The autumn rain was slapped, and Wang Jinghui was standing in the yard watching the continuous autumn rain wash the world. He had been in Chuzhou for ten days at this time. He did not expect that the person who served as the highest executive in Chuzhou was actually Wu Chong. Wu Chong had made a name for himself in "History of the Song Dynasty", but Wang Jinghui only knew that there was such a person in his head. It seemed that Wu Chong had a high position in the last position, but he was still in the hands of the new party of Xining's reform. After Wu Chong was handed over, he would return to Biandu to serve as the deputy envoy of the Salt and Iron.

Although Wu Chong was not a capable official, he was well-behaved and did not make any major mistakes. Although the Changping Store on Huainan East Road had not been fully inspected, there was no problem in the account books, so he was not in a hurry. It was too late to wait for the dozen or so accounts sent to check again.

Wang Jinghui was very low-key after arriving in Chuzhou. Except for some local officials, he rarely went out. Yesterday, after seeing off his ex-girlfriend Wu Chong, he gave up his plan to go out to see him because it rained today. Because his wife, Princess Shu, was about to arrive at the housekeeper Wang Fu, who was taking people to repair the backyard, he didn't want the Princess Shu to come here and endure hardships. However, just like the continuous autumn rain in front of him, Wang Jinghui had no political experience at all and became the "mayor" all at once. He felt a little at a loss.

While Wang Jinghui was in a daze in his study, the housekeeper Wang Fu came in and told him: "Mr. Concubine, the person you are waiting for is waiting in the front hall." This is the person he specifically told Wang Fu to wait specifically. They are several local "water conservancy experts" recommended by Wu Chong, and the three father-in-law who came to Chuzhou with him to choose water control officials. Of course, he also had the deputy commander of the local governor Xue Xiangzhi.

Wang Jinghui came to the front hall in his official uniform. The officials who had been waiting in the hall stood up to salute him. Wang Jinghui did not make much politeness after returning the salute. Instead, he went straight to the point: "I am troubled by all of you here today, because it is for the water conservancy of Chuzhou." After saying that, Li Shen from the side took out the map of Chuzhou that had been prepared long ago and hung it on the screen. He said: "This is the first time I have been a local official. I still don't understand the local affairs, but I also know that this water conservancy is important. Food is the most important thing for the people. This water conservancy is directly related to the harvest of Chuzhou people in one year, so I would like to ask me for advice!"

After hearing this, everyone in the hall felt that Wang Jinghui was not as arrogant as a royal relative. He was a gentle man on his face, but he was a good talker. One of the officials in the province held a heavy Jiangsu accent and said: "The rivers in this province are crisscrossing, and the most important ones are the Huai River, Hongze Lake, Sheyang Lake and the canals that cross Chuzhou from north to south. Among them, Hongze Lake and Huai River are the most harmful. There is no shortage of water in Chuzhou, but when the flood season comes, they are threatened by these two floods. The adults are concerned about water conservancy just after they arrive, which is a blessing for the people of Chuzhou!"

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "I am hereby obeying the sage order. The mud guards Chuzhou and caring about water conservancy and benefiting people's livelihood is the responsibility of me and my colleagues. I will make a promise here: Although I have not checked the money and grain in this treasury, I know that there will not be too much. But you don't have to worry. I will be responsible for the money and matters. You only need to propose the best governance plan! If you have any opinions and opinions, please put forward it. It is now autumn, and now you have decided the plan. It will be just in time to implement it and benefit next year. It depends on your ability!" Speaking of this, he thought in his mind that there was a team boss in the future who once said: He will pay for the coach's choice.

The local officials in Chuzhou, including the Tongzong Xue Xiangzhi, did not know how their superiors could make such bold statements, but the water conservancy officials who followed him to Chuzhou knew a little. The prince-consort in front of him was also a rich man who could be ranked first in Biandu. In addition to the identity of the prince-consort, the emperor's father-in-law could not let his son-in-law suffer poverty, right?

Although many people promised Wang Jinghui to question him, this was the chief's business after all. He was just a minor official working below, so how could he ask so much? After saying that, everyone stood up and surrounded the map to report to Wang Jinghui in detail about the farmland water conservancy and river disasters in Chuzhou, and proposed some plans that he had thought of but could not be implemented without funds. Wang Jinghui listened carefully. Although his water conservancy knowledge was still at the level of "digging more ditches and strengthening dams", this did not stop him from learning. For the views and plans that everyone agreed with, he asked Li Shen next to him to take a pen to record them. For the controversial areas, he also recorded them in detail for reference.

"Tsk! When I first came, I would read other people's books and use the poems of future generations to cheat and drink. In the end, I couldn't become the top scorer after learning it?! I don't believe that this little water resource is harder to write than the twists and turns of classical Chinese!" Wang Jinghui was whispering in his heart while listening to the experts' narratives.

In the following days, Wang Jinghui began to visit various places in Chuzhou without stopping. On the one hand, he investigated the situation of farmland water conservancy and river embankments; on the other hand, he "going to the countryside" to understand the people's situation. After investigation, Wang Jinghui, a "beginner in water conservancy", had a rough understanding of the situation in Chuzhou, and the result also made him ashamed: this is an important grain-producing area in the Song Dynasty. Fortunately, he decided to deal with water conservancy and agriculture first. If industry and commerce alone develop, the consequences would be troublesome... However, Chuzhou is close to the throat of the canal, and most of the waterways to Biandu in the south pass through Chuzhou. It is very basic to develop commerce with Chuzhou as the center. Moreover, Chuzhou is now very prosperous.

After Wang Jinghui returned to the government office, he issued a document asking the magistrates of each county to report the specialties, various minerals, types of crops and the main sources of taxation. They also asked them to select several old craftsmen from handicrafts such as salt, tea, paper, etc. to come to Chuzhou to report quickly. Officials at all levels below were confused after receiving this document: scraping the ground? Unlike! Those samples were too few, if the ground was scraped, they would not even specify the pounds of the samples in detail. Such a small amount was used for reference. It was also clearly stated that the purchase of the required samples must be paid by the government. This is not like scraping the ground? Wang Jinghui didn't know whether his subordinates were whining about whether he was going to scrape the ground on a large scale. Fortunately, these things were ready-made and collecting them was not troublesome. All the people brought things and information according to Wang Jinghui's requirements on the list and rushed to Chuzhou.

The magistrate Xue Xiangzhi was also puzzled with the newly issued official document from Wang Jinghui in his hand. However, there was no violation of the rules in the magistrate's official document. He also signed the documents and sent them to the lower house. However, as a deputy, he still needed to ask his superiors clearly for his intentions to prepare. While the magistrates were busy preparing the official document, he came to Wang Jinghui's underworld to visit. Wang Jinghui was wearing casual clothes and received him in the back garden. Under Wang Fu's personal supervision, the decoration was completed, and the princess of Shu had not arrived yet. So this place was used as the place for Wang Jinghui to meet. After the two met for a while, Xue Xiangzhi couldn't help but ask the reason for the official document.

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "You can't be a general who doesn't know the soldiers when fighting. If the soldiers don't know the general, you will definitely be defeated! I'm doing this and want to know what products each county has, so that you can use this as a basis to formulate development plans and make targeted."

Tongzong Xue Xiangzhi asked in confusion: "Development Plan?"

Wang Jinghui smiled and explained: "The so-called plan for the year lies in spring. This 'development plan' is a plan for the development of our parents' officials under the local rule. We can plan the key development directions in various parts of Chuzhou based on local properties. For example, some counties have poor land, so we parents' officials must find a way to see if there are other industries suitable for this county, and don't let the people just hang on a rope. Formulating a good development plan will also help you and me communicate with their subordinates. Let them know what they should do."

Wang Jinghui was very satisfied with this deputy. Xue Xiangzhidi's personal ethics was quite good in his eyes. His reputation was also "clean and fair" among the local people. He was a person who could rely on. Perhaps because the new laws such as the "Qing Miao Law" in history have not been implemented, the treasury in various places is still sufficient, and it is not as shy as he imagined, which also makes him more relaxed.

Wang Jinghui saw Xue Xiangzhi still thinking there and continued: "No farming is not stable. No work is not rich, no business is not alive. I see that Chuzhou has developed agriculture. As long as we build water conservancy projects and minimize flood and drought disasters, there will be no big trouble in agriculture. But it is not enough for the people to just eat a full stomach. We must live a better life, which depends on industry and commerce. I issued that official document to ask all regions to collect information on minerals, specialties, and crop land types in the county to see what articles can be done."

After Wang Jinghui explained this, Xue Xiangzhi finally understood his intention and said, "The emperor has received the teaching!" After that, he saluted him.

Wang Jinghui quickly helped him up and said, "Mr. Xue, why bother? It is all right for you and my colleagues to be the parents of Chuzhou. This is also the first time I have been a local official. There are still many things I don't understand. I need more advice from Master Xue in the future!"

While the two were talking happily in the hall, the butler Wang Fu brought the soldier in military uniform to interrupt their conversation: "Mr. Concubine, this military man has brought urgent news from Biandu to you to see!"

The soldier walked up and said, "The secret letter of bronze medal in the Privy Council, please clear the left and right!" Tongzong Xue Xiangzhi was very surprised by this: The bronze medal of the Privy Council is fast? Isn't this the only one for the transmission of the emergency military information in the border areas? Why did he come here? But he didn't think much about it, and went to the side hall to rest under the guidance of the butler Wang Fu.

Wang Jinghui also knew a little about ancient military communications. The military communications of the Song Dynasty mainly relied on the urgent delivery and horse delivery shops of the national main roads. The letters sent by the orders include silver medals, bronze medals, wooden deeds and letters. The silver medals were the emperor's letters, and the bronze medals were from the Privy Council. Once the seal was issued, it would be launched toward the destination for 500 miles a day and night. This speed was the limit of this era.

After seeing that everyone else had left, the soldier took out the bamboo tube and bronze medal sealed by the lacquer for inspection and said, "There is an order on the top of the mountain. Please ask the prince to check it out quickly and immediately send the reply back to Biandu!" Then he withdrew to the outer hall to rest. Wang Jinghui hurriedly opened the letter. Since it was from the Privy Council of Biandu, it must be that Liang Zuo began to lead his army to harass the border.

Sure enough, Wang Jinghui opened it and saw: "On the second day of September, the king of Xia, Liang Zuo sent 80,000 troops to attack Dashun City, invaded Rouyuan Village, burned Quqi and other three villages, and Zhaduanmuling. Guo Kui, the border supporter along the four routes of Shaanxi, and Cai Ting, the generals were guarding against the invasion of the Western Xia, and sent all generals to the key points. Liang Zuo's infantry and cavalry besieged Dashun City for three days, and eight powerful crossbows were arranged on the city wall, and helmets and square formations of heavy infantry rectangular formations were lured under the city. Liang Zuo supervised the battle in front of the formation. The two armies fought hard for one day.

The powerful crossbow shot lost its lower shot. The heavy armor pong was penetrated, and the heavy infantry rectangular formation killed the enemy in front of the formation, severely damaged the Xia army, killing 20,000 enemies. The Xia master Liangzuo was shot by the powerful crossbow and fled. Our army suffered extremely little losses! He attacked Rouyuanzhai again, and Liangzuo spoke up. The guard general Zhang Yu recruited three thousand brave men and had to store hundreds of grenades, mines and explosives. He went out at night to harass the enemy camp. The Xia thief was shocked and killed 8,000 more enemies. Liangzuo was in chaos. His mount stepped on the mines that interrupted his retreat and was surrounded by his subordinates. He did not know his life or death!"

Wang Jinghui was ecstatic after seeing it: After such trouble, Liang Zuo was seriously injured twice, and basically he was completely dead. Even if Liang Zuo cannot die this time, he will have to peel off his skin, especially if he was hit by a cold weapon. If the wound is not lucky, he will be infected unless he meets himself. Otherwise, with the level of the witch doctors in Xixia, he will only die faster!

Liangzuo died next year in history. His successor Bingchang was only eight years old when he ascended the throne. If Liangzuo was killed in battle now, then the historical tradition of the Western Xia Dynasty would definitely be in power when Bingchang succeeded to the throne. The royal family that relies on Liangzuo would definitely not sit idly by the loss of power. There would be internal struggles between the two sides. The power struggle between nomadic peoples is much greater than that of the Song Dynasty, and it is often the disappearance of a surname. Although Wang Jinghui is a

He was a doctor, but he was also looking forward to it. After all, in history, Western Xia once brought trouble to the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song regime for more than a hundred years. It can be said that since the day Li Yuanhao founded the Western Xia Dynasty, he has been constantly harassing the Song Dynasty, which rarely makes the western military expenditure every year less than 30 million chunks. Such a big trouble, for him, who is now the son-in-law, he must completely eradicate it at the right time. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty is exhausted now, and it is not the time.

Below the battle report was a handwritten letter from Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu. The general meaning was: A major victory was achieved in the battle of Xixia. Guo Kui and others wrote a letter saying that it was the contribution of the prince-consort to improve the weapons. The powerful crossbow was simple and quick operation and the use of powerful firearms. This was an indelible contribution in this battle. Now the court has divided it into two factions on how to deal with the aftermath. One is to use Lu Yanjing's opinion on pacifying the envoy Lu Xian, "The court has accumulated habits and tolerated the thieves, so the thieves dare to rebel; if they do not criticize them, the national prestige will not be established. "It is recommended that the court terminate the annual gift of silver and silk; the other is Wen Yanbo, deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor: "If the annual gift is terminated, the border will be very chaotic."

After reading it, Wang Jinghui understood that his father-in-law wanted to hear his idea. He thought that even if he did not improve his own weapons, the development in history would be roughly the same, and Liang Zuo would still be attacked. He took a credit for it. However, there is no detailed record of this war in history books. But now it seems that 80,000 soldiers in Xixia were killed and 30,000 were defeated and retreated to Xixia, and even his own king was seriously injured and did not know his life or death. This was a great victory.

Wang Jinghui immediately returned to the study with the letter, spread out the manuscript paper and began to write to Yingzong Zhao Shu's policy discussion. The above gave several important suggestions: First, our army won a great victory, but the attack power was insufficient in defending the city, so we had to settle soldiers to repair the city defense and urgently replenish firearms for the front line in order to prevent the enemy from making a comeback again. We should not enter Xixia easily; Second, the annual gift must be terminated, which is a shame from the Song Dynasty, not a reward from the superiors to the subordinates, and this is a annual gift from helping the enemy country to kill the people of the Song Dynasty, so we must never give it again. The security of the border is based on powerful force, not by giving the enemy money to the land; Third, the meritorious personnel such as Guo Kui must not be transferred back now.

Biandu, waiting for the beginning of next year, when the border situation of Songxia is clear, it is not too late to return to Bian, but it is necessary to give it a reward. This year's gift to Xixia can be used here; fourth, if Xixia admits mistakes, then open border trade and vigorously sells them strong liquor, various books, mirrors and high-end luxury goods in exchange for the other party's horses, cattle, sheep, food, and steel products strictly control their transactions; fifth, if Xixia dares to slow down the word, it will completely cut off all its trade, without tea and salt, Xixia will not struggle for long. If it still comes to attack, it will also retreat due to the heavy losses in the previous few times and the Song Dynasty's precautions...

After writing the strategy of how to deal with the aftermath of the Song and Xia war, Wang Jinghui took out a new manuscript and started with another strategy. In this strategy, Wang Jinghui explained in detail his estimate of the current situation of Song Xia. He believed that the Song Dynasty was still in the defensive stage for the Western Xia and should not advance because of temporary victory. However, for the peace of the frontier in the future and the revival of the Song Dynasty, he must resolutely resist the harassment of Xixia. "It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers", and adopted the
Chapter completed!