The civil and military ministers saw that Shi Hao and Yang Congyi were standing with the emperor, and even the scholars of Zhang University, who were nearly eighty years old, were excluded from the palace, and no one dared to say more for a while.

Although Shi Hao was on the side of the emperor and Yang Congyi, it did not mean that he agreed to Zhao Yan's personal expedition, after all, leaving Bianjing did have a certain risk.

But in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Shi Hao is not good at refuting the emperor's face, and it is impossible to disagree with the emperor in the court, as the prime minister, how to deal with the relationship with the emperor, he is very clear and skilled.

In the eyes of other ministers, what the emperor said in the court, or what the prime minister said in the court, must have been discussed by the emperor and the prime minister in advance, and it is impossible to talk nonsense.

So even if Zhao Yan suddenly said something surprising, after seeing Shi Hao's statement, everyone didn't think about it anymore, anyway, if such a major event can be said in the court, it means that it is already a definite thing, whoever dares to jump out to oppose it will definitely be refuted back, Mo Ji and Zhang Daxue have already set an example, who dares to say more?

"Since you have no objections, the matter of the royal conquest has been decided."

After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he looked at Shi Hao, and then continued: "The unification of Yanyun is a great cause through the ages, and it is widely implicated, and it is not a work that can be achieved overnight. Shi Xiang, would you like to stay in Bianjing and take on a great responsibility? ”

In addition to the necessary officials of the three provinces, six ministries and departments, most of the ministers in the court and the central government have to accompany them, so many people leave the capital, there will inevitably be changes in the rear, and they will generally leave their henchmen and important ministers to guard the capital.

Shi Hao is Zhao Yan's teacher, the relationship between the two is very good, after Zhao Yan ascended the throne, he has always won his trust and reuse, especially the Lin'an change more than ten years ago, Shi Hao resisted the situation, moved the capital to Bianjing, and kept Zhao Yan's throne, since then Shi Hao's position as prime minister has been unshaken.

Therefore, Zhao Yan accompanied the Northern Expeditionary Army to personally march, and Shi Hao was naturally the best person to stay in Bianjing City, except for him, Zhao Yan could not fully trust others.

When Shi Hao heard Zhao Yan say that he wanted to drive the expedition in person, he was already thinking about countermeasures.

Through these years of getting along, he knows that Zhao Yan has gradually changed, he is no longer the student he can easily persuade, his heart is becoming more and more firm, once a decision is made, there are few changes, and because of this, the Great Song Dynasty has recovered a large area of land in Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi in just ten years, as Zhao Yan becomes more and more mature and independent, he no longer needs to worry about this student, and worry too much.

Therefore, since Zhao Yan suddenly announced in front of the civil and military forces of the previous dynasty that he would drive the imperial expedition in person, Shi Hao could only agree with it although he was shocked, and hurriedly thought about remedial measures, how to make the emperor go out with the army smoothly and maintain the stability of the world.

After thinking about it, Shi Hao could only decide to stay in Bianjing and watch Bianjing and the imperial court for him, a student.

Zhao Yan's idea coincided with Shi Hao's decision, so Shi Hao immediately responded: "The old minister received the order, and he will definitely help the emperor to be optimistic about Bianjing, coordinate all ministries and local governments, and ensure the logistics and military supply of the Northern Expedition Army!" ”

"There's a history of labor." Zhao Yan looked at Shi Hao and nodded slightly.

After Shi Hao retreated from the queue, Zhao Yan raised his eyes to look at the ministers, and said in a loud voice: "This time, the civil and military officials of all ministries and departments in Bianjing, except for the necessary personnel on duty, and the officials above the sixth grade who are in good health, will all act with the army. Within ten days, all ministries and departments plan to stay in Bianjing and the officers accompanying the army, and set out with the Northern Expedition army half a month later! ”

"Yes!"

The emperor had already ordered hundreds of officials to accompany him, and although many people did not want to leave Beijing to suffer, they could only follow the orders of the public.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the ministers left the palace.

Shi Hao and Yang Congyi stayed at the end.

"Xiangye, has the emperor discussed with you in advance about the emperor's personal conquest?" Yang Congyi was worried.

"Yang Gong is too careful, if the old man knew in advance that the emperor wanted to drive the expedition in person, he would have stopped it. Although it is important to recover the homeland, for the current Great Song Dynasty, stable development is the top priority, and when the national strength is strong, when will Yanyun not be recovered. The emperor is still too anxious. Shi Hao glanced at Yang Congyi as he spoke, and there seemed to be a deep meaning in his eyes.

"Don't be careful, I just asked casually. The emperor suddenly wanted to drive the expedition in person, so he disrupted the previous established deployment of the Privy Council, and now he has to readjust, plus hundreds of officials accompany him, everything is inconvenient, and the Northern Expedition may change. ”

After Yang Congyi finished speaking, he smiled lightly and said: "Actually, I also think that this is not the best time to unify Yanyun, if there are two more years of preparation, I will be able to get nine out of ten." But the emperor is in a hurry, and I can't persuade him. ”

"This time, Yang Gong is sure that he will use all his national strength to launch the Northern Expedition?" The royal conquest is a matter of the emperor, and Shi Hao's face is full of worry.

Hearing this question, Yang Congyi did not answer immediately.

After thinking for a while, he replied: "If there is no accident in Zhending Mansion, there is eighty percent certainty that Yanjing, Pingzhou and other places will be captured within the year." If the 70,000 Jin troops of Zhending Mansion defect to Yanjing, the certainty of winning Yanjing within the year will be reduced by three points. Of course, if Bianjing can continue to supply grain and grass and military supplies until August next year, even if the Jin army of Zhending Mansion defects to Yanjing, it will not be a problem for the Great Song Dynasty to take the Yanjing region. ”

"I know that Yang Gong's marches and fights are all planned and then moved, since I say so, this time I should be sure to take Yanjing, even if I can't take it, it will not hurt the vitality of the Great Song Dynasty, or put the emperor and the civil and military officials in danger." Shi Hao nodded slightly after hearing this.

"Don't worry, the emperor and the hundred officials will accompany me, I will naturally not be careless, let alone let the emperor and the hundred officials be in danger." Yang Congyi immediately made a guarantee.

Shi Hao and Yang Congyi are one scholar and one martial arts, one inside and one outside, and have been in charge of the situation in the north of the Great Song Dynasty for more than ten years.

This time, the Northern Expedition of the whole country hollowed out the national strength, whether it was success or failure, it was related to the future of the Great Song Dynasty, and the two did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest.

Three days later, Yang Congyi, Shi Hao, and several governors were summoned to the palace to discuss the preparations for the Northern Expedition and the stay in Bianjing.

Five days later, Zhao Yan awarded the privy envoy Yang Congyi the generalissimo seal of the Northern Expedition, commanding the 300,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty and the Northern Expedition to Dongjin!

On August 27, the twelfth year of Beiding, Yang Congyi, the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition, swore an oath to Xingren Mansion and personally led the 50,000 troops who gathered in Xingren Mansion in advance to go north to Jinan Mansion.

At the same time, the commander of the expedition ordered Pegasus to spread to Guide, Jeju, Xuzhou, Bozhou, Linyi and other places, and ordered all troops to rush to Hejian Province before the tenth day of October.

The army went north, and Zhending Mansion, which was closer to Bianjing, was the first to learn the news, and adjusted the defensive deployment within five days, and transferred all the 20,000 elites stationed in Baozhou to the front line of the Daimyo's Mansion in the south of Zhending Mansion to further strengthen the defense of Zhending Mansion.

The Baozhou Jin army was transferred, and ten days later, Yanjing also found out the news.

On the same day that Yanjing stayed behind and received the news that the Great Song Dynasty would launch a large-scale Northern Expedition, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty set off from Bianjing to Liaoyang Mansion and entered Liaoyang City.

The young envoys of the Great Song Dynasty and their entourage were warmly received on the day they entered the Liaoyang City Hotel, and agreed to submit their credentials three days later.

Three days later, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty entered the court with the national letter in their hands.

On the top of the main hall, after handing over the credentials, in front of the civil and military ministers of the Eastern Jin and Manchu Dynasty and the gold lord Wan Yan Yong, he sharply reprimanded the Jin State for treachery fifty years ago, and seized the sixteen states of Yanyun that should have belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, and then it was even more lustful, regardless of the Song-Jin alliance to invade the Great Song Dynasty in the south, resulting in the destruction of the lives north of the Yangtze River, and it was a shameless robbery of Bianjing, not only the Great Song Dynasty's century-old accumulated wealth was looted, but also even the Great Song Dynasty royal family did not let go, robbing more than 3,000 royal relatives, so that they suffered in the north, although this feud has passed fifty years, but the people of the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to forget. Now the Great Song Dynasty has been reborn after the catastrophe and returned to Bianjing, seeking justice for the royal ministers who were robbed that year, and retrieving the land belonging to the Great Song Dynasty!

When the Dongjin monarchs and ministers heard this, they were all shocked.

This is completely beyond their expectations, so many times before, no one has ever mentioned the southern invasion of Bianjing and the looting of the royal family, why mention it today?

Just when Wan Yan Yong and his courtiers were in shock, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty made another shocking remark.

The young envoy of the Great Song Dynasty was completely unafraid that he was in Liaoyang City, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, standing on top of the imperial hall of the Liaoyang Imperial City of the Jin Kingdom, full of Jin people, and announced five requirements in public.

First, the Great Song Dynasty has now returned to Bianjing, and the Great Song land previously seized by the Jin State must be returned, including but not limited to Yanjing and Pingzhou, and the Jin army must withdraw within a month!

Second, the gold, silver, jewelry, and other money looted by the Jin Kingdom from Bianjing City fifty years ago must be returned within three years!

Third, the damage caused by the Jin State's plundering of the royal family and ministers fifty years ago must also be compensated and compensated!

Fourth, the amount of property to be returned and the amount of compensation and compensation that need to be paid, within a month, send important ministers not lower than the level of vice minister to Bianjing and the Great Song Dynasty to calculate!

Fifth, if the requirements of the Great Song Dynasty are complied with, the Song and Jin countries will continue to live amicably, and if they do not comply, the day when the 500,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty go north will be the time when the Jin State will be destroyed!

As soon as the five requirements were put forward, Wanyan Yongjun and his ministers were in an uproar, and there were many discussions in the hall, all of which made the ministers lose their minds and go crazy.

Some people talk and scold, and some people are so angry that they rush forward and want to beat people.

Emperor Wan Yan Yong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also angry, his face was pale, but his reason was not lost.

The national letter in his hand had not yet been unfolded, and he didn't know whether what the envoy said in front of him was the envoy's own disappointment, or the original intention of the Song court, so he hurriedly drank the courtier.

When he unfolded the national letter and looked at it, he suddenly became angry.

There is not much difference between the letter of state and the dictation of the envoys, one is to ask for land, the other is to ask for money, and finally it is also to threaten war, and if there is no reply for a month, they will send troops and take Yanjing by themselves!

Wanyan was extremely angry, and in a fit of anger, he threw the national letter to His Royal Highness.

The envoys of the Great Song Dynasty immediately warned and asked, the national letter is the face of the imperial court, and throwing the Great Song National Letter into the ground is not to break the contract and destroy the relationship between Song and Jin?

The gold lord is angry.

The courtiers of the Jin State said that the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty were rude and provocative, and Liwei should be killed!

The envoys of the Great Song Dynasty laughed wildly and fearlessly, and said in their mouths, the Great Song Dynasty has gathered 500,000 troops, and if the mission is a little worse, within a month, the troops will come to Yanjing!