Compared with the talks on the opening of the Tianzhu port, the discussion about the Empress Dowager's arrival in the dynasty is much darker.

"Taiwei, the Queen Mother is in the court, what should I do with those who pinch me?"

"Taiwei, if the Queen Mother is perverse, how should we deal with it?"

"Captain, what about the army?"

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All views revolve entirely around the stability of the existing order, and all views must guarantee the stability of the present power. Zhao Jiaren's cadres have this attitude, and so do the officials of the society.

There are many ways to deal with Empress Dowager Yang, and Zhao Jiaren can easily come up with more than a dozen ways to kill Empress Dowager Yang. One of the reasons why the Empress Dowager is allowed to come to the court now is that Zhao Jiaren does not want him to be the emperor when he is still a 'court of the Fujian Gang'. Because of historical factors, there are too many Fujianese under Zhao Jiaren, and they need to be greatly diluted.

Pressing down with both hands to stop this discussion, Zhao Jiaren said: "This kind of thing depends on whether everyone is loyal to the society. Let me tell you a few stories from this dynasty. ”

Everyone in the society knew Zhao Jiaren's ability, so they all quieted down and listened to Zhao Jiaren's story. Zhao Jiaren is talking about the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty can accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses, because Si Tianjian has completely understood that the earth is a round ball, and the moon revolves around the earth. But even if they knew that the solar and lunar eclipses were natural astronomical phenomena, the ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time still insisted that the solar eclipse was a warning from heaven to the monarch of immorality.

The reason for this is simple: if the scholars did not have the 'celestial' theory of solar and lunar eclipses to restrain the monarch, they would have to choose between unconditional obedience to the monarch or unconditionalization.

After listening to this analysis, Liu Meng couldn't help but ask: "Taiwei, I heard that there are straight scholars who tell stories, you can be regarded as storytelling, right?" ”

When everyone heard this, many of them burst into laughter. Liu Meng's analogy is very good, according to Zhao Jiaren in the internal study of the society, the Chinese government before the Han Dynasty was that each prince had its own historian, and the history books were for their own families to read, so they were all truthful. Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn Period, and engaged in rumors to force the truth for the Venerable, and then there were various scholars to tell the history and the truth to the monarchs.

And this kind of telling of historical truth is carried out on a very small scale. Zhao Jiaren laughed after hearing this, "The society is full of like-minded comrades, of course you have to tell the truth." This is the way and the atmosphere that our society should be, and I want everyone to do it. ”

Everyone agreed when they heard the truth from others, so they nodded their heads. Zhao Jiaren continued: "Why am I against the Empress Dowager's coming to the court, because Empress Dowager Yang is not our comrade. If it is between comrades, between the same organization, it is about rights and obligations. We eat this organization and drink this organization, and these are not for nothing. Empress Dowager Yang feels that she has power and that we have an obligation to ...... her."

Zhao Jiaren was moved and spoke straightforwardly. Everyone in the society has a stake in their interests, and they are listening quite seriously. On the contrary, the relationship between power and duty is clear. At the end of the meeting, everyone decided on the relationship between friend and foe. If Empress Dowager Yang intervenes in court politics with her personal interests as the core, she is an enemy and needs to deal with it seriously, even very toughly.

Reaching a consensus, Zhao Jiaren also felt relieved. Empress Dowager Yang herself is easy to deal with, but the difficult ones to deal with are those who try to take advantage of Empress Dowager Yang. The hardest thing to deal with is the internal guys, and the purpose of this meeting is to unify ideas internally. After unifying the mind, there are still people who act recklessly, so they can only clean up.

Zhao Jiaren held a meeting to discuss, and Zhang Shijie also found Li Tingzhi. Hearing Lu Xiufu's request, Li Tingzhi said angrily: "How dare Lu Xiufu do this?!" ”

Zhang Shijie also nodded again and again. Zhao Jiaren's demand to take over the imperial city can almost be described as an open rebellion in a sense. The Great Song Dynasty belongs to the Zhao family, so everyone must be loyal to the Zhao family. Those who betray the Zhao family are traitors, and everyone can be punished. And the basis of Zhao Jiaren's request is that 'the Queen Mother has no power to kill what she considers to be a rebellion'. Isn't this the case that Taiwei Zhao is in charge?

Li Tingzhi scolded and vented his emotions, and Li Tingzhi was silent for the time being. Zhang Shijie waited for a while and asked, "Deputy Envoy Li, but I don't know what you think." ”

"If the Queen Mother wants to come to the court, I'm afraid that she will have to compromise temporarily......" Li Tingzhi slowly gave his opinion.

Even Li Tingzhi, who supported the Empress Dowager's dynasty so much, said this, Zhang Shijie couldn't say anything at all, he thought that Li Tingzhi was going to oppose Zhao Jiaren's unreasonable demands with all his might.

"There are priorities, and I think it's more important for the Queen Mother to come to the court." Li Tingzhi gave him his opinion.

Zhang Shijie tried to say: "Can't you let the court know about Taiwei Zhao's domineering?" ”

Li Tingzhi smiled bitterly, "Hehe." Knowing that the captain was so domineering, what were those people going to do. Dare to be angry and dare not speak? Or simply defect to Captain Zhao? ”

Zhang Shijie lowered his head. He was afraid that the angry expression on his face at this time would be seen by Li Tingzhi. Zhao Jiaren's subordinates are loyal to Zhao Jiaren, and although Zhang Shijie doesn't like it, he can understand it. But the literati followed the strong because they saw that they could not win, what was the difference between those people and the Song traitors? It is difficult to change from following the official family to following the Zhao family, and you can change the essence of the traitor!

At this time, Li Tingzhi had already made a decision, and he said seriously: "Commander Zhang, the current situation must first let the Queen Mother come to the court." If the Queen Mother can't come to the court, how can she let the loyal people gather under the Queen Mother's flag. And Zhao Jiaren dared to murder the Queen Mother in the imperial city, if he dared to do this, he would be scolded by the world. ”

Li Tingzhi's attitude was clear, and Zhang Shijie stood up and said goodbye. Before leaving, he really couldn't help it, and left a sentence, "Shi Miyuan killed Han Yanxuan, and he didn't still be the minister of power for so many years." ”

Looking at Zhang Shijie's back, Li Tingzhi's heart was churning. Few of the people who cooperated with Jia Yidao had a good end, and Zhao Jiaren was a rare case that could rise to prominence. Now Li Tingzhi feels that Zhao Taiwei's city, the imperial examination title of 'Shi Miyuan colluded with Empress Yang to murder Han Yanxuan' is excellent political propaganda.

Empress Dowager Yang did not immediately agree to give up the right to guard the imperial city, and Taiwei Zhao continued to work outside the imperial city. At this time, there was already new progress in the western expedition. The next three divisions arrived in Anqing one after another, and after screening, ordinary soldiers and officers were separated, and Zhao Jiaren ordered the trial of these officers. The cost of imprisoning tens of thousands of people is quite large. Since you are not going to kill them all, you should hurry up and push things down.

The arrival of Captain Zhao's order in Anqing was on May 25. This is because the Great Song Dynasty is already at an unprecedented high speed, and at this time, as the vanguard, the completion of the return has already let the troops complete the repair and prepare to continue to set off. The division commanders of the troops who came later hoped that they would be able to stay for a few more days after they had returned.

"Battalion commander, how different is this new musket from the old one?" Everyone cares a lot about the cap gun.

For a device that can directly ignite with a single blow, it is also very amazing to return to it. It's just that after using it for a long time, he has begun to get used to it, and he can say in a non-fussing tone: "The rate of fire can be more than twice as high as before." A rifle with a bayonet can reach any melee charge. The biggest advantage of this musket is in the rain. ”

"Rainy?" The division commanders were stunned. Weapons such as spears are basically weapons that can still exert combat effectiveness in rainy days, and all kinds of long-range weapons will be greatly limited in rainy days.

"Yes. In the rain, the new musket is perfectly capable of firing. And the speed of action of the enemy's army will be limited, and the superiority of our army is indescribable. It's like shooting a target. Finish describes his experience. This was the case in the battle to capture Anqing, and all the long-range weapons of the 'Mongol army' at the head of the city were greatly affected. There was not much threat to the Song army thirty paces away.

The rain affected the actions of the 'Mongol army', and when they fled out of the city, they did not carry long-range weapons at all, and the Song army simply took off their paper armor and pursued lightly. At least half of the captives were captured in pursuit. On the muddy roads, the Song army, armed only with rifles, had a great advantage in action.

Although the introduction was detailed, the battalion commander did not stay in Anqing for long. He was ordered to continue the offensive and set off with friendly troops. From Anqing along the Yangtze River, the next key point is Jiujiang. Occupy the mouth of the Jiujiang River, and block the entrance to Poyang Lake. The Mongol army did not attack the mountains in the south of Jiangxi, and the Great Song did not recover only the Poyang Lake Plain.

Jiujiang did not have any decent defenders, and the dwarf city was easily overcome. After finishing and returning, he continued to go up the river. The next target, or perhaps the most important, is Eju and Hanyang, across the street from Eju.

The importance of Ezhou is not only because Ezhou is an important city on the Yangtze River, but also because it is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Han River. The Mongol army spent a huge amount of troops to conquer Xiangyang because Xiangyang was an important city in the Han River and the gate of the Great Song Dynasty. If the Great Song Dynasty wants to recapture the gate, it must first recapture Ezhou.

The Mongols were clearly aware of the strategic significance of Ezhou, and the defeated Anqing army that had fled from Ezhou had brought the news of the Song army's counteroffensive here. The defender of Ezhou was Gorten Wanhu, and the Mongol Wanhu instead of the Hanchen guarded Ezhou, which is enough to prove that Kublai Khan was well aware of the strategic significance of Ezhou.

Gorten Wanhu was once defeated by the Song army, and was the first Mongolian general to know that the Song army had powerful firearms in addition to artillery. This time, seeing the Song army's rapid capture of Huangzhou, he felt that things were not good. Wanhu began to wonder if it was the right choice to be stationed south of the Yangtze River.

Whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or Mongolia, they all know that Zhao Jiaren's naval army is very powerful. Liu Cheng was considered to be the first person in the Mongolian navy, and he fought against Zhao Jiaren's navy, but he was still defeated. However, Gorten Wanhu did not want to leave, and after he arrived in Ezhou, he took the local 10,000 households as his private households, and established officials to manage these people, and all the things they paid belonged to Gorten Wanhu.