And Song Shenzong, who knows no one clearly, specializes in mediocre generals, and specializes in Western Xia, what is the result? If you don't conquer the battle, you won't win, and that can only be called a humiliating Quartet.

In the seventh year of Xining, the Song God Sect sent Han Zhen to negotiate with the Liao State, but he cut more than 600 miles of land.

In the eighth year of Xining, the Great Yue State located in the south sent heavy troops to invade the West Guangnan Road, except for the Yongzhou magistrate Su Mian who led the people to resist stubbornly, the other places in the south were basically surrendered to the wind.

In the ninth year of Xining, Guo Kui led an expedition of 300,000 troops to Jiaolu Li Qiande, and broke his army in the Battle of Fuliangjiang. However, because the forbidden army in the north did not adapt to the humid weather of the Great Yue Kingdom, more than half of the troops died of illness, and they had to accept the begging surrender of the Great Yue Kingdom and return to the court.

As a result, Yongzhou was slaughtered, and the people of Sanzhou were looted to Dayue State.

As for the Western Xia Kingdom, Song Shenzong has been pouring all his energy into dealing with it.

When he takes the initiative to attack, he rarely wins.

During the Xining period,

Battle of Xihe Road,

The reason why the Great Song Dynasty was able to conquer the Qingtang and Tubo and Jiaoguoluo regimes from the Shaanxi Road to the west, expand the land for more than 2,000 li, establish the Xihe River, and gradually began to occupy the strategic initiative in the Western Xia.

This is the personal credit of Wang Shao, a famous general of the Great Song Dynasty.

After Wang Shao went to the famous "Pingrong Ce", what kind of official position did Song Shenzong give Wang Shao - Qin Feng Road Jinglu driver Yiwen. To put it bluntly, he is a Bimawen-type fly official who wants no one and no power.

If it weren't for Wang Shao's personal ability, even if he changed to another person, he wouldn't be able to win Qingtang at all.

It was this that Wang Shao finally had a big conflict with Song Shenzong on the issue of dealing with the Qingtang Dynasty, and was finally turned into a magistrate. A generation of Confucian generals worked hard, but they ended up like this.

Five-way Vaxia

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, taking advantage of the civil strife in Western Xia,

The Great Song Kingdom launched the Battle of the Five Routes.

Because Song Shenzong was not worried about other generals, he appointed Gao Zunyu to supervise other people.

The result?

The capable eunuch didn't like him at all, and Li Xian guarded the Lanzhou City he captured, and he had no intention of meeting Gao Zunyu at all.

And the incompetent eunuchs and capable generals were miserable by this fight. Obviously, he was about to capture Lingzhou City, but because Gao Zunyu, who was favored by Song Shenzong, was jealous of his talents, he missed the opportunity and turned a battle that was about to be won into a big rout.

In this five-way battle of the summer, the culprit who turned from defeat to victory - Gao Zunyu, if it wasn't for Cai Daojinyan, he would have just been relegated to Jinghu North Road, and he would have been pampered in that place where Bianliang City was not too far away.

didn't deal with the crime of Gao Zunyu's defeated army, is it really because this guy is the uncle of the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao?

In fact, it was not this willingness at all, the reason why Song Shenzong did not deal with Gao Zunyu was completely because of his own face.

and that Xu Xi, many people, including Cai Dao, have repeatedly warned Song Shenzong that they must not use this scholar who can only play tricks to interfere in the military. However, Song Shenzong still insisted on going his own way, and without the defeat of Yongle City in history, Xu Xi was placed in Lanzhou City. This time, although Cai Dao secretly let Shen Kuo lose his official position, he let him avoid the guilt of the defeat of Yongle City.

The result?

Naturally, there was still no good result, and the planting was also miserable that time. He's in a lot of pain!

Lanzhou City, which was in charge of guarding the town, was lost by Xu Xi, a nerd.

At this point, the only remaining victory in the summer of the Five Roads was also completely buried by Song Shenzong's god-like ability to recognize people.

In this regard alone, Song Shenzong and Song Renzong have very similar things in common. However, during the reign of Song Renzong, the war between Song Renzong and Western Xia suffered a very big defeat in defense.

Gao Tao's strategy of recuperation is indeed beneficial to the people, but it is a prerequisite.

The wind and rain are smooth.

Especially in the northern region, only one season of grain can be cultivated in the fields every year, and if the wind and rain are good, the common people can live well even if they have no land.

However, once a rare natural disaster occurred, coupled with the concerted efforts of local officials, they embezzled daily taxes and disaster relief food allocated by the imperial court. In this way, it will be difficult for the policy of resting with the people to be effective.

Moreover, if there is not enough food in the warehouse in Bianliang City in the Great Song Dynasty and the inner treasury belonging to the royal family to cope with the disaster year, then let alone live and work in peace and contentment, the economy is prosperous, the world is well-off, and political clarity has become empty talk.

This world is empty, it is because of the existence of Cai Dao that Song Shenzong implemented the plan to hide the wealth from the people, so that the food and property obtained in Wang Anshi's reform did not leave too much, and the local treasury and Chang Ping were hollowed out by the Shuo Rat plan he led in secret.

In this way, the drought for three consecutive years has once again brought the Great Song Dynasty, which was originally financially good, back to the early days of Song Shenzong's succession.

To put it simply, everything is back to zero.

This time, it's the real zero.

During this period of time, the granary belonging to the household department has long been unable to make ends meet. However, the food and property borrowed by Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu from the inner treasury were not only not returned in time, but also owed more and more.

Anyway, looking at it like that, even if the entire Central Plains has another big scene like the six years of Yuanfeng, it will not be able to repay the arrears to the inner treasury at all.

This undoubtedly made Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu, two ministers with poor reputations, worse among officials and ordinary people.

Moreover, even the reputation of the Empress Dowager Gao has been implicated and affected to a certain extent.

After all, although Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu became prime ministers after Sima Guang summoned them to Beijing, on the surface, these two people were indeed Gao Taotao's own will, and they were also official positions appointed by her personally. Moreover, Sima Guang had been so angry that he vomited blood as early as the eighth year of Yuanfeng, and he had been lying on the sickbed unable to speak, let alone govern.

However, Lü Gongzhu was not worried that after his death, later generations would change his policy. The person who took over his position was Lu Dafang, who had a great reputation under the bed of Bishui before.

In the third year of Yuanyou, Lu Gong abdicated the throne, and Lu Dafang was appointed as the left servant of Shangshu and the servant of the door, and promoted the compilation of the "Records of Shenzong".

In the fourth year of Yuanyou, Lu Gong died of illness on March 17.

In the spring of the same year, the Gyeonggi region and the Hebei region of the Great Song Dynasty were once again hit by drought, although the area and degree of drought in these two places were not as good as last year, but the Empress Dowager Gao was completely at a loss, and the conservative minister Wen Yan finally couldn't resist the pressure and took the initiative to resign.

Because, in the more than four years of their rule, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu can be said to have made no achievements at all, especially in the Gyeonggi region, since they took power, it can be said that they have suffered various disasters and famines every year.

The heavy snowstorm on Hedong Road in the eighth year of Yuanfeng and the drought in the first year of Yuanyou, at that time, these natural disasters were reversed, and Li Xian, Cai Qu and Zhang Dian carried the black pot for them, and the subjects of the world could still understand the hardships of their governance. However, from the winter of the first year of Wonbong, Gyeongshi has been plagued by drought, and the people of Gyeonggi are particularly impressed by this.

The only time Kyoshi did not suffer from drought was the third year of Yuanyou, but natural disasters were not only droughts.