The emperor drew a trail, Tian Zhong and Han Zhen looked at each other, as if they understood each other's thoughts. Both of them thought this was an opportunity, and the enemy general Zhang Gui must be the elite of the guards' personal army, and destroying them would be extremely beneficial to future battles. However, it is not easy to annihilate these 50,000 people within a limited time.

Zhang Gui is the son of Zhang Hongfan, a famous general of the Yuan Dynasty. He has been in the army since he was a child and is also an outstanding figure among the Zhang family's descendants. If the two departments had cleared the remaining enemies in Shandong and Henan, they would not have rashly penetrated into this trap. If the actions were too late, he would lead troops into Daming and defended the city, which would cause difficulties in siege and even fight a protracted war.

Therefore, it is best to wait until Zhang Gui's troops enter the trap, the two armies can quickly close the opening, complete the encirclement of Daming Prefecture City, annihilate it outside the city, and then gather the power of the two divisions to conquer Daming City with the power of victory.

This idea is very good, but Tian Zhong and the others knew that the two parts were scattered in three places to fight. If they wanted to conquer three cities at the same time, then quickly encircle the reinforcements, and annihilate them, and then capture Daming City. This not only required close cooperation between the two parts, but also required careful planning and the test of being able to fight continuously.

The two of them will be extremely responsible for deploying this way. Once the enemy is released from mistakes or the battle will be caused into a protracted war, it will not only affect its reputation and affect the Northern Expedition, but will also be punished by military law. Following His Majesty's deployment, fight if you can, and force them back if you can't. They do not need to bear any risks or responsibility for indulging the enemy.

But in order to successfully launch the next stage of the battle, the two decided to gather in Daming to annihilate the places where they came to aid. On that day, Tian Zhong and Han Zhen did not return to their garrison, but after a night of discussion, they jointly drafted a combat plan to capture Daming Mansion, and submitted it to the emperor the next day, requesting permission.

After seeing this, Zhao Bing did not say much, saying that he would not interfere with the result and how to fight the specific battle. He would not interfere with anything he lacked, and he could only ask for money, give things, and give officials. This was equivalent to completely decentralizing the command. The reason for doing this was not only to believe in their judgment, but also to accumulate and summarize experience for future wars. After all, they were the first time to organize such a big battle, and there were even more difficult battles waiting for them...

They sent the two of them away, but Zhao Bing's head hurt even more, and they left a difficult problem for themselves.

With the victory of the Western Front battlefield, Kaifeng and Luoyang were recovered, which means that the Zhao family Gongyi's ancestral tomb has returned to the Song Dynasty. After Tian Zhong recovered the two places, he had sent troops to guard the imperial tomb, but the current situation of the imperial tomb is not optimistic.

Zhao Bing knew that after the founding of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the Tianjian Zhao Xiuji, the envoy of Neiguai Province, Wang Renshan and others to change Bu'anling in Dengfeng Township, Gong County, Xijing, to relocate the remains of their parents buried in southeastern Tokyo to the southwest of Gong County, and began to build the Song Mausoleum, which has been operating for more than a hundred years.

After the Jingkang Incident, the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed and its territory was lost. The imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty also experienced catastrophes. First, Liu Yu, the emperor of the "Da Qi" supported by the Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains, conducted large-scale excavations of the Song tomb. None of the tombs were spared, the buildings on the tombs were destroyed, and all the treasures in the tombs were looted.

After the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, someone once sold a crystal-made pillar in the Lin'an market and bought it for the royal family. Emperor Gaozong of Song couldn't help but cry when he saw Zhuzi, saying that it was an object on the tomb of the late emperor's temple. During the Shaoxing period, Yue Fei's troops fought north to recover Song's tomb and repaired Song's tomb. But soon, Yue's army retreated south and Song's tomb was in the hands of the Jin army.

The Jurchens who occupied the Central Plains then completely destroyed the buildings of the Song Mausoleum and the treasures were stolen. On the way to the envoy, the secretary and young supervisor Zheng Gangzhong detoured to the Song Mausoleum to inspect. In his notes, he recorded that most of the buildings on each of the tombs had been "destroyed", and some had been burned by war, leaving only "woods and trees and hills".

More than ten years later, Fang Tingshuo, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple in the Southern Song Dynasty, went to the Song Mausoleum to inspect the Jin Dynasty and found that all the tombs had been dug out. Song Zhezong's corpse was thrown outside the Yongtai Mausoleum, so he took off his robe, wrapped the corpse of Zhezong, and placed it in the tomb again.

After entering the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty tomb was robbed again, and the tomb area had been "completely plowed into ruins". In order to completely extinguish the thoughts in the Song people's hearts, the Yuan Dynasty monk Yang Lianzhenjia destroyed the tombs of the Southern Song emperors in an extreme way. The royal cemetery of the Northern Song Dynasty was also burned out by a fire, and the ground buildings of the Northern Song Dynasty's imperial tombs were gone. Later, Zhao Bing knew in his previous life that the Song Dynasty's imperial tombs had been severely destroyed and had long become deserted tombs and hills, so modern tomb robbers were too lazy to visit. Archaeologists also believed that they had lost their archaeological value and were unwilling to pay attention to it.

Everyone knows that their ancestral tombs were dug up, which was an irreconcilable grudge. Since Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou, all of them were regarded as a great humiliation, but all they could do was to shed tears and sigh. After they crossed the south, they only used the peace talks of the Song and Jin dynasties and envoys to pay homage. Emperors of all dynasties were unable to go to Gongyi to worship their ancestors in person.

Zhao Bing also felt unlucky. When he came to this world, he actually did something to wipe his ancestors. In order to protect the Shaoxing imperial tomb, he sent troops to Jiangnan, and at least he had saved his face and was not dug up by Yang Lianzhenjia. Now that the rest of the country has just been rectified, he has to worry about the ancestors' tombs and reorganize the place of sleep for them.

The reconstruction of the imperial tomb is related to the royal reputation and the face of the country. No matter from any angle, it needs to be repaired as soon as possible. Zhao Bing also wants to go to sacrifice himself. However, the war has not yet ended and his whereabouts are still being kept secret. Now he can only ask Jiang Qi to take the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works to investigate the damage and make preliminary repairs.

If repairing the ancestral tomb is still considered a family matter for Zhao Bing, then another thing is a major matter that concerns the world. Qufu has been recovered by the capture of Shandong on the eastern front. Everyone knows that Qufu is the hometown of Confucius and the location of the Confucius ancestral temple. The Confucius family is a family that has been passed down from the Chinese nation for more than two thousand years and has not been interrupted.

How prosperous is this family? No matter which dynasty, their family is highly respected, and no matter which ethnic group rulees the land of China, their family can become a role model for cultural and morality. Yan Shenggong is a position officially enthroned by the courts of all dynasties to the old Confucius family, and is the hereditary title of Confucius' eldest descendants.

Not to mention other dynasties, since the Song Dynasty, Song Renzong enthroned Confucius' eldest son-in-law descendants as Yansheng Gong, which was equivalent to a representative figure for Confucius' descendants to reproduce. After the arrival of the south, this problem became complicated.

During the period of Huizong, Confucius' forty-seventh generation eldest grandson Kong Duanyou inherited the title of Yansheng Gong. Unfortunately, a chaotic situation soon occurred. The Jin soldiers marched south in large numbers. In order to preserve the inherited treasures of the Kong family, Kong Duanyou took him south and defected to Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou, who established the Southern Song Dynasty in Lin'an.

At this time, there was only one Yan Shenggong in the Confucius Sect, that was Kong Duanyou. However, the Jin people also wanted to support one Yan Shenggong to prove that they were the orthodox dynasties. When Kong Duanyou went south, his younger brother stayed in the north to guard the Confucius Forest and Confucius Temple, so he did not follow him to the south, which became a bargaining chip used by the Jin people.

So the Jin people first supported the pseudo-Qi regime, and Liu Yu became the emperor of the pseudo-Qi regime. Liu Yu asked Liu Yu to come forward and named Kong Duanyou's son Kong Duancao, the son of Kong Duancao, as Yanshenggong. At this time, the situation of Yanshenggong in the north and south appeared. On the south was Kong Duanyou's branch, they were the chief descendants of the descendants, and on the north was Kong Duancao's branch, they were the bargaining chips for the Jin people to build up against the south.

From an identity perspective, the eldest son Kong Duanyou's lineage is of course orthodox, but from a geographical point of view, Kong Duancao's lineage is stationed in the Confucius Temple and Confucius Forest in Qufu, so they cannot be said to be orthodox.

It would be fine if there were only two sects in the north and south. When the Mongols went south, the situation of Yanshenggong changed again. At that time, Yanshenggong, who was stationed in the Confucius Temple in Qufu, was Kong Yuancuo. He was supported by the Jin people, but when the Mongols went south to attack the Jin Dynasty, they had to learn from Kong Duanyou to go south to take refuge. He followed the Jin Dynasty regime to Bianjing, and the Confucius Temple in Qufu was given to his clan Kong Yuan to be responsible for the management.

When the Mongols arrived in Qufu, they found that Yan Shenggong was missing, so they simply changed one place to establish. They appointed Kong Yuan, and Kong Zhiquan and his son to serve as Yan Shenggong. This made the situation even more complicated. Yan Shenggong, who had Kong Duanyou's lineage in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Yan Shenggong, who had Kong Yuancuo's lineage in the Jin Dynasty. Later, Mongolia occupied Qufu and Yan Shenggong, who had Kong Yuanyong's lineage in Qufu.

Three sects of Yan Shenggong appeared on the land of China at the same time, and everyone felt that they were orthodox Yan Shenggong. Until the Mongols captured the city of Bianjing, the Yan Shenggong of the Jin Dynasty, Kong Yuancuo, was captured alive by the Mongols, so he was appointed as Yan Shenggong by the Mongols. The Yan Shenggong Kong Zhiquan, whom they had established before, was abolished and served as the Qufu Order. However, in this way, the situation of Yan Shenggong of the North and South sects appeared again.

Surprisingly, Kong Yuancuo had no son, and the problem arose again. After his death, he had no descendants to inherit the title. The Mongols had no choice but to make Kong Yuancuo's younger brother Kong Yuan's grandson Kong Yuan the Lord. However, Kong Zhen had a problem with his origin. His mother had already remarried the Li family, and Kong also had his surname Li, so he was deposed soon.

The incident lasted until the Mongolian went south to destroy the Song Dynasty. There was no Yan Shenggong in the Central Plains. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan asked Jiangnan to attack Yan Shenggong Kong Zhu to enter the imperial court to make him orthodox. Zhao Bing, who was far away in Qiongzhou, was angry that not only expelled Emperor Deyou, who was named by the Mongolian Yuan, and his relatives of the imperial country, but also deposed Yan Shenggong, and did not enfeoff the title of another imperial decree.

For his own reasons, Kong Zhu felt that if he accepted the appointment of the Yuan Dynasty, he needed to settle in Qufu and could not return south. He would be alone in Qufu as Yan Shenggong, and would definitely be fiercely excluded and troubled by the Kong clan of the Northern Zong, so he chose to refuse Yan Shenggong's title. Kublai Khan was also annoyed by this matter, so he simply chose not to establish Yan Shenggong for the time being. In fact, Yan Shenggong's title was vacant at this time...
Chapter completed!