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Zhang Huiyan, the governor of Muzhou, heard that Fang La led the people to rebel, and the reaction was relatively fast, so he immediately sent Cai Zun, the commander of the two Zhejiang soldiers and horses, to lead 5,000 officers and soldiers to Muzhou to suppress the Fang La uprising that had just broken out.

It's a pity that the Song army stationed in Liangzhejiang is mainly an army of Xiang troops and township soldiers.

According to the system formulated by the Northern Song court, the Xiang army and the township soldiers were the town soldiers stationed in the local area in the Song Dynasty, and they only worked as errand boys in the local area, and did not go out to fight, and their training was also very limited.

Such an army is naturally an existence that people with a little ability are unwilling to join.

What's more, the soldiers of the Xiang Army and the Township Army were mainly composed of recruiting unemployed people, absorbing famine refugees, criminals, and supporting the army.

It can be said that the shortcomings of the large and useless army of the Song Dynasty are particularly obvious in the Xiang army and the township soldiers.

On the other hand, Fang La's peasant rebel army had no armor or bows and arrows, and had no regular armament at all, and many of them were not even qualified to fight with the officers and soldiers.

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The peasant army also had an advantage that the officers and soldiers did not have, that is, their familiarity with the geography of Qingxi County.

Under the leadership of Fang La, Fang Fei, Fang Qifo, Fang Wuxianggong, Fang Baihua and others, they lured the official army to Xikeng in the east of Qingxi County, and ambushed the troops in all directions.

The Song army, which had not had time to line up, was divided and surrounded in this way, and was quickly defeated when it was caught off guard.

Cai Zun, the eunuch of the two Zhejiang soldiers and horses, was also killed by Fang La's sister Fang Baihua.

The army led by Cai Zun was an important garrison in Zhejiang, and after Fang La annihilated it, all the prefectures and counties in Zhejiang were exposed to the attack of the peasant army......

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On this day, Wang Hao held a banquet at home, and invited his friend Lang Mei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to perform the ceremony, and four beautiful singers waited beside them.

Just as they were drinking and drinking, Zhang Yuan, who was sentenced to punishment in Zhexi, ran in in a panic and reported: "Wang Xianggong, something is not good, there is a person named Fang La in Qingxi, Muzhou, who gathered a crowd to riot, and it is said that he has captured the county seat of Qingxi. ”

Seeing Zhang Yuan's cowering and panicked appearance, Wang Hao was very angry, and he said: "Look at your panicked state, where do you still look like a court minister?" It's common for mobs to gather to make trouble, isn't it just Qingxi? You have to learn not to be afraid of danger and not to be alarmed. ”

Wang Hao reprimanded Zhang Yuan sharply, he turned his face and smiled again and raised his glass to Mei Zhili and said, "Mei Shilang, come, have another drink." What do you think of these singers? They are all from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, authentic Yangzhou thin horses, with good skin color and temperament, if you like it, just pick one. ”

Wang Hao was proud and proud-he was only forty-two years old this year, and he was already above ten thousand people under one person, how could he not be proud?

Mei is an official, upright and strict, and does not avoid the powerful.

Today, Wang Hao invited him to a banquet, during the banquet, the women's music was full, and the pavilion in the garden was guided by the palace, and Mei Zhili was already very displeased.

I don't want to, Wang Hao can even understate that someone gathers a crowd to rebel.

Mei Zhili couldn't stand it anymore, he poured a basin of cold water on Wang Huang: "As the prime minister, he should share the sorrow and happiness with the world, now Fang La is poisoning Wu Di, and the sores are not peaceful, I'm afraid it's not the time for singing and dancing!" ”

After saying that, Mei put down the wine glass and got up to say goodbye to Wang Hao.

Actually-

Mei Zhili underestimated Wang Huang.

The reason why Wang Hao lightly put aside the Fangla uprising was not because he didn't care about the Fangla uprising, but because he didn't want the Fangla uprising to interrupt his political dream of recovering Yanyun.

You must know that the matter of recovering Yanyun, Wang Hao has already prepared seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and the troops needed to recover Yanyun have left the northwest one by one and began to assemble in the Daimyo's Mansion in Beijing, and the grain and grass materials needed to recover Yanyun have also been assembled in various transportation hubs, just waiting for Ma Zheng, Ma Kuo and his son to come back from the Jin State, and bring back the time agreed with the Jin State to send troops, the most capable Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty will wave its army to the north to recover the Great Song Dynasty has not been able to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun for hundreds of years.

At the beginning, the ancestors of the Western Xia, Dangxiang tribe, originally lived in the Songpan Plateau in Sichuan, and moved to northern Shaanxi during the Tang Dynasty.

After the Xiazhou regime was annexed by the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian was unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty and ran away to start a business, and he also adopted the strategy of Lianliao to resist the Song Dynasty, and finally through the management of Li Jiqian and Li Deming, they successively occupied the Hexi Corridor area, thus laying the foundation of the imperial industry.

Later, Li Yuanhao proclaimed himself emperor and established Western Xia.

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the Great Song Dynasty gave birth to a very aspiring emperor - Song Shenzong.

After Song Shenzong ascended the throne, he reused Wang Anshi to change the law, making the Great Song Dynasty rich.

On this basis, Song Shenzong decided to send troops to attack Western Xia.

In order to deter the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty dispatched more than 300,000 forbidden troops at once, and the army was divided into five routes, and they went to the Western Xia in a mighty manner, vowing to destroy the Western Xia in one fell swoop.

Although the Western Xia often harassed the borders of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was just a small fight and took advantage of it.

At this time, seeing the murderous attack of the Song army, Xixia suddenly felt bad and immediately asked the Liao State for help.

Faced with the plea of Western Xia, the Liao State was in a dilemma.

In the past, when the Song army attacked the Western Xia, the Liao State always tried its best to mediate in order to protect the Western Xia.

However, this time the Great Song Dynasty is menacing, and it is not something that words can persuade to retreat, if the Song army is withdrawn, then he may have to start a full-scale war with the Song State.

After thinking about it, combined with the national conditions of Liao at that time, Liao felt that it was better not to wade into this troubled water.

However, the scheming Liao State did not want to let go of this fisherman's opportunity in vain, and planned to take a share of the war between the two countries.

Therefore, the lord of Liao sent envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for the ten counties in Guannan.

After Song Shenzong met with the envoys of the Liao State, he knew the meaning of the Liao State.

In that year, when the Song and Liao countries signed the alliance between the Song and Liao, the Liao side recognized that the ten counties in Guannan belonged to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty compensated the Liao State with 300,000 yuan every year.

Since the signing of the Covenant, the two countries have always adhered to the Covenant, commensurate themselves as brothers, and have been at peace with each other.

Now the old affairs of the Liao State are brought up again, and the sensitive issue of the ten counties in Guannan is once again raised.

If these ten counties were ceded to the Liao State, the Liao State would naturally watch from the wall in the Song and Xia wars.

If the request of the Liao State is refused, then when the Great Song Dynasty attacks the Western Xia, it will inevitably be hindered by the Liao State.

In fact, this requirement of the Liao State has violated the original alliance of the Yuanyuan, because the ten counties of Guannan have long been clearly divided in the covenant.

At this time, the Liao State made such a request, which would inevitably cause harm to the Song Dynasty.

If you talk about it in detail, how can the sixteen states of Youyun occupied by the Liao State not be the territory of the Great Song Dynasty?

Although the Great Song side was indignant, the war in Western Xia was imminent, and in the end it could only quickly reach an agreement with the Liao State.

After discussions between the two countries, the Liao State said that it could not want to Guannan Ten Counties, but the Song Dynasty must increase the 300,000-year-old coins in the Lanyuan Alliance to 500,000.

Once a covenant has been made, it must not be easily changed.

The Liao State took advantage of the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia to rob and tamper with the covenant, which is really despicable.

But even so, for the sake of the overall situation, Song Shenzong still agreed to this request.

After discussing with the Liao State, the Song army immediately advanced towards Western Xia.

When the Western Xia saw that the Liao State did not come to the rescue, they were disheartened, but they also broke out the tragic spirit of fighting to the death, and then the whole country went to war.

In the end, although the Song army went deep into the hinterland of Western Xia and defeated Western Xia, the Song army was also forced to return due to the resistance of the Western Xia whole country, the obstruction of Hengshan, and the lack of grain and grass.

Although the Western Xia avoided the disaster of losing the country, it was also a great loss of vitality and lost a lot of land.

The final victor was only the Liao State, which received 200,000 coins for nothing without sending a single soldier.

Song Shenzong failed to destroy Xia, and was extorted 200,000 years old by the Liao State.

Since then, Song Shenzong has been haunted by the Liao State's violation of the covenant.

Until his deathbed, Song Shenzong gritted his teeth and left his last words: "Those who can recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, even if they are not surnamed Zhao, can also be crowned king." ”

In Song Shenzong's view, the Liao State's request for an increase of 200,000 coins and the request for the ten counties of Guannan was already in breach of contract, and since this was the case, it was not necessary to blame himself for bringing up the matter of the sixteen states of Yanyun again.

The king of the sixteen states of Yanyun!

Although now Wang Hao has replaced Cai Jing.

But during Cai Jing's sixteen-year reign, he made extremely outstanding achievements in cultural governance and martial arts, and compared with any prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, Cai Jingjing was not far behind.

Sikong Kaifu Yi and the three divisions of the Taiyi Palace, the envoy of Shangshu, the left servant, the Taiwei Taishi, the three provinces, Lu Guogong Cai Jing.

This is Cai Jing's official position before he became a minister.

Once Wang Hao went to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense, and saw a poem that Cai Jing left in Daxiangguo Temple: All things are born in heaven and earth, and prosperity and decay are all grand. The four seasons are endless, and the world's articles are intended first.

This poem is very philosophical and philosophical.

What attracts Wang Hao is not Cai Jing's poems, let alone Cai Jing's charming and heroic words, but Cai Jing's signature.

The longer the payment, the older the seniority, the higher the position, the greater the achievement.

Wang Hao was Cai Jing's protégé, and he knew how high and big Cai Jing's ability was, so tall that he couldn't beat it in his life.

But Wang Hao was unwilling, he was also the prime minister, and he also obtained all the power that Cai Jing had at the beginning.

Let's ask, in this case, how can Wang Hao not want to make a career and be famous through the ages?

The key is that Wang Hao seized such an opportunity.

This opportunity is to recover Yanyun.

As long as he Wang Huang can recover Yanyun, he can be crowned king with a different surname according to the ancestral teachings left by Song Shenzong, so that he can completely trample Cai Jing under his feet, or at least he can be compared with Cai Jing and become a famous person.

Therefore, Wang Hao couldn't let the sudden outbreak of the Fangla Uprising ruin the plan to recover Yanyun, ruin his political dream, and ruin his only chance to surpass Cai Jing.

It was with this thought in mind that Wang Hao ordered the news of the Fangla uprising to be blocked, and continued to prepare for the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun......

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