Those who are in Prince Qin's Mansion today are all the backbones of Zhao Ping's party in Shuntian Mansion. There are three good brothers: Wei Wang Zhao Yi, Zheng Wang Zhao Jian, and Qi Wang Zhao Ji. There are three younger uncles: Zhao Bing, the Duke of Chang Kingdom, Zhao Cong, the Duke of Run Kingdom, and Zhao Xiang, the Duke of Korea. There were Yue Yun, the son of Yue Fei, Huang Zhi, the son of Huang Wuji, Xiang Yong, the son of Xiang Ke, Wu Gong, the son of Wu Jie, Niu Tong and Niu Dun, the sons of Niu Gao, and Yuwen Shiyuan, the son of Yu Wenxuzhong. There are also Hanlin bachelors Zhou Bida, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli, Lu You and Yelu Lu.
What a talented person! If any Song Dynasty king after Zhao Guangyi had such a large number of experienced and capable people on hand before he ascended the throne, it would be difficult not to know the master!
Moreover, these people are only members of the King of Qin's party who are in Shuntian Mansion. Outside Shuntian Mansion, there are many members of the King of Qin's party who are serving as local officials or leading troops. If they were all added together, there would be between 200 and 300 people.
These figures from the King of Qin's party alone are enough to support a court!
In addition, these party members also have their own disciples, old officials, retainers, relatives and friends. If they were all gathered together, the number would definitely be tens of thousands!
If you include the family members, servants, and customers (tenants) of this group of people, maybe 100,000 people can make it!
It does take 1,000 treasure ships to pack them all and send them to the New World at once. This is a group of capable men and villains who are particularly capable of fighting and tormenting. Their combat power is just incredible.
There are now two such feudal military and political groups. If nothing else happens, one of them will be sent to the New World.
However, since this is the first "Prince Selection Examination", the group of people gathered at Prince Qin's Mansion today are very worried. No one knows what will happen if they fail the exam.
And these people all know that the "paper" that Zhao Kai gave Zhao Ping is not easy to answer!
Zhao Pingde went to settle the chaotic Mobei Grassland. Since ancient times, the Mobei Grassland has been controlled by the Central Plains regime for a very short time. Only the Tang Dynasty ruled by Li Shimin and Li Zhi and his son had controlled Mobei for decades.
In other words, from ancient times to the present, when faced with the difficult problem of Mobei, only Li Shimin got a perfect score. Even Zhao Kai himself became the suzerain of Mobei in name only - and Zhao Kai did not become the suzerain of Mobei in the name of the official family of the Song Dynasty, but in the name of the Supreme Emperor of the Liao Kingdom.
In other words, the current Mobei did not surrender to the Central Plains Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, but only the nominal owner of Mobei, Yelu Yanxi, became Zhao Kai's godson - by the way, Yelu Yanxi is still there! The 82-year-old man not only suffered to death from Yelu Dashi, but also Yelu Dashi's son. Now he is still alive and kicking, and he won't be dead for a while!
Although this Yelu Yanxi was the nominal master of Mobei, after his restoration, he only cared about eating, drinking and having fun in Linhuang Mansion and did not care about government affairs at all, let alone Mobei's affairs.
Therefore, those who actually ruled Mobei were Yelu Dashi and Yelu Yile and their sons.
Yelu Dashi's first wife and children were all killed in the turbulent times of Liao and Jin Dynasties. After arriving in Mobei, he married Xiao Ta Buyan. The two only lived together for more than ten years before Dashi passed away, so they did not live together. There is no chance of giving birth to many children. When Dashi died, his only surviving children were Yelu Yile and Yelu Pusuwan. Yelu Yile's life span was short, and he was only in his early 20s when he died. He only left behind a young son, Yelu Zhilugu.
Because Yi Lie had no brothers, his mother Xiao Ta Buyan had passed away, and it was difficult for his wife to hold a big position, so he could only let Yelu Dashi's veterans, Marshal Xiao Uulila and his sister Yelu Pusuwan, serve as assistants in the government. As a result, this testament caused big trouble.
Because Yelvpu Suwan was originally engaged to Xiao Duolu, the son of Xiao Orila, but when she followed her mother Xiao Tabuyan to send troops to Huining Mansion to assist the Song army in attacking the remnants of the gold thieves, she was led by the frontline troops. Zhao Ping fell asleep. Afterwards, Zhao Ping led his troops and kidnapped Yelu Pu Suwan - this was the "marriage robbery system" common in the Mobei grassland. If Yelv Pu Suwan and Xiao Duolu didn't get engaged, it wouldn't matter.
One is willing to rob, the other is willing to be robbed. Moreover, as the legitimate son of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ping was fully worthy of Yelu Pusuwan.
But this matter was regarded as a great shame and humiliation by Xiao Weuli and Xiao Duolu. At that time, Xiao Ta Buyan and Yelu Yile were still there, and they had no choice but to swallow their bad breath.
But now, Xiao Ta Buyan and Yelu Yilie are no longer around, and the power of Bei Liao has fallen into the hands of their father and son. How can they be willing to share power with Yelu Pusuwan?
However, Yelu Yile's will was delivered to Yelu Pusuwan by his confidants during his lifetime. The Xiaos and his son had no way to tamper with the will, so they had no choice but to incite the Naiman, Zulu, and Tatars in Mobei to cause rebellion. , and also handed over many bastions (actually Hamburgs) located in the southern part of the Mobei Grassland to the rebellious Naiman, Zubu, and Tatars, thus cutting off the road from the Monan Grassland to Ketun City.
Although the chaos in Mobei was nothing to the powerful Song Dynasty, it was not easy for Zhao Ping to get good grades in the "examination".
Of course there is no problem in sending troops to fight. When these nomadic tribes meet the current Song army, why don't they be defeated as soon as they fight and run away as soon as they are defeated? But what happens after you run away? Total elimination? Or is it gentle and comforting? Should we set up a protective palace in the grassland to rule, or continue to follow the path of restraint and appeasement?
So the people gathered at Zhao Ping's Mansion today didn't have a clue for a while. Just when everyone didn't know how to "solve the problem", they heard a jingle of rings. Everyone turned around and saw that it was Zhao Ping's concubine Yelvpu who had finished the task.
I saw Yelu Pusu, with a snow-white face, wearing a Khitan dress, which completely highlighted her good figure. There was a wild and stubborn air among her relatively beautiful facial features.
"I have met the king." Yelvpu quickly made a blessing ceremony to Zhao Ping, and then sat down on a chair next to Zhao Ping.
This chair was originally prepared for her!
When Zhao Ping hooked her up, he actually had the intention of using her to pacify the grassland, so now he did not hide it and let her participate openly.
When Zhao Ping saw Pu Su Wan, a charming smile appeared on his handsome face, "Pu Su Wan, my father gave me a test today and asked me to pacify the Mobei Grassland."
Yelvpu quickly smiled and said, "Oh, your Majesty, you have to take the exam carefully and try to win a national title!"
Zhao commented, "But Gu Jia couldn't think of how to solve the problem for a while. My wife has been growing up on the grassland since she was a child. Do you have any ideas?"
"Your Majesty," Yelvpu said with a quick smile, "Of course I have some ideas!"
How could she not be able to help it?
In the original history, she was a ruthless empress of Xiliao! Although it is impossible for her to become the empress now, she is also the core figure of the Mobei regime.
Zhao Ping smiled and said, "Then let's talk and listen!"
Yelvpu finished quickly and said, "This time the chaos in Mobei started. On the surface, it seemed that Xiao Orila and Xiao Duolu were not instigating it, but the tribes in Mobei immediately started moving. There is still an internal cause. The internal cause is my concubine's body." My father, mother, and brother used bastions and camel cannons to suppress the Mobei tribes for more than 20 years. The Mobei tribes have become so poor that they have become a pack of hungry wolves, and their numbers have multiplied so much that they have exceeded The limit of what can be fed on the grassland!”
The root cause of this chaos turned out to be that there were too many people on the grassland. Yelu Dashi, Xiaota Buyan, and Yelu Yilie gave the grassland stability for 20 to 30 years, especially when "hamburgers" and bastions began to appear on the grassland. After appearing in batches, the situation on the grassland was greatly stabilized, and all ministries were able to coexist peacefully.
However, after twenty or thirty years of stability, the population of various grassland areas expanded too fast, and the original grasslands could no longer support so many nomads. After all, the productivity of the grasslands in the Middle Ages was very low. When there are more people, eating, oh, or maybe breastfeeding (you can’t eat food, you can’t part with meat, so you can only take milk) becomes a problem!
Zhao Ping smiled and said, "It's easy to solve if you know the reason!" He turned to his top general, Yue Yunchu, and said, "Ying Xiang, make two plans to send troops!"
"Two?" Yue Yun asked, "Who are you beating?"
Zhao commented, "One is in Pingmobei and the other is attacking Hezhong and Persia!"
"Your Majesty," Yue Yun reminded, "the officials only want Pingmobei!"
Zhao commented: "Ping Mo Bei Yi, governing Mo Bei is difficult. The strong men of Mo Bei are better at fighting than producing. It is too troublesome to kill them all, and it is impossible to fight with them to produce. It is better to defeat them and then take them to fight in Hezhong and Persia." If these people have a place to run wild, the grassland will be stable for decades. In a few decades, the grassland will always be Han territory!"
He smiled and glanced at the faces of the party members in the hall with stern eyes, "How is it? Is the lonely king's method working? To solve the problem of the grassland, the answer lies outside the grassland!"
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Everyone agreed and everyone was convinced.
Zhao Ping nodded and said, "You don't need to flatter us too early. The Gu family just came up with a method. Whether this method can be implemented depends on you! You must work hard for it and keep it strictly confidential. Don't let others ruin our work." matter!"
Of course the method is good, but whether it can be successful depends on execution!
If we say that the paper Zhao Ping received not only tested ideas and methods, but also tested execution ability. The paper Zhao Lun got was much easier. This paper tested only execution ability - because the position given to him by Zhao Kai was actually "Emperor Zhou". This does not require much thinking, the key is execution ability. .
While Zhao Ping and others were still worrying about the problem of pacifying the grassland, Zhao Lun had already assigned his subordinates the work of building ships, recruiting sailors, and conducting rigorous training. The papers he got didn't require any thinking, just execute them!
However, Zhao Lun and his men were still quite confident. The papers they got were simpler. Doesn't this just mean that the prince in the eyes of the officials was Zhao Lun?
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