In fact, Zhao Ji can't be blamed entirely.

After Sun Gu was impeached, Wang Ju went south.

Zhao Ji also knew, but he thought that in this limelight, it was better to avoid it, so he didn't stop it, but he didn't want Wang Ju to go overseas. Not only the military, but also the banking department.

Besides, this matter is a bit big, and he doesn't know how to use Wang Ju.

After the news from the northwest came, Zhao Ji wanted to consult Wang Ju, but the scope of this southward movement was a bit large, and he didn't know whether Wang Ju went to Hangzhou or Yangzhou, but Han Yun still stayed in the capital, presiding over the travel agency, and by the way, he looked at the house for Wang Ju.

Zhao Ji summoned Han Yun to the palace to ask, only then did he know that Wang Ju was going south, but it was Guangzhou that went south, and at this time, he had already crossed east to Luzon Island by boat with the help of the southwest wind. Don't look for it anymore, even if you find it, about the northwest wind has risen, then Wang Ju will use the northwest wind to reach the Feng City on the other side.

Then there is no way to ask.

Don't talk about Wang Ju, even Zhang Qi on Yunnan Road is too far away to ask. However, Zhao Ji still has some doubts about Zhang Ji's military ability, and he may be able to fight, but he is on the same level as Liu Changzuo, Gao Zunyu and others.

Moreover, Zhang Qi couldn't get away from Yunnan Road, not only did he use troops in Tengchong Mansion, but also cooperated with Lin Guang to pacify the beggar brother to ensure the safety of Wumeng Road and the copper mines in Wumeng area.

Therefore, Zhang Ji was automatically filtered out in Zhao Ji's mind.

In fact, Zhang Qi was transferred back, and Zhang Qi also couldn't destroy Western Xia.

Zhao Ji had no choice but to discuss with the ministers, some for and some against.

And that's when another thing happened.

Wang Ju is gone. Many thought that these seafarers would lose ground. Therefore, some of the surrounding tycoons have lost a large number of tenant farmers. Take the house slave with him. Directly came to the port of Mizhou to arrest people, and some innocent people were also beaten by them with domestic slaves, and at the same time they had to prepare to forcibly board the ship to search for them.

These seafarers were not polite, and with the order of Wu Nan, the leader, the armed sailors on each ship rushed down from the ship with weapons and quickly caught these people together. Then they were tied to a large tree and whipped with a leather whip.

Zhou Xun, the governor of Mizhou, was annoyed when he heard this, and brought a group of officials to question.

Wu Nan was also given an official position by the imperial court. An official from the sixth rank, although he was not paid, but was given a public uniform, he got off the ship in a public uniform and asked three questions.

The first question is Zhou Zhizhou, did the imperial court allow us to relocate the people?

Then he called the beaten people over and asked the second question, are they the people of the Great Song Dynasty? If so, what right do these people have to beat them?

Then he asked a third question, when these people were beating these people. Zhou Zhizhou, why didn't you show up?

After asking, an old punch hit Zhou Xun's face. knocked Zhou Xun down at once, and then scolded: "Big mother, you villains, it's not enough to force Shaobao away, and you still want to rectify us." Then you're wrong, it's a big deal that we don't move people. ”

While scolding, he rode on Zhou Xun and beat him.

The officials were not happy and wanted to rush up to dissuade them, but before they could do so, they were all put on the ground by a group of armed sailors and beaten one by one.

Including Zhou Xun, all of them were beaten to the point of crying dad and mother.

The officials of the city department in the back looked dumbfounded.

The fight was almost over, Wu Nan got up and said to several officials of the city, please inform the officials, if you are dissatisfied with us, we will immediately sail away, if it is full, why send such officials to oppose us everywhere?

Ask yourself, are we loyal to the Song Dynasty? Therefore, we don't understand it very much, so please give us an answer. In addition, this Zhou Zhizhou, before the imperial court replied, we wanted to invite him to the ship as a guest for a few days, didn't we want to get on the ship, let him get on the ship now.

Do you want the emperor to give you an answer? A group of officials from the City Department were even more dumbfounded, and then watched Wu Nan lift Zhou Xun onto the boat, beating him while carrying it.

When the news reached the imperial court, it caused an uproar again.

Wang Jue sighed and said, "Your Majesty, the connection between these maritime merchants and our dynasty is the bloodline that Wang Zi'an said, and the second is Wang Zi'an himself. ”

Those big lords thought that Wang Ju was gone and the maritime merchants had lost their power, but they were really wrong.

Zhang Zai now knows that it is difficult to do things, so he persuaded him to take a step back and open the sky. But Wang Ju did not take a step back, but a hundred steps back. Without an official position, it is not a living sky, but a vast sky.

As soon as Wang Ju left, the court had no binding force.

And these seafarers have always been very grateful to Wang Ju, Wang Ju was inexplicably ousted, so these seafarers are holding their breath in their hearts.

And how many officers and soldiers can be mobilized around Michigan to deal with them? Or mobilize officers and soldiers from elsewhere to suppress. But they were not inland, but on the sea, and the officers and men had not yet arrived, so I am afraid that they would all get on board and sail away. Where to suppress it?

Then the consequences will come, and the court will not want to take over the other side. Whether this is taken over or not, there are wise ministers who do not take it seriously. Those donations are definitely gone, and the commercial goods may be smuggled again. What's worse is that this is smuggling on the sea, and smuggling on the shore can't be controlled, and besides, it's the sea. As long as they want to smuggle, the court will only be helpless. Once all the smuggling is done, the extraction of the city is gone, and the incense in the inner library is also gone.

Together, these three incomes are almost comparable to those of salt. Think about it, for the sake of a Yanyan, how many stories happened in the Song Dynasty, and how many officials were sent to manage and deal with it?

In fact, at this time, Sun Gu and others faintly noticed that it seemed that Wang Ju had successfully forced him to step down, but in fact, they themselves were not embarrassed or embarrassed.

If you can't deal with seafarers, you can only deal with Zhou Xun.

The imperial court immediately issued an edict and comforted Wu Nan with kind words, there is no way, where is the money, is it for a faint official, do you lose so much income every year?

then demoted Wu Nan to Lingnan.

However, this incident is just a signal, even the dignified Zhizhou has been beaten so badly, and the main households are dripping with sweat, but the people they sent are still tied to the big tree and continue to torture. So I came over and asked for someone softly.

If you want someone, you can, five hundred stone of grain for one person. Otherwise, they will be taken overseas.

This matter spread to the capital again. This time, however, no one was silent. What to do. Because they really can't think of any good way to deal with the seafarers.

Moreover, the Jingdong region has also inherited the peace for a long time, think about Song Jiang and other thirty-six thieves rampant for thousands of miles, or think about Wang Lun's uprising, only more than 100 people, broke through several important cities one after another, all the way to the vertical and horizontal, from Yizhou to Hezhou.

Compared to them, there were more than a thousand tougher armed sailors on these ships in the Port of Michigan. How to deal with it?

These lords had no choice but to hand over the grain and ransom the people back.

Received autumn arrived.

The ship from the Wakoku also returned.

Originally, it was said that the remaining 50,000 taels of gold would be compensated with some silver taels brought back from the Wa Kingdom, and the rest would be brought back to the Song Dynasty next year. But until winter came, the ships were almost gone, and the seafarer was not seen to pay the silver to the imperial court.

And it's not over......

However, compared to the fiasco in the Northwest, this matter has not been paid attention to.

When the news came from the front, Zhao Ji immediately summoned Han Yun to the palace to inquire. Not to ask him about the military, but to ask when Wang Ju will come back?

At this time. He still thought that Wang Ju went to the other side just to avoid the limelight.

Han Yun didn't answer immediately, but asked. The winter in Western Xia is very cold, and in October, there is often goose feather snow, which is not conducive to our army's fighting. And the imperial court hurriedly mobilized the army near August, could it be possible to take Western Xia in three months? Isn't Western Xia even as good as occupying the city?

Wang Ju took nearly three years to win Jiaozhi, and the first year was to train the native soldiers, why? The forbidden soldiers who were transferred from the north did not adapt to the climate in the south, nor to the water and soil wherever they were. It was after training a large number of native soldiers from the south that he consciously avoided the rainy season in Cochin.

When I arrived in Dali, it was divided into two steps, the first step was to take the Wuman region first, and then use the strategy to let the Gao Yang family fight, and then officially started.

Only the time to deal with the city is slightly shorter, but how much preparation was made before dealing with the city?

At this time, Zhao Ji suddenly remembered what Wang Ju had said before, the national strength of the three southern countries is not strong, and the reason why it is difficult to conquer is because the local climate is not suitable for the northern army, but this can be overcome. However, the Western Xia not only had bad terrain, but also hundreds of thousands of real cavalry, so if you know yourself and the enemy, you can take the three southern kingdoms, but you may not be able to take the Western Xia.

That's when he faintly regretted it.

Han Yun also said, in fact, although the soldiers of our dynasty are not as good as the Tang Dynasty army, after so many years of training, they are not very weak, not to mention that the three armies are equipped with better armor. However, in the operation of the three armies, the food, grass, equipment, armor, the quality of the soldiers, and the commander's command ability are all indispensable.

After Wu Zetian killed Wang Fangyi, Cheng Wuting, and Heizhi Changzhi, could the Tang Army still fight a good battle?

Aren't the soldiers of Zhao State strong, but the king of Zhao hunted and killed Li Mu and replaced Li Mu with Zhao Cong and Yan Ju, can he not lose the country?

There is also Lian Po, King Zhao Xiaocheng replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, how was the Battle of Changping?

Zhao Ji sighed: "I will immediately send someone to summon Wang Zi'an back." ”

Han Yun shook his head, Your Majesty, you summoned Shao Bao back, with Shao Bao's loyalty to the Song Dynasty, most of them will come back, but maybe it will hurt Shao Bao. Just like Lian Po, even if the Battle of Changping occurs, what will happen to Lian Po?

In fact, after the Battle of Changping, the Zhao State was almost destroyed, so King Zhao Xiaocheng immediately activated Lian Po, coupled with the support of Chu and Wei, to relieve the danger of the Qin State, and then broke the invading Yan army. However, soon after, King Zhao Xiaocheng died, and King Zhao Mourning Xiang ascended the throne, and because of Guo Kaijin's slander, Lian Po had to flee to Wei for refuge. Later, Zhao was repeatedly trapped in Qin, and King Zhao Mourning wanted to use Lian Po again, so he sent Tang Jiu to observe Lian Po's body. It is said that Lian Po ate a bucket of rice and ten catties of meat in front of Tang Jiu for a meal, and he can also put on armor and get on a horse, I am not old, and I can go to the battlefield. But Tang Jiu accepted Guo Kai's bribe, and when he came back, he said that although General Lian was old and had a good amount of food, he sat with me and pooped three times in a short time. King Zhao thought that Lian was quite old, so he did not reappoint him.

Although Wang Ju is a talent, the emperor, you can't use it well.

Although it was a mockery, Zhao Ji was not angry, let alone thought that he was the mediocre King Zhao Mourning Xiang.

So he prepared to issue an edict to transfer Wang Ju back.

Lu Gongzhu asked, in what position did His Majesty transfer back to Wang Zi'an?

Lv Qing! Zhao Ji snorted, very displeased.

Lu Gong wrote, the ministers are not to squeeze out Wang Zi'an, but to arrange Wang Zi'an's position, which is extremely important. Therefore, the old minister thought that it was best to use the position of privy envoy and transfer back to Wang Zi'an.

It seems to be a good word, no matter what, Wang Ju and the eldest princess are in trouble, it really has no impact? Therefore, there is a proposal written by Lu Gong. This privy envoy is the privy envoy who imitates the best horse king Yiyong and Cao Guo's uncle Cao Tong, who is also a bad official, but has no real power.

In this way, if it does not hinder the national etiquette system, it will be regarded as an inexplicable concubine in the imperial court, but when the country has major affairs, it is equivalent to having an important think tank for consultation.

Zhao thinks this is a good suggestion.

Lu Gongzhu also said, just as the north wind is strong, and there are still a few sea ships in various cities that have been delayed because of the transaction, and have not yet set sail to the south, His Majesty can immediately send two lieutenant envoys to the other side to issue an edict, so that by next summer, maybe Wang Zi'an will be able to return to the capital.

Only then did Zhao Ji issue an edict, and with the crown prince Taibao, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, he judged a long list of official positions such as the privy envoy and the Duke of Qin Guogong and the scholar of the Guanwen Palace, so that Huang He and Zhang Quanzhong were the envoys and went to the other side to summon Wang Ju back.

They are all top-level officials, but don't take it seriously, such as Wen Yanbo, he has several more top-level officials than Wang Ju.

The two lieutenant envoys quickly headed south, but soon there were some rumors in the capital.

500,000 soldiers and civilians went to the northwest battlefield and more than 200,000 died, including the people of Shaanxi, as well as the Baojie and Fan soldiers of Shaanxi, a small number of people from Hedong, and many of them were forbidden soldiers from the capital area, or from the Gyeonggi region such as Luoyang and Yingtian.

The living soldier immediately reported his safety to his family through the post office.

However, there was no news of the dead soldiers.

This also includes thirty or forty thousand soldiers from the capital, if it weren't for Wang Shao and Wang Ju, what else could he say about the importance of peace, the Song army was very weak, so it couldn't fight. But comparing the records of these two, how can this sentence be said?

Thinking about the death of so many soldiers and civilians, no matter what ability they have, they can't stop or reverse the discussion of public opinion.

And there are many officials who recognize Wang Ju, but their strength is very small and they can't help Wang Ju.

But it didn't hinder their discussions, so Han Yun's answer in the court spread out of their mouths.

The reason why he lost so badly is that he didn't choose a good coach. But didn't the Song Dynasty have a good commander?

Yes, and there are two characters who are no less than Wei Qinghuo going to illness. But what about these two people? One was demoted again and again because of the exclusion of the scholars, and in a fit of anger, he suffered from back gangrene, and I heard that he has passed away now.

Another one has been taken overseas.

Who got it, the people themselves began to "human flesh search", so the names of top scholars and doctors appeared in the people's discussions.

In particular, Wang Ju abolished the city and changed the law.

Kaifeng City in the Song Dynasty was not only a political center, but also a commercial center. Perhaps because of the proposal to Qi Shang Tax, many top magnates hated Wang Ju to the core, but small and medium-sized businessmen were very grateful to Wang Ju.

The truth was revealed, so many people spontaneously reflected, even if they touched the eldest princess, what could they do?

Besides, before leaving, Wang Ju asked, how could Wen Yanbo and Sun Gu find out such hidden news, do they want to cover the sky with one hand?

This kind of public opinion is also spreading rapidly with the news of the defeat.

Of course, it may also subside over time. But don't worry, this matter is not over either...... There's more to come. (To be continued.) )