In Gangneung City, this New Year can be described as extremely sad. The Jiangnan affair was not as Zhao Ji expected, and the rebellion was ended cleanly, and Guanzhong had already been lost.

Liu Fa, the famous god general, seems to have become inappropriate, and he easily lost all the huge passes, and he still didn't even see a decent battle.

These masters in Jiangling City will not see Liu Fa's difficulties. All they can see is the results! Focusing on heroes based on success or failure, this is the tradition of the old Zhao family.

The fact that the Liangshan army captured Guanzhong, the city of Chang'an was broken, and the entire army of Liu Fa and others was annihilated, ...... these facts are more effective than all the glory of the past.

Jiangling City is full of thousands of horses, and in the simple palace city of Zhao and Song, it is shrouded in cold currents and high pressures, and Hugh said that it is an ordinary maidservant, that is, those characters with heads and faces, such as Lan Congxi, also held their breath and did not dare to speak loudly.

Zhao Ji was so upset that he couldn't even take care of Xian'er, and his teacher couldn't take care of soaking. Lin Lingsu was reprimanded, but he really shocked the civil and military officials inside and outside.

"Northern Liao is subdued, Western Xia is cowardly, and the thief has no constraints on the north road. If Erchen is the land thief, in the coming year, all the thieves in Guanzhong will take Guanxi, and then the army will return to Sichuan and Shu. At the same time, he went out of Huainan Yang Zhi and Chao Gai's two thieves, and at the same time marched into the middle and lower parts of the river. The land thieves then led the main army, entered Xiangfan in the south, and knocked on Jiangling ......"

Zhao Huan, the twenty-year-old prince, looked at the national map in front of him, and looked at Zhao Ji's face as he spoke. Seeing that his father's old face was already red, he hurriedly shut up. only muttered in his heart: This Hugh said that there are still Manichaeism and Dongting bandits in Jiangnan that have not been eliminated, that is, the Western Army can succeed this year, only the power of the current imperial court, how can it resist the hundreds of thousands of Liangshan thieves attacking in several ways?

Since Lu Qian returned to Yidu in August, he began to expand the governor's mansion of the five armies again, with 30,000 each, making the number of troops under his jurisdiction expand to 150,000. The establishment of Guanzhong Province, relying on the soldiers and horses left by the Liangshan Army and the surrendered Western Army, also pulled out a main battle corps of more than 100,000 people in the blink of an eye......

Coupled with the garrison army that began to expand in the four provinces of Central Plains, Hedong, Qilu, and Northern Hebei half a year ago, and even the soldiers and horses of Huainan Province and the internal and external naval divisions that are always expanding, hehe, to put it bluntly, the Liangshan Army is really strong now.

Otherwise, how could Wanyan Xiyin be so 'calm and self-contained' in the negotiation with Lu Qi, and not mention the slightest excessive conditions?

As for Liao's envoy to Zhao Song, it was not an ordinary arrogance.

Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, is still Zhao Ji's beloved son, this person is very similar to Zhao Ji, elegant and elegant, and can be close to political affairs and practical means. But Zhao Kai is not afraid, one person counts short, and two people count long. He is not good at military politics, but he has gathered a group of people to entertain guests, but there are people who can use their brains.

At this moment, he said to the great artist: "Don't worry, father. The ministers thought that although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said very much, it was a little less in the end. ”

Zhao Kai cleared his throat and continued: "That Lu Qian's wolf ambition, when the foundation is stable, he dares to cross the sea to the east to conquer Goryeo, when the northern Hebei is not stable, he dares to go north to attack the Khitan, and when Guanzhong is not down, he dares to fight the Western thieves. ”

Now the Xuanzheng Department led by Wu Yong is no longer the Xuanzheng Department of the previous one, but the military and the people are in charge, and there is a special teaching position set up by Lu Qian in the army, which is mainly responsible for cultural thought. is just like the political commissar of the Red Dynasty, but the ideology is much more superficial and vulgar. Some of the words they can't make up completely, only a strong brainwashing, because the personnel are extensive and the intensity is great, and a lot of the content in it has been circulated.

What repeats the heroic style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, what wants to recover the lost land, and what wants to be Hu no Han Daochang. What kind of calculation is that, everyone knows Sima Zhao's heart.

That's what Zhao Kai said. "Such ambitious people are the great enemies of life and death in the northern chieftain Hu Di. The words of Pucha Wulie are still in the ears of the sons, and the Jurchens are not aware of anything, how can they be defenseless? In Zhao Kai's heartfelt words, even if those barbarians are stupid and stupid, they should know whether their neighbors are sheep or hungry wolves and tigers.

Listening to the meaning of the Jurchens, they will not let go of the Liao State. That is, three or two years, once the Khitan is destroyed, will they and Lu Qian change from distant neighbors to close neighbors?

Just one problem in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun can make them fight each other's dog brains.

"Erchen thought that between this Jin Qi, there would be a fight sooner or later. The land thieves have a large number of soldiers and horses, and their combat power is not good, but Dajin is not given for nothing. Wanyan Agu started with 2,500 soldiers, from a small Liaodong barbarian department, and expanded to the current majestic Dajin Kingdom in a few years, which must be blessed by God.

Emperor Liao was absurd and immoral, and he was addicted to alcohol and music. Repel the loyal and good, and appoint the small group. Refusal to admonish and pretend to be wrong, poor and extravagant, coiled in the wandering (that is, hunting), discipline and relaxation, resentment and anger, and centrifugation of the group. In the episode of Jin Bing, the internal difficulties were made first, the plan to abolish the establishment, and the traces of rebellion swarmed one after another. Taming has caused the earth to fall apart and cannot be restored. The Jin people took advantage of it to attack it, and they will definitely be able to destroy it in one fell swoop. This means that the changes in the distance and distance between the Jurchens and Lu Qi are unstoppable. Then he used this to argue that the outbreak of the Jinqi War would be of great benefit to him in the Great Song Dynasty.

But in essence, what Zhao Kai said was still nonsense, and he still did not propose a specific solution, but it only gave people a glimmer of hope.

"What the third brother said is very true. Only far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and the decisive battle of Liaojin will take a short time, but after the spring of the coming day, the land thieves will be able to drink the Yangtze River. I don't know what tricks the third brother has to solve the worries of the court? The father will definitely reward him heavily. ”

The title of Zhao Song is a unique one in China's 2,000-year feudal history. According to the thoughts of later generations, the emperor's son was crowned king, which was natural and logical. But Zhao Song is not. The titles of Zhao and Song are prince, heir, county king, national duke, county duke, founding duke, etc., a total of 12 ranks. At first, only small countries were sealed, and then large countries were transferred.

The prince is crowned the king, the prince only stops at his body, and the descendants do not ask the descendants, with the longest one of them, the duke, and the rest of the descendants are just the shadow into the office, for the sanitation officer, and then in order to move around, and the different surname of the noble official Yin Zi into the general, must be in the old age, seniority, Fang Te to the king (county king), and his ancestors, the father of the lord is not inherited. The prince did not become the king but only one person inherited the duke, so in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a situation of "almost no king with the surname". Therefore, in order to change this situation, Song Renzong issued an edict for the first time in July of the fourth year of Qingli (1044) to confer the title of ten kings.

These are all princes, including the current King of Yun, Zhao Kai, these are all princes. It's just that this prince is not as good as before the heir, because the son of the heir can still be the heir. Such as Zhao Yunrang's son Zhao Zongyi.

Zhao Yunrang, the fourth son of Zhao Er, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, and the third son of Shang Wang Zhao Yuanfen. In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), he was crowned the king of Runan County, and Jiayou died in the fourth year at the age of 65. Gift Taiwei, Zhongshu Order, posthumously Feng Pu Wang, nicknamed An Yi.

Song Renzong reigned for a long time without children, and Zhao Yunrang's thirteenth son Zhao Zongshi was the prince and renamed Zhao Shu. Renzong collapsed, and the prince Zhao Shu ascended the throne for Song Yingzong. In this way, the entire Puwang line was developed. A king named Zhao Yun benefited all eight sons. After Zhao Yunrang's son died, the grandchildren were given their turn. In the entire Zhao and Song dynasties in the three hundred years of the world, there are only four heirs, and they are not the descendants of ordinary princes, but the descendants of the emperor's biological father or adoptive father.

Therefore, Zhao Ji's sons who have been crowned kings have not reached the highest point in their lives, and they can continue to struggle and climb.

Of course, a son like Zhao Ji crowned more than a dozen sons as kings at a young age, which is also unique.

Zhao Kai glanced at Zhao Huan deeply, there is a way, it is not difficult to think, just flee to Sichuan and Shu. The gateway to Kuizhou, relying on hundreds of thousands of Western Army and Sichuan Shu Army, as well as the Imperial Camp Forbidden Army controlled by the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts, can really hold it in a short period of time.

But to do so is to give up a large area of land south of the Yangtze River and live in a corner. Who dares to say that if Jin Qi really starts a war in the future, Zhao Song will be able to make a big profit from it? Can you be the fisherman who makes a profit after the snipe and the clam compete with each other?

And the negative effect of such a proposal is so great that it can destroy a person's entire political prestige and reputation in an instant. Zhao Kai resolutely can't say it, as long as he still has that ambition.

And Zhao Huan is even more unlikely to say it.

Zhao Ji is such a smart person, he knows the wit hidden in the words of the two sons below.

waved his hand to tell them to retreat, leaving only one Zhao Ji in the huge hall, and one Cai You beside him.

"What does Cai Qing think?"

Cai You is Zhao Ji's most refreshed person recently, what is the reason, Cai Jing has already figured out to his son. If it is difficult to gain a foothold in this Jiangling City, Zhao Guanjia is afraid that he will use him to give an explanation to the people of the world.

However, Zhao Guanjia would not think that it was all his fault that the world became what it is today. He's right!

Cai Jing, Yang Jian, Liang Shicheng and others are also innocent, because Zhao Ji understands things very well, if they are wrong, then he is also wrong. Although he will not hesitate to sacrifice Cai Jing and others when necessary.

But it was forced to be helpless, and from the bottom of my heart, the Zhao Guanjia resisted this. Therefore, he wants to leave Cai You by his side and treat him with grace, which is a kind of anger in the heart of Zhao Guanjia, and at the same time it is also a reassurance to Cai Jing.

Cai You is also an absurd person, who has been by Zhao Ji's side for many years and has taken on important responsibilities, but he does not want to deal with government affairs during his tenure, but only knows how to discuss the Taoist divine change on the side of the great artist, and act in obscene scenes in the market to invite favor.

But in this life, Cai You did not turn against his son Cai Jing, on the contrary, this is a true example that verifies the saying 'the son of a mouse will make a hole'. Cai You and Cai Jing have a good relationship and listen to Cai Jing's words very much.

Hearing Zhao Ji's inquiry, he stepped forward and said: "The minister thinks that the official family should take the first step and tour Sichuan and Shu in the west." In this Jiangling land, it is enough to leave His Royal Highness the Prince here. ”