The most troublesome thing is not the battle in the court, if the external environment is stable, the supreme power center is nothing, but the north is not without threat.

The Tanguts had been withholding for four or five years, constantly observing the weaknesses of this vast empire to the south. Once there is an omission because of the court dispute, they may pounce and bite for their lives.

At this time, there will be another variable, that is, the Liao Empire. Now they are a little too busy to take care of themselves, but who knows when the civil strife in Liao will suddenly stop.

Nomads are not as complicated as the political landscape of agrarian peoples, they get sick quickly and get better quickly, the less they have, the lighter their burdens, and one day they suddenly unite as one.

Once this situation occurs, the Song Dynasty will face the unfavorable situation of two-front warfare, and no one in the Western Xia and the Liao State will be soft, and they must take back what they lost at the beginning, plus a little interest before they are willing to give up.

At this time, it proved how correct his worries were back then, and also proved how reckless Emperor Shenzong's decision to go on the Northern Expedition was. If you can bring yourself with tens of thousands of new troops plus more than 100,000 forbidden troops to assist, it will not be much more difficult to destroy Western Xia than to conquer Youzhou. The area of Xingqing Mansion is not poorer than Youzhou, and it can also clamp Nanjing Road and Xijing Road of Liao State from the west.

It is much more comfortable to face one enemy than to deal with two enemies at the same time, and the military budget alone can be a large part less, and there is no need to spend the country's financial resources to build so many walled forts among the barren mountains and bald mountains of Youzhou. In addition to sounding morale-boosting, the Battle of the Northern Expedition was not the best choice.

At the end of February, the candidate to succeed Sima Guang was finally decided, and to Hong Tao's surprise, Zhang Dian was promoted to the left servant of Shangshu and the servant of the door to serve the middle of the door, while Zhang Wei was pacified from Youzhou Road to become the privy deputy envoy and returned to Kaifeng.

The Zhang family brothers were promoted to the central position together, could it be said that the Zhang family is the big winner of this court game? Ordinary people will feel this way, but officials and Hong Tao will not agree with this view.

The Privy Counsellor is just an ornament, a pure mouth-monger, with no rights. The pacification envoy of Youzhou Road is the real military and political leader of the border road, holding the most elite Great Song Forbidden Army of 100,000 in his hand, and he is also in charge of all the military construction of Youzhou Road. It can definitely be regarded as wanting power, power, people, and money.

I don't know how the Zhang brothers operated, they played a power swap, privately made a deal with all forces, and exchanged Zhang Dian for the military power in exchange for Zhang Dian's upper position, whether it is worth it or not is only known to the parties themselves.

Then who will take over the position of the servant left by Zhangduan? This is not surprising, the original Chinese scholar Liu Zhiqian became the head of the vice minister. Hong Tao, the candidate who was added to serve as the Zhongshu Shilang, guessed correctly, he is a newcomer, and he is also an acquaintance, and he knows Cai Jing of Chengdu Mansion!

History is really stubborn, and after so many changes, it still sent this traitor to his original trajectory.

When Hong Tao saw this name in the newspaper of the imperial palace, he almost wrote a letter to Wang Shi directly, asking her to stuff her newly developed timed fried cake under Cai Jing's ass first to try the effect.

But in the end, Hong Tao still held back, although Cai Jing successfully entered the center of power, but the emperor he faced has changed, and the colleagues around him have also changed, according to reason, he himself seems to have changed.

And the current court still can't tolerate him making waves, Wang Anshi, Zhang Dan, and Liu Zhi are not fools, and he himself is just a pawn used by the emperor to compete for power, and he will have to be demoted if he runs out one day.

Hong Tao felt that even if Cai Jing would still make waves, he should keep him first. In the past, he was a pioneer of reform, so he naturally didn't want to have the same skinless and faceless things in the court as himself.

But time has passed, his status has changed, and the general environment has changed. The current traitor Cai Jing not only can't threaten himself, but can become his good helper.

Didn't the ancients say that if they want to perish, they must first make them crazy. With Cai Jing, a traitorous minister, making waves in the court, the madness of the Great Song Dynasty will be accelerated, and the time of destruction will be advanced, which is more in line with its own interests.

The more fierce the struggle for power in the court, the less likely it is for him to attract attention. Who cares about a waste prince who is far away from the court and has no rights, and can only build embankments and bridges.

In order to deal with this situation, Hong Tao specially sent a letter to Wang Er, asking her to be more restrained, and try not to be too profound when commenting on the government in Fuzhou Daily, and to guide more and criticize less. Xu Donglai will also cooperate in Pravda to divert public opinion from court politics.

However, the plan can't catch up with the changes, and within a month of the MeLetter's sent, the two newspapers haven't had time to unify their voices, and the situation has changed again.

In the middle of March, a boat slowly stopped at the dock of Yangtze Town, and a middle-aged man with light clothes came from the boat.

Boats, very ordinary downward trough boats, even if the Cao River is not the main channel of the canal, there will be trough boats from the south to the north every day. People, middle-aged, about forty years old, are very inconspicuous in the pile.

People like this are more ordinary than trough boats, since there was a shallow Yuzhai in Yangzi Town, and after King Liang got cowpox, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, people come every day.

Even if the Daimyofu, Jingzhao Mansion, Liangzhou, Ezhou, Fuzhou and even Chengdu Mansion have successively had a Qianyuzhai branch, according to some people who traveled thousands of miles to Qianyuzhai in Yangzi Town to see a doctor.

Without it, everyone thinks that the shallow Yuzhai of Yangtze Town is Zhenggener, and there are rumors that the female doctor here is the grandson of the eldest princess brought out of the palace. Emperor Shenzong loved his sister, so he reluctantly gave his love to the eldest princess.

Later generations were in awe when they heard that a certain doctor was dedicated to treating the head of the central government, and the ancients were the same, they could be diagnosed and treated by the emperor's imperial physician, even if they didn't take any medicine, their illnesses were cured by three points.

But anyone who is not short of money has an incurable disease, even if he has been effectively treated in the local Qianyuzhai, he is willing to come again to let the doctor see it.

As for whether the female doctor here is a doctor or not, not only the uninformed people do not question it, but even the official eunuchs who are familiar with the rules of the palace are also flocking to it, and their actions also confirm this rumor from another level.

However, this middle-aged man did not go to the town's Qianyu Zhai, and after finding a passer-by to inquire a little, he strode towards the Yamen of the Lianghuai River System in the north of the town.

Standing at the door of the Yamen, the middle-aged man smiled wryly. The door is quite large, and the plaque is quite powerful. But a person who understands can see at a glance that this door should be the side door used by the eunuchs to get out of the carriage.

At this time, the gate of the courtyard was not closed, and when I looked through the gap, the courtyard was empty, except for the stables, there were only two rows of ordinary houses, which should have been the groom's residence.

But there is a detail system to make it more serious than the Kaifeng Mansion, outside the gate there are two short-dressed officials, not only carrying a short knife, but also pinning a long and thin long knife, looking at it is quite deterrent.

"In the next from Kaifeng, there is something important to meet the system to make the adult, and it is ......convenient for the little brother to do it."

The middle-aged man took out a letter from his purse, said kind words with a smiling face, and presented it with both hands, and pressed a Huangzhou gold coin under his thumb, and deliberately exposed most of it, which was very eye-catching in the sunlight.

"Boom...... Sharp-beaked monkey gills, treacherous people, good things don't carry people, and there are no good things to carry people. We drop, Liang Wang drops retainers, greedy for ink can't succeed! Honestly kneel down and wait, dare to move and click! ”

The letter was received and the gold coins were taken away, but it didn't seem to work, and it caused trouble. A short knife rested on the middle-aged man's neck with a speed and trajectory invisible to the naked eye, followed by intermittent, stammering, extremely accented, and incomprehensible northern Chinese.

"Don't be too heavy, this bag is made by the adults themselves, and there are less than a palm of people in the world."

The middle-aged man was really obedient, and immediately knelt on the ground, allowing another person to search his body and take his purse away. Seeing that his leather bag was hanging on the handle of the knife at random, the middle-aged man had some different opinions.

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