Chapter 44 Section Fourteen

At the same time that Shi Yue was trying to persuade Wang Anshi and other prime ministers to accept his idea of ​​corporatizing the steel industry in Zhongshu Province, Wang Shao in the far northwest began his series of victories. Facing Wang Shao's army stationed at Weiyuan Fort, the Qiang tribes relied on their own dangers to defend themselves, not daring to fight, trying to drag down the Song army.Wang Shao led his army from Mobang Mountain, crossed Zhuniuling, attacked the Qiang people, and won the first big victory.Later, he bluffed at Zhuniuling, making the Qiang people think that he was still in Zhuniuling, but Wang Shao personally led the army and secretly arrived in Wusheng.Wang Shao then built a castle in Wusheng and defended it. Then he took advantage of the victory to attack and defeated the Qiang tribe Marjian in Gongling City, recruiting more than 20,000 people from his tribe.Since then, Wang Shao's power has shaken the Taohe River, and the Qiang people have all fought in the direction of their troops.Maljian was in constant fear, and it was only a matter of time before his death.

On the other hand, Zhang Dun, unwilling to be lonely, began to recruit and surrender the Miao people in Hunan, built towns, and brought tens of thousands of Miao people on Damei Mountain in the Xuefeng Mountains into the control of the court. The news of the success of the military operations supported by Wang Anshi was quickly spread back to the capital, and the praise of these victories by "Xinyibao" and "Bianjing News" made Wang Anshi's image among the people of the capital also taller.The people of Song Dynasty are too eager for a victory to boost their morale and hearts.Therefore, neither the "Xinyibao", which is actually controlled by the New Party, nor the "Bianjing News", which advertises as "neutral", did not hesitate to praise them.In contrast, the achievements of Shiyue Iron and Steel's new technology were simply not worth mentioning in the eyes of people at that time.If it weren't for the Market Change Law to remind the citizens of Kaifeng how many disadvantages the new law has - now even to sell fruit on the street, you have to pay a so-called "free money"!

"Bianjing News" criticized this fiercely, but was led astray by the three champions. The two sides had a fierce debate, and the winner was not decided. "Money" was paid correctly-the direct result was that the prices in Tokyo City rose again. Compared with "Xinyibao" and "Bianjing News" who praised Wang Shao's victory in a high-profile manner, "Xijing Review" is much more sour. They actually don't know how much money will be spent on building the city in Wusheng at this time. Expressed doubts, implying that General Wang spent too much money!Their tone was exactly the same as that of Privy Councilor Wen Yanbo.As a result, the sales volume of "Xijing Review" in Bianjing fell by 30% that day, and Wen Yanbo was refuted by Wang Anshi. Even the emperor blamed him for being troublesome.

Wen Yanbo, who was called by Shi Yue as "at worst, he doesn't know good and bad, but at best, he has a strong character", did not "disappoint" Shi Yue, seeing his former friends and today's political enemies gain power day by day , except for the Green Crop Law improved by Shi Yue, other new laws are equally distasteful to him, and the Arms Supervision case is obviously a muddled case but it can't be solved... Wen Yanbo doesn't want to stay in the court for a day anymore With the awareness of being kicked out of the court, he became even more fearless, and attacked the Shi Yi Law and the Horse Protection Law more and more firmly.

When Shi Yue talked about government affairs with the emperor several times, he had clearly felt that Zhao Xu was impatient with Wen Yanbo.When he told Feng Jing cryptically that he hoped Feng Jing would persuade this Master Wen to pay attention to his strategy, Feng Jing shook his head and smiled wryly: "It's useless, he wanted to leave a long time ago." At the beginning of September, the impeachment of Yushi Zhang Shangying finally led to Wen Yanbo's early dismissal.Zhang Shangying impeached the envoys of the Privy Council on 12 charges, including covering relatives and conniving officials in the court to break the law, which directly led to the resignation of the Privy Council envoy Wen Yanbo, deputy envoys Wu Chong, and Cai Ting at the same time.Zhao Xu had no choice but to let Zhang Shangying go. This censor, who had only been in the capital for a few months, was extremely talented, but he didn't understand the true meaning of politics at all, so he had to be demoted to Liangzhe Road to supervise the tax.Because the emperor, in any case, did not want his Privy Council to suddenly have no privy envoys.

But this incident also made Zhao Xu have a bad impression of Wen Yanbo-the emperor of the Song Dynasty loved to pay attention to the technique of balance when employing people. At the same time, Feng Jing, the son-in-law of Fu Bi, was placed in Zhongshu. At the same time, Wen Yanbo and Wu Chong of the Privy Council were at odds with Wang Anshi.So Zhao Xu actually didn't want Wen Yanbo to resign, because neither Wu Chong, the deputy privy envoy, nor Feng Jing, the political adviser, were comparable to Wang Anshi in terms of prestige.However, Wen Yanbo's repeated "unreasonable" challenges to the new law finally made Zhao Xu very impatient.And Wang Shao's victory also gave the emperor a reassurance. Now it is not so necessary for Wen Yanbo to preside over the overall situation in the Privy Council.Not long after Zhang Shangying went to Liangzhe Road, Wen Yanbo dismissed the privy envoy and guarded Situ and Shizhong, Hedong Jiedu envoy, and Panyanghe.At the same time, Wu Chong was appointed as the privy envoy.