Battle of the Red Mansions

After receiving the order, Lin Xuan led his troops towards Xining without stopping for a moment. Lin Xuan only had time to tell Tu Jingyang to pay attention to safety and not to run around casually, and then only left a shadow of his back.

After sending the man out of the barracks, Tu Jingyang closed his smile, then turned around and headed towards Xie Qiong's camp. He came to the northwest at this time, not just for Lin Xuan.

After all, he is a member of the royal family. Even if he said he didn't want to get involved in the government and only wanted to make money, he couldn't really leave the court.

There are many idle princes in history, but they were all when the emperor had someone available, and there were not many brothers in their family. What's worse, apart from him, the royal brother of their family has no other brothers who can rest assured.

In order to prevent their royal brother from dying exhausted on the dragon chair, his younger brother could only work obediently.

War consumes money. If the national treasury is full, they can't afford it. However, the money seized in the south of the Yangtze River is just enough to fill the deficit of the national treasury, and the rest will be spent on the people. Maybe even the salaries of officials can't afford it.

I don't know what the Supreme Emperor did when he was in power. He lent all the money from the treasury. Would he be able to return it by himself based on the conduct of those who borrowed it?

If the Supreme Emperor, who lived in the deep palace, did not even have the last respect, Tu Jingyang knew that there was nothing left in the imperial court when he first came into contact with Hubu. Unfortunately, at that time, the Supreme Emperor could only see a beautiful country and refused to go to anything else. look.

Alarmist?

Go to him!

The most unbearable thing is to see how much money is missing from the treasury's bill. Although Tu Jingyang does not reject spending on military pay, he has no intention of just spending money.

Without enough benefits, they can only fight poorer and poorer. For the treasury that has just improved, they cannot afford such losses.

Moreover, after so many years of wanton plundering at the border of Daqing, those foreigners must have scraped a lot of oil and water.

It is said that what businessmen value is profit. Sorry, but Tu Jingyang is an out-and-out businessman. Since he spent money on their army, he should get it back from the enemy.

Now that this battle has been fought, they must find real gold and silver in this battle, and they will never fight a battle that is not beneficial.

After this battle is over, no matter what the result is, the trade will have to be formally started. It is okay to prevent thieves for a day, but there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. They cannot continue to fight like this.

Even if they are not afraid of being harassed at the border every year, they will still feel bored.

Waiting for them to be obedient before implementing it is much more useful than negotiating with the embassy in the past, and after the war, those people are not qualified to negotiate any terms with them.

Of course, these things are only in the preparation stage now, and Xie Qiong doesn't have the energy to take care of them, and he can't take care of them. Let a general who leads the army take care of these vulgar things, not to mention making money, or paying out all the money he invested. ok.

I just want to briefly explain what he means to Xie Qiong. Tu Jingyang is not idle either. He has stayed here for a while before and knows how chaotic the trading area is. We can't let the chaos here continue.

The trading area didn’t just appear in this dynasty. Hundreds of years or even thousands of years ago, trades of various ethnic groups had already occurred here. Constantly patrolling, the Han people can only be bullied in this kind of trading area with no room to breathe.

Only when Daqing is strong enough that those foreigners dare not make mistakes easily, their merchants can stand upright and trade with others. If not, even if a new trading area is established, it will definitely not last long in the end.

He didn't have the temperament to fight and change for hundreds of years, because he didn't believe that he would completely surrender to Tu Jingyang after a big defeat, but as long as there was a start, he didn't believe that he couldn't completely calm down those foreigners in the future.

There is no one in this world without weaknesses. Those foreigners want food, gold and silver. It is completely impossible to let them rob them, but it is a good way to start with them.

On the second day after Lin Xuan left, Xie Qiong also led his troops out of the barracks. Except for the troops left behind, almost all the generals in the army went to the front line.

Once the weather gets cold, things will be out of control.

Lin Xuan led his troops straight to Xining, and then directly gave an order to the defenders in the city to evacuate all the people immediately.

Although the people on the border are tough, one thing is good, as long as there are orders, they can act no slower than serious soldiers.

The general guarding the city hesitated for a moment after receiving the order, but soon went to arrange for the people in the city. Although he didn't know what to do, General Lin got the approval of General Xie, and there must be someone behind him.

Money is not important at all. In the border town, most of the people’s homes don’t have anything from before. After hiding the important things in the animals and putting them away, and then bringing dry food for a few days, Xining City will soon only have soldiers left.

After all, it was only a small city with fewer than [-] people, so retreating was much easier than Lin Xuan thought.

A part of the soldiers were assigned to go to the pass together with the common people. Lin Xuan also calmed down a lot for these common people who could go directly to the battlefield by changing their equipment.

The Tiance army cannot enter the city, nor can all the defenders of Xining stay here, but there must be no shortage of guards on the surface. If there is no one in the city as soon as they arrive, no matter how stupid those foreign soldiers are, they will not enter directly. city.

If things go wrong, there must be demons. They can quickly throw away the city, but they must not resist at all.

After discussing with the Xining guard for a long time, Lin Xuan didn't hide his intentions when he looked at this simple-faced Northwest man.

Most of the people had to lie in ambush outside, and there should not be too many people left behind, including soldiers who were suspiciously disguised as civilians when foreigners entered the city. The more people there were, the greater the casualties, so the fewer the number, the better.

After understanding Lin Xuan's meaning, the guard of Xining touched his head, and then smiled heartily, "General Lin, don't worry, it's not just their foreigners who can do things like retreat, we can do the same."

Xining is located in the borderlands. After dealing with them on the grassland for so many years, they can't play more games of chasing each other. They know how to minimize the suspicion of foreigners and how to get out of the city as quickly as possible.

It's just that it is much easier to put the soldiers who commit crimes into the city than to defend the city.

After receiving the information that the invading enemy had camped thirty miles away from the customs, and was heading towards Xining with a very clear target, Lin Xuan curled her lips, and then asked Tiance's soldiers to go to the Xining garrison to arrange an ambush Place.

He himself wants to stay in the city, the battle is changing rapidly, he can't stay outside and wait for news, he has to do a full set of acting, since he has passed back the reputation of the Tiance Army, how can he prevent those people from seeing him practice first? What kind of soldiers came out?

Speaking of which, the last time he defended the city was when he was in Tongguan. In the blink of an eye, it has been so many years since he came back again.

The country that he didn't defend back then, this time, he will definitely not make the same mistakes again.