Chapter 104: Survey on the Border (2)

Linzhou, the lower state, governs Wuer Fort. It has jurisdiction over Xinqin County, including Hengyang Village, Yincheng Village, Ningyuan Village, Taihe Village, Zhenchuan Village, Railing Fort, Shenmu Castle, Liangu County Town, Shentang Village

, Jingqiang Village, Hengrong Village, Foding Fort, Tongjin Fort, Linzhai Fort, Shenshu Fort, Huining Fort; The census of Chongning time included: 3,482 households and 8,600 mouths

Eighty-four. Obviously, this only logged in to the national household registration, namely the Han nationality and the Chinese foreign ministry, and there are also a large number of foreign households and hidden households that have not been logged in. These people have dual nationalities, and they often go to wherever they are treated well.

One side, so it is impossible to count.

The terrain of the Linfu area is not like that of Ningxia and northern Shaanxi. Xia is a relatively flat plateau, but with ravines and large mountains and deep ditches. Therefore, the roads are all guided by the river, and are winding and winding. Zhao Qiong and his walking are in harmony.

On Hejin Road, from Hejin to cross the floating bridge to Yincheng, and then from Yincheng to Linzhou City. As soon as they passed the ferry, the Linzhou Prefecture had sent troops and envoys and other officials to wait there.

Because Lin, Fu and Feng are located at the extreme border, the military status is very important. Lin, Fu and Feng have a marriage relationship centered on the Zhe family, which made the Song Dynasty worry about the three states being united.

As a big sawing force. Therefore, during the Taizong Dynasty, when Yang Guangyan, the governor of Linzhou, died and his son Yang Qi was unable to bear the responsibility of his duties at a young age, the Song Dynasty no longer served as the governor, but instead accepted it as the state. As a local tyrant, Yang

In this way, the clan no longer specializes in Linzhou, but instead appointed corresponding officials to the central government.

After a little rest, under the guidance of the guide, he turned south and walked for more than fifteen miles to reach Jingqiang Village camp. This village was established at the junction of the river valley and nearby mountains, extending from the top of the mountain to the valley, controlling the main traffic routes in the valley

When selecting a site, the fortress fully considers factors such as water sources and military farms, approaches the water source, and uses river water to irrigate a large amount of fertile fields to facilitate survival and production of grain.

Zhao Qi was warmly welcomed into the village by Zhizhai. He looked at Zhizhai who was smiling. His clothes and words were almost the same as those of the Han people, but his hair and face were still different from them. "My lord, the surname is Yang, and his name is Tianbao,

In the previous dynasty, I returned to the Khan, and it has been five generations since Xiaguan!" Na Zhizhai saw that Zhao Qi's eyes were strange and quickly explained.

"Yang Zhizhai has received the emperor's kindness for all generations, and has been grateful to him and sincerely serves our dynasty, and is a general!" The military envoy of Linzhou also took the opportunity to come forward and speak for him.

"Well, it's not bad!" Zhao Qi agreed vaguely. He knew that the Song Dynasty's official system in the border areas was very different from that in the Central Plains. The vassal officials had dual responsibilities, blocking the leaders from being granted specific official positions and accepting the imperial court and local government Han.

The political tasks assigned by officials such as guarding the border, going to war, paying tribute, etc., organized the ministry and civilians to serve. On the other hand, they continue to manage their own members in the name of inspection and doing their own affairs. They are restricted in the political bureaucratic system.

It may be lower than the Han officials, but it also has military, political and clan power within its clan. The vassal officials can also inherit the family, the father dies, the son dies, the brother dies, and the younger brother becomes the one who is strong even if there is no relative in the family.

The head of the clan is young, and his mother can help him, just like the leader of a kingdom, although this kingdom is a little small.

Zhao Qi entered the village and went straight to the city tower and looked around. Here, it was far away from the border and within the ancient Great Wall. It has not been harassed by war in the past decade. It has developed into a larger village with a circumference of more than 900.

The wall is two meters high and more than one meter wide. There are all kinds of government offices, barracks, granaries, arsenals, residences and shops around it. Several villages with military farming as the main business are formed around it. The increase in population makes it easier to find here.

Showing prosperity.

"Yang Zhizhai, how many households are there and how many people are there?" Zhao Zhen turned his face and asked Yang Tianbao who was following him.

"Report to the prince, the small village currently has fifty-one main households, 320 customers, a population of 2,130, and more than 1,200 people!" Obviously, the Zhizhai was from the mouth of the military envoy.

After knowing Zhao Qi's other identity, he looked even more respectful.

"Thank you for your hard work in Yang Zhizhai. It's really capable to attract so many people!" Zhao Qi nodded. No one in the northwest was willing to come. It was really not easy for him to gather so many people.

"Prince Xie praised him. This is the duty of a humble position. It is very windy here, so please speak more conveniently in the hall!" Yang Tianbao was affirmed by the prince, and his face was bright and he bowed.

"Okay, I have been riding a horse for a day and I am exhausted. It's just that I have brought a lot of military generals. If I have time, Yang Zhizhai will arrange food and accommodation, and I will return it together!" Zhao Qi said,

The village could not let go of three thousand people, so he only ordered fifty guards to enter the village, and the rest remained outside.

"The prince said nothing, this is what a humble official should do!" Yang Tianbao thought Zhao Xiao was polite. Even if he was not polite, he couldn't afford to offend him. He immediately called a follower and asked him to leave the village to arrange it.

Zhao Qi and others followed Yang Tianbao into the government office. This government office also imitated the style of the front and back houses in the Central Plains. It was built with bluestone, but it was much smaller. The yard only had two entry points, not to mention facilities such as gardens.

But in this remote place it is a luxury house!

The host and guest took a seat and had a rest. Yang Tianbao's wife brought his wives, concubines and children to pay their respects, which scared Zhao Qi. This kid is really good, with only wives and concubines, a lot of children, and the eldest son is full of beards.

It's still sipping, and I really don't know if he can handle it. I can't say that Zhao Qi would have to take out some glass beads and other things to give it to him.

Seeing that the prince was generous, Yang Tianbao was even more happy and ordered the banquet to be placed and let the two daughters serve the wine. Although they had been sweating for many years, they still maintained the eating habits of the Qiang people, with beef, mutton and dairy as the main food, and milk

The products include cheese, crispy, butter, milk residue, etc. The food is mainly pasta, with noodles, porridge, cakes, steamed buns, buns, etc. The production has adopted the methods of roasting, roasting, fried, steaming, boiling, and stir-frying.

Soon, everyone was setting up a bunch of dishes in front of them.

The people of Xixia generally like to drink tea and wine. Tea is an indispensable drink for the herdsmen of Xixia. Wine is also something that the people of Xixia cannot leave in their lives. All gatherings, oaths, celebrations, birthday celebrations, weddings, funerals, marriages, wars, and revenge are all taken.

Drinking the wine, I will stop drunk. Zhao Qiong drank the "rise" and ordered the soju to bring him. The wine was much more than the wine they brewed. Although it was mellow, it was very powerful. He would just drink it and drink it first.

He poured two people who served the wine, and then turned around and found that Yang Zhizhai and a few of them were not caring about themselves at this time. He poured himself into drinking and persuaded himself to get drunk. Seeing Zhao Qi, he was stunned and thought about Sun.

The Xia people who said that Erqian is addicted to alcohol and are like their lives is true. It’s better to drink with the prince!

Zhao Qiong and the accompanying soldiers rested in the inn that night. This place was not big, and the conditions could be imagined. The next morning, he got up, and saw Yang Tianbao personally leading a team of vassals.

The soldiers were standing guard at the door. It turned out that he woke up in the middle of the night and realized that the prince had not left the village. He was ashamed and moved, so he quickly got up and came to stand guard. It turned out that he would not be the magistrate who came here, not to mention the comforting envoy patrol the border, even if the magistrate came.

He would sleep in his village, worried that they would rebel and tie him up and send him to Xixia for rewards, but the prince only brought a team of guards and dared to sleep on his territory, which made Yang Tianbao feel that the prince was very great to him.

Trust, can you not be grateful?

Seeing Yang Tianbao standing guard with his sword on his back, Zhao Qi was amused and crying. He wanted to teach him a lesson and not drink to make things worse, but now he can only scold him. After breakfast, Zhao Qi inspected Jingqiang Village.

The defense system, the farming situation, checked the reserves of food and weapons, and reviewed the soldiers stationed in the village. He felt that he was doing well, and encouraged him and told him to prepare for war and produce well and not to take it lightly.

Pan Heng for a day, Zhao Qi finished his inspection and went to the next village. After the prince left, Yang Tianbao felt the difference between this Shangguan and others. Not only did he really settle the cost of consuming food and grass for the army in two days, but he was

The earthwork he sent was also paid at the price, leaving behind several jars of good wine. What surprised him even more was that the prince's personal military discipline was strict and he did not habitually harass the villagers. What was rare was that he also sent military doctors to patrol the village households.

He was sent to the hospital and medicine. He left the camp and cleaned up the camp. It seemed that he would have to be clean when he didn't come. This increased Yang Tianbao's favorability towards the prince several percentage points!

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Zhao Qi continued to travel south to inspect several villages and forts such as Shentang Village and Dahe Village, because this route was one of the tunnels invaded by Xixia in the two prefectures of Linfu. They had followed Quyehe Road many times and followed Xiazhou along

Wuding River goes east to Yinzhou and takes Linfu directly to threaten the east bank of the Yellow River and the Hedong area. It is the main military channel. Every time he goes, he asks in detail about the situation, path, water source, and seasons.

Precipitation and the water volume of the river must be recorded. Even trails that can only be accessed by a single person must be marked on the map. You must even get off the horse and stay in the dangerous places, observe the terrain personally, and discuss with everyone how to station troops and how to resist the enemy.

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Stop and stop along the way, Zhao Jia also had a certain understanding of the fort. Each fort has a wall, and it was built using two methods: cutting slopes as walls and rammed earth plates. It was built with water along the mountains.

According to the terrain, it will expand as appropriate, but it will include a small hill as the commanding heights in the fortress. Then the city wall will wind down from the hill to the river valley and stream, which will not only occupy the favorable terrain, but also have enough water sources to create its own defense.

system.

Since the ascension of the Shenzong, Song's war against Xia has turned into a counterattack. After that, the village repairs have changed from strategic defense to a military project of strategic offensive. The policy of "building cities to force cities, moving villages to attack villages" is used to build one and consolidate one.

, step by step, build a large number of fortresses to advance and force Xixia to retreat. However, it is not easy to build a fortress in the northwest, and it is even more difficult to maintain the existence of the fortress. After completion, it still needs to build enemy buildings, stables, military camps and offensive and defensive equipment.

We must garrison troops.

The construction of the fortress consumes a lot of manpower, and material resources and financial resources have put a heavy burden on the finances. The more the fortresses are built, the longer the defense line and the dispersion of troops are caused, which is not conducive to guerrilla warfare or mobile warfare, but instead shackles oneself.

After seeing the Dahe Village, Zhao Jie also had to go to Dahebao, which was close to the border. If he led the army to the scene, it would cause excessive reactions from Xixia. In addition, the roads there were inconvenient and difficult transportation of materials. So many people were afraid of taking that

The food accumulated was empty, so he decided to divide his troops here. Zhao Qi led the Guards, a small team of scouts, several officials and the Linzhou soldiers and horse envoys who accompanied him to Dahebao, and the others were led by Zhao Ren

Go to Silver City to wait.

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Chapter completed!