The first battle between Zhu Jun's army and Qiu Jingzhong's army ended in a crushing defeat for Zhu's army.

Zhang Ting'an's 10,000 cavalry were all wiped out, Zhang Ting'an fell off his horse with an arrow, was trampled by a chaotic horse and died, although the 10,000 ambush army also paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties, but they still won a big victory and captured more than 3,000 war horses.

Wang Zhongmou's army was also ambushed by Qiu Jingzhong personally led 30,000 troops, Wang Zhongmou's army was defeated, and finally fled to the northwest with more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, Qiu Jingzhong's army killed more than 5,000 enemies and collected more than 9,000 surrendered soldiers.

In this battle, Bao Taowei's 60,000 army lost 25,000 people, and Wang Zhongmou led 35,000 defeated troops to withdraw from Songzhou and retreated to Chenliu County, Bianzhou.

At the same time, Zhang Yun, the chief general of the Jin army in Yuzhou, led 20,000 troops north and occupied Chenzhou, Xuzhou and Ruzhou, which were ungarrisoned, while Li Bing sent the general Zheng Yannian to lead 10,000 troops to occupy Puzhou.

At this time, Zhu Jun's territory was only Cao, Bian, Hua, Zheng Sizhou and Henan Mansion, while Qiu Jingzhong led an army of 50,000 to kill Bianzhou and force Chenliu County.

When Zhu Jun got the news, he immediately cried loudly, and wanted to commit suicide by swinging his sword, but was stopped by more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids, and Wang Xianzhong hurriedly sent people to invite Liu Sigu and Xiao Wanding into the palace.

Liu Sigu hurriedly entered the palace and met the general Xiao Wanding in front of the Hanguang Palace, Liu Sigu asked anxiously: "General, what happened?" ”

"It seems that I heard that Wang Zhongmou was defeated in Songzhou, Zhang Tingan was killed, and the 10,000 cavalry were wiped out, and Wang Zhongmou lost nearly half of his troops and retreated to Chenliu County."

"For this matter, the Son of Heaven is going to seek death and life?" Liu Sigu asked puzzled.

"It seems that the Jin army also took the opportunity to occupy a lot of territory, I heard that Puzhou was lost, and Chenzhou, Xuzhou and Ruzhou in the south were lost."

Liu Sigu was dumbfounded when he heard this, without these four states, what would hundreds of thousands of troops feed themselves?

Liu Sigu walked into the hall with a heavy heart, Wang Xianzhong was persuading Zhu Zhu, Zhu Zhu was sitting on the dragon chair, his head leaning on the back of the chair and panting, and a eunuch whispered: "The military advisor and the general are here!" ”

Zhu Jun opened his eyes suddenly, struggled to sit up, grabbed Liu Sigu's hand, and cried again, "Military advisor, my country is going to perish." ”

"Your Majesty, please don't be impatient, there is still room for redemption!"

"What room for redemption is there?" Zhu Jun suddenly stopped crying, blinked his little eyes, and looked expectant.

What hope is there now? Liu Sigu sighed secretly in his heart, in the past, Guo Song implemented the strategy of destroying the outside of the circle first and attacking the circle inside, leaving Zhu Zhu unmoved, but now with the unification of all parts of the world, Guo Song finally began to act against Zhu Zhu, it can be said that Zhu Zhu has gone.

I think so, but Liu Sigu still has to comfort Zhu Jun, "Your Majesty, the top priority now is to exterminate Qiu Jingzhong, although the Song Zhou army was defeated, but this is not a big problem, Weichen thinks that it is still Zhang Ting'an's own problem, as long as we learn a lesson, Weichen believes that Qiu Jingzhong is not terrible, we are very clear about the strength of his Flying Bear Army, we are afraid that the Jin army will interfere, Your Majesty, Weichen suggested to Guo Song to ask for peace, and begged him not to interfere in our battle to calm the chaos." ”

"I ..... What sum? Zhu Jun knew in his heart that he had nothing now, so what to exchange with Guo Song.

"Your Majesty, in fact, we still have something to exchange with Guo Song, has Your Majesty forgotten the batch of supplies in Dongluocang?"

East Luocang is the largest official warehouse in Luoyang, when An Lushan called the emperor in Luoyang, after he contributed to Chang'an, all the property in the Chang'an official warehouse and the powerful mansion were transported to Luoyang, gold and silver silk and all kinds of jewelry and silk were awarded to the generals, pig iron was also used to build weapons, but only a batch of coarse copper ingots snatched from the warehouse of Chang'an Shaofu Temple have not moved.

This batch of blister copper ingots has millions of catties, because of the large size, the smelting is more troublesome, has been retained to this day, not long ago Zhu Zhu still inspected, it was covered with green rust, Zhu Zhu wanted to donate to the temple to build a Buddha statue, but was stopped by Liu Sigu.

"You mean the copper ingots?" Zhu Jun remembered the batch of copper ingots.

"Exactly!"

"It's only a few million catties, isn't there too little copper ingot?"

"Your Majesty, there are at least five million catties, which is already a lot, and you can mint 800,000 yuan!"

"That pie..... Who will negotiate? ”

"Naturally, it is still Wang Ling, the head of the household, who was halfway through his mission last time, and now let him continue to go to Chang'an."

Zhu Jun sighed, "Will this be useful?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have to give it a try, as long as we are sincere, it should have some effect."

Zhu Jun nodded, "I understand, when I reach an agreement with Guo Song, I want to personally conquer the traitor, I can't do it, I can't destroy him!" ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Liu Sigu's words are not flattery, but heartfelt words, the factional struggle in the army is very powerful, this time Wang Zhongmou's defeat is related to the factional struggle, he can't suppress Zhang Ting'an, if he increases the troops, it will be either Qianniuwei or Tiger Benwei, Wang Zhongmou still can't suppress it, so it is the most suitable to drive the expedition in person, I believe Zhu Jun also saw this.

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Guo Song is also concerned about the war in the Central Plains, and at the same time he is more concerned about the refugees who fled the war, and now the refugees who have fled to Yanzhou and Bozhou have exceeded one million, not only the refugees in Songzhou, but also a large number of people in Bianzhou and Xuzhou.

In the staff room, Pan Liao and Du You were negotiating with Guo Song about the refugees, Pan Liao pointed to Xuzhou and said: "We got the news that among the refugees who fled to Yanzhou, there were many refugees from Xuzhou, they were not because of the war, but because of the exploitation of heavy taxes. ”

Du You also said: "Zhu Zhu is very ruthless in collecting taxes, he is not taxed according to the harvest of the year, but chooses a year with the best harvest to determine the tax amount, for example, last year's wind and rain were smooth, there was no disaster, Shangtian harvested three stones of wheat per mu, Zhu Zhu used this as a standard, one stone per mu of tax, as a result, this year encountered a spring drought, only two stones of wheat per mu of harvest, and the result of the tax became fifty percent, and the tenants had to pay rent to the owner, they were even more miserable, and now Qiu Jingzhong raised taxes again, they really couldn't live. ”

Pan Liao sighed and said: "I read Wang Qinian's report, he said that many refugees don't bring much food, and it is still a summer harvest, which is only enough to eat for a few months at most, and they can only rely on planting some beans to satisfy their hunger in the second half of the year, and now Weichen is worried that after a few months of war, it will be too late to plant beans, how can they live?" ”

Guo Song took a few steps and asked, "Everyone has this problem?" ”

"It's the same!"

Pan Liao said: "The farmers in the countryside rely on farming, and the people in the county rely on small odd jobs and small businesses to live, and they can't stop, Weichen feels that it is not difficult to solve their later survival problems, we need manpower in many places, especially like mines, a mine needs tens of thousands of people, which can completely solve their worries." ”

"There is also the construction of water conservancy and the management of rivers!"

Du You next to him smiled: "For the people of Songzhou, of course, it is the most suitable for them to dredge the Bianhe River, since the dredging of Cao Yun in the Kaiyuan period, there are signs of silting up in the river, just organize large-scale dredging of labor, in addition, the construction of textile workshops can absorb some young female workers, in fact, the meaning of Weichen, the establishment of a special official office to manage this matter, the problem is not very big." ”

"What's going on now? I mean, what did you find for the young refugees? Guo Song asked.

"Now it's handled well, Yanzhou is digging irrigation canals and planting black beans, and Bozhou is similar, also harvesting timber, building roads and bridges, Wang Yu and Wang Jinnian are very capable."

When Pan Liao said this, he saw that Guo Song was still a little brows, so he asked, "What is Your Highness worried about?" ”

Guo Song sighed softly and said: "I thought that there would be hundreds of thousands of people at most, but I didn't expect it to be more than one million now, thinking that I would have to take care of them until next summer, the burden on the imperial court is too heavy, if it is allowed to develop, it will cause chaos in the entire Central Plains, and the imperial court will be overwhelmed, I think we must take practical measures to reduce the pressure of the follow-up refugees!" ”

Pan Liao and Du You glanced at each other, and Pan Liao asked, "What does Your Highness plan to do?" ”

Guo Song picked up the wooden pole and pointed to Xuzhou: "Take Xuzhou,

"Your Highness doesn't plan to support Qiu Jingzhong?"

Guo Song said lightly: "When will I support him, just use him to weaken Zhu Zhu, he has now defeated Wang Zhongmou, and he is in the limelight, it's time to suppress him, not to mention that he oppresses the people so much, I don't do anything to clean him up, and the people of the world still think that I am a party with him." ”

As he was talking, a guard reported at the door: "Your Highness Qiqi, Honglu Temple is here to report, Zhu Zhu's messenger has arrived!" ”