At the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this official position was only a temporary position, and it was generally held by officials sent by the imperial court. Generally, it is set up when purchasing military supplies and transporting food and materials, and is withdrawn when the matter is completed. However, in the kingdom of Da Zhou, one of the biggest features is the separation of powers. In order to ensure that there will be no monopoly from the imperial court to the localities, it is necessary to decentralize power wherever it can be decentralized, so as to contain each other.

From the system of splitting the three powers of the military, government and finance of the two governments and three divisions in the imperial court, the same is true at the local level. Under the guiding ideology of containing and decentralizing powers, in order to limit the military, political, and financial powers of local state capitals, the transfer of this official position gradually changed from a concurrent position to a permanent one. In the Splendid Period, in addition to the original function of transporting and purchasing materials, the road transfer envoys also added permanent yamen such as the Department of Prison and the Department of Pacification, and gave them the power to supervise local officials, review local prisons, recommend talents and even maintain local law and order. Therefore, since then, the post of transfer envoy is no longer a simple literal transfer envoy, but has been given many new powers, in fact, he has become a local governor along the way, holding the power of financial and taxation supervision and administration, and even mobilizing troops and horses to maintain law and order.

The rulers of the Great Zhou took their own means of establishing the Great Zhou as a warning, of course, they had to guard against the slightest, prevent the dictatorship, prevent someone from sitting on the big side, and prevent all the germs that might subvert the Great Zhou, so in addition to not allowing the military generals to control the military power, they also used the method of decentralization to ensure the balance of power and mutual containment. This is understandable, but it may also be one of the reasons for the accumulation of redundant bureaucracy. From the imperial court to the local institutions, there were bloated and many people. There are many officials involved in one power. With so many officials, the number of people is superfluous, the organization is huge, and the expenses incurred are also extremely large. The officials are well paid. On the surface, it seems to have stabilized the scholarly class and limited its power. However, it inadvertently went to another road to the abyss, and finally collapsed financially during the Qingfeng period, which was not unrelated to redundant officials and redundant expenses.

Shen Fang and Liu Sheng spent a period of extremely nourishing days on Huainan East Road and Jiangnan Road. This is where they made their fortunes, and many of the local officials are their old subordinates. Therefore, they have responded to the call of the Huainan East Road and Jiangnan Road transfer envoys, and they have actually become prince-like figures. In addition, Lu Zhongtian originally wanted to cultivate them to form a local force to support him, so he used Guo Xu's order to relax the scope of the authority of many transfer envoys, especially in military power, in order to have a strong army to support his ambitions when necessary, Lu Zhongtian let Guo Xu make a will.

"When necessary, the troops of the state capital can be transferred, and the generals of the local armies must obey their orders, and they will not be disobeyed."

That was one of those purposes. You can ignore the others, just look at this one, and you will know what Lu Zhongtian is thinking in his heart. And the magic lies in the words 'when necessary'. When is it necessary? Nobody knows. Some people can do this, and some people can't, because when it is necessary, the four words are actually plain said'

Lu Xiang agreed' four words.

For Shen Fang and Liu Sheng, the power given to them by this will was self-evident, and they also understood Lu Zhongtian's intentions. In less than a year, Shen Fang and Liu Sheng firmly held the command of the two armies in their own hands by controlling the salaries of the money and silver troops, coercing and coercing, attacking and evacuating, and withdrawing from the army.

By the time of last winter, when the Jurchens marched southward, Shen had 12,000 soldiers and horses in his hands in the hands of the Jiangning Army, the Guangde Army, and the Suzhou Army. Liu Sheng integrated Yang Zijun, Linjun and Gaoyou Army Chuzhou Second Army on Huainan East Road, with more than 10,000 people. When the Jurchen army went south, the court originally thought that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the northeastern border town were enough to resist a strong enemy, but they never expected that the Jurchens would go south in a few months and fight until they reached the capital.

Of course, Lu Zhongtian urgently ordered soldiers, horses and materials from all over the country to come to reinforce the capital, and Shen Fang and Liu Sheng were the first people to receive orders. But at this time, Shen Fang and Liu Sheng had already seen that something was wrong. The momentum of the Jurchens was so fierce that it seemed that they could not resist it. At this time, even if the two of them led all the troops and horses to reinforce, it was actually useless. The 200,000 forbidden troops in the capital are still there, and the van troops in these places are just cannon fodder on their backs. In addition, when they thought of the faces of Chen Jue and Zhu Zhirong and their gang, they once excluded the two of them, and the two of them were annoyed in their hearts.

Two years later. A secret discussion was held, and the method of delaying time was tacitly chosen. They have repeatedly postponed the dispatch of reinforcements on the grounds that it will take time to rebuild the armaments. Originally, the distance between Huainan East Road and the capital was not far, and the troops could approach the capital in seven or eight days, and if they were actively prepared, they would be able to arrive before the Jurchens besieged the capital. But in fact, the two are no longer willing to be cannon fodder. They dragged them to the Jurchen soldiers in the city, and even the Northwest Army rushed to the capital, and they didn't make any movement. Lu Zhongtian, who was too busy to take care of himself, had no way to do this for the time being, but fortunately, the two of them still sent a lot of food and materials to the capital, and Lu Zhongtian didn't want to reprimand them at this time, so that they didn't even support the materials and food.

The speed with which the situation changed was dizzying, and Shen Fang and Liu Sheng watched as the situation deteriorated rapidly over the course of several months. The addition of the Luoyan Army made the situation chaotic, Lu Zhongtian's ambition was exposed, and there was infamy outside the capital. When the Jurchen soldiers and horses were defeated and retreated from Shili Changgang, and when the Luoyan army arrived outside Bianliang City, Shen Fang and Liu Sheng knew that they had to draw a clear line with Lu Zhongtian. The two jointly declared their allegiance to the new emperor and published an article exposing Lü Zhongtian's ambitions. In the article, the two exposed Lu Zhongtian's various crimes of authoritarianism and corruption, and described their behavior of leaving the capital as being persecuted by Lu thieves and forced to leave Beijing, which became the most favorable evidence of their break with Lu Zhongtian. In short, this article will be bloody and bloody with Lu Zhongtian's scolding, and describe the two as loyal ministers who stick to the southeast, are loyal to the imperial court, and are not in the company of Lu thieves. For a while

It has won praise from all over the world.

However, Shen Fang and Liu Sheng knew in their hearts that in front of Lin Jue, these things were afraid that there was nothing to hide. The one surnamed Lin knew that the two of them were in Hangzhou and wagged their tails behind Wu Chunlai and begged for mercy. When Lin Jue was an official in the capital, the two of them were also officials in the capital, and they both knew their roots. So soon, Lin Jue will be eyeing the two of them, no matter how much he performs, it is useless, and he will definitely not be able to hide it. When the new law was implemented, the two of them were fierce opponents, and the deaths of Fang Dunru and Yan Zhengsu were also related to the two of them. Lin Jue will never let go of the two of them. Right now, he's busy sorting out the chaos, and once everything is back to normal, he'll do it to the two of them. That's for sure.

Shen Fang and Liu Sheng were worried, meditating, trying to find a solution. But the two couldn't find a way to break the situation, because in their opinion, Emperor Guo Kun and Lin Jue were people in the same boat, and they went through hardships together to get to where they are today. That Lin Jue can be said to be the great hero of Guo Kun's side, I'm afraid that apart from Lin Jue, Guo Kun can't tolerate them.

However, the surprise came quickly, and more than ten days after Bianliang was broken, a mysterious person came to Yangzhou with a secret letter and met Liu Sheng. Then, Liu Sheng was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually the person sent by the Queen Mother today, and what the secret letter said also made Liu Sheng stunned. The Queen Mother said very bluntly in the secret letter, she asked Liu Sheng and Shen Fang to lead the army into Beijing while Lin Jue was leading the army. The letter said that the Guo family was in trouble, and some people wanted to control the imperial court, and at this moment they needed loyal ministers to go to Jingnan. After controlling the situation in the capital, Lin Jue was forced to hand over the military power, so as to ensure that the Great Zhou Sheji would not be controlled by the ministers.

The arrival of this letter made Liu Sheng overjoyed, and the person who delivered the letter was Huang Jiang, the deputy commander of the front division of the palace. Huang Jiang said that he only needed to control some of the generals who remained in the capital to control the whole city. Lin Jue went on the expedition, and his family, wife and children were all in the city, and Lin Jue had to give in to these people. Unless Lin Jue doesn't care about the lives of the whole family, young and old. Moreover, after the Luoyan Army went on the expedition, the money and grain were controlled by the imperial court. If the capital is controlled, the Luoyan army will not even be able to supply food and grass materials, so there is no need to worry at all. He must give in.

Liu Sheng did not dare to agree immediately out of caution, and after bidding farewell to Huang Jiang, he immediately went to Shen Fang to discuss. Unexpectedly, Shen Fang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and agreed to it. Shen Fang said that this is simply the best time for the two to break the game. I was worried about what to do, but I didn't expect that the emperor and the queen mother had long been dissatisfied with Lin Jue, and they had reached such an irreconcilable point internally, wouldn't this be the best opportunity. Lin Jue is about to lead the army to the north, and Bianliang is empty, which is their best opportunity.

So Huang Jiang returned to the capital with his front foot, and the secret letter on his back foot was sent to the capital and to the hands of the Queen Mother Ah Kui. Empress Dowager Ah Kui was naturally overjoyed, and the secret edict told the two to be ready to lead the army into Beijing at any time. A few days after Lin Jue's oath to go on the expedition, Shen Fang and Liu Sheng secretly headed 30,000 soldiers and horses north and began their adventure.