Ordinary people can't see the influence and usefulness of the vernacular after the reform, and Feng Jing, as a high-IQ talent, can naturally see the doorway inside.

It is very simple to say that the knowledge level of the people is uneven, some people are completely illiterate, some know a little word, but not much, and some know common words, and they don't know obscure words.

Therefore, sometimes when the imperial court issues policies and releases them to the counties below, even if announcements are posted at the official government, city gates and even village entrances, the people should not understand it or not.

At this time, they either consulted the Xiucai people in the village, or found those landlords and gentry who knew how to read. On their own, it is difficult to understand what the newly enacted policy means.

This raises another problem.

If there are too few people who know how to read and write, the landlords and gentry can achieve a monopoly on knowledge and text interpretation by co-opting those who know how to read and write.

For example, the imperial court is going to reduce some taxes this year, and the landlords and gentry and the intellectuals who know the words in the countryside have joined forces to explain to the people that the imperial court will collect taxes normally this year, and hope that everyone will prepare the taxes to be paid in advance.

At that time, the counties were short of manpower, and the tax system was progressive.

The magistrate of the county government instructed the officials to collect taxes, and the officials would go to the towns and villages to find the local clans, landlords, and wealthy households, and ask them to organize the people to pay taxes, and at the same time, the officials would also collude with these local gentry.

The three parties seemed to supervise each other, but in fact colluded with each other, which formed the errand law in the early Northern Song Dynasty, which deceived the upper and lower levels, and carried out sustainable fishing at the bottom.

Therefore, don't look at the way the imperial court controls the localities, the central officials control the various roads, and each road governs the states, and the states are responsible for the counties, and finally the officials of the counties govern the grassroots level to achieve the purpose of layered jurisdiction.

But in fact, the power of governance at the grassroots level is not in the hands of county officials, and between them and ordinary people, there are local clans, landlords, wealthy households, and errand servants.

As long as these parties are united, there is no problem in trying to erect a local county order.

Now under the examination law, only the officials have been well governed, and the officials are now paid by the government, and there are channels for promotion, and the situation has also improved slightly. The imperial court has always had nothing to do with the clans, landlords, and wealthy households at the grassroots level.

Therefore, Feng Jing was immediately keenly aware that the deep-seated meaning of the imperial court's reform of the vernacular language system was actually to break the monopoly of those local forces on knowledge and written interpretation.

Although people who are completely illiterate still can't read and write, this takes care of a large number of people who know a little bit of words and know common words.

Through the vernacular, these people who know the common words can read it, which is more convenient for the people who do not know the words to understand.

This is undoubtedly a major reform.

So under what circumstances would the imperial court suddenly do this?

Of course, there are more important reforms to be put behind, and it is estimated that in two months, when the requirements of the vernacular text spread throughout the Great Song Dynasty, new policies will follow.

Feng Jing's eyes rolled.

It's hard to say.

In this imperial examination, there is the imperial court's interpretation of this current politics.

If you can answer well, you will know that the hospital favors you.

Maybe it's not necessarily going straight up.

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At the end of June, a lot of big things happened in the Great Song Dynasty.

Among them, there are many important ones, such as the high temperature in May this year, and the severe drought on Shaanxi Road in June, and the imperial court actively provided disaster relief.

In early June, an indigenous rebellion broke out in Qiongzhou, and the imperial court sent Xiang troops in Guangdong to suppress it.

In the middle of the month, Goryeo sent envoys to worship, and the imperial court gave more generous gifts in return.

There are also large and small national official affairs in the governance of various places, which must be handled one by one, so that the machine of the central court has always maintained efficient operation.

But these can only be said to be normal state affairs.

Qiongzhou belonged to the land of transformation in the Song Dynasty, and like Taiwan, the difference is only that Qiongzhou is slightly developed, but the local aborigines have repeatedly rebelled.

Therefore, later in the Shenzong period, when the troops were used against Vietnam, they simply placed the Zhuya Army, the Changhua Army, and the Wan'an Army in Qiongzhou, and suppressed the local aborigines while attacking Vietnam from the sea.

And although the problem of the feudal state sending envoys to worship made Zhao Jun complain, people brought a little gift, and the Great Song Dynasty gave back several times the gift, which was really a bit swollen and fat.

However, this is an extremely important tributary system in ancient Chinese civilization, which is not only the meaning of the younger brother offering to them, but also the eldest giving them some rewards. There is also a deeper level of determination of the relationship between the upper and lower levels, the nature of alliances, and the complete culture of etiquette.

In this way, the Chinese civilization determined the status of the Celestial Empire, and then exported Confucianism to the surrounding countries, gradually converging their cultures, thus causing the entire East Asian civilization to be influenced by the Chinese civilization.

Therefore, although the tributary system caused the Great Song Dynasty to lose a lot, and every year it had to send a lot of things back to the younger brothers, it also gave these younger brothers a considerable amount of cultural export, expanded the influence of Chinese civilization, and let the people of the surrounding countries worship the Han people, which is also a win-win situation.

So in general, these are things that happen every year, and it's not much about change.

There are only two things that really make a big difference.

The first thing was that the imperial court was preparing for the reform of vernacular literature, requiring that official documents exchanged between various places should no longer be in the form of literary language, but in the form of folk vernacular.

The second thing is, of course, the use of troops against the Li Dynasty in Vietnam.

After Yang Cha arrived in Guangxi, he immediately began to arrange before Di Qing came.

In addition to internal grain and grass, concentrated troops and horses, weapons and equipment.

He also actively contacted neighboring countries, hoping that East Asian kingdoms such as Dali, Cham, Angkor, Lamphun and Bagan would send troops together.

It's just that there is little effect, except for Dali's positive response, the rest of the Southeast Asian countries basically did not respond.

The main reason is that although these countries have all fought with the Li Dynasty, they are basically divided by the Changshan Mountains from the Li Dynasty, and they are even more distant from the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, they often choose to ignore foreign affairs, play in their own small circle behind closed doors, and rarely pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Dali is different.

They actively maintained good relations with the Song Dynasty, and had a feud with the Li Dynasty in Vietnam, and heard that the Great Song Dynasty was preparing to use troops against the Vietnamese Dynasty, so it was natural to beat the water dogs, and followed the eldest brother to fiercely vent the vicious anger of the fiasco of the Jinhuabu Battle that year.

By June, Di Qing led tens of thousands of horses and finally arrived in Yongzhou.

Yang Cha took the officials of Guangnan West Road to greet him.

It was evening, but it was not dark in the summer season, the sun was still hanging on the hills, and the moon was already rising in the east, and it was almost six to seven o'clock in the evening.

The glorious sunset was picturesque, and flocks of crows hovered in the air under the burning clouds, and then flew back into the forest, causing a sound in the forest.

The gentle breeze blew across the hills, and among the dense jungles outside Yongzhou City, countless black spots loomed on an official road.

After about two or three quarters of an hour, the sun had completely set, and the sky and the earth were gray, and when Nong Zhigao and others looked out, they saw a neat and tidy procession, lined up in a long line, and approached step by step.

The general at the front rode horses, probably in his thirties, with a resolute face, and was looking ahead.

Seeing Yang Cha, he slowly rode his horse over, stopped his horse ten meters away, and then turned over and dismounted with a beautiful movement, walked close to Yang Cha and said, "I've seen the commander." ”

"General Di is polite."

Yang Cha returned a salute, he was a transit envoy not a strategic envoy, and he did not have the power to coordinate the entire army like Fan Zhongyan.

And this time Di Qing came out, in addition to the official position he brought, he was also temporarily awarded the head of the soldiers and horses of Guangnan West Road, that is, the highest commander of the army along the way, at the same level as Yang Cha, so Yang Cha came out to greet him in person.

This time, the imperial court sent troops to Vietnam, and the meaning was also very clear. Yang Cha is responsible for logistics and overall planning, and Di Qing is responsible for major military strategies and tactics. The two of them were one writer and one martial arts, and they worked together to deal with the Li Dynasty.

"The general is tired and tired all the way, but it is hard, please enter the city first."

"Okay."

Di Qing nodded.

At that moment, he ordered his soldiers to camp outside the city, and he brought a few guards into the city.

Nong Zhigao's gaze swept to the imperial court soldiers outside the city.

Tens of thousands of troops.

Of these, there were only 10,000 regular troops.

The rest are people's husbands.

The Tang Dynasty stipulated that 10,000 troops should be equipped with ten to eight horses and mules, carrying a large amount of grain, grass and baggage.

The Song Dynasty was basically the same, so 10,000 people were dispatched, and at least 20,000 or 30,000 people had to help escort grain, grass and ordnance.

These people did not come from Kaifeng, but the imperial court issued official documents, allocated money, and hired people from Zhulu to help escort them to the border of the road, and then transferred them by other roads.

So the team outside seems to be numerous, and there is no end in sight. But the only ones who can actually fight are the well-dressed regular army.

It's just that.

Nong Zhigao saw that the soldiers were all carrying a long pole on their backs, with a short sword hanging from their waists, and they had no armor on their bodies and no cavalry.

After Di Qing gave the military order, he went to a vacant lot outside the city to prepare to set up a tent.

Although the military appearance is quite neat.

However, there is a short knife with a ring head all over his body.

Can such an army really easily wipe out the Yue Li Dynasty?

Nong Zhigao only had doubts left in his mind.

During this time, Yang Cha led Di Qing into the city and went to the only restaurant in the city to eat.

The two sides talked happily, and by the time the banquet was over, it was already completely dark.

Originally, Yang Cha meant to let Di Qing rest for a day and wait until tomorrow to start talking about business.

However, Di Qing was obviously very interested, and rejected Yang Cha's proposal, hoping to discuss the dispatch of troops as soon as possible.

Seeing that he insisted, Yang Cha did not object, so he left Zhao Wenzuo and Nong Zhigao, and the four of them discussed together in the backyard of the yamen of the state capital.

In the backyard house, Yang Cha sat on the main seat, Di Qing sat in the first position below, and Zhao Wenzuo and Nong Zhigao sat in turn.

Candles were lit in the room, and after the attendant served strong tea and closed the door, Di Qing spoke: "Si Shuai, the meaning of the court this time, I think you also understand, I don't know what the situation is?" ”

"During this time, I coordinated some soldiers and horses, stockpiled some grain and grass, and also sent spies to the border to investigate the situation, and found two routes that could be attacked."

Yang Cha spread out the map and said to Di Qing: "Since the change in the imperial court this year, presumably the Li Dynasty has also noticed this, and has arranged a large number of soldiers and horses on the border, led by their captain Guo Shengyi, and stationed in the area of Langzhou. ”

He pointed to the dots on the map and said: "The road from the Great Song Dynasty to Jiaozhi is rugged and difficult, even the best avenue is not easy to walk, and this Yongjiguan Ancient Road is the only avenue." But in addition to Yongji Pass, there is also this from Siling Prefecture to the south, through Siming Prefecture, Luzhou, you can directly take Li Chao Beijiang! ”

Di Qing glanced at the map, Yongji Pass was the Friendship Pass of later generations, and it was called Zhennan Pass in the Ming Dynasty. Since ancient times, it has been the best way for the Central Plains Dynasty to send troops to Vietnam, and the Han Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty have all taken this road.

But it is foreseeable that since this road is the best way to go, then when the Li Dynasty is already vigilant, it will inevitably choose to garrison this place with a large army.

"General."

Yang Cha said again: "I thought that the Li Dynasty must guard the Yongji Pass Ancient Road, although we control the Yongji Pass, but if we send troops south, we will be ambushed by Jiaozhi soldiers and horses, so what I think is that if we feint here, the elite will go south from the trail." ”

Di Qing thought for a while, turned his head to look at Nong Zhigao and said, "Nong Tongzhi, I heard that you are familiar with the local roads and have traveled back and forth between Jiaozhi and Guangxi many times, what do you think about this?" ”

Everyone introduced themselves at the dinner table just now, so now everyone knows each other.

Hearing Di Qing's question, Nong Zhigao hurriedly replied, "General Hui, I also think it's best to do so." This avenue is very rugged and difficult to walk, if you are ambushed, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck. Only by selecting a group of elite people who can cross the mountains and mountains can they bypass the Yongjiguan Ancient Road. ”

"I don't see it that way."

Di Qing shook his head and said, "This is a battle to destroy the country, not just go south to beat Jiaozhi." If you bypass the avenue, how can you supply grain and grass? Once the other party is stationed in the city, how can our army still be stationed in Cochin? Therefore, only by opening up this avenue can a steady stream of supplies come over, so that we can drive straight into and conquer Shenglong! ”

"This"

Everyone looked at each other, and everyone thought about it.

This trail is no worse than Shu Dao, and the soldiers under Nong Zhi's master are originally ethnic minorities living in the mountains, and it is definitely not a problem to cross the mountains and mountains.

The question is what to do if you go to Cochin on the trail?

If you want to go over the mountains and mountains, you must travel lightly, the carriage can't pass, the only result is that you can only beat and harass, once the grain and grass you carry with you are eaten, you still have to withdraw, and you can't pose too much threat to Jiaozhi.

So if you want to destroy the Li Dynasty, you still have to open up the road.

It's just that Nong Zhigao imagined that if he wanted to open up the road, the imperial court would have to send at least 200,000 troops over, and how could he send 10,000 people, how could he fight?

Therefore, he could only say euphemistically: "General, it's not that we don't want to open up the Yongji Pass Ancient Road, but there are too few soldiers and horses." ”

"How many troops do you have on hand now?"

"There are more than 8,000 people in the Guangnan West Road Army, plus many tribes on the border who are willing to send troops, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000. Dali is willing to send 30,000 troops, but they will definitely not charge ahead. ”

"That's enough."

Di Qing smiled faintly, pointed to Yongji Pass and said: "Out of Yongji Pass, sweep the enemy Langzhou, and then go south to Beijiang Mansion, I have checked the documents before I came, and I know that this is an endless plain, and when I get here, the army can go all the way south and take Shenglong directly!" ”

(End of chapter)