Qian Song

Chapter 116 Song Jiang is Here (Please subscribe! Please ask for a monthly pass!)
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Ever since Tong Guan led almost half of the country's troops to the south to suppress Fang La and Li Cun, Zhao Ji hadn't had a good night's sleep, and was worried every day for fear of any bad news.

The southeast is really no different from other places in Zhao Song, where the economic lifeline of Zhao Song lies.

It is no exaggeration to say that almost one-third of Zhao Song's financial revenue comes from the southeast roads.

And financial revenue is only one aspect. A large part of the grain in the north of the Song Dynasty, including the grain in Bianliang City in Tokyo, is supplied by the roads in the southeast, especially the Liangzhe Road.

If you have no money, think of a way, maybe you can overcome it, but if you have no food, how can you overcome it?

There are also silks from the southeast, which are also very important to the people in the north of the Song Dynasty.

Row.

Even if Zhao Ji no longer thinks about his Genyue Longevity Mountain, which is only a small part away from completion.

But even so, Dongnan must not be lost.

However, the more Zhao Ji is afraid of something, the more he will come.

Cai You, who Zhao Ji sent to Yangzhou, suddenly sent Zhao Ji a news that made the good-tempered Zhao Ji furious - Tong Guan also suffered a big defeat.

The key point is that Cai You also said in the secret report that Tong Guan’s defeat not only lost more than ten thousand precious Western troops, but also lost all the ships on the front line, so that 50 troops were trapped in the north of the Yangtze River. In a short time, there is no need to think about crossing the river.

Zhao Ji was very disappointed with Tong Guan. Tong Guan's prestige in the Northwest didn't work when he arrived in the south of the Yangtze River?
Zhao Ji wanted to remove Tong Guan and replace him with a commander.

But after Zhao Ji searched and searched, he was surprised to find that the huge Song Dynasty could no longer find anyone who could take Tong Guan's place.

How could this be? !

Isn't my Song Dynasty full of talents?How come hundreds of millions of people can't find anyone who can replace Tong Guan?

in fact--

The reason for such a problem is that Tan Zhen, who was trained by Zhao Ji to replace Tong Guan, also had problems.

And Zhao Ji only arranged for Tong Guan to be Tan Zhen's successor.

This made Zhao Ji, who only wanted the eunuch to command the army, suddenly couldn't find a commander who could replace Tong Guan.

Fortunately-

Immediately afterwards, Tong Guan sent someone to send a secret report to Zhao Ji, saying that the slight setback in this battle was all because Yuwen Huangzhong misled him by passing false news, otherwise he would not have suffered this defeat at all.

Then, Tong Guan persuaded Zhao Ji not to worry, saying that he had secretly arranged for Zhongshi Dao and Zhongshizhong to go to Jingzhou and enter the Liangzhe area as a partial division. Shi Dao and Zhong Shi Zhong were a little slow, and he had already sent someone to urge Zhong Shi Dao and Zhong Shi Zhong to march quickly.

It was only then that Zhao Ji remembered that Tong Guan had reported to him about the partiality of his teacher before.

Now it seems that Tong Guan's work is still very safe.

Zhao Ji then comforted himself that the war cannot be judged by a victory or defeat, it still depends on the final overall result.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji forgave Tong Guan.

After thinking about it again, Zhao Ji destroyed the written edict ordering Tan Zhen to be dismissed on the spot and escorted to Beijing.

——After experiencing the incident of wanting to change the commander just now, Zhao Ji suddenly realized that Tan Zhen could not be dismissed, otherwise, if Tong Guan, who was almost 70 years old, had a mistake, he would not even have someone who could replace Tong Guan in command No, how can this work?
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On this day, Wang Fu excitedly came to Yanfu Palace and reported to Zhao Ji: "Great victory for the official family! After the giant bandit Jeju native Song Jiang captured the Huaiyang Army in February, he took a boat from Shuyang to Haizhou. After Song Jiang led his troops ashore Zhang Shuye, the prefect of Haizhou, sent envoys to investigate where Song Jiang was going. He knew that Song Jiang was approaching the seashore with more than ten huge boats. After landing, they were ambushed, the boats were burned, and the way of retreat was cut off. Seeing that the situation was over, Song Jiang was recruited by Zhang Shuye to surrender. Song Jiang and his gang were wiped out by my Da Song, and the bandits along Jingdong East Road and Jingdong East Road have basically been eliminated."

In the first year of Xuanhe, Song Jiang gathered 36 people to revolt in Liangshanluo. He led the crowd to attack Heshuo and Jingdong East Road, moved to Qingzhou, Qizhou and Puzhou on Jingdong East Road, and captured more than ten prefectures and counties.

Song Jiang and his gang fled around, burning, killing and looting everywhere, which lasted more than two years and did a lot of damage.

However, Song Jiang and his gang belonged to rogue bandits, and they just shot a gun to change places.

Although such rogue bandits will also bring certain harm to Zhao Song's rule, but because they have never separated themselves from one side, they cannot actually become Zhao Song's confidant.

Therefore, although Zhao Ji and his ministers had a headache for the bandits who had fled for more than two years, they never paid much attention to them, because they could not be compared with Fang La and Li Cun who were planning to separate from the southeast.

But then again, in the period when the Song Dynasty had just suffered a big defeat, the destruction of Song Jiang's gang could also relieve Zhao Ji's nervousness and boost the morale of the Song Dynasty to a large extent.

Zhao Ji ordered Zhang Shuye to be appointed as a direct bachelor of Huiyou Pavilion and changed to the prefect of Jinan Prefecture.

Wang Fu took the opportunity to say: "Song Jiang and his gang were originally Liangshanluo fishermen. They rebelled because they were dissatisfied with the imperial court's taking Liangshanluo into the imperial court's possession. How about sending Song Jiang and his gang to help Tong Xuanfu?"

Tong Guan was in charge of the Privy Council and held the military power for 20 years. The power was poured inside and outside. When Cai Jing was still in office, he called Cai Jing "the public minister", Tong Guan the "lady prime minister", and Liang Shicheng the "hidden prime minister".

Now that the "President Gong" has retired, Liang Shicheng's only political opponent is the "Prime Minister" Tong Guan.

In other words, Liang Shicheng and Tong Guan have been fighting for an unknown number of years. The two represent one piece of literature and one military force. It can be said that it is the pinnacle duel of eunuchs. Li Yan, Zhao Ji's personal eunuch Zhang Di, etc., are actually slightly inferior to Liang Shicheng and Tong Guan.

But Wang Fu didn't say that he needed Liang Shicheng to provide him with all kinds of information about Zhao Ji, so that Wang Fu could open the exam and secure his position as prime minister. He had to help Liang Shicheng deal with Tong Guan. In addition to the demeanor that people care about, he also hated Tong Guan for not letting him reach out to the army.

However, Wang Fu also knew that Zhao Song couldn't do without Tong Guan, especially in this turbulent period.

Therefore, Wang Fu did not dare to confront Tong Guan head-on.

——Because it is easy to give Zhao Ji the impression that he, the prime minister, does not care about the overall situation.

But then again, if he didn't make trouble for Tong Guan, then Wang Fu wouldn't be Wang Fu anymore.

Therefore, Wang Fu suggested that Song Jiang and his gang go to reinforce Tong Guan. This was not intended to help Tong Guan, but in fact, he wanted to use this matter to give Tong Guan some eye medicine.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji has already forgiven Tong Guan, and Wang Fu is a villain this time.

When one plan failed, Wang Fu made another plan.

After Zhao Ji agreed to let Song Jiang and his gang go to Tong Guan to report, Wang Fu said again: "The banditry in the southeast is imminent. At this critical moment, don't let the Privy Council chores distract Tong Xuanfu's energy, so that you lose the battle. What do the officials think about Duke Chongguo returning to the Privy Council?"

Chongguo Gong Zheng Juzhong was a veteran of Zhao Song Dynasty. As early as the first year of Daguan to the fourth year of Daguan, Zheng Juzhong was an official worshiped by Tong Zhi Privy Council and Zhi Privy Council. , he even served as Dazai for a while.

In the early years, Zheng Juzhong had helped Cai Jing regain his prime minister, but later he fought for power and had a fight with Cai Jing. He opposed Cai Jing in everything, and then he was kicked out of the court by Cai Jing.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Juzhong claimed to be the uncle and brother of Zhao Ji's empress Zheng. It happened that Zheng had just entered the harem from the vassal mansion at that time. "relative" relationship.

It is precisely because of this that Zheng Juzhong was promoted again and again.

To sum up, Zheng Juzhong likes to cater to the emperor and fight for power, so he is really not a humerus minister.

At this time, Wang Fu moved Zheng Juzhong out, not to share Zhao Ji's worries, but purely to use Zheng Juzhong's veteran qualifications to fight against Tong Guan and prevent Cai Jing, who he was most worried about, from having the opportunity to return to office.

Zhao Ji felt that what Wang Fu said was right, so he agreed to Wang Fu's proposal.

After Zheng Juzhong served as the privy envoy for the third time, the first political event he encountered was that Wang Shizhong, the magistrate of Dengzhou, rushed to play, saying: He can no longer stop the Jin envoy Helu and Dadiwu. Helu said that they have to go even if they go Go to Bianliang City in Tokyo, he is sending people to escort Ho Lu and Dadiwu to Bianliang City in Tokyo, the court has already made preparations.

Hearing the news, Zheng Juzhong hurriedly came to see Zhao Ji, and then said to Zhao Ji: "Officials, don't think about Yanjing any more. The society is stable. It is enough to be worthy of the sky above and worthy of the people below. And the southeast The turmoil is turbulent. Half of our Great Song's army is fighting the rebellion in the southeast. If we anger the Khitan at this time, once the Khitan takes advantage of the emptiness of our Great Song and leads the army to the south, how should our Great Song resist? It is not wise to join forces with Jin to destroy Liao. Let’s bring this up again.”

Now, Zhao Ji also regrets the fact that Lian Jin destroyed Liao and recovered the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

It is precisely because of this that in February, Zhao Ji asked Wang Shizhong to stay in Dengzhou with He Lu and Da Diwu, and not to let them come to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Of course, the reason why Zhao Ji did this was also to conceal the fact that there was a great rebellion in the southeast - once such a thing was known to the neighboring countries, it might be catastrophic.

In addition, Zhao Ji was also afraid that Liao's secret agents would find out that their Da Song was in contact with Jin, and then use this as an excuse to beat them.

Just imagine, if the Liao Kingdom took advantage of the large number of Song troops moving southward and suddenly moved southward, wouldn't Zhao Song be in danger?
Today, the rebellion in the southeast has lasted for more than half a year, and it has not been suppressed yet.

Of course, Zhao Ji didn't want Hao Lu and Da Diwu to come to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

But Helu and Dadiwu had already packed their luggage and walked out of the post house, insisting on walking to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Wang Shizhong really couldn't keep Haolu and Dadiwu any longer. There was no other way. Wang Shizhong could only send a carriage to take Haolu and Dadiwu to Bianliang City in Tokyo, and at the same time send people to go to Bianliang City in Tokyo. Liang Cheng reported to the court to make preparations for the reception of the Jin envoy.

Under Zheng Juzhong's proposal, Zhao Ji ordered Guozi Siye Quan Yanbang to be responsible for receiving Helu and Dadiwu.

After more than half a month, Hao Lu and Da Diu, who had made a big circle, finally came to Tokyo Bianliang City.

Quan Yanbang arranged for He Lu and Da Diwu to live in the Tongwen Hall according to the previous specifications for receiving the Jin envoy Xi Lu, and then put He Lu and Da Diwu under house arrest in the Tongwen Hall...

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