In the eighth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, in March, spring is warm and flowers bloom.

A horse's hooves stepped across a newly built floating bridge on the Huan River. The first horse was riding a horse and had already stepped on the south bank. Then dozens of knights rushed over. The horse's figure, a black hat and long clothes, and a long sword and arrow bag hanging on its belt, was Zhao Kai, the first man in the Song Dynasty.

On both sides of the road are large areas of weeds. Although the spring plowing time has passed, there are abandoned land everywhere in the eastern part of Anyang County. A team of four or five thousand cavalry is arranged in a long column, marching on the official road from Linzhang County to Anyang County south.

Because behind this cavalry were two or three hundred large carts, and a large number of people who helped the elderly and young, were as if they were long tails, so the speed of the march was not fast. After a few days of marching, they had just passed through the territory of Linzhang County and entered Anyang County.

Most of the big carts and people following the army were farmers from Linzhang County. When the Jin soldiers passed by, the four counties under Xiangzhou, including Anyang, Linlu, Linzhang, and Tangyin, were broken. Among them, Linzhang County was occupied by the Liaodong Han Army led by Han Chang for a period of time, so they suffered even more!

Although Han Chang was later scared away by Zhao Kai's army, the people of Linzhang were still scared. So this time when Zhao Kai led his troops to cross the border, thousands of farmers followed the team. As for Linzhang County, it was already empty, so he asked the Jin people to wash it, and then he was harmed by Han Chang for some time. When Zhao Kai led his men in, it was already an empty city (not completely empty, and there was a lot of food and grass in the city).

Because this small and broken city is on the main road where the Jin people went south and north, if heavy troops were arranged to defend, the Jin people would go around at most. If there were not many defenders, it would be equivalent to sending supplies to the Jin people... So Zhao Kai simply ordered the Linzhang County town to be abandoned, burned a fire, leaving only a circle of bare earthen walls.

To the south of the Huan River to the south of Linzhang County, there is a large town affiliated to Anyang County, called Yonghe Town. Because the Huan River east of Yonghe Town is deep and wide, it can be used for boats and the Yongji Canal is also connected. It was very prosperous before the Jin soldiers headed south, but now there are only ruins and a dilapidated scenery.

Zhao Kai and his several entourages are now immediately next to the Huanshui Wharf outside the dilapidated Yonghe Town, watching the long queues of canal ships flowing out of the water.

Although these canal ships left Daming one day later than Zhao Kai, they arrived in Yonghe Town earlier because of the smooth flow and were unloading.

The chief of the Marshal's Mansion, Lu Yihao, already knew that Zhao Kai's men had arrived, so he rode a donkey and came to meet him. Along with him was a strong man in his twenties, wearing a green robe with narrow sleeves and round neck, and carrying a sword.

This black-faced man approached and saw Zhao Kai who was immediately recognized by "Zhao Kai, the prince of Yun", and ignored Lu Yihao beside him. He just bowed and said, "I, Li Bao, Wanting, see His Highness, the King of Da (Nian Dai)!"

"Wanting Li Bao?" Zhao Kai thought hard for a while. Wanting knew that it was a place name, right in Xingren Mansion next to Kaifeng Prefecture. But he couldn't remember who Li Bao was?

Lu Yihao had already spoken: "My name, Lu Yihao, meets the king... King, this Li Bao is a leader under the Hebei Yunshu Department. He is quite capable and valued by Scholar Cai (Cai Mao), so he recommended it to me. I went with him all the way and found that he knew water warfare, was skilled in martial arts, and was willing to join the army, so I brought him to pay homage to the king."

The so-called gang head is the gang head contractor. The supply of Kaifeng Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Xijing Luoyang and other places in the Northern Song Dynasty relies on gang head transportation, and millions of stones of grain were imported from the southeast every year. The gang head transportation was a corvee service in the early Song Dynasty, and was responsible for the gang heads. Later, it became a business - the gang head can carry some goods to pass the customs without duty, so it is profitable, and a group of gang heads with great value was produced. Also, because it is inevitable to encounter gang heads with water thieves and thieves through a thousand miles of boats, the gang heads who can be gang heads have some courage and are good at fighting on the water.

Xingren Prefecture is facing the old Yellow River path, and the Wuzhang River (an important canal leading to Kaifeng Prefecture) flows through it, so many gangs and merchants were produced, and the Wanting Li family was one of them. This Li Bao was the son of the Li family, but he did not make a living on the Wuzhang River, but ran for transportation on the Yongji Canal. Not long ago, he was recruited by Cai Mao, and now he was enlisted by Zhao Kai through Lu Yihao's path.

Zhao Kai looked at the strong man with a black face and was majestic! So he nodded with a smile, "Okay... I am trying to establish a navy, but unfortunately I don't have a general who understands water battles under my command. Li Bao, you are here just the right time. How many soldiers under you are good at boats and water battles?"

"When you come back to the king, I have 600 men and 20 big ships under my command!"

Zhao Kai thought for a while, "Then become a general of the Navy and Feng Chengxinlang first! Your brothers are all considered utilityists!"

This is the official!

Li Bao smiled so hard that he couldn't stop smiling after hearing Zhao Kai's words, and bowed to Zhao Kaiyi again: "I'm a little... I'll thank the king for his kindness!"

Zhao Kai wrote to Sima Chen beside him: "Sima Chen, he will leave it to you."

Chen Ji responded and took Li Bao to apply for official photos and points to make a book... Looking at Chen Ji, Li Bao left, Lu Yihao leaned over to Zhao Kai, and then whispered: "King, you see, Xiangzhou is everywhere, but it is a waste of people. Look at the trial field camping, isn't it..."

"Um..." Zhao Kai nodded and looked around, "There is indeed a lot of wasteland in Xiangzhou. Let Han Xiaozhou check it carefully (sometimes). How can there be hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland? They can all be classified as Tiansi, Shuaifuxing.

Let’s follow the methods of the archers in Shaanxi and Hedong to the generals who are willing to take the land!”

What? Lu Yihao was shocked by Zhao Kai's words. You king is too dark, right? I originally wanted to persuade you to slow down. You just opened your mouth and wanted to take over half of the land in Xiangzhou? You really think of Xiangzhou, no, the famous families in Hebei are all made of paper? This is Xiangzhou, and the Han family's Xiangzhou!

The Han family owns a lot of land in Tangyin, Linzhang, Anyang and other counties. At least one-quarter of the so-called wastelands are the Han family's industries!

Although Zhao Kai led 27,800 troops to come, he was a guest after all. The Han family has been rooted in Xiangzhou for countless years. Since Han Qi, people have been in charge of Xiangzhou for generations, and they have become the vassal of Xiangzhou.

"Master, isn't this right?" Lu Yihao hurriedly said, "The wastelands in the eastern part of Xiangzhou are all masters... The Grand Marshal's Mansion cannot collect them into camp fields, that is to rob people's wealth!"

Zhao Kai nodded, his face darkened, "People's wealth? Humph, the Lone King worked so hard and took such a great risk to fight against the thief at the forefront. Who is that for?

Isn’t it to protect these people with land and land? But they can’t all count on me! They should protect themselves, join the army, and stand up to defend their families and the country! If these are not possible, then take out some land and give it to the Xiangzhou man who is willing to join the army and defend his country!"

This sounds like this is not about the Song Dynasty! Lu Yihao looked entangled. Although he knew that Zhao Kai was right, this is not how the world of the Song Dynasty came about...

Zhao Kai said murderously: "Don't worry, when the prefect Han comes to Yonghe Town, the Gu Wang will go and talk to him!"

After hearing Zhao Kai's words, Lu Yihao was really amused and crying. Does this king know what he was doing? He was robbing Han Xiaozhou and his family!

And you go and say...what do you say? Do you want to say to Han Xiaozhou: "If you have the surname Han, hand over all your land?"

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Chapter completed!