To discuss the latest Mongolian war situation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Lifan, after talking about the latest news, Lu Bofeng asked Zhao Qian: "The prince looks in a good mood. What's the good thing?"

Zhao Qian replied frankly: "No good or bad. I just feel good."

Lu Bofeng felt that Zhao Qian's attitude was unusually frank. If he said that he had not encountered any good things, it would really make sense. But Zhao Qian said that, Lu Bofeng could not continue to ask. Everyone continued to talk. Zhao Qian asked: "Minister Lu, is this Tiemur's current policy inheriting Kublai Khan?"

"I wonder what the prince thought Kublai Khan had?"

"Mongke was still a great Khan during the Battle of Ezhou, and his Khan's position was recognized by the Hulitai General Assembly. Later, Kublai Khan competed with his brother for the Khan's position, and the Hulitai General Assembly split itself. Kublai Khan ran to Baghdad, which was located in the heart of the Mongolian Khanate. As far as I saw, Kublai Khan had turned the elected Khan from various tribes into the current Khan's next."

"What the prince said is very much." Lu Bofeng replied. As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Yiren interrupted, "It is important to recommend the Khan, but it is not necessarily possible to pass the throne. Timur's brother said that he wanted to compete for the Khan position when he succeeded to the throne. That is, Kuokuozhen adapted to the situation. In addition to relying on Yuxi Timur to hold the imperial guards to suppress the formation, he also used the method of reciting the "Sermon on the Khan" to make the stutterer retreat."

After hearing this, Lu Bofeng felt that Luo Yiren had some good things. He had joined so many things that could have been clearly explained. However, since Luo Yiren interrupted, Lu Bofeng wanted to hand over the power of speaking to Luo Yiren. Unexpectedly, Zhao Qian continued to ask Lu Bofeng, "Timur is trying hard to hope that he will not have such a situation again when he elects the next Khan, right?"

"It's hard to say." Lu Bofeng had to continue: "Timur formed a flag army to get rid of the dilemma of needing all princes to send troops to help during the war. The reason why Kublai Khan was able to attack the Song Dynasty was because of the Han people north of the Huai River. They went to the Mesopotamian Basin, and the locals believed in the True God Cult. They were completely different from the Han people in the north."

"I'll interrupt." Zhao Qian replied: "Minister Lu, I just want to know if Timur has his strategy and what is the strategic purpose. I don't want to predict the outcome of the war now. I want to make a judgment on Timur's reaction after understanding these key points."

Lu Bofeng was a little shocked. In the past, Zhao Qian wanted to get a complete prediction when he encountered something. Now he suddenly didn't hurry, just wanted to obtain accurate information as the basis for judgment. It was really a bit like the Zhao Guan family doing things on weekdays. If this was not done by the prince, it would be like Lu Su praising Lu Mengshi for three days to be treated with admiration.

After cheering up, Lu Bofeng asked: "Prince, if Tiemur really wanted to take over the power, how would you think it would change?"

"This depends on whether there are people in Mongolia. If Boyan's ten theories can be implemented, Mongolia has a great chance of winning. In my judgment, it is impossible for the slave dynasty to make Baghdad surrender. Even if the slave dynasty hit Baghdad, the Mongolians would just slap their butts and run away, and come back in the future. I don't know much about Mongolia, and this time it's just the initial point of Mongolia I know."

After listening to Zhao Qian's quick remarks about his thoughts, Lu Bofeng replied for a while: "The prince's idea is not the same as the previous idea of ​​the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Zhao Qian said gently: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is full of talents, and it is not difficult for my request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since Minister Lu said that his ideas are different from his previous ones, I wonder when I can give a reply according to the idea I said?"

"At least one month."

"Okay. I'll just wait for one month."

After Zhao Qian left, Lu Bofeng couldn't help but ask Luo Yiren, "What's wrong with the prince?"

"I have really started to be the prince." Luo Yiren's answer was simple and clear.

Lu Bofeng immediately frowned and said loudly: "Hey, the official family is in full swing, don't be so rude."

"I am of course happy that the official family can reach the 100th birthday. But the official family has established a crown prince to let the prince start to experience it. Why should we speak privately?

Lu Bofeng's expression was gloomy. Luo Yiren was about the same age as Zhao Qian. He was a talented person who became the Minister of the Lifan in his twenties. He must be an official of two dynasties, so it is not uncommon for him to be close to the prince. Lu Bofeng is in his fifties, and at most he will serve two more terms and then go to a local county according to the system, and then retire gloriously. He felt that Zhao Qian's approach was unacceptable. He was unhappy. Lu Bofeng said: "Little Luo, I definitely don't have the chance to be a subordinate of the prince. The prince's doing this is very different from the official."

Luo Yiren smiled slightly, "Haha, I think it's no different. It's just that in the past, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Lifan were all subject to the arrangements of the officials, but now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Lifan will probably become more proactive institutions. Does Minister Lu like this?"

Lu Bofeng felt it was indifferent when he heard this. He was about to respond a few words but was stunned. The more Luo Yiren thought about it, the more he felt Lu Bofeng felt it was. According to the tradition of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, officials had gained knowledge and intelligence by listening to ministers and scholars in front of the imperial lectures. The Zhao family had been in power for more than 20 years and had been emperor for more than ten years. Perhaps because this period was when Lu Bofeng was in the court as an official, Lu Bofeng, who was born in the Jinshi family, had forgotten the tradition of the past three hundred years. It was never the Zhao family who really dominated the affairs of the Song Dynasty. If Zhao Qian could return to the old era..., Lu Bofeng felt that this was not bad news.

At this time, Zhao Qian had already written a logical relationship on the judgment of the current Mongolian Khan Tiemur in his small notebook. After writing it, he put the notebook up and put it aside. There was something more important than the war in the Song Dynasty. Now it is May of the Song Dynasty. After a few months of rainy conditions in Henan, the grain this year has finally gained harvests. Without the urging of his father, Zhao Qian was prepared to go to the front line to check. The reason why it is said that the "slow rainy conditions" rather than drought is because the news below is that there are many water conservancy facilities construction, the local grain has not been greatly affected. Zhao Qian felt that he had to go and see it to be at ease.

If Zhao Qian set out alone, he would become the imperial envoy. Of course, Zhao Jiaren would not let Zhao Qian be so arrogant. So Zhao Qian traveled as a member of the inspection team of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Yang Yao was the one who led the team here.

Having had an experience of listening to a class together, Zhao Qian knew how much Yang Yao had in his father's heart. The two had a long talk before they set off. Zhao Qian liked Yang Yao's straightforward personality very much, and the content they talked about was quite straightforward.

My father Zhao Jiaren did not believe in ghosts and gods, so he naturally would not issue a self-destruction when encountering natural disasters. He cleverly indicated that the emperor knew that the people had suffered and the emperor worked hard. The reason proposed by the Zhao official was that the "little ice climate" was that the low temperature in the small ice climate caused the humidity in the air, and the high pressure of the cold north increased, resulting in the compression of precipitation from the south to the south. It was not that the water on the earth decreased, but that the water arrived in the Song Dynasty away from the ocean area decreased.

After reaching an agreement on fundamental climate issues, the two soon reached a consensus on inspections. First, whether the local government has understood these physical reality, and secondly, whether corresponding solutions have been taken based on physical reality and local agricultural situations.

The core personnel of the inspection team reached an agreement. The inspection team meeting was to unify their thinking and understanding. Zhao Qian used to think that meetings were very easy to talk nonsense, but now he finally understood why it was nonsense. His father liked to do various studies for a long time, so some people complained that there were too many courts. The purpose of this study was to let everyone understand what situation was facing. If the officials below still believed that the earth was flat and the sun was around the earth. The one who caused the thunder was Thunder God and the God of Rain and the Dragon King were in charge of the rain. There was no way to do this work!

The staff in the working group are all very young, and the average age is less than 30 years old. Everyone passes the professional knowledge test. However, Yang Yao was not satisfied with this. He asked Zhao Qian to give a test paper on water conservancy. Zhao Qian had some objections to this, "The water conservancy major is very complicated, and it is particularly emphasized adapting to local conditions. I don't know the hydraulic environment in Henan, so I am afraid that I will talk about the bad head when I ask questions."

"Don't be afraid." Yang Yao said confidently: "Let's conduct basic assessments. Whether it is the south or north, the most basic things should be the same. The water output of the well, some key points of the canal repair, and the evaporation along the way. You must understand these basic concepts when inspecting. If you don't do this, the more you are fooling around, the more likely you will be to fool people."

After hearing this, the word "courageous official" appeared in Zhao Qian's mind. As my father promoted the system of the First Empire of the Qin and Han Dynasties over the years, cruel officials were used more and more. What's even better is that this word is getting closer to its original meaning. After the fall of the Han Dynasty, cruel officials became harsh words to deal with the people. For example, in Liu Zongyuan's "Say of the Snake Catcher", "When a fierce official came to my hometown, he shouted from the east and west, and broke from the north and south; if he was uproar and shocked, even if he was not at ease, he could not be at peace." Or in Du Fu's "Shihao Official", "Sleeping in Shihao Village at night, an official caught people at night."

Of course, my father's comments on this did not advocate criticizing these minor officials. Zhao Qian remembered that my father's original words were, "The Shihao officials came to arrest the military, not to arrest people to work for local tyrants, nor to serve the military towns of the vassal states. Instead, to provide support to the Heyang army. This shows that although Du Fu's manpower and material resources that the country could mobilize at that time were already very weak, at least the grassroots organizational system had not collapsed yet."

However, when the word "rude official" first appeared, the guys who were called "rude official" were not so low-level. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the court advocated "ruling by inaction", which led to the rapid expansion of the power of powerful landlords. For example, the Via family in Jinan County relied on the large clan households and dominated the local area and repeatedly made trouble with the government. Local officials followed the common laws and "no control".

Zhidu, who was first called a cruel official, appeared. His brother Tai was simple and clear in his work. Since the hero violated the ban with martial arts, and Confucianism with literary corruption, he reached a level comparable to that of the Warring States Period. Zhidu then used tit-for-tat to fight violence with violence. After he took office, he did not say hello or went through the motions, directly captured and killed the Virgin family, implemented strict laws, and set a precedent for the Western Han Dynasty to use severe means to crack down on powerful people. To put it bluntly, this brother Tai had to kill more than a certain number of powerful people every year under the rule of the emperor.

The head of the Wi-Class was killed, and "I am all thrust" and dared not confront the government again. In addition, he committed the "lawless" killing against the powerful people, Zhidu was in office for more than a year and "no relic in the county." Zhidu attacked the powerful people with decisiveness and influence, and the prefects of more than a dozen counties around him were sincerely respected and regarded him as his superiors.

Later, many cruel officials appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, and each cruel official was only targeted at the powerful. Not only did the number of executions every year must meet the standards, but they had to be killed enough. They also did not act as thugs of the powerful and eliminated the small powerful for the powerful. Instead, they started to kill from the greatest number. Wen and Jing's rule was largely accomplished by the help of these cruel officials.
Chapter completed!