In late April, the lotus flowers on both sides of the Bianhe River are in full bloom.

River boats passed by one after another, loaded with goods.

Early in the morning, the crossing of the Bianhe River was temporarily blocked by the army.

Goods remaining above the Bian River can continue to be unloaded, but people around are temporarily not allowed to enter.

Because today the Zhao Guan family arrived at the Bianhe Ferry for personal inspection.

Accompanying Wang Zongli, he pointed to the boats with the "Tokyo Post" logo and said: "Most of these boats are loaded with grain. Half of them will be unloaded by the Yellow River and enter Hedong Road, and the other half will enter the North Yellow River and arrive at

Hebei Road.”

Zhao Ning nodded and said, "Is there enough food in the southeast?"

"That's enough. The amount of grain transported from Champa and Jiaozhou every year has reached eight million dan. After the new agricultural policies were implemented in Lianghuai and Jiangdong, there is no longer the phenomenon of grain bargaining, and the grain is distributed evenly among the people."

Wang Zongliu continued: "According to your Majesty's idea, transporting these grains to Hebei and Hedong can help the people there to quickly restore their strength."

Zhao Ning said he was very satisfied.

Since Hedong established the official strategy, Hebei also began to follow suit.

While banks were printing a large amount of money, more food and commodities were dispatched by water transport from the southeast.

As the center of water transportation, Tokyo City has become a transit place for many commodities.

Whether it is Tokyo Post or Zhengzhou Post, the number of goods shipped is increasing rapidly.

If you want to confront the grasslands and the Kingdom of Jin, you must provide strong support to the northern military towns. If you want to have strong support for the northern military towns, you must restore the people's power in the north.

Wang Zongliu continued to add: "Today's trading companies want to transport goods much faster than in the past, the people they employ are more stable, and more and more people want to join."

The more he spoke, the more proud he became, and he directly boasted: "I am not boasting. As long as there is another war in the north, no matter how much food Yue Fei wants, the imperial court will give an order, and all the trading companies will immediately rush to send it to the north. There will be no shortage at all."

grain."

At this time, Gao Qiu hurried over and whispered in Zhao Ning's ear: "Your Majesty, there is news from the north."

Zhao Ning nodded and looked around again.

The Bianhe River has indeed undergone some transformation. At least it is more convenient to transport goods, and the number of cargo ships plying the river is increasing year by year.

After patrolling for a while, Zhao Ning drove back to the palace.

The first thing he did after returning to the palace was to open Yu Wenxuzhong's secret letter.

"Quickly, summon the governors to Wende Palace, including Zhang Shuye."

"yes."

Not long after, the governors arrived.

"See Your Majesty."

"No need to be polite, just talk about important things. I just received news that the Kingdom of Jin is preparing to increase its troops in Yunzhong Mansion!"

Everyone was slightly startled, and Zhao Ding asked: "Is your Majesty's news reliable?"

"Eighty percent of it is true."

Everyone was convinced. It seemed that Zhao Guan's family had arranged a detailed plan in the Kingdom of Jin.

Zhao Ning's letter is indeed genuine, and Wan Yanchang spent a lot of effort to find out.

Yunzhong Mansion is just outside Yanmen Pass.

Zhao Ning walked to the map, pointed at Yunzhong Mansion and said, "Come and take a look."

Everyone walked over and stared outside Yanmen Pass.

Lu Yihao said: "The sudden increase in troops from the Jin people may be related to our taking back Fuzhou."

"How to say?"

"Although Yunzhong is north of Yanmen Pass, further west, you will reach Yunnei Prefecture, which is only more than three hundred miles away from Fuzhou in the south. The Jin people probably realized that we might use troops against Xixia,

So we want to send troops to deter Fuzhou so that we don’t dare to act rashly.”

Zhao Ning nodded and said: "To the south of Yinshan Mountain, there are the Tatars of the Wanggu tribe. These people are descendants of the Turks. I sent Yu Yunwen to contact the Wanggu tribe last year. They are very interested in our tea, but I

I’m still worried that the Jin people will interfere with it.”

Zhang Shuye said: "This makes sense. Maybe the Jin people have noticed our intentions to the south of Yinshan Mountain and thought of adding more troops to Yunzhong Mansion."

Zhao Ning said: "It seems that it is imperative to fight for the area south of Yinshan Mountain. If we can hold on to this area, the last road from Yunzhong to Xixia for the Jin Army will also be blocked by us!"

Cai Mao asked: "Who should we send?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, and Zhao Ning suddenly said: "Let Yu Yunwen fight here."

"Yu Yunwen?" Lu Yihao said, "Yu Yunwen is just a scholar. I'm afraid he is not qualified for such an important military and political position."

"To attack Yinshan, we need not only to use force, but also to use strategies to unite the Wanggu people. Yu Yunwen did a good job in this aspect."

Zhang Shuye also said: "But Yu Yunwen has never fought in a war after all."

At this time, an emergency report suddenly came from outside.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent call from Fuzhou that is 800 miles away."

"Come in."

The chamberlain handed over the urgent report, and the governors became curious.

Why is there an emergency report coming from Fuzhou at this time?

Did Wu Jie die suddenly in bed?

Zhao Ning opened it, took a quick look, and said, "Gu Wang killed our businessman."

Lu Yihao said: "It seems that the Kingdom of Jin has already started to take action."

"He is the uncle of the Wang Gu tribe. This person wants to use the power of the Jin people to become the leader. This does mean that the Jin people have already taken action." Zhao Ning said, "But this letter is to ask you to explain what you just said.

If you come out, you will take it back."

Everyone looked at Zhao Guan's house in confusion.

Zhao Ning said: "Our army sent out troops and defeated Uncle She, killing more than a thousand enemies and capturing 800 people."

Everyone was stunned, and Zhao Ning said again: "It was Yu Yunwen who you thought could not fight, who asked Wu Jie to borrow troops, went north from the Great Wall, and caught Wang Gu by surprise!"

Everyone was even more shocked.

Zhao Ding smiled and said: "It seems that Yu Binfu is more outstanding than we thought."

"In this case, it would be okay to give Yu Yunwen a military position and let him recruit soldiers and horses in Fuzhou and form a cavalry." Zhang Shuye said.

Zhao Ning said: "Let us first draw a group of cavalry from Wu Jie for emergency use. Wu Jie is still building a city wall, so two thousand cavalry are more than enough."

"This is also the fastest way to solve the problem at present."

"It's like that over there?" Zhao Ning said, "Do you have any objections?"

Zhao Ding said: "If this is the case, it is urgent to increase the supply of tea to Fuzhou. If the Hu people outside the customs can stand on our side, the pressure on both Xixia and Jin people will be much less."

The matter was settled just like that.

On the first day of May, Liu Yi arrived at the location of the leader of the Wanggu tribe.

He met the leader of the Wanggu tribe, Ala Hushu.

Liu Yi was almost caught in front of Alahuhu.

"I am the envoy of the Song Dynasty. Your Excellency once promised us to do business together. Why did you treat me like this?" Liu Yi asked.

Ala suddenly said angrily: "You betrayed your trust and actually attacked our people secretly."

Uncle Photography on the side also said angrily: "That's right, you have betrayed your trust!"

"Nonsense! It was obvious that you killed our businessmen first, and then we took action!"
Chapter completed!