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Not long after Xiao Zhonggong left Bianliang City, Tokyo, Zhao Huan suddenly remembered the rescue of Taiyuan City, so he issued a holy decree to the Zhao and Song generals on the Hebei and Hedong fronts, such as Chongshidao, Liu Ju, Xie Qian, and Zhang Hao, ordering them to immediately send troops to rescue Taiyuan.

Actually-

As for how to rescue Taiyuan, the generals on the front line had already planned, that is, Liu Ju set off from the Pingding Army, Wang Yuan set off from Liaozhou, Xie Qian and Zhi Yanzhi set off from the Weisheng Army, Zhang Hao and Zhi Keqiu set off from Fenzhou, and the Fourth Route Army marched to Taiyuan from the east, south, and southwest directions.

This matter was still a plan made by Liu Ju, Xie Qian, Zhang Hao and other Song generals on the Hebei and Hedong fronts with the Zhao and Song courts before the Planter Road went north.

Now, Zhao Huan urged, Liu Ju, Xie Qian, Zhang Hao and other generals on the Hebei and Hedong fronts immediately went to rescue Taiyuan City in accordance with this plan.

In this regard, as the commander-in-chief of the front, the seed master Dao was completely unaware.

——The generals of the Song army from all walks of life were all directly under the direct command of the Zhao and Song courts, and the Zhao and Song courts were also in charge of everything, which made the Xuanfu apostle of the seed master Dao have his name.

The seed master felt that this was not good, so he wrote to Zhao Huan and said: "Although the Xuanfu Division has the name of moderation, it is special stationery, and moderation is not specialized, and I am afraid that it will mislead state affairs." ”

After Zhao Huan received the recital of the Seed Master Dao, how could he not understand that the meaning of the Seed Master Dao is: Since the imperial court is in charge of everything, what else do you want me to do as the front-line commander-in-chief?

Seeing that the seed master complained that the court interfered in everything and set him up, Zhao Huan was a little hesitant!

Ideologically speaking, Zhao Huan also understood that he had to delegate command to the front-line commander-in-chief, and he and the other governors only needed to give the front-line commander-in-chief a general strategic direction.

But Zhao Huan was worried that the authority given to the Seed Master Dao was too heavy.

You must know that Hebei and Hedong are now gathering most of the people of the Zhao and Song dynasties, in this case, if a kind of division takes these people to join the Daqian Dynasty, then the Zhao and Song dynasties will not be cool?

After hesitating again and again, Zhao Huan issued a holy decree that was not severe, requiring all military horses to obey the command of the Xuanfu Division.

However, the generals of the Zhao and Song dynasties all wanted to show themselves in front of Zhao Huan, the new emperor, and pave the way for their careers, and Zhao Huan was very diligent and gave a positive response to the invitations of the generals on the front line.

In this way, no one took the front-line commander of the Seed Master Dao in his eyes at all, and the armies were still directly under the direct command of the Zhao and Song courts, and even under the direct command of Zhao Huan, the emperor.

Now Zhao Huan strictly ordered all armies to immediately send troops to rescue Taiyuan City, and the generals on the front line did not dare to slack off, and they did not say that they would discuss with the commander-in-chief of the front line, so they organized troops separately.

Wu Luan found out that the Song army had come to the rescue of Taiyuan City again, and immediately shrank his forces, lured the enemy deeper, and prepared to carry out various defeats on the Song army.

And the main force of the first Song army targeted by Wu Lan was the Jie Qian Department.

Wu Xuan organized a group of cadres and said: "If the army of Xie Qian goes north, it must first go to the south pass, and after he arrives, our army will be in ...... place."

The development of things was indeed not as expected by Wu Lan, after Xie Qian led the people of his headquarters to the north, he took Nanguan, and wanted to go straight to Taiyuan through this necessary place to enter Taiyuan.

Xie Qian's rescue of Taiyuan City this time is very well prepared.

——His army carried a large amount of grain and grass, and he was ready to transport it to Taiyuan City to support Taiyuan City, which was definitely short of grain and grass, and even prepared to fight in Taiyuan City for a long time.

Xie Qian sent rangers to Nanguan to investigate, and learned that there were only a small number of cadres and soldiers guarding Nanguan here.

So, Xie Qianqin led the army to take Nanguan directly.

Because Wu Lan had given an order in advance, the officers and men of the cadre army guarding Nanguan saw the arrival of the Song army in the hidden part and immediately pretended to escape.

Xie Qian didn't expect that this was Wu Lan's plan to lure the enemy into depth, thinking that the Qianjun had really escaped, so he sent people back to transport all the grain and grass over, preparing to continue north.

Soon after, the Liberation Department continued to carry a large amount of grain to the north, but the cadres who had been in ambush for a long time suddenly rushed out and took them by surprise, and then the formation was in chaos.

Wu Lan, who personally commanded this battle, saw that the Song army was so easily disrupted by his own side, and decisively ordered the drums to advance.

The three fronts of the cadres attacked at the same time, with the Ma army in front and the infantry army behind, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

The Song army became more and more unable to resist, and finally the whole line collapsed, and even the Chinese army where Xie Qian was located was defeated by the cadre army, and only dozens of cavalry soldiers were left around Xie Qian, protecting Xie Qian from the mountain trail all the way to Longde Mansion.

Since then, the combat effectiveness of the Song army under the submersion station has basically been lost.

Wu Xuan left an army to clean up the battlefield, and then quickly led the army to the city of Weisheng, and Zhang Yaozuo, who knew that Weisheng's army surrendered without a fight.

With more than 50,000 horses, the Song army of the Submarine Liberation Department was one of the three main forces to rescue Taiyuan.

Wu Xuan defeated the submersible department, which had a great impact.

- Hearing that the main force of the Song army was defeated, a large number of pro-Song people (mainly officials and gentry in the Hedong region) helped the old and young to cross the Yellow River and go to the Central Plains, and even to Shaanxi.

At the same time, Li Cun sent Zhao Li to face Liu Ju of Bangyang.

Zhao Li, who was like a tiger out of the cage, used all the means he could use to Liu Ju, and defeated Liu Ju's 70,000 Song troops in the first battle and fled.

——If Zhao Li hadn't pulled out the three nails of the three towns in Hebei and didn't dare to go deep alone, the main force of Liu Ju's department would probably be gone.

After the seed master Dao who was still in Huaizhou learned about the defeat of Xie Qian and Liu Ju, he was in a hurry, but there was no way at all, because the armies did not listen to him at all, so he could not control the overall situation, the only thing he could do was to play his advice to Zhao Huan, and pointed out the disadvantages of moderation.

At the same time, the seed master Dao pointed out to Zhao Huan the problem of the deployment of the imperial court, that is, the division of the army, in fact, is equivalent to a lone army to go deep, because of the lack of coordination between the separated armies, it is easy to be broken by the cadres who do not have many troops but have very strong mobility to concentrate their efforts to break each one.

Seed Master Dao suggested that Zhao Huan immediately concentrate the various Song armies in Huaizhou, and he would deploy them uniformly, and then go to rescue Taiyuan City from one direction.

He also said in his recital to Zhao Huan that if the imperial court adopted his suggestion, when the army was assembled, he would personally lead the assembled Song army to the front line and fight to the death with the cadres.

But Master Dao never imagined that the situation on the front line was so critical, and it did not affect the political struggle at the top of the Zhao and Song dynasties in the rear.

——At the time when the battle situation on the front line was at its most tense, the two prime ministers of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Dazai Xu Churen and Shaozai Wu Min, were deposed by Zhao Huan together, and Xu Han, who originally supported the Dao of the Seed Master, was also removed from the Privy Council of Tongzhi by Zhao Huan. Then, Tang Ke was promoted to Shaozai by Zhao Huan (without arranging Dazai, Tang Ke was the only prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty), He Li was promoted by Zhao Huan to Zhongshu Shilang, Chen Guoting was promoted by Zhao Huan to Shangshu Youcheng, and Nie Shan was promoted by Zhao Huan to Tongzhi Privy Council, and the top of the Zhao Song Dynasty almost carried out a complete reshuffle.

Xu Churen was admitted to the Jiake Jinshi during the Yuanfeng period of Song Shenzong, and then became the commander of Dong'an County in Yongzhou, the barbarians rebelled, Xu Churen entered the village, gave favors, and knew the faith, and the barbarians were moved to cry and swore not to rebel again.

Later, Xu Churen served as a left-behind guard in the Beijing Daimyo Mansion, supervising the imperial history, moving the palace, right Zhengyan, and giving things. When he acted as an agent for the Kaifeng government, the verdict was like a stream, and the prisoners in the prison were always empty. After that, he entered the seal of the household department, and then worshiped the doctor in the seal and the right hand of the book.

It can be said that Xu Churen rose to the position of prime minister step by step, and he has a high reputation in society.

Before Xu Churen became prime minister, it was generally believed that Xu Churen was relatively old, honest, and politically experienced, and it can be said that the entire Zhao and Song dynasties had great expectations for him.

However, after Xu Churen really became the prime minister, he achieved nothing, and he did not contribute any good strategies at all.

Therefore, from Zhao Huan downwards, they were all very disappointed in Xu Churen.

And Xu Churen became the prime minister in early March, and it was exactly five months until he was dismissed by Zhao Huan.

These five months were the most precious period of time in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Political, military, diplomatic, everything, all urgently needed the Zhao and Song courts to make wise decisions.

However, although Xu Churen has rich experience in politics, he seriously lacks the wisdom and political foresight needed to deal with national crises, and many complex political, military, and diplomatic issues have been smashed over, which has completely confused Xu Churen.

This made Xu Churen either not timely deal with a series of issues related to the national fortunes of the Zhao and Song dynasties, or made major mistakes.

For example, the seed master Dao concluded that Li Cun would definitely lead the army to attack the Song Dynasty again this autumn and winter, and suggested that the Zhao and Song imperial courts should concentrate the troops of the whole country and arrange a defensive line along the Yellow River, so as not to let the cadres cross the river.

But Xu Churen felt that this was too much labor and money, and he had a fluke mentality, thinking that Li Cun would not necessarily come back, and it was not appropriate to disturb himself first to show weakness, so he did not accept it.

This shows Xu Churen's ability.

Xu Churen was recommended to Zhao Huan by Wu Min.

Originally, Xu Churen and Wu Min were quite harmonious, and they could fully communicate about everything.

But later, in order to compete for power, the relationship between Xu Churen and Wu Min became worse and worse.

Moreover, Xu Churen is incompetent, Wu Min is also incompetent, when others come to Wu Min with government and military affairs, Wu Min says the most is "still the case".

Wu Min even gave Zhao Huan a lecture during this period of burning eyebrows, suggesting that everyone who reads should add a "Spring and Autumn" course, and said that Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Righteousness" are all heretics, and so on......

In short, many of the things that Wu Min advocated were not urgent matters - he regarded this critical time as a peaceful and prosperous era, and either cleaned up those useless things, or fought for power.

Wu Min racked his brains to seize power and seize power, which seriously violated the power of Xu Churen, the prime minister.

This made the two begin to tear each other down, slander each other, and keep fighting.

Not long ago, Wu Min recommended his relatives to the Ministry of Officials to become officials.

When Xu Churen reviewed the list reported by the ministry, he unceremoniously ticked off the names of Wu Min's relatives.

After Wu Min learned about this, he angrily came to the capital to find Xu Churen and asked Xu Churen what this meant, did he forget how he became the prime minister?

The two then quarreled violently.

In a fit of rage, Xu Churen threw the brush in his hand at Wu Min's face, making Wu Min's lips and nose black.

It didn't take long for the scene to get out and have a very bad impact.

Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Shan and others had long wanted to replace Xu Churen and Wu Min, so they seized on this matter and instructed Cheng Li in the imperial history to impeach Xu Churen and Wu Min.

Zhao Huan felt that Xu Churen and Wu Min were really not of much help to him, so he dismissed Xu Churen and Wu Min together.

At this time, Tokyo Bianliang City spread the "ten regardless", that is: regardless of Taiyuan but Taixue, regardless of Hedong but Chen Dong, regardless of autumn prevention but spring and autumn, regardless of the stone but Anshi, regardless of Tokyo but Cai Jing......

Xu Churen and Wu Min did not pay enough attention to the urgency of border defense, and they wasted the great opportunity of the Zhao and Song dynasties, so that the common people of Bianliang City in Tokyo were anxious, and then made up jokes to satirize them.

And if politically and militarily, Xu Churen and Wu Min have done nothing, then diplomatically, they are simply stupid as pigs.

There is no small matter in foreign affairs.

However, Xu Churen and Wu Min not only did not treat diplomacy with the Great Qian Dynasty cautiously when the Zhao and Song dynasties were weak, but also supported and even encouraged Zhao Huan to rebel against the old Liao ministers and the old Song ministers through Xiao Zhonggong, an envoy of the Great Qian Dynasty.

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As soon as Xiao Zhonggong returned to Yanjing from Bianliang City, Tokyo, he handed over the oath and imperial pen given to him by Zhao Huan to Li Cun as soon as possible.

What Xiao Zhonggong said to Wu Min cannot be said to be all false, at least a large part of the water.

For example, Xiao Zhonggong told Wu Min that there were a large number of Liao people in the cadre army.

This is not a lie.

However, the problem is that among the generals who commanded the army of the Daqian Dynasty, there is not even a Khitan at present.

-- The commanders and generals of the cadre army are all Han Chinese, and it is impossible for the Khitans to obtain real military power.

Moreover, Li Cun has always controlled the number of Khitans in the cadre army, so that in any army, it will not exceed 10 percent.

As for the other Xi people, Zhu Bu, Jurchen, Murowei, Bohai and other tribes.

What is the difference between accepting the rule of the Great Qian Dynasty and accepting the rule of the Liao Dynasty?

No.

There is a difference.

When they were ruled by the Liao Dynasty, these people were displaced, hungry, and couldn't even live happily.

Ruled by the Daqian Dynasty, these people can live and work in peace and contentment, and there will be no more time for freezing and starvation.

The key is that as long as the Daqian Dynasty accepts its rule, the Daqian Dynasty will basically be able to treat the people of all nationalities equally.

Under such circumstances, what reason did the people of other nationalities have to rebel against the rule of the Daqian Dynasty?

Moreover, although there were many people from the Khitan, Xi, Zubu, Jurchen, Murowei, Bohai and other ethnic groups in the cadre army, Li Cun always demanded that no matter what army, even the Ma army, the Han people must account for more than seventy percent.

What's more critical is that those who are not safe, such as the royal family and clan of the Liao State, have long been moved to the south by Li Cun, and the people of the former Liao State who can still mix in the Yanyun area are almost all people who are 100% submissive to Li Cun.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current rule of the Daqian Dynasty in the Yanyun region can be described as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can oppose it at all.

In addition, what Zhao Huan, Xu Churen and Wu Min didn't know was that one of Xiao Zhonggong's sisters and two daughters had entered Li Cun's harem, and if you count distant relatives or something, Xiao Zhonggong would have dozens of relatives in Li Cun's harem.

In other words, even in the Daqian Dynasty, Xiao Zhonggong was also a proper relative of the emperor, so why did he have to restore the Great Liao Dynasty, which was impossible to restore at all?

After Li Cun read Zhao Huan's oath and imperial pen, he smiled disdainfully, and then ordered to reward Xiao Zhonggong, and promoted Xiao Zhonggong's sister and two daughters to one level each.

After sending Xiao Zhonggong away, Li Cun directly called Li Gang, and then handed over Zhao Huan's imperial pen to Li Gang.

After Li Gang saw it, he said very calmly: "But all living beings are full, and they don't give up their illness and lie in the remnant of the sun." Even though the years are cold and the distance is long, this ambition should be difficult to win. ”

Li Gang used the last two sentences of his own poem "Sick Cow" to say that he would not give up even if he was sick and lying in the sunset for all sentient beings to be able to eat, and said that even if this road was difficult, he would not change this ambition.

Li Gang did not explain to Li Cun that this matter had nothing to do with him, and he did not expect that Zhao Huan would send someone to rebel against him, let alone assure Li Cun that he must be an absolute loyal minister of the Daqian Dynasty, he just took this opportunity to tell Li Cun his ambition, that is, he hoped that everyone could eat enough and live and work in peace and contentment.

Li Gang believed that as long as he made his ambitions clear to Li Cun, with Li Cun's wisdom and wisdom, he would definitely understand him as a person.

Really!

After Li Cun heard Li Gang's words, he said: "The material is difficult to use, and the more work is more taboo; Loyal to the sun and the moon, slander raging. ”

Li Gang listened to the words and bowed to the ground.

The monarch and the minister are all silent.

The next day, Li Cun issued an edict: the second attack on the Song Dynasty, with Li Gang as Yanyun's Xuanfu envoy, Yanyun stayed, and was in charge of Yanyun's guarding, repairing, and suppressing, as well as the affairs of Qiangu, soldiers and civilians in the Yanyun area......

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Ask for a commuter pass!

I should have suffered from a more serious gastrointestinal cold, nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, and shivering last night, I didn't take my temperature at that time, I guess I should have a fever.

I took Norfloxacin, drank Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, and did moxibustion, and used both Chinese and Western medicines.

It should be said that my situation is much better now, but I still have a stomachache, it is difficult to concentrate, and I am not in a state.

Having said all this, what I actually want to say is that I promised to give you an update today, I really can't write it, and I wrote this chapter before 12 o'clock with great difficulty.

I'm sorry!

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