“Sit-in protest?”
Lu You didn't expect anyone from Lin'an scholars to do such a thing, and he even took the lead in pulling a group of people to do it together.
He was silent for a while, and then looked at Han Yuanji.
“Are sit-ins useful to the Kingdom of Jin?”
"……No."
Han Yuanji's expression changed, and he was silent for a while before giving that reasonable answer.
“So will sit-ins be useful to the Ming Dynasty?”
Lu You asked again, but Han Yuanji stopped talking.
After a while, Lu You laughed at himself.
"Why does everyone know that the sit-in protest is of no use to the Jin State, but thinks it is useful to the Ming State? Is the Ming State weaker than the Jin State? If so, how could the Ming State replace the Jin State?"
Before Han Yuanji's newly heated blood had time to boil, the fire underneath was extinguished.
It has to be said that Lu You's fire-fighting ability is still very strong.
What he said is indeed right. Sit-in protests are of no use to the Jin Kingdom. So why do some people think sit-in protests are useful to the Ming Kingdom?
Han Yuanji thought for a while and came up with an answer.
"Perhaps the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was also a Han, so we would naturally assume that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom spoke better and was more reasonable than the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, right? Although this is unfounded, we still have to give it a try, just in case the Ming Kingdom is really What's the point?"
Lu You sighed and shook his head, looking frustrated.
"It took three years to build something from scratch, from weakness to strength, overthrowing the Jin court, pacifying the Central Plains, and creating a huge foundation. Who thinks that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would reason with others? Anyway, I don't think so at all."
After hearing Lu You's words, Han Yuanji fell silent again.
This protest would have been meaningless from the beginning, and Xin Qiji thought so too.
Looking from the window at the Lin'an scholars swarming outside the inn, and seeing them sitting together outside the inn with indignant expressions on their faces, Xin Qiji's heart did not waver.
"Why do they think this is useful to us?"
Han Tai, Xin Qiji's assistant and deputy envoy of the mission, asked Xin Qiji.
"Probably because we have never been beaten, I think we may be easier to talk to and care about their public opinion. But the key point is, why should we care about this so-called public opinion?"
Xin Qiji smiled coldly: "Look at this group of people. They are all filled with righteous indignation. They look very righteous. But the main reason why they are so righteous is that they have never been beaten. A beating will be enough. A beating will make them honest."
"Are we really going to start a war?"
Han Tai asked hesitantly: "If we really want to go to war, I'm afraid it will be a lot of pressure for us. Many troops have been mobilized to assist in the construction of water conservancy projects in local areas. If we start a war at this time, we may not be able to mobilize many troops."
"To deal with the Song State, we don't need to mobilize as large a scale as we did with the Jin State, and we don't plan to destroy the Song State in one go. We just want to give them a little color to show them, and pay attention to being quick, accurate and ruthless, and defeating them in one go. Confused."
Xin Qiji said: "In this way, everyone in the Southern Song Dynasty will know how to communicate with us, and it will be much easier to get the coins without any problems."
"Isn't it better to be honest? If you insist on going against us, you will not be happy."
Han Tai said helplessly: "What should we do now?"
"Eat, rest, and you can go back in two days. I guess the Southern Song Dynasty will not give us any substantive results. Letting these people sit here quietly is just their attitude."
Xin Qiji turned around and left the window: "Come on, we won't miss a meal anyway, and many generals will be very happy. They haven't fought in a while, I guess they must be depressed." It’s very uncomfortable.”
Han Tai shrugged and followed Xin Qiji to eat - delicious dishes prepared by the senior chefs prepared for them by the Southern Song Dynasty.
Because Xin Qiji always ignored these scholars, these scholars also felt quite uncomfortable in the severe cold.
How can a full-time scholar who has never touched the spring water persevere in such a severe cold?
We didn't last long. After about an hour, many people couldn't stand the severe cold and left in dejection.
After two hours, everyone who had to leave was gone, leaving only a few diehards who were still gritting their teeth.
Seeing this, Xin Qiji felt even more disdainful.
"I thought they could at least hold on until dark. How long is this? If the Song army is like this, the Ming Dynasty will not even need an army of 50,000 people, and they can go straight to Lin'an."
Han Tai also had the same view. He felt that such a protest was a bit funny. Not only was it ineffective, but it also made Ming Dynasty watch a joke.
Does it make sense?
Zhao Gou also felt it was meaningless.
Originally, he was quite happy to hear such news and felt that the people's support was available. In this way, the Ming Dynasty could see that the people's support in the Southern Song Dynasty was available. Maybe the Ming Dynasty would shrink back.
As a result, those scholars turned out to be so useless!
So useless!
At this moment, Zhao Gou even remembered a poem from the Tang Dynasty - it is better to be a centurion than a scholar.
"Did the Song Dynasty cultivate such a group of people for so many years?"
Zhao Gou said angrily: "Find out all the participants for me, and ask for each one. Those who did not persist to the end will be recorded in the record. If they participate in the imperial examination in the future, they will not be allowed to be hired and will all be dismissed! This kind of lack of perseverance The Song Dynasty doesn’t need this waste!”
Zhao Gou is preparing to settle accounts after autumn.
But then again, it is possible to settle accounts after the fall, but the problem is still unresolved. The most serious thing at present is that they cannot change the will of the Ming Dynasty and cannot avoid the delivery of the coins unless they can win on the battlefield.
But what are the conditions needed to win on the battlefield?
Can the weakened Song army defeat the powerful Ming army?
In the past few days, Zhao Gou forced the Privy Council to operate at full speed and quickly submitted the latest situation report of the national army.
Judging from some of the military reports he has received so far, Zhao Gou feels that although the situation cannot be said to be optimistic, it is by no means pessimistic.
The first thing the Privy Council prepared was the Lin'an Forbidden Army.
The Lin'an Forbidden Army is mainly composed of three armies: the Dianqian Division, the Guards Horse Army Division, and the Guards Infantry Division. Of course, the main force is the Dianqian Division, which has the largest number of people and was the earliest to establish an army.
The Dianqian Division was originally a unit led by the famous general Yang Cunzhong. Because Zhao Gou particularly liked and trusted Yang Cunzhong, Yang Cunzhong was able to serve as a personal guard general beside Zhao Gou and command the Dianqian Division army. He was so favored that even the civil servants could not see it. accustomed to it.
So a year ago, Yang Cunzhong, who was generally suspected by the civil servants of being too favored, was relieved of the command of the Palace Front Division, made a Taiwei, a casual official, and entered the retirement process. This calmed the doubts of the civil servants of the dynasty.
The current commander of the army in front of the palace is Zhao Mi, the former commander of the Infantry Division of the Guards. He is a veteran in his sixties and can be considered a veteran, but his record is not as great as that of Yang Cunzhong.
The commander-in-chief of the Infantry Guard Division was Li Peng, and the commander-in-chief of the Horse Guard Division was Cheng Min. Neither of them had much reputation, but they were trustworthy and would not do anything outrageous.
According to the current survey of the Privy Council, the total strength of the three armies is about 100,000. Because they are in Lin'an and close to the emperor, the situation of empty pay and depleted armaments is relatively good. Yang Cunzhong commanded the troops well, leaving a good legacy for the Southern Song Dynasty. Such a main force was taken down.
The Privy Council had time to prepare for the three capital divisions in the Lianghuai War Zone, the Jiankang Division, the Zhenjiang Division and the Chizhou Division.
Zhenjiang Dutong has a total of 47,000 troops, and its commander is the veteran and famous general Liu Qi.
The Song Dynasty also took some measures when Wanyan Liang went south. One of the measures was to transfer Liu Qi to be the head of the Zhenjiang Dutong Department.
The commander-in-chief of Jiankang was assigned an army of 50,000 people. The commander-in-chief at this time was named Wang Quan, and he was once a subordinate of Zhang Jun, the most profitable of the four generals of Zhongxing.
In addition, Chizhou Dutongsi had a small number of troops, only 12,000 people, and the commander was named Li Xianzhong.
At present, the Privy Council can only get a brief overview of the Central Forbidden Army and the armies in the Huaihe River area. As for the Jinghu Theater and the Sichuan Theater, it is really difficult to get to the bottom of thousands of mountains and rivers.
Zhao Gou also suspended the Privy Council for a while, and took the lead in getting to know the troops at his doorstep and in the Huaihe River area.
Then he learned that although the army in Lianghuai was not as powerful as the Lin'an Forbidden Army, it could still be considered an elite division. The veteran Liu Qi and the famous general Li Xianzhong were both good at commanding troops. It was okay to hand over the army to them. As for the royal power...
The ability to make money seems pretty good, and.
Very loyal.
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PS: I never thought that someone like me, who has never been a fan of stars, could encounter the collapse of his house. What did he do wrong? Even if he likes to be an up-and-comer and has a small CP, he can also encounter this kind of thing. The experience is very bad. , I have been in a state of confusion from yesterday to now, and I can’t calm down. I can only update twice today, sorry.
PPS: So there is no lion in the world who really only eats vegetarian food...
PPPS: Don’t be too cynical, don’t pin your feelings on others. The camera lens has its own filter, which will filter out a lot of things. Believe me, woo woo woo...
