In the past few days of summer, Emperor Zhao Ji has heard too much bad news, so much that he quickly turned from anger to numbness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

From Jiangnan to Shandong, dozens of state capitals along the coast and coastal waters were all easily destroyed, officials were all wiped out, and the population and property were even plundered.

The outbreak of the Halal Mountain Copper Mine was huge, and the war was nearly thousands of miles, causing equally great harm and social unrest.

There are also Liao Kou and the Western Xia army who also came to take advantage of the fire to rob.......

Compared with these disasters, the thieves in Qingzhou were defeated, the commander of the soldiers and horses, Qin Ming, the capital supervisor Huang Xin, threw himself into the thieves together, and the thieves in Erlong Mountain became more and more difficult to govern, which is nothing.

Fortunately, Wang Qing, the anti-thief Wang Qing in Huaixi, and Tianhu in Hebei failed to add fuel to the fire, and they were busy implementing "benevolent government" to appease the people in the secession areas and prohibit them from following rogues or pirates to flee overseas.

If it weren't for the loyal and brave Gao Aiqing who led the Beijing army to vigorously eliminate the smugglers and thieves and traitors who took the opportunity to cooperate with the pirate rebellion, bravely pursued and killed the pirates, won many battles, and reported frequent good news, not only effectively eliminated the huge hidden dangers hidden in the Jianghuai and Shandong regions of the Great Song Dynasty, but also constantly hit the pirates who dared to land and loot, chased the pirates and fled, and could only rely on the ships to facilitate guerrilla looting, killing the arrogance of the pirates, and also seizing a large amount of money and grain, so that the imperial court had the financial resources to deal with the difficulties, Zhao Ji felt that the Great Song Dynasty was not going to be protected.

With the comparison, it is actually worse than bad, Zheng Juzhong is still able to protect the city under the double attack of the two strong thieves of Liao Kou and pirates, this is not a crime but a merit, which shows that his ability is very outstanding, and the civil and military talents can be reused, this should be rewarded, encouraged, and set up as a model of loyalty and ability, not punishment.

What made Zhao Ji happy was that the foundation of his hometown that the Cangzhao family relied on was finally finished this time.

I really responded to that sentence: God is jealous of talents.

The powerful Cangzhao was really devastated this time.

Not only was the wealth accumulated over the years completely lost to the robbers, it became a problem to eat on the farm, the survivors did not even have to replace their dirty and tattered clothes after the war, and even the most important equipment and technical personnel who could recreate wealth were destroyed or robbed by the Liao Kou and pirates.

Without the support of the most fundamental cash cow, it is impossible for the Cangzhao family to regain its wealth, let alone to attract talents with wealth to become strong again.

This is a fatal blow to the material basis of wealth.

The Cangzhao family also suffered heavy losses in manpower.

Zhuang Ding Xiangyong's army, which fought against the Liao Kou to defend the foundation of Zhao Zhuang, has lost very little at this time, not to mention the other castle tenants who extensively protect the Cangzhao family, even whether they can protect Zhao Zhuang itself is a question.

The foundation of Zhao Zhuang's armed forces was formed by the Zhuang households following the Cangzhao family to bravely resist Liao and protect themselves from generation to generation, and after a long period of brutal war, they were tempered and eliminated, highly united, loyal and brave and good at fighting. This force of old households, which has a large number of people, even the imperial court does not dare to underestimate it easily, is finally ruined, leaving the Cangzhao family without the most reliable manpower to rely on. And there is no Cangzhou government in his eyes, he doesn't listen to the local government, and the Cangzhou people who only believe in and support the Cangzhao family are almost all gone this time.

The Cangzhao family itself also suffered a miserable loss, and the people died tragically as soon as they showed their prosperity.

Zhao Ji also knows very well that Zhao Gonglian only has three wives and concubines.

This time, Zhao Gonglian's wife, who helped take care of the family business and was responsible for filial piety in his hometown, the little wife who was pregnant and raised a baby in his hometown, and the children born to the second daughter suffered tragically with their elders. Only the second lady, who is said to have been born with low self-esteem and never went out and couldn't take care of it, stayed by her husband's side with her only child and survived.

The Cangzhao family died at this time, and there were only three adults left who resisted, and one of them was still a fateful but old and useless old lady.

The other is a younger brother who is much younger than Zhao Gonglian and is very loved and maintained by Zhao Gonglian with the attitude of a father and brother.

Emperor Zhao Ji also knew that Zhao Yue was a well-known reckless young man who relied on the authority of his father and brother to fool around and was spoiled, and he had always been trapped by the Cangzhao family in the barren water depression in Liangshan that isolated from the outside world, saying that he was helping the family manage an industry and do something, but in fact it was just to reduce the wanton trouble of this baby. It's useless too.

Without wealth and manpower, the potential foundation for rebellion of the Cangzhao family does not exist.

The imperial court no longer has to worry about this possibility.

The Cangzhao family, which was once powerful and important in the Great Song Dynasty, was hit by this, completely cutting off the potential for revival, and now only Zhao Gonglian is left to support it alone.

And everything about Zhao Gonglian was given by the imperial court.

The court didn't give it, Zhao Gonglian had no official and no power, and he was nothing, no matter how smart and capable he was.

Zhao Ji felt that he had completely mastered Zhao Gonglian's good knife, and he used it if he wanted to, and if he didn't want to use it, he could make Cangzhao turn into smoke in minutes with one look.

At this time, the twists and turns jointly reported by the generals of Gaoyangguan Road, and the twists and turns of Zhao Gonglian's application to go home to the official home also arrived.

The former reported that tens of thousands of Liao Kou gathered by the Liao people and Liao troops attacked the border passes with a huge force and entered the interior. There were also pirates who raided from Cangzhou and slaughtered into Hejian Province, destroying them from the inside, and the most terrifying thing was that long-range weapons were unstoppable. Under the frenzied attack and looting of the two bandits inside and outside, the army of Gaoyang Guanlu fought bravely day and night to defend the country, tired of running for their lives, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce and miserable. It's a pity that the prefectures and counties are all broken, the prefect of the king and the chief of soldiers and horses are not in the city, the commanders of the various ministries have also died, the army has no leader, and the unified command has been lost, and the middle and lower-level officers such as the last general have the responsibility to guard the border, so they can only continue to fight to the end, and the 100,000 army was reduced to only more than 30,000 points (the border army saw that the pirates were killing in Mozhou like a bamboo, and there were enthusiastic and loyal people who took refuge in the pirates, and the more than 40,000 when Zhao Yue left dropped to 30,000 again), but also killed and injured no less than 100,000 Liao Kou and pirates, and the blood flowed like a river, Hit hard and finally repelled the two thieves, my middle and lower rank officers also suffered heavy casualties, only the last general and so on luckily survived, because of the worry of the safety of the border pass, anxious to report to the court to arrange earlier, so helpless to ignore the humble status of the joint play, begging for the Holy Judge.

The officers who played the joint name were able to live to continue to guard the border passes for the Great Song Dynasty, which was not killed by Zhao Yue when he saw that he was foolish and loyal to the Great Song Dynasty but brave or brave although he was greedy.

It is not yet the time for the fall of the Great Song Dynasty.

It can't completely collapse the Gaoyangguan Roadside Army, and the Liao State is cheap.

It is more conducive to defending the border passes to eradicate those rotten officials who can only make money and gain merit and bad deeds that are difficult for the border army to solve on its own, and to retain at least those officers and soldiers who dare to fight as the backbone.

Although most of the joint officers are vulgar and unliterate middle-level martial artists in the border passes, there is no lack of official art, and the failure to report the responsibility of the prefect's sabotage is to avoid provoking the emperor's own family, King Anqing and the powerful people in the court, and the dead generals and lost soldiers are not truthfully reported by pirates, which is to avoid the hidden danger of the imperial court and even they are suspicious of fornicating with pirates but continue to mix with the Song army. It is said that all losses are the result of fighting the enemy, so as to conform to the hearts and minds of the powerful in the court and the taste of the emperor, and it is convenient to pass the buck and reap the credit.

Such a war report, the thieves in the DPRK and China did not dare to withhold the twists and turns to conceal it.

The town commander and the army had to be ordered by the emperor to rearrange it. I can't hide it if I want to.

Zhao Ji hurriedly read it, only to feel frightened and dizzy.

Unexpectedly, the Gaoyangguan Roadside Army and the heavily guarded Hejian Mansion also suffered heavy losses.

Zhao Ji relieved himself under the frightened service of Liang Shicheng's official family, and was anxious to see Zhao Gonglian's excerpt.

Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou are finished, and he is now anxious and more concerned about the situation in Cangbei, and what kind of mental attitude Zhao Gonglian, who is in trouble for his family, at this time.

If the Cangbei Army also suffered heavy losses, then the defense system of the entire Northeast would be broken. If the Liao army gathers troops and quickly moves south to retaliate, the Great Song Dynasty will be in danger.

Zhao Gonglian seemed to know Zhao Ji's mood at this time, and said in the middle of the compromise: The capitals and counties of the four armies in Cangbei are safe, and the soldiers and civilians join forces to kill the enemy and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, and the loss of people and property is slight. The Liao thief can't help Cangbei, please rest assured.

Zhao Ji disregarded the emperor's system, directly wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeve, breathed a long sigh of relief, and hurriedly looked at the military information reported by the Xin'an Army, the Qianning Army, and Jizhou separately, as well as the secret folds reported by the civil and military officials placed in Qingzhou.

It is true that the four military states in Cangbei can have such results, and it is true that the military and the people are united and cooperative, and they are fighting bravely, but they are not so capable of fighting.

Zhao Gonglian used the excuse to absorb the vast majority of the elite of the Cangbei Army, leaving some grassroots backbones, and supplementing the training of reserve recruits, the quality of the army is not strong, but the soldiers have the passion to kill the enemy, the equipment has been strengthened on the basis of the Song Army, the generals are excellent, and the army has a certain combat effectiveness.

The main reason is that Liao's strategy for Cangbei this time made a miscalculation.

Attack the Cangbei border pass with heavy troops, contain and attack the Cangbei army, but did not focus on the impact on the interior of Cangbei, and only let the Liao people who participated in the robbery rely on horses and scimitars in groups with a small number of border troops to enter the interior to plunder. The bet is on Han Chang's army. The plan was that after Han Chang destroyed Zhao Zhuang, he would raid north from Cangzhou, and attack the Cangbei army from within the Great Song Dynasty by surprise and unable to take into account both inside and outside, so as to disintegrate the Cangbei defense line and eliminate the Cangbei army that returned to the interior with cavalry superiority, and the most important thing was to wait for the opportunity to kill Zhao Gonglian.

As long as Zhao Gonglian is killed, it will be a victory.

As a result, Han Chang kicked the iron plate in Zhaozhuang, and he couldn't win as quickly as he imagined, and he also annihilated the whole army, cutting off the internal and external flanking tactics.

The Liao army attacked Zhao Gonglian's focus on strengthening the fortified and dangerous border fortress checkpoints, and it was difficult to break through with heavy corpses, so angry that he could only stare and dry his eyes.

The Liao people who entered the interior were even more unlucky, full of confidence and wild greed, but they encountered the courage of the villagers of Lianzhuang to protect themselves fiercely with strong cities and complete weapons, where can they easily gnaw? There are also those who are waiting for the Cangbei cavalry in the mainland to clean up their encirclement and interception.

These cavalry are mainly new soldiers, and their riding skills are not as good as those of the Liao, but they are well-equipped, the armor is solid, there are strong generals to lead and effectively command, and there are more people everywhere to support and ventilate the news, everywhere there are villages and castles to actively provide safe and good rest and food, good mood, mental and physical strength, flexible and accurate attacks, clean up the east and west and run blindly, worry about being raided day and night, worry about luck, bow and arrow, and lack of armor protection and effective command and dispatch of the Liao rabble is not a problem.

Zhao Ji put his mind at ease, and looked back at what Zhao Gonglian said below.

As a result, Zhao Gonglian, who has always only cared about his own hard work, never easily competed for power and profit with others, and did not interfere with how others became officials, and finally opened fire this time.

Zhao Gonglian angrily reprimanded Zheng Juzhong, the prefect of Cangzhou, for his dereliction of duty in guarding the border, and even angrily scolded the Gaoyang Pass Road Observation for making the Wang Governor incompetent to the extent of waste, and there were 100,000 troops under his command that could withstand a war, but not only did he not send troops to support Cangzhou, which was the focus of the Liao Kou's attack, but also did not hold Yingzhou, and repeatedly called the police at the border pass to urge the transfer of troops to reinforce the border pass, and also left the 30,000 most elite Gaoyang Pass Road army by his side, saying that he was guarding the interior but was not allowed to go out of the city to block the Liao Kou who had little combat effectiveness with the Liao people as the main body. Greedy for life and afraid of death, he cares about the country's grace in vain, and cooperates with the Liao Kou to rob, I really don't know if he is an official of the Great Song Dynasty or a loyal minister of the Liao State. It's ridiculous, hateful, and sad that he didn't even save himself, and the city of Hejian Mansion was broken.

scolded the two angrily, and Zhao Gonglian accused Cai Jing of how to be the minister of state, how to govern the country on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and why pirates were rampant to such an extent.......

Zhao Ji clearly felt the boundless grief and anger caused by Zhao Gonglian's family suffering from the words between the lines, and he could also see that Zhao Gonglian did not indirectly allude to his incompetence in governing the country as an emperor. He understood Zhao Gonglian's feelings, but he felt that the emperor's dignity was desecrated, and he ignored his merits, so he was furious and angry.

As a man, if you can't protect your family, how can you protect the country?

Zhao Gonglian used this concluding sentence to ask the emperor to dismiss the official and let him return to his hometown, indicating that he was implicitly disappointed in the imperial court, and had the idea of retreating, wanting Ding Wei to leave the officialdom.

Zhao Ji sneered angrily: A good family is more important than me! I am the Son of Heaven, I am the Father, the whole world is mine, your family is mine, all the land and wealth are mine, even your life is mine, do you want to sell it without working for me?

He is a faint king, but he also knows that in this extremely critical period of internal and external troubles, no one can lack Zhao Gonglian to guard Cangbei, and he must not let him go home to guard his filial piety.

Order, win affection, and don't worry about it.

Of course, you can't say it so coldly and domineeringly, you can't reveal that you don't want to be loyal to the emperor and you have to honestly give priority to me, you can speak warmly, show understanding and generosity of the emperor's mind, put the righteousness and the overall situation, at this time when the country is in crisis, Aiqing wants to worry about the worries of the world first, and enjoy the joy of the world after the world, and temporarily put aside family affairs to contribute to the people of the Great Song Dynasty........

kidnapped and blackmailed Zhao Gonglian with morality and righteousness, and had to give in.

To put it bluntly, it is just a ruthless, selfish and domineering imperial trick, and it is also a typical art of self-respecting officialdom.