Prime Minister

A few days later, two officials from the DPRK and China were speaking for Mu Zheng in the hall, accusing Zhang Yue.

One is Lu Jing, who is Wang Tao's accomplice, impeached Zhang Yue before, and now speaks out again to help Mu Zheng accuse Zhang Yue.

One is Deng Wan, who had a confrontation with Zhang Yue.This just confirms the saying, what is a gentleman's revenge is not too late for ten years, and a villain's revenge is from morning till night.

The official didn't say a word, leaving Lu Jing and Deng Wan to criticize for a while, and then threw out Zhang Yue's analysis memorial.The officials used Zhang Yue's book to answer questions in front of the imperial court, which made Lu Jing and Deng Wan speechless in court.

Wu Chong, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, the frontier ministers only spend two to three minutes on managing the border affairs, but they spend seven to eight minutes on guarding against someone's frustration. This is why the frontier affairs are difficult to do."

"I think that my son-in-law, Zhang Yue, is not a capable person, but he is willing to put in more effort than others to manage side affairs, but he is suspected of being the governor of the state within a few months. If the court treats people like this, how can there be a hero who is willing to work hard and make contributions? If there are few people, there are many people criticizing behind the scenes."

"As for criticizing behind the scenes, nothing is causing trouble, but using the criticism for credit, who dares to make meritorious deeds, and who dares to go forward and do his best to stand up for His Majesty?"

The official nodded and looked at Lu Jing, Deng Wan was dissatisfied.

The two had to plead guilty to the officials.

Wu Chong took a step back. As the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, there are still people who dare to criticize his son-in-law so blatantly.But he didn't expect Zhang Yue to submit a memorial at this time, which invisibly eliminated his troubles.

This also allowed Deng Wan and his like to see the intimacy between the monarch and his subjects, and made it impossible for the villains who wanted to slander.

Wang Anshi remained silent. Although Deng Wan was his henchman, he also had an acquiescing attitude towards Zhang Yue.

He also appreciates Zhang Yue now, his meticulousness is really like Tao Shixing.

You must know that it is not difficult for border ministers to make meritorious deeds, but it is really difficult how to keep the king from being suspicious thousands of miles away.

It is the difficulty of every frontier minister to be cautious and make contributions at the same time.

The official said: "Mu Zheng has always been obedient before, and I can't bear to punish him without teaching. Send someone to tell Mu Zheng that I know his grievances. If he is willing to keep his own place and is still my subject, I will give you five thousand guan. To make up for his loss, I want him to guard the western frontier for me."

All the ministers praised the benevolence of the officials.

This is also in line with the identity of the lord of a great country.

The official said modestly: "It is precisely because of Zhang Yue and Wang Shao's army that the army is in front, so that my kindness can be rewarded by the Tibetans."

"As for the pacifier at the edge of Qinfeng Road, since I appointed him, let him paint freely. The Privy Council is not allowed to interfere with side affairs with documents. Since I entrust Zhang Yue with one thing, I will employ people without doubt!"

Wen Yanbo, Feng Jing, and Wu Chong of the Privy Council all said yes.

After retiring from the imperial court, Wang Anshi walked back to Zhongshu, and Deng Wan followed Wang Anshi closely and said in a low voice: "My lord, Zhang Duzhi is a talented person, even if he is demoted to Xizhou, he can still take charge of his own affairs, but this person is by no means a long-term resident. The people under the people dared to defy the government's intention to attack Hengshan. If this person returns to the court in the future, he will definitely be at odds with Mr. Xianggong, so Mr. Xiang must not let him be free."

Wang Anshi heard the words: "You can't use Zhang Duzhi just because he is not one of us!"

"Master! Do you think that Zhang Yue wrote a private letter to you after he came to know Xizhou?"

Deng Wan asked about Wang Anshi's staring expression, and then he was overjoyed that Zhang Yue really didn't write a private letter to Wang Anshi.

Who is Wang Anshi?He is the prime minister!
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Zhang Yue doesn't know what's going on in Beijing yet, but in the battle with Mu Zheng, the real problem is not outside, but inside.

Dong Yu wanted to rebel against Mu and subdue the Song Dynasty, and it was a matter of internal response. Although Zhang Yue suspected it, he still had to report it to Jinglue to let Guo Kui know according to the procedure.

And Guo Kui was sitting in Gangu City at the moment. At this time, Liang Yibu had led the Xixia army to the vicinity of Dingxi City, and the Song Xia war was imminent.

Guo Kui, who was in Gangu, knew about this, and he did not neglect it. Instead, he immediately sent someone to inform Zhang Yue to let him be careful of Dong Yu, saying that the aboriginal people were cunning and careful about the recurrence of Cao Guangshi's incident.

Cao Guangshi was a famous general of the Song Army, who defeated Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian many times, and captured Li Jiqian's wife and mother.

Li Jiqian saw that he couldn't beat Cao Guangshi, so he feigned surrender. As a result, Cao Guangshi was ambushed and died at the hands of his defeated general Li Jiqian.

Zhang Yue received Guo Kui's letter and felt that Guo Kui really deserved the name of Guo Banxian. He hadn't told Guo Kui about his doubts yet, but Guo Kui warned himself like a prophet, beware of Dong Yu's false surrender.

This is too awesome, Guo Kui's mouth is simply open.

Guo Kui was still not at ease, Jing Sili, the Zhijun of the Deshun Army who had just been transferred to aid Qinzhou, immediately led 500 people from his troops to Weiyuan to help defend.

This is really timely rain!

Guo Kui's strategy for Zhang Yue is to be cautious, and after he defeats Liang Yibu, he will lead his army to Xizhou to defeat Muzheng.

But Zhang Yue didn't intend to do this, he had already found out about Mu Zheng's strength.

Although Mu Zheng's dispatch of troops this time is very powerful, as far as Zhang Yue knows, Mu Zheng's appeal in Xizhou and the two states is not strong at all.

An important reason why the Qingtang and Tibetan tribes were unable to defeat the Dangxiang was that they were disorganized, and there were many tribal leaders like Dong Yu with ulterior motives.

Mu Zhengdian has collected troops so far, but the following ministries are either not late, or the number of people they lead is not enough.

It has been more than ten days since Zhang Yue knew the news of Mu Zheng's mobilization, and the main force of Mu Zheng is still in Mobang Mountain.According to the spies, the people still haven't arrived.

So Zhang Yue heard that Mu Zheng was going to call him a long time ago, and he called, but so far he hasn't even seen a hair of him.

But no matter how long he waited, Mu Zheng still came to kill him.

In September, more than half of the autumn was over, Liang Yi was buried in Dingxi City and had fought with the Song Army for several battles, and the two sides had won and lost each other.

Mu Zheng, who had been lingering for a long time, confirmed the news of Xixia's dispatch of troops, and restrained most of the soldiers and horses on Qinfeng Road, before he cautiously led his army over Mount Mobang.

Mu Zheng claims that there are [-] people, but Zhang Yue speculates that there are no more than [-] to [-] who can really fight, and the rest are old and weak.

Zhang Yue didn't defend Cage City from the beginning, he was going to fight Mu Zheng for a few battles first, and if he couldn't fight, he would retreat to Fortify City.

More than a dozen tribes near Weiyuan Fort had rebelled against Muzheng and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

All the troops have been registered as Qimin, and Zhang Yue temporarily selected two thousand strong and strong Tibetan soldiers as archers.At that time, Li Kui had already come to the army and volunteered to resist Muzheng.

Li Kui is the disciple who followed Zhang Yue for the longest time, and he often talked about military affairs on weekdays. Zhang Yue gave him a commanding soldier and horse, and asked him to lead the two thousand archers of the Tibetan army to station in Niaoshu Mountain to protect himself. mouth of the salt well.

Li Kui agreed without hesitation, and led his army to station on Niaoshu Mountain, and built three layers of fences for defense.

As soon as Mu Zheng's forward arrived, he attacked Niaoshu Mountain.

Li Kui led his army to guard for a day, and at dawn on the second day, the archers of the Fan army suddenly stormed the camp, and then they were attacked by Mu Zheng.

As a result, Li Kui's army was defeated. Not only did he lose Niaoshu Mountain, but all the salt wells he had worked so hard to dig before fell into Mu Zheng's hands.