Zhao Zhen couldn't decide either, and called Zheng Lang to the inner palace again.

Zheng Lang said: "All the people in Western Xia are soldiers, so a small country can send hundreds of thousands of troops to fight. Therefore, Zhang Fangping once proposed to restore the old system in the early Tang Dynasty, let the people accept military service, work as farmers in their spare time, and serve as soldiers in wartime, so as to reduce state expenditures. However, the courage of our generals was far inferior to that of the Han and Tang dynasties, and there was a lack of fast cavalry, and the foreign enemy Western Xia was not weaker than the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, and the Khitan was slightly better than the Turks. Once the army is turned into a farmer, it will take a long time to gather the army, and it will not be able to react in time. In the rush to assemble the army, some people could not get away from their homes, and it was impossible to effectively distinguish how much impact each soldier's gathering had on their families. It will endanger the security of the people and even the country. ”

"yes." This sentence spoke to Zhao Zhi's heart.

Therefore, the minister's use of the armor protection law is a compromise move, reducing the forbidden army, reducing the financial burden of the state, raising troops like this, Hugh said that the more than 1.3 million troops at the peak of Qingli are 800,000 troops, and it is also a serious burden on the country. The country needs a permanent army, with Baoding, Zhuangding, and archers as a backup, so as not to worry about the army and reduce the country's financial expenditure. Western Xia was barren, but it could not be done. Their permanent garrison is less than 100,000, and the rest of the soldiers are mostly half-farming and half-grazing, but why can they ensure that they have a large army to attack? The territory is small, the army is easy to gather, most of them are cavalry, the gathering speed is fast, and the expedition is mainly to plunder, and there is enthusiasm. But the small size of the country and the barrenness of the land are ultimately their biggest flaws. Although it is called a country, its population is only slightly larger than that of the people of Jingshi. In wartime, the army comes from this poor population base, and in peacetime taxes also come from this poor population base. ”

Needless to say.

As long as there was a large-scale migration of tribes to the Song Dynasty in the Western Xia, the population of the Western Xia would inevitably decline seriously, and the national strength and the number of troops would also decline.

Despite the decline in the number of people. It will make room for the rest of the people to have more arable land and pastures, as long as the Song Dynasty dares to collect it, under the high pressure of the Khitan and Song Dynasty, the war will be endless, and the tax will increase. Population growth cannot keep pace with migration, and eventually the country will become weaker and weaker.

The Western Xia would not sit idly by and watch this happen, and would inevitably continue to use high-pressure measures to prevent the people from moving. This creates a serious contradiction and a decrease in the number of internal populations. And they can't be united. The decline of Western Xia is inevitable.

There was no such crisis in the Western Xia in history, but the Song Dynasty had always been very conservative in its policy of accepting the Western Xia tribes, and many ministers, including Sima Guang, adopted a conservative policy and did not accept the surrender of the Western Xia tribes, forcing the Western Xia tribes to be loyal to Li Yuanhao's descendants. Of course, by the time the war came, the Song Dynasty had suffered enough.

Zhao Zhen paced a few steps and said, "I am not against taking in the Western Xia tribes, but that woman. She is the Empress Yuanhao, and she is also equivalent to the Empress Dowager of Western Xia......"

Zheng Lang was also silent for a while.

In history, the father and daughter of Wuyijieshan were taken away by the Khitan, and Zheng Lang suspected that he did not hide the intention to place the Wuyijieshan in the palace and let the Khitans take them away. But in order to give an explanation to the people in China, he was more daring than Yuan Hao, and dared to take the initiative to attack the Khitan.

Regardless of whether the Khitan was defeated or not. They are also the most powerful countries in the land.

Even if the Song Dynasty was victorious, it could not change its cowardly foreign policy.

It doesn't matter if you don't take in the father and daughter, and if you take them in, you will inevitably sharpen the guns on the border. There is also the possibility of war.

After a while, he said: "Your Majesty, because of his identity, once I don't take it in, it proves that I am not courageous." It can be accommodated, but accidents can happen. ”

"I'm embarrassed too."

Zheng Lang thought for a while and said, "It's better to let Han Qi know Yanzhou, he has quite high prestige in the hearts of the Western Xia people." Be defensive and prepared. Then write to the mountains that have not been moved, and let them defect to our dynasty in two or three months. At that time, the Khitan will probably pick up Ning Lingge. Compared to Brother Ning Ling. It's nothing that the father and daughter haven't moved. But to prevent accidents, the imperial court kept a low profile, placed its people in the south of Weizhou, and also used this excuse to drag on for two or three months, and then confer the Duke of Wujishan State, a third- or fourth-grade real official, but it could not be hyped up. ”…,

Zhao Zhen reluctantly agreed.

Zheng Lang was not negligent, this incident is completely different from the historical trend, there is no reference, and the worst thing is that it is possible that he will not be in the Privy Council soon, and the Yellow River will burst a few months later...... Of course, Zheng Lang will definitely not be afraid of Xixia, but he has to eat one bite at a time. How much money will cost a war, Zheng Lang has a deep understanding. The Song Dynasty could only fight one war in the future, not the Western Xia, but the South. If the Song Dynasty wanted to go further, it was necessary to integrate the south.

At this time, there was no need for a large-scale war with Western Xia.

After thinking about it, he first wrote a letter to the mountain that did not move to the mountain, his messenger was still at Zhang Qi, and he couldn't wait for a long time. Then he went to the spy camp and asked Wang Yong to select another fifty scouts, go to the northwest, and under the command of Wang Song, infiltrate the territory of Western Xia to observe the movements of Western Xia. Then he wrote a long letter, asking Wang Song to transfer it to Zhao Shanjin, not Zhao Shanjin at this time, but Xia Sheng, there is this person, because of this name, the commander is dissatisfied with him, and this person is very brave, so there is a conflict, kill the commander, and be secretly executed by Di Qing. Zhao Shanjin assumed the name of Xia Sheng and infiltrated Western Xia and defected to Pang who did not hide it, probably because of this name, among the six people, Zhao Shanjin was the most favored by Pang who did not hide it. wrote another letter to Han Qi and instructed him again.

After doing it, report to Zhao Zhen.

After Zhao Zhen heard this, he was finally relieved and said: "Zheng Qing, although it is good, it is not the right way. ”

Zheng Lang believes that although Zhao Zhen is becoming more and more proficient in the use of power and conspiracy, he is definitely a gentleman. said: "Your Majesty, in the past, Ximen Leopard ruled Ye, seeing that Ye had a stable population and a depression in all industries, I learned that I was trapped by Hebo's wife after visiting. The witch colluded with the officials to extract the people's wealth, so she summoned the three old officials and the nobles, as well as two or three thousand people from the common people to marry on the ruling side. The witch out of the woman in the curtain, the leopard looked at it, saying that the woman was not good, and she had to bother the big witch to report to Hebo, and she had to ask for a good woman and send it the day after tomorrow. It is out of the great witch, and cast into the river. After a while, he also said, why did the great witch not return for a long time, and bothered the disciples to go and inform again. Another disciple threw himself into the river. There was a moment when he rejoined a disciple in the river. Whoever votes for the three disciples, Ximen Leopard said again, Wu Fei and disciples, are women, and they can't do things in vain, annoying the three elders into the river, and knowing Hebo. Re-invest in the three elders in the river. For a long time, the elders and officials stood in horror. Simon Leopard said again. If the witch and the three elders don't return, what can they do? When they wanted to throw themselves into the rafters and enter the river, they all knelt down, and their foreheads were bleeding to the ground, and their colors were like dead ashes. It's been a long time. Ximen Leopard said that Hebo stayed for a long time because he wanted everyone to go. Ye was frightened, and since then, he has not dared to say that he will marry a wife for Hebo. So the leopard people dug twelve canals and diverted river water to irrigate the people's fields. Ye Di Dazhi. The former is the strange way, and the second is the right way. Although it is tricky, it is used correctly. Although it is right, it is tricky to use it. Therefore, the I Ching divides yin and yang, not good and evil. In benevolence, the distinction between good and evil is also blurred. ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "Good." ”

In fact, Zheng Lang's words can be turned into two words and be flexible.

The further back. The more dogmatic and the more serious the party strife, we are right, and those who disagree are wrong. The intentions seem to be good, and they all want the Song Dynasty to be strong. However, they all went down the opposite path, and Zheng Lang tried to reverse this bad trend.

Because it is necessary to keep a low profile, not many ministers know about it.

The first New Year is coming to an end, and Myeongho's performance has been folded to the capital.

Bei Zhou is more serious than Zhao Zhen imagined.

The city wall of Beizhou is tall and strong, and it is hard to attack, and Ming Ho sent 20,000 migrant workers to build a mountain of earth. In January, it was on par with the city wall, so a war tower was set up on the top of the earthen mountain. The mountain moves forward, and the building moves forward. It seemed to be a good idea, and the king seemed to be very stupid, and also set up a war tower on the city wall, which was called Happy Encounter.

Ming Ho is overjoyed, no matter what war building you have. Once we meet, the officers and soldiers will crush you thieves to death in numbers. Continue to repair. Finally happy to meet. But the result was miserable. Wang Ze not only repaired the happy encounter, but also piled up a lot of flammable materials in the happy encounter. …,

The two wartowers finally met, and Ming Hao commanded the Song soldiers to jump from the wartower to the head of the city, trying to capture Beizhou. A large number of Song Dynasty soldiers entered the war tower, and seeing that Beizhou City was about to be taken, Wang Ze was not in a hurry, and a rocket came. The battle tower burned immediately, and the Song soldiers saw that the situation was not good, some people fled back from Tushan in time, and some people had time to escape in the future, so that the fire burned alive. The fire burned for three days and three nights without cease.

The matter is big, so many migrant workers were mobilized, and they did not take Beizhou City, and in turn let the enemy burn many soldiers to death, Ming Ho couldn't hide the knowledge of the matter, and he played it, and put the responsibility on the third class to serve Li Xing, saying that Li Xing suggested that Li Xing be beheaded and reported to the imperial court. He also used the military academy Liu Zun's strategy, and the earth mountain was built in the north city, and the feint attack was made from the north, and the south city was dug into a tunnel to attack.

Is it a good idea?

It doesn't seem to be.

How many tunnel battles are there in ancient and modern times? It was only Guo Ziyi's merit when he was in the annexation of the state, or in the city of the annexation, not outside the city.

Even Zhao Zhen knew that this was a stupid way, and summoned all the important ministers together to discuss.

Zheng Lang is a privy envoy and the most proficient military boss, and he is the first to watch this letter first.

But he knows better.

It was this seemingly stupid and stupid method that finally made Wen Yanbo meritorious.

There is another reason, Wang Ze's subordinates have been fighting until now, and their morale has become weaker and weaker.

One thing can prove it.

Wang Ze was very embarrassed under the onslaught of the official army, and when he heard that the Khitan envoy had returned to the Khitan, he plotted to kidnap the Khitan envoy in order to coerce the imperial court. Let Ming Hao's spies know that he sent the palace servant An Su to ambush the west gate of Beizhou. That night, the king went out of the city with three hundred men. An Su sent an ambush and all 300 people were killed and captured.

It's not that the enemy is bold, it's that he's in a hurry.

There is another thing that can prove that Wang Wenqing, Guo Bin, Zhao Zongben, Wang Shun and others, the people of Beizhou, saw that Wang Ze's men suffered heavy casualties, especially the wounded soldiers, and suffered in all kinds of pain, but they could not see Wang Ze exerting any Buddhist treatment, and finally became suspicious.

They were also Wang Ze's officers, and once the city was broken, they might have to ambush and confer the head and plot to surrender to the court. While patrolling at night, he used arrows to write letters on the city and shot them at the camp of the Song army. On the night of the second day, he put down the rope and hung the blue, and led the officers and soldiers to board the enemy tower. After accepting hundreds of people, Wang Wenqing was overjoyed, thinking that he could make meritorious contributions. But these hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty suddenly had a whim, wanted to make the first contribution, and pulled the rope back, preventing the Song army from landing in the city. Then set fire to the enemy tower. Wang Ze and Wang Kai were so angry that they were about to jump under the city, knowing that they would be defeated, so they sent people to cover under the city.

A fire woke up the thieves together, and countless rebels swarmed in, and after a while, the officers and soldiers who boarded the city were defeated, and under the cover of Wang Xin, they re-released the rope and shook the blue and went down. This night, if it weren't for the special merits of these hundreds of officers and soldiers, it is very likely that Beizhou would have been taken. After Zhao Zhen heard this, he was also so angry that he jumped to his feet, but these people dared to specialize, which also showed that they were very brave, and they couldn't attack, so they didn't pursue it, and awarded Wenqing and Bin Xitou to worship officials. Zongben, Shun right forbidden.

Everyone just sighed that they had not succeeded, but they ignored the most important thing, the morale of the rebels in the city was already low.

There is one more thing to prove.

Seeing that Beizhou was struggling to support itself, Wang secretly sent someone to inform the Shenzhou soldiers, his disciple Pang Dan. Let them rise up in the Deep State and respond to each other from afar. Pang Dan and his disciples conspired to kill the military academy on the first day, and the robbers echoed the city of Beizhou. But this time they are very unlucky, Shenzhou Zhizhou is the famous Jiangdong Three Tiger King Ding. He is not even afraid of the powerful, where is he afraid of these thieves. But I don't know how many people will be involved in the rebellion. Sending cronies to the outside of the city to take charge of the matter, in fact, prepared for it. After a few days of investigation, the bureaucrats were summoned, the wine was as usual, the rebel party did not dare to move, and Wang Ding arrested 18 people and imprisoned the mastermind. After receiving the confession, report it to the court. Waiting for the transshipment envoy to come for a decision. The transfer envoy did not arrive, but because of the large number of believers, the city of Shenzhou was turbulent, and the undercurrent was turbulent, and some soldiers participated in Wang Xin's Buddhism. Seeing people's hearts fluctuating, they wanted to rob these eighteen people. When Wang Ding heard this, he said to the bureaucrats: "I can't drag down the monarchs. ”…,

Without waiting for the transfer envoy to come, several of the unruly people were beheaded in the city, and these believers were dumbfounded when they saw the heads fall to the ground. Are you really not afraid of death? A county of safety. Only then did the transfer arrive, and they were tortured again, and all of them were ambushed.

In this matter, everyone only saw Wang Ding's decisiveness. I also didn't see Wang Ze's embarrassment.

Why did he want to be the emperor when he took Beizhou City in the past, instead of taking advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle, and now let Shenzhou cause trouble?

The embarrassment of Beizhou made Wang Ze finally wake up, and the people of the city. It was no match for the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Wen Yanbo went to Beizhou City, and the soldiers entered Beizhou City from the tunnel. Break the king's rule.

Originally, there was no need for Zheng Lang to go, but Wen Yanbo killed Wang Ze, and then did one thing, everyone carried the sedan chair together, indicating that the pickaxe was meritorious, saying that Jia Changchao was meritorious, and the last three people were all promoted, and Ming Hao was the deputy prime minister, Zheng Lang did not reject this, Guan Jian was Jia Changchao, because of Wen Yanbo's concession, he added the school master, entered the title of An Guogong, and soon entered the court. This person came to the court again, and he was far more harmful to himself than Xia Zhu. Anyway, he said some good things for Xia Zhu, but Xia Zhu couldn't erase this relationship somewhat, and he didn't dare to use excessive small means for himself. Jia Changchao is otherwise, the Khitan and his party, he and Jia Changchao have become lifelong political enemies. This man must never return to the court again!

Zheng Lang passed on the folds.

After the ministers saw it, they were silent one by one, but they knew that the emperor was angry. What a shame it is for a small Beizhou to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, three tiger generals, a former prime minister, a Kaifeng prefect, and a general of a famous family, using countless manpower and financial resources, but unable to take Beizhou.

Pang Ji couldn't make a sound, Ming Ho was exactly what he recommended.

Wen Yanbo suddenly said: "Your Majesty, let the ministers go to Hebei." ”

Among the bigwigs, Zheng Lang is a privy envoy, it is inconvenient to go, too cheap, and the remaining ministers who can understand military affairs are the first is Pang, but Pang recommended Ming Ho, and has lost the right to speak, and the second is himself, who can't drag it out, so he let the emperor speak, so it is better to take the initiative to recommend.

Zhao Zhen said: "Accurate." ”

If you don't change it, you can't do it.

Zheng Lang glanced at Wen Yanbo, and before Zhao Zhen made an order, he said, "Your Majesty, let's let the ministers go." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "No." ”

A little thief, actually using the prime minister of Xifu, what kind of system has it become?

Chen Zhizhong said: "Xingzhi, it's not appropriate for you to go. ”

Song Zhen continued: "Xingzhi, even if you go to exterminate the traitor, you will laugh at the world. ”

Xia Zhu said: "Xingzhi, it's not that you can't go, with your ability, you will definitely make contributions if you go, but the court has a lot of troubles, and you can't be counted on alone, which is not good for the country." ”

Zhang Fangping was so angry that he wanted to beat him, did you talk like that? Others can say, but you can't say that Zheng Lang ignored the power of the gentleman's party and sought justice for you.

But Zheng Lang was not angry, Xia Zhu was smart but was mistaken by being smart, because Zhao Zhen wanted to assassinate Zhao Zhen, others didn't know, only Xia Zhu knew, he went along with it, and fell too deep, but he was disgusted by Zhao Zhen, so he didn't last long. And this matter is about to happen soon, and it is not appropriate for me to stay in the capital.

Xu Xu said: "Your Majesty, the rebellion in Beizhou is just a trivial matter, and the minister was negligent, so that it has dragged on to this day, and the minister is at fault." Therefore, the minister asked for orders to move forward, because he wanted to redeem his merits. Moreover, Beizhou has dragged on for a long time, shaking the world, which will make many people suspicious. In addition, the movements of the Western Xia side are unknown, and the matter of Beizhou cannot be delayed any longer. ”

The last Zheng Lang refers to the fact that he did not move to the mountains and defected, and the other ministers did not know, so Wen Yanbo said: "The Western Yuan Hao is dead, the border is peaceful, and there is no need to worry about it." ”

"Kuanfu, if that's not the case, just in case." Zheng Lang said a word, and said to Zhao Zhen: "The minister has also done some thinking about Beizhou, and he is prepared to go, Chenda Beizhou, and guarantees that the thief will be eliminated in ten days." ”…,

This time, Wen Yanbo didn't dare to be silent.

Wang Ze rebelled for several months, and the officers and soldiers did not break through Beizhou, even if Wen Yanbo took the initiative to ask for it, he also asked for it, where did he dare to guarantee that Beizhou City could be taken in ten days.

Zheng Lang said again: "Danchen goes to Beizhou, and he needs some conditions from the imperial court. ”

Zhao Zhen asked, "Say." ”

Obviously, Zheng Lang's words just now made him excited, Jia Changchao can't do it, Ming Hao can't do it, what if Wen Yanbo can't do it? The court is in turmoil.

"Your Majesty, Jia Changchao is very proficient in scriptures, but he is negligent in the rule of officials and military affairs, so the thief is not aware of his jurisdiction, and the henchman Pan Fangjing is afraid, so he goes to the Daimyo's Mansion to denounce Wang Ze. was beheaded by Jia Changchao. Later, he covered up this mistake and said that it was not tricky. The thief rebelled on New Year's Day, why did Pan Fangjing assassinate Jia Chang in the winter moon and alarm the court? ”

It simply doesn't make sense.

Even if Pan Fangjing wanted to learn from Jing Ke, then why did he write a detailed report to Wang Ze's rebellion?

continued: "With the constraints of the Jia Chang Dynasty, the army cannot be united, and it is difficult to break the thieves. Therefore, the minister thought that the Jia Chang Dynasty could not live in the Daimyo's Mansion, and the north was an important place in the country, and a capable minister was needed to preside over it. The minister thought that Jia Changchao should be transferred to Xijing. ”

Zhao Zhen was silent for a while and said, "Quasi." ”

Zheng Lang and Jia Changchao do not agree, everyone knows that Jia Changchao's performance in this matter is not very good, and Zheng Lang is not impeached, but he is only transferred to Xijing, and he is transferred at the same level, which can be said to be reasonable. However, if Jia Changchao is asked to wear a big hat that is not good at governing the military and the military, Jia Changchao's future is worrying, so he hesitated for a while.

Zheng Lang continued: "The minister then asked the inner treasury to take out all the cow and sheep skins for the minister to use. ”

"Why is this admonition?"

"The thief pierced the balloon with a bed crossbow, which was called Zhao Desheng, which was caused by Ming Hao's lack of proficiency in Gewu, so the minister used this to correct the name of the court, correct the name of Gewu, and hit the enemy's morale."

Zhao Zhen didn't hesitate this time, he hit until now, spent a sea of money, didn't care about these animal skins, and said, "Accurate." ”

Zheng Lang said again: "The master said, not in his position, do not seek his government, but in his position, he must seek his government. The two governments handle the affairs of the whole country, but if they go to the local level to preside over the affairs and then preside over the affairs of the two governments, the whip will not be able to reach them. Moreover, as soon as the governor of the two governments goes to the local government to preside over the affairs, he must integrate the three powers of the military, government and finance, and then remotely control the affairs of the two governments, which is a precedent for opening up the power of ministers. ”

This public case started with Han Qi.

Before Zheng Lang finished speaking, Zhao Zhen's eyes showed appreciation.

The system of the Song Dynasty repeatedly divided powers, and the overhead and overhead, overlapped and overlapped, which was to prevent the emergence of powerful ministers.

Zheng Lang said again: "And there are some disputes in the Eastern Mansion, which affects government affairs, so the minister thinks that Xia Zhu can be appointed as a privy envoy." ”

Zhao Zhen was moved and said, "Accurate." ”

Not only Zhao Zhen, but also other ministers were moved together, Xia Zhu was fighting back and forth, there was no hope of serving as prime minister, and the court was also like a boat sailing against the current, if he did not advance, he would retreat, once the emperor was seriously dissatisfied with the dispute in the Eastern Mansion, Chen Xia and the two would be cut off, who would it be? Xia Zhu will definitely be transferred to the place. What a mind this is, so everyone looked at Xia Zhu together.

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