In September, the autumn wind is bleak, the grass is yellow leaves, and the ground is full of hoarfrost. The Central Plains already smells the cold breath of winter, but Lingnan is still as warm as early autumn.

Xu Huiyan, who hurried back to Bianliang from Lingnan, stood outside the Wende Hall with his hands tied, the cold wind blowing on his face, but it couldn't extinguish the flames burning in his heart at all.

"Xuan Xu Huiyan is here."

"Xuan Xu Huiyan Meets ......"

Zhao Gou didn't let Xu Huiyan wait long, and after a general discussion with Zong Ze and a few people, he immediately announced Xu Huiyan in.

How so?

Zhao Gou sent Chen Yu and Xu Huiyan to Lingnan one after another to control the east and west roads of Guangnan, and the goal was Dayue in the south.

Ever since King Qin swept Liuhe and ruled the world, this Dayue has always been a part of China. Although there were sporadic interruptions in the middle, and even a Wanchun Kingdom was created, all of them were pacified by the great unified dynasty of the Central Plains.

However, this inheritance was interrupted in the hands of the Zhao family.

When the Tang Dynasty declined, the Qu family, a local tyrant in Jiaozhou, was in charge of the post of Jinghai Jiedu envoy, competing with the Southern Han regime that ruled Lingnan. In the third year of the Southern Han Dynasty (930), the Southern Han Dynasty destroyed the Qu clan, but Yang Tingyi, a local general in Jiaozhou, still competed for autonomy. In the eleventh year of the Southern Han Dynasty (938), the old general Wu Quan of Tingyi controlled the local area, the Southern Han sent troops to crusade, Wu Quan implanted a large pile in the Baiteng River, and when the tide rose, the Southern Han military ship came, at this time the tide receded, the Southern Han military ship ran aground because of the big pile, and Wu Quan took the opportunity to send a boat division to defeat the Southern Han army. After the war, Wu Quan established himself as king and established the Wu Dynasty.

Although this so-called Wu Dynasty is a joke, it was destroyed by the Ding Commander within a few years, and later this Ding Dynasty was destroyed by the former Li Dynasty. But it was the former Li Dynasty that did not exist for a few days that defeated the soldiers and horses sent by Zhao and Song to the south to conquer and consolidated the Jiaozhi regime.

At that time, the main energy of Zhao and Song was still drawn by the Liao State in the north, and they even recognized the independence of the former Li Dynasty.

Also, this old Zhao family can't even get back the sixteen states of Yanyun in the north, and the party items in the west (which have not yet been founded, but have been divided into states and counties) can't be cleaned up, let alone the Western Regions or something, even if Jiaozhi is lost, it's very logical, isn't it?

The Li Dynasty after the former Li Dynasty, which is now the King of Da Yue, is in a sense a truly influential local power. At least they've been around for hundreds of years.

During the period of Wang Anshi's reform, Zhao Song also had a Xining War with him.

The heart of the Divine Sect is very big and wild.

In the northwest, the Xihe River was opened, and in the south, the Li Dynasty also adopted a tough attitude, and Shen Qi and Liu Yi, the governors of Yongzhou, were successively used to make warships, and the local tribal people were recruited as soldiers to reorganize the army. Xu Baixiang, a native of Lingnan, leaked the news to Dayue, and the Li Dynasty monarchs believed that this battle was inevitable and that it was better to send troops to invade the Song Dynasty first. As a result, the Li Dynasty launched a war of aggression against the Song Dynasty in the eighth year of Song Xining, led by the general Li Changjie, and attacked Qinzhou, Lianzhou, Yongzhou and other places. In the battle of Yongzhou, Zhizhou Su Mian resisted hard, and died of self-immolation after the city was broken. The Li army, on the other hand, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in Qin, Lian, and Yong prefectures, and captured the people and returned. Zhao Song immediately counterattacked. In March of the following year, he ordered the generals Guo Kui and Zhao Tuo to lead the troops, and jointly attacked with the neighboring countries of Champa and Chenla in Vietnam. Guo Kui's troops recaptured Guangyuan Prefecture, and defeated the Vietnamese army at Fuliangjiang, killing the Yue prince Hong Zhen and the prince Zhaowen. Li Renzong was deeply disturbed by this, so he asked the Song side to stop the war and was willing to return the captured people, but the Song army also chose to withdraw because of the high mountains at the junction of the two sides, the inconvenience of marching, and because of the local climate factors, the army was riddled with diseases.

Therefore, if Zhao Gou wants to do something against Li Chao now, he doesn't need to find any excuses at all. Just like during the Xuanhe Northern Expedition, you have enough money and food for soldiers and horses, and you can just start doing it!

But the difficulty lies in the 'soldiers, horses, money, and food'!

Zhao Song didn't have many soldiers and horses in Lingnan at all, and the only elite he had went north with Li Heng in the first year of Jingkang, and he lost everything.

That is, Li Chao is honest, and Li Renzong, who has been the king for more than 50 years, died in the second year of Jingkang, and his nephew Li Yanghuan succeeded to the throne at the age of thirteen. Regents such as ministers Liu Qingtan and Zhang Boyu, the Li Dynasty was also a fluctuating national situation, focusing on stability.

Otherwise, if you send troops to the west of Guangnan Road, as long as you get rid of the local officials in the territory, you will definitely be able to break through the bamboo.

It can be said that the whole of Lingnan is extremely empty.

After Chen Yu took office, he first set out to form a local garrison, and the only advantage was that there was no shortage of money and food here.

Quang Nam East Road and Quang Nam West Road, there is money!

However, part of this money and grain was cut out to form a water division. The development of Zhao and Song in Nanyang, such as Luzon and Temasek, all the money and food required by Lingnan were also produced.

This caused Li Chao to panic for a while, they have never had a regular water division, and in the past two years, they have also set up a dual-purpose water division, but the scale is really not large. Because this thing is too wasteful of money and food, the national strength of the Li Dynasty is simply not able to support a large fleet that is fast and complete.

What Li Chao can do is to build a framework, and then slowly fill it in year after year.

For the war of the Li Dynasty, Zhao Gou handed over all the battles to Chen Yu. When can troops be sent and how to mobilize them, it all depends on Chen Yu. However, the central government's support for the war was limited, and the household department did not intend to distribute money and food at all.

And Chen Yu perfectly solved all the problems.

From the rectification of soldiers and horses, to the pacification of those counties on Guangnan West Road, that place is a little sensitive. If the Great Song Dynasty wants to use troops and horses there with great fanfare, it must also say hello to the local natives and Dali, which is not far away.

Chen Yu is now ready for everything, just waiting for Bianliang to give an order.

And Xu Huiyan is the one who came to report to Zhao Gou.

All the plans, as well as the money, food and materials that Chen Yu was holding in his hands, were all in Xu Huiyan's heart, and he also carried Chen Yu's twists and turns with him. Chen Yu did not send a message to Bianliang in the form of a "fast horse urgent report" because it was not safe.

Who knows how much effort Li Chao has spent in Lingnan in the past two years?

Chen Yu was not willing to take any risks.

History will not forget Xu Baixiang, just like Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, who will not forget Li Yuanhao.

This Xu Baixiang is also a scholar, and in his early years, he also had a cold window for ten years, studying history hard, and he was a little talented. Who knew that when he was obedient, he participated in the imperial examination many times but failed to pass the examination, he was old and did nothing, he boasted that he was full of economy and had no place to use, and gradually complained about the sky and people, full of resentment, thinking that the emperor and officials of the Song Dynasty had no eyes and did not know the talents, so they delayed their good future. When I heard that the relationship between the Song Dynasty and the Jiaozhi Kingdom was tense, I couldn't help but move in my heart and thought that my opportunity had come.

Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao are two good examples.

So he took up the pen and wrote a letter to the king of the country of Cochin. Sima Guang's "Records of Lianshui" records the contents of this letter. The letter said to the king of Jiaozhi: "Your ancestors, my king, are also from Fujian, and many of your civil and military ministers are also from the Central Plains. I have outstanding talents, but the Emperor of the Central Plains does not need me, I am willing to serve under you. Now that the situation between the two countries is tense, the king might as well strike first, and I can act as an internal response. ”

Then there was the Battle of Xining, and then there were hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries of hundreds of thousands of people in Yongzhou and other places.

However, what is even more tragic is that when the soldiers and horses of the Li Dynasty faced the elite soldiers of the Zhao and Song dynasties led by Guo Kui and others, they were the first to throw Xu Baixiang out as a scapegoat.

Chen Yu is now guarding against the second and third Xu Baixiang.

In the past two years, Zhao Gou's policies have offended too many scholars. Some of the theft cases of medicinal powder formulas cracked by Jinyiwei and Huangcheng Division are not only foreigners inside.

Who dares to say that there are no scholars in Lingnan who are open-minded?