The pretty little Liu was depressed at this moment.

He walked out of the tent, staggered, as if he had lost his soul. Then he turned his head to look at the military camp and saw something wrong.

Of course, it is definitely not right. This is the main body of the Northwest Army. Even if there are the Beijing soldiers in the original capital, all the elderly, weak, sick and disabled will be cut off, which is far from the army she had seen before.

But the difference is the commander.

The Song army has always been not weak, including the Southern Song Dynasty. Some battles are still remarkable, and the weak one is a redundant word. It is not to cut off all the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, reduce the number of troops, and redundant soldiers will be solved. This is a one-sided statement. This is very complicated. First of all, the system is the system. The army is divided into three, the Privy Council, three yamen and local governments. If food and logistics are added, it can be divided into four parts. The soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the chief generals do not know what their abilities are, and how to command and arrange them? A large number of second-generation ancestors were stuffed into the military camp because of their grace. Cao Wei and Wang Kai were exceptional, but more people were

Ge Huaimin. How could these people lead troops to fight? Literary men are commanders and eunuchs serve as military supervisors. Zheng Lang is also an exception. Like Di Qing, who dares not say anything under Han Qi's tent. He knew that the commander's strategy was wrong, but he dared not speak. In the end, the generals were too lazy to think about it. Except for a few troops and foreign soldiers, the army all came from the capital. Wherever there was danger, they would go, and they did not know the local terrain and customs. The good education made the generals become corrupt and degenerate, and even led to the soldiers gradually degenerate. They were idle. Some of the forbidden soldiers could not pick up anything, and they also hired civilians to pick them up...

These are the real problems that constitute a complete redundant force.

But it also depends on that if the Song army was placed in Yue Fei's hands, the nature was completely different. Zheng Lang would definitely not be able to catch up with Yue Fei, but he delegated power to practice Di Qing, and did not despise the soldiers like other civil officials. He cared very much, and the soldiers would use them for their pleasure.

After staying for more than a month, the Song army has undergone earth-shaking changes.

But it is not something Liu can see.

I just vaguely felt that this Song army was very powerful. I thought about countless thoughts in my mind, and finally turned over a horse that I had stolen from which county and fled to the south.

Zheng Lang started moving again.

The time is ripe.

The first one made him quite unexpected, cotton.

It has been several years since its promotion. Since its promotion, it has exceeded 500 years of historical time and space, and some have exceeded 900 years of historical time and space. The most advanced planting methods include transferring single nutrient bowls, cutting off male stubble, cultivating ridges, etc., and advanced seed removal and textile machinery emerge.

The promotion speed was not fast, and the seeds had an adaptation period. Originally, cotton seeds were not very good, with low yields. Although they were economically beneficial, they still could not attract the attention of the world. However, because of the most advanced planting methods, cotton seeds gradually deformed. Until this year, the harvest of some high-yield fields per mu could be close to 300 kilograms of seed cotton, and the average yield reached more than 200 kilograms. The yield was almost increased by 100 kilograms compared to the original, which was less than one-third and one-quarter of the output in later generations. But it was already considerable. Cotton planting began to popularize the entire Jiangdong.

Zheng Lang repeatedly talked about the reasons for the uprising of the rebel army. It was not only the incompetence of officials, but also the pressure of the military and civilians. Zhao Zhen was very cautious. When the autumn tax came up, he asked Xu Yuan to withdraw four million taxes, one million yuan to purchase more grain, and three million yuan to purchase a batch of cotton jackets and quilts.

They were transferred to the north one after another, and some of them had been transported to Beijing and distributed to Beijing West Road for labor-for-relief.

Who is willing to rebel if you have food and clothing?

Although it is half warm and half full, it is better than rebellion.

Zheng Lang personally suppressed the military officials of various states. Perhaps Zheng Lang would not necessarily put it in Yan Shu and Han Qi's eyes, but he was the prime minister of the current dynasty and the political affairs. If he ranks according to the size of power, he only ranked Yan Shu, Zhang Dexiang, and after Jia Chang, before Du Yan and Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan's new policy also stipulates that political achievements are used as the standard, rather than the lack of mistakes as before. The pressure from both sides made the military officials of the states in the west of the Beijing area very scared.

The incompetence of some officials also made Zhao Zhen angry, and it was rare to deal with it so seriously, including Liu Zhi, who was transferred to Yingzhou as the governor of the state. In anger, Zhao Zhen took off his official hat and exiled to Lingnan. Old Liu is in his sixties and cried like a tearful person, but if he cried in front of Zhao Zhen, it still works. If he is old, let you go home and have a rest. However, after crying in Yingzhou, Zhao Zhen could not see it, so he asked the yamen runners to force him to send it to Lingnan. Han Gang, as Han Yi's son, did not end well this time and was also exiled to Lingnan for resettlement. The related officials handled a total of more than a dozen. This forced the remaining officials to cheer up.

Liu Zhi said that there were no officers and soldiers in Dengzhou, which was actually wrong. Although Zheng Lang cut it a little, there were still 400,000 soldiers in the Song Dynasty, and there were more than 500,000 soldiers in various types of service. The servants were also called servants, not necessarily strong men, archers and yamen runners, but these three accounted for at least half of the service personnel. Whether it was fang soldiers, yamen runners, or strong men, they had the responsibility of arresting and stealing, with a huge number of more than 600,000 people, but there were only 300 prefectures in the Song Dynasty, and one state was distributed, not counting as an imperial guard. On average, there were 2,000 people in a state. Why did they raise them? They were really just used to move things? Then why did the people bear such heavy labor service?

There is another difficulty, refugees. There are wandering victims everywhere, and it is really difficult for officials to tell whether they are bandits or refugees.

The resources of disaster relief materials are constantly being transferred, and with all kinds of pressure, officials cheered up and did things carefully. First, they organized refugees, and they were all eating and drinking. It’s not your fault for wandering everywhere. Now some eat and drink, and they are still wandering. What do you want to do? As for Yugong, there are projects everywhere, just water conservancy, and the Song Dynasty was busy for ten years. Otherwise, after Fan Zhongyan’s reform of agriculture and sericulture, Wang Anshi also launched a larger farmland water conservancy law. Almost nothing to watch, sitting in the state government office and thinking about it, projects emerged.

When refugees have order, bandits have reduced their hiding places.

The officials cheered up and urged their yamen runners and wing soldiers to arrest them, as well as generous informants. The court said that bandits and thieves were actually rebels, and a group of people had to have at least dozens of them. Even though the mountains were numerous and forests were lush, the clumsy and backward productivity led to a large number of firewood farmers, charcoal farmers and hunters in the mountains, and their range of activities was not smaller than that in later generations. Dozens of people carried weapons and food, and even stolen wealth. Even the tall Xionger Mountain would be seen.

Moreover, the rewards for reporting are very generous, one person has ten trump cards, or dozens of trump cards, or hundreds of trump cards. Any family with a third-class household is a considerable income. So the people who report secretly are not very good. Everyone wants to make a fortune, especially those who make a fortune in the Song Dynasty are not ashamed, but proud.

The bandits were gradually eliminated in Xiangzhou, Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Ruzhou, Yingzhou, Suizhou and other places. Only Guo Miaoshan and Zhanghai had too large numbers. The officials were helpless and still arrogantly moved in Shangzhou, Junzhou, Jinzhou, Guanghua Army, Fangzhou, and Qinling areas south of Jingzhao. There were three rebels in Tongbai Mountain. Originally, there were rebels in Xionger Mountain. However, Zheng Lang led his army to climb the mountain. After only two days of climbing, they fled in a hurry and fled to the south.

Zheng Lang led his army to attack Tongbai Mountain. The end of Tongbai Mountain started from Tangzhou and spanned the northeast of Suizhou. It extended to Xinyang Army.

A total of three rebels fled into Tongbai Mountain. The two rebels were not very large in size, with only more than 100 people. Under the encirclement of officers and soldiers, they were like two stray dogs and ran around everywhere. Zheng Lang did not take these two rebels seriously. He sent two battalions of cavalry to ask the officials of the three prefectures to send yamen runners to cooperate with the local people to wipe out.

There was another group, with nearly 300 people, concentrated in the area of ​​Manjian Mountain in Suizhou. A solid camp was built based on the mountain and the former Chu Great Wall. The village also reserved a large amount of weapons and food that were stolen, which were easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Suizhou An Magistrate led hundreds of wing troops to attack, and was beaten to run away in a panic, but it was still good. An Magistrate ignored the danger and came to lead the troops in person. After the defeat, he sent someone to notify Zheng Lang that we were not doing anything, not afraid of death, but the bandits were too strong, and my subordinates were not their opponents, so please come and help us.

Zheng Lang led the main force into Suizhou.

An Zhizhou led the bureaucrats to come up from afar and came to Zheng Lang. An Zhizhou said, "Mr. Zheng, the subordinates are incompetent..."

What should I do? After losing a battle, I can only say that I am incompetent. If the rebel army is strong, no matter how strong it is, can it be stronger than Yuan Hao's main force?

Then he secretly looked at Zheng Lang with his small mung bean-like eyes and saw Zheng Lang's reaction.

Zheng Lang's face was very calm and said, "Report to me about the situation of this bandit, and also to call a few local people familiar with the environment to help me guide."

"Here."

Xu Xu led his army to Manjian Mountain and looked up the mountain. The mountain was very tall, with the main peak reaching more than 1,000 meters. From the back of the mountain, thick clouds and mists arose, like the magnificent sea and the galloping horses. The top of the mountain was submerged above the clouds and mists.

But there is good news. Once the states and prefectures pressed, the rebels did not bloom in all directions as before. This is what Zheng Lang was most worried about. Now it is gradually gathering together, which is conducive to the extermination.

A minor official in the county brought a few mountain people, not Han people or barbarians dressed up, but there were mostly barbarians living here. Unlike the barbarians in the south, most of them had been Chinese.

Zheng Lang and Di Qing rode around on horseback, and asked the mountain people about the terrain and climate very carefully. Then they set up a camp again in front of the rebel army's village. Then they formally talked with An Zhizhou. There were more than 200 rebel army members, nearly 300. An Zhizhou didn't know how many people there were. The leader's surname was Hou, named Hou Xiaoliu. Since he was Xiaoliu, he also had five brothers and sisters. He was poor and had great strength. He had been doing evil since childhood. This time, wars were everywhere, and some poor Han barbarians and others were planning to cause trouble. Anyway, he was not a good person.

Zheng Lang didn't take it seriously. Just a simple truth is that there are village tyrants in the villages and municipal tyrants in the village, but what is the crime of treason? If it is not forced to the extreme, who wants to rebel? The real reason for treason is definitely not as An Zhizhou said.

There is no investigation into the final analysis. No matter what the reason, there is only one solution, to recruit surrender or eliminate it.

Without Mo Ji's surrender, he wrote a memorial when he came, reporting the situation to the court that although there were still bandits below, it was better than before. He first dealt with several bandits in Tongbai Mountain, forced the remaining bandits to Zhang Hai and Guo Miaoshan's troops, let them gather together, and then attacked Han Qi from the south and north of the Qinling Mountains. On that side, Han Qi also started to act and had no time to delay.

He then led a team of cavalry to observe around the rebel camp, and discussed with Di Qing while watching. After returning, he sat down again and said to An Zhizhou: "You can rest in the camp first and deal with these bandits tomorrow."

"tomorrow?"

"Well, go." Zheng Lang patted his shoulder and said.

The commander An was convinced and suspicious, and Zheng Lang began to dispatch troops and sent generals. He first called a battalion of soldiers. During the continuous mountain climbing training, the more outstanding infantry soldiers picked out five people from it. These five people only talked about mountain climbing skills and were the best in the army.

Zheng Lang said that climbing is not only about climbing mountains, but also about climbing mountains!

A primitive rock climbing without advanced tools can be used. It only relies on clever skills, with the help of some raised parts on the cliffs, solid ancient vines and trees, climbing some seemingly difficult cliffs. It is just to pick a few people out of the army to train rock climbing. One is for the present and the other is for the future south.

As I ordered one by one, the night gradually darkened.

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