In late February, a Great Song army crossed the Yellow River from north to south, and on the 25th arrived in Dongming County, under the jurisdiction of Xingren Prefecture, and set up camp.

On the 27th, the commanders of the armies went to the camp to meet the emperor Zhao Yan.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, a news Pegasus came back to Lin'an, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

According to the news, Yang Congyi, commander of the Right Route Army of the Northern Expedition, suddenly led 100,000 troops into Xingren Mansion, and went to the camp with 50 generals to meet Zhao Yan.

The Great Song Dynasty can't stand the toss!

Chen Kangbo, who learned the news, was so anxious that he almost fainted, and after some recuperation, he was relieved, and on the same day, he met Yang Cunzhong, Tang Siwei and others to continue to discuss how to calm down the chaos.

Late at night, they still couldn't reach an agreement, and there were endless arguments.

Tang Siwei thinks that there are no two days, there are no two masters in the country, and the emperor is back in the court, so there can only be one emperor in the Great Song Dynasty, not in Lin'an, not in the center, naturally he can't be the emperor, and resolutely supports Zhao Gou's re-enthronement on the throne, and strongly advocates the abolition of Zhao Yan and the demotion to a concubine.

Yang Cunzhong originally also supported Tang Si's retreat, a country can not have two masters, after the Jingkang Rebellion, it was the Emperor Zhao Gou in the Great Song Dynasty when the storm was turbulent, rebuilt the Lin'an court, protected half of the Great Song Dynasty, has been more than 30 years, in terms of meritorious qualifications, Zhao Yan can not be compared with Zhao Gou, even after Zhao Yan became the emperor, he regained the lost territory and recovered Bianjing.

But now Yang Congyi led the army south from the Daimyo's Mansion to Xingren Mansion to support Zhao Yan, which made Yang Cunzhong worried.

Although Yang Cunzhong does not have an exact number of soldiers and horses in Yang Congyi's Eastern Route Army, the number of troops will not be less than 150,000 in terms of the territory north of the Yellow River controlled by Yang Congyi, including the whole of Shandong, and may even reach 200,000.

With such a large number of troops in his hands, Yang Congyi's decision is enough to affect the overall situation of the world.

The troops have not moved for a long time, and now they suddenly lead the army into Xingren Mansion, so it is obvious that Yang Congyi wants to openly support Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan has not been on the throne for a long time, fledgling, except for his mentor Shi Hao, there are not a few confidant ministers in the entire Lin'an, and those old ministers in the court have been with Zhao Gou for much longer than with him, if there is no military support, if you want to abolish him, it is a matter of edict.

But now Zhao Yan has the support of Yang Congyi, who has a heavy army, and if he wants to abolish him, it will not be so easy, if it is not good, the world will be in chaos, if the Jin Kingdom in the north is given a chance to breathe, the Great Song Dynasty may die in front of Yang Cunzhong!

Therefore, at this time, Yang Cunzhong began to consider Chen Kangbo's suggestion, the two emperors coexisted, set up the southern court and the northern court, and ruled by dividing the river!

Emperor Zhao Gou took advantage of the emperor's imperial expedition and returned to the court, which was already doomed that the world of the Great Song Dynasty could not be peaceful again, and Prime Minister Chen Kangbo hurriedly returned to Lin'an to find a one-in-10,000 possibility of stabilizing the world.

But if you look through the history books, you have never seen a unified country with two emperors ruling together at the same time, let alone two imperial courts.

But if the people of the world do not admit that the two Great Song emperors exist at the same time and abolish any emperor, the world will immediately be full of disputes, and the Great Song Dynasty, which has just succeeded in the Northern Expedition and recovered Bianjing and other northern lost lands, will repeat the mistakes of the Jingkang Rebellion, and then it will not only be Bianjing, but the entire Great Song Dynasty!

Chen Kangbo, as the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, will never allow this to happen.

After brewing for a long time, the idea of "the coexistence of the two emperors, the establishment of the southern court and the northern court, and the rule of the river" gradually took shape in his heart.

However, how to make Zhao Gou, the courtiers and the common people accept this idea, it is a big problem, after all, such a thing has not appeared in thousands of years of history, after the division of the north and the south, how to eliminate the huge hidden danger, in order to prevent the north and the south from attacking and annihilating each other, there is no suitable solution.

But for Chen Kangbo, solving the problem of coexistence of the two emperors in front of him is far more important than how to eliminate the hidden danger, if the two emperors cannot coexist, the Great Song Dynasty will soon break out into war, if the problem of coexistence is solved, the two sides will have time to sit down and slowly discuss how to avoid attack.

It is a pity that Chen Kangbo's idea was fiercely criticized by the old ministers of the former dynasty led by Tang Siwei from the beginning, saying that he wanted to split the Great Song Dynasty, and with ill intentions, he wrote letters one after another, demanding that Chen Kangbo be removed from the post of prime minister.

Zhao Gou is an absolutely smart person, because of the Northern Expedition, several large armies are stationed in the north, Li Xianzhong, Wu Gong, Yang Congyi, the three of them hold more than 300,000 troops, now the army is outside, the situation is unknown, and Zhao Yan lives in Xingren Mansion, and there are many old ministers who support him, their protégés are all over the world, many are local officials, holding real power, a successful Northern Expedition, so that Zhao Yan's reputation is in the sky, although Lin'an is in the hands of Zhao Gou, but he does not dare to move him easily.

Chen Kangbo, as the prime minister and the head of the main battle faction, has been presiding over the Northern Expedition for several years, coordinating in the middle, and supporting Zhao Yan who supported the Northern Expedition is almost tied together, and he is prosperous, the Northern Expedition is successful, and his reputation is unmatched among the courtiers, and he led a group of courtiers from Xingren Mansion to return to Lin'an, thinking about the world, and at the same time on behalf of Zhao Yan to return to Lin'an to seek an explanation.

Although Zhao Gou is cowardly, he is not stupid, he cannot remove Chen Kangbo, and he will not remove Chen Kangbo.

Now that Zhao Gou and Zhao Yan have basically lost the possibility of face-to-face communication, Chen Kangbo may be the only person he and Zhao Yan trust together, once Chen Kangbo is dismissed, he will lose contact with Zhao Yan, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The chaos in the world disturbed him to enjoy his old age, which was not what Zhao Gou wanted.

As a result, Tang Siwei and others requested the removal of Chen Kangbo as prime minister, but Zhao Gou rejected them all.

When Yang Congyi, the commander of the Right Route Army of the Northern Expedition, led his army to settle in Xingren Mansion, and the news of Gongwei's camp was transmitted back to Lin'an, the ministers of the DPRK and China were originally entangled and difficult to decide, but it quickly became clear.

The 150,000 troops on the right side of the Northern Expedition supported Zhao Yan, which meant that the north of the Yellow River, Shandong East Road, Shanxi East Road, Hebei and other places were all on Zhao Yan's side.

In the eyes of the discerning people in the court, Yang Congyi led an army from the Daimyo Mansion to defend Zhao Yan's camp, which indicated that Zhao Yan at least had the support of the vast area north of the Huai River, even if Lin'an was able to control Li Xianzhong, the Chinese army of the Northern Expedition, and Wu Gong, the left army, once Lin'an announced to the world and broke with Zhao Yan, Li Xianzhong and Wu Gong would not be able to continue to stay in Bianjing and Luoyang, Wu Gong might return to Xiangyang, and Li Xianzhong could only retreat to Huaixi.

As the situation has gradually become clear, and the abolition of Emperor Zhao Yan's throne can only put the Great Song Dynasty in extreme danger, so Chen Kangbo's concept of coexistence between the two emperors began to become one of the only options to solve the problem, including Chen Kangbo, Tang Siwei, Yang Cunzhong, more than a dozen important ministers of the Great Song Dynasty entered the final discussion, time waits for no one, they must immediately come up with a feasible strategy to solve the dilemma in front of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the Qinzheng Palace, Emperor Zhao Gou summoned Tang Siwei, Chen Kangbo and other important ministers to discuss state affairs and family affairs.

After a short discussion, Tang Siwei argued with Chen Kangbo in front of Zhao Gou and other important ministers, alarming the waiters on call outside the palace.

"The coexistence of the two emperors, one south and one north, setting up the southern court and the northern court, and ruling together, is only to solve the current dilemma, it is an expedient measure, how can it be implemented permanently? Ten or twenty years is acceptable, but if the two emperors coexist for 30 or 50 years, the world will be in chaos! Although Lin'an has set up a court for more than 30 years, it has no natural dangers to defend, and is located on the southeast coast, on the edge of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, not as good as the Central Plains, so it can only be accompanied by the capital. Now that Bianjing has been recovered, it is necessary to focus on Bianjing, set up a northern court in Bianjing, in order to appease the people in the north, Bianjing is the old capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and now it is the best choice for the capital of the Great Song Dynasty! I thought that Bianjing should be the right and Lin'an should be the vice! ”

Chen Kangbo argued with reason, his face was red and his ears were red.

Tang Siwei immediately retorted loudly: "If the coexistence of the two emperors is just an expedient measure, the Great Song Dynasty still can't avoid strife and war, after all, it is necessary to use force, the coexistence of the two emperors, isn't the world more chaotic?" I think that either the river will be completely divided, the southern court will not care about the northern court, the northern court will not care about the southern court, and the Southern Song and Northern Song will coexist in the world, or there will be only one emperor and one court! ”

Obviously, Tang Siwei did not agree to set Bianjing as the capital and let Lin'an be the vice, in his opinion, either the status was equal, or all of them belonged to Lin'an, and Bianjing would never be allowed to press on Lin'an's head.

"Don't be angry, all for the good of the Great Song Dynasty, dissipate your anger, and be calm, so that you can solve the problem." Zhao Gou saw that the two were arguing undecently, and hurriedly came out to play a round.

As soon as Chen Kangbo saw Zhao Gou's voice, he immediately pointed the finger at Zhao Gou, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Great Song Dynasty has been inherited for two hundred years since Gaozu and Taizong established the country, during which there have been endless wars and ups and downs, and now they have just recovered the old land, and soon after comforting the ancestors, they have such problems, and they are trapped in the predicament of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister just wants to ask, will Lin'an set up another prince?" Chen Kangbo looked directly at Zhao Gou, there was no point in arguing with Tang Siwei, he had to get a clear answer from Zhao Gou today.

As soon as Chen Kangbo asked this, the other ministers immediately held their breath and stared, and several pairs of eyes looked at Zhao Gou in unison.

Suddenly made this restoration, adding trouble to the big **, Zhao Gou, who was already in the wrong, suddenly sat on pins and needles, his eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to face Chen Kangbo and the others head-on.

There was silence in the Qinzheng Hall for a while, and the important ministers were waiting for Zhao Gou's reply.

"Ahem...... There has always been only one prince, and now he is the emperor, I just want to enjoy my old age in peace, and I will not set up a prince again. Under the pressure of everyone's eyes, Zhao Gou finally gave an answer.

"Good. The old minister thanked the emperor on behalf of thousands of people! ”

Chen Kangbo got up and was about to kneel down to thank him, but was stopped by Zhao Gou raising his hand: "Chen Aiqing doesn't have to be like this. ”

"Your Majesty, Lin'an will no longer have another prince, that is to say, after the death of the emperor, there will be no more emperor in the Lin'an court, but is this so?" Chen Kangbo confirmed immediately after taking his seat.