"If you're no longer a child, you're going to have an adult name. Choose one of these names. Zhao Jiaren said to Zhao Min very seriously.

Zhao Min took the paper with some names written on it, and after reading it, he asked, "Dad, why do you put the name Ruoshui in the first place." ”

"I like the Tao Te Ching very much, which says that water is good for all things without fighting, and it is evil for everyone, so it is better than the Tao. I hope you are a good person. Just put the name in the first place. Zhao Jiaren replied.

"If the name is so good, why don't you give it to my eldest brother?" Zhao Min immediately expressed his doubts.

Qin Yuzhen, who was sitting next to her, had already begun to develop in an unpleasant direction, and when she felt this, Zhao Min couldn't help but want to see her mother.

Zhao Jiaren said to his daughter: "Now it's the two of us talking, and there are lions and tigers standing behind us, and you have to look at me." ”

Waiting for Zhao Min's eyes to be unswerving, Zhao Jiaren said: "The humble hexagram is the overlap of different hexagrams, the lower Gen and the upper Kun, the Gen is the mountain, the Kun is the earth, and there is a mountain underground. Yamamoto is tall, but he is underground, and his height cannot be revealed, which symbolizes high virtue in people, but he can consciously not show it. Xunzi said that the beginning of things must have a beginning. Honor and disgrace will come like virtue. The flesh rots out the worms, and the fish withers and beetles. Neglect and forgetfulness of one's body is a disaster. Therefore, all the hexagrams of the I Ching, only the six hexagrams of humility are auspicious. That's why I named your eldest brother Zhao Qian. ”

"Can I think again?" Zhao Min asked.

Zhao Jiaren nodded and replied, "Yes." In addition, you can read the books in my study. Tao Te Ching, I Ching, Xunzi, all there. ”

"Good. Give me these three books. Zhao Min said.

Zhao Jiaren found these three books and handed them to Zhao Min, and Zhao Min ran away as soon as he slipped away.

Looking at her daughter's back, Qin Yuzhen didn't have the previous dissatisfaction, she looked at the direction her daughter left with some sighs, and said to Zhao Jiaren: "But I don't know if these books can help the eldest mother's heart." ”

Zhao Jiaren sighed: "The so-called virtues, honesty, diligence, bravery, and perseverance, these are all abilities that everyone cannot but have in order to solve problems." It would be great if you could have it without experiencing loss and despair, just by reading a book. Unfortunately, this desire is just wishful thinking. ”

"She's going to have to suffer, too." Qin Yuzhen could only sigh.

"If you want to be a useful person, you may not be able to do it by enduring hardship. If you don't endure hardship, it will be of little use. We look forward to her becoming a useful person. Zhao Jiaren comforted his wife.

After dealing with family affairs, Zhao Jiaren began to deal with official business. Qin Yuzhen also went to work on her official business. According to the system of the Great Song Dynasty, the Zhao official family held the military power and was the supreme commander of the Great Song army. Zhao Jiaren has always been regarded as the emperor on horseback, and during his years of solitude, the standard title for Zhao Jiaren was Zhao Taiwei. The lieutenant is the highest position in charge of the army among the officials.

After the establishment of the small imperial court in Fuzhou, Zhao Jiaren personally led the troops to fight, and Qin Yuzhen became the chairman of the newly established military family federation of the Great Song Dynasty. At that time, the work of the Federation of Military Families was to provide assistance to military families in implementing policies. Until now, the Federation of Military Families has not been dissolved, but has also been upgraded to a women's association. The main purpose is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women and promote women's emancipation. Although Qin Yuzhen herself has many opinions on this, she feels that there are some things to do, which is more interesting than being idle at home.

Of course, handling government affairs as a queen, even the affairs of the Women's Federation is very annoying. Qin Yuzhen probably went every few days, and after she went, she made routine appearances. The same is true this time, after listening to the statement that all the corresponding personnel are all fine, Qin Yuzhen is ready to leave.

At this time, someone from outside came in to communicate, "Sage, there is a monk outside who asks to see you." ”

The title of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was 'Guanjia', and the title of the Empress was 'Sage'. Hearing that there was a monk outside asking to see her, Qin Yuzhen felt that something was wrong.

"The monk said that he was the abbot of Tiantong Temple, and we checked his degree."

"Then invite him in."

When it comes to Tiantong Temple, Qin Yuzhen can't help but give some face. Twenty years ago, the last abbot of Tiantong Temple was Qin Yuzhen's uncle. At that time, Zhao Jiaren finished the battle of Ezhou and became famous all over the world, and the two families discussed getting married. The Qin family is also from Jinshi, and they feel that their daughter has been beautiful since she was a child, and she is not an angry person. Zhao Jiaren, who was ambitious as a young man, may not be a good companion, and just learned that Zhao Jiaren went to the temple in Ningbo to repay the great monks for helping Huayuan build a lighthouse, so he went to Tiantong Temple to eavesdrop on Qin Yuzhen's uncle to test Zhao Jiaren's heart.

At that time, he didn't cultivate good fruits in his life, but only loved to kill people and set fires. Suddenly, the golden rope was opened, and the jade lock was torn off here. Belch! The tide on the Qiantang River came to me, and today I know that I am me. Qin Yuzhen has never forgotten. She could hardly forget the young figure who was writing with a very beautiful thin gold body on the white wall of the abbot's meditation room.

Thinking back to the free and easy young man in the past, and then thinking of Zhao Jiaren today, Qin Yuzhen felt that she was not wrong.

And the appearance of the great monk interrupted Qin Yuzhen's memories. This is a middle-aged monk, chubby and looks good. There is no resemblance to the uncle in Qin Yuzhen's memory.

After saluting Qin Yuzhen, the new abbot of Tiantong Temple said eagerly: "Sage, my Tiantong Temple and the Sage's family have always had a deep source of law, and I also ask the Sage to look at the face of the previous generation of abbots to come to the rescue." ”

"What?" Qin Yuzhen asked.

The abbot immediately said, "In the past, there was no tax on temple property. And the official family ordered this year that all temple properties should be taxed according to the tax of fertile land by next year. The temple properties of our Tiantong Temple are all tidal flats and mountains, where can there be such income. Please save us! ”

"And that matter?" Qin Yuzhen said in surprise.

"Ask the saint to look at it." The abbot immediately handed over an official document.

Qin Yuzhen opened it on the table, but saw that the content was really as the abbot of Tiantong Temple said, in addition to canceling the old system of not collecting taxes in the temple, the way to collect taxes was to collect taxes in the amount of fertile land.

"Have you ever asked anyone else for help?" Qin Yuzhen asked.

"This ......" The abbot was not sure what Qin Yuzhen meant for a while, and finally could only tell the truth, "Returning to the sage, I will also find other officials to help first, but they will either no longer be officials, or they will use all kinds of excuses." Saint, now only the saint can help. ”

Qin Yuzhen quickly sent the abbot of Tiantong Temple away. On the way home, Qin Yuzhen was curious, why did Zhao Jiaren not even let go of the temple property in the Great Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

When I got home, I saw Zhao Jiaren reading a book, and Qin Yuzhen asked about it. Zhao Jiaren smiled: "You don't want to get involved in this matter." ”

"Of course I wouldn't. But will the officials in the court get involved? Qin Yuzhen was a little curious.

"They used to be involved, but probably not now." Zhao Jiaren explained to his wife.

After the Southern Song Dynasty retired, it was generally given a XX temple and a temple of XX Taoism. This non-taxed religious site has to give a portion of the money to the retired officials. So officials naturally have a close relationship with these religious sites. After the surrender of Lin'an, the proportion of the anti-war faction was very low, and the Zhao official family assumed the responsibility of these officials, and the other surrender factions and the undetermined faction were all canceled, which greatly saved financial expenditures.

These people in power no longer have any interests in the religious field, and Zhao Jiaren believes that these people may not support his policies, at least they will not jump out to oppose them strongly.

"Why did the officials do it to them?" Qin Yuzhen is most curious about this.

"Monks and Taoists only need a room where they can recite scriptures, what do you want so much land for? If their ambition is not to cultivate themselves but to accumulate wealth, then why should I give them the opportunity to collect money? We've been married for so long, you should know that I never believed in this godly thing. The societies of the Great Song Dynasty were also not allowed to believe in ghosts and gods. ”

"Just because you don't believe it, so you deal with the temple like this?" Qin Yuzhen was very surprised.

"That's right, I'm a Great Song official, since I don't believe in this, I naturally have to deal with them. Do you know how many acres they have? Zhao Jiaren readily agreed.

Listening to such a domineering speech, Qin Yuzhen was just shocked, but she didn't particularly sympathize with or sympathize with the monks. She asked, "How many acres are there in these monasteries?" ”

"More than one million acres, in many places the entire mountain is owned by monks and Taoists, and a large number of people are attached to the acres of the temple. These people pay taxes to the monks and do not serve the state. And when the country was in crisis, did the monks and Taoists stand up and fight for the country? No. Since they are like this to the state, the state is not obliged to keep their land. ”

Fully expressed his attitude towards the great monks, Zhao Jiaren went to attend the meeting of the Ministry of War. The meeting was about the strategy of the Northern Expedition, so a number of high-ranking generals rushed back from other places.

"Official, I have a suggestion, why don't we collect the part south of the Yellow River this year." Lieutenant General Li Yun came up and made a suggestion.

Lieutenant General Li Yun had fought several bloody battles with the Mongol army in Guide Province before, and each time the results were great. However, the limelight of these young soldiers was completely suppressed by the Yellow River Campaign presided over by Zhao Guanjia, so Li Yun came up this time and put forward a very fierce battle plan.

At this time, the Mongols had few troops available in order to hold Hebei. If they send troops to Shaanxi to fight, Hebei will only be more empty. Moreover, our army's attack on Shaanxi is not only out of a defensive position, but also has the convenience of attacking. We have been able to erect a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River in Mengjin, and if we take Shaanxi south of the Yellow River, we will be able to build a bridge over the Yellow River there in the future. I am willing to lead the troops into battle. ”

After Lieutenant General Li Yun volunteered to put forward his ideas, everyone at the meeting of the military headquarters was speechless for the time being. Everyone has their own ideas, and these ideas are very straightforward, that is, to attack Hebei, besiege Dadu, and drive the Mongols out of the Hebei Plain. But he didn't expect Li Yun to still want to be alone.

"Did you make a plan?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"It's done." Li Yun replied immediately.

"Then follow the process of this meeting to submit to the discussion." Zhao Jiaren gave the plan in accordance with the regulations.

Li Yun was overjoyed at this time, and all he wanted was to have this opportunity. In the past, he became famous by being able to take charge of himself, and even expected to become the most capable person in the army. But after the Battle of the Yellow River, Li Yun no longer had the idea of defeating Zhao Jiaren's leadership. He knew that he could not think of the fulcrum of the battle to block the Yellow River, and he did not have the ability to plan such an action. It was now, several years after the victory of the Battle of the Yellow River, when Li Yun and his subordinates were making a review, they were still unable to make the kind of inference made by the Zhao Guanjia. So Li Yun only thought about how not to fall behind his comrades at this time.

Seeing that Li Yun's plan was approved, someone immediately said dissatisfiedly: "Can you imagine attacking Yungui now?" ”

Zhao Jiaren immediately spoke out to stop this idea of grabbing merit, "Our core is to solve Hebei first, and the attack on Shaanxi can cooperate with Hebei, and the attack on Yungui will not mobilize the Mongols at all." They didn't have a telegram again, and a few months later they knew that we were attacking Yungui, and by that time we had already defeated Yungui. If you take Hebei, Yungui will not be a problem at all. The main point now is to concentrate forces, not to disperse them. ”

was robbed of the opportunity by Li Yun, and many people could only be indignant in their hearts. The whole meeting brought out a lot of ideas. At the top of the list is the tactics that the General Staff has been thinking about for a long time.

"Our army sent 30,000 people to land in Zhigu Village by water transportation. Attack Dadu along the waterways. As long as the capital is taken, the other armies can calmly advance. Originally, this plan also had the problem of insufficient capacity by sea. Now with steam wagons and ships, transportation is no longer a problem. "Zheng Jie, as the chief of the General Staff, tells the results of the General Staff, so the content is very detailed.

In the Battle of the Yellow River, the Song army's troops were also fully utilized in the Hebei Campaign. From Zhigu Zhai to Dadu to establish such a logistics supply line, after conquering Dadu, from Dadu to the south of the offensive line to establish a logistics supply line, and then continue to develop.

Except for the direct attack on Dadu, which was a very sudden means of operation, the other operations were all peaceful, and the Song army's superiority in strength and firepower was brought into full play.

In addition to this plan, the other plan is more traditional. That is, the main forces launched an attack from south to north along the coast, with steam wagons and ships providing supplies and flank defense. An army of 100,000 men attacked in a majestic manner, scythe-like to wipe out all enemies in their path.

After the two plans were told, everyone looked at Zhao Guan's house. Zhao Jiaren personally preferred the big battle later, but the first plan had another advantage, that is, the 30,000 people who attacked across the sea had the opportunity to fight a tough battle with the Mongol army. And this is also the situation that Song Jun is looking forward to very much. Although an incomparably steady attack was what the Song army wanted, the Song army still adhered to the war concept of the Zhao official family, that is, to annihilate the enemy's living force as much as possible.

If the official family decided on this heart-digging tactic, the Song army, which attacked Dadu from Zhigu Village, would inevitably face an unprecedented dangerous situation and fight a very difficult battle. However, they are also bound to receive honors and rewards that have not been matched until now.

Everyone waited for Zhao Guanjia to speak, and then heard Zhao Guanjia say, "Li Yun, take out your plan and listen to it." ”