(Originally, I had to write a few chapters to attack the Nanxiang Basin, but many readers got impatient and simply brushed it off.) Some people are unhappy about the brief writing, and some people don't like the detailed writing, which is really difficult to reconcile. ）

In the past five years of Xuanhe, the Great Song Dynasty was in turmoil.

The pot on the battlefield needs to be carried by the master, and the political responsibility needs to be borne by Wang Huang. Because Wang Huang is the prime minister, if he doesn't take the responsibility down, the emperor will have to issue an edict against himself.

Wang Hao's resignation is a foregone conclusion, and the only thing that has not yet been determined is whether to let Cai Jing reinstate or Cai Youzaifu.

In the saliva droplets of the ministers, Song Huizong finally stopped Huashigang.

However, the Xicheng Office still existed, and a large number of landlords and peasants continued to pay taxes repeatedly in Gyeonggi, Jingxi, and Jingdong.

Using real estate as a metaphor, the operation of Xicheng is to keep your house in a state of uncertainty. Since you are a homeowner, you have to pay property taxes to the local government; You are a tenant, and you have to pay the rent of the West Side.

In comparison, don't talk about the situation in Sichuan, let's look at the barbaric Jin country.

Due to the withering of the people's livelihood and the continuous uprisings, at the end of the year, the state announced that the interest on all private loans would be invalidated, so that the peasants would not live in despair and despair. At the same time, the military rations south of Xianzhou (Kaiyuan), north of Suzhou (Dalian Jinzhou) and Fuzhou (Wafangdian) should be exempted from paying to Nanjing (Liaoyang).

Jin Guo knows about tax cuts, and he is more thorough than Zhu Guoxiang in terms of interest reduction, and forcibly exempts all original loan interest!

The Emperor of Jin also decreed that those who sold their sons and daughters were allowed to work and redeem them, and the buyers were not allowed to refuse.

Several holy decrees to improve people's livelihood have been promulgated in succession because the country of Jin is about to explode.

looted the Liao State and blackmailed the Song State, although they got a lot of money, but they could not benefit the low-level people. The original territory of the Liao State was a mess, with one rebellion after another, and endless displaced people, which gave the Emperor of Jin a big headache, and he must manage internal affairs and restore people's livelihood as soon as possible.

Jin Guo is not short of money, but there is a serious shortage of food!

If this is still the case after a year or two, then the only way to attack the Song Dynasty is to transform internal contradictions through war.

After the beginning of spring, the Jin State sent an envoy to Yanjing to ask for the 200,000 stone of grain promised by the Song State.

The eunuch Tan Zhi served as the Xuanfu envoy of Yanshan Mansion and said to the envoy of the Jin State: "200,000 stone of grain is not good, that is what Zhao Liangsi promised in private." If you want food, you can do it, you have to come up with black and white letters, otherwise it will be difficult to follow your fate without evidence. ”

The Jin State was furious, and this became an excuse for them to go south to attack the Song Dynasty.

Western Xia also declared himself a vassal to the Jin State.

When the spring flowers were blooming, Zhu Ming returned to Hanzhong with his own soldiers.

When he set off, he also received a secret letter from Li Bangyan, the father of this cargo died, and he had to go home to worry for a while, and he couldn't participate in the court battle for the time being, and he couldn't help Zhu Ming do anything.

"This is the true work of "Qingming Riverside Map"?" Zhu Guoxiang's eyes lit up.

The father and son met again, and did not discuss military and political affairs, nor did they talk about the woman sent by Song Huizong. Instead, let the pro-soldiers carry the "Qingming Riverside Map" and unfold it all to appreciate it carefully.

There may be more precious works of art, but they only recognize "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" because it is famous enough and has special feelings.

Zhu Ming said: "It's no different from what you see on the Internet. ”

Zhu Guoxiang also didn't understand ancient paintings, but said: "Most of the copies on the Internet are copies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which are definitely not as good as the originals." ”

"Can you tell?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang bragged and said: "I have also learned to paint bamboo with Erniang (Wen Xiaomei), and I still have a certain appreciation for Chinese painting." When I study for a few more years, I will definitely be a master of painting. ”

Zhu Ming teased: "Do you want to learn to thin gold again?" ”

"Get out of the way!"

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and scolded and put away the picture scroll and let everyone else go out, only the father and son were left in the house.

Zhu Guoxiang put away his smile and said, "I won't be Song Huizong, and I don't even want to be an emperor." Governing a Sichuan is exhausting to death, you are happy to fight on the front line, and I am going crazy to supply grain and grass in the back. Plus there are other government affairs, do you know how many hours I sleep a day? ”

"Three hours?" Zhu Ming guessed.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "It's not that short, I sleep less than five hours a day. I don't have any personal time when I'm busy, and I don't have a little free time until the beginning of winter, and I can finally sleep enough every day. I thought about it carefully, and in the future, I will be the emperor of the country, and let me be the emperor for a month. Then I abdicated to become the emperor, and I must be very chic and happy to do whatever I want. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Have you ever thought that you have a team, and I also have a team. You want to step down, but your team probably doesn't. ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Therefore, we must strictly divide the scope of power and responsibility, I will resolutely not touch the military, and you will resolutely not touch internal affairs." Where there is overlap of powers, those officials must be accountable to both of us. In this way, the emperor's throne can be smoothly handed over without harming the interests of those who have contributed to the dragon. There was definitely some minor confusion, but overall it didn't hurt. ”

"It's not that simple," Zhu Ming shook his head and said, "Even those generals under my command have formed different factions in just one year. ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "We only need to remember one thing, the two of us are our own people, and the rest are all outsiders. If there is a problem, communicate in a timely manner and resolve it through negotiation before the conflict intensifies. For the sake of selfish interests, we deliberately provoke the conflict between our father and son, we must join hands to choke him to death! ”

"Communicate in time," Zhu Ming agreed with these four words, and said with a smile, "Now there is something to communicate with you, Song Huizong sent five concubines over, which one can you see." ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I don't want any of them. ”

"Really?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Don't look at my wife and two concubines now, they all have an emotional basis." To put it more bluntly, I want a woman not to find it herself, so she has to pick up what Song Huizong sent? ”

Zhu Guoxiang still hasn't said a word, if it's Concubine Liu An, you can still consider it......

"Okay, I'll leave Master Li to listen to the music, and then leave that Pei Yueli Chang'e to raise him, and give the rest to the meritorious generals." Zhu Ming immediately revealed his true face, he fell in love with the most beautiful Pei Yueli Chang'e, and he was reluctant to send Master Li out.

It's not that I like Master Li very much, it's purely because he is famous, he has a special feeling bonus, and it's just right to stay and be a singer. In the future, you will definitely not be able to be a concubine, at most you will be given a concubine.

Zhu Guoxiang still remembered his cheap son: "Leave one for Bai Qi." ”

"What's going on over there with Bai Qi?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The Gao family of Dali is here to fight the autumn breeze, and they want to take advantage of it but don't want to pay too much." The Gao clan drove the barbarians to fight, once to the north of the Dadu River, and also plundered Hanyuan Town. But the hard battle was handed over to the barbarians to fight, and the Gao family himself picked up cheap and profited, causing the barbarians to deviate from morality. On our side, it is the Han barbarians who defend their homeland together, and they are willing to fight desperately. Our army won a great victory, and the enemy was defeated. But it was the barbarians who suffered heavy losses, and the Gao family himself did not suffer much damage. ”

It's also a crumb who just wants to eat meat and doesn't want to take the risk of being beaten!

In the history of Dali Kingdom, Gao Liangcheng left an image of open-mindedness and good management of internal affairs.

Open-minded and generous, because it can't dominate the dynasty alone. The internal struggle of the Gao family is extremely serious, and he is the product of compromise elected by the family meeting, and the various factions of the Gao family must be carefully balanced.

is good at managing internal affairs, because he can't bully outsiders, so he even rebelled in 37 barbarian uprisings, and it took him a lot of effort to lead troops to suppress them. also took advantage of the alternation of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty to expand and consolidate the Gao family's power south of the Dadu River.

In the case that it is difficult to reconcile internal and external contradictions, in a few years, high-volume achievements will resign and live in seclusion, hiding behind the scenes as the "Taishang Xiangguo" as the sixth child.

Then, deliberately connived at the internal strife of the Gao clan.

The various factions of the Gao family support each of Duan Heyu's sons.

The Gao family and the Duan family killed each other together, and when these people were almost dead, Gao Liangcheng suddenly ended his state of seclusion and supported his father, the master of a lamp, as the emperor.

At this moment, Gao Liangcheng had received the news of the defeat of the imperial court and was sending an envoy to Hanzhong. While accepting the canonization of Song Huizong, he wanted to make friends with the Zhu family and his son, and he wanted to leave a way out for himself anyway.

Zhu Guoxiang's Jingluo Mansion is the former Yamen of the Lizhou Road Transfer Division.

And Zhu Ming's Marshal's Mansion is the Yamen of the Yuanxing Mansion.

After communicating with his father, Zhu Ming did not immediately go back to the back house, but looked through the various military newspapers sorted out by the remaining officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Li Hanzhang really offered the entire Suizhou as a gift, he took the initiative to contact Zhang Guangdao's troops, and only borrowed 500 troops to get it.

First, let the 500 righteous army attack Zaoyang County, Li Hanzhang pretended to abandon the city and fled, and fled to Tangcheng with some cronies and archers. When the 500 righteous army arrived in Tangcheng, Li Hanzhang suddenly hijacked the county order and forced the Tangcheng county order to surrender.

Non-stop, the old trick was repeated, and Suizhou was taken again.

Immediately afterwards, Li Hanzhang rode into the mountain alone, saying that he would surrender the Suizhou rebel army that had been entrenched for a long time.

The Suizhou rebel army was reorganized, with 500 righteous troops as the core, to capture Yingzhou, which was empty, and Jingmen next door was directly transmitted.

Because the Jingmen Zhijun was already half frightened to death, for fear that Zhong Xiang would lead the troops to kill.

The news of Zhong Xiangcheng's emperor has come out, and he has indiscriminately killed officials, scholars, monks, and landlords. A large number of wealthy families fled to the territory of the Jingmen army, describing Zhong Xiang as a cannibal demon king, and the Jingmen Zhijun would rather surrender to the Zhu thief than dare to surrender the cannibalistic Zhong thief.

The current situation is that the Zhu family and his son occupy Yiling (Yichang), as well as a large territory on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Zhong Xiang and his son occupied Yidu, Zhijiang, Jiangling, and a large area south of the Yangtze River.

The Jiangling here is not the Jiangling County of later generations, but the city of Jingzhou!

Jiangling and Zhijiang, both cities are on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

That is to say, Zhong Xiang's great Chu State capital was exposed under the nose of Zhu Ming's territory.

This situation is very dangerous, and it is really "the Son of Heaven guarding the country". But Zhong Xiang was reluctant to give up, because Jiangling was richer than Xiangyang, and it was the richest city on Jingnan Road and Jinghu Road.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the taxes of the entire Sichuan had to be transported to Jiangling first, and then transported north to Tokyo.

The goods of the whole Sichuan were also transported to Jiangling first!

Zhong Xiang's father and son are currently considering moving the capital, and plan to forcibly move all the population and goods of Jiangling to Changsha for development.

In addition to the military intelligence in the Nanxiang Basin, followed by southern Sichuan.

Banzhou Yang's uncle and nephew were still fighting in the internal fighting, and each sent an envoy to Chengdu to ask for an official canonization.

Without experiencing the migration tide of the Han people in the late Song Dynasty, the Yang clan of Banzhou was temporarily weak, and was still trying to survive in the cracks of the barbarians in southern Sichuan.

Gao Jingshan and Bai Qi jointly signed and wrote two letters at the same time. One was handed over to the Jinglu Mansion and the other to the Marshal's Mansion, requesting that the Yang uncles and nephews be canonized, that they be ordered to have their own share, and that they should be given a certain amount of money and food to fund them to attack the barbarians.

The Jingluo Mansion has already sent Zhu Guoxiang's reply: "Yes." ”

Now wait for Zhu Ming's signature and seal, this kind of thing involving both military and political affairs requires the consent of the father and son.

Zhu Ming also wrote the word "may", returned the official document to the Jingluo Mansion, and the canonization was handled by Zhu Guoxiang.

The Banzhou Yang clan made a lot of trouble in the Ming Dynasty, and now they have to rely on them to open up the situation in southern Sichuan. Because Zhu Ming's next energy will focus on seizing Jiangling, and even cleaning up Dali will have to be held back.

(End of chapter)