A few days later, Zhuzhou County learned to sacrifice wine and successfully elected Chen Dong as the fake prime minister. At the ceremony of accepting the throne, Chen Dong solemnly swore that because the saint was captured by the Liao thieves, he was only temporarily taking the phase, and would never do anything to usurp in the name of the prime minister, otherwise heaven and earth would not tolerate it, and the world could attack it together. In addition to the impeachment, three years later, the county school sacrificial wine will be elected by public deliberation again. The stagecoach sent the residence to the prefectures and counties of the Great Song Dynasty, which were not yet under the direct control of the Liao army.

Since ancient times, the intrigue between the court's powerful ministers, no matter how curious the people are, they have compiled countless legendary performances and secret histories of the palace, all of which are just selfish speculations. The imperial court always has to take care of the whole face, and when the prime minister took office, he swore to the heavenly alliance not to usurp and rebel, which is unprecedented. As soon as this oath came out, it immediately set off an uproar. Whether it is the local gentry or the common people, they are all talking about it. For ordinary people, the veil of mystery that shrouded the high temple hall was lifted. But this is just a glimpse into the leopard, and people's curiosity is not satisfied, but it has aroused greater interest. Chen Dong was originally quite prestigious among the Qingliu scholars, but now he is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he has confirmed the name of this prime minister.

After Chen Dong assumed the position of prime minister, he expanded the original military quartermaster office into the prime minister's office, and appointed six important arms of Shangshu and Dali Siqing. Before the Son of Heaven was taken captive, Yue Fei, the envoy of the Zhenguo Army, was the highest-ranking military general in the southeast. According to the ancestral system of "Wen Yuwu", at the suggestion of Prime Minister Chen Dong, the county school sacrifice wine public council was appointed by him as a false privy envoy. Because Yue Fei was leading his troops to the east to conquer Jianghuai, this letter of appointment was sent to Huaixi non-stop.

And Jingdong East Road appeased Hou Huanyin in the position of fake governor, personally went to Qufu Confucius Temple to solemnly worship Kong, vowing to expel the northern captives, restore the rule of three generations, Jingdong Zhuzhou counties have at the same time in a big fanfare to sacrifice Kong, the gentry around the country responded to the sacrifice of Kong. After the fall of the northern prefectures and counties, the Liao army forced the Song people to cut their hair and change their clothes, which aroused the antipathy of the people, and in turn brewed an extremely strong atmosphere of restoring the ancient rites. Hou Huanyin then proposed that Jingdong should contact the states and counties, and the policy of "respecting the king and conquering the king" was like the overlord Qi Huan Gong Jiuhe princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, but Hou Huanyin did not respect Zhou Tianzi, but the Song Dynasty Tianzi who was captured by Liao thieves. Faintly, he was able to compete with Chen Dong's momentum.

The operation of the Ezhou Prime Minister's Mansion has gradually become a climate, and the requisition and transfer of money, grain, soldiers and horses from Jingxiang, Jianghuai and other prefectures and counties has also been much smoother. However, compared to what was needed to expel the northern captives, it was still not enough to make ends meet. Because the Baoyi Army was stationed in Ezhou, the food and salary replenishment was still timely. The food and wages of the Zhenguo army that marched eastward were intermittent. The Zhenguo Army made Yue Fei eat rough food with his subordinates, and won the hearts of the army. However, the more they marched eastward, the more the prefecture and county were broken by the Liao army, and under the intrusion of the Khitan iron cavalry from time to time, the people delayed their farming, and the solid people could rely on the grain stored in previous years, and the poor people could only live on wild vegetables. The inability to keep up with the food and wages greatly reduced the speed of the Zhenguo army's advance. After learning of the movements of the Zhenguo army, the various departments of the Liao army began to react, and the general Tiemuge led more than 20,000 cavalry, and coerced tens of thousands of Song troops who submitted to Bianliang to march westward to compete with the Zhenguo army for Huaixi.

The rainy season in Gangnam is gradually passing, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day. What has happened in Song Realm these days is quite dizzying. Often, the freshness of one thing has not passed, and another, more recent thing attracts people's enthusiasm to the past. People don't even have time to think about how good or bad these changes are. Restaurants and teahouses, street talks, and villages in Lujian, people mention Zhao Ke, the son of heaven, from time to time, and more often it has become a symbol. The people in the north and south of the river had no time to think about what would happen if they really welcomed back the saint, and they said "Ezhou", "Prime Minister", "Oath", "Sacrifice Kong" everywhere with various accents and moods. Some time ago, the rumors about the identity of Zhao Xingde's clan finally faded away.

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Dunhuang, the marching division of the General's Mansion, Zhang Shanfu was pleased to see the news that Zhao Xingde had resigned from the military department. These days, he has been in a contradictory mood, and Ezhou's power has risen sharply, which not only confronts the Liao State, but also weakens the prestige of the Song court in Xiangyang. On the one hand, Zhao De was the general of the Xia State, and the higher his prestige and status in Ezhou, the more benefits he could fight for the Xia State. But on the other hand, Zhao Xingde was a native of the Kwantung Song Dynasty after all, and the higher his position in the Song Kingdom, the more he would inevitably favor the east. From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Shanfu was even a little reluctant to let him go back to Kanto.

"It seems that this Zhao De is a sincere person." Zhang Shanfu flipped through the secret report and said with a secret smile, "He said that no matter what, the ancestors can't be recognized indiscriminately, and they can't be like the Beiyu, in order to compete for the world, even the ancestors can be changed randomly." This is a satire of Jerodashi. This was said by the person concerned at a banquet with the county school sacrificial wine, and it was reported by the detailed work of the Military Intelligence Department. Zhang Shanfu knew that Prime Minister Liu Yi had special attention to this young general. He took out the secret report, sandwiched it in an official letter along with the recent military report, and ordered someone to send it to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Liu Yi is in the Linquan Palace to report to His Majesty Chen Xuanyu that the Protector Government has agreed to bid for foreign mining rights.

"Thanks to Zhao Xingde coming up with this idea, the imperial treasury doesn't have to work hard, and it has a lot of income." Chen Xuan praised him, raised his eyes and said, "The prime minister came over in person, is it possible that he plans to transfer him back to the prime minister's mansion?" He shook his head and sighed, "He is inseparable from running the East, and there is only one such person." The dispute between the Liao and Song dynasties was in full swing, and whether it was Chen Xuan, Liu Yi, Zhang Shanfu, or Yu Zangyun and others, they all realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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All kinds of news came to Xiangyang one after another, and the people were also talking about it. Although Chen Dong, Zhao Xingde, Huang Jian and others have great prestige in Qingliu, it is unprecedented for the state and county schools to promote the pastoral guard and then the prime minister. For many people, instead of pinning their hopes on this, it is better to have the Ming Jun in front of them. In particular, after the Liao army changed to a long-term siege strategy, they concentrated on building fortresses and training naval troops, and the war outside Xiangyang City calmed down, giving people the illusion that the situation had been stabilized and Zhongxing was in sight.

In the eyes of some people, Zhao Ke fell into the hands of the Liao army, no different from a dead man. After all, Zhao Qi is the blood of the first emperor, and he has the support of Cai Jing and other old ministers, and the three major camps of the forbidden army, as if he has become orthodox. Therefore, following Zhao Qi to be a "minister from the dragon" has become a choice that some people flock to. Zhao Qi said that since the emperor was more than a month, there has been an endless stream of officials and gentry who have fled from all over the country to come to him. Xiangyang City has a bit of the momentum of the Bianliang court. However, there are many monks and few porridges, and Zhao Qi has a wide range of talents, but Xiangyang cannot be compared with Bianliang, who originally collected the world's wealth to support. As a result, many scholars who rushed to seek official positions stayed in Xiangyang City, discussing the affairs of Ezhou every day when they had nothing to do, and most of them had a tone of disdain and ridicule, otherwise they would easily be mistaken for the same party of the rebels, which would lead to ridicule and even imprisonment.

The wine banner is written with the big words "Taibaiju", and in this magnificent inn, there are many official gentry who live in Xiangyang. On weekdays, if you have nothing to do, you will make friends with brothers, and then order two pots of tea and a plate of fruits to pass the time.

"If Chen Shaoyang is Cao Cao." Guan Rui said with a gloomy face, "Then does Hou Huanyin want to be Wang Mang?" ”

He originally spent a lot of money and had a relationship with Taishi Cai, but there were too many people who had a relationship with Taishi Cai, and there were too few official positions, so he had to be ranked behind. His robe has been worn a little bare, but because of the chaos of the army, he did not change it in time, remembering that because of Chen Dong and Zhao Xingde, the southeast prefecture and county did not accept the new emperor, and the local shepherd was elected by the public discussion, and the rich official positions in the court were also much less. Therefore, thinking of Chen and Zhao, Guan Rui hated it so much that his teeth itched, and he couldn't wait to be the criminal department immediately, and condemn the two evils as the crime of rebellion.

Wu Jifu beside him sneered and said: "Zhao Yuanzhi is just stealing his name and deceiving the world, and the contract of the Baoyi Army and the group of thieves is just that, Chen Shaoyang is an official of the imperial court, and he walked with him, believing in Huang Zhoushan's false words, and brazenly claiming to be the prime minister without mentioning it, and actually making any oath, it is ridiculous." What is famous all over the world, but they are just two crazy fools! ”

Hearing him scold, everyone laughed out loud, and one shouted even louder, "Add another plate of fruit." "Another jug of wine!" "Hurry up—"

In the past few days, the number of customers in the store has more than doubled compared with the original, and a few people who are busy running the hall are too busy, so the boss hired a few people who fled, of course, there is no salary, but they are allowed to live in the firewood room behind the store, two meals of porridge a day, these people are inevitably clumsy, not only to be reprimanded by the guests, but also to be bullied by the original running hall.

Fan Changheng silently lowered his head, hiding the humiliating light in his eyes, and ran between the tea and wine tables. He is not poor in the township, but his family is not too good, he originally thought of Xiangyang to find an opportunity to find Shijin, but what he never expected was that the prices in Xiangyang City were so expensive that he could not imagine, just as he was about to go home, he fell into the trap of a liar, and finally had to work in this "Taibaiju" inn to make a living.

Every day, I listen to these in-house guests calling brothers and sisters in front of them, and talking about them behind their backs. Fan Changheng knew that there was a person surnamed Tian who was originally a Zhizhou, and he was greedy for a lot of money, and he was impeached and removed from the official, and his heart was full of contempt for this surnamed Tian. He also knew that there was a person surnamed Wen who was not fluent in literature and ink, but he was the best at drilling camps, and he became the righteous son of Lord Liu a few days ago, and he was in the limelight in the past few days, and he didn't take anyone seriously. He also knew that several people were swindlers who revolved around the rich, and specifically claimed to have a way to lure people into the bait, and it was these people who deceived him into the last deal. Thinking of this, Fan Changheng couldn't wait to eat their meat.

However, now these people are all riding on his head, and not only that, but they also have to and pee.

"He who is powerful in this world is either a robber or a thief." He thought silently.