As early as the end of the rebellion in Jingxi, the Great Song Dynasty had already begun to deal with Jingdong Road according to Zheng Juzhong's opinions, but because the outcome of the Jingxi War was not yet clear, the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to act too much to avoid provoking the Jingdong Road resurgence war, so all its actions were only one-sided, such as secretly sending additional troops around Jingdong Road, secretly raising grain, grass, money and silver, and sending a large number of secret agents to Jingdong Road to monitor the movements of the Tiandao Army, etc., and with the victory of the counterinsurgency Fang Mountain Bandits, etc., The Great Song Dynasty then couldn't wait to increase the intensity of the action, the primary target is the Jingdong Road set up all over the country, the officials up and down the central government are on the Jingdong Road that sell well all over the country, the various commodities that are sold all over the country have long been coveted, just take the opportunity to seize those goods, especially the seizure of the production methods of various goods, but who expected, when they acted, they found that most of the shops in Jingdong Road in various places have been empty, except for a small amount of goods that have not been sold, From the shopkeeper to the guys, they have all disappeared without a trace!

The officials were surprised and immediately began to investigate, and then it became clear that those people had begun to "disappear" one after another as early as a month ago, and the supply of goods was also greatly reduced, and not long ago, except for some of the people they temporarily hired in the local area were still working, the real Jingdong passers-by had actually left, and destroyed all the equipment that could be used for production.

The news reached the imperial court, and the imperial court regretted it at the same time, but also affirmed that Jingdong Road was clearly "a ghost in my heart", otherwise why would he not even make money and secretly withdraw? The imperial court also knew that not only were they acting quietly, but Jingdong Road had already begun to secretly withdraw its capital, and then a piece of information showing that Jingdong Road was currently buying grain and grass all over the country at a crazy speed and at a high price also proved this!

Da Song saw that this was repaid, no wonder the price of grain has risen so much recently, I thought it was caused by the secret purchase of grain and grass on his side, but it turned out that Jingdong Road also played a huge role in it!

Since everyone is pretending to be confused, there is no need to hide it anymore, we must speed up the pace of action, and seize the time to curb Jingdong Road while making full preparations!

The Great Song Dynasty immediately made adjustments to the action, successively issued new orders and laws, strictly controlled the bulk grain and grass trade in various places except for the official, increased the tax amount of many commodities, and at the same time explicitly ordered the Song army around Jingdong Road to strengthen the inventory of various items in and out of Jingdong Road, and the goal of various actions was obviously directed at Jingdong!

Zheng Fei also reacted immediately, he ordered the border guards of the Heavenly Dao Army to immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and announced that the Heavenly Dao Army had begun to recruit soldiers, with a clear goal of increasing the number of 100,000 people! At the same time, he issued a mobilization order to the entire Jingdong Road, and the entire Jingdong Road began to make frantic preparations for war under the command of the Heavenly Dao Army in various places.

As a result, the Great Song Dynasty and Jingdong Road began to launch a crazy arms race without tearing their faces, and the two sides hoarded a total of no less than 400,000 troops on the border line.

Soon, Jingdong Road and the Great Song Dynasty completely cut off all contacts, the Tiandao Army Supervisor Cai You was expelled, the border was re-closed, except for Zheng Fei still holding the title of a Great Song Dynasty Town, the relationship between the two sides returned to the confrontation when the Tiandao Army captured Jingxi Road, a big war has reached an inevitable situation, and the difference is only a dispensable fuse.

As the crown prince led the army to completely quell the rebellion in western Beijing, the last obstacle in front of the Great Song was finally removed, and after the prince returned to Tokyo with the generals to listen to the reward for a few days, the matter was finally officially put on the table, and the emperor summoned more than a dozen ministers, including the prince, into the palace to discuss the matter.

The opinions of all the ministers are very unanimous, this battle must be fought, the Great Song Dynasty has endured it for a long time, and it is time to be ashamed!

However, there are serious differences in how to fight in this battle, especially who to send to fight, first of all, Zhu Wu and his Qishan army are definitely going to go, this is a strategy that has been determined as early as when recruiting Zhu Wu, although after pacifying the Fangshan bandits, the court has believed that Zhu Wu is sincerely obedient, but the army in his hands is too much, more than 300,000 strong Qishan army is a big heart disease in the chest of the imperial court, and we must find a way to make this army consume some!

In this regard, of course, the prince is a little reluctant, he has now regarded the Qishan army as his own army, but he also understands that no matter what aspect is considered, letting the Qishan army fight this battle is the best choice, at this time he must not show the slightest opposition, otherwise it will definitely cause the emperor's dissatisfaction, or even misunderstanding.

Now that it has been determined that the Qishan army must go, the next question to be solved is who should lead the army of the imperial court to go with the Qishan army? It is definitely not possible to let Zhu Wu lead the Qishan Army by himself, and the supreme commander of this battle must be a member of the imperial court, and while commanding the army to fight, he must also play the role of monitoring and restraining Zhu Wu.

This candidate immediately became the focus of contention, because everyone knew very well that although the battle with Jingdong Zheng Linfeng was still full of uncertainty and danger, the certainty of victory was also not low. Because at present, the Great Song Dynasty is no longer facing many difficulties as last time, with the suppression of the Fangshan bandits, the whole country has been stabilized, and the Xia Kingdom does not dare to rashly invade again, it is the best time to gather the strength of the whole country to carry out the final decisive battle on Zheng Linfeng's Jingdong Road! At the same time, the addition of Zhu Wu's Qishan Army is also an extremely favorable condition, and the combat effectiveness of the Qishan Army in the southeast and western Beijing is obvious to all, with such a strong army in hand, plus hundreds of thousands of Great Song Dynasty troops, it is simply difficult to win.

And the prince and King Jia both recognized this, the prince has tasted the sweetness through the battle of Jingxi, the feeling of the salted fish turning over is simply very good, and the pacification of Jingdong is just an excellent opportunity to continue to establish immortal feats and consolidate its prestige. At the same time, you can continue to compare King Jia, so that King Jia can no longer turn over!

King Jia's party is just the opposite, although through some remedial measures to make the emperor forgive King Jia's mistakes in Jingxi, but there is no need to deny that King Jia is currently in an extremely disadvantageous situation in the competition with the crown prince, even if the emperor still likes him, or even still likes him the most, with the success of the prince in Beijing, that is, the emperor is dizzy and wants to abolish the prince and replace him, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will not agree, and the whole world will not be able to see it. King Jia is now very much like the crown prince half a year ago, he desperately needs the command of this big battle, and as long as this boss can fall on his head again and achieve the final victory, although it is not enough to say that he can take down the prince all at once, at least it can save his reputation and return to the same starting line as the prince.

Based on this, the ministers of the two sides are fighting in the dark and quarreling. The prince's side believes that the battle of Jingxi has proved the prince's outstanding military leadership, and the importance of this battle is far more than the pacification of Jingxi, the sinister and cunning Zheng Linfeng is not the stupid and impulsive Wang Qing, and the brave and ferocious Tiandao army is not comparable to the Fangshan bandits, no matter what, it is more certain to send the prince. And there is another point that must be taken into account, the battle of Jingxi has also proved that the prince is capable of controlling Zhu Wu, it is under the prince's excellent command skills and reasonable control of Zhu Wu that the battle of Jingxi was successfully won, if you send someone else to prevent Zhu Wu and then make a mess, it will be bad!

King Jia's point of view is that the crown prince is the prince of the Celestial Empire, and it has been extremely hard to command the battle of Jingxi before, and he cannot be sent again this time, otherwise everyone in the world will think that there is no one in the Celestial Empire, and he will be laughed at by the world if he sends the dignified prince whenever there is something. Look at King Jia again, although he failed to quell the Fangshan rebellion in time last time, he didn't fight any big defeats, and even the reason why the prince was able to successfully quell the rebellion is that it is difficult to ensure that there is no element of King Jiaguang, it is King Jia who laid an excellent foundation for His Royal Highness the Prince, and did all the hard work, which allowed His Royal Highness the Prince to successfully quell the rebellion!