Chapter 1672: Western Expedition

The colander struggled: "What more money?!"

Jiang Zhiqi was furious: "It cost you 100,000 yuan to create a method like this?! Pay back the money!"

Colander chuckled and said: "Yunshuai, you have to be reasonable. Even if this brick is ten cents a piece, it is already very cheap, right? Four million yuan must be 40,000 cents..."

Jiang Zhiqi became even more anxious: "Okay, you cheated me of 60,000 yuan! Are you really an old man who dare not impeach you?!"

Jiang Zhiqi was the person Ouyang Xiu even dared to impeach. He had a criminal record and would be infamy for thousands of years, but he was really brave.

Colander rolled his eyes: "To build the city wall, I plan to hire Zhe Chongsi and Guangzhou Xian Cheng Dingkou, a total of a thousand people, and it will be completed in one month. Calculated at two hundred taels per day, it is exactly 60,000 taels. Sorry, I have no money.

Leftover."

Jiang Zhiqi was immediately overjoyed: "One hundred thousand guan is not only the cost of making bricks, but also includes the cost of building the city?"

The surrounding officials all looked at each other in disbelief. Damn it, Elder Xin proposed building a canal back then. The construction of a five-mile stone canal would cost 100,000 yuan, but in the end he could only give up and sigh.

Now Xiaosu Tanhua only needs 100,000 guan to change Guangzhou City into Brick City?!

No, no, no...

Sure enough, Jiang Zhiqi calmed down after being overjoyed: "No, no, Zicheng is already a brick city. There is no need to replace it. The four walls actually only cover three sides. Your brick money only needs 30,000 guan!"

Colander rolled his eyes again: "The overall project also includes connecting Yue City and Zicheng, making Wenxi a river in the city, and building two water gates. I also want to add bastions to both sides of the city gate. The extra

10,000 guan, to finish so much, there is still less to count!”

"Really?" Jiang Zhiqi was so happy that his beard was trembling, and he stroked the back of the colander: "Zi Heng is not only brilliant in literary talent, he also has amazing craftsmanship skills and is omnipotent. He is really a talented person among the younger generation..."

Speaking of this, another thing came to mind: "Sergeants of the Zhechong Division are paid, and the money for this service..."

Is it possible not to pay for this service? Jiang Zhiqi is still an old-school scholar-official and does not regard sergeants as human beings.

The colander sneered: "After saving so much, the prefect still wants to dig at it? My father often said that you can't let the horse run and don't eat grass at the same time."

"If the prefect wants to argue like this, the officers and men of Zhechong Division have no obligation to build the city, so the prefect should recruit young men from all counties to do it."

Jiang Zhiqi thought about it for a while. The Chakeng rebellion had just subsided. He had recruited neighboring Yidan households to build the city. He still didn't know what the trouble was. Where could the Zhechong Division soldiers be reliable?

After thinking about this section, he finally nodded: "That's it, one hundred thousand coins, can the city be built this year?"

Old man, you look down on me! I just told you that I have a production capacity of four months to make bricks, plus two months to build the city!

In fact, it only takes four months, because after two months of making bricks, you can build the city at the same time.

Rolling his eyes, Colander said with a smile: "It won't take that long, I think half a year will be enough..."

"Half a year..." Jiang Zhiqi twirled his beard and fell into deep thought: "It's a bit hasty. I have to start thinking about "Tiecheng Fu" quickly..."

Colander: "..."

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At the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the grass has not yet turned green, and a huge army is marching.

The march was not fast because there were a large number of carriages, cattle and sheep accompanying the army.

This place is thousands of miles away from Shazhou, and the team is about to arrive at Gaochang, the economic center of the Uighurs in Xizhou.

The leaders on this road were Liu Changzuo, Tong Guan, and Jing Siyi, and under them were Renduo Baozhong of the Renduo tribe. In addition, there were four of the eight Ningxia armies, as well as two Tatar tribes from Menggentulak and Jeddah.

Liu Changzuo had 10,000 heavy cavalry, Tong Guan had 10,000 new troops, and Jing Siyi had 20,000 light cavalry. They formed the central army.

The vanguard is the active Renduo Baozhong and four Ningxia troops, totaling 70,000 rangers.

The remaining mengantulak and Jeddah were the rear army. They took their tribes, totaling 60,000 tents, and the whole family went out. The army's supplies of cattle and sheep were mainly driven by them from the grassland, along the Silk Road.

Proceed along the north line of the road, grazing on the side.

This speed was destined not to be fast, and Liu Changzuo did not want to be so fast, because among the vanguard was the Living Buddha Jiduo Gyaltsen, who had a high status in the Western Regions.

There are twenty-two Uighur cities in Xizhou, including six big cities, Yizhou, Gaochang, Yanshi, Qiuci, Zhangbali and Beiting.

Yizhou was the first big city outside Shazhou. Instead of resisting, the city lord opened the city gates wide, held the atlas and sealed the letter, and prostrated outside the city to greet him.

A large group of common people gathered around the gate of the city. When they saw the living Buddha in red dismounting from his horse, they cheered to the sky. They held pipa, konghou and sang and danced happily.

More than 80% of the men, women, old and children in Illinois are devout Buddhists. In addition, there are Nestorianism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, and Shamanism, which are simply diverse.

Liu Changzuo ordered the army to be stationed outside the city, and only brought the living Buddha and new troops into the city.

At the city lord's palace, Tong Guan filled in the blanks and presented himself as the city guard of Yizhou. He declared the city guard to be the governor of Yizhou during the Song Dynasty, and then Yizhou became a city of the Song Dynasty.

The army also carried a large amount of silk, cotton, porcelain, and bronze. After entering the city, they opened a market for three days. They exchanged a large number of cattle, sheep, camels, and all kinds of dry food from the people of Yizhou. They then pulled them up at the city gate.

Barbed wire and sacks of earth were used to build breastworks, leaving fifty new troops to garrison. They waved goodbye to Yizhou and headed towards the next city.

The Xizhou Uighurs "have many musical instruments, such as pipa and harp," and "those who like to travel and enjoy entertainment must carry musical instruments in their arms."

When the army left, the whole city, young and old, came out of the city to see each other off with singing and dancing.

The whole journey was fought without bloodshed, and Buddhists rushed to greet them along the way. Some devout believers even came from Kucha, two thousand miles away, to accompany the army and act as guides.

It made Tong Guan lose his temper. Is this a trip to the Tianshan Mountains?

But Tong Guan soon became happy. After 800 miles from Yizhou, in Futu City, 200 miles away from Gaochang, the largest economic city on the Silk Road, the supreme ruler of the Xizhou Uighurs - they were also called the Protectors.

This guardian is a transliteration, and the free translation should be "Lion King" - Ganbal led his 50,000 cavalry to attack the Northern Expeditionary Force.

Winter is definitely not the time for cavalry expeditions. Except for the Song Army today, no cavalry army in the world can do this.

Therefore, when he heard that the Song army was about to arrive in Gaochang, Ganbal couldn't help being frightened. Regardless of the severe cold, he led his troops through the Tianshan Mountains from the Beiting at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and finally blocked the way when the army arrived at Futu City.

An encounter began.

The Song army's horses are well-prepared, and the forwards are the Renduo headquarters army and the Ningxia Fourth Route Army led by the former Xixia warrior Renduo Baozhong.

The number of Guangqian's troops exceeded Ganbal's entire military strength.

When the weather was cold, Ganbal's cavalry could not draw their bows and crossbows, and their horses were at their weakest, so their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Even the horses of the Song army had cotton robes, and Renduo Baozhong's light cavalry all had cotton clothes, leather armor, sheepskin hats, and gloves. The horses were given three kilograms of concentrated feed added to hay every day along the way. Although they could not draw their bows, they had crane-shank crossbows. In winter,

The combat effectiveness is almost unaffected.

The Ningxia Jingqi were originally meant to defeat the Xizhou Uighurs, but now they were armed to the teeth, with 60,000 Jingqi almost surrounding the 50,000 Xizhou Uighurs and shooting wildly.

When the new army led by Tong Guan arrived, there was no longer any suspense about the battle.

Fighter opportunities are rare. Ningxia Jingqi has trapped Ganbal's army. Tong Guan ordered the new army to directly drive a van into the formation!

Hundreds of vans rushed into Ganbal's army. The New Army soldiers used muskets on the vehicles, and the thunderous thunder instantly destroyed Ganbal's cavalry.

By the time Liu Changzuo arrived, his lungs were filled with anger. He could have surrounded and annihilated an army of 50,000 with just a little strategy, but now he was just herding sheep!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ganbal did not dare to return to Beiting and fled towards Gaochang.

Li Yanqing, the guard of Gaochang City, was originally a Han Chinese and directly closed the city gates and refused to accept Gan Bal. In desperation, Gan Bal had no choice but to take the remaining soldiers and defect to Heihan in embarrassment.
Chapter completed!