Wei Minglang is Li Yuanhao's younger brother, who once went out with Li Yuanhao and made many great achievements. However, Li Yuanhao was suspicious, and he couldn't allow this younger brother to be in the limelight, so he suppressed him many times, because his reputation was not obvious, and the people of the Song Dynasty were not familiar with him.

Some of the powerful people in Western Xia still knew about it.

I don't know if I don't move.

Because Li Yuanhao believed in his daughter, he said something. For example, the evaluation of the famous ministers of various countries, including Zheng Lang, said that Zheng Lang was not military enough, and if he was allowed to lead his troops to fight against Zheng Lang again, he would definitely win the victory.

In fact, this is wrong, Li Yuanhao's military ability is long in strategy and grasp of the timing of the political situation, which is unmatched by no one in the world, whether it is a chatter, or Di Qing, Chong Shiheng, it can be said that he is a miniature version of Zhuge Wuhou, but there is a shortcoming, not long in tactics, strategy, just like Zhuge Liang, before he came out of the fledgling, he divided the world into three parts, and the cattle were in a mess, but in terms of the tactical changes of each battle, he was not the top in the Three Kingdoms, nor as good as Zhou Yu, and even inferior to Wei Yan and Zhao Yun who were repeatedly suppressed by him. Li Yuanhao is like this, his strategic vision is invincible in the world, but in terms of tactical changes, he is inferior to Di Qing, not as good as Chong Shiheng, and not as good as Woo.

Zheng Lang's military talent is definitely not as good as Li Yuanhao, but he has a golden finger. If the battle of Dingchuan is overturned again, Zheng Lang maintains an open attitude, strategically uses the golden finger as a supplement, tactically lets go of Di Qing and Chong Shiheng to plan, coupled with the huge backing force of the Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao will still fail.

This is a sentence that Li Yuanhao said after the victory in the Battle of Hequ.

However, once when Wei Minglang met Jinjin, Li Yuanhao commented, in terms of military talent, those who can match me are the only ones who meet me.

Li Yuanhao's status in the heart of the mountain is still very lofty, a small prime minister with military talent that surpasses the Song Dynasty, and a general on a par with Li Yuanhao who came with three thousand cavalry, what good end does he have?

He didn't move for a while, and he was almost ready to drag his daughter out of the car and ride the horse together. With his son's family, regardless of the clansmen, he prepared to flee in the direction of Xiaoguan.

At this time, another tribesman found him in front of him. said: "Great patriarch, good thing, good thing, the Song Dynasty has led troops over." ”

At this time, the mountain was standing on the top of an earthen mountain, looking a little far away, looking south, and seeing a cloud of smoke and dust rolling in. With a fixed mind, he shouted: "Organize soldiers and horses and prepare for battle." Song Dynasty reinforcements are coming. ”

But what made him almost vomit blood in anger was that when he heard the arrival of reinforcements from the Song Dynasty, some clansmen turned around and went to pack up the luggage of those cattle and sheep regardless of their own safety, and this place was about to become a battlefield. What are you doing with all this?

In a hurry, the young children of the clan organized an army of more than 1,500 people, ready to drag it out.

Wei Minglang was the first to kill.

He also hurried hard along the way, and most of them were mountain roads that were not suitable for marching at all. He was all cavalry, and his speed on these rugged mountain roads was not as fast as the infantry. Fortunately, the migrants were not slow, so they caught up. looked at the opposite side and saw that Wuyi Mountain had actually organized an army and was ready to fight. He laughed, reined in his horse, did not engage immediately, looked at the mountain, and shouted, "If you don't move the mountain, get off your horse and surrender." ”

Didn't move, the mountain didn't answer. Instead, he looked at the smoke and dust in the southwest direction and said to his two sons: "Prepare for the battle and drag the time down." ”

Wei Minglang saw that the father and son did not move, and whispered to each other, and sneered.

He saw the smoke and dust in the southwest direction, and he saw it too. The interrogation was fake, and there was a pause. is to make an observation.

Seeing that he had not moved the mountains and let the clansmen get on the horses and prepare for the battle, he sneered even more in his heart.

If he had chosen a favorable terrain before his troops and horses arrived, arranged small fortifications, dismounted and stretched his bows, and delayed for a while, the Song army would have arrived and fought immediately...... Look for death! He also commanded several generals under his hand: "The target, the father and daughter are not moved!" ”…,

There is no time to wipe out the unmoved people, so they can only try to kill the unmoved father and daughter.

Brother Ning Ling, the little emperor, the brothers and sisters of Wuzang, and the brothers and sisters of Wuzang and the dead brothers have grievances, the truth is definitely not what the brothers and sisters of Wuzang said, nor is it what Brother Ning Lingge sent people to threaten, what the truth is, he doesn't care, but the Western Xia must have a smooth transition, otherwise it will be destroyed under the flat seams of the Song Dynasty and the Khitan. So in the first time, he expressed his allegiance to Lang Zuo.

Other people can defect to the Song Dynasty, but the symbolism of the father and daughter is too strong, and they must not be allowed to escape to the Song Dynasty.

"Yes."

"Langli, you lead five hundred soldiers to charge first."

"Yes," his general, Lang Li, rushed forward with five hundred soldiers.

He didn't move to look at the smoke and dust in the southwest direction getting closer and closer, and saw that Wei Minglang had only sent 500 people to charge at him, and his heart was overjoyed.

His tribe was close to Douling, not far from the junction of Song and Xia, so in these years, most of the warriors in the clan participated in the wars against the Tubo, Uighurs and the Song Dynasty, and their military talent was not as good as that of Langyu, and the combat effectiveness of his clansmen was not worse than that of the soldiers brought by Langyu. He said to his eldest son, "You will lead a thousand men to fight." ”

Regardless of whether it is fair or not, drag the time down first.

The two soldiers collided together.

The non-moving warriors did not have the upper hand, after all, one thousand against five hundred. But the war is not as unmoved as the mountain imagined, after a fierce battle, the initial explosive power was lost, Wei Minglang met with a wave of his hand, and 500 people on the left and right killed him.

didn't move the mountain, so he had no choice but to let all his subordinates go out to fight.

After another fierce battle, there were casualties on both sides, Wei Minglang met a big hand, and the remaining 1,500 soldiers and horses were all released, and the left, center, and right rushed to the battlefield. Only rushed to one, and all the soldiers under the mountain were defeated.

Seeing that it was not good, he had no choice but to flee for his life.

The patriarch fled, and the soldiers fled faster, and a large number of the children of the immigrant tribe were killed.

The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and when they were about to catch up, a middle-aged man with an ugly and vicious appearance came with more than a dozen horsemen first, shouting: "Who is the one who hasn't moved the mountain?" ”

The person who came didn't know anyone else, and the armor was the style of the Song Dynasty, so he asked: "I am." ”

"Where's your daughter?" There is no other meaning, the most important person in this line of work is not that he has not moved the mountains, but that he has not moved the clan.

He pointed to the people who were fleeing in front of him and said, "She's in front." ”

"Follow behind the Sprinkle family," the big man finished speaking, stopped talking, and covered the mountain and fought and retreated. It looks ugly, but this big man fights bravely. Wherever the weapons reached, almost no one was the enemy of their unity. I didn't move and vaguely guessed who he was.

The situation is still very dangerous, no matter how fierce Zhang Qi is, there are too few Song troops who came first. There were only a dozen people, and in a moment several fighters fell. However, through the bloody and brave nature of these Song soldiers, some of the soldiers who did not move stopped panicking, and they couldn't flee like this, and they had their own brothers and sisters, wives and children, and they participated in the war one after another. Still hasn't stabilized. Although soldiers came to fight from time to time, there were fewer and fewer men. Just when Zhang Qi and Wuyi were unable to see each other, the large armies of the Song Dynasty finally arrived one after another.

Wei Minglang ordered the soldiers to retreat, and he was very jealous of Zhang Qi, besides, this was a land controlled by the Song Dynasty, once a fierce battle was formed, it would be very unfavorable to himself, and he asked: "General Zhang." Why take in our Mother of the Nation? ”

For others, you can ask rhetorically, you Xixia only has one mother of the country, and it is the Wuzang clan. Still hasn't moved? Zhang Qi was a rough man, and his kung fu was not good, and he said rudely: "Then why did you Xixia take in Zhang Yuan and others?" ”

"Zhang Yuan is just an ordinary person."

"Zhang Yuan is really an ordinary person? Not only Zhang Yuan, but also our dynasty won a great victory, for the sake of the people of the two countries, renegotiate peace, increase the annual gifts, why do you Xixia people continue to invade the farm, harass the border people, and have a large amount of illegal salt? The man on the other side listened well, and he fought if he wanted to. It's not wordy. ”…,

Wei Minglang was silent for a while, and saw that the Song Dynasty army was neat and well-organized, and it seemed that there was smoke and dust rising in the distance, so he turned his horse and said, "Withdraw." ”

Zhang Qi didn't chase after him, he saw part of the battle just now. This is a fierce general, and he saw that he had not moved for a long time, so he sent scouts to investigate, only to find out that there were chasing soldiers behind, and the march speed of the did not move the tribe was slow, and he would be caught up, so he only brought five hundred cavalry and five hundred infantry in Xiao Pass, the number of troops was not as good as the other party, and the command ability of the other party should not be underestimated, if it was defeated, even Xiao Pass would be lost, so he watched Wei Minglang retreat.

The people who did not move were relieved, and many of the children of the people's families died in the battle just now, and one by one they turned their heads to collect the corpses of their relatives, and many people cried. Zhang Qi looked at the cattle and sheep on the ground, as well as a large number of tattered luggage, and some small cars, and asked dissatisfiedly: "You haven't moved all the mountains, are you traveling, or are you running away?" ”

Wu Yishan's face turned red, and he couldn't answer.

Zhang Qi did not reprimand again, escorted them all the way into Xiaoguan, and sent people to send them to Qinzhou, at the junction of Qinwei and Wei, there was a river valley, which was moved out very early to settle the people who had not moved. It is far away from Xiaoguan, hundreds of miles away, along the Huluchuan River to Zhenrong Village, and from Zhenrong Village to the south over Longshan, and then to Weizhou, from Weizhou to the river valley. However, after passing the Xiao Pass, the people who did not move were safe and sound. Zhang Yu sent a special escort, wrote down the situation one by one, reported it to the imperial court, and introduced Wei Minglang to meet this person, which should not be underestimated, and may still be above the Yeli brothers in that year.

The song folded to the Kyoto Division.

Zheng Lang didn't just pay attention to this matter, he didn't serve as prime minister, as soon as he became prime minister, he knew that this country had to deal with so many things in one day.

Continuing to pacify the victims, and successively distributed a large number of medicinal materials, after the catastrophe often has many major epidemics, once the plague spreads, the consequences are unimaginable.

The various measures are not detailed, but the price is heavy, and the court has spent a lot of money.

Then discuss the matter of iron money.

First of all, Zheng Lang discussed, please strike the Hedong iron money, the imperial court agreed, and the iron money official furnace was dismissed, but there are many iron coins circulating on the market. If it is recovered by the imperial court, the loss is huge, so it has to sit back and watch it continue to circulate. But the reason why iron money was rejected in the first place was that iron money was not money, it was a currency, and as long as there were no drawbacks, paper money could also be used as currency. The key is that the cast iron money is profitable, and there are many people who mint money privately, and the second is that the Khitan cast a large number of iron coins, which poured into the Song Dynasty and exchanged them with the copper coins of the Song Dynasty.

If you don't take it back, this situation is still developing and expanding, so Zheng Jian, who went to the state to do the Zhizhou, offered a policy, Hedong has an existing iron money and two as copper coins, one year first, then three as one, another year, five as one.

Li Zhaoyu, the governor of Zezhou, also wrote that Hedong produces coal (coal), and most of the people burn lime as their business, and their families have tools for smelting, and the thieves can not stop it, and the Khitan can also cast iron money, and go away with copper coins in Yibian, which is particularly harmful.

So Hanlin scholars Zhang Fangping, Song Qi, Yang Cha and Ye Qingchen, the three envoys, successively wrote that iron money can no longer be popular, for the iron money that is already in fashion, please Shaanxi and Hedong to use small iron money as copper money, Shaanxi and Hedong official furnace are all gone. The brass coins minted in Shangzhou, that is, a kind of inferior copper coins with very little copper content, were originally circulated for iron money. At first, a large amount of iron was cast, and the cost was different from that of copper coins, and it was allowed to circulate like copper coins.

Imperial decree.

It looks good, and the little iron money is three as one. The cost slightly exceeds the cost of copper coins, at least the Khitan has no way to use cast iron money to earn the difference.

In fact, this is the best example of the court's mistake and the people paying.

Just like beating a drum and passing flowers, the imperial court was forced by the Shaanxi Campaign to cast a batch of iron money to solve a little urgent need, the Khitan made a lot of money, and some private casters also made a lot of money. But the money is in the hands of the people. As soon as the edict was issued, the property immediately shrank by a third. …,

When the edict was issued, the people complained.

Zheng Lang was helpless, Qian Tie and big copper coins were the products of Zhang Kui and Fan Yong, the war began during the Qingli period, the country was insufficient, Fan Yong wrote to ask for a big copper coin, to one as ten. It's a good deal. But this is currency, how can it be such a child's play? Zhang Kui borrowed the example of Hou Shu again and asked for iron money. One by one, they didn't understand money, thinking that they were doing it for profit, and the casting process was not refined, and the money was rude, which provided an opportunity for private coinage and Khitan coin theft.

However, the huge commodity economy of the Song Dynasty, as well as the loss of copper coins in many ways, including the flow to various countries, and the return of money as a tool, copper coins have been insufficient, and iron coins were later cast in history. There are also Jiaozi, and coins. If you want to rectify this chaotic monetary relationship, there is only one way, the bank!

Moreover, the bank must have sufficient gold, silver and copper coins to cash in Jiaozi, otherwise with the current economic concept of the people, it will have to be a big deal. So how many copper coins do you need? It's not as simple as the Song Dynasty's more than 100 million yuan a year. The imperial court tax may only account for 5 percent of the state revenue, or even be insufficient, and in addition, the annual income of the major wealthy families may have to be reduced to 50 to 60 percent, and the rest are scattered in the hands of third, fourth, and fifth class households everywhere.

That is, at least copper coins, or equivalent gold and silver, were needed to reach more than 2.5 billion guan to meet the supply of the Song Dynasty. All the existing copper coins and gold and silver are in circulation, and there may be a difference of more than one billion yuan in currency or quasi-currency. Now, because of the Ping'an prison, more than 9 million guan of coinage is minted a year, plus gold and silver, it is possible that 15 million guan of new currency will be produced a year, but at least 3 or 4 million guan will flow back to other countries.

A hundred years to be satisfied!

However, if the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the total economic volume will continue to be expanded, and it will still not be satisfied after a hundred years. Once satisfied, the state is also in decline.

Zheng Lang felt that his thoughts were wrong.

I don't know what is wrong, but the iron money must be stopped, the country has minted millions of iron coins over the years, and if you add the private minting and Khitan minting, it will reach more than 10 million. It is no longer possible to take it back with the treasury.

Only the people can share this loss.

This kind of perverted economy makes Zheng Lang often think about it, and he can't cry or laugh.

After receiving Zhang Qi's fold, Zhao Zhen paid attention and asked, "Zheng Qing, do you know that Wei Minglang met this person?" ”

Zheng Lang only replied: "Your Majesty, if the minister is born in the Lu Pheasant Dynasty, what will be the fate?" ”

Die!

Can Lu Pheasant tolerate a minister with such a strange talent?

Zhao Zhen smiled and didn't ask again. Wei Minglang may not die, but even Li Yuanhao feels jealous, he is now the uncle of Xixia, can he not hide his brothers and sisters? No matter how much skill you have, you won't have to reuse it if you continue to do so.

He asked again: "Zheng Qing, I heard that the Khitan is building a boat on the big river, what happened?" ”

This is more concerned, overseas, the Song Dynasty is a giant, the profit of the Ping An Jian is slowly expanding, although the share of the imperial court is getting smaller and smaller, but the scale of the mines is expanding, and because of the use of wood barter, the volume of transactions with the Wa State, Goryeo increased, and the Wa State successively used Zheng Lang drawings to find a number of gold and silver deposits, which is equivalent to having money, more Yi Song goods, the actual income is still slowly increasing. But if the Khitan had ship technology, the consequences would not be very good. The simplest is the mine of the Wa Kingdom, in Hebei Song Dynasty did not dare to start a war with the Khitan, what dare to fight with the Khitan overseas? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )