Chapter 1,304 Huntuo

Fan Chunchun said: "Since Mingrun knows it now, there must be a solution. Another thing is that after the boundaries of the three routes have been determined, although the divisions of each route have been clearly defined, they still belong to the war zone after all.

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"Therefore, it is advisable for all the armies to establish a strategy to support and contain the enemy. Otherwise, the Xia soldiers will attack me all the way and I will be invincible, while the neighboring people will just sit back and watch. Those who do not pull out will be lucky."

Su You said: "This problem does exist. By the way, Lu Huiqing seemed to have mentioned this before sending troops."

Fan Chunchun said: "Yes, it was later decided by Xu Xi, but I think Lu Huiqing's proposal is more appropriate."

"Xu Xi's planning to separate and defend the military forces in various regions is meritorious, but this does not mean that the military forces in various regions are only divided to defend the territory, and have no responsibility for coordinating and rescuing neighboring roads."

Su You nodded: "I will take a look at Lu Gong's policies when I get back. This reminder is also timely."

Su You was impressed by Fan Chun's ability to consider issues from the perspective of national interests and abandon the prejudices between factions.

This is a huge progress for conservatives, and it is not easy.

Seeing that Su You was seriously considering his suggestions, Fan Chunchu felt very comfortable: "There is one last thing, which is the governance of the newly acquired land."

"The national law firmly allows people to be admitted to offices, but their rational selection is not allowed."

"Today, on the third northwest road, there is a promise of 3,200 yuan to buy a vegetarian and 4,600 yuan to buy an offering. This road is originally a bad government policy of the imperial court. It has been around for a long time and is nothing. However, it is not advisable to be exempted from the examination and registered as an official.

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"The scholar-bureaucrats in the world work hard even to the point of dying, but do not benefit from the world's favor. Rich people and cunning businessmen can donate tens of millions of dollars to appoint three sons. It is purely because the imperial court cherishes them."

Su You took a sip of the wine in his glass: "This one... To be honest, it's difficult to handle."

"According to my original intention, isn't the problem of redundant officials serious in the Song Dynasty? Now that there is a new third road, some of these officials to be elected can always be placed. At least the problem of redundant officials in Shaanxi and other roads can be solved, right?"

"But what's the result? Most of those people are not willing to come to Shanbei Third Road. To solve the administrative problems of Third Road, they must either rely on local demotions or rely on Tibetan officials and chiefs. The only ones who dare to come here are those

Merchant."

"If even the merchant road is cut off, then when will the three roads be able to enter China?"

Fan Chunchun worriedly said: "These officials are known for their performance, won't they plunder it from the people?"

Su You said: "So if we want to change the performance appraisal system for officials, we can't be like Wu Juhou, who collects more taxes and get promoted. Instead, we must include the living standards of local people in the performance appraisal."

Fan Chunren smiled bitterly: "'The barbarians have taken it upon themselves to do so without asking for help, and they have invaded the borders for a long time, and they have troubled the scholar-officials.' Is the scene mentioned in Sima Xiangru's "Yu Bashu Xi" still in place today? How many years have passed since the scholar-officials

Has he fallen to this level?"

Su You pondered for a moment: "Mr. Fan, I would like to start a discussion in the Bianjing Times about what is a scholar and what is a scholar's virtue."

"Those who are greedy for salary and comfort, do not express difficulties to the country, and only know how to avoid blame and blame, are called 'lubis'. Even if his literary reputation is world-class, he is not as good as a man who changed his life on the road to Shaanxi, so what is the integrity of a scholar?!"

Fan Chunchun said: "Well said! Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world."

Yi Ye.'"

"When we are young, we recite poetry and practice rituals, we should be the first in the world!"

Fan Chunren sneered and said: "I will unite with the three transport envoys to write to Your Majesty. Those who fail to conquer the country are unwilling to serve the country. In that case, they should give up their official positions and take away their salaries."

"Since you want to be a free man in the mountains and rivers, you should not seize the limited honors and honors of the imperial court and block the rewards for those who are ambitious!"

Both Fans were great people who followed their father's will. Fan Zhongyan "rarely showed any seriousness. He was not moved by riches and honors, poverty, reputation, praise, joy and sorrow. Instead, he was ambitious for the world. He often recited to himself: 'Be concerned about the world's worries first.'

, I will enjoy the happiness of the whole world.'"

He both said this and did it. He truly achieved the unity of knowledge and action, and has always been Su You's role model.

Su You was originally an outlier in the official circles of the Song Dynasty. In the Shilin Review, he now even rivals Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan takes the world as his own responsibility, "takes responsibility for himself generously", and has the consciousness of the ruling class;

Although Su You can do everything well, he is a bit "lazy" and can be called the Gou Tou of the Song Dynasty.

He "doesn't want to make progress" in his official career. He will only take action after being poked by the superiors. He often has to wait until the court becomes impatient and forcibly issues an appointment before he "does it as a last resort."

But one good thing about him is that he obeys the arrangements very much.

No matter how big a problem is, as long as it is thrown to him, he will always do it with ease, and he will always do it with perfection that is unexpected by everyone.

Therefore, the reputation of the two men was very high among the scholars, who believed that both of them had established virtues, meritorious services, and good reputations, and their names would be passed down through the ages. They were both rare figures in the Song Dynasty.

However, Fan Zhongyan's talent was slightly inferior to his virtue; while Su Mingrun's virtue could not hide his talent.

Su You even had an extra aura than Fan Zhongyan because of this - Qian Tui.

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In Lanzhou, Zhao Man led Li Yong and Shi Yong to inspect the fortress.

In addition to Gao Zunyu and Liu Changzuo, the enemies in the Western Army also included Zhao Man and Li Xian.

Xining's campaign to conquer Jiaozhi was originally with Zhao Man as the leader and Li Xian as the deputy.

Later, the two disagreed, and Zhao Man wrote a letter asking for Li Xian's dismissal. Zhao Xu asked who could replace him. Zhao Man thought that Guo Kui was an old minister and was willing to praise him, so he appointed Guo Kui as the envoy of Xuanfu, and Zhao Man was his deputy.

After Guo Kui unified the army, Zhao Man's and Guo Kui's military advance strategies clashed again, resulting in the failure of the advance.

In the end, the imperial court sent Su You to take charge of logistics, and sent the naval forces of the two Zhejiang provinces to assist, and finally achieved a great victory.

Afterwards, all the generals in the southern expedition were rewarded, but Zhao Man was not promoted. As the main person responsible for the initial military defeat, he was demoted to the post of governor of Guizhou, and later transferred to Qingzhou, Hebei Province.

This man is similar to Li Guang in the Han Dynasty. He has outstanding abilities, but is always unlucky and never does anything good.

Compared with Grandma Wang, who is always lucky to win, he is like a day and a day in terms of horoscopes.

The location of Lanzhou City is very important, but it is too remote. Although there are tens of thousands of Song troops stationed here, they are mainly Tibetan tribes.

In addition, Qingyi Jieguizhang and Duqiao Grandpa each led 20,000 Qingtang troops, which was also a variable.

Zhao Man wrote several times to ask the Sixth Route Army to pay attention to Lanzhou. After all, there were still elite Xia people in Liangzhou in the Western Region. Zhao Man found out that Tu Gan and Yelibu were recruiting Tibetan tribesmen in the Western Region, and there were more than 80,000 people.

Moreover, the equipment of these people is the best among the Xia people. In addition to the cyclone cannon, I heard that there is also the huge trebuchet that appeared under Dun'an Village - the Huihui Cannon.

However, the Sixth Route Capital Strategy Department seemed to have never paid much attention to the West Route. Not only did they not strengthen Zhao Man's troops, they even transferred Li Xian, Su Lie and Bao Shun away!

However, Zhao Man can basically be regarded as one of the firefighters of the Song Dynasty. He has been working in the frontiers all his life, and he can be regarded as one of the top civil servants in the military strategy of the Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, after so many years, Zhao Man had long been accustomed to the ravages of fate, and had no expectations for the virtues of his superiors, so he did not expect much support from the Metropolitan Strategy Department.

The solution is to be self-reliant, to have enough food and clothing, and to make good use of the troops at hand.

Fortunately, he had no shortage of money and food, no lack of evidence to report, there were no shortage of dangers around Lanzhou, and his army was quite powerful. Zhao Man planned that even if all the Xia people and the Western Army came over, he would still be able to guard Lanzhou City and the surrounding city fortifications.

, come to a close match.

However, the tension is certain. The generals asked for garrison troops to be prepared. Zhao Man summoned them all to Lanzhou: "Garrison troops are not beneficial. The first is to scout, win according to the shape, rectify the armor, and do nothing to invade the enemy."

Then he sent the cavalry scouts eighty miles to the mouth of the Hongshui River near Liangzhou. At the same time, he used the Khotan envoys who had returned to the country to prepare more goods and sent a caravan to follow them and go deep into Liangzhou to collect intelligence.

What is left is to strengthen Lanzhou's fortifications, dig trenches, establish lookout posts, and use flags to convey messages.

The science and engineering team led by Shi Yong was indispensable. When he first arrived in Lanzhou, Shi Yong gathered all the craftsmen in the city, and then asked them to lead the way. They took over the iron smelting, coal mines, gypsum mines, silica mines, and Glauber's salt mines around Lanzhou.

Mines were built, and several workshops for coking, iron-making, cement, glass, and black powder were built.

There were many cattle, sheep, mules and horses in Tibetan areas around Lanzhou. Shi Yong also collected the urine of humans and animals to make ammonia, and then used the acid tower method to prepare a small amount of ammonium nitrate and thunder silver.

With these things, Shi Yong created a lot of cast iron mines and earth-flavored thunders, and Zhao Man finally felt confident.

At the top of Lanzhou City, General Yumu's advanced equipment was even deployed - a cast iron cannon that used black powder to fire iron sand and iron pellets.

Zhao Man bluntly deprived Shi Yong of his naming rights and named him General Zhenrong without any creativity.

On the other side, with the magic tool of Glauber's Salt for tanning leather, Shi Yong asked the Huntuo craftsmen to directly upgrade the sheepskin raft to a cowhide raft.

The cowhide raft is made of woven cowhide Hundo. The opening of each cowhide Hundo is much larger than that of sheepskin Hundo, so it can hold things.
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