Chapter 115 A Safe Place
The eldest son said, "Of course they belong to our family, but those two thousand horses are fed with fine feed every day and are the best in Dajin."
Wang Xian sighed: "Nowadays, things are not as good as they used to be. Even if we cannot defeat the Mongolian army, we are still sure to defeat the Song army. This time, we will use all our elite troops to defeat the Song army and let the emperor in Lin'an know that we still have Gongchang Prefecture in this world."
It was Mag's fault. It turned out that he was angry with the Emperor Lin'an. He wrote many letters to ask for surrender, but the Emperor just ignored him.
See, the problem is serious.
Zhao Yulin sneezed in his mansion in Nanzheng. Although he didn't know that Wang Shixian was plotting against his Shenwei Army, his subordinates had already taken action.
Zhao Yulin wrote a personal letter to contact Guo Chongma, asking them to join forces to fight against the Mongols and to support each other if necessary. Although Guo did not respond, he did not explicitly object either.
This is enough.
He knew that the Wang family would join the Mongolian army sooner or later, so he simply ignored the Wang family and contacted other small tribal forces, explaining the principle that China is one family, all people in the world are brothers, and friends can be made freely and equally. These people had no objection.
Zhao Yulin didn't want them to express their opinions immediately, nor would he invite these tribes to join him right away. He wanted to let these leaders know that there was still a safe place in Tianshui and Xihe where they could let their imagination run wild.
As soon as Gongchang Prefecture started to gather troops, he knew it clearly.
The Song Dynasty court in Lin'an received the memorials from Xingyuan Prefecture and the Zhizhisi, and Prime Minister Zheng Qingzhi immediately went to see the emperor. While the emperor was still reading, he said that Zhao Yulin was too lawless and directly executed an important official of the court, setting a historical precedent. He was afraid that the court would change the sentence, and the death penalty would be changed to suspended death penalty, and then suspended death penalty would be changed to life imprisonment, which would lose the prestige of Xingyuan Prefecture.
The emperor smiled after reading it, saying that it was a bit lawless, but didn't the prime minister often do things like killing first and reporting later? In fact, this guy is still saving money for me, because the tens of thousands of acres of good land that have been recovered are all called official land.
This emperor did not do a very good job on the dragon throne, but he was a very tolerant person. After court was dismissed, he did not use "I" or "I" in a condescending manner in private, but referred to himself as "I" in a relaxed manner.
The emperor ordered an imperial decree to reprimand him, but he would not hold him responsible for the past. He said that they had already made an agreement with the northern barbarians, and they needed to hurry up to raise food and grass, and asked Meng Gong to lead the Jingzhou army out of Dengzhou to jointly destroy the Jin. Remember, the important thing is here.
Zheng Qingzhi felt relieved and immediately agreed to leave.
Although he had opinions about Zhao Yulin's overstepping his authority and directly killing the criminal, he was worried that someone would use this as a pretext to hold Zhao Yulin accountable, thus ruining the hard-earned good situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
In Xingyuan Prefecture, Hanzhong, Chen Chen from Yibin arrived just two days after the imperial reprimand arrived. Zhao Yulin swept away his unhappiness and reveled with Chen Chen for three days.
Chen Chen told him that Xiaomin's mother, Aunt Wu, had given birth to a fat boy, and it was Mr. Zhu who was there to deliver the baby.
This time Chen Zhongshun has to thank Zhu Congwen. Aunt Wu gave birth at an advanced age, the fetus was lying sideways, and like Xiaomin, she couldn't be delivered. It was the doctors at Cuiping Hospital who performed a caesarean section under the guidance of Mr. Zhu, and both mother and child are safe.
After listening to this, Zhao Yulin let out a long sigh. This was probably the first successful caesarean section in the world today. He had to thank everyone for abandoning worldly prejudices and continuously practicing.
Chen Chen said his father was complaining about him, why did he write so few letters, did he really have no time? The family members guessed what he was doing through the Hanshui Morning News they collected.
Zhao Yulin reflected on himself and realized that he wrote too few letters.
People in later generations use WeChat and QQ every day to chat, and the concept of writing letters has disappeared. Who would bother to pick up a pen?
The family of three traveled all over Nanzheng. Ma Ling'er said that she had not read enough books and had difficulty interacting with the officials, so she asked Chen Chen to deal with it. Now that the position of inspector was vacant, she would lead the supervision of officials and carry out land reform.
Zhao Yulin had no objection and asked the two sisters to discuss the matter and urge the construction of the plank road to start as soon as possible.
After arranging the affairs of Nanzheng, he took the logistics officer Yu Fuming to the military station in Mianzhou. Yibin sent a mortar squadron, a thousand improved muskets, a number of grenades and mines, and the cavalry .
This musket was no longer a simple copy of the three-barreled musket used by the Ming army, but a five-shot revolver musket that Zhu Congwen carefully designed and produced by combining the working principles of the three-barreled musket and the revolver.
That is to say, after the cavalry launched a charge, his Shenwei Army could fire five times in a row, then use the muskets as maces, and after taking advantage of the gap to replace them with paper shell bullets, they could fire five times in a row again.
As soon as this epoch-making carbine came into use, it was definitely a magical weapon that the grassland men who were good at volley shooting would think was a divine weapon. There was no need to draw a bow or arrow, just hold the musket in hand and shoot directly, and the speed was incredible.
Zhao Yulin ordered them to distribute the troops quickly, and then followed the mortar squadron into the mountains to test the artillery.
Squadron leader Bai Heng reported: The whole team has three batches, 30 mortars, with calibers ranging from one and a half inches to two inches, and a range of five to ten miles. There are only 1,500 shells in total.
Damn, only fifteen hundred? This is too little. When the Eighth Route Army fought against the Japanese, they only had a few or a dozen rounds in one battle.
Zhao Yulin asked him to fire two shots to try. The squadron leader immediately asked him nervously: "Two shots in a volley?" or "Just two shots?"
Yu Fuming explained to Zhao Yulin that artillery shells were very difficult to make and were extremely valuable, so his brothers were reluctant to give them up.
Damn, I couldn’t even bear to fire two shots.
He understood his brothers' feelings and went to check. None of the guns were painted, but they were all polished by the soldiers. He asked the soldiers around him how they did it.
The young man happily took out a piece of pork skin from his pocket and showed it to him.
It turns out that the brothers use pig skin to clean the mortars whenever they have time. No wonder they are kept in such good condition. This is enough to show how much the brothers love the mortars.
He called in a small-caliber cannon to fire two rounds to see how it went.
Zhao Yulin pointed to a pine tree on the hillside three miles away and ordered his men to fire. The squadron leader fired the cannon himself and hit the target with the first shot.
He ordered to stop fighting and save the shells to attack the enemy.
Zhao Yulin told them that there would be a fierce battle next, and they should be prepared. Don't be merciful with the shells, they are meant to destroy the enemy, why keep them for reproduction?
The soldiers all grinned.
After returning, Zhao Yulin visited the iron workshop, where the craftsmen were already making the steel bars needed for the plank road.
This is completely called order processing.
The required size, length and quantity of the steel bars are all known. Two grooved clamps are driven by hydraulic power to squeeze the red-hot iron bars with difficulty. The craftsmen guide them step by step to squeeze it into the required diameter, and then cut off the excess parts and send them back to the furnace for recycling.
Yu Fuming said that the iron workshop specially added this set of equipment in order to build the plank road, and all of it was transported from Yibin. Master Chen Xian requested that it must be kept confidential.
Haha, yes, although this hot rolling machine looks extremely primitive, it may be hundreds of years ahead of the world at this time.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said that the lives of the masters should be arranged, and those who didn't have wives should be helped to find one. It was too boring to be locked up in the mountains and do things all day.
The craftsmen around him burst into laughter when they heard him say this.
He pointed at Yu Fuming and said: Look, who doesn’t want a wife? Everyone wants a wife.
Another burst of laughter came from behind.
Zhao Yulin went to Mianzhou City to have a drink with Gao Jia, and then Gao Jia gave him earnest advice.
The farmers were happy about the fierce reforms of the Shenwei Army, as everyone had land and only had to pay taxes to the emperor. However, the big landlords and bureaucrats had opinions about him. Some people scolded him for his harsh rule that was more ferocious than a tiger, as he arrested and beheaded people without asking any questions, and compared him to a butcher.
Zhao Yulin looked at Lao Gao in confusion and asked, "Is that true?"
He remembered that Fatty Huang from Xunyang asked for exemption from the death penalty for treason because of his meritorious service in business between Song and Jin. Huang showed leniency only fined him half of the cash in his family. When confiscating his land, he even left him 20 acres.
Lao Gao said that if it comes to land, which official's family doesn't have 100 or 300 acres of land? They are all landlords, and my brother is actually going against the government. It is said that the official was furious and said that if he didn't want to rely on the Shenwei Army to guard the border, he would have fired my brother long ago.
Looking at his expression, Zhao Yulin could completely interpret it as a reminder for him to be low-key.
He thanked the old scholar for his reminder and told him to only do it in Hanzhong. Since he had already started, he would stick to it to the end. He bought the land of most of the small landlords who became rich through hard work with the confiscated illegal silver, and he did not engage in robbery.
Lao Gao was speechless. Since he couldn't persuade him, he could only carry out the order to the end. After all, he was the superior now.
After a night's rest, Zhao Yulin said goodbye to Gao Jia and went to Qingyeyuan. Since he had already reached Mianzhou, he still wanted to go see Lao Cao. He came to the central army tent, and Lao Cao smiled and said that he was just about to talk to him, but he didn't expect that he would arrive soon.
The two of them went to the back hall. Lao Cao said that the rapid changes in Hanzhong had shaken the Dragon Court. The emperor issued an edict to reprimand them. We both had a share of the blame, so we were doing the young man a favor.
Zhao Yulin thanked him with tea instead of wine. Hearing him say that, he seemed to support him.
Lao Cao told him that he had already handed over the land in his hometown and supported his brother's reform because the people were suffering too much.
He said that it was the only way to do this. The land was highly concentrated and the people had no land to farm. The landlords collected a lot of rent, and the farmers felt that they would starve to death if they had no land to farm. If they rented land to grow crops, they would still starve to death. It would be better for them to rebel and steal food to survive.
In this way, the big landlords will hoard grain, the extremely poor will rebel and seize food, and no one will work. This society will lose its source of growth and will be doomed to die.
He is not good at explaining such profound truths, and Lao Cao doesn't like to listen to them. Support is enough for him. Does he still want Lao Cao to help him promote them?
Obviously impossible.
After taking two sips of tea, Lao Cao asked him how his preparations were going. Intelligence showed that Gongchang Prefecture had mobilized on all fronts, intending to send 100,000 elite troops to besiege Qinzhou.
Old Cao kept talking about Qinzhou City, and it seemed that he hoped to get the land in the north back.
Ancient Qinzhou was originally the land of the Song Dynasty. With the north and south of the country combined, recovering the country's territory is naturally the lifelong pursuit of every soldier guarding the border.
