It's not that Gao Chugong made mistakes in his military affairs, but that where Gao Chugong was sitting, nearly 400,000 murderers suddenly appeared.
The place where Gao Chugong was stationed was not considered an important military area, nor was it a battleground for military strategists, so Kou Ji sent him few soldiers and horses, only 50,000 forbidden troops.
Fifty thousand versus nearly four hundred thousand.
Even with the help of artillery and muskets, it is impossible to defeat.
The huge advantage in numbers allowed the murderers to attack dozens of miles of the Great Wall at the same time.
The 50,000 forbidden troops in Gao Chugong's hands were gathered together in one place, so they were naturally not afraid of the murderers.
But after being assigned to the Great Wall, which was dozens of miles long, it seemed a little stretched.
Under the attack of the murderers, Gao Chugong could only defend and basically had no way to resist.
After the news reached Kou Ji, Kou Ji immediately sent Li Si and his Jiaozhi soldiers to assist.
Just after Li Si led his troops to leave Gubeikou, a large number of thugs appeared on both sides of Gubeikou and Yuguan at the same time.
"Someone is controlling the murderer behind the scenes!"
After Kou Ji saw the number of murderers several times greater than before, he spoke without hesitation.
Zhong Shiheng stared at the overwhelming number of thugs outside Gubeikou and said: "I'm afraid it's not just the thugs... the entire people of Jingdong Road in the Liao Kingdom have also been driven here."
Most of the thugs outside Gubeikou didn't even have weapons in their hands.
Even if they say they are murderers, no one believes them.
For them to appear here is obviously driven here deliberately by others.
Kou Ji frowned and said: "With a large number of ordinary people mixed in, with the common people restraining us, the threat from the thugs to us has been greatly reduced. The crisis of the thugs breaking through our Song Dynasty's defense line has been completely resolved.
It's just that such a large number of people gathered outside the customs.
If we have to clear them all, it will probably take more than a month.
In other words, we won’t be able to leave the quarantine for more than a month.”
Hearing Kou Ji's words, Zhong Shiheng said without hesitation: "It's the nine new Khitan tribes! They want to attack the Yelv Sect. They are afraid that we will stab us in the back, so they have gathered so many people to block us and prevent us from letting go."
Let’s go out.”
Kou Ji nodded and said: "They can be regarded as helping me solve a big problem in the Song Dynasty, but I am a little dissatisfied with their approach."
Hearing this, Zhong Shiheng said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Unless you transfer all the remaining imperial troops here, we can only watch helplessly as they carve up the Liao Kingdom."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "The other forbidden troops are all in places high in the mountains and far away. They will rush here after the order is transferred to them. We have already dealt with these so-called murderers outside the city.
If they want to divide the Liao Kingdom, let them do it.
When they carve up the Liao Kingdom, we will go out and carve them up."
Zhong Shiheng nodded in agreement.
Kou Ji ordered: "Send someone to Weifu Mansion in Heishan and tell Yang Wenguang to move his place and let him take his people to wait outside the Shangjing Road in Liao Kingdom.
Then he easily eliminated the criminals who tried to pass through Dongsheng Prefecture.
He solved the murderers in Dongsheng Prefecture, and Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang were able to free up their hands.
Let Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang lead the troops over."
Zhong Shiheng hesitated for a moment and said: "Are you planning to seize the opportunity to take over the entire Liao Kingdom? This matter has been reported to the imperial court. Can the imperial court agree?"
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the nine new Khitan tribes carve up the Liao Kingdom, it is a good opportunity to capture the entire Liao Kingdom.
But the Song Dynasty has been engaged in continuous wars from last winter to now.
There are more than a million soldiers and horses who know how to use them.
The money and food consumption in the interim has exceeded the total military consumption since Zhao Zhen ascended the throne.
More importantly, the Battle of Hexi and the Battle of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun gave birth to hundreds of Dukes, Marquises, Earls and other high nobility, and an even larger number of recipients of lower titles.
The entire territory of the Liao Kingdom was larger than the Song Dynasty.
If the entire Liao Kingdom were captured, the number of dukes in the Song Dynasty would probably exceed a hundred, and the number of marquises would probably exceed a thousand.
The huge martial arts will instantly become the largest force in the court.
The civil servants, the remaining royal family and other forces combined were no match for Wu Xun.
The imperial court is only discussing the title of king now. If it really takes over the entire Liao Kingdom, the imperial court will have to grant the title of king.
And a prince can't stop him.
No matter how powerful a civil servant is, he can't reach the point of becoming a king.
Once a prince appears among the military officials, he will be able to overwhelm the civil servants everywhere.
Knowing this result, the civil servants could not allow them to conquer the entire Liao Kingdom.
Kou Ji asked Zhong Shiheng, "Why do you need the court's consent? Just the officials agree. When the troops led by Li Zhaoliang and Wang Kai arrive, I will disperse the local troops."
At that time, the military affairs against the Liao Kingdom will be the military affairs of our Privy Council.
What qualifications do others have to interfere in the military affairs of the Privy Council?"
"Those civil servants..."
Zhong Shiheng is still worried.
Kou Ji glanced at Zhong Shiheng, "We, the Song Dynasty, have been bullied by the Liao Kingdom for decades. Now we have finally turned defeat into victory. We have another opportunity to destroy the Liao Kingdom. Why should we miss it?
And why let the Liao Kingdom go and let them become powerful again?
As long as civil servants are not stupid, they will not stop this war."
Zhong Shiheng frowned and said, "But we are not what they want to see."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "So they will most likely try their best to replace us and replace us with others. But they will definitely not stop the war against Liao.
And the only people who can take us back are the officials.
If the officials don't nod, it will be useless for them to submit letters."
Zhong Shiheng hesitated and said, "Will the officials exchange us back?"
Kou Ji heard this and fell into silence.
Zhong Shiheng stared at Kou Ji closely, waiting for the answer.
Kou Ji thought for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know either..."
Although Kou Ji watched Zhao Zhen mature little by little, he understood Zhao Zhen more or less.
But he couldn't make a final decision on this matter.
He didn't want Zhao Zhen to exchange them back.
But thinking about it from another perspective, if he were in Zhao Zhen's position, he would definitely replace them all.
There is no other reason than that these people have done so much.
He has reached the point where he is unstoppable.
After Zhong Shiheng established great achievements in Hexi, he actually reached the point where he had no title.
The imperial court had previously awarded awards to all the soldiers who had made meritorious service in Hexi, but the awards to these two men were not mentioned.
It's not that the court doesn't want to reward them, it's that the court has nothing to give them except the prince.
They also held the military power of the imperial court.
It has reached a point where it can threaten Zhao Zhen's throne.
It is absolutely possible for Zhao Zhen to exchange them back for the sake of the integrity of the monarch and his ministers and to prevent the disaster of conspiracy to usurp the throne.
The royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasties was a royal family that got its start through rebellion.
Now Kou Ji, the most powerful among generals Zhao Zhenneng, can definitely be regarded as a super generous emperor to Zhong Shiheng and others.
If it had been Zhao Guangyi or Zhao Heng, they would have been surrounded by eunuchs and important ministers, all of whom would have put their knives behind their backs.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen's trust in them has exceeded an emperor's trust in his ministers.
So if Zhao Zhen later exchanged them back, Kou Ji would completely understand.
After all, even if Zhao Zhen trusted them again, he would never give the throne to them.
Kou Ji didn't know what Zhao Zhen should choose.
But Zhao Zhen knew how to choose.
When Zhao Zhen sent people to deliver transfer orders to Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang, he also wrote a memorial and sent it to Bianjing City.
As soon as the memorial came to Beijing, it immediately aroused heated discussion.
A strange scene occurred in the court hall.
The civil servants who had not dealt with the military ministers in the past actually jumped out and recommended the military ministers in the court to fight on the border.
Everyone in the government and the public knows what its purpose is.
We just can't let Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng and others make contributions.
If Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng and others are allowed to make great achievements again, then the throne will really be in danger of changing the surname.
It is worth mentioning that Kou Ji's guess was very accurate.
The courtiers only asked Zhao Zhen to send people to replace Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng, but no one had any objections to Kou Ji's proposal to take the opportunity to attack Liao territory outside the pass.
In the posture hall.
Lu Yijian said solemnly: "I recommend the veteran general Hu Yanbiqiu to be the vanguard of the Liao expedition..."
Zhang Zhibai cupped his hands and said: "I recommend the veteran general Wang Deyong to be the general of the Liao Central Army..."
Wang Zeng, who had just escorted a large amount of gold and silver back to the court, also handed over his hands and said: "I recommend the veteran Gao Jixun to be the vanguard of the Liao expedition..."
The person recommended by the three of them, Lu Yijian, is very interesting.
The three people recommended by the three are almost all veterans.
Hu Yanbiqiu was the son of Hu Yanzan, a famous general of the Song Dynasty. When Emperor Zhenzong was in power, he fought many battles for the Song Dynasty, but he was not as famous as Cao Wei and Li Jilong.
In Zhenzong's later years, Hu Yanbiqiu was seriously ill and almost in a state of semi-retirement.
After Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, Hu Yanbiqiu had almost been in retirement, so his reputation was not very prominent.
Needless to say, Wang Deyong was an absolutely loyal royalist. Due to his old age, he was transferred to the Royal Guards shortly after the reform of the military system and served as the General of the Royal Guards, responsible for Zhao Zhen's safety.
Zhao Zhen did not take him with him when he left the palace before, so he led the remaining imperial guards to help Zhao Zhen guard the palace.
Gao Jixun is a veteran among veterans. His father is a subordinate of Wang Shenqi, the founding general of the Song Dynasty. His name is Gao Qiong.
Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, was a minister of Qiandi who had outstanding achievements.
After his death, he was posthumously named King Wei, with the posthumous title Liewu.
So many people call him King Liewu.
Gao Jixun can be regarded as a general, and he has made many contributions to the establishment of the Song Dynasty. He was awarded the title of Founding Duke of Bohai County. He is now over seventy years old and suffering from diseases.
In Zhenzong's later years, Gao Jixun was in a state of semi-retirement.
After Zhao Zhen succeeded to the throne, he has been in a state of retirement. In these years, he only showed up when Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, and hardly stayed out the rest of the time.
And he tried his best to restrain the children at home and prevent them from getting into trouble.
It is precisely because of this that the children in their family were spared the disaster caused by Zhao Zhen's handling of Wu Xun.
It is worth mentioning that there were two Gao families in the Song Dynasty.
One is the Gao family founded by Gao Huaide, and the other is the Gao family founded by Gao Qiong.
Many times, many people confuse these two families.
I always feel like we are one family.
For example, Gao Taotao, the famous female middle school queen of Yao and Shun, recorded in history books, came from the Gao family founded by Gao Qiong, not the Gao family founded by Gao Huaide.
Gao Taotao's grandfather was Gao Jixun, whom Wang Zeng recommended.
Lu Yijian and the others recommended three veterans to replace Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng, and Gao Zhanggong. They did not think that these three veterans could fight.
Rather, I feel that the status of these three veterans is adequate and they can barely replace Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng, and Gao Chuanggong.
After hearing the recommendations of Lu Yijian and the others, Zhao Zhen said with a displeased look: "In order to exchange my fourth brother and Zhong Shiheng back, you can also break up.
Gao Jixun, who is in his seventies, needs help when walking.
Do you also dare to recommend it?
You guys think it’s unpleasant to watch my Da Song Dynasty fight with Lianjie, so you want me to lose a few games to Da Song Dynasty.
Or do you think my Great Song Bingfeng is unstoppable and needs to cultivate an opponent?"
Lu Yijian and the other two looked at each other.
Lu Yijian said: "Gao Jixun is old, but he can still fight."
Wang Zeng agreed: "Cao Wei is dying, but he can still help our Song Dynasty get back the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. Gao Jixun's body and bones are slightly better than him, and he can also help our Song Dynasty."
Zhao Zhen's face turned cold, "Do I have no one under my command, or do we in the Song Dynasty have no good generals and need to send three people who together are almost over two hundred years old to go into battle?"
Lu Yijian and the other two looked a little ugly when they heard this.
It is really inappropriate to send three veterans into battle.
But others do not have their qualifications and are not qualified to replace Kou Ji and the others.
Lu Yijian said bravely: "All three of them have the ambition to be shrouded in horse leather. We hope the officials will give them a chance."
"die on the battlefield?!"
Zhao Zhen slapped the table and stood up, "What a horse-hide corpse! Horse-hide burial sounds nice, but my heart aches when I see it. They have fought for our Song Dynasty all their lives, and I can't let them live in peace in their old age. If I want them to be shrouded in horse-hide, then I
How to be a king and father?
I was just afraid that Cao Wei would be wrapped in horse leather and die in front of the two armies, so after I recaptured the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, I abandoned hundreds of thousands of troops and personally brought Cao Wei back.
Now you are sending three old ministers to be buried in horse leather, do you think I have no temper?!"
Lu Yijian and the others hurriedly said: "I don't dare to..."
Zhao Zhen said angrily: "Don't you dare to still recommend me?!"
Lu Yijian gritted his teeth and said: "I and others are also thinking about the country of the Song Dynasty. Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng are all ranked first. They won a great victory in Hexi, and the imperial court has not awarded them a reward.
They fought several great victories in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, but the imperial court did not reward them.
Once they captured the entire Liao Kingdom, the imperial court would have to reward them.
When the time comes, it will be difficult for non-kings with different surnames to demonstrate their achievements.
Cao Wei was about to die, so it was better to be given a different surname as Wang.
But they are strong and have a different surname. They are a disaster to our Song Dynasty.
Once one of them has a different intention, it will be a huge disaster for the court and the people."
Zhao Zhen said with a gloomy face: "They are loyal to me."
Lu Yijian said in a deep voice: "I also know that they are loyal to the officials. But Emperor Taizu was also loyal to Zhou Chai Rong, but his subordinates had second thoughts and forced the yellow robe to be put on Taizu.
Only in this way can I have the great Song Dynasty.
The ministers can guarantee that they will be loyal to the officials, but they cannot guarantee that their subordinates will also be loyal to the officials.
Therefore, I sincerely ask the officials to think twice."
"presumptuous!"
Zhao Zhen shouted angrily: "Lu Yijian, you are making such arrogant remarks about Taizu, are you tired of living?"
Lu Yijian said loudly: "It is my fault to talk about Taizu in vain, and I am willing to admit my guilt. But I will never watch helplessly as Kou Ji and others continue to grow and become a harm to our great Song Dynasty.
For the sake of the nearly century-old foundation of the Song Dynasty and for the tens of millions of people in the world, I ask the officials to think twice before taking action."
"I would like to ask the officials to think twice..."
"I would like to ask the officials to think twice..."
Zhang Zhibai and Wang Zeng spoke simultaneously.
"You are so outrageous! Get out of here! You will be fined three years' salary!"
Zhao Zhen shouted angrily.
Chen Lin immediately appeared in front of Lu Yijian and the others with several eunuchs.
Lu Yijian and the others were not afraid at all.
Lu Yijian said seriously: "Even if the official family beheads me, I will not give up to prevent Kou Ji and others from continuing to gain power."
"Do you want to die?!"
Zhao Zhen asked through gritted teeth.
However, before Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian could speak again, Chen Lin and others had already led Lu Yijian and the others out.
After Lu Yijian and others were carried out of Zishi Hall, the anger on Zhao Zhen's face disappeared and he took a breath and said: "Chen Lin still understands my thoughts, if I let them continue to make trouble with me, I will
They are riding a tiger with difficulty, so we must deal with them."
Lu Yijian and the others made it clear that they wanted to fight Zhao Zhen.
If they refuse to give in, Zhao Zhen will have to deal with them until the end.
Chen Lin knew that Zhao Zhen didn't want to deal with them, so she really fought them out before they had a complete stalemate.
After Chen Lin sent Lu Yijian and the others out of the palace, she returned to Zishi Hall and said to Zhao Zhen in a dumbfounded voice: "Guan, why don't you tell them your true purpose?
If you tell them your true purpose, they will definitely stop making trouble."
Zhao Zhen let out a long breath and said: "Now is not the time, if I tell them now, they will definitely spread the news.
If they spread the news, how can I try to seize the family property of Cao Wei and others?"
Chen Lin smiled bitterly and said, "Lu Yijian and the other three should not be talkative people."
Zhao Zhen rolled his eyes, "They are all starting to make trouble, which means that the civil and military officials below are making more trouble. Once I tell them the truth, they will definitely stop and their flaw will be discovered by the civil and military officials below.
When the civil and military officials below are forced to do so, will they not tell me all about my plan?
At that time, Cao Wei and others heard the news and quickly sold their properties, mansions, shops and other things at low prices and exchanged them for real money that was easy to carry.
I can keep their properties, mansions, and shops, but I cannot keep the real money in their hands."
Chen Lin said with a bitter face: "But they are not finished yet. When the servant sent Lu Yijian and the others out just now, the three of them threatened to bring hundreds of officials to you to petition."
Zhao Zhen frowned and ordered: "Spread the word and say that the queen and others are about to give birth and cannot bear to be disturbed. If my heir is harmed because of their fault, I will kill someone."
Let’s go to the Queen Mother’s palace again. Please hang around the door of my palace if you have nothing to do.
When you meet the courtiers, keep them back."
Hearing this, Chen Lin nodded and said, "This way, they won't make trouble in the palace."
Zhao Zhen raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said with a smile: "I won't leave the palace, and they won't let me leave the palace either."
When Chen Lin heard this, she burst out laughing.
After laughing, he seemed to have remembered something and said: "With Privy Kou's contribution, being crowned king is probably a matter of ironclad certainty.
Please remember, slave, that the Kou Mansion has a lot of real money.
If the official family made Privy Kou the king, they might not get much land.
Moreover, are the officials willing to let Privy Kou leave?"
Zhao Zhen curled his lips and said angrily: "You don't need to pay a betrothal gift to marry my daughter?"
Chen Lin hesitated for a moment and said: "The custom of weddings in Bianjing City nowadays is really weird. The dowry for marrying a girl from her husband's family is shockingly rich. But the husband's family doesn't need to give too much dowry to marry a wife."
There is a law in the Song Dynasty that stipulates that after a woman marries a woman, the dowry is still the woman's property after it reaches the man, and the ownership of it belongs to her wife.
Therefore, when a woman marries a girl, she is not afraid of a large dowry.
Because no matter how much money there is, it belongs to the daughter who went out at home.
The daughter had a generous dowry to support her, so after she went to the man's house, she also spoke forcefully.
More importantly, once the marriage is dissolved, the woman's dowry still belongs to the woman and can be taken away at any time without leaving it to the man.
It is precisely because of such a law that the powerful families in Bianjing City, when marrying off their daughters, pay more and more in dowry to prevent their daughters from being bullied.
There is a typical example that has been passed down for thousands of years.
It was the daughter of Su Shi's younger brother Su Che who married.
The allusive name is Su Che's married daughter, also called the bankrupt married daughter.
It tells the story of Su Che's younger brother, who not only gave up all the family's money in order to marry his daughter, but also sold a large house worth tens of millions of dollars in Bianjing City, and used the proceeds as a dowry.
This shows how ruthlessly women in the Song Dynasty supported men.
Therefore, Chen Lin did not make nonsense, but explained a fact to Zhao Zhen.
After hearing what Chen Lin said, Zhao Zhen frowned slightly and said, "When I give the Kou family a bigger place to live in, shouldn't the Kou family leave some more betrothal gifts for me?"
When Chen Lin heard this, she couldn't laugh or cry, "With Privy Kou's temper, if you really ban him, he won't let you take advantage."
Zhao Zhen snorted, "Who said I was going to ban the fourth brother out?"
Chen Lin was stunned and looked at Zhao Zhen in astonishment.
Kou Ji's contribution to the Song Dynasty can be said to be unparalleled.
If everyone else has been crowned king, but Kou Ji has not been crowned king, then Kou Ji will have some ideas, and it will be easy for the monarch and his ministers to become estranged.
Seeing Chen Lin's stunned look, Zhao Zhen said calmly: "I and Fourth Brother still have a lot of things to do, so it is impossible for me to seal Fourth Brother out.
Therefore, the title of king of the Kou Mansion fell on my son-in-law.
It is not uncommon in the Song Dynasty for a son to claim his father's merits.
When the time comes, I will ask the Kou government to move everything out, leaving only the fourth brother and his wife in Bianjing City."
Chen Lin was shocked when she heard this, "I'm afraid the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty will not agree..."
The purpose of moving the princes abroad was to eliminate the influence and harm of the princes to the Song Dynasty.
But if only the people from the Kou Mansion were allowed to leave, and Kou Ji was not allowed to leave, there would be no way to eliminate the influence and harm the princes of the Kou Mansion had on the Song Dynasty.
Because the foundation of all the honor and disgrace of the Kou government lies in Kou Ji.
Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "When I designate the king for the Kou Mansion, I will depose the fourth brother from his title. The fourth brother will also hand over his military power and be transferred to Tong Zhongshu.
And the people from the Kou Mansion are not allowed to come back if they leave the hinterland of the Song Dynasty."
"Can Privy Kou agree?"
Chapter completed!