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To put it bluntly, the biggest reason for this result was the poor horse policy of the Song Dynasty.

There are two main types of horses in China, the most well-known Mongolian horse, and the less well-known Sichuan horse from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

The former has strong endurance and the latter has strong climbing ability, but they are not suitable for strategic mobile operations on flat ground.

The Northern Song Dynasty took over the mess of the Five Dynasties. It fought with the Khitans from Taizu to Zhenzong, but still failed to take back the Yanyun area. As a result, the Hetao horse breeding area became the most important source of high-quality Mongolian horses.

Then, when Western Xia broke away, the most important horse-producing areas were gone, leaving only the Sichuan horses, which had little endurance.

In the era of cold weapons, horses were very important strategic materials. The Mongols were able to fight their way all the way from East Asia to Europe thanks to their light cavalry.

Lu Changqing felt a bit of a headache. All the good equipment was in the enemy camp. This battle was really difficult to fight.

Lu Changqing recorded all the big and small battles on the Western Xia border for three consecutive months, and later compiled them into a book and handed it to Yang Shanjun.

After Yang Shanjun flipped through it, he asked in confusion, "What does this mean?"

"There have been frequent wars on the northwest border, and the Tanguts are becoming increasingly restless. I'm afraid Li Yuanhao may have rebellious intentions."

Yang Shanjun closed the memorial and handed it back to Lu Changqing. "The Privy Councilor will report these matters to Your Majesty during the court session every day. You don't have to worry about it."

Lu Changqing pushed the memorial to Yang Shanjun and said, "You all know that you might as well tell the emperor that three years ago, Yuan Hao was able to suppress the Uighur tribes in Su, Gua and Sha states at a very fast speed. How could he suffer repeated military defeats against our dynasty? There must be a trick!"

"What do you mean?"

"I think Yuan Hao's move is to paralyze us so that we will underestimate the enemy. He will definitely make a big move later."

Seeing that Yang Shanjun's expression had softened, Lu Changqing advised again: "Whether the government takes it seriously or not, at least let him know that Yuan Hao has rebellious intentions."

After thinking about it, Yang Shanjun still felt that the questions raised by Lu Changqing were of little use.

"So what if we know? Can the imperial court still take the initiative to attack? The Khitans will not agree. They still have to rely on the Tanguts to contain us."

"You all know that as officials of the Song Dynasty and close ministers of the emperor, isn't it our duty to help the emperor solve his problems? Now that the hidden dangers have been discovered, we must bring them up to the emperor to prevent them from happening! Otherwise, if the problem breaks out in the future and the emperor holds us accountable, will we be able to bear the consequences?"

Yang Shanjun picked up the memorial and put it aside, still not taking Lu Changqing's words too seriously, "Okay, I'll hand it over to the government for review tomorrow. If there's nothing else, you can go back and do your own thing."

"Yes, I understand."

Lu Changqing was not on duty the next day, but she came to the yamen early in the morning to wait for the results. When she saw Yang Shanjun coming back from outside, she hurried forward to inquire about the situation.

Yang Shanjun handed the memorial in his hand to Lu Changqing and said in a light tone: "The official has already reviewed your memorial, you can read it yourself."

Lu Changqing opened the letter and looked at the four big words "You worry too much" at the end and wanted to punch the wall.

She knew this would happen!

It was her bad luck that she had an emperor like Zhao Zhen!

"I'm afraid everyone in the outer court knows your name now."

Lu Changqing didn't understand what Yang Shanjun meant, so he asked, "Do you know what this means?"

"Just now, Lord Wang and Lord Chen were both here. When they heard me report this to the emperor, they both laughed and said that you were worrying too much and asked me your name."

Lu Changqing wanted to sneer, but held back.

Laugh, laugh, you two damn old men! Han Qi is about to start a big scolding, and then these two old men will be fired from their posts, and then we'll see if they can still laugh!

Sure enough, since that day, Bai Fuying's name was known not only to people in the outer court, but also to the concubines in the harem.

Of course, it is not a very good reputation, especially among the ministers outside. Whenever Lu Changqing is mentioned, most of them will follow it with a sentence "woman's opinion".

Lu Changqing didn't know about these things at first. It was Bai Shiyuan who asked someone to bring her a letter from home, ordering her not to do anything wrong in the palace, so as not to embarrass him in front of his colleagues.

After reading Bai Shiyuan's letter, Lu Changqing burned it directly.

What the hell! How dare a sixth-rank official like her order a sixth-rank official to do something? How shameless!

Lu Changqing unfolded the letter from Bai Xingke that was brought in along with the other letter.

The letter said that He Guiyi had given birth to a boy, more than three months ago.

Since Bai Mingzhou was completely useless, the He family did not want He Guiyi to stay in the Bai family as a widow, and they insisted on taking their daughter back.

Du Hezhi was reluctant to let her go at first, but Bai Shiyuan was afraid that the matter would get out of hand, so he finally agreed to let He Guiyi and Bai Mingzhou divorce and let her go home with all her dowry.

As for Wu Xiang and others, they had let them out of the house in the month when He Guiyi gave birth. Some of them returned home, while others stayed in the capital to do some small business.

Bai Shiyuan, who refused to accept his old age, took another concubine, saying that it was the Minister of Justice Yan Shu who gave him the confidence. If the other party could give birth to a son at the age of 47, then he, who was not even 45 years old, could naturally do the same.

When people are happy to have a new friend, they forget the old one. Lu Changqing often saw complaints about Bai Shiyuan in the letters sent by Lin Wenqing.

If you still complain, it means you still have feelings for him. If you really have no feelings for him, you wouldn't even mention it.

Lu Changqing provided Lin Wenqing with two options: either explode into a big fight and break off all ties with Bai Shiyuan, or swallow his anger and hold it in.

After the letter was sent, probably because Lin Wenqing realized that Lu Changqing was annoyed, he never complained about Bai Shiyuan again when he wrote to her again.

The year 1038 was destined to be no ordinary year. Floods occurred in many places in Qingzhou, and a large number of victims appeared. However, the prime minister Wang Sui, Chen Yaozuo and the vice-chancellors Han Yi and Shi Zhongli were helpless.

Han Qi wrote a series of memorials to point out the mediocrity of the four men, lamenting that the Song Dynasty had enjoyed eighty years of peace and prosperity and that the foundation must not be "left to incompetent officials to destroy at will." As a result, the four men were dismissed from their posts on the same day, which is the so-called "four prime ministers were dismissed on a piece of paper."

At the same time, he criticized the social atmosphere of "common bribery" and "requesting favors based on personal connections" and the official corruption of "lots of luck and inversion of rewards and punishments", and suggested that Zhao Zhen start laying off staff from within the court.

It was impossible to cut back. The New Deal reforms of the Qingli period were a last resort, and Zhao Zhen began to reform the "laws of his ancestors."

In fact, court officials had long discovered the country’s financial problems and the irrationality of its systems.

The issue of three redundancies should have been first raised by Song Qi. In the second year of Baoyuan (1039), Song Qi, who was then the judge of the Three Departments of Revenue, submitted a memorial entitled "Memorial on Three Redundancies and Three Expenses", suggesting that the court "eliminate the three redundancies" and "reduce the three expenses". At this time, it was pointed out that the court needed to reform the malpractices in the "laws of our ancestors".

However, no one dared to move. We are not fools. Think about those politicians who have carried out reforms in history. How many of them had a good ending?