A few days later, Zhao Gou summoned Zhao Wei, the king of Jian, to enter Deokshou Palace.

After the ceremony, Zhao Wei sat down on the side, and then asked respectfully, "Is my father feeling better?"

"Well, the Imperial Doctor has come to see it, it's okay, just rest more." Zhao Gou looked at the other party and replied.

"It's okay, the Great Song Dynasty can't do without his father, his father can take care of his body, if he has any discomfort, he must call the imperial doctor in time. The sons would often come to the palace to visit their father. Zhao Wei was very respectful.

"Wei'er, what have you been up to lately?" Zhao Gou suddenly asked.

"Recently, I've been reading and practicing calligraphy in the house, and I'm not particularly busy." Zhao Wei replied cautiously.

"Recently, the DPRK and China have been arguing very much, seeing that you don't say a word, you should also have ideas, tell me, what do you think?" Zhao Gou asked.

"No matter how noisy the ministers are, it is for the good of the Great Song Dynasty, the more they quarrel, the more sincere they are, if they are all harmonious and indifferent, that is the problem." Zhao Wei thought for a moment and slowly replied.

"Well, that's good." Zhao Gou nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Then what do you think about the battle and peace?" ”

Zhao Wei said bluntly: "Erchen thinks that this time is indeed a godsend, the Jin people are in civil strife, and they are defeated and fled all the way from the Yangtze River to the north, and there is no time to look south, it is the time for us to go north and recover our homeland!" Before the Jin people raised millions of troops, they could not break through the Yangtze River defense line, they had already lost their morale, and they were defeated all the way, and their morale was bound to be more depressed, and our army was like a rainbow. If we don't grasp this opportunity, I'm afraid it will be difficult to regain our homeland in the future. Erchen suggested that the army should be used against the north, and that the matter of peace should not be discussed for the time being, and that it should be decided whether to fight or make peace according to the situation when Bianjing and the Yellow River are recaptured. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Gou was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Wei'er, how many years have you been in the palace?" ”

Zhao Wei replied: "Erchen entered the palace for the first time when he was six years old, and today he is thirty-six, and he has been in the palace for thirty years. ”

"Yes, it's been thirty years, time flies so fast, you've grown up, and I'm old." Zhao Gou sighed.

"My father is still young, and my sons are still young." Zhao Wei replied cautiously.

"Don't comfort me, I know myself, you are not small, and I am really old, this big Song Jiangshan depends on you after all." When Zhao Gou said this, his eyes stayed on Zhao Wei's face.

"Father, don't say that, who can pick up the Great Song Dynasty except for his father?" Zhao Wei was panicked and hurriedly thanked him.

"Okay, I'm tired, you can go back first." Zhao said goodbye and waved his hand.

"Yes, my father has a good rest, take care of his body, and his son will retire!" Zhao Wei got up and slowly withdrew from Deokshou Palace.

Zhao Gou looked at the empty hall, was silent for a long time, and then sighed.

A few days later, on May 28, Zhao Gou issued an edict, announcing that the world should establish the crown prince Zhao Wei as the crown prince and change his name to Zhao Yan!

Although the crown prince was chosen, the court and China did not stop quarreling because of this, and they continued to quarrel every day about the question of how to fight and how to fight, but they never paid attention to it.

A few days later, Zhao Gou summoned Zhao Yan again at Deshou Palace.

After the two spoke a few words, Zhao Gou claimed that he had broken his heart for the Great Song Dynasty in the past few decades, and now he was really tired, and then expressed his intention to give up the throne to the crown prince.

Zhao Yan cried bitterly when he heard this, and resolutely resigned! Claiming that the Great Song Dynasty was decades ago, when the wind and rain were shaking, it was the father who rebuilt the court in danger, and now the Great Song Dynasty is not stable, the people of the dawn of the world are inseparable from the father, and the Great Song Dynasty is inseparable from the father, please never mention the matter of Zen again!

Who knew that Zhao Gou had made up his mind, the words had been spoken, there was no room for remorse, he didn't want to talk back, he had been thinking about it for a long time, and he just happened to meet the Jin people going south, so he delayed, and now the Jin people have retreated, and the government is stable, it is the most appropriate time!

Zhao Yan cried bitterly, resolutely refused to accept it, and asked the emperor to take back his fate!

That night, Zhao Yan stayed at Deoksugung Palace.

The next day, Zhao Goukou ordered Chen Kangbo and other ministers to enter the palace, explaining his decision to give up the throne to the crown prince Zhao Yan.

Do you want to give in, this is the emperor's family, Chen Kangbo and others did not ask the emperor to take back the order, but just knelt down to receive the order.

On the same day, the edict of Chan Rang was promulgated, and the crown prince Zhao Yan inherited the throne, Zhao Gou was renamed Emperor Taishang, and Empress Wu was renamed Empress Taishang.

On the same day that the edict was issued, Zhao Gou moved out of Deoksugung Palace and left the palace, where he had lived for more than 30 years.

At that time, it was raining heavily, and Zhao Yan wept bitterly, and personally pulled the carriage for Zhao Gou and left the palace.

After hearing the news, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officers who rushed to the vicinity of the palace lined up outside the Donghua Gate to see them off, and the carriages were everywhere, and hundreds of officials knelt down!

Zhao Gou's carriage went out of Donghua Gate, leaving the palace only a few zhang, Zhao Gou ordered Zhao Yan to go back to the palace, the palace can not be left without an owner for a day, the rest of the way, he walked by himself!

Zhao Yan knelt on the ground in the rain, crying bitterly.

Zhao Gou's carriage guard of honor gradually disappeared, disappeared on the royal street, and was hidden in the smoke and rain.

On the same day, Zhao Gou moved into a new palace and renamed it Deokshou Palace, with pavilions and pavilions in the palace, flowers, birds, fish and insects, all available, more spacious and quiet than in the palace, and began a leisurely life of 25 years.

After seeing off the Emperor Taishang in the smoke and rain, the civil and military officials led by Chen Kangbo helped Zhao Yan, who was soaked and almost powerless, and embraced him from Donghua Gate into the palace.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs hurriedly washed and changed Zhao Yan's clothes, and the civil and military ministers prepared to welcome the new emperor to the throne.

An hour later, Zhao Yan was brought into the Daqing Hall by the governor of the inner province and a group of inner servants half-pushed and half-pulled, and pushed to the throne.

Zhao Yan was still crying bitterly at this time, his eyes were red and swollen, and he stood next to the throne without the slightest intention of sitting down.

The civil and military officials waited to see the new emperor, and Zhao Yan resigned and insisted on waiting for the emperor to come back.

Chen Kangbo, Zhu Zhuo and other civil and military officials were in His Royal Highness, and they were invited to sit seven times in a row, and Zhao Yancai sat on the throne under the push and pull of the provincial servants.

His Royal Highness's long-awaited civil and military ministers immediately knelt down and shouted three times to meet the eleventh emperor since the opening of the Great Song Dynasty and the second emperor since the southern crossing of the imperial court.

At this point, Zhao Yan ascended the throne and began his life of hard work.

After Zhao Yan ascended the throne, the fierce debate between the court's martial arts and ministers about whether to fight or make peace quickly disappeared and became a voice, which finally boiled down to four words, restore the Central Plains!

In July of the 32nd year of Shaoxing, in the second month of Zhao Yan's ascension to the throne as emperor, he was appointed to preside over the defense of Zhenjiang last year but did not see anyone for a long time, and finally came late after the retreat of the Jin people, and then Zhang Jun, the old minister of the main battle faction who lived in Jiankangda for half a year, was edicted into the court to discuss the restoration of the river and mountain.

Before conscripting Zhang Jun into the court, the court and the central government in order to push who to be the commander, presided over the Northern Expedition plan to discuss for a long time, looking at the Great Song Dynasty army once the world's famous generals are almost gone, last year's commander Liu Qi, the old commander of the enemy, has died of illness in Zhenjiang last year, the only remaining old commander is Zhang Jun, but he has been idle for 20 years, did not pay attention to the government, let alone participate in military affairs.

Although he is old, sixty-five years old, he once commanded hundreds of thousands of troops as a general, and fought with the Jin people for many years, and was as famous as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Liu Guangshi and other famous marshals, and had great prestige in the Great Song Dynasty and the army.

Moreover, Zhang Jun has also been the prime minister for many years, and he is very familiar with military affairs and government affairs, and the Northern Expedition is too complicated, and it affects the whole body, and it is very necessary to have people who understand the military and politics, so it is most appropriate for him to preside over the Northern Expedition.

After Zhang Jun was transferred to the DPRK and Central China as a member of the Privy Council, he and the radical prime minister Chen Kangbo immediately formed an unbreakable alliance, and the two had only one goal, the Northern Expedition immediately! Northern Expedition Now!

However, there are still different voices in the court, and this voice also comes from the main battle faction, but they are relatively conservative, among which Yang Cunzhong and Shi Hao, the teacher of the new emperor Zhao Yan, are the leaders.

The two of them, one is the confidant of the Emperor Zhao Gou, and the other is a teacher who has made great contributions to Zhao Yan in the process of ascending the throne, and Zhao Yan has to pay attention to what they said.

The conservatives of the main battle faction led by Yang Cunzhong, the county king who had commanded the palace for many years, and Shi Hao, the teacher of the new emperor and the governor of the political affairs, believed that the Northern Expedition was too hasty at this time, and the entire Great Song Dynasty, whether it was the monarch and officials, or the army and the people, was not prepared.

The specific idea is to first establish a solid defense on the Yangtze River, no matter what the outcome of the Northern Expedition is in the future, to ensure that Jiangnan is not lost, Jiangnan is safe, and the rear is stable, so that the imperial court and the people can fully support the Northern Expedition, and then steadily advance northward, and when the time is right, the Central Plains can be recovered!

According to their assumptions, it would be best to prepare for five years before the Northern Expedition, and at least three years.

For three years, Chen Kangbo couldn't accept it, and Zhang Jun couldn't accept it.

So the two who held the military and political power, with the acquiescence of Zhao Yan, began to recruit troops and horses, raise grain and grass, and actively prepare for the Northern Expedition.

When the court and the central government were secretly preparing for the Northern Expedition, Zhao Yan accepted Shi Hao's suggestion and issued an edict in the name of the Emperor Tai to redress Yue Fei's wrongs, recover Yue Fei's original official, rebury Qixialing in West Lake with rites, pardon his exiled family members, and ask for descendants, especially to recruit, so as to boost morale, boost the hearts of the army, and comfort the people!

In October of the same year, the imperial court issued an official proclamation, announcing the recovery of Yue Fei's treatment of "Shaobao, Wusheng Dingguo Army Festival Envoy, Wuchang County Founding Prince, 6,100 households in Shiyi, and 2,600 households in Shishifeng".

In addition, the new emperor Zhao Yan gradually began to renew officials for other ministers of the main war faction who were degraded and deposed, including Zhang Xiaoxiang, the 24th champion of Shaoxing.

The main battle faction has been reused, with Zhang Jun, Chen Kangbo, Yang Cunzhong, Shi Hao and others in the court, and Zhang Xiaoxiang and Xin Qiji, who were attached to Nandu, in Bozhou and Suzhou on the front.

From the inside to the outside, from Lin'an to the border, all in active preparations, after the new emperor ascended the throne, the entire Great Song Dynasty weather, a new one!