The Khitan envoys did not come, and the battle of the Agan River did not start. Fan Zhongyan asked the Privy Council and the Xuanhui Yuan to give 100 ways to each of the empty names, and fill in the urgent letter to persuade and recruit the Tibetan Ministry.

That is, let the Privy Council and the Xuanhui Yuan give a hundred blank books to Huanqing Road, and Fan Zhongyan recruited the Tibetan Department in Huanqing Road, as long as these rebels in the territory who did not obey the Song Dynasty surrendered to the imperial court, they used these blank books to give orders in the shortest possible time, and awarded some minor officials.

It is an official of the Song Dynasty, and if he rebels again, he will have great righteousness to discuss.

In the past, the imperial court also treated these Tibetan tribes more kindly, awarded some petty officials, and rewarded some money and silk during the New Year's holidays, which did not cost much, and the cost of a petty official was at most the cost of ten forbidden soldiers, and often a tribe settled down.

However, the time is too slow, and it often takes months to get the news, and these people either surrender or rebel, do not strike by the hot iron, and after a few months, they do not know what will happen. For example, blind felt, he saw the benefits of the market, otherwise he would rebel, what could the court do?

Driven by Zheng Lang, whether Han Qi or Fan Zhongyan or Pang Ji, they became more cautious about ethnic issues. It's hard to say about Bian Gong, they are civil officials, not military strategists, and it is too difficult to make a beautiful record like Zhang Kang, Gao Jixuan and Zhang Qi, but Yuan Hao is far inferior to the people on the other side.

Then Han Qi wrote to the imperial court again and made a request.

Anyway, it doesn't cost much, and it's not a real court official, and it costs a lot to give a person a year, even if you don't give it, you usually give some rewards to soothe their hearts. Some of the Tibetan people, such as the maiden family of Yang Wenguang's wife Mu Rong, and the members of the Mu party, some people killed and looted, and the court only dealt with it in a compromise and did not dare to enter the village to arrest people.

However, Mu Shi left the monarchs and ministers speechless, and after this woman followed Yang Wenguang to Shaanxi, she killed 19 enemies, and Yang Wenguang himself only killed 12 enemies. As a result, many folk legends appeared, and there was a miscellaneous drama in the capital city of Vasheri, which made people laugh and cry.

Under the influence of Zheng Lang, miscellaneous dramas began to be long-form, and some Vasher bosses took out money and hired poor literati to write long-form miscellaneous dramas to attract guests. The artistic achievements still could not catch up with the Yuan song, but they enriched the cultural and spiritual life of the people of the Song Dynasty.

This miscellaneous drama is very long, saying that Yang Wenguang was ordered by his mother to go to Murong Village to meet the little lady of the Murong family, Yang Wenguang was arrogant, and Mushi made a request, compared to Sanhe, immediately get off the horse and shoot arrows, whoever wins will listen to whom. As a result, Yang Wenguang was defeated in three battles, and then knelt on the washboard to admit his mistake.

Somehow, when it came to Huanqing, Yang Wenguangxie's wife went to the Murong clan to celebrate the New Year's Day, and after seeing this miscellaneous drama that was not like the four dissimilarities, she was furious, but it was his wife's kind words to comfort him, and Yang Wenguang was able to vent the anger in his heart. But because of Yang Wenguang's relationship, the Murong people are now in a honeymoon relationship with the Song Dynasty.

It is only one of the intricate things in the northwest, and the major event that has caused a sensation in the world has begun.

Imperial examination!

Nie Guanqing, a talented Hanlin scholar, knows the tribute, Wang Gongchen, Su Shen, a Hanlin bachelor, Wu Chong, and Tianzhang Pavilion are to be commanded by Gao Rune and have the right to know the tribute.

But the most eye-catching are Zheng Lang's two students.

The great victory in the northwest pushed Zheng Lang's fame to the peak, Zheng Lang's rejection of Qin Guogong was very wise, and the credit was great, and he was in his twenties with Qin Guogong, I don't know how many people will be red.

So let's see how Zheng Lang's two students performed.

In this regard, Zheng Lang only said one sentence in his letter, and his heart was calm and naturally cool.

Have a good attitude, be calm, don't think about anything else, some students are very talented, but when they get to the examination room, they can't play, and Fubi is like this.

Wang Anshi is not worried, he has a big heart, and what he is worried about is Yan Rong.

However, Yan Rong should be better than other students, he has seen many worlds with him, and as Chen Zhizhong's son-in-law, his vision will be higher than that of other students.

In February, it was time to release the list, and the students came to the list to watch the list together.

still looked up from the last position, and when it came to the ninety-eighth place, Yan Rong's name appeared.

Wang Anshi couldn't help but slap his hands with Yan Rong, and Wang Anshi was also a little worried about this little junior brother. Very quiet and gentle, but Caixue is not the kind of person who is sharp, the teacher went to the northwest again, and he can't be guided by his side, and Yan Rong can only study by himself for more than a year. Wang Anshi didn't say anything in his heart before the imperial examination, but he still had some relatives.

Read on.

He's looking at the list, and there are many people looking at him.

Yan Rong was very happy, the other students didn't think so, it was only ninety-eight, as Zheng Lang's student, it was not good, what was there to be happy about......

But they don't understand, and their rankings are not high, but in the past few years, once they serve as officials, how many students can catch up with his ability to govern?

A beautiful little maid squeezed over, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Congratulations to Xiaolang." ”

It was Chen Zhizhong's daughter's maidservant, Chen Zhizhong went to Hangzhou, did well, and knew Henan Mansion with a bachelor from the Senior Administration Palace, and was transferred back.

It is also a sad place for the Song Dynasty system, only a few months of mixing, how can you see whether it is good or bad?

Just when the list was released, Chen Zhizhong went to Luoyang, and the family stayed in the capital.

Once Yan Rong is in high school, the two families will discuss marriage.

After the little maid finished speaking, she happily squeezed out of the crowd and reported the good news to her own lady sitting in the sedan chair.

The two little sisters sat in the sedan chair and smiled, and the list continued to roll up, but Wang Anshi never appeared.

But Yan Rong and Wang Anshi are very calm, Yan Rong is ninety-eight in high school, can Wang Anshi not pass the exam?

It wasn't until the third place that Wang Anshi's name appeared.

But when the provincial yuan came out, there was an uproar again, and Yang Ning of Luzhou.

The uproar was not Yang Ning, it was his brother Yang Cha, his brother was a flower explorer in the last hall, and his brother was a high school provincial yuan, could it be that the Song Dynasty was going to produce a pair of big and small Song Dynasty?

There is another person who is also eye-catching, Han Jiang, who is sixth in high school. No one thought deeply, but Zhao Zhen summoned all four of them to the palace. first asked Han Jiang that he participated in the tribute as a magistrate. Zhao Zhen asked about the affairs of Hangzhou.

Han Jiang knew everything.

Although his greed made Zhao Zhen speechless for a while, he was very satisfied with Han Jiang's promise.

It is also necessary to ask, in particular, what exactly does the safety prison bring to the locality.

The imperial court has already sold fifty percent of the deed shares of the Ping'an Prison, and the monarch and ministers can't really understand its value, so they also ask by the way.

Turning his head to look at Wang Anshi, he asked, "What do you think of the military affairs in the Northwest?" ”

The question was a bit tricky, Zheng Lang was on Jingyuan Road, and as a student, it was not easy to answer. Wang Anshi was not nervous, and replied slowly: "Although the northwest is victorious, it will not last. ”

"Why?"

"Your Majesty, there is no other reason, and the finances are also."

"What did Zheng Qing say to you?"

"No, the bachelor occasionally writes letters with ministers, mostly about academic matters, and the bachelor of Northwest Affairs mentions it slightly, with the bachelor's idea, if you want Xia Kou to collapse, it must be consumed for a long time, but the tone is very pessimistic. The minister thought of finance, His Majesty was frugal, smart and wise, and slept all night for the government, without any slackness, and even more silently watching and playing good things. Benevolence and love for things and the blessing of the world are the blessings of the people of our dynasty, but they are also the shortcomings of His Majesty. Yuan Hao can ignore the life and death of the people in the country, but His Majesty can't ignore the people in the country. ”

Praise Zhao Zhen blushed a little, most of them can be praised, and then a little gloomy, this battle has been fought for a long time, why did Yang Kai indirectly acquiesce in that nonsense, it is to consider finance.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, troops were sent to conscript, and the battle ended in a few months.

Even so, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty still brought many problems to the Han and Tang Dynasties.

But in the Song Dynasty, although it was richer than the Han and Tang dynasties, the Han and Tang dynasties would use 300,000 troops in the entire Shaanxi like this, and it would take three years, four years, and five years to use them.

If it weren't for the two great victories, which covered up a hundred ugliness, even Zhao Zhen would slowly become disheartened.

I can't help but ask, "How to solve the financial problem?" ”

"Throttle and open source," Wang Anshi replied calmly.

Zhao Zhen was silent, Zheng Lang had done it, and he had done it very well, which Zhao Zhen was very grateful for, and immediately sold the deed shares, and the finance of repairing Sanbaiqu was available. A safe prison can increase the income of the imperial court by nearly 10 million yuan a year, both directly and indirectly.

If there were no tens of millions, Zhao Zhen would have fought a cold war if he thought about it.

Zheng Lang didn't dare to say much, but Zhao Zhen also understood, it was easier said than done, especially at this time, it was more necessary to stabilize the country, lay off officials, reform the system, and reduce troops, which is also possible?

Anything that would cause a lot of uproar.

Wang Anshi said again: "And talents." ”

"Talent?"

"Your Majesty, it's talent. Before the imperial examination, there were only two ways to hire people in China, one was to recommend the virtuous, and the other was to show the children of the shadows. After arriving in the Tang Dynasty, although the virtuous and virtuous were recommended, they had been gradually ignored and replaced by the imperial examination, and the door shade and martial arts still existed. I followed the Tang example in employing people, and without martial arts, the weight of the imperial examination was increasing. Confucianism is righteous, all-encompassing, knowledgeable, and governing the country with one family. However, after the Han Dynasty, Confucianism focused more on interpreting the meaning of words and sentences, but neglected the way of learning from things. ”

"That's a good point, go on," Zhao Zhen nodded.

Why did Zheng Lang see distant mineral deposits, gunpowder, cane sugar, and all kinds of miraculous skills?

"When the scholar discerns the Buddha, he recommends the Diamond Sutra very much, because the Diamond Sutra says that all sages and saints are different from each other by doing nothing. It is a spirit of inclusion and absorption. Although the hundred schools of thought need to be respected, the strengths of each school may also be absorbed. For example, a jailer can draw righteousness from the Legalists. Generals can learn from the soldiers' way of ping (the peace of the world). Zhu Xianggong can absorb a part of the business skills from the merchants and use them to Qi (Qi of the Qi family, including virtue and wealth). The officials in charge of the local area could absorb agricultural science from the peasants and teach the people the art of cropping. The supervisor of etiquette can absorb astronomical techniques from the Yin-Yang family to conform to the celestial phenomena and advise on the norms. The envoy to the enemy country can absorb the art of tongue discrimination from the Zongheng family, and gain the big from the small. Moreover, the state also uses officials, and the name is not justified, even if there are skilled craftsmen, businessmen, and talented people, they will not be able to devote themselves to the court. You can choose one of the ones with strengths, and make up for the omissions of each department, which is also the meaning of the ancients. ”

To put it simply, you can use the imperial examination to select judges, but you can't use all the imperial examinations to select judges, select a part of the capable people from the people to enter the officialdom, see what they are good at, and then serve in that department to help the officials make the best decisions.

Wang Anshi's thinking gradually matured, and the explanation of this part of the talent also had the shadow of Zhao Zhen's Wanyan book later.

It's not very mature, but it's more practical than the original famous march, which is also the subtle influence of Zheng Lang.

If you want to defeat the Western Xia, it is impossible to be like the Han and Tang Dynasties.

can only take Zheng Lang's strategy of slow consumption and consume the Western Xia people alive.

But the country has to be financially adequate.

If the country will have more than 30 million yuan a year, then even if it takes ten or twenty years with the Tangut people, it will not take twenty years, as long as it takes ten years, most of the Tangut will be dragged down alive.

But can the Song Dynasty continue to spend ten or twenty years?

How can we make the country have sufficient finances, Wang Anshi said that open source and reduce talent.

That's the basics.

One strategy or two strategies, and get a hundred and twenty thousand yuan, which is not enough for Zheng Lang to put a bunch of gunpowder in Shimenchuan.

Zhao Zhen was silent for a long time, obviously affecting Zhao Zhen's mood, and said, "Go back, take the palace test well." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty," the four mermaids rushed out.

So Lin Yu, the servant of Tianzhang Pavilion, touched the mold.

Lin Yu is very proficient in Yi, Zhao Zhen once issued an edict to let him compile the "Zhou Yi Tianren Hui Yuan Era", in which he wrote that the year of the Son of Heaven's accession to the throne said, when the divination hexagram is used to push the good luck, and said that the hexagram must be straight to ascend the throne.

When it came out, Jia Changchao immediately said that what he said was absurd.

How the emperor becomes the emperor, the old emperor died, or usurped the throne, or overthrew the old dynasty and ascended the throne. Isn't that one a fire? is to successfully inherit the throne as the prince of the East Palace, in addition to Zhao Zhen's only baby, there are also many princes around the prince. Can you wait for the years and months slowly, and then you have to go to the trigram to ascend the throne, so you have to wait for five or ten years? Such countries have to come up with great things.

He began to divinate for Zhao Zhen again, and said that "the emperor is on the throne, and his hexagram is like saying that he needs it directly, and it is like saying that the gentleman eats and drinks and feasts." I hope that Your Majesty will have frequent banquets and tours, and make the most of the beauty of water and land. ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned.

Strictly speaking, he is also Zhao Zhen's teacher, teacher, what do you want me to do? Do Yang Guang? Even if you learn from the villain to persuade me to be Yang Guang, you can't say it so nakedly.

Immediately demoted him to Raozhou.

So what Wang Anshi said is not unreasonable. For the sake of the imperial examination, he only cares about reading dead books, and reads them as nerds one by one, can such a person be a good official?

The money was then transferred to Shaanxi.

The deed shares are obtained, not land, as long as the money, a total of 9 million yuan.

It's not low, and if it is calculated according to direct income, it will take fifteen years to recover. Song Dynasty policies changed from time to time, but what would happen fifteen years later?

It's not high, in addition to direct income, there is also indirect income, those overseas supply points, Zheng Lang didn't have any hope, and others didn't see it, the actual operation is proper, this is the real most promising income, far more than the mineral deposits. However, considering the ideological traditions of the Song people, it was very difficult to develop all of them into large colonies.

However, the goods shipped out and the goods brought by the deed will take care of their own workshops and shops, and this indirect income is also very considerable.

After entering the deed shares, he can have a good relationship with the imperial court, Zheng Lang is young, at least thirty or forty years, and can take care of the safety prison. In addition to usury, they are not moved by this profit, and other big families and businessmen are a little tempted, at least it is better than burying money in the ground.

Looking at this money, the bigwigs of all ministries are swallowing their saliva, and they are all short of money, not only the front line, but also the rear of the fund.

In the end, he suppressed the desire in his heart and sent the money to Shaanxi, a three-white canal down, even if it was nine million yuan, it was estimated that it would be used about the same.

Then wait for the temple test to begin......

In February, spring also arrived in Jingyuan.

There is still some residual ice in the canal that has not melted, but the willows are yellow, and the plain river is light and blue, and you can see a piece of life rising.

Zheng Lang returned from Gaopingzhai.

Yuan Hao attacked Gaopingzhai in a small way, Zheng Lang was not worried, but he gave him a warning that he could not stay in Jingyuan forever. Gaoping Village, Sanchuan Village and other villages are at the forefront of the front, although they expand and repair high reinforcement, it is finally an earthen wall.

opened the golden finger, let people find two coal mines, this Zheng Lang does not want the most, now opening a mine is a waste of a mine, but helplessly, once a large number of bricks are burned, several large kilns must be built, and if you don't waste the mines, you will spoil the woods.

After February, they began to dig coal and build kilns, preparing to burn a large number of green bricks, and then build brick walls around the earthen walls. Only take a dozen or so fortifications on the periphery to increase their defensive power.

So he rode a horse and came to Gaoping Village to have a look.

Soon after hearing that Wang Ji and Zhang Qi were coming from Linzhou, Fuzhou, Zheng Lang had to go back.

Huluchuan with a thin layer of ice, bright, very lovely, but the air is fresh, the long east wind blowing, it seems to remind him of his hometown Zhengzhou.

A little homesick.

When I came to Cage Pole City, I saw Zhang Qi and Wang Ji, both of whom were less than forty years old.

Zhang Qi's impression is similar to what Zheng Lang imagined, a Hulk, tall and burly. Wang Ji was a little surprised by his expectations, in his heart this person was a flash man, but like Zhang Qi, he was very burly. However, it doesn't look as vicious as Zhang Qi.

Originally, Zhang Qi had a mouth full of beard, a vicious face, an arrow above his eyebrows, leaving a large black scar, his cheeks were pierced by the arrow, and two ugly scars were left, which looked very ugly.

However, Zheng Lang was very happy, took their hands, and talked for a long time.

He repeatedly told Zhang Qi not to advance bravely, the good rider fell, the good swimmer drowned, and the two armies rushed to kill, and the main general must lead by example, but in peacetime, such as checking the terrain, it doesn't matter, there is no need to advance bravely.

It is a pity that this person died, otherwise with his current age, he would have lived for at least fifteen years, for the Song Dynasty, which was seriously short of generals, in these fifteen years, with this person in the northwest, as long as he gets a little reuse, he will stand like a towering tree on the northwest border.

Zhang Qi and Wang Ji were very moved.

Like Zhang Kang, there began to be complaints.

Grandma, we were killed by Yuan Hao on Fulin Road at any time, you Zheng Lang sent someone to record, but where is your army!

When the truth was revealed, I realized that Zheng Lang was to blame.

They didn't think that without Zheng Langlibao, they would not be able to ascend to the throne at all, let alone serve as the intellectual.

There is a big difference in the status of the two, and Zheng Lang's affection touched them very much.

The status is not as good as others, the talent is not as good as others, and the background is not as good as others, even if it is meritorious, it is not as much as Jingyuan Luli's military exploits.

Zheng Lang didn't think so, Fu Lin was facing the main army of Western Xia that was almost ten times his own, and the number of troops on Jingyuan Road was more than that of Western Xia, and most of them were temporary recruits. The two situations cannot be compared on the basis of this. Changing Zheng Lang to go to Fulin Road, even if he has historical knowledge, he doesn't know how to break the enemy.

After talking for a while, he returned to Weizhou.

The four wives and concubines rolled their eyes, they were all very dissatisfied, and finally came back, but they were still not at home for most of the time, first to see the arranged prisoners of war and tribes, then to see the tuntian sowing, and then to see Gaopingzhai. It's harder than in Taiping Prefecture and Hangzhou.

Soon the camp was disintegrated, Zheng Lang took Zheng Ping's hand and said, "Ping'er, Daddy gave you the story of continuing to raise Harry Potter." ”

Zheng Lang doesn't have a high evaluation of this story, and the surname of the story is very poor, but because of the good copyright protection and the movie, it became popular.

However, many of China's later fantasy novels have the love between men and women, and it is not suitable for children to tell them, so I chose this story, sometimes to amuse my daughter and my wife.

Holding Zheng Ping's hand, holding Zheng Hang, and walking to the study, Si'er and Huan'er couldn't help it, and Si'er was the first to follow.

Cui Xian said angrily: "Official, you have great respect for Di Qing, and Di Qing is here in the Zhenrong Army, why don't you worry?" Didn't you say before that as a high-level person, it is a good thing to work by yourself, but you must learn to use people. ”

"Take a look, I'm relieved too."

"There was a letter from home, Er Niangniang was sick again in the first month of the year and had just recovered."

"Well, I should have gone home last time to have a look."

"Now I know it's wrong."

"After a while, let's see if the northwest can settle down next year, and if it can be settled, how about I go back to the capital to serve as a Beijing official?"

Cui Xian didn't answer, although she was wise, she knew that her resume during this period in the northwest was very important to her husband, and she couldn't make a decision, and said: "Chai Zongqing, the captain of the horse, celebrated his grandson's marriage in April, and posted a post to invite Chai Keming to the banquet. Chai Keming asked the official, do you want to go? ”

"Give him a lot of money, but he can't go," Zheng Lang said.

Chai Keqing is a member of the Chai family, and the Song Dynasty has always been very kind to the Chai family, marrying more princesses to the Chai family. In the Song Dynasty, the status of the Chai family was very respectful.

A few years ago, Chai Keqing served as the governor of Zhengzhou, corrupt and illegal, and was soon recalled to the capital by Zhao Zhen.

At that time, Zheng Lang already had a lot of political achievements, and the Zheng family had no other people in charge, so he invited Chai Keming to a banquet. will not have the same surname and the same clan as Chai Keming, and the status of the two is too different. This is to win over Zheng Lang, so that after Zheng Lang enters the two mansions in the future, he will release a little good deed to the Chai family at the right time. That's all.

The great victory in the northwest, Zheng Lang's future is more bright, although the Chai family is expensive, the real power is small, the first month Zhao Zhen Zhao Wucheng Jie Du made Tongping Zhangshi Ma Duwei to serve in the town, the imperial history of the Cheng Jia Chang Dynasty impeached Chai Keqing for lawlessness in Zhengzhou, went to the town will benefit and brutalize the people, Chai Keqing obediently stayed in Beijing. So under the pretext of having the same surname, he once again showed favor to Zheng Lang.

But does Zheng Lang need to get along with the Chai family?

There is no need for this, on the contrary, it will attract wild criticism from the ministers.

After staying for two days, Zheng Lang left Weizhou City under the resentful eyes of his wife.

The imperial court allocated money and began to build the Sanbai Canal, which would benefit parts of Jingyuan Road and Huanqing Road, but mainly in Jingyang, Sanyuan, Gaoling and parts of Weinan in the Yongxing Army.

At the beginning, Fan Zhongyan, Xia Zhu and Zheng Lang jointly proposed this proposal, and they also inspected it successively.

The imperial court wants to build the Sanbai Canal, and the two of them will come once to make some suggestions. And the two of them are very proficient in water conservancy, they are experts, and they need their ideas as a reference.

Jingyuan Huanqing built some tuntian, but kept recruiting Tibetan households, and still needed grain from Sanbaiqu.

Seeing Zheng Lang, Fan Zhongyan complained: "What about Seed Master Heng? ”

Zheng Lang pretended to be stunned and asked, "He hasn't gone to Huanzhou yet?" ”

Fan Zhongyan was fooled and asked puzzledly: "No, could it be that something happened in Zhizhou?" ”

Zheng Lang smiled secretly and said, "I'll send someone back to ask." ”

After three or four days, there was no need to ask, Zheng Lang accepted the urgent report of the blind felt, and hurriedly said to the water conservancy officials and Fan Zhongyan sent by the imperial court: "Yuan Hao's soldiers went out of Wachuan Huicheng and went to Aganzhai, I was worried that he would be bad about the Niche Valley, and I wanted to go back and take a look." ”

A cadre of officials is at a loss, where is Aganzhai?