Fenghuang Mountain seemed extremely busy. Imperial Banzhi and imperial camp reservists were cleaning up the collapsed palace. Countless envoys from local officials and members of the imperial court hurriedly came to greet the saint, but they stopped when they reached the level of Lu Yihao and Liu Hongdao.
Lu Benzhong, Ren Baozhong and other close ministers were also sorting out documents, and even the monks of Shengguo Temple were taking the opportunity to drain the canals and clean up the waterlogging in the mountains.
Not only that, at this moment, the entire southeast should be very busy, because as you can see from Phoenix Mountain, in the fields, villages and cities, people are draining water and clearing mud everywhere to minimize losses.
But now, Zhao Jiu himself has come to a realization - the continuous rainy weather encountered in this location at this time is probably just caused by a typhoon thousands of miles away at sea.
I just don’t know if it’s because of my own butterfly wings.
Of course, he also didn’t know that the summer in the southeastern region this year historically had too much rain, which caused a reduction in silk and autumn harvests. However, it also did not reach the level of disaster. This matter was reported to Zhang Jun and other relevant ministers in power.
His memorials were clearly known to future generations.
Then again, assuming that Zhao Jiu is a high-end historical talent and he knows about this, he might have to ask why his butterfly wings did not stop this typhoon?
Without further ado, back to the present moment, the Zhao Guan family, who had experienced a slight storm, showed up by going out for a walk. The so-called peace of mind, after seeing the scenery after the rain, returned to Shengguo Temple at noon,
Then I started trying to change the poem.
That's right, it's just changing the poem.
There was a sudden storm last night, and the house collapsed again, one after another, just like a frog jumping into a pond after the rain. It may be because of this that he couldn't sleep all night, so that this official hesitated early in the morning.
In a daze, he made a huge joke... He actually wrote a bad poem with wrong rhymes and repeated words.
This is not a serious loss of standard. Repeating words at the end of a sentence is a mistake that even a ten-year-old child would not make. If you don’t believe it, why don’t you ask that prodigy from the Lu family to come over and try it?
And since the words are repeated, it is not a poem at all. However, Zhao Guanjia is not a monk, so he can still give himself a huatuzhan. What makes Lu Benzhong and others speechless is that the embryo of the poem is obviously still there, and the momentum is still there.
The style and style are still in line with the official's usual attitude. Even if others want to get it, they can't get it... so everyone basically believes that it is the official Zhao family's mistake.
Therefore, the official spent the whole morning trying to change the poem so as not to be too embarrassed.
However, Zhao Jiu looked at the poem on the table and thought about it, but he didn't know how to start... It's not that he couldn't change one word, for example, Yao Mountain was changed to Huijinchuan, Guo Dachuan, etc.
Directly referring the matter to the Jinhe Alliance and the time when Xixia was destroyed, it was possible to get by.
But the problem is that Xixia cannot be compared with Yaoshan. Zhao Guan's so-called eight years of achievements are the most important and greatest achievements of Yaoshan. Yaoshan is the foundation and Xixia and Jinhe allied themselves.
To a certain extent, it is simply the result of Yaoshan’s deep battle.
Therefore, since it is about self-described achievements and lamenting the ancestors, it cannot be separated from the events of Yaoshan.
But having said that, if we want to insist on leaving the word Yaoshan, the famous line about the Central Plains looking north to the mountains is still there, because that is where the momentum of the whole poem lies.
As a result, the official thought about it, but couldn't find the solution. In the end, he simply threw away the poem and ignored it... Anyway, he didn't believe that Lu You could go to Dashan Pass to defend Bashu in this life. The most he could do was defend Yinshan...
In this current situation, no one owes anyone anything, right?
Besides, as far as the effect is concerned, after Lu Yihao heard this limerick, it didn't stop him from expressing his determination to go to Hebei to "fill the gullies"? He didn't even stand up and say, "Guan, you used the wrong word."
It still worked.
However, although Zhao Guan's family was in trouble, it also made Lu Benzhong suffer again.
As a true poet, Lu Benzhong immediately saw that the embryo of this poem was good enough, so of course he wanted to organize the poem and publish it in the Phoenix Xun issue, which could be regarded as making a political announcement for Zhao Guanjia.
However, on the one hand, Zhao Guan's family was unwilling to change it, and on the other hand, Lu Benzhong was not willing to change it without permission, but he couldn't bear to part with the poem. However, he spent most of the day gnashing his teeth there, which made this famous poet scratch his heart.
But no matter what, Zhao Jiu, who gave up on changing his poems, didn't care about Lu Benzhong's thoughts. Since he gave up on this matter, he did not return directly to the north, but still stopped in the southeast... However, everyone can see it.
, this official is really much more relaxed compared to Qiu Da Kushen who was here for most of the past six months.
Not to mention anything else, just that in the next few days, this official led the Chixin team to patrol surrounding counties and counties many times. His footprints were all over Hangzhou, Huzhou, Yuezhou, and Muzhou, but he often did not enter the city.
When questioning the officials, he did not reveal his identity, but walked through the countryside, stopping in front of the market pier.
In fact, if Hangzhou had not become aware of the Zhao Guan family's trip, the surrounding states and counties might not have even known that the Zhao Guan family had ever been under their rule.
After all, this is not a drama about a private visit in private and a shouting match when someone encounters injustice. Unless it is some typical vicious criminal case, an emperor's overstepping of levels to deal with some grassroots affairs will often cause chaos that far exceeds the matter itself, and pure super villains
How could he appear next to him so coincidentally?
Therefore, this official was more concerned about customs and inspecting the impact of the summer rains and waterlogging, and had no intention of interfering with the local area.
Of course, there is nothing that can be done about it. Now that Zhao Guanjia has been touring the south for nearly a year, and the new tax law has been fully implemented, the most important thing in the entire southeast is to measure the impact of this rain and when Fujian will
There are only two big problems in settling down.
However, this has raised another problem. Some people have secretly complained that the official affairs have been taken care of, and the affairs in Fujian and the rain in Zhejiang and Zhejiang are beyond human control. Then the emperor is still here to do his work.
What's more, could it be that I really fell in love with the prosperity of the southeast and couldn't bear to miss Shu?
However, the old palaces of Wuyue have collapsed, so it may not be comfortable to stay in the monk temple all day long, right? Or do you really believe in Buddhism?
However, if we really want to talk about it, it seems that there is still something wrong. Shortly after Liu Hongdao returned to Tokyo, when the Zhao family began to visit privately incognito, a new government meeting also began. The official family formally issued a decree, which was passed down
Call the members of the public cabinet at the level of Lianghuai, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to gather at Fenghuang Mountain... The public cabinets of Lianghuai, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places are newly established and have not yet met the saint. This is of course
Reasonable.
In addition, the Zhao Guan family does not know when they will leave. If they organize a few successful conferences appropriately, it can be regarded as drawing a circle on the edge of the West Lake and successfully ending their southern tour, right?
Therefore, by the end of summer, people in the southeast and on the banks of the West Lake were once again crowded, especially the members of the Lianghuai Gongge who flocked here directly from Yangzhou.
They had an antagonistic mentality and a strong desire to participate in politics, so their arrival almost instantly returned the city of Hangzhou to the situation at the previous martial arts conference.
Even better.
Outside Yongjinmen, we really “regard Hangzhou as Bianzhou” again, and Louwailou has become even more affordable for the locals.
However, it was almost as if it had been arranged in advance. Just as the date of the meeting was set at Southeast Gongge and the relevant procedures began to be handled under Leifeng Pagoda, that morning, Xu Jingheng, the former deputy prime minister of Fujian Province, who went to appease the place in Fujian, also
Officially returned from Fujian.
After all, Xianggong Xu had been a Xianggong. Since he came back, of course he would not compete with those members of the public pavilion for the title of saint. Instead, he was directly led to the main hall of Shengguo Temple by Yang Yizhong who went to greet him. In the morning of that day, he went to Zhao Guan's house.
Greetings were given and a report was given.
The conclusion seems not to be optimistic.
"So, the autumn harvest in Fujian has been affected this year?" Zhao Guanjia, who is no stranger to the Main Hall, asked casually directly under the Buddha statue.
It is worth mentioning that although this place is spacious, the official family at this time is only surrounded by Lu Yihao and a few close ministers... Fan Zongyin, Mei Li and others are still in Fujian and have not returned. Xu Jingheng's return is more like Zhao Guan's family.
Special recall.
"So that the officials know that it is not the autumn harvest, but the autumn tax." Xu Jingheng immediately corrected it in the palace. "Fights mostly occur between clans and villages, but when these people fight, they rarely destroy production or hinder production.
The behavior of farming... When I say it affects the autumn tax, I mean that the large-scale armed fights have gradually subsided, but local villages are facing armed confrontations, and small vendettas will continue for a long time. In addition, this fight is originally for the purpose of allocating the tax amount.
In order to appease the local area, I have taken it upon myself to erase all the taxes involved in the dispute in Fujian... Therefore, in this case, the autumn taxes in Fujian will inevitably be affected, but it will not have much impact on the actual autumn harvest.
Influence."
Hearing this, Zhao Jiu breathed a long sigh of relief, followed by a long silence.
Seeing this situation, Xu Jingheng, who was standing in the palace, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In other words, as a re-employed prime minister, on the one hand, his height allowed him to understand the core of the problem even when he was on a business trip. Although he only heard a few rumors on the way back, he had long since realized that the matter was fundamentally related to the Northern Expedition.
On the other hand, the sense of responsibility and political alienation caused by his identity, political stance, and place of origin caused him to have some complicated emotions in front of this big event.
I don't object, I don't participate, but I don't avoid it either... I feel like I'm being pushed around.
However, as the saying goes, what is supposed to come will eventually come. After waiting for a while, Zhao Guanjia looked at Lu Yihao under the Buddha statue and asked again: "So, the place in Fujian is actually better than the place in Zhejiang.
?The impact is there, but most of it is limited to the grassroots level, and in any case it is not to the point of disaster...right or wrong?"
"Excuse me for speaking frankly." Xu Jingheng responded sternly. "The official's statement is wrong...many people died in Fujian, and this incident has far-reaching consequences. It is likely to cause a feud in the Fujian countryside. No matter what,
It cannot be said that it is better than the two Zhejiang provinces where rains have reduced production! Regarding the new tax policy, the two Zhejiang provinces still seem to be too worried."
"Ms. Xu is right." Zhao Jiu paused and responded sternly. "I only thought about the short-term impact of the two places on the Northern Expedition, but I didn't consider the two places from the inside and the long-term... This is not Renjun.
You should be thoughtful."
The Zhao Guan family admitted their mistake and directly pointed out the Northern Expedition. What else could Xianggong say?
After a while, the person really gave up his hand helplessly: "Have the officials made up their mind?"
"It's not that I can't make up my mind. It's that if there is no reason to stop, I can only bite the bullet and do it head on. The current situation is that of Zhejiang and Zhejiang. Although there are twists and turns in Fujian, there are also some in the Central Plains.
It was rainy, but it did not cause a major disaster after all, and since there is nothing that needs to be stopped, we, the monarchs and ministers, cannot deceive ourselves in order to escape." Zhao Jiu simply responded. "Ms. Xu, 300,000 imperial soldiers.
After Ma Qiu, all troops can be gathered. Although there are many new soldiers among them, there are also party members who can be recruited, Taihang rebels can be mobilized, and even Mongolian and Khitan friendly forces can be summoned, so the planned army strength is still sufficient; as for food
, military supplies and ordnance, although they are a little less than what was estimated last year, but based on the measurements three years ago, they are actually sufficient... In this situation, if we do not move, we will break our trust in the world.
Man, do you think so or not?”
Xu Jingheng was forced into a corner. He thought about it again and again, but could only give it away again: "That's true."
"I'm about to say this." When Zhao Jiu heard this, he looked at Lu Yihao again, and then both of them turned their attention to Lu Benzhong, who was already looking a little nervous.
Lu Benzhong swallowed, but he immediately took a step forward, took out a piece of white linen paper hidden in his sleeves with both hands, and took it away with both hands in front of Xu Jingheng.
Xu Jingheng only glanced at the white linen paper and felt a buzzing in his head, and then he bowed to the ground out of instinct.
Let us also say that the Song Dynasty treated scholar-bureaucrats favorably. Unless it was some sacrificial or ceremonial occasions, civil servants often did not have to kneel before the emperor, let alone the decree?
But here is the interesting part. As a ruler whose political status is far higher than that of ordinary scholar-bureaucrats, generally speaking, he cannot avoid the experience of kneeling before the will, because a scholar has truly reached the pinnacle of his life, which is Xuan Ma
When paying homage to the prime minister, according to custom, you must bow down formally.
That's right, this piece of white linen paper has only one meaning for a person of Xu Jingheng's level, and that is that he is going to declare hemp for the second time and officially return to the rank of prime minister.
Of course, in reality, even Xu Jingheng was once in a state of hemp...because when he first became prime minister, he was still living in exile. It was basically a small court. Where did he get the serious white hemp paper?
However, Zhao Guan's family has always prescribed the right medicine for the situation, depending on the person's order... Just like Wu Jie was asked to be the governor that day, and he specially used bright yellow silk to fool the big bosses of the Western Army. This time, in order to make Xu Xianggong feel
So respected, Zhao Jiu also specially found white linen paper.
It can only be said that the effect is outstanding. As a traditional scholar-official who had rehearsed his reaction when seeing white linen paper countless times in his mind when he was young, when he actually faced this piece of white linen paper, what exactly was Mr. Xu?
I bowed down directly.
And with this prayer, some things have become a foregone conclusion.
The edict was written by Lu Benzhong, so naturally he would not make the same low-level mistakes as Zhao Guan's limericks. It can be said to be symmetrical and full of literary talent. However, after reading it for a while, there was only one meaning - to reinstate Xu Jingheng as deputy prime minister of the capital, and to join Ning.
The naval military envoy leads the two Zhejiang roads and is stationed in Hangzhou. He is responsible for the six routes of Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, two Zhejiang, Guangxi and Guangdong.
Basically, he replaced Lu Yihao as the envoy to the southeast, and also expanded the scope of propaganda and governorship in Guangdong and Guangxi.
After the edict was issued, the officials issued an oral order to stick the white hemp under the Leifeng Pagoda, and ordered several public pavilions in the southeast to watch it together... This was done to complete the announcement of the hemp ceremony...
… When appointing a prime minister, regardless of whether the people below have any room for objection, it must be made public and show off.
Under the dilapidated Leifeng Pagoda, the Sixth Route Army Pavilion gathered together. They were still making some messy speeches and discussions, and were waiting for the arrival of the Zhao Guan family in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, the Zhao Guan family did not wait, and first received a piece of legendary white linen paper.
.
And this piece of white linen paper immediately detonated the entire West Lake.
The vast majority of the members of the public cabinet in Zhejiang, Jiangdong, Fujian, and even Jiangxi are cautiously welcoming this... because Xu Jingheng is very popular in the southeast.
Of course, there are some reasons that are difficult to express, but everyone is tacitly aware of them.
However, the members of the Lianghuai Road Gongge, who had already separated from the southeast envoy after Yaoshan, had nothing to do with the matter at this time, were annoying again. Some of them actually said that this appointment was actually against the rules... No
Xu Jingheng was not qualified enough, not popular enough, and his talents were not obvious. Instead, he said that as a Yuezhou native, Xianggong Xu should avoid his hometown.
In fact, the previous two envoys, Yu Wenxuzhong who appeased Guanxi and Lu Yihao who appeased the southeast, were both from Jingdong.
This, of course, lit a hornet's nest. For a moment, the public houses on Liangzhe Road and Lianghuai Road immediately became opposed to each other, almost leading to a group fight under the Leifeng Pagoda.
However, no matter where they were from, the real political experts in the court remained serious and silent. Regardless of their place of origin, these people gathered in twos and threes at the edge of the venue and discussed the situation in low voices. It was obvious that they all understood from this white paper
I could smell a hint of chill and uneasiness on the hemp paper.
These people simply don’t believe that no one reminded the emperor of Xu Jingheng’s place of origin, nor do they believe that Lu Yihao is gone just like that... You must know that although Lu Xianggong is harsh to Southeast, for the central government and the emperor, he is undoubtedly a capable minister and Southeast relies on.
What's more, Xu Jingheng's title of Jiedushi is enough to arouse people's imagination.
Or to go even further, the truly smart people have woken up to what is going on, but the purpose is not clear and they dare not discuss it in depth.
It can only be said that, as expected, a moment later, Shao Chengzhang, the chamberlain's provincial guard who had just returned, returned to the foot of Leifeng Pagoda with a full guard of honor, and put up another layer of white linen paper.
There was also a battle between four and six on the white linen paper, and the literary talent was brilliant, but the original intention was just to make everyone present burst into laughter after reading it, and then even the most stupid people understood what was going on.
Without him, Lu Yihao got his new assignment - deputy envoy to the Privy Council, plus envoy to the German Army, governor of Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, Yanshan Road Army and State Affairs.
This is the so-called Governor of Hebei Province.
This is the Northern Expedition!
This group of southeastern people never thought that the signal for the Northern Expedition was actually launched from West Lake in Hangzhou... Is this ridiculous? Are you really calling Hangzhou Bianzhou?
However, after the explosion, under the Leifeng Pagoda, in the open field surrounded by the Qianzhou troops under Guo Zhongxun's command, countless members of the public cabinet quickly became serious again. No one was thinking about the fight with the local officials anymore.
No one dared to discuss the matter itself arbitrarily... When the matter came to pass, as the most representative ruling class in the southeast region, most of this group of people just felt frightened, uneasy, hot, and cowed.
Zhao Jiu is not the only one who is afraid of the coming all-consuming war.
Even the few passionate people among them did not dare to shout excitedly at this time, because the word "Northern Expedition" was still not publicly displayed after all. Could it be that Lu Yihao was just allowed to be responsible for the preparations for the Northern Expedition?
Of course, for people with a little political common sense, this possibility does not exist, because the Jiedu Envoy of the Guide Army is the Jiedu Envoy used by Song Taizu, just like the Taining Army Festival used by Taizong
The military envoy also has a special meaning... Since the Song Dynasty, the Jiedushi of the German Army has not been awarded to anyone else, while the Jiedushi of the Taining Army is recognized as the first military envoy.
The most important person in the imperial court, after the Yaoshan War, Han Shizhong became the king of Yan'an County and led the military governor of the three towns. The first title was the military military governor of Taining.
At this time, Lu Yihao, as the Prime Minister of the Western Prefecture, added this Jiedushi who could not be taken away by the military and had been empty for more than a hundred years. The meaning could only be one, and that was to use his qualifications, character, and
His enthusiasm for the Northern Expedition served as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition.
When necessary, the official family needs to kill people. Even if they want to kill anyone in the ten festivals, they don't have to do it themselves! Because there is a ruthless character here who dares to kill people to do it for the official Zhao family.
Just when thousands of horses were silent under the Leifeng Pagoda, as the escort Shao Chengzhang turned back for the third time, another order arrived, and this time it was an order directed at the hundreds of Southeast Gongge members present.
The purpose is very simple. It is to ask the members of the Huaihe, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Fujian public cabinets on the scene to select 200 people with excellent talents and virtues within the scope of the public cabinet within today based on the talents and virtues of the members... Among them
Ten people will be considered superior, twenty people will be considered upper-middle class, and seventy people will be considered superior. At that time, Zhao Guan's family will assign these people to Hebei, Hedong, and Yanshan respectively according to their rank to know state affairs, know military affairs, pass judgment, know counties, and promote criminal matters.
, mentioning tasks such as tea, salt, etc.
No one is allowed to leave the venue without permission before being elected.
After the decree was issued, Shao Chengzhang turned back three times, leaving only hundreds of southeastern elites in a state of embarrassment under the Leifeng Pagoda under the watch of more than a thousand Qianzhou natives.
The mood of these people is really complicated at this moment... On the one hand, the Zhao Guan family has fulfilled its promise to the government, and a large number of people will be transferred directly to actual dispatch, and it will be such a generous dispatch; on the other hand, this so-called
The actual mission is also an obvious empty mission!
If the Northern Expedition is completed, we will not talk about the Yanshan Road, but only the Hebei East Road with three prefectures, eleven prefectures, the fifth army, and fifty-seven counties; the Hebei West Road with four prefectures, Jiuzhou, Sixth Army, and sixty-five counties; and the Hedong Road
Three prefectures, fourteen prefectures, eight armies, and eighty-one counties, these one hundred dispatches are definitely done properly and will not even delay other places from imitating the same.
But if it doesn't work, this mission is nonsense!
Of course, this is also the conspiracy of Zhao Guan's family, which is to ask them to support the Northern Expedition! Even looking at the current situation, it is impossible to say that after being selected, these one hundred people will directly join the army. This will not only stabilize the rear, but also allow these people to
Being able to serve at the front and be sent out to manage the place at any time is like handing over hostages. If the Northern Expedition becomes difficult, maybe the families of these people will directly contribute their property behind, right?
As soon as they thought about it, everyone's thoughts fast forwarded to the question of whether to go to the battlefield once selected, and would it be dangerous?
But having said that, if the Northern Expedition is completed, then knowing the state, the army, the general magistrate, the county magistrate, and the criminal officials, and the tea and salt affairs are simply a future that I never thought of in my life, right?
In the panic, I couldn't make a choice, and it was impossible to escape under the watch of the army, so I could only talk nonsense and express my confused feelings.
In the midst of the chaos, within half an hour, in the afternoon, the only Yutang scholar accompanying him at this time was also the direct eldest son of the Donglai Lu family who had actually surpassed Meihua Han to become the first sect in the dynasty, Lu Benzhong Lu.
The maester has arrived.
He is here to lead the election.
And with the arrival of Xueshi Lu, things suddenly changed... Without him, you must know that with the eight years of Zhao Guan's family fighting hard, there are always some brainwashed and passionate people in the Southeast Sixth Road Pavilion, and there are also
There are some people who come from official households and are jealous of their political future.
Therefore, after Academician Lu took the initiative to guide, dozens of people volunteered and quickly occupied less than half of the one hundred positions.
Now, among the remaining people, those who were originally considered prestigious and powerful were naturally not angry; and those who were not originally famous in the palace were also envious, but they were afraid that they would miss this opportunity.
Ever since, after struggling all afternoon, Academician Lu finally returned to the mountain with a list of 100 people and was satisfied.
After waiting for a while, around the time when the sun was shining on Lei Feng, Shao Chengzhang, the chief of staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, came back for the fourth time. As expected, the officials had an oral order. According to the list, these 100 people could write letters to their families, but they did not have to.
I'm going home and will go back to Tokyo with my chariot tomorrow... If you don't know how to ride a horse, prepare your own mules!
It was expected, but it must be said that this official had been touring the south for nearly a year before he revealed his rumored minions. It is no wonder that the simple people of the southeast were fooled.
Not to mention that this public cabinet meeting came together inexplicably, and then disbanded inexplicably, and then how happy and worried the hundreds of people were, how they explained to their families, and how they planned their future plans... It can only be said that it was a hard day. Lu Benzhong Lu
The bachelor returned to Zhao Guan's house to finish his work, and was speechless on the spot. However, when he was packing his luggage in the bedroom of Shengguo Temple that night, he suddenly received another summons from Zhao Guan's family, and then received it like a thunderbolt from the clear sky in Zhao Guan's 'bedroom'.
A will.
"I... don't you need to follow the emperor back to the north?" Academician Lu instinctively went to take a look behind Zhao Guan's house, as if he felt that there was some villain there.
However, there was no one behind the official. There was only a Buddha statue as tall as one person, standing there holding flowers and smiling. When he turned around, there was Yang Yizhong guarding the door, but Yang Yizhong should have been there.
It's right here.
"You don't have to read it, no one said anything, it was my intention." Zhao Jiu seemed to have seen through the other person's thoughts and smiled directly. "I want you to stay here and do two things for me..."
Lu Benzhong thought for a while, tried his best to suppress many distracting thoughts, and asked seriously: "I dare to ask the officials, but do you want me to maintain the "Phoenix Xundian" here to maintain the morale of the southeast during the Northern Expedition?"
"That's right." Zhao Jiu continued to respond with a smile. "But you must pay attention to the Northern Expedition. You cannot ignore it. After I leave, there will be no romantic comments in the "Phoenix Xunjian". You must be rigorous..."
"yes."
Lu Benzhong quickly bowed his head... In other words, although Xueshi Lu felt that this assignment was a little overqualified, it was a direction he could think of after all, and it was where his business was in the past, so he felt a little at ease. "Then I dare to ask the official, the second thing
Could it be that the minister is required to communicate secretly with the officials at any time and report the public opinion in the southeast?"
"Of course not." Zhao Jiu immediately laughed again. "This kind of thing is what the question is supposed to mean. Where does it need to be specifically explained about the assignment?"
Lu Benzhong nodded quickly and waited for instructions.
"The second thing is also simple." Zhao Jiu continued to smile at his inner restraint in front of the Buddha's lotus platform. "I will leave you a team of soldiers in Phoenix Mountain... If there are any rumors of disharmony between me in Hebei, you
Then I personally led the soldiers to Dongxiao Palace not far from here and dealt with Yuan Sheng."
Lu Benzhong nodded quickly, but then he was stunned, then dumbfounded, and finally broke into a cold sweat under Zhao Guanjia's smile.
As the saying goes, I neither dare to agree nor refuse, as if something is stuck in my throat or walking on thin ice.
After a long while, he finally mustered up the courage to confront him: "I dare not comment on the right and wrong of this matter... But if the officials want to do this, why not let Ren Baozhong and Renshe stay in Fenghuang Mountain? That's Yang Tongzhi... Yang Tongzhi
Can any centurion under his command do it? And I am a scholar... besides... besides, the official family has already arranged for heirs, and the governor of Tokyo is united, so the two saints are not worth mentioning at all, right?"
"Lu Qing." Zhao Guanjia smiled half-heartedly. "What you said is true... the two saints are not worth mentioning. How can you, a scholar, be so kind and loyal in doing this? How can you even do it neatly by a rude sergeant? But I ask you
, in this case, why do I still have to leave you to prepare for this matter?"
Lu Benzhong became more and more frightened when he heard the words. On the one hand, his intelligence reminded him sharply that there was a huge, serious, life-and-death mystery hidden in the official's words;
Sort it out.
"Forget it, I just said it." Seeing this, Zhao Jiu could only sneer. "First... Although the Second Saint is not worth mentioning, there are still risks in the end, especially Emperor Taishang Yuan Sheng, who is
Many people say that Jingkangzhong is just incompetent, but not immoral... I can take precautions, right?"
"Yes...yes!" Lu Benzhong spent a lot of effort before spitting out the word.
"Secondly, compared to Emperor Taishang Yuansheng himself, I am more worried about the old ministers of Jingkang, that is, the so-called old party will make a comeback in my event...so that the second Northern Expedition will become a fantasy." Zhao Jiu finally
Sighing, but still smiling. "And if these people repeat themselves, who do you think they will use as the arrow to make a comeback?"
"Taishang Yuan Sheng... No, Xu, Mr. Xu...?" Lu Benzhong blurted out, but quickly made corrections.
"It's Xianggong Xu." Zhao Jiu nodded. "Actually, you and I have realized during this southern tour that these so-called southeastern people, from the old party to Taoism to local scholar-bureaucrats, are a complete mess without a single leader.
And the charter, that is, I established the public cabinet, so that these people can get together and have a place to talk... In this case, if I don't appoint Mr. Xu this time, then these people may go to Liu Dazhong
Zhao Ding's path may not be certain. Even those Taoists will have to look at the situation in the DPRK and find someone to revive the banner of Taoism... But since I have appointed Xianggong Xu, I have also customized a third-level official for them.
If something happens to me and the Northern Expedition fails, they will naturally use the public cabinet as a system and unite with Xianggong Xu to form a real opposition, and then maybe the government will be shaken."
Lu Benzhong was still confused: "If this is the case, the officials can remove Xianggong Xu and just don't need him, or what if they abolish the public cabinet and cut off their foundation?"
"Lv Qing, you must know that the main purpose of setting up a palace in the southeast is to appease the southeast and implement the New Deal. The purpose of implementing the New Deal is to reduce the burden on the people so that they will not be overwhelmed by the Northern Expedition. Using Mr. Xu, basically
It is also because of his central experience, political ability and popularity in the southeast... These are all upright and frank, and they are all for the Northern Expedition to have a better chance of winning!" Zhao Jiu shook his head and smiled. "Do you think I am the only one?
What was the conspiracy behind the establishment of the public cabinet and the appointment of Xianggong Lu in the first place?"
Lu Benzhong was stunned on the spot.
"Lu Qing, how come I don't know that what I want you to do is a private matter? But the problem is that we were all frank and upright before for the Northern Expedition. And the Northern Expedition, although it is the general trend, is it also a sure thing?" Zhao Jiu continued to shake his head.
Smile. "What I said at the beginning was that if the Northern Expedition fails, I won't be able to come back, and our integrity will collapse...At this time, someone will have to come out to do these bad things for me."
"The official family." When Lu Benzhong heard this, he didn't know whether he realized the three words "can't come back" or because he was pressed by the official family, but he burst into tears. "I'm really not trying to shirk...it's from the official family."
The kindness of acquaintance and the praise of our Lu family, let alone the minister, means that our whole family should go through fire and water for the official family... But this matter, this matter is really unbelievable, not to mention the incompetence of the minister, it is Mr. Lu
In fact, he is also a loyal minister, and he will never support Emperor Taishang Yuansheng just because of some old favors from Jingkang."
"Yes, he is a loyal minister, and so are you... so is your Lord, Mr. Lu!"
Zhao Jiu looked at the other party and sighed for a moment, and finally put away the smile that had always made the other party afraid, but the next words directly froze the other party. "But Lu Qing, haven't you figured it out yet? These households in the southeast,
They don’t have the ability to break away from the political system and start a new business. If they use Liu Dazhong as their leader, they will eventually fall to Prime Minister Zhao Ding. But if they use Xu Xianggong as their leader, they will inevitably have your father as their most respected person... Even your father is the same.
Loyal ministers, I don’t want to get involved, but the people promoted when your father and Mr. Xu were in power would still gather together and respect them both. As for the fact that I will definitely let you deal with the Emperor Taishang Yuansheng, do you think
I thought, since Taishang Yuansheng is not important, then who is important? In other words, what is the important thing in this matter?"
Lu Benzhong was shaky and could hardly stand.
Because the Zhao Guan family has made the logic and the answer very clear... If the Northern Expedition fails and the Zhao Guan family cannot come back, then the opposition will inevitably form a real reactionary political force in the southeast along the Gongge. Once a political force is formed, it will be a matter of course.
As Southeastern giants like Liu Dazhong and Xu Jingheng formed a party, the country returned to compromise and peace negotiations.
And in this process, Liu Dazhong will basically contact Zhao Ding, and behind Xu Jingheng, he will basically contact his own father, former prime minister, and ZTE's number one official Lu Haowen!
I don’t know how the officials arranged the Liu Dazhong-Zhao Ding line. However, the officials wanted him, Lu Benzhong, to destroy it with his own hands. He, the eldest son of Lu Gongxiang, was under Xu Xianggong’s control.
Under his rule, in the heart of the southeast, Emperor Taishang Yuansheng was disposed of for the officials, and the political appeal of Lu and Xu would naturally collapse in an instant.
By then, even if Southeast Gongge wants to form a mature opposition political force, it will not be possible so quickly.
This kind of political arrangement is cruel, shameless, and even incredibly unreasonable... But Lu Benzhong cannot feel anger or betrayal, because he knows full well that this is just an arrangement under extreme circumstances.
It was an arrangement based on the situation where the official family opposite encountered a great misfortune.
For an emperor to ask his own ministers to do something unbelievable and something that can only be accomplished by one's own consciousness...it is very helpless in itself.
In fact, it seems to be somewhat honest and upright.
"Lu Qing."
Under the candlelight, after a long time, Zhao Jiufang called the other party slightly.
"I'm here." Lu Benzhong bowed his head in response.
"Don't laugh at me."
"I don't dare."
"I have clearly said that after I die, who will care about the flood? In the end, I still can't help but decide on such a secret method behind my back, and the sea wants you to destroy your own future..."
"I can't share the worries of the officials. I understand in my heart that I have lost my true ability to my father and my family background and have gone to the front line with the officials a long time ago. Only things like this that rely on my family background can have some effect."
Lu Benzhong bowed his head to the end. "Even with this matter, the officials did not have to tell me. Due to my ignorance in government affairs and military affairs, the officials directly asked Commander Yang to arrange someone, or simply asked Ren Baozhong to stay in Fenghuang Mountain, which was enough.
But after doing this, you can blame it on me... The officials are willing to tell me that they have their thoughts in mind and take care of their wishes."
Zhao Jiu was silent for a moment and avoided the topic: "In that case, you don't have to answer. Remember what I said today. When the time comes, it will depend on the situation. It doesn't matter if you are willing to do it or not. I don't know anyway...
Let’s go back today!”
When Lu Benzhong heard this, he couldn't help it and almost agreed on the spot...but he gritted his teeth and held back, bowed his head and exited.
After the people left, it took a while before Zhao Jiufang said, "What do you think?"
"I dare not say..." Yang Yizhong, who was standing in front of the door, turned around and bowed inside. "I really don't know, but there is no need to say it. I have always felt that although this Northern Expedition cannot be guaranteed, it can still achieve results.
Then keep it safe so it doesn’t get to this point.”
Zhao Jiu, who was under the Buddha statue, shook his head: "To put it bluntly, what I said just now is of no use. It can only show that I am afraid in my heart... Starting from the rain in early summer, when I considered that the Northern Expedition was just around the corner, I
Then I started to be afraid...that's why I pushed him to do something that was unreasonable, unwise, and even unkind."
"Is the official afraid of defeat?"
"At first, I was afraid of defeat. After the house collapsed, I made up my mind, but then I became afraid of other things." Zhao Jiu was still honest to Yang Yizhong. "I was born as a hero, and died as a ghost hero. I still miss Xiang Yu.
Refuse to cross the Yangtze River... You said that if I were defeated, eight years of hard work would be ruined, and ten years of hard fighting would not allow me to regain my land. How would I look when I cross the river and come back? What I fear now is if I lose.
The final endgame..."
Yang Yizhong instinctively wanted to persuade, but he didn't know where to start.
"Zhengfu." Zhao Jiu thought for a while and finally sighed. "Do you still remember what I told you on Bagong Mountain that day?"
"I take the liberty of not knowing which sentence it is?" Yang Yizhong hurriedly asked.
"I said...if the Jurchens cross the river and cannot escape, I want you to stop it for me." Zhao Jiu sneered in response.
"It's...an official family...but one moment and another moment." Yang Yizhong was anxious for a moment.
"I know, one moment and the other." Zhao Jiu sighed. "So, the order I gave you this time is contrary to that one... If this Northern Expedition fails and I am ashamed to turn back, you can tie me up.
, you also want to take me back to Henan...and then do the eight years of work again! Do you understand?"
"I understand!" Yang Yizhong bowed his head and accepted the order, feeling relieved.
The whole night was silent, and at dawn the next day, Zhao Guan's family had long disappeared. The worries of last night were unforgettable. On the contrary, the official who had just determined the determination of the Northern Expedition in the southeast showed an extremely positive attitude to the people of the southeast - he brought
One hundred officials from the southeast came to supplement the Hebei government, leaving Guo Zhongxun and his army behind. They took only more than a thousand Imperial Banzhi and went into battle lightly. On the same day, they left Fenghuang Mountain, where they had been stationed for almost a year, and headed north.
Go face to face.
Because the size of the entourage was greatly reduced, and the places along the way were sufficient to provide logistics, Zhao Guan's family turned back very quickly this time.
On the first day of July, just when Lu Benzhong couldn't hold it back anymore, he privately revised Zhao Guanjia's poem about his real name, and published it in the "Phoenix Xundian". At the same time, the famous poet Zhao Guanjia crossed the Yangtze River from Guazhou.
Arrive in Huaidian on July 15th.
On July 25th, he once again abandoned some of his subordinates and troops and rushed to Nanjing (today's Shangqiu).
At this time, Yue Fei, who was stationed in the north, took the lead to publicly express his greetings before waiting for the envoys from Tokyo to greet him. He also asked about the drought and floods in Zhejiang and Zhejiang and the unrest in Fujian.
Zhao Guan's family immediately responded publicly that the southeast was safe and asked Jingdong whether the armaments were adequate.
After the envoys came and went, it was said that due to the autumn harvest, Zhao Guan's family only started to set off from Nanjing on the first day of August, but they slowly marched to Tokyo with Lu Yihao who followed later, and they could only travel twenty miles a day. At this time, Tokyo
The ministers in charge and the commanders from all over the country had already known about the previous interaction between Yue Fei and the Holy Master, but they immediately expressed their greetings and said that the warehouses were sufficient, the roads were repaired, the armor was full, and the morale was at its peak.
In the end, it was Li Qiong who officially said the words, "please divide your troops to go out to Taihang and regain the homeland of Lianghe".
In response to this, Zhao Guanjia continued to return to the capital slowly, but at the same time he publicly issued decrees and continued to criticize, clearly telling the ministers and military commanders that important military and national affairs should not be deviated from reality or exaggerated without authorization.
At the same time, along the way, data from the Privy Council, the Imperial Camp, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Works were revealed, pointing out that in the current situation, only the roads and warehouses were properly repaired, while the rest, such as the Imperial Camp's 300,000 troops, had just been fully staffed, and there was a lack of training for new recruits; such as armor
, the ordnance is also slightly less than full, and the livestock is not fat enough; among the allies of all parties, only the Khitan and Mongolia have publicly promised to send troops from Yinshan, and Japan is willing to send a group of warriors to accompany it to express its position. For example, Eastern Mongolia has not
Determination, the Korean people refused to answer at both ends; another example is that the navy's ships are not coordinated and cannot independently launch a battle; another example is that the grain storage is not enough for one year's military use, and it is necessary to wait until after the autumn harvest to find out the data before you can feel at ease.
Immediately, the official publicly sent out envoys to commend Hu Yin, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Lin Jingmo, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Yan, the commander of the imperial camp, Yue Fei, the commander of the front army of the imperial camp, and Li Yanxian, the commander of the central army of the imperial camp, who had outstanding preparations for the war.
He rebuked Chen Gui, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, for the lack of ordnance in his supervision. Wu Jie, the commander-in-chief of the rear army of the Imperial Camp, had his accounts in disarray. Zhang Jun, the commander-in-chief of the right army of the imperial camp, had nothing to do and could not train the troops diligently. Zhang Rong, the commander-in-chief of the naval forces of the imperial camp, fought on the river in the summer before.
A waste of military resources.
This journey, which lasted more than two hundred and sixty miles, took Zhao Guan's family a full fourteen days. Even Guo Zhongxun's troops caught up with them during this period, and directly entered Qingcheng in the south of Tokyo to garrison. Fan Zongyin, Yu Yunwen,
Mei Yue and others also gradually caught up...and along the way, all these memorials, approvals, commendations, and reprimands were published in the newspapers, and all over the world, not to mention the people of the Song Dynasty, even the Jurchens and the Koreans could read them clearly.
Clearly.
On August 14, the ninth year of Jianyan, Zhao Guan's family once again returned to his loyal city of Tokyo. However, he actually passed through the city without entering a year later. Instead, he directly entered the Yuetai Camp in the west of the city, and on the next day
The Mid-Autumn Festival in August hosted the Mid-Autumn Festival.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it’s time to start the examination and get scholars.
This time, Zhao Guan's family entered the city. In the palace examination, he proposed a policy on how to appease the four roads of Hebei after the Northern Expedition...that is, Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, and Yanshan Road.
They even singled out Zhang Jiu, who was allowed to take part in the palace examination as an exception, to become the top pick.
Then, within a few days after the imperial examination, the official stayed at home in the harem. It is said that he mostly enjoyed family happiness with his two concubines, princesses and princes.
But this kind of life did not last long. On the last day of August, the official held a public banquet at Gyeongbokgung Palace to invite the three queen mothers to watch the new drama "The Palace of Eternal Life". When the first court meeting in early September was held, they directly announced that they would not
A limited amount of Northern Expedition treasury bonds were sold simultaneously with money, silk, and grain prices. At the same time, twelve bachelors such as Lou Zheng, Zhang Tao, and Wang Jin entered the imperial camp together with twelve secretaries such as Zong Ying, Su Bai, and Li Tao.
All military departments for liaison.
And on this afternoon, Zhao Guanjia himself, who had only stayed in Tokyo for half a month, went out of the city directly with Lu Yihao, the governor of Hebei Province, Wang Yan, the commander of the imperial camp, and many of his ministers who had already gathered together, and began to go out of the city like in previous winters.
Generally patrol along the Yellow River.
This action made the Jurchen army in Hebei no longer able to endure it. Under the command of the two marching departments of Daming Prefecture and Longde Prefecture, tens of thousands of Jurchen troops began to dispatch and respond.
On both sides of the Yellow River, there was a sudden roar of wind and cranes, and the grass and trees were all in war.
"Qin Xianggong is from the south. Do you think the Zhao and Song officials are bluffing this time, or are they really going to send troops?"
It was a clear autumn day at the Chancery of Yanjing, and there was no autumn rain. However, as the King of Liao and Grand Master Wanyan Oben frowned and asked each other, Qin Hui couldn't help but shiver.
But I don’t know what I’m afraid of?
PS: I am very grateful to the new alliance leader Pan Xilea...I will continue to wish everyone a happy future.