In April, the peony is not grateful, and the acacia snow begins.

Zheng Lang gave a reprimand and asked Ouyang Xiu to preside over the negotiation of the return of the people. This matter is a little difficult to do, the construction of the city is actually not very harmful to the Song Dynasty, the people are dealing with the Western Xia, and the two cities are used to store war preparation materials, but there is a truth. It is clearly written in the covenant that no cities shall be built, no trenches shall be built, and no troops shall be garrisoned. The people were needed by the Song Dynasty, after all, theoretically the Song Dynasty attached importance to internal governance, and everyone was shouting people-oriented. Don't mention it, pretend to be deaf and dumb, mention that these people are also the people of the Song Dynasty, how difficult is it to escape from Western Xia?

Guan Jian They fled from Western Xia, not the people who set out from the Song Realm, and even some of the aborigines of Western Xia were wrapped in it, so it was not clear.

Zheng Lang wrote a letter of state and handed it to the Khitan, but it was not enough, if he wanted the Khitan people to agree, he would also propose it this time, it was difficult to negotiate, but it was a great credit to negotiate. The negotiation with the Khitan was won, even if it was a trimetrical achievement, it was also a great achievement!

Everyone was stunned.

In fact, compared with Ouyang Xiu's various admonitions, even if Zheng Lang had a dispute at the court meeting, his tone was much more tactful. Although you are wrong, you are also kind, you have to think deeply, and you can't talk nonsense. Let's take a look at Ouyang Xiu's twists and turns, treacherous, villainous, filthy, and insidious......

Sending Ouyang Xiu as an envoy to negotiate with the Khitan Western Xia is also the best candidate.

As a minister, he can grind the Manchu dynasty to death, but as a messenger, he can also torture the envoys of the two countries to death. Among the envoys before the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, except for Fu Bi, everyone else seemed to be soft, so that diplomacy was bleak and repeatedly lost moderation.

The Khitan envoy arrived, and the Khitan queen sent Xiao Zhongxiao, the general of the prison guard, and Liu Congshun, the observation envoy of Lizhou. The Khitan Emperor sent Xiao Yi, the envoy of the Shiping Festival, and Zhao Cambodia, the observer of Gaozhou, to the capital to celebrate the Qianyuan Festival.

Ouyang Xiu also made Zheng Lang immortal want to die.

Zheng Lang is slippery, he wants to find faults, but it is not easy to find them, even if he is reckless and lets others impeach Zheng Lang for losing his court. If it can't be transmitted to the people, it can be compared with Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian's fight, so who is Lu Yijian and who is Wang Zeng? I'm afraid that Shiyong will say that he is Lu Yijian.

With a heart of shame and indignation, he did his best to do his best. Deal with the four Khitan envoys. It is also quite strategic, not mentioning the people, but first mentioning the construction of the city. Xiao Yi can only explain again and again that the Khitan city building is a special case, not for your Song Dynasty, but for your Song Dynasty, Western Xia has not surrendered to your country for a long time. and put forward all kinds of unreasonable demands, we crusade against Western Xia on behalf of your Great Song Dynasty.

Ouyang Xiu said, you don't need your Khitan to make a move, the matter of Western Xia, we will solve it by ourselves. As for the extra 100,000 yuan in the original peace agreement, the right should enhance the friendship between the two countries and give you Khitan for nothing.

I am afraid that the Khitan will take advantage of this to invite merit, and make all kinds of unreasonable demands again in the future.

Xiao Yi also felt embarrassed, and went to Western Xia to give an explanation to the Song Dynasty to get the 100,000 money, and he considered the country more. Yuan Hao's kid is ambitious, and he has taken in the people of Jiashan many times, not only the people of Jiashan. There are also the northern Tatar tribes, once Yuan Hao succeeds in his counter-plot, the Khitan will also be eroded. In the past, it was used as a chess piece to restrain the Song Dynasty, but now it is gradually getting bigger, and the Western Xia cannot be allowed to develop, otherwise it will not only become a threat to the Song Dynasty. It will also become a threat to the Khitan. That's why I had the plan to conquer the Khitan this time.

In the end, it was unspeakable, and it was reasonable for the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty to be suspicious.

Rip-off for most of the day. Ouyang Xiu said: "You can ignore the matter of building the city, but I must release the people who were taken captive by Yuan Hao." ”

"Yuan Hao is unruly, and we Khitan orders don't listen."

"No, it's just that some people fled to our dynasty from Western Xia, and there were many checkpoints along the way in Western Xia, so they could only flee from your territory, but after your Khitan built two cities, you intercepted the people of our dynasty and made it impossible to return, which is also a move to hurt your brothers. My lord has increased your kingdom by 200,000 yuan, and the matter of building the city has been disputed by the ministers, and then there is the matter of intercepting the people, how can my lord explain it to the world. If your kingdom takes a step back, my lord will have a room for redemption. ”…,

After hearing this, the four Khitan envoys discussed for a while, and Xiao Yi said: "It's not interception, there are some Western Xia people, if our country lets them flee to the Song Dynasty, before the army rises, they will lose their righteousness." In this way, let's go back and report to our lord, and send people to the southwest to screen, if you are the people of the Song Dynasty, how about releasing them one by one? ”

"If this is the case, we must send several officials from our prefecture to conduct screening." Ouyang Xiu replied. Let you screen, how many people can be put back? In this era, people are also a resource.

After grinding for several days, the four messengers made him dizzy, and they actually agreed.

Zhao Zhen was awarded.

But I couldn't cry or laugh in my heart, this person held the post of the Governor's Yuan, and he was purely a troublemaker, but as a messenger, he was the only candidate. Sure enough, it is applied only in quantity......

The court was in harmony.

Zheng Lang fought against him, reprimanded Ouyang Xiu, and then gave him a chance to make meritorious contributions, what else can he say?

But behind this, Zhao Zhen's balancing technique is only known by God, by earth, by Zhao Zhen, and by Zheng Lang. Guan Jian said that after Zheng Lang, the court quieted down, and no minister mentioned the matter of Shuiluocheng. I don't dare to mention it again, and I am looking for a draw.

Zheng Lang gave another advice, saying that the summer harvest is coming, and the finances are gradually turning into safety, since the humiliation is peaceful, the people should be recuperated, and the move of the department to re-collect commercial taxes should be slowly stopped, it is slowly, not immediately, and the Song Dynasty's finances are still very tight. Since the war, all the heavy allocations have been abolished, and the increased commercial taxes have been gradually reduced.

This is the credit of Zheng Lang.

Prepare grain in advance, quickly quell uprisings in various places, and save a lot of finance, otherwise, at this time, there is no immediate reduction of the department allocation, and the commercial tax is slowly reduced. But this credit is invisible, there is no comparison, no one notices.

Immediately.

Under this edict, the time has come for the country to truly recover.

And Zheng Lang is also waiting to see how effective his tax exemption law will be.

Wang Anshi's tax exemption law has many drawbacks, coupled with the market change law, so that the effect of the tax exemption law is limited to reducing the burden of the third and fourth class households, and the commercial value is offset by the market change law. If there is no market law, the release of these middle-class people will greatly promote the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

It is also invisible, and it cannot be seen directly, at least after five years.

Not only the tax exemption law, but also the law of military reduction. It will also take a long time, and now it will have to come up with money to settle the veterans, which is very expensive, and it will take at least five years to see the effect. Not only is it not effective at the moment. On the contrary, it is increasing expenses.

The number of soldiers in Gyeonggi has been reduced one after another, and the number of soldiers banned before the war and the soldiers, that is, the main force of regular combat soldiers, has reached 900,000. After large-scale reductions, the number of forbidden and Tibetan soldiers was reduced to less than 710,000.

It is already similar to the number after Wang Anshi's change.

But Zheng Lang was not satisfied, and wanted not to be redundant, and the number of forbidden soldiers had to be controlled between 600,000 and 650,000. He doesn't have the guts to do less, and if he has more, he will be redundant.

At present, the number of forbidden soldiers will still become a heavy burden for the country.

Optimistically, the number of soldiers was reduced to 350,000 after tax exemption and further reductions. Equal to the highest peak since the beginning of the war. It has successively reduced its strength by more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 troops. It still has to be controlled, compressed to 900,000 people, and the drawbacks of the Song Dynasty's redundant troops will be truly eliminated.

It's already good.

The reason why it has gone so well is precisely because of the improved armor protection method. Gyeonggi and Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi raised more than 300,000 Baoding, at least Zhao Zhen had an illusion that my troops had not decreased.

Not only Zhao Zhen will think so, but some old-fashioned ministers will also think so.

The most ingenious part of this law is the removal of taxes, and some officials want merit. If you want to forcibly levy insurance, then the tax is reduced and the levy of insurance is discouraged. The number of baoding is insufficient, and the face cannot be passed. There will still be disputes, but with this delicate balance, the disputes will not be huge. Even if there is, no one cares, and they are all paying attention to the new policy of Qingli. …,

Nearly 300,000 soldiers were reduced. At present, there is no financial relaxation for the Song Dynasty, on the contrary. More than 300,000 baoding more or less added some burdens to the finances of the Song Dynasty.

Without the quarrels brought about by the Qingli New Deal, the Song Dynasty was gradually recovering.

At this moment, an event, not very big, happened, which finally shook the government and the opposition.

The south of Kaifeng is Chenliu County, and there is an earthen bridge on the Bianhe River on the west side of the south town of Chenliu County. This earthen bridge was not designed at the beginning, more than blocking the channel, so moved here, but also did not design well, the pier is facing the channel, the ships are said to be inconvenient, every time they pass here, they are cautious, for fear of hitting the bridge pier, the ship sinks. Chen Liuxian urged Gang, that is, Li Shunju, the grain officer, to suggest that the bridge be moved elsewhere.

Hearing Li Shunju's reaction, Yin Wuyu of Kaifeng Prefecture sent Bo Li Wenzhong, the head of Kaifeng County, and Du Yan, Chen Liuzhi County, to verify the situation. This Du Yan is not Du Yan from Xifu, but another Du Yan, with the same name and a different person. Li Du and the others came over to take a look, it was not very convenient. When he went back to react, Wu Yu ordered the bridge to be demolished.

That's when trouble arose.

Although it is a wooden bridge, it can be erected on the Bianhe River, and the bridge will not be small, the bridge deck is tall, and there are several piers, so it is located on the side below the land bridge deck and is used by a family, if the bridge is demolished, his house will also be demolished.

In this era, there are also demolition compensation, and the form of compensation is different, such as houses, which will give you some money and land for rebuilding. Or occupy the land, and also give money for the land, or give another good land. However, people have not yet speculated on the land, and the government does not expect the land to make money, so the cost is not high.

But if this family is illegally occupied, it will definitely not be compensated. Besides, the house is beautifully built, so there is money to compensate for it? However, this family is a big local family, and there is also a Weiwei Temple official named Lu Shilun, who happened to be an official Wang Ming who had rented his family's house before, and the two had a good relationship. Lu Shilun sent a generous gift to Wang Ming, and after Wang Ming accepted Lu Shilun's bribe, he went to the third envoy Wang Yaochen to ask for advice. He would not directly say that he could not move the house of the Lu Shilun family, but said that this earthen bridge had existed for a long time, and it was not as serious as Li Shunju said, and Kaifeng Mansion was a redundant move and a waste of money. Wang Yaochen and Wang Ming were Jinshi in the same year, and the two usually had good friends, similar to Zheng Lang and Zhang Fangping. He didn't think of the twists and turns, so he told Shen Cheng, the judge of the household department, that there was no need to demolish the bridge and save finances.

He is a three-way envoy, how many affairs are in charge? This trivial matter will not be inspected in person, Shen Cheng is different, and after hearing about it, he asked, and hesitated. So after a delay, Wang Ming saw that Wang Yaochen did not move, and asked again. Wang Yaochen asked Shen Cheng for the second time. Shen Yue misunderstood, and didn't dare to ask directly, Wang Si Envoy, it is not a question of whether it is demolished or not, it is the house of the Lu family. Thinking that there was a cat in the middle, he didn't dare to offend Wang Yaochen, so he said that Kaifeng Mansion had begun to forcibly relocate and demolish the bridge.

Wang Yaochen was a little angry and said: "It took a lot of money to build this bridge. In just 30 years, you suddenly moved to another place, aren't you afraid of wasting money? ”

It is possible that he wants to save money, and this third envoy is working very hard, and he is short of money everywhere. After more than a year, is it easy? If you want to maintain it, you have to be careful with your budget. It may be that he is dissatisfied with Wu Yu's domineering attitude.

Then Chen Ronggu went to the scene to inspect it, and it was inconvenient, but he sailed carefully. It will not cause the bad consequences of the ship capsizing and the death of people, and speculating on Wang Yaochen's intentions, Chen Ronggu said that it was okay after he came back, and it was not as serious as Li Shunju's words.

This demolition is not demolished, Wu Yu is not convinced, and there is a fraud incident in the impeachment of Chen Liuqiao, where did Zhao Zhen go. Zhao Zhen sent the superintendent of the imperial history Wang Li to investigate. Wang Li is seeking truth from facts, and has no other intentions, so he went down to take a look, not because of money, but because the Lu family's house is stuck. There must be a cat in the middle, so I will respond truthfully in the book. Zhao Zhen still didn't believe it, if other officials were fine, there would be a Wang Yaochen. Then send Langzhong Lu Jue of the Ministry of Industry to file a case and investigate. …,

I don't know what the Lu family will think at this time, a bridge has actually alarmed so many bigwigs to come forward......

In the end, Lu Shilun was scared. I confessed a small amount, I didn't pay bribes, only gave some gifts. It turns out that there is a good friend, not for this, and it is normal for the exchange of courtesies. The truth was revealed, Zhao Zhen each played fifty boards, Wang Yaochen was fined seven catties of copper, and Guo Nan, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Households. Knowing Chen Liuxian Du Yan, Kaifeng County Master Yang Wenzhong. Chen Liu and other counties urged the gang, the right attendant banned Li Shunju, and fined six catties of copper, all of whom were punished for public crimes. The household judge, Dr. Guozi Shen Yue fined seven catties of copper, Chen Ronggu in the palace fined ten catties of copper, the capital official Wailang Wang Ming chased an official, and Weiwei Temple Cheng Lu Shilun chased an official, still fined ten catties of copper, and sat on it for private crimes.

That is to say, the big things are small, and the small things are turned into small things.

It is not very good to make a fuss, for a bridge, to implicate so many ministers to go in, and it is not very good to spread it.

Zhao Zhen wanted to dissolve the matter, but it reached Fan Zhongyan's ears, he thought that Zhao Zhen and the mud were wrong, and played a game. As a minister who participates in the great government, the punishment is improper, and if the minister does not say it, he will bear the training of His Majesty the day before yesterday, and he will become a sinner in the world, so the minister must say.

Chen Liuqiao is the address selected by Zhenzong after repeated surveys for the damage of the boat, Yao Zhongsun is in the third division, Du Yan begs to move this bridge, Zhongsun can't. When Wang Gongchen knew the mansion, he asked him to move it again, but Gongchen couldn't. The court did not know that there was an edict in the first dynasty, Xu Yi was unscrupulous, and the three divisions built this bridge last year, and now they have broken the materials, so they sent people to review it again, which is a job, not a private crime.

The text of moving the bridge, the ninth day of the first month was sent to Wang Yaochen and said, the tenth day of the first month Wang Ming invited Chen Liu back, Wang Yaochen spoke first, asked about the benefits of moving the bridge, Wang Ming then replied, it was not Wang Ming's request and then acted.

The high hall is the high of His Majesty, and the ministers are the secretaries, so the reason for respecting the Son of Heaven. If the three divisions make the master of the world's great plan, and if he is guilty of a crime, His Majesty will degrade it himself, and he shall not be humiliated by the lawyers. The rat trap is here. Even if Your Majesty has the intention of despising your close ministers, you must not show it to others.

Wang Ming rented the Lu family's house, paid a thousand per month, and then moved to Chenzhou Tongju, just temporarily borrowed, at that time Wang Ming was the county official, the Lu family was unwilling to accept money, Wang Ming was still unwilling, just because Wang Li, so he arrested Lu Shilun and imprisoned, to the point that there was a false trick (the unexpected sound was beaten into a trick), how could it be because of one or two thousand dollars, so that the staff asked for this matter? Because of stopping chasing officials, or punishing copper supervisors, he saved himself from complaining outside, and avoided himself from frequently complaining about Zhaoxue and annoying the court.

Chen Ronggu ruled on the bridge incident, saying that the 50 boats that were damaged in the case account were mostly due to the wind, and the boatman mishandled them, so that the boats hit the bridge piers and crashed into them. Only five of them were damaged by bridges, but when the bridges were moved, they claimed human lives and confined property, which were all false. Therefore, Rong Ding decided not to move the bridge. Now Wang Li moved back to the original place, a violation of the edict of the first dynasty, the second new bridge was built for more than a month, and before it was repaired, it was damaged but the boat, the bridge pillar was broken, and the water potential was slightly worse than the heavy load ship.

Shen Yue is the judge of the third division, and the official matter of moving the bridge belongs to him, Wang Li redecided, and also sent someone to inquire again whether the move should be moved, and there is no mercy.

Although Wang Li and Wang Yaochen are disciples of the same sect, they don't like each other, so they decided to accuse the three divisions of love. and the more cautious it is, the more Yaochen acts, there will be treacherous schemes. The facts are ruthless, and there is no conspiracy, and they are not worth it. Wang Li personally guarded this matter, and should hear the truth, so as not to lose the news.

This is a public case that the bridge should not be moved, but in this era, although the bridge is convenient for pedestrians, once it is built, it will inevitably cause many inconveniences to ships. The ships of later generations still hit the bridge, and the sailing ships of this era. There are reasons for demolition, and there is a reason not to dismantle. However, with the impetus of both sides, this public case has reached a new peak. Fan Zhongyan's words are quite subtle, and he shouldn't say it, is it worth it? And Zhao Zhen also followed it and approved Fan Zhongyan's play.

Fan Zhongyan said so much, and in some places, he immediately decided to distort it, and what he was fighting for was only a private crime. Public crime is a mistake caused by ineffective work, and the responsibility is not heavy, nor does it lose its morality. Private crime is that the official has selfish intentions, favors, or bribes, or other reasons, and the punishment is unfair, which should be punished severely, and once he wears the hat of private crime, his career will also be hindered in the future.

Since it is from there, there is not much of a problem, isn't it just a fine of a few catties of copper? How much it's worth.

But there is a Wang Li inside, can Ouyang Xiu let it go? In fact, in the Qingli New Deal, Ouyang Xiu played a very negative role, not only opening the end of the party dispute, but also his people almost went crazy......