At the end of the Song Dynasty, glory is glory, and redundancy is also redundant.

The emperor's hand is not unskillful, and he even used the scholars of Longtu Pavilion to get a thorough understanding of the officials in the court. Those who have real power, those who are in vain, those who are still waiting, and those who are terrified...... The state of life has been shaken clean in just a few days. Fu Bi negotiated with the Liao State in the north, and he couldn't return to Bianliang for the time being, and he also brought a lot of colleagues with him, which not only reduced the pressure on the north, but also made the emperor's pressure suddenly lighter.

At least he moved so violently that there were fewer people who opposed him.

He mentioned Gao Su to return to the court several times, but Gao Su vaguely refused. It wasn't until the emperor was in a hurry that Gao Su said vaguely: he didn't want the official family to be involved in the dispute between the civil ministers and military generals. Although he was born in the imperial examination, he is still a military attache with troops, and he is still going to enter the Privy Council.

Therefore, if the emperor wants to use a knife, it is better to pick the smallest and sharpest place to start.

The emperor had a long conversation with Gao Su for two days, and on the third day, he dismissed Di Qing's officials.

On the fourth day, he summoned Bao Zheng to his side, and promoted Fan Zhongyan by two levels.

Outsiders are ignorant, but Gao Su can understand.

Only in this way can we compress the contradiction to the smallest point and resolve it.

Di Qing was a little puzzled at first, but when he saw that the officials in the Privy Council were replaced one by one, the general who first retrieved Western Xia and then Yanyun was even deeper than him, and Han Qi even stayed in the west and did not come back, so he was silent.

At first, Gao Su had proposed that the sergeants who had made military merits should wash off the tattoos on their faces, but now they have stopped for the time being.

The court is still turbulent, but everyone's eyes have been focused on the emperor. This emperor, known for his gentle and elegant reputation, once he has made up his mind, can move faster than anyone else.

For example, he took back power from the hands of Empress Dowager Liu back then, such as the concubine back then.

He simply and neatly issued a holy decree: those who fail to pass the annual appraisal will either be demoted, or suspended for a certain number of years, or retired; As for the vacant places, they will naturally be filled by the newly promoted jinshi, and no matter what, we must stop this wind of redundant officials and redundant expenses.

If this will is renamed, it will be eliminated at the end.

At first, some people didn't think so, but later this trend started from the Beijing officials and raged all the way to the prefectures, counties, and provincial governments, and everyone really panicked. As for those with false titles, there are also many who have taken advantage of this shareholder wind to make a good errand. The first wave of the limelight went down, and the effect was immediate.

And because there are not many people who touch it, there are few people who oppose it.

The second is that the military general enters the Privy Council.

The strange literati who had earlier pervaded the Privy Council made His Majesty the Emperor determined to put a good stop to it. Although it will not be a big blood change (the big blood change is too extreme), it will at least be four or six open, so as not to make the superior make some low-level mistakes. The so-called four-six open is that forty percent of the generals are promoted from below.

There was an uproar over the move.

Coupled with the previous proposal of "those who have merit to wash off tattoos", it made some people feel even more restless.

But His Majesty the Emperor seems to be determined to do it. Originally, he compromised with the Western Xia State and the Liao State, and most of the reasons were forced, and he forced himself into a soft character. This time, someone took back Hexi and Yanyun, and no matter how weak his temperament was, he would be stimulated to be tougher.

What's more, Hexi and Yanyun are two excellent horse farms.

After he promulgated these two decrees, he quickly stuffed Gao Su and Di Qing into the Privy Council.

It may not be true to say that it is "Sai", after all, those two are generals who have made great achievements. And Di Qing's temperament is somewhat similar to that of the emperor, both of them are kind and gentle. At first, the emperor was apprehensive, but then he found that things were far better than he had imagined.

Because there is the variable of Gaosu.

At first, Gao Su's temperament was mostly the same as Di Qing. Kind and gentle, gentle and humble, but Gao Su has one of the biggest differences with them, that is, Gao Su has lived longer than them.

No matter how generous and gentle his temperament is, after so many generations of polishing, he will change somewhat.

And sometimes, not just for himself, but also for the people he cares about.

The Emperor's change was difficult at first, but after surviving the most difficult periods, it became a matter of course.

The DPRK and China have once again reached a delicate balance, a delicate balance between a civil servant who is in power but does not despise the military generals and military servants who are no longer insects, ants, rats and scorpions. Correspondingly, Zhao Zhen set up four more generals, with very high grades, and two of them were airborne.

The sixteen states of Yanyun need military generals to be stationed, the Hexi Corridor needs military generals to be stationed, and the Yue people in the south are a little ready to move, and the positions of the four generals are not more than no less just one is vacant, according to the emperor's idea of checking and balancing, it is exactly in line with the time.

The change of the imperial court cannot be achieved overnight, and it is often more effective to take it slowly with the attitude of boiling a frog in warm water.

Oh, not counting the gradually rising martial arts practice among the people......

These measures of boiling frogs in warm water have not encountered much opposition for the time being, and there is another extremely important reason, that is, the emperor is indeed quite gentle and elegant, and he can basically do his own demeanor towards the prime minister and his ministers, and he still has 800,000 Bianliang forbidden troops in his hands. Of course, these forbidden troops cannot be touched by ordinary military attachés, especially the military attaches who have been promoted from below.

Therefore, whether it is a civil servant or a military general, they all maintain a treacherous silence in a delicate balance.

This silence remained until the third year, when Han Qi finally returned from the west and handed over the recovered Hexi area to the newly sent officials of the imperial court. Fu Bi also returned, but because of the fact that he was exhausted from mediating with the Liao State in the north, he obviously had no time to take care of these small but subtle changes. Some pure ministers were aware of it, but because of their soft-spoken words, they remained silent.

And His Majesty the Emperor, he did this thing to the end as never before.

Looking at the Song Dynasty, when could it be better than now?

The great trouble of the henchmen in the west has been removed, and the land of horse breeding has been completely restored; The sixteen states of Yanyun are firmly controlled in their hands, and that impregnable defense line is still impregnable, and General Gao Su will go over to train his troops next year. Although the Yue people in the south were a little suspicious, Di Qing had already taken people to the south, and if nothing else, he would clean up those people at a very fast speed.

- Yes, faster than in the past.

It was only then that the emperor felt that he had truly lived for himself.

As for the previous ones...... Well, even His Majesty the Emperor, who is known for his tolerance and benevolence, feels a little depressed in his heart.

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The following year, Gao Su went to Yanyun, accompanied by his wife.

Things had once again come to a normal starting point, the one to which both of them had become accustomed to it.

Before leaving, Mrs. Han hugged her and cried for a while, first of all, she wanted to leave her newly born granddaughter in Bianliang, and it was best to stay with her daughter, because she couldn't bear to go to the border to suffer together. Although Yun Yao was grateful for her mother's earnest concern, she still followed Gao Su. However, after obtaining Gao Su's consent, she still left her youngest daughter in Bianliang.

It's just that I can let my mother live at ease.

Although Yandi's life is not as rich as Bianliang, it is not as miserable as the rumors say. She has lived in the land of Yanyun for a while, and she is a little unhappy. Except for going back two or three times a year to see his parents, the rest of the time is spent in Yandi.

As for her parents......

Han Qi is a well-known veteran of the Three Dynasties and the Prime Minister of the Three Dynasties, and there is one of the few families in this world who can surpass her maiden family.

Except for the occasional bored Liao army who will come to harass them, they have lived very safely and smoothly in Yandi over the years. The Song Dynasty was already rich, and the emperor was a well-known benevolent king, and the three henchmen in the west, north, and south had been eliminated, even if there was only one Liao State left, it would be difficult to cross the moat north of Yanyun, at least for two hundred years, the Great Song Dynasty would always be stable and prosperous.

Although the Liao State has always been a little unwilling, and handed the letter to Emperor Song every year, asking to take back the land of Yanyun, but most of them failed.

From this, we can also get a glimpse of how important the location of the sixteen states of Yanyun is.

However, sometimes the Liao State National Book was handed too much, and the Song army would occasionally cross the line and teach them a lesson or two.

After all, the one who guards the land of Yanyun is the most powerful general in the Great Song Dynasty.

When the emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, Yun Yao was suddenly given two edicts.

One new emperor, one first emperor.

Not to mention whether this act of sealing the decree twice in a row is abnormal, this peculiar act alone is enough to make people think about it. After all, Renzong has no words, the new emperor is the son of Renzong who brought back from the clan, and the first thing to do after ascending the throne is to stabilize people's hearts. But fortunately, although this emperor is young, his ideas are in the same vein as the previous emperor's later years.

The measures of the first emperor were well consolidated, Gao Su'an ate sand on the border safely, Han Qi'an was his privy envoy safely, and Di Qing'an stayed in the Privy Council safely, occasionally going to the northwest garrison to have a look.

- After all, it's a place for farmers and families.

This stable situation was maintained for a long time, until Wang Anshi came to Bianjing and put forward his bizarre and-for-tat view of the change. However, because there have been some changes in the two dynasties of Renzong and Yingzong, his actions are no longer as radical as before.

As for the hindrance......

About, talk is better than nothing.

Yun Yao thought that by this time, she would most likely be able to die peacefully, after all, she had completed most of the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine accurate hexagrams, and she also had some vague realizations in her heart. But the moment before she died, the cold tortoise shell suddenly became dim, and then slowly disappeared into the palm of her hand, turning into a mysterious and treacherous pattern.

Until, the next life.