Although a group of people in the court did not go to Wuhu in person, Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong still sent a letter signed by more than ten people, asking the empress dowager to return to Beijing to preside over government affairs. Zhao Yu looked at it and agreed, and ordered Ying Jieyan and Liu Huang to return to Beijing with him, and at the same time ordered He Rende to accompany him as the pacification envoy of Fujian. Zhao Heluo, the former envoy of Qiongzhou, was transferred to Huguang as the pacification envoy of Huguang, and Jiang Ke was promoted to the envoy of Qiongzhou, and he went to his post immediately. In addition, Lu Hideo went to Fuzhou to meet him, and Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie were temporarily in charge of military and political affairs.

Soon after the holy decree was transmitted back to the imperial court, the already undercurrent of Lin'an City immediately stirred, and Zhao Yu's case was quickly piled up. Most of them are private greetings, but in addition to routine medical greetings, there are also many private goods, which mostly express worries about the situation in the imperial court, and hope that His Majesty will return to the court as soon as possible to preside over state affairs, so as to stabilize the situation in the court and prevent misdeeds.

Zhao Yu was very pleased to see them one by one, which shows that his years of 'training' for them have not been in vain, and he knows which end of the kang is hot and which is cold at the critical moment, and he also knows how to ventilate himself. And he also found that many of them were middle- and low-level officials in the DPRK, which also showed that he not only had a solid position among high-ranking officials, but also had many supporters at the lower levels, and it was by no means easy to overturn the world.

However, Chen Yizhong and others are also rebuilding Zhao Mengqi's 'tall' image, saying that his stupidity is not stupid, but wise and foolish...... Zhao Yu thought about it, except that this product did not betray the enemy, there was really nothing to be desired, and the reason why Chen Yi and others chose it was also to facilitate control.

However, Zhao Yu also felt that this product was wronged enough, and he was involved in the battle for imperial power for no reason, although his life was more difficult in the past, he would not take his life. At the moment, he lives in a big house, eats and drinks spicy food every day, and the slaves and maids are like clouds, and it is said that he also sent a few singers, and now he is very beautiful every day, and he doesn't know that this is all intestinal poison, and now it's too late to pull out his legs.

"Hey, how did these tabloids change the direction of the wind?" Driven by Zhao Hao, the people around him have developed the habit of reading the newspaper, Su Lan suddenly said.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" There are dozens of newspapers sent to Zhao Yu's case every day, and it is impossible for him to read them one by one, and he just picks up some influential tabloids to read, and when he heard Su Lan's surprise, he turned his face and asked.

"Official, there were only a few tabloids two days ago that after recovering Jiangnan, they could not fight again, and they should be ruled by crossing the river with Meng Yuan. But today there are more than a dozen copies, and the slave and maid think it's very strange! Su Lan replied.

"Show me!" Zhao Hao frowned, this is a new trend in the class struggle, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is his next goal, but how can someone take the first step before he takes action.

"Official, look!" Su Lan quickly sorted out the tabloids around her and presented them, "These are all blunt about the harm of the Northern Expedition, and these few seem to be rebuttals and talk about the importance of the Northern Expedition, but under the details, they actually want to take advantage of the failure of the previous Northern Expeditions of our dynasty, implying that they have wasted state and people's wealth in vain but have achieved nothing, and finally the national strength is exhausted and destroyed by Meng Yuan." ”

"Oh, what do they want to do when they sing and harmonize, black and white?" Zhao Hao took the newspaper and scratched his scalp. Then he carefully flipped through them one by one, and it took him more than half an hour to think about the dozen or so articles while reading, and found that these newspapers were not tabloids with a large circulation, and the authors were all unknown figures, of course, it was not excluded that they were anonymous. But the writing is very sharp, and it has a strong inflammatory nature, in his opinion, it is not an angry youth, it should be an old pen.

"Did the officials find anything?" Su Lan saw that His Majesty put down the newspaper, hurriedly stepped forward to change the tea in his cup, and asked casually.

"Sister Su, you are proficient in poetry and songs, can you find anything from the style?" Zhao Hao smacked his tea and asked.

"The official family is making fun of the slave again!" Su Lan blushed and said angrily.

"I have no such intention, I have studied for more than ten years, and I still can't make a decent poem, but my sister can chant it casually, isn't it proficient in two words compared to me!" Zhao Yu waved his hand again and again. What he is most afraid of now is not to go to the battlefield, but the most reluctant to sit with those soldiers, they are one by one, they can recite a poem in the blink of an eye, and let him give a comment, at that time he was embarrassed and wanted to find a crack to get in and hide. Therefore, those who can write poetry are all talented people in his eyes.

"Official, in the shallow view of slaves and maids, these articles are written by at least four people." Su Lan divided the newspaper into four parts and said, "Official, this article should be written by an old and frustrated scholar, probably because he failed to win the imperial examination many times, so the article is full of resentment, but there is a sense of twilight; This article has an official atmosphere, and the writing is old and spicy, this person should be an old official, and many years of habits inevitably bring it to the article; And this article should be the hand of a scholar who has studied hard for many years but is frustrated, the article is decent, but it can have the meaning of ambition is not rewarded, obviously has not stepped into the officialdom, has not been trained; This person is not simple, the article is not only official, but also condescending, at least he has been a state official. ”

"Sister is amazing!" Zhao Yu listened to his comments and gave a thumbs up.

"The slave has thanked the official for the compliment!" Su Lan couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and pretended to be a serious Shi Lidao, but she couldn't hold it back first, and laughed out loud.

"It's strange that these people have different identities and write articles on the same topic at the same time!" Zhao Hao put away the joke and tapped the table a few times.

"Official, didn't they write it right?" Su Lan asked.

"They write well, but it's not appropriate to write it at this time!" Zhao Yu frowned.

After the Jingkang Revolution, the Song dynasty moved south to live in the south of the Yangtze River, and indeed several emperors shouted the Northern Expedition but did not take any action, but the Southern Song Dynasty was not unwilling to go on the Northern Expedition, on the contrary, several emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty had clearly expressed their desire for the Northern Expedition, and they had really organized several Northern Expeditions. But every time I was defeated, I lost, not only bowed my head and admitted my mistakes, but also had to accept more humiliating conditions. However, the behavior of the Southern Song Dynasty is worthy of affirmation, and the Southern Song Dynasty cannot be blamed for not being angry, in fact, they also have the ambition to subdue the Central Plains, but the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, not that they don't want to, but they really can't fight.

Especially the filial piety of the Southern Song Dynasty, he has been waiting for the sun almost all his life, looking forward to the day when the rivers and mountains will be recovered. But why is it that the motivation is so high, but in the end, it fails? To be precise: it's not that they don't want to go on the Northern Expedition, but they don't know how to go on the Northern Expedition. Without the consent of the courtiers, he bypassed the imperial court and directly ordered the march, but was defeated in Fuli and almost lost everything. This kind of willful style of play can only bury the war potential of the dynasty in vain!

Zhao Hao reviewed several Northern Expeditions during the Southern Song Dynasty, and he clearly found that compared with the gap in the strategic situation of weapons and war horses, the Southern Song Dynasty's own strategic planning ability was the biggest shortcoming. The Northern Expedition was not a slogan, and thousands of troops swept away as soon as they raised their arms. On the contrary, in ancient Chinese military history, the Northern Expedition was an absolute technical activity, which not only had a strict test of strategic planning ability, but also had rigid requirements for a dynasty's logistical supply capability and comprehensive national strength. is like the smart and almost monster Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", even if he is clever and calculating, the objective conditions cannot be met, and he still harbors hatred!

The Southern Song Dynasty faced more severe and difficult conditions for the Northern Expedition than Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Let's just say a minimum premise: weapons are needed to fight wars, and weapons must be smelted, but the iron ore of the Great Song Dynasty has been mainly concentrated in the north for more than 100 years, and with the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, almost all of them have become the pockets of the Jin people. The Southern Song Dynasty's weapon casting, output and quality were far lower than those of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In fact, this objective difficulty is only the tip of the iceberg compared to various difficulties. Especially the gap in cavalry, when the army enters the Central Plains to fight, it has to face the cavalry corps with the superiority of the Jinren. The Southern Song Dynasty, which did not produce horses, had few cavalry, and rushed across the Huai River to the Central Plains, basically facing the danger of being dumplings made by the Jin people. These difficulties are beyond imagination!

Several Northern Expeditions, but Yuan Jia was hasty, sealed the wolf Juxu, won the Northern Gu, was defeated repeatedly, and then was unable to go on the Northern Expedition. Therefore, the Northern Expedition to restore the Central Plains, for the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, can be said to be a thing that cannot be stopped, but wants to benefit and lose, and wants to talk about it.

Zhao Hao thought that the articles in those tabloids were objectively not wrong. In fact, in the later period, not only the emperors were powerless, but the people no longer supported the Northern Expedition. The reason is also very simple, the Northern Expedition requires a large amount of money, and this money must come from the people, and the people are naturally unwilling to pay this money. Even if it really fights back to the north, the north is ruined and the economy is decaying, and the south must come up with money to rebuild and subsidize the north, and the money must also come from the people of the south.

And another reason is that the Southern Song Dynasty was rich, the people lived a rich life, and who was willing to do thankless things when they were well fed and clothed, so national righteousness was important, but for the simple and realistic people, life was equally important. It's like Mexicans who dreamed of joining the United States. But the United States resolutely does not want it, and its idea is very simple, they are not crazy enough to use their own money to subsidize Mexico, and they don't want it even if they give it to the United States for nothing.

And there is a reason for Zhao Yu to say that it is inappropriate. At present, he has just recovered Jiangnan and liberated the people who have been oppressed by the Tatars for ten years, and he means to use his hatred to unite the people, cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River to the north, and recover the Central Plains. However, these people brought up the old story again, clearly inciting the people's antagonistic mood to sing against themselves, and wanted to smash his field and sabotage the plan to restore the country.

Going deeper, the four writers submitted articles to more than a dozen tabloids under different names, which in itself is very strange. The fact that several people are of different classes and who are in the same class at the same time shows that they are acting in an organized and unified manner, and they scold themselves for engaging in public debate as if they were schizophrenia, so as to give the impression that they are in two camps and that they are being manipulated.

Combined with the current situation, the answer to who is operating behind the scenes is about to come out. The reason why they did this was that they could use the sensitive topic of 'whether or not to go on the Northern Expedition' to attract people's attention to Zhao Mengqi, then the purpose of making a stink would be frustrated, after all, the new topic was more hot than repeatedly fried cold rice, and the two could cause a split in the imperial court, after all, not everyone was willing to go north to the Central Plains, so that the imperial court would be divided into hawks and doves, and once the controversy intensified, it would inevitably trigger party strife again.

The results of the analysis seem to be a bit sensational, but Zhao Yu understands that there are only a dozen tabloids hyping up this topic now, but he believes that it will not be long before it will become the hottest topic of the year under the arrangement of well-intentioned people. In addition, they chose a good choice at this time, they were sick and not in the capital, Lu Xiufu went to Fuzhou to meet the Queen Mother, Wen Tianxiang has always been radical, and he will definitely suppress the tabloids, but this method is often counterproductive and makes the topic even hotter. And once it gets out of control and arouses the participation of the whole society, things will develop in the opposite direction of their own hopes. So he thought that the opponent's trick was really fucking poisonous.

"Your Majesty, Liu Dutong asks for an audience!" Just as Zhao Yu was thinking about how to fight back, Wang De came in and said.

"Oh, let him in!" Interrupted by his train of thought, Zhao Yu frowned.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Zhixue hurried to the back hall under the guidance of Wang De and saluted.

"Sit down, pour a cup of tea for General Liu!" Zhao Yu saw that Liu Zhixue's face was covered with sweat and looked nervous, so he sat down and spoke.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, my subordinates have important things to report. Liu Zhixue sat down after giving a salute.

"Don't be in a hurry, take a sip of tea first!" Zhao Hao smiled.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates borrowed an urgent military report that Mengyuan Jiangbei Province suddenly increased its troops in Taizhou, and the forward Chen Bing Taixing seemed to have the intention of crossing the river!" Liu Zhixue said.

"Crossing the river? I'm afraid it's just a bluff, their naval forces along the river have been basically destroyed, and it is not so easy to scrape together enough boats to cross the river. Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said.

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, so is they worried that they will cross the river because they suddenly increased their troops in Taixing?" Liu Zhixue nodded when he heard this, and said with some skepticism.

"Maybe it's just a precautionary measure, maybe it's something else, and it's hard for me to judge for a while." Zhao Yu thought for a while. He did not receive a report from the Secretariat on the transfer of the Yuan army, and the Ji Yi Division of the Privy Council did not find any signs of the transfer of the Yuan army. But he didn't think it was a bad thing, but it was an opportunity to take advantage of......