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When most of the Song people were still immersed in jubilation, there were already many people who saw the taste of conspiracy from a person's name, and this person's name was Hong Tao!

How did the founding emperor of the Jinhe Empire become the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty again? Moreover, this official position has a strong flavor of the Golden River Empire, and there is also a former Foreign Minister of the Golden River Empire, Wen Nan, who is annotating on the side. www.biquge.infoOrdinary people may not be able to figure out where they come from, but the officials of the Great Song Dynasty and the merchants of the coastal cities certainly do not make this mistake. If there is only one Hong Tao, it may be a person with the same name and surname, plus Wen Nan and Luo Youde, it would be too far-fetched to say that it was a coincidence.

The Oriental reinforcements invited by the Imperial Court are the old emperor of the Jinhe Empire, even if he has abdicated for many years, as long as this name is mentioned, it is inevitable that he will be associated with the Jinhe Empire, and it must be closely linked. Since it was the old emperor who came, the previous series of changes would be easy to explain. What do you say about the lone army going deep to force back a strong enemy, phew! He forced back his son's navy, is this a force? It's a play that their father and son played for outsiders.

But what did this old emperor do when he suddenly came to the Great Song Dynasty? Why did the Great Song Dynasty invite him as a reinforcement, and entrusted him with important tasks, and even let him control the government? Why did the old emperor's people suddenly spread all over every state and county in the Great Song Dynasty, and became the local general judge and supervisor...... What's next for him?

These questions will naturally be remembered by many people, and there is no need to think deeper, these signs alone are already very scary. The Great Song Dynasty is about to undergo a great change! This is the only answer that all knowledgeable people can come up with. Think about what this old emperor did before, and turn out the books he had written before from the bottom of the box to see what the Great Song Dynasty was going to become, even if he couldn't get an accurate answer, the context was probably about the same.

Some people are happy and some are worried about this result.

Most of the coastal Song people were optimistic about the change that was coming, especially the merchants. Not for anything else, just because the Jinhe Empire is a country with a strong commercial taste, since the Jinhe Empire established by Emperor Hong is this virtue, then it is clear what he can change the Great Song Dynasty to. It doesn't matter if you are not a businessman, farmers, craftsmen, craftsmen, and politicians can all find their own suitable positions in the Jinhe Empire, and their status is not lower than in the Great Song Dynasty. The only people who were not very happy were the scholar class, and if they really governed the Great Song according to the rules of the Jinhe Empire, their privileges would be gone. However, after so many years of contact with the outside world, the scholar class in the coastal cities has become a little different from the thinking of the scholar class in the mainland, and their families are more or less involved in maritime trade and handicrafts.

From the coastal cities to the inland, the Song people in these areas are not as one-sided as the coastal cities, there are more optimistic, some more pessimistic, and there are no opinions, and they live in a daze.

Further inland, the situation is a bit reversed, there are many people with a pessimistic attitude, and there are many who are confused and indifferent, and the more optimistic are basically businessmen who go south and north, and their number and power are negligible.

But when the people in these areas still didn't figure out what to do, groups of Great Song troops drove over from Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road, leaving a team of varying numbers every time they arrived at a state and county office, and the rest continued to advance inland. These armies were not box soldiers, nor village soldiers and fan soldiers, but the new army of the Great Song Dynasty and the forbidden army that had just been withdrawn from the front line. Wherever they went, the local vans, townsmen, and soldiers were immediately disarmed on the spot by the overseers with the orders of the privy envoys, and then escorted by the forbidden army and the new army all the way north to assemble at several points along the highway along the river.

Behind these new troops and forbidden troops was Wen Hao, the minister of the imperial court, who also led 2,000 new troops of the Great Song Dynasty, starting from Jiangnan East Road to state by state. When they arrived at the place, they did not go to the banquet or enter the door, and the local officials were summoned to the barracks to meet as soon as possible, and no one knew exactly what they were talking about, and anyway, not all the local officials who could come out of the barracks in the end were definitely not all there. Sometimes more than half of them come out, sometimes less than half of them come out, and sometimes they can't come out of a few people.

The vacancies of local officials will be filled in an instant, and there are not only 2,000 troops by Wen Hao's side, but also more than 500 alternate officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Of course, these officials are only wearing the official uniforms of the Great Song Dynasty for the time being, but there is really not a single Song person among them. Eighty percent were from the Golden River Empire, and twenty percent were from the management team that Hong Tao had brought with him from North America.

In fact, not only these officials are not Song people, but even the 2,000 Great Song New Army is not a real Great Song New Army, and the time for them to join the Great Song Armed Forces is no more than ten days, this is the vanguard of the 5,000 Imperial Army that Yi Yi promised to provide to Hong Tao, but more than 300 Great Song New Army was temporarily added to it as a guide. The remaining 3,000 people had already landed in Guangzhou, and with the order of the Privy Council, they took more than 5,000 mercenaries from the Straits Company all the way to the west, and went straight to the West Guangnan Road.

Their mission was to take control of Quang Nam West Road and Kuizhou Road, two areas with a large number of ethnic minorities and very strong local tribes, which were not quite the same as those in the inland provinces. Originally, the Great Song Dynasty also focused on these places, and to put it bluntly, it was to try to meet the requirements of the local forces, as long as they didn't toss. Hong Tao and the Great Song Dynasty have completely different governing concepts, anything can be discussed, but no one is allowed to engage in privileges, and it is okay to disobey, as long as you can beat the Imperial Army.

Not to mention the high mountains and dangerous roads, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Hong Tao's order to this army is to fight steadily, step by step, not seeking speed, only clean. Wherever they passed, as long as anyone looked unconvinced, they would rather turn these two roads into no man's land, and not allow a single village or village to be dissatisfied with the new government. Don't even think about the previous trick of the court soldiers who are soft when they come, and the court soldiers who toss as soon as they leave.

Hong Tao only gave one chance, either he would honestly go down the mountain to farm and live, or he would never die, and there was no second choice. For this reason, Hong Tao specially equipped this team with 300 Indian soldiers, they are all elite who are familiar with mountain and jungle warfare, and those people want to play attack and harass war with these soldiers in the mountains. The mountains and jungles of Mexico are no worse than the terrain of the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and the local Indians are not weaker than the ethnic minorities here.

This is Hong Tao's two-plate axe, and he wants to use this method to comprehensively purge the fundamental forces of the Great Song Dynasty. This is the fastest and has the most side effects. It is not so much that Hong Tao is transforming the Great Song Dynasty, it is better to say that he is helping the Jinhe Empire to fully control the Great Song Dynasty. More than 70 percent of the newly appointed local officials were grassroots cadres drawn from the Jinhe Empire, and then let the Imperial Army wander around the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and have a clear understanding of the transportation, supplies, and garrison conditions in various places.

But Hong Tao can only do this, and he has to do it more thoroughly. He only has a total of 6,000 troops in his hands who can completely obey his command, and it is unreliable to control the entire south of the Yangtze River in a short period of time. Even if the more than 70,000 Song New Army and the Forbidden Army on the front line are willing to listen to themselves, it is impossible to completely monitor every state and every road, the cost is too high, and Hong Tao can't afford it.

"Why did they send you two?" At this time, Hong Tao was not idle in Lin'an, he was about to go north and go to his real hometown, but he didn't expect to see two very familiar faces in the negotiation team sent by the Jinhe Empire.

"Uncle, you can really stir it up, you turned around in such a big circle, and finally came back." Bo Jiao stretched out his hand very formally, but there was a hippie smile on his face.

"Seeing you smiling so treacherously, I don't think it's a good thing. Lao Kong, you are so old, why do you still come to this troubled water if you don't mix well in Jinhe City until you retire? Bo Jiao was already almost forty years old, and he still had a beard on his face, but Hong Tao still took him on the ship as a child, did not shake hands, but reached out and patted his head, and turned his face to another acquaintance.

"I'm here to atone for my sins, His Majesty has always disagreed with the empire going north, but I didn't fulfill my responsibilities as a minister in the government, and I chose to back down at a critical time, I'm really sorry for Your Majesty's grace to save me from the north." Kong Pei is about the same age as Hong Tao, and he is already an old man with gray hair, and his body looks sturdy, and he is full of energy.

"Pull it down, who rescued you from the north, you, like Wen Nan, are all captives captured by me. Make a hair again! Don't mention the old Huang calendar, state affairs are state affairs, personal relations are private relations, don't mix together. Let's talk about it, what the hell did the empire do when you two veterans were sent? Did you come on your own initiative, or did they force you to come? Kong Pei was also one of Hong Tao's starting helpers, but when the old and new emperors alternated, he chose to stand on the side of the new emperor. Hong Tao didn't have any ideas about this kind of thing, let alone holding grudges, if he was in Kong Pei's position, he might be more thorough than him. For a person who has no roots in the empire, this choice is very reasonable, and it has nothing to do with character.

"I took the initiative to ask for it, and after ups and downs over the years, I have figured it out, I am not the life of the prime minister, let alone the mayor, it is more comfortable to follow you to the north and south. If you hadn't been the prime minister according to me, maybe I would have had a small kingdom! Bo Jiao leaned his face over, whispered his thoughts to Hong Tao, and squeezed his eyebrows.

(To be continued.) )