Since the plague broke out in Tokyo and withdrew his troops, Wanyan Xie has been busy in the past few months. It has finally calmed down the plague in the army. Emperor Jin ordered him to wipe out the anti-Jin rebel army in Hebei and Hedong.

Wanyan Xie also took charge of Yanshan Prefecture and ordered Zong Han and Zong Wang to be responsible for the uprising and rebellion on Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

The Marshal's Mansion in Wanyan Xieye was the original Liao Dynasty palace. He is now the crown prince. The palace maids and concubines in the palace all became his women and enjoyed the imperial life of the three palaces and six courtyards in advance.

In the morning, Wanyan Xie was also listening to Wanyan Xiyin's report in the study. Wanyan Xiyin is a rare person in the Wanyan family who is both civil and military. He is currently in charge of government affairs on Hedong Road and Hebei Road, and is also responsible for the collection of information from the Song Dynasty.

"I have received exact information. Li Yanqing served as the Strategic Envoy of the Third Northwest Route and is currently leading his army to Jingzhao. It is estimated that there will be war in the northwest."

Wanyan Xi also pressed his temple and said with a headache: "Now is the recovery period of military strength. The attack on Bianliang once caused us to suffer heavy losses. We died in battle and lost 100,000 people. The Lord of Wolf was very dissatisfied with us. If we could make a big move, I would have led our army to sweep the Song Dynasty. The timing was wrong!"

Wanyan Xiyin whispered: "Did we suffer heavy losses last time?"

Wanyan Xie also sighed, "The main people who died in the battle were Bohai soldiers and Khitan soldiers. The Jurchens suffered little losses, but the Jurchens died of 30,000 people. The Wolf Lord was very annoyed by this incident. He also wanted to appease the Bohai chief Awuna and promise to make Awuna the daughter of the Imperial Concubine. They reached an agreement. The Bohai tribe suspended its troops for one year, and the Wolf Lord was also willing to truce for one year, restore his military strength, and then launch a large-scale attack on the Song Dynasty next autumn."

Wanyan Xiyin's eyes rolled and said, "It's better to let the Han soldiers go to Guanzhong and surrender more than 200,000 yuan. It's a pity not to get up."

Wanyan Xie also took a few steps behind his hands and finally decided: "Just use the Han soldiers from Yanshan Prefecture, the Han soldiers from Hebei will also deal with Zong Ze's army and the bandits in various places in Hebei. In addition, I wrote a letter to Li Qianshun. This time, Jin and Xia countries cooperated in the northwest offensive."

After a full year of separation from Jingzhao Prefecture, Li Yanqing finally returned to this deep and thick yellow land. Li Yanqing had always had a special feeling for Jingzhao Prefecture, otherwise he would not have called his army the Jingzhao Army.

That morning, the army entered Tongguan, and Cao Xing led a dozen generals out of Tongguan to welcome Li Yanqing's arrival.

The two laughed and hugged each other. Li Yanqing punched Cao Xing's shoulder hole, "I heard you are a father?"

Cao Xing raised two concubines in Tongguan. Not long ago, one of them gave birth to a son for him. This incident made his grandfather Cao Ping very unhappy. You should know that Cao Xing and the Gao family had a marriage, and the eldest wife had a son before they even passed the family. This made it difficult for grandfather Cao Ping to explain to the Gao family.

Cao Xing smiled bitterly and said, "What's the solution? The Gao family has big rules and must be delayed until August to get married. I can't let my son stay in his stomach and not come out!"

Li Yanqing slapped him, "What are the rules? They are in mourning period, of course they can't do it. Forget it, I won't tell you, you can explain it to the old man and tell me about the battle situation on Qin Feng Road."

"I'm not very clear about the specificity. I just heard that the Western Xia army attacked Fengxiang Mansion three times, and they were repelled by Liu Wei's army. Later, they did not attack again, and the two sides were in a confrontation."

"Do you have any contact with Fengxiang Mansion?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

Cao Xing nodded, "You can contact us with Eagle Sign up, but you can't get there directly. You have to go to Jingzhao Mansion."

"Okay! I'll write a text message to Liu Wei, and you can help me transfer it to him."

Li Yan immediately wrote a text message in a thin silk, put it in a message tube and handed it to Cao Xing.

After resting in Tongguan for a long time, the army continued to travel west, but Li Yanqing and Liu Tie led three thousand troops to Fengxiang Prefecture. Fengxiang Prefecture, which is today's Baoji, is the western gate of Jingzhao. Once it is lost, Jingzhao Prefecture will face a huge threat.

Although the three thousand troops were not large, they carried a thousand flying fire thunder, which was enough to resist the siege of the Western Xia army.

Li Yanqing knew in his heart that Shaanxi Road and Qinfeng Road were dishes of the Jin Kingdom. The reason why the Xixia army attacked Fengxiang Road was actually to consolidate the occupation of Xihe Road.

At the same time, Li Yanqing ordered Wang Gui to lead 7,000 cavalry to Qingzhou. Li Yanqing had a sense in his heart that he was in charge of the three northwest towns, and Wanyan Xie might have something wrong with him. Tongguan and Pujin Pass must enter a state of war to prevent the Jin soldiers from crossing the Yellow River.

Currently, there are 100,000 Song troops in the third northwest route. In addition to Li Yanqing's 50,000 Jingzhao troops, there are 25,000 people on Shaanxi Road and 25,000 people on Qinfeng Road. In terms of force, if it is only one side, it is basically barely enough, but I am afraid that the Jin soldiers and the Xixia army will attack each other in the east and west, and fight on both sides, the army will not be enough.

In addition, cavalry is also a big problem. If Xihe Road is not taken back, there will be no place to raise horses.

Li Yanqing ordered the army to station outside the city. He led hundreds of cavalry into Jingzhao City from the east gate. The prefect Ma Shan smiled and greeted him from the city. The former prefect Yang Xuzhou was transferred to Bashu, and Li Gang took over the prefect of Jingzhao, but soon, Li Gang was transferred to Tokyo to serve as prime minister. The former Tongzong Ma Shan naturally took over the position of prefect.

Ma Shan had a very good relationship with Li Yanqing. Now that Li Yanqing has a high position and a high position and power, he needs to curry favor with him even more.

"My vocational Ma Shan meets Taibao!"

Ma Shan wanted to welcome Li Yanqing a little more relaxedly, but Li Yanqing was wearing a golden helmet and armor, and his aura was too strong. Ma Shan was immediately frightened and stepped forward and lowered his eyebrows to greet him.

"Prince Ma Tong, I haven't seen you for a long time. No, I should call you Magistrate Ma now. Congratulations to Gao Sheng!"

"In front of Mrs. Li, I can't be considered a high promotion, I'm ashamed!"

"Okay!" Li Yanqing smiled and patted his shoulder, "Get on the horse and talk!"

Ma Shan was flattered and quickly turned over and led Li Yanqing into the city.

Compared with last year, Jingzhao City was obviously much more lively. At this time, Ma Shan asked in a low voice: "I heard that Mr. Cai has passed away?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "He died half a month ago, and he is eighty years old, which is considered a long life and good death."

Ma Shan was a little sad, "It's a pity that I can't go to see my old husband off for a trip."

After Cai Jing died, he restored his title of Duke of Lu and his posthumous title was Zhongping. Zhao Goute prepared his descendants to help their spirits and return to their hometown for burial.

Cai Jing's death has gradually faded in the court, but he did not expect that Ma Shan would still be obsessed with it.

Li Yanqing didn't say much about this, his eyes looked at a clearing.

Li Yanqing remembered it very clearly that there was a large open space next to the East City Gate. It had been abandoned for decades, overgrown with weeds and wild foxes, but the wasteland had disappeared and the houses were built. However, it was very simple to build, all of which were rammed with earth, and even the door was made of crude wooden boards, which looked like a slum.

Seeing that Li Yanqing had been watching the mud houses, Ma Shan explained: "There were all immigrants who fled from Hedong. It turned out that it was the land of Ci'en Temple. These refugees were asked to build tents temporarily. As a result, they built the house directly. Ci'en Temple had no choice, and complaining to the government was useless."

"How many refugees have escaped from Hedong Road?" Li Yanqing asked.

"There are three groups of people who fled in total, more than one million people, but most of them scattered to Bashu, Hanzhong, Fengxiang Prefecture and other places. There were about 300,000 people left in Jingzhao Prefecture, and there were 100,000 people in our Jingzhao City."

Li Yanqing's heart moved. Isn't this a good source of troops? He asked again: "What business does 300,000 people do in Jingzhao Prefecture?"

"There are all things to do, the most are tenants, renting other people's land, and working as a mate in a restaurant in the store. At the beginning, the government couldn't take care of it. Later, I gradually got it myself and integrated into Guanzhong. Although most of them were hard, I had a good meal at least!"

"Then why didn't Zheng Dashen think about recruiting soldiers from refugees?"

Ma Shan smiled bitterly and said, "It takes money to recruit soldiers! The military expenditure of existing soldiers is difficult to raise, so where can I still have the remaining money to recruit new recruits?"

"But as I know, the court has used all the taxes from the Northwest Third Route as military expenses, and has transferred a large amount of money and food from Bashu. Is the military expenses still not enough?"

Li Yanqing was really puzzled. He was not talking nonsense. He had done careful calculations. In addition to paying military expenses, Zhong Shidao should have spare money to recruit soldiers. With Zhong Shidao's experience, he would not be unaware of the pain of insufficient troops when facing the attack of east and west.

Ma Shan scratched his head awkwardly, "I don't know much about this. I just heard Magistrate Zhong mention it a few words. I really don't know the specific situation. Otherwise, I would invite Wu Shenjun to talk to Taibao."
Chapter completed!