Zhu Ming let Qiao Huan do the work of organizing households and reorganizing the people.
This person can unite the barbarians and lure many barbarians to fight. Now that he has subordinate officials and local soldiers, are he afraid that he will not be able to create households for the familiar barbarians and bring the people together?
"Sir, here are the two classics, thirty copies each." Wei Yingshi and Zeng Xiaoduan came over holding books.
When Ju Ming led the troops to fight, he asked two disciples to watch the county government. Although according to the system, they could not sign official documents on Ju Ming's behalf, they could still convey government orders. It was up to the officials to choose whether to listen or not.
In addition, the two of them were also responsible for copying books, thirty copies each of "The Explanation of the Great Learning Chapters and Sentences" and "The Explanation of the Doctrine of the Doctrine of the Mean".
There are not many words in both books, so letting them copy them over and over again is equivalent to strengthening their memory and understanding.
Zhu Ming asked Bai Sheng to help carry some. In addition to taking the students and entourage, he also called his wife Zhang Jinping, and everyone headed towards Lizhou Prefecture School.
There were only about twenty students in the school, and principal Su Mao led the crowd to welcome them.
Zhu Ming asked Bai Sheng to pass the book down and said with a smile: ""The Comprehensive Meanings of University Chapters and Sentences" has been banned by the imperial court. Students may or may not read it. The other one does not matter."
Lizhou is too remote. Although official documents banning books were sent, no one took it seriously.
At this moment, when they heard that the banned book was in their hands, everyone was so excited that they quickly opened it and criticized it.
Zhu Ming added: "I see that the academic community in Lizhou is not strong, so I plan to use my holiday to teach a few classes in person. Those who are interested can listen, and those who are not interested can not listen. Students can choose for themselves."
It is rare for famous people to give lectures in Lizhou, so how could the students miss the opportunity?
What's more, we still have to talk about banned books!
When Zhu Ming saw that everyone was seated and no one left, he said: "The way of the university..."
Zhang Jinping also acted like a good student, sitting in the corner and listening.
When Zhu Ming was lecturing in Jinzhou, she often heard her father mention it. However, the two were engaged at that time and had chosen an auspicious day, so it was inconvenient for Zhang Jinping to see her fiancé before the wedding.
Now, she can finally listen to her husband's lectures in person.
The familiar people in Hanyuan Town were in the process of reorganizing their households and integrating the people. Zhu Ming only listened to the report every few days, and spent the rest of the time giving lectures to the students in the state.
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However, it is said that when Lin Xuan led the barbarians to the north, he chose to take a boat down the Yangtze River instead of taking the difficult and dangerous road to Shu.
The road is smooth after passing the Three Gorges, and one can travel hundreds of miles in one day.
In the villages we passed along the way, land was being measured everywhere.
This was because of the bad years, floods in the southeast, drought in Huaidong, famine in the northwest of Jingdong, and the Song Jiang uprising in the east of Jingdong. The Song Dynasty court was in financial distress, and Cai Jing once again ordered an inventory of the country's acres, re-determined rents and taxes, and overcharged
Some money and grain make up the difference.
You can imagine how chaotic the place has become.
In order to obtain political achievements, officials randomly allocate land and increase taxes in vain. Officials took advantage of the opportunity and extorted money everywhere. If they did not pay bribes, they would have to increase the amount of land and pay taxes.
Cai Jing stepped on the accelerator for the Northern Song Dynasty and rode towards the cliff.
Tokyo.
Song Huizong had already received the good news from Lizhou and didn't care about it.
Because it was just a great victory for the government and the army, it only defeated the barbarians, but did not expand the territory and establish states and counties.
If you have no achievements in expanding the territory, what is there to be happy about?
Yu Wenchang and Ju Ming presented the catapult drawings and followed the formal process. When Cai Dang saw their names, he directly withheld them and did not submit them to the emperor for review. Song Huizong still does not know about them.
Before the heavy snow closed the road, Lin Xin finally took the boat back to Tokyo.
He was a living man himself, so he could meet the emperor by himself, and with Tong Guan's help, he met Song Huizong easily.
"All the barbarians in Lizhou are coming to pay tribute?" Song Huizong suddenly became energetic.
Lin Xin added with jealousy: "The barbarians in Lizhou are unruly and unruly. They also secretly communicated with the Dali Kingdom and secretly accepted the canonization of the Dali Kingdom. Especially the Sichuan barbarians from the Qiong tribe repeatedly robbed the Han people and robbed the various tribes of exchanges of goods. I was ordered to inspect
In Lizhou, when I learned that the barbarians were bullying the emperor, they ordered Yu Wenchang, the prefect of Lizhou, and Zhu Ming, the magistrate of Hanyuan County, to send troops to punish him!"
"I boldly deducted the property of the Tea Horse Company, went to Jiazhou to buy grain and grass, and asked Chengdu Fulu to send grain. Relying on the power of the official family, I was unstoppable along the way. When I arrived outside Xin'an City, I personally went to the city to persuade the emperor to surrender, and urged the king and his ministers to surrender.
With great righteousness and heavy military siege, Zhu Meng, the great ghost lord of Baimandu, regretted his mistake and had no choice but to surrender from the city..."
"I was in Xin'an City, meeting all the barbarians on behalf of the emperor. The barbarians were so frightened that they were afraid of Heaven's grace, so they all brought rhinoceros horns, ivory and other objects with me to the capital to pay tribute, just to be able to bathe in the official virtues in person."
"Since Emperor Taizong, there have always been people from the barbarians in Lizhou who have not come to pay tribute. The grand occasion of hundreds of barbarians coming to Beijing has not been repeated for a hundred and twenty years. Now that all the barbarians have come, the martial arts of the officials are directly catching up with Taizong!
"
Song Huizong became even more happy when he heard this. He liked to hear the saying about martial arts and pursued Taizong directly. He praised: "Unexpectedly, you also know military affairs, and you are both wise and brave. It is extremely rare. I want to join forces with Jin to attack Liao, and you are the capital of the Privy Council."
In accordance with the decree, I also went to the Liao Kingdom to familiarize myself with the enemy's situation. Now I am promoted to the Privy Council with the same signature to assist Tong Guannasi in preparing for the attack on Liao."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Xin was ecstatic.
The Privy Councilor with the same signature can be understood as the deputy Privy Councilor with the lowest ranking.
This official position did not exist before. It was created specifically for Tong Guan three years ago. Tong Guan was promoted after serving for three months, and the position was abolished.
Now that Lin Xuan has obtained this position, he can't help but have many fantasies. The emperor is training him like a child.
In fact, the Lizhou victory was just an opportunity.
Lin Xuan had long been registered with Song Huizong. Because he mispronounced the word in the roll call, he was blamed every time he was promoted and had to be sent to the local magistrate.
This happened again and again. Song Huizong felt that Lin Xin was quite pitiful, so he took the opportunity to promote him this time.
Song Huizong asked again: "Where are the barbarian envoys?"
Lin Xuan replied: "The arrangements have been made and we are just waiting for the meeting."
Song Huizong was not in a hurry: "Let them wait and talk about it after spring begins."
Every spring, before the Lantern Festival, envoys from foreign countries would pay tribute, and the emperor would hold a grand court meeting, followed by a grand imperial archery event.
During the archery competition, all civil and military officials from the Song Dynasty could sign up to participate. If you could win many envoys from the vassal state in the archery activity, you would be rewarded heavily and you would be promoted easily.
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Lizhou was so boring that Ju Ming could only live by reading and giving lectures, while at the same time guiding the people who were familiar with the barbarians to establish households and integrate the people.
Zhu Guoxiang was not idle either. He improved the wire drawing technology of the Song Dynasty. He used gear levers to save effort, and instead of pulling only one wire at a time, he could pull four wires at the same time. This was the "four-hole wire drawing" technology.
Not only does it pull out more wire, but it also saves labor.
Zhu Guoxiang began to recruit craftsmen and secretly made chain armor. Occasionally, he smuggled and sold a few pairs. This thing was expensive, and selling a few pairs could keep the small workshop running.
Winter turns to spring and officially enters the second year of Xuanhe.
Hu Yanqing was finally released by Wanyan Agu, and asked Huizong of the Song Dynasty to change the imperial edict to a letter of credence and send a new envoy to form an alliance with the Jin Kingdom.
Song Huizong made a big mistake and had no choice but to accept the reality that the emperor of the Jin Kingdom was not his minister. Not only did he rewrite the letter of credence, but he also wrote it himself and asked the envoys to take it to the Jin Kingdom.
On the way, Zhao Liangsi asked to see his credentials, and Hu Yanqing carefully took them out.
After reading this, Zhao Liangsi was dumbfounded: "If the Song Dynasty joined forces with the Jin Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty, how could the Song Dynasty only need the Yanjing Office to manage the city?"
Hu Yanqing asked: "What's wrong?"
Zhao Liangsi explained: "The imperial pen of the official is equivalent to asking for only the seven states of Yanjing Road. If according to the state book, the remaining states of Yun, Huan, Ying, Shuo, Gui, Ru, Xin, Wu, etc., count me
If the Song Dynasty conquered it on its own, it would have to be handed over to the Kingdom of Jin. From now on, it will be the territory of the Kingdom of Jin."
Hu Yanqing was dumbfounded and turned to look at Ma Zheng.
Ma Zheng was also dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.
The three of them looked at each other, but they did not dare to go back and ask the emperor to rewrite the letter of credence. Did Song Huizong not want to lose face for such a big mistake?
Perhaps the emperor could be asked to rewrite the credential, but Song Huizong would lose face and would definitely be dissatisfied with them, and there would be no good fruits in the future.
The three of them discussed it over and over again and decided to ignore their mistakes and go on a mission to the Kingdom of Jin.
Perhaps the kings and ministers of the Jin Kingdom did not read poetry and books, so they could not see the loopholes in the state letter.
It would be strange not to be able to tell. Wanyan Aguda received the certificate of credence and almost laughed out loud after reading it. If this distribution method is followed, even if the Song Dynasty takes back the seven states of Yanjing Road, it will be surrounded by the Jin Kingdom.
Zhao Liangsi tried his best to remedy the situation and said: "Pingzhou (Lulong), Yingzhou (Changli), and Luanzhou (Luanxian) originally belonged to Yanjing, and they should also belong to the Song Dynasty."
Wanyan Aguda said: "These three states are not on Yanjing Road."
Zhao Liangsi was dejected. These three states are the gateway to Yanjing. If they don't get it, the Jin Kingdom can send troops to Yanjing at any time.
The envoys of the Song Dynasty were worried because they had been tricked by Song Huizong.
The letter of credence was written by Song Huizong himself and was only discussed with Tong Guan. It was impossible to change it from the moment it was taken out of the palace, at least the envoys did not dare to change it.
Song Huizong had no idea about this. He happily held a court meeting and personally summoned the barbarian envoys.
"You are the Great Ghost Lord of the Hundred Barbarians I canonized. Why do you repeatedly violate the border and plunder tributes?" Song Huizong asked.
Ju Meng came all the way to Tokyo, saw the prosperity of Tokyo, and knew that he could not compare with the Song Dynasty. At this moment, he had no ambition, knelt down and kowtowed, crying bitterly: "I live in a barbaric land, and I don't know the majesty of the emperor. Now
I am convinced. Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, your brilliance is like the sun, and I am just a firefly. Compared with the light of a firefly compared to the sun, this is my ignorance."
These words were taught to him by Lin Xin.
Song Huizong was really happy after hearing this and asked about the details of the war in Lizhou.
Ju Meng still followed Lin Xu's words, saying that Lin Xu personally led the troops to fight and persuaded them to surrender outside the city. Those officers who showed bravery were replaced by Lao Liu who did not know where they came from. Anyway, Song Huizong could not personally inspect it.
Song Huizong said: "Your family will live in Tokyo, I will reward you with the first house, and then I will make you the Marquis of Shunyi."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Ju Meng kowtowed quickly.
Song Huizong asked out of curiosity: "Can the Pingyi Cannon really be able to throw hundreds of kilograms of boulders, and does it not require too many gunners?"
Ju Meng replied: "Exactly."
Song Huizong ordered the craftsmen to build it, and he wanted to see it in person.
The minister, whose ancestral home was in Chengdu, took the opportunity to recommend Yu Wenchang to take charge of the Chengdu Fulu Tea and Horse Company, and Song Huizong readily agreed.
He called Li Bangyan again and said with emotion: "This Ju Ming, no matter where he goes, can always do something. He is obviously very talented, but he mocks me as a foolish king. How should I use him?"
Li Bangyan said: "Let him write a letter of repentance, realize his mistakes, and then be promoted elsewhere."
Song Huizong nodded and said: "This is reasonable."
(The Kingdom of Wei in the previous chapter has been changed to the Kingdom of Sui.)
