It was naturally unacceptable for Song Shao to make plans to abandon the capital, however, looking at the attitudes of the two important ministers, Xu Xiu Province and Ning Jiang, he had to sigh. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He said: "That's it, I asked the prince to go to the south in advance, just in case, as for me, I want to live and die with Haojing no matter what." ”

Ning Jiang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, when it is really a crisis, Your Majesty should take into account the overall situation......"

Song Shao lay on the dragon couch and waved his hand: "There is no need to mention this matter again, I will not leave no matter what." ”

Ning Jiang knew that it was by no means an easy task for Song Shao, who was the Son of Heaven, to make the decision to give up Haojing's "Southern Hunting", and psychologically, he could not accept it, so he could only give up for the time being, preparing to persuade him in the future.

Even with the support of the Son of Heaven, Ning Jiang did not have much confidence in defending Haojing after the barbarian invasion. After all, the so-called change is not a stand-alone game on the computer, as long as you click on the option, the experience points will jump up. The reuse of military generals and the training of armor groups are already the ultimate that he can do at present, and he has not even dared to touch other deeper reforms.

After all, he is not given much time, and the old diseases accumulated over hundreds of years cannot be cured casually with a few strong medicines.

After this night, more court decrees were issued, first of all, Ning Jiang took the position of general of Zhenguo as Shangshu Zuocheng, and at the same time served as a servant and a bachelor of Longtu, and was awarded the title of Shangzhuguo. The combination of civil and military positions is almost unprecedented since the Great Zhou Dynasty cut the domain, which naturally caused a lot of discussion among the government and the opposition, and Song Shao once again overrode public opinion and resolutely reused Ningjiang.

After Ning Jiang received the post of general of Zhenguo, the first thing he did was to leave the capital and go to the north of the Huang River, reorganize the troops and horses, shrink the defense line, and the troops originally scattered in Lu, Cai, Huo, and, and Lu states were gathered by him and retreated to the upper reaches of the Huang River, which was regarded as completely giving up the recovery of the four states ceded to the barbarians.

Immediately afterwards, together with Gan Yushu, he reorganized and adjusted the army, boosting morale in his own way, and Wang Keyuan, who had fought with him in Caishixia and had outstanding performance, was also placed in important positions in the army. At the same time, he is also sending people to issue bows, guns, and other weapons to intensify training for the militias assembled in various states under the armor protection law.

And it was at this time that a bigger storm was rolling silently in the capital......

***

At the same time that Ningjiang mobilized troops and horses north of the Huanghe River to supervise the construction of fortifications, Song Shao, the son of heaven, was also recruiting troops while mobilizing soldiers and horses from the southwest to the north according to the grand strategy he had set with Xu Xiu Province and Ningjiang. At the same time, Tongzhou was changed to Lin'an City, and prepared to order the prince to lead the three divisions of the East Palace, such as the prince and the prince, the prince and the prince, and a group of courtiers to Lin'an City in the name of the southern tour, and build another Beijing.

That night, the Son of Heaven summoned the crown prince in the temple. Outside, lightning and thunder roared, and on the eaves, with a bang, the entire hall seemed to shake.

"Father!" The appearance of the crown prince Song Qian looked resolute in the electric light that came through the window, "Father, that Ningjiang is clearly a demon to confuse the public, wantonly exaggerate the threat of the barbarians, and fake the tiger's might, intimidate his father, and force his father to reuse him." Now, the millions of barbarians in his mouth have not yet been seen, but he himself has been promoted to three levels in a row, in charge of the civil and military affairs of the imperial court, and appoints generals as he wants, he is clearly an ambitious and treacherous villain, why does his father have to reuse him? ”

Song Shao sat up abruptly on the dragon chair: "What do you know? He's renewing the life of my Great Zhou Dynasty......"

Song Qian sneered: "How to continue your life?" Before the barbarians went south, he had already taken the initiative to abandon the states, shrink his forces, and only prevent the barbarians from attacking from the upper reaches of the Huanghe River. Before the shadow of the enemy soldier could be seen, he was already thinking of abandoning the capital, and I think it was his own ill intentions. Han Xiangnian is highly respected, for the country and the people, and repeatedly persuaded his father to pay a light gift, but he said that the people were untouchables, and only thought about increasing taxes and taxes, and looting the people's fat and ointment. My Great Zhou Dynasty to the civil unification of the military, in order to 10,000 years of foundation, the rebellion of the vassal king is vivid, he not only wants to engage in the armor protection law, and even began to allow generals to have private soldiers, Qubu, it is clear that it is to mess with the cornerstone of my Great Zhou Dynasty......"

Song Shao took a few breaths and said angrily, "Who told you this?" As the crown prince, you don't know the inside story, you only look at the appearance, and you don't understand all the ways in this......"

Song Qian was upright and said loudly: "Even if Erchen doesn't understand, he also knows the truth that people should be virtuous." When Ning Jiang sent poems to his aunt, he probably knew the identity of his aunt's eldest princess for a long time, so he thought it was a step. After his aunt's death, he faked his reputation and pretended to be sad, and abdicated to gain his father's trust. The previous time he resisted the barbarians, his father sent someone to take over his military power, he clearly saw that the enemy was weak, intended to fight for merit, and did not obey the decree, and the father should have blamed him for the crime of resisting the decree and bullying the king, but he was deceived by him, let him control the government and the opposition, and harm the world in the name of changing the law. This person is disloyal, unrighteous, treacherous, and insidious, and his father has always been virtuous in the past, but how can he be so mediocre now that he trusts such a villain? ”

Song Shao patted the handle of the chair and stood up angrily: "Shut up, you don't distinguish between good and stupid, you don't know the current affairs, how did I teach you?" A sharp cough, out of breath, finally calmed down, and said: "That's it, that's it, it's just that I didn't teach it well, I only know to let you follow them to read the sage book on weekdays, it's no wonder you, the national disaster is at the head, even I know that the sage book alone can't save the Great Zhou, can't save the world......"

Song Qian fell to his knees and said loudly: "The way of the sage, make a life for heaven and earth!" It was precisely for the sake of Ningjiang that my father bewitched the sages, turned his back on the sages, violated the will of the people, and the sympathy between heaven and man, that made my Great Zhou foundation shaken. He also asked his father to depose the traitorous ministers, appoint the wise, and then use the law of the ancestors, correct punishment and virtue, and go to heaven with things, then the strong enemy will be broken without attack, and the people will be peaceful without cure......"

Song Shao shouted: "Nonsense, it's all nonsense!" I've been listening to this nonsense for decades, and it can't govern the country, let alone save it! ”

Song Gan kowtowed violently on the ground, and his head sounded with a tom tom: "Father, the words are contrary to the ear, please tell the father the emperor to distinguish between right and wrong, don't become a faint monarch who has been stinking for thousands of years!" ”

"Ten thousand years of stench?" Song Shao smiled miserably, "If I can't keep my Great Zhou Dynasty and keep the people's health, then no matter how the history books record me, I am a faint king. This country was not built by a sage book back then, and now it is even more impossible to rely on the so-called sage book to keep it, you, you ......"

He pointed at his son, his fingers trembling: "You give me to go to the south, so that I can reflect on it, and besides, whether I am a fool or a virtuous, don't care how the sage books are written, I must read with my eyes, I must read with your eyes." ”

He grabbed a bunch of folds beside him: "It's okay if you say that I reuse traitors, but before you judge others, at least you have to understand what kind of person you are judging." These are the excerpts that Ning Jiang has written to me these days, every one of his thoughts, every idea, all written clearly, you go to the south, take a good look at them, think about it, I don't need you to learn half of his skills, but at least you need to know, what is really learned to apply, what is ......"

With a bang, Song Qian threw it out with one hand, and those folds flew out of Song Shao's hands and fell to the ground. The louder the wind outside, the more violent the showers. Song Qian said loudly: "Father, the son does not go to the south. Since the father has to reuse the traitorous ministers, the sons will lead the ministers in Donghuamen tomorrow and cannot kneel, and ask the father to punish the traitors and protect the society. His blood swelled up, and he stood up suddenly, and turned to leave.

Song Shao grabbed his son's shoulder violently, and said angrily: "Stop, you stand ...... me" His body tilted. Song Qian was angry, turned around vigorously and threw his arms, and with a bang, the thunder outside the hall resounded, and there was a heavy sound of "knocking" in the hall.

"Father...... Father ......" Nervous, deep voice sounded softly, and a bolt of lightning flashed, illuminating the prince's pale face.

In the storm, some people ran wild in the wind and rain. After a while, a woman of about thirty led several people into the hall, and after a trembling inspection, the woman gritted her teeth and said loudly: "Come on, inform Cao Yi, the general of Zuo Jinwuwei, to close the palace door tightly, and quickly go to invite the third division of the prince." She shouted at her son, "What are you panicking about? Remember, you didn't see anything just now, and it was the Queen Mother who came here first and then informed you. ”

He looked around and said sharply, "Did you hear that?" ”

The only few palace maids and eunuchs around were so frightened that they fell to their knees.

That night, the torrential rain poured, and the third division of the prince entered the palace overnight, followed by the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the palace and the inner city......

***

Ning Jiang rode a fast horse, galloping wildly in the gradually cooler weather at the end of August, behind him, Chun Jianli and Xiao Meng with swords at their waists, and followed with more than a dozen martial arts people riding horses.

The news of the death of the Son of Heaven reached Ning Jiang's ears at a very fast speed before the official announcement arrived. Although he knew that Song Shao had become ill from hard work these days, he could still support it after all. didn't expect him to die suddenly, which caught Ning Jiang off guard, so he could only hurry up and rush to Haojing first.

Seeing that the magnificent capital, from far and near, appeared in his eyes, the sun had set at this time, and the city gate had been closed. He was under the city, and above the city gate, an official showed his face: "It turned out to be Lord Ning, why did Lord Ning return to Beijing?" ”

Ning Jiang said loudly under the city: "I heard that the saint died, and I returned to Beijing to pay respects." ”

The official hesitated for a moment and said, "The Holy Lord has died, and it has been three days since ......the new Son of Heaven ascended the throne. At this moment, it is getting late, and the lower officials still need to ask the new emperor and Han Xiang before they can let Lord Ning enter the city, please wait a while. ”

Ning Jiang groaned slightly, rode his horse violently, and said in a low voice: "Go!" ”

The new son of heaven is naturally Song Qian, Song Shaofang died by driving, and he reinstated Han Xi, who was deposed by Song Shao. Ning Jiang, as the left minister of Shangshu and the servant of his disciple, even needs to inform the emperor and the right minister when he enters the outer city. The next movement of the imperial court is simply self-evident.

Seeing that Ning Jiang didn't say a word, he rode his horse and left, and the official shouted at the head of the city at a loss: "Lord Ning! Lord Ning......"

On August 23, the twentieth year of Jianxiao, the Son of Heaven Song Shao died, and the crown prince Song Qian ascended the throne.

After the restoration, Han Xi abolished the civil and military generals promoted by Ningjiang, and led the imperial history in front of the new emperor, accusing Ningjiang of beleading the lord, deceiving the monarch, controlling the government, and abusing power and authority. The new emperor summoned Ning Jiang back to Beijing to report on his work, but Ning Jiang was nowhere to be found, the new emperor was furious, and issued an edict to reprimand Ning Jiang for traitors, deposed all his official positions and honors, and ordered the imperial history platform to collect evidence of his crimes, and went to the sea to catch documents and arrest them.

Immediately afterwards, the new emperor Song Qian, on the grounds that the laws of his ancestors could not be changed without authorization, and that the former emperor was only bewitched by Ningjiang, redefined the class law in the army, abolished the armor protection system, withdrew the bows and weapons issued to the militia, and abolished all kinds of new laws. Lu Zhisi told the old man to return to his hometown, the former prince Fu Cheng Dehou was appointed as the left servant, and Xu Xiu, a major military matter in Pingzhang, said that the armor could not be abolished, and the new law could not be changed, and he was ordered by the Son of Heaven to return to his hometown.

Subsequently, Song Qian, the new son of heaven, transferred Zhirong and other former subordinates of Ningjiang to the southwest to quell the rebellion, and changed his defensive posture, ordering hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers north of the Huanghe River to approach the four states ceded to the barbarians, intending to recover the lost territory and revive the majesty of China.

On both sides of the Long River, the government searched everywhere for the traitor Ningjiang, and at the same time, the imperial court abolished the martial arts of various states, and the government was repeated, which made all the people in the world who practiced martial arts dissatisfied. The Confucian generals who were deposed by Ningjiang were all reinstated.

The squires of the Central Plains and Jiangnan are still living a drunken life, and the wars in the southwest and the barbarians in the north feel too far away from them. In the northern land, the landless people longed for this time the officers and soldiers of the imperial court could successfully expel the barbarians and regain their fields. The accusing traitors flew into the capital like pieces of paper to curry favor with the new Son of Heaven, and although some people were silent, because of their silence, no one could hear their voices, and no one cared at all.

On the morning of that day, a girl with a flying fairy bun stood on a hill outside the capital, looking in the direction of the imperial city, silent, and the golden crow slowly rose behind her.

On the morning of that day, above the morning court, the new son of heaven was in high spirits, the whole court was completely new, a new atmosphere, and the splendid mountains and rivers that stretched for thousands of miles seemed to have been placed in front of him.

In this era that is about to change the world, everything is moving towards the unknowable with an incredibly powerful inertia...... Roll on! (To be continued.) )