At the beginning of the second year of Baoyuan, in February 1039 AD, Li Yuanhao, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, attacked the Song Dynasty in two groups.
Yeli Yuqi led about 40,000 people on one side to pretend to attack Jingyuan Road, and he personally led about 80,000 people on the other side to attack Huanqing Road.
During this battle, Wang Yan, the strategic envoy of Jingyuan Road, ordered Ge Huaimin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jingyuan Road, and Gao Jixuan, the commander of Jingyuan Road, and others to defend the enemy separately and block the enemy outside the Zhenrong army.
It happened that Huanzhou deployed Zhong Shiheng to lead troops to rescue them. In the small-scale battle, the Xixia army and the Song army were victorious. When Zhong Shiheng's army arrived, Yeli Yuqi had no choice but to withdraw from the town. The Rong army shrank its troops and retreated.
Zhong Shiheng cut off the retreat route of the Xixia army, and joined forces with Ge Huaimin and Gao Jixuan to attack Yeli Yuqi. War broke out between the two sides in Huaide, Shimen, Ning'an, Tiandu and other places. The party lost thousands of casualties and retreated from Duoling (affiliated to Tongxin County, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region).
In addition to the brave fighting of generals such as Zhong Shiheng, Ge Huaimin, and Gao Jixuan, this battle also saw the emergence of many powerful middle- and lower-level officers, such as Deshun Army Commander He Bin, Huanzhou Inspection Envoy Wu Ying, and Jingzhou Garrison Commander. Supervisor Wang Gui and others.
Among them, Wang Gui can be called a fierce general. He rushed into the enemy's formation alone, as if entering an uninhabited country, killing several enemy generals, and more than 30 enemy horsemen. He only brought more than ten horsemen with him, chasing more than 400 Xixia people. A battalion of cavalry ran, shocking the northwest.
On the Huanqing Road side, the Western bandits were also successfully defeated. Yuan Hao's attempt to break the Kaolan Stronghold and block Yanzhou's reinforcements was shattered. Zhang Kang's reinforcements came galloping in and severely attacked the Xixia bandit army with firearms. In the first battle, more than 10,000 enemies were killed, and more than half of the Xixia bandits who attacked Gaoliao Village were killed or injured.
If not for Li Yuanhao's fast running and the fact that he had 30,000 reserves behind him to respond in time, even Li Yuanhao himself would have died in this battle.
Yeli Wangrong, who attacked Jintang City, did not get any favors. Huanqing Road transfer envoy Jiandu deployed Teng Zongliang to ask Cao Cong, the general manager of the Huanqing Road cavalry and infantry, and Zhao Zhen, the deputy general manager of the capital, to lead 30,000 infantry and cavalry to rush to the rescue, and cooperated with Lu Deqin to ruthlessly He gave Yeli Wangrong a hard sap.
Coupled with the Song armies from other states rushing for reinforcements, the Xixia army of more than 100,000 was quickly flanked, surrounded and defeated by about 300,000 troops of the three Song armies.
Especially after Li Yuanhao's defeat, the Xixia army fled back outside the pass in embarrassment.
According to statistics after the battle, the Song army defeated the Xixia army at a cost of only two to three thousand people. The Xixia army suffered nearly 20,000 deaths and countless injuries. It can be said that it was a complete victory.
After the war, Fan Zhongyan counted the casualties and merits, and quickly divided the battle report into two parts, one was sent to Bianliang, and the other was sent to Sichuan.
At this time, Zhao Jun was still in Chengdu Fulu. In fact, he had already almost inspected the bottom class. According to his survey, on average, more than 70% of the land in various states in the Song Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of wealthy landlords, and about 7% of the population Occupying 85% of the land, the gap between rich and poor is very large.
The Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the most serious land annexation among all the previous dynasties. Other dynasties often did this in the late stages, but it had very serious land annexation from the founding to the end of the country. Even the Renzong Dynasty was only more than 70 years after the founding of the country.
So much so that the "Xu Zi Zhi Zhi Tong Jian Chang Bian" recorded the land annexation situation during the Song Renzong period. In one sentence, it can be summarized as "the rich have a lot of hope, and the poor have no place to stand."
We must know that during the Republic of China, when great men surveyed Hunan's rural areas, only 65% of the land was concentrated in the hands of wealthy landlords, and 8% of the people owned 70% of the land. From this, we can see that the land annexation in the Song Dynasty was already more than The situation in the Republic of China was even more serious.
In addition, the land management system is a typical feudal management method. Land in the south is basically managed by landlords, gentry, wealthy households, rural sages, and clans. Under their rule, about 70% of the income of farm laborers and poor peasants is often taken away as land rent. Some wealthy landlords only take 50%, and they are considered conscientious landlords.
This is actually better than the Republic of China, which was over 80%.
The problem is that high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn were introduced during the Republic of China. Even if the main grains were taken away, poor farmers could barely survive by growing some sweet potatoes on the leftovers of the fields.
But there were no such crops in the Song Dynasty, so they could only survive on rice and wheat. With the remaining 30% of their income, they couldn't eat enough, and they were often starved to the point of becoming sallow and thin.
Once there is a time of famine, there will really be masses of dead people.
Therefore, it is a miracle that the Song Dynasty survived. The land annexation was so serious and there were so many rebellions and uprisings. It was not an internal uprising that destroyed the Song Dynasty, but it was destroyed by foreign enemies.
It can be seen that its tax system and the three-redundancy situation are both deadly poison and life-saving medicine.
"well"
In the Hanzhou Yamen of Chengdu Prefecture, Zhao Jun, who was inspecting the local situation, sat on the desk with a brush in his hand and wrote something down. He suddenly stopped and couldn't help but sigh.
This is the study room in the backyard of the Yamen. Whenever Zhao Jun goes to a place, if he encounters a corrupt official, he will deal with it and occupy the other party's public house.
If you meet a good official, then squeeze in with him. The government office is big anyway.
There is no one else in the room. He Tan, the magistrate of Hanzhou, is a good official. He is more upright and not as flattering as Zhao Jun. Even if Zhao Jun comes, he should do whatever he usually does. Unlike Yang Gao, who always follows Zhao Jun. Jun left and right.
The door of the study room is open. It is March, spring flowers are blooming, and the warm sunshine is shining down on the floor of the house. There is a big tree outside the window with lush branches and leaves, reflecting the dappled sunlight.
Zhao Jun turned his head and looked out the window. His research work and records had been perfected. If he continued to investigate, it would be nothing more than a waste of more time.
But he had to continue walking throughout the Song Dynasty and continue to see the miserable life at the bottom.
It’s not that he is not eager to return to Bianliang to reform.
But it can't be done.
Now the Song Dynasty is really suffering from internal and external troubles, not as he said before.
Seeing it with your own eyes and sitting in the Bianliang Constitutional Yuan to work on reforms are two different things.
Sitting in the Bianliang Constitutional Yuan, the decision can be made with a slap on the head, without considering the actual situation at all, and the result can only be the fate of Wang Mang and Wang Anshi.
Now that I have personally worked at the grassroots level, I can understand how serious the resistance and the difficulties are.
If foreign troubles have not been eliminated and we start to carry out reforms in a hurry, the result will undoubtedly be internal turmoil and external enemies will find opportunities to take advantage of it.
'Alas, it's back to the original situation. We still need Lao Fan's help to defeat Xixia and Liao before we can officially start the reform. '
Zhao Jun put down the brush in his hand and pondered: "However, this trip is not without gain. In the past, talking about reforms was all about talking on paper or borrowing the experience of predecessors. But now after on-site inspections, he has summed up his own methods to reform." It's much easier to get up and think about it. '
He looked at the paper in front of his desk, which was densely filled with his insights and assumptions about the local agricultural situation. He has written many, many such papers, and sent many constructive suggestions to Bianliang, most of which he kept.
At least the remaining part cannot be shown to Zhao Zhen and others now, for fear that they, as a group of radicals who want to save the Song Dynasty, will think it is too extreme. Therefore, we can only put it here first and wait until the opportunity comes later to start taking action.
'You still have to look at Lao Fan. '
Zhao Jun stood up and thought about going for a walk outside the house. He had now placed all his trust in Fan Zhongyan.
Lao Fan has taken care of Xixia and Liao, and the foreign troubles of the Song Dynasty have been eliminated. He and Fan Zhongyan can join forces and carry out internal rectification with confidence and boldness.
At this time, the Hanzhou Tongpan hurriedly walked in and reported to him: "Zhiyuan, Shaanxi Road hastened to deliver the official document. It belongs to Fan Xianggong, and he said it must be delivered to the Zhiyuan in person. .”
"oh?"
Zhao Jun hurriedly said: "Bring it here."
The judge handed over the official document in his hand, and Zhao Jun opened it and glanced at it.
I saw that the content inside was a battle report written by Lao Fan about the battle process with Li Yuanhao during this period.
Although Li Yuanhao took a long time to prepare, the time for this battle was very short. Only six days passed from the time he brazenly invaded the Song Dynasty to the time he was beaten back in embarrassment.
Among them, there was only four days of fighting on the Kaolan City side. Li Yuanhao besieged Kaolan City for two days. On the third day, Zhang Kang led his troops to help, chasing Li Yuanhao like a rabbit for a whole day and night.
It can be said that this time when Li Yuanhao attacked, he was hit head-on by the Song army and beaten to pieces. The losses were very heavy.
We must know that in the history of the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Battle of Haoshuichuan, and the Battle of Dingchuanzhai, the Song army only lost about 40,000 troops, which was already something the Song Dynasty could not afford.
Xixia, which was originally a small country with few people, lost nearly 20,000 people at once, which can be said to be greater than the casualties suffered by the Xixia army in the entire Song-Xia war in history.
So Zhao Jun was very happy to see this battle report and said excitedly: "That's great."
The general magistrate of Hanzhou asked curiously: "Zhiyuan, what happened?"
"Li Yuanhao invaded the northwest on a large scale. Duke Xiwen planned to meet the enemy and defeated Xixia. I am afraid that Xixia's national power will be greatly reduced in this battle."
Zhao Jun thought that this battle would be as protracted as in history, but he didn't expect that Lao Fan would directly give him a big job and cripple Xixia. It really gave him a big surprise.
In this way, there are only two ways left for Xixia. The first is to hold on and continue to fight against the Song Dynasty. The second one was to seek peace. Li Yuanhao, who had just ascended the throne, deprived himself of the throne and paid tribute to the Song Dynasty. In this way, the northwest border was completely stable.
"Very good."
The general magistrate of Hanzhou also said excitedly: "In this way, we no longer have to worry about the Western bandits and invaders."
"Um."
Zhao Jun thought for a while, then said: "Send this matter to Chengdu Prefecture, publicize it widely, and stabilize the hearts of the people everywhere. I will continue to inspect the place, and then go north to Shaanxi to express my condolences to the army."
"yes."
Tong San left in response.
Zhao Jun looked towards the north and smiled.
Recently, I have finally let go of my worries.
Lao Fan is still really awesome!
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In Bianliang, Tokyo, the flowers in the back garden are in full bloom in March, including dendrobium, daylilies, roses, peonies, etc.
The lush branches and leaves grow, the vines hang down, and tree flowers grow between the leaves.
Zhao Zhen walked slowly in the garden with his hands behind his back.
In fact, he sometimes felt quite sad. He could only stay in the palace every day, as if he was imprisoned in a cage.
He wanted to go out and see, like Da Sun, go to various places in the Song Dynasty and see the lives of the people at the bottom.
But the officials wouldn't let him go, the concubines in the harem wouldn't let him go, the army wouldn't let him go, and even the people didn't want him to come, because it would waste people's money, harm others and themselves.
It's a pity that after becoming the emperor, he seemed to have become a prisoner. He was in this prison all day long, never leaving the door or taking a step forward. He was worse than the young lady waiting for marriage in the Song Dynasty.
Sometimes Zhao Zhen envied Zhao Jun.
He has a high position and is more majestic than the emperor himself. He doesn't have to worry about being jealous. He can travel around the world, see different scenery and meet different people in the world.
"well"
Zhao Zhen sighed and entered the Chongzheng Hall like a zombie as usual.
He has been very diligent in the past year, plays less games, and is not too addicted. On the contrary, he has gained some self-control.
It's not that he has changed his temper, but the source of this self-control may have something to do with Zhao Jun forcing him to quit porn.
In the past, he had no restraint and would spend all day having sex with his sister. In history, Wang Deyong presented him with a beautiful woman, which made Zhao Zhen so happy that he couldn't extricate himself from female lust.
But the appearance of Zhao Jun told him that if you continue like this and damage your waist and cannot give birth to a son, then his lineage will be extinct.
Under the threat of Jueji, Zhao Zhen naturally had to take control. Not only did he take Liuwei Dihuang Pills every day to replenish his kidneys, he also had to exercise and strengthen his body. After four or five months of persistence, he finally gave birth to two healthy children.
That is to say, his persistence during this period of time helped him improve his self-control. To a certain extent, if Zhao Zhen's deeds could be used to stop pornography, he would immediately become a role model for rebooters.
Returning to Chongzheng Hall, Zhao Zhen continued to start today's government affairs mode.
He spent the morning with his two children, and finally had time to deal with government affairs and continue working in the afternoon.
At this point he opened his laptop.
Now Zhao Zhen is able to use it skillfully and almost understands all the functions inside.
Now he is used to recording some folk situations and suggestions sent by Zhao Jun into the computer, and he has even learned Pinyin typing skills.
Because when Zhao Jun continued to teach children, he taught Pinyin for a long time.
At that time, he was the magistrate of the Political Academy in the morning, took a short break at noon, and went to the back garden to teach the children in the afternoon, and then gave lectures to Zhao Zhen and others.
During this period, Zhao Zhen successfully learned the entire elementary school curriculum. No joke, now Zhao Zhen can not only add, subtract, multiply and divide, but also knows a little bit about quadratic equations of one variable and simple first-grade physics and mechanics.
So now Zhao Zhen has not systematically learned the knowledge after junior high school and high school. He has learned a lot of miscellaneous knowledge through popular science videos on the computer.
As usual, Zhao Zhen clicked on "My Computer". The difference today was that he made a mistake and clicked on the C drive.
He just wanted to click "This Computer" in the upper left corner to return to the My Computer Hard Drive interface.
But unexpectedly, I clicked the wrong button again. I clicked the view button on "This PC", and a row of toolbar tables appeared.
Zhao Zhen was about to close this form.
However, his eyes noticed that there was a hidden option in the toolbar form.
Out of curiosity, he clicked a checkmark to see what was hidden.
Nothing changes.
So he closed the toolbar form and clicked on the D drive.
What Zhao Zhen didn't know was that after this check was completed, something appeared in the countless folders on the C drive.
He couldn't find these things because Zhao Jun hid them too deeply.
Moreover, Zhao Junqian warned him not to touch the C drive, because the C drive is the system drive. If it is not done properly, it will cause the system to crash and the computer to be damaged.
Therefore, under this kind of intimidation, Zhao Zhen kept in mind that the C drive cannot be moved. He would not even dare to click in, so naturally he would not be able to see the stuff inside.
but..
In the entertainment folder of the D drive, next to the main folders such as movies, music, etc., a new folder appeared quietly.
The name of this folder is "Human and Nature".
After Zhao Zhen clicked on the D drive, he started today's work. He recorded the government affairs issues into the computer and placed them in the newly created government affairs and national affairs folder on the D drive.
By the afternoon, the government affairs were almost done.
When he was about to turn off the computer, he hesitated and looked at the game folder and entertainment folder.
I want to have some entertainment. Should I play games or watch a movie today?
Zhao Zhen thought.
After thinking for two seconds, his mouse stopped on the entertainment folder.
Almost when he was about to go in, Wang Shouzhong's voice sounded outside the door.
"The official family, Prime Minister Lu and the others have something urgent to ask for."
Zhao Zhen turned off the interface and the computer, stood up and said, "Let them in."
After a while, Lu Yijian and others came in excitedly and reported to him: "The official family is very happy. Yuan Hao invaded the border area. Fan Xiwen defeated him, beheading nearly 20,000 people, and severely defeated the Western thieves!"
"Very good!"
Zhao Zhen fell into ecstasy and laughed: "Hahahahahaha, Yelu Zong really sent an envoy over to hand over the credentials given to him by Li Yuanhao and threatened me to go south. Now let's see what he has to say."
This incident happened a few days ago. After Li Yuanhao founded the country, he did not dare to take action against the powerful Liao Kingdom. He only wanted to attack the soft persimmon of the Song Army, so he sent letters of credence to Yelu Zongzhen of the Liao Kingdom, hoping to form an alliance with the Liao Kingdom. Attack the Song Dynasty.
Yelu Zongzhen did not agree, and instead sent the letter of credence sent by Li Yuanhao to the Song Dynasty. While asking the Song Dynasty if he wanted him to send troops to beat Xixia, he also pretended to say that if Liao wanted to send troops to the country, , Da Song wants to contribute money and efforts.
In fact, the implicit content is threats and blackmail, which means that if you spend money, then I will not send troops to attack you with Xixia. If you don't know what's going on, then the Yelv Sect will really send troops south to drink from the Yellow River.
Historically, Yelv Zongzhen did the same thing. Zhao Zhen did not agree at first, so Yelu Zongzhen mobilized 100,000 troops to march on the Hebei border.
Later, as the Song-Xia war intensified, Li Yuanhao defeated the Song army three times. Seeing that the situation was very unfavorable to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen was forced to agree to Yelu Zongzhen's request. This is the source of "Chongxi Increasing Coins".
But now that Li Yuanhao was defeated, Zhao Zhen naturally felt confident. He waved his hand and said: "Send me a letter of credence to thank the Emperor of Liao for his kindness. But I can defeat the Western thieves with just a flick of my finger, so there is no need for him to bother. , and send my regards to Queen Mother Xiao on my behalf."
"Will doing this anger the Liao Kingdom?"
Wang Sui said in surprise.
The first few sentences are okay. The Song Dynasty had the confidence to defeat Xixia.
But isn’t the following sentence a satire on Yelv Sect’s true prisoner mother?
What should we do if Yelu Zong is really angry?
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhen seemed to have really risen to prominence and laughed: "Historically, Li Yuanhao defeated the Song Dynasty in the south and the Liao Kingdom in the east. How rampant. But now he is driven out of the country by the Song Dynasty. He is like a bereaved dog. How can he care about it? Even if If the Liao Kingdom comes to attack, what do I have to fear?"
"The official family is mighty!"
Everyone was flattering, and now that Xixia was defeated, it also gave them a lot of confidence.
"Hahahahaha."
Zhao Zhen laughed, and then said: "The northwest of the Song Dynasty defeated the Western bandits, and it would be great if the northeast could defeat the Liao Kingdom again. I don't know if the great grandson has left Chengdu now. I really hope he can come back soon, my great grandson Song Jiangshan needs him to save him!"
He looked out the window. Defeating Xixia was only the first step. After that, there would be the giant Liao Kingdom. Moreover, even if Xixia and Liao were defeated, internal worries still had to be considered.
If there is no attempt to reform, then even if there are no external troubles or internal troubles, the Song Dynasty will be no different from previous dynasties, and will eventually die from internal strife.
So after learning about the defeat of Xixia, Zhao Zhen already hoped that Zhao Jun would come back early, reform and strengthen himself early, and use his future vision to lay out the entire Song Dynasty, eliminate shortcomings, clear obstacles, and make the Song Dynasty truly stand on top of the world. !
(End of chapter)
