Looking at the man in front of him with a sallow complexion and dark circles under his eyes.
Zhang Jun had no choice but to associate him with the fair and strong emperor he had been two months ago.
Captain Zhang asked someone to go to Shouchun County to buy tea, and asked cautiously:
"Guan Jia, why are you here?"
Just as Liu Bang was about to answer him, he felt his stomach twitching...
Ever since he told those old men that he was going to come to the front line to supervise the troops.
Everyone's reaction was so intense that they almost swallowed themselves.
They all say that now is not the time, that the emperor should not put himself in danger, and that the country, the country, and the country are the most important thing.
It's rare for the Zhao family to have an emperor with backbone. These people are eager to support him, but they are not willing to let him take risks on the front line!
Especially Xin Ciying, the old man burst into tears and said that if he had to leave, he would hang himself below the city gate tomorrow.
Even this kind of threat was used. Originally, he could just go back and live his comfortable life.
After all, I didn't enjoy many blessings in my previous life. Now there are ministers who are responsible for things, and there are also many generals who can command the army.
But as soon as he closes his eyes, he will always think of something.
I remembered what the old storyteller said about the tragic situation of Kaifeng's city being destroyed, and how the Song Kingdom had been bullied from top to bottom to the point of losing their dignity. I also thought of the prostitute from Sibei Tower who wanted to go back to the north to pay homage to her parents.
Anyway, I remembered a lot. They were noble and humble, poor and rich, honorable and humble. They had different identities, different jobs, and different hometowns.
Only, they all call themselves Han Chinese.
He asked Pharmacist Guo, a man who was recruited by the Song, Liao and Jin kingdoms and guarded to death by the three kingdoms:
"What do you think is a real Han Chinese? Is it a person who looks the same, or speaks the same language, or is it a person who was born in the Han region?"
The old man may have never thought that the emperor would ask him about this matter.
Anyone can ask, but it is him, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Han people.
He couldn't hold it back at that time, and Liu Bang started crying when he saw him for the first time.
I really can’t blame this old man. There are more than tens of millions of Han people in Liaodong? What the emperor asked was not what these people were always thinking about?
Coincidentally, when Zhang Jue was killed and he wanted to surrender to the Kingdom of Jin, Lu Yihao tried his best to stop him.
He also asked Lu Yihao the same question.
But the sour scholar thought about it and gave him an answer that he was not very satisfied with, so he gave the answer to the emperor:
"If you use the barbarian rituals, the barbarians will be conquered; if the barbarians advance into China, the Chinese will be conquered."
Obviously, Liu Bang was not satisfied with this answer. According to their "rituals", he probably couldn't be considered a Han Chinese.
The ancestors of the Han people are not considered Han people, isn’t this fucking funny!
It was Zhao Ding who told him:
"The official family is actually not that complicated, no matter whether they are in the Jin Kingdom or the Song Kingdom, whether they are in the north or the west..."
"If they feel they are Han Chinese, they are Han Chinese."
"On the contrary, even if they are right at the feet of the Emperor, right here in Lin'an City, and they think they are not, then they are not."
This answer was pretty good. Liu Bang asked them again:
"The north has been lost for more than ten years now. The children born back then have been growing up in the territory of the Kingdom of Jin until now."
"They have no idea that they are Han people at all. If we wait another ten years, where will there be Han people left in the north?"
"What would these people think if they saw me during this Northern Expedition?"
The emperor's words are indeed somewhat reasonable. With successive Northern Expeditions and successive peace negotiations, people south of the Huaihe River have become impatient, let alone those in the north.
In addition, last time Yue Fei went outside Kaifeng and was summoned back urgently, this time the peace talks between the two countries spread again...
In any case, losing all the people's hearts would be more harmful than losing half of the country.
The Northern Expedition should be carried out sooner rather than later, quickly rather than slowly. If they see the emperor, even if they don't see him, they just know that the emperor will follow him this time.
At least we can know that people in the south have not forgotten them, and the Song Dynasty has never forgotten them.
We are not ignorant people. When we asked the Zhao family and his son to supervise the war, no one was willing to go.
Later, Zongze even kowtowed to His Royal Highness King Kang, but could not stop him from fleeing south.
Now His Majesty the Emperor is going to the front line. This is something that has more advantages than disadvantages. This is a blessing for the entire Song Dynasty.
As a result, several people became more relaxed, discussed for a long time, and came up with a compromise plan.
After all, you don’t have a queen now. If anything happens... Right, we will finally go on the Northern Expedition. If everyone chooses a useless emperor... According to the nature of your Zhao family, how likely is this? Everyone knows I know.
Of course, I would definitely not say that. Anyway, this is the truth.
It was just because of Liu Bang's hard work that he almost didn't get out of bed for the sake of all the men and women in the world.
Not to mention Concubine Chen, Concubine Zhong and Wang Jieyu in the harem, Concubine Wu who accompanied her when they went south, and...
Anyway, the imperial doctors are always busy and come up with prescriptions to replenish the body.
Wherever Liu Bang's stomach was cramping, it was clearly his kidneys.
Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore, and before the stomachs of the favored women could react, he said that he had finished his work and it was time to leave.
Everyone saw the emperor's hard work, so they had no choice but to give in and choose a child from Taizu's lineage, saying that he would raise it first and send it back when a nobleman gave birth to a dragon son.
Liu Bang thought for a while, if something happened to him, he would have nothing to do!
Let them go.
Anyway, the big things were almost finished in Zhongshu Province, and it was true that I could not make any difference by staying in Lin'an, so I asked Zhao Ding and others to jointly supervise the country, including Xin Ciying.
In this way, he got out.
He originally wanted to go to Yang Yizhong's place. After all, he saw on the map that Suzhou should be not far from Peixian County. Maybe he would still be nostalgic by then.
But later I felt that among the generals along the coast, only Zhang Jun was the least worrying, and he finally arrived in Huainan.
However, what surprised him was that Captain Zhang did not enjoy the blessings in Huainan City, but came to Shouchun County... This style of work made him a little surprised.
At this time, he met Zhang Jun and his generals, and saw the large Han army flags outside. Liu Bang originally wanted to find fault, but now he changed his tone and said:
"The Lieutenant has done a good job. I took a look along the river and found that the army is running well."
After Zhang Jun heard this long-lost compliment, the grievance he had suppressed surged up again:
"Official, official family..."
But it didn't take long for him to be moved before the emperor made his first decision.
"It's August, let's send troops."
(End of chapter)
