As Li Bashao worried, no matter how mediocre Zhao Gou is, he will not let Xuzhou fall into the hands of the rebellious army. Guarding the river must guard Huai, Xuzhou is the gateway to Jiankang, once Xuzhou is not guaranteed, Zhao Gou in the south of the Yangtze River also don't think about peace of mind.

Sitting in the Jinluan Palace, which was urgently expanded in Yingtianfu, the young emperor Zhao Gou wore a crown of heaven and a yellow dragon robe, full of spirit and radiant.

As the ninth son of Huizong, according to common sense, it is not his turn to do the throne anyway. Mother Wei is just one of the countless concubines around Huizong. And not favored. You must know that Song Huizong has more than a dozen children, but the most favored is the tenth son Zhao Kai. Even Qinzong was not liked by Huizong. Not to mention Zhao Gou. Zhao Gou is tall, skilled in bows and horses, and has the style of Taizu and Taizong. Huizong is a genius artist, and the father and son naturally don't like each other.

Who knew that the sky fell apart, the country changed color, the army of Jin soldiers went south, broke into the city, and captured Huizong Qinzong and more than a dozen princes to Changbai Mountain to herd sheep. The only Nine Emperor Princes, Zhao Gou, escaped. The big pie smashed on Zhao Gou's head like this.

Zhao Gou, who first ascended the throne, still felt a little unreal, but I was afraid it was just a big dream. After enjoying the life of the emperor for two or three months, Zhao Gou was able to adapt to the life of the emperor. Being an emperor in China is actually the easiest job. Because no matter how mediocre the emperor is, he is still the son of the Holy Heaven, and there are always his courtiers who carry the black pot for the emperor. Just like the famous Six Thieves, they all say that the Six Thieves ruined the Northern Song Dynasty, but they forgot that the Six Thieves were all brought up by Song Huizong. But among the people, everyone scolded the six thieves, but there were few who scolded Song Huizong. The common people always thought that Song Huizong was deceived by the six thieves, but they didn't know that the six thieves were deceived by Song Huizong, and enjoyed a short period of glory and wealth, but they fell into infamy.

Zhao Gou sat on the high dragon chair, looked at the Wenchen military general who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, and coughed lightly. Suddenly, the sharp voice of the chief eunuch on duty sounded in the Jinluan Palace. "Long live the dragon's body is not safe, all the ministers have something to do early, and they have nothing to do to retreat."

An old minister flashed out of the ranks, only to see that he had a righteous face, not angry and arrogant, and his long hair hung down on his chest, which was Li Gang, the right city of Shangshu.

Li Gang said, "Long live Rongyu, yesterday Xuzhou sent an urgent report, the Western Army Zhu Xing made a rebellion in Liu Fu, the prefect was killed, and I hope that Long Live will send a large army to Xuzhou to quell the chaos." ”

Zhao Gou was noncommittal to Li Gang's suggestion, and set his eyes on the privy envoy Wang Boyan. Wang Boyan understood and immediately went out to explain the matter in Xuzhou. "Long live Qiyu, Zhu Xing is a subordinate of Liu Fuben is the general Liu Guangshi, when our emperor left Yingtian, the two of them stayed in Yingtianfu. Who knew that the people of Yingtian set up their own group exercises, and actually drove Zhu Xingzai and Liu Fu out of Yingtian. When they arrived in Xuzhou, they saw that the imperial court was weak, so they became thieves and committed rebellion. However, in the opinion of the minister, although these two people were guilty, the Ying Tian Governor did not know how to sympathize with the hard work of the imperial court, and actually drove Zhu Xingzai and Liu Fu out of Ying Tianfu, and they must also be severely punished. ”

What traitors are good at is figuring out what they want. Wang Boyan was originally a close confidant of Zhao Gou, and he knew that Zhao Gou did not take the rebellion of Zhu and Liu in his eyes. Just by looking at the fact that the two of them only knew how to raid the place, they knew that they did not pose any threat to Jiankang. What Zhao Gou cares about the most is the Ying Tianfu group practice. In particular, their name, "Protector," made Zhao Gou feel even more uncomfortable.

In Zhao Gou's view, he is the Son of Heaven, and only he is qualified to protect all the people in the world. If other people also want to take refuge, they are guilty of rebellion and deserve death. So he had been thinking about how to deal with the Protector Legion for a long time.

Zhao Gou originally wanted to send Zong Ze to lead the troops to suppress it, but since he received an urgent letter from Du Chong, he changed his mind. Du Chong said in the letter that Yue Fei, the training envoy of the Ying Tian Tuan, was a student of Zong Ze. At this time, Du Chong sent Hebei Jukou Golden Sword Wang Shan to attack Yingtian, but was defeated by Yue Fei in one fell swoop. At this time, the Protector Corps practiced a tendency to sit big. But Zong Ze blindly advocated appeasement. It is suspected that the master and apprentice have the intention of rebellion. Please be enlightened.

Zhao Gou believed Du Chong's words. Decided to think of something else. After all, Zong Ze had already recruited hundreds of thousands of Liukou from the two rivers at this time, and he couldn't let him add wings anymore. Otherwise, Zhongyuan will have to change his surname. In the eyes of the emperor, even if the Central Plains was given to the Jin people, it was not allowed to fall into the hands of the Song people, as long as that person was not called Zhao Gou.

As soon as Li Gang heard that Wang Boyan had put the cause of Zhu Liu's rebellion on the people of Yingtian, he immediately became angry and said, "Lord Wang's words are wrong. I wish Liu Er's military discipline to be corrupted, and it is no longer a matter of one or two days to loot places and kill officials at every turn. What does it have to do with the people of Yingtian? Could it be that the people of Yingtian should stretch their necks and let Zhu Liu and the second thief cut it? ”

Wang Boyan also stared at Li Gang without showing weakness, and said loudly, "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land. Since Banzai did not issue an order for Zhu Liu and the others to withdraw from Yingtian, the people of Yingtian should not form a group to practice and make trouble. Didn't Lord Li understand the emperor's painstaking efforts to leave tens of thousands of troops in Yingtianfu? Is it true that in your eyes, the life of the people of heaven is more valuable than that of the Lord of Long Live? ”

Li Gang's temper was already hot, but at this moment, he was provoked by Wang Boyan, and he suddenly became angry. "The sages have clouds, and the people are noble and gentle. No matter how big the reason is, the rebellious army can't let the rebellious army loot the people of the Emperor and Song Dynasty. Tens of thousands of troops stayed in Ying Tianfu, is it really tens of thousands of troops? That's just tens of thousands of regimental exercises that can't even have a weapon, in addition to harming the people of the Central Plains, what effect can it help? ”

When Li Gang said this, Zhao Gou's face suddenly darkened. He had long seen Li Gang unpleasantly. Once a son of heaven and a courtier. Li Gang is not his direct confidant. When the Jin soldiers besieged the city, Li Gang wrote a bloody letter to force Huizong to abdicate and passed it on to Emperor Qinzong. Therefore, Li Gang can be regarded as a courtier of Qinzong. Zhao Gou didn't trust Li Gang very much. The reason why Li Gang was left to be the right scholar in the court was just because Li Gang had a high prestige among scholars and doctors, and he was just a golden horse bone. Now that the throne has been consolidated, it is natural that the horse bones should be invited out of the court.

Zhao Gou's face changed, and Yu Shi, who was good at observing words and feelings, had already come out of the ranks and impeached Li Gang for being disrespectful. There are also upright courtiers who come out to support Li Gang. The two sides are arguing. On the contrary, he left the chaos of Xuzhou that he talked about behind.

Huang Qianshan, the left servant and deputy privy councillor, suggested that the emperor remove Li Gang from his post. Zhao Gou did not listen to Huang Qianshan's advice, but he also did not listen to the opinions of the courtiers who supported Li Gang, and let Li Gang continue to serve as Shangshu's right man. Instead, a compromise method was adopted, Li Gang's Shangshu Youcheng was removed, and he was driven out of the center and went to Jinghu South Road to serve as a pacifying envoy.

After solving Li Gang, the two classes of courtiers quieted down one after another. But Zhao Gou did not forget the Xuzhou rebellion. He certainly understands how important Xuzhou is. Even if he doesn't plan to recover the Central Plains, he must keep Xuzhou. Otherwise, half of the country will not be available.

So he still asked Wang Boyan, "Wang Aiqing, Xuzhou is the waist eye of the eastern part of my Great Song Dynasty, and you can't let the rebels be a disaster." Does Aiqing have a clever plan? ”

If you ask Wang Boyan how to crowd out his colleagues and engage in political speculation, he is definitely a genius-level figure. Just like his daughter, Qin Hui's wife Wang. But if you ask him how to quell the rebellion, it's really hard for him. So Wang Boyan thought about it for a long time, and finally gave a trick, "Zhao'an." ”

Wang Boyan said confidently, "Long live, Zhu Xing is in Liu Fu, and both of them are Liu Guangshi's subordinates. Long live can send Liu Guangshi to Xuzhou to surrender. As soon as General Liu arrived in Xuzhou, the ministers dared to ensure that the two would immediately surrender to the imperial court. Then he ordered General Liu to lead the army north to Yingtian and exterminate the local rebellion in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be very good. ”

Zhao Gou saw that Wang Boyan was so confident, and immediately set his eyes on Liu Guangshi in the military general train.

Liu Guangshi, Uncle Ping, security soldier. Lao Tzu is the famous prostitute general Liu Yanqing. During the Xuanhe period, when the Song army invaded Liao, Liu Yanqing, as the commander, blindly drank and prostituted in the military tent. When he heard the unfavorable news from the front line, he and his son rode away first, causing the collapse of the army, and hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out in one day, which also made the Jin people see through the corruption and incompetence of the Song court.

The Song Dynasty was a strange dynasty, and the more capable the courtiers, the more oppressed they became. The more incompetent, the more reused. Liu Yanqing exhausted the Northern Expedition army, and after returning to Beijing, he still served as a leading general.

When the Jin soldiers besieged the city of Bianliang, Liu Yanqing led a Biao pro-army to break out of the city, intending to flee back to Shaanxi, but was chased and killed by the Jin soldiers. Then his son Liu Guangshi made a brilliant debut, and he would continue the great achievements of his Lao Tzu's life and become the most famous escaped general in the Great Song Dynasty.

Liu Guangshi marched to fight and never went to the front line in person. He would only let the generals engage the enemy, hide a hundred miles away from the battlefield, command remotely, and once the war was unfavorable, he would immediately flee away from the wind.

In later generations, Tang Enbo was well versed in General Liu's method of fighting, and the command post was always set up hundreds of miles away from the front line, which was erratic. No one wants to capture General Tang. The key is that during the Republic of China, at least telegraph command could be used, and the Song Dynasty did not have such a high-level thing. Therefore, Liu Guangshi fights, and victory or defeat depends on the performance of the generals. is such a person, who can be as famous as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong in history, known as the four generals of Zhongxing, which is also a unique spectacle of the Song Dynasty.

When Liu Guangshi saw Wang Boyan mention his name, he secretly scolded Wang Laogou in his heart, flashed out of the ranks, and bowed down and played, "Your Majesty, although Liu Fu and Liu Fu are my subordinates, they have always been greedy and violent, and they have no loyalty. Even if they are surrendered today, they will be revolted tomorrow. Therefore, the minister suggested sending a large army to exterminate it. In particular, they are too greedy, their family assets are already hundreds of thousands, and they are still robbing the local gentry, and their sins are unforgivable. ”

Zhao Gou sighed, looked at Liu Guangshi and asked, "Aiqing is willing to lead the troops forward, destroy Zhu Liu first, and then suppress the chaotic people." ”

Liu Guangshi hesitated for a moment, and before he could answer, the general Zhang Jun had already flashed out of the ranks, and said impassionedly, "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead the troops to go, and I wish Liu Er's head and His Palace." And, of course, the head of the leader of the Ying Tian Rebellion. ”

Not only Zhang Jun came out of the ranks, but the generals who had always been reluctant to fight all flashed out of the ranks at this time, vying to exterminate Zhu Liu's two thieves. Miao Fu Liu Zhengyan was almost about to fight with Zhang Jun.

Zhao Gou saw that his subordinates were so heroic, knowing that they were moved by the hundreds of thousands of family assets that Liu Guangshi said, but he was also secretly happy, and immediately made a decision and ordered Zhang Jun to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to Xuzhou to suppress Zhu Liu's two thieves. After winning, he took advantage of the situation to attack Ying Tianfu and captured Yue Fei, Huang Zong, and Li Bashao to Jiankang and beheaded.

As an emperor, he is not afraid of the greed of the courtiers, but he is afraid that the courtiers are not greedy.

Zhang Junnai is a general of Zhao Gou, who was also born in the Western Army, and is currently in charge of the former army of the imperial camp. But this man is best known for his greed. In addition to fighting, his soldiers usually had to farm for him and sell goods to earn money. He had too much silver at home, and he was afraid that thieves would steal it, so he melted the silver and made it into a large silver ball weighing a thousand pounds, known as "helpless." ”

The thief really couldn't do anything about these silver balls, after all, there were no cranes and no forklifts in the Song Dynasty. Just now, when Zhang Jun heard Liu Guangshi say that he wished Liu Er's family assets to be hundreds of thousands, his eyes turned green, and he thought that as long as the two thieves were exterminated, there would be dozens more big silver balls in his family.

Zhang Jun led the order out of the palace, and Zhao Gou announced his retirement from the dynasty. Liu Guangshi walked out of the court with a smile on his face. As soon as he said that, he guessed that someone would definitely compete with him. The emperor was willing to send himself to surrender, but he absolutely refused to send himself to lead troops to quell the rebellion.

Liu Guangshi was not optimistic about Zhang Jun's counterinsurgency. Although Liu Guangshi has no courage, he has to admit that this person has excellent vision, and most of the generals promoted are people who can recruit and fight. For example, the famous Wang Dewang Yasha was promoted by Liu Guangshi from a scout to the general of the system.

The reason why Liu Guangshi is not optimistic about Zhang Jun is not because of how powerful Zhu Xing is in Liu Fu and the others, but because Zhang Jun still has to deal with the Protector Army. More than a month ago, Liu Guangshi's nephew Liu Hao crossed the river to vote and told him about being taken by Yue Fei. At that time, Liu Guangshi still laughed at Yue Fei's inadequacy, and delusionally wanted to use more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to resist the tens of thousands of rebellious troops stationed in Yingtianfu, purely asking for his own death. But Liu Hao said that Yue Fei was brave, rare in ancient and modern times, and should not be underestimated. As a result, it was really said by Liu Hao, Yue Fei only took seven days to expel tens of thousands of rebellious troops from Yingtianfu, and took half a month to bring the entire territory of Yingtian under his rule.

Liu Guangshi immediately regarded Yue Fei as a fierce rival in his heart. So in the palace, as soon as he heard that he had asked Liu and wanted to go to Pingyingtian, Liu Guangshi was able to lure Zhang Jun to take the bait.

Although Liu's family assets are rich, they have not been placed in Liu Guangshi's eyes. A few years ago, when their father and son were quelling the turmoil in Jiangnan, they killed the good and risked their merits, and they didn't know how many good people and rich families they plundered, and the family's assets were enough for eighteen generations of children and grandchildren to consume, so how could they take a big risk.

Liu Guangshi returned home and told Liu Hao about Zhang Jun's trip to quell the rebellion. Liu Hao said with certainty, "Although Zhang Jun is a veteran general in the army, he will be defeated if he goes." ”