The winter in Chang'an has finally arrived.

The winter of this year was much better than in the fifth year of Jingkang. It was mostly sunny since the beginning of winter and was not very cold. By the end of the year, it was like silver and catkins were broken, and a few heavy snowfalls were falling. In this way, insect control and irrigation after winter saved a lot of effort. Agricultural technology in the Song Dynasty had made great progress compared to previous generations. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, there was a "agricultural teacher" that was responsible for teaching farmers to improve farming technology and increase the yield per mu. At the beginning of the country, the yield per mu was only two or three stones. At this time, the emperor attached more importance to agricultural technology than the previous dynasty, and many assisted teachings. In many places, especially the Jinghu area, the yield per mu could reach more than eight stones.

Guanzhong is already in ruins, and even if Zhao Huan started to clean up, it would not be possible to restore the old view in just a few years. Moreover, based on Zhao Huan's understanding, the best way to protect Guanzhong at this time is to reduce the population, restore forest vegetation, and dredge the original water conservancy project. Moreover, in Guanzhong, in terms of grain output, it is still not comparable to Jinghu and other places.

Even so, the people of Guanzhong are all happy after seeing the prosperity of the year.

The emperor could not exempt the taxes of the people of the world. He took good care of Guanzhong where he lived and exempted many miscellaneous taxes, which made the people of the entire Guanshan Sixth Route to praise the emperor's wiseness.

Tongguan is the forefront of the Song army facing the enemy's territory. Although it is a natural dangerous pass, it is still heavily guarded. In the past few days, it has been heavy snow, day and night, and the entire pass city is shrouded in white snow. The Qianli Valley Road is snowing everywhere, and the surrounding mountains and ridges are all pure white. The road to pass through the pass is also covered with snow. There is no good way in the world. It is a dream to use manpower to clear the snow on the road.

The wind and snow were raging, and the world was covered with pure whiteness. The generals guarding the pass also slacked off. Anyone knew that the cavalry of the Jin soldiers had absolutely no reason to be dispatched in such weather.

Moreover, there are rumors that since the beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the Song and Jin dying ceased to fight. After the autumn, the lord Wanyan Wu Qimai died of illness. After the temple name was Taizong, his nephew, Sun Wanyan Hesita ascended the throne, several relatives and nobles of the lords of the peace sect took great power and were trusted by Hesita. After joining forces to exclude Zongbi and other lords, they insisted on interacting with Song Yan. The two countries had already signed a letter to the Song Dynasty. Han Xiaowei, a direct scholar in the Duanming Hall of the Song Dynasty, was in charge of the peace. Because the emperor insisted on regaining all his hometown, the two countries failed to negotiate peace, and it was delayed until the end of the year.

In this way, there were no major wars and few conflicts on the border, only the part of the Song army in Xiangyang. Because the chief general Yue Fei had the idea of ​​training troops on the battlefield, he crossed the border from time to time, and battles of less than 10,000 people occurred from time to time. In general, except for the conquering Taiyuan at the beginning of the year, the long border between the two countries was mostly passed in peace.

It was already evening when the soldiers looking into the distance in the city suddenly discovered something. The horns were about to sound, and they were sobbing in pieces. The ice and snow were sobbing, which was particularly shrill and terrifying.

The officer responsible for guarding Guancheng has a good position and is the general who commands a regiment.

The new military system has been issued, and after the law of the generals, there is another earth change. Each army has 30,000 people, led by a unified system. Each army is divided into three divisions and ten thousand divisions, led by a deputy commander, and has three regiments, with several deputy generals, and then battalions, teams, and officials are clearly divided, matching military ranks. Such a military system is exactly the same as the later three-three systems. It also has military ranks, a large number of professional soldiers, and the continuous training of officers in the martial arts hall.

Correspondingly, the status of military officers was constantly improving. Privy Councilors were originally at the same level as Privy Councilors, and in this year, the importance of Privy Councilors was still above the prime minister. The other generals at all levels were no longer inferior to civil servants at the same level in terms of salary, rewards, titles, land grants, and clothing restructuring.

By the end of the year, the army received news that the construction of a Martyrs' Temple in Chang'an City was different from the previous special offerings for generals. In the future, as long as you sacrifice your life for the country, you can enter the temple and receive incense forever.

With all this, the morale of the army has been greatly boosted. Many things do not require orders from the generals. They have their own subordinate officers and experienced non-commissioned officers to come forward.

Hearing the sound of horns on Guancheng, a small team of cavalry guarding the city was already ready to stop. After the orders of the general guarding Guancheng came down, he immediately opened Guancheng, and ran towards the guests in the distance.

After half an hour, the team of cavalry went out of the city to check the land and returned. The leader was all over the horse and immediately ran to the city of Guancheng.

When they entered the enemy building, they saw that the chiefs who had been warming up the fire were standing still. The two young generals were covered in snow on their heads and faces, and the big horse was sitting next to the brazier like a golden knife. The few personal soldiers didn't care about themselves and just held towels and slapped the general's armor and snow on the collar.

The king of the general guarding Guancheng was originally under Han Shizhong. Last year, due to the tight battle in Tongguan, he was transferred from Jungnan to this day.

Seeing that his subordinates were all staring blankly, Wang Quan glared and said, "Who is outside? Have you found out?"

"I found out clearly, it was Lord Han and his party."

"Um."

Wang Quan nodded, ignored that Du's head, turned to the two generals and smiled: "It's almost the same time, it's true that he is Lord Han."

The two young generals looked at each other, stood up immediately, and ordered Wang Quan: "Follow us to welcome Lord Han." "Yes, follow the order."

Just now, he looked at his general with a strange look, and he was really puzzled. The two generals in front of him only wore a golden star on their shoulders, and their ranks were the same as those of the general, but he didn't expect General Wang to be so respectful to these two people.

Wang Quan didn't care. He shouted loudly to his own soldiers to line up. When he arrived at the city, he was with the two generals who had just arrived and rushed towards Han Xiaowei and his party outside the city.

Han Xiaowei had already set off in early winter and had been on the road for more than two months. If he had arrived in Chang'an, there were a few people in the convoy who could not afford to offend. The other party was spoiled. He rushed through the road a few years ago and almost threw his life on the road. At this moment, he could not take on this responsibility, and on the other hand, he really had no identity to force the other party to rush on the road.

At this time, he saw that many people from the city were coming from afar, so he deliberately slowed down his horse and shook off the snow on his cloak. His hands were frozen and blue, but he couldn't care.

When Wang Quan and others rushed over, Xiaoxiao jumped off his horse in the heavy snow and bowed to Han Xiao's stomach. Han Xiao's stomach was so sad that he raised his right hand and smiled and said, "All the generals are exempted from the tribute. It's cold and the ground is frozen, so why bother with these tributes?"

The general in charge raised his head and smiled at Han Xiaowei and said, "One is to welcome Lord Han, and the other is to accompany His Highness, and the courtesy should not be abolished."

"Oh? It's General Fei."

When Han Xiaowei saw that Feilun came to greet him in person, he couldn't help but frown.

After Zhao Huan personally rectified and strengthened the pedestrian department, no one can tell the truth. The prostitutes in the market, waiters in teahouses, and military men in the merchants may all be people of the pedestrian department. After various improvements and evolutions, various methods of spy siege detection have been transformed in more than a year. Even though Han Xiaowei was far away in Shangjing, the name of the pedestrian department has been heard for a long time. In order to deal with the pedestrian department, the Jin Dynasty had to establish a corresponding institution, but the power and effectiveness are far different.

Such a spy agency, such as the Imperial City Office of the Northern Song Dynasty, was actually not worthy of discussion in the eyes of the scholars and officials and was extremely unpopular. At this time, when the war was in the face of the war, the pedestrian office was to spy on the enemy's intelligence, and no one could say anything, and everyone had to be careful.

Han Xiaowei knew clearly in his heart that Feilun had great power and was extremely powerful, and it was hard for ordinary people to imagine that it was coming in the wind and snow at this time, and it was impossible for him to welcome his mere book signing Privy Council.

The kings Feilun mentioned just now refer to several royal princes who followed Han Xiaowei back to Chang'an this time.

The peace talks between the Song and Jin countries were at a deadlock. The Song Dynasty insisted that the Jin Kingdom not only returned all the lost lands in the present, but also returned them to the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun according to the agreement when they cooperated to destroy Liao.

In addition, the annual monies are all over the place, and you can’t even think about it.

Such a tough attitude was beyond the expectations of the Jin Dynasty rulers and factions. The Song and Liao Dynasty had fought for many years, and even if they were victorious, they would focus on calming the situation. When the Song and Jin Dynasty fought, the Song State became even more weak. Although Zhao Huan became tough after returning to power, the Jin Dynasty always thought that he was trying to maintain his territory and throne, but he never thought that Zhao Huan, who was weak and like a slug, was so strong that he had been here for a few years.

At no cost, the Jin Kingdom had to throw out the chassis when the peace talks were about to break.

The land south of Kaifeng and the Yellow River was returned, and the Song Dynasty ceded Hebei. At the same time, according to the Liao Dynasty, a certain annual tribute was given to the Jin Kingdom every year. Then the two countries could sign a peace agreement to maintain peace forever.

If the peace talks between Jin Dynasty when Qin Hui were released were just a gesture and temptation, this time the peace talks were sincere and full of kindness.

Because the Jin Dynasty was reluctant to release Zhao Ji, nothing happened after a few months. When Han Xiaowei was ordered to return to Chang'an, several nobles of the Jin Dynasty actually held a banquet to send him off, and there were many praises to please and praise him during the meal. In short, they were to teach Han Xiaowei to talk to the emperor about their difficulties after returning to the country, and to give out all the chassis, hoping that Zhao Huan would stop when he saw the good news and could reach a peace agreement when he held another peace talk next year.

Han Xiaowei naturally did not agree with this peace. However, as a minister, he did not have to respond resolutely on behalf of the emperor. He just did perfunctory during the meal. However, after the banquet was dispersed, he exhaled a lot. Since Shi Jingtang lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Han people in the Central Plains have never been so proud again, watching the other party bow their eyebrows and ask for peace!

But it was so happy that when the time was about to leave, the Jin Kingdom did not ask Zhao Ji to return to Chang'an at the last moment, but sent Zhao Kai, Prince Yun, and Zhao Shu. There were more than a dozen emperors who were stolen on that day, and hundreds of other officials from the royal family from afar. They also asked Han Xiaowei to take back to Chang'an to show sincerity.
Chapter completed!