The superficial thing is that the generals and soldiers are stripped of their soldiers and make money for themselves, resulting in the deterioration of military discipline. But it is not the truth.

The truth is just a saying: The price of capital is expensive and it is not easy to live in.

In order to protect the capital, the Song Dynasty moved the families of the imperial guards to the capital. There were imperial guards outside the city, but most of them were imperial guards stationed in various places. Their families were still in the capital, which could ensure that they were loyal to the court and dare not betray the court.

It would be better if it was outside the city, and if the family was in the city and had no other income at home, the family would have a hard time. Not only soldiers, but also small schools with low positions might not be able to live a life of food and clothing. Moreover, there are also officials above to deduct it from them.

Under the pressure of life, many soldiers do business in the military camp, or are unable to get their wives into the military camp to act as military prostitutes.

It can be understood, but we cannot make the army such an army.

Zheng Lang wrote a memorial, explaining the reason that the capital city had to retain the families of a large number of soldiers, otherwise the literati and officials would not be at ease. However, some regulation was required. For example, the still empty Jingxi Road had enough space to cultivate and the cost of living was low. It was not far from the capital city. Jingxi Road, such as Ruzhou, still belonged to the important areas of Jingxi. It can be filled with some fifth-class households with poor family living in poverty. They have good physical fitness, brave, and some martial arts skills. The soldiers in the Xiangbing Township who have entered the west of the Jingxi Road will be arranged to be in the forbidden army and will arrange their families in the prefectures of Jingxi Road.

But not to increase troops.

Take the initiative to lay off some soldiers who are unwilling to join the army, especially those whose families are burdened and have other ways out, so their families are soldiers in the capital or lower-level generals to keep the soldiers energetic and morale.

Not the solution yet.

Yes, there is no need to learn from the Tang Dynasty. It recruited troops locally to form the harm of separatist vassal states, but there is no need to move the family members to the capital to live in the countryside. It is scattered in various places and villages. There is no such high cost of living. With the treatment of the forbidden soldiers of the Song Dynasty, various ugly phenomena will be seriously reduced. But can this solution be passed? It must not be possible. Therefore, a compromise strategy is proposed.

However, it was not passed, and there was nothing else. There was too much money to control the river. Even if you admit that it was right, you would not dare to implement it.

However, Zheng Lang's letter attracted the attention of some people.

In fact, there is another example. Qi Jiguang uses all rural soldiers to use them. He is simple and able to endure hardships and dares to fight. He does not need such high living treatment. The nature is similar.

Furthermore, the strongest Western Army in the Song Dynasty was not the strong imperial guards, but some powerful foreign soldiers and rural soldiers inside. This led to the combat effectiveness of the entire Western Army becoming the first military branch of the Song Dynasty.

The Khitan soon responded.

In fact, Yelu Hongji was not evil to the Song Dynasty, and he really missed Zheng Lang. But he made the Song Dynasty's monarch and ministers think wrongly. Yelu Hongji's mind was so capable that he came up with extremely complicated thoughts?

And the Khitans' powerful people also turned to the Song Dynasty.

This principle is easy to understand.

Will you agree to retake the Diaoyu Islands if you have children in Japan or have interests in Japan?

A large number of naked officials' families are all in the United States, and their property is also in the United States, and their interests are in the United States. Will they agree to the country's tough attitude on the Diaoyu Islands, leading to a war?

But they did not expect that one thing would come to the door if they were afraid of things. If they were too soft, they would force them to fight, and they would not have a good ending. The same reason was that the Song Dynasty or the Khitan did not have the living space for naked officials, but there was one thing and benefit.

Peace was long, whether it was open to the market or private smuggling, a huge chain of interests was formed in the Khitan. The larger the transaction volume, the larger the chain of interests was. At the beginning of the Qingli period, some ministers supported the launch of war against the Song Dynasty. To this day, there were almost no market for this voice.

This situation is very dangerous for the Khitan. Once the Song Dynasty really gets better and sees the Khitan getting softer, it is possible to launch the battle to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun again. Of course, there is a prerequisite that the Song Dynasty must be able to get better and better.

From the kings to the ministers, the Khitan did not want to fight with the Song Dynasty, nor did they want to see the canal built to Cangzhou, so they asked the envoy to question it. Now they have great benefits and have a step forward, so they will turn their attention away.

However, what the Song Dynasty gave people was that there were many money and people were stupid. Although Yelu Hongji was not evil to the Song Dynasty, he didn't want to let go of the opportunity.

Under this premise, envoys were sent to the Song Dynasty for negotiations, and the lion spoke loudly and extorted a lot. In the end, the two sides formed an agreement, but the time did not disappoint Zheng Lang, but the content of the agreement disappointed Zheng Lang. All livestock were almost twice the market price.

Sighed and agreed.

At this time, he didn't want to have anything to do with the Khitan.

But another thing caused a sensation.

Zheng Lang's experiment.

Due to the backward medical conditions, many diseases cannot be treated well. Not only the barbarians in the south believe in witchcraft, but the people in the Central Plains also believe in various strange methods. For example, talismans, talismans, water, jumping gods, and this pill, and burning incense to worship all kinds of gods. Of course, because the Central Plains civilization is advanced, half of it is on the right track, and using acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat diseases may not all work, but it is definitely better than the former.

There are quite a few people who are fighting elixir balls.

At the end of the first lunar month, all ten prisoners were released.

None of them died. Most of them were the kind of people in the Romance of Cheng Yaojin, who killed and robbed people, committed all kinds of evil, and had strong physical fitness. However, after taking Dan Pills for a large dose for half a year, all of them were poisoned by lead, mercury, or other non-ferrous metals.

Zheng Lang's family in the capital sealed a memorial written by Zheng Lang half a year ago and handed it to the Secretariat.

Explain the reason, the reason for the reason was that the external alchemy technique was to use medicinal materials, because its body was round and flowing, easy to evaporate, and had certain benign effects. For example, the good medicines, Ren Dan and Human Pill in later generations could not be beaten to death with one stick. But later on the way of Qi, they added gold and stone or mercury to refine and treat.

These substances include tribute, carbon, tin, lead, copper, gold, silver, etc. The oxides include three immortal pills, yellow pills, lead pills, arsenic, quartz, purple quartz, magnets, lime, etc. Sulfides include cinnabar, realgar, orchid, cylindrical, as well as various chlorides, nitrates, carbonates, borates, sulfates, kaolin mixed stones, silicates, as well as alloy cylindrical (copper-zinc alloys), platinum (white copper, copper-nickel alloys), white tart (lead-tin alloys), amalgam of various metals, vinegar and wine, etc.

Some of the substances can be used as drugs, but there are many substances, and you can tell how scared you will be by listening to their names.

Therefore, it will cause various metal poisoning, such as mercury poisoning, headache, fatigue, forgetfulness and mental abnormalities, numbness around the mouth and across, sensory disorders, speech disorders, instability in gait, narrowing vision, hearing impairment, as well as muscle atrophy, muscle spasms. After Zhao Zhen took the meatball for half a year, he did not want to speak, which was the symptoms of mercury poisoning.

The surface of lead poisoning is dizziness, general weakness, muscles and joints, inability to eat, constipation or diarrhea, enlarged liver, tenderness in the liver, yeast, increased blood pressure, or paralysis, severe headache, convulsions, delirium, convulsions, wood stagnation and even coma.

Copper poisoning is manifested in the mouth with a metallic smell, saliva, nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, diarrhea, extensive sweating, thirst, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, dizziness, dry throat, cough, chest pain, difficulty breathing. Sometimes nausea and loss of appetite.

Write down various metal poisoning reactions.

I also wrote several common chemical reaction equations of Danwan, which do not need to be written in English. Instead, they are marked with Chinese nouns one by one to indicate what substances they will react to.

Finally, I said that these reactions are all early symptoms, and if taken, it will eventually affect life.

Anyway, all pills containing metal and stone, tiger and wolf medicine, or mercury pills cannot be eaten. In mild cases, it will affect people's health, and in severe cases, it will lead to death.

There is no basis for speaking, but there are experimenters.

Because the emperor wanted to eat small meatballs, several masters of the Secretariat did not dare to neglect them, so they brought the ten prisoners over and watched them in person. None of them died, but they were all deeply infected with metal poisoning and dying. They compared their reactions to various metal poisoning reactions marked by Zheng Lang, one by one. Some were infected with one metal poisoning, and some were infected with several metal poisoning.

If you agree, you can release it if you don’t die, but you will become a sick person. If you release it, it will not harm the people.

But this is a prisoner, each with strong and powerful body. What would happen if the emperor took the small body? They all shuddered. Not only the emperor, but also their own family seemed to have eaten it.

Enter the palace immediately and report the situation.

Zhao Zhen was surprised when he heard this and asked someone to bring ten prisoners. Some of them were seriously ill and could not even walk. None of them were lively. Zhao Zhen was so ill that he gave them some rewards to go home. He was so sick that he probably wouldn't be able to live long, so he would let them go home and reunite with his family for a few months.

Then I issued an edict to prohibit any Taoist palace from using substances such as metal and stone to refine elixirs. It is OK to use them to refine elixirs, but they cannot be used as medicine for the people to eat.

Seeing the edict, Zheng Lang smiled with relief.

After Taoism, Buddhism, or Christianity, the original meaning is to teach people to get rid of evil and do good. Zheng Lang is not very repulsive. Compared with Buddhism's invasion of land and land, Taoism is much smaller in doing evil, but this little ball made him unbearable.

It is worth spending five thousand yuan to correct people's mistakes.

May is coming in the blink of an eye, Huangmeitian, Huainan rainy season is coming, and the project has to stop. Zheng Lang went to Huazhou despite the observation that each project was about to usher in the first wave of impact.

It wasn't very cold last winter, but it was raining heavily this year.

Because there are too many rainy days, the Yellow River has risen and some areas are flooding.

This is not the key, the key is the Sixth Stage. The Liuta River is not the Sixth Stage in history, and the river terrain is not the historical river terrain, but it is on a large scale. There may be an accident in the Sixth Stage, and it may not be. If something happens, it will not affect the water conservancy under construction. These projects are all south of the Ji River and cannot impact it. However, many people will also drown. The court will inevitably spend another money to rescue disasters afterwards.

Hearing the news that the Yellow River water was rising, Zheng Lang personally returned to Huazhou from Chuzhou to inspect the local terrain, and decided to choose a place with low lying terrain and large saline, first repair the embankment, then open the Yellow River and dig in, so that it can serve as a water storage lake.

However, this area had been induced once, and there was a little harvest. Because it was necessary to store water, it also required a large amount of water storage, including some fertile fields, which would also be flooded. Although Zheng Lang said that the court would use money to compensate for its losses, the local people disagreed.

This compensation is useless. If the crops in barren land are easy to compensate, there are fertile land and houses, even if Zheng Lang personally presided over the compensation, some people would definitely not be able to pay the compensation. The court wanted to dig a dike to drain water, so why did he choose us?

Seeing that the water level was getting higher and higher, Zheng Lang was a little anxious and ordered officials to force the people to move to a high place to prepare for flood discharge.

The people were unwilling to do so. Huazhou was far away from the capital. Soon the capital heard the news that it was possible that Huazhou officials secretly reported to the higher authorities. Zhao Zhen asked Han Qi and Han Jiang to come over to investigate in person.

Han Qi looked at it, came to the river bank to find Zheng Lang, and said, "Xingzhi is too hasty."

"It's not a hasty, Zhigui. When you look at this water level, I have asked some officials. The flood in the first year of Huangyou was only less than two feet away from the water level at this time. Perhaps two feet is a huge number for the river embankment's ability to withstand the water level. But the sky is still raining, and the water level line is still rising. Once something happens again, it will not only affect the finances, but also drown many people." At least this release of water will relieve the pressure on the Yellow River. The people have arranged for transfers in advance and will not die.

"Can you conclude that something big will happen to the Yellow River?"

"Zhigui. How to make a conclusion? You have to wait until something happens?"

"Xingzhi, this digging embankment has more than 70,000 acres of good land, plus silted fields, some depressions, nearly 2,000 hectares of arable land, and the houses and property of more than 3,000 households, and the mulberry and hemp fruit trees turned into Wudan overnight."

"But it is better than the end of the river embankment collapsed by itself. Not only is the Yellow River project not yet well repaired. Even if it is well repaired, if it is too late during the flood season, you must learn to use some barren and low-lying places to force flood discharge and water."

However, no one could convince the two of them.

Hearing Han Qi speak for them, many people rushed over and hurried in front of Zheng Lang and Han Qi, saying, "Mr. Zheng. We know you are a good official, but we don't want to give up our home. Please let us go."

This is what Zheng Lang fears the most.

When they heard that things had a turnaround, more people came to kneel down on the river bank.

Han Jiang whispered, "Mr. Zheng. It's not appropriate."

To use Han Jiang, Zheng Lang himself was also timid. Not to mention the surging public opinion, he dared not force digging the embankment. If Han Qi always disagreed with the power, he could not violate the order. Faced with the begging and howlings, Zheng Lang did not say a word and took the guards on the boat and left Huazhou.

Returning to Huainan, he went down to inspect immediately. Later generations brought him a lot of inspiration, but he could not copy it. The lower reaches of the Huaihe River Basin have not yet entered the Huaihe River and their limbs are broken. There are also rivers entering the sea in Haizhou (Lianyungang) and Rugao, but the water volume is not large. It mainly goes east along Chuzhou and enters the sea from Lianshui. As for the later Binhai, Yancheng, Shecheng, and Dafeng are mostly still below the sea level and have not surfaced.

This also brings convenience to Huaihei.

Another point is that although the water volume in the Huaihe River Basin is huge, it is far less than that of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Otherwise, the plan for the sand storage tank that Zheng Lang moved from Sanbai Canal would also fail. Not only will the sand storage tank not succeed, but the Bian River and the New Canal, as well as the steep gates in front of the lakes that divide and control various rivers and lakes will not succeed.

Whether it can be successful must be checked one by one, see the amount of water absorbed, the quality of the steep gate, and the sand content of the water after entering the lake.

But soon everyone's eyes were not attracted by Zheng Lang's hurry, but by what happened in the northwest direction.

...

The power struggle between Mozang Epang and Li Liangzuo became fierce. When Yuan Hao was alive, the three generals of Xixia, Nuo moved to reward the capital, and at the beginning they were all skilled by Mozang Epang. In order to use their power, Mozang Epang gave them more rights.

When Ning Ling Ge fled, rumors spread in Xixia that Mozang Epang needed to rely on the three generals even more. Therefore, the three generals were domineering and were controlled by the outside world. However, in a series of wars, Mozang Epang used some arrangements, either weakened by the enemy's hands, or withered. Therefore, Mozang Epang was unscrupulous and instigated Li Shougui and assassinated his sister.

However, Mozang's family was not simple. Before she died, she arranged a trick of chess and placed her confidant Manme on the throne of Mozang Epang. After Mozang's family died, Mozang Epang's attitude towards this person began to change, from respect to slackness. As a result, Manme was indignant.

The biggest blow was the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty not only questioned the unclear death of the Mozang clan, but also questioned the mozang Epang's ambitions, invaded and invaded as enemies, so it stopped all the markets and strictly investigated private salt, and then removed salt to resist the impact of green salt. In order to punish Xixia, even the livestock was not needed.
To be continued...