When Wang Anshi was summoned to the Chongzheng Palace, he saw Zhao Zongge, the Duke of Wei, coming out of the palace.

The prime minister has the most respectful position, and Wang Anshi is even the famous appearance of the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager who want to give him some face. Although the leader Zhao Zongge is the cousin of the Son of Heaven, he has to avoid the side, not daring to block Wang Anshi's way, and he has to bow his hand first: "Zongge has seen Xianggong." ”

Wang Anshi returned the salute, "Anshi has seen Wei Guogong." ”

Zhao Zongge is the uncle and brother of Emperor Yingzong, but his reputation is not very good, and the courtiers have not found his fault, and they dare not get close to the prime minister in front of the Chongzheng Palace, "Because of the birthday of the emperor's sixth son, I went to the temple at the behest of the official." The emperor's order is in his body, and he can't delay it, so Zong Ge will leave first, and he hopes to forgive his sins. ”

"Don't dare, Wei Guogong please." Wang Anshi replied distantly but politely.

But in all state affairs, the prime minister has the right to intervene in every detail, and the family affairs of the Son of Heaven are also average. The Son of Heaven told Zhao Zongge something, and Zhao Zongge didn't dare to hide it in front of Wang Anshi. However, Wang Anshi doesn't need Zhao Zongge to say much, as the prime minister, the ceremonies about the sacrifice are all required by his nod to pass.

The birth of the sixth son of the emperor is not only for Zhao Zongge to go to the Taimiao and the officials of the Taichang Rite Academy, but also to pay tribute to the heavens and earth, Sheji and the mausoleums of several generations of emperors. At the same time, Gao Xu, the deity in charge of marriage and childbirth, was also given a cow, that is, Taigao, as a sacrifice.

All this is a ritual that ordinary emperors and sixth sons should not enjoy—if he is not the only prince in the palace today.

Just over a month ago, Zhao Jun, the only son of the Son of Heaven at that time and the third son of the emperor who was named the Duke of Yongguo, died young. The palace was gloomy and miserable for a while, and the Son of Heaven was even more sad, first dropping out of the dynasty for five days, and then losing his soul for three consecutive days and not going to the government hall to deal with government affairs. He also removed Li Yongchang and Zhang Zhaowen, two deputy envoys of Hanlin Medical Officers, from the custody of the two Hanlin medical officers on the charge of misuse, one went to Suizhou and the other went to Tangzhou, in order to vent his anger.

In those days, there was some chaos in the court, and although the situation in Shaanxi and Hedong was initially decided, the Khitan people on the opposite side of Hebei made many small moves, and there were frequent reports of emergencies for a while. In addition, there is a war against Cochin in the south, and these things are indispensable for the Son of Heaven to see.

But the faint turbulence in the court is not only because of state affairs, after all, the chaos when Renzong established his heir, and the important ministers of the court are basically witnesses; And the dispute between Yingzong and the Empress Dowager Cao is still in the palace.

In those few days, there were rumors everywhere in the capital, saying that the palace was not clean, and as long as the prince born in the palace could not be raised-Renzong was the last one. More than sixty years have passed since the day Emperor Renzong was born, and no male born in the imperial city has been able to support an adult. Although the rumors are absurd, there is no way to refute them, and this is true.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the emperor to add a son to the Son of Heaven just a month ago, so that the emperor would not have no successor.

Today is the full moon of the sixth son of the emperor, and the Son of Heaven sent Zhao Zongge, the Duke of Wei, to pay tribute to the Taimiao, and sent the officials of the Taichang Rite Yuan to pay tribute to the heavens and the earth, Sheji, and the tombs of the first emperor, these are all rituals for the Yuanzi, that is, the eldest son, but the young child who has just been given the name '傭' is already the sixth son of the Son of Heaven, not even the son-in-law. And whether it can be saved in the future and not die prematurely is still two words.

Wang Anshi let out a long sigh, if there is a case up and down, I don't know what kind of situation it will become in the future.

Renzong chose Yingzong because he was the only son of Emperor Zhenzong and had no brother to succeed him. But today, there are two brothers, and the older one has a deep grudge with his son-in-law, and one is not good, and it will definitely drag down his daughter. It would be nice if the emperor had half the ability of his second son-in-law, and not long after Han Gang went south, his daughter Wang Yi added another grandson to himself, Han Gang, who was twenty-five or six, already had five sons and one daughter, all of them were very healthy, speaking of which, the Son of Heaven was to be envied.

Listening to the voice of the palace attendants, Wang Anshi stepped into the hall.

"Wang Qing." The sorrow on his face a few days ago has disappeared, and Zhao Ji finally has a smile on his face now, "I just ordered Zhao Zongge to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and I forgot to say a word to Xianggong first." ”

"The Taichang Rite Courtyard is to be sacrificed to heaven and earth, Sheji and the tombs, and it is also sacrificed to the Taimiao." Although it is reasonable, it is actually an infringement of the prime minister's right to know, but Wang Anshi has no intention of making a fuss about such trivial matters.

Wang Anshi did not raise any objections, and Zhao Ji was in a better mood: "Twenty days ago, Menzhou won a great victory, and the officials and troops lightly took Jiaozhi Biansai. Presumably, the matter has reached the Fura River. ”

Wang Anshi also heard about the good news in Menzhou, but he felt that he still had to be careful: "You should also beware that Jiaozhi is in the clear field of the strong wall." At present, the official army is hundreds of miles deep into Jiaozhi, but except for Menzhou, it has not gone through a major war, which shows that the people of Jiaozhi must have a plan. ”

"Xianggong can rest assured that Zhang Dian is a meticulous person, and his son-in-law is even more meticulous. Moreover, there are Yan Da and Li Xin, both of whom are generals who can conquer and fight, so as not to make big mistakes. Zhao Ji chuckled, "Presumably, I will be able to send me the good news of the attack on Thang Long Mansion before March next year!" ”

Wang Anshi frowned imperceptibly, how could this battle be so easy!

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Li Changjie didn't expect Song Jun to move so fast, and directly set up a boat yard by the Fuliang River, and he could already see the new ship.

He thought that the Song people would try to use the sea ships, and although the Hepu port in Qinzhou was destroyed, the Panyu port in Guangzhou was still there. With a ship in hand, it is easy to transport grain, transport people, and even drive into the Fuliang River to make a ferry, especially after the fall of Yong'an Prefecture a few days ago, Li Changjie is even more so conjecturing.

At the mouth of the Fuliang River, he had already prepared a surprise for the Song people. Even if they use sailors from Guangzhou to the sea, outlaws who can fight pirates. As long as they are not familiar with the waterways of the Fuliang River Estuary, the ambush soldiers at the mouth of the river can still defeat them completely.

But the Song army on the other side actually gave up simple means and spent time building ships instead. With the ingenuity of Zhang Dian and Han Gang, if they could not build the ship before the rainy season came, they would never have to bother.

"Has this matter been confirmed?" Li Changjie personally questioned the sentinel who came back from the north shore to report the news.

The sentry sentry kowtowed and said, "Back to the words of the captain." It's been checked. The Song army was afraid that we would find out, so they hid the boat yard behind Ludang, a little above the mouth of the Luo River into the Fuliang River, where there were already several deep ponds, which were the places where the fishermen on the north bank took shelter from the wind. ”

"How is this possible!?" Ruan Tao, the commander in charge of the water division, immediately shouted from the side, "Iron nails, tung oil, hemp wadding, ropes, where do these shipbuilding materials come from?!" And where did the shipwright come from? ”

"Do the Song people lack these things? It doesn't take up much space, and it's easy to transport it from the north. There will be no shortage of shipwrights, and more than half of the shipwrights in Yong'an Prefecture are Han Chinese. Li Changjie shook his head, and at this time, it was inconvenient to reprimand the sailor, and asked: "What is the shape of the ships in the shipyard?" ”

The sentry sentry kowtowed violently: "The villain is incompetent, and the Song people's boat yard is heavily guarded, so they can't dive in." But there were a lot of people in the boat yard, and many wooden rafts were lowered from the upper reaches of the Luo River at night. ”

"Newly chopped wood can be used to build a ship? Even the beams and coffins should be left for three or five years and dried before they can be used, right? Li Changjie's staff asked with a frown. This is also common sense, whether it is Han people or Jiaozhi people, many people begin to look for good wood for coffins when they get older, often for more than ten years and decades, not to mention using fresh wood.

This time, it was Ruan Tao who helped explain: "It's just to build a ship with new wood, and if it's only going to be used for a month or two, it doesn't matter." However, such a ship is not big, and if it is built, the board will be squeezed out of the water as soon as it is out of the water. ”

"In other words, the Song people can only build small boats?" Li Changjie's eyes lit up.

"If they build a big ship of more than five zhang, they don't know when they will build the ship!" Ruan Tao said.

"The Song people will not fight hard with us on the river, if hundreds of ships cross the river overnight, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist with the ships of the sailors." Li Changjie's staff reminded, "The skilled craftsmen of the Song people are not slow. Looking at the way the Song people hid their ships deeply, they knew that they wanted to catch us off guard and would not fight a decisive battle with the sailors on the river."

Another of Li Changjie's cronies proposed: "Didn't you say that the Song people's shipyard was hidden behind Ludang? How about sending someone there to light a fire and burn all the fires in the shipyard? ”

"It's all the north wind blowing now!"

Li Changjie and the others discussed together, and they felt more and more that the Song people were really cunning. Ruan Tao sighed: "Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang, I can't imagine what happened before, it was actually a scam." ”

Just two days ago, when the courtiers of Jiaozhi heard how the Song army on the other side had intercepted a few unusable fishing boats from the fishermen, they laughed for a while. can only use the means of abduction and abduction to * fishing boats, and the Song people are indeed poor in skills. But now that I look at it, it turned out to be a complete disguise, an outright hoax. If Li Changjie hadn't kept an eye on it and sent someone to investigate carefully, maybe he would have really hidden it from the Song people.

"This way of truth and fiction cannot be compared with the Han people. Zhang Dian and Han Gang are both handsome ministers of the Song State, and their talents can only be produced by one out of tens of millions of people, "Li Changjie has suffered a big loss in the hands of Zhang Dian and Han Gang, so he has time to try his best to praise the two, and it seems that he is not defeated because of stupidity, "They can't do stupid things, the hijacking of ships is fake, and shipbuilding is real." ”

Li Changjie took a deep breath, and his eyes sharpened: "The shipyard must not be stayed." How many troops are guarding the shipyard? ”

"Captain Hui, there are four or five hundred people, and he should be a commander."

Ruan Tao was puzzled: "There are not many guards!" ”

"There are four or five hundred guards in a shipyard, and the news can be completely sealed, and no matter how many people there are, they can't hide." Li Changjie clenched his fists tightly with both hands, and repeated fiercely, "This boat yard must not stay!" ”