Qiming 1158

Chapter 678 Zhao Tan decides to fight
Li Bao had been silent for many years, thinking that he would end up doing nothing for the rest of his life, but suddenly he was summoned by the Privy Council and learned a surprising news.

The Ming Kingdom is preparing to launch an attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is about to use force!

This was earth-shattering news, and Li Bao was taken aback.

"What's going on? Why is there going to be a war? Why wasn't there any news before?"

The news spread slowly these days, and Li Bao was not an official in Lin'an, so he didn't know anything about the matter. He rushed to the Privy Council to find out what was going on. He was shocked on the spot.

"The Ming Kingdom betrayed its promise and forcibly asked Da Song for the New Year coins. If he couldn't get the New Year coins, he threatened to go to war. It was despicable and shameless. The Song Dynasty had no choice but to resist."

Wang Lun said that Li Bao was filled with indignation.

"What? What's going on? I thought that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a first-class hero who expelled the Hu prisoners to restore the Central Plains, but now it seems that he is clearly a tyrannical and greedy person! Wang Shumi, please grant me a military position! I will definitely Fight to the death with the Ming army, and defend the Song Dynasty!"

"Okay! I'm relieved to hear the general's words."

Wang Lun nodded and decided on the spot to appoint Li Bao as the deputy general manager of the Mabu Army on the West Zhejiang Road.

Then, Wang Lun told Li Bao that the Ming army had a navy, and they used this navy to defeat the Jin Guo navy, so that the Jin Guo navy had nothing to do with them, and could only keep taking the advantage of the Ming army navy.

Li Bao didn't care much about it.

"The people of Jin Guo don't understand what a navy is, and they think that as long as they drive a boat and float on the water, they are a navy. The navy has a lot of mysteries and methods. , how to train sailors, how to use naval weapons, how to collide with and sink enemy ships, all of which are very important.

Mingren only defeated the navy masters of Jinren, and he didn't know what a real navy master was. I think that even if they had a lot of ships and people, they would not understand the mystery of water warfare. Don't worry, Shumi Wang, give me full authority. , Within two months, I will definitely pull out a navy capable of fighting. "

As a guarantee of a veteran with clear military exploits, Wang Lun was clearly happy, so he agreed to grant Li Bao full authority to deal with the sailor's affairs, not to let other departments restrict him, and let him act with confidence.

Li Bao thanked Wang Lun for his trust.

After the official appointment was issued, Li Bao set off quickly.

At the same time, Liu Qi and Wang Quan also sent a reply to Lin'an, saying that they already knew what the court was worried about, and they also sent people to the north to collect information on the specific movements of the Ming army in Huainan. Lin'an will be notified immediately.

For a moment, Wang Lun felt that everything was ready, and the Song army seemed to be ready to fight the Ming army.

But soon, Liu Qi and Wang Quan respectively sent [applications for special expenses to reward officers and soldiers before the battle].

This is not a very unbelievable request. It is very normal for the army to be the first to reward money before the battle. It is just because the amount of money they want is a bit large, and it is not something that the Privy Council can give. Wang Lun can only do this. Report to Emperor Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou was quite generous about this. Although he complained and felt that these officers were selfish, he honestly asked the relevant departments to send funds to Jiankang and Zhenjiang.

In addition, in order to prevent accidents, Song Ting also sent a sum of money to the Chizhou Metropolitan Division and the Navy, so that Li Xianzhong and Li Bao could have money to deal with errands.

At such a time, Zhao Gou is not someone who refuses to scatter coins. He still scatters coins honestly, so that the people below him can eat and drink enough, so that he can work hard.

But then again, the army is easy to handle, but the court is not.

The news of the large-scale operation of the Ming army could not be concealed at all, and it soon spread in the imperial court, and a large number of courtiers felt inexplicable panic about it.

Although many of them strongly supported the court's righteous rejection of Ming's unjust demands when Xin Qiji was there before, when the Ming army started to act, they began to panic.

As for whether to go to war with the Ming Kingdom, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were also panicked.

As time went on, the topic began to ferment. Just like when dealing with Jin Guo, two voices of war and peace soon began to appear in the DPRK and China, and there were fewer people who supported fighting and more people who supported peace.

Most of the supporters of the battle were middle and lower-level young officials, who expressed strong indignation and dissatisfaction with the behavior of the Ming State for blatantly humiliating the Song State. They strongly demanded the court to fight the Ming State to the death, so that the Ming State could clearly see the bloody and unyielding nature of the Song Dynasty.

I have bowed my knees to the Jin Kingdom before, but now I cannot bow my knees to the Ming Kingdom!Otherwise, what is left of the Song Dynasty's national character? !

These young officials of the main war faction were very angry, full of anger, and full of resentment against the Ming Kingdom.

But more officials were still cowardly, recognizing the gap between the strong military power of the Ming Dynasty and the weak military power of the Song Dynasty, and believed that this battle did not need to be fought at all and would definitely lose.

In the debate competition in the court, the two sides competed for each other, you come and go, use your lips and teeth as swords, and use the court as a battlefield.

Zhao Gou, who was sitting on the throne, watched his courtiers come and go in desperation, fighting for war and peace, but no one really thought for him how to fight when the Ming army was under pressure. .

Zhao Gou was first in despair, then in pain, then in reflection, and finally in determination. In the end, he calmly weighed the pros and cons.

War and peace, victory and defeat.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Gou forcibly calmed down and made a certain decision in the face of the crowd of demons dancing in the courtroom by the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

A decision about the Southern Song Dynasty, about himself, and about the future.

This matter is very big, and it is impossible to hide it. The entire Lin'an City and even the entire Southern Song Dynasty must know it sooner or later.

The petty officials will know it, the folk elite will know it, and even the common people will know it.

So soon, Crown Prince Zhao Tan also knew.

He knew that the Ming Kingdom was using force to threaten the Southern Song Dynasty to pay them the New Year coins.

After knowing this, the blood of Zhao Kuangyin flowing in Zhao Tan's body awakened, his blood boiled, and he was out of anger.

Jin Guo bullies Da Song who bullies don't want it. He puts Da Song's dignity under his feet and steps on it. Not only does he step on it, but he also ravages it severely, making Da Song almost lose his national character, which makes him feel like a knife. , extremely painful.

When he was young, he didn't understand it yet. As he grew older, he would feel extreme pain and torment every time he paid annual coins, and every time Jin Guo came to envoy.

Now that the Kingdom of Jin is finally gone, Da Song has finally had a relaxing time, but you Ming Kingdom actually has to take over the Kingdom of Jin and continue to bully Da Song and ravage Da Song!
Is Da Song really that easy to bully?
Does Da Song have no national character and dignity at all?

Da Song's man has no blood at all? !

What a hero when the ancestor Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, swept the heroes of the world with a stick, ended the division of the Central Plains, wiped out an unknown number of separatist regimes, and founded the Song Dynasty.

Although the unification of the family and country was unsuccessful in the end, wasn't it the Song Dynasty that ended the extremely divided and chaotic era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?

Wasn't the Song Dynasty also brilliant?
But what is left to Da Song now, is there only humiliation left?

Zhao Tan couldn't bear it any longer. With full of anger, he turned his boiling blood into words, poured out all his emotions, and wrote a copy himself that made him burst into tears and get goosebumps all over his body. 's invitation to play.

He decided to ask Zhao Gou to fight, he decided to ask Zhao Gou to lead the army as the crown prince, and fight to the death with the army of the Ming Kingdom. No matter whether he wins or loses, he will not risk his life. Bloody!
Yes, it is better to die than surrender, to die than to surrender, even if you die, don't be humiliated!

As a descendant of Zhao Kuangyin, as a descendant of the heroic emperor who beat the world with a stick, he will never give in!
(End of this chapter)