and it also made a deal.

The others did not move and had to wait for news from the other side. On the other side, Zheng Lang entrusts the prefectures to arrange a businessman named Lu Ling to enter the Khitan.

It is also normal. The Song Dynasty set up four major venues with the Khitan Yuxiong, Ba, Ansu Army and Guangxin Army, which are exclusively for businessmen from both countries to trade, and temporary venues were set up in Dingzhou Army Walled City, Feihu Jiaoya, Volcano Army and other places. However, it cannot meet the commercial needs of the two countries. Illegal exchanges between the people were very frequent. The Song Dynasty issued a ban, and the Khitan also issued a ban. Especially, if the horses were sold privately to the Song Dynasty, the seller would behead him and the whole family would be far away. It still cannot be banned.

Lu Ling was one of them. Zhe Jimin deliberately asked him to come. After discussing for a long time, Lu Ling agreed. His team was very large, with a total of more than a dozen people. He entered the Khitan openly and even took the initiative to use a large sum of money to bribe the southwest of the Khitan to recruit Luohannu, the chief minister, to take the initiative to defend the capital of Olu.

Wang Yong returned to Dongshengzhou and met Lu Ling quietly. Wang Ning returned to Fuzhou and rushed to Weizhou to report the situation to Zheng Lang and wait for Zheng Lang's arrangements below.

"You go back immediately and enter Jiashan with Wang Yong again, promote Yuan Hao's wisdom and courage in front of Qu Lie, cherish talents, and wait for my next notification."

"Here."

This is Zheng Lang's anti-espionage plan.

If there is a battle after the autumn, and the Xixia is defeated again, Yuan Hao will not be as unscrupulous as in history. Therefore, he must do the fastest text update.shuhaige.-<  >-No ads//Some arrangements.

Fu Bi brought back the accurate news, allowing Lu Ling to enter Jiashan without any intention and collided with the Dangxiang people. He then went to find the Arhat slave and asked the Arhat slave to seek justice for him. He got a lot of benefits from the Arhat slave, and the Khitan did not take the Dangxiang and the Tuyuhun people seriously, and would put heavy pressure on him.

Wang Yong could take the opportunity to instigate some people on the side of Jiashan, causing Qu Lie to cry and beg Yuanhao to take it in.

This tribe has a low status in the Jiashan area, a harsh environment, and frequent conflicts, so it is brave and fierce. In addition, Yuan Hao has a rebellious personality. He heard that the Khitan and the Song Dynasty were discussing peace with each other, and he was resentful. After all, he would take in Qu Lie again. He instigated the rebellion of the remaining tribes of the Dangxiang, such as the Dai'er tribe, and then history would be staged again.

Without an accurate plan, you can only act according to the opportunity and go down step by step. It is possible that the businessman you have never met will play an important role.

After looking at the map for a while, Zheng Lang thought of Fan Zhongyan's memorial again. He was very depressed.

I never get angry with Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang. This is a person who has absolutely no selfishness, but his thoughts and military views are different from his own. However, how many people in the whole country will have the same ideas as their own?

Suddenly I thought of Sun Yat-sen’s early understanding of the unity of knowledge and action.

Wang Shouren's unity of knowledge and action has many shortcomings, and Zheng Lang also clearly realized this. Of course, Sun Yat-sen realized more clearly the shortcomings of Wang Shouren's unity of knowledge and action, so he said that knowing but not doing it is called not knowing. Wang Shouren's thought was to act, which is too absurd. He also said that knowledge is difficult to do, and it is easy to do it. Knowledge is so vast that a person can understand it for his whole life. As long as he realizes it, someone can do it. For example, a ship does not necessarily have to be able to make a ship, but if someone can make it, the ship will appear.

Then it is translated into three types: those who know the knowledge and practice, and those who know the knowledge and realize it, imitate it, and implement it without realizing it. This argument is very similar to Confucius' transcendental theory, because it attaches great importance to the elite and ignores the people and the basic masses. Although the Three Principles of the People are to save the people and govern the people, the elite are the saviors, rather than letting all democracy actively participate. Therefore, the Xinhai Revolution failed and the fruits of the revolution were taken away by the feudal warlords.

Taizu did not mention the right or wrong, one succeeded and the other failed, and they could compare it with their ideas. But if you turn yourself into a savior, failure will begin!

What kind of thoughts will lead to what kind of actions will come about.

How similar are the ideas and practices of gentlemen such as Fan Zhongyan?

Zheng Lang sighed and whispered: "How many elites in the court think they are the saviors?"

"Official, what did you say?" Jiang Xing'er asked in confusion.

Summer is coming, and the clothes are thin. Now Jiang Xing'er is a wife and mother. She has less nerd spirit when she was young and has more laziness and charm.

Zheng Lang did not answer and asked back: "Xinger, is Hangzhou better or Weizhou better?"

“Hangzhou?”

"Why?"

"There are constant wars on Jingyuan Road, and many people die every time. Officials also like to take risks..."

"Xing'er, it's almost done, we will leave Jingyuan Road soon." Zheng Lang replied.

"Oh, when?" Xing'er asked happily.

But Zheng Lang didn't like it. He once divided the famous ministers of the Zhao Zhen Dynasty into several types.

The first type is talented, but all virtues have ministers who lack virtues. The first one is Lu Yijian, followed by Xia Shun, Pang Ji, Han Qi, etc. The second type is infinitely close to perfection, but it is too pedantic and unrealistic, which represents Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, Cai Xiang, etc. The third type is literary talent. However, there are lack of virtues and officials. However, the ministers who are famous for their literary talent are Ouyang Xiu, Xiao Song, etc. The fourth type is lack of great talent, but they are cautious and have no major mistakes. Although virtues and courage are not perfect, they can be argued, which represents Bao Zheng, and the Song and others. The fifth type is that there are few ministers who are extremely poor in virtues and inferior in official talents, not many, such as Yang Kai. There is also a kind of person who is close to perfection, even less, such as Wang Zeng.
To be continued...