Although the portrait of the Queen Mother has been determined, it is a major event to welcome the portrait into the palace for worship, and there are many ceremonies, so you can't act hastily. Now that the Jin army is still haunting the vicinity of Jingshi, it is not the time to hold such a ceremony.

In these days, the Qin Wang army of the Jokhang Dynasty gradually gathered near the Beijing Division, and the arrival of more than 100,000 troops led by Hong Yan and Sun Baigu made the Beijing Division a lot safer. Moreover, looking out from the castle tower of the capital division now, it is not very obvious that the smoke caused by the Jin army's arson.

Since entering the customs at the end of last year, the Jin army has been rampant in the customs for three months. Now they have plundered at least half a million people, and a number of possessions that are difficult to count for a while. These things have temporarily filled the stomach of this gluttonous head, and now the Jin army's desire to take the initiative to fight is obviously fading, and the people of all banners are anxious to go home with these harvests. So the Jin army, which had been raging for three months, began to slowly retreat. (They carry too much loot, so they can't go fast either)

At this time, the Jokhang Dynasty had also gathered more than 200,000 Qinwang troops. But these troops, in the face of less than 100,000 Jin troops, are extremely cautious. Almost all of them maintained a day's journey and the same speed as the Jin army, almost escorting the Jin army out of the side wall almost all the way.

After the Jin army withdrew from the side wall, the Jokhang army also stopped the pursuit (escort) operation. This round of military confrontation has come to an end.

The Jin army's invasion of the army took away 500,000 people, and the civilian deaths they caused were several times that number. Gyeonggi is empty, out of the capital, hundreds of miles, almost all become a deserted ghost land. The entire Zhili, Shandong, as well as Henan, Anhui, and parts of Jiangsu have become ruins, and the Jokhang Dynasty's original financial income has lost a large piece of income, and there is a big hole that is simply not satisfied.

After the Jin army withdrew from the Great Wall, the Ministry of Rites sent the portrait of the Virgin Empress Dowager (Empress Dowager Liu) dressed as a from Zhengyangmen to the palace from Zhengyangmen on the auspicious day selected by the Qintian Supervisor. Yang Fei, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, led hundreds of civil and military officials to kneel outside the Daming Gate. Emperor Chongde led the crown prince and the two larger princes to kneel outside the noon gate. Empress Zhou led the princess and concubines to kneel outside the Imperial Gate. Then the portrait was welcomed into the side chamber of the Bongseonjeon.

Early in the morning of the second day, Emperor Chongde went to the Fengxian Hall to bow again, and after the incense was served, he drove all the palace people and eunuchs out of the main hall, and did not allow them to enter and disturb them. After a long time, Emperor Chongde came out of the side hall, and as soon as he came out, he issued an order to summon Hong Yan and Sun Baigu in the Qianqing Palace.

Hong Yan performed well in the "four positive and six corners, ten-sided nets" campaign organized by Yang Fei in the past two years to encircle and suppress the Liukou, and under his command, the Jokhang official army defeated the Liukou many times. After the Jin army entered the Kou this time, it was generally believed in the court that only he could take on the heavy responsibility of resisting the Jin army in Liaodong. The cabinet has proposed that Hong Yan will serve as the governor of Jiliao, and the prime minister's vote for Jin's military and political affairs, and the celebrant has also added red, and now he is waiting for His Majesty to see Emperor Chongde and will go to Liaodong to take office.

If it is said that when the Jokhang official army fought against the Liukou in the Guan, there were still more victories and fewer losses, in the past few decades, outside the Guan, against the Shangjin Army, it has definitely won fewer and lost more. Moreover, the victory over the Jin army is at most a tactical victory, and if there are dozens of heads at a time, it can already be called a great victory. Moreover, even if it is such a "great victory", the losses of the imperial court are often far greater than those of the Jin State. As for the defeat, it is basically a big defeat, and every defeat is accompanied by the annihilation of one, or even several elite armies, the fall of one or more castles, and the plundering of a large number of people and materials. As a result, officials who have served as governors of Jiliao for many years have always been convicted for this.

Hong Yan naturally knew that this official was really not good to be. However, there were many difficulties, but he deeply felt the emperor's kindness and was determined to go to the customs to rectify military affairs and relieve the emperor's worries. The previous time, he wrote to Emperor Chongde, pointing out that the situation in Liaodong was difficult, and hinted that Liaodong Jiangmen had a problem that could not be lost, saying that if he was used as the governor of Jiliao, he could only calm down first, and first try to maintain it, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

Emperor Chongde was originally a person who liked utilitarianism, and what he hated most was this style of "not seeking merit but seeking no fault". Whoever dared to say such a thing to him when he first ascended the throne would have been unlucky. But now he also knows that the affairs of Liaodong are now difficult to heal, and it is already a very difficult thing to be able to "be without fault". If you want to forcibly "have merit" and "level Liao for five years", I am afraid that it will only make things worse. Moreover, Emperor Chongde still remembered Yang Fei's analysis of the situation today. Yang Fei believes that the Jokhang court is now unable to deal with the Jin army outside the pass and the rogues inside the pass at the same time. If you want to ZTE Zhao, you can only solve one of them first. Yang Fei believes that the Dongkou is strong and the Liukou is weak, but the Liukou flow in the Guan, and the damage is far greater than that of the Donggyu, so we should first concentrate on eliminating the Liukou. This is the "outside must first be inside". Now Hong Yan's idea of "not seeking hard work, but seeking no fault" is also very consistent with the idea of "outside must first be at home", so Emperor Chongde felt that he had finally chosen the right person to use him as the governor of Jiliao this time.

Hong Yan and Sun Baigu met with Emperor Chongde in the Qianqing Palace. The emperor first asked Hong Yan a few words. These words are nothing more than about the departure time and how to prepare for everything, etc., which can be regarded as a sense of consolation and encouragement. As for the specific strategy, in fact, the previous twists and turns have already been explained, but there is no need to say more at this time.

After He Hongyan finished talking about this and let him calm down, Emperor Chongde put away his gentle expression, lowered his face and said, "Sun Baigu!" ”

"The minister is here." Sun Baigu heard that the emperor's voice was wrong, so he fell to the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, just waiting for the emperor to ask.

However, Emperor Chongde did not speak, and this unusual silence suddenly made the entire hall seem to become gloomy.

Last winter, Sun Baigu and Hong Yan led their division to King Qin and came to the suburbs of Beijing. At that time, Lu Tianxiong had already died in battle, and the imperial court promoted him to the governor, and hung the right squire of the military department and the right to the imperial history title, replacing Lu Tianxiong as the governor of Zhulu to reinforce the army, and gave Shang Fang the sword. It looks like he's going to make a big deal of it. However, Sun Baigu followed others to the book, accusing Yang Fei of making a mistake in deployment, which led to the Jin army's entry into the Kou. All of a sudden, Yang Fei was offended. Then he wrote that when Lu Tianxiong was besieged by the Jin army, the eunuch of the supervising army did not fight, and sat back and watched Lu Tianxiong's entire army annihilated, and the crime was not punishable. So he offended the eunuch Gao Qiqian again.

Immediately afterwards, when the imperial court planned to let Hong Yan serve as the governor of Jiliao, Hong Yan proposed that he hoped to transfer part of King Qin's Qin army to him and bring it over to guard against the Jin army. Sun Baigu wrote to oppose it, he said in the recital that this part of the Qin army must not be transferred to Liaodong, if they go to Liaodong, Shaanxi's "thieves" will breed again, and the result will not be beneficial to the Ji, Liao border defense, but only for Shaanxi's "thieves" to clear the official army. He also said that the families and property of these Qin soldiers were in Shaanxi, and if they were allowed to stay in Liaodong for a long time, they were afraid that these people would "flee if they are not in an uproar, and they will not be used by thieves but for their own use, and they will drive troops from thieves." This is completely dismantling the stage of his old superior, Hong Yan.

To be honest, Sun Baigu's opinion is not completely unreasonable. It's just that Emperor Chongde took his thoughts and asked Yang Fei and Hong Yan. Hong Yan knew that what Sun Baigu said was not completely unreasonable, but it had been a long time since the Guanning army in Liaodong had been too big. To be the governor of Jiliao by himself, if he has no soldiers of his own, how can he, the governor of Jiliao, be the governor? Naturally, I will not agree with him. So he pointed out that it was not without precedent for the Qin army to be mobilized to other places to encircle and suppress the Liukou. It is the Guanning army, and there are many people who enter the customs to encircle and suppress the rogues. Isn't that a transfer? Moreover, the white pole soldiers who are far away in Sichuan can travel nearly 10,000 miles to the border of Liaodong, but the Qin army must mutiniate and flee, how can there be such a reason in the world?

As for Yang Fei, he answered more heartily. He said that Sun Baigu said this, mostly out of selfishness. When Sun Baigu saw Hong Yan going to serve as the governor of Jiliao, he thought that he would definitely take over Hong Yan's position as the governor of the three sides, so he naturally wanted to keep these capable armies by his side. "Governor Sun's idea is not completely unreasonable, but it is somewhat abolishing the public for personal reasons." In the end, Yang Fei gave him such an evaluation lightly.

Of course, this is not the most deadly. The most fatal thing is that at this time, He Dalong suddenly wrote to the imperial court. He Dalong first pleaded guilty and said that on the way of King Qin, the soldiers misheard people's words and thought that they were going to change Liaodong from now on, because they were worried about his wife's property, so they mutinied and absconded. So much so that he failed to enter King Jingqin according to the holy decree. Then he said that the remnants of Huang Zide in Shaanxi heard that the imperial army had gone to King Qin, so they came out to plunder again. Fortunately, he went back, led the troops to suppress it, won the battle, and beheaded more than 500 levels.

He Dalong has always been under Sun Baigu's command, and now his letter, in the emperor's eyes, has completely become ironclad evidence that he and Sun Baigu colluded to sabotage the court's plans for their own selfishness.

However, Sun Baigu himself didn't know anything about these things. When he came to see His Majesty this time, he thought that the emperor wanted to listen to his strategy, so in case he forgot any key points for a while, he also wrote these points on the ivory wat in his hand in small letters. Now, although he heard the emperor's stern tone, he only thought that he was going to beat him before making him the governor of the trilateral province, so that he would not be complacent. Next, I think the emperor still has to ask him about his strategy of suppressing bandits. So although he knelt on the ground and bowed his head, he also took the time to look at the main points he had written on the ivory pilgrimage.

At this time, the emperor's words suddenly came to his ears: "Sun Baigu, you are guilty!" ”