After dealing with the affairs of King Yun and King Su, and settling down the clan relatives and nobles who returned to Chang'an this time, Zhao Huan only felt that his head was extremely big. These people are not ordinary officials and cannot be dealt with by ordinary law.

In ancient China, nothing could be separated from the scope of the Gang Chang Rite Religion. All of Zhao Huan's current reforms have greatly affected the old system, but they are still only related to the technical level, and not to the core of Confucianism's rule of etiquette, law, and morality. If he dares to do so, he will be the emperor who holds military power, and he will also make a rebellion and leave his relatives, and finally end in failure.

Wang Anshi's reform, or Emperor Shenzong's strong support, monarchs and ministers are like masters and apprentices, respect and love each other, and try their best to cooperate, and finally die and the law is destroyed, Sima Guang changed all the new laws of Shenzong Yuanfeng, returned to the old system, and even finally divided the parties into the old and new parties, and the two factions fought endlessly, until the city of Tokyo was broken.

All of Zhao Huan's current reforms, such as abolishing prefectures and counties, merging government offices, reducing redundant personnel and redundant soldiers, strengthening centralized power, and evaluating officials' performance by examination law, are all within the acceptable scope of the new reform of the political system by scholars. Although a large number of officials and gentry have been offended because of many measures, there are also a considerable number of people of insight who support it. It would not be wise to touch the foundation of the entire system and Confucian governance at the root, at least at this stage.

Therefore, in terms of the meaning of Confucianism, the treatment of the princes such as Emperor Zhao Ji and King Yun made Zhao Huan think a lot, and even affected the overall situation of the entire war.

Compared with the political wrestling of intrigue, the control of the entire army and dealing with the military attaches are what Zhao Huan likes from the bottom of his heart and voluntarily devotes himself to.

At the end of the sixth year of Jingkang, because there was nothing to do in the world, he deliberately reviewed the army. As far away as Jingxiang in Sichuan, Taiyuan in Tongguan and Hezhong, elite forbidden troops were sent to Chang'an, and the forbidden army of 500,000 people, together with the original Shaanxi, Sichuan and Song army, was close to 300,000 people gathered in Guanzhong, except for Yue Fei and Han Shizhong. The main force of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty is mostly here.

Such a big move, in the name of proofreading, is difficult to teach Jin Guo to rest assured.

Therefore, in the name of the newly succeeded Jin lord Wanyan Heting, the upper echelons of the Jin State sent envoys Pegasus to Tongguan to knock on the pass, accusing the Song Dynasty of greatly promoting military horses during the period when the peace between the two countries was undecided. In the absence of a reply, Wanyan Zongbi and other main battle factions left Shangjing one after another. Rushed to various places in Youzhou, and went to the local town in the name of Shangshu Xingtai, ready to deal with the big moves of the Song army at any time.

Judging from the deployment of the Song army, the garrisons in Taiyuan, Hezhong, Tongguan, Shaanzhou, and Huazhou will form a pincer shape, which will be coordinated by the local rebels in Taihang, and directly include the people of Hebei and the Central Plains.

Such an ambitious military plan, if it was four years before Jingkang, would only be regarded as a joke by the military nobles of the Jin State, and they would not take it to heart.

Before the Battle of Pupyeong. Although the Song army claimed to have gathered an army of 500,000. But no one in the Jin soldiers took Song Bing's bluff to heart. The million-strong army of the Song Army was only a part of the Western Army, and the Western Army was repeatedly defeated. The strength is very weak, the so-called 500,000 people, including a large number of van troops and people, is a pure forbidden army, and there are also many old and weak people who are unbearable to fight.

And the general trend of the world has developed so far, no matter how stupid Ren is, he knows that the Song army today is very different from that year.

The armor is excellent, the food and salary are sufficient, and the military law is strict and the rewards and punishments are clear. Soon after the four-year Fuping War of Jingkang, the Song army, under the personal auspices of the emperor, began the process of eliminating the old and weak, and sufficient elite troops. Such a strong army was dreamed of and sought by all dynasties since the founding of the Song Dynasty, but in a few years, it quietly came, following the Tang army. Standing proudly on the land of China.

Countless sturdy soldiers in heavy armor, holding sharp standard spears, Mo knives, crackling armor, walking across the land of Guanzhong, behind the infantry, there are a large number of crossbowmen, bed crossbows, thunderbolts, they are tall and strong, their eyes are sharp and confident, tactics are skillful and deadly, and the commander of such an army is countless veterans who have fought bloodily, and there are many fierce generals who have fought for many years.

Such an army not only collapsed in the second year of Jingkang, Hebei could not be compared with the Beijing Forbidden Army, but also the Song army that had the peak military exploits when the country was founded.

Under the threat of the Song Dynasty's mobilization of troops, the Jin soldiers also increased their troops in the direction of Hebei and Tongguan. It's just that unlike the pure infantry Song soldiers, the war horses are the most thin and weak in the deep winter season, and they need to be taken care of by the soldiers in peacetime, in case of freezing and starvation, when the thousands of troops and horses are mobilized, the armies are miserable, not only the war horses are frozen and starved to death, and even the old and weak in the army are sick and weak due to this winter emergency transfer.

And the Song army's military exercises are just a tradition that has been passed down from ancient China to the present, and it was restored by Zhao Huan. For a farming nation like China, summer and autumn are busy with farming, and in winter there is nothing to do, so it is even more opportune to exercise martial arts, and most of the troops mobilized are originally stationed near the east of the Guanzhong River, which does not cost much, but it has a miraculous effect on the coordination of the large corps.

After the military parade, Zhao Huan, who returned to Chang'an Palace, heard the reaction of the upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom and the transfer of the Jin soldiers, but he was not as happy as Fei Lun imagined.

Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Fei Lun asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, the civil strife in Jin has reached this point, and when there is another war in the coming year, Wang Shi will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort." ”

Zhao Cabinet shook his head and smiled, and only said, "These are just appearances." In fact, the war between the upper echelons of the Jin State and the main lord became more and more intense. They can use the Emperor Taishang as a bargaining chip to force me to agree to the peace agreement. I can also mobilize troops and make big moves, forcing them to try to be poor, and civil strife will break out. As long as their upper echelons are in chaos, our side can really be comfortable. Fei Lun, you need to be careful, carefully check the movement of Shangjing, take a closer look, the main battlefield Zong Bi and others have been leading troops outside for many years, and the lord and everyone, although they have the trust of the assassin, most of them stay in Shangjing, and they have no military power. If Zong Bi makes a brazen coup d'état, or holds the joint assassin hostage, he will definitely be able to regain power in an instant. This person has a tough and strong personality, and he can adapt to the situation in the battle array, and he is also a talent when he dispatches troops, although he is far inferior to Yan Zonghan and others, he is also a rare hero among the Jin people, if this person gains power, he will definitely use the power of the whole country to me, although he does not have to be afraid of him, it is better to deal with others. ”

Zhao Huan spoke at length, but Fei Lun listened very carefully, and when he heard Zhao Huan's order to pay attention to the situation in the upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom, he couldn't help but blush. In the past two years, although efforts have been made to reform and strengthen the role of the Pedestrian Division, and even used methods such as bribery and infiltration, to buy off a large number of Khitan and Han officials in the upper echelons of the Jin State, and obtained a lot of information, but if you want to really intervene in the Jurchen aristocracy, it is too difficult to install eyes and ears in the homes of more than 10,000 nobles.

When Zhao Huan saw his face, he knew that this confidant was going to be thoughtful, and he wanted to appease a few words, but because this matter was too important, he ignored it, hoping that the other party would be more attentive under pressure.

After Fei Lun turned around and folded out, Zhao Cabinet paraded for several days, and he was also extremely tired, but it was the end of the year, not only was the political affairs complicated, but all kinds of official articles were more than usual, so he had to fight for spiritual support.

In the first month, in addition to government affairs, there are many rewards for lantern festivals, game banquets and other affairs, if it weren't for the fact that there was one more queen in the inner palace, which made him less troublesome, but he almost couldn't support it.

Unlike the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty who handed over most of the political affairs to the two governments, Zhao Huan basically had to bow down to everything, Han Xiao stomach since returning to Chang'an, and Hanlin bachelor Wang Yongcheng served as the intellectual system, and issued edicts every day from dozens to hundreds, and even the emperor often personally interrogated the government affairs of a certain state government, which made these originally Qing important official positions, it seemed complicated and tired, Wang Yongcheng was young, and his writing was quick, although Han Xiao's stomach was academically pure, when he worded the edict, because of personality factors, he always looked ahead and backward, He didn't dare to write easily, which made each of his edicts take a long time, and there were often situations where the emperor ordered it down, and Han Xiao's stomach had to rush to work all night.

On this day, he was in a hurry all night, and when he was leaving, he remembered that the edict to Li Xianzhong had not yet been written, so he had to turn back before leaving, and after thinking about it for a long time, Fang wrote down: "E, you are young, but you can be strong in martial arts, and you know the art of war, the difference in talent, and the strength of your ambition are enough to observe." Today's fate is to appease Zhurong, but you can do it cheaply, and you don't live up to your hopes. ”

This appointment is vague, and there is not even a specific official position, and yesterday I received the emperor's codex, but it is not much different from the edict that is now being prepared, and the proposed edict is just a formality.

Han Xiao shook his head and smiled bitterly, feeling a little embarrassed. There are too many things and too complicated, and it is okay to write such vague edicts, according to the old precedents of the past, it is possible to refuse to draft edicts.

Even, if the appointment did not conform to the wishes of the Zhizhi Decree, he could categorically refuse to draft the edict, and the Emperor and Zhongshu had no way to force the Zhizhi Edict to draft an edict that did not conform to his wishes.

And at this time today, although there has been no major change in the system, and with Zhao Huan's authority, Li Gang, the only one in the two governments who can stand up and speak to the emperor, is still presiding over military and political affairs in Xiangyang.

He put away the edict with an awkward heart, and when he arrived in his own office, he ordered the officials to pass on the prepared edicts separately. After the noon feast, he heard the emperor's summons, so he hurried to the palace again.