This battle was not without gains, because of the speed of dispatching troops, the panic of the retreat of the soldiers of Jintang City in Western Xia, and the baggage could not be taken away or burned in the future, Lin Guang actually withdrew to Jintang City safely after encountering Xixia Fu in a hurry, and brought these baggage back together.

Aside from what happened next, the two wars were barely even.

If it is settled, Li Fugui will be able to explain to the imperial court, write the truth of the matter as it is, at least ninety percent of it is the truth, and hand it over to the capital.

Fu Bi transferred the fold to Zheng Lang again.

The matter in the west has to be left to Zheng Lang to judge.

Zheng Lang received the fold and called Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, Wang Anshi was in the middle book, Sima Guang was the official of the two systems, but it didn't matter, the authority of the two systems increased, and he had to deal with many twists and turns sent by the Chinese book every day. Just find a reason, and you can invite Sima Guang to Zhongshu.

Zheng Lang let them see the twists and turns, and said: "Junshi, the way of financial management, you have to admit the credit of Jiefu, he has almost become my important arm." ”

Sima Guang did not answer.

Zheng Lang said to Wang Anshi again: "At the end of the first month, when I received a great victory in the northwest, Junshi said a word, strictly prevent the border ministers from being greedy for merit, and sure enough, it was successful. ”

Li Fugui's dispatch of troops this time was very unreasonable, and Wang Shao also sent troops to Tiandu Mountain, but it was planned for eight months, after half a year of preparation, and many material generals were stockpiled in two months after the start of the war. Li Fugui hurriedly dispatched troops, which led to the defeat of Li Shin, and then beheaded Li Shin to shirk responsibility, and the two were not the same as Japanese.

This is greed, seeing that Cai Ting got the Duke of Guogong, Li Fugui was greedy.

The same is true for Tong Guan in history, why did he abandon the northwest, make an alliance with the Jin people, and covet the edict of the county king with a different surname, Zhao Ji. Those who get Yanyun can be crowned king with a different surname! Otherwise, there is no alliance at sea. Peace of mind Northwest. If the northwest is managed, even if the Jin people invade the south, when there is no stoppage, there is no strong enemy in the west. Will Li Gang stubbornly let Song Qinzong's father and son stay in Kaifeng and forcibly resist. Instead of fleeing to Chang'an. If they flee to Chang'an, the number of Jurchens will be constrained, and it will not end up like the Anshi Rebellion. In the end, the Jurchens were consumed to death in the Central Plains.

Of course, thinking about this doesn't work anymore.

"You all have strengths and weaknesses, learn from each other's strengths and improve your own weaknesses," Zheng Lang said again: "Fan Lou got a batch of precious ingredients and sent some to my house, and brought his family with him tonight, by the way, as well as Ziyou, Uncle Hao, and Yaofu." and Yan Rong and Shi Heng, let them bring their families to my house together. It's a pity. Zizhan and Tiancheng are not there. ”

"Zizhan Nengzhao is back," Sima Guang said.

"Junshi, you covet his talent, but this is an official position, if so, why don't you let Liu San become reused? Let him grind it again, I have entrusted the bank and brought him five thousand yuan to spend. He has big hands, why is he not like a few of you? ”

"It's still Zheng Gong, you have a lot of money!" Wang Anshi sneered. But he was happy himself. Sima Guang also felt funny, no matter what, there are a few people in the same family, even if it is Shi Heng, it is not like Su Shi, a whole playboy.

However, this shows Zheng Lang's strong family affection, and with a smile, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang's heart knot has resolved a lot.

After the two left, Zheng Lang stared at this newspaper and thought hard for a long time. In the end, several personnel transfers were made, and Yang Sui, Liu Changzuo, Qu Zhen, and Li Hao were transferred to Huanqing Road, and Fu Bi ordered Jingyuan, Huanqing, and Yanjun to take strict precautions to prevent the Liang family from launching greater retaliation.

Fu Bi hesitated: "Xingzhi, will you fight again?" ”

"War is war, this time I don't want to be meritorious, but I want to be without fault, with the dangerous defense of the walled fort, what is there to fear?"

"Xingzhi, you can read another newspaper." Fu Bi took out another report, which was written by Wang Shao.

Wang Shao took Shaanxi to pacify the envoys, but don't take it seriously, this is to fool the Fanzi and the Qiang people, and the main position is the school manager of the Prince Zhongyun Secret Pavilion and the pacification division of the border of Gou Qinfeng Road and the camp Tian Shiyi. The city is at Wang Shao's own request, and if you don't fight, you will be yourself, and a dozen will not be enough for gold and silver. Therefore, he pleaded with Qinfeng Road to carry out a local large-scale camping of fields, as well as the implementation of the city change law, to collect money, so as to reduce the financial pressure of Kaihehuang.

Zheng Lang also implemented it in Weizhou, and it did play a big role, and it was passed without too much embarrassment.

Wang Shao sent people to carry out the camp and the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, he contacted the Qiang people and the Tibetan people.

It should be said that Wang Shaoping Rongce ignored one point, that is, the centripetal force of culture. Tubo and Western Xia are dead, that is a feud. However, unlike the Song Dynasty, after the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo expanded, and the Diqiang tribes scattered on the periphery were included in the territory along with Tuyuhun and a large number of Han people in the Helong region. There are still a lot of Han people, the Tang Dynasty opened the border, saying that Longyou is a small Guanzhong, and this Longyou includes the Hexi Corridor and Hehuang. If Tibet continued to be strong, the Han people would forget the roots, and soon after the collapse of Tibet, the people lived a miserable life, although many people were Tibetanized, but the Central Plains civilization still had a centripetal force for them. This led to the fact that the leaders of the Tibetan dynasties all asked the Central Plains Dynasty for the commander of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty and the Later Zhou, and asked for the reason for the grace. Therefore, the army of the Song Dynasty went to the plateau, and the Tubo people and the Qiang people did not fight fiercely. This is one of the most important favorable factors for the opening of the river.

Not only Hehuang, but also, strictly speaking, the evolution to this day, it should be divided into several parts, one is the ripe Tibet in the Song Dynasty, including Qinzhou Tubo, Weizhou Tubo, Jingyuan Tubo. The second part is the border area with the Song Dynasty, Lintao Tubo, including Tubo in ancient Weizhou, Tubo in Lanhui Prefecture, and Tubo in Xihe, because it is close to the Han people, advanced in cultivation, and has a large population, which cannot be underestimated, only in the area of Guweizhou, Tubo won 100,000 soldiers. For example, most of the 22 tribes who originally belonged to the Blind Felt Department descended to the Niche Bo to the family all surrendered to the Western Xia, and the six tribes of the Tubo tribe near the Western Envoy City also surrendered to the Western Xia. Some of the other ethnic groups were attached to Muzheng, and some were independent, but they were friendly with the Song Dynasty.

The third is Henan Tubo, including Jishijun Tubo, Minzhou Tubo, Taozhou Tubo, Jiezhou Tubo, Danzhou Tubo, and Diezhou Tubo, mainly south of the Yellow River, many tribes in the east are friendly with the Song Dynasty, and now a few tribes have been under the shackles of the Song Dynasty. As for the western ones, it will be a problem.

The fourth is the core of Tubo, Hebei Tubo, including Shanzhou Tubo, Huangzhou Tubo, and Kuzhou Tubo. Finally, there is the Liangzhou Liugu Division, although the Liugu Alliance has perished, but the Tubo people of the Liugu Department are still there. But really speaking. There are not so many Tibetans. Almost ninety percent of the Tibetan people have the blood of other tribes in their bodies. The Han people are the most numerous, followed by the Tuyuhun people, various Qiang people, Di people, and even the Uighurs, Tiele people, and so on. The descendants of the 20,000 Tiele people in Liangzhou, the general of the Tang Dynasty, have now all become Tubo.

It can't be said that tracing back to the source has no effect, Zheng Lang used this to overthrow the inability of the Fan and Han to marry. Just ask north of the Huai River, how many Han people do not have the blood of Xianbei people in their blood. If you want to say that it is strong, please go to Koto. How many Tibetans east of Qinghai do not have Han blood in their blood, if you want to say thick, to the real Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

It was only the overthrow of the ban on marriage between the Chinese and the Han in the imperial court, and it was still very difficult for the two clans to intermarry. The Han people looked down on and feared Tibet, which seriously hindered the integration of Tibet and Han.

But the reversal of this ban paved the way for the next military operation decades in advance.

In addition to these miscellaneous Tubo people, there is another clan, that is, the Qiang people, who seem to be weak. In fact, it is very annoying, the Tang Dynasty is commonly known as the two-faced Qiang. This is still the case.

Wang Shao arrived in Qinzhou in front, and he attracted several Qiang people in the back, he couldn't take it seriously, and if there was a benefit, he would come to surrender, or if he had a benefit, he could quickly rebel. Then he started contact with another person, Yurogler, the name is very unfamiliar, but he also has a Chinese name, called Yu Longke, and later changed a Chinese name, called Bao Shun. Bao Zheng once served as a pacification envoy in Shaanxi, and he was good to the Tibetan people, and he was grateful, so he changed his surname to Bao.

Yu Longke's tribe is in Guweizhou, and he alone has 120,000 people, and five people must have at least one ding, if two dings are drawn in wartime, it also means that this clan alone can recruit more than 10,000 fierce soldiers.

Zheng Lang looked at Fu Bi playfully and asked, "Yanguo, do you object?" ”

"Xingzhi, don't underestimate me, I'm not what you call the Gou faction. There's also a message from the Secret Service Battalion," Fu Bi said, pulling out another copy of the newspaper.

Dong Yu has a clan brother named Dong Rong, the two have never been harmonious, and the two great Tibetan monks married Wu Qila and Kang Zun Silla and welcomed Dong Rong to Wusheng Army. This Wusheng army was the ancient Di Dao, the Linzhou of the Tang Dynasty, and the later Lintao, including the two states of Xihe in the later Song Dynasty. After Tubo got Di Dao, it was changed to Wusheng Army. The largest tribe in the vicinity of Didao City is the Male tribe, and there are also Tumen, Jieqiaer, Kangzang Xingluo, Aga of the Umbrella King of Blowing Si, Monrojiao, Moershuiba, Eteling, Tuoshuo, Longbo, Lengjipu, Lanshan and other major tribes, some settled, some nomadic. The northern region at the junction of the Xihe River is close to Lanzhou, and the four major clans, the Ghost Donkey, the Erjin, the Xingluoshu and some small tribes, have been collected by the Western Xia. The largest tribe in the southwest of Didao City and the border of Hezhou is the third wife of Dong Yu, the Qiao family, the maiden family of the Qiao family, Dong Yu's mother, as well as the Buqin Yibale, Daier, Lang family, Rizhu, Jiebiao, Zhuochang Liujun, He Lang Yexian, Chang family, Dipper family, Zhao family, Yang family, Moyak, our family, Shen Qian, Jiehe, Lunbu Zong, Qizang, Danbei, Ye Gong, Zhang Luo, Zhen Landong, Duojing and other tribes.

The latter is in the southwest of Didao City, or in the territory of Hezhou, headed by the Qiao family, these tribes are very close to Dong Yu, and Dong Rong doesn't want to think about it.

The middle one is for the Tangut people to gather the past, and they don't think about it.

Thinking of the former, the two great monks welcomed Dong Rong to Wusheng Military City, that is, Didao City, or Linzhou City, or Xizhou City in the future, to establish grammar together, prepare to merge Zhuqiang and Zhufan, and then send an envoy to Xixia to ask for marriage, Liang Xu Zhi.

It happened that Wang Shao sent people to recruit Zhufan, and Wusheng Army, several big chiefs, and others, coincidentally looked at Wang Shao. They wanted to make friends with the Song Dynasty, Dong Rong and the great monk knotted Wu Qila and established Zhufan Zhuqiang to surrender to Western Xia, these tribes definitely did not agree, so the agreement was abolished.

Although the Song Dynasty operated the ancient Weizhou, once the Western Xia controlled Di Dao, the Hehuang and the Southern Silk Road were undoubtedly blocked, and even the Western Xia could calmly bypass the ancient Weizhou, go south from the Wusheng army, and continue to recruit and take in the southern tribes, forming a longer encirclement of the Song Dynasty.

So what's the harm in marrying a daughter?

However, Dong Rong did not bring Zhufan and Zhuqiang together, one wild family, two wild monks, what can they have? After hearing about it, Liang did not agree to Dong Rong's marriage proposal.

Fu Bi took out this newspaper and was in no mood to gossip.

This information verifies the views of Zheng Lang and Wang Shao, if the river is not operated, the river will be split, Dong Yu will not be able to control it, and sooner or later it will be slowly eaten away by the Western Xia. The situation is critical.

"Xingzhi, I know the severity. But it can't be said that they are not right. After all, all these years. Whether Tubo is an ally or not, at least it is not an enemy of our dynasty, and it has more or less contained Western Xia. Innocent and rashly opened, there were always some uneasy thoughts in my heart. Besides, the Western Xia Liang clan is vicious. Once we are in a hurry, so that Tubo can really join forces with Western Xia, and there will be another Khitan, and I will be attacked on three sides. ”

"Hikoku. The Tibetans are not enemies of our dynasty, but don't expect much kindness from them. I don't say that Hehuang has been the territory of the Han people since ancient times, nor do I say that the land of Huangzhong, Haokang, Big and Small Elm Valley, and Baohan is fertile, not to mention that at this time, many tribes in Tibet began to gradually forget their feuds and gradually defected to Western Xia. There is a reason for our dynasty, when the Western Xia sent troops to Tibet, our dynasty did not contribute much troops and material resources to help, but it was precisely because of our dynasty that Tubo rested and recuperated. Watching from the wall at ease, how do you deal with the court? Cao Bin weakened his greatest enemy for him. When Cao Bin was mentioned, he immediately bowed down, but I made an order to go and lay down on the Hu bed, only to give it to himself. To my majesty to despise so. If we want them to be our true allies, we also want them to see their strength. A weak country has few friends. ”

"Xingzhi, be careful, anyway, if I don't do it, Xixia will also do it, I hope you can grasp this measure."

"Okay."

Zheng Lang stared at the newspaper again, and suddenly said, "Money." ”

Wang Shao started to do it, Zheng Lang didn't know, he knew that it was impossible for Wang Shao to start the battle of Hehuang Kaibian bitterly. This costs money!

There are still four years left in the drought, and it costs even more money!

"What money?" Fu Bi was stunned, he didn't know what would happen in the future, he thought that the imperial court economy was very good, more than 180 million a year, and if he saved and saved, the debts would be fully repaid in a few years. Zheng Lang scratched his head and walked out depressedly. More than 180 million a year, which can be compared with the peak of Wang Anshi's forcible accumulation of wealth, saving only 120 million yuan a year, which is about Wang Anshi's can't do. But this money has become the number one problem. At that time, Zheng Lang understood why Wang Anshi in history became a money basket, knowing that many bad things were happening below, but still insisted on tougher reforms.

The country is short of money, forced!

In fact, at this time, the government gradually stabilized, Zhang Fangping entered the third division, Zheng Lang did not lose his hand, both ends, the reform is over, no matter how much the country owes, the people's lives are getting better day by day, and first Hedong owes the burden, and then the Shaanxi Road owes the burden, all of which are repaid, and then Chengdu Fu Road, Hebei Road and Liangguang, ready to be repaid in one breath this year. As a result, the opposition gradually weakened, and the public opinion in favor increased.

Gradually, in three years, if there is no big move, there seems to be signs of Zisheng Zheng, the first year of resentment, two years of hatred, and three years of love.

With Zheng Lang, Lu Yu and others were transferred back to the court one after another.

Humility.

However, Lu Zhi went down again, at the beginning Lu Zhi looked at Wang Anshi unpleasantly, and finally Wang Anshi looked at Lu Zhi unpleasantly. The cause of the incident is that Wang Anshi likes to make trouble, but the real reason is a little supernatural. Zhao Ji's younger brother and crown are crowned, and it stands to reason that he must be driven out of the palace, otherwise there is a possibility of a coup d'état. However, Gao Taotao continued to leave Zhao Hao, the king of Qi, in the middle palace as if there was no such thing. The author Zuolang Zhang couldn't stand it, so he said that it was appropriate to move King Qi to the outer residence.

Gao was angry, she couldn't come out and get angry with Zhang Piguang, so she had to talk to Zhao Ji. What was talked about, it is not known. So Zhao Ji was released for the crime of separation. Wang Anshi said that Zhang Piguang was not guilty. Is it wrong?

Lu Zhi wanted to say that Zhang Piguang was guilty, and he should not only be punished, but also severely punished, and sent to the prison officials for interrogation.

At this time, Lu Zhi began to fall into evil, according to the feudal system, neither Wang Anshi nor Zhang Piguang was wrong.

Wang Anshi didn't follow, and neither did Zhao Ji. 's mother was angry, comforted her mother, and let Zhang Piguang out to make a look, seriously.

Soon after, Lu Zhi became even more resentful, and wrote a book about Wang Anshi's ten major sins.

Zheng Lang comforted him for a long time, and wrote to Lu Zhi again and again, you are a Qing minister and a direct minister, you have to seek truth from facts, and then transferred Lu Zhi back. However, Lu Zhi still did not change his stubborn nature and continued to argue. Wang Anshi couldn't bear it, and said directly to Zhao Ji, Your Majesty, you want to edict Lu Xu, and Duke Zheng also wants to edict Lu Xu, so it's not good for the minister, let the minister go out. Zhao Ji is also helpless, Lao Lu, you should go to Dengzhou to retire.

What Zheng Lang wants to be humble is the result of his character. I don't want to fight too much, I don't want to quarrel too much, everyone unites, and we work together to govern the country well. But Lu Xu's incident gave Zheng Lang a wake-up call. Not only Lu Xu. And that righteousness.

Zheng Lang said benevolence, righteousness, yin and yang, sage, wisdom, loyalty, forgiveness. It's still the origin. Just like the elements in chemistry, there is no 100% pure chemical element in reality, and in the same way, there is no 100% benevolence, righteousness, yin and yang, grace, and forgiveness in reality. Some are three points in the middle. Therefore, the so-called profit cannot be pure profit, just like employing people, it can determine whether someone is a good person or a bad person, and use it properly. Everywhere can become a martyr, and if it is not used properly, the revolutionary hero will also become Wang Jingwei. The same is true of profit, perseverance is good profit, and perseverance is bad profit.

But there are still people who get into the horns.

The first person I want to thank is Fan Zhongyan, who is the first to follow, and those who follow me are gentlemen, and those who oppose me are villains. Later, this atmosphere was suppressed by Zhao Zhen.

The second person to thank is Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Shu, because of the dispute over Puyi, many people once again went to the absolute opposite. That is, the extreme yang has the extreme yin. Extreme Yin has Extreme Yang. As a result, their personalities are both stubborn and violent.

Zheng Lang is adjusted, and several students still have a little. Lu Zhi is more serious.

It seems that the top and bottom began to praise each other. But the crisis is still very serious, and it can only be suppressed temporarily.

No matter what kind of compromise you make, for some people, it still doesn't work, on the contrary, if you make too much compromise and the reform fails, it will be a lever for them.

At this time, the imperial court received a big case. It was caused by the tea merchant's report on the business tax.

It happened in Zizhou, Sichuan.

The Song Dynasty because of the semi-fermented tea cakes, so the taste of tea is different from that of later generations, the first place in the Jianzhou tea may not even be ranked in the top ten in the later generations, the later generations ranked in the top ten Longjing, Biluochun, Huangshan Maofeng, etc., now there is tea but not famous.

On the contrary, Shu tea because it is suitable for making tea cakes, but there are many famous teas, 49 kinds of famous teas in the Song Dynasty, there are Dali Kunming Wuguo tea and Pu'er tea in the southwest, more in Sichuan, Ya'an Luya on the top of Mengshan Mountain, Mengding tea, Naxi Meiling in Luzhou, Yashan tea in Hengyuan, bird's beak tea (also called Mingyuexia tea), Yuetu tea in Fuzhou, Shaping tea in Qingcheng, Qiongzhou tea in Wenjiang, Emei white bud in Emei Mountain, 49 kinds of famous tea actually occupy more than a dozen.

Some of the inferior tea is used for tea horses, or in other ways to exchange materials with Fanqiang, and the better tea is still provided to the Central Plains, which is transported from the Yangtze River tributaries to the Yangtze River, and from the Yangtze River to the Han River, and arrives in the Central Plains, or from the Grand Canal to Hebei Jingdong and other places, or from the Shu Road to Shaanxi. Tea was also grown in the north, including the Hengshan region of Western Xia, but the yield was low and the quality of the tea was poor, almost negligible in the Song Dynasty.

The full trade of tea further boosted production and sales.

Last year, the three divisions also calculated an account, and the income difference was not much, it was a little less, but the labor cost had decreased, and the net income was similar, and it was also conducive to the simplification of the decree. After all, a tea franchise, the imperial court also has to spend some effort to operate. It's just that the magnates who benefited from the tea franchise can no longer benefit.

In fact, it is not, the monopoly is not good, the commercial tax is not levied, and many large households are still evading taxes. After a small and medium-sized tea merchant surnamed Zhou in Zizhou saw the imperial court's reporting system, he reported the local tea merchant surnamed Lu.

After receiving the report, the Zizhou government checked it and said that there was no such thing. But the real situation is that the tea merchant surnamed Lu has never paid a penny of tax at all, without him, his son is Lu Daoyan, the Chinese scholar household Ling, who is the same year as the governor of Zizhou, and is a good friend.

The tea merchant surnamed Zhou was not convinced, and threatened to report to the Yizhou Supervision Department.

This annoyed the people of the Lu family, and it happened that the tea merchant surnamed Zhou chartered a small boat, transported tea out of the gorge, and the boat went to Luzhou, where he was targeted by the Lu family, and followed him with a boat, and killed the Zhou family merchant and the boatman and his men on the boat, and only one sailor saw that the situation was not good, and jumped off the Zhongjiang River. This section of the river is very fast, and the Lu family has been looking for a long time but has not found it, thinking that the sailor is drowned, and they don't care, and then they scuttle the boat, fake the appearance of the boat hitting the reef and causing an accident, and then leave.

However, the sailor did not drown, but cleverly sneaked out of the water to hide in the weeds on the shore, and narrowly escaped the killing.

After going ashore, he carefully inquired about the situation, and did not dare to return to Zizhou, the Lu family's wealth was very powerful, and it was not something he could provoke, so he secretly fled all the way to Yizhou, found the officials of the Supervision Department, and reported the case.

The five murder cases also involved a Beijing official, a governor, the matter is big, the supervision department sent the yamen to escort the sailor to the capital, and the case was fed back to the imperial court, Zhao Ji saw the report, very annoyed, and called Lu Daoyan to question. Lu Daoyan's eyes were at a loss, his family had a tea business, not only a tea business, but also other businesses, more than 2,000 acres of cultivated land, but he had never asked, and he didn't know what the situation was.

The case is not difficult to investigate, the little tea merchant surnamed Zhou is greedy for reward money for reporting, but it is natural to kill people to pay for their lives and repay debts. If there is a witness, send an official down and ask about it, and the truth will be revealed. At least now the Song Dynasty is still relatively enlightened, although there are all kinds of bad phenomena, but it is stronger than later generations. Those who kill and buy murderers are basically sentenced to death, and no one dares to cover them up. Lu Daoyan must have been dismissed, and if the governor of Zizhou really received the case without a judge, most of them would also be dismissed.

But that's not all.

Zheng Lang was originally going to withdraw from the Third Division, but after learning about the case, he calculated some accounts and threw them out at the capital meeting. This is the end of my reform, but it doesn't mean that I will be completely reconciled immediately!

Zhao Ji opened it and saw that it was the first April account of the commercial tax, and he asked blankly: "Zheng Gong, what does this mean?" ”

It's not been a year yet.

"Your Majesty, please look," Zheng Lang handed over another account. It is the accounts for the first four months of last year, and compared with the two, the difference is nearly 1 million dollars. That's just four months, and in a year, the difference will be even more.

The two accounts were passed on, and Zheng Lang asked: "Everyone, do I still want this righteousness, or do I still want this righteousness, or is this world the world of Your Majesty and the people of the world, or the world of a few people such as the Lu family, the people are slaves, and Your Majesty is a puppet?" (To be continued.) )