Autumn has already arrived in August. From Shaanxi on the west to Cangzhou on the east, the autumn winds dye the poplars yellow.

Both Shaanxi and Hebei are still shrouded in the devastation of the war.

It is no secret that the Jin army will go south in November.

The mobilization order issued from Tokyo City was quickly delivered north of the Yellow River.

Every state capital thousands of miles east to west has been notified, and all state capitals have entered a state of war.

Although the mobilization system in this era was very weak, various places were affected to a certain extent to a greater or lesser extent.

In addition, the supreme commander of the Eastern, Central and Western Fronts was already in place, and the long-sleeping war machine of the Song Dynasty began to operate slowly amid arguments and quarrels.

The young man at the head of the village put on the clothes mended by his old mother, carried dry food on his back, and left the village where he had lived for more than ten or twenty years.

They are about to enter the army.

I heard that all those who enlisted in the army in Cizhou and Damingfu were given salaries.

In addition, those who died in battle were entitled to a pension of thirty thousand pounds.

In this era when human life is at stake, thirty guan is already an astronomical figure for the people in Hebei and Hedong.

Some people are willing to sell their lives for the sake of their children or parents.

Countless people gathered from the countryside to the military town being built to join this unprecedented scale of defense.

time is life.

Especially the defense lines in Hebei and Hedong are facing the endless plains, which are also the front line of the capital. In a few months, they will definitely be the focus of the Jin army's attack.

When Ouyang Che arrived, "Hebei Wartime Daily" was quickly established in Damingfu.

There were 300 Tai students who went with him.

In the first year of Jingkang, all these imperial students wrote a letter requesting the execution of Tong Guan and others. Later, when Li Gang was dismissed, they wrote a letter requesting Li Gang be re-appointed.

Even Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty and Zhao Huan sent officials out of the city to negotiate peace, and they also participated in beating up the officials who negotiated for peace and surrender.

This was nothing new in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

When the Jin army went south for the first time, the imperial court sent officials north. Those officials who negotiated peace were scolded wherever they went, and some were even beaten to death on the way.

Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism were not welcome in the Southern Song Dynasty and were always rejected and suppressed. Until the Ming Dynasty was supported as orthodox, scholars could only read the Four Books and Five Classics and showed no concern for state affairs.

But the Song Dynasty was different. Confucianism in the Song Dynasty was still very healthy. Before the Jingkang scandal occurred, the ideology of the Song Dynasty was considered very healthy.

Active scientific and technological construction, commercial trade, and the bloody spirit of the people at the bottom are actually still there.

The only ones who cheated the country were the emperors of the Zhao family.

As soon as the Tai students arrived at Daming Mansion, they began to use newspapers to promote war ideas.

According to His Majesty the Emperor's wishes, even the dilapidated wall at the head of the village was written with the words "Fight against gold thieves, defend homeland".

He also wrote the "Letter to His Majesty the Emperor".

The literate people in the village shouted loudly at the head of the village: Fight against the gold thieves and defend our homes.

The people at the bottom heard the voice from the capital palace for the first time.

Although this voice is still very weak and only appears on some dilapidated walls through a few words, it indicates that Zhao Ning is using the most direct and simple way to break through layers of obstacles and rebuild the Song Dynasty.

Mobilization system.

The "Tokyo Daily" in Tokyo City was an attempt, and the "Hebei Wartime Daily" in Damingfu was a breakthrough.

Of course, if you want to quickly mobilize more people and speed up the establishment of defense lines, you need not only ideological propaganda tools such as newspapers, but more realistically, money.

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.

On August 10, in a memorial sent to the capital from Jingzhao Prefecture (Chang'an), Zhang Jun reported on the current overall situation of the troops in various military towns in Shaanxi.

Towns in Shaanxi have mobilized 250,000 soldiers and civilians, which is said to be half a million.

But lack of money and armor.

The 80,000 pieces of armor previously issued were completely insufficient for new recruits to join the army.

On August 12, a memorial was sent from Daming Prefecture, which stated that Longde Prefecture had 50,000 troops, Cizhou had 30,000 troops, and Daming Prefecture had 70,000 troops.

These are the regular army recruited into the army, plus the supporting soldiers and civilians, the total number exceeds 300,000.

Fortunately, Zongze is on the center line of the battle. Currently, he is the only one who can summon so many manpower on the center line at such a fast speed and arrange them well in various places.

But there is also a problem. As soon as the 5 million yuan entered Hebei, it began to flow out like a surging river.

Zhang Shuye said in his memorial that in order to quickly build cities and towns, various places in Hebei and Hedong were using cash to boost morale.

This was a helpless matter, and the time left for the Song Dynasty to prepare was too short.

The three towns of Taiyuan, Hejian, and Zhongshan were lost, and the defense line was penetrated. To build a defense line within a few months, the most crude and simple method could only be used.

As for Li Gang's arrival in Cangzhou, Hebei East Road and Jingdong East Road, which were originally leaderless, also began to rush to tell each other.

The people finally saw the court's attitude.

However, information transmission in this era is very limited after all. News is transmitted between state capitals, but cannot immediately sink to the people.

Fortunately, the 1 million guan that Li Gang brought over immediately helped him gather a group of people in the area.

At the most critical moment, the most crude and useful thing is money!

On August 13, Zhao Ning also received Li Gang's memorial.

The current memorials for the three lines of defense all reveal the same thing: lack of money!

In Shaanxi, Zhang Jun even cut off taxes first and then transferred the tax money to military expenditures, so that when many officials went to receive their monthly salary with "coupon calendars", they were told that the payment was suspended.

This practice of harming the interests of bureaucracy immediately aroused a backlash from some people.

For example, Li Boyan, the magistrate of Qinzhou, sent a memorial to the capital to impeach Zhang Jun for embezzling taxes and intending to commit rebellion.

As soon as the news reached Tokyo, it immediately caused a great sensation.

A group of bureaucrats who had been squatting nearby, waiting for Zhang Jun to make a mistake, immediately began to stay up late and write furiously.

I started writing articles from national defense and security, to official ethics, to Zhang Jun's personal moral character.

For example, someone wrote that Zhang Jun did not listen to lectures in class when he was a child. He also liked to bully other classmates, spit everywhere, and peeked at the woman next door taking a bath. His moral depravity has reached the point where people and gods are outraged.

Of course, some people will definitely use the "Chenqiao mutiny, yellow robes" as an excuse. This was a common method used by the civil servants of the Song Dynasty to intimidate Zhao Guan's family.

When Zhao Ning received Li Boyan's memorial, he made a comment: This person was trying to sow discord between the emperor and his ministers during the preparations for the war, and it was recommended to find out whether he was a spy of the Jin people.

Li Boyan is just an epitome of many bureaucrats.

Currently, there is only one problem before Zhao Ning: money!

For Zhao Ning, any reform now would be a distraction from his true business, because at this time, the most important thing is to make money.

To prepare the next defense in such a short period of time, the right people have been arranged, and all that is left is money.

As long as the Jin army's offensive is defended this year, the Song-Xia alliance will surely succeed!

On August 15th, the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tokyo was strong. It was rare for the people to feel the peaceful days again. Early in the morning, the streets were crowded with people.

Not only has the rice market recovered, but the teahouse has also begun to have customers.

As for the brothel outside Donghuamen, business is slowly improving.

Several imperial city squadrons walked straight into Chunfeng Tower, and the madam immediately greeted them with a smile on their faces: "Several officials, please come inside."

The leader, He Bin, said: "Mother Zhang, is Captain Wang here?"

"Lieutenant Wang...the king...is not here..."

"Why, you are so brave, you dare to hide it from the Imperial City Division when they are looking for someone?" He Bin said slowly, "You don't have any spies from the Jin people here, right?"

"Wang Taiwei, Wang Taiwei's Tianzihao is on the second floor."

Soon, the Tianzihao door was kicked open. Wang Zongliu, the commander of the front department, was working hard on the bed. He was so frightened by this kick that he became weak on the spot.

"Who is it! You are so bold!" Wang Zonglio cursed angrily.

When he saw that it was someone from the Imperial City Department, he became even more furious: "Get out of here!"

"Lieutenant Wang!"

"Get out! Don't think that relying on Gao Qiu, I can't do anything to you, get out!"
Chapter completed!