Chapter 322 Expectation
Wang Jinghui's economic comments played a great role in the issuance of the Great Song Business Daily. As the debate became increasingly fierce, the Great Song Ming Mirror Daily and even the court's verbal "The Great Song Xinhua News Agency" also included it. However, the Great Song Xinhua News Agency's attitude was very subtle, and he encouraged arguments but did not express his own opinions - this instruction is from all the ministers from the Central Political Affairs Hall!
Wang Anshi rubbed his temples. His busy daily business had exhausted him. However, in front of anyone, this Song Dynasty Secretary Zun Pushe and the minister of the disciples was the most powerful minister. In the eyes of others, he would always be so energetic to solve all difficult problems. However, he was different from Sima Guang, who was the minister of the Shangshe and the minister of the Central Secretariat. One was full of passion and pioneering spirit, while the other was conservative and steady as if walking on thin ice.
However, Wang Anshi was a human being after all, and he was also tired. This was the time when he felt extremely tired. All the important documents and laws in the Political Affairs Hall were not good without his seal. Although he had the ability to see ten lines at a glance, his scalp could not help but explode in the face of a mountain-like memorial.
"It's time to find someone to share my burden!" Wang Anshi thought secretly, but after he looked around and sifted through the people he could trust, he felt that his good student Lu Huiqing was the one he trusted the most - he had common ideals and common political propositions. More importantly, Lu Huiqing was organized and capable of doing things, which was much more reliable than Xie Jingwen and others beside him.
Lu Huiqing was finally able to come back for three years at home. Three years ago, Wang Anshi was just launched by Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu, but Lu Huiqing's father passed away. According to the court's convention, Lu Huiqing had to be his father at home. Although Wang Anshi reluctantly let Lu Huiqing leave, the important student left him and felt that the people around him suddenly became nervous. Although Li Ding and Xie Jingwen were around him with many people who agreed with the new law, they were not as good as Lu Huiqing's. What made him feel even more heartbreaking was the centrifugation of the Su Shi brothers. Su Che was originally appointed to enter the regulation department of the Three Divisions, but in the end he had disagreements on the provisions of the new law and went on a different path. The Su Shi brothers have now turned to the "cold and summer discussion" under the son-in-law Wang Jinghui, which made him a little angry.
Thinking of Wang Jinghui, Wang Anshi walked to the bookshelf and opened a thick dozen newspapers - this is the "Da Song Business Daily" that he just sent today. He quickly flipped through the newspaper. The content in the front was nothing important. His goal was the commercial review version written by Wang Jinghui, which was what he needed most. In Wang Anshi's eyes, although there were also momentum sections in the "Da Song Business Daily", the content on it was far less than what was written by "Da Song Xinhua News Agency" and "Da Song Ming Mirror". The main reason was that the tendency of reporting between the three was different - "Da Song Business Daily" was even more
The focus is on interpreting the impact of the court's laws on the operation of merchants and the lives of the people. If Wang Jinghui had not published economic comments on each issue, this newspaper would have been abolished for Wang Anshi - there were too many advertisements on it. There were only the front page without advertisements on it, and at least one-quarter of the remaining editions were advertisements, and even the entire page was advertisements. There were also "popular vernacular novels" similar to the "Mirror of the Song Dynasty", but the content was ashamed of scholars, and it was nothing more than pleasing the people in the market.
Wang Anshi didn't understand why Wang Jinghui preferred vernacular Chinese so much. However, such articles are indeed very simple and easy to understand. It is said that this is a method used to take care of most businessmen without a good education. As the chief rich man of the Song Dynasty, Xiao Wang's son-in-law's business scriptures have always been the most interesting for all businessmen in the Song Dynasty and those who are determined to make money from business. Of course, these economic comments were studied by those businessmen as the Bible. Speaking of which, the most in-depth research is still these businessmen.
Business reviews of about 1,000 to 2,000 were quickly read by Wang Anshi, but this was not an easy task for him - he had read all the memorials of Wang Jinghui, and some economic theories had even been quoted by him in the new law, but this does not mean that he can now have a deep understanding of the contents of economic comments. Wang Anshi has the habit of writing diaries every day, but after Wang Jinghui made economic comments, the content in his diary was more and more about these economic theories. However, with his in-depth study, he became more and more confused, and even his opposition was growing. From these economic comments, Xiao Wang's prince-consort should be more inclined to the so-called "free economy", while he is a typical "state intervention in the economy".
What made Wang Anshi even more painful was that no one around him could talk about these economic theories with him, and even his own son could not - he knew his son Wang Rong's character very well. For these two young people of the same age and who had extraordinary talents, they could not get together. It was a kind of sadness. What was even more sad was that he knew very well that this was Wang Rong's fault - because of Wang Rong's jealousy!
Although Wang Anshi and Wang Jinghui had different differences in political propositions, Wang Anshi knew in his heart that Xiao Wang's son-in-law agreed that he would lead and promote the reform very much. The difference was that he had different opinions on the details of the reform. This can be seen from the beginning of the two years of reform, Xiao Wang's son-in-law repeatedly opposed the reform regulations and even forced him to change the new laws and regulations. However, unlike his old friend Sima Guang, Xiao Wang's son-in-law repeatedly took action to save the tension caused by the reform in the most difficult time, so that he could cross one threshold after another every time without any danger. As for such a young son-in-law who is both enemies and friends, Wang Anshi smiled bitterly when he thought of this person.
After thinking about it, Wang Anshi received the famous post. He thought it was time to meet this young man. In the past, Wang Jinghui would take various opportunities to invite several officials from the court together to exchange their opinions on the court. Although sometimes these people sat together and were not so coordinated, Wang Jinghui could handle it, so he could ensure that every gathering could end barely. Now it was his turn to have a frank talk with Wang Jinghui alone!
Northwest Wuning Sanbao.
Li Quan has been confronting the Song army opposite here for two months. Now the other party is very clear about his background - Li Qing is not here, which Li Qing never expected in advance. The situation has changed a lot. Originally, Li Qing planned to take down Baichicheng and Yanzhou to build a line of defense against Empress Dowager Liang and then return to the army to flatten the three forts of Wuning. However, afterwards, one after another, almost capsized the ship in the hands of the nobles of Dangxiang. If the Song army opposite did not know about it, he would have become an idiot.
However, the movements of the Song army were very puzzling. They took advantage of the gap between Li Qing's eastern expedition and western confrontation to stab the Dangxiang nobles in the back, and pushed the Song Xia's "border" north for hundreds of miles, occupying a large number of dangerous passes, and building solid city defense fortifications, but they did not take advantage of the situation and took the initiative to fight with Li Quan. Of course, the two armies were not idle in the past two months - various sneak attacks were staged one after another, and Li Quan also tried to attack the Three Forts of Wuning. However, the Song army built the Three Forts of Wuning as hard as a turtle shell, and the number of firearms was even more scary. After suffering a few losses, Li Quan completely dispelled this unrealistic idea and built several interlocking small towns to defend the Song army.
"This is Li Quan's turtle shell!" Yang Chongyue used his baton to circle several models of Li Quan's village opposite. He said with a smile, as if the repeated struggles with Li Quan over the past two months were like a joke.
Yang Chongyue's optimistic land has a foundation - opposite him is Zhong Yan, who is famous for his ability to fight in the northwest. There are 20,000 soldiers who come with him. They are stationed in the Great Wall Ridge about ten miles south of Wuning Sanbao. Of course, there are about 20,000 mobile troops deployed in Shilijing. However, Shilijing is more than 300 miles away from here, and Hunzhou River is also separated in the middle. These troops are unreliable. But despite this, the 20,000 increase in troops alone has already made the total force of Wuning Sanbao reach as much as 40,000, which exceeds the total strength of Li Quan on the opposite side.
The most important thing is that the special forces that have made many extraordinary achievements during this period also came to Wuning Sanbao with Zhong Yan. This special forces received great strength from Fu Bi and Zhong Yan. The reduction in combat has been made up and carried out simple training. Of course, after seeing the advantages of the special forces, Zhong Yan temporarily decided to hand over the three thousand elite soldiers to Wu Xin, which made the scale of the special forces reach as many as 5,000. However, after the end of the war, these non-staff soldiers could not return to Biandu with the special forces. They would stay in the northwest war zone as seeds, and Zhong Yan had very high expectations for them!
"These villages are built with piles of trees cut from surrounding forests. They are strong, but they are afraid of fire! Fortunately, they came in time, otherwise the rainy season would be here in another month. This year, the Song Dynasty has a severe drought, and there will not be much rain, but it will be a trouble in the end!" Yang Chongyue said with a smile.
"Now, a large number of firearms have been stocked up here in Wuning Fort, and they have been used in the past two months of battle, but they will not have the ability to destroy the entire Muzhai with the firearms on the front. This time, several batches of incendiary bombs were transported from Biandu. This is a new type of firearm, which is powerful. When I was in Yan'an Prefecture, I had personally seen the power of this incendiary bomb with the Korean Duke. In addition to having extremely strong combustion ability, the explosion power was amazing when I was released. With these things, Li Quan's turtle shell was not enough to cause trouble, but the number was a little smaller..." Zhong Yan said with a smile.
No one who was present at the scene had seen the incendiary bomb mentioned by Zhong Yan. Although Shen Kuo and Su Song made the incendiary bomb very early, this weapon was made of light oil distilled from oil, which was very inconvenient during storage and transportation, and the production process seemed very rough and the output was very small.
Over the past few months, Shen Kuo and others have been constantly improving, using iron shells and ceramics as the shells, but at the end, Wang Jinghui's reminder, it was completely the creativity that Wang Jinghui came to watch wine advertisements in later generations. In this way, the incendiary bombs encapsulated by wooden barrels were fired by small catapults, and there were even some special incendiary bombs with very small sizes and could be directly fired with a crossbow. The power was much smaller, but the accuracy was greatly improved. As for the background of the incendiary bomb, only Zhong Yan saw it with his own eyes, and Tianji was also in the big tent. He also learned from the letter from Biandu that there was a weapon similar to fierce tinder oil in the Song Dynasty, which was limited to top secrets, so he could not make the method. However, the four words "huge power" in the letter were enough to make him pay attention to it - this letter was written by Wang Jinghui.
What Tianji knew. Wuxin, Jicheng, and Guan Liang naturally knew that the three of them did not care about their production methods like Tianji. They paid more attention to power and effect. However, from the word "incendo bomb" alone, the combustion ability of this new firearm must be very amazing, especially the weapon was proposed by their husband - for Wang Jinghui. They always have an indescribable conviction. As long as the combustion ability of the incendo bomb is sufficient, this is enough military. They must use incendo bombs and other firearms to destroy Li Quan's Muzhai defense system.
Although the Muzhai built by Li Quan was not large in scale, it was completely different from the urban defense system of Xixia. Trenches, arrow towers, and even urns were all equipped. Apart from Li Qing's usual teachings, the most part was his opponent, the defense system of the Three Forts of Wuning. The blood shed from the siege of the Thousand Forts of Wuning was not in vain. The Song Dynasty also attached great importance to the Three Forts of Wuning, and since the beginning of the construction of the fort, it used a very mature city defense system. Although Li Quan suffered a lot in the Three Forts of Wuning, he was very good at learning and also learned the defense system of the opponent in a well-like manner to improve his chain of Muzhai.
Yang Chongyue and the others also looked at each other for such a studious opponent, but fortunately, Tianji has always been in the Sanbao of Wuning. There is no shortage of materials for making engineering equipment here. Tianji led his craftsman battalion to make a large number of siege equipment with the cooperation of the army. Although Fu Bi and Zhong Yan successfully captured Longzhou and other cities, they never gave up the idea of opening up the situation from Sanbao of Wuning to wipe out Li Qingdi, and they have always been very concerned about the reserve of firearms here. In the offensive and defensive battle with Li Quan, the use of firearms surprised Li Quan. But what Li Quan didn't know was that the number of firearms here was much more than he expected!
"The only way to defeat Li Quan is to completely dismantle his army in a battle. At least the five chains of wooden villages he built must be destroyed. In this way, he will retreat in front of our superior forces!" Yang Chongyue said in a deep voice.
After hearing this, Zhong Yan nodded and said, "Yes, Li Qing's troubles made all the pre-arranged eyeliners we arranged, and he didn't know what happened there, but fortunately, he could get some information from Huanzhou. Now that Li Qing defeated Queen Mother Liang's army, he captured Liang Yipu under Yanzhou City. Hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed instantly, but even these hundreds of thousands of troops were ducks, it was enough for him to work for a while. Before Li Qing returned to the army, he had to quickly defeat Li Quan's army. Otherwise, after Li Qing stabilized the situation, he would have to invade the Three Forts of Wuning!"
"Li Quan's remaining 30,000 troops should be the foundation of Li Qing's Poxi Army. He is very brave in combat. Otherwise, Li Qing would not have been so relieved to put these troops at the gate of Wuning Fort!" Ji Cheng said slowly. He has also stayed in Wuning Fort in the past two months and has a very good understanding of the combat style of Li Quan's army. After thinking about it, the only original Poxi Army is the right one. If it were other miscellaneous troops, although there are many large numbers, it would be impossible to block the door for two months. In addition to the Song Dynasty's plan to conflict with Li Qing head-on, the opponent is too strong.
Although Zhong Yan nodded after hearing this, he was very concerned about Ji Cheng, Tianji who had just spoken and Guan Liang, who was silent from the side. He knew that these young people, like Wu Xin, who was highly valued by him, were all students of the Xiao Wang Prince Consort of Biandu. Zhong Yan had been guarding the border for a long time and had no chance to return to Biandu, but this did not hinder his understanding of Xiao Wang Prince Consort, especially after Wu Xin became his important general, he was even more interested in the prince consort who was far away.
"It is rumored that Xiao Wang's son-in-law has twelve disciples, and these people are one of them. Each of them has his own expertise. This son-in-law is very interesting!" Zhong Yan thought in his mind.
Among these people, the ones that Zhong Yan are very familiar with are Wuxin and Guan Liang. Needless to say, Guan Liang is also a very critical figure. Now the Northwest Intelligence Network is hosted by this young man. These people are rare talents in Zhong Yan's eyes. He is really curious about how Wang Jinghui trained such outstanding disciples. You must know that these twelve disciples can be highly praised by Korean Gong Fu Bi. He also knows that if Wang Jinghui was not working behind the scenes, he also knows that if Wang Jinghui was not working behind the scenes, he also knows that these twelve disciples could be highly praised by Korean Gong Fu Bi.
He could only stay in Yan'an Prefecture and do nothing - the military expenses used for this battle were raised by Xiao Wang's prince consort. The grain reserves in the northwest have never stopped in recent years. The grain production in the northwest is small. To support such a large-scale battle, grain alone is an amazing number - grain is constantly transported from the southern grain-producing areas and even overseas to Biandu, and is transported to the northwest front line for storage at any cost. Others don't know it, but he Zhong Yan understands it very much!
Chapter completed!