The water level in winter is low and calm. More than 20,000 people, supporting the elderly and the young, stand on the river beach with expressions of fear for their future life.

There are many things, mainly tools, agricultural tools and food.

This place was selected by Su You and Sitong. Xiangxiang is a good place where agriculture can be vigorously developed.

On Hainan Island today, the total number of Song people is only 60,000. With more than 20,000 people coming here, they can definitely become the force to carve out a state and county.

However, the early hardships are unavoidable.

Fortunately, they were all military families and experts in building fortresses. Wu Kui gave an order and the sergeants began to set up tents on the river beach to settle their families.

Liu Si led the Meishan Polytechnic Team to build a cement foundation at the mountain stream and set up a waterwheel workshop.

Every day, some of the soldiers used fishing nets to catch fish in the river, some cut down trees and burned the land, and some went deep into the jungle to shoot prey.

Half a month later, the tents on the river beach disappeared, and countless thatched houses appeared above the waterline of Lianshui. The thatched houses used wood as pillars, bamboo walls, yellow mud on the inside and outside, and mud stoves with bamboo beds inside.

This is a large and simple village. Between the houses is a large area of ​​land burned out, which leads to mountain springs to store water, just waiting for planting in the coming year.

There is a flat land in the center of the big village, which is the village community. There are several huge mud houses made of rammed yellow mud and covered with newly fired pottery tiles.

This is also a major storage area, storing a year's worth of seed rations for more than 20,000 people.

Wu Kui still had a military style, and was tight at home and outside. Just like in the enemy's territory in the north, there were many sentries, watchtowers, open and hidden sentries, and wandering sentries. Although they were rough, they were still the same.

There is so much land that if you want to plant it, you will never be able to plant it all.

Wu Kui is a Tibetan, but now he is like a crop. There are many tree roots and stumps in the field. It was not easy to get rid of them before. Now that the ground has become soft, he and the sergeants have to pull out tree stumps and rake the ground every day.

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On the ridge of the field, Liu Si rushed over, waving a tabloid in his hand and shouting loudly: "Brother Wu! Brother Wu! The new decree of the court is amnesty! Amnesty! Your Majesty will transfer the Yingzong to the Mingtang and grant amnesty to the world!!"

Wu Kui knelt down in the paddy field with a pop, and there was a splash of mud, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

…

In Xingqing Mansion, Empress Dowager Liang, along with Bingchang and Liang Yimi, were inspecting new weapons.

With a wave of the small flag in Jialiang's hand, the sergeants lit a long fuse drawn from an iron ball on the ballista, and then fired the porcelain ball.

The iron ball was thrown fifty steps, then exploded with a bang and broke into three or five pieces.

Empress Dowager Liang curled her lips: "Master Xiang, is this the thing that can destroy Xiao Guan?"

Liang Yi was very embarrassed, and Jia Liang quickly said: "Let me tell the Queen Mother, the people of Song Dynasty are far ahead of us in this aspect. Meishan gunpowder has been able to explode rocks as early as fifteen years ago. We want to improve it in this aspect."

To catch up... first of all, we don't have such huge financial resources, and secondly, we have to compete with others' strengths because we are weak, and the gains outweigh the losses..."

Empress Dowager Liang asked: "What should we do if the Song Dynasty invades again and uses this weapon against our city?"

Jialiang said: "Actually, preventing the Song people from approaching the city is the fundamental solution. The way to attack and defend is to measure our strengths and weaknesses and make the best use of the situation."

"The failure of Xiaoguan is that the deployment of Tiandu Mountain was not put to good use. Otherwise, if the Song army's food route was cut off, they could be locked up in Shimen Gorge and become turtles in a urn."

"If we open and expand the rivers to protect the large cities in Xixia, the Song army will not be able to get close and blast the city walls."

"The most important thing is that the Xia army's strength is not in defense, but in attack; not in garrison, but in field operations. As long as it can flexibly maneuver in the field, encircle points for reinforcements, and cut off the enemy's supply as its strategy, the Song army will also

Nothing can be done.”

Queen Mother Liang breathed a sigh of relief: "The Hetao Grain District..."

Jialiang also sighed: "In the Hetao area, the part close to Song Dynasty, we can no longer grow grain."

"Back then, when Suyou was in Weizhou, they mainly focused on animal husbandry and did not dare to farm. It was not until they captured Shimenxia that they dared to vigorously develop northern Shaanxi."

"North of Xiaoguan and in the fertile fields between Shazhou, most of the farmers who cultivated the land were plundered by Su Mingrun, and the fields were barren. Now we can only use tribes to raise cattle and sheep. If the Song army invades, we can also follow Su Mingrun's plan.

A plan to strengthen the walls and clear the fields.”

"Queen Mother, the Xia Kingdom was originally founded as a nomadic country. It is certainly beneficial to stockpile farmland, but now the situation has changed."

"Doctor Jing's policy of establishing water conservancy in those days actually nailed our people to the land, which led to the loss of Xiaoguan and heavy losses."

Liang Yibiao nodded: "What Mr. Jia said is reasonable. If in the past, the herdsmen would have driven their cattle and sheep to defend Xingqing, they might have dragged the Song army to death on the grassland. What Su You did before,

Let’s learn from us!”

The Empress Dowager Liang looked at Jia Liang: "Knowing yourself and your enemy, I have fallen into a prejudice. On the contrary, Mr. Jia is from the Song Dynasty, but he understands the essence of Emperor Jingzong's founding of the country. How should we deal with the Qing and Tang Dynasties?"

Jialiang said with a smile: "As for the Qingtang Dynasty, since Wang Shao recruited Yu Longke's hundred thousand men, Dong Felt was uneasy and had been shaken. Jialiang dared to invite him as an envoy to lobby Dong Felt, and the Queen Mother also asked the princess to do some work.

Win Dong Fei over!"

Empress Dowager Liang finally smiled: "Mr. Daxia Dejia is far better than an army of 100,000!"

…

The fifth year of Xining was a rare good year for the Song Dynasty.

Although the foreign invaders invaded, they were severely defeated; although the Yellow River burst its embankments, it did not cause serious harm; although Hengshan suffered a setback, it did not damage the foundation.

There was turmoil in the southwest and was wiped out; the sergeants rebelled and were calmed down in three days.

This was a good year. No less than 100,000 hectares of cultivated land were opened up on the North and South Roads of Jinghu. Even in northern Shaanxi, 50,000 hectares of cultivated land were newly added. In addition, 10,000 hectares of cultivated land were harvested from the households above.

Wang Anshi finally made up his mind and asked Zhao Xu to reduce the amount of money and grain he had borrowed from the world, totaling more than 1,668,000 shi of rice and more than 117,000 min. When the people heard the edict, they all celebrated.

The Hongze Lake Water Conservancy Project, a huge water conservancy project led by the imperial court, was overall completed. "The Hongze Lake was opened and reached the Huaihe River."

After Shaanxi implemented the Sheding tax land, a large number of hidden populations were exposed. Adding in the 120,000 people looted by Su You and the 120,000 recruited by Wang Shao, the population suddenly exceeded one million!

At the critical moment, these people are not a burden, but strength! Enrich the power in the two key areas of northern Shaanxi and Guwei for foreign wars!

The annual income of the imperial court increased by 15 million yuan compared with last year. The ministers asked Zhao Xu to be honored. Although Zhao Xu refused, you can imagine how happy he was in his heart.

In his mind, the arc that Su Mingrun had drawn now seemed to have moved from the left of the lowest point to the right of the lowest point, right?

…

In Weizhou, a lively hundred-day banquet is being held in the office of the Imperial Envoy Si Houya.

Shaanxi's political, military, business and academic circles, Tibetan monks, Taoists, eunuchs, bigwigs from all walks of life, three religions and nine streams, gathered together.

Su You held the three-month-old flat jar in his arms and felt soft when receiving the gift.

He has obviously been slacking off recently. What he means by slacking off is that he still has time to teach the scholars in the Weizhou Academy, the generals in the officer crash training class, and the theoretical training class in Zhouan's science and engineering class!

My subordinates are doing very well in other things. I think about it, but can’t I just go to class?

Sometimes, Su You would come up with a word out of nowhere—exerting the remaining heat.

Then he quickly shook his head, I am only twenty-four years old!

Fu Bi and Sima Guang both came in person today. Shao Yong also wanted a batch of Su Yi's eight-character batches, but Su You sternly refused.

No! What a bad old man! Don’t think that I don’t know what you said to Bachelor Sima. You want to tire me to death!
Chapter completed!