After Zhao Zhen sent Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and Pang Ji to guard the western frontier, Xixia did not dare to invade easily. Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan were famous generals in the Song Dynasty at that time, and Pang Ji was not an ordinary person. Because his name was almost the same as that of Pang Ji, the treacherous minister of the Three Heroes and Five Rights, he was regarded as the prototype of Pang Master. In fact, Bao Gong's rival Pang Master was not Pang Ji, but Zhao Zhen's favorite uncle Zhang Yaozuo, Zhang Yaozu, who had no daughter to marry Zhao Zhen.

Pang Ji's name is Chunzhi, and he was a martial artist from Shanzhou. In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Pang Ji passed the imperial examination and was appointed as the manager of Huangzhou to join the army. Pang Ji was resourceful in his work and was deeply praised by Xia Shu. He believed that Pang Ji was extremely talented as a prime minister and would become a great man in the future. In the first year of Ganxing, with the recommendation and help of Xia Shu, Pang Ji was transferred to the military commander of Kaifeng Prefecture to join the army.

When Pang Ji was appointed as the judge of the herd, he submitted a memorial and said, "In the past, the system stipulated that the ministers could not use horses raised by the state. This is a manifestation of attaching importance to armed equipment. The Privy Council lent the armored horse to the eunuch Yang Huaimin. After the ministers repeatedly submitted memorials, he was rewarded with a horse. Three days later, the Privy Council lent another horse to Yang Huaimin, which stopped a few days later. The Privy Council's important affairs were all so capricious.

When all officials came to court to make an appointment, His Majesty did not personally review the memorials, but only gave them to the Secretariat and the Privy Council. In recent years, the imperial court has been constantly edicts, more than in the past, so it cannot prevent private requests and eliminate the favored ones. Wang Shirong, as the son of the princess, beat the official officials, and according to the law, paid ransom, and was specially suspended from office. Recently, officials in charge of the workshop material warehouse stole state supplies and escaped by themselves. With the relationship between the palace and relatives, the three departments no longer pursued them.

Now the emperor's decision is different from the past, and his subordinates are confused. During the Xiangfu period, the court ordered the officials to gradually strictly inspect their subordinates, and all the clerks left one after another, and the county magistrate was dismissed. If this happens, then the honest officials will feel discouraged. "He strongly advocates strengthening the law and discipline, rectifying the administration and military preparations.

When Pang Ji was appointed as the censor of the palace, Empress Dowager Zhang Xian Liu E passed away. She issued a will to ask Empress Dowager Zhang Hui to conduct military and national affairs. Pang Ji requested the order to abolish the curtain system and submitted a memorial saying: "Your Majesty should personally handle state affairs, and use talents should distinguish between evil and integrity, and prevent cliques. Promote close relatives and ministers, hoping to listen to everyone's opinions, and not be decided by the prime minister alone." Kong Daofu said: "Most officials in speaking and speaking look at the prime minister's eyes and figure out the prime minister's intentions. Only Pang Chunzhi is the emperor's censor."

When he was the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, Shang Meiren sent eunuchs to claim that the teachings were exempted from rent from workers. Pang Ji said: "Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, no beauty has claimed that the teachings were issued to the prefecture, and the eunuchs should be beaten." He ordered: "From now on, the deaths in the palace must be handled carefully." Because he attached great importance to laws and regulations, Kaifeng Prefecture was in order.

He impeached Fan Feng's crimes many times, but Fan Feng and Li Di were good. Therefore, his memorials were detained and not reported to the court. Fan Feng instead said that Pang Ji's memorials were untrue. However, he said that Fan Feng did not report all the matters, Fan Feng was demoted to the official position, and Pang Ji was demoted to the doctor of Taichang and was aware of Linjiang Army.

After Li Yuanhao established Xixia, Pang Ji was appointed as the Shaanxi squad. He began to move westward to prepare for defense of Xixia. Wen Yanbo interrogated Huang Dehe, but there was no result. The court then ordered Pang Ji and Wen Yanbo to handle the case together.

Pang Ji reported: "Huang Dehe should be executed when he retreats. Liu Ping fought to the death. He should give his children and grandchildren a pension when he was wrapped in a corpse."

He also reported: "Disasters occur every year, droughts do not rain. The palace spends extravagantly, the income is not strict, and the court has many blackmails, and some officials cannot check the virtual and real. The ministers believe that the expenses of Your Majesty's trip to the bus and the expenses in the palace should be resolutely reduced and suppressed, and follow the methods of cultivating good virtues in the late emperor to eliminate disasters. Now soldiers are stationed everywhere, and soldiers fight to the best of their best, and they cannot receive rewards. The internal officials, medical officials, and joy officials have no merits and enjoy generous rewards. People in the world point at them, called the "Three Officials". I hope to make a slight cut, and do not give generous rewards to the palace servants. They should be rewarded for military achievements, so there is no need to worry that the enemy will not be pacified."

In the first year of Qingli, Pang Ji served as the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, the governor of Yanzhou, and also served as the general manager of Fuyandu. He was the governor of the border and recruited the envoys of the border, and the left counselor. Since Li Yuanhao captured Jin Ming, Chengping, Saimen, Anyuan, and Jinzhai, and broke through Wulongchuan, all the people on the border were burned and plundered. After Pang Ji took office, he gradually repaired and managed. The garrison soldiers were not strong enough to complete the walls and were all scattered in the city. Because the military and civilians were afraid of Pang Ji, none of them violated the law. There was a Hunzhou River to the northwest of Jinming, and the land was fertile and flat. At the end of the Hunzhou River, there was a place called Qiaozigu, which was a narrow passage for the entry and exit of Xixia.

Pang Ji sent his general Di Qing to lead more than 10,000 people to build Zhao'an Village next to Qiaozi Valley, recruit people to farm, and use the harvested food as a military service. Zhou Mei sneaked into Chengping Village, Wang Xin built Long'an Village, recovered all lost land, and built eleven cities. By opening the name, the way to Pingrong, communicating with Yonghe and Wuren Pass, replacing the east-west formations with square formations, reducing a lot of weapons.

Li Yuanhao sent Li Wengui to surrender with Yeli Wangrong's letter, and Pang Ji discovered their plan of surrender. During the peace talks between Song and Xia, Zhao Zhen sent Pang Ji to reply and called Yeli Wangrong the Taiwei. Pang Ji said: "The three grand magistrates are not something that the ministers can call him. If Wangrong was the Taiwei, then Li Yuanhao would not be a minister. Now his letters call him "Ning Ling" or "Moning Ling", both of which are official names, and there is no doubt in the sense." The court followed Pang Ji's advice.

In the third year of Qingli, Li Yuanhao sent He Congxu to come, changing his name to Nanxiao, saying that the man would not be subject to his subordinates. Pang Ji thought it was not etiquette, so He Congxu said: "A son serves his father, just like a minister serves the monarch. If he could go to the capital, the emperor would not allow him, he would go back to discuss." Pang Ji sent the envoy to the capital, and took this opportunity to report and said: "The Qiang people have not had contact with the Central Plains for a long time, and the people of the country are very worried and complaining. Now that the remarks are gradually becoming more and more aware, they will definitely have the intention of changing their courses to serve the Central Plains, and they ask the envoy to declare and tell them." The court adopted his countermeasures.

After Li Yuanhao surrendered, the court summoned Pang Ji as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Pang Ji said: "Since the use of troops in Shaanxi, the court and the people have felt heavy burdens. They requested the merger of provinces, reduce officials, and streamlined soldiers close to the fortress, so that they can make a living in the mainland." The court adopted his opinion, thus saving a lot of expenses to defend the border.

The Liao Kingdom learned that Song Xia had a peace talk, so he sent an envoy to Bianliang and asked the Song court not to talk to Xixia. The Liao Kingdom told the Song court that they were preparing to attack Xixia. What was this because the former Dangxiang tribe of the Liao Kingdom was annexed by Li Yuanhao. The Liao Lord Yelu Zongzhen

The envoy was sent to ask for it, but Li Yuanhao refused to agree to return it, so the Liao Kingdom decided to launch an army to attack Xixia.

Yelu Zongzhen personally led 100,000 cavalry to attack Li Yuanhao. At the same time, the Liao Kingdom informed the Song court of the date of departure. Zhao Zhen was about to enthrone Li Yuanhao at this time, but he was confused by this incident. So he discussed and decided with the court officials to temporarily leave the seal of Xia Kingdom and stop sending envoys. The court also ordered Yu Jing to procure the imperial edicts to go to Liao Kingdom to find out the truth. When Yu Jing arrived in Liao Kingdom, the Liao army had already retreated.

It turned out that after the Liao army gathered in the Ninety-Nine Springs, Yelu Zongzhen ordered the imperial elder brother Yelu Chongyuan and the Privy Council of the Southern Court Xiao Hui to lead the vanguard troops to fight westward in Xixia. In early October, Yelu Zongzhen personally led 100,000 cavalry crossing the Yellow River to Jinsu City, and divided the troops to attack Xixia in three directions: Xiao Hui, the Privy Council of the Southern Court, led the main force 60,000 out of the northern route and advanced to the north of Helan Mountain; the royal elder brother Yelu Chongyuan led 7,000 out of the southern route to support him; the central route was led by Xiao Xiaoyou, the remaining guard in Tokyo, and followed Zongzhen to camp.

Faced with the large-scale attack of the Liao army, Li Yuanhao secretly deployed the main force of the Zuoxiang Army in the north of Helan Mountain, waiting for labor and waiting for an opportunity to defeat the enemy. He used some of his troops in the Hetao area to suppress the exhausted Liao army and create fighter opportunities. The Liao army entered the Xia territory for a hundred miles west, but did not encounter resistance, so he set up a battalion near Desheng Temple. The vanguard of the northern army fought against the Xia Zuoxiang Army in the north of Helan Mountain. Seeing that the subsequent troops of the Liao Kingdom continued to increase, Li Yuanhao resisted while taking on the dangerous situation, pretending to seek peace, showing weakness to the Liao army, and tying the Liao army with arrogance. In order to delay time and consume the food and fodder of the Liao army, the Xia army retreated three times, a total of about a hundred miles, and each retreat burned the battlefield forage.

On October 24th, the Liao army followed the Xia army to Hequ, and the food and grass had been exhausted. In order to win quickly, Xiao Hui launched an attack overnight. However, Li Yuanhao had set up a horse-resisting horse in Hexi, deployed troops, and was ready. The next morning, the two armies met, and the Xia army retreated slightly. Xiao Hui surrounded the Xia army with a vanguard and the right-wing army, and was defeated by more than a thousand cavalry led by Li Yuanhao. As the wind and sand were confused, the Liao army was in chaos, and Li Yuanhao took advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale counterattack. The Liao army was defeated, and the troops were trampled on, and the casualties were heavy. The Xia army took advantage of the victory and captured dozens of close ministers such as Xiao Huxian, the prince-in-law, and the Liao master Yelu Zongzhen fled in a hurry, and then collected the remaining troops and retreated to Yunzhou.

Yelu Zongzhen was defeated in this battle and almost all his troops were wiped out. Only a few people fled back. Li Yuanhao captured the Liao soldiers and often cut off their noses. When the Yelu Zongzhen's palace actor Luo Yiqing saw the defeated soldiers, he joked with them: "Let me see if your nose is still there?" Yelu Zongzhen was very angry when he heard this, and ordered people to tie Luo Yiqing up and tie it behind the curtain, preparing to kill him. The prince of Liao was always familiar with Luo Yiqing, and then deliberately joked with him: "It was not Huang Taichuo who made the joke." Luo Yi responded lightly and said: "It was not Emperor Taizong of Tang who used the troops." After hearing this, Yelu Zongzhen's anger disappeared a little and finally let him go.

Zong Zhen and Zong Yuan often gambled on Double Lu, using the residents of the city to bet. One day, the two brothers saw Double Lu again in the palace, and Luo Yiqing was watching the battle. Zong Yuan was more skilled, Zong Zhen fought many times and lost several cities again. The battle started again. Seeing Zong Zhen was about to lose again, while looking down at the chess game, Luo Yi took a step forward, pointed to the chess game, and said, "Double Lu, Double Lu! If you are still obsessed with it, maybe you will lose yourself!" Zong Zhen began to be shocked, then woke up, understood Luo Yiqing's implicit sound, and stopped gambling in Double Lu.
Chapter completed!