Qin Hui didn't come to the palace to ask for a meeting because he knew that Zhao Kai and Chen Ji were planning to deal with him. He came to report the good news to Zhao Kai because Chang Shisi had just received the edict from Kaifeng Mansion.
"Your Majesty, my minister Qin Hui congratulates you!" Qin Hui took the edict he had just received and said to Zhao Kai with a smile, "The official edict has just been delivered. There are two copies in total. One is for the title of king." The general’s!”
"General Tiance?" Zhao Kai's eyes lit up when he heard this title, "So this king can open Tiance Mansion and take charge of the military affairs of the country?"
"No," Qin Hui said, "the edict says that this general Tiance is the head of the military rank, and his official position is the first rank, above the Taiwei!"
"I am already above the Grand Tutor!" Zhao Kai frowned, "I was the Grand Tutor ten years ago, and I am also the Great King. Why do I care so much about the general?"
"Your Majesty," Chen Ji had already taken the canonization edict from Qin Hui and read it. While reading it, he said to Zhao Kai, "The title of General Tiance can still unite people's hearts... .”
At this point, he suddenly froze.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Kai asked quickly when he saw Chen Ji's expression was wrong.
"Your Majesty, this edict says that because of your merits in negotiating peace, you were granted the title of General Tiance!"
"What? The peace negotiation was successful? Isn't it because of the great victory in Wei County?"
The so-called great victory in Wei County was actually the battle where he defeated Yaoshi Guo and killed Liu Yanzong on the bank of the Yellow River. Because the battlefield was within Wei County, it was called the Great Victory of Wei County.
Of course, a memorial was sent to the court to report the victory, and the report stated that 10,000 people should be beheaded, 2,000 prisoners should be killed, and Liu Yanzong should be killed in a formation. Actually, it is not too much exaggeration. The total number exceeds three thousand. Now the reported 12,000 is only an increase of 9,000, which is not too much...
However, this good news, which is not too false, seems to have not been sent to Kaifeng Fucheng, but what about the success of the peace negotiation?
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai quickly took the edict and read it word for word. Before he finished reading, his face was already livid, "Damn it, the court was fooled... fell into the gold thief's trick!"
"Your Majesty, the imperial court was not fooled!" Qin Hui said as he spoke and took out a second edict, "Your Majesty, this is the imperial court's order to assemble millions of people from Hebei and Hedong to arrive in Liyang to block the return of the gold thieves. !”
"What? Millions of people?"
Zhao Kai was dumbfounded again after hearing this. What is this situation? What on earth are those people in Kaifeng Mansion thinking? Why are there millions of people just by opening your mouth?
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai quickly took the edict from Qin Hui's hand and read it carefully. At first glance, his face became even more ugly.
It turns out that this edict not only contains "millions of soldiers from Hebei and Hedong", but also "millions of troops from the west". In addition to the 300,000 garrison troops in Kaifeng Prefecture, there are a total of 2.3 million troops... This is truly unprecedented in scale!
If there are really so many, not to mention destroying the few golden soldiers outside Kaifeng City, even reaching Huanglong would be enough.
"Millions of people..." Zhao Kai frowned, "Where can the lonely king find millions of people?"
Chen Ji and Qin Hui were both dumbfounded after hearing Zhao Kai's words. Millions of people have always deceived people, how could it be true?
Zhao Kai sighed, glanced at the two people next to him, and said slowly: "Now the court wants the lonely king to gather millions of people from Hebei and Hedong to serve the king... If the number is insufficient, isn't it a violation of the law? Is it an imperial edict?”
Is there any other way to say this?
Chen Ji immediately understood what Zhao Kai was thinking and nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes...since the imperial court wants the king to send millions of troops, then the king cannot take 30 to 50 thousand people to deal with errands. Let’s gather an army of three to five million people!”
Qin Hui frowned and asked: "How can we gather these three to five million troops? Moreover, the military situation in Kaifeng Mansion is very bad. If it is too late to rescue, I'm afraid..."
At this point in his words, he no longer dared to continue, because he found that Zhao Kaizheng was looking at him with a gloomy look!
Zhao Kai spoke again at this time: "Gather all the generals and officials to discuss politics!"
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"I will see you, Your Majesty!"
In the Chongzheng Hall in the Daming Mansion Palace, Hebei Military Marshal and King Yun Zhao Kai was accepting the worship of his officials.
Zhao Kai, who was paying homage, did not wear the court or fashion clothes of a Song Dynasty prince. Instead, he wore a bright red narrow-sleeved round-neck robe and a soft-footed headdress, and there was a sword hanging on his belt.
Most of the officials who paid homage to him in the temple were wearing similar outfits, but they did not bring swords - there were swords, but they could not be brought to the temple! The remaining one is still in the clothes of Song Dynasty civil servants. The people wearing narrow-sleeved round collar robes are all generals under Zhao Kai, headed by He Guan, the commander of the capital (who also serves as the commander of the Ya army), and they are listed on the right side of Zhao Kai. Those wearing civil official uniforms are the civil servants controlled by Zhao Kai, and they are listed on the left side of Zhao Kai.
This dress is not something you wear randomly, but is extremely symbolic!
In the Song Dynasty, the narrow-sleeved, round-collared robe was worn by officials and those with royal equipment. It was considered a kind of warrior uniform (not a military attaché uniform, as there was no military attache uniform in the Song Dynasty). Zhao Kai now personally puts on this narrow-sleeved, round-neck robe and turned it into a fashion uniform for himself and his military attachés. This is a public declaration that he is also a warrior!
Since Zhao Kai is a warrior, and he also lets the military attachés wear the same clothes as himself, it means that the status of warriors in the Generalissimo's Mansion is higher, or at least equal to that of literati.
Of course, the Song Dynasty's "gentlemanship and martial arts lightness" could not be changed by Zhao Kai and a group of warriors changing their clothes.
But the civil servants present still felt the strong martial spirit floating in the hall...
"Everyone, sit down!"
Zhao Kai's eyes swept over this group of civil servants and generals, while trying to put on a melancholy expression - his biological father Zhao Ji, biological eldest brother Zhao Huan, and a large group of younger brothers and sisters are still trapped in Kaifeng City! And he couldn't bring out a million troops to save him, so how could he not be depressed?
Seeing the civil servants and generals sitting down, Zhao Kai, who was pretending to be depressed, sighed: "The lonely king received two major edicts from the imperial court today.
One is an edict from General Feng Gu that day! "
General Tiance? I really want to be Zhao Shimin!
The eyes of all the civil and military officers in the main hall were bright, and then some people stood up and wanted to congratulate Zhao Kai, but were stopped by Zhao Kai with a wave of his hand.
Zhao Kai said: "Being a general of Tiance is not what I want, but destroying the thieves and restoring peace to the world is what I want...and the second imperial edict that I received today is the order." The lonely king gathered millions of soldiers from Hebei and Hedong to rescue Kaifeng Mansion!"
He looked at the civil servants and generals below with stern eyes, and asked word by word: "Tell me, where is my million-strong army?"
Upon hearing this question, all the officials present immediately knew the answer - where are the millions of troops? Of course in a dream!
Zhao Kai looked at this group of people, taking in all their surprised expressions, and finally set his sights on Qin Hui.
"Chang Shi of Qin," Zhao Kai asked in a deep voice, "You are the chief history of the Commandery, the head of all officials. Do you know where the million-strong army of the lonely king is?"
While asking, he looked at Qin Hui coldly, as if to say: Where is the lonely million-strong army? Was it hidden for you?
Qin Hui was startled by Zhao Kai's eyes. What does this king mean? Didn't I just say too much when he was involved in the Donghua Gate Incident? Why did he keep targeting me?
Although he knew something was wrong, Qin Hui still had to bite the bullet and give Zhao Kai some advice!
He thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, because of the invasion of gold thieves, many powerful people in Hedong, Hebei and other places have formed strongholds to protect themselves, separatist forces, and are known as rebels. If the court can provide officials with money and food, they can be recruited. There are no millions, but it should not be a problem to recruit 200,000 rebels from Hedong, Hebei and other places."
"Okay!" Zhao Kai nodded heavily: "The policy of Chang Shi is very appropriate. King Gu will set up two rebel recruitment envoys in Hebei and Hedong. The Hebei rebel recruitment envoy will be served by King Shen, and the Hedong rebel recruitment envoy... ..I know, or else I’ll let you do it!”
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