[The second update of the supplement.] And then there's that, so please check back tomorrow morning. 】

After bidding farewell to the crowd on the shore, the three official boats carrying hundreds of members of Lu Huiqing's family released their cables one after another and went down the water.

It's just passing by, but almost all the officials in Luoyang City rushed to see each other off, and they said goodbye to Lu Huiqing on the bank of the canal.

Recalling the cold reception when I entered the customs a few years ago and passed through Luoyang, it was like a world away.

Lu Huiqing left Beijing that day and entered the customs from Kaifeng. When passing through Luoyang, no one came to greet him. After resting in Luoyang for a night, Lu Huiqing's family quietly set off early in the morning and quietly left Luoyang City.

At that time, he knew that the elders of Luoyang who wanted to see him down-and-out did not know how many. The Xijing Yushitai, headed by Sima Guang, stared at him even more closely. As long as there is the slightest mistake, the propaganda will be magnified tenfold. If there is a little disturbance, there will be a letter of Lu Huiqing crossing the border and disturbing the people and handed it to the desk of the Son of Heaven.

Fortunately, Lu Huiqing has always been a military rule of law, leaving no flaws outside. Even passing through the street, it is quiet. When he left, how many Luoyang officials didn't even know that he was gone.

After a few years, when Lu Huiqing returned from Chang'an, the situation changed again.

He is no longer a newcomer promoted by Wang Anshi, but a real hero. defeated the Liao State and recaptured Lingwu, with this feat, that is, in front of Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi, not to mention the division of the court, it is okay to counter the pressure on both sides.

With this credit, all the attacks he received in the past have become a laughing stock. Wen Yanbo's generation, apart from exterminating a traitor who jumped to the gods, what else can he show off?

And in the middle of the court, the Son of Heaven has been changed.

Empress Taishang, who has prejudices against the old party, is in charge, and she will not want to turn over within ten years. And the rich and literate, do they have ten years to live? The tree is falling and scattering, what needs to be said about this? As soon as the favor is exhausted, even the children and grandchildren of the rich family, the Wen family, and the Lu family have to post it to please them. Otherwise, how many generations of wealth can they still want to keep? They weren't Han Qi.

Six days to go.

Four hundred miles from Luoyang to Kaifeng, it can be completed in one day in a hurry. Officials who go to work alone follow the normal itinerary by land, and five days is enough.

And go to Caoyun, from Luoyang to Kaifeng, because there is less water and more boats, there is no way to sail day and night, always a little slower than the land, take one more day. But at least it's better than the other way around, from Kaifeng to Luoyang by boat is against the current, depending on the situation it takes eight to ten days.

But a large family of hundreds of people take this road, especially in summer, or take a boat is the most stable. No need to be tired of driving and horses, no need to bump in the road, get on the boat, and arrive at Kaifeng safely and steadily. It's just that in winter, it won't work, once it freezes, from Suzhou in Huainan to Luoyang, this waterway will be cut off.

Lu Huiqing had already changed out of the official robe when he had just left the city, and wore a slightly spacious robe and stood at the bow of the boat.

The official boat traveled along the middle of the waterway, following the turbid water of the river all the way to the east. At the docking, boats are being pulled up the canal by as many as three or five horses, or as few as two.

There are too many horses. Lu Huiqing thought.

Even a few years ago, most of the boats that pulled the official boats against the current were slender men, and the smaller boats relied on the captains to walk with penny support.

Now it's good, horsepower replaces manpower, although not much faster, but how much labor is saved. What a horse can do, it takes at least three or five people to be able to do. And if a laborer is not responsible for eating and drinking, he will have to be a stranger a day, seventy-eight wen. As far as Lu Huiqing knows, compared with horse material, it is at least half saved.

Lu Huiqing felt this change very deeply. Nowadays, there is rarely a shortage of post horses in the Guanzhong Post Station, and since the extension of the border by Hehuang, the number of horses in the army and the country has risen all the way, and good horses are also common. If in the past, the shoulder height of the war horse could be four feet, and it could already be used in the army, and the four feet and five inch war horses were often qualified to be ridden by the commander. Up to now, none of the three mounts of the planter are less than five feet.

At that time, a horse from the Western Regions was shiny, with a brocade-like fur and a tall and divine horse's physique, which made everyone in Beijing admire. But a few days ago, before Lu Huiqing left Chang'an, four Dawan Tianma were sent from Wang Shunchen. Each horse is an anomaly, without a trace of variegation up and down, and it is said that it is dedicated to the Son of Heaven. And among them, there are three peons that can be used as stallions. In addition, there are more than 60 horses that are slightly inferior, either because of variegated colors or because of their inferior size, but none of them are below five feet tall at the shoulders, and there are males and females in them, so you can imagine how crazy the horse owners inside and outside the capital will be.

That's the benefit of the winner. Therefore, the Liao State was tired of going south, and the Western Xia did not hesitate to continue to invade the people. It's all because you can get a satisfying harvest through war.

And the Great Song Dynasty could only defend hard, and put eighty percent of the annual tax revenue into the army.

And those elders actually said that there is no problem with this, it is the law of the ancestors, and it must be maintained forever. The short-sightedness of the literate and wealthy can be seen.

Only by completely solving the Western Xia can we get out of the embarrassing situation of constantly consuming national strength in the mountains and wilderness, otherwise we will only fall deeper and deeper, and we can no longer support it after reaching the bottom. The fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty is due to the Qiang people, who have never been able to subdue. Too much national power was consumed in Longxi, so that the Eastern Han court had to collect more taxes, coupled with the faint monarch and traitorous eunuchs, and another untimely natural disaster at the end of the year, so that the struggling court could no longer support it.

And now, the several economic and strategic pacification envoys originally set up to resist the Western Xia must be gradually revoked. And most of the hundreds of large and small military villages in the mountains had to be abandoned. When it came to the military fortress on the front line of Hengshan, the non-critical part was changed to Tuntian Fort. The military consumption of the whole of Shaanxi can be reduced by at least 40 percent.

It's just that the imperial court still hasn't made up its mind on how to divide Xinjiang's territory. For a while, it was Yinxia Road, for a while it was Ningxia Road, and for a while, it was Lingwu Road, in short, because I was worried about another Li Jiqian, I wanted to separate those Tibetan tribes, but I couldn't find a suitable dividing line.

Lu Huiqing only thought it was funny. Give a definite statement early and concentrate the main forces guarding Kansai on a few strategic points. In this way, Shaanxi can develop with peace of mind. The people of Guanzhong have suffered for decades, and they should rest and recuperate for a while.

The military focus of the Great Song Dynasty must begin to move north as soon as possible. The state of Liao is in decline because of Yelu Yixin, and there is no possibility of recovery in the short term. This is a good opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to solve the century-old enemy. Yelu Yixin is not young, his usurpation of the throne is imminent, and within ten years, the opportunity will inevitably come.

Once there is civil strife in Liao, the Great Song Dynasty must not sit idly by, and Hebei will be the key to it. From this point of view, Lu Huiqing still prefers this appointment, at least it is much better than letting him continue to stay in Guanzhong.

If you can arrange the preparations for the war in Hebei, you will have the opportunity to become the commander of the attack on Liao in the future. Lu Huiqing really wanted to know Lu Dao, once he led the army to capture Yanjing in the future, then this king, whether the court would give it or not.

The corners of Lu Huiqing's mouth curled up, and she laughed softly.

The boatman who looked at the water from the bow of the boat looked back, and immediately lowered his head again, wondering if he was frightened.

However, the smile on Lu Huiqing's face quickly retracted. It's actually a pleasure in suffering. If he could stay in the capital, he would willingly give the position of Hebei to Zhang Dun, Han Gang, or others who were willing to guard the north.

is about to enter Beijing, but he can't stay in Beijing for a long time, is there anything more frustrating than this result?

If it is replaced by the situation of the emperor in power, it would be fine, the monarch and the minister for many years, Lu Huiqing asked himself if he still had a chance to impress him, but the woman had no choice, it didn't make sense at all. Sima Guang lost so badly at the beginning, after Lu Huiqing heard the details, he even had the heart of schadenfreude only for the first time, which was really inexplicable.

But just bowed down and admitted defeat, and Lu Huiqing was not reconciled. Let's talk about this matter later, it's not that there are no changes in the court.

Will Zhang Zihou really follow Cai Qu? Cai really wants to be alone, does Zhang Dian plan to sit in Xifu for the rest of his life? Lu Huiqing didn't think that Zhang Dian's ambition would be so small, and he would have to conflict with Cai Qu sooner or later. When the time comes, there will be a chance.

The only problem is only with Han Gang. is Zeng Bu, who is in the same situation, and Lu Huiqing doesn't take him to heart.

Han Gang's hostility has nothing to do with personal grudges. Lu Huiqing didn't feel that she had any inexplicable old grudges with Han Gang. But Lu Huiqing also knew that as long as he insisted on his new studies, Han Gang would never agree to return to Beijing. However, Han Gang's influence on Empress Taishang is the greatest.

"The battle of Taoism."

Lu Huiqing didn't know whether to cry or laugh. When he helped Wang Anshi write the new meaning of the Three Classics, he never thought that he would be hostile and suppressed for this reason.

It's not the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it's time for a hundred schools of thought to contend. The rivalry in Shilin is not enough, it must be brought to the court.

Suddenly, I didn't have the heart to look at the scenery anymore, so I turned around and went back to the cabin.

Buckets of ice in the corners of the cabin kept the heat out. Suddenly it just felt different.

The maidservant served a chilled drink, Lu Huiqing took a sip, the cool feeling entered the stomach from the throat, and the heat dissipated for a while, but the doubts in her heart could not be dispersed.

Back then, Han Gang was not such a person who would regard studying as his life's goal, why did he become so resolute in a few years?

Even before, Han Gang and Wang Anshi had almost turned against each other for Taoism, and Lu Huiqing didn't think that Han Gang and Wang Anshi would be the same people.

But judging from the news from the capital, Han Gang really gambled his future for the sake of Qixue. No matter how many workarounds there are to avoid gambling in the future, Han Gang's future as prime minister is much narrower than before.

Han Gang, who made this kind of bet, can it still be said that he is a fraud?

Lu Huiqing couldn't figure it out, she really couldn't figure it out.