What Zhao Gou is saying now is actually his long-standing political stance. Even if it spans time and space, even if the situation is difficult, even if his life hangs on a thread, he will always adhere to it.
His proposition, in a nutshell, is to make every effort to reestablish the Northern Song Dynasty's use of literature to control military affairs and the emphasis on literature over military affairs.
To achieve your goal, you may even risk your own life!
Using civil servants to control military affairs does not mean directly turning civilian officials into warlords like Zhao Huan did. Historically, at the turn of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, there were actually signs of civilian officials turning into warlords. Zongze, who stayed in Tokyo, was basically a warlord. The troops he recruited under his command basically listened to Zongze instead of the court.
Moreover, Zongze's personnel power was extremely large, almost unlimited. In June of the second year of Jianyan, shortly before his death, Zongze appointed Wang Shu as the power to control the six armies of Shaanxi Province, and Qu Duan as the capital of the control department. Control... these two people actually took office!
At that time, the power of Zongze, who was left behind in Tokyo, was evident!
In July of the first year of Jianyan, when Zhao Gou was discussing with the courtiers where to escape in Yingtian Mansion, Nanjing, Li Gang suggested that he could run to Chang'an or Xiangyang, but it was really a bad idea to escape to the southeast.
After all, the Sixth Route of Guanzhong is still there, and there are hundreds of thousands of Western troops. These are all combat-effective troops!
And Xiangyang is also a natural hazard, and the great god Zongze is stationed in Kaifeng Mansion in the north, so it looks very safe!
Even if you calculate the distance, Xiangyang and Xi'an are further away from Yanjing, while Yangzhou is closer to Yanjing.
On one side are Xi'an and Xiangyang, which have soldiers and generals, are fortified by mountains or dangerous by Jianghan, and are relatively far away from the enemy.
On one side is Yangzhou, which has few soldiers and is relatively close to the enemy. Only the Huaihe River can stop the enemy.
The average coward would definitely go to Xiangyang or Guanzhong to escape.
But Zhao Gou chose Yangzhou!
Moreover, while Zhao Gou chose to flee to Yangzhou, he repeatedly refused to appoint the head coach of Guanzhong Sixth Route!
At that time, the troops of the Sixth Route of Guanzhong were all along the Five Routes of the Border. The Yongxing Military Route, which controlled the Guanzhong Plain, had few troops, so it was unable to stop the Jin soldiers from invading. And the envoys of the Yongxing Military Route cannot mobilize troops from the Five Yanbian Routes. Even if the soldiers from the Five Yanbian Routes are willing to come, they will be charged with sending troops without authorization.
Therefore, the Yongxing Army Commander at that time was defeated and killed in Jingzhao Mansion after many requests to supervise the Fifth Route Army to no avail. When he died in Jingzhao Mansion, he had less than a thousand soldiers at hand!
The fertile Guanzhong Plain fell inexplicably.
It was under this circumstance that Zongze appointed Wang Shu and Qu Duan as the six governors and governors. This appointment was very unreliable, but it was okay for Wang Shu, because he was a civil servant after all.
But it was not easy to say for Qu Duan. He was a military attache and the chief general of Jingyuan. Without being appointed by the imperial court, he was appointed as the commander of the Six Routes by a Tokyo garrison, and he also led troops into the Yongxing Military Route... According to the military law of the Song Dynasty, this was a crime worthy of beheading, right?
Therefore, in history, it is very natural that Li Xiaozhong was defeated and died due to Qu Duan's disobedience to the king's orders, and the Guanzhong Plain fell for the second time. After all, Zongze was already dead at that time, and there was no one left who could preserve his integrity.
If Zhao Gou officially appointed Wang Shu as the six governors of Shaanxi Province and granted him the power to act expeditiously, how could Qu Duan disobey the order? If he dared not listen, Wang Shu would have killed him long ago!
But the problem is that Wang Shu is a local snake in Shaanxi (he is from Shaanxi), and he has been working in Shaanxi for a long time, and he is being trained as a commander-in-chief. Let such a person, far away from the control of the imperial court, propagate Shaanxi for a long time, he will definitely become Zongze's second best!
Later, it was the end of the third year of Jianyan's reign when Zhao Gou sent Zhang Jun, whom he trusted very much, to announce the Fuchuan and Shaanxi Routes. The situation in Shaanxi has gone from fair to critical, and the elite troops of the Five Route Army have suffered heavy losses without a leader. Moreover, Zhang Jun had little military experience at the time. He had never fought against the Jin soldiers, let alone worked in Shaanxi, so he became the commander-in-chief of the Tenth Route Army without knowing anything.
The reason for such an appointment is simply that Zhao Gou knew that Zhang Jun was loyal and reliable and would not become the second Zongze!
Moreover, Zhang Jun was a scholar with basically zero military experience, and he would probably be defeated in Shaanxi. After he suffered a defeat, the Western Army of the Song Dynasty would not have much strength left.
So before Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei, he had actually beaten Zongze to death (how to deal with Kaifeng's army once Zongze died was a big problem. Zhao Gou couldn't deal with it personally, so he basically broke up the army) and defeated the Western Army. The main force...and this is still under the circumstances where the military strength is weak and even self-protection is extremely problematic.
This kind of courage is not as good as that of Zhao Huan, not to mention the coward Zhao Kai, who dares to kill thieves in battle.
Zhao Kai regarded a group of warrior generals as good brothers, and then went into battle under their protection!
The warriors guarding him were many more capable soldiers than Zhao Gou who went to Yangzhou in history. Even the woman he sleeps with at night is a fierce woman who can go into battle to kill the enemy!
And Zhao Gou, in order to realize his ideal of leading the Song Dynasty to the end, continued to deal cruel blows to his own military leaders when facing powerful enemies, and he really didn't even risk his life.
But this time it is a little difficult for Zhao Gou to defeat his own military leader!
Because he is still an emperor now...and the biggest military leader around him is not Li Cheng, Liu Lin, Kong Yanzhou and others, but Queen Wanyan Yan!
His emperor's life is now being pinched by these people, and he may be pinched to death at any time!
In addition, Zhao Gou did not have a group of civil servants with imperial examination background who he could trust. Those "little pretty" Jinshi are all officials appointed by Queen Wanyanyan, and they are also unreliable...
Thinking of this, Zhao Gou's brows knitted tightly.
Seeing Zhao Gou's heavy face, the civil and military officials present and the "Queen of the Army" Wanyan Yan all thought to themselves: Is this official now starting to worry about the country and the people?
"The official family..." Wanyanyan didn't know that she had been on Zhao Gou's "blacklist". She had entered the role now. Seeing Zhao Gou's sad face, she comforted him and said, "Now The mountains and rivers are broken, and thieves have taken over the old capital. It won’t take a day to clean up, so don’t rush for success!”
"Yes, yes...it's not a day's work!" Zhao Gou nodded repeatedly, "It will be difficult to restore the old capital for a while, and the imperial court can only live in Pizhou temporarily. Queen, why not change the name of Pizhou first."
Wanyan Yan said with a smile: "There is no need to discuss such important matters with me, the official's sacred heart is the dictatorship."
Well, Zhao Gou's power is still quite big!
He can also be the dictator of the Sacred Heart when it comes to changing the name of Pizhou!
Zhao Gou said: "Then let Pizhou be promoted to Lin'an Prefecture!"
Lin'an was the place where the imperial court was temporarily housed...
"Yes." Wanyanyan still nodded - she listens to her husband on all big things!
Zhao Gou thought about it for a while and then said: "There is another important matter that must be finalized as soon as possible, which is to open a new school to recruit scholars! Now most of the Central Plains is occupied by the pseudo-Song Dynasty in Luoyang, and the pseudo-Song Dynasty does not lie with Zhao Kai His bloodline was not correct, but it was because Zhao Kai violated the family law of his ancestors and no longer shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.
And if I want to establish a firm foothold, I must pick up the family traditions of my ancestors in the Song Dynasty and rule the world well with the scholar-bureaucrats. Therefore, it is very important to open a subject and obtain a scholarship! I want to inform all state capitals as soon as possible and order each place to organize a release test as soon as possible. "
"This matter should also be left to the dictatorship of the officials!" Queen Wanyanyan returned the power of holding examinations to obtain scholars to Zhao Gou - she had held an imperial examination before, but in the end it was turned into a "beauty contest", which was indeed a bit excessive. .
Wanyan Yan also knew something was wrong, but she really couldn't understand those Jinxiu articles, so she just looked at her face... Now that Mu Yi is really in the world (actually Mu Yi Shandong), she can't mess around like this anymore.
Zhao Gou, on the other hand, was secretly happy. Recruiting scholars was the real power!
Now that Zhao Kai is acting rebelliously by the river and in the Yanjing area, he is seizing gentry land. Sooner or later, the gentry in the Jingdong area will know his true identity.
If Zhao Gou could open up a subject to obtain scholars at this time, he would let the scholar-bureaucrats all over the world know that he was of the same mind as them, and he would be able to gain a group of staunch supporters.
...
"The official family, the official family, something big happened!"
In the Imperial City of Beijing, it was Wu Lin who joined the army at the camp and reported to Zhao Kai who was playing chess with his granddaughter.
The personal expedition camp that originally stayed in Kaifeng Prefecture has now moved to Beijing, and Xiang Ke, the camp manager, has also been appointed to inform Shuntian Prefecture. A large number of affairs in Shuntian Mansion are also supervised by Zheng Zhengying.
Zhao Kai quickly put down the flag in his hand and looked back at Wu Lin, "What happened? Is it a gold thief..."
Wu Lin shook her head and handed over a military report from the Camp and Military Department with both hands, "Guan family, your ninth brother Kang Wang has ascended the throne in Lin'an Mansion and became an official!"
"What? Zhao Gou arrived in Hangzhou? How is this possible?" Zhao Kai was shocked.
"Guan family, Lin'an Prefecture is not in Hangzhou..." Wu Lin was also a little speechless. This official family didn't even read the military newspaper, so why did they say Lin'an is Hangzhou?
How could this Lin'an be Hangzhou?
Hangzhou is the territory of Liangzhe Road. It is the heart of Zhao Huan. How could it be snatched away by Zhao Gou? Zhao Huan has a strong ship and a powerful gun!
"Not Hangzhou?" Zhao Kai then remembered that it was Zhao Gou who changed the name from Hangzhou to Lin'an!
"The official family," Wu Lin said, "Kang Kang was supported by his subordinates as the official family in Chenqiao, Pizhou. He named Wanyan Yan as the queen, made his eldest son Shanzhen the prince, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Shaoxing and Pizhou to Lin'an Prefecture."
Oh, in Pizhou... Zhao Kai unfolded the military newspaper, a volume, and read it carefully. After reading for a while, he frowned.
It turns out that he saw that Zhao Gou was going to open a subject to obtain a scholarship next spring!
Zhao Kai wanted to enjoy being the emperor for two days, but Zhao Kai actually didn't care. He would just send Yue Fei to catch him when the time comes! The grudge between the two of them must be settled, right?
But it's a bit abominable that Zhao Gou opened a subject on Jingdong Road to obtain scholars... He obviously wanted to recruit a group of traitorous landlords to join forces to resist the Song Dynasty's heavenly soldiers!
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai had no intention of going down, and whispered: "I want to hold a camp military meeting... find someone to come!"
