Zheng Lang was preparing for the southern crusade. Bao Zheng submitted a memorial in Hebei, asking to stop all surrenders from the inner surrender, and listed three memorials of Duke Zheng of Tang and Wei, and asked to set up a seat as a guide. (The Book of Duke Zheng of Tang and Wei was written by Wang Fangqing, a minister of the Tang Dynasty, and there were five volumes in total, recording dozens of incidents related to Wei Zheng's advice)

Seven things mentioned above.

The first thing to distinguish loyalty and treacherous is that Your Majesty is polite and kind, and accommodates the people, including some insidious ministers, often plays with rootless sayings, frames the kindness, and makes good ministers rejected and cannot distinguish themselves. Once there is something, who is the court who relies on? Zheng Lang does not agree with the first thing. It is true that distinguish loyalty and treacherous, but Bao Zheng ignores the most important thing, which is good for the ministers, and evil for the ministers. Even Cai Jing and others, if they live in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, they must work hard to do some practical things, otherwise they will not be moved. If Lu Yijian lived in the Song Huizong Dynasty, they might be even more evil than Cai Jing.

The second thing is that the friends are not good, but they cannot promote a good scholar. They often say that the friends are in harmony and retreat a mediocre talent. They also say that they are jealous of the friends and demonize the friends too much, and they dare not speak out. This is a great trouble for the country. He Wei's friends, the friends of the Tang Dynasty originated from Muzong, flourished from Wenzong, Wuzong, and the party corruption of the Han Dynasty began with Emperor An, and were extremely Huanling. With His Majesty's resources, there will be a time when the Han and Tang Dynasties were in decline? Zheng Lang agreed more than half, and the friends will not cause harm for the time being, but its seeds are already buried in the wet soil, and it will deteriorate if they are not careful. However, it is not good to be too demonized.

The third is to be light on the aggressive (seeking fame and gaining reputation and radicalism). After a year, the ministers are dictatorial and ignorant of talent and have started to build something, so they say that they are aggressive, so that their ministers dare not follow themselves. Or the ministers ignore the taboos of the times and point straightforwardly to the matter and make statements, and then they will be obstructed and prevent them from being able to do so. Therefore, most of the people in power are silent and cowardly to get the plan, and the patriots and benevolent people cannot do it. Please ask Your Majesty to accept it and discuss it, and do not use it as a guess. This minister does not refer to the ruling minister, but to the entire Song Dynasty officialdom. This statement hits Zheng Lang's heart, not only Bao Zheng said it, but also said it many times. But it is useless. The whole officialdom is like this, what should we do?

The four cheap people first enter the court, and the matters of the court. They should not distinguish between the principles and the order. If the first enters the court, they will harm the virtuous and profit-making ministers, and they will be slandered by the Yin Dynasty, only to be afraid of being at the back, and to disrupt the evil and righteousness of the world, and to conceal Your Majesty's intelligence. This article is also very well stated. However, Bao Zheng has not yet pointed out the core idea, and cannot choose the importance of the order. Some things must be considered carefully after all.

Fifth, the explanation of the ban, is the demon moth made by Cai Xiang. The ruler cannot meet guests in case of Lu Yijian. Although Zheng Lang's advice was slack, he was deeply rooted. He was always concerned about meeting guests. Bao Zheng gave an example. The auxiliary ministers were not allowed to meet guests, and all officials could do something for nothing. The censors were not allowed to visit guests privately, and the criminal judges were not allowed to meet people who were guilty of Xue. How could the country be so good? This is not the way for the emperor to recommend sincerity. The system should be reformed and the trust of the people under the crowd. If Jingyou was at the beginning, it would be perfect. Zheng Lang must be very happy about this, although he would not stay in the Secretariat for a long time.

Sixth, we have been promoting wise men. In recent years, disasters have been seen, and when the sects and locusts are flooded, your Majesty is very busy and afraid that something will be lost. If this is the holy heart, will it not be able to make up for disasters and harmonies? This is because the ruler cannot be united in harmony to save the current ills. Your Majesty may have some obstacles and cannot be entrusted to the responsibility, so this is because of this. It is not Zheng Lang, but the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, from Zhao Zhen and the prime ministers to the ministers, actually did a good job, but it is still very far from the goal that Bao Zheng wanted. Therefore, if you want to promote wise men, get the right person and have the ability, you should advocate using them. Hold the right people to take advantage of the situation. Those who are capable of taking advantage of their own affairs should be dismissed quickly. Turn danger into safety and easy to take action.

In fact, Zheng Lang did a good job, but if it was perfect, how could it be possible? So Bao Zheng proposed it again.

Seventh, the minor mistakes are slacking off. In recent years, the ministers have been expelled from the innocent, or because of the minor mistakes, or because of the evil, or because of the power, they have hated jealousy, blowing hair and washing away dirt, and picking flaws, secretly punishing the net, and increasing the crimes, and the unparalleled women are resentful. After years of admiration, every man is angry and attacking from the frost. The innocent ministers who have escaped from the heavens and the earth are energetic and permeated the sun and the moon are not what every man does? I hope that your majesty will read the exile and observe that his talent and achievements are not really serious, or he will be reunited or favored. Then the saint's creation will be overly overwhelmed, and the wind of slander will not dare to be slacked off. To put it bluntly, it is to use people, and you cannot use them too much, and use them to abandon them.

On the seven memorials, Zheng Lang slightly added and revised them, and then submitted another memorial, and the two memorials were presented together to Zhao Zhen, which was often adopted.

Bao Zheng then established another incident, abolished the troops stationed in Hebei and divided them into Yan, Yun, Qi, Pu, Cao, and Ji prefectures in Henan, and immediately sent them to the police. This was a strategy to save the country's expenses. The garrison required a large amount of supplies. The peace of the Song and Liao dynasties had been long, and there was a war between Liao and Xixia. There was no need to station a large number of soldiers in Hebei and transport the supplies to Hebei, or the mountainous areas northwest of Zhending Prefecture. The cost was high, and raising soldiers in Henan would be of the benefit of the Grand Canal, and the cost of raising soldiers would be severely reduced, and soldiers would not have to suffer from the separation of their wives and children. Especially in Hedong, the cost was even higher. Then some account expenses were cited as evidence. Since Zheng Lang entered the court, many ministers of the Song Dynasty liked to "data-based" and used data to prove the matter.

It seems to make sense.

Even Zheng Lang did not agree with it. Although the suggestion was good, Bao Zheng ignored the deterrent effect. The Khitan reconciled with the Song Dynasty, one was to obtain annual monies, and the other was to accumulate a large number of soldiers and some military measures, so the attack was not easy. Without these troops stationed troops, it would be difficult to ensure that some Khitans would not have bad ideas.

But Bao Zheng’s position in Zheng Lang’s heart is getting stronger.

Although it is too far away from Bao Qingtian in later generations, he is also a good official, especially some of whom have a very clear understanding and are far better than Ouyang Xiu, the master of literary world. Therefore, when communicating with Zhao Zhen, he said lightly that Bao Zheng is good.

Enough.

With Zheng Lang's current status, anyone who lets him say this will have a career that will rise to the top.

It was just this sentence, because of the Tang Bao dispute, some of Zhao Zhen’s bad impressions of Bao Zheng were immediately reversed.

After summer, the weather is still normal compared to previous years. As long as the weather is normal, it means a better year will come, but the sound of golden swords and iron drums comes from the south.

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Even though he knew that Nong Zhigao would rebel, Zheng Lang had never made it clear and only said that he was prepared. Therefore, almost no one knew or was prepared in the entire Lingnan officialdom. Or Zhao Zhen ordered Lingnan to be "prepared". God knew what these officials in Lingnan would be prepared.

There are also officials who are very clear-headed. When Fan Zhongyan was in charge of the government, he forcibly suppressed some bad habits in the officialdom and used many cruel officials. These cruel officials may not be bad officials, and everyone is not evil. But there is one thing in common, which is the first cruelty, including the Sihu of Jiangdong, the Sihu of Shandong, Li Dao, Xu Cheng, Shang Tong, Kong Zongdan, etc.

This is completely different from the gentle atmosphere of the entire Song Dynasty.

Including Bao Zheng, who is also very tough in politics, he doesn't like these cruel officials either.

The Qingli New Deal initiated by Fan Zhongyan failed, and these cruel officials were successively purged, especially Kong Zongdan. More jealous people were sent to Yongzhou as a servant, and then to Hengzhou. This was a small state in the south. The area was very small, about the size of a county in Hengxian later, but the terrain was very important. It was located on the east side of Yongzhou and was an important gateway to Yongzhou to Guangzhou.

One day, Kong Zongdan passed by Yushui and saw the river water overflowing. The white air appeared in the court. It was estimated that the river water was large. The sun was fierce. Because of the light and shadow, the steam that had risen into the sky appeared. When it fell into Kong Zongdan's eyes, he thought that the white air was coming out of Yushui and rising into the sky. Kong Zongdan said it was a military elephant and told Chen Gong in a letter. After Chen Gong received the letter, he cursed: "Sihu was crazy?"

Are you so funny? People have a grudge against Jiaozhi, and even if they fight, they will go to war with Jiaozhi. What reason is there to rebel against the Song Dynasty?

This is a superstitious statement. I guess Kong Zongdan heard some vague news, coupled with this "celestial phenomenon". He was in his heart and wrote a letter to notify Chen Gong to guard against him. Chen Gong did not listen. Kong Zongdan was demoted and had no good reputation. He could do nothing.

Nong Zhigao is ready to take action.

Zhao Zhen's decree suddenly blocked all his excuses. If you want to surrender to the Song Dynasty, please hand over your country and we, the Song Dynasty, will take you in. If you don't, we, the Song Dynasty, will not have to go to war with Jiaozhi for your Tiannan Kingdom.

Nong Zhigao had no choice but to face this decree.

However, the exchanges between the two sides alarmed two literati in Guangzhou, both of whom were Jinshi, one was Huang Wei and the other was Huang Shimi. After passing the Jinshi exam, the carp jumped into the Longmen. However, if you may not pass the Jinshi exam, you will be able to join the ranks of first-class officials. There is also a process of grinding. If you are lucky and have the attention of the court, you will have a second leap to the Longmen, and you will have a bright future. If you are not lucky or have insufficient abilities, you will be a small county magistrate or a small sihu for life, and you will be like everyone else.

And the most fatal thing about the brothers is that they, like Zhang Yuan, passed the Jinshi repeatedly, but were eliminated in the palace examination, so they had complaints about the Song Dynasty, so they turned into the second Zhang Yuan. The two brothers were both famous as the provincial examination, which shows that their family background was a famous family in Guangzhou. They were well-informed and heard some useful rumors. The two thought of another person, Zhang Yuan!

Look at Zhang Yuan, although he was not used by the Song Dynasty, he became the Grand Tutor of Xixia. He was rich all his life and could not defect to Xixia. It was too far away. But there was someone who could let them realize their dreams, so he went to Guangyuanzhou, faced Nong Zhigao and offered suggestions. Nong Zhigao was fascinated by the hearing and immediately led them as his think tank.

With the planning of these brothers, Nong Zhigao's various ambitions began to be implemented in an orderly manner. When he heard the letter from Kong Zongdan to Chen Gong, Nong Zhigao felt that the Song Dynasty would be alert to him sooner or later. He planned with Huang Wei, Huang Shimi, and the clan Nong Jianzhong, Nong Zhizhong, and first sent people to sneak into Yongzhou City. At this time, there were very few Han people in Yongzhou City, mostly local familiar barbarians. In fact, until Guangnan East Road, most of them were barbarians in the cities of each prefecture, but all were familiar barbarians, and the proportion of Han people was very small. Only in the Pearl River Delta Prefecture, because there were Guangzhou and Shaozhou cities, many Han people had gathered since the Han Dynasty, and the proportion of Han people had increased one after another.

These people secretly bewitched the mature mantras, but Chen Gong was incompetent and didn't know what was happening under his skin. Many barbarians made Nong Zhigao calmly lure them.

The first step plan went very smoothly, and the second step plan began to be implemented. Nong Zhigao threatened among other people that today he offended Jiaozhi and China would not accept me, so he was ashamed of himself and would not be able to rebel!

This is impossible. The Song Dynasty divided Guangyuan and other banished states outside the territory. However, since ancient times, China has ruled here. Many people still regard the Song Dynasty as their mother country. If they were asked to betray the Song Dynasty, they would not use some means, and many people would feel suspicious.

He talks every day and always talks, Chen Gong doesn't care about anything, and Jiaozhi doesn't know if he has heard of it. He probably will silently look at it even after hearing it. They have greater ambitions towards Lingnan and Nong Zhigao rebelled, and they will be optimistic and even don't mind being a little orchid who has gained profits at the right time.

Finally, after repeated brainwashing, most people agreed to rebel with Nong Zhigao.

The Nong Group received all kinds of favorable news, but it was still not enough. Although most people agreed to rebel, some people were hesitant about rebellion. The Huang brothers thought of a more vicious plan. One night, he sent someone to burn all the supplies in his nest, then gathered the tribes and people, saying, "We have burned our food together." If we want to survive, there is only one way to occupy Yongzhou and Guangzhou and form a country, otherwise we will all die."

All the barbarians were stunned together. There may not be a way out for rebellion, but if they do not rebel, they will definitely die, so let's go against it.

This trick of burning boats finally tied all tribes in his territory to the chariot of the Nong clan's rebellion. At first, there were not many people, less than 10,000, but in the entire Lingnan, where the defense was loose, it was already an extremely large army, although it was a miscellaneous army.

The journey was as powerful as a bamboo shoot, and he rushed to the city of Yongzhou and surrounded Yongzhou. Chen Gong was in a panic and did not know what to do. He hurriedly ordered Qian Zuo to guard the long gate, Li Su guarded Da'an Gate, and Wuji guarded Chaotian Gate to defend. There were not many troops in Yongzhou. In the north of Yongzhou, there were police officers in Yongzhou, so he asked Zhang Li to lead the army from Pennzhou to help. It was also a miscellaneous army, with only a few hundred people. However, it seemed to be good news. Since Pennzhou could send reinforcements, Xiangzhou, Guizhou (Guixian, Guangxi), Qinzhou, Hengzhou and others could also send reinforcements to the back. Although Yongzhou City was not repaired frequently, there was still a dangerous city wall, and the thief's ambition would not succeed.

Chen Gong took out the wine and meat to reward the three armies. Indeed, facing the Yongzhou city wall, Nong Zhigao and the Huang brothers had no choice. After drinking, they were about to work. Everyone started to defend the city. Suddenly, the people of Yongzhou raised their weapons one by one. They attacked the Song army on the city wall, and they could not be considered the Song army. The real Song army had only a few hundred people, and the others were local soldiers from Yongbin and the two barbarians. Now there was a mess on the Yongzhou city wall. Nong Zhigao immediately ordered his subordinates to use the primitive siege ladder to lay on the Yongzhou city wall, attacking inside and outside, and Yongzhou city fell!

Nong Zhigao sent someone to pull Chen Gong up and asked, "I ask my subordinates to govern the tribes, why don't you report to the court?"

Why did Nong Zhigao repeatedly make a fuss about this righteousness? Otherwise, what should I do? The Song Dynasty had kindness to the Nong family, but the treason was not right. Now it was not that I wanted to rebel, but that the Song Dynasty had let down my good intentions and had to rebel! There was a great righteousness, and more people would support it.

But could the Song Dynasty give him the right to rule over the tribes?

I wonder if Chen Gong had thought of this festival, but he didn't dare to tell it. He refused to say, "It's because I won't report it for you, but the Secretariat will not report it. I am just a small magistrate. What can I do?"

Nong Zhigao suddenly took out the letter he wrote to Chen Gong and shouted, "You said you have submitted a memorial, why are these letters still accumulated in your Yongzhou Prefecture?"

Chen Gong was speechless, and suddenly he did something that made Nong Zhigao fall. Chen Gong, who was dizzy and had eye diseases, knelt on the ground and faced Nong Zhigao and shouted long live the mountain.

Nong Zhigao and his subordinates were stunned. What was this old official doing? He wanted to express allegiance to the Song Dynasty before his death. It took him a long time to react, not to be loyal to the Song Dynasty, but to respect Nong Zhigao as the emperor!

Is this the style of the top minister of the Song Dynasty?

It would be great if the ministers of the Song Dynasty were like Chen Gong. But after a while, their hope was shattered and they pushed Zhang Li, Gan You and the governor Chen Fuyao up. None of them surrendered and cursed, saying that Nong Zhigao failed Song En and would die if he rebelled. There were many generals in our Song Dynasty, including Zheng Lang as prime minister, Di Qing, Zhang Kang and other famous generals. If you want to rebel, you will die. Nong Zhigao was furious and pushed out the three of them to behead them. The three of them still scolded them and were executed before execution.

There were several other officials, Li Su, Wu Ji, Wu Yuan Ling Mei Weizhi, and the envoy Su Cong, and the four of them had old age with Huang Shimi, which also reflected the energy of the Huang brothers. Huang Shimi persuaded Nong Zhigao that the four of them were not as shameless as Chen Gong, but they were afraid of death, so they were silent. So Huang Shimi pleaded for the four of them and did not kill them. Nearly a thousand miscellaneous Song Dynasty officers and soldiers who rebelled in the city also died in this battle.

Nong Zhigao began to count Yongzhou supplies, and obtained a large amount of weapons and armor to give his subordinates equipment. The miscellaneous army finally looked like a regular army, and then rewarded them according to their merits. Then the army headed eastward. On the eighth day after the Yongzhou City was broken on May 1st, the rebels arrived at the city of Hengzhou.

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When Kong Zongdan heard that there was a siege in Yongzhou, he was anxious, but Hengzhou was too small, with only dozens of relevant yamen runners and strong men, so he urgently summoned local soldiers to prepare for assistance. Before the local soldiers were summoned, news came that the city of Yongzhou was broken.

Kong Zongdan sighed and said, "Chen Gong misled the court, misled Yongzhou, and misled me."

I had long advised Chen Gong to be on guard and not listened, which led to this disaster.

One of his disciples advised: "Sihu, the imperial court has no kindness to you, so leave Hengzhou and run away."

At least there is a tall city wall in Yongzhou, but there is not even a city wall in Hengzhou. At least there is still one or two thousand local soldiers. At least there is not even a few hundred local soldiers in Hengzhou. At least there is still a large number of weapons, armor and supplies in Yongzhou, and there is no one in Hengzhou. When Yongzhou is broken, Hengzhou cannot defend at all.

Kong Zongdan shook his head and said, "I have an official guard, so I can't leave."

"Sihu, it's not your mistake. The officials of several states do not know about the rebellion. Only you can remind me, and I am worthy of the court." The humble guest was still persuading. He was right. Kong Zongdan was poor since childhood. After passing the Jinshi exam, he tried to serve the court and suppress corrupt officials. Although he had done too much, he wanted the Song Dynasty to become better, but he was sent to Yongzhou to be a sihu. Even so, Kong Zongdan had great achievements in Yongzhou. Seeing that the northern Sulu area was often flooded, he mobilized migrant workers. He spent four years building the Tonggubei water conservancy project between Zhipo and Dingpo upstream of the Xinxu River, which solved the irrigation problem of local people and saved many people from floods and drought and flood. To thank Kong Zongdan, the people of the two villages of Sulu built temples as a souvenir.

It's worthy of the court.

Kong Zongdan shook his head: "I am an official of the Song Dynasty. How can I be greedy and fear death? Confucius, please protect my family and go to Guizhou. By the way, I will send a letter to the court on my behalf. The thief is powerful and the court should not underestimate it."

As he said that, he wrote a letter and asked the old servant to send his family out of Hengzhou.

When he was sent outside the city, the car drove further and further away, and Kong Zongdan still stood like a javelin.

The wind in May was hot, and the north might have just become a little hot, but the wind in Hengzhou was extremely hot, blowing on his face as if a fire was blowing.

In the sound of the wind, Kong Zongdan seemed to smell the wind that brought the breath of his hometown, the smell of sorghum in Shandong, the shouts of the whole city of the capital, and the reminder of the loving mother. Scenes of past events came to his heart, as if he saw his childhood hungry and full meals, as if he saw his scenery on the palace examination list, as if he saw his ambition to serve the officials. There was also the thin and tall figure of the loving mother, the eyes of many people, and the sound of the waves going east of the Yellow River...

Kong Zongdan stood like this, and there were big noises coming from the heaven and earth. These were groups of demons who escaped from hell and endangered the world. However, Kong Zongdan's body did not move for a moment. At that moment, compared with the demon shadows that were getting closer and closer, it seemed that all the light in the heaven and earth was gathered in him...

The wind is louder, the sound is sobbing, but the sad voice is getting louder and louder, and finally forms a main tone, that is justice, that is, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, wealth and honor cannot be lust, and power cannot bend!

On the eighth day of the fifth month, the thief seized Hengzhou again, and Zong Dan was captured by the thief, but this Shandong Han Dynasty was still unyielding and scolded the thief loudly, and was killed by the thief. (To be continued...)

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