It is already midsummer, but the climate in Lingzhou, located in the northwest, is still cool, and it is a good time to go out to hunt.

Outside Lingzhou City, there are mountains, water, countryside, and boundless prairie and desert. It has both the wealth of Jiangnan and the mighty outside the frontier. Moreover, the folk customs and scholars here are very different from the Central Plains. The city is full of brave men and is also the old place of Xixia. Although the imperial examinations were also held, how can the tradition of valuing martial arts and light literature be changed?

Moreover, the Xuanfu Division of the Northwest Third Route of Gao Qiu, who now ruled Lingzhou (Gao Qiu was also the magistrate of Lingzhou), has also placed a large number of knights and military soldiers in the countryside near Lingzhou. The atmosphere of learning bows and horses, enjoying hunting, and emphasizing martial arts permeates the inside and outside of this heroic city outside the frontier.

Wu Haogu rode on the horse, looking at the distance, the wide official road and the nearby grasslands were filled with young men wearing furious horses. There were many people playing polo, and some servants with bows and arrows, who were looking to hunt in the nearby mountains. There were even a few women riding horses and bows and arrows, swaying on the road.

There is not a single man or woman who is a talented man and a beautiful woman!

Seeing this scene, Wu Haogu's eyebrows gradually frowned. Today is the day when he left Lingzhou and returned to Kaifeng Prefecture. Gao Qiu also brought his aides and retainers out of Lingzhou City to see Wu Haogu off. Because of Wu Haogu's request, the group did not play flags, and they didn't even wear official uniforms, but just went in a very small way.

"What? Dalang, are there too many idle people waiting around?" Gao Qiu seemed to frown when he saw Wu Haogu, "Let's play the flag."

Wu Haogu shook his head: "Everyone is in high spirits, why bother others' interest?"

"But Dalang, you are not in high spirits. Are you worried about the Hebei Xuanfu Office?"

In Gao Qiu's opinion, Wu Haogu must have been bothering about being appointed as the Xuanfu of Hebei. This Xuanfu of Hebei is a hotter assignment than the Xuanfu of the Northwest. It seems that Xuanfu of Hebei seems to have great power and holds heavy troops. But in fact, each of the five Hebei routes has a commander's commander, and these five commanders are not under the jurisdiction of the Xuanfu envoy, let alone the military and horse cities under the commander's commander's commander.

The so-called Hebei Xuanfu is a completely bare-stop job, which is even worse than Gao Qiu's Northwest Xuanfu. At least there is a Lingzhou, a general of soldiers and thousands of knights.

However, Wu Haogu's Xuanfu, Hebei, did not serve as the prefecture, nor did he directly under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. It was actually good without the prefecture. It was a good person who was famous and had a low position, and it was good to eat, drink and have fun all day. However, after the two prefectures agreed, they sent Wu Haogu an extremely hot dispatch to rectify the Hebei imperial guards!

Wu Haogu is now famous and has no real power, and he has to rectify the complicated Hebei imperial guards. And the most difficult thing is that Hebei is like Shaanxi, where there are so many official fields in the northwest that can be allocated to soldiers.

Although the income of 200 to 250 acres of land cannot compare to the income of an imperial soldier, the income is to look at the problem from a capitalist perspective. In the northwest, Shaanxi has no conditions for developing capitalist agriculture at all, and it is a feudal agricultural route. 200 to 250 acres of land is basically a rich peasant in the northwest. If the income from renting and corvee service is still exempted, the income of these lands is enough to make the family and have a hot meal, and can raise a group of livestock. It is actually easy to understand that the net income of planting 200 to 250 acres of land a year is definitely not as good as twenty or thirty knots, but the grain that can be harvested and the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks that you feed your own, will be purchased in the markets of big cities, and even two hundred knots can’t be bought.

This is because the transportation in the northwest and Shaanxi is inconvenient and the commercial circulation cost is very high. Therefore, the prices of central cities such as Jingzhao Prefecture, Weizhou, Yanzhou, and Lanzhou are more expensive than those of Kaifeng Prefecture. However, in the remote rural areas of northern Shaanxi, Xihe and Shuofang, agricultural products are not worth anything unless they are in the year of a major disaster.

As for what capitalist planting industry to develop in Shaanxi and Shuofang to grab the big market on the southeast coast, Wu Haogu, who is the capitalist, knows that that is dreaming.

Now even in Shaanxi and Shuofang’s war horses are not as good as hippos in the world…

This closed and backward economic outlook actually has a good side, which is that Wu Haogu can successfully implement the "land military service system" reform in Shaanxi. On the one hand, the court saved a lot of money; on the other hand, the living standards of the Northwest Imperial Army improved after being transferred to Tianfu soldiers. It is a win-win situation, so naturally there is no resistance.

But the same thing is not even possible in Hebei.

First of all, there are not so many official lands in Hebei. There are not many official lands there, and in recent years, more than 3,000 knights have been placed there one after another. This item alone has consumed four or five million mu of land! Except for part of which was acquired by Wu Haogu in Beicangzhou in his early years, the remaining land comes from the official land and the official ranch. After this round of distribution, there are not many official lands in the fifth route of Hebei, and not enough more than 100,000 domestic soldiers to be assigned to the field.

Moreover, the comfort of Hebei Fifth Road and the Hebei Transport Ambassador are most likely unwilling to cooperate so much and take out the precious land.

If we want to reduce the distribution, for example, one soldier gives one hundred acres. Then the land income is far less than the income of the Hebei Imperial Army. The Hebei Imperial Army is different from the Western Army. They pretend to be in the army and each have other income in addition to military pay. No matter how like the Northwest Imperial Army, there is no other way of wealth except to fight for life and death.

Therefore, the method of using land to resettle the troops in Hebei will not work at all!

Secondly, the Hebei Imperial Army has been without war for a hundred years. It has long been unfamiliar with military affairs, and there are a lot of old customs and bad habits. Most of the officers and soldiers have their own operations, and joining the army has become a side job. How can such soldiers be well rectified? It will only lead the new army to be a new army if they are forced to be the new army.

Moreover, there are a large number of military officers and miscellaneous military officials in the Hebei Imperial Guards! Most of these people have backgrounds, and there is someone covering them, and no one can do anything to them. Wu Haogu dares to touch their cheese, which is to be an enemy of the entire Eastern Army system.

If they are not moved, then there is no need to watch the Hebei New Army, and it will definitely be the Tofu Army that is about to collapse.

Of course, Gao Qiu understood the routine here, so he thought about it and made things difficult for Wu Haogu!

The job of Hebei’s army reorganization was Su Che and Zhang Shangying who conspired to get into a trap for Wu Haogu to get into it!

"It's not difficult to do the errands in Hebei." Wu Haogu smiled, "The emperor is just to consolidate his army to capture Youzhou in the north... Youzhou is not difficult to acquire. It's enough to have more than 10,000 elite infantry. There is always a way to pull out this number of troops."

Is Wu Dalang talking in his sleep?

Gao Qiu was shocked by Wu Haogu's words. In the great Liao Kingdom, can you defeat 10,000 infantry plus a few thousand knights?

Actually, Wu Haogu is telling the truth. Now even Yelu Dashi has been sent to the Western Regions. Who else can defeat him in the future Northern Expedition? Besides, the Yanyun tribe of Liao has long been integrated with Jiehe Shangshi, and it is nothing more than a few more military governors. What about the Han family, Zhao family, Liu family, Ma family, Zhang family, Li family, etc., each one is a military governor. If it is not possible, you can probably enter Yanjing without bloodshed. If it doesn't work, give me millions... Everyone is their own people, so what can't be discussed carefully?

Ten thousand elite infantry plus three to five thousand knights are just used to drive away the Khitan cavalry who went south to rescue, not to attack cities and villages.

What really made Wu Haogu frown was actually the folk customs near Lingzhou.

The folk customs in Lingzhou are not like Kaifeng Prefecture or Jingzhao Prefecture. It is even more different from Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City. It is a bit similar to the Xijin Prefecture of Liaoguo, which I saw eight years ago.

These young men who rode horses and traveled seemed not much different from the children of the Youzhou nobles! These people should be knights placed near Lingzhou, the children of the Tian officer, and perhaps some of the former Xixia warriors who defected to Gao Qiu.

Will these people become a new Guanlong military group in the future?

On Shuofang, there is no possibility of taking the capitalist path at the moment, and I cannot transfer to the imperial examination... On the northwest, it is a feudal military group! Will they be willing to obey the Song Dynasty court with Zhao Ji as the core in the future?

...

"What happened to the Sanfoqi Maritime Warehouse, Sanfoqi Inspection Department and Ace Inspection Department? Did Ji Yizhi go on a mission or go to war? Why did he still attack islands and plunder land?"

"Is this considered arbitrary attack?"

"I am definitely arbitrarily engaged in border quarrels! And it's for the sake of a raush Nanxin Island..."

"A envoy who casually uses troops overseas is too unreasonable, isn't Ji Yizhi too unreasonable?"

"Maybe it was forced by the situation?"

"Yes, the memorial said that his fleet defeated a giant bandit in the Sanfoqi Strait that had caused trouble to Sanfoqi for many years. The King of Sanfoqi was grateful, and the other was afraid that the giant bandits would come back, so he presented Nanxin Island, located at the entrance of Sanfoqi Strait to our dynasty..."

"What a joke? One million taxes a year! All three Buddhas are willing to give them to us?"

"Are you wrong? One million yuan! Kaifeng Prefecture only collects hundreds of thousands of commercial taxes a year. Can this broken island collect one million?"

"If you really have a million yuan income, this side of the quarrel is worth it! Ji Yizhi still has made contributions."

Kaifeng Prefecture, Xihuangcheng, and Zhengshi Hall are now gathering discussions. At the beginning of the discussion, everyone talked about the memorial sent by Ji Yi from Nanxin Island that they just received.

The content on the memorial was too outrageous. The Song Dynasty accidentally added a piece of land overseas! And it was a good place to generate income. At least 1 million yuan could be paid to the Coastal Maritime Control Department in a year!

This number is too scary, and the important officials in the two governments in the Political Affairs Hall were a little fond of their righteousness when they saw profit.
Chapter completed!