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Chapter 175 Differences
After the Jin Army surrendered in Kaifeng, Chen Xun organized to restore order in Kaifeng City. Many hard-working Song officials were found and used again, including Li Ruoshui.

Among all Song officials, this person was outstanding in ability, courage, and responsibility, and was particularly outstanding.

Other officials are either incompetent, don't want to contribute to Chen's army, or are afraid of settling scores with the Jin people in the future. Most of them are just idle workers.But Li Ruoshui was different. He was a good official who truly served the people. Not only did he have a very high subjective initiative, he also mobilized a group of officials and imperial students around him to make suggestions and do their best to restore order in Kaifeng City.

Now he has been appointed by Chen Xun as the Quan (acting) prefect of Kaifeng.

Li Ruoshui, who is mostly a local, coupled with his previous experience as Minister of Civil Affairs (a practical official position in the Organization Department), not only fulfilled Chen Xun's requirements well, but also helped Chen Xun select a large number of hard-working, hard-working, and hard-working people. A capable official.

Compared to Li Ruoshui, Zhang Shuye seems to have no vision, seeing the sky and the earth.

After occupying the inner city, not only did they not allow the Chen Jiajun to enter, they also mobilized all the Zhang Jiajun. All the supplies previously looted were also transported into the inner city, leaving hundreds of thousands of hungry people in the outer city of Kaifeng to Chen Xun.

Zhang Shuye is indeed a handsome man in military affairs, but he is also really poor in civil affairs.Li Ruoshui's work in the outer city became prosperous. Not only did hundreds of thousands of hungry people not cause trouble, it also provided a huge boost to the restoration of Kaifeng City's defense facilities.Zhang Shuye could only stay in the inner city with some wealthy businessmen, high-ranking officials, and the royal family named Zhao to survive.

Production and life outside the city are recovering in full swing, while inside the city still maintains its original lifeless state.If water flows to lower places and people let people go to higher places, which way is better, people will naturally vote with their feet.

In the end, most of the people in the inner city were attracted and ran out to seek survival.Even the auxiliary troops that Zhang Shuye brought into the inner city were attracted and ran out, leaving only [-] auxiliary troops who were waiting to die in the inner city.

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On this day, Chen Xun and his generals gathered together to talk. When they talked about Zhang Jiajun in the inner city, Sun Zhengyi was filled with anger: "I don't understand what this man is trying to support?"

"He's waiting for other Qin Wang troops." Pei Ren replied. He and the intelligence personnel who had been exposed were now squeezed out by Zhang Shuye.

Fortunately, there are still some intelligence officers lurking in the inner city, so that Chen Jiajun has not lost his eyes and ears on the inner city.

"King Qinjun?"

"The Miao Fu from Zhengzhou is coming again and should arrive in the west of the city tomorrow." Pei Ren replied: "Some Qin Wang troops from the south and east are also planning to come to pick peaches. It is estimated that there will be a total of more than 30 troops in the three directions."

"With so many troops, why not go to Fengqiu?" Sun Zheng was a little frustrated.

The Jin army knew that Kaifeng was lost and Fengqiu became the only way to survive. They had been attacking Fengqiu for the past few days, and Ke Lei had to go to help again, resulting in the delay in the arrival of the second batch of Xuzhou reinforcements.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower, Chen Xun would not have tolerated Zhang Shuye occupying the inner city of Kaifeng.

"These bastards really succeed more than they do!" A commander next to him scolded him. After the scolding, he saw that Li Ruoshui's face looked a little ugly, and he quickly explained: "Prefect Li, I'm not talking about you."

"I know." Li Ruoshui responded in a muffled voice and stopped talking.

After this, the others paid more attention to what they said and stopped cursing.

"If we don't let these King Qin's troops come in, they won't start fighting directly, right?" Sun Zheng asked worriedly.

Counting the 5000 Xuzhou recruits who had previously supported us, our main force was only 30.As for the potential enemies, there are [-] outside the city and [-] in the inner city. There is a huge gap.

"I think Zhang Shuye in the inner city must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise if we really fight against King Qin's army outside the city, he will definitely not be able to stand it if he stabs him in the back." A commander suggested.That makes sense.

But none of them knew that Chen Xun was still debating whether to stay in Kaifeng City.

Before making up his mind, Chen Xun could not break up with Qin Wangjun.

"Is Kaifeng City necessary for us?" Chen Xun asked.

As soon as these words came out, nothing happened in other doors. Li Ruoshui became anxious first: "Is the Governor planning to leave? Kaifeng City has finally settled down. If you leave, there will definitely be chaos again."

As a former minister of the Song Dynasty, he knew best the virtues of those generals of King Qin's army. If they were allowed to enter the city, the harm to the people of Kaifeng would be no worse than that of the previous Jin soldiers.

During this time, he got in touch with Chen Jiajun, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Jiajun was really a benevolent and righteous force, which made him unable to help but stand by Chen Jiajun's side when he acted and spoke.

"Captain, we finally entered Kaifeng City with great difficulty. It's a pity to leave." Some commanders were not willing to give up the hard-won Kaifeng City so easily.

It is under this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Chen Jiajun is able to use his small skills to make a big difference and the snake swallows the elephant.At any other time, if you wanted to enter Kaifeng City with five thousand cavalry, you wouldn't even think about it.

"If we don't leave, the enemy we have to face next will not only be the Jin Army, but all the King Qin Army will not be willing." Chen Xun said the biggest problem he would face if he stayed.

Everyone fell into despair after hearing this.

There is no way to deal with an enemy of this magnitude!
"I have a plan. As long as the governor is willing to use this person, the governor's worries will be solved." Li Ruoshui suddenly said.

"Oh? Sir, it's okay to say it." Chen Xun didn't expect that there was such a powerful person, and he was still in Kaifeng.

Looking at Pei Ren, Pei Ren immediately shook his head, saying that he didn't know there was such an awesome person in Kaifeng.

"This person's surname is Li Minggang. He was the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty. Last year, he was appointed to take charge of the defense of Kaifeng. He led Kaifeng's soldiers and civilians to complete the defense deployment in time. He personally went to the city to supervise the battle and repel the Jin soldiers." Li Ruoshui introduced: "If there is such a person Help, with his reputation, he will definitely be able to control the Song army inside and outside the city, and work with us to deal with the Jin army."

"Li Gang?! Can such a powerful leader be used by me?" Chen Xun seemed to have heard a fantasy: "Besides, isn't he in Kuizhou?"

He had heard of Li Gang, a famous official and national hero who fought against the Jin Dynasty. Equally famous with him was Zong Ze, both of whom were capable and powerful figures in the civil service.

When Chen Xun was in Guangzhou before, this person was specifically mentioned in the intelligence report from Kaifeng.

In the winter of 1125, the Jin soldiers attacked the Song Dynasty in two directions, and the East Route Army led by Wanyan Zongwang approached Kaifeng.When the Song court faction was in panic, Li Gang proposed to Zhao Ji that he pass the throne to Prince Zhao Huan to call on the army and the people to resist the Jin Dynasty.

In fact, Chen Xun didn't quite believe this piece of information. In Chen Xun's opinion, it must have been Zhao Ji who was too timid to face the Jin army and chose Li Gang to propose and take the blame. This was the reason for Li Gang's extraordinary performance later on.

After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he promoted Li Gang to Shangshu Youcheng and took up the post of personal expedition envoy, responsible for the defense of Kaifeng.

When everyone was not optimistic, Li Gang, the "scapegoat", turned the tide and was shocked to the point where he withstood the Jin army's attack.

(End of this chapter)