Qionglin Palace, Jinming Pond, and the blue waves are rippling.

A huge pleasure boat, like a building boat, slowly passed by the water. You can vaguely hear the sound of silk and bamboo coming from the pleasure boat. After nightfall, Jinming Lake became particularly quiet, and the evening breeze of golden autumn makes people feel particularly comfortable.

Wu Haogu's face was pale, as if he had just been frightened.

He had no intention of appreciating the dancing postures of the beauties in the harem and the night view of Jin Mingchi outside the window, but just stared at Zhao Ji, the official who was sitting opposite him and tasting wine.

"Your Majesty, I can't fight!"

Zhao Ji smiled, "Gao Qi can't do it either, he won't fight well? Besides, don't you still want to recover Yan Yun for me? Why can't you fight? How can you recover Yan Yun if you don't know how to fight? Let's go and practice with the Western thieves first."

Wu Haogu really encountered trouble this time, and he was asked to be harmed by the treacherous ministers! After returning to Kaifeng Prefecture today, he took Bai Fei to Qionglin Palace to have fun with Zhao Ji as usual. Zhao Ji also took him as usual, and invited him to visit Jinmingchi at night, and asked the dancers in the palace to perform dances.

There is really no one else to be favored.

But after three rounds of drinking, Zhao Ji talked to Wu Haogu about the things before the Northwest Army. In fact, it was the problem of the house! Gao Qiu offered a quota that was too high, with a three-bedroom apartment of 3,000 sets, and it was probably worth tens of millions...

Wu Haogu naturally has a way. There are a lot of 3,000 houses, but it is not as good as not being able to get them out. He has seen the prosperous real estate industry in the later generations of the Great Heavenly Dynasty!

And his method to expand Kaifeng Prefecture! He cut off the west wall of Kaifeng Prefecture, expanded the west part of it, pushed it to the west of Qionglin Palace, and expanded a "Kaifeng New District". The area of ​​the urban area expanded in this way, let alone 3,000 houses, even more ten times and twenty times.

Moreover, Wu Haogu also proposed a plan to demolish the original inner city wall of Kaifeng Prefecture. At the same time, the plan to build a new inner city in the southwest corner of Kaifeng Prefecture will bring a "ring line" to demolish the inner city wall, which can greatly alleviate traffic in the inner city area of ​​Kaifeng Prefecture. In addition, many houses can be built on both sides of the "ring line", which are the most valuable shops!

Of course, Wu Haogu's plan to expand Kaifeng Prefecture has another unknown purpose.

He wanted to build a new fortress-like inner city for Zhao Ji. The city walls were built with red bricks, stones, rammed earth and marsh from the border river, and must be indestructible. The core of the inner city will be the Qionglin Palace, as well as commercial districts, residential areas of Baiguans, elite residential areas of Liangzhi and barracks, Biyong Academy Palace (New Taixue), Taifu Temple, and military weapon supervision.

When the Kaifeng Prefecture expansion and the new inner city project are completed, Zhao Ji will not have to live in the old imperial palace, but can move to the Qionglin Palace for a long time!

Regarding the food supply problem that may increase after the expansion of Kaifeng Prefecture, Wu Haogu also has a ready-made solution, which is to increase the scale of grain transportation in the north and the south. From the current 1.5 million stone of wheat a year to 2 million stone of flour a year, he is also preparing to encourage Jiehe Shangshi to develop the flour processing industry.

In the future, the Liaodong wheat transported to the Jiehe River can be processed into flour and then transported to the south.

But beyond Wu Haogu's expectations, after being overjoyed, Zhao Ji actually proposed to let Wu Haogu be the capital of the two-Zhima, and go to the northwest front to command the palace to fight with the Dragon and Dragon Warriors...

...

"But I am in Jiehe Commercial City, and Jiehe Shipping Department has a big deal..."

Wu Haogu made excuses for himself with a sad face, and he really didn't want to go to the northwest! In his opinion, defeating Xixia is much more difficult than regaining Yan Yun. Because regaining Yan Yun was 20 years later, Wu Haogu even had the official rank of the governor! There was no doubt that he could replace Tong Guan and become Xuan Shuai.

Moreover, he can also infiltrate and operate the Yanyun area through Jiehe Commercial City, and also establish force subordinate to Jiehe Commercial City. Therefore, the difficulty of promoting Yanyun is actually not very high.

As long as he could have full power, he sent troops to support Liao when the Northern Liao Dynasty was destroyed and forced the Jin soldiers to retreat under the city of Yanjing, he could recruit the powerful Yanyun and the remnants of the Khitan. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were included in the territory of the Song Dynasty.

Now he is leading troops to the northwest, but he is just a marquis of Yuhou, the two who can manage the command of 8,000 soldiers. He is not worried. He is much more beneficial than Gao Qiu, because he has collected a lot of military talents in Jiehe Shangshi City. He can form a team of staff!

In addition, generals such as Tong Guan, Wang Bing, Yang Keshi, and Yang Kebi also have certain abilities. Therefore, commanding troops of thousands of people is not a problem.

But the current situation of the Western Army is too complicated! The internal structure is mixed, and the upper class also competes for merit between the East and West, which is even more involved in the struggle between the new and old parties in the North Korea. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mud pit!

"Dalang," Zhao Ji had no idea how big the pit on the Western Army's front line was. He also said to Wu Haogu with a smile, "This matter was proposed by Cai Jing, and I thought it was inappropriate at first. But after thinking about it carefully, I felt that this was an opportunity to make contributions."

It turned out that Cai Jing wanted to harm me! Wu Haogu hated me! No wonder Cai Jing was called the leader of the Six Thieves by later generations, and he was indeed a bad guy...

Zhao Ji felt that he was not good enough, so he continued to say to Wu Haogu: "Now that the victory in the northwest is imminent, he will definitely be able to conquer the states on the Wuding River! As long as you can boost the morale of the two elite troops again, you will definitely make great contributions. At that time, it is time to add Yao County to you... Yao County, 27 years old! Are you still afraid that there will be no Taiwei in the future? If you can recover Yan Yun, you can also be named the king."

The "Taiwei" Zhao Ji mentioned is not the water-filled Taiwei who was flattered by the people below, but the leader of the second-rank martial arts rank!

He is also a Taiwei and a king, so he seems to be sincere. He is a little embarrassed to talk about Wu Haogu.

However, he also knew that Cai Jing must have a second move! Most of the targets are Jiehe Commercial City and Jiehe Maritime Manufacturing Department!

This is my foundation!

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu frowned and said with a serious look: "Your Majesty, I know your hard work, but Jiehe Commercial City and Jiehe Market are the foundation of me... If someone poaches me, I will not be able to do things for you."

Zhao Ji smiled and nodded: "The battle in the northwest cannot be fought for too long... Jiehe Shangshi is yours, and I will not let others touch it. As for Maritime Affairs, you recommend someone to serve as a temporary agent. No matter who it is, I will take care of it. You can always feel at ease, right?"

Can you rest assured? The opponent is Cai Jing!

Can you say you are worried? Zhao Ji is an official! The official has patted his chest, and if he is worried, he will be shameless...

Wu Haogu sighed in his heart, stood up, bowed to Zhao Ji, "I am willing to go to the northwest to conquer the city and territory for Your Majesty!

But I have a small request!”

"Tell me," Zhao Ji smiled, "Dalang wants very much, just speak." He pointed to the beautiful girl who was dancing, "Even if she likes my dancer, I will give you it."

Wu Hao Gu said: "I don't want your majesty's dancer. I want to recruit hundreds of people to make up for the shortage of two direct troops."

The so-called "utility" is actually divided into two types: "utility" and "courageous utility". The former is actually the private soldiers of the generals, mostly composed of children from the clan or heroes among customers. Many Western army generals have raised a large number of utility soldiers to rush into battle or make suggestions.

The courageous effect is the national soldiers, but they do not need to join the camp, but they are concentrated only during the quarterly review. However, more of the temporary recruitment of bravery is temporarily and disbanded after the war. In fact, it is a kind of mercenary outside the regular army. Because the power of recruitment and dismissal is delegated to the hands of generals or civil servants who lead the army, there is a little bit of the meaning of soldiers as generals, so the combat power is stronger than that of ordinary imperial guards.

"Okay! You are sure to recruit your own utility... hundreds are too few, one or two thousand are fine." Zhao Ji nodded with a smile and picked up the wine glass, "I wish you a victory!"

...

"Have you promised the official?"

"Agree!"

The next afternoon, Wu Haogu, who had left the Qionglin Palace, arrived at Su Dongpo's prime minister's mansion and informed the Er Su brothers about his injury by Cai Jing.

Su Zhe frowned, "How can you agree? You don't know how to fight. What if something goes wrong?"

Wu Haogu took a look at Su Che, who did not trust him very much, and smiled bitterly: "Young people have their own way to deal with the war."

He came out of Qionglin Palace and sent Zhou Yunqing to the north to the Jiehe River and asked Murong Wangyou to go south. In the war, Old Murong is an expert, at least a tactical expert!

"Do you really have a solution?" Su Dongpo looked at his students and wanted to write articles and write lyrics, he could help, fight, haha, Su Dongpo wouldn't do it either.

"have!"

Su Dongpo smiled and said, "Then there is no need to worry about Cai Jing. If you are a good teacher, he will not be able to do anything bad."

Su Che shook his head and said, "Cai Jing may not be intentionally damaging, but the military affairs of this dynasty have always been hindered by multiple parties. The larger the scale of the military use, the more serious this problem. When Zhang Dun was in power, he could fully support Zhang Jing, so that the Northwest military orders could be unified, and Zhang Jing could also play it out. But now Cai Jing has power and the two Northwest generals compete for merit, and it is unlikely to win a great victory."

Su Che was always very pessimistic about military affairs. In his opinion, the Song Dynasty system was like this and it was not suitable for military use at all.

He sighed again and said, "But Dalang, you are not without a chance. Now Zhong Fu from the West Road may not be able to achieve great things, but Tao Jiefu from the East Road can still make contributions for the time being. Dalang only needs to stop when he sees it, and can still get back from Yaojun in the northwest."

Su Che was an old bureaucrat who had been in power for many years and was very clear about the way in the officialdom. Now the Xining army on the West West Road in Northwest Road is full and he didn't want to fight anymore. He was disturbed by Zhong Fu, and his spirit has been lost. Everyone wants to save their contributions. Although the Jingyuan Army has not made any contributions, how could the troops and horses along the Jingyuan route break through the Right Xiang Army in Xixia?
Chapter completed!