No one thought that it would be Empress Cao who gave the conservatives a fatal blow.

Outside the palace, there was Li Buqi who was anxious for the people to get back their hard-earned money, so that the literati party was exhausted and exhausted, and in the palace, Empress Cao grasped the inner and completely suppressed Han Qi and them with great righteousness. Since the Empress Dowager Cao decided to come to the stage, she did not hesitate to replace the newcomers promoted by Zhao Shu with the old man of Zhao Zhen's time, and controlled the entire palace. Under this two-pronged approach, Zhao Sheng was taken to the palace from within the high walls, and Li Buqi was appointed by the Empress Dowager Cao as an adviser to help the Empress Dowager Cao and Zhao Sheng formulate a plan to deal with the current predicament.

The conservatives disagreed with this arrangement, but they could only shout twice, because many people in Bianliang, including the soldiers, believed that only the teacher-student combination of Zhao Sheng and Li Buqi could guarantee that the Khitan would not reach the capital and would allow them to get their money back. Now anyone who opposes the comeback of the master and apprentice will be scolded by the people, and the officials who want to leave a little way back do not dare to touch this mold.

In the evening of the same day, Zhao Sheng occupied a courtyard in the center to deal with affairs, ordered martial law in the capital, and transferred the forbidden army to control the bank involved......

When it was dawn the next day, Zhao Sheng glared at the two rabbit eyes and asked Li Buqi: "Teacher, is this considered a success?" ”

Li Buqi said: "If nothing else, as long as we can defeat the Liao State, your throne will be beyond doubt." ”

"This battle is not easy to fight!" Zhao Sheng was a little resentful.

In order to ensure the victory of this war, the little emperor and Han Qi not only equipped the forbidden army sent to the capital with the most sophisticated weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, but also took away all the horses that were pulling goods on the track of the workshop in order to ensure transportation. Now these things are in the hands of the Khitans, and the balance of power is seriously unbalanced.

Li Buqi said calmly: "The only way to transfer the elite soldiers of Shaanxi is to order all localities to open their arsenals and arm the princes of the people." All the ironworkers in the capital were under the command of the Ordnance Superintendent, working in three shifts, making firearms day and night. It is not difficult to block the Liao army in this way. ”

Zhao Sheng said unwillingly: "Now I have to give up a large area of Shaanxi." ”

Li Buqi was expressionless: "The sky will protect the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Under the dispatch of Li Buqi and Zhao Sheng, the Liao army was finally blocked north of the Yellow River, in which the Zhenwu army was almost wiped out in a bloody battle with the Khitan army under the city of Lanzhou, in exchange for the reinforcements from Shaanxi calmly put in place, and the Liao army had to retreat after looting.

The Liao army will not be able to withdraw if it is not withdrawn, because the strong army of the Song army in Hedong almost poured out, and under the command of Guo Kui, it was like a bamboo, and successively defeated Huanzhou and Shuozhou, and the Liao Xijing stayed behind and led the army to be defeated in a decisive battle with the Song army in Yingzhou, and it was seen that Yingzhou was also going to be captured. On the Liaodong Peninsula, the Andong Protectorate also launched an attack taking advantage of the lack of strength of the Liao army, and once captured Chenzhou and rushed out of the peninsula. These two directions cannot be ignored by Liaoguo.

So by mid-October, in addition to the prestige army, the Guangxin army and Xiongzhou were still in the hands of the Liao State, the situation of the Liao and Song dynasties in Hebei had returned to its pre-war appearance.

At the beginning of July, the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo immediately sent a large army to try to take advantage, but unexpectedly, at this time, there was smallpox in Yanzhou and other places, and the Western Xia army occupied Yanzhou and contracted the plague, and a large number of people died under the smallpox, and more importantly, the people were panicked and had no heart to fight. Li Langzuo could only order all the sick officers and soldiers to be thrown away and withdraw in a hurry. The Song army on the edge of Shaanxi began to grow cowpox because Zhao Sheng was in office, and was not afraid of smallpox.

The common people said that God helped Zhao Sheng, and the people's hearts belonged to Zhao Sheng. When the military situation stabilized, people turned their attention to the court, only to find that a large number of officials in the court had been kicked out because they were responsible for the defeat, and the officials of the "practical school" had been promoted, and the voice of the literati party was no longer the only voice in the court.

Xungui and the imperial relatives also suffered a great blow in this trend. In the Great Song Dynasty, there is no limited liability company, and this time the nobles and the imperial relatives have emptied the family's savings for decades just by losing the money. Even so, some people are still in debt, and if they don't listen to Zhao Sheng, as long as Zhao Sheng doesn't vouch for them, the people will tear them apart. Therefore, Zhao Sheng, who succeeded to the throne smoothly after Zhao Shu breathed, was already expected.

There is only one thing that makes Zhao Sheng angry, that is, Li does not give up life and death and refuses to be an official again.

"Teacher. Why don't you want to be an official again? You come to be the prime minister, how good is it for our master and apprentice to create a career that has never been done before? Only you can see the future of the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Sheng eagerly persuaded Li not to give up.

Li Buqi said with a smile: "There are talented people in the country, there are many smart people in this world besides me for you to use." Remember what I told you? Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have. As long as you have a pair of Bole eyes, you will naturally find many Maxima, and I don't have to do it. I was just dissatisfied with Han Qi and his group of literati treating me and others as cannon fodder, and I wanted them to see that cannon fodder can also counterattack, so I took a shot. Now that I'm tired, let me live in Lin Quan for the rest of my life. This world is ours, and it belongs to you young people, and it will still belong to you young people after all. You have to believe in yourself, you should have a real understanding of the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty, I know that you do not lack the courage to change the status quo, you will eventually have your own way. As for the future of the Great Song Dynasty, to be honest, I am not an immortal, and I can't see it. ”

Li Buqi is telling the truth. Now the Great Song Dynasty has seen the germ of modern science, the germ of capitalism, the elite of the Great Song Dynasty has realized the benefits of opening up overseas, and the common people have gradually accepted the choice of immigrating overseas, resulting in the rise of labor costs in the coastal areas, which will definitely make this Great Song Dynasty and the original historical Great Song Dynasty out of a different trajectory. No one can say what the Great Song Dynasty will be able to develop in the future, and Li Bu will not abandon it and will not bother to study it, so let it take its course.

It is impossible to avoid human beings not making mistakes, but fortunately, even if the Great Song Dynasty returns to its original trajectory in the future, there can be overseas territories to preserve Chinese culture, which is enough. As for letting him do anything like a constitutional monarchy or a parliamentary system, he won't do it. Those were just tools, and he still hadn't figured out whether a monarchy or a parliamentary system was better for a big country like China. So it's better to leave it to future generations to be miserable, and future generations will be more wise.

Life is like this, what more can you ask for?

It was under the guidance of such ideology that Li Buqi lived an idle life very irresponsibly. I sleep until I wake up naturally every day, study astronomy and geography when I am interested, go out to give lectures, find a few friends to brag nonsense, and lie down at home when I am not interested. In the eighth year of Yongli, Zhang Kang invaded Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia, and Li Bingchang, the emperor of Western Xia, died of self-immolation, Zhao Sheng's reform tended to be completed, and Li Buqi also sent his parents away, and Li Buqi often traveled outside after that. This is exactly the way he longed for the lifestyle he most when he got up early and stayed up late to make money before.

Although Li Buqi did not do anything after the age of forty, the history books of later generations still attribute such credits to this indifferent person for his indifference to fame and fortune, such as the destruction of the Western Xia by the Great Song Dynasty, the development of Liaodong, the cession of several places in the Japanese Kingdom, the exploration of the Americas, the circumnavigation of the world, and the occupation of territories in Africa and poison. Many later historians lamented that if Li had been more diligent, the Great Song might have achieved more during this time. But Li Buqi said that plain and plain is the life I want, if I wasn't born as cannon fodder, I wouldn't be so tormented!

PS: Thank you for the righteous laughter and the reward of the year, and thank you to all the book friends who have always supported me!

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