The army begins.

Zheng Lang is easy to say, but it is very difficult to implement. For example, the Hedong Township soldiers in Hebei Province must all be put on the northwest battlefield, but it is still not enough, and some strong men and archers must be selected, and the Baoding in the southern region should be how many people should be and what treatment should be given.

In fact, this is a policy of benefiting the people, whether it is 100,000 or 120,000 people, they are not the main army, they are more responsible for logistics supply, feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, of course, they are responsible for logistics more than the people, have a certain combat effectiveness, and discipline is stricter. Sooner or later, you still have to really go to the battlefield, even if it is as a reserve. However, with more than 100,000 laborers, the forced labor of the people of Shaanxi will decline by then. It's just that the imperial court has to spend a lot more money.

Another example is that the Song army now exists in the form of commanders of various regiments, and according to Zheng Lang's plan, the army must have at least eight regiments, or even ten regiments. The Chinese army had to have at least four regiments, and the lower army had to have at least two regiments. Nearly 300,000 forbidden troops will be mobilized, as long as they are organized into the military system, that is, they will go to the northwest battlefield in the future, and those regiments will be selected to command.

Also, not all of the 40 generals are in Shaanxi, some are trained in the Gyeonggi region, and some are trained in Hedong, Hebei, which is not as troublesome as the army restructuring, but there are also a lot of affairs. The four bigwigs in Xifu, Wang Jue, whether in government affairs or in the military, are all soy sauce.

But Zheng Lang didn't dare to underestimate him, no matter in history or now, after so many years, the bigwigs of the two mansions have gone up and down, but Wang Qi is as safe as Mount Tai, is this wrist still simple? It's a little better now, especially in history, all of those who can survive are human spirits.

With the old man's skills, don't count on the ability to do things. Zeng Gongliang's son Zeng Xiaokuan is also a soy sauce player. Zhang Fangping is a little better for the military, and only Zhang Dian can really help.

Zheng Lang had to enter Xifu again and hang up the post of Privy Council to assist Xifu in successfully completing these formations.

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, all kinds of crop seeds and seedlings were sent to the capital by fast horses, and it was also worth it to be delivered with the fastest special feet.

When I didn't write in my previous life. It is believed that the plants introduced by China from the Americas are nothing more than sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, peanuts, and peppers. After working as a writer, I searched for various materials, and I realized that this idea was very wrong, until before the crossing, China brought nearly 1,000 kinds of grains, fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants from the Americas. Including pineapples, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, chayote, and so on, which were common in later generations. Then there are peanuts, which are actually available in China. But that peanut is not edible.

Zheng Lang didn't know much or put it in the hard drive, there were only more than eighty kinds, and this fleet found fifty-one kinds except for the six main plants that Zheng Lang requested, and the rest were not found. It is indeed too difficult, the area of the two Americas is more than ten times the size of the current Song Dynasty, and there are many powerful indigenous people on them. The conquest of the natives by the Europeans was close to convenience. The second is the large number of people, and the third is that weapons were more developed at that time. For the current Song Dynasty, a fleet of ships reached the other side with great difficulty and twists, and even 2,000 people were not enough. It is certainly not possible to conquer these natives. Even because of the language barrier, they could not bring back effective information, and they could only judge their level of civilization according to their descriptions, which was equivalent to the level of the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period.

In this case. It's good to find fifty-one plants. But on the way back, there was another accident, and some plants died on the way. Only forty-two remain. However, these soldiers found more than 30 new kinds of fruits, vegetables and flowers, which were not in Zheng Lang's records, and finally brought back 22 kinds.

Most of the 64 species of plants are only suitable for cultivation in the tropical areas of Lingnan, which is a helpless matter. There are also some suitable for training in Jiangnan, and they are successively handed over to more than a dozen state officials, so that they can send people to take care of them. The rest can be brought to the capital together for planting in the north.

After the autumn of next year, another fleet returned safely, and many people returned, totaling more than 1,400 people, and more than 20 kinds of plants were added one after another. The following year, another fleet returned, but it was more miserable, with only more than 600 people left, and seven more plants were replenished. It was five years before the remaining two fleets were reported that one fleet had encountered a terrible storm on the way, and almost all the ships were sunk, except for a few people who drifted to an unnamed reef, and it took years to build some small boats. When they arrived in Oceania, only two dozen people remained. Another fleet clashed with a powerful indigenous tribe in the Gulf of Mexico and was defeated, with the ships burned down by the natives as demons. Then it took a lot of hard work to get back again. They also ended up miserable, only more than 100 people came back, although they did not live up to their mission and brought back some plants, but at that time the Song Dynasty was officially popularized all over the country, and the plants they brought back lost their meaning.

This trip has achieved great results, and it has further broadened the thinking horizons of the Song people, as well as the experience brought by the five fleets, which has laid a solid foundation for sailing to the other side after the technology is developed in the future. But this line of work is extremely tragic.

But in Zheng Lang's heart, although two of the five fleets were almost wiped out, and the other three barely came back with half of them, the result was much better than he imagined.

In fact, Zheng Lang attaches the most importance to potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rubber trees, cinchona trees, fine staple cotton, of course, every plant brought back has its meaning, such as watermelon, how many industries it created for the Song Dynasty in a year, how many farmers were fed. Even if it is a gorgeous flower, it can create a value of thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars for the Song Dynasty in a year. This is true open source.

Most Zheng Lang knew, but he only knew, he didn't know the planting and cultivation methods, so he could only listen to the dictation of the soldiers and send someone to take care of it, and the focus was still on the first six plants.

It's busy, and New Year's Day is coming.

Zhao Ji feasted the ministers in the palace, and under the traction of the eunuchs, they took their seats one after another.

Zheng Lang's position is not at the front, there are some old princes, who makes Zhao Shu have more brothers, even if it is an official, Zheng Lang is in front of Han Jiang and Wu Chong in the East Mansion, and Wang Qi and Zhang Fangping in the West Mansion. This can't be taken seriously, no matter which old prince or which prime minister, they don't dare to play a big card in front of Zheng Lang. Just like Liu Zhisan's demotion goes down, squeezed out from all sides, making it difficult in all directions, not to mention doing things, it is difficult to move an inch, if there is no miracle, Liu Zhi and the three of them will have no chance to make a comeback. The old party that opposed the reform is still strong, but after so many years. The situation in the country is so good, Zheng Lang should not have too many believers. Even if many scholars and doctors were born in the north, their old ideas are not easy to change, and there are many followers of the Zheng family. Moreover, the three grinding of the survey system and the two sponsorship systems have also led to a large number of outstanding officials coming to the fore. This situation is what Zheng Lang wants to see, but at the same time, it also forces him to be a leader.

Zheng Lang didn't pay much attention to where he sit, so he sat down calmly.

The two fathers-in-law came out to praise. Then Zhao Ji walked out.

The ministers congratulated.

Zhao Ji waved his hand and said, "All the Qing family, sit down." ”

Han Jiang toasted Zhao Ji on behalf of the ministers, Zhao Ji raised the wine cup and said, "The whole world celebrates." ”

He lowered his neck and drank the wine.

Suddenly, he looked at everyone, looked at the back, walked down from the dragon chair, came to Zheng Lang, respectfully gave a disciple salute, and said, "Zheng Gong." Zheng Gong has worked hard all these years, and I thank you here. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare."

Zheng Lang and Zhao Ji have a teacher-student relationship, and there are many ministers who can teach Zhao Ji Jingyi poetry and books. On such occasions, the emperor publicly held a toast with students, how respectful it was.

Seeing this scene, some people rejoiced. Zheng Lang is the pillar of the country, and the emperor is the axis of the country, and the monarch and the minister are friendly. The country is safe, and if the monarch and the minister are jealous of each other, the country will be restless. But some people were somewhat apprehensive in their hearts, and only a few bigwigs who knew the truth frowned. Some people regret it in their hearts, and some people look forward to it in their hearts.

The feast dispersed, and the firecrackers rang out non-stop.

Zheng Lang walked out of the palace, since he came back from the northwest, he either went back to Zhengzhou Ding Wei, and the rest of the time he stayed in the capital, and the changes outside could only be known from the newspapers or other people's mouths. However, the changes in the capital can still be seen, compared with when he went to Beijing as a teenager, the population of the people in the capital is larger, so that the outskirts of the city stretch for miles, and the houses in the city are also changing with each passing day, and many mansions are more and more luxurious. Because of the increase in iron production, as well as the emergence of cement, some rich Buddhist believers in Xiangguo Temple, spent more than a year to build an eighteen-story pagoda, up to more than 90 meters, not as high as the Ming Hall of Wu Zetian in history, but more than 30 meters higher than the Kaifeng Iron Tower, attracting countless tourists every day, there is a poet exaggerated to write a poem, leaning over to watch the floating clouds, stretching out his hand to hook the stars and moon. The big merchants in the capital also spent a lot of money to build a six-story building, named Tongtianlou, but officials from Kaifeng Prefecture came to the door. In the Song Dynasty, I didn't care about the height, but you are a merchant family, what qualifications do you have to name Tongtianlou, do you want to rebel or not. Frightened, the businessman changed it to Baoyun Building again. This became a joke.

But these changes, making Tokyo the most prosperous place in the world, the Song Dynasty cleanly took the river Huang, Dali was afraid, and sent envoys to Beijing, seeing these high-rise buildings, as well as the prosperity of the capital, several envoys on the spot were stunned.

Zheng Lang didn't care too much, is a building dozens of meters tall considered high?

Walking slowly all the way home, although he didn't care too much, looking at these changes, Zheng Lang also felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Back at home, a guest came.

Fan Chunren rushed back to the capital from the northwest in a simple manner.

After obtaining the river Huang, the Song Dynasty divided the west of Ningguan, including Rusha Valley and Niche Valley into the jurisdiction of Lanzhou, and the west envoy city into the jurisdiction of Guwei Prefecture and established Gongzhou. He also divided Qinzhou, originally planned to abolish Qinfeng Road, add Qinzhou and Hehuang areas to Lanzhou, and set up Longyou Road in the Tang Dynasty, which Zheng Lang vetoed. It is inevitable to draw a new road, otherwise the westernmost Lijing City is more than 2,000 miles away from Chang'an, which is inconvenient to govern, but it cannot be ordered to be Longyou, otherwise it will expose the ambition of the Song Dynasty to run Shaganliang. The Tangut people were desperately not afraid, what they were afraid of was what the Khitan would think. Therefore, it is only named Hehuang Road, and has jurisdiction over 11 prefectures of Lan, Qin, Gong, He, Min, Tao, Xi, Jie, Cheng, Kuo and Huang, as well as two prefectures of Jishi and Xining, with a population of more than 1.2 million households. Although it is named Hehuang Road, the commercial center is in Qinzhou, and the political center is in Lanzhou.

After Zheng Lang left the northwest, he pacified the envoy with Fan Chunren's knowledge of Lanzhou and Hehuang Road, and the military was not Fan Chunren's forte, and the war had continued in recent years, but Hehuang Road had several generals to assist, and there were no major problems. The reason why Fan Chunren was allowed to take the lead was mainly to appease. It is difficult to occupy it, and it is even more difficult to govern it, and to govern the people, neither Wang Shao nor Zhang Qi is as good as Fan Chunren. In the past few years, Fan Chunren has also done well, and the Tubo people love to call him Little Fan Laozi. Fan's family, from Fan Zhongyan to Fan Chunyou to Fan Chunren, all three members of the family are loved by the Northwest people and called Lao Tzu, which has become a beautiful talk in the world.

But Zhang Kai exchanged him back a few years ago, and Zhang Kai's position has been constantly transferred in recent years, and he has been to the northwest. Stayed in Hebei, but also served as an official in the capital for a period of time, Lanzhou Dajie, Zheng Lang is the nominal No. 1 governor, although the Xixia people gradually attached importance to Zhang Qi, but they still don't really understand Zhang Qi's skills, so it seems that it is a very normal personnel transfer.

Fan Chunren was transferred back to the capital as a privy deputy envoy, and Zhao asked who could be the prime minister. Zheng Lang only recommended four people, and then Zhao Ji issued an order to let Zhang Shangying be the deputy envoy of the third division, and Zhao Tingzhi was the envoy of the Southeast Sixth Road Shipping Department. The weight of Fan Chunren, the privy deputy, is different from that of other Xifu deputies. But no one else knew.

Just arrived in the capital, just in time for the New Year's Day, can not be handed over, Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan have a deep friendship, and he is Zheng Lang's student, so he came to Zheng's house to pay New Year's greetings.

The master and apprentice talked for a while. Zhao Niannu brought Li Gui, as well as the little lady of the Di family, and two children to visit the New Year.

Zheng Lang's two adopted sons have ordinary qualifications, and they have been following Zheng Lang for a long time. I have seen the world, and after being a jinshi, I have been an official for a period of time, but I have not made great achievements. But there were no major mistakes, and it was difficult to get promoted, but I could also be a peaceful doctor.

Li Gui's talent is good. At the age of seventeen, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and his ranking was still relatively high, Zhao Ji loved the house and Wu, and then gave him an official position. But after Li Gui went down, he learned from Zheng Lang and made drastic governance. It was loved by the people, but at the same time it got some complaints. After Zhao Niannu heard about it, he called him back to the capital in the name of letting him return to Beijing for a wedding.

Zheng Lang said that people's energy is limited, and as a king, if he is too fond of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and articles, he can become the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he will be misguided by the country. But as a child of the clan or a relative, you have to love piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or play birds and dogs, or pick up girls and prostitutes, as long as you don't do evil, then these things are the responsibilities of the children of the clan and relatives! Otherwise, how can you talk about captivity?

It's not that he can't be an official, Wang Yiyong and Uncle Cao Guo both served as the prime ministers of Xifu, but that prime minister doesn't take it seriously, he has no name and no power, and if he wants power, he has to be finished.

If Li Gui's Laozi is Li Wei, it would be better, Guan Jian Li Gui's Laozi is Zheng Lang, Li Gui has half of the royal blood flowing in his body, he wants to make a difference, what will the emperor think?

Li Gui returned to the capital, and at this time he was also older, and Zhao Niannu told the truth. Li Gui was dumbfounded, and then locked himself in a small room and meditated for a day before finally thinking about it. But in the second year, he was ashamed to secretly admit this biological son who was coaxing. But since then, Li Gui has been staying in the capital, and he was bored for a while, so he followed Shi Heng to learn Gewuxue, and then ran to the military equipment to mess around. Now he is actually mixed into the deputy envoy of the military equipment department. It's just a job, and there's no taboo.

However, the truth of this matter is not yet made public.

For the Chinese New Year, the family first worships Miao's New Year, and then comes to Zheng's house to pay New Year's greetings. However, Li Gui's return to Beijing has an advantage, over the years, the two sons-in-law of the Zheng family, and the two adopted sons have held various official positions in other places, and Yue'er is fifty-two years old, and Li Gui's family has brought some popularity to the Zheng family.

Li Gui's family often ran to Zheng's house, but in the face of Zheng Lang's personality, no one doubted it, which was strange.

Then more and more people came to pay New Year's greetings, Zhao Niannu wanted to avoid suspicion, so he had to bring his beautiful daughter-in-law to the back room to talk to Cui Xian, in fact, the most beautiful thing in the Di family was not Li Gui's wife, but Di Yong's foster daughter to Di Xian's family, but it was still very young.

The New Year passed imperceptibly, but the lively atmosphere was getting stronger day by day.

Now the most lively festival is not the New Year's Day, but the Lantern Festival.

The Song Dynasty was happy on its side, but there was a big problem on the Western Xia side.

The emergence of banks did solve many financial difficulties for the Western Xia, and even increased the pressure on the border defense of the Song Dynasty for a time.

But first bitter and then sweet, first sweet and then bitter.

Seeing the effect, coupled with the deliberate ignorance of the Song Dynasty, the more and more Jiaozi in the Western Xia were printed, and the intelligence was more than 50 million Jiaozi, and the actual may be more than that.

After receiving the order, the scouts lurking in Western Xia quickly exchanged Jiaozi, and then quickly sent these gold, silver, and copper coins to China.

When the Lantern Festival arrived, there was almost no cash in the banks of Western Xia. In the past, when the bank was established, Liang was still very careful, although the number of Jiaozi exceeded the amount of currency, and the proportion was not too terrifying, so he established some credibility. Later, there were more and more Jiaozi in Yin, but Liang was still very careful and did not make any big mistakes. But at that time, there was still some currency exchange in the bank, and if you couldn't get any money at all, what credibility could you have?

And after the scouts of the Song Dynasty exchanged Jiaozi, they quickly released the rumors, and they didn't even have time for Western Xia to remedy.

The Lantern Festival arrived, and so did the economic collapse of Western Xia. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )