On August 1, the Taohe Pacification Department was established, and General Wang Shao was appointed as the leader of the matter.

Finally, the real purpose of Wang Anshi's reform and the core content of all previous laws finally revealed its true nature! Why was the pace of reform so urgent? Why didn't we do a good job in the early stages of "government" first? There were answers - war! War with Tubo, Xixia, and Liao!

On the surface, this issue can be summarized by another word "rich country and strong soldiers", but if you think about it carefully: Is there a unity between rich country and strong soldiers? No, or even the opposite!

History has proved a very interesting phenomenon countless times: the poorer the country, the stronger the combat effectiveness will be. Once the country is richer and the people are richer, the combat effectiveness will plummet... There are many examples, such as the Roman Empire was destroyed by the barbarians, the Five Barbarians invaded China during the Western Jin Dynasty, and the demise of the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty...

Therefore, this "rich country and strengthen soldiers" is just a slogan for publicity. Wang Anshi's real purpose is only one, that is, to quickly raise military spending! There is only one purpose, nothing else...

If you carefully study the causes and consequences of the reform, you will find a fact: Emperor Shenzong of Song and Wang Anshi must have loved his country fiercely and took it as his mission to revitalize China. Especially Emperor Shenzong of Song, he wanted to make the country prosperous and strong, defeat the Western Xia, recover Yanyun, conquer the Liao Kingdom, and restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties. This was a great ambition that surpassed Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Taizong Zhao Guangyi in his life.

However, the process of achieving the steps is not as full of benevolence and morality as people usually imagine. The path of revitalization they choose is very dangerous and is a quick success. And this is a terrible double-edged sword. From beginning to end, if you want to succeed, you must not make any mistakes in every link!

At this time, after the Liang Dynasty in Xixia, Liang Yi buried his siblings and brothers had already begun to attack the Tubo of Hehuang tribes. This is the surrounding national conditions listed by Wang Shao in "Pingrong Ceremony". With the unification of Xixia at this time and the prosperity that was still at the beginning of the founding of the country, it will be a matter of time before annexation of the Hehuang Tubo tribes that split into scattered sand! Even for security, the Song Dynasty had to take action quickly, otherwise what was waiting for was a super ugly way of death! This is why Wang Anshi's reforms were so fast...

Hehuang would be defeated at any time, and war was imminent! The Song Dynasty had no money, no soldiers, and no soldiers at that time... and even if you had to say something, follow the steps, straighten the relationship, and then reform after the administration was done well, that would be a complete dream!

For this reason, after Wang Shao had just submitted the "Pingrong Sect", Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi supported him without reservation. He had a position and helped him to the head of the Taohe Pacification Department in the Northwest. During this period, all the former leaders who had conflicts with him were withdrawn!

The Xihe River is about to start fighting! Wang Shao wants to establish an image before the real war begins. The Song army is the best friend of the Qiang people. Although we ride horses, hold swords and kill people all the way, we are very cute...

With this concept, Wang Shao selected the first goal: Yu Longke, the Tubo man who was the largest in Qing Tang Dynasty. His troops had nearly 00,000 people, and there were also unknown Qiang people in his territory...

Faced with such aliens, with the vacuum of the local power of the Song Dynasty at that time, Wang Shao actually dared to do such a thing: One day, he only brought a few cavalry and crossed the border like a wandering mountain and water, entered Qingtang, who was in the Tubo power, and directly found Yu Longke, talked with him, and analyzed the future of the Tubo people. The two talked very well, and it was dark without realizing it. Wang Shao actually stayed in Yu Longke's tent that night, lying calmly until dawn the next day...

After dawn, everything was solved. His eloquence, especially his courage, impressed the Tubo people, and Yu Longke promised to join the clan to return to the Song Dynasty and become a minister of the Song Dynasty from then on!

Looking at this incident, some people may say that it is no big deal. Some people in the Song Dynasty have done this before - Zhong Shiheng, Qingjian City. The old husband could turn Qingjian City into a nightmare for the people of Xixia in the past, which was that he quickly conquered the nearby Qiang people, and the techniques he used were very similar to Wang Shao's this time.

But there is a difference. Firstly, although Qingjian City was first built, it was finally within the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty. The power of the Song Dynasty was always shrouded in that area. Secondly, the Qiang people were different from Tubo and Xixia. They had never established their own regime since the Five Barbarians invaded China, so they were fence-bearers. But Yu Longke was a Tubo native, and he was a nobleman of the Hehuang tribe...

But a small thing that happened later showed Wang Shao's essence. This man didn't do anything unsure. Yu Longke went to Kaifeng City to meet Song Shenzong. After all, he made an extra request: I heard that Bao Zhongcheng was a loyal minister of the court, so he asked to give his surname to Bao...

Bao Zhongcheng is Bao Zheng. This figure who is like a god in official history and in unofficial history is the idol of Yu Longke, a Tubo man. Shenzong agreed to him and gave him a name, and from then on his name is Bao Shun...

This shows that Wang Shao has done a very good job in preparation. The reason why he dared to ride alone to see Yu Longke was because he saw that this man had a complex in the Song Dynasty and could be surrendered...

On the 7th, Wang Anshi's son Wang Yun was appointed as the crown prince Zhongyun, and he was a storyteller in Chongzheng Palace. Wang Yun was a standard Legalist believer and went further than his father. When he was 1 year old, he insisted on revenge when he heard others talk about Shaanxi military affairs. At this time, his father strongly supported Wang Shao. He wrote more than 0 articles on the world's affairs and printed all of these arguments on the board and sold them on the market. Such actions naturally could easily attract the emperor's attention. Deng Wan and Zeng Bu were also included.

After strong recommendation from the backbone of the new party, although there were strict rules that the ruling son could not participate in political affairs, Wang Rong was still appointed as an official of the imperial lecture to influence the emperor by teaching books... But Wang Rong was really a loyal believer of a Legalist. It is said that he once said to his father Wang Anshi, "But Han Qi and Fu Bi were beheaded in the city, why not worry about the new law?" He openly challenged the ancestor family law of the Song Dynasty's "not killing scholars and officials", which further intensified the contradiction between the old and new parties...

This month, the Yellow River broke through again in Caocun, Chanzhou. The state commander Liu Huan urgently informed Cheng Hao, who was a hundred miles away. Cheng Hao rushed overnight and arrived at the scene and said to Liu Huan, "This big break will be in danger in the capital. I am urgently following the power. Please transfer all the soldiers in the state and follow me to rescue and rescue the disaster! You can personally lead the imperial guards as my reserve." Liu Huan immediately gave the seal talisman to "Your own use." As soon as Cheng Hao got the seal talisman, he immediately summoned all the soldiers of the talisman. "The court will support you, and it is for this matter! Caocun will cause danger to the capital! Now I am sharing weal and woe with you, and I will never give up until I block the Yellow River." After fighting day and night, I finally "temporarily" blocked the gap. Of course, for the Yellow River during the Song Dynasty, "blocking" is definitely temporary, and "breaking" will always be endless...

On September 19, Xia Huizong Li Bingchang sent envoys to pay tribute again, requesting the return of Suizhou. He was rejected.

On October 17, the 7th new law - the Tai Students' Three-Stories Law on Education was introduced: the number of Tai students in the Imperial College is increased, and the students are divided into 700 out of the outer room, 00 out of the inner room, 100 out of the upper room, etc. After investigation, the Shangshu students with excellent character and academic performance can be exempted from the imperial examination and directly appointed to the official position.

On the 1st, Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anguo was appointed as the school clerk of Chongwen Academy. Wang Anguo opposed the reform and often advised his brother that the world was in a turbulent manner and that the new laws were not happy, and all blamed him for his brother, for fear of the family's disaster.

In January 5th year of Xining (107), Xia Huizong Li Bingchang married his sister to Lin Pubi, the son of Zampo Dongjian of Tubo.

On the 14th of the month, Li Rizun, the clan of Li Chaosheng of Jiaozhi, passed away. His son Renzong Li Gande succeeded the throne at a young age. He was about to challenge the Song Dynasty, but was later hit by Guo Kui!

On the 6th, the 8th new law - the Market Change Law was launched! This is also a controversial law in Wang Anshi's new law! And it was tailor-made for Wang Shao.

The war requires money! The "City Yi Law" is actually the deepening and detailed method of the "Equal Transfer Method" and the further catching money. The "City Yi Law" special department was set up in Beijing. The first host was the judge of the Sansi, "Lü Family Thief", Lu Jiawen. He raised 1 million jin of money from the inner warehouse as capital, and the government took over the sale of various materials inside and outside the capital. The specific method was that the Municipal Yi Law recruited the Yamen (representative of the Merchant Guild), and they negotiated the price of the goods with merchants from all over the country who came to Beijing to do business. Local merchants in Beijing could participate without capital, use industries and gold as collateral, lend goods to the state for business, and repay the payment after the due period, plus one or two cents of interest.

To be fair, this new law is the most failed in Wang Anshi's new law. Because it went back, it not only hit the big merchants who had manipulated the capital market and raised prices before, but also drove all the merchants from all over the country... The state monopolizes all transactions in the world. Is there still a way for ordinary people to live? The Song Dynasty's business market, which had been active before, was severely hit after the implementation of the Municipal Yi Law. Later, the Yaman recruited by the Municipal Yiwu voluntarily resigned: I have gone bankrupt when serving the country! Can you please allow me to resign?

It’s really cruel, but it’s a policy that can’t be easily raised on military spending!

Wang Shao needs military expenses and money, which is something that the army cannot achieve when farming and selling grain and self-sufficiency! For this reason, he needs to do business and buyers from all over the country to go to the frontier to move. Then he can only develop the country's efforts. The country takes out capital and special people to take charge, encourages merchants to protect merchants and turn them into money. With money, there is everything, an organic operation chain will be formed - the private collection of wealth, which will turn into military expenses, win wars, expand land, and recover funds...

This is the real purpose and means of Wang Anshi's reform. Otherwise, with the unprecedentedly developed commercial system of the Song Dynasty and the much more advanced agricultural production than previous generations, as long as it saves money as Sima Guang said, it will definitely enrich the treasury and will not be able to make such a struggle!

But what about protecting national security and winning the war? So slowly, saving one by one, and discussing with the scholars and officials and great merchants to do things. It takes the year of the monkey and horses to accumulate huge military expenditures? What's more, as long as the war starts, money will flow away like flowing water, and even a mountain of gold cannot support several major wars! How should we ask for follow-up funds at that time? Only by raiding homes can we have time! What's more, as long as the war is mentioned, the gentlemen will bring out Confucius's sage commandments - that is a weapon, and we must never use it until we are absolutely sure. We cannot use it first. We must be kind and righteous, moral, and education. Emperor Taizong said, "It's morality, not danger."

On May, King Yelu Ren of Jin died first. At this point, the Great Liao Kingdom lost its last protective umbrella. What awaited it was the last half century of surviving...

This month in the Song Dynasty, Wang Shao officially launched the Xihe Battle! The Xihe Battle is an important historical event that is exclusively in the "Song History Chronicles". It is very unique. In a narrow sense, the Xihe border refers to the battle that began in May 2010, led by Wang Shao to conquer the Tubo of the Hehuang tribe. It took 1075 years to reach an end when Wang Shao was promoted to the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor. In a broad sense, the Xihe border was intermittent and must be corrected.

Before the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Chongning period of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, the eunuch Tong Guan, led by Wang Hou, the son of Wang Shao, and conquered Hehuang again. At this time, a full 0 years had passed since the time when Emperor Shenzong opened the soil... When the disaster was about to come, every previous action was considered to be one of the countless straws in front of the last straw that overwhelmed the camel. This was even more so in the Battle of Xihe. Its merits and crimes are hard to describe, and it has various explanations and evaluations in historical books...

Before this, you need to know where the war occurred? The distribution of various places and forces. If you look up information, you will easily have some answers. Xi is Xizhou, He is Hezhou, and Huang is Huangzhou. It seems clear, but it is not enough. Their precise position is related to how Wang Shao formulated the order of conquests. You must first understand this point to understand how the Xihe Battle was fought and the difficulty of this matter...

Open the map, the northwest of the Song Dynasty was Huizhou on Jingyuan Road and Qin, Fengcheng, Cheng, and Steps on Qinfeng Road. Then to the west was Taozhou. With Taozhou as the center point, it was Tibetan Tubo outside the Hehuang tribe in the west. In the south was Sichuan of the Song Dynasty. In the north were Xizhou, Hezhou, Lanzhou, and Huangzhou...

Perhaps everyone will get such an answer in their minds - Hehuang Tubo is just like this. A large area of ​​land in the Song Dynasty separated it and could not threaten the hinterland of the Song Dynasty no matter what? Sorry, this is not right! If you understand the location, you must also understand the sphere of influence of Hehuang Tubo at this time! Hezhou was occupied by Mu Zheng, the son of Xiaozhen, the second son of Xiaozhen. Huangzhou is their base camp, inherited by Dongzhen, the third son of Dongzhen. Outside these two areas, their tentacles stretched very far, and the farthest place has reached Minzhou and Gongzhou...

Above Chengjiezhou is Minzhou, above Minzhou is Gongzhou, and to the right is Qinzhou, the hinterland of Qinfeng Road of the Song Dynasty! In the large area between He, Huang, Min, and Gongzhou, the Han people have very little power, and even survival is a problem, and there is no management at all. Because in addition to the Tubo people, this area is also covered with Qiang people who fall on all sides like fences. It was later proved that these Qiang people are more difficult to deal with than the Tubo people. They have almost no principles and rebel at any time...
Chapter completed!