Jia Changchao was really dumbfounded this time, and urgently ordered the general Hao Zhen to go to extinguish the chaos.

Hao Zhen is also a brave general on Zheng Lang's point general's spectrum, although he is a little behind, but he is on Zheng Lang's third-level famous general's spectrum. Since childhood, he has been famous for holding the bow as the first, and when he escorted the materials to Linzhou, he met thousands of horsemen in the Western Xia, pardoned the first soldiers, and killed hundreds of horses. Along with Tian Fei, to the Baigu, Xixia dug a trench to block the Song army, let the two generals go down to the cold ridge of the royal palace, defeated it, and repaired Ningyuan Zhuzhai to strangle the thieves. His morality is good, and later his in-law Dong Xi died, the family was poor, and he was replaced by someone else, even if Cui Youjie was hesitant, until he saw that Zheng Lang gradually had a chance, he really recognized the family affairs of Cui Zheng and Zheng. However, Hao is different, he has never disliked this family business from beginning to end, and married the Dong family as a daughter.

A good general.

There is no way for a good general, the troops in his hands are too small, the people in the city of Beizhou are all soldiers, and in order to defend against the Khitan, the city wall is built tall and strong, and Hao Zhen can't take it down.

Jia Changchao saw that he couldn't cover the matter, so he had to report the matter to the court.

The first is the Privy Council, so Jia Changchao desperately covered it, afraid that Zheng Lang would make a bad deal in the back, and take the opportunity to impeach himself for incompetence. But I couldn't hold it, there was no way, not only to send the information to the Privy Council, but also to the Chinese book, hoping to let the emperor know as soon as possible. You can't rely on Zheng Lang, you have to rely on the emperor.

Zheng Lang read Jia Changchao's report, which showed that Jia Changchao continued to hide and did not tell the truth of the matter, perhaps he did not realize the strength of this uprising at all. went to the Privy Council, summoned all the bigwigs of the Privy Council, and was about to discuss, Zhao Zhen sent someone to summon them to the inner palace. Several bigwigs from Dongfu also shouted.

Zhao Zhen asked Zheng Lang: "Zheng Qing, what do you think?" ”

Only Zheng Lang is the most proficient in military affairs, so ask Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang replied: "Your Majesty, I will order the garrisons of Shanzhou, Dingzhou, Mengzhou, Yizhou, Dezhou, Zhendingfu, and Dingzhou to prevent the expansion of the thief's situation. ”

"Quasi-play, Zeng Qing, draft edict."

It's a must-do. Wang Ze has many believers, and if he is not defended, it may spread to other state capitals and affect more people.

Zheng Lang said again: "The Khitan sent an envoy to He Zhengdan. so that he can go from other ways to the capital master. ”

Beizhou was stopped, and he could only take a detour, Zhao Zhen frowned, added, and said, "Don't leak it to the Khitan." ”

Shame on you.

The second edict was issued, and Zheng Lang said again: "Your Majesty, don't worry. It's just some chaotic people, choose some good generals, and you can quickly extinguish them. ”

It was this sentence that sent Jia Changchao to the pawnshop.

Zhao Zhen made a third holy decree, Beizhou is a key place in the country, Zheng Lang said it lightly, Zhao Zhen still did not slack off, and sent the palace envoy Mai Yunyan and the Xijing workshop envoy, the general Wang Kai to Beizhou to hunt and kill the thieves. Gaoyang Guandu deployed the general Wang Xin heard of the chaos in Beizhou, and took the initiative to lead the troops of the headquarters to Beizhou to destroy the thieves, that is, Wang Xin was deployed to recruit and arrest the city of Beizhou. It would have been very good. Wang Kai and Wang Xin are both famous generals, can't they deal with Wang Ze?

But Zhao Zhen wanted to give the teacher a chance to correct his name, and ordered Jia Changchao to preside over this counterinsurgency matter.

There are several tigers, Wang Kai, Wang Xin, and Hao Qian, but the person who led it is not even a cotton sheep, and the attack is not effective. After a little effect, seeing the arrival of a large number of officials and soldiers, not everyone in the city of Beizhou believed in the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha. Some people escaped, and Zhao Zhen issued a very merciful decree to these people. If there is a family member in the city, the family should be in custody, and if it is not a disorder, do not cause any doubt.

After a series of arrangements, Zhao Zhen asked in the capital hall: "Zhuqing, have I really lost my morality?" ”

I don't understand. He did a good job, but there were many disasters, no heirs, the Western Xia rebellion, and many rebellions between the common people and soldiers in the country, and he was entangled in his heart, and he couldn't figure out what the problem was. …,

"Your Majesty, this time it has nothing to do with Your Majesty, it is completely a rebellion caused by Wang Ze's personal ambitions," Zheng Lang said. Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun still have some excuses for the uprising, the imperial court implemented the tea law, so that the interests of these small tea merchants were damaged, Zhang Hai and Guo Miaoshan also had excuses, the officials forced the people to rebel, and they were desperate with hunger, but what is Wang Ze? If the Buddha made him rebel? If they are like him, will the kingdom still be a nation?

But Zhao Zhen likes to masochize himself, thinking that he is not doing well, first he gave grace to hundreds of officials, and awarded Wang Yiyong the title of Sui Guogong, Xia Zhu British Gong, Zhang Dexiang Xun Guogong, Wang De used Qi Guogong, and Zheng Lang was Zheng Guogong. In the old system, there were 10,000 households in the food estate, that is, the food yi that was accumulated layer by layer, for example, Zheng Lang accumulated to more than 4,000 households at this time, that is, he was the prince of the country. Wang Dan is a phase, more than 10,000 households, but still humble. Among the people this time, only Xia Zhu and Zhao Zhen added Yi several times in order to make up for the comfort, and passed 10,000 households.

Preferential treatment of ministers, anyway, the prince of the country is not worth much in the Song Dynasty, just a false name.

Zheng Lang refused.

Still don't accept it, and wrote a thank you table, the country is like this, and the ruler is at fault, what face does it have to accept the country's public.

Zhao Zhen deliberately summoned him into the palace and said implicitly: "If you don't accept it, how can others accept it?" ”

"Your Majesty, the others are all old, Your Majesty, the minister is still young, and he can't be burdened by false fame."

Zhao Zhen woke up and didn't suffer. But in the end, Zheng Lang was somewhat fame, and repeatedly refused to be rewarded, and his reputation became even more obvious, and what Zheng Lang didn't need was this reputation the most. is like Fan Zhongyan, the world is paying attention, and he is asking for hardship.

The southern suburbs festival is held in advance, the southern suburbs festival is fake, and through the southern suburbs festival, it can give all kinds of benefits to the soldiers, the good governance of the people, and the people's hearts. We can't continue to rebel like this, so we bribe the world.

Zhang Fangping was anxious and played a game. Since the beginning of the use of troops in Shaanxi, more than 860 commanders of the forbidden army have been added inside and outside, about 400,000 people, and although there has been a slight reduction, the amount is still quite large. According to the medium calculation, the person is about to give 500 money, two stones and five buckets of monthly food, and six horses of silk in spring and winter. Twelve taels of silk, three thousand with clothes. The annual feed money is nearly 2 million yuan, more than 10 million stone of grain, 60 percent off the standard case, more than 6 million stone meters of rice, 2 million horses of silk, 4 million taels of silk, and nearly 1 million taels of clothing.

This refers to the financial expenditure caused by the increase in troops, which was originally not counted. It's not bad, but if it weren't for the successive reductions, this figure would be even more terrifying.

It is also said that the wealth of the three roads is insufficient, and the merchants are recruited into the grain and grass, and the money is paid back, and the price rate is tripled. Since the third year of Qingli, it has been added to the northwest silver silk, and the civil and military officials inside and outside the country are redundant. The number of days is increasing, and the use of the three divisions is becoming more and more insufficient. This is part of the consequence caused by Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, and the welfare of the northwest garrison has been increased one after another, and the border army is too bitter. In this regard, Zheng Lang also maintained a tacit attitude for a while.

The southern suburbs are too frequent, each time the southern suburbs give at least six million rewards, the state mints more than 9 million yuan every year, and the inner part also needs to produce three million silver silk every year, which is enough for the three divisions. Now the outer state library has been looted, and I don't know how much the accumulation is inside? Can it be used for future disbursements? The benefits of the world's mountains and rivers, tea, salt and wine taxes are all in. Compared with the previous dynasty, there is a great increase, which can be described as a lack of profit. If according to the country's vast world and the number of years of income, there is no such thing since ancient times, but there is a division of scheduling, and there is a shortage of them, and I don't know where it comes from?

Since ancient times, I have not seen that one country have so much income in a year. But where is this money spent? Zhang Fangping didn't understand it very much.

What's the problem?

Zhang Fangping thought about it carefully, there were only two, because Fan Zhongyan admonished. The sale of officials in the imperial court was made public, and 6,000 yuan was given to Bo Wei, and 10,000 yuan was given to Dianzhi. At that time, the imperial court received a small amount of money, which allowed these officials to pay salaries, coupled with excessive rewards, resulting in serious redundancy in the imperial court.

This is the first reason, the second reason is redundant soldiers, using Zheng Lang's method of military reduction, the number of soldiers has seriously declined, and there are still many soldiers. There are more than 700,000 regular forbidden soldiers, 350,000 box soldiers, a large number of strong men, archers, tens of thousands of native soldiers, and more than 600,000 baoding, which are still redundant. Looking back, before. Taizu only raised 150,000 soldiers in the world, and Taizong conquered the Later Han Dynasty and used Khitan soldiers to raise only 400,000 soldiers. The first emperor prepared Li Ji to move thieves, resisted the northern enemy, raised more than 500,000 soldiers, and the Khitan asked for peace, slightly eliminated, and the world was slightly balanced with support. But now that so many redundant troops have been added, how can the state spend money be satisfied? And Zhao Zhen is indiscriminately rewarded, in the past, the southern suburbs were sacrificed for three or four years, once every four or five years, and now there is often once every two years, and how much reward is used for a southern suburbs sacrifice. …,

I can't get over this three envoys.

The book does not report, Zhao Zhen has Zhao Zhen's ideas, take it from the people, use it for the people, the country has money, why not use it, but rot it in the treasury?

Seeing Zhao Zhen's attitude, even Zheng Lang was a little anxious, no, this is not how to use money, it is better to reward him indiscriminately, this is the real benefit to the people. But Zhang Fangping's head is very sober, and there are drawbacks in salt, tea, wine, and alum, but Zhang Fangping said that it is normal for ministers to think about it, but it is also powerful. Don't dare to touch it, every time you move it, it will cause great trouble.

What is anxious is Zhang Fangping, the three divisions left by Wang Gongchen, there is still some surplus, but two southern suburbs sacrifices, a major disaster, and the treasury is gradually empty, he will definitely be anxious. But Zheng Lang did not express his position on this matter, this southern suburbs festival cannot be said to be without benefits, a southern suburbs festival, the imperial court will introduce some good governance, pensions, and rewards for soldiers. At least to reassure the people in the north, you must know that Wang Ze, a believer in Maitreya Buddha, is not only in Beizhou, but also in other states.

……

Under the city of Beizhou, there is still a bloody battle.

This is fighting for Maitreya Buddha, even if he dies in battle, he can go to heaven to become an immortal, at least he can be a little Arhat or something, and the believers are extremely brave. What made Wang Xin and others most angry was that in order to defend against the Khitan, there were many crossbows, trebuchets, gunpowder, and even a few bed crossbows in the city.

It doesn't matter, Guan Jian Jia Changchao is commanding indiscriminately, and he is putting on a posture, no one dares to disobey his orders, and he does not dare to disobey, so let him use military orders to kill him, which is also killed in vain. Even if Wang Xin is killed, where will Wang Xin go to complain?

Jia Changchao issued another ridiculous order, and in his anger, the soldiers and civilians of Xu Beizhou killed Wang Ze's followers, that is, Wang Ze's followers, and rewarded them heavily. The official army attacked tightly, and the heavy army gathered, even if the king believed in it, no one dared to rebel outside the city of Beizhou. After this order was issued, first some soldiers and civilians killed the true believers, and then indiscriminately killed people and took rewards, causing chaos in the suburbs of Beizhou.

Wang Xin saw that this was not good, so he secretly called Wang Kai and said, "Brother Sheng, Jia Xianggong does not understand military affairs. ”

He didn't dare to say it alone, so he had to join forces with Wang Kai.

"Gongliang, what do you say?" Wang Kai also had a sad face. Zheng Lang made a spectrum of famous generals and ranked them in the top ten, but he was trapped by a small thief in Beizhou City, and he felt very embarrassed.

"Let's write a note to the Privy Council, how about we ask Zheng Xianggong to replace the coach?"

"You said that Zheng Xianggong would come in person?"

"Zheng Xianggong came to ...... in person" Wang Xin thought very much, he had gotten along with Zheng Lang for a while, whether it was military talent or the importance of military generals, far better than Jia Changchao, but with shaking his head: "Unlikely, if the deputy prime minister is okay, now Zheng Xianggong is the minister of Xifu, how can he come to the front in person?" ”

At this time, he regretted a little, knowing that now, he should not have taken the initiative to ask for war, came to the city of Beizhou, and lost his reputation.

Wang Kai said worriedly: "We will report the situation to Xifu, Zheng Xianggong will definitely be replaced, but this Jia Xianggong ......"

Regarding Jia Changchao's methods, Wang Kai still heard a little. He can't deal with Zheng Lang and Wu Yu, but dealing with his generals is a piece of cake, he is sixty years old, why bother committing this taboo.

Wang Kai is afraid, Wang Xin is even more afraid, after Wang Kai was born in a famous family, what about himself, he was only born in a rich peasant family, can he not be afraid of Jia Changchao?

The two couldn't think of a good way, and at this time, another thing happened that made them angry.

The imperial court sent Gao Jilong, the governor of Cangzhou, to Zhibei Prefecture, this person came from a bigger place, Gao Qiong's sixth son. But there is a deeper background, his eldest brother's son Gao Zunfu married the daughter of Cao Xi, and Queen Cao is a sister. If the background is not deep enough, you can still climb out one, Gao Zunfu has a daughter, that is, the niece of Queen Cao, named Gao Taotao, and the one adopted by Zhao Zhen in the palace has a family affair. Of course, the Gao family is also a credit, not only Gao Qiong, Gao Qiong's eldest son, Gao Tao's grandfather Gao Jixun, and the second son Gao Jixuan are all famous generals. Gao Jilong was slightly second, but he also had the merit of conquering the bridge village after the Western Xia in the northwest.

As soon as this lord came, Wang Kai's family background was not enough.

Let's see what good plan this Kochi Prefecture has, Gao Jilong and Jia Changchao have been discussing secretly for most of the day, and the good plan has come out, Zhao'an!

Hearing this decision, Wang Xin and Wang Kai had a cold swing.

Zhang Hai can recruit An, Guo Miaoshan can recruit An, most of their rebellion is forced to rebel, and there is no founding name, so the court does not use the word conspiracy, but bandits. Wang is why he rebelled, as a small school, his salary is hundreds of yuan a year. The court did not mistreat his people. Moreover, the founding of the country made the people and soldiers stab the faces of the righteous army to break Zhao and win, what is breaking Zhao? In this way, you can also recruit peace, and in the future, no one can rebel. Anyway, it's better to succeed, and if you can't succeed, you can be recruited by the imperial court, and maybe you can even add an official to the knighthood.

Good idea!