Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 323 0318 [Songjiang Zhaoan]

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Shuyang.

Song Jiang was sitting and resting in the cabin, with a beard and broad face, a tall figure, a dark complexion, and a fierce appearance that made strangers afraid to get close to him.

Wu Jialiang came in and reported: "Brother, Brother Dai has found out the news that Haizhou's defenses are empty, and there are no officers and soldiers guarding the city."

Song Jiang asked: "Do you know the details of Zhizhou?"

Wu Jialiang said: "The magistrate of Haizhou is called Zhang Shuye. He is almost 60 years old. He is an old and faint official. He was demoted to Haizhou after hearing that he offended Cai Jing. He feasted and played all day long and ignored government affairs."

"it is good!"

Song Jiang patted his legs with joy, and asked again: "Is there really a sea ship there?"

Wu Jia nodded and said: "Yes. As long as we win the sea ship, we can jump out and no longer be chased and intercepted by the officers and soldiers."

"Let Li Hai lead hundreds of people to the south, lead the officers and soldiers to Chuzhou (Huai'an), abandon the ship halfway, and then go overland to Haizhou to join," Song Jiang decided, "The rest of the brothers, follow me to Haizhou!"

Haizhou is the Haizhou District of Lianyungang. As for the land further east, the Song Dynasty still belonged to a vast ocean.

Li Hai is the prototype of Hun Jianglong Li Jun.

In the past year, Song Jiang took the officers and soldiers as dogs, and moved to more than ten state capitals.He was intercepted by officers and soldiers several times, but he was always able to survive by docking his tail and jumping out of the encirclement ahead of time.

However, there is less and less room for maneuvering, and many Linhe prefectures and counties have deployed heavy troops, constantly reducing the scope of Song Jiang's activities, forcing him to escape by sea.

But it is said that Li Hai, the Hunjiang Dragon, led hundreds of elites southward, pulled away all the ships and bluffed, swaggered and plundered along the river, the officers and soldiers were indeed led there.

Song Jiang led 3000 people, abandoned the ship and headed northward by land, killing Houqiu Town by surprise.

Houqiu Town is a salt transportation hub, with a large number of salt ships berthing.Due to the activities of the Songjiang River nearby, more and more salt ships gathered, and it has been more than two months since they have not transported salt to the west.

Song Jiang traveled day and night, almost elusive. He took down Houqiu Town in one fell swoop, grabbed a ship and went straight to Haizhou.

This time, he didn't hide his whereabouts anymore, all he wanted was speed.

Based on Song Jiang's experience in the past few years, as long as he kills himself and does not give the government time to gather troops, the officials in Haizhou can be scared to abandon the city and flee.

Zhang Shuye set up sentries a few miles away, and drove the fast boat back to the city to report.

"Don't panic, close the gates of the city." Zhang Shuye was confident.

He only sent some old and weak to defend the city, pretending to be empty.There are hundreds of strong men hidden in the salt field on the southeast coast of the city, and they have been waiting for Song Jiang for almost a month.

"The Liangshan bandit is here, the Liangshan bandit is here!"

When Song Jiang's soldiers approached the city, Dai Zong arranged for the secret work in Haizhou, and suddenly made a fuss to create chaos and even slipped into remote streets and alleys to set fire.

Zhang Shuye's relatives came out on horseback, followed by many Yaqian officials and salt soldiers, shouting along the street: "Go back to your respective Xiangfang, and those who disobey the order will be killed!"

The Baojia chiefs in the various chambers in the city also received orders early on to impose martial law in the neighborhoods immediately.

The chaos subsided quickly, and more than half of the secret agents in the city were arrested.

When Song Jiang officially attacked the city, Yaqian officials and salt troops had already rushed to the top of the city to defend.

One side was caught by surprise and did not carry siege equipment.

One side showed weakness and did not prepare materials for defending the city.

Song Jiang ordered the demolition of houses outside the city, and made simple wooden ladders to attack the city. He found something was wrong when he hit it, why didn't the defenders in the city escape?
At this moment, hundreds of small boats galloped from the sea, and immediately ignited the firewood as they approached.

The ships that Song Jiang seized in Houqiu Town were all docked in the Yanhe River in the south of the city, and their food and luggage were still on board.

Wu Jialiang led only more than 200 people to guard the luggage, and was overwhelmed by hundreds of fire boats.

The hundreds of strong men who rode the fireboat were all salt workers from Haizhou, they had been rewarded by Zhang Shuye in advance, and now they all raised their knives and rushed to kill them.

Song Jiang's boats were ignited one after another, and Wu Jialiang was also caught on the way to escape.

The rebels who were besieging the city were so frightened that they were afraid to fight again, turned around and fled to the north.

"Go out of the city to chase the thief!"

With Zhang Shuye's order, the Yaqian officials and the salt army in the city chased him out with high morale.The strong men who set fire outside the city also pursued and attacked from the west.

The soldiers under Song Jiang's command collapsed when they fled.

"Surrender to avoid death, surrender to avoid death!"

The Haizhou regiment led the officers and soldiers to shout along the way, and the defeated rebels knelt down and begged for mercy.

Song Jiang led his troops to flee for a while, and suddenly beat gongs and drums in the northwest, and erected countless flags out of thin air.

In fact, there were not many ambush soldiers, just bluffing.

But Song Jiang's troops were like frightened birds, thinking that they were surrounded by heavy soldiers, so they fled to the sea in a panic.

In this way, Song Jiang led hundreds of remnants and was blocked by Zhang Shuye at the seaside.

Zhang Shuye, who was over 50 years old, led the army here on horseback.

He didn't have many troops under his command, so he didn't dare to force Song Jiang to go all out, so he said to Wu Jialiang, "Go and persuade Song Jiang to surrender and tell Song Jiang that he can still be recruited if he surrenders at this time. Now is the time for employing people. Not only will I protect him from death, but I will also report to the court Nominate him for office."

After regaining his freedom, Wu Jialiang ran to Song Jiang and said, "Brother, there are not many officers and soldiers, so we can fight to the death. But the brothers must have suffered heavy losses, and I don't know how many of them will be able to escape."

Shi Bin (the prototype of Shi Jin) said: "Brother, why don't you pretend to recruit security, wait until you get away and then raise righteousness again."

Gongsun Sheng also said: "A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, he saves his life first."

On the matter of recruiting security, the Song court is still very trustworthy, and will never go back on its word, and has established a complete system.

Of course, once you choose to recruit security, you have to be a dog for the court, and you must be bullied by civil officials, or even bullied by military officials.

In history, Song Jiang rebelled again after being recruited because he couldn't bear to be useless. It really wasn't that the court wanted to kill him on purpose.

"That's it!"

Song Jiang threw away his weapon, had himself tied up, walked up to Zhang Shuye's horse, knelt down and surrendered.

During the kowtow, his head touched the ground, and Song Jiang's eyes showed a fierce light.

After Zhang Shuye collected the weapons, he finally smiled, and said with a pleasant face, "Since it's a call for safety, there is no need to bind him. Come back to the city with me and wait for the imperial court to appoint an official."

For Zhang Shuye, Song Jiang really belonged to a small group, and he had seen a lot of big scenes.

He liked to read military books since he was a child, and his first official position was to join the army as a recorder in Lanzhou, planning to capture strategic locations and build cities for defense.

The city that was built was Xi'anzhou City (near Haiyuan County), and since then there have been no Qiangs in Lanzhou.

……

"What a Zhang Jizhong, he really is extraordinary!"

Wang Fu was overjoyed when he received the battle report.

There are only a few remnants of Fang La's army, and now Song Jiang has also been recruited. The internal troubles of the Great Song Dynasty have basically been eliminated, and they can plan to conquer the Liao Dynasty as much as they want.

I don't know if this Zhang Shuye can be won over.

Zhang Kegong, Zhang Shuye's brother, used to help Cai Jing impeach Zhang Shangying and Zheng Juzhong to impeach Cai Jing.Strictly speaking, Zhang Shuye belongs to Zheng Juzhong's faction.

But Zhang Kegong is dead, Zhang Shuye and Zheng Juzhong are not deeply involved.

After much deliberation, Wang Fu finally made up his mind. He personally went to the palace to have an audience, and recommended Zhang Shuye as the magistrate of Qingzhou.

Compared with Zhang Shuye's qualifications and achievements, this position is neither high nor low, which is equivalent to releasing a little goodwill.

If Zhang Shuye was sensible, he would be able to send someone to send a small gift, or even write a private letter, and Wang Fu would immediately recruit him back to the court to become a senior official.If Zhang Shuye was ignorant, Wang Fu would definitely suppress him resolutely, and just wait for a magistrate to die.

Knowing that Song Jiang was recruited, Song Huizong was also in a good mood, feeling that the country was at peace again, so he summoned painters to create the Haiqing River Yan picture.

A painter named Liu Yi took the opportunity to meet the saint.

Song Huizong asked with a smile: "It's only been two or three days, and you finished the painting?"

Liu Yi presented a stack of mathematics manuscripts: "Your Majesty, I use the calculus contained in "Zhu's Mathematical Classics" to find a new way to calculate pi to [-] decimal places. You can also calculate more, which is much more convenient than cutting circles. "

"Oh? Take a look." Song Huizong became interested.

Liu Yi said: "A few days ago, I made an equation at home, and listed the first power, second power and tenth power of '1+A' respectively. I accidentally discovered that the number on the right side of the equal sign coincides with Jia Xian's multiplied The picture is the same..."

Jia Xian's square diagram is also called Jia Xian's triangle, Yang Hui's triangle, and Pascal's triangle.

Liu Yi also said: "I have a whim, use algebra to express the multiplication diagram, and come up with a new theorem..."

Well, Liu Yi discovered the binomial theorem.

Liu Yi continued: "I went to discuss it with Fu Xie (also a painter). Fu Xie joked that he didn't know whether the power of the theorem could be a negative number. The minister and Fu Xie immediately tried it, and soon found that it could be a negative number, and the value obtained It can also fill in Jia Xian’s multiplication diagram. After returning home, Chen tried to change the power of the theorem into a fraction, and found that any fraction can also be calculated. When the fraction is [-]/[-], it can use calculus to Calculate pi!"

Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty carefully examined the mathematical manuscripts, and found that only the various calculation formulas seemed boring, and when they were arranged into a multiplication diagram, they instantly produced infinite beauty.

Calculate pi to [-] decimal places, is this useful in ancient times?
If you were any other emperor, you would definitely criticize Liu Yi for not doing his job properly, but Song Huizong praised him greatly: "Qing's method is amazing. A batch of Taihu stones arrived in Beijing recently, and you can pick one as a reward. Then you will be promoted as Ph.D. in mathematics."

The official title of doctor of mathematics was invented by Song Huizong three years ago.

Although the School of Mathematical Sciences was abolished, the Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences remained, and it belonged to the title of professor in Taixue.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Yi shouted happily.

Song Huizong began to study pi by himself. It took half a month to calculate pi to sixty decimal places according to the method given by Liu Yi.

When the result was obtained, the emperor jumped up for joy.

There are two juniper trees in Anguo Temple in Haining, Zhejiang Province. They were planted by Wukong, an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty, and they have grown into towering giant trees.Zhu Xi was all dug up by others, the big ones were transported by sea, and the small ones were transported by river.The big one sank at sea, but the small one was shipped to Tokyo.

Another huge stone was brought in, but because it was too big, the city gate had to be demolished.

The big tree was planted smoothly, and the boulder was placed beside it.

Jade plaques are hung on the trees for decoration, and the jade plaques are engraved with gold.

The boulder is named "Zhaogong Fuqing Shenyun Stone", which can suppress the fate of the country.Song Huizong liked it more and more, and named this stone "Pan Guhou".

Song Huizong finally got out of the dark clouds and no longer worried about internal troubles. The Great Song Dynasty seemed to be prosperous and powerful again.

But you have to act like a virtuous monarch and let the officials discuss the gains and losses of governance.

The officials wrote letters one after another, saying that the current administration of officials must be rectified, and that corrupt officials have made the local people miserable, which is why Fang La and Song Jiang rebelled.

Wang Fu actually put on a show, suggesting that corrupt officials sentenced to death should not pay fines for atonement.

Song Huizong then promulgated an edict: "From now on, the prison equipment of corrupt officials should not be loaned." (The corrupt officials here specifically refer to corrupt officials, not subordinate officials.)
You can kill scholar-bureaucrats for corruption!

Song Huizong regained the great cause of cultivating immortals, personally visited Shenxiao Palace, and gave Wang Fu two textbooks on immortality: "Yuanyi Liuyang Immortal Secret Book" and "Secret Book of Baoxian".

Immediately afterwards, Song Huizong summoned Taoist priests to continue compiling the "History of Taoism" that Cai Jing and Lin Lingsu had not finished.

He also made an imperial pen instruction that there is no need to compile the "Table", and the "Ji" starts from the division of heaven and earth, with Sanqing as the head.After the Three Emperors, the emperors of all dynasties who achieved Taoism and became immortals should be included in "Ji" and "Zhi"...

Zhang Bangchang, Wang Anzhong, and Li Bangyan were promoted to deputy prime ministers.

Among them, Wang Anzhong was a student of Su Shi. He was born as a poet of Dasheng, without any fame or political achievements. He was promoted purely by writing poems for the emperor to flatter him.

In the depths of winter, astronomy officials reported the appearance of sunspots.

Jin Guo once again sent an envoy to spread the word, saying that Song Guo could not decide when to send troops, and Jin Guo would go to attack Liao by himself.

Wang Fu, Tong Guan, and Cai You began to frequently push Song Huizong to fight, and described the Liao Kingdom as declining to the west, and it looked like it could be defeated by just sending a few soldiers.

Song Huizong was finally moved.

(End of this chapter)