Water Margin farming to become powerful

In the first year of Chonghe, Fang La's power did not survive the autumn of the seventh year of Zhenghe. In the new year, as Sun Xin expected, the Song Dynasty's army, who got along well with Sun Xin, began to invade several state capitals in the spring. On the one hand, there was a large number of troops On the other hand, the edict from Bianjing required the local prefect of Jinan to wipe out the surrounding Huimen forces.

The so-called meeting gate naturally refers to the supervisory committee.

Jinan Prefecture is already the periphery controlled by the Supervisory Committee, and many of its subordinates have already had ties with the Supervisory Committee. After the official production of the iron workshop in Laiwu, a large amount of ironware was exported from Jinan to the heartland of the Song Dynasty. The officials here They were all fattened up by the supervisory committee, which led to the fact that even after receiving the edict, the local magistrate did not dare to make a mistake easily. Instead, he had to go to Dengzhou to say hello and discuss with both sides.

In the end, the purge became ineffective due to the acting on both sides, and the army could not enter Jinan at all, but it was clear that some people in Shandong were panicked, and everyone began to have a premonition that the court would no longer sit idly by the Supervisory Council.

Luan Tingyu walked into Sun Xin's office.

Sun Xin raised his head: "How are the soldiers doing now that spring training is over?"

Now the Board of Supervisors has spread a large plate, and the number of standing legions has reached more than 2, distributed throughout Shandong, and the southernmost has entered the territory of Haizhou.

Last winter, the regiment of the supervisory committee began to train and change their outfits nervously. This matter was proposed by Sun Xin many times at the regular meeting of the supervisory committee. Gradually, people close to the general committee could feel it. Sun Xin must be planning something big.

This spring is another wave of intense training, and even the military and political circles have begun to rumor that Sun Xin may plan to use troops against the Song Dynasty.

Although the news has not been confirmed, the rumors that have been released have made the local officials in Dengzhou very anxious.

Some people were afraid that Sun Xin would use them to sacrifice the flag first, and many of them had privately sent posts to Sun Jiazhuang expressing their willingness to be ministers of the dragon if Sun Xin decided to raise the flag to rebel.

"All regiments have changed their costumes and are ready to fight at any time."

Sun Xin nodded and asked the farmer to bring out a map.

Luan Tingyu saw that three points were emphatically marked on the map, the middle one was in Liangshanbo, and the other two were some distance away from the north and south of the border controlled by the Supervisory Committee.

Sun Xin first pointed to the northernmost point: "This place is called Guangrao, and it is a county below the Beiqing River."

Sun Xin pointed to the southernmost place on the map: "This is the place where Chuzhou goes west and enters Hongze Lake. It is next to Sizhou. This place is densely covered with water networks. I once asked people to investigate. The local people are poor. , the foundation for the development of the Supervisory Council is solid.”

Luan Tingyu looked at it for a long time without scratching his head.

These two places are very remote, next to the edge of the area controlled by the Supervisory Committee. Could it be that Sun Xin meant to send troops to fight?

However, the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are already strictly guarding against the power of their Supervisory Council. If they cross Haizhou in the south and Qingzhou in the north, the Supervisory Council will have to pay a lot of sacrifices if they want to advance an inch. If they are determined to go to war, the first step must be to take the Great Song Dynasty Heart, it is not cost-effective to start from these two places.

Sun Xin smiled and shook his head: "It's not that you want to fight these two places, but that you send troops to these two places to garrison."

The senior brother was even more puzzled: how to stay without fighting?

Sun Xin also saw his thoughts, and replied directly: "Go to the mountains and lakes, hide soldiers in the people, set up a base area, and develop the power of the Supervisory Committee from these two places.

"From Guangrao to open up forces, in the future we need to connect to Liao Kingdom all the way, and connect to Jianghuai by land from Hongze Lake. Both places are very important. Is it enough to send 2000 people to one place?"

Luan Tingyu took a closer look at these two locations, finally figured it out, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The officials wanted to send troops into Shandong, but Sun Xin didn't just want to resist, he even wanted to send troops into the uncontrolled areas first to eat the border.

"To do such a big thing, two regiments may not be enough."

"Send them to open up first, if it's not enough, add more. We now have a population of several million in Shandong."

Sun Xin looked confident.

Last year, the Supervisory Committee was not idle, and the population grew exponentially under its governance.

This is also because Shandong's business in the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty mainly relied on water transportation. Shandong was not connected to the Grand Canal in this era, so the density of states and counties was extremely small. The entire Shandong has only a dozen state capitals. The manors controlled by batches of rich landowners can become the targets of Sun Xin's development supervisory committee, with military guards, and the supervisory committee spreads over.

Sun Xin told Luan Tingyu: "I will divide this matter into several cases at the regular meeting and bring it up. You can slowly transfer troops and don't talk too much, for fear that the news of this matter will affect the emotions of some people in the supervisory committee. "

Luan Tingyu then nodded very solemnly. He knew that many people in the supervisory committee would not dare to fight.

Sending Luan Tingyu out, Sun Xin was planning to continue working when he suddenly heard a report from a farmer outside, saying that it was a letter from the capital.

Sun Xin hurriedly let it in.

The farmer rushed in with a chicken feather letter, and Sun Xin knew it was from Xie Zhen at a glance.

Although Sun Xin's novels are now banned in the capital, but because the supervisory board has not yet opened up the war with Da Songzheng, the activities of Xie Zhen and the others in the capital last year did not decrease but increased.

A lot of people have to be bribed, and a lot of information has to be obtained.

Sun Xin frowned even more after opening the letter: Su Yuanjing, the Taiwei in front of the palace, had already set off from Bianliang, and his destination was Shandong.

In March, when Su Yuanjing arrived in Dengzhou, he had a warm relationship with Sun Xin.

The purpose of Su Yuanjing's coming here was also directly revealed - to recruit security.

The supervisory committee's welfare of the hometown, the protection of the army and the safety of the people can all be included in the Song army's system.Sun Xin must be excluded, but many people under Sun Xin can be promoted, and Sun Xin's treatment will not be bad.

The only requirement is that the protection army should be transferred to the north, and the Song Dynasty has already agreed with Jin to attack Liao.Since the Protecting Army is said to protect the country and the family, it is natural to contribute to the Great Song Dynasty at this time, and it is also a dignified statement.

Sun Xin left after eating halfway. Looking at the letter left by Su Yuanjing, he sneered and said, "Use this nonsense to suppress me? I'm going to fight the Liao Kingdom by myself. Do you need your Zhao official's greeting?"

He quickly asked Wu Song to watch Su Yuanjing's every move in Dengzhou, and the news that came back made everyone a little worried.

Su Yuanjing didn't suffer any blows because he was deflated in Sunjiazhuang. After returning to Dengzhou, he started to move around, especially contacting some small supervisors in the supervisory committee.

At the beginning, everyone was a little afraid that Sun Xin would be angry when he found out, but as more and more people went, even some supervisors from the Sunjiazhuang Supervisory Council became Su Yuanjing's guests, and gradually those small supervisors moved around. more frequently.

(End of this chapter)