Shi Deyi moved quickly, and not long after, a thick jade book was delivered to Zhao Xu.
"Brother Six, take a closer look..."
"This is the current list of all the envoys and pacification envoys in the world..."
"He is also the Emperor of Daxing, leaving the important ministers to Sixth Brother!"
Zhao Xu nodded and opened the jade book.
Page one, number one, number one.
Bachelor of Zizheng Palace, Hedong Economic Envoy, and Taiyuan Prefecture Governor: Lu Huiqing.
Zhao Xu's brows twitched slightly. He knew that no one would want Lu Huiqing to go to Xihe.
Because there is no difference between letting Lu Huiqing go to Xihe and inviting Lu Huiqing to three provinces and two governments - with the talent, skill and prestige of this former ruler and frontier commander of the Song Dynasty.
In Xihe, he allowed Ali Gu to hang up the opponent with just one hand and beat him.
Maybe in a year and a half, he will be able to expand thousands of miles again like Wang Shao did back then.
It is even possible to attack the hinterland of the Western Bandits from the flank in case of a big victory.
Then no one can stop this Fujianese from returning to Beijing!
Whether it’s a new party or an old party.
No one wants Lu Huiqing to return to the court!
It is a fact recognized by the world: Except for Wang Anshi and Wang Jiefu, Lu Huiqing refused to accept it, and no one could suppress him.
This man is very capable and has a very strong character.
When he was in power, Wang Anshi had already resigned.
Therefore, without Wang Anshi to suppress him, he was like a wild horse that ran wild, and even Zhao Xu's father couldn't hold him back.
So, he made a big deal.
Practical methods!
Directly challenging the entire ruling class, and also directly going to war with interest groups from top to bottom.
People in the New Party were frightened by him!
Why?
Because of the so-called practical method, although it was indeed implemented in some places in the Song Dynasty in the past, it also achieved good results.
But this thing is challenging the thousand-year-old censorship method since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The so-called Jiakuo is a system in which the local gentry and the government work together to assess the abundance of people's land and determine the level of household registration.
After Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the records of household registration were actually copied and reported by the "elderly elders" in the countryside one by one.
In other words, the property, households, etc. of most farmers are actually determined by these people.
If you are said to be from a high-class household, you'd better really be from a high-class household.
Otherwise, it will only be a matter of time before the whole family is destroyed.
This is how the villagers gain great prestige in the countryside!
However, Lu Huiqing wants to bypass this system that has been implemented for a thousand years and challenge the privileges of rural households after Taizong!
He asked the people to declare their own fields and property.
The most terrible thing is - he allowed others to report those who concealed property, and also issued regulations that would reward one-third of the confiscated property to the whistleblower as long as the information was verified.
Isn't this a copy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's decree?
The world is in commotion!
Naturally, Lu Huiqing's practical methods encountered unprecedented resistance and could not be pushed forward at all.
Therefore, after Wang Anshi returned to the court, he felt bored and took the initiative to invite the county.
Unexpectedly, this inadvertently allowed him to open his new talent tree: Bian Shuai!
As we all know, the scholar-bureaucrats and scholars of the Song Dynasty were indeed not very talented in leading troops to fight.
Only a few special cases like Fan Zhongyan and Wang Shao can truly know how to fight.
And Lu Huiqing's ability to command troops and combat capabilities were so high that he was hardly like a scholar-official!
In Zhao Xu's previous life, he re-appointed Lu Huiqing as the envoy of Yanyan Road.
An army of 500,000 Western thieves besieged Yanyan Road, but they were beaten back by Lu Huiqing!
It was precisely because the main force of the Western thieves were attracted to Yanyan Road by Lu Huiqing that the main force of the Song Dynasty on Jingyuan Road and Xihe Road directly let go.
The fuse of the two Pingxia City battles was lit by Lu Huiqing himself.
At that time, Lu Huiqing was already old, already in her sixties.
Lu Huiqing is now in her early fifties.
If he were to gain military glory or achieve an unprecedented victory...
The governors of the three provinces and two governments will have nightmares when they sleep at night.
Especially Han Jiang, Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu and others who have experienced Lu Huiqing's power...
However, Zhao Xu still pretended to ask.
"Queen Mother..." He pointed to Lu Huiqing's name on the jade book and asked, "Who is this minister?"
Queen Mother Xiang was shocked.
Lu Huiqing? !
Even in the palace, she knew that the husband from Fujian was the exact replica of Ao Xianggong - no, although Ao Xianggong was stubborn, he was not as cool as this man!
Known as Sang Hongyang of the Song Dynasty!
It is said that Lu Huiqing, not Wang Anshi, led most of the reform regulations in Xining.
"Brother Six, let's not talk about this minister for now..."
"Look at the others..."
Zhao Xu looked at Empress Dowager Xiang's eclipsed appearance and thought of the few times he met Lu Huiqing in his previous life.
That is indeed a character that sends shivers down your spine!
Strong! Fierce! Sharp!
Even in front of you, you can always feel that it is not a person, but an unsheathed sword standing in the court!
You know, Lu Huiqing was already in her sixties at that time.
But he is still like a sharp sword, making people feel uneasy.
Even Zhang Dun was extremely afraid of Lu Huiqing.
When Zhao Xu asked Lu Huiqing to enter the court, Zhang Dun immediately shook his head like a rattle.
So, Zhao Xu smiled and said: "Okay..."
…
Zhao Xu was in the Kunning Hall, looking at Lu Huiqing's name on the jade book.
Far away outside the Hedong Frontier Fortress.
The hooves of the horses are restless, and the people and horses are gathering together.
Everything on the battlefield has calmed down.
Only the corpses of the Western thieves and the prisoners who were driven together by the cavalry were left on the ground.
Lu Huiqing rode his horse and walked on the battlefield. Although he was not wearing armor, wherever he passed, both the Song generals and the captured Western bandit generals lowered their heads and did not dare to look up at him.
"Mr. Jinglue!" behind Lu Huiqing, Zhe Xing, who was following him closely, reported: "This time, according to the military order of the Xianggong, our army has wiped out all the Western bandits and me since we sent out troops on the 17th. There were six military strongholds located eighty miles away. Sixteen generals were killed, thirty-eight seals were captured, six hundred were beheaded, thousands were captured, more than a thousand hectares of Western bandits' fields were destroyed, more than ten granaries were burned, and thousands of stone cattle and horses were obtained. Ten thousand……"
"Good!" Lu Huiqing turned around and nodded appreciatively: "In this way, we can withdraw our troops back to the camp and report the victory to Bianjing!"
Since taking office in Hedong, Lu Huiqing has led his troops to send out troops every year in spring and autumn to sweep away the Western Bandit Army's stronghold near Hedong Road.
This is a method Lu Huiqing learned from Beilu.
Beilu called it Dacaogu, while Lu Huiqing called it "nuisance farming".
The purpose is to force the Western thieves to choose between transporting food from the rear or retreating.
No matter which way he chose, Lu Huiqing won.
Since the strategy of disturbing farming was proposed by Lu Huiqing, Emperor Daxing praised it and awarded it with a decree.
This further stimulated Lu Huiqing's bellicosity.
From then on, every spring and autumn, troops were sent out to sweep away the enemy.
The West Thief's revenge just fell into his plan.
When fewer people came, Lu Huiqing set up his pocket array, then mobilized the troops from Hedong and Yanyan Road to eat the snacks delivered to his door.
There are many bandits coming from the West, say one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand.
Then he will stand firm and clear the country!
Let the army of Western thieves either rob Hengshan Dangxiang and the Qiang people of food - thus forcing Hengshan Dangxiang and the Qiang people to defect to the Song Dynasty.
Either go to Yanzhou and Lingzhou in the rear to transport grain.
But across the vast sea to transport grain, even if the Western thieves plundered all the grain stored in the country, how much would they be able to transport?
In this way, the Western bandit army will have to retreat after eating up all the food they brought.
As soon as they retreated, Lu Huiqing chased and killed them.
Lu Huiqing is not greedy, he can just eat a few thousand at a time.
It’s consumption!
Anyway, behind Lu Huiqing is Hedong, and the grain on Hedong Road has been piled up like a mountain.
Recently, the imperial court even issued an edict to send the war horses bought back by Jingdong Road Yangma Baojia to him.
Lu Huiqing felt that this was the court's encouragement - hurry up!
So, he sent troops again.
that is……
Looking back in the direction of Bianjing, Lu Huiqing didn't know when he would be able to enter the three provinces and two prefectures again.
…
Zhao Xu continued to flip through the jade album.
The names of handsome ministers came into view one by one.
As he watched, he asked the Queen Mother for advice on the resumes and past of these ministers.
At the same time, he was also observing the Queen Mother's attitude towards these people.
As for Empress Dowager Xiang, who had just taken charge of politics, she actually didn't know much about these people. She could only introduce Zhao Xu to who this person was based on the words on the jade book. Which year did he become a Jinshi? What did you do again?
So, unknowingly, in the process of explaining to the Queen Mother, she had an impression of these people's names.
This made Queen Mother Xiang quite proud.
And Zhao Xu just asked, not directly expressing his attitude toward someone.
Mother and son watched and talked, and soon it was noon.
Zhao Xu accompanied Empress Dowager Xiang, had lunch, and then took a nap on the bed in Kunning Hall.
When he woke up, he saw Queen Mother Xiang sitting in front of him with a sullen look on her face.
"Mother, what's wrong?" Zhao Xu asked curiously.
Xiang Queen Mother forced a smile: "It's nothing..."
Zhao Xu saw it, how could he believe it? He immediately asked Shi Deyi outside the curtain: "Shi Deyi, what happened?"
"Who made the Queen Mother unhappy?"
Shi De bowed his body and replied: "I dare not say..."
oh!
Zhao Xu understood, it was either Baoci Palace or the Prime Minister of the capital!
First of all, we can exclude the Empress Dowager of Baoci Palace, because that Empress Dowager now has a very good relationship with Empress Dowager Xiang.
Even if there were occasional frictions, they would not go to the extent of Empress Dowager Xiang sulking in the Kunning Hall.
"But there is a minister who makes the queen unhappy?"
"Send someone to arrest him right now and let the censor examine him properly!" Zhao Xu said angrily immediately.
Empress Dowager Xiang immediately grabbed Zhao Xu's hand and said, "Brother Six, there's nothing wrong with Empress Dowager..."
"It's just that Mr. Sima's confession made the queen reflect on herself...did she really do something wrong?"
"It's better..."
Empress Dowager Xiang looked at Zhao Xu and said, "Sixth brother issued an edict to take back the imperial officer given to Xiang Zonghui... Anyway, he didn't go to Xihe Road to take office..."
Zhao Xu's eyes widened.
Sima Guang?
He actually wrote a letter discussing returning to the Queen Mother's brother Xiang Zong?
Is he crazy! ?
And since he discussed Xiang Zonghui, how could he let Gao Gongji go?
Therefore, this Sima Niu is really Sima Niu!
Note: Continuing the long record of Zi Zhi Tong Jian, in April Gengchen, Lu Huiqing of Taiyuan Prefecture sent troops to the western border, broke through six villages, beheaded 600 people, obtained 14 bronze seals, and tens of thousands of camels, cattle and horses.
PS: I typed the wrong chapter name in the previous chapter, it should be 107~
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