In March of the eighth year of Xianchun, the official Zhao Yu died of illness, and the temple was called Duzong. Song Duzong's son Zhao Shu succeeded to the throne with the year name Deyou.

In early April, under heavy pressure from the imperial court, Jia Rudao was confiscated of his family property and sent to Lingnan.

In May, Zhang Shijie and Liu Shiyong, the commander of Pingjiang, and Sun Huchen, the governor of Taizhou, led 10,000 warships, with ten boats as a boat, connected with iron cables, and anchored in the middle of the river, across the Jiaoshan River, wanting to fight a decisive battle with the Yuan army, but were attacked by Ashu with water and land, and defeated with fire attack, and suffered heavy losses.

In June, the Mongol army used trebuchets and explosives packs to easily break through Changzhou. Because Changzhou is an important place for transportation, Boyan ordered the slaughter of Changzhou City, and only seven people escaped with their lives.

Since then, the Mongol army has approached Lin'an. Lin'an set off a new wave of refugees. Officials fled for their lives, and so did the people in Lin'an. The people in Qianzhuang didn't want to leave because of their interests, and at this time they all begged Zhao Yong to take them away. Zhao Yong did not hesitate to arrange a retreat route for them.

In the previous months, the general evacuation plan had been carried out, and more than a million people had been sent away, and the 3,000 large ships of the Nautical Guild had carried more than 100 people on each ship. In this retreat, each of the three thousand large ships had two or three hundred people stuffed on board. That is, the fleet has been well prepared and experienced over the years. When these people were transported to Quang Nam East Road, although the people were very upset, they had not yet reached the point of falling ill.

Looking at the crowd at the port of Guangzhou, Xu Yuanzhi, who came from Jiaozhi, couldn't help but sigh: "I can really transport so many people!" ”

Zhao Jiaren frowned, and said to Xu Yuanzhi angrily: "I didn't expect Chen Yizhong to be so disrespectful!" ”

"Huh?" Xu Yuanzhi was stunned. He didn't know why Zhao Jiaren suddenly criticized Chen Yizhong.

Zhao Jiaren handed a briefing to Xu Yuanzhi, and sat in his position with a gloomy face. Jia Rudao was assigned, and the minister with a large ticket fled Lin'an. The ruling queen didn't know what to think, so she appointed Chen Yizhong, who likes to brag, as prime minister. Chen Yizhong was not born as a jinshi, but as a student, and relied on Jia Rudao to push officials into the official ranks. helped Jia Rudao impeach Chen Yuanfeng, and finally gained a firm foothold.

Because he has no specific experience in grassroots politics, this Chen Yizhong is good at making big statements, and his work can be evaluated by the three words 'take it for granted'. Chen Yizhong was originally invoked by Jia Nidao, but after Jia Nidao was defeated, he took the lead in proposing to execute Jia Nidao in order to improve his prestige, and he had no shame. Han Zhen, the commander of the forbidden army, proposed to move the capital, but he actually tricked him into his own home and killed him. Chen Yizhong privately booby-trapped Han Zhen, which almost caused a military mutiny in the elite division of the Southern Song Dynasty, the forbidden army in front of the palace.

After booby-trapping Han Zhen, Chen Yizhong did not insist on the position of fighting, but sent people to negotiate peace with Mongolia.

Zhao Jiaren was speechless for such goods. However, Zhao Jiaren felt that he was actually not qualified to criticize Chen Yizhong, and others could not solve the problem, so he acted nonsense. Zhao Jiaren felt that he could solve the problem, so he sat back and watched the collapse of the Lin'an court. In this matter, he cannot be said to have a higher moral level.

After reading the briefing, Xu Yuanzhi sighed lightly, and then said: "Taiwei, since Lin'an is no longer possible, let's go all out to manage Lingnan and Jiaozhi." ”

Smart people speak so simply and straightforwardly, listening to Xu Yuanzhi's nonsense that he didn't shout to lead troops to rescue Lin'an, Zhao Jiaren also completed this temptation. He said to Xu Yuanzhi: "To fight, you must have food. Lingnan and Fujian, there are tens of millions of people in the two places, and I am afraid that it is not enough to rely on the Pearl River Delta and the Hanoi Plain. I'm going to conquer Champa in the near future. Bring the grain-producing areas of Bangkok, Champa and Hanoi into our hands. ”

Faced with Zhao Jiaren's plan, Xu Yuanzhi was speechless for a while. He was very suspicious in his heart why he didn't see that Zhao Jiaren was so ambitious more than ten years ago. Looking at what Zhao Jiaren did, his desire to take advantage of the situation in this troubled world can no longer be concealed.

But in addition to the theory of punishing the heart, Xu Yuanzhi found that Zhao Jiaren's actions in the past ten years have nothing that can be criticized. Not only can we not criticize, but we must also praise Zhao Jiaren for his loyalty to the country. The gap between these is really that heroes have no good class since ancient times.

Even if it's not good, a hero is a hero. In this gloomy and bleak moment, Xu Yuanzhi also relies on self-cultivation kung fu to keep himself calm on the outside, but in fact, Xu Yuanzhi is already a master of the six gods in his heart. But after Zhao Jiaren said a few words about the strategic situation, Xu Yuanzhi immediately felt a lot calmer in his heart.

Unlike Chen Yizhong, Xu Yuanzhi started from the grassroots level after being admitted to the Jinshi. He knew very well that he needed food to fight a war, and he knew even more that he needed a lot of food to effectively face these tens of millions of people. It has been more than a year since the capture of the Red River Impact Plain in Cochin, and the flooding on the Red River Impact Plain has indeed caused a lot of trouble to inexperienced immigrants. But here is three crops a year, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants not only have enough to eat within half a year after arriving here, but also have surplus food that can be sold to the government of the Navigation Guild.

The government of the Maritime Guild not only divided the land and collected taxes, but also sent a large number of barefoot doctors to practice medicine in the local area, and sent literacy teams to run schools in the local area. If you don't mention the background of the war, Xu Yuanzhi feels that this is simply a prosperous era of Qingping. Even when it comes to war, accommodating another 100,000 migrants on the Red River Plain is not a problem. According to what Zhao Jiaren said, taking the city and feeding tens of millions of people is by no means a big deception. Grain in the south, iron in Quang Nam East Road, tens of millions of people. As well as the great power of the nautical guilds at sea, the counteroffensive is not an incomprehensible thing.

Looking at Zhao Jiaren, thinking about the people who worked hard for Lin'an, Xu Yuanzhi was a little embarrassed in his heart. Fang Cai's suspicion of Zhao Jiaren's private morality was too pampered.

When ordinary people fall into despair, a word from the heroes can make everyone see the hope of victory and regain the will to fight. If you question the morality of these heroes, should you praise Chen Yizhong, who killed people because of personal despair?

Reorganizing his inner state, Xu Yuanzhi positioned himself again. His family and Ken's southbound tribesmen had already arrived on Quang Nam East Road, and some of them were still farming in Cochin, and they had made a lot of profits. At this time, Xu Yuanzhi was very relieved to devote himself to the work of the counteroffensive.

Of course, Xu Yuanzhi could think that the people in Lin'an were desperate, but he couldn't imagine how desperate Lin'an was. In July, under the persuasion of the surrenderers and the power of the explosives pack, the Mongol army broke through all the blocking cities and besieged the city of Lin'an.

By this time, there were only six officials left in the upper court. Seeing such a situation, the Empress Dowager Quan could only send someone to discuss the surrender with Boyan. On the third day of August, the Lin'an court officially surrendered. Boyan sent all the royal family and officials in the city, as well as the families of officials, to the capital. The Lin'an court was destroyed.

However, at this time, there were also fish that slipped through the net, before the surrender of Lin'an, Zhao Yu escaped from Lin'an under the protection of a group of people and fled to Jinhua. When he was in Jinhua, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie and others rushed to meet him. A group of people fled to Fujian Road, which had not yet surrendered.

At this time, Boyan ordered the envoy to take the letter of the Empress Quan to the various areas along the Yangtze River that had not surrendered, asking the localities to surrender. Although he didn't believe that this thing would be useful at all, Boyan sent an envoy to deliver a surrender order to Zhao Jiaren's Guangzhou. In the palace of Lin'an, Boyan talked about it with the generals of the Song Dynasty.

Ah Shu smiled wryly at this action, he never expected that this time the war would be so easy. The Mongolian army's hard work, and the gunpowder obtained from Zhao Jiaren is probably the biggest reason for such a feat. However, one of Ah Shu's biggest wishes before was to be able to kill Zhao Jiaren, but now it seems that this wish has no chance to come true. Zhao Jiaren, who was far away in Lingnan, was safe and sound at this time.

Marshal Zhang Hongfan asked Boyan, "Marshal, are we going south by victory?" ”

"Running thousands of miles in the mountains?" Boyan's tone was flat, but the words themselves represented his thoughts.

Zhang Hongfan did not back down easily because of opposition, adding: "At least take Shaozhou and control the southbound passage." ”

Without waiting for Boyan to speak, the complacent Liu Cheng said loudly: "I have a naval army, but I can march along the coast!" ”

Zhang Hongfan turned his head to look at Liu Quan, he wanted to refute Liu Quan's words, but he felt that refuting Liu Cheng was only afraid that it would lead to a battle of will. Liu Quan's ability to say this shows that he thinks he can compete with Zhao Jiaren at sea. Questioning Liu Cheng means that Liu Cheng is unable to compete with Zhao Jiaren. So Zhang Hongfan simply shut up, he felt that there should be more than one person who did not support Liu Quan.

However, Zhang Hongfan felt that there was no need to quarrel with Liu Quan, and the other generals had similar opinions. After Liu Cheng made such a statement, no one refuted it, and the venue was quiet. In the end, it was Boyan who broke this silence, and he said: "Zhao Jiaren has a shipyard in Jiaxing, and this place must be taken. Liu Wanhu, I order you to go on the expedition immediately! ”

In addition to Liu Quan, the meeting also assigned tasks to the generals. Looking at Liu Quan's triumphant departure after the meeting, Zhang Hongfan couldn't help but ask his old boss Marshal Ali Hague, "Marshal, do you think Liu Cheng can win?" ”

Ali Hague's slender eyes had a smile in him, and he replied easily: "You will know if you win a dozen or not, let him go." ”

Zhang Hong was speechless, he felt that he couldn't understand Marshal Ali Hague's thoughts. Why not stop a battle that is so vicious and unlucky? It's not that Zhang Hongfan feels sorry for Liu Quan, but he feels that if Liu Quan is defeated, it will be a loss for the Mongolian army. And Marshal Ali Hague's view seems to be somewhat different from Zhang Hongfan's.

Without waiting for the 34-year-old Marshal Zhang Hongfan to guess the true thoughts of the 45-year-old Marshal Ali Hague, he heard Marshal Ali Hague sigh: "Actually, I think the idea of occupying Shaozhou is good. We may not be Zhao Jiaren's opponent in the water war. The climate in Lingnan is similar to that of Dali, which is not suitable for cavalry. If you can take Shaozhou, you can at least attack and retreat. ”

This is exactly what Zhang Hongfan thought, and when he heard Ali Hague see the same, he immediately waited for Ali Hague to continue. Wait, wait, wait, but saw Ali Hague just get up and leave.

With the surrender of Lin'an, a flock of carrier pigeons was released from the cage. The pigeons circled the air a few times before flying into the southern sky. Zhao Jiaren got the news three days later. Putting down the text message, Zhao Jiaren got up and looked north. His long-held wish was finally fulfilled, and he felt the big stone in his heart hit the ground with a bang.

The fall of the Lin'an court does not mean Zhao Jiaren's victory, it only means that all the constraints that once bound Zhao Jiaren have been completely broken. From now on, Zhao Jiaren can do what he wants to do according to his own wishes. Regardless of success or failure, Zhao Jiaren will only have to take responsibility for his own decisions in the future.

Walking back to the table, Zhao Jiaren picked up his pen and wrote, 'Destroy Mongolia and mix up China'.