Qiming 1158

Chapter 932 He decided to move closer to Su Yonglin

Before Shi Hao was executed, Zhao Tan gave him the last chance to write a letter to himself.

In this letter, Shi Hao did not try to save his own life, he just recommended to Zhao Tan a few officials with military talents in the Privy Council, hoping that Zhao Tan could reuse them in the future and have the opportunity to restore the decline of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Among them, Yu Yunwen is the person he is most optimistic about.

He recommended to Zhao Tan that although Yu Yunwen had no military experience, he had military talent and should be trained.

After the letter was sent, Shi Hao didn't have anything to say anymore. Faced with the approaching death, of course he would be afraid, so he asked to numb himself with alcohol to reduce fear and pain.

Zhao Tan agreed, and a big meal was included.

In the last day of his life, Shi Hao drank wildly, ate haise, vomited wildly, and was so drunk that he was finally carried to the execution ground in a coma.

The sharp edge of the blade flashed by, and Shi Hao finished his life in a dream.

He was better than Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun was still fighting for his own survival until the last moment of his life. He didn't believe that he would be the first scholar-officer to be killed, so he cried very loudly.

Shi Hao is different. With Zhang Jun as a lesson from the past, he is much calmer.

Zhao Tan read Shi Hao's last letter with some inexplicable emotion, and he sighed deeply when he saw some of Shi Hao's suggestions to him and some of the talents he recommended.

Finally, I folded this piece of paper and tucked it in my favorite book.

He has no time to promote any talent now, and what he needs to do now is to wipe his ass in this war.

The peasant army destroyed most of the warehouses in the five states, killed many officials familiar with the local situation, wiped out the armed forces, and brought a devastating blow to the local Southern Song Dynasty. Strong man, the government is powerless to fight.

On the other hand, the loss of a large number of soldiers made the Southern Song Dynasty's plan to form a new army, which had just been completed, suffer a setback.

After Zhao Tan ordered Shi Hao to be killed, he ordered Zhou Linzhi to lead the Privy Council, Ye Yiwen continued to serve as the Zuocheng Minister, and he recalled Shen Gai, the prefect of Huizhou, to be the right minister of the Shangshu. This position should have been reserved for Tang Situi. of.

But Tang Situi did not live up to his expectations and lost Jiande, the capital of Yanzhou. Zhao Tan was very angry, and immediately dismissed Tang Situi and drove him back to his hometown. He didn't even give him the idle job of promoting Taoism, and cut Tang Situi off. The welfare treatment made Tang Si Tui want to cry without tears.

The luckier Shen Gai was lucky enough to be recalled to the imperial court by Zhao Tan to serve as the right minister of the Shangshu and to take over the financial work of the imperial court.

But when he returned to Lin'an to serve as the right minister of the minister, he instantly had the idea of ​​wanting to exchange life with Tang Sihui.

The finances of the Southern Song Dynasty have reached a very dangerous point. To maintain it, it may require sweatshop-like labor. It is better to go home to retire. Even if there is no pension, you can live a good life with your family savings and farm products.

Why come here to run this hapless bad finances?

In addition to daily expenses, it is also necessary to pay annual coins, pay for normal military expenses, pay for the military expenses of forming a new army, and need to spend a lot of money to rebuild the city that was damaged by the war.

Many of them are still messes left over from the Ming-Song War, and they have not been repaired until now, because there is really no money to spend, or a lot of spending, but the effect is very poor.

Needless to say, the money was swindled.

How can this be done.

As the big housekeeper, Shen Caichou couldn't even eat.

Shen Gai was in a bad mood, and of course the new Privy Councillor Zhou Linzhi was in a bad mood.

Counting Shi Hao, two privy envoys have been killed in a row. Whether he will become the third one is up for debate.

After he took over as the Privy Councilor in a frightened manner, he saw the mess Shi Hao left behind, so he couldn't help covering his forehead and cried out in grief.

Really, for a moment, he wanted to just quit his job.

After the defeat of the two armies, the mess of Jiangnan West Road was really unacceptable, and the situation of Yao Zhong's elite army, who finally led his army to the Jinghu Theater, was very embarrassing.

Both are asking for money.

How to make up for the loss of the Ezhou army?

Should the Sichuan and Shu army come from afar, go or stay?

At the same time, Wu Gong and the bureaucrats in Ezhou were passionately confronting each other and stinking at each other.

Zhou Linzhi looked at the military text that Shi Hao did not have time to reply, and learned that Wu Gong had sued the relevant bureaucrats in Ezhou and Hanyang Army who prepared logistics for his army this time.

He said that they filled their pockets, accepted bribes, and used inferior products as winter clothes for the army, so that the army died of frostbite and frostbite in large numbers, with more than 5000 people before and after.

Because he could not withstand the severe cold, and the winter supplies in the rear were delayed, he could not continue to insist, so he was forced to retreat. Before that, he killed thousands of rebels on Jiangnan West Road and killed dozens of officers. We are about to capture Nanchang.

As a result, a cold snap hit, and his record went straight to zero.

He strongly urged the court to deal with this matter seriously, to uphold justice for the soldiers who died of frostbite and frostbite, and for him.

Before Zhou Linzhi could figure out a clue, he was called by Zhao Tan to the palace, where he learned that the bureaucrats in Ezhou and Hanyang had collectively impeached Wu Gong for being domineering and unreasonable, treating court officials as slaves, arbitrarily driving them, and disrespecting the scholars.

Not only that, but they also entered the government office to bully and beat the officials, and forcibly took over the warehouse to be plundered by the army soldiers, so that the local order was seriously damaged. They strongly demanded that the court punish Wu Gong and give them an explanation.

Zhou Lin's head was as big as a bucket, so he handed Wu Gong's military text to Zhao Tan, who looked gloomy and uncertain in the back.

"Do you think Wu Gong is in charge, or Erzhou officials?"

Zhao Tan looked at Zhou Linzhi.

"Both are justified, but Wu Gong has done too much. Erzhou officials are wrong and should be dealt with by the imperial court. He directly beat the officials with troops, and he also hit the court in the face. This wind cannot be opened, otherwise he is encouraging the generals. arrogance."

Although Zhou Linzhi was a privy envoy, he was also a jinshi.

He felt that even if the officials made mistakes, they should be dealt with by the imperial court. Why do you, a military general, take over?
This is not the Sichuan border!
Zhao Tan did not simply think this way.

On the one hand, Zhao Song's family law, on the other hand, the fact that he was defeated, on the other hand, is the fact that the civil servants who cheated him hurt him a lot, and on the other side, the cowardly generals hurt him seriously, and he didn't want to take care of him either.

But Wu Gong's matter is really interesting.

"I've heard of these local officials filling their own pockets with shoddy things, so what Wu Gong said should be true. Can't just punish Wu Gong? If there are enough supplies for the winter, can't Wu Gong win? ?"

Zhao Tan, who had just killed Shi Hao, was very deterrent. Zhou Linzhi didn't dare to say anything, so he said, "How do you think your majesty should deal with it?"

"It's time to be dismissed and dismissed, it's time to investigate and investigate, those bastards, embezzling national money, and I fell short of success, but I still have the face to gossip? The army can reach out for supplies for the winter, but one can imagine how lawless they are!

If such officials are not dismissed, should they stay in office?Although Wu Gong's approach is not right, it is better than these black sheep who hollow out the foundation of Song Dynasty behind his back!I will never allow this to continue to happen! "

Obviously, Zhao Tan was even more displeased with Erzhou officials than Wu Gong's behavior. He remembered Su Yonglin's large-scale anti-corruption campaign, and felt that the reason why the Ming army was so strong and good at fighting must be because Su Yonglin had cut down all the corrupt officials. reason.

He decided to move closer to Su Yonglin, and didn't want to worry about so many things, so the solution he gave did not meet Zhou Linzhi's expectations.

However, Zhou Linzhi did not dare to contradict Zhao Tan, for fear that he would become the third Privy envoy to be cut off.

So Zhao Tan quickly ordered to check all the officials of the two states to see how many people were rich in private pockets and harmed the army. If they were found to be related to the imperial court, they could not be spared, and they had to be dealt with together.

Of course, he also ordered the dismissal of Wu Gong's position and military power, and asked him to return to his hometown to reflect on his own behavior.

Then, Zhao Tan ordered all the remaining troops under Wu Gong's command to be handed over to Yao Zhong, and ordered Yao Zhong as the main general to start preparing for another crusade against Jiangnan West Road.

He will fight again.

(End of this chapter)