Wang Ju's voyage was very fast, with more than a dozen large carriages carrying a family up and down, quickly rushing towards Mizhou, and then with the help of the fast ship, he drove to the other side regardless of the wind, and walked very decisively.

On July 11, Zhao Xu died.

Gao Taotao ordered Fan Chunren to be the mountain mausoleum envoy. According to convention, the mountain mausoleum envoy should be the one who was born under Cai Que, which was obviously a signal.

However, because of Cai Que's compromise during this period, he re-hired many moderate old parties. These people were either too disgusted with Cai Que, or they wanted to drive Cai Que off the position of prime minister, and they could not hide their face.

As autumn arrived, the court began frequent personnel transfers, and many radical ministers were successively sent to various places, and a large number of old parties were gradually re-applied. However, the changes in the upper-level officials were not too big, or the most eye-catching one was that Su Dongpo was transferred back and served as the Hanlin Bachelor's Master Zhizhenghao.

This has nothing to do with the old and new, Gao Taotao likes this talented man very much.

In fact, Da Su is very immature in politics, especially his big mouth, so even the good old man Lao Wang can't stand Da Su.

However, Cai Que is basically ineffective now. It is not Wen Yanbo who is in retirement, but the real retirement has become Cai Que. If the Empress Dowager likes it, then appoint it.

It also includes two students of Xiao Cheng, Zhu Guangting and Jia Yi. Among them, Zhu Guangting is the most famous and can write at the age of ten. However, if it is placed in later generations, Jia Yi may be even more famous because a textbook about Jia Yi saving money to repay his mother, and that Jia Yi is Jia Yi.

They are all child prodigy, they are all crazy...

The two were transferred to the capital and served as censors.

What does the censor do? He is a polite minister and a supervisor, but Zhu Jia doesn't know Wang Ju's theory anymore.

Therefore, they have the same mentality as other verbal ministers. I am a verbal minister. My duty is to criticize, if you are unreasonable, if you are reasonable, you will even criticize even more.

But let’s rescue the teacher first. The two joined forces to write a letter. Xiao Cheng has been demoted to the other side for almost three years, so why hasn’t the other side sent him back yet?

This is also true. Gao Taotao personally asked the Secretariat to issue an edict, asking Haike to bring the edict to the other side and bring Xiao Cheng back to the Song Dynasty.

But after all this, it will be at least after next autumn.

The two turned their eyes to others again, and they were picking around and thorns.

However, this is within the scope of the Song Dynasty system, and no one pays much attention.

Suddenly, Zhu Guangting wrote a letter and said something. Since the other side belongs to the Song Dynasty, according to Wang Ju himself, what is a real territory that can be used to dispatch officials, control taxes, and dispatch soldiers to guard the troops. Only then can it be called the territory of the Song Dynasty. Can the original territorial area be considered a national territory? Just like the current Black Khan, it also surrenders to the Song Dynasty, but can it be considered the land of the Song Dynasty?

Wang Ju said there was a running-in period, but today, many officials transferred from the past were still like puppets. Therefore, the Song Dynasty had to allocate thousands of officers and soldiers to the other side to strengthen the officials' momentum and collect taxes from the people and merchants on the other side.

Gao Taotao was quite moved, so Da Su said: "The court has been able to transfer officers and soldiers to the core area of ​​Kuixia."

Can that be adjusted?

The people are backward, and most of them are steep mountains. When Wang Ju is around, he feels headaches, let alone others.

Da Su said: "The Empress Dowager, the core area of ​​Kuixia is only separated by some mountain tombs, but the other side is separated by a vast ocean."

It has nothing to do with personal relationships, it is just personal relationships. Wang Ju and Xiao Su have a good relationship. As for Da Su, it is just that. But Da Su is talking about his true meaning. He cannot see the pull of the Song Dynasty's economy on the other side of the commerce industry, but he sees the continuous support of the other side.

If Xixia could provide one-tenth of support to the other side of the Song Dynasty, would the Song Dynasty have used troops with Xixia?

The other side of the shore belongs to the territory of the Song Dynasty by default. There is no need to increase troops. In the future, a large amount of support will be provided one after another, becoming the most important right-hand man of the court.

If the other side supports Wang Ju as the king and leave the Song Dynasty, it will not work even if thousands of officers and soldiers are sent.

This is purely a superfluous move. If you don’t do it well, it will anger the other party.

Gao Taotao woke up, so he ignored this matter.

However, after Su Dongpo returned, he recited a poem with his guests: "The saint gentleman in the dam is a sacred pond, and the quinoa sticks on the bamboo mat. Xu Lu went to Japan with tens of thousands of boats in order to seek medicine for immortality."

Aozuopi is a very poor and bad place in the capital, which is equivalent to a slum in later generations. This poor place has a holy gentleman.

The bamboo forest refers to the seven gentlemen of the bamboo forest, also known as the seven sages of the bamboo forest, and the seven famous scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Shan Tao, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, Wang Rong and Ruan Xian. They abandoned the classics and admired Laozi and Zhuangzi, despised etiquette and law, and admired prominence. They were very famous in Chinese history. Because of their similar intentions, they often gathered under the bamboo forest and drank for long talks. But in the end, facing the win-win and suppression of the Sima Dynasty, Ji Kang was killed, and Wang Rong and Shan Tao took the initiative to join the Sima Dynasty, so the seven sages went their separate ways.

This quinoa stick man refers to Shan Tao. Sima Zhao once gave Shan Tao 200,000 yuan in money and 200 hu of grain. Because Shan Tao's mother was old, she specially gave a quinoa stick. Therefore, Shan Tao took the initiative to rely on the Western Jin Dynasty and entered the ranks of high-ranking officials.

Su Dongpo alluded to Shan Tao as the wise man in the world, but in fact he was extremely hypocritical. Two hundred thousand coins, not two hundred thousand coins, plus two hundred hu of grain, and a quinoa stick made him turn against him.

In fact, this is really a bit unfair. Shan Tao's descendant Gushan family is the mother of Sima Yi's wife Zhang Chunhua. The two families are related, so it is normal to get together. Moreover, Shan Tao's official duties are good and are quite popular. However, the other son of the Seven Sages, Wang Rong, is despicable and has the most fame and aspirations.

The following allusion is very simple. Xu is Xu Fu, Lu is Lu Sheng, and Xu Fu travels eastward. It seems that Da Su used the wrong allusion because Xu Fu did not bring Lu Sheng with him when he was in Japan.

It's wrong on the surface, but it's not wrong in fact.

The theory of Ercheng is not to truly destroy human desires, but to hope that everyone will restrain their own greed and will be in harmony.

As for Su Dongpo, he, Kou Zhun, Yang Yi, and Xiao Song, are hedonistic people. Why have we studied hard for ten years? What are we going to be a gold list? What are we going to be an official? What are we going to be an official? What are we going to enjoy wealth and glory.

This concept was not ugly in the Song Dynasty. As long as you handle the government affairs in your hands, you can enjoy whatever you want in your spare time.

Just like Kou Zhun, an authentic playboy, but has it affected his reputation?

However, this kind of concept of man and Ercheng must be incompatible.

Moreover, Ercheng and others are not real gentlemen. If they were those monks who were enlightened, Lin Hejing, Zhang Zai, and Fan Zhongyan, who proposed this concept, Su Dongpo would no longer have this kind of morality.

In fact, even if it is a monk, he would not believe that he has such high moral character. If you sit, please sit, please sit, please sit, tea, please tea, please...

Not only are they not real gentlemen, judging from their performance in the court or in Luoyang, these two people are a temptation to be in power, and they are also sarcastic and mean.

In Wang Ju's words, it is:

Some people are ugly, but they ask you to be flawless.

Some people are dirty, but they ask you to be bright and great.

Some people eat meat, but they ask you to drink only soup...

How could this make Su Dongpo feel good about Xiao Cheng?

Xiao Cheng's two disciples had a great idea and wanted to deceive the court to send troops to the other side, called "governance", but in fact, they wanted to return justice for the teacher. So Su Dongpo came up with this satirical poem.

Aohuobei is not the Aohuobei in the capital, but refers to Xiao Cheng as a scholar and a gentleman, but he did not even pass the imperial examination. Even if he is not lucky, at least a fourth or fifth-class Jinshi can be obtained. He doesn’t even have this talent. Why do you regard yourself as a scholar and a master?

Not only is he not a scholar, but he is also a hypocrite like a mountain Tao.

However, he also mocked Zhu and Jia for their whimsical thoughts. If the court really did this, Xiao Cheng would be famous all over the world. In addition, Xiao Cheng used to teach in the capital and teach in Luoyang, and had many students under his sect, so these students would be hugged each other, become powerful, and be prosperous in politics, or become a medicine for immortality. But is there really a medicine for immortality? Go dreaming!

Su Dongpo's calligraphy has a characteristic: true and true style calligraphy, but in politics, it is called speaking without thinking, and you can say whatever you think...

The guest smiled and saw that Da Su was really talented. He laughed and scolded and was not a bit of dirty words. He slapped all kinds of allusions and quickly spread them out. When he went to the morning court, Zhang Dun made a boating gesture in front of Zhu Guangting, and everyone laughed together. The main reason these two boys were too annoying. As the boss of the new party, Zhang Dun was not attacked less, and many others had been attacked by them.

However, Su Dongpo was still trying to use these two people to make a fuss, and there was no other intention. But because this joke was too big, the "rule of Yao and Shun" also began.

Winter is coming quickly.

Wen Yanbo is very quiet, but don’t really think he is quiet. Wen Yanbo, who believed in Buddhism in his later years, became extremely terrible. In history, Cai Que’s death was driven by him, and Gao Taotao was just an accomplice. Now he has been suppressed by Wang Ju for seven years. Why did it take seven years? Before Wang Ju came back, the court began to suppress it. Therefore, Wen Yanbo accumulated a terrible hostility in his heart...

But he couldn't find any opportunity, and the year was too quiet.

The front line is still using money, immigrating, building forts, especially the Great Wall.

In addition, Wang Ju took the Yellow River and some tributaries to build eight medium-sized river canals and more than 40 small river canals for irrigation, but none of them reached the scale of Hanyuan Canal.

This is also Wang Ju considers the time issue. If it is a large-scale water conservancy, it will take at least two years of construction time. At that time, the court would be a different person. Just looking for an excuse, the project would be abandoned halfway. It would be better not to repair it.

When winter comes, these canals are completed one by one, but they also cost money.

In addition, it is sand prevention project, which is not that difficult. Some methods of sand control projects in later generations, such as the method of Kubuqi Desert control, can be used.

Compared with later generations, equipment and technology are now behind, but the advantage is that the water and soil deteriorate are not serious. At the same time, nearly 100,000 troops of various colors are stationed on the five fronts, and labor can also make up for the gap in equipment. So as long as a little money is invested, the entire northwest landscape will be greatly improved in ten years.

However, because of the political situation, Wang Ju canceled this idea and promoted these methods only in a few garrison sites as pilot projects. After the political situation is stable, these pilot projects will bring reflection to some people and accumulate relevant experience.

And the railway in Shen Kuo...

It also takes a lot of money to bury Zhao Xu in the court.

However, with this expense, the finances have been barely surplus this year. The most important thing is that the weather is good this year, and the front is extremely quiet, without even a decent rebellion.

Moreover, although this battle is huge, it is strictly speaking, it cannot be considered a harsh person. For example, buying and buying various materials and purchasing, this is inevitable. After this battle, and subsequent immigration, if you use a large amount of materials and food, you must buy them in large quantities from the people. However, in order to prevent bad phenomena, various transshipment departments, training departments, and bank departments will jointly send people to inspect and set fair prices. Merchants and the people cannot suffer losses, nor can they let merchants take the opportunity to make money from the national crisis.

That is to let everyone make a little profit, but they can't make too much money by being unintentional.

As for various forceful labor, in addition to those prisoners of war, they also used recruitment. The military and civilians who went to the front line not only had good salaries, but also received considerable rewards after the war.

In just over a year, the silk, copper coins and silk spent by the court reached 200 million yuan, and it was still new yuan. So much money was spent all over the country, and then the war stopped and consumption began. There is no scientific statistics now, otherwise the GDP growth rate of the Song Dynasty this year could reach 20%.

It is truly a way to promote peace and prosperity, peace and prosperity for the country.

Wen Yanbo couldn't move either, but the time was coming...

After the Spring Festival, under Gao Taotao's forced force, the court suddenly appointed five ministers, Han Zhongyan as the right prime minister of the Shangshu, Fu Yaoyu as the Secretariat Minister, Liu Zhi as the Secretariat Minister, Sun Gu as the Secretariat Minister, and Wang Yansou as the Kaifeng Prefecture.

Cai Bian argued that the late emperor had just entered the territory, so Fu Yaoyu had nothing to do, so why did he get Sun Gu and Wang Yansou again?

Gao Taotao scolded Cai Bian behind the curtain for no reason, and then released Cai Bian out of Beijing.

Okay, now from top to bottom, 80% of the capable officials of the department have been replaced by old party ministers, so Fan Zuyu began to lead everyone to write a letter, that is, whether this battle in the northwest is worth it.

Or to put it another way, the Northwest War lasted for several years and cost 500 million RMB. If it was divided into a hundred years, it would cost 500 million RMB a year. If this was used to attract the four barbarians, would the Western Xia be a enemy and would the Liao Kingdom have a bad relationship?

But because some people earned their reputations for their military achievements, the war broke out. From outside the seventh level canal, to the city of Yongle, and then to the banks of the Mud Water River, how many people died?

Fan Chunren said that he only spent 300 million yuan.

In fact, this is really a confusing account, and it lasts for several years, no one can calculate it, but Wang Ju estimates that the actual expenditure in all aspects may reach 400 million yuan.

Fan Zuyu retorted, what about the interest.

Even if it is 300 million yuan, plus a hundred years of interest, it will still reach 500 million yuan in a year.

Zhang Shangying was so angry that he laughed. He had a good memory, so he reported on the spot that the country's annual income and expenditures from the beginning of Xining were from the beginning of Xining.
To be continued...