The light side has a dark side, and the good side has a bad side.

Compared with Kong Zongdan's heroic spirit, the governor of Hengzhou Zhang Zhonghui and the governor of the prison Wang Riyong were very cowardly. When they learned that Nong Zhigao's army was coming, they immediately abandoned the city and fled. Afterwards, the court did not blame him. He could not defend him. He wanted no soldiers, no food, and no walls. Even if Di Qing went, he could not defend the small city of Hengzhou...

Nong Zhigao first changed Tiannan Kingdom to Danan Kingdom, named Emperor Renhui, and was granted the title of all officials. Then the army extended again and entered Guizhou. The governor Li Ju abandoned the city and fled, entered Gongzhou, the governor Zhang Xu abandoned the city, and entered Tengzhou, and the governor Li Zhi abandoned the city. Entering Wuzhou, the governor Jiang Jiong abandoned the city. However, a heroic scene appeared in Lingnan again. The rebel forces arrived in Fengzhou, and Fengzhou was even smaller, not as large as Hengzhou, let alone a city wall. Moreover, because it was close to Guangzhou in the heart of Lingnan, the people never knew about military affairs. Some people advised the governor Cao Jin to escape quickly like other governors.

Cao Jin shouted seriously: "I am a guardian of the country. When the thief arrives, he will die. Those who dare to avoid the thief will be killed!"

Then he summoned soldiers, which was very pitiful. He only summoned a hundred soldiers, but they were not regular soldiers, all of them were local soldiers and had no combat experience at all. And Master Nong Zhi had already reached tens of thousands of people! With such a big expiration, the governor did not avoid death, and his subordinates did not avoid death.

The chief supervisor Chen Ye led more than 100 townsmen to fight, and the archers hit the stone, and the eggs hit the stone. One hundred people could not defeat tens of thousands of people. They were defeated in one battle, and the generals were defeated. Cao Jin was arrested and scolded unyieldingly. Nong Zhigao was a little disappointed. Except for Chen Gong, he walked all the way, starting from Hengshan Village. The village leader Zhang Rixin, Yongzhou inspector Gao Shi'an and inspector Wu Xiang died in battle. Zhang Li and others died unyieldingly. Other officials may flee, but almost no officials surrendered.

So Nong Zhigao wanted to make Cao Jin surrender and sent someone to surrender repeatedly. Let’s say, I will get a beautiful official and give you the right to the army. I will give you a daughter-in-law.

Cao Jin did not surrender, and cursed: "The ministers only worship the emperor from the north. How could I live with you? Kill me quickly."

Nong Zhigao was still willing to kill him, so he locked him in the boat. Cao Jin refused to eat and wanted to die. He also gave the seal in his arms to his subordinates and said, "I'm going to die. If you have the chance, please present it to the court."

Seeing that he was unyielding, Nong Zhigao harmed him and scolded him until his death and threw him into the river. He was only thirty-five years old.

When he entered Kangzhou again, the governor of Kangzhou was Zhao Shidan. He was Zhao Zhen's nephew and was appointed as an official. Perhaps the orthodox scholars would ridicule and ridicule such officials, but it was him. He once again showed the heroic style of some officials of the Song Dynasty.

After the rebels defeated Yongzhou, they followed the Yushui River and went east. Zhao Shidan sent someone to spy on the thief. The spy came back and reported: "The thief is too powerful, and all the guards of all the states abandoned the city and fled."

Zhao Shidan shouted: "Do you also want me to be such a greedy and fearful official?"

The scout dared not speak.

In Dasuo, the three spies from Nong Zhigao were all beheaded. The recruitment began. Kangzhou was a little bigger and there was a city wall, which allowed him to recruit 300 township soldiers. The conditions were better than Cao Jin. The vanguard had arrived. Zhao Shidan opened the city gate to fight and killed dozens of people. At dusk, the bandits left a little.

Zhao Shidan returned to the city and said to his wife: "Tomorrow, the main force of the bandits will arrive in Kangzhou. I have too few troops in my hands and will definitely lose to him, but as a court official, I cannot escape. But you are different. You are just my family, and staying is death, which is useless."

Leave the Zhou Yin to his wife and let his wife hide it with her son.

He also summoned his subordinates to have supper with his soldiers. Ma Gui and his soldiers were afraid and could not eat. Only Zhao Shidan was as full as usual. At night, Ma Gui and others were restless, and Zhao Shidan slept and snored. The next day, Nong Zhigao's main force arrived and launched an attack on Kangzhou. Although there was a city wall, the city wall was too short and dangerous. Someone advised Zhao Shidan to avoid it, and Zhao Shidan said, "What is the difference between death in battle and stabbing death?"

Just want to die!

So more than three hundred soldiers shouted together: "I wish to die for the country."

When the city was broken, no soldiers fled, and all died heroically. The arrows on the city were gone, Zhao Shidan and Ma Gui returned, and sat down according to the party. Nong Zhigao led his soldiers and entered, Zhao Shidan cursed: "Hungry shackles, what's the court that is sorry for you? Do you dare to rebel? The emperor sent a military force, and you will be completely different."

Nong Zhigao was furious.

What he feared most was that some people said about this. The Song Dynasty was not bad at all. Not only did it never levy any taxes, but it also supported his father to take office. It also occasionally had some rewards. Rebellion was his ambition and had no righteousness. After thinking for a long time, the Huang brothers came up with a reason for him. Today, they offended Jiaozhi and China did not accept me. They were ashamed of themselves and could only make a comeback.

But this reason cannot be carefully analyzed. Except for those who do not understand, those who know a little bit of the inside story will not stand. Once Zhao Shidan exposes the truth, the soldiers under his command will inevitably be disheartened, so they immediately kill Zhao Shidan and Ma Gui.

When he entered Duanzhou again, the governor Ding Baochen abandoned the city and fled. However, Ding Baochen was a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty and had a good relationship with many scholars and officials. After his death, Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi made the tombstone of Baochen, and often tampered with historical facts, saying that Baochen had gone to war and was arrested, but he went there after he could not win. For this reason, Zheng Lang had a dispute with Ouyang Xiu, but that was the future.

Taking Duanzhou, Guangzhou was ahead. Two days ago, there were many people who were in a hurry, but they were in a humble state. Zhong Jian thought he was rude and did not reward those who were in a hurry. Instead, he took those who were in a hurry to prison and ordered: "If anyone says that the thief arrives, he will behead him."

I don’t believe that on the first day of May, Nong Zhigao captured the city of Yongzhou. It was less than May 20. How did the rebels of Nong Zhigao march into Duanzhou? Then the bandits arrived and ordered the people to enter the city. Guangzhou was not other prefectures, but there were more than 100,000 households. Most of these people were scattered in the suburbs of various counties and counties. They suddenly flocked to the city with a large number of luggage. Even if there were several gates in Guangzhou, they were still unable to accept it. In order to avoid the harm of the thieves, the people rushed to enter the city first, and bribed the gate guards with golden shells to seek entry, and countless dead people were trampled on each other.

Zheng Lang was not very careful at this at first. Lingnan became an isolated world in the Song Dynasty. It was not until he was about to prepare for military service that Zheng Lang remembered. But it was too late to be mobilized at that time, and although Zhong Jian was not good, he made contributions when guarding Guangzhou City. Unlike other officials, he fled when he heard about it. Once Guangzhou City fell into the hands of Master Nong Zhi, the losses would be even more serious.

Therefore, even though he knew that Zhong Jian was not doing well, he did not move him.

When the bandits arrived, many people were not allowed to enter the city, so they joined the bandits, and the bandits became more and more powerful.

...

When Nong Zhigao rebelled, the court was discussing the creation of music.

If music was only an art in later generations, but in this era, the nature of the art was completely different and almost equal to the position of etiquette. However, the five generations changed, and the size and rhythm of many instruments had changed and could not be unified. Zhao Zhen issued an edict in the first year of Huangyou, asking his ministers to discuss it.

Zheng Lang was always interested in this. In his heart, the position of courtesy was still very important, which was the basis for maintaining feudal rule. But joy was different. After more than a thousand years of evolution, it became an entertainment activity in the Song Dynasty, either to cultivate people's sentiments.

The ministers were quarreling, and Zheng Lang had never participated.

According to various records of Zhou and Han, Fanzhen, the Ministry of Personnel, published a very long memorial, using ancient records to infer the standards and rhythms of various musical instruments. The memorial was sent to the Deliberate Institute. Fanzhen claimed that he had obtained the ancient method, but Jixian proofreader Sima Guangshu was difficult to explain and thought it was inconsistent.

During the continued dispute, Zhao Zhen's heart was almost the same as Zheng Lang. No matter who is right or wrong, as long as there is a set of standards to avoid the chaos of the music now. Zhao Zhen saw that he had been arguing for three years, he asked Zheng Lang to preside over the detailed musical rhythm.

The actual dispute over music and rules was not only in these three years. There was a dispute since Zhao Kuangyin's dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin believed that the sound of the elegant music was high and not in line with the harmony. He ordered his ministers to use the bronze and stone ruler of Luoyang as a new level and use the rules of the law. During the reign of Zhao Zhen, Xiao Xiao also said that the instruments were not harmonious. He then used Li Zhao, who was proficient in music theory, to verify the standards of ancient rules. Therefore, the former music was called Hexian and Li Zhaole during Jingyou. However, Li Zhao was not the one who was proficient in music. For example, Zheng Lang and Sima Guang and others were proficient in music and rules. Some ministers still thought it was not beautiful after hearing Li Zhaole. So the censors and the censors discussed the wrongs, and then reconciled Xianle. Later, he ordered Ruan Yi and Hu Yuan to make ginseng, and even made bells and chimes. There were many disagreements and music sounds, so the ministers questioned Ruan Yile.

He also ordered Fan Zhen to discuss music theory with Liu Fan, Yang Jie and other ministers to discuss music theory again. It took Fan Zhen three years to determine the music theory in detail and put this memorial. Still, some ministers such as Sima Guang had doubts. By the time of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, Cai Jing was asked to preside over the laws of the Wei and Han Dynasty, to break the mistakes of the ancestors' consciences, and to use Xia Yu as the rule of law to cast Emperor Nai and Jing Zhong. Although Cai Jing was a famous treacherous minister in the Song Dynasty, talking about music and elegance was the most elegant music made by Cai Jing, which became the real standard.

In fact, music is very trivial. Not only the size of the instrument, but also the formulation and standards of materials, workmanship, music, and the skills of musicians when playing can change the music.

After Zheng Lang received the order, he had to summon Fan Zhen, Sima Guang, Liu Fan, Yang Jie and others again, starting with bells and chimes. The music of the royal family is Yahe and Hong Zheng. Bells and chimes are the most important instruments, followed by 晙, chi, qin, Ruan, Sheng, Xiao, Zheng, Se, Zhu and other instruments.

First, we must unify the musical instruments, and then unify the musical rhythm.

The standard first searched for records from various ancient characters, and then made musical instruments based on these records, and pondered all the rhythms after the instruments were formed and the effect of the materials used. Zheng Lang presided over and helped by the ministers, but after a long time, until Zheng Lang left the capital, various instruments had not yet produced one standard one by one. It was not until two years later that the musical instruments were barely powerful, but there were still controversial sounds, believing that some musical rhythms had some discordant noises.

News of Kong Zongdan's murder reached the capital.

The rebellion was so strong that Pang Ji invited Zheng Lang to the Western Prefecture for discussion and handed Zheng Lang the letter written by Kong Zongdan to Zheng Lang.

The letter was written calmly, and repeatedly said that the court should not underestimate the enemy, and did not mention any words about family members and Kong Zongdan.

Looking at the letter, Zheng Lang suddenly cried, tears dripped in his eyes, and bowed to the south.

After being in power for a long time, Zheng Lang did not be a woman's kindness for the overall situation, so that his plan would succeed. The southern corruption was not serious, and he would be blocked by ministers if he asked to use troops in the south. However, if the south did not use troops, the south could not be stable and could not develop the Changsha and Lingnan areas. Therefore, many people in this game of chess will inevitably become sacrificed pieces, including Kong Zongdan.

The approach was right, but Zheng Lang was not evil in his two lives. Zheng Lang also had to bear a lot of responsibility for the death of Kong Zongdan. One was moved, and the other was guilty, so Zheng Lang cried.

He murmured again: "I am harming Zong Dan."

Pang Ji didn't know what Zheng Lang thought, and believed that Zheng Lang had concluded last year that Nong Zhigao would rebel, but he did not make any arrangements and said this sentence before he was blaming himself. But what should he do last year? Nong Zhigao did not rebel. Could it be that the court could send troops to the south? That was Lingnan!

If you do this last year, you will be impeached and opposed by countless ministers.

But Zheng Lang shed tears and the matter was very complicated. After Zhao Zhen heard this, he posthumously awarded Kong Zongdan the crown prince guarantee of Duke Lu, and published his deeds in newspapers, inspiring people and let the civil and military people learn from him. Then, all kinds of bad news quickly spread to the capital.

The inspector of Guangduanzhou, Gao Shi'an and Nong Zhigao fought at the Shiboting, and were defeated by the bandits. There was nothing else, and the troops were much different. Gao Shi'an only had thousands of miscellaneous troops, less than one-tenth of Nong Zhigao's number. Gao Shi'an had to retreat to Guangzhou City and defend it with the city.

The court heard the shock that if Guangzhou lost, the entire Lingnan would be destroyed, and Fujian Road and Jiangnan West Road would be in danger.

So we discussed sending troops to suppress them.

When who was the commander, the ministers had a dispute.

The best manpower is Zheng Lang. He was a civil servant and had great military achievements. However, Zheng Lang was the prime minister and could not let a prime minister lead his troops at any time, which was not in line with the system, and the Song Dynasty could not suffer from Zheng Lang's dependence.

There are other candidates, Di Qing.

But he was a military general, so he went to lead the troops, which left many scholars and officials unsure.

There was another person, Zhang Kang, who was a genuine Jinshi. However, the scholars and officials classified him as the category of military generals and were Zheng Lang's direct descendants. Zhang Kang and his ministers were not treated with it.

So when I think of the other two, Yu Jing and Yang Ting, they were also thought about it. Yu Jing was a civil official and had a journey as a prefect in Shaozhou. He did a good job and repaired the fortresses, and even after Nong Zhigao rebelled, these fortresses played an important role, preventing Nong Zhigao from going north. Moreover, Yu Jing has always been a hawk minister. Not only did he want hawks, but he loved the people and was a good official. That is, the chosen head coach must dare to fight. He will not be timid in the battle, but he must also love the people. He cannot let Wang Quanbin harm the people of Sichuan happen again, so as to avoid the rebellion in Lingnan after the Lingnan rebellion was quelled. In addition, Yu Jing became the best head coach.

Yang Ting was born as a Jinshi, but he has another identity. The son of the Yang family has been in the south for a long time and has experience in fighting with the barbarians.

There is another reason. The two happened to meet their father's death, and they were worried at home and had no official position to drag down.

So Zhao Zhen chose two of them as the commander. Yang Ting felt very distressed after receiving the order. As a military officer, the general of the Yang family has always been despised by civil officials. Therefore, he studied Confucianism hard and passed the imperial examination to get rid of his identity as a military general. But the court still regarded him as a military general. If he had known this, it would be better to learn martial arts and military techniques and simply become a military general.

He came to the capital unhappy and refused to enter the mourning clothes. Zhao Zhen gave him the imperial scarf he had to wear and let him enter the palace. After talking for a long time, he was promoted to the position of the residence and appointed him as the Tongzhi Jianyuan. He was a civil servant, but in fact he still became a military general.

Nong Zhigao's army was at the city of Guangzhou, but only the governor of Shaozhou Chen Shu dared to lead troops to attack Nong Zhigao. His battle record was unknown and he probably had no advantage, but his courage was commendable. He was later moved to the commander of Guangxi Road and jointly captured and killed the barbarian thieves with Li Shu, the envoy of the Guangdong Road Criminal.

Kong Zongdan was so loyal and fierce that Zhao Zhen changed his impression of several cruel officials such as the Three Tigers of Jiangdong and Sixing of Shandong. He moved Wang Chuo to serve as the prison envoy for Jiangnan West Road in order to prepare for the depravity of the Nong Zhigao to Jiangxi.

Move the two more.

First, Wang Deyong, and the Khitan envoy from Qianyuanjie, the Liao envoy once asked: "Will the Black King's grandson resurrect evil again?"

So Wang Deyong, who had retired, was appointed as the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang, and sentenced him to Zhengzhou.

Second, Di Qing was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

In fact, the two generals were used to prevent accidents. Once the south was corrupt, Zhao Zhen was worried that the Khitan would take the opportunity to go south and attack from north to south. Therefore, he used Wang Deyong and Di Qing to shock the Khitan.

Many ministers were puzzled and had no objection to the appointment of the former. They were prime ministers for many years and were old and would not endanger national security. However, many civil officials were not convinced by Di Qing's appointment. Even Zheng Lang did not agree with it. Zhao Zhen had Zhao Zhen's intention, and Di Qing could serve as deputy prime minister of the Western Prefecture, but it was inconsistent with the Song Dynasty system. There were military generals who were prime ministers, such as Wang Deyong, but they were only given honorary positions when Wang Deyong was far away from the army and was old. At this time, Di Qing was still leading the army. Once a deputy prime minister was appointed, it would inevitably arouse opposition from the literati.

Zhao Zhen did not reward Di Qing, but harmed Di Qing.

After the letter of the letter, the Censor General Wang Ju said righteously that Qing sent troops to rule the country, and there was no such thing as this dynasty. The left clerk Jia An and the Censor Han Zhi also thought that Zhao Zhen did not listen. There were mainly police officers in the south. After several ministers opposed it, they did not speak again.

Di Qing rushed to the capital from the prefecture. Zhao Zhen received the meeting and ordered Di Qing to remove the tattoo on his face. Di Qing pointed to him and said, "Your Majesty promoted me to be a meritorious person and did not ask about family background. The reason why I have this today is Nier. I am willing to leave this to persuade the soldiers in the army to serve Your Majesty, and I dare not obey the imperial edict."

Zhao Zhen was very moved when he heard this.

After hearing this, Zheng Lang frowned even more. Although starting from Fan Zhongyan's new policy on Qingli, he directly pointed out the current ills of the Song Dynasty's officialdom and used resources to judge generations. Bao Zheng and others wrote a letter to talk about this. However, the officialdom in the Song Dynasty still mostly used resources to judge generations and employ people. Fan Zhongyan and Bao Zheng said that it had nothing to do with Bao Zheng, which was a contradiction within the literati. Di Qing said it was wrong, which was a question of the current ills of the Song Dynasty's officialdom. Let me ask, what right did a military general have to criticize civil officials in the Song Dynasty?

I don’t know how to persuade him, could I tell Di Qing, “You beg the emperor to remove you from the position of Deputy Envoy of Privy Councilor, or learn from Wang Deyong as the good grandson of the literati? Will Di Qing listen?

After thinking about it, Zheng Lang only came up with a way, took Di Qing with him, stayed by his side, kept in the south, constantly squeezed out the value of him, and then handed it over to the literati and doctors to torture slowly...

Jia An also said that Yu Jing and Yang Qi should both promise to engage in the work at a cheap price. The court asked Yu Jing to govern Guizhou and to control Guangxi Road. The bandits headed eastward, but they were not under Yu Jing's command and could not order the crowd. If the two were in different directions, the subordinates would be at a loss. It would be better for Fu Jing to regulate the power of the two routes.

Yu Jing also felt inconvenient and said that the thief is in Guangzhou now, and the envoy is in the west, which is not the aspiration of the minister.

So he ordered Yu Jing to make thieves of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Although there were all kinds of equipment in the court, they still looked down on Nong Zhigao, thinking that Yu Yang and the others could pacify the thief once they went to Lingnan. Only Zheng Lang knew in his heart that it was very troublesome. But it didn't matter. The Nong Zhigao incident may not be a bad thing. In Zheng Lang's mind, the plan was even bigger. But it must make the ministers feel pain before they can follow their plans.

But Zheng Lang didn't expect that someone had already pointed his finger at him.

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