In the vertical arch hall, Zhao Zhen frowned and looked at the folds in his hand, and the folds on the bookcase in front of him had also been piled up, these are all about the twists and turns of this war against Liao, the war is not only a matter of the army, but a test of a country's comprehensive strength, especially this time it is a national war, and it involves all aspects, and these need Zhao Zhen to worry about.

"Why is there a problem with the canal again, what are these officials doing, don't you know that the canal is related to the success or failure of this war?" Zhao Zhen suddenly slapped the fold in his hand on the table and said angrily.

There are 100,000 troops gathered at Gubeikou, although Yanyun has stabilized in recent years and has developed greatly, but it is still a little difficult to supply 100,000 troops, so logistics materials still need to be transported from the rear, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal naturally undertakes this task.

However, since the defeat of Yanyun, the traffic volume of this Grand Canal has also increased greatly, after all, the northern end of the canal has been deep into Yanyun, but the canal in Liao has fallen into disrepair, which has greatly affected the transportation volume of the canal, resulting in the canal often being blocked, and now even the logistics of the army are affected, which makes him very annoyed.

But at this moment, I suddenly saw an inner servant running in quickly, Zhao Zhen was angry, and just wanted to open his mouth to reprimand, but he didn't expect the inner servant to open his mouth to report: "Your Majesty, Dingbei Hou asks to see!" ”

Hearing that it was Li Zhang coming, this made Zhao Zhen stunned at first, and then showed a happy expression, although Li Zhang has occasionally entered the palace in recent years, but he has always visited the Empress Dowager Li, and he has never come to the Vertical Arch Hall like before, and Zhao Zhen also promised to let Li Zhang rest, so he was embarrassed to summon him again, but he didn't expect Li Zhang to take the initiative to come today.

Zhao Zhen wanted to let people invite Li Zhang in, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he simply ran out to greet him, only to see Li Zhang also standing outside the vertical arch hall at this time, when he saw Zhao Zhen running out in person, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Your Majesty came out in person, is it too stuffy in the hall?" ”

"Haha~, it's great that you can come, cousin, I'm having a headache for the affairs of Liaoguo, come with me!" Zhao Zhen didn't pay attention to Li Zhang's ridicule, but pulled him to the main hall.

Li Zhang did not refuse, and immediately followed Zhao Zhen into the vertical arch hall again, although he hadn't been here for five years, there didn't seem to be much change here, but when he saw the mountain of folds on Zhao Zhen's bookcase, he couldn't help frowning.

"Cousin, you see, in order to attack the Liao State, all aspects need to be taken into account, these are the twists and turns about this war sent below, my head hurts these days!" Zhao Zhen also noticed Li Zhang's gaze, and pointed at these twists and turns very helplessly at the moment.

Li Zhang didn't say anything when he heard this, but picked up a copy and looked at it, then dropped it and read a few more, and finally he raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhen and said, "Just leave these trivial matters to the ministers below to deal with, Your Majesty, why do you bother to do everything?" ”

"This ...... I...... I'm mainly not at ease, after all, such a big matter, the ministers below may go wrong. Zhao Zhen said with some embarrassment.

In fact, this is not the first time Li Zhang has said this to Zhao Zhen, Liu E liked to bow down to everything, but as a result, all the big and small things were pressed on him, causing Liu E's body to get worse and worse, and Zhao Zhen also inherited Liu E's problem, he was already weak, and now he works day and night, and it is strange that there is no problem with his body.

"The duty of a minister is to share the worries of His Majesty, if Your Majesty does everything yourself, then what's the use of raising so many ministers?" Li Zhang reluctantly persuaded again, although these twists and turns in front of him are important, they can be handed over to the ministers to deal with themselves, and Zhao Zhen only needs to control the overall situation, so that the burden on his body will be much lighter.

Zhao Zhen also knew that Li Zhang was thinking about himself, and he did everything himself during this time, so he did feel a little unbearable, so he also nodded at this time: "I understand, come here, send these twists and turns to the political affairs hall, and Han Qi and them will handle it at their discretion!" ”

After Lu Yijian's death, Yan Shu was just a transition, so last year, he stepped down as prime minister, but this time it was the young Han Qi who took over the position of prime minister, in fact, Han Qi and Li Zhang are no longer young, but in comparison, his qualifications in the officialdom are still a little shallow, and he is not very old, but Zhao Zhen promoted him to become the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, because he felt that the Great Song Dynasty was in a critical period of change, and he must be helped by an energetic and open-minded person. So Zhao Zhen chose Han Qi.

With Zhao Zhen's instructions, the chamberlain immediately hugged the folds on the bookcase, of course, there were some extremely important folds left, which only Zhao Zhen could handle, but compared to the previous piles of twists, these folds were insignificant at all.

"Cousin, come with me, there is a strategic plan for this time in the side hall, please help me take a look!" Zhao Zhen immediately pulled Li Zhang again and walked to the side hall, where there was a sand table, and the strategy of attacking the Liao State this time had already been formulated, of course, the battlefield must be played by Cao Yu himself this time, but the main framework remains the same.

Li Zhang followed Zhao Zhen to the sand table in the side hall, and saw that on one of the maps of Liao, two routes for sending troops had been marked with small flags, the starting points were Zhenzhou and Gubeikou, and the number of soldiers, marching routes, and so on were also marked.

"Cousin, you see, this time the main will be Cao Mata's army, but the first to attack is Di Qing's cavalry, they will be from Zhenzhou along the Donkey River to the east, with the fastest speed to threaten the Liao State to Beijing, if the Liao army organizes troops to block, Cao Mata will immediately kill from the Gubei mouth, if the other party does not block, then Di Qing will turn his head to attack Raozhou, Raozhou is the main road between Zhongjing and Shangjing, as long as they occupy here, they can cut off the connection between Zhongjing and Shangjing, so that Zhongjing has no way to retreat......"

Zhao Zhen told Li Zhang about the entire strategic plan with great interest, of course, although the plan is good, there must be variables, so there is also a plan to deal with each variable, which also makes the entire strategic plan very large, but Zhao Zhen is very serious.

Li Zhang is not a military general, and he only knows a little about the art of war, so even if he listens to the entire strategic plan, I am afraid he will not be able to make any suggestions, and the whole plan has already been formulated, and the army may go out at any time, and it is impossible to change the plan at this time, so in the matter of attacking Liao, Li Zhang can't help at all.

But Li Zhang still listened very carefully, because he knew that Zhao Zhen didn't need him to make any suggestions, but needed to get involved himself, and it was enough to share some pressure for him.