If Xiao Zhonggong insists on letting Zhao Huan call him his son and his minister, then Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui can directly send him back to Anfeng.
Because both Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui already knew that the Jin soldiers were defeated in the Jingji Road and Jingxi Road areas - whether they were defeated by Zhao Kai's real swords and guns, or were flooded by Zhao Kai's water, they were all defeated! Moreover, the defeat was quite ugly. He could no longer gain a foothold in Huaibei and slipped all the way to Huainan!
Under such circumstances, if Zhao Huan still proclaims himself a son and vassal to the Kingdom of Jin, it is hard to say whether the heroes in the southeast will regard him as Zhengshuo.
Although Zhao Kai has positioned the world today as a time of chaos, the scholar-bureaucrats and people in the ten and two states in the southeast still live in stability and prosperity, and their thinking is completely that of the peaceful era. Therefore, they all believe in the principle of "there are no two days in the sky and no two masters in the people", and before they really see Zhao Kai's powerful troops and horses, they will not agree with the fallacy that "the emperor would rather have a seed, and the strong soldiers and horses will do it." heresy.
Therefore, in the eyes of the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats, Zhao Kai, who proclaimed himself emperor and declared that he would "reopen the Song Dynasty", was not Zhengshuo at all, but a treacherous traitor who would be killed sooner or later by troops.
And Zhao Huan, the prince of the late Emperor Zhuangzong, is the orthodox lord of China!
It was precisely because of this understanding that Zhao Huan, who did not have much force at hand, could safely sit as the emperor of Jinling who ruled the southeast, and without much effort, he pacified the southeast half... Of course there were some who rebelled and made trouble, but with the joint efforts of the few Song troops and local scholar-bureaucrats, they all rose up and fell, and no major disaster occurred.
But if Zhao Huan still recognized the traitor as his father and begged Wanyan Wu to become his minister and son when Zhao Kai was firmly on the throne of the Central Plains, then his Zhengshuo status would be lost in an instant.
His orthodox status was inherited from Emperor Zhuangzong Zhao Ji. If the father changed and the surname Zhao was changed to Wanyan, then he would no longer be the son of the late Emperor Zhuangzong... He If he is not Zhao Ji's son, then Zhao Kai is Zhao Ji's eldest son. However, Zhao Ji's only legitimate son was Zhao Huan. If the legitimate son recognized his wild father, he would be gone. Naturally, the eldest son of the concubine would take the throne.
When the time comes, Zhao Kai doesn't even need to send troops to fight. He can just let King Zhao Shuxiang of Xiangyang lead three to five thousand men to take over Jinling City!
Therefore, if Zhao Kai is not defeated, Zhao Huan will never recognize his wild father, nor can he surrender to Da Jin.
But Xiao Zhonggong did not insist on "proclaiming himself a minister" and "recognizing his father", and took a step back, "the Yellow River is the boundary and we are brothers."
Therefore, Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui had to take Xiao Zhonggong back to Jinling City to meet Zhao Huan.
But the Jinling City that appeared in front of Xiao Zhonggong had two, oh, one and a half to be precise!
One is the original capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was later called Jiangning Prefecture. Now Zhao Huan and the entire Jinling court are temporarily squeezed into this narrow Jiangning Prefecture. The original Jiangning Prefecture Yamen was also converted into a temporary palace by Zhao Huan. city.
The other half is Yingtian Fucheng, which is under construction, located to the north of Jiangning Fucheng, and is built based on the Yangtze River, the Qinhuai River estuary, and the Shimei Mountain (Mufu Mountain). The project is very large, involving more than 100,000 people. After several months of construction, it now has an outline. The 12-mile-long rammed earth portion of the city wall from the mouth of the Qinhuai River to the western foot of the Shimeishan Mountain has been completed, and is now being "brick-wrapped," that is, wrapping the thick rammed earth wall with a layer of hard green bricks.
This section of the city wall is built on the edge of the Yangtze River. Below the city wall are the river embankments and docks. The attacking enemy has nowhere to deploy. You can rest easy even if you build an earthen wall, but the people of the Song Dynasty actually spared no effort to build a brick wall... You can only imagine how strong the defense of this Xinying Tianfu City is!
But was such a strong castle really used to resist the Jin Kingdom, which had no intention of conquering the south and had not even launched its navy yet?
Yu Wenxuzhong, Qin Hui, and Xiao Zhonggong were riding a water wheel official ship. When there was no wind or headwind, they could not use the oars and sculls, but use the two human-powered water wheels installed on both sides of the ship. . Although the speed of this water wheel is not fast, it is very stable and flexible, and can go anywhere. After walking around outside the city wall along the river in Yingtian Mansion, we drove into the Qinhuai River.
Within the mouth of the Qinhuai River, it is extremely busy. Not long after walking, you can see docks, shops, and warehouses lined up on both sides of the river. Cargo ships were coming and going on the river, and most of them were equipped with water wheels, and they were fully loaded. They were queuing up on the river outside the docks, waiting to load and unload cargo.
The official water wheel boat traveled on the Qinhuai River for nearly an hour before entering Jiangning Prefecture through a water gate. Jiangning Fucheng was already one of the leading big cities, but now it was crowded with two to three hundred thousand northern refugees, and it was even more noisy to the point where Xiao Zhonggong even had a headache.
Just when he was surprised by the crowding and prosperity of Jiangning City, the official water steamer he was riding stopped at the pier outside a hotel.
After Yu Wenxuzhong and Qin Hui made arrangements for the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin, they went to the temporary palace in the city to report to Zhao Huan.
After Zhao Huan learned about the Jin people's peace conditions, he immediately held a court meeting in Chongzheng Hall.
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"The officials... It seems that the gold thief was really distressed by King Yun's flood. The loss was not small. This is our opportunity!"
Yu Wenxuzhong first reported the "fake news" he had learned from Xiao Zhonggong, and then made suggestions without losing any opportunity.
"It must be very difficult for this group of golden soldiers to retreat across the Huaihe River. We might as well negotiate for peace, secretly mobilize the troops, advance by land and water, and raid Anfeng. We will definitely win a complete victory and avenge the death of the late Emperor Zhuang Zong!"
"This..." Zhao Huan was also a little moved. If he could avenge his biological father, then his orthodox status would be secure!
But the problem is... no matter how difficult it is to be a gold thief, he is still a gold thief!
Zhao Huan's new recruits have not yet been trained. There are only 80,000 troops at hand, and they are scattered everywhere. If he can gather 30,000 troops for a sneak attack, he will be able to withstand the sky.
Is this enough people?
"Absolutely not!"
Qin Hui has already raised objections, "Officials must not forget the lesson of uniting with Jin to defeat Liao! Liao may not be impossible to defeat, and Jin is not inextricable... But our government should not take chances and fail to train ourselves." We have elite soldiers and hope that the enemy will be weak and unprepared. This is like gambling on the destiny of the country. If the bet is wrong, the country will be in danger of destruction!"
Yes, yes... Zhao Huan immediately put away his little opportunistic thoughts.
"What Qin Qing said is absolutely true," Zhao Huan raised his voice slightly, his tone sounding firm, "I believe that when using troops, you must not take chances. When the court does important things, it should be upright. Count on one or two sneak attacks to make the deceit work. , is definitely not the behavior of a gentleman, nor is it the behavior of a benevolent monarch. I will first train 200,000 new soldiers, and at the same time save tens of millions of military expenses and millions of dan of military rations. Once the soldiers, pay, and food are sufficient, then With a majestic army, we can naturally win in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains!"
"Officials," Yu Wenxu said, "The gold thieves are the enemies of our dynasty. It's fine if the court can't send out large numbers of soldiers to kill them all. We can never make peace with them. This will only chill the hearts of the brave men from Jiangdong!"
Qin Hui immediately refuted: "If we don't make peace with them, how can we let the two Huaihe Rivers fall into the flames of war? The two Huaihei Rivers are a sacred land. The court wants to train troops and raise wages. The two Huaihei Rivers cannot be in chaos, let alone be robbed by gold thieves every year!"
"Officials," Tongzhi Privy Councilor Zhang Suo said to the class, "Although what Qin Hui said has some truth, the righteousness must not be lost... Otherwise, if the Jin soldiers don't come, King Yun may not come! "
That's right, even though you don't recognize your wild father, it's not right to call yourself a brother to the enemy who killed your father!
If Zhao Kairuo sends troops in the name of attacking the unfilial son Zhao Huan, I am afraid that the Jinling King will have to give up!
"Of course I will never make peace with the golden thief!" Zhao Huan frowned deeply.
Neither harmony nor disharmony... What should we do?
"Officials, I have a solution."
The person who has the solution is Zhang Bangchang, who had been a prime minister for a while. However, he had long seen that Zhao Huan's intention was Geng Nanzhong, so he resigned as Taizai in the name of concentrating on building a mausoleum for the late emperor, and recommended Geng Nanzhong as his successor.
Now that Zhuangzong's mausoleum has been completed, Geng Nanzhong reciprocated his favor and appointed him as the young prime minister. Although he was demoted one level, it was the second time he became prime minister, and last time the Dazai was a "consolation prize prime minister", this time the Young Master is the real prime minister.
Zhao Huan looked at Zhang Bangchang who had a solution and asked: "What can you do, Young Master? Tell me quickly!"
"In the official family, a draw is hard to come by... Then can we fight with the golden thief?" Zhang Bangchang first asked himself, and then answered, "Obviously it is not possible! I think Jiangdong heroes would not think so. The imperial court has the strength to fight the gold thief. So I think we can make a ten-year no-fight agreement with the gold thief!"
"Ten years of no-war agreement?" Zhao Huan said as he pondered: Isn't ten years too short?
Geng Nanzhong went out to the class and said: "Officials, I think it is best not to fight for ten years... It is not too long, not too short! It is justified in all aspects, and it is also conducive to supervising the training of the new army officers and soldiers!" "
This is equivalent to a ten-year reprieve from death!
If you don't practice well, once ten years are up, you will have to go to the battlefield and die!
"But can the Jin man agree?" Zhao Huan whispered, "Only ten years..."
"Yes!" Qin Hui almost agreed on behalf of Wanyan Zonghan, "The golden thief may not have the intention to annex the southeast... Ten years of no war means no war with His Majesty, not no war with King Yun! The problem now is just that with Yun How will the king deal with it?"
The most dangerous one is indeed Zhao Kai! Zhao Huanxin said: Although the gold thief is cruel, he can still tolerate me for ten years. But what about Saburo? Can he tolerate me for ten years?
Thinking of this, a genius solution suddenly popped into Zhao Huan's mind!
"Yes!" Zhao Huan slapped his thigh, and then suddenly coughed loudly!
"Guan Jia, what are you..."
"Guan Jia, are you catching a cold?"
"Officials, hurry up and announce the royal doctor!"
Upon hearing that Zhao Huan coughed, everyone became nervous. Zhao Huan waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "I have always been weak and sick, and the Prince of Daning County (Zhao Chen) is also weak and sick. It seems difficult to inherit the throne, so I thought about whether I could use the method of brother to brother... ...Make the emperor's younger brother!"
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