A spark can start a prairie fire. This phrase could not be more appropriate for the peasant uprisings of any era. Wang Xiaobo took advantage of the reaction time of the imperial court and quickly occupied Qingcheng, Pengshan and Qiongzhou. The team is constantly expanding, and the trend of burning the prairie is gradually becoming a prairie fire. Due to the policy pursued by the Northern Song Dynasty of strong cadres and weak branches, the strongest military force was the forbidden army around Gyeonggi, then the army on the northern border, and finally the box army stationed in various places. Coupled with the implementation of the more military law, many of the troops stationed in Shu now do not know where they were rotated, and the generals of Shu are not familiar with these armies at all. There is simply no effective command. Under the interweaving of these two factors, the official family was unable to resist the pace of the rebel army, and since the beginning of the uprising, the official family has been repeatedly defeated and lost its territory. At this time, the imperial court had not yet come up with specific countermeasures, because they were struggling with the choice of candidates for counterinsurgency. At the beginning, someone proposed Li Jilong, who is now basically the first military general of the Great Song Dynasty. But the question is what if Li Jilong is transferred to quell the rebellion and the Liao State attacks? Some people also raised Yang Yanzhao, the problem is that Yang Yanzhao guards Yanmen Pass, which is also a heavy responsibility, and it is not easy to transfer easily when no one can be found. And what about Cao Can (Cao Bin's eldest son)? Similarly, it is not advisable to be stationed in the north. In short, all those who could fight were stationed in the north or northwest, and no one could be easily transferred. Since the generals in the north can't be mobilized, can we find those who have taken a back seat? Now there are only two trustworthy generals left in the second line, one is Cao Bin and the other is Zhao Weiji. The problem is that neither of these two Zhao Guangyi wants to use it. Cao Bin was already over sixty years old at this time, and Zhao Guangyi was very afraid that if this person made any mistakes on the battlefield, then there would only be more troubles. And Zhao Weiji, because of his identity, Zhao Guangyi didn't want to use him. But the problem is that without these two people, there is really no one available. Just when Zhao Guangyi was worried, Li Fang stood up and relieved him. "Back to Your Majesty, Cao Shizhong and King Wu Yue can't actually be appointed at this time. Cao Shizhong was suffering from illness at this time and had been bedridden for a long time. And King Wu Yue is said to have gone to sea, and he is not in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. As soon as Li Fang's words came out, Zhao Guangyi was happy, you see, it's not that I don't need the two of them, it's that the two of them can't use it for the time being, let's think about other candidates. Although Zhao Guangyi is happy, but the ministers are worried, the only two people who can be mobilized are now unavailable, doesn't it mean that things are back to square one? At this time, Cheng Zhangshu, the secretary who had cheated Zhao Guangyi once before, stood up and came up with a bad idea: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reason why Wang Xiaobo and other rebels were able to win so many victories before was because the military power in Shu was not centralized, not because my Great Song officers and soldiers were incompetent. The lack of concentration of military power made it impossible for the generals of Shu to concentrate their forces to crusade against the rebels, so that the rebels were able to defeat our Great Song official army individually. Therefore, it is better for Your Majesty to choose a trustworthy person among the guards of Shudi, unify the military power of Shudi, and let him lead the troops to quell the rebellion, I think it is enough. Zhang Shu's point of view seems to be very reasonable at first glance, but it does not stand up to scrutiny. How could it be a defeat caused by the lack of concentration of military power. When Wang Xiaobo raised his army, there were only more than 100 people, didn't he still take Qingcheng, the defenders of Qingcheng at that time were more than ten times more than Wang Xiaobo's men, and they couldn't be beaten. Moreover, if the army is not transferred for reinforcements, even if the military power of Shu is unified, the generals will not be able to transfer troops to form a force to suppress bandits, because all localities still need to be stationed, and there is no extra force to be transferred. But the problem is that Zhao Guangyi didn't think of this level at this time, because he still looked down on these peasant rebels from the bottom of his heart. This has nothing to do with Zhao Guangyi's personal intelligence, this is because of his background, the troubled times of the five dynasties were all dominated by warlords, and their Zhao family was also born in the army, and did not experience the pattern of rebel armies all over the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty. So although he and Zhao Kuangyin both unified the world by force, they still looked down on the peasant uprising. After all, from the end of the Sui Dynasty to the present, the peasant uprising has not finally won victory, whether it is Wagang or Huangchao. So Zhao Guangyi readily agreed to Zhang Shu's suggestion, and no one in the court objected, after all, no one here has really been on the battlefield, and no one who can fight can enter the court. In this way, Zhao Guangyi gave the entire military power of Shu to Zhang Xi, the inspector of Xichuan Capital, and asked him to unify the entire Sichuan army to quell the rebellion. …… In April of the fourth year of Chunhua, Zhao Weiji finally returned to the Central Plains from the sea. The reason why it took so long to return to the Central Plains was because Zhao Weiji and they encountered a storm at sea and had to stay in the Malay Peninsula for more than a month. Just when Zhao Weiji was about to reunite with his two wives and two children who he hadn't seen for nearly a year, the news from Shu had to interrupt the warmth he hoped for. "Is there a rebellion in Shudi?" "Yes, Lord Wang, the leader of the bandits seems to be called Wang Xiaobo, and it has been more than two months since he rebelled in Shu at this time, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger day by day." "So what was the reaction of the imperial court? Who did they send to lead the troops to quell the rebellion? "No, the imperial court did not lead the troops to quell the rebellion, but concentrated the military power of Shu to a Xichuan capital inspector named Zhang Xi, and asked him to quell the rebellion with Xichuan's own strength." "Oh, so what's going on?" "The situation is very bad, the rebels are still winning, and the lost territory is getting bigger and bigger." At this time, Zhao Weiji fell into a long period of thinking, and Zhao Weiji only had a general impression of this peasant uprising, because when reading the history of the Song Dynasty, more attention was paid to the relationship between Song Liao and Song and Western Xia. On the contrary, the peasant uprisings within the Song Dynasty did not pay much attention, after all, there were not several peasant uprisings in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. Therefore, for this peasant uprising, Zhao Weiji did not remember the specific time of occurrence at all, only knew that it seemed that the leader in the early stage was called Wang Xiaobo, and the later one was called Li Shun, and then the peasant uprising lasted for a long time. And then there was no then. "I'm not going to pay too much attention to this matter for the time being, you just let the pigeons keep an eye on it, and let our family's business in Shudi withdraw for the time being. God knows if the peasants who revolted would have carried out indiscriminate attacks on the rich. Let the pigeon personnel also pay attention to their own safety, and if it is really not possible, they will be transferred directly, and the intelligence is secondary. "Since it is estimated that he is unlikely to be transferred to counter-insurgency anyway, Zhao Weiji does not plan to pay too much attention to this uprising, because he now has a more important task to do, which is to try to plant the corn and tomatoes he brought back from the North American continent." By the way, how is Zhao Yuanxi? "died, the court announced to the outside world that he died of a violent illness, and he also added the title of Prince Zhaocheng and was buried in the scenery." "Okay, I know, let's stop here today, I have to hurry home to see my family." After saying goodbye to these staff, Zhao Weiji hurried home. On the way home, he kept thinking about Zhao Yuanxi. Zhao Yuanxi's fate was the same as in the history books, and he died of a violent illness at the same point in time. Is this a coincidence, or is this the truth of history, Zhao Yuanxi in history is not as good as recorded in the history books, but he died violently for some reason? Just when Zhao Weiji was still thinking about this, he had already gone to the palace. At this time, everyone in the palace was already standing at the door of the palace and preparing to greet Zhao Weiji. "Where is the need for this battle, it's too exaggerated." Zhao Weiji, who hugged his six-year-old daughter Zhao Ling'er and kissed him, although he said it was too exaggerated, he was still very moved in his heart, after all, he was floating on the sea for a year, and he still missed his family from the bottom of his heart. At this time, Li Nian couldn't hold back his tears and cried, and Chai Yu's eyes were also full of tears. Seeing this situation, Zhao Weiji also knew that he couldn't live with his family, so he didn't say anything, rode Zhao Ling'er on his neck, and returned to the house with his two wives in his arms. Everyone in the house was very happy to see Zhao Weiji, but there was one exception, there was Zhao Teng, the little prince. Zhao Teng was less than a year old when Zhao Weiji left home, and he was already more than a year old at this time. Zhao Teng, who hadn't seen Zhao Weiji for a year, didn't know him at this time. When Zhao Weiji wanted to find Zhao Teng from Chai Yu's hands, Zhao Teng obviously showed resistance, and kept reading in his small mouth: "No...... No....... "It made Zhao Weiji embarrassed for a while." Look, even your son doesn't know you anymore, and you're a dad enough of a failure. Hearing Chai Yu's obviously complaining ridicule, Zhao Weiji could only smile bitterly. Zhao Weiji, who returned to the house, immediately showed what he had brought back from the North American continent. "That's what you call a high-yield food?" Chai Yu turned over the corn seeds in his hand, looked at them a few times, and didn't see the reason. The reason why there are only seeds is because the corn brought back is almost eaten at sea, and the corn cannot be stored for a long time if it is not dried, but the environment at sea basically cannot dry the corn, so Zhao Weiji had to let the crew eat most of the corn, and only a small part was made into seeds and preserved. Of course, the corn is like this, and the tomato is also only left with seeds. "Of course it's this thing, you wait, as long as the first batch is planted, you will definitely be scared." At this time, Zhao Weiji suddenly thought that in fact, this peasant uprising was not without any benefits to him.

It may be that this will be the best opportunity for corn to enter the stage of Chinese history.