Since Li Gang has escaped, there is no need to say more, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and others' plan to collect the people's property and kidnap the daughters of the people in order to save Qinzong has completely failed.

Tang, Geng and others failed to seize power, and in the end, they had no choice but to send someone to send a message to Li Gang, who was heavily guarded, and asked to take all the property in the palace and the woman to be sent to the gold camp.

After all, Qinzong is now being detained by the Jin people, and since they don't touch the people's things, Li Gang has no intention of blocking them.

On the second day, all the valuable items in the palace, as well as thousands of palace maids and concubines, were sent to the Jin army camp outside the city by hundreds of carts.

Wanyan Zonghan and the others saw that Li Gang had disregarded the safety of Qinzong and swore to resist the Jin army to the death, knowing that there was no reprieve in this matter, and under the urgency of time, they could only carry a large amount of property, women, and Qinzong Zhao Huan, as well as those courtiers who were willing to follow him, such as Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Zhang Bangchang and others to return north.

The mobility of the imperial army was too poor, and although the two armies of Sienna and Pang Wanchun traveled day and night, they still lagged behind the Jin, and when they arrived, Wanyan Zonghan and others had already crossed the Yellow River with a large amount of wealth seized from the Song State and Emperor Qinzong.

The Yangtze River and the Yellow River are the mother rivers that feed the descendants of China.

The Yangtze River has a wide water surface, a large amount of water, and a rapid current, and in the era when there is no advanced bridge building technology and no advanced means of crossing the river, the Yangtze River has been a natural hazard that is difficult to overcome since ancient times.

Although the lower reaches of the Yellow River are at risk of being the mainstay of the Dragon Gate, this is more of an impact on transport vessels. If you want to capture both sides of the Yellow River, you don't need to take the waterway, and there are many plains on both sides of the river.

In addition, the Yellow River also has seasonal characteristics, as soon as it enters winter, it freezes and breaks off, which plays a great role in the southern invasion of the northern nomads.

Now that it was the rainy season, the Yellow River was rising sharply, and if the Imperial Army wanted to cross the Yellow River under the defense of the Jin army, it would only have to use a large number of lives to fill it, so Sienna and Pang Wanchun could only camp on the south bank of the Yellow River and wait for the Empire's instructions.

In fact, this battle has been fought so far, and it can be temporarily over.

Without the intervention of hundreds of thousands of Jin troops, it was only a matter of time before all the Song territories south of the Yellow River were occupied by the Empire.

As for the Tokyo City that Li Gang is still holding onto, under the powerful power of imperial artillery and gunpowder, it is not difficult to take it.

Restricted by the lack of imperial heritage, Li Nan's initial idea was just to take the area south of the Yangtze River and then develop slowly, but he didn't expect that this matter would eventually evolve to the current point.

After learning the latest battle report from the front, Li Nan ordered the Fourth and Fifth Legions of the Empire to be stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River to prevent the Jin people from moving, and he took Zhao Ji, the Duke of Ping'an, and other courtiers to the north.

As soon as Emperor Song arrived, Qinzong had been taken away by the Jin soldiers, and Li Gang, who was trapped in the lonely city, didn't know how to decide.

Originally, after the Jin soldiers withdrew, after learning that Qinzong was taken away, many of the remaining Song ministers in Tokyo City planned to set up Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Song Huizong Zhao Ji and the younger brother of Song Qinzong Zhao Huan, to succeed him.

But now that Emperor Zhao Ji has arrived, and the city of Tokyo is surrounded by the Imperial Legions, Zhao Gou, who knows that the general trend has gone, is smarter, and he resolutely opposes ascending the throne as emperor.

In fact, now all the Song people know that the once powerful Song State is gone, and the territory has been basically divided between the empire and the Jin State, and now there is only one capital left, and no one has the will to fight anymore.

After Zhao Ji came to the city of Tokyo, the imperial army retreated ten miles back and released the blockade of the various city gates.

Zhao Ji, the former emperor of the Song State, as the patriarch of the Zhao family, personally sent a message to the city, announcing that the Zhao family voluntarily surrendered to the empire, and promised that the empire would not retaliate against anyone and would not harm any people.

In the hearts of many people in Tokyo, Zhao Ji is the emperor they know well, and now that he has surrendered to the Chinese Empire, there is no need for ordinary people like them to resist.

In August 1126, the imperial army besieged the city of Tokyo, and the descendants of the Zhao family, Li Gang, Zong Ze and other civil and military officials who did not follow Qinzong to the north led the soldiers and civilians of the city out of the city to surrender.

Li Nan, the imperial emperor, entered Tokyo, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, which represents that the Song Kingdom, which has existed for more than 160 years, has completely disappeared in the long river of history, and the Chinese Empire, which is now the largest in terms of land area, stands dazzlingly on the land of China.

In the imperial palace of Tokyo City, all the gold and silver and gold-inlaid treasures have been swept away, but Li Nan doesn't care about these, he pays more attention to the great mountains and rivers of the Song Kingdom.

All the state capitals of the Song Kingdom, except for the three places on the north bank of the Yellow River, Hedong Road, Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road, were all taken into the pocket of the empire.

Suddenly there is so much to get, and there is a lot to do.

A large number of students trained by the Imperial High School were sent to the north in batches, but these people were a drop in the bucket for the Xinjiang territory that needed to be managed by changing personnel everywhere.

In desperation, Li Nan could only summon those former ministers of the Song State who surrendered, and planned to select some officials from among them who were honest and honest and had a good reputation among the people to use them for the time being.

In doing so, on the one hand, it can quickly pacify the rest of the subordinates and the people, and on the other hand, it can also alleviate the urgent situation of the personnel.

Although it occupied most of the territory of the Song state, the empire was not restless, because on the north bank of the Yellow River there was a far more powerful Jin state than the Song state, and the land area was also very large.

The war will continue, so some of the Song State's vassals cannot be wasted, among which Li Nan values Li Gang and Zong Ze the most.

Needless to say, as an old opponent who often fights with the empire, his life, experience, ability and all the information are on the table of Li Nan and the important ministers of the empire early on, no matter how you look at it, he is a capable minister who can be reused.

As for Zong Ze, even Zhao Ji and other Song ministers didn't know much about him, and Li Nan deliberately named his name entirely because of the memories from later generations.

Compared with others, Zong Ze's career was difficult, and after passing the liberation test at the age of thirty-three, he traveled thousands of miles to the capital city of Kaifeng to take the provincial exam. During the palace examination, he ignored the regulations on the number of words, wrote more than 10,000 words, vigorously stated the disadvantages of the times, and also criticized the imperial court for believing in Wu Chuhou's false accusation and banishing Cai Qu, believing that "the disaster of the friends began here." ”

This was Zong Ze's first political appearance, although he showed his strong demand to eliminate maladministration and his courage and determination to fight against evil forces, but the examiner "with his straightforward words, fear of resentment", put Zong Ze in the "last department", and gave him "the birth of a fellow jinshi".

In the eighth year of the reign of Yuan Yu, Zong Ze was sent to the Daimyo Prefecture to serve as the county lieutenant and the regent of the prefecture order. Less than a month after his arrival, Zong Ze quickly and properly handled the county's backlog of litigation cases over the years, showing his ability to handle government affairs and winning the trust and admiration of his subordinates.

In the second year of Shaosheng, the prefect Lu Huiqing ordered Zong Ze to inspect the construction project of the imperial river, and Zong Ze lost his eldest son.

After Lu Huiqing heard this, he exclaimed: "Zong Ze is really a person who forgets his home for the country!" ”

Since then, from the first year of Yuan Fu to the fourth year of Zhenghe, Zong Ze successively served as the magistrate of four counties, including Quzhou Longyou, Laizhou Glue, Jinzhou Zhaocheng, and Laizhou Ye County.

Throughout Zong Ze's more than 20 years in politics, he was able to serve as an official for one term, benefit one party, and have outstanding political achievements. However, due to the extreme corruption of the monarchs and ministers of the Song State, he was not promoted and reused for a long time.

Because of the appearance of Li Nan, there have been some changes in history.

A person's character determines his fate, although Zong Ze was not relegated to a distant place according to the original trajectory, but was appointed to Dengzhou as a general judge, but during his tenure, because Dengzhou is close to Beijing, the powerful forces stretched out their hands, such as Dengzhou only has hundreds of hectares of official land, all barren land, and the annual rent is more than 10,000 yuan, all of which are passed on to the local people.

After Zong Ze took office, he angrily wrote to the court, stated the truth, and asked for exemption, so he was thrown into prison by kneeling and slandering.

Li Nan liked this capable, loving the people, and being both honest and honest official, and immediately played a game of buying horse bones, and personally came to the prison to invite Zong Ze out.