Wang Ju was reading the letter, Cai Que's letter.

Zhang Jian and Duan Tianshui have already gone to Huating County, but few people in Huangpu River know about it for the time being.

This canal cannot be solved by drawing a line. You have to go down to observe the specific terrain of the local area, the direction of each river, and the water flow rate to determine the specific location, depth and width.

At the same time, some guidance and dredging of each tributary must be carried out, and a large number of steep gates are arranged, namely, various ship locks and sluice locks.

Even if Duan Tianshui is capable, it will take several months.

But there will be no conflict in time, because the formal construction of this canal will take until after autumn to avoid the flood season, the water level line is relatively low, and the people will be in the slack season, and then the construction will be started.

Therefore, after Duan Tianshui went down to inspect, he wrote a plan and handed it to Xiuzhou, and then transferred some money from Liangzhe Road's finances, and then the construction could be started. Moreover, Liangzhe Road handled the canal plan in a low-key manner, which would not alarm many people.

However, the appointments of the two still caused some controversy.

Think about it, how many powerful and noble children and Jinshi of the Fourth and Five Ages are waiting for the imperial court to take the position of alternate positions. Now the imperial court has allowed two clerks to serve as magistrates and magistrates of the county. Can everyone be happy?

Cai Que's reply was simple. Although Zhang Jian was a clerk, he proved his talent from the Mizhou Maritime Mansion Department to the Mizhou Banking Affairs and the Beijing Banking Department. The state must only take the talent.

As for Duan Tianshui, it is also very simple. Although Huating County is the largest county in the southeast, the entire central and southern part of Huating is low-lying and often suffers from floods. There are many talents in the country to manage water. However, these people cannot let them serve as the head of Huating County. When they cannot find a good candidate, Cai Que chose Duan Tianshui.

and Jang.

Zhang Duan and the others were a little better. After all, they were low-level officials, but the appointment of Jiang Tan aroused many oppositions.

Back then, when Zheng Chao was struggling Suzhou, he was so angry that the heavens were angry and the people were resentful. Now the court has transferred him to Liangzhe Road. What does it mean?

But these controversies have not made a big deal, and their eyes are attracted by the Northwest.

The court tore up the peace agreement and issued an edict to attack Xia. At the same time, it issued an edict to issue national debts!

Wang Ju's use of military force is very luxurious.

There are also a large amount of immigration and resettlement costs and subsidies, which are also very amazing.

In addition, considering the inconvenience of transportation in some areas, which leads to extreme backwardness, roads need to be repaired.

In the future, a Great Wall will be built one after another in the north.

It was not that the Great Wall could be safe. When the Great Wall was in the Ming Dynasty, the Tatars still went south to plunder. Yang Liulang planted trees in Hebei and dug deep into a green Great Wall. During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, the Liao army continued to go south.

But with the Great Wall, the thickness of defense was undoubtedly increased. Just like the Tang Dynasty, because Youyun was in his own hands, the Turks went south when the Wu Zetian time and did not dare to go deep into the Central Plains. The rear route would be cut off. Once the rear route was cut off, it would mean that the entire army would be wiped out. Or like the Liao Dynasty was under the city of Chanzhou, they had no strength to go further south. With the continuous arrival of the Song Dynasty reinforcements, Song Zhenzong personally visited the front line, and Wang Chao's tens of thousands of Song troops in Dingzhou. The Liao Dynasty was really dangerous that time.

However, Wang Chao is so unsatisfied, so the two countries should "reconcile".

All of these require a lot of money and silk, and the treasury is not enough, so Zhao Xu and the prime ministers are very worried, so Wang Ju came up with this method that is not a solution.

The state issued a total of 40 million treasury bonds with an annual interest of four cents, which was one cent higher than the bank's own deposits. It was divided into four batches, each batch of 10 million tillions. The first batch of bank repays the year after the year after the bank also included 800,000 tillions of interest. The second batch of interest was repaid in the year after the year after the year after the year after the year after the year, and so on, 1.6 million tillions of interest were repaid in the third year, and 2 million tillions of interest in the fourth year.

This batch of treasury bonds are issued in batches across the country according to the economic conditions of the states and prefectures. The people spontaneously bring money to various businesses to subscribe until they are purchased.

Of course, in the year after that, the northwest should be basically stable. As long as the country no longer uses large-scale troops, a large amount of surplus will be generated every year based on the current national income. This tens of millions of dollars is not a heavy burden.

In fact, as long as the northwest no longer has a large-scale war, it is only a matter of military expenses, and more than 10 million yuan can be saved in a year. Think about it, because of the Western Xia, how much money did the Song Dynasty spend in the past eighty years? Directly and indirectly, it can reach more than one billion yuan or even two billion yuan!

This model is not unfamiliar with everyone. For example, the accumulated debts of various states in the past were actually disguised national debts.

The big purchase on the other side was also a disguised national debt.

But the problem is not this, but whether it is to fight or not.

At this point, everyone suddenly realized that the emperor, Wang Ju and several prime ministers had fooled Liao Kingdom as monkeys.

The majority of people cheered and cheered for the court to decisively take this step, but there are still many "elites" who are seriously dissatisfied with this.

The source of this idea comes from Zhao Kuangyin's jade axe painting of the Dadu River. The countries that have developed border areas have not benefited much. On the contrary, it will waste a lot of hard-earned money from the people of the Central Plains. If there are several major rebellions, it will be even worse.

It’s better to just do this. Although the territory is not large, it can manage a peaceful country.

If this is the idea, it is also said. The more you go back, a deformed idea will arise, that is, it is super war-weary. Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was quite good for us to occupy the south, and we would still be promoted and made a fortune, so let's discuss peace with the Jin people.

Then Yuan Meng came. If the two Song dynasties did not exclude Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, and then reused the two Wu brothers and Liu Qi to support the Central Plains, and with a unified Central Plains dynasty, could Yuan Meng destroy the Song dynasty?

And this terrible idea is like a plague, and each generation is better than another.

In the end, the people's patriotism is not good, but thieves! I'm afraid even Qin Hui and Wang Jingwei dare not say that patriots are patriotic traitors.

Of course, like those elites, these literati did not want the demise of the Song Dynasty, but were afraid of not being able to destroy the Western Xia and angered the Liao Kingdom, so the Song Dynasty was in danger. It would be better to be softer and kneel a little, and we would still be promoted and wealthy. However, compared to the Song Dynasty, it is more complicated. For example, Nokia sued Huawei. As one of the most prosperous companies in the country, the country should support it. No, Nokia was suing Huawei before, and China Mobile and Nokia signed a $1.5 billion cooperation agreement later.

Therefore, the court received many impeachment letters.

Some people say that the country has occupied the power of mountains and rivers, and Western Xia cannot endanger the Song Dynasty. It is useless to obtain the cold and cold land outside the border, which will ruin the letter and destroy the contract, and anger the Liao Kingdom.

If we talk about the water and soil, Xixia seems to be mostly cold places. There are two large deserts outside the Helan Mountains. Although they are not as bad as later generations, they have deteriorated very seriously. Nanhetao is slightly better than later generations, but they have also deteriorated seriously. Even west of Lingzhou, the "Hanhai" terrain is still dominated by Ganyuan.

However, this is not the case. Although the overall terrain of Xixia is very bad, Beihetao is still OK now. The Yellow River area and the Hexi area of ​​Xingqing Prefecture are mostly fertile land, not to mention the fertility and commercial value of the Hexi Corridor.

At the same time, there are also the benefits of green salt and a large number of ranches. Even if the court can wisely protect the water and soil and reduce the size of the ranches in the future, because the portal is opened, a large number of war horses and livestock can be purchased from the Western Regions.

But these people just can’t see it!

Some people also say, "Hedong is tumultuous, Shaanxi is surging", "Crying sounds spread across the temple, and resentment is rising above the Haotian."

In this battle, all the righteous brave men, Poche, foreign soldiers, as well as archers, men and border soldiers from Hedong Road were handed in hand. There were also some wing soldiers and ordinary people, but the latter was only responsible for the escort of materials in the Song Dynasty, while the former was mostly in the enemy territory.

Especially for the people of Hedong, if they have not experienced war for a long time, how can the people not be afraid, how can their families not be worried, and crying is inevitable.

In fact, it was really okay. In the war in the past few years, the Song Dynasty obtained a large number of prisoners of war, so it saved a lot of manpower. Even in recent years, it did not use many civilians.

As for these civilian militias, the court also gave them compensation. If they enter the enemy territory, kill the enemy, or capture the enemy, there will be a lot of rewards. If they are sacrificed, the court will give generous pensions. In order to prevent generals and officials from deducting them, every civilian militia who enters the military camp will send people to read these regulations. Wang Ju also plans to send special personnel to the prefectures to check the issuance of these salary and rewards in various prefectures after the war and deal with the deductees seriously.

However, the two routes of farming production must have been greatly damaged, but it is worth it to destroy the Western Xia. Think about how much price Emperor Wu of Han paid to defeat the Huns?

But I still can't see these things.

However, this is not what Cai Que is worried about. What makes him distressed is that he has used many old parties and has been appointed one after another, which has caused many new parties to be dissatisfied, especially because Lu Gongzhu and others are valued. Therefore, many new party ministers kept asking Cai Que. It seems that Wang Ju did not intend to pursue the vast amount of money. Therefore, many new party ministers asked Cai Que why he did not send people to investigate?

This earthly talent clearly evolved from the rumor of Xixia, but why did it quickly arrive in the capital? There is a person in Hedong in the middle...

Cai Que said he had a headache.

After reading the letter, Wang Ju smiled bitterly. In fact, in the final analysis, Cai Que has poor control ability. In addition, he has been working as the prime minister for a long time. No matter whether Zhao Xu dies or not, it is time to give in... As for those who attack the Battle of Xia, they will not make any noise immediately.

After putting down the letter, Wang Ju came to the central army tent and asked Zhong Shidao: "Is there any news coming from General Yao?"

“It’s fighting.”

This was a beautiful victory.

Fifty thousand enemy cavalry rushed towards Yao Lin's camp. The entire Song army camp was forced to form a month-shaped bud due to the terrain, but this kind of military camp was easier to break because of its thinness.

Therefore, tens of thousands of enemy cavalry rushed into Yueya all at once. It was not until the gate of the camp that the Song army began to counterattack, but it was a fierce counterattack.

Indeed, the tens of thousands of village soldiers in Hedong were similar to those of civilians and did not have much combat effectiveness, but in fact, there were three powerful troops in this Song army camp. One was nearly 20,000 border soldiers trained by Yao Lin, and they crossed the Yellow River several times and attacked Yinzhou, and accumulated some practical experience. Although they could not be called the most powerful army of the Song Dynasty, their combat effectiveness was not weak.

Another one is composed of the Poche Army of Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road. Although the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the marginal border, it should not be underestimated.

Finally, there is an army composed of foreign troops on the fringe side, and strong men and horses.

Almost no one of the soldiers of these three armies is unfamiliar with bows and arrows. This trip also made them fully armed, the best armor and the best bow and arrow weapons. Nearly half of the soldiers used the modified divine arm bow. Although corrections were made to reduce the pulling force, their penetration and range were still far ahead of ordinary compound bows.

Moreover, the three armies had a large number of troops, with more than 30,000 troops and horses, and it happened to be inside Yueya, and countless enemy cavalry were shot and dropped.

After finally rushing to the front of the camp, although the Song army's trench was only one way to confuse the enemy and save strength, the camp was solid, and behind the camp, there was a second protection formed by a logistics vehicle array twisted together and filled with goods.

Tens of thousands of enemy cavalry attacked for nearly an hour, and suffered heavy casualties, but they could not pose a fatal threat to the Song army. Then these enemy cavalry came up with another idea, using fire to attack, I don’t want these supplies, but you, the Song Dynasty, don’t want these supplies anymore. However, thanks to Liang Yibi, because the Lingzhou River is open to the river of Hori, there are water seeds everywhere around. When Yao Lin was planning to camp in the evening, he led several small canals into the military camp, and there were tens of thousands of civilians. They just put out the fire behind them.

In fact, as time goes by, many civilians were no longer afraid. They picked up the bows and arrows in their hands and started to fight back. After all, the court had generous rewards for military merits, killing or capturing an enemy, rewarding twenty stagnants of money, and cavalry for forty stagnants. If they were the leader, they would double the reward.

But this is not fatal. Just when the enemy rushed towards the Song army camp, Zhang Shouyue and Zhe Keshi from Pule City and Yaode City each led three or four thousand cavalry one left and one right, and rushed to the enemy's wings. At the same time, outside Lingzhou City, Wang Ju also ordered to dispatch nearly 20,000 cavalry to pounce on the enemy's rear.

After receiving the news that several reinforcements were about to arrive, Yao Lin immediately ordered to open the central army's baggage convoy. The baggage sent here not only included food and grass, but also a large number of weapons. It was produced from last autumn to spring this year. Because the road was blocked due to ice and snow, it was too late to send it to the front line, so it had to send it to Lingzhou with this batch of supplies.

These weapons also included two hundred off-field cannons. Yao Lin ordered the three armies to carry off-field cannons to the camp gate and start firing at the enemy cavalry.

Originally, he was helpless against the Song camp, and with this kind of weapon, the enemy cavalry had to retreat in a mess.

But it is too late to escape now. There are more than 10,000 horses in this marching, and many of them are indeed pack horses, but they are just pretending, and the rest are all real war horses, but they are mixed in such a huge transportation team, which is not noticeable to ordinary people.

More than 7,000 cavalry mixed in the army saw that the enemy was about to escape, and they all turned over and bit the enemy cavalry and kept them dead. Then Zhang Zhe and two cavalrymen arrived.

The Xia army was defeated and ran away one by one, but after escaping for a while, the large cavalry from Lingzhou arrived again.

In this battle, nearly 20,000 enemies were killed and more than 11,000 enemy soldiers were captured. Less than half of them could escape.

Yao Lin then interrogated these prisoners of war and found the truth.

Last year, the Liao Kingdom was worried that the Song Dynasty would destroy Xia, but because of the restraint of Liaodong, the Liao Kingdom had no choice but to order the people to support Xixia at the critical moment.

When the Song army attacked Xia, the Xiaoliang clan asked for help from the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Lord immediately ordered the people of the Bubu to send troops to aid Xixia. Now the leader of the Bubu is Yu Guhao Yelu Hongji asked his son to be friends with him, but he is thinking about his closeness to the Liao Kingdom.

After hearing that the Song Dynasty sent troops, Yu Guhao immediately led more than 30,000 cavalry to Helan Mountain. However, from the beginning, Liang Yifu started to have the logistics of the Song army. It was not that he was stupid, but that the Song army was mostly infantry and had high logistics consumption, so logistics often became the key to expeditionary operations. Therefore, Li Jiqian and Yelu Xiuge used the logistics of the Song army to open a gap and achieved good results. Therefore, Liang Yifu arranged these tens of thousands of cavalrymen in the Shangwei City on the shore of Luotu Port (Dusitu River, also known as the Kushui River).

This place is outside Helan Mountain, and the Song Army’s intelligence network cannot extend along this area.

It should be said that Liang Yibi was still relatively rational. From the beginning, he only wanted to force the Song army to retreat, but he did not have the mentality of defeating the Song army. The logistics was cut off, and hundreds of thousands of Song army had to eat and drink, so he forced the Song army to withdraw his troops and return.

However, he was not lucky and met Wang Ju and Zhang Ju. Wang Ju even thought of Pei Xingjian's tactic of hiding grain trucks and soldiers from the beginning, but Zhang Ju rejected it. That was an exception and could not be copied. Zhang Ju then proposed the idea of ​​using some main forces as civilians and mingled in the logistics army to set up an ambush.

But when we were in Taiyuan City, this bait tactic was still not formed.

It was not until Wang Ju walked around from Hedong, went south from Fuzhou, and came to Qingzhou, and heard the news that Hei Khan sent troops, he was forced to advance the combat plan by nearly a month. However, in this way, logistics was even more of a problem.

Therefore, Wang Ju repeatedly negotiated with generals such as Zhong Shixiong and Zhang Shouyue, and finally came up with this bait plan, and even deliberately slowed down the time to conquer Lingzhou City.
To be continued...