The Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State signed an armistice agreement again, and although they still had to pay the Liao State New Year's coins, they not only canceled the increase in coins during the Qingli period, but also reduced the number of New Year's coins stipulated during the Lanyuan Alliance. Although the scale of this war was much smaller than the war against Liao between Taizong and Zhenzong, it could be said to be a victory in terms of results.

In the case of the Great Song Dynasty's money and food was stretched, this result made the court very satisfied, so in mid-September the two countries signed a contract, after the Liao State withdrew its troops, the Song troops assembled on the border also returned to the defense area, and the imperial court also rewarded the meritorious heroes of this battle.

Di Qing led the Song army to defeat the Liao army in Wangdu with nearly 200,000 main forces in this battle, and more than 10,000 were beheaded before the battle alone, which fully demonstrated his military talent. In addition, Wang Kechen, Guo Kui, Zhang Kang, Jingtai, Gao Zunyu, Yang Shiqing and Chong Ge were all promoted, and even Han Qi, Xia Zhu and the strategists also had their own rewards. In this way, Li Buqi, who led 5,000 elite soldiers deep into Yanyun, could not be missed, but Li Buqi had already resigned, so he did not say that he was promoted, and it was not rare for Li Buqi to give up money and silk, so the emperor gave Li Buqi's father a promotion again, and his mother and wife were sealed, but Li Buqi's promise to earn a life for his mother was also realized.

Although such a reward looks good, for a young man who is only in his twenties, in the eyes of the common people, he has definitely not promoted the official, and it will be even more practical to be ranked as a ruler in a few years. They didn't know that this war had brought too many benefits to Li Buqi.

First of all, Li Buqi is already a veritable famous general, as long as there is any big war, the emperor will definitely use him. Li Buqi is in charge of the police department, and he has long found out that there is a person named Nong Zhigao in Guangnan who does not stop. Before the crossing, Li Buqi had read Di Qing's story, and Di Qing's important achievement was to kill Nong Zhigao. Therefore, Li Buqi knew that Nong Zhigao would definitely make a big deal in the south, and it was estimated that it would not take a few years before he would make a comeback. And when the emperor asked him to fight Nong Zhigao, he, as an opposition person, would have the conditions to negotiate with the emperor.

Secondly, before this war, Li Buqi arranged a large number of students of Qingyuan Academy to serve as officials in Hebei, and after the war, the meritorious deeds were rewarded and the merits of disaster relief were awarded, and the performance in the past two years was definitely excellent, and the future was promising. For example, Sun Yong, because he got the recommendation letters of Di Qing, Wang Kechen and others, promoted the prestige army formed by the merger of Zhimancheng and Wangdu, and because he reasonably felled trees in the territory and sold them for money, he placed 3,000 troops and resumed production without spending any money from the imperial court, and as a "cadre", Zhao Zhen inscribed his name on the screen to prepare for reuse.

When these officials grow up in the future, it can be called a solid foundation for Li not to give up his work and to go further. A small part of the reason for Li Buqi's resignation this time was also for them, that is, he was worried that they would form a "Qingyuan Party" prematurely to attract the emperor's attention, which would affect the promotion speed of these officials.

Again, Li Buqi could only justify his resignation to show his selflessness, and suggested that the emperor "be strong and strong". This suggestion of "strengthening cadres and strengthening branches" spread in the wind, and the good impression of the local officials towards Li Buqi rose gradually, that is, some civil officials who were incompatible with Li Buqi because of Li Buqi's opposition to Chongwen and suppression of military force also began to praise Li Buqi as a true gentleman.

Not really! At this time, many people in the Great Song Dynasty already understood that this policy of "strong cadres and weak branches" had gone too far, but because they were worried that mentioning this matter would touch the imperial power, they could only pretend to turn a blind eye. Out of Li Buqi who dares to give up his official position and try to change, what is not a true gentleman?

In addition, Li Buqi previously proposed that officials who were not involved in the royal affairs could be enshrined in the "Martyrs' Shrine", and Li Buqi's relationship with civil officials, especially local officials, has been greatly improved.

In the end, Fu'an Qianzhuang can continue to operate smoothly as usual after revealing its glory. And taking out millions of dollars at a time to let people see the strong financial resources of Fu'an Qianzhuang, which is the best advertisement, so that the savings business opened by Qianzhuang for all people can be smoothly launched.

The court is full of people who understand, and a lot of them can become monkeys by sticking to their hair, so it can be seen that although Li Buqi has resigned, he still has a bright future, and even because he has temporarily taken a step back, his prospects are even broader. Therefore, after Li Buqi resigned, not only was there no sparse carriage and horses in front of Li's mansion, but it was more lively, and some people were eyeing Li Buqi's children. However, neither Li Buqi nor Zhao Min agreed, and left a sentence. "Children are still young, who knows what they will grow up to become? When they are older, they still need to find someone they agree with, and their parents will make decisions for them now, won't it deprive them of a lifetime of happiness? ”

In this era, the marriage of children is basically the order of their parents, and Li Buqi's words are shocking. But Uncle Cao Guo and they can understand the marriage between Li Buqi and Zhao Min.

In the eyes of the emperor, Li Bu's sincerity in resigning was a little more confirmed. The civil officials such as Xia Wei who proposed his relatives, as well as the Cao family and the Gao family, which of the noble families were not a huge help from the court, were all rejected, which is obviously a willingness to be indifferent. The emperor was even embarrassed by the slight suspicion he had had of in the past.

Li Buqi wanted to leave the emperor with such an impression that he was not enthusiastic about his career. He knew that this would give him a huge bonus in the emperor's heart and in Shilin, and no matter what he did in the future, people at least could not accuse him of starting point of being promoted and making a fortune, which was called "raising hope".

Why was Wang Anshi able to persist in the reform for so long under the fingers of thousands of people? A big reason is that Wang Anshi resigned several times in the early days of his official career, so no one dared to question his own morality later. This is the great role of "popularity".

Since you want to be willing to be indifferent, you have to act like one. If you have nothing to do at home all day, it will be hypocritical, and it will inevitably make people wonder if Li Buqi's resignation is a performance, just like those big traitors in history. Fortunately, Li Buqi has goods in his stomach, and in addition to giving lectures and guiding drills in the martial arts academy in person every day, he can also pretend to be a philosopher in the rest of the time. Even if a philosopher sits still, it can be said that he is making complex logical deductions, and who knows what Li Buqi is thinking?

As a result, people can often see Li Buqi discussing with people in Qingyuan Academy such topics as "whether people can step into the same river twice", "which is more important, reason or experience", and "broken window theory", and he also co-authored a book "Theory of Continuing Money" with Mao Zhichun again, looking like a university scholar.

Sometimes, of course, one can also see Li Buqi helping to improve hydraulic machinery and gunpowder weapons at the testing grounds of the Academy, Chunzejian or Ordnance Prison, and he also bought a piece of land in the city to build a museum to display various ores and plant specimens.

With these deeds, Li Buqi is completely a scholar who is completely interested in philosophy and naturalism in the eyes of others, and has no intention of pursuing a career at all, and is harmless to people and animals.

Just when Li Buqi was hibernating, a lot of things happened. First of all, after the Liao State dismissed the army, the emperor issued an order for the ministers to discuss the reform of the official system, and began to implement the official system reform in the spring of the second year of that year.

After the reform of the official system was completed, the emperor suddenly ordered a joint inspection team composed of the Hebei Transit Envoy Division, the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Police Department to inspect the storage of money and grain in the prefectures and counties of Jingxi Road. As a result, in three or four days, the yamen and warehouses in more than a dozen prefectures and counties on Jingxi Road were burned to the ground. No matter how stupid the emperor is, he can understand the cattiness, and strictly ordered to track down the state and county officials who caught fire. Because of this incident, the emperor also had a legitimate reason to dismiss Wen Yanbo, who had been the prime minister for several years, and threw him to the local office.

At this time, the local officials in the world were all frightened, and they were all worried that the emperor would check on his side one day, so he acted much more carefully. However, the emperor did not expand the situation, after checking the Jingxi Road and assigning a group of officials, the emperor took the Jingxi Road as an example, and ordered the courtiers to discuss how to avoid the chaos on the Jingxi Road, and specified specific measures.

Others don't think it's anything, but Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji can sense that the emperor's investigation of Jingdong West Road is not simple. Jingxi Road is on the side of Hebei Road, and such a check has played a role in knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, especially the local officials in Hebei will never dare to blatantly lose money and food again. And this matter seems to be an introduction, which logically leads to the emperor's following actions.

In addition to palace fighting and fiddling with officials to play balance, when did the emperor have such a scheming? This is not scientific!

They didn't know that this was all the strategy that Li Buqi had set for Zhao Zhen in Tianzhang Pavilion. Because of this, although Li Buqi resigned, he was often called to the palace by Zhao Zhen for consultation, although he did not have an official position, he never left the power center for a moment.

The emperor was