Zheng Lang still overestimated Zhao Zhen.

In fact, from Zhao Zhen to later Song Shenzong, he was very concerned about the common people, but Zhao Zhen had more wisdom, a sadness, and a cowardice, and this cowardice gave the minister greater courage, and it happened that Song Shenzong had more radical and bravery, so the minister's courage was all attacked when he arrived at Song Shenzong. The biggest pain begins.

But the two emperors had great fears about the legal system of their ancestors, such as raising redundant soldiers, supervising military generals with literati, and restricting the rights of officials by superimposing official positions.

Wang Anshi!

Wang Anshi's change of law was not only the constraint of the old minister, the broadness of the change, but also the concession of Song Shenzong. It's not that Song Shenzong doesn't want to be good, but Wang Anshi touched Song Shenzong's bottom line and centralizes power! How bad centralization is, just look at Cai Jing and Qin Hui.

The second is to replace the command of Wenchen with military generals from the middle court, so that Song Shenzong will be close to each other.

The third is to replace the forbidden soldiers and the box soldiers with the militia, and gradually remove the malpractice of redundant soldiers, in the normal years of the Song Dynasty, there are more than one million people who feed the forbidden soldiers, box soldiers, Fan soldiers, and township soldiers who do not do things. But this is the legal system of the ancestors, Zhao Kuangyin said: "Those who can benefit hundreds of generations, only raise soldiers, Fang is fierce and hungry, there are traitors and no rebels, and there are rebels and rebels." "Raising soldiers is the business of Lebaidai! It's only been a few generations. Zhao Kuangyin neglected the most important point, there were only more than 300,000 forbidden soldiers in his hands, and it was certainly not difficult to feed more than 300,000 people in one Song Dynasty. But when it came to his descendants, in Zhao Zhen's hands, the normal number reached more than 1.2 million, and the highest reached more than 1.4 million. This question is not what Zheng Lang said first, there is Fan Zhongyan in the front, Fan Zhen, Lu Duanchu, Ouyang Xiu, Xiao Song, Cheng Lin, Zhang Fangping, Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo, He Tan, Sima Guang, Cai Xiang, and Zhang Xun and Tian Guo said that the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the disasters brought by the generals. But for the fear of the ancestors, Zhao Zhen and Song Shenzong did not dare to move. Wang Gongchen said in the book, Your Majesty can't do it, the combat effectiveness of raising troops is too low, the Khitan people are not afraid of officials, Zhao Zhen did not think about the elite soldiers, but added strong men in Hebei and other places, and used the number to make up for the combat effectiveness.

These opponents cannot be blindly distinguished by conservatives and radicals, they have conservatives, radicals, "good courtiers" and "bad courtiers". Why didn't Ming Jun like Zhao Zhen and Song Shenzong listen. The idea is different, what they see is only the ancestor of the family, and it is the old ancestor who is good at military affairs, the year is hungry, there are traitors and no rebels, and unfortunately there are rebels and rebels! You can't harm Wanshili because of the present.

So in the end, Song Shenzong gradually failed to support Wang Anshi.

But if you want to innovate, you can't get around the malpractice of redundant soldiers, no matter how gentle Zheng Lang is. But Zheng Lang still didn't grasp the mentality of the little emperor until much later...... is still a little younger, the little emperor trusts Zheng Lang, and some of his thoughts are not fully expressed.

Zheng Lang studied hard, and the object of his study was mainly poetry, especially the Fu he didn't like. This also has a strong utilitarian surname, but helplessly, since the Sui and Tang dynasties opened the scientific examination, until later generations, how important the impact of the examination on the fate of a student or student in his life is understood.

The country seems to continue to be in a smooth transition.

However, in February, news came from Fuzhou that Li Yuanhao had launched an attack on Fuzhou.

Originally, this news, maybe all the ministers let it go. Because Fuzhou is the territory of the Zhe family, the Song Dynasty is only bound to this territory, and has no jurisdiction, like Li Yuanhao, the Li family is in Xiazhou, and the Zhejia is in Fuzhou, all of them are nameless and real emperors.

There are still differences, the Li family has a strong hostility to the Song Dynasty, and the Zhe family, as well as the Fengzhou Wang family, the Linzhou Yang family, the Huanzhou Mu family, the Qingzhou Yao family and other party members are loyal to the Song Dynasty, and some families loyal to the Song Dynasty are distributed in Yinxialing and other states, under the attack of Li Deming and Li Yuanhao's father and son, they had to surrender one after another. In addition to these families, there are also clans, such as the Baima clan in Baekmacheon, Gyeongju, the Jinming clan in Jinming County, Yanzhou, the pheasant clan in Gyeongju Pheasant Plug, the big worm clan in the northwest of Jingzhou, the Rancun clan in Yanzhou Village, or the name of the leader, such as the Eggplant, Wuluo, Chengwang, Balingqi and other clans. Most of them were loyal to the Song Dynasty under the preferential treatment policy.

As for the national view, it is very weak at this time, otherwise Song Taizong would have taken Youzhou City a long time ago. Let's ask the Han people in Youzhou, how many people welcomed the Song army's arrival and raised their flags? If there was no stubborn resistance from the Han people in Youzhou, why did Song Taizong attack so hard and not conquer Youzhou City? In the end, it was a big defeat!

It is Li Yuanhao, a kid, who has the most "national consciousness".

Fuzhou Fold the family to rush to the place, there are Khitans and the hostile Li family under the constant attack, had asked the family to attach, the Song Dynasty did not agree, but in order to let the Fold family for the Song Dynasty to be optimistic about the northwest gate, not only gave them a high degree of autonomy, but also continued to reward, Yu Lu. This was not enough, the war was too hard, so Yizhuang was set up in the Central Plains, or through trading, or through the spoils of war, or by cultivating idle land, to increase income. In short, it was a very bitter shield of the Song Dynasty, which not only held back the expansion of Western Xia, but also blocked the invasion of the Khitans on the Hedong Road from the northwest.

However, in the eyes of the officials of the Song Dynasty, they are still a group of party members!

Bit, the court spent so much money to go down, isn't it just for the sake of razing?

But Zheng Lang mentioned the ambition of Li Yuanhao several times, and compared with history, the minister finally has a sense of vigilance.

The monarch and the ministers discussed it for a while, and called a person, Yang Xu, the deputy envoy of the western transfer of Beijing who had just returned to the capital. It is also a cadre, but there is another reason for calling him here, Li Deming died, the Song Dynasty gave a grand treatment, dropped out of the dynasty three said, Liu E and Zhao Zhen mourned for it, first to the Changfu as a memorial service, the reward was very generous, and then Li Yuanhao was awarded the school master and servant, the difficult festival envoy, [***], to Yang Xuan personally to Xiazhou to proclaim. I didn't want to fight, so I had to give a generous reward. This reward couldn't be thicker, almost on an equal footing with Song Liao.

When Yang Xuan came back, the old lady also died, Zheng Lang said that the party was harmful, and the little emperor asked, Yang Qing, if there were any signs of rebellion against the party, Yang Zhao said no.

It's good if not, Zheng Jiazi is very small and makes a fuss, but Zheng Jiazi's intentions are good, and it's not strange. And it dissolved. Until this express letter came, the Zhe family said very seriously, don't be busy with other things, Li Yuanhao is going to rebel, my family can't support it, and send troops to rescue. Only then did the monarch pay attention to it again.

Li Di said in a deep voice: "Yang Xu, what happened when you went on an envoy, military affairs, must not be hidden. ”

Yang said yes.

With his expression, even Zhao Zhen was suspicious, and said: "There is something in the northwest, it is not a trivial matter, and the secretary cannot mislead the country." ”

The hat was worn very big, and Yang Xue had to tell the truth about what had happened, and sat down first. Just like the old lady's dress, it looks like a piece of clothing, but after changing, as long as the descendants are happy, what does it matter if you give eight out of ten? But at this time, it is different, and the sitting is also very particular.

Yang Xu, as the imperial court's envoy, no matter what the imperial court's attitude towards the party members, your party is still temporarily nominally a feudal courtier of the Song Dynasty, and the envoy came, and came with the name of the king of Pingxi and a large number of rewards, Li Yuanhao should sit humbly at the bottom. The truth is not true, Li Yuanhao sat in the main seat and let Yang Xuan sit in the guest seat. Yang Xuan didn't resist at that time, these party members were very barbaric, they couldn't get a turn on the spot, they immediately rebelled, and they died in a foreign land, and they would become the scapegoat of the court and accept it!

When I stayed at night, I heard a sound behind the house, and I got up and looked, and there was a shack not far away, in which hundreds of people were making weapons. It doesn't matter if you make weapons, you also have them, but when the night is quiet, you are still forging weapons, which shows that it urgently needs a large number of weapons for emergency use. No doubts?

But this time, after returning to the capital, I still didn't dare to say it.

It was like this, but it wasn't like that when it came out of his mouth, the meaning was finally expressed.

Zhao Zhen's eyes were dazed, after last year's catastrophe, the country has not recovered, and it is very likely that there will be a catastrophe, if there is chaos in the northwest, what should I do?

After thinking about it, it was Zheng Lang who said this in advance, and said to Yan Wenying: "You called Zheng Jiazi." ”

It's not excessive, there is still a month, and the palace test is my courtier.

Zheng Lang was called over again, Zheng Lang was also at a loss, I read Confucian calligraphers, I like piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, except for chess, the other three are slightly proficient, but I am not a god. The only strength is familiarity with the direction of history.

That's all, but I haven't studied military affairs.

The little emperor didn't care about his feelings, and said: "Zheng Jieyuan, most of the party items will change, what is your good plan?" ”

Before taking the initiative to attack the Song Dynasty, it could not be regarded as a rebellion. The attack on Fuzhou is not counted, it is an internal affair of the party members, and they often come and attack the past. It is the Yang family, and the Yang Ye family mostly seeks officials in the imperial court, but there are still many clansmen in the Yang family who live in Linzhou, and they have also had conflicts with other party members or migrated Tubo people.

The little emperor said that the movement is a more accurate word.

Zheng Lang looked at a few bigwigs with tears and laughter, and Cai Qi said encouragingly: "Say it, I appreciate you very much, this is a major matter for the country and the people, don't hide it." ”

I don't understand, except for the young hero Wang Deyong, several bigwigs are all civil servants, and they are also incompetent in military affairs. It is Wang Deyong, who is also a brave general, not a commander, if he is asked, he will raise his elbow and say: "Fight, I'm afraid of a bird." ”

As for the consequences of the beating, who will be responsible, I'm afraid it is beyond his wisdom.

Zheng Lang really wanted to say that there was not enough internal affairs to ask Zhang Zhao, and foreign affairs were not enough to ask Zhou Yu, but where is this Zhou Yu?

After being dazed for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, the minister also doesn't understand military affairs. If asked, the minister answered, and Yuan Hao would be undoubted. Shangce connected the Tubo people in the south, and Tubo began to decline, but it was a feud with the party since the Tang Dynasty, and then sent envoys to Shazhou secretly. There was a strong Han Chinese force here, and it was not long before they surrendered to the party. mediate properly, let them cooperate with the Tibetans, and give some rewards, and there is still time to rebel against them. Then support some weapons and materials for the Fuzhou family, not only the Zhijia, but also the Wang family of Fengzhou, they are the bridgehead of our dynasty and must be preserved. Otherwise, let them move their clans to Fulin Erzhou to defend Linyan's strength. This is also a strategy, let Yuan Hao get Fengzhou, it will inevitably have a handover with the Khitans, this person is ambitious, if there is a conflict with the Khitans, it will also be beneficial to our dynasty. Otherwise, Fengzhou is alone, and once Yuan Hao attacks, the Wang family will inevitably not be protected. Then his people were used by Yuan Hao. This is the strategy of the war. ”

"Is there any other solution?" The idea is good, but Zhao Zhen is afraid, it may not be, and this move will force Li Yuanhao to rebel.

"Either don't carry out the diplomatic strategy of vertical and horizontal, starting from Fulin, all the way to Huanqing and other states, build a big fort, transfer forbidden soldiers to guard, Tuntian is self-sufficient, usually train the army and discipline, there are forts for cobwebs, there are strong soldiers to defend the enemy, and the enemy is outside the country." It is the only way to cultivate the strategy of Shiheng and Fan Zhongyan in the northwest! But from now to later, the quality of the surname is completely different.

"The minister heard that Li Yuanhao had set the year name in the party, changed his clothes, name, and writing, and put him on the title of a vulture, and then sent envoys to ask them to give up these unfriendly measures. If you don't listen, you will stop holding the field together. In addition to green salt, the party has no other production, including iron ore, and most of them are imported from the Central Plains. There are others, tea, cloth, porcelain, utensils. After a year of no success, after a few years, he was originally the new leader, and there were many grievances among the party tribes, the Tibetan tribe and the Qiang tribe under his command, and the lack of materials was likely to cause chaos from within. The invasion of our DPRK was blocked by forts, and the internal situation was unstable, and the danger of the party could be relieved. ”

Lu Yijian said: "Zheng Jieyuan, I'm afraid that in one move, the party will invade." ”

"Lu Xianggong, I don't know when I was born in my later life, and it's not right when I was old. If it weren't for a disaster...... The treasury is not tight, and the minister must persuade His Majesty to implement one of the minister's two policies, for fear that as Lu Xianggong said, if it is forced too tightly, Yuan Hao will immediately raise troops to rebel, and if any more disasters occur, it will cause serious turmoil to the country. Or make a decision, sit back and wait, although Fuzhou was invaded, but the strength of the family should not be underestimated, even the Khitan was afraid of them, sent envoys to proclaim, and then gave some materials to support in advance, and sat and watched the development of the situation. ”

Or said that he wanted to support the Ori family.

That's it, Zheng Lang said that it was a decision, and said that it was sitting and waiting to be killed!

However, Zheng Lang glanced at everyone, judging from the expressions on their faces, most of them were this strategy of sitting and waiting to be killed, but he won everyone's support, sighed and said: "The way of the university, the righteous self-cultivation and the family rule the country and the world." Your own country is governed, and the world is peaceful. What is Ping? is not only fair, but also has the meaning of pacifying and killing, so at the beginning of this word, there is a hook. Governing the country requires the way of benevolence, and benevolence in the world can only be supplemented, and the military revolution is the most important. What the minister said is not only the words of the Legalists, but also the way of Confucianism. In the opinion of the ministers, it is best to lay out from now on, the expansion of the party is very fast, the internal instability, Yuan Haoxin's accession to the throne, more decrees, change clothes, change customs, including shaving, many tribes are not satisfied, and it is easier to disintegrate at this time. Once he sits still and waits for him to integrate the internals, the party at this time is not the party at that time, and the harm to our DPRK is immeasurable. ”

How much land did Li Jiqian own at that time? Only a large part of the northwest of Shaanxi and the desert Gobi desert area of Ordos in Nanhetao made the Song Dynasty helpless, and today's party items, starting from Xiazhou, all the way to Lingzhou, to the Hexi Corridor, the remnants of the original Tang Dynasty Han people in Shazhou, to the Uighurs, it is terrifying to think about it.

"There is benevolence and no righteousness, it is the way of the devil, the way of ink. Besides, for these barbarians, they blindly talk about benevolence, and they rarely see their merits in ancient and modern exchanges. The combination of grace and power is the only way to Xuanhua royal road. Therefore, to reinterpret Confucian remarks, once Zheng Lang clarifies this righteous son and becomes a standard, future generations will not be seriously restrained or even infighting! This scourge is far worse than partisan invasion.

This is already Zheng Lang's greatest effort.

If people talk little, no one will listen. The second is the bursting of the Yellow River, which makes Zheng Lang have no choice.

Having said that, it depends on what the bigwigs think.

…… Zheng Lang's words made Zhao Zhen very worried.

But what to do? Several ministers are also conscientious, and they are worthy of their ancestors as emperors to do this kind of work, right? Maybe it's the Zheng family who is worrying about nothing.

The so-called lice are not afraid of itching, which is also one of Zhao Zhen's mentality at this time.

On the 15th of February, Zhang Dexiang and others came out of the Gongyuan. Eating well, dressing well, and living well in the tribute courtyard are not allowed to move freely, and this is also a miserable life, which is similar to imprisonment. Several examiners exhaled a breath of early spring air, how beautiful the outside world is!

The matter was not over, all they decided was to save the test ranking, and then transfer the copied test papers back to the transcription office and hang the real papers. When you can't put the list, use the word instead of the name to put the list, right? For example, if the first place is called the house cow fan, and this house cow fan is placed at the top of the list, what does it become? Moreover, the font size is taken as six characters, and each word is mainly unpopular words. This is a measure to put an end to cheating, and it can't be put on the list, it's out of character!

Therefore, first come out to take a breath, report to the Ministry of Rites, and our ranking has been decided, and then the Ministry of Rites will send people, and even the palace will send people to enter the transcription office with several of them to supervise the process of hanging the scroll. Then the list will be written, and at the same time, the Ministry of Rites announced that the list will be released tomorrow, and everyone should come and see the list.

Let's have fun for everyone first, and then send officials to the major inns to inform them one by one.

As soon as he finished speaking, he asked the emperor to summon him into the palace. Zhao Zhen asked: "Can you see some good rolls this time?" ”

Zhang Dexiang understood, and replied: "There are several cutting-edge volumes, which are very well written, especially one of them, the meaning of the scriptures is very accurate, and although the essays are in ancient prose style, they are majestic and magnificent. Jean recorded the fourth place. However, there is a volume that the ministers are more satisfied with, and the policy is generous and pleasant, which is the minister's appearance, so that the ministers and others won the first place. ”

Your Majesty, you can't stare at Zheng Jiazi alone, there are many talents in the world!

"Fourth place," the little emperor thought about it, but the fourth place was high enough. But it may not be that this volume is Zheng Jiazi's volume, and everything will have to wait until the real volume is opened to know the result. So he said: "Yan Duzhi, you accompany Zhang Qing into the Gongyuan to hang the real scroll." ”

As for the talent of the minister that Zhang Dexiang said, Zhao Zhen couldn't listen to it at all, what kind of minister's talent came up with so many good policies for the country at the age of fifteen or sixteen, sixteen or seventeen? Talents, as Zheng Jiazi said, what I have in my hands is, what I want is the kind of outstanding talent, the kind of Fang Du Yao Tang!

"Whoa."

Yan Wen should re-enter the Tribute Academy along with several chief examiners. But this time, it's Zhang Dexiang who didn't dare to go in for a month, the transcription office! This time, he can only go in once, that is, this time.

Yan Wenying was also nervous, and whispered, "Can you open those volumes?" ”

It seems that there is no rule in the imperial court that prohibits this, and Zhang Dexiang is as close to the Great Song Dynasty and others as he is, so after thinking about it, he started with the nine volumes and hung out the real scrolls. Starting from the last one, there were ninety-eight people. When I opened it, it wasn't. Don't worry, there are still eight servings. opened them one by one, so when they came to the last place, including Yan Wenying, they all thought that this one was about Zheng Lang's volume. The copyist official hung the real scroll open, tore open the seal of the name, no need to look at the name, it is not when you look at the words, and the name is not, Zhang Fangping!

Zhang Dexiang and several officials of the Great Song Dynasty fell into sweat.

I vaguely feel that there is a big trouble.

Yan Wenying whispered, "Maybe you are mistaken, look at the other papers admitted." ”

Still hanging from the last place, not for the sake of mood, the process of this hanging is also a process of re-verification, and only after confirming the list is copied, the first one is hanging below, and the second one is hanging above. When writing the list, write from the first place.

The little emperor said that he wanted to relax the quota, and this time there were many admissions, a total of more than 700 jinshi, but they were not really jinshi, and they were counted only after passing the palace examination. It is necessary to further interpret some of the examples. When he was hung to six hundred and ninety-two, he saw Cui Quanshu, Yan Wenying scratched his ears and said, "Hey, the eldest lang of the Cui family actually hit it." ”

Cui Youjie's two sons were originally unknowns, and even the little emperor Yanjing knew their names.

Zhang Dexiang was also surprised, opened the volume and looked at it again, there were more than 600 of them, and he was not impressed by what good volumes he could have. After looking at it, I realized that the reason for choosing this volume at that time was because Cewen was very old and took the meaning of stability, so he was hired exceptionally.

In the middle of the middle, in the middle of the test, people have become old fritters, and it is also the turn of the middle school.

Continue to look forward, at this time, everyone doesn't want Zheng Lang's name to appear, after all, the ranking is too backward. When he arrived at six hundred and sixteen, he actually saw that it was Cui Quanzhong, Yan Wenying scratched his ears again, and said, "Hey, it's Cui Jiasanlang." ”

Zhang Dexiang was speechless with Da Song, and opened his scroll again, it was still the same, not a very good volume, at that time, Zhang Dexiang was in charge of himself, and he took the meaning of gentleness. But at first the two brothers were in the middle together?

At this time, the ranking was not good to change again, so I had to look at the transcription officer depressedly and turn forward again. Gradually, the top 100 officials were nervous and happy. Later, they didn't want Zheng Lang's name to appear, but they were also nervous, if the top 100 didn't have it, then it would be a lot of trouble.

One by one, they were hung up and gradually entered the top ten.

The five examiners were all sweating a little, and they were all impressed by the top ten papers, except for the two "suspicious" papers selected, only three of the other eight were written in ancient prose. These three are all soft-spoken volumes, and it cannot be said that Zheng Lang's surname is not gentle. But in addition to being mild, these three volumes are all known for being old, and Zheng Jiazi can't be called old. Or did he use his talent to write a strategy in Chinese during this scientific expedition?

Hanging one by one, sixth place, Liu Mu, fifth place, Qingzhou Zhang Tangqing, a very good volume. came to the fourth place, that is, Zhang Fangping's volume, and returned to its original position. There are only three copies left, and the chapter is out of breath.

The third copy was hung open, Luzhou Yang Cha. It definitely has nothing to do with Zheng Lang. The second place continued to be hung open, and Ning Huang Zhen. This test paper also left a deep impression on Zhang Dexiang, if it weren't for the gentleness and elegance of the last paper, several of their examiners were extremely happy, and they almost recorded this paper as a provincial yuan.

The last volume!

Only the last paper was left on the desk alone, but Zhang Dexiang, Li Shu, and Da Song were about to faint.