The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 270
A few days later, the battle reports came back one after another.

Except for Shuzhou, which was captured by Yao Pingzhong, the remaining four states have also been recovered. Among them, Hezhou and Huangzhou both left the city and surrendered, and the remaining two states did not lose much.

Then there are some aftermath matters, registering the surviving officials in each city, those who surrendered or not surrendered, and those who escaped and saw the army recovered, and then ran back, basically all the names of the people and the descendants of the bandit army. Write everything down.

Then Zhao Tun quickly sent the battle report and the roster to Tokyo, and sat in Luzhou to wait for news from the court.

The imperial court will definitely send a large number of officials to hand over. As for whether those officials will be retained or punished, it depends on their respective methods.

Only at this time can the abilities of these local officials be revealed. Zhao Tun only put them under house arrest, but did not prevent them from passing on letters. So the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers, and wrote letters to their backers in the capital to complain and beg for mercy.

But it is not for nothing to let these people pass the news to the outside world. The money is collected according to the official rank, the high one is 1 taels, and the low one is 1000 taels. I am sorry if there is no money, and wait for the court to issue it.

If you have no money and claim to be an upright official, then you should ask you, an upright official, why you defected to Wang Qing when he arrived, or ran away with his family before Wang Qing arrived.

The money received was a full 10,000+ taels. Although it was not much compared with the gold and silver treasures that were seized from Wang Qing's palace, it did not need to be handed over.

However, the gold and silver in Wang Qing's palace is as huge as 200 million taels, and there are all kinds of rare treasures. If it is converted into silver taels, it may be more than doubled.

However, Zhao Tun couldn't hide all of them by himself, and had to give some to the Emperor Daojun.

The amount of money and material resources spent to suppress Wang Qing this time is huge. If the treasury hadn't been in surplus in the past few years, the court might not be able to support it.

But the Emperor Daojun is a man of extravagance. If he doesn't have money when he spends it, he has to find other ways. The following Cai You and Wang Fu all have bad ideas, and it's unknown if they impose them on the people.

And now there are still Tian Hu and Liangshan, and Fang La is about to make a move, so there must be a little vitality for the court. If there is no money, I am afraid that even the Western Army will not be able to command in the future, and there will be a landslide and a tsunami.

In the end, Zhao Tong left a million taels of silver and a small part of jewelry for himself, and also left a million taels of jewelry for the court.

As for the army, the soldiers don't need to be rewarded, everyone has something to gain, no matter how poor they are, a few copper coins and a few taels of silver are still enough.

Zhao Tun, the general who commanded the army, didn't give a single point. This can't be given, especially Liu Kai and others. How suspicious.

But Zhao Tuo couldn't bring all of these money back to Tokyo. After all, a million taels was too much, even dozens of carts were considered small, and it would be a problem to send them to the palace without being seen.

So Zhao Tuo ordered Ouyang Bei to take the ninth and tenth direct line commanders of the left chamber of Longwei, and send them to Fuzhou overnight after Zongze and others set off for the expedition.

This matter should be avoided by everyone, Zong Ze is no exception.

Fujian Road is a place that Zhao Tong has always managed cautiously, the less people know about it, the better, even if his family members can avoid it, they should avoid it.

Half a month later, the imperial court sent Jiang You, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and brought a large number of officials to inquire about Huainan West Road.

Jiang You is a person known to Zhao Tun. He is not in the same party as Cai Jing, and he has no contacts with Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan and others.

Later historical records commented on this person, probably with a straight voice.

To put it bluntly, this person is more straightforward and dare to speak, but Zhao Tong knows that this so-called straight voice is actually speaking on behalf of the Taoist emperor.

Not everyone can do the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He must be a trustworthy minister and a sole minister.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials can only be the official's own person, the mouth of the Taoist emperor, and the one who is closest to the emperor among the ministers.

Therefore, it is also called the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Officials.

Jiang Youwei's army, it stands to reason that now that the bandit army has been defeated and the entire Huainan West Road has been recovered, Zhao Tuo should lead his troops out of the city to meet him.

After all, Jiang came here with imperial decrees. There were seven kinds of imperial decrees in the Song Dynasty, one was called book, the second was called book making, the third was called edict, the fourth was called imperial book, the fifth was called imperial order, the sixth was called imperial letter, and the seventh was called imperial edict.

This imperial decree to comfort the army is a kind of book-making, called the book-making of condolences. It is not for a certain person, but for the entire army. It is the emperor's will to commend and comfort everyone.

Therefore, no matter according to etiquette or rules, the coach must take his subordinates out of the city to pick him up in person.

This morning, in the Lianghuai appeasement department, Zhao Tun leaned on the big chair without saying a word.

The generals on both sides didn't know what he meant, and as Tan Ma kept coming to report, Jiang You's team had reached three miles outside Luzhou City, and everyone became anxious.

Zong Ze felt that it would be impossible to keep silent at this moment, so he said, "My lord, Jiang Shangshu's team has already arrived three miles outside the city, and I'm afraid it won't be long before they arrive at the city, do you want to..."

"Zong Jianjun!" Zhao Tuo sat up a little bit, and said calmly: "You take all the generals to meet him, you understand the rules, and this king will not go."

"what?"

As soon as he said this, everyone was stunned. The battlefield was victorious, the officials comforted the army, and the commander went out of the city to receive the order. This is actually a good thing, and it greatly improved Zhao Tun's reputation. Storytellers in Zhoucheng would make up a lot of stories to preach, but Zhao Tian didn't want to go out of the city to receive the order?
"My lord..." Zong Ze thought about his words, and said, "Recovering West Huainan Road depends entirely on the lord's strategy. If the lord does not leave the city, his subordinates may not be qualified enough to meet the order of the comfort army, and the officials know about it. It's not easy to speak, so please think twice, my lord."

Zong Ze was a civil servant, he didn't have so many scruples when he mentioned the emperor, and he was also thinking about Zhao Tong when he said this, he really couldn't figure out why Zhao Tong didn't go to accept the order.

It was a normal thing to welcome the order of the comfort army, and there was no such thing as a great achievement, he really didn't know what Zhao Tong thought.

Zhao Tang glanced at him, and said: "This king has worked hard for the country for the past few years. He has gone through many adventures, and now he is leading an army to fight against rebellion. He escaped death, and now his injuries have not recovered. He really can't ride a horse, and can't leave the city!"

When Zong Ze heard it, there was resentment inside and out of the words, but it is true that you were injured before, my lord, but now you are much better, right?Just yesterday afternoon, he had a horse race with Yao Pingzhong!
He felt that it was better to persuade him, after all, Zhao Tuo was kind to him, and he was a sinner at the beginning, and it was Zhao Tuo who tried to absolve him of his sins and was promoted to this point.

"My lord..."

"Don't talk about it!" Zhao Tuo waved his hand: "Now that the king is seriously injured and can't get on the horse, what kind of order is he going out of the city? I don't want to bring any more soldiers in the future. I will resign from the court with the officials when I go back this time." All the positions in the middle, this king... quit!"

Zong Ze was immediately stunned when he heard the words, he couldn't get on the horse, and quit... Are you serious?

Yao Pingzhong clicked his eyes below, secretly looking at Zhao Tun, really quit?Really don't want to lead troops?It's not like, my lord, you hooked up with the three Uighur princesses. Now that you don't have any soldiers in your hands, it will be difficult to leak things out in the future. Don't you want to go to Uighur to be your son-in-law?
Seeing Yao Pingzhong's small movements, Zhao Tang snorted coldly: "This king is quitting, the Zongjian army will send troops out of the city to receive the order, and this king will return to his residence to recuperate!"

After he finished speaking, he left without looking back, leaving everyone sitting on the chairs and looking at each other.

(End of this chapter)