As soon as Zheng Lang's words were spoken, news came from Lingnan, at the beginning, the imperial court punished the Lingnan cities for being unprepared, ordered to repair the city walls, or rebuild the damaged city walls, Nong Zhigao's army went to Guangzhou, and the Guizhou defenders were worried and scared, and they repaired the city on a large scale. It was a good thing, and the people responded at first. Although Guizhou is dominated by barbarians, there are almost no Han Chinese, but where Nong Zhigao pointed out, many people were killed, of course, most of the people were killed by local barbarians, and all the people hated Nong Zhigao even more.

However, the Guizhou guards did not take advantage of the psychology of the people, on the contrary, regardless of the life and death of the people, they were afraid of the return of Nong Zhigao's army, and supervised the work day and night, which actually caused the people to die of exhaustion due to hard work. The imperial court used Xuan Shoulong to mention the Guangnan West Road Prison, and after learning about it, he sent the guards to prison, and wrote a memo to explain the matter, so that the imperial court issued an edict to strictly order all states and counties not to rush to repair the city wall and kill the people.

If there is no Zheng Lang, this matter can be big or small, Nong Zhigao has not yet calmed down, this is the main thing.

Because Zheng Lang made a long speech, and even recited Mei Zhi's five miasma to prove the cruelty and greed of Lingnan officials, the imperial court was furious after receiving the edict, and severely punished the relevant officials, and placed one member of the Guangnan East Road, West Road, Hunan, and Jiangxi transfer judges to supervise the illegal employment of various prefectures and counties.

Then Zheng Lang had a skirmish with Yu Shitai.

Bao Ke took his family from Yingzhou, wanted to cross Lingbei, to Nanxiongzhou, Zhizhou Xiao Bo Liuzhi, called Wang Han Guangnan East Road transfer Wang Han to Xiongzhou to discuss matters, Wang Han was trapped in Guangzhou and could not come. The official Li Dui impeached Wang Han for cowardice and avoiding thieves. In fact, Wang Han went to Chaozhou to discuss salt at the beginning, and Wen Nong Zhigao besieged Guangzhou, that is, he led the troops into the city as a garrison, so the city did not fall, and Wang Han was quite powerful. But the news was blocked, and the court didn't know the inside story, so it issued an edict to demote Wang Han as the supervisor of Xinzhou wine, and lowered it by six or seven levels.

Zheng Lang strongly persuaded him, and Shangsheng said that Lingnan is now in flames. The news is unclear. Or if there is another misunderstanding, it is not too late to make a judgment when the matter is clear. Li Dui was not convinced, and replied to the book that Zheng Lang tolerated and nurtured adultery, and such cowardly ministers could not be shielded.

In short, the time has come.

If you stay any longer, Zheng Langquan and the law will be in phase for as long as five years, and Yanchen will not tolerate it, if he does not leave the phase. In the future, there will be more and more people looking for trouble in Taichen. Fortunately, the scouts of the special service battalion were widely dispatched at the beginning, providing the imperial court with a second way of news in addition to the official reports. The imperial court learned of Wang Han's merits, and the derogatory decree was not issued.

But it's not easy to deal with the other person.

Jiang Kai's army was defeated, annoyed and angry, and led the remnants into the city of Guangzhou, but the officials had not yet made a visit, Jiang Kai reprimanded Zhong Jian: "The king left the troops to defend himself, and the former did not retreat the people in time." so that most of the people died because they entered the city and trampled on it. Or among the thieves in the dead. The thieves did not attack, and the soldiers killed civilians as a reward, but they could be beheaded. ”

Zhong Jian said angrily: "An has a regimental training envoy who wants to behead the attendant official? ”

You're not qualified to kill me.

Jiang Kai said: "The sword is in my hands, let alone the attendant!" ”

Left and right to persuade in many ways, but to stop. Later, Yang Jin issued a letter ordering all prefectures and counties to burn and store grain, which was no way, although Lingnan was vast and sparsely populated. However, it is a land of three crops, and the Central Plains cannot get its strength, and the grain produced is intercepted by various states and counties. Wherever Nong Zhigao's army went, he could obtain grain reserves from Yuanzhou County in the Song Dynasty to feed the soldiers, so the rebels rolled more and more. Once all the grain is burned, Nong Zhi's command has tens of thousands of people, and he will get countless grains and grass just for one day to eat and drink. If they don't get the offerings, some of the people who are attached will automatically disperse to kill the thieves. Jiang Kai burned the stored grain, recruited some soldiers from the city of Guangzhou, followed Nong Zhigao to the Taiping on the west side of Hezhou, and was attacked and killed.

The courage is commendable, and the enemy is underestimated.

This was also the highest Song Dynasty official to be sacrificed.

There are too many people who died, there are officers and soldiers, there are people, I don't care about Jiang Kai alone, Guan Jian is Zhong Jian's execution, Jiang Kai reprimanded and did not wronged Zhong Jian, this is an official who does not love the people very much, but he has the merit of defending the city. In the end, it was decided that Wei Qian would be replaced by Wei Qian for his meritorious service in repairing Guangzhou. This is also a case, which can be modeled after Wang Quanbin's entry into Shu, which is meritorious, but can harm the people, and is not rewarded but punished. Put the life and death of the people above the merits of war. …,

The other is more difficult to deal with. After hearing about the great water in Yanzhou, the commander of the Yanzhou garrison Guangrui and Zhenwu were all the people of Dunzhou, and after hearing this, they begged Wang Xing, the deputy capital office, to allow them to return to their hometowns to observe the life and death of their relatives. Wang Xing was not allowed, and the two battalions of soldiers fled back to each other, but after returning to Dunzhou, his relatives asked the imperial court to use the method of work relief to resettle other places to build water conservancy. These soldiers did not dare to ask the government about the whereabouts of their families, and they conspired to be thieves, and the people of the state were terrified. Zhizhou Xue sent a family message and said: "It is normal for people to risk the law to save their parents and wives, and they don't let you return, but the military commander doesn't know what happened." Listen to me, and quickly collect the dead bodies of your relatives, and if there are family members who are still alive, I will count them and pass them on to you, and then you will be guilty of repaying them without permission. If you don't listen to me, you won't be able to do anything. ”

All the soldiers entered, wept and thanked the court, and the territory was at peace.

When the imperial court heard this, it wanted to commend it, but there was another piece of news, saying that it was the great flood in Yanzhou, and it was Xue Xiang's inability to acropolize the city in time, resulting in the flooding of many military and civilian houses, and the death of many people. Zhao Zhen didn't know how to deal with it, so he asked Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang also smiled bitterly and said, "Let's get rid of the two phases." ”

The bad news is still coming.

Nong Zhigao did not immediately return to Yongzhou, but took a detour to Zhaozhou by the way. There are some large caves on the mountains outside the city of Zhaozhou, and when they heard that the thieves were coming, the local acquaintances were reluctant to surrender the thieves and hid inside. Nong Zhigao ordered the entrance to the cave to be blocked with dry firewood, and then set fire to the dry firewood, and all the people inside were roasted alive into jerky. Zhizhou Liu Yingchen abandoned the city and fled, but Wang Zhenglun, the ruler of Guangxi, and Wang Zhenglun, the official of Dongtou, joined politics, served Xu Shouyi in the third class, and borrowed Wenhai to fight to the death with the thief, and they were outnumbered and killed. Because Wang Congzheng was a eunuch, Nong Zhigao wanted to get him and persuaded him to surrender, but he still scolded the thief endlessly, and was scolded by a eunuch, Nong Zhigao was not happy, and poured boiling soup on him, pouring the skin and flesh open, miserable, always unyielding, and was poured to death by boiling soup.

The whole Lingnan is bleak, with only one small bright spot.

After Su Mu was seized power, he was appointed as a reserve envoy, and learned that the thief was ready to retreat, so he divided his troops to choke his way back, and the cloth chacha wood boulder was more than 40 miles, and the thief arrived, and the chacha wood boulder was sent according to the condescending position, and the thief could not pass, so he had to go around dozens of miles more, cross the river into Shatou, and connect from Qingyuan County, and then return from Hezhou to the west. The road was rough, and Su Mu harassed him in many ways. Many were devastated. and received many supplies discarded by the traitors.

……

Autumn is coming.

Compared with the major disasters of previous years, this year is slightly better, but the situation is still not ideal, and there are local minor disasters in many places, especially in the north. The water that flows north to divert the Yellow River can also be seen from the topography, and the breach is in Lanzhou and other places, and the north flows less than the eastward flow in the mountainous areas, and the terrain is more low-lying. It has become the mainstream of the Yellow River entering the sea.

But compared with the rivers and water conservancy flowing eastward, the rivers and water conservancy in Hebei are a small child, and if a child is allowed to carry a hundred pounds of things, can there be no accident? A large amount of river water flows northward, with serious consequences. First, it brought a lot of sediment, and the sea water at the entrance to the sea was quite shallow, so the coastline continued to stretch forward, which was also very annoying. It's stretching too fast. The river did not break through the main channel, and the river drained slowly. As the river flows north, sediment settles, and many lakes are lifted up and gradually disappear. It is only to this day that Zheng Lang understands why the large number of lakes and the Great Green Wall built by Yang Liulang did not succeed when the Jin people went south. If this continues, many lakes in Hebei will all disappear, how can we get credit?

The river flows north. The speed of entering the sea is slow, there is no Yellow River water injection, the problem is not big, but after the Yellow River water is injected, the water level of Zhendingfu and Dingzhou and other branches is raised, and it is not allowed to be discharged, and it is a flood season. There will be many floods in state capitals such as Zhending and Dingzhou.

This year is still the same.

Zheng Lang didn't make a sound, just like Lingnan, it didn't hurt to the bones, and asked the minister to agree to take out more than forty or fifty million yuan of wealth, or even more money, and make a big move on the Yellow River water conservancy, he would not agree at all. …,

But it's not the way to go.

As far as the whole country is concerned, due to the rapid increase in population, the most important thing is food, and the fragile environment in the north can no longer accommodate so many people, not to mention that there is no miscellaneous grain, even if there is miscellaneous grain, if it is crowded in the north as it is now, even if 100 million yuan is invested to build the Yellow River, the Yellow River will still have problems.

Or the South!

The south is still far away, and the north cannot but care.

Zheng Lang came to Xiaowai again and looked at the crops outside Xiaowai.

Mainly silt areas.

I looked at the cotton first, and the people took food and clothing as the sky. Wear is equally important, it turns out that the northern people are very poor in winter, the problem of good conditions is not big, there are kapok, there are robes, there are felt, but the output of kapok is small, too expensive, poor people can't afford it, and use more broken heads of silk to stuff it into the kudzu or linen clothes. Silk may be smooth, but nowhere near as warm as cotton. So when the cold came, many people froze to death. After the popularization of cotton, driven by itself, the speed of promotion is fast, but the amount is too large, cotton is still very expensive, ordinary people are reluctant to wear it, often a family shares a cotton clothes, quilts.

This is the reason why Zheng Lang tried to grow cotton in the north.

The method of cotton cultivation is correct, and it is the most advanced method of transporting nutrient bowls per plant, but compared to the impression of his later generations, cotton peaches are few and small, which is very unsatisfactory. And I have asked the relevant farmers many times, if it is not mixed with silk, it is impossible to weave exquisite cloth at all. Even if it is woven, because the fiber is short, it will be torn apart as soon as the cloth is pulled. But the common people are full of praise for its softness and thermal insulation performance.

Zheng Lang was a little confused in his heart.

In his memory, Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly promoted cotton throughout the country, and Songjiang became rich in the world because of weaving and cotton planting. Is it also mixed with silk? Or is it because of hundreds of years of popularization, cotton seeds have been improved? If this problem is not solved, Zheng Lang will be haunted, without him, the price! A horse of raw silk is worth eight or nine hundred wen in the production area, and the good ones can reach more than one yuan, and the minimum amount of original materials to make a robe is hundreds of yuan, plus the cost of manual work, it will be close to two hundred yuan. For ordinary people, it is still a heavy burden. If you want the people to worry about the cost of clothes, you must at least reduce its value to less than a quarter, then when the New Year comes, every family is willing to wear clothes. What cannot be solved from silk, the yield is low, and the cost is destined to be expensive. Hemp and Ge Taici can only start with cotton.

Sitting on the ridge, looking at the cotton, Zheng Lang was in a daze.

An old farmer came over and boldly asked, "Zheng Xianggong, are you going to the south?" ”

"Maybe I will," Zheng Lang replied casually.

"Zheng Xianggong, the south is bitter, stay, we are reluctant to let Zheng Xianggong go," the old farmer said.

Looking at the current peasants from Zheng Lang's eyes, he is obviously very dissatisfied. But for these farmers, the past few years have been like a dream.

"Old Weng Weng, it was bitter in the past few years, it was the Northwest Campaign that was fought hard, if you don't fight, the emperor will be merciful, and the country's Chenguang will be better," Zheng Lang said. The peasants have the simple thoughts of the peasants, and they are the people of the capital. But you can't take credit for the great governance of the past few years. Zhao Zhen confessed his heart many times. But this country is Zhao Zhen can say clearly? Wrong, it's a doctor. Once the people attribute their merits to themselves, why does the state raise so many scholars? When you think about it this way, the problem is big, and the scholars will attack themselves en masse. Can Zhao Zhen protect it?

Thinking of this, Zheng Lang couldn't cry or laugh.

There was no word with the old farmer, and he asked his family about his harvest and picked the mud with his hands. It is not very ideal, although a large area of silt field has been created by the method, but only one year of transformation, the depth of the silt is insufficient, the depth is only a dozen centimeters, the shallow place is only a few centimeters, a few years of farming, it is inevitable to restore the original. But I saw that the ground was advantageous. In addition, there is some damage caused by the flood discharge. So the field was guarded tightly. The common people all protect the fields, who dares to forcibly dig the embankment. …,

I looked into the distance again, and in the distance was a large area of sorghum land, and when the sorghum was ripe.

However, the common people still adopted the original rough farming, and they paid attention to livestock for several years, and the number of large livestock increased throughout the country. But there is still a lack of sorghum prices, especially in the north. The people are reluctant to invest.

Walked around and saw some good and some bad.

I came to Zhongshu again and inspected the newspapers in various places. It should be much better than in history, because the recruitment of more troops from Jiangnan West Road has brought a great burden to the people, and many edicts have been issued in history. Carry out strategies such as bereavement pension and tax exemption for the people of Jiangnan West Road.

Zheng Lang controlled the grain in Jiangnan West Road in advance, at least in terms of grain, Jiangnan West Road will not worry about providing this year.

Continue to deal with the twists and turns in various places, and actually prepare for leaving.

The south continued to erode, when Yang Zhen went to Guangnan, he asked to delete the Kangding marching restraints and rewards and punishments, Zhao Zhen deliberately issued an edict, Nong Zhigao took the soaring sharp steal, and the people of Erguang looked forward to the arrival of the official army, so he appointed the secretary to control and suppress the thieves. Temporary change, no need to override. Today, the army is gathering in large numbers, and the situation cannot be extinguished for a time, but it is a quick measure to ask for a decree and place a judge? If the thief goes down to the sea with the wind, he plunders the Qiongguan and the sea, and the soldiers are insufficient, and if he is unprepared, he will take advantage of it. If the sea channel can be broken, it will not be measured by the speed of the sun and the moon.

If you go, you will be a bandit, and you can't rub it off.

In fact, Zhao Zhen still has a sentence that has not been said, and Lingnan must be stabilized as soon as possible, otherwise if Dali in the west and Annan in the south see the Song Dynasty in Liangguang and take the opportunity to join forces with Nong Zhigao, then the situation in Lingnan will be even worse.

Yang Jin didn't ramble anymore, but his actions were even more verbose. When he came to Shaozhou, he happened to meet Nong Zhigao who retreated to Yongzhou and defeated Zhang Zhong. Yang Zhen collected the army of Liangguang, followed all the way, and burned the grain and grass in various places at the same time, which was done right and wrong, although this burning made Nong Zhigao lack supplies, but after a fire, the country suffered countless losses.

A battle ensued, and the outcome of this battle can be imagined. Nong Zhigao doesn't have much ability, and Yang Ji's ability is even weaker. Miscellaneous army vs. miscellaneous army, the Song army is not as numerous as the other party, and the other party is not familiar with the local climate, especially the various miscellaneous armies from Jiangnan West Road are fighting against the local indigenous people in Lingnan, how can they be defeated?

Defeated in a battle, Yang Ji was cowardly.

The imperial court could not wait for Yang Ji to make up all kinds of reasons and then reappoint the candidate.

Zheng Lang asked to go with Di Qing, but Zhao Zhen was still reluctant and unorthodox, an indigenous rebellion actually mobilized two prime ministers of the country, including a prime minister, which was too embarrassing. The ministers also dissuaded, Zheng Lang, it's not good for you to go. Yushitai was silent, and it was the duty of Yanchen to impeach the prime minister, but he couldn't get Zheng Lang to Lingnan, and it was unreasonable. And Zheng Lang has been prime minister for several years, how many ministers will be vassals? Although Zheng Lang asked for orders to go to Lingnan, if these ministers thought that it was the responsibility of Yushitai, even if he was a minister, he would be in trouble.

So Zhao Zhen chose two other candidates, who seemed to be good candidates.

A deputy, the eunuch Shi Quanbin, once on behalf of Zhao Zhen to incense coins in the South China Sea, Fengmi Imperial Inspector through the state and county officials to govern folk customs, into the right, Zhao Zhen thought it was loyal, and made achievements in the northwest. The fact is really brave, and he personally led the army to fight in Lingnan. But the ability to command......

There is also Sun Wei.

Sun Zhen was right, Zhao Zhen asked about Qinzhou, and Sun Zhen said: "Although the minister is old, Qinzhou is not enough to worry about the saints." The country's worries should be worried about Lingnan, the ministers see the thieves, and the officials and the army are losing day and night. ”

As soon as the words were spoken, the news of Zhang Zhong and Jiang Kai's death in battle reached the capital.

There are only two ministers in the DPRK who can have this foresight, one is Zheng Lang, but the prime minister is inconvenient to go. The second is Liang Wei.

Zhao Zhen summoned the prime ministers of the two governments and said: "Southern affairs are as good as dust. ”

Asked if Pang Ji could let Sun Wei go south?

Maybe Pang Ji wants Zheng Lang to go south the most, so Pang Ji has the best chance to replace Zheng Lang as prime minister, but it can't be said, it's too obvious, Pang Ji suppressed the desire in his heart and replied: "Yes." ”…,

Summoning Sun Wei into the right place, and allowing Sun Wei to act cheaply.

This is a big step forward for Zhao Zhen's dynasty, and it is no longer like Song Zhenzong.

The regression is also obvious, although Song Zhenzong likes to put on a formation, he uses more military generals. In the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, the literati became more and more lawless, depriving the military generals of their rights, and forming the practice of Wenchen leading the army. How many civil servants can actually fight a good battle? Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi are good, but if you seriously analyze their military capabilities, that's what happened.

Sun Wei was still very calm-headed, and said: "Your Majesty, the southern soldier company is broken by thieves, and the soldiers deter it, so it can no longer be used." Please send the northern cavalry, and then select 20 additional generals, 5,000 armor in the arsenal, and the ministers can pacify the south for His Majesty, otherwise the ministers will still be worried. ”

Liang Shi said: "Don't Zhang Huang. ”

Isn't it just a small barbarian turmoil, as for the use of five thousand imperial court northern elite horses?

It's not that Liang Shi is making things bad, but that many ministers in the court are still not sober and don't realize the seriousness of the matter.

Sun Wei said: "I was unprepared the day before yesterday, so at this point, I can't be lucky and can't be sloppy when I am going to kill the thief today." ”

But under the contempt of the imperial court, Cangzhong let him travel, and only with 700 soldiers. (I suddenly thought that some people said that the Song Dynasty used 500,000 troops to suppress Nong Zhigao, and laughed, but in fact, Di Qing's last battle, the total number of troops, including the miscellaneous army, was only 30,000 or 40,000.) The army of half a million went to the south, and the sky fell)

Sun Wei was worried about the thieves in Lingbei, and said that the soldiers were coming, and the prefectures and counties were rectifying the camps and preparing more Yan Qi.

So some people in the court talked about its strategy, which made the thief suspicious and did not dare to invade the north.

Zheng Lang felt funny, Wenchen didn't understand how to manage the military! He may not be very good at military affairs, and he is much better than these civil servants. Does Nong Zhigao have the ability and strategic vision? If so, why invade Lingbei. Instead of attacking Guangzhou and Guizhou, which had the strongest defense in Lingnan, when the situation was overwhelming in the early stage, he took other states and counties in Lingnan together, isolated Guangzhou and Guizhou, drove Han officials, appointed barbarian officials, and treated barbarians well, instead of burning and looting all the way as Nong Zhigao did, so that many barbarians were killed. You can get the hearts and support of many barbarians, and then recruit the army. Then Nong Zhigao is infinitely close to his dream. In short, he is just a robber, at most he is a little more ambitious than other robbers, so it is no wonder that he was defeated by Jiaozhi.

In fact, Sun Wei's move did not play any role at all, on the contrary, he let the prefectures and counties of Hunan and Jiangxi renovate the barracks, and there were many swallows, which brought serious harassment to the people.

Xu Xu told Zhao Zhen the reason, and said: "Your Majesty, Sun Wei's move is destined for his military ability, and this trip will be unsuccessful." ”

Gotta let me go!