After Meng Ming got married, he didn't go out, he was tired of being with his two wives all day long, and lived a happy and shameless life. Meng Ming's father and mother are also very happy to see their son and daughter-in-law being in harmony with each other, Qin Se and Ming, and they are looking forward to holding their grandson as soon as possible. At noon that day, Meng Ming was in the jade cicada room, lying on the bed, naked, leaning on the soft pillow, sweating on her head, the jade cicada was hiding in the quilt, a piece of white flowers under the jade neck, although her body was in the quilt, she was not an inch, her face was ruddy, and her face was full of spring. Meng Ming's hands were not honest at this time, and he was touching around in the quilt, making the jade cicada coquettish. She said: "Husband, be honest, this broad daylight is called daytime fun, and there is no shame in it." Meng Ming quipped: "Wife, we are now making villains, so that we can teach our parents to report their grandson in the morning newspaper, and no one can care about it." This scene also appears from time to time on Mingyue, but Mingyue is much more open than the jade cicada, and she also takes the initiative to ask for it from time to time. Although these days are fragrant, even if Meng Ming exercises every day, it also makes his body a little unbearable.

Three months after marriage, Jade Chan felt that her spirit was not good and her body was weak during this time. No appetite, often nausea and retching, Jade Cicada is a person who has come over, knowing that she is probably pregnant, but she is still not sure, she told Meng Ming her many reactions and her own suspicions, Meng Ming immediately found a doctor to diagnose, and finally diagnosed Jade Cicada is pregnant. Meng Ming told his father and mother the good news of Jade Cicada's pregnancy, but his father and mother were very happy. Mingyue was a little depressed, and often touched her belly and talked to herself, Meng Ming knew that Mingyue's thoughts were stimulated by the fact that the jade cicada was pregnant. Meng Ming also comforted her, but she didn't expect Mingyue to pester him from time to time, asking him to hurry up with her to make a villain, which made Meng Ming's head big for a while.

Meng Ming was happy at home, Zhao Zhen couldn't stand it, he knew that Meng Ming's talent was amazing, and he was a great talent for governing the world. I didn't want Meng Ming's skills to be wasted, and I couldn't think of a countermeasure for a while. On this day, Zhao Zhen, who was dressed in civilian clothes, walked out of the palace and walked towards Meng Ming's mansion. In fact, the palace is not far from Meng Ming's home, about two miles away, and from time to time Zhao Zhen came to Meng Ming's home. When Meng Ming heard the news, he immediately went out to meet the driver. Zhao Zhen and Meng Ming went to the study, and Zhao Zhen said: "Meng Yuma, staying at home is clean and envious of others." But my Mingyue sister is still quite blessed. Meng Ming didn't know how to answer, Zhao Zhen saw that there was a book on Meng Ming's desk, so he took it in his hand and read it, it was Meng Ming's "Hexi Corridor Development Planning Policy", which had been written completely.

Meng Ming analyzed the importance of the Hexi Corridor: if you control the Hexi Corridor, you will control the Silk Road, and the biggest benefit after that will be the tax profits drawn from the trade between the East and the West. The trade between the ethnic groups and states of the Western Regions, such as the Gaochang Uighurs, the Qiuzi Huique, the Yumin, the Qarakhanid Dynasty, and the Great Eclipse, and the Liao State had to pass through the Hexi Corridor; In addition to the rugged Qinghai Road, the trade between those countries and the Song Dynasty also had to pass through the Hexi Corridor. In addition to extracting tariffs as landlords, the Great Song Dynasty could also devote itself to the international market through two forms of trade, official and non-governmental, and the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty could enter the Liao and Song Dynasty in the east and out of the Western Regions in the west, sell native products, and transport silk and treasures, so as to obtain huge profits. The commodities exported to the Western Regions by the Great Song Dynasty, except for some silk, were the most profitable tea. The Great Song Dynasty controlled the Hexi Corridor, which was related to the national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty.

Meng Ming also analyzed that if the Western Xia seized the Hexi Corridor, the Western Xia would have made huge profits from the Silk Road, thus taking a large number of benefits from the trade between the East and the West into the Western Xia, so that the Western Xia's economy had developed by leaps and bounds, and its political and military strength had been greatly enhanced, and it was able to confront the Song and Liao. It also blocked the way for the Great Song Dynasty to purchase horses from the Western Regions, seriously weakening the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty. If the Western Xia wants to revitalize and develop, it must expand its territory to the west and occupy the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, the battle between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty will open at any time, so it is necessary to prepare in advance.

Meng Ming also made several comments on the military strategy of the Great Song Dynasty against the Western Xia. Meng Ming had previously written a booklet entitled "Strategic Planning for Dealing with the Military Threat of Western Xia", in which he wrote that the combat strength of the Western Xia army far exceeded that of the Song army, so that the border army could not be taken lightly, and asked the imperial court to build a total of more than 400 cement walled cities along the Shaanxi Fifth Road and the Yellow River in Liangzhou, which specialized in defending the Western Xia. This can not only rely on the walled city, recruit the Tibetan department, organize the Tibetan and Han archers, and enrich the border military force; It can also reduce the number of troops stationed along the border, save military expenditures, reclaim wasteland, develop the agricultural economy, and enhance the sustainable combat capability of the Song army in the border areas; Finally, it is necessary to protect the logistics lines of communication and ensure the delivery of supplies and troops. The border between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia gradually formed a strategy of "building cities and forcing cities, moving villages and attacking villages", so that the Song-Xia border was full of passes, so that the land occupied by the Western Xia could be firmly grasped in their hands after recapture, and then step by step deep into the hinterland of Western Xia to achieve the final victory. In the end, Meng Ming also handed over this strategy to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen applauded after reading it, and by the way, he put these two pamphlets in his sleeve, Meng Ming talked to him about the status of soldiers again, Meng Ming asked: ""Official, have you ever heard of the sentence "A good man is not a soldier, but he is not a nail"? Zhao Zhen said that he had heard it. Meng Ming said: "The imperial court learned the lesson of the late Tang Dynasty's feudal division and emphasized literature over military force. Ordinary soldiers are not well paid, have no future, and soldiers are reduced to the untouchable class, and everyone is reluctant to become soldiers. And when a soldier also asks for a tattoo on his face, like a criminal, he is called "a thief with an army" by the world, which is so sad. Meng Ming said again: "Without a strong army, the prosperity of the country is like a mirror, but it is regarded as fat by other races, and they all come to bite it, and they will inevitably be defeated in the end, and the situation of chaos is still in front of us." Without the lives of the soldiers, there would be no long-term peace and stability in the country. If a country does not treat its soldiers well, how can it be exchanged for the lives of its soldiers. ”

Briefly talk about the historical origin of the tattoos on the faces of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, the world was in turmoil during the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, some soldiers were forcibly conscripted to serve in the army, and some entered the barracks for food, and many people took the opportunity to flee as soon as the war began. In order to stop the soldiers from fleeing, they tattooed patterns on the back of their hands and faces as marks, and as long as you were caught when you escaped, you would be severely punished when you returned, and the Song Dynasty followed this method. From then on, the soldier's tattooing was no longer for decoration or to show bravery, but became a sign of humiliating status.

Zhao Zhen pondered after hearing this, and said after a while: "This is the rule set by my ancestors, and it is the law of my ancestors that must be followed, and I can't do anything about it." Meng Ming said: "The warlords at the end of the Tang Dynasty fought and the warriors supported the army and respected themselves, which was a problem of the imperial court system in the Tang Dynasty since Xuanzong. I only hope that soldiers will have a normal social status and be treated with the respect they deserve, and I implore the officials to abolish the bad rule of tattooing on the faces of soldiers. Zhao Zhen said that he had written it down and would propose it at the court recently. Meng Ming recommended Fan Zhongyan to Zhao Zhen again.

Zhao Zhen saw Yu Chan and Zhao Mingyue again, and then returned to the palace, he wanted to use Meng Ming more and more, and wanted to keep Meng Ming by his side as a state adviser.

The next day, Zhao Zhen raised the issue of inscription on the soldier's face in the court, this problem is easy to solve, and the ministers first thought that the soldier's tattooing on the face was indecent and unruly, and they thought that "the body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also." Therefore, the political hall took this as a topic to draw up a draft to abolish the rules for tattooing on soldiers' faces, so from the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, almost a hundred years of soldiers enlisted in the army, that is, the bad rules of tattooing on the face, since then abolished, withdrawn from the historical stage, Zhao Zhen Zhun did it.

Then Zhao Zhen circulated Meng Ming's "Hexi Corridor Development Planning Strategy" and "Strategic Plan for Dealing with the Military Threat of Western Xia" in the court. Governors and privy councillors all call it a good strategy for determining the fortunes of the country. Due to the fact that some time ago, the Great Song Dynasty in Western Xia was finely made, and recently there was news that Li Deming, the lord of the Xia State, had exceeded the system in the country, secretly lived with the emperor, and had canonized his eldest son Li Yuanhao as the crown prince. The Song Dynasty regarded itself as "Chinese" orthodoxy, and Li Deming would definitely not be allowed to be called emperor, so there must be a war between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia.

At this time, the border marshal Cao Wei has returned to the DPRK from the Shaanxi border to report on his work, and today he also came to the DPRK, because he has been guarding the border all the year round, and has been dealing with the Western Xia for a long time, he is more familiar with the affairs of the Western Xia. Zhao Zhen asked him to introduce the details of Western Xia, especially the domestic policy trends and military strategic deployment of Western Xia. Cao Wei answered one by one, he had secretly gone to Xingqing Mansion alone, and had seen Li Deming and Li Yuanhao, and his evaluation of Li Deming was "deep and instrumental, with many power schemes", and Li Deming's policy of "relying on Liao and Song" was to paralyze Liao and Song, and it was the Ming Dynasty to repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang, secretly develop, and seek to build a country and become the emperor; Cao Weidu was deeply wary of Li Yuanhao, and he couldn't help but exclaim when he saw his appearance: "True hero, if Deming dies, this son will be troubled for China!" Cao Wei particularly appreciated these two books, saying that with these two strategies, the land of Hexi and the border of Song and Xia will be as solid as a rock, and he will not be afraid of Li Deming, Li Yuanhao and others in the future.

In the end, the court has passed resolutions to implement Meng Ming's "Hexi Corridor Development Planning Strategy" and "Strategic Plan for Dealing with the Military Threat of Western Xia".

The government proposed the establishment of a state think tank advisory body: the Senior Cabinet, most of which were held by important ministers and scholars of the world, which was the emperor's think tank, but was only responsible to the emperor. The establishment is 10 people, and they become senior cabinet bachelors. The Imperial Court is a think tank that collects and organizes information, analyzes and researches problems, and provides feasible solutions for the emperor's organization. By providing decision-making advice and policy suggestions to the emperor, the scholars could listen to the proverbs and find the best ideas, deepen their understanding of the country's political and economic policies and policies, and accurately assist the imperial court in formulating the development strategy of the Great Song Dynasty.

The imperial court agreed to the establishment of the Senior Cabinet, and Meng Ming was appointed as a scholar of the Senior Cabinet.