Chapter 239 has the means
After Zhao Xu wrote the letter, he opened a house. He had his own disciples, eunuchs, and others, but he just didn't contact the ministers. "But this was his father's will, so it would be okay to contact Wang Ju. So he asked the eunuchs to send the letter to Qingzhou.
Then he looked at the western sky, a little worried.
This mentality is very wrong. Some people say that since ancient times, emperors are ruthless. If they say this, it should be this sentence: sentient beings are ruthless, and ruthlessness is sentient beings.
As a qualified king, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness cannot be taken on your face or even on your heart. Zhao Zhen did a good job, and seemed to be numb and unkind, but in fact he became the most popular emperor among the people.
The country is so big that good things will happen on that day, bad things, good things, bad things, bad things, bad things, and bad things, is it okay to be unable to hold back? This impatient personality is the reason why Zhao Xu was angry after two defeats.
However, he did not meet a good teacher to teach him, and he still doesn't understand these principles yet.
Then Zhao Xu was thinking, what was wrong with this country? There were so many problems with internal governance, the ministers were unclear, financial difficulties, and military was even worse, which made a small Xixia slapped in the face again and again.
And he couldn't understand why the country raised such soldiers? It took a thousand days to raise soldiers and started fighting immediately, but the court did not send troops to help.
In depressed, he talked to his teacher Han Wei.
Han Wei also answered one by one.
"Han Qing, your remarks today are innovative."
"I dare not take it. It's not because of my intention, but what Jiefu mentioned to me in his letter."
"Jie Fu?"
"Wang Anshi, this is the strange man of the Song Dynasty."
At this time, Wang Anshi and Ouyang Xiu still had some friendship. Wang Anshi's mother died. She returned to Jiangnan to observe filial piety. The filial piety period passed. The Secretariat summoned him back to the capital to continue to serve as the imperial edict. However, Wang Anshi was very smart and could not go to the capital at this time. Why, what is the imperial edict? It is a two-system official, that is, an auditing official, which is equivalent to the subordinate provincial of the Tang Dynasty. It is just a little less powerful than the subordinate provincial. However, the chaos in the court came to his hands. Should he write or not, or return the title to the poem? Therefore, Wang Anshi refused and continued to stay in Jiangning to guard the long-term filial piety.
This guard Changxiao is a good example. He waited patiently for the opportunity and often wrote letters with Lu Gong, Han Wei and Han Jiang. Why did he choose these three people? One is the Lu family in Shouzhou and the other is the Han family in Kaifeng? I don’t know how many people are officials in these two families, and many are high-ranking officials.
I am staying in Jiangning. But someone has to advocate for me. Is there anyone from the Lu and Han families who are good at advocating?
And he also saw clearly that no one was pulling the above, and he could never get reused. Of course, his reused use was a little nobler than others. Others were for promotion and wealth, and he was for realizing his ideals and ambitions.
All thoughts.
However, Han Wei couldn't imagine it, so he praised it very much: "This person regards fame as dirt, and even if the little guy in Huachi County grows up, he is far from that."
"There is such a strange person."
"Your Highness, people should not behave like a person. Some people have a great reputation, but they are just a false appearance."
This is interesting. Han Wei can't stand it anymore. He has a time to fight. Look at the Puyi dispute. From last summer to this autumn, he continues to fight. What is the minister's intention to do? Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu are gentlemen. Can't we persuade the emperor?
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The autumn is clear and cool.
Wang Ju rode a horse to Qingzhou.
Even now, Cai Ting is still pretending to be a civil servant. The crops have been harvested, and Cai Ting leads officials to persuade the people to grow winter wheat.
Cai Ting is still very grateful to Wang Ju. Everything is difficult at the beginning, but the beginning is the most difficult. If someone starts, it will be easier to deal with. Huachi County has set a demonstration. People can’t calculate the big accounts, but everyone can calculate the small accounts. Compared with the Central Plains, Qingzhou is generally vast and sparsely populated.
A family often has forty or fifty acres of arable land, but of course, it is impossible for all arable land to be cultivated carefully. There are many difficulties, lack of plowing oxen and water sources, and the land is barren and not worthy of careful cultivation.
But I plan to extract twenty acres of land for careful cultivation. Using this method of transfer, a harvest of more than ten stones will be produced by sorghum alone, and a season of winter wheat can be produced by throwing away the seeds and getting more than twenty stones.
What does it mean to have a harvest of 40 stones? The family can even sell excess food and get some daily necessities.
This is something civil servants like to do.
But is it really the case?
When the war comes, officials from the rear battalions gather on the front line together. The food consumption will be amazing. As long as the people have food in their hands, the government will not spend much money to buy it in the local hands next year.
Otherwise, the food would be transferred from the rear, but the fight would be done. How much money could the court allocate to it at that time? Besides, Cai Ting would definitely be in Qingzhou at that time, so he would have a headache.
Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy has not invaded, the people will be encouraged to have a variety of food in the rear.
Let’s plant the food.
However, the people of Xixia didn't know. They were very happy to see Cai Ting fiddling with agricultural production. So Wang Ju came to Qingzhou, and Cai Ting was not in Qingzhou, but took the officials to Jingui Town.
This place is close to Malings, and there is also a flood pool in the area. It does not dry up or overflow, so the irrigation conditions are relatively good. This place alone has hundreds of hectares of arable land. There is also a highway to reach Qingzhou. If it is cultivated properly, it can become a small granary in Qingzhou.
Cai Ting was talking to several old farmers. When he saw Wang Ju and Quan's eldest son galloping on horseback, he immediately stopped the conversation. That was the main thing.
Wang Ju got off his horse and came to Cai Ting and said, "Mr. Cai, the other side of the mountain begins to formally assemble."
The other side of this mountain is the Hengshan area, which is located at the front line. They all began to assemble, and the Xixia army was not too far from the front line.
"Duke Cai, can you write a letter? If Duke Lu of Yanzhou is sent out a military force when the battle is over, he will definitely win the enemy."
"You are practicing that path for today."
"Yes, but it depends on Mr. Lu. It's just a conservative approach. Send several battalions of officers and soldiers to reinforce Huachi. If Mr. Lu has the courage and has a better strategy, when the Xixia army approaches Dashun City, Mr. Lu sends an army to wipe out Kejintang City and Baibao City in one fell swoop. Once the rear road is broken, the enemy will be in chaos. Then, our two armies will attack each other, and we can achieve brilliant victory."
"I'm afraid Mr. Lu doesn't agree." Cai Ting said.
Wang Ju was silent.
This is the strange official system of the Song Dynasty. It is true that it does not seek merit, but seeks no mistakes. Even if it defeats the people of Xixia, Lu Sheng and Cai Ting may not have made much credit. For example, Cai Ting in history, may even be miserable, such as Zhang Kang and Li Fugui behind. But it depends on who will fight. Even if Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan have a little bit of merit, they will have many disciples and grandchildren, and they will have their merits. Even if they are not meritorious and defeated, they will also yell that "there is a Han in the army, and the Western thieves are frightened when they hear it, and the Western thieves are frightened when they hear it, and the Western thieves are frightened when they hear it." Even the descendants are fooled. Of course, it also includes Sun Mian. Sun Mian fights out, and Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu operate it, and the merits will be made.
So before Sun Mian left, he asked Wang Ju that many soldiers thought that Sun Mian had greedy for their contributions, but in fact, they had only made so much contributions. Sun Mian only borrowed this skin, and Ouyang Xiu and Han Qi used this skin to get a military governor.
Whether Lu Shu or Cai Ting, will there be disciples who praise them?
Lu Shi would not have this matter, and Lu Shi himself was there. Not only Lu Shi, but also Cheng Kan, Wang Ju did not expect the two routes to cooperate. At most, Cheng Kan would just support several battalions of officers and soldiers, and then he repaired Hua Fu Dao.
Although unrealistic, it is best not to think about it. No matter how beautiful it is, it cannot be achieved.
Cai Ting said: "I'll give it a try, but don't write it if the two troops cooperate with each other, and it's boring to make things difficult for you. See if you can ask Duke Lu to send several battalions of officers and soldiers."
He saw it even more clearly than Wang Ju.
"Then I thank Mr. Cai."
Wang Ju said that he would go back on a horse and actually fight. He discussed in secret very early. Two war zones, one is the Qingzhou war zone, and the other is the Huachi war zone. So Wang Ju had to go back and arrange it.
Cai Ting also returned to Qingzhou to arrange a plan.
The first step is to change defense.
Zhang Yu and others were asked to transfer the officers and soldiers who had been training for several months from the rear, and the front-line officers and soldiers retreated, but not to the rear, but to the foot of Ziwu Mountain and start to rest and standby.
Those who switched defenses also included Huanzhou Forts.
The future battle is not the Battle of Dongjianqiao. The two countries' forces together will only be 5,000 troops, and one Pinggu will be put down. This is a major battle of more than 100,000 people. If the Xixia division of troops and the Huanzhou's troops are empty, the consequences will be serious.
In short, this is like playing football, with offensive tactics, just like the Tang army did, with defensive counterattack tactics, such as Zhang Feng's shallow attack.
But in general, you have to attack. If you don’t attack, you can only defend blindly. Even if you put a bus in front of the goal, the goal will be lost sooner or later. Besides, with such a long boundary line, is the Song Dynasty capable of putting a bus? Therefore, once the fight starts, the Song Dynasty is more passive and less active.
Xixia is indeed discussing whether to divide the troops.
Some generals also thought of dividing troops to Huanzhou, but some people were worried about dividing troops to Huanzhou, and they were afraid that they would alarm the officers and soldiers of Jingyuan Road. The thin-waisted city was built, and Huanzhou was linked to Zhenrong Army and Yuanzhou. Everyone knows the strange system of the Song Dynasty, but what if the officials of Jingyuan Road sent troops to rescue them?
Some generals said that they would divide the troops in Huaian Town, but Liang Yimang firmly opposed it. He had fewer troops and was easily surrounded and annihilated by the Song people. He had more divisions. Huaian Town was not far from the main battlefield, and it was meaningless.
This division of troops and united troops is something that is difficult to explain in military tactics. If one unit of troops, the strength can be concentrated, but the tactics will be very dull. It divides troops in two or three routes, and the use of troops is flexible, but the requirements for strategic cooperation are very high. Pan Mei took Lingnan, and divided the troops, one took Guizhou and Guangzhou, and Song Ping Bashu also divided the troops, one entered Shu from Jianmen and the other entered Shu from Sanxia. Tang destroyed Goguryeo, and also divided the troops, one passed by land and the other passed by sea. Tang destroyed Tuyuhun and divided the troops in three routes.
However, the Song Dynasty also divided its troops during its second Northern Expedition, but it was defeated miserably.
But in general, Xixia did not like the tactics of division of troops, including Li Yuanhao, so Liang Yi's words were immediately supported by everyone.
After discussion, the army roared down from Yanzhou. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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