Qian Song

Chapter 175 Return of the King (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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Li Cun!

This name that makes Zhao Ji unforgettable and gritted his teeth has disappeared in Zhao Ji's world for a long, long time, so long that Zhao Ji doesn't want to think of him anymore, so long that Zhao Ji wants to completely forget him, so long that Zhao Ji doesn't want to read about it his news.

Without it.

What a shame!

Yes.

Li Cun was Zhao Ji's biggest shame in the first half of his life!

Jiangnan Sixth Road!
That is the most fertile Jiangnan Six Roads in the Zhao and Song Dynasties!

Such a good piece of territory was actually divided by Li Cun, an ant thief!

The point is, it's because of Zhao Ji's little hobby!
Nowadays, whoever mentions the Six Roads in the South of the Yangtze River, does not say that it is Zhao Ji's own fault?
For countless nights, Zhao Ji dreamed that he had regained the Sixth Road in the South of the Yangtze River.

But after the dream woke up, Zhao Ji didn't want to think about the dream he had had countless times.

Although Zhao Ji didn't say it on the surface, Zhao Ji knew very well in his heart that with the current combat power of the Song army and Li Cun's powerful navy and military capabilities, he might not be able to regain Jiangnan in his life. Six ways.

If it is Zhao Ji's dream to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, then recovering the Sixth Road in the South of the Yangtze River has become a dream that Zhao Ji dare not dream.

"Why did Thief Li come back when I was about to retake Yanjing again?!"

Zhao Ji took Cai He's memorial from Zhang Di.

With just a hasty glance, Zhao Ji saw a lot of words that made him feel extremely glaring!
Destroy Li Dynasty!
Capture the king of the Li Dynasty, Li Gande!
Destroy Champa!
Capture Champa King Yang Bu Ma Die!

Put down Guangnan West Road, and all the tribes will surrender!
Chenla proclaims his minister!

Dali proclaims his minister!

The Kingdom of the Queen, Bagan, Fallapati, Java, Three Buddhas, and Siam sent envoys to visit!

Megatron Indochina Peninsula Barbarians!

After reading Cai He's memorial, Zhao Ji, who has always been physically strong, couldn't help shaking!
Zhao Ji is not a person who has no ability to resist pressure. Thinking about learning that Li Cun ruled the southeast and learning that the Song Army was defeated by the Liao Army that was about to perish, which is not a bolt from the blue, but Zhao Ji still survived?
But this time is really different.

If it is said that Zhao Ji is still tempted to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in the north, then Zhao Ji is unwilling to touch the chaotic south.

Let’s talk about the barbarians on Guangnan West Road first. They formed their own forces, separatist regimes, and repeated submissions and rebellions. They blackmailed the Zhao and Song courts at every turn, and burned, killed and looted in various ways. can recover it completely.

That's fine, after all, the population of these barbarians is limited, and they're just looking for money. The big deal is that the Zhao and Song Dynasties just spend some money to support them.

It was Li Chao who really caused Zhao Song Dynasty a headache.

Others don't know the truth, so Zhao Ji doesn't know that the Song Dynasty sent troops twice to take back the Li Dynasty. Although they both achieved certain results, they all failed to really defeat the Li Dynasty in the end.

Especially in the second Song Yue Xining War, the Li Dynasty broke through Qinzhou, Lianzhou, Yongzhou and other places of the Song Dynasty, massacred in the territory of the Song Dynasty, massacred tens of thousands of people in Qin, Lian, and Yongzhou, and Tens of thousands of people were captured and returned.

The Great Song Dynasty ordered Guo Kui, Zhao Xie and others to lead the army, and joined forces with neighboring countries such as Champa and Chenla to encircle and suppress the Li Dynasty.

But even so, it failed to destroy Li Chao.

Since then, the Song Dynasty could only unite with Champa, Chenla and other countries to contain the Li Dynasty, and did not dare to destroy the Li Dynasty at all.

Who would have thought that Thief Li would have wiped out the Li Dynasty in one battle, and by the way, also wiped out the city of Champa, so that the powerful Zhenla and Dali would call him Fan Nabiao, and let the people of the Indochina Peninsula Many countries sent envoys to express their favor to him.

This is something that Zhao Ji didn't even dare to think about.

And Thief Li did it all.

And it only took less than three months before and after!
How strong is Li Thief's military strength? Will it be so strong that he can destroy our Great Song Dynasty in a single battle?

Zhao Ji didn't dare to think about it any more, it was too scary!

Thief Li is no longer a threat to the Song Dynasty, but a life-and-death enemy of the Song Dynasty!
Seeing that Zhao Ji's face turned pale, Wang Fu said softly: "Officials, can I ask my ministers to take a look?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ji handed Cai He's memorial to Wang Fu.

After Wang Fu saw it, he also had a dignified look on his face.

Zhao Ji didn't want to read the news about Li Cun and Jiangnan Liulu, but as the prime minister, Wang Fu had to pay attention.

Not only did he pay attention to the news of Li Cun and Jiangnan Sixth Road all the time, but Wang Fu also tried his best to find out the news about Li Cun and Jiangnan Sixth Road.

In fact, Wang Fu had long known that Li Cun was suppressing pirates in the southeast waters.

Wang Fu had even learned that Li Cunjian made a fortune from the pirates.

When he heard the news, Wang Fu, who had been worrying about money recently, felt extremely regretful.

If he had known that the pirates were so rich, after he took office, he would have trained a powerful navy to suppress the pirates immediately.

Later, Wang Fu vaguely learned that Li Cun seemed to be at war with Li Chao.

This made Wang Fu overjoyed.

Wang Fu felt that Li Cun was caught in the war with Li Chao, and he would definitely be dragged by Li Chao to the far south, which would never affect his recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

Wang Fu even thought optimistically that if Li Cun was seriously injured by Li Chao, after he recovered the Sixteen States of Yanyun, he would take back the Sixth Road of Jiangnan with the power of a great victory.

At that time, Wang Fu wanted to tell Zhao Ji the good news.

But Liang Shicheng told Wang Fu that Zhao Ji didn't want to hear about Li Cun, nor did he want to hear about Jiangnan Liulu, so Wang Fu must not touch this bad luck.

Then Liang Shicheng asked Wang Fu again: "If Li Cun defeated Li Chao just after you reported the matter to the officials, what would you do?"

Wang Fu thought about it, and waited for a while.

Then there are some rumors, some say that Li Cun defeated Li Chao, some say that Li Cun destroyed Li Chao, and some say that Li Cun was defeated by Li Chao and died in Li Chao...

The Indochina Peninsula is too far away from Bianliang City in Tokyo, and the Zhao Song Dynasty did not establish such a distant information transmission network.

Therefore, Wang Wei only had a half-knowledge of Li Cun's situation in the Li Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Li Cun not only destroyed the Li Dynasty, but also destroyed Champa, and captured the kings of the two countries.

This is simply incredible.

Wang Fu was also thinking: "Is Li's military strength really so strong?"

The monarch and his subjects were silent for a long time before Zhao Ji broke the silence and asked, "How are the righteous men in the southeast?"

Wang Fu really couldn't bear to hit Zhao Ji again.

But since Zhao Ji has already asked, it means that Zhao Ji doesn't want to avoid the matter of Li Cun and Jiangnan Liulu anymore.

That's why Wang Fu carefully worded his words: "They are all incompetent and stupid, they fight on their own, and they are scattered, and then they are defeated by Thief Li's subordinates Su Dong, Liang Jin, Han Shizhong and others..."

Speaking of this, Wang Fu secretly glanced at Zhao Ji's expression.

Seeing that Zhao Ji's expression was still calm, Wang Fu went on to say: "They were all defeated more than a month ago. Ye Chun, Liang Jiang and others were captured by ants and cut to the head of Hangzhou city."

Hearing this news, Zhao Ji closed his eyes.

Finished!

Li thief pacified the south, and pacified the civil strife.

Now, Li thief's internal strife and external troubles are all gone.

So what will Thief Li do next?
Send troops to attack Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road?
Or lead an army across the river to attack Bianliang City in Tokyo?
Zhao Ji panicked, and hurriedly summoned Zheng Juzhong, Li Bangyan and other ministers to discuss countermeasures.

After reading Cai He's memorial, Zheng Juzhong, Li Bangyan and others were all shocked.

Zheng Juzhong didn't mention how to deal with the return of King Li Cun. He first said: "Officials, don't want to take back the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and guard the ancestral society. It is enough to be worthy of the sky above and worthy of the people below. At present, Li's bandits are separatist in the southeast, with strong troops and strong horses. If Khitan has nowhere to go, no matter what they do, and go south in a large scale, my Song Dynasty will reject tigers at the front door and wolves at the back door. Not a smart move."

In the fifth year of Zhenghe, Zhao Liangsi, who was also called Ma Zhi, proposed the strategy of uniting Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. The ministers and even important ministers of the Zhao and Song Dynasties quarreled over the joint Jin eradication of Liao and regaining the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun It never stopped.

Tong Guan, Cai Jing, Wang Fu and others supported the Lianjin Destroying Liao Dynasty to recover the Sixteen States of Yanyun, while Deng Xunwu, Zheng Juzhong, Li Bangyan and others opposed the Lianjin Destroying Liao Dynasty's recovery of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

But Zhao Ji has always been on the side of the faction that supports Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun sixteen prefectures.

As a result, the Song and Jin "Sea Alliance" was implemented.

Later, Cai Jing "rebelled" and became the opposition.

Zhao Ji was very unhappy about Cai Jing's "rebellion". He talked to Cai Jing many times, hoping that Cai Jing could support the Lian Jin to destroy Liao and recover the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

But no matter what Zhao Ji said, Cai Jing was not active.

Later, once, Zhao Ji gathered a group of important ministers of the Song Dynasty and asked him to sign the agreement to unite the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Tong Guan, Wang Fu and other supporters signed the letter unswervingly, and even many opponents, forced by Zhao Ji's will, obediently signed the letter.

Only Cai Jing resolutely refused to sign this letter, which showed that he was really determined to oppose the alliance with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty and recover the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

Zhao Ji saw that Cai Jing was so stubborn, so he simply let Cai Jing become an official, and replaced him with Wang Fu, who firmly supported the alliance of the Jin Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, as prime minister.

Zhao Ji has been preparing for many years, and seeing that he can send troops north to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Fang La and Li Cun's uprising suddenly broke out.

As a last resort, Zhao Ji had no choice but to suspend the plan of uniting Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and sent the troops who were going to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun to the southeast.

That battle not only disabled the elite army of the Zhao Song Dynasty, but also severely damaged the Zhao Song Dynasty's economy, and caused the Zhao Song Dynasty to lose its most fertile Jiangnan Six Roads.

Zhao Ji was disheartened about recovering the Sixteen States of Yanyun, and planned to give up the dream of recovering the Sixteen States of Yanyun that successive emperors of the Zhao and Song Dynasties had dreamed for nearly 200 years.

Later, the state of Jin was like a broken bamboo, taking down the three capitals of the Liao state in a row, and the thief Li was entangled in internal strife and foreign aggression. Wang Fu insisted on continuing to send troops to carry out the alliance with Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Zhao Ji was persuaded by Wang Fu and sent troops north to patrol the border.

As a result, the Song army was defeated by the dying Liao army.

Now, Zhao Ji finally made up his mind and sent troops to recover Yanyun sixteen prefectures.

But Li thief came back with the prestige of a great victory at this moment, and at the same time Li thief's internal troubles were completely resolved.

However, at this critical moment, Zheng Juzhong didn't even think about how to deal with Li Thief's return. Instead, he first thought about continuing to quarrel over whether to unite Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

For Zheng Juzhong's stubbornness and confusion, Zhao Ji was very unhappy, even a little angry.

But Zhao Ji thought about it again, and understood why Zheng Juzhong asked him not to take back Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures in the first place.

——The real problem at hand is that if you don't decide whether to continue to join forces with Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, you can't talk about how to deal with Li Cun at all.

Let alone other things, in order to deal with Li Cun, the Zhao Song Dynasty must first have an army, right?

Although the Zhao Song Dynasty has tried its best to control the deployment of the Song Army in Huainan and Xiangyang.

But because the Song Army was too disappointing and the Zhao Song Dynasty really wanted to regain the Yanyun Sixteen States, Tong Guan still transferred most of the Shengjie Army and the elite Western Army to the border of Song and Liao.

If these troops were not withdrawn, how could it be possible to resist the thief Li who had wiped out two countries in less than three months?

So Zhao Ji didn't yell at Zheng Juzhong.

Zhao Ji's silence doesn't mean that Wang Fu, who has been advocating uniting Jin to destroy Liao and regain the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, has been silent.

Wang Fu said leisurely: "Since ancient times, there has been no one who is strong in the south who is against the Qinling Mountains and the south of the Huaihe River. Now Li's bandit is in such a big situation, how could he pass the river to capture Huainan and send troops to capture the Jingxiang area? If Li's bandit is lucky If it succeeds, my Great Song Dynasty won’t have the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and half of the country and mountains will not be left. Why, if Yanyun is not in the hands of my Great Song Dynasty, it will be owned by Khitan and Jurchen. Or the Jurchen went south to plunder, and what's more, with both of them, how can we, the Song Dynasty, live and work in peace?"

After a pause, Wang Fu said again: "And if my Great Song regains Yanyun, then the north will be free from worries, and we will concentrate all our efforts to wipe out Li thief..."

Li Bangyan, courtesy name Shimei, his father Li Pu was a silversmith. He grew up in the market. He was quick-witted, good at banter, and could play Cuju.

Zhao Ji thought that Li Bangyan was handsome, humorous, quick and well-versed in writing articles, so he promoted Li Bangyan to Shangshu Youcheng, and then transferred to Shangshu Zuocheng.

From Li Bangyan's frivolous character, it is not difficult to see that he is not a person who can support the collapse of the building and turn the tide from the collapse.

Moreover, Li Bangyan and Wang Fu were at odds, and the two even became angry. As long as Wang Fu supported it, Li Bangyan would definitely oppose it, regardless of whether Wang Fu was right or not.

At this moment, seeing that Wang Fu advocated continuing to join forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty and recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Li Bangyan curled his lips: "Wang Xianggong is so courageous, he actually wants to use a new defeated army to defeat our powerful enemy in the Song Dynasty twice."

Wang Fu looked at Li Bangyan, who was eccentric, and said, "Then I wonder if Li Langzi has any good strategies to save the country?"

"This……"

Li Bangyan was immediately speechless by Wang Fu's question.

Seeing this, Wang Fu sneered: "In my great Song Dynasty today, there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back. Those who need it, Anbang's good strategy for governing the country is not a sarcasm."

Although Li Bangyan did not have a good strategy for Anbang to govern the country, he was never afraid of Wang Fu when he argued.

Therefore, seeing that Wang Fu was about to start a war with him, he immediately fought back: "Ignoring the strong enemy in the southeast and focusing on making great achievements is a good way to govern the country in Anbang? When Wang Xianggong sent troops north to recover Yanjing, the bandit Li sent troops to attack us. Da Song, how should Wang Xianggong deal with it?"

Wang Fu confronted him tit-for-tat: "If we don't have Yanyun, we will have no place to stand in the Song Dynasty, and we will be surrounded by powerful enemies. How should Li Langzi deal with it?"

Soon, Wang Fu and Li Bangyan quarreled.

And Zheng Juzhong, after listening to Wang Fu's remarks, also realized that just stopping the strategy of uniting Jin, destroying Liao and recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun would no longer be able to stabilize the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji also fully understood from the quarrel between Wang Fu and Li Bangyan how difficult the current situation of the Song Dynasty was.

Zhao Ji asked himself: "How should I deal with this difficult situation in front of me?!"

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(End of this chapter)