Chapter 284: Responding to the Battle (II)

"I don't know, I don't know!" Peng Siyong was so angry that he wanted to jump up.

"Gong Peng, the lower officer just said very clearly, we were all too tired that day, and gave an order to let the officers and men of the three armies continue to pursue and kill the enemy, and we had to rest. Then he found out about it, but the raw rice was cooked into porridge, so he first ordered to stop it, and then he could only pretend not to know. ”

"Is that reasonable, do you read the books of the saints?"

"I read what the sage said, but what the Master taught us is that the Qi family rules the country and the world is peaceful. The lower officials don't understand, is this Ping, just stealing peace, that is, inferior, and making the Great Song Dynasty and the official family repeatedly humiliated? Peng Gong asked me. ”

"But it's not to teach you to cause trouble! Unkindness and injustice! ”

"Okay, Gong Peng, I'll make it clear again, why pretend not to know. I just used Sima Gong's contradictory recital to illustrate one thing, and the situation is different, and the way to deal with it is different. Cai Gong and I, as well as all the important ministers and generals, definitely don't want this to happen. But it has already happened, how to deal with it, or according to Peng Gong's wishes, severely punish the soldiers and the businessmen? Okay, so I'll talk about the consequences of that. First of all, why do the officers and men of the three armed forces do this, this money is not in their pockets, but distributed to the soldiers who have sacrificed and lost their wounds. Now they are safe, but so many comrades have fallen to sleep for a long time, or they can't take care of themselves for the rest of their lives, they are in the army together, not siblings, but better than siblings. Therefore, they want to change their ways to find some money for their families. Once it is dealt with, the three armies will inevitably be resentful, if the three armies mutiny, you will be responsible for this consequence, or will Cai Gong be responsible? Don't say it's impossible, Peng Gong, please take a look at the story of how Fu Zhaoshou caused the Bashu garrison to mutiny! ”

"If Gong Peng wants to take care of the mistakes of the ministers and generals in this matter, okay, please send someone to immediately investigate the bereavement benefits that have been deducted from all the sacrificed soldiers in the past, as well as the rewards that should have been due. This is not cured, but he is calculating on the mark, and the lower officials think that Peng Gong has lost the minister's body. ”

"You're cunning!" Sima Guang said angrily.

It's cunning, but it's not easy to check.

If it was good to start checking, but now it can't be checked.

First of all, check from the owners of each pit mine, and mining is really a dangerous job at this time.

So these mine owners only asked, these Xixia people who came to invade were people, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty were not people?

Especially those mine owners who have school affairs, just to make trouble, we can't afford this school work, so we have to buy mine slaves, if the court does not allow it, please don't let me take on this school work. And it itself is a "big deal", there are too many people involved, and when you check and prepare for a big incident, the people who make trouble are not these mine owners, and.

After checking the mine owner, and then checking the merchants, these merchants are all acquaintances of the Zhu and Li families, and the mine slaves are cheap, and they are sold to the mine owner for twenty-five times. Therefore, the Zhu and Li families euphemistically said their meaning, and these merchants quickly came together with money and materials, and the prisoners of war took them away, and as soon as they changed hands, they made a lot of money and put it into their pockets. Since it was selected by the Zhu and Li families, most of them have backgrounds, so check it out and see if you can offend them all?

But at this time, it has nothing to do with Wang Ju, and we have to continue to investigate.

This investigation will find out the heads of the Zhu and Li families, but the money did not go into their pockets, and not even a penny was touched, and it was directly handed over by the businessmen to the officers and soldiers of the three armies. Even if it is found out that it was they who bewitched it, it used to have merit, and at most the merit and demerit offset it.

Then there is another level, that is, the soldiers of the three armies. The money was in the hands of the officers and soldiers of the three armies, and then looked at the losses of each battalion and divided up, almost a few soldiers participated, and the law did not blame the public, could it be that tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers had been executed?

That's it, I can't find out Wang Jutong, Wang Jutong guò a few members of the general confession, who doesn't want to buy his subordinates, let his subordinates happy, and when they fight again in the future, they will give the same order, and they will continue to make meritorious contributions. Could it be that Zhao Ming, Yao Ji, Zhang Yu and other important generals will be sent to prison together for investigation?

Even the arrogant Han Qi didn't have that guts.

Therefore, Wang Ju said lightly: "Sima Guang, whether the lower officials are cunning, please send someone down to inquire." ”

"Anyway, you and Cai Gong didn't stop you at that time, which is also a dereliction of duty." Ouyang Xiu said.

"This duke is ......"

"It's Uncle Ouyang Yong."

"It turned out to be Ouyang Gong, even if Xia Guan and Cai Gong are cowardly."

"How cowardly are you and Cai Ting?" Sima Guangdao.

"The sun is already setting in the mountains, the figures are scattered, and the guests are too guarded to return and the guests are from them. The woods are shady, the chirping is up and down, the visitors go and the birds are happy. However, birds know the joy of mountains and forests, but they do not know the joy of people; People know that they are too happy to swim, but they don't know how to be too happy. Drunk can have fun with it, and those who wake up can speak to the text are too guarded. Who is Taishou? Song Cheng Cai Ting also. Ouyang Gong wrote this "Drunkard Pavilion" in Chuzhou, and the officials read it with great admiration. Why is Ouyang Guild happy, because everyone is happy, the people are happy, and Ouyang Gong is happy. Under Dashun City, the soldiers of the three armies are happy, and Cai Gong and the lower officials are happy. Check may mutiny, don't check everyone is happy, even if you are drunk, what's the matter? ”

Anyway, Wang Ju is not in oil and salt.

Sima Guang had no choice but to ask a different way: "Wang Ju, you and Cai Gong are not afraid of arousing greater anger in Western Xia, in case of the outbreak of the Great War, the lives of the people in the northwest will be ruined, and the economy of the Great Song Dynasty will be embarrassed, and the people must be harshly suppressed to supply military spending, can you bear this consequence?" ”

This seems to be another way of saying it.

However, Sima Guang got the wrong object, and his opponent was Wang Ju.

Wang Ju calmly replied: "Then with Sima Gong's intentions, what should I do?" Immediately release the prisoners of war, compensate for the losses of the invasion of the Tanguts, continue to give them the gifts, continue to let them grow stronger, and quickly recover, over there is restoring, I do this just to make the morale of the three armies depressed, and then to invade calmly, under the rise and fall of the other, just let the Tanguts defeat our army, this is what Sima Gong is looking forward to, are you the minister of the Song Dynasty, or the minister of the Western Xia? ”

"Boy, be bold."

"I'm not bold, what I said is the truth, and when Yejin Xiaoshan evacuated, I also heard the conversation of Li Liangzuo's monarch and minister, I believe that a Tibetan child who is only a teenager will not tell lies, right?"

"Li Liangzuo already has a heart of repentance."

"They were defeated, and Li Liangzuo regretted it, but after the scar is good, he forgot the pain, and he can guarantee that he will continue to regret it in the future? Even if I regret it, I want to plot against Hezhou, and if I am in Hezhou, I will have a greater disaster. Besides, Li Liangzuo's injuries are so serious, how long do you think he can survive? ”

"That's also a famous wave of national politics."

"Sima Gong, let's take a look and see if that Wei Minglang is the opponent of the Liang family?"

"Liang, Wang Ju, you can talk about it."

"Han Gong, that Liang family happens to be the same age as the minister, and when he didn't hide Pang and was ready to attack Li Liangzuo, that Liang family was a little bigger? Why was she able to learn the news, the lower officials didn't believe it, and didn't hide that Pang Ming knew that the Liang family had dealings with Li Liangzuo and plotted such a major event, and let the Liang family observe. What does this mean? It was not what the Liang family heard, but what the people of the Pang family did not hear. At that time, the Liang family was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and under the nose of the unconcealed pang, he bought many of his family's subordinates. is not an ordinary faint minister, he is also a traitor. Don't talk about ordinary women, even if you are a subordinate and do it now, you may not be able to do it. That woman may be a Xiao Yanyan-like figure. Therefore, the lower officials concluded that Wei Minglang was destined not to be her opponent, and he would not even have to fight, he would force Wei Minglang to hand over the military and political power. Han Gong, don't despise this woman. ”

Of course, Sima Guang's peace will definitely not come yet.

Peace will not come, so what does it make difference whether to provoke or not to provoke Western Xia?

"Leung...... Can Huanqing Road send scouts to inquire about the movements of the Western Xia people? Han Qi immediately asked.

In fact, Cai Ting guessed wrong here.

It is true that Wang Ju's age is constrained by the difficulty of conferring official positions, but Han Qi will not deliberately deal with Wang Ju, including today's Zhongshu confrontation. Wang Ju lost it, and Han Qi didn't plan to deal with it, at most one merit and demerit would be offset. If you win, you won't be promoted, how can you be promoted, but you may be promoted to an official position.

Therefore, the significance of this debate is just to make Sima Guang quiet.

The power of the Western Xia is the most important.

"I sent scouts, but I don't have the ability to inquire about Xingqing Mansion, unless something big happens in Xingqing Mansion, the scouts can find out."

"In your opinion, will they launch such a large-scale invasion in the future?"

"Definitely, but they lost a bit badly in this battle, and they won't invade again in a year or two. In the eyes of the following officials, they may send an envoy to plead guilty, and then shirk their responsibilities and beg our court to give the New Year a new year and open a mutual market. Once the New Year's currency is given and the mutual market is reopened, first, they can get some money and silk, so that the economy can be eased, second, they can alleviate the dissatisfaction of the various ministries brought about by the war, and third, it will also convey a message to their people that although our dynasty has won a battle, it is still weak and incompetent, and it is still greedy for life and afraid of death. The economic crisis has passed, the domestic political situation has stabilized again, and the confidence of the soldiers has returned. Then that's when they invade. This time may take two years, and it depends on what we do, so the lower officials concluded that there would be no invasion within one or two years. ”

Han Qi let out a long breath, which was also good news, which could give him plenty of time to prepare.

Sima Guang was dissatisfied, wouldn't this nonsense be off-topic, and asked again on the side: "Wang Ju, even so, the three armies suffered heavy casualties in this battle, defeated Haoshuichuan, countless wives and wives were scattered, and the border should be quiet, why did you send someone to take the Xinjiang ballast fort." ”

Wang Ju wanted to smoke Sima Guang's big mouth, this is really two pieces of skin in the mouth, turned over a statement, and turned over a statement, since he knew that countless people's wives were separated, he couldn't bear to sell prisoners of war and bring bereavement assistance to these families. Could it be that the people of Western Xia also became the people of the Great Song Dynasty?

But with this distinction, Sima Guang can show the benevolence and righteousness of the master, and if he doesn't get it, he will still distinguish between losing, people are very knowledgeable, can he distinguish benevolence and righteousness by himself?

So he said directly: "Sima Gong, that's the case, after the war, Duke Cai ordered that the border should be quiet, so that the people can rest and recover." There is also a reason why the ballast fort was taken. At that time, Gui Niang Lang buried and chased the enemy with the strongmen, and chased them into the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, but as a result, the Xixia soldiers of the Xinjiang Ballast Fort fled without a fight. fled together, so Gui Niang Lang buried it and simply took it down. Cai Gong hesitated after hearing this news, but finally agreed. Why? There are two major gateways in the north of Gyeongju, one is Dashun City, the other is the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, the year before last year, the Western Xia invaded Gyeongju, and could not get through the Dashun City, but it was from the Xinjiang Ballast Fort into the Song Dynasty. Therefore, this time Li Langzuo invaded Gyeongju and intended to take the entire Gyeongju, and the first soldier was Dashun City. Since the Tangut people don't want it themselves, why not? So Cai Gong acquiesced to taking the Xinjiang Ballast Fort. If Sima Gong must have thought that our dynasty had done something wrong, please go to the official's house, return to the Xinjiang Ballast Fort, and return to Dashun City, and impeach Fan Wenzhenggong, because Dashun City was also snatched by Fan Wenzhenggong from the Western Xia people. ”

Sima Guang was speechless, thought about it and said, "Why did you send dozens of strong horses to welcome the two tribes back to the Song Realm?" Isn't that a cause for trouble? Moreover, such an important matter, only sending dozens of strong horses to go, is equivalent to child's play, in case the Xixia people send troops, how can dozens of strong horses face the battle? ”

Wang Ju said in his heart, lucky, fortunately he did it in advance and prevented, he continued to answer unhurriedly: "Sima Gong, that's just what Zhuangma did himself, and it has nothing to do with the lower officials, but the princes, it's really strange, they only have a few dozen people, and when they arrived at the White Leopard City, there were thousands of Xixia soldiers in the city, but they only shouted out the name of the lower official, these Western Xia people actually let them go immediately, can the name of the lower official be worth thousands of soldiers?" ”

Zhao Ji has no desires, he doesn't have so many dirty thoughts, and he can't help laughing when he hears it.

"Sima Gong, after the incident, I can't make the mistake of Guo persuasion and send these people back. Therefore, it was also ordered, and someone brought it over, only this time, and next time it was not allowed to use the name of the subordinate to do anything wrong. If Sima Gong investigates, could it be that these dozens of strong horses have taken the name of the lower officials, and the lower officials are also at fault? Just like many officials become officials by reading the books of saints, but after becoming officials, they do evil, so isn't it that even saints have made mistakes? ”

It's too difficult, this kid, Sima Guang said in his heart.

However, Wang Ju became impatient and said, "Gong Han, you ordered the subordinate to go to Beijing to report on his work. If you ask about the battle, the lower official also said it. If you are guilty, please issue an edict and let the lower officials enter Dali Temple to ask for their guilt. If this is argued, the lower officials think that it is not of much use, and the guilt is not questioned, and the law is not in order. Innocent and dirty, it will inevitably make the front-line soldiers feel cold, who is willing to fight bloodily for the Great Song Dynasty and the official family in the future? Sima Gong, Peng Gong, if you ask any more questions, the lower officials will not answer. If you answer, please go to Dali Temple to ask! ”

But Wang Ju suddenly froze: "But if it is because of the entanglement between Sima Gong and Peng Gong, the soldiers of the three armies are cold, and the future army will be defeated, I will also impeach the two dukes for helping the enemy to collaborate with the enemy!" ”

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