Zheng Lang told what happened in the palace.

Jiang Xing'er smiled.

Although she is a little princess, what kind of minister can hug her?

Moreover, there is a prince guest in the back.

The prince's guest Alas, it is a dignified official position of the third grade, but it is actually a false title, it is impossible for Zheng Lang to run to the East Palace all day without anything, besides, the little prince has only been a few months, and the East Palace has not been established. But it is an honor, just this position, at least six or seven thousand yuan a year for Zheng Lang's salary. Then Jiang Xing'er tilted her head and calculated according to the number of official positions, how much annual salary and allowance there was in a year.

Cui Xian said keenly: "Officials, don't accept it." ”

The merit is there, and the knowledge is there, but isn't a twenty-year-old official serving as a prince guest?

"Okay," Zheng Lang said. He didn't want to accept this part-time job, so in order to make Zhao Zhen a little happy, he agreed. But as soon as this child dies, this position will not attract people's attention. Moreover, the battle with the Western Xia will be fought for several years, and in these years, the country's finances have been very tight, and he is in Hangzhou, and he is also in the safety prison, even if his eyes are red, no one will make up his mind.

Put on your clothes again and report to Zhongshu again.

The Lantern Festival is the first major festival of the Song Dynasty, and the main officials are on holiday, but there are still officials on duty in Zhongshu.

After reporting to Zhengzhou, he sent someone to Zhengzhou to invite a few ladies to the capital, and began to write to Li Yan, this time in Beijing, Zheng Lang has to do a lot of things, even if Zhao Zhen does not let him participate in the discussion of northwest military affairs, he will stay for a long time. However, if you want to participate in the discussion of military affairs in the northwest, you will stay longer, and you may have to stop for two or three months before you can go back, and you still have some plans in the spring, so you wrote to inform Li Yan in advance and asked him to implement the affairs in Hangzhou on his behalf.

The battle was fought in the northwest, and Hangzhou was equally important.

In the dispute between Chu and Han, Liu Bang gave the first credit to Xiao He, and many people didn't understand. even credited Han Shin with the first credit of the battle under the nuclear. This idea is wrong, it is Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who have been fighting for several years, which has brought serious consumption to Xiang Yu's troops and economy, and he can only make up the merit in the next battle. But on the other hand, Liu Bang has Xiao He in the rear, and the wind and rain are smooth, and he has continuously provided soldiers and materials. The success of one positive and one negative is undoubtedly better than Han Xin's participation in the war.

That's what Zheng Lang intends to do.

Taiping Prefecture is one of them, which not only brings income to the country, but also increases food.

Hangzhou is the second, the monasteries and private salt reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, and also bring income to the country. Mineral deposits are wealth, increasing currency.

If these things are done well, it is more important than winning a big battle, but Zheng Lang does not show credit. Most people don't have the eyes to see it, but some people do.

Si'er didn't know what the difference was, so she was even happier, and took Cui Xian's hand and said, "Big lady, let's go out to see the lanterns together." ”

Cui Xian cast an inquiring look at Zheng Lang.

"Let's go," Mr. Zheng said.

Anyway, the officials of the Lantern Festival are also on holiday, and nothing can be done, and the battle in the northwest has probably started, but I talked to Zhao Zhen and knew that his advice had been sent to the northwest, whether he had changed Fan Yong's mind Zheng Lang didn't know, but the court received a fold, saying that Fan Yong did receive a group of surrendered party members, but he did not receive a fold from him to arrange this group of people to the rear.

There is a time difference, so now there is only waiting.

…… The war in the Northwest has indeed begun.

Yuan Hao chose to launch an attack around the Chinese New Year for three reasons.

Soon after the first one he succeeded to the throne, he set the system, changed his clothes, opposed the Song Dynasty, and made words, and many tribes were not satisfied, even if Guo persuaded him to do a rebellion, helping Yuan Hao kill Shanyu's whole family, and some tribes were not convinced. The winter dispatch was unfavorable and threatened his rule. So there is an urgent need for a victory to unite the hearts of all the tribes of the country.

The beginning of the second month is the time when the Song Dynasty has the most holidays, the New Year's Festival, Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Lichun, and Lantern Festival. During this time, the Song army was the most lax.

Third, it was cold last year, and although it was the first month, the first month of the first month in Yanzhou was still very cold, which restricted the actions of the Song army.

But this time, he finally realized that Song Jun was not so easy to gnaw, so he used a counter-strategy.

The Song army is a lion, but it is a stupid pig that leads them, and the stupidest pig is commanding all the Song troops on Dunyan Road.

So it was divided into two steps. The first step of the plan is for Li Shibin. Li Shibin guarded Jinming Village, with nearly 100,000 soldiers, guarding the middle road for Yanzhou, known as the iron wall. What is Xianggong, please refer to Yan Shu, Lu Yijian and others, only those who have been prime ministers can be called Xianggong, even Zheng Lang is so famous, he does not dare to accept the title of Xianggong.

But Li Shibin has two fatal weaknesses. The first pair of subordinates were very harsh, and it was beyond reproach to be strict in governing the army, but Guan Jian Li Shibin's subordinates were mixed, including party members, Tubo people, Hu people, and Qiang people, that is, party members, and various tribes and ethnic groups, and some people were not convinced. Think about how many households there are in Hangzhou, and how many households can there be in the area from Jinmingzhai to Tumen, and it is still a sparsely populated place. The so-called 100,000 troops, that is, almost every household was transferred to it, and this made up 100,000 iron troops. The withdrawal of so many troops also delayed production, so the tribes were even more dissatisfied.

Secondly, Li Shibin was arrogant, so he deliberately sent people to attack Jinming Village and the nearby village, the Tanguts came over, Li Shibin waved his sword and rode to meet the battle, and the Tanguts fled immediately. It was the cavalry that was fast, and Li Shibin was helpless if he wanted to escape. But as they ran, these people asked, why did they run away? Hearing the iron wall's public name, don't fall to the ground, don't run away and wait to die.

Li Shibin failed to catch up with the deserters, and laughed when he heard it, and led the troops back with great satisfaction.

In fact, Yuan Hao has found the deadliest place for the Song army.

The Song army was not as weak as he thought, on the contrary, its combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the party members. But they lacked horses, and the lack of horses was equivalent to the lack of cavalry. Although the combat effectiveness is strong and the weapons and equipment are excellent, because of the lack of speed advantages, they can only passively defend and scatter their forces. For example, Li Shibin, as long as he wants to escape, Li Shibin has no way to take the party.

The second step is to surrender.

At the end of the year, a large number of party members and people suddenly came to Jinmingzhai to claim surrender and live in. Li Shibin's method of cracking this is very simple, no matter who you bring in and what kind of heart you have, come to surrender and I welcome, but don't want to live in my home. Arrange them to the south together to rectify the zeros and move into the interior. Even if these people are all annihilated and caught in the huge population base of the mainland, it will not work. But he is a military general and lacks authority. So I reported to Fan Yong, please move to the south.

Who knew that Fan Yong did not agree, but sent someone to say to him, just plant it in your village, isn't your village known as the thirty-six village? A part of the village is inserted, which is similar to the surname placed in the rear, and part of the cost is saved. But I don't plan to save these expenses, I give them all to you, so I give Li Shibin more gold silk. said again, if you ask for it, who will lead to it?

This is a war between two countries, and he underestimated the enemy and became a bandit.

Guo Quan's mistake, many officials on the border of the Song Dynasty were usually recruiting the Western Xia tribes, and they sent it to the door themselves.

Li Shibin actually agreed.

It's not that he doesn't know that he will be mixed in, but he is too confident.

This happened at the end of last year, and the imperial court had just received Zheng Lang's recital, and it had not yet had time to convey it to the northwest.

At this point, Yuan Hao is ready. Then he did one more thing, just ushering in the New Year, Yuan Hao sent Wei Xiao He Zhen to see Fan Yong. At this time, Fan Yong rewarded the merit of breaking the Houqiao Village and the Wu family and other family accounts, and Gao Jilong, Zhang Chongjun, Hou Wuying, Liu Zheng, Hao Renyu, Jia Qing, Wang Qing and other soldiers were rewarded successively.

Hearing that He Zhen was coming, he made a reception. Fan Yong met with the attitude of a victor and calmly asked, "What is the matter with Yuan Hao sending you?" ”

"Xianggong Fan, I was ordered by the lord of my family to come to meet Xianggong Fan, and the lord of my family said that he knew his mistake and wanted to return to the court, and asked Xianggong Fan to say good things for my lord in the court."

Fan Yong was overjoyed.

After all, he is a civil servant, he won several battles last year, but it has nothing to do with him, and until now, he has no distinction between southeast and northwest, and he has no confidence in his heart. It's better not to hit. So he gave a generous gift, and all the former prisoners of war were buried with their heads. He was about to send someone to send He Zhen out of the border. At this time, the Zheng Lang calligraphy conveyed by the imperial court arrived.

Fan Yong's face turned gloomy after seeing it.

Zheng Lang is still a hairy boy in his heart, but Zheng Lang is a crow's mouth, or good wisdom, and now what he said has been fulfilled one by one, which makes him uneasy in his heart.

But he faced a problem, many defectors poured in, and now all of them have been installed. If they were to be redeployed again, to the rear, they would be very uneasy and would require much more money.

I didn't know what to do for a while, I thought about it all night, and the next day I called He Zhen to the banquet.

During the banquet, Fan Yong suddenly asked: "Is your master really returning to the court this time?" ”

He Zhen uses the lord, and Fan Yong uses the master.

But He Zhen didn't call Li Yuanhao the emperor, and Fan Yong didn't care.

"Fan Xianggong, he is sincerely obedient, the imperial army is mighty and inviolable, and my lord knows that he is wrong."

It seems to be ...... Tens of thousands of troops couldn't deal with more than a thousand Song troops, and they were killed and fled, what is the fear of such a Western Xia army? Fan Yong carefully observed He Zhen's face, and saw that he was sincerely afraid, not as if he was cheating, and believed it in his heart.

And he couldn't figure it out, Jin Mingzhai to Tumen is a total of three [***] villages, and he believes that he can rebel, but it will not work if he rebels against one village and two villages. Unless they plot against Jin Mingzhai itself, but Jin Mingzhai is Li Shibin's base camp, do these people dare to say to the generals under Li Shibin's nose, surrender to my master Yuan Hao, Li Shibin is known as an iron-clad minister, is he incapable of this?

However, Fan Yong thought of what Zheng Lang had done in the past few years, and he was a little relieved, and said tentatively: "I think you are a fake surrender, deliberately inserted in Jinmingzhai with annihilation, and rebelled against the generals under Li Shibin in Jinmingzhai. You think you can't see through your schemes! ”