Prime Minister

Chapter 692
After Weiyuan entered autumn, autumn became more and more intense. The weather was colder than Qinzhou, and autumn came earlier, and the flow of Weishui was much less than before, and the flow was slower.

At this time, the barren fields near Weiyuan Castle were almost leveled, and the total area was nearly a thousand hectares.

The canals have also been repaired, and winter wheat can be sown this season.

After Zhang Yue received the wheat seeds from Guwei, he immediately ordered them to be planted. Don't delay the farming time. The sooner you harvest the grain, the sooner you have the capital to march into Lintao.

Otherwise, the grain and horse feed imported from the ancient Wei would barely be enough for these people and horses to eat today. Zhang Yue would use salt money to buy some cattle and sheep from various tribes from time to time. Savings, that is absolutely not enough.

Right now, the banks of the Weishui River are full of busy farmers and soldiers, so we can look forward to a rich scene after the beginning of spring next year.

If there is a good harvest of winter wheat next spring, Zhang Yue decided to increase the food treatment from two meals a day to three meals a day.In the Song Dynasty, three meals a day were treated only by the citizens and scholar-bureaucrats.

The salt field is also doing well, with more than a dozen Zhuotong wells newly dug, which can now produce more than [-] catties of salt per day.

This salt can not only be eaten by oneself, but also supplied to Gu Wei and sold to the nearby Fan tribe.The technology of refining salt in the Song Dynasty was better than that of Mu Zheng, and at the same time, the output was several times that of him. Zhang Yue's business was very kind, and the selling price was much cheaper than that of Mu Zheng.

Therefore, the Tibetans from all the nearby tribes were willing to buy salt from Zhang Yue. At the same time, Zhang Yue continued to lure the Tibetans from the tribes to act as stove cooks, and the salt craftsmen continued to dig new salt wells.

The salt merchants from Sichuan and Sichuan heard that Zhang Yue had dug salt wells in Qingtang, and they all expressed their willingness to come here to buy salt, and sent people to contact them.From the Qingtang Dynasty to Hanzhong, there is an ancient road connecting Zhang and Min, and Deng Ai and his son took this road when they destroyed Shu.

If salt can be sold to Sichuan and Shu, Zhang Yue will have another source of income.

Wang Shao's plan for Shangping Rongce back then was to retake Qingtang, and make Sichuan and Shu and Qinfeng Road Qingtang a piece, not only protecting Qinfeng Road, but also protecting Sichuan and Shu, besides, this is the homeland of Han and Tang Dynasties.

If Zhang Yue is here for a year, then Weiyuan will give him a solid business and will continue to erode Mu Zheng's power. Of course, Mu Zheng will definitely not give him this opportunity.

This day, Zhiyuan came to Weiyuan Fort, and at the same time, two foreign monks came, they were Jie Wu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo Jie.

Although Jie Wu Chila and Kangzang Xing Luo Jie are fan monks, they are all tribes with tens of thousands of people in Xizhou.

Fans fight with all the people, men, women, old and young can fight.

Jie Wu Chila, although Kangzang Xingluo has a population of tens of thousands, it is not as good as one-tenth of the population of an ordinary county in the Song Dynasty, but it is a pivotal force in Xizhou.

Zhiyuan is in charge of the foreign affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This time after Zhang Yue and Wang Shao captured Lanhui, Zhiyuan sent Zhiyuan to Qingtang City to appease Dong Xing and Mu Zheng, so as not to be attacked on both sides.

But Zhiyuan brought one bad news and two good news this time.

It turned out that Lin Bubi, the son of Dong Zhan, first married Uighur in Ganzhou.This time, Liang Yibu tried his best to win over Dong Zhan in order to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty.And Dong felt heard that Zhang Yue and Wang Shao recruited many Qingtang tribes, and also saw the ambition of the Song Dynasty to restore Hehuang.

Now the Qing and Tang Dynasties have no Song Dynasty that they can resist, so they agreed to Liang Yibu's request and gave the other party's beloved daughter to Lin Bu as his wife.

So Lin Bubi married two wives at the same time, one from Ganzhou Uighur and one from Dangxiang.

And Dong felt also agreed to Liang Yi's request to join Xia Kangsong.

Although Zhang Yue had anticipated this matter, he still felt that it was unknown that Dong Zhan would completely fall for Xi Xia.

In history, Dong Zhan had never decided to fall to Xixia so quickly, but because he and Wang Shao had progressed too quickly in Qingtang, it aroused his vigilance.

Therefore, he also gave up maintaining neutrality in Xixia and Song Dynasty, and even slightly leaned towards the Song Dynasty, and instead quickly united with Xixia.

As for the good news brought by Zhiyuan, Wen Nazhiying City, the lord of Miaochuan City, decided to return to Song Dynasty after learning about Dong Zhanlianxia.

Wenna Zhiying City, grandson of Wen Buqi, son of a golden dragon.

He and Dong Zhan had a feud, his power in Qingtang was not weaker than Dong Zhan's, and his jurisdiction happened to be between Dong Zhan and Xixia.

If Dong Zhan and Xixia joined forces, and both sides sent troops at the same time, it would be the end of Wennazhiying City.

Therefore, after Wennazhi Yingcheng learned that Dong Zhan had returned to Xia, he contacted Zhiyuan and expressed his intention to join the Song Dynasty.

Wennazhiying City commanded 28 clans and more than [-] soldiers. If he returned to Song Dynasty, it would be a little less difficult for Zhang Yue and Wang Shao to pacify Qingtang.

Another good news is that Wu Chila and Kang Zangxing Luojie joined forces to welcome Dong Yu to Lintao.

Who is Dong Yu?
He is Dong Zhan's nephew and Mu Zheng's brother, Xi Xia had originally asked Dong Zhan to marry Dong Yu.But Dong Zhan was afraid that if Dong Yu became Xixia's son-in-law, he would split his power in the clan, so he didn't agree to let his son become Xixia's son-in-law instead.

But Dong Yu was dissatisfied with Dong Yu and left him. After meeting Wu Chila, he persuaded him to form his own family, and at the same time united with the Song Dynasty to fight against Dong Yu.

After thinking about it for a while, Dong Yu agreed to end Wu Chila, and led his troops to Lintao.Jie Wu Chila united with Kangzang Xingluo, so the three of them became Zhang Yue's internal counterparts in Xizhou.

Zhang Yue immediately discussed with Kangzang Xingluo and Wu Chila all night, and also informed Zhang Yue of the news that Mu Zheng joined forces with various ministries to attack this time.

Why do they believe in Zhang Yue?

Because of Longtu Pavilion's status as a waiter, they believed that Zhang Yue, as a high official in the Song Dynasty, would definitely keep his word.

When the two went back to rest, Zhi Yuan said: "Since these two people and Dong Yu are willing to attach themselves to us, if we send troops to Lintao at this time, once the inside and outside cooperate, why worry that the wooden conquest will not be broken, and Lintao will not go down?"

Zhiyuan's proposal is very attractive.

Zhang Yue said: "That's the case, I still can't trust them now."

“How come you see?”

Zhang Yue said: "Mu Zheng was going to send troops to attack me, but these two people came here to make an agreement to surrender. It's too coincidental."

Zhi Yuan was startled and said: "Long Tu is saying that this may also be Mu Zheng's trick, and deliberately sent them to win our trust?"

Zhang Yue said: "It is possible."

Zhi Yuan thought for a while and said, "Impossible, Dong Yu and Mu Zheng are at odds, this is a certainty, it is definitely not fabricated."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "I'm just speculating, but you see, when these two people leave tomorrow, I will hold a banquet to practice, and then they will definitely encourage me to send troops from Weiyuan and Qingyu Second Fort to attack Lintao. If I don’t say a word, I’ve misunderstood them.”

Zhiyuan heard the words and nodded.

Zhang Yue said: "But even if they are true, I can't send troops. Because the soldiers and horses have not yet run in and need to be practiced. 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 sure thing. I don't know. Willing to do it."

The next day Zhang Yue rewarded the two with a lot of money and asked them to bring it back to Dong Yu.

As a result, Wu Chila vigorously encouraged Zhang Yue to send troops to Lintao at the meeting, and the three of them were willing to make an appointment to respond internally.

(End of this chapter)