Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 408 0403 [Spring of the Sixth Year of Xuanhe]

(Originally, there were still a few chapters to be written about the strategy of the Nanxiang Basin, but many readers got impatient and simply wrote it down. Some people were not happy with the brief description, and some people disliked the detailed description. It is really hard to agree.)
In the past five years of Xuanhe, the Song Dynasty was in turmoil.

The pot on the battlefield needs to be carried by a teacher, and the political responsibility needs to be carried by Wang Fu.Because Wang Fu is the prime minister, if he doesn't shoulder the responsibility, the emperor will have to issue an imperial edict.

It is a foregone conclusion that Wang Fu will be dismissed. The only thing that has not yet been determined is whether Cai Jing will be restored as prime minister or Cai You.

Amidst the saliva of the officials, Song Huizong finally stopped Hua Shigang.

However, the West City Office still exists, and a large number of landlords and farmers continue to pay taxes repeatedly in Gyeonggi, Gyeongsang, and Gyeongdong.

Using real estate as an analogy, the operation of Xicheng Office is to put your house in an uncertain state.Since you are a homeowner, you have to pay property taxes to the local government; you are also a tenant, and you have to pay rent to Xicheng Office.

In comparison, let’s not talk about the situation in Sichuan, let’s look at the barbaric state of Jin.

Due to the decline of people's livelihood and continuous uprisings, Jin Guo announced at the end of the year that all interest on private loans would be voided, so that farmers would not be desperate for life.At the same time, the south of Xianzhou (Kaiyuan) and the north of Suzhou (Dalian Jinzhou) and Fuzhou (Wafangdian) should be exempted from the military rations that should be paid to Nanjing (Liaoyang).

Everyone in the Kingdom of Jin knows about tax cuts. They are even more thorough than Zhu Guoxiang in terms of interest rate cuts, forcibly exempting all original loan interest!
The emperor of the Kingdom of Jin also decreed that those who sell children and sell women among the people are allowed to work as hard workers for redemption, and the buyers are not allowed to refuse.

Several edicts to improve people's livelihood were promulgated in succession because the Kingdom of Jin was about to explode.

Looting the Liao Kingdom and blackmailing the Song Kingdom, although a lot of money was obtained, it could not benefit the people at the bottom.However, the original territory of the Liao Kingdom was a mess, with rebellions one after another, and endless refugees, which made the emperor of the Jin Kingdom a headache, and he had to manage the internal affairs as soon as possible to restore people's livelihood.

Jin Guo is not short of money, but is seriously short of food!
If this is still the case after one or two years, then we can only send troops to attack the Song Dynasty, and use war to transform internal conflicts.

After the beginning of spring, Jin Guo sent envoys to Yanjing to ask for the 20 shi of grain promised by Song Guo.

The eunuch Tan Zhen served as the envoy of the Yanshan government, and said to the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin: "20 shi of grain is not easy to get, it was promised by Zhao Liangsi in private. If you want food, you have to show it in black and white, otherwise there is no proof." It’s hard to live without evidence.”

The Kingdom of Jin was furious, and this became an excuse for them to go south to attack Song.

Xixia also surrendered to Jin Guo.

When the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, Zhu Ming returns to Hanzhong with his own soldiers.

When they set off, they also received a secret letter from Li Bangyan. This guy's father died, and he had to go home for a while. Ding You couldn't participate in the court battle for the time being, and he couldn't do anything to help Zhu Ming.

"Is this the authentic painting of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"?" Zhu Guoxiang's eyes lit up.

When the father and son met again, they did not discuss major military and political affairs, nor did they talk about the woman sent by Song Huizong.Instead, let the soldiers carry the "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" and unfold it all to appreciate it carefully.

There may be more precious works of art, but they only recognize "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" because it is famous enough and has special feelings.

Zhu Ming said, "It's no different from what I saw online."

Zhu Guoxiang didn't understand ancient paintings either, so he just said: "Most of the online ones are copies of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are definitely not as good as the originals."

"Can you tell the difference?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang boasted: "At any rate, I also learned bamboo painting from Erniang (Wen Xiaomei), and I still have a certain appreciation for traditional Chinese painting. After I study for a few more years, I must be a master of painting."

Ju Ming teased, "Do you want to learn how to be thin and blond again?"

"go away!"

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and cursed, put away the scroll, and told everyone else to go out, leaving only father and son in the room.

Zhu Guoxiang put away his smile and said: "I don't know how to be Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and I don't even want to be an emperor. It's exhausting to govern a Sichuan province. It's fun for you to fight in the front line, but I'm crazy about supplying food and grass behind. Other government affairs, do you know how many hours I sleep a day?"

"Three hours?" Ju Ming guessed.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "It's not that short. I sleep less than five hours a day. I don't have any private time when I'm busy. I don't have a little time until winter. I finally get enough sleep every day. I thought about it carefully. Let me enjoy being the emperor for a month. Then I will abdicate and become the Supreme Emperor. I will do whatever I want, and I must be very chic and happy."

Zhu Ming said: "Have you ever thought that you have a team, and I have a team. You want to abdicate, but your team may not want to."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "So the scope of power and responsibility must be strictly divided. I will never touch the military, and you will never touch the internal affairs. If there are overlapping powers, those officials must be responsible to both of us at the same time. In this way, the emperor's seat can be A smooth handover will not harm the interests of those servants. There must be some small confusion, but overall it is harmless."

"It's not that simple," Zhu Ming said, shaking his head. "Even the generals under me have formed different factions in just one year."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Just remember one thing, the two of us are our own people, and the rest are all outsiders. If there is a problem, we should communicate in time and negotiate a solution before the conflict intensifies. Some people deliberately provoke conflicts between us and our son for self-interest. We must work together to crush him to death!"

"Communicate in a timely manner," Zhu Ming agreed with these four words, and said with a smile, "I have something to communicate with you now. Song Huizong sent five concubines here. Which one do you like can be kept?"

Zhu Guoxiang said, "I don't want any of them."

"Really?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Don't look at me having one wife and two concubines now, they are all based on feelings. To put it more bluntly, if I want a woman, I can't find it myself, but I have to pick up the one sent by Song Huizong?"

Zhu Guoxiang still didn't say a word, if it was Concubine Liu An, he could still consider...

"Okay, I'll leave Shishi Li to listen to the music, and I will keep Pei Yueli Chang'e to grow up, and the rest will be married to generals who have done meritorious service." Zhu Ming immediately revealed his true colors. He fell in love with the most beautiful Pei Yueli Chang'e, but he couldn't bear it. Send Master Li out.

It's not that I like Li Shishi too much, it's just that she is famous and has special feelings, so it's just right to stay and be a singer.In the future, she will definitely not be able to be a concubine, at most she will be given the position of a concubine.

Zhu Guoxiang was still thinking about his cheap son: "Leave one for Bai Qi."

"What happened to Bai Qi?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The Gao family in Dali came to fight the autumn wind. They wanted to take advantage of it but were unwilling to pay too much. The Gao family drove the barbarians to fight, and once killed them to the north of the Dadu River and plundered Hanyuan Town. But the tough battle was handed over to the barbarians. Come to fight, the Gao family only picked up the cheap and profited, which caused all the barbarians to split up. On our side, the Han barbarians are united in defending their homeland, and they are willing to fight with their lives. Our army won a big victory, and the enemy was defeated. But the heavy losses They are all savages, and Mrs. Gao himself did not suffer much damage."

He is also a scumbag who only wants to eat meat and does not want to take the risk of being beaten!
In the history of Dali, Gao Liangcheng left an image of being open-minded and good at managing internal affairs.

Enlightened and magnanimous, it is because he cannot monopolize the court.The internal strife in the Gao family is extremely serious. He is also the product of a compromise recommended by the family meeting, and the various factions of the Gao family must be carefully balanced.

He is good at managing internal affairs because he can't bully outsiders. Even the uprising of the 37 tribes, he led troops to suppress it took a lot of effort.It also took advantage of the alternation of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties to expand and consolidate the power of the Gao family in the south of the Dadu River.

Under the circumstances that it is difficult to reconcile internal and external contradictions, in a few years, the high-level achievements will resign and live in seclusion, hiding behind the scenes as the sixth child with the identity of "Tai Shang Xiangguo".

Then, deliberately connived at Gao's internal strife.

Each faction of the Gao family supported each of Duan Heyu's sons.

The Gao family and the Duan family fought each other, and when these people were almost dead, Gao Liangcheng suddenly ended his seclusion and supported Master Yideng and his father as emperor.

At this moment, Gao Liangcheng has received the news of the imperial court's defeat and is sending envoys to Hanzhong.While accepting the canonization of Song Huizong, he also wanted to make friends with Zhu's father and son. Anyway, he wanted to leave a way out for himself.

Zhu Guoxiang's Jinglue Mansion is the original Lizhou Road Transit Department Yamen.

And Zhu Ming's Marshal's Mansion was the original Xingyuan Mansion Yamen.

After communicating with his father, Zhu Ming didn't go back to the back house immediately, but looked through various military newspapers compiled by the left-behind officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Li Hanzhang really offered the entire Suizhou as a gift. He took the initiative to contact Zhang Guangdao's troops, and he only borrowed five hundred troops to get it done.

First let five hundred rebels attack Zaoyang County, Li Hanzhang pretended to abandon the city and fled, and fled to Tangcheng with some trusted archers.When five hundred rebels arrived in Tangcheng, Li Hanzhang suddenly hijacked the county magistrate and forced Xiancheng to surrender.

Non-stop, repeated the old tricks, and took down Suizhou again.

Immediately afterwards, Li Hanzhang rode into the mountain alone and said that he would surrender the Suizhou uprising army that had been entrenched for a long time.

The Suizhou uprising army was reorganized, with five hundred rebels as the core, and captured Yingzhou, which was empty of troops, and Jingmen next door directly passed the call.

Because the Zhijun of Jingmen was frightened half to death, for fear that Zhong Xiang would lead his troops to kill him.

The news that Zhong Xiang proclaimed himself emperor has spread, and officials, scholars, monks, and landlords have been killed indiscriminately.A large number of wealthy households fled to the territory of the Jingmen army, describing Zhong Xiang as a man-eating demon king. The Jingmen Zhijun would rather surrender to the Zhu thief than the man-eating Zhong thief.

The current situation is that the Zhu family and their sons occupy Yiling (Yichang) and a large area of ​​territory on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Zhong Xiang and his son occupied Yidu, Zhijiang, Jiangling, and a large area south of the Yangtze River.

The Jiangling here is not the Jiangling County of later generations, but Jingzhou City!
Both Jiangling and Zhijiang are on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

In other words, Xiang Zhong's capital of the Great Chu Kingdom was exposed under the eyes of Zhu Ming's territory.

This situation is very dangerous, and it is really "the emperor guarding the gate of the country".But Zhong Xiang was reluctant to give up, because Jiangling was richer than Xiangyang, and it was the wealthiest city on Jingxi South Road and Jinghu Road.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, all taxes in Sichuan had to be transported to Jiangling first, and then transported northward to Tokyo.

The goods in Sichuan are also shipped to Jiangling first!
Zhong Xiang and his son are currently considering moving the capital, planning to forcibly move all the population and property of Jiangling to Changsha for development.

In addition to the military situation in the Nanxiang Basin, the second is southern Sichuan.

The uncles and nephews of the Yang family in Bozhou were still fighting among themselves, and sent envoys to Chengdu to ask for a formal canonization.

Without experiencing the migration of Han people in the late Song Dynasty, the Yang family in Bozhou was temporarily weak, and was still struggling to survive in the cracks of the barbarians in southern Sichuan.

Gao Jingshan and Bai Qi jointly signed and wrote two letters at the same time.One was handed over to the Jinglue Mansion, and the other was handed over to the Marshal's Mansion, asking for the canonization of Yang's uncle and nephew, ordering them to settle down, and giving them a certain amount of money and food to help them attack the barbarians.

Jinglue Mansion has already sent Zhu Guoxiang's reply: "Yes."

Now we are waiting for Zhu Ming's signature and seal. This kind of matter that involves both military and political affairs requires the consent of both father and son.

Zhu Ming also wrote the word "ke", and returned the official document to the Jinglue Mansion, and Zhu Guoxiang handled the canonization.

The Yang family in Bozhou had a lot of trouble in the Ming Dynasty, and now they have to rely on them to open up the situation in southern Sichuan.Because Zhu Ming's next energy will be focused on capturing Jiangling, and even taking care of Dali will have to be left behind.

(End of this chapter)