Lu Yijian may not really understand the mean, not only Lu Yijian, but Confucius is also probably ignorant of the mean, vaguely knowing its importance, but not really thinking about it. Zheng Lang is the same, he doesn't have the heart to think about the mean now.

Guan watched the situation and sighed in his heart.

Originally, the Qingli New Deal could have gone further, but in any case, its various measures were correcting some of the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty. And the timing was good, the country was in difficulty, Zhao Zhen worked hard again, and even cooperated with the reform, acquiescing to the Junzi Party's attack on various ministers. Lu Yijian was recuperating at home, the rights were handed over one by one, the so-called Lilliputians fell down the biggest tree, and there were no people who took the lead, including Yan Shu, whose opponent could Yan Shu be?

Zheng Lang did not reverse Yan, otherwise he would have been able to step down calmly by taking advantage of the peace negotiation.

It's a good time, as long as you are generous, you will unite all the ministers, including Wang Gongchen and Jia Changchao, and you will also be attached to cooperate, Xia Zhu is not happy, can he jump into the sky alone? But......

Zheng Lang didn't persuade, who listened to you? Zhao Zhen persuaded him, but he may not persuade these dozen people. And besides, themselves.

It's urgent, the dogs are biting, and besides, who of these people is easy to mess with, can they not fight back?

He wants to be out of the way, but he is the prime minister, how can it be? Soon fell into it, and the object of the dispute was one of his friends, Fubi.

The group of thieves invaded Jinzhou, Wang Maoxian, the governor of Jinzhou, was greedy for life and feared death, opened the city gate and let the bandits enter the city, so the rebels ransacked the state treasury, scattered the money and silk, and the party and the poor people, and took away the weapons one by one. But Wang Mao couldn't say this first, as soon as he said that he was going to Lingnan, Shangjuan began to lie, saying that there were only twenty-four soldiers in our city, and the defense was invincible, and he was defeated outside the city, causing a group of thieves to enter the city. I resisted, and I can't be blamed. I can't be exiled to Lingnan for the crime of collaborating with the enemy.

Fu Bi believed it to be true, and said in the book that before the thieves rebelled, although there were thieves. But don't dare to kill officials. Now thieves openly enter the state city and rob it, causing damage to thirty or forty states. In the past, there were also cases of entering the city, all of which were secretly entered at night, but now they openly enter the city during the day and open the treasury without permission, and their momentum is flourishing. If you don't take precautions, you can't do it, there are only twenty-four soldiers in Jinzhou. Only then did the thieves have a heart. Please increase your troops in the capital at a key point to support the states.

Zheng Lang didn't care about this recital, it was just a garrison, and there wouldn't be much redundancy. But then Fu Bi's recital caused a strong backlash from Zheng Lang (the text of this recital is quite beautiful, and it is placed in the work related, so you have time to take a look).

Let's start with the use of troops in the west, which leads to commotion in the world and poverty in material resources. The people were disgruntled, and the court lacked financial resources to survive, so they fell into thieves. This sentence is quite appreciated by Zheng Lang. Then said about the dangers of thieves. He also said that the day before yesterday, he had been on the sword, and asked Yu Jingxi to select several key states and gather troops and horses, thinking that they would support from all over the world. It's a dangerous sign that it's going from one to several states. He also said that another reason for the great strength of thieves was that the officials in various places were not effective, so they asked the court to employ people. This Zheng Lang doesn't care. He also said that the third reason why thieves are powerful, the emperor is benevolent, but he keeps the old bad law and does not enter the virtuous. so that His Majesty's benevolence and virtue cannot influence the people, and dispose of the order, resulting in thieves all over the world. Every time the minister thought of this, he shuddered.

Needless to say, it's not so terrifying, don't let you change, let you change. You see that one minister is not pleasing to the eye, and immediately quit this person, what else should you do?

This Zheng Lang still doesn't care.

Therefore, you can't steal peace, just ask for luck, reform, use people, transfer envoys, governors, and counties must use good officials to protect the city and gather the people. Again, when it comes to this, the county garrison soldiers.

This performance gave Zhao Zhen a very profound response, so he was reluctant to reduce troops in the future, and successively increased the forbidden army in Jingxi, Jingdong, and Jianghuai.

Zheng Lang presented a recital and said in the recital that the reason why there are many thieves, the use of soldiers to make the finances miserable, and the disasters that come one after another, have produced a large number of thieves. There are also officials who are cowardly and incompetent, and thieves are rampant. There are soldiers in the west of Beijing, mostly concentrated in the east of Luoyang, Mengzhou, Zhengzhou, Huazhou, Xuzhou, Chenzhou, one is prepared for Khitan, and the other is defending the capital. There are very few troops to the west of Jingxi Road, but not nothing, there are two battalions in Xiangzhou, four battalions in Dengzhou, and ten battalions in Ruzhou! A battalion in Suizhou, a battalion in Shangzhou, nearly 20 battalions of troops, and a large number of van troops and government officials, the scale of the thieves was not large at the beginning, most of them were dozens of people, where are these officers and soldiers and government officials?

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Thieves enter Jinzhou, Jinzhou troops are very small, but the number of thieves is also very small, only a few hundred, Jinzhou has a city gate and a city wall, there are officials, and the people, the servants of large families, and the weapons to defend the city, what is Wang Mao doing first? Open the door to welcome the thief, excessively, Li Zhengji, the magistrate of Shunyang County, Dengzhou, not only opened the city gate to welcome the thief, but also prepared drum music, and beat gongs and drums several miles away to welcome the thieves into Shunyang City to make trouble. When did they resist? Or there are few soldiers, Yuan Hao Koujing original road, 40,000 troops are under the city of Weizhou, there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in the city of Weizhou, isn't there less troops, isn't the western thief more fierce than the thief, so do you want to open the city gate and surrender?

Will a troop surge solve the problem? No amount of soldiers will help! On the contrary, the more troops are stationed, the heavier the redundant troops. Redundant troops, resulting in a large number of soldiers, the country will not be able to treat well, redundant soldiers, unable to choose good generals, the army will be more harsh, redundant soldiers will increase, the burden on the people will be heavier. The first two are important reasons why soldiers become thieves, and the latter is one of the reasons why people become thieves.

The country is disarming and implementing a diversion policy, why is Bi going against the grain and adopting the method of blockage? What does it mean to say that you can't stick to the old ways?

It is not a question of increasing troops, but how the imperial court can cultivate a usable army, rather than making the army a wine bag and a rice bag. After criticizing Fu Bi severely, he made another request to allow him to send troops to Shaanzhou.

The three bandits in Shaanzhou robbed grain and wanted to cut off the grain road in Shaanxi, with extremely evil intentions. As long as the food of the imperial court could not reach Shaanxi, the hungry people expanded, and the righteous army could expand. But the edict in advance said that Han Qi was in charge of the Shaanxi Road bandits, and Zheng Lang was in charge of the Jingxi Road bandits. Therefore, Zheng Lang's army was in the Kunshan Mountains of Mianchi, not far from Shaanzhou, but he could not enter Shaanzhou to suppress it. But Han Qi has more affairs, disarmament, raising the army, defending the border, and pacifying the people, and he has to prepare to suppress bandits. That's what emboldened the thieves to rob the grain.

The fold was handed to the capital, and Zhao Zhen did not say that Fu Bi was bad, but allowed Zheng Lang and Han Qi to act cheaply. How to suppress the bandits, let's do it, quickly suppress the bandits for me, otherwise the country will be in chaos.

Zheng Lang stopped climbing the mountain.

Consulted with Di Qing, but asked before the discussion: "General Di, why did I let the soldiers train to climb the mountain?" ”

"There are many mountains in the west of Nanjing, Shaanxi, once the army arrives, the thieves are not effective. Will dive deep into the mountains. It is said that it is a large army, but Xianggong only led more than 5,000 people, which is not enough to sweep all the mountains. Therefore, before the war, he trained in mountaineering. Familiarize the soldiers with fighting in the mountains. ”

"That makes sense," Zheng Lang said.

The main areas of activity of several rebel armies were mostly mountains, such as the Bears Ears Mountain, which later became known as the Funiu Mountains, and the more majestic Qinling Mountains, as well as other continuous mountains. But Zheng Lang said: "Not only that, but the actual thief is relatively easy to extinguish. After all, the imperial court has always been very kind to the people, and once the food aid continues to arrive, there will even be thieves who take the initiative to break away from the thieves and become good citizens again. I still have one, which is the south. ”

"South?"

Chen Zhifang extinguished the salt thieves in Guiyang, and in desperation, he moved the plague of the Han people and the familiar barbarians to other places to prevent future troubles. But the imperial court has always been kind to these barbarians. Once aggrieved and begged for perfection, these barbarians settled down and refused to accept it. Once the rebellion is renewed, where the mountains are higher and bigger. The forest is deeper and thicker, and the various departments are more ferocious. If the imperial court is careless, it will inevitably become a great disaster in the south. If it is extinguished quickly, it will have little impact on the imperial court, and if it is fought for a long time, it will definitely affect the finances of the imperial court. ”

This is easy to understand with Di Qing.

The faster the war, the greater the financial impact, and the longer it drags on, the greater the impact, such as in the northwest, a single battle down, including the tragic battle of Dingchuan Village. The funds used are not much, although a wave of arrows rained down, that is, tens of thousands of yuan are gone, and a large amount of money was spent on post-war pensions, but this amount will not exceed tens of millions. The reason why it is used so much is that it is prolonged. Hundreds of thousands of troops eat and drink, provide weapons, and pay and food, this is the real big head.

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Yang Ji has been working in the south for more than six years, how much does it cost?

"Once the thieves come back, I want to recommend you to go to the south, but the south will mostly fight in the mountains, and the training of these people today is for you in the future. I don't know if you'd like to? ”

"Zheng Xianggong, the country is in trouble, how dare I refuse?"

Zheng Lang nodded.

There are good generals in the northwest, Zhang Kang will soon fall into hardship, Wang Kai and Zhi Jimin are inseparable from Fuzhou, Wang Xin is old, Zhang Qi and Wang Ji are brave, it is not suitable to go to the south, they are brave and forbidden, and it is very dangerous under the complex terrain of the south. Chong Shiheng is also old. Counting around, only Di Qing was the most suitable, so Zheng Lang specially recruited Di Qing from the northwest to the capital this time.

But it will have an effect on the current situation.

Climbing the mountain every day, what will the rebels think? Just cut off the idea of fighting in the mountains!

Zheng Lang not only led his troops to climb the mountain, but also sent people in advance to find out the details of the bandits, knowing himself and his opponent, so that he could win all battles. Han Qi also didn't move, but he heard that he transferred his subordinates Ji Zhen and Jingtai from Qinfeng Road and Jingyuan Road. Jingtai was reused in Zheng Lang's hands, and he could be regarded as Han Qi's old subordinate. But he hasn't moved, I'm afraid that at this time he is also thinking about a strategy to find out the details of the thief.

Find out, this thief who robbed the grain is not Guo Miaoshan and Zhang Hai's descendant troops, and Zhang Hai has a relationship, the leader is called Wei Erda, the Song Dynasty likes to form associations, such as the Crimson Green Society of the Beijing Miscellaneous Drama, the Qiyun Society of Juju, the Singing and Earning Curb Cloud Society, the Tongwen Society of Ju, the Sumo Horn Arrival Society, the Qingyin Society of Qingle, the Championship Club of the Crossbow, the Embroidery Jinti Society, the Yingluo Society of the Stick, the Xiongjian Society of the novel, etc., there are literary and martial arts, there are men and women, and there are other places besides the capital, and the further you go north, the stronger the meaning of martial arts, For example, many bow and arrow clubs, horse buying clubs, and Zhongyi patrol societies in the north are non-governmental organizations that spontaneously train their martial arts and prepare to resist aggression.

There are also some in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, but there are not many, and the imperial court's attitude towards this is very ambiguous, and it supports it for a while, and then it is worried that the people are stronger than the officials, so they oppose it.

Zhang Hai is a member of the Dengzhou Bow and Arrow Society and the Yingluo Society.

When Zheng Lang heard the news, he didn't dare to report it, for fear that Zhao Zhen would have bad thoughts about the armor protection law again. In fact, the question is not whether the people are brave or not, the braver the people are, it is a good thing, in order to strengthen the country and strengthen the man. The root cause is governance.

The reason for the rebellion is also related to the Northwest Campaign, Zhang Hai is a fourth-class household, belonging to the Song Dynasty's well-off families with food and clothing, but it is also the most reasonable class to suffer from this war. It doesn't matter, his wife is very beautiful, Zheng Lang has seen it with his own eyes.

An official in Dengzhou coveted the beauty of Zhang Hai's wife, so he deliberately increased taxes, resulting in Zhang Hai and his wife killing officials and becoming thieves this spring, at first there were only about 20 people, but Liu Zhi did not act in Dengzhou, so Zhang Hai became more and more bold and had more and more subordinates.

Zheng Lang reported the situation truthfully and asked the monarchs and ministers to reflect on it. Why did these people become thieves, indeed, there is a reason why six of the ten reforms Fan Zhongyan said talked about choosing people. But finding out the cause, not really figuring out the solution. Zheng Lang didn't find it either, but he wasn't sure and wouldn't propose.

When Zhang Hai was in the Bow and Arrow Club, he was very good, and this Zheng Lang had also seen it, but he didn't do it, but he saw that they were very agile, and there were some "heroes and heroes" who befriended him, including Wei Erda in Shaanzhou. It is estimated that Zhang Hai sent people to bewitch Wei Erda to rob the grain protection team, that is, a native of Shaanzhou, who was familiar with the terrain, turned into a bandit when he robbed the grain, and turned into a citizen after leaving, and it was difficult for the government to inquire.

This is also a matter of vision, can't you really find out?

In the past 20 days, not only Wei Erda, but also more than 70 accomplices of Wei Erda, let Zheng Lang send people to feel it clearly, and what makes people feel funny is that most of them are mountain people from Kunshan. The place where Zheng Lang's army was trained, one was in the territory of Mianchi in Shandong, and the other was in the territory of Shaanxi County in Shanxi.

Began to consult with Di Qing.

The next day, 40 battalions of soldiers were sent to arrest Wei Er Dazi and his gang, and the 40 battalions of soldiers were all reorganized into full battalions, with more than 1,800 elite soldiers, enough to fight with two or three thousand Western Xia troops, but they were used to deal with more than 70 bandits...... Zheng Lang is slaughtering chickens with Guan Gong's glaive knife.