Chapter 647

Zhao Xu's sharp eagle eyes swept across the civil and military ministers who were lying on the ground in front of him. He saw Gao Taotao's encouraging eyes beside him, cleared his throat and began to say loudly.

"Your families, this year is the tenth year of Yuanyou and the first year of my rule. Now, my great Song Hu Ben is so brave and courageous, and it is worthy of being the cornerstone of my great Song Dynasty's solidarity and defense of the country and the border..."

"... Since the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the princes seized the people as soldiers. In order to prevent the soldiers who were forced to flee, the innocent people were tattooed with their faces to prevent them from escaping. And our Song Dynasty was the lord of the world and had always ruled the country with benevolence and righteousness..."

With Zhao Xu's orderly explanation, the final sentence was that from the New Year's Day of the 10th year of Yuanyou, the Song Dynasty's military will no longer continue to carry out the procedures of tattooing and tattooing when recruiting soldiers.

After hearing this news, the ministers present, especially the generals, loudly praised the wise and loving spirit of the Emperor of Song Dynasty.

With the good news on Shaanxi Road and the arrival of the prisoner-of-war team, and the emperor issued an edict to abolish the soldiers' face-tatting pain. The New Year's Day ceremony in the tenth year of Yuanyou made the entire Tokyo Bianliang fall into a carnival.

The proud and proud of the Ganggang, although the Song Dynasty has been very prosperous and prosperous for many years, its military power seems to be insufficient. The Northern Expeditions ended in failure.

Even the small Western Xia could jump up and down in front of the Song Dynasty, causing the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty to lose land. In the end, they could only give annual monies to spend money to buy peace.

Even so, the border was still in constant trouble, and the Song Dynasty could only take a defensive defensive position, whether facing the Northern Liao in the north or the weak Xixia.

It took decades to recover some territory with the water milling effort, but overall, there was not much progress. What's more, the previous battle in Yongle City almost extinguished the Song Dynasty's desire to advance north.

Now, after the literary and elegant scholar Su became the Shaanxi Road Strategy and Pacification Envoy, the army of the Song Dynasty suddenly seemed to have changed. It can be said that he won consecutive battles. Think about it, and then he encircled and suppressed 60,000 to 70,000 elite troops from Xixia.

The Empress Dowager of Xixia also captured many important officials. Now he directly seized Yanzhou, Youzhou and Hongzhou in a flash, which made the prime minister of Xixia have to lean over and lead a 100,000 Xixia army to surrender.

Such good news is really arousing the spirit of the people. It can definitely make everyone eat at least one or two more bowls of rice for a meal.

What is important is that no matter the battle at Hongdezhai or the persuasion of the prime minister of Liang in the Western Xia, the light of Wushan, the leader of Wen Zhuang in the ninth year of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty, could not be concealed by anyone.

His talent was even called by Su Dongpo and Su Da Wenhao as being able to stay at his right foot, and his strategy was even more elusive, no less than that of Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty.

The names of Su Dongpo, Han Zhongyan, Wang Wushan, Zhang Shidao, Zhong Shidao, Zhe Keshi, Zhe Kexing, Ma Shang and other meritorious ministers are even more familiar to people.

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The next day, the emperor personally offered prisoners to the ancestral temple to comfort the ancestors and let the ancestors who were already under the nine springs and above the nine heavens see that your descendants are very successful and give you a strong breath. Even the Empress Dowager of Xixia was captured by our Song Dynasty Tiger Ben.

However, when this good news spread in the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty, the envoys of the countries who stayed in Tokyo Bianliang could not help but feel panicked. Even the envoys of Northern Liao could not help but feel frightened and angry at this moment.

Before, I thought that the Western Xia was too careless and arrogant, so that it was a loss of troops and generals. As for the queen Xiao Liang who was captured by the Song Dynasty, as long as the Western Xia could afford a sufficient price, then the Northern Liao Dynasty could fight against the Song Dynasty.

But I never expected that the Song Dynasty would win again. This time it was not within the territory of the Song Dynasty, but the Song army took the initiative to attack and seized the three states of Western Xia.

The southern border of Western Xia was almost divided into two parts, and the army of the Song Dynasty was less than 500 miles away from Xingqing Prefecture, the hinterland of Western Xia.

After confirming the authenticity of these news, the Northern Liao envoy already knew that these things were no longer something he could make decisions, and immediately sent a Kuaima messenger to the Northern Liao.

The successive victory of the Song Dynasty against the Western Xia also caused many small countries that were originally near the Xixia area to be controlled by the Western Xia to start to move.

After the New Year's Day ceremony, there is a ten-day rest day, but not everyone has the time and opportunity to rest.

After the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao discussed with Zhao Xu, she decided to agree with Wang Yang's suggestion to the Emperor of Song to ensure the production of Yuan Youjia in the Song Dynasty.

Another thing is that the scale of the arsenal workshops in various prefectures in the Song Dynasty can be gradually reduced. In the future, the arsenal workshops in the Song Dynasty will be gradually retained only in Tokyo Bianliang.

In addition, the production of Yuanyou crossbow must ensure at least 10,000 per month production speed, and no longer-range weapons with divine arm crossbows and various other ranges and strengths are inferior to Yuanyou crossbows.

In this way, the universality of the crossbow arms and crossbow bodies of the Song Dynasty was ensured, without the damage of one crossbow arms and the other, but due to the model difference, the disadvantage of combining it into a weapon that continues to shoot is not allowed.

Of course, bows will continue to be produced. After all, bows are more for civilian purposes than military purposes. After all, the long-range weapons used in the Song Dynasty army are more for crossbows, and bows only account for less than one-third.

In his separate memorials, Wang Yang mentioned repeatedly that the Song Dynasty should keep gunpowder weapons confidential and prevent such weapons that were far more advanced than bows and crossbows from being mastered by the Northern Liao and Western Xia.

In addition, the danger of gunpowder weapons is ultimately built again, and an army needs to be sent to guard them closely.

Although the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao disagreed, fortunately, Zhao Xu, the Emperor of Song Dynasty, had already regarded Wang Wushan as a god and was very superstitious about this guy's words and deeds.

To this end, Zhao Xu specially ordered a remote place to re-establish a gunpowder weapon production workshop in the east of Bianliang City in Tokyo. He also specially sent a thousand imperial guards to guard them closely, and handed over the supervision burden of the gunpowder weapon production workshop to Zhao Ji, who is now in charge of the military weapon supervision workshop, who is now in charge of Wang Wushan's military weapon supervision and crossbow workshop.

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After Su Dongpo sent out the news, Zhang Feng moved his command post forward and rushed to Yanzhou, a northwest salt-producing area that had finally been recaptured, to take charge. Han Zhongyu was in Hongzhou, the Jianing Military Office, and Zhong Shidao was in charge of Youzhou.

When Zhe Kexing was in charge of 30,000 elite cavalry cruising and responding. As for the ancient city of Wuyan, it continued to bomb regularly every quarter of an hour a day.
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