"Is it true?" Zhang Fangping said again.

The scout was speechless and said, "I only heard rumors, whether they are true or not, and my subordinates may not know very well." ”

"You go down," Zheng Lang said.

Turning his head to Zhang Fangping, he said, "Ninety percent is true." ”

"How is that possible?"

"I'll tell you what happened," Zheng Lang told him one by one. The fewer people know about these actions, the better, it's not that I don't believe Zhang Fangping, what if I lose my mouth?

However, after Zheng Lang figured it out, his mentality relaxed, no longer looking forward and backward, cowering, and participating in politics with a more positive attitude. Whether it succeeds or not, it's just effort! If you want to do something, one person's ability is limited, and you must find some people to cooperate. These people must have talents, similar political ideas, and virtue. Don't be a character like Lu Huiqing, this person is very talented, too selfish, too utilitarian, and too strong, so that Han Qi can't help it, and said to Wang Anshi You come to the court, I will be played to death by Lu Huiqing. Han Qi is so good, he was almost crippled by Lu Huiqing. These people must not be used, that is not to use people, but to carry the boiling oil pot and pour it on their heads.

But Zhang Fangping was isolated and difficult to get ahead, so he called Zhang Fangping and asked him to participate in many affairs, so as to strive for the greatest political achievements for him in the next year or months in the northwest.

After listening, Zhang Fangping was stunned.

"Soldiers, treacherous, have to do it."

"What a plan."

"Don't value it, if the court doesn't cheer up, this effort will be wasted." Zheng Lang is still a little happy, such as playing chess, who will kill the deer, and it may not be known if the game of chess is played in less than one game. But in order to win, you have to land every move from start to finish. In this game of chess at the beginning of Qingli, the Khitan was the biggest loser, and it was difficult to say whether the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty were good or bad, and the Song Dynasty had a slight win, but it was not big. To get better, you have to have a good hand.

The death of the Yeli brothers not only killed two important ministers in Western Xia, but also triggered a series of events, which is equivalent to getting the first big card in his hand.

"Brother An Dao, not only that, it is very likely that Li Yuanhao will send troops to Jingyuan Road again after the autumn harvest."

"What time?"

"I don't know, have you heard some rumors among the people that I deliberately squeeze out Ge Huaimin so that his talent cannot be brought into play?"

"The news spread by the Tanguts?"

It was spread by the Tangut people, and Ge Huaimin instructed some people to fan the flames and spread the rumors. It's definitely not Ge Huaimin's head, he doesn't have the courage yet. ”

"Ugh."

"It's not enough, I don't need it, Brother An Dao can write to Fan Xiwen and ask him what he thinks of Ge Huaimin. But he himself doesn't know, he is indignant every day, and some people will say above the temple that I don't tolerate people, and it is a hidden danger not to drive them. I had to walk on thin ice and use it carefully. In fact, it is a gap left, a bait, Zheng Lang explained in a good listening and speaking method.

"Brother Zhang, please use tea," Cui Xian made a pot of tea for Zhang Fangping.

It is a tea made from high-grade Jianzhou tea cakes, and Zheng Lang and Fan Zhongyan are also completely different in life, not extravagant, but also focused on enjoyment.

It's hard to say whether it's good or bad, both of them have done a good job in appeasing the border people, the border Qiang called Fan Zhongyan as Longtu Laozi, Zheng Lang was too young, and he didn't come to Laozi's time, but the Qiang people named Banchun Xianggong. It is equivalent to sending half a spring to Jingyuan Road. The reason why it is half is because of the endless war and the death of many children, otherwise it would be "the prince of the whole spring".

"Good tea."

"I still have a few pieces of bread here, if you like it, Brother Antao can bring two back."

"Thank you," the two have similar family backgrounds, they are both from everyone's background, Zhang Fangping didn't care, and replied casually.

"Now you have to wait for an east wind?"

"Dongfeng?"

"It's waiting for the east wind to blow in Fubi, and the Jiashan side can be launched. In a few days, I will gather you and discuss carefully. It's still too late, before the autumn harvest comes, Yuan Hao doesn't dare to launch a campaign against Jingyuan Road. ”

"Okay."

"Brother Antao, let me talk to you about the exemption law."

"Please say," Zhang Fangping sat upright, since Zheng Lang opened the exemption law in Taiping Prefecture and Hangzhou Prefecture, more prefects of Zhizhou wrote to the imperial court to try it out, which caused controversy in the court. With the start of the Northwest Campaign, no one dared to say that the law of exemption from military service was enforced at this time. Although some people saw the convenience brought by the implementation of the exemption law in Hangzhou and Taiping, they had to endure it.

Zheng Lang also talked about the disadvantages of the exemption law, not thinking that it was good, and if it was not implemented properly, it would bring more controversy than the bank.

"The situation is different in different places, people in the south like to eat rice, people in the north like to eat pasta, and people on the grassland eat more meat, can we implement a certain policy in a unified manner?"

"Xingzhi said that it was Jiangdong?"

"It is precisely that if the country is divided into five classes, Jiangdong has gradually stood out because of the success of the opening of the Wei, and the Taihu Lake Basin has been rich in the world since the Tang Dynasty, as well as Yangzhou, Gyeonggi and Yizhou, all of which are the world's first-class rich places." Zheng Lang was about to talk about the theme, Shi Congguang walked in from the outside and said, "Bachelor, the lady of the Shi family said that it is okay to talk to the bachelor, but she asked the student to give her a few big characters." ”

Zhang Fangping shuddered.

Zheng Lang's words are popular all over the world now, but in addition to official letters, few words are exposed, and it is impossible to take out and circulate those that are to be archived. The fewer people are, the more rare they feel, and Liu Liufu's words about Zheng Lang are also half-truths and half-truths. There were Khitan aristocrats who liked calligraphy, and they also used a lot of money to buy Zheng Lang's calligraphy from the Song people.

If you want Zheng Lang's big characters, is it the little lady of that family?

Shi Congguang is also sad.

Don't talk about official authority, in the early days of the Song Dynasty, several generations of monarchs attached importance to internal governance, and officials did not dare to be powerful. Like robbing people's daughters and openly seizing people's houses and land, bullies dare to do it, but officials dare not do it. Yes, he was mostly impeached by Yanchen. The strict mechanism of speech and ministers made officials dare not put on a stand in front of the people.

There are people who are not afraid of officials, and there are more people who are not afraid of their own little masters who do not put up a fight.

Zheng Lang doesn't like people to be afraid of him, why bother?

But Zheng Lang took the initiative to take in their husband and wife, and also taught them the study of physics, and if they didn't get it right, they would be able to soar. For example, he and Tong Ming have already paid attention to the imperial court, and it is a matter of time before they are conferred an official.

These two are very good, it's like cutting meat. Sure enough, everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced.

Zheng Lang was also so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and picked up the pen and wrote down four big words: self-knowledge.

said to Shi Congguang: "You tell them, don't think that they have made some money, if I change my policy slightly, it will make all their property come to naught in a blink of an eye." There is also that miscellaneous science, what knows astronomy and geography, it is purely a frog at the bottom of the well, and I don't know the height of the sky. ”

"Whoa." Shi Congguang left with the words.

"Who is it?"

"Two Weizhou merchants." Zheng Lang told what had happened.

"This merchant is also clever."

"It's hard to say whether you are clever or not, but the gunpowder formula must not be leaked, otherwise it will be even worse for the nomads to use it against our Central Plains." Speaking of this, Zheng Lang thought of the cannons that entered the customs of the Manchu Dynasty, and the cannons of the Ming Dynasty did not blow up the Jurchens and Tatars, and in turn, once the Jurchens obtained artillery technology, they were even more powerful. This has become an unsolvable problem, unless the Song Dynasty can quickly move from the black powder era to the yellow powder age within a few decades, and a real repeating rifle appears, the nomadic advantage will be lost. Is this possible? With the current backward tragic urging technology, Hugh may not be able to say a few decades, three hundred or four hundred years.

And he said, "Look, if I were clever, I would really teach them some theories of Gewu, instead of their nonsense." Let's see if we can borrow their hands to blossom and bear fruit, and conjure up more new things that benefit the country and the people. ”

Zheng Lang doubted, and Zhang Fangping also doubted.

"Brother Antao, let's still talk about the exemption law, if the whole country is divided into five classes, these state capitals are all first-class wealthy state capitals. The second is the capital near Gyeonggi, Jiangdong and Zhejiang. Again, the state capital. Then to the border area of Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi. Finally, some mountainous areas of Kuizhou Road, Lingnan Road, and Lizhou Road are still backward serfdoms, similar to those of the Jurchens. If these state governments are allowed to enforce the exemption law, it will have to cause chaos. It's okay for them to contribute their labor, who wants to pay for wealth and silk in lieu of the service law, and besides, will it be these big families and wealthy chiefs who perform the errand service? The border state capitals of Hedong and Shaanxi in Hebei Province were heavily served, but fortunately the imperial court paid more light taxes to reduce the pressure on the people. If the law of exemption from military service is enforced, it is tantamount to a complete change, and the consequences are unpredictable. What is needed here is a strong people, not only to perform errand duties, but also archers to further secure the borders of the country. ”

"Xingzhi, this statement is quite reasonable, and it is absolutely impossible for these two to implement the exemption law."

"Besides, the third-class state capitals are mostly poor areas, and of course, they can be subsidized with the exemption money generated by the first-class and second-class state capitals. But who can subsidize fairly? Even if the court does not collect wealth and distributes it, there will be a lot of controversy. ”

"Xingzhi refers to the first- and second-class state capitals?"

"I wanted to give it a try, but it happened that the court was heavy because of the war, and many people were tired of it. Besides, there are many disadvantages of the errand itself, and the ancestral family law is well-intentioned, using this to balance the gap between the rich and the poor, but what about now? On the one hand, the third-class and above households who did not want to be errand soldiers were doing errand work in a state of resentment, and on the other hand, many people had to use the box army to absorb them and give them a way to live. What kind of positive effect would it have if the proceeds of the exemption law were used to recruit displaced and hungry people to perform errand service in their place? At this time, it is the best time to propose that the first- and second-class state governments implement exemption from military service. I would like to join hands with you in a book to advise on this matter. ”

"Okay," Zhang Fangping was very excited, and was about to pick up the pen to write. Let Zheng Lang stop him and say: "Wait, wait, Fu Bi does not bring back the accurate news of the Khitans, and the court will not be at ease." It will be counterproductive for you and me to admonish at this time. ”

It's still Fubi.

Many descendants don't understand and think that Fu Bi's trip is a loss of power and humiliation of the country, but they don't know that there are many people who are looking forward to the Song Dynasty at this time.

Zheng Lang is still watching another thing, Lu Yijian, whether he will stage that ugly drama again.

……

Lu Yijian's old problem has flareed up again.

first got Song Zhen and Zheng Jian to be decentralized, and this year he found trouble with another person.

Ren Bu.

This person's experience and surname are very similar to Bao Zheng.

It seems that there is no talent. But the victory lies in being honest and upright.

When Zhenzong, there is a spring gushing out in the southeast of the capital, that is, groundwater, it is a normal thing, the capital thinks that the sweet spring is auspicious, and Ren Bu talks about it, and the Ming Dynasty can not boast of stupidity with gods and monsters. Because of the dissatisfaction of the prime minister, the tax of Dengzhou was reduced. In Zizhou, I saw that the salt production of its salt wells was low and the class was there, and the owner went bankrupt and got rid of it. Shengjianghuai sent the envoy, and there were many heroes and strong people who made the mountains and seas rare and bribed the power, and everything was gone. Wait a minute.

There are no big political achievements that can really be done, they are all trivial things, the government is very clean, there is no stain, and gradually ascending to the position with seniority.

is usually taciturn, but it doesn't mean that he is honest and deceitful, and his surname is more stubborn, otherwise he would not be a direct minister. After serving as the deputy privy envoy, Ren Bu couldn't get used to Lu Yijian's monopoly of power, and sang against Lu Yijian many times.

But this person has few shortcomings, and he can hardly find any handle, Lu Yijian has been angry by Ren Bu many times, and he can only stare dryly. But the opportunity was not long in coming. Ren Bu is not a big evil, he is honest and upright, but he has the son of a crazy bastard, Ren Xun. When Lu Yijian heard it, he thought of a way. First, he was promoted to the rank of Xun, and he was very prominent, and he entered the Zhiyuan all the way. This Zhiyuan is a minister, but the people who can enter it are ordinary people? They are all characters who can turn the clouds and rain in the Song Dynasty, how could it be Ren Xun's turn to enter.

I really went in, and I really turned over a cloud, and it rained a disgraceful black rain.

This baby doesn't know the height of the sky, thinking that she is very capable, and she will soon be the second Han Qi and Fu Bi, and let Lu Yijian pick and choose, and began to look at her father unpleasantly, you are the deputy minister of Xifu, why are you silent and derelict in your duties!

Raising this bastard son, what should Ren Bu do? I had to continue to be silent.

Yes! If you don't listen to it at home, we are officials and can impeach you.

Ren Bu is crazy, since ancient times, the son does not think the mother is ugly, the dog does not think the family is poor, the son does not say that his parents have passed, and there is a son who has nothing to do with Lao Tzu. So some of the strumming was seized. Ren Xun doesn't know, why my impeachment has no effect. Lu Yijian stood up and said to him, it was you Lao Tzu who pressed down, he was a father and son at home, and he was the minister of the Son of Heaven in the court, how could he suppress the impeachment of the minister? After dialing it again, the kid was furious, even more popular than Lao Tzu Renbu, and went to the book again.

The incident alarmed Zhao Zhen, and Ren Bu Xie was guilty: "Your Majesty, the courtiers rarely have heart problems, and their heads are a little abnormal, and their words are contradictory, so they dare not announce it." ”

It makes sense, the Song Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, although he was a minister of the same dynasty, but he was a son in the end, which set a precedent, how to promote filial piety? But it doesn't matter, someone came out to speak, and Shi Yuzhou took the opportunity to impeach Bu. Ren Xun did the right thing, you, Lao Tzu, also have the responsibility of teaching your son.

Ren Bu had no choice but to leave.

Ren Xun still expects Lu Yijian to transfer him, Lao Tzu has removed you Lao Tzu, what is the use of keeping you? Lu Yijian deducted Ren Xun for a major crime of annihilating humanity and completely killed him.

But some people still have illusions about Lu Yijian, rich and rich.

Lu Yijian got rid of Song Zhen and Zheng Jian, and Fu Bi didn't have much of a good impression of these two, thinking that they were mediocre and playing soy sauce, thinking that it was a normal personnel transfer, and he was not vigilant, on the contrary, he valued Lu Yijian's support for Fan Zhongyan more.

About this evil annihilation has become better. The leader of Western Xia, Qisha and others, came to surrender, and Fu Bijin said: "The surrender of the two, their family has been wiped out by the Yuanhao clan, and they should be rewarded to persuade those who come." ”

Zhao Zhen sent his words to Zhongshu, and the prime ministers of Dongfu did not know about it.

It is also a manifestation of redundant government.

Fu Bi reflected, the northwest is in a big war, this is not good, so he said: "Border affairs are related to the safety of the country, not the special committee privy envoy, Zhou Prime Minister Wei Renpu and privy envoy, at the beginning of the country, Fan Zhen and Wang Pu are both prime ministers and know the affairs of the Privy Council. ”

In a hurry, even the Guan Ju of the Fourth Road in Shaanxi Province deployed the secretary and governor all the way and the Ma Bu army on this road to pacify the freaks who recruited envoys along the border, why can't the two governments do special things?

Zhao Zhen thought it was reasonable, so he said: "The affairs of the military state should be returned to the Chinese book, and the privy council is not an ancient official." ”

It is intended to abolish the Privy Council and unify the powers of the two governments.

Zhao Zhen was hot-blooded and impulsive, but the other ministers did not, and when they heard this, they wrote one after another.

In fact, if you really want to do this, it would be fine.

What is simplified administration, the Song Dynasty is such a overlapping overhead, when can we streamline the administration?

If the upstream is successful, the downstream will be faster. Pity.

Zhao Zhen also "woke up" and did not abolish the Privy Council, but issued an edict ordering Yi Jian to judge the affairs of the court, and it was like a concurrent envoy. After the announcement system, the weather was abnormal, the yellow fog was jammed, and the wind and haze finally said, which is estimated to be the scene when the summer storm comes.

Yet this age ......

More ministers are noisy, the emperor can't play like this, the governor Wang Juzheng is taking the lead in admonishing, the two mansions are even, and the judgment is too heavy, so it must be avoided. This has to be clarified, judgment is the same as knowledge, and the prime minister can use the judgment, which is a bad job, but real power is a bad job.

Lu Yijian also made this God afraid, he didn't want to rebel, he just wanted to grasp more real power, couldn't God stand it? Avoid suspicion and ask to take a step back. So it was changed to both.

Fu Bi did this for the sake of selfishness and for the public, and for the sake of the public, he hoped that you, Lu Yijian, could see the belly of our gentleman's party, and the public was for the country.

So how did Lu Yijian repay it?

Fu Bi is back simply, quickly. Strange to say, including the Han people, all the surrounding countries are counted, even if the blood oath of the Western Xia, as well as the oath of the arrows of Tubo and the living oath of the Qiang people, it is still the Khitan that really abides by the oath. As long as they sign the affidavit, they will not repentance for at least a few decades.

The whole country mobilized to help, and all the ministers participated in the pre-consultation. Finally, prepare two letters of state and three affidavites. wanted to propose marriage, but there was nothing, including Jin Silk and Zheng Lang's envoy. Zhao Zhen said cruelly, why can't my daughter be sacrificed. As long as the Khitan people dare to agree, I will dare to marry a daughter, which makes Miao Guifei cry in the harem for many days.

Zheng Lang, that guardian knight didn't work.

The courtier wants to be the guardian knight of his daughter, why can't I be the protector of the minister!

The second is that the Liao people can order the Western Xia not to invade the Song Dynasty again, repay, and increase the gold silk by 200,000 per year, but not only 100,000.

Fu Bi marched and added three things to the oath: the lakes and ponds at the junction of the two countries shall not be expanded, and neither country shall increase the garrison of troops on the border without reason, and shall not take in the fugitives of the other side. made the Khitan people quarrel, in fact, these three were established, which was also beneficial to the Song Dynasty. You Khitans don't believe it, look, our Song Dynasty wrote it in the oath.

No problem, everything agrees, Fubi, if you don't worry, the credentials, terms and affidavit, let you draft them yourself. So you can rest assured, Lu Yijian said.

Fu Bi was relieved, and with his talent, he wrote quickly, quickly wrote, and handed it over to the political affairs hall. Lu Yijian looked at it and said, "Fu Bi, you go first, I will immediately write your draft into an official letter from the full-time minister, and then send a fast horse to catch up with you, without delaying time." ”

Fu Bi thought about it, we are Wenchen, not military generals, and the speed of riding a horse is not fast, so get on the horse and run again.

If he persists a little longer, it will be fine, just watch in the capital, and Lu Yijian may not make a bad decision. As soon as he ran away from the capital, Lu Yijian's inferior surname recurred.

Fu Bi ran to Wuqiang in one go, and Kaifeng's fast horse caught up with him, handing him a big burden, two letters of state, three affidavits, and more than a dozen copies and more than a dozen confidential documents. After Fu Bi received the burden, he began to set off and went to Le Shou, but his heart gradually became suspicious, he was thinking about one thing, the three things I added, all of them were the Liao people's previous appointment, in case the words of the book are similar and different, not written in the national letter, the other party will be suspicious, then I will lose this trip.

The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, this was not at ease with Lu Yijian. Let him guess right. In the Leshou Station, he did a big rebellious thing, and quietly opened the fire paint seal of the record copy to watch. He didn't dare to move, and he couldn't wash it away if he jumped up the Yellow River.

I saw it, but one of his hearts fell into the ice. The three options proposed by the Song Dynasty are there, and Lu Yijian definitely doesn't dare to do anything about it, but none of the three he said is written!