Zong Han's army attacked Taiyuan for a long time, but the momentum had a great impact. Taiyuan was besieged, and some people falsely rumored that the Song soldiers wanted to kill all the people. The people of Hedong called the Yisheng Army adapted by the Song Dynasty as a surrenderer, because the more than 4,000 Yisheng troops in Pingyang Mansion were not at ease, and the leader of the Yisheng Army, Liu Sichu, was a column to plunder Pingyang City and surrender to Jin. On the one hand, Zonghan's army besieged Taiyuan City, and on the other hand, under the guidance of the Yisheng army that surrendered gold, it broke through Longde Mansion, and the troops reached Gaoping County, and rode as far as Zezhou.

Soon, Zong Han heard that the Jindong Route Army had made an alliance with the Song regime to negotiate peace, so he returned to Taiyuan and continued to besiege and plunder Shanxi from time to time. But after hearing this, Yan Yuli did not get a large amount of gold and silver from the Song Dynasty, and also sent envoys to Tokyo to extort money. Just gave Wanyan a large amount of gold, silver, mules and horses, and now Wanyan Muhan's Western Route Army is still in Taiyuan, and the people who extort money arrived in Tokyo first, and the Northern Song Dynasty court felt that this was really too deceitful and rejected his request.

In the Great Song Dynasty, after the Jin army withdrew, public opinion boiled, and the three towns of Jinzhongshan, Hejian and Taiyuan were fiercely criticized. Minister Chao Ji wrote on the three towns that should not be abandoned, he pointed out: "Whoever is the ruler of the world, if he wins Hebei, he will win the world, and if he loses Hebei, he will lose his husband." Whoever has a country, if he gains Hebei, his country will prosper, and if he loses Hebei, his country will be weak. Although there is a country that is not right, if it gains Hebei, it is strong, and although its country is right, if it loses Hebei, it is weak. Although its country has no way, it is strong if it gains Hebei, although it is not without a way, and it is weak if it loses Hebei. "Strongly oppose the abandonment of the Three Towns.

Under the pressure of the broad public opinion, and in order to consolidate his rule, Zhao Huan issued an edict to the three marshals of Hebei to stick to the three towns, promote the prefect of the above three towns to the senior government palace scholars, and mobilize the soldiers and horses of King Qin to support the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian.

Guided by this anti-gold strategy. The Song army's Yao Gu general Wang Desheng captured Yao Fan, the prefect of Jin, and recovered the Longde Mansion and the Weisheng Army. At that time, Hebei was also relatively stable. The Daoist Department of the Seed Division fought more than 80 battles with the Jin soldiers, killing and capturing 599 Jin soldiers. 8,553 head of livestock, 17,046 pairs and pieces of ladders, goose carts, holes, armor, and drums, 43 carts of grain and grass were burned, gold, silver, cloth, etc., and the population of 5,201 troops in Gyeonggi and Zhuzhou was recaptured, and the Song army was revived.

Han Li still wanted to capture the land of the three towns, and sent an envoy to urge the Song side to quickly hand over the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian and the prefectures and counties to which they belonged, while Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, Chen Yu of Zhizhongshan Prefecture, and Zhan Du of Zhihejian Mansion still held on to the city and refused to eat hard and soft. Zhao Huan also adopted the opinions of Geng Nanzhong and other ministers. He also sent a letter of state and gold, requesting that the three towns be exempted from being ceded and replaced by taxes.

On the other hand, Zhao Huan added the title of Dao Tai Lieutenant and the Xuanfu Envoy of Hedong and Hebei, and led a large army to garrison Huazhou, and led 20,000 troops to guard Heyang with the commander Hao Huai to prevent the Jin army from crossing the river. After receiving the order, Zhao Ji felt that it was a good idea to ask the imperial court for permission to gather the world's military horses on the banks of the Yellow River to avoid repeating the tragedy of leaving the eastern army in the city. The application for the Planter Dao was approved.

Unexpectedly, only half a day later, because another minister said to the emperor that we have transferred all the soldiers and horses from all over the world, and the cost is too great, in case the Jin army on the west road does not cross the river to attack. Haven't we been in vain? Zhao Huan felt that it made sense again, so he issued another decree to cancel the original decision. The Seed Master Dao was tossed back and forth by Qinzong a few times. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I said that I was old. Now that he is seriously ill, he asked for permission to ask for permission. So the seed master Dao was a two-day ambassador. He was dismissed again.

Zhao Huan's treatment of foreign enemies is really a standard wall-riding faction, and he is ready to do both, but Zhao Huan's approach at both ends of the snake and mouse has made the courtiers below confused and at a loss.

The situation gradually improved, and Zhao Huan gradually took the power of the court into his own hands through frequent changes of governors, and at this time the focus of his work began to shift to his father, the emperor Zhao Ji. Power is fascinating, once you have it, you will be addicted, and you don't want to lose it again, not to mention that Zhao Huan has endured humiliation for eighteen years, how can he be willing to restore his father, and how can Zhao Ji, who is wandering in the south of the Yangtze River, willing to give it up.

Both father and son knew in their hearts that the Zen position that day was just a play! Zhao Ji didn't want to take the Zen position, originally just wanted to put on a posture of admitting his mistakes, so as to regain people's hearts, but Wu Min and Li Gang really wrote to him to ask him to take the Zen position, and under internal and external pressure, he had no choice but to abdicate. Since Zhao Huan is so reluctant to take over the emperor's class, so good, now that the Jin soldiers have retreated, you can return the seat to your father, but not only did he never have this idea, but he did his best to protect the throne!

On that day, Zhao Ji hurriedly meditated on the eve of the siege of the Jin soldiers and absconded to Jiangnan overnight, and he had actually concluded in his heart that the city of Tokyo would definitely be lost. And when the Jingshi falls, Zhao Huan and the courtiers of the main battle faction who persuaded him to step down must be dead and forgotten. At that time, Zhao Ji can be the emperor again as a matter of course, and rebuild the imperial court with the southeast half of the country.

Therefore, after Zhao Ji arrived in Jiangnan, he issued three edicts in a row: intercepting the corner, stopping the king of diligence, and keeping grain. These three "holy decrees" are all of great importance, and will make it impossible for the imperial court to command the southeast, the capital is in a desperate situation of lack of troops and food, and it will be difficult to maintain the Tokyo regime, and the southeast will be upgraded from Zhu Mian's "small court" to the "big court" of the emperor

But people are not as good as heaven, Zhao Huan not only guarded Tokyo City, but also coaxed the Jurchens away, and now Zhao Ji's position was embarrassing. And a group of favored ministers Cai You, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian and others who accompanied him also understood very well that the retreat of Jin Bing was not necessarily a good thing for their monarchs and ministers, especially Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, and people all over the world wanted to kill them as soon as possible. The students and ministers of the imperial court have repeatedly written to Zhao Huan, asking for the punishment of these thieves who have brought disaster to the country and the people.

Previously, Zhao Huan, on the one hand, out of civilian anger, and on the other hand, in order to repay personal grievances, killed Li Yan, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng, and Liang Fangping one after another, and reformed political affairs on a large scale. If Emperor Taishang is called the emperor, they can still be high-ranking officials in the small court and live for a long time, but if they return to Beijing now, it will definitely be more auspicious, so Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others also figured out Zhao Ji's restoration thoughts.

But there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two lords in the country. Of course, Zhao Huan will not wait for death, he understands that once his father does not handle it well, things will be even more tricky. The southeast region was the most economically developed and wealthiest area in the country at that time, and at the same time, the southeast Zhulu was also the area with the longest and deepest roots in Cai Jing and Zhu Mian and his son. As everyone knows, Zhu Mian is the head snake in his hometown of Pingjiang Prefecture and even the entire southeast region. Known as the "small court in the southeast", Hangzhou is Cai Jing's old nest. At this time, Zhao Ji was accompanied by the Shengjie army led by Tong Guan, as if a new imperial court had been established in the southeast. gave orders and lived the life of an emperor again.

When the Jin soldiers besieged the city, there were many officials who went to the southeast without the approval of the imperial court. There was a situation of "those who went to the imperial court, three or four out of ten, the class was empty, and everyone was horrified", and the court was almost closed down, on the contrary. The palace of the Daojun and the Jiangnan region are full of officials, and if these former monarchs and ministers once take the southeast as a base, they will raise their arms and shout, and the greeters will inevitably be like clouds.

Zhao Huan convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures, and some people suggested that Nie Chang should lead a strong army to Zhenjiang to take Zhao Ji back to Tokyo, and if Tong Guan and others dared to lead troops to obstruct it, they would raise troops to capture and kill these traitors; Some people think that it is inappropriate to send troops to take over, and Tong Guan will definitely lead troops to resist at that time. If they fail to win a battle, they will hold the Emperor Taishang hostage in the southeast, or enter Shu, and His Majesty will be difficult to deal with. As. First ask the Emperor to issue an edict to punish and remove these people from their official positions; Some people also say that if you deal with the important ministers of the Taishang Dynasty without authorization. That would hurt the heart of the emperor and be too unfilial. It's better to demote a few people first, and wait for the future to calm down. Then an edict will be issued to punish everyone, and the people of the world will have nothing to say.

Zhao Huan also knew that this matter 'can only be tempted, not forced', at this time, news happened to come from the southeast, and the emperor's life in Jiangnan was a little sad...

It is true that the southeast region is rich, but it is also because of the wealth and the trouble, becoming the most serious area of exploitation, especially the Huashigang to make everyone miserable, the initiator is the emperor Zhao Ji who took refuge here, and he came and did not know how to converge the grace, not to mention the mountains and rivers, but also to harass the place, to eat and drink money, after arriving in Zhenjiang, the construction of buildings, halls and halls.

Later, the prefect of Zhenjiang couldn't stand it anymore, and reported to the court to complain that the emperor was too able to spend money, and the cost of the palace alone would cost 200,000 yuan a month, and the officers and soldiers of the guards would also have 6,000 yuan a day. And several people under Zhao Ji were not welcome to meet. Tong Guan's expedition to the southeast of the country, killing the good and risking the merits, and the people were extremely angry. Although Zhu Mian's foundation is deep, he also has the deepest grievances in the southeast, and the people of the two Zhejiang provinces are afraid of him like a tiger and want to eat his flesh.

These people have always been accustomed to intrigue with each other, and after fleeing south, they brought their problems to Jiangnan again, and they still fight each other. At the beginning of his arrival in Sizhou, Tong Guan had a conflict with Gao Yu, and a burst of random arrows scared Gao Yu away. After learning that the Jin army had withdrawn, some officials who could not escape quietly went home without saying goodbye. Most of the officers and soldiers of Shengjie who escorted Zhao Ji were from the northwest, they were in the southeast, they did not understand the language, their lives were inconvenient, they were homesick, and they were also clamoring to go home.

It can be said that Zhao Ji had a very difficult time in the southeast at this time, not only did the people rebel and leave, the formation was in chaos, and the crisis was everywhere, but also the mutiny and the people were about to break out. Zhao Huan knew that his opportunity had come, so he extended an olive branch to his father and warmly invited him to return to Beijing.

Zhao Ji is now in a predicament, the local officials do not obey the edict, they have no money to spend, no money to spend, hungry, seeing that his son sent someone to greet him, after some explanation and pretentiousness, he agreed to lead the team north. Zhao Huan struck while the iron was hot, and immediately appointed an envoy to greet him, and at the same time issued an edict to demote Cai Jing as the secretary and supervisor, and the division of Nanjing, Zhishi, and Henan Mansion lived; Tong Guan is a general of the left guard and lives in Chizhou; Cai Jing's son, Cai You, raised the Bozhou Mingdao Palace with the Taizhong doctor, plus Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao, who had been slaughtered before, and his father's right-hand man was almost cleaned up.

After all, he abandoned the capital and fled when the country was in the most crisis, and threw the danger to his son, will the son calculate this account for himself, and what will he do to himself? Zhao Ji felt that returning to Kaifeng was not the best policy, and he lingered in Yingtianfu halfway through, and went to Bozhou Shangqing Palace to burn incense. But he felt that since he had promised to return to the court, it was not good to go back on his word, so he asked the Empress Zheng to return to Bianliang to fight the front station, and if he could get the good treatment of his son, of course, he would go back, otherwise he would go to Luoyang, Xijing.

Zhao Huan remained silent, respectfully took Empress Taishang into the capital, changed Jingyuan to Ningde Palace, renovated it, and invited her to live. And issued an edict to the people who followed Zhao Ji, saying, "The officials who followed the emperor to patrol the southeast, and when they returned to the capital, they were all rewarded to reward the merits of the protectors." Except for those who are guilty, who have been demoted due to public discussion, the ministers of Taiwan will not pursue impeachment of the remaining officials in the future. ”

Zhao Ji learned that everything was normal, so he slowly set off to return. Arriving in Nanjing, Zhao Ji still felt bottomless. It stopped again. He wrote a letter asking Zhao Huan the reason for the large-scale reform of political affairs, and named Wu Min and Li Gang to Nanjing for an audience.

Wu Min and Li Gang are strong advocates of Zhao Ji's Zen position. People in the court are speculating about Zhao Ji's intentions, and most people feel that Wu Min and Li Gang may have unexpected disasters when they go. Wu Min felt that he would go to Nanjing at this time. I'm afraid that I will be caught in the net. After these few months, Li Gang already knew Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan quite well with the two emperors, and he expected that Zhao Ji, who had lost people's hearts, would not dare to attack easily until he was forced to do so.

Moreover, if Wu Min and himself don't go, Zhao Ji will definitely not dare to return to Beijing, which is pushing him on the road to restoration, and once Zhao Ji is restored. Then the country will inevitably be divided and there will be civil war. Li Gang felt that even if there was danger, personal life and death could only be put aside again, Li Gang calmly asked for his life, and he first went to Nanjing alone to see Zhao Ji, moved by affection, understood with reason, and Zhao Ji agreed to return to Beijing under the touch. After Li Gang returned to Tokyo, he brought Zhao Ji's words to Zhao Huan, and Zhao Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief...

April 3rd. Zhao Ji and his people returned to the capital leisurely, as if there had been no war, he just made a trip to the south of the Yangtze River. Zhao Huan led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city five miles away to greet him, and the father and son hugged and cried when they met. Then he sent his father to live in Longde Palace.

The next day, Zhao Huan officially accepted the congratulations of the ministers in the Zichen Palace, and drove to the Longde Palace to ask Daojun for peace, and Daojun claimed to be clumsy. The eldest son is called His Majesty, and the former is called the king. What a touching picture of the father's kindness and filial piety, and the joy of the monarch and the minister. And Zhao Ji seems to have accepted the fact that he has taken a back seat.

Now that the fish has entered the net, it is time to close the net, Zhao Huan's current thing is to consolidate the throne, and he issued an edict appointing his trusted minister Geng Nanzhong as his servant. On April 6, the eldest son Zhao Chen, who was less than ten years old, was appointed as the crown prince.

As early as the sixteenth day of the first month of the first year of Jingkang, when the Jin army was besieging the city, Zhao Huan hurriedly named his son Zhao Chen, who was born in October of the seventh year of Zhenghe and was less than ten years old, as the king of Daning County. The secretary of the provincial school Lang Yu Ying was really incomprehensible, and Shang Juan objected, thinking that this time was inappropriate, and Zhao Huan turned a deaf ear. Now, on the fourth day of Daojun's return to the capital, he impatiently held a ceremony to appoint Zhao Chen as the crown prince, which was intended to completely eliminate any possibility of restoration of Daojun.

Subsequently, Zhao Huan replaced all the guards around Zhao Ji with his own henchmen, and expelled all the ten servants close to him, such as Chen Sigong, Xiao Dao, and Li Cong, from the palace, and if they dared to step further, they would be beheaded. There are always people in the world who see the wind and steer the rudder, and immediately saw the direction of the wind from the emperor's words and deeds, and exposed the eunuchs Wang Hui, Zhang Jiandao, and Deng Wenhe, and also took great pains to collect a bunch of charges for them, saying that they tried in vain to sow discord between the emperor and the emperor, spread rumors, and tell right and wrong, and there is no need to ask about the results. In this way, Zhao Ji no longer has a powerful messenger to rely on and rely on, and Zhao Huan puts him under his close surveillance!

After these traitors were severely punished one after another, just as Zhao Huan wished, the voices of condemnation from the government and the opposition did not stop, and there was a tendency to expand, which was in line with Zhao Huan's arms, with the help of the angry voice of the whole country, the edict was issued to cut Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Hao, Zhu Mian, and other minions all the officials and take the title. After several stormy purges, almost all of the former ministers and their former ministers disappeared from the court.

Zhao Ji's life has become a daily stay in the Longde Palace, in addition to drinking is painting, he always felt that political affairs were hard, and longed to live a life of poetry and wine of literati. When he really realized his life wishes, but there was no more power to respond to all calls, there were not only fewer flattering people around him, but also a lack of waiters who knew cold and hot, and he was stunned and lost, and became unwilling, which is also a common problem of public servants who are now pensioners.

Let a person who is accustomed to living in the spotlight and surrounded by flowers and applause go to live a lonely and lonely life, which will be even more uncomfortable than killing him, but Zhao Ji can only sigh and regret the beginning, only to think back to the days of infinite scenery in the past, and the Great Song Dynasty has truly completed a transfer of supreme power, but only God knows whether it is a blessing or a curse for the people of the country!

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The traitorous ministers in Beijing and the Taishang were greeted by the Taishang, and there was a vigorous uproar, but it seemed to have no impact on Zhao Ta, who was far away in the northwest. Chen Dong led a group of students who had defected to him and had been transferred to the river with the help of the Intelligence Department, and the arrival of these people had changed the dilemma of the lack of civilian staff under his command.

Taixue, on the other hand, is an educational institution that specializes in training middle-level officials in the country, and as long as they can graduate, they can become officials and enter the country's leadership class. These students have studied for many years, and they have the knowledge of governance, but what they lack is practice. At present, there is a shortage of officials in Xijingshuozhou, Huanzhou, Yingzhou, Dezhou, and the newly acquired Dongsheng Prefecture, which can just be promoted and accumulate experience.

The battle of Baigou made himself more money accumulation, he took out a sum of money to reward the sailors who participated in the war, and the rest were stored in Cheng Xishou for later use, as for his two relatives, let them recuperate at the beach now, it is not time to let them return to Beijing at this time. And Zhao Ta is now putting more of his energy in Taiyuan, waiting for the opportunity... (To be continued......)