After the Jin army retreated, the civil and military officials in the capital all understood in their hearts that now the "patriotic and righteous soldiers" in the world will soon have to go to Tokyo to save the country with the spirit of tireless work and death.

Overnight, as if mushrooms, a number of stages were set up in all parts of the country at the same time, and the "loyal ministers and righteous men" appeared on the stage one by one, competing to perform, and the scenes were tear-jerking. At the same time, Zhao Gou, the king of the generalissimo's mansion, sent a series of letters to the divisions of the kings of Hebei, Jianghuai, Shaanxi and other roads:

"The heart of a loyal minister is fatal when he sees danger; The courage of the martyrs, seeing death as home. Now the two saints, the crown prince, the kings, and the close ministers are all detained in the thief camp, and they are about to be taken captive to the north, and the hearts of the courtiers are full of indignation..."

"This king was previously appointed as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses by holy decree, and when he raised his arms, the world responded, and millions of people came forward in anger. Now send out a large army, gather the counties, guard the passes, burn the bridges, or meet the gold thieves in front, or chase after them, and vow to sweep away thousands of miles and return the two saints..."

"The current marshal's order: all the marshals and ministers, the county guards the county order, and the people who are sharp and sharp, with the same heart of loyalty and righteousness, sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths, in order to repay the favor of the dynasty..."

Now that the golden soldiers are gone, the generalissimo's general attack order has finally been issued. Of course, Zhao Gou is not the only loyal minister in the world. Hui Youge Bachelor Jingbei Road Pacification Envoy Zhiyingchang Mansion He Zhitong, Huiyou Pavilion Zhi Huaining Mansion Zhao Zisong, Huiyou Pavilion Straight Bachelor Jianghuai and other road envoys and economic system envoy Weng Yanguo, Dushui envoy Rong Wei gathered in Huaining Mansion. After they discussed, they decided to build an altar and swear a blood oath to express to the people of the world their determination to resist the Jin soldiers with one heart and one mind.

The alliance of blood is a very solemn ceremony. But before the ceremony had even begun, something that was not very solemn and not very one-minded happened. Weng Yanguo and Zhao Zisong fought over who would be the leader of the alliance. Zhao Zisong believes that he is the fifth grandson of King Yanyi, and he is the Zhao and Song clans. To be the leader of the alliance, his reason is: the practice of the Zhou Dynasty's clan alliance, the people of the clan come first, and the different surnames come last.

Weng Yanguo sensed that something was not right, did this Zhao Zisong want to take advantage of the country's turmoil to plot the throne? Therefore, Weng Yanguo did not give in, and refused to accept his command because he was just a prefect of Huaining. This is exactly what Zhao Zisong is thinking, of course, he has to 'explain' it. The last thing is that He Zhitong is clever, he thinks that there is still King Kang in Jeju. There is no need to elect the leader of the alliance.

He Zhitong's move was so powerful that Zhao Zisong was choked and speechless. Yes, you Zhao Zisong is just a distant relative of the royal family, and Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, is the son of Emperor Zhao Ji, and the younger brother of Emperor Zhao Huan.

So they went to the altar in the Huaining Mansion Church to shed blood, and respected Zhao Gou as the leader of the alliance. An impassioned covenant was read. Of course, he condemned the atrocities of the Jurchens in the strongest terms, and then expounded his patriotism and loyalty to the monarch, knowing that the Second Emperor of Lu Dao had been taken captive and that the Jin soldiers had retreated. But he was still pretending not to know and pretending to say, "The capital is not connected, and the king's order is isolated", and brazenly said "Gong'an royal family." to serve the Minister's Day".

As the saying goes, literati must not be shameless, because shameless and elegant, shameless and impassioned. Shamelessness in the midst of especially shameless...

In the middle of the month, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division gathered. All kinds of teams have come to King Qin, according to incomplete statistics, it has reached nearly a million people, not to mention whether they can go into battle, these people have arrived This involves a most basic question, this million army is going to eat, what to rely on? When there was no food, the extremely hungry soldiers had to go to the people's homes to rob and cut the fields, so that Bianjing, which had just experienced a military disaster, would bring another military disaster.

There is such a saying, called "raising 10,000 soldiers, daily expenses to fight gold", and the Song Dynasty at that time the treasury of the gold and silver jewelry were all looted by the Jin people, the treasury was basically empty, but the expenditure of a million troops in a month required tens of millions, which was undoubtedly an unattainable amount for the national strength of the Song Dynasty at that time.

Recruiting these soldiers, the Bianjing puppet Chu regime will not pay to support them, and they are also poor, so the reward money is still borrowed from the Jurchens. Zhao Gou also stood still, he was frightened, the first thing he saw was not how much the army could fight, but how much the army could eat, he didn't know what was going on with the million army of Lu Dao, but he knew that the possibility of Lu Dao wanting him to command this million army to welcome back the two saints was very small. Moreover, this million army is more here to eat, and when they really let them go north, it is still unknown how many people will be left, so they don't dare to accept it.

Due to the lack of food and salary, whenever the military salary is issued, the leaders of the various departments must be present to suppress it, otherwise the soldiers will grab it, and the rank and grade at that time are all useless, and the soldiers and officers will rush to each other. Because I eat my life, and you eat your life, who will let whom?

At the beginning, the Zhongxing Army was only a branch of the 'Qinwang' army, and the state did not give it to itself, and of course it was not obliged to feed these people, but whenever they had a meal, there were always many soldiers from other armies who would come to vote, and there were many more soldiers and horses for no reason. Later, Zong Zenan returned to pass the edict of King Qin, and now everyone has found the right master, and they have to eat and drink with King Qin, but King Qin's rice bowl is not good, and you have to listen to me when you eat my food.

Deputy Marshal Zong sent these people to the counties of Gyeonggi to defend the Yellow River, and it was not easy for everyone to make trouble once they dispersed, but they were finally able to eat enough! The problem is that the country has no money, the prince has not ascended the throne, and he cannot mobilize national resources, and the treasury of Bianjing is cleaner than his face, which makes Zhao Zhi bitter, he did everything possible to raise food, and finally had to mobilize a caravan to Jiangnan to buy grain and transport it to the Gyeonggi area.

Spending money is a trivial matter, the problem is that now the palace in Bianjing is not enough, only the dragon generals are stationed here, more than 10,000 people, if it is on the battlefield, this is definitely a force that should not be underestimated, but now that it has received such a large piece of territory, it seems to be powerless...

Received the order of the prince, Bianjing City overnight the streets and various gates of the city were plastered with the notices of Kaifeng Mansion, the queen mother and the clan, the hundred workers were rescued by the Qin king's army, and will return to the capital in the near future, for a time the city was thunderous, this is too surprising, but also greatly inspiring, the people from the hope to see the hope, looking forward to the queen mother and the relatives who were taken away by the Jurchens can go home.

At this moment, Zhao Ren had been replaced by Zhao Yong and returned to Bianjing, and after consulting with several people in the mansion, he led the two brigades of the dragon general and the remaining Zong Ze to Huazhou to meet the guards. Then the two led the troops out of Beijing, and the burden of defense in the city fell on Zhao Yi. But this burden is really not light.

The 1st and 2nd Brigades entered the capital after the opening of the city, and not only had to take on the duty of guarding. I still have to do some police work, patrol the streets, catch bandits, capture rebels, and there are four brigades left outside as mobile forces, ready to deal with the Jin army and suppress the rebellion, but one of the brigades followed Zhao Yong to chase Zonghan, and now in order to welcome the Queen Mother, two more brigades have gone, and the Beijing division is 'unmanned'...

Now the Jin army was crucibleed to the Yellow River. Now that it is entangled by the Zhongxing army, the external threat to Bianjing is very small, but there are still two internal forces around Bianjing that need to be guarded against.

One is the armies under the Generalissimo's Mansion, they are numerous, have a certain combat effectiveness, and now is a sensitive period, if they don't get it right, they will go wrong; Another force was the defenders of the original Bianjing, which was later taken over and adapted by the puppet Chu, and the 20,000 imperial battalions led by Fan Qiong, the envoy of the four walls of the capital. It suffered heavy losses in the offensive and defensive battles with the Jin army, and now most of them are newly recruited new troops, with weak combat effectiveness and low morale. However, the place where it is stationed is sensitive and cannot be guarded against.

Zhao Yi has always been in charge of military law and military affairs in the Zhongxing Army, and his subordinates have a law enforcement team and a military intelligence department. Now the guards of the pseudo-Chu officials are in charge of the law enforcement team under his command. One day after Zhao Ren led his troops to leave, the team leader who was in charge of guarding Fan Qiong's mansion reported to Zhao Yi that the subordinates of Fan's mansion had been coming and going frequently these days. Very abnormal!

Zhao Yi was already holding on to the strings, and after hearing this, he asked him to continue to stand guard quietly. At the same time, he asked the Military Intelligence Department to strengthen the surveillance of the Imperial Camp Army, and also reported the situation to Junzi, the Gyeonggi director of the Intelligence Department, so that he could assist in investigating who those puppet Chu officials had recently contacted.

It didn't matter if the Intelligence Department intervened, it was quickly found out that not only the people in Fan Qiong's mansion, but also the people in Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe's mansion had also been to the same place, and the people living in that place were the generalissimo's mansion. When Empress Dowager Zheng was about to return to Beijing, he happened to appear, and he couldn't help but attract attention.

The two divisions immediately dispatched manpower to conduct a joint operation and secretly arrested the contacts in Fan Qiong's mansion. Under the punishment, the person was recruited, and the people from the Generalissimo's Mansion came to contact the pseudo-Chu officials, and they talked to others about something, but many important ministers were involved, and they asked Fan Qiong to launch a mutiny, expel the Zhongxing Army, and open the city gate to welcome the generalissimo into Beijing. Now Zhang Bangchang is still hesitating, and the generalissimo's special envoy Kang Lu is very anxious, giving him a lot of money, and promising that the generalissimo will confer on him a high-ranking official after he ascends the throne.

Fan Qiong was also loyal at the beginning, and he wanted to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions to the country. Who knew that after the First World War, the failure of that raid left a shadow in his heart, and he was terrified ever since. The rupture of the moat felt in his heart that this seemed to be a revelation from heaven that Song Zuo was in danger, and God would not bless Zhao, and if he worked hard for Zhao Song, he could only bring about his own destruction. So Fan Qiong's heart changed greatly, slaughtered the anti-Jin people in Beijing, coerced hundreds of officials in Beijing to pay tribute, and even held a sword for the Jin army to drive the second emperor and his concubine out of the city.

Now that the Queen Mother is rescued and is about to return to Beijing, Fan Qiong is also panicked, he knows that he has done too much evil, and the Queen Mother will not let him go, and now the only way to survive is to take refuge in King Kang, King Kang, King Qin's opponent, in order to save his life, and his vote is to sacrifice the capital to King Kang. He also contacted Zhang Bangchang, but he was too timid and hesitated to express his position.

Therefore, Fan Qiong plans to go it alone, scheduled to mobilize troops to launch a mutiny on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, kill all the troops of the Qin Dynasty, and welcome King Kang into Beijing before the Queen Mother enters Beijing, and take the lead in claiming the emperor, causing a fait accompli, even if the Queen Mother comes, she will be helpless! King Kang's trick is poisonous enough, Fan Qiong is stupid enough, he doesn't want to think that King Kang's father and mother were also sent to Jinying, and now he can coax him, and sooner or later he will have to settle accounts with him.

Now that he has learned the news, Zhao Yi has calculated the time, today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, and it is too late to ask the prince for instructions, he immediately decided to immediately transfer the river army into the city to control the city gates, gather the Zhongxing army in the city to surround the imperial camp camp, disarm them and escort them out of the city, and personally led the troops to Fan's mansion to capture Fan Qiong, and thwarted a mutiny. Seeing such a big commotion in the city, how could he dare to stay, so he immediately ran away!

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On the tenth day of the fifth month, the Empress Dowager Zheng Hongmei, escorted by the First Brigade of the Qin King's Guards, went west from Emperor Zanzan, went west to Xingzhou, entered Xinde Mansion, and returned to Bianjing with the welcoming Zong Ze in Huazhou. On the way, the people learned that thousands of people who had been rescued from the northbound queen mother and princes, close ministers of the clan, and hundreds of craftsmen and craftsmen had been rescued and returned to Beijing. It is said that the Great Song Dynasty is promising.

After returning to Beijing, Empress Dowager Meng greeted her at the palace gate. The two returned to the palace hand in hand, and Empress Dowager Meng said that she wanted to return to the Zhao family. But the Empress Dowager Zheng refused on the grounds that there was no prince in the country and the second emperor was still there. Empress Dowager Meng proposed to abdicate herself and let her listen to the government. Empress Dowager Zheng agreed after the third order, and Empress Dowager Meng still lived in the palace.

On May 15, the Empress Dowager Zheng officially went to the court to listen to the government, and announced to the world that Xu Jingheng was appointed as Shangshu Zuocheng, Zong Ze was the same person of the Privy Council, and Zhao Ren signed the Privy Council. Chen Guoting is the middle of the imperial history. Zhao Ta, the king of Qin, inspected the capital in front of the palace and led the whole country to conquer the Jurchens and restore the old land. Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and the front of this palace was checked to be empty after Taizu, and no longer appointed real positions, which is meaningful!

At the same time, a decree was issued to dismiss the officials of the puppet Chu regime headed by Zhang Bangchang, Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, Wu Qi, Mo Yan, Fan Qiong, Hu Si, Wang Shao, Wang Jizhi, Yan Bowen, Yu Dajun and others. Take the crown prince, insult the six palaces, take the concubines, and arrest the clan. Stealing forbidden property is a heinous crime. Fan Qiong, who wanted to raise troops to rebel, was sentenced to death and beheaded in the city.

Empress Dowager Zheng dealt with the capitulation faction that controlled the government after the Jingkang Change. Next, he sent someone to welcome Li Gang into Beijing and let him be the prime minister. This appointment was finalized after Zheng Hongmei discussed with her son, and now the people in the Qin Wangfu family are relatively low-level. Most of them lack experience in working in the central government, and their qualifications are shallow. is young, and suddenly entering the top may cause chaos, so Zhao Ta hopes that they will make adjustments after a period of experience, but several important departments cannot be lost.

The Song Dynasty established the country with Confucianism, and the number of people in the court who could really practice the way of Confucius and Mencius was very small. It is even rarer to achieve such a high official position as the prime minister and still adhere to the way of Confucius and Mencius, but Li Gang is a disciple of Confucius and Mencius in the true sense. He is not a hypocrite, and he has no element of showmanship, although he is not yet "sacrificing himself", but he has firmly achieved "righteousness".

When there was a conflict between the interests of the "people", "sheji" and "jun", Li Gang regarded the emperor's favor as dung, and in the position of "one person below and above ten thousand" in the system, he said that if he did not cooperate, he would not cooperate, and at this moment he also needed such a person to preside over the government. Moreover, Li Gang adhered to Tokyo in the first year of Jingkang, and advocated that the anti-Kim government and the opposition were very prestigious, and using him as the prime minister could show his determination to resolutely resist the Kim and also change the atmosphere of the main peace in the DPRK and China...

In addition, Li Gang was demoted out of the capital and sent to Jian'an for resettlement, where the road was far away, and there was no plane at that time, until this spring when he suddenly received a holy decree from Zhao Huan, 'reinstating his official position and appointing him as a scholar of the Imperial Palace and acting prefect of Kaifeng'.

Because of the siege of the Jin army, the road and news between the Beijing division and the outside world were completely interrupted, and Li Gang suddenly received an appointment and didn't know what was going on in Lu Dao, in fact, Kaifeng had been broken at this time. But Li Gang is Li Gang, after being ordered, he immediately abandoned all personal grievances and returned north, and when he went to Hunan, he learned that Bianjing was besieged, so he personally led the Hunan Qinwang Righteous Army to aid the Beijing Division. When I arrived in Fanchang, I heard the bad news of the loss of the capital, and I didn't know what to do for a while.

It is impossible for Li Gang to lead the army of Qinwang brought with him to disband on the spot, in that case, most people will be in a predicament of having nothing to eat. At the same time, the soldiers did not want to be repatriated—how could they go back in despair when they had risked their lives? After consideration, Li Gang decided to continue to go north to the Generalissimo's Mansion to find a way to rescue Bianjing.

When the ship arrived in Taipingzhou, it was given that the second emperor went north, and Empress Meng listened to the announcement that King Kang would return to Beijing and ascend the throne, which made Li Gang sad and happy. Zhao Huan still has the grace of knowing Li Gang in the end; Zhao Ji also has a lot of affection for Li Gang; The two sons of heaven went north, and an era ended, and Li Gang's mood could not be complicated.

Not long after moving on, Li Gang received news that Jinling, not far ahead, was occupied by rebellious soldiers. The rebels imprisoned the marshal Yu Wencuizhong, indiscriminately killed officials and residents, plundered the official mansion, burned countless boats and ships, and looted the belongings of the soldiers and people. Although he was later recruited, his thief nature still did not change, and he often ran rampant with armor and killed as before.

Li Gang immediately wrote a proclamation and sent it, asking them to listen to their own moderation and join the ranks of King Qin's army. The rebels were intimidated by Li Gang's name, and expressed their willingness to disarm and wait for the incorporation, but they were still not very honest, so he joined forces with Li Mi'an, the transfer envoy in charge of local affairs, and killed 36 of the rebels' chief evildoers, and the rest of the more than 1,000 disciples were incorporated into the army.

When he arrived in Jinling, Li Gang saw the official document of Empress Dowager Zheng being rescued and returning to Beijing to listen to the government and proclaim to the world. He left Jinling to lead the army north, and saw an announcement on the way, only then did he know that he had been appointed as Shangshu Youcheng and became the prime minister.

In the past, Shangshu Province did not know that Li Gang had led an army to come, and the documents given to him were all sent to his place of exile. When they got Li Gang's note in Jinling, they realized that he was close at hand. So, Chen Guoting rushed to Jinling with a letter about the new appointment and the prince.

After hearing Chen Guoting's introduction to the situation in the past few years, Li Gang rushed to the real thing, thinking of the situation when the King of Qin resisted the enemy in Hedong, and recalled that his army was at its peak and brave and good at fighting, which left a deep impression on him, and now he went out of the foothills to fight in Hebei again, rescued the Queen Mother, and recommended himself to the Queen Mother as the prime minister, which was really emotional... (To be continued......)