Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Zhang Jinping was about to give birth and was not feeling happy. Instead, she was worried all day long.

She felt something was wrong and her father-in-law might rebel!

"Sister, why don't you go for a walk today?" Zheng Yuanyi asked, holding a child in her arms.

The child's name is Zhu Kang, Ju Ming's eldest son.

The name was chosen arbitrarily. I was born in Jinzhou, which belongs to Ankang County.

Zhang Jinping smiled reluctantly, and walked out with the support of his maid, holding his big belly.

After walking around the courtyard, Zhang Jinping looked towards another courtyard, but he still couldn't bear to go there.

Everything will be discussed after the child is born.

But Miss Wen couldn't hold it back and blocked Zhu Guoxiang in the study: "Why is your husband training for the army?"

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and said: "Of course it is to guard against bandits."

Wen Xiaomei said: "One or two hundred village braves are enough to guard against bandits, so why do you need to mobilize so many villagers? I went to the market two days ago and wandered on the street. I heard some women chatting, all talking about the training of the men at home. I A total of ten women were asked, and eight of them had sons or husbands serving in the military.”

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Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "What do you think I'm going to do, little sister?"

Miss Wen was silent for a long time, then raised her head and asked: "Revolt...rebellion?"

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "How could you think so?"

Wen Xiaomei said: "Besides rebellion, I really can't think of anything else. I need to mobilize most of the young people in the village to practice. And it's not just a month or two, it's been several months."

Zhu Guoxiang didn't know how to explain it, so he could only say perfunctorily: "Next year or the year after, my little sister will know what my father and son are going to do."

Wen Xiaomei asked: "Has it been discussed with Dalang?"

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "Yes."

"Are you really going to rebel?" Wen Xiaomei was still worried.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Troubled times are coming, so we must prepare early. Has my little sister read history?"

Wen Xiaomei said: "I have only read "Historical Records"."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Read the "Book of the Later Han", "Book of the Sui", and "Book of the Tang", and you will know that the world of the Song Dynasty is going to be in chaos."

In fact, Zhu Guoxiang has not read these history books, and his historical knowledge remains at the stage of middle school textbooks.

Zhu Guoxiang finally got rid of his concubine and went out to board the ship to Jinzhou.

Yang Zhi is training troops in Tiemao Village, Jinzhou, and has assembled a force of 200 people. The foundation here is weak and there are not many villagers. Recruiting two hundred people for training is the limit, otherwise it will affect the production of the iron smelting yard.

Rattan armor is not used in Tienmao Village. All officers from the squad leader level up wear zhajia.

The Zha armor shape is a simplified version of the Song Dynasty Bu Ren armor.

As for why the allocation is reduced, it is because most of the battles were in Sichuan in the early stage. The walking armor, which can easily weigh 50 to 60 pounds, is really not conducive to activities in mountainous areas. The weight must be reduced to ensure flexibility.

Ordinary soldiers, who seemed very luxurious in the Song Dynasty, were equipped with all-color chain armor (due to insufficient numbers, not all of them have been equipped yet, and construction is being stepped up).

"How's the training going?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Yang Zhi was quite excited: "The military training book compiled by Zhu Xianggong is really amazing, and it is better than the methods of the Forbidden Army."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "He must have made some omissions when talking about military affairs on paper. When you are training troops to fight, you can correct them if you encounter any inadequacies."

"Yes!" Yang Zhi handed over his hand.

Ju Ming's so-called military training book combines "General Martial Arts", "Records of Military Training" and "New Book of Military Training".

Yang Zhi added: "In the past six months, I have recruited dozens of hunters from the mountains, all of whom are living a very difficult life. Most of the young and strong people in the village work in the iron smelting field, forging field, and armor field. It is really difficult to Adjust too much to practice.”

Most of the weapons in Daming Township and Jintan Village were made by Tiemao Village.

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "You are really short of manpower here. You can recruit more hunters to train gun soldiers. If there is not enough food, I will contact merchants from other places to transport food." He also warned, "Be careful to prevent the news from leaking."

Yang Zhi said: "Since the beginning of the military training, we are no longer allowed to come in and out at will. We set up a blockade five miles outside the village to intercept them. If they don't listen to the advice, they will be killed directly!"

"Well done." Zhu Guoxiang praised.

At this time, the magistrate of Jinzhou was called Han Zhao, who was from Yingchang (Xuchang). There are no cliques, it’s just a matter of hard work and experience.

He is a little old man. He is neither a good official nor a bad one.

Anyway, when the transfer envoy gave the task, Han Zhao tried his best to raise money and asked his officials to step up the collection. If the amount of tax collected is insufficient, they will be scolded and then do whatever they need to do.

In Jinzhou City today, the specific government affairs have been controlled by subordinate officials, all of whom were promoted by Ju Ming.

However, these subordinate officials are divided into two groups, who dislike each other and occasionally undermine each other. This is also the situation created by Ju Ming. He didn't trust anyone at the beginning and deliberately left the two groups to check and balance each other.

Zhu Guoxiang inspected Tiemao Village for two days and then took a boat to Jintan Village in Yangzhou.

Over at Jintan Village, the person in charge of training was Li Jinyi, the prototype of Lu Junyi in "Water Margin".

In "The Legacy of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty", which is closer to historical facts, Li Jinyi planned to kill the sergeant to rescue Yang Zhi, and then everyone ran to Luocao in the Taihang Mountains. Later, Song Jiang ranked the thirty-six generals. Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong) was first, Li Jinyi (Lu Junyi) was second, and Yang Zhi was third.

Zhu Guoxiang arrived at Jintan Village and asked Li Jinyi to train more than 260 soldiers. For the time being, there are only weapons and no armor. They will be shipped over before the army is launched.

Jintan Village is too close to the city and outsiders are prohibited from entering and exiting at will.

Whether they are merchants who come to buy paper or nearby villagers who come to buy salt, they all trade at the entrance of the village.

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Muzhou was officially renamed Yanzhou, which means strict management.

Shezhou was officially renamed Huizhou, which means liberation.

These two places are where Fang La made his fortune, and most of the backbone of the rebel army came from here.

In July, Fang La died in battle in the mountains of Guiyang (Rucheng).

It still falls into the hands of Han Shizhong, not because the world line is closed, but because Han Shizhong starts the war without risking his life.

In the summer, the Guiyang mountainous area was full of miasma. The Forbidden Army, the Western Army and the Southern Army surrounded Fang La in several mountains. Everyone was looking for a place to rest and wait until autumn.

However, Han Shizhong led a small group of troops to search the mountains in the scorching heat, grabbing his tongue and questioning Fang La's whereabouts.

After confirming the situation, he only had twenty or thirty men in hand, but he set fire to the mountain at night, and then rushed straight to Fangla's base camp.

The veterans who followed Fang La to fight thousands of miles had already been severely reduced due to the miasma. With low morale, they were attacked at night. Thousands of old thieves were defeated by Han Shizhong's 20 or 30 men. Fang La himself also died in the rebellion.

With only more than a thousand elite old thieves left, they fled to Jinghu South Road and continued fighting under the leadership of Fang Qifu.

At this point, there are still two units of Fangla's rebel army.

One group, led by Fang Qifu, moved toward the mountains of Hunan.

One group, headed by Lu Shinang and Yu Daoan, was active in the mountainous areas near Wuzhou (Jinhua), Chuzhou (Lishui), Wenzhou and Taizhou.

Most of the Forbidden Army and the Western Army withdrew, and the remnants of the rebel army were handed over to local troops. Just in case, several thousand forbidden troops were left behind, and they were ordered to finish it within this year.

Han Shizhong, who had made great achievements, was not in a good mood. His military achievements were robbed!

The Forbidden Army and the Western Army marched north in batches. While Han Shizhong was waiting for the ship at Jingkou, his good brother Wang Yuan recruited prostitutes to relieve his boredom.

There was a woman named Liang who was proficient in poetry and calligraphy, and had the power to draw a strong bow.

Han Shizhong was greatly surprised and asked: "Where is this girl from? She is so talented in both civil and military affairs?"

Liang's daughter said: "My grandfather and father were both officers in Chizhou. Before the imperial army arrived, they were ordered to annihilate Fang La. Because of their incompetence in the battle and the loss of the city, they were sentenced to death, and their slaves were also used as official prostitutes in Jingkou. "

Han Shizhong sighed: "Oh, the big turban has no strategy for defeating thieves, but we Qiuba are unlucky, and our families will be affected in the end."

"The world is difficult, and there is no other way." The Liang daughter felt sad.

Han Shizhong poured wine for her and drank one himself: "Although I have made great achievements, I am also very unlucky. I have been robbed of my credit time and time again."

Both of them were frustrated and had a very speculative conversation.

When Wang Yuan saw this, he smiled and said, "You two men are so talented and beautiful, so you wouldn't want me to be the matchmaker."

Han Shizhong's face turned red, and Liang's daughter lowered her head and said nothing.

They were drinking flower wine here, while Chen Ziyi, an old acquaintance of Ju Ming, was drinking wine in another camp.

The direction of Chen Ziyi's attack was southern Zhejiang, and he had dozens of people in charge. While chasing down the defeated troops, he rode on horseback to capture the bandit leader Hong Zai alive. This man was also the leader of a party and occupied most of the prefecture at its peak.

Chen Ziyi was also robbed of his credit. He only got the position of head of the cavalry army, able to command a hundred cavalry.

"Straight bitch!"

Half drunk, Chen Ziyi cursed loudly and smashed the wine jar.

The imperial court offered rewards to all the bandit chiefs under Fang La's command. After agreeing to capture Hong Zai, he can be directly promoted to the right military officer (a sixth-grade military attache). What's going on with a horse army?

The more Chen Ziyi thought about it, the angrier he became, and gradually became discouraged.

He thought that as long as he fought hard, he would be able to stand out based on his ability. Now I know that I was very wrong. Promotion does not depend on ability, at least not on the ability to kill enemies, but on having someone above you who knows how to flatter others and send money.

Now that Fang La is dead, his remnants are nothing more than grasshoppers after autumn.

As the commander-in-chief, Tong Guan was awarded the title of Grand Master and the Duke of Chu State due to his meritorious service. He was ready to encourage the emperor to attack Liao Dynasty.

Tong Guan claimed that his troops were all elite soldiers who had fought many battles. First they conquered Xixia, and now they also pacified Fangla. They were the most powerful army in the world. The Liao Kingdom has declined. It was defeated by the small state of the Jin Kingdom and lost its city and territory. Civil unrest continued in the country. Once the heavenly soldiers of the Song Dynasty arrived, the soldiers and civilians of the Liao Kingdom would inevitably surrender.

Song Huizong, who was planning to postpone the invasion of Liao for a few years, was a little moved by Tong Guan's words.

Wang Fu, who had opposed the invasion of Liao a while ago, was actually moved, mainly because his finances were a little better.

Once the South was settled, military expenditures were not that large.

Secondly, the economic money collected in the southeast has been extended to Lianghuai and Gyeonggi, and can collect millions of dollars in taxes.

Li Yan, the third eunuch, founded Xicheng Institute and exploited Jingdong, Jingxi and Lianghuai like crazy. This thing alone can generate two million yuan in revenue every year.

A three-pronged approach has achieved increased revenue and reduced expenditure.

Wang Fu felt that the court was no longer short of money, and Tong Guan had said that once the Song Dynasty sent troops, the Liao Kingdom would definitely surrender, and it would be possible to quickly conquer Yanyun.

As a prime minister, his foundation is too shallow, and Cai Jing has so many party members that he cannot be squeezed out. Cai Jing may make a comeback at any time.

If he could regain Yanyun, Cai Jing would never come back!

Wang Fu and Tong Guan began to flirt with each other, and the two secretly discussed the plan to conquer the Liao Dynasty, and also brought Cai You in. The three planned to cooperate to achieve this great achievement.