Chapter 538 The Dragon Among Men, His Voice Moves the Chinese

[The Qingli peace talks between Song and Xia also had a profound impact on the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty.

For some scholar-bureaucrats, it’s just a matter of deceiving the people with the currency. Who wants to keep deceiving themselves and others?

Didn’t you see that in the early days of Zhenguan, Li Erfeng was ashamed of using money to seek peace by the Weishui River, and finally caught Jie Li in front of him and watched him dance before he said, "It's a shame to bathe in the Weishui River"?

This humiliating negotiation became the driving force behind the rise of the reformists in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But for the vast majority of scholar-officials, their choice is only four words: increase the dose.

After Di Qingping and Nong Zhigao, Fan Zhongyan's distant cousin Teng Fu, who was the minister of the town at the time, wrote "Sun Weimin's Expedition to the South".

In this article, Sun Miao first predicted that Nong Zhigao would rebel, and then "used some clever tricks" to delay Nong Zhigao's advance, and then raised millions of military expenditures within one month.

As this was not enough, the diligent Sun Miao went to the front line in person and discovered that Nong Zhigao's army mostly used shields and spears. He rushed to make broadswords and long-handled axes overnight and sent them to Di Qing to restrain Nong Zhigao's army.

But this was not enough. Sun Miao gave Di Qing three strategies to get rid of the thieves, and finally destroyed Nong Zhigao with a calm and calm attitude.

In this article, Di Qing had no plans in the early stage, panicked before the battle, and was stingy with rewards and unclear rewards and punishments in the later stage. Basically, he relied on Sun Miao to carry.

And why did Di Qing gain fame? It was all thanks to Sun Mian's high integrity and "secret advice to the Taiwei when things happened" that allowed Di Qing to "make a good name for himself".

In Teng Fu's passionate fantasy literature, the image of a scholar-bureaucrat who devoted himself to caring about the country and the people emerges vividly on the page.

Zhuge Liang had to call you "good guy" when he came back to life, and Luo Guanzhong had to learn from you when he wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It would be a bit disrespectful to not write more about the entire "Fantasy Northern Song Dynasty".

Teng Fu's article just exposed that the vast majority of scholar-bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty could not live up to their reputation.

According to later generations' research, Sun Mian's three strategies for predicting the enemy were copied by Teng Fu from the memorial of Liu Ji, the general judge of Pizhou, and forced on Sun Mian.

The strategy of using long swords and long-handled axes to defeat the enemy was copied from the strategy of Zeng Gongliang and Di Qing. Using long-handled axes to break shields, and then using Fan cavalry to break through them at high speed was a counter-insurgency strategy that Di Qing had planned early in the morning before going south.

As for the unclear reward and punishment of Di Qing mentioned in the article, the protagonist of the incident was simply reversed.

"History of the Song Dynasty" records that when Sun Miao was ordered to quell the rebellion, he was invited to feast and have sex with women during the festival. As long as he gave you money, Sun Miao would directly put you into the army to lead the troops and enjoy military merit together, and messed up the military discipline. , and it was not until Di Qing went south that he cut off all these living treasures with cruel hands to establish military discipline, and it was finally over.

As for Sima Guang's records in "Shu Shui Ji Wen" that Di Qing personally led the army and fought a deadly battle with Nong Zhigao, and that Sun Mian disobeyed military orders and was afraid that the barbarians almost disrupted Di Qing's position, etc., they were all omitted.

In this regard, Wang Shipeng, a minister in the Southern Song Dynasty, even lamented: In the Song Dynasty, I was especially famous as Duoshi... and secondly, Sun Weimin was famous.

Some people praised Sun Mian with his stinky feet and praised him as "a dragon among men, who can tell generals' strategies and move Huarong with his voice."

As for who Di Qing is? Don't know.

This is evident from the bad situation of the military generals in the Northern Song Dynasty. 】

〖Zhang Fei: The ability of a strategist to confuse black and white and turn a deer into a horse is beyond comparison.

Li Shimin: In Qi Taishi Bamboo, in Jin Dynasty Dong Hu's pen, in Song Dynasty's peace treaty, the curve of writing creates heroes.

I am Cao, brother, if you can speak, speak more.

In fact, there is no need to say so much about illiteracy. The civil servants of the Northern Song Dynasty were just hiding in the nest, pretending to be grandsons when facing foreign enemies, and acting like lords when facing military generals. 〗

Zhao Pu confirmed at this time that Guan Jia's face seemed to be really red at this moment.

His face was already dark, as if he was drunk, and he pointed at the light screen and argued:

"This Song Dynasty...is not my Song Dynasty."

Perhaps because later generations mentioned Zhuge Wuhou, or because Tang Taizong's joke was too straightforward, Zhao Kuangyin was really anxious now.

But it’s hard to actually write words on the stone table to refute.

Zhao Kuangyin vaguely understood that these unsigned words were probably also written by future generations. Judging from their words of praise for Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, other people in later generations could also see what they said.

Under such circumstances, even if I say even one word, I am afraid that it will attract criticism from the meddlers of the younger generations. Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?

Zhao Pu quickly explained to the officials:

"The official family is the official family of our Song Dynasty, but this Zhenzong is not a direct heir of the official family."

"Not to mention the defeats of Gaolianghe and Yongxi were not the fault of officials, so why is it wrong?"

Only a few words relieved Zhao Kuangyin's discomfort, but Liu Han, who had been paying attention to the conversation between the monarch and his ministers, could no longer hold back:

"Does King Jin really want to fight evil?"

For Liu Han, it is not difficult to accept the inference that the light curtain is talking about the future.

The prophecies and prophecies written by the alchemists of the Qin and Han dynasties are not a new thing. For example, after the Song Dynasty, although officials banned Chen Tianming from using prophecies and prophecies, the people still banned it repeatedly.

The science of prophecy is based on pictures and cryptic words, astrology, fortune telling, predicting good and bad luck, and informing people on political affairs.

Therefore, although Liu Han was surprised by what the light curtain said about the future, he could at least accept it. At this time, Liu Han was shocked when he heard Zhao Pu's words. Thinking about his previous activities in Kaifeng The sudden disappearance of the King of Jin and the abnormal mobilization of the imperial army made Liu Han, who was not stupid, have some vague guesses.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu looked at each other, their eyes full of evasion.

For Zhao Da, whether it was the sound of the candle shadow or the sudden death of his heir, it was quite embarrassing to talk about.

For Zhao Pu, it was even simpler. He looked at Zhao Kuangyin with only one sentence:

Does the official think it's appropriate for me to say this?

The two of them stared at each other for a while, and finally Zhao Kuangyin gave in. Seeing Liu Han's insistent look, he hesitated and said:

"The King of Jin assassinated me and wanted to harm De Zhao, all of which are true."

So Liu Han and Zhao Pu widened their eyes at the same time.

Although Liu Han had some guesses in his heart, seeing the seriousness of the official, he could only sigh that the King of Jin was so greedy that he could do such a thing for the throne.

Zhao Pu knew what "assassination" meant, but how could the King of Jin have the spare energy to harm the heir at that time? Although it can't be completely wrong to say so...

After revealing the matter in a few words, Zhao Kuangyin sighed:

"In this case, this Di Qing...does not deserve good."

Later generations made it clear that Di Qing was promoted from deputy to principal because of this merit, but such a key merit still had important ministers talking about it and turning black and white, which shows that the whole court did not like this tattooed Privy Councilor.

Moreover, from Zhao Kuangyin's perspective, he thought more deeply. It can be seen that Renzong was ambitious because he could start the reform. Taking Di Qing's portrait was not a way to show his honor and favor. Moreover, under the circumstances at that time, Di Qing could be appointed as the Privy Councilor. The most important thing behind this should be the support of Renzong.

Perhaps, Renzong was not necessarily unaware of the drawbacks of the court controlling the military with civil officials. Promoting Di Qing, a poor and humble person, was not a way to make him a role model for the imperial guards.

However, judging from the few words of the younger generation, it did not come to fruition in the end.