Lord Lan once asked Wu Zhi when Fang La in the south would rebel.

Wu Zhi replied that it would be reversed around the Mid-Autumn Festival this year.

Lord Lan was slightly stunned, and then understood the reason for Wu Zhi's judgment.

Autumn is the harvest season, and the wheat is harvested in June in the north, and beans and millet are harvested in the first month. In the south, rice is mainly grown, and most places can harvest three crops a year, and some places can even harvest four seasons a year. After the autumn harvest, the southern people's warehouses were full of rice.

Therefore, at this time, rebellion can ensure the sufficiency of grain and grass.

Not only rebellion, but when the country mobilizes troops, it also follows the law of the seasons. The northern nomads like to plunder the Central Plains after the winter, because the nomads just have free time after the winter, and the living resources are scarce; The Central Plains raised troops to attack the northern country, almost all after the autumn, because the nomads were busy stocking up on winter grain and grass for the livestock at the beginning of autumn, and they were the most busy, which would cause sabotage and get twice the result with half the effort.

It is an eternal truth that you will die while you are sick.

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This year's midsummer is impetuous and long, and in the hustle and bustle of the whole day, the monarchs and ministers in the court are not as lifeless as before, and everyone is like a chicken blood, and they talk endlessly every day in the court.

Zhao Ji is surprisingly diligent in government, no longer indulging in fun, and opening his mouth and closing his mouth with Wu Zhi all day long is a national affair and a military priority.

Although the ministers chattered all day long, it was rare that they no longer had disagreements and quarrels like in the past when discussing national affairs, and the ministers went up to Cai Jing Wang Huang Tongguan and down to the officials of various factions, and everyone discussed only one goal, that is, to attack Yanyun and recover the sixteen states.

This is the ultimate goal, and everyone who knows a little bit about the "international situation" realizes that this year is the best time for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun, so after Tong Guan took the lead in proposing to attack Yanyun in the autumn, Zhao Ji and the ministers were excited.

Yanyun area is the gateway to the Central Plains, recovering Yanyun is the last wish of the founding ancestor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, and the monarchs of the Song Dynasty have been thinking about completing this century-old great cause, but they can only look at Yan Xing and sigh.

This is especially true in Zhao Ji's generation, which will bring the Song Dynasty to pacify the Tibetan tribes, recover the Hehuang area, and reach the Western Regions. and subdued the Western Xia and drove out the Southern Barbarians...... Zhao Ji boasted that he was the emperor with the greatest achievements since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and he was only short of recovering Yanyun, and he was complete.

Therefore, Zhao Ji has already released his words clearly - the one who recovers Yanyun and is the king.

Wangjue was not uncommon in all dynasties, and it was also the same in the Song Dynasty. There are a large number of princes in the capital of Guangbian, Zhao Gogang and the weak crown, who were also named King Kang.

But the prince is different from the prince, there is a kind of prince that is very rare, and it has extraordinary significance.

This is the king with a different surname.

From the founding of the Song Dynasty to Zhao Ji's generation, in addition to a few of the royal families of the previous dynasty who were crowned kings after their deaths, there were only three people who relied on the merits and prestige of the imperial court to be crowned kings, one was the founding prime minister Zhao Pu, the other was the founding general Cao Bin, and the other was the former prime minister Wang Anshi.

Except for these three people, the Song Dynasty did not have any kings with different surnames. If you look through the resumes of these three people above, you will know that they all obtained such a revered title by virtue of what kind of miraculous feats and prestige they could not find.

But it is difficult to be crowned a king with a different surname, and it is even more unprecedented in the Song Dynasty to be crowned a king before his death, and there is no one to come.

The above three were all posthumously knighted kings. And now Zhao Ji said that whoever recovers Yanyun can be crowned king immediately, and he will be crowned king before his death, which is enough to make hundreds of officials crazy.

Therefore, among the hundred officials, although most people know that the prince has nothing to do with him, it is enough to be able to participate in such a grand event and go down in history. Everyone who has some ideas has made suggestions, and the court is very lively.

However, the imperial court will not finalize the military plan until the end of the summer, which will leave the officials to gossip, but it will not be in the way.

Zhao Ji and the others were also happy to discuss with the officials how to recover Yanyun, and after each discussion, everyone was satisfied, as if they were very enjoyable.

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Wu Zhi didn't get too involved in the discussion of the hundred officials, he recently secretly purged for a few months, and finally uprooted Zhu Mian's henchmen in Bianjing one by one. And the vacancies of these officials were naturally filled by Wu Zhi's Shandong descendants.

Wu Zhi is now in full swing, and the officials always have to sell Wu Zhi to save face. And Cai Jing put Wu Zhi together before, and now he has just repaired the relationship with Wu Zhi, so naturally it is not easy to interfere. Moreover, ****** cultivation of cronies is too common, Wu Zhi is moving Zhu Mian's forces, and no one else is involved, and those powerful ministers will not obstruct Wu Zhi.

Zhu Mian returned to Hangzhou to be honest for a few months, but only for a few months. At the beginning of the summer this year, the dark group ended several waves of assassinations against Wu Zhi, and every time those killers of the Zhu Mian faction were inexplicably eliminated by the dark group before they could do anything.

Wu Zhi, the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, is not in vain, in the past few months, the entire Bianjing City has been filled with street patrol officers from Kaifeng Mansion, patrolling in shifts at twelve o'clock a day, and there are various light and dark sentinels. It took only one month to reduce the crime rate in Bianjing to near zero.

Of course, Wu Zhi not only did an outstanding job of public security work in Bianjing, but also planted a large number of secret agents in it when deploying patrols, and any wind and grass in the entire Bianjing could not escape Wu Zhi's eyes, but Wu Zhi would not be idle Even the widow of the king of the west of the city stealing men had to know this kind of thing, and only important news would be conveyed to him through various channels.

Therefore, Zhu Mian's desire to assassinate Wu Zhi in the world-like Bianjing is tantamount to a fool's dream.

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The net worth in Bianjing is safe, and he has gradually gained a firm foothold in the imperial court, and he has a team of henchmen. At the same time, Wu Zhi also knew that if he wanted to go further in his official position, it would be basically impossible in ten years. He was promoted too quickly, and his position was already high enough. The imperial court has the rules of the imperial court, whether it is Zhao Ji or a hundred officials, they will not let an official under the age of thirty enter the two mansions as a deacon.

Unless the country is ruined and the family is in danger, the imperial court will exceptionally promote the sages into the two governments.

The probability of national danger is very low, and Wu Zhi does not want to be promoted now, and he plans to go to other positions in the future to experience more qualifications, boil his qualifications, and broaden his career path.

Wu Zhi is in the high position of Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and if he is level, he can only be the official position of the Prefecture Yin, the Six Ministry of Shangshu, or the official level of the feudal general. Wu Zhi's most important thing is naturally to be transferred abroad, because the imperial court has unwritten rules, but whoever becomes the prime minister must be in charge of one party in another place, otherwise he is not qualified to enter the two governments as the prime minister.

All dynasties have had restrictions in this regard, and the prime minister helped the emperor manage all the political affairs of the world, so he naturally had to have rich experience.

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However, now that Wuzhi Kaifeng Mansion Yin's bench is not hot, it is really a bit too much to think about it.

In recent months, he has handed over the daily chores of Kaifeng Mansion to Qin Hui and Song Gong, and he has accompanied the ladies to be busy every day, in the eyes of outsiders, Wu Zhi is like falling into the gentle township and not wanting to make progress.

Wu Zhi does like the gentle township of the ladies, but he is by no means unenterprising. A few months ago, the ladies completely adapted to Bianjing, and they were unwilling to just stay in the backyard of the house all day long, so Sanniang proposed to set up a women's college in Bianjing.

Speaking of which, the three ladies are at home in addition to taking care of their children. Jin Lian takes care of the affairs of the house all day long, and sometimes goes to Fanlou to instruct the little chefs in cooking. Cher grows flowers and plants every day and focuses on making wine. Both of them have a full life. It's Sanniang, who nests in the house all day long, has nowhere to show her good skills, and can only bored with a horse that can rarely be ridden, but she is too wronged.

These Wu Zhi naturally saw it in their eyes, and when the husband and wife talked at night, Sanniang and Wu Zhi talked about finding something to do a few times, and she even asked Wu Zhi to accept her to be a female catcher in Kaifeng Mansion, and it was okay to be Wu Zhi's bodyguard.

However, Wu Zhi had to handle the case before, and he had to beware of Zhu Mian's black hand, so he didn't agree for fear that Sanniang would be in danger.

Jin Lian Xue'er, Ling'er and even Master Li all knew Sanniang's troubles, and one day as soon as the women of them combined, they actually thought of running a women's college, and even Jin Lian Xue'er agreed very much.

Wu Zhi's eyes lit up after learning about it, if he really set up a women's college in Bianjing, then he could teach others in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, makeup and etiquette, cooking and martial arts, and Jin Lian. And teaching does not take physical effort, nor does it delay time, and the ladies can take care of the children after teaching.

With the strong support of Wu Zhi, a powerful and rich husband, the girls' school was soon prepared. There is no need to send someone to the yamen to handle all the official document procedures, and the yamen of the Kaifeng Mansion of the Ministry of Etiquette and Etiquette will directly send the approved official documents to the door.

The site of the college is next to Wu Zhi's mansion, which is Wu Zhi's original neighbor's mansion, and after Zhang Biao, the west neighbor of the Ministry of Works, was kicked out of Bianjing by Wu Zhi for the crime of corruption, his house was also taken over by Kaifeng Mansion, and his mansion covers an area of more than ten acres, which is more than enough to transform into a college.

Originally, it was not a big deal in Bianjing for the Wuzhi ladies to set up an academy that taught women's reading and skills, after all, the scale of the academy was very small. The most you read about it in the newspapers is just a novelty. After all, since ancient times, it is still the only one that has officially run a women's college in this way.

In addition to the novelty of the people, some people plan to send their daughters to study for a few years, if nothing else, it is enough for the girl to benefit for a lifetime if she can learn the craft of the beautiful chef. They know how high the wages of those little cooks in Fan Lou are. But many big families don't plan to send their daughters to the academy at all, and they will hire someone to teach the girl in the house.

However, on the day of the opening of the college, the most active applicants were the big families who were disdainful of the college before, because they learned the day before that the women's college actually invited Li Qingzhao to be the dean, and there was even Master Li to teach vocal music......... Both of them are famous strange women in Bianjing City, and with them out of the mountain, the daughters of princes and generals are also eager to come to the academy to enroll.

Li Qingzhao was brought by Xue'er. Since the last time Wu Zhi took An Daoquan to cure Zhao Mingcheng's illness, coupled with a series of good reputations after Wu Zhi, Zhao Mingcheng can only salute convincingly when he sees Wu Zhi now, and Xue'er has become friends with Li Qingzhao as he wished.

Li Qingzhao had nothing to do at home, and came to the women's college as the dean to show his talents, and Zhao Mingcheng was also very supportive.

And Li Shishi is also one of the founders of the women's college, and she planned to teach at the college from the beginning. After the academy opened, Master Li moved out of the land of fireworks and bought a mansion not far from Wu Zhi's house, thinking that he followed Jin Lian's advice and concentrated on becoming a teacher.

Hearing that Master Li had moved near his home, Wu Zhi couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat. Anyway, the reason why Zhu Mian was suspicious last time was all due to the information provided by Master Li, Wu Zhi never thanked her in person, and he didn't even see Master Li after that day, so he had no conscience to think about it.

"I should find a chance to thank Master Li."

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The women's college, which is not big or small, opened in this way, with Li Qingzhao as the dean, Sanniang and Li Shishi as the vice presidents, and Jin Lian Xueer as the teacher. Teaching poetry and singing, embroidery of legs, embroidery of female workers, and cooking skills...... In addition, Wu Zhi also took some textbooks from Qingzhou College to Li Qingzhao and Jin Lian, and asked them to teach them more or less.

From now on, I'm afraid that in a few years, those students in Bianjing who are proud of the sky will be compared to some little ladies in terms of literary knowledge.