Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Zhu Ming let Qiao Huan do the work of organizing households and reorganizing the people.

This person can connect all the barbarians and trick many barbarians into fighting. Now that you have subordinate officials and rural soldiers, are you afraid that you can't organize the familiar barbarians into households?

"Sir, here are the two classics, thirty copies each." Wei Yingshi and Zeng Xiaoduan came over holding books.

When Zhu Ming led the troops to fight, he asked his two disciples to watch the county government. Although he could not sign official documents on behalf of Ju Ming, he could still convey government orders. It was up to the officials to choose whether to listen or not.

In addition, the two of them were also responsible for copying books, thirty copies each of "The Explanation of Great Learning Chapters and Sentences" and "The Explanation of Doctrine of the Doctrine of the Mean".

There are not many words in both books, so letting them copy them over and over again is equivalent to strengthening their memory and understanding.

Zhu Ming asked Bai Sheng to help carry some. In addition to taking the students and entourage, he also called his wife Zhang Jinping, and everyone headed towards Lizhou Prefecture School.

There were only about twenty students in the school, and principal Su Mao led the crowd to welcome them.

Zhu Ming asked Bai Sheng to pass the book down and said with a smile: ""The Comprehensive Meanings of University Chapters and Sentences" has been listed as a banned book by the imperial court. Students may or may not read it. The other one does not matter."

Lizhou is too remote, and although official documents banning books were sent, no one took it seriously.

At this moment, when they heard that the banned book was in their hands, everyone was so excited that they quickly opened it and criticized it.

Zhu Ming added: "I see that the academic community in Lizhou is not strong, so I plan to take advantage of the holiday to teach a few classes in person. Those who are interested can listen, and those who are not interested can not listen. Students can choose for themselves."

It is rare for famous people to give lectures in Lizhou, so how could the students miss the opportunity?

What's more, we still have to talk about banned books!

When Zhu Ming saw that everyone was seated and no one left, he said: "The way of the university..."

Zhang Jinping also acted like a good student, sitting in the corner and listening.

When Ju Ming was lecturing in Jinzhou, she often heard her father mention it. But at that time, the two were engaged and had chosen an auspicious day, so it was inconvenient for Zhang Jinping to meet his fiancé before the wedding.

Now, she can finally listen to her husband's lectures in person.

The familiar people in Hanyuan Town are in the process of reorganizing their households and integrating the people. Zhu Ming only listens to reports every few days, and spends the rest of the time giving lectures to the students in the state.

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But it was said that when Lin Xuan led the barbarians northward, he chose to take a boat down the Yangtze River instead of taking the difficult and dangerous road to Shu.

The road is smooth after passing the Three Gorges, and one can travel hundreds of miles in one day.

In the countryside we passed along the way, land was being measured everywhere.

This is because the year was bad, with floods in the southeast, drought in Huaidong, famine in the northwest of Jingdong, and Song Jiang's uprising in the east of Jingdong. The Song Dynasty court was in financial distress, and Cai Jing once again ordered an inventory of land across the country, re-determined rents and taxes, and collected more money and grain to make up the difference.

You can imagine how chaotic the place has become.

In order to gain political achievements, officials randomly acquired land and increased taxes in vain. The officials took advantage of the opportunity and extorted money everywhere. If they did not pay bribes, they would have more land and pay more taxes.

Cai Jing stepped on the accelerator for the Northern Song Dynasty and rode towards the cliff.

Tokyo.

Song Huizong had received the good news from Lizhou and didn't care about it.

Because it was just a great victory for the government and the army, it only defeated the barbarians, but did not expand the territory and establish prefectures and counties.

If you have no achievements in expanding the territory, what is there to be happy about?

Yu Wenchang and Ju Ming presented the catapult drawings and followed the formal process. When he saw their names, Cai Dang withheld them without submitting them to the emperor for review. Song Huizong still doesn't know about them.

Before the heavy snow closed the road, Lin Xin finally took the boat back to Tokyo.

He was a living man himself, so he could meet the emperor by himself, and with Tong Guan's help, he met Song Huizong easily.

"All the barbarians in Lizhou are coming to pay tribute?" Song Huizong suddenly became energetic.

Lin Xin added to his jealousy: "The barbarians in Lizhou are unruly and unruly. They also secretly communicated with the Dali Kingdom and secretly accepted the canonization of the Dali Kingdom. Especially the Sichuan barbarians of the Qiong tribe repeatedly robbed the Han people and robbed the goods traded among the tribes. I was ordered to inspect In Lizhou, when I learned that the barbarians were bullying the emperor, they ordered Yu Wenchang, the prefect of Lizhou, and Zhu Ming, the magistrate of Hanyuan County, to send troops to punish him!"

"I boldly deducted the property of the Tea Horse Company, went to Jiazhou to buy grain and grass, and asked Chengdu Fulu to send grain. Relying on the power of the official family, I was unstoppable along the way. When I arrived outside Xin'an City, I personally went to the city to persuade the emperor to surrender, and urged the emperor and his ministers to surrender. With great righteousness and heavy military siege, Zhu Meng, the great ghost lord of Baimandu, regretted his mistake and had no choice but to surrender from the city..."

"I am in Xin'an City, meeting all the barbarians on behalf of the emperor. The barbarians were shocked and fearful of Heaven's grace, so they all brought rhino horns, ivory and other objects with me to the capital to pay tribute, just to be able to bathe in the official virtues in person."

"Since Emperor Taizong, there have always been people from the barbarians in Lizhou who have not come to pay tribute. The grand occasion of hundreds of barbarians coming to Beijing has not been repeated for a hundred and twenty years. Now that all the barbarians have come, the martial arts of the officials are directly catching up with Taizong! "

Song Huizong became even more happy when he heard this. He liked to hear the saying about martial arts and pursued Taizong directly. He praised: "Unexpectedly, you also know military affairs, and you are both wise and brave. It is very rare. I want to join forces with Jin to attack Liao, and you are the capital of the Privy Council. In accordance with the decree, I also went to the Liao Kingdom to familiarize myself with the enemy's situation. Now I am promoted to the Privy Council with the same signature to assist Tong Guannasi in preparing for the attack on Liao."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Xin was ecstatic.

The Privy Councilor with the same signature can be understood as the deputy Privy Councilor with the lowest ranking.

This official position did not exist before. It was created specifically for Tong Guan three years ago. Tong Guan was promoted after three months, and his position was abolished.

Now that Lin Xuan has obtained this position, he can't help but have many fantasies. The emperor is training him like a child.

In fact, the Lizhou victory was just an opportunity.

Lin Xuan had already registered with Song Huizong. Because he mispronounced the word in the roll call, every time he was promoted, he had to be thrown into the local magistrate.

This happened again and again. Song Huizong felt that Lin Xin was quite pitiful, so he took the opportunity to promote him this time.

Song Huizong asked again: "Where are the barbarian envoys?"

Lin Xuan replied: "It has been arranged properly, just waiting for the meeting."

Song Huizong was not in a hurry: "Let them wait until spring begins."

Every spring, before the Lantern Festival, envoys from foreign countries would pay tribute, and the emperor would hold a grand court meeting, followed by a grand imperial archery event.

At the time of imperial shooting, all civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty could sign up to participate. If you can win many vassal envoys in archery activities, you will be rewarded heavily and you will be promoted easily.

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Lizhou was too boring, so Ju Ming could only live by reading and giving lectures, while at the same time guiding the people who were familiar with the barbarians to establish households and integrate the people.

Zhu Guoxiang was not idle either. He improved the drawing technology of the Song Dynasty. Using gear levers to save effort, instead of pulling only one wire at a time, pull four wires at the same time, which is the "four-hole wire drawing" technology.

Not only can more wire be pulled out, but also more labor is saved.

Zhu Guoxiang began to recruit craftsmen and quietly build chain armor. Occasionally, a few pairs are smuggled and sold. This thing is expensive, and selling a few pairs can keep the small workshop running.

Winter turns to spring, and it officially enters the second year of Xuanhe.

Hu Yanqing was finally released by Wanyan Agu and asked Song Huizong to change the imperial edict to a letter of credence and re-send the envoy to form an alliance with the Jin Kingdom.

Song Huizong made a big mistake and could only accept the reality that the Emperor of Jin was not his minister. Not only did he rewrite the letter of credence, but he also wrote it himself and asked the envoys to take it to the Kingdom of Jin.

On the way, Zhao Liangsi asked to see his credentials, and Hu Yanqing carefully took them out.

After reading it, Zhao Liangsi was dumbfounded: "If the Song Dynasty joined forces with the Jin Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty, how could the Song Dynasty only need the Yanjing Office to manage the city?"

Hu Yanqing asked: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Liangsi explained: "The imperial pen of the official family is equivalent to asking for only the seven states of Yanjing Road. If it is written according to the national book, the remaining states of Yun, Huan, Ying, Shuo, Gui, Ru, Xin, and Wu are included in our If the Song Dynasty conquers it on its own, it will have to be handed over to the Kingdom of Jin, and it will be the territory of the Kingdom of Jin from now on."

Hu Yanqing was dumbfounded and turned to look at Ma Zheng.

Ma Zheng was also dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.

The three of them looked at each other and did not dare to go back and ask the emperor to rewrite the letter of credence. With such a big mistake, did Song Huizong not want to lose face?

Perhaps the emperor could be asked to rewrite the credential, but Song Huizong would definitely be dissatisfied with them because he had lost face, and there would be no good consequences in the future.

The three people discussed over and over again and decided to make the mistake and go on a mission to the Kingdom of Jin.

Perhaps the kings and ministers of the Kingdom of Jin did not read poetry and books and could not see the loopholes in the ceremonial certificate.

It would be weird if you can't tell. Wanyan Aguda received his credentials and almost laughed out loud after reading it. If this distribution method is followed, even if the Song Dynasty takes back the seven states of Yanjing Road, it will still be surrounded by the Jin Kingdom.

Zhao Liangsi tried his best to remedy the situation and said: "Pingzhou (Lulong), Yingzhou (Changli), and Luanzhou (Luanxian) originally belonged to Yanjing, and they should also belong to the Song Dynasty."

Wanyan Aguda said: "These three states are not on Yanjing Road."

Zhao Liangsi was dejected. These three states are the gateway to Yanjing. If they don't get it, the Jin Kingdom can send troops to Yanjing at any time.

The envoys of the Song Dynasty were very worried. They had been tricked by Song Huizong.

The letter of credence was written by Song Huizong himself, and he only discussed it with Tong Guan. It was impossible to change it from the moment it was taken out of the palace, at least the envoys did not dare to change it.

Song Huizong had no idea about this. He happily held a court meeting and personally summoned the barbarian envoys.

"You are the Great Ghost Lord of Baimandu whom I canonized. Why do you repeatedly violate the border and plunder tributes?" Song Huizong asked.

Ju Meng came all the way to Tokyo, saw the prosperity of Tokyo, and knew that he could not compare with the Song Dynasty. At this moment, he had no ambition. He knelt down and kowtowed, crying bitterly: "I live in a barbaric land and don't know the majesty of the emperor. Now I am convinced. Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, your brilliance is like the sun, and I am just a firefly. Compared with the light of fireflies and the sun, this is my ignorance."

These words were taught to him by Lin Xin.

Song Huizong was really happy after hearing this, and asked about the details of the war in Lizhou.

Ju Meng still followed Lin Xu's words, saying that Lin Xu personally led the troops to fight and personally persuaded them to surrender outside the city. Those officers who showed bravery were replaced by Lao Liu who didn't know where they came from. Anyway, it was impossible for Song Huizong to personally inspect them.

Song Huizong said: "Your family will live in Tokyo, I will reward you with the first house, and then I will make you the Marquis of Shunyi."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Ju Meng kowtowed quickly.

Song Huizong asked out of curiosity: "Can the Pingyi Cannon really be able to hurl huge rocks of 100 kilograms, and does it not require too many gunners?"

Ju Meng replied: "Exactly."

Song Huizong ordered the craftsmen to build it, and he wanted to see it in person.

The minister, whose ancestral home was in Chengdu, took the opportunity to recommend Yu Wenchang to take charge of the Chengdu Fulu Tea and Horse Company, and Song Huizong readily agreed.

He called Li Bangyan again and said with emotion: "This Ju Ming, no matter where he goes, he can always do something. He is obviously very talented, but he mocks me as a foolish king. How should I use him?"

Li Bangyan said: "Let him write a letter of repentance, recognize his mistakes, and then be promoted elsewhere."

Song Huizong nodded and said, "This is reasonable."

(The Kingdom of Wei in the previous chapter has been changed to the Kingdom of Su.)