The preparatory preparations for the launch of a war are long, and the scale of the projects that need to be started is also enormous.

Conflicts involving hundreds of people on the border, for example, are largely "self-sufficient" and can be reported afterwards. For example, the war between the Northwest Army and the Duan Department at the beginning of the fifth year of Zhenglong was also because the Northwest Army would brazenly send troops when the incident was sudden and the incident was extremely serious, otherwise ordinary military operations would require the approval of the imperial court. During this period, the fleeting of fighters can only be described as bad luck.

Generally speaking, the emperor drove the expedition in person, unless it was a matter of national fortune and involved life and death. Otherwise, it is common for the emperor not to leave the imperial capital for the rest of his life. The Great Jin Dynasty established the country by force, and two hundred years ago it was the largest piece of meat that was stripped from the body of the Great Chu Dynasty by means of blood and fire, and it was not out of the imperial capital for life, which was relatively rare compared to the Southern Song Dynasty.

When the descendants of the royal family become adults, they will receive different training, which can be regarded as a more radical training method among the royal families of various countries.

Emperor Jin has never been a flower in a greenhouse, whether it was learning from Sima Deguang when he was young, or that bloody day more than twenty years ago, he was never a person who hid behind the scenes and pointed fingers.

So in the face of the country full of smoke, Emperor Jin drove the expedition in person.

The whole of Hebei Province fell, the war in the south slowed down a little, and the north was surging - no, it should be when the black clouds were pressing down on the city, and the Jin Emperor thought that as the owner of the whole country, he should say something.

He will fight, and he will overcome.

I am the Emperor of Jin, and I should defeat all enemies.

This belief has never wavered since I was a child and was targeted.

The entire Jin capital knew that Emperor Jin had such a belief, and basically everyone did not doubt that Emperor Jin had such ability.

It's just that faith and awe can't fully explain this sudden royal expedition.

Shouldn't this be something that will happen after a dozen or so court meetings, or even after a major purge and suppression of all opposition?

Isn't this something that will happen after everyone's consent, and then after months or even a year of preparation, mobilizing the forces of the entire Great Jin, gathering a large number of troops, integrating a large number of materials, and preparing dozens or even hundreds of war strategies?

Isn't this something that will happen after His Majesty publicly announced that the prince of the prison country has officially established the heir to the throne and guaranteed that in the event of an accident, the imperial system can be smoothly transitioned?

No, the above things, except for Emperor Jin's announcement that the crown prince stayed in the Jin capital, which may be regarded as a response to the third question, the rest seem to have done nothing.

In the half month after the royal conquest, there were still people arguing about it.

In the end, whether Dajin is ready to fight with national strength, whether this battle can be won completely, and what kind of shock this battle will cause. These are all questions.

-- No one dares to say whether they can win or not. Since Emperor Jin dared to go north without explaining many things clearly, everyone believed that any business that dared to question would be completely wiped out as long as it was just from the throat and lips. After all, Emperor Jin is gone, and there are still about a thousand black-armored guards and thousands of horsemen in the Jin capital.

Since the possibility of success cannot be questioned, let's fight for the many details and possibilities in the process of victory.

However, half a month later...... Such quarrels were quelled.

A court official took out the transfer approval documents of the household department and various ministries, as well as some unnoticeable documents in the past two years, and then linked them to the transfer of troops, food, horses, and ordnance in the past two years, and the truth surfaced.

When the crown prince finished reading the more than a dozen pages of the document written by Chen Hua and other ministers of the political hall overnight on the next step of the left hand of the throne, the entire court was silent.

Even if the number of war horses is huge, the capital accumulated in the war with the dan a few years ago can be maintained for several years with the current war losses, regardless of financial resources.

As for the grain, the latest results of the negotiations with the Southern Song Dynasty have come out, and although the Great Jin has paid some price, a considerable amount of grain has been obtained, which can be regarded as a tonic.

There seems to be no problem with all kinds of military strategic materials, money is the most scarce item, but a large amount of land that can be inventoried and the proceeds from the sale can barely be maintained

From this point of view, it seems feasible to start a big war, except for external instability.

(Nonsense, if the outside is stable, who will drive the expedition.) ）

As for the transshipment of strategic materials, people who are interested have already discovered that they have been doing it for several years. Especially the people of the Qi Wang family were the first to react. Back then, the king of Qi had full authority to transfer a large number of materials.

Such a reaction and realization made the few Qi Wang Party officials who can still gain a foothold in the court feel unreal.

When the King of Qi was in charge of the north-south transfer, he was regarded as the most promising successor of the empire, but now, it seems that he made a wedding dress for others.

The person standing on the lower left step of the throne reading the book was not the king of Qi.

It's irony.

The early dynasty didn't end until noon, and when the hungry ministers, who had only drunk a bowl of porridge in the middle, walked out of the imperial city, they couldn't help but have an illusion.

It seems that Emperor Jin, many years ago, was already preparing for the Northern Expedition.

Don't fight unprepared battles, that being the case...... There doesn't seem to be much to worry about.

Such thoughts flashed through my mind, and then there was more trust and greater expectations for this war

The eyes of the entire Great Jin Dynasty were focused on the stall of the Jin Emperor's personal expedition, and some things were ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

The crown prince was in charge of Kyoto, and the Qi dynasty entered the cold winter, because of the prince's previous victory in Hubei Province, not too many people were surprised. In fact, some people have already felt that since Sima Bi's treason, the possibility of King Qi has been very small.

Compared with some people who call King Qi's actions in the past two years a last battle, some people prefer to call it: leave a back road.

The Qi Palace's Mansion has not had enough guests for a long time, and since Wen Chong went out with the army as the Jin Emperor's escort guard, the Qi Palace's Mansion has been even more neglected.

It was already dark, and the front door of the Qi Wangfu was brightly lit, but no one came, but it was the back door, a small sedan chair, that stopped.

A man with a hood walked down, then cautiously entered, and then lifted the hat in a forbidden room in the palace.

"Your Highness"

"You're here."

King Qi's face was not good-looking, but it seemed to be much better than when she didn't come.

This woman is Xie Shen Pei.

A woman in the Jin capital, who has an identity that is beyond the reach of the children of ninety percent of the family, but has no sense of existence.

Xie Shence and Xie Shenwei's eldest sister, a woman who once had a marriage contract with Sima Tan but broke the marriage.

Some people say that she has been preached and will not marry for life; Some say she's crazy.

- But no matter what you say, it's just someone who mentioned it, and in the tone of "oh, that's right", the original marriage contract turmoil was brought over like this.

Yes, it was brought over like that.

Even in the most difficult years for the Xie family, very few people attacked the Xie family with this matter.

As soon as anyone with an identity knows, the Xie family ruined the marriage, and Sima Bi reversed, and the two may not be necessarily related...... But who knows? This can no longer have the effect of attacking. Once it is taken out, it will be counterattacked, saying that the Xie family has seen through Sima Bi's unsubmissive heart, which is tantamount to moving a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

Second, some young people in Jindu, although they don't like the Xie family and want to attack the Xie family with Xie Shenpei, but what else can they have? They don't know anything about Xie Shen Pei at all! Moreover, Xie Shenpei, as a standard lady raised in the boudoir, has no grudges against them, and it doesn't make much sense to use her as an excuse to attack the Xie family.

In fact, quite a few people have thought about it, but if the other party is a person who has no sense of existence at all, the effect is much worse. And it also seems that he has no level.

This situation is like "You're not right, passerby A who passed by the restaurant yesterday shook his head", and it doesn't make any sense.

Therefore, Xie Shenpei, who avoided being attacked, has a reputation in Jindu, as always.

It's just that if people know that she appears in the Qi Palace's mansion tonight, no matter whether Xie Shen Pei's sense of existence is zero or zero point one, she will become the cause of a storm.

The news that the marriage with the Sima family collapsed, but he was underground with the King of Qi, would be a story of an adulterer, an adulterer, a prostitute and a woman in the streets and alleys, and in the hands of powerful people with ulterior motives, it was the yeast of the conspiracy.

Since the marriage contract with Sima Tan was broken, Xie Shence also understood the relationship between his eldest sister and King Qi, but this relationship can never be made public, especially now that the Xie family is ruined and Xie Shang is imprisoned, there is no possibility for outsiders to know. The Xie family strictly forbade Xie Shenpei to go out, and she hadn't seen King Qi for nearly a year.

In fact, Xie Shenpei's appearance here tonight was not her original intention, if it wasn't for King Qi's strong invitation and the conditions she couldn't refuse, she wouldn't come.

"I have only one request to help me save me"

"You know, I can't talk at home, let alone whether your father can come out or not, the eldest brother is in the northwest, and I don't know where the second brother is, since I have served the Tao, I can't participate in these anymore, not to mention that I have never participated in these in the first place."

"Why can't it? Doing this, it is good for you and the Xie family, I know where Xie Shence is, he is not in a good situation now, his father is in a personal expedition, once the lost territory is recovered, you think he can still live Your father will not come out, there is no hope for your family"

"Say so much, maybe it's for yourself"

"Yes, I don't deny it, I don't do it for myself, how for you"

"Okay."

The wind picked up at night, the branches rustled outside, and I couldn't fully hear what the two were saying, but if I caught the key words, I could guess some signs.

A few days later, in Liucheng, the shopkeeper of a cloth village finally took out a piece of cloth hidden under his bed, carefully stuffed it into a donkey cart selling vegetable oil, and sent it to the Weihou Mansion Manor outside the Jindu City by a ship hired by a certain Jindu nobleman.

This is the only remaining property of Weihou Mansion, which contains all the female dependents of the Xie family's room and the second room, a few servants, hundreds of generals, and more than ten iron guards.

"Can you be sure...... This news must be true? ”

"Mother...... I can't be sure, but if my father can't get out, I'm ...... I don't know what the future holds......"

"Pei'er, you shouldn't have gone to see him......"

"I can't help but go, auntie...... I can't ......."

"If it weren't for the master's refusal, we wouldn't be so powerless."

"This time and that time...... Besides, at this time, I really need external help, and the herbs are already two days late, and I'm afraid that the second brother won't be able to hold ......."

"I also know that this matter is urgent, but I can't find a way to do it, so I think about it, the words of the king of Qi, maybe I can try it......"

"Exactly!"

This kind of conversation, Xie Shen Pei is in it, maybe it is a little inappropriate. However, neither the eldest aunt nor Sima Shi let her avoid it, so she listened, her left ear went in, and her right ear went out.

A day later, a white-haired old eunuch, with a little eunuch holding a box, bent over his waist, walked into the black building that exuded a terrifying atmosphere in the west of the Jin capital.

In a cell at the bottom and back of the building, a middle-aged man with a sallow face was lying on the bed coughing quietly, and it could be seen from his shoulders that he was not shaking for a moment, and he had endured it very hard, and it must have been extremely uncomfortable.

"Squeak ......" With the sound of pig iron rubbing and the click of gears, the old eunuch walked in, opened the box held by the little eunuch, and said: "Second master, come, drink it, drink it, it's fine......"

An hour later, the old eunuch came out with the little eunuch.

"You, keep your head up!"

A knight shouted at the little eunuch behind the old eunuch.

The old eunuch glanced at the Ti cavalry, and the Ti cavalry did not show weakness, snorted, and said: "Cai Weng, the rules have to be talked about after all, don't make it difficult for the Ti cavalry to do."

The old eunuch nodded, and then glanced behind him.

"Oh~Cai Weng!"

"Commander!"

A burly figure appeared, and the person who came was dressed in a purple mandarin duck suit on a black background, it was the newly promoted Tiqi Commander Si, Wushan.

"Commander of Ukraine."

"Cai Weng, I don't want to meet here, haha, how is Cai Weng lately? I had long heard that Cai Weng had trouble sleeping, and the envoy was thinking that when the last cavalry was sent to the north, he would ...... the southern frontier of the Song people."

"The commander made the lord polite......

"Oh, Cai Weng, dare to ask you ...... this time Oh haha, it's the envoy who has said a lot, and the books sent by Cai Weng are all in the palace......"

"What the commander said is very true."

"Well, since that's the case, the envoy won't delay Cai Weng to return to the palace......"

"The commander makes it easy for your lordship."

"Cai Weng please."

"Please."

The old eunuch said goodbye to Wushan, and then Wushan looked at the questioning horseman lightly and turned to leave.