"I agree to send a minister to preside over the expedition to the west, but who to send and how to authorize it?" Zhao Yu looked at the two old men and said with a calm face.

"This ......" Liu Di's face was happy when he heard this, but it was gone in a blink of an eye, he looked at Ying Jieyan but did not answer.

"Your Majesty, who does you think is suitable?" Ying Jieyan didn't answer immediately, and after a moment of silence, he looked at the little emperor and said.

"I thought that although the purpose of this dispatch was to capture Chongqing, the war might expand with the development of the situation, and it would also be the important task of presiding over the defense of the entire Sichuan and Shu and containing the enemy in Shaanxi and Gansu, so this person is not only familiar with military affairs, but also has the ability to preside over the government." Previously, the two of them tried to send important ministers to preside over the expedition to the west, but when it came to the candidates, they hesitated, and Zhao Yu thought about it and said.

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but this person must have both ability and political integrity, especially to be loyal to Your Majesty!" Liu Huang nodded.

"Well, Sichuan and Shu are far away from the center, and the person in charge of the presiding officer really wants to choose a cadre." Ying Jieyan nodded, but his face was also a little heavy.

The ball was kicked back and forth a few times, and both sides were cold, and Zhao Yu looked at the two old men with a preoccupied look and was a little funny. In fact, everyone knows that presiding over the military and political affairs of Sichuan and Shu is a high power, but it is also a hot potato, and the successive officials who have presided over Sichuan and Shu since the southern crossing have all ended miserably, which makes people look at it and avoid it.

The Sichuan and Shu regions are closed in terrain and are also a rare rich place, comparable to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is also a place far away from the emperor of the mountain. This peaceful place suddenly became a military stronghold after the imperial court crossed to the south, and the front line to resist the invasion of Jin and Mongolia was valued by the imperial court, and heavy generals were dispatched to defend it.

The measures taken by the Song court for the layout of the Sichuan defense system, generally speaking, the Xuanfu envoy was the command unit, and could give orders to the Sichuan defense system, and the armies of northern Sichuan were combat units, and the position of the envoy was lower than that of the Xuanfu envoy, and the command of the northern Sichuan armies was also under the command of the army.

In order to resist foreign enemies in the Southern Song Dynasty, in May of the third year of Jianyan, Zhang Jun was used as the Xuanfu disposal envoy to set up a defense system in Sichuan. However, due to Zhang Jun's granting of the cheap right to his subordinates Cheng Qianqiu and Wang Yining, or the abuse of the cheap right by his subordinate officials.

In September of the fourth year of Jianyan, Gaozong ordered that "the officials sent by the Xuanfu Division, if there is a joint subordinate power, they will listen to the Division", and only Xuanfu disposed of the power to make the division have cheap power, and ordered Jingxi, Hunan North Road, Belichuan, and Shaanxi Xuanfu Division to be controlled. Later, because Zhang Jun's subordinate Li Yunwen killed Yuan Zhi in Ezhou, the Song court ordered Li Yunwen to resign, and ordered him to return to the Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu disposal envoys, although this incident did not lead to Zhang Jun's punishment and limited the scope of Zhang Jun's cheap right, but significantly weakened Gaozong's trust in Zhang Jun, so the Song court gradually restricted Zhang Jun's cheap right.

At this time, the Song court only limited Zhang Jun's power in Sichuan, and still hoped that Zhang Jun would raise defense in Sichuan, but after the Battle of Fuping, due to the collapse of the Song army, Zhang Jun sought to recover the decline and tried his best to raise food and wages, so there was a financial dispute with the Song court, which eventually led to the Song court recalling Zhang Jun. However, Zhao Yu thought that Zhang Jun's resignation was mainly due to the excessive expansion of his authority, which aroused the suspicion of the Song court, and he was born as a military minister.

After Zhang Jun went to Shu, in order to meet the needs of the Song and Jin wars, and also to adjust the relationship between military power and financial power in Sichuan, the Song court implemented a series of measures in Sichuan, gradually separating the military power and financial power in Sichuan, and adjusting the functions and powers of the Xuanfu envoys. However, after the Kaixi Northern Expedition, the Song and Jin resumed the war, and then had to face the challenge of the Mongols, so the Song court changed its policy towards Sichuan again.

Because the Xuanfu envoy held the power of cheap and held full power in Sichuan, the Song court was afraid that his power was too great, so he gradually reduced it. The Xuanfu envoy's trip to the six ministries was changed from Zazi to a petition, suppressing the power of the Xuanfu envoy, and dividing the power of the king, with Lu Fayuan of Zhikuizhou as the deputy envoy, and cutting the military power of the Xuanfu envoy, and changing the capital to control Wu Jue to be responsible for the border defense.

After the Battle of Fuping, the Song court began to restrict the power of Xuanfu to make it cheaper, but it led to the rise of Wu Jue, who was the deputy envoy of Xuanfu because he was in charge of the military alone, and changed the military power of Xuanfu to Wu Jue, who recognized his command of the armies in northern Sichuan, and thus entered the period of Wuchen Xuanfu's envoy. After Wu Jue grasped the military power, his authority gradually expanded to financial power, and the Song court fell into an embarrassing dilemma, and must rely on Wu Jue and other members of the Wu family to prepare defense affairs in Sichuan, and use high-ranking officials to envelop them, on the other hand, they must prevent their power from being too great, and no longer have a permanent propaganda envoy in Sichuan, so as to divide the power of Sichuan.

At the same time, the Song court restricted the personnel power of the Xuanfu envoys, and in terms of military ministers, according to the official names of the military ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, their status from high to low was the capital commander, the same commander, the deputy commander, the commander, the same commander, the deputy commander, the main general, the deputy general, and the preparatory general, and the military positions in the army were originally appointed by the general or the Xuanfu envoy, and after the Shaoxing Peace, the Song court stipulated that the military attachés above the commander level were recommended by the Xuanfu Division, and the Privy Council granted the body, and the capital commander could appoint the rest of the officers on his own.23 By controlling the appointment power of senior generals, the control over the military power in Sichuan was strengthened.

As for the assignment of civilian positions, the Song court could appoint Sichuan officials on their own, and then gradually restricted the military power of Xuanfu envoys, but after Zhang Jun left Shu, the Song court restricted the military power of Xuanfu envoys, and Wu Jue was under control, so he held military power, and the Song court recognized his command of the armies in northern Sichuan. However, after Wu Jue was appointed as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu with military power, his authority gradually expanded to financial power, and the Song court temporarily canceled the Xuanfu in Sichuan to set it up, and replaced it with Hu Shiwei, a squire of the military department with lower authority, to appease the envoy, so as to avoid conflict with Wu Jue's authority, and only part of the personnel power of officials.

On the one hand, in order to appease Wu Jue, he used his men to serve as the transfer envoy and acquiesced in his control of financial power, and on the other hand, he was afraid of the adverse consequences of Wu Jue's grasp of financial power, so he tried to lower Wu Jue's position of power, and the central government sent a transfer envoy to divide his power.

In September of the ninth year of Shaoxing, due to Wu Jue's illness and death, Hu Shijiang, the original pacification envoy, changed from the ministry of the Xuanfu Department to the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, and because of the command of the Song army to resist the Jin, its prestige was rising, and the cheap right was from 'in case of military and rewards and punishments, etc., to be reported, Xu was cheap to implement', only and the military and official rewards and punishments, expanded to the official dethronement, which was equivalent to Zhang Jun's cheap right. As a result, his control over the generals increased, and since Yang Zheng and Wu Lu still had to obey orders to pacify the envoys, Zheng Gangzhong was still able to use his authority to force them to obey orders.

However, with Zheng Gangzhong's resignation because he was in charge of financial power and attracted the attack of the courtiers, the Song court therefore abolished the Xuanfu envoy, and the right protector army was in charge of Wu Xuan's old department, and because Hu Shiwei divided Guo Hao's power, Wu Lan controlled the military horses of the Shaanxi Zhulu with Wu Lan, and gradually occupied a leading position among the generals in Shaanxi. However, the Song court was very cautious about the removal of the post of Xuanfu envoy, although Wu Lan was extremely favored, but until May of the 31st year of Shaoxing, the king of Jin Hailing invaded the south, and the Song court urgently needed Sichuan to launch a counteroffensive against the Jin army to reduce the military pressure in the southeast, so it had to be awarded to Wu Lan with the post of Xuanfu envoy, and ordered him to lead the northern expedition of the Shu army.

Although Wu Ling and his brother Wu Jue successively served as Xuanfu envoys as military ministers, but observing the functions and powers of the two, Wu Ling has the military power of Sichuan and has a certain influence on financial power, Wu Ling only has military power, although he has ordered martial artists to know the state, such as Alin Zhe Tongzhi Taozhou, Wang Hongzhi Lanzhou, etc., but at that time it was based on the needs of the Song and Jin wars, and the Song court stipulated that 'where the consul of Wenchen is the Xuanfu envoy, the consul general will be bound by the petition, and the military minister will resist the rites and the peace of the military if he is the Xuanfu envoy', so as to limit Wu Lan's power to the encroachment of financial power, and his authority is obviously far inferior to his brother.

Zhao Yu thought that Wu Ting Xuanfu made it prosperous in the era of Wu Jue as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, although the Song court took Wu Ling as the Xuanfu envoy, but its authority was limited by the Song court and was limited to military power. In June of the ninth year of Shaoxing, Wu Jue died of illness, and the Song court in view of his dominance, and because of the later Xuanfu deputy envoy Zheng Gangzhong and the financial power, the Song court thought that the power of Xuanfu was too great, and then abolished the Xuanfu envoy.

Since the death of Wu Lan more than ten years, the Song Dynasty adjusted the power of the Xuanfu envoy, with its entry into Shu to deal with affairs, and the matter is finished, the term of office is indefinite, so successively to Yu Yunwen, Wang Yan, Zheng Wen, Shen Xia, Cheng Song, Wu Xi seven people as the Xuanfu envoy or Xuanfu deputy envoy, Wu Lan, Cheng Song, Wu Xi are all because of the Northern Expedition of the army and for the Xuanfu envoy, Xiaozong because of Wu Lan's illness and death and the Northern Expedition, with Yu Yunwen as the Xuanfu envoy, has entered Shu twice.

It can be seen that both the Sichuan and Shu envoys and the capital control system were exchanged in the court for the command of the army, which shows that the Song court divided the military power with the pacification system and the capital control system, and the pacification system and the capital control can command the capital system, which also shows that the Song court was unwilling to use one division to control the military power alone, but preferred to make the two divisions contend with each other, and can be played in the court in order to control from it.

But based on the same reason as Zhao Yu - Sichuan is far away from Lin'an, and it is not easy for the Song court to control. Therefore, there must be a general to preside over the defense of Sichuan, and after Wu Jue's death, the Song court had to allow Wu Ling, Wu Ting and Wu Xi to hereditarily control Xingzhou, thus forming the Sichuan Wu general. However, the Song court was quite ambiguous about the attitude of the Wu generals, and was not at ease with them, on the one hand, they were surrounded by high-ranking officials and lords, and on the other hand, they tried their best to prevent the excessive expansion of their powers, so there were a series of measures to suppress the Wu generals.

There were four ways for the Song court to suppress the Wu generals: setting up three capitals in Sichuan to control and divide power, summoning military generals into the court to seal high-ranking officials, taking the sons of generals as hostages, and dividing the Lizhou Road. With these extraordinary strategies, in Zhao Hao's opinion, it is impossible to control them on the table at all, and he is forced to have no tricks. Another measure is to control financial power to restrain the generals who sit in Sichuan and Shu.

It is precisely because Sichuan is far away from Lin'an, its economy has a certain degree of independence, and the supply of Lin'an is also mostly intercepted due to the military prosperity, resulting in 'Sichuan's financial endowment to stop the cost of the road', after Zhang Jun set up a defense system in Shu, the financial power is mostly a subordinate status, and Wu Jue has a lot of encroachment on financial power when he was alive. And Sichuan and Shu have always claimed to be the country of abundance, and the finance and taxes are enough to support the cost of a place, plus the terrain is closed, once it gets out of control, it is possible to cut off the king.

The Song court also felt the danger of being seized of Sichuan's financial power, so after Shaoxing negotiated peace, it gradually became independent of financial power in order to strengthen its control over Sichuan's economy. In order to break the independence of Sichuan's economy, he successively ordered Sichuan to allocate more than 1.73 million yuan of total money to the Zuozang Treasury for national use.

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty tried their best to prevent drastic changes in Sichuan and Shu, but also limited the control of the generals who guarded Sichuan and Shu over the situation, which led to chaos when the Mongols came to attack. It is precisely because of this that Sichuan and Shu have also become a thorn in the hearts of the important ministers of the DPRK.

In Zhao Yu's view, several ministers and ministers advocated that the imperial court send important ministers to preside over the Sichuan-Shu war without malice, and it was also from the perspective of safeguarding the interests of the imperial court, but they still did not jump out of the confinement of power checks and balances, hoping to curb the hearts of military generals. In this regard, he thought that the old people were taking precautions when they said that it sounded good, and it was too much to say that it was difficult to hear, and he thought that the current situation could not be compared with that time, and the conditions for secession were not yet available......

"The minister thinks that he should choose an important minister from the Zaizhi to go to Sichuan and Shu to preside over the war!" After being silent for a long time, Ying Jieyan broke the silence by drinking a glass of water.

"Sizzle...... Isn't it too late to send the slaughter to go! Zhao Yu took a breath and said, "Although Sichuan and Shu are strategic places, the imperial court has always only proclaimed Sichuan and Shu with the title of courtier, and there is no precedent for going to the courtier!" Zhao Yu was shocked when he heard this, and secretly thought in his heart that it was not because he forced himself too hard that the old man wanted to go out in person!

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's not an exaggeration." Ying Jie Yan stroked his beard and said, "At present, the battle into Sichuan is mainly based on the Huguang System and Placement Division, and the grain, grass and baggage are also supplied by it. And Hu Guangzhi made Jiang Cheng originally the commander of the forbidden army in front of the palace, and later he was the privy envoy of Tongzhi, and he was already ranked as the chief executive, and he went to preside over the war with a servant, even if Jiang Cheng was generous and could obey the order, but his subordinates would inevitably have a grudge, if he elbowed everywhere, wouldn't it ruin His Majesty's plan! ”

"It should be the governor's concerns, but if only one official presides, it will inevitably be constrained everywhere, and it will be difficult to spread his hands and feet. In addition, it will inevitably make Jiang Cheng think more and resent! Liu Huang also nodded.

"Reasonable!" Zhao Hao sat back in front of the case. What Ying Jieyan said just now is still more subtle, but Liu Huang is much more straightforward. If you send a cabinet minister to it, the status of the two is not equal, and it is inevitable that there will be disputes, and it will definitely be the courtier's side who suffers. And this is also suspected of 'making a big one with a small one', which makes Jiang Cheng suspicious, thinking that he has lost trust......