Chapter 224 For the North

Of course, Zhao Huan was not interested in Wang Yue's true intentions......

He still has a fart to say.

At this time, Wang Yue asked him to add nine tin, and he was afraid that he could only add it.

20,000 elite cavalry are stationed in Qingcheng and Yujin Garden, there are 5,000 patrol police in the city, 100,000 militia that can be mobilized at any time, although there are more than 20,000 forbidden troops and western troops belonging to the imperial court, and there are 50,000 forbidden troops belonging to the imperial court outside, but the former is not ready to fight at all, and the latter is also ready to collapse at the touch of a button.

He can do whatever he wants!

Zhao Huan then appointed Zhang Shuye as Dazai, and Liu Tao knew about the Privy Council, which was regarded as rebuilding his court.

In addition, the Duke of Yan, who had just entered the dynasty, was the king of Zhongshan County, and the state capitals such as Hejian were included in Yanshan Mansion Road, and by the way, he also added a fellow Privy Council.

As for the harem beauties, there is no need to say it publicly.

In short, in the next few days, Zhao Huan and his Zaifu will clean up this mess, and at the same time reiterate the edict that intercepted his father before, and issue an edict to those princes and nobles who escaped, if they do not come back within a month to report again, all of them will be dismissed and imprisoned for life.

Including the clan.

But these are of little use.

His father continued to move south, and in fact he did not even slow down, and only five days later, his father had already arrived in Chuzhou, although the local officials of Chuzhou had received the holy decree, but they did not stop them for fear of endangering the emperor, and even provided supplies for this team. In fact, they also had no ability to intercept, Liu Yanqing and his son had 3,000 elite cavalry, in addition to Cao Jin and part of the bribed Western Army, a total of 5,000 troops to protect the emperor.

These are really not a big deal in the north.

But Huainan, who has only two generals in total and is a scum in combat effectiveness, is invincible.

It's really invincible.

The two Huainan generals combined, it is estimated that there are only seven or eight thousand infantry, and there is no cavalry.

Fang La, the actual combat strength, has the most right to speak, and even his rebellious peasants can't beat it, how can such a scum dare to intercept this army like a tiger and wolf?

What's more, there is an emperor.

On the tenth day of Wang Yue's arrival in Kaifeng, Emperor Taishang was already visiting Yangzhou.

Moreover, Tan Zhi and Song Huan led an army of 10,000 from Zhenjiang to Yangzhou to meet the Emperor Taishang, and then Zhao Ji set up his camp envoy in Yangzhou, with Yu Wencuizhong as the camp envoy, and then in the name of the Emperor Taishang's camp through Song Huan's system and delivery of the envoy to Jianghuai, Jingzhe, and Zhejiang to send his holy decree.

Three main contents.

First, the Huainan and Liangzhezhou armies sent reports to Beijing and ordered them to be intercepted, not to be released, and to wait for command.

That is, the government in the southeast is not allowed to transmit any official documents to the capital Kaifeng.

Second, the generals of Hangzhou and Vietnam, the generals of Jiangdong Road, and the generals who are not tied to each state, as well as the native soldiers and archers, etc., have not been united, and they have not been able to unite and set off, so they should wait for the command to call, and first have the military tent to play, if the number of people has been sent, and intercept the performance.

That is, the garrisons in the southeast were not allowed to go to Kaifeng, and the 30,000 soldiers of the original Qinwang in Zhenjiang were intercepted as guards.

Third, keep the grain program and transport it to the place where it is unloaded.

That is, all parts of the southeast are not allowed to send any materials, including grain, to Kaifeng.

Privy council.

"Look at it, this is the Emperor Taishang, I don't want to hide anything for him, we are all our own people, I will say it plainly, you may not believe this, but I can swear to God, this is the Holy Decree that the Emperor Taishang just issued from Yangzhou. This is all true, this is just received the will and the letter written by the Emperor Taishang himself, Suzhou Zhizhou Lin Chi 500 miles sent urgently, including this letter from the Emperor, I don't think you don't know the handwriting of the Emperor, right?

No one else has the ability to forge his words! ”

Wang Yue pushed the urgent report and letter in his hand in front of the Seed Master Dao.

At this time, everyone who should come is here, the seed master Dao, Yao Gu, can be asked, and even Liu Xi was also called, he doesn't have to do it in Cangzhou, come to the Privy Council, including the seed master Dao, Yao Gu is the same as the Privy Council.

The Privy Council is full of unprecedented generals.

The master is a military general, regardless of whether he was born in a Confucian family, he is now a military general, he is in charge of the battlefield on the battlefield, and the official title is the Jiedu envoy, these two are military generals, his family was born in Confucianism, but he was pit by the civil officials to the military general group, and he was a coolie on the battlefield before.

Now he has finally gotten rid of the life of the coolie, because he served as the envoy of Hebei Xuanfu with the Privy Council.

Originally, the civil official's Xuanfu envoy Yuwen Xuzhong, because he was the younger brother of Yuwencui, although he was not punished, he was also relieved of his position as a Xuanfu envoy.

After all, this is the commander of the theater.

Zhao Huan is still afraid that one day when he and his father go to war, Yuwen will defect!

As for the military generals serving as Xuanfu envoys, it is not without precedent, Xuanfu envoys are originally Kewen can be martial arts, the last military general to be Xuanfu is Di Qing, he is also to know the Privy Council as the Xuanfu envoy, this official position is actually the Ming Dynasty's supervisor, Xuanfu envoy out, what do you care about in the war zone, strategy, system, moderation, in short, everyone obeys orders.

He and Yao Gu looked at the letter silently.

This must be the Emperor's own handwriting......

Speaking of his own handwriting, the Great Song Dynasty really can't find anyone who has the ability to forge it at present.

The level is too high, completely beyond the level that the forger can reach, and the contemporaries who can reach the same level are all dead at this time.

The content of the letter was very simple, asking Lin Chi to take the 100,000 guan originally used for palace procurement in Suzhou, take 50,000 guan and send it to him for use, and imply that the latter obey his three holy decrees, but Lin Chi had just been demoted by him last year, so he held a grudge against him, and after weighing the distance between himself and the two sides, he simply sent these things to express his loyalty by 500 li.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to say anything else at this moment, the causes of this matter and so on are put aside, and it is useless to entangle those things, and the current fact is that the Emperor Taishang has set up a separate court.

The official family worries day and night, and goes to the palace to reduce food, and it is not a peaceful place.

The scourge of Xiao Wall has risen.

It is said that we are all promoted by the Emperor, and we should not criticize the Emperor, but it is about the hundreds of thousands of brothers under him, about tens of millions of people in the north, and about the life and death of the Great Song Dynasty. He intercepted all the wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, what do we, the northern guard soldiers, eat? Our money and food are gone, and the Jurchens will call again, what will we do to stop the Jurchens?

The Emperor Taishang only thinks about himself, has he ever thought about us soldiers who fought bloody battles in the north? ”

Wang Yue said.

"What the King of Zhongshan said is right, it is indeed chilling that the Emperor is like this!"

Zhe Keqiu said very simply.

Wang Yue is right, whoever is the emperor between the father and son of the great painter is actually not a big deal for the civil ministers and military generals.

It shouldn't have been mixed in the first place.

But it's different for the great painter to go to the south of the Yangtze River to intercept the money and grain.

What did he let the northerners do?

The money and grain in the south of the Yangtze River almost accounted for nearly half of the annual income of the Great Song Dynasty, and the southeast of the Yangtze River alone is the three places in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhejiang, and Fujian, which are rated at six million yuan per year, which is rated, and the annual commercial tax of the two roads in Zhejiang is as high as one million, which is also sent to the capital, and the business tax of the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River is also one million, which is not counting the two roads in Huainan that he caught are also a big head.

Especially there are commercial cities such as Chuzhou and Yangzhou.

And after he cut off the Yangtze River, part of Sichuan's taxes also fell into his hands, and Sichuan was the money bag of the Great Song Dynasty almost as much as Jiangnan, and the Hanjiang River shipping was also stuck by him, that is to say, the money and grain in the Hanjiang River basin were also in his hands, and the income of Xiangyang and Tangzhou alone was as high as 90,000 yuan a year, not to mention that he also cut off the export trade in Jiangnan.

The vast majority of the city's shipping divisions are in the south of the Yangtze River, and the money and grain in Guangzhou and other places to relieve Beijing are also from him.

In other words, he can take more than half of the money and grain that was originally Xie Jing in Jiangnan.

Not less than two-thirds.

In the past few years, they have all relied on water transportation, and water transportation must go to the place where he is entrenched, and Sichuan, Hanjiang, Xiangjiang, and Ganjiang rivers must all enter the Yangtze River in the end, and even the money and grain in Guangxi must also enter the Yangtze River, and finally all converge on Zhenjiang, where he is currently entrenched.

There he was free.

Sitting on a mountain of gold and silver, you can squander as much as you want, but after that, the officials in the north will not be the army, and what will they eat?

Drink the Northwest Wind?

How can you fight with the Jurchens and Western Xia without money and food?

On its own?

Just kidding, what to feed these in terms of the current taxes in the north? Even the food may not be enough to eat, unless the tax is continued to be raised, but this has been a rebellion, in fact, at this time Hebei has begun to emerge rogues, and then the tax is raised, those people do not play rogue bees? If you don't persecute the common people, then do you persecute these generals and gentry who are in fact big landlords themselves?

Are you kidding?

Why did everyone take the blame for him!

It is said that the great painter offended not only his son, but everyone in the north.

He has offended people, he has offended old people!

This is no longer the business of the officials themselves, it is the common thing of all people in the entire north, whether they are military and civilian, whether gentry or mud legs.

You must not let him mess around, you must get him back no matter what, the Great Song Dynasty can only have one court and it must be in the north, only in this way can we ensure that the money and grain in the south are transported to the north, and avoid the northerners from carrying this cauldron of the court.

These are all real benefits!

"Therefore, the official family has issued an order to take me as the emperor's envoy, and I will lead the army south to invite the emperor back, but I feel that I am alone, after all, my people still have to leave a part, once the Jurchen invades, I can quickly rush to the rescue. I have decided to go south with only 10,000 cavalry, but these are not enough, at least 20,000 cavalry will be needed to ensure that the Emperor is brought back, since it is not just my own business, then I hope you will come and give the remaining 10,000. ”

Wang Yue said with a sincere face.

A group of military leaders looked at each other......

Doesn't that mean something else?