There are several gardens in the north and south of the Xilin Bridge outside the city, among which the water bamboo courtyard is an excellent place to view the lake, now the cold winter is over, Su Causeway is like a belated spring messenger, the willow sandwich the bank, the bright peach is scorching, there are more lake waves like a mirror, reflecting the shadow, infinite tenderness. The most touching thing is that when the morning dawn first dews, the breeze blows slowly, and the willow silk rolls fluttering, which makes people feel more comfortable.

This water bamboo courtyard is one of the private gardens of the Li Zong Dynasty, which changed hands several times after his death, and then passed through Meng Yuan and has long been unknown to whom. At this moment, a middle-aged scribe in the pavilion looking at the rippling blue waters and the cruise ships in the lake pavilion looked at the rippling blue waters and the cruise ships in the stream, but it seemed that such a beautiful scenery could not arouse his interest, and his face was always gloomy.

"Xianggong, I'm in a good mood today!" Then two more men came with their brothers-in-law, and one of them saluted them.

"Zhide and Guozuo are here, sit here!" Chen Yizhong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and invited the two of them to sit down in the pavilion.

"Xianggong, there have been a lot of things recently, don't blame me for visiting in the future." Yao Liangchen sat down and arched his hand.

"Where is Zhide, it's better to be cautious, that little emperor is very ghostly, and he will be wary when he finds out that we have dealings!" Chen Yizhong waved his hand.

"He lived in Wuhu for more than a month and didn't return, thinking that he was not lightly ill, and he was afraid that he would not be able to save his life, so how could he take care of the affairs in Beijing." Wei Tianzhong didn't care about the authentic way.

"Don't take it lightly, I've been feeling uneasy recently, and it seems that I've been alert, so I'm still more cautious." Chen Yizhong said with a sinking face.

"Well, what Xianggong said is right, I also feel that someone seems to be spying on us, and there are many more people around the mansion these days." Yao Liangchen also said.

"You guys are too careful, now that officials from all over the city are frequently entering Beijing, it's not an exaggeration to look around, we all know each other." Wei Tianzhong said disapprerovitously, "Now that Lu Xiufu is going to Fuzhou, Zhang Shijie is going to Jiangyin, and only Wen Tianxiang is left in charge of the government, and he is very busy with daily official affairs, where can he take care of us." ”

"No, I always have a feeling that the little emperor's illness is fake, and even he is in Beijing, otherwise our actions will be restricted everywhere!" Chen Yizhong shook his head and said, "First, we took advantage of the fact that his western expedition was not in Beijing, and the Queen Mother was far away in Qiongzhou, and we found the king of Yiyang County. As soon as they wanted to support it, those tabloids began to attack it en masse, making us disgraced, not to mention, the reputation of the king of Yiyang County was ruined, and all the hard work was in vain. ”

"Alas, the king of Yiyang County is also a person who can't support the wall, and he doesn't know the inspection point on weekdays, he was caught by those tabloids, chased after him, and became a joke in Beijing, and he deserved it. And now I don't know how to rein, I don't talk about eating and drinking every day, and I am greedy and excessive, and the monthly fee is not enough for its expenses, and I sent someone to ask us for money yesterday. Yao Liangchen sighed.

"Xianggong, since this person is no longer of great use, why don't you abandon him, so as not to implicate us!" Wei Tianzhong also said.

"Do you want to find someone like the little emperor? Whether it can be at our mercy or not, eating, drinking, and being greedy is nothing, just be obedient, and strictly restrict it in the future, if you don't listen, your supply will be reduced. But try to justify it, and maybe it will be useful. Chen Yizhong sighed and said.

"That's what Xiang Gong said! But we just want to use the matter of peace war to provoke a new dispute, cause turmoil in the imperial court, and weaken people's attention to the king of Yiyang. Who knew that Meng Yuan suddenly increased his troops in Taixing, the situation turned over again, and the tabloids published the old things about the Tartars doing evil in the south of the Yangtze River, provoking hatred between the two countries and making us fall short. But the unfortunate King of Yiyang County heard that the Tartars were coming, and he was going to run away, if he didn't watch it closely, he was afraid that he would have succeeded, and he was really far worse than the little emperor, and he dared to go into battle in person when he was five years old......" Wei Tianzhong said with a wry smile.

"Ahem......" Yao Liangchen coughed dryly twice, interrupting Wei Tianzhong's grumbling, "And although the few humanistic pens we are looking for are good, they lack experience, and they are written plainly, all clichés, and they are not the opponents of those tabloids at all, and no one wants to read them." If it weren't for the lure of heavy money, those tabloids would not have published it! ”

"I see that "Lin'an Information" is the most popular, whether it is writing or sales, it overshadows other tabloids, why not use them, as long as you can get things done and make more money!" Chen Yizhong said with a slight reproach.

"Xianggong, it's not that we are reluctant to pay, do you know who runs "Lin'an Information"?" Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong glanced at each other and smiled bitterly.

"Who is it? Could it be that he is still a person in the middle of the court! Chen Yizhong was a little puzzled.

"That's the little emperor's property, and it's those people in the Hanlin Academy who are in charge, there are a lot of talents there, how can others be opponents?" Yao Liangchen shook his head helplessly.

"But it's in the same vein as the "Qiongzhou Information"?" Chen Yizhong asked.

"Exactly, Xianggong also knows!" Yao Liangchen nodded.

"Well, this "Qiongzhou Information" has merchants who come and go to Champa to bring it to Champong, and the remnants of our dynasty who take refuge there will often buy it back at a great expense, in order to get the news of the Xingzhou dynasty!" Chen Yizhong nodded and said, "With it, it's like having countless mouths, you can say that the white is black, and whoever wants to destroy it doesn't have to do anything at all, and the scolding will also be angry!" ”

"That's, that's it, we finally moved public opinion, but we were stirred up by the Tartars again, and they won't be the end if they come a few days late!" Wei Tianzhong said bitterly, "Now the Tartar Chen Bing Taixing is close to Lin'an, and now it is publicized by one of them, not only are the people very active in joining the army, but the students of Guozijian have to put pen to paper and follow Rong, and even the soldiers who have entered Beijing to prepare for the exam have also applied for the army, which is simply a mess of the system." ”

"Alas, it was I who underestimated the little emperor, and the fact that he could react so quickly also shows that he is not sick at all, and even hides in Beijing!" Chen Yizhong sighed lightly and said, he prides himself on being old and spicy, but he was defeated by a child again, and he is still extremely unhappy in his heart.

"It's unlikely, the official documents sent by Zhongshu Province to Wuhu should be issued once a day according to the usual practice, but at present, it is issued once every five days, which shows that the little emperor is no longer able to take care of government affairs and can only deal with some urgent affairs. And I have also tried it, there is only a monogram on the palindrome, but the annotation is not his handwriting, it should be a fake hand, it should not be fake. In addition, if there is a war, it will always come to the front of the battle, and the spies we arranged did not find that the imperial boat moved, but was still moored on the Wuhu Inner Harbor wharf, and only Zhang Shijie went to command the army. Yao Liangchen shook his head and said.

"Sizzle...... He's not going to see through our plans, is he? Chen Yizhong still didn't believe it, and didn't give up his doubts.

"What's the plan?" Wei Tianzhong asked anxiously.

"Now it's okay to tell you." Chen Yizhong knew that he was speechless, drank a sip of water and was silent for a moment and said, "I left Zhancheng last year, because I had a gap with the little emperor, I did not return to the court, but returned to my hometown......"

Don't look at what Chen Yizhong is saying now, but in fact, there are words of suffering. At that time, he led the army out of Zhancheng in the name of exploring the road, and he began to think well, Zhancheng has always been a subject country of the Great Song Dynasty, and often sent envoys to pay tribute, and the relationship between the two countries is close, but that is already in the past. For their arrival, people do not welcome it, think about the fact that you came with hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of soldiers to conquer the city, so they were disarmed and allowed to go ashore and guarded separately, but in fact they have been controlled.

At this point, Chen Yizhong also realized that let alone borrowing troops, he couldn't even see the face of the king of Zhancheng. He then heard that Emperor Jingyan died of illness, and the ministers supported King Wei as the emperor, and then defeated Zhang Hongfan in Yashan, and moved to Qiongzhou to settle down. But he understood that King Wei was not so easy to fool as Emperor Jingyan, and he was at odds with him, and there were many conflicts, plus he ran away and did not return, and there was no good fruit to eat when he returned, so he stayed in Zhancheng.

If it hadn't been for Meng Yuan's attack on Zhancheng, Chen Yizhong might have settled here, but after the outbreak of the war, everything was disrupted, he and his entourage were all incorporated into the army, and even he himself had to put on armor and go into battle, and the result was still a big defeat. The Mongols also heard that the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty was here, and asked for the occupation of the city to hand over people, which made him panic, and later although the Mongol army retreated, he did not dare to stay anymore, and traveled to the southeast countries.

The turbulent life made Chen Yizhong more and more homesick, and the belongings he brought back then would be exhausted, so he sneaked back to his hometown and got in touch with his former colleague Liu Mengyan, hoping to get shelter. But not long after, the Song army began the Northern Expedition, quickly occupied the entire Jiangnan, and began to hunt down the former traitors and helpers of the enemy, and the end was extremely tragic. He also realized that as long as the little emperor was in power, he could be caught at any time, and if he wanted to survive, he had to either leave overseas again, or he had to return to power.

The family couldn't stay, so Chen Yizhong began to contact the old officials who were in a similar situation to him, and after the Xingchao moved to Lin'an, he followed into Beijing, and contacted his cronies back then.

With the addition of Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong, the strength has been strengthened, and the suffering is that there are no martial artists to support their 'great plan', Chen Yizhong knows that it is difficult to oust the little emperor from the throne without the support of force, and he has to try to achieve his goal with the help of external forces. At this time, Liu Mengyan sent a letter, saying that Meng Yuannan was the Empress Dowager who intended to negotiate peace, hoping that he could mediate.

Chen Yizhong was overjoyed, he knew that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were unwilling to go on the Northern Expedition, and Jiangnan had just been recovered, and it was the time when the people's hearts were dead, and he felt that the people's hearts were available. At this moment, the position of Meng Yuan Khan is undecided, and he is still under the competition, and the real gold has no time to look south; Empress Nanbi sat in the capital and listened to the government, and in the face of the overwhelming attack of the Song army, she made a mistake, so that she lost Jiangnan.

The Mengyuan court implemented the principle of "poor extreme south of the Yangtze River, rich and rich in the north", and the northern part of the Yangtze River basically became the pastures of the Mongols, and agriculture was greatly damaged, so that it was impossible to implement self-sufficiency, and all the money and grain were supplied by the south. Now that the Jiangnan financial endowment has not been delivered for only one year, their finances are extremely tight, and they have lost the subsidies of the imperial court, and the military rations have become a problem.

In fact, according to the tradition of the Mongols, they have always regarded the Han land as the object of plunder, and they do not care about gains and losses, they only want wealth. So some people were on the side to send troops to retake Jiangnan, it is better to let the Song Dynasty imitate the example of Goryeo, let them become their own vassals, and pay tribute every year, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone. So he sent the former prime minister of the Song Dynasty to stay in Mengyan to match, and found Chen Yizhong, and the two hit it off, and he wanted to take the opportunity to provoke the government and return to the court himself.

Chen Yizhong originally planned to let the Mongolian army send troops to Taixing to make a gesture of attacking Jiangnan, so as to cooperate with his propaganda, so as to logically reach a peace. didn't expect it to be self-defeating, but let the little emperor take the opportunity to fight back and completely disrupt his plan, but he couldn't take the responsibility on himself at the moment, so he pushed it onto Meng Yuan, only saying that he had left Mengyan and not forgotten his old dynasty, and wanted to promote peace to keep half of the country south of the Yangtze River......

"Okay, with the cooperation of the photo, great things can be done!" Yao Liangchen clapped his hands and applauded.

"But with the character of the little emperor, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make peace." Wei Tianzhong was not optimistic.

"Not necessarily, now the little emperor is just that, and the military affairs still need the approval of the Queen Mother, as long as we convince the Queen Mother, we don't have to worry about the big thing!" Yao Liangchen waved his hand.

"Well, what Zhide said is reasonable." Chen Yizhong said, "At the moment, we should send a letter to the Queen Mother as soon as possible, explaining that it is powerful, and then let the Queen Mother appoint the appointment of the envoy, not afraid that the little emperor will dare to disobey Yi's decree!" ”

"The Queen Mother has been ignoring political affairs for many years, and it is the little emperor who has the final say, if the Queen Mother does not obey, what can we do?" Wei Tianzhong said.

"At that time, I supported their mother-son system, and naturally there was a way to abolish them, don't forget that they have abolished Empress Dowager Xie and Emperor Deyou, except for the clan, they have naturally lost their orthodoxy." Chen Yizhong pursed the corners of his mouth and said contemptuously, as if he abolished an emperor was just a matter of holding a handle.

"Well, what the Xianggong said is that if there was no Xianggong to support him back then, how could he be the queen mother if he was just a concubine!" Yao Liangchen said, "That Empress Dowager Yang has never liked to participate in political affairs, and she has no ideas, in the past, she always followed the opinions of the minister, as long as she got rid of the little emperor, she would have no support, so why worry about big things!" ”

"That's right, I'm going to find someone to jointly write a letter to recommend the prime minister as an important military matter for Pingzhang and preside over the peace meeting!" Wei Tianzhong said.

"How can I take on this heavy responsibility, and this matter will be slowed down, and we will discuss how to reach a peace first. In addition, there are more and more people who defect to us, and they consume a lot, and we have to bother the two of you to try to raise some of them! Chen Yizhong said that it was not that he didn't want to return to the court, but that it was not the time yet, and he should show up later, so as not to startle the snake.

"This ......"

"Isn't it difficult? One of you is a secretary of the household department and a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the money you use every day is tens of thousands, and you can't raise more than 100,000 yuan? Seeing the two of them looking embarrassed, Chen Yizhong said unhappily......