Chapter 506 Chaos (1)
"Xingzhi, your statement is very dangerous. Governing the country is based on morality. Let's look at the borders that have been blocked and domestic disadvantages are arising from... "Fan Zhongyan said.
Zheng Lang waved his hand, interrupted him, and asked back: "The virtue of the Master refers to the virtues? Brother Xiwen, I can't even persuade you and I, let alone these people are more stubborn than you, don't make things difficult for me."
He said that and then left.
Why did I think about it and repeatedly persuade this young master to make it boring? Besides, I still have many things I haven't done.
Come to the Secretariat to work.
In the spring, at the request of Fan Zhongyan, the Secretariat conducted a rough division of labor, that is, the division of labor of the political affairs of the minister. Under normal circumstances, there are two officials, sometimes only one official, and sometimes there are three people and four people. For example, there are three people now, Fan Zhongyan, Jia Changchao and Zheng Lang.
Jia Changchao was in charge of work in etiquette education, Zheng Lang was in charge of economic and civil affairs, Fan Zhongyan was in charge of personnel transfers and reforms, and was also the deputy minister with the greatest power. In fact, at this time Fan Zhongyan's power was hidden above Zhang Dexiang and Yan Shu.
The Western Palace is Yan Shu, but Yan Shu is in both offices, so the affairs of the Privy Council were handed over to Du Yan, but the person who spoke the loudest was not Du Yan, but Han Qi, who was in the capital and Shaanxi.
It is hard to say that Zheng Lang and Jia Changchao have great power. It seems that Jia Changchao has higher real power, but both are empty. Zheng Lang has the least power, but it can be implemented everywhere.
Zhang Fangping, who was transferred back to the capital, handed a memorial and faintly screamed for Zheng Lang.
He didn't believe in Han Qi or Fan Zhongyan. Zheng Lang convinced him. The new policy was not allowed to be ranked according to seniority. So who now has the greatest contribution, has strong ability to govern and has good knowledge, so why did Zheng Lang fall behind?
The memorial will not be reported.
Zhao Zhen didn't say anything at all, and he believed that Zheng Lang wouldn't care. Besides, the court was full of storms, so what should I do when I stood in front?
But Zheng Lang has the most facts only about affairs and innovation.
Open and check the local reports one by one.
During this period, he was in charge of the economy and civil affairs. Some things were difficult to do. The country was too poor and even the scientific staff had never proposed to let go. He could not let go. Once the national finances were released, there would be huge pressure immediately.
The main reason is that money and food are dragging us down.
After reading the memorial for a while, Zheng Lang couldn't help staring at the East.
If you want to solve the problem of food, you must first open the land. This can only be opened to the south, and the second is to breed excellent seeds. It is not possible to just the small continent of the Yangtze River. You must also find more places and slowly improve the seeds. Helplessly, if you want hybridization technology, how difficult it is in this era. But now stability is the first priority. You can only place it on the future agenda. The third will be very important, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and another plant that is not related to grain. Rubber. Now all wheels made of wood have too high damage rate, which increases transportation costs. If there is rubber, use it as wheels, the cost of long-distance transportation will drop by one quarter. Don’t underestimate this quarter. If the Song Dynasty was the big one, how much materials would be transported to the north in a year?
But you can't be anxious, you can only look at the scale of ship technology and safety supervision development.
A person was sent to send a memorial to the Sansi. The new warehouse law was established, asking Wang Yaochen to start putting grain to the people to make seeds. The grain for relief can collect a little interest, but the grain seeds must not collect any interest. It is necessary to ensure that every refugee returning to his hometown has planted food.
Because of their responsibilities, they sometimes overlap with the three departments. During this period, I have had a lot of dealings with Wang Yaochen.
It is not the one that overlaps, but there are many things that cannot be avoided. It is managed by several departments and has more resources. No matter how many departments are concerned, they can still shirk responsibility.
In fact, Zheng Lang's pragmatic, low-key and gentle style has already influenced some people...
Handle affairs for a while and review some memorials handed to the capital in a ridiculous tone. Indeed, some officials are really incompetent. They can make any low-level mistakes and point them out one by one. This is the benefit of being an otaku in his previous life. He is very patient in handling affairs.
Then he wrote a letter to Zhang Ji. He was not Di Qing, and many people could get stuck inside and say in a mess that the northwest prefecture was a child whose father was not a pain and his mother didn't love. He was transferred to Jingyuan Road again. At this time, Jingyuan Road became a big stove and frying and roasting inside. Zhang Ji must have felt bad.
After a few words of comfort, I suddenly thought of Di Qing, but I don’t know how Di Qing was in the south.
...
Di Qing led his troops to the south.
Worried about being controlled by civil officials, at Zheng Lang's suggestion, Di Qing was given the position of pacification envoy on Jinghu South Road. In this way, Di Qing's power would be above Yang Ting, and he could also dispatch local materials, troops, and other forces to achieve a thunderous blow.
When Di Qing left, the situation in Guiyang was deteriorating.
Guo Fuzhi was ordered to suppress the bandits, but what did he know? Looking at the vast Jiuli Mountain, he was almost stunned. He led his troops to suppress the enemy, and was beaten to the point of being abandoned. The bandits became stronger and more than 2,000 people. Guo Fu was worried that, and the reason why Guiyang was called the magistrate instead of the state and the army was because there were many silver mines here. Ping An Supervision brought back a large amount of gold and silver a year, but he had to give the Khitan 200,000 taels of silver every year. How important is the silver? It just so happened that Di Qing and Yang Ting arrived at the same time. Let's hand over the bandit suppression to you.
Di Qing had not yet passed the Shuiluo City incident and Han Qi's shame, and at this time he had a good impression of the civil officials, thinking that they were all like Zheng Lang, looking at Yang Fuzhi and Chen Zhifang, and said, "Guo Tidian, Yang Tidian, Chen Zhizhou, what are your opinions?"
I am a military general, you are civil officials, so I also want to tell you what you think.
Yang Ting said: "General Di, the thief is not very powerful. All you lead are elite soldiers from the north. It is better to attack immediately, otherwise the miasma in spring will be tall and vast, and I don't know when to solve it. The longer the delay will be, the soldiers will not sacrifice themselves to suppress the bandits, but will be sacrificed under the epidemic because of the damp and heat of the earth."
Chen Zhifang said: "It's not easy to suppress it. The mountains are too big. After passing Jiuyi Mountain, there is Guiyang Mountain. Each mountain range runs for nearly a thousand miles and is almost entangled."
After listening for a long time, Di Qing had no idea what they were talking about. After thinking about it, he decided to think about it himself.
So he invited some familiar locals to come over and selected more than a dozen smart and capable young people from them, gave them generous rewards, and asked them to be scouts to go into the mountains to inquire.
The news came a few days later, and the reason was very simple, because of the migration.
It was not Chen Zhifang who abused them. He settled a large area of land outside the mountain and did a meticulous aftermath work. However, the barbarians in the mountain were not civilized and could not make sense. In addition, they killed some of the salt dealers in the mountain. People were uneasy, which led to many people in the mountains who killed the officials and treasons.
If they rebel in the mountains and Xiaoyao is king, they will let it go, and they will be robbed from time to time, or plundered or killed people. Guiyangjian, Daozhou, southern Binzhou, Shaozhou, and northern Lianzhou are all decayed. Seeing that they are powerful, many live barbarians joined one after another. Not only are Shengmans, but also some brave and mature barbarians also entered it, just as they were their eyewitness. When most of the officials came, they fled into the mountains. They used the deep forests of the mountains as shields to kill the officers and soldiers. If they did not chase them, they came out of the mountain from other places. Avoid the main force of the official army and continued to plunder.
After receiving the news, Di Qing summoned his generals in the military camp and did not expect these civil servants to be. After a few days of getting along, Di Qing knew how much water they had in their stomachs. Then he glanced at him. This time, Zheng Lang asked him to bring Jing Sili, Guo Kui, Zhao Xun, and even his disciples Wang Zhiwang Yuan to bring together. The meaning was quite strong, and the old bird was very smart. He immediately stuffed his three sons, Zong Gu, Zong Zhi and Zong Yan, into the army. Di Qing, you can do it, even if you let them be a soldier, it doesn't matter.
It's nothing, because Zhong Shiheng has seen that Zheng Lang will sooner or later manage the south. If he manages the south, Meishanman and Kuizhou, he must go through hard battles to reverse the current situation. That's why Di Qing brought a large number of young generals, which is for the sake of the future.
Di Qing said: "The thief is quite powerful, but there are many people, and they come from all over the place, and some familiar men are not united."
He didn't understand Zheng Lang's theory of yin and yang, but there are many principles that are consistent, and the advantage is the disadvantage. He also said: "So I want to differentiate them, send people to the mountain to negotiate with them, and check the specific terrain. This requires one or two capable generals to lead into the mountain so that they can be my guide when suppressing bandits."
Guo Kui stood up and said, "General Di, let his subordinates go."
Di Qing thought for a while and nodded, saying, "It's up to you to go, and there's also, Zhong Gu, you and Guo Kui enter the mountain together."
The discussion was decided, and immediately gathered some exquisite porcelain, gold and silver, and a few cars of high-quality silk. This was an imaginative military plan. But Guo Fuzhi looked hesitant and said, "General Di, if General Guo goes, there will be danger."
Guo Kui is the deputy general of the Song army this time, and his status is very important. If these barbarians are killed, they will lose one general before the army is attacked.
Di Qing ignored him, but was not careless. He first sent local Shuman to the mountain to inform Tang He that your rebellion was definitely not a solution. There were more than one million troops in the Song Dynasty, and he would crush you to death, let alone beat you. I sent General Guo Kui to discuss peace with you, which was sincerely discussing peace and bringing you a lot of gifts. What do you think?
If Tang He came from the northwest, he would definitely not agree or kill Guo Kui directly. He had won many victories recently, and he immediately agreed to the officials of the Song Dynasty who gave gifts to him. In the past, most officials of the Song Dynasty did this. Guo Kui entered the mountains like this.
He was taken to Gujiangdong by the barbarians, which is one of the enemy's nests. The terrain is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. When Guo Kui saw Tang He, he said calmly: "Chief of Tang, in view of the inconvenience caused by Chen Zhizhou, I will apologize first."
Tang He laughed contemptuously with his belly bare.
Guo Kui was not angry and continued, "The Tang leader, the court heard about you, so he asked General Di to come and notify you, take back the order of Chen Zhizhou, and let you continue to stay in the mountains, but not to rebel and rebellion. The court will also grant some of the chief positions among you, which is a gift from the court."
As he said that, he asked the soldiers to open the car.
Tang He asked his subordinates to push the car in and laughed wildly, "What if I don't listen to your dog official's order?"
When the general translation translated Tang He's words, Guo Kui looked embarrassed and flinched, saying, "That's not something I can do."
As a result, Tang He drove him out with contempt.
But he had already let Guo Kui see some important terrain, and the reason for his rebellion was migration. Now that he did not move, his subordinates had some ideas. Next, Di Qing was very timid and sent people to negotiate with them. Every time he negotiated, he sent a lot of generous gifts. March was approaching silently, which was the time when the miasma was getting heavier as the civil servants of the Song Dynasty said, Tang He was even more relaxed... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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