The Liao army was rushing hard by Yang Ye and his son, and suffered heavy casualties. They soon fled. After Yang Ye killed the Liao soldiers, he reorganized the army into Yanmen Pass and inspected the soldiers. Only dozens of people were injured. Yang Ye ordered a rest for half a day, then returned to Daizhou and reported the victory. After this defeat, the Liao Kingdom called Yang Ye Yang Wudi. From then on, as long as he saw the Yang banner, he immediately led his troops to retreat.

When the Liao master heard that the Liao army was defeated, he was furious and actually led the army to invade again. He appointed Yelu Xiuge as the first step to attack Waqiao Pass. The soldiers guarding the Song army was defeated twice, so they thought that the Liao army was not very great. They actually went out of the pass to meet the enemy and arranged good formations outside the pass.

Seeing this, Yelu Xiuge selected elite troops and crossed the river south. When the Song general saw that his soldiers were few, he did not take it seriously and did not step forward to intercept them. When all the Liao soldiers crossed the river, the Song army fought with the Liao army. However, Yelu Xiuge's subordinates were all elite soldiers and brave and good at fighting. The Song army was no match for the enemy at all and was killed in a mess. In the end, even Guancheng could not be defended. The Song army abandoned the pass and fled and retreated to Mozhou. Yelu Xiuge chased him to the city of Mozhou and led his troops to siege.

The defeated report reached the capital, Zhao Guangyi issued an edict to personally fight, mobilize the generals, and send them to the north. During the march, Zhao Guangyi received the news of the defeat of the Song army and hurriedly advanced. When he arrived at Daming, he realized that the Liao lord had retreated. Zhao Guangyi then ordered Cao Han to lead the generals to guard the border and return to Bianjing. A few days after Zhao Guangyi came back, he wanted to launch an army to attack Liao. Most ministers of the court catered to his wishes and submitted a memorial saying that they should quickly take You and Ji. Only the left-handed captain Zhang Qixian wrote a letter to advise him to stop him.

Zhang Qixian, whose courtesy name was Shiliang, was from Caozhou. He was born in the eighth year of Emperor Gaozu of Jin. When he was young, his family was poor. His father died early and moved to Luoyang with his mother. Zhang Qixian, who grew up in poverty, had great ambitions and worked hard to learn. In his youth, he became a very ambitious and well-educated man. After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin visited Luoyang in the west. Zhang Qixian stopped Zhao Kuangyin's mount on the streets of Luoyang and demanded the dedication of strategies to govern the country.

Zhao Kuangyin summoned him to the palace, Zhang Qixian pointed out the sky and painted the earth, and wrote ten things, all of which were related to national unification and enriching the country and strengthening the army. Zhao Kuangyin thought four of them were very good, and Zhang Qixian insisted that all ten were important, and as he spoke, he started arguing with Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin had to let someone pull him out, but he admired this person very much. Zhao Kuangyin returned to Kaifeng and said to Zhao Guangyi: "When I was on the Western Tour, I met a strange man named Zhang Qixian in Luoyang. I will not be given an official position now, and I can assist you in the future."

After Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, Zhang Qixian passed the imperial examination and was awarded the title of the General Judge of Hengzhou. After Zhang Qixian entered the officialdom, he served as the governor of Xinzhou and the transfer envoy of Jiangnan West Road. Zhang Qixian cared about the lives of the people and often went deep into the people to understand the gains and losses of governance and local pros and cons. When he was appointed as the General Judge of Hengzhou, he reviewed a theft case and found that five of them were innocently implicated. He immediately changed the sentence and saved the lives of five people from the knife.

Hengzhou is located in a critical traffic jam, with many post stations and thousands of servants. These servants are labor-intensive and have a hard life. Zhang Qixian calculated the actual number of people needed and reduced the number of servants in half. During his tenure as a transfer envoy in Jiangnan, he verified the actual number of copper coins used to mint coins in Jiangxi, which blocked the loopholes in the corruption of traitors.

Zhang Qixian also discovered that prisoners from Jiangnan sent many people to Jing Teduo because local officials were irresponsible for asking the case and relying on Beijing to make a case for approval, which led to many innocent civilians being implicated and imprisoned.

He died on the way to the relocation. He reported this situation to the court and suggested that the court send the strongest officials to review the prisoners. If it is found that the innocent will be implicated, the original official will sit back. In this way, the officials in Jiangnan naturally became serious in asking the case, and the prisoners sent to the prisoners were greatly reduced. Before the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan was under the jurisdiction of several small countries, with a large number of taxes and a very heavy tax amount. Zhang Qixian asked the court to strictly reduce it.

Later, he joined the court as the Left Supervisor. At this time, he submitted a memorial to directly advise. After reading it, Zhao Guangyi was quite appreciative, so he temporarily gave up his plan to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

When Zhao Pu became the governor of Heyang, he once submitted a statement to himself. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne. Zhao Pu returned to the capital and changed his title to Prince Taibao. Because he was slandered by Lu Duoxun, Zhao Pu ordered him to live in the capital for several years, but he was depressed and unsuccessful. He had a sister, Hou Renbao, who served in the court. Because of his disagreement with Zhao Pu, Lu Duoxun transferred Hou Renbao to Yongzhou. Yongzhou was far away from Nanling and approached Jiaozhou.

Jiaozhou was annexed by the Dali Kingdom at the end of the Tang Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties, Jiaozhou belonged to the Southern Han Dynasty. When the Southern Han Dynasty was pacified, Jiaozhou commander Ding Lian once tributed to the Song Dynasty. After Ding Lian's death, his younger brother Ding Xuan ascended the post. Because Ding Xuan was too young, he was detained by his general Li Huan. Li Huan claimed to be the official military affairs of the Quanzhi Military Office.

Zhao Pu was worried that Hou Renbao had lived in Yongzhou for a long time and had not been promoted for several years. So Zhao Pu tried to write a letter to emphasize the desirable truths of Jiaozhou. Zhao Guangyi was originally a person who was very fond of merit. After reading the letter from his family, Zhao Guangyi urgently summoned Pu to report and immediately wanted to summon Renbao to Beijing. Zhao Guangyi asked about border affairs, but Lu Duoxun was very cunning and went to court to report: "A civil strife occurred in Jiaozhou, and it was just right to attack. But if Hou Renbao was summoned first, there might be a possibility of leakage. I think it would be better to secretly order Hou Renbao to attack, which is more complete." Zhao Guangyi also thought it was right, so he ordered Hou Renbao to be the water and land transport envoy of Jiaozhou, Sun Quanxing, Liu Cheng, Jia , etc., and for the deployment, he attacked Jiaozhou together.

Hou Renbao received the imperial edict and naturally did not dare to disobey. He had to prepare his troops and set off one after another with Sun Quanxing and others. When they walked to the mouth of the Baiteng River, they saw Jiaozhou sailors stationed along the river, and hundreds of warships were arranged on the river. Hou Renbao rushed in first, but Jiaozhou was not prepared and collapsed in an instant. Hou Renbao won 200 warships and won a complete victory.

They thought that they had already entered Jiaodi, and Hou Renbao was his vanguard and asked Sun Quanxing and others to respond. However, Sun Quanxing and others were unable to move forward and their troops were no longer able to do so. Only Hou Renbao's army entered Jiaozhi and entered along the way, with an unstoppable momentum. At this moment, they received a letter from Li Huan, expressing their willingness to surrender. Hou Renbao believed that it was true, so he relaxed his guard.

At night, Li Huan led his troops to rob the camp. At this time, the soldiers in Hou Renbao camp did not have time to put on their armor and did not even stand horses. The Song army was naturally unable to resist the enemy in a hurry. Hou Renbao died in the chaos, and the transfer envoy Xu Zhongxuan reported the truth. Zhao Guangyi then issued an edict to train the troops, took Sun Quanxing and asked him to confess his accomplices. Soon after Sun Quanxing entered the capital, he was chopped down. Later, Li Huan sent an envoy to pay tribute and asked Ding Yu to submit a letter. Zhao Guangyi wanted to punish the defeat in the past, so Sun Quanxing vaguely agreed.

When Zhao Pu heard that Zhao Renbao was dead, he hated Lu Duosun even more and wanted to behead Li Kui, but Lu Duosun invited his master's family and had no trouble to take advantage of it. Lu Duosun was determined to guard against Pu, only for fear that he would move the court officials to impeach the court officials. All the ministers would report to him first, and they would have to go to the door to sign a letter, which was a close guard.

The eyes of the court officials at Lu Duosun

, all of them were eye-catching. Zhao Pu couldn't handle it, and he complained all day long. One day after another, suddenly, his former colleagues from the Jin residence, Chai Yuxi, Zhao Rong, Yang Shouyi, etc., actually went directly to the inner court and secretly reported to Zhao Guangyi that the Qin King Zhao Tingmei was arrogant and illegal and had two hearts.

Zhao Guangyi summoned Zhao Pu, and he expressed his hope to observe the incident in a confidential department. After resigning from the court, Zhao Pu wrote another letter to Zhao Guangyi. Since Chen Guanyu learned about Empress Dowager Zhaoxian's entrusting to death, he spoke very earnestly. Zhao Guangyi was moved and awakened, so he summoned Zhao Pu to comfort him. Soon after, he appointed Zhao Pu as Situ and Shizhong and was named Duke of Liang. The former King of Qin Zhao Tingmei was above the prime minister. At this time, because Zhao Pu was an old minister and was also prime minister, Zhao Tingmei submitted a request to rank below Zhao Pu.

Soon, Zhao Guangyi promoted Zhao Pu to Situ, served as a minister, and was granted the title of Duke of Liang. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin's third son Zhao Defang had died of illness at the age of 23. It was only a year before Zhao Dezhao committed suicide. Zhao Tingmei was quite uneasy and once said that Taizong was unwilling to his brother. Zhao Guangyi wrote a poem to farewell to him. Zhao Pu held the poem and cried: "Your Majesty should carve a stone, and be buried underground with the rotten bones of his ministers." Zhao Guangyi was moved by him.

The next day, Zhao Guangyi said to Prime Minister Song Qi: "Zhao Pu has made contributions to the country. I traveled with him before. Now my teeth and hair are declining. I cannot disturb him with the stakeholder. I choose to place him in a good place. Therefore, I write a poem to express my original intention. Zhao Pu was so grateful that he cried and shed tears, and I also cried for it." Song Qi replied: "Yesterday, Zhao Pu went to the Secretariat, holding the imperial poem in his hand and said to me: 'For the rest of my life, I can't repay the emperor. I hope that I can help Your Majesty the power of a dog and a horse in the next life.' I heard Zhao Pu's words yesterday, and today I heard the emperor's declaration. The friendship between the monarch and the ministers can be said to be both good and good!"

As the saying goes, "A word is released, it is hard to pursue." Zhao Tingmei accidentally said a few drunken words, which could not be heard into Zhao Guangyi's ears. There was also a group of treacherous officials who came to the fire. It was said that Zhao Tingmei intends to cause chaos and should be prevented in time. Zhao Guangyi therefore appointed Zhao Tingmei as the Yin of Kaifeng and the remaining guard of Xijing. Zhao Guangyi also specially promoted Chai Yuxi as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Yang Shouyi as the governor of the Privy Council, and Zhao Rong as the envoy of the Dong Shangguanmen.

Zhao Pu and Zhao Tingmei had no dislike, but they could not defeat Lu Duosun, so they had to start with Yang Tingmei. Lu Duosun knew that the disaster was coming. They knew that the disaster was going on, but they were greedy for the ministers and were unwilling to resign, so they delayed the past. How could Zhao Pu be willing to stop? Through open and secret investigations, it turned out that it was Lu Duosun's privately sent to the King of Qin.

The clerk was named Zhao Bai, and he was a friend of the gangster in the Qin Palace, Yan Mi, the minor officials Wang Jixun, Fan Deming, etc., and his friends were traitors. Qin and Lu were in good terms, and they all introduced him from several people. Zhao Bai once secretly told Tingmei about the affairs of Zhongshu Ji. Lu Duoxun said: "I wish the palace car would drive in a stalemate and do my best to serve the king." Zhao Tingmei sent the gun to Fan Deming, and Lu Duoxun said: "The words of the imperial edict are in my wish, and I also hope that the palace car would drive in a stalemate earlier." He also gave Lu Duoxun a small gift to the bow and arrows and other items.

When Zhao Pu came to see him, Zhao Guangyi said, "Brother, I finally got my brother, and I had the words of missing. But now I am strong, why is Tingmei so impatient? Moreover, I treat Lu Duosun well, isn't it enough to be satisfied, so should he make Tingmei the emperor?" Pu Zu replied, "Since Xia Yu, there are only the laws of passing on his sons. Taizu has made a mistake once, how can Your Majesty commit it again?"
Chapter completed!