"Retro method, suppressing mergers, equalizing land, raising soldiers... Hahaha, I only thought He Li would think of reform, but he didn't expect that he could actually see retro. Not bad, not bad, he is a great talent."

"He Li, the head of state, is from Shu, with three brothers from one family. They go to Beijing to receive the imperial examination together, and all of them are in high school."

"Three Jinshi in one subject! He is so smart..."

"It's just a pity that such talents cannot be used by my Dazhou."

"What a pity is that what can he do if he can see retro? He can't do it!"

Wu Haogu was meeting and talking with Lin Chong and Liu Ze in the inner hall of the head of state.

The content of the conversation between He Li and Liu Qi has been reported to Wu Haogu by Lin Chong.

Wu Haogu also had a little appreciation for He Li. The Song Confucians were still talented, but the feudal monarchy of the Song Dynasty determined that He Li's great talent would not be able to be used in the end.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "He Li didn't see through it completely. In fact, our Great Zhou not only suppressed annexation but also equalized the land, but also something that the Song State could not implement in any case."

"What is the Head of State?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "Abolish the imperial examinations! If the imperial examinations are not abolished, the people with many fields in the countryside will take the examinations as the way to go and join the army as the last job. Even if the merger can be suppressed, it will not be of much use. Moreover, most of the landlords are officials from Jinshi, so if the imperial examinations are not abolished, the fields cannot be limited.

Su Qi, do you think this is the reason?”

Su Qi, the chief of Wu Haogu's intelligence, also attended today's meeting. When he heard Wu Haogu's question, he responded with a smile: "What the head of state said is very true. Eight out of ten people who have extensive fertile land. If the imperial examination is not abandoned, how can the land be limited? Moreover, in the Song Dynasty, limiting the fields and equalizing the fields is to plunder the people's land. It will cause civil unrest. At that time, it will not be a big chaos in the world? In the eyes of students, it is better to abolish the imperial examinations and use military merits as a way to achieve the progress of the people. In this way, people with more fields in the folk will learn martial arts and join the army."

Wu Haogu nodded and asked, "Su Qi, do you think there is a successful route to restricting fields and equalizing fields in Song State?"

"Yes!" Su Qi smiled and said four words, "Tyranny, kill!"

The limited land in the Great Zhou Dynasty and equal land can work, but it is actually based on killing. Which land in Yan, Liaodong, and western Liaoning is not driven by corpses and blood? If you want to send troops to Goryeo, you have to continue killing people.

But the question is, can the Song Dynasty kill like this? It is impossible... One is to kill the enemy and the other is to kill his own people. The difficulty is completely different. All the civil and military officials of the court are all landlords, so who can kill them all? It is impossible.

Therefore, the prescription prescribed by Wu Haogu for the Song Dynasty was more feasible.

At least the Qing Dynasty in history successfully abolished the imperial examination system... Well, then it became a republic.

Wu Haogu smiled: "Su Yu, come back and prepare a few articles to criticize the imperial examination system and give it to me."

"Here."

Of course, these powerful articles are to be published in the newspapers of the Song Dynasty to declare war on the old system of the Song Dynasty!

The anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement in the Song Dynasty has just begun now, so it is better to add a few more pieces of firewood.

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu said to Liu Ze again: "Brother Liu, please go to Kaifeng Prefecture to be a financial backer for Chen Dong, Zhang Jun, He Li and others. If you have the opportunity, it will promote the establishment of the Retro Party."

Liu Ze quickly stood up and bowed: "I will not be humiliated!"

...

"Dongliao contacted us? But it's true?"

"Really! Of course it's true. Yesterday we all met the Grand Duke of the East Liao Dynasty. The Eastern Liao Dynasty was willing to send 60,000 troops to raid Linhuang Prefecture first to mobilize the main force of the Jin army to advance eastward. Then, our Song Dynasty plus the Western Liao Dynasty, tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry of Liang Kingdom will attack Datong. Now the plan to destroy Jin in the four countries can be successful!"

Wang Fu said with a sarcastic look. When he was excited, he got up from the chair, walked around the room, and danced his arms from time to time.

Wang Fu, who was also the leader of buying sky-high cattle, sheep and horses not long ago, has now become a pro-war faction.

He Li asked: "Wang Waizhi, then do we have to spend 900,000 yuan to buy cattle, sheep and horses?"

"Of course I have to buy it!" Wang Fu said, "This is a surprise victory. If we spend this 900,000, the Jin people will not be prepared. The Battle of Datong is a sure victory!"

After listening to Wang Fu's analysis, the three He family members nodded repeatedly, expressing their agreement with Wang Fu's analysis, which makes sense. If you spend this 900,000 yuan, you can really fool the Jin people. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve strategic deception. This 900,000 alone is completely insufficient.

In addition, the court of the Song Dynasty was a huge sieve, and any news would be leaked. How could the actions of tens of thousands of troops be kept confidential?

However, Wang Fu, He Li, He Tang and He Jing are still very confidential. Not only did they submit secret documents, but the top scholar He Li personally led the memorial to the emperor day and night to the emperor's journey in Xiangyang Prefecture. The news of Dongliao's participation in the four countries' attack on the Jin Dynasty and the impending destruction of the Zhou Dynasty to Zhao Ji, the official of the Song Dynasty.

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Xiangyang was a mighty city in history, known as the iron-clad Xiangyang. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, it became a key point for the survival of the country.

The failure of the Xiangyang siege, which lasted nearly five years, almost declared that the land of China was sinking and the Han people were killed!

The five years of fighting against the national soldiers of the Mongolian Yuan (at least Kublai Khan's national soldiers) with the power of a city, which fully demonstrates the sturdiness of Xiangyang City.

However, if Kublai Khan, in history, saw the Xiangyang Xiong City, which took several years to build by Pan Xiao'an, the Northern Song Dynasty, who spared no effort and carefully built, he would definitely give up his plan to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because this Xiangyang Majesty City is so strong that it is crazy!

This is not the Xiangyang City built by the Southern Song Dynasty court, whose national strength was severely weakened by years of war, but a heroic city built by the Daozong Dynasty of Fenghengyu Dao. Moreover, Pan Xiao'an also hired a large number of masters from the Qingcheng Academy and Gezhi Academy's construction institute, and used solid and cheap red bricks and mud.

Because of the cheap red bricks, the Xiangyang city wall is no longer covered with a large amount of rammed earth with a layer of thin bricks, but wrapped with red bricks up to one meter thick. The red bricks are all bonded with Tianjin mortar (not produced in Tianjin, but are fired in a kiln near Xiangyang City), and are extremely strong.

Not only did Xiangyang City on the south bank of the Han River use this technology of bonding red bricks with soil and marl. Looking across the water from Xiangyang City, Fancheng, known as the "paper-paste" also uses the same technology!

Moreover, the improvement is not only the construction technology, but also the design of the castle. The artillery and crossbows that just appeared on the battlefield a few years ago influenced the design of Xiangyang and Fancheng at the first time.

These two castles are no longer traditional square structures, but octagonal structures. There is a prominent triangular horse face at the eight corners (the design of this triangular horse face was copied from the Zhou Kingdom, and this primary bastion is being built in large quantities in the northern part of the Zhou Kingdom bordering the Jin Kingdom). The cannons, crossbows and god-arm crossbows deployed on the two triangular horse faces can form crossfire.

Moreover, with the prominent triangular horse face, the defenders do not have to deploy troops on the continuous city walls. They only need to deploy a small number of troops equipped with divine arm crossbows and artillery on the eight triangular horse faces to withstand the attacks of enemies several times or even dozens of times their own.

Don’t underestimate this design that saves a lot of troops. Because the saving of troops in the defenders means a reduction in food consumption. The reason why Xiangyang surrendered after being surrounded for nearly five years in history was actually due to the interruption of the supply line.

If in history, facing the Mongolian army, Fan Ercheng was two castles equipped with artillery, Kublai Khan's army would have to stay under Xiangfan City until the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed...

In addition to the primary castle made of two bricks and stones, Pan Xiao'an also built a 24-mile outer city along the Han River outside the Xiangyang Castle City. It is also a structure covered with red bricks. Although there is no triangular horse face, 24 semicircular horse faces were built along the city wall. There are also turrets on the semicircular horse faces, which can be placed on the crossbows, artillery or counterweight stone generators. These 24 turrets are used to block the Han River surface!

If the Song army could obtain enough cannons to be laid on 24 turrets, then there would not be any enemy ships that could sail on this section of the Hanshui River!

At the end of this 24-mile outer city, the 10-mile mountain city defense line is built on Hutou Mountain, which directly connects to the south side of Xiangyang City. A solid Hutou Mountain Fortress is also built on the main peak of Hutou Mountain, as the core of the entire defense line, thus forming a complete Xiangyang outer city defense system.

Between the outer city and the inner city of Xiangyang, there are as many as 20,000 acres of fertile paddy fields!

If fully developed, sixty or seventy thousand stones of rice can be harvested every year, enough to feed 10,000 to 15,000 defenders.

This number of defenders is enough to defend two bastions, a mountain city and 24 horse-faced forts along the river. If the Song Dynasty court could equip the defenders with enough artillery, gunpowder, divine arm bows and armor.

In other words, the limit time that this Xiangyang Prefecture city can be when facing the enemy's siege will be in centuries, not in years!

After inspecting Xiangyang Prefecture City (including Xiangyang City, Fancheng, Outer City along the River, and Hutou Mountain City), Emperor Daozong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, was naturally very happy.

He immediately issued an edict to establish the Zongzheng Temple and Zongzheng Temple Army of Xiangyang, and all the Zongzis who followed him south were under the jurisdiction of Zongzheng Temple, and Ding Zhuang was selected from them to be incorporated into the Zongzheng Temple Army as the core of the future Xiangyang defenders.

At the same time, Zhao Ji also pulled out tens of millions of cords from the pile sealing warehouse to build houses in the two cities of Xiangfan and purchase land outside the city to resettle the sons who moved south.

In addition, Zhao Ji was personally stranded in Xiangyang to supervise the establishment of the Nanzongzheng Temple and Zongzheng Temple Army.

Just when Zhao Ji was stranded in Xiangyang and unknown when he would return north, the top scholar He Li personally led the memorial and finally arrived at Xiangyang Prefecture, which had become the world's largest city.

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