Renting a wife is a very rare thing in later lives.
But in ancient times, it was a common thing.
The ancients were poor, and many of them could not afford to marry a wife. The ancients also attached importance to the inheritance of incense, so it gave birth to the lease of wives.
A male who cannot afford to marry a wife, when he reaches a certain age and needs to pass on his clan, he will find a middleman, spend a sum of money, rent someone else’s wives or concubines, welcome home, and pass on his clan.
The time is generally three years. After three years, the wives and concubines rented by the male will return to the original husband's house, and they will not stay longer.
If the male and his concubine rented by him have a relationship within three years, he can also negotiate from the middleman and spend a sum of money to completely turn the concubine he rented into his own wife.
Whether in the eyes of Kou Ji, or in the eyes of Li Di.
Renting a wife is a kind of sorrow.
When Hexi was first decided, some of the Western Regions who stayed in Hexi retained the vice of co-wives. The sons would inherit the wives and concubines left by the father, and the grandsons would inherit the wives and concubines left by the son.
This reciprocation will not end until the woman's death.
After Kou Ji discovered this bad habit, but with his butcher's knife, he cut a large number of people in the Hexi area to stop being so disgusting.
During Kou Ji's stay in Hexi, he single-handedly killed the vice habit of co-wives in Hexi.
During Li Di's tenure in Hexi, it would be strange if Kou Ji didn't ridicule him if he pretended to be the vice of renting out his wife.
Chong Shiheng is a scholar, and he hates the vices of renting a wife, so after hearing Li Di mentioned renting a wife, his face was slightly straightforward: "My Song Dynasty is now overwhelming the world, and the people of Song Dynasty have no reason to marry. Not in the wife's room. I didn't see the matter, I can pretend not to know, but when I saw it, there was no reason to ignore it.
Li Gong rest assured that this matter will be handed over to me.
When I go to Illinois, I will definitely bring back those women from Illinois. "
When Li Di heard what Zhong Shiheng said, he laughed and said: "With your words, the old man is relieved. The old man's sheep and dried fruits were not given to the wrong person."
While talking, Li Di had urged Du Yan, who was not far behind, to push the wheelbarrow with dried fruits to the doorway as soon as possible.
Zhong Shiheng was not polite, and laughed at all the sheep and dried fruits Li Di had sent, but he did not invite Li Di into the barracks.
As Chong Shiheng said, the military discipline of the Forbidden Army today is very strict.
The military discipline of the Forbidden Army clearly stipulates that no one who is not a member of the Forbidden Army shall not enter the camp where the Forbidden Army is stationed, and no one is exception.
Even the Sanzai in the courtroom is the same.
Although Li Di has status and qualifications.
But Zhong Shiheng couldn't invite him into the barracks to drink a bowl of mutton soup.
Yuan door.
Du Yan watched the soldiers push the last cart of dried fruits into the gate, hesitatingly said to Li Di, who was holding the shepherd whipping and yawning: "Gong Li, let the imperial army go out to grab the woman. The reputation will be very unfavorable."
Li Di glanced at Du Yan and asked indifferently, "Du Yan, how long have you been in Hexi?"
Du Yan was taken aback for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "It's almost eight years."
Li Di turned his head to look at Du Yan and sighed: "You have been in Hexi for eight years, and you haven't learned what to be an official. Your career in this life will stop here."
Du Yan's face changed.
Li Di said to himself: "You can stay in Hexi all the time. After the old man drives to Hexi, you can take over the position of the old man and continue to sit in Hexi."
Du Yan gritted his teeth slightly.
Seeing this, Li Di snorted and said, "Why, not reconciled?"
Du Yan did not speak.
Li Di sarcastically said: "If you are not reconciled, just hold back... You Du Yan has been an official for decades, and you have been in Hexi for eight years. Up to now, you have not fully understood the way of being an official.
reputation
Is reputation important to the people
We are officials for the court, for the people, not for ourselves.
If you only want fame, then what kind of official
Go to Wenchang Academy to teach.
Teach a peach and plum to spread all over the world, and the good name will surely spread all over the world.
Since becoming an official, that reputation is the least important.
To be an official, the most important thing is to safeguard the court.
The second is to protect the people.
The reputation is insignificant compared to the court and the people.
We only need to be worthy of the court, the people, and our conscience in the middle.
Even if someone becomes a butcher or an executioner, it is as sweet as a sweetheart.
The most afraid of being an official is turning the cart before the horse.
Blindly pursue fame, but forget the root of being an official.
Then you don't deserve to be an official.
This point, Kou Ji is clearer than you can see.
So Kou Ji is now my Secret Envoy of Song Dynasty.
But you, Du Yan, can only eat sand in Hexi. "
Du Yan looked down with an ugly expression.
Seeing this, Li Di sighed, "The old man knows in his heart that people like us have their own persistence in being an official in their heart, and they will not waver easily. The old man does not want to change your persistence, but just wants you to spend your leisure time. Besides, look at the people more.
Doing more for the people is better than pursuing those illusory reputations. "
Du Yan was obviously unwilling to discuss this issue with Li Di, so he remained silent.
Seeing this, Li Di didn't say much.
What should be said, he has already said, whether he can realize it, it depends on Du Yan himself.
The Song Dynasty is now changing day by day, and the center of the change lies in Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji.
They not only control the power of the Song Dynasty, but also control all changes in the Song Dynasty.
What they need most now is someone who can do things for the people and the court in a down-to-earth manner.
Not the kind of person who pursues fame and fortune for himself.
People who don't fit their minds will never get into their eyes for a lifetime.
If you can't get into their eyes, you can't get into the center.
Even if he tried his best and tried his best to enter the center, he wouldn't have much right to speak.
Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai are the best examples.
Don't look at the three men of Lu Yijian who are majestic in the court, but they actually don't have much right to speak.
The three of them are now speaking according to the minds of Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji, and what they say will work.
If they confronted Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji, then what they said would not work at all.
In a few years, their influence in the court will also weaken.
The restructuring of the imperial court did not mobilize the interests of officials and aristocracy.
But officials and aristocratic families did not benefit from it.
There are only two people who really benefited from the imperial road reform system, one is Zhao Zhen and the other is Kou Ji.
Everyone in the government and the opposition stared at the positions of the prefects, supervisors, and generals of the towns.
But no one cared, the states under the government had some new faces.
Those Kou Ji's disciples who came out of the Heavenly Sacred Hall have now quietly spread to the Great Song Dynasty, becoming a state of knowledge.
Those guys are all outstanding people.
They are destined to gain a firm foothold in the place, and then gradually enter the center of power.
In a few years, some of them will become prefects and some will be sent back to Beijing.
Wait until they speak in the court.
There were only two voices left in the hall.
One is Zhao Zhen and the other is Kou Ji.
Under such circumstances, if you don't follow Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji's thoughts as officials, how can you end up better
Just as Li Di was thinking about it, Chong Shiheng had ordered the soldiers of the western army to remove the dried fruits and other things on the wheelbarrow, and returned the wheelbarrow to the doorway.
Li Di bid farewell to Chong Shiheng, and ordered Du Yan to take some people, push the wheelbarrow, and leave the place where the barracks were.
That night.
The lights in the army barracks in the west of the town were brightly lit, and the scent of mutton drifted across Hexi with the wind.
The soldiers of the Western Army in Zhenxi had a meal of mutton, and each received a small bag of dried fruits. By the way, they also remembered the military order conveyed by Chong Shiheng to kill men and not women.
The Zhenxi Army was stationed on the border of Shazhou for five days.
Three fast horses, from the east.
The soldier on horseback, carrying a letter flag, against the wind and sand, ran all the way to the doorway, and plunged into the doorway.
The generals of the Zhenxi Army at the gate did not stop him.
In today's Great Song Dynasty, only those who dared to break into the barracks of the Forbidden Army were the only one who was carrying a military order to expedite.
After the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army at the gate of the Yuanmen rush into the Yuanmen, they immediately changed from a defensive posture to a defensive posture.
The eight hundred li expedited soldiers rushed into the entrance of the Yuanmen with their horses, and rushed to the front of the Chinese army’s big tent without stopping.
"The Privy Council made an urgent order, with the same knowledge of the Privy Council's affairs, led the entire army of the Zhenxi Army, immediately marched westward, and sent the troops to Yizhou!"
Eight hundred li expedited soldiers shouted in front of the Chinese army’s big tent.
Zhong Shiheng quickly appeared outside the Chinese army's big tent. He walked to the side of the rushing soldiers at 800 li, while instructing the generals of the Zhenxi army to gather the whole army.
When Chong Shiheng walked to the side of the urgent officer at 800 miles, he took the military order from the Privy Council and read it carefully.
All the western army in the town had quickly assembled together.
Zhong Shiheng had long expected the imperial court to send troops to Xizhou Uighurs, so he made preparations early.
It can be said that the Uighur to Xizhou is a race against time. The moment earlier, there is less risk.
Therefore, Zhong Shiheng has shortened some unnecessary wasted time as much as possible.
After the whole army of the Zhenxi Army was assembled, Chong Shiheng immediately ordered the whole army to go out.
Fifty thousand soldiers, led by Chong Shiheng, left the barracks and rushed to Yizhou in the Xizhou Uighur territory.
In order to save time, they did not bring camping tents and no baggage.
Just brought some simple rations.
The purpose is to save time on the march.
The cavalry was in front, the musketeers were in the center, and the artillery was in line.
Fifty thousand soldiers and horses rushed to Yizhou day and night.
The border of Shazhou is two and a half days away from Yizhou.
It only took a day and a half for the Zhenxi Army to arrive in Yizhou.
If it weren't for the artillery drag, the time could be shortened.
After Chong Shiheng led the Zhenxi Army to Yizhou, he ordered the whole army to recharge outside Yizhou.
While he dispatched scouts to investigate the movements of the Liao soldiers, he dispatched people to negotiate with the Xizhou Uighur Khan in Yizhou City.
After going out for a day, the scout returned to the temporary barracks and informed Zhong Shiheng that the Liao soldiers had arrived at the post and were attacking the post.
After Zhong Shiheng learned the news, he relaxed.
The Liao soldiers are still attacking and accepting their posts, and then they have to conquer Yidu. Without three to five days, it is impossible to reach Yizhou.
There is plenty of time left for Chong Shiheng.
As long as he was fast enough, when the Liaobing arrived in Yizhou, he had already returned to Shazhou with everyone.
In this way, a conflict with the Liaobing was avoided.
The envoy who went to negotiate with Xizhou Uighur Khan in Yizhou City stayed in Yizhou City for a full day.
After returning from Yizhou City to the temporary barracks.
Cheong Shiheng asked dissatisfiedly: "Do you know that our time is precious. If we delay a moment, it is very likely that we will have to pay dozens or even hundreds of lives for this?"
Zhong Shiheng was in the big tent of the central army, surrounded by generals in armor and blades. When he said these words, he was full of deterrence.
The envoy who went to negotiate, heard the words of Chong Shiheng, with a bitter face, and bowed and said: "The lower officials do not want to stay in Yizhou City for a day. The lower officials enter the Yizhou City, and the Uighur Khan of Xizhou, He refused to see the next official.
Xiaguan finally threatened to start a war before seeing the Xizhou Uighur Khan. "
Hearing this, Zhong Shiheng frowned and said, "What did that old boy say?"
The envoy said with a bitter face: "He said that if my Da Song is willing to help him defend the three cities of Yizhou, Yidu, and Nangzhi, he can donate half of the money accumulated by the Xizhou Uighurs to my Da Song."
Zhong Shiheng snorted coldly, "He has a good calculation!"
The envoy smiled bitterly and said nothing.
Zhong Shiheng asked, "What did he say about asking him to return to Shazhou with us?"
The envoy said frankly: "He shied away from side to side and did not agree."
Zhong Shiheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Shameless things to the face."
Zhong Shiheng stood up slowly and said loudly: "The order is passed on, and the whole army will attack."
The Western Army of Wuwan Town, with an order from Chong Shiheng, pressed towards Yizhou.
Xizhou Uighur Khan thought that even if Song Dynasty turned his face with him, he could resist one or two with the soldiers and horses in his hand, and stayed with Song Dynasty soldiers and horses until the arrival of the Liao soldiers, and then sat and watched them. The tigers fight, and they take advantage of it.
But when the Western Army of 50,000 Township smashed to the bottom of Yizhou City.
He only found out that he was wrong.
In front of the Zhenxi Army, his soldiers and horses were completely vulnerable.
When a volley of hundreds of artillery fired a large gap in the city wall of Yizhou.
The Xizhou Uighurs in Yizhou City were in chaos.
After the Uighur soldiers and horses in Xizhou were hit hard by the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao State soldiers and horses one after another, their hearts were already filled with fear.
Amidst the roar of the Zhenxi Army's artillery fire, they couldn't bear the slightest desire to fight.
The Xizhou Uighur Khan organized a group of soldiers who were very loyal to him, and rushed out of Yizhou City, trying to suppress the momentum of the Western army's offensive.
It's just that those soldiers rushed out of the city of Yizhou and rushed into the range of the muskets, and they were shot to death by rounds of shots.
After all the soldiers dispatched by the Xizhou Uighur Khan were killed, the Zhenxi Army rushed into Yizhou City.
Xizhou Uyghur soldiers and horses in Yizhou city knelt down to ask for surrender.
Xizhou Uighur Khan, leading his princess and children, at the gate of the temporary palace in Yizhou City, expressed surrender to Chong Shiheng.
On behalf of the court, Zhong Shiheng accepted his surrender.
After the Uighur Khan surrendered in Xizhou.
Zhong Shiheng ordered all the males of Xizhou Uighurs in Yizhou City to be captured.
Then he drove the captives to clean up all the goods, cattle, sheep, horses, and population in Yizhou City.
Finally, Zhong Shiheng took everything in Yizhou City and left Yizhou City overnight.
A day and a half later, Xiao Pidi led a team of 30,000 soldiers and horses, appearing in the wind and dust outside the city of Yizhou.
Looking at the cleared Yizhou City, Xiao Pidi's face was gloomy and could bleed.
"After learning that Song Bing had appeared in the Xizhou Uighur territory, I left a large army to attack Yidu and accept the post, and rushed here with a partial division. I thought I would stop Song Bing, but I didn’t expect it. I'm still late."
Sitting on the horseback, Xiao Pidi subconsciously clenched his fists, and said angrily: "We have fought hard for several months, but it was the Song people who finally took advantage.
The Xizhou Uighurs' accumulation of hundreds of years was so easy to be taken by the Song people.
Outrageous. "
"General, this is the end of the matter. It is useless to say more."
The civil servants who followed Xiao Pidi whispered an exhortation, "The King of Black Khan didn't seize much property in Gaochang. Don't lose a lot of money in the Uighur Beiting of Xizhou, and how much property was seized.
Although the King of Black Khan was very generous, he handed over Yidu, Nangzhi, and Yizhou to us.
But the money in the hands of Xizhou Uighur Khan, he did not expressly hand it over to us.
The accumulation of Xizhou Uighurs over a century is bound to be a fortune.
The King of Black Khan must be thinking about that wealth.
What the general has to do now is to send someone to tell the King of Black Khan about the Song people's looting of Yizhou.
Lest the Black Khan King think that we have swallowed the Xizhou Uighur's savings for a hundred years, and conflict with us. "
Xiao Pidi gritted his teeth and said: "This matter is left to you. By the way, I remind the Black Khan King Yusufu that the promise we promised to him has been fulfilled, and the promise he promised us should also be fulfilled.
Compared with the Xizhou Huihu, Da Song was more prosperous.
Invading the Great Song Dynasty, the gains were far hundreds and thousands of times more than those obtained by the Uighurs in Xizhou. "
"The lower official understands."
The civil officer agreed, took a group of people, and left outside Yizhou City.
Xiao Pidi took 30,000 horses and stationed outside the city of Yizhou.
Zhong Shiheng returned with a full load, and as soon as he entered the border of Shazhou, Li Di showed up on the border with someone.
After seeing Zhong Shiheng, Li Di did not ask whether Zhong Shiheng had brought back the poor women of Xizhou Uighurs, but asked with some worry: "Are there any soldiers injured, how many? The dynasty and Liao people grab food from their hands. They will definitely not give up. The doctors in the army may not have so much time to take care of the wounded soldiers. You hand the wounded soldiers to the old man. The old man has ordered the people to prepare in Shazhou and Guazhou. There are few vacant houses to heal the soldiers."
Chong Shiheng ordered the general of the Western Army to bring people into the country. He jumped off his horse and walked in front of Li Di and said, "Gong Li, don't worry. There are some injuries to the soldiers, but the number is small."
Li Di was relieved when he heard this.
Zhong Shiheng said in a deep voice: "However, this time they took food from the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao people, they will definitely become angry. The Liao people and the Black Khan Dynasty have the intention to fight against our Song together.
They are likely to use this as an excuse to confuse me on the border of Song Dynasty.
Therefore, in the days to come, we may have a very difficult life.
I can't take care of the wounded soldiers and the local people, and there will be no one else. "
Li Di's expression became solemn when he heard this.
"It's still winter, and the people of the Liao and Heihan dynasties should not be able to do anything. Because the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu could not lead the other soldiers and horses of the Liao State to form a double-sided attack on us.
But we also have to guard against it. In case the enemy does not act according to common sense, we will suffer in the end.
The old man will come back and will order the people in Shazhou to be temporarily moved to Guazhou, freeing Shazhou as a battlefield for you.
You can take the wounded soldiers in the camp to the old man.
With an old man sitting behind you, you can let go of your hands and feet to deal with the people of the Heihan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.
As long as the old man is still alive, the old man will not let anything behind you get caught in your feet. "
Zhong Shiheng bowed to Li Di and said, "Then there will be Li Gong."
Li Di bowed in return, "all for the court and for the people."
After the two spoke, they began to count the seizures.
After the money was counted, Chong Shiheng ordered someone to pack it and hand it to Li Di, who asked Li Di to send local soldiers and civilians to transport the money to Yizijiaozipu in Xiliang City.
The cattle, sheep, horses, and grain were counted and stored in Shazhou.
The surrendered prisoners, among them those who could be organized into soldiers and horses, were kept by Chong Shiheng, and the rest were handed over to Li Di.
Li Di has rich experience in how to divide and manage those Uighurs in Xizhou.
As for the Xizhou Uyghur Khan, Li Di and Chong Shiheng sent people to the city of Bianjing respectfully.
Since the Xizhou Uighur Khan took the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty, instead of surrendering to the Song Dynasty, the set of treatments agreed by the court before is naturally not applicable.
After everything is handled properly.
Zhong Shiheng led the Zhenxi Army and began to deploy defenses on the border of Shazhou.
Half deployed.
The army of the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom appeared on the border of Shazhou.
When the soldiers and horses who couldn't see their heads in the dark, appeared at the border of Shazhou, everyone on the border of Shazhou looked numb.
The Black Khan Dynasty had 700,000 soldiers and horses, and Liao soldiers 100,000.
A full 800,000 soldiers and horses covered a piece of land.
Chong Shiheng appeared on a high ground when the Black Khan Dynasty and the 800,000 Allied Forces of the Liao Kingdom appeared on the border of Shazhou.
Looking at the black and oppressive army, Chong Shiheng said solemnly: "Until the beginning of the spring, 800,000 soldiers and horses are coming over. They want to do it in advance."
The soldiers and horses of the Black Khan dynasty pursued the strategy of fighting for fighting.
There was no war, and their entire army was dispatched, just looking for death.
Because their luggage and rations are all in the enemy camp.
Therefore, once the army of the Black Khan Dynasty is dispatched, there must be war.
Now the Black Khan dynasty has crushed the 700,000 army on the border of the Song Dynasty, making it clear that it was going to take the lead against the Song Dynasty before the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu led the Liao soldiers to attack the Song Dynasty.
"The enemy's actions were different from what the officials and Kou Shimi expected. They sent people to immediately send the news back to Bianjing. Let Kou Shimi quickly dispatch troops and Malays to aid. At the same time, they sent people to Yuanshan and Qingtang to spread the message and ask them to send a message. Come over and support us."
After confirming the purpose of the Black Khan Dynasty, Zhong Shiheng solemnly ordered the people around him to ask for help.
Zhong Shiheng not only asked for help from the imperial court, but also from the two allies of Qingtang and Yuanshan.