The sky has not yet dawned, hundreds of officials waiting in the square are whispering, the time of the last dynasty has passed, but the door of the Ziwei Hall has never been opened, which makes everyone feel puzzled.

At this time, an official on duty in the palace walked quickly to the steps and said in a loud voice: "The official family has an edict, I feel a little sick today, and the court meeting will be canceled, please go back to the official room." ”

It turned out that the official family was sick, and everyone surrounded Fu Bi and asked, "Fu Xianggong, there is nothing wrong with the official family, right?" ”

Fu Bi smiled, "I guess the official family was too excited, and they didn't sleep all night last night, so they felt sick, so don't worry." ”

Hearing that the official family was so excited that they didn't sleep all night, everyone asked, "Xianggong, is there any good news?" ”

"I only know a thing or two, last night, Xiao Fan Xianggong's military report arrived, I heard that the Song army counterattacked, and the old general Yang Wenguang led the army to capture Yizhou."

Yizhou is all mountainous, there is only one big city in Yixian, and the capture of Yixian by the Song army is equivalent to the capture of Yizhou.

Hearing the news, the officials in the square couldn't help cheering, and at this time, the official on duty stepped forward and said to Fu Bi: "The official family invites Fu Xianggong and several other ministers to go to Wenqing Palace!" ”

Fu Bi nodded, and smiled at everyone again: "I estimate that the news of the Hong Kong Economic Journal will be published at noon, so everyone be patient and wait." ”

Fu Bi sent someone to greet a few Xiangguo, and he walked quickly towards Wenqing Palace.

Not long after, Wen Yanbo, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wu Chong four ministers all rushed to the Wenqing Palace, Wenqing Hall is the place where the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji rested and studied, today he felt sick, so he could only meet a few ministers in the Wenqing Palace.

The five of them sat for a while, only to hear the guards shouting: "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

The five of them hurriedly stood up, several eunuchs entered the palace gate, and Zhao Ji walked in hurriedly, he did look like he was feeling sick, and his spirit was not very good.

"See Your Majesty!"

Zhao Ji waved his hand, "Everyone, please take a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone sat down.

Zhao Ji sat down in his seat, took another sip of hot tea, and said with a wry smile: "I read Xiao Fan Xianggong's military report last night, I was so excited, but I accidentally caught a cold, and I couldn't participate in today's court meeting." ”

Fu Bi smiled: "Weichen also heard some news, it seems that General Yang Wenguang led the army to capture Yi County?" ”

"This is just one of the good news, and two other exciting news."

Zhao Ji couldn't hold back the joy on his eyebrows, and was eager to share the latest battle report with everyone, "After paying a heavy price of 20,000 people, the Liao Army's West Route Army abandoned its war horses, fled back to Ulzhou over the mountains and mountains, this is one of them, the second is that the Liao Army's East Route Army has lost troops and has been besieged south of Baigou, and the two Liao armies have lost forty percent of their strength, and their morale is extremely low. ”

Zhao Ji suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out Fan Ning's battle report and handed it to everyone, everyone quickly read it, they were all overjoyed, Fu Bi praised: "Xiao Fan Xianggong did not disappoint us, his thinking was clear, the measures were appropriate, and he made full use of our advantages and the disadvantages of the Liao army, and this battle will play an immeasurable role in inspiring the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Wen Yanbo sighed slightly: "I was against his Jianbi Qingye before, but now it seems that it is very necessary, it is the resolute implementation of Jianbi Qingye that has the Liao army isolated and difficult to find, without siege weapons, without river crossing tools, this Liao army is now left with only two ways: surrender and starvation." ”

Wang Anshi pondered and said: "Here, I think we need to pay attention to two points, first, the Liao State will definitely come to the rescue, whether it can withstand the rescue of the Liao State, it depends on how Fan Xianggong deploys the troops, second, once the Liao State cannot cross the river, then they will definitely attack Yi County in a big way, in order to exchange the Song army of Yi County for the Liao army in Hebei, especially the second point, we must let Xiao Fan Xianggong fully support Yi County, and must not be careless." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, "Wang Xianggong is right, I have sent a message to Hejian Mansion, let Fan Xianggong pay attention to this, it is good to capture Yi County, but it is more important to hold it, I also think that 10,000 troops are too little, I hope Fan Xianggong will increase the army in Yi County." ”

After a pause, Zhao Ji smiled again: "Of course, I just suggested, whether to increase the number of troops or not is up to Xiao Fan Xianggong to weigh and decide." ”

Fu Bi returned the battle report to Zhao Ji, and asked, "Your Majesty summoned us over, is there anything to discuss?" ”

"Exactly! I have two things I would like to discuss with you, the first is the matter of amending the law of the militia, Fan Xianggong proposed that all young men must join the militia, and those who refuse to join must pay the exemption money, how far has this bill been implemented? ”

Wang Anshi, who was in charge of this matter, got up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the amendment bill has been formulated, and now it is soliciting opinions from the DPRK and the Central Committee to make it as perfect as possible, and it will be submitted to the Governor's Hall for discussion in a month at the latest, and then submitted to His Majesty for approval and approval, and then it will be implemented in all states to strive to complete this matter in the first half of this year." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, "This matter should be grasped quickly, do not delay, another thing, regarding the immigration of the Southern Continent, I have slightly modified the plan, you can take a look." ”

Zhao Ji handed the plan to Fu Bi, Fu Bi looked at the revised plan, and it turned out to be 7,000 households to Ganjiang Island and Moye Island, which made Fu Bi frown, "Your Majesty, Ganjiang Island and Moye Island are private islands, and their nature is the same as that of the small islands in Luzon, and the small islands in Luzon are all developed by their own people, why should Ganjiang Island and Moye Island be treated specially?" ”

Zhao Ji took a few steps with his hand in his hand, and said slowly: "I have been thinking about this matter for a long time, I feel that Fan Xianggong is right, for overseas states, distance and time will gradually alienate them from the central dynasty, only culture and bloodline can overseas private islands still identify with the Central Plains Dynasty after a thousand years, if we restrict the development of overseas private islands everywhere in terms of population, they are likely to introduce foreign races, such as Japan, Srivijaya and so on, hundreds of years later, overseas islands live in foreign races, but Han has become a minority, Will these overseas islands still identify themselves as belonging to the Central Plains Dynasty? Isn't this just the hard work of making a dowry for a foreigner? ”

Everyone nodded silently, and Fu Bi said with some shame: "Your Majesty is far-sighted and long-term, but Weichen is shallow." ”

Zhao Ji smiled and said: "This is also what I remembered when I saw the militia, before Xiao Fan Xianggong told me one thing, cannibals were found on Ganjiang Island, and they were natives who migrated from other small islands, he was very worried that the population of Ganjiang Island was growing too slowly, and he was unable to prevent the arrival of cannibals, he was actually asking me for help, this time he made a great contribution in Hebei, I always need to express it!" ”

Everyone was a little creepy when they heard the word 'cannibal', Fu Bi nodded and said: "This matter will be explained to the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion, please rest assured." ”

Wen Yanbo said on the side: "There is also a steamship, it is said that the response is very good, it only takes five days to go to Luzon, only 20 days to the southern continent, and the carrying capacity is very large, and it can sail normally in winter, the minister suggested that the promotion of steamships should be increased, and a mechanical bureau should be established in the imperial court, which is specially used for the promotion and development of steam engines." ”

"That's a good suggestion! The prefect came up with a plan as soon as possible. ”

The people deliberated for a few more moments, and then they took their leave.

In the spring of this year, thousands of people from three counties rushed to file a complaint blocked the Xuande Gate, which seriously affected the officials in the court and caused a great wave in the court, with the result that the magistrates of the three counties were dismissed, and the Qingmiao Law and the Baojia Law were strongly criticized by both the government and the opposition.

He pointed out that a change that did not receive a broad consensus of the government and the opposition must not be rushed forward, because it would lead to a split between the government and the opposition, lead to fierce internal friction and party strife in the Great Song Dynasty, and be detrimental to the long-term peace and stability of the Great Song Dynasty.

He did not criticize the good or bad of the Qingmiao Law and the Baojia Law, but calmly pointed out the serious consequences of the introduction of the reform without consensus, that is, the split between the government and the opposition.

Various newspapers also published articles under the minister's real name, pointing out the various drawbacks caused by the pilot implementation of the Qingmiao Law and the Baojia Law in the nine counties.

One is that the law has caused illegal security offices to appear in a large area in the pilot counties in the past nine months, resulting in the people paying 10 percent more taxes last year, which has aroused strong indignation among the people as the operating expenses of the security offices.

The second is that the compulsory guarantee clause of the Qingmiao Law caused the rich rural households to sell their land one after another, so that they could not meet the guarantee conditions, and also caused a large number of rich peasant landlords to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit, which was triggered by them.

In fact, Wang Anshi also understood that overseas colonization brought huge wealth to the Great Song Dynasty, and the rise of large workshops greatly reduced the interest of the magnates in land, and the annexation of land has been curbed, and many changes have lost their urgency and necessary social foundation.

The reformist ideas that Fanning strongly advocated were gradually accepted by the upper echelons of the Great Song Dynasty, which made Wang Anshi feel helpless.

'Redundant officials, redundant soldiers and redundant expenses', the three redundancies that oppressed the Great Song Dynasty for nearly a hundred years were gradually alleviated with the development of overseas, and redundant soldiers were also solved with the popularization of the militia law.

However, Wang Anshi believes that even if the Baojia Law and the Qingmiao Law are temporarily shelved, then he can still make some changes in redundant officials and redundant expenses.

Zhao Ji looked at the report he wrote, Wang Anshi proposed the first new change is to restore the system of three provinces, six ministries and nine temples, return the power of the three divisions to the division, and cancel the long-criticized Beijing official system, Wang Anshi pointed out in the report that the Beijing official system has led to the monopoly of the number of Beijing officials by the children of the noble family, and the children of the poor family are hopeless, and a large number of talented people with splendid minds have wasted their lives because they have no opportunity to become regulars.

Zhao Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Let me think about this matter again!" ”

Zhao Ji no longer has the impulse when he first ascended the throne last year, he has deeply understood the intricacies of the Great Song Dynasty bureaucracy, knowing that the reform of the official system involves the interests of too many people, after the merger of the virtual and the real, how to place the virtual officials, how to place the real officials, whether the power is real or virtual, and the abolition of the Beijing official system, and how to place a large number of Jinshi and Tai students every year, how can the imperial court have so many seats to place them?

At this moment, Zhao Ji was very eager to recall Fan Ning and ask him for advice.

At noon, the major newspapers in the capital have published the news of Hebei's victory on the front page, the Song army's seizure of Yizhou, which immediately caused a huge response in the capital, the crackling sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere in the capital, the restaurants and teahouses are full, everyone is talking about the Hebei war situation in full swing, the Great Song Dynasty for the first time in a hundred years, everyone feels that they are so close to recovering Youzhou.