"Most of the elite soldiers of the imperial court are in Jiangnan together, the south is damp, it is autumn and summer, Your Majesty heard that there are many epidemics in the army, and I can't bear to die too many soldiers, and I am more worried about the epidemic.

That makes sense.

The Song Dynasty's Jiangnan Song Jiu has never been to it once, but he has been to the area of Dongting Lake. Because there are few enclosures and polders, many areas have large lakes or marshes. There is a sentence in Bai Juyi's pipa line, living near the river is low and humid, and yellow reeds and bitter bamboos surround the house. Xunyang is Jiujiang, what a good place it is, lukewarm and hot, there are Lushan, there are big rivers and lakes, it is difficult to understand this wet. It can even ignore why Dayu divides the world and Kyushu and divides Yangzhou as the lowest state.

That's the wet word.

In summer, the water vapor of these vast waters is steaming, and the sky and earth are like a big steamer. Yangzhou has long been developed, so the Tang and Song dynasties became a first-class place, but many areas in the south of the Yangtze River have not been developed, including today's Shengzhou, that is, many areas around Jinling. Southerners may not be able to feel where they have been for a long time, but northerners will be very uncomfortable when they first arrive. If Lu Duosun didn't explain the epidemic, Song Jiu thought that Zhao Kuangyin had asked the old monk Zanning to wash his head.

He asked, "Why didn't General Cao rush to attack Jinling?" ”

Originally, Song Jiu thought that it was Zhao Kuangyin's intention and wanted to force Li Yu to surrender, but now Zhao Kuangyin plans to withdraw his troops first, so it seems that it is not.

"I am the governor of the council, and I have the right to assist the prime minister in handling government affairs, and I can occasionally inquire about the finances. But how to deal with military affairs? ”

"I know this," Hou Zhi said, "I heard that your grandfather Pan is about to attack Jinling in a hurry. General Cao disagreed, he was the main general. General Pan was helpless. ”

"Why?"

"His Majesty doesn't want too many dead people in the Tang Kingdom this time, and it seems that General Cao is also worried, so he attacks it slowly, first dials out all the barriers on the periphery of Jinling, and then occupies the wharf, blocks the naval army, and waits for the Wu Yue army and our army to merge into one and take Runzhou. Runzhou is surrounded on all sides. At that time, when attacking Jinling, the Tang soldiers no longer had the courage to resist, and there would not be many dead. ”

"This is too stable......" Song Jiu muttered. It seems that Cao Bin's military ability is not good. It is true that Cao Bin's military ability is limited, not as good as Pan Mei. However, Cao Bin also had Cao Bin's hesitation, the Song Dynasty destroyed several countries, and several main generals Wang Quanbin and Li Chuyun did not mention it, and then looked at the three great generals of the Southern Han Dynasty, the brave general Wang Jixun died of illness when he stepped into Wuling, and Yin Chongke also died of illness in Guangzhou after Song Jiu returned to Beijing. Don't say that the two Zhizhou two transshipment envoys. It is said that in this appointment, Pan Mei has become his deputy general, which shows that the emperor is still very dissatisfied with Pan Mei's mistakes. Therefore, this battle is not easy to fight, and you can't kill many people. He also had to take the Southern Tang Dynasty and keep the property in Jinling City, and he was originally a chronic son with soldiers. This time it's even more like a snail crawling.

Lu Duosun took a sip of tea, and the matter between the two had to be settled. Hou Zhi is not Lu Duosun's person, and Lu Duosun does not dare to form a faction like Zhao Pu. However, the two tacitly understand that they are comrades-in-arms of a trench system. He has to help, Song Jiu's affairs have to be taken care of, he still owes him a favor, and he can't help it. However, Song Jiu's matter was more troublesome, so he put it in the back first, looked at Hou Zhi and said, "Biaodong, what if you make a vulgar little order and everyone is ashamed?" ”

"Lu Xianggong refers to ......"

"Please make a small order for Jiulang, no matter whether the small order made by Jiulang is good or not, everyone will go to watch when you hear it, and your matter will be diluted. This is called looking away. Although His Majesty is tired of soldiers, he can be vigorous and weak, and the outcome of this withdrawal is not easy to say, so His Majesty has been hesitant. You come from the front line, and tell Your Majesty about the front-line affairs, saying that you can fight, and Your Majesty will divert your attention. Compared to taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty, what is your little thing? ”

"Xie Lu Xianggong."

"Don't thank you, it's really not easy to do Jiulang's business, if it weren't for the fact that you are making money for the country, and so many people have died, then there will be big trouble."

"yes, I'm worried about it."

"Tell me about the South." Lu Duosun is obviously also interested, everyone has a heart for gossip, and of course, he is also thinking of a way.

Song Jiu spoke, and suddenly said, "What if I find the Ocean Island I said in Shuyan?" ”

"What Ocean Island?" Hou Zhi asked.

"It is a very large island in the South China Sea, about three times the size of our dynasty, with grasslands and plains, rivers and mountains, and desert plateaus. There are not many natives above, no more than a million households, and the civilization is very backward, similar to the country of Dihu I just mentioned, and the weapons are mostly wooden sticks and stones, at most they will use some bamboo bows and arrows coated with poison, or sharpened short spears. Most of the tribes did not even know how to smelt iron, and used stone as tools. I once talked with His Majesty about the policy of internal governance, compared with what I have done in the history books, none of them have been perfected by my dynasty, and the population will inevitably skyrocket in the future. The lack of population now, and the density of population in the future, will cause a crisis. In places like these, some strongholds can be built, and once the population is dense, they can be moved to these strongholds, and there will be no population and land pressure in the country. It's still a long way off, but now it's time to plan ahead and carve out a small territory for the future. ”

"Is there really such a big island?"

"What my husband said, he also heard from others, whether it is accurate or not, it may be twice the size of my court, or it may be three times the size, or four times the size. Anyway, the servants of the ship had already set foot on it, and after walking for two days, they stepped on a high mountain in a mountain range, and stood on it and looked through binoculars, but there was no end in sight, and there was no human habitation, and they wanted to explore, but they were afraid that their companions would be worried, and they returned to the voyage. ”

"It's too hot somewhere."

"No, that island is very large, like my dynasty, there are tropical and temperate zones, and where is the south of the earth, the farther south you go, the warmer and more pleasant the weather becomes, almost the same as the capital. It's just that the seasons are reversed, hot in winter and cold in summer. With this credit, can you? ”

"It's a credit, but that's too far away, Jiulang."

"The discovery of a new continent and the proof that the world is round are not considered credits?"

"That's not even a credit, and you'd better not say it, otherwise the Confucian scholars will attack you." Lu Duosun thought for a long time and said, "That's it. I have a solution. ”

"Please."

"You'd better keep this a secret."

"No, as soon as the pension is issued. It will inevitably make people know the truth. ”

Ludosun didn't ask how much the pension was, and he didn't have to. It's indispensable, but no matter how many, people are dead, and the problem lies in this, which has nothing to do with the pension, and asked: "With the advantages of several of you, it is not difficult to get some armor to change clothes." ”

"This is probably not difficult......" Song Jiu replied hesitantly. In recent years, steel has surged, soldiers have increased their iron armor, and leather armor, cloth armor, and paper armor have decreased. Some elite troops began to replace the old armor and put on the new armor, Song Jiu did not participate in this matter, but heard about some, some armor was replaced and continued to be used by the secondary army, and some armor was really unusable, so it was returned to the furnace for re-smelting. This is military materiel, if the latter. It shouldn't be difficult to use the relationship to get some out, although it is forbidden, the problem is not big.

"There is armor, there are weapons, there are bows and arrows. It's not hard to catch a few kings and come back. ”

"If it is a slightly larger country like Srivijaya in Champa City, with advanced civilization, it can't be done. However, if it is a backward small country like Beat, Xintuo, and Dihu, it can still be done by catching a few kings back. ”

"Didn't you leave the ship behind and continue the search. Therefore, the news of the death cannot be made public at this time, and the northwest wind will rise soon. Shunfeng brought enough weapons and armor to catch a few kings to come to the capital, and let them surrender their land, and then the problem of announcing the death was not serious. ”

"What's the use of this......" Song Jiu endured it back, in fact, although many people died this time, there were many positive sides in both public and private affairs, but what Lu Duosun said was exactly what Song Jiu had never thought about. If hundreds of people are fully armed together, even if they are wearing the most inferior armor, it is enough to deal with those bamboo bows, bamboo arrows and spears, like some so-called countries are only tens of thousands of people, where is their opponent, but what is the use of catching the capital, give them food and drink, and then take them back, and bring a painless official back, and the Song Dynasty will be able to really rule here in the future? But after thinking about it carefully, he thinks that it has no effect, but it really has a role in this era, and what a happy event it is for overseas countries thousands of miles away to come to the court? By the Ming Dynasty, it had almost reached its peak.

"Thank you," Song Jiu smiled bitterly and left with Hou Zhi.

Since you are going to catch a few emperors, or a king's something, you have to prepare.

Hou Zhi was sick, God knows whether he was really sick or fake sick, because he was sick and couldn't see the emperor, Zhao Kuangyin was furious and asked the soldiers to take him to the palace. I am willing to take it urgently, if the minister mistakenly His Majesty, please Yichen three clans. ”

Lu Duoxun's move was really good, Zhao Kuangyin immediately retreated left and right, let him approach and talk, and Hou Zhi then told all kinds of things on the front line. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin's edict to quit the army was written, and it was almost issued, but after listening to it, he pondered for a long time, and finally did not quit the army. Of course, Zhao Da also "forgot" to investigate Hou Zhi's corruption of ink.

Jiangnan continued to grind, Runzhou general Liu Cheng surrendered, the general did not agree, Liu Cheng said: "The Song army has not been able to conquer for a long time, and I am worried that like Zhou Shizong, it will not be long after attacking Chuzhou, and it will be slaughtered in a rage." ”

There was only one sentence, and none of the soldiers dared to speak again. Runzhou City fell.

Ding Deyu sent thousands of people to die in Jinling, and fled halfway, Cao Bin sent a recruit to gather, and soon he was worried that there would be a change, and he killed them all, and he said that he had defeated thousands of soldiers in Runzhou and beheaded 700 people.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin regretted it a little, but Zhao Kuangyin said before Cao Bin's trip that you are solely responsible for this trip. actually recruited the army to return to Guangling to rest, and the second intention was also to replace the coach. But his sullen personality has never been spoken.

With so many people eating and drinking, it is an astonishing number, including at least 200,000 people, and war horses, Jinghu could not be supplied, so the people of Hexian, Hanshan and Wujiang counties had to dig across the river to transport the grain from Jianghuai to the front line by means of a grain road. In the end, Cao Bin took Jiangnan, and he did a good job, not many people were killed, and almost all the wealth in Jiangnan was not lost. Otherwise, he will be very sad about this southern expedition.

Li Yu saw that Runzhou was broken, and began to save himself, while urgently calling Zhu Lingyun to help, he organized the people as soldiers, without armor, so he had to wear paper armor and no weapons, so he had to use farm tools as soldiers. Then he sent Zhou Weijian, a high-ranking scholar, and Xu Xuan to envoy to Beijing and ask the Song Dynasty to withdraw its troops. Before Xu Xuan left, Li Yu said to Xu Xuan: "If you are done, I will suspend the reinforcements from Shangjiang, and do not order the east." ”

Xu Xuan replied: "The minister's trip may not be able to resolve difficulties, and the people in the city are still reinforcements, so why not stop." ”

Li Yu said: "Fang seeks good and recalls the soldiers, contradicting himself, isn't it dangerous for Yu Ru?" ”

"It is necessary to take social affairs as a plan and put the subordinates out of the way."

Li Yu wept, that is, he bowed to the left servant to shoot and know the history of the left and right. In fact, Li Yu is not evil, better than Song Jiu imagined, and even better than Zhao Ji, but he doesn't know how to use people, and he doesn't care about national politics, so he misunderstands the country. Xu Xuan and the others met Cao Bin first, and Cao Bin politely sent them out of the barracks. The two of them worked non-stop, and it took almost less than ten days to arrive at the city of Tokyo.

When the ministers heard that this talented man was coming, they were all very nervous, this person was too eloquent, and he was talented, unless he was like Zhao Kuangyin's rogue approach last time, he couldn't really be reasonable. Many ministers said to Zhao Kuangyin that His Majesty should not be too careless, and should be prepared to receive it. Zhao Kuangyin said happily: "Just call him up, you don't care about the rest." ”

Xu Xuan saw Zhao Kuangyin split the first sentence with a loud voice: "Your Majesty, Li Yu is innocent, Your Majesty is unknown!" ”

You can't send a large army to destroy the country just because Li Yu doesn't participate in any firewood sacrifices, this reason is too reluctant.

The ministers were silent, and some people were afraid that Zhao Kuangyin would raise a jade axe and pump it into Xu Xuan's mouth in anger. (To be continued......)