The appearance of the matter is that the colonel deprived the soldiers and collected money for himself, which led to the corruption of military discipline.! But it's not the truth.

The truth is a sentence, the price of the capital is expensive, and it is not easy to live in a big place.

In order to defend the Beijing Division, the Song Dynasty moved the families of the forbidden army to the capital, and there were forbidden troops in other places, but most of the forbidden soldiers in the capital were sent to various places in rotation. Their families are still in the capital, which can ensure that they are loyal to the court and dare not betray the court.

If it is better outside the city, if the family is in the city and there is no other income at home, the family will have a very hard life, not only the soldiers, but also the low-ranking colonels, may not be able to live a life of food and clothing. Besides, there are layers of deductions from the officials above.

Due to the pressure of life, many soldiers did business in the barracks, or because of poverty, let their wives work in the barracks as military prostitutes.

It can be understood, but the army cannot be made such an army.

Zheng Lang wrote a memo to explain this reason, the capital must also retain a large number of soldiers' families, otherwise the scholars will not be at ease. However, some regulation needs to be made, such as Jingxi Road, which is still very empty at this time, has enough space for farming, the cost of living is also low, and it is not far from the capital, and Jingxi Road such as Yeju is still an important part of Gyeonggi. It can be filled with some fifth-class households living in poverty, who have good physical fitness, bravery, and some martial arts to enter the forbidden army, and arrange their families in the states of Jingxi Road.

But not a troop surge.

Take the initiative to lay off some soldiers who are unwilling to become soldiers, especially soldiers or low-level generals whose families have heavy burdens and other ways out, and whose families are in the capital. Keep the soldiers alive and motivated.

It's not a solution yet.

Yes, and there is no need to study the Tang Dynasty. Conscription on the spot, in order to form the harm of the division of the feudal town, but there is no need to move the family members to live in the capital, scattered in the countryside, there is not such a high cost of living, with the Song Dynasty's forbidden military treatment, all kinds of ugly phenomena will be seriously reduced. But will this solution work? Necessarily not. Therefore, a compromise strategy is proposed.

But it didn't pass, without him, there was too much money to control the river, even if it was right to admit it. I don't dare to enforce it.

But Zheng Lang's book has attracted the attention of some people.

In fact, there is another case, Qi Jiguang uses soldiers who are all rural soldiers, simple and can endure hardships, dare to fight, and do not need such a high living treatment. The nature is similar.

Moreover, the strongest Western Army of the Song Dynasty was not the strong Forbidden Army, but some strong soldiers and village soldiers in it. As a result, the combat effectiveness of the entire Western Army became the first combat strength of the Song Dynasty.

The Khitan soon had a reply.

In fact, Yelu Hongji was not evil to the Song Dynasty, and he did miss Zheng Lang a little. But let the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty think crookedly together. Yelu Hongji's head melon seed, that ability to come up with incomparably complex ideas?

And the Khitan magnates also fell to the Song Dynasty.

It's easy to understand.

If you have children in Japan, or if you have interests in Japan, will you agree to take back the Diaoyu Islands?

A large number of naked officials' families are all in the United States, their property is also in the United States, and their interests are in the United States, will they agree with the country's tough attitude on the Diaoyu Islands, which will lead to war?

But they didn't think of one thing, and the more they feared it, the more they would come to their door. If they are too soft, they will be forced to fight, and they will not end well. In the same way, the Song Dynasty or the Khitan did not have the living space of naked officials, but there was one thing, interests.

Peace for a long time, regardless of the open market and mutual market. Or private smuggling, forming a huge chain of interests in the Khitan, the larger the transaction volume, the larger the chain of interests. There were also some ministers at the beginning of the Qingli period who supported the war against the Song dynasty. Today, there is almost no market for this kind of voice.

This situation is very dangerous for the Khitan, once the Song Dynasty really gets better, seeing that the Khitan is getting softer and softer, it is possible to launch a battle to recover the sixteen states of Youyun again. Of course, there is a premise that the Song Dynasty can get better and better.

The Khitans, from the king to the ministers, did not want to fight with the Song Dynasty, and did not want to see the canal built to Cangzhou, so they asked the envoy to question. Now I get a huge benefit, I have a step down, so I can divert my attention.

However, the Song Dynasty should give people the impression that Qian Duo is stupid, although Yelu Hongji is not evil to the Song Dynasty, and he does not want to let go of the opportunity.

Under this premise, envoys were sent to the Song Dynasty to negotiate, and the lion opened his mouth and extorted a lot. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and time did not disappoint Zheng Lang, but the content of the agreement disappointed Zheng Lang. All livestock is almost more than double the market value.

sighed and acquiesced.

At this time, he didn't want to have anything to do with the Khitan.

But there was another thing that caused a stir.

Zheng Lang's test.

Because of the backward medical conditions, many diseases are not good, not only the southern barbarians believe in witchcraft, but the people of the Central Plains also believe in all kinds of strange methods. For example, Fu Gong Fu Shui, Jumping God, and this pill, as well as burning incense to worship various gods, of course, because the Central Plains civilization is advanced, half of it is on the right track, and the use of acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat diseases may not all work, but it is definitely better than the former.

Among them, there are really a lot of people who knock pills.

At the end of the first month, all 10 prisoners were released.

None of them died, these people committed the death penalty, most of them were in the middle of the romance to bite the gold, killing people and goods, doing all kinds of evil, and their physical fitness was very strong, but after eating a large dose of pills for half a year, all of them were poisoned with lead, or mercury poisoning, or other non-ferrous metal poisoning.

Zheng Lang's family in the capital handed a letter to Zhongshu that Zheng Lang had written half a year ago sealed with fire paint.

Explain the reason, the beginning of the refining of the outer pill is a medicinal material, because its shape is round and flowing, easy to volatilize, and has a certain benign effect, such as the good medicine Ren Dan and Ren Dan in later generations, and it cannot be killed with a stick. But then he went on a different path and added gold and stone or mercury to refine.

These material metal elements are tribute, carbon, tin, lead, copper, gold, silver, etc. Oxides include three elixirs, yellow pills, lead pills, arsenic, quartz, purple quartz, magnetite, lime, etc. Sulfides include dansa, realgar, orpiment, and various chlorides, nitrates, carbonates, borates, sulfates, kaolin mixed stones, and silicates. As well as alloys such as amalgamation (copper-zinc alloy), platinum (copper, copper-nickel alloy), pewter (lead-tin alloy), amalgam of various metals, vinegar wine, etc.

Some of these substances can be used as medicines, but there are many substances that can be frightening when you hear their names.

Therefore, it will cause people to have various metal poisoning, such as mercury poisoning, headache, fatigue, forgetfulness and mental abnormalities, numbness around the mouth and extremities, sensory impairment, speech impairment, unsteady gait, reduced visual field, hearing impairment, as well as muscle atrophy and muscle spasms. Not wanting to talk is a symptom of mercury poisoning.

Lead poisoning is manifested as dizziness, general weakness, muscle and joint aches, inability to eat, constipation or diarrhea, hepatomegaly, liver tenderness, jaundice, increased blood pressure, or paralysis, severe headache, convulsions, delirium, convulsions, stupor, and even coma.

Copper poisoning is manifested by a metallic taste in the mouth, salivation, nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, diarrhea, profuse sweating, thirst, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, dizziness, dry throat, cough, chest pain, and dyspnea. Sometimes nausea and loss of appetite.

Write out the various metal poisoning reactions.

I also wrote the chemical reaction equations of several common pills, which do not need to be written in English. Instead, they are marked one by one with Chinese nouns, indicating what substance they will react to.

Finally, I said that these reactions are all pre-symptoms, and if you continue to take them, they will eventually affect your life.

Anyway, pills containing gold stones, tigers and wolves, or mercury cannot be eaten, as the light ones will affect people's health, and the heavy ones will lead to death.

There is no evidence for the words, but there are experimenters.

Because the emperor wants to eat small balls. Several Chinese book bosses did not dare to slack off, and brought ten prisoners over to watch in person. None of them died, but they were all deeply poisoned by metal poison and were dying, and their disease reactions were compared with the various metal poisoning reactions marked by Zheng Lang, one by one. Some have been poisoned by one metal, while others have been poisoned by several metals.

said that if you don't die, you can be released, but they all become sick people. If it is released, it will not harm the people.

But this is a prisoner, all of them are strong and powerful, if the emperor's small body is taken by it, what will happen? shivered one by one, not only the emperor, but also his own family seemed to have eaten it.

Enter the palace immediately and explain the situation.

Zhao Zhen was surprised when he heard this, and asked ten prisoners to be brought up, some of whom were so sick that they couldn't even walk. None of them are alive. Zhao Zhen turned to the side and gave some rewards to let them go home. If they are sick like this, it is estimated that they will not live long if they want to, so let them go home and reunite with their families for a few months.

Then an edict was issued, prohibiting any Dao palace from using materials such as gold and stone for alchemy, and it was okay to use them for alchemy, but it could not be used as medicine for the common people to eat.

Seeing the edict, Zheng Lang smiled with relief.

Taoism, Buddhism, or Christianity, the original meaning is to teach people to turn evil to good. Zheng Lang is not very repulsive, compared to the invasion of the land occupied by Buddhism, the Taoist evil is much smaller, but this little pill makes him unbearable.

It was worth spending 5,000 yuan to correct people's misunderstanding.

May has arrived in the blink of an eye, Huangmei Tian, the rainy season in Huainan has arrived, and the project has to be stopped. Zheng Lang ignored the fact that the first wave of impact was about to be ushered in by various projects, and went to Huazhou.

Last winter was not very cold, but this year it rained a lot.

Because of the rainy days, the Yellow River swelled, and some areas were flooded.

This is not the key, the key is the sixth, the Liuta River is not the Liuta River in history, and the river topography is not the river topography in history, but the scale is there. It's possible that something will happen to the Sixth Silicon, or it may not. If something happens, it will not affect the water conservancy under construction, and all these projects are in the south of Jishui and cannot be impacted. But it will also drown many people, and it will inevitably cost a lot of money to rescue the court afterwards.

Hearing the news of the rising water of the Yellow River, Zheng Lang personally returned to Huazhou from Chuzhou, inspected the local topography, and decided to choose a low-lying place with a large amount of salinity, first build a dike, and then open the Yellow River and divert water to inject it, so that it can function as a water storage lake.

However, this area was originally diverted with water, and there was a slight harvest, because it required a large amount of water to be stored, including some fertile land. Although Zheng Lang said that the imperial court would pay for his losses, the local people did not agree.

This compensation is useless, if the crops in the barren land are good to compensate, there are good fields, and there are houses, even if Zheng Lang personally presides over the compensation, there will inevitably be some people who will lose more than they lose. The imperial court wants to dig embankments to drain water, why did you choose us here?

Seeing that the water level was getting higher and higher, Zheng Lang was a little anxious. Officials were ordered to forcibly move the people to higher places to prepare for the flood.

The people were unwilling, Huazhou was far away from the capital, and soon the capital heard the news, it may be that the officials of Huazhou secretly reported to the above, Zhao Zhen asked Han Qi and Han Jiang to come over to inquire in person.

Han Qi looked at it, came to the embankment to find Zheng Lang, and said, "Xingzhi, it's too hasty. ”

"It's not sloppy, childish. If you look at this water level, I have asked some officials that the water level in the first year of the Emperor's reign was only less than two feet away from the water level at this time. Perhaps two feet is a huge number for the capacity of the embankment. But the rain continued to fall, and the water level was still skyrocketing. If it happens again, it will not only affect the finances, but also drown many people. "At least this release will relieve the pressure on the Yellow River. The people were transferred in advance, and no one would die.

"Can you conclude that something big is going to happen to the Yellow River?"

"Childish. How can it be determined? Do you have to wait for an accident to be determined? ”

"Xingzhi, this digging embankment, more than 70,000 acres of good land, plus silt fields, some depressions, nearly 2,000 hectares of cultivated land, more than 3,000 households' housing property, mulberry and hemp fruit trees, overnight turned into Wudan."

"But it's better than eventually the embankment bursting on its own. Not only was the Yellow River project not repaired. Even if it is repaired, if it is in the flood season, it is necessary to learn to use some barren and low-lying places to forcibly release floodwater. ”

However, neither of them could convince anyone.

Hearing that Han Qi spoke for them, many people rushed over, bowed in front of Zheng Lang and Han Qi, and said, "Zheng Xianggong." We know you're a good officer, but we don't want to give up our homeland, so please let us go. ”

This is what Zheng Lang is most afraid of.

Hearing that things had taken a turn for the better, more people came together and knelt down on the embankment.

Han Jiang said in a low voice, "Gong Zheng." That's not right. ”

also used Han Jiang to say that Zheng Lang himself was also instigated. Don't say that the surging public opinion does not dare to forcibly dig the embankment, if Han Qi does not agree with the authority, he cannot disobey the order either. Faced with the sound of begging, Zheng Lang didn't say a word, took the guards on the boat, and left Huazhou.

When I returned to Huainan, I immediately went down to inspect it. Later generations brought him a lot of inspiration, but can not be copied, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River basin have not been because of the Yellow River into the Huai, the limbs are broken, Haizhou (Lianyungang) and Rugao also have the flow into the sea, but the amount of water is not large, mainly along Chuzhou to the east, from the Lianshui territory into the sea, as for the later Binhai, Yancheng, Shecheng, Dafeng most of them are still below the sea level, did not surface the sea.

This also brings convenience to the management of Huai.

Another point is that although the water volume in the Huaihe River basin is huge, it is far less than that of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, otherwise Zheng Lang's plan to move the sand storage tank from the Sanbai Canal will also fail.

Whether it can be successful or not, we must go and inspect it one by one, to see the amount of water absorbed, as well as the quality of the steep gate, and the amount of sand after the water enters the lake.

But soon, everyone's attention was not attracted by Zheng Lang's comings and goings, but by what happened in the northwest.

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did not hide the false Pang and Li Liangzuo's struggle for power entered a white heat. When Yuan Hao was alive, the three major generals of the Western Xia had a promise, and they were all skills at the beginning. In order to use their power, they were given more rights.

Brother Ning Lingge fled, and there were rumors in Western Xia, and he didn't hide the slander Pang and needed to rely on the three generals, because the three generals were tyrannical and the military system was outside. However, in the subsequent series of wars, there was no hidden false Pang through some arrangements, or weakened by the hands of the enemy in disguise, or withered. Because he did not hide Pang unscrupulous, he instigated Li Shougui and assassinated his sister.

However, it is not easy to hide the clan, before she died, she arranged a wonderful chess piece and placed her henchmen on the position of Wuzang. After the death of the Muzang clan, the attitude of the Wuzang False Pang began to change, from respect to sluggishness. Because of the indignation in his heart.

The biggest blow was still the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty not only blamed Wuzang's death for being unclear, but also blamed Wuzang for his ambition, invasion of farming, and invasion as the enemy, so he dismissed all the mutual markets in the field, strictly investigated the illegal salt, and resisted the impact of green salt by solving the salt. Even in order to sanction Western Xia, even livestock were not wanted.

The opposition at home is stronger.

In addition, his son was unwilling to wear a green hat, so the father and son conspired day and night, ambushed the soldiers in the bedroom, lured Li Liangzuo to the banquet, and the soldiers came out, killed Li Liangzuo, and then appeased the people of the Western Xia by marrying the trouble, and stole all the Western Xia power. I didn't expect the Liang family to know about it, and immediately went to the palace to report.

Li Liangzuo was furious when he heard this, jumped up, and said, "It's against the sky, it's against the sky." ”

Liang pulled his sleeve and said, "King, you can't be in a hurry, think about how many soldiers His Majesty has controlled in the country, and how many ministers are willing to obey the king's orders?" ”

Just asked, Li Liangzuo stopped jumping, and said worriedly: "Aifei, what do you say?" ”

The Liang family is his favorite concubine, but Li Liangzuo has regarded the Liang family as his beloved woman, and he calls all of them concubines in private.

"The king, the concubine wants to see two people."

"Those two people?"

"The first is a man."

"This person is available."

"There is another person, who is to make an idea for His Majesty, and let the concubines secretly hide the father and son, in case they have no ambitions, and they want to harm His Majesty's advisers."

"I don't know this person, and he also said it to me in secret, and I only informed you, and it was probably a staff member of Manba's family."

"There is also some wisdom in Baa," Liang's eyes flashed, weighing the weight in his heart, and said, "Can you let the concubine talk to Manbaa." ”

It's not easy, at this time, the palace is also full of eyeliner that doesn't hide the father and son. The meeting of the three of them, if it is not arranged properly, will quickly reach the ears of Wu Zang, since he has decided to kill Li Liangzuo, then anything can be done.

"You go back first, and come back tomorrow night."

"Your Majesty, you must be careful," Liang gave a salute and returned to the Wuzang Mansion.

When her husband saw her return, his eyes erupted with fire, and Liang was silent, twisting his waist and going into the house to rest. The next night came again, I don't know, I know, the Liang family saw that some armor soldiers were quietly stationed in the Liang Mansion, and there were no hidden two tigers in the six tigers, no Tibetan Qingdu, and no hidden Naiyan. Knowing that he would soon do something about it, he eagerly rushed to the palace again.

Li Liangzuo took her to a secret room, there were three people sitting in the secret room, and one of them was Manba, but there were two people next to her, and Liang was shocked when he saw it.

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