Faced with the news that the two armies were completely wiped out, Zhao Yu sat in his seat and was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.
His anger was ignited and erupted like a volcano. . .
"What do Zhou Yun and Wang Shun do? An army of 60,000! An army of 60,000! They were annihilated when they said they were annihilated? How? Why were they annihilated? Did the bandits have an army of 100,000 or what? A hundred thousand troops surrounded them Did they fight and beat them until the whole army was annihilated?"
Zhao Xun finally couldn't control his anger. He held a court meeting and gave the ministers a slap in the face. The ministers scolded him with their heads lowered like grandsons. He scolded himself until his face was red, his ears were red, his eyes were bloodshot, and he still refused to stop scolding until he was hoarse and his voice was hoarse.
Finally, he roared that he wanted to remove Chen Kangbo from his post, kill the entire decision-making team of the Privy Council, and remove Shangshu Zuocheng and Shangshu Youcheng.
He said that they were all ministers who harmed the country and ruined the country. Together, they forced Zhao Min to become the king of the country.
He was determined to boost the power of the Song Dynasty, worked so hard on government affairs, and worked so hard, but he ended up facing a group of imbeciles who couldn't even perform the most basic tasks.
Why spend so much money raising them?
"You bunch of rats! You just take money and don't do anything! Do you have to make me angry to death before you give up? What else can you do? Besides eating with your salary, what else can you do?
The concubine is paid for each room, the houses are built one by one, and the land is snatched piece by piece! All the wealth in the world belongs to you! not mine! What is the law of the universe? Is it the king's land and the land's shores are the king's ministers? I think you are all your own masters! Everyone is a local emperor!
What am I? I am just a doll, a marionette. In your opinion, I am everything that you can control at will, right? ! Do you think this is correct? ! "
Zhao Min's anger could not be contained, and he even said words that made the officials feel very frightened.
"If I had known this, I should have followed Su Yonglin's example! Depose all of you losers! Have all their homes confiscated! Then all of them will be exiled to Leizhou! They will not be allowed to return for the rest of their lives! A dog sitting in your position would be able to accomplish more than you!"
Zhao Min slapped the table and roared angrily, as if he really wanted to imitate Su Yonglin and be aggressive with the officials.
As a result, after finishing the declaration, he didn't even take a breath. He lost his breath and fell to the ground, convulsing. This frightened the officials and the eunuchs around him to death, and they quickly stepped forward to give him some relief.
After finally getting some relief from Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen became so angry that he coughed violently and fainted again.
There was another uproar in the court, and the officials hurriedly looked for the imperial doctor to let them rescue Zhao Min.
Zhao was unconscious, and the Tai Hospital team rushed into the palace to diagnose and treat him. The result was that his body was damaged by anger, and he could only slowly recuperate his body, slowly nourishing it with mild medicine and food, and he must not get angry again.
And I don’t know when he will wake up. At the moment, I can only feed him ginseng chicken soup to let him nurse his body and recover slowly. During this period, he cannot get angry or work hard, otherwise his life span will be damaged. This is not what everyone wants to see. to things.
The Southern Song Dynasty cannot lose Zhao Yu, at least not now.
The ministers had no choice but to hold a meeting chaired by Shangshu Zuocheng Ye Yiwen. Everyone discussed with each other how to deal with the current situation.
Logically speaking, if the emperor suddenly faints and is unable to execute his power, the ministers should invite the crown prince to discuss the situation and ask the prince to temporarily take over the imperial power. This is the most reasonable and legal approach.
At this time, the sensitive relationship between the emperor and the prince cannot be taken into account. The prince must stand up and stabilize people's hearts.
But the crux of the problem is that Zhao Zhen has not had time to take care of the prince's affairs for several years since he ascended the throne, and the officials are also nervous. The matter of establishing a prince was just mentioned at the beginning of the year, but there has been no result yet, which means that there is currently no prince in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu's eldest son, is currently only the eldest son of the emperor. Without the title of prince, he cannot come out to stabilize people's hearts.
A group of officials discussed and discussed, but they could only invite the Supreme Empress Wu who did not flee Wenzhou with Zhao Gou.
At present, she has the highest status in Lin'an City and can best represent the royal family and imperial power. It makes sense to ask her to come out to support the situation no matter what.
And even if Zhao Xun wakes up in the future and knows that the Supreme Queen was representing the royal family during his coma, he will not have any unnecessary thoughts. It is the safest for the officials.
Ye Yiwen made this decision and was praised by the officials as "mature and prudent".
So the Supreme Empress Wu was invited by the ministers to participate in the meeting of the ministers as the representative of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family in emergencies.
Under her witness, during Zhao Zhen's coma, the Southern Song Dynasty court established six people, including Shangshu Zuocheng Ye Yiwen, Shangshu Youcheng Shen Gai, Councilor Zhou Linzhi, Privy Envoy Chen Kangbo, Deputy Privy Envoys Yu Yunwen and Hu Quan. The highest decision-making group to act on behalf of the imperial power.
Any political, economic, or military decision made by the decision-making group composed of these six people with unanimous consent can have the same legal effect as the emperor's order.
After this decision was unanimously approved by the court, the six-person team began to work.
They immediately held a meeting to discuss the current crisis, and Yu Yunwen raised their biggest problem at present - they greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the peasant army, and greatly overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army.
"The rebel army has survived several encirclements and suppressions. In fact, it is no longer a simple rebel army. They have gained combat experience and their combat power has greatly increased. However, our army has been destroyed many times and rebuilt many times. The main soldiers are mostly new soldiers. Rather than veterans, lacking combat experience.
The rebel army had been resting and recuperating for more than a year, and must have been carefully trained. They suddenly rose up and launched an attack. Neither the Jiujiang army nor the Ezhou army expected that the rebel army would take the initiative to attack, so they scrambled and suffered such a defeat. "
Yu Yunwen was relatively wise. He wisely analyzed that the peasant army was now in a "strong combat effectiveness" state, while the Jinghu Song Army was mostly new soldiers and was not their opponent. This defeat was not unexpected.
Chen Kangbo looked very bad and sighed repeatedly.
"Despite this, they were defeated too quickly! The rebels sent out troops in early March, but they suffered a defeat in mid-March, so much so that the court could hardly react. How could this be a defeat? This was clearly a collapse at the first touch and a rout of thousands of miles!"
Hu Quan looked at the Jinghu military map with a sullen face, thought for a moment, and expressed his biggest worry.
"I don't want to mention what has happened anymore, but everyone, you must notice that the rebel army has taken the unusual initiative to attack this time. All the way to Jiujiang and all the way to Ezhou. These two places can not only cut off the Yangtze River waterway, but also The retreat route of the Xiangyang army."
Hu Quan pointed to the location of the Second City of Xiangfan on the map: "Once the Ezhou Army and Jiujiang Army are defeated, the Xiangyang Army's back path will not be guaranteed. There are Ming troops in front and bandit troops behind. In fact, the Xiangyang Army has already lost ground."
Hu Quan's words made the other members of the six-person team react. They gathered around the map to look at it, and the more they looked at it, the more panicked they became.
If Xiangyang is lost, Jinghu will be finished, and Jinghu will be finished, and the Southern Song Dynasty will almost come to an end.
The biggest problem now is not the peasant army, but the Henan Corps of the Ming Army in Henan. No one knows whether they will take advantage of the situation.
Based on the national attributes of the Ming Dynasty and its undisguised malice towards the Southern Song Dynasty, the six-person team felt that there was a 101% chance that the Ming Dynasty would take advantage of the situation.
"The bandit army is taking the initiative to attack north this time, threatening Xiangyang. The target is most likely Xiangyang, and Xiangyang is right in the Henan region of the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming army moves out, then..."
Shen Gai looked at the other five people with a pale face: "Then what should we do?"
What Shen Gai said was hard to hear, but it was not impossible. On the contrary, it was extremely possible.
The six-person team did not dare to make such a terrifying inference, but they knew that the most important thing at the moment was nothing else but to immediately send troops to aid Jinghu and stabilize the situation in Jinghu.
The Xiangyang army only has more than 40,000 people, so it will inevitably be unable to resist the front and rear attacks of the Ming army and the peasant army at the same time. People must be sent to relieve the siege and maintain the existence of the Jinghu theater.
The six-member team stepped up their actions and mobilized their troops to prepare for the expedition.
But on the third day after the formation of the six-person team, before Zhao Xun woke up, a letter asking for help from Wang Yan, the commander-in-chief of Xiangfan, arrived in Lin'an.
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