Chapter 1,620: The Number One Scholar in Dog Days

Renyin, the imperial court issued an edict that the Four Roads were in urgent need of revitalization, especially relying on the power of the people. That is to say, at the request of Su You, the Jiedushi envoy of the Four Roads, all the taxes on all roads in Hebei were removed!

After receiving the imperial edict, Su You finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had the manpower to engage in large-scale industry!

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In March, Bingyinshuo, a senior official and a minister of the Privy Council, Zhao Zhan, died, with the posthumous title of Yi Jian.

Ding Mao gave the family of Sun Jue, a direct scholar of Longtuge, money to pay for the funeral.

In Xinwei, Gao Shilin of the Railway Bureau was promoted, and the railway from Lanzhou to Luoyang was finally completed!

In Renshen, Liu Changzuo, the Governor of the Western Regions, reported that the railway from Yumen to Bafan Town has also been announced!

The railway from Lanzhou to Luoyang has been under construction for many years, and it was just announced today, which is already very exciting.

As a result, the steel resources in Qilian Mountains have been unable to be mobilized and transported. After Su You, Lu Gongzhu and others discussed it, they simply used it to build railways!

Now that both sections of the railway have been built, the construction of the Yellow River Bridge is on the agenda.

The drawings of the Yellow River Bridge have also been changed several times. The Song Dynasty has already had the experience of successful Sishui and Yishui railway bridges. There are no technical problems in building the Yellow River Bridge.

Because the water depth of the Yellow River in the Lanzhou section is not as deep as the Surabaya River and the Yishui River, it is only a little more than two meters. Near the original site of the floating bridge in Bafan Town, the average depth is a pitiful one and three meters.

The new railway bridge is designed to be 220 meters long and 10 meters wide, with a railway in the middle and horse and carriage roads on both sides. It adopts a five-pier, seven-hole steel arch design and will cost 1.1 million.

Because it is used for both highway and railway purposes, the construction cost is almost double that of the previous two bridges.

At Ji Mao, Privy Councilor Zhang Kai had a comprehensive understanding of the Song Dynasty's national, border, and military affairs. This most senior strategic genius of the Song Dynasty proposed a strategic plan that shocked everyone.

Zhang Kai suggested that the imperial court should continue to keep a low profile and take a defensive stance in Hebei, but instead turn its guns and vigorously expand and consolidate the northwest!

This is almost contrary to the national policy of the Song Dynasty in the past hundred years!

All three-year-old children in the Song Dynasty knew when playing war games that they would fight Xixia first, then Liao; after fighting Xixia, they would fight Liao!

However, Zhang Kai said that we should continue to coexist with the Liao Kingdom and continue to expand in the northwest.

Su You received the plan secretly sent from the court. After reading it, he was dumbfounded. What does this mean? Did I come to Hebei just to make soy sauce?

Immediately summon the staff of the Four Route Capital's Strategy Department to come to the Daming, together with Zhong Ji and Li Chunyuan, the Tianxiong Army stationed at the Daming Mansion, come and come, tell me about this bullshit plan!

Zhong Ji led Li Chunyuan, Zhong Shi Dao, Zhong Shi Zhong, Yao Gu, and Wei Zhao, and spent three days and three nights in Jiedu Mansion. The final conclusion made everyone slap their foreheads wildly.

Zhang Zhifu, this bitch is a genius!

The reason why a genius is a genius is that his eyes can see places that all mortals cannot.

Zhang Kai first analyzed the Liao Kingdom. Although the Liao Kingdom was large, its military power was concentrated in the three eastern provinces and a smaller half of Inner Mongolia. The reason was that such a large army needed to be supported by taxes from the Nanyuan states in the southern part of the Liao Kingdom.

The further west you go, the weaker the Liao people's power becomes. The Tatars make a living as nomads and occupy the vast western territory of the Liao Kingdom.

Two-thirds of the territory of the Liao Kingdom was actually controlled by only 50,000 people from the Northwest Road Recruiting Division!

In this area, the most powerful ones are the two dogs of the Song Dynasty, the Zubu tribe and the Baita tribe.

The Song Dynasty's control over Ningxia Fourth Road and the Hexi Corridor was already very strong.

In addition to Liu Changzuo's three old-style cavalry armies, one heavy and two light, there are also five new armies of Yuanjianyi, including the two strongest armies of the Song Dynasty - the Dun'an Army and the Controlling Crane Army.

Although the backbone of the new army was transferred to support Hebei, they were also supplemented in time. They were still non-commissioned officers graduated from the Royal Military Academy, and their combat effectiveness remained unchanged.

The main purpose of these eight armies, as well as the Tu cadres guarding Ganzhou and Suzhou, the Renduo tribe guarding the Dacheng Valley, and the Zhong'e Zhongyi from Jiuyuan, is to stabilize the situation of the Ningxia Third Road and the Western Region Protectorate.

Beware of the eight tribes of Xixia with high surnames.

As of today, Ningxia Third Road and the Hexi Corridor have been completely settled.

The widespread spread of Erlin Buddhism and Hexi Confucianism, as well as the gentle and benevolent government implemented by the Song Dynasty, made these people become real people.

Those small tribes that could only rely on the stability of western law enforcement officers in the past have now become small towns, and their nomadic methods have been replaced by more advanced farming and enclosure.

However, the Tibetan people cultivate high-yield quinoa, elephant grass, chicken grass, and corn as dry silage fodder for livestock, and some wheat as rations.

No matter what, the way of life has completely changed. Although the crops are different, nomadic herding has become farming and herding, tribes have become small towns, and the leader has become a wandering official.

The ability to withstand natural risks has also been strengthened, the exchange of goods and materials has become smoother, and countless carriage lanes have appeared on the grassland.

The rain of arrows and the light of swords have since become good at singing and dancing.

This way of survival formed a great attraction for the Tatar tribes still in the Liao Kingdom.

The two tribes, Zubu and Bai Tatar, have changed from raw Tatars to mature Tatars. They have also begun to absorb and learn this way of living, and they have also become a bridge of communication between the Song Dynasty and the northern tribes of the Liao Kingdom.

The entire northern Liao Kingdom has been infiltrated by the noble and compassionate red monks of the Song Dynasty, the medical practitioners who compete with the monks, the profit-seeking caravans, and even the law enforcement officers of the northern Xia Kingdom trained by Chaogu.

hole.

Nowadays, the political and cultural situation of Ningxia's Third Road is already dominated by the descendants of the Confucian scholars from Hexi who became officials. In the civilization concepts of the Third Road and the Hexi Corridor, Chinese civilization has already occupied an absolute advantage.

Therefore, Zhang Kai believes that there is no need for the Song Dynasty to idle in the west. The industrial production capacity in the northwest has exploded and the people have settled down. Such a large number of troops can be used further west and further north - the Xizhou Uighurs and Black Khans.

The Song Dynasty has already captured Yutian and Yuechang, which are the two nails wedged into the Black Khanate. The Song Dynasty has absolute support in these two places. The first is that they believe that they are old friends of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The second is that they

Buddhist.

The forces of King Black Khan were concentrated in two places, Shule and Balalagon, one was the economic and cultural center and the other was the political center. These were also their only two cities. They were usually nomadic and scattered.

The Xizhou Uighurs are not worth mentioning. Except for the solid rule of Zhangbali and Beiting, others such as Qiuci, Yuezhi, Gaochang, and Yizhou have huge Buddhist influence. To this day, they are envious of Khotan. Many times

He sent envoys to Yumen Pass to enter the Song Dynasty, but Liu Changzuo refused.

Zhang Kai came up with a brilliant military idea, which was to contact the Tatar tribes who were still vassals of the Liao people and lure them with weapons and goods.

After that, with Liu Changzuo as the vanguard, the Ganyi Five Army as the backbone, Tu Gangan as the rear army, Renduo tribe, Dabai Gao surnamed eight troops, Zubu, Bai Ta, and Tatar tribes as support, they won the victory

The fragile Xizhou Uighur and Black Khan are a hundred times easier than the Hebei strategy.

After capturing these two places, the military strength of the Tatar tribes will be qualitatively improved, and the Song Dynasty will also win over more Tatars.

After these men, who have been banned for many years and are ready to rebel, return to their homeland with swords and trophies, what will happen to the Liao Kingdom's northwest road to recruit military commanders?

In this way, the Song Dynasty could effortlessly plunge two-thirds of the territory of the Liao Kingdom into chaos, and then even if it sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, the core areas of the Liao Kingdom would still face attacks from the left and right by the Tatars and Nüzhi.

Even if the Song Dynasty could not send out any troops, the Liao Kingdom could only obediently mobilize the elites from the Song and Xia front lines to put out the fire on both the east and west sides.

This is called Tongshan collapsing in the west and Luo Zhong responding in the east.

If the Song Dynasty poked it in the easiest place, the sand giant of the Liao Kingdom would collapse until only a relatively solid head was left.

His head was hit in turn by several hammers.

When Zhong Ji broke up the plan and told it to Su You, Su You was really stupid and joined the cursed group, muttering: "This stupid Zhang Zhuangyuan... I know he has a dark heart.

I really didn’t know it was so dark...I’m really going to be super cool now..."

For Zhang Kai in real history, the Song Dynasty was not able to provide him with such a magnificent stage. The Song army in history was so poor that it even made Empress Dowager Xiaoliang's hundreds of thousands of troops come in excitement, crying and shouting in a hurry.

fled home.

It has always been about defeating more with less, it has always been a tough fight, there has always been an endless stream of conspiracies, there has always been ambush and sneak attack, ambush and sneak attack again.

But this straight bitch still succeeds every time!
Chapter completed!