Yang Wenguang defeated the Tangut people and began to repair the city. But he thought about it, and felt that the city was still very thin, so he turned to Jichuan to build a fort, in the middle of the Deshun army's Pingzhai and the city, from the city to the ancient Wei city, there is an old fort built in the Qing Dynasty. In this way, the five forts were connected, and theoretically the western side of Qinzhou formed a tight defensive line.

This area is not small, spanning the next five or six counties, and the length is hundreds of miles. The two forts are one, and these hundreds of miles are "inland", and in a strategic sense, Guwei City is no longer an isolated city. Theoretically, then, it would be difficult for the Tanguts to follow this line south. Of course, the crisis has not gone away, and if Mu Zheng completely surrenders to Western Xia, the Western Xia people can still move south from the two states of Xihe.

However, this has to come step by step, so Zhao Ji was overjoyed after hearing the news, and the edict praised him, giving Yang Wenguang clothes and horses, and changing the fort to Gangu Fort.

The Song Dynasty got Gangu, and the Tangut people were unhappy.

In July, Liang Yibu secretly sent 10,000 troops to attack Gangu Fort.

But the 10,000 people were unlucky.

There is also a more powerful tiger general in Qinzhou, named Zhang Shouyue. It turned out to be the governor of Dingzhou Road, and he lived in Qinfeng Road for six years after migrating to Qinfeng Road, and his favorite thing to do was to bracket the Qiang hidden soil, about a thousand hectares of hidden land were scavenged out, and the archers were recruited to cultivate with this thousand hectares of hidden soil, and while farming, he personally urged them to practice bow and arrow skills. On this day, Zhang Shouyue took 500 archers to patrol the border, but it was not so coincidental, and these 10,000 people sneaked towards Gangu Fort and met them halfway.

To be honest, Zhang Shouyue didn't want to fight such a battle, but he had no choice but to fight.

The initial battle was unfavorable, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides was too large, and Zhang Shouyue's men were all infantry. See the critical. Zhang Shouyue personally beat the golden drum to cheer, and commanded while beating the drum. Five hundred archers have been practicing for so long. It was not for nothing, five hundred people shot at the man who was the leader. As a result, several enemy chieftains were shot. When the remaining chieftains saw that the bows and arrows were flying again, they immediately fled with their men.

Five hundred dozen ten thousand!

But there are also deep-seated reasons, Tubo fights Western Xia, often wins more and loses less, if they don't disperse by themselves, Western Xia really has nothing to do with Tubo.

However, the Song Dynasty fought against Tibet, but it was a dozen and one accurate.

It has nothing to do with the strength of the Song army, but the Tubo people fighting Western Xia. There is a feud, and morale can be boosted.

But they have no feud with the Song Dynasty, on the contrary, the two countries, or the two sides are not badly integrated, in fact, after the Xihe rebellion, Wang Anshi is also to blame, if you follow Wang Shao's advice, do not levy two taxes, and then prohibit the cutting of trees. At least a little bit of a look, Hee River will not rebel at all.

Further down the level, it is like the Han people in the north of the Song Dynasty. In fact, there is Xianbei bloodline, and the same is true of Hehuang Tubo, there is the blood of Tuyuhun people, and there is the blood of Han people. In the early and middle Tang Dynasty, Hehuang Tubo was always in the hands of the Tang people, and there were still many local Han Chinese, but they eventually merged into the new Tubo people. This Tibetan tribe and the Tibetan people on the roof of the world can no longer be called one race. It can even be said that they are very close to the Han Chinese.

That's why there is a story that Qinzhou women like to borrow seeds from the Han people.

In history, the Northern Song Dynasty perished quickly, otherwise as long as it was done well enough, this race could be completely integrated.

So the two armies were at war. If it was a real Western Xia army, Zhang Shouyue would most likely fail. However, these 10,000 people were all Tubo people from the Western Envoy City, and they did not have much will to fight. Five hundred defeated ten thousand, creating a miracle of no small part.

But now that the war to recover Hehuang has not started, where can Liang Yibury think of the reason, and after receiving the news, he was dumbfounded, why were 10,000 people defeated by 500 infantry?

He was very unwilling, so he made a small move, the east of Douling, there is a place in the northwest of Huanzhou, the name is Zheqiang Society, which originally belonged to the Song Dynasty, and was later occupied by Li Yuanhao, thinking that it was Xixia and City.

Occupy it, occupy it, the Song Dynasty did not fight, but it did not admit it, it actually belonged to the Western Xia, but in the eyes of the Song Dynasty, it belonged to the disputed area.

However, the Western Xia was used as a city, and the Song Dynasty did not bother.

Peace between the two countries is the best, peace is precious, everyone should do business, why bother to fight back and forth, work the people and lose money.

But Liang Yibury didn't know how to think of this place, and began to gather all the troops, and planned to set up a military supervision department here to settle the land. Zhang Yu was transferred, but the diagnosis was not transferred, and Huanqing Road was transferred to another kind, which was known as Huanzhou.

After receiving the news, the brothers combined, Yu Yonghe Zhai gathered troops, and then came a long-distance attack, ran one hundred and twenty miles at a very fast speed, and suddenly appeared in the Zheqiang Society, the Xia army was caught off guard, refused to fight, we didn't fight, we didn't fight, the two launched an attack, Xixia was beaten to the ground, and killed 2,000 people.

In fact, on the whole, the Song army gradually gained the upper hand.

However, the Song Dynasty was very strange, and this was done by thousands of people, and no minister saw it. A thousand or hundreds of people died in a city of Luowu, and immediately the world was turbulent, as if the world was apocalyptic.

When Wei Mingshan arrived in the capital, Zhao Ji personally received him, awarded the general of the left prison gate, and gave the name Zhao Huaishun.

Liang's little beautiful man and concubine are reckless and cute, and use Jingxun to exchange for Wei Mingshan, I don't want Suizhou, as long as Wei Mingshan is alone. Guo Kui said: "Inquiry, mediocrity, what is the importance of the matter. If you accept it, you have to return the famous mountain, and the chief of Fan has no courage to turn into a god. ”

What's the use of this little traitor? Is it worth the value of the famous mountain?

Then to Cai Ting, he built Xining Village in the northeast of Dingchuan, and at the same time opened 2,000 hectares of land and recruited 3,000 people to cultivate and defend it.

This was a place of progress in the Song Dynasty, and the Tuntian system had begun to be initially implemented. Two thousand hectares of land is a large area, and once it is cultivated and cultivated, tens of thousands of people have to be fed.

Liang Yi was terrified and sent troops south along the Hulu River to fight for it. His opponent is Cai Ting, even if there is no Wang Ju's help, it is not something that Liang Yibury can deal with. So he fell into Cai Ting's ambush, the three armies were defeated, and the seven tribes such as Luo Lechuan, which belonged to the Western Xia in the north of Xining Village, were all broken by the officers and soldiers. This battle laid the foundation for the future victory of Pingxia City.

These battles have given the Tangut people a bloody lesson, if you want to win, you still have to learn from Li Yuanhao, 100,000 and 200,000 to fight, tens of thousands of people really can't.

But the Song Dynasty itself continued to suffer.

The first is disarmament. A total of more than 130,000 forbidden soldiers were laid off, and with the addition of some forbidden soldiers killed in battle, the number of forbidden troops has now dropped to barely 540,000. 120,000 men were laid off. down to 370,000.

It also continues to be a large redundant army.

This is only the first step in the reduction of troops, and it will be cut later.

But that doesn't mean that the finances will benefit immediately. The box soldiers are a little better, most of them are rural soldiers, they are poorly paid, they were all incorporated into the army because of disasters in previous years, and it was a good thing to be incorporated at that time, and the family had to live. But after the disaster year, it will be hard. Their treatment is almost the same as that of the Baojie Army, and they only earn more than 30 yuan of money and food a year. However, the Baojie army can still take the time to go home to work, and when they enter the box army, they have the opportunity to go home to work. So the family struggled to survive.

This is not let go, if it is released, let the box soldiers choose freely, and the court will give a little more money, then 500,000 box soldiers will choose to leave the barracks!

The soldiers are not embarrassed, and they are free to choose, and those who have no way out are still obedient and stay in the barracks. At most, the commanders must be reorganized, but the reorganization of the van soldiers will also not be stormy.

The difficult thing is the forbidden army.

Most of these people's families are in the capital. It's a little better to eat empty salaries, and when you retrieve it, the imperial court doesn't need any placement fees. If there is a way out, it will come out, and even a few forbidden soldiers will be eager to come out.

But there is no way out, once you get out of the barracks, you live in the expensive capital, think about how sad it is, Guan Jian now has no exemption law. Otherwise, if they are rehired as government servants, they will find a new way out. However, there are none, so there must be follow-up placement costs. And it is also a large amount of resettlement money, so that they can spend the first few years and slowly find a way out, so that there will be no commotion.

Therefore, it is the first step in the reduction of troops.

Before the second step of reducing the army, it is necessary to start large-scale silting in the prefectures and counties near Kaifeng, move out a large amount of arable land, and turn the forbidden army outside the city and into the countryside. The second is that this cut and retrieval of empty salaries temporarily deterred the remaining generals, but they live in the city, they want to eat, drink, play and have fun, and they can't eat empty salaries, and sooner or later they will stretch out another greedy hand, that is, to deduct the soldiers' salaries. So leave this bustling place too. The third is to reduce the living expenses of soldiers' families.

This is a bit troublesome, even if there is silt field, there may not be many forbidden soldiers willing to leave the capital.

So this has to be moved backwards.

Then there is the second step of reducing the army, retrieving empty pay again, it is the key to health, no matter what the reason or situation, empty pay must be eliminated.

We will further weed out the weak soldiers, cut the forbidden soldiers to 450,000, slightly increase the salaries of the soldiers, and then increase some native soldiers in Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Bashu, Jinghu, Nanhu and Liangguang, and use 250,000 forbidden soldiers to mix with these native soldiers and township soldiers, and 200,000 forbidden soldiers to prepare for rotations and defend the security of Gyeonggi. Because the permanent strength is still at 200,000, the whole country is still in a situation where the main trunk is strong and the branches are weak.

And there is also an example, when Song Taizu was in power, there were only 150,000 forbidden soldiers and 100,000 Xiang soldiers, just such a small number of troops, against the Liao State, to dominate the world.

There are not many soldiers, but in the fine, and the 450,000 forbidden soldiers, combined with the possible 300,000 Tuxiang soldiers and Fan soldiers, the number of fighting troops is also quite a lot.

In that case, the combat effectiveness will become stronger, but the cost of raising troops will drop sharply.

This is the complete reduction of troops.

Therefore, the imperial court's finances were not calculated in the first year, that is, in the next year, it will still not be too big, and the next year can be called a real calculation.

The three divisions also counted it, and it is estimated that it has saved 3 million hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you get rid of the part of the empty salary, you don't actually save much, and that's why.

Also, the Fangchang River crossing, more than 4 million money and silk were turned out before and after.

The combination of the two is a lot.

But the Song Dynasty was very sad, this year the Taihang Mountain seismic zone began a large-scale earthquake, northeast to Youzhou, Liao, southwest to Kaifeng, including many areas of Hebei have occurred a large scale of earthquakes, said that the sand gushing out of the water, broken the city and bad houses, officials and officials did not dare to live in the city, ran out of the city, lived in grass sheds and tents. Zhao Ji reluctantly sent Teng Fu and Wu Chong to pacify Hebei, Teng Fu saw that everyone was like this, no, they couldn't be soldiers, what was really happy was the thieves, and the open theft of a family. So he stayed under the eaves and said, "The people hold on to me for their lives, and the house destroys the people to death." I should be the same. It was only under his leadership that the people gradually moved into the city.

There was also an earthquake and heavy rain. Starting from the south of Yanshan, Yongqing, Wuqing, Anci, Gu'an, Xincheng, Guiyi, and Rongcheng of the Liao Kingdom drifted away together. It is not necessary to be exempt from tax for one year.

Hebei's stricter zhòng, the Yellow River in the north also had an accident, the Yellow River burst from the Wulan embankment in Enzhou, due to the constraints of the terrain, the river water is not yet out, and then decided on the Jizhou Thorn Qiang, and then to Yingzhou to spread, this is the real drift.

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi clashed over this.

Both of them are emperors. The same Hanlin bachelor, but the ideas are not in harmony, and there will inevitably be a conflict.

First of all, Dengzhou Ayun, this is also one thing that Wang Ju has been full of prejudice against Sima Guang from the beginning.

A Yun, a little girl in Dengzhou, died of her father when she was a child and lived with her mother. His mother also died early, and Ah Yun was forced by his uncle to marry a man surnamed Wei while he was still serving his mourning period.

Of course, there is rarely any talk of mourning in the countryside, and it is good to keep it for a few days. So what is the saying of twenty-seven months of worry?

However, this article is very important, and it must be discussed if it is on the line. According to the Ding Wei Etiquette Law, there is no marriage, no entertainment, that is, there is a marriage, and it is not a legal marriage!

Maybe his uncle received a generous gift, but the appearance of this man surnamed Wei is too ugly, and the requirements for men's appearance are not very strict at this time, and it is estimated that this surname Wei is so ugly that it can't be uglier, which led to a tragedy.

Ayun couldn't bear it. One night, Ah Yun took advantage of the fact that the man surnamed Wei was sleeping in the field house. Bring a knife and kill him. Because she has little strength and the quality of the knife is poor. After slashing a few times, he couldn't kill the man surnamed Wei, only one of his fingers was broken.

The next day, the man surnamed Wei reported the case, and Xu Zun, the governor of Dengzhou, quickly found out about Ah Yun's head and brought Ah Yun up, and Ah Yun confessed. Xu Zun asked about the incident, and thought that when Ah Yun was engaged, the mourning period had not expired, so the relationship between husband and wife with Wei could not be established, and should be handled as an ordinary person, and then reported to the court.

The trial court and Dali Temple believe that the death penalty must be sentenced to death for the crime of murdering her husband, and Xu Zun played again, so it is better to do this, even if the relationship between husband and wife is recognized, there is still a provision in Song Law, if the defendant can take the initiative to confess the facts of the crime, he should be punished according to voluntary surrender, and the punishment will be reduced by two degrees.

But the question: Does Ah Yun count as surrendering? After Xu Zun caught her, she confessed, and she could only say that she was not tortured, and she took the initiative to confess, which was a confession and leniency, not a surrender. Then do things according to the rules and hand it over to the two systems for discussion, and Wang Anshi and Sima Guang will discuss. Wang Anshi said that plotting and killing are two different things, although plotting, not killing. Sima Guang said that murder and murder are all the same thing and cannot be separated.

The two fought, but Sima Guang did not win against Wang Anshi, so he talked nonsense and actually raised the case to the level of life and death of the country's society. Zhao Ji couldn't bear it anymore when he heard it, and personally judged and pardoned Ah Yun for the death penalty, but sentenced him to n years in prison.

To be precise, Zhao Ji's punishment was right, even if he intentionally killed someone, it was only an attempted murder, and his marriage was not arranged by his parents, but it was tantamount to his uncle being sold to a man surnamed Wei in disguise, and it was during the period of filial piety. No matter from that point of view, it should not be dead.

But it was this woman who came out a few years later, got married and had children, and she almost forgot about this sad past, but she asked Sima Guang to come out, send someone to Dengzhou Lena, and behead her alive.

Why bother!

So whoever said that Sima was a gentleman, Wang Ju would be in a hurry with whom, is there such a gentleman? What is a gentleman, a gentleman is warm, warm and moist like jade, like jade-like beauty. Is this kind of mind jade, is it a warm stream?

The winter solstice is just around the corner.

Wang Ju once secretly admonished that the southern suburbs and the northern suburbs should be moderately reduced. But this year is the first year that Zhao Ji really ascended to the throne, and in the first year of the Yuan change, the southern suburbs festival is avoided.

Therefore, Zeng Gongliang led the ministers to write a book, Heshuo disaster injury, the country is insufficient, please this year to the suburbs, the two governments do not need to give gold silk.

Sima Guang believed that the reward for the two provinces only cost 20,000 yuan, even if it was saved, it was not enough to relieve the disaster, and the reward should be reduced to half from the two provinces (including all the civil officials in the two provinces under the Zhongshu Gate) and the military generals and military ministers in the history of the clan. In this way, everyone is rewarded, because the number of people is greater, and the money is saved.

He entered the palace with Wang Anshi and Wang Qi to receive the decree, and Sima Guang said: "The use of disaster relief should be implemented from the ministers close to you, and as for the officials of the two governments, they may as well resign at will, and there is no need to cancel the edict." ”

Wang Anshi said on the side: "Chang Gon once shirked the dine-in, but at that time, he thought that Chang Yan knew that he couldn't, and he should resign instead of resigning. Moreover, the lack of national use is not an urgent task today. ”

This Chang Gon was the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who was pure and arrogant, and did not travel in vain. For the government to be meticulous and advocate frugality. Oppose**. To put it bluntly, he is the kind of clean official who often does bad things.

The Tang Dynasty would give the prime minister food to eat every day, which was called a delicacy. Always give up. There is a back door in the political hall, which is the door for the prime minister to go to the middle school. In order to consult on political affairs, Chang Gon regarded himself as high, and blocked his door. So he relied on his subjective imagination to employ people, just like Fan Zhongyan, with a big stroke of the pen, and finally Tang Dezong came to power and demoted out of the capital. Therefore, the commentators think that it is a generous gift, so they can be virtuous and respect the country's politics. If you feel that you don't have the ability to be the prime minister, then resign instead of resigning.

What does Wang Anshi mean by this, it's not that the state is insufficient, and it's not that the prime ministers of the two governments refuse this reward, but you have to think of a way, don't think of a way, and you can't solve the problem by saving this money.

Be it, old people!

Sima Guang didn't know if he really didn't understand or if he didn't understand it. He immediately said: "Chang Gon refuses to give rewards, and he is much more virtuous than those who want power since they are rewarded. The lack of national use is really a top priority. ”

If you understand. His heart can be punished, this is clearly colluding with the bigwigs of the two governments.

"No, no, no, the country's lack of use is because there are no people who are good at managing money." Wang Anshi also avoided the past, and he also didn't want to offend the bigwigs of the two governments too much.

"People who are good at managing money are just people who can quit civil affairs, and it is not a blessing for the country to become thieves when the people are poor."

"No, people who are good at managing money. Taxes are not increased, but they are sufficient. ”

Sima Guang was like a thunderbolt. At first, he was dumbfounded, and then immediately said angrily: "How can this be." The resources of heaven and earth are limited, and if they are not in the people, they are in the officials, and if it rains, and it rains in summer, it will be a disaster, and then there will be a drought in autumn. Not to increase taxes and use sufficiently, but to try to seize the interests of the people and their own, the harm is worse than raising taxes, this is Sang Hongyang deceived Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Taishi Gong recorded it. In the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, thieves swarmed, almost causing chaos, and if Emperor Wu did not repent, the Han Dynasty almost perished. ”

The two of them learned well, quoted scriptures, poor old Comrade Wang was dumbfounded, and said after half a day: "Disaster relief should start with the ministers who are close to you, Sima Guang's words are right, but the reward costs little, and if you don't give it, you may hurt the country, and Wang Anshi's statement is also right." I had to ask the Lord to decide. ”

Zhao Ji also had a headache when he heard it, and he couldn't quarrel anymore, and the two of them continued to quarrel, and they were going to move out all the historical books and scriptures together, so he said: "I mean the same as Sima Guang, I might as well reply to them without approving their dictionaries." ”

But he was also the same as Lao Wang, and although he agreed with Sima Guang's opinion, he asked Wang Anshi to write an edict. Wang Anshi then coerced miscellaneous private goods in the edict, and used Chang Gon's example to reproach the two governments.

In fact, the conflict between these two ideas has become the main theme of the following. But who's right? Undoubtedly, Wang Anshi said more accurately, don't look at the facts, just look at the Song Dynasty, there was not much tax increase, but the country's revenue was steadily increasing.

Think about how much income the Song Dynasty could have when Zhao Kuangyin fought the country, and it was pitiful to get the money and silk of Shu, so he was so happy that he opened the inner treasury. It's a lot of money, can you make up for the arrears of the current Song Dynasty? Although I don't know how much, I believe that it is only a Shu country, a rotten Shu country, but tens of millions. It's not enough for the current Song Dynasty's annual military expenditure!

However, Wang Anshi did not find a real way to use it without raising taxes, which caused real controversy.

In fact, Zhao Ji was speechless, you are arguing around, you are not as good as a young man, at least he also made me transform into eight million, otherwise this year's life will be even more difficult!

Therefore, he thought of what Wang Ju said about layoffs.

This is also divided into several steps, the first step is to start with the imperial examination and cut the quantity.

The second step is to start with Enyin and cut the quantity.

As for the current officials, if they are lacking, there is no need to wait, one or two people will be distributed in each state and county, and one or two people will also be distributed in each ministry and department, as Xu officials, as court officials, one is for the local heroes, and they will be the officials, which will curb some of the bold and powerful. The second is to give them part of the benefits, and also have the right to play the role, and use it to supervise the governors, resulting in fierce and even fierce competition, forcing local officials to act. If it doesn't work, it will be eliminated immediately, but to be these officials, they are obviously Xu officials, but they are actually alternate officials, and those who play must be truthful, otherwise the officials on their bodies will also be cleaned up. Then within ten years, the phenomenon of redundant officials will gradually disappear.

However, Wang Ju repeatedly explained that the last one must be done cautiously, after all, doing so will cause great controversy and commotion, and even the second article will reduce the number of favors and shades, which will also cause controversy and dissatisfaction.

The second step of the reduction has not yet arrived, so can this reduction of grace be done?

So Zhao Ji called Wang Anshi to ask.

"Cutting the shade?" Wang Anshi is stupid, it's really embarrassing, he can't answer well, he can't answer badly! (To be continued)