Finally caught up! The second update will be released at six o'clock!
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"The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling; the meandering green water leads to the vermilion tower; the flying roosters cross the Chi Road, and the hanging poplars shade the ditch; the wings of the condensate paper are high, and the drums are folded to send the flower carriage; the cloud platform table is presented, Great fame and great success..."
Zhao Huan, an official of the Yingtian court who had put on his filial piety clothes and put on the spacious imperial clothes, was standing on the Lion Mountain outside Yingtian (Jiangning) City, looking north at the river, with tears in his eyes (all the happy ones) cried), but what he recited was "The Song of Entering the Dynasty" by Xie Tiao, a poet of the Southern Dynasty.
He now appreciates the phrase "beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling" because he feels that the Jinling under his feet is really the imperial state.
The terrain of Jinling is great!
It is adjacent to Dajiang River in the north, Qinhuai River in the west, and Zhongshan Mountain in the southeast. As long as it is managed a little, it will be an iron-clad city. Even more reliable than Taiyuan City in the Northern Han Dynasty!
Compared with Jinling, Kaifeng Mansion is really not suitable as an imperial home at all.
There is a hanging river to the north of Kaifeng Prefecture, and although it is surrounded by plains, because it is all dry land, the food output is not high. Moreover, there are too many big cities around Kaifeng Prefecture, and the food consumption is huge, and it is impossible to rely on the output of the surrounding villages to sustain it. Therefore, millions of grains of rice had to be transported from the Southeast Sixth Road every year in order for the Bianliang people to fill their bellies.
For the Song Dynasty, which was weak in military strength and did not have the danger of Yanshan Mountain to shield the northern cavalry, making Kaifeng Mansion its capital was simply seeking death!
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, there were already three small courts of Hou Liang, Hou Jin, and Hou Han that suffered from the terrain of Bianliang... And the imperial guards of these three small courts were not as good as the previous Kaifeng imperial army. How much stronger!
Those are all elites who fought in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties! In the end, he still couldn't survive, and his family was easily destroyed.
And what kind of people were the Kaifeng Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty during the Xuanhe period? It was barely possible to defend the city, let alone go out to fight in the field.
Without a field battle, Kaifeng Mansion could not be defended at all... The imperial court trapped in the city could only choose one of three options: surrender, escape, or wait for death.
Even the ruthless Zhao Kai actually chose to run away, but he ran more decently, under the banner of going north to fight against the Jin Dynasty. In fact, in December of the seventh year of Xuanhe, the most dangerous thing in the Song Dynasty was Kaifeng Prefecture is even more dangerous than Taiyuan Prefecture in Hedong!
Zhao Kai went north to his name, re-entered Xiangzhou, and then headed to Hedong. At first glance, it seemed that he was advancing to meet the enemy, but in fact he was avoiding the enemy... because the enemy's first target was Kaifeng Mansion!
The entire strategy of Dajin's invasion revolves around conquering Kaifeng Mansion!
Therefore, after the East Route Army responsible for this task "lost contact", the West Route Army's mission must be changed from conquering Taiyuan Prefecture and then going south to a detour southward... because the Jin Kingdom could not bear the loss of losing the East Route Army. This is also the reason why Zhao Kai was able to successfully take control of Hedong after the victory of the Pingding Army.
At that time, Zhao Huan was trapped in a dangerous place with no way to escape, and there was no army that could fight to save his life. He was also surrounded by a group of Bianliangzi who were in desperate situations and didn't know it... He was really waiting to die!
Now I can run to the safety of Jinling and continue to be an emperor who lives in the southeast. It is really blessed by God... This is Zhao Huan's destiny!
As a king, you must know your destiny!
Zhao Kai's destiny is in the northwest, while Zhao Huan's destiny is in the southeast.
Therefore, Zhao Huan, who entered Jinling City, does not want to return to Kaifeng Mansion at all now... He now wants to live his whole life in Jinling.
Since he was going to live his whole life in Jinling, Zhao Huan felt that the original Jiangning city at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain was unreliable.
It was an old city inherited from the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention it was in disrepair, and it was too far away from the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River...so once the enemy broke through the Yangtze River, it would be easy to surround Jiangning City.
Although the Yangtze River is dangerous, it is too long and cannot be tightly fortified everywhere. Therefore, Jinling cannot be defended by the Yangtze River alone.
To ensure safety, a new city must be built along the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River. The new city must integrate river defense and city defense.
Then build a powerful enough Forbidden Navy navy, and build a water city in the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River as the base camp of the navy.
Shuiying and Jinling New City must also be integrated!
Today, Zhao Huan led a group of ministers out of the old city of Jinling and boarded the Lion on the bank of the Yangtze River to inspect the new city of Jinling, which was under intense construction.
This new city is not large in scale and does not have a traditional square shape. Instead, it is built along the banks of the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River. The city walls are integrated with the river embankments and embankments. Several city gates are integrated with several piers.
The northeast of the city is also pillowed by Lime Mountain (Shogunate Mountain), and a fortress integrated with Jinling City will be built on the mountain.
A "water city" will be built on the west side of the city connected to Jinling New City, and part of the Qinhuai River will be included in the water city. In the future, the old camp and shipyard of the Imperial Navy will be located there.
As long as the new city is built and the navy is trained, Zhao Huan can sit back and relax and become his emperor in the south of the Yangtze River... Unless Zhao Kai and Jin Thief can have a navy strong enough to suppress the Jiangdong navy, otherwise Zhao Huan's Jinling Imperial State will be as stable as Mount Tai.
And it is impossible for Zhao Kai and Jin Thief to have a powerful navy...because in Zhao Huan's view, the navy is built on money!
Zhao Huan, who owns the rich land in the southeast, is still the richest among the three parties today, even if he has to give two cents to Zhao Kai and the golden thief in the north!
In fact, when the Song Dynasty unified the world, the Southeast Sixth Road had to send 6 million to the Song Dynasty court every year for just one canal meter!
Just take it out now... Let Zhao Kai and the golden thief take the money and food to fight each other!
Thinking of this, Zhao Huan took a deep breath and said to Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui behind him: "The Jinren and the third brother want money, money and food, right? I can give... give their family three million ! As long as the Jin people can't cross the Huaihe River, Lao San can't leave the Han River, and don't enter the Huainan West Road.
As for professing vassal status, they can just do it! What kind of emperor, what kind of lord of Jiangnan, what kind of king of Wu, whatever they want, I will not agree or refute, anyway, I will be the emperor of Jiangnan! "
His attitude is much tougher than that of Zhao Gou in history!
It's not that he has the guts, but the situation in the north is now "Northern Zhou vs. Northern Qi", and no one can go south with all their strength. Moreover, it is impossible for Zhao Kai and Jin Guo to spend their limited financial resources on the navy, at least not until they defeat each other.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
"Your Majesty, you can't do that. Since ancient times, the Han Dynasty has been divided between thieves and thieves, and the king's business has never been peaceful!"
It was Qin Hui who praised Zhao Huan for his sage.
It was Yu Wenxuzhong who kept nagging that "the Han and the traitors are not at odds with each other, and the king's industry is not at peace."
These two men are not talking to Zhao Huan as envoys of the enemy country, but as ministers following Zhao Huan.
Because both of them arrived in Jiangnan in the name of "return", theoretically neither of them had ever sought refuge with Zhao Kai or the Kingdom of Jin.
Zhao Huan turned around and glanced at the white-faced Qin Hui. He knew that Zhao Kai had taken this guy away from the late emperor because he opposed Zhao Kai that day... Later, he was captured by the gold thief, and now he has been "released." "It's been quite a journey to get to me!"
Because it was too twists and turns, the censors in the court suspected that he was a spy...either Zhao Kai's spy or the Jin Ren's spy!
Zhao Huan ignored him and appointed Qin Hui as the Minister of Rites.
Then Zhao Huan glanced at Yu Wenxuzhong, the Minister of Rites, who was also carrying a full body of ammunition. The censors seriously suspected that he had taken refuge with Zhao Kai, and the evidence was very conclusive! Because after Yu Wenxuzhong handed over the territory and most of the army to Zhao Kai, he came to Jinling with Zhao Kai's edict conferring Zhao Huan the title of King of Wu.
But Zhao Huan still ignored him and made Yu Wenxuzhong the minister, a higher official than Qin Hui.
"I am not a sage who spends money to buy peace, but I can't beat him... I really can't beat him!" Zhao Huan is quite honest, "Now most of the warriors in the world have been won over by Third Brother and follow him. Except for the two elders of the Zhong family and Liu Guangshi's remnant soldiers, I came to the south of the Yangtze River, as well as some of the forbidden troops of Bianliang Zichong. The northern expedition and the western expedition are all hopeless! Since there is no hope, then we can only obey nature and spend money to eliminate disasters. .....This is not my idea alone, there are probably nine out of ten people in Jinling City who have such thoughts!"
Li Gang, Zhong Shizhong, and Zhong Shi Min have already gone south from Daming Mansion to King Qin. However, he did not catch up with Zhao Huan, but stopped at Huaiyang Army (Xiapi) and Haizhou, becoming a human shield to resist the golden thieves' southward march.
Liu Guangshi did not die for his country with his father Liu Yanqing, but fled to Yingtian Mansion with thousands of people. Then he escorted Zhao Huan all the way south to Jinling, killing many bandits and recruiting some stragglers along the way. By the time he crossed the Yangtze River, Liu Guangshi already had an army of 20,000 to 30,000 men. Now he was appointed by Zhao Huan as the Xuanfu envoy on Jinghu Road and also known as Ezhou, to resist Zhao Kai.
In addition, there is Fan Qiong who ran away from the Wannian Xindi battlefield and now leads the Huaixi pacification envoy and knows Shouzhou.
Under the protection of these three groups of soldiers, Zhao Huan's small court finally stabilized its position.
After stabilizing our position, of course we need development, and for development... we need talents to assist!
Zhao Huan looked at Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui, paused and said: "Just use 6 million to deal with the problems in the west and north! The six-way grain canal in the first year of Jingkang (Zhao Huan has changed the Yuan Dynasty) (the eighth year of Xuanhe) has been prepared. , it will be shipped to Songzhou and Xiangyang respectively soon!"
With food, Zhao Kai and the Kingdom of Jin can attack each other!
If they don't have food, they have to go south to grab food! When the two families beat him together, will Zhao Huan still be alive?
So Zhao Huan's move seemed cowardly, but in fact it had some bad intentions.
Zhao Huan smiled coldly and said: "I still have an important mission for you two... The second year of Jingkang is the year of great competition! I have created a situation in Jiangnan, and I also need talents to serve as officials!
Therefore, the imperial examination will be carried out as usual. We should let the talents in Jiangnan have the opportunity to become officials, so that they will support me, the emperor of Pianan.
The Ministry of Etiquette should be responsible for the imperial examination. You two should take care of this matter! "
