Chapter 278: The most handsome boy from a famous school
When veteran Guo Cheng faced Han Shizhong’s reasonable proposal, he smiled and said:
"The good minister's considerations are very thorough, and I agree."
According to the agreement between Guo Cheng and Han Shizhong, Guo Cheng ordered people to keep several large ships equipped with gunpowder weapons that Han Shizhong wanted.
Veteran general Guo Cheng, envoy Zhang Jun, as well as Yue Fei and other martial arts scholars, accompanied by Han Shizhong, reviewed the soldiers and generals under Han Shizhong's command...
Afterwards, Guo Cheng and Han Shizhong discussed matters such as the time for both sides to send troops...
Finally, Guo Cheng led his envoy Zhang Jun, Wu Jinshi Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Yang Zaixing and more than a hundred people to board the ship and leave Qingzhou where Han Shizhong's troops were based...
Three days later, the veteran general Guo Cheng, who returned to the Weizhou garrison, issued a military order to mobilize a total of 60,000 elite troops from various departments of the northwest army on Jingyuan Road under his jurisdiction to the [Zhejianghui] on the northwest border of the Song Dynasty, which borders the Xia Kingdom.
The area secretly transported troops, assembled, and prepared to attack the Mengjing area of Xixia.
At the same time, Guo Cheng sent four groups of envoys on fast horses to bring back four imperial edicts from the capital, and sent them to Zhong Shidao Department, Liu Yanqing Department, Zhe Keqiu Zhejia Army, and Xihe Jinglue of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty.
Envoy Yao Gu.
The general contents of these four imperial edicts written by the Zhao Guan family are to require the Shidao Department, Liu Yanqing Department, the Zhe Keqiu Zhejia Army, and Yao Gu's Department to not only guard the northwest border gates they guard, but also do a good job
War preparations, a war is about to break out between Song and Xia...
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When everything was ready, veteran general Guo Cheng led his 20,000 troops out of Weizhou and rushed toward Zhejianghui on the northwest border.
Guo Cheng mobilized 40,000 soldiers and horses from the area under the jurisdiction of Jingyuan Road, and also gathered from the states on Jingyuan Road near the border between Song and Xia [Zhejianghui]...
During the Northern Song Dynasty, many place names with the word "Hui" appeared in the border areas between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, mainly on the border of Xixia Kingdom.
For example, Guo Cheng selected the Zhejiang Hui on the northwest border of Song and Xia.
Places like Zhejianghui were used by the Xixia Kingdom as military fortresses during the war; and after the Song-Xia peace talks, during the confrontation, the place names with the word "Hui" were Heshi.
Heshi like [Zhejianghui], when there was no war between Song and Xia, merchants from both countries could freely enter and exit and conduct trade there.
Now, it is the third year of Xuanhe. It has been more than two years since the Song and Xia countries ceased war and negotiated peace under the auspices of the Liao State during the Xuanhe Year.
Now Zhejiang Hui has become a place with a large trading volume among the many war markets in Song and Xia.
In fact, there were three main legal forms of trade between the Song and Xia countries: tribute trade, market trade, and market trade.
The tributary trade mainly involved Xixia sending horses, camels and other items as tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty rewarded them with silver, tea and other items.
On the border between the Song Dynasty and Xia Dynasty, the Song Dynasty opened qingqiang; only the border areas within the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty set up qingqiang;
On the border between Xixia and the Song Dynasty, there was a trade center called Heshi, such as [Zhejianghui].
The market was in the border city of the Song Dynasty, and the city like [Hui] was on the border of the Xixia Kingdom.
In fact, Ganchang and Heshi were both places where merchants from the Song and Xia countries could conduct free trade during peacetime.
However, when negotiating peace between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, they stipulated that the Song Dynasty was the king and Xixia was the minister.
Therefore, Qianchang is the name of the Song Dynasty where people were obsessed with saving face;
Heshi is the name that the Song Dynasty considered Xixia to be a vassal state.
When the Song and Xia were negotiating peace, they discussed this: Xixia could only set up a peace market, but not a reciprocal settlement market.
Now, the veteran Guo Cheng is very troubled. The Song and Xia countries have negotiated a peace and ceased war for more than two years. How can he become famous?
He opened the first tip bag given to him by Zhao Guan's family and saw that it read:
"If the name is not right, then the words will not go smoothly, and if the words are not right, the things will not be accomplished. Therefore, the Song Dynasty must have a famous teacher."
After Guo Cheng read the first paragraph written by Zhao Guanjia on the note in the kit, he nodded with deep understanding.
He knew that Zhao Guanjia emphasized the importance of a famous division. This was because if the division was unknown, the general would not be able to better mobilize his soldiers to fight bravely, and he would also be morally passive.
Guo Cheng continued to look down,
"If Guo Aiqing is suffering from the unknown teacher, you can try the plan I devised:
Send several Wu Jinshi to disguise themselves as merchants of the Song Dynasty, load many carts of gold and silver, enter the Xixia Kingdom and the city, swagger through the market, ask for horses with a lot of gold, and lure the Xia army to snatch them. Then we, the Song Dynasty, can send troops to attack Xia.
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After Guo Cheng read Zhao Guan's first clever plan, he praised it again and again.
Guo Cheng knew the Dangxiang people of Xixia very well. The Dangxiang people were fond of wealth and trustworthy. Even though they brought several carts of gold and silver into the Xixia Kingdom and the city, they still asked to buy horses that were included in the prohibited trade in the city.
Then, the Xixia soldiers in the city will be jealous when they see money, and they will be greedy and greedy.
The Zhao Guan family appointed several Wu Jinshi who followed him to the northwest to disguise themselves as wealthy businessmen and enter Heshi. This made Guo Cheng admire the Zhao Guan family for their thoughtfulness.
If soldiers from the Northwestern Army of the Song Dynasty are sent to disguise themselves as businessmen, no matter their words, demeanor, veteran temperament, or their dark faces that have been exposed to wind and sun for a long time, they will make the party soldiers in Xixia Kingdom and the city suspicious, and they will
There will be some scruples.
Even the year before last and the year before that, Song and Xia were still at war. Many soldiers from Song and Xia had fought against each other on the battlefield and had seen each other's appearance at close range; if the soldiers and generals in the northwest army were
When wealthy businessmen dressed as overseas Chinese enter Xixia Guohe City, it is easy for them to become gangsters.
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Guo Cheng summoned Wu Jinshi Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yang Zaixing into the Chinese army's tent. He handed Zhao Guan's family's tips and tricks to the three of them to watch.
Wu Jie, Wu Lin and Yang Zaixing immediately understood and asked for instructions to act on the Zhao Guan family's clever plan...
Veteran Guo Chengdao said: "Yang Zaixing was young and fair-looking. He pretended to be a wealthy young man who came from the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty to the northwest to buy hundreds of good horses with a lot of money."
Yang Zaixing, who is seventeen years old this year, happily accepted the order and said: "Thank you, General Guo, I will definitely complete this job!"
Guo Cheng looked at 28-year-old Wu Jie and 19-year-old Wu Lin again and said:
"Although you two are also new martial arts scholars, you two served in the army before taking the martial arts examination, and you have a certain martial spirit in your body. It is not easy to pretend to be wealthy businessmen.
Wu Jie and Wu Lin, your two brothers, pretend to be the personal bodyguards of the wealthy young man Yang Zaixing!"
Wu Jie and Wu Lin obeyed the order.
Guo Cheng appointed another twenty Wu Jinshi, who pretended to be Yang Zaixing's followers.
He also allocated military funds from the military camp and loaded them on four bullock carts.
Guo Cheng found a scribe in the army who was familiar with the Western Xia Dangxiang script. On the big flag, he wrote in big characters in Dangxiang script and Chinese: Thousands of gold to buy a good horse!
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The next morning, a Song caravan consisting of more than 20 people appeared on the street of Zhejianghui, Heshi, a city in Xixia Kingdom adjacent to the northwest border of the Song Dynasty.
This caravan escorted five oxcarts, each of which was filled with shiny silver.
They swaggered through the market, and when they met a merchant, they asked: Where can they buy good horses...
They have undoubtedly become the most attractive group of boys on the Heshi Street of Xixia Zhejiang Club...