When everything was almost settled, under the return of the mighty fleet, Zhao Pu set off towards Jiangnan.

Xiangyang, as an important town, is also the western capital, leaving half of the soldiers and horses, and three-quarters of the fleet, to guard Xiangyang.

Wang Shouyi stayed, as the first general with Zhao Pu, he can be said to be a close confidant, and he has made great achievements in many wars, and at this moment he was promoted to the guard of Xiangyang Town, responsible for military affairs near Xiangyang; Wang De, on the other hand, stayed in Nanyang and was still responsible for guarding the north gate of Xiangyang; and Yu Yunwen and Li Ruoshui are in charge of Xiangyang Water Division; Wu Sheng, a civil official, was appointed as the governor of Xiangyang and was responsible for the corresponding civil affairs.

At this time, the fleet was heading down the river and heading towards the vicinity of Wuchang.

And in order to catch up with the speed, except for some supplies on the road, most of them will not stop, speeding towards the destination.

This is the first time to take a boat, Zhao Pu is a little seasick, vomiting up and down, very uncomfortable. The imperial doctor prescribed some prescriptions and drank them a few times before they got better.

"Your Majesty, are you better?" Wang Wuyue on the side asked.

Zhao Pu said: "Make do!" ”

Wang Wuyue said: "The reward for this meritorious hero has been prepared!" “

"Okay, show me it!" Zhao Pudao.

Soon, the list of meritorious rewards was placed in front of Zhao Pu's desk, which stated that the merits of civil and military forces in this battle were divided into five classes according to the size of the merits, and the corresponding rewards were followed.

These are all the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Qin Hui, who is responsible for drawing up the good papers, and the cabinet has made corresponding amendments and presented them to the table.

And these generals, at the very least, have passed through a few bigwigs in the imperial court, and generally can't make big mistakes.

As for the list in the credit book, most of Zhao Pu doesn't know it, just looking at the results and deducing the characters.

Merit is merit. Achievements are achievements, and in the world, subordinates often make contributions, and bosses take credits; For the same meritorious service, civil officials are rewarded far more than military generals; And with the same personal preferences, some talents are often lowered or buried; There are also some ministers who are selfish and will bury some people's credit.

In this world, there is no shortage of people who deceive and deceive their subordinates, and there is no shortage of people who take credit.

This is a book of merit. It's just a relative standard, and it can't be absolutely fair. And what Zhao Pu wants to do is to see the essence from the credit book and through the data. Discover the talents among them and give them the corresponding stage. It's a mule, it's a horse. Pull it out and yo-yo!

First-class merit, mainly in some important battles, achieved great victories, such as: Zhang Jun led the Western Army to attack, and carried out a counteroffensive very well, recovering more than a dozen cities; And Wang Shouyi. lead the army to defend Xiangyang and keep Xiangyang from losing; And Wan Qian was the governor of Jiangling and achieved a great victory in Jiangling; Yu Yunwen led the sailor to break the Jin army's sailor.

And the second-class merit is as follows, in the defense of some big cities. Victory: Yue Fei led the army to block the Jin army in eastern Zhejiang, kept the eastern part of Zhejiang, and prevented the Jin army from invading Fujian in the south; Li Gang led the naval division to attack and harassed the Jin army in Liaodong, Youyun and other places; And Wang De guarded Nanyang, and the Jin army did not conquer Nanyang from beginning to end, so that the Jin army could not go south with all its strength; When Han Shizhong was retreating from the Jin army, the sailors sniped at the Jin army to evacuate; Zhang Jun fought the Jin army in Huaibei and kept the eight cities of Huaibei; Liu Guangshi was in Lu'an and other places, and broke the Jin army.

Third-class merit, mainly in some prefectures and counties, kept the local government office from being attacked by the Jin army;

Fourth-class merit is a soldier who fights on the front line, and the lowest is also a sixth-grade merit;

And the fifth-class merit is mainly low-level officers who fight on the front line, mainly eighth-rank and ninth-grade officials.

And those who can make a thin contribution at least have an official body, and ordinary people can't get it.

"I didn't expect that the victory in Jiangling was actually commanded by Wan Qiao!" Zhao Pu took a deep breath, he was another traitor, and this traitor won a shocking victory in Jiangling.

No matter how later generations evaluate the victory of Xiangyang, in short, the Song army won this battle, and the victor was not blamed.

Wan Qian, from the Xianbei Tuoba clan, there were ten nobles in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and "Wan Qian" was one of them. Wan Qi was originally the tribal name of the Xianbei tribe, the Northern Wei Dynasty was founded by the Daowu Emperor Tuoba Jue, Tuoba Jue was originally a descendant of the Xianbei monarch, grew up in the war, he became an adult, lost no time in gathering his father's old department, occupied the land and called the king, and expanded the power of the force.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Wan Qi tribe entered the Central Plains with the Tuoba clan, and later took the tribal name as the surname. After the throne of the Northern Wei Dynasty passed on to the six queens, it was inherited by Emperor Xianwen Tuoba Hong, and after his third brother, he was the ancestor of the Wan Qi clan. According to the "Book of Wei", the first person with the surname "Wan Qian" was Wan Qian Chounu, who was a native of Gaoping Town (Guyuan, Ningxia).

Wan Qiao, is a traitorous minister, so far there are still four iron-cast portraits in front of Yuewang Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, cutting their hands back, kneeling in front of the tomb, that is, Qin Hui, Wang, Zhang Jun, and Wan Qiao, who framed Yue Fei. Behind the kneeling statue, there is a couplet on the tomb door: "Qingshan is fortunate to bury the bones of loyalty, and the white iron innocently casts the minister".

However, at this moment, Wan Qiaoyu could not see the image of a traitor, but appeared as a famous minister, achieved a great victory in Jiangling, and became an anti-gold hero.

"It is difficult to draw dragons and tigers, and it is difficult to know people and faces, but not hearts, and people are constantly changing. When Lin Biao rebelled and fled to the Soviet Union, no one thought that the former vice chairman, a generation of famous marshals, would become a national thief! And at least at this moment, Wan Qian is appearing with positive energy! ”

Zhao Pu sighed slightly in his heart.

Real gold is not afraid of fire, whether it is gold or waste slag, the battle has tested the results.

And this time, when the Jin Army went south, there were many brilliant people. In the early stage, due to the strength of the enemy and my weakness, Yue Fei was repeatedly defeated, until the battle of eastern Zhejiang, he pulled back a game, and used the water of Taihu Lake to successfully block the Jin army and prevent the Jin army from invading Fujian. A famous general is a famous general, who may lose the battle, but he has a firm belief that the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes, the stronger he becomes, and he grows rapidly.

And Yue Fei is undoubtedly a growing general, from the defeat of the Jin Army in the early stage to his ease in the later stage, all of which show his amazing talent.

Han Shizhong, on the other hand, is an experienced general, he fights with few tricks, and mostly focuses on stability, and there may rarely be some earth-shattering victories, but he rarely loses battles. In the face of such an enemy, it is difficult to defeat.

Zhang Jun, on the other hand, was born as a bandit, and seems to have inherited the wildness of bandits, and in battle, he is also crazy.

And Liu Guangshi is a veteran general of the Western Army, he doesn't have much surprises, but he focuses on stability, at least the dozen or so cities he guarded were not conquered by the Jin army.

Looking at the thin credit, Zhao Pu was relieved in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was recovering step by step, and some famous anti-Jin generals also appeared one after another, these famous generals were very immature, and there were still many defeats, but at least they were not defeated at the touch of a button, at least they were not defeated like clouds, and the generals were like rain, and they finally had the strength to fight with the Jin army.

Of course, they also have many shortcomings, first of all, the military discipline is very poor, and there are many meritorious deeds, as for the plundering of the people, there are frequent incidents; secondly, their combat effectiveness is really not very good, they all rely on their feelings to fight, and if they lose and win, they all depend on luck; Again, their composition is too complex, bandits, generals of the Western Army, box army backgrounds, etc., and their loyalty is limited.

With their rise, warlords of all sizes were formed, and although they resisted Jin, they also disobeyed the orders of the central government, or colluded with local officials, or wantonly encroached on the fields.

And at this moment, in order to resist Jin, Zhao Pu can only tolerate the existence of these warlords.

In any case, at this time, the national defense strength of the Great Song Dynasty was preliminarily constructed. With the Bazi Army as the Guards Army and other large and small warlords as the local army, a line of defense against the Jin Army was formed, and the Jin Army wanted to go south again, the difficulty increased, and the confrontation had initially taken shape, and it was a northern and southern dynasty.

It's just that this Northern and Southern Dynasties is very fragile, and if one is not careful, it may be completely unbalanced and destroyed by the Jin army again.

In order to strengthen the centralization of power, it is necessary to eliminate the division of feudal towns, otherwise it will be the rebellion of Wang Dun, the rebellion of Su Jun, and the rebellion of Sun Enlu Xun. And a glass of wine to release the military power and depose the military power is too rough, and it also weakens his own national defense strength, Zhao Pu can't play these. can only adopt more sophisticated means, such as: training the Bazi Army to make it the central army, with the strongest combat effectiveness, deterring many feudal towns, and achieving a soldier who surrenders without a fight; Strengthen the control of financial power, pay close attention to logistics, and make it have no basis for separation; Strengthen the training of the armed forces academy, achieve brainwashing, and strengthen ideological control. (To be continued......)