When Pan Mei led a large army to attack the Southern Han Dynasty, Wang Ming served as the transfer commander of the army, responsible for the supply of materials. Lingnan mountains were high and the roads were dangerous, and boats could not be connected. Wang Ming led tens of thousands of civilians to transport food and grass and supply military supplies, but there was no mistake. Every time the Song army captured a city, Wang Ming would definitely go to the city to collect the documents and send soldiers to guard the warehouse. When the Song army was unable to attack Hezhou for a long time, Wang Ming suggested that Pan Mei send troops to attack quickly, otherwise the situation of the Song army would be even more unfavorable after the reinforcements of the Southern Han Dynasty arrived.

The generals were hesitant, so Wang Ming led more than a hundred soldiers to escort the baggage and thousands of civilians to attack the city gate. The defenders in the city were afraid and opened the door to surrender. The Song army attacked Guangzhou, and the Southern Han soldiers resisted stubbornly. After Wang Ming discussed with Pan Mei and others, he ordered several knights to burn the enemy gate with torches. The Song army took the opportunity to defeat the defenders. In order to reward his military achievements, Zhao Kuangyin was promoted to the Secretary-General, the governor of Shaozhou, and the transfer envoy of Guangnan provinces.

At the beginning of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the institutions were very bloated, people were overdoing their work, and the work efficiency was low. Moreover, the salaries of officials were low and not enough to support integrity, which made many officials corrupt and abuse the law. Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the prefectures and county officials in Xichuan to reduce redundant staff based on their household registration. The officials increased their salaries by 5,000 per month. Other prefectures and county officials also took Xichuan as an example to increase their salaries. After this move was implemented, the situation improved slightly.

There were also servants who rely on their power to often expire and often evade rent or evade rent and tax, which directly affected the court's fiscal revenue. Therefore, Tongzhou, the imperial censor Lu Chong, to ensure the tax revenue of the state, established a separate household registration in this state, directly under the Tongju Office, and urged the tax to be paid according to the household registration. In the first month of the fourth year of Kaibao, Lu Chong submitted a memorial and suggested promulgation of regulations to pass the whole country. Zhao Kuangyin felt that this move was beneficial to the court, so he immediately allowed it to be responsible for the tax.

At the same time, a major incident happened in the Liao Kingdom, and Xiao Siwen was killed by the stolen ones. Xiao Siwen was named Yingu. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Liao, he served as the Grand Marshal of Xituli. He married the princess of Yan and was soon promoted to Nanjing to remain in the country. When the Later Zhou Dynasty was conquering Jiangnan, the Liao Kingdom sent Siwen to attack Houzhou. Xiao Siwen was afraid of heat and did not dare to advance. After capturing several cities, he retreated to the army. Chairong of the Later Zhou Dynasty marched north and conquered Yijin, Waqiao, and Yukou three passes, and captured Yi, Ying, Mo and other states.

Xiao Siwen was afraid of being punished by the court, so he submitted a letter to ask the Liao Emperor to personally fight. Soon, Chai Rong was a trainee due to illness. In February of the 19th year of Yingli, Emperor Liao was killed. Xiao Siwen, Gao Xun, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court, and the Lion Envoy of the Feilong Envoy, and others established Jingzong. Because of his merits, he was promoted to Privy Councilor of the Northern Court and was also the prime minister of the Northern Court. Jingzong appointed Xiao Siwen's daughter Xiao Chuo as the queen, Xiao Chuo's nickname, Yanyan, and later became the famous Empress Xiao, the mortal enemy of the Yang family. In the second year of Baoning, Xiao Siwen followed Jingzong to hunt in Lushan, and was harmed by the thieves and posthumously named King of Chu.

After the Southern Han Dynasty was pacified by Song Ting, Li Yu, the ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was extremely frightened. He was worried that Zhao Kuangyin would have the idea of ​​him, so he sent his younger brother Li Congshan to submit a letter to Zhao Kuangyin, expressing his willingness to remove the country's name and change it to the ruler of Jiangnan. He also asked Zhao Kuangyin to give an edict to change his name.

Zhao Kuangyin agreed to his request and treated Li Congshan well. In addition to the usual rewards, he gave him an additional 50,000 taels of silver. It turned out that Li Yu had secretly given Zhao Pu 50,000 taels of silver. Zhao Pu did not dare to hide it. In fact, he reported Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin said: "You can enjoy it as much as possible, but you have to reply to the letter and give some to the envoy, and then you can get it done."

Zhao Pu replied: "There cannot be any gifts between the ministers, nor is there any reason to accept them privately.

I dare not accept the order!" Zhao Kuangyin said, "A great country should not show weakness to others, and it should make him feel unfathomable. I have my own conspiracy, so you don't have to refuse." When Li Congshan entered the court, he specially gave silver, which was the same amount of silver as Li Yu gave Zhao Pu. After Li Congshan returned, he told Li Yu, and the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were all surprised.

At this moment, Lin Renzhao, the left-behind Jiangdu, wrote a letter to Li Yu, saying: "There are too few guards in Huainan. Song Ting had destroyed Shu before, and now he has captured Lingnan again. They are tired from the road and have a chance to take advantage of the opportunity. Please send me tens of thousands of elite soldiers to cross the river from Shouchun and recover the old land of Jiangbei. If the Song Dynasty sent troops to rescue, I am willing to defend Jianghuai and decide the outcome with them. If the humble minister wins by chance, it will naturally be blessed in the whole country. Otherwise, Your Majesty can kill my whole family and apologize to the Song Dynasty. Please inform the Song court in advance, just say that it was my rebellion and not obeying the orders. The Song court could not blame Your Majesty at that time, and Your Majesty could be at ease." Li Yu did not dare to offend Zhao Kuangyin and did not adopt his suggestion.

Lin Renzhao has always been a reputation for being brave and is the best among the generals in Jiangnan. Zhao Kuangyin also heard that he was brave and good at fighting and did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he used the method of bondage to deal with the Southern Tang Dynasty and temporarily blocked the river to defend himself. However, Zhao Kuangyin did not forget Jiangnan in his heart and often thought about ways to get rid of Lin Renzhao in order to march south in the future.

In the fourth year of Kaibao, Li Congshan followed Li Yu's order and came to Bianliang to meet Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin left Li Congshan and rewarded him with a building, and was granted the title of Taining Army. Li Congshan did not dare to disobey, so he had to write a letter to Li Yu and stay in the capital to serve. Li Yu then wrote a memorial, asking Zhao Kuangyin to release his younger brother back to Jiangnan. However, Zhao Kuangyin refused to agree, and just issued an edict saying: "Li Congshan is talented, and I will use him more. Now the north and the south are one family, why bother to divide each other? Don't worry."

Li Yu didn't know why, so he had to send envoys to Li Congshan to inquire about the news. Therefore, the envoys from the north and the south were constantly in the way. Zhao Kuangyin then sent a painter to pretend to be an envoy to meet Lin Renzhao, and described his face and painted it secretly. When Li Congshan met, Zhao Kuangyin hung the portrait of Lin Renzhao in a different room. Then he sent the court minister to lead Li Congshan in to see. The court minister deliberately asked Li Congshan if he knew the person in the portrait?

Li Congshan said in surprise: "This is the left-behind Lin Renzhao of my country. Why is his portrait here?" The court minister deliberately stumbled and said, "I have already served in the capital. We are all ministers of the court. Therefore, I might as well tell you the truth. The emperor loved Lin Renzhao's talents very much, so he specially gave him an edict to come. He was willing to come back according to the order, so he sent this portrait to show his loyalty."

After the man said that, he took Li Congshan to a empty house and said to him: "I heard that the emperor has planned to give this house to Lin Renzhao. When he arrives in the capital, he will at least be granted the title of military governor." Li Congshan agreed, and naturally he was very suspicious. After Li Congshan returned, he sent someone to hurry back to Jiangnan to report to Li Yu and ask if Lin Renzhao was rebellious.

Li Yu immediately summoned Lin Renzhao and asked if he had received the edict from Zhao Kuangyin? Lin Renzhao was unaware of it and naturally replied that he did not. Li Yu did not find out the details, so he suspected that Lin Renzhao was intending to deceive him, so he immediately gave Lin Renzhao a banquet and secretly poisoned him. Lin Renzhao drank poisonous wine, and after returning home, he soon had a poisonous attack and died of bleeding from his seven orifices.

When Zhao Kuangyin heard that Lin Renzhao was dead, he was very pleased. However, Zhao Kuangyin still detained Li Congshan and refused to let him return to Jinling. Zhao Kuangyin ordered Li Congshan to convey his intention and summon Li Yu to the court. Naturally, Li Yu did not dare to go to Bianliang, but just sent envoys to pay tribute and repeatedly asked for his younger brother to return to the country. Zhao Kuangyin still refused, and just urged Li Yu to enter the capital as soon as possible.

Li Yu used the excuse of being sick and refused to enter the capital. Zhao Kuangyin then prepared to send troops to fight. At this time, the Zhou lord Chai Zongxun and his son had moved to Fangzhou. The Zhou lord died of illness soon after, Zhao Kuangyin was mourning for a while and stopped in court for ten days. He was posthumously named Emperor Gong of Zhou and buried on the left side of Qingling of Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, known as Shunling.

After Zhao Kuangyin pacified Lingnan, he traveled in a low position one day and night and came to Zhao Pu's home. It happened that Qian Chu, the King of Wu Yue, sent someone to send letters and gifts to Zhao Pu. The list said it was "Ten Bottles of Sea Goods" and placed it under the left corridor of the main hall. Zhao Kuangyin happened to have a car and Zhao Pu hurried out to greet him without having time to block the gifts. Zhao Kuangyin saw the items and asked what they were. Zhao Pu did not dare to hide it and reported it truthfully that it was a sea good.

Zhao Kuangyin said, "The sea items sent by Qian Chu must be very good." He ordered people to open them, but found that the bottle was filled with golden seeds. Zhao Pu was very nervous and kowtowed and apologized, "I haven't opened the letter yet, and I really don't know what it is. If I knew, I would definitely report to the emperor and refuse to drop these things." Zhao Kuangyin said with a smile: "Even if you accept it, don't worry too much. He thought that you planned the major national affairs."

After Zhao Kuangyin finished speaking, he left in a hurry. Zhao Pu was worried about this for many days. Later, he saw that Zhao Kuangyin treated him as before and was relieved. However, the wave had not yet settled, and the wave had started again. At that time, the government prohibited private trafficking of large wood from Shaanxi and Gansu. Zhao Pu once sent minor officials to the market to buy wood, and connected them to the capital to build a house.

The minor official took the opportunity to steal wood and sold it in the capital under the banner of Zhao Pu. When the third magistrate Zhao Yilian knew about this, he reported to Zhao Kuangyin that Zhao Pu's secret purchase of wood was an act of violation of the order, and that selling it for profit was even more illegal. After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin was furious and said, "Is he still so greedy?" He ordered the investigation and wanted to issue an order to expel Zhao Pu. Fortunately, Wang Pu submitted a petition and solved the matter.

According to the old system, every time the prime minister and Privy Councilor waited for the summons in Changchun Hall, they would wait together in the hut. Zhao Kuangyin heard that Zhao Pu's son Zhao Chengzong married the daughter of Privy Councilor Li Chongju as his wife, so he ordered them to wait separately. Zhao Pu also exchanged free land for the royal vegetable field privately to expand his house and run a hotel to make profits.

Lu Duosun was appointed as a Hanlin scholar. He took advantage of Zhao Kuangyin's summoning to attack Zhao Pu's shortcomings many times. It happened that Lei You's neighbor beat the drum of the head of the palace and reported the officials Hu Zan, Li Kedu took bribes against the law, and Liu Wei forged the official documents to obtain the official position. Wang Dong once accepted bribes from Li Kedu, but Zhao Fu was appointed as an official in Xichuan but said he was not in charge of ill, and was protected by Zhao Pu.

Zhao Kuangyin was furious and ordered the Censor's Office to review and interrogate, and they were all punished. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin's favor to Zhao Pu gradually became distant and he began to issue an edict to serve as the governor of the government and affairs of the government to seize Zhao Pu's power. Soon, Zhao Kuangyin transferred Zhao Pu out of the capital and served as the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang, the chief tutor of the Taifu, and the Tong Pingzhangshi.

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