Zhending Mansion is full of autumn.

Autumn has entered early in the north, and the people of Zhending Prefecture, the northernmost territory of the Song Dynasty, have already put on thick clothes.

The autumn harvest was almost completed. In the past, the Liao cavalry frequently appeared on the border, and even disguised themselves as two households to enter the country for reconnaissance and plunder, but they did not appear this autumn.

The Song Army's cavalry was patrolling the "Forbidden Land". Even the Liao Kingdom's B Chamber Division, which had frequently herded horses southward in the past, did not appear in the Forbidden Land and Tianchi this year. Apparently, it had been restrained in some way.

In another history of time and space, Wang Anshi, who originally had serious differences with the emperor over the demarcation of the Song and Liao Dynasties, avoided this conflict.

Wang Anshi strongly supported the Song-Liao negotiations, and even did not hesitate to fight with the Liao State. He succeeded because of Zhang Yue's persistence. He advocated ceding territory and gave in to the Liao State in exchange for the official support of the Xia Dynasty. This was also because of the Song-Liao negotiations.

Success makes you feel good.

Historically, Lu Huiqing, who was going to attack Wang Anshi, was eliminated early because of Zhang Yue's action.

Therefore, Wang Anshi is still sitting on the phase and continues to control the phase.

However, Zhang Yue never expected that his father-in-law Wu Chong, who was also Prime Minister with Wang Anshi, could not stand up for anything and disagreed with Wang Anshi in every discussion. He could not bear it anymore and was forced to ask the emperor to resign as Prime Minister.

After Wu Chong requested several times, the officials agreed to let Wu Chong succeed Wen Yanbo in judging Daming Mansion.

Feng Jing, who was formerly involved in political affairs, Wang Guiping, Zhang Jun and State Affairs, and was informed of Chengdu Prefecture, succeeded Chen Shengzhi, who was ill and unable to serve as director, as Privy Councilor.

Zhang Yue returned to Beijing to replace Wang Gui as the counselor of political affairs.

When the imperial edict was issued to the Zhending Mansion, all the officials and officials of the Mansion gathered together to suppress them.

The official responsible for announcing the decree was Huang Lu, but he learned that Zhang Yue had gone to patrol the "forbidden area".

Huang Lu was responsible for leading people to declare the edict.

Cai Jing, who was accompanying Huang Lu, told him that the forbidden area was a buffer area between the two countries. It originally belonged to the territory of the Song Dynasty. However, in order to prevent the Liao cavalry from crossing the border and plundering the people, the officials from Chanzhou negotiated with the border states of the Song Dynasty to avoid trouble, so they transferred this area to the Song Dynasty.

All the people moved away, leaving only a few patrolling and guarding the borders.

Huang Lu asked: "How many miles is this forbidden area?"

Cai Jingdao: "In this negotiation, the Liao State clearly requested that the land of the Liao State be included in the land, including Wei, Dai, and the Huoshan Army, a total of 700 miles, not counting the Tianchi that was added later."

Huang Lu sighed after hearing this: "This dynasty is already suffering from the lack of buffers on the border between the two countries. If we lose these again, the Liao cavalry will almost arrive at dawn."

"Yes, all this was planned by Mr. Zhang!" Cai Jingxun asked in surprise, "How come the DPRK and the Central Government don't know anything about this?"

Huang Lu nodded and said: "Demarcation of boundaries is not a glorious matter, so no one publicizes it, and it is not even recorded in the official copy."

Cai Jing was thoughtful after hearing this, and he keenly guessed that someone might have deliberately suppressed the matter.

Huang Lu didn't explain too much, and then focused his attention on the line.

After Cai Jing's explanation, Huang Lu knew that after the Liao Kingdom had withdrawn its troops, the Song Army had set up bungalows and stockades around the forbidden area in accordance with the provisions of the Song and Liao State Letters.

There are still many two-subject households in the forbidden area. The imperial court allowed these two-subject households to pay tribute to the Liao and Song Dynasties. In addition, there are also herdsmen of the Yishi tribe, one of the four major tribes of the Liao Kingdom, haunting here. It was the Yishi tribe that invaded Tianchi before.

In the past, disputes and conflicts between the Song and Liao Dynasties often occurred due to conflicts between the two households and the invasion of the border.

Now Zhending Mansion has built more than 20 convenience stores, a stronghold, more than 10 and 20 soldiers in the houses, and 500 or 600 soldiers in the stronghold. These people are of no use in resisting the Liao army from going south, but they can prevent the Liao army from peeping at the Song Dynasty unscrupulously.

In order to maintain military conditions, Liao people were prohibited from invading farming and going south to herd horses.

Zhang Yue had made great achievements, but unfortunately most people in Bianjing didn't know about it. It seems that someone in the court was jealous of Zhang Yue's contribution, so they deliberately issued a hush-hush order, not allowing people to talk about it, and deliberately downplaying the matter.

However, officials still have a clear mind.

Huang Lu, Cai Jing and his party went north, and just saw Tang Jiu and Zhang Gong.

After Cai Jing asked the two of them on behalf of Huang Lu, they looked a little unnatural.

Huang Lu and Cai Jing followed their gazes and saw Zhang Yue carrying a large tree with a group of civilians in the woods on the hill.

If anyone else had seen this scene, they would have been so shocked that they would have dislocated their jaws, but Huang Lu knew Zhang Yue's temperament and was used to it.

The new Councilor Zhang Xianggong, dressed in short clothes and without even wearing a headscarf, was chatting and laughing with the civil servants.

"How can I know that a rich man cannot sit down in court and there are no Liao people doing meticulous work in these civilian services?" an accompanying official could not help but complain in a low voice.

Tang Jiuze said: "When Mr. Zhang visited the border, he always walked incognito. Regardless of whether he was rich or poor, noble or humble, the monks, laymen, officials and people all asked and talked about him in detail."

At this moment, Zhang Yue happened to raise his head and saw Huang Lu. He couldn't help but feel strange. He wiped the dirt on his hands and feet on his clothes and walked over to Huang Lu.

"Anzhong!"

Huang Lu said solemnly: "Ms. Zhang! The officials have issued an edict, asking you to return to Beijing and serve as a counselor for political affairs!"

Huang Lu stood beside the horse with the edict in both hands, and the officials and attendants on the left and right also bowed down. Not far away, Cai Jing, Tang Jiu, Zhang Gong and others stood silently, while the civilian servants just watched a group of officials and soldiers marching towards him.

The man who moved the big log with them bowed down and looked at a loss.

In the distance are the abandoned bungalows of the Song army and the devastation caused by herdsmen burning the mountain.

Cai Jing has brought a pot of wine and a clean cloth to wipe Zhang Yue's hands.

Zhang Yue took the edict from Huang Lu to pay homage to the governor and read it over. When he read the edict, Zhang Yue felt quite calm, and the fragrance of the wine came from his hand.

Zhang Yue said: "I accept the decree!"

Huang Lu and other officials were overjoyed to see Zhang Yue accept the edict.

In the Liao Dynasty, the privy envoys were placed above the prime ministers, while in the Song Dynasty, the situation was reversed by favoring civility and suppressing military power.

It can be said that one has been promoted from deputy privy envoy to political advisor.

Because it was getting late, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu stayed here that night.

Zhang Yue gave all the wine and food he had brought with him to the civilian servants to share, and drank them all together with the six pots of imperial wine that Huang Lu had brought from Bianjing.

Looking at the mist in the mountains and forests, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu sat and chatted while drinking wine from each other.

The firewood all around was burning brightly, dispelling the chill of autumn.

Huang Lu said: "It's His Majesty's wish that you serve as an official and participate in politics, but there are people in the court who want to suppress your achievements."

Zhang Yue wiped the drink from his mouth and smiled.

Huang Ludao: "The Khitan has always been the great enemy of this dynasty. From Taizong, Zhenzong and Renzong, which emperor has not been humiliated at its hands, but you are the only one who has defeated the Liao Kingdom this time and let Yelu Hongji personally lead an army of 300,000 to suppress the border."

Gain benefits."

"So the villains in the court will inevitably be wary of you."

Zhang Yue waved his hand, picked up the royal wine in his hand and said to Huang Lu: "You remember what I said, when I was young, I copied books for others to study. I told my classmates that Ban Dingyuan also copied books for others, so there is no shame in it.

You should stand out like him."

"Although I am now the prime minister, in terms of merit, I am far behind Ban Ding. When will I be able to seal the wolf as a coward, and when will I be able to restrain the stone Yanran? It's like the imperial wine in me, and Huo Qubing poured it into

Drinking from the spring with the soldiers of the three armies, how heroic it is."

"Think about how much the Song Dynasty lost today in terms of martial arts, people's morals and morals."

Huang Lu nodded and said, "Yes."

Zhang Yue pointed to the civilian servant who was doing sumo wrestling in the bonfire beside him and said: "Okimoto, look at this officer and soldier who is good at sumo wrestling."

Huang Lu followed his gaze and saw that this tall Song Jun had already knocked down several people.

"This person heard news about the Liao Kingdom many times and went to the frontier army to spread the news. During the Song and Liao border army's invasion of the land, this person also killed two Liao soldiers."

"But later the other party spilled the beans and revealed his identity as a Khitan. General Bian wanted to kill him as a spy. I found out about this and saved his life."

After hearing this, Huang Lu sighed: "It turns out he is a Khitan. No wonder this person is so skilled."

"Also, the Han people in Yanyun have been separated for a long time, and the people do not know the Han family in their homeland."

Zhang Yue sighed a lot, and then said to Huang Lu: "Although I have the ambition to go straight to Huanglong and break through Helan Mountain, I also know that this will not happen overnight."

Huang Ludao: "You are now participating in politics, and you are ruling the world in your prime. This is the time when you will make great achievements, so you don't need to worry about it."

"But just as Su Zizhan said in his poem, it's always cold at high places. It's time for you to think about retreating, so as not to be hasty in the future."

Zhang Yue put his hands on his hands and said with a smile: "What an excellent Anzhong, you really spoke what was in my heart. I dedicate this wine to you."

After speaking, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu each drank a large cup of wine.

Zhang Yue said: "In the past, I often had long talks with Senior Brother Cai and Senior Brother Guo, but now you are the only one left."

"I think of Lao Taishan, who had great power from official to prime minister, and countless disciples and former officials."

"But he takes care of me so that he can take care of their children and grandchildren in the future. I shouldn't think about this, but now that I am participating in politics, I should think about it carefully."

Huang Ludao: "Zunyue chose you as his son-in-law because he believed in your character. In the future, he will cultivate you not only to maintain the position, but also to hope that you will have ambitions. But what you are thinking about is not to maintain the position, but how to pass on the mantle!

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"Because what you plan is not something that happens overnight, but something that takes ten, twenty, or even fifty years."

"Even if you die, the Tao will not disappear. Even if you lose your position today, there will still be someone to do it for you. This is the passing of the mantle."

Zhang Yue thought carefully after listening to Huang Lu's words.

Because of conflicting opinions, the power struggle in the Song Dynasty was very fierce among the governors.

It is very common for someone to be dismissed as prime minister after working for two or three years.

So it is very important to find someone to pass on the mantle.
To be continued...