Soon after Wang Shao returned to Shaanxi, in the name of the side of the case, he only took a few personal guards and galloped from ancient Weicheng to the southwest, that is, the source of Weishui, Yu Longke's base camp, and met with Yu Longke. Similar things, Chong Shiheng has done it, Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang have also done it, the nature is different, Zheng Lang has a lot of guards, only Chong Shiheng has the least guards, but that is in China. The place where Yu Longke is located is in Weiyuan (the area around the source of Weishui on the west side of the West Weicheng is called Weiyuan), which is still not under the rule of the Song Dynasty. In this trip, although the two sides sent envoys to communicate with each other in advance, Wang Shao was forced to go in person, which shows that the previous talks were not very smooth, and in fact, they took great risks.

If it is compared, it can only be compared with characters like the Han and Tang Dynasties, such as Guo Xue's night will be Wu Zhile, but he has not done a good thing, his night is cold, the snow is deep and the wind is frozen, Wu Zhile will not be able to resist the cold and die, his son Suo Ge plotted to attack, and the deputy envoy Xie Wan persuaded Yuan Zhen to escape at night, Yuan Zhen did not listen, and he was in charge of the account tomorrow, crying very sadly, Suo Ge felt his righteousness, and he was good with Yuan Zhen.

Or such as Huo Quai, the evil king of Hun and the king of Hutu surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and there was a civil strife by the Yellow River, Huo Qubing only took a few small soldiers and rushed across the Yellow River, so that the two kings quelled the rebellion and brought 50,000 Huns to Chang'an.

These are heroic deeds that have illuminated the ages.

But in the Song Dynasty, there were no heroes.

Even Zheng Lang didn't dare to speak up for Wang Shao, not to help Wang Shao, but to harm Wang Shao.

Yu Longke heard that Wang Shao came in person, he was surprised, and he could only meet him, Wang Shaozheng said success or failure, the two sides talked, and they were more happy, and Yu Longke stayed at Wang Shao that day. Wang Shao stayed and settled peacefully. Only then did Yu Longke let go of the worries in his heart and sent Chief Hao to Qinzhou with Wang Shao to observe. Then take the initiative to rate its 120,000 population attached. This is only the people under his account, and his influence is more Fan and Qiang. He also wrote: "I heard that Bao Zhongcheng was a loyal minister of the imperial court, and he begged for the surname Bao." ”

The biggest influence in the northwest is not Bao Zheng, but Fan Zhongyan. The second is Zheng Lang.

But the scope of Fan Zhongyan's activities is in Yeonju and Gyeongju. The biggest influence on Weiyuanfan is Zheng Lang. Whether it was to appease the Tibetan people on Jingyuan Road, or to cancel the ban on the marriage of the Fan and Han, Yu Longke also wanted to ask for the surname Zheng at first, but Wang Shao felt bad intuitively. After admitting each other politely, Yu Longke changed his surname to begging for Bao. Because Bao Zheng once came to Shaanxi, as a transit envoy, he had many good governance. The influence is second only to Fan Zheng.

Zhao Wei did as he requested, and unlike the blind felt attachment, he had no garrison rights, no management rights, no hostages to enter, and he was called the interior, but in fact he was only an ally. Yu Longke was attached, not only allowing the chieftains to arrive in Qinzhou, but also allowing his imperial court to open a road to Weiyuan. Ceded part of the management and garrison rights. It is still in the nature of fetters, but at least it is much stronger than the control intensity of those fetters in the Southern Wilderness. So he gave it the name Bao Shun.

I don't know Wang Shao's plan. I don't know the meaning of Yu Longke's attachment.

When August came, the water potential of the Yellow River was still huge, and Tian Yu was going to break the embankment for the second time to discharge the flood, but the scholars and doctors were still arguing and did not pay much attention.

Zhao Ji knows.

Wang Shao was able to get Yu Longke, not only because of Wang Shao's merits, but also because of Wang Anshi's efforts to protect him, and the reason why Wang Anshi advocated Wang Shao's proposal, there was another person, his son Wang Yan, a long time ago, when Wang Yan was thirteen years old, when he was a soldier of Qinzhou, he sighed to Wang Anshi: "This is a good thing, so that Xia Dezhi, the enemy is strong and the border is troubled." ”

This sentence made Wang Anshi remember it vividly, and later the Western Xia forces went south, coupled with Zheng Lang's ideas, which made him resist the opposition of the court scholars and doctors, and tried his best to support Wang Shao. After Wang Anshi came to power, Wang Yan gave advice to his father, but because he was the ruling son, he avoided it and was not easy to be elected. Wang Yan said to Wang Anshi: "Although the ruling son is unpredictable, he can deal with it. ”

Wang Anshi created momentum for it, carved and printed the articles he wrote, and sold them in the city, Deng Juan and Zeng Bu strongly recommended them in front of Zhao Xu, Zhao Xuan summoned to meet and talk, and awarded Wang Yan to tell stories for the prince Zhongyun and Chongzheng Palace.

For Wang Yan, Zheng Lang also paid attention.

History calls it a person who is fierce and has no scruples, which must be excessive.

But his political views may be because he is young and more radical, and he is Wang Anshi's only son, Zheng Lang is balanced and balanced, trying to make Sima Guang go a little faster, Wang Anshi walks a little slower, but Wang Yan pulls his father in front of him to trot.

I don't blame Wang Yan, when I am young, I am often impulsive.

Fu Bi, Cai Xiang, and Ouyang Xiu all came all the way like this. However, the descendants tried their best to resist it, and it was over, but Wang Yan did have something wrong, and his popularity was proud, which was a good saying, and a bad saying was indispensable. The imperial court has always wanted to give orders, and did not want to be a petty official. Now that he has become an emperor, he barely came out.

and is very talented, his mouth is very good, Zheng Lang can only fight a tie with him. Including Zheng Lang deliberately let him hone with Xiao Su, and both Xiao Su felt a headache. After taking office, he was full of pride, made more than 30 articles, talked about world affairs, and wrote tens of thousands of words "Lao Tzu's Teachings" and "Buddhist Book Interpretation".

Because he was drunk with political economics, he had never seen his poems in his life, so some people were ashamed that he could not write poems and lyrics, and in the face of doubts, he made a poem "Tired of Seeking Fang Slow". The cuijing warbler came, startled by the red embroidery. Leaning on the danger railing, climbing the high pavilion, the begonia is rouge through the rain. Count Shaohua, and follow it again, Qingming time. Tired of Yanyan, full of scenery, good times, who will join hands? was scared of the elm money, and bought out two frowns. After the people of Gaoyang were dispersed, the falling flowers and flowing water were still there. This feeling, to the east wind, into the emaciated.

The people of the time sighed at their work, and the words were widely circulated after they came out.

The gossip about Wang Yan is also his wife Pang Shi, who is not the daughter of Pang, but the daughter of a family surnamed Pang in the same county, who is very beautiful. Soon after, he gave birth to a son for Wang Yan, and he was displeased and wanted to kill the child, so the husband and wife were not in harmony. The young couple often quarreled, and later after Wang Yan had gangrene, in order to be afraid of affecting his son's health, Wang Anshi ordered Pang to live alone in a small building, Wang Yan thought of the benefits of his wife, and wrote the second poem of his life, "Eyes are charming", the willow silk is soft, and the smoke is woven into sorrow. Begonias do not rain, pear blossoms snow first, half of the spring break. Now the past is difficult to revisit, and the dream surrounds the Qin Tower. Acacia only on, clove branches, cardamom tips.

Although this poem is not as neat as the previous one, it is a real good word because it has feelings.

That is to say, the genius child Wang Yan is actually a mortal, with his talent and the problems of young people, and his advantages cannot be infinitely magnified. Put it on the altar. Nor can its shortcomings be magnified. stepped on the mud pit, and even dragged to Zuo's side, saying that Wang Yanyang "withered" and did not lift, and Wang Anshi picked up ashes.

Ouyang Xiu and Zhu Xi have not. It's really not clear, because they are more romantic in nature, how can Wang Anshi be. Get along until now, more than yourself. If you want to pick up the ashes, why not take a concubine, with Wang Anshi's status, it is okay to want to accept a concubine who is more beautiful than Mrs. Fan Zhongyanru.

It was because of this disease that Zheng Lang was entangled.

Otherwise, if he is released like Su Dongpo, it will not only be good for Wang Anshi, but also for Wang Yan himself.

For example, Su Dongpo was transferred to Hangzhou to serve as the governor of Hangzhou due to merit, and the southeast was flooded. In the letter, he asked the court to pay taxes leniently. Several officials laughed after reading the book, and handed the book to Zheng Lang, who personally approved and read it, Hangzhou is the second largest city in the country, the tax center, how to reduce or exempt. If Hangzhou wants to be exempted, all other states will ask for relief, what will happen to the national revenue?

Su Dongpo played back again, saying that it would be slightly reduced, otherwise the people would be miserable.

Zheng Lang replied, why is it slightly reduced, there is a positive side, there is a disadvantage, there is a disadvantage, there is a disadvantage, a small waterlogging, is there no way to resolve it in Hangzhou?

Su Dongpo was speechless after seeing it, and he was not in the mood to be in the mood for a snowstorm, so he took a prostitute to swim freely, thinking hard about a good plan. In the end, I couldn't think of a way, I resisted directly, I had no choice, the taxes were not paid, please demote me to Huangzhou again. At the end of the year, Zheng Lang really demoted Su Dongpo to Huangzhou.

In history, Wang Anshi had three difficulties with Su Dongpo, and Zheng Lang also had three difficulties with Su Dongpo.

It has nothing to do with repression, it's a grind.

Su Dongpo didn't know what he had done wrong, and after arriving in Huangzhou, under the loss, he finally appeared one by one in Chibi nostalgia, Nian Jiaogu and other masterpieces. There are slight differences, but there is not much difference in literary attainments. But Zheng Lang did not write many literary masterpieces for him, but let Su Dongpo understand some truths. Even this time, seeing that Su Dongpo did not change his life, Zheng Lang did not reach out to help. But a few years later, Su Dongpo is no longer the Su Dongpo in history.

Do you dare to Wang Yan?

Zheng Lang didn't dare to let him delegate to the training, for fear that something would happen.

Watching him talk about it in the court, Zheng Lang couldn't stand it. And Wang Yan is extremely arrogant, and another synonym for arrogance is that he is small-minded, and because of his relationship with Wang Anshi, it is even more difficult to say. This is where Zheng Lang has a headache, and he regrets it, after all, he is a talented person, good at learning, ambitious, and now he is arrogant, but he lacks training. But in this era, the pronoun of gangrene was similar to that of the terminal cancer in later generations, and Wang Yan's disease was different from Tang Jie, Di Qing, and Wang Shao, Wang Yan had never been to the south, nor had he been poisoned, so he didn't know what the cause of the disease was.

This is Zheng Lang's view of Wang Yan.

A Wang Yan can't stop him from leading the Song Dynasty forward.

At present, there are still a few major things to do, not the river, but the finances.

Yu Longke returned to Shun, the opening of the river officially kicked off, asking for money, the Song Dynasty soon had a locust plague, and a large amount of grain had to be prepared during the summer harvest next year, which required even more money.

However, the imperial court has not had a southern suburbs festival for several years, and it just so happens that Yu Longke is obedient, and the imperial court must hold a southern suburbs festival. It is not a real suburban festival, but a Mingtang festival, and the cost should be saved a little, but the cost will not be small. The bank supervised the expansion of shares, and the imperial court had to prepare more than 60 million yuan of principal, and this year's fiscal revenue will inevitably decline.

In September, the Mingtang Festival began, first fasting in the Wende Palace, saving the Jingling Palace, and fasting in the Taimiao. Then the eight rooms of the court, and then the Wende Palace. The feast of Mingtang, the beginning of the shade, the privy councillor of the book is the home of important ministers such as the envoy of the festival, no one eats Lu, and the material is hired. Those who have no children and grandchildren are recorded as brothers and nephews. At the same time, there is a difference in the rank of internal and external officials. Even including the folding of the family, the city of Luo Wucheng, the folding of the ancestors as the vanguard, deep burning of the clan tents, down to more than 800 tribes, thousands of cattle and sheep, and the death, recorded his son to attack the state, and asked his cousin to fold Kerou, the court from it, but for each of his three sons to move a capital, the second grandson and the third class borrowed. It was only at this time that the Zhejia family was gradually recognized by the Song Dynasty.

The doctor was happy, but it meant that he would have to increase his expenses by several million yuan a year in the future.

The world owes more than 1 million stone grains and more than 100,000 yuan, and the people cheer. On the other hand, the court is desperately tightening its pockets to repay the arrears and overdrafts, and it is very popular with the people.

However, the expenditure of this Mingtang Festival reached 12 million yuan.

It's still provincial, if it's a real suburban festival. The fee is higher.

Western Xia beggars and peace. Table begging Suizhou.

After Western Xia got the city of Luowu. continued to shake the side in a false voice and threaten the Song Dynasty. Or use deception to make peace so that the border soldiers of the Song Dynasty have a lax voice. did not succeed, Zhao Ji issued an edict to Qing Zhuzhou. There is no need to send an answer. If the westerners arrive again, they will be ordered to go to Shunning Village, and they will be reported by the military north inspection according to the relevant regulations.

The Liang family had no choice but to send an ambassador named Ah Niwei Ke Rong. The deputy envoys Lu Ning and Jiao Wengui paid tribute from Yanzhou, and begged the Song Dynasty to return to Suizhou. The letter of state is the Han man who surrendered to the Western Xia, and now the Xixia scholar Jing Xun wrote, quite a certain level: the minister is close to the side of the report, Yang Ke Ruici, the heart of victory and cruelty to kill, showing the will of the people, the people and gods are happy, Haiyu cheers, and Dai Cheng is deep. It's gone! His Majesty the Emperor is deeply concerned about the situation and observes the situation from afar. Remembering the labor of the halberd and sympathizing with the suffering of the soldiers. Ascend to the seat, without harming the rest of the world; Compile the fight, and see the compassion of the heart of heaven. In this Suizhou, the clan has lived for a long time, and they are all nostalgic for the selfishness of the land, and they are deeply resentful, which is the foundation of contention. Beg for orders, give early returns, get the seal of the heir, and always serve the virtue of strict condensation. The person who makes the pillow is turned into a person who is bing. Suddenly suppress the frontier field and re-clear the beacon trench. Gu Wei is naïve, dare to be the first alliance! In the middle of the enterprise, I am willing to still make an appointment. Tribute treasures, how can you be afraid of overstepping the sand; Devoted to the sun, Mi Jian is committed to debriefing.

It was the Great Sacrifice that Wen Yanbo and Han Qi both recalled Jingshi to participate.

Seeing the letter of the Western Xia, a dispute broke out, and Wen Yanbo proposed that the quasi-Western Xia people play it and return it to Suizhou in exchange for peace between the two countries.

Han Qi was silent.

Zheng Lang said: "Kuanfu, why did Western Xia dare to capture Luo Wu? ”

"Luo Wu is an important gateway to Western Xia, and he has to take it."

"Kuanfu only knows one of them, but I don't know the other, the Western Xia originally went through several battles, saw our army, almost fled in despair, the reason why he dared to send a large army to rob Luo Wucheng was that the Khitan promised to send 300,000 troops to help, and the Liang family had the confidence to regather the army."

"That can't make the country go to war, otherwise the Qingli story will be staged."

"Kuanfu, you know the second now, but you don't know the third, the Khitan Northeast Jurchen has repeatedly rebelled, and there is no time to take care of anything else, and the Khitan lord likes to hunt Buddhism, loves the ministers, and has a former enemy, how can he send 300,000 troops to help the Western Xia? Not to mention now, when the former Liao Xingzong wanted to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom, how many men and horses did he lead? 300,000 Khitan troops, easy? ”

Only Yang was a madman who attacked Gyeongju with an army of 300,000.

But there is a reason why the Liang family is crazy, the 300,000 army has not been in force for a long time, and the belly is the Western Xia, and the distance is not far. How much material would be needed to transfer 300,000 troops from the Khitan to Suizhou in Nanhetao? It's impossible.

"The reason why the Khitan made this promise is nothing more than the same mind as our dynasty, intending that both the Song and Xia countries will lose. The Liang family believed it to be true, but they had not seen the Khitan army for a long time, and although they recaptured Luowu City, how did they take it? Often, with more than ten times the troops, I did not repair the fortresses before they were recaptured one by one. And look at Yan Da led the army to withdraw from Luowu City, the monarchs don't know, more than a hundred miles of mountain roads, rugged and difficult to travel, but also to cover the baggage, tens of thousands of troops in Western Xia attacked many times, within a few days, more than a dozen battles, Yan Da only lost some baggage, but there were not many casualties. The comparison of Song and Xia's military strength is like this, and the Khitan has no military support, isn't the Liang family chilling? ”

In fact, in the battle of Luo Wucheng, the defeat was too greedy.

But the defeat was also glorious, and the victory was more exciting, and in the end it did not get Luo Wucheng, but it played the military might of the Song Dynasty. Although Funing Luowu fell again, but got the fine floating map village, and later changed to Kerong village, became the gateway between the Dali River and Suizhou City, the Xixia people were difficult to send the army under the city of Suizhou, and the Guishun Qiang people in the Dali River area were able to live and work in real peace and contentment. In the north, they got the barren pile, Sanquan and other villages, and still formed a pinch-attack on the two states of Xiayin.

The gains far outweigh the losses.

Zheng Lang analyzed the forms one by one, he knew the most about military affairs in the court, and there was another person who knew better, Zhang Ji, but let Zheng Lang be transferred to Jinghu North Road to raise some prisons, so that he could quickly become a real scholar. If you are a scholar, you will have a lot of autonomy in charge of the army, and if you are a military minister, you will have more constraints.

Everyone was speechless.

Wen Yanbo also said: "When the country was in financial difficulties, Wang Shao wantonly used money to recruit Zhufan in the northwest, and Zhubo has always been the first rat at both ends. It may not be beneficial to get the court, and it costs a lot of money, and the old minister thinks it is inappropriate. ”

This time, there is no need for Wang Shao to say, Zheng Lang replied: "Wang Shao operates Taohe, and the expenses used are the money that the city is easy to return to, although the court gave him the principal, the principal has not been used. ”

Here, Zheng Lang deliberately highlighted an official book. Instead of answering arrogantly like Wang Shao. The minister is dealing with the Taohe matter. Stop using the return of interest money to recruit the Qiang people, and do not try to spend official capital. said the official book, but no one paid attention to it at all in this sentence, only the previous sentence. And said it from Zheng Lang's mouth. It's different from Wang Shao taking the initiative to say it.

Wen Yanbo said: "When the craftsmen built the house, they always said that the budget was very low, and lured the house to take the initiative. Halfway through the cover, various requests were raised. At that time, it had to be built. Fees will inevitably increase. Now Wang Shao's various exploits are nothing more than that. ”

Zhao Ji changed color.

Zheng Lang has been talking about this interest, manipulating people, the emperor's mental tricks, and the tricks of scheming all day long, wanting Zhao Ji to become a trumpet version of Zhao Zhen. Wen Yanbo guessed at once with his heart, it was very vicious, now that he surrendered, the city would be easy to make money and camp money, and once the war broke out, the imperial court would definitely support it. Wen Yanbo said that if the imperial court supports him in the future, Wang Shao will become those hateful builders and craftsmen. If he doesn't support it, it is possible that Wang Shao will be defeated. Undefeated can I say a word, why does Wang Shao grasp the military, political and financial power, isn't it the second An Lushan?

"The house is broken, how can you not build it?" ”

Wang Anshi said: "If the master is good at planning, he has his own scale, how can he be deceived by the engineer?" ”

After painting the snake, Zhao Ji was faintly dissatisfied, and said: "Wang Qing, Guo Kui also doesn't want the court to open the river." ”

Originally, Wen Yanbo asked Zhao Ji to stuff his mouth, but when he heard that the spirit came again, he said: "Xifan is fragile and not enough to collect. ”

Wang Anshi said: "Xingluojie and other Tibetan tribes have invaded Qinzhou many times, and Qinzhou cannot be arrested, and besides, the heroes have made grammar and connected the party with each other, how can it be said that it is fragile?" ”

"Westerners can't make grammar."

"The Aoluo and Yujiao Cicada (the former leader of the Horse Rank Mountain Sect, broken by Cao Wei) can establish grammar, which is already effective, and if it is not, if it is collected by the Xia people, it will be a big trouble."

"Xifan will not return to the Xia Kingdom."

"Yule Zang Hamu (the leader of the Western Envoy Chengfan people, Wang Shao temptation, Xiang Bao attacked, dissatisfied, the one who defected to the Western Xia) fell to the Western Xia, because he did not want to return, then to the treasure of the past, immediately defected, so far the court has repeatedly announced the appeasement, but refused to be attached, why not?"

"Even if it is attached, what benefit does it have in the imperial court?"

"With Hamu returning to the Xia country, so the Hamu land is the place of life, and Xiang Bao cannot go deep to disturb the Xia people. However, the Western Xia belongs to me, and the Xia people belong to it, and it is impossible to say that there is no benefit. At least they won't assist the Western Xia in invading our dynasty. ”

"Even so, once he is an internal subordinate, he is in an emergency, and he may need to be rescued by China, otherwise, it will become a betrayal of Mu Zheng."

Dare to love and want the horses to be good, and want the horses not to eat grass!

"He cannot be unified now, but he can still defend himself, and he will not be annexed by the Westerners. If it is linked, it can be rescued by itself, and there is no need to wait for the officers and soldiers to arrive. If we can fight for the barrier, even if we use officials to help them, we can also ignore it. And it's highly unlikely. ”

Zhao Ji said on the side: "Ban Chao didn't use Chinese soldiers, but spontaneously rescued the barbarians, and now Wang Shao's plan is exactly like this." ”

Zheng Lang laughed and laughed, Zhao Ji meant to say that he would use brute to control barbarianism.

However, whether it is Pan Mei, Yang Ye, or Cao Wei, Di Qing, Wang Shao and Zhang Qi, if compared with Ban Chao, it seems that there is still a big difference. In the entire Song Dynasty, there is only one person who can compare with Ban Chao, Yue Fei! Ban Chao, why don't you use Huo Qu's illness and Wei Qing to compare with Song Jiang.

But it doesn't matter, obviously Wen Yanbo doesn't know where Ban Chao is powerful, he only thinks of money, and says: "If Yuan Hao was in the West, it was not like labor at the beginning, and then it was born." ”

Zhao Ji said again: "The West did not order this, and then it violated the original purpose, so it was troublesome." ”

Zheng Lang wants to rub his head, isn't this going farther and farther. Wang Anshi said: "Such a military matter, it is difficult to ensure that it has no trouble, if it is attached to Rong Di, how can there be a reason for labor and expense?" ”

Feng Jing and Wu Chong said: "This matter has not been settled in Yanzhou. ”

Nominally, Shaanxi is under the control of Jingzhao Prefecture, but in fact, Yanzhou gradually replaced the status of the capital of Shaanxi, and the director of Yanzhou is Guo Kui, so there is such a statement.

Zhao Ji said: "Yanzhou will not be happy like this, there is no need to do it, how to deal with it now?" ”

Wang Anshi said: "I'm afraid you have to don't do it all the way, such as the military horse division of Fulin Road." ”

Wu Chong asked, "What is long?" ”

Wang Anshi said: "Wang Shao civil official." ”

Zhao Ji said: "Civil officials are long. ”

Don't be verbose, Wang Shao is a Jinshi and is also a scholar!

Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty, since then, the northwest is afraid of many events. ”

Zhao Ji said: "Five years will not return to Hehuang, ten years will not return to Western Xia, ten years will not return to Western Xia, I am afraid that the dynasty will be abolished." ”

Zheng Lang said that it is serious. That list is also in Zhao Ji's hands. Zheng Lang explained. In ten years, Li Bingchang has grown up, the Liang family is not old, and his mother and son are long. The story of the Wuzang clan and Lang Zuo will be staged again, and several high-level scouts can't wait any longer, if they don't destroy Western Xia at that time. The Song Dynasty never had a good time to recover Western Xia.

Wen Yanbo didn't know the inside story, but it didn't prevent him from hearing the outside of the words, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, it is so difficult to take Luowu City, and it is a matter of Western Xia." Your Majesty, don't listen to the villain's arguments, and be bad for your ancestors' family business. ”

Listening to their nonsense, Zheng Lang didn't want to listen to it, Wen Yanbo actually alluded to himself as a villain. Zheng Lang was a little unhappy and said, "Zizheng." You name it. ”

Zheng Lang's glory lies in the past, Cai Ting's glory lies in the present, Huluchuan's victory is the glory of Wang Shao and Chongge, Cai Ting also contributed to it, and he has the merit of guarding Qingzhou, he said on the side: "Duke Wen, the soldiers of Western Xia are just a mass of scattered sand." The loss of Luo Wucheng is not the loss of the imperial court. If I guessed correctly, Zheng Gong suffered from lack of economy and trouble, and did not want to make trouble. If this is not the case, the heavy troops of the Western Xia are concentrated in the land of Suizhou, Tiandu Mountain and Huizhou are all empty places, and the border between our dynasty and the Western Xia is growing, and the Western Xia can gather the troops of the whole country to attack at one point, why can't our dynasty gather another army to attack another point in the Western Xia. Gong Wen, I'm too worried. ”

Wen Yanbo was furious, who are you, and shouted: "You bewitch the king's warlike heart and seek glory with the fortune of the country? ”

Zheng Lang was very displeased, if Cai Ting was serving as the governor, Zheng Lang would be the first to object, but there was no problem as the deputy governor of Xifu. He said coldly: "Kuanfu, this statement is fallacious, although Zizheng is not as senior as you, but he has quite a lot of achievements in side affairs, when you defend Qinzhou, what is it?" Let's talk about national politics, after four years of peace, the national government was deserted, Yanguo couldn't bear it, resigned as the prime minister of Xifu, what did you do as the prime minister of Xifu? In addition to echoing, or echoing! If it weren't for you and Zhigui, the country would have been so indebted. But you will have to ask Your Majesty and many ministers to repay your great debts. Don't dare to make up for it, don't dare to reward! Even Your Majesty has to work hard, Rong Lu, you are embarrassed to say it! ”

"What does it have to do with me!"

Zhao Ji is already displeased, the country's situation is gradually getting better, but it hasn't gotten better, and there are still more than 200 million outstanding debts. He doesn't have much effect, in order to repay this debt, Zheng Lang is working day and night, and even his father has not fallen into a good reputation, all this, Wen Yanbo is not wrong? He shouted: "Duke Wen, Hugh wants to say it again, haven't you understood yet?" How is the country, there is a minister to disturb me. If it weren't for this, the northwest would have been in flames long ago. When I really have such a huge dynasty, I am afraid of Western Xia! Scatter! ”

With Zhao Ji's handwritten edict: Yesterday, the border ministers played, the Xia Kingdom went to the autumn to cut off the imperial court, went deep into the Huanqing Road, killed and plundered familiar households, invaded the walled city, and had to raise troops to fight. I am a parent, and I urgently order the class teacher, so I don't have to be poor. Now the lord of the country sent an envoy to pay money, wanting to continue the old good, and suspend the army and rest the people, which is very good. The said Suizhou, the edict has been issued before, and the Xia State will not be allowed to hand over the Saimen Village, and Suizhou will not be returned, so what is the discussion now! It has been ordered that the Yanyan Road passes through the strategic division to establish the boundary of Suide City, and the roads outside it, and according to the Han Dynasty to sit and cultivate the boundary, set up a seal, dig a trench, and divide the land inside and outside to divide the land and cultivate it, so that they will not invade each other. Once the boundary is finished, don't enter the oath form, return to the oath, and the gift is the same

You Xixia have the ability to occupy Saibenzhai, give it to you, our Song Dynasty has the ability to occupy Suizhou, and you Xixia don't want it. Let's divide it in this way, I agreed, the gift is the same as before, I don't agree, I want to fight with you, and we will accompany the Song Dynasty.

Along with it, the Song Dynasty banned smugglers. The two countries and the city have been separated for a long time, and the imperial court has negotiated peace, and some businessmen do not know what to do, so they are all banned. This is the hard side, and the soft side is the righteous side. The general of the Western Xia won the victory and the brave martial arts, when Wang Wenyu opened the wasteland fort, the victory was defeated and surrendered, Liang Yi buried his beloved daughter, and detained his family, the victory was concerned, and he returned, and he was arrested by Wang Wenyu, Zhao Ji personally issued an edict to indulge him, gave him the road maintenance fee, and sent someone to the Youzhou border to deliver. He also issued an edict to let the Hedong Economic Strategy Division Liu Itch have obtained the population of the Xia Kingdom, and those who wish to return will be paid two horses of colored silk per person, and half of the children, and sent back to the Linzhou border. Colored silk is also very expensive in the Song Dynasty, a horse in two more money, if placed in the Western Xia, worth more than five yuan, that is, if the surrendered Xixia people in the Song Dynasty are uncomfortable, go back, not only can, but also send ten dollars of silk, let them go back rich.

Then in May of the following year, after the war between the two countries, Li Fugui took the opportunity to take the second fort of Zhuo and Zhushi, and after Wang Guangyuan knew Qingzhou, he asked Wang Guangyuan to return the second fort to Western Xia. Didn't work, didn't, in the end it was still a fist.

But the main thing is one word. Money.

After the festival. Zheng Lang was late. Only then was it announced that the bank would be prepared.

The expansion has been extended to more than 200 state capitals, and there are three forms of states that have not entered, the first is a particularly closed state, and the second is a state in the southwest where the nature of the restraint is very serious. The third is the border states. Others, even poor states, are included.

For gains, but still for the sake of a prosperous economy.

The stock supervision has expanded, and it is difficult to increase management. Redundant personnel will further reduce profits, but it will further boost the national economy. In fact, some prefectures are small in area and relatively poor, and if they want to achieve benefits, they have to focus on the fourth and fifth class households, which is what Lu Huiqing called the green seedling loan. The banking system has long formulated the interest rate of the green seedling loan, but the scale was small before, and the emperor's daughter did not worry about marrying. For merchants only. Now I expand and want to target all businessmen. It's unlikely. Eventually, it will be expanded, and at that time, the green seedling loan mentioned by Lu Huiqing will occupy a large proportion. But that's for the bank to choose, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court. Extremely poor households cannot borrow money if they want to, and third- and fourth-class households are not short of money to spend, and it is impossible to forcibly apportion them. The drawbacks of the Seedlings method can be avoided. This expansion is about accumulating experience for the future.

The expansion of banking supervision is a time of carnival for the powerful.

Zheng Lang took the opportunity to launch a small restructuring to supplement the reform of Zhiping, three grinding and two sponsorship systems, the original officials were only waiting for the imperial court to be sealed, and they would not do things, and the three grinding system was that all officials must do things, or teach, or serve as small officials scattered in various counties. According to their performance, officials above the state level are sponsored, and then transferred to the state capitals as important officials for further observation. Then the second sponsorship by the officials above the state level, the imperial court will gather these officials to carry out a large-scale grinding survey, such as the current Cha Yin Tian, the future will not be a large-scale survey of the Yin Tian, but some affairs, such as water conservancy and river work, road construction, disaster relief, and then according to the performance of each person, they can be sealed.

The first is to reduce the number of greedy officials to enter the officialdom for corruption, and the second is to reduce the number of inactive or violent officials to enter the officialdom.

There is also the improvement of experience, after the officials go down, not only to govern the people, a prefecture or county is like the local emperor, it is impossible to rely on himself, and he must appoint small officials. After coming from the checkpoint of the small officials, it is not easy for the local officials to make it.

Then the atmosphere of officialdom will further improve, and the incompetent officials will also decline further.

But this time it also caused some controversy, because the inventory of Yintian was aimed at almost all the Southeast Sixth Road and Jingdong Road, which was also the most populous and fiercest area in the Song Dynasty.

The current investigation of Yintian lasted until March of the following year, and the bank supervision and share expansion was not officially expanded until the end of March. The scale was large, the staff had to be trained, and at the same time, the imperial court did not raise enough capital until after March. Only then did the income and expenditure of the imperial court for two years be announced, and Xining's income for three years was staggering, and it returned to its original shape again in four years. The total expenditure reached more than 152 million, and the total income was only more than 186 million. In between, there are expenses for the great festival, as well as military expenses. The common people will not subdivide, they can only see that the expenditure has been high, the burden is heavy, and the controversy over Xining's three-year wealth accumulation has been reduced.

Zheng Lang still did not leave the Third Division, this time it was not for the sake of collecting money, nor for the sake of Hehuang, but for food. Last year's autumn harvest was somewhat affected by the rain, but the summer harvest was a bumper harvest year, and the price of wheat was also cheap, and the price of wheat in Jingshi was less than 200 yuan per stone. Zheng Lang squeezed out 5 million taels in Sansi Shengsheng, bought wheat on a large scale, and transferred it to various warehouses. Nominally, it is to balance food prices. At the same time, wheat prices are too low, high grain prices hurt the people, and low grain prices hurt farmers. Last year, grain prices soared wildly, and as an official, I also wanted grain prices to fall further, so I didn't want to think about 20 or 30 yuan for a bucket of rice, but it would be best if it fell to 40 or 50 yuan. The move passed without incident.

Wang Shao's small movements did not stop, and the people of Western Xia learned about it.

Dong Yu's son Lin Qibi, the first marriage to the Ganzhou Uighurs, the battle of Huanqing, Dong Yu sent troops, and the imperial court named him the history of Jinzhou Thorn. The Liang family was afraid of its strength for a long time, and when he heard that Wang Shao descended to the Qing Tang Dynasty, he would restore the river and Huang, and Zhufan was in a hurry, so he married Dong Yuzi with Li Bingchang's sister who was only a few years old.

Not necessarily all the benefits, Miaochuan (Qinghai Ledu area) city lord Wen Nazhi and Dong Yu had a grudge, took refuge in the Western Xia, as a pillar, arched the northeast gate of Tubo, so that the Western Xia calmly expanded in the east. After hearing that the two families were married, they were afraid that they would be caught in the middle, and the two would attack each other and perish, so he sent someone to tell Xixia that he would say: "In this way, I will return to Han." Liang didn't listen, and later Lin Xiaobi died, and Dong Yu remarried his second daughter to his adopted son Ali Gu as his wife.

There is also an advantage, once the Song Dynasty crusaded against Tibet, it lost morality to some extent. Dong Yu disregarded the feud and married the feuding girl, although it brought difficulties to the Song Dynasty's crusade, but gave the Song Dynasty the name of righteousness, plus Mu Zheng was equivalent to submitting to the Western Xia, and the Song Dynasty no longer had any scruples.

At the beginning, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty were a little worried, and Wang Anshi said: "The Taohe area has been attached, and Dong Yu can't help but be afraid, and he is related to Bingchang, and there is a reason." ”

Zhao Ji was worried, Wang Anshi thought that Wang Shao could take it with a plan, if he captured Mu Zheng, Yuanqiang was afraid of the big species (the leader of the big clan), and the court would be able to threaten Zhufanqiang. Feng Jing thought that Mu Zheng did not offend China, so why should he do so. Zhao Ji asked rhetorically: "Every time China sends an envoy to go and let the envoy sit in the hall, how can he not commit a crime?" ”

Feng Jingdao: "Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was in the Xiongnu, but when he came, he was relieved of himself and did not try to go with the school." ”

The current Feng Jing, quite disappointed Zheng Lang, although the second emperor Wenjing did not make enemies with the Xiongnu, but every time he saw the arrogance of the Xiongnu, the shame in his heart could not be expressed, which gave a deep impression to the young Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, otherwise it would be impossible to make a big show in the future, regardless of the national strength to repeatedly attack the Xiongnu.

And what virtue does Mu Zheng have compared with the powerful Xiongnu in Wenjing, is it not enough for the Song Dynasty to be a good son of the Khitan, but also a good son of Mu Zheng?

Zhao Ji said very unhappily: "Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Feng Tangyan and the Xiongnu, have not forgotten Li Mu (the general of Zhao State, who has defeated the Hu people many times), don't you want to study with the Xiongnu?" If you want to settle the field, you must be powerful enough to control it, and you can do nothing! ”

Wang Anshi said: "Emperor Wen is not as good as King Wen, it is unbridled or wanton, it is absolutely ignorant, so it can be in all directions, and then the people are attached, and there can be the joy of Taimarsh." The first king ruled the inside with the heavenly protection, and the outside of the caiwei below, which did not start with worrying and diligent, and then finally enjoyed himself. Today's Mu Zheng, Hezhou Thorn History, with the gathering of 10,000 people, dare to insult so, I take the world as big, Siyi dare not cut down, dare not ignore, not King Wen's thing. And the queen of the Yuan Dynasty became the parents of the people, so that the people of the territory were the tombs of Yidi, how could it be done? However, this matter must be planned, not forced, and it is only necessary to live in a perfect place to control the life of Yidi. ”

That is what Zheng Lang said, the inside is holy, the outside is the king, the inside is benevolent, and the outside is mighty. However, Wang Anshi is not right, Wenjing is constrained by the kings, this problem has not been solved, how to deal with the Xiongnu, it is not that he does not want to deal with the Xiongnu, but the country cannot deal with the Xiongnu.

Zhao Ji looked at Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang said lightly: "Sooner or later, I have to come to this point, Sun Tzu said that soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored." The first is the Tao, which can be described as political and moral. War without morality will not be beneficial to war. Originally, Dong Yu was slightly submissive to my court, and he lost his morality to my dynasty with soldiers. Now Mu Zheng is congratulatory to the Western Xia, proud of our dynasty, Dong Yu and the Western Xia are married, and they have lost their morality. Although there are worries, it should be worth 100,000 soldiers. If you lose a small loss, you can crusade. ”

"Accurate!" Zhao said.

Zheng Lang said that if he can fight, he can fight.

Militarily, Zhao Ji has great faith in Zheng Lang, such as the Battle of Huluchuan, the great victory, and Zheng Lang also has the merit of planning. For example, when Western Xia attacked Gyeongju, the whole country was uneasy, and Zheng Lang said that there was nothing to do, that is, there was nothing to do. For example, Luo Wucheng, Zheng Lang said that it was unfavorable, and it was really unfavorable.

Wang Shao's use of soldiers is not a trivial matter, and the court must pass the edict before he can use soldiers.

Zheng Lang said that he could fight, but the prime ministers were silent, and they passed.

The Battle of Hehuang began, and the first battle was not only with Tubo, but also with the combined forces of Western Xia and Tubo. The edict reached Qinzhou in front, and the battle of Wushengjun began. (To be continued.) )