CHAPTER XXXIX
Yue Fei's recital was sealed the next day and handed over to Zhang Xian. A few days later, in the midsummer of the fifth year of Jingkang, Qin Hui first took the Empress Dowager Longyou to take the lead, went to Zhenjiang by land, met Han Shizhong, and then set sail into the river.
Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, together with Zhang Xian and others, together with thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army under their command, set off behind Qin Hui, and went directly from Jiankang to the river by boat, heading towards Jinghu Road.
Zhao Gou was also taken out of Xianzhong Temple and included in the two-person army.
They don't need to travel as quickly as messengers, plus there are many people, and the burden is very heavy, only two or three hundred miles a day, which is considered fast, and when Qin Hui arrived outside Chang'an City with the Queen Mother, it was already a month and a half later.
Because of the queen mother's status, although Zhao Huan is the emperor, can not be lazy to support the big, Qin Hui in the approach to Chang'an not far away, then send a messenger every day, to the palace to send a letter, when the queen mother got a day outside the city, Zhao Huan has already led the civil and military officials, to the city outside the bridge to meet.
It has been more than a year since he returned to Chang'an, and Zhao Huan's mental complexion has been more than 100 times stronger than in the past. He practiced the method of exercise in later generations every day, running and fitness, eating and sleeping reasonably, the original thin body has become strong and refreshing, and under his deliberate efforts, riding and archery kung fu is no longer under an ordinary forbidden army horse army.
Not only is the body like this, but the mental temperament is also completely different from the timid and cowardly Zhao Huan in the past.
In this way, many people who saw the emperor back then praised him for having the appearance of the lord of Zhongxing, and had absolute confidence in his body and intelligence.
Although the country is facing the happy event that the queen mother is approaching and the state affairs are gradually on the right track, since this spring, the weather is very good, and under the supervision of the examination law, officials everywhere dare not neglect their official affairs, although they have not been able to do the meticulous and strict cultivation and harshness of the Qin State at the beginning. In the case of good days and officials not adding chaos and helping, the entire Shaanxi and Sichuan, as well as the southeast, Fujian, and Liangguang Zhulu. and all by the best of the harvest.
Only in this way, in the face of the heavy pressure of hundreds of thousands of golden soldiers in Hedong, the chaotic situation on Jinghu Road made Zhao Huan even more concerned and worried.
He himself knows that what he is doing so far is only to improve on the original basis, and the real change and test is still to come.
That's the real challenge.
It was noon, and the so-called Baqiao scenery in the Tang Dynasty had long been gone. More than 1,000 years of development and countless wars and destruction have made the land of Shaanxi and Gansu no longer as handsome as it was in the past.
The bare yellow earth, the mouth opened wide under the scorching sun. Speechless, he was talking about something.
A few dusty willow trees waved their branches in despair, and not far from the trees, a small meandering river flowed powerlessly through the earth.
Soil and water destruction, the vegetation of most of the land has been destroyed. While the land of Shaanxi gave birth to a strong civilization of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it also paid a heavy price.
Although he said that he came out to greet him, Zhao Huan did not put down the affairs at hand.
Wu Jue returned to Shaanxi with a large army from Sichuan, and had already been sent to Yanzhou to deploy defenses, and the rest of the troops and horses of Huanqing and Hexi gradually assembled on the front line in Hedong.
Liu Jian was sent to the front line of Tongguan and Shaanzhou.
Inside Chang'an City. It has also gradually increased from more than 10,000 garrisons to more than 30,000 people.
After the Qing army, the money saved was not used elsewhere, on the contrary, Zhao Huan tried to save expenses under the pressure of many high-pressure and power tricks, and also used it to recruit forbidden troops, select and refine. The number of troops in Shaanxi has not decreased, but has increased from more than 180,000 to more than 220,000.
With such troops, the situation is still tense and overstretched.
Defensive vs. offensive. The east of the river is the upper reaches again, and the roads in Shaanxi are pressed by many roads. In Tongzhou, Shaanzhou, Tongguan and other places where they were lost and regained, although the city defense measures have been restored to a limited extent. In the face of the tens of thousands of gold soldiers gathered in Luoyang, the pressure is also very great.
In such a grim environment, it is all the more important to judge and analyze the enemy's situation and the direction of the enemy's main attack.
Zhao Huan was only an official in his previous life, although he had a high interest in history like ordinary Chinese, and after returning to this time and space, he also studied tirelessly in military affairs, but he was limited to talent and could not fundamentally change.
In this way, he could only mobilize the forces in his hands as much as possible to supplement the front line, encourage and trust the front-line generals, and mediate the contradictions between the generals in the flood of military reports, so as to give full play to its maximum effectiveness in the face of the strong enemy of the Song army.
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The situation was grim, but Zhao Huan was not flustered, he still met with ministers every day, and even summoned close Hanlin scholars to the palace to lecture on the history of the scriptures, and sometimes occasionally discussed poetry.
The demeanor and courage of the Son of Heaven made the situation not as chaotic as the Jin soldiers invaded a few days ago, everything went according to plan, tense and urgent, but there was no panic at all, the kind of rush of a few Jin soldiers with their teeth and claws, which made the officials surrender, the army fled, and the people were scattered, and there will never be a situation again.
Because the Queen Mother had not yet arrived, he had finished handling a few official matters, and although it was still early, he somehow had no intention of sitting down again.
Get up and walk to the gate of the palace.
Looking up, a few miles away, smoke and dust could already be seen rising from a distance.
Brightly armoured, tall warriors with Gope arrows stood at his side.
Zhao Huan was silent, just looking at the smoke and dust in the distance.
Empress Dowager Longyou, he didn't know what she was, he didn't know her, and he didn't plan to let this virtuous old woman participate in state affairs again. Naturally, she will not suffer from turbulence and displacement again.
Historically, this old woman fled to Jiangxi and Fujian, while Zhao Gou was in exile at sea. You don't have to let it happen anymore.
And Zhao Gou ......
A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
I knew it was wrong, but I quickly took it away.
Maybe Zhao Huan in history will spare his ninth brother's life, but he will definitely not.
It's just that Zhang Xian tried to rescue Zhao Gou, and there was obviously Yue Fei's shadow standing behind him, how to deal with it. It has become the biggest problem hanging in his mind these days.
As he was distracted, the sound of iron armor sounded in his ears. When he looked back, he was on duty today. Lang Guan Fu Su, who is responsible for the security of the palace.
Seeing Fu Su pressing the sword in his hand, as if he was facing a great enemy, Zhao Huan smiled dumbly and said to him: "There are thousands of front-line guards around the palace, why do you have to do this." ”
Fu Su, as an official on duty, didn't have to salute the emperor, he could listen to the question, but replied in a muffled voice: "Your Majesty's safety is more important than Mount Tai, how dare the minister slack off." ”
Zhao Huan admired this conscientious official very much, and promoted him at the beginning. It's also quite interesting.
Because he did not know the officials of the Song Dynasty, behind the pillar behind the nave of Chang'an Palace, he ordered someone to write down the information of all the actual officials above the county lieutenant level in the territory and check it at any time.
The Dengwen Division and the Pedestrian Division will also update the information at any time and send the evaluation of each official during his tenure to him.
And he himself often took guards to patrol around Shaanxi, and personally heard the people's evaluation of officials.
One day. Inspecting a certain county, when asked about the county lieutenant Fu Su, the people shook their heads: "This person is too dead-eyed, how many soldiers are there in the county, and what can he do. ”
Zhao Huan just smiled, and the next day he issued an edict. Summoned this Fu Su to the front of the palace and served as the duty of the guard.
At this time, facing this honest man, Zhao Huan's heart moved, and he asked: "The ninth brother was killed in the river, and the world mourned. What do you think? ”
Fu Su didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "This is the responsibility of the officials and soldiers who obey Hu. Someone should be sent to investigate it strictly, and the crime of dereliction of duty should be punished according to the law. ”
Zhao Huan smiled. He also said: "Recently, the pedestrian department came to report, and many people said that the ninth brother had an accident, which was my instructions, what do you think?" ”
Fu Su replied: "Naturally, this cannot be Your Majesty's instructions, Your Majesty's friendly brothers, how to act like this. Besides, the minister is a military minister, and this kind of thing should not be the minister's concern and concern. The minister only knows that he is loyal to the country and protects His Majesty's safety, and the rest should not be thought about by the minister. ”
In the end, the honest man was exposed.
Just because you shouldn't think about it doesn't mean you haven't thought about it.
Zhao Huan smiled freely, knowing that this kind of thing can't deceive people, even people like Fu Su know that this must be his own tricks, let alone others.
It's just that for the Son of Heaven, there are some things that should be done but must be done, as long as he does not lose his position as the Son of Heaven and makes his family and country prosperous, why not be afraid of people's words.
History is written by the strong.
The two of them were speechless for a while, only the soldiers of the forbidden army on the patrol, with the armor leaves on their bodies, made a cold sound of gold and stone in the non-stop footsteps.
After a short time, several prime ministers who were in charge of going to greet in advance sent people to report that the queen mother was coming, and asked the emperor to go to the palace and greet him by the roadside.
Zhao Huan retracted his mind, lowered his eyebrows and closed his eyes, and was silent. He thought he could let go of everything, but at this time, he suddenly remembered his mother who was thousands of years later.
When he behaved like this, not only did those ministers feel that the power of heaven was difficult to violate, and the will of heaven was unpredictable, but even the people who waited by his side every day, but they also only felt that the emperor in this state was absolutely untouchable.
After a long time, Zhao Huan finally raised his head and said indifferently: "Let's go, let's go to greet the Queen Mother." ”
As soon as the emperor gave the order, the honor guards immediately set off, and the band had already arrived on the side of the avenue and began to play the music of the palace. The emperor did not ride any equipment or horseback, but walked forward on foot, slowly moving in the direction of the queen mother's carriage under the scorching sun.
As soon as the Empress Meng's car arrived, the emperor knelt on the side of the road in his robe, and saluted to the only local royal elder who remained in the Song Dynasty after the city of Tokyo was broken.