I studied in modern times

Chapter 601 The 1th War Begins ()

Zhao Xu accepted the memorial submitted by Guo Zhongxiao.

Wearing his autumn clothes, he glanced at the lacquer seal and found that the official seal on it was still intact, so he nodded.

This method of secrecy is ancient and simple, and it still exists in many places even in modern times.

It can even be used as a delivery method for state secret writers.

Because any paper document only needs to be stamped with the official seal.

Then, it is basically impossible for someone who wants to steal to take out the documents inside without destroying the official seal.

And once the seal on it is broken, it means telling others - the secret is leaked.

Zhao Xu put the fire paint next to the candlestick and burned it a little, then opened the side newspaper.

Then by candlelight, read the contents.

Thinking like this, he will inevitably become nervous, and when he is nervous, he will inevitably have the urge to do micro-manipulation.

They are all the leaders of the female officials in the palace, and their status is similar to that of Song Yongchen and Shi Deyi.

Moreover, it is stuck in the cotton harvest season on Xihe Road.

Therefore, Zhao Xi has ordered all the border fortresses on Xihe Road to strengthen their defenses, and ordered the governor of Hezhou Zhongyi to send the third general of Hezhou to aid Xibawen.

She belongs to a person similar to Shangguan Wan'er in the palace today.

With this in mind, Zhao Xu put away the side newspaper in his hand and told Feng Jing: "Feng Jing, immediately go and inform Mrs. Fengsheng Renshou of Qingshou Palace and Mrs. Anci Renkang of Baoci Palace."

Mrs. Fengsheng Renshou was the royal family member of the Shang Palace next to the Empress Dowager.

Zhao Xu was inevitably a little worried - he was afraid that if the generals in Xihe were not well guarded, Qingyi would be able to break through the defense lines and enter the cotton planting areas of Lanzhou, Huizhou, and Xizhou and wreak havoc.

In terms of actual influence and power, it may even surpass Song Yongchen, Shi Deyi and others.

Facts have already proved that as long as the Zhao Guan family sits obediently in Bianjing City and does not make any mistakes.

This is also why the name Neihan, a Hanlin scholar, comes from.

Hanlin bachelors from the Bachelor's College are the only ministers who can stay on night duty in the palace.

Now, this war has been brought forward.

Feng Jing immediately took the order and left.

Fortunately, he woke up in time, closed his eyes and recalled in his mind the majestic figure of the micromanipulator in the movie he had seen in modern times.

Zhao Xu looked at the words on his hand and frowned.

This is a joint memorial.

As for Mrs. Ancirenkang, she was the Shang Gong family of the Empress Dowager Xiang, and she had been serving the Empress Dowager Xiang since she was a child.

Then, the Song army repelled the invading Xixia army under Lanzhou City.

"You might as well speak more clearly!" Fenghua accent echoed in my ears.

As a result, he won a great victory and shocked the northwest.

Zhao Xu calmed down.

It's just that he rarely appears in front of people.

This lady followed the Queen Mother into the palace from Prince Pu's residence.

In his previous life, this invasion was not supposed to happen until March next year.

At the same time, careful investigation revealed that the army of Western bandits had gathered in Nanmouhui, fearing that they would invade in large numbers.

If this is the case, even if we can win, I am afraid that many jars and jars will inevitably be smashed.

Generally speaking, there will be more than two Hanlin bachelors in the Imperial Academy, so that they can take turns to be on duty in the imperial palace and wait for orders.

"Please, madams, wait until the two palaces wake up and let us know."

As a result, the generals on the front line were able to win the crucial battle without being micromanaged by the officials in Bianjing City, thus completely reversing the rhythm of the Song-Xia war. From then on, offense and defense switched.

The memorial was jointly signed by Zhao Xi, Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji.

"The bandits from the West have gathered troops on the border, and Tubo is in civil strife. Ali Gu may have been imprisoned by Guizhang, the leader of his general Guozhang tribe, and informed of the attack on the Tubo prince who was close to our dynasty."

Even the Uighurs from the Western Regions came to perform Hajj (actually they came to cheat on food and drinks).

Zhao Xu looked at Guo Zhongxiao and asked: "Guo Sheren, which Hanlin bachelor is on duty in the bachelor's academy today?"

He didn't want to wipe out 100 million enemies and end up turning into Yashan.

For example, during the Battle of Dashun City, Zhao Xu's grandfather had already suffered a stroke and was bedridden.

"Are the Western bandits and Tibetans joining forces to invade?" He murmured, "It's too early!"

There is only one content: There is civil strife in Tubo. Some people collude with the Western bandits and put the prince of Wuwei County and the military governor of Baoshun Army, Ali Gu, under house arrest. The great leader of Miaochuan, Prince Xibawen, asked for help.

Then, Zhong Yi, You Shixiong and others defeated Qingyi Jiegui Zhang's soldiers and horses in Xizhou, and then pursued the victory and captured Qingyi Jiegui Zhang in Taozhou.

Qingyi held a revenge ceremony with Xixia with Gui Zhang, and then invaded in large numbers.

In fact, the Western Army can win most battles on the front line.

"I'm telling you, it's Master Fan's turn tonight." Guo Zhongxiao replied.

"Then go and invite Scholar Fan to come to Funing Hall, and don't disturb others!" Zhao Xu ordered.

"promise."

……

Although there is only a wall between the Academy and Xifu.

But it is just a wall that draws an insurmountable boundary.

Inside the wall is the inner city, and outside the wall is the imperial city.

At this time, Fan Chunren was reading the relevant lyrics.

This is a compulsory course for every Hanlin bachelor - they must ensure that the words they draft do not conflict with the words made by their predecessors.

Especially when it comes to using allusions, you need to be extra careful.

Once the wrong code is used, it will be an accident, which may lead to dismissal from office or demotion in serious cases.

He will make the world laugh, and his reputation will be ruined among the scholars.

Therefore, every Hanlin bachelor needs to continuously read the ci written by the past dynasties stored here during his tenure.

To ensure that no errors will occur when writing lyrics.

At the same time, because all the Hanlin scholars of the Song Dynasty were the first choice for articles in the world.

Among them, there are countless calligraphers.

Therefore, this is also an extremely cherished and rare learning opportunity.

Therefore, this is not a boring matter for Fan Chunren.

Instead, it was a beautiful thing that he was deeply fascinated by and enjoyed.

Especially on such a quiet autumn night, he could completely lose himself in the ocean of articles written by his predecessors.

Tuk-tuk-tuk...

The sound of footsteps woke him up from his spiritual world.

"Sir...Sir..." A voice came from outside the door that made Fan Chunchun extremely sensitive.

It's his son-in-law Guo Zhongxiao!

Fan Chunren stood up and looked at the figure standing outside the door. As he stepped forward to open the door, he said, "Why did Shiren come to the Bachelor's College late at night?"

"I am reporting to you urgently on Xihe Road that there is civil strife in Tubo. Guizhang, the leader of the Guozhang tribe, has placed Prince Wuwei under house arrest and, under false orders, is besieging the Tubo prince Xibawen. Xibawen has asked for help from Xihe. The general envoy Zhao Xi ordered Hezhou to send troops to rescue him. "Guo Zhongxiao met his father-in-law and paid homage immediately.

Fan Chunren was stunned for a moment and had no time to react.

If it were Guo Zhongxiao, the amount of information would be too much.

Guizhang, the leader of Guozhang in the civil strife in Tubo, put Ali Gu under house arrest, and then faked his order to besiege Xibawen, the Tubo prince?
Xibawen asked Xihe for help. Zhao Xi of Xihe had ordered Hezhou to send troops to rescue?

What the hell?

Guizhang placed Ali Gu under house arrest? Still fake his orders?
This is rebellion!
But, how do you know Xihe Road in such detail, as if you were right there!
In addition, Xibawen asked for help from the Song Dynasty, and Xihelu really responded? !
Is there any system?

The normal process of dispatching troops is not to report to the court first. After the court approves, the Privy Council will issue an order to determine the dispatch of troops, how many troops will be dispatched, who will be the commander, and who will be responsible for the organization.

Only in this way can Zhao Xi mobilize Hezhou soldiers and horses?

What happened to Mr. Zhao?

How dare he openly violate the system and send troops without permission?

Fan Chunren didn't have time to think too much.

Guo Zhongxiao's next words were like a heavy hammer, hammering into his heart.

"In addition, Xihelu also said that Xizuo has discovered that the Western bandits have gathered a large army in Nanmouhui and seem to intend to invade..."

Fan Chunren took a deep breath.

Tubo and Western bandits are joining forces?
Want to attack the Song Dynasty from both sides? !

"Therefore, the official family invites you to come to Funing Hall immediately for discussion."

"Have you sent someone to invite the Prime Minister into the palace?" Although Fan Chunren's mind was buzzing, he immediately grasped the key point. Guo Zhongxiao shook his head: "The officials only ordered me to inform you, but they did not mention summoning the governor."

Fan Chunren let out a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Because if a small official family encounters such a thing, they will not be stable and decide to send the Prime Minister to the palace late at night, and the Prime Minister will indeed enter the palace according to the imperial edict.

Then, the entire Bian Jingdu will inevitably start to panic.

It may even cause riots - such a thing has not happened in the past.

Fortunately, the Xiaoguan family stayed calm in the face of danger and made the right choice.

He quickly straightened his clothes and said to Guo Zhongxiao: "Please lead the way quickly!"

……

When Fan Chunren arrived in front of Funing Hall, the little man in Funing Hall happened to come out to tell the time.

It’s the right time to be ugly!
Fan Chunren subconsciously raised his head and looked at the stars in the sky.

At this time, seven days have passed since this year's Mid-Autumn Festival. A crescent moon hangs in the middle of the sky, and countless stars shine.

The moonlight fell on the steps in front of the East Gate of Funing Hall, as flawless as frost and snow.

Fan Chunchuan let out a sigh of relief.

The horoscope is very good tonight, there is no year star or guest star.

In this way, at least in terms of celestial phenomena, there is no bad omen.

This is what the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were like.

Although they have all doubted, or even do not believe Dong Zhongshu's theory of telepathy between heaven and man.

However, under the cultural influence of thousands of years, they will always have some feudal superstitions when things come to pass.

They may even deliberately seek some good omens to comfort themselves.

A typical example is the rebellion of Wen Yanbo and Wang Ze of Beizhou.

Before Wen Yanbo set out, the court had already spread rumors: Wen Yanbo's Wen, plus Beizhou's Bei, is the word defeat, so Wen Yanbo will definitely defeat Wang Ze.

This is the so-called limitation of the times.

Thousands of years of cultural influence cannot be eliminated in just a few decades.

Being able to doubt and question the connection between heaven and man is already very good for these scholar-bureaucrats.

Under the guidance of Guo Zhongxiao, Fan Chunren walked through the corridor of Donghe and entered the brightly lit Funing Hall.

When he entered the Funing Palace, he immediately saw a huge sand table being assembled in the hands of the ministers.

Xiao Guanjia, on the other hand, stood nearby and looked at the sand table being assembled.

He hurriedly bowed to the ground and said, "I am a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and I am here to see you. I respectfully ask that your majesty is well."

"I'm fine. Bachelor, please get up and speak."

Fan Chunren stood up and bowed again, then came to a place three steps in front of the official and stopped.

At this time, the sand table has been almost assembled.

The ministers began to insert the chess pieces into each position.

As a result, roads, rivers, cities, and forts began to be exposed.

Lanzhou, Xizhou, Huizhou, Taozhou...

Xige City, Fugong City, Miaochuan City, Qingtang City, Zongge City...

More flags were put up.

Mubo, Xina, Xinmu, Longbu, Guozhang, Qinggui... are all powerful Tubo clans.

There is even a flag inserted outside the sand table to represent Qinghai.

But it's not over yet.

More flags were taken out.

The flags of Chaoshun, Zhuoluo Henan, Xishou Baotai...the three military supervisory departments of the Xithief directly facing Xihe Road were planted in different positions.

Then, in these places, flag after flag was planted.

They are all Western bandit army strongholds.

There are even signs of rivers and mountains.

It was only then that Fan Chunren discovered that those flags had different colors, and these colors corresponded to different markers.

For example, black flags generally correspond to mountains, green flags correspond to rivers, and red flags represent cities and castles.

When everything is completed, the entire Xihe Road and its corresponding Tibetan forces in the West can be seen at a glance.

Mountains, rivers, roads and cities are all in front of you.

Even the garrison areas of the Song Dynasty army were marked on it.

Fan Chunren only felt that his brain seemed to be hit by memories.

The story of Emperor Guangwu recorded in the Later Han Dynasty was buzzing in his head - all the prisoners are in my eyes!

And how similar is everything in front of us to the legend of Emperor Guangwu?

"Bachelor..." The official's voice appeared in his ears.

"I'm here!" Fan Chunren came back to his senses, looked at Xiaoguan's house, and bowed his head.

"I want to invite the bachelor here to introduce me to the forts in the Xihe Prefectures..."

Xihe Road, since Wang Shao opened the border, has been building fortresses frantically along the line of Lanzhou and Huizhou to confront Xixia.

These fortresses were either built in dangerous places or stuck in choke points.

They are horns to each other, echoing each other from a distance.

This turned the entire Lanzhou, Huizhou, and border areas with the Western Bandits into a hedgehog.

The party members were unable to do anything about this. They could only follow the rhythm of the Song Dynasty and frantically built fortresses on the border.

Just like in the past along the border roads in Shaanxi.

As a result, the Song-Xia border became a fortification area in the Middle Ages.

Regardless of the Song Dynasty or the Western bandits, it is extremely difficult to attack each other's defense areas.

It feels like a modern big-haired and two-haired pair pecking each other.

However, the Song Dynasty had money, so the fortresses built were strong and tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Dangxiang people were poorer and could only build strong forts at key locations. Other forts were either too small or too fragile and could only serve as a warning.

However, the crazy fortification competition between Song and Xia caused a devastating blow to the ecology on both sides of the Yellow River.

A large number of forests have been cut down, countless grasslands have been destroyed, and the party members are still on the Yellow River, doing a lot of land reclamation and development.

This has caused extremely serious soil erosion in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

This is also one of the reasons why the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty has always been difficult to control (another reason is that the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty made terrible decisions to return to the river again and again because of fear of the Liao Dynasty).

As a Hanlin bachelor, Fan Chunren was familiar with the laws of the country and the military common sense along the border. This was his job - the Hanlin bachelor was the emperor's personal secretary, and he needed to memorize this knowledge for the emperor for consultation at any time.

If the emperor asks but doesn't know anything about it, this is obviously a serious dereliction of duty!
Therefore, every Hanlin bachelor will memorize various documents in the bachelor's college in the first half year after taking office.

In addition to the lyrics produced by previous Hanlin bachelors, the focus is on the archives of the memorial halls in various places.

They must know when and by whom a certain village was established.

You also need to know the distance between this village and major cities.

Therefore, it is not easy to become a Hanlin bachelor.

Fan Chunren has only been working for less than a year, and he is already showing signs of success.

However, he apparently has a good memory.

As soon as Zhao Xu asked, he immediately stepped forward and began to introduce the village fortress on Xihe Road.

Zhao Xu listened and nodded from time to time.

In fact, he may be more familiar with these fortresses on Xihe Road than Fan Chunren.

Because in modern times, he followed the archaeological team and excavated the ruins of several ancient cities and villages in Song, Xia, and Tubo in Gansu and Qinghai.

I also visited the ruins of ancient cities and ancient villages that have been excavated long ago, as well as museums displaying cultural relics excavated in these places.

Therefore, he even knew the specific geographical location and altitude of some ancient cities.

Of course, thousands of years have brought great changes.

The depletion of rivers, land-building movements, desert erosion, the construction of railways and roads, and the destruction of war.

Let the current situation of modern times and the Song Dynasty be completely two concepts.

Apart from other things, many fortresses are currently stuck on some chokepoints.

But in modern times, expressways, national roads, and rural roads have turned these natural chasms into tourist attractions.

Therefore, he still needs Fan Chunren's introduction.

(End of this chapter)