Qiming 1158

Chapter 857 Zhang Jun is really embarrassed
It is more difficult to completely conceal things such as large-scale anti-corruption and large-scale purges, so Su Yonglin never thought about concealing anything at all.

Those who want to know, let them know.

They can't do anything but know, anyway.

Do they still want to be a beacon of democracy to engage in long-arm jurisdiction?

Neither Zhao Gou nor Zhao Tan have that ability.

One is brave, the other is incompetent.

The two emperors of the old Zhao family really made the ancestor Zhao Kuangyin sigh.

But then again, even if Mr. Zhao Kuangyin, who beat the world with a stick at this time, came back to life and came to the Southern Song Dynasty, he would not be an opponent of the Ming Dynasty.

Su Yonglin thinks so.

That is of course, Zhao Tan and Zhao Gou will only think that Su Yonglin doesn't come to trouble them. As for the rest, they can't even think about it. So in the first half of Hongwu three years, when Su Yonglin was doing things, the Southern Song Dynasty Basically safe.

Zhao Tan was busy with internal reforms and rebuilding the army, and Zhao Gou was busy watching operas, listening to music, hosting banquets, and enjoying themselves. Who could intervene in what happened in the Ming Kingdom?
When the news that the Xixia rebellion was pacified by the Ming army reached Lin'an, Zhao Tan was on his way to the Wanshou Palace to meet Zhao Gou.

However, he has been busy with government affairs recently, and even on the way to see Zhao Gou for greetings, Zhang Jun next to him is still reporting things to him.

"According to the exact information, the Ming army has fully entered the Xia Kingdom. If there is no accident, the Xia Kingdom is basically equivalent to the subjugation of the country."

"Will the Xia Kingdom really be subjugated?"

Zhao Tan stopped, turned his head to look at Zhang Jun, and said a little nervously, "It's just to quell a rebellion. Could it be possible for Ming to annex Xia?"

"We don't know the specific situation, but it is said that the officials of the Xia State are almost killed."

"what's the situation?"

"In the beginning, Ren Dejing rebelled, killing all the officials who were unwilling to join him, and killing the Xia kingdom's royal family. The deserving ministers were killed under the banner of revenge for the Xia Kingdom royal family."

"Killed twice?"

Zhao Tan was very surprised: "Isn't the entire Xia Kingdom's officials all killed?"

"The ministers and others also imagined that the entire Xia country's officials may really be killed, so the news sent by the spies is that Su Yonglin sent hundreds of officials to the Xia country, occupying some key positions, in the name of helping Xia The banner of the country governing the people, but this is clearly annexing the Xia kingdom."

Zhang Jun said solemnly: "I heard that the Empress Dowager Xia issued an order to assign all the military and political power of Xia to Su Haisheng, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army's crusade. The Empress Dowager Xia and King Xia are simply empty shells and cannot be controlled. What kind of power, Xia Guo is completely determined by the people of the Ming country, and it is no different from the subjugation of the country."

"how so."

Zhao Tan paced back and forth nervously, and after thinking about it, he felt uneasy in his heart, and said, "I originally thought that the Xia Kingdom could be used as a check, but now the Xia Kingdom is occupied, and even the grassland tribes have been subdued by the Ming Kingdom, this... Ming Kingdom It's too overbearing!"

"The strength of the Ming Kingdom is indeed beyond imagination, so we must step up our military in preparation for emergencies."

Zhang Jun opened his mouth and said: "At present, it seems that the world is so big that there is no power to contain the Ming Kingdom for me, the Song Dynasty. The only thing that may hinder it is that the Ming Kingdom is overhauling the Yellow River. Before the completion of the Yellow River project, the Ming Kingdom will definitely not It is possible to go all out to attack the Song Dynasty."

"You said it lightly!"

Zhao Tan said dissatisfied: "Didn't you say the same before? It means that the country is building the Yellow River, and the whole country is building the Yellow River, so it is bound to be very tired and unable to start a war. Where does the country look tired? Zhang Xianggong, speak and do things carefully! Be careful! You are Saisuke!"

Zhao Tan's question did make Zhang Jun a little embarrassed.

At that time, after learning that the Ming Dynasty decided to overhaul the Yellow River, Zhang Jun publicly declared that the Ming Dynasty could not go south to invade the Southern Song Dynasty within ten years.

The reason is that the disaster of the Yellow River project is rare in the world. There is absolutely no solution to the problem of the above-ground river. The Ming Dynasty will definitely be exhausted by building the Yellow River and will exhaust its national strength.

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty was only three years old. Even if Su Yonglin counted the three years of the rebellion, the accumulated time would be less than six years.

In just six years, what kind of national power can he accumulate?
Now, not only is he not recuperating, but he actually wants to start the Yellow River Project and lead the Yellow River back to the old way of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This seems to be completely wishful thinking.

Although Ming Emperor Su Yonglin was indeed talented and capable, the danger of the Yellow River far exceeded his imagination.

If he doesn't bring down the Ming Kingdom, I will take his surname!
Zhang Jun believes that the Southern Song Dynasty can rest assured to quell the rebellion, recuperate, and develop armaments. After ten years, the Southern Song Dynasty will definitely have enough soldiers and food, and can compete with the Ming Dynasty.

So he openly led his fans to formulate a ten-year development plan for the Southern Song Dynasty with full confidence.

As a result, news of the Ming army's northern expedition to the grasslands came soon after.

Zhang Jun was in an embarrassing situation at the time, and many people looked at Zhang Jun with strange eyes.

Zhang Jun was still very stubborn at the time, saying that he firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty’s northern expedition to the grasslands was a forced northern expedition, disregarding the suffering of the people, and there might be serious logistical problems. The northern expedition was basically anticlimactic, and it was impossible to achieve great results.

Soon after, news came from the north that the Ming Kingdom had completely destroyed the two tribes of Kelie and Qiyan on the grassland.

These two tribes are not very familiar with the Southern Song Dynasty, but some people in the government know that these two tribes are two very powerful tribes on the grassland, especially Kelie, with a population of 30 and more than 50 beggars. With a population of [-], if a fight really started, it would not be a problem to gather [-] cavalry.

However, these two tribes were completely wiped out by the Ming army. The Ming army exterminated them and captured hundreds of thousands of people. It is estimated that the cattle, sheep and horses together will break through one million, and they will win a big victory.

Such a glorious victory has been a long absence for the Han regime, and since the Tang Dynasty, there has been almost no such brilliant strategic victory over the steppe cavalry.

Therefore, after the news spread, the public dissemination still lags behind, and there is no response, but the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty has nothing to say about the battle of the Ming army.

It was a brilliant victory.

So Zhang Jun, who explained that the army could not achieve a big victory, had his face swollen, and everyone looked at Zhang Jun with even more strange eyes. Zhang Jun could only forcibly change his face into a poker face to express himself. Inner Peace.

In fact, his heart had already turned upside down.

As a result, quite a number of people in the Southern Song court, including Zhang Jun's own supporters, once again thought of Zhang Jun's poor military record, and even more doubted whether Zhang Jun could lead a good soldier and fight a good battle to cheer up the Song Dynasty's military.

What happened next was even more hilarious.

In the Western Xia Incident, the news of Ren Dejing's rioting spread to the Southern Song Dynasty, and the whole Southern Song Dynasty was very shocked. They felt that the Xia State was going to be bad, and the Ming State would definitely send troops to intervene.

It was Zhang Jun who stood up and insisted that the intervention of the Ming Dynasty was limited. They had just ended the grassland war not long ago. The people were exhausted to the point of extreme exhaustion. The officials and troops needed to rest and it was impossible to start a war again.

Unless they want to subjugate their country.

Moreover, Ren Dejing, as the Prime Minister, controls most of Xixia's military power. All the people of Xixia are soldiers. If they really want to fight, it is not difficult to pull up 30 troops. With such a large army, how could the Ming army win smoothly?

Then came the moment of clear news.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty learned that the Ming army successfully quelled the Ren Dejing rebellion in Xixia, and further controlled the military and political power of Xixia. Although Xixia is still a country in name, it basically no longer looks like a country.

Because of the loss of a lot of officials and a lot of power, Xixia has actually lost its independent status and qualifications.

The little emperor and the empress dowager were basically just puppets used by the Ming Dynasty for transition, and they had no real power at all.

It is only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty annexes Xixia.

Zhang Jun was slapped in the face again, not to mention other people, even Zhao Tan, who has always supported him, doubted Zhang Jun's talent and looked at him with strange eyes, and even some of Zhang Jun's decisions would be rejected. Zhao Tan repeatedly asked whether it was reliable.

Zhang Jun is really embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)