Han Qi said: "Wang Ju, let's talk about the battle of Dashun City first. ”

It's also business.

The victory in the battle of Dashun City is the master, and what sells prisoners of war is auxiliary.

Moreover, Wang Ju did not put the money in his pocket, and compared with the previous rewards and pensions, this year's court is not thick, and the money is also timely. No matter what way it is, if you sacrifice the families of the soldiers and the disabled soldiers, and get a large sum of money, there will be no more resentment. Otherwise, after making such a great contribution, the bereavement and rewards will not keep up, and there will be some unnecessary conflicts, and I, the prime minister, will be sad again.

"Han Gong, first of all, I feel the trust of the official family and Han Gong in the lower officials, as well as the strong support for Huanqing Road, if there is no trust between the official family and Han Gong, if there is no support from the imperial court, this battle will be dangerous."

"There's no need to thank you, it's what the court and the old man should do, you still get down to business." Han Qi frowned, how could he have a tone with Cai Ting.

"Whoa." Wang Ju told the story as it was.

Just said that this year's battle, last year's battle was not mentioned, it would be embarrassing for Ouyang Xiu, but I don't know who Ouyang Xiu is among the few people here.

Finally, he said: "After Xia Guan came to the capital, he heard many rumors and laughed at them. In fact, in that battle, Xia Guan only killed four people. Then the Zhufan strongmen and the Baojie soldiers will protect the subordinate officials to the death, and prevent the subordinate officials from making mistakes. However, in those battles last year, Xia Guan shot and killed seven people. Therefore, this is the merit of the imperial court, the merit of the officials, the merit of Han Gong, the merit of Cai Gong, and the merit of the soldiers of the three armies. ”

A few of the old guys frowned again.

They are all civil servants, and they go into battle to kill the enemy in person, which is too far away. Even if you can kill four people, that's amazing.

Han Qi suddenly thought of that tragic thought.

ate an inexplicable dry vinegar and fought with Wang Ju on the street, can you fight it?

"You don't have to be modest, you do have merit in this war, but the old man asked you, why did you sell prisoners of war after the war?"

"Han Gong, it's true, but it has nothing to do with the lower officials. In the spring of this year, an edict was issued, demanding that the lower officials release the prisoners of war, and the lower officials were also ready to release them, but the Western Xia envoys came to be unruly, and the lower officials were not satisfied, so they deliberately deducted a button. However, the envoys of Western Xia actually sent troops to the border to intimidate the border officials, soldiers and civilians, and went directly to Gyeongju to intimidate Sun Gong. And he banned the soju at the border, and didn't let me change horses by some means. Han Gong, there is no cavalry without war horses. But at that time, Xia Guan estimated that Western Xia would send troops after the autumn, and there were originally few troops and a lack of cavalry, how to win? The official was angry and blackmailed some war horses. ”

"Wang Ju, why can't you change horses from Tubo, you have to provoke the anger of Western Xia?" Sima Guang asked on the side.

"Sima Gong, the lower officials are ignorant, I couldn't think of it at the time, this method was still thought of by Cai Gong when he came to Gyeongju." Wang Ju said calmly.

I'm just a small county, don't talk about me, you big guys, who would have thought of it?

"Go on." Han Qi said.

"Well, in fact, my grandfather and I don't dare to ask for many horses, only a few dozen. Later, when the prisoners of war were released, the Tanguts continued to be arrogant, and I couldn't help but say angrily that if I offended the Great Song Dynasty again, I would sell the prisoners of war to the mine owners as mine slaves. This is an unintentional statement, but I didn't expect it to be spread out, and some people actually took it seriously. And some people saw last year's great victory, full of confidence, the war has not yet broken out, some merchants have come to the territory, because the number of private businessmen, border merchants is countless, where do the officials know. ”

Sima Guang's expression was immediately displeased, this kid dared to be cunning.

"Before the outbreak of the war, Xia Guan and Cai Gong and others planned day and night, and then several battles began, the next morning Li Liangzuo was seriously injured and defeated, our army was victorious, Xia Guan and Cai Gong and other officials have not slept well for several days and nights, so they fell asleep. As a result, these merchants saw that our army had indeed captured many more prisoners of war, so they negotiated with the soldiers. On the third day, Cai Gong and I learned of this and stopped them again and again, but only 5,000 prisoners of war remained. ”

"Wang Ju, how many days does it take to walk from Dashun City to Huachi County or Gyeongju?" Sima Guang immediately asked.

"Two or three days if it's fast, four or five days if it's slow."

"Then why didn't you and Cai Gong recover the prisoners of war?"

Maybe this problem will be put in the future generations, and it will make the angry young people scold to death. But in the Song Dynasty, there was quite a market, and they wanted humanity, peace, and benevolence......

"Sima Gong, the lower official only said two things. First of all, I also said to me last month that the county lieutenant of Huachi County and Du Zhubo also said that Xiaguan's father was also a martyr who died heroically on the battlefield. At that time, Xiaguan was still young, a mother in the family, and Xiaguan, with younger brothers and sisters, the mother was weak, and the family of four was waiting to be fed, but there was no penny of money from the imperial court. Even if Xia Guan brought his younger brothers and sisters to Wangjiazhai to cultivate, Xia Guan was only thirteen years old at the time, and his body was weak and he couldn't afford to carry a burden of fifty catties, but Xu officials still came down to collect some taxes. ”

"Is that so?" Zhao Yi said angrily.

Even if those pensions are greedy, this tax can't be levied. Don't talk about how a family of three little children can survive, even if there are adults in the family, they can't be recruited.

"May I ask who this duke is?"

"A certain is Zhao Shuping."

"It turned out to be Zhao Gong, who has been admired for a long time. But don't be angry, I also said that day of this incident, the officials and important ministers in the court want everyone to be good and the people are good, but in the hands of the corrupt officials below, the implementation of the edict is not strict. Not only was the lower official not resentful, but grateful, thanking his mentor Zhang Gong for accepting the official as a protégé and teaching the official to study. Thanks to the imperial imperial examination, the opportunity to serve as an official was given to the lower officials. But not every victim's family is like a lower official, so this time Cai Gong is not at ease to send someone to secretly track down the bereavement and rewards of the decentralization, I am afraid that this is the case, and similar incidents will happen. ”

Zhao Yi sighed.

It's a headache and it can't be solved.

"The second thing is about Sima Gong, after the official family succeeded to the throne, Sima Gong once played, saying that when the country is attached to Rongyi, it is good to deal with the end, but it is its recklessness, and thus tolerate, the near West disaster was born in Gao Yi, the north disaster originated in Zhao Zi, when Fang Xian these two people, so the border ministers are all able to make things happen, and gradually can not grow, it is advisable to be a Xinjiang official, and the field is small and the blade is added to the blade, and the crime is sinful."

So Sima Guang is very powerful.

Look at this twist, it is indeed very confusing, the border ministers like to cause trouble, well, then the enemy is coming, there is a kind of fighting, when there is nothing to cause trouble, the matter is really coming to the door, and I dare not fight, so we must issue an edict, if the front-line soldiers dare to make trouble at the border, they will be dealt with as a felony immediately.

It seems to make sense.

But move this background west and north to see the truth.

In the end, who is causing trouble at the border, who is constantly encroaching on farming, and who is constantly harassing across the border?

Then look at Gao Yi and Zhao Zi, Wu Zong is here, and he is not observing etiquette in the palace, is it allowed? Don't say anything about how important the etiquette system is at this time, just say that the envoys of the Song Dynasty went to Western Xia. Don't talk about the capital, just where to meet in Youzhou, you can't even go to Xingqing Mansion. Could it be that the Song Dynasty was so low?

Then look at Zhao Zi,

His battlefield was not in Shaanxi, but in Baozhou, Hebei.

The Song Dynasty was weak, and the border was the Juma River. To the north is from the Liao State, and to the south is from the Song Dynasty. The Song people didn't dare to go down to the river to fish, but the Liao people dared. caught and caught, and caught the Song Dynasty.

This made Wang Ju think of his previous life.

It's really like when China's navy and fishing industry were underdeveloped, and several countries in the east were fishing in the Yangtze River. When the fishing industry was developed, Chinese fishermen caught a little across the border, and even fished in disputed waters, and then they started fishing, they started shooting, they started fines.

Can it not make people feel panicked?

However, it was not over, first small boats, then large boats, directly from Haikou to the Juma River, these boats not only fished, but also private merchants, and sold Liao salt to the Song Dynasty in a big way.

And these boats are dangling by the river every day, and they really don't put pressure on the border defense?

Zhao Zi couldn't bear it, sent soldiers to patrol, play as you like on the other side of the river, and when he arrived in Henan, the soldiers boarded the boat, arrested and killed them, and then sent the boat back. Immediately the fishermen disappeared and the Juma River calmed down. The Liao State was also unreasonable in this matter, and when the envoy came to the capital, he was light, and he only said a word lightly, and did not blame the Song Dynasty. This is definitely better than the US imperialists, who are about the same as the Liao, but they are even more shameless, and I sent planes to fly over you, which is to help you, and it would be wrong to block it.

The Liao State didn't care, the Song Dynasty made it up by itself, Tang Jie, who was as famous as Bao Zheng, and now Peng Siyong, the head of the court's ministers, began to be filled with righteous indignation and wrote to Zhao Zi, please stop. And Peng Siyong is sitting here, but Wang Ju doesn't know him.

At that time, Han Qi was the prime minister, and immediately sent someone to inquire about the matter, this thing was done right, and the Liao State didn't care, why did he care about his own people? So Zhao Zi was moved to the command of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei and the Jiazhou regiment.

This is what happened to the two of them, either to save the face of the Song Dynasty, or to recover the losses of the Song Dynasty, but there was a guilty person in Sima Guang's mouth.

However, Wang Ju didn't want to argue with Zhao Zi for Gao Yi, although he decided to do something, and sooner or later a bigger conflict would break out with Sima Guang, but now he still didn't want to offend Sima Guang.

It's a headache for a character.

He took Sima Guang's recital as an example, just to explain it for himself, so he continued: "But why is Sima Guang cowardly in the book? For no other reason, when Li Liangzuo first succeeded to the throne, the country was unstable and suffered some disasters, so he had great respect for our dynasty, not because he really wanted to respect our dynasty and wanted peace and friendship, but to win time for him to stabilize the political situation, to win the year and the mutual market, to restore the economy, and to restore the national strength. Therefore, in the past few years, the border was relatively peaceful, and Xia Guan thought that this was the reason why Sima Gong did not want trouble on the border and provoked war again. ”

"However, the truth is that the Tangut people want to give the year, the official family gives the year, they want to exchange markets, they give each market, and even acquiesce to the Fuzhou side is also trading, and then look at the front-line officials, the Tangut people came to burn and loot, including Sun Gong, the real order they issued was not to fight back, but to let the soldiers in the forts not come out, let them burn, let them rob, let them wantonly rape women! That's why Sima Gong appeared in such a contradictory performance, first begging for peace, begging for concession, begging for appeasement, and then hoping that the border ministers would do something. ”

In fact, Wang Ju was already using Sima Guang's spear to attack Sima Guang's shield.

It's just that now Wang Ju doesn't want to offend Sima Guang deeply, so he has a little affection, and he is more vague in his words.

Peng Siyong spoke: "Now the imperial court is not investigating you for the crime of the battle of Dashun City, but why did it acquiesce to the merchants to take away the prisoners of war, and which soldier is selling prisoners of war?" ”

"This duke is ......"

"It's Peng Jichang."

"It turned out to be Peng Gong, as for the soldier who was selling prisoners of war, the subordinate replied, I don't know!" R1152