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After the next dynasty, Shi Xiu came to Li Yan's side as usual and reported: "Official, something happened in the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

Li Yan asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Without waiting for Shi Xiu to answer, Chai Jin, who also came to Li Yan's side, took the lead in replying: "Li Gang has been dismissed." ”

With the development, it is inevitable that there will be some overlap between the three intelligence departments of Dazhong, and even competition.

Among them, the intersection is more dense and the competition is more fierce, which belongs to the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Political Intelligence.

At the beginning, when Dazhong had not yet entered the Central Plains, the intelligence force of the Military Intelligence Department was somewhat insufficient, and it was impossible to establish a complete intelligence network in all enemy-occupied areas, so people from Tianyan and the Political Intelligence Department were also sent to the enemy to find out the news.

After the people of Tianyan and the Political Intelligence Department entered the enemy-occupied area, they developed separately, and now they also have a strong ability to collect intelligence, and if they are withdrawn or abolished now, it is tantamount to abandoning their martial arts.

Unless it's a problem with the brain, who would do such a self-defeating thing?

Anyway, Li Yan would not do such a stupid thing.

Therefore, the intelligence personnel of Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Intelligence who entered the enemy-occupied areas and the intelligence network they developed were also retained.

And since Li Yan allowed Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Intelligence to put their hands into the plate of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, he naturally had to allow the Ministry of Military Intelligence to put their hands into the plate of Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Intelligence.

Slowly, these three intelligence departments have become what they are now, you have me, I have you, and it is difficult to separate.

In fact, Li Yan sat back and watched these three intelligence departments develop like this, in addition to the reasons mentioned above, it is also because it is beneficial for Li Yan - in this way, Li Yan can let these three parties monitor each other, lest these three intelligence departments not be controlled by Li Yan, and Li Yan is even ready to wait for the end of the war to transform the military intelligence department into another Jinyi guard.

This also leads to the fact that Chai Jin and Shi Xiu are fighting more fiercely, and now they even have a little disregard for the old brother's affection - in fact, this is also related to the character of Chai Jin and Shi Xiu, these two people, one was originally unable to be an official at all, and the other was extremely eager to get ahead, in other words, both of them have a very heavy career, and now both of them have touched the authority above ten thousand people under one person, just ask, how can they not be afraid of losing the battle and lose their current power? And then how can you not fight?

Li Yan looked at Chai Jin and said, "Oh? Li Gang was dismissed? Why? ”

Chai Jinyu reported: "Li Gang's rectification of military and political facilities will help the puppet court of the Southern Song Dynasty to support the situation, and it can still be accepted by King Song Kang, but he advocates resolutely resisting our Dazhong and opposing surrender activities, but it is not tolerated by King Song Kang, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and others. ”

Li Yan heard this and said, "Is this news accurate?" ”

Shi Xiu said: "It's true, not long ago, King Song Kang transferred Li Gang to serve as the left servant of Shangshu and the servant of the door (left phase), and appointed Huang Qianshan to take over as the right servant and Zhongshu servant to contain Li Gang, and then, the day before yesterday, he dismissed Zhang Suo and Fu Liang, abolished the Hebei and Henan Zhaofu Divisions and the Hedong Economic System Division, deliberately sabotaged Li Gang's deployment, and forced Li Gang to resign. ”

Chai Jin glanced at Shi Xiu, and then said: "Yesterday, in the early dynasty of the Southern Song Dynasty puppet court, Zhang Jun, the palace attendant, impeached Li Gang, and King Song Kang dismissed Li Gang from his post as a scholar of the Wendian University, and appointed Wang Boyan as the prime minister and Huang Qianshan as the deputy prime minister. ”

When Li Yan heard this, he sighed secretly: "Li Gang's career in the Southern Song Dynasty should be completely finished. ”

As for Zhao Gou's choice to negotiate peace, Li Yan was not surprised at all.

First of all, the current situation in the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty is very bad, not to mention that the Chinese army may cross the river at any time to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, within the Southern Song Dynasty, there are many contradictions now.

At this stage, most of the Song army listened to the orders of Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even the Zongze Department had such a situation.

It can be said that military generals have now become the biggest hidden danger in the Southern Song Dynasty, at least Zhao Gou thinks so.

Secondly, if the country wants to be stable and develop, how can it be done without money?

And the Southern Song Dynasty really has no money now.

The reason why Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty in the previous life have been able to support them all the time is because there are commercial taxes on maritime trade to support Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty, and in this life, Li Yan has long cut off the maritime trade of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty has no financial resources at all.

Now, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty can't even pay military salaries, which is also one of the main reasons why most of the soldiers of the Song army listen to the tune and do not listen to the announcement.

Again, when Zhao Ji was in power, he wantonly looted Huashigang in the south, causing the southerners to complain about the Song Dynasty, and finally even broke out the Fangla uprising, and later, the Northern Song Dynasty court sent troops to conquer Fangla, and did a lot of harm in the south, so that the mass base of the Southern Song Dynasty in the south was extremely poor, in other words, the southern people were unwilling to accept the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Finally, to sum up, there are now two very large resistance organizations in the Southern Song Dynasty.

One of them was the rebel army led by Li Cheng.

Li Cheng was originally a test archer, and later moved to Huainan to recruit envoys, and then gathered people as thieves and operated in the Jingchu area.

Not long ago, Li Cheng's gang of bandits was defeated by Yang Yizhong, and then escaped the Yangtze River and plundered in the south of the Yangtze River, and now it has grown to 100,000 people, seriously threatening the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The other group is the rebel army led by Zhong Xiang.

Zhong Xiang turned out to be the leader of a peasant uprising operating in the Dongting Lake area - this rebel army was actually also a branch of the Ming Sect.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang used religious activities to organize the masses in his hometown - all the peasants who joined his organization, that is, the "township community", had to pay a little money and grain, and the society practiced mutual assistance and mutual aid, so that "the silkworms were prosperous and physiologically rich".

Zhong Xiang declared: "The law divides the rich and the poor, and it is not a good law." I practice the law, and I should be equal to the rich and the poor, both rich and poor. ”

This is a step further than Wang Xiaobo's idea of "both rich and poor" at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As a result, Zhong Xiang was deeply supported by the masses and was called "Old Man" or "Heavenly Sage", and countless poor peasants from hundreds of miles around him joined the village community.

Not long ago, Zhong Xiang organized a militia of 300 people and ordered his eldest son Zhong Ziang to lead the north to "King Qin".

Before this team could make contact with the Chinese army, it was ordered to be repatriated by Zhao Gou, who had just ascended the throne.

Zhong Xiang was furious because of this, and he revolted on the basis of this team.

The Song Dynasty was already unpopular in the south.

In addition, because the Southern Song Dynasty could not collect commercial taxes, it could only loot the people in the south.

The rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty were tyrannical and exorbitant, and the political troubles were heavy, so that the people of the south were in dire straits.

Zhong Xiang and his gang rose up, and the citizens of 19 counties in Ding, Li, Tan, Yue, and Chen (later in Hunan Lixian, Changsha, Yueyang, and Yuanling) immediately jumped up in response.

Zhong Xiang took advantage of the situation to establish Great Chu, proclaimed himself the king of Chu, established his son Zhong Ziang as the crown prince, and set up official subordinates.

Zhong Xiang rebelled against the army, burned the official mansion, the city, the temple, the temple and the house of Haoyou, killed the officials, Confucian scholars, monks, witch doctors, diviners and people with feuds, and occupied the landlord's land for his own.

The Zhong Xiang rebel army called the killing of officials and the like "practicing the law", the equal distribution of these people's property as "Junping", denounced the national law of the Song Dynasty as an "evil law", and protected the "husband who holds the old man" and "the person who fishes the wood".

And all those who participated in the Zhongxiang rebel army were exempted from the tax differential section and were not bound by official decrees.

These propositions and actions of Zhong Xiang were warmly supported by the people of the south.

In just a few months, Zhong Xiang's rebel army swelled to tens of thousands.

The development of Zhong Xiang's rebel army frightened Zhao Gou and others, who thought that Zhong Xiang would become Fang La's second.

In this case, how could the Southern Song Dynasty dare to be the enemy of the powerful Dazhong? Naturally, it is necessary to negotiate peace with Dazhong.

Moreover, there is still a certain basis for peace talks between China and the Song Dynasty.

First of all, Dazhong's biggest enemy at present is Dajin, not the Southern Song Dynasty - the Chinese army and the Jin army have been fighting in Liaodong, Hedong, and Yandi, if the Zhongsong Dynasty can succeed in peace talks, then Dazhong can go all out to fight with Dajin and decide the ownership of the vital Yanyun and Pingzhou.

Second, Dazhong also needs troops and time to completely recover the territory north of the Yangtze River.

Again, Li Yan and Zhao Gou are not relatives, since they are relatives, why can't the two sit down and have a good talk?

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