Chapter 233 Poison Scheme

"Damn! Children are really deceitful! The angry old man is also! As soon as he entered the mansion, Zhang Shixun was furious and shouted angrily.

"Dong Weng, what's wrong?" Outside the hall, a scholar in white walked in calmly.

Zhang Shixun turned around and saw the scholar, calming his anger a little, but still gritted his teeth and said, "It's not the blame for the prince!" Ding is worried, and he actually said that the scholar misled the country! Those who destroyed the Song Dynasty, Guo Quan, Li Weiye! forced the dignified Yanzhou Zhizhou to go to the capital to be an idle official, which seems to be flat, but it is actually degraded! ”

The scholar's surname is Nangong, his name is Tang, and his words are not good, this name is taken from the "Analects? A sentence said by Confucius in Ji's "Ji". "Seeing the good is like not being able to see the good, and seeing the bad is like exploring the soup."

Nangong Tang is not only Zhang Shixun's staff, but also Zhang Shixun's descendant, and his mother is Zhang Shixun's cousin. In other words, Zhang Shixun is Nangong Tang's cousin. However, Nangong Tang is arrogant, and he does not show his relationship with Zhang Shixun, and usually does not call Zhang Shixun his uncle, but Dong Weng.

Zhang Shixun also appreciates Nangong Tang, but what gives Zhang Shixun a headache is that Nangong Tang is good at everything, but he is too proud! It doesn't matter if you're arrogant, but it's not okay if you're arrogant! Then it is easy to offend colleagues, just like Fan Sarcasm, you must be talented, capable, and have a background. How's that? It's not because he's too arrogant and too bohemian, but he, who was once famous in the government and the opposition, is still fishing in Jiangxi!

Therefore, Nangong Tang is not young, forty out of thirty, but Zhang Shixun has been pressing Nangong Tang, and after taking the state examination, he was not allowed to participate in the provincial examination of the spring boudoir, and he stayed by his side and called a staff member, which is really an experience.

Nangong Tang is smart, although Zhang Shixun seems to be annoyed by Guo Quan's experience, but Nangong Tang does not agree, and guesses calmly: "I don't know the geometry of Songzhou County, Dong Weng is so annoyed, but he is friendly with Guo Quan?" ”

Without waiting for Zhang Shixun to answer, Nangong Tang had already shook his head and said, "No, the student has only recently heard of Guo Quan's name, if Dong Weng is friendly with him, how can the student still hear of his name?" It seems that Dong Weng is annoyed that the drunkard does not mean to drink! From the student's point of view, but the strength of the king of Changsha? Although he is worried, he still intervenes in the punishment of officials? I think it's worrying, Ding is still like this when he is worried, I'm afraid that in June this year, it will be difficult to deal with the king of Changsha! ”

Unconsciously, Zhao Yu has been filial piety for two and a half years!

With the arrival of this period, the calm court also began to have an undercurrent. The officials of the clan faction began to rush to each other, and the old ministers of the palace, Cao Feiliang and Song Xing, who were born as subordinate officials of the palace, were naturally indispensable.

As the prime minister of the imperial court, how could Zhang Shixun be indifferent? Since he had broken his mind to Nangong Tang, Zhang Shixun did not hide it, his angry face suddenly turned into melancholy, sighed, and said: "It's not good, the old man has roundworms in his belly!" The king of Changsha has been filial piety for three years, and there is no way to change the tranquility on Songshan Mountain! Being a person and doing things is still so sharp, the old man confessed, and he was a little frightened in his heart! ””

Nangong Tang said disdainfully: "Dong Weng is too afraid of this King of Changsha? No matter how powerful he is, he is just a gentleman who comes out with a golden key, and he will not be restrained at all, such a brave and unscrupulous person, if it were not for the generosity of today's saints, he would have been stripped of his title and demoted to a concubine! ”

Zhang Shixun shook his head and said: "Although the old man doesn't like the king of Changsha, I have to say that his ability is very great!" Songshan guards filial piety, but also to raise hope. Now many scholars in Henan respect the king of Changsha. Coupled with the previous blessing shown by the disaster relief on Jingdong East Road, once the king of Changsha returns to the dynasty, he will be able to get the scholars of Henan and Shandong to return to the heart, and officials from these two places can also be used! ”

Nangong Tang sneered: "Dong Weng is so afraid, what's so difficult to deal with him?" ”

"Will the plan be released?" Zhang Shixun was a little unconvinced when he heard this, the old man couldn't deal with that little fox at his age, you Nangong Tang was too arrogant, right?

"Just send it to Lingnan! The weather in Lingnan is hot, there is no snow all year round, the miasma is pervasive, and the iron-beaten men can't stay up for long! Dong Weng still remembers the Lingnan Forbidden Army that returned in the second year of Tianxi? ”

Although Zhang Shixun is old, he has no memory, and he quickly remembers it. "Oh! The forbidden army that is not good at speaking, but the two battalions of forbidden troops sent out because of the chaos in Dazhong Xiangfu for nine years? ”

Nangong Tang bowed slightly, and threw his schoolbag arrogantly: "The fang, also known as the fang, the brute. It is a branch of the barbarians in the south, and it is recorded in the New Tang Dynasty Book of the Student Machine. 'There are fangs between Rong and Lu, and they live in the valley and forests, more than hundreds of miles. The vulgar likes to rebel, fights with a license, serves the chief as the king, and calls the Po Neng, planting flags before and after. ’”

After a pause, Nangong Tang continued: "Up to now, the fangs are not only active in Rongzhou, Luzhou and other places. Jinghu South Road, Guangnan West Road, and Guangnan East Road are all abnormally active. Especially in the Huazhou area, the local fangs are the most rampant, and when they are strong, even the county town dares to besiege it! At the beginning, it was just because of the appearance of the fangs besieging Wuchuan County, and the soldiers and horses of the Guangnan West Road were sent to fight against them. A forbidden army was specially transferred from Henan to the south, and two battalions were full of foot soldiers, just over a thousand people! ”

Zhang Shixun nodded thoughtfully and said, "When I came back, I remember that there were only seven hundred people!" The loss is not light! ”

Nangong Tang sneered: "Dong Weng, you don't know anything, there were indeed seven hundred people when you came back, but these seven hundred people are not all the one thousand people who went there at the beginning, and more than two hundred of them were recruited on the way, in order to cover up the heavy casualties." ”

Zhang Shixun was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "The fangs are so powerful? If the old man is not mistaken, that forbidden army is a veteran battalion that participated in the Battle of Lanyuan, otherwise the official family would not have sent them! ”

Nangong Tang shook his head and said, "It's not what Dong Weng thinks!" The students also learned some about the situation at that time from the idle chatter of the old soldiers, and summarized it by the students. I have come up with some experience, the reason why the damage was so great in the first place was not that the fang was too powerful, but that the Lingnan miasma was too powerful! The weather in Lingnan is hot, and people who have been in the wild for a long time will get hot and faint on the ground. At the beginning, I didn't know about this situation, and most of the soldiers who stood guard fainted because of this, and by the time the soldiers who took over arrived, it was already too late, so no less than thirty people died due to heat and evil! When they went to the dense forest to fight against the fangs, they were bitten by poisonous springs, miasma, and poisonous snakes and poisonous insects. ”

Zhang Shixun frowned, pulled the topic back to its original position, and said: "Lingnan is so powerful, although the old man is a little surprised, it is also reasonable. It's just that it's not good, what is the purpose of this word? ”

"Although the thieves are not ashamed, they are also physically strong! The king of Changsha thought that he was a gentleman, and his body had already been dragged down by beauty, so sending him to Lingnan was naturally gone! Nangong Tang didn't hide his intentions, and said his poisonous plan very clearly.

Zhang Shixun smiled when he heard this, and his eyes were full of crying and laughing. "Not good! You are still tender, the bad situation in Lingnan you mentioned, the king of Changsha may not know. It's just that the environment in Lingnan is harsh but everyone knows it, and almost all of those who go there are degraded, with the respect of the king of Changsha, and there are several years of hope. It can be said that unless it is a major crime of rebellion, it is unlikely that the king of Changsha will go to Lingnan! ”

Nangong Tang looked at Zhang Shixun seriously, and said word by word: "Hat! Hunt! ”

When Zhang Shixun heard this, his heart moved, and he said: "It seems that there is a hurry to send Guangnan West Road to make trouble!" ”

Nangong Tang smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Yes, this is the thing!" ”

However, Zhang Shixun immediately frowned slightly, and said: "Although there is this report, there are many tribes of this fang, one there, one here, and sometimes hundreds of people dare to make trouble." If only a few hundred people are in rebellion, I am afraid that they will not be able to convince the official family to send the king of Changsha to Guangnan! ”

At this time, Nangong Tang shook his hands and shook his hands, spread his hands, and said indifferently: "Who knows how big the rebellion is?" It's really not big enough, just hint at the officials of Quang Nam West Road! Students remember that the deputy envoy of Guangnan West Road seems to be Dong Weng's world friend, right? Send someone to hint at him, and after the matter is completed, he will be transferred back to Beijing as an official. Thinking about it, even if it is a flat tone, he is also willing to do it. ”

Zhang Shixun looked at Nangong Tang a little dumbfounded, shook his head and said: "That is, you are not good, you are the nephew of the old man, and if you change other staff members, the old man will immediately drive him away!" Talking so casually, making suggestions, doing a reason, but without a tail. ”

Shaking his head, Zhang Shixun said: "Proud! Too proud! ”

Nangong Tang didn't think so, and said proudly: "That's the case!" Offend or something, this strategy students have said almost everything, and there are only details left. Why do we need to use our talents for such a thing that can be done by such a vulgar person? In vain! ”

Zhang Shixun was speechless, even if this is really the case, don't say it so directly! Wouldn't it be wonderful to be clever and use language to guide Dong Weng to add the following words and flatter them a little more?

There was really no way to Nangong Tang, Zhang Shixun waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" Let's go! Let's go see your opera! ”

Nangong Tang didn't regret or be annoyed, he was still casual, with his hands behind his back, he crossed the threshold with his head held high, and went to the opera theater in the back garden.

Because the folds and official documents could not be taken home, in order to find the official documents and folds sent by Guangnan West Road, Zhang Shixun also made a special trip back to Shangshu Province, and he really found it. It's a little late, it's been more than a month ago, but it's not a rebellion, it's a rebellion.

Don't look at the Northern Song Dynasty is quite big, because the five dynasties and ten kingdoms caused China to be ununified for hundreds of years, and the minority forces in the south have risen, and now the Bai people in Yunnan have established the Dali State. In Guizhou, western Guangxi, southern Sichuan and other areas, where there are high mountains and dense forests, these ethnic minorities are very powerful. The Song Dynasty was unwilling to spend manpower and material resources to attack these poor mountains and rivers, so it set up many feudal states here.

Bondage, Ma Luotou also! Morning glory, the reins of the cow!

To put it bluntly, this feudal state is equivalent to a small feudal vassal state, which is hereditary. If you want to send troops to help, negotiate, and give money and silver rewards afterwards. The annual tax means what it means.

It seems to be good, but in fact it is not, these southern states are all made up of barbarians, and there are often rebellions because the greedy Han people are rich, or because they are strong. The imperial court doesn't have a very good way to deal with it, and the whip can't reach it! Therefore, send troops to crusade, if you are soft, forget it, and if you don't accept it. Just kill, kill the chief, and then choose someone from the tribe to be the new chief, but it can be regarded as a change of soup and not a change of medicine.

Some people wonder, why not annex? How to annex it! The Han people are reluctant to go to that place with poor mountains and bad waters.

This rebellion was caused by the Anhua rebellion in the northwest of Guangnan West Road, bordering Rongzhou and Yizhou, where the Song Dynasty established ten prefectures. If you just look at the numbers, I'm afraid it will surprise people, Jingdong East Road is so big, it is just seven states and one army, but in fact, it is not. In order to encircle these southern barbarians, the Song Dynasty set up a lot of fetters and states, known as the 123 states. As for how many, seriously, even officials in the south don't necessarily know.

Because the barbarians will fight each other, maybe a big tribe will split into two, although it is divided, but the strength is still strong, so the imperial court canonized two more states.

And the establishment of these fetters is also very arbitrary, there are two or three thousand people, and the imperial court will also set up one. Therefore, the combined population of these ten prefectures may not be as large as the population of the county below Qingzhou.

Zhang Shixun's eyes rolled, he knew this matter, and there were quite a few officials in the court who knew about it, but he didn't know if he wanted to come to the official house! Because the number of rebels in these southern regions is not large, there is no need to send a forbidden army to it, and the local soldiers and horses can solve it. Because of the twists and turns of the reporting process that are reported, these twists and turns are generally the formalities of the Shangshu Province and the Privy Council, and the top leaders of the East and West Mansions know it.

It's not that it's hidden from the emperor, but that such a matter is too small, and the emperor has more state affairs to deal with than this. Besides, this matter is over, what is the point of giving it to the emperor? Award people according to their contributions? This matter is not what the Privy Council Secretary and Shangshu Province said after consultation, is it possible that the emperor himself will ponder it?

In this matter, it is possible to fool the officials. And it's not difficult, because of Guo Quan's matter, the already not very good reputation of the king of Changsha in the circle of scholars and doctors has become even worse, and several prime ministers will be willing to pretend to be deaf and dumb when they think about it, and even say a few words of echo behind their backs.

Looking at it again, it turned out that as early as last year, this Anhuaman had already made a rebellion, but at that time, Zhang Shixun had not yet taken the position, and it was Lu Yijian who gave instructions to let the Guangnan West Road Division rectify the soldiers and horses in Rongzhou and Yizhou, and quell the rebellion of Anhuaman.

It didn't take long for Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian to attack each other, and Song Renzong had a headache and the surname Suo came to play fifty boards each. When I took office by myself, I took over a lot of things, so naturally I couldn't take care of this matter.

Zhang Shixun thought about it seriously, and remembered that he seemed to have seen it at the time, but he didn't care, thinking that An Huaman would be pacified soon. After all, those barbarians are armed with weapons made of inferior iron, or even stone and bone, and well-equipped officers and soldiers can often be used as ten. This chaotic thing, that's the watermelon in my arms - nine out of ten!

Looking at it again, Zhang Shixun was surprised! "Huh! How so? ”

Li Ruogu, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, heard the voice, walked into the ministry, and said with a smile: "Yingguo Gong is really diligent!" But why worry about things? The official was outside, as if he heard a surprised sound! ”

Although Zhang Shixun is the prime minister, he was just named the Duke of Yingguo by Song Renzong last year, and his status is very high.

Turning his head to look over, he saw that it was Li Ruogu, Zhang Shixun did not hide it, he also pondered taking advantage of this time to reveal some of his own strategies to win Li Ruogu's support. Although the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion is a tired and tired official, it is also a very good springboard to master the major affairs of the capital. And Li Ruogu can serve as the governor of the government, and he also serves as Kaifeng Mansion, which shows how generous the holy family is. He's quite medium-sized, and he's quite heavy!

"Alas! It's not this one, it was sent three days ago. The old man didn't care at the time, he didn't want to take a closer look today, but something big happened! Zhang Shixun said half sadly and half pretendedly.

Li Ruogu became even more curious, quickened his pace and walked to Zhang Shixun's side, looking down. He couldn't help but let out an exclamation. "Huh! Even Zhang Huaizhi was killed! County Lieutenant Zhang Qing, Zhizhai Cao Hongli and other six people were all killed in battle! The dignified Guangnan West Road Terracotta Division is now actually letting a signing hall take care of it? ”

Signature hall, a low-level official with the surname of the staff.

Zhang Shixun said with a serious face: "No, this piece of music actually said that Anhua was familiar with the situation of the official army, and even led the army into the forest by fraud, and burned it, and the 100,000 army was killed in all directions, so it was defeated!" Isn't that unusual? When did the barbarians have such wisdom? And the ...... of a hundred thousand troops"

Saying this, Zhang Shixun shook his head with a disapproving expression.

The sum of these old and young men and women in Anhua is estimated to be less than 100,000 people! Do these officials of Guangnan West Road really dare to brag, but they all treat the old man as a fool?

Li Ruogu guessed: "This official looks, I'm afraid that the officials of Guangnan West Road are afraid of being punished, so they are!" Nakabushi is right, but I think it's arrogant. As for the 100,000 army......"

Li Ruogu smiled and said slightly teasingly: "This Anhua man can have 10,000 strong enough to be powerful!" 100,000 troops, it seems that Guangnan West Road needs to be rectified! ”

Zhang Shixun put down the fold and said, "That's it! How can the officials of Guangnan West Road cheat and put it aside, and now the top priority is to send someone to Guangnan West Road to preside over the overall situation! Don't give Anhuaman the opportunity to capture one or two county seats, or even state cities, then it's troublesome! I'm afraid that this will take advantage of the opportunity! ”

Li Ruogu's face also became solemn, and he nodded: "This thing is right!" Well, but this official is not very familiar with military affairs, so it is good to call the three ministers of Shangxi Mansion to discuss the matter of Guangnan West Road! ”

Zhang Shixun touched the beard on his chin and said in a deep voice: "Actually, in this matter, the old man suddenly has a personal choice, but it is just ......"

Li Ruogu was surprised and asked, "What is there to hide from Ying Guogong?" ”

Zhang Shixun sighed and said, "I'm not afraid of Li Gong's laughter, this person is chosen, and the old man is actually a little selfish!" ”

Hearing that there was selfishness, Li Ruogu was unhappy, but he didn't say anything, after all, everyone is inevitably selfish. And I don't know who Zhang Shixun wants to recommend, and Li Ruogu is not good at saying anything about this matter. If that person had some ability, wouldn't he have offended Zhang Shixun in vain?

That's more than worth the cost!

PS: The update is late! But the word count has not gone down! Five thousand words, all the debts owed have been paid! Strive for more tomorrow!

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