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Chapter 23 Return to Lin'an (Part 2)

Zhao Jiaren has been to Lin'an many times and is quite familiar with Lin'an. The prosperity of Lin'an before is still vivid in my mind. At this time, the population of Lin'an that I saw with my own eyes is less than half of the previous one. What the whole city has shown is no longer desolate, but desolate.

First, he ordered people to clean the palace so that the Empress Dowager Yang Shufei and the Little Emperor could move in as soon as possible. Zhao Jiaren went to the empty political affairs hall and the Privy Council to visit. From today on, Zhao Jiaren will be the owner of these two places.

As the left prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren was naturally the head of the Political Affairs Hall. After serving as the Privy Councilor, Zhao Jiaren was the highest military commander of the Song Dynasty. The reason why everyone called himself the "Taiwei" was because Zhao Jiaren was the real Taiwei of the Song Dynasty. It was completely different from that habitual honorific title.

After reading the two places, Zhao Jiaren ordered: "From the future, I will work in the Political Affairs Hall."

The news that Zhao Taiwei led the court to return to Lin'an quickly reached Yangzhou in Jiangbei. Cousin Chen Zaixing, who was in charge of the Yangzhou war, immediately sent a letter. Unlike Jia Sidao, Zhao Jiaren attached great importance to the transmission of information, so the letter sent by the messenger was quickly transferred to Zhao Jiaren. At this time, Zhao Jiaren was in front of the tomb of Song Lizong and refilled the cemetery dug by the Mongolian army.

Zhao Jiaren actually had no special feelings for Emperor Lizong of Song. His views on monarchy and ministers were similar to those of employees and company bosses. From this perspective, Zhao Jiaren was actually no different from most literati in the Song Dynasty.

However, Zhao Jiaren is completely different from those literati. His concept of the country is not comparable to those literati. Of course, this is not the result of Zhao Jiaren's strong moral concept. Having such concepts is the result of the education of the concept of modern nation-state and the deeds of the revolutionary predecessors of TG.

Zhao Jiaren was a little excited when he led the team to fill the digging of the tomb. After Song Lizong's death, the Song Dynasty represented the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty was a continuation of China. If it weren't for the fact that Song Lizong had too many places worthy of criticism during his lifetime, and Zhao Jiaren had no feelings for Song Lizong, his emotions were just excited. If someone dared to dig the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, Zhao Jiaren's emotions at this time might have been too strong and only one thought left, that is, "kill all the things."

After the Mongolian digging of Song Lizong's tomb, in addition to transporting away the body and coffin, all the burial objects were also stolen. These were all Chinese people's fat and ointment. In addition to feeling distressed, Zhao Jiaren also had some regrets. It would be great if he could be recovered and sent to the museum.

At this moment, the letter from Yangzhou was sent to Zhao Jiaren's side. He asked the troops to continue filling the land and began to read the letter himself.

Chen Zaixing told Zhao Jiaren in the letter that Marshal A Shu in Jiangbei first confronted the Song army, and once used his power to beat the previous artillery and fired against the Song army. However, Marshal A Shu's artillery was placed on a large cart, which was far larger than the Song army's artillery. Even if the range of the Mongolian army's artillery increased, it was still not as good as that of the Song army. The attack on the Mongolian wooden chariot was destroyed, and the efforts of the Mongolian army turned into a bubble.

However, afterwards, it started to rain in autumn. The Song army did not expect that the Mongolian army had launched a large formation to retreat. Two or three days after the rain stopped, the Song army discovered that the Mongolian army had run away without a trace. They sent a reconnaissance force and finally found that the Mongolian army had retreated to Huainan West Road.

When Chen Zaixing learned that Zhao Jiaren had arrived in Lin'an, he asked what to do next.

After putting away the letter, Zhao Jiaren felt regretful. Judging from the overall situation, the Mongolian army shrank its front and had no intention of competing with the Song army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. This was a good choice for the Mongolian army, but it was not so good for the Song army. At this time, Zhao Jiaren's troops only had 110 battalions. These forces could fight with the Mongolian army, but they were not able to carry out fierce pursuits on the Mongolian army after the shrinking front. Now Zhao Jiaren has only returned to Jiangnan, and even Huaidong Road north of the Yangtze River cannot be completely controlled. If the fierce pursuit is carried out, he may fall into a trap set by the Mongolians. If the strategy is correct, the Mongolian army with cold weapons can also leave the Song army with nowhere to start.

Seeing that the big pit on the ground had been filled, the soldiers were carrying out the final leveling work. Zhao Jiaren said to Zhang Shijie, the commander of the Imperial Army, "Commander Zhang, please ask Empress Dowager Yang and the officials to bring incense to Lizong."

Zhang Shijie was stunned and couldn't help asking: "Taiwei, shouldn't he be facing the north... shouldn't he burn incense?"

Zhao Jiaren disliked this feudal superstition very much, but it was within the scope of his tolerance. So Zhao Jiaren replied: "Li Zong is a Chinese. Even if the body is robbed, his soul will not follow the Mongols. Do you think the Mongols can still detain the soul of Li Zong?" In the end, Zhao Jiaren's voice was already very harsh.

After hearing Zhao Jiaren's words, Zhang Shijie shook his head like a rattle. "No, no, the Taiwei was thinking a little bit. I also feel that the soul of Lizong is still left on the land of my Song Dynasty."

Seeing that Zhang Shijie was not in trouble, Zhao Jiaren continued, "Since that's the case, I'll ask the Empress Dowager and the Officials to come to pay tribute to the soul of Li Zong."

Not long after, Empress Dowager Yang held the little emperor and accompanied by Zhang Shijie to the already set up incense table to worship. Concubine Yang was first elected to the palace as a beauty. In the third year of Xianchun, she was awarded Concubine Shu. Anyway, she could not be considered ugly in appearance, and she could even be said to be a bit beautiful.

However, Zhao Jiaren did not look at Yang Shuren from the perspective of a man looking at a woman. He was looking at Yang Shuren from the perspective of a powerhouse looking at another powerhouse. Compared with Zhao Jiaren, this woman cannot compete with Zhao Jiaren in terms of personal qualities such as ability and talent. The only advantage is probably age. She seems to be five years younger than Zhao Jiaren. With the rule that women live longer than men, the empress dowager has a high probability of dying after Zhao Jiaren.

But this did not make Zhao Jiaren feel threatened. The real threat is that Concubine Yang Shuren is the empress dowager after all. If this woman is provoked by others and becomes stupid after she has ambition, it is very likely that Concubine Yang Shuren will publicly shout "Zhao Jiaren is planning to rebel and kill him." At that time, even if Zhao Jiaren killed her, he would be ruined.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but look at Zhang Shijie. At least this Zhang Shijie is a person who is capable of threading needles and threading. Moreover, in Zhang Shijie's actions so far, there seems to be no evidence that he can't thread needles and threading.

While watching the Queen Mother’s memorial service, Zhao Jiaren was filled with the problem of power and tricks. After the Queen Mother Yang’s memorial service was completed, she left in a carriage under Zhang Shijie’s escort. Zhao Jiaren gave a small speech to the Imperial Guard and other troops that came.

"Today I am here to pay tribute to Lizong. Some people think that the body of Lizong was kidnapped by the Mongols, so the soul of Lizong was also taken away. I can tell you that this idea is a big mistake. We are a Chinese person and a Chinese ghost when we die. My Chinese land is a place where our souls sleep. If our China does not perish, our ancestors will not have nowhere to sleep after our death. Our souls will not be left unattained after our death. The spirit of Lizong in heaven is still on our China land. All we have to do now is to defeat the evil Mongol invaders and regain the corpses that were kidnapped by them. Do you have confidence?"

Although Zhao Jiaren himself did not believe in the spirit of heaven, and his ideal China was a China in power with materialist atheism, facing an army that did not educate materialist atheism, Zhao Jiaren could only seize the right to interpret the world after death. Moreover, this right to interpret seemed to be recognized by the soldiers. After hearing Zhao Jiaren's greetings, the soldiers shouted, "Yes!" "We have confidence!"

Since his right to explain was recognized, Zhao Jiaren continued to shout: "Very good! Then let us sing the song and let the Spirit of Lizong in Heaven see our military power!"

"The big knife cuts the Tartars on the heads!

Armed brothers across the country!

The day of the War of Resistance has arrived,

The day of the War of Resistance has arrived!”

Even though Empress Dowager Yang got on the chariot, the loud singing could still be heard clearly at all distance from the pit-filling site. It can be seen that the Empress Dowager Yang was not moved by the passionate emotions of the soldiers. She said to Zhang Shijie: "General Zhang, we are both pregnant with you until now. We must ask you to take care of you in the future."

After hearing the empress dowager's instructions, Zhang Shijie suppressed his excitement and nodded vigorously, "Please rest assured that as long as the minister is here, he will definitely protect the empress dowager and the official family."

After solving this matter first, Zhao Jiaren led his troops back to Lin'an. When he was walking on the road, Zhao Jiaren still felt very confused. What kind of water did Boyan get into his mind to make the choice to steal the body? Doing so would only make the Song Dynasty stronger hostility towards Mongolia.

Just as Zhao Jiaren was thinking about it, the ship transporting Song Lizong was still on the road. Since the coffin of Song Lizong was excavated, Boyan immediately ordered the body of Song Lizong to be sent to Dadu with the coffin. There were water routes along the way, and Mongolia would not give Song Lizong any decent receptions of Song Lizong's coffin. They just kept rushing to the road, and in the eyes of these people, the coffin was just a piece of luggage.

With such efforts, when Zhao Jiaren filled the pit and worshiped Song Lizong's spirit in heaven, the coffin of Song Lizong was transported to Dadu. As a Confucian scholar, Hao Jing, the Mongolian Pingzhang, knew that doing this was contrary to Confucianism. However, Hao Jing did not show any unhappiness because of it. He was even a little happy.

Boyan did this not according to the tradition of Confucianism or Han people. Boyan did this according to the tradition of the Mongols. Sure enough, after Kublai Khan received the coffin and corpse of Song Lizong, he informed Mongolia. Song Lizong, the emperor of Song State who had been fighting against Mongolia, had been captured by Mongolia. Since Song Lizong, who was the initiator of the war, was arrested, the Lin'an court of Song State surrendered and punished Song State.
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