In the second year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, on the second day of June, Lingzhou City.
Lingzhou, that is, Xiping Prefecture was originally Xijing of Dabai Gao Kingdom (Tokyo of Dabai Gao Kingdom is Xingqing Prefecture, although Xingqing Prefecture is located further to the west and Lingzhou is to the east, but Yuan Hao stipulated this) , so there is a royal palace in the city.
When Chage led his troops to flee from Lingzhou, he sent people to "wash" the palace in the city (you can't call it robbing when you rob your own, it has to be called washing), and then set it on fire. However, when Zhao Kai moved in on the first day of June, the powerful Han people in Lingzhou City had already taken the best utensils and supplies from their own homes and rearranged the palace. Only some of the palace rooms that had been burned were missing. The method was restored.
In addition, all the maids in the Lingzhou Palace were also taken away by Brother Cha. However, the chiefs of the Lingzhou clans who had good surrender gestures all selected Huanghua eldest girls from their own families to fill the vacancies of palace maids, but the chambermaids were unable to gather them all at the moment.
Zhao Kai's army entered Lingzhou on the morning of the first day of June, entering through the north gate. After entering the city, he didn’t pretend to be a good person and immediately declared martial law!
Now in the streets and alleys of Lingzhou, there are fully armed soldiers of the Song Dynasty on patrol. Each of them is very tired, but extremely excited. Most of these soldiers are from the Wu family in the Western Army Camp. Many of them pretended to break Lingzhou City when they were playing games when they were children. Many of their elders and ancestors died in the Battle of Lingzhou in the fourth year of Yuanfeng. .
Such a castle that the Western Army had been dreaming about for so many years was actually taken by these people...and they still crushed their opponents with absolute strength and scared away the arrogant Western thief Jin. Brother Wang Cha finally entered the city in a swaggering manner, greeted by the leader of the powerful Han clan in Lingzhou on his knees.
This process can last a whole day in front of the ancestors' graves!
For Zhao Kai, who has already lived in the Lingzhou Imperial City, this battle in Lingzhou also has extraordinary significance.
First of all, Lingzhou is not a city that was just lost, but a city that was lost for more than 120 years. Its nature is the same as that of Yanjing.
The significance of capturing Lingzhou is comparable to that of recovering Yanjing!
Secondly, the Battle of Lingzhou was the true sublimation battle of the Song Army under Zhao Kai! The tricks he used before, such as restoring the military system and establishing a military merit system, were actually "reverse" methods. There is no need for him as a "traveler", the ancients can do it themselves... It's just that for various purposes, those "meat eaters" in high positions have to use the method of living in peace to deal with the collapse of music. Bad troubled times.
In the original history, in the end, didn't Zhu Yuanzhang, who started with only one bowl, use the trick of conquering the world and dividing the fields, and restored the Han family's world?
However, this battle of Lingzhou cannot be fought simply by changing the distribution method to increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers.
The battle of Lingzhou was so successful because of the truly effective gunpowder weapons!
It can be said that Zhao Kai, who has been fighting since time travel, only really used his golden finger starting from the Battle of Lingzhou, and it worked very well!
From now on, the Song Army (under Zhao Kai), which possesses truly powerful gunpowder weapons, is already the most powerful army in the world!
Third, after the Battle of Lingzhou, the Song Dynasty of Zhao Kai and Zhao Hongwu finally no longer lacked horses!
Not only are there tens of thousands of horses in Lingzhou City, but there are also many farms hiding horses outside Lingzhou City!
Further away, various families in the Hengshan tribe also raised good horses!
On the second day of June, in the early morning of the second day after Zhao Kai entered Lingzhou, a group of leaders from Lingzhou's wealthy families, led by Dalba, a Tibetan monk with great magical powers, all stood with their eyebrows downcast. The Zichen Hall of the imperial palace was waiting for the arrival of officials from the Song Dynasty.
What? Didn’t Darba pass away?
Of course not...that's an eminent monk! How could it be so easy to be "thundered to death"? During the battle in the diba city the day before yesterday, he was chanting sutras on the tower and did not go down to fight the cannons in person. Those who were killed by artillery fire were all his disciples. They didn't have enough magic power, so they passed away.
Dalba has practiced for more than thirty years, and with such profound magical power, how could he not know that Xixia was about to end? So when he saw something was wrong, he found a place to hide. When Zhao Kai entered the diba city, he came out to pay his respects... While paying his respects, he also volunteered to go to Lingzhou to persuade him to surrender!
There are not only Han people in Lingzhou City, but also Dangxiang people, Tubo people, and Qiang people. Moreover, not all Han people living in Lingzhou "live in the Xia Kingdom and feel in the Song Dynasty". There are also many people who have doubts about the Song Dynasty. For example, the descendants of the famous Xixia minister Zhang Yuan...Dalba could come forward and help these people to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, the great monk Darba himself is not simple. Not just anyone can become a high-ranking monk in Tubo!
Generally speaking, only the sons of powerful men or descendants of Zanpu become monks and recite sutras. Only those who can recite sutras well will be able to become a higher monk.
Master Dalba is such a distinguished monk. He is the national preceptor of Xixia and is very prestigious in the Qingtang tribe.
As long as he comes forward and Zhao Huaien, a descendant of Zunsiluo, is enough to appease the Qingtang Tubo tribes... This Qingtang Tubo has a "specialty" called Qingtang Longma!
This is a good horse based on the Hequ horse, which has been cultivated through long-term selective breeding. The Qingtang tribe in the Qinghai Lake area will transport the best stallions and mares in the tribe to an island in the lake, and let them grow on it. There they hold the hooves and raise the foals. After generations of raising, the horses naturally get better and better.
In East Asia in the twelfth century, there were no good horse breeds in the Song Dynasty, and the Jurchen horses of the Jin Kingdom (Jurchen horses were also bred from generation to generation) were not available to Zhao Kai. So the Qingtang Dragon Horse is the best horse breed he can get!
If we can get a group of Qingtang horses and take them to the horse farm in Kaifeng Prefecture to raise them well, maybe in a few years, the Song Dynasty will have a large number of good horses available...
"The officials are here!"
Then one of Tiance's guards shouted loudly.
Zhao Kai, an official of the Song Dynasty, appeared in the sight of Dalba and others, surrounded by Guo Tiannu, several female Banzhi, and several Hanlin officials.
Oh, there is also a fairy in white who is also beside Zhao Kai. Zhao Kai is holding her jade hand. The two of them look very close!
The eminent monk Dalba recognized the fairy in white at a glance as the fairy who used thunder to defeat the Western thieves that day!
Looking at the intimacy between the fairy and Zhao Kai...Zhao Kai has probably already slept with the fairy!
The Zhao Daguan family is so powerful. Others are already very good at subduing demons and monsters. He directly subdued the fairies who descended to earth... It seems that the legend is true. The Zhao Daguan family is really the chosen king!
Thinking of this, Dalba quickly put his hands together and performed the Buddhist salute to Zhao Kai and the fairy.
The group of Lingzhou wealthy people who followed him simply knelt down and kowtow... They have followed the Western thieves for generations, and they are all sinners! Now you have to apologize first and then beg for mercy!
"Master, please sit down!" Zhao Kai smiled and took a seat on a throne. Guo Tiannu and Wu Meiniang stood on the left and right behind Zhao Kai.
Two palace attendants in the palace (temporary palace) brought a chair to Dalba and asked him to sit on it.
As for other sinners, they can only continue to kneel!
Zhao Kai has no intention of sparing them... But now is not the time to discuss punishment. Zhao Kai must first coax Lingzhou, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Shizhou, Party members on the ground in Hongzhou.
We can't let them run away... Although these places are not gathering areas for party members, they still have a population of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands!
A person... exchanges for a horse, this is not expensive!
You have to ask Li Qianshun to trade for horses!
If we can exchange for 200,000 horses at a time, then Kaifeng Mansion's racecourse and Zhao Kai's army will have enough horses!
"Master, Master..." When Zhao Kai was about to discuss with the monk how to further deceive the party members, he found that the monk was staring at Wu Meiniang... and he had a look of astonishment on his face!
How is this going? What is his relationship with Wu Meiniang? Could they be long-lost siblings? No, they don't look alike, and they're too different in age!
Dalba was called out by Zhao Kai, and then he came to his senses - he saw Wu Meiniang standing respectfully beside Zhao Kai, and he had some doubts about Zhao Kai's identity.
Could it be that Zhao Kai also came from heaven?
I don’t know if Zhao Kai’s “Heaven” is connected with “Western Heaven”? Can you ask him about becoming a Buddha...
"Guan family," Darba spoke good Chinese, "what are your orders?"
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "I want to issue notices in Lingzhou, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Shizhou, Hongzhou and other places east of the Yellow River to tell the party members in those places that I have already Feng Qianshun became the King of Pingxi, the Governor of Hexi, and the Protector of Anxi... So they don't need to panic. I can let them go to Xingqing Mansion to join Qianshun. As long as each of them hands over a fertile foal. The horse will atone for their faults."
Zhao Kai's idea is to let each of these party members hand over a horse first, and then control them to ask Qianshun for another horse, so that 100,000 people can be exchanged for 200,000 horses... As for these people Zhao Kai didn't want their lives or their wealth.
After hearing this, Dalba quickly recited the Buddha's name and said: "Amitabha, the officials really have the heart of a Bodhisattva!"
"Bodhisattva's heart?" Zhao Kai asked hurriedly, "Is it going to be less?"
"Not a few, not a few..." The monk quickly shook his head, "What you want is a fertile horse. You don't want horses that are too old or immature. You don't want horses that have been castrated. This is not the case." not enough."
Zhao Kai nodded and said with a smile: "I think it's quite a lot... To be honest, our official horses in the Song Dynasty before the war was declared, there were only 100,000 horses! Master, this time Can we get 100,000 horses from Lingzhou, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Shizhou, Hongzhou, etc.?"
Dalba smiled and said: "Yes, I can definitely do it, I'll take care of it!"
Zhao Kai laughed loudly and said in his heart: You are a good old man, a loyal and patriotic old man!
