According to research, the Chinese people are the best managed, most obedient, and most uncomplaining group of people in history, and as long as they have a bite to eat, they will never rebel. As early as when Zhao Guangyi was Kaifeng Yin, he carved 16 golden words on a big stone in front of the main gate of his Kaifeng Mansion, "Erfeng Erlu, people's fat and people's ointment." The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive" (it is said that the 16-character 'ring stone inscription' can still be seen in Kaifeng now) so big slut, you have been the emperor for more than 16 years, have you forgotten this precept?

In Qingcheng County, Yongkang Army, Fulu, Chengdu, a person named Wang Xiaobo, he has no land to plant, and makes a living by planting tea and selling tea. However, the government of the Great Song Dynasty set up a "Bomai Service" in the local area, and completely nationalized the right to sell wine, salt, tea and other daily necessities necessary for daily life. Wang Xiaobo's source of life was completely ruined. So the only prerequisite for the rebellion of the Chinese peasants was finally ripe: there was not even enough to eat!

In February of the 4th year of Chunhua (993), Wang Xiaobo officially unveiled! He condensed all the hardships and hopes into one sentence, and hit the nail on the head and said the thing that people were most looking forward to at that time, "I am sick and rich and poor, and now I am the one who is even" In the same month, Wang Xiaobo led the crowd to attack Pengshan County, Meizhou, and killed the county commander Qi Yuanzhen.

But can it be believed? Until the end of the year, the Great Song Emperor Zhao Guangyi did not know that there was this uprising. His ministers were busy every day, vying to show their wisdom and courage to see who could be closer to the emperor when they were on duty in the early dynasty.

Starting from the prime minister Lu Mengzheng. In September 991, he was deposed and replaced by Li Fang, who had previously been succeeded by him. The deputy is Zhang Qixian.

This is another old pair with a new one. It's like Zhao Pu taking Lu Mengzheng. So the tough and intelligent Zhang Qixian was also silent like Lu Mengzheng. The great benevolent Li Fang was a group of harmony. With him, the superstructure of the Song Dynasty was really stable. But after a long time, Zhao Guangyi was very annoyed. The housekeeper's wife who cleans her hands and feet looks comfortable, but who will do it?

The emperor tossed for nearly 2 years, and on May 15, 993, he finally couldn't help it, and called the two free-spirited fairy prime ministers and yelled, "You people, before you became the prime minister, you all said that you were Guan Zhong and Le Yi." can become the prime minister. One by one, there is a competition to see who can play silence better. I worked day and night on state affairs, and I was so tired that I had no leisure at all. Is this the way of the minister?" Li Fang and Zhang Qixian knelt down and admitted their mistakes, and the two of them understood that the good days were over.

On June 9, Zhang Qixian resigned. On October 16, due to the suggestion of Wei Yu, the envoy of the three divisions, Zhao Guangyi divided the world into 10 provinces: Henan, Hedong, Guanxi, Jiannan, Huainan, Jiangnanxi, Jiangnandong, Liangzhedong, Liangzhexi, and Guangnan. Jingdong is counted on the left, Jingxi is counted on the right, and there are 10 roads in the middle. Wei Yu is the left envoy. Dong Yan is the right envoy. On the 17th, Li Fang resigned.

On the same day, Lu Mengzheng appeared again. This time, as the prime minister, and alone, no one can divide his power, and there are no more prestige old-timers in the way, and he is determined to make a difference.

On his first day in office, he gained the respect of the emperor. The last time he was a prime minister, he found out that Zhang Shen, the prefect of Caizhou, was corrupt. So he used his power to remove him. But someone made a small report to Zhao Guangyi that there was an inside story about this matter. Lu was terribly poor before he was admitted to the top prize, and he once asked Zhang Shen for money. Zhang gave, but it was a little less. Lu held a grudge, this time it was a personal vendetta. Zhao Guangyi immediately reinstated Zhang Shen. This is tantamount to inciting Lu Mengzheng in public. But Lu does not argue. Don't pursue it, and be comfortable. It's like he acquiesced.

After a long time, before Lu Mengzheng entered the photo again, the examination institute confirmed that Zhang Shen was indeed greedy. Remove him from office again. Zhao Guangyi is sorry. When the two met, he said something like this: "Zhang Shenguo is guilty of stolen goods", and the emperor bowed his head. Lu Mengzheng was at ease again, and he didn't even thank him. If it's gone, it's over completely. It's not interesting to mention it again. If he wants to speak, he will say big things on big occasions.

Four months later, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Song Dynasty celebrated together, and the emperor personally set up a banquet and gathered ministers to watch the lanterns together. The scene of peace and prosperity in front of him made the emperor sigh greatly: "I want to think that in the era of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty, the living beings withered and died." At that time, who would have thought that there would be a peaceful day today? Until I govern the world, handle government affairs, and realize the virtue of God's good life, we will have today's prosperous situation. It can be seen that the end of the war and the reorganization of the world are completely in the people"Who is this person? Of course, it's the big slut himself.

When the ministers present were about to collectively sing praises, Prime Minister Lu Mengzheng suddenly left his seat and said to the emperor in front of all the officials, "This is your capital, which is why it is so prosperous." The minister had seen with his own eyes that a few miles outside the capital, there were people who died of hunger and cold. I wish Your Majesty to see the near, but even more so to see the distance. This is the luck of the common people" Zhao Guangyi's face changed greatly and he didn't say a word. Lu Mengzheng looked calm, walked back to his seat, and continued to eat, drink and watch the lanterns.

Prime Minister Zhuangyuan is recovering this time, and he really wants to do something practical. And his predecessor Li Fang was an official who was lost because of inaction. So he was more positive, didn't he cater to the trend of the time? Unfortunately not! In the game, no matter how smart a talent is, there are places that cannot be seen.

Looking back at the tenure of all the prime ministers of the Taizong Dynasty, one will find a problem. The longest period is the original 3 prime ministers: Xue Juzheng for 5 years, Shen Yilun for 6 years, and Lu Duosun for 6 years. After that, Zhao Pu entered the phase twice, both for 2 years. Li Fang has entered the phase twice, once for 4 years and once for 2 years. Others, such as Lu Mengzheng, for the first time, are only 1 year. The overall trend is to get shorter and shorter.

There is only one explanation: the emperor does not want the prime minister to have his own team and high prestige. Then the imperial power will be divided.

The iron-clad Zhongshu Province, the prime minister of flowing water... It's a pity that Lu Zhuangyuan is smart, but he can't see through this. His current strength only brought a foreshadowing to his future failure...

Even if he was right? Is the emperor really ignorant of the Dao? The incident in Sichuan has been happening for nearly 1 year, and with the eyes and ears of the big slut, will you know nothing? Just one month before Li Fang was dismissed, the big slut was still yelling at him, "Qing and the rest of the car are being paid, how do you know that there are hungry people in the wild" You guys are going to the house one by one, do you know that there are hungry people who are dying of hunger in the wild?

Zhao Guangyi finally couldn't pretend anymore, because the rebellion was uncontrollable. On December 25, just 20 days before Lu Mengzheng said this, Wang Xiaobo and Zhang Xi, the inspector of Xichuan Prefecture, fought a decisive battle in Jiangyuan County. As a result, both of them died. The rebel army elected Wang Xiaobo's wife and brother Li Shun as the leader, and on the day after Kaifeng City celebrated the Shangyuan Festival and Prime Minister Lu said these words, on January 16, Chunhua 5 (994), the rebel army captured Chengdu. Li Shun officially called the king, founded the country of Dashu, changed the yuan, and established the central power agency, minted his own copper coins, and officially fought against the Great Song Dynasty! And the troops were divided into four parts. Rapidly expand the results of the war. From Jianmen Pass in the north to Wuxia in the south, the counties were all victimized.

At the same time, Zhao Baoji was in rebellion in the northwest. When the news came, the emperor was furious. On the 20th, Li Jilong was sent as the commander-in-chief and Yin Jilun as the supervisor of the army, and troops were sent to conscript.

On the 21st, Zhao Guangyi had to face up to the rebellion in Sichuan. But the question arose at the very beginning, who to send as the commander to enter Shu to quell the rebellion? At this time, there are external troubles, do you believe that the wrong person was sent, and the incident of Meng Zhixiang's self-theft and establishment of Houshu will be repeated again? Not to mention the existing generals at hand. There are too few people who can reassure him and have excellent abilities. After thinking about it, he sent his trump card - the great eunuch Wang Jien. This man is politically infallible and tried and tested. Military ability, the prince is also a person who was born and died in the front line and rolled in the knife bush. Yongxi Northern Expedition, who brought back the news of Cao Bin's defeat at Qigou Pass to the emperor from the front? It's this prince. In particular, he also has an innate advantage - he is a eunuch. Who has ever heard of a eunuch cutting off an alleged king?

So Li Jilong and Wang Jien's 2-way army quickly started and rushed to their respective battlefields...

At this time, Li Shun wanted to rush to two points before the Song army entered Sichuan to reinforce him: first, Zizhou, which had accumulated a large amount of vitality of the Song army. The other is the Sword Gate Pass... He wants to lock the road into Sichuan, and he also wants to wipe out all the Song troops in Sichuan... But don't be busy, there's one more crucial issue – order. Do you hit Zizhou first? Or take the Sword Gate Pass first?

Li Shun's choice was to send Xianggui to lead more than 200,000 heavy troops to Zizhou. As for Sichuan's gateway to the Heavenly Danger Sword Gate, he just sent a few thousand people to attack... This decided his demise from the very beginning...

The guard of the Sword Gate will be called Shangguan Zheng. There are only a few hundred old and weak soldiers in their hands. I'm getting ready to fight hard. As a result, I was looking forward to a savior. The Chengdu prison army Su Han led the defeated soldiers who escaped from the city of Chengdu. The two of them joined forces and immediately surpassed the thousands of people sent by Li Shun. What's the point? The Song army rushed out of the city directly, and Li Shun's thousands of men were defeated, and only 300 people fled back. And after these people fled back to Chengdu, they were all killed by Li Shun. The reason is that they "shocked the crowd" and that's it. The gate for the Song army to enter Shu was saved. On February 22, the imperial court appointed Shangguan Zheng as the assassin of Jianzhou and Su Han as the assassin of Zhaozhou.

As for Zizhou, it is said that Sichuan is easy to make people feel comfortable, and they begin to relax after a long time. But Zhang Yong, the governor of Zizhou, did not. The police felt like he was the one who rebelled.

Before Li Shun entered Chengdu, he began to think about how to defend the city. First of all, they trained the original city defense troops, but felt that it was not enough. More than 4,000 people were recruited on an ad hoc basis. Don't have money to pay? It doesn't matter. Use the treasury of nearby states and counties. No weapons? Simpler. The bronze bell in the temple turned me into an arrowhead. Then a large number of timber was chopped, a large number of ropes were prepared, and the battle was thoroughly prepared. and applied to the imperial court for rescue.

The rescue has not yet arrived, but he has the same good life as Shangguan. Lu Bin, who also retreated from Chengdu, passed by him with soldiers from 10 states: Lu Bin, don't go anywhere. I appoint you as the guardian of Zizhou, and I will show me my home right here!" In addition, Zhang Yong also dug a new moat outside the city... Can the 200,000 hungry people sent by Li Shun quickly break through such a city? As a result, more than 80 days have passed, and Zizhou City has stood still...

On March 5, Goryeo surrendered to the Great Khitan, and the Great Khitan Zhengshuo was launched, using the name of Tonghe Era.

The two theaters of the southwest and northwest fought at the same time, but the person who moved the fastest was not Li Jilong or Wang Jien, but Li Jisheng, a double-level official who was the part-time king of Xiping of the Great Khitan in the Great Song Dynasty.

As soon as Li Jilong left the country, Zhao Baozhong's people entered Kaifeng and said to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty: My brother Baoji is very well-behaved, especially listening to my eldest brother, and he is completely a loyal courtier of the Great Song Dynasty... Give him a chance. As a guarantee, and to thank you in advance for your kindness, I would like to contribute 50 party horses. You laugh, you are gracious... Zhao Guangyi replied that it was my brother-in-law, let me speed up and kill it again!

Li Jilong is faster, and Li Jisheng reacts faster. He sent his cronies to find Li Jiqian. told this "good brother" all the actions of the Song Dynasty

Survival requires wisdom, and he's done very well before. Xiao Qianqian, the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Khitan, he can't afford to provoke any of them. But his mind flashed, why should I provoke them? Wouldn't it be good to be friends with them all? So he had the official position of the Great Song Dynasty and the title of the Great Khitan, and he also reconciled with Xiao Qianqian. But good days are so short. The Great Song sent troops. How good he was before, how bad he is now. At the very least, he has to ensure Li Jiqian's safety, because once Xiao Qianqian is caught, he will be the first to be confessed.

But he never expected that one night when the army of the Song Dynasty was still quite far away from him, his camp was suddenly attacked, and the other party was very familiar with everything about him. In a panic, Li Jisheng fled back to Xiazhou City alone, and all his property was robbed by the enemy.

At the head of Xiazhou City, he saw clearly that the enemy outside was... His good brother Li Jiqian. Li Jiqian is keen and realistic, and does not have the slightest illusion about his future. The storm is coming, why don't you add extra clothes to yourself?

That night, Li Jizhu watched Li Jiqian take away all his belongings at the head of Xiazhou City. When he turned around, he found that all the people in the city had become enemies. He was imprisoned in a small black room by the subordinate Zhao Guangsi...

Until March 25, Li Jilong's army entered the city of Xiazhou. Hou Yanguang and other generals persuaded Li Jilong to kill him, but Li Jilong only asked one sentence, "What is your name?"

That day, Li Jisheng trembled and said 3 words, "Zhao Baozhong" is very good. His life was prolonged, and Li Jilong put him in a car, escorted him to Kaifeng, and handed him over to the emperor for disposal.

The next thing is Li Jiqian and Yinzhou City. Li Jilong drove the army to kill him. But before he arrived, he was victorious. Li Jiqian fled, and Yinzhou City surrendered.

The worst happened, and Li Jilong's mood was extremely bad in an instant. He didn't expect this Li Jiqian to be so smart and decisive, and throw away the huge Yinzhou. It's better to have a big war and lose both. In that case, the Great Song reinforcements will continue to come to help in the war, and Li Jiqian's party members will die one less and one less, until they die at the end of the day. But it is obvious that Li Jiqian also saw through this, and without even decent resistance, he completely chose to flee. From now on, how to arrest him?

On April 3, Zhao Guangyi appointed Zhao Guangsi as the training envoy of the Xiazhou regiment and Gao Wenfeng as the training envoy of the Suizhou regiment. and announced that Zhao Baoji's name was invalid, that person is not worthy of being a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty at all, let's call him Li Jiqian!

But the next order of the emperor and the prime minister was too strong and novel, which made General Li Jizhui break out in a cold sweat. Although the edict said that this would make the Western Xia problem settled once and for all. (To be continued......)