323 Zhao Gou ascended the throne to Ying Tianfu

Men have the vision of being emperors, they want to be a ****, and they can open any lock they want. However, this key is not easy to handle, especially if the lock is rusty.

The second emperor of Huiqin was plundered to the north, and the city of Bianliang was sacked, leaving behind a devastation. The puppet emperor Zhang Bangchang still had a conscience, and as soon as Zhao Gou arrived, he knelt on the ground, wept bitterly, raised the jade seal with both hands above his head, and handed it over.

At this time, Zhao Gou still didn't want to be the emperor, this burden was too heavy, and he felt that his 20-year-old immature shoulders really couldn't pick it up. However, suddenly, a courtier fell to his knees, crying shockingly, crying ghosts and gods.

Opinions are extremely unified, the son of the old emperor Zhao Ji, except for you, King Kang Zhao Gouquan was escorted to the Jin Kingdom, who should you be? Do you still want to choose a person with a foreign surname?

Li Gang stepped forward and said: "King Kang, now the world is in chaos, the two saints are in the country of tigers and wolves, and the Central Plains cannot be left without an owner for a day!" If you don't take the position, there will be countless rebels and thieves, ready to move. Our Central Plains land, if there are emperors everywhere, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

"King Kang, please ascend the throne!" All the courtiers bowed down.

Zhao Gou always stood, but he didn't sit on the dragon chair, thought about it, and said to everyone: "Even if you ascend the throne, you can't be in Bianliang City, only by welcoming back the second emperor can you set the capital here." ”

Everyone is happy, as long as you agree to be the emperor, you can be anywhere. After discussing it, the people led by Li Gang felt that it was really not good to ascend the throne in Bianliang City. First, it is very uncomfortable to look devastated and rebuilt, and it will take some time to rebuild; Second, the second emperor of Huiqin is still alive, and there is no authorization for King Kang to ascend the throne, so it is better to choose another good place.

The courtiers talked and discussed, and felt that Nanjing Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan) was not bad, not ravaged by the Jin people's iron horses, and was not far from Bianliang.

Ying Tianfu was once called Songzhou, when Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was the envoy of Songzhou, when the name of the country was determined, he directly regarded the location of his position as the name of the country.

Later, because of Zhao Kuangyin's relationship in this Song Prefecture, the emperors paid special attention to it. In 1014 AD, in the seventh year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Zhao Heng came to Yingtianfu and promoted the level of Yingtianfu, which was called Nanjing. It is higher than the level of the Western Beijing Luoyang and Beijing Daimyo Mansions, and it is also valued, and it belongs to the vice capital of the Song Dynasty, and its political status is second only to Tokyo Bianliang.

Huhulala, accompanied by all the courtiers, Zhao Gou came from Bianliang, Tokyo, to Yingtianfu in Nanjing, and ascended the throne of the emperor. However, this throne is more or less a bit of a misname, and it is not in good faith.

Zhao Goudang's emperor was neither approved by Song Huizong nor agreed by Song Qinzong, but was hardpulled up by the courtiers. The national seal was still taken over from Zhang Bangchang, and Zhang Bangchang was the Han thief emperor of Jin Renli. Zhao Gou sat on the dragon chair, with mixed tastes, both the joy of being an emperor and the panic of being unorthodox.

The courtiers were especially happy, and in the era when they didn't know what to do when they left the emperor, it was always a good thing to have a new emperor. Everyone shouted long live, and Zhao Gou grew tenfold from a thousand years old to become the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. This day was the first day of the fifth month of 1127, and Yuan Jianyan was changed and Li Gang was appointed as the prime minister.

The military forces from all over the country were concentrated in Yingtianfu, and soon, there were millions of people. Li Gangle is broken, the Great Song Dynasty still has an army of one million, and the troops of the Jin State are said to be 200,000 more, which is five times that of the Jin people. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" cloud: "Ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy will be able to divide it, and if it is less, it can be defended, and if it is not, it can be avoided." ”

Li Gang, Zong Ze and other main battle factions began to actively write again, "five attacks on it", took the initiative to attack, hit the Jin country, and rescued the two saints.

Zhao Gou was not happy at all, he knew what was going on with the troops of the Great Song Dynasty. Of these million soldiers, less than one-tenth of them can really fight, and nine-tenths of them are rabble. The bucket has no beams - a rice bucket. More soldiers are not here to fight, but to find food.

"Zhong Aiqing, the Northern Expedition is certain, but the time is not ripe at the moment, wait a minute."

Zhao Gou's words made the main battle faction particularly dissatisfied, but the emperor spoke, so he could only wait.

Who are you waiting for? An official sent to the land of abundance to raise money. How much money did you raise? 7.3 million yuan, which was used to exchange for food and grass, enough for a million troops to eat for 20 days. What happens after 20 days? It can only be a scourge to the local people. The Song soldiers have always been invincible to the enemy and have the skill to disturb the people.

When the salaries of various troops are paid, it is very lively, which is almost like robbery. The secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the military department could not be shocked when they went into battle in person. Li Gang personally went into battle, scolded a lot, and then calmed down, and finally sent the 10-day salary.

Li Gang knew that these troops could not be stationed around Ying Tianfu for a long time, so he urged Zhao Gou to immediately go on a northern expedition and let the "million lions" of the Song Dynasty bite the Jin wolves in the north.

"Li Aiqing, at the moment, we are not defending enough, how can we attack?" Zhao Gou said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, it is courage to fight! ......" Li Gang actively strives for.

"What do you eat for this million-strong army?"

"Because of the food of the enemy. The golden man can come to us and rob it, why can't we go to the golden man to take it? ”

Li Gang does have backbone, and he is also a resolute person, and he must run to the dark when he recognizes a road. Under the pressure of Li Gang, Zhao Gou agreed with Li Gang to convene a military meeting to solicit the opinions of the generals of various armies.

More than a dozen generals of various armies were gathered together, and Li Gang held a meeting for them to do pre-war mobilization. The generals were impassioned one by one, and vowed to lead the Song Zhitie Army to fight across the Yellow River, recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and rescue the two saints.

Li Gang was particularly happy, waved his hand and said, "Prepare for three days, and then how about the Northern Expedition?" ”

"Our Western Route Army only needs to be paid 8 million yuan by Master Li, and it can cross the Yellow River within three days." Said one of the generals.

"Lord Li, I don't want so much for the Eastern Route Army, just 5 million military salaries." Said another general.

Li Gang was very angry when he heard this, and he was about to have a seizure, when the third general said: "My Northern Route Army does not want a penny of military salary from the court. ”

"Good, good, good! Now that it is a national crisis, the court really can't get so much military salary, and most of it has to be done by yourself. Li Gang saw the light of day.

"We don't want military pay, but we have to solve the problem of shoes. Offense is not the same as defense, our army in the Great Song Dynasty is dominated by infantry, and the most expensive thing is shoes. ”

"How many pairs of shoes do you get?"

"I have 100,000 troops under my command, don't have too good shoes, just straw sandals. Straw sandals are not strong, so you need a pair every three days. After a month's march, each person was given 10 pairs of straw sandals. It takes 1 million pairs of straw sandals. ”

"When?"

"We'll leave in three days, and I'll hand it in on the third day."

When the other generals heard this, they didn't want military salaries, only shoes. Li Gang was an idealist and ordered the people of Tianfu and the surrounding areas to weave straw sandals......

Straw sandals were woven a lot, but the horse material was gone, because the grass became straw sandals.

Zhao Gou had two favored ministers, Wang Boyan and Huang Qian took the opportunity to speak ill of Li Gang, saying that he ordered to use military grass to weave straw shoes, and the war horses were starved and thin, how could they fight?

Zhao Gou didn't like Li Gang in the first place, so he took the opportunity to kill his appearance. Ordered where the troops around Ying Tianfu came from and where they returned. In fact, this is also a way to do it.

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