Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 271
Duguhong smiled and said: "Actually, the opponent I most want to challenge right now is you, but I know you don't have the time.

Forget it, when you really restore the strong man to the prosperous Tang Dynasty one day, and you no longer have any attachment to power, I will come to you again, and then we must decide the winner! "

"Hehe, I hope that day will come as soon as possible."

Both of them were very straightforward. After drinking the parting wine at Shiliting, they left freely and went their separate ways.

Afterwards, Dugu Hong changed his name to Dugu Qiubai in the Jianghu, provoking all the heroes in the world, just to win a defeat, but in the end, he has been in the Jianghu for decades, and since then, there is no opponent who can make him draw his sword with all his strength.

Until he was 70 years old, he had an epiphany in his heart. One day outside the cave on the cliff, he used Qi as a sword and performed a sword dance.

Dozens of chaotic sword marks were engraved on the cliff, and his lifelong sword skills and sword intent were hidden in the sword marks.

Then it fell against the void, opening a door to the sky.

After biding farewell to the divine eagle, Dugu Qiubai stepped through the void door with an incomparably free and easy smile, completely achieved the Broken Void, and entered another dimension.

As for the sword marks left behind, within a hundred years, three people fell off the cliff one after another, reaped adventures, and each roamed the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, so that the rivers and lakes that had become the prosperous age of Yan at that time were represented by the names of these three people. era.

After the assassination was over, Fan Zhuoyuan gathered [-] troops to attack Xixia in the autumn of the following year!
The mighty Yan army is not comparable to the weak Song. Fan Zhuoyuan has no shortage of horses, even the infantry have pack horses to maintain mobility, not to mention professional cavalry.

Coupled with the enhancement of firecracker technology, the output was expanded, and a short firecracker suitable for cavalry was produced.

Therefore, in the Gobi Desert of Xixia, the cavalry of the two sides attacked each other, and the cavalry of the Xiaojie Army almost maintained an absolute advantage, besieging and annihilating all the viable forces that dared to go out of the city to fight.

But Xixia intends to defend against danger, but it can't stop the various types of heavy artillery of the Xiaojie army.

Nowadays, in addition to heavy artillery that is useful for siege of cities and villages, mortars that can be fired across mountains have also been manufactured. Shooting at a high angle can penetrate dangerous terrain into the city with a large parabola.

With the blessing of strong technical strength, from early autumn to winter, in just four months, the entire territory of Xixia was defeated.

All the royal family were captured and brought into Yanjing City to raise them.

So far, apart from Xiliao, which is far away in the Western Regions, there is no opponent in the west.

As for Tubo, it has already been divided into many tribes. Apart from continuing to strengthen Buddhist penetration and use cultural control, it is to win over tribes close to the Han Dynasty, attack tribes that are hostile, and at the same time support the internal struggles of multiple tribes to prevent their unification. .

Three years later, the Xiangyang navy was trained, and the various systems in the North were running smoothly. The entire court system was fully adapted to the New Deal, and a considerable number of bureaucrats and subordinate staff had been trained.

Due to the serious involution of the military and civil service systems in the past few years, the soldiers look forward to military achievements, and the literati look forward to more places where they can achieve political achievements.

Naturally, the court was determined from top to bottom, and turned its attention to the south, where there are still a lot of military and political achievements to be made!
Fan Zhuoyuan raised an army of 35 and divided it into three groups, attacking from Hanzhong, Xiangyang, and Yangzhou respectively when everything was ready and people were against each other!
Han Shizhong was the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army against Shu, Fan Zhuoyuan was the commander of the Middle Route, and Gu Huaizhen was the commander of the East Route.

Although in the past three years, the south has trained a large part of the strong army, but in terms of actual combat and military morale, it is naturally difficult to compete with the north.

In addition, Xiangyang, an important strategic node in the defense line of the Jianghuai River, has already fallen into Fan Zhuoyuan's hands. In the past three years, the Southern Song Dynasty has been unable to take it no matter whether it used deception, buying, or force.

Now it has become their deadliest assault. Fan Zhuoyuan used his water army to cross the Han River and the Yangtze River, and easily captured the land of Jingchu. yangzhou.

The following year, the Chengdu Plain in Shu was conquered, and the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty concentrated in Diaoyu City, guarding against the dangerous mountains and rivers.

Han Shizhong of the West Route Army saw that the defenders were tenacious, relying on numerous waterways and dense mountain guerrilla warfare, and the Diaoyu City was extremely dangerous and difficult to conquer, so he simply changed the military attack to a civil attack, focusing on political attack.

Cooperating with the civil official group who came to Hanzhong in the Shu area, they implemented a new policy on the Shu area, attacked the powerful, and wooed the common people.

However, the Song Army in Diaoyu City, because the people at the bottom wanted to change, no longer had the advantage of intelligence, and all their raids along the mountains and rivers failed, and they suffered heavy losses. In the end, they had to be trapped in the isolated city.

After the victory in Shu, Fan Zhuoyuan led the navy to go straight south, and then broke Lin'an, forcing the Taoist emperor to go to Qingyuan and flee to Minyue.

Fan Zhuoyuan went all the way south, and the prefectures and counties he mentioned were all managed by northern bureaucrats, and the system was reformed.

Until the [-] Southern Song army was chased to Qiongzhou Island, Song Huizong Zhao Ji wanted to surrender, but was forced to press down by a group of governors, and was forced to break out an epic naval battle in the strait with the Xiaojie army navy.

In this battle, the scholar-bureaucrat group refused to surrender. Seeing that the persuasion to surrender was ineffective, the Xiaojie army no longer held back, and wiped out all of them at sea. Hundreds of thousands of floating corpses narrated the tragedy of this battle.

Zaizhi led Song Huizong Zhao Ji to cross the sea and died together, which can be regarded as retaining the last bit of dignity of the scholar-officials in this era. After all, if it fell into the hands of Fan Zhuoyuan, he would not be able to escape a public trial parade, and there would be no dignity at all.

After Fan Zhuoyuan unified the world, it took a full ten years to rectify the stubborn south of the scholar-bureaucrat group. During this period, several rebellions broke out, all of which were suppressed by iron and blood methods.

The massacre of several noble families attracted many children of noble families who originally lived in Jianghuai and Zhejiang to move to Minyue incognito and became the Hakka people of later generations.

In the past ten years, Yue Fei had successfully trained troops in the north, took the opportunity to capture Liaodong, and completely destroyed Dajin.

Although the Dajin had been unified at this time, their vitality was seriously injured, and their technology was getting farther and farther away from that of the Middle Earth. Yue Fei had tens of thousands of firearms troops in his hands. .

Those who were unwilling to surrender in the Wanyan family were exterminated, and those who were willing to surrender were treated under Han law, and all the Jurchens were forcibly moved to the interior, scattered in sparsely populated Guanzhong, Longyou, Hanzhong, and Jingchu, where they all lived with Han people. Gradually assimilate.

At the same time, by sea, the criminal army and criminals who moved to the south to miss the rule of the scholar-bureaucrats went to Liaodong to enrich the population, and it could also solve the risk of rebellion by the remnants of the scholar-bureaucrats in the affluent areas of the south of the Yangtze River. In the past ten years, a total of more than 140 million immigrants have immigrated, and a large number of aristocratic families have been wiped out. .

The process in the middle was very cruel, and there were many dead. He wrote poems, lyrics and even paintings for the people of the time to criticize.

However, Fan Zhuoyuan was originally a single husband, and he received power from the central government. Coupled with his enormous prestige, all criticisms were useless to him, and he would take advantage of the situation to bring to justice those who create public opinion.

No matter how many people died and how many families were destroyed, he still enforced the policy of immigration from all over the country.

When historians of later generations looked at the various records of this period of history, they all belonged to the stain of Fan Zhuoyuan's political life.

However, it is precisely this stain that has ensured that Liaodong, the birthplace of the Donghu Qiang clan, has been in peace for 300 years without chaos!
Moreover, a large amount of black land was opened up, which also made Liaodong an important grain-producing area in China.

After that, Fan Zhuoyuan loosened part of the iron monopoly system, except for some large-scale iron ore mountains surveyed, and released some iron ore and private businessmen to operate, smelt, and forge, in order to open up the technological innovation of the folk in ironware.

At the same time, advanced iron smelting technology was used to expand infrastructure, lay railroads and main roads leading directly to Liaodong, Guanzhong, Hubei and other places, use horse-drawn carriages for material transfer, strengthen trade circulation between inland areas, and effectively control various places.

In the form of selling special railway transportation fees to wealthy merchants from all over the country, after setting the number of years for dividing the interests between the wealthy merchants and the imperial court, this project, which is no less than the development of the Grand Canal, can be implemented smoothly.

For more than ten years, the railway from Yanjing to Yuguan, across Shenyang, Liaoning to Huining (now Harbin), the railway from Yanjing to Chang'an, and the railway from Yanjing to Xiangyang were only completed. But it did not cause a major population loss like Yang Guang opened the canal.

Most of the people used by Gein to build the railway were slaves captured by foreign conquests over the past ten years. Even though there were hundreds of thousands of corpses buried under the railway tracks, none of them were Chinese people, so death is not a pity.

Since then, the food and grass demand of Yanjing's huge population has not only come from Jingchu, Jianghuai, but half of it can come from Liaodong.

(End of this chapter)