Putting down the fold, Zhao Zhen said: "Scattered dynasty, all the ministers stay, and the capital hall will discuss matters." ”

The calamities and tribulations are not over, there are incidents in the south, and the culprits of these uprisings are similar to Zhang Yuan.

A Yizhou barbarian, named Ou Xifan, also has some skills, and he was actually admitted to the Jinshi. How difficult it is to take the Jinshi exam, you can look at those students who have failed the list many times, and there are many talented people among these students. As a jinshi, he and his uncle Ou Zhengci served the officials and soldiers of the Song Dynasty and rebelled from Anhua Prefecture. thought that he was very meritorious, but when he saw that the Song Dynasty did not reuse him, he was not convinced, and went to the Drum Courtyard to beat Wenxi, in order to ask the court to reuse him, a unique talent.

Some poor people who have nowhere to redress their grievances come to the capital to try to seek justice for them, but they are not familiar with the various yamen, so they set up Dengwen drums outside the forbidden gate, and the drums sound to the officials to go out, and transfer the case to the procuratorate and the drum court. The two courts also accepted the recitals and expressions of hundreds of civil and military officials and the common people, and all the gains and losses of the court, public and private interests, military secrets, Chen begging rewards, Li Xue's injustices and strange arts, were all accessible.

When the court heard about it, it was meritorious, and I didn't know if what he said was true or not, so it was transferred to Yizhou again and let Zhizhou Feng Shenji deal with it. Feng Shenji is Feng Zheng's son, and he can be regarded as a good official. After receiving the notice, he called him to ask what credit you have made, and you will be truthful.

Ou Xifan began to talk nonsense, thinking that I was sent by the capital, and it didn't matter if I talked nonsense. Don't be mistaken, Lao Feng is also a wealthy family, how can you be deceived by a little barbarian. Halfway through hearing this, Feng Shenji knew that he was mostly lying falsely, and sent someone down to check. The result is all nonsense, and there is no credit for that at all. This was decided to be a violation of the law, and Feng Shenji handed it over to the whole state, and the officials of the whole state supervised his people. There is mainly fame in the body, and it is not easy to deal with it, otherwise there will be no matter of killing him this year.

Soon after, Ou Xifan absconded from Jeonju and returned to his hometown, and his heart was even more unconvinced. After being in the army for a long time, he saw that the southern army of the Song Dynasty was cowardly, and he and his uncle bewitched the chief of Baiyashan to conspire with Libo Cave to organize an armed rebellion, planning to seize Guangxi and establish the Tang Dynasty. After planning, an altar was set up to build a platform, and the cow was killed and sacrificed to the sky. The ceremony was held, the establishment was respected, and Dai Meng was supported as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Ou Zheng resigned as the king of Fengtian Kaiji to build the country, Ou Xifan was the minister of Shenwu Dingguo Gonggui, and Liao Chen was the general of Youyi. Meng Yu is the general of Lei Xing, Ou Shiyong is the holy general of the flying sky, and there are more than 30 officials of all sizes, bowing to the north to show that they are under the mandate of heaven to crusade against the Song Dynasty.

The place of the incident was in Guizhou, which was very remote, and the officials of the Song Dynasty still did not know. In the middle of the first month of this year, Ou Xifan led more than 500 soldiers and waved the flag. In one fell swoop, he broke through the unguarded Huanzhou City, robbed the state seal, burned its state treasury, formed a Wucheng army in Huanzhou City, and continued to march to the northwest, even breaking through Ningzhou and Puyi Village, and the team quickly grew 1,500 people.

When Zhao Zhen received the news from the south, Ou Xifan had already broken through Yizhou City. This made Zhao Zhen feel that the sky was going to fall. Why does the trouble keep going on? Since spring. Shuiluo City he has an attitude with Zheng Lang, what is the matter with him the emperor. Once you get in, you can't get it and you don't like it on both sides, and you are ashamed, but the drought in Jianghuai is getting worse, Di Qing went to Guiyang and there is no news coming back, and it is rumored that there is a barbarian rebellion in Yizhou, which seems to be no less than Guiyang barbarian. What's going on? I asked myself that this emperor was not doing badly, so I thought hard and didn't know what he did wrong.

When he came to the capital, Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, for example, in a big family, there are many children, not every child is obedient, occasionally there are one or two unscrupulous children, it is reasonable, Your Majesty don't worry." The reason why things keep happening in the south is that the imperial court has poor handling methods. The habitual son is not good, and the fertile field is deflated with rice. The South must be managed, and the plan for thorough governance must gradually be put on the table. However, there are strong enemies in the northwest, and the focus cannot be shifted to the south immediately. ”…,

This is a bit of a hassle.

Zheng Lang thought about it, the first is the army, the south is not to reduce the army, if you want to control, you must increase the army, now the south of the two Zhejiang Road and Fujian Road do not count, even if there is something, the problem does not matter. Jinghu Road was forced by Meishanman and others, so the forbidden army had to be increased to about 60 battalions, and there were only nine battalions in the entire Lingnan to command, and only eight battalions to command the Xichuan Fourth Road, including Chengdu Fu Road, Zizhou Road, and Lizhou Road. As for Kuizhou Road, even Zhizhou is a good grandson of the chieftain of the family, and he dares to set up an army?

It's definitely not going to work.

If you want to really control it, you need to increase the army by at least 30,000 troops, divided into six places, with 5,000 men each, so that you can concentrate your forces, which is the bare minimum, otherwise it is impossible to really control such a wide area. And you can't let the imperial court send forbidden soldiers to come, the terrain and climate are not adaptable, it is too hard to come and go, and when the northerners arrive here, the combat effectiveness will also be seriously reduced.

If you recruit strong people from the local area, it will cause a lot of controversy.

First of all, this becomes an unsolvable problem.

There is also civilization and assimilation, teaching them advanced farming techniques, which is not very difficult, the difficulty is only the officials below, whether they will implement it. Then find a way to change their living habits and synchronize with the Han people, this can't be rushed, and a hurry will be a mess. Moreover, a large number of Han people must be filled, otherwise no matter how Sinicized and civilized, there will be a hero like Nong Zhigao in the end. But places like Kuizhou Road, for the Han people, are hell on earth, who dares to go? And not being able to kill all these brutes is still a problem.

It's okay not to develop, but once developed, all these difficulties will come up.

So I continued to do so. In his previous life, he laughed at the Song Dynasty, and this time it was his turn to preside over the national affairs of the Song Dynasty, and he had to adopt the method of reluctance in many places to eliminate the accumulation.

He also said: "Your Majesty can issue an edict to let Du Qi (some of the annals are Du (Mu Ji) go to exterminate, if Di Qing's bandit suppression is over, you can observe the situation, transfer Di Qing across the five mountains, cooperate with Du Qi, and pacify the bandits as appropriate." ”

Du Qi is Du Hao's second son, he is a killing star, he hates these barbarians who don't know what to do, so he lured him to the wine alliance, put Meng sweat medicine into the wine, made him drowsy, and nearly 1,000 people killed him. After Ou Xifan caught it, he chopped it into meat sauce and passed the sauce to the chiefs of the southwest, so that you can see that this is the end of daring to rebel, and the southwest was quickly pacified. The chieftains were all terrified. It's a little cruel, but it works well. However, the Menghan drinking party finally lost his trust, and Du Qi was also helpless, he did not have many soldiers in his hands, and the south was mostly a place where incompetent officials were degraded, and the officialdom was far more corrupt than the mainland, so he could only use this method to level the bandits. Therefore, Zheng Lang admonished Di Qing to pacify Guiyang Man, and then turned over the South Ridge. Cooperate with Du Qi to suppress. Kill, and kill openly.

If you change to other officials, and then talk about benevolence, you can only talk about it worse and worse.

Zhao Zhen was also helpless and said, "It's up to Zheng Qing." ”

Anyway, the Song Dynasty is now a big hole, and it can only be repaired where it is broken, and if you want to change into new clothes, there is no way.

The bigwigs of the two governments went back to their respective office locations.

On the way, Fan Zhongyan said: "Xingzhi." You have always had a tacit relationship with Zhigui, and Shi Lu has served as your subordinate, so you can write to persuade you, it will not be good if you continue to make trouble like this. ”

No matter what, you are also a gentleman. Now everyone is arguing, and you don't say a word.

Zheng Lang asked rhetorically: "Brother Xiwen, isn't Zhigui your friend, and Shilu is also not your friend." On the contrary, although Shi Lu once served as my subordinate, my relationship with him is very uneventful, far inferior to yours. You can't persuade me, how can I persuade me? ”

I want to persuade and am simple. You handed over the position of the leading big brother, and you are done.

But this time Han Qi didn't fight, not because of his political achievements, in the hearts of these gentlemen, the so-called morality is far better than his political achievements, Han Qi's morality is not as good as Fan Zhongyan, and he lost without a fight. But what does they know about true morality? …,

Fan Zhongyan hadn't figured it out yet, and said, "But I fell in." You're in the game. More convincing. ”

"Brother Xiwen, I saw Uncle Yong's performance the day before yesterday. It is said that Shuiluo City, Qingjian City, and Dashun City are the three most important villages in the northwest, let me ask you, is the great trouble of my henchmen in the territory of the Deshun Army, or Yuan Hao and Khitan? ”

"It's the latter, these Shengqiang must also be controlled, otherwise they will be eroded in the rear, and the consequences will be no less than Yuan Hao's invasion."

"Brother Xiwen, I know what you think, Cao Wei didn't run Shuiluo City, but at that time, my dynasty was hostile to Tubo, and Western Xia was not as dangerous as it is today. But now, Western Xia is the common enemy of Tubo and our dynasty, and the situation has changed, and the blind felt has separated from his father and returned to our dynasty. Even if there is some disobedience, the hostility is not heavy. At this time, at that time, how can it be compared with Cao Weishi? Let's talk about Qingjian City, when Fan Yong was in Yanzhou, our dynasty was empty, Jinmingzhai was lost, the role of Qingjian City is obvious, with the completion of Zhuzhai Fort one after another, is the importance of Qingjian City declining? However, the location of the Dashun City you built is very important. What kind of place is L.A.D.? To tell the truth, in terms of familiarity with Jingyuan Road and understanding of military affairs, Xiwen, are you and Zhigui, Shilu and me? ”

Fan Zhongyan couldn't make a sound.

"You said that Shuiluo City is very important, but after thinking about it, I don't see where it is important. You can do it, but you can do it if you don't do it. If it is important, your Dashun City, as well as the Slender Waist City, as well as the Qinghuan Zhuzhai, and the Zhuzhai north of Zhenrong Village, which village is not more important than Shuiluo City? It's just a small Shuiluo City, is it worth so much excitement? Why did it become one of the three major villages in the northwest, and it is still at the top of it? ”

"Uncle Yong didn't go to the northwest and didn't know about it."

"Dare to make assertions without understanding the situation? Is it true that the country is governed not by actual investigation, but by imagination? Brother Xiwen, this is governing the country, Your Majesty trusts you and gives you all the power, even when Lu Yijian is in the phase, he is not as good as you have the current rights. That's a lot of trust. But the country, every move, implicates the happiness of many people. Yan Guo saw that you Zhu criticized unqualified officials, and he couldn't bear to abolish them at every turn, saying that if you approved this batch, a family would cry for it, and you said that it is better for a family to cry than to cry all the way. What kind of sentiment is this? However, governing the country can be regarded as writing poetry, and when the hair is gray, it is said that the white hair is 3,000 long, and the Yellow River comes from a distance, so it is said that the Yellow River does not originate in Qinghai, but the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky. If a family does not have enough to eat, they say that the world is terrible, and the people are all poor and have no food, and they are about to be in chaos......"

"Uncle Yong is a minister, his words are exaggerated, and it doesn't matter if the problem is asked."

"The impeachment of Yanchen must also seek truth from facts, and it can't be fabricated out of thin air, even if it can, but just an inconsequential Shuiluo City has become like this, so what about a much larger country? Brother Xiwen, compared to the country, what is a small Shuiluo City, and how many walled forts have been built in the four roads over the years. Don't you think it's unrealistic to lead this group of people to govern the country, reform the old evils, and work hard? Besides, Zhang Yu, as you know, is very brave in battle, but he comes from a humble background, from an ordinary Han family in Fuzhou, and the status of a military general is low, because you are fighting for each other, but you have become your shield and a tool for Yin Zhu, isn't it funny? ”

"Although Zhang Qi was mentioned, it didn't mean that he was bad......"

"You didn't say that Zhang Qi was bad, but he was caught between you, pushed over, and blocked the past, what would you think in your heart? From more than ten years ago, because of Empress Guo's affairs, you hated Lu Yijian, until last year, Lu Yijian was bedridden, and you continued to attack. I don't want to evaluate whether it's right or wrong, but when it comes to the prime minister's actions, although Jun is unparalleled in the world, he is less than one-tenth of Lu Yijian's. Brother Xiwen, think about it again, am I right? Xiwen, let me ask you again, you can't settle a water city, there are so many shortcomings in this country, what means do you use to govern them one by one? ”