From the perspective of Wang Huang's vital interests, he must not allow the crown prince to ascend the throne, for so many years, he has been the main force to promote King Yun to replace the crown prince, and the Fan Dang case is a precise blow to the crown prince Zhao Huan, and even almost succeeded, at this time the Son of Heaven was about to abdicate, Wang Hao suddenly felt that the building was about to fall.

Wang Hao fell to the ground and wept with tears in his eyes: "The disaster of the Jin soldiers is not the fault of Your Majesty, the Song and Jin Alliance has been supported by the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military, and the Lianjin and Liao are even more pushed by the ministers. ”

Zhao Ji sighed, "What's the point of talking about this now?" It is I who am ashamed of my ancestors and ancestors, and ashamed of the subjects of the world, and I will bear my due responsibility. ”

"Your Majesty, the change of commanders of the three armies is a taboo for soldiers, and the same is true for the country, now the society is in danger, Your Majesty should stabilize the overall situation, the monarch and the ministers are single-minded, and their profits are cut off, as long as the monarchs and ministers work together to fight against Hu Lu, they will definitely be able to expel the Jin soldiers, and the villain has ill intentions and vainly persuades His Majesty to abdicate, which will lead to the death of Sheji, and Your Majesty must not listen to it."

Zhao Ji nodded slightly, "The monarch and the minister are single-minded, and their profits are gold, this is very good, and the prince has a heart." ”

He asked Cai Jing again, "What do you think of Cai Xianggong?" ”

Cai Jing remained silent, standing aside to observe every change in Zhao Ji's expression, figuring out his thoughts.

Cai Jing can see it now, perhaps forced by the situation, forcing the official family to make a gesture of abdication, but in fact he is not willing to abdicate at all, under Wang Huang's sophistry, the idea of the official family abdicating has been rapidly fading, at this time to persuade the official family to abdicate, it is undoubtedly self-inflicted, although Cai Jing is eager for the prince to immediately take the throne to severely punish Wang Huang, but now decades of officialdom experience tells Cai Jing that he must take a conservative posture at this time.

Cai Jing said slowly: "Now the Jin soldiers have only broken through the first line of defense, we still have 100,000 elite soldiers in Xiangzhou, King Kang led the army to defend Xiangzhou, I believe that His Royal Highness King Kang will definitely live up to the grace of the saint and extinguish the arrogance of the enemy army, and there is also the Yellow River natural danger, and it is difficult for the Jin soldiers to leap with their wings inserted, Your Majesty does not need to be too anxious, the situation is far from deteriorating." ”

Cai Jing's comfort completely supported Zhao Ji's confidence, and he nodded, "But I do have responsibility, this is undeniable, now the situation is critical, I am already emaciated, I am afraid that I will not be able to preside over the overall situation, so I consider letting the prince supervise the country, and I will go to Hangzhou to recuperate in the summer, do the two ministers think it is feasible?" ”

Let the crown prince supervise the country, but he doesn't have to abdicate, he has self-blame, and he doesn't have to make an edict against himself, and even if the battle is unfavorable in the future, he can put the blame on the head of the ineffective prison country, no matter how you look at it, this is the best plan.

The crown prince is in charge of the country and does not abdicate, this plan Wang Huang can accept, but he thinks it is inappropriate to go to the south to avoid chaos, once the prince is in power, and the official family is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, the prince forcibly ascends the throne, and the official family is beyond the reach of the whip.

"Your Majesty let the prince supervise the country, and Wechen also thinks it is feasible, but as Cai Xianggong said just now, the situation is far from deteriorating, and there is still a natural danger of the Yellow River, Wechen thinks that Your Majesty is still sitting in the capital to stabilize the morale of the army and the people, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!"

Zhao Ji was a little hesitant, it seemed that Wang Hao was reasonable, now he was a little too anxious to go south, he looked at Cai Jing again, Cai Jing bowed and said: "Your Majesty changed Hangzhou to Nanjing Mansion, Weichen agrees, Your Majesty goes to the south to recuperate, Weichen also agrees, but Hangzhou has suffered from Fangla, the city has not been fully restored, and there is no palace for His Majesty to live in, it is better to send someone to Hangzhou to build the palace first, and then wait and see the situation here, if the situation is really bad after half a year, the palace has also been repaired at that time, and it is not too late for Your Majesty to go south to recuperate." ”

Cai Jing was actually against Zhao Ji's southward journey, but he was more subtle and figured out Zhao Ji's weakness of greedy enjoyment, so he used the destruction of Hangzhou's city outline and no palace residence to hit Zhao Ji's heart to go south, Zhao Ji was silent for a while, he was indeed a little embarrassed, he took a large number of imperial concubines and palace maids to the south, how can he do without a place to live? You can't live in a tent in a private house!

"Alright! I'm thinking about it, so you guys step back first! ”

"Wechen retires!"

Cai Jing and Wang Huang retreated, Zhao Ji took a few steps with his hands, and he remembered the historical events cited by Li Gang, if the prince really took advantage of his opportunity to ascend the throne without authorization in the south, it would be troublesome, Zhao Ji resolutely made up his mind not to leave for the time being, to monitor the prince, how could he easily seize his throne.

An hour later, Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, issued an edict from the ban, announcing that the crown prince would be in charge of the country and be fully responsible for the fight against the Jin soldiers.

Although Zhao Ji threw a bunch of bad things to the crown prince Zhao Heng, he still firmly controlled the personnel power in his own hands.

.........

'Bang! An inkstone smashed on the ground, and it was shattered instantly, Zhao Huan's face was flushed with anger, and he shouted angrily: "Make a mess of the world, but let me clean up the mess, and call it the prison country, after the mess is cleaned up, will you kick me away again, don't you want such a prison country!" ”

Wu Min silently picked up the fragments on the ground, handed the fragments to the palace maid next to him, and sent her out, he persuaded Zhao Huan in a low voice: "Although His Royal Highness is the prince, he is also a courtier, father and son, there is a difference between the monarch and the minister, no matter what His Highness just said is inappropriate, please calm down, please bear with Your Highness, don't give someone a handle!" ”

Zhao Huan slowly calmed down, sighed and said: "The traitor is in charge, the country is weak, what else can I do to turn the tide?" I'm so stressed! ”

"Your Highness, pressure is also a responsibility, Your Highness is not the prince today, this is the responsibility that Your Highness must bear, as long as Your Highness actively responds, you will be able to turn the tide and achieve immortal fame."

Zhao Huan nodded, "Then what should I do?" ”

"First of all, His Royal Highness must go to the palace to thank him and make a positive statement, and secondly, His Highness must come up with a clear plan to withdraw from the enemy, so that the official family can rest assured that the power can be handed over to His Highness, these two things are top priorities."

"But where do I have a clear plan to retreat from the enemy?"

Wu Min pondered and said: "Wechen suggested that His Highness talk to Li Gang first, Wechen felt that his thinking was very clear, and he might be able to give His Highness some inspiration." ”

"Summoning Li Gang now, will it make my father misunderstand?"

"Your Highness, the great enemy is no longer able to take care of these subsections."

Zhao Huan thought that his father had given up his decision to abdicate, and he really had nothing to worry about, so he gritted his teeth, "Okay!" I'll summon Li Gang! ”

Li Gang just scratched his scalp, and he was fine after being treated by the imperial doctor, he had already gone home to rest, but he received an urgent summons from the prince, and he had to rush to the East Palace.

Li Gang walked into the Qinzheng Hall of the East Palace under the guidance of a eunuch, "Li Shaoqing, please!" His Highness waited in his study. ”

Li Gang walked quickly into the prince's study in the apse, only to see the prince Zhao Huan standing in front of the window with his hands in his hands, Li Gang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Weichen see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"Li Shaoqing doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat!"

Li Gang saw that a chair had been set up next to him, so he sat down, and at this time, Zhao Huan glanced back at Li Gang, "Shaoqing's forehead doesn't matter, right?" He asked with concern.

Li Gang touched the plaster on his forehead, shook his head and said, "Thank you Your Highness for your concern, it's just a little bit of skin, it's not in the way!" ”

Zhao Huan didn't want to talk about this issue either, he sat down in front of the table and said slowly: "My father has appointed me as the prisoner, does Shaoqing know?" ”

"Wechen has already heard about it!"

"But it's not easy to be a prisoner!"

Zhao Huan sighed, "The situation is very serious, where should I start, can Shaoqing teach me?" ”

"Weichen just has some humble opinions, and he can't be on the stage." Li Gang was a little modest.

Zhao Huan smiled slightly, "Li Shaoqing, but it's okay to say it!" ”

Li Gang knew that this was not the time to be modest, so he was no longer polite, and said frankly: "Weichen thinks that there is an important question to figure out first, why did the Jin Kingdom choose this time to invade the south? ”

"You say!" Zhao Huan suddenly became interested.

"Any major decision of a militaristic state will have a clear strategic purpose, and the Jin State is no exception, at this time, the Jin State invaded, if it is aimed at my Great Song Dynasty capital, and wants to gain benefits through war, then I will say that it is a very unwise decision for the Jin State to attack the Great Song Dynasty in the summer, first of all, the Yellow River is insurmountable, and the heart of the Jin State to attack the Great Song Dynasty has been for a long time! Why can't you resist half a year?

If they really want to attack the capital, why don't they wait until the Yellow River freezes south in winter, and then they can directly kill under the city of Tokyo, we understand this truth, and the Jin State understands it even more, but they still launched the war in June, so Weichen can say with certainty that the strategic target of the Jin State's southern invasion this time is not the capital. ”

"Where would that be?" Zhao Ji asked anxiously.

Li Gang said slowly: "Taiyuan! ”

Zhao Huan's face turned pale all of a sudden, yesterday he asked Zhao Keats to send a secret letter to Li Yanqing's father, asking Li Yanqing to give up Taiyuan and withdraw to Tokyo, he originally thought that his father had decided to abdicate, and he needed Li Yanqing's army to protect himself from the throne and grasp the power, but his father finally changed his hexagram, and now it seems that his decision is a little too unwise, and even too hasty.

Zhao Huan was really a little restless, he had to send another letter to Li Yanqing immediately to annul yesterday's decision.

Li Gang didn't understand Zhao Huan's thoughts, and he continued: "Since the goal of the Jin State is Taiyuan, then the Hebei Jin soldiers are more to contain the Song army to support Hedong, and it is basically certain that the Jin soldiers will never risk crossing the Yellow River at present. ”

"So what should I do?" Zhao Huan asked again.

"Jin Bing is only in the Yellow River now, it does not mean that he will not come at the end of the year, so before the Yellow River freezes, we still have half a year, please use this half year to actively prepare for the war, consolidate the defense of the capital, and at the same time establish a defense line in the Yellow River, this is the key thing Your Highness will do in the second half of the year, but ......"

"But what?" Zhao Huan was distracted when he heard this, but Li Gang stopped at the critical moment, and he urged eagerly: "Go on!" ”

"If Your Highness wants to effectively mobilize the army to strengthen the defense, I am afraid that it will not be possible to rely on the current imperial court, unless Your Highness has the absolute right to appoint important ministers."

"But my father only gave me the right to appoint officials below the fourth grade."

Li Gang said with a smile: "Most of the officials who really have real power in the imperial court are below the fourth rank, and I suggest that Your Highness set up a wartime military council hall with full authority to manage the army and material mobilization, and even the prefect hall must not interfere." ”

Zhao Huan nodded slowly, this is a good way to avoid the constraints of Wang Hao and others, he must fight for this power.