The prefect's hall was filled with dozens of high-ranking officials, and when Li Yanqing walked into the hall, the ministers stood up one after another to welcome the regent.

Li Yanqing smiled and waved his hand and sat down, "Colleagues, please take a seat." ”

The ministers sat down, and Li Yanqing walked to the debriefing platform, which was specially set up to facilitate local officials to report to the governor's office, somewhat similar to the lecture platform in later generations.

Li Yanqing naturally stood in front of the stage and smiled at everyone: "Just now Gao Xianggong asked me to tell you about the battle situation and future plans, when I was in Jiaxing Mansion, I read a "Morning Post", which published the detailed process of the Hebei Campaign, which is roughly the same, but there are slight discrepancies in some details, such as the newspaper said that the Hebei Jin soldiers are in my careful calculations, and they can't escape from my palm, in fact, it is not the case, like Yan Zongfu's 30,000 army, it was too late when I got the news, or thanks to General Wu Jie's strategy to lure them into Hejian City, Only then can the fire plan be implemented, and the military report of the Privy Council will come out, and everyone can take a look. ”

"Then can you ask His Royal Highness the Regent to talk about the follow-up war?" Fan Zhixu asked.

This is the question that the officials are concerned about, and it is also the real reason why they are sitting here, as the imperial court, they need to understand the next move of the army, the previous Northern Expedition, Li Yanqing has made a comprehensive explanation in advance, they are very clear, so what about after the end of the Northern Expedition?

Li Yanqing understood everyone's thoughts, he said unhurriedly: "In fact, the Northern Expedition War has not ended, the Song army is now besieging Yanshan Mansion, don't forget, Yanshan Mansion was once incorporated into the Great Song Dynasty, and was later taken away by the Jin soldiers, only by taking Yanshan Mansion, our Northern Expedition mission can be considered a successful end, as for whether we should continue to fight with the Jin soldiers next, on the one hand, it depends on whether the Jin soldiers counterattack, and on the other hand, it also depends on our own national strength to bear, but one thing is certain, we must carry out the most severe trade blockade, The Jin State could not be allowed to get any strategic materials from the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Does His Royal Highness the Lord Regent have a specific plan?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "The specific plan has not come out yet, and there is only one idea now, but I can clearly tell you that my goal is to completely destroy the Jin Kingdom and eradicate this cancer and hidden danger that grows on our backs." ”

After a pause, Li Yanqing said again: "Don't think about the Jin country so terrible, tell everyone, after so many years of war, the national strength of the Jin country has been exhausted, it is now only a tribe of more than a million people, and the national strength is not even as good as the Western Xia, how can it compete with the tens of millions of people in our Great Song Dynasty?" Once the girder of the Jin Kingdom is broken, the entire Jin Kingdom will collapse as quickly as a decaying house, leaving everyone stunned. ”

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On the second day of Li Yanqing's return, the Zhizheng Hall passed a resolution to raise money from the people of the world, and the call for donations was placed on the front page of the "Morning Post", and at the same time promised that for some donors who have made significant contributions, not only will they be awarded to the commanders, but also will be compensated for land or cattle and sheep in the future, and the minimum compensation standard has been clarified.

At the same time, the imperial court ordered the establishment of fund-raising points in various states and counties, and the fund-raising call first exploded the Lin'an Mansion, and there were long queues in front of the twenty-three donation points in Lin'an City, and the people enthusiastically donated money, with three or five hundred Wen at most, and some wealthy businessmen also donated generously, and Li Daqi, the proprietor of Baoyan Zhai, donated 500,000 taels of silver, which caused a sensation in the whole city.

Even the officials also donated money one after another, Li Yanqing took the lead and donated 10,000 guan, Xiang Guofan Zhixu donated 5,000 guan, Gao Shen and Cao Yan also donated 5,000 guan, Zheng Wangzhi and Li Gang each donated 2,000 guan, and most of the other officials were below 1,000 guan, ranging from hundreds to dozens of guan.

In just 10 days, Lin'an alone donated more than 10 million yuan, and the "Morning Post" specially published a special issue to raise funds to publish the top 500 donors.

At night, Li Yanqing sat in his study and slowly flipped through the special issue of "Morning Post", which actually had a lot of useful information, depending on how to dig it.

At this time, his wife Cao Yun came in with a bowl of tea, and Li Yanqing raised her eyebrows and asked, "How are Qing'er and her mother?" ”

Cao Yun nodded, "After all, they are mother and daughter, they are connected by blood, Qing'er has already talked to her, I estimate that after giving birth to a child, the two will be completely reconciled." ”

"In that case, let her mother move into the house, and it's pitiful to live outside alone."

"Don't worry, husband! I'll arrange it. ”

Cao Yun put the tea on the table, and when she saw her husband reading the fundraising report, she couldn't help laughing: "Everyone is talking about fundraising these days, and their ears are calloused." ”

"Did the lady donate?"

"Go! We don't donate, where did your 10,000 yuan come from, isn't it just a few of us who put it together? Even Ah Lian donated her fifty guan body money. ”

"Yes! This kid is sensible, did Pu'er donate? ”

"Of course he also donated, ten times the money was donated, and he is also very sensible!"

Li Yanqing smiled and patted her buttocks gently, "I'm afraid that my son won't be praised!" ”

"Of course!"

Cao Yun simply sat beside her husband like a coquettish woman and read the newspaper with him, "I see you have read the list several times, is this list interesting?" ”

"It's quite interesting, you look at the second place in donating money, Zheng Rongtai, the king of Quanzhou, donated 100,000 taels of silver, I haven't heard from him for many years, it turns out that he is in Quanzhou."

"Husband knows him?"

"Of course I know, when I took the exam, he sat next to me, I saw him cheat with my own eyes, and then he became my friend."

"I remembered, too."

Cao Yun hurriedly said: "When we got married, you said that there was a Zheng fat man who gave a bride price of 10,000 yuan, isn't he?" ”

"That's him!"

"Then when will you invite him to come and sit at home, he supports you so much."

"I'm going to treat him to a meal, in a few days!"

"So what's so interesting?" Cao Yun asked again.

"Another interesting thing, among the top five hundred, I can't find a single Zhao royal family, they seem to be resisting collectively."

"Fu Jin donated 1,000 yuan, and Jin Nu also donated 500 yuan."

"They don't count, Fujin's donation is my share, Zhao Jinnu's donation is Cao Sheng's share, and there is nothing else, the fifth hundredth person donated 300 yuan, are they reluctant to donate even 300 yuan? It's still Zhao Song Jiangshan now! ”

Cao Yun thought for a while and said, "I don't think they don't want to donate, but they're afraid of you." ”

"Why do you say that?"

Cao Yun pointed to the person in front of him: "This Xing Qiliang donated 20,000 yuan, he is the eldest brother of Queen Xing, as far as I know, Queen Xing and Empress Dowager Zheng also donated 5,000 yuan each, but there is no name on it, indicating that Queen Xing gave the money to his brother and asked him to donate on his behalf, so why doesn't Queen Xing donate in the name of the prince, the prince is justified in donating money, and she refuses, isn't this just afraid of you?" ”

"It's not necessarily that I'm afraid of me, maybe it's the Zhao royal family who are collectively boycotting."

Cao Yun shook his head, "The last time the knighthood was cut, the royal family had already collapsed, where is there any collective resistance?" ”

"What's going on?"

"I don't know very well, but I just heard from my uncle that there are several princes who didn't want to give up their titles, but then others gave up, and they had no choice but to give up, but they hated the royal family who took the initiative to give up the princes before."

"It's interesting, but whatever the reason, there is not a single royal family in this list, and in the hearts of the people of the world, they are seriously discredited."

"Isn't this what my husband wants?"

Cao Yun stood up and walked out with a smile, Li Yanqing was stunned, could it be that his ambition was so obvious?

Li Yanqing stood silently in front of the window, he was still thinking about whether to use this donation incident to attack the Zhao royal family, he couldn't understand why the royal family would be absent at such a critical time, and even his relatives were desperately donating money to show favor to him, but none of the royal family appeared on the list, what did the world think?

Once public opinion erupts, it will have a fatal impact on the Zhao royal family, and they don't even care about their own dynasty, and they still expect others to care about them?

Maybe his wife is right, these royal families don't dare to donate because they are afraid of themselves, but it can also be seen that the Zhao royal family has become a dou who can't be supported.

No one dared to stand up and donate money, loudly declaring that the royal family had not disappeared, and they still cared about the Great Song Dynasty, but unfortunately, there was no such person, and everyone had learned to protect themselves.

Li Yanqing sneered, they said that they would give in a low-key manner, did they think they could escape their whipping?

Li Yanqing immediately wrote a letter and asked his soldiers to run and hand it to his father.

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In the next two days, the public opinion crusade triggered by the list began to break out, and the "Morning Post" severely criticized the royal family for being indifferent and selfish on the front page.

The severe criticism of the "Morning Post" became the fuse that detonated public opinion, and for a time, everyone in the world, including Lin'an Mansion, was indignant and criticized the selfishness and indifference of the imperial family.

This crusade against the royal family lasted for nearly two months before public opinion slowly subsided.

Although the royal family has remained silent and has not defended this incident, after the end of public opinion, people's hearts have changed.