Di Qing came from the north, and many of the generals in the south didn't know him, but it didn't prevent him from acting. He was not satisfied with anything in this business, but the only thing that satisfied him was the intelligence work. Before the man arrived, all kinds of information, including the nearby terrain, the dangerous places, the situation of the miasma, the customs of the people, and the performance of the generals in front of him, were continuously sent to him.

One is the report of the officials, and the other is the secret news brought by the scouts of the special service battalion.

Begin to roll names: "Chen Shu, Yuan Yong......"

There were thirty-two people in total, and all the generals who were called stood up with their heads drooped. Punishment must be unavoidable, the battle before Kunlun Pass, the fight was too ugly, eight thousand soldiers did not resist and the whole army was annihilated, the whole army was wiped out many times in the history of the Song army, but the leading generals fought to the end, even like Liu Ping, who was captured until the end of the battle, not like this battle, eight thousand soldiers died more than 7,000 people, dozens of major generals except a few people fought bloodily, and the others all ignored the safety of their subordinates, and fled back first.

They didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, first, Yu Jing commanded them to fight, although Di Qing was the commander, could he not give Yu Jing face? Second, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, only Zhao Kuangyin has killed people for the discipline of the army, and since the defeat of Song Taizong in the Gaoliang River, the defeated generals have been demoted at most, and they have never killed a general.

Yuan Zhi and others are Ban Zhi, Chen Shu is the commander of the Guangxi Military Region, which is equivalent to the commander of the Guangxi Military Region in later generations, although the military position is not valuable in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court sent troops in three batches, and there are many commanders, including several under the jurisdiction of the Emperor, and Yang Wenguang also holds this position. But in the end, it is a military general who can be counted by Liangguang, what can Di Qing do? It's a big deal to hit dozens of big boards. Dozens of generals squeezed each other's eyes, and they almost took off their pants, ready to be beaten.

Di Qing looked at them coldly. said: "The order is not even, so the soldiers are defeated." ”

gave Yu Jing face, not to mention disobeying military orders. In that case, even Yu Jing will inevitably be implicated, only saying that the military law is lax, Nong Zhigao's army is in front of him, and the soldiers are still throwing dice and gambling money, relying on this reason is enough.

Thirty-two people are still hanging their heads, what to do, it's too ugly to lose.

Di Qing suddenly slapped the table and shouted, "Eight thousand good men." Because of your mistake, you were beheaded by thieves, and 8,000 families were separated from their wives because of this. Come and launch the military gate to cut it. ”

A group of people rushed over and pushed thirty-two people out.

Sun Wei and Yu Jing were stunned, they should be listening to mythological stories, how many years has the Song Dynasty not beheaded officials above the jurisdiction of the Emperor?

Sun Wei didn't come back to his senses for most of the day. Yu Jing had to stand up, because he forced Chen Shu to fight, and bowed his hand and said: "Shu's loss of discipline is also the crime of Jing moderation." ”

It is not easy to let Yu Jing bow to a martial artist. Otherwise, thirty-two heads will fall to the ground.

Di Qing looked at Yu Jing and said, "It is a civil servant to give up people, and it is not your duty to be a soldier." Chop! ”

You are a civil servant, and the ancestral family law does not kill the scholar doctor, otherwise I will kill you.

The big tent generals all changed color, and their strands trembled.

Di Qing then sent people to rectify military discipline, kill people and establish authority, and was forced to do so. The south has been defeated several times, morale is weakened, and there is no way to rectify morale, but military discipline can be rectified and the combat effectiveness can be slightly improved. Otherwise, he only has 5,000 horsemen, and there are tens of thousands of brave brutes in Nongzhi's masters, and most of them will be defeated.

Thirty-two heads hung on the flagpole outside the gate, and tens of thousands of Song soldiers were silent one by one, and there were not even people who made a loud noise.

Di Qing looked at the south, where is there a mountain, called Kunlun Mountain, not Kunlun Mountain in the Western Regions, but Kunlun Mountain located at the intersection of Penn and Yongzhou.

Zheng Lang went to the northwest and felt that the role of the checkpoint declined, which also made sense, the pace of human activities expanded, for example, the southeast heavy pass Zhaoguan, which still played an important role in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but since the Song Dynasty opened the Jiangdong Wei, many polders have risen, and the south is no longer a lake, and the role of Zhaoguan has disappeared. Another example is Xingyang Huniu Pass, Sanying vs. Lu Bu, Li Shimin vs. Dou Jiande, but with the development of the Song Dynasty, the role of Hujiao Pass is also declining. However, some Xiongguan will play a role for a long time because of its special geographical location. For example, Pingxingguan, or Kunlun Guan. …,

Daming Mountain is tall, the forest is deep and vine-thick, it is difficult for the army to pass through, compared to Daming Mountain, the situation of Yumai Kunlun Mountain is slightly better, the highest point is only more than 300 meters. However, due to the dense woods, it is still difficult for pedestrians to pass. There is only a small pass in the middle, and the terrain is very treacherous.

It is rumored that since the Han Dynasty set up a garrison here, the Song Dynasty military is not good, but the best is the way to defend the city, the officials in the south immediately saw the importance of this place, and set up Kunlun Pass, Changshan Station, Dayangling Station, Jincheng Station, Quy Nhon Station and other post passes. This is also the Kunlun Guan noun officially appeared in the world.

Di Qing set his eyes on Kunlun Pass.

Nong Zhigao has been fighting in and out of Yongzhou, and he has not operated here at all, which makes Di Qing feel very strange, which is a blessing and a shame. I didn't even see the importance of Kunlun Pass, but I thought about Nong Zhigao's military cultivation, but it was this person who turned Liangguang upside down. In comparison, how low was the quality of officials and generals in the Southern Song Dynasty?

Di Qing's army went south, and Nong Zhigao made up for it, and preemptively sent troops to repair Kunlun Pass, which was repaired so quickly, and it seemed that there were not many troops sent. Di Qing sent two scouts to investigate. From the special battalion, Di Qing didn't believe in the many native soldiers in the south, and Zheng Lang didn't believe it either, God knows if these native soldiers would be bought by the enemy and bring the army to a dead end, and there should not be too many dead ends in Liangguang. So Qi Lin and other eight scouts who were familiar with the terrain here surfaced one by one and served as guides.

Di Qing used two of them.

Before the two armies met, the two scouts went south to Kunlun Mountain to inspect the information, waiting for their reply. It was only in the evening that the two scouts quietly returned. Di Qing took them to his marching tent, and no one knew what they said. When Di Qing came out of the big tent, he gave an order to keep the troops and only transfer ten days' worth of food for the army. Calling back and forth, Nong Zhigao has grown slightly, including the slight repair of Kunlun Pass this time, as well as the use of scouts. After hearing this, he was very puzzled, could it be that this Di Qing wanted to solve himself in ten days? Let the Song Dynasty officials want to go on their own. Will you believe it?

Yu Jing didn't believe it, and wrote another letter to Zheng Lang, you have to come to the south quickly. Otherwise, Di Qing, a martial artist, still doesn't know what kind of demon he will toss in the end?

After Zheng Lang received the letter, he replied with a letter, soldier. Sophistry, you don't know military affairs, don't point fingers and hinder Di Qing's command. But I still don't feel at ease, the time has come, even if I increase my speed and set off, when I arrive in Yongzhou, the battle of Kunlun Pass will be over long ago. And this trip. The battle of Kunlun Pass was only a small one. Therefore, he left two thousand soldiers and horses, entrusted them to the planters, and rushed to Wuling with a hundred elite horsemen.

……

The Lantern Festival has not yet passed, and the war situation in the south is about to break out, and the imperial court has issued an edict. Xichuan went to the imperial court, and if the state and county officials were corrupt and harsh, cowardly and sick, and harmed the people, they would be ordered to transfer and raise the weight of the criminal prison department.

Five bad things about officials. Put corruption in the first place, a greed can do anything, the harm is also the greatest, followed by harshness, harshness is not necessarily for greed, some also want to be for political performance, some have nothing to do with political performance and corruption, but do not put the people in their hearts at all, so the second place, the third is mediocrity, the fourth is cowardice, since the Zhang Hai uprising, until Nong Zhigao, although the imperial court has successively executed some officials who are greedy for life and afraid of death, but many civil officials are still disappointed, so they are listed fourth, and the fifth is disease, there is a disease, hinders the ability to handle official duties, but this one is the least obstacle, for example, even if Fan Zhongyan is sick, how many officials can govern the place and Fan Zhongyan?

It seems to be a simple edict, but there is a story behind the scenes, which is Pang Ji's opinion.

I didn't dare to move Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal, but I was able to absorb some of it, especially at the border, often because the officials did not pay attention to it, and there were many contradictions. …,

Start with Sichuan first, as for Lingnan, Pang Ji didn't care, and didn't even ask.

This is Pang overestimating Zheng Lang, and even Zhao Zhen has a similar feeling, Zheng Lang called soldiers who had been overseas to go to the south, and Zheng Lang laid out in the northwest, temporarily enabling the Song Dynasty to solve the crisis between the west and the north, which seemed to be preparing for the peace of mind to run the south.

Zheng Lang couldn't think of Nong Zhigao, but he had been planning the south for a long time, and Zheng Lang had done an inexplicable thing in Zhongshu.

He once asked Guangzhou to bring a bundle of sugarcane to Beijing, and then eat it sweet or not, but the officials in Guangzhou did not know what was going on, so they asked the envoy to bring a bundle of the best sugarcane to Zhongshu. After eating, Zheng Lang didn't say anything.

However, Zheng Langtuo solemnly said this in his plan to go south, and the people of the Central Plains misunderstood the south, including sugar cane. The Song Dynasty evaluated sugarcane, saying that Suining sugarcane in Sichuan was the best, followed by two Zhejiang and Siming sugarcane, but Panyu sugarcane was ten, and the sugar frost produced was very small, light in color and thin in taste. It turned out that Zheng Lang was in Jiangdong and only wanted to develop Jiangdong Wei, and by the way, he developed some side businesses, so he launched sugarcane, cotton and textile industries. Lingnan is also indifferent, thinking that Panyu cane is very poor because the variety has not evolved well.

It wasn't until this time when he was preparing to go south that Zheng Lang thought of one thing from the miasma, and later generations had doubts about whether there was a miasma, and Zheng Lang also had doubts, but some intelligence feedback came up, and it seemed that there was indeed something to do, but most of them must have been falsely rumored and demonized. So will this happen in Panyu cane in the same way? After all, if it is far away, no one will transport Guangdong cane to the Central Plains for sale regardless of the cost.

So let the Guangzhou officials choose the best sugarcane and bring it to Zhongshu to taste, without him, will the future generations be Wuzhong cane sweetness or Liangguang cane sweet? At least the yield of Cane is much larger. I brought it, and I saw that it was not as tall as the later Liangguang cane, but it was certainly much taller than the original cane, and as for the sweetness, it was not very good, but it was not very bad either. Zheng Lang made an objective evaluation that Liangguang may not be able to grow good sugarcane, and the planting technology of the main local people is relatively backward, and the sugar production technology is also backward, which forms the worst impression of Liangguang sugarcane.

This evaluation provides unlimited room for maneuvering in the governance of the South.

The imperial court wanted to vigorously manage the south, but there was also a question of whether it was worth it or not, and it was impossible to get its grain, it was too far away, and the freight was high. But it can be exchanged for other means, such as cloth, gold and silver, or other valuable goods in lieu of taxes. With wealth, the two Guangxi can be closely linked with the Central Plains.

Since Zheng Lang proposed the matter of Lingnan, he would have a headache, but I believe that Zheng Lang will also have a way to solve it, so the Pang nationality in Lingnan simply didn't ask. It turned out to be right, but the process was not quite right. Zheng Lang is not so long-term, on the contrary, Nong Zhigao conspired against Zheng Lang but already knew it.

Therefore. Pang Ji shifted his attention to Sichuan, and Nong Zhigao rioted, which made the people of the court panic all day long. Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising was also very big, and they were afraid that something would happen again in Sichuan. Then Pang Ji and the four Khitan envoys made an agreement to exchange nearly 500,000 yuan of materials for 100,000 Khitan livestock, which was the previous payment, if the livestock were of good quality, not to pass off those inferior products, the Song Dynasty also added 100,000 to 300,000 yuan of materials according to different circumstances. However, they did not accede to another request of the Khitans to expand the field. This is also a place that many descendants do not know, the scale of the field expanded, the transaction expanded, which was actually unfavorable to the Song Dynasty, and the currency circulated to the Khitan.

As a result, the Khitan envoys were not too satisfied, nor were they too dissatisfied. Reluctantly agreed. The situation is different from the situation, and now the situation of the two countries is just reversed, and they only hope that their own country will defeat the Northern Blockade as soon as possible, and then defeat the Western Xia, so that they can have the initiative to speak. …,

Didn't go for the time being. To stay and watch the Lantern Festival of the Song Dynasty, it is the favorite of every Khitan He Song New Year's Day envoy. Back in Khitan, I can no longer see such a prosperous scene.

Then I received a good news, Zheng Lang saw that he was close to Lingnan, and the imperial court changed the edict to appease and recruit the envoy of Guangnan Jingluo, and awarded him the Duke of Chu, which I don't know how many times the imperial court awarded Zheng Lang the Duke of Guogong, but Zheng Lang refused several times. Originally, he was going to be awarded the Duke of Yueguo, but Zhao Luan's words were inappropriate, the more non-Wu Yue, from Lingnan to Jiaozhi in the Spring and Autumn Period, they were called Nanyue, or Gu Yue, Zheng Lang was originally an important position, and he was in charge of the military and financial power of the two Guangzhou, which was already against the ancestral precedents, and if he got this position, it would be inappropriate. Don't say the following words, if the meaning changes, Zheng Lang has this title, and then he has the right in his hands, and he has the name of the king of the ripping earth. So he was reappointed as the Duke of Chu.

In fact, whether it is Chu or Yue, it is the same thing, and if you want Zheng Lang to run the south well for the imperial court, and Zheng Lang may not give it to you. Pang Ji also deliberately wrote a private letter to Zheng Lang, Jun has always praised the master on the case of Zigong not receiving gold and Zilu receiving cattle, but he doesn't know why it happened to him!

Confucius said that Zigong refused to pay money is wrong, after all, not everyone has the spirit of Zigong, once the example is made, there will be no Lu people to redeem Lu slaves to return to China. So it's right to charge some reward for doing good deeds. As a side note, you are not subject to the Duke of the State, but we and Wen Yanbo and others do not have as much credit as you, and they are all subject to the Duke of the State, so how can we step down.

I didn't expect Zheng Lang to accept it this time.

Reason: Zheng Lang wrote a simple letter and made a report.

It is not appropriate for me to be the Duke of the Kingdom at my age, but the southern line is mainly to care, supplemented by suppression. Therefore, it was named by the Duke of the State to deter the chiefs of the southern tribes.

After arriving in Jeonju, Zheng Lang discovered something.

The number of chiefs of the tribes who came to pay homage to him gradually increased, something that had rarely happened in the southern officials before. So I thought of Ding Wei, why the southern chieftains had a close relationship with him, without him, Ding Wei once served as the minister of power in the Song Dynasty. These chiefs thought that dealing with Ding Wei had a good face. Dante said that it was depreciating at the beginning, which was different from Zheng Lang's nature. Therefore, I heard that Zheng Lang came to visit more chiefs of various departments. After arriving in Quanzhou, there were more barbarians, and even some barbarians ran out of Wuling and came to pay their respects.

Once made Zheng Su and Zheng Hao very nervous, the two Jurchens were like two generals, accompanying Zheng Lang left and right, not leaving an inch, for fear that Zheng Lang would have an accident.

However, Zheng Lang saw an opportunity.

It is best to win over the probationers, why do you have to use knives and guns, killing people is not the solution after all, the ultimate goal is to make them happy and accept the control of the imperial court, so that the people can live a good life, not slash and burn like now.

If it is a scholar of Jixian Academy, he is serving the doctor and the official department of the servant Lang Tongping Zhangshi to promote loyalty to Tongde Zuoli (meritorious title, the first class has 11 kinds of loyalty, conspiracy, and Tongde, etc., from the accumulation of four characters, each time plus 1, the second class is 19 kinds of Tuicheng, Baode, Shouzheng, etc., Fan Zhongyan has been awarded the title of Tui Cheng Baode Meritorious Hero, and the third class has ten kinds such as Gong Wei, etc., which are given to the prince and the prince or the civil and military attaché with great merit) sentenced Guizhou to charge the two Guangjing slightly appeased and solicited the Zhu State to give the purple gold fish bag, plus a national duke?

And this long list of names, maybe these barbarian leaders can figure it out, it is not as simple as a Tongping Zhangshi and the Duke of Chu. Pang Ji also said that he could no longer stand in the way of these ministers, and he was not afraid of the temple, but when he came to the south, he was also afraid that these ministers would draw ladders in the rear. I just took it.

Zhao Zhen was overjoyed when he found out and said, "Hey, I actually took it." ”

Very happy, how much Zheng Lang has done for this country over the years, Zhao Zhen knows very well, but how to repay, he can only repay his trust, it is difficult to cut the land and let him be the king. Even if he dared to do this, it would hurt Zheng Lang.

After receiving a favor, Zhao Zhen felt a little relieved.

It was only at this time that Zheng Lang received this knighthood, and it was not only Zhao Zhen who was at ease, but also Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo and others felt at ease.

But compared to this matter, the monarch and ministers are more concerned about the situation in the south.

It didn't take long for the good news to arrive. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )