The eighth prince suffered Liu Zhiliang's big loss in Tianbo Yang Mansion, but the affairs of the Liao State still have to be done, and now the generals of the Great Song Dynasty are really not the opponents of the generals of the Liao State, and the current emperor Zhao Heng has just succeeded to the throne and appointed Li Keng as the prime minister. But unlike the battle-hardened Taizu and Taizong, Zhao Heng, who has lived in the deep palace since he was a child, has a relatively cowardly personality and lacks the determination and courage to pioneer and innovate. After the Song Liao signed the alliance of the Yuanyuan, Zhenzong did nothing in politics, but devoted himself to the matter of feudalism, whitewashed the peace, built a wide palace, and worked the people and lost money, which made the "internal and external troubles" of the Song Dynasty increasingly serious.

The eighth prince came to the court in the morning of the next day, and the eighth prince of the early dynasty told Emperor Zhenzong about the affairs of the Yang family, and the court at this time was in chaos, Wang Qinruo and Ding Wei shouted, saying that this is a rebellion? clearly does not take the court in his eyes, and the current Wang Qinruo is also the deputy minister. How could such a literati take a little person who had just bent in his eyes.

Wang Qinruo, the word determines the country, and the Linjiang army is a new metaphor. Father Wang Zhonghua, accompanied his grandfather Wang Yu to be an official in Ezhou, when the Yangtze River water soared, moved to the Yellow Crane Tower, Hanyang people saw that the Yellow Crane Tower seemed to have brilliance, this night, Wang Qinruo was born. Wang Qinruo lost his father at an early age, and Wang Yu loved him.

When Taizong conquered Taiyuan, Wang Qinruo was only eighteen years old, and he wrote "The Treatise on the Fu of the Ping Jin Dynasty" and dedicated it to Taizong's camp. Wang Yu served as the judge of Haozhou, and when he was about to die, he told his family: "I have been an official for more than 50 years, and I am very cautious about the use of torture, so that many people can live, and there will definitely be people who will prosper my family in the future, probably my grandson!"

Wang Qinruo was selected as the Jinshi Jiake, served as the defense officer of Bozhou, and was promoted to the secretary of the provincial secretary, supervising the state tax. He was reappointed as Taichang Cheng and sentenced the three managers to owe the department. At that time, Wu Bingu was appointed as a judge of the Dudu, and he once said: "The people of the world are in arrears in paying taxes, from the fifth generation to the present, the urging has never stopped, and the people are hungry and unbearable. I want to play the emperor to reduce it. "Wang Qinruo ordered the officials to check and check the number one night, and the next day it was played to the emperor. Zhenzong was taken aback and said, "Didn't the first emperor even know?" Wang Qinruo said slowly: "Of course the first emperor knew, probably left it to the emperor to win the hearts of the people." On the same day, more than 10 million taxes owed by the people were exempted, and more than 3,000 prisoners were released. Zhenzong paid more attention to Wang Qinruo, summoned the academy, awarded the right Zhengyan, knew the system, and called him a bachelor of Hanlin.

The Shu thief king was just pacified, and Wang Qinruo served as the pacification envoy of Xichuan. Wherever he went, he questioned the prisoners, commuted them from the capital offense down to the death penalty, and enumerated most of the things that were in favor of the state and appropriate. Wang Qinruo returned to the dynasty and was appointed as the doctor of the left counsel and the governor of the political affairs.

In the early years of Jingde, the Khitan invaded, and the true clan conquered the Yuanyuan. Wang Qinruo himself asked to go north, sentenced the Tianxiong army to the Ministry of Works, and the governor of the political affairs, and promoted the Hebei Transit Division, and Zhenzong personally set up a banquet to send him there. Wang Qinruo was at odds with Kou Zhun, and when he returned to the dynasty, he repeatedly expressed his wish to go to the governor's office, and was dismissed as a squire of the Criminal Department and a bachelor of the Senior Administration Palace.

Soon after the sentence of Shangdu Province, the revision of the "Book of Yuan Turtle", there are praises and praises, Wang Qinruo wrote his name in the first place to thank the emperor, when there was a mistake and condemned, Wang Qinruo warned the scribe to tell him only to say that it was done by people below Yang Yi, and most of what he did was like this. In the middle of the year, he was reappointed as a squire in the military department, and was promoted to a university scholar, and Zhitong entered the Yintai Division and was a subordinate of the department.

At first, Wang Qinruo resigned, and Zhenzong set him up as a senior scholar to favor him, and Kou Zhun set his rank below the Hanlin Scholar. Wang Qinruo told Zhenzong, and Zhenzong added the word "big" for him as a scholar, and his class was above the Chengzhi. Wang Qinruo also knew the affairs of the Privy Council with Shangshu Zuocheng and revised the history of the country.

At this time, the eighth prince said to Emperor Zhao Heng, "Official, I think we should send someone to Cangzhou to see where we are, from Cangzhou to the Tianjing New City that Liu Zhiliang said, whether what Liu Zhiliang said is true, in addition, we don't want to admit things, or send people to Zhengzhou to find Yang Liulang back, they said that they have a way to deal with the Khitan cavalry, so seeing is believing?" In this way, I will go in person, and the imperial court will also send someone to go with me, and I will go to the Yang family to call She Lao Taijun over, so that we can do much easier. ”

Emperor Zhenzong lived in the deep palace since he was a child, Zhao Heng's character was relatively cowardly, lacking the determination and courage to pioneer and innovate, in his opinion, adhering to the Huang Lao Wuwei thought that Taizong admired in his later years, and continuing to maintain the situation was the best choice. This is right to think about, so Wang Qinruo and Kou Zhun went to Tianjing New City with the eighth prince, and by the way, they called the old lady to go together, and sent Jiao Zan to Zhengzhou to find Yang Liulang and return to Bianjing.

The true idea of the eighth prince is that he can't give Da Song Shu a new enemy, Zhenzong ascended the throne, awarded the school Taibao, the general of the left guard, and the title of Cao Guogong. Next year, for the Ping Navy Festival envoy, worship the same Zhongshu Men under the Ping Zhangshi, add the inspection of the school Taifu, and seal the king of Guangling County. Feng Taishan, changed Zhaowu and Ande Army to envoys, and entered the title of King Rong; Worship Fenyin, add part-time service, change the town to be quiet, Wuxin, and add the school captain; Ancestral Taiqing Palace, plus and in the book order. Sitting on the servant and maid to set fire, prolonging the burnt confinement, seizing the Wuxin Festival, demoting the title of Duan Wang, and living in the old horse Duwei Shi Baojidi. Every time I saw the emperor, the pain was self-inducing, and the emperor had mercy on him. Xunjia Zhenhai and Anhua military festival envoys, Feng Peng Wang, and entered the Taibao. Renzong is the prince and the prince. Successive Henghai Yongqing Bao Pingding National Festival, Shaanzhou Metropolitan Governor, changed to the king, Jing Wang.

After the next dynasty, Kou Zhun came to the official residence of the eighth prince, and said to the eighth prince, "Prince, do you still have something to say in the court this morning, I can see it early in the morning, talk about it," the eighth prince is still feeling old at this time for Liu Zhiliang's words yesterday, but this eighth prince is really thinking about the Song Dynasty, and he has endured so much grievance. The eighth prince said, "The court still did something wrong in the matter of the Yang family, but what I didn't expect was that Lin Qing'er ran away from home and went to the mountains to become a monk." Yang Qilang's matter broke Lin Qinger's heart very much, and now the demand of the people is to punish the nine clans of the Pan family, and the chickens and dogs will not be left. If it is really as Liu Zhiliang said, then the Pan family may be the beginning of the fall of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Kou Zhun said, "Let's take it and see it first." But if their salt processing and casting technology is so good, it means that these people are not simple, and if they don't rely on anyone's help to build a new city in just two years, it shows that these people have the talent to change the world. ”

Yang Peng was excited there, and Cha Yunke, the boss of Yuan Xingxing, walked up and said, "What a big deal for the city lord!" Yang Peng said with a smile: "Master Cha bought two sets of wine utensils, and he can also earn a lot of silver!" Cha Yunke said: "The hard silver of my two sets of glasses is really thin compared to the profits of the city lord!" It is said that there are eight major businesses in Bianjing, and I think it should have been changed to nine major businesses a long time ago! ”

Yang Peng knew that this Cha Yunke was in the business of running to the sea, and he made a lot of profits in a year, and the profit from selling two sets of glass wine sets was not a big deal for him. Thinking of the sea ship, Yang Peng asked casually: "Master Cha made a lot of money when he went to sea, and Master Cha's boat was built by himself?" ”

Seeing Yang Peng asking, Cha Yunke thought for a while and said, "Don't hide it from the city lord, my boat was built by a shipwright." The city lord asked this, could it be that he also wanted to do this business of running the sea? "In the Song Dynasty, the sea ban was opened, but there was no limit on the number of ships that could go to the sea, and only the maritime merchants who received the "ship guidance" of the city shipping department could set off from the Yuegang in Fujian to go to the sea. There were only a little more than a hundred copies of this ship every year, and they were pocketed by some of the most well-connected merchants. And there are many maritime merchants who want to go to sea but do not have a relationship with the city, so they can only smuggle.

But smuggling ships are officially considered pirates and cannot be operated without local connections. Chayunke is the nephew of Bingbeidao, and Bingbeidao is in charge of coastal defense matters on the surface of Dengzhou, which allows Chayunke to sail into the sea from Dengzhou with confidence. Yang Peng is only in charge of Tianjing New Town, and it is currently impossible to do this kind of trading, and Yang Peng also asked casually.

Yang Peng said with a smile: "If I want to build a ship in the future, I will have to ask Master Cha to introduce the shipbuilding craftsman!" Cha Yunke looked at Yang Peng, smiled arrogantly, and said with a big grin: "It's easy for the city lord to build a ship, whether you can go to the sea or not is a matter of two words, things on the sea are not so easy." However, if the lord of the castle wants to build a ship, just look for me. ”

The glass trade made a lot of money, so Yang Peng set up a physical examination tent in Tianjing New City to recruit troops. This time, Yang Peng wants to recruit another 5,000 recruits. Yang Peng understands that having soldiers in this troubled world is the most important. With strong soldiers and horses, the governor, the general soldier and even the prime minister will respect you. Although the killing of the Khitan cannot be included in all of it, and it must be distributed to other high-ranking military attachés, it is still possible to slowly promote the rank with military exploits. Besides, I have two countries here. One is the Liao State and the other is the Great Song Dynasty, and the Liao State can say that the Great Song Dynasty is its biggest enemy, because the current people still recognize the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the current Zhang Xiang and Zhao Jinxi do not agree with Yang Peng's thinking, they feel that he is using silver to build a strong army, which is too loser. But these people don't know that Yang Peng, as a manager, thinks more about the tens of thousands of people in Xincheng after all, and it is not too difficult to make money, and it is not a stupid thing to lose. As long as there are more and more soldiers in hand, as long as he slowly improves his status between the two countries, Yang Peng will have real strength, he will be able to protect his industry, and he will be able to earn more silver.

And speaking of which, Tianjing is a dangerous place, and the Khitans come in and loot at every turn. Once the city was breached by the Khitans, it was often a bloodbath. Tianjing is located on the east side of Yingzhou, so it is naturally not a safe place. From the perspective of self-preservation, Yang Peng also has to train more strong soldiers and horses as soon as possible. Yang Peng's soldiers and horses were well paid, and the first batch of 2,000 soldiers had already run to the well-off, which was something that the residents of the surrounding dozens of miles knew. As soon as the second batch of recruitment notices was posted, tens of thousands of people immediately flocked to Tianjing New City to apply, and they hoped to join the team that selected Yang Peng and be a soldier with three or two months of money and three meals of meat.

Physical examinations and interviews were carried out step by step, and in the first year of Xianping, Yang Peng recruited 5,000 soldiers before the year. The new 5,000 soldiers formed a new regiment, known as the Broken Prisoner Regiment, and the regiment commander was Duan Zhixian, who was rescued by Yang Peng for the first time. Yang Peng selected outstanding officers and soldiers from the selection regiment to serve as officers in the Broken Regiment, and built up the organizational framework.

Fang Laosan is a new soldier in the Broken Regiment. He was originally a child of a private household in Fangjia Village in the west of Cangzhou, and a few days ago he heard from people in the village who had read books that a notice had been posted in the town, saying that Tianjing New Town was recruiting soldiers. I used to hear from well-informed people in the village that the soldiers of Tianjing New City provided three full meals a day, and the meals included meat dishes, and they were also given three taels of silver a month. It's a good thing that you can't find it with a lantern!

Although the soldiers of Tianjing New City were going out to fight, they won a great victory every time, and I did not hear of anyone being wounded and killed in battle. Fang's third sister is married, and there is an eldest brother and a younger brother in the family. There are only 33 acres of dry land in the family, and no matter how you look at it, you can't afford three men to start a family. Fang Laosan urgently needs to find a way out! Hearing the news of Tianjing New Town's recruitment, Fang Laosan immediately came to apply with more than a dozen young people in the village, and finally had a physical examination and interview, but only Fang Laosan was hired.

He has been in good health since he was a child, he is not blind at night, and he is honest, which meets the requirements of the soldiers of Tianjing New City. The news of Fang Laosan's employment spread, and the entire Fangjia Village came to Fang Laosan's house to congratulate him. Fang Laosan's father was happy, so he simply borrowed three taels of silver and set up two tables of flowing water at the door of his house, and invited the whole village to eat.

The whole village happily came to eat the flowing water banquet, and the atmosphere was as if Fang Laosan had won the show. Fang Laosan's father unceremoniously said to Fang Laosan that the three taels of silver for this flowing water seat would be repaid by Fang Laosan in the future - that is, knowing that Fang Laosan would have money to repay his debts in the future, others would lend these three taels of silver to the Fang family.

Later, two days later, Fang Laosan and his father borrowed four taels of silver in the village and made a decent set of new cotton clothes for each of the five members of the family, saying that the money would also be repaid by Fang Laosan in the future. Now the people of the Fang family regard Fang Laosan as a rich man, after all, there are three taels of monthly money a month! If you are more frugal these days, the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation for one person is only seven or eight dollars of silver a month, and three taels of silver can support four people. Fang Laosan is a bachelor, he eats and lives in the barracks, where did he spend three taels of silver?

Fang Laosan could only smile and agree to these debts - he was recruited as a recruit by Tianjing New Town, and when he encountered this great good thing, he didn't have to pay some money to make his family happy, which was really unreasonable. After enjoying himself at home for half a month, Fang Laosan said goodbye to his family and went to Tianjing New Town to report as required.

He was assigned to the first squad of the third platoon of the third company of the first battalion of the Broken Regiment. On the day of the report, the company commander gave him a wooden waist tag engraved with his name. After getting the waist card, Fang Laosan followed the squad leader to the barracks to put his luggage. Fang Laosan's squad leader is called Jiang Chong, and he is a very strong veteran. Along the way, Jiang Chong didn't talk to Fang Laosan, and the other party's third recruit, a recruit, looked down on him.

The barracks were built in the south of the city and were large dormitories, one room per class, with four bunk beds. Every fifth dormitory is built with a communal bathhouse and toilets. The bathhouse was equipped with free soap and hot water, and the squad leader Jiang Chong told Fang Laosan when he arrived at the barracks that the recruits should take a bath in the bathhouse immediately after entering the barracks, and they would take a bath every three days in the winter. Bathing every day in spring, autumn and summer.

Fang Laosan hurriedly found an empty bed and put down his luggage, took the wooden basin to the bathhouse to take a bath with the magic soap that he had never used, and took a very comfortable hot bath. Then in the evening, Fang Laosan and the other six recruits followed the squad leader into the canteen of the Broken Regiment. The soldiers' canteen was large and divided into ten, from the first to the tenth. The squad leader Jiang Chong looked down on the third child, who had never seen the world, and did not say a word on the way to the canteen when he brought the recruits, but only gave a few words of advice when he arrived in the seventh canteen.

Fang Laosan followed the instructions of the squad leader, and showed his wooden waist card at the window of the seventh canteen, and the cook gave the dinner to Fang Laosan: a piece of pork belly in three taels, a large spoonful of boiled Chinese cabbage, and a full white rice. The meat is red and white pork belly, and the rice is white rice without a bit of chaff.

Except for the Chinese New Year, this was the first time that Fang Laosan had eaten a full meal with meat and vegetables, and he devoured it, as if he had never eaten such a delicious meal. After eating a bowl of rice, Fang Laosan went to the window to get another bowl, and ate his stomach bulging before he stopped.

After eating enough, Fang Laosan felt comfortable all over. The other soldiers were also from bitter backgrounds, howling and eating rice and meat dishes one by one. The squad leader Jiang Chong only ate most of the bowl of rice, and sat there looking at the recruits who were suffering with contempt. After eating, when he returned to the dormitory, Jiang Chong didn't say a word, but only asked the recruits to go to bed when they were in the middle of the day, saying that if anyone didn't sleep and got up to blow up the camp, it would be a capital crime of beheading!

One sentence frightened the recruits from lying on the bed, and they didn't dare to come out. Early the next morning, the recruits ate a breakfast of eggs, pickles, and porridge in the cafeteria, and were led by the squad leader to the training ground outside the city. Jiang Chong stood at the front of the team and glanced at the recruits who looked like dirt buns.

"You're all recruits, you don't understand anything! But you'll soon understand! "Do you know how long it took me to become the class leader?" "I don't know!" The recruits shook their heads, and Jiang Chong said loudly: "It took me a year and four months!" In the four months of this year, I practiced 480 target shots, and I was able to hit the target every time I was 130 steps away! I fought twice! Killed eight thieves, three of whom were the leaders of the thieves! That's why I'm here today, and I'm your squad leader! ”

Hearing Jiang Chong's achievements, the recruits looked at Jiang Chong differently, with a bit of admiration. Killing eight thieves, what a powerful character. Jiang Chong took a few steps in front of the seven recruits and said loudly: "There is food and meat here, and there is a high amount of monthly money, how are these days?" Jiang Chong asked himself and said, "It's a good day!" But could it be better? Jiang Chong said loudly again: "It can be better!" ”

"As long as you train hard, after the recruit period, you start to shoot with your heart, and you can play normally when you participate in battle. In two or three years, each of you will be a squad leader, and you will be able to lead seven soldiers like me! Take four taels of monthly money! "I've now borrowed money from the lord of the city and bought a two-story villa of my own! Have your own house! It's not me who bragging, but the matchmaker who came to tell me about her relatives stepped through the threshold of my family! I'm picking my daughter-in-law! ”

"As long as you follow the command, you can do what I do." Hearing Jiang Chong's agitating remarks, the seven recruits only felt that they had a bright future. As long as you obey orders, good days seem to beckon you. The recruits stood up straight with their chests puffed up. There were a few recruits who were born too hard, and when they heard the bright future described by Jiang Chong, their faces were flushed with excitement.

Jiang Chong looked at the recruits, changed his words, and said: "However, if someone disobeys orders, has no discipline, deserts in training, and goes wrong during the battle, it is military law service!" "Not only that, but also obey the rules of secrecy! The performance of the weapons you used in the Destruction Regiment cannot be leaked, even if the officials of the Great Song Dynasty ask you, they can't say. When shooting at a target, you can't shoot in front of other civilians! You can't talk to anyone other than the soldiers about your battles! Be a secret! ”

The recruits looked at Jiang Chong firmly and expressed their determination to abide by the regulations with their eyes. Violating regulations? Such a good day! Push them with a knife, and they won't break the rules! Jiang Chong looked at the excited appearance of the recruits, smiled, and said lightly: "On the first day of physical training, twenty miles of cross-country running, everyone runs with me!" ”

After being busy recruiting new recruits, Yang Peng was free and began to develop new industries. What Yang Peng wants to do this time is reading glasses. Because the master's eyes are not very good, he is a little short-sighted, mainly related to the fact that the master often eats vegetables.

With colorless transparent glass, making glasses is a matter of course. In these years, there were not many people who studied in the Song Dynasty, and there were not many myopia, and it is estimated that a few pairs of myopia glasses could not be sold, but there was a lot of presbyopia. Presbyopia is caused by the relaxation of the ciliary muscles of the eye, and the flattening of the lens, causing the image of objects to appear behind the retina, so that objects cannot be seen clearly. Reading glasses are actually convex lenses, which use their concentrating effect to move the image of an object forward to the retina.

To put it simply, as long as the round glass is processed into a convex lens with the right focal length and installed in a wooden frame, it is a pair of reading glasses. The Great Song Dynasty advocated etiquette and religion, put filial piety first, and the officials and the heads of the big families were all old people. These old people held the vast majority of the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, but they were basically presbyopia. The problem of the old people of the Great Song Dynasty was troubled by the old people of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Peng wanted to help them solve this problem.

As long as you spend some silver, you can regain your ability to see things, and you can see documents clearly, which must be a good deal for many old people. The production of glass convex lenses can be molded by using a molder, but the glass lens made in this way is still very rough and needs to be polished and polished, which requires specialized talents.

Yang Peng thought about it and decided to find some jade craftsmen who processed jade to polish and polish the glass lenses. The hardness of glass is basically the same as that of jade, and generally speaking, glass is harder than nephrite jade such as Hetian jade, and softer than jadeite such as jadeite, and craftsmen who can polish jade can handle glass lenses.

Yang Peng took Zhao Jinxi to find a jade shop with exquisite decoration in Cangzhou City, and asked the owner of the jade point about the craftsmen who handled the jade. The boss saw Yang Peng walking into the store in a red official uniform, and he was very attentive to him. He heard that Yang Peng wanted to hire a jade craftsman, and he didn't hide his secrets, so he directly told Yang Peng that jade was produced in Yutian County, Hengzhou, saying that there were jade craftsmen gathered there and jade craftsmen could be found.

Yang Peng immediately took Zhao Jinxi and a few soldiers to Yutian County. He spent a day riding a horse to Yutian County, and when he arrived in Yutian County, he inquired and found an alley selling jade, and found that dozens of merchants who processed and sold jade gathered in the alley. Yang Peng heard that those jade shops were all front shops and back factories, and jade craftsmen were all processing jade in the courtyard behind the shop.

Yang Peng chose the most luxuriously decorated jade shop and walked in. The owner of the jade shop saw a fourth-grade military attache walking in with a few entourages, and hurriedly greeted him and saluted, and said nervously: "Is there something wrong with the official here?" Zhao Jinxi said loudly: "My master wants to hire a few jade craftsmen who can polish and polish jade, do you have it here?" The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard this, and said in a panic: "Official, the jade craftsmen in the small shop are just right, and there are no extra people, I'm afraid I can't let the official master hire him!" ”

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.