Prime Minister

Chapter 658
After passing Fuqiang City and Yongning Village, you have left the boundary of Qinzhou, and you will arrive at Guwei Village if you walk 180 miles westward.

Sixty miles west of the ancient Wei Village is Weiyuan Village.

Another time and space of Weiyuan Village was built by Xining in five years, but in this time and space, Wang Shao Xining started to build this fort in two years.

Why did Wang Shao build Weiyuan Fort and Ancient Wei Village?
The purpose is to operate the upper reaches of the Weihe River.

You can know from Zhang Yue's journey.

From Chengji County of Qinzhou to the west for 120 miles to Fuqiang City, it is a section, from Fuqiang City to the west for 140 miles to Yongning Village, and then from Yongning Village to Guwei Village for [-] miles, and then another section, the ancient Wei Village again Sixty miles to the west is Weiyuan, which is the upper reaches of the Weishui River.

The 360-mile road from Weiyuan to Qinzhou is half of the Weishui River, which is also the Weishui River valley.

In important military areas, the emphasis is on form and victory.

The river valley is naturally the route of advancing troops and the passage of transportation. Wang Shao is in Weiyuan, and the ancient Wei has a firm foothold, so the entire Weishui River Valley will be covered by the Song Dynasty.

With the Weishui River Valley, there is a complete place of victory, so it is very important to occupy the Weiyuan and the ancient Wei.

From the east of Fuqiang City, it is common to see Han soldiers and civilians cultivating here. After Zhang Yue left Fuqiang City and went west, he seldom saw the place where the settlement was made. This is the valley washed by the Wei River for thousands of years. From here, you can look into the distance at a glance. , it is a continuous low mountain, the sky is extremely clear, and the white clouds are long.

The near side of the river valley is mostly loess plateau. Most of the loess plateau is eroded by river water. Below the plateau is the river valley. Where there is no jungle covered with lush grass, the loess is exposed, but the land near the river is still fertile.

The Zhou Dynasty originated from the Weishui River Valley, and then gained the world from here.The oracle bone inscription of the Zhou character is the upper character for the field and the lower character for the mouth.

The talent of our flower family to be good at farming comes from here, so the Weishui River Valley is also the foundation of China.

As soon as Wang Shao arrived in Guwei, he said that along the Weiyuan City and down to Qinzhou Chengji, five or six hundred miles away from the river, there are tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land that are not cultivated.

Therefore, Wang Shao operated in the ancient Wei Village, and gathered troops to reclaim the land. As long as the Song army was stationed here, it could save the thousands of miles of transporting grain from Guanzhong to Qinfeng Road, and then from Qinzhou to Qinfeng Road to ancient Wei Village.

Wang Shaozhi's policy was opposed by Zeng Gongliang, Li Shizhong, Dou Shunqing and others who opposed Kaibian.

Li Shizhong directly said that Wang Shao said that the thousands of hectares of land were nonsense. In fact, there was not a single mu of land.

Zhang Yue was walking along the official road, when suddenly a team of Fan Qi rushed out from the plateau on the side.He intercepted the front of Zhang Yue's team all the way, and divided the way to copy the back road.

Everyone was startled at first, but the veteran soldier who led the way glanced at it and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, this is the family of the Fan Department of Qinzhou."

After talking about the old boxer, he hit the horse and chatted a few words with the leading Fanqi. After listening to the truth, the other party withdrew.Zhang Yue knew that the two Ma clans (Da Ma clan, Xiao Ma clan) were attached to the clan in the first year of Chunhua, and they were regarded as Shufans.

If there are cooked rice, there must be raw rice.

There is no need to be afraid of these two. Shufan is familiar with the laws of the Song Dynasty, and the leaders have been sealed off and placed under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty. Apart from being dispatched with the Xixia army, it is difficult for Shengfan to approach the border cities of the Song Dynasty on weekdays.

What is most afraid of is the half-baked fan.

It is the one who is doing business with you on the surface, but when the boat arrives at the heart of the river, he asks you to eat hob noodles or wontons.

However, after this interruption, Zhang Yue and others speeded up their progress and finally arrived at Yongning Village before dark.After leaving Fuqiang City, there was no post station to change horses, so the speed of advance slowed down.

However, it is 140 miles from Yongning Village to Guwei Village. In the past, when transporting grain from Qinzhou, it took a distance of [-] miles. Now that the supply point has been transferred to Fuqiang City, the supply distance has been shortened.

At the beginning, the courtiers were always opposed to building a village in ancient Wei, and one of the important reasons was that it was difficult to pay.It is really not easy to transfer food and grass, and there is a risk of being attacked by Fan households on the road. Zhang Yue sincerely admires Song Jun who is guarding the border.

Zhang Yue rested in Yongning Village for one night. Because of the approval from the embassy, ​​Zhizhai agreed to allow them to enter the village and supplemented them with horse food. As for the food in Yongning Village, there was also a shortage.

However, Zhizhai gave Zhang Yue ten liters of wine, as well as three Song soldiers who were familiar with the situation as guides.

Fortunately, Zhang Yue and his party brought enough dry food when they set off from Fuqiang City.

That night, Zhang Yue had no sleep, climbed to the top of the village and looked at the vast wasteland under the twilight, listening to the occasional sound of the Qiang flute outside the village.

The sound of the Qiang flute was crisp and melodious, and it sounded like weeping and complaining in the empty wasteland.

Gradually a full moon rose, Zhang Yue picked up the wine and drank it in front of this scene, before he knew it, he was thousands of miles away.

How are the brothers and sisters at home, wives and children?
At this moment, Zhang Yue couldn't help but read Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou poem, and a sense of alienation from the scene at this time emerged spontaneously.

……

The next day before dawn, Zhang Yue waited and left the village.

The 140-mile road from Yongning Village to Guwei Village, there are Ya'erxia Village, Wuling Fort, Xiaoluomen Village, Ningyuan Village, etc. in the middle, but they are all small villages with only three to five hundred soldiers.

If there is really any attack from the Fan Ministry, these fortresses are at most a little beacon fire or something, so don't expect them to send troops to rescue.

Before Wang Shao was in front of the ancient Weitun fields, the Yaerxia Village and Wulingbao were captured by the Qing and Tang Fans. The Song army lost more than [-] people, and the ancient Wei Village was without food for half a year.

The section of the road out of Yongning Village is along the Weishui River Valley, but there are bare mountains on all sides, and the soil erosion here is much more serious than downstream.

It rained heavily in July and August, and the soil was so loose that no plants could attach to it, and it could only be washed into the river valley.

The river valley from Chengji to Yongning Village belongs to the Qinzhou land boundary.

The Weishui River Valley at this time is no longer the Weishui River Valley in the Zhou Dynasty.

The clear-cut allusions come from the Book of Songs...

Li Shizhong, Dou Shunqing, and Li Ruoyu have successively said that Wang Shao's plotting a thousand hectares of land along the Weihe River is a lie to report the military situation, which is really not bad at all.

Zhang Yue wanted to speak for Wang Shao in his heart. In order to compete for the support of the court's resources, he could make the report more beautiful.

But if you think about it, is this a common crime?
When Li Shizhong said that Wang Shao was lying in the fields, the officials sent Dou Shunqing to investigate. Dou Shunqing also said that when Wang Shao concealed the report, the officials did not believe it, so they sent Li Ruoyu to investigate. There is actually only one hectare of land.

The officials still didn't believe it, and asked Han Zhen if this happened?Han Zhen said that Wang Shao was actually a farmer.

As a result, Li Shizhong, Dou Shunqing, and Li Ruoyu were all demoted for deceiving the king!

If the official family finally learns the truth... Zhang Yue is really unimaginable.

This time I have to wipe Wang Shao's ass again.

"Sheren?"

Zhang Yue looked back and saw that Liu Xishuo was walking on a horse and asked with a smile, "What's the matter with your father-in-law?"

Liu Xishu said, "Just to remind Shiren, let's keep some hearts along the way to Guwei."

Zhang Yue said, "That's right."

Although Liu Xixi was an eunuch, he accompanies Zhang Yue to rush dozens of miles every day these days without complaining.

It can be seen that the eunuchs of the Song Dynasty are really capable, no wonder they can produce Tong Guan.

Liu Xixi suddenly said: "Zhang Sheren, in fact, I came to Guwei this time on an order to check the farmland, but I haven't seen anyone planting the farmland after so many miles. Where do you think the farmland is?"

Zhang Yue said: "Hey, father-in-law, we have only reached the middle reaches. There will be no one here to settle the fields. I heard that the upper reaches are lush with water and grass, and it must be the place where the fields are settled from Weiyuan to Guwei."

Liu Xixi said quite meaningfully: "I hope so."

Zhang Yue and Liu Xishi talked and chatted. At this time, the team turned over the river valley. Zhang Yue suddenly saw a team of mules and horses with a captain not far ahead, marching forward mightily.

Xiang Bing was overjoyed and said, "It's a caravan, we'll follow the caravan."

There are caravans traveling, indicating that the trade routes are smooth and the situation is stable.

Zhang Yue saw that the caravans carried mostly tea bricks and other items, and thought that the tea-horse trade was really king.

Zhang Yue sent people to take out his documents and immediately cooperated with the caravan to go to Guwei.

When the caravan owner heard that it was someone from the government, he immediately agreed, and at the same time he came to explore Zhang Yue's way.Zhang Yue casually said that he was sending official documents.

The caravan was guarded by both Fans and Han. Zhang Yue also saw that there were several cavalry on the road. As for the welcoming of the caravan by the Tibetans along the way, many of them offered food and drinks, and at the same time, they shared with the caravan’s mates. inquired news.

Zhang Yue was very happy to see that there was no estrangement between Fans and Han, and they coexisted peacefully.

In addition to war and looting, the Han and the Tibetans also communicated through trade and peace.

This is Hanzhong to buy tea, Xihe Yima.

Zhang Yue asked privately how the Han Shang Fan army Wang Shao was doing in ancient Wei, and they all came up with praise for the good management.

This is completely opposite to what Han Zhen and Li Shizhong said.

Following the caravan, the journey was much smoother. Along the way, there were fortresses built by the Song army along the Weishui River, and hundreds of Shufan cavalry voluntarily guarded along the way.

Zhang Yue let go of his mind, and when he arrived at Ya'er Gorge Village, it was very close to the ancient Wei Village, and there were many salt wells.

Salt is a strategic material, so the Song army recruited people to dig salt wells here for salt irrigation, which not only solved the problem of salt consumption by the frontier army, but also sold the salt to the Qing and Tang Dynasty.

When Zhang Yue arrived at Ya'er Gorge, he unexpectedly met Wang Shao and Wang Hou and his son!

Their father and son, led by dozens of cavalry, were waiting for them outside the village.The other party had clearly detected his whereabouts long ago.

As soon as Wang Shao saw himself, he turned over and dismounted, and cupped his hands: "Sheren, the lower official is here to apologize to you!"

Zhang Yue held Wang Shao's arm with one hand and said, "You must bear this, don't lose your temper."

Seeing this, Wang Shao calmed down.

Zhang Yue looked at Wang Shao, who was not afraid of the sky and earth. Now he must know that the matter of the Weiyuan farmland was noticed by the court, and the paper finally couldn't contain the fire, so he bowed his head and asked for help.

At this time, Liu Xishu also turned over and dismounted, stepped forward to salute Wang Shao and said, "Our family has been ordered by the emperor to inspect the farmland! But how can we see the farmland along the way, not to mention the thousand hectares of fertile farmland that Wang Fugou said at the beginning, and even the I haven’t seen an acre of land, I don’t know why?”

(End of this chapter)