Chapter 20 One Question (Congratulations to Xiao Ming on his wedding)
The dangers in troubled times are always inexplicable and confusing. Just like the Han Shizhong rebellion this time, it is indeed absurd, but the danger does exist, because creatures like humans can do anything without restraints.
It's natural.
In fact, theoretically speaking, this is not the first time that our Zhao Guan family has encountered a similar incident. Previously, someone from the Red Heart Team misunderstood his words and thought that the Jin Army had arrived, so they prepared to capture him.
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On the other hand, this cannot be the last time. According to the style of the Chinese professional military after the Tang Dynasty, until the death of the Song Dynasty, it may even continue to the end of the Ming Dynasty. There are simply countless similar things recorded in the history books.
However, this false alarm was also special... because after being forced into a corner, Zhao Jiu, who risked his life, gained not only an unprecedented sense of security, but also not only did he himself begin to have some inexplicable confidence, but the key was other people.
There have also been some subtle changes in the views of this official Zhao family.
"Xiangong Li fell ill and is really unable to do his job?"
Under the personal protection of Han Shizhong, as soon as Zhao Jiufu, who was wearing a cowhide belt, arrived outside Shunchang Prefecture (that is, Yingzhou City, later Fuyang) at noon on the fifth day of November, he heard that Lu Haowen, the Minister Youcheng, came to report this
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However, like everyone else's reaction, Zhao Guan's family was neither too surprised nor too worried.
The reason for this is that everyone knows the cause of Li Gang's illness before, and the severity of his illness this time is also expected. Moreover, Li Gang is only forty-five years old this year, and he is usually strong and full of energy.
This time I came to a big city like Shunchang Fucheng where there was no shortage of medicines. I could definitely get proper care, so I didn't have to worry too much about the probability event of resisting wind and cold.
However, in addition to this, one thing that everyone tacitly understands is that although Li Gang was outstanding in administration and was a good master of the government, he acted carelessly and violently. He did not know how many people were offended and how many people were eager to see him.
He took a break to let everyone take a breath.
Besides, isn't there an official who suppressed the rebellion with a hundred cavalry and tied up the military power with a belt? It's not like everyone has no backbone.
Back in front of us, Han Shizhong led seven or eight thousand soldiers. Of course, it was impossible to lead the army into the city. At this time, he went to arrange defenses and set up camps outside the city. However, Zhao Jiu entered Shunchang Mansion surrounded by civil and military forces and waited until he led hundreds of soldiers.
The official came back from visiting Li Gang and went to settle down, but it was already evening.
However, when the official just sat down in the official hall and was about to explain what happened and take a breath, Wang Boyan, who also knew the Privy Council, stood up cautiously... It turned out that Shunchang Mansion (Fuyang) was the capital of Huaishang.
This important town connects the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River, and is where the water and land thoroughfares are located, so information from all parties has been gathered here for only three to five days, and Wang Boyan is still in charge of the Privy Council here, but he does not dare not to report it.
"Jinan Prefecture (formerly Qizhou, today's surrounding Jinan) disappeared in five days?" Zhao Jiu was stunned. "I have also seen the map. Jinan Prefecture is so big, and it is the capital of Jingdong East Road. Jinan City is also a famous city in the world, with a population of
There are so many, how can they be gone in five days? It will take five days for the Jin army to race across, right?"
"Good instructors know." Wang Boyan became more careful with his words. "I know that Liu Yu of Jinan Prefecture asked Jinan to pay gold. The original guard of Jinan Prefecture, Guan Sheng, wanted to leave the city to divide the stronghold and occupy the enemy, but he was poisoned by Liu Yu. This matter has already been resolved.
It happened more than ten days ago..."
Zhao Jiu was at a loss for a moment, thinking deeply.
Of course I will be thinking about it. First of all, the name Guan Sheng is too familiar, and secondly, Liu Yu also has a vague impression at this time, probably like a well-known traitor. At this time, these vague information overlap
When they got together, Zhao Jiu probably understood in his heart that this should be something like cutscenes and plot kills... He was seven or eight hundred miles away, and he had never had anything to do with Shandong affairs, and he didn't have the butterfly effect, so he was naturally helpless.
Things.
However, Zhao Guan's family thought it was wrong. He definitely didn't know that he was the one responsible for this incident. In other words, the real large-scale butterfly effect had already begun when he stopped in Bozhou and swept the entire world!
Take this matter as an example. In fact, if Zhao Jiu did not call Li Gang back, but fled all the way south to Yangzhou, then this famous traitor may have to wait until next year to take office in the already dilapidated Jinan and vote there.
Jin; and now, because Zhao Guan's family has been stationed in Bozhou for a long time and waited there until Li Gang came back to make drastic changes to the imperial court, Liu Yu, the executioner who escaped from Hebei, had no time to go to Jianghuai and took office in Jinan Prefecture in advance.
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But it doesn’t matter. In the overall situation, there are many civil servants like Liu Yu who were frightened by the Jin army and hated the government when they heard that they were going to take office by the Yellow River! And to be honest, Jinan Prefecture
Bearing the brunt of the attack, the main force of the 100,000 Jin army went south. Even if it could really support one or two, it would only delay it for a few days, or force the Jin army to divide its forces and trap the city.
if not?
Does Zhao Jiu still have soldiers and horses to rescue him? It would be a blessing if Liu Guangshi could hold his ground south of Mount Tai.
On the other hand, people like Liu Yu were high-level officials and probably knew the reality of the Central Plains. In addition, their bones were softer and their nature was evil, so they became traitors without any pressure.
"Behind Jinan Prefecture is Zizhou (today's Zibo, Shandong), right?" After Zhao Jiu thought about it, he was not too surprised and did not talk about it too much. This was natural in the eyes of a civil and military practitioner.
He is quite magnanimous. "Who is the magistrate of Zizhou?"
"Reporting to the official family, it is Zhao Mingcheng." Lu Haowen, the right prime minister of Shangshu, immediately replied. Since the deputy prime minister knew that Zhao Jiu had forgotten many personnel matters, he took the initiative to say a few more words. "Zhao Mingcheng, whose courtesy name is Defu, is
The third son of the former prime minister Zhao Ting was framed by the traitor Cai Jing and stayed in Qingzhou for more than ten years. He was appointed a few years ago and served successively in Qingzhou and Zizhou. This time he was appointed by Xianggong Li..."
When Zhao Jiu heard this, he suddenly shook his head and laughed: "Of course I know this, he is the husband of layman Yi An! This man shouldn't be able to make money, right?"
"Of course not!" Lu Haowen replied very quickly. "How can the prime minister's son reduce the amount of money? Only a scoundrel like Liu Yu from Hebei would have such a disaster!"
"That's good." Zhao Jiu sighed and then spoke clearly. "In the final analysis, the road here is still blocked. When the thieves in Huaixi are able to break through, Li Xianggong wakes up, and there will be a general and the prime minister will discuss the matter."
...The most urgent task is to ask clearly about the battle situation in Caizhou and Guangzhou ahead."
After saying this, all the civil and military personnel here breathed a sigh of relief... Speaking of it, people's mentality is really strange. When Li Gang was in power, everyone always felt that this guy was too violent and impatient, and they hoped that the officials would come out to stir things up.
But when Li Gang fell ill and the officials temporarily took charge of the situation, everyone remembered the officials' previous words such as "Can we fight?", but they were worried that the officials would go berserk, and instead hoped to continue Li Gang's original road map.
But no matter what happened, not to mention what the civil and military officials here thought, and not to mention the panic and sensation after they later learned about the 'prefecture prince''s words, the officials came back and held this court meeting, presumably stating that they would not change the route without authorization.
After the picture, the exiled court of the Song Dynasty finally lived in peace for a few days.
However, this peace and tranquility was only superficial, a temporary stability under the collapse of the overall situation... In the next few days, as Liu Zhengyan's battle in the southwest was unfavorable, or in other words, the Huaixi thief Ding Jin knew that his troops were weak,
With heavy troops defending the city, Liu Zhengyan was helpless for a while; in addition, Li Gang's illness came like a mountain and went away like a thread. Although his condition was stable, he could not come out to take charge of the situation... The stability in Shunchang Mansion was getting better and better.
It became more and more ridiculous, and a sense of restlessness permeated the entire city.
On November 13, another news came - a few days ago, Zhao Mingcheng, the son of the prime minister and the husband of Yi An, the magistrate of Zizhou, did not pay any money, but like many Song Dynasty civil servants in recent years, he chose
He abandoned the city and fled, and Zizhou's native troops, which numbered thousands, were all taken to Qingzhou next door. Zizhou fell on the 8th.
At this time, everyone in the line was frightened, and some people began to persuade Zhao Guan's family to take the opportunity to change their route from Shunchang Mansion to the southeast and go to Yangzhou!
Of course, this person encountered Zhao Jiu's first manual operation since he came out of the well... Wasn't he going to the south? He happened to be going to Qiongzhou to accompany Huang Xianggong!
However, on November 15th, just two days later, not long after Xinghe’s urging against Liu Zhengyan was issued, another piece of bad news came:
Let us also say that Liu Hongdao, the magistrate of Qingzhou, is a good man. Instead of surrendering and escaping, he gathered together the fleeing troops from Jinan Prefecture and Zizhou, plus local soldiers and horses in Qingzhou, and gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in total, and handed them over to the state.
General Zheng Zongmeng was in command, and Zheng Zongmeng did not give in. He took the initiative to lead troops at the junction of Qingzhou and Zizhou, and took advantage of the favorable location to start a field battle with the main force of the Jin army!
As a result, he was overthrown by Jin Wushu, who owned five thousand households!
At this point, the official power of the Song Dynasty on Jingdong East Road has basically been lost, and the entire Jingdong East Road can be declared completely occupied.
While walking here, I was so shocked that I was speechless for a whole day. Later, the news that Zhang Kan, the magistrate of Qingzhou Prefecture, died for his country, and that Liu Hongdao and Zhao Mingcheng fled south together came one after another, but no one paid attention to it... because the whole trip
The city was in chaos, and there was an endless stream of petitions for Zhao Guan's family to immediately set off to the southeast; a few suggested setting up a defense line along the Huaihe River; impeaching Liu Zhengyan for his incompetence, and asking Han Shizhong to replace him were the necessary words for almost all memorials.
In this chaotic situation, in the afternoon, they worked together to suppress the main force of Nianhan who appeared in Luoyang. Several important officials from the Shaanzhou area, led by Lu Haowen, the minister Youcheng, collectively visited Li Gang when they returned, and immediately went to see the official again.
family, preparing to convene an impromptu political hall meeting... Then they were shocked to discover that Zhao Guanjia actually abandoned the civil and military officials in the city at this critical moment and secretly left the city to go to Han Shizhong's military camp on the edge of Yingshui River.
"Why don't good ministers wear jade belts?" Zhao Jiu stood on the river embankment for a long time, and finally waited for Han Shizhong who came in a hurry. As soon as he turned around and spoke, Yang Yi beside him felt slightly sour in his heart.
"How can I really carry such a precious treasure with me every day?" Han Shizhong, who had just stepped onto the embankment, gave a hurried salute and grinned, but this time he stood upright. "I asked my wife to keep it during the camp!"
"As long as you don't delay going into battle, this kind of thing should be worn on your body every day to show off in front of others." Zhao Jiu didn't care. "What's the point of keeping it?"
Han Shizhong nodded repeatedly... He also thought so. If someone is upset, just be upset. If not, wouldn't it be boring?
"Let's not talk about this matter," Zhao Jiu turned around formally and took the opportunity to change the subject, but he took the opportunity to become serious. "Does the good minister know what I want to ask you in private?"
"I know!" Han Shizhong raised his finger to the sky and said directly, "If the officials and ministers don't break up for ten days, I will come to see you!"
"What does Ding Jin mean?" Zhao Jiu shook his head with his hands behind his hands. "No matter how incompetent Liu Zhengyan is, it's just a matter of a few more days..."
"The official family..." Han Shizhong was a rogue, not a fool. He almost instantly thought of the rumors he had heard these days, and then he woke up a little.
"Good minister, I have been forced into a corner by the situation. Please tell me the truth." After saying this, Zhao Jiu secretly gritted his teeth, but took two steps forward, took the initiative to hold Han Shizhong's hand, and asked
A sentence that had been hidden in his heart for a long time. "In this current situation, can the Jin really not be able to fight face to face?"
Han Shizhong's hands were held, and he wanted to speak several times, but stopped several times... How could he not know about the debate in Shunchang City, and how could he not know the current situation? How could he not know that his words might contribute to the overall future direction?
But after an unknown amount of time, the famous general who Zhao Jiu relied on as his backbone finally gave a formal and serious reply: "Good instructors know that there are hundreds of thousands of Jin cavalry in the vast land of the Central Plains.
, it is really difficult for us to fight..."
Zhao Jiu felt sad for a moment.
ps:
First of all, I would like to thank the advanced leader of the old alliance leader who came to become the new alliance leader, and then I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Finally, I will continue to promote the book to sacrifice, the martial arts masterpiece "Catching the Knife"!
Finally, I want to ask, why is everyone so happy at the end of the year? How do you expect people like me to live?
I would like to apologize at the end. I was reminded by a book friend that Yingzhou was renamed Shunchang Prefecture in the late Northern Song Dynasty. I hereby correct it.