Zhang Jinping was about to give birth and was not feeling happy. Instead, she was worried all day long.
She felt something was wrong and her father-in-law might rebel!
"Sister, why don't you go out for a walk today?" Zheng Yuanyi asked, holding a child in her arms.
The child's name is Zhu Kang, and he is Ju Ming's eldest son.
The name was chosen arbitrarily. I was born in Jinzhou, which belongs to Ankang County.
Zhang Jinping forced a smile and walked out with the support of his maid, holding his big belly.
After walking around the courtyard, Zhang Jinping looked towards another courtyard, but in the end he couldn't bear to go there.
Everything will be discussed after the child is born.
However, Miss Wen couldn't hold back and blocked Zhu Guoxiang in the study room: "Why is your husband training for the army?"
Zhu Guoxiang smiled and said: "Of course it is to guard against bandits."
Wen Xiaomei said: "One or two hundred village braves are enough to guard against bandits, but do you need to mobilize many villagers? I went to the market two days ago and wandered on the street. I heard some women chatting, and they were all talking about the training of the men at home. I A total of ten women were asked, and eight of them had sons or husbands serving in the military."
"well!"
Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "What do you think I am going to do?"
Miss Wen was silent for a long time, then raised her head and asked: "Revolt...rebellion?"
Zhu Guoxiang asked: "How could you think so?"
Wen Xiaomei said: "Besides rebellion, I really can't think of anything else. I need to mobilize most of the young people in the village to practice. And it's not just a month or two, it's been several months."
Zhu Guoxiang didn't know how to explain it, so he could only say perfunctorily: "Next year or the year after, my little sister will know what my father and son are going to do."
Wen Xiaomei asked: "Has it been discussed with Dalang?"
Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "Yes."
"Are you really going to rebel?" Miss Wen was still worried.
Zhu Guoxiang said: "Troubled times are coming, and we must prepare early. Has my little sister read history?"
Wen Xiaomei said: "I have only read "Historical Records"."
Zhu Guoxiang said: "Read the "Book of the Later Han", "Book of the Sui", and "Book of the Tang", and you will know that the world of the Song Dynasty is going to be in chaos."
In fact, Zhu Guoxiang has not read these history books, and his historical knowledge is still at the middle school textbook stage.
Zhu Guoxiang finally got rid of the concubine and went out to board the ship to Jinzhou.
Yang Zhi is training troops in Tiemao Village, Jinzhou, and has assembled an army of 200 people. The foundation here is weak and the number of villagers is not large. Recruiting 200 people for training is the limit, otherwise the production of the iron smelting yard will be affected.
In Tienmao Village, rattan armor is not used. All officers from the squad leader level up wear zha armor.
The Zha armor shape is a simplified version of the Buren armor in the Song Dynasty.
As for the reason for reducing the allocation, it is because most of the battles were in Sichuan in the early stage. The infantry armor, which can easily weigh 50 to 60 pounds, is really not conducive to mountainous activities, and the weight must be reduced to ensure flexibility.
Ordinary soldiers seemed very luxurious in the Song Dynasty, and were equipped with all-color chain armor (due to insufficient numbers, not all of them have been equipped yet, and construction is being stepped up).
"How's the training going?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.
Yang Zhi was quite excited: "The military training book compiled by Zhu Xianggong is really amazing, and it is better than the methods of the Forbidden Army."
Zhu Guoxiang said: "He must have made some omissions when talking about military affairs on paper. When you are training troops to fight, you can correct them if you encounter any inadequacies."
"Yes!" Yang Zhi handed over his hand.
Ju Ming's so-called military training book combines "General Martial Arts", "Records of Military Training" and "New Book of Military Training".
Yang Zhi added: "In the past six months, I have recruited dozens of hunters from the mountains, all of whom have a very difficult life. Most of the young people in the village work in the iron smelting field, forging field, and armor field. It is really difficult to
Adjust too much to practice.”
Most of the weapons in Daming Township and Jintan Village were made by Tiemao Village.
Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "You are really short of manpower here. You can recruit more hunters to train fire gun soldiers. If there is not enough food, I will contact merchants from other places to transport food." He also warned, "Be careful to prevent the news from leaking."
Yang Zhi said: "Since the beginning of the military training, we are no longer allowed to come in and out at will. We set up a blockade five miles outside the village to intercept them. If they don't listen to the advice, they will be killed directly!"
"Well done." Zhu Guoxiang praised.
At this time, the magistrate of Jinzhou was named Han Zhao, who was from Yingchang (Xuchang). There was no faction, and he was promoted purely through qualifications.
He is a little old man, and he cannot be considered a good official, nor can he be said to be very bad.
Anyway, when the transfer envoy gave the task, Han Zhao tried his best to raise money and asked his officials to step up the collection. If the tax collected was insufficient, he would scold him and then do whatever he had to do.
In Jinzhou City today, the specific government affairs have been controlled by subordinate officials, all of whom were promoted by Ju Ming.
However, these subordinate officials were divided into two groups, who disliked each other and occasionally tried to undermine each other. This was also a situation created by Ju Ming. At the beginning, he did not trust anyone and deliberately left the two groups to check and balance each other.
Zhu Guoxiang inspected Tiemao Village for two days and then took a boat to Jintan Village in Yangzhou.
Over at Jintan Village, the person in charge of training was Li Jinyi, the prototype of Lu Junyi in "Water Margin".
In "The Legacy of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty", which is closer to historical facts, Li Jinyi planned to kill the sergeant to rescue Yang Zhi, and then everyone ran to Luocao in the Taihang Mountains. Later, Song Jiang ranked the thirty-six generals, Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong) ranked first, and Li Jinyi
(Lu Junyi) Second, Yang Zhi became third.
When Zhu Guoxiang arrived at Jintan Village, he found out that Li Jinyi had trained more than 260 troops. For the time being, they only had weapons and no armor, and they would be shipped over before the troops were launched.
Jintan Village is too close to the city and outsiders are prohibited from entering and exiting at will.
Whether they are merchants who come to buy paper or nearby villagers who come to buy salt, they all trade at the entrance of the village.
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Muzhou was officially renamed Yanzhou, which means strict management.
Shezhou was officially renamed Huizhou, which means bound.
These two places are where Fang La made his fortune, and most of the backbone of the rebel army came from here.
In July, Fang La died in battle in the mountainous area of Guiyang (Rucheng).
It still falls into the hands of Han Shizhong, not because the world line is closed, but because Han Shizhong started the war without risking his life.
In the summer, the Guiyang mountainous area was full of miasma. The Forbidden Army, the Western Army and the Southern Army surrounded Fang La in several mountains. Everyone was looking for a place to rest and wait until autumn.
However, Han Shizhong led a small group of troops to search the mountains in the scorching heat, grabbing his tongue and questioning Fang La's whereabouts.
After confirming the situation, he only had twenty or thirty men in hand, but he set fire to the mountain at night, and then rushed straight to Fangla's base camp.
The veterans who followed Fang La and fought thousands of miles were severely reduced due to the miasma. With their morale low, they were attacked at night. Thousands of old thieves were routed by Han Shizhong's 20 or 30 men. Fang La himself also died in the rebellion.
With only more than a thousand elite old thieves left, they broke up and fled to Jinghu South Road, where they continued to fight under the leadership of Fang Qifu.
At this point, there are still two units of Fangla's uprising army.
One group, led by Fang Qifu, moved toward the mountains of Hunan.
One group, headed by Lu Shinang and Yu Daoan, was active in the mountainous areas near Wuzhou (Jinhua), Chuzhou (Lishui), Wenzhou, and Taizhou.
Most of the Forbidden Army and the Western Army withdrew, and the remnants of the rebel army were handed over to local forces. As a precaution, a few thousand Forbidden Army were left behind, and they were ordered to deal with it within this year.
Han Shizhong, who had made great achievements, was not in a good mood. His military achievements were robbed!
The Forbidden Army and the Western Army marched north in batches. While Han Shizhong was waiting for the ship at Jingkou, his good brother Wang Yuan recruited prostitutes to relieve his boredom.
There was a woman named Liang who was proficient in poetry and calligraphy, and had the power to draw a strong bow.
Han Shizhong was greatly surprised and asked: "Where is this girl from? She is so talented in both civil and military affairs?"
Liang's daughter said: "My grandfather and father were both officers in Chizhou. Before the imperial army arrived, they were ordered to annihilate Fang La. Because of their incompetence in the battle, they lost the city and were sentenced to death. Their slaves were also used as official prostitutes in Jingkou."
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Han Shizhong sighed: "Oh, the big turban has no strategy for defeating thieves, but we Qiuba are unlucky, and our families will be affected in the end."
"The world is difficult, and there is no other way." The Liang daughter said sadly.
Han Shizhong poured wine for her and drank one himself: "Although I have made great achievements, I am also very unlucky. I have been robbed of my credit time and time again."
Both of them were frustrated and had a very speculative conversation.
When Wang Yuan saw this, he smiled and said, "You two men are so talented and beautiful, so you wouldn't want me to be the matchmaker."
Han Shizhong's face turned red, and Liang's daughter lowered her head and said nothing.
They were drinking flower wine here, while Chen Ziyi, an old acquaintance of Ju Ming, was drinking wine in another camp.
The direction of Chen Ziyi's attack was in southern Zhejiang. He had dozens of people under his command. While chasing the defeated troops, he rode on horseback and captured the bandit leader Hong Zai alive. This man was also the leader of the party and occupied most of the state at its peak.
Chen Ziyi was also robbed of his credit. He only got the position of head of the cavalry army, able to command a hundred cavalry.
"Straight bitch!"
Half drunk, Chen Ziyi cursed loudly and smashed the wine jar.
The imperial court had offered rewards to all the bandit chiefs under Fang La's command. After agreeing to capture Hong Zai, they would be directly awarded the title of Dr. Youwu (a sixth-grade military attache). What's going on with a horse army?
The more Chen Ziyi thought about it, the angrier he became, and gradually became discouraged.
He thought that as long as he fought hard, he would be able to stand out based on his ability. Now he realized that he was completely wrong. Promotion did not depend on ability, at least not on the ability to kill enemies, but on having someone above him who knew how to flatter others and send money.
Now that Fang La is dead, his remnants are nothing more than grasshoppers after autumn.
As the commander-in-chief, Tong Guan was awarded the title of Grand Master for his meritorious service and the title of Duke of Chu State. He was ready to incite the emperor to attack the Liao Dynasty.
Tong Guan claimed that his troops were all elite soldiers who had fought many battles. They first conquered Xixia, and now they also pacified Fangla. They were the most powerful army in the world. However, the Liao Kingdom had already declined and had lost its city and territory by the small states of the Jin Kingdom. The country was even more devastated.
The civil unrest continued, and once the heavenly soldiers of the Song Dynasty arrived, the soldiers and people of the Liao Kingdom would inevitably surrender.
Song Huizong, who was planning to postpone the invasion of Liao for a few years, was a little moved by Tong Guan's words.
Wang Fu, who had opposed the invasion of Liao a while ago, was actually moved, mainly because his finances were a little better.
Once the South was settled, military expenditures were not that large.
Secondly, the economic money collected in the southeast has been extended to Lianghuai and Gyeonggi, and can collect millions of dollars in taxes.
Li Yan, a third-generation eunuch, founded Xicheng Institute and exploited Jingdong, Jingxi and Lianghuai like crazy. This business alone can generate an income of two million yuan a year.
A three-pronged approach has achieved increased revenue and reduced expenditure.
Wang Fu felt that the court was no longer short of money, and Tong Guan had said that once the Song Dynasty sent troops, the Liao Kingdom would definitely surrender, and it would be possible to quickly conquer Yanyun.
As a prime minister, his foundation is too shallow, and Cai Jing has so many gang members that he cannot be squeezed out. Cai Jing may make a comeback at any time.
If he could regain Yanyun, Cai Jing would never want to come back!
Wang Fu and Tong Guan began to flirt with each other, and the two secretly discussed the plan to conquer the Liao Dynasty. They also brought Cai You in, and the three of them planned to cooperate to achieve this great achievement.
