Before the Huaixi thief Ding Jin was found to have committed suicide with a knife when he went to the toilet, the imperial censor Hu Yin and Hu Mingzhong had many identities. For example, he was one of the youngest civil servants in the industry, with good knowledge, a clean background, and a so-called future.
Great; for another example, he is also one of the most fierce anti-golden faction and always likes to propose the most radical anti-golden plan at the most inopportune times; for another example, he is also the life and death of Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding.
Together with his younger brother, they are considered to be the glue between the two upstarts who are now vaguely separated.
Even if the Zhao Guan family appointed this person, to be fair, they were more or less interested in his conspicuous political stance... Just think about it, when someone tries to soften the anti-gold stance and try to save the country, if they pick this person out, it will be...
Welcoming the Two Saints, crossing the river to the north, and being a king and father, who can withstand it? Who dares to speak?
To put it bluntly, he was just a tool before adding other people's political accessories, or at most a potential stock.
However, after Ding Jin was casually dug into a hole and buried, the name Hu Yin no longer needed to be explained by someone else or a certain position. Hu Mingzhong became famous in one day, and the former censor Zhongcheng and the current Dongfu Xianggong Xu Jingheng praised him at that time.
He is the 'true censor'.
It was the official who everyone knew well, and after coyly avoiding a round of cynicism, he came to Zhugao Town on the second day and formally issued a series of decrees:
One took off Zhang Jun's purple robe and changed his position from Yushi Zhongcheng to Trial Yushi Zhongcheng, making this man who may be the closest to the youngest prime minister of the Song Dynasty three points further away from that position;
The second one was to formally replace Zhang Jun with Hu Yin, to clean up Han Shizhong's army's interference with civilians along the way, and to take charge of military discipline;
Third, through the above two incidents, he officially admitted the mistakes of the Zhao Guan family, admitted that he was too tolerant of some meritorious officials and ignored the court system, and used this to warn those in the line to guard against arrogance and impetuosity...
After the decree was issued, everyone knew that Hu Yin's impeachment yesterday had achieved real results.
But that's not all. After Xing Zai continued westward for two days, he arrived at the Huaihe River directly north of Dingcheng, the capital of Guangzhou. He gathered three generals, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan, and Liu Yan, and met Yu Wenxuzhong. After Zhao Guan's family officially resumed
All four ministers were summoned, two from the east and the other from the west, to discuss the issue of selecting talents to build the imperial court.
At the suggestion of the four ministers, Zhao Guanjia made slight modifications and finally issued a series of new decrees... However, in the name of the difficult times and the ongoing national crisis, they required all localities to recommend talents regardless of their background.
Among them, each military prefecture in Guanxi, Southeast, Jingxiang, Jingdong, and Bashu will recommend one civil and one military officer plus one man of integrity who has made special achievements in the national crisis; while those who stay behind and set up envoys everywhere are allowed to recommend ten additional
Because Lianghuai and Jingxi are close to each other, except for Junzhou, each county is authorized to recommend a person of integrity.
This so-called man of integrity is naturally the one that Zhao Guan's family cares about the most because he is able to withstand gold, and he is also a private item that he forcibly stuffed into his family.
After these people arrive at the capital of Nanyang, they will conduct a small test in the civil and military divisions to supplement the talents of the capital. Of course, Zhao Jiu has not yet had the ability to correct the huge problem of dividing the civil and military divisions.
In addition, the Zhao Guan family also issued another decree, giving Li Gang the same convenient personnel rights as Zongze on the front line, allowing Li Xianggong to temporarily appoint high-ranking officials who had vacancies in the southeast, and only needed to report and discuss them afterwards...
But correspondingly, Li Gang's confidant Lin Qi was transferred from the Ministry of Personnel to the Ministry of Husbandry.
Back to the present, after this incident, Hu Yushi's name Yu Xingzai was once again promoted. Everyone knew that the profound meaning of this Yushi's impeachment that day had been achieved, and this person already had the ability to promote major political affairs.
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However, not to mention how Hu Yushi became more and more famous, Zhao Guan's family still wanted to continue their journey to the west.
At the end of February, we arrived at the foot of Guangshan Mountain on the westernmost side of the Guangzhou section of the Huaihe River. Because the Huaihe River ahead was too shallow and too narrow, we officially abandoned the water and land and headed towards Caizhou on the north bank... At this time, news came that Jianzhou (Fujian)
There was a mutiny in the Miao Dynasty (Jianjian), so it was the Miao Fu Liu Zhengyan who controlled the military capital behind the imperial camp and the deputy capital, led the troops to the southeast, and assisted Li Gang in maintaining peace and order in the southeast in the name of protecting the Queen Mother.
After the second general left, it had only been three days since he left Caizhou. Han Shizhong and Wang De on both sides began to encounter various armed forces and began to engage in large-scale battles. On the first day of March, Ru, the capital of Caizhou, was recaptured.
Yang, and used this as a base, with Han Shizhong and Wang De as generals, to recruit the rebel army and destroy the rebels here, in order to open up the so-called turning point.
It was at this time that Xing Zai received a series of precise information from the rebels and the envoys sent by Zongze. It was said that the large-scale march of the Jin Army southward last winter was just like the eastward route led by Ta Lan and Wu Shu.
The army basically swept away the Jingdong and Jingdong routes like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The West route army controlled by Nianhan also caused extremely serious consequences.
Although this had been expected for a long time, and there was even a lot of inaccurate news coming from Bagong Mountain, but after actually hearing these messages and seeing the rebel bandits all over Caizhou, people walking up and down were still shocked.
Get serious:
The city of Luoyang, Xijing, was destroyed, looted and set on fire by the Jin army.
Chang'an, which was previously regarded as the best choice to accompany the capital, also fell early, but it was because after being besieged for more than ten days, it encountered an earthquake and betrayal at the same time... The people who defected were none other than the two commanders Li Gang set up in Nanjing (Shangqiu) that day.
One of them is Fu Liang, the former deputy envoy of Hedong Economic System.
This man, with hundreds of elite men, captured the gates and paid gold, and was the biggest culprit in the destruction of the city of Chang'an.
It's ridiculous that Zhao Guan's family specifically pardoned him before, looking for him to come back, and even worried that he would have died in the hands of defeated soldiers, but they didn't know that this person had already hid in the pass and became a naked traitor.
After Chang'an was defeated, almost all of them died for their country, including the direct bachelor of Tianzhang Pavilion, Tang Zhong, the envoy of Jingzhaofu Road, and deputy envoy of Shaanxi transportation.
Later, after Henan Yin Sun Zhaoyuan fled from Luoyang south to Caizhou, he saw defeated soldiers all over the mountains and plains. He wanted to recruit and use them, so he scolded the defeated soldiers for bringing food and clothing to the people and causing trouble to the place. As a result, he was defeated by the defeated soldiers under Ruyang City.
The body was found by Zhao Guan's family.
At this time, the atmosphere in the street was different from the past, but two days later, as a man in coarse cloth was hurriedly delivered by Han Shizhong, no one under Zhao Guan's family could sit down anymore.
The visitor was Yan Xiaozhong, the magistrate of Tangzhou, west of Caizhou and east of Dengzhou, where Nanyang is located, and he actually escaped from the Jin army!
Not to mention the details of how to escape, Yan Xiaozhong reported a piece of news that caught everyone off guard. The Jin army's Ten Thousand Households of Nichuch were still looting the Nanyang area!
It turned out that just before Ma Shen left Xiangyang and traveled to Nanyang to meet Zhao Guan's family, the Jin army, after conquering Luoyang, sent a force of about 10,000 people led by a member of Wanhu to go south to conquer Ruzhou.
, Caizhou, Xingxing knew about this, because at that time, Wanhu stayed in Caizhou for a long time, and it seemed that he wanted to echo the Wanyan Wushu in the east in Huaixi.
At this time, he was traveling west and came to Caizhou. Since there was no Jin army in Caizhou, he thought he had withdrawn his troops and returned to Taiyuan!
In fact, at this moment, according to the continuous information from Zongze, Zhang Suo, and Zhang Jun, at least the Jin Army's East Route Army clearly has the intention to withdraw from Jingdong. The Jin Army garrison in Qingzhou and Weizhou on the corner has already
Going to Hebei, there are even rumors that Liu Yu, the surrender minister of Jinan Prefecture, cried loudly and asked Talan to leave part of the Jin army to garrison.
But no one expected that the Jin Army's West Route Army would still be so rampant.
"A good instructor knows."
The short Yan Xiaozhong held his hands in the lobby of the Ruyang government office and played the antithesis. "Nichuch went south after breaking Xijing in the twelfth month of last year. He originally sent troops for the officials and people. The serious military orders he received from Wanyan Lou's room were also broken.
Dengzhou took Nanyang, but it was because he came to Caizhou privately after hearing that the official family was in Huaishang!"
In the lobby, many smart people, including Zhao Guan's family, woke up almost instantly, and then they were shocked. Yes, this is right!
You know, our Zhao Guan family was preparing to go to Nanyang with Li Gang at that time! Here in the Jin Army's West Route Army, whether it was Nianhan or Lou Shi, it was impossible not to notice this matter, so after quickly conquering Luoyang, Xijing,
Naturally, there will be the intention to wait and see.
And if there hadn't been any trouble that day, if Xing Shang Xia had come to Nanyang happily, wouldn't he have been punished by the tens of thousands of households with his fighting power at that time?
Thinking of this, many people in the camp turned pale. Even Zhao Guan's family suddenly thought of that bulging corpse. Did he love the Huaixi thief Ding Jin or was he the hero who saved the Song Dynasty?!
Is this another major injustice case personally committed by the Zhao Guan family after Liu Guangshi?
"Official family." After hesitating for a moment, Yan Xiaozhong said slightly cautiously. "I originally planned to defend the city in Tangzhou until death, but the city of Tangzhou was small and old, and it was easy for the Jin army to dig down the city wall. There was nothing I could do. And because I
He was short in appearance, dark and ugly, like a dwarf, and when he was captured, I was wearing a coarse cloth to carry earth on the city, so the Jin army did not care about me, and still asked me to be a civilian husband with the army, so that they could take advantage of the opportunity.
Escape and come to see the official... The official has a special appearance, so a civilian who was recruited by the Jin army must have seen me. If you ask about this, you will know the truth, and I have never lost integrity!"
"Yan Qing's loyalty is unquestionable, and he will stay with you with peace of mind. He will wait until the enemy retreats before making any appointments." Zhao Jiu nodded quickly to comfort him.
Of course comfort!
Scholar Xiao Lin who was accompanying him secretly laughed in his heart that Yan Xiaozhong was too careful.
Just think about it and you will know. According to the current intelligence, basically all the high-ranking officials close to the Jin Army in the west of Beijing are dead. They are all gone. Who dares to defend the city and walk hundreds of miles to report the news?
Zhizhou is already a rare model for civil servants. How could the officials care about your experience of being captured with you, Yan Xiaozhong?
However, does Yan Zhizhou have such benefits in growing up like this?
"But Yan Qing," while Academician Xiao Lin was thinking wildly, Zhao Guan's family over there had already continued to ask. "You escaped from Nichukhe's army. Do you know what the situation in Dengzhou is like?"
"Fortunately, the officials came quickly. At this time, the transfer envoy to the southwest of Beijing, Liu Ji, a direct bachelor of Longtuge, is still there...the bachelor of Guanwen Palace knows that Fan Zhixu of Dengzhou is also there." Yan Xiaozhong blurted out again. "But I'm afraid these two are not here.
You know when it will be gone."
"What does this mean?" Zhao Jiu was confused when he heard something was wrong in the other party's words. "Has the Jin Army's offensive been decided?"
"Reporting to the officials, it's not that I talked about my colleagues without authorization!" Yan Xiaozhong gritted his teeth and said angrily. "I am also a useless person who doesn't know how to fight. He was also captured alive by the Jin army, but at least he knew how to defend the city. It's useless for monks and boys.
Being a soldier! You won’t build the Great Wall to only shoulder height!”
When Zhao Jiu heard this, he instinctively thought of the legendary story of the so-called "Six Ding Liujia", but he panicked and immediately looked at the several husbands sitting nearby: "Who is this talking about?"
When the four sitting ministers heard this, they almost stood up together, and then Lv Haowen awkwardly said to him: "The good instructor knows that the person who relies most on military affairs in Fan Xueshi's family is a monk named Zongyin. That day, Jingkangzhong
Fan Xueshi was the commander-in-chief of the Western Army. He led 160,000 troops to aid Tokyo. He specially selected a group of monks named "Zunsheng Army" and a group of boy soldiers named "Jingsheng Army". He also built a team in Tongguan.
'The Great Wall', connecting Longmen..."
"And how miserable was the defeat?" Zhao Jiu realized the meaning halfway through, but interrupted him directly.
"Destroyed by Wanyan Lou's 10,000 elite cavalry." After experiencing the battle in Shouzhou, Lu Hao asked these people who probably felt that some of the previous things were too ridiculous. After saying this, he quickly bowed his head. "Scholar Fan
As a result, he lost his position as the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi and changed his name to Dengzhou."
"The Song Dynasty can survive to this day because of the blessings of the gods and Buddhas." Zhao Guanjia sneered. "If I had really come to Nanyang that day, I would have killed this person myself even if I wanted to perish the country... Liu Guangshi is really unjust!"
When the civil and military officials in the hall heard that something was wrong, they all bowed their heads and remained silent. Even the short Yan Zhizhou was at a loss and quickly bowed his head.
"So, Dengzhou must have been too late to save him?" Zhao Jiu came back to his senses and continued to ask Yan Xiaozhong.
"That's not true." Yan Xiaozhong quickly replied. "The official family is generous, and the transfer made Liu Longtu loyal. During the reign of Emperor Kangzhong, he went to Tokyo alone to go to Tokyo. When he came back, he received an order from Xing Zai to order him to organize Nanyang in preparation for the official family.
He has been working hard to maintain it to this day...Liu Longtu may be as ignorant of soldiers as his ministers, but he is not as ridiculous as Xuexian Fan, let alone abandoning the city easily."
Zhao Jiu's heart skipped a beat, but he quickly asked again: "Do you know the reality of the Jin Army's Ten Thousand Households?"
"Five Jurchen Meng'an, two Khitan Meng'an, one Xiren Meng'an, one Northern Han'er Meng'an, and one Bohai Meng'an. However, it seems that due to the damage caused by the Taiyuan War in the past, there were only fifty or sixty in total.
A conspiracy!" Yan Xiaozhong immediately responded. "That is the main force of five to six thousand people! The rest were supplemented by the surrender of soldiers from the Western Army. Only he moved to Xijing (Luoyang), Ruzhou, Caizhou, and Tangzhou. The ones who surrendered to him recently
There are many rebels!"
Hearing this number, the hall was silent for a moment. From Zhao Jiu down, the four ministers, and several censors below Cheng Zhang Jun... In short, except for the deeper scholar Xiaolin, almost all the censors...
The dignitaries who came together from the east all exchanged glances instinctively and tacitly, and then a bold idea arose in their hearts... Obviously, after the Shouzhou battle, at least everyone's mentality has improved.
It's completely different from the officials here in Jingxi.
Of course, after all, it was ten thousand households plus a bunch of surrendered troops. Zhao Guanjia thought about it for a moment, but still felt a little guilty, so he asked seriously again: "Yan Qing, let alone Fan Qiong in Xiangyang in the south, Caizhou, Tangzhou
, Ruzhou, and Dengzhou, are there any troops and horses available in various places?"
"Reporting back to the official, although the west of Beijing is in a mess, there are still brave men who dare to fight against the Jin army." Yan Xiaozhong's eyelids twitched, and he understood the official's meaning almost instantly, and also understood the weirdness in the hall just now.
Because of the atmosphere, he was three parts frightened, three parts shocked and three parts hopeful, plus he was cautious. "There are few people in Tangzhou, so they have tried their best, but in the northwest of Caizhou, there is a wealthy family called Zhai Chong, who is with
The two generals of Xijing, Dazhai and Xiaozhai, are from a distant family and are quite powerful. The minister's family members are kept in his home... Please ask the official to give me a horse, and then send a servant back to Tangzhou with a confession document.
There must be three thousand soldiers and horses brought back!"
When Zhao Jiu heard that he was the family of Da Zhai and Xiao Zhai, he instinctively believed it... You must know that the brothers Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin were the real support of Xijing Luoyang at this time. They almost single-handedly persisted in resisting the Jin Dynasty in Luoyang.
, Zhao Jiu also saw information about this family from everywhere. Rather than talking about Zhao Guan's family, he vaguely felt that this family was a bit like Zhujiazhuang in Water Margin, a Zengtou City-like existence, that is,
Song Dynasty version of super powerful!
However, in terms of behavioral norms, he is a super powerful man who is loyal and reliable and pays attention to national justice! Not long ago, it was the Zhai brothers who fought for the defense of Xijing, and the second son of Zhai Jin, the second son, also died in the breakout battle.
Under the knife.
"I don't know where in Ruzhou, but I heard something in the Jin army." Just when Zhao Guan's mind drifted to the Water Margin, Yan Xiaozhong thought that Zhao Guan's family was listening carefully and continued.
Go on. "There was a warrior named Niu Gao there who took advantage of the situation when the Jin army was crossing the border. He repeatedly fought and won with the Jin people. Now he has quite a lot of soldiers and horses..."
Zhao Jiu was startled and almost didn't react... I couldn't help it. After more than half a year, I finally caught someone I knew, and I was a little caught off guard.
"Guan family, I think I can make up my mind to carry out this battle!" At this moment, Zhang Jun, the imperial censor who had been staring at Zhao Guan family and wearing a green robe, suddenly came out. "This is not only because we must drive out Jin.
People want to establish a foothold in Nanyang, and because of the chaos in the west of Beijing, where dragons and snakes are mixed, it is time to take the opportunity to screen out the rebels here, get the loyal and brave ones for your own use, and drive out the miscellaneous ones!"
Zhao Jiu nodded slowly, and the four ministers around him looked at each other, unable to refute for a moment.
"If the officials want to engage in this battle, they must be careful." Seeing that no one was speaking, Yan Xiaozhong said helplessly and carefully.
"What's the matter?"
"Good instructors know that there is a key point at this time, that is, the guard of Wuguan is none other than the Zongyin monk in Fan Xueshi's curtain..."
"Liu Yan!" Zhao Guanjia thought for a moment, then suddenly turned his head and ordered to the person beside him. "I will give you a gold medal immediately. No matter how you get around, you must rush to Wuguan and seize that monk's military power!"
"Guan family!" At this moment, Academician Xiao Lin suddenly came out. "I am willing to go to appease you as a close minister of the imperial family!"
Zhao Jiu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but feel relieved...
Of course I'm happy!
You must know that Wuguan is hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, separated by the Jin army's main force of 10,000 households. It's not like they went to Ruzhou to recruit Niu Gao or the like, but this scholar Xiao Lin actually took the initiative to ask for help... There was Hu Yin in front of him, and Lin Jingmo in the back.
, it can be seen that not all civil servants are like Fan Zhixu!
The Song Dynasty can still be saved!
ps: Thanks to the 53rd Meng, Restless Volcano! If this continues, I feel like I will be able to enter the Hall of Fame next month.