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In the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo, in the political affairs hall, the three provinces were in charge and the six departments were discussing the dispatch of officials to Nanjing Province and Xijing Province.

Although the war was not yet completely over, and the Great Song Dynasty did not officially declare its possession of these places, it was time to send officials in advance to take over the governance.

With such a large increase in territory all of a sudden, according to rough statistics, more than 1,000 officials were needed in Nanjing Province and Xijing Province alone, from the envoys of economic strategy, transfer envoys, envoys to criminal envoys, governors, general judges, records to join the army, judicial officers to join the army, to county governors, county governors, and so on. Even if some of the officials of the former Liao State are retained, it is still necessary to send nearly 1,000 officials to the past.

Moreover, these are only two provinces, and it is still unknown how many officials will be sent over in the future if they are taken back together with the Chukyo-do, Kami-kyo-do, and Tokyo provinces.

This can be a big problem for the prime ministers of the DPRK and China. These newly expanded lands are not attached to the people, and they need to be vigorously governed, and it is inevitable that some mediocre officials cannot be sent indiscriminately, otherwise it will easily lead to rebellion.

And to transfer thousands of officials at once, this is indeed a difficult task, and its arduousness is no less than Yang Yi fighting in the front, this is the so-called easy to fight the world, but difficult to govern the world!

Li Qingchen said: "This year, a total of 632 Jinshi have been selected by Enke, and although these talents are all good at learning, after all, they lack actual experience in governing the localities. ”

Empress Dowager Liu nodded and said: "Li Xianggong's words are reasonable, but in this way, hundreds of officials still have to be selected." These things can no longer be delayed, and the prime ministers and Shangshu may wish to draw up a list of suitable candidates in their hearts. And then together with the selection. ”

Zhang Shangying, the secretary of the ministry, continued: "Queen Mother, I'm afraid that it will still be difficult to completely solve the problem. And even if the problem of Nanjing Road and Seokyodo Road is solved this time, what about the next Kamigyo Road, Nakakyo Road and Tokyo Road?

If the Great Song Dynasty sent so many officials to govern Liaodong at one time, it would not be enough for the domestic officials to be transferred: so the ministers thought that they might as well increase the appointment ratio of the former Liaoguo officials;

And it does not have to be limited to the original officials, the imperial court can temporarily set up a selection examination in Nanjing Road and Xijing Road, as long as it is a scholar who has passed the Liaoguo State Examination, and those who are innocent can participate;

As soon as they pass the examination, they will be immediately dismissed, which will not only effectively solve the problem of insufficient officials. Moreover, it will have a great effect on the people's attachment to the new land. ”

Zhang Dian thought for a while and said: "Queen Mother, it seems that the old minister is the only one, the country has opened Enke twice in a row, even if it is opened again, it is just a tall man among the short, and it will not help." However, this examination in Nanjing Road and Xijing Road cannot be counted as a Ministry of Rites examination, and can only be used as a mechanism for temporary replenishment of officials, and the selected officials will not be allowed to serve as the chief officer of the road in the future. Not to mention the cabinet. ”

The lessons brought by the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty have made the Great Song monarchs and ministers very jealous to this day, so in the Song Dynasty, almost no foreigners have served as high-ranking officials.

Now it is necessary to select officials in the southwest of Liangjing Province. There will definitely be people from the Khitan and other ethnic groups who will be selected, and Zhang Dian stressed that the officials selected this time are not allowed to serve as the chief officials of the first road, let alone enter the cabinet. It is based on this jealousy.

After this matter was roughly understood, the privy envoy Xu Jiang immediately said: "Queen Mother." According to the information sent back by the staff hall, the situation in Dali cannot be ignored. Duan Zhengchun, the lord of Dali, suddenly disappeared, and Duan Heyu passed on the crusade against the Gao family;

Duan Qingshan led nearly 20,000 troops from Yizhou to the west, and under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, he captured Shicheng County and Shanyan Mansion in one fell swoop.

Now the people of Dali believe that the Gao family murdered Duan Zhengchun, the lord of Dali, where Duan Heyu's army passed, was quite popular with the people, and the situation was quite unfavorable to the Gao family;

Gao Mingliang urgently dispatched 20,000 troops to Weichu Mansion, if he could not win, the Gao family was very likely to be quickly defeated, which was extremely unfavorable to our dynasty, and we must take countermeasures as soon as possible. ”

According to the meaning of the Great Song Dynasty, the Duan family cannot be allowed to win, because the Duan family has a righteous reputation, and once it wins, the Great Song Dynasty will lose the excuse to meddle in Dali;

According to the original plan, it was to let the Gao family win a miserable victory, and the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to Dali in the name of standing up for the Duan family, in order to achieve this goal, Yang Yi moved a lot of hands and feet in Duan Qingshan's army;

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, Yelu Yanxi was defeated too quickly, and the Great Song Dynasty had to send troops to the Liao State, where can I still take care of Dali now, but it doesn't matter, the Great Song Dynasty has invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this, is it all in vain?

And if you miss this opportunity, if you want to calm Dali again in the future, you will have to spend ten times the effort.

The monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty have always been unkind to Dali, because most people believe that the death of the Tang Dynasty was the root cause of Nanzhao at that time, and Dali inherited everything from Nanzhao, including the hatred of Nanzhao by the Great Song Dynasty.

The old god of Zhang Dian replied on the ground: "The matter of Dali, let's take a look at it again, even if Gao Mingliang is really defeated this time, the Gao family still controls eighty percent of the states and counties in Dali, the two sides should not be able to divide the victory and defeat so quickly, if the Duan family is defeated now, the Duan family will have no succession, and it will not be able to consume the strength of the Gao family." ”

Li Qingchen said: "This official also agrees with what Zhang Xianggong said, there is no need to meddle in Dali affairs first, but Xu Shumi's worry is not unreasonable, Gao Taiming, the head of the Gao family, died suddenly, and his sons Gao Mingliang, Gao Mingqing and others are too young and lack prestige, I am afraid that it will be difficult to pick up the burden left by Gao Taiming, plus the Duan family has a righteous name, and the people's hearts are mostly towards the Duan family, and it is not surprising that the Gao family fell quickly, because our dynasty really needs to take some countermeasures as soon as possible." ”

The officials of the political hall were discussing the affairs of Dali, and Li Dafeng of the staff hall rushed in stride, and was stopped by the guards outside the government hall, so anxious that he shouted: "The staff hall has just received the news, 100,000 urgent, 100,000 urgent, you get out of the way." ”

When Zhang Dian and the others in the main hall heard this voice, their hearts suddenly rose, it couldn't be that Yang Yi was defeated!

Li Dafeng was released, entered the hall and hurriedly saluted: "Queen Mother, ladies and gentlemen." The big thing was not good, and the Western Uighurs suddenly defected. Together with the 30,000 troops of the Black Khanate, they brazenly invaded our Hexi, and Guazhou and Shazhou fell one after another. Now the yellow-headed Uighurs have also defected, with a combined army of 40,000, and are approaching Suzhou. ”

"How can this be justified, it should be killed!" The hot-tempered Zhang Shangying was furious when he heard this, and he took the case first, like an angry lion.

Zhang Dian waved his hand to him, and asked Li Dafeng in a cold voice, "What about the cultivation?" Is there any news from Khotan? ”

"Hui Zhangdun Xianggong, Chong Jianzhong was besieged by Hassan in Khotan, and it has been a long time since I received news from Khotan. All I could receive before was the news that General Yao Gu sent back from Keriya City, but now that Gua and Sha Prefectures have fallen, the contact with Keriya City has finally been broken. ”

Empress Dowager Liu's face was very bad, although she was not very good at military affairs, but at least she knew that as soon as Guazhou and Shazhou fell, the 20,000 horses in Khotan's cultivation and construction would become a lone army that fell into death, if it was normal. Nine times out of ten, the army will be wiped out.

Moreover, with the defection of the Uighurs of Western Prefecture and the Yellow Uighurs, it is difficult to predict how the Tibetan tribes will react, and it is very likely that they will defect together, and I am afraid that the whole of Hexi will fall at that time. This is undoubtedly a huge difficulty for Da Song.

General Xu said: "The top priority at the moment is to increase troops to Hexi as soon as possible to keep Suzhou and Ganzhou from losing. ”

It is inevitable to increase the number of troops in Hexi. But where to draw troops has become a big problem.

With the implementation of the Great Disarmament and Disarmament Law in the first two years. The total strength of the Great Song Dynasty was only about 500,000, and there were still 100,000 troops in Gyeonggi. But these 100,000 horses were used to defend Gyeonggi and could not be moved;

Yang Yi conquered the Liao State in the north and brought out 100,000 horses, and because the places of Annan and Hetao had just been recovered, they also needed to garrison a large number of troops to deter them, and there were more than 300,000 in these places;

In such a large place in the country, there are more than 20 provinces (provinces), and more than 100,000 troops are spread out, which is already very thin. What if the war situation on the Liao side changes and reinforcements are needed?

In the past few years, everyone who dared to provoke the Great Song Dynasty was destroyed, but they didn't expect that Vigab's Jin actually ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and they dared to stretch out their claws to the Great Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Liu saw that Zhang Dian and the others did not panic, and she forcibly calmed down, but she still couldn't help but ask: "Hexi is in danger, what are the ministers' countermeasures, and they want to come quickly." ”

Zhang Dian said: "Now it seems that there is only another 10,000 troops from Gyeonggi to reinforce Hexi, but it is a long way to send troops from Gyeonggi, and I am afraid that it will be too late, so the old minister suggested that another 10,000 troops should be transferred from Hetao and Shaanxi Four Roads, and handed over to Yao Xiong, the commander of Liangzhou, to send troops to Hexi first, at least to block the Uighur rebels west of Ganzhou first, so that the imperial court can relieve his breath and then conquer Xizhou." ”

"If the ministers discussed by Prime Minister Zhang have no opinions, then it is decided, please allow the privy envoy to transfer troops immediately." After talking about the transfer of troops, Empress Dowager Liu immediately asked: "It's just that Khotan's 20,000 troops should be good?" ”

At this time, the ministers in the government hall couldn't help but fall silent.

In fact, everyone knows that the lone army in Chongjianzhong, which was isolated thousands of miles away, is still capable of rescuing now, in fact, it is not certain whether Hexi can be saved this time.

Fan Chunren spoke at this time: "Queen Mother, in the past few years, the foreign policy of the imperial court has been too tough and too sharp, and the old minister feels that it is time to adopt a gentle policy and treat each other with benevolence and virtue, otherwise in the future, I am afraid that the rebellions of the various departments in the frontier will continue one after another, and the old minister suggested urging Scholar Yang to end the war in Liaodong as soon as possible........."

Zhang Shangying didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and immediately refuted: "Now that the war in Liaodong is at a critical point, how to end it?" If you don't clear the rest of Wanyan Agu, I'm afraid that Liaodong will not want to be peaceful in the future. ”

Fan Chunren said: "Didn't Wanyan Aguta send an envoy who was willing to cede the land south of Shangjing and my Great Song Dynasty?" Why don't we promise him to end the war in Liaodong, so that we can spare our energy to deal with the changes in Hexi! ”

From the perspective of the overall situation, Fan Chunren's words are not without a little truth, the Great Song Dynasty is sharp, resulting in all departments only fearing but not respect, once people are afraid to a certain extent, it is inevitable that the dog will jump off the wall in a hurry, and take risks, and the defection of the Xizhou Uighurs is a living example.

The problem is that if you do something, you have to clean it up, and if you give up halfway, others will not only not "respect" you, but I am afraid that even "fear" will be gone, which will only be worse.

Zhang Dian sighed secretly, it is difficult for him to be the prime minister, one wave is not peaceful, one wave is rising, Hexi is already the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and it cannot be guaranteed.

If Hexi is lost, even if the entire territory of Liao is defeated, he will still have to bear the responsibility of abandoning the land and losing the land in the future.

Zhang Dian took a long breath and said, "Just urge Yang Yi!" Let him end the war in Liao as soon as possible. ”.

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