Many of the victims in Lingnan were good officials. Cao Xiugu's son Cao Jin was mostly good in Fengzhou. Zhao Shidan had great achievements in Jiangshan County. Officials did not exploit the people a single money, and no one dared to take them on the road. When they were lost, the people of Jiangshan County cried and sacrificed to the road, which lasted for hundreds of miles. The people of Kangzhou also set up temples to sacrifice to them. [*you]

Zhao Zhen also cried when he heard about it.

The country needs officials, but there are too few good officials, and the sacrifices are so heroic.

In regret, he pursued the title and rewarded his family. All he could do was this.

The evil news continued to spread in Lingnan. Chen Dongmei, the governor of Pennsylvania, abandoned the city. Song Kelong, the new governor of Yongzhou, arrived in Yongzhou. He ignored the trampling of Yongzhou by the thieves and did not repair the garrisons. Instead, the soldiers went to various mountain villages to kill and flee the people to cheat the thieves. He gave ten pieces of money to his personal soldiers and asked for rewards for false merits. Then Nong Zhigao arrived again. The people were disgusted with Nong Zhigao and even more disgusted with the court, so they no longer cooperated with the court's defense. Song Kron had no way to defend the thieves and fled again.

Seeing that the thief was powerful and did not dare to fight, Yu Jing came up with a stupid way to recruit chiefs of Huang from all the caves of Yongzhou, and sent silver, cloth, and various precious gifts to buy these chiefs, so that they could not cooperate with Nong Zhigao.

After hearing Yu Jing's plan, some ministers proposed to be appointed as the governor of the Qizhou of Nongzhigao and Yonggui, and make him surrender.

Liang Shi said: "If you do, there will be no court outside the mountain!"

Many ministers had not reacted yet, and Zheng Lang added: "Ruoer, there is another Li Jiqian outside the mountain!"

The ministers were not clear about the meaning of this sentence, and they were about to die by hitting the wall. How much impact would Li Jiqian have on the Song Dynasty? Although Shaanxi defended it, how much did it cost to build a large number of forts? How many people died in the Northwest War in several years? How much did it cost? Almost caused the Song Dynasty's economy to collapse! How much money would the troops stationed in Shaanxi continue to waste in one year? Without Xixia, Lingxia and other places, they were still areas under the throne of the imperial court, but their nature would become completely different. Without a powerful force, the imperial court only needed to station tens of thousands of banned soldiers to calmly restrain themselves.

From Shazhou to the east, it has always been a place where the imperial court is jailed. Even if you use money, you can get a large number of war horses and organize a powerful cavalry. If you have sufficient war horses and a large number of excellent pastoral supervisors, you can also organize 200,000 cavalry with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty. In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the number of cavalry once reached 150,000 or 10,000. Therefore, the Song Dynasty frantically suppressed Li Jiqian. However, Wang Xiaobo was in turmoil and there was a Khitan force abroad, so he had no time to take care of him, and finally let Li Jiqian grow up.

There are no Khitans in the south. But there is a Dali that has always been separated from the Central Plains (the Dali of Jin was too beautified, and Dali was not evil to the Song Dynasty, but it was not good), and Annan, which is highly hostile. If these forces join forces, coupled with the complex terrain in the south, the situation will be equally harsh.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen repeatedly asked Yu Jing to quickly and safely rebel, which was because he was worried about this.

Yu Jing is working as a foreign worker, how can Zhao Zhen not be anxious?

Zheng Lang knew in his heart that the Song Dynasty would be threatened many times in the south. A few years later, the Su Maozhou barbarians opposed the Song Dynasty. This was another controversial place. It was originally the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty did not take care of it and embezzled it for Jiaozhi. Then the Xiaxizhou barbarians in Jinghu South Road were against the Song Dynasty. Two years later, the Zikui barbarians attacked the Song Dynasty again, the Dongman of Fengzhou rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and the Huodong barbarians attacked the Yongzhou. The next year, the Shaozhou barbarians rebelled against the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi disturbed the Song Dynasty, and Jiaozhi was restrained against the Jiaozhi, and the Su Maozhou barbarians attacked the Song Dynasty again. The Song Dynasty recovered Hehuang and Jiaozhi officially invaded. Then the Maozhou barbarians opposed the Song Dynasty, Chen Yuan barbarians opposed the Song Dynasty, and Luzhou Yi rebelled against the Song Dynasty. Although Zhang Dun and Guo Kui and others were better after the fierce battle, they continued to repeatedly and erode the vitality of this country.

In other words, the Song Dynasty had such a vast area, but when it went west from the Xiang River, the Han people were not allowed to enter. The court spent a lot of money every year to appease it was useless, but it became the biggest burden of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Zheng Lang went south this time with ambitiousness and kindness, and wanted to remove this biggest trouble. Even if it was not removed, it would weaken its impact.

Zheng Lang knew another thing.

At first, Nong Zhigao was indiscriminate, but in the hurry organization of the Song Dynasty, he also saw the power of the Song Dynasty, and the strongest Northern Army of the Song Dynasty had not been used. Nong Zhigao felt a little scared. With the advice of the traitor Huang Shimi, Nong Zhigao wanted to go out and retreat. One was to retreat, and he used the stolen wealth to give it to the leader of the Temo Village at the junction of Dali, and prepared to retreat to Dali at any time. Therefore, there were many good horses in the land, rested soldiers, and used horses to teach his subordinates to fight, waiting for him to use, and then planned to take the initiative. One was to advance, if he could defeat the Song army again, drive Jinghu and Jiangnan, and personally wrote a letter to Huang Shouling, the powerful local chief of the cave, Huang Shouling, to give his Yongzhou land to the support of Huang Shouling.

Seeing that Nong Zhigao had a plan to advance and retreat, Huang Shouling was moved and set up a glutinous rice salary for Nong Zhigao's army. But then under the influence of Yu Jing's appeasement policy, Huang Shouling was always unstable, and Nong Zhigao failed to succeed. However, Zheng Lang did not admit that Yu Jing was right and did not understand military affairs, so he continued to use the silver bullet policy of the Song Dynasty. This policy was the fundamental reason why the barbarians were becoming more and more brave! This time he went to the south, Zheng Lang prepared various advanced policies to govern the local people and improve their lives, and the other hand was holding a huge butcher knife. Although Nong Zhigao later had an evil fight with Huang Shouling and fought fiercely, Huang Shouling defeated him by taking advantage of the geographical advantage and blocked Nong Zhigao's way. Zheng Lang did not like the existence of powerful chiefs like Huang Shouling in the south. It was these chiefs who affected the prestige of the Song Dynasty and made his policies unable to be implemented. From Lingnan to Kuizhou, the people were getting backward, far from the Tang Dynasty, and they could only be comparable to the Han Dynasty.

The monarch and ministers of the Song Dynasty still do not know about these situations. Although Huang Shouling had a bad relationship with Nong Zhigao, he took a wait-and-see attitude and did not inform Yu Jing for the time being.

But Zheng Lang's words are enough to illustrate the problem.

If Nong Zhigao developed into Li Jiqian's scale, the Song Dynasty would have to station a large number of troops from Fujian to Jiangxi, and Hunan would once again station a large number of troops. Think about the West and the North, the Song Dynasty would not need to develop, and the huge military expenditure would also drag the Song Dynasty to the Pacific Ocean.

And Yu Jing then did something even more stupid.

Zheng Lang can no longer wait!

Just as tens of thousands of people in Jiangshan County cried out in the funeral of Zhao Shidan, which shocked the court, and had the opportunity to persuade him. He said again: "Liezi once said something. Niu Que, a confucian of Yan, went to Handan and encountered a robber on the road. The robber snatched all his clothes, carriages and horses, Niu Que walked away with his steps. He looked happy and without any sadness. The robber was puzzled and went up to ask the reason. Niu Que said that a gentleman would not damage his physical and mental morality because of these external things. The thief said that a wise man, and he also said that a wise man like him would be valued when he went to pay homage to the monarch of Zhao. He would definitely be valued after being valued.

It would be better to kill him if we came to make things difficult for us. So they chased and killed Niu Que. When the Yan people heard this, they gathered together and said that they could not meet robbers like Niu Que. Everyone learned a lesson. A Yan people went to Qin and met the thief again at Hangu Pass. He remembered his brother's advice and fought with the robbers, but they were unable to compete with them. The property was robbed. Then they chased and begged the robbers to return the property. The robbers said that they would be very generous to make you live and would continue to chase us. Our whereabouts have been revealed. Since we have become robbers, what kind of benevolence and righteousness are there? Kill the Yan people again."

Liezi is a real person, and Zhuangzi mentioned this person many times. However, "Liezi" was mostly forged during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. After Zheng Lang, Ouyang Xiu started to question, some people began to overturn the case. However, "Lüshi Chunqiu" also records this matter. It can be used as an argument to explain the problem. Zheng Lang asked again: "Everyone, what if you do?"

This example was originally given in Liezi just to illustrate that the misfortune and fortune were impermanent, but Zheng Lang asked, and the nature changed.

The ministers stood in the hall, at a loss.

It doesn’t make sense and resisting cannot be done. What?

Zheng Lang said again: "Also, what should I do if the Master encounters a thief and cannot persuade him?"

It comes from "Zhuangzi", but the Song Dynasty respects Taoism, and some stories in Taoist classics can also be used as examples.

Zhao Zhen thought for a while, but couldn't think of the answer, so he asked curiously: "Zheng Qing, what should I do?"

"Zhou Chu eliminated the three evils because his original heart is not evil. Some people are so evil that they cannot change it. There is only one method to eliminate it with stronger power!"

There is no way, only fighting, and other methods are nonsense. Just like in China later, Su Qin and Zhang Yi were alive, could the Japanese convince the Japanese to not covet China? If they want to convince them, learn from Liu Rengui, otherwise this vulgar country would never be stable.

The hall was silent.

Zheng Lang looked at the lips of Zhang Fangping and other ministers who wanted to open their lips, and said, "Your Majesty, I have taken the initiative to ask for orders to go to the south. This is a series of plans. I cannot be regarded as the Prime Minister and have a concern. At that time, I was the Prime Minister and I was in charge of the East and West governments. I have been in power for more than four years. I still have the family rules of my ancestors when I went to the place of the emperor. I cannot destroy it."

Just one sentence, more people will respect it.

Zheng Lang's reputation reached its peak in the prime minister for four and a half years. Two mainstream ideas have been formed in the Song Dynasty. One is Fan Zhongyan, who believes that Fan Zhongyan is a role model and is unmatched in the ideological realm. The other is Zheng Lang, who believes that Zheng Lang's spirit of conscientiousness to the country is also worth learning. But the two ideas are also colliding. One is the requirement for thought, which must be perfect. It is too difficult. How many people can reach Fan Zhongyan's height, and some even begin to enter misunderstandings. The other is the requirement for practical work, but it is also too difficult. The humanistic spirit of Zheng Lang in later generations is not possible in this era. I am afraid that only Zhao Zhen can compare. Zheng Lang has a bug-like brain and later golden fingers. It is even more unmatched, which makes some people enter misunderstandings.

In short, these are two completely different peaks. Learning from Fan Zhongyan is like learning Li Bai's poems, which cannot be found. Learning from Zheng Lang is like learning Du Fu's poems, or you can learn one by one, but it is impossible to get the full taste. However, it is precisely because of Zheng Lang that the appearance of Zheng Lang perfectly supplemented the lack of practical work in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty since Lu Yijian, which led the Zhao Zhen Dynasty to a real prosperous era.

After saying this, Zheng Lang also began to move towards the altar. But it was still different from Fan Zhongyan. Fan Zhongyan was the snow on Kunlun Mountain, spotless and unattainable, while Zheng Lang was a ray of spring breeze, warm and approachable.

It is this sentence, which regards advance and retreat as dirt, and as fame as clouds, which makes many ministers feel another kind of purification.

Wang Juzheng suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I beg you to take back my previous words."

I was wrong. If such a minister is not a prime minister, who is the prime minister?

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "Wang Zhongcheng, don't do this. If you give advice, if you don't use the celestial phenomena to speak directly, it is right to point out the family rules of our ancestors. Please listen to me. After I was released, I was only a governor. Although the court would be favored, I will definitely put my ministers near the capital. I will not suffer the suffering of displacement. However, I am deeply grateful to the emperor, the country's kindness, the country's kindness, and the people rely on it. How can I seek wealth and peace for myself? Therefore, I go to the south, which is better for the country and the king than near the capital. Therefore, I beg your Majesty to ask me to go to the south again. But I have two words before leaving. The first words were the prefect of Jiufang Gao. When Duke Mu of Qin saw that Bole was older, he asked Bole to recommend someone who was good at horses. Bole recommended Jiufang Gao. Duke Mu of Qin summoned Jiufang Gao and asked him to find a horse and brought back a horse three months later. Duke Mu asked what it was.

What kind of horse is Jiufang Gao said to be a yellow horse. Gong Mu sent someone to take the horse, but it was a black stallion. Gong Mu was very unhappy and called Bole to ask, "You introduce the person who asked for a horse. Even the color of the horse cannot be distinguished from the male and female. How can you identify the quality of the horse? Bole replied, "It has reached this point, which is millions of times better than me!" Jiufang Gao looked at the horse only to see the horse's talent and spirituality, and got the essence and forget the roughness. He forgets the outside inside, and sees what he sees, but does not see what he sees, but leaves it without seeing what he sees. Horses like Jiufang Gao have more precious truths than to see horses. Sure enough, later, he tried the horse. This horse is a rare horse in the world. Everyone, you need to see this horse like this. You must not look at its surface, but to see its inside."

A very simple story has a deep meaning. Especially for the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, it was like a revelation.

Zheng Lang said again: "But be a person must be low-key. The elder of Huqiu said to Sun Shuao that there are three things that can arouse resentment in a person. When the title is higher, people will be jealous. When the official position is higher, the monarch will be suspicious. When the salary is higher, the resentment will be caused. When the salary is higher, the will will be caused by resentment. Sun Shuao replied, "When my title is higher, the lower my mind will be. When the official position is higher, the more careful I will be. When the salary is higher, the more extensive the alms will be given. Is it okay to rely on these three things to avoid people's resentment? The elder said, "

This sentence has a deeper meaning.

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he deliberately looked at Liang Shi and Pang Ji. Liang Shi had a very powerful method, and Pang Ji was not very good either. As soon as he left, Pang Ji was undoubtedly the prime minister. However, in order to maintain his status, he did some improper things and was found by Yanchen. As soon as Pang Ji left, the court was in chaos. In addition, Ouyang Xiu, who had just been recalled, was repeatedly disturbed in the middle, which was even more chaotic than when Jia Chang was in power. He looked at Di Qing again, but Di Qing didn't need to hurry. He dragged Di Qing in the south first to avoid the Liuta River storm, and then slowly unraveled.

But the more Zheng Lang did this, the more Zhao Zhen was reluctant to let it go. He sat on the dragon throne and looked at the minister in a daze.

Zheng Lang also said: "Your Majesty, the country has gradually improved in recent years. Your Majesty also has sufficient wealth to implement various policies that benefit the people. However, the prosperity of a country is not only rich, but not strong, but also cannot inspire the confidence of the people and restore the heroic spirit of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is a way to make a strong country under moderate consideration of the country's financial resources and under pressure from the people. Only when a country is rich and strong is a great country, and it will not insult the ancestors. Please ask Your Majesty to approve the ministers and Di Qing to travel south."

Di Qing also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I will not be able to serve the country without fighting. I am willing to obtain hundreds of foreign cavalry and use more troops to ban the troops. Together with Zheng Xianggong, the thief heads to the palace to repay the honor."

Zhao Zhen sighed repeatedly.

Zheng Lang said that going to the south has stronger positive significance than ordinary outings, but when going to the south, thinking about Zheng Lang's huge plan, it took countless years to return to the capital. Zhao Zhen was still reluctant to leave.

Pang Ji said: "Your Majesty, either let Di Qing go alone and lead his army south to pacify the south?"

Zheng Lang was about to leave the capital and head south. Zhao Zhen asked who was prime minister. Zheng Lang replied that Pang Ji was enough.

Pang Ji was very energetic. When he got this news, in fact, he and Zheng Lang were not very compatible in Shaanxi, especially in the policies of the Western Xia, there were many conflicts in their policies. However, after entering the two prefectures, the two of them had always been very happy to cooperate, so they offered this advice. It was just from the heart that they still wanted to retreat to advance, and only Pang Ji himself knew.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "The south is not only to suppress the rebellion, but more importantly to govern. Di Qing went there, and the victory was just around the corner, but the governance of the people was not as good as that of the ministers. Moreover, I have always thought that it was necessary to develop the Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangzhou and Xiangshui River Basins, and I have also put in my efforts. I must let me go to the south. This is the rear of the court. The rear is unstable. How can the northwest be pacified?"

Not only Xixia, but also the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

If the Western Xia Dynasty is pacified and the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are obtained, the Bank and Ping An Supervision will increase a lot of money to the court in one year, and there will be scientific progress. Under the leadership of the student Shi Heng, artillery and yellow gunpowder will make a little progress. It is a science and technology that is built out of thin air and is difficult. However, sooner or later, these two things will appear in the Song Dynasty. Once popularized, with the Song Dynasty's emphasis on internal governance, and find ways to eliminate party struggles, even if there are Song Huizong and others, the Song Dynasty will continue to develop.

There is no country that will last forever in the world, but as long as the Song Dynasty can develop safely for three or four hundred years, with the various things that the Song Dynasty has promoted science by itself, a giant will surely appear in the world.

The South will be an important part of his huge plan.

Zhao Zhen was hesitant, but bad news in the south continued to spread. After Nong Zhigao went to Yongzhou, he sent people to cut down huge trees day and night, and threatened to go down the water to capture Guangzhou again. In fact, this was a serious mistake. If Nong Zhigao took advantage of the great victory to appease the people in Yongzhou, make the tribes return to their hearts, train the army, build military fortifications and city defenses, and strictly repair checkpoints, the Song army would face a headache when going south. But no, he only cared about repairing the boat. Even if he was given a chance to attack Guangzhou again, would Guangzhou really be so easy to attack?

But there was no, not only that, in order to build ships, they fished the people in Yongzhou and made the people disinterest. However, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty did not understand the military and were very frightened after hearing it. They also saw that Yu Jing was unable to suppress the rebellion, so they finally agreed to Zheng Lang and his party. Di Qing also said that the thieves were easy to ride on high and dangerous roads, and the infantry could not resist, so they would be defeated every battle, and they were willing to follow the foreign troops in the west.

Some ministers once again doubted that can the northern horses and the cavalry in the north adapt in the southern environment? Gao Ruonne said: "The Fan tribe is good at shooting and endures hardships. Going up and down the mountain is like flat ground. When riding on miasma (referring to the fact that most areas in Guangdong and Guangxi have less miasma in winter) before they are launched, they will gallop and break it. It is a way to win."

Zhao Zhen asked Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang said it was OK, so he followed it. He then issued an edict to select the Guangrui army of the foreign troops from Fuyan Road, Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road. Five thousand people had combat experience, and sent an envoy to the Guangnan camp. In fact, at this time, the 5,000 Song army was far more combat-effective than in history. First, the two battles in the northwest were victorious and the morale was high. Second, there were more than 1,000 Jurchens among them. Third, the court had a wealth of finances, the rewards were richer than in history, and the soldiers were highly motivated. Fourth, Zheng Lang and Di Qing had a great prestige in the northwest. After hearing that the two went south as the commander, many foreign soldiers participated enthusiastically, almost crushing the various courts. Fifth, the court obtained a large number of war horses and formed 100,000 cavalry, and the number of cavalry far exceeded the number of Song army cavalry in history, with a large number of cavalry.

In history, Di Qing went south to these 5,000 cavalry, plus the local miscellaneous troops from Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as some local soldiers collected from Jiangxi, Hunan, a total of 31,000 people participated in the Battle of Guirenfu.

There are still so many people. Zheng Lang's trip was mainly governed. What changed was the war after the Kunlun Pass Battle. All the previous ones were handed over to Di Qing, but Zheng Lang did not say it now. Considering Zheng Lang's plan, the court issued an edict to have Zheng Lang served as the Jinghu South Road Jinghu South Road, allowing him to act in a cheap manner. When Zheng Lang arrived in Lingnan, this position was transformed into Guangdong and Guangxi's position to appease the recruitment, and seized all military, civil affairs, and financial powers. In fact, there were Jinghu North Road, Zizhou Road and Kuizhou.

The road is planned to be the sixth route, but it is impossible to hand over all the power of the sixth route to Zheng Lang. Then even if Zheng Lang is impeccable, it will cause great trouble. In fact, if Zheng Lang had not risen to an irreplaceable level in the hearts of the ministers at this time, even if he held this position, he would have caused controversy. After all, compared with the four states in the border areas, no matter which two roads, no matter which population is large, it is dozens of times more numerous than his population. To put it simply, if Zheng Lang had ambitions, he could be cede the land and become the king.

This is Zhao Zhen's compensation and trust to Zheng Lang, and it is also Zheng Lang's plan needs. Di Qing was appointed as the envoy of Xuanhui South Court, Jinghunan, and the envoy of Xuanfu on the North Road, and Guangnan East Road, and the commander of the thieves and thieves on the west road. All the generals and subordinates of Guangnan were controlled by Zheng Lang and Di Qing. If Sun Mian and Yu Jing attacked each other in a separate way, they would also obey Mian's command. That is, the power of several commanders was divided, one was Zheng Lang, then Di Qing, then Sun Mian, and finally Yu Jing. Lao Yu's poor work disappointed Zhao Zhen.

The edict was issued, and the five thousand cavalry in Shaanxi quickly formed and rushed towards Guangnan, announcing the temporary end of an era. After hearing this, the people in the capital were first moved, and then they were very nostalgic. Zheng Lang's more than four years in power have brought everyone too much wealth and hope. Many literati even compared the years of Wen and Jing's rule and the Zhenguan. But the people did not know that Zheng Lang and his party would stay away from the court for a long time, thinking that Zheng Lang could come back after pacifying Nong Zhigao, so although they were nostalgic, the atmosphere of nostalgia was not strong. At this moment, a news suddenly came from Zhengzhou...

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