Chapter 640

It was also a great achievement to be able to safely escort the important prisoners of war in Xixia, such as Xiao Liang, and Bianliang. Another big problem is that Wang Yang and Wang Wushan's courage was so great that Ma Shang was uncomfortable.

He was afraid that he would be dragged by Wang Yang to play a game of dancing on the edge of a knife after staying in the northwest border. Therefore, after hearing Wang Yang's invitation, Ma Shang firmly expressed his responsibility to take on the heavy responsibility of escorting prisoners of war back to Tokyo Bianliang.

Yanci rejected Wang Yang's kind invitation. Now it seems that there is always a sense of loss and annoyance called missing opportunities.

"This credit is no less than the victory in Hongdezhai's battle..." Ma Shang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. In Hongdezhai's battle, he swept away the elite troops of Xixia, killed more than 13,000 enemies, captured more than 42,000 enemies, and captured Xiao Liang. After capturing Xiao Liang, Fei Tingsidi, Wei Mingdang and other Western Xia bosses.

This has already made the Song Dynasty celebrate the whole country, from the court to the people, and it is very exciting. Now, it is said that the Western Xia Prime Minister Liang Yibu led a 100,000 Xixia army to surrender, and he also won the extremely important financial place of Western Xia, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou and Hongzhou.

This achievement is no less than the first victory. What is important is that the battle of Hongdezhai caused Xixia's morale to plummet and suffered heavy losses.

After this battle, Liang Yibi led a 100,000 troops to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and then lost the Jianing Army and Yanzhou. For the Western Xia, it was definitely a trauma, especially Yanzhou, which was located in a critical situation, and there were more than 20 salt lakes of all sizes in its territory.

The salt produced is not only of high quality, but also of large quantity. In the past, the Western Xia country relied on the salt of Yanzhou, and even smuggled a large amount of money into the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, the salt in Yanzhou is of high quality and deliciousness. The best Yanzhou salt is blue and white in color, called green salt, and the price of smuggling even reached three jin per kilogram.

If the green salt could be transported to a place like Tokyo Bianliang, even if there were a large number of wealthy businessmen who had bought it for five stakes, they were proud of using green salt.

The salt production in Yanzhou reaches at least 500,000 dan a year. Green salt alone accounts for 30% of its output. The cost of one pound is probably less than five cents, but it is sold at such an outrageous price. This is why the Song Dynasty was always very worried about the land of Yanzhou, which originally belonged to the Song Dynasty, being captured by the Western Xia. After sending troops several attacks, they always had to fail and return.

Even though the Song Dynasty cracked down on private salt transactions many times, it was repeatedly banned, so that some officials who were obsessed with interests secretly colluded with merchants to smuggle. Now that Yanzhou has obtained it, it not only solved the problem of salt-free in the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty, but also caused the Western Xia to lose the largest and best salt-producing area.

In addition, the Prime Minister of Liang led a 100,000 troops to surrender to the Song Dynasty, which was even more than the total number of Xixia troops destroyed by Hongdezhai. Xixia was originally a few major generals, but now there were 160,000 or 70,000 troops at once, and one was rising and the other was getting worse. Even Ma Shang wanted to run back immediately and join the great cause of continuing to fight against Xixia.

Maybe with the blessing star of the Song Dynasty, Wang Wushan, it would be no dream to pacify the Western Xia country.

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In Tokyo Bianliang, in the palace, Zhao Xu, who had been married for a while, was now leaning comfortably on a soft couch, holding a book that was obviously a handwritten copy in his hand, reading with relish.

Next to it was the newlywed Empress Meng, who had just married the emperor, leaning against Zhao Xu. As for the enthusiastic emperor, Empress Meng's pretty face had already become tired, but she was still energetic and looked at the patterns and formulas that made her confused and seemed a little simple to describe.

Empress Meng believed that she was quite confident in literature, and even mathematics was very clear, but for example, this book "Basic Physics" written by Wang Wushan to His Majesty's younger brother, His Highness Duan, was really confused.

Many of the truths, or many problems, really make Queen Meng a little confused, but she seems to feel very powerful, um... Her Highness at this moment is in a state of uncertainty.

At this moment, a crisp sound of whipping came from outside the closed door. Zhao Xu was shocked to realize that it was already three times.

Seeing the tired look in her arms, Empress Meng couldn't help but kiss her forehead with heartache. "Zi Tong is sleepy, blame me, I accidentally saw it so late."

"Your Majesty, if you want to blame, you can only blame Mr. Wushan for writing a book that suits your appetite, which makes Your Majesty forget to eat and sleep." Meng couldn't help but smile.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but be happy and laughed out loud. "Zi Tong's words are reasonable. If I don't read Wang Wushan's books, I really don't know. It turns out that even the falling speed of objects will have their own principles, and the principle of leverage..."

Just as Zhao Xu explained to his queen the contents of the book Wang Wushan wrote to His Highness Duan, he heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside, and then stopped outside the door. Only then did someone ask carefully. "Your Majesty?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help frowning, glanced at Empress Meng who had already sat upright, and shouted in displeasure. "Is there anything wrong?"

"Your Majesty, the 800-li emergency news from Shaanxi North Road has entered the palace..."

"Eight hundred miles of quick news?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. The displeasure in his heart had just flew 108,000 miles away. He lifted his front and lowered his soft couch, and walked to the door with big strides.

Meng looked at the anxious emperor and couldn't help but smile gently, walked aside, picked up the thick and warm fur and put it on Zhao Xu's body.

Zhao Xu nodded to Meng, couldn't wait to receive the good news from the eunuch, then walked into the room and looked carefully under the lights, and couldn't help but take a breath. "This, this is too unbelievable, right?"

"What's wrong with Your Majesty?" Hearing Zhao Xu's seemingly exaggerated low voice, Meng couldn't help but subconsciously step forward and ask.

"The Prime Minister of Western Xia, Liang Yibi, led a 100,000 troops to surrender to our Song Dynasty, and sacrificed the land of the two states of the Jianing Army. Zhe Kexing led his army to attack Yanzhou at night. Zhe Keshi fought with Wangwushan and did his best, killing more than 6,000 enemies, capturing nearly 5,000 enemies, and taking the land of Yanzhou. Now, except for the ancient city of Wuyan, there are still 50,000 Western Xia soldiers and horses trapped the lonely city, the rest of the territory of the Jianing Army has returned to our Song Dynasty..."

"What is important is that the 100,000 troops in Xixia will be returned to our Song Dynasty, plus the more than 10,000 troops lost in the offensive and defensive battles in Huanzhou, nearly 60,000 troops in Hongdezhai, and the lost troops in Yanzhou, plus the 100,000 troops who have now surrendered to our Song Dynasty with Liang Yibu, and Liang Yibu, who held high the righteous flag and drove out the stubborn enemies in Xixia..."
Chapter completed!