Jiangning Mansion, in the Chongzheng Hall of the Great Song Dynasty Palace.

Seed Master Dao and Zhang Miao knelt on the ground and said to Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty: "Your Majesty, the criminal ministers lost the city and land, causing our dynasty to lose Hebei first and then Henan, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Zhao Xu sat on the dragon chair and said without the slightest anger: "The two Aiqing are flat!" Now that the Xia army is north of the Huai River, hundreds of thousands of Chen soldiers may cross the river at any time, what advice do you have for Aiqing. ”

Hearing Zhao Xu ask, all the ministers looked at each other and lowered their heads, and none of them wanted to answer this question; Zhang Miao suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the last general thinks that you should defend first and then attack." ”

"General Zhang, if you still want to attack, don't you think that my Great Song Dynasty was defeated badly enough?" A minister questioned Zhang Miao.

"Your Majesty, in this battle, my Great Song Dynasty has suffered heavy losses, the treasury is empty, and my Great Song Dynasty has been greatly injured and unable to fight again, and Weichen suggests that Your Majesty negotiate peace with the Xia Dynasty."

"Wechen seconded the ......"

"Wechen seconded the ......"

"The minister also seconded the ......"

Above the entire Great Song Dynasty, except for the Seed Master Dao, Zhang Miao and others, most of the Song ministers negotiated peace with Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty, which is also normal Since the start of the war in the Xia and Song Dynasties, the Great Song Dynasty has lost many victories and lost the city, from a big country that dominates the Central Plains, and now it has become a small court in the south of the Yangtze River. Moreover, all those who advocated peace just now were Jiangnan officials, and the few who advocated continuing to fight were all officials from the north.

Looking at the courtiers arguing below, Zhao Xu shouted angrily: "Don't quarrel, retreat from the court." ”

After retiring from the dynasty, Zhao Xu sent someone to call Zhang Miao and the two of them to the imperial garden, and after the two arrived, Zhao Xu said to the two: "Two Aiqing! Now you have also seen the things in the court, and you have also seen the situation of my Great Song Dynasty along the way, it's not that I don't want to fight, but now my Great Song Dynasty has no ability to fight! The military expenses of the million-strong army are not available to the imperial court now. ”

"Your Majesty, what the last general said just now is not to say that the Northern Expedition will be made now; The Song army is now along the Chenbing Huai River, and there is a possibility of going south at any time, and our army cannot but guard against this; Weichen thought that he should first step up border defense and prepare the army; You can let the soldiers who have withdrawn from the north take a break and form the Northern Expeditionary Army with them as the core......"

"I know, Aiqing, please go back!" Zhao Xu said very plainly.

"The Last Will Retire ......"

The two of them left the Imperial Garden, and Zhang Miao walked to the seed master and asked, "Seed Shuai, why do you say Your Majesty refuses to accept our suggestion!" This is really ...... in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Your Majesty doesn't want to go on the Northern Expedition, but do you know how much food this Northern Expedition needs?" The seed master said to Zhang Miao: "Look at the current court, most of them are Jiangnan scholars, they don't agree to the Northern Expedition, even if Your Majesty agrees, it's useless." ”

"If they dare to resist and disobey, they will be beheaded......" Zhang Miao said angrily.

"You can't just listen to me." The seed master continued: "Your Majesty can't break them with them, now that the imperial court has lost the north, all the taxes needed by the imperial court must be supplied by Jiangnan, without them, how many taxes do you think the imperial court can collect, the Xia army fought in Jiangnan, and scared their guts, for fear that the Xia army would attack Jiangnan, so they were in a hurry to negotiate peace with the Xia Dynasty; If you want to go on a northern expedition, you must have a sufficient force to protect Jiangnan and make them feel safe......"

"It's too fucking trouble." Zhang Miao said.

"Let's take it one step at a time! Now that our army has retreated to Gwangju, the next step is to temporarily garrison Gwangju and Shouzhou to recruit troops here, and as for food and salary, we can only find Wang Kai to solve it. The seed master said.

Its realization is now the entire Great Song Dynasty court is also very chaotic, the generals are basically self-respecting, first said that Wu Jie, Wu Ling two brothers guarded Sichuan Shu, Wu Jie was appointed as the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, control the entire Sichuan Shu military and political power; Since Wang Kai retreated to Xiangyang, he was also crowned as the envoy of Jingxiang Xuanfu by Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty, in charge of the military and political power of the entire Jinghu North Road. In this Great Song Dynasty, the court was not happy, the Jiangnan Shi clan occupied the entire Jiangnan, and the Song Emperor Zhao Xu still relied on them to collect taxes.

Although Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty mastered the million forbidden army, it is now being arranged in Huainan and Jiangnan, but in addition to some of the elite, the rest of these forbidden troops are just recruited recruits, in order to solve the problem of the Jiangnan scholars, after the Xia army retreated, Zhao Xu sent people to occupy the entire Suhu Lake, and all the land was encircled as a military tun, of course, these scholars were unwilling to lose the land, and they wrote one after another, and finally the land of the military tun was only one-third of the original, and Zhao Xu's million forbidden army, half of which were actually Tuntian guards.

When the seed master said this to Zhang Miao, he was actually giving Zhang Miao a hint, that is, if you want to go on the Northern Expedition, you have to find a way by yourself, and the imperial court will naturally comply, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to count on the weapons and grain of the imperial court in the future, and they will have to solve these problems themselves; Sure enough, within two days of the Song Emperor Zhao Xu, he issued a holy decree, due to the emptiness of the treasury, the two who retreated from the north needed to prepare grain and grass by themselves, or disband the army.

Chenzhou Xia Army Camp, after Li Liangzuo led the army south, Li Liangzuo settled his dragon tent in Chenzhou as the base camp of the south, of course, this place is only temporary, now the Xia Army hundreds of thousands of troops are arranged on the front line, starting from the westernmost Hanzhong, first Li Yue's Yizhou Legion, to the east is Li Wu's Yongzhou Legion, and then to the east is the Northern Army located in Caizhou and Yingzhou, and the easternmost is Li De's Yizhou Legion.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Liangzuo looked at the map and said to Li Xiaoren: "Brother Huang! After the Central Plains War, I think our military system will be changed again. ”

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

"Our army has become the end of the strong crossbow, and then the south river is not conducive to the play of the cavalry, this battle may not be able to fight for the time being, I mean, such a large army can not always be stationed on the front line like this, the daily consumption is huge, I plan to make peace with the Great Song Dynasty, the army will be withdrawn, only need to stay on the border with a small number of elites, these hundreds of thousands of troops are in Hebei, Henan and other places Tuntian; The royal brother also saw it along the way, it's only been a few years! The whole Central Plains has become a wilderness of ......"

"Your Majesty is wise, and it should be so." Li Xiaoren said to Li Liangzuo: "There is another matter, and Weichen also hopes that His Majesty will think about it. ”

"What's the matter? Brother Huang said yes. ”

"Your Majesty, it's time to make a prince." Li Xiaoren said to Li Liangzuo: "The position of the East Palace has not been decided for a long time, and the princes are panicked, and the ministers of the court and the central government have long been talking about it, and only by establishing a prince can the people be re-settled!" ”

After Li Liangzuo put down the baton in his hand, he walked back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and then said to Li Xiaoren: "Brother Huang, you let me think about this matter, let me think about it." ”

"Then Weichen retired first......"

Thanks to the twelve recommendations of the book friend Bobye and the four recommendations of the book friend 6054, Tianyu is grateful......

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