Wei Minglangyu was Li Yuanhao's younger brother. He once went to war with Li Yuanhao and made great achievements. However, Li Yuanhao must be suspicious and could not tolerate this younger brother being in the limelight and suppressing him many times. As a result, his reputation was not revealed and the people of the Song Dynasty were not familiar with him.

Some powerful people in Xixia still know it.

I know more if I haven’t moved.

Because Li Yuanhao believed in his daughter, he said something. For example, his evaluation of famous ministers from various countries, including Zheng Lang, said that Zheng Lang was not enough to worry about military affairs. If he was asked to lead his troops to fight Zheng Lang again, he would definitely win. The reason for his defeat was that he was a civil servant and was not prepared enough.

The fact is wrong. Li Yuanhao's military ability is based on strategy and grasping the timing of the political situation. No one in the world can match this. Whether it is Yu Silu, Di Qing or Zhong Shiheng, it can be said that he is a reduced version of Zhuge Wuhou, but he has one shortcoming. He is not good at tactics and strategic behavior. Just like Zhuge Liang, he has been divided into three parts before he has even left his cottage, and is a mess. However, in terms of tactical changes in each battle, he is not the top of the Three Kingdoms, nor is he as strong as Zhou Yu, nor is he even suppressed by him repeatedly. This is true for Li Yuanhao. His strategic vision is invincible in the world. In terms of tactical changes, he is not as good as Di Qing, Zhong Shiheng, or as good as Wu Silu.

Zheng Lang's military talent is definitely not as good as Li Yuanhao, but he has the golden finger. If the battle of Dingchuan Fort is overturned again, Zheng Lang will remain humble, strategically use the golden finger as a supplement, and tactically let it go for Di Qing and Zhong Shiheng to plan. With the huge backing power of the Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao will still fail.

This is a sentence that Li Yuanhao said after the victory of the Battle of Hequ.

However, once when Wei Minglang met Jin Jin, Li Yuanhao commented that in terms of military talent, only Langhui could match me.

Li Yuanhao's position in Wuyi Jishan was still very noble. A young prime minister with military talent surpassed that of the Song Dynasty. A general who was on par with Li Yuanhao led 3,000 cavalry to come. What good end would he have?

For a while, Jishan almost dragged his daughter out of the car and rode on a horse together. He took his son's house, regardless of his tribe members, and prepared to escape to Xiaoguan.

At this moment, another clan member in front of him found him and said, "Grand leader, good things, good things, the Song Dynasty led its troops here."

At this time, Wuhuaishan was standing on the top of a dirt mountain, looking a little far away. Looking south, I saw a wave of smoke and dust coming. I felt calm and shouted: "Organize troops and prepare for the battle. The reinforcements of the Song Dynasty are here."

But what almost made him vomit blood was that when he heard the arrival of reinforcements in the Song Dynasty, some tribe members turned around and packed the cattle and sheep luggage, and the place was about to become a battlefield. What were they thinking about cleaning up these things?

He hurriedly asked the young and middle-aged clan members to organize an army of more than 1,500 people, ready to drag them down.

Wei Minglang was the first to come to the scene.

He was struggling along the way, mostly mountain roads that were not suitable for marching at all. His tent was full of cavalry, and his speed was not as fast as that of infantry on these rugged mountain roads. Fortunately, the clans were slow to move, so he caught up. Looking at the opposite side, he saw that Wuyi Jishan actually organized an army to prepare for the fight. He laughed, strangled the horse, and did not fight immediately. He looked at the mountain and shouted, "Don't move Jishan, get off the horse and surrender."

He didn't move to Jishan and refused to answer. Instead, he looked at the smoke and dust in the southwest and said to his two sons: "Prepare to fight and drag down time."

Wei Minglang whispered when he saw the father and son whispering without moving, and sneered.

He saw the smoke and dust in the southwest direction without moving, and he also saw it. The question was false, and he paused. He was just an observation.

Seeing that Jishan was not moved, he asked his clan members to get on the horse and prepare to fight, he even sneered in his heart.

If he had not moved Jishan, he had chosen a favorable terrain, arranged small fortifications, dismounted his horse and opened his bow, and delayed for a while, the Song army would have come, and now fight immediately... seeking death! Several generals under the opponent also ordered: "The target, the father and daughter are not moved!"

There is no time to destroy the tribe without moving, so you can only try to kill the father and daughter without moving.

Brother Ning Ling, the little emperor, Wuzang's brother and sister, and Wuliu's clan and his dead brother, did not care about the grudges of the brother Wuzang's brother and sister, the truth must be not what Wuzang's brother and sister said, nor did he care about what the truth was, but the Western Xia must transition smoothly, otherwise it will be destroyed under the flat crack between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan. So he expressed his loyalty to Liangzuo at the first time.

Others could join the Song Dynasty, but the symbolic meaning of father and daughter was too strong, so they must not be allowed to escape to the Song Dynasty.

"yes."

"Langli, you lead five hundred soldiers to charge first."

"Yes," his general Ranri led five hundred soldiers to rush forward.

Wuhuan Shan turned his head and looked at the smoke and dust in the southwest direction getting closer. He also saw Wei Minglang sending only 500 people to charge towards him, and was very happy.

His tribe was close to Douling and not far from the junction of Song and Xia. Therefore, most of the warriors in these tribes participated in the conquest of Tubo. The Uighurs and the Song Dynasty had a war. Their military talent was not as good as Langyu, and their subordinates' combat effectiveness was no worse than that of soldiers brought by Langyu. They said to their eldest son: "You lead a thousand people to fight."

Regardless of whether fair or not, drag down time first.

The two soldiers collided together.

The soldiers of the Unmoved Clan did not have the advantage, after all, one thousand to five hundred. But the war was not as Wuyishan imagined. After a while, the initial explosive power was lost. Wei Minglang waved his hand and killed five hundred people from both sides.

Jishan had no choice but to let all his subordinates go out to fight.

After a while of fierce fighting, both sides suffered casualties. Wei Minglang encountered a large group of soldiers, and all the remaining 1,500 soldiers were released, and the three left, middle and right rushed to the battlefield. After only one round, all the soldiers under Jishan were defeated.

Seeing that something was wrong, Jishan had to run forward without moving.

The clan leader ran away, and the soldiers of the Unmoved Clan fled faster. In the defeated army, a large number of the unmoved Clan's children were killed.

The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and they were about to catch up. An ugly and ferocious middle-aged man came first with a dozen riders and shouted, "Who is Wuyi Jishan?"

The visitor didn't move to Jishan and didn't recognize any of them. The armor was a style from the Song Dynasty, so he asked: "I am."

"Where is your daughter?" There is no other meaning. The most important person in this industry is not that he did not move Jishan, but that he did not move his family.

Wuliu Jishan pointed to the people who were running away in front and said, "She is in front."

"Follow the Sa family," said the man, and stopped talking, covering Wuyi Jishan and fighting and retreating. It seemed ugly, but this man fought bravely. Wherever the weapons reached, almost no one was his enemy. Wuyi Jishan vaguely guessed who he was.

The situation is still very dangerous. No matter how fierce Zhang Ji is, there are too few Song soldiers who come first. There are only a dozen people, and several soldiers fall down in a while. However, after the blood and courage of these Song soldiers, some soldiers who did not move tribe stopped and panic, and could not escape in a random way. In front of them, their own brothers and sisters, wives and children, and their elders and young people participated in the war one after another. They still did not stabilize. Although soldiers came to participate in the war from time to time, fewer and fewer people. Just when Zhang Ji and Wu Yi were all out of sight, the large army of Song Dynasty finally arrived one after another.

Wei Minglang was ordered to retreat when he was ordered by the soldiers, and he was very afraid of Zhang Ke. Moreover, this was a land controlled by the Song Dynasty. Once a fierce battle was formed, it would be very unfavorable for him. He shouted: "General Zhang. Why did you take our mother of the country in?"

If someone else can ask, you only have one mother of the country in Xixia, is it because you are not a Zang family or a family? Zhang Ji is a rough man with poor skills and said rudely: "Then why are you Xixia taking in Zhang Yuan and others?"

"Zhang Yuan is just an ordinary citizen."

"Zhang Yuan is really an ordinary citizen? Not only Zhang Yuan, but also our dynasty has won a great victory. For the sake of the people of the two countries, we have reconsidered peace and increased the annual gifts. Why do you Xixia people continue to invade farming, harass the people on the border, and have a lot of private salt? The person on the opposite side will listen, and fight if you want to fight. Less than verbose."

Wei Minglang was silent for a while. Seeing that the Song Dynasty army was well-organized, as if smoke and dust were rising in the distance, he pulled the horse and said, "Get away."

Zhang Ke didn't chase him. He saw some of the scene of the battle just now. This was a powerful general. He saw that he had not arrived for a long time before he had not arrived. He sent a scout to inquire and found that there were pursuers behind him. The marching speed of the unmoved clan was slow and he would be caught up. Therefore, he only brought 500 cavalry and 500 infantry in Xiaoguan. The number of troops was not as large as the other party, and the command ability was not underestimated. If he was defeated, even Xiaoguan would be lost, so he watched Wei Minglang withdraw.

The people who did not move their tribe recovered. Many children in the family died in the battle just now. They returned to their heads to restrain their relatives' bodies. Many people cried. Zhang Ke looked at the cattle and sheep, as well as a large amount of ragged luggage, and some small cars, and asked dissatisfiedly: "If you don't move, are you traveling or running away?"

The mountain's face turned red without moving, and he couldn't answer.

Zhang Ji did not scold them anymore, escorted them all the way into Xiaoguan, and sent them to Qinzhou. At the junction of Qin and Wei, there was a river valley that moved out very early to specifically settle the people of the unrelocated tribe. It was far away from Xiaoguan, hundreds of miles away, followed Huluchuan to Zhenrong Village, and also crossed Longshan from Zhenrong Village to Weizhou, and then turned from Weizhou to that valley. However, after passing Xiaoguan, the unrelocated tribe was safe and sound. Zhang Ji sent a special person to escort, wrote memorials one by one, reported to the court, and introduced that Wei Minglang met this person, and should not be underestimated, as the military command ability was still above the Yeli brothers back then.

The memorial was handed over to the capital.

Zheng Lang not only paid attention to this matter, but he would stop him from being prime minister. As soon as he served as prime minister, he realized that this country had to deal with so many things in a day.

We continued to appease the victims and successively distributed large quantities of medicinal materials. After major disasters, there were often major epidemics. Once the plague spreads, the consequences would be unimaginable.

All kinds of measures are insignificant, but the price is heavy, and the court spent a lot of money.

Then discuss iron money matters.

First, Zheng Lang proposed to abolish the Hedong iron coins. The court approved the agreement and the iron coins were dismissed. However, many iron coins were circulating on the market. If the imperial court recycled them, the loss was huge, so he had to wait and see them continue to circulate. However, the reason why the iron coins were abolished was not iron coins, not coins. This was a currency. As long as there were no disadvantages, paper coins could also be used as currency. The key was that cast iron coins were of great profit, and many people minted money privately. Second, the Khitan cast a large amount of iron coins and poured into the Song Dynasty to exchange them with the Song Dynasty copper coins.

If it is not taken back, this situation is still developing and expanding. Therefore, Zheng Jian, who was transferred to Bingzhou as the governor, wrote a letter to offer a proposal. Hedong has iron coins and two is used as one copper coins, one year first, three is used as one, and another year, five is used as one.

Li Zhaogo, the governor of Zezhou, also wrote a letter saying that Hedong produces carbon (coal), and most people use lime burning as a business. The family has tools for smelting, and no one can stop the stolen casting. The Khitan can also cast iron coins, which can be removed by easy-to-use copper coins, which is particularly harmful.

Therefore, Hanlin scholar Zhang Fangping, Song Qi, Censor Yang Cha, and Sansi Envoy Ye Qingchen wrote letters to him that iron coins should not be popular anymore. For the already popular iron coins, Shaanxi and Hedong were asked to use three small iron coins as copper coins, and Shaanxi and Hedong officials were all dismissed. The copper coins cast in Shangzhou were also dismissed, which were a kind of inferior copper coins with very little copper content. At first, a batch of large coins were cast, and the cost was different from that of copper coins, so they were circulated like copper coins.

The imperial court ordered.

It looks good, and the small iron coins are three for one. The cost is slightly more than the cost of copper coins. At least the Khitan cannot use cast iron coins to make a difference.

In fact, this is the best example of the court's mistake and the people paying for it.

Just like the drums and passing flowers, the court was forced to cast a batch of iron coins to solve a little urgent problem. The Khitan made a lot of money, and some private minted people also made a lot of money. But the money was in the hands of the people. After the imperial edict, the property immediately shrank by one third.

The edict was issued, and the people resented it.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to make money and iron coins and large copper coins were the products made by Zhang Kui and Fan Yong. During the Qingli period, the war began and the country was not in use. Fan Yong wrote a letter to ask for the mint of large copper coins, one for ten. It was cost-effective. But this is currency, how can it be such a joke? Zhang Kui borrowed the example of Later Shu and asked for iron coins. They didn't understand money, thinking that doing so was profitable, but the casting process was not sophisticated, and the money was rough, which provided opportunities for private coins and Khitan stolen coins.

However, the huge commodity economy of the Song Dynasty and the loss of copper coins from many places, including flowing to various countries and returning money to goods, copper coins have always been insufficient. In history, iron coins were cast, and there were Jiaozi and paper currency. There was only one thing to do if this chaotic monetary relationship was rectified, the bank!

Moreover, banks must have sufficient gold, silver and copper coins to cash in, otherwise, with the current economic concept of the people, major issues must happen. So how many copper coins are needed? It is not as simple as more than 100 million yuan in taxes in the Song Dynasty. The taxes in the court may only account for 50% of the country's income, or even insufficient. In addition, the annual income of major families may be 50 to 60%, and the rest are scattered in the hands of third, fourth and fifth-class households everywhere.

That is to say, at least copper coins, or equivalent gold and silver, reaching more than 2.5 billion guan, to meet the supply of the Song Dynasty. When the existing copper coins and gold and silver are all circulated, there may be a difference of more than 1 billion guan or quasi-currency. Now, because of Ping An Supervision, more than 9 million guan a year, plus gold and silver, there may be 15 million new guan a year, and at least 30 million guan a year will flow back to other countries.

It takes a hundred years to satisfy it!

But if the country is prosperous and the people are safe, the total economic output will continue to be enlarged and will not be satisfied after a hundred years. Once satisfied, the country means that it is also declining.

Zheng Lang felt that he was wrong.

I don’t know where the wrong thing is, but iron coins must be stopped. In recent years, the country has minted millions of iron coins. If it is added with private minting and Khitan minting, it will reach more than one million minting. It is impossible to take it back with the national treasury.

The people can only share the loss.

This perverted economy made Zheng Lang often think of it and laugh and cry.

After receiving a memorial from Zhang Ji, Zhao Zhen paid attention and asked: "Zheng Qing, do you know that Wei Minglang met this person?"

Zheng Lang only answered: "Your Majesty, what would the end if I were born in Lu Zhi's court?"

die!

Can Lu Zhi tolerate a minister who is so weird?

Zhao Zhen smiled and did not ask again. Wei Minglang might not die when he met, but even Li Yuanhao felt afraid. He is the uncle of the Western Xia now. How can he not be afraid of his brother and sister? No matter how capable he has, he will not be reused.

He asked again: "Zheng Qing, what happened when I heard that the Khitan built a large building ship on the river?"

What is more concerned about is that overseas, the Song Dynasty was a giant, and the profits of Ping An Supervision were gradually expanding. Although the share of the Khi stock market was getting smaller and smaller, the scale of each mine was expanding, and because of the use of wooden barters, the transaction volume with Japan and Goryeo increased, and the Japanese successively used Zheng Lang drawings to find several gold and silver deposits, which was equivalent to having money and many Song goods, and the actual income was still slowly increasing. But if the Khitan had ship technology, the consequences would not be very wonderful. The simplest one was the Japanese mine, which did not dare to go to war with the Khitan in the Hebei Song Dynasty. What courage would it have to fight with the Khitan overseas?

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