eight. Inframing

19. The sudden change of wind and clouds

Celebrate the sixth year of the calendar, July.

It was raining in Bianliang, Beijing, and the east wind blew down tens of millions of red leaves overnight.

Lv Yijian, the former prime minister of the Song Dynasty, died at home. In the early morning, Empress Cao lowered the curtain to listen to the government and sighed, "Those who worry about the country and forget their bodies like Yi Jian." Therefore, he ordered the pension to be superior, to the official master, the Chinese calligraphy order, the title of Wen Jing, and the Renzong Temple.

In August, the osmanthus is fragrant.

There was an unprecedented crisis on the border between Song and Liao.

A mutiny broke out in Baozhou. Under the support of more than 2,300 Yunyi soldiers, the patrol envoy Wei Gui, according to the rebellion of the city, Wang Deyong, a veteran who was sitting in Hejian Prefecture, quickly mobilized the defenders of Hebei East Road to surround Baozhou on all sides.

However, in the past two years, especially during the reign of Emperor Renzong, the border troops on Hebei Road have been equipped with a lot of firearms.

This Baozhou city, Baosai, has been a must-have place for soldiers since the time of Emperor Taizu. Renzong has stored three artillery and more than 100 muskets in this city.

Zhidingzhou Wangguo was the first to lead his troops to Baozhou and immediately ordered the siege of the city. Unexpectedly, the firepower of the city was fierce. The Dingzhou army would kill and injor more than a thousand people. He had to retreat ten miles and move troops to Hejianfu for help.

At the same time, Hejianfu sent an army of about 5,000 people, led by Lieutenant Guo Kui, who rushed to the city of Baozhou overnight.

Then he began to persuade him to surrender. On the same night, more than 200 Baozhou defenders climbed out of the city and surrendered to Guo Kui.

However, this is just a young man who is willing to surrender. There are still more than 2,000 people in the hands of Wei Gui, the Baozhou inspector who initiated the mutiny, who was unwilling to surrender.

Guo Kui sent people to the city to question why the mutiny was. Wei Gui did not give a positive answer, but only said that Shangguan had to rebel.

Although Guo Kui has just arrived at Hejian Mansion, he has heard more or less about Baozhou.

Li Zhaoliang was deployed on the three roads of Zhenzhou, Dingzhou and Baozhou. He often used his authority to squeeze the border troops, and knew little about the marching operations. Some time ago, he went to Baozhou to inspect the barracks. Just because a few soldiers collided him, he ordered the whole battalion to be punished and the rations were halved.

This is also one of the reasons why Guo Kui left Zhending Mansion and transferred to Hejian Mansion.

Another reason is that Li Zhaoliang is a timid person. Guo Kui is worried that if Song Liao starts a war, he will not get any benefits in Zhending Mansion. Maybe he will have to die. It's better to vote for the veteran Wang De to show his strengths under his command. Maybe he can make great achievements.

In the next few days, Guo Kui began to command the army to attack Baozhou. Because of the lessons learned from the Dingzhou army, Guo Kui took the method of position and dug one trench after another under Baozhou City. Half of the people were deep. He surrounded Baozhou City on three sides with criscrossed trenches, leaving only a gap in the south, which was the south of Baozhou. At the gate, there is a big river called Shenshui flowing around the city.

Guo Kui asked Wang Guo of Dingzhou Zhizhou to lead troops to block the river bank and prevent the Baozhou army from fleeing.

After seven days of siege, Baozhou City is about to be broken.

However, at this time, Ouyang Xiu, who was responsible for investigating the Baozhou mutiny, also came to Hejian Prefecture.

After only resting for half a day, he came to the city of Baozhou and read out a decree of the imperial court.

The general content of this order is that the former Baozhou military inspector Wei Gui killed the state officials. According to the city's rebellion, the crime is unforgivable, but as long as he abandons the city and surrenders, the court will not investigate, but only sends Wei Gui and other people to the Huanzhou army.

Ouyang Xiu came at the right time. Even if it was half a day later, Baozhou City would be broken, and Guo Kui's army would kill the city.

Wei Gui was also killed here, but many things in the world have changed because of Zhao Ze's arrival.

Celebrate the sixth year of the calendar, September.

The Baozhou mutiny, which had been tossing for nearly a month, came to an end with the surrender of Wei Gui.

Half a month later, after a detailed investigation, Ouyang Xiu returned to the court and impeached Li Zhaoliang, who deployed on the third road of Hebei East Road, thinking that he would change the unkindness of Baozhou soldiers to request the court to remove Li Zhaoliang's official position and return to Beijing for trial.

Nowadays, at present, there are many people who can't govern the army like Li Zhaoliang. Empress Cao issued an order to recall Li Zhaoliang to the capital, and then let the second government think of a way to find someone to fill the vacancy. Although many ministers in the court pleaded for Li Zhaoliang, Empress Cao had made up her mind and had to knock on the mountains and tigers.

Fan Zhongyan, a political trenchor, proposed to let Fubi, the superintendent of Huanzhou, take over the position of Zhenzhou, Dingzhou and Baozhou, and then sent Liu Huan as the position of Baozhou.

At this point, the Baozhou mutiny has come to an end.

In October of the same year, the Liao army left Ningbianzhou in the west, entered Fengzhou all the way, and forced the volcanic army all the way.

Xixia Yuanhao also sent 10,000 people on the left side of Youzhou Road to besiege Linzhou.

Under the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses on Linfu Road, the governor of Linzhou led the army to defend the Great Wall around Linzhou and Fuzhou for seven days and seven nights with the Xixia and Liao armies.

A narrow victory.

If it hadn't been for the sharp firearms, I really didn't know how to resist the siege of the two wings of the Liao and Xixia armies.

A few days later, Zhe Jimin wrote a letter and ordered Kuai Ma to send it to Beijing and hand it to the Privy Councillor Yan Shu.

Zhe Jimin asked the capital to send 20 ships of firearms and ammunition on Wanglinfu Road within three months to fight against the enemy.

The second government did not reply because the Langshan Weapon Workshop was damaged and could not continue to make firearms and ammunition.

Su Su's seventh part will be demolished and dismissed. For this reason, Su Su has already made a plan. She has talked with Fan Zhongyan about preparing to return to her hometown. Fan Zhongyan felt that it was impossible, and then he agreed.

And Li Xian and Li Eunuch took over the position of San Si's case. Xiangfu's musket workshop was also under his jurisdiction and directly obeyed the order. Without the order of Empress Cao, the firearms in the musket workshop were not allowed to be issued.

In mid-October, Fubi was deployed to Ren Fubi Zhenzhou, Dingzhou and Baozhou, and set out the thirteen strategies of defending Hebei, which was appreciated by Fan Zhongyan.

The Qingli New Deal has been delayed for three years due to the death of Renzong, the border war, the throne issue, and the financial constraints.

Now, it is the sixth year of the calendar year. In this difficult period, the border war rose again.

External worries and internal troubles. Fortunately, the firearms used by the border defense are basically in place. Fan Zhongyan intends to put the Qingli New Deal back on the agenda. Although Renzong is no longer there, it is urgent to change the law and reform the government. He has already mentioned this matter to Empress Cao.

However, Empress Cao seemed to be very attached to the "Draft of the Imperial Reform" formulated by Emperor Renzong when he was alive. She planned to ask the two government to revise it and implement it, instead of doing any new Qingli New Deal.

After all, the "Draft of Imperial Reform" is Renzong's last wish, and Empress Cao intends to complete this last wish until her child is born.

Before the winter, Yao Zhongsun was dismissed from office, because in the past six years, the financial tax of the Song Dynasty has been very low. Another important point is that Yao Zhongsun borrowed millions of copper coins three years ago, but it has not been returned so far. Although it is all used by the country, it shows that he The plan is not competent.

After Yao Zhongsun was dismissed as the three envoys, Wang Yaochen, the original comfort envoy, returned to the court, turned to the right to discuss the doctor and worshiped the three envoys. We began to rectify the national tax, hoping to reverse the deficit of the treasury in the coming year.

In December, Bianliang snowed heavily.

Fan Zhongyan recommended Su Shunqing to the position of supervisor of the Academy, intending to lay a chess piece for the continued implementation of the Qingli New Deal.

Su Shunqing is the son-in-law of Du Yan, the former prime minister. His character is beautiful. He is from Kaifeng. He has been a county magistrate, a commentator, and a scholar of Jixian Hall. He is a learned man. After the new official arrives, he is in a happy mood.

Later, his good friends in the court, Diao Yue, Jiang Xiufu and others invited him to drink in the Luanfeng Building in Maishu Lane, and called several girls to accompany him. He never thought that he was seen by Wang Gongchen's family and informed Wang Gongchen about this matter.

In less than half a month, Yu Shizhong Chengyu, Zhou Xun, Liu Yuanyu and others jointly impeached Su Shunqin, summoned prostitutes, held a banquet, and asked Empress Cao to issue a severe punishment in the name of receiving guests, and also pulled Diaoyue, Jiang Xiufu, Lv Lu, Song Minqiu, Wang Yirou and others in.

Empress Cao ordered Bao Zheng of Kaifeng Prefecture to try the case.

Bao Zheng is selfless. As long as the officials violate the law and discipline, even if everyone acquiesce to go to the brothel to eat and stay, he will thoroughly investigate to the end. Su Shunqing was convicted and dismissed by Bao Zheng as soon as he lost his horse.

Later, he returned to Suzhou in anger and lived at home until Su Su invited him and dug him out to America. That was a later story.

This move of Gongchen, the king of the imperial historian, beat Fan Zhongyan's supporters so that he had no power to turn over.

At the end of December of the sixth year of the Qing calendar, Bai from Xuzhou came to Jingdong to complain about the residence of Lv Jujian, saying that Kong Zhiwen, a man from Shandong Province, used demon magic ** local soldiers to plot to rebel against the court.

This rebellion is not a trivial matter. Jingdong mentioned that Lv Jujian did not dare to despise the prison, so he quickly sent someone to make an unannounced investigation. Sure enough, he found traces of the conspiracy rebels in Puzhou (now Yincheng, Shandong).

After the first month of the seventh year of the lunar calendar, Jingdong sent troops to surround Kongjiazhuang outside Puzhou City.

He caught Kong Zhiwen and others alive and found Shi Jie's past letters with Kong Zhiwen at Kong Zhiwen's home. One of them seemed to be related to the conspiracy. Not only that, he also found the poem of Guozi Zhizhi talking about Sun Fu, which seemed to have the opposite meaning.

Jingdong raised the prison Lv Jujian and hurriedly handed this big event to the capital and handed it over to Yousi.

Half a month later, after the trial of the three departments, Kong Zhiwen, a man from Puzhou, was sentenced to beheading, and the rest were exiled to Qiongzhou, thousands of miles away.

Xia Zhen, who was degrading officials, had many ears and eyes in Beijing. With the help of Kong Zhiwen's conspiracy, he attacked Fu Shijie, Sun Fu and others and was transferred back to the capital again.

At the same time, Shi Jie and Sun Fu, who are still holding the position of military supervision in Huanzhou, did not know about this matter, let alone that the disaster was coming.

In February, Shi Jie received an unfortunate news that his wife and children living in Fengfu's hometown in Yanzhou were all killed.

At the time of grief, the decree of the court was dropped to Huanzhou.

The purpose of coming to Huanzhou this time is to know the condition of the farmland.

Huanzhou, Tongyuan City.

Everyone knelt down and received the decree in public, when Tian Kuang read out the treatment of the court.

Shi Jie fainted, and Sun Fu vomited blood angrily. On the spot, he scolded Xia Yan for being despicable and shameless.

Zhao Ze's face changed: "After getting up, he received this heavy imperial edict"

Asked, "Lord Tian, human life is at risk. This is obviously empty."

"Lord Zhao, can there be any fakes? Shi Jie's family knew that they would be executed by Ling Chi, so they all committed suicide. Now that the matter has been confirmed, they have to wrong Lord Zhao."

"This?" Zhao Zexin said, what happened in Beijing? Why didn't Su Su even say anything? What's going on?

Tian Kuang saw that Zhao Ze had an unspeakable secret, so he took the opportunity to comfort him and said, "Lord Zhao, Shi Jie's rebellion has been confirmed. If the imperial court does not kill him, it is benevolent and righteous. As for Lord Sun Fu, please ask you to be demoted to the official level."

Three days later, Shi Jie's shackles were put in prison, and Sun Fu was degraded to Huanzhou Jiantongyuan Tax.

Tian Kuang supervised the trial from the side until he dealt with the affairs of Wu Shijie and Sun Fu, and then got up and left Huanzhou to return to Beijing.