Neutralization, taken from "The Book of Rites: The Mean" "Those who are in the middle are also the great foundation of the world; Those who are harmonious are also the way of the world. ”

According to the tradition of previous dynasties, when the emperor encountered a major festival, he would come to the Zhonghe Hall the day before to read the blessings or check the seeds and agricultural tools, and hold the corresponding ceremony.

Li Nan was the first emperor to become emperor, and many of his courtiers were also first-time officials, so the empire did not continue the traditions of other dynasties, such as the spacious Zhonghe Palace, where the empire's skilled craftsmen built a miniature version of the sand table of the world's terrain.

In this detailed sand table, the miniature landscape stretches from Indochina in the south, to Bagan and Tufan in the west, to the island nation, Goryeo and many islands in the east, and to the Song and Jin in the north.

The latest military reports from the north were constantly being sent into the Middle Peace Palace, and several ingenious palace maids were busy picking up wood carvings representing the various types of troops and the number of troops, and according to Tyrion's instructions, they were increased or decreased on the sand table.

Li Nan and other ministers of the Ministry of Defense stood next to the sand table, observing the current situation.

Nowadays, the capital of the Song Kingdom is occupied by the five major armies of the empire and hundreds of thousands of patrol soldiers, and looking to the north, the most conspicuous thing is the city of Tokyo made by a master carpenter.

Li Nan picked up the slender wooden stick, pointed to the wooden carving representing the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom on the edge of Tokyo City, and asked Zhao Ji, the Ping'an Gong beside him: "As the saying goes, the son is more than the father, Lord Taishan thinks that Zhao Huan of Qinzong will let the Jin people enter the city to assist in the defense?" ”

During this time, Zhao Ji, who could travel freely, after seeing the lives of the people of the empire, he finally realized that what he had done before seemed to be a little inappropriate, although he lost the throne, but he also tasted rare freedom and ease.

After getting rid of those shackles, Zhao Ji came to recite poems and paintings, enjoy flowers and scenery, and enter the palace to visit his three daughters if he had nothing to do.

Zhao Ji, who was slowly accustomed to this kind of day, passively assisted the empire in recruiting the former ministers of the Song State from the beginning, and slowly changed to take the initiative to give advice, and made a lot of contributions in the action of plotting against the officials of the Song State.

Now the empire is in the final battle with the Song State, so Li Nan specially invited Zhao Ji here to consult with him, after all, no one at that time knew better than the emperor who had controlled the Great Song Dynasty for more than 20 years, the reality of Tokyo City and the character of Zhao Huan of Qinzong.

Zhao Ji pondered for a moment, and then replied with a little guilt: "Although Zhao Huan is my eldest son, I have never cared too much about him, except for the cowardly nature of this son, I don't know much about him. ”

"Hmm."

Li Nan nodded, according to his own experience in Tokyo, as well as the investigation of the Zhao family of the Song State by the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, it was proved that Zhao Ji was indeed very indifferent to this eldest son, but he loved Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and handed over the most important imperial city division of the Song State to him.

It can be said that if there is no empire and the Jin country to go to war with the Song state, I am afraid that it will not be Zhao Huan who will ascend the throne in the end.

Since even Zhao Ji can't tell what Qinzong Zhao Huan will do, then no one in this world can say clearly, the matter has come to this point, Li Nan and the others can only plan for the worst.

Li Nan, Tyrion and the others did not believe that the Jin would consume their precious forces to help the Song State, so what needs to be speculated at the moment is what the Jin will do.

Li Nan, who knew the history, was inclined to the Jin soldiers to break through the city of Tokyo, rob the wealth accumulated in the city for hundreds of years, and kidnap those Han women.

Tyrion is from the world of Ice and Fire, so he sees more clearly than Li Nan, and his thoughts are more neutral and comprehensive.

He believed that the Jin people would try their best to help the Song people defend the city, and would only return with their wealth and captives when they had to, and even hijacked Qinzong and Song ministers to the north of the Yellow River to establish a pseudo-Song state as a buffer zone and continue to fight against the empire.

After discussion among everyone, including Li Nan, everyone believed that Tyrion's guess was the most accurate, and whether Zhao Huantong disagreed or not, the city of Tokyo would suffer.

In response to this result, everyone began to deploy a battle plan.

The Fourth and Fifth Army Corps of the Empire were urgently ordered to march east day and night, bypassing the city of Tokyo on the Gyeonggi Road, directly capturing the ferries along the Yellow River, and establishing a defensive line to block the route of the Jin people back to the division.

The Royal East China Sea Fleet, which was originally in the Yangtze River area, sailed towards Bohai Bay, and went upstream from the mouth of the Yellow River near Dengzhou to assist the Fourth and Fifth Army Corps in the defense.

The latest instructions were transmitted from the imperial capital of Changsha to the frontline army, and Sienna and Pang Wanchun immediately led their two legions to break away from the large army and march eastward, preparing to make a detour and march along the Yellow River.

The march of an army of 100,000 people, even if Sienna and Pang Wanchun did it secretly, it was difficult to guarantee that the news would not leak out, not to mention that the Jin Kingdom had long been full of scouts, so after learning that the imperial army had divided its troops into a detour, Wanyan Zonghan and others guessed the purpose of this opposing army.

Wanyan Zongbi, who was more anxious, had long been impatient with Qinzong Zhao Huan's delay in letting the Jin army enter the city, and when he learned that the retreat was about to be cut off, he immediately became angry and ordered his soldiers to attack the city.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, who had seen the defensive capabilities of the imperial army, also knew that if the imperial army occupied the crossing of the Yellow River, the hundreds of thousands of golden soldiers would have to pay a huge price if they wanted to return to China, so the two did not stop them, but ordered Guo Yaoshi's 100,000 victorious troops as the vanguard force and began to attack Tokyo City.

The Jin army completed the joint attack of Yan Zongbi and Guo Yaoshi, surrounded on all sides, and completely surrounded the city of Tokyo.

Tokyo Castle is a large city with a permanent population of one million, divided into inner castle and outer castle, high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with strong walls in the northwest and slightly worse in the southeast, so it became the main direction of attack of the Jin soldiers.

Although there were Li Gang and 100,000 Song troops in the city, these soldiers were all box soldiers and village soldiers drawn back from various places, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low, so although they resisted desperately, they were soon broken through the outer city of Tokyo by Guo Yaoshi's victorious army.

In fact, the most urgent thing now is the Jin people who are about to be blocked in the back road, not the Song people in Tokyo City, and after being surrounded by the Jin National Iron Cavalry, Tokyo has not been able to get any outside news, and even the secret spies planted in the city by the Imperial Intelligence Bureau have also cut off contact with the Empire.

After taking the outer city by luck, if the Jin soldiers want to continue to storm the inner city, I am afraid it will not be possible to do it in a few days, so Wanyan Zong Wang ordered people to intimidate Zhao Huan of Qinzong and the hundred officials and people in the city, threatening that if they do not surrender, the day the city is broken will be the time of slaughter.

Just like the trajectory that has happened in history, the frightened Chin Jong, instigated by the equally frightened capitulation faction, went to the Jinying camp outside the city to negotiate.

Because of the urgency of time, Wanyan Zongwang and other generals of the Jin State did not make it too difficult for Qinzong Zhao Huan, but directly put forward conditions, asking for 10 million gold ingots, 20 million silver ingots, 10 million silk horses, 1,500 maidens, and 10,000 mules and horses to transport these goods.

Qinzong, who was detained in the golden camp, couldn't oppose it even if he wanted to at this time, so he had to write an imperial letter, ordering the prime minister Tang Ke and Li Gang to collect gold and silver in Tokyo together, and take the concubines and palace maids in the palace to offset the amount, and the insufficient amount should be made up by the people.

If this matter was handled by Tang Ke alone, it would definitely be the same as the historical record, the women of the Han family who knew that they were going to be given to the Jin people were unwilling to be humiliated, and there were many suicides. The treasury had no silver, so it could only send troops to rob the gold and silver from the homes of the powerful, the wealthy, and the merchants. In order to meet the requirements of the Jin people, they also robbed the donkeys and horses of the people in the city.

Li Nan, a butterfly from later generations, finally changed something, Li Gang, who was supposed to be belittled by Qinzong, is still in Tokyo City, and the most important thing is that he still holds military power.