Chapter 592 Versus and Horizontally

Zhong Er's performance was also quite impressive. He overcame many difficulties such as poor logistics and low morale. He led his troops to attack the Xixia army in Luowu, occupied the key point here, and asked Yanda to lead 20,000 people to build a city and defend it.

Following the construction of Yonglechuan, Shanbuling, Funing Gucheng, Tuhunchuan, Kaiguangling, Jialuchuan and other villages, each of which were more than 40 miles apart and echoed each other, the Hengshan strategy began.

In fact, this was an invasion of the Xixia territory, and the first target was the Xixia people's Xiazhou. Zhong'e commanded it neatly, and Han Jiang reported Zhong'e's contribution to Xia to the court, begging for a reward, and Zhao Xu happily agreed.

Guo Kui was born as a big-headed soldier. Compared with the descendants of the great Confucian scholars, Han Jiang believed in the race.

But Su You didn't have such discrimination at all. Why did he cut off his beard and send it back to the capital? Guo Kui, old Han, are you sure you don't want it? That's just right. If you don't want it, I will!

He wanted Guo Kui to be his subordinate.

Guo Kui was not polite. As soon as he arrived in Shaanxi, he inspected all the armies in depth. Every time he went to the headquarters, he asked people to tell them what they could do and read them in his spare time.

Su You saw that Guo Kui was so proficient in military affairs and looked like he was afraid of dying from exhaustion, so he immediately threw the entire baggage to him and let go.

It's really freeing pigeons. There are many pigeons in Shaanxi. They were the pigeons Li Yuanhao used when he tricked the Song army.

Shi Wei was pregnant, and Su You actually didn't know the nutritional difference between pigeon eggs and chicken eggs, but pigeon eggs were the rare eggs Su You had ever seen whose albumen was still transparent after being cooked.

In later generations, many families would give this to their children. Pregnant women would eat it, and Suyou would follow suit.

Pigeons need to live high, and Weizhou has now become a rear area, and the several watchtowers at the head of the city are now useless, so Su You directly asked Zhang Qi to transform them into pigeon towers.

In Shaanxi, traffic roads are now very well maintained. For example, the road from Shangzhou to Weizhou is already an asphalt road.

The homing pigeon communication system is actually a very complex system, because pigeons do not remember the magnetic field of their hometown for a long time, so the pigeons in Weizhou need to be transported to various places for release before the pigeons fly back to Weizhou.

Moreover, today's traffic speed is not very fast. An ordinary postal service only travels 60 miles a day.

Therefore, several pigeons need to be sent to Shangzhou, which is three hundred miles away, every day. Then Shangzhou must release them and let them fly back voluntarily, regardless of whether there are letters or not.

If they stay in Shangzhou, they will soon become Shangzhou pigeons and no longer Weizhou pigeons.

To form an express reporting system, the number of pigeons raised in each city is very large.

The population is large and there are many eggs.

In fact, Shitong Company has been doing this for a long time. The homing pigeons cultivated in Meishan can even fly back to their hometown from Hangzhou.

However, the success rate from Weizhou to Meishan is still very low, not because of anything else, but because there are too many falcons over the Qinling Mountains and the journey takes too long.

Weizhou homing pigeons are very dark in color and quite ugly.

Because hawks are afraid of crows, dark-colored carrier pigeons have a much higher survival rate than light-colored carrier pigeons.

The pigeons cooed, expressing their dissatisfaction with Su You as an uninvited guest.

After picking some pigeon eggs and putting them in the basket held by Sun Neng, Su You saw a pigeon flying back wearing a small letter bag.

Sun Neng put down the basket, gently grabbed the pigeon in his hand, and took out a small paper roll from the envelope.

Next to the Pigeon House at the top of the city, there is a team of dozens of people who are responsible for raising homing pigeons and sorting out information sent back from various places.

Sun Neng went to the room to get the iodine solution, smeared it on the paper roll, and rows of extremely small writing appeared.

After reading the scroll, Su You smiled slightly and Li Wenzhao finally took the initiative.

…

In a small tribe in Sichuan and Tibet, Wang Hou, dressed in Tibetan attire, walked into a tent with a white sheepskin and a riding sword hung at the door.

Entering the tent, there were two people inside. Wang Hou took off the leather hat on his head and smiled at the man who was drinking milk tea in the tent: "Are you sure you want to see me?"

Li Wenzhao was very surprised: "Tang Silang! How could this extravagant figure who was famous in the border areas eight years ago be so young?!"

Li Wenzhao's confidant Barry Nina immediately drew a knife and put it on Wang Hou's neck: "Say! Who are you?!"

Wang Hou didn't take it seriously: "Is this how Marquis Fuping treats guests?"

"Marquis Fuping?" Li Wenzhao is no longer the high-spirited young man he was ten years ago. He smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid no one in the Xixia clan remembers this title..."

He waved his hand and asked Barry to put away the knife: "Mr. Lang is too young to blame me for being suspicious. Please sit down."

Wang Hou sat down and said, "It's not my fault, Mr. Hou, I'm only nineteen this year."

After speaking, he added: "But if you think about it again, Lord Marquis, would Tang Silang, who could control the border trade between the Song Dynasty, Xixia, and the Qing and Tang Dynasties, be just one person?"

"Your Majesty, you can think of Tang Silang as a guild, or just call it a guild. The leader of the guild is called Tang Silang. Tang Silang is a job title, not a personal name. Well, that's pretty much it."

Li Wenzhao twitched his lips: "Then how dare you trade with Xixia? According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, this is a serious crime."

Wang Hou didn't take it seriously: "But it's also a big profit. Aren't all the ways to make a fortune written in every country's "Xingtong"?"

Li Wenzhao laughed dumbly, this guy was really right.

Wang Hou said: "Nowadays, the size of the Shilang Society has become large. It has power in the Qingtang, Xixia, and Song Dynasties. Hahaha, to be honest, I came here this time because I was entrusted by Mr. Xiao Su to meet with the Marquis.

Talking about cooperation."

Li Wenzhao's eyes flashed: "Cooperation? What's the benefit to me? Just a short-term Marquis of Fuping? I heard that Liang Gewei, who was captured by Su You, is now the Marquis of Laiyuan of the Song Dynasty."

Wang Hou smiled: "Su Tanhua, among other things, is well-known for his business reputation. And when doing business with him, he will always give you a price you can't refuse. In his words, this is called a win-win situation.

How about Tiandu Mountain?”

The peaks stood out so much that even Li Wenzhao, a fierce man who had fought guerrillas for decades, couldn't help but feel so shaken that he knocked over the milk tea in his hand.

Bari Tina's heart was beating wildly. The price Xiao Su gave me was indeed something he couldn't refuse.

Tiandu Mountain! This is the capital of the restoration of the country!

Wang Hou said: "Xiao Su took Shimen Gorge and built Tianmen Village. The geographical advantage of Tiandu Mountain is no longer there."

"It is now a protruding part trapped between Hehuang and Shaanxi. In the past, when the Song Dynasty was weak, Tiandu Mountain was naturally a carnivorous fang."

"But now, when Hehuang and Shaanxi have turned into bones, Tiandu Mountain has turned into teeth stuck in the bones. It is a dilemma."

"Now that the results of the Song-Xia negotiations are becoming clearer and clearer, the Xia people are having a hard time this year. In order to restore the Sui coins, they have generally agreed that Shaanxi should maintain the status quo. Shimenxia is definitely not going back."

"Tiandu Mountain is where Yuan Hao's palace is located. The Xia people will not give up, but it is stuck in the middle and everyone is uncomfortable. Su Tanhua's intention is to change it to a Xixia owner."

Li Wenzhao sneered: "It's a good plan."

Wang Hou said: "Dong Xiang of the Qingtang Dynasty has told Su Tanhua many times that he believes that your activities in the Qingtang Dynasty have seriously affected the stability of the region. He prepared several conquests, but the Song Dynasty suppressed them."

"Now the situation has changed. The Song Dynasty is attacking Hehuang. Your presence has become a serious obstacle affecting the relationship between Qingtang and Song Dynasty. Marquis Fuping, for you, Qingtang, can it be better than Tiandu Mountain?"

Li Wenzhao said: "Our military strength is not enough to attack Tiandu Mountain. There is a huge shortage of weapons, medicine, and grain."

Wang Hou said: "The latest news is that Sitong Company has stored a large number of Xia people's ordnance, military uniforms, felt tents and quilts collected this time at the transportation station of Jiguxi. The tribes there are old subordinates of Fuping Marquis, and they only need to transport the transportation

Under the station calamity, we can immediately expand the number of more than ten thousand elites."

"As for grain and fodder, Tiandu Mountain has enough to supply an army of 100,000 for three years. This depends on the resourcefulness of Marquis Fuping."

Li Wenzhao said: "What are the requirements of the Song Dynasty?"

Wang Hou said: "Su Tanhua said that Marquis Fuping is Wu Zixu of Xixia. If you are willing to defect to the Song Dynasty, he will welcome you."

Li Wenzhao shook his head: "Wen Zhao was born as a Xia man and died as a Xia ghost. Don't mention this matter."

Wang Hou nodded: "This is exactly what Tanhualang expected. He said that Li Wenzhao worked hard for twenty years, resisted the tyranny of the tyrants, and never returned. This is an unparalleled scholar in the country, and it will be difficult for him to defect to the Song Dynasty. However, it does not affect his love for you.

of admiration.”
Chapter completed!