Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 309 A single spark can start a prairie fire

The development of the matter exceeded Zhao Huan's expectations. Du Chong was not useless, and Zhong Xiang was killed.

"When Du Cong was going south from Cangzhou, he met Kong Yanzhou on the road."

"Kong Yanzhou is from Xiangzhou, and he is from the same town as Yue Xiaowei. However, this man did a lot of evil and ran amok in the village. After being arrested, he fled across the city under the moonlight and became a bandit."

"When the Jin soldiers went south, Kong Yanzhou voted for Du Chong. All the way south, he robbed and killed residents, burned huts, looted property and gathered robbers along the way, and his momentum became bigger and bigger."

"Then Zhao Gou gave Kong Yanzhou the job of recruiting envoys along the river, and together with Du Chong went to Yunmengze, eight hundred miles away, to quell the rebellion. Du Chong was plundering money everywhere, and this Kong Yanzhou didn't show any weakness at all. He went around making money, but he knew a lot Few bandits."

"He sent people to negotiate a peace with Prime Minister Zhong, and secretly sent spies to infiltrate Prime Minister Zhong's department under the pretext of entering the law, and killed Prime Minister Zhong with the spies as internal support."

Li Gang explained the cause of Zhong Xiang's death clearly.

But Zhao Huan was still confused. Under Kong Yanzhou's actions, the Dongting Lake incident had been completely quelled, so why did Zhao Gou ask him for a general?
"Although Zhong Xiang was killed, the matter of Yunmengze has not subsided." Li Gang then explained.

"Zhong Xiang is dead, but Yu Bu Yang Yao, Huang Cheng, Liu Heng, Zhou Lun, Yang Qin, Xia Cheng, Huang Zuo, Yang Hua, Yang Guang, etc. continue to spread in [-] counties and counties, but the momentum is getting bigger and bigger. gone."

A single spark can start a prairie fire. Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Zhao Huan had to sigh with emotion, this Zhao Gou is really good at this matter of forcing the people to rebel, the more peaceful the more rebellion.What was originally a conflagration turned into a prairie fire.

For things like countering rebellion, killing the leader Zhongxiang will not help at all.

"Now Yang Yao has sent his brother Yang Qin to Bianjing, just to take Xiang Zhong's son Zhong Zi'ang back to Dongting Lake to regroup."

"In Bianjing, it's easy to get in, but how can it be so easy to get out? Yang Qin and Zhong Zi'ang were arrested by the inspectors of the Imperial City Department. After being interrogated by the minister and Zhou Shaoqing, they learned the details behind Zhao Gou's letter. "

Li Gang bowed his head and said.

Originally, the arrest of Yang Qin was done by the inspectors of the Imperial City Division, but the inspectors of the Imperial City Division did not have the power to interrogate, so the interrogations were all done by Li Gang and Wednesday Wei.

"That is to say, Han Ziang and Yang Qin are in prison now?" Zhao Huan asked.

Li Gang nodded, and it was time for the officials to make a decision.

On the one hand, Zhao Gou asked for help, and Zhao Huan sent generals to help Zhao Gou put down the rebellion.At one end are Yang Qin and Han Ziang in prison.

It depends on how the officials choose.

Helping Zhao Gou to maintain superficial rule means agreeing to Zhao Gou's so-called King Wu's self-reliance, paying taxes on time, and then dispatching generals to put down Yang Yao and others. Naturally, Zhao Gou sits firmly, and Zhao Huan, the emperor, can do it with peace of mind .

Helping Xiang Zhong's son, Zhong Ziang, is unprecedented.But Li Gang felt that the officials would choose the latter.

Zhao Huan thought for a while and said: "Zhong Ziang can't be let go, he has to stay in Beijing. He is the prince of that Chu country. There is no second day, and the people have no two masters, so Zhong Ziang has to stay in Bianjing."

"Yang Qin can discuss it. I decided to recruit Yang Qin, and I can give him a naval instructor. In the same way, Yang Yao and others, the same naval instructors, are all small officials from the ninth rank, helping me in Dongting Lake. Train the sailors."

"What does Li Dazai think?"

Li Gang didn't speak for a long time, Zhong Xiang was rebelling, the emperor helped the rebels, how could there be such a reason?
But Li Gang always felt that doing so would help promote the reform of the official system.

For the officials, Li Gang finally figured out some flavors. In the hearts of the officials, the most important thing is not the nobles and scholar-bureaucrats, but the common people who dig in the soil.

"I think you can give Yang Yao and Yang Qin a higher official position, such as naval commander?" Li Gang tried to ask.

Zhao Huan thought for a while, an official from the ninth rank is still a little young, since this group of rebels with their heads pinned to their waistbands has already decided to recruit, they can't be so stingy, just two controls.

Control is an official position in the old military system, and it is a dispatch.

"Yang Yao and Yang Qin can be in charge. Each of them is a seventh-rank official, and the others are instructors. From the ninth rank, they are responsible for training the navy for me in Dongting Lake. If Yang Qin is not willing, then Follow Zhong Ziang in prison." Zhao Huan told Li Gang his decision.

He has a preference for this group of people who are desperate and have to revolt, but the law of the court cannot be messed up.

Conferring two seventh-rank officials is already the biggest official title that Zhao Huan can produce.

They are paid for nothing, and they are rising. They are sorry for the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the frontier.

Therefore, what Zhao Huan conferred was the old official position, which was too small to be small. For the new military rank, it was the most important means for Zhao Huan to control the army, and he could not be awarded without merit.

This is also when Zhong Shidao was handed over to Zhao Huan's recruiting system, he repeatedly emphasized and told Zhao Huan the precautions for this military system.

Li Gang bowed his head and said: "The minister takes the order, and Yang Qin will agree if he disagrees."

Zhao Huan said hesitantly: "You talk to Yu Wenxu about this matter, let him and Shen Cong discuss it together, and send Chazi from the Imperial City Division to watch over."

The reason why he hesitated was because the army in his hands was not used to supervise the army. No matter which army it was, Zhao Huan was not in the habit of sending supervisor troops.

But now that this group of people are rebels, it is safer to send some inspectors to monitor them and do ideological work when they have nothing to do.

"The minister leads the decree." Li Gang replied.

Although Yu Wenxuzhong is now Yushi Zhongcheng, who is in charge of admonishing Taiwan, but Yuwen Xuzhong also has an identity as the supervisor of the Imperial City Department of the Kingdom of Jin. Shen Cong and Yu Wenxuzhong will naturally do this.

Zhao Huan's idea was actually to let Yu Wenxuzhong, the censor Zhongcheng, play his role. He didn't know whether this policy was good or bad. After all, it was a bit strange that the emperor supported the rebels.

Li Gang didn't object, and if Yu Wenxuzhong didn't object, Zhao Huan decided to do it.

When Li Gang Lingzhi walked out of Wende Hall, he saw Zhao Ding, the newly appointed member of Zhongshushe, walking carefully step by step from outside the palace.

"Zhao Shaoqing, are you measuring the distance from Dongyemen to Wende Hall?" Li Gang looked at Zhao Ding and asked with a smile.

Because Zhao Ding walked on stone bricks every step, every step was extremely solid, and the distance of each step was about the same.

Zhao Ding greeted Li Gang first, then bowed his head and said: "I have met Li Dazai, and I will work next to His Majesty in the future. Be careful in everything, and be careful not to make mistakes. Naturally, start from every place."

Li Gang circled around Zhao Ding a few times, and then turned a few times backwards and said, "You must read Huo Guang's biography! Zhao Shaoqing."

After Li Gang finished speaking, he shook his head, shook his sleeves and left.

On the contrary, Zhao Ding trembled twice, stood up straight, wiped the sweat from his brow, turned his head and ran to chase after Li Gang, and said: "Li Dazai, Li Dazai, wait for XX."

Zhao Ding said with a wry smile: "Li Dazai, where did you start with what you said just now, please give me some advice. I'm very dull, I don't understand why Dazai taught me a lesson."

Li Gang shook his head and said, "You! Why didn't you walk away on stone bricks when you chased me?"

"It's wrong to be careful when doing things with the official's side?" Zhao Ding asked a little confused.

(End of this chapter)