On the first day of Li Yanqing's tenure, his strong style was vividly embodied, and he ordered all the hundred personal soldiers he brought to be converted into Kaifeng Mansion sergeants, and everyone changed into Kaifeng Mansion sergeant uniforms, issued waist cards, carried a long knife cross-body, held a two-color water and fire stick, and each still rode a war horse.

These 100 sergeants were naturally personally called by Li Yanqing, and Shao Yin was not allowed to interfere, which was actually to put on a legal Kaifeng Mansion coat for his personal soldiers, and they could perform official duties on the street in a grand manner.

Although Shaoyin Zhaohui was very dissatisfied with Li Yanqing's domineering style, he was caught by Li Yanqing for his ineffective disaster relief, so he had to dare to be angry and dare not speak, but other Kaifeng Mansion officials were secretly worried about Li Yanqing, Kaifeng Mansion has always done things with his tail between his legs in the capital, and like Li Yanqing, who is so strong, is likely to cause big trouble in the powerful capital.

Li Yanqing still went his own way, he divided the 100 personal soldiers into five teams, and let two catchers as guides, and began to patrol the city on horseback, Li Yanqing himself also personally led 20 sergeants to patrol along the city wall.

Of course, Li Yanqing is not inspecting public security, he is inspecting the city defense situation of the capital in the name of patrolling, the city wall of the capital is taller and stronger than Taiyuan, the city wall is four zhang high, three zhang wide, all of them are made of big stones to adjust rice glutinous rice slurry, the big stones are tightly seamed, even the knife can not be inserted, although the center of the city wall is also filled with yellow sand and mud, but the boulder wall is at least five feet to eight feet thick, this kind of city wall can not be blown up even if it is tied together with ten earth-shaking thunder, this is the luck of the capital, but also the courage and vision of the people who repaired the city wall in the past dynasties.

The outside moat is not wide, only two zhang, there is no suspension bridge at the city gate, but a real wooden bridge, at least decades old, of course, once the winter freezes, the moat and the suspension bridge are meaningless, the moat can not be considered, but both sides of the moat are planted with tall weeping willows, after a hundred years, the weeping willows are very thick and huge, and a few weeping willows are even close to the city, which makes Li Yanqing frown.

It can be seen that Zhao Huan has made some preparations, such as building several large warehouses near the city gate, which are full of military funds, and there are defenders on the city, but these defenders are obviously not forbidden troops, they are generally wearing old leather armor, wearing Fan Yang hats, picking a spear, and many soldiers are equipped with bows and arrows, but Li Yanqing did not see the shadow of the divine arm crossbow, which made Li Yanqing secretly shake his head.

It was not a fluke that he was able to hold Taiyuan, but he made a lot of meticulous and arduous preparations, and even in order to demolish the house close to the city wall, he was scolded by countless Taiyuan people, but it was these various details that made the Jin soldiers finally invulnerable, but as the capital is currently preparing for war, the Jin soldiers can kill the city head in one or two attacks.

At this time, several soldiers guarding the city came over, and Li Yanqing stopped them, "I'm the new Kaifeng Yin, I want to ask you something." ”

Several soldiers did not know Li Yanqing, and when they heard that this young official was actually Kaifeng Yin, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Where are you soldiers, it seems that you are not from the capital?"

"Back to the big officials, we are Chenzhou Xiangjun, and we were transferred to the capital last month."

Sure enough, as he expected, they were all other Xiang troops, Li Yanqing did not look down on the township soldiers, and the forbidden army was also rotten, the key is that these soldiers were not from the capital, so they did not have the heart to fight to the death to protect the city, and once the war started, it was possible to abandon the city and flee back to their hometown.

"Have you ever trained to defend the city?" Li Yanqing asked again.

Several soldiers looked at each other and shook their heads, "We only train bows and arrows, not defend the city." ”

"Did you go to war?"

Several soldiers still shook their heads, Mo said that against the Jin soldiers, it was to attack Liangshan, and the suppression of Fang La did not have their share.

Li Yanqing asked a few more questions, but basically he was not satisfied with the answer, and he had to let the soldiers leave.

"Li Fuyin!"

At this moment, Li Yanqing suddenly heard someone calling him from behind, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Li Gang running in a hurry, and Li Gang was also followed by a group of subordinates, probably also to inspect the city wall.

Li Yanqing stopped, and after a while, Li Gang hurriedly ran forward and said happily: "Is Li Fuyin also here to check the city defense?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I promised His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so naturally I won't break my promise." ”

"Now I am fully responsible for the city's defense and combat readiness, and I welcome Li Fuyin's valuable opinions."

Li Yanqing shook his head, "It's hard for me to speak, I'll offend people, so it's better not to say it!" ”

Li Gang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I am a civil official, and I have no experience in defending the city, please ask Fu Yin to speak bluntly, I will definitely correct the deficiencies with an open mind." ”

"Li Shilang really wants to hear the truth?"

"Of course!"

"That's good!" Li Yanqing walked to the city wall and pointed to the weeping willows outside the city, "Why don't you sawn off these weeping willows?" Do you keep them to help the soldiers attack the city? ”

Li Gang's face showed embarrassment, and he said half-loudly: "These weeping willows are called the founding willows, which were planted by Taizu himself when he founded the country, and no one dares to cut them, at least not now." ”

Li Yanqing looked at him for a moment and nodded, "Okay!" Now that I don't mention the weeping willows, what is the matter with these defenders? I asked them just now, they have neither training nor any experience in war, how can they face a fierce battle, when the golden soldiers and iron cavalry are killed, how many people can hold on? ”

Li Gang smiled bitterly, "Now the biggest difficulty of the prince is that he has no military power, no right to appoint and dismiss high-ranking officials, these box troops are still fighting again and again, after the official family agrees, the box army transferred by Gao Shen from the counties and states around the capital, a total of 30,000 people, and the command and generals of these box troops are all served by the forbidden army, only the prince's orders to defend the city, and the rest of the orders are not implemented, and the 30,000 box troops are actually still in the hands of the officials." ”

"So what are you preparing for now?"

"We have only made a lot of material preparations, such as building ordnance and armor, preparing firearms, etc., we have built more than 1,000 pieces of earth-shaking thunder alone, and we have mobilized financial resources from all sides, and the reserves of silver transferred from various silver mines in the south alone have reached 10 million taels, 3 million stones of grain, and 5 million horses of Jianghuai cloth, and the price of silver has been suppressed and the price of silver has also dropped to 1 to 4,000 wen, and at the highest time it reached 1 tael to 8,000 wen."

Li Yanqing walked to the city wall with his hands in his hands, the situation was even more severe than he feared, he thought that the crown prince would do some things after he took charge of the country, but now it seems that the military council hall is still doing nothing in terms of war preparation.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the crown prince Zhao Huan, he was seriously constrained by Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, Zhao Ji is the cancer of the capital's defense, and the culprit of Jingkang's shame in history.

At this time, Li Gang slowly stepped forward and sighed: "At the beginning, I tried my best to persuade the official family to abdicate, and I knew that his refusal to abdicate would have serious consequences now. ”

"What?"

Li Yanqing couldn't believe his ears, at this time, Zhao Ji wanted to build Yanfu Palace again, which was incredible.

"Didn't he know that Jin Bing was going to kill again?" Li Yanqing asked in astonishment.

"The official family thinks that Song Jin has signed an armistice and withdrawal agreement, and he has to pay heavy tribute every year, and he should not come again in a few years, this is the idea that Wang Hao and Cai Jing and others instill in his ears every day, and since last month, Wang Hao has begun to encourage him to levy Huashigang again, which is used to build the Hangzhou Palace, and Wang Huang's brother Wang Jin is in charge, hey! With such arrogance and lasciviousness, how can the country be undefeated? ”

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: "Anyway, the city defense must be promoted, I will take a look at it again in the next two days, and I will write a report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince when I go back, you try to do it according to my suggestions, you can do as much as you can, even if you can't do it well for a while, you must prepare in advance, for example, the wrestlers who cut down trees outside the city will find all the ones first, the axe will be sharpened, and the path will be paved, and when the time comes, the trees can be cut down within an hour, and all of them can be dragged into the city to do the city guarding, does Li Shilang understand what I mean?" ”

Li Gang nodded, "I understand what Li Fuyin means." ”

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Just when Li Yanqing was giving Li Gang advice, in the official room of Wang Hao of the Zhizheng Hall, Yin Zhaohui, the young man of Kaifeng Prefecture, was also reporting to Wang Huang about Li Yanqing's arrogant behavior today.

"It's so arrogant, he actually stuffed all his personal soldiers into Kaifeng Mansion, saying that he was responsible for the expenses, thinking that the Great Song Dynasty was his Li Yanqing's? The country's heavy weapon, he, Li Yanqing, can be bought with money? Xianggong, this person is unruly, and he threatened to drive me away on the day he took office, and he must be severely punished for this kind of behavior, and he can't let his temperament mess around. ”

Wang Hao took a few steps with his hands down, and asked coldly, "What else did he do?" ”

"There is also the matter of relief for refugees, I said that Wang Xianggong is comprehensively considering the relief plan, and Kaifeng Mansion should obey the imperial court and cannot act without authorization, but he pointed at my nose and scolded, saying that he was my boss, and ordered Hu Cao to go to handle the relief immediately, and he didn't take Wang Xianggong in his eyes at all."

Wang Hao was furious, "Did he really do this? ”

"He did just that, and ordered the counties to start giving relief to the refugees by noon tomorrow."

"What if you don't give money?"

"He didn't say that."

Wang Hao sneered, "I want to see what he has to do to get the counties to carry out his orders." ”