But Zeng Zhao's change this time is too great. Even Han Jin noticed that this nerdy honest man suddenly became sleek.

At the very least, the officials have begun to carefully consider his Zeng Zhao's opinions in employing people.

This is a good phenomenon, at least Zeng Zhao's own changes have led Zhao Xu to a correct direction, and at present, it seems that this direction has not deviated and is benign.

There are now a large number of people in the DPRK who look at Zeng Zhao unpleasantly, and they regard him as Wang Qi's second, and many officials who think they are upright are secretly discussing, and now Zeng Zhao has changed from an upright pure minister to a flattering villain.

However, Han Zhen knew very well that in Zhao Xu's heart, Zeng Zhao's current actions were even stronger than Zhang Xuan, and he was very popular with the little emperor.

No matter how the official family deals with Cai Dao's dismissal of the chief and deputy coaches this time, Cai Bian's demotion from Beijing is already a certainty.

As for what the kid of the Yao family did, it was finally exposed, but it didn't cause much turmoil.

Of course, the nature of the matter itself is extremely bad, even bigger than Cai Dao's dismissal of the chief and deputy coach.

However, as Cai Dao expected, people died like lights going out.

Yao Pingzhong and the others have all died in Thang Long City, if they continue to investigate, is it really like those conservative civil officials who are clamoring for this matter to say, now go and take out the anger of the generals of the Yao family who are fighting bloodily against the army of the Western Xia Kingdom in the Northwest Route Army?

This is something that only fools and idiots can think of and do.

There are hot-blooded imperial histories, but the imperial histories are not fools.

Regardless of whether the other party is a military attache or not, the person is already dead, no one will continue to investigate this matter, just like Xu Xi who was defending Lanzhou City at the beginning, after he died in battle, Song Shenzong only blamed himself for seeing the wrong person, and did not investigate Xu Xi, the 'Great Song Zhao Kuo', for the crime of improper actions when defending Lanzhou City.

However, Han Jin still felt a little pity, this time, what did the official family think, and he did not respond to Cai Daoyuan's recital from thousands of miles away.

The hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties can be pocketed, but Zhao Xu did not make any response at this time. Seeing that the rainy season is approaching, relying on the few people in Cai Dao's hands, he can't hold the territory he has already captured. Once this opportunity is missed, Cai Dao's spirit will fall to the valley, and then send others to lead the troops to the south, even if it is himself, Zhang Dan, or Guo Zhongxiao and Di'an, it will be difficult to achieve Cai Dao's brilliant results this time.

Han Zhen was convinced of this, and Zhang Dian was also convinced.

But after all, this world belongs to the Zhao family, and the official family does not respond, and the others have no choice but to remain silent.

However, with Han Jin's understanding of Cai Dao, this kid has always been angry with others, even if the other party is the emperor, he will definitely not do anything to make himself suffer.

Once he doesn't get a reply from the official, Cai Dao will take the initiative to evacuate from Thang Long City when the rainy season comes.

Could it be that the officials have not responded, and this is what they are waiting for?

It's not just Han Zhen who thinks so, Zhang Dan, Cai Jing, Zeng Bu and Zeng Zhao all think so.

Zhao Xu really thinks so, the merit is high, and it is the current Cai Dao. There is only a few months of age difference between him and the official family, but Cai Dao has achieved such shocking feats.

This undoubtedly made Zhao Xu, who has always regarded himself very highly, not very balanced in his heart.

Moreover, in the detailed understanding of the Southern Expedition, Zhao Xu felt deeply disappointed in the two chief and deputy commanders, perhaps, he just had this feeling of hatred for Dean alone.

Zhao Xu didn't want to restore the hometown of the Han and Tang dynasties, but the forbidden army in Bianliang City had just been completed, and the recruits had not yet been trained, so it can be said that the current Great Song Dynasty is in the weakest period.

What's more, there is the matter of the Western Xia Kingdom raising troops again. Although, the garrisons of the northwestern roads are fully prepared.

However, Zhao Xu did not have much confidence.

Without the test of actual combat, Zhao Xu was not sure whether Zhang Qi, the younger brother of the Minister of Finance Zhang Dun, was the most suitable commander for the Western Army to resist the attack of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Moreover, Zhao Xu also felt the dilemma of withering talents in the military after he became pro-government.

Chong Ge died, Liu Changzuo died, and Wang Shao also died.

The only thing that reassured him was that he was trapped in one place, and he was limited by his family, so he could only defend Hedong Road, at most he sent some troops to assist the northwest roads to do a good job.

Di'an's performance in the Southern Expeditionary Army this time has fully demonstrated that the Di family, the family of Jiangmen, has truly declined. He is a brave person, but he is not the material of a coach all the way.

This is probably the only person Cai Dao misunderstood.

Compared with Dian, Zhao Xu is now more optimistic about the father and son of the Yang family, especially Yang Huaiwen of the Yang family, although he is a scholar who is powerless, he has the potential to be a military advisor. In the battle of Xinghua City, although his strategy was superficial, it was easy to use.

Yang Huaiwen's father, Yang Jizong, like Di Yong, does not have much ability, but he is also diligent. Anyway, he didn't make any mistakes in the Southern Expeditionary Army.

The current situation of the Great Song Kingdom is also precarious, which cannot be covered up by Cai Daonan's great victory.

After several trade-offs, Zhao Xu finally adopted Yang Wei's suggestion and shelved Cai Dao's request in the compromise.

In doing so, Zhao Xu himself also expected that Cai Dao would definitely pick a son and take the initiative to withdraw his troops from Shenglong City, and at that time, he could use the private withdrawal of troops to cure Cai Dao's crime.

If there is merit, it will be rewarded, and if there is a mistake, it will be punished.

Zhao Xu didn't respond, he did this plan, and this idea was Yang Wei's idea. If Cai Dao knew the cause and effect of this matter, he would definitely do everything possible to peel off Yang Wei, a villain, and cramp.

The reason why Zhao Xu was not at ease with Zhang Qi was because the previous battle of Hongdecheng was too small in scale and the results were too few.

Empress Dowager Xiao Liang personally led more than 100,000 troops to attack Hongde City, which sounded like a city, but in fact, it was just a larger Panbao on the border of the Song Dynasty.

It is not much bigger than the four panbao that were ceded to the Western Xia Kingdom before Wen Yanbo came to Zhishi.

But it was such a small city, and as soon as the Western Xia army suffered a slight setback, it immediately retreated.

This small-scale invasion of the Western Xia Kingdom, in addition to allowing people of insight in the Great Song Dynasty to see the faces of the Western Xia people clearly, the Western Xia people themselves did not get anything, and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was not able to achieve her goal of using military merits to establish authority, on the contrary, it was because of this unsuccessful attack that her prestige in the Western Xia was greatly reduced.

You must know that the excuse used by the Western Xia State to send troops no longer exists in this life, because Lanzhou City was recaptured by the Western Xia people.

Moreover, Zhang Kai is also a literati, and he does not have too dazzling political achievements in the local area, and this victory cannot be entirely attributed to him personally.

It is for this reason that no matter how much the literati face up to Sima Guang's method of exchanging territory for peace, in any case, among the people, especially in the Gyeonggi region and the northwest region, the people here are very bitter against those who participated in and supported the cession of territory in the first place.

Because of Cai Dao's previous reminder, Zhao Xu did not send too many forbidden troops to Huanqing Road, but let about 10,000 elite troops of the forbidden army disguise themselves as a team of merchants who went to Huanzhou to buy and sell, and secretly infiltrated Huanzhou City and other strategic places on Huanqing Road.

The caravan of 100 people entered Huanzhou City, and immediately became about 90 people, and there were also old and weak soldiers mixed with them, so that on the one hand, the border army of Huanqing Road was eliminated, and on the other hand, it also paralyzed the secret agents of the Western Xia Kingdom, covering up the fact that 10,000 elite soldiers had been stationed in the entire Huanqing Road. Cai Dao's method of stealing beams and changing pillars later became a trick commonly used by the forbidden army to rotate and garrison the border.

Therefore, the main direction of the Western Xia Kingdom's attack this time was to lose the Huanqing Road protected by the Panbao on the border on the surface.

The first is Huanzhou City, which has been surrounded by the army of the Western Xia Kingdom from the very beginning. As for the Panbao around Hongde City, Zhang Kai had already moved the soldiers and civilians into Huanzhou City.