Yan Da then asked the three armies to stop and sat down and laughed.

Liang Yi was still in a panic and gathered his subordinates in a distance and sent scouts back to inquire. Of course, he also knew that it was Song Jun who was teasing him.

He was so angry that he was extremely angry, but facing tens of thousands of prisoners of war, he had to swallow his anger and send someone to "question" Yan Da.

Yan Da looked at the pale face and came to "question" the messenger and shouted: "Send orders to your country and receive prisoners of war thirty miles away."

Surrender is like facing an enemy. Although once the prisoners of war put down their weapons, Liang Yi thought that Wang Ju would not kill him. Therefore, in order to establish his prestige, not only did his confidants come to receive the prisoners of war, but also brought their troops to the Huaiwei Fort.

Wang Ju then asked Yan Da to lead thousands of cavalry out of the fort to scare him, and let Liang Yi lose face and make him ugly.

Liang Yi buried Wuzhi, so he had to lead the three armies again, retreated thirty miles from Huaiwei Fort, and stopped again at the Beiluo Waterside.

Wang Ju stood on the top of the city and watched. Seeing the Xia army retreating westward, Liang Yi was buried. He went down the top of the city and came to the east of the city.

There was a wide open area in the east of the city, and at this time more than 40,000 Western Xia prisoners of war were gathered. Finally, they were able to go back, and the prisoners of war were all unsure of their joy.

Wang Ju came over with the guards.

Tens of thousands of people, although they were not camping, but gathering, were completely invisible.

However, after experiencing the battle of Rouyuanzhai, tens of thousands of soldiers could no longer bring visual impact to Wang Ju.

He winked, and the guards slowly moved forward. The guards and soldiers would maintain order later, and they immediately acted as messengers. Otherwise, even if Wang Ju had torn his throat, there might not be many prisoners of war who could hear his words clearly.

When Wang Ju saw the guards lined up and began to say, "Everyone, I'll let you go back soon, but before I release you, I'll say a few words. I'll capture you and let you work to pay off your crimes. Some of you go far away to Guanzhong, and some are in Qingzhou, Huanzhou. But have you seen the living conditions of the people of the two countries? Because of your invasion. As some ministers in my dying dynasties, the people in Shaanxi are in dire straits and the people are in poverty. But what about comparison with your Xixia?"

Some people say that the Song Dynasty is rich, but it really doesn't take it to Wang Ju's eyes.

However, compared with the previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty was indeed the richest dynasty.

Although there are still many poor people, they are just such backward productivity. What should I do?

For example, the highest grain output in Jiangdongwei, which is distributed in two or three quarters, is only five or six hundred kilograms, and the highest per mu yield is only seven or eight hundred kilograms, which means the output that is too high to be higher.

Or this time, the salt transport lasted for nearly 110 days. At the highest point, including the nearby troops, almost 80,000 households and nearly 200,000 people participated. The actual green salt transported back was less than 4 million stones.

However, this has come to everyone's expectations, including Wang Ju himself, in his calculations, at most 2.5 million stones. Of course, he underestimated the heavy damage this war brought to Xixia, and at the same time he was delayed for a long time, which made the withdrawal time a month later than he expected.

Therefore, in this backward era, we cannot ask too much.

At least no matter how bad it is, it is much better than the living conditions of the people in Xixia.

After Wang Ju and other messengers passed the command, he said, "Is China's land fertile? Please see, this is Shaanxi. Except for Guanzhong, there are almost all the terrain of Shanmaogou and ridges, but look at your Xixia. It is good, mostly saline-alkali land, Gobi desert, and desert. But in addition to these, there are also Hetao in the north and south. Although the water and soil deteriorate due to excessive grazing in the South, it is still a fertile land along the Yellow River. There are also Lingchuan Plain, Xiaochuan, Hexi Corridor, Juyanhai, and Ruoshuichuan. Which place is not a good place for survival? It is also saline-alkali land and green salt. Besides, you only have 700,000 households in Xixia, why are you so poor?"

The area of ​​Xixia is not small, but the desert Gobi terrain accounts for two-thirds.

However, Wang Ju pointed out a key point, that is, there are few people.

For everyone, at least the area of ​​the flat river area in Xixia is definitely better than that of Shaanxi Road, but how many people does Shaanxi Road feed? Although the number of households does not seem to be much higher than that of Xixia, the number of households per household is better than that of Xixia. If the number of households not included in the household registration is included, the actual number of households may be twice that of Xixia!

Wang Ju stopped for a while, there were too many people, and the message had to be conveyed slowly.

After a while, Wang Ju said again: "You older people should be able to remember what your life was like in the past few years? What was your Xixia during the Qingli War? The people almost lived by digging gophers and eating bark of Guanyin. Only then did your Xixia Li Yuanhao negotiate peace with our court and made a will that China loves peace and keeps promises, so he will not be able to make a feud with our court in the future. Later, Li Yuanhao died and did not hide the power of the government. Although there was an invasion of farming, the two countries still maintained peace. Including your first lord, he began to enter the government.

Using the Han rituals, we took the initiative to discuss with our court how to return the invaded Quyehe area. However, because your first lord made Liang the empress, under her bewitching, your first lord tore up the peace agreement and invaded our court again. What did you get? The Qingli War was that my dynasty was unprepared, and now I am prepared. Can you really defeat the great China in Xixia? Think about it again, what were your living conditions a few years ago and what were your living conditions a few years later? And I would like to say boldly here that life will be even harder after you go back!"

Someone made sobs.

"Why do you have to fight? So many people died in Xixia, and so many lovely soldiers died in our Song Dynasty. I don't understand, what do you Empress Liang of Xixia want to do?"

This is a seed, and Wang Ju accidentally planted it.

"I was a civil servant who was born in a Jinshi. I read a lot of books, especially Xue Rengui's life. He set his way down the Tianshan Mountains with three arrows and killed more than 100,000 prisoners. As a result, he appeared in Hebei decades later, and the Turks fled. Because of China's benevolence and righteousness, he did not like to kill and poke, Xue Rengui was demoted. Later, he went to Dafeichuan, adopted the policies suggested by the civil servants, and treated Tuyuhun people who turned to Tubo well, and did not commit murder. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Tuyuhun people joined forces with the Tubo people, and Dafeichuan was miserable.

Failed, almost none of them survived. Therefore, the best way to treat you, Xixia, those who are not confident in their promises is to kill until you are heartbroken. Including you, someone originally planned to let one-third of the people go away at most. They can make excuses for the mouths of the ministers who don’t know anything about me. But now that they have released so much, they are soft-hearted. However, you are all recorded in the strategy. If you offend me again next time and fall into your hands, someone will definitely tell you that life is worse than death!”

Be reasonable first, then intimidate.

Because Wang Ju had a premonition that he would fight Xixia in the future, and that battle might be much larger than this one...

What he said will be quickly spread by these tens of thousands of mouths in Xixia, and it will play an unimaginable role at that time.

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he slowly released the prisoners of war.

The Battle of Gyeongju will end from now on.

However, some controversy sounds came out of the court.

In ancient times, people were not as rich and colorful as later generations. Even the fields and the monks were very powerful. Wang Ju directly scolded the monks on the memorial, which must have made many people unhappy.

This is one of the crimes of impeaching Wang Ju.

But in general, Wang Ju did a relatively smart job, and he seemed to make mistakes of all kinds, but in fact he never left a real handle. Even this man was so arrogant, and he won the battle so gloriously. However, because of the compromise of the court, he continued to release prisoners of war and continued to give him annual gifts. Even the envoys went to Xia and were still in Youzhou. How could Wang Ju not be angry? In anger, he just said a heavy word.

The second crime is that many prisoners of war were sold again. The imperial court issued an edict, but Wang Ju was still selling prisoners of war, which was a violation of the edict. This is a bit troublesome, but in general, most prisoners of war were released back. And with the promotion of gunpowder, some pits and mines became deeper, which means that there are more and more dangerous accidents. It is better to use prisoners of war than to use the people.

In fact, Xixia was satisfied to see Wang Ju release so many prisoners of war.

However, this may be used to block Wang Ju in the future.

However, Wang Ju was not afraid. Because a new war was coming soon, that was Xihe...

Can Xixia not send troops? Once the troops are sent, the peace agreement is equivalent to tearing it apart.

The third crime is cost. But this is not a crime, but an excuse for some ministers to oppose the war.

This battle cost more than 36 million (guanpishi).

In fact, this calculation is wrong, because the most consumed in this battle was food and grass, which were stones and grass, but the equivalent ratio was very low. In fact, the cost of this battle was less than 25 million jin.

Wang Anshi made money crazy and even the subsequent materials had to be deducted in order to issue Qingmiao loans.

The withdrawal time of the front line was delayed, and the amount of green salt obtained was better than Wang Ju imagined. Therefore, the construction of dozens of forts was mostly taken out of this salt rift, and some money was taken out from this salt rift and some grain was purchased.

The amount of money is not small, nearly two million chunks, which is almost half of the profits of Qingmiao loans now.

To be honest, it was just to cut off the ban on troops several years in advance, to find out a large number of empty salary quotas, as well as the Fangchang Hedu system, the profits of gunpowder itself, the increase in the production of pit mines, the dividends of kapok, and the sugar workshops. These directly and indirectly made annual profits almost guaranteed the expenses of this war.

In order to explain Wang Ju, Zhang Dun deliberately calculated the account and wrote a letter.

But everyone treats him seriously as if they have not seen it, and then write to the letter with this expense. Your Majesty, look, although this battle has been won, it has spent so much money. Without this battle, it can almost save all the two taxes in the country for a year, so that the people can live and work in peace.

The letter of advice was constantly passed, and in the end, Zhao Xu couldn't bear it anymore and said: "After the Qingli War, the country rarely used troops, so the king of Liao said that Renzong was in power and did not know the military force for 42 years. But what is the national finance and what is the people?"

The hole has not been filled yet!

Zhao Xu asked with great dissatisfaction again: "There is a mistake in this battle when 300,000 Xia gangs invaded? Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been a rare victory. Is there a mistake in it?"

However, this became the norm in the Song Dynasty.

Not to mention Wang Ju, even if Wang Shao is spreading his territory for thousands of miles, there are still many scholars and officials who are asking for trouble for Wang Shao.

Let’s see how Wang Shao left Xihe for the first time in the future?

Moreover, this strange disease seemed to be transmitted to the Liao Kingdom. Zhunbu, a vassal state of Liao Kingdom, rebelled with some Uighurs, and Yelu Chao led his troops to suppress it. Then the fun Yelu Hong gene of Liao Kingdom, Yelu Chao, killed too many people, and feasted in Nanjing (Youzhou) and Zhongjing.

So Wang Ju said that the Liao Kingdom would not send troops, because the Liao Kingdom gradually became like the Song Dynasty, with civil and military affairs.

Wang Ju continued to monitor the Xia people. After all, so many prisoners of war were released at once. As long as weapons were distributed to them, tens of thousands of troops appeared.

However, Liang Yimeng did not have the courage and slowly left with the prisoners of war.

Wang Ju then returned to Qingzhou.

This magistrate has been in almost half a year, but she has been in Qingzhou for less than a month.

When we returned to Qingzhou, there were still many things that were busy. After transporting salt, the officers and soldiers still had a large number of livestock and vehicles. Some were distributed to their families as rewards, and some even sold them at a cheap price.

These accounts are very chaotic. Fortunately, Zhu Li, the ten merchants of Zhu and Li, have drawn out more than 90 economic personnel and managers in advance, so there is no serious chaos. Of course, this big transaction is also a training for these economic personnel and managers.

In the future, they will have greater uses.

When it was over, Wang Ju expressed his gratitude to them one by one and asked them to go back.

The remaining reward distribution was handed over to the clerks in Qingzhou to handle.

Only then did Wang Ju ask about the Qingzhou Development Fund.

Zhang Qi said: "Fortunately, the people just saved more for a year, so they could only pay for one year."

If you don’t have any savings, you dare not lend it. After all, it is also a new thing. Everyone is not familiar with it and is afraid of accidents.

It is this year's savings, and Wang Ju's reputation will account for half of the credit. Most people believe that Wang Ju will not be greedy for their wealth, otherwise he will not save it.

Later, Wang Ju was transferred away. God knows whether the government will admit it in the future. If you meet a lord like Jia Fan, you and other unruly people and officials do not embezzle them, how can you support your family? What should you do?

"It's really possible," said Zhang Feng.

Not to mention Jia Fan, if it were the former Sun Mian, it might have happened.

Wang Ju took a few steps, thought for a while and said, "Okay, that's true. Change this system again and only accept the people's savings for one year. If it exceeds one year, let them change the deadline."

"You said one year..."

"I offended Duke Wen this time, and I'm afraid I can only stay in Gyeongju for a year."

"well."

"Brother Husband, why do you sigh? It's not worth it now, but it's worth it in the future..."

"It's worth it in the future?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!