Zhang Yue wrote to Zhang Zhi every month, but Yu Zhangshi did not write any letters, and only sent greetings to him through Zhang Zhi.
Zhang Yue has great expectations for Zhang Zhi and is the only one who can express his concerns about Xihe.
Regarding the Emperor's arrangement of Li Hao to come to Xihe this time, Zhang Yue also expressed his distress. At the same time, he expressed his intention to retire and retire to his countryside after having led troops abroad for a long time and being jealous of the court.
Zhang Yue's letter mentioned the Peach Blossom Spring mentioned by Tao Yuanming, showing his longing for it.
Sometimes after retiring from office, you can retreat to a place where no one knows you and live with your family for three to five years. You can avoid the hustle and bustle of the world and forget about the world and the country. You don’t have to think about whether Wang Anshi’s reform was successful and how many years ago.
Whether the Jin soldiers invade ten years later, it will also be a first-class spiritual pleasure.
For example, Zhao Yu, who participated in politics at the time, was driven out of office by Wang Anshi. He lived in seclusion in his hometown and called the place where he lived Gaozhai. For the villagers who came to visit and seek acquaintance, he wrote a poem: "The gold on my waist has been withdrawn from hiding.
The news in it is also ordinary. People at that time wanted to know Mr. Gao Zhai, but he was Zhao Silang Acun.'
Even Wang Anshi wrote the poem "Shuangyun Snow Bamboo Zhongshan Temple" when he paid homage to participate in politics.
Although he is in a high position, he is glorious and wealthy, but the pressure is extraordinary and comparable. Therefore, on the one hand, he actively engages in the world, but on the other hand, he has the intention to escape from the world. However, ordinary people will only speak hypocritically.
Zhang Yuezhi, fellow practitioner Zhang Zhi, also warned in his letter that the way to behave in the world should be to use stupidity as wisdom and gentleness as strength. If you are of a straightforward nature, you must not make comments because things are not straightforward or the reasoning is not smooth.
Zhang Yue also learned that Zhang Zhi had written to ask him for calligraphy lessons. Zhang Yue wrote back and said that he studied under Zhang Youzhi. Unfortunately, he died of illness a few years ago, and now he has learned the method from many people.
At the beginning, Du Ling once said, "Books are expensive, hard and thin", which means that masculinity is better than femininity, and the word is like a human being.
Things in the world must be caused by a stubborn and unyielding spirit in the heart, but getting along with others is caused by ignorance, gentleness and obedience.
As he wrote the letter, Zhang Yue thought to himself that he was warning Zhang Zhi, so why not himself?
After finishing Zhang Zhi's letter, he wrote to Qi Niang.
Shiqi Niang writes once or twice a month, and now the two of them mostly talk about the education and education of their two children.
The eldest son Zhang Gen is very smart, which makes Zhang Yue very happy, but smart children are often difficult to obey.
Because of Xihe's military exploits, Zhang Gen obtained the status of a Yin official. In the future, even if he did not pass the imperial examination, he could directly become an official, and he would still be an official in the capital.
However, Zhang Yue still asked Qi Niang to supervise him. Whether he passed the exam or not was of secondary importance. The most important thing was to study.
A person's temperament is related to the family he comes from. Only reading can change his temperament. Ancient fortune tellers often said that reading can change one's life. It is not an empty statement. Zhang Yue asked Qi Niang to urge his eldest son and second son to study first to establish the ambition to be strong and rule, and then to achieve it.
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The second son was not as smart as the eldest son in studying, but Zhang Yue asked the seventeenth mother to urge him to study without asking for failure, as long as he made progress every day.
As Zhang Yue's favorite writer said, people will definitely regress. If you don't work hard, the only things in this world that can grow naturally with you will be all kinds of pain.
Without the management and progress of an ambitious goal, it is easy to be burdened by various setbacks and pains in daily life. Therefore, if you cannot endure the hardship of studying, you will suffer the hardship of life.
It's the difference between active and passive.
At the end of writing the letter, Zhang Yue couldn't help but say to himself, temper your mind and make it into steel.
Studying is training, and being in an officialdom is also a first-class training.
After writing this, Zhang Yue stopped writing and had some realization.
Every time Zhang Yue writes letters to his family and friends in his spare time, he writes two or three lines every day, no matter how busy he is.
The Seventeenth Mother knew Zhang Yue's intentions and often sent her two sons' homework to Zhang Yue's army.
Zhang Yue often corrects his homework under the light in the middle of the night. This is also the happiest moment of his day.
This is also the wish of all fathers in the world to hope that their children will become successful.
The next day, when the staff learned that Li Hao was in charge of Xihe Road, they all thought Zhang Yue was in a bad mood, but they saw that he looked as usual.
Cai Bian knew some details about this matter, and after careful consideration, he said to Zhang Yue: "I heard that there has been a lot of gossip in Beijing recently, but in the past, it sounded like nonsense. The second government is not ignorant."
Zhang Yue nodded after hearing this.
The meaning of Cai Bian's words was not Wang Anshi's doing.
Cai Jingdao: "Commander Qi, I thought maybe the imperial court was urging us, but it's hard to explain clearly."
Of all the strategic and pacifying envoys in the world, only Zhang Yue's was created by officials themselves, and they were treated almost like Jiedu envoys. If he had been in power for half a year, it would have been successful, but now a year has passed.
The court is not worried either.
Cai Bian said: "The previous achievements of stepping into Baicheng, capturing the wood, and subduing the ghost seal show that the imperial court has always attached great importance to the commander-in-chief. This has not changed."
As soon as Cai Bian said this, all the staff nodded.
Zhang Yue said: "Then what is Yuan Du's wisdom?"
Cai Bian said: "In fact, the imperial court's worries can be saved. I, Xihelu, have not made any achievements after the Battle of Tabaicheng. Now as long as I make more achievements, I can stop everyone's mouth. The imperial court will naturally feel relieved."
Su Zhe said on the side: "Are we going to achieve another feat? The first is to defeat the enemy, and the second is to open up frontiers. Now the Tibetan tribes in Hehuang, Taozhou, and Minzhou are all very respectful. We have no excuse."
Xing Shu said with a smile: "After the Battle of Tabaicheng, all the Qing and Tang tribes were really frightened. They didn't have the courage to raise troops to invade again!"
Xu Xi said: "No matter what, if they don't come over, we can do it."
Su Zhe said: "We must have a famous teacher! If the unknown teacher has missed the imperial court's plan to recruit the Tibetan tribe, how can the Tibetan tribe who surrender to us feel at ease in the future? Once morality is lost, Commander Pinghe Huang's strategy will be changed first and then changed.
Difficult, how can we succeed if we take it one step at a time?”
Xu Xi said: "I think it can be like this. The Tibetan tribes in Minzhou and Taozhou are one and the same. As long as we make some noise against the Tibetan tribes in Minzhou, we are not afraid that the Tibetan tribes in Taozhou will be displeased."
"Actually, the last time Bian Sibojie killed five Tibetan chiefs who were close to the imperial court, and recently they secretly recruited troops from the Minzhou Tibetan tribe. I think Bian Sibojie does have rebellious intentions, but there is no sign of it."
Zhang Yue listened to the opinions of his staff and summarized them.
Now Bian Sibojie is ready to make a move, but after all, he is still very submissive on the surface and has no real signs of resistance. To send troops at this time is to send troops out of nowhere.
Having a famous teacher is the foundation of benevolence. What is benevolence is that morality is in me.
Although Zhang Yue said that if you have a rough approach, moral principles are useless, but it also reflects the fact that when you suddenly don't follow moral principles, you probably have a rough approach.
It seems to Qingtang and Xixia that you attacked Taozhou for no reason, so what do you want to do next?
But how do I show that I am moral?
The staff discussed for a while, and then Xu Xi suddenly said: "It's winter now, so the rotation of troops and horses has already ended!"
After the winter comes, there will still be a rotation of troops and horses on Xihe Road.
Because it was difficult to get food in Xizhou and Hezhou, Zhang Yue took advantage of the fact that there was no fighting in Hedong, so he withdrew one-third of the troops on Xihe Road to Qinzhou and other prefectures and counties on Qinfeng Road to get food.
The soldiers and horses on Qinzhou Road withdrew to Fengxiang Mansion and even went to Yongxing Road to eat.
Xu Xi looked around at the crowd and said, "We can send another third of our troops to Qinzhou for food!"
As soon as Xu Xi said this, Zhang Yue knew that he was planning to make an empty city!
A good strategy indeed.
However, the staff all questioned that if another third of the troops and horses were sent to Qinzhou for food, then there would be only 10,000 to 20,000 Han troops left on Xihe Road, and in addition there would only be Fan troops led by Bao Shun, Mu Zheng and others.
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Bian Sibojie will take the initiative to attack if the Song army on Xihe Road is empty. But will this move be too risky?
Two-thirds of the Song Army's troops stationed in Xihe were withdrawn. What would happen if Bao Shun and Mu Zheng and others responded to the rebellion of Biansi Bojie?
It seems a bit risky.
Finally, Zhang Yue made a decision: "This strategy is feasible!"
With Zhang Yue's approval, Xu Xi was overjoyed when he heard this.
Cai Jing said: "If the Bian Sibo rebels, then we will have an excuse. Even if they don't rebel, we can save hundreds of thousands of military expenses on Xihe Road by moving two-thirds of our troops to Qinzhou for food."
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
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A few days later, Bian Sibojie learned that the Song army had moved troops to Qinzhou for food.
Taking Hezhou City as an example, the Third Army of Xihe, which was originally stationed here as a teacher, now has only 30% of its strength.
When Bian Sibojie learned that the Song army only deployed so many troops in Hezhou, he was not sure. He asked the Han adviser: "What do the Han people mean? Only such a few troops are deployed in Hezhou or Minzhou?"
Han counselors said: "After winter, the Han army always moves troops to feed. Some officials in the court always thought that opening the Xihe Road would cost a lot. In addition, the harvest on the Shaanxi Road was not good last year, so they would withdraw more troops than before."
Eating is also common sense.”
Bian Sibo concluded: "Sir, let's see if your counterintuitive plan worked last time, so Song Ting reduced Zhang San's authority."
The Han counselor thought for a while and said, "There may be some truth to it, but it's hard to say."
Bian Sibojie laughed loudly, thinking that this was probably the case. He said: "The Song people have been appeasing the local tribes in Minzhou, and at the same time they are not allowed to buy goods from the market and then transport them to Taozhou for sale.
The leaders below have been dissatisfied for a long time, I can let them make a fuss to test the Song people's true intentions."
A few days later, the Taozhou tribe crossed the border between Taozhou and Min, and burned, killed, and looted several places that were leaning towards the Song Dynasty.
Regarding the border news, the Song army in Minzhou only defended the fortress and did not fight back against the invading Taozhou tribe.
After several days of plundering, these Tibetan people saw that the Song army did not fight, so they finally left.
This move further increased the confidence of the Taozhou tribe in Song's military power. They began to persuade the border officials to rebel against the Song Dynasty. The reason was that Taozhou had high mountains and long roads. Even if they really rebelled against the Song Dynasty, they would not be afraid that the other side would lead an army to conquer the Song Dynasty.
, at worst, just hide in the mountains.
At this time, Hezhou sent monks to Yigongcheng to question Biansi Bojie as to why he sent people to attack the Minzhou Tibetan tribe, and demanded that the other party compensate for the losses and hand over the perpetrators.
Bian Sibojie agreed perfunctorily.
At the same time, they continued to indulge those Tibetan tribes who had no food and clothing to survive the winter to go to Minzhou to rob them.
This time Hezhou sent people directly to Yigong City and asked Bian Sibojie to go to Hezhou City to explain the matter.
Bian Sibo declined the request to follow the envoy to Hezhou City due to physical discomfort.
After the Song Dynasty envoy left, Bian Sibojie ordered his subordinates to actively prepare for war.
