But Xu Xi went to the northwest and had a good conversation with Shen Kuo, and the two finally decided to build Yongle City first. These two literati have no military strategy, Yongle is not far from the ancient city of Yinzhou, there are cliffs on three sides and no water springs, although the land is dangerous, but there is a lack of the deadliest water source. He objected, but Xu Xi was a big official and didn't listen. And transferred the seed to Yanzhou Xu Xi sent more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians, and built Yongle City in 14 days, and Song Shenzong gave the name "Yinchuan Village". Then, Xu Xi, Shen Kuo and others returned the rice fat, leaving only more than 800 people to guard.

When Xixia heard the news, he knew that Yongle City was a choke point, and immediately gathered more than 200,000 foot horsemen to fight for it.

When Xu Xi heard the news, he left Shen Kuo to guard Mizhi, led more than 10,000 troops to Yongle City, and battled in front of the city. Xu Xi is a person, "with little bearing, well-traveled", and in the early years of Xining, he made 24 governance policies to Wang Anshi, and was able to enter the imperial court. In fact, Xu Xi is a person with great ambitions and talents. When he heard that the Xia people were coming from all over the country, he still didn't believe it, and said: "If there are many enemies, it is a great opportunity for me to make meritorious contributions and gain wealth." Like a moth to a fire, Xu Xi pig went straight to Yongle City like a wind.

The Xia army crossed the Yongding River, and the general Gao Yongneng suggested that he take half of the crossing to launch an attack, and Xu Xi actually had the benevolence of Song Xianggong, and replied: "What do you know, the king does not drum and does not form a column." As he spoke, Master Xu actually "held a knife and led his soldiers to resist the battle" and came to the front line in person. Thinking that Yuan Hao died of illness that year, the border generals of the Song Dynasty had suggested that they should take advantage of the turmoil in their country to raise troops to conscript, and the Song minister Cheng Lin was also a scholar who ate the ancients, saying that "the loss of the fortunate people is not so Huairou Yuanren", and lost the excellent opportunity to defeat the Western Xia.

Soon, there were more and more Xia soldiers who followed, boundless, and "the soldiers were all afraid". The Song general Qu Zhen suggested that he collect troops into the city to avoid the front of the army, but Xu Xi did not listen. Soon, the two sides engaged, and the vanguard of the Song army was "the most sharp, all of them were hundreds, brocade guns and brocade jackets, and the sun was shining", but when they met so many wolf-like Xia troops, they were cowardly in their hearts, and they failed soon after the engagement, "rushing into the city and ravaging the Song army's own rear". Under the chaos, "the Xia people took advantage of it, the Song division was defeated, and almost half of the people who abandoned the armor and ran south." Xu Xi hurriedly entered the city and was surrounded by the Xia Corps.

Many Song soldiers, trapped in the city of sorrow, the water was quickly exhausted, "digging the well is not as good as the spring", the city is very dangerous, the flat ground is raised, but it is more difficult to drill out of the water than to ascend to the sky, "most of the soldiers are thirsty and die". The Song army was indeed heroic, but still "held on to the sword and refused to fight". Qu Zhen persuaded Xu Xi to break through while he still had some strength, but Xu Xi didn't listen; Gao Yongneng persuaded him to do his best to recruit death squads, but he didn't listen.

As a result, it rained heavily overnight, many cities collapsed, Yongle City fell, Xu Xi and Gao Yongneng all died in the rebellion, and only four generals of the Song army escaped.

"Xu Xi is sparse and courageous, good at talking about soldiers, every cloud northwest can be taken at his fingertips, hating the general's cowardice and ear, taking charge of side affairs, plotting to underestimate the enemy, suddenly encountering strong captives, as for annihilation." In this defeat, the Song Dynasty lost 230 generals and colonels, more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and the most pitiful thing was that more than 100,000 servants who did not have time to return after the city was built, and they all became ghosts under the sword of Xia Bing.

The siege of Yongle, the kind of man can't wait and see to save it, "the emperor god sect hopes for its after-effect, ignore it, and the thief arrives, he knows Yanzhou", soon, the seed of the gang died on his back, at the age of fifty-seven. He is the son of the famous general Chong Shiheng, brave and strategic, and he has already foreseen the defeat of Yongle City. However, this person is also a person who is anxious for quick success and quick profit, and he is a "deceitful", and it is he who attacked Xia in the Song Dynasty on five roads, and it was he who swept Emperor Shenzong, saying that "there is no one in the Xia country, and he is a regular son, and the ministers have been holding his arm" Shenzong is therefore "strong and determined to seek west". Therefore, the two major defeats in two years cannot be excused for their guilt. "Since Xining first opened Suizhou, and then raised the western expedition, it is all its omen, and it has caused the disaster of Yongle. The speaker is not dead, and the side matter is endless

Shen Kuo, who was guarding Mizhi, was supposed to lead the army to save Yongle, but when he heard that tens of thousands of Xia troops rushed to Gong Suide and endangered Guanzhong, he "went to save him first, but he couldn't help Yongle." In addition, he previously attached Xu Xi to build Yongle City, and after the war, he was demoted to the deputy envoy of Junzhou regimental training. During the Yuanyou period, Shen Kuo only served as a virtual official like Guanglu Shaoqing's branch, and his political life was completely ruined. Of course, he lived in Runzhou for eight years before he had time to write this masterpiece of Mengxi Pen Talk. When Shenzong heard that Yongle City had fallen, he spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot, and the next morning, he wept to the auxiliary ministers. At this point, Shenzong's plan to save 70,000 taels of silver and 150,000 horses of silk was completely bankrupt, and he soon ended up depressed.

After the death of Song Shenzong, his six princes succeeded to the throne, for Song Zhezong, Empress Dowager Gao after Song Zhezong ascended the throne, was respected as the Empress Dowager, she listened to the edict of Sima Guang in Luoyang to return to Beijing, began to use Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongshu and other ministers, and issued an edict to dismiss the servants of the capital, strictly warn China and foreign countries can not be harsh, relax the law of letting the people raise horses, these did not let the ministers participate, directly issued by the decree.

The propagation to restore the ancestral law was a rescue measure taken by Empress Dowager Gao with the support of Sima Guang and others in response to the serious domestic and foreign social crisis at the end of Shenzong, which gradually alleviated the crisis of the Song Dynasty. Her father, Gao Zunyu, participated in the five-way attack on Western Xia, commanded the Song army to defeat Western Xia many times, surrounded Lingzhou, and later cut off the Song army's grain route in Western Xia. Gao Zunyu was defeated and dismissed, and the Queen Mother did not agree to his reinstatement. Shenzong was sad and ill after the Battle of Yongle, but Empress Dowager Gao blamed Gao Zunyu and supervised the ministers, which also reflected her political strategy and established the standard of strict law enforcement.

In particular, after Sima Guang became prime minister, he changed the chaotic state in which the decadent reactionary elements used the law to exploit the people, resulting in social turmoil and the people's misery, and in foreign wars, they also reversed the passive situation and withstood the strategic offensive of the Western Xia, and after several years of tug-of-war, the Western Xia finally made peace talks with the Song Dynasty in 1089, and the Song Dynasty only reconciled with the Western Xia by returning the Mizhi Sizhai that occupied the Western Xia, which was the most successful diplomatic negotiation in the Northern Song Dynasty. Sima Guang and other virtuous ministers were in charge, and the Liaoxia ruling class warned their subjects to "not make trouble". The rulers of the Liao Dynasty also believed that the Song Dynasty was implementing the policy of the Song Renzong period, and asked his subordinates not to provoke wars.

Empress Dowager Gao agreed to Sima Guang's suggestion, and the policy implemented by the Song Dynasty at that time was to replace the Qingmiao Law with the old Changping Law, and to use Jiayou to participate in the conscription, it can be seen that Sima Guang still retained part of the content of the Exemption Law, abolished the monopoly privileges such as the City Yi Law, and negotiated with the Western Xia, there was no compromise, Sima Guang and others maintained every inch of the country, even if they agreed to return the small amount of Western Xia territory occupied, it was also returned in 1090 after Sima Guang's death, and the Empress Dowager Gao and the Yuanyou Party were both defenders of national interests. In 1099, when Song Zhezong negotiated peace with the Western Xia again, he restored the "annual gift" to the Western Xia and returned to the unequal status before the war. Empress Dowager Gao died in 1093, and soon after her death, she was slandered and almost denounced by the opposition, only to be saved by the intervention of Shenzong Xiang Empress Xiang and Concubine Zhu.

In 1099, when Song Zhezong negotiated peace with the Western Xia again, he restored the "annual gift" to the Western Xia and returned to the unequal status before the war. Empress Dowager Gao died in 1093, and soon after her death, she was slandered and almost denounced by the opposition, only to be saved by the intervention of Shenzong Xiang Empress Xiang and Concubine Zhu.

For the regent of the Empress Dowager Gao, the court was clear and clear in nine years, and China was settled. In history, people evaluated her as a female middle Yao Shun, and this evaluation is appropriate. As an outstanding female politician in ancient times, although Empress Dowager Gao did not personally lead the army to fight like Empress Dowager Xiao, her historical achievements are also important, and she has played a progressive role in history and deserves people's respect.

All of this has nothing to do with Chen Wei, and when he knew that the imperial court was defeated, it was just a slight flash, his body was already well, and now he has opened a martial arts hall in Hangzhou, specializing in teaching people to practice martial arts, but he is also comfortable.

Soon after Chen Qiaoqiao arrived in Hangzhou, she bought a few storefronts and started a business, and now she has a lot of money and bigger, and more is to buy a lot of land

"Husband, husband, husband" Chen Qiaoqiao's voice came, telling Chen Wei to come back to his senses, looking at her slightly bulging abdomen, Chen Wei's heart was very sweet, his body recovered as fast as he imagined, in the end, he was a person who practiced martial arts, but everything was already as usual in three months, Chen Qiaoqiao found that he had a body, and he was naturally very happy.

"What is so happy" Chen Wei looked at her vibrant face, "Husband, I bought hundreds of acres of fertile land"

"You're going to become the biggest landlord in Hangzhou" Chen Wei couldn't help laughing, he really didn't understand why Chen Qiaoqiao was so interested in buying land

"Hahaha, that's, I just want to be the biggest landlord, and it's best if I have more property than that Song Zimo."

"Then you have to work hard" A familiar voice came, Chen Qiaoqiao couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, it turned out to be Song Zimo coming, "Why are you here"

"I'm not coming, watching you occupy my other courtyard" Song Zimo teased her, Chen Qiaoqiao was shocked, "You're here, where do I live, you stay in the guest house"

Song Zimo couldn't help laughing, where is there such a domineering person Chen Wei looked at Chen Qiaoqiao helplessly, she was really a little rude

Song Zimo smiled: "It doesn't matter if you drive me away, but you can't drive away the people I brought" The voice just fell, "Niangniang"

Si Zuo and Si You rushed out, Chen Qiaoqiao was surprised, and shouted, "Si Zuo Si You, you are here, Song Zimo, you are too good."

The mother and son hugged each other tightly and told each other how much they missed. "Song Zimo sees that your credit is really great, you just live in this Beiyuan" Chen Qiaoqiao looked generous, Song Zimo couldn't help but smile dumbly, "Shouldn't I be grateful to Dade?"

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