September is coming, and the autumn wind is getting tighter.

The second year of Qingli is a cold season, it is September, and the mountains and fields are gradually getting yellow.

The water is cool, and the geese fly south.

Standing by the Xiaoxiao River, Cui Xian tightened her collar. Her small, charming and delicate face shone with a beautiful charm under the afterglow of the evening.

A girl who was a little rude and a little petty back then officially grew into a beautiful young woman. With Zheng Lang's high position and power, her wisdom also came in handy many times, and a person had a hint of temperament and aura. When he was in Hangzhou, Fu Bi came to the Zheng family for a banquet and once said: "My sister-in-law is worthy of being from a famous family, and you can see the shadow of the famous lady of the Cui family in the Tang Dynasty."

It refers to the Cui family in Hebei.

The Cui family in Hebei was nothing in the Song Dynasty, but it was very impressive in the Tang Dynasty. The Cui family owned two families, Qinghe Cui and Boling Cui, which were wealthy families who could despise the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. Even the Tang Dynasty wanted to marry the Cui family as a concubine for the crown prince, but they were rejected by the Cui family.

Fu Bi had his own difficulties when he said this, but Zheng Lang did not reveal it. Compared to Cui Xian, his little lady was really bad.

At this time, facing the sunset, Cui Xian was wearing a black velvet cloak and a few golden peony patterns on her collar, which was both charming and noble.

But she looked at Zheng Lang and said softly: "You have gone to the north, be careful and wear more clothes."

Last year, Zheng Lang returned from Shimenchuan and had many frostbite on his hands, which made the family feel heartbroken.

Zheng Lang went to Zhenrong Jun again, Cui Xian, Xing'er, Si'er and Huan'er each knitted a pair of gloves, afraid that he would get colder again.

Zheng Lang closed Cui Xian's collar and said with a smile: "Xian'er, I haven't left yet. Even if I leave, it won't take a long time to fight. It's possible that I will come back before the snow falls."

"You still need to build a village."

"Then you have to come back too. When the weather is cold, the soil will freeze. Even if you build a village, you have to stop." Then, looking into the distance, murmured: "Xian'er, it may be that this is the last battle between our court and Xixia during the Qingli period."

"Yes." Cui Xian moaned and looked into the distance at the same time as Zheng Lang.

People in the distance are harvesting crops, mostly sorghum and a small amount of beans. Sorghum is not valuable in the inland, but the valuable one is rice. But no matter what food is transported to the northwest, the freight and loss are similar, and often one stone of grain is transported to the front line. The transportation cost is scattered, and if it is calculated based on the salt in tea, it is even more incalculable. During the Xianping period, Liang Dingjin said that the rate of grain in the border areas of Shaanxi was high and the price was raised, and the amount of money was twice as high. For example, a Dou of Zhenrong Army was 714, while a Dou of tea was 5 liters and five spoons. A Dou of salt was 18 pounds and ten taels, and a Dou of corn was 497...

It refers to the price of salt-in-changing grain, and the actual price is relatively low. However, the difference is not large.

In the Central Plains, the cost of a dozen or sorghum who is a dozen or sorghum who is a dou of money will reach 400 cents when he reaches the Zhenrong Army.

How many soldiers have been stationed since the northwest? In addition to the local foreign soldiers, there are more than 200,000. Not only are they, but they also have some accompanying families, military prostitutes, merchants, soldiers, and liefu serving them. The latter figures cannot be counted, but they will not be less than the former, except for the food required for winemaking and some miscellaneous grains needed for war horses. Shaanxi itself lacks food. How much does a grain shortage bring to the country?

So Zheng Lang, Fan Zhongyan and Xia Xu strongly advocated Sanbaiqu. The court knew that the finances were tight, so it even allocated all the money sold by the Ping An Supervision and Contract Stock.

These foods are money.

Zheng Lang looked at the north again.

Cui Xian knew that Zheng Lang was thinking that Jingyuan Road was harvesting. Then the Western Xia also began to harvest autumn. Once the autumn harvest was over, the war would come. Without pointing it out, he held Zheng Lang's hand and said, "I remember when I was a child, I heard many stories about you, and I often sighed that I had a bad life."

"Do you regret it now?"

Cui Xian turned her beautiful eyes and didn't answer, which meant that, you understand. She said, "I heard later that your poem, especially the later paragraph, is still difficult at this point, let alone the rise and fall of the rise and fall. Jin Rust Guangli also works hard, don't make the past and the future master. I really don't believe it, thinking it was written by someone on behalf of me."

The poem "Yangchun Sandie" was written in conjunction with the "Sandi Yangguan Guqin" music. The rhythm of the poem is very consistent with the musical rhythm. But the soul is these four sentences. This long poem becomes meaningful and is appreciated by Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi who came to Zhengzhou to watch the fun at that time.

"It's nothing, either." Zheng Lang said lightly.

Someone will immediately say another sentence, and that sentence will truly be famous throughout the ages.

"I still want you to be Guan Zhong, not Zhuge."

Guan Zhong is so good. While becoming the overlord of Duke Huan of Qi, he also enjoyed great wealth and prosperity, lived a happy life, and became famous throughout the ages. Zhuge Liang was very miserable and failed to defeat Wei, but instead exhausted himself to death.

"Guan Zhong, I like it too." Zheng Lang smiled. The Khitan envoy praised him as Guan Zhong from the Song Dynasty. Zheng Lang was ashamed. He dared not compare with Guan Zhong, but he was still a little proud. Although he used historical knowledge and often had a small golden finger, was it a skill?

The rustling autumn wind blows, and the sound of the wind becomes louder and louder. First, it is like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves, rustling, and numb. Gradually, the sea waves flood, turning into a roar.

A gust of autumn wind and a cool gust of autumn, and autumn has truly arrived.

"Let's go back," Zheng Lang said, holding Cui Xian's hand and came to the small hill next door. The guards were riding horses with Zheng Ping and Zheng Hang, Xing'er and Huan'er Sier sat on the half-yellow turf to watch.

When I returned to Weizhou City, it was already dark.

Just as he was about to go home to rest, the yamen runner welcomed him and said, "Xixia sent an envoy to Weizhou to ask for a visit to my husband."

"Take me there." Zheng Lang paused and said, "I'd better ask him to come to the state yamen to meet someone, and then tell him that all officials in Weizhou City will come to the state yamen to discuss matters."

Turn around and come to the prefecture.

The envoy was brought in a while and was very famous. He was named Yang Shousu. Yuan Hao had six counselors, not Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. These two boys were too bad and their real abilities were far less powerful than later generations thought. But Wei Ming Shouquan, Zhang Zhi, Zhang Jiang, Yang Kuo, Xu Minzong, and Zhang Wenxian. There was also a Han man who was also valued by Yuan Hao, named Zhong Dingchen. He had a good writing style and wrote the national letter to the Song Dynasty with generous writing styles from this person.

Some of these people are from the Han people in Xixia, but most of them are unsuccessful literati in the Song Dynasty. Like Zhang Yuan, they took the initiative to go to Xixia to join Yuanhao. Strictly speaking, they are all authentic traitors. Yang Shousu is one of them. This person failed the imperial examination for ten years. In anger, he ran to Xingzhou in Xixia. After talking to Yuanhao, who was Shang, the prince, he was quite appreciated by Yuanhao. The two had a deep friendship.

It also shows the mistakes in the employment of the imperial examination.

In short, Yang Shousu must be a talented person, not only with strategy, but also with eloquence. It was just because the imperial examination barrier blocked him that he could not display his talents in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang did not hate Yang Shousu so much. At this time, the concept of the country was very vague. It was not the country that was loyal to the emperor, so the meaning could not be sublimated. Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were different. They were the culprits of the crime of advising Yuan Hao to counterattack the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Yang Shousu, how does it feel to recognize a thief as a father?"

"Xingzhi, the court can tolerate Wang Jizhong, why can't it tolerate subordinates?"

"Can you compare with Wang Jizhong?" Zheng Lang's mouth twitched. I remember seeing the Tianlong Ba Division of the Jin Hero in his previous life, which recorded that the Khitans beat the grass valley during Xiao Feng's time, and it was actually from the back of the Chanyuan Alliance. Although there were disputes on the border, the Khitans had long stopped the ugly phenomenon of beat the grass valley. Among them, Wang Jizhong's role cannot be compared. Whenever the court envoy sent a message, Wang Jizhong cried and wailed. He asked the Song Dynasty to plead with the Khitans and took him back. Emperor Zhenzong of Song considered that Wang Jizhong's role as a bridge in the Khitan and issued an edict, so he treated his son well. It was precisely the deeds of Wang Jizhong that made the early Northern Song Dynasty full of human feelings.

"Mr. Zheng, my subordinates are willing to be the second Wang Jizhong."

Yang Shousu claims to be subordinate, and it seems... he must not take it seriously, as he will be stupid.

"Can you be Wang Jizhong? I will follow the action after watching it. But don't think that sweet words will impress me. I don't believe you Xixia people at all. Tell me, why are you here?"

"The subordinates are representing Xixia to come to discuss peace with Xianggong Zheng."

Almost all the officials in Weizhou had their noses twitched, which was too shameless, and they used their tricks to deal with Fan Zhongyan. Once or twice, is it over?

"Ask peace..." Zheng Lang knocked on the table with playful thoughts, not saying anything.

"Mr. Zheng released the prince of our country last year. He had the intention to discuss peace. Why did I come to discuss peace? Zheng did not believe it?"

"Did I say I don't believe it?"

“…”

"Yang Shousu, tell you a story. One person got three hundred taels of silver and had nowhere to hide it. He buried it on the ground, but he was afraid that people would find it, so he wrote a sign on the ground, which said that there was three hundred taels of silver here."

A group of officials in Weizhou laughed.

However, Zheng Lang did not reveal it, and pondered for a while and said, "It's not that I don't believe it. You Xixia people are probably the least trustworthy people in the world. How can I believe it? But it's no wonder that people do not stand without trust. You Xixia people are just a group of hungry wolves who are ungrateful. So who are qualified to be called humans? How can you ask a group of hungry wolves to keep their promise?"

"If that's the case, there's no choice but to start a war."

"When the war comes, the Khitan reconsidered peace with our dynasty. I wonder what you Xixia people use to start a war with our dynasty? Do you use your cavalry? You are also counting on the 100,000 troops in Sanchuankou to besiege 1,000 troops in Sanshuichuan to besiege 7,000 troops in Haoshuichuan to besiege 7,000 troops in Haoshuichuan to besiege 7,000 troops in Song? First, our dynasty was unprepared, so you Xixia people succeeded. You can only pick up the cheap ones once or twice, and you also want to pick them up three times and four times?"

After winning the two battles last winter, the Song Dynasty was qualified to negotiate.

But Zheng Lang smiled bitterly in his heart. It was not that he had opened a golden finger himself, and even opened a foreign mine a few years ago, which made the imperial court more money and food than in history. He also used historical knowledge to win two defeats Shimenchuan. Yuan Hao really succeeded, and he picked up the cheaper and never ended up.

"If it were like that, the jade and stone were burned, would Zheng Gong be willing to see it? I don't believe that even if the court had the ability to destroy the Western Xia country, the lord would sneak back to Xiazhou and make a comeback. Your country might be in trouble. Once the country weakens, will the Khitans see an opportunity to take advantage of it, and will they abide by the alliance?"

Very talkable.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "It seems that this is the case, but it is easy to go from simple to extravagant, and it is difficult to go from extravagant to simple. You are also a scholar. You should understand the meaning of this sentence. If you really have your Yuanhao country destroyed and you can make a comeback when you sneak back to Xiazhou? Why did Xiang Yu commit suicide on the banks of the Wujiang River?"

The Wujiang River made Zheng Lang feel regretful. Jigong Mountain and Wujiang River are opposite the river in Taipingzhou. Because of the system that imperial officials were not allowed to cross the border, Zheng Lang did not go to visit him.

"not necessarily."

"Yang Shousu, you don't believe it. I welcome you Xixia people to start a war. Come on, and dare to attack my Jingyuan Road."

Yang Shousu was a little anxious. If this continues, he could not negotiate, so he said, "Mr. Zheng, I will tell you. My government and the country have passed away. Ye Li Wangrong and Ye Li come to rebel and were beheaded by the king. The people are living in poverty, and the king regrets it very much. This peace talk is sincere. I have read some of the books you have written. Zheng Jiao Su has a compassionate heart, so why can't the two countries be reconciled as before?"

After slowly explaining the truth, Zheng Lang still disagreed and brought the news back, and the three armies were angry. Then the morale was gained. Peace talks were false, and the struggle was arguing for justice.

If Zheng Lang really believed it, it would be better, once he believed it, there would be no equipment. There would be only a total of 60,000 troops on Jingyuan Road, and the whole country of Xixia attacked, and Jingyuan Road would not be equipped. It would be a big defeat.

Zheng Lang pondered, as if he was moved, and said silently for a long time: "You Xixia are in my territory and spy on you. You will know that our emperor issued an edict to the emperor, not allowing any border ministers to meet your ministers privately, or negotiate peace with you Xixia..."

"Everything can be made an exception." Yang Shousu said, sneering in his heart. The four ministers around you took the imperial edicts seriously and each made their own tricks. Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty were about to lose you four.

The four people on the edge were more arrogant than the other, which made Yang Shousu jealous. Who wouldn't want to be such a minister of the Song Dynasty?

"It's difficult to deal with. When I was a young man, I said that there are laws and regulations. There are laws and regulations. Laws cannot be broken, and standards can be loosened. You Xixia people have never been trustworthy. All the monarchs and ministers of our dynasty were extremely disappointed. Your Majesty's edict also represents the wishes of everyone in the temple. This is law, how dare I violate it?"

Zheng Lang had already thought of countermeasures along the way, but in order to achieve the results, he also had to upset Yang Shousu's appetite.

Not only does it bring up Yang Shousu's appetite, but also Yuan Hao's appetite.

Ge Huaimin is one of the key factors. Ask Ge Huaimin, Yuan Hao may attack Jingyuan Road after the autumn harvest. I will give you 25,000 troops to help you, where do you think this army is placed? It is not in Zhenrong Village, but it seems that Zhenrong Village is very good. It can cover Gaoping Village, the northeast can respond to Tiansheng Village, and the east can echo the Dongshan Village, and the west can guard Sanchuan Village and Dingchuan Fort, and cut off the retreat of the Xixia army. However, the terrain constraints are placed. In the city, it is a village with a small area and has to accommodate some people, so it cannot accommodate so many troops. Outside the city, the terrain outside the city of Zhenrong Village is flat, which is purely a gift of Yuanhao.

But there is a good place.

In history, before the Dingchuan Fort was defeated, the entire Jingyuan Road was insensitive. The scout Fan Zhongyan, who was on Huanqing Road, heard the news first and informed Wang Yan. In addition, the Qingzhou magistrate Yin Yuan, who was Yin Zhu's brother, wrote an urgent letter to Ge Huainmin, which said that the thief came from the whole country, and the profit was not in the castle, and there were those who could not be rescued by military tactics. Moreover, our army was afraid of the law and would go to the enemy, without considering the benefits. This is why he was defeated several times. It is advisable to station troops in Wating and move after seeing the benefits.

Fear of the law is an advantage. When the fortress is in danger and does not rescue him, he often dismissed from office and generals, and the serious ones are killed. As a result, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty fought alone and fought alone, and even the entire army was wiped out, and no one surrendered. Liu Ping returned, and Wang Xin wrote a letter bluntly, saying that thousands of soldiers from Sanchuankou fought to the death with the Taiwei, and their bodies remained. What face does the Taiwei have to live alone? Why don’t you die? After receiving the letter in the capital, Liu Ping cried loudly, then fell ill and was bedridden for more than three months.

But as Yin Yuan said, it is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It is too rigid and cannot be flexible and mobility. Yuan Hao often succeeds in his military use in the Song Dynasty every time he fights.

This Wating is Wating Village. There is the Wating River in front, so there is no need to worry about water sources. The Longshan Mountains behind it are able to attack or defend. If you really use a large army to respond, it is the first priority. Ge Huainin did not listen, and Wang Yan sent someone to notify Ge Huainin, warning him not to go deeper. Dibeicheng set up camp and ambush with ambushing troops, which can make contributions. Dibeicheng is in the north of Wating Village and the south of Zhenrong Village, and is closer to the front line. The terrain is not as favorable as Wating Village, but at least it is sandwiched between Zhenrong Village and Luanggang City, and can have one side response. Although it is a conservative and timid strategy, it will not be wiped out like the one that was later.

Who is Yin Yuan? How many descendants know about him? What military talents does Wang Yan have?

However, this famous general was not even as good as these two literati who had only a slight understanding of military affairs. Zheng Lang still let him choose, but Zheng Lang was so angry that he almost vomited blood, so he decided to set up a Sichuan village. It's not bad, that place is the front line and it is easy to make achievements, but he has thought about the water source and the terrain? Are the Western Xia army really tofu?

Ge Huaimin also said a lot of reasons.

Zheng Lang didn't hear it, and said for most of the day: "There is no war now, you will lead the army to be stationed in Dibei City first."
To be continued...