Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 288

Throughout the winter, Wuzang Pang, the powerful minister of Xixia, was busy holding the little emperor Liang Zuo in his hands, cleaning up the mess after his sister was killed, and had no energy to provoke conflicts. Li Buqi was also busy building and expanding the factory. While squeezing people out of their hands, they encouraged the people in the mountainous areas to immigrate to provide labor for the factories. They did not make any major moves to build forts on the border, and the border between the two countries was peaceful for a while.Zhe Yinghui, who came back from visiting relatives at her natal home in Fuzhou, said that a large number of glassware made of quartz sand purchased from the Fanbu have been produced, and there are also a lot of large barrels of meat made of cattle and sheep bought from the Fanbu, but the Yellow River is frozen. It is impossible to sail, and the road is not easy to travel. Most of the products can only be stored in the warehouse in Fuzhou and cannot be shipped out.

Nowadays, glassware and even flat glass in the Song Dynasty are common, but because the sand used to make the glass contains impurities, these glasses are more or less colored.There are high-quality quartz sand mines in the Fanbu area near Fuzhou. Pure and colorless glass can be fired with such quartz sand, and its value is naturally much higher than ordinary glass.Fuzhou is the Fugu Town of Yulin in later generations. It is also a place where the underground is full of coal. Nearby are the trona in the lakes of Wushen Banner and Etuoke Banner in later generations. As long as there are craftsmen, any amount of glass can be burned out.

But Fuzhou has a problem, that is, it has almost become an enclave.Xixia occupies a large area around Hengshan, so that the connection between Linfu Erzhou and Shanxi Yanyan Road can only rely on a narrow strip along the Yellow River, and the connection with Hedong Road has to pass through the Yellow River, not to mention inconvenient and very unsafe traffic. .Now that it is winter and the Yellow River is frozen, the transportation between Linfu and Yanzhou can only rely on rugged and unsafe land roads, so it is naturally difficult to transport bulk commodities.

If Li Buqi hadn't come to Song Dynasty, then Linfu was just a stronghold to contain the Xixia people for Song Dynasty, and the court would only maintain its existence, but the situation would be different when Li Buqi came to Song Dynasty.Li Buqi will make everyone realize that Lin Mansion is a cornucopia, and it's no wonder that the court didn't go to great lengths to get through communication with Lin Mansion.And to get through the transportation of Lin Mansion, it is necessary to conquer Hengshan, which is the foundation of Xixia.

This Hengshan is not only the main grain-producing area with few Xixia, but also the Hengshan Qiang soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and they are also one of the main combat forces of the Xixia army.When Song Dynasty captured Hengshan, Xixia lost half of his life.

In the previous Xixia invasions, most of its troops had food in Hengshan.Therefore, Hengshan is the advancing base of the Xixia invaders. As long as Li Buqi takes Hengshan down, he will push the Xixia defense line back hundreds of miles behind the desert, and all roads on the edge of Shaanxi can breathe a sigh of relief.

The Xixia people also understood the importance of Hengshan, so they built more than 300 forts in Hengshan during the Yuanhao period to allow the local Qiang people to guard the dangerous pass and resist the Song army's attack.Later, Xixia continued to build more forts in Hengshan. According to Li Buqi's information, there are currently more than 400 forts in Hengshan.Just removing these four or five hundred fortresses is a big project, so Li Buqi can only plan it slowly. Before he has an army in his hands that is strong enough to fight the Xixia people, he can only use blockhouses against blockhouses.

In order to build the Zhaibao, Li Buqi mobilized [-] civilians to Fu Yanlu.These folk husbands were surprised to find that the situation of this year's husband is very different from previous years, and there is meat in the meal!In the past, only pickles were served with rice.

Every time it's time to eat, there will be large and small wooden barrels pulled to the kitchen, and the lids will be opened, and there will be a lot of salted pork, mutton, and even beef inside.Although there is only a little spice sprinkled in this thing, and it is very salty, it is meat after all, as long as you put a little dried vegetables on it, you can make a pot of oily stew. People who rarely eat meat at home will not Pick and choose, each one will have an extra bowl of rice.

This is another thing that surprised them.In the past, you didn't have as much food as you wanted on the construction site, but this year it is basically enough.This is enough to eat, and there are a lot of equipment and livestock to help with the work, and officials use gunpowder to dig ditches, which saves a lot of energy. These folk husbands feel that this year is the happiest time to be married.However, after seeing the young third prince inspecting the construction site in person, chatting with them kindly, and promising that Shaanxi will gradually reduce the corvee, these peasants believed that the benefits must have been brought by the third prince, at least they thanked the current official home kindness.

Before the beginning of spring, the errands are over, and these 5 people are going home.On the way home, they were arranged to pass through Fuzhou and Yanzhou, so that they could transport products to the factories in these two places on the way back.Now, the products that could not be transported from Fuzhou and Yanzhou due to road problems were easily transported to Jingzhaofu, and these civilians who served in the army could also get a little wages.Although the money was not much, it was on the way anyway. The money was almost for nothing, and the common people naturally once again praised the sanctity of the officials.

The praises of the officials by the folk husbands were also spread by the residence newspapers and newspapers, letting everyone know that the third prince was diligent and caring for the people.A group of people in the capital preached how smart the fourth prince was every day, and it seemed weak to be able to write splendid articles.The common people are more concerned about whether the government can make them work less and live a better life. As for whether they can write and draw, what does it have to do with the common people?At most, it's just an after-dinner conversation.

Of course, ordinary people would not find out that this vat of brine bacon was made by Li Buqi after imitating the sailing food of the British Navy in the sailing era, and he bought it with the money obtained from the issuance of national bonds as military rations.After such an operation, the scale of meat processing plants in Yanzhou and Fuzhou can be rapidly expanded, and the military rations of the Shaanxi Song Army can be rapidly upgraded.

When Li Buqi arrived in Shaanxi, he only stared at the factories on Yanyan Road and Qinfeng Road for a whole winter. Others, he only managed a powerful man who relied on the powerful background of the capital to collude with officials to steal food and horses and a few officials who colluded with him. After this incident, he didn't pursue it fiercely, and finally dispatched the Haoqiang family and several convicted officials.

But no one thinks that Li Buqi will continue to do nothing, because this is not in line with his style. In the past, he would make big disturbances wherever he went.So at the beginning of spring, including the imperial court, they were all waiting for Li Buqi to make a big move. What everyone didn't expect was that Li Buqi did make a move, but it was not to rectify the administration of officials, nor to attack Xixia, but to concentrate all A group of elite soldiers and strong generals suppressed bandits.

Li Buqi attached great importance to this bandit suppression, and concentrated the Jingyuan Road Zhonggu's troops, the Yanyan Road Zhao Sheng's 2 militiamen, the [-] feudal cavalry, and the Qinfeng Road Wang Chongji, Yao Si, and Liu Changzuo's troops, a total of [-] Thousands of people leveled several cottages where large groups of bandits gathered, such as Shaohua Mountain and Shangluo Mountain.This bandit suppression campaign was so powerful that even Xixia spies knew it clearly, so Xixia concluded that Li Buqi had no intention of provoking a war on the border at least temporarily, so they sent troops to approach Fuzhou again to cover their people to cultivate Quye River land on both sides.But Zhe Kerou in Fuzhou was busy buying wool, and he also let the Xixia people do nothing. The people who were driven from the land by the Xixia people all moved into the city to work as workers, and there was no movement. It seems that the Zhejia no longer wants to compete. that place.Now the Xixia people became bolder, reclaimed a large area of ​​land for farming, and built three forts on the west bank of the Quye River.

This incident caused Li Buqi to be severely criticized by the Privy Council, but that was all.Li Buqi has accumulated a lot of character in the past few years. The emperor and the common people know that he dared to march in arms in the Liao Kingdom, and dared to kill the land of Jiaozhi. Could it be believed that Li Buqi now only knows how to spend money and is afraid of the Xixia people?What's more, didn't the newspapers say that "to fight against the outside world, the inside must be settled first". The third prince commanded the officers and soldiers to destroy several cottages where the officers and soldiers had been helpless. Who can say that Li Buqi didn't do his job?
By the beginning of April, Li Buqi had disposed of nearly [-] prisoners who had been exterminated in the cottage.Li Buqi gave them two paths, one was dispatched to Guangnan to serve as hard labor, and the other was to go overseas.Now that rumors of fertile land overseas have spread throughout the Song Dynasty, most of these captives are willing to go overseas.

Now when the wheat on both sides of the Quye River was turning yellow and it was about to mature, these 2 people quietly set off from Shaohua Mountain and headed north along the Yellow River to Linfu.

(End of this chapter)