That night, several senior generals of the Loyal and Brave Army gathered in the study room of the prince's camp, and Zhao Ta informed them of the current situation.

"Lord Wang, it has been nearly a month since the rebellion in the southeast, why didn't the Di newspaper from Beijing say anything about it recently, maybe the rumors are false?" Zhao Yong was the first to lose his breath and asked.

"There's nothing strange about this, Taishi Cai, Wang Hao is in charge of the government, and now it's almost the New Year, he must want the emperor to have a peaceful year, and suppress the matter of Fang La's attack on Qingxi and Muzhou!" Gao Zhong looked at the prince and said with a smile, everyone in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty knows that the emperor likes to listen to good words, and everyone also does what he likes, reporting good news but not bad news, making the emperor like a second fool, taking old news as news to listen.

"Wouldn't it? After Wang Hao ascended the throne, he reformed the maladministration, implemented the new policy, and overturned all the policies formulated by Cai Xiang. Zhao Zhi shook his head and said.

"He's just a playboy, with a good skin, not only beaten by our prince, but also caught by me from the hook bar, can 'Zhenru' do those things that don't matter!" Zhao Zhong once followed the prince to do 'anti-pornography' in Beijing, dealt with Wang Huang, and said with a smile.

"Brother Zhong'er, don't say that, at least Scholar Wang has canceled the Department of Affairs, which is very beneficial to us, and the green and white salt in Yanzhou is enough for us to eat and drink!" Zhao Zhi said.

"Grab the salt that doesn't cost money, do you eat too much? Now Fang La is in trouble with Jiangnan, the prince is anxious, you still have time to talk nonsense here! Zhao Ren waited for the two of them and said.

"Oh?!" Zhao Yong looked at the embarrassed appearance of the prince, and was the first to react. The emperor is the prince's father, and it must be for this matter that everyone is here, "Prince, you said that Fang La rebelled." Will the Holy Lord transfer our Hedong Army to quell the rebellion? ”

"It's hard to say now, since the Chinese book refuses to report and can't get the emperor's approval, who dares to mobilize the army without authorization, but we must also be ready to return to the army at any time!" Zhao Ta smiled at Zhao Ren gratefully, he knew too well who Zhao Ji's father was, he sometimes really didn't distinguish between good and bad people, and he spoke like a fart. is not responsible at all, likes to be emotional, and at the beginning he also referred to Cai Jing as the Duke of Zhou, and sent someone to Jiangnan to send Yuhuan to this old thief. Invite him back to Beijing, and now there is nothing strange about praising Wang Huang, but after replacing Taishi Cai, he advertised that he wanted to get rid of Cai Jing's tyranny, which really deceived many people. It can be seen that most people are easily confused by the so-called so-and-so New Deal; Moreover, Wang Hao called himself the 'Prime Minister of Taiping', let the emperor get drunk and enjoy peace, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment was the biggest politics, and this kind of 'ugly thing' naturally had to be covered up. However, Zhao Ta knew that this matter was too big, and the price paid was too great. The turmoil lasted only half a year and cost two million lives. The foundation of the Great Song Dynasty was shaken.

"Fang La now claims to be the king, coercing 200,000 good people, and connecting several states and counties, and Jiangnan is deeply affected by Huashigang, and the group rises accordingly, but those corrupt officials are powerless to suppress it, and Zhongshu is pressed not to sue the saints, that is, our Hedong army has the heart to quell the rebellion, but also has the heart to be powerless, and I am afraid that it will cause a catastrophe over time!" Zhao Yan said worriedly, now that the 'King of the Southeast' Zhu Mian learned that the capital eunuch Cai Zun Pian Jia was not returned, he ordered Chen Guang, who abandoned the city and absconded, to be beaten to death, and Zhang Huiyan, the governor of Muzhou, who was incompetent, was dismissed from his post and brought to justice, trying to make an example of him and prevent the officials from escaping, but the army was defeated like a mountain, and the severe punishment and strict law could no longer prevent those mediocre officials and corrupt officials from escaping.

"Zhao Yan is right, if the southeast is big, I am afraid that we will use our western army, but now we are entangled with Western Xia, if we withdraw the army like this, this western expedition will be empty, and the prince should make plans early!" Zhao Ren said that in the later period of Renzong, the Zhuang Nong Zhigao rebelled against the Song Dynasty and occupied most of the area of Lingnan, and other regular armies went to crusade, and they were defeated by Nong Zhigao in a few clicks. …,

"Although the thieves are powerful, what they do is against the sky, it is difficult to become a big tool, and it is only those people who suffer in the end!" Zhao Ta said that he knew that the peasant uprisings in the history of Taoism still followed the feudal ideological concepts and organizational forms, and they called themselves kings and emperors in their minds, and promoted themselves to be officials, but without a complete set of political programs and long-term guidelines, even if they seized power, they would eventually enter a dead end in history.

To put it mildly, the peasant rebellion is too earthy, they themselves do not grasp the advanced productive forces, and they do not want to appoint literati and officials as think tanks, and they use all the poor buddies who 'make revolutions' with them, and the organization is pure, but it is also short-sighted, which means that it is difficult to change the interest in the movement qualitatively. The failed peasant leaders did not see this, as did Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and after Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, he tortured Ming officials and squeezed their wealth.

The same is true of the Fangla Uprising, just after gaining a county seat, he was busy 'ascending the throne' to become the son of heaven, sealing his wife and son, and giving his subordinates the title of king and official, but he did not consider how to develop and grow, and the ideas of his origin and Manichaean propaganda were still difficult to depart from the statements in his teachings. Manichaeism's 'vegetarian demon servant', these behaviors run counter to the traditional Confucianism and Buddhist etiquette norms, and are regarded as evil cults that violate immorality and customs, and the main god they believe in is also suppressed as an evil demon by the 'famous and upright', and it is not tolerated by the mainstream ideologically.

Wherever the rebels went, they burned, killed, looted, and robbed the good people as soldiers, and those gentry and wealthy families became the targets of their severe revenge, and their methods were cruel and outrageous, but not all of these people were bad people, but they were treated indiscriminately and equally, and they did not pay attention to a united front. Another of them, the so-called rebels, did not produce, but only plundered the government and the rich to maintain their operation, distributed the floating wealth to the people, won support, and joined their ranks one after another. But once the people have become a 'righteous army', no one is engaged in production, and the rich and official mansions will be robbed one day, without which they will one day become robbers and thieves, which will inevitably arouse the resentment of the people and lose the foundation on which they depend.

Therefore, whether Zhao Ta knows from his previous life or the analysis of the current situation, Fang La is not a comrade who has crossed over, but is still the king of grass, and the riot led by him must be left to fend for itself, victory is accidental, and defeat is inevitable.

"The current situation, whether or not we are transferred to the west to the southeast to quell the rebellion, does not allow us to continue the westward expedition, the imperial court is likely to start peace talks, and we must make corresponding preparations in the next step!" After analyzing it, Zhao Ta said that it is necessary to calculate the life, and the war must be calculated, and the accounts must be calculated before the fight, and the truce cannot be relaxed.

"Lord, although the situation is like this, but the peace talks are discussed by the imperial court, and now the Western Xia on the one hand sent envoys to lobby the court, on the other hand, they bought Tong Guan to withdraw the troops, but they deliberately missed us, you can know their intentions, want to force us to withdraw with the help of others, lose the initiative in the peace talks, will fall into passivity everywhere!" Wang Jin said.

"Hmph, Brother Cha, this kid loses and loses, and he still doesn't accept it, so he plays the trick of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle with us, I'll let him see if there is no rotten egg from Tong Guan, Lao Tzu can also make a trough cake!" Zhao Ta knew that what Wang Jin said was true, the reason why the Shaanxi Army was transferred back by Tong Guan, Zhao Ta had already sent back the news from the Intelligence Department to know the details of Lu Dao, but it was Brother Cha and Tong Guan who sang in pairs.

Brother Cha went to Lanzhou to meet Tong Guan secretly, bribed him with a lot of money, and skillfully said that he was stingy to provoke the relationship with Zhao Ta, and reached a secret agreement with him in a two-pronged manner, as for what benefits he got is still unknown, and then sent troops to Lanzhou to go around, Tong Guan immediately made a fuss and shouted 'Xia army intruded Hehuang', flew to the Beijing Division, transferred troops to send Chen to Lanzhou, and took advantage of the situation to transfer back the two armies of Jingyuan Road and Dunyan Road that cooperated with the westward expedition. Chage's plan was very poisonous, which caused a lack of troops in Zhao Tan's hands, making him unable to continue the westward expedition, and allowing Western Xia to take the initiative in the peace talks. …,

"Lord Wang, I think that the Western Xia are trying to keep our Hedong Army out of the peace talks, and without our participation, they can profit from it, so we are now facing not only Brother Cha, but also some people from the court!" Zhao Ren said.

"Well, tell me what you think!" Zhao Tan nodded, encouraging him to continue, now Zhao Ren can see this, which shows that he is not only mature militarily, but also growing politically.

"Lord Wang, I think we should 'promote peace by fighting'!" Zhao Ren coughed lightly and said, seeing that the prince had no intention of stopping it, he continued, "There is such a big thing in the southeast, the Western Xia side will not be ignorant, what we can think of, with the cunning of Brother Cha, we must also expect that the imperial court will transfer the western army to quell the rebellion, and to transfer the western army, we must first end the western expedition to Xia." In this way, the situation of the peace talks, which was originally beneficial to us, will be reversed, and at this time, it coincides with the withdrawal of the Shaanxi army by Captain Tong, and Brother Cha has reason to think that it is us who are in a hurry instead of them, so that they can profit from the peace talks, so our army cannot sit back and wait for peace talks at this time, and should continue to attack, so that they can feel that our Hedong Army can not only complete the western expedition, but also easily capture Xingzhou, force it to make concessions, and break Brother Cha's conspiracy! ”

"Okay, you're saying it well, it seems that you can already become a general in your own right!" Zhao Ta said with a smile after listening to Zhao Ren's analysis, and agreed with his idea very much, and it is a good tactic to properly display 'muscles' even in the negotiations. (To be continued......)