Chapter 139 Xixia Special Correspondent

Ouyang was a little puzzled by the imperial edict, why did he become a military supervisor? Thinking about it, it was right. His military supervisor was also responsible for the coordination between merchants and the army, as well as supervising the transportation of weapons. It seemed that his military supervisor was not the military supervisor for that purpose. The regular military supervisor was probably Li Han. Li Han was a member of the emperor and the people around the emperor.

If you want to arrive at Qinfeng Road on the third day of the second month, you have to prepare to go on the road in the middle of January. Calculate the time. Song Hui and Song himself can't take it. I don't know if it will be a mess, but Zong Ze will be better. He can't participate in the opening of the university... But someone is responsible for these, otherwise it would be meaningless to set up a temporary university preparation committee, and he has to work if he gets money.

The list of Yangping Business Association's interest in developing the Xixia has been released. There are many fields involved, among which the planting industry has the greatest competition, and four companies want to eat a bite. The second is leather raw materials, and three companies are scrambling. This is not a problem. Yangping Business Association turns competition into an alliance and can be equipped according to the shares.

February will definitely not start fighting. My weapons are the first batch of delivery in February, and I have to be proficient in it for a while. Besides, the imperial court will not formally issue a letter after the spring, requiring the return of Lingzhou and Yonglezhou. From ancient times to the present, from abroad to domestic, wars are also made excuses. After the text is sent, the imperial court will formally order troops to send troops, and no matter how it will be obtained in April. In July, Yangping had the first Song Dynasty Cuju Invitational Competition, more than ten states have signed up, and the competition is expected to last for more than a month. In late August, Yangping had the second one.

The trade negotiation meeting is the focus of the growth of the Yangping Business Association. These must be prepared in advance. If you are not here, you must plan the matter to details. However, these workloads are nothing to Ouyang. No matter how fast the pace in ancient times, it is not as fast as the modern economy and society. If a major case is not solved for 48 hours, countless pressures will follow. While investigating the case, you must contact the Department of Law and also undergo internal investigations. You can take down such a day like Ouyang. This is a busy life.

However, Ouyang got the imperial edict a bit inappropriate. The two entrusted responsibilities were together. It turned out that they had to be exempted from the position of magistrate first. But Zhao Yu really dared not transfer the position of magistrate Ouyang indiscriminately. However, there was no matter in the Xixia side. Ouyang was not allowed. This war was not just the charge of the soldiers, but involved all aspects, politics, logistics, post-war, etc., and in the end, he issued such an imperial edict in a confused manner.

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That night, Ouyang did not work. He first played mahjong with Liang Hongyu, and then was expelled. Then he played a few billiards by himself and felt bored. Finally, he accepted the invitation from Gan Xin and Zhan Ming to go to drink and chat together, and then he found a way to play time. When he saw that it was Huilan playing mahjong with Su's belly. The two men were not good at this, so he pulled Ouyang out. The three of them discussed casually and went to Zhenniang's house. Unexpectedly, Zhenniang went to play mahjong too. In the end, they were helpless, and the three rode horses to the Qinghe River to bask in the moon and drink.

The next morning, on the day of the legal clearance, the first batch of weapons to Qinfeng Road also began to go on the road. When these weapons arrived near Tokyo, the Tokyo Imperial Army would send 3,000 troops to escort them. Ouyang was generous, and each person who carried the weapons was 500 red envelope. He was not idle, and Su Qian was not idle, and they were discussing the sharing of the interests of Xixia business. Now it is no secret that the fight against the Xixia people is no longer a secret. Even the Xixia people have sent the Central Guards and Capture the Lives Army. The Central Guards include the Proton Army, the Emperor Guard, and the Capital Guard. The three thousand Proton Army sent were all composed of the children of the powerful Western Xia, with high loyalty and strong combat power.

The Capture Army meant to capture the enemy as slaves, with a total of about 100,000, and was an elite army of Xixia. There were 50,000 local troops in Xixia. These people did not leave production, fought as soldiers, and did not fight for the people. In general, Xixia belongs to a military system in which the whole people are soldiers, and this system greatly reflects its social characteristics, that is, it still exists in nomadism and slavery.

According to reports from the Royal Daily, in Yongle Prefecture, the Xixia army hoarded 80,000 troops and 50,000 troops in Lingzhou. Han Shizhong's total combat troops were less than 120,000, which also included 40,000 people who were streamlined into transportation troops. But what was troublesome about the Western Xia was that Tubo gathered 30,000 people in the Achai area, and the Datong Prefecture of the Liao Kingdom was also not quiet.

Tubo is still a tribal country, and the tribes do not like to obey the central orders. These 30,000 people are subordinates of Pan Luozhi, the Liugu tribe of Tubo. Pan Luozhi was certified by the Song Dynasty court and the inspector of the western capital of Mingzhou. Tubo and the Song Dynasty have always had a military system to jointly defend the border, and the Xixia guards the border.

The Liao Kingdom is actually still waiting and watching, and the court is still discussing whether to help the Song people fight. The conditions are very good, and if you control a state, you can sell it to the Song Dynasty for 10,000 yuan later. Internal opposition mainly comes from military generals, who believe that they should not help Song during the period of confrontation with the Jin Dynasty. And once they threaten Xixia, they may be 30,000 elite garrison troops against them.

It seems that no one can get any advantage, but Song has two more secret weapons. The first is the general Han Shizhong, and the second is the first actual combat of gunpowder weapons. Han Shizhong has set up formations for firearms, such as the division of three specialized troops, Grenadier Army, City Breaking Army, and Defense Army. Han Shizhong said that he could defeat twice the enemy.

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Yangping Business Association has an interest in the exhibition in Xixia, and the project of the exhibition of the bottom line and hope was summarized by Su Qian and discussed with Ouyang later. In general, there are two main situations: one is about the two major parts of planting and leather, and the other is to run a business on the border, specifically for the Songbei and Liao trade production bases. As for the lack of interest in the construction of retail markets, restaurants, etc., everyone expressed that they were not interested in these sesame seeds. The production here is not in partnership because there are no strong merchants around. But the interests are also obvious, and the transportation distance is

Short, human resources are cheap, and the occupied areas are low taxes. Once the market prospers here, it will cover Taiyuan Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, and even the east and west military supplies. Just take a simple brick, if you pull a brick from Yangping to Liaobian, the various costs will reach three cents. In the border city, there is cheap manpower, abundant land, low taxes, and a close distance, and the cost to pull a brick to Liaobian is only one cents. Even if you anti-dumping Yangping from the border city, the cost price will be only two cents. Building a yard with the border city as the center will have a very important sales coverage area.

Of course, if you want to go to Zhending Mansion to run a venue, it is closer to Liaobian, but in addition to the difference in prices, other factors are much worse. And if you don’t have a shareholding with locals, there will be many troubles.

Simply put, this place is called a homeless land. But then again, the risk of running a city here is quite high, and the main reason is military conflict. However, although the money invested in this investment is gambling, it is not a poor family to be on Su Qian's list, and it is also affordable to lose. After Ouyang and Su Qian discussed, they transferred the funds of Yangping Money House to the north, focusing on the first-line money houses from Xingyuan Mansion to Zhending Mansion as a reserve fund for the start-up.

After the New Year, these things were processed. Before the Lantern Festival, Su Qian appointed an agent at the 10th day of the lunar calendar, and he went north with Ouyang. The shareholders did not go for the time being. Su Qian was allowed to flexibly grasp the funds promised by these shareholders. Twenty yamen runners were accompanied, and most of these yamen runners were engaged in copywriting work. Letting them go not to kill the enemy, but to work as a part-time accountant, recruiting people and other trivial matters.

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When he arrived in Tokyo, he transferred 300 imperial guards as the guards of the military supervisor according to the imperial edict. The guard captain was the inner guard around Zhao Yu. He served as the commander of the Tokyo imperial guards, named Zhu Da, and was an acquaintance of Ouyang. This can be a messenger, but an instructor cannot be a messenger. And there is also a question: If Ouyang dies normally, everyone in the guards may have to be buried with him. This is a common understanding in the army. If the general's personal soldiers can regain their bodies after the general dies, they will be punished with a reduction in the crime. If not, they will generally be executed.

Zhu Da was less than thirty, but he was open-minded by nature, so this trip was a bad match for him. He didn't believe that Ouyang would run into the enemy's formation without any trouble. According to custom, Ouyang's general distance from the battlefield is no less than 100 miles. At that time, even if Ouyang wants to be heroic, he will tie him up and run away with a command, and there will be no problem at all. Of course, as the guard, he still has two responsibilities, recording the real dynamics of the battlefield. It also plays a certain role in surveillance and military supervision.

Ouyang sighed that as an eighth-rank official, he had been leading Zhan Ming, but now he is still leading the military generals in the capital. Compared with Liao, Song is more realistic. Liao is full of clouds, and there are officials but no positions.

After arriving at the Hejian Mansion on Yongxing Jun Road, we started to switch roads. The Hejian Mansion went north to Liaobian. The official road was very easy to walk, but it was not the case when we switched to Qinfeng Road. Due to the frequent transportation of materials and troops for a short period of time, this road that was already a bit garbage is even more garbage now. However, in the era of cold weapons where manpower defeated nature, there were no mechanized troops, and there were animals and human powers. In addition to being uncomfortable walking, transportation could still be guaranteed unless it rained heavily. Moreover, Jingzhao Mansion had sent people to repair this official road and strengthen the bridge last year. Or, war was not a matter of one household. If it didn't move, it would be alive, and if it moved, it would be whole.

It was just beginning of spring and the temperature was not high. Ouyang was probably only about three or four degrees. Since he was riding a horse, the temperature did not go too fast. Zhu Da introduced: "Qinfeng Road is the most bitter and cold place in the Song Dynasty. It is cumbersome to transport materials on a large scale. It has been a hundred years of war with Xixia, but the scale is between tens of thousands each time. There are also such reasons. Such a scale was a small matter for Liaozhong decades ago, but it is rare to place it on Qinfeng Road."

Ouyang asked: "General Zhu, why is this?"

"Xining Prefecture is mostly steep mountains and also has the Great Wall to protect. In addition, the Xixia route Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Office have a permanent capturing army of 70,000. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are also places where these terrain are often easily cut off the food route. To maintain the food route, it costs ten times the wing army of the soldiers in front. Don't look at this battle, the imperial court has invested less troops, but it costs a lot of money at all. Therefore, this place has never dared to move. This is also the most important reason why the Xixia people repeatedly invaded the border and regarded us as nothing. Furthermore, once the Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Office are prominent, it is Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia. The garrison troops inside are elite..."

"Wait, this Proton Army has three thousand elites, this garrison army has more than 20,000 elites, the Emperor Guard has ten thousand elites, and the Capture Army has also been elite... Why are they all elite?"

Zhu Da smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know that the Western Xia military system was established in the imitation of the Song and Liao systems. What I said above is the permanent army. The registered local army is actually composed of the people. Once recruited, they will be enlisted and will be under the jurisdiction of the military department. It is said that there are 50,000 local troops today. These people are indeed scattered in discipline, but they have strong combat power in individual soldiers. They also have rules, three in a group, called Yicodon. There are also divisions, main force, auxiliary master, and burden.

During the war, the burden is responsible and does not require horses, and the food is carried. The main force is the main force, and the auxiliary is the supporter. Such a team does not pose a threat to the large-scale formation operations of our Song army, but its flexible and maneuverable attacks can be used as ten. Furthermore, the Xixia people are mainly Dangxiang people, and they coerce or tempt other tribes to join the war whenever they fight. There are countless strange fighting styles of various tribes, and the Xixia army does not have unified clothing, so our army cannot recognize the enemy, which is also a lot of losses."

"There are also the craftsmen in the Western Xia army with superb skills, like the elite 20,000 iron kites in the capturing army, all of which were cold-forged armor, and within ten steps, the crossbow could not be entered. They were also equipped with the Xia Kingdom sword, which was extremely sharp. Once the weapons were handed over, the Song army suffered a great loss." Zhu Da said: "In the early summer of the Xixia Zhenghe attacked us Dingyuan. The court was furious and condemned Tong Guan as Shaanxi, Hedong, and Hexi Zhengwei, and ordered Liu Fa, the general commander of Xihe Road.

He led 150,000 infantry and cavalry out of Huangzhou. The Qinfeng Road Strategic Envoy Liu Zhongwu led 50,000 troops out of Huizhou. He finally defeated Xixia at this scale. Xixia had no choice but to submit and surrender. The Song army lost more than 150,000 people in this battle. But two years later, he offended me again. The adults were merchants. He should know how much it would cost to fight a battle in the court, and how much it would cost to fight that battle in Xixia. No matter how rich Song was, he could not afford it, so he could only defend it according to the dangerous place."

Ouyang smiled and said, "General Zhu is not optimistic about General Han."

"The last general dares not. However, this single route has clear goals and no secret to marching. Although Liao and Tubo restrained some of the Western Xia army,..." Zhu Da paused and said: "To follow what the last general saw, multiple routes should be launched together to make the people of the Western Xia run away, so that they can choose their weakness and break it."

"The general thinks so... I guess the people of Xixia think so too." Ouyang said: "I can't fight, but I know that the future war will not depend on many people."

"What's the point?"

Ouyang said: "As the general said, this enemy has the invincible weapon of Xia Guojian, and the cold forged armor, which can enter without arrows. One can stop our hundred soldiers. Then we cannot have a weapon that can kill a hundred people in an instant? 500,000, Humph, if the Song army is not afraid of death, the logistics supply can be provided, even if two million face the Song 100,000 troops head-on, it may not be able to win. Also, as far as I know, the Western Xia court is now empty, and it will probably be able to hold on for one month or two months. It will take the first half of the year, and I am afraid they will not have time to cry. The whole people are soldiers, who will collect food? Who will transport food? Xiao Zhu is also concerned about consumption when fighting. Just like doing business, the two same stores suppress each other's prices, and the one who dies is always the one with less capital."

"Ah? General Han wants to use a wasteful approach? Heavy troops occupy dangerous land, so that the enemy cannot attack, but dare not not defend... This is a good idea."

"This is not what General Han thinks. I just guessed. I thought, if I came to fight, I would definitely use it. Then I offered a reward, and those who brought horse deserters to give twenty guan, and those who were fired at the enemy camp were fired at twenty guan, kill a general fifty guan... Everyone can go to the side to receive the reward and then live in Song. I will sell the horses and weapons to the Song Dynasty, and buy them after taking the money... I think Xixia can't stand it." Ouyang touched his chin, and fighting seemed to be similar to doing business.

"..." Zhu Dahan said: "No, you are fighting like this, you."

"Why can't it be? I have money." Ouyang shook his head: "We go to Jin Kingdom to buy land and business, but are you afraid of a Xixia? Just buy the same thing, buy the city, buy people, buy horses, buy weapons and generals."

Youdao means that money can make ghosts push the grind, and the people of Xixia are not the same. Xixia is a country composed of Dangxiang people and a multi-ethnic group. These ethnic groups have also been mixed with the Song Dynasty. For example, if a tribe asks for official titles from the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty is not allowed, this tribe will invest in Xixia. Ouyang has no other advantage, but it is generous. He has verbally borrowed one million guan from Yangping Money House, and added a million guan to a private account before the New Year, plus the late payment for the Liao Dynasty's weapons sales. He prepared 2.5 million guan in the money house. In his team, two cars were all silver. People these days are priced, such as Mag, a lotus, the good-lay house movie star who covered his lower body and raised his breasts. He said that he bought a kiss for a thousand gold coins, but 500 million guan can be sold.

"Report" the avant-garde to fight the horse to the central army: "Sir Ou, there is a man wearing a hat in front of him who says he is looking for Mr Ou."

"What did he say?"

Qianwei said: "A red heart, prepare with both hands."

"Em" Ouyang said: "Zhang San, get a thousand guan."

"Yes" Zhang San took out a Jiaozi from his bag. Ouyang took it and went to take a horse.

Zhu Da followed up in confusion, but saw Ouyang dismounting in front of the roadblock and asking, "How long have you been waiting?"

The man handed something in "one month".

Ouyang handed Jiaozi over. The man looked at Jiaozi and nodded and asked, "What else do you need?"

Ouyang handed a piece of paper. The man quickly browsed and said, "It's a bit difficult, how to pick up the goods?"

"We found a man named Zhang San in Pingxian, Qingzhou. The code is that you ate today? Reply: Idiot, young."

"I've remembered it." The man didn't talk nonsense anymore, pulled down his hat a little, got on his horse, whipped it and turned his head away.

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Zhu Da waved his hand and asked the team to continue moving forward, curiously looking at Ouyang's chest. Ouyang felt uncomfortable being seen and confessed himself: "This person is the servant of my special correspondent."

"Special correspondent?"

"Yeah... I'm the one who gave him money and helped me get the news. It was bought by a reporter from the Royal News stationed in Xingqing Mansion."

Zhu Da said in surprise: "Have you sent everyone to Xixia?"

"Yes, Tubo, Dali, Liao and Jin have reporters stationed by me. But I usually don't show up, just record the general matter and don't interview them. I just reply to the news every two months." Ouyang smiled and asked, "Where do you think the international news of the Royal News comes from?"

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