Will you be proud if you win? Will you be discouraged if you lose? The thickness of an adult man's soul is achieved by personal experience. Reason returned, Song Shenzong saw the change in the nature of the Song Dynasty's army, and his confidence and desire gradually returned...

More than two months later, good news came from the northwest battlefield one after another. First of all, within the Western Xia, the antagonism between the royal family and the later clans continued and intensified. The Renduo clan and the Liang clan divided the east and west chambers and opposed each other.

On March 18, after a short rest, the Yan army attacked again, and the general Qu Zhen was sent to defeat the Western Xia at Jintang. In April, Qu Zhen took advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Jialu Village. Jialu Village is just a village built on a barren mountain, and there is no oil and water. But it was here that changed the spiritual direction of Song Shenzong, and even distorted the history of the Northern Song Dynasty... This stockade is very inconspicuous, but it depends on which barren hill it is built on? Yokoyama! This is the foundation of the Western Xia state, like a natural Great Wall between the Song and Xia countries...

For the Song Dynasty, taking the commanding heights of Hengshan was like the Liao State mastering the 16 states of Yanyun. And after taking Jialu Village, the commanding heights will be in hand!

On April 22, the restructuring of Yuanfeng was completed. This is a major event that needs to be written about, which originated from Song Shenzong's dissatisfaction with the family law of his ancestors. No matter how hard the officials at the bottom tried, the emperor always felt that they were not pleasing to the eye. The world is so chaotic, standing on a high place and looking down, the 24 divisions of 3 provinces, 6 ministries and 24 departments are orderly and fully functional, but countless civil servants are jumping around in a noisy and walking around in various offices, and it is impossible to tell who is in which department and what work should be done.

If the emperor grabs one of them on a whim and asks, "Where are you?" I believe he can get such an answer: "I belong to the Ministry of War", "Okay!" What are you doing?" "I'm blending Chinese cabbage from Lanzhou into Beijing"... This is the consistent way of working since Zhao Kuangyin. You are a member of the Ministry of War, but you can't manage the affairs of the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is just a yamen for you to receive your salary. The rest of the situation is so on, even the functions of top high-ranking officials such as prime ministers and privy envoys are also divided layer by layer, not to mention doing some practical things. You can't even make it more efficient!

Want to change? Then be careful of nightmares at night, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Heng, Zhao Zhen, Zhao Shu... will come en masse to give a lesson to the obedient great-grandson Zhao Xu!

This was an important means for the Song Dynasty to restrain its courtiers and keep the country. The internal bed frame house confuses the functional names; The external strong cadres and weak branches take back the military power. As long as these two points are there, the land of Shenzhou will always be surnamed Zhao! History proves that this is absolutely true. The only exception is when the crisis comes from outside...

What Song Shenzong has to do now is to dismantle the ancestral family law, reorganize this whole set of bastard methods of combining internal and external, self-castration, and destroying the bloody strength of the miè nation, and rejuvenate the administrative organs! During the Song Dynasty, the administrative apparatus itself was flawed. Coupled with the problems deliberately added by Zhao Kuangyin and others, everyone should understand the necessity of re-planning the streamlining department? Song Shenzong thought about it and created a Tang Dynasty official society with the characteristics of the Song Dynasty... He took out the book "Tang Liudian". Written inside is the official function table of the Tang Dynasty. Use this as a blueprint to replan the official positions of the Song Dynasty! Throwing aside the terms of the super wordy norm, two major principles can be reduced:

1. Change officials by rank. Decrease the ranking. The official refers to the official of Jilu. It is the above-mentioned people in the military department who are in charge of the affairs of the household department, but they still have to pay salaries in the military department. Then the position of the military department is his post of sending Lu officer. Cancel now. All of them will be replaced by the corresponding ranks... There are a total of 25 new ranks. It is 17 ranks less than the old Jilu Officer. The new official products are still 9 products, and each product is divided into 18 orders. 12 orders less than the old official product...

2 Three provinces and six ministries, according to the name and responsibility. As the name suggests, it means that each yamen will do whatever it is called from now on. Power returns. No one is allowed to cross the line! Note that some of the names have since changed...

After the reform of Yuanfeng, the old system of the Tang Dynasty's Zhongshu Provincial Lord's decision-making, Menxia Provincial Lord's sealing, and Shangshu's Provincial Lord's implementation was restored. Now, the prime ministers' offices are no longer called the political affairs hall, and the two names of the "capital hall" have been cancelled with the two names of the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhang and the Governor's Political Affairs! With "Shangshu left and right servants" is the former Tongzhong Shumen under the Ping Zhangshi (Prime Minister). Respect the left, Shangshu Zuo is the prime minister. "The Scholar of the Door" and the "Shangshu Left and Right Cheng" are the former governors (deputy prime ministers). Therefore, on the day of the completion of the 22 yen Feng reform, the original prime minister Wang Qi changed his name to Shangshu Zuo Servant and Servant Lang, and he was still the prime minister. The original governor Cai was indeed renamed the right servant of Shangshu and the servant of Zhongshu, and the official was promoted to become the second minister. On the 23rd, the original governor Zhang Qi changed his name to Zhongshu Shilang, and he was still the deputy minister. In addition, Zhang Dian is the servant of the door, Pu Zongmeng is the left of the Shangshu, and Wang Anli is the right of the Shangshu...

Then it was stipulated that the Tang system should be followed: the principle of the proposed decree of the Zhongshu Province, the review of the Menxia Province, and the implementation of the Shangshu Province. In addition, although the left minister is the prime minister, the real power is in the hands of the right minister...

In addition, on November 22 last year, the Privy Council took the lead in completing the restructuring of Yuanfeng. The Privy Counsellor was renamed the Privy Councillor, and the Privy Counsellor was renamed the Privy Councillor...

There are many others, the reform of Yuanfeng is very complicated, and this book does not want to involve too much (in fact, in the author's opinion: this basically does not make much sense, except for the manuscript fee for people like me who write the history of the Song Dynasty to type more words and earn a few cents more after the reform of Yuanfeng)... However, the biggest principle: the separation of power between the east and the west, and the separation of military and political affairs, which was the biggest foundation of the Song Dynasty, Song Shenzong did not move. The prime minister of the eastern mansion and the privy council of the western mansion are still divided into courts, and they are not concentrated on the prime minister alone like the Tang Dynasty.

After doing this, in fact, Song Shenzong has completed the most perfect society in the hearts of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi at the same time. Before Xining's change, one of these two people said that they wanted to open up the source and the other said that they wanted to reduce expenditure... Now that Wang Anshi's open source has been opened nationwide, the huge profits generated by various new laws are rolling in the treasury. Sima Guang's throttling, reduction of expenditures, and reduction of official positions have also reached...

He and his father have been running the border pass for two generations, and a detailed and huge strategic plan has been generated long ago, and it can finally be implemented. In May, he sent his son Chongpu into Beijing, and at the same time asked Shen Kuo, the governor of Yanyan Road, to play the emperor, and said his long-standing wish: "Hengshan stretches for thousands of miles, produces war horses, is easy to cultivate, has the benefits of salt and iron, and the people are brave and good at fighting." Capture Hengshan and build the ancient Wuyan city on Hengshan. Then along the line of Yin, You, Xia, Yan, Hui, Lan and other prefectures to build a walled city, build a fortress to advance, step by step steady and steady, besiege Lingzhou and Xingqing Mansion, and force the Western Xia to obey "This is a completely different plan from the previous five-way expedition to the west, from the strategic point of view, it is in the same vein as Fan Zhongyan's thinking back then. Although the effect is slow, every step is risk-free. The land area of the Western Xia is not large, and with the unprecedented national strength of the Song Dynasty and the overwhelming military strength of the Western Xia, it can definitely squeeze out the living space of the party members... The most advantageous point is that there is no need to fight against the opponent's main army in the field at all. As long as the Song army's most traditional advantage in defending the city is played, it is enough to make Western Xia be eaten away, but there is no way... If there is a disadvantage, it is slow to produce results and high costs. How many cities and how many villages will be built, and when will we see the Xixia people bowing down to their vassals?

But Song Shenzong, who had just broken free from the love of defeat, didn't think so. Once again, he saw hope! So he quickly sent 2 commissioners to the northwest to investigate the difficulty of the operation... But at this time, the seed and Shen Kuo became apprehensive in their hearts. The feeling of uneasiness rises. These 2 correspondents are so weird. They can't understand it, especially the one surnamed Xu...

2 commissioners, one eunuch Li Shunju and the other named Xu Xi. Li Shunju just counts, he is just the emperor's intimate person. Living together in the palace is inevitable, and the sensitive Song Shenzong feels that the eunuch is trustworthy. And this Xu Xi is the opposite. He was originally extremely far away from the Divine Sect. Xu Xi is a person without a diploma, and being able to blend into the civil service is completely thanks to the blessing of reform. This benevolent brother has been ambitious since he was a child and disdains to study. When his peers were studying scientific research, he traveled all over the country, bordering the world, and accumulated a brain of new and strange ideas. These ideas made Song Shenzong fall for himself, "There are many people who have read it, and I have not seen anyone who is like a qing" Judging from this sentence alone, Xu Xi is more powerful than Wang Anshi!

At this time, sending Xu Xi to the front line is to give full play to his strengths? I forgot to say: Although this envoy Xu has not been a soldier for a day, he is very fond of military affairs. When he traveled the world, his favorite thing to do was to squat in dangerous places, and his mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about how to kill people... The sense of uneasiness comes from this Xu envoy. He walked and stopped, but didn't examine the plan he had originally proposed, and it was clear that he had something else in mind...

On June 1st, Huanqing Road passed through the strategic division of the play: the famous sister Jingwei and the deputy commander of the Western Xia capital met Kou, and the whole army was annihilated, and the two main and deputy commanders were buried in the Song realm together. On the 6th, in order to get rid of the unfavorable international situation, Empress Liang sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Great Liao State. Ask the Great Liao State to come forward to mediate the disputes between Song and Xia.

In July, the uneasiness of the seed became a reality. Xu Xi completely ruined his previous idea - why build a walled city along the line of Yin, You, Xia, Yan, Hui, Lan and other states? What a huge piece of land is this? What's the difference with building a new Great Wall? What's more, it is only the first step to build it, and it is necessary to gradually advance to the hinterland of Western Xia, and the national strength of the Song Dynasty will be emptied of these earthen villages! And life is limited, how many generations will it take to complete? It is very likely that Emperor Shenzong himself will not see the day when Western Xia will be destroyed!

Xu Xi came up with a new idea: to find the most sensitive point on the vast border between the two countries, and go all out to build a fortified city and set up a heavy garrison there, which could become a bridgehead for attacking Western Xia. Under the premise of seizing the commanding heights of Hengshan now, the role played is much stronger than the pan-attack before the planting! According to Xu Xi's investigation, the best place to build the city is in Yonglechuan, the junction of Yin, You, and Xia!

After the plan was released, Xu Xi smiled at Chong Ge for the first time: What does the general think?

The face of the seed is green, I didn't expect that the good situation I worked so hard to create would instead fulfill this military enthusiast! He replied coldly, "Mr. Commissioner, do you know Yongle Chuan?"

"What do you mean" Xu Xi's face was colder than him. Anyone who is proud is sensitive, especially when they are in a hurry to prove themselves!

The depression in Chong's heart is about to explode, do you still need to ask? Is there such a simple question that needs to be discussed? He replied angrily: "The fortification site you chose has no water source!" If you want to confront Western Xia, how big this city must be, how many soldiers will be stationed in it, and what do you let them drink?"

"I have my own clever plan, you only say to listen to orders and not to listen" "Don't listen"

"Don't you really listen? You are not afraid that I will kill you" "Breaking the order is death, and building a city is also death." It is better to die at the hands of the Tanguts than to die under military orders. You do whatever."

Speaking of which, the two of them couldn't continue, could it be that Xu Xi really killed a border general like Chong Ge because of a little opposition? In fact, in the Song Dynasty, the military was the most disadvantageous, and even if he was killed, he would not let Xu Xi die, but it was likely to delay his plan to build Yongle City? Weigh it twice, or leave a cheap life! Keep him out of the action, let him sulk far away...

So on August 22, the seed was demoted to the history of Wenzhou Thorn. Yan Yanjun changed his master and became Xu Xi's team... At the same time, on the 25th, the imperial court officially decided to build Yongle City. Xu Xi, Li Shunju, and Shen Kuo led all the generals of the Yan army except for the seeds, 40,000 foot cavalry, 80,000 troops of Ban, Xiang, and Fan, and 200,000 people out of the border, and built a city in Yongle River, which is 25 miles away from Yinzhou in Western Xia! Everyone knew that the Tanguts would appear at any time. This is a thorn in the heart of the Tangut people!

But no one expected that the first to appear was dozens of Qiang people, and Qu Zhen, the general of the Yan army, said to rush out and kill them! Xu Xi didn't allow it, he asked Song Jun to go all out to build Yongle City!

On September 6, more than 300,000 people only used more than 10 days to build a Yongle City with "cliffs on three sides, mountains and rivers on the surface, and majestic weather"! Standing under this city, Xu Xi sighed with emotion, this is his plan and his achievements. He was 100% sure that this would be a nightmare for the Tanguts. Song Shenzong was also very excited, and personally gave the city the name "Yinchuan Village", which was only the main city built at this time, and a series of ancillary facilities, such as neighboring villages, water villages, etc., are still under construction. Xu Xi left Qu Zhen and Jing Siyi to continue to work, and he and Shen Kuo returned to Mizhi Village with a large number of high-ranking officials... As soon as they left, the advance of the Tanguts came! Isn't it weird? Why did the Tangut people tolerate the Song Dynasty building such a big city under their noses, and it took more than 10 days of continuous construction to react? It's really a cold humor, it's the intelligence of the Tangut people who have a problem...

The first information they got was that Li Xian had moved from Xihe to Jingyuan, and he was going to fight on the territory that turned out to be Liu Changzuo. In order to guard against the great eunuch of the Song army, who won all victories in the Western Expedition, Xixia took out the last bit of his family fund. (To be continued......)