The drought continues to worsen.

It should be said that Zhao Pu wants to thank Song Jiu, although Song Jiu was unintentional, because of the low grain, in order to regulate the price of grain, and the summer tax grain was transferred to all parts of Jingdong Hebei and Hedong, but with the aggravation of the drought, it played an unexpected role.

All the prefectures and prefectures have a full reserve of grain, the officials and the people are not in a hurry, the price of grain is very stable, and there is no unrest in the people because of the drought. Some officials even saw that the autumn harvest would inevitably be in arrears, and the people would have to be short of food at that time, so they made a small calculation and planned in advance what projects to be repaired within the territory under their jurisdiction.

Over the years, I have accumulated a lot of experience in cash relief.

However, large-scale labor relief is still not possible, the organization is difficult, the coordination is insufficient, and even the state governments deliberately obstruct it for the sake of their own political achievements. It's just a matter within the states, but it's very positive.

In any case, Zhao Pu will definitely be sad.

Others are in a good situation, even if the north fights so hard, and the price of grain falls to an astonishing low price of ten cents a bucket of beans, but when it comes to him, the disaster will come immediately......

Some people began to talk about it, this is Zhao Pu's retribution for doing some bad things, especially Zhao Tingmei.

Song Jiu didn't believe in retribution, but when he saw that the country's problems were not serious, he also secretly enjoyed it.

There are two other things that make him happy.

Song Bao returned from the South China Sea.

After a few years of tempering, although Song Jiu's face made the scorching sun in the south dark, he became much more sensible.

Zhao Kuangyi was curious, so he summoned Song Bao to the palace to meet, and the two talked for a long time. Zhao Kuangyi only said: "I don't have a suitable daughter, otherwise I will definitely marry her." ”

The Song Dynasty defended the marriage of daughters. It's better to marry a girl. Generally, the crown prince marries mostly the descendants of military generals, and most of them are the descendants of dead military generals. It is rare to associate with a deacon, unless the deacon is also a dead deacon. Compared with marrying a daughter, the precautions for marrying a princess are slightly looser. There is also a possibility, it is only the prince, and it has nothing to do with the successor to the throne, and it needs to be looser.

The main thing is to prevent foreign relatives from interfering in politics.

I don't know if Song Jiu's son will be controversial if he marries the princess, but Song Jiu doesn't like it either, first of all, think about Song Zhenzong's big black face in the future. Until after several generations of bloodline cleansing. After Song Renzong, his appearance gradually improved.

And why did you marry a princess and come back?

However, it is unlikely that he wants Song Bao to marry, Zhao Kuangyi's eldest daughter married early, and the second daughter inexplicably asked Zhao Kuangyi to be a nun, which may be depressed and die young. The third daughter is only a big egg, and she can't get married at all.

Marrying a princess is a joke, which only represents two meanings, the importance of Song Jiu, and the appreciation of Song Bao.

It's really appreciated. The front received the meeting, and the latter set up the post of Lingzhou general judge, although the northwest is a little bitter, and some ethnic issues are quite annoying. However, as soon as it is on the top, it is the general judgment of Shangzhou Dazhou, which is the treatment that only the top three on the list outside the Donghua Gate can enjoy.

didn't go for a while, Song Jiu married a family for him. Zhang Quhua's youngest daughter.

Now Zhang Quhua has also entered the court as an official, and the two families had a slight friendship when they were in the academy before. Zhang Quhua also respects Yuping very much, and Zhang Quhua's youngest daughter is beautiful. If you talk about not marrying a princess, even Zhao Pu will not have a daughter to marry Song Bao.

After getting married, the young couple had a good relationship, and they went to Lingzhou together.

Pan Li'er cried when she sent them on a trip, thinking of Yuping, if Yuping was there, seeing her son getting married, and serving as a general judge, the emperor was respected, and the future was immeasurable, how happy she would be. Then he brought countless fur clothes and brocade quilts from home, worried that they were suffering from the bitter cold in the northwest.

Next, the Song family remarried, and it was another slightly controversial marriage.

Yang Ye thanked Song Jiu, but Song Jiu felt guilty about the Yang family.

Yang Ye's eldest son, Yanyu, arrived in Liaodong, and originally planned to come back together after stabilization, but Wu Xuanming's talent was insufficient, so Yelu Xianzhen was almost disabled, and these generals had to stay to assist, and there were two or three years to come back, and this would have to wait for Song Jiu's idea to mature and the plan was launched.

This time, Yang Yanyu inevitably separated his wife and children.

and then to the third son, who died in Qigou Pass.

When Yang Yanzhao went to the front line with Yang Ye and Song Jiu, he had not yet married, and then went to Liaodong, but in recent years, running on both sides has almost become a wild card in Song Jiu's hands. Originally, before Yongxi's Northern Expedition, a girl from a good family was agreed, but Song Jiu was asked to transfer the Yang family's father and son to Hebei. After the first battle of Qigou Pass, Yang Yanzhao went to Liaodong with him.

Dumbfounded over there, is this still over? Then he replied shyly to find Yang Ye, Yang Ye replied resolutely, the family and the country cannot be both, you are not willing to wait, then quit this family business. Song Jiu didn't know what to do, so Yang Yanzhao was directly transferred back, and the Zhe family visited Pan Li'er, my family Erlang is really not small, I want to find a good family for him, I wonder if Mrs. Pan can inquire for my family Erlang?

Zheda is very smart, these words reveal several meanings, my son is really not small, I can't let your man run my son on both sides.

Secondly, they all say that your man is good to our Yang family, so introducing a good girl can probably do it. After all, Yang Yanzhao let Song Jiusheng be dragged into a good young man. If Pan Li'er introduced it, then the woman the son marries will not be bad, otherwise it will not be easy to marry the daughter of the right person.

Song Jiuyi was stupid when he heard it, he hasn't married yet, so what should Yang Wenguang do in the future?

Just as Panpan came over, Song Jiu jokingly asked Panpan.

In the Song family, the situation is a little reversed, other people's families are strict fathers and mothers, but in the Song family, they are loving fathers and strict mothers. Therefore, several children were deeply influenced by Song Jiu, and they did not reject military generals.

For example, after Song Bao arrived in Lingzhou, he quickly got into a fight with the generals, and like Song Jiu, he became a nondescript civil official.

Pan Pan is not exclusive to military generals, I have heard more about the prestige of this Yang family Erlang before, and I have seen it once, I feel good, and I agreed on the spot.

Pan Li'er disagreed, Yang Yanzhao didn't mention how old he was, if Kou Zhun was older than Xiao Song, how many were there a few? is mainly a military general, and his future is not as great as that of a civilian official. Song Jiu asked, isn't it as good as Zhong Xun?

Pan Li'er couldn't answer.

So again, in Pan Li'er's reluctance, this family affair was discussed.

Yang Yanzhao couldn't delay any longer. Song Bao got married in the front, and Song Jiuyang asked Zhao Kuangyi to agree to Yang Yanzhao and Yang Ye returning to Beijing to take up their posts. So he did this family business.

In fact, Song Jiu feels good, it's a good family business.

But there was no tragic battle in Chenjiagu. I am afraid that the Yang family generals in this life are far inferior to the Yang family generals in that life......

Yang Yanzhao is a little older, and he is more anxious and wants to leave Panpan in the capital, but Panpan voluntarily went to the front line with her husband.

After Zhao Kuangyi heard it in the palace, he was silent for a long time, this family seems to be people who are not afraid of hardship and death, including women? However, Pan Li'er's heart hurt, and she repeatedly told Yang Yanzhao to pay attention to safety, and not to play with her life like Jing Si's stupid hat. There is also to protect the safety of his daughter, which is the most dangerous place in the forefront of the entire Song Dynasty, and then complained about Song Jiu, and took out a lot of fur clothes and brocade quilts again, anyway, there is no good place, one in the northwest, one in the north.

But compared to the first family business, this family business is normal. Yang Yanzhao gradually became famous, Yang Ye was even more famous in Yanmen Pass, he was in Daizhou, and Pan Mei was in Taiyuan. In recent years, the Liao State almost did not dare to invade Hedong, and could only focus on Hebei. Therefore, it can also be regarded as a good match.

After the Song family held two family visits, Song Yu decisively asked Song Jiu to send him to Nanyang.

Pan Li'er was very reluctant. However, the rich are not more than three generations, and they are not allowed to suffer. In the future, he is likely to become a loser. How many powerful children have disappeared from everyone over the years? And Song Bao's amazing growth also made Pan Li'er ruthless.

In fact, the Song family is a ruthless way of educating their children. It has attracted the attention of many powerful people.

Jade is not cut into a tool.

The flowers in the greenhouse can't withstand the wind and cold.

However, there are people who are tempted, and there are not many people who are really willing to imitate.

This is a family affair of the Song family and has nothing to do with national politics.

Song Jiu continued to be careful in handling military and political affairs, but he also did not expect that war would come again so soon.

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The Cause of Drought......

Zhao Pu was sad, and Yelu Huge was sad.

After the defeat of the Gaoliang River, the Liao State invaded the south several times without success, and the front line implemented Song Jiu's Tuntian policy.

In fact, the tuntian system has existed since ancient times, and it was not implemented well only in the Song Dynasty, for the simple reason that urban soldiers. Only the Yue family army has done a good job in history.

Gradually, the soldiers shifted to the countryside, and this ancient tuntian system was once again implemented in disguise. The effect should be good, starting from the Daimyo, west to Luoyang, with Gyeonggi as the center, many camps were set up in all directions for soldiers to cultivate. The first result was a reduction in state supplies, especially for bulky food. The second result was an increase in the income of the soldiers.

When the soldiers go to the border to rotate, their families have "self-reserved land" and still have income, and the soldiers go to the border to rotate, and there are additional rewards, such as travel money, border money and silk, etc., but after arriving at the border, the camp area is larger, and even the soldiers begin to raise pigs and sheep on a large scale, as for the safer part of the rear and raise horses and cattle, these two are a military and the other is agricultural, both are national strategic material livestock, of course, will not appear on the front line. Or raising some chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, not only reduces the supply of the state, at least there is no need to be like the Song Dynasty in history, a car and a boat to transport grain and grass thousands of miles away, a few pennies a bucket of corn can be transported to the northwest can become the cost of thousands of wen, this is not counted, some black-hearted merchants and officials are also mixed with sand, or replaced by moldy grain, so that the soldiers can not eat it.

Coupled with the farming industry, the soldiers had some extra income and improved food.

It was originally good, but the two invasions of the Liao State made everyone feel a little cold, at least the soldiers on the front line did not dare to engage in breeding anymore, only planted some sparse crops, and wanted to improve the food, so they could only provide meat from the rear.

But even so, this year's drought is severe, which has also led to almost no harvest in the front tuntian.

There was gradually a food shortage in the two fortresses of the Weilu Army, and Yang Yanzhao and Wei Neng respectively sent requests to Li Jilong to bring in the food quickly, otherwise we would have no food immediately.

The entire north was not harvested due to drought, and there was no food to provide in the border area, so Li Jilong had no choice but to make a request to the imperial court, and then send troops to protect the grain to the Weilu army.

This letter was folded to the imperial court, causing controversy, and Zhang Xun put on a long song, when the country set up a Wei Lu army to think that Dingzhou was abandoned. If this army is abandoned, Beirong will stand under the city. The minister thinks otherwise, if the enemy comes to invade, 100,000 people, the number of soldiers in the Weilu army is less than 10,000, dare to go out of the village to face the battle? Don't dare, the Weiyu army is on the flat ground again, can it play a blocking role? Again, it can't. So what does it do? Moreover, there are many soldiers and horses, and there will be a lot of consumption every day, which must be provided by the rear from time to time. Now the people of the three towns, braving the heat, the suburbs, and the people who are trending towards Hogo are just wrapped in food. If the northern enemy comes to attack and fight, he will inevitably be defeated. Or will the state use all the soldiers of the three towns to escort the soldiers with food and wages? Therefore, it is advisable to withdraw the Weilu army, count the soldiers and put them in the nearby large town, so as to concentrate the forces. It is also supplied by the provincial court, and it will not be embezzled by Rong Di like Yizhou.

This memo was echoed by many ministers.

It's okay to set up a fort, but there must be a risk to it, what is the danger of the bunkers of the Wei Lu Army?

However, it's wrong, where is Wei Neng and Yang Yanzhao going to fight out an iron city, Tongliang Gate!

Song Jiu was a little hesitant, caring was chaotic, and where did his daughter go. So he wrote a letter and asked Li Jilong quickly, but Li Jilong didn't answer anything, just drew a map of the front line, so Song Jiu decided to agree with Li Jilong's intentions.

Zhao Kuangyi asked why, but Song Jiu just replied: "If it is the battle of the Tang River, Suicheng and Liangmen have nearly 10,000 strong troops, what will be the result?" In the face of this result, does the Liao State dare to go straight in? ”

Zhao Kuangyi no longer doubted, if that was the case, Yelu Xiuge would be defeated even worse, and even Suicheng and Liangmen would be blocked, and most of Yelu Xiuge's elite cavalry would be lost in Hebei. So in order to avoid this consequence, the Liao army could only solve Mancheng, Suicheng and Liangmen first, and then the war moved northward, which played a great role in helping the security of the rear.

When Jeruxiu got the news from the scout's mouth, he immediately sensed that an opportunity had arrived.

As long as these supplies are eaten, the Weilu army has to retreat due to lack of food, the morale of the three armies is low, and the story of Qigou Pass will be repeated again. (To be continued......)