749, Rebirth (II)

It didn't take long for Geng Nanzhong's recital to be sent to Bianliang, and Zhao Huan basically agreed to the final peace plan, and the death of "Li Gang", although it caused a great sensation in the court, Zhao Huan had nothing to do except order the dismissal of Anyang County Order, and the order to make every effort to investigate the case and arrest the murderer. It's a trivial.

Regarding this result, Li Gang's political enemies agreed with silence, anyway, Li Gang is dead, and the vitality of the main battle faction has been greatly damaged, which is already a very good result for them.

The ministers of the main war faction in the court were not satisfied, they wanted to seek justice for Li Gang, they must thoroughly investigate the cause of death and publicly restore Li Gang's reputation, but before they could act, several major ministers were edicted into the palace by Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan strictly ordered that none of them were allowed to make trouble, he asked these ministers, how did Li Gang know that the court was negotiating peace? Who's giving him a tip-off? If it weren't for the fact that he got the news in advance, would he have done something to resist the decree? And it is also a fact that he resisted the decree, and in the end, even if he dies now, he will inevitably be pursued, and he may even harm his family, this matter is going to be a big trouble, and no one can escape the involvement! What's more, the Great Song Dynasty can't stand the toss now, if this incident causes chaos in the DPRK and China, and then causes chaos in the world, who can afford this responsibility at that time?!

Several ministers understood what Zhao Huan meant, and Zhao Huan probably also knew that Li Gang's accident was extremely strange, but he was reluctant to investigate it deeply, because he had just succeeded to the throne not long ago, and he had just taken control of the imperial court, and his foothold had not yet been completely stabilized. will no longer investigate who is reporting to Li Gang, and no longer investigate how Li Gang died, so let this matter become a mystery forever in exchange for the current stability and peace of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the face of this irrevocable fact, the ministers of the main battle faction all chose to give in, because there is indeed no other way to go, the emperor has said everything to this part, and then doing a senseless struggle is equivalent to working against the emperor, although the Great Song Dynasty has a training not to kill the scholars, but at this time it is no longer the same as before, the Great Song Dynasty also stipulates that no coup d'Γ©tat, no rebellion, no imprisonment of the emperor, but so what? The new emperor didn't imprison his father, he first killed Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Hao, and then Zheng Juzhong, provoking him and threatening his rule, he would definitely dare to kill!

In this way, the event that began with the death of Li Gang and was very likely to cause one of the most violent political storms within the Great Song Dynasty came to an end.

However, I don't know whether it was Li Gang who wrote to Zhao Huan that night that moved him, or whether his death touched Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan decided to revise the relevant conditions of the armistice agreement, he issued a holy decree to Geng Nanzhong, the other contents of the agreement can remain unchanged, but Hebei East Road can not be given to the other party, the specific amount to the other party is Geng Nanzhong's decision, but the bottom line is half, absolutely not more than half.

A few days later, the holy decree was delivered to the Daimyo's Mansion, and Geng Nanzhong had already received the letter two days ago, and such a result was expected by him, because he knew Zhao Huan too well, and Li Gang had only followed Zhao Huan for a few days, which could compare to his Geng Nanzhong's weal and woe, and never gave up his company for nearly ten years!

Now the only threat to Geng Nanzhong is from Yao Gu, but Yao Gu is extremely calm about this result, and even forced the Song army on the front line to stick to the station, and no one is allowed to make trouble again.

Geng Nanzhong was even more proud when he learned about it, and secretly said that this Yao Gu is just a person who understands current affairs, and he threatened himself two days ago, and at this moment, the emperor doesn't blame himself, isn't this also honest?

But the temporary change of Zhao Huan's conditions made Geng Nanzhong difficult, obviously he had already agreed to the other party, but he temporarily regretted it, what if the other party was annoyed and no longer negotiated peace?

Geng Nanzhong nervously sent people out of the city to convey this change to the Heavenly Dao Army,

Zheng Fei was naturally furious when he learned about it, but there was no way, after such a long time of negotiations, the grain and grass were getting less and less, and there was no time to spend it anymore, Zheng Fei thought about it, and sent Wu Yong to the Daimyo's mansion, clearly questioning the Great Song Dynasty's rebellion, and putting on a posture of discussing and not negotiating anymore, but in fact, he explored the bottom line of the Great Song Dynasty.

Geng Nanzhong was originally worried that the Heavenly Dao Army would not talk about it, and he was anxious, and he was not the opponent of the old fritter Wu Yong at all, but Wu used to set out all the bottom lines in a few words.

Wu Yong went back to Zheng Fei and said, Zheng Fei saw that this was the case, anyway, as long as it could border with Liao, half would be half, and immediately spread out the map and calculated with everyone, and soon finalized which states to want.

Sent someone to Geng Nanzhong to say that Geng Nanzhong didn't expect this matter to really come to pass, and was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to inform the Heavenly Dao Army that the final steps of the negotiation could be completed, for fear that the Heavenly Dao Army would regret it again.

The next day, outside the Daimyo's Mansion, Wu Yong, representing the Heavenly Dao Army, and Geng Nanzhong, representing the Great Song Dynasty, formally exchanged credentials in front of the Daimyo's Mansion and reached an armistice agreement.

In the following days, according to the content of the agreement, the Tiandao army began to evacuate in batches as promised, and first returned Linqing and Boping to the Great Song Dynasty.

After the Tiandao army was completely withdrawn, the border with the Song was basically restored to its pre-war state, and the two sides released prisoners to each other, the first aspect of the armistice agreement was completed.

Seeing that the Heavenly Dao Army was so trustworthy, Geng Nanzhong breathed a long sigh of relief, and then ordered the implementation of the second aspect, preparing to cede several states along the eastern coast of Hebei East Road to the other party, and according to the agreement, the Heavenly Dao Army will give the Great Song Dynasty seven days to allow the Great Song Dynasty officials at all levels in these states and the Song army to evacuate to the Great Song side.

Zhu Wu, Wu Yong, Wang Jin and others were responsible for these, and the commanders of the large group armies such as Lu Zhishen and Hua Rong were also responsible for arranging the army to continue to defend the frontier on the front line or retreating to the inland and south, and Zheng Fei didn't worry too much, and went to do another thing that he thought was more important, that is, to recruit Li Gang,

The matter of recruiting Li Gang is not going well, it can be said that there is no progress at all, although because of Zheng Fei's "threat", Li Gang is no longer on a hunger strike, but he still resolutely refuses to surrender.

Zheng Fei simply used all the methods he could,

Zhang Shuye, Zong Ze and others took turns to reason with Li Gangxiao, moved with affection, and took their own actual experience as an example, but Li Gang was unmoved.

He reprimanded Uncle Zhang for betraying his lord for glory, and the fact that the Great Song Dynasty was able to end up in such a field today was directly related to his being a spy in the court and constantly betraying the Great Song Dynasty, especially selling some extremely critical information.

He reprimanded Liu Fa for being greedy for life and afraid of death, that is, he opened a very bad head for the betrayal of a general in the court, and it was also their father and son who caused the destruction of Gao Yu's army, forcing the Great Song Dynasty to recruit thieves, thus starting a series of passive situations.

He reprimanded Zong Ze and Seed Master Dao for choosing to betray the Great Song Dynasty after knowing Zhao Huan's true plan, which can prove that the reasons for their betrayal of the Great Song Dynasty are just excuses and fig leafs, in fact, they are afraid of death.

And he also refuted the defense of the four people one by one, Zhang Shuye said that he was sentenced for the people, he refuted that the people of the Great Song Dynasty have really not had a good time over the years, and the emperor does have a lot of faults, but what he should do as a courtier is to work harder to find a way to wake up the monarch, so that the monarch can regain his strength and re-implement the Ming and benevolent government, this is loyalty, if the monarch betrays the monarch at the slightest mistake, then what kind of loyalty is it?

Liu Fa said that he was forced, he was first plotted by Zhao Huan and Zheng Juzhong, when he and tens of thousands of soldiers were forced into a desperate situation, there was no food, no help, and there was no way to escape, he was forced to rebel, and he was forced to rebel by his own people, Li Gang scoffed at this statement, he said, Liu Fa, how many battles have you fought in the northwest? How many times have you crawled out of the pile of dead people? How many times have you faced situations that have been more dangerous than you say? Have you surrendered to the party? You don't, why? Because you didn't have anything at that time, you could fight, and you dared to fight, and the reason why you surrendered to the thieves was because you had everything, especially your son was still with you, you were afraid of death, and you were even more afraid that your son would die with you!

The explanations of Master Dao and Zong Ze were naturally refuted by Li Gang.

In the days when they were waiting for Da Song to give a final response, Zhang Shuye and the other four took turns to fight, but they all returned defeated.

Zheng Fei came to the place where Li Gang was imprisoned, and listened to the report of Zhang Shuye and others, he also had a headache, he had expected that Li Gang would not surrender so easily, but he didn't expect him to be stubborn to such an extent, and his loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty was even more serious than that of Zhou Tong, who he hated so much!

Zheng Fei decided to meet Li Gang in person for a while, and deliberately changed into a cloth suit, he came to Li Gang's residence, entered the house, and saw a scholar looking at him, he also looked at this scholar,

"Are you Zheng Linfeng?"

"Mr. Li has seen me?"

"No, although Your Excellency is dressed in cloth, the majesty of the world cannot be concealed."

"Mr. Li has won the award, are you still doing these days?"

"It's okay, if you don't let me die, then I can only live well."

The two looked at each other and smiled, the scene of the first meeting was so natural,

"I have a question, I don't know whether to say it or not." LI Gangdao,

"Sir, please."

"How can I, Li Gang, let Your Excellency insist so much?"

"Zheng has admired Mr. Zheng's heart for the world and his ability to strategize the world for a long time, so naturally."

"Your Excellency is really good at laughing, I, Li Gang, was just a small official a few months ago, don't say that in the entire city of Tokyo, not many people even know about me in the court, how can Your Excellency know?"

Zheng Fei smiled and didn't speak, but his appearance in Li Gang's eyes made Li Gang's heart move, as if he felt that he was not lying, but he just didn't want to tell the reason.

The two were silent for a moment, and Zheng Fei said, "I also want to ask Master Li a question." ”

"Your Excellency, please speak."

"How can Zhao Huan be so persistent?"

"Zhao Huan is immoral and incompetent, but I am a Great Song Dynasty, and this is the reason why I insist."

Zheng Fei was stunned for a moment, and finally understood the crux of the problem, he sighed and decided to end today's meeting, and asked instead, "What else does Mr. need?" ”

"But I want to die."

Zheng Fei couldn't help but be angry in his heart, he looked at Li Gang coldly, and Li Gang looked back at him without showing weakness.

"In the eyes of Mr., can't you really see who is the benevolent lord who is good to the people in this world?!"

"I am not satisfied with Your Excellency, I know that what Your Excellency has done is indeed many, many times stronger than Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan's father and son."

"Then why are you still like this?!"

"The Great Song Dynasty has changed again, it is still the Great Song Dynasty, which is the dilapidated Great Song Dynasty today, and the life of the people is better than the so-called prosperous era of any dynasty and generation in history, because this is the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty that governs the country with literature. I view Your Excellency's martial arts, with the army on behalf of the government, Your Excellency will build the country in the future, will be a military government, years after the conquest, Your Excellency will naturally be martial, the people of the world will inevitably suffer from it, therefore, the decline of the Great Song Dynasty, the suffering of the people, is only temporary, if you really let your Excellency take over the world, the suffering of the people is endless! ”

Zheng Fei was dumbfounded when he heard it......!

"Is there anything else you would like to say?"

"Yes!" Zheng Fei breathed a long sigh of relief, "I will definitely prove you wrong!" ”

"Oh, hehe, that might take a long time."

"No matter how long it takes, I will!"