Zheng Lang went to Yunzhou again, and below Yunzhou is Liangshanluo.

This time the river control has made Liangshanluo so important, not because of the group of heroes in the Water Margin, but because of its location. There is Jishui in the northeast of Liangshanluo, there is Xiji River (Wuzhang River) in the west, Wenshui in the northeast comes from Zizhou, there is Huangou in the south to Nanqing River, Xuzhou, directly leads to Huai River, and now there is a new canal.

The new canal is not expanded with the help of Huangou, since Shouzhang through Liangshan to Liangshanluo, Daren City, and the location of the Grand Canal in the Yuan Dynasty is very similar, slightly different. The rivers remained, serving as irrigation and navigable systems, forming a complex network of water with the new canals.

Liangshanbo is so important that it cannot be overstated.

Because of the dense population, the south is competing for space with the mountains and the sea, and if the big Liangshan Bo, many people began to fill in the lake and enclose the fields, so that Zheng Lang dug them one by one, anyway, the debts are not rotten, and the empty checks are wildly opened, just to compensate for the occupation of cultivated land and housing debts, Zheng Lang paid 9 million deed shares.

Then the Liangshanbo was dug deeper, the lake embankment was heightened, and all the cash crops such as reeds, lettuce, and mushrooms around the lake were cut down together.

They seem to protect the soil and water, but they also cause a large amount of silt to form and silt up the lake.

After two years, Liangshanbo finally became a clean lake, you can't see thousands of miles of reeds, the scene of greenery and shade, if there are heroes and heroes such as the Song River, it will definitely not be good to hide the mountains and rivers of Liangshan.

Diverting the Yellow River into Ji is more different from the Yellow River, although the Yellow River meets with Ji Shui, but at that time Ji Shui disappeared, and the river course also starts from Linpu in the south, passes through Zhencheng in Puzhou, and will be in the East Aji Water. But now all the old roads of the Yellow River are not on this line, so starting from the north of Fan County, it is almost pulled in a straight line to Dong'e. If you approach the road, the distance between the two rivers is only a few dozen miles, but the direction of the river becomes steep, and sand will accumulate at the bends, and the river will become very rapid, hitting the embankment.

Double-checked. Taking this road, the advantage is that it is straight, and the safety of the river embankment is guaranteed, and the disadvantages are guaranteed. It becomes very long. For more than 200 miles, there will be more disputes over construction and cultivated land, and more money will be used.

Zheng Lang simply transferred to Yunzhou.

No one made a fuss with Chuzhou Hanxin.

Zheng Lang himself said that Zhao Zhen had issued an edict. If you make a fuss again, it's purely boring. But if you want to make a fuss, it's too easy.

Everything is mainly based on river control, and it is not yet time for reckoning.

But Zheng Lang felt taboo in his heart, and he actually lived in Chuzhou for a short time. Last year, I almost stayed in Qizhou and moved a nest.

Such a big event happened, and Zheng Lang didn't need to read the imperial court's newspaper, he would have known about it a long time ago.

Zheng Lang was preparing to see off four students in Yunzhou.

Because of the meritorious work in governing the river, the imperial court moved Wang Anshi to the knowledge system, and Sima Guang knew the Yuan, these two positions already belonged to the first level of official positions in the Song Dynasty, and then in front, there were twenty or thirty top officials. The two refused again. Pang Ji euphemistically wrote a letter, persuading the monarch not to cherish the golden clothes, and persuading the monarch to cherish the youth. The flowers can be folded straight, and the branches must be broken without flowers. If you can, you can go up, and then you can't go up. If it drags on and ends with the end of the river control, it may not be possible to expect a good result.

Written to Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang smiled and listened to Pang's opinion. Under his persuasion, the two were edicted.

By the way, I took the big and small Su into Beijing to participate in the subject exam.

Before leaving. Wang Anshi asked, "Gong Zheng, why don't these states accept it?" ”

As soon as he asked, Sima Guang also pricked up his ears to listen, as the Governor's Yuan, what he was in charge of was impeachment, and the northwest was a major event, and he instinctively paid attention to it.

"These states are the root of Western Xia, if they are accepted, Western Xia will be destroyed with me."

The first article cannot be passed, once the two countries are in a big war, the money is insufficient, and they can only harsh the people again, not only will it become a trouble to control the river, but the final result may be more tragic than the Qingli War.

"Di Qing's successful capture of several states is under the banner of helping the Western Xia royal family, and he is benevolent and righteous, if it is not under this banner and forcibly attacking these states, even if there is no garrison here, it will become very difficult." When Zheng Lang said this, he suddenly thought of Yongle City, Song built Yongle City on the border of Xia, Yin, and You, and Xixia sent 300,000 troops to attack. Xu Xi angrily reprimanded the seeds, and played the court to impeach the people for arrogance. He also transferred the seed to Yanzhou, and the seed was resentful. Later, the Western Xia soldiers arrived, but they could not be saved, and more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians were gone.

It seems that the mistake of planting and Xu Xi.

Careful analysis is carried out, and not only that, but also the local customs and environment.

"The Western Xia civil war, the Tangut people don't know where to go, once they turn to foreign enemies and work together, it may lead to hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the Khitans will participate. In this civil war, the people of Western Xia were struggling to make a living, and many tribes would complain and hate the Li Xia Dynasty. But I didn't let go of the occupation of the six states, which just allowed the Western Xia to transfer the contradictions and virtually resolve the pressure for the Western Xia. This is the third reason. ”

"The supply is long, there is a shortage of water in most places, and there is a lot of wind and sand, so it occupies the upper hand. At this time, it is not appropriate to count the cities. If they wanted to attack Western Xia, it was best for the Khitan to attack from Beihetao, and operate several strongholds before Beihetao, across Helan Mountain, and Western Xia was in danger. Liao Xingzong attacked Western Xia from Nanhetao back then, but not only did he not understand military affairs, but also underestimated the enemy, and was in a hurry, so he made a mistake in the choice of terrain. If our dynasty wants to attack Western Xia, ancient and modern exchanges, such as the Eastern Han Dynasty, not from Yinxia to attack, but from Jingyuan Road. ”

"I see, why didn't Zheng Gong say it?"

"I don't need to say it, under the great victory, there are people who will be moved, but my dynasty is the same as the Khitan, it has been peaceful for a long time, and it is content with pleasure, and the main battle faction has a very small voice, and if it wants to occupy the six cities, it will not be passed in the end. However, the crisis of Ponol has been over for the time being. ”

First, Fu Bi resigned from his official position due to his mother's funeral and went home to mourn.

Then Tang Jie's impeachment of the privy deputy envoy Chen Xuyin married the eunuchs Shi Zhicong and Wang Shining, Chen Xu defended himself, and the two disputed, out of Chen Xu knew Dingzhou, Tang Jie knew Hongzhou, and the participating Yanchen Zhao Luan knew Qianzhou, Fan Shidao knew Fuzhou, and Lu Zhi knew Jiangzhou. Bao Zheng is the privy deputy envoy, and Cai Xiang is the third envoy.

If you add Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, who served in the dynasty, it will gradually be beneficial to Zheng Lang.

Bao Zheng and Cai Xiang must be Zheng Lang's people, but Zheng Lang knows in his heart that since serving as the third envoy, Bao Zheng has done his best and is trapped in financial pressure, so he will not survive this year.

After 100 days, Zhao Zhen seized the love and issued an edict five times, but Fu Bi refused to accept it. So he replaced Fu Bi as prime minister with Pang Yuan. The ministers were impeached.

happened to be Di Qing's victory, which relieved Pang Ji's pressure.

is also a person with skills, otherwise staying in this position, he will be attacked by many ministers in turn, and replaced by others. It has long since fallen.

Sima Guang looked at each other and smiled.

Zheng Lang was afraid that he would participate in the Pang Han dispute. said: "Junshi, why are there so many people who impeach Pang Alcohol? ”

"In the past, he was close to Jia Changchao and Yan Shu, but he had many disagreements with the gentlemen."

And that's not all. If you look at the two palaces of the court, how many people have not served as ministers? ”

Sima Guang carefully thought about it, and if this was the case, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with it, I started my own business. I know the inside story of Yanchen. So in order to protect Yanchen from impeachment, what is the Supreme Law? ”

"If you don't do it, you can't do it."

"It's hit again, Pang Yuzhi can leave if he wants to, and stay if he wants to, not only you, but I can't protect it. All the prime ministers were born from Yanchen, and they each hugged each other, which was even more unfavorable to Pang Yuzhi. ”

Sima Guang was very melancholy, and often heard Zheng Lang say that there were two ministers in the Song Dynasty who were the most powerful. Di Qing is the Great Wall of the Northwest, and Pang Ji is the mainstay of the court. Why is this happening?

Zheng Lang didn't say anything else.

Of course, he was also tempted, but reason prevailed over desire.

In fact, there was one weapon that was not taken out from beginning to end, artillery. After several years of development. Artillery technology is mature. The maturity of artillery technology not only means the birth of a powerful weapon, whether it is gunpowder or shells. Or the cannon body, which means that many technical difficulties have been overcome. Ultimately, these technologies. As long as there is benign guidance, it will be turned into civilian use, into scientific and technological strength, and into production. Now under the leadership of Shi Heng, they are conquering two other larger artillery, short-barreled cannons, which also have a name, the Fran cannon, which is three meters long and weighs more than six hundred catties, and the mother gun has nine sub-guns, and the firing speed is faster. But there is a serious difficulty, the cannon body is long, it is very dangerous to open the flower shell, 23 out of 10 will appear to explode, do not use 23 out of 10, 23 out of 10, this artillery has no practical value. Then Zheng Lang asked Shi Heng to add a piston sealing ring to solve this problem. It still didn't work, so the barrel was shortened again, but it affected the launch.

The second is the red-coated cannon, the advantages of the red-coated cannon are more significant, the firing range is long, the shell is large, but the disadvantage is more significant, too heavy, not easy to move, although the barrel is thick, not easy to explode, but the copper barrel is ultimately a defect, once fired, the hot barrel will be easy to go out of shape and soft, affecting the range and accuracy.

Zheng Lang couldn't help but think of steel again, and he didn't know if this kind of 100-made steel was considered steel or the best wrought iron.

He only has rough theories, and the others are blind and touch the elephant, so the pace of progress has been very slow.

However, the Tiger Squat Cannon can barely come in handy.

But it didn't work, I just didn't want to wake up Xixia.

To this day, there are still many ministers who hold the introverted idea of valuing peace. If you see the appearance of such a powerful weapon, Li Liangzuo has always been a good son, and anyone who wants to send troops to Western Xia will be met with endless opposition.

So keep it hidden.

As Zheng Lang said, the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was not the Khitan, or even the future Jurchens and Yuanmeng, but themselves, their own introverted and cowardly spirit of infighting.

I want to fight, and I want to score the object.

Four students left Yunzhou.

Then the controversy stopped, and a news came from the front that Di Qing was seriously ill. At first, Zheng Lang thought it was fake and didn't care. It is indeed seriously ill, many years of accumulated injuries, as well as back gangrene, coupled with old age and physical decline, this time to the north, Di Qing personally went into battle many times to kill the enemy, resulting in the recurrence of old injuries and fell ill in Hongzhou City.

Without Di Qing, who will guard these six cities?

The court finally fell silent.

But now it's still a mess, Di Qing is sick, and he will do things well one by one. Wei Minglang sent someone to negotiate with Di Qing, but Di Qing didn't know the dynamics of the court, so he dragged the envoy along. Even Li Liangzuo took Liang to the front line.

As Western Xia began to gather a large army, no one dared to make a move. The country is ruined, and at this time, it is hard to come with the Song Dynasty, and the gains outweigh the losses. He sent an envoy to Di Qing again, and then sent an envoy to the capital of the Song Dynasty, we are good people of the Great Song Dynasty, not that we have no hidden falsehood, Your Majesty, you have to distinguish the object, and it was said at the beginning.

Di Qing also fell down at this time, and wrote a song to the capital, saying that I was seriously ill, and the prison soldier Shi Quanbin could testify. And the Western Xia gathered more than 100,000 troops, and if they didn't return it, a large battle would inevitably break out. Therefore, the emperor and his ministers finally agreed to return the six cities to Western Xia.

Didn't hand it over immediately.

First build the Nine Forts in the Quye River. It turned out that more than ninety percent of the places occupied by the Song Dynasty were occupied by the Western Xia calendar. Then thousands of soldiers were stationed one by one, so that including Toyosu, a barrier was in the rear.

Another 5,000 villagers were stationed there, although a dozen forts stood like giants on the west side of the Quye River. The people still did not dare to farm. Dispatch the villagers to the past. More work and more reward, it is their own, and the village soldiers cultivate and harvest themselves. Grain is still the center of gravity of Linfu Road, if it is transferred from the Central Plains. The price of a bucket of grain freight plus waste and loss will reach five or six hundred wen, six or seven hundred wen, almost ten times the price of the capital.

Open all the state treasury of the six states to buy people's hearts. Of course. suppressed some disobedient tribes, especially the remnants who did not hide the false Pang, but God knows if it was the remnants of the false Pang. Some tribes were die-hard loyalists of the Li Xia Dynasty, and after being detected by the scouts, Di Qingguo decided to order the generals to find excuses to suppress these tribes one by one.

The confusion caused by the lack of concealment is indeed not easy to distinguish.

Wei Minglang repeatedly protested and did not listen.

He also used grain, cloth, and tea to exchange almost all the livestock in the six states.

The Song Dynasty still had a shortage of livestock, including the north, and there are still many shortages of large livestock today. The Song Dynasty was forbidden, resulting in a huge price difference. For example, a cow, driven by the south, the price of cattle in the north is also rising, and a good cattle is more than five dollars. It's almost equivalent to three horses of silk.

However, in the territory of Western Xia, the price of silk rose, the price of cattle fell, and once a horse of silk could be exchanged for four or five cows. A good cow can also be exchanged for three. Nowadays, a silk horse is exchanged for a cow. The tribes were also smiling. The same is true for other livestock, including good horses.

The best horses of the Song Dynasty came from Fuzhou, and the terrain and water and soil were also the reasons. But the best horses were not only in Fuzhou, but also in the Hetao region, as well as in the six prefectures now temporarily occupied by the Song Dynasty, where the Western Xia Horse later had a nice name, the Hetao Horse. The Khitan horse, that is, the Mongolian horse, is more hard-working, but the Hetao horse is taller, explosive, and fast. After four or five months of grinding, the Song Dynasty got more than 40,000 good horses. Although it is a transaction, it is the most cost-effective transaction since the founding of the Song Dynasty. When a first-class cow arrived in the Song realm, the price was only the money of a silk horse and two taels, but on the big order with the Khitan, the price was six or seven taels, which was not a good cow. That's a difference of four or five times.

got cheap, and bought the hearts of the people.

The monarchs and ministers of Western Xia were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, and they couldn't attack again. Because Di Qing began to prepare to withdraw his troops, he first evacuated from Xiazhou and handed over Xiazhou to Li Liangzuo.

The division of kings, the division of benevolence and righteousness, does not burn, loot or plunder, and brings so many scarce materials to the states, are you embarrassed to use soldiers to fight each other? At one time, many tribes wanted to go south with the Song army under the influence of the Song army. This is also forbidden, why the probation, is to let you stay in the territory of Western Xia, and let you cooperate when the Song Dynasty sends troops in the future.

Di Qing took the generals to send these tribes one by one, and said: "I didn't hide the rebellion against the rebellion, since the Xia State is subordinate to our dynasty, my dynasty should send troops to help the royal family." But if you are taken in, what is the teacher of the king? Now that there is no hidden sins, they are eradicated one by one, so you can live well. ”

Most people took it seriously, at least the Song Dynasty did it, so they sent each other off and said goodbye. Next, Shizhou was ceded, and part of the army was withdrawn from Hengshan to Hongzhou and Longzhou. However, the terrain around Hengshan has allowed Di Qing to send people to draw a detailed map.

More and more people sent each other, and some tribes burst into tears, finally seeing the dawn of peace, most of which were brought by the Song Dynasty. Wei Minglang frowned when he saw these situations, but he couldn't do it, and he had to greet him with a smile.

It was not until September that the forts west of the Quye River in Linzhou were repaired and the soldiers settled in, and the Song Dynasty returned Yinzhou and Suizhou to the Western Xia one by one. The Western Xia Civil War, which lasted for more than a year, ended, but the Western Xia was full of cannibalism, and the Song army killed each other, resulting in the death of nearly 100,000 strong men in this inexplicable war. After the handover of the Song army, due to lack of food and clothing, many tribes continued to revolt, further pushing the Western Xia to the edge of the cliff.

It was only after two years that the Western Xia gradually recovered some of its vitality. But at that time, more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians died in the turmoil. In a sense, the strategic plan discussed by Zheng Lang and Di Qing in advance has been successfully realized.

The entry of the Khitans was also prevented in time. After receiving a distress letter from Wu Zang, the Khitan monarchs and ministers had a dispute over it. The main reason is that the vitality of the Khitan has also been greatly damaged, and many powerful people do not want to go to war again. Then the Song army sent troops, and seeing the Song Dynasty sending troops, Yelu Hongji also wanted to pick up the bargain, gathered tens of thousands of troops, and prepared to cross the Yin Mountain and attack the southwest. But then received the news that the Song army began to withdraw, and the Khitan had to withdraw the army again.

There were still some people in the court who objected, but the river works were built again, and the opposition was very weak.

The minister stared at the northwest again.

found one thing, no, at this time Di Qing was not Di Qing at that time, a pawn born in the northwest from a small criminal line, with nearly 30 battles, and gradually ascended to the position. Especially in the Battle of Dingchuanzhai, Zheng Lang handed over almost all the command to him. Then quickly pacified Hengyang Man, Qidu Kunlun Pass, Guiren Pu victory, troops out of the special grinding road, captured the city of Yanshan, and even Zheng Lang's victory in Jiaozhi was Di Qing's advice. This time, he connected the six states of the Western Xia Dynasty, and pushed Di Qing's reputation to an unattainable peak.

Then after thinking about it carefully, even the Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was nothing more than that. No, you can't let him stay in Yanzhou, stay in the northwest. But what to do in the event of a big victory? Ouyang Xiu and others wrote one after another, and Di Qingjian did this miraculous feat, which allowed him to return to the court as a privy envoy.

Fish people back from the northwest first, and then talk about it later.

Pang Ji is a little dizzy, what are you going to do when you are transferred back to the court, and let you toss again?

He was too busy to take care of himself, so he couldn't make a sound, so he had to write to Zheng Lang. However, there is no need to toss, after Di Qing heard the dispute in the court, although he also understood, he didn't need to look at others, just look at Zheng Lang, but he was subdued and his illness worsened.

At the beginning of October, Di Qing was in a coma, and after waking up, he asked his wife to call Shi Quanbin and said in a weak voice: "Shi Jian Jun." ”

"Yes."

"Please bring a message to the emperor for the minister."

"Okay."

"Said to the emperor, the minister is from a pawn, thanks to His Majesty will not give up, the minister is very important, the minister has nothing to reciprocate, and he will not write any good articles, so he can only use a rough body to smear His Majesty's liver and brain. But there can be no doubt that the minister is very loyal to His Majesty. ”

"General Di, needless to say, I know that General Di is loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and His Majesty. It's all a small thing. General Di, good for life and recuperation. ”

Di Qing looked at the west blankly and said: "My own body knows it in my heart, no, it's not greedy, I just hate not stepping on Helan for Your Majesty...... Helan Mountain. ”

Before he finished speaking, his eyes widened, but his eyes stopped moving.

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