In March of the sixth year of Xining, Wang Shao captured Hezhou and was promoted to the direct scholar of the Privy Councillor. At this time, the Qiang people who had already surrendered launched another rebellion, and Wang Shao returned to the army to attack. The blind army asked the Qiang to defend Hezhou. Wang Shao led his troops to capture Honomuzang City, crossed Lugu Mountain, and entered Taozhou south. The roads in Taozhou were rugged and narrow, so the troops had to abandon their horses and walk on foot. The blind army ordered his subordinates to stay in Hezhou, and personally led their troops to follow the official army. Wang Shao fought fiercely, defeated the blind army and recovered Hezhou. Then he captured the Qiang leaders of the two prefectures of Dang, Min, Die and Tao, and then opened the city to surrender. The Song army moved to the battle for 54 days, and traveled more than 1,800 miles, captured five prefectures, killed thousands of enemies, seized tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, and horses. After the war, Wang Shao was promoted to the left counselor and the bachelor of Duanming Palace.

In the seventh year of Xining, Wang Shao entered the court and was awarded the title of the Scholar of the Zizheng Hall. Zhao Xu gave him a mansion in Chongrenfang, Bianjing. When Wang Shao arrived in Xingping on the way back to Beijing, he heard that Jing Si was defeated in Tabai City and the Qiang army surrounded Hezhou. He rushed to Xizhou day and night. Xizhou was stepping up defenses, and Wang Shao ordered the withdrawal. He selected 20,000 troops from Xizhou to break the siege of Hezhou.

Wang Shao summoned all the generals to discuss the strategy of rescuing the siege. All the generals thought they wanted to go straight to Hezhou. Wang Shao said: "The reason why the enemy besieged the city was because they had foreign aid. Now they knew that we were going to rescue Hezhou directly, and they would definitely lay ambush waiting for us. Moreover, they had just won the battle and were very morale, so they could not fight directly with them. Instead, they should unexpectedly attack the foreign aid they rely on. This is the so-called "avoiding the anger and attacking the weak, and the form and situation are prohibited, and then they will be able to solve the problem." Then, Wang Shao rushed to Dingqiang City, broke through the Jiehe tribe, and cut off the traffic in Xixia. Then he advanced to Ninghe and entered Nanshan in several ways. The blind campaign knew that the foreign aid had been eliminated, so he had to withdraw his troops.

When Jing Sili was defeated, the arrogance of the Qiang people became higher. Some ministers in the court discussed giving up Xihe. Zhao Xu was uneasy for him and ordered Wang Shao to stay calm and not to fight easily. At this point, the Qiang people were defeated, and Zhao Xu was extremely happy. Wang Shao returned to Xizhou and commanded his troops to go around the western mountain to the Baicheng, burning 8,000 Qiang people's tents. He surrendered blindly and was escorted to Bianjing. Zhao Xu was rewarded for his merits and appointed Wang Shao as a scholar of Guanwen Hall and a minister of the Ministry of Rites. Zhao Xu also specially granted Wang Shao's official positions to his brothers and two sons, and gave him a total of 8,000 pieces of silk. Soon, Zhao Xu summoned him to the capital again and appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

Although Xihe Road was built, its rental income was scarce, and the supply was all due to various aid. The transfer judge Ma Rong asked some officials for specific reasons. Wang Shao was quite dissatisfied and wanted to remove Ma Rong. Because Wang Anshi protected Ma Rong, he failed to do so. Because of this incident, Wang Shao and Wang Anshi gradually had conflicts. He wrote letters to resign on the grounds of his mother's age many times, asking Wang Anshi to resign and return home. Zhao Xu asked Wang Anshi to try his best to keep him.

In May of the third year of Xining, the Xia people built the Naoe Fort. Many troops were stationed. Li Fugui, the governor of Qingzhou, heard that the court was interested in pacifying Xixia, so he wanted to send troops to seek credit. He immediately sent his subordinate generals Li Xin, Liu Fu and others to lead Linhaifan and 3,000 Han soldiers to attack the fort. As a result, when Xixia learned that he drove him to kill him and defeated Li Xin and others. Li Xin and others led their troops back in a panic.

Li Fugui naturally regretted it, but thought of a plan to put all the crimes of raising troops for no reason on Li Xin and Liu Fu, and beheaded them for public display. Then he led his own troops to chase and kill the Xia people, killing 200 old, weak and remnants of Xixia, and immediately wrote a letter to win.

.The Xixia naturally refused to rest, and rode the high and fat horses in autumn, so it entered the Qingzhou in large numbers, attacked Dashun City and Rouyuan and other villages, and the commanders Guo Qing, Gao Min and others were killed in battle.

At this time, Han Jiang inspected the border, opened a shogunate in Yan'an, and selected foreign soldiers as the seventh army. Han Jiang was not familiar with military affairs, so he naturally mishandled, so he appointed Zhong Yan as the commander of Fuyan, and was educated in Qingjian City. He ordered all the generals to be controlled by Zhong Yan. Most of the foreign soldiers were resentful. Han Jiang and Zhong Yan planned to take Hengshan, and the pacification envoy Guo Kui said: "Zong Yan is just a crazy student, how can he know military affairs? The court only gave his descendants the family background of the Zong family. If it was used seriously, it would ruin national affairs." Han Jiang did not agree.

It just so happened that Chen Shengzhi had resigned because his mother died, and two of them had a pair of them. The other was Zeng Gongliang. Zhao Xu promoted two others to be the replacement. One was Wang Anshi and the other was Han Jiang. Wang Anshi became prime minister. In the army, Zhao Xu issued an edict to give him the title of the Tongpingzhang. Han Jiang was very happy and immediately impeached Guo Kui to conquer the military situation.

Zhao Xu immediately ordered Guo Kui to return to the capital under the order. Zhong Yan led 20,000 troops to attack Luowu, then built the city to defend, and then built the Yongle River and the two villages of Guandaling. At the same time, he sent the chief supervisors Zhao Pu, Yan Da and others to repair the Funing Old City, and divided the deserted Wusanquan, Tuhunchuan, Kaiguangling, and Jialuchuan, each of which was more than 40 miles apart. Han Jiang recommended Zhong Yan and praised his achievements.

Unexpectedly, Xixia had already attacked Shunning Village and then besieged Funing. At this time, the border guards Zhe Jishi, Gao Yongneng and others stationed troops in the quintessence of Funing, only a few miles away from Funing. Luowu City had a lot of troops, and Zhao Pu, Yan Da and others defended Funing. Zhong Yan received a reply in Suide and was a little frightened and wanted to write a letter to recall Yan Da. Before he could make a decision, an alarm came one after another. All the newly built forts were successively captured, and more than a thousand soldiers were killed in battle.

Zhong Yan was unable to rescue him, and Han Jiang could not hide his cover, so he had to write a letter to impeach Zhong Yan and ask for punishment himself. Zhao Xu issued an edict to abandon Luowucheng, demoted Zhong Yan to the deputy envoy of Ruzhou Tuanlian, and settled Tanzhou. Han Jiang was also demoted and moved to Dengzhou magistrate. Xixia obtained Luowucheng, but also withdrew his troops and retreated.

Besides, after Wang Anshi was able to become the only prime minister, he took control. The new political officer Feng Jing and Wang Gui were more likely to listen to Wang Anshi's words, but Feng Jing was a little dissatisfied with his appearance, but he did not dare to speak out. Hanlin scholar Sima Guang and Fan Zhen were dismissed from office because of his pedanticism and stubborn opposition to the new law. Therefore, the Baojia Law and the exemption law were implemented in turn, and the garrison law was changed and the imperial examination law was established.

In the early Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin took into account the old shortcomings of the vassal states, so he adopted Zhao Pu's strategy and divided the army into four armies: the guards in the capital were called imperial guards, the soldiers in the towns were called xiang army, the defenders in the towns were called villages, and the defenders in the frontiers were called xiang army. The imperial guards took turns to defend the borders, and the xiang army also switched to each other. In this way, the soldiers and generals did not know each other.

Although this move reduced the possibility of rebellion in the vassal states, it also greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the army. Some people suggested that when the emergency was urgent, there would be no reliance. It would be better for generals and soldiers from all over the country to be under the ban brigade and make the soldiers and generals familiar with each other. This would have the benefits of training and no trouble of being a foreign garrison. Wang Anshi then changed the military system and divided the generals and deputy generals from various routes. The capital, Hebei, and the east and west routes of Jingxi were appointed, and forty-two generals were appointed. Each general had dozens of troops and trained officers, and the former generals and chief supervisors were supervised and custodians.

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After Wang Anshi became a country, he wanted to eliminate the imperial examination and devoted himself to the promotion of education. At that time, Zhao Xu ordered everyone to discuss. Su Shi said: "Renzong established a scholar and only retained his reputation. The imperial examination may not be useless and there is no need to change it." Su Shi's courtesy name is Zizhan, and his courtesy name is Hezhong, and his pseudonym Dongpo Jushi was from Meishan, Meizhou.

Su Shi was born in Meishan, Meizhou in the third year of Jingyou of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty. Su Weidao was the minister of the early Tang Dynasty. Su Shi's grandfather Su Xu, whose name was Zhongxian and his grandmother Shi. Su Shi's father Su Xun was the "Su Laoquan" in "Three Character Classic". Although Su Xun worked hard late, he worked very hard. Su Shi's name "Shi" originally meant the handrail in front of the car, which means unknown but helping the poor and the needy. Su Shi is unrestrained by nature, straightforward and well-known, and has a Taoist style. He is good at making friends, delicious food, and creates many fine food products, enjoys tea, and is also elegant and enjoys traveling to the mountains and forests.

In the first year of Jiayou, Su Shi went out of Sichuan to Beijing for the first time to participate in the imperial examinations of the court. Su Xun, with the twenty-one-year-old Su Shi and nineteen-year-old Su Che, went east along the river from the remote Western Shu, and went to Beijing to take the exam in the second year of Jiayou. The examiner at that time was Ouyang Xiu, and the examiner was Mei Yaochen. These two people were eager to reform the poetry and prose, and Su Shi's fresh and free writing style suddenly shocked them. The title of the policy theory was "The Most Remarks of Punishment and Rewarding Loyalty and True", and Su Shi's "The Most Rewarding Loyalty and True" was appreciated by the examiner Ouyang Xiu. However, because Ouyang Xiu mistakenly believed that it was written by his disciple Zeng Gong, he had to get second in order to avoid suspicion.

Su Shi wrote in the article: "Gao Yao was a soldier and was about to kill people. Gao Yao said killing three, and Yao said Youzhi three." After Ou and Mei Ergong sighed and admired his writing, they did not know the source of these words. When Su Shi greeted him, he asked him this. Su Shi replied: "Why do you have to know the source!" After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu couldn't help but admire Su Shi's heroic spirit and dared to innovate, and foreseeing Su Shi's future: "This person is good at reading and using books. In the future, his articles will be unique in the world."

Under Ouyang Xiu's repeated praise, Su Shi became famous for a while. Every time he had a new work, it would spread throughout the capital. When the father and son were about to show his skills, he suddenly heard the bad news that Su Shi and Su Che's mother died of illness. The two brothers returned to their hometown to attend the funeral after their mourning period in October of the fourth year of Jiayou. In the sixth year of Jiayou, Su Shi passed the examination of the system and entered the third grade. He became the first in a century and was awarded the Dali judge and signed a letter to the judge of Fengxiang Prefecture.

Four years later, he returned to the court to sentence Dengwen Guyuan. In the second year of Zhiping, Su Xun died of illness. Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers brought the coffin back to their hometown and kept mourning for three years. Three years later, Su Shi returned to the court, which was the time when Wang Anshi reformed. Many of Su Shi's teachers and friends, including Ouyang Xiu, who had admired him, were forced to leave Beijing because they opposed the new law and had disagreements with Wang Anshi's political views.
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