In May of the 10th year of Xining in the Song Dynasty, just four years have passed since the first Northern Expedition in Xining. During these four years, the Song Dynasty had established a solid line of defense in the area south of the newly occupied Great Wall. The Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Datong Prefecture had been repaired, which gave the Song Dynasty a reliable line of defense in the north to fight against the invasion of the nomadic peoples in the south.

The completion of the Great Wall was not the end. When repairing the Great Wall, the Song Dynasty also invested tens of millions of yuan to renovate the main roads in the north. Relying on two northern main roads built with cement, the northwest and northern parts of the Song Dynasty were connected with the center of the Song Dynasty. If the 15-day journey was passed by carriages in the past, it would save five days. Don’t underestimate the saving of one-third of the time, which greatly improved the traffic level of northern roads, thus greatly enhancing the control of the Song Dynasty over the north and northwest.

After four years of these two projects, the Song Dynasty invested more than 30 million yuan in total to complete, which saved nearly 10 million yuan from the original plan. The most important reason was that the Song Dynasty court adopted a more flexible operation method to carry out this work. The Song Dynasty invested 300,000 slaves in these two projects in the past four years, which made the project progress rapidly, about a year faster than the original plan to complete the task.

The renovation of the Great Wall and the construction of cement roads in the north greatly improved the defense capabilities of the northern territory of the Song Dynasty. Although it took a lot of money, it was worth it compared to its huge military effect. Especially in recent years, the northern Song Dynasty was a rare period without war, and both the north and the northwest had the opportunity to recuperate. From the policy of military farming in the Xiang army starting from the three years of the reign of the three-year period of peace and stability in the north, it has basically come to an end. The military farming in the north and the northwest has terminated a special area because the land available for distribution in the north has begun to appear a little nervous. The main reason is that the number of military soldiers in the Song Dynasty has dropped to less than 200,000, and even the number of regular imperial guards has dropped to more than 600,000. Such a military scale has been the lowest since the Renzong era.

Although the Xiang army military farming in the northwest and north had ended, the Xiang army military farming in the south had not ended. However, compared with the north and northwest, the Xiang army military farming in the south was very slow. In the third year of Autonomous Pedal, the Song Dynasty first acquired prisoners of war from Xixia in Dashun City as slaves. The main direction of slaves was in the south. They continued to build roads and bridges in the south, and also planned to reclamate along these opened roads. When the slaves turned the land they had settled into mature land, they continued to move forward, and the Xiang army farming began on this basis.

In this way, the Xiangjun's military farming speed in the south was naturally very slow. However, compared with the Xiangjun's military farming in the north, mainly grain, cotton and oil crops, the Xiangjun's military farming agriculture in the south only accounts for half, and the most important thing is to plant sugarcane, winemaking, papermaking, sugar making and other handicrafts.

Although Huguang was a famous production area in later generations, it was obviously not suitable to be built into a granary for the Song Dynasty at this time. The harsh environment and backward farming methods would probably make the Song Dynasty court lose patience to wait for development of the south. In order to make the Xiang army's military farming in the south faster, Wang Jinghui focused on the development of handicrafts when he was in the south. As for agriculture, it could be developed slowly, as long as it could meet the local agricultural needs. Over time, and the environment here gradually improved, it was inevitable that large-scale planting industry would develop.

Unlike later generations, the era where Wang Jinghui lived was an era of population explosion. China used various administrative means to curb population growth. However, in the current era of the Song Dynasty, the population was likely to exceed 100 million, but it was still very sparse compared to its land area. To develop a region, it depends on whether the population can meet a standard. Obviously, the Song Dynasty was not qualified in this regard. Its population distribution is extremely unbalanced, and the population ratio in the northwest and southwest and the Central Plains is seriously unbalanced, which is even more serious than the population distribution in the east and west of the future.

Wang Jinghui is well aware of the relationship between population and national resources. Now the Song Dynasty did not have family planning policies in later generations, nor did the concept of eugenics and excellent parenting. It is obviously inappropriate to propose family planning in this era, and even the proposal of eugenics and excellent parenting will be questioned and ridiculed by the world. He only proposed the concept of eugenics and excellent parenting when teaching medical science in his academy. As long as his academy does not close for a day, more people will be affected in the end. This is completely terrazzo, so we cannot be anxious at all.

The proposed policy of the Xiang army military farming policy was also intended to achieve the goal of balancing population distribution through this administrative means. It has been carried out for 11 or 2 years in the ten years of Xining, and now it seems that the effect is pretty good. At least the Xiang army military farming has caused more than 400,000 Xiang army and their families to immigrate to the northwest and southwest regions in a planned manner, with the number of migrated people reaching more than one million. This is also because the father and son in the family are both the Xiang army, otherwise the number of migrated people would be more. It can be said that it is difficult to imagine that it took more than ten years to complete such a large-scale population migration in this era, which was not expected by Wang Jinghui and the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty. Fortunately, the various Xiang army military farming policies were very generous, and the preparations and implementation were long, so there was no catastrophic consequences.

Today, Wang Jinghui couldn't help but feel a sense of fear when he thought of these things. Millions of immigrants can be said to be a big innovation, which is simply walking a tightrope. One bad thing is that it is more likely to be a major event for the dynasty. However, Wang Jinghui and the Song Dynasty were very lucky to have overcome this level. The benefits of large population migration to the Song Dynasty were very long-term. After this large-scale military farming in the Song Dynasty, the land development of the Song Dynasty reached a new level, greatly alleviating the arable land and population between the central area of ​​the Song Dynasty.

Contradiction. The most realistic thing is to get rid of the heavy burden of the Xiang army, thus achieving the increase in the court's fiscal revenue by one million yuan every year. Moreover, as the Xiang army's military farming was implemented for a long time, the benefits of the military farming began to slowly emerge. The Song Dynasty added 5 million mu of land every year. Although the pillar of the Song Dynasty's tax revenue had long become commercial tax, the newly added agricultural tax made the Song Dynasty's treasury more abundant. The important thing is that there will be no worries about food and economic crops, which effectively guaranteed the economic development.

Although the Song Dynasty did not take the initiative to launch wars outside during the past three or four years, the army was not idle. During this peace period, the senior ruling leaders of the Song Dynasty finally easily completed the reform of the army after solving the burden of the Xiang army. In addition to reorganizing military units, the system of military talent training was also improved and the military examination was restored. Although under the guidance of the Song Dynasty's rule that emphasized culture and over military military, becoming military generals was far less promising than civil officials, the emergence of the military examination gave military personnel the opportunity to enter the military career in a short period of time through the military examination, which stimulated the concept of the people of the Song Dynasty.

However, the most important military system reform of the Song Dynasty was still in terms of weapons. In the past four years, the Song Dynasty successfully trained and equipped more than 100,000 hot weapons troops with its strong strength. According to the military strategy of the Song Dynasty's strong and weak branches, in addition to meeting the important areas of the Jingji Valley, two hot weapons troops organized by nearly 30,000 people were arranged in the north and northwest, and two firearm manufacturing workshops were set up in Jingzhao Palace and Daming Palace for the first time. Although the output of these two firearm manufacturing workshops outside Jingji Road was very limited, it at least showed the confidence of the Song Dynasty's rule of the top leaders. Moreover, the output of these two firearm manufacturing workshops greatly alleviated the demand for firearms in the northwest and north, greatly alleviated the supply of firearms on the front line, and more adapted to the needs of future wars. Welcome to Boiling %* Literature

Although the Song Dynasty did not take the initiative to launch wars outside in the past few years, it did not stop the civil war. The rebels in the annexation of the territory of Xixia and Liao Kingdoms were constantly attacked. Although these areas were occupied by the Song Dynasty for many years, especially the western part of Xixia, there were still many remnants of the Song Dynasty and refused to surrender to the Song Dynasty. After obtaining the Tumu tribes, the Song Dynasty court was very clear about the ambitions of the Tubo tribes in the Hexi Corridor. The Song Dynasty had never given up in the seven years since the destruction of Xixia.

The high-pressure rule here, especially after its cavalry and hot weapons combat troops gradually matured, they were on the strong side. Although these "indigenous people" used the advantage of familiarizing themselves with the local terrain to fight against the Song Dynasty, the strength of the Song Dynasty became stronger and stronger as time went by. In the later period, they even took the initiative to attack into the traditional controlled areas of the Tubo tribes to clear the rebels. The Tubo tribes did not dare to make too much noise about such things that they could not get on the table, and could only kill their teeth and swallow them.

Through a series of small-scale wars, the Song Dynasty successfully defeated the Achai tribes of the Tubo tribes and the Caotou Datar tribe of the Huangtou Huihe, completed the complete occupation of the Hexi Corridor, and obtained sufficient living space and strategic buffer space. The Achai tribe of the Tubo tribes was better, but the blows suffered by the Huangtou Huihe were very fatal. After the Caotou Datar tribe of the Huangtou Huihe was repelled, it could only migrate southwest to avoid the plunder of the Song army, but their southwest was a desert area with a more harsh living environment. The strong oppression of the Song Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor caused the migration of the Huangtou Huihe to finally have serious sequelae after several years. The Huangtou Huihe began to split. After one of the Huangtou Huihe defected to the Song Dynasty, the remaining one was divided into two parts, one part went to the Tubo tribes, and the other part was returned to the Xizhou Uighurs. The Huangtou Huihe, as an important force in Central Asia, finally no longer existed.

The strong military actions of the Song Dynasty in the northwest completely eliminated the remaining ambitions of Dangxiang, and eliminated the ambitions of the other ethnic groups in the northwest towards the Hexi Corridor. The Song Dynasty completely consolidated its position in occupying the Western Xia, and also promoted the smooth flow of the Silk Road by land. The stability and smooth flow of the Silk Road actually promoted peace and prosperity in Central Asia. Especially after the Xizhou Uighurs gave up their hostility with the Song Dynasty and turned to actively cooperate with the Song Dynasty to submit their respects, they also gained great benefits on the Silk Road.

In addition to using troops in the northwest, the Song Dynasty also frequently used troops against the southwest Yi in the southwest. In the past, under external pressure, the Song Dynasty had always adopted a slow-track policy for the military farming of the Southern Fang Army. However, after defeating the old enemies such as the Xixia and Liao Kingdom, he turned back to Nangu and greatly strengthened his rule over the south, and used prisoners of war slaves to speed up the development of the south. The Song Dynasty's various policies in the south inevitably violated the interests of the Southwest Yi, and there were more and more conflicts between many southern ethnic minorities and slave pioneers.

The military strength of the Song Dynasty made the Song Dynasty court not considering the previous compromised and slow progress policy. Moreover, the special forces of the Song Dynasty had been trained to form an army of about 10,000 people, and more than 50% of them were carefully trained for southern combat. At this time, it was released to see how effective these special forces specially trained in southern combat were.

The rebellion of the southwestern Yi also had the figure of the Tubo tribes. Although the Tubo tribes were still a relatively loose tribal alliance at this time, their ambitions for the Song Dynasty had never been weakened. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, Tubo made many benefits from the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, and even more sophisticated during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Tubo's ambitions were effectively suppressed by the Central Plains dynasty, but after the Tang Dynasty began to collapse, the power of Tubo made great progress in the northwest. Although there was a major division within Tubo in the later period, its power spread and established a traditional circle of forces. Later, Dangxiang rose to suppress the Tubo tribes' observance of the Hetao Plain in the northwest, and had to turn to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to deal with the Western Xia. The Western Xia was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, and its interests in the Hetao Plain prompted it to move more and more towards the opposition of the Song Dynasty.

Unlike the Achai tribe who was watching the Hetao Plain, the Tusima tribe and Wugan tribes bordering the Tusima tribes in the southwest of the Song Dynasty, which bordered the Lizhou Road and Qinfeng Road of the Song Dynasty. Wang Shao had a certain conflict with the Tusima tribe when he was Kaixi River more than ten years ago. However, under the banner of resisting the invasion of the Western Xia, the Tusima tribe was very cooperative with Wang Shao's army. Later, he also took the threat of the Song Dynasty burning the city with firearms in the battle of Lingzhou and wisely chose to retreat. However, in the late period when the Song Dynasty pacified the southwest Yi, the Tusima tribe and Wugan tribe successively provoked the authority of the Song Dynasty in the border area of ​​the Lizhou Road, and behind this conflict was also a deep religious background - monks sent to the Song Dynasty had great conflicts with the Tantra believed in Tubo in Buddhist heritage.

Wang Jinghui's view on the conflicts arising from the late period of the Song Dynasty's revival of the Southwest Yi tribes was very obvious and inclined to attack. He had no favoritism for religion. Religion was a double-edged sword. Looking at the conflicts in later generations in the Middle East made him simply believe that religion was an extremely dangerous thing. Any factor that threatened the rule of the Song Dynasty was extremely disgusted, let alone conflicts with religious backgrounds.

The huge benefits obtained by the merchants of the Song Dynasty through a series of wars made them not give up their interests in the southwest. They had a large amount of funds on them, and Wang Jinghui would not choose to give in under this pressure. If it weren't for the backward transportation and communication conditions of this era that made the Song Dynasty unable to effectively rule the Tibet region, he would even consider solving the Tubo tribes once and for all. In the current perspective, the only realistic way is to build a solid defense line in the southwest before the Tubo tribes formed a strong unification, and to deter the Tubo tribes through war, so that the interests of the Song Dynasty merchants in the southwest can be effectively protected.

Before Xining twelve years, the Song Dynasty consolidated its internal rule through countless small wars. It was through these wars that the ruling class of the Song Dynasty realized that road traffic and communication were indispensable means to maintain its effective rule, so while carrying out the war, it also increased its investment in this area.

It was also because the Song Dynasty overturned the two main enemies of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms that the Song Dynasty vigorously developed its economy without threats from foreign enemies and laid a strong economic foundation. In addition, the huge number of prisoners of war obtained in foreign wars over the years made the Song Dynasty capable of improving its domestic transportation and communication networks. Wang Jinghui actively raised funds and used increasingly mature financing methods and operating methods, so that the Song Dynasty court did not harm its foundation while vigorously improving its infrastructure, and at the same time, the Song Dynasty merchants received considerable returns.

The large-scale infrastructure construction of the Song Dynasty also further improved the domestic economic situation and the national economic circulation became smoother, which also led the Song Dynasty's dynasty rule to a unique path. In the Song Dynasty, with the footsteps of merchants, the Song Dynasty's rule over the country became more and more stable, and the more developed the economy in the region, the more developed the transportation and communications, and the higher the ruling efficiency. These were unprecedented in the Song Dynasty's court, and in Wang Jinghui's eyes, it was taken for granted. He invested a lot of funds and huge energy to promote the infrastructure construction of the Song Dynasty, and the effect has become more and more obvious, which has really comforted him a lot.
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