In the northwest corner of the outer city of Daming Mansion, near the Zhangshui River, there is a very grand museum with white walls and green tiles, pavilions and terraces, arches and eaves, tall portals, and there are listless guards outside the archway-shaped door. You can tell at a glance that it is an official office, but this is not an ordinary official office, but an inn for officials coming and going.

Officials in the Song Dynasty were treated very well. Not only could they be comfortable in office, but they could fully enjoy the superiority of the Song Dynasty's feudalism when traveling. Guanshi was used to serve traveling officials. Officials went out on duty or left their posts, and they were all given a ticket to the Guanshi by their residence road. They could enter the Guanshi along the way, and they could eat, drink, and stay without any money.

Of course, officials have different treatments at different levels. Not only can they stay in higher-level rooms and courtyards, but they also receive different daily meals. In addition, if senior officials go out to work, they can also receive entertainment from local officials along the way, eating, drinking and playing along the way, and rushing slowly, which is more free than public-paid travel in later generations.

Today, the inn located in the outer city of Daming Mansion seems to have come from a high-ranking official. The street outside the inn gate is full of carriages and horses, as well as many guards, servants from Daming Mansion, coachmen, horse mansion and even servants following him, almost blocked the entire street.

There are also wine and meat in the inn to entertain these people, each of whom is squinting his neck while eating and drinking in the north wind in the autumn.

It seems that today is the senior officials from Daming Mansion who came to the inn in person to hold a banquet for some high-ranking officials who were passing by, and they were welcomed.

At this moment, the scenery is the best among the inn. There are not many people sitting on the pavilion on both sides of the Zhangshui River. In the middle are two older scholars, both wearing soft hats and flattering clothes, which are both refreshing and chic, both of whom are around 60 years old. One of them is Wu Haogu’s new boss Zhang Shangying. The other one is older, with graceful and long beards, and at first glance he is a high-ranking official who has been rising and falling in the officialdom for many years. This is the official of the parents of Daming Mansion, a bachelor of Zizheng Hall, and Han Zhongyan of Daming Mansion.

This Han Zhongyan is an extraordinary person. He is the eldest son of Han Qi and Han Zhongxian, who served in the three dynasties of Renzong, Yingzong and Shenzong, and was also the eldest son of Han Qi and Han Zhongxian, who was "the master of Guyi in the two dynasties". Moreover, Han Zhongyan was also a Jinshi outside Donghuamen, and he can be said to be a Song Dynasty bureaucrat with excellent reincarnation exams.

Because he is the eldest son of Han Qi, the leader of the old party, he is regarded as the core of the leader by the old party, whose talents are increasingly declining. However, those who truly understand Han Zhongyan know that Han Qi's son is actually a weak person and does not pose any threat to the new party.

Therefore, although Han Zhongyan is a recognized leader of the old party, Zhao Xu and Zhang Dun's blow to him was just to "stand by" in Daming Mansion. Han Zhongyan and the new party figures also maintained a relatively harmonious relationship on the surface. Today, they were still holding a banquet in the inn of Daming Mansion to welcome Zhang Shangying who was passing by.

Wu Haogu and Zhang Shuye were also accompanying the pavilions. They were both wearing their own public uniforms, not at all elegant, and they were all sitting seriously. They were talking about laughter and laughing, and they didn’t talk about official duties, but talked about poetry, writing and painting. Wu Haogu was also a literati. The first is undoubtedly painting, and his brush and calligraphy are very neat, and his poems are a little worse, but they can also respond to the previous two sentences. He has also read books seriously in this life. Although he cannot compare with his younger brother Wu Haowen, he can also say a few sentences, and he has half a piece of lyrics that have passed down from generation to generation!

The content of the conversation gradually turned to Jiehe Shang City. Han Zhongyan frowned and said, "Brother Tianjue, why is Jiehe Shang City built? I'm afraid there are many people who know about it in my dynasty. The Liao people also have their eyes and ears, so how could they know nothing? If they understand the inside story, the business market may not be successful, right?"

Zhang Shangying glanced at Wu Haogu after hearing this, and said, "Chongdao, tell me."

"Here."

Wu Haogu responded and asked back, "I don't know why Jiehe Shang City was built as far as the Grand Mansion knows?"

Han Zhongyan replied: "It was not built to attack Liao?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "The mansion must have heard from you."

Han Zhongyan narrowed his eyes and looked at Wu Haogu, frowned, not knowing what he was thinking. Wu Haogu's expression did not change and smiled and said, "The market was not built to attack Liao. The officials were kind-hearted kings. They were unwilling to go to war between Song and Liao, and countless creatures were miserable."

It turns out that he is a lucky villain! Han Zhongyan thought to himself: Wu Haogu's mouth is really sweet, and even such a warlike lord in the present day have been praised as a benevolent king.

Wu Haogu continued: "And, how can one restore Yanyun's land be restored by relying solely on a market? To seize Yanyun, one needs elite soldiers and generals to attack and fight in the wild and destroy the strong city. If the soldiers cannot defeat it, there is no hope of recovery."

"Didn't the imperial court set up a military and academic department? Is it now preparing to coach elite soldiers?"

Wu Haogu shook his head and said, "It is difficult for military training in our dynasty to ascend to heaven. Moreover, the establishment of the Military Science Department is just to teach the loyalty and righteousness of the young general of the Western Army."

The role of the Privy Council Military Academy is very vague. Zhang Dun may want to train troops through the training team and generals. But he did not dare to say this publicly in the court. After all, the separation of powers for commanding troops and dispatching troops was the family law of the Song Dynasty, which also involved the interests of Kaifeng generals, the Western Army generals and the officials in the palace. It can be said that it can affect the whole body with one move!

If the Privy Council Military Academy is used to train generals, and the Privy Council directly controls the "soldier academic generals" to train troops, it is equivalent to breaking through the family rules of the ancestors and implementing civil servants to control military troops! The Song Dynasty's use of civil servants to control military troops was not like this...

Therefore, the Military Science Department recommended by Zhang Dun only said that it was to teach the miscellaneous items of military officials and the way of loyalty and righteousness below the young envoy, which was equivalent to opening a moral article cram school for the young military officers of the Song Dynasty. This is not a civil servant who wanted to train troops.

Han Zhongyan smiled: "What he said makes sense... Our family rules are better than those of previous dynasties, but the way to win with military force is not as good as that of the Han and Tang dynasties!"

Wu Hao Ancient Road: "What the Grand Mansion said is very true. It is precisely because our dynasty's way of using troops to win is not as good as that of the Han and Tang Dynasties that the court had to set up a border He Shang City to monitor the Liao Kingdom just in case."

"Beware of the situation?" Han Zhongyan said in confusion, "Beware of the situation of the Liao Kingdom going south?"

"No," Wu Haogu sighed, "Don't you know that the Liao Kingdom is now a sign of destruction?"

Is the Liao Kingdom going to perish?

Han Zhongyan was stunned and stunned. How could this be possible? That was the panic of the Great Liao Dynasty! It was an indelible nightmare in the hearts of the Song Dynasty. In order to have a natural barrier when the Liao Kingdom might go south, the Great Song Dynasty devoted all its efforts to toss the Yellow River, causing the river channels to become corroded and flooded for years! Just in June and early autumn and July this year, the Yellow River near Daming Prefecture broke its mouth, almost submerged the city.

How could such an iron-blooded powerful Liao, who could cause heavy losses to the Song Dynasty, be destroyed? Who can destroy the Liao Dynasty?

Wu Haogu smiled bitterly and said, "Of course the Liao people will not be destroyed by our dynasty. No matter how weak the Khitans are, they are still more than enough to suppress the imperial guards of our dynasty. But now they can no longer suppress the tribes and daughters of the Mobei Grassland... The Battle of Beizhubu has been fought for almost eight years, and the second chamber and Wei and the Sixth Court, the special herds, and the palace and all the troops are trapped in the enemy. They have suffered heavy losses!"

Han Zhongyan also heard about the war between the Khitans and Beizhubu. He was not sure who won or lost. However, the great Liao Dynasty and a group of nomadic people in Zubu have not yet decided the outcome after eight years. This has already shown many problems.

If it weren't for the weak force of the Khitans, I'm afraid the Beizhubu people would be particularly capable of fighting!

"Will the people who stop the Bu Bu rise on behalf of Liao?" Han Zhongyan asked.

"Maybe." Wu Hao looked worried in ancient times. "If this is true, I'm afraid that the new impediment will be more dangerous as the weak Khitan today. It is a major concern for our dynasty!"

Han Zhongyan nodded slightly and then asked, "But what does this have to do with Jiehe Market?"

Hearing this question, Wu Haogu's originally a little worried, had already completely let go. Han Zhongyan is chasing Jiehe Market and asking questions all the time, which shows that Han Zhongyan really wants to understand why the Market was set up, rather than just because it was created by the New Party and regarded it as an enemy.

Nowadays, people in the court and later generations have used "mediocrity" to evaluate Han Zhongyan, but in Wu Haogu's view, "mediocrity" may mean that it is more reasonable and will not bite people randomly.

So Wu Haogu wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to go north to Daming Mansion to get along with Han Zhongyan and explain to him the significance of the existence of Jiehe Market. If possible, he would "sell" his younger brother to Han Zhongyan as his son-in-law.

In this way, even if Han Zhongyan replaces Zhang Dun as prime minister in the future (Han Zhongyan has been prime minister for a period of time in history), Jiehe Shangshi may continue to receive support from the court. As for his identity as the Zhong Party of Cai, he should not be lost due to his closeness to Han Zhongyan.

After all, Cai Jing himself was also unlucky because of Zhezong's death. In history, he was reused by Huizong with Tong Guan's recommendation. This time and space probably depends on himself...

"Dafu," Wuhao Ancient Road, "Jiehe Commercial City can make the business and people's livelihood in the north and south of Jiehe."

What's the meaning?

Han Zhongyan looked at Wu Haogu blankly. Wu Haogu explained: "No matter what the rest, just talk about food as the matter of the people. If Yanyun land will submit to our dynasty tomorrow, will the Grand Palace think our dynasty can hold it?"

Will you not be able to hold it?
Chapter completed!