The struggle between the two parties in the court and the Chinese government has finally come to an end. The old party will win back a game, which will also change the view of the Saint Zhao Ji on Han Zhongyan and others. For strong soldiers, these people are not completely helpless!

A few days later, Zhao Ji summoned the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion in Chongzheng Hall, Fan Chunli (three sons of Fan Zhongyan) to the Kaifeng Prefecture, and immediately issued a major edict. Fan Chun became the Minister of Rites and the Right Prime Minister, and entered the rank of the prime minister.

The market trend of the old party has become bullish again.

I don’t know if it is because the New Party has suffered temporary setbacks or because the end of the year is approaching, it is not convenient to start political struggles again. In the past few days, there has been no storm in the court and it is quite calm.

After today's court meeting, the prime ministers returned to the political affairs hall and discussed several important political affairs to be dealt with today.

"The envoy of the Goryeo, and the envoy of Goryeo Wu Yanchong begs for "Taiping Yulan" and reported to the matter of the support of the laidian Nvzhi's troops." Han Zhongyan sat in the main seat of the central hall and took the memorial sent by the envoy of Goryeo in his hand first. "Last year, when Yin Guan came to court, he asked for the gifts of "Taiping Yulan". The late emperor ordered that he could give them only after the proofreading was completed. I wonder what you think?"

Zeng Bu took a sip of tea and said casually: "Since the late emperor has an imperial edict, let me give it to them."

"Taiping Yulan" is an encyclopedia compiled during the Taiping Xingguo period when Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty was in power. It has 1,000 volumes and 55 parts. Each part is divided into some major categories and has sub-items. There are about 5,474 categories in total. It can be considered to be all-encompassing and full of them. If it is divided and sorted out, it can support a medieval university. However, Zhao Guangyi did not use this big book to run schools and educate.

This book was originally called "Taiping General Category". In order to show that he read the book quickly, Taizong Zhao Guangyi once said: "I want to read it all in a year," so he ordered people to add three volumes a day to prepare "Yi Ye's Reading", and then he changed it to "Taiping Yulan". It is estimated that Zhao Guangyi, the fat man, used three volumes of "Taiping Yulan" every night as hypnotic medicine...

In order to show his erudition, the kings of the Goryeo Kingdom also wanted to get "Taiping Yulan", so they sought "Taiping Yulan" many times. However, this book was listed as a banned book that was prohibited from being circulated, so they were not allowed until the second year of Yuanfu when Song Zhezong was in power.

Han Zhongyan also knew that Zeng Bu was also involved in the decision to allow "Taiping Yulan" to "export" at that time. Now Zeng Bu's answer was expected, so he glanced at him and turned his eyes to Fan Chunli, "Yi Su, the envoy of the Goryeo Kingdom asked for "Taiping Yulan" and the female lead to report together. Do you think you want to connect the two?"

"My husband is very worried. But the lazidao girl has always been a subordinate of the Liao Kingdom. If the Goryeo people want to annex them, they will inevitably offend the Liao Kingdom. We have to beware of being dragged into the water by the Goryeo people."

Like their brothers, Fan Chunli was both old gentlemen who were particularly unwilling to get into trouble with the barbarians. If the Koreans did not associate the Holy Lady Nian with "Taiping Yulan", he would have no worries.

But now, things seem to have become that Goryeo informed the Song Dynasty that it had conquered the Lai Dian Nuzhi. The Song Dynasty gave 1,000 volumes of "Taiping Yulan" to show encouragement...

Zeng Bu looked at Fan Chunli with a little contempt. Fan Zhongyan's three sons were all virtuous and feared the barbarians as if they were like tigers!

What's wrong with encouraging Goryeo? If Goryeo could annex more territory with raw and mature women, it might have fought with the Great Liao Kingdom. Wouldn't the Great Song Dynasty make profits from it?

But Zeng Bu's contemptuous eyes were ignored by Fan Chunli. He said slowly: "It is better to ask the Liao envoy first about the situation of Helandian Nuzhi, then explain the position of our dynasty to the Liao people, and then give "Taiping Yulan" to the Goryeo people."

As soon as Fan Chunli finished speaking, a small official from the branch suddenly walked into the door, bowed to Han Zhongyan and reported: "Report to my grandfather, I have an urgent matter to ask for my visit."

This governor Wang is the son-in-law Wang Shi. He has returned from Haizhou and is now the old confidant of the saint Zhao Ji.

However, because Wang Shi was the son-in-law and had never sang a famous name outside Donghua Gate, it was difficult for Zhao Ji to give him an important position, so he sent him as a guest envoy, responsible for receiving envoys of the Liao Kingdom.

"Is it true?" asked Fan Chunli, the Right Chief of Shangshu.

"It seems that Dutingyi is haunted..."

"Ah? Haunted?"

"How did you report to the Political Affairs Hall for haunted things?"

"This Wang Jinqing is too nonsense."

The three priests present all agreed immediately. How can we find the prime minister for haunting? The prime minister doesn’t care about catching ghosts. He has to go to Daxiangguo Temple, where there are monks who can be saved. If he can’t save it, he will go to Jingling Palace (Royal Taoist Temple) to find Taoist priests to catch it. In short, demons and ghosts are not under the Prime Minister’s jurisdiction.

"Please come in."

Han Zhongyan waved his hand and sent the minor official to invite Wang Shi. No matter how Wang Shi said that he was a confidant in the official family, he was still a first-class relative and noble minister, so he always had to give face.

After a while, Wang Shi walked into the Political Affairs Hall with a wry smile. Han Zhongyan was very familiar with him, and without waiting for him to salute, he asked, "Jin Qing, what's going on?"

"How can I know?" Wang Shi shook his head repeatedly, "The Liao envoy was fine the day before yesterday. Yesterday, he suddenly said that Duting Post was dilapidated and could not live in, and there were female ghosts in white, and they were clamoring to move out."

"Then go to Daxiangguo Temple to find a monk to recite scriptures." Zeng Bu said.

"I've found it," Wang Shi said, "I've found Master Zhishen and Master Huiming of the Shaozhuyuan to recite scriptures, but I was still haunted last night... I was shocked by the Liao envoy Xiao Baoxian."

After listening to Wang Shi's report, the priests present shook their heads and smiled bitterly. The prince consort was the same. He had to find a Taoist monk. How could he find the monks of the Roasted Pig Courtyard and the monk Lu Zhishen?

It’s just the two of them that he can save the ghosts is really a ghost!

"Or arrange for someone else to go somewhere first?" Han Zhongyan said with a frown.

"Xiaguan has a garden in the west of the city. How about the Liao envoys stay there for a few days, and then let them move back after cleaning up Duting Post?"

Wang Shu then made a suggestion.

Zeng Bu nodded and said to Han Zhongyan: "Just follow the words of Wang Duwei."

The haunted incident of Dutingyi was not even considered a small matter in the eyes of the priests, and it was just an interesting story. So they did not discuss it seriously, or even sent someone to investigate, and made a decision. However, none of them expected that the haunted incident of Dutingyi was simply a demolition conspiracy of a lucky villain...

...

The prince-consort Wang Shi is of course one of the participants in the "demolition conspiracy"!

After leaving the imperial city, Wang Shi did not return to the "haunted" Dutingyi, and went directly to the ancient Lihua Villa outside the city.

At this time, Wu Haogu, Gao Qiu, and Pan Xiao'an who rushed back from Yanzhou to celebrate the New Year were all in the Lihua Villa Courtyard. While waiting for news from Wang Shi, they were discussing the follow-up of the "Samurai in front of the Palace".

The Chongzheng Palace asked questions a few days ago just a big plan, but it has not yet been implemented!

500-1,000 warriors in front of the temple are a very elite armed force! Behind it is also involved up to 1.5 million acres of land and millions of resettlement costs.

This mission must be taken down!

"Our court has twenty-four squads in front of the hall. They were originally elite troops, but now they have become ceremonial guards and cannot be fought. Otherwise, there would be no need for knights in front of the hall."

Pan Xiao'an first mentioned the situation of the troops in front of the palace. In the Taizu and Taizong dynasties, the combat effectiveness of the troops in front of the palace was still very strong. But now they have become like-minded people, and can only serve as guards of ceremonies and cannot fight.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "At the beginning of the country, the world was martial, so we could naturally recruit warriors from all squads. But now the literary style is too strong, and most wealthy families value culture over military. There is no source of warriors, so there are naturally no warriors from all squads to recruit. So we can only take the route of raising soldiers to see if we can raise some heroes for the country.

In fact, the Privy Council’s Military Academy’s Military Academy’s approach is also good. If you live in the city, you will not be able to raise soldiers by yourself for more than 100 years. You can only teach the military academic training like the Military Academy since childhood. If you have ten or eight years of experience, you will definitely be able to teach it.”

In ancient China, "entering the city" was almost equal to losing combat power. No matter what kind of elites, once they moved into the prosperous and prosperous capital of the world, they would be able to grow waste for decades.

Of course, the same is true for the generals who founded the Song Dynasty! Even without Zhao Kuangyin's wealth and military power, the result would not be different. In fact, the general capitalists and general artists of the Northern Song Dynasty were still good, and at least they could leave many priceless artistic treasures for future generations.

If you want to reverse this trend, you can only open a military academy. In fact, the world has maintained the combat effectiveness of the military in ancient and modern times, namely the two routes of the "feudal fief" system and the military academy system... Of course, you cannot run a military academy like the Northern Song Dynasty martial arts. The problem of martial arts is that it "divides the opposition" between soldiers and generals, and only wants to train generals, but not grassroots officers.

Of course, "generals" who have no combat effectiveness will not pose a threat to the Northern Song Dynasty court. And the angry young officers with explosive combat effectiveness are sometimes difficult to control... Anyway, no feudal dynasty in history can firmly control the group of angry young people.

Therefore, for the Northern Song Dynasty, the most favorable military combination was the heroes hired by money and the "generals" who had no force.

Unfortunately, the "generals" cultivated in martial arts cannot command soldiers at all. Without the atmosphere of martial arts, it is difficult for heroes to spend money to hire them.

Gao Qiu smiled and shook his head and said, "Dalang, you are really thinking too much. Nowadays, most military officers are used as a wise mentor, and you don't need to know martial arts at all. If you have to study military school for ten or eight years, will the generals in Kaifeng Prefecture jump up?"
Chapter completed!