When Zhao Pu put forward the idea of the cabinet, no one stopped him, and the ministers saw that this was the beginning of centralization. Of course, this further increases the power of the emperor, but it also expands the power of the prime ministers. It's just that in some details, there was a dispute, and after discussion, the final decision was made.

And so the Cabinet came to power.

The power of the cabinet is greater, but Zhao Pu doesn't care, there are only three people at this time, and the number will increase in the future, and the checks and balances will increase at that time.

Moreover, Zhao Pu is in control of the eight-character army, and he is in control of the palace forbidden soldiers, and he is not afraid of a coup d'état by the cabinet.

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Yangzhou is calm and ups and downs, while Shandong is stormy.

"Knock knock!" Huge drums beat and the siege began. The archers were in charge of shooting, the trebuchets were throwing stones, the battle was in full swing, and in Qingzhou, Shandong, a siege battle was in full swing.

The sound of killing continues, the attack is not stopped, the attacking Jin army, like an ape, continues to climb up along the siege ladder, the shield in the hand resists the bow and arrow that shoots down, and at the same time the city vehicle continues to impact the city gate, the battering ram smashes the city gate, and the city tower is as high as the city gate, and it is also constantly shooting.

The Song army defending the city also resisted desperately, smashing down the rolling wood and stones one after another, stabbing the enemy on the ladder with a hook and sickle, and pouring oil endlessly.

The battle has reached this moment, either you die or I die.

The Jin army has won many battles and won many battles, and its momentum is like a rainbow; The Song army relied on a large number of soldiers, and the city was dangerous. The two sides are fighting, fighting.

At this time, the traitors appeared, the strong fortress was the first to crack from the inside, the Qingzhou mutiny county guard Zeng Xiaoxu was killed, and Qingzhou fell.

When Li Gang got the whole news, it was already three days later.

"What Qingzhou has lost!" When he learned the news, Li Gang couldn't sit still anymore, his expression was a little sluggish, and his mind and body were decadent. He was defeated again, and was defeated again and again when he was in Hedong; Now in Shandong, he has been defeated repeatedly, losing most of Shandong, and his troops have been exhausted. Failure after failure made him feel breathless.

The battle has been fought to this point, and all explanations, all reasons, are superfluous.

No one will listen, the king is defeated, and if he loses, he loses, although he can find a hundred reasons, he still loses.

"I don't have the face to see Your Majesty!" Li Gang felt extremely ashamed, pulled out the sword and wanted to commit suicide, but when he pressed the sword, he still didn't cut a sword on his neck. His arms trembled a little, his heart trembled, and finally the sword fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Li Gang trembled and opened a box, which was full of impeachment notes, because there were too many of them, and in the end there was a large box. The impeachment recital has a very large number of contents and is extremely miscellaneous, some say that he lost his teacher and humiliated the land, some say that he exaggerated, and some say that he is constantly arrogant and extravagant, and does not understand the art of war.

In the past, he was always dismissive of these charges; Now it seems that everything is true, and he is extremely incompetent and exaggerated.

And this box was sent by His Majesty today, in order to reassure him, and at the same time there is a letter from His Majesty. In the letter, there was not too much harsh criticism, but it was written that victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and if you lose, you will lose, nothing, if the Jin army is strong, you can abandon the land of Shandong and go to Yangzhou to meet, and it is even more earnest to write: "You can lose all the way, and you don't want to lose a good minister." ”

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry for you!"

Li Gang looked at the letter and burst into tears.

By now, the war is unpredictable, and defeat is certain. In Shandong, which has been peaceful for a hundred years, the city wall has long been dilapidated, and Li Gang wants to decorate one side, but he just asks the imperial court, and the imperial court has no money; It can only be asked by the gentry, and the gentry are mostly procrastinating, and the result is that the Jin army has already moved south, and the city wall has not been repaired.

There are too few bloody battles like Qingzhou. Most of the cities fell almost without a fight, or with only a small amount of resistance.

Nowadays, I want to fight but can't fight, and I want to defend but can't.

The next day, Li Gang looked at the city, gritted his teeth, reincarnated and left, and evacuated towards Yangzhou.

With the evacuation of Li Gang, the situation in Shandong further deteriorated, with countless surrenderers and countless people abandoning the city and fleeing. At this time, a team of couples were also on the way to escape, they were Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao.

The main research objects of epigraphy are the bronzes and steles of the previous dynasties, especially the inscriptions and rubbings on them; In a broad sense, it also includes bamboo slips, oracle bones, jade, bricks and tiles, sealing mud, military talismans, inscriptions and other general cultural relics.

The husband and wife, every time they get calligraphy and painting, they study and sort out and criticize defects. After 20 years of hard work, there are many gold and stone cultural relics.

At this time, the war is coming, and it is important to run away, but these are even more precious. Since all the superfluous items could not be carried away, the heavy and large copies of the books were first removed, and the repetitive paintings in the collection were removed, and the unreintelligible items of the ancient artifacts were removed. Later, the engraved copies of the Guozijian in the books, the mediocre works in the picture scrolls, and the heavy and large pieces in the ancient artifacts were removed. After several cuts, fifteen carts of books were also loaded.

In his hometown in Qingzhou, he still locked books and other things, occupied more than a dozen houses, and hoped to prepare a boat to load it away next spring. But with the capture of Qingzhou by the Jin soldiers, these dozen houses of things suddenly turned into ashes.

It is not only these gold and stone cultural relics that have been destroyed, a large number of houses have been burned, the people have suffered, and the human tragedy is insignificant!

Shandong has fallen!

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When Zhao Pu got the fall of Shandong, it was already twenty days later.

Looking at Li Gang who was kneeling in front of him to plead guilty, and there were a large number of impeachment recitals, Zhao Pu's mood was very calm, everything was expected, Shandong was still lost, his lips were dead and his teeth were cold, and his household was in danger, can his lips be saved without teeth now? The doors are gone, can the lobby be saved?

Shandong has been lost, can Yangzhou still be saved?

At this moment, near Lianghuai, there are still a large number of Song soldiers, stationed in key places to prevent the Jin army from attacking Yangzhou, but can they really defend it? The Jin army only needs a blitzkrieg, and only needs to bypass those checkpoints to take Yangzhou lightly.

Can Yangzhou hold on?

Zhao Pu shook his head, even if he held it once, he couldn't hold it a second time, and it was of little strategic significance to hold Yangzhou. He didn't want to run, but he had to. The difference is only that one is a victorious retreat, covering the retreat of the people; One was to flee in panic, so that the people were intercepted and killed.

Shandong was lost, and the only benefit was that the main force of the Jin army was further dispersed. The Jin army occupies Shandong at the moment, but it has not gained a firm foothold, and it will take some time to digest the fruits of victory; If you swallow dates, you will have indigestion. Of course, the Jin army can also ignore the occupation, consolidation, and brazen attack on Yangzhou is just that the logistics can't keep up, in this era when there are no trains and automobiles, backward logistics will be the biggest shackles of the Jin army.

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