People who are confused watch the fun and understand the tricks. When most Song people are still immersed in the joyful and encouraging emotions, many people have already seen the flavor of conspiracy from a person's name, and this person's name is Hong Tao!

How did the founding emperor of the Jinhe Empire become the prime minister of the Song Dynasty? Moreover, this official position has a strong taste of the Jinhe Empire, and there is also a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jinhe Empire, Wen Nan, who made annotations. Ordinary people may not understand their origins. Officials of the Song Dynasty and merchants in coastal cities will definitely not make this mistake. If there is only one Hong Tao, it may be a person with a common name and surname, and with Wen Nan and Luo Youde, it would be too far-fetched to say that it is a coincidence.

The Eastern reinforcements invited by the court were the old emperor of the Jinhe Empire. Even though he had abdicated for many years, as long as this name was mentioned, it would inevitably be closely linked to the Jinhe Empire. Since it was this old emperor, the previous series of changes could be explained. What did the lonely army go deep and force the powerful enemy to retreat? Bah! He forced his son's navy to retreat. Is this use of force? Maybe it was a play played by their father and son for outsiders.

But what did the old emperor suddenly come to the Song Dynasty? Why did the Song Dynasty court invite him as reinforcements, and even entrust him with important tasks, and even let him control the government? Why did the old emperor's people suddenly spread throughout every prefecture and county in the Song Dynasty, becoming a local magistrate and a military supervisor... What else would he do next?

These questions will naturally be remembered by many people. There is no need to think deeper. These signs alone are already scary. The Song Dynasty is about to undergo a huge change! This is the only answer that all knowledgeable people can think of. Think about what the old emperor did before, and read out the books he had written before from the bottom of the box to see what the Song Dynasty will look like. Even if you can't get an accurate answer, the context will probably be almost the same.

Some people are happy and some are worried about this result.

Most coastal Song people were optimistic about this change, especially merchants. For nothing else, because the Jinhe Empire was a country with a strong commercial flavor. Since the Jinhe Empire established by Emperor Hong had this virtue, it was clear what he could change the Song Dynasty into. It doesn’t matter if he was not a merchant. Farmers, handicraftsmen, craftsmen, and politicians could find their suitable position in the Jinhe Empire, and their status was no less than in the Song Dynasty. The only thing that was not very happy was the scholar class. If the Song Dynasty was really governed according to the rules of the Jinhe Empire, their privileges would be gone. However, after so many years of external contact, the scholar class in coastal cities had already had a little different ideas from the mainland scholar class. Their families were more or less involved in maritime trade and handicraft industry. Although they were a little disappointed, they would not firmly oppose it.

From the coastal city to the inner 6th floor, the Song people in these areas are not as one-sided as coastal cities. Some are more optimistic and some are more pessimistic, and there are no opinions and they live in a daze.

Going further 6, the situation will be a little reversed. Most of the people are pessimistic, and there are many people who are confused and don’t care. The more optimistic people are basically businessmen who are traveling around the world, and their number and power are negligible.

But before the people in these areas could figure out what to do, teams of Song troops drove from Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road. Every time they arrived at a prefecture and county seat, a team of varying numbers would be left behind, and the rest would continue to advance inward. These troops were not wing soldiers, nor village soldiers and foreign soldiers, but the new army and imperial guards of the Song Dynasty that had just been withdrawn from the front line. Wherever they went, the local wing soldiers, village soldiers and foreign soldiers would be disarmed on the spot by the supervisor ordered by the Privy Councilor, and then they were escorted north by the imperial soldiers and new soldiers to gather at several points along the river highway.

Following these new troops and imperial guards was Wen Hao, the imperial envoy of the court. He also brought the 2,000 Song Xinjun, starting from Jiangnan East Road, and connecting with the prefectures. When he arrived at the place, he would not attend the banquet or enter the door. He would immediately pass the local officials to the military camp to meet him. He didn't know what to do in detail. Anyway, there were definitely not all local officials who could come out of the military camp in the end. Sometimes he could come out by half, sometimes he could come out by half, and sometimes he could basically not get out by a few people.

The vacancy of local officials will be filled in an instant. There are more than 2,000 troops and more than 500 alternate officials of the Song Dynasty. Of course, these officials are only temporarily wearing the official uniforms of the Song Dynasty, but there is really no Song Dynasty among them. Eighty percent are from the Jinhe Empire, and twenty percent are from the management team brought by Hong Tao from North America.

In fact, not only these officials were not from Song people, but also the 2,000 Song Xinjun was not the real Song Xinjun. They only joined the Song armed forces for ten days. This was the vanguard of the 5,000 Empire 6 army that Yi Yi promised to provide to Hong Tao. He only temporarily added more than 300 Song Xinjun as guides. The remaining 3,000 people had already boarded Guangzhou and took the orders of the Privy Council and led the mercenaries of more than 5,000 Straits Company to the west and headed straight to Guangnan West Road.

Their mission is to control Guangnan West Road and Kuizhou Road. These two areas have many ethnic minorities and the local tribal forces are very strong, which is not the same as the six provinces in the country. Originally, the Song Dynasty court was mainly dedicated to pacification of these places. To put it bluntly, it was to try to meet the requirements of local forces, as long as they did not make trouble. Hong Tao and the Song Dynasty court had completely different ideas of governing the country. Everything could be discussed, but no one was allowed to be privileged. If you were not convinced, you would be able to defeat the 6th Army of the Empire.

Don’t mention the high mountains and dangerous roads, easy defense and difficult attack, Hong Tao’s order to this army is to take steady steps, step by step, not seeking distance but only cleanliness. Wherever they pass by, as long as someone looks unsatisfied, they will have three lights. It would rather turn these two roads into no man’s land than to have a village or a village dissatisfied with the new government. Not to think about the trick of the former court soldiers surrendering when they come and the court soldiers struggle as soon as they leave.

Hong Tao only gave him one chance, either going down the mountain to farm and live, or he would be in a real way and never ended with a second choice. For this reason, Hong Tao specially equipped this team with 300 Indian soldiers, all of whom were all elite soldiers who were familiar with mountain and jungle combat. Those who wanted to play harassment wars with these soldiers in the mountains were basically hopeless. The mountains and jungles in Mexico were no worse than the terrain of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the local Indians were no weaker than the ethnic minorities here.

These are Hong Tao's two axes. He wants to use this method to comprehensively clean up the fundamental forces of the Song Dynasty. This method is the fastest and has the greatest side effects. Rather than saying that Hong Tao is transforming the Song Dynasty, it is better to say that he is helping the Jinhe Empire fully control the Song Dynasty. More than 70% of the newly appointed local officials are grassroots cadres drawn from the Jinhe Empire, and then let the 6th Army of the Empire travel around the Song Dynasty, and understand the transportation, supplies, and garrison situations of various places. Once the Jinhe Empire intends to turn against Hong Tao, Hong Tao has no way of doing anything.

However, Hong Tao could only do this, and it had to do it more thoroughly. He had only 6,000 troops in his hands that could completely obey his command. It was not reliable to control the entire south of the Yangtze River in the short term. Even the Song Xinjun and the imperial guards on the front line were willing to listen to him, and it was impossible to completely monitor every state and every road. The cost was too high, so high that Hong Tao could not afford to play.

"Why did they send you two?" Hong Tao was not idle in Lin'an at this time. He was about to go north to see his real hometown, but unexpectedly, he saw two very familiar faces in the negotiation team sent by the Jinhe Empire.

"Uncle, you can really get involved. After turning such a big circle, you finally came back." Bo Jiao stretched out his hand formally, but his face was filled with a hippie smile.

"Seeing you laugh so treacherously, I think nothing is good. Old Kong, you are so old and don't live in Jinhe City until retirement, why are you here to take this muddy water?" Bo Jiao is already nearly forty and still has a beard on his face. But Hong Tao still did not shake hands like he took him on a boat when he was a child, but instead reached out to pat his head and turned his face to another acquaintance.

"I am here to atone for my sins. His Majesty has always disagreed with the empire going north, but I did not fulfill my duties as a minister in the government and chose to give in at a critical moment. I am really sorry for the re-creation of Your Majesty who saved me from the north." Kong Pei and Hong Tao were about the same age, and they were already gray-headed old men. Their bodies looked strong and they were quite energetic.

"Take it down, who has rescued you from the north? Like Wen Nan, you are all captured by me. Let me make another Mao! Don't mention the old Huangli. State affairs are state affairs, and personal affairs are private affairs, don't mix them together. Let's talk about it, what was the idea of ​​the empire sending you two veterans? Did you come on your own initiative, or did Yi Yi and the others force you to come?" Kong Pei was also one of Hong Tao's starting helpers. However, when the new and old emperors changed, he chose to stand on the side of the new emperor. Hong Tao had no idea about this, let alone hold grudges. If he was in Kong Pei's position, he might have done it thoroughly than him. For a person who has no foundation in the empire, this choice is very reasonable and has nothing to do with character.

"I took the initiative to ask for it. After the ups and downs over the years, I have figured it out that I am not the fate of being the prime minister, and it is even more suitable to be a mayor. It would be more comfortable to follow you around the world. If you hadn't followed me to be the prime minister back then, maybe I would have a small kingdom too!" Bo Jiao put his face over, whispered to Hong Tao about his thoughts, and winked at him.
Chapter completed!