Luoyang, which has experienced several huge upheavals one after another, seems to be a little tired and weak. When Guanjialuan drove back to Beijing, there were not too many lively scenes. It was still drizzling today, and there were only a few people watching the damp and muddy streets. Looking at their expressions, they are like a group of sparrows that have been frightened and injured in the rainstorm, all of them are shrunken and look at the Great Song Dynasty Wangshi who came all the way, and they are hesitating and speculating in their hearts, I don't know what will happen next? Did our Great Song Dynasty win or lose on Jiyuan's side? Luoyang, can it be kept or not?

When Chu Tianya entered the city all the way, he took in these expressions of the people. He knew that what the Great Song Dynasty needed most now was no longer the victory of a war, nor the introduction of many national policies to support the people and benefit the people, but ...... Tranquility and stability.

War is always a double-edged sword, whether it is victory or defeat, it will bring great harm to the people. First of all, the casualties and the loss of property, as well as the fall of land and homeland, the most serious thing lies in the hesitation and dispersion of people's hearts.

Once a country's public will is unstable, it will really face the deepest crisis. Over the years, since the Jurchen stubbornness, the Great Song Dynasty has not been at peace anymore. Frequent foreign wars and internal rebellions plunged the rich and peaceful Great Song into an unprecedented crisis. The demise of the Liao State had actually sounded the alarm for the Great Song Dynasty, but Zhao Ji, the emperor who was in power at that time, and a group of traitorous ministers around him who could be called "national thieves" did not take it to heart. In contrast, the root cause of the collapse of the Liao State at that time was due to the collapse of imperial power and the corruption of the government. Emperor Tianzuo, the last emperor of the Liao State, was actually not as desolate as Zhao Ji, but the luck of the Liao State was worse, and they stubbornly raised a Jurchen tribe around them. At the same time, the Liao army was also better able to fight than the Great Song army, but they still perished. In just ten years, he was completely defeated militarily by the Jurchens in a purely barbaric way.

Every prosperous country is different, and there are always similarities between short-lived dynasties. Before the Jurchen invasion of the south, the Great Song Dynasty had actually begun to corrupt from within. The upward and downward effects began with the emperor's ignorance and caused the frivolity of the court, and then the corruption of the entire officialdom and the degeneration of the army. If it weren't for the strong economic foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it would have collapsed as early as the time of the Fangla Uprising.

For ordinary people, they actually don't care, or they can't care if they want to, these many national events and national responsibilities, they just want three meals a day to eat food and clothing. Prior to this, the economic construction of the Great Song Dynasty was still carried out quite well, and it truly achieved "hiding the wealth from the people". It is not an exaggeration to say that the Great Song Dynasty before the Jingkang Revolution was the most prosperous dynasty in Chinese history. However, such a strong economic power did not have an equally powerful political system and army to match, which made the incomparably rich Great Song Dynasty a fat meat in the eyes of the enemy country, and everyone fought for it.

If it weren't for Chu Tianya's unexpected stubbornness in Taiyuan, I'm afraid that things would have evolved with reference to the original trajectory of history. Others don't know this, Chu Tianya himself knows it. But the key point is also here, Emperor Taishang Zhao Ji, King Kang Zhao Gou and many ordinary people will not think that Chu Tianya saved this era and changed the fate of history. More of them, they only saw that Chu Tianya, a bandit, trampled on the imperial power of the Great Song Dynasty like a robber, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition to cover the sky with one hand.

In the Great Song Dynasty, when Confucianism and science were highly developed, Chu Tianya's behavior was absolutely intolerable to scholars and scholars. Even if he has made countless great achievements, even if he has repelled the Jurchen enemy Kou many times, he is recovering countless lands.

There is such a ruthless meanness in the character of readers, which is rooted in the education and edification they have received. To put it more simply, their three views are completely different from the three views of the group of people around Chu Tianya. They will think that even if the country is about to die, the emperor should always be the emperor, not a puppet. The prince of heaven and earth, the king is second only to the gods of heaven and earth, how can he play with and blasphemy?

Emperor Zhao Ji and King Kang Zhao Gou also took advantage of the psychology of many scholars and ordinary people, and after arriving in Jiangnan, they kept advocating their remarks, saying how Chu Tianya deceived the monarch and confused the dynasty, how he was domineering and suppressing loyalty. Many royal literati opened their eyes for him, and openly or covertly criticized Chu Tianya in the Jiangnan area, inciting many ignorant and simple people to oppose Chu Tianya and support the official family.

Finally, on the second day of Chu Tianya's escort official's family to Jiyuan's royal driving expedition, there was a big incident in Hangzhou.

King Kang Zhao Gou officially declared war on Chu Tianya on the grounds that "Chu Tianya coerced the emperor to leave Beijing with bad intentions and tried to abolish the emperor and stand on his own" - the reason is that he eliminated traitors and Qing monarchs!

Behind King Kang Zhao Gou, there is the Emperor Taishang. They have sufficient background and convincing reasons for issuing such an edict. Zhao Gou even fabricated a "secret edict" given by the official, claiming that the reason why he accompanied the Emperor Taishang to leave Beijing and come to Jiangnan was to follow the will of the official family and come to the south to organize forces to crusade against Chu Tianya, and the ultimate goal was to restore imperial power and return power to Zhao and Song.

In just a few days, in the Jiangnan and Huaiyin areas with Hangzhou as the center, a large number of people, soldiers and people from the green forest came to respond to Zhao Gou's crusade. Zhao Gou and others, who had been premeditated for a long time, easily pulled up a vote of nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses as they wished. After the autumn harvest, all the grain taxes and national taxes, as well as the rich treasury of the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, were used by them to arm the army and pull the rod to raise the people.

In just a few days, Zhao Gou's inscriptions spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and many responders gathered. With the Yangtze River as the boundary, almost all the southern prefectures and counties have erected the banner of "Qing Jun's side, eliminate traitorous ministers", and actively joined Zhao Gou's army.

At that time, Chu Tianya was walking halfway down the road and received an urgent report from Luoyang, which was about this matter.

Zhao Gou's quick move was even more ruthless than Chu Tianya expected. He obviously didn't want to take advantage of Chu Tianya's free hands to tidy up his troops and horses after he finished the battle of Jiyuan and dealt with these foreign enemies, and then had a hard time with Chu Tianya.

"Villain." After Chu Tianya saw the report, he scolded carelessly, and threw the report away on the spot.

This made Zhao Huan and the others stunned. In his opinion, there is probably nothing bigger in the world than the rebellion of Emperor Taishang and King Kang. The strong invasion of the Jurchens is not as good as the nest of their father and son.

But Chu Tianya clearly didn't take them seriously. Even if they are already in a uproar in Jiangnan, they are out of control.

Just when Chu Tianya and Zhao Huan walked into Luoyang together, the 100,000 army personally commanded by Zhao Gou had already started from Hangzhou, and the goal was to go straight to Tokyo.

Hearing this news, Chu Tianya smiled directly.

Hangzhou's military stupidity and incompetence directly made Chu Tianya laugh his big teeth. If Zhao Gou's courage and courage could be a little bigger before this, and he only had one or two thousand light horsemen to take Guanzhong in the starry night, then Chu Tianya would really be more afraid. Because the Battle of Jiyuan was in full swing at that time, Luoyang was indeed very empty. Moreover, if Zhao Gou really went straight to Luoyang regardless of a single thing, the people of the Great Song Dynasty would also believe that they really wanted to "clear the king's side and kill traitorous ministers", because at this time, the official family and Chu Tianya were in Luoyang.

But Zhao Gou was not so bold, nor did he have this military foresight. His eyes were always staring at the founding imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and all he wanted was to snatch back Tokyo, the golden dragon chair placed on the imperial city of Tokyo. As for the life or death of the official family and whether he could defeat Chu Tianya, he didn't care at all, or he didn't dare to think about it at all.

Therefore, no matter how fierce Zhao Gou was, Chu Tianya didn't take him seriously at all. He was convinced that once the hypocritical and selfish intentions of the Hangzhou group were exposed, they would naturally lose their supporters. Facts speak louder than words, and the victory of Jiyuan in the First World War is enough to mark the annals of the Great Song Dynasty and even the entire Chinese history. No matter how sophistry and fabrication the Hangzhou Group is, it cannot be discredited or changed.

Moreover, Zhao Gou hated Chu Tianya from the bottom of his heart, which is true; But at the same time, Zhao Gou was also afraid of Chu Tianya from the bottom of his heart. In the early years, when he was still in Xiangzhou and Zhending, Zhao Gou swore in his heart that he would not share the sky with Chu Tianya; But the bravery and strength of the army under his command had already frightened Zhao Gou. So now, Zhao Gou only dared to take advantage of Chu Tianya's lack of skills and all the soldiers and horses to be released, and suddenly cast a cold arrow behind him.

Once the good news of the Battle of Jiyuan spreads all over the world, the ambition and opportunistic treacherous heart of Zhao Gou and others will be dealt a fatal blow in an instant-Chu Tianya has finished cleaning up the Jurchens, do you dare to fight him on the battlefield?

has strength and confidence, Chu Tianya really can't think of a reason for being afraid of Zhao Gou fanning the flames and rebelling.

But Zhao Huan and many courtiers didn't think so. The news of the Jiangnan army has just spread, and they are all six gods and no masters. So the first thing after returning to Luoyang was that all of them left Chu Tianya unkindly and did not allow him to return to the palace, and asked him to make up his mind that he should deal with Jiangnan affairs like this?

"I am the Taishi of the Great Song Dynasty, and Hangzhou is against me, that is, against the Great Song Dynasty." Chu Tianya said lightly, "No matter how high-sounding their reasons are, no matter how special their identities are, since they are killed by an army, it is a rebellion - the first thing we have to do is to ask the official family to issue a holy decree to the whole world, denounce Zhao Ji and Zhao Gou's father and son, remove them from the royal family and demote them to concubines, and enlist the brave people in the world to rise up against this unrighteous thief army and protect the country and the people." ”

As soon as Chu Tianya said this, Zhao Huan's face was about to turn green. Although he had long been cold to his father and Zhao Gou's brother, he did not expect to remove them from the royal family and fight to the death with them on the battlefield, causing a civil war in the Great Song Dynasty. At this moment, Zhao Huan's most direct thought in his heart is, can he "make peace" with Hangzhou?

After all, it is his own family, and what he calls back and forth is internal friction, which makes outsiders see jokes and take advantage.

There are not a few people who have the same idea as Zhao Huan. Although they chose to follow the official Zhao Huan, but on the other side of Hangzhou, he is also too emperor! How long has he abdicated? The talent has been gone for a while, and the tea has not yet cooled! No matter how bad Zhao Ji is, he is also the once supreme emperor in their minds, how can he cut his royal status and crusade against him?

"Why, you don't agree with me?" Chu Tianya asked with a slightly gloomy face.

The audience was silent, and no one accosted. Zhao Huan didn't dare to say anything.

"Aiqing, it's not that I don't approve of your approach. It's just that I think that this is a housework of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is the best policy to be able to value harmony. Zhao Huan finally mustered up the courage to express a little "opinion" in front of Chu Tianya, and he said, "Emperor Taishang and King Kang, maybe I have misunderstood you Aiqing, and I don't know much about your outstanding contributions to the Great Song Dynasty. I can explain this to them. As long as it is made clear, I believe they will not continue to make trouble. After all, I am the official family of the Great Song Dynasty; They are my fathers and brothers, as well as my courtiers. At the end of the day, you still have to listen to me. ”

"Yes, yes, the official family is reasonable." Immediately a large number of courtiers followed.

"Haha!" Chu Tianya suddenly burst out laughing.

Everyone immediately shut up, holding their breath and not daring to breathe.

"Official, you are kind and love the people like a son, and you don't want the war to bring disaster to the Great Song Dynasty again, which Weichen admires very much." Chu Tianya said, "However, why did the official family only see the appearance, but not the real sinister intentions of Zhao Ji's father and son? ”

"They...... What sinister intentions can there be? Zhao Huan was a little scared and whispered, "In the final analysis, they are all for the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Official, please forgive Weichen for saying a big disrespectful word - the official family is really, so naïve." Chu Tianya said with a stern expression, "Just imagine, if Zhao Ji and his son are really for the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty and for the sake of the official family, why don't they go straight to Luoyang with their soldiers and horses, but point to Tokyo from afar?" -- Can't you see such an obvious intention, what they really want to do is not to get rid of the traitors on the side of the Qing monarch, but to regain the imperial capital and regain the imperial power. ”

Zhao Huan was stunned for a moment, and this sentence went directly to his heart. The ministers present were also speechless.

"Again. If Zhao Ji's father and son really wanted to save the official family, why didn't they care about the life or death of the official family? Chu Tianya sneered and said, "They obviously knew that the official family was with me at all times, but they falsely claimed in Hangzhou that the official family had given a secret edict and asked them to crusade against me." Isn't this forcing someone in Chu to hold a grudge against the official family, and want to borrow the knife of the Chu Tianya people to 'kill' the official family? ”

The word "kill", Chu Tianya said it very hard, and his voice dragged on for a long time. almost scared Zhao Huan so much that he slipped and fell directly from the dragon hall.

The scene suddenly became very tense, and an extremely solemn atmosphere made everyone present feel extremely depressed.

Chu Tianya's words were not forceful words, but on the contrary, they were spurred into reason. After he explained it in a few words, he said the word "human heart" in a reasonable way.

"It can be seen from these two things that Zhao Ji and his son are just coming back to fight for imperial power under the banner of 'killing traitors on the side of the Qing monarch'." Chu Tianya said, "And they were quite obscene and despicable when they chose the time, so they suddenly rebelled when we were in Jiyuan and Wanyan Zonghan's decisive battle, and Luoyang and Tokyo's defenses were very empty. The officials and colleagues might as well look back and think about it, when we were fighting bloody battles with the enemy, throwing their heads and spilling blood for the life and death of the Great Song Dynasty and the people, instead of coming to help, they did evil behind our backs. First, they held on to the grain tax in Jiangnan and wanted to cut off the rations of our soldiers, and now, they have directly rebelled -- where are they for the foundation and people of the Great Song Dynasty? They are clear, more hateful and killable than the Jurchen enemies!! ”

As soon as the words "hateful and killable" were shouted, no one in the audience gasped loudly. Zhao Huan's face was as white as paper.

To sum up, Weichen believes that Zhao Ji's father and son are brazen ministers and thieves who have brought disaster to the country and the people must not be tolerated. Wechen admonished the official's family, and was willing to ask the official's family to allow Weichen to personally lead Jiyuan's triumphant division to conquer the Jiangnan rebels! Chu Tianya hugged his fists and slammed them together, and said sharply, "If you don't kill the two thieves, you will not return to the teacher!" ”

The words are sonorous, like thunder!

……

When night fell, Chu Tianya came out of Luoyang Palace. He rode his horse, his body slightly hunched, and his face was tired.

The noble man rode a horse beside Chu Tianya, almost falling asleep, squinting his eyes and swaying a little, and hummed: "Lord, those old masters are really nagging. You just returned to Luoyang from the labor expedition, and before you sat down to take a sip of herbal tea, you were pulled by them and talked nonsense. I want to rush in and rip off their beards and shut them up! ”

"Huh!" Chu Tianya, Suzaku and the others were all amused. With noble presence, it seems that there will never be a lack of joy.

Chu Tianya's voice relaxed slightly, and said, "I can't complain about them." It's a big deal. If you don't deal with it in time, the world of the Great Song Dynasty will be finished. Those of us who have to die will die in the place where we are buried. ”

Everyone was stunned at the same time, "So important? ”

"Or else?" Chu Tianya smiled tiredly, "You think I don't want to go home and lie down early to rest?" …… Well, I'm finally getting home! ”

Everyone looked forward together, and indeed, they were almost at the Luoyang Palace, and they could already see the lanterns hanging in front of the palace.

"It seems that the princess has already learned the news of the lord's return to Luoyang, and she has hung up lanterns to celebrate the celebration." Suzaku said softly, "This time I left the palace and came back, although it was only a short interval of more than ten days, it felt like ten years. ”

Suzaku's casual words suddenly reminded Chu Tianya and reminded him of many things that had happened in the past few days.

I thought of Bai Xu and thought of Mengde. also remembered that when his wedding banquet with Xiao Linglong was only halfway through, he hid Xiao Linglong and He Bo in a small fishing village on the outskirts of Luoyang, and they have not seen each other since then.

"I miss you." Chu Tianya muttered to himself softly, his voice so low that he barely heard it.