Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 347 0342 [Discussing the Du Fu Zhao Ji]

When Zhu Ming took Hanzhong, the eight hundred li express had already been sent to Tokyo.

Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was celebrating the completion of Genyue. He personally wrote "Records of Yuzhi Genyue".

It was originally a depression in the northeast corner of the city. It was originally full of residential houses and shops, and a 150-meter-high mountain was filled in.

There are as many as three peaks, with rivers, canyons, and lakes.There are buildings scattered around, all-encompassing pavilions and pavilions, and even huts and village houses.

Among the mountains and rivers, precious flowers and trees are planted all over the place.In the forest garden, rare birds and animals are kept.Strange stones, caves, trestles... dizzying.

Tong Guan, who was defeated in Hebei, is still concealing the truth, and news of success keeps coming.

Now Genyue is completed again, and there are great happy events inside and outside, how can Song Huizong be unhappy?
Amidst the sound of rites and music, Song Huizong accepted the congratulations from all the officials and held a feast for three days, as if he had reached the pinnacle of his life.

"Eight hundred miles is urgent, eight hundred miles is urgent..."

Ordinary officials are not qualified to disassemble and read, and have been transferred to the Privy Council.

Zheng Juzhong, who was a privy envoy, thought that something important had happened in Hebei, but when he got it, he found out that it was from Hanzhong.I opened it and read it carefully, my hands were trembling, and I walked outside before I finished reading: "Prepare the sedan chair... quickly bring my sedan chair!"

Zheng Juzhong was old and sick, and could no longer ride a horse, so he rushed to the palace in a sedan chair.

Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was taking his favorite ministers, princes and daughters to visit Genyue, which was just completed.

Eunuch Li Yan rushed over quickly: "Officials, Privy Secretary Zheng has something urgent to see."

Song Huizong said with a smile: "Just let him play tricks together."

Li Yan said in a low voice: "There seems to be another rebellion. Privy Zheng is very anxious. I wanted to ask more clearly, but Privy Zheng scolded me to report."

Are there rebels making trouble again?

Song Huizong suddenly felt a headache. How could the people not know how to live in peace, and insisted on rebelling to make trouble for themselves!

Not long after, Zheng Juzhong was helped over, and saw the emperor in a pavilion: "Your Majesty, Zhu Guoxiang, Zhu Ming and his son rebelled in Yangzhou, and have now occupied three counties in Yangzhou."

"What, his father and son rebelled?" Song Huizong thought he had heard wrong.

Wang Fu was busy fighting against Liao and had no time to spend with the emperor.

Tong Guan, Cai You, Tan Zhen and other favorite ministers also led troops in Hebei and never returned to Tokyo.

Besides the prince and daughter, Song Huizong was surrounded by Liang Shicheng, Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Ye and others.

Not only did the emperor not believe it, but the rest were also surprised.

Zhu Guoxiang is currently a Taoist official, and Zhu Ming is an expelled commoner. How could this combination rebel?How could it be possible to rebel?
Zheng Juzhong sent an urgent report, saying: "Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Jingxiang all have no invincible soldiers. Now that Zhu's father and son are in chaos, I am afraid that the local area will be difficult to resist. Please quickly recruit an elite western army to come back."

Song Huizong read it carefully. Although he was extremely angry, he did not rush. He just said: "You and Wang Fu will deal with it on your own, and gather a large army to wipe out the Zhu thief. You must be captured alive in Tokyo. I will personally interrogate them and ask them why they are ungrateful!"

Zheng Juzhong was taken aback, feeling that something was wrong, the emperor hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem yet.

He hastily said: "Your Majesty, the Zhu family and their sons have already occupied the three counties of Yangzhou within ten months, so they must have been prepared. Once the army rises up to make a rebellion, it will be difficult to resist in the local area. I am afraid that the whole Hanzhong will be gone now. Please strike down the Liao army and bring back the elite to quell the rebellion!"

"Don't be alarmist, how much trouble can his two civil servants make? Qing and Wang Fu can just deal with it." Song Huizong still didn't take it seriously, and even felt that Zheng Juzhong was using an excuse to stop the attack on Liao.

Zheng Juzhong has always opposed the expedition against Liao, which has long made the emperor dissatisfied.

"Your Majesty, this matter is not trivial and must be suppressed with all our might!" Zheng Juzhong said anxiously.

Song Huizong said impatiently: "Go and discuss with Wang Fu, I still want to visit Genyue."

Zheng Juzhong looked at the emperor foolishly, with an unbelievable expression on his face. Was this fool kicked in the head by a donkey?

Eunuch Li Yan said: "Private Zheng, please."

Zheng Juzhong left with his old and sick body. He was already a traitor in the eyes of many people, but now he has become one of the few central ministers who is still sober.

Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Ye and other close officials looked at each other at this moment, wanting to persuade but dare not.

Zheng Juzhong approached Wang Fu to discuss it. After reading the urgent report, Wang Fu slapped the table angrily and said, "Zhu Thief misunderstood me. The great cause of conquering Liao Dynasty is at a critical moment. What are they doing now?"

"If you don't attack Liao, how dare they make trouble?" Zheng Juzhong said angrily.

Wang Fu said: "The army on the front line cannot be withdrawn, and if it withdraws, it will be scattered for thousands of miles!"

Zheng Juzhong said: "We dispatched 25 troops before and after, including the soldiers from Hebei and Shandong, the total has reached 30. Your deployment of [-] to [-] elites will have no effect on the overall situation of the Liao expedition."

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer." Wang Fu really didn't dare to touch the frontline troops. Others didn't know, and he didn't know that Tong Guan was hiding his defeat?

Zheng Juzhong was furious: "How can we wait for this matter? Wait until Sichuan is gone!"

Wang Fu said: "All roads in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jinghu, and west of Beijing can be recruited to block dangerous passes and trap Zhu's father and son in Hanzhong. After the victory in the Liao expedition, we can send elite Western troops to destroy them!"

Zheng Juzhong slapped the table and scolded angrily: "This guy is completely disregarding the safety of the country in order to defeat the king of Liao. This old man will definitely impeach him!"

"Then just go ahead and impeach, the Hebei army will definitely not be transferred back." Wang Fu said more lazily.

The two broke up unhappy. Zheng Juzhong wrote impeachment memorials when he returned home, and soon the Zhu family's father and son's rebellion became known throughout the court.

The officials were very surprised by this, especially the upright ministers, they were all heartbroken.Then, they united to impeach Wang Fu, saying that it was the traitors in the court who made troubles that forced the well-behaved Tanhualang to rebel.

Zhu Ming has taken down Hanzhong, and the Chaozhong gang is still arguing.

Zheng Juzhong, in the name of the Privy Council, ordered the local officials to recruit soldiers and food, and must occupy the dangerous pass and block the strategic passages everywhere.

Once Hanzhong is blocked, the Zhu family and his son will become shackles.

After more than ten days, two urgent reports came one after another.

One was sent from Jingxi South Road. They realized that Zhu Ming was already in the Xingyuan Mansion, and the local officials knew that Jinzhou had been lost.

One was sent from Shaanxi, saying that a merchant had sent news that Hanzhong had been captured by the Zhu thief.

Wang Fu finally couldn't sit still, and invited Zheng Juzhong to a meeting, and even invited Zhao Wei, who promoted the Taoist temple.

A few years ago, [-] Lunanyi rebelled. Although [-] Western troops were dispatched to suppress it, the real commander was civil servant Zhao Yu.

This man is talented and knows about military affairs. He could have been the minister of the Ministry of War, but he was squeezed out by Tong Guan to manage the Taoist temple.

Wang Fu didn't have any enmity with Zhao Xuan, so he lowered his airs and asked, "I don't know if Zhao Longtu has a good strategy to calm the chaos?"

Zhao Yu said bluntly: "There is no other way but to transfer the Western Army back. The local Xiang army is not available."

Wang Fu asked again: "It's a long way from Hebei to Hanzhong, and the Western Army won't be able to return for a while. If Your Excellency leads the Sichuan army, can you wipe out the Zhu thieves?"

Zhao Yu replied: "If I go to Sichuan, I can only protect Sichuan."

"That's enough," Wang Fu said, "Let's keep the fertile land of Yizhou first, so that the Zhu thieves can't expand their army wantonly, and there's definitely not enough food. In this way, your Excellency can dispatch troops, horses, money and food from various places as you like. It can be suppressed easily, but it can't be suppressed. At least it will have to be delayed until next summer."

"Next summer?" Zhao Wei exclaimed.

Wang Fu asked, "Is it difficult to do?"

Zhao Yu sighed: "We can only maintain it as much as possible."

Wang Fu cupped his hands and said, "Please!"

The three of them called the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household to discuss the detailed strategy carefully.

Then it was discovered that the biggest problem in exterminating the Zhu thieves was that the court lacked money and food to recruit soldiers.

Wang Fu became ruthless, and decided to thoroughly promote the new miscellaneous taxes such as economical money to all states and counties across the country.

At the same time, the husband's money was exempted, and Kuomin searched for 1000 million coins.

While everyone was discussing, an official sent a call to action.

Wang Fu was the first to read it, then sat in a chair in a daze, and said with a mournful face: "The officials will be furious, and it will be impossible if they are not transferred back to the Western Army."

Zheng Juzhong snatched the Calligraphy, which was a printed matter, and I don't know how many copies were printed and spread all over the world.

I saw that it said: "Discuss Du Fu Zhao Ji"——

"I heard: Gather people to make a family, gather families to make a country, and gather a country to have the world... That is why the country of the world is based on the people. The king of the king is the king of the people..."

"There may be a sage who does not take his own benefit as his own benefit, but makes the world benefit from it; does not take his own harm as a harm, but makes the world relieve his harm..."

"Maybe there is a virtuous king, Chen Qigang ruled the country, distributed politics and religion to rejuvenate the people... Lightly corvee and lightly pay taxes, cultivate well, have good governance and harmony, and bring peace to the world..."

"Today there is a single husband, Zhao Ji, who takes all the benefits of the world for himself and all the harms of the world for the people. Is this a lord? The ancient Jie and Zhou were nothing more than that... expelling the virtuous and setting up party monuments; appointing the wicked, promoting flowers and stones... stripping the bones and sucking the marrow, separating the world, in order to serve one person's lust. Diligence, there is no one night to warm up... That's why the world is exhausted, people complain everywhere, Shenzhou boils, and the world hangs upside down. First there is the worry of Fang La, and then there is the trouble of Song Jiang. The rich are uneasy about their lives, and the poor have no luck..."

"Mencius said, the people are the most important, the society is second, and the king is the least. I eat the people's salary and work all day long. I can't bear the suffering of the people in water and fire, and I can't bear the hunger and cold of the people. Now I hold a three-foot sword, lead a million soldiers, and raise the flag of righteousness to conquer the world. I vow to punish the lonely husband to stabilize the country, and wipe out all the traitors to comfort the soul... Announce the sea, and the salty envoys will know."

It was not until a few days later that Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty saw this essay, because none of his ministers dared to use it to offend the emperor.

Song Huizong tore the call to pieces, trembling all over with anger, and said, "Rebels, rebels, how unreasonable is this! Rebels... call back all the Western Army, and wipe out those two rebels quickly!"

Wang Fu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the Western Army cannot be completely withdrawn, otherwise the situation in Hebei will be difficult to deal with. We can only call back [-] to [-] Western Army, and then order local recruits. With the Western Army as the main force and the Xiang Army as a supplement, we can still wipe out the Zhu bandits."

"Then call [-] Western troops back and send an order immediately. I can't wait for a moment!" Song Huizong roared.

(Old Wang’s ancient prose is not good. After searching for a long time, I can only write this kind of stuff. Let’s just wait and see. I haven’t added more today, I can’t hold it anymore, I’ll talk about it tomorrow.)
(End of this chapter)