"Western Xia!" Shout.

Zheng Lang had mixed feelings in his heart, he wanted this effect, but what happened later could not be predicted. When the chiefs were quiet, Zheng Lang said again: "You also know that several generations of lords and monarchs of our dynasty have been diligent in government and love the people, and they have been rich and rare in ancient and modern times. You are loyal to our dynasty, and with the wealth of our dynasty, you will not collect money from you. It seems that you don't have any wealth worthy of being exploited by the imperial court. ”

There was a giggle from below.

Zheng Lang said that they were poor, they were poor.

This is the strength of the Song Dynasty, which is not interested in opening the border, and only seeks restraint and appeasement for the border, and cannot use the means of paying currency, which is too lost in identity. used some other means, such as buying horses at a high price, and usually giving rich rewards, as long as everyone was loyal to the Song Dynasty, not only did not exploit you, but also gave you such generous treatment.

However, some officials below did not do well, because the policy was very vague, some officials changed the law to accumulate wealth for the sake of filling their own pockets or for political achievements, and some people despised the Tibetan people, and some Tibetan people themselves were not good, they were hungry wolves who could not be fed, and there were often some small rebellions in the border areas. However, the scale is always not large, except for Nong Zhigao's time.

This advantage must be revealed, Li Yuanhao in order to start a war, he is very harsh on various departments, Zheng Lang said it, so that the heads of all ethnic groups have a contrast in their hearts. continued: "My dynasty is also at fault, I used to be confused by Li Yuanhao, and I wanted to mediate in the middle, so that your various ministries were wronged. ”

The heads of the clans sighed.

There is no shame in taking the initiative to admit mistakes, and the Master also encourages them to correct their mistakes. It worked, only one sentence, and it warmed everyone's hearts.

Continue to say: "The imperial court has not provided you with good protection. But from then on, it won't happen again! ”

There was another burst of cheers.

Zheng Lang turned his head to look at Blind Felt and asked, "Blind Felt, are you willing to put aside the concept of one tribe and one family, and from now on, give all tribes and tribes a fair concept and just means to deal with it, and lead them to create a prosperous, stable and prosperous life?" ”

"Yes." The blind felt moved, and his voice trembled when he spoke excitedly.

"Are you willing to be loyal to my Great Song Dynasty forever?"

"Yes."

"Please bow to the east, my majesty the emperor."

Blind felt, respectfully bowed three times and nine knocks.

"Please bow to the heads of the clans."

The blind felt saluted the heads of the tribes, and they returned the salute one by one.

Zheng Lang looked at everyone again and said: "The chiefs of the two states of Lanhui, put aside the small view of the family, and are willing to deal with the affairs of the clans with a fair and just heart, are you willing to help him resist strong enemies outside and create prosperity inside?" ”

Some agreed, others hesitated.

This is the national contradiction in the northwest. Not only Jingyuan Road, but also Huanqing Road, Qinfeng Road, Yanjun Road and Fulin. Many tribes in the territory of Jingyuan Road are loyal to the blind felt, especially the remnants of the original Tubo Liugu tribe who fled to Jingyuan Road. However, in the territory of the blind felt, there are many tribes who still do not submit to the blind felt, not only the party members, but even some Tubo people are not very happy to lead them blindly. There are various reasons, including conflicts over the ranch, personal enmities, and partisan compulsion. For example, there are 22 niches in Nusha Valley (Lanzhou summer official camp area), there are 2,000 accounts, and more than 2,000 can be drawn. However, it was located in the middle of the Huizhou region controlled by the Western Xia, and could only be blown by the wind on both sides in order to survive in peace.

Zheng Lang said again: "If the government is unfair, you can come to Weizhou and ask for fairness, and Weizhou will deal with it unfairly, and you can go to the capital to appeal to the court." Wang Yuan, bring a pen and an edict. ”

That is, the blank edict issued by the imperial court to Zhulu.

Fan Zhongyan asked for it first, Han Qi asked for it later, and then Pang Ji and Zheng Lang also asked for a batch, a total of 100 blank edicts, but it didn't take long for Zheng Lang to fill it in.

Putting the edict on the table, Zheng Lang said: "There are a total of 100 edicts here, I will appoint 100 officials for the imperial court, and you will each elect representatives, and they will represent your clans to discuss matters and assist the blind felt in handling the internal affairs of Lanhe Prefecture. ”

What is being implemented is a pseudo-boiling mechanism.

Blind felt does not exclude, the tribe that should be loyal to him will be more loyal to him because of Zheng Lang's order, and the tribe that is not loyal to him can be restrained because of Zheng Lang's order. At the very least, there won't be too many conflicts. Some of the tribes who hesitated in their hearts were also able to relax because of this order.

Those edicts are officials, which is equivalent to receiving the Lu of the Song Dynasty in vain. One by one, they reunited again to discuss, and after a while, a hundred leaders were launched according to the proportion of the population, Zheng Lang did not immediately write the edict, pressed the edict with an inkstone, and said: "Blind felt, I will make a request to the imperial court to let you serve as the Lanhui Road Observation Envoy, deal with the affairs of the two states of Lanhui, and have the right to surrender and levy the various departments in the enemy's territory, if the Xia thieves attack, you can order the departments of the two states with golden arrows, the enemy is huge, and you can ask for reinforcements from Weizhou." ”

As he spoke, he brought out the five hundred golden arrows with the words on them, and said, "But you must keep the oath you just made." ”

"Whoa." Blind felt said loudly.

For a while, he was full of spirits and thanked Lingxi, which was equivalent to the Song Dynasty forcibly pushing him to the head of Lanzhou and Huizhou, and even equivalent to the position of the leader of the Liugu Department at the beginning.

According to the customs of Tibet, make a big oath.

Zheng Lang wrote a book at this time.

The book was sent out, and it won the hearts of the people, and the benefits of uniting to resist the enemy were also known to these chiefs.

Not only the clans in the abdomen, but even the twenty-two families of the shrine wave also participated.

And let them swear, and then they delivered the golden arrows into the hands of the blind felt.

Moved by the blind felt, he suddenly said, "Bring Ma Ji to the zero." ”

His men did not move, their eyes hesitant.

"Go!"

Zheng Lang doesn't know why, who is this Ma Ji Ling?

After a while, a few Tubo pushed a bright-looking young woman, and Zheng Lang asked suspiciously: "...... is she?" ”

"Zheng Xianggong, she is my concubine."

"Why did you tie her up?"

"Zheng Xianggong, I want to use human sacrifice to express my loyalty to the imperial court."

Zheng Lang almost vomited blood and said, "Quickly release her." Blind felt, why did I recommend you to the imperial court as the observer of the Lanhui because I want you to lead the people to live a happy life, not only the people of all ethnic groups, but also your family. It's just the beginning, you use human sacrifice, I don't like it. The concubine is your woman, and she is also your people, the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the same is true of everyone else. ”

I thought in my heart that the Tubo people also had people to sacrifice this barbaric Dongdong.

There are pros and cons to this policy.

From then on, all ethnic groups in the territory of Lanhui, which was not occupied by Western Xia, would be twisted into a rope to the greatest extent to defend against Li Yuanhao's annexation.

The disadvantage is that Zheng Lang is also afraid that the blind felt will not fall off in the future.

You can't divide the troops, so I came up with this solution.

If not, Zheng Lang's method is very effective. As individuals, the Tibetan people are a fierce and combative people, and they are proud to die in battle.

You can't die of old age, only death on the battlefield is glorious.

Isn't it scary to have this notion to be scary?

There is also a film that also has this concept, the Jurchens, especially the Jurchens, so the combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

After the decline of Tibet, the Tibetan tribes were scattered from Helong to Shaanxi, including the northernmost prefecture, and these relics still retain the tradition of advocating courage and martial arts. Therefore, it is recorded in the history books that they grew up in the frontiers, learned the mountains and rivers, knew the hypocrisy of the Western people, were brave, were not afraid of battle, and had never relied on the country as a vegetal. And good shooting, endure hardship, up and down the mountain like flat ground, in case of battle, then with evil, pass the arrow rate, its flow from the flow. Fan Zhongyan also wrote that familiar households love the land, protect the old and weak, cattle and sheep, and fight against thieves, which can cover Han households.

Fan Xiaofuzi also has the idea of the Han standard, and we are using these Fanzi in order to protect the safety of the Han people.

The imperial court really realized that these Fanzi had strong combat effectiveness, and it was also after the outbreak of the Northwest Campaign. When Di Qing conquered the south, he only used a few hundred soldiers, invincible, and broke the 30,000 army of Nong Zhigao in front of Kunlun Pass. Zheng Lang Shimenchuan won two great victories, and the hundreds of Jurchens and some Fanzi cavalry he brought also showed strong combat effectiveness.

Today, the alliance can make the best use of these soldiers to block the Western Xia in the Qingshui River, Gaolan Mountain, and the line north and west of the Agan River.

The disadvantage is that the reason why these people did not become powerful was precisely because they were divided and not united. If there was no incident of Ishjilu urging the destruction of Agan City, Zheng Lang would even have tacitly watched the existence of this division in order to facilitate jurisdiction.

I suddenly thought of the difficulties of Li Shimin when he settled the Turks and surrendered to the Turks.

None of the decisions were made at the time, and the drawbacks could only be recognized later.

I don't know what this change will bring to the northwest.

Singing and dancing, after the celebration, Zheng Lang personally watched Agancheng.

It is difficult to build, but it is easy to destroy.

Agancheng has been repaired for more than a month, and most of it has been completed, and now it is full of ruined walls.

took out tea cloth worth 200,000 yuan, and dispatched 20,000 archers from Jingyuan Road to assist Blind Felt to rebuild Agan City, and built Dongguan Fort, Dingyuan City, and Xincheng along the Nusha Valley to Gongguyu, and guarded each other, and re-repaired the Huining Pass of the Tang Dynasty in the northeast of the Qingshui River, and guarded the trade route between the Gonggu Valley and Jingyuan Road.

It is a step further than the original negative defense thinking of the Song Dynasty, but Zheng Lang's approach is still a kind of passive defense. It was just that the various departments of the two states of Lanhui that were not occupied by the Western Xia used the influence of the imperial court to unite and defend together, and at the same time provided a batch of weapons to increase their combat effectiveness.

Jingyuan Road did not take the initiative to set up troops and garrison troops here.

The number of troops is insufficient, and once the number of troops increases, the burden on the imperial court will also increase, so this policy has to be adopted.

But the effect was immediately apparent.

Seeing that Xiuguan City was everywhere on the banks of the Qingshui River, Western Xia often sent troops to harass them, and was defeated by the various departments united many times.

The scale of the war is not large, which in turn proves Yuan Hao's ideas and dynamics. Before the autumn harvest arrived, he did not dare to launch a large-scale campaign.

……

Zheng Lang did not delay much in the Niche Valley and soon returned to Weizhou.

The rear is developing, and the front is continuing to practice. Unlike last year, a large number of cavalry were added this year, and Di Qing often took them from Gaopingzhai to the north along the Hulu River to train in the Wuyan Qianxia. Western Xia also often sent troops, starting from Wuyan Gorge, and has been active in Xiaoguan.

That is, with Wuyan Qianxia as the axis, one in the southeast and the other in the northwest, the time to train and attack, but both sides are tacitly understanding that they did not send troops.

This is the calm on the surface, the waves are turbulent below, the undercurrent is lurking, and each is making arrangements, who wins and who loses, and it can be seen after the autumn.

However, Zheng Lang did not stay in Weizhou.

Just a few days after he came back, Sanbaiqu sent someone to call Zheng Lang again.

The Han Dynasty governed Guanzhong, built the Zhengguo Canal and the Sanbai Canal, the Zhengguo Canal due to some problems in the project, since the end of the Han Dynasty has been annihilated, to the Tang Dynasty, except for the upstream and the white canal network, basically disappeared. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty called the only two remaining canals together, the northernmost is the Taibai Canal, and the one that leads out of the south from the Taibai Canal is called the Zhongbai Canal, and then the Zhongbai Canal extends to the south, called the Lower White Canal. Therefore, Zheng Baiqu was gradually called Sanbaiqu.

The Tang Dynasty regarded it very much, and built a sturdy general's diversion dam, 100 steps long and wide, built with stone masonry, and the cast iron ingots between the stones were connected, which was very similar to the fish scale pond of the Qiantang River proposed by Zheng Lang. However, there is too much sand in the water, and some powerful people wantonly build water mills and water mills on the canal, resulting in a large loss of canal water, and although the maintenance is diligent, the irrigation area is still gradually decreasing, from 10,000 hectares to several thousand hectares.

The Song Dynasty was even worse. Originally, the Zhengbai Second Canal could irrigate 45,000 hectares, but only 2,000 hectares could be irrigated. The Song Dynasty made some repairs, because the political center was transferred from Guanzhong to Henan, all of which were hastily and ineffective.

In particular, because of the age immersion and the change of topography, the Jing River is steep and deep, the water potential gradually declines, and a large suspension gap is formed with the mouth of the canal, and the water level is lower than that of the mouth of the canal, and the water cannot be led. When the water rises, the old canal has a lot of river sand precipitation, and it floods.

Zheng Lang adopted the suggestion of Zhou Liangru and Hou Ke later, and built a weir from Hongkou to block the water, that is, starting from Zhongbai Canal, using a weir dam to block Jingshui, and then opening a new canal from Hongkou to Yunyang, also called Taibai Canal, because of the higher terrain, it can control a large area, although it is not as good as 45,000 hectares at the peak, but it can reach 35,000 hectares. In order to prevent flooding during heavy floods, all of them are made of stone. Some floodgates were also built to discharge water to prevent floodwaters from rushing into the irrigation area. Reduce the silt and silt the canal, and set up a clear pond to further sediment and then enter the new channel.

These measures were all good policies for water control during the Xining period of the Song Dynasty.

Under the investigation of Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan, it is more complete than the original historical water conservancy.

The solution is good, but there are still drawbacks. There is a lot of money, and no one can estimate how much silk will be used for such a large-scale project.

Even if all the 9 million yuan of silk sold by the deed shares is allocated, there are still bigwigs in the DPRK and China who are worried that they will not spend enough.

And it is a palliative method, after repairing, it is not maintained, because of the sediment of Jingshui, the new canal is still the same as the old canal, and it will gradually be blocked by the sediment of precipitation. In particular, Zheng Lang knew in his heart that Shaanxi's environment was getting worse and worse.

Such a long new canal, coupled with many bucket gates, flood gates, large ponds and diversion weirs, makes the Sanbai Canal a huge water conservancy project.

The imperial court first sent Dr. Taichang Zhou Qi to preside over water conservancy, but his ability was insufficient, and Zheng Lang proposed to transfer Ye Qingchen from Jiangning. He had a good relationship with Song Zhen and Zheng Jian, and he was also taken down by Lu Yijian and went out of the Jiangning prefect.

Zheng Lang remembered that he did one thing, not only did he have the merit of water conservancy in Liangzhejiang, but later when he went out to know the Yongxing Army, he had the merit of the Junsanbai Canal, which made the irrigated cultivated land change from 2,000 hectares to 6,000 hectares. This was the first large-scale construction of the Sanbai Canal in the Song Dynasty, and the cost was not much.

I was in Jiangning, I just came, and when I saw many problems, I sent someone to invite Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang to come to discuss and work together.

Whether Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan will be very hard, Ye Qingchen doesn't care. Several bigwigs in the four roads of the imperial court have different political views and different military concepts, but they have a common characteristic, they are very diligent in the northwest, go to the mountains and go to the countryside, and there is almost no time to rest. The ministers of the court jokingly called them the four iron men on the edge of the edge.

Not flesh and blood, but steel.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to go.

Once repaired, it will be more than 30,000 hectares of cultivated land.

The output may not be as good as the total output of a Taiping Prefecture, but this is in Shaanxi, where there is a severe shortage of food.

As long as the three white canals are completed, plus the tuntian fields of all roads, the grain is basically self-sufficient, and how much silk will be saved for the imperial court. Its significance is far greater than the development of Taiping Prefecture.

Zheng Ping opened her little hand and said, "Daddy, I'm going too." ”

"Don't mess around, Daddy is going to run errands." Cui Xian shouted.

"Don't scare the child." Zheng Lang stretched out his hand and hugged Zheng Ping in his arms and said, "Daddy will take you there." ”

My daughter is older, she can walk, she can talk, she has opened up some wisdom, and it doesn't get in the way of much to take her around.

"That's not how children are taught."

"The child is small, let her have a good childhood," Zheng Lang smiled, hugged Zheng Ping on Xiaoqing's back, and Zheng Hang cried in the back. The youngest daughter didn't dare to bring it, so she comforted her, no matter whether Zheng Hang understood it or not, Yangma left Weizhou.

……

It rained again in the summer rain.

The willow color after the rain is fresh and moving, and the three of them sit in the teahouse while drinking tea and talking about business.

In terms of water conservancy management alone, the three were the top water conservancy experts in the Song Dynasty. Ye Fan and the others said many reasonable ideas, and Zheng Lang added them one by one. The details are almost the same, each with its own autumn colors, but in the long run, Zheng Lang thinks a little longer-term.

Nothing to do with wisdom, this is later historical knowledge.

At present, Jingshui is very difficult to treat, Jingshui is one stone, and its mud is several buckets. However, this kind of silt can be excavated to compress the alkali fertilizer field, and the destruction of water and soil has led to the salinization of many cultivated land in Guanzhong.

Therefore, around the Sanbai Canal, Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan constructed an idea, focusing on the new canal, constructing it with the old canal, before constructing the canal, first close the canal, dig out the silt of the canal, press the alkali fertilizer field, and then repair the bucket gate and sluice gate to drain the canal water, and re-irrigate the surrounding fields.

After years of accumulation, the old canal can be replaced by the new canal, the new canal is blocked, the new canal is re-excavated, and the field is taken over with mud. It seems like a good idea, but it's more expensive.

There was not much of a problem in terms of technology, the technology of the Doumen sluice gate in the Song Dynasty was far superior to that of the Tang Dynasty, and as for some of the rocky places through which the new canal passed, gunpowder was also provided for more convenience. As long as the funds are sufficient, it is not a problem.

Once completed, you can make a model, the whole Shaanxi in addition to the Jingshui Basin, the original Guanzhong water conservancy has been composed of Jingshui as the water source of the Jing canal system, with Weishui as the water source of the Wei canal system, with the Beiluo water as the water source of the Luo canal system.

This is the three major canal systems of the Western Han Dynasty.

It can't restore the prosperous times of the Western Han Dynasty, but it can restore part of it.

Once the three major canal systems are formed, Shaanxi will no longer have to worry about the supply of grain.

But Zheng Lang was very skeptical in his heart.

The root cause is not in the canal system, but in the destruction of water and soil, the most serious damage is nomadism, and there is also damage to farming. This deterioration is not only in Shaanxi itself, but also in Qinghai, Gansu, Tubo, and Western Xia, all of which are deteriorating in terms of water and soil, which in turn affects Shaanxi and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Afforestation is still a symptomatic treatment, not a root cause.

Zheng Lang talked to Zhao Zhen about this many years ago, but he didn't know how to solve it.

Helplessly, I once again said the important surname of the plantation.

It was getting late, and the rain was rising, and the green mountains in the distance were covered with a layer of clouds, fluttering like a fairyland.

The three of them will talk about the general direction, and the specific details will be observed on the spot tomorrow.

Ye Qingchen was very serious.

This also made Zheng Lang appreciate.

After talking about business, Fan Zhongyan asked suspiciously: "Xingzhi, do you still plan to cut troops?" ”

"yes." Zheng Lang replied. In the two battles of Shimenchuan, many soldiers were sacrificed on Jingyuan Road, but Zheng Lang's purpose remained unchanged and continued to reduce troops. More than 7,000 soldiers were successively transferred to Sanbaiqu to repair the canal, and it was these troops who were laid off.

"Is the strength of the Jingyuan Road defense enough?" Fan Zhongyan was worried.

The two disarmaments, plus the previous one, and the sacrificed soldiers, will reduce the number of people in Jingyuan Road by more than 18,000 people.

The overall combat effectiveness did not decline, leaving all the elite soldiers who could fight and kill, and 25,000 cavalry joined, and the combat effectiveness did not decrease but increased.

But this combat effectiveness refers to the combat effectiveness at the time of battle, not to the combat effectiveness of defense. Those cavalry were used for defense, and the quality of the infantry was about the same.

"Brother Xiwen, you don't have to worry," Zheng Lang said his plan. Whether it is Fan Zhongyan or Ye Qingchen, De Yan does not have to worry, he will not worry about them leaking in advance.

"Regional joint defense?" Fan Zhong was stunned.

It is an extension of the Tang Dynasty's policy of blocking roads to prevent the movement of people. Brother Xiwen, if I guessed correctly, Yuan Hao still has a battle, and before that, Brother Xiwen should not use this strategy on Huanqing Road, so as not to startle the snake. ”

"Ge Huaimin......"

"Brother Xiwen, you guessed right, he was a vacancy that I deliberately stayed on Jingyuan Road. Helplessly, I didn't dare to attack the Western Xia, so I could only use some methods to lead the Western Xia army to the Jingyuan Road to fight. ”

"I have to sacrifice a lot of soldiers......" Fan Zhongyan sighed.

"Brother Xiwen, Western Xia will not be destroyed, and the soldiers who will die in the future are not only now, but I don't know how many soldiers will die and how many wives will be separated. When I returned from Shimenchuan, my wife and daughter went out of the city to greet me, and I also sighed in my heart, I came back alive, the family was reunited, and I was happy, what about the families of those sacrificed soldiers? Although it hurts, I have to do it. ”

Fan Zhongyan persuaded Han Qi that he had a reason, no matter whether Yuan Hao was the emperor or not, it was also an actual reading ability, which was a fact that could not be changed.

As long as you do a good job of defense, stop him from attacking, and call him emperor or not, then reduce the war and many people will die. This is a representative idea of passive defense. What to do on the open side? The border areas are poor, the imperial court gains nothing, and the larger the border opened, the more expenditure, the increase in the scope of defense, and the more troops will be garrisoned.

But isn't that the case?

The Western Xia was not eliminated, as long as it was eliminated, there was no huge force, did the imperial court need to station so many soldiers in Shaanxi?

Maybe there is turmoil in the Tibetan tribe from time to time, but only the downside? Get the northwest, there are pastures, there are pastures, there are war horses, before the era of hot weapons came, the era of cold weapons, cavalry was still the sharpest type of military.

Some of the Tibetan tribes will rebel from time to time, but most of the Tibetan tribes will be properly governed and will be used by the imperial court, which can provide more troops for the imperial court.

At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, they did not realize the strength of the Tibetan soldiers.

As long as it is used properly, how can it be that the soldiers in front of the Kunnan Pass in Lingnan have raised their prestige? Can't they be used against the Khitans?

Besides, as Fan Zhongyan wished, Western Xia really wouldn't attack the Song Dynasty? Huanqing Road and Yanyun Road have the convenience of topography, but what about Fulin and Jingyuan, and even Lanhui?

What does this have to do with the open edge?

Fan Zhongyan sighed and said: "I'm afraid it's not easy, back then, Li Jiqian was only the land of the five states of Yinxia, and the imperial court couldn't do anything, and the thieves were like this." ”

"You can take your time."

"What about the imperial finances?"

This is Fan Zhongyan's attempt to convince Zheng Lang and make him give up his "radical" ideas.

Sure enough, it came. Zheng Lang shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Brother Xiwen, I'll say it step by step." Let's talk about the military first, there are four people on the edge, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. First of all, I'm a little unmotivated. ”

Fan Zhongyan and Ye Qingchen were stunned.

Zheng Lang is right.

If you talk about far-reaching vision, who can match him, all the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty, the subsequent gains and losses, and the trend of history are all in his mind.

He is also doing it, doing it very carefully, obviously using the new golden mean, not wanting to cause trouble, doing it bit by bit to promote, so that everyone can see and hear, and then reflect, so that they can change their ideas one by one.

In fact, I am still afraid of trouble and controversy, and I am not decisive.

If he fights according to his approach, even if he is in power as prime minister, he may not be able to reverse all the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty one by one in his lifetime. There are benefits, but there are controversies, but there are not many in the end.

This is also caused by the faint surname in his bones.

But outsiders can't see that he has done many things, some of which are very controversial.

Is that so? With Wang Anshi's later reforms, what is he?

Zheng Lang didn't explain, and continued: "Brother Xiwen, Brother Zhigui, and Brother Alcohol also have their own strengths, and they all have their own strengths. For example, in the military, Brother Xiwen and Brother Alcohol attach importance to military generals and promote talents, but they are conservative in their thinking, and they are not willing to make progress. Brother Zhi Gui is enterprising, but he is too radical and despises some talented generals, so that the strategy is wrong one after another. Our dynasty has a positive side of emphasizing literature and deposing military forces, and has prevented the situation of feudal towns and five dynasties and ten kingdoms to the greatest extent. But if you succumb to external humiliation, once the country declines, the whole country will die. Overkill. It's that Brother Xiwen and Brother Alcohol attach importance to military generals, and they only love their talents, how many times have they asked for the advice of military generals? The planter is in my hands, and whenever there is a war, he will be the first to inquire about it, so as to seek a good plan. Brother Xiwen asked the imperial court to be transferred to Huanzhou, how many times have you asked? ”

Fan Zhongyan did not answer.

Zheng Lang is right or wrong, he has asked, and he is also reusing, including national pacification, Fan Zhongyan uses his people more to care for Zhufan.

But his military theory is defense, not taking the initiative to attack, or deliberately leaving vacancies like Zheng Lang to lure Yuan Hao to attack in order to seek fighters, what do you need to discuss with the old species?

Zheng Lang also knew that he couldn't convince Fan Zhongyan, and said: "Why does the country need money? ”

"Take it from the people, use it for the people."

"I see that since the founding of our dynasty, although the wealth is several times that of the previous dynasty, I have not seen much of the policy implemented by the imperial court. Where is the money spent? ”

"Alas," Fan Zhongyan sighed.

Zheng Lang began to remind kindly.

There were many drawbacks in the Song Dynasty, especially the stimulation of this war, which exposed these drawbacks one by one. So there was the Qingli New Deal.

The history books are infinitely exaggerated, why didn't it succeed in the end? Some people say that Zhao Zhen did not cooperate, some people say that the Junzi Party is too angry and has no unity, and some people say that the Conservative Party is strong, but this is not the root cause.

Zhao Zhen has realized some problems.

Although the Conservative Party is strong, Lu Yijian is seriously ill, and he did not play much role in Qingli's New Deal, and the counterattack of some ministers, including Xia Zhu, is only a party struggle to counter the suppression of gentlemen, and the spearhead is not aimed at the New Deal itself.

In fact, because the new policy was rhetorical and had no new ideas, Zhao Zhen was disappointed, which caused the emperor not to support it. The gentlemen were too angry, and some ministers joined forces to oppose it. In the end, the New Deal failed. As a reform, or change, it can only be described as a farce.

Fan Zhongyan is ambitious, such as screaming.

The court talks about state affairs, calls names, Han Qi, Lu Yijian, privately called, more words, but the elders call more official positions. Fan Zhongyan is getting older, and people still call him Brother Xiwen, which shows that others are not old.

Gentlemen are full of anger and courage, what if this anger is used to reform the redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant government?

Pang Ji and Fan Zhongyan did it, but they were more careful than Zheng Lang.

Then the so-called Ten Articles of the Qing Calendar......

Fan Zhongyan is unparalleled in the world, and Zheng Lang also said that when it comes to selfishness, only Fan Zhongyan has the least selfishness in the world, and it is possible that Zhao Zhen is not as good as him, and he is even less than him. But he also has a shortcoming, stubbornness.

Zheng Lang didn't say much after reminding.

Whether Fan Zhongyan dares to touch the three major drawbacks depends on his ability.

If you don't dare to touch it, you will cause a lot of trouble, and the new deal will fail.

continued: "Speaking of the ancestral legal system, I said Taizu, why did Taizu accumulate wealth? Not only for the sake of lightness, he said a sentence, the Khitan counted into the Koubian, and I bought a Khitan head with twenty horses. Its elite soldiers are only 100,000 people, and if they stop spending 2 million silk, the enemy will be exhausted. So he set up a sealed treasury in the palace to store money and silk. The reason why he was planning to accumulate money was to use this treasury money to redeem the sixteen states of Youyun and avoid the pain of forcibly attacking. The second is that the Khitan did not agree, and used this money to recruit troops and recover them by force. This is the ancestral family law. ”

Don't make a mistake, the ancestral family law of the ancestors is not only Zhao Kuangyi's, but also Zhao Kuangyin's, who is the real founder of the Song Dynasty.

The dream has not been realized, he died inexplicably, Zhao Kuangyi is the emperor, and when he saw the money, he laughed at the big brother, and the money was saved and not spent, what is the role? Spent, fought, fought, spent, Gaolianghe was defeated, returned to Kaifeng, and the policy became more conservative and introverted.

That's it, Zhao Kuangyi also used troops in the northwest. When it came to Song Zhenzong, one generation was not as good as the next.

Anyway, this kind of passive defensive policy is the product of accumulation from generation to generation, and it is certainly not the so-called ancestral family law, but the product of a group of civil servants who do not like war, and it has been harmful for thousands of years. Much later, many rulers continued to implement this reactive strategy.

"After the Gaoliang River, Taizu's strategy can't be solved," Ye Qingchen said on the side.

The sixteen states of Youyun are an important grain production base of the Khitan, and they get hundreds of thousands of Guan Yuan coins from the Song Dynasty in another year, and it may increase soon, and the Song Dynasty has to spend how much silk to redeem it. 100 million, 200 million? Nor can it be given. Even if you have it, you can't give it, once you get such a huge wealth, with the force of the Khitan, you will be able to turn your face immediately, not only take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun again, but even send troops to the Central Plains with rich financial resources.

"Therefore, it is better not to talk about finance. Without the Northwest, no matter how much finance the country has, it cannot expect the treasury to be as rotten and rotten as the Western Han Dynasty. If you want the country to become better, first, how to save expenses and collect finances, and second, understand where the money is used to prepare for war in the famine year, rather than using it on redundant officials and redundant soldiers. Is it true that there are so many displaced people who need to be solved? Why can't the soldiers and the forbidden soldiers be separated after the disaster, and each one should return to his place of origin and re-farm? ”

"Easier said than done."

"If you're afraid, don't do it, so as not to cause controversy."

Fan Zhongyan was silent again.

Zheng Lang knew that it was difficult to persuade Fan Zhongyan, so he changed the topic and said: "None of this is important at the moment, the important thing is Brother Yanguo's Khitan and his party." ”

Others don't know, Zheng Lang knows what kind of suffering Fu Bi Khitan will suffer.

……

Fu Bi sent an envoy to the Khitan, and the capital was still full of soldiers. Tian Guo and Zhang Fangping admonished, Yang Chongxun was calm, guarding Yunyingzhou, Zhang Qi was in Heyang, military ability was limited, in case of change, could not take on heavy responsibilities, it was better to Zhao Diqing and other famous generals to go to Hebei to defend the border. So Wang Deyong was transferred from Lanzhou to Zhending Mansion for Zhending Mansion and Dingzhou Road for deployment.

The participation of the Khitan made the idea of the monarchs and ministers of the court gradually disappearing, and Han Qi, Zheng Lang, Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji were changed to various observers, which was also a signal. He also transferred Zhang Kang to the jurisdiction of Gaoyang Guan.

Li Zhaoshu, the transfer envoy of Hebei, took the river to be blocked for a long time, and in the name of controlling the embankment, he recruited 80,000 peasant soldiers, and it was completed in more than ten years. Liu Liufu passed through Lanzhou, thinking that it was really to control the embankment, and when he returned to the Khitan, he saw that the city defense was all repaired, and such a fast speed made Liu Liufu stunned.

This also increased the difficulty of Fu Bi's envoy to the Khitan.

To build the Daimyo Mansion as Yanjing again, Fan Zhongyan first proposed to repair Luoyang in case of emergency. The Khitan said that they were coming, and someone turned Fan Zhongyan's proposal out, and Lu Yijian said: "The Liao people bully the soft and fear the hard, and they rely on the city of Luoyang, so they have no way to demonstrate, and they are arrogant and weak." It is advisable to build the capital of the Daimyo Mansion to show that the general will be personally conscripted in order to cut down his scheme. ”

After hearing the news, Fan Zhongyan said that this can be a false momentum, but it cannot be sufficient. Repairing Luoyang doesn't work, you can quickly repair the capital just in case. Speakers are more obedient.

Lü Yijian retorted: "Once the Liao people cross the Yellow River, even if they stick to the capital, the world will be in danger. It is better to start arming from Hebei. ”

In Zheng Lang's view, both are troublesome words, but in comparison, Lu Yijian has a more long-term vision. But it can be seen from here that Fan Zhongyan's reputation in the northwest for several years has faintly approached Lu Yijian. Even if Lu Yijian was reasonable, it took a lot of saliva to make this proposal pass.

What does Xiu Luoyang do? I built Luoyang today, I plan to repair Jiangning tomorrow, and I plan to repair Hangzhou the day after tomorrow?

However, the idea of repairing the city is the greatest portrayal of Fan Zhongyan's military tactics.

He repaired the horse shop village in the northwest of Gyeongju, located at the mouth of the Houqiao River, that is, near the Houqiao village built by the original Western Xia, deep in the belly of the thief. Fan Zhong drowned the thieves to fight, secretly sent Fan Chunyou and the general Zhao Ming to take the place first, and then led the troops, the generals began to know where to go, arrived in Rouyuan, began to give orders, picked up the tools to build the city and began to build, the city was completed in ten days, and the name Dashun City was given. Yuan Hao sent 30,000 iron cavalry to fight, but he was deliberately defeated, and Fan Zhongyan did not chase him. The Western Xia's plan to lure troops failed.

He also transferred Cheng Lin to the Daimyo's Mansion, and Chen Zhizhong went to Qingzhou.

In short, the Khitan forced the Song Dynasty to mess up, and the whole plan had to be changed.

When Fu Bi arrived in Khitan, Liu Liufu found Fu Bi and said: "Your envoy, no, my Emperor His Majesty is determined to close the ten counties in the south." ”

After hearing this, Fu Bi almost fainted, did you Khitans speak with your asshole?

Didn't everything be said in the capital, why did you regret it again.

Knowing that his line of work was destined to encounter all kinds of humiliation, Fu Bi suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "You Khitan have to fake this name, and our Great Song can only treat each other." ”

"The Southern Dynasty insists on its own ideas, how can peace be built?"

"The Northern Dynasty begged me to cut the land for no reason, and the Southern Dynasty did not immediately send troops, but sent envoys to negotiate it, how can it be said that the Southern Dynasty is stubborn?" About Fu Bi was also dizzy, and the Khitan often referred to themselves as the Northern Dynasty, calling the Song Dynasty the Southern Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty.

Not the Southern Song Dynasty in history, but the country in the south.

In ancient times, the emperor or the main seat was facing the south and facing the north, and the north was the upper respect. Both the Southern and Southern dynasties were contemptuous words. Fu Bi was dizzy, and also followed the Southern Dynasty.

It's not a big deal, this time it's a test to see where the bottom limit of the Song Dynasty is.

Liu Liufu went down, Liao Xingzong appeared, and Fu Bi said first: "The two countries have been reconciled, and for nearly forty years, why did you suddenly ask me to cede the land?" ”

Liao Xingzong said: "It is the covenant that you chose to violate in the Southern Dynasty, plug the Yanmen, increase the pond water, govern the city god, and register the militia, what is the purpose?" ”

Liu Liufu said the same old thing in Kaifeng, Fu Bi didn't bother to explain, didn't answer, changed the topic, and said: "Back then, the alliance between Lanyuan was the ancestor of the two countries, Renming, if we disregarded the peace and sent troops to intercept it in the rear, what would happen?" ”

Then he shook his head again, this twenty-six-year-old young man died early in his father, his mother was purely a violent element, and the ministers were selfish, so they didn't tell him about this history, and said: "When Lan Yuan passed by, I have already written a detailed experience to Zheng Lang, and gave it to you Liu Liufu and Xiao Temo's two ministers, Your Majesty, you can take it to watch and refer to it." ”

"It was written by your minister, how can I believe it?"

Fu Bi was even more dizzy, the little guy spoke Chinese quite fluently, and he listened as if he was not speaking in Chinese.

The explanation doesn't make sense, so let's put it another way: "Once the war starts, do you know how your relationship with your courtiers will change?" ”

Liao Xingzong was dumbfounded and asked, "What has changed?" ”

"It is Your Majesty's benefit to make peace with the Song Dynasty, and it is the courtiers to benefit from going to war with the Song Dynasty."

"Why?"

Fu Bi began to talk about history.

About under the education of this violent mother, this little emperor's history class did not do well, so I gave him a lesson. Starting from history, Shi Jingtang deceived the sky and rebelled against the king, borrowed troops from your country, and the sixteen states were rewarded, at that time, China was small and left up and down, so Shi Chonggui rebelled and let your country's soldiers come to the Central Plains. The name of this peace agreement is not right. Even so, your emperor Yelu Deguang died in a foreign land, turned into a corpse and returned to the Khitan. This is Little China, and now it has become my Great Song Dynasty, it is Great China, what will happen to it? The Abyss Alliance, has your country really won?

The most important victory, where was the gain? And where was the harvest of the grass valley in your country in the past (after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Khitan gradually stopped). All of these robbers and captives went into the pockets of the ministers, and the dead and wounded, and the military quartermasters, all of them needed the emperor to pay for them. Who benefits? ”

Liaoxing Zongwu said: "I can't profit. ”

It seemed to make sense, Fu Bi breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "The one who stuffed the Yanmen is Bei Yuanhao, Your Majesty, you should know by now that Yuanhao's soldiers have entered the two prefectures of Fulin, and they have to repair the Yanmen in case Hedong is lost." When did the pond water start? Before it was opened, it had to be increased because of the low water accumulation of the ground. The city gods have all rebuilt the old city gods, and the militia has also been registered as before, and they have been added as usual, which is not a violation of the peace treaty. ”

That makes sense.

Fu Bi looked at the little emperor with expectant eyes.

Who knew that this little emperor thought about it for a while, omitted all the words that Fu Bi said just now, and after going around, he returned to the original point, and said slowly: "Qing, you said well, if it weren't for you, I really don't know this, but the ten counties south of Waqiao Pass, that is the inheritance left to me by my ancestors, I have to ask for it." ”

Fu Bi clenched his fists, almost wanting to pounce on it and give this handsome-looking little emperor a few punches.