Zheng Lang seemed to understand, but ...... Can it be done?

The twenty-four-year-old Privy Counsellor is an unprecedented example, and if this rate rises, it is possible that he will be able to become Prime Minister at the age of thirty, and no exception can be made.

Zheng Lang doesn't want to, as the governor of Shaanxi, does he have the qualifications and ability?

I don't want to be it, now there are too many fierce people in Shaanxi, Han Qi, Pang Ji, and Fan Zhongyan, one is more difficult than the other. Who do you convince to obey your own orders?

sighed: "Really speaking, there is only Cao Cong." ”

Haoshuichuan was defeated, the Western Xia people plundered the people and returned to Tiandu Mountain, Cao Congfa cavalry set up an ambush for him, and the thieves abandoned the people and led them away. He also lured Tubo as a horn, and also made Xizhou merchants contact the prince of Shazhou Town, and he sent an envoy to write a letter saying, I am a nephew of Tang, and the son of heaven is really my uncle, since the party item broke Ganliang, so he is separated from Han, and now he is willing to lead the leader to fight thieves for the court.

has the ability, has military exploits, has strategy, and has a long-term vision, and actually sees Shazhou.

Although he is a military general, he is a famous general, a national abbot, and can play the ministers of the Western Qun, and he is the most suitable candidate.

However, the legal system of the ancestors, although Zheng Lang said it, also knew that it was impossible.

Zhao Zhen shook his head on the dragon chair.

Zheng Lang laughed himself and said, "Don't take it seriously, you continue to say, I'm young and ignorant." ”

More than a dozen bigwigs laughed and laughed.

However, considering the military capabilities, there are really no good candidates. I don't believe it, let Lu Yijian and Zhang Dexiang go, which is also unqualified.

Lu Yijian closed his eyes and said, "It's better to let Song Zhen go to Shaanxi." ”

Conspiracy, naked conspiracy.

Zheng Lang shook his head in his heart, in fact, in terms of the ability of officials to govern, at least the contribution made in the phase, Zhao Zhen Chao Lu Yijian should be the first.

However, De Ying is very problematic.

Song Zhen said that Fan Zhongyan should be clicked, Lu Yijian thought it was inappropriate, and Du Yan and Zheng Lang also said fair things and did not kill them. Later, when punishing Fan Zhongyan, Song Zhen once again blamed Fan Zhongyan for not communicating with Yuan Hao.

Everyone else shook their heads, Lu Yijian, you have changed too much.

I don't know if Lu Yijian is really for the country, or to show his generous belly.

Zheng Lang stayed in Xifu for more than ten days, and the more he stayed, the more he felt that the pool was too deep, but he also realized that he always did not open his mouth except when he had no choice but to do so, and he did not even approve the Xifu recital.

And because of other affairs, Song Zhen and Lu Yijian also had some conflicts. But Zhao Zhen saw that Song Zhen was loyal and kind, and he liked it very much, and Lu Yijian was very jealous. happened to borrow Fan Zhongyan's affair and squeezed Song Zhen several times.

Yan Shu is old, and he is qualified to say that I have no military ability, and I don't go to Shaanxi, Song Zhen can't say it, and he was squeezed by Lu Yijian again.

Zhao Zhen solved the problem for the Great Song Dynasty and said: "Song Zhen doesn't know about military affairs. ”

But Zheng Lang knew that it wouldn't be long before Song Zhen would be excluded from the Dongfu by Lu Yijian's wrists, and Song Zhen's friend Zheng Jian would be squeezed to Hangzhou with his friends.

This friend is a little wronged, you must know that Zheng Jian is Fan Zhongyan's joint relative.

Now that Chen Zhizhong has arrived in Hangzhou, I don't know where Zheng Jian will squeeze into, but Zheng Lang doesn't want Zheng Jian to go to Hangzhou. It may not be a good thing to go to Hangzhou, it is better to let Zhang Guan go to Hangzhou.

Zhang Guan can't do it, Song Zhen can't do it, Yan Shu can't do it, that's okay?

There was silence in the study.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zheng Lang again, and Zheng Lang shook his head. Except for Cao Cong, none of the others are suitable. Either they don't understand military affairs, or they don't have the qualifications to ambush the ministers.

Zheng Lang is afraid that he will also go to the northwest soon, he is a big man, but he will not be the official of this chief.

The matter dragged on.

Zheng Lang returned to the inn, and suddenly more than a dozen big men came, this group of big men was a little strange, the oldest was close to fifty years old, and the younger one was only in his twenties. The two leaders are even more strange, and the rest of the people are dressed as samurai, but these two are dressed as scribes.

"...... you?"

"We were sent by Wang De with the prime minister." A scribe said.

Xu Xu explained that his name was Liu Xuanrui, a Confucian student from Gyeongju, with a fierce surname, and he was in the middle of the lift, not in the Jinshi, since the invasion of Yuan Hao, he felt the shame of the country and decided to abandon the pen and follow Rong.

Another scribe was Chang Deming, a native of Shudi, who, like Zhang Fangping, liked to read military books.

The two studied in the capital and hit it off. It happened that Liu's father was Wang Deyong's disciple in the past, so he defected to Wang Deyong.

Wang Deyong was speechless, how noble are the literati now, and there are still people who abandon literature and follow martial arts? And he is now cautious, lest he make a mistake and let the civil servants pull their braids, and in the inland land, there is no room for them to play.

It is the children of the deceased, who are warmly entertained, and then sigh for a long time.

He is a military general, the country is in trouble, but he can't go into battle to kill the enemy, how can he not be uncomfortable?

However, this is the ancestral legal system of the Song Dynasty, the military generals have made meritorious contributions, they have also been promoted, and they have been rewarded, and when they have risen to a certain level, they will begin to retire, and they will not let you really touch the military power, in case the dictatorship of the military generals happens.

happened to hear that Zheng Lang came to the capital, Wang De still has this bit of brain, it is impossible for Zheng Lang to really be a privy deputy envoy in the capital, and he wants to go to the northwest. So let them come, the two were scribes, but they had military talents, and they were the talents most needed in the northwest.

Then a dozen more humble guests were sent.

These family members turned out to be Wang Deyong's beloved pawns, and some of them were from Lingzhou and other Western Xia territories, and later their borders were submerged in Western Xia, and they never returned. He is very familiar with the terrain, characters and customs in Western Xia.

Wang De picked them and sent them to Zheng Lang in one go.

The two families are related, and his children are not angry one by one, Zheng Lang has made meritorious contributions to the position, and he will take care of the Cui family and the Cui family, so that he can take care of his family after his death. These old pawns have followed them for many years, and if there are no accidents, they will eventually die of obscurity. It is better to let them go to the battlefield to make a real name than to die of old age.

These veterans, coupled with Wang Deyong's prestige in the northwest and some connections, will also be of great help to Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang was stunned, and finally said wordlessly: "Thank you, Xianggong Wang." ”

Stayed.

How much ability there is can only be seen after going to the northwest and can be appointed. But these people are undoubtedly the living map of the northwest, okay, Wang De used this time to help himself.

Of course, it's Zheng Lang, and the others Wang Deyong don't dare to do more about it, and they will be unlucky if they don't get it right.

Zheng Lang could have left them behind, but no, and took them directly to the barracks to stay with those Jurchens.

Laymen can't understand it, including Zheng Lang, they only think that these Jurchens are strong, and in the eyes of Wang Deyong's subordinates, they immediately see the difference. An old soldier named Wang Yong said in a deep voice: "What a fierce soldier." ”

This person is a member of the party, and he followed Wang De with his surname and surname Wang. Secretly compared the party members with this group of people, and finally came to a conclusion.

Zhao Bao came over and asked, "Zheng Xianggong, will we be officials of the Song Dynasty in the future?" ”

The words of the Song Dynasty are not standard, twisted mouth, but can express the meaning.

Zheng Lang smiled, he used to put them in the country of Wa without knowing that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and they were also placed on an isolated island in Hangzhou. After coming to the capital for a long time, I finally knew the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. But this prosperity needs money to enjoy. They wanted money, but they didn't have the ability to do business, so they had to be promoted.

said: "Yes, as long as you make meritorious contributions, not only can you be promoted, but I can also send someone to bring your family to my court and enjoy this wealth." ”

"Okay." Zhao Bao waved his thick elbow violently to convey Zheng Lang's words, and seven hundred and dozens of people thundered with joy.

But Zheng Lang knew in his heart that these people existed as powerful cannon fodder, and only a few could survive. Once you arrive in the capital as a military attaché, as long as you are contaminated with the atmosphere of greedy for pleasure after a few years, you are not a brave Jurchen warrior, and even the Western Army is inferior.

It is equivalent to a one-time surname utensils, which will lose their effect when they are used up. If you want to use it longer, you must not let them get contaminated with the atmosphere of pleasure and keep the barbarism and ferocity of the north. So after coming to the capital, Zheng Lang kept them in the military camp for training. It will not let them stay in the capital for a long time, go by themselves, they will also go.

Doesn't matter.

said to Liu Xuanrui, Chang Mingde and Wang Yong: "You live with them temporarily, practice often, do a warm-up, and then I will take you to the northwest." ”

"Whoa."

Time flies quickly, and the head of Shaanxi has not yet decided, but Zheng Lang knows that once decided, it will be time for him to leave the capital. So he played another piece about the fields to the west.

The military fields of the Song Dynasty were strictly divided, and there were several kinds.

Tuntian, mostly in Hebei, and even lead rice to the north for planting, the harvest is not high, less than one stone per mu, but the benefit is to store water, limit the horses, and the military significance is greater than the economic significance. Therefore, it gradually declined, and as the Khitan hostility was not strong, these tuntian fields gradually changed from the direct management mode of the state to the tenant farming method.

Camps, such as the cultivated fields of the planter Heng in Qingjian City. The land is reclaimed, poor households are hired to cultivate it, and then the rent is paid. This kind of camp was positive at the beginning, but from the beginning it was covered with the shadow of profit. Once you want to make money from it, everything changes your surname, and it gradually becomes violent to the cultivators. There are not many people in the northwest who make a living from farming, but there are some who have become profit-seeking surnames, and there will be some military generals who will take advantage of the coercion of the army to forcibly occupy civilian farmland. Later, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi successively wrote to ask for resignation. Don't want these farms, so as not to produce ethnic discord contradictions, make the border emotionally tense, and the people and the court antagonistic.

There are also archers' fields, and the archers do not pay salaries, but there are many dangers in wartime, and sometimes for military tasks, they are transferred from their homes, which damages their families, so they give them land to cultivate, subsidize their families, and support their families.

He also chose a place north of the Huai River and set up a horse grazing prison as a horse farm, but most of them were invaded by the powerful.

Zheng Lang is talking about Yingtian.

It is better for the country to give more wealth to the northwest than to let the camp land be harsh on the tenants.

It cannot be allowed to become the source of contradiction between the people and the imperial court, as long as there are no drawbacks, the benefits will be immediately demonstrated, and the grain comes from the northwest itself, and it is transported from the south of the Yangtze River, just the freight, it will be sky-high. When a bucket of rice is transported to Yanzhou, it is possible that the freight and loss will reach three or four hundred Wen, which is seven to eight times the price of rice itself!

Talked to Yan Shu.

Yan Shu was a little surprised, he hadn't thought of the consequences before, thought about it, and said: "Okay, I immediately ordered in the name of Xifu to order that the rent of camp land in all parts of Shaanxi should not exceed one bucket per mu, let alone encroach on people's land. ”

Zheng Lang's brows were still tightly locked.

"Isn't that enough?"

"Yan Xianggong, even if the order may not be followed, it is better to ask Your Majesty to issue an edict, the edict is more effective than the order of the Western Mansion. And, forget it, don't talk about it. ”

"What?"

Zheng Lang just didn't answer.

He thought more, camping is only part of the solution, what if the entire Shaanxi Qiang people and Tibetan people are all reclaimed?

Teach them technology, give them horses and cattle, and the imperial court can pay to buy back a batch of war horses from the Tibetan and other tribes, and reward the bad and inferior horses among the generals to the meritorious archers and the Fan households loyal to the imperial court, but they are not allowed to slaughter them, but use them to cultivate the land and expand the cultivation and production.

As long as the township soldiers are replenished, the imperial court will also send troops, but it is not as heavy as before. As long as the cultivated land is expanded, the grain gap in Shaanxi will not be too large. Reduce the damage of the franchise, and you don't have to eat the moldy rice and old grain given by some unscrupulous merchants.

But once the edict is issued, there will be a lot of cats in it, and some generals will be bold and will treat good horses as bad horses and sell them to Fanhu, delaying the war.

Let a sleeping dog lie.

The edict was issued, but the governor of Shaanxi had not yet decided.

As long as Zhao Zhen mentions it, it will be cold.

Zheng Lang looked at more than a dozen bigwigs, didn't know what to say, and finally said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan." ”

"You say."

"It is better to formally divide Shaanxi into four roads, with Han Qi Guanju Qinfeng Road Deployment Secretary and Zhiqinzhou, Fan Zhongyan Guanju Huanqing Road Deployment Secretary and Zhiqingzhou, Pang Ji Guanju Yanyan Road Deployment Secretary and Zhiyanzhou, and the deployment of the Ma Bu Army on this road, Jingluo to appease the border to recruit envoys."

"What about Weizhou?"

"Let the minister go on Jingyuan Road, besides, the minister is also a little uncomfortable staying in Xifu."

More than a dozen bigwigs laughed.

A group of old men, the youngest of whom is also in his forties, Zheng Lang put it inside, which makes people feel too strange.

But going to Weizhou is different, although this position is in charge of politics, military and finance, Zheng Lang has political achievements, and he went to the post of deputy minister of the West Mansion, which does not seem abrupt.

In fact, I wanted to transfer Zheng Lang to the northwest, but I didn't know how to arrange it, and the position of the chief official was indecisive for a long time, so I didn't think of Zheng Lang's position.

Zheng Lang said: "It is an expedient measure to formally divide Shaanxi into four roads. Now there is no suitable leader to serve as the governor of Shaanxi, so it can only be divided temporarily. In the future, if you want to really exterminate the Western Xia, you must unite the four roads and act in unison. ”

Zheng Lang restored history a few months in advance, and there were many drawbacks, and when Song Shenzong added Lintao Road, it became a five-way army, each of which was not under the control of each other, and the danger of separating the feudal towns was gone, and then the defeat also occurred.

But at the moment, it is good for him, Han Qi, Pang Ji, and Fan Zhongyan are too fierce, and they don't have the ability to convince them, so it's better to do their own thing. In the past, the concept of the four roads in Shaanxi was very vague, although there was a discussion of the four roads, which was actually under the management of Shaanxi, but there was a lack of capable governors, and the advantages of this governor were not brought into play.

Since it could not play the function of this commander-in-chief, the imperial court was undecided, and in the end, I didn't know who someone to send over, and the surname Suo restored this history several months in advance.

As for the original Wang Yan, at this time, he is a privy straight bachelor and a right Shi Langzhong, continue to be your Langzhong, the northwest is not a place for you to play.

Everyone pondered, there was no problem with a few candidates, Han Qi stopped thousands of people in Weizhou and asked, it was not appropriate to go to Jingyuan Road again, and it was radical, and it was not very safe to put it in the other three roads. Fan Zhongyan happened to be in Yaozhou, and if he changed his position, he would be able to solve the problem. Pang Ji also went to Shaanxi for a long time, not to give birth to horses.

But Zhang Dexiang asked suspiciously: "Didn't Fan Han and the others go unpunished, but instead became a promotion?" ”

"Zhang Xianggong, then you can find other candidates."

Who to look for?

Except for these few people, it's not safe to find anyone!