Zhao Xing waited in Huanxian for a few more days, and An Sida walked back to Huanqing slowly with a long line. He came to the war-torn Western Xia as an "angel who saves the suffering", and rescued countless Han compatriots who were captured, enslaved, discriminated against, oppressed, and were integrated by the nation.

After staying in the mythological environment for a long time, people can't help but think a little self-consciously. An Sida was complacent, and didn't care about the pursuit of the Xixia people at all, in order to cover An Sida's brigade, Zhao Xingcai had to launch an attack on the Weizhou Jingsai Military Division, but he didn't expect the Xixia people to be weakened like that, and the seemingly powerful Jingsai Military Division was actually drummed down.

However, if you think about it, it is understandable that war is a double-edged sword, Huanqing Road has been wiped out in the continuous war, and the Tanguts on the opposite side are no better, and their kingdom is even poorer. Under the continuous war, there are only 5,000 mobile troops left in Huanqing Road, and there will not be many left in the Jingsai Military Division. Empress Dowager Liang took 500,000 troops away at one time and ran around, leaving only the old and weak who couldn't hold a sword. So......

Compared with the Western Xia, Huanqing is now different from the past - the large-scale use of iron barbed nets has greatly reduced the cost of building a border separation belt. A dozen people brought a large bundle of iron barbed nets, and they could pull up more than ten kilometers of border in one day, and Huanqing's poisonous weed plan was also famous, and the cattle and sheep of the Tangut people ran into the Song realm, and they generally did not bother to look for it, because usually the livestock had been poisoned, and they really rushed to find it. Perhaps they will be captured by the red-eyed Border Patrol and sent to the Song mines, where they will work all day long.

This phenomenon forced the Xia people to no longer be able to obtain compensation from the war, and the war had slowly turned into a drain on the national strength of the Western Xia. In addition to the growing military strength of Huanqing, a large number of handicraft workshops supported by government loans have also led to an extreme shortage of labor in Huanqing. made Huanqing desperate to get the war dividends.

Nowadays, in Huanqing, you can live in anything. Those who have the ability to buy a small wire drawing machine and squat at home to pull the wire, and hand the drawn wire to the old ladies to weave into armor. The purchase price of this pair of armor has now dropped to 200 yuan. However, due to production capacity constraints, the armor produced in Huanqing Road is in short supply in the surrounding counties, and the price remains high. A pound of iron is only one hundred and seventy wen. Ten catties of iron is less than two pounds, and the armor made of the ground can be sold for two hundred, and the huge profits between them make the small people rich even if they make a pair of armor in a year. Therefore, how can the people not be full of motivation to work.

Even the people of Huanqing who can't weave don't have to worry, they can make money even if they plant trees and grass. After this battle, a large number of livestock were captured at one time in Huanqing Road, and more than a dozen large-scale livestock farms have been opened in the local area. These livestock farms with military backgrounds have a strong demand for fodder, and the yield of grass seeds obtained by Zhao Xing is amazing, and they can cut several stubbles a year, so that the people can live even if they grow grass.

At present, the merchants of Huanqing Road only feel that there is a shortage of manpower, and what they need to do is to produce and reproduce. In addition to dealing with the government procurement of Huanqing Road. They also have to deal with purchase orders from surrounding counties......

After the end of the battle in Wuyanxia, the surrounding officials and soldiers were looking for their own reasons, looking for them, and they found many differences on Huanqing Road, such as the equipment of the soldiers on Huanqing Road was better than theirs, and almost all the soldiers were wearing armor, which they were not as good as; Another example is the same use of gunpowder, the gunpowder on the Huanqing Road is ten times more powerful than the gunpowder issued by the Privy Council where they use it...... Thereupon. They also began to learn the practice of Huanqing Road, just reaching out to the imperial court to ask for money, and purchasing ordnance materials from the nearest Huanqing Road.

The continuous huge orders made Huanqing merchants overwhelmed, and the lack of labor also made the Huanqing slavery industry develop abnormally, and many brave, regimental training, and archers often purchased their own weapons and went to the Western Xia side in groups to wander around, which made the thousands of miles of uninhabited land that appeared in Western Xia after the fire last winter even more empty. And after Zhao Xing's toss. The recovery of the vitality of Western Xia was even slower.

Zhao Xing has always been worried that after he leaves, all the policies of all places will be tampered with. But he didn't know that the direction of history had entered another fork in the road, and there were many obstacles to change it back. For example, the previous supply of ordnance to the Song army was all taken care of by the government, and after the officials withheld it layer by layer, the military supply system of the Song army was inefficient, inferior in quality, and seriously unreliable in quantity. This time, he threw off the Privy Council and produced on his own, which not only reduced the layer of official exploitation, shortened the transportation distance, but also allowed the commercial factor to enter the military system. The characteristic of business is that once it is touched by its tentacles, vested interests will firmly occupy their own interests.

In May, the imperial court was rewarded, all the officials on Huanqing Road rose to a higher level, Zhang Fan Chun and others were also promoted, and even Wan Qianyong and Shuai Fan officially entered the class of seven-grade officials because of this military merit, and since then they have become "officials" rather than "officials". \\\\\\

For Zhao Xing, his title has been lengthened again, and now his official position is expressed as: Imperial City Envoy, Baowen Pavilion Bachelor, Zhongfeng Doctor, Except for Huanqing Roadside Invitation and Pacification Envoy, Xingqingyang Festival Envoy (Zhizhou), Xingqingyang Regiment Training Envoy, and Right Scattered Cavalry Standing Attendant.

Among them, the newly added Imperial City Envoy can also be called the "Martial Arts Doctor", which is the first order of the "Zhusi Zheng Envoy" and the fourteenth order of the martial rank. When it is called the "Imperial City Envoy", in order to show that the imperial power is first, it needs to be ranked at the top of all official positions, and when it is called "Martial Arts Doctor" - the civil official likes to call it this way - it needs to be placed after the regimental training envoy, because the regimental training envoy is from the fifth rank official, and the martial arts doctor is from the sixth rank.

Another newly added "Zhongfeng Doctor" is the 13th rank of civil officials, and the reason why this official title should be placed at the forefront is because it is a fourth-rank official rank. Zhao Xing's original 19th-order court doctor was "Doctor San", and Doctor Zhongfeng was "Doctor Zhong", which is often referred to as "Zhongdafu". This means that Zhao Xing "Zhao Zhong" jumped directly from the fifth rank to the fourth grade because of his military merits this time, and became an official official at the "road" level.

Zhao Xing's official position went to "Xuan Zhenglang" because he was promoted to a higher level of "Zhu Zheng Envoy" than Xuan Zhenglang in the "Rampant Deputy Envoy". But this also meant that he could no longer use the downtown as his own racecourse to gallop at will, and in order to make up for this shortcoming, the imperial court added him an official position of inspector: the right scattered cavalry attendant.

The right scattered cavalry attendant belongs to the military attaché "Zhu Si Zheng Envoy" class, but it also belongs to the first rank of the "Sixteen Orders of Inspection". The Song system of "school inspectors" is a kind of civil and military officials included in the class, a total of 19 levels: at the top of the school inspection class are the "three princes" and "three young" (i.e., young masters, young masters, and young guards) positions such as Taishi, Taiwei, and Taifu. With this name, it meant that he could carry the talisman with him without the approval of the Privy Council. It is possible to mobilize less than 300 soldiers. Although you can't ride a horse in the downtown area, you can bring a few horseback guards to the downtown area.

In addition, in Zhao Xing's official position, "Huanqing Roadside Solicitation and Appeasement Envoy" is preceded by a "except". This means that he has risen to the same rank as this official rank - the fifth rank or higher, so the other official titles should be preceded by a "line" to show that the higher is lower.

Several official positions are put together, not counting the reward and charcoal salary, so that Zhao Xing's monthly salary has reached about 400 yuan, which is equivalent to the modern monthly salary of 150,000 yuan...... However, at this time, Zhao Xing was not overjoyed that he had stepped into the gold-collar class in the Song Dynasty. While dealing with the massive amount of official business brought about by the huge number of immigrants, he nervously paid attention to the changes in the court situation.

In June, Cai Jing was dismissed from his official position as the prefect of Chengdu for corruption, and in the same month, Su Shi was promoted to the rank of minister of rites, and his wife Wang Fu died of illness in Yangzhou. Then. The third son, Su Guo, went to Changzhou for burial. At the same time, Su Shi did not refuse the appointment of the imperial court because his enemy Jia Yi had completely stopped cooking, and went to the capital to take office - so, the imperial court reproduced the phenomenon of the three Su dynasty for a short time: Su Song, the ruling minister, Shang Su Zhe of the household department, and Su Shi of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhao Xing's inspector took another step forward, and he also arrived at the "Five Great Squires". Then there is the title of "Five Great Monks", but this kind of false title is different from the official position, and the officially appointed five Shang and Wu Shilang are sent officers, but they do not have the right to transfer troops.

It was also in this month that Zhang Wan, a degraded official of the Hainan Changhua Army, and three others described that they were old and frail, and hoped that the court would be extrajudicial and gracious. He is allowed to return to the mainland to retire. and asked the imperial court to approve their resettlement in Hangzhou...... This time, the three Soviet authorities signed together and agreed to the request of the three Hainan officials. After receiving the notice from the imperial court, the three officials began to resign from their posts and purchased land next to Zhao Xing's castle, intending to live next to Zhao Xing after returning to the mainland. In the same month, at the end of the summer harvest, Zhao Xing mobilized 200,000 people to start building the Liangchuan Road leading to Xiangyikou and Dingbian City, and the newly built road was paved with huge concrete stones, which could accommodate three carriages in parallel - this road surface was not wide, and it could not even catch up with the county-level road standard, but Zhao Xing required a quick completion, and its pavement quality was not the same as that of the county-level road, so although the road was narrow, the traffic flow was more than usual.

In view of the increasing prosperity of Huanqing trade and the increasingly serious congestion of the road, Zhao Xing issued the "Right Driving Order" at the end of autumn, stipulating that pedestrians must keep to the right on the main road, and the middle of the three-lane road is the galloping road, and pedestrians are only allowed to step occasionally when overtaking, but pedestrians are generally not allowed to overtake, because the gallop road wants to transmit military information, so those who are trampled on the galloping road by military horses bear their own responsibility.

In order to further alleviate the road conditions, Zhao Xing commanded the 200,000 people to renovate the Huanqing strategic highway, and built a double-lane road on the main road to connect all the strategic points, and some strategic buffer points should also be built at least one stone road......

This is an ambitious plan, although Zhao Xing has a lot of land and manpower, it is estimated that it will take three or five years to build this circle of roads without delaying the agricultural time.

Zhang can't understand the situation of Zhao Xing's road construction, his opinion is that building roads is not as good as building cities, and building castles one after another, repairing them to the noses of the Xixia people, which is just convenient for advancing layer by layer, but this year, Huanqing Road won the exit of Liangchuan, which has exhausted the war potential, and the supply of materials for the two castles on the front line is tight, and Zhang did not stop Zhao Xing.

At the end of autumn, in September, after the autumn harvest on Huanqing Road, Zhao Xing accepted the invitation of the old township to participate in the drinking ceremony held in Papaya Fort on Huanqing Road - that is, the illegal "group **" in the countryside.

The four major rituals of the ancient Han people banquet and drinking places are: crown ceremony, wedding, village drinking ceremony, and funeral ceremony. The township drinking ceremony is one of the most important etiquettes, which embodies the ancient customs and habits of moral self-discipline, and also reflects the simple customs of villagers' autonomy. During the village drinking ceremony, the magistrate was present to serve as the chief priest. It is a great affirmation of rural things, and the officials who appear in the village drinking ceremony are called "guests", followed by the elders and virtuous people elected by various ethnic groups, called "Jie", and the second is called "everyone".

At the beginning of this year, Papaya Fort greatly supported the Battle of Liangchuan. So Zhao Xing personally participated in their township drinking ceremony as a reward.

The opening of today's township drinking ceremony began with Zhao Xing's reward plaque, Zhao Xing knew that he couldn't take the stinky words, so he asked Su Shi to personally inscribe the four big characters of "Dunhou people", and gave them to the villagers on the spot. Knowing that this plaque is from the hands of Master Su, the excitement of the villagers can be imagined......

At the beginning of the main sacrifice, Zhao Xing stood on the altar with the two or three villagers elected by the villagers, and began to preside with wine.

Originally, this township drinking ceremony was to start with the worship of heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, but now the monotheistic religion is prevalent on Huanqing Road, and Zhao Xing is the biggest supporter of it, and he is present. The villagers canceled the project of worshiping ghosts and gods, and the first to worship was God—which did not conflict with Nestorianism.

A villager raised his wine glass, looked up at the sky, and prayed loudly: "Morality and righteousness, incivility is not successful; Teach righteousness and vulgarity, and be indecent and indecent; Divide the argument. indecisiveness; Monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, brothers, indecencies; eunuch teacher, indecent and indeforming; The Ban Dynasty governs the army, and the officials practice the law, and it is not good to be indecent and majestic; We and other villagers are here today to pay a sincere salute and thank God, this year's wind and rain have made us wait for a bumper harvest. Here, we and other people sincerely pray, and we are still feasting! ”

The last words of prayer became in Zhao Xing's mouth: "Thank God for giving us food and drink for our daily needs, thank you for giving me a comfortable bed for me to sleep in when I am sleepy, and giving me water and food to keep me alive when I am hungry and thirsty." Give me clothes to keep me warm when I'm cold; Thank God for my loving parents, meek wives and children, and sincere friends. Thank God for giving me everything I already have. Thank God for giving me everything I will have – all glory to you, God! ”

The villagers below unconsciously followed Zhao Xing to recite the prayer. Then with the villager and Zhao Xing, the glass of wine was spilled on the ground.

The second cup of wine gives thanks to the earth, which gives birth to all things and enables the people to live; The third cup of wine thanked the ancestors who blessed their descendants to reproduce in this land and pass on the civilization of the race from generation to generation...... The first glass of wine will be poured into three points, and then the rest of the wine will be two and a half garden shapes; In this way, the word "heart" is carved into a three-point and one-long hook on the ground with wine, indicating the gift of heart.

After the prayer was completed, Zhao Xing sat on the main altar, the two or three villagers were lined up left and right, and the villagers presented the memorabilia of the township covenant, and the villagers began to roll call, calling parents to come to the stage to evaluate their merits.

"The Lu family, in May this year, the widow He Li sued, your family occupied one of her apple trees, the orphans and widows of the He Li family, making a living, your apple trees are all over the mountains, no matter who is responsible for this dispute, your family will inevitably be suspected of bullying widows and orphans......"

Zhao Xing interjected: "It's not appropriate, the host can't draw conclusions arbitrarily, so as not to affect the judgment of others based on his likes and dislikes, Qiu Lao just needs to state things!" ”

Elder Qiu arched his hand to Zhao Xing, turned to face the other villagers, and continued: "Okay, everyone knows about the matter, what do you patriarchs think. ”

The first to complain was the head of the Lu family, and he shouted one after another: "Wronged!" The boundary of my apple tree is separated by a tsubaki tree and a hawthorn tree, but somehow there is a few tsubaki trees missing in the forest near He Li's family, and He Li's family said that one of the trees belongs to her family, and my family can't argue a few words? ”

Perhaps, an apple tree of one age seems nothing now, but Zhao Xing is in this era, but he knows a strange phenomenon in this era: the momentum of tree growth all the way in Shaanxi can be described as crazy, an apple tree can be pruned, and hundreds of branches can be collected every month, and the government's purchase price is three apple branches the length of arrow shafts for a penny, and 100 can make a family get more than a dozen yuan of income in a month.

More than a dozen articles are in Bianliang City, Tokyo, that is, the people spend a day, but in rural Shaanxi, it is different, these dozens of articles may allow a family of three to support half a month, so the villagers discussed the ownership of more than a dozen articles, but Zhao Xing did not dare to show a contemptuous look, he sat upright, listening to the discussion of the villagers.

Zhao Xing didn't know that when modern people studied the climate of the Song Dynasty. A strange phenomenon has been discovered, that is, the Song Dynasty sunspot activity is the least, but this era is the coldest period in human history, it spans 600 years, until the rise of the Industrial Revolution.

By examining the rocks, scientists also found that the Song Dynasty was arguably the cleanest time in human history. It was an era when there was minimal carbon dioxide in the air, oxygen was abundant, and the sky was intoxicatingly blue. But why sunspots are the least active and the air is the cleanest in the Song Dynasty. Is the coldest climate?

In the end, scientists focused on carbon dioxide, believing that the main culprit of global climate change that began in the Song Dynasty was the Hundred Years' War in Song Xia.

Due to the continuous wars, the Song and Xia sides cut down the primeval forests in Shaanxi and Gansu, and a large amount of soil was exposed, making the Shaanxi-Gansu forests before the Song Dynasty become the Loess Plateau. The massive loss of forest land greatly reduced the absorption and release of carbon dioxide, and the Song people replaced burning firewood and grass with coal. The amount of carbon dioxide produced by coal burning is also much lower than that of burning wood and grass, which further reduces carbon dioxide production.

The increase of carbon dioxide in the air is called the "greenhouse effect", and the lack of carbon dioxide is called the "ice room effect". It is precisely because of the decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during the Song Dynasty that the atmosphere lost its thermal insulation effect, causing the earth's heat to dissipate quickly, which further led to the global "Ice Age" that lasted for 600 years.

After the forests of Shaanxi were cut down. First of all, the forest was degraded into a sparse forest grassland, and this is the time when the forest is doing its best to repair itself, and Zhao Xing's behavior of planting fruit trees in Shaanxi inadvertently meets the needs of nature, so the fruit trees grow extremely fast, and they will flourish in just one year, and it is estimated that in a few years, only one tree. Raising a family shouldn't be a problem.

I only heard another elder present say: "Let me be fair, the child of the He family is only five years old, and he lives on a few apple trees...... I'm not partial, Widow He revolves around her trees every day, and I won't accuse the Lu family of swallowing her apple trees in vain.

The Lu family said that his family's fruit groves are separated by tsubaki trees and hawthorn trees. Why are there a few spaced trees missing on the ground adjacent to the widow. The Lu family's move is deeply suspicious, and Widow He is weak. The Lu family's move is suspected of bad intentions, and its fault comes from the Lu family, and the board should also be hit on the Lu family. ”

The rest of the elders expressed their stance one after another, and the scene was biased in favor of Widow He, and the final decision was to condemn the Lu family, instruct the Lu family to return the apple tree to Widow He, and then cut down all the apple trees near the edge of Widow He's forest and replant the sign tree.

This decision is not an official document, it is not binding in law, and the implementation of this decision is entirely based on personal morality, but before the Song Dynasty, when the township drinking ceremony existed, no ancient **** person dared to ignore the decision formed by the township covenant.

This township drinking ceremony is also the arrangement of seats, and the most moral people are called "good families", followed by "virtuous", and then "everyone".

Before the Han Dynasty, this kind of village drinking ceremony was also a part of the ancient election system and filial piety system, and the elected "meritocracy" was recommended to the imperial court for appointment. By the Song Dynasty, it had lost its role of promotion, and only the use of rural moral restraint remained. In the coming year, whenever there is a mass event, the seats of the villagers will be divided into three classes according to good and evil, and no confusion will be allowed, as one of the means of moral education.

Among them, the House of Good Beings sits at the front or top, followed by "Xian", and again "Many". And those who are rated as "evil" can only wander on the periphery of the joy of the masses this year - this is also the self-discipline convention of the villagers recorded in the "Book of Rites".

After commenting on the Lu family, the villagers continued to call the parents one by one to judge what they had done for a year, and the parents who were praised were proud like a victorious rooster, and the faces of the people who were criticized were gray, and they were a little ashamed to see people.

When the evaluation was over, the country entertainment began, and the "shooting salute" led by the Shaanxi step archers began, they bowed to the stage, and then the gentle and elegant "gentleman's dispute" began.

The shooting salute is a reconciliation ceremony, after the shooting salute, a group of people began to dance the grass dragon under the stage, and then the troupe appeared to perform "catch up", and then all kinds of performances were performed one after another, and a complete Song Dynasty social drama was slowly opened in front of Zhao Xing.

Halfway through the ceremony, Cheng Shuang had already begun to squeeze his eyebrows and make eyes in the audience, Zhao Xing couldn't get out, he shook his head slightly on the stage and signaled Cheng Shuang to wait for another talk, and when the social drama began, the people were jubilant, Cheng Shuang quietly came to the stage and whispered a few words to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing nodded slowly, and later, he took off the gem on his hat, wrapped Canhua's dragon skin belt around a piece of cloth, and covered the gem accessories on it. The music is paused - the Queen Mother is gone! National mourning! ”

Empress Dowager Gao is gone.

This news sounded like a thunderbolt in the sky, and the aftermath quickly spread around, and in just over ten days, officials from all over the Great Song Dynasty knew the news, and they unanimously took off the accessories on their bodies, stopped drinking and having fun, and waited with bated breath for changes in the imperial court.

The little emperor of Zhezong, Zhao Xu, was in power, and his hands and feet were very fast, and in October, Wang Anshi's main opponent of the law, Hubu Shang Suzhe, degraded Ruzhou; In the same month, Su Shi was demoted to the governor of Dingzhou. As a result, the government and the opposition knew that the emperor was going to implement a new law again.

At the end of October, Zhang Qifu was a servant of Shang Zuo and a servant of the door. At the same time, Prime Minister Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang were dismissed. At the end of this month, the 1,000 gunpowder guns made by the Ordnance Supervision and Supervision were finally distributed to Huanqing Road, and the more than ten leaders who came with them were acquaintances of Zhao Xing - the subordinate of Mizhou Tuanlian and the capital supervisor. But at this time, Zhao Xing had no intention of teaching Huanqing Road group practice, because he had already smelled the storm.

Yes, the storm is coming!