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Chapter 320: Ominous Year

As a result of the gathering of discussions, the Privy Council took back the order, and Shanyu Weiliang's clan was resettled, and the matter came to an end. However, when Shanyu Weiliang knew that Yuanhao had decided to rebel against the Song Dynasty, he had convened a gathering of Dangxiang chiefs in Helan Mountain to enter the Fuyan Road from Dejing, Chicheng and Saimen. However, when the troops were about to be sent, the military operation was temporarily suspended because the large number was not built and could not unite the hearts of the people. The matter was reported to the Privy Council, but there was no news.

At this point, Dangxiang's rebellion was a foregone conclusion, but he just didn't know the specific time. However, the Privy Council still did not make targeted arrangements, but just kept dragging on it, and didn't know what idea it was.

When Xu Ping was alone, he once analyzed that the Privy Council might believe that Yuan Hao had a rebellious intention and was quite firm, but Dangxiang does not have the ability to carry out large-scale military operations. The Privy Council tends to believe that before Dangxiang's military arrangement is completed, he should not rebel rashly. Once Dangxiang begins military deployment, the Privy Council will make targeted arrangements, and it is still time to make such ridiculous choices. We should still rely on the actual conditions that make Yuan Hao want to rebel but cannot. Now this awkward situation can be maintained.

No longer hope for the Privy Council, Xu Ping began to concentrate on using the power of the three departments to prepare for the war in the northwest. The food and supplies from the mainland began to be concentrated in Luoyang, Xiangyang and Xingyuan Prefecture, and warehouses were built in these three places. Once needed, the prepared materials could be transported to the war zone along the prescribed roads. Even if God joked with him, Dangxiang and Zhao Yuanhao would not rebel. The materials were stored in these convenient transportation places and could quickly support the surrounding counties in case of natural disasters.

Because of the severe earthquake in Hedong Road in the twelfth lunar month last year, the disaster was serious. In addition to preparing for the war in the northwest, Xu Ping was busy transporting disaster relief supplies to Hedong Road in February of the first lunar month. Before the New Year, Wang Yaochen was ordered to go to Hedong Road to comfort the scale. Whether it is public or private, Xu Ping had to ensure sufficient disaster relief supplies, and this was also a drill for transporting materials to the front line. Because the most severely affected were the three prefectures of Bing, Xin and Dai, which was the front line area facing the Khitan on Hedong Road.

The materials entering Hedong set out from the Xijing Luoyang, transported by land to Jiangzhou and Jinzhou, then went up the Fen River, and the other route started from Kaifeng Prefecture, took the Baima, and then went up along the Zhang River and its tributaries to Cizhou. In two months, Xuping used these two roads to transport a total of 300,000 shi of grain to Hedong Road, ensuring that there was no shortage of money and grain in the disaster-stricken areas of Hedong Road.

The famine policy of the Song Dynasty was the most perfect in ancient Chinese dynasties. Whenever disasters occur, various disaster relief systems are complete. There are self-rescue from prefectures and counties, and materials allocated by the transshipment officers on the road. When the disaster is a little bit too high, there are temporary assertions of comfort officers nationwide. But like this, for example, this time on Hedong Road, a large amount of food was transported in shortly after the disaster occurred, ensuring stable prices and social stability. No household fled due to hunger, which was something they had never seen before.

At the end of February, Wang Yaochen returned to Beijing to report his duties, praising the ability of the three departments to transport materials and ensure the smooth progress of disaster relief. Xu Ping was promoted from the right censor to the minister. The officials of the two provinces reached the top. The next step was the six ministers. The Tang system of the ministers of the ministry were called the minister and the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the ministers of the kingdom were both the fifth rank. If the officials in the northwest were generally lower than those of the military generals, causing chaos.

In the busy life, March is unknowingly, and it is the season when spring is warm and flowers bloom again.

Mei Xun, who was a Hanlin bachelor and a magistrate, asked someone to be the judge of Bai Bofa, because Pan Ruochong, a member of the Yu department, asked someone to be the judge of Bai Bofa, Mei Xun was angry that he asked others not to ask for him, and had a conflict. In the end, Pan Ruochong did not get what he wanted, and Mei Xun also went to the magistrate. Xia Xun then stepped down as a Hanlin bachelor and was a magistrate of the Longtu Pavilion. Ding Du and Song Xiang became a Hanlin bachelor together. Wang Yaochen was appreciated by Zhao Zhen for his contribution to appease Hedong. He was promoted from the Zhijianyuan to the Zhijianyuan to the magistrate, and became the second senior official after Xu Ping in the fifth year of Tiansheng. Soon, Nie Guanqing was appointed as a magistrate of the Ministry of War.

In March, Zhao Zhen ordered several people who were implicated in the case of Fan Zhongyan's demotion, Ouyang Xiu, Yin Zhu and others to move to the near Binzhou Army. Ouyang Xiu was transferred to Guanghua County, and Fan Zhongyan was also transferred from Chuzhou to Runzhou.

However, the government at this time was no longer the time when they were demoted from the capital. Lu Yijian's power had basically been cleared, and the new policies of the three departments were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and were unshakable. After a lot of efforts in the Imperial College, Li Xun's new ideological system had begun to take shape and gradually expanded his influence among the scholars. Ding Du, who was a tribute judge this year, understood Zhao Zhen's intention and added money and grain as the outline to the test questions, thinking that it was the best thing for the world to seek public interests.

The palace examination was not smooth. Just after the provincial examination, some Jinshi Chen Bogu of Kaifeng Prefecture and others mocked the unfairness of the provincial examination. They said that Fan Zhen and others, who were appreciated by the deputy envoy Han Yi and Xue Kui, were awarded the provincial examination, and Fan Zhen was even more accused of the provincial examination. Zhao Zhen received news from the Imperial City Department that the secret orders that these people, including Chen Bogu, did not read the exam papers and were directly defeated. Because Fan Zhen studied in the Pavilion for several years, he had already become famous in the capital. In the end, he was very kind and asked him to give him a test, but he was reduced to the level. The provincial examination was in the first class, and Wu Yu and Ouyang Xiu had both disputed because they were not in the top three, and only Fan Zhen was in the second class.

Xu Ping originally expressed hope for this imperial examination. Han Yi's sons were actively moving closer to the new policy because of the influence of the Korean variety show. Even Fan Zhen, who has been studying in the Pavilion for many years, witnessed with his own eyes how the new policy came step by step and was friendly to Li Wei. Originally, Xu Ping thought that Fan Zhen would win the top scorer, but he did not expect that such an accident would happen and the final result was not satisfactory.

The person Xu Ping was most familiar with in this Jinshi was Sima Guang, but he had no chance of getting along with the people in Xu Ping's system, but he was not close to the people in Xu Ping's system. However, he was a Jinshi Gaodi. Speaking of personal relationships, Xu Ping had known Sima Chi for many years, and although he had no close friends, his relationship was still acceptable. Sima Guang's father-in-law Zhang Cun even knew Xu Ping as early as Guangnan West Road, and worked in the Sansi for many years, and his relationship was closer. Pang Ji, who was both a teacher and a friend of Sima Guang, had taken over the sugar business founded by Xu Ping. He had a deep understanding of the new policy of the Sansi for several years. With so many conditions, Sima Guang still had no good feelings for the new policy, so it was because of the disagreement of ideas and everyone could not get together in ideology.

In the fifth year of Jingyou, before the New Year came, a major earthquake in Hedong was first. Before the spring, thunder sounded in the capital, and disasters occurred frequently. Ministers wrote letters to talk about the country's affairs. From the beginning, it foreshadowed that this would be an unusual year, and all the government and the country had a premonition that something big would happen.
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