After traveling through time, I became Han Zhang’s grandson?

With the steady progress of the "Second Five-Year Plan", a series of fields such as politics, economy, culture, military, education, and people's livelihood of the Song Dynasty have entered a new level.

While exerting enormous national and military pressure on surrounding countries, it also gradually achieved the important task of "expanding territory".

In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, the Song army invaded Dali City, the capital of the Dali Kingdom, and declared the demise of the Nanzhao Kingdom, which had separated from the central government and established itself after the Anshi Rebellion.

The royal family of Dali Kingdom and the remaining troops and civilians retreated to garrison in Tengchong Prefecture and contacted the Kingdom of Pagan for support in an attempt to restore the country.

As a result, the killing-crazed brothers Yan Da and Wang En launched a direct counterattack. The Dali and Pagan coalition forces were defeated, and the Song army almost broke into the territory of the Pagan Kingdom.

At the critical moment, the Pagan Kingdom repatriated all the Dali royal family and other military and civilians back to the Song Dynasty as a gesture of sincerity in the negotiations for a truce between the two countries.

In order to avoid expanding the war front and stabilize the southwestern border, the Song Dynasty accepted the conditions of the Pagan Kingdom and stopped fighting and made peace.

At this point, the war between Song and Dali was officially declared over after more than two years.

Yan Da and Wang En established the Rongzhou Military Governor's Office in the local area, with Yan Da as the Grand Military Governor and Wang En as the Deputy Military Governor, who jointly assisted in managing affairs in the entire Nanzhao region.

Compared with the various events during the conquest of Jiaozhi, the battle to destroy Dali was unusually calm.

The conflict between the emperor and the prime minister in Dali was so serious that it became a mess.

Even with the arrival of the Song army, both sides were still trying their best to hinder and trip each other up.

As a result, the Dali army suffered successive defeats in the face of the Song army, and finally collapsed across the board. It could no longer muster effective combat power and became a lamb to be slaughtered by the Song army.

The biggest obstacle that took two years was the Song army's unfamiliarity with Yunnan and the harsh terrain.

The Song army had to spend a lot of effort to find the location of the Dali Kingdom's capital. Moreover, since they could not use cavalry, the Song army relied on their legs to cross mountains and rivers and finally invaded the heart of Dali.

At the same time, in the Western Regions, the Song Dynasty's Western Army, which had been suppressed for a long time, also bared its ferocious fangs and continued to tear apart the confused Western Region Uighurs.

The battle between the two sides was also one-sided. The only problem was that they were not adapted to the desert environment and got lost.

It took the Song army nearly a year to find the main force of the Western Region Uighurs.

Then they set up an encirclement and went fishing, repeating this over and over again, and finally they wiped out the main force of the Uighur army in a single battle near Gaochang.

However, due to the Song army's unfamiliarity with the Western Regions and the fact that no Central Plains forces had extended their hands into the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years, it was very difficult for the Song army to settle in the Western Regions.

Apart from large and medium-sized urban strongholds, the vast desert oasis areas are basically occupied by the people of the Western Regions themselves, making it difficult to manage them effectively.

This became another difficult problem for the court. In the end, Han Jiang expressed his intention to continue using the Production and Construction Corps to control the eastern part of the Western Regions.

Local people and strong men from the Western Regions were selected to serve as the main force of the Construction Corps to develop and grow the Western Regions.

To this end, the imperial court established the long-lost "Western Regions Protectorate" and "Western Regions Production and Construction Corps", which were fully responsible for various issues such as the strategy for the Western Regions.

The court's strategy gradually showed results in the Western Regions, including the local people and strong men who joined the construction corps.

Under the guidance of Central Plains technology, people began to improve water conservancy facilities and reclaim wasteland, and the originally barren oasis gradually became full of vitality.

However, some old Uighur forces in the Western Regions were unwilling to lose power and secretly planned sabotage activities.

They incited some people who were unaware of the truth to fight against the Song army and create chaos.

Wang Shao, who is in charge of Western Region affairs, noticed something was wrong. He tried to appease the ordinary people while tracking down the mastermind behind the incident.

After hearing the news, Han Wei, who was in charge of the Hexi Corridor, took the initiative to ask the court to send some soldiers familiar with desert terrain to the Western Regions to help quell the rebellion.

After deliberation, the imperial court dispatched the famous "Special Environment Combat Corps".

After nearly half a year of investigation and various operations, the Song army destroyed the plan of the Western Region Uighurs in one fell swoop, stabilized the Song Dynasty's land in the Western Regions, and effectively allowed the Song Dynasty to take root in the Western Regions.

The great victories in the southwest and northwest battlefields brought the national prestige of the Song Dynasty to its historical peak, and as the ruler of this powerful country, Emperor Shenzong was proud of it.

Unfortunately, because of the "Yuanfeng Northern Expedition", Emperor Shenzong was exhausted and every time he woke up in the middle of the night, he would see the wronged souls of the Song Dynasty soldiers seeking his life.

This made the official, who was only forty years old, exhausted and increasingly drowsy every day. Finally, in the seventh year of Yuanfeng, he fell ill in the Wende Hall.

The news spread, shocking the whole country. Countless people were wondering about the emperor's health and whether he would have any problems.

The originally peaceful city of Bianjing was once again plunged into turmoil. Important figures who were rarely seen on weekdays appeared one after another and held so-called tea parties.

In fact, they all used the name of close relationship to collude and discuss the issue of appointing a crown prince.

They think they are smart, but in fact, the smartest people in the world would never bother to do this.

These situations were easily obtained by the all-pervasive Imperial City Administration, which then recorded them verbatim, compiled them into a book, and finally presented it to Emperor Shenzong's desk.

Looking at the names recorded in the document in his hand, Emperor Shenzong had a sneer of disdain on his slightly pale face.

"Look, take a good look, this is an official of the Song Dynasty, a minister of the imperial court."

"It's fine if you do nothing on ordinary days, but when the critical moment comes, you cause trouble for me and the world."

"Needless to say, the New Deal reforms are just for the sake of opposition. They also do everything they can to suppress and slander the New Deal faction that is in power."

"Now that they see I'm in poor health, they can't wait to jump out, waving flags and shouting slogans, and wantonly talking about establishing a crown prince."

"These people are truly the 'good officials' of the Song Dynasty and the 'good ministers' of the imperial court!!!"

Emperor Shenzong handed the document to Empress Xiang for review, and then sneered.

"Your Majesty, although there may be some collusion among the court officials, it is not worth your grief and worry."

Empress Xiang was a virtuous person who devoted herself entirely to Emperor Shenzong.

Seeing that Emperor Shenzong's face turned alternately blue and white due to anger, he was very indignant and hurriedly tried to dissuade the other party and extended his hand to help Emperor Shenzong calm down.

"They are not worthy enough for me to personally clean up. They will never have the chance in this lifetime..."

Emperor Shenzong sat upright beside the bed, closed his eyes and tried to relieve the anger in his heart.

"Empress, summon Privy Councilor Han Ming to your audience!"

Emperor Shenzong opened his eyes, with a cold look in them.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will immediately ask Li Xian to summon Han Da Xianggong."

Soon, Han Ming, dressed in casual clothes, secretly entered the palace and came to the official's bedroom to listen to the letter.

"Your Majesty!" Han Ming bowed.

"Han Qing, come and sit down."

Emperor Shenzong waved his hand and asked Empress Xiang to give the memorial submitted by the Imperial City Bureau to Han Ming for review.

"Your Majesty, do you want me to deal with these people?!"

Han Ming reacted quickly. He knew that Emperor Shenzong intended to clean up these pests, but he didn't want to do it himself.

"They've been talking about 'establishing a crown prince' since around the second year of the Yuanfeng reign, and now they're not even trying to hide it."

"You are a subject, you should know what I am thinking?!"

Emperor Shenzong's simple two sentences made Han Ming see that the emperor, in his final years, had a violent and cruel look.

"Your Majesty, our dynasty has never had the practice of 'punishing for speaking'. The officials were merely discussing this matter, so they should not be punished!"

Han Ming is not a saint, and he doesn't want to get involved in these trivial matters, but he must provide a reasonable cycle for the development of the court.

If the court is full of new policy supporters, or if there is only one party in power, then various problems will definitely arise, especially corruption, which is the biggest and most unsolvable problem.

The existence of conservatives and opposition parties in the court can more or less serve as a warning and alarm to the new policy faction.

Let the new policy faction always maintain its original intention and continuously optimize and reform the court's policies.

Moreover, Han Ming knew that too much is as bad as too little. If the entire court was filled with members of the New Deal faction and the Han Party, the emperor would be frightened.

Maybe Emperor Shenzong doesn’t think so now, but that doesn’t mean he won’t change his mind in the future.

There must be a balance between the Han Party and the New Deal faction, a balance between government and the government, and the role of steadily advancing the New Deal policies, rather than wasting time in the party and government, and in the hostility between the emperor and the emperor.

He hopes that the government and everyone can understand the reason behind this. If one party is used to suppress the other, it will only turn into a vicious cycle that wastes time and destroys the good political ecology.