This time, Lu Haowen suddenly showed his responsibility, causing both sides to suffer losses and making Zhao Jiu reflect on many things.
He realized that it was still too early to do whatever he wanted... and this bureaucratic group that had not played a decisive role in Nanyang before, so that he was a little bored, was by no means his enemy.
In a word, we still have to live together like this, and we absolutely cannot divorce, or it is useless to divorce... We are already Adam and Eve, so why are we hurting each other?
In fact, the turmoil over the imperial edict this time and the turmoil over the last peace negotiation, taken together, can be seen as mutual testing between the two sides after they moved back from Nanyang to Tokyo, in an attempt to find a new position for both parties:
The first wave was regarded as Zhao Jiu's victory, so the authority of Zhao Guan's family has undoubtedly increased by a big step;
But this wave of testing reached the bottom line. In the face of Tsunadune's serious question, both sides stopped after a little testing.
But having said that, after this court meeting, both sides entered a cooling-off period, and things began to progress. A very ridiculous thing is that Yue Fei actually successfully suppressed the rebellion directly. His victory document was simply a request from Concubine Pan to accompany him.
The letter from the driver arrived together.
The Privy Council couldn’t believe it!
The military chaos in Southeast Jiangning, which lasted for less than half a year and caused serious political, military and economic obstacles to the revival of the Song Dynasty, came to an end on the fifth day after Yue Fei's troops crossed the river.
Yue Fei's military report was also written with extreme sincerity and honesty:
On the day of crossing the river, we fought with the enemy in Shibu Town, Linjiang, east of Jiangning Fucheng, and won. The next day, we fought in Jiangshan (Zhongshan), and won again. We rested for one day, attacked Jiangning at night, and defeated them. The next day, we attacked the headquarters.
Commander Zhang Xian pursued the enemy to Niutoushan in the southwest of the city, captured the bandit leader Wang Yi, and planned to surrender more than 10,000 rebels.
Regarding this battle report, the Privy Council once expressed cautious skepticism.
The reason for being cautious is that they also know that the fighting power of the Jiangning rebels cannot be too strong. As long as they fight step by step, this group of rabble cannot defeat the elite soldiers of Yue Fei's army who have fought bloody battles with the Jin army.
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However, the problem is that in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, have there been such generals and troops who did not make any unnecessary moves or any additional conditions, and just went to war step by step?
Di Qing?
Di Qing also interfered with the judiciary when he was the privy envoy! Although Wen Yanbo's words were hateful, General Di was not so innocent in the whole story that led to Wen Yanbo's rude remarks.
Han Shizhong?
This guy just forcibly recruited troops in Huaixi and almost caused civil unrest.
So, don’t you need to stay in the prosperous land in the southeast for a few more days? Don’t you need to pay some rewards from the Queen Mother in Yangzhou? Don’t you need to coordinate the deployment of friendly forces and logistics after Lu Yihao takes office?
Just cross the river, fight, attack the city, chase the enemy, and end in peace?
Not to mention the Privy Council, even though Zhao Jiu knew that this was definitely true, he still found this military report to be extremely absurd... He thought that he was rushing to Jingou at night.
Huaihe, who is easy to serve? When has there not been a time when you have not risked your life to show off?
Isn't it the sense of absurdity that you know it's true but still feel it's too unreal?
Not to mention, there is still a strong contrast at the moment.
As a result, Zhao Guanjia, who was rarely refreshed, issued an order to commend Yue Fei, and at the same time ordered Lu Yihao to quickly clean up the situation in the southeast and hand over the materials in Zhejiang and Fujian that had been blocked by the previous war to Yue Fei's troops for escort to Tokyo.
At the same time, while responding to a letter allowing Concubine Pan Xian to enter the capital, they sent Hu Yin, the censor Zhongcheng, as a special envoy to go out of Guanxi to meet with Yu Wenxuzhong and the generals in Guanxi. This was some kind of help from the Zhao family to Hu Yin. I hope
When he got out of his previous inappropriate state, he also had to make a complete decision about the situation in Kansai.
You must know that it is not just about the southeast. Recently, Zhang Jun, who came out of Bashu, also delivered good news. According to him, the financial reform adopted by Zhao Kai, which was previously approved by the court, has achieved miraculous results... This reform Zhao Jiu
Now I can understand it a little bit. It probably means that although the economy of the Song Dynasty was developed in the past, it paid attention to the control of a government-run economy. At least, the income in special directions such as tea, salt, wine, alum, copper and iron must be guaranteed.
The state monopoly, but because of the need to ensure control, the actual market size demand in remote places such as Bashu and Shu is much larger than the official quota. Zhao Kai's reform is aimed at completely liberalizing the market in order to obtain the current situation when the center is extremely short of money.
These exclusive economic fiscal benefits.
As a result, the entire Bashu region received nearly 1 million yuan in additional interest from tea alone within one year (a yuan refers to a bunch of money. Due to copper price issues, the actual exchange rate is far less than 1,000 yuan, and the amount is uncertain.
, but it better represents purchasing power).
One million yuan is nothing compared to the Song Dynasty's total fiscal revenue of over 100 million yuan before the war. It does not seem to be a big number to Bashu and Southeast's current fiscal revenue of nearly 10 million yuan each. Moreover, Zhao
The final benefits of the fiscal reforms initiated will also take time to complete the fiscal cycle...
But the key thing is that after Zhao Kai's reforms and Zhang Jun's unified pressure, the Bashu area encouraged tea merchants to engage in tea and horse trade. In just the first year, horses were directly exchanged from the Hengduan Mountains and northwest Tibetan areas.
More than ten thousand!
So in this case, let alone the problem of transportation efficiency after the large-scale improvement of Bashu's finance... It is definitely the most efficient to use it directly in Guanxi... Just the transportation and distribution of war horses has caused the collapse of Guanxi.
The solution to the matter is imminent.
Hu Yin was not an idiot. Although he was a little too upright, he knew very well that his trip to the west was the official's love for him and it was a serious national event. Therefore, early the next morning after receiving the decree, he waited for the city gate to open.
Taking his deputy Wan Qixi, plus three or five provincial scribes, a dozen regular followers, and twenty soldiers assigned by the Privy Council, we set out to the west.
Going all the way west, the scenery in the first half of the journey is quite ordinary.
The so-called common sights are actually not unusual at all. They are just scenes that Hu Yin and others are used to seeing around Tokyo... They are nothing more than military camps, forts built along the direction of the Yellow River, filled with soldiers and their families.
and a steady stream of refugees coming from Hebei.
As for the local people in Henan who have gone south, and even the refugees from Hebei who have gone south to the Central Plains in the past few years, they are not willing to come to the front line to seek a living.
Therefore, the entire first hundred miles of the road are filled with the special atmosphere of military control and the specific desolate character after the war.
And these are so similar to the city of Tokyo, which made Hu Yin and his party sigh with emotion and couldn't help but feel worried.
However, this worry soon disappeared, because after crossing Sishui Pass and entering the boundary of Xijing, Hu Mingzhong and others became completely silent - Luoyang, Xijing, also suffered a military disaster and was also desolate, but compared with Sishui Pass
The desolation in the east retains the atmosphere of human activity, but overall there are traces of recovery. The desolation here has a gray atmosphere that makes people feel scary.
In the ancient capital of the past thousands of years, as early as the end of Jingkang and the beginning of Jianyan, the strong resistance of Dazhai and other rebels in Xijing led to the retaliatory burning of the city and massacre by the Jin army.
The once prosperous place was burned down long ago.
Afterwards, the Jin Army's two major invasions and retreats had the main forces passing through this place, and several tragic large-scale battles broke out. It is even conceivable that if war breaks out again in the future, Xijing, a key place that has lost a complete city system, may still be
There will be a massive military disaster.
Therefore, not only the people in Xijing who originally fled were unwilling to return, but even the refugees in Hebei Province avoided this place, and the local troops also focused on building forts in the mountains around the Luoyang Plain for future response.
In the past, the Luoyang Plain in the world could not help but fall into an untimely and dead posture.
Hu Yin and others saw along the way that the fields had been left uncultivated for several years, and most of the fields could no longer be distinguished. The cities were empty. Except for a few garrison troops, there was almost no sense of livelihood. The pigs and sheep raised by the garrison troops went directly to the county schools, temples, etc.
When I came to the main city of Luoyang, I saw that the palaces and palaces in the past were completely in ruins. There were no pigs or sheep left, only wild animals walking in and out of the streets, and it was completely unlike the human world.
Although Hu Yin and others were shocked, they still decided to pay a visit to the Eight Tombs of Zhao and Song Dynasties, but they were dissuaded by the local veterans who were sent by Niu Gao and had been warned in advance. The reason was that after the invasion of the Jin army, according to the feudal superstitious thinking of these days, it was natural for them to
The Zhao family's mausoleum was demolished, and Lu Qing, who had worked hard to protect the imperial mausoleum in the past, even led his headquarters to fight against the Jin army, bandits, and rebels who tried to rob the tomb. The area around the Zhao family's mausoleum was filled with corpses and had become a dangerous place.
However, Zhao Guanjia and the central government had made clear orders several times, specifically telling the officers and soldiers not to pay attention to the mausoleums during the previous battles. After Heyin, they also told the Xijing garrison to pay attention to the defense construction of their own forts first, and there was no need to clean the mausoleums for the time being... so it was early there.
It was already unsightly and was temporarily blocked by the Song Army.
Not to mention that when Hu Yin heard these words, he burst into tears, and even Wanqixi Jing and his party were shocked. However, the two of them could only gnash their teeth and continue westward in a hurry as if they were running away.
Thanks to this escape-style traveling speed, in late April, Hu Yin, the censor Zhongcheng, crossed Tongguan, entered Guanxi, and came to Chang'an to meet Yu Wenxuzhong.
But at this time, the situation changed again, and Yu Wenxuzhong's attitude was already very clear:
"There is no need for Hu Zhongcheng to go. Qu Duan has been domineering for a long time and is no longer available!"
"What does Mr. Yuwen mean?" Hu Mingzhong was stunned.
Of course he was stunned, even Wan Qixi found it incredible.
It should be noted that the reason for the delay here in Kansai is that on the one hand, the main force of the Jin Army's Western Route Army is extremely powerful in combat, causing Kansai to always lose battles, the situation keeps deteriorating, and it is impossible to start work; on the other hand, it is Yuwen.
After Xu Zhong came to Kansai, he always emphasized that frontline generals should be given more power and be more graceful, which was quite contrary to the ideas of the central court.
In other words, Yu Wenxuzhong has always been the actual protector of Qu Duan.
But now, Hu Yin and others traveled all the way from Xijing and saw with their own eyes the dilapidated scene of the war with "a ruined pond and trees, but tired of talking about soldiers", and they increasingly felt that they should not care about the domineering and annoying frontline generals.
Character, and more active in actual military effects... In a word, Hu Mingzhong and others, as envoys of the imperial court, saluted along the way, their ideas gradually changed, and they gradually understood Yu Wenxuzhong.
Therefore, when they met now, Mr. Yuwen suddenly changed his attitude, which inevitably puzzled Hu Yin and others.
"After this battle, Qu Duan took the opportunity to annex all the troops in Kansai..." In the official hall of Chang'an, the haggard-looking Yu Wenxu sighed while twirling his beard. "That's all. That's what he did after the battle last year.
, it can only be said that it is the old customs in the army that lead to ambitions in troubled times. Moreover, this time he reported to me and issued a document, and Wang Shu and Wang Jinglue, who had serious powers and responsibilities, also continued to fight after this defeat.
In his army..."
"In this case, it is not against the rules." Wan Qixi, who was sitting at the bottom, cautiously interrupted. "Is there a story about forcing Wang Jinglue in private?"
"If that's true, that's all." Yu Wenxuzhong shook his head repeatedly. "Actually, everyone in the court knows that I have always believed that the court's attitude of controlling civility and military force is indeed a bit excessive. It is even more inappropriate at this time of national crisis.
It is also true that power should be delegated to generals who know the war, and then the civil servants who do not know the war can take the initiative to take charge... The king and his concubine were defeated in the battle, and they were humiliated and forced. At best, this person has a hateful character. "
"That is……"
"Just a few days ago, my subordinates returned from Qu Duan's army and told me something... Wang Shu Wang Jinglue seems to be under house arrest by Qu Duan!"
"How can you see it?" Hu Mingzhong asked, unable to follow up.
"Because after my subordinates arrived at Qu Duan's army as my envoys, Qu Duan directly said that Wang Jinglue would be humiliating his country by losing his army, so it would be better to kill him to thank the world." Yu Wenxuzhong's face turned livid.
"..." Hu Yin was stunned for a moment.
"This is not domineering, this is treason!" Wan Qixi almost blurted out. "How can a commander or prefect kill an envoy?"