The drought actually began to fall in July of the sixth year of Xining.

However, at first, not many people paid attention to the fact that the country is so big that drought and floods cannot be avoided.

So the war continues.

Wang Shao stopped first, and then went to the capital to report on his work. Now that the Xihe River has been recovered, what should be done next, you have to ask all the bigwigs in the court, otherwise he will end up like Wang Ju.

In fact, Wang Ju's fate was not as miserable as he thought, but in everyone's hearts, it was still very miserable, staying in the south for almost two years, almost as if he had disappeared.

But when he left in front, something happened in the back.

Mu Zheng was homeless in Hezhou, and Dong Yu finally came to the rescue, allowing Ghost Zhang to lead the army to Tabai City.

Jing Sili faced the battle, but because of the large gap in troops, he died heroically. In fact, this is an excuse, they will fight, and they will never let their forces fall into an absolute disadvantage. For example, Wang Shao, or Wang Ju, wouldn't the gap in strength be greater, but under their mobilization, they have always maintained the advantage of troops on the battlefield, and at least there will be no huge gap.

As soon as Jing Sili died, Ghost Zhang led a large army to besiege Hezhou.

This is the Battle of the White City.

The significance of Tibet is not as heavy as imagined, because the strategy formulated by Wang Shao has always had nothing to do with Huangkuo. The reason why Xihe was taken was because Mu Zheng took refuge in Western Xia, and if the Song Dynasty did not operate, Western Xia would sooner or later go south from here to Taomin.

Now that the Xihe River has been recovered, the strategic goal has been achieved, and as for Huangzhou, Wang Shao is not interested.

Therefore, after learning about this strategy of the Song Dynasty, Dong Yu later took the initiative to assist the Song Dynasty in the five-way war against Xia.

As for Ali bones, who would have thought?

The news reached the capital. There were actually some ministers who re-handed over the Xihe River to Mu Zheng......

This Gou An's heart has been soaked into the bones and spleen. That's even if Wang Ju does that. Many Wenchen can't change this character.

However, this time, Gou An's voice was relatively weak, and Zhao Ji didn't pay attention to it, and asked Wang Shao and Li Xian, who supervised the army, to return to Hezhou immediately.

Ghost Zhang is indeed very capable of fighting, but it is far worse than Wang Shao, even Li Xian is not weaker than Ghost Zhang.

The two had some deliberations in Hezhou, and instead of immediately rescuing Hezhou, they swept the Yuhe area in the northeast of Hezhou. In case Western Xia reinforcements arrived. Then he went around from Jiehe to the rear of Hezhou, retook the White City, and cut off the back road of the ghost chapter.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ghost Zhang prepared to retreat, but he didn't have time, and was blocked by Wang Shao on the west side of Tabai City, and the two armies fought fiercely, and Ghost Zhang left more than a thousand corpses and fled.

Wang Shao continued to pursue, breaking more than ten enemy forts along the way and burning nearly 10,000 tents. Killed more than 3,000 enemies, and almost smashed the periphery of Huangzhou. Then continue to use soldiers. Nearly 10,000 enemies were killed successively, and 100,000 cattle and sheep were obtained.

It is even more brilliant than the record achieved in another time and space, after all, this is a strengthened version of the Song Army.

What is the strengthened version of the Song army, driven by Wang Ju, the armor is more sophisticated, and many soldiers have begun to change their costumes, including the original bulky infantry armor, after changing into a new type of armor, the weight has also decreased by nearly 20 catties.

Twenty pounds of weight, how much will the soldier increase his speed? And if this speed is in the hands of a general who can use soldiers, it will undoubtedly be further amplified.

Some generals were excavated and cultivated in advance.

Successive victories bring confidence.

There are also those workshops built by donations from good households, which are still in operation today, of course, the meritorious generals do not have the right to portraits. But their portraits are placed on various utensils and daily necessities, coupled with the singing of stories, the excitement of the people, and the profitability has been good. With profits, there is money to compensate the families of the martyrs, plus the rewards of the imperial court, so that the officers and soldiers of the three armies have no worries.

However, Wang Ju took the initiative to let go and handed it over to the court overseer.

Otherwise, it will become a move to buy the hearts of the military.

Therefore, Mu Zheng was quickly cornered by the Song army, came out of the wilderness, and surrendered to the Song Dynasty with more than eighty chiefs. Zhao Ji was given an official position, re-named Zhao Sizhong, and became a minister of the Song Dynasty.

Without Mu Zheng, Xihe was officially recovered.

And Wen Yanbo also went down, last year the Huashan earthquake, a landslide. Isn't that normal? Moreover, Huashan itself is in the earthquake zone, and there were many large-scale earthquakes recorded in the Song Dynasty alone.

Wen Yanbo wrote that since the city was established, the officials and supervisors even had to sell melons and fruits, which would damage the national body and collect people's grievances, which led to the collapse of the Huashan landslide. He also said that the well-dressed house is not conducive to the city, and it is not tolerated by the gentry and clear discussion. How can there be a great power, the emperor seeks profit, and there is a providence that does not warn?

It is true that this city is really cheating, not only forced Wang Ju to give up the three major workshops, but also Zhao Ji also heard some very bad things, so he asked Wang Anshi, Wen Rong sold ice, and the people sold snow at all; I also heard that buying a comb is a simple comb, and buying fat and hemp is expensive to buy fat and hemp; I also heard that the reward was made, and the people who did not come to the market were traders.

That is, if you do not enter the market and sell your goods to the government, or accept the government's assessment of goods for half a year's interest on the goods, then you will be arrested. This one......

There is also a ** to sell wine, Zhao Ji is really embarrassed to ask.

Wang Anshi replied calmly: "In this way, it is the minister's desire to mislead His Majesty by gathering." His Majesty knows that there is such a thing? ”

Zhao Ji can't leave the palace, like on TV, come to a careful private interview, Wang Anshi doesn't admit it, what's the matter?

Wen Yanbo is not wrong to seize the offensive strategy of the city, but he should not lead a slippery slope to the market. Wang Anshi said that the change in Huashan was because of the will of heaven for the villain. The city is easy to initiate, because the people have been in trouble for a long time, so it is suppressed and merged, what is the benefit of the officials?

If you continue to talk about it, it will be ugly, you three gentlemen, Han Qi annexed tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and almost the people of a county became tenants of Han Qi's family. The wealthy businessmen do not pay taxes, and they do not know the millions and tens of millions of dollars of wealth. As for you, Wen Yanbo has amassed wealth and made usury.

Why did you initiate these changes, it was you powerful and powerful people who merged and pitted!

Wen Yanbo was speechless, and in shame and anger, he asked to make up for it, coupled with Wang Ju's counterattack, Wen Yanbo's reputation was far less good than in history, Zhao Ji only hesitated for a while this time, and then put Wen Yanbo outside Heyang Mansion.

So Wang An's stone-shaped shì is a great thing.

At the pinnacle of his life. A devastating drought has struck.

The area affected by this drought is huge. Unthinkable. From Hedong to Hebei, Shaanxi, and then to Liangjing, Huainan. That is, from the Huai River to the north, the entire north was affected by this catastrophic drought.

Where is the center of gravity of the Song Dynasty, this is the center of gravity of the Song Dynasty.

Not counting the large area, the length of time is unimaginable.

There was a drought in July last year, because Wang Ju recommended Zhang Shangying, who was always recommended by Zhang Dian Kaimeishan. Because of the dispute over the extermination of locusts, he was demoted again.

But at that time, it was not a big problem, the disaster came, and the disaster relief was, and it was like this for so many years.

However, it did not rain until April of the seventh year of the Xi year, and it still rained in such a large area.

This means that last year's autumn harvest was poor, and this year's summer harvest is all lost. If it doesn't rain, how can we grow grain in autumn?

Such a vast area. If there is no harvest for three seasons in a row, what will be the impact?

Sadly, there are many ministers who are not trying to find a way to help the disaster. to solve this disaster, but to seize this opportunity and use the disaster to attack and change the law.

There are many gossiping people, and Zhao Ji is also scared.

Therefore, Zhao Ji once asked the minister if I had done something wrong, and whether all these changes should be abolished.

None of the ministers answered.

God knows what's on your mind?

Therefore, Zhao Ji asked Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi didn't pay attention either, he was presiding over the disaster relief matters, this catastrophe, the food prices in the entire north have risen rapidly, there is no way to save it, but the capital is the center of gravity of the country, and it must be stabilized. Therefore, first let Sinong Temple allocate 320,000 hu rice from Changping, and then transfer 1.9 million hu rice from the third division to buy officialdom, so as to reduce the direct output of rice in order to suppress the grain price in the capital.

At this time, Wang Anshi did not feel the crisis coming.

First of all, Sima Guang wrote a book, saying that "the north is full of the table, the east is the sea, the south is the Jianghuai, the west and the Shu, since the autumn and winter of last year, there is absolutely little rain and snow, wells, springs and streams, exhausted, no harvest of two wheat, the people have been desperate, more than half of Mengxia, the autumn planting has not entered, the middle household is below, there is a lack of food, and the roots of the wood and grass are picked to prolong the day and night." There are even poor households who "demolish their houses and sell them to give their own food and official expenses."

However, Wang Anshi thought that Sima Guang was exaggerating. And this kid has already stayed in Luoyang to repair books, what can he do.

When the disaster comes, the disaster relief is enough, so the rice is often closed to help the hungry people in Heyang.

But if you can save the people of Kaifeng and Heyang, how can you save such a big place?

Successively Hedong Lanzhou Shizhou, Jingdong Road Qizhou Yunzhou, Kaifeng County, Damingfu, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Zhending Mansion Xing, Weizhou, Xiang, Zhao and other prefectures, Yanzhou of Yanyan Road, Huanqingzhou, Baoanjun, Shaanxi Zhulu, Hebei West Road, Yongxing Army, Jizhou and other places, all of them are short of food.

It's not that they don't provide disaster relief, it's that the states have been rescuing disasters since last year, and after saving them for so long, all the nearby state capitals have emptied their grain reserves, and they can't even dispatch each other, and if there is no food, how can they provide disaster relief?

Then the displaced people appeared, "The northeastern refugees, supporting the Saidao, were barren and miserable, and had no clothes, and the people of the city bought mochi wheat noodles and rice for millet, or Rumu and grass roots, until their bodies were locked, and the negative tiles were uncovered and sold to pay the officials, and they were endless." ”

Chu Jianzhong, who replaced Wang Ju and went to Gyeongju, wrote: "In the edict, with the drought on the edge of the border, the Han and Fan people eat, the Xia people took advantage of this to recommend hunger, and lured familiar households with rewards, to thousands of groups, and fled with each other. If it is not thickly saved, it may lead to escape, and it will be inconvenient to defend the border barriers. ”

Wang Ju laid a good foundation.

However, the price of grain has risen rapidly, and if it rises several times or ten times, how much grain can the people buy with a little savings in their hands?

Some people were so hungry that they scolded the court and scolded Chu Jianzhong for being incompetent. Chu Jianzhong was so hard that his hair almost turned white.

While being scolded, you have to be careful to beware, after all, there can be no mistakes in that section of Hengshan, otherwise your career will come to an end. Then complained that Wang Ju didn't take the opportunity to destroy Western Xia at that time?

Han Qi also said in the recital of rewarding the people Luo Xiu for hunting and killing the robber Lu Xiaoer, "Fang is now in Hebei, the people are in exile, and they are gone without food." The most worrying thing is that thieves are gathering more and more, which is a public and private disaster. ”

If the imperial court still can't think of a way, these homeless people may really be hungry, and all of them will turn into thieves, imitating Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to revolt.

This makes Zhao Ji how not to worry.

However, Wang Anshi replied, drought and floods, even in the ancient sage, are inevitable, these are natural phenomena, we do our best, besides, in the past five years, the wind and rain have been smooth, proportionally speaking, the current drought is only an accidental phenomenon. They are all small things, and God has its own will, and we can cultivate people.

If it is postponed for another 900 years, this statement will be accepted by everyone.

But this was in the Song Dynasty, and Wang Anshi's answer was somewhat hasty.

Zhao Ji said, maybe we did something wrong.

Wang Anshi was a little surprised, but he didn't think much about it. Soon Zhao Ji wrote an edict of guilt, but Wang Anshi still didn't care, the catastrophe, the emperor wrote an edict of guilt, it is normal. For example, Song Renzong, in addition to writing an edict for his own crimes, can punish his own body, and run outside in the middle of the night barefoot to get drenched in the rain.

Sima Guang officially bubbled and officially shot.

If he doesn't make a move, he will kill himself, and if he shoots, he will kill fatally.

But before Sima Guang cast the killing, Wang Ju, who had almost disappeared for two years, finally bubbled. (To be continued......)