Not daring to waste time, Zhang He hurriedly followed Cao Shuang into the palace.
As soon as he entered the study room, a dense book flew straight towards him and hit him in the face. The sharp edges of the book made his face hurt, and it was so hot that he almost screamed. The sound comes.
He quickly held back and picked up the thrown secret fold and read it. When he read the contents on the secret fold, his face also became extremely ugly!
He doesn’t know about this either!
He didn't expect that there were situations in the southeast that even he didn't know about. These people below seemed to be distracted!
Zhao Duan's angry questioning also came from the front: "Zhang He! How did you become the prime minister! Why is it that for such a big event, there is no news reported to the court until now, and my Imperial City Department has to send back the news? Only then did I realize that the southeastern part of the Song Dynasty was about to become a Japanese slave colony!
What do you do for food? !
What do those officials under you do for a living?
Give me a reasonable explanation! "
How can Zhang He give any explanation? He can only bite the bullet and say: "Guan, I don't know the specific situation of this matter, but please rest assured, I will go to verify the situation immediately. If the situation is true, what is the truth behind this?" After reporting such a major incident, I will deal with it quickly to the people of the world and give you an explanation!"
"Verify?
Can I wait, can the people in the counties occupied by Japanese pirates wait?
If the court leaves one day late, they will be persecuted by the Japanese slaves for one more day!
Also, does Southeast still have the power to deal with this matter now?
Are you sure that the current southeast garrison can handle it?
Just the combat power of a group of 1,000 garrison troops being chased by five Japanese pirates for hundreds of miles? "
Zhang He was silent. What the officials said was true. Given the current situation in Southeast, if this matter were true, Southeast itself would not have the ability to solve the matter.
As for the foreign troops garrisoned in the southeast, they have no intention of fighting at all.
Don't think that embezzlement of military pay only occurs in the army on the northern border.
In places in the south that have not received so much military pressure, local generals and civil servants responsible for allocating military pay are far more excessive than those in northern Xinjiang!
Due to the relationship between the Tatars and the Huns in Northern Xinjiang, the superiors will more or less leave a little bit for the inferiors, lest the inferiors really rebel.
But in the south, there is really nothing left for the people below. What's more, they will instruct people below to work for them and make money.
It really squeezed the interests to the extreme.
This also resulted in the garrison in the four southeastern counties becoming a group of craftsmen, or in other words, they were unwilling to fight for the imperial court even if they clearly had fighting ability.
When encountering an enemy, your first reaction is not to fight with them, but to grease your soles and flee!
This situation is almost common in the entire Southeast. Those generals and civil servants also know what they have done. It is okay to humiliate people on weekdays. If they really force people to die, these big-headed soldiers may not accept it honestly.
So he didn't care and let them escape. Only then did more than a thousand garrison troops escape for hundreds of miles after being chased by five Japanese pirates.
The garrison was useless, and the local gentry had suffered heavy losses due to Fang La's previous ravages, and they were unable and unwilling to help. Thinking of this, Zhang He suddenly had a headache.
Seeing his appearance, Zhao Duandang sneered: "Why, can't you think of a way? Wasn't Zhang Xiang the most resourceful and resourceful in the past?
Is such a problem stumping you? "
Zhang He knew that he was being taken advantage of now, so he didn't dare to say anything and could only bow his head and accept it.
Zhao Duan glanced at him coldly and then said:
"Let the Japanese army go."
Zhang He was suddenly startled and hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty! The Japanese army is the imperial army guarding the capital. How can we use it at will?"
The account's words are sanctimonious, but the actual reason is not.
This incident is different from the last time. Last time, Fang La was wreaking havoc and supported the Japanese army to suppress the rebellion.
The army retreated after suppressing the rebellion.
But this time is different, this is to suppress Japanese!
And judging from the situation, the counties in northern Jiangsu near the sea may have been deeply penetrated by Japanese pirates.
A place like this will undoubtedly need to be cleaned again and again.
The great purge also means vacancies. If the officials take the opportunity to reach out to the southeast, their control over the southeast will undoubtedly be reduced.
And there is another thing, if the Peng Japanese Army is allowed to go, after the Japanese are pacified, the officials will definitely use the excuse of preventing Japanese pirates to let the Peng Japanese Army train the new army locally, so that the new army will become the imperial army stationed in the southeast.
And this new army formed by the Japanese army is undoubtedly a force of the official family, which is equivalent to the official family having an army directly belonging to him locally.
Then if the officials want to do something in the southeast, it will be much more convenient!
As the prime minister, Zhang He cannot only consider the immediate interests and gains and losses. He must think carefully and take into account all possible consequences before he can make a decision.
So as soon as the official's words came out, he immediately understood what the official wanted to do, and this was naturally not allowed.
But his opposition gave the officials an excuse to exploit the issue.
"They are not allowed to support the Japanese army? Then who will pacify the Japanese?"
Nowadays, except for the four imperial troops guarding Xu Bianjing, none of our elite troops in the Song Dynasty has the ability to quell the Japanese.
Since the Prime Minister objects, then please ask the Prime Minister to come up with a solution!
The people of Subei County can't wait too long! "
Beads of sweat broke out on the top of Zhang He's head, and he began to think quickly.
Indeed, as the officials said, now that the Huns are seizing control, all the elite troops of the Song Dynasty, except for the four imperial guards guarding Xu Bianjing, have all been transferred to Hedong County in the northwest to guard against the Huns.
Judging from the current intensity of the war there, it is obviously unrealistic to bring an army back now.
Not to mention what impact it will have on the existing defense system of Hedong County, if there is a loophole in the whole and the Huns rush in, it will really outweigh the gain!
What should we do!
Zhang He's mind was spinning rapidly, and suddenly he remembered something, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
But the words suddenly stopped the moment they were spoken. This method seemed a bit...
But Zhao Duan had already seen his expression and knew that he had thought of a solution, so he immediately asked: "If the Prime Minister has thought of a solution, just say so!"
Zhang He thought for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and finally said what he had just thought of.
"Guan family, I heard a few days ago that Yunzhou County encountered a Tatar invasion. Three hundred thousand Tatars wanted to invade Liaodong through Yunzhou County and enter our Great Song Pass.
However, in Yunzhou County, the 300,000 Tatars were repulsed by His Highness King Yun.
This shows that King Yun should have an army with good combat effectiveness.
Now that the Tatars have retreated, something like this happened again in Northern Jiangsu, and the court has no troops to mobilize. Why don't you, Your Majesty, order King Yun to send 10,000 people to support Northern Jiangsu.
An army of 10,000 people capable of repelling the Tatars should be enough to solve the problem in northern Jiangsu.
Moreover, this number is also under the control of the imperial court. We can also take this opportunity to see the combat capabilities of King Yun's army.
In this way, the court can increase its understanding of King Yun so that it can respond accordingly.
King Yun is just a vassal king after all. "
As soon as Zhang Hezhu said these words, Zhao Duan was instantly shocked by his method!
Damn you, you are sending troops from Yunzhou County to Northern Jiangsu to quell the rebellion. They are still the troops of a vassal king. How dare you think about it!
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(End of chapter)
