Many of the killed officials in Lingnan are good officials, Cao Xiugu's son Cao Ji has many good governance in Fengzhou, Zhao Shidan has made great achievements in Jiangshan County, the officials do not exploit the people for a penny, no one dares to take it on the abandoned road, and the people of Jiangshan County greet it and cry bitterly, sacrifice to the road, stretching for hundreds of miles, and the people of Kangzhou also set up more temples to worship it.

Zhao Zhen also cried when he heard it.

The country needs officials, but there are too few good officials, and they sacrifice so heroically.

Under the deplorment, he wantonly chased the seal to reward his family. That's all it can do.

Lingnan still continues to report bad nightmares, Penn Prefecture Zhizhou Chen Dongmei abandoned the city, Yongzhou Xinzhizhou Song Clone arrived in Yongzhou, regardless of Yongzhou being trampled by thieves, not camping and garrisoning, but the soldiers went down to the cottages, killed the fugitives and fraudulently stole for theft, and the first-class reward was ten dollars, and the soldiers were defrauded to be posted, and they were rewarded with false merit. When Nainong Zhigao arrived, the people were disgusted with Nong Zhigao, and even more disgusted with the imperial court, so they no longer cooperated with the imperial court's defense. Song Clone was unable to resist the thief and fled again.

Yu Jing saw that the thieves were powerful and did not dare to fight, so he came up with a stupid way to appease the chiefs surnamed Nong Huang in Yongzhou, send silver, cloth, and all kinds of valuable gifts, and buy these chiefs so that they would not cooperate with Nong Zhigao.

After hearing about Yu Jing's strategy, some ministers proposed to grant Nong Zhigao Yonggui the envoy of the seven states to make him surrender.

Liang Shi said: "Ruoer, there is no imperial court outside the mountains!" ”

Many ministers have not yet reacted, and Zheng Lang added: "Ruoer, there is a Li Jiqian outside the Ling!" ”

Another minister doesn't know the meaning of this sentence, and he is about to hit the wall and die. How much impact did Li Jiqian's success and failure have on the Song Dynasty? Although Shaanxi was defended, how much did it cost to build a large number of forts? How many people died in the Northwest War in several years. How much did it cost? Almost brought down the economy of the Song Dynasty! How much money is the troops stationed in Shaanxi for a year? Without Western Xia, Lingxia and other places were still areas under the restraint of the imperial court, but the nature would become completely different. Without a strong force, the imperial court only needs to station tens of thousands of forbidden soldiers to calmly restrain it. Starting from Shazhou to the east, it has always belonged to the place of the imperial court, even if you use money, you can get a large number of war horses, and you can organize a strong cavalry. If there are sufficient war horses, a large number of excellent pastoral supervisors, and with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty, 200,000 cavalry can also be calmly organized. In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, that pitiful financial resources also made the number of cavalry once reach 1560,000. Therefore, the Song Dynasty frantically suppressed Li Jiqian, but the king was in turmoil at home, and there was Khitan pressure abroad, so he had no time to take care of anything else, and finally let Li Jiqian grow up.

There were no Khitans in the south. But there is a Dali who has always been separated from the Central Plains (Jin Daxia's Dali is too beautified, Dali is not evil to the Song Dynasty, but it is not good), and Annan is hostile. If these forces join forces, coupled with the complex terrain of the south. The situation is equally dire.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen repeatedly asked Yu Jing to rebel quickly, precisely because he was worried about this.

Yu Jing is grinding foreign workers, can Zhao Zhen not be anxious?

Zheng Lang knew in his heart that the Song Dynasty would be threatened many times in the south in the future, and a few years later, Su Maozhou was anti-Song, which was another controversial place, which originally belonged to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty did not manage it, and it was embezzled by Jiaozhi, and then Xizhou on Jinghu South Road was brutally anti-Song. Two years later, Zikui Luman attacked the Song Dynasty again, Fengzhou Dongman rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and Huodongman attacked Yongzhou. In the second year, Shaozhou rebelled against the Song Dynasty again, Jiaozhi disturbed the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi fettered Jiatong attacked the Song Dynasty, and Su Maozhou attacked the Song Dynasty again. The Song Dynasty was in the recovery of Hehuang, Jiaozhi officially invaded, and then Maozhou was anti-Song, Chenyuan was anti-Song, and Luzhou was anti-Song.

That is to say, the Song Dynasty got such a vast area, but from Xiangshui to the west, the Han people were not allowed to enter, and the imperial court spent a lot of money every year to appease it has been useless, but it has become the biggest burden of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Zheng Lang went south this time, ambitious, and Enwei handed over his power, wanting to remove this biggest trouble, even if he didn't remove it, it would weaken its influence. …,

Zheng Lang also knew another thing.

At first, Nong Zhigao came indiscriminately, but in the hurried organization of the Song Dynasty, he also saw the strength of the Song Dynasty, and the strongest northern army of the Song Dynasty has not been used, Nong Zhigao felt a little frightened in his heart. Under the advice of the traitor Huang Shimi, Nong Zhigao thought of two strategies. First, in order to retreat, he used the stolen wealth to give Nong Xiacheng, the owner of the special mill village at the junction of Dali, and prepared to retreat, so as to retreat into Dali at any time. Because of this, there are many good horses, rest the soldiers, borrow horses to teach his subordinates to ride and fight, and wait for them to be used, and they will be raised later. First, if he could defeat the Song army again, he drove Jinghu and Jiangnan for a long time, and personally wrote a letter to Huang Shouling, the powerful local chieftain of Jiedong, in exchange for Huang Shouling's support in exchange for Yongzhou.

Seeing that Nong Zhigao had a strategy for advancing and retreating, Huang Shouling was moved and immediately transported glutinous rice to Nong Zhigao's army. But then under the influence of Yu Jing's appeasement policy, Huang Shouling has been uncertain, and Nong Zhigao has not succeeded. But Zheng Lang also did not admit that Yu Jing was right and did not understand military affairs, so he continued to use the silver bullet policy of the Song Dynasty. And this kind of policy is precisely the root of the growing courage of the barbarians! This time he went to the south, Zheng Lang prepared all kinds of advanced policies to govern the local people and improve their lives, and held a large butcher's knife in the other. Although Nong Zhigao and Huang Shouling then had a bad relationship and a fierce battle broke out, Huang Shouling took advantage of the geographical advantage to defeat him and blocked Nong Zhigao's way. Zheng Lang did not like the existence of such powerful chieftains as Huang Shouling in the south, it was the existence of these chiefs that affected the prestige of the Song Dynasty's governance, so that its policies could not be implemented, from Lingnan to Kuizhou, the people became more and more backward, far less than the Tang Dynasty, and could only be comparable to the Han Dynasty.

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty still did not know about these situations, although Huang Shouling had a bad relationship with Nong Zhigao, but he held a wait-and-see attitude and did not notify Yu Jing for the time being.

But Zheng Lang's words are enough to explain the problem.

If Nong Zhigao developed into the scale of Li Jiqian, the Song Dynasty would have to station a large number of troops from Fujian to Jiangxi and Hunan again, and then think about the garrisons in the west and the north, the Song Dynasty would not have to develop, and the huge military expenditure would also drag the Song Dynasty to the Pacific Ocean.

And Yu Jing then did something even more stupid.

Zheng Lang can't afford to wait!

It happened that tens of thousands of people in Jiangshan County cried for Zhao Shidan's funeral, which had a great shock to the imperial court, and they also had the opportunity to persuade them, and said again: "Liezi once said one thing. The Confucian scholar of Yan Guo went to Handan and met robbers on the road. The robbers snatched all his clothes, carts, and horses, and the ox walked away. The expression is happy, and there is no sadness. The robber was puzzled and went up to ask why. Niu Que said that a gentleman should not damage his physical and mental morality because of these things outside his body. The thief said that the sage also, and said that a sage like him, if he goes to meet the monarch of Zhao State, he must be reused, and after reuse, he will come to embarrass us, so it is better to kill him. So he chased after him and killed Niu Que. When the Yan people heard about this, they gathered together and said that when they met a robber, they could not be like a cow. Everyone learns the lesson. A Yan man went to the Qin State and was robbed again at the Hangu Pass. He remembered his brother's advice, and fought hard with the robbers, but was defeated and his belongings were robbed. Then he chased after him and begged the robber to return the property, and the robber said that it was very lenient for you to live, and he would keep chasing us. Our whereabouts have been exposed. Since you have become a robber, what kind of righteousness do you talk about? Kill this swallow again. ”

Liezi is a real person, and this person is mentioned several times in the Zhuangzi. However, "Liezi" was probably forged in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and after Zheng Lang and Ouyang Xiu set off a wind of doubt, "Liezi" began to be overturned and suspected. However, this incident is also recorded in "Lü's Spring and Autumn". It can be used as an argument to illustrate the problem. Zheng Lang asked again: "Everyone, what should I do if you are replaced?" ”

Originally, this example was cited in "Liezi" to illustrate the impermanence of fortune and misfortune, but when Zheng Lang asked, his nature changed.

The ministers stood in the middle of the hall, bewildered. …,

It doesn't make sense to reason, and it doesn't work to resist, how?

Zheng Lang said again: "Also, the master is stolen and can't be persuaded to do so, what should I do?" ”

It is from "Zhuangzi", but the Song Dynasty revered Taoism, and some stories in Taoist classics can also be used as examples.

Zhao Zhen thought for a while, couldn't think of an answer, and asked curiously: "Zheng Qing, what should it be?" ”

"Eliminate the three evils everywhere, because their hearts are not evil, some people are evil to a certain point, and they can't change it, there is only one way, and they can be eliminated with stronger strength!"

There is no way, only fighting, and the other methods are. Just like later China, that is, when Su Qin and Zhang Yi were alive, could they persuade the Japanese people not to covet China? I want them to be convinced and learn from Liu Renliang, otherwise this obscene country will never be at peace.

There was silence in the hall.

Zheng Lang looked at Minister Zhang Fangping's lips and said, "Your Majesty, all the ministers, I took the initiative to ask for orders to go to the south, it is a series of plans. You can't use me as prime minister to have scruples. I was the prime minister at the time, in charge of the east and west of the government, and I had been in power for more than four years. ”

Just one sentence, more people have respect.

After four and a half years as prime minister, Zheng Lang's prestige has reached its peak. In the Song Dynasty, two mainstream ideas have been formed, one is Fan Zhongyan, who believes that Fan Zhongyan is a model and is unparalleled in the ideological realm, and the other is Zheng Lang, who believes that Zheng Lang's conscientious spirit for the country is also worth learning. But two kinds of thinking are also colliding, one is the requirement of thought, it must be perfect, it is too difficult, a few people can reach the height of Fan Zhongyan, and some people even begin to enter the misunderstanding. One is the requirement of hard work, but it is too difficult, Zheng Lang's humanistic spirit in later generations, few people in this era can learn it, I am afraid that only Zhao Zhen can be compared, Zheng Lang has a BUG brain, and the later gold finger is even more unmatched, and some people enter the misunderstanding.

In short, these are two completely different peaks, and learning Fan Zhongyan is like learning Li Bai's poems, which cannot be found. Learning Zheng Lang is like learning Du Fu's poems, or you can learn one of its scales and half claws, but you can't get its full taste. However, it is precisely because of the appearance of Zheng Lang that it perfectly complements the shortcomings of Zhao Zhenchao's hard work since Lu Yijian, and makes Zhao Zhenchao move towards the road of real prosperity.

When this sentence was spoken, Zheng Lang also began to walk towards the altar. But it is still different from Fan Zhongyan, Fan Zhongyan is the snow on Kunlun Mountain, spotless and unattainable, but Zheng Lang is a wisp of spring breeze, warm and approachable.

It is this sentence that regards advance and retreat as dung, and fame as floating clouds, which makes many ministers feel another kind of purification.

Wang Juzheng suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the minister implores Your Majesty to withdraw the minister's previous words. ”

I'm wrong, such a minister is not the prime minister, who is the prime minister?

Zheng Lang shook his head and said: "Wang Zhongcheng, don't be like this, your advice, if you don't use celestial phenomena to say things, it is right to directly point to the ancestral family law." Please listen to what I have to say, after I am released, I am only a governor, although the imperial court will be favored, and the ministers will be placed near the capital division. The minister will not suffer from displacement. However, the ministers are deeply favored by the emperor, the grace of the country, trusted by His Majesty, and relied on by the people, how can they seek wealth and peace for themselves? Therefore, if the minister goes to the south, he can serve the country and the king better than near the capital division. The minister once again begged His Majesty to let him go to the south. But I have two words before I leave. The first word is Jiufang Gao Xiangma. Qin Mugong saw that Bole was older, and asked Bole to recommend someone who was good at horses, and Bole recommended Jiufangao. Qin Mugong summoned Jiufang Gao. Ask him to look for a horse and bring back a horse after three months. Mu Gong asked what kind of horse it was, and Jiufang Gao said it was a yellow horse. Mu Gong sent people to fetch horses. But it was a black stallion. Mu Gong was very unhappy, and called Bole to ask, you introduced the person who asked for a horse, and he couldn't even distinguish the color of the horse from the male and female, how could he distinguish the quality of the horse? Bole replied, it has come to such a point, it is ten thousand times better than me! Jiufang Gao only looks at the horse's natural spirituality, and observes its essence and forgets its roughness. In it and forget what is outside, see what it sees, do not see what it does not see, see what it sees, and leave what it does not see. Soma like Jiufanggao has more precious truths than appreciating horses. Sure enough, I tried the horse later. This horse is one of the few horses in the world. Ladies and gentlemen, if this is the case, it is even more necessary to govern the country. You can't look at the surface, you have to see the inside. ”…,

It's a very simple story, but it has a deep meaning. Especially for the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, it was like an initiation.

Zheng Lang said again: "But you must be low-key, the elder of Fox Hill said to Sun Shuao that there are three things that people can attract resentment, the title is high, people will be jealous, the official position is big, the monarch will be suspicious, and if you are generous, it will attract resentment." Uncle Sun Ao replied, the higher my title, the lower my ambition, the greater my official position, the more careful I become, the more generous I am, the more extensive my charity will be. Is it okay to rely on these three things to avoid people's resentment? The elder said, "Oh." ”

This sentence has a deeper meaning.

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he deliberately looked at Liang Shi and Pang Ji, Liang Shi's methods are very powerful, Pang Ji is not very good, and he will leave immediately, Pang Ji is undoubtedly the prime minister, but in order to keep his position, he did something inappropriate, and was found by Yanchen. As soon as Pang Ji left, the court was in chaos, and Ouyang Xiu, who had just been recalled, repeatedly stirred up in the middle, which was even more miserable than when Jia Chang was in power. glanced at Di Qing again, but Di Qing didn't need to hurry, first dragged Di Qing in the south to avoid the storm of the Liuta River, and then slowly unraveled.

But the more Zheng Lang was like this, the more reluctant Zhao Zhen was, sitting on the dragon chair and looking at the minister worriedly.

Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, in recent years, the country has gradually improved, and Your Majesty also has sufficient wealth and implements various policies to benefit the people, but the prosperity of a country is not only rich, rich but not strong, it still cannot inspire the confidence of the people, and cannot restore the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Moderately considering the country's financial resources and the pressure of the people, doing some pioneering actions is the way to strengthen the country. A country that is rich and strong is a big country, so as not to insult the ancestors, please ask Your Majesty to go south with Di Qing. ”

Di Qing also stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are in the army, and there is no way to repay the country without fighting, and they are willing to have hundreds of cavalry from the Tibetan Army, and they will be able to prohibit the soldiers, and together with Zheng Xianggong, they will detain the head of the thief to His Majesty, and repay the holy grace." ”

Zhao Zhen sighed again and again.

Zheng Lang said that going to the south has a stronger positive meaning than ordinary outing, but this trip to the south, thinking about Zheng Lang's huge plan, I don't know how young I need to be to return to the capital. Zhao Zhen is still reluctant.

Pang Ji said: "Your Majesty, or let Di Qing go alone, lead the army south, and pacify the south?" ”

Zheng Lang was about to leave the capital and go south, Zhao Zhen asked who was the prime minister, and Zheng Lang replied that Pang was enough.

Pang Ji has a lot of energy, and when he got this news, in fact, in Shaanxi, he and Zheng Lang are not very compatible, especially in the policy of treating Western Xia, there are many conflicts, but after entering the two mansions, the cooperation between the two has been very pleasant, so I offer this advice. It's just from the heart, or retreat as advance, only Pang Ji himself knows.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "The southern party is not only to suppress the rebellion, but more importantly, to govern. Di Qing went, and the great victory was just around the corner, but he was not as good as the ministers in governing the people. And the minister has always thought that the Liangguang and Xiangshui basins must be developed, and he has also paid hard work. The ministers must be allowed to go to the south, this is the rear of the imperial court, the rear is not stable, how can the northwest be pacified? ”

Not only Western Xia, but also the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

If the Western Xia is pacified, the sixteen states of Youyun are obtained, the bank and the Ping'an prison add a lot of money to the imperial court in a year, and the progress of science, under the leadership of the student Shi Heng, the artillery and yellow powder have made slight progress, it is a science and technology set up out of thin air, and the difficulty is high, but sooner or later these two things will appear in the Song Dynasty. Once popularized, with the Song Dynasty's emphasis on internal governance, find a way to eliminate party disputes, even if there are Song Huizong and others, the Song Dynasty will continue to develop.

There is no eternal country in the world, but as long as the Song Dynasty can develop peacefully for three or four hundred years, and promote science by itself with the various aspects of the Song Dynasty, a behemoth will surely appear in the forest of the world.

The South will be an important part of his larger plans.

Zhao Zhen hesitated, but bad news from the south continued to come. After Nong Zhigao went to Yongzhou, he sent people to cut down giant trees day and night, and threatened to go down the Yushui River again to capture Guangzhou. In fact, this was a serious mistake, if Nong Zhigao took advantage of the power of the great victory to appease the people in Yongzhou, make the tribes return to their hearts, retrain the army, build military fortifications and city defenses, and strictly repair checkpoints, the Song army would face a very headache when it went south. But no, just care about repairing the boat, even if he is given a chance to attack Guangzhou again, Guangzhou is really so easy to attack? …,

But no, not only that, in order to build ships, the people in Yongzhou fish and meat, so that the people centrifuge. However, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty did not know much about military affairs, and they were very frightened after hearing about it. Seeing that Yu Jing was unable to quell the rebellion, he finally agreed with Zheng Lang and his party. Di Qing also said that the thief is easy to take advantage of the high risk, and the infantry force cannot resist, so every battle will be defeated, and he is willing to have to fight from the west.

Some ministers once again wondered if the northern horses and northern cavalry could adapt in the southern environment. Gao Ruone said: "Fan is good at shooting, resistant to hardship, up and down the mountain like flat land, when the miasma (referring to most areas of the two Guangxi in the winter miasma less) did not occur, gallop to break it, the way to win is also." ”

Zhao Zhen asked Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang said yes, so he followed. It was an edict to select the Guangrui army of the Tibetan Department from the Yanyan Road, Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road, and 5,000 people who had combat experience, and sent an envoy to the camp in Guangnan one by one. In fact, at this time, the 5,000 Song army was far more effective than in history. The first is that the two battles in the northwest are victorious, and the morale is high, the second is that there are 1,000 or hundreds of Jurchens in it, the third is that the imperial court is financially rich, the rewards are richer than in history, and the soldiers are highly motivated, the fourth is that Zheng Lang and Di Qing have quite prestige in the northwest, and they heard that the two went south to be the commander, and many soldiers enthusiastically participated, almost squeezing out the various public halls, and the fifth is that the imperial court got a large number of war horses and formed 100,000 cavalry, and the number of cavalry far exceeded the number of cavalry of the Song army in history, and there were many sources of cavalry.

In history, it was these 5,000 cavalry that Di Qing went south, plus the local miscellaneous army of Liangguang, as well as some native soldiers recruited from Hunan and Jiangxi, a total of 31,000 people, who participated in the battle of Quy Nhon Fu.

There are still so many people, Zheng Lang's trip is mainly governance, and what has changed is the battle after the Battle of Kunlun Pass, and all the previous ones are handed over to Di Qing, but now Zheng Lang did not say it. And considering Zheng Lang's plan, the imperial court issued an edict to use Zheng Lang's previous position as the pacification envoy of Jinghu South Road on Jiangnan West Road, and allowed him to act cheaply. When Zheng Lang arrived in Lingnan, this position was turned into a pacification envoy of the two Guangzhou-Guangzhou Economic Strategies, and he seized all the military, civil and financial powers. In fact, there are Jinghu North Road, Zizhou Road and Kuizhou Road, which are planned to be six roads, but it is impossible to hand over all the power of the six roads to Zheng Lang. So even if Zheng Lang is impeccable, it will cause great trouble. In fact, if Zheng Lang hadn't risen to an irreplaceable height in the hearts of the ministers at this time, even if he held this position, it would have caused controversy. After all, compared with the four states on the edge of the border, no matter which two roads, the area is vast, the population is large, and it is dozens of times the number of people.

This is Zhao Zhen's compensation and trust for Zheng Lang, and it is also Zheng Lang's plan needs. Then awarded Di Qing as the Xuanhui South Courtyard Envoy, Jinghu South, North Road Xuanfu Envoy, and promoted the Guangnan East and West Road to control the thieves and thieves, and the generals of Guangnan were all controlled by Zheng Lang and Di Qing. That is, the rights of several coaches were divided, one was Zheng Lang, then Di Qing, then Sun Wei, and finally Yu Jing. Lao Yu didn't do well, which disappointed Zhao Zhen.

The edict was issued, and the 5,000 cavalry of Shaanxi quickly formed and galloped towards Guangnan, also announcing the temporary end of an era. When the people of the capital heard about it, they first sighed, and then they were full of nostalgia. Zheng Lang has been in power for more than four years, bringing too much wealth and hope to everyone. Even many literati compared the past few years to the rule of Wenjing and Zhenguan. But the people didn't know that Zheng Lang and his entourage would stay away from the court for a long time, thinking that Zheng Lang would be able to come back after pacifying Nong Zhigao, so although he was nostalgic, the atmosphere of nostalgia was not strong. At this time, a piece of news suddenly came out of Zhengzhou......

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