In the sixth year of Jiayou, the Song army of Shaanxi Yanyan Road and Hedong Road seized Yinzhou and marched to Hengshan; The Song army of Qinfeng Road and the Song army of Huanqing Road launched a diversionary attack on Weizhou along the Lingzhou River, and engaged in fierce battles with Western Xia reinforcements, killing more than 10,000 enemies. He was exterminated by the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo, and the political situation in the Western Xia fell into chaos again.

In the seventh year of Jiayou, after Zhao Zhen strengthened the forbidden army of 50,000 in Shaanxi, and the Song army seized Hengshan and other horse-producing places last year, the Song army in Shaanxi no longer overhauled the walled forts, but began to gradually annihilate the living forces of Western Xia for long-distance attacks. In March, Zhang Kang set out from Hengshan and Yinzhou, and after capturing Xiazhou, he attacked Youzhou, forming a strategic encirclement of Longzhou and Hongzhou. The large army from Huanqing was commanded by Jia Kui, and under the cover of Qinfenglu's reattack on Weizhou, Hongzhou was captured after a slight battle, and the Western Xia defenders of Longzhou surrendered to the city. Because the army of Huanqing Road did not go through much fighting, it attacked Yanzhou in September after reinforcing the forces allocated from Yanyan Road.

Yanzhou is the origin of Chi salt, an important source of wealth in Western Xia, Li Liangzuo, who had just taken control of the power, gathered 200,000 troops to help, Guo Kui also led an army from Youzhou to reinforce Jia Kui, and the two commanded the Song army to fight fiercely with the Western Xia army under the city of Yanzhou for five days, and the two sides retreated. In this battle, the Western Xia suffered more than 80,000 casualties, and after that, the Western Xia no longer had the capital to fight with the Song army.

Li Liangzuo fought for Yanzhou with the whole country's army, and transferred too many troops, Weizhou was empty, and Zhang Shouyue of Qinfeng Road seized the opportunity to capture it, and the rich land of Western Xia was reduced by half.

In February of the eighth year of Jiayou, according to the plan, the Shaanxi army would attack Yanzhou again, and even if it could not be taken, it would attract Western Xia reinforcements to kill and injure its living forces.

When Zhao Sheng commanded the army to press on the Western Xia step by step, he also took advantage of the situation of the Song army's successive victories not afraid of the rebellion of the border generals, and took out the archers and husbands controlled by the border generals, and let the people go home to build water conservancy and cultivate fields. With the population, those places that had just been occupied by the Great Song Dynasty could be gradually digested.

For the Western Xia was crippled, the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji was worried, and every year the envoys sent to the Great Song Dynasty to congratulate the New Year would ask the Great Song to stop attacking the Western Xia. But now the Song pirates of the Liaodong Peninsula have seized Fuzhou and defeated the Liao army that came to seize the city several times, the Jurchens in the north mixed with the river openly rebelled against the Liao Emperor and had no choice, and the resistance of the northwest blockers was also one after another, and even the Liao king of the Divination was killed, and the tribes adjacent to the East Road of the Great Song River and the Shaanxi Road sold cattle and horses to the Great Song Dynasty in spite of the ban of the Liao State, and the once powerful Liao State had begun to lose control of his vast territory, how much of the ability of such a Great Liao to interfere in the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia? What's more, the Great Song Forbidden Army on Hebei and Hedong Road also began to be equipped with muskets and muskets and earth-shaking thunder, if the Liao army came to attack, it would be asking for hardship.

At this time, the time, place and people are all on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, and no matter how hard they work, they may destroy the Western Xia, but at this juncture, Zhao Zhen died.

Since mid-February, Zhao Zhen has often been in a coma, and Li Buqi also thinks that Zhao Zhen really can't survive this time, but the emperor has never passed the throne to Zhao Shu, and he also mobilized the military army to strengthen the palace guards. It seems that he is really worried about what is going on after his death.

Finally, by the end of April, Zhao Zhen had spent more time asleep than awake. He realized that his limit had arrived, so he deliberately called Li Buqi, Di Qing, Fu Bi, and Song Zhen to the sickbed, and instructed them to assist the new emperor and his ministers in front of Zhao Shu, and then they must collect the revival spirit and restore Yanyun.

It is normal for the emperor to explain to Di Qing, Fu Bi, and Song Zhen about the aftermath, because they are privy envoys and prime ministers, but it is not normal to call Li Buqi, Li Buqi is not an official now. It can be seen that Zhao Zhen actually has expectations for Li Buqi.

The old emperor died, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the era name was peaceful. Because of the changes in the imperial court, the army that had just captured Yanzhou also stopped military operations, and the whole country was busy mourning the old emperor and handling the new monarch's accession to the throne, only Li Buqi was busy completing the preventive work for Zhao Shu's accession to the throne.

In fact, the focus of this prevention work is on the Fu'an Foundation. In the past two years, the core of the Fu'an consortium's Fu'an banking business has been shrinking rapidly, on the surface, it seems that many noble ministers have withdrawn their capital on a large scale because they have stood on the side of the prince to draw a clear line with Li Buqi, but in fact, Li Buqi is also deliberately preparing to close Fu'an Bank, because Fu'an Bank is too eye-catching, after Li Buqi's biggest backstage Zhao Zhen died, Li Buqi and can not get the support of the new emperor, Fu'an Bank will definitely be suppressed, and it will be a negative asset in the future.

With the weakening of Fu'an Bank, in Jinling, Hangzhou, Mizhou and Shaanxi, the Industrial Bank, the Shipping Bank, the Overseas Development Bank and the Shaanxi Development Bank were opened one after another, and the capital and personnel of Fu'an Bank flowed into these four banks in a large way. Because of the unbreakable reputation established by Li Buqi, those businessmen were still willing to follow Li Buqi, and Li Buqi gathered the capital lurking in these private banks. At present, Fu'an Bank has basically become an empty shell, and basically only handles some small business.

Except for Fu'an Bank, which is easy to become a thorn in the eyes of the new emperor because of its huge capital, Li Buqi has always acted cautiously and is really not afraid of being caught. Of course, trumped-up charges cannot be prevented, and there is no way to prevent them.

As Li did not give up, after Zhao Shu succeeded to the throne, in addition to the edict issued in accordance with etiquette, the first actual order issued by Zhao Shu was to abolish the police department.

Li Buqi knew that the doctors did not like to be watched by the police department. Since the establishment of the Police Division, corruption has been guarded against and nonsense can no longer be spoken, which is intolerable to liberal scholars. Therefore, the Police Department has always been the target of criticism by the government and the opposition literati, and the reputation of several officials in charge of public security in the Police Department has been comparable to that of Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing in their mouths.

Zhao Shu, who was built by scholars and doctors, and who wanted to advertise that he acted in full accordance with Confucian teachings, asked for the abolition of the police department three times during Zhao Zhen's lifetime, and now that he is the emperor, it is logical that the police department has become his testing stone to show his holy virtue.

Next, the second move of the new emperor was to announce the dissolution of the military academy in order to flaunt "revitalizing culture and education". This matter was also unanimously praised by civil and military officials, because when Zhao Zhen was alive, he began to select low-level military attaches to enter the military academy for training, and after revealing his words, military attachés who wanted to be promoted had to go to the military academy for training. This can take the lives of those noble children who don't learn and don't know how to do it, so Zhao Shu disbanded the martial arts academy They raised their hands and feet in favor.

As another measure to revitalize culture and education, the little emperor announced that he would open Enke next year, cancel Zhao Zhen's practical policy of taking the palace test and adding tests, and all of them will be given by poetry.

Next, as expected, it was Di Qing's turn to dispose of it.

Di Qing has been sitting in the position of privy envoy for seven or eight years, Zhao Zhen has always trusted him, and with Li Buqi's secret support, no one can help him. This disgusted and ruined the literati and doctors who thought of themselves very highly, and Zhao Shu succeeded to the throne for a month before he dismissed Di Qing for his disgrace at Zhao Zhen's funeral, and Li Buqi thought that this little emperor was patient.

Before Zhao Zhen's death, Li Buqi had hinted at Di Qing and asked Di Qing to resign to avoid trouble. However, Di Qing wanted to repay Zhao Zhen's kindness and guard the palace gate for Zhao Zhen every day, and Li could only help if he didn't give up. Although Li Buqi had already ordered someone to compile Di Qing's story into a script and sing it in the market, it created a lot of momentum for Di Qing, so that the little emperor did not dare to attack Di Qing openly, but the scholars and doctors had knives that killed people without seeing blood, but I was afraid that Di Qing would not be able to survive this time.

Di Qing's resignation and departure from Beijing is just the beginning, Han Qi will return to Beijing as a privy envoy, and the officials who were deposed in the past because of their support for the four princes have also been reinstated and even promoted, this is a signal, that is, to tell the world that the new emperor is now in power, and the sky is about to change.

However, Li Buqi got the news from the palace, and every time the little emperor issued an edict, he would repeatedly ask the reactions of the ministers and the people, which shows that the little emperor's psychological pressure is very great, and there have been several signs similar to Zhao Zhen's madness, but it is relatively slight.

Li Buqi took advantage of his position to study the medical history of the Great Song official family, and believed that the Zhao family seemed to have hereditary manic depression. It is estimated that the current little emperor is no exception, and the time to use this psychological pressure to drive this little emperor crazy is not far off.