Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 724 Aren't Li Yan and Zhao Gou Relatives? (Please subscribe!)
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After going to court, Shi Xiu came to Li Yan's side as usual and reported: "Officials, something happened in the Southern Song Dynasty."

Li Yan asked: "What's the matter?"

Before Shi Xiu could answer, Chai Jin, who also came to Li Yan's side, replied first, "Li Gang has been dismissed."

With the development, there will inevitably be some intersections and even competition among the three intelligence departments of Dazhong.

Among them, the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Political Intelligence have denser intersections and fiercer competition.

Back then, when Dazhong hadn't taken control of the Central Plains, the intelligence force of the Military Intelligence Department was a little insufficient, unable to establish a complete intelligence network in all enemy-occupied areas. Therefore, people from the Sky Eye and the Political Intelligence Department were also sent to the enemy's interior to inquire about news.

After entering the enemy-occupied area, the people from Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Affairs developed independently, and now they have a strong ability to collect intelligence. If they are withdrawn or abolished now, it will be tantamount to abolishing their martial arts.

Unless there is something wrong with the brain, who would do such a thing of self-defeating martial arts?

Anyway, Li Yan would not do such a stupid thing.

Therefore, the intelligence personnel developed by Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Intelligence in enemy-occupied areas and the intelligence network they developed were also preserved.

And since Li Yan allowed Tianyan and the Ministry of Political Affairs to put their hands on the plate of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, then naturally the Ministry of Military Intelligence had to allow the Ministry of Military Intelligence to put their hands on the plate of the Eye of Heaven and the Ministry of Political Affairs.

Gradually, these three intelligence departments became what they are now. There is me in you, and you in me. It is inextricably linked.

In fact, Li Yan sat back and watched the development of these three intelligence departments. In addition to the reasons mentioned above, it is also because, for Li Yan, this is beneficial-in this way, Li Yan can let the three parties monitor each other, so as not to The three intelligence departments are not under Li Yan's control, and Li Yan is even planning to transform the General Intelligence Department into another Jinyiwei after the war is over.

This also led to Chai Jin and Shi Xiu fighting more fiercely, and now they don't even care about their old brother's affection - in fact, this is also related to the personalities of Chai Jin and Shi Xiu, these two people, One was originally unable to be an official at all, and the other was eager to be famous. In other words, both of them had great ambitions for official careers. Now, both of them have touched the power of one person below one person and above ten thousand people. Let me ask, how could they Will you not be afraid of losing your current power if you lose the battle?And how can we not fight?
Li Yan looked at Chai Jin and said, "Oh? Li Gang was dismissed? Why?"

Chai Jin reported: "Li Gang's rectification of military and political facilities will help the puppet court of the Southern Song Dynasty to support the situation, and it can still be accepted by Song Kangwang, but he advocates resolute resistance to our Dazhong and opposition to surrender activities, but Song Kangwang, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan It is not tolerated by others, and now Song Kangwang, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and others are seeking to negotiate a peace with our Dazhong, and want to draw a river with our Dazhong to rule."

Hearing this, Li Yan asked, "Is this news accurate?"

Shi Xiudao: "It is absolutely true. Not long ago, King Kang of the Song Dynasty transferred Li Gang to serve as Shangshu Zuopushe and the servant of the door (left minister), and Huang Qianshan was appointed as the right servant and the servant of Zhongshu to contain Li Gang. Then, Zhang Suo was dismissed the day before yesterday. , Fu Liang, abolished the Hebei and Henan Recruitment Departments and the Hedong Economic System Department, deliberately sabotaged Li Gang's deployment, and forced Li Gang to resign."

Chai Jin glanced at Shi Xiu, then took the words: "Yesterday in the early court of the puppet court in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun, the censor in the palace, impeached Li Gang. King Kang of Song Dynasty dismissed Li Gang from his post as a scholar in the Guanwen Palace, and appointed Wang Boyan as prime minister and Huang Qianshan as deputy prime minister. At present, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and others are planning to drive Li Gang out of the puppet court of the Southern Song Dynasty."

Hearing this, Li Yan sighed secretly: "Li Gang's official career in the Southern Song Dynasty should be completely over."

As for Zhao Gou's choice to negotiate peace, Li Yan was not surprised at all.

First of all, the current situation of the small imperial court in the Southern Song Dynasty is very bad. Not to mention that the Chinese army may kill across the river to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty at any time, even within the Southern Song Dynasty, there are many contradictions now.

At the current stage, most of the Song army listened to the orders of Zhao Gou, the Southern Song emperor, and did not listen to the announcement, even Zongze's department had this situation.

It can be said that military generals have now become the biggest hidden danger in the Southern Song Dynasty, at least Zhao Gou thinks so.

Secondly, if the country wants to be stable and develop, how can it do it without money?

But the Southern Song Dynasty really has no money now.

The reason why Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty in the last life have been able to support Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty is because there are commercial taxes for maritime trade to support Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty. In this life, Li Yan has already cut off the maritime trade of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty has no There is no source of income.

Now, the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty can't even pay the military salary, which is one of the main reasons why most soldiers of the Song army listened to the instructions and did not listen to the announcement.

Again, when Zhao Ji was in power, he searched for flowers and stones in the south, causing southerners to complain about the Song Dynasty, and finally the Fangla uprising broke out. The mass base in the south is extremely poor. In other words, the people in the south are unwilling to accept the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Finally, to sum up all the above, there are now two very large resistance organizations in the Southern Song Dynasty.

One of them was the rebel army headed by Li Cheng.

Li Cheng was originally an archer tester, but later he was promoted to Huainan several times to recruit envoys, and later he gathered people as bandits and was active in the Jingchu area.

Not long ago, Li Cheng and his bandits were defeated by Yang Yizhong, then escaped across the Yangtze River, and plundered money in the south of the Yangtze River. Now they have grown to one hundred thousand people, seriously threatening the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The other group is the rebel army headed by Zhong Xiang.

Zhong Xiang turned out to be the leader of a peasant uprising that was active in the Dongting Lake area—this rebel army was actually a branch of Mingjiao.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang used religious activities to organize the masses in his hometown—every farmer who joined his organization, the "Xiangshe", had to pay a little money and food. ".

Zhong Xiang declared: "The law distinguishes the rich and the poor from the noble and the humble.

This is a step further than Wang Xiaobo's thought of "equalizing the rich and the poor" in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

Because of this, Zhong Xiang was deeply supported by the masses, and he was called "the master" or "the great sage of heaven". Countless poor peasants from hundreds of miles around joined the village community.

Not long ago, Zhong Xiang organized 300 militiamen and ordered his eldest son Zhong Ziang to lead the north to "King Qin".

This team was ordered to be repatriated by Zhao Gou, who had just ascended the throne, before contacting the Chinese army.

Zhong Xiang was furious because of this, so he revolted on the basis of this team.

The Song Dynasty was unpopular in the south.

In addition, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty could only search for people in the south because it could not collect commercial taxes.

The rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty levied and extorted, and the political troubles were heavy, so that the people in the south were in dire straits.

Zhong Xiang and his gang rose up, and the people of nineteen counties in Ding, Li, Tan, Yue, and Chen (later Lixian, Changsha, Yueyang, and Yuanling, Hunan) jumped up to respond immediately.

Taking advantage of the situation, Zhong Xiang established the Great Chu, proclaimed himself the king of Chu, made his son Zhong Ziang the crown prince, and set up officials.

Zhong Xiang's rebel army burned government offices, cities, temples, temples, and Haoyou's house, killed officials, Confucian scholars, monks, witch doctors, fortune-tellers, and people with feuds, and occupied the landlord's land for himself.

Zhong Xiang's uprising army called the killing of officials and others "practice law", divided the property of these people equally as "evenness", denounced the national law of the Song Dynasty as "evil law", and treated the "husband holding lei" and "fisherman and woodcutter" as "law". ", then be protected.

And all those who participated in Zhong Xiang's uprising army were exempted from taxation and taxation, and were not subject to judicial orders.

These propositions and actions of Zhong Xiang were warmly supported by the people in the south.
In just a few months, Zhong Xiang's rebel army expanded to tens of thousands.

The explosive development of Zhong Xiang's rebel army frightened Zhao Gou and others, thinking that Zhong Xiang would become Fang La's second.

Under such circumstances, how could the Southern Song Dynasty dare to be an enemy of the powerful Dazhong?Naturally, it is necessary to negotiate a peace with Dazhong.

Furthermore, there is still a certain basis for peace talks between China and the Song Dynasty.

First of all, Dazhong's biggest enemy at present is Dajin, not the Southern Song Dynasty - the Chinese army and the Jin army have already fought hard in Liaodong, Hedong, and Yandi. If the Sino-Song Dynasty can successfully negotiate peace, then Dazhong can go all out to follow Dajin had a showdown to decide the ownership of the crucial Yanyun and Pingzhou.

Secondly, Dazhong also needs troops and time to completely recover the territory north of the Yangtze River.

Again, aren't Li Yan and Zhao Gou relatives? Since they are relatives, why can't they sit down and have a good talk?

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(End of this chapter)