Chapter 371 Embarrassment(1/2)
Yang Wenguang defeated the Xixia people and began to build the 日本語. But when he thought about it, he felt that the 日本語 was still very thin, so he turned to Jichuan Village to build a fort. In the middle of the Deshun Army's ruling village and the 日本語, there was also an old fort Dalong Castle built during the Qingli period from the 日本語 to the ancient Weicheng. In this way, the five forts were connected, and theoretically a tight line of defense was formed on the west side of Qinzhou.
This area is quite large, spanning five or six counties in the future, with a length of hundreds of miles. Two forts and one hundred miles, these hundreds of miles are established as "inland". In a strategic sense, ancient Weicheng is no longer an isolated city. Then theoretically, the Xixia people could not go south along this line. Of course, the crisis has not disappeared. If Mu Zheng completely surrendered to Xixia, the Xixia people could still go south from the Xihe prefectures.
However, this had to be done step by step, so Zhao Xu was overjoyed after hearing the news, and he issued an edict to praise Yang Wenguang's fur, clothes and horses, and changed the fish fort to Gangu fort.
The Song Dynasty obtained Gangu, and the people of Xixia were unhappy.
In July, Liang Yimeng secretly sent an army of 10,000 to attack Gangu Fort.
But these ten thousand people are very lucky.
There is also a more powerful tiger general in Qinzhou named Zhang Shouyue. It turned out that he was the chief garrison of Dingzhou Road. After migrating to Qinfeng Road, he lived there for six years. His favorite thing was to collect Qiang Yindi soil. He plundered about a thousand hectares and used these thousand hectares of hidden soil to recruit archers to cultivate. While farming, he personally urged them to practice archery skills. On this day, Zhang Shouyue took 500 archers to patrol the border, but it was not so coincidental that these 10,000 people sneaked to Gangu Fort and met halfway.
To be honest, Zhang Shouyue didn't want to fight such a battle, but he had no choice but to fight.
The initial battle was not good. After all, the difference in strength between the two sides was too big, and Zhang Shouyue was all infantry. Seeing the crisis, Zhang Shouyue personally beat the golden drum to cheer and commanded while beating the drum. Five hundred archers began to calm down. After practicing for so long, it was not in vain. Five hundred people specifically shot at people who were the leaders. As a result, several enemy chiefs were shot and killed. The remaining enemy chiefs saw the arrows flying again, and immediately fled with their subordinates.
Five hundred and ten thousand!
But there are deep reasons for this. When Tubo fights Xixia, he often wins more than loses less. If they hadn't dispersed themselves, Xixia would have no choice but to do anything to Tubo.
However, the Song Dynasty fought against Tubo, but every attack was accurate.
It has nothing to do with the strength of the Song army, but the Tubo people attacked the Western Xia. They had a feud and could boost morale.
But they had no feud with the Song Dynasty. On the contrary, the two countries, or the two rebels, merged well. In fact, later Xihe rebelled, they also blamed Wang Anshi. If they followed Wang Shao's opinion, did not impose two taxes, and then banned the cutting of trees. At least for a moment, Xihe would not rebel at all.
Let’s go further to a deeper level, just like the Han people in the north of the Song Dynasty. In fact, there were Xianbei bloodlines, and the same was true for Hehuang Tubo, the bloodlines of Tuyuhun people and the bloodlines of Han people. Hehuang Tubo was always in the hands of the Tang people in the early Tang Dynasty. There were still many Han people in the local area, but they eventually merged into the new Tubo people. This Tubo people and the Tubo people on the roof of the world can no longer be called the same race. It can even be said that they are very close to the Han people.
That's why the story of the foreign women in Qinzhou like to borrow seeds from the Han people appeared.
In history, the Northern Song Dynasty quickly perished, otherwise, as long as it was done well, this race could be completely integrated.
Therefore, the two armies fought. If it were a real Xixia army, Zhang Shouyue would probably fail. However, all of these 10,000 people were Tubo people in Xicheng, and they did not have much fighting intention. They won 10,000 in just 500, creating a considerable miracle.
But the war to recover Hehuang has not yet begun, so Liang Yimeng could not think of the reason. After receiving the news, he was dumbfounded. Why were 10,000 people defeated by 500 infantrymen?
He was very unwilling to give up, so he made another small move. There was a location on the east side of Douling and northwest of Huanzhou, named Zheqianghui. It turned out to belong to the Song Dynasty, but was later occupied by Li Yuanhao, thinking that it was the city of Xixia and the city.
Just take it. The Song Dynasty did not argue, but it did not admit that it actually belonged to the Western Xia, but in the eyes of the Song Dynasty, it belonged to a disputed area.
However, the Western Xia was used as Heshi City, so the Song Dynasty did not ask about it.
Peace between the two countries is the best, peace is the most important thing. Everyone should do business, so why bother to fight, it will cost the people and cause money.
However, Liang Yiming didn't know how to think of this place, so he started to gather the troops and planned to set up a military supervisor here to station the area. Zhang Yu was transferred, but the Clinic was not transferred, and another type of Clinic was transferred to Huanqing Road, which was the governor of Huanzhou.
After receiving the news meeting, the two brothers gathered their troops together, Yu Yonghe Village gathered troops, and then a long-distance attack came. They ran 120 miles at a very fast speed. Suddenly, they appeared at the Zheqiang Association. The Xia army was caught off guard and refused to fight. We didn't fight, and we couldn't fight. The two launched an attack. Xixia was beaten to pieces and killed another two thousand people.
In fact, overall, the Song army gradually gained the upper hand.
However, the Song Dynasty was very strange. This was done with thousands or thousands of people, and no ministers saw it. One thousand or hundreds of people died in Luowu City, and the world immediately became turbulent, as if the end of the world was going on.
When Weimingshan arrived in the capital, Zhao Xu personally met him and appointed him as the general of the Left Supervision Gate, giving him the name Zhao Huaishun.
Liang's little beauty and mistress Wang Meng offered a false idea and used Jing Xun to exchange Wei Mingshan. I don't want Suizhou anymore, just Wei Mingshan. Guo Kui said: "Qiang is a mediocre person, what is the point of doing? If you accept it, you have to return to the famous mountain. The foreign chiefs will no longer dare to move towards the transformation."
What is the use of this little traitor? Can it be worth Wei Mingshan?
Then he went to Cai Ting, who built Xining Village in the northeast of Dingchuan Fort, and at the same time opened 2,000 hectares of land and recruited 3,000 soldiers to make a plan to farm and guard.
This is a place where the Song Dynasty made progress, and the military farming system has begun to be initially implemented. Two thousand hectares of land are quite large. Once cultivated and cultivated, tens of thousands of people will have to be raised.
Liang Yi was frightened and sent troops to go south along Hulu River to fight for it. His opponent was Cai Ting. Even without Wang Ju's help, Liang Yi was not able to deal with it. So he was ambushed by Cai Ting and the three armies were defeated. The seven clans including Luo Leyan, who belonged to the Western Xia in the north of Xining Village were all defeated by the officers and soldiers. This battle laid the foundation for the future victory in pacifying Xia City.
These battles have taught the Xixia people a bloody lesson. If you want to win, you should learn from Li Yuanhao. Let’s fight for 100,000 or 200,000. Tens of thousands of people are really not good.
But the Song Dynasty itself continued to struggle.
First of all, there was a disarmament. A total of more than 130,000 imperial troops were laid off, and some of the imperial troops died in battle. Now the number of imperial troops has dropped to barely 540,000. The wing soldiers have laid off 120,000. It has dropped to 370,000.
It continues to be a huge redundant soldier.
This is just the first step to lay off troops, and it will be cut in the future.
But it does not mean that the Finance Association will benefit from it immediately. The wing soldiers are better, mostly rural soldiers. Their treatment is low. They were all incorporated into the army due to disasters in previous years. It was a good thing to be incorporated into the army at that time, and the family had to live. But after the disaster year, it would be hard. Their treatment was almost the same as that of the Poche Army, with only more than 30 chunks of money and grain in a year. However, the Poche Army could still take the time to go home to work, and when they entered the Xiang Army, they had the opportunity to go home to work. So the family was struggling.
This is not allowed. If it is allowed, the wing soldiers will choose freely. If the court pays a little money, then the 500,000 wing soldiers will choose to leave the military camp!
The wing soldiers are not embarrassed, and they are free choices and have no way out, so they still obey and stay in the military camp. At most, they must be reorganized, but there will be no storm in the reorganization of the wing soldiers.
The difficult thing is the imperial guards.
Most of these people's families are in the capital. It's better if they get empty salary. After searching, the court does not need any resettlement fees. It's fine if there is a way out, but it comes out when it comes out. A few of the banished soldiers are eager to come out.
But if there is no way out, once you leave the military camp, you will live in a capital with high prices. Think about how miserable it is, there is no law to exempt you from the service. Otherwise, you will be rehired as a yamen servant and you will find a new way out. However, there is no such thing now, so there must be a subsequent resettlement fee. And it is also a considerable amount of retirement fee, allowing them to spend the first few years smoothly and slowly find a way out so that there will be no disturbance.
Therefore it is the first step to dismiss troops.
Before the second step of laying off troops, we must start silting fields in various prefectures and counties near Kaifeng, move a large amount of arable land, externalize the forbidden city and ruralize it. Why is rural? First, Kaifeng City is too prosperous and not suitable to build an iron army. Second, this severance and search for empty salary temporarily shocked the remaining generals, but they live in the city, and they want to eat, drink, play and have fun, and they cannot eat empty salary. Sooner or later, they will extend another greedy hand, which is to deduct, deduct the soldiers' military salary. Therefore, they must also leave this prosperous place. Third, reduce the living expenses of soldiers' families.
This is a bit troublesome. Even if there are silted fields, there may not be many injunction soldiers willing to leave the capital.
So this has to be moved backward.
Then there is the second step to lay off troops and search for the empty salary again. It is the key. No matter what the reason or situation, the empty salary must be eliminated.
We will further eliminate weak soldiers, lay off 450,000 soldiers, slightly increase the soldiers' salaries, and then add some local soldiers to Bashu, Jinghu, Nanhu and Guangdong and Guangxi, Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Hedong, Shaanxi, and 250,000 soldiers mixed with these local soldiers and village soldiers, and 200,000 soldiers prepared garrisons and guard the safety of the capital. Because the permanent troops are still 200,000, the country is still in a situation where the main trunk is strong and the branches are weak.
And there is also an example. During the reign of Emperor Taizu of Song, there were only 150,000 ban soldiers and about 100,000 soldiers. There was only a little force to fight against the Liao Kingdom and unify the world.
The number of soldiers is not too many, but the essence. Besides, the number of 450,000 forbidden soldiers and the possible 300,000 Tuxiang soldiers and foreign soldiers is also quite large.
If so, the combat effectiveness becomes stronger, but the cost of raising troops will drop sharply.
This is the complete layoff.
Therefore, the court's finances did not make any plans in the first year. Even next year, the plan would not be too big, and it would be considered a real plan in the next year.
The three officials also counted and estimated that they had saved more than 3 million stagnants of money. If the part that was given to the empty salary was abandoned, they did not actually save much, which is why.
In addition, Fangchang River Ferry produced more than four million yuan of silk.
Combining the two is a lot.
But the Song Dynasty was very sad. This year, the earthquake zone in the Taihang Mountains began to have a large-scale earthquake. It was northeast to Youzhou, Liao Kingdom, and southwest to Kaifeng, and many areas including Hebei, which were caused by large-scale earthquakes. It was said that sand was gushing out of water, destroying cities and houses, and officials and civilians did not dare to live in the city, so they ran out of the city and lived in straw sheds and tents. Zhao Xu had no choice but to send Teng Fu and Wu Chong to comfort Hebei. Teng Fu saw that everyone was like this, and they could not do anything, and they could not be full of soldiers. The real happiness was the thieves, and they were openly robbed by families. So they stayed under the eaves and said: "The people held me to live, and the house destroyed the people to die. I will share it with them." Under his leadership, the people gradually entered the city to live.
It's okay if there is an earthquake, there is also heavy rain. Starting from south of Yanshan Mountain, the Liao Dynasty's Yongqing, Wuqing, Anci, Gu'an, Xincheng, Guiyi and Rongcheng were all floating together. They had to be exempted from tax for one year.
Hebei is even more serious, and something happened to the Yellow River in Beigu. The Yellow River broke through the Wulan Dike in Enzhou. Due to the constraints of the terrain, the river water cannot be released. It is determined by Jizhou to stab the strong sand and then spread to Yingzhou. This is the real drift.
Sima Guang and Wang Anshi had a conflict over this.
The two are both imperial teachers. They are both Hanlin bachelors, but their ideas are not in harmony and they will inevitably conflict.
First, Ayun, Dengzhou, which is also something that Wang Ju had prejudices towards Sima Guang since the beginning.
A Yun, a young woman in Dengzhou, died of her father since childhood and lived with her mother. Her mother also died early. During the mourning period, A Yun was forced to marry a man surnamed Wei by his uncle.
Of course, there are few sayings about mourning in rural areas, and it will be good to stay for a few days. So what is the saying of 27 months of worry?
However, this article is very important. If it is exaggerated, it must be discussed. According to the etiquette and law of Dingyou, marriage is not allowed or banquets are not allowed. In other words, marriage is not a legal marriage!
Maybe his uncle received a generous gift, but this man with the surname Wei looked too ugly. At this time, he did not have very strict requirements on the man's appearance. I guess the man with the surname Wei couldn't be more ugly, which led to a tragedy.
Ayun could not bear it anymore. One night, Ayun took a knife to kill the man surnamed Wei while he was sleeping in the field. Because she was weak and the quality of the knife was poor, she cut a few times but could not kill the man surnamed Wei, so she only cut one finger.
The next day, a man surnamed Wei reported the case. Xu Zun, the governor of Dengzhou, quickly found Ayun and brought Ayun up. Ayun confessed that he was not in violation of his conspiracy. Xu Zun asked about the incident and believed that Ayun's mourning period had not expired when he was engaged, so his relationship with Wei could not be established. He should be dealt with by an ordinary person and then reported to the court.
The Criminal Court and Dali Temple believed that the death penalty must be sentenced to death for murdering their own husbands, and Xu Zun submitted another memorial. It would be better if this is the case. Even if the relationship between husband and wife is recognized, Song Lu also has a rule that if the defendant can voluntarily confess the facts of the crime, he should be punished as surrender and reduced the second-class punishment.
But does Ayun count as surrendering? After Xu Zun caught her, she confessed. She could only say that she did not use torture and took the initiative to confess, which was to confess and be lenient, rather than surrendering. Then, follow the rules and submit it to the two-system discussion, and Wang Anshi discussed with Sima Guang. Wang Anshi said that plotting and killing were two things, but even though plotting, they were not killed. Sima Guang said that murder was still the same thing, and they were all inseparable.
The two started arguing, but Sima Guang did not compete to win Wang Anshi, so he talked nonsense and actually raised the case to the level of life and death of the country. Zhao Xu could not bear it anymore and personally sentenced him to pardon Ah Yun for death, but sentenced him to n years in prison.
To be precise, Zhao Xu's punishment was correct. Even if he wanted to kill someone, it would be an attempt. Moreover, his marriage was not arranged by his parents, but it was equivalent to his uncle selling it to a man surnamed Wei in disguise, and he was also in the mourning period. No matter from that perspective, he would not be considered dead.
But this woman, who came out a grand order a few years later, got married and had children, almost forgot about this sad past, but Sima Guang also asked her to send someone to Lena, Dengzhou, and behead him to death.
Why bother!
So who says that Sima Guang is a gentleman, and Wang Ju will be anxious about whom? Is there such a gentleman? What is a gentleman? A gentleman is gentle and gentle, as beautiful as jade. Is such a mind jade? Is it Wen Jian?
The winter solstice is coming soon.
Wang Ju once secretly advised that the southern suburbs sacrifices in the northern suburbs sacrifices should be moderately reduced. However, this year was the first year when Zhao Xu truly took office, and the first year of the reign of the reign was changed, and the southern suburbs sacrifices were inevitable.
Therefore, Zeng Gongliang led all his ministers to write a letter, saying that the disaster in Heshuo was injured and the country was insufficient. I asked that the family besides this year, so the two governments did not need to give gold and silk.
Sima Guang believed that rewarding the two governments only cost 20,000 yuan, and even if it saves, it is not enough to save disasters. The two provinces (including all civil officials in the two provinces under the Secretariat) and military generals and officials in the royal family governors should reduce the reward to half. In this way, everyone received the reward, because there were many people, and they saved more money.
He and Wang Anshi and Wang Gui went to the palace to receive the imperial edict. Sima Guang also said: "Disaster relief should be implemented in full swing, and the officials of the two governments should be refuted at will, without issuing an edict to cancel it."
Wang Anshi said on the side: "Chang Gun once refused to dine in. At that time, he thought that Chang Yan knew that he could not, and should resign but not resign. Moreover, the lack of national resources is not an urgent task today."
This Chang Gun was the prime minister of Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty. He was noble and arrogant and did not make friends with others. He was harsh and conscientious in his governance and advocated frugality. He opposed it. To put it bluntly, he was the kind of honest official who often did bad things.
The Tang Dynasty gave food to the prime minister every day, which was called food. Chang Gun stopped it. The government affairs hall had a back door, which was the gate of the prime minister to the Zhongshusan Renyuan. In order to consult with government affairs, Chang Gun regarded himself as high as his own and blocked his door. So he used his subjective imagination to use people, just like Fan Zhongyan, and finally Tang Dezong came to power and demoted him from the capital. Therefore, the argumentators thought that he was generous and gave him more gifts, so that he could be respectful of the country's government and politics. If he felt that he did not have the ability to be the prime minister, he would resign, instead of resigning the position.
What does Wang Anshi mean? It’s not that the country’s resources are insufficient, nor that the prime ministers of the two governments refuse this reward. Instead, you have to think of a way, but that you don’t think of a way, and by saving this little money, you can’t solve the problem.
As, old people!
Sima Guang didn't know if he really didn't understand or falsely, and immediately said, "Chang Gun refused to give rewards, which is much more virtuous than those who have rewarded and have power. It is really an urgent task to lack national use."
To be continued...