With the efforts of Wu Haogu, who loves peace, there seemed to be another dawn of peace between the Song and Liao dynasties. However, this dawn was too dark and weak, and he really had no ability to pierce the battle clouds shrouded over the Hedong Road of the Song Dynasty.

For the Song Dynasty, the situation in Hedong can be said to be extremely corrupt. Yanmen was broken and Xinzhou was trapped. Tens of thousands of Liao soldiers swept over, surrounding the city of Taiyuan, the capital of Hedong.

The news is also out of reach.

Zheng Juzhong, who has arrived at Linfen, the capital of Jinzhou, and is in charge of military affairs in Hedong, Hebei and Youzhou, has been helpless in these days.

Under his repeated urging, Linfen's city defense has been strengthened a lot. There are already many refugees who fled around the city. Anyone who has the strength to do the work was recruited with hot soup for two meals a day. Under the supervision of the Kaifeng New Army soldiers brought by Zheng Juzhong, they tried their best to dig up soil and stack stones, repair the dilapidated city structure, widen and deepen the trenches outside the city, and repair the city defense equipment one by one.

All the states in southern Shanxi also borrowed the order from Zheng Juzhong, asking them to do their best to recruit troops from the government. In addition to leaving a little bit to strengthen the defense of the state, most of them were sent to the Linfen Army.

These days, tens of thousands of people came one after another, and Zheng Juzhong was stuffed into the sequence of Kaifeng New Army. The original general was expanded into eight generals. The main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers combined, almost 50,000 or 60,000.

There are quite a lot of people, but the weapons and equipment are so scarce that it makes people desperate. Most of the weapons in Hedong are stored in Taiyuan Prefecture and the frontier prefecture warehouses. The most important school is in the Datong Prison within the Taiyuan Prefecture.

Now Taiyuan is surrounded, and most of the traffic between Linfen and the frontier prefectures has been interrupted, and Datongjian has long been controlled by the Khitan army.

Therefore, most of the newly expanded Eight Generals have only short spears, paul knives, soft bows and commoners, and they have no ability to fight in the field at all. This has caused a great headache for Zheng Juzhong!

However, among the armies gathered in Jinzhou, there is also a particularly elite army! Not to mention all the armor and weapons, they all have all kinds of cavalry! Tens of thousands of cavalry, one man and two horses, and many Western giants are also equipped with many Western giants.

However, this army gave Zheng Juzhong even more headaches.

Because this army was not a military soldier of the Song Dynasty at all, and did not obey Zheng Juzhong's command, but a utility army entrusted by Tong Guan to recruit Zhang Yuan in Hexi, known as the "ever-victorious army". It is said that in order to invite these tens of thousands of troops, Tong Guan spent 1.5 million military expenses!

But the ever-winning army, who had already received 1.5 million, was not satisfied! Their two generals of the army also found Zheng Juzhong from time to time, hoping to ask for another 500,000 yuan, and also asked Zheng Juzhong to pay 50,000 yuan a month. If they wanted to send troops, they would have to pay double wages...

This is really crazy about money!

Not to mention that Zheng Juzhong has no money in his pocket, the money on Hedong Road is with Cai An, the transfer commander of Hedong Road, and is trapped in Taiyuan City. Although Zheng Juzhong has a transfer commander with the army, he really has few children. Even if he has money, he can't give it! Because there are now 9 generals in Jinzhou, 8 of them can't see a few money at all, and it's difficult to even have food and clothing. If you give Changsheng Army a general of 500,000, how can you lead the team in the future?

So Zheng Juzhong rejected the request of two generals of the ever-winning army, Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan, and ordered them to obey the command of the Hedong commander Liu Yanqing, and not always think about going to Taiyuan Prefecture to find Tong Guan for money.

Zheng Juzhong did not give money, and Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan had nothing to say. Because they signed a contract with Tong Guan, Zheng Juzhong did not owe them. Their knights all believed in the laws of nature, so they were more reasonable. They were not arrogant soldiers and generals of the Five Dynasties of Tang and Ji. However, it was impossible to make them obey Liu Yanqing's command. Liu Yanqing did not give money, and he was not a great teacher sent by the Great Education League. Why should he command?

So Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan ignored Liu Yanqing at all, so they went back to the base to pack up the east and west and go north to see if there was any chance to go to Taiyuan to ask Tong Guan for money. If it really didn't work, they would cut off hundreds of Liao people's heads, so that they would have the capital to bargain with Zheng Juzhong and the money was covered.

But it is not easy to go north to Taiyuan. How much does it cost to consume tens of thousands of soldiers and 40,000 horses? Now, relying on the transfer department to provide barely, there are still no meals. How can the surplus grain be supplied to the army to go north?

So Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan thought of borrowing grain from wealthy families in Jinzhou. Of course, they just borrow, regardless of repayment. They went to Tong Guan and Cai Anchi. As long as they were fishing out these two goods from Taiyuan City, they would be afraid that they would not be able to pay back the grain?

However, how could the landlords in Jinzhou agree to such a promise? It’s not impossible to borrow food. Most of these landlords are from scholarly families and are good landlords who love the officials of the Song Dynasty. As long as the Jinzhou government office gives orders, they are willing to borrow.

But where could Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan command the government in Jinzhou? Even if Tong Guan and Tong Xuanfu's confidant Lu Qian came forward, it would be useless. Lu Qian was just a military officer or a pawn under the eunuchs. Qian Gai, the current governor of Jinzhou and the transferee of Hedong, was a descendant of Qian Chu, the King of Wu Yue. During the Yuanfeng period, he had long been a great figure in the local area for the management and comfort envoy. How could he look down on Su Zhihuan, Fengmingshan, Lu Qian and others? Besides, this is not legal. If Qian Gai agreed, he would not have been impeached by the censor?

However, Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan, who were not endorsed by the Jinzhou government, still did not give up, nor could they give up! Hiring mercenaries was a business for them, their own business! Zhang Yuan was just an intermediary, giving them convenience, and was not responsible for the bottom line. They signed a contract with Tong Guan and took 1.5 million yuan to recruit knights in the first period. 1.5 million yuan seemed a lot, but they spread to 5,000 knights, and the average number was only 300 knights. Moreover, there were high-level and low-level knights among these 5,000 knights. Because the mercenary group also needed officers! Ordinary knights could be recruited in a remote area of ​​Hexi, spending 300 knights could not be recruited. However, senior knights with rich battlefield experience could not be recruited.

So Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan also made a lot of capital! This is a high-risk and high-yield deal. Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan bet not only have their own lives, but also a large amount of capital. If everything goes well, they can naturally gain a lot of profit by dividing the spoils and bounties, and maybe they can also gain high-ranking officials from the Song Dynasty court, which will be developed.

But they didn't have much money, so they borrowed usury from the Shaolin Temple Pacific Library in Liangzhou and mortgaged all the income from their own manor. If they couldn't pay it back, they would go bankrupt!

Forced to do nothing, the two mercenary leaders were disreasonable and kidnapped the parents of several of the largest gentry families in Jinzhou, forcibly borrowed 10,000 stones of grain and a large amount of forage, and further asked each family to provide civilians.

This is a hornet's nest!

At this time, in Zheng Juzhong's General Office, several elders of Jinzhou clan complained to Zheng Juzhong. Zheng Juzhong also looked a little thinner, with helplessness and confusion in his eyes. He didn't sit, but just paced in the General Office. Liu Yanqing, a general transferred from the Western Army, stood aside, lowered his head, and said nothing, just listening to the complaints of a group of old scholars.

"Shu Prime Minister, when did our Song Dynasty have such a domineering martial arts? If we tied up a few local rich men and blackmailed some money, we wouldn't speak anymore. But the Sun family, Liu family, and Li family are all civil officials who retired! Among them are Mr. Huo Shan, Mr. Huo Shan is a great scholar in our Jinzhou..."

"The most hateful thing about the Shu prime minister is not to tie people up and blackmail money and food, but to the vulgar martial artist who could not recognize a lot of words, he also called himself a Confucian scholar of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of

"Sir Shu, this group of domineering martial artists are simply evil people who are blind to the king's laws and the court. It is really hateful. If they allow them to do whatever they want, they are afraid that they will be more harmful than the Khitan!"

Originally, Zheng Juzhong just listened to the complaints of these Jinzhou literati. Now his army is short of food and pay, so it is naturally difficult to restrain it. As long as it is not too much, he turned a blind eye. Even if he is a little domineering, it is not the time to settle the accounts. After all, he, the chief minister who is in charge of several military affairs, is simply an empty affair. If the troops who can fight at hand are all disbanded, what should he do if Yelu Yanxi fights?

He just listened to the complaints of these gentry in Jinzhou. As long as Yelu Yanxi can be blocked, these are not a problem. The Song Dynasty court was still rich, but it was not too late to send them here for the time being. He had already submitted a petition for food and salary, and he would have it in a while. If Su Zhihuan and Fengmingshan cavalry really could fight, even if they could win a small victory and cut off hundreds of Khitan armor. Hundreds of thousands of scattered money would be a trivial matter?

However, when someone mentioned "The New Talk of Heavenly Rules", his cheeks suddenly twitched. "The New Talk of Heavenly Rules" and "The New Talk of Heavenly Rules" seem similar at first glance. But in fact, there are essential differences. The latter emphasizes the hypothesis of heavenly rule, highlighting the Confucian tradition of the combination of heavenly rule and heavenly rule, and transforming Confucian ethics into part of heavenly rule. Although in the eyes of orthodox Confucian scholars, this theory is a bit off the truth, but it is still acceptable. "The New Talk of Heavenly rule" has taken a big step forward on the basis of "The New Talk of Heavenly rule", and does not mention any hypothesis and truth. It directly calls "the truth" the origin of all things in the universe, and also lists Zhou Gong, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Zhuangzi and others as the ancestors of heavenly rule, proclaiming that "preserving principles and destroying demons" can "become a saint". It is simply a religion covered with the cloak of Confucianism, and it is a bit evil!

What made Zheng Juzhong even more wary was that "Theory of Heavenly Rules" and "The New Theory of Heavenly Rules" were both classics of the so-called doctoral group controlled by Wu Haogu!

Wu Haogu was already a traitor, and his doctoral group had long been despised by Confucian orthodoxy. Many knowledgeable people have submitted memorials to call for the destruction of academic works related to Wu Haogu, such as "New Theory of Heaven", "Theory of Heaven", "Theory of Perspective", "Theory of Reason", "Analysis" (translation of Logic), "Theory of Morphology" (translation of Geometry Original), "Theory of Metaphysics" (translation of "The Book of the Book of Physics"), and other academic works related to Wu Haogu have been destroyed and banned.

Unexpectedly, the group of Hexi utility scholars hired by Tong Guan were also believers in "The New Talk of Heaven". It seems that they have to use thunder to rectify them!

If these arrogant soldiers and generals can be submissive, it will be much easier to rescue Taiyuan.

The court is now urging us to the point of solving Taiyuan's trap!

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