After using a little food in this unknown Cao Town, Wu Haowen, He Li, Qin Hui and others set out on the itinerary to Baibo Town. Baibo Town is Wu Haowen's hometown, and there is also the Wu family's ancestral home in the town, but no one lives there.

Since Wu Haogu was in the Yan land, the Wu family who lived near Baibo and Jingdong Shangshi City in Luoyang went to Tianjin and Yanshan Prefectures one after another. Wu Haogu took out part of his land and distributed it to them, and also opened Baibo Family School (primary school) and Yanshan Academy (primary school, located in the Beijing Zoo in later generations) for the Wu family's children to study and progress.

The Wu family has almost gone, and of course the land has been sold one after another. Although the farmer in Luoyang is hard, there are many bureaucratic families, so the land is still easy to deal with.

The Wu family’s ancestral home located in the center of Baibo Town was not sold, and it was maintained by Wu Haowen.

The situation in Baibo Town is much better than the nearby Caoshi, and even more prosperous than it was more than ten years ago. This is the terminal station of the Grand Canal to the west, including Jiangnan silk, Tianjin cloth, Dingzhou porcelain, Yanshan iron, and Liaodong. They will be transported by Gang Ship and then trafficked west by land to the distant Qihe Land.

Now the direction of the Silk Road on the Land has changed again. It will not go to the northern grasslands, but will go to the Luoyang-Jingzhao-Lingzhou-Liangzhou-Xizhou-Ziye line.

However, this Silk Road is of no use for ordinary linen and earthen silk. Because the Jiangnan silk transported to Baibo in large quantities through water, Tianjin cloth is not expensive than local silk cloth in Luoyang, and the things are much better.

Therefore, the reopening of the Silk Road did not bring much prosperity to Luoyang and even the entire Henan Prefecture.

In fact, even the governments of Henan Prefecture did not receive a few taxes. Because most of the merchant groups walking on the Silk Road now follow the missions of Liang Kingdom and evade taxes in the name of tribute. The Song Dynasty court was also happy to use economic interests to win over Liang Kingdom in Hexi.

Wu Haowen and a few others walked around the town and arrived at the door of the mansion with many plaques of "Jinshi Family" hanging on it. Over the past decade, the Wu family has produced a group of Jinshi. However, due to Wu Haogu's involvement, most of the official fortunes are not good. However, the Wu family's family in Luoyang has been rising steadily... No one knows when their family will be a royal family again!

There are several rows of horse-haired pillars outside the door of the Wu family, and several post horses are tied to the pillars.

A Wu family manager stood outside the door. When he saw Wu Haowen coming, he immediately stepped forward and bowed: "Second Master, someone has come to the Zuyuan, and an edict has arrived."

"The edict?" Wu Haowen was stunned, "Where are the officials entering the Zuoru Academy?"

"Just waiting in the lobby."

Wu Haowen turned around and bowed to He Li, Qin Hui and the other two, "Wenzhen, please come to the inner hall first, wait for me, and I will go to the inner hall first."

The sky is great, the earth is great, the emperor is the biggest!

Since the emperor had an order, of course he had to accept it. However, this order was not a major imperial edict of Xuanma, but he only gave Wu Haowen the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple and the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion.

After the Yuanfeng reorganization, the Honglu Temple was a yamen in charge of hospitality with the four barbarians, but its duties were often violated by the Privy Council and Guoxin, and gradually became a vacancier. However, after the Great Zhou Dynasty established the country and sent a special and full-minded envoy to the Song Dynasty, the Honglu Temple returned to the Spring and became the dispatching agency for the Great Song Dynasty's envoys to foreign envoys. Wang Fu, the second Minister of the Song Dynasty to Tianjin, was sent by a Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple. The envoys sent by the Song Dynasty to Liang, Xia and Dali were all appointed as the Chief of the Honglu Temple.

Since Wang Fu, who was stationed in Zhou Kingdom, had just taken office, it was impossible to replace him immediately. And it was impossible to let Wu Haowen go to his brother to be an envoy. So after receiving the edict, Wu Haowen understood that he was going to go to the Great Jin Kingdom for an envoy.

After seeing off the incoming officials sent by the Jinzu Academy, Wu Haowen went to the inner hall to meet He Li and Qin Hui. He didn't even tell the door, so he told them about his guess about his mission to go to the Great Jin Kingdom. He also asked Qin Hui if he wanted to go to Datong as a member of the mission (He Li was the top scholar and had a bright future and would not choose to go to the envoy)?

"The bachelor will go to the Jin Kingdom?"

"Is it related to the recent North Governor's interference in the border areas?"

Both new Jinshi had just become officials and had not yet received the assignment and were polished by the officialdom. It was the most energetic time. After hearing the words of Wu Haowen, I started to ask.

"It should be related to the Beilu disturbance of the border," Wu Haowen picked up a tea bowl and drank it. "The Jin Kingdom used to block divination and Meng Gu to attack the border, most of which were to make money and give some annual monies to get things done."

He Li, the new top scholar, shook his head: "I want to give annual monies again? People's fat and cream are not easy to get, so why should I give it to the enemy? How strong can the Jin Kingdom be? Is it even stronger than the Khitan?"

Wu Haowen smiled and said, "If the Jin Kingdom is strong or not, you have to go and see it with your own eyes. However, the imperial court's troops are not weak now. If you really want to fight, you should not suffer too much."

Qin Hui echoed: "Yes, in this battle of Jiaozhi, the new army of the court will show its power! Four thousand and over 100,000, and the King of Jiaozhi was captured alive!"

"Bachelor," He Li frowned, "With such an elite soldier, the court still needs to give Jin people an annual monies?"

Wu Haowen frowned. He Zhuangyuan's idea was a bit dangerous! He looked at Qin Hui again.

Qin Hui also said: "Since there are strong soldiers, why do you need annual monies?"

Wu Haowen shook his head and his tone was slightly calmer: "We are a scholar who does not know about soldiers, so we should be careful about soldiers. Should we give annual tribute or give them strong soldiers? The two governments will discuss together."

Having said that, I was no longer a little offensive. Moreover, Wu Haowen had to go to Beijing to meet you immediately. I didn’t have time to travel with He Li and Wu Haowen, so I stayed in the Wu family’s mansion in Baibo Town for a night, then said goodbye and left, and went back to Songyang Academy.

The two of them were speechless all the way, walking in a large area of ​​wheat fields that were not very good. In fact, it was not bad. It was just that the land here in Luoyang had been cultivated for two thousand years, and the land power had been exhausted. Moreover, the rain had been relatively low in recent years, so the crops were just like this.

When they thought that the people of the Central Plains worked all day long, they did not even have enough food and clothing, and they had to use their ointment and blood to taste the Hulu who went north. The two of them felt a little depressed. He Li sighed and turned to Qin Hui and said, "When it comes, I won't go back to the academy for now."

"Wenzhen, where are you going?"

"When I go to Kaifeng Prefecture, my scholars will shoulder the world. How can I sit back and see the country be bullied by the captives?"

Qin Hui looked at He Li with admiration, "Is it possible that Brother Wenzhen wants to join the army?"

"It is not about joining the army, but about contacting students from the Imperial Academy, Wuxue, Qingcheng and other students, and submitting a memorial to the court for war!"

"Contact the Taixue, Wuxue, Qingcheng...but the martial arts, Qingcheng Academy is a new learning."

The Taixue refers to the Biyong Academy, which is also a half-new and half-old school. In today's Song Dynasty, this is considered an old school. The Wushu Academy and Qingcheng Academy are new schools.

There has always been a barrier between old and new ones, and there has never been a precedent for joining the imperial court.

"When the country is in trouble, what else can the scholars divide the new and old? They should work together to contribute to the country." He Li said, "I will contact the leaders of the three schools after I enter Beijing this time."

Qin Hui was silent for a while, and nodded and said, "Wenzhenguo is a role model for us scholars, so we should follow our questions."

...

Of course, Wu Haowen would not have thought that a huge student movement would soon sweep Kaifeng Prefecture, and he would have inexplicably become the target of this movement...

After breaking up with He Li and Qin Hui, he didn't think much about the attitudes of the two new Jinshis, so he hurried to Luoyang City to say goodbye to his father and mother, and then headed to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Just one day before arriving in Kaifeng Prefecture, an envoy came to the northwest, the Fengming Mountain Feng Grand Secretary who had lived in the Censorate Prison for a long time - he was also a Grand Secretary! He was the Grand Secretary of Heaven who was known as the most reasonable and convincing person.

By the way, although Zhao Ji conferred King Liang to Zhang Li. The territory of the Tianli Cult is also called "Liang Kingdom", Zhang Li still issued orders in the name of the Tianli scholars and did not call himself the king within and establish the royal court. The ruling institutions in Hexi have not changed at all, and are still academic paths, academic institutions, colleges, and academies.

However, when dating Song, you still have to use a name that makes people understand. So Fengmingshan is now the Grand Secretary of Tianli Pavilion in Liangguo, and he sounds very reasonable...

As a Grand Secretary, Fengmingshan came to Kaifeng Prefecture to be responsible for his heavy responsibility. He brought news of the revival of the Liao Kingdom and a plan to attack Jin from all directions.

The revived Liao Kingdom was of course the Western Liao Dynasty of Yelu Dashi. The plan to attack Jin in all directions was powerful, and the four sides needed the Song Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Western Liao Dynasty and Liang Kingdom to join forces to siege the Jin Dynasty.

Among them, the Song Dynasty went out of Hedong, Zhaoyi (walking at Feihukou), and Shuofang attacked Datong Prefecture. The Zhou Dynasty attacked Shangjing Linhuang Prefecture and Huanglong Prefecture in the north. The Western Liao Dynasty swept the grasslands in the northern desert. The Liang Kingdom came out of the Hetao Prefecture and surrounded Datong Prefecture from the west.

Four large troops were launched together, and it should be a piece of cake to destroy the Jin Dynasty. What was even more touching was the solution after the Jin Dynasty. After the Jin Dynasty was destroyed, the grasslands in the northern desert returned to the Western Liao Dynasty, and the Western Liao Dynasty paid tribute to the Song Dynasty. Datong Prefecture granted the Gao family of Lingzhou to establish the Dai Kingdom, and as a vassal state in the north of the Song Dynasty, monitoring the grasslands. Liang Kingdom obtained Lingzhou and continued to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty and guarded the Western Frontier for the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Liang, Dai, and Liao were willing to follow the Song Dynasty together to put pressure on the Zhou State, forcing the Great Zhou Republic to submit to the Song Dynasty and guard the Northeast and Goryeo...

If the court promoted Jiaozhi in the south to Yue and ordered it to guard the south, then Zhao Ji would become the "Song Emperor" who commanded all directions, and the world would be nominally unified!

In Chongzheng Hall, the Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty frowned slightly and looked at Fengming Mountain: "Can you really win by attacking Jin from all directions? It is said that the Jin Kingdom is strong and better than the former Great Liao!"

Fengmingshan, wearing Confucian uniform and a peach wood sword (I see the emperor, of course, can't bring a real sword anymore), stood in the hall. Listening to Zhao Ji's question, he replied: "In fact, there is no need to attack Jin from all directions. With Dazhou and one side, it is enough to defeat Datong and take Linhuang. The reason why the Great Zhou did not send troops was not because of how powerful the Jin Kingdom was, but because Wu Haogu was unwilling to be calm in the northern grassland."

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