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Chapter 328 The emptiness of the country

In history, the unified Central Plains dynasty once used geographical boundaries as its boundaries, and the Song Dynasty was no exception. However, the loss of the barrier of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures meant that the north of the Song Dynasty border had no advantage at all. .

The pace of the Jin Kingdom’s demise in the Northern Song Dynasty was to attack according to the terrain. Once the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were crossed, the North China Plain had no danger to defend. The Jin soldiers naturally went straight to Bianliang from the Liaoxi Corridor. How could officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty be so relaxed.

In order to avoid the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is imperative to recover the area around Yanshan. If the Liaoxi Corridor and the Yanmenguan Juyongguan area cannot be closed, the East Road, Hebei West Road, and Hebei East Road in the North China Plain will be in danger. Under the iron cavalry of the grassland nation.

The Central Plains region will never live in peace, and the dynasty of the farming nation in the Central Plains must be stable before it can truly develop.

Once the northern soldiers go south, they can only retreat to the Qinling Huaihe line.

As an agricultural civilization, the available combat time period of the Great Song Dynasty was much shorter than that of other nomadic peoples. Every year, these farming civilizations had to plant and sow to harvest, and in winter, the north was cold and could not attack during this period, so basically The only two stages that can fight are after the autumn harvest and after sowing, and only these two periods are suitable.

Fighting wars now does not rely solely on the army, but also requires a large number of civilians who transport supplies. If the attack is carried out during the spring planting and autumn harvest time, it will definitely lead to a large area of ​​food production reduction in some places, and a large number of people will starve to death. , this is a terrible thing.

Grain reserves in various places will also encounter great risks, not to mention that there are places where officials secretly sell grain.

However, the grain reserves of the entire Song Dynasty were not doing well before Zeng Yunfeng became the envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs, especially the management of the grain warehouse directly determines the country's ability to resist disasters. Once there are more people affected by the disaster and there is no stable food supply, it will be much more terrifying than a locust plague. , and the mainland of this country has three disasters and five disasters almost every year, and a stable food reserve is a life.

This is also the reason why civil officials in some places insisted that they must not resort to militarism. This is the root of digging out food reserves. Many people think that there are actually many imperial troops in the Song Dynasty, but it is not.

Even if there are many of these forbidden troops, they have not become a full-time army. Most of these troops are civilians who have no food to eat and rebel. City, let them attack, that is really whimsical.

Once these forbidden troops are completely out of production, it means that a large number of civilians will be needed to transport supplies and replenish supplies. Only relying on the imperial court to issue corvee will only force the people in the areas where these forbidden troops are stationed to be forced to die. It may be a natural disaster. it will happen.

Now the court is also about to have a storm, and the emperor has no money in his hand, so he has his sights set on those remnants who rebelled against the king. By the way, all the officials in the court who are against the emperor can be relegated to other places, out of sight and out of mind.

It is estimated that eight out of ten of the original Lord Tokyo family are related to King Yan. Who made King Yan spend a lot of money back then.

The emperor probably wanted them to gather the military power in their hands, and then asked them to stand in line earlier and pay some money. Now that the queen mother is doing this, it might make it bigger.

Zeng Yunfeng was drowsy standing on the Wende Hall, but he knew very well that this time the prime ministers shot him in the foot with stones, and now it has turned into a fight between the empress and empress, and now the empress dowager is still holding the jade seal .

The Empress Dowager refused to give the jade seal, and the emperor could not ask for it shamelessly. Many ministers in the court have tried it.

Ask the queen mother for the jade seal, but the queen mother is playing with the minister, even if she doesn't give it, the minister has nothing to do with the queen mother.

The queen mother said directly in the court hall: "I think what Qi Heng said is right. He is just and honest, so I will leave this matter to him."

Zeng Yunfeng stood among the ministers, opened his eyes slightly, and glanced at the emperor's face, the emperor's face turned blue, this is really good, this situation has come into being.

The emperor is like a three-year-old child sitting in court, he can only listen.

But what I didn't expect was that the queen mother stepped in and wanted to send a fool, Qi Heng, to preside over the trial.

This Qi Heng himself is talented, but his political mind is very simple. This time, it is likely that he was used by the Queen Mother as a weapon.

This young man is now a widower. His original wife was the daughter of King Yong, but Gong Bian was killed later.

Husband and wife for one day, one hundred days of grace, it is estimated that this young Duke Qi also hates King Yan's party very much, and his mother was tortured by King Yan during the palace change, and he was going crazy. It must be to check them to death.

If this young master Qi Heng uses the method of Lianzao widely, the emperor's good hand will be poorly played.

Because of this incident, Qi Heng was promoted to three ranks by the queen mother, and an official in green robes was directly changed into a red robe.

I don't know if the prince and the princess in his family know that their sons are doing this in the court.

After this downfall, the entire Bianliang City in Tokyo received a lot of mourning, and they hurriedly picked themselves up.

Qi Heng, this idiot, is really quick and resolute.

Originally, this time the Qing Dynasty rebelled against the remaining party of the king. The emperor also used this time to eliminate dissidents and reorganize the government. The Queen Mother interfered and messed up the whole thing.

After Zeng Yunfeng returned home, he called his two grown-up sons to him and cut straight to the point: "The imperial court is engaged in a battle between the emperor and empress, you two should not get involved, gods fight, and mortals suffer."

The two looked at each other after hearing this.

"Although there is no precedent for killing civil servants in our court, as long as it is not a rebellion, basically there will be no death penalty, but this incident may cause you to be directly demoted to a remote place like Qiongzhou to become an official."

After the development of Qiongzhou in recent years, it is not considered a backwater now, with smooth sea routes. As a supply point, Qiongzhou is now considered a relatively large place after the prosperity of sea trade.

Most of Zeng Yunfeng's national trade money in these years has been spent on navy and commerce, and the rest is farmers' farming and weapons and armaments.

With the accumulation of these years, Tokyo Bianliang's arsenal can already be equipped with 30 elites.

Zeng Yunfeng also developed a large amount of land in Liuqiu by taking advantage of the navy and trade affairs, and established many sea trade supply points.

In recent years, the caravan established by Zeng Yunfeng also passed through the four northeastern island countries and Korea, where they plundered a large amount of gold, silver and copper mines.

However, Tokyo Bianliang is not calm and has been noisy all the time. These days, more than half of the children of the lords' families in Tokyo Bianliang have been arrested for rebelling against the king's remaining party.

After Zeng Yunfeng went down again, he shook his head, this matter is a little troublesome.

After one wave was not settled, another wave rose again. Gu Tingye gave Mr. Han a bad idea and tricked the jade seal from the Queen Mother's hand.

Although letting the emperor take the jade seal back into his hands, Gu Tingye also completely offended the queen mother. This is really a bad idea.

The queen mother's actions immediately let the Gu family know how powerful they were, and the descendants of the Ningyuan Hou Mansion were imprisoned one after another.

But Gu Tingye didn't get along with these family members in his family, and it was Gu Tingye's aunt's son who was arrested, which made Gu Tingye jump his feet happily.

Most of the things about the Gu family, Zeng Yunfeng heard from the old lady. Although Minglan often came back, she often went to the old lady's room to talk about it.

So from the old lady, Zeng Yunfeng can get a lot of information about Minglan, and Rulan's situation can only be known through the gossip antenna Xiaozui of the big lady.

Only Mo Lan gritted her teeth and shed tears in the Earl's Mansion of Yongchang.

This was a thorough investigation of the remnant party against the king, but it also allowed Zeng Yunfeng to fully see the true faces of these Tokyo Bianliang children.

These people have already become moths in that kind of society, expecting these honorable children to fight in battle, that would be really harming others, oneself and the country.

These people have not yet been tortured when they are in the prison. They are throwing and rolling, threatening, crying and swearing.

Song Guoli Dynasty has not had two Jiazi until now, and the descendants of these generals and lords have already turned into ghosts, how can they be counted on in the Song Xia War.

You know, this time the thorough investigation is basically the children of high-ranking officials like Bianliang in Tokyo.

The emperor did not allow torture. Even so, many people could no longer hold on in the prison. Many people were sick and dying after arriving in the prison. He was about to die.

These lord's children have already been corrupted to such a state, no wonder there will be the shame of Jingkang in the future, and now there are already some signs.

Qi Heng, who is now in charge of a thorough investigation, and a grand minister, their homes are full of people, and there is an endless stream of pleadings, while the homes of the lords in Bianliang, Tokyo are in chaos.

How could such a lord's son and such a martial arts family be able to lead troops to fight well? Now the world has only been at peace for a long time, and the war in Xixia is only a few years away from today.

The peaceful atmosphere of the Chanyuan Alliance can raise and abolish the armies of two countries in just one Jiazi.

Moreover, Liao and Song are the two most powerful countries on this eastern continent.

Later, the two countries were defeated by the latecomer Jin Guo in World War I.

It was the day of going to court again, every time Zeng Yunfeng went to court, he seemed to have no energy, and stood in the court drowsy.

In fact, Zeng Yunfeng was cultivating. In the court, the atmosphere of the officials was relatively strong, while that of the common people was weak, so every time he went to the court, his eyes seemed to be asleep or awake.

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