Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 322 0317 [Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu]

Zhang Jinping was about to give birth, so he didn't feel any joy, but was worried all day long.

She felt something was wrong, and her father-in-law might rebel!

"Why don't sister go out for a walk today?" Zheng Yuanyi asked, holding a child in her arms.

The child's name is Zhu Kang, the eldest son of Zhu Ming.

The name was chosen casually. I was conceived in Jinzhou, which belongs to Ankang County.

Zhang Jinping forced a smile, supported by a maid, and walked out with a big belly.

Strolling around in the yard, Zhang Jinping looked towards another courtyard, but finally endured and did not go there.

Everything will wait until the baby is born.

Wen Xiaomei couldn't hold back, and blocked Zhu Guoxiang in the study at the moment: "Why is your husband training soldiers?"

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and said: "Of course it is to guard against bandits."

Wen Xiaomei said: "One or two hundred villages are enough to guard against bandits, so many villagers need to be recruited? Two days ago when I went to the market, I went to the street and heard some women chatting, all talking about the men's practice at home. I A total of ten women were questioned, and eight of them had sons or husbands who were soldiers."

"Ugh!"

Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "What do you think I'm going to do?"

Wen Xiaomei was silent for a while, then raised her head and asked, "A rebellion...rebellion?"

Zhu Guoxiang asked back: "Why do you think so?"

Wen Xiaomei said: "I really can't think of anything other than rebellion. I need to recruit most of the young people in the village to practice. And instead of practicing for a month or two, I have been practicing for several months."

Zhu Guoxiang didn't know how to explain, so he could only perfunctoryly say: "Next year or the year after, my little sister will know what my father and son are going to do."

Wen Xiaomei asked: "Have you discussed it with Dalang?"

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "Yes."

"Are you really trying to rebel?" Wen Xiaomei was still worried.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Troubled times are coming, and we must prepare early. Have you studied history?"

Wen Xiaomei said, "I've only read "Historical Records."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Read all the "Hou Han Shu", "Sui Shu", and "Tang Shu", and you will know that the Song Dynasty is going to be in chaos."

In fact, Zhu Guoxiang has never read these history books, and his historical knowledge is still at the stage of middle school textbooks.

Zhu Guoxiang managed to get rid of his concubine, and went out to board a ship for Jinzhou.

Yang Zhi is training troops in Tiemao Village, Jinzhou, and he has assembled an army of 200 people.The foundation here is weak, and the number of villagers is small. Recruiting 200 people for training is already the limit, otherwise it will affect the production of the iron smelting plant.

Tiemao Village does not use rattan armor, and all officers from the small captain above wear zhajia.

The Zhajia shape is a simplified version of the Burenjia in the Song Dynasty.

As for why the allocation is reduced, it is because most of the battles were fought in Sichuan in the early stage.The infantry armor, which weighs fifty or sixty kilograms, is really not conducive to mountain activities, and the weight must be reduced to ensure flexibility.

Ordinary soldiers, in the Song Dynasty, seemed very extravagant, equipped with all chain armor (due to insufficient quantity, not all of them have been installed, and they are being stepped up to build).

"How's the practice going?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Yang Zhi was quite excited: "The military training book compiled by Zhu Xianggong is really amazing, and it is better than the method of the imperial army."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "He is talking about military affairs on paper, so there must be some omissions. When you are training and fighting, you can make corrections if you encounter inadequacies."

"Yes!" Yang Zhi cupped his hands.

Zhu Ming's so-called military training book is a combination of "Wu Jing Zong Yao", "Records of Military Training" and "Ji Xiao New Book".

Yang Zhi also said: "In the past six months, I have recruited dozens of hunters in the mountains, all of whom have a very difficult life. The young and strong in the village mostly work in the iron smelting field, forging field, and armor field. Too much to practice."

Most of the weapons in Daming Township and Jintan Village were made in Tiemao Village.

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "You are really short of manpower here. You can recruit more hunters to train firecrackers. If there is not enough food, I will contact merchants from other places to bring food." He also urged, "Be careful to prevent news from leaking."

Yang Zhi said: "Since the training of the army, it has been forbidden to enter and leave at will. Set up checkpoints five miles outside the village, and kill them directly if they don't listen to the advice!"

"Well done." Zhu Guoxiang praised.

At this time, the prefect of Jinzhou was called Han Zhao, a native of Yingchang (Xuchang).There is no faction, purely through seniority.

The little old man is not a good official, nor can he be said to be a bad official.

Anyway, when the transfer envoy gave the task, Han Zhao tried his best to raise money and asked his subordinate officials to step up the collection.If the amount of tax is really not enough, they will curse and then do what they should do.

In Jinzhou City today, specific government affairs have been controlled by subordinate officials, all of whom were promoted by Zhu Ming.

But these subordinate officials are divided into two factions, they don't like each other, and occasionally they will tear each other down.This is also the situation created by Zhu Ming. At the beginning, he didn't trust anyone and deliberately left two groups of people to check and balance each other.

Zhu Guoxiang inspected Tiemao Village for two days, and then took a boat to Jintan Village, Yangzhou.

In Jintan Village, Li Jinyi, the prototype of Lu Junyi in "Water Margin", is in charge of training.

In "The Legacy of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty", which is closer to historical facts, Li Jinyi planned to kill the sergeant and rescue Yang Zhi, and then everyone ran to the Taihang Mountains to fall grass.Later, Song Jiang ranked the 36 generals, Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong) was first, Li Jinyi (Lu Junyi) was second, and Yang Zhi became the third.

Zhu Guoxiang went to Jintan Village and asked Li Jinyi to train more than 260 soldiers.For the time being, there are only weapons, no armor, and they will be transported before the army is raised.

Jintan Village is too close to the state city, and outsiders have been prohibited from entering and leaving at will.

Whether it is merchants who come to buy paper or nearby villagers who come to buy salt, they all trade at the entrance of the village.

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Muzhou was officially renamed Yanzhou, which means strict management.

Shezhou, officially changed its name to Huizhou, taking the meaning of restraint.

These two places are where Fang La made his fortune, and most of the backbone of the rebel army came from here.

In July, Fang Lazhan died in the mountainous area of ​​Guiyang (Rucheng).

It still fell into Han Shizhong's hands, not because of the end of the world line, but because Han Shizhong fought desperately.

In summer, the Guiyang mountainous area is full of miasma. The Forbidden Army, Western Army, and Southern Army surrounded Fang La in several mountains. Everyone looked for a place to rest until autumn.

However, Han Shizhong led a small army, searched the mountains in the scorching heat, grabbed his tongue and asked Fang La's whereabouts.

After confirming the situation, he only had 30 people in his hands, but set fire to the mountain at night, and then went straight to Fangla's base camp.

The veterans who followed Fang La to fight for thousands of miles were already seriously attrition due to miasma.Under the low morale, he was attacked at night, thousands of old thieves were defeated by Han Shizhong's 30 people, and Fang La himself died in the rebellion.

Only more than 1000 elite old thieves remained, broke up and fled to Jinghu South Road, and continued to fight under the leadership of Fang Qifo.

So far, there are still two Fangla rebels.

One, headed by Fang Qifo, fled towards the mountainous area of ​​Hunan.

One, led by Lu Shinang and Yu Daoan, was active in the mountainous areas around Wuzhou (Jinhua), Chuzhou (Lishui), Wenzhou, and Taizhou.

Most of the Forbidden Army and the Western Army withdrew, and the remnants of the Rebel Army were handed over to the local troops.Just in case, thousands of forbidden soldiers were left behind, and they were ordered to finish it within this year.

Han Shizhong, who made great achievements, was not in a good mood. His military achievements were robbed!
The Forbidden Army and the Western Army went north in batches. While Han Shizhong was waiting for a boat at Jingkou, his good brother Wang Yuan hired prostitutes to entertain him.

There was a woman surnamed Liang who was proficient in poetry and pen and ink, and was born with the supernatural power to draw a strong bow.

Han Shizhong was very surprised, and asked: "What is the origin of the girl, and she is both civil and military?"

Liang's daughter said: "My grandfather and father were both military officers in Chizhou. Before the imperial army arrived, they were ordered to exterminate Fang La. Because of ineffective combat and lost the city, they were sentenced to death. The slaves were also used as official prostitutes in Jingkou. "

Han Shizhong sighed and said: "Ah, the big turban has no strategy of hunting down thieves, but it's just us Qiuba who are unlucky, and in the end, we will also implicate our family members."

"The world is difficult, and there is no other way." Liang's daughter felt sad.

Han Shizhong poured wine for her, and drank one himself: "Although I have made great achievements, I am also very unlucky, and I have been robbed of my achievements over and over again."

Both of them were frustrated, and they chatted extremely speculatively.

Seeing this, Wang Yuan smiled and said, "You two are so talented and beautiful, you might as well be me as a matchmaker."

Han Shizhong's old face was flushed, and Liang's daughter bowed her head in silence.

They were drinking flower wine here, while Chen Ziyi, Ju Ming's old acquaintance, was drinking dull wine in another camp.

Chen Ziyi's attack direction was south of Zhejiang Province, and he was in charge of dozens of people.When chasing and killing the defeated soldiers, he rode a horse and captured the bandit chief Hong Zai alive. This man was also the leader of one party and occupied most of Chuzhou in his heyday.

Chen Ziyi was also robbed of merit, and he only got the position of the head of the horse army, and he could command a hundred cavalry.

"Straight thief!"

Half drunk, Chen Ziyi cursed and smashed the wine jar.

The imperial court offered rewards to all the bandit chieftains under Fang La's command.After agreeing to kill Hong Zai, he can be directly assigned to Dr. Youwu (a sixth-rank military officer). What's the matter with a horse army?
The more Chen Ziyi thought about it, the more angry he became, and gradually became disheartened.

He thought that as long as he fought to the death, he would be able to stand out with his ability.Now I know that I made a big mistake. Promotion does not depend on ability, at least not on ability to kill the enemy, but on having someone superior and knowing how to flirt and give money.

Fang La is dead, and the remnants are just grasshoppers after autumn.

As the commander in chief, Tong Guan was conferred the title of grand master for his meritorious service, and was granted the title of Duke of Chu by the Jin Dynasty.

Tong Guan claimed that his subordinates are all elite soldiers who conquered Xixia first, and now Fangla is conquered. He is a first-class powerful army in the world.However, the Liao Kingdom has already declined, and was beaten by the small kingdom of the Jin Kingdom, and the civil chaos continued.

Song Huizong, who was planning to delay the attack on Liao for a few years, was a little moved by Tong Guan's words.

Wang Fu, who opposed the campaign against the Liao Dynasty a while ago, was actually moved, mainly because the finances were a little better.

First, the south has been settled, and the military expenditure is not that big.

Second, the economical money collected in the southeast has been extended to Lianghuai and Gyeonggi, and it can collect millions of dollars in taxes.

The third eunuch Li Yan founded the Xicheng Institute, and frantically exploited Jingdong, Jingxi, and Lianghuai. This thing alone can generate 200 million yuan in revenue every year.

A three-pronged approach has realized increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

Wang Fu felt that the imperial court was not short of money, and Tong Guan said that once the Song Dynasty sent troops, the Liao Kingdom would surely surrender, and it was absolutely possible to take back Yanyun quickly.

His foundation as a prime minister is too shallow, and Cai Jing has so many followers that he can't be squeezed out. Cai Jing may make a comeback at any time.

If he can regain Yan Yun, Cai Jing will never even think about coming back!
Wang Fu began to flirt with Tong Guan, and the two quietly discussed the plan to conquer Liao, and they also brought Cai You into it.

(End of this chapter)