Compared to generals such as Guo Yaoshi and Zhen Wuchen, who were always victorious, Lu Yihao, as a minister in the court, was astonished to the extreme.
Trying his best to suppress his impulse to question, he calmed the people, evacuated the people, and then personally led the way, leading Prince Yun of the Song Dynasty into their mansion.
I really didn’t dare let him use the previous settlement place.
Before knowing the envoy this time, although there was news, they did not know his identity, so they decided that the temporary residence of Prince Yun would be Qin Hui's residence.
Let them live together...
Even if Lu Yihao dared to do so, Qin Hui did not dare to do so. A group of people quickly sent Prince Yun to his council residence for temporary accommodation.
On the way, Yaoshi Guo, who had solved all the problems peacefully, couldn't help but run to Lu Yihao and ask.
"What is the identity of Prince Yun? Why is Mr. Lu so surprised? It seems that he is not just a member of the royal family?"
"A member of the royal family?" Lu Yihao couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I can only tell you that this person is one step away from becoming a real official. Don't say any more. Go and invite General Yue Fei in. I will talk to you again. say."
Lu Yihao didn't want to say the same thing twice, so he simply asked Pharmacist Guo to invite Yue Fei in, and then he would talk to these people.
Zhao Kai also knew that he had a special status, so he cooperated very much and asked Lu Yihao to give some information about his identity to Guo Yaoshi and others, as well as Yue Fei and Zhang Xian who had just arrived.
"This King Yun, Zhao Kai, is the son of the late emperor and the noble king. He has been favored by the late emperor since he was a child.
Just three months after he was born, he was given the name Zhao Huan, and then he was awarded the title of Taiwei of the Inspection School, the Military Envoy of Fengning Army, and even the title of Duke of Wei was given to him.
This one was only three months old that year! "
This first sentence alone made everyone take a deep breath, but their surprise didn't stop there.
"You think this is over?
It was just a daytime gift given to him by the late emperor. When he was one year old, he was directly granted the title of Zhen'an Army Jiedu Envoy, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Gaomi County Prince. "
Everyone felt a burst of heartache when they were crowned kings at the age of one. You must know that the Song Dynasty did not prohibit being crowned kings... It did not even prohibit people with other surnames from being crowned kings.
But for this one-year-old to be treated like this, the powerful prince, this is going to cost people's lives.
"When this man was six years old, he was granted the title of Military Envoy of the Zhendong Army, guarding Sikong, and was promoted to the title of King Jia."
"When he was twelve years old, he was renamed Taibao."
"When he was fifteen years old, he was officially released. He was granted the title of Taifu, Wuning, and Baoping Army Commanders, and was in charge of Xuzhou and Shaanxi Province."
"When he was seventeen years old, he was granted the title of military governor of Jingnan and Ningjiang. He was in charge of Jiangling and Kuizhou and was promoted to King Yun."
"At the age of twenty-one, he was transferred from being in charge of Chengdu as the Jiannan Xichuan, Zhennan Army Jiedushi, also in charge of Hongzhou, to being in charge of Hedongning Navy Jiedushi, also in charge of Taiyuan Hangzhou.
It can be said that the entire southwest plus Jiangnan... are all direct descendants of this person! "
"Gudong..." Everyone's throats surged together, and even Yue Fei's face was stiff and at a loss. He knew what pampering was, but he had never seen this kind of pampering. "
At this time, Lu Yihao sighed again, "If it's just pampering, that's all. Do you know the legend of this person?
This man was smart and talented since he was a child. He was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was good at painting flowers and birds. Therefore, he was deeply loved by the late emperor, but if he only had these, he was just a side disciple.
Eight years before the imperial examination of Zhenghe, this man wanted to prove his ability on a whim, so he directly concealed his identity and started his own imperial examination.
He went on a rampage and won the first prize in the imperial examination in Zhenghe eight years ago!
Back then...I was still serving in the local government, and the imperial examination that year was surprisingly difficult. I frowned and became worried when I saw it.
This person almost made many officials who presided over the imperial examination feel that he was a god sent from heaven to the Song Dynasty. They reported it to His Majesty all the way. It was not until the palace examination that they discovered that it was King Yun. "
This time no one gasped because they no longer knew what to say.
The number one scholar does not just rely on poems and songs. It requires strategies, governance, and even the art of war.
No number one scholar can be an ordinary person, and the person in front of him...
"The late emperor was afraid of revealing the facts, so he concealed the matter. In the end, he appointed the second-placed Wang Ang as the number one scholar, but in the end he became a joke in the court.
And this King Yun became a real legend in the court.
It is no secret that the late emperor once wanted this person to become his successor. Even the treacherous prime minister Wang Fu supported this person.
But because Li Gang, Wu Min and others forced the late emperor to give up the throne in advance, it was still handed over to the current officials, in the name of preventing the late emperor from being the king of subjugation.
But this person's status has always been very transcendent. "
Lu Yihao said the last sentence very naturally, and everyone nodded in agreement without asking any questions.
What is detachment, that is, hang it up for him. After all, who dares to use such a legend, are they not afraid that their position will be lost if they use it?
At the same time, everyone also understood Lu Yihao's surprise. This person's identity should not appear here. He should be guarded by countless people in the palace or Kaifeng City.
At the same time, a person in Kaifeng City who was as confused as them was asking about this matter.
That was Zhao Ding, an important minister who was called a think tank by Zhao Huan.
"Your Majesty, the current situation is still unstable. Each of these roads needs a lot of food and supplies. The first batch of supplies we have raised has been sent out, but the gap is still huge."
"Then the residences of Bai Shizhong, Wang Fu and others have been raided?"
"It's all been used up. Bai Shizhong, Wang Fu and many of their cronies are indeed worth a lot of money. After confiscating all their property, they have already transported the grain and grass to the front line.
This money will be used to continue to purchase rice, grain and other supplies, but it will take time to raise the second batch of grain and grass..."
Zhao Ding looked at his Majesty Zhao Huan and sighed a little. This Majesty was really bold. In order to protect the strength of the Song Dynasty to the maximum extent, he fought hard against the battlefields of Yanyun in Hedong, Hebei, Shandong and Shandong.
All food, grass and baggage depended on on-site financing.
How to raise funds?
Search the house and buy it!
Bai Shizhong, Wang Fu, and more than 30 other party members had all been killed, and a lot of food was produced from their mansions.
Taking Bai Shizhong's family wealth as an example, the amount of grain and fodder alone is as much as three thousand dan!
This is not three thousand buckets, this is three thousand stones!
This is just Bai Shizhong's family. Wang Fu, Cai Jing and other six thieves are now dead except Tong Guan who has not been destroyed.
The home of these six thieves is not something that a small Bai Shizhong can compare to.
Especially Wang Fu and Cai Jing, both of whom were world-famous masters of making money back then. After the collapse of Zhao Zhao, they were completely cleaned up.
The amount of food, wealth and silk collected from the five of them shocked even those who had seen the world, Zhao Huan and Zhao Ding.
In addition, there were also people such as Taiwei Gao Qiu who had escaped before, Kaifeng Ling Yin Wang Shiyong, and his confidant Xu Bingzhe. After confiscating their mansions, they searched for at least 70,000 people from various houses. Stone grain and grass.
It's really no wonder that the huge imperial court couldn't come up with any food!
With these 70,000 stones of food and grass, we can at least alleviate the urgent needs of Hedong Road, or relieve some of the pressure on Hebei Road.
Zhao Huan did not stop after sending these to the front line, but continued to raise funds.
First, Kaifeng was under military control, and the entire Kaifeng was controlled. All grain and rice shops were nationalized, and of course they were bought with money.
But it is definitely not their current selling price. Zhao Huan compensated them by doubling the price of food during Zhezong's period, which is already considered good.
If he hadn't been thinking about the future, he would have asked them how they got the money to buy their lives.
After collecting the entire grain and rice shops in Kaifeng, they distributed daily rations of grain to the people in the city to avoid panic at this time.
At the same time, let the merchants in the city cooperate with Tong Guan to find another kind of merchant.
Smuggler!
There are always smugglers everywhere, especially in the Song Dynasty. After the opening of the border trade, those smugglers were directly screened out.
He was just a sneaky smuggler before, but he went directly to the border market to do business.
But there is a group of people who look down on normal business, so they choose to continue smuggling, and the things they smuggle for profit are very powerful.
The war horses were obtained from the Liao Kingdom, and the craftsmen from the Song Dynasty had good skills and iron.
Even for intelligence information from both sides, they are not without means. As long as the price is enough, they will get whatever they want.
This is a smuggler from the Song Dynasty. Not only is he extremely capable, he is also very bold!
Since the war, the mutual trade has stopped. All the Liao's treasury has been taken advantage of by the Jin people, so they now have no problem in being self-sufficient.
Xixia's collapse is imminent, and it doesn't matter whether they are needed or not.
But the Song Dynasty was different. Due to the good fortune of Liu Yanqing, the Song Dynasty was short of food and armor, so it didn't matter what he wanted.
So if he wants to get enough grain at this time, unless he knows some magic that can turn stones into grain, there is no hope.
But if you can’t get it in China, then you can get it from the hometown of Liao Kingdom, or simply from the Jin people!
In the past, those smugglers were able to get war horses from the Liao Kingdom, and even high-quality war horses, so they were given heavy sums of money to get food!
Don't talk about family, country and world to them. As long as they have this thing, they won't do it.
Taking out two, three, or even ten times the gold, silver, money, and silk, they needed food. At this time, Zhao Huan understood very well that money was no longer important.
So what if all the gold and silver is in their hands? As long as he calms down, he can try his best to earn it back from them.
It doesn't matter even if it's given to a golden man.
Is it possible that the Jin people could melt gold and silver to make armor and weapons?
As long as he takes a breath and secures his position in the Guanzhong, he will dare to open the mutual market again and earn back the money!
It is Zhao Huan's skill to use this non-solution to solve this problem.
But if he only relies on these, his gap will still be huge. ． ．
So Zhao Huan had another last resort.
"The matter of dried meat should be put on the agenda. If there is no other way, use dried meat to relieve the many people on Hebei Road first!"
"Your Majesty, this move is harmful to Tianhe!"
Zhao Ding had long known what Zhao Huan was going to do, but he once again raised objections. After all, this matter was serious. ． ．
"I know that this move will hurt the harmony of heaven and earth, but things have priorities. If there is a punishment from heaven in the future, I will bear it!"
Zhao Huan didn't have any choice. He had only one way to imitate Cheng Zhongde's old story and make dried meat to eat.
Whenever natural disasters and man-made disasters are rampant in the world, this dried meat... ． ． It will appear, but it is nothing new.
This stuff was the main food for the people in the late Han Dynasty, the same was true in the late Sui Dynasty, and even the late Tang Dynasty.
It's just that at those times, just like Zhao Huan now, there was no other way. If he didn't do this, he really couldn't resist.
But it's not the case when alien races are rampant. They like to eat. ． ．
Zhao Ding wanted to continue to persuade, but Zhao Huan directly reached out to stop him.
"There is no need to say more about this matter. I understand what you mean and I understand that this is wrong, but I understand even more what we will face if we lose this battle.
I was more or less naive before, maybe even you, Zhao Qing, were a bit naive too.
Today's Jin Kingdom is not. ． ． It's not that easy to deal with. They have many famous generals and majestic soldiers.
But what our Song Dynasty has now are just these soldiers and horses. There is no other way but to fight to the death. "
This sentence completely plunged Zhao Ding into silence. If he didn't persuade him, it wasn't because he agreed, but because he really had no choice.
Just like what Zhao Huan said after rejecting his proposal.
"I know that the questions you raised are all questions, but what I want more is the answer. If I can't give a better answer, then this answer, no matter how bad it is, is the best!"
"Hey~" After sighing, Zhao Ding bowed and bowed, "Since your Majesty has made up his mind, I still disagree, but I cannot object."
"good!"
After the two sides finalized the most important matter, Zhao Ding asked the last question.
"Your Majesty, could you please tell me why you should appoint His Highness King Yun? You must know that although King Yun is extremely talented, he..."
"But he is also the son of my Zhao family!" Zhao Huan directly interrupted Zhao Ding, "I understand what Zhao Qing means, but I also have my own opinions.
Although the emperor's brother and I had some disputes back then, I couldn't abandon him.
Just like me. ． ． We have to reuse Li Gang!
Does Zhao Qing really think that Li Qing put me on the throne because of the main battle? "
"..."
"I understand what you mean, but I also understand that I can't blame you."
