The Khitan envoy only raised one thing, there was doubt on the border and asked the two countries to re-examine...

With just one sentence, all the king and his ministers looked at each other and they thought of a lot.

Zheng Lang did not speak, but just stared at the four messengers.

When the four envoys saw Zheng Lang's eyes, they were all a little guilty. One was Zheng Lang's reputation, the second was Zheng Lang's relationship with his own emperor. The two countries fought and each had their own independence. Besides, one king and one minister, for the sake of national interests, what was the relationship before? What they were worried about was what they saw and heard along the way. The Khitan took the opportunity to extort. The Song Dynasty used troops to use soldiers in Hehuang, and there were very few soldiers available, with only more than 20,000 people. For the huge Song army that raised more than one million, what was the 20,000 people?

The second is a major disaster.

But what they saw was not what they thought.

The disaster was serious, but how many years had Zheng Lang prepared? He even stopped controversial reforms since the previous year.

Let’s talk about personnel first. Personnel is very important. Corruption is essential for the court to organize disaster relief. However, there is another group, the number of officials has gradually declined over the years, and it is impossible to solve it. When there are many officials, it was the later years of Renzong and Yingzong reached its peak. In other words, these officials were mainly in their thirties and forty years. If they want to have fewer officials, they must maintain the current good system. It will take another thirty years for the entire number of officials to become healthy. It can only be said that there are fewer one ancestral temple sacrifice and two imperial examinations, and many officials have been added again. Not only does the officials have no power, but they are also without money. Compared with the two, the income is four times different.

By normal procedures, the court can only move seven or eight hundred officials a year, and it will take until that year? Therefore, most officials are actually in opposition to officials, unless there are people in the family. To put it nicely, this is called mocking and gaining knowledge, and to put it badly, this is called fighting poison with poison.

Therefore, it is not the common people who are most eager to be demoted and dismissed from officials, nor the court. After the imperial court has been reorganized for several years, the number of officials has stabilized and will not be in charge. This group is the official.

Zheng Lang put down thousands of officials, called "Mounting", and trained and added to make up for the shortcomings. In fact, he supervised each other. Some of them organized the arrangement of disaster victims, and some were used to supervise the construction of roads and water conservancy. In the end, most of them were arranged to various prefectures and counties, called learning, and actually supervised officials of various prefectures and counties, mainly food and various disaster relief supplies.

The law is also very cruel and powerful. It is true that the killing was just before the New Year. More than 30 people were killed, and about 200 people were dismissed from office and exiled. However, there was no doubt at this time. When did the disaster come, people would starve to death. They were still greedy and dirty, and when would they stay if they were not killed?

There is corruption and collusion between officials and businessmen for personal gain, but it is not very serious.

Zheng Lang attaches great importance to personnel, but it is Wang Anshi's most negligent place. No matter how good the reform is, people still need to implement it. Without a good official atmosphere, Wang Anshi's IQ is as high as 300, and he cannot lead the Song Dynasty's reforms to success. That's it. 80% to 85% can be used to rescue and control grain prices, so Zheng Lang thanked God. Zheng Lang is not angry about this. This is better in the Song Dynasty. If it were in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it could only be 50% or 60% at most. In severe cases, it is less than 20% used for disaster victims. As for the rest, God knows that one person's pocket.

If the person solves the problem, the victims will be solved.

Not everyone is willing to leave their homes. After a few years of great governance, many families can still survive and are unwilling to follow the imperial court to build everywhere. Those who have food are better, but those who have no food storage have to buy it with money. Especially as the scale of urbanization has expanded, the residents in the city have to buy food.

This problem seems difficult to deal with, but Zheng Lang thought of a stupid solution. No matter who comes to buy it, each person is limited to two liters and is distributed in front of each county government. It doesn’t matter how many times a day you buy it, but you must not force the lineup. Violators are 50 beats at the severity, or 100 sticks at the severity. Next door is the county government, and they are beaten on the spot.

What should I do? If it is said that it is distributed by household, or according to households, etc., can it be distributed fairly?

This stupid method is solved. The imperial court is affordable food, and there are many people queuing up, and some people can only buy it from morning to afternoon. It is just that merchants are greedy for this price difference. Can they hire people? Can they afford to hire people? If they are lucky, they can buy one bucket a day, but if they are not lucky, they can only buy two liters and four liters. The price difference is far from enough to pay their wages.

Therefore, it played a positive role in stabilizing grain prices.

This is very important. In fact, if a large country, not only national warehouses, but also grain merchants and landlords have a lot of grain in their hands. To say, there is no large amount of grain in the wine business in various places. Unless the drought lasts for three or five years, it will be a drought in Xining. Even if Jiangdongwei is not like now, Liangjing and Guangdong and Guangxi have not been developed, and farmland water conservancy has not been implemented for a few years, if everyone's grain is accumulated, there will be no big gap. The main reason is that merchants are more and more scattered, so the food prices are rising higher and higher.

In history, Wang Anshi did a good job. In the seventh year of Xining, the price of rice in Beijing was only 150 cents per dou. Think about it, the price of rice in Jiangnan rose to 6,000 cents per stone. What is this price? This is the credit of Changping Warehouse and Shipping Department.

At this price, the imperial court transferred rice from all over the country, and supplied 100 meters to the people in the capital for food, and finally reduced it by ten cents. With such a severe drought, it was not easy to achieve this step. Unfortunately, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Zheng Xia and Han Qi could not see it.

However, this is the capital city, the national focus, and other places are still miserable. Many areas in Hebei have risen to more than 300 essays, more than 400 essays, and more than 400 essays in Hedong, more than 500 essays or even 6700 essays. Shaanxi is unimaginable. This has led to refugees everywhere. There is no way, and the country's financial resources are so large. Who would have thought that such a sudden disaster would occur. Under the organization of Wang Anshi, it is much better than Ming Daoshi. It is very difficult.

Zheng Lang didn't know how much the price of grain would rise in the future, but on New Year's Day, the rice price in Beijing was only 70 cents, wheat price for 40 cents, and millet price for 20 cents. Unfortunately, wheat and millet were cheap, and the most prepared. The average price in Hebei was only 90 cents, fifty cents, and twenty cents, and a freight was added. The millet was produced locally, and the price had not changed. Hedong was 100 cents, fifty cents, and twenty cents. Such a major disaster was not as expensive as the time of the Emperor's Affordable period. Therefore, the people did not complain and there were few refugees.

There are also poor farmers who can only maintain food and clothing during the good year. Such a severe drought will definitely be gone next summer. They have to obey the command of the court and come out to work and provide relief. However, the court is also very humane, setting up work sheds, distributing supplies, and sending some charcoal and coal for fire. Some families even have large livestock, gather together, mark and send people to take care of them. If there is a problem with the livestock, they will be compensated at the price. However, the court did not take over. This time, the court did it too carefully, and the charity association did not know how to intervene in helping, so they took over this part and did good deeds for the victims. Then they hired some doctors to go to various construction sites to treat the people. Of course, they also saved a lot of expenses for the court.

The four messengers went south and observed with great care.

What they saw was not what they thought. There were still a large number of people left behind in the provinces and counties, and they looked like the fields outside were dry and cracked, but they were smiling, just as if there was no drought. They also saw some refugees and large livestock and were even more reluctant to slaughter them. However, they left their homes and kept some pigs, chickens, ducks, livestock and poultry at home. There were no one to take care of them, so they could not take them away, so they killed them, covered them with salt, and put them on a small cart. The heavy furniture could not be taken away, but some of the clothes and quilts accumulated over the years, including cotton coats and quilts. The court also organized many labor-for-reliefs, especially in the north, where there were many disasters, and many people had experience and were calm. They even slaughtered pigs while chatting and laughing. Then they pulled them in small carts and followed the officials on the road. The four envoys were extremely surprised to see it. Is this a fleeing famine or a relative?

The four people headed south, but it may not be so good. When a great disaster comes, some bad human tragedies will definitely happen, which is inevitable. It can only be said that a country can maintain the current light of heaven in the face of such a disaster. It cannot be said that there are no futurers, but it has almost reached an unprecedented level. However, it is definitely not something that the four messengers can see, so they go south and become more and more frightened.

Almost all the country exclaimed praise for this.

But I didn't see another more hidden situation, that is, under the organization of Zheng Lang's perverted brain, the whole country is becoming more and more like a machine. No matter what it does, as long as Zheng Lang intervenes, it will immediately become a machine that operates accurately and efficiently.

After the reform of the government, the more than six years of governance, even if it was a major disaster, it could not stop the machine from taking the Song Dynasty and starting a long stride.

The four messengers could not see it.

But know who this is all for.

Thinking about the rumors I heard before, when they saw Zheng Lang looking at them, they were both guilty and scared, and they didn't dare to look directly.

However, they unexpectedly expected that Zheng Lang did not make any statement from beginning to end.

But others didn't think so. The Khitan made it clear that he came to blackmail and promised to lose power and humiliate the country. The alliance was destroyed again and again. In the end, the Khitan was greedy and his appetite grew bigger and bigger. If he didn't agree, he would be very likely to join forces with Xixia and Tubo to attack the Song Dynasty.

The sky collapsed at that time.

The envoy retreated, but the monarch and ministers did not leave, and they all looked at Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang has been in power for decades, and has been the biggest and bravest firefighter for the Song Dynasty for most of his time, and has been in the Khitan for more than a year. He can only see him.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I only talk about two things. Two things that happened in the Liao Kingdom were the first of all the wars that occurred in the Liao Kingdom since the Yelu Chongyuan rebellion. In the second year of Xining, the Liao Kingdom's minister Yelu Enxun incited the rebellion of the northern Zhumbu tribe. The Liao Kingdom suppressed the rebellion with great strength. In the twelfth month of the same year, the five countries rebelled again. The Liao Kingdom used the royal Oludo (the most elite imperial guard of the Khitan) and took a lot of effort to suppress it. One thing I want to explain is that in the past, the Qitan There were rebellions in the northern border, but the central army had not been used, let alone Hanludo. Look at our rebellion in the south, the scale of the rebellion in the Nongzhigao was far greater than that of the five countries. When Di Qing went south, only a few thousand foreign cavalry were actually used. In the fourth year of Xining, there was a heavy snowfall in the north of the Liao Kingdom and a severe drought in the south. In the fifth year of Xining, the Wugu Dilie proclaimed himself emperor again. It took the Khitan almost half a year to suppress it. The whole country was once again in the same year. Perhaps it was not as serious as our dynasty's disaster, but many people starved to death."

Everyone smiled together.

There are Zheng Lang’s contributions, as well as their contributions. There are many things that can be remembered as a monument in history. Officials of various prefectures and counties will definitely not be recorded in history, but they are indispensable. At this point, power and money have almost reached their peak, and there are only some weak party struggles, so they pay more attention to a name.

"In this year, there were again **s in Liao. Last year, although locusts flew south, Liao was somewhat affected. If there was no Western Xia trap, your majesty, even if we both meet face to face, our army will not be weaker than the Khitan. I even said boldly that if we use the commander well, it will be slightly better than the Khitan. Here I would like to tell you a good news that the second artillery has been developed successfully."

"Oh," everyone was surprised together.

There was a strange phenomenon in the Song Dynasty. All dynasties were very happy with merits, but on the contrary, in the Song Dynasty, in order to avoid the victory and suppress the generals, great victory was often ignored, and great defeat was widely spread, which eventually led to even the leader being less confident. The soldiers were not good enough, so they had to work hard to develop weapons.

"Duke Zheng, take me to test the cannon."

"Your Majesty, the weapon is not the only one, it is mainly soldiers. If your Majesty can watch cannons, please listen to me to finish your words."

It is the kind of Fran cannon. Zheng Lang wanted to make it progress and leap, but it became a trend of haste that would lead to failure. Finally, the requirements were reduced. Only then did the research and development succeed. The power and size were equal to the Fran cannon, so Zheng Lang didn't like it very much.

Compared with the red cannon, its range is limited, its effective range is only five or six hundred meters, which is only half farther than the divine arm bow. In addition, its lethality is not stronger than the smaller, more maneuverable and flexible tiger squat cannon. However, it is still possible to fire shotguns, but the shotgun technology has not kept up. Of course, it also has advantages. Its weight is still not very high. The largest is 200 kilograms, and a small car is pushed away. The lightest is only a few dozen kilograms, and a horse is carried away. At the same time, it is equipped with bullets, and the firing speed is faster. One can fire three to four shells. That is, the cavalry's rushing speed is enough to fire five shells within the effective range, so that the enemy cavalry can come to the front of the eyes. It also has simple technology, is not easy to explode, and the requirements for soldiers' operation technology are very low.

It is better to have red-clothed cannons when large-scale army battles, or to attack and defend cities. It is possible that they are not useful to fight against the Tubo people, but when they go to war with the Western Xia and Khitans, they must master the trump card of red-clothed cannons.

"I'll talk about the second thing. The Lord of Liao likes hunting and is good at Buddha. He has a BMW named Feidian. It is said that he can gallop for a hundred miles in the blink of an eye. Because the horse is too fast, the guards often cannot keep up, so they have to look for the Emperor of Liao in the mountains and valleys. But this time it was not the Lord of Liao, and he couldn't even play. Moreover, the plan was put on our Song Dynasty. It was probably another person, Yelu Yixin, who was born in a poor family and was a shepherd's child. Of course, one person's background does not mean anything. Fan

Zhong Yan was born in a poorer family, but he was a wise minister of the world. The key was his superiority. His form of succession was exactly the same as that of Li Linfu. Because he obeyed the Liao lord everywhere, he was loved by the Liao lord. In addition, the Liao lord traveled around and did not like the national affairs, so he gradually handed over the national affairs to this person. Now, this person holds the national affairs, harms loyalty and goodness, and has almost the heavenly power. Perhaps the country was not strong enough to establish his authority, and seeing that our dynasty was in trouble, he attacked our dynasty. But what did this king and minister, Your Majesty, you all think of?"

"The Emperor of Tang Dynasty and Li Linfu."

"Your Majesty, that's the case." Zheng Lang sighed slightly. Because he thought of a girl, who was still a little girl, and Zheng Lang had not yet reached this point of animal life. What thoughts were about a little girl, and now he is getting older and he will not think about it. But he finally had some feelings. The young woman was about to die tragically. Suddenly his eyes lit up and said, "But the situation is definitely not very beneficial to our dynasty. If we want to manage Hehuang, we have to be distracted by drought. If the Khitan is not weird, the Liang family will definitely intervene. Although our dynasty is not afraid, we can fight all over the country and make a great national politics.

It will inevitably be corrupt. Alas, if there are not so many things, you will be compensated for the debt for three or four years. Therefore, the longer the time is delayed, the more beneficial it will be to our dynasty. There are two ways to deal with it. First, be deaf and dumb, try to delay as much as possible, the better. The second is to make a little concession. But everyone, think about how our dynasty treats the Khitan. In order to reconcile, the Khitan disaster comes, and our dynasty asks them to eat. After the disaster, we will repatriate the victims as much as possible. The revenge of the fallen into the wrong and the huge 500,000-year-old dynasty. Chanyuan is ashamed of being insulted. If he doesn't remember, he will be ashamed of being a Song minister."

"Yes," Zhao Xu said gritting his teeth.

Zheng Lang further comforted everyone, and joked again, saying, "Everyone, my dynasty is now pretending to be deaf and dumb. The Khitan will not let go. I will force our dynasty to express his opinion soon. But whoever has the ability to argue with the Khitan should take the initiative to stand up and argue with the Khitan for our dynasty. The longer the dynasty, the better it is better to drag it until the end of Hehuang and the drought. At that time, even if our dynasty makes big moves, the Khitan may not dare to accept it."

Fu Bi, Zhang Fangping and other old ministers laughed and scolded each other.

But a joke makes everyone feel relaxed immediately.

Then watch the gun.

When the Khitan envoy returned, good news came from the southwest.

From the later generations of Sanjiangkou (Minjiang, Jinsha River, and Yangtze River), that is, Wuliangye Distillery and Cuiping Mountain to the south of Luzhou, it is called Luzhou Man or Luzhou Yi, and it is one of the most difficult areas to control in the Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo personally wrote a good friend of Chaogu, the great hero in the TV series Su Dongpo. A friend of Chaogu was the brave general of the Song Dynasty, Han Cunbao, who was not defeated by Tubo and Xixia, but failed here.

It is not because of the poor here. On the contrary, Zheng Langdian sold the so-called manors to allow these large households to use sufficient funds to establish a good three-dimensional agricultural management specimen in the north. In fact, there has been an advanced three-dimensional agricultural production model here, including rice planting in the valley, half-raising and semi-herding cattle, horses, pigs and sheep on the slopes, and the manure of livestock increased the harvest of the rice. The only difference is that there is a shortage of people and few people to plant feed such as alfalfa, rosy and reeds for land. Therefore, the people in this area are very rich. A soldier will report that there is a village with thousands of hectares of fertile fields and a lot of valleys. The forest is hundreds of miles away. It is impossible for tens of hectares of fertile fields. Wang Shao has been struggling for several years. If the two prefectures of Qin and Wei, they will only have eight thousand hectares of arable land, which can have tens of hectares of fertile fields. But it means that this village has a large piece of arable land and is also very civilized.

Originally, in this form, it was best to manage, but there was an output here, which led to serious conflicts, salt well!

Luzhou Yanjing is very famous, so the Han and Yi fight for it.

The court's struggle for this salt well is easy to explain, one is to make money, and the other is to control. Just like the Nanjiang Man, they collect money from passing through not only harms the people, but also because they have money in their hands, they can raise some private soldiers. The power is getting stronger and stronger, and the government is becoming more and more difficult to control. In the end, they can only break the net to death.

The intention is good, but the execution is not the same. Just like Wang Anshi, the intention is not good, and the Qingmiao method is not good, but it will be different if it continues to be implemented. Local officials are not mainly to weaken the chiefs, but they are mostly to make money, so they seize the salt wells of the people. Therefore, they are often seized by "selling the wells from the officials, and I lose the business of selling the thirst, and I also make the nano-smalls break the thirst, so I gather the barbarians." Exaggerated statement, the court dared to force the barbarians to this point? However, some bad things must have happened, and some ambitious chiefs instigated them, and the rebellion continued.

This is a bit sympathetic. In fact, the court has repeatedly ordered the people to relax and relieve the people. The key is that some officials dare not act after they arrive, and some powerful people are getting braver. Last year, two great chiefs, one is Yan Zi, not the Yan Zi in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the other is called Ao Wang and Su. These two united the six surnames outside the mountain and twenty-four surnames in Naxi, and invaded the mainland from the Qingjiang River. This practice is unreasonable. If the government is not good, killing officials is just like that, why hurt innocent people?

The court had no choice but to transfer Kumamoto to quell the rebellion.

After Kumamoto arrived in Luzhou, he was not in a hurry, but sent people to inquire about the specific situation. Then he learned a piece of news that the reason why the Luzhou barbarians dared to invade was that there were twelve villages outside the Jingjing were bribed by the barbarians. Kumamoto found an excuse and gathered them together. The guards suddenly surrounded these people with swords and killed them one by one. More than a hundred heads were hung by the Lu River. The rest of the troops were frightened and loyal. When friends came, they had fine wine, and when the enemy came, they were knives and guns, they were loyal to them. They were immediately granted official positions and titles. Entrepreneurship is not possible. The more they were grateful, the easier it was to raise ungrateful wolves, and the power was not possible, and they often left scars of hatred. However, the combination of Entrepreneurship and the power increased immediately. With allegiance from the tribes, Kumamoto immediately gathered the local 19 powerful armed forces, and the imperial army led the generals Wang Xuan and Jia Changyan to the south to attack Ke Yin, who had always been dissatisfied.

The two armies fought in Huangge, and Ke Yin quickly learned why there was the idiom of Yelang being arrogant and was defeated in one battle. But it didn't matter. If he was defeated, there were deep mountains and old forests and fled. But it was wrong again. The Song army was not the Song army decades ago. On the contrary, since Zheng Lang attacked Zhang Hai, he was training this mountain climbing. Comparing mountain climbing and hiking forests, let's compare. Ke Yin drilled deep mountains, drilled old forests, climbed high mountains, and went down the river, but no matter how he jumped, the Song army behind him had never left it.

He was almost chased by the Song army and finally cried loudly. I won't escape. Don't chase after me. He walked out and offered all the population, land, treasures, and cattle and horses together. He said that he hadn't fought, but Huang Ge fought a battle, and then chased him. But this crazy pursuit completely disappointed Yan Zi and Ao Wange Shu. Ao Wange Shu came forward to represent the surrender of the two, and sent his son to Xiong himself as a small official, but in fact he was a hostage. Once the two surrendered, they surrendered with the troops of Jing, Changning, Wuman, Luo family ghost master and other troops. Fan Bailu presided over the oath that the tribes would always be slaves of Han, and the affidavit was carved into stone tablets and erected in Wuning Fort. But then Zheng Lang changed the changes, and the tribes would always be citizens of the Song Dynasty, not slaves of Han.

Kumamoto was still in charge. This battle was beautiful, and only tens of thousands of dollars were used, and no many people died. Therefore, Zhao Xu said: "You will not harm the money, and you will not harm the people. Once you have a hundred years of troubles, you will be appointed as a third-rank official. He said that when the disaster came, there was also Hehuang, he used money everywhere and put money in front of the people.

In fact, it cannot be called a century-long danger. As long as the battle between salt wells still exists, the Luzhou Man will not have time to calm down.

And there is a worse incident.

Before this incident, Zheng Lang made various arrangements. Because he was about to go down soon... the disaster became more and more serious, and finally more victims fleeing famines increased. So the court organized the victims to go further south. First, there was a passage between Danshui and Luoshui, not a waterway, with this ability, nor this water source, but a dry road. This was not easy. If there was no **, the vast Xionger Mountain would become an insurmountable natural barrier. But communicating this section of the road is of great significance, and there is only a road of more than 300 miles. Since then, goods from the Han River Basin can be transported to the capital by shortcuts. Once these two roads are repaired, Danshui has become extremely important.

The project volume is also very good. If you do not open upstream, you must set up a plank road for fiber-pulling. During the dry winter period, some reefs will be blown away to avoid hidden dangers in order to strengthen embankments and widen some local areas. These are the two main roads on the west side, and the main roads in the southeast. Move the victims further south to eat, and then widen the official roads from Caizhou to Guangzhou, Huangzhou, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jingnan, and Jiangnan West Road. You can use the convenience of Xiangshui and Ganjiang River to reach the river, and then transport them from Huangzhou dry road to Beijing as soon as possible, instead of going around to Yangzhou, Jiangning, and building a large circle before entering Beijing from Bian River.

It was said that Zhou Han and Tian Yu had raised concerns that the south would become heavier and heavier, which would be detrimental to the status of the capital and the rule of the country.

The construction of these roads not only prospers the north, but also consolidates the status of the capital.

Anyway, since the beginning of Spring, there have been more and more disaster victims, and in the end, almost nearly ten million victims are not used to work. Could it be that they are floating around?

After the arrangement was completed, Zheng Lang proposed one thing, one that he had been concerned about for a long time.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!