"Taibao, you shouted out the strongest voice of the Song Dynasty." Zhang Dun said.

In front of the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, he shouted out to see who this world is. Wang Ju was the number one person in the Song Dynasty.

The two envoys of Liao Kingdom almost died. If it were the past, they would immediately say that we would not dare to send troops seriously? At least the army gathered on the border to scare these southern barbarians!

But now the Liao Kingdom is restrained by the group of Jurchens in Liaodong. They have trouble saying that they dare to use troops to the Song Dynasty?

However, the Song Dynasty handed over the reign of the people of many times to protect the whole country, which was indeed a way to give the people of Liao. Later, the Song Dynasty took out a lot of seeds of miscellaneous grains. Although the focus of these miscellaneous grains promotion is in Shaanxi, it has also begun to promote them in Hebei and Hedong. After hearing about it, the Liao Dynasty secretly sent scouts to inquire. The yield was indeed very high, and most of them were drought-resistant crops. The king and ministers of the Liao Dynasty were a little moved.

So the two Liao envoys took the steps to avoid talking about this matter and returned to the Liao Kingdom with some miscellaneous grain seeds and Renduobaozhong.

Wang Judao: "Don't worry about the Liao Kingdom. They used to be a tiger, but now they are paper tigers, and they can be broken with one poked."

The Liao Kingdom is not a paper tiger, at least it can be considered a slightly thin camel. If the Liao Kingdom was a paper tiger, Wang Ju is also a paper tiger now. The Liao Kingdom really sent troops, would Wang Ju really appease Aligu and give up Huangzhou? He would not recover Xixia, but fight to the death with the Liao Kingdom?

That is impossible.

So it depends on who scares whom.

Wang Ju said this to comfort everyone. What should we do? Everyone has a mysterious fear of Liao. This disease must be cured! He left Xuande Gate with the sending of the king and his ministers. This time he did not leave like a thief last time, and the people in the capital also adapted. At least they would not cross the road to see him off. Some people stood by the roadside to recognize Wang Ju's family and waved to the lord, but there was no need to avoid suspicion.

With the arrival of spring, the Song Dynasty continued to develop... It was continuing to develop, and it did not affect the rear due to large-scale wars on the front line!

However, starting this year, it will affect the rear, but it is also rare.

The first fleet arrived on the other side, which was a fleet to the Dashi side. They brought back a large amount of gold and silver and completely repaid the original IOU. The injection of this batch of funds also brought positive help to the economic development of the Song Dynasty, but few ministers could see it.

What they saw was gold and silver. Now this gold and silver are so important, which is related to the entire banking department. With the arrival of this batch of gold and silver, the price of gold gradually stabilized. But some people were careful and still saw the sequelae of overdraft mentioned by Wang Ju, that is, the number of ships on the other side has decreased this year and the number of buyers has decreased. But it doesn’t matter to the other side. It just takes out the ships and carries the people to the other side further east. After several years of conquest and reclamation, it is time for large-scale immigration.

Then the fleets on the other side arrived one after another, and the number became much smaller. However, this year, the fleet on the other side brought more than a dozen seeds or seedlings of fruit trees and vegetables, most of which were only suitable for planting in the south, but the south was also the territory of the Song Dynasty. Wang Ju also explained its significance. Most of these are not food, but every time they came out, they were actually equivalent to creating an industry.

But there is one thing that Wang Ju prohibits from bringing it here, that is tobacco.

More people migrated, many crops, fruits and vegetables that were not found in the Song Dynasty, tobacco, and even people began to plant there.

After Wang Ju learned about it, he was stunned for a long time. Finally, he said, just plant it. Anyway, it is impossible to ban people from learning from the local natives to smoke it. It is not allowed to transplant it. However, after planting it, the tobacco leaves can be dried and seen if it can be sold to Dashi Tianzhu. However, Wang Ju also knew that it was in vain. As long as this thing was found, it would spread quickly.

And the fine lint cotton he wanted most has not yet fallen.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation. Clothing is still in front of food. It not only covers the body's shame and ugliness, but also is very important. It has become one of the differences between humans and animals, but also blocks the cold. Even in the Song Dynasty, there are much more people in the north who freeze to death every year than those who starve to death.

Although coarse velvet cotton has been promoted to the Yangtze River area, its yield is low, with more cotton seeds and short cotton fibers. If it weren't for the high cotton price now, Wang Ju directly promoted the most advanced planting methods. In later generations, with this inefficient cotton seed, cotton farmers might not have enough time to cry.

Moreover, the price of cotton has always been very high, which also means that it cannot benefit all people.

But several years have passed and there has been no news.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Wang Juji. Its origin is indeed in North America, but it is located in the highlands in southern Mexico and on the Caribbean islands.

Mexico now has a powerful country over there, and the other side is avoided.

The Caribbean islands are on the east side and have never set foot on the other side, so wherever you go, even if you find the lower Mississippi River, you will not be able to find this new cotton seed.

But it's soon.

Tao Qing once proposed to open a canal in the slender bay area.

This difficulty is not very high. It is not like the Panama Canal in later generations. It must require giant ships to sail. Now it requires only one or two thousand tons of sea ships to sail. The length is still the same, but the width and depth requirements have all been reduced several times.

Tao Qing made this request, not because he was very happy to be successful, but because the west side of the two large blocks is mostly mountainous areas. If you want a fertile plain, you must bring the people to the east of the two continents. Although some areas on the east side are vast jungles, such as the biggest terrifying tropical rainforest, you can only be afraid, but there are no problems in the remaining areas. Terraces rise from the mountains and lakes and swamps turn into fertile soil, which is the most special show for the people of the Song Dynasty today.

But if you want to reach the East Coast, you must remain navigable.

However, Wang Ju did not agree. Even a small and medium-sized canal would require an astonishing number of labor and money. So last year, Wang Ju asked Jia to bring a letter there, but he could build a road in a safe and delicate place, then build a dock there, and then build some ships there, and send a few people to explore first. After all, the number of people on the other side is still too small, so there is no need to occupy such a large territory immediately.

If this move is successful, you will inevitably pass through some islands, and you will be able to find the cotton seeds that Wang Ju wants.

But only Wang Ju knew the effect of fine lint cotton.

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty thought that Wang Ju made mistakes in judgment. After all, most of these were Wang Ju’s “hearsal”. Even if there were mistakes, it was not surprising. Moreover, the promotion of lint cotton at the moment has already made everyone very satisfied.

Wang Ju put down Feishu in disappointment and said to Wang Zichuan: "Go and invite General Zhong."

After Wang Ju returned to Huangzhou, he did not immediately use troops due to the threat of the Liao Kingdom.

The reason is in Yanhe Palace. Wang Ju also told Zhao Xu and several prime ministers that the first is a climate factor. The Huangzhou area is colder than the east. Even in spring, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, which is not conducive to the Song army's marching and fighting, and it is delayed until early summer. The climate can adapt and time is still in time.

Secondly, we have to wait for the Xixia to recover our vitality... At that time, Wang Ju said this, and several prime ministers were stunned.

Then Wang Ju explained the reason. Last year, he suffered a series of defeats, and the prestige of the Liang family fell, and the opposition was strong. It seemed that this was beneficial to the Song Dynasty, but Xixia was different from Tubo, and they had already established a national name. Daxia had an orthodox position in their hearts. Therefore, once the Song Dynasty officially launched the war to destroy the country, all contradictions would disappear, and a rope would be twisted. Of course, no matter how they twisted it, it was not comparable to the attack on Xia in the past few years. However, the war was delayed and the Khitans would intervene. This was what Wang Ju didn't want to see the least.

Therefore, the front line continued to attack the shallow attack and the middle attack, and first released Renduo Baozhong. The two Liao envoys took him to the Liao Kingdom, and believed that they would immediately send him a war horse and let him return to Xixia. Once Renduo Baozhong returned to Xixia, he had a good relationship with the Liang family. Now that he had a grudge to kill his father, he would definitely further support Liang Yibi, and under his temptation, Xixia would continue to get into evil with the Song Dynasty.

As long as you continue to engage in evil, fighter opportunities will continue to arise.

Moreover, Liang Yifu of the Western Xia Dynasty received the support of the Renduo family and his strength would further thrive. After the Song army occupied Shizhou in Yinzhou last year, the retreat of the main fortune would make Liang Yibu feel some illusion. Although the Liang family was a Han Chinese, they were all war madmen from men to women!

With a little use, war will continue to break out on the border.

Although the territory was not conducive to the Song Dynasty, it was only at the border. After scouts, the terrain was at least familiar with the terrain. In other words, there would be no big loss in the territory.

After a continuous defeat, the people of Xixia lived a miserable life last year. Although Xia Shiyin was the old nest of Xixia, after the Song army retreated, Xixia had to appease the people, but because the cattle and sheep were kidnapped by the Song army, the crops harvested in autumn were also cut off as green feed in advance. Xixia could not distribute much food and grass to provide relief. So since last winter, many people have dug grass roots, peeled tree bark, and found mice to fill their hunger.

In fact, this spring is even worse, and many people have started to eat Guanyin soil again.

But on the other hand, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment in the Song Dynasty, so at least they were at the border, and people and Shangxixia did not have any advantages.

At the end of the fight, Xixia asked their godfather for help again, but only the Song Dynasty did not take action first, Liao envoys still couldn't tell why.

Then in the next year, it will be easier to capture Xixia. If the Liao Kingdom wants to send troops, it will be dispatched.

After repeated great victory, Wang Ju also wanted to compete with Liao Guoxiao.

That is, he gave Liang Yibi the time to "restore" the vitality of Xixia, and gave him more time to gather troops, and tried every means to further damage the border.

If you have lost to a certain extent, the people can't even eat, so how can you care about the country name?

It takes time for Hehuang to arrive in Huangzhou. The Tubo people here cannot be so close to the Song Dynasty. No one even knows very well, only knowing that there is a country called the Song Dynasty in the east.

This kind of human intention is not very beneficial to the later actions of the Song army.

Although Wang Ju gathered leaders of various ethnic groups twice and promoted his ethnic policies, the effect was not too great.

So after Wang Ju came back, he asked all ethnic groups to take out their products, organize them into caravans, join forces, and go to Gongzhou to trade with Qinzhou. It was a little better in Xizhou, especially from Hezhou to the west to the south, many tribes were seriously lacking in supplies from various tribes, which was inevitable. What was the handicraft industry as developed as the Song Dynasty? But their products were mostly fur and livestock, which was the most popular commercial goods in the Song Dynasty.

There were transactions before, but the transactions were still a little smoother across the two countries. Therefore, Wang Ju did this and benefited many tribes. Wang Ju even invited some bold merchants from Qinzhou and brought the merchant goods directly to various tribes to conduct direct transactions with the people.

This is also the precautions that Wang Ju repeatedly reminded. It can benefit these foreign barbarians, but not only some leaders, but also benefit the entire barbarian tribes. This is the correct way to prevent the barbarian tribes from rebelling.

With some other policies and means, most of the tribes became stable.

This is the best demonstration.

Finally, it takes some time to select some smart people from the tribes in Huangzhou as envoys, secretly sneaking to Qingtang City and Guzhou to lobby against each tribe.

We don’t expect them to betray Aligu immediately and join forces with the Song Dynasty to wipe out Aligu. All we need is a statement.

This move is also very useful. These envoys are all Tubo people. Killing means not being able to kill, that is, killing. People say it was forced by the Song army, so how can they be killed?

If not killed, some tribes agree to surrender to the Song Dynasty. If some tribes do not agree to surrender to the Song Dynasty, there will be disagreements among tribes, and even disputes and divisions will arise within the same tribe. This situation of non-condensation is exactly what Wang Ju wants.

This approach may be what grandson Ma Su Luo Guanzhong said, attacking the heart is the best and attacking the city is the best. Moreover, this approach will force something to happen, and Aligu will join forces with Xixia to keep warm... This is also beneficial to the Song Dynasty. So it has been constantly reversing in the past few months, and several prime ministers and Zhao Xu were stunned.

Of course, it was still at the end of last year. It was just a rough plan, and the plan would continue to adjust as the situation changes. However, by late April, the layout was almost completed.

Therefore, Wang Ju called Zhongyi, and the future Huangzhou Road Pacification and Strategic Envoy is Zhongyi.

This official position is very important, especially in the past few years. The candidates must be very capable of fighting. If they cannot fight, they cannot intimidate and deal with rebellions in a timely manner. Not only can they fight, but they cannot be too selfish. They have a view of the overall situation.

It is not only Zhong Yi that meets this requirement, such as Yao Xiong, Yao Yi, Lin Guang, Zhe Keshi, etc., but Zhong Yi has been in Minzhou for a long time and has been dealing with these Qian and Qiang people for many years. Therefore, among these people, Zhong Yi is undoubtedly the most suitable.

So at Wang Ju's suggestion, the court changed to the prefect of Minzhou. Zhong Yi was appointed as Wang Ju's assistant, and then transferred to Wang Ju's side, and started to hone his skills from now on.

After a while, Zhong Yi brought him over.

Wang Ju asked: "How is the situation in Guzhou?"

"Miaolong, plundering, Luo Shi's army order, Lu Zun, Xidingpu Linggu all expressed that they would not support Aligu, but they said that they would not cooperate with our dynasty to deal with the Tubo people themselves. I hope Taibao would understand."

"Not supporting Aligu is actually equivalent to supporting our army."

"Yeah," Zong Yi nodded. Even if they sent troops, the Song army might not be relieved.

He said again: "But the Qingdan Valley tribe is very tough. Maybe they are on the verge of being strong. In addition, Aligu has stationed some troops and settled in Qingdan Valley..."

Qingdan Valley is not a place to practice Qingdan. It is translated from the homonym of the locals.

It is located thirty or forty miles west of Dangcheng, which Wang Ju took last year, and is an important gateway to Guzhou. It faces the Yellow River, but this section of the Yellow River is very dangerous and has many stone beaches, which is difficult to cross the river.

Behind it is the tall mountain range extending along Laji Mountain. It leans against the water next to the mountain. Although the valley is large, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As the Qingdan Valley tribe gradually becomes stronger, it has become one of the top tribes in Guzhou (its location is about the beach valley opposite Xunhua County).

Zhong Yi might mean the threat from the garrison of Aligu. Qingdangu tribe did not dare to make any promises, so he had to reject the envoy sent by Wang Ju in a tough tone.

Wang Ju pressed his hand and said, "Okay, that's them."

To manage this area, carrots are necessary, and Wang Ju sincerely gave many carrots, including withdrawing a lot of money from the tight money to build roads, open up trade routes, improve its closed living environment, and also bringing many excellent grass seeds, allowing the various departments to sow and increase the income of the animal husbandry.

But a big stick is also a must.

Guzhou chose this Qingdan Valley and waved its big stick.

Wang Ju handed over the military affairs of Huangzhou to Wang Guangzu and Guo Jingxiu. It was not that these two people were the best at fighting, but that these two people were the oldest, had a steady personality, and would not delay major events due to impatientness.

Then he led the three armies to slowly head towards the city.
To be continued...