Lu Gong walked into the Wende Hall with a gloomy face, the Wende Palace, also known as the Outer Dynasty, is slightly smaller than the main hall Daqing Palace, but the area is enough to accommodate more than a thousand people. Behind the palace gate, there is a chair at the slightly southeast point, which is the seat of the royal history. According to the etiquette system of this dynasty, among the civil and military ministers who participated in the court, only one of them could sit, and it was the righteousness of sitting alone. The courtiers of the Han Dynasty had three solitary sits - Shang Shuling, Si Li Xiaowei, and Yu Shi Zhongcheng - and now it has been handed down for thousands of years, and only one person is left in the Yu Shi.

Lu Gongzhu stood in front of the chair, and the two palace attendants stood in two corners of the hall. The three of them stood still, the whip sounded, and at the edge of the hall, the musicians began to blow the sheng and ring the bell, playing the shao music praising the holy monarch and the virtuous ministers, and the cabinet officials sang loudly to the music. The two prime ministers, Zeng Gongliang and Chen Shengzhi, held the wat board in their hands, led the ministers to enter the hall one after another according to the roll call and shift, and stood still under His Majesty.

The whip sounded again, and there was movement behind the hall. First, two living quarters came out, they were the attendants who recorded the words and deeds of the Son of Heaven, and they stood in the two corners of the hall. This was followed by a group of eunuchs from the Yellow Gate holding fans, swords and other ritual weapons. When the Yellow Gate stood in its place, the melody of the sacred music suddenly rose up to welcome the Son of Heaven.

Zhao Xu, who was in his early twenties, walked out of the back of the palace slowly, wearing an ochre yellow robe and a flat-legged head, which was the dress of the Son of Heaven. The young emperor's face looked paler, and his appearance was handsome according to the aesthetic concept of the Song people, and he had a mustache at the corner of his lips, and he was more stable, but his body was too thin, not the appearance of longevity.

The Son of Heaven sits, and the ministers bow down.

Everything is a repetition of the previous one, and the next time will not make any difference. Zhao Ji sat on the throne, bored waiting for the court meeting ceremony that Yueyue had to repeat to end early.

He was concerned about the national economy, and he was also concerned about the war, but this set of cumbersome ceremonies was something he did not care about.

Will the even-loss method affect people's livelihoods? What is the status of preparations for the implementation of the BIBS Loan? The farmland interest treaty has just been implemented, will there be anything wrong with it?

Has the battle situation in Suide City in the northwest stabilized? Did the thieves who gathered on Jingyuan Road retreat or not? Did the western thieves who attacked Gangu City on Qinfeng Road make a comeback?

There is also Wang Shao, who said that he was going to open the border river, but he didn't do anything this year, and now it's the end of the year, and he suddenly came over with a letter of recommendation, what does it mean?

Zhao Ji, who wants to be the king of Zhongxing, worries about political affairs every day. Since the founding of the country, the Great Song Dynasty has been far less powerful than the Han and Tang Dynasties. The northern Khitan looked at the Central Plains and repeatedly invaded the south, and Emperor Taizong's two northern expeditions were defeated, and he died of arrow sores left by the Gaoliang River.

When he arrived in Renzong, the Khitan was fed with 500,000 silver silk coins every year, and it seemed that the world was peaceful, but the western thief Yuan Hao raised the flag of rebellion again. The three wars were all defeated, and the last one allowed the Western Thief to establish a country in Lingwu. What was the solution given by the famous ministers of the Renzong Dynasty? Use 200,000 silver silk to buy back a verbal surrender of the western thief!

The king humiliated his ministers to death, but he wanted to call the barbarians in the north brothers, and give the people's fat and people's ointment to the insatiable western thieves, and his courtiers were not ashamed of this, but were proud. It is said that the use of small goods to save the people from the suffering of misery is the work of the Holy King.

Zhao Ji sneered. is worthy of being born as a Jinshi, there is always something to say! If they are as talented as they say in their hands, and they exterminate the two thieves as soon as possible, how can the people be miserable?!

Renzong can endure it, Yingzong can endure it, but he Zhao Ji can't bear it. Han Qi is old, Fu Bi is old, Wen Yanbo is also old, and the famous ministers left by the Renzong Dynasty have no sharpness, but they only know that Lu Dao wants him not to talk about military affairs for 20 years, but let him endure the shame of devouring his heart alone.

Fortunately, there is a Wang Anshi.

Now there are many courtiers in the court who impeached Wang Anshi, and even many of them praised and recommended Wang Anshi earlier, such as Fu Bi and Lu Gong. Can there be someone like Wang Anshi who can give a strategy for enriching the country and strengthening the army?

No! Sima Guang didn't! Wen Yanbo didn't either!

Zhao Ji looked down at the Wende Palace, the two classes of civil and military who stood neatly like a Shinto stone statue. To realize his ideals, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, but there was only one Wang Anshi.

The ceremony was still going on in order. Several court officials who were transferred to Beijing came out to thank him, and several officials who had to sue the old came out to say goodbye. There were no surprises or surprises, and the morning meeting ended like this. The hundred officials came out from high to low, and when they arrived outside the Wende Gate, they returned to the public hall, only the two government governors, the three envoys in charge of finance, and the two officials with the title of Zhizhi Yu stayed behind and walked towards the Chongzheng Hall at the back of the imperial city.

The Shuowang Dynasty Meeting is only a ceremonial court meeting, and four or five hundred people gather in the Wende Hall of the Outer Dynasty, what political affairs can be discussed? The place where the state affairs are really handled is the vertical arch hall of the inner court, where only the chief and some important courtiers participate, and the Chongzheng hall, where the Son of Heaven 'reads' after the court meeting.

Today is the day of the Shuowang Dynasty, so he did not live often, and after the court meeting, Zhao Ji went directly to the Chongzheng Hall to deal with government affairs. There were two governments attending the meeting, and the court affairs that required the approval of the Son of Heaven were reported one by one. Among them, Zhao Ji is most concerned about the battle situation in the northwest. The Hengshan offensive with Suide as the core and the Hehuang land reclamation with Qin Feng as the backing are related to the success or failure of the future Xiaxia, and there is no room for loss.

The battle in Suide City, located on the Yanyan Road, has subsided, and the party's plan to use a few abandoned old villages to exchange for Suide has also failed, and the war situation in the Hengshan area is now tilting towards the side of the Great Song Dynasty. As soon as Hengshan was lost, the southeast barrier of Western Xia was destroyed, and even important recruiting places would be lost, and from then on, the Hanhai natural danger would be shared by Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, just like the southern partial security regime that lost the Huai River basin and the Yangtze River natural danger was not enough to rely on.

Empress Dowager Liang, who was in the Western Xia Dynasty, and her brother Liang Yi, who served as the prime minister, also saw this very clearly. He learned the practice of the Great Song Dynasty and began to build a walled fort in the north of Suide City, and there were eight of them! In vain, they tried to use a group of walled forts to offset the strategic advantage that the Song army gradually grasped in the Suide area.

Zhao Ji was very worried about this, not only stepped up the transportation of grain to Yanyan Road, but even transferred one of the only few generals in the country who can fight habitually, Guo Kui, to Yanyan Road, and served as the governor of Yanzhou [now Yan'an] and the pacification envoy of Yanyan Road, and fully presided over the affairs of Suide City. Guo Kui once served as a member of the Privy Council, and in recent decades, except for Di Qing, who served as a privy envoy, this is the highest position that a military general can reach, and it can be regarded as having the qualifications to serve as a ruling officer. The transfer of Guo Kui to Yan Yan, Zhao Ji's attention to Suidecheng can be seen.

Zhao Ji was concerned about the situation in Shaanxi, and he did not ask the privy envoys Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongbi; did not ask Prime Minister Zeng Gongliang and Chen Shengzhi, but asked Wang Anshi directly: "Wang Qing, can there be a new report at Yanyan Road and Suide City?" ”

Wang Anshi came out of the class and replied: "General Guo Kui, his people are in one day, and Yan Yan'an is one day, and His Majesty doesn't have to worry too much. ”

How could Zhao Ji not be worried, the secret report that Yan Yanlu had received from him made him worry. Most of them are appointed by eunuchs, and some are selected from the Son of Heaven's side, and the credibility of their secret reports is higher than that of the local officials: "But Guo Kui is not in harmony with the seeds." Now that he has just recovered from Suizhou, Guo Kui said to people that he was a madman, and he would use it in vain to use his family history, and he would make a mistake. The generals are not in harmony, how to use the soldiers? ”

"Guo Kui is old and acts steadily. The planting is in the right year, and the edge is flourishing. The two act unevenly, and it is difficult for them to reconcile, Guo Kui does not like to plant, which is human nature. Your Majesty need not worry. ”

In the battle for the generals of Yan Yanlu, Wang Anshi did not hesitate to stand on the side of the planters. Guo Kui is not bad, but the person who opened the situation in Suide is a kind of man, his person is brave and strategic, and his father Shiheng has a prestige in Yanyan Road. Wang Anshi is convinced that in time, it is not Guo Kui, a veteran who has lost his spirit, but a new talent like a seed.

"Your Majesty, Guo Kuixiang is known for knowing people. At the beginning, Ge Huaimin's fame spread far and wide, and no one praised him, but Guo Kui said that he was "happy and lucky, brave and unplanned", and the consequences were the defeat of Dingchuan Village. It has its own reasons for talking about the success or failure of people, and it should not be regarded as a martial artist to hold grudges. "Since Wang Anshi has supported Chong Ge, the privy envoy Wen Yanbo naturally wants to support Guo Kui. Although Guo Kui opposed his proposal to return Suide, and also exposed the conspiracy of Western Xia to exchange several abandoned old villages such as Saimen for Suide, which made Wen Shumi embarrassed, but in order to attack Wang Anshi, who supported Chong Ge, he couldn't care so much.

Wen Yanbo seemed to be reasonable, and Zhao Ji turned his head to look at Wang Anshi again.

Wang Anshi retorted: "When Guo Kui was in Yanzhou, he had a disagreement with Chong Shiheng because of the fight between the Zhongyi Society and the Qiang people attached to it. How can it be said that there are no old grudges? ”

"There is such a thing...... Zhao Ji heard it for the first time, he pondered for a while, and asked Wang Anshi for advice: "Wang Qing, in your opinion, should you transfer the seed to another way?" ”

Wang Anshi shook his head: "Guo Kui is old-fashioned, although he has old grievances, he should stop at words, and he will not harm the public because of his personal interests." Guo Kui had insight into the treacherous conspiracy of the western thieves before, and advised to exchange Suide for Saimen and Anyuan's two abandoned villages, and the Privy Council has not yet decided on a reward. In the humble opinion of the minister, if His Majesty personally issued an edict to praise him, he would send a minister to Yanzhou in the name of reward, and secretly admonish him, and he should have nothing to do. ”

Wang Anshi's words were knocked out again and again, and the two mistakes of the Privy Council were dragged out, blocking Wen Yanbo with nothing to say, not opposing, let alone agreeing. And Zhao Ji is still young, he has only been on the throne for three years, and he can't see through the turbulent undercurrent between the two important ministers, he only feels that Wang Anshi's handling method takes into account the face of the veteran Guo Kui, and can make him vigilant, which is indeed feasible, and said: "Just follow Wang Qing's words." ”

ps: Hengshan Pioneer and Tuobian Hehuang are both the strategic plans of the Song people in Shaanxi in the early years of Xining, and the different strategies gathered in the same area have a deep influence on each other, and they are also necessary background descriptions. Moreover, Guo Kui and Chong Ge are also two important figures in the later text, which need to be mentioned first. So Han San is still resting.

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