In the second year of Huang You, the Khitan offensive party was defeated. The party entered the Song Dynasty to report the victory, and ordered the envoys to stay in the border counties and not report it. Soon after, the Khitan sent envoys to Kaifeng Mansion to report the party's victory. In the middle of the road, the Liao lord won a big victory, and the north road won a big victory, but the south road suffered a small defeat and captured a lot. However, according to the side report, this time the Khitan attacked the party on a large scale, and only more than 20 people were captured on the northern route, and the rest of the roads were defeated and lost.

In the conflict between the Khitan and the party, the Song dynasty was neutral. But there is an alliance with the Khitan, and they are both big countries, so they don't say anything about the contract. The Khitan was defeated, and he was afraid that the Song Dynasty would have a different mind, so he specially sent important ministers to report on the party's affairs.

What Du Zhongxiao was more concerned about was the rebellion of Nong Zhigao in Yongzhou. After defeating the attacking Cochin army, Nong Chi Gao requested to be attached. After weighing the pros and cons, the court refused. Nong Zhigao used this as an excuse to officially launch a rebellion. At this time, there is not much movement, and a few more inspectors are added around.

Nong Zhigao's request for attachment was not to submit to the Song Dynasty, but to use the power of the Song Dynasty to balance the pressure of Jiaozhi. Guangyuan Prefecture was originally a fetter force in Jiaozhi, and several wars occurred in the past one or two decades. Now that he has grown and has the capital to stand on his own, he hopes to temporarily entrust it to the Song Dynasty and seek greater development. promised him to attach it, and the Song Dynasty would not get any benefits, just to resist the Jiaozhi forces for him.

After the Song Dynasty became stronger, if it wanted to conquer Guangyuan Prefecture, it did not need the title attached to Nong Zhigao. It was originally a vassal state of the Central Plains, and even Jiaozhi was, so it was necessary to find it since ancient times, so why should a place that appeared out of nowhere to admit it.

On this point, Du Zhongxiao's thinking is consistent with the current imperial court, and he agrees that Nong Zhigao's attachment is harmful and unhelpful. One harm is to fight with Jiaozhi, and the other is to recognize the newly rising local power when it is unable to operate, disrupting the system of nominal rule that has been in place since ancient times.

It's not easy to turn this corner. The knowledge learned in the previous life, Nong Zhigao is a minority uprising, with an aura of justice. Although he took the initiative to attack the Song Dynasty, slaughtering cities, burning, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, it was just. The Song Dynasty did not let him attach, and everything that followed was to blame. Although he was a slave landlord who was more reactionary than the imperial court, brutally exploited internally, and was extremely vicious externally, he was a hero of the uprising and a national hero of certain nationalities because of his non-Han identity and because of his resistance to the central regime. Even if he is given the identity of this national hero, just to show the independence of those nations, or even for the sake of separatism, this is how it is characterized.

Seriously speaking, Nong Zhigao made a lot of noise in history, shaking half of the country, and later Jiaozhi attacked the Central Plains and other things, all related to this, but in fact, the power is not very strong. The military deployment of the Song Dynasty, the troops south of the Yangtze River were very weak. There is basically no forbidden army, many cities have no city walls, hundreds of soldiers in a state, and even some only dozens, and there is no defense at all. But the impact of this war is great, and it is the first choice for brushing up on the record in this era. Pingnong's high wisdom has created the status of Di Qing's famous generals, and made Yang Wenguang and other new generation generals rise. Du Zhongxiao was at the meeting, and he very much hoped that he could participate in this war and brush up on a wave of military achievements. It is much easier to fight the Khitan and the party than to fight the Khitan and the party.

Du Zhongxiao studied all the newspapers about Nong Zhigao very carefully, and finally decided that he would not cause a large-scale incident in the short term. can make such a big move, not only related to Nong Zhigao, but also related to the response of the Song Dynasty. Without a series of immortal operations, the garrison on Quang Nam West Road alone was enough to suppress it. In the end, it broke out, asking the local generals of the Song Dynasty to keep making mistakes, so that Nong Zhigao's ambition became bigger and bigger, so that he could use the mistakes of the Song Dynasty to integrate the interior, and eventually form a torrent. At present, the local government generals have not made enough mistakes, and they still have the upper hand in terms of military strength and popular support.

As for the deification of Nong Zhigao in later generations, what kind of civil and military skills, wisdom and courage are unparalleled, just listen to that kind of thing, and it should not be true. In the face of the forbidden army in the north, it is used to brush up the battle record. The reason why Di Qing is a famous player is not because he won, but because he won very beautifully.

In late spring and March, the grass grows and the eagle flies, the peach is red and the willow is green, and the heaven and earth are full of vitality.

He Da picked up a burden and walked leisurely on the country road. There were waterfowl flying in the puddles on the roadside, cows grazing on the meadows, and the occasional peach tree on the roadside, full of green fruit.

Pida was fishing in the pond with a few young men, straightened up, saw He Da, and said in a loud voice: "Brother, what did you collect today?" ”

He Dadao: "It's all tightened in the yamen recently, soaphorn, mint, gallnut or something." Today, I was lucky, and I also collected some beef tendons, horns and the like. By the way, there is a company that picks a lot of pigweed, which is a famous medicine produced locally. ”

Pida said: "Brother is good business! I catch some fish and shrimp and go back to drinking. ”

He Da agreed, and did not stop, all the way to the village not far away.

For a mall to function properly, a strong purchasing network is required. Without its own procurement system, it is not very interesting to buy things from other merchants. Now several nearby states, mainly in the field business, from the state to the county, there is an acquisition network. In each village, there is a buyer who specializes in purchasing local products, herbs, fruits, etc. He Dawei was purchased by the village, and whenever he had free time, he carried the burden and walked the streets and alleys to collect these things everywhere. He worked hard, and he was the most successful in the neighborhood for dozens of miles, making a lot of money.

After entering the village and seeing his yard from a distance, He Da breathed a sigh of relief and felt a trace of warmth. In dozens of villages, only the He family has a fence, which looks neat and tidy. Other families are also raising chickens, growing vegetables around the house, and raising cats and dogs. But they don't have a yard, and their livestock run around, and as soon as they enter the village, chickens and dogs jump. He Da is different, the vegetables he grows are in the yard, and the chickens and dogs he raises are also in the yard.

When I got closer, I suddenly saw a familiar woman standing in front of the door, and a seven or eight-year-old child next to her.

He Da couldn't help but stop, stood in place, and watched for a while. He couldn't tell his current mood, he just felt that the river was overturned, and his heart was mixed. didn't even dare to step forward for a while, not knowing what she was doing, for fear that all this was an illusion.

I don't know how much time passed, He Da woke up from his trance, sighed, and stepped forward.

Hearing the footsteps, He Da's wife turned around, looked at the burden on He Da's shoulders, took the child's hand, and said, "I've been back for a long time, there is no one at home, the courtyard door is locked, so I have to wait here." ”

He Da hurriedly put down the burden, stepped forward to open the door, and said, "There is no lock, it's just a leash, you can go in." ”

The woman sighed: "This is not the home where I lived, so I can go in anyway." ”

He Da turned around, glanced at his wife, and then at the child standing next to him. Cleaned up, very smart, with a pair of big eyes looking at him. This is his own son, He Da has been to the butcher's house in Xiangzhou several times, and he has watched from afar, from the fact that he can't walk, to how he can run and jump, and now he is at the age when he should go to school.

The bitterness and bitterness in his heart came to his heart for a while, and He Da felt that his eyes were sour, and he couldn't speak for a while.

The family of three just stood like this, and I don't know how much time had passed, He Da woke up suddenly, and said in a panic: "Come into the house quickly, sit down, and drink two sips of tea." I'm out for a day, the chickens should be fed, the rice should be cooked, and we'll have a meal later. ”

He Da's wife took the child's hand and said, "You go and get busy, I'll do it." As he spoke, he entered the courtyard gate.

He Da looked at his wife's back, was stunned for a while, and went to pick up the burden on the ground. A yellow bird standing on the apricot tree by the gate of the courtyard spread its wings and flew into the sky in a daze. He Da carried the burden into the door, and the yellow dog lying on his stomach in the courtyard pounced up, biting He Da's trouser leg, kept turning in circles, and lay on the ground again, looking at a woman and a child in the yard, whining and screaming.