The cold wind is blowing, the snowflakes are lingering, and the streets and alleys of Tokyo City, and the branches on the roofs are covered with a thin layer of snowflakes. This is the first snow after the Spring Festival, and the cold of the scorching day has long been gone, but the real spring is far from coming.

It's just that in this season of hope, a heavy snowfall has pulled people back to the bitter cold.

News came from the government that the imperial court ceded the north of the Huai River. In other words, soon, the city of Tokyo will become under the rule of the Golden People.

Not only the city of Tokyo, but also Xijing, Nanjing, Xuzhou, and even Henan will begin to have the surname Jin.

Zong Ze and Zong Lao, who have always been tireless in the city of Tokyo, stayed in Zong Ze and Zong Lao, but suddenly fell ill, and the illness was not light, and he was lying on the sick bed for a long time and couldn't get out of bed.

"Prime Minister Zong, what's wrong with you? You must hold on, this Gyeonggi Province, Henan Province, and Southwest Beijing, big and small, all depend on you!"

As soon as they entered the door, seeing Zong Ze's pale face and dying, Zhao Ding and Li Ruoshui were both anxious, and Li Ruoshui shouted anxiously.

"Zhao Fuyin and Li Gong made the two of them laugh. Presumably, the two also received the will of the imperial court. The old man called the two of them today to discuss what to do. ”

In the city of Kaifeng Mansion, Zongze Mansion, Tokyo Left-behind Division stayed in Zongze, with a sallow complexion, a face like gold paper, lying on the couch, a pair of eyes wide open.

Seeing Zhao Ding and Li Ruoshui coming in, Zong Ze wanted to get up from the hospital bed, but was stopped by the two.

"Dad, it's better for you to say less and rest more. Didn't Lang Zhong say that you should rest and recuperate, and don't be depressed, otherwise it will not be good for the sores on your back. The matter of retreating south was arranged by Zhao Gong and Li Gong. ”

Zong Ying hurriedly helped her father to lie down. When the imperial court's decree to cede the north of Huaishui came, my father fell ill all at once.

"Brother Zong, the elder minister of the sect was not good last month, how did he become like this now?"

Zhao Ding looked at Zong Ze who was dying on the bed, sighed deeply, and asked with a frown.

Zong Ying's eyes were slightly red, and she said helplessly: "Zhao Fuyin, what else can it be, it must be the matter of the imperial court moving south and ceding Lianghuai, Henan Mansion, and Tokyo City." My father's body was not very good, and the imperial court ceded the north of the Huai River, and his heart was tormented, so he became what he is now. ”

As the left-behind guard of Tokyo City, Zong Ze has been loyally organizing the deployment of defenses, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, but who knows that he ushered in an edict to cede the north of the Huai River.

As the supreme Minister of Military Affairs of the Tokyo Garrison Division, as a loyal man with deep patriotic feelings, how could he tolerate the repeated loss of his homeland.

Zhao Ding and Li Ruoshui were shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and Yue Fei had already hurriedly stepped in. Seeing Zong Ze on the hospital bed, Yue Fei's eyes were hot, and he shouted in a low voice: "Enxiang, are you better?"

Since he joined the army, he has served under Zong Ze twice, Zong Ze can be said to appreciate him, benevolent and righteous, although he is not as heavy as Wang Song, but he is really a benefactor on his life path.

Zong Ze finally opened his eyes and said softly to Yue Fei beside the sickbed, "Pengju, you are here too." Everything in the army has been arranged, right?"

Yue Fei hurriedly persuaded: "Enxiang just rest assured, he will cultivate his body." The affairs of the army are taken care of by the villains and the brothers around them. ”

Seeing that her father seemed to be angry, Zong Ying had no choice but to step forward, and together with Yue Fei, she helped her father up and leaned on the edge of the bed

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Zong Ze nodded and said, "You have received the edict of the imperial court, what are you planning in your heart?"

Yue Fei lowered his head and said gloomily: "Returning to the court, this is the will of the imperial court, and the villain is helpless." Now the plan, the villain can only reorganize the soldiers and horses, and arrange the people to go south, so there is no other way. ”

"Millions of people can't be arranged all at once. Besides, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and many people are reluctant to leave, so how can we deal with it?"

Zhao Ding shook his head on the side and said. "Even in Jiangnan, how to deal with these people, and how do the people make a living? Could it be that if you really have to take one step at a time, the people can't afford to toss. ”

"The Jin people are ravaging Henan and Huainan, rather than keeping these places, increasing the difficulty of transportation and depleting the national strength, it is better to hand it over to the Jin people and let them and the loyal army rob you to the death!"

Zong Ze's face turned pale, and he shook his head lightly and said: "The imperial court has a good plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, but it just takes pity on this Henan Mansion, this Tokyo City, and the millions of people of the Great Song Dynasty south of the Huai River." To whom do they go to tell their suffering?"

The room became quiet for a while, and Yue Fei couldn't help but be shocked. Unexpectedly, in order to deal with the Jin people, the imperial court even calculated the loyal and righteous army, and no one cared about the life and death of these millions of people.

"I heard that Wang Song has recovered the entire Hebei, killed the Jin Middle Route Army, and rescued countless Song people, but I don't know if it's true or not."

Zhao Ding sat back in his chair and said in a deep voice: "The Jin people are unstoppable, and it is understandable for the imperial court to do this, but it has only suffered the people of the Great Song Dynasty."

"Understandable?"

Li Ruoshui shook his head and said: "The Son of Heaven protects the country and the people, what is the Son of Heaven in the Great Song Dynasty doing, abandoning the land and abandoning the people, and blindly fleeing south." During the reign of the first emperor, he was still able to compete with the Jin people in Hebei and Hedong, and state affairs were becoming more and more difficult!"

Zong Ying deliberately looked at his father next to him, whose face was like gold paper, and found that he seemed to be listening carefully, and his heart moved, so he continued: "I heard that Wang Xianggong has set up schools in Hebei and Hedong, and has recruited tens of thousands of children.

Sure enough, as soon as Zong Ying's words fell, Zong Ze's face slowly became rosy, and he opened his eyes slightly.

Hebei and Hedong have been eroded, and there are countless refugees on both sides of the Yellow River, Wang Song not only built water conservancy, camped fields, opened mines, set up iron factories, and controlled salt extraction, but all the profits obtained were used by the army and the people, and won the hearts of the people at the bottom.

Coupled with this free school, in addition to thanking Dade and worshiping the people of the land of the two rivers, I am afraid that there is only Wang Song in their eyes, and there is no Song Emperor.

"I heard that Wang Song recruited talents in the Daimyo Mansion, knew how to make good use of them, and the famous people of the two rivers and the remnants of the countryside were all under his command. Many talented people raised their eyebrows and exclaimed, and they had the meaning of hating each other!"

Zhao Ding looked at it and said to Li Ruoshui: "I heard that the second brother of Gong Li is now under Wang Song's command and serves as a staff member, yes or no?"

Zhao Ding learned all this news from his daughter Zhao Ruonan. Li Ruoxu and Huang Zong are both from cloth clothes or low-level officials, but they can be in a high position under Wang Song's account and show their ambitions, just this open-mindedness is already impressive.

Zhao Ding climbed up from the bottom, and only ascended to the position of this mansion when he was more than half a hundred years old, and he was still reduced to cannon fodder. Compared with Huang Zong, Wang Lun, and Li Ruoxu, young people who were in important positions as soon as they came out of the mountain and were one or two decades younger than him, Zhao Ding was red-eyed

While people are soaring, they can only sigh that the will of heaven has made people.

Hearing Zhao Ding's words, Li Ruoshui laughed and said loudly: "My brother fell into the hands of the Jin people, and he died for a lifetime. Wang Xianggong has the grace of knowing his brother, Zhao Fuyin, you say, should you be grateful to Wang Xianggong in the future?"

Yue Fei, who had not spoken, spoke, and he said with a straight face: "Brother Li's family is only eight buckets high, comparable to Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms, and he has already heard of it in Hebei. Now that he is under the command of the king, he can show his ambitions, drive out the Tartars, pacify the people, and restore the rivers and mountains, which is a good deed. ”

When everyone in the hall spoke, they didn't realize that Wang Song was no longer the envoy of the two rivers. Maybe everyone has already realized it, but they just don't want to admit it.

Everyone knows that in order to curry favor with the Jin people, the Great Song Dynasty court treated such a humerus minister who had made great contributions to the country in a way that was almost humiliating and "damaging people's reputation", and I really didn't know what the officials, as well as these brilliant scholars and doctors in the court, were thinking about all day long!

Now that I think about it, Zhao Huan's "loyalty fallacy" can be described as extremely appropriate - loyal to the imperial court, but unable to consider himself. And Zhao Ji's "Miao Chou" is really ruining people's reputation and referring to the deer as a horse.

Several people in the hall knew it, but no one said it. After all, no one dares to violate the avenue of the Three Platforms and Five Constants, and the monarch is the father of the ministers.

Zong Ze coughed lightly a few times, and then said:

"Wang Song's matter, let's put it aside first. Now the imperial court has issued an order to let me wait for the south to retreat, and the officials who announced the decree and the envoys of the Jin people are still waiting in the post house. Let's all think about how to withdraw the army and how to pacify the people in the city. ”

Zhao Dingsu bowed and said: "Enxiang, the imperial court only asked me to wait for the south to retreat, and did not say that it would hand over Bianjing City to the hands of the Jin people." The envoy of the golden man in the city can be completely ignored. The army can go south. If the people are willing to go south, follow us and leave. ”

Yue Fei and Li Ruoshui glanced at each other, and both of them understood in their hearts. The imperial court issued an order to cede the land of Huaibei, but it did not explicitly hand over Bianjing City directly to the Jin people, and naturally wanted to use Bianjing City to provoke a fight between Wang Song and the Jin people.

The Jin people attacked the cities in Huainan and Huguang, slaughtered the cities and burned the land, and threatened Jiangnan, so the imperial court naturally did not willingly hand over the land of Gyeonggi to the Jin people, so it was not suspected of being an enemy.

Zong Ze nodded and said, "Is there any news from Nanjing and Xijing?"

The imperial court ordered to cede the north of Huaishui, Zhai Xing and Han Shizhong in Luoyang, Xijing, and Zhang Jun in Yingtianfu, Nanjing, these people all had tens of thousands of heavy soldiers, so they were naturally the key targets of the imperial court.

Zhao Ding replied: "Zhang Jun of Ying Tianfu has already made preparations, just wait for the military order of the prime minister to arrive, and then withdraw the army." It's just that Zhai Xing of Xijing swore not to retreat and drove out the envoys of the imperial court, saying that he was willing to live and die with Xijing, and no one could do anything. ”

When Zhao Ding said this, everyone in the room laughed, and Zong Ze also smiled: "Zhai Yuan is more than half a hundred years old, but he still has such a hot temper, which is really rare." Zhai Jin sacrificed his life for the country, and Zhai Xing naturally hated it! Since they are unwilling to withdraw their troops, let them go, and there are people in the Daimyo Mansion to protect them anyway. Tell me, isn't that reasonable?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then said in unison: "What the elder said is true."

Hebei's loyal army reinforcements went down the Yellow River to Luoyang, which is already known to everyone. Everyone in the room knew it, but they didn't say it.