However, before Li Yong's movement came out, there was movement in Xia Kingdom to the west. It seems that in the blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and the smoke and clouds of the Song-Liao War seem to have dissipated. Except for the Song Army soldiers at the border, no one in the Central Plains can feel the breath of war, and they have resumed their old lives.
Bianliang City in Tokyo is bustling day after day, and it becomes even more lively as the New Year approaches. On this day, Li Yong took his two beautiful concubines, Yin Zhang and Zhao Pan'er to travel together. Naturally, he put on a slight disguise on the way. After all, he has a special status now and it is not suitable to show his face to be noticed. He is secretly protected by subordinates of the Imperial City Division. Mainly It was to guard against those who were interested. He could protect himself, but with so many people coming out together, it would be difficult to protect them.
With him personally taking action, naturally there was no need to stick to the inner city. After a long time, Song Qijun and the others could come to the outer city again, walk around the streets and enjoy the street performers and tile market entertainment.
After half a year, Li Yong not only gained Zhao Heng's trust, but also gained a firm foothold in the Imperial City Division.
Now he has been promoted two more levels and has become the deputy commander of the Imperial City Division, which is only under the chief commander Li Shenfu. However, there are six deputy commanders like him.
The arrangements of the six people are different, but they all have real power. Li Yong is now responsible for arranging the inner city garrison, and even has the power to mobilize the imperial army when necessary.
Of course, this necessary time limit is too strict and it is difficult to meet the conditions. Otherwise, if Li Yong really causes trouble, he might be able to find a way to put the emperor under house arrest and replace him himself.
But it is clear that since the Song Dynasty emphasized culture and suppressed military power, and the emperor placed great emphasis on military power, the cost of doing something was too high, the risk was too high, and the possibility of failure was too great, at least not yet.
Even though Zhao Heng has become more and more trusting of him, perhaps because he is wary of his skills, he still has to keep a distance every time he meets the saint. At the same time, there are others present, so naturally he can only be honest and calm. Divide it.
Of course, with his current situation, he has never thought about coercing the emperor to order the world. It's not that he can't do it, but he can only do half of it. Without his own power, it is impossible to order the emperor just by coercing him. The world.
And if you want to have a chance to go further and develop your own power, you may have to wait until the battle between Song and Liao.
Li Yong has always been paying attention to this. It happens that the Imperial City Division is an excellent place to obtain intelligence. Li Yong can obtain first-hand intelligence from the front line in a very timely manner and understand the changes in the border.
Since the battles of Yingxi and Mozhou, the Song army won first and then lost, which gave the border a little breathing space. The Liao army suspended its offensive and retreated slightly.
In fact, the huge momentum this time was just a show-off, more of a test move. Therefore, Zhao Heng's personal expedition this time is actually appropriate and is not an overreaction, because indeed, if he did not personally take charge, the front line would still be unstoppable. Not sure what it will be like.
At the same time, this also showed the resolute attitude of the Song Dynasty to the Liao Kingdom, which is why they have temporarily stopped fighting, but the war may start again at any time, so the Song army did not relax its vigilance, and Zhao Heng has been making various arrangements.
Of course, although the border seems peaceful in the past six months, a lot of things have happened everywhere. For example, in the month when Li Yong arrived in Tokyo, the Yellow River burst in Yunzhou, and floods flooded western Shandong, directly submerging Xuchang City. , countless casualties.
The management of the Yellow River has always been a major headache for rulers of various dynasties. After countless diversions and embankment breaches over two thousand years, in order to manage this mother river, successive dynasties have spent countless amounts of money and wasted people and money, but they had to do it because The consequences of not doing it are worse.
It is said that man can conquer nature, but if the Yellow River floods wantonly, tens of millions of people in the entire basin may suffer.
In addition, there is the tea policy. Tea has become popular in the Song Dynasty, and there is a custom of drinking tea among the scholar-bureaucrats. For example, in the original drama "Menghualu", Zhao Pan'er opened a teahouse whether in Qiantang or Bianliang, Tokyo. , in fact, it also illustrates the development of the popularity of tea at this time.
Correspondingly, the taxation related to tea politics has naturally attracted attention, whether it is exempting Hunan tea taxes and local taxes, or restoring Raozhou tea warehouses so that tea people can pay taxes nearby, all are related to this.
Later, Zhao Heng set up the Group Animal Husbandry Department to take charge of internal and external stable animal husbandry matters; he also established the Sichuan and Xia pacification envoys, also known as the pacification department, which was the aftermath of the previous rebellion of Wang Jun of the Divine Guards; a strong man from Hebei, who trained rural soldiers in the regiment, in case for need.
Li Yong acted as a bystander in each case, and occasionally raised some opinions, but they were not adopted.
Zhao Heng’s reason is
"If you love your Majesty and don't check the details, you may be lofty but unrealistic." But in fact, the real reason is that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together. The only one who is truly qualified to play this game of chess is Zhao Heng. Prime Minister Li Hang.
There were originally two prime ministers. Because Lu Duan was seriously ill in April, Zhao Heng appointed Zhang Qixian from the previous dynasty. However, he was dismissed because he got drunk and behaved in front of the palace during the winter solstice meeting.
In fact, Li Yong saw clearly that the real reason was that Zhang Qixian was at odds with another prime minister Li Hang, and Zhao Heng trusted Li Hang very much and did not want the two to fight too much, so he dismissed Zhang Qixian.
But on the other hand, because of this matter, he also had some grudges against Li Hang, so he will appoint two prime ministers, Lu Mengzheng and Xiang Minzhong, at the same time, so that they can check and balance each other with Li Hang.
However, these two prime ministers will not be officially appointed until next year, and neither of them will last long. Therefore, at this time, Tongping Zhangshi was the prime minister, and for the time being, only Li Hang was the only one.
On the other hand, Li Yong also received various news from Qiantang through his own network channels, and understood the development of the times under his influence from another side.
The most concerning news is naturally the connection with the Jurchen tribe. After three or four months of going through stormy sea routes, the Li family's merchant ship finally successfully landed on the Liaodong coast with the first batch of goods, and made real contact with the mature women there, establishing initial contact.
This kind of trade can continue, and there will be a second time after the first time. Li Yong's purpose is of course to help the Jurchens to strengthen themselves first, and then, when necessary, let them give the Liao Kingdom a fatal blow from behind.
He did not doubt that the Jurchens could do it, because on the one hand, the Liao Kingdom regarded the Jurchens very seriously, but on the other hand, they did not take them so seriously, and could even be said to be contemptuous.
Of course, if the original historical trajectory were followed, the Jurchen tribe would have had great difficulty in developing gradually in the harsh mountains and rivers.
But now with the help provided by Li Yong, they have many more tools for clearing wasteland, hunting and arming. Li Yong even intended to pass "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to them as a story.
As for whether it will be staged later?
"Hou Jin" also uses the story of the Three Kingdoms to conquer the world, so it depends on the leadership ability of the leader. The current leader of Mature Girl Zhen, according to contact, has both ability and vision, but his courage and courage are a bit lacking. Maybe he will have to wait for a year or two before he can muster up the courage to resist the Liao Kingdom when he sees an opportunity.
On the other hand, the Sheng Jurchen side, because they are scattered in different directions, do not even have a unified leader. They may need to integrate themselves internally first, just like what happened in history.
In fact, the Wanyan tribe that was later established in the Jin Kingdom was one of the Zhenzhong who gave birth to girls, but it was still more than sixty years before the talented Wanyan Aguda was born.
