"The king, the prime minister of the sect came to pay a visit." Soon Zeng chose to come again.

"Please!" Zhao Gou said busily.

Regardless of whether this Zong Ze's image is imperfect in his heart, this Zong Grandpa is one of the most reliable people in the Great Song Dynasty in the following years. From ethics to ability to determination to resist gold, he will inevitably rely on one of the people.

Seeing that Zhao Gou had woken up and looked good, Zong Ze was also happy, and after paying respects, he said straightforwardly: "King Su will not return once he is gone, and now the Jin people are tricky to recruit the king." The Jin soldiers are approaching the capital, what good is it for the king to go again? Dare not ask the king! ”

Xiao Wang also thinks so, it's a pity that Wang Xianggong has other intentions. In addition, there is no new order delivered in the capital, how dare Xiao Wang stop? ”

Zhao Gou did not hide his attitude. This made Zong Ze very happy, with the meaning of the prince Zhao Gou, and with his own cooperation, how could Wang Yun turn over the storm?

"The king is not afraid to rest in Cizhou for a few more days. You're sick and you're going to have to take some time. ”

With this time, it is easy to go back and forth to the capital.

"I'm afraid that this piece of music will be difficult to send into the city." If the Jin army is killed under the city of Tokyo and released the sentry cavalry, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient to communicate with the inside and outside. Zhao Gou said.

"The city of Tokyo is vast, and it is difficult to surround the city even if the soldiers and horses of the east and west are all in one place."

Zong Ze almost patted his chest and assured him that he would definitely be able to send it in.

Zhao Gou was also happy to finalize the matter. It's just a pity that he can only make a wood carving clay sculpture now, and he doesn't have any real power. The rectification and training of the Cizhou soldiers and horses is Zong Ze's responsibility. And the military and political affairs of the entire Hedong and Hebei are managed by Fan Ne.

The only thing he had to do was feign illness.

But how could Zhao Gou lie on the hospital bed and pretend to be sick? People generously said that they were recuperating, and Wang Yun couldn't say three, five, or six.

……

"Go find some raphane."

Ignoring the outside affairs, Zhao Gou just asked Lan Jue and Kang Lu to find a little medicinal powder for themselves, as well as sulfur and saltpeter.

In this era, medicinal powders are already a common thing.

The formula has also been improved several times in the course of more than 100 years, and the content ratio of sulfur and nitrate has increased from 1 to 2 at the beginning to close to 1 to 3 now. It is quite similar to the formula of nitrate accounting for three-quarters of the medicinal powder in later generations.

But in the end, they are only similar, not identical.

Zhao Gou not only holds the absolute authoritative powder formula in his hands, but also knows how to get granular powder, and he knows how to purify saltpeter sulfur.

The saltpeter and sulfur they got were obviously not of high purity, and he knew this at a glance.

That's why he asked for some radishes.

Zong Ze didn't ask about this matter.

When Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, was involved in military and political affairs, he didn't have the slightest sense of existence in his eyes. Zhao Gou is willing to fiddle with the medicinal powder, let him fiddle, is this thing rare?

Since the third year of Xianping (1000), Tang Fu, an officer of the Divine Guard, presented to the Song court the rockets, fireballs, firebugs and other firearms he made. Two years later, Shi Pu also made rockets, fireballs and other firearms, and successively conducted drills in the palace. This firearm became one of the many ordnance of the Song army.

Later in Zhao and Song, he established a medicinal powder workshop in Bianliang - Song Shenzong set up an ordnance supervisor to oversee the manufacture of ordnance throughout the country. The Ordnance Supervision employs more than 40,000 workers, and is divided into 10 workshops, each producing gunpowder and gunpowder weapons, and occupies a very important position.

According to legend, the scale of production of the two workshops was: "On the same day, 7,000 crossbow gunpowder arrows, 10,000 bow gunpowder arrows, 3,000 tribulus cannons (gunpowder bags containing iron thistles), and 20,000 leather cannons."

Zeng Gongliang led the book "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", which recorded three formulas of medicinal powder and a variety of gunpowder weapons, with illustrations.

As a governor of Cizhou, a middle-level and high-level official of the Great Song Dynasty, Zong Ze really didn't think that firearms were very mysterious, let alone make a fuss.

He is now fighting a lawsuit with Wang Yun on the one hand, and on the other hand.

At this time, Tokyo City was also in a state of panic.

Zhao Huan didn't know that he had led the army to kill outside Tokyo, he thought that with the hundreds of thousands of troops of Zhe Yanzhi and Li Hui, he would be able to keep the Jin soldiers out of the Yellow River. But he didn't want the army of hundreds of thousands to fall apart overnight. When the news reached Tokyo, he hurriedly sent people to hold a court meeting.

Some ministers believed that the enemy army took the opportunity to cross the river and beat the drum and march south, which obviously meant to despise our army. Now, it is better for us to garrison 20,000 troops within ten miles of the capital in all directions, and hold on to the key points, so as to thwart the enemy's conspiracy. Then send troops and 10,000 horsemen from other places to come to help, and cut off the enemy's grain route. The walls were cleared in order to wait for the enemy's lack of food and grass, and they tried their best to make it impossible for them to plunder everywhere. Arrange spies to reconnoiter their internal affairs and look for the enemy's weak links. From time to time, troops are sent to explore their fiction and reality. Then he ordered all the counties in Hebei to set up camps to defend themselves, and hurriedly sent envoys north to worship King Kang as the marshal. King Kang concentrated his troops in Hebei and threatened to lead his troops to Yanshan to shake the enemy's morale. Then, King Kang secretly led the army to cross the Yellow River, converged with the army of King Qin of the Quartet, circled behind the enemy's army, and attacked the enemy army. If so, the enemy will not die.

Some ministers also believe that the enemy soldiers are now arrogant, and our army has been frustrated for a long time. Hearing that the enemy is deep, the anger is sluggish. If we fight again, I am afraid that we will still not be able to defeat the enemy, but will hurt the national body. It is better to protect the emperor from the city to avoid the enemy's edge, and then discuss the strategy of defending against the enemy. If you defend yourself in a lonely city, how long can you hold out?

In this way, some advocated defending the city to wait for help, and some advocated going out of the city to avoid the enemy, and the ministers were arguing endlessly. How to choose? Zhao Huan also hesitated. The court meeting lasted until late at night, and no decision was made.

Then, before dawn, a scout came back and reported that the golden cavalry had crossed the river.

The kings and ministers of the palace did not fully believe this. Zhao Huan also sent the guards of the pro-army Ma Jun Si to wait for Liu Si, and led 300 cavalry out of the city from Fengqiu Gate to spy in the distance.

Then Liu Si galloped back and reported: "As soon as our army arrived at Chenqiao, they were killed by the Jin, and hundreds of people were wounded. ”

Zhao Huan and the ministers of the imperial court woke up like a dream: it turned out that the enemy army had reached Chenqiao in the northern suburbs of the capital. Everyone was at a loss, at a loss, in a hurry, and there was no way to come out.

At this time, how can they still have the leisure to pay attention to the lawsuit between Zong Ze and Wang Yun?

Zongze Wang Yun's Shangshu did not make Zhao Huan and the courtiers care, on the contrary, it was their Shangshu that made Zhao Huan's ministers pay attention to Zhao Gou.

The Jin soldiers and iron cavalry have arrived at Chenqiao, so it will be difficult for Zhao Huan to escape. At this time, it seems that only according to the advice of He Li and other main battle factions, pay homage to Zhao Gou as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, and order King Kang to concentrate the forces north of the Yellow River, and threaten to lead his troops to attack Yanshan to shake the enemy's military heart. In fact, he secretly led the army to cross the Yellow River, converged with the division of King Qin of the Quartet, went around behind the enemy army, and attacked the enemy army.

But how could Zhao Gou, who was far away in Cizhou, know about Master Jing, he was bent on making his own medicinal powder. Zong Ze also supplied all the supplies, and the ratio of horizontal and vertical reserves to Cizhou City is not worth mentioning.

But just when Zong Ze and Wang Yun were in trouble in Cizhou City, an urgent report from Wang Boyan of Zhixiangzhou completely made Cizhou explode.

Wang Boyan was a jinshi in the second year of Chongning (1103), and he was fifty-seven years old. Before he was admitted to the Jinshi, he was very talented and was favored by Wang Ben, the magistrate of Qimen County. Wang Bente built a talent hall and invited him to be a teacher. also took his nephew Qin Hui from Yingtianfu to Qimen and followed him to study. It is said that when Qin Hui was studying in the Yingcai Pavilion, someone prophesied: Qishan Xiaoyi, there are two prime ministers in one academy.

Wang Boyan originally served in the imperial court of Beijing, but was summoned and appointed as Zhilong Tuge and Zhixiangzhou because of his dedication to Zhao Huan "Ten Strategies for Hebei Frontier Defense". After the fall of Zhending Mansion, Zhao Huan issued an edict to move the Zhending Marshal's Mansion to Xiangzhou, which was led by Wang Boyan. In fact, he is the appeasement envoy of Hebei West Road.

Wang Boyan learned from the report of the horse scouting that the Jin people sent cavalry to find the traces of King Kang. felt that King Kang was in a very dangerous situation, so he hurriedly made a wax book, sent the two of them to Cizhou, and asked King Kang to return to Xiangzhou quickly. The wax book says:

"Yesterday, the king set off from Xiangzhou to Cizhou, and tonight around three watches, a torch appeared in the west of Benzhou, connecting two or three miles, shining endlessly. Boyan hurriedly sent people to reconnoiter on horseback, and reported at dawn that it was more than 500 Jinren ironclad cavalry, who came from Dazhai in Defense County, and visited the king all the way to the distance. They arrested the villagers as township guides and went to Li Gudu in Wei County to intercept the king. If the king goes east from Cizhou to Ligudu, then there are enemy troops stationed in Wei County, which cannot be crossed; If you go northeast from Cizhou to cross the river, it will not be feasible for the Jin soldiers to attack it lightly. Now, everyone is worried about the king's safety.

He did not (Zongwang) led the crowd to the capital. If the king is attacked, it is difficult to run, in case of chasing, not only will the opportunity be lost, but it will definitely be the same as before, the king will be detained in the army as a hostage, so there is nothing to do, what can be done? If the king is not dreaming of returning to Xiangzhou, planning to raise troops, contain the Jin people, and take the hope of the deputy second Shengwei City, this is the best policy. Crossing the river to the east is helpless.

It was a national plan, and the two cavalrymen were sent to send wax books, and the king listened to it, but the king wanted to do it. ”

After the wax book was sent away, Wang Boyan sent Liu Hao, a doctor with martial arts, to lead 2,000 cavalry to Cizhou to meet King Kang, Yue Fei was in this team, it was just a small soldier.

Of course, Zhao Gou didn't know that Yue Pengju, whom he had admired for a long time, was in the horse army outside the city, but he was deeply impressed by Wang Boyan.

"Go back to Xiangzhou and plan to raise troops", what does he mean?

Zhao Goke is an empty prince, he has no will, he 'planned to raise troops' is not to "contain the Jin people and hope for the second Shengwei City", but to conspire with different ambitions and ill intentions.

He didn't think that Wang Boyan, a famous traitor in history, could have such a long-term vision, and he had already bet on Zhao Gou.

Tokyo City is still there, and Zhao Huan is still there.

It is only November of the first year of Jingyasu, and there is a leap November next, and the battle of Tokyo has just begun, and it is far from the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

At this time, I instigated Zhao to come forward, I am afraid that it is more for his own benefit. Don't you see if he wants Zhao Gou to go to Xiangzhou to plan to raise troops.

There are always people who want to harm me!

Zhao Gou sighed in his heart.

"Wang Boyan's strategy, what does Ziyan think?" Zi Yan, Han Gong is also a native of Kaifeng, and a well-known guest in the palace of Chongkang. This is Zhao Gou's own person in the entrainment.

Zhao Gou sent an envoy to Jinying, accompanied not only Wang Yun and a few eunuchs, but also Geng Yanxi (Geng Nanzhongzi), Gao Shize (the family of the Gao clan after Yingzong, who was young to supplement the left Bandian Zhi), and the inner knowledge of the guest Xiu Wulang Han Gongzi and others.

Geng Yanxi and Gao Shi are obviously not close to Zhao Gou, both of them are Zhao Huan's people. Those who can discuss and discuss are only Han Gong.

"If the name is not right, it is not right. The king is only double ten, it is a good year, how can he destroy his future? ”

At this time, no one would have thought that Zhao Song would end up in such a miserable state, and he would look at the current war compared to the battle at the beginning of this year. felt that it was very likely that Jin Bing would cut off another piece of fat, and he would never have imagined that the entire close branch clan would be served by someone.

Han Gongyi didn't want to see Zhao Gou's scenery for a while, and regretted it for the rest of his life.