Although Queen Mother Liang hated Li Qing to the core, she did not do anything extreme. She just made some trouble with supplies, but this was what annoyed Li Qing the most. He had tens of thousands of mouths under his hands waiting for him to support him! The mouths of more than tens of thousands of soldiers were not as easy to fool at home. The daily consumption of food alone made Li Qing feel stretched, and food was only one of them. What soldiers wore, what they had in their hands, and what they had in their hands was famous for military pay, etc. The students' supply burden was a little overwhelming.

The Jianing Military Office is also a wealthy place. The green grass and fat sheep are a large ranch that Xixia is worth. However, this happened more than a year ago. The Song army didn't know what crazy it was. In the battle of the Security Army, it swept away all valuable things, including cattle, sheep, horses, and even population. The most outrageous thing is that the Song army actually dredged all the Hongzhou City and used the materials of Hongzhou City to establish three large cities in the Great Wall Ridge area, closely guarding the route to the Song Dynasty.

However, Li Qing was not a vegetarian. After several failed attacks on the three Song army cities in the Great Wall Ridge, he took another path - selling 10,000 war horses to horse dealers. After obtaining funds, he took advantage of himself in the Jianing Military Office. In fact, Li Qing also understood that most of the horse dealers moving around in the Western Xia were related to the merchants of the Song Dynasty, and most of these war horses would still fall into the hands of his enemies. However, he could no longer worry about so much. Solving the survival problem of more than 100,000 troops in his own land was the most priority.

A major feature of nomadic people is that all soldiers are soldiers, which can be fought and produced. The Dangxiang people have only been in charge of the dynasty for decades. When Li Yuanhao was founded, he held high the "national banner" and selectively referred to the system of the Han court to establish the country, rather than major changes in the entire social structure of the Khitans like the founders of the Liao Kingdom. This made the current Xixia still have a great survival color in the nomadic tribes, and maintained its combat effectiveness to the greatest extent.

The army under Li Qing was not only very strong in combat, but also in raising horses, cattle and sheep were also good. The funds exchanged for 10,000 war horses gave him the capital to buy cattle and sheep in Xiazhou, Shizhou, Yanzhou and other places and returned to stock it. Of course, the Xixia officials in these places wanted to please Liang Taishen later and took Li Qing. However, facing Li Qing's aggressive envoy, he had to consider that there were still more than 100,000 people staring at him. Although glory and wealth were important, they also had to have their own life to enjoy it. Rather than saying that Li Qing was going to buy it, it would be better to say that he would rob it.

, but these are not important. The Jianing Military Office has begun to move towards substantial independence - the resolutions of the senior management of the Xixia are not at all here. Li Qing wants to use all the resources of the Jianing Military Office to ensure the supply of his army with high quality, so as to maintain the cohesion of the army. Only when he has the army in his hands can he bargain with Empress Dowager Liang. If the morale of the army is dispersed, Li Qing will be nothing in the eyes of Empress Dowager Liang. Relying on the tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, the senior management of the Xixia is cautious. Li Qing has been living in the Jianing Military Office in the past six months.

When Wang Jinghui received the latest information about Li Qing, it was already a few months after Li Qing was self-reliant and developed. After reading this very detailed information, Wang Jinghui was a little dumbfounded. He and Emperor Zhao Xu both looked at each other. Originally, he thought Li Qing would not be able to survive sooner or later, either rebelling against Xixia or being a robber in the Jianing Military Office. He never thought that Li Qing would do this, which caught them off guard.

"Li Qingzhen is a genius. I doubt whether he and his beloved are masters and apprentices!" Emperor Zhao Xu said to Wang Jinghui with a joke. Of course, he would never doubt Wang Jinghui's loyalty to the Song Dynasty. Li Qing fell into this field and planned it by him. However, Li Qing chose this survival mode, which seemed to be somewhat similar to Wang Jinghui's trading methods.

After hearing what Emperor Zhao Xu said, Wang Jinghui smiled bitterly and said, "How dare I have such a student?"

"The news from the Intelligence Bureau said that Li Qing was also loyal to Xixia. He was determined and could not be returned. What good plans do you have now?!" Emperor Zhao Xu asked a little discouragedly. It was his wish to be able to instigate Li Qing to rebel against Xixia and pull out the nail nailed at his door. This would allow Zhao Xu to defeat the Dangxiang people in the shortest time, but the current situation has made him feel that this is no different from a fool. It seems that it will eventually be done by force.

"If the rebellion fails, the frame will be framed. If the frame fails, the force will be used! However, there is still a separation between the main and the secondary!" Wang Jinghui thought for a moment and replied.

Emperor Zhao Xu frowned after hearing this, and his actions naturally fell into Wang Jinghui's eyes and said, "Although Li Qing was a Han Chinese, he was standing by the side of the Dangxiang people and raiding the Song Dynasty and harming our people. As the enemy of the Song Dynasty, he would not redeem all the flies! The emperor is a wise king. It is understandable that he wants to defeat the enemy in a straightforward way. However, the Song Dynasty is far from being as powerful as China during the Han and Tang Dynasties. With its real strength, he can sweep the Khitan subduing the four barbarians. Moreover, there is a coveted Liao Kingdom in the north! To sweep away the obstacles on the Song Dynasty's journey toward power, he must use all feasible means to constantly weaken the enemy, and then defeat the enemy in a head-on manner. For the prosperity of the country and the nation, no matter what method is used, there is no right or wrong!"

The education received by the emperor was not only orthodox Confucianism. On the contrary, although Confucianism firmly occupies a dominant position in Chinese academic beliefs, it ironically that the ruling class believed in more Legalism. Although Emperor Zhao Xu did not like what Wang Jinghui said very much, he could not deny that this was wrong. On the contrary, since Wang Jinghui came into his vision, he had basically not used any power-making skills to others, but he used all kinds of conspiracy to the Song Dynasty's opponents Liao and Xixia, and various conspiracies emerged one after another, which made Emperor Zhao Xu amazed.

"I have been taught! What I just said is that there should be a distinction between the primary and secondary. What does it mean?"

"Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the national finances have reached its peak in the era of Zhenzong. Later, as time goes by, various bad policies of the court have become increasingly apparent. In the late years of Renzong, they are already as dangerous as a living. They are constantly making progress after the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne. After all, it is a decades of weakness that cannot be changed day by day. If the current strength of the Song Dynasty is only dealing with one Western Xia, there will naturally be no big problems. However, the Liao Kingdom interferes from the side, which makes the Song Dynasty unable to do whatever it takes to pacify Xia. It should be more skillful to avoid any situation that may cause major losses or setbacks!"

"I also understand that Pingxia cannot be completed in a short period of time, but my dear once told me that it will take five to seven years to Pingxia. Two years have passed since today, and I can still afford the remaining three years!"

"I dared to make a contract with the emperor, but it was not unfounded speculation. Wang Shao's speed in recovering Xihe and Huangzhou was much faster than that of the place I imagined. In fact, the opportunity for the Song and Xia to sweep the Western Xia has emerged. As long as we move forward steadily, it may take less than five years for the northwest to be safe and sound. Guanzhong has since become the hinterland of the Song Dynasty!"

"The opportunity to pacify Xia has appeared?" Although Emperor Zhao Xu thought about imitating Emperor Taizu and Taizong to expand territory for the Song Dynasty, his opponent had made the Western Xia regime almost helpless for decades, and he never thought that he could realize his ambitions so quickly.

"The Dangxiang people don't have many cards in their hands now. The only thing I am concerned about in the Song Dynasty is that Li Qingpo Ji Jun may cause relatively large losses. I have a strategy here to accelerate the demise of Li Qing, and at the worst, it can also cause internal forces in the Western Xia to fight against each other and lose their strength!"

Emperor Zhao Xu jumped and said with a smile: "What are your plans to relieve my worries?"

"Do business with Li Qing! Li Qing is now herding cattle and sheep in the Jianing Military Office. Although it can solve the military pay of his subordinates, the amount of materials such as tea, grain, salt and other materials cannot be exchanged for much under the interference of Queen Mother Liang. If he wants to survive, he must turn his attention to the Song Dynasty. He is unwilling to do war. The only way is to exchange the cows from us for the materials needed. I can join the Privy Council, the Intelligence Bureau and a group of merchants from the Song Dynasty to work together to operate the matter."

"Didn't that encourage Li Qing's strength?!"

"There is no match between Li Qing and Empress Dowager Liang, so Empress Dowager Liang naturally doesn't want to see Li Qing live a good life. Besides, Li Qing's behavior is a rebellious even if it is in the eyes of the Dangxiang royal family. Besides, such a great wealth in Li Qing's hands will naturally attract others to spy on it. Empress Dowager Liang asked Li Qing to return to Xingqing Mansion, but Li Qing dared not go back, but he would never refuse the royal family's banquet to invite him to form an alliance..."

It is already early spring now. Although the temperature is relatively low, in the big tent of Li Qing, the warmer weather in the Jianing Military Office, Li Qing's mood improved a lot. What made him even happier was that he exchanged cattle and sheep for many daily necessities such as tea, salt and other daily necessities from the Song Dynasty merchants, which greatly improved the living conditions of soldiers. Li Qing also understood in his heart that the Song Dynasty merchants who made transactions with him should have a strong high-level background in the Song Dynasty, but in this troubled times, some things cannot be taken seriously - he is surrounded by enemies, whether they are Dangxiang people,

He knew that he was a native of the Song Dynasty, but he knew that he had no choice but to do business with the Song Dynasty. Although he was a little reluctant, he had no choice. Some daily necessities could only be provided to him by the Song Dynasty. He also made a transaction with the Song Dynasty, only selling cattle and sheep, and no negotiations on horses. This trading method allowed the Song Dynasty to buy a lot of cattle and sheep from himself at a very cheap price, but there was no transaction of such an important livestock as horses, and he also strictly investigated that his subordinates would prohibit horse trading with the Song Dynasty, which somewhat comforted him.

In the surrounding areas, the Song Dynasty had the greatest military pressure on him, and the Song army occupied the advantageous terrain and was able to attack and defend freely. There were also three dynasties like Fu Bi who knew the army and were in charge of the fourth route of Shaanxi. However, after trading with the merchants of the Song Dynasty, the Song army rarely crossed Baigan Mountain to harass themselves. In addition to the Song army, the others were the Dangxiang tribes that were loyal to the royal family. The strongest Renduan, the Weiming family and the Yeli family all expressed their concern for their situation, especially Renduan gave him the greatest help and helped him with food and grass. Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction in Li Qing's eyes. Now he was left to wait, waiting for Bingchang, who was only twelve years old, to grow up and take power. In this way, he could just be loyal to the royal family and expel the Liang clan who controlled the national affairs of the Western Xia.

As the weather warms up, the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty rulers such as Wang Jinghui and Emperor Zhao Xu gradually shifted their attention to the Hebei routes. Now, as long as they are individuals, they can see that north of the river will face a rare drought this year, but Zhao Xu and the others are more concerned about whether there will be locust plagues in Hebei, especially Wang Anshi is paying more attention to this.

Wang Jinghui instructed his industries to transport 200,000 guan of copper coins to Hebei in Kaifeng, Bianbei, and also offered Han Qi, a general charter for preventing locust plagues and limiting the spread of locust plagues. He also attached 300,000 guan of funds for Han Qi to allocate. These were in exchange for the comprehensive cultivation of the arable land in Daizhou, Dingzhou, Zhending Prefecture and other countries that had signs of locust plagues last year, and also established a reward charter - every ten locusts handed over, you can get a penny of copper coins. These were all from the food store in Hebei, and the personnel of the grain store also went to the countryside to purchase locusts. They burned them immediately, and taught the local people how to catch locusts more effectively - a bonfire was raised at night, and the locusts like to lure and kill locusts.

These prefectures and counties in northern Hebei do not understand why their highest commander Han Qi summoned them and asked them to actively cooperate with the people in the Tianliang Store to carry out locust control work. However, some smart officials have begun to realize that all this is to prevent locust plagues and to wear the official hat on their heads more stable. Some county governments even began to force the people under their control to eliminate locusts. Although it caused a lot of inconvenience to the local people, so far, basically as soon as the people see the locusts, they start to hunt and kill them. This is a great way to get rid of the locust plague. Under various measures, Han Qi from Daming Prefecture would use 600 miles to quickly deliver letters to Kaifeng, Biandu, every few days. Report that there were no locust plagues in Hebei except for drought.

Although Han Qi's news made the senior officials of the Song Dynasty feel much more at ease, the materials in the hands of the prince-consort made them dare not slacken, and they were even a little scared. The 200,000 guan of copper coins transported to Hebei were consumed very quickly. In less than a month, the 40,000 guan of copper coins turned into the corpses of locusts. No matter how bad the mathematics of the ruler of the senior officials was, they could easily calculate how many locust corpses could be bought for the 40,000 guan of copper coins! I thought the prince-consort had money to do meaningless things, but no one dared to see this anymore. Now that things have come to this point, it is useless to say more. Even the most stingy Sima Guang also wrote to Emperor Zhao Xu to allocate 100,000 guan of copper coins from the treasury to Hebei to learn from Wang Jinghui's example.

Sima Guang didn't know whether he was doing this or not. Wang Jinghui went crazy with buying locusts. Judging from the number of locusts purchased, if these locusts really flew up, the court would probably be in chaos now. He was not sure whether this could effectively deal with the locust plague. In desperation, he had to start from the worst perspective and put on such a ridiculous memorial since the founding of the Song Dynasty - go crazy with the prince consort! If it were normal, this crazy memorial would attract everyone's ridicule.

Zhihui was impeached by the Censorate, but the current situation is there. No one thinks that Sima Guang and Xiao Wang's prince consort went crazy together. This horrifying memorial is a secret letter. Those who can participate in the discussion are either the ministers of the government, the six ministers or the Privy Councilors. No one said anything. Emperor Zhao Xu didn't even feel the right thing to ask, and directly approved it. However, in order to cover up the news, the money did not leave the national treasury but the inner treasury, and directly added 100,000 tills!

"Love, are you ready there?!" In the empty Funing Hall, there were only Wang Jinghui and Emperor Zhao Xu. Yang Chongyue holding the hilt of the knife outside the hall gate. The posture made the price system dare to approach Funing Hall feel that moving forward will inevitably be killed on the spot.

"The Master, you are all ready! I have bribed several important staff members of Renduohan. They are encouraging Renduohan and several other royal tribes around Li Qing. They can take Li Qing and replace him after they are launched!" Wang Jinghui replied in a deep voice.

"What did Mr. Yanguo say?!"

"This is a reply from Fu Han Gong to his minister. Fu Han Gong is raising troops and secretly mobilizing troops. Now there are a thousand special forces that are already ambushing and waiting in the jungle of Baigan Mountain. Now the early exploration and harassment have begun. The leader is Wuxin. He has worked in the battle of the security army before, and this time he is familiar with it! Fu Han Gong said that all of them will be ready at the beginning of next month!"

The Intelligence Bureau of the Song Dynasty had already been established, and the Privy Council took a big breath from then on, but soon it was Emperor Zhao Xu's turn to have a headache himself - the first director he selected was a trusted eunuch, but this person did not have the ability. Everything about the Intelligence Bureau was still messy. In desperation, he pushed Wang Jinghui to a position that was in dire strait in the eyes of all ministers without hesitation.
Chapter completed!