"First, the imperial court must issue an edict to admit its mistakes; second, the imperial court sent the prince and prime minister to Liangshan as a hostage; Third, Liang Shanjun no longer listens to the tune, and must be invited; Fourth, the Liangshan army enjoyed military access in all parts of the imperial court...... Seventh, Liang Shanjun set up an office in Bianjing City......"

When this freshly baked Song Liang unequal treaty was delivered to the Vertical Arch Palace, everyone, including Zhao Ji and Cai Jing, was in an uproar, and it was as if it was blowing up again.

"Official, you can't agree, if you agree, the face of the court will be lost......"

"Stupid, what does it matter if you lose face, the key is that in this way, wouldn't this gang of Liangshan rebels have to sit on an equal footing with the imperial court, and then the Western Army and all the towns in the world will not follow suit when the time comes......"

"Saint Daddy, do you really want to send the child to Liangshan as a hostage......

"Of these seven articles, only the fourth is the most unacceptable, otherwise the country will not be ......"

"Don't accept it? Okay, you go and talk to the Liangshan thief! Don't forget, the Liangshan rebels have only given us an hour, and when the time comes, no matter what decision we make, these rebels will immediately attack the inner city......

"Geng Xi said, you traitor, don't think we don't know what you think? I think you are looking forward to the imperial court, and I want the prestige of the official family to be ruined, so you can take the position and fight for prestige......"

The crown prince named Geng Nanzhong, Zhan Shi, and the straight scholar of Huiyouge immediately called out to hit the sky: "Official, Cai Ju'an (Cai You) is spewing blood, how dare the minister have such an idea?" It's the truth!

What's the use of everyone arguing here, the time given by the Liangshan army is running out, when the time comes, this gang of thieves is going to attack the city! ”

This sentence immediately gave Zhao Ji, who was anxious and at a loss on the dragon chair, a wake-up call, and suddenly woke up from his anger, sadness, fear, and panic, glanced at the noisy ministers in the hall, and said angrily: "Don't quarrel, you will know how to quarrel when you encounter something!" A bunch of waste, what do I want you to do! ”

Speaking of which, as an emperor, Zhao Ji has almost no strengths, only in terms of temperament and personal accomplishment, there is also a bit of a gentleman's atmosphere.

He had no hope of being the emperor, so he has always been frivolous and absurd, likes to have fun, and often plays with the people below in private.

Therefore, Zhao Ji has always seemed to have no temper, very easy-going, very gentle and easy to talk; What's more, he is also an almost all-round artist, and his temperament is simply elegant and elegant.

Moreover, although he was not a good emperor and his intelligence was not very high, he still had a set of controls over the court situation, and was very good at checks and balances (Note 1), so even though he was always frivolous and absurd, the courtiers still begged him and coaxed her, not daring to offend him.

And Zhao Ji is becoming more and more beautiful, happy like a fairy, and almost never loses his temper.

At this time, he has always been good-tempered and self-contained, and the gentle and elegant Zhao Ji was angry, which was really terrifying, and the ministers were also startled when they saw Zhao Ji like this, and the hall quieted down.

"Zhang Qing, He Qing, Wang Qing, the three of you have been to Chen Qiaomen, do you know what the secret weapon of the Liangshan Army is? Lin Chong can really beat the inner city? ”

Rao is because of this series of changes (Gao Yu was killed, Chen Qiaomen was breached), the emotions were too intense in a short period of time, Zhao Ji was in a state of almost out of control at this time, if he didn't try his best to suppress it, I was afraid that he would have gone crazy at this moment.

But after all, the matter has to be solved, and Zhao Ji has to make up his mind for everything, so he was silent for a while, but Zhao Ji still tried his best to stabilize his emotions and asked questions first.

Seeing Zhao Ji's eyes red and his face turned pale, the ministers all turned their eyes over, at this critical moment, the three of them are also you look at me, I look at you, I look at you, and you are looking forward to the other two being the first to stand up and reply.

But the three of them were all thinking like this, and they froze for a while, and finally Uncle Zhang came out of the column and replied: "Back to the official's house, when the minister was negotiating with Na Lin Chong under the Chen Qiao Gate, he smelled a smell of sulfur gunpowder on the city wall, and the secret weapon of the Liangshan army should be a gunpowder weapon similar to a thunderbolt, but the power is much greater than that of the imperial court's thunderbolt.

According to the minister's understanding, although this secret weapon of the Liangshan Army is amazing and powerful, it is not invincible; It's just that the morale of the city is now lost, and the army has no fighting spirit, which makes the Liangshan army easily break the city!

As far as the minister knows, in this siege battle, the defenders of Chenqiaomen only suffered dozens of casualties, and the rest were slightly wounded, but the morale collapsed, and the whole army dispersed in a hurry, resulting in this defeat. Officials can ask Chen Qiaomen, Li Shilang, and Zhang Yu, the commander of the imperial camp. ”

Li Shilang is Li Zheng, the squire of the Ministry of Industry, who is a civil servant who does not understand military affairs at all, but the Great Song Dynasty has always used literature to control military affairs, and he is extremely distrustful of military generals, so he naturally wants to send Wenchen to watch the military generals at the critical moment.

Li Zheng was a party member of Cai Jing, and won the trust of the official family and the prime minister Cai Jing, so he sent him to Chen Qiaomen to temporarily take charge of the defense of Chen Qiaomen, which was called the promotion of Chen Qiaomen; And Zhang Yu, the military general who really led the troops, could only be Li Zheng's deputy.

At this time, as soon as they heard Zhang Shuye finish speaking, the two immediately went out of work, but it was Li Zheng who took the lead and said: "Official, what Zhang Shilang said is indeed true, it is Zhang Yu who has no way to lead the troops, and it cannot inspire morale, so that the Liangshan army will immediately collapse the defenders at the head of the city after a round of shelling!" ”

Zhang Yu was just a small general, and he didn't have a chance to go to the palace to face the king, but this time it was Zhang Shuye and He Li who specially called him to the main hall to explain the situation.

At this time, when he heard that he was being constrained in many ways, and almost put the responsibility on himself for the big turban that he had set up in the air, Zhang Yu didn't dare to argue, but just gave a military salute and pleaded guilty: "Weichen is guilty, and it can't inspire morale, but the morale of the forbidden army is already low." Not only the ministers, but also the soldiers and horses of Gao Taiwei and He Taiwei were also defeated by the Liangshan army, and the whole army surrendered? ”

Zhang Shuye immediately spoke: "The official family clearly sees that when they know that the defeat of the imperial court this time is not in the generals of the army, but in the soldiers of the three armies, the soldiers are arrogant and lazy, and they have not practiced for a long time, how can they be of great use in battle?"

And on weekdays, the generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, and the top and bottom are suspicious, how can the general establish his prestige in front of the soldiers, and how can he effectively command the army? In Yiyichen's view, the defeat in this battle is not in command on the spot, but in the quality of the army, even if the number of such an army is large, what is the use? ”

There are no stupid people in the main hall (except for Cai You), and everyone suddenly thinks of the basic national policy of the Great Song Dynasty to suppress military affairs and not believe in military generals.

The only thing that the Liangshan army can force the imperial court to this point is the strong generals in their hands, and if they want to deal with the big trouble of the Liangshan army, it seems that the imperial court will have to reuse the military ministers in the future.

It's just that the martial arts are domineering, once these martial artists turn over, let the military ministers become the country, and regain power, I am afraid that it will be like the story of the five generations, and the Wenchen scholars will inevitably be slaughtered and bloodbathed, even if it is not so serious, the status will be far inferior to before.

This is called how can the scholars and scholars who actually ruled the Great Song Dynasty for more than 100 years accept it in their hearts?

But if you don't reuse the military ministers, don't give power to the military ministers, and let the military ministers train an elite army, how can the threat of the Liangshan army be lifted enough?

What a dilemma!

At this moment, he saw Uncle Zhang kneeling down towards Zhao Ji with a big salute at night, and said earnestly: "Qiqi official, now the situation is a sword to the throat, burning eyebrows, and the time on the road Lin Chong has only given an hour, and as soon as the time comes, the thieves in Liangshan will attack the inner city again!"

The official family does not need to doubt that the people are panicked and their morale is depressed, once Lin Chong uses the head of Gao Taiwei to open the way and storm the inner city, the inner city will definitely not be able to hold it, so he has to agree to Lin Chong's conditions for today's plan!

However, the court suffered such a great shame, how could it not snow; Liangshan's anti-thief henchmen are in great trouble; How could the official family and the imperial court be threatened by the Liangshan army from time to time? The lord humiliated the minister to death, although the minister was a civil minister, but he had led the troops to fight a bloody battle with the Qiang people, and also knew a lot about the Liangshan army Lin Chong's training method, and the minister was willing to share the worries of the officials, rectify the soldiers and horses of the gate control army, and train a strong army in the left near Bianjing......"