Therefore, even if Cao Hu and Pan Xiong used heavy tactics to sand and eliminate more than 10,000 low-level officers in the forbidden army, these people who were sand eliminated and their subordinate soldiers did not dare to make a single move.

First of all, in Bianliang City, who does not know the relationship between Cao Hu and Pan Xiong and Cai Dao, the envoy of the three divisions.

Secondly, how could these people not know that Cao Hu and Pan Xiong were just the specific persons in charge of the training, and the whole thing was Cai Dao's own idea.

In the end, everyone in the world knows that Cai Dao, who is generous on the surface, is actually a cautious eye, and those who offend him have never had a good end.

The forbidden army in Bianliang City is like this, and the situation of the border army is better.

Zhang Lei's Hedong Road, he is not in charge of the military, but with the help of the Fuzhou family, he also has a lot of worries. What's more, there is Taiyuan Mansion on the entire Hedong Road, a fortified city across the front line of the Hedong Road, even if the Liao army really has to fight over, they will not be able to defeat the entire Hedong Road in two or three years.

Hadong-ro is second only to the Gyeonggi region and the northwest region in terms of people's livelihood.

Under the rule of Zheng Xia and Fan Zuyu, although they lost a lot of strong labor, they also made many landlords bankrupt. This also led to Zhang Lei's holding a large amount of public land in his hands. Therefore, when Shaosheng reorganized the army, many veterans of the forbidden army who had been dismissed were placed on Hedong Road.

Years of bumper harvests, coupled with the vast land and sparse population, make the people living in Hedong Road more affluent than in the northwest.

What's more, once there is a war on Hedong Road, those veterans of the forbidden army who have been dismissed will immediately take steel guns and bows and crossbows to meet the Liao army that dares to invade Hedong Road.

The new armor protection system has already achieved initial results under the rule of Hebei Lianglu.

Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze are worthy of being all-rounders in civil and military affairs, not to mention, the two of them have Guo Shuyong and Guo Shudang, two generals who have been trained by Cai Dao and experienced the battle of the Southern Expedition, and are good at defending to help them.

Therefore, the cities on the Song-Liao border are now being secretly renovated, and they will not be attacked by the Liao army in the short term. In the event of a war, they will immediately lead the people in the village to hide nearby, and the hiding place can be in the mountains in Hebei, the Taihang Mountains in the west, or the coastal areas, and even some places without mountains.

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The first emperor Zhao Xu died in the second year of Yuanfu.

And in the second year, the new emperor changed to Yuan Tianyou.

Take the meaning of bless the young new emperor.

In order to allow him to grow up peacefully and be in charge of the government peacefully, the Empress Dowager Zhu and Empress Dowager Meng unanimously decided that they would not dare to change the name of the little emperor for the time being, and would continue to call him by his original name - Zhao Ban. By the time he is fifteen years old, it will not be too late to take on a new name.

In the second year of the Great Song Dynasty, on the thirteenth day of the first month of the seventh year of Shouchang, Yelu Hongji, the longest reigning generation of the Great Liao Kingdom, died at the age of seventy. After his death, what he left behind was not a powerful and powerful Liao Kingdom, but a super mess. The successor to the throne was his own grandson, the grandson and son of the queen Xiao Guanyin and the crown prince, who was unjustly killed by the faint monarch - Yelu Yanxi.

The Great Song Dynasty thought that Cai Dao would start the war at this moment and attack the Great Liao State.

However, he unexpectedly sent his uncle Cai Jing as the chief envoy and his younger brother Cai Shan as the deputy envoy to the Liao State to mourn.

Everyone couldn't understand the purpose of Cai Dao's move.

Yelu Yanxi, the new emperor of Liao, was overjoyed and rewarded many specialties of Liao to the two uncles and nephews.

After three years of heavenly blessing, he was finally unable to withstand the pain of losing his son, and the Empress Dowager Zhu finally collapsed on February 30.

However, before her death, the Empress Dowager made a decision that made everyone unbelievable - to marry her beloved daughter, the tenth princess, Emperor Rouhui, to Cai Dao.

Everyone thought that the Empress Dowager's move was to win over Cai Dao's father and son, after all, the Cai family was now fledgling in the Zhao and Song dynasties. However, only the Empress Dowager herself knew that she sincerely wanted to recruit Cai Dao as his son-in-law.

However, at that time, Zhao Xu was very dissatisfied with Cai Dao, and it was inconvenient for him to stay in Beijing, not to mention, at that time, this kid already had a Taoist couple. The Empress Dowager has temporarily extinguished this thought, and now that her son has passed away early, the court needs Cai Dao to sit firmly on the throne for Empress Dowager Meng's mother and son.

Marrying her young daughter to Cai Dao, of course, has the intention of winning him over, but more importantly, the Empress Dowager hopes that her young daughter can have a good home, which is also the fundamental reason why she pointed out Cao Feng'er to Cai Dao as a concubine at the beginning.

After all, the Taoist couple is not a wife, and he cannot threaten the identity of Emperor Rouhui.

What's more, the Empress Dowager is also very aware of her daughter's careful thoughts, but she admires and likes Cai Dao from the bottom of her heart, not her emperor brother.

This year, Emperor Rouhui also happened to be sixteen years old, even if the Empress Dowager did not die this year, she was ready to marry her daughter to Cai Dao at the beginning of spring.

It's just that the marriage was brought forward because of this incident.

In front of the Empress Dowager's sickbed, Cai Dao was forced to make a statement, and Empress Dowager Meng was also happy to see it.

The only unhappy person was the little emperor Zhao Ban.

He complained to his mother afterwards: "Queen Mother, is the Empress Dowager a little sick and confused? There are so many young and handsome people in the court, but why did she marry the tenth aunt to the third envoy? The guy already has two wives, and his eldest son is already able to make soy sauce. ”

Empress Dowager Meng did not answer Zhao Ban's question directly, but squatted down and pulled the little emperor's head in front of her, and the mother and son looked directly at each other for ten seconds.

Only then did she reply: "Emperor, the Empress Dowager wants to marry your tenth aunt to the third envoy, but it was not decided yesterday or today. This decision, her old man had already told the mourning family a few years ago. What's more, at such a young age, can you really get into the eyes of your tenth aunt for those so-called young handsome people? ”

Seeing that her son was silent, Queen Meng said a little sternly: "Knowing a son is better than a parent, the mourning family knows that you like Aunt Ten in your heart." But you forget about it before you do it. Don't forget, the tenth princess is your blood relative! What's more, your tenth aunt has been very fond of the three envoys since she was a child, and the empress dowager and her old man married the tenth princess, which was also according to her beloved daughter's wishes. Remember? ”

"The emperor remembered!" Xiao Zhao Ban nodded and replied with some grievances.

Empress Dowager Meng nodded with satisfaction and handed her son a copy of the holy decree.