After autumn begins in Weiyuan, the mood of autumn becomes more intense. The weather is colder than in Qinzhou and autumn begins earlier. The flow of the Wei River is also much less than before, and it flows more slowly.
At this time, the wasteland near Weiyuan Fort was almost flat, totaling nearly a thousand hectares.
Some canals have also been built, and winter wheat can be sown at this time.
After Zhang Yue received the wheat seeds from Guwei, he immediately ordered them to be sown. Don't delay the farming season. The earlier you harvest the grain, the earlier you will have the capital to march to Lintao.
Otherwise, the grain and horse feed imported from the ancient Wei Dynasty was barely enough to feed these people and horses. Zhang Yue used salt money from time to time to buy some cattle and sheep from various tribes, so that highland barley could make people full. As for future troops, Savings are never enough.
The banks of the Weishui River are currently full of busy farmers and troops, so we can look forward to the prosperous scene next spring.
If there is a good wheat harvest next spring and winter, Zhang Yue decides to increase the food allowance from two meals a day to three meals a day. In the Song Dynasty, three meals a day was a treatment that only the citizens and scholar-bureaucrats had.
The salt fields are also doing well. More than a dozen newly dug wells can now produce more than 1,500 kilograms of salt per day.
This salt can not only be eaten by oneself, but also supplied to Gu Wei and sold to nearby Tibetan tribes. The technology of refining salt in the Song Dynasty was superior to that of Mu Zheng, and the output was several times that of him. Zhang Yue was very kind in doing business and sold his salt much cheaper than Mu Zheng.
Therefore, the Tibetan people from all nearby tribes were willing to buy salt from Zhang Yue. At the same time, Zhang Yue continued to lure Tibetan people from the Tibetan tribe to serve as kitchen men, and the saltsmiths continued to dig new salt wells.
When the salt merchants from Sichuan and Sichuan heard that Zhang Yue was digging salt wells in Qingtang, they all expressed their willingness to come here to buy salt and sent people to contact him. There is an ancient Zhangmin Road connecting the Qing and Tang Dynasties to Hanzhong. It was this road that Deng Ai and his sons took when they destroyed Shu.
If the salt can be sold to Sichuan and Shu, Zhang Yue will have another source of wealth.
Wang Shao's plan when he went to Ping Rongce was to recapture the Qingtang Dynasty, so that Sichuan and Shu would be connected with Qinfeng Road and the Qingtang Dynasty. This would not only protect Qinfeng Road, but also Sichuan and Shu. Besides, this was originally the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
If Zhang Yue were here for a year, then Weiyuan would definitely give him a solid business and at the same time continue to erode Mu Zheng's power. Of course, Mu Zheng would definitely not give him this opportunity.
On this day, Zhiyuan came to Weiyuan Castle, and at the same time two Tibetan monks came, namely Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluojie.
Although Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluojie were monks, they were tribes with tens of thousands of people in Xizhou.
When the Tibetan people fight, all the people, men, women, old and young can take part in the battle.
Although Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo had tens of thousands of people under their command, they were less than one-tenth of the population of an ordinary county in the Song Dynasty, but they were still very important forces in Xizhou.
Zhiyuan was responsible for the foreign affairs of the Tibetan Ministry. This time, after Zhang Yue and Wang Shao captured Lanhui, they asked Zhiyuan to go to Qingtang City to appease Dong Fei and Mu Zheng to avoid being attacked on both sides.
But this time Zhiyuan brought one bad news and two good news.
It turns out that Lin Bubi, Dong Fe's son, first married a Uighur in Ganzhou. This time, Liang Yimi tried his best to win over Dong Xiang in order to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty. Dong Fei heard that Zhang Yue and Wang Shao had surrendered many Qingtang tribes, and he also saw the Song Dynasty's ambition to restore Hehuang.
Now that none of the Qing and Tang tribes could resist the Song Dynasty, they agreed to Liang Yimi's request and gave his beloved daughter to Lin Bubi as his wife.
So Lin Bubi married two wives at the same time, one from Ganzhou Uighur and the other from Dangxiang.
Dong Fei also agreed to Liang Yi's request to join forces with Xia to resist the Song Dynasty.
Although Zhang Yue had expected this, when it came to the matter, he still felt that Dong Fei would completely fall to Xixia, which was also an unknown number.
Historically, Dong Fei had not decided to defect to Xixia so quickly, but because he and Wang Shao were progressing too fast in Qingtang, it aroused his vigilance.
Therefore, he also gave up remaining neutral between Xixia and Song Dynasty, and even slightly tilted towards Song Dynasty, and quickly united with Xixia.
As for the good news brought by Zhiyuan, the lord of Miaochuan City, Wen Nazhi Ying City, decided to return to the Song Dynasty after learning about Dong Fei's alliance with Xia Dynasty.
Wen Nazhi Yingcheng, the grandson of Wen Buqi, is the son of a golden dragon.
He and Dong Xiang had a feud. His power in Qingtang was not weaker than Dong Xiang's, and his territory was right between Dong Xiang and Xixia.
If Dong Fei united with Xixia and sent troops from both sides at the same time, he would be done with the city of Wen Na and Zhi Ying.
Therefore, after Wenna Zhiyingcheng learned that Dong Fei had returned to Xia, he took the initiative to contact Zhiyuan and expressed his intention to join the Song Dynasty.
Wen Na Zhi Ying City commanded 28 clans and more than 60,000 soldiers. If he returned to the Song Dynasty, it would be a little easier for Zhang Yue and Wang Shao to pacify the Qing Tang Dynasty.
Another good news is that they met Wu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo and sneaked in to welcome Dong Yu to Lintao.
Who is Dong Yu?
He is the nephew of Dong Fei and the brother of Mu Zheng. Previously, Xixia had wanted to ask about the marriage between Dong Fei and Dong Yu. However, Dong Fei was afraid that Dong Yu's becoming Xixia's son-in-law would split his power in the clan, so he did not agree and let his son become Xixia's son-in-law instead.
Dong Yu was dissatisfied with Dong Felt and left him. Later, Jie Wu Chila met him and persuaded him to establish his own business, and at the same time united the Song Dynasty to fight Dong Felt.
Dong Yu thought for a while and agreed to kill Wu Chila and led his troops to Lintao. Jie Wu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo joined forces, so the three of them became Zhang Yue's internal correspondents in Xizhou.
Zhang Yue immediately discussed with Kang Zang Xingluo and Wu Chila all night, and also informed Zhang Yue of the news that Mu Zheng had united various ministries to attack this time.
Why do they believe Zhang Yue?
Because of Longtuge's pending status, they believed that Zhang Yue, as a senior official of the Song Dynasty, would definitely keep his word.
When the two of them went back to rest, Zhiyuan said: "Since these two people and Dong Yu are willing to rely on us, if we send troops to Lintao at this time, once the inside and outside are coordinated, why worry about whether the army can't be broken and Lintao can't fall?"
Zhiyuan's proposal is very attractive.
Zhang Yue said: "That's the case, I still can't trust them easily."
"How can I see it?"
Zhang Yue said: "Mu Zheng was about to send troops to attack me, but these two people came here to make an appointment. This is a coincidence."
Zhiyuan was startled and said: "Long Tu is saying that this may be Mu Zheng's plan, and he sent them deliberately to win our trust?"
Zhang Yue said: "It is possible."
Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "It's impossible. Dong Yu and Mu Zheng are at odds. This is a sure thing and it's definitely not fabricated."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I am just speculating, but you see, when these two people are leaving tomorrow, I will hold a banquet to practice it. Then they will definitely encourage me to send troops from Weiyuan and Qingyu Second Fort to attack Lintao. If they If I still don’t say a word, it’s considered that I misunderstood them.”
Zhiyuan nodded after hearing this.
Zhang Yue said: "But even if they are true, I can't send troops. Because the soldiers and horses are not yet ready and need to be trained. At the same time, there is insufficient food and grass in Weiyuan, so it is not a good opportunity to send troops. This is not a completely sure thing, and I cannot Willing to do it.”
The next day Zhang Yue rewarded the two with a lot of salt notes and asked them to take them back to Dong Yu.
As a result, Wu Chila vigorously encouraged Zhang Yue to send troops to Taoyuan at the banquet, and the three of them agreed to provide internal support.
