Chapter IX New Bureau
In the late September autumn, the cold wind roared on this day, but Zhao Jiu had a dream in the back hall of Mingdao Palace. He dreamed that he could travel repeatedly through the well in this era and nine hundred years later, so he began to change careers and become a second-door dealer official, enjoying scientific and technological life and unlimited historical materials over the modern side, and enjoying the desire for power and the reputation of the Holy Emperor in the Song Dynasty.
However, one day, Jin Wushu led 100,000 cavalry south. Because the road was flat, it approached Bozhou in just a few days. Because his Zhao Guan family could not leave this well, they refused to go south with the Central Plains anti-Jin slogan. As a result, more than 10,000 people traveling here were surrounded by 100,000 Jin cavalry on the Great Plains.
Next, these great Song civil and military officials surrendered one after another and handed over the supplies he, the Zhao official, to Jin Wushu for nothing. He was forced to jump into the well and escape. But when he returned to modern times, he opened the history books and only saw that Song was destroyed by Zhao Jiu. Therefore, he was very ambitious and talented, and finally jumped into the well and died. He was awarded the title of Emperor of Well by the Jin people, which made him laugh for thousands of years.
When he woke up in the morning, Zhao Jiu was sweating profusely, but he just raised his head and sighed softly, and then he carefully lifted the bedding and stood up to avoid waking up Concubine Pan Xian beside him.
Several young eunuchs came forward, and at the gesture of Zhao Jiu, they dressed up for the official family and put on leather belts that were convenient for archery and horse riding. When Zhao Guan family came out, they saw that Liu Yan was working outside, so they didn't say much and just said a word, and they just whispered slightly, and the latter was already understanding.
Immediately, dozens of Liaodong cavalry guarded Zhao Guanjiachi and traveled. They gathered with Yang Yizhong and others to catch up with them, so that they could go north under the glimmer of light to the east.
By the way, with Yang Yizhong's rebellion, Zhang Jun's rise, Huang Qianshan, Kang Lu, which had no foundation, or the roots were basically his Zhao Guan family's small group collapsed:
Kang Lu was executed on the spot for his resentment from the palace;
Huang Qianshan was dismissed from the prime minister and went to the post of a bachelor's office. He was promoted to Dongxiao Palace in Hangzhou and lived in Lizhou.
However, in addition to the two core members, the Prime Minister Wang Boyan was raised high and gently put down, changing from the affairs of the Privy Council to the affairs of the Tongzhi Privy Council, because he was worried that the two aspects of the East and West will be eliminated, and people's hearts will be shaken. In addition, Wang Yuan, the commander of the Imperial Camp, was also pardoned after specifically searching for Zhao Jiu to complain.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Jiu didn't dare to clear the court.
After this, the current situation in the court was that before Li Gang had time to come back, he actually controlled the responsibilities of the Prime Minister of the East Prefecture as the Right Prime Minister (Deputy Prime Minister) Lu Haowen;
Wang Boyan still controls the Xifu Privy Council;
The Imperial Camp Commander is still Wang Yuan;
Zhang Jun was promoted to the Chief Censor of the Censor and took charge of the censorship;
Lan Lu, another Dawei Ban from the Escort Province, hurriedly returned from Bozhou City, but half of the responsibilities of the Escort Province were handed over to Yang Yizhong by Zhao Jiu almost absurdly. The two led the two together, and Liu Yan, who was the Chixin Team, basically replaced the position of Suwei;
In addition, Zhao Jiu also promoted a group of close servants such as Hanlin, Zhongshu Shemen, and Guanmen Guards on a large scale, and issued a document to summon a group of old ministers who were idle at home, calling Xingzai in the name of a library to consult the government... This complex group is actually the so-called traditional secretary team of the Zhao Song official family.
All of this, coupled with the six departments with some real power after the Yuanfeng restructuring, constitute the actual core power department that is now in operation.
However, this alone is not enough, otherwise Zhao Jiu would not have fallen into the current dilemma of being unable to advance or retreat, and would not have to worry about dreaming at night, and he would have to ride his horse every morning to relax.
There are three problems, and these three problems are already very clear just by looking at the above personnel and affairs.
First of all, finance.
Let me say that although Yuanfeng's restructuring returned the financial power to the Ministry of Revenue, and then the Ministry of Revenue was directly under the magistrate, the current situation was that the Ministry of Revenue was simply a clever woman. To put it bluntly, the real source of wealth still depends on the deportation of the Yangtze River Basin. Specifically, it is necessary to compile Jiying Palace, Huiyou Pavilion, Yangzhou Prefecture, Jianghuai and other roads to set up shipping envoys, and Liang Yangzu, who led the tea and salt affairs in the southeast, sent the Southeast financial tuition.
The remnants of the Western Army, including Zhang Jun, Yang Yizhong, Miao Fu, Tian Shizhong, etc., were almost equivalent to the important officials who saved the life of the Zhao Guan family. In fact, the God of Wealth in the Exiled Court, but at this time he was probably just arrived in Jiangnan...
In a word, there is still no big money that can really do things here!
In addition, it is the army.
After fully contacting the government affairs, Zhao Jiu basically confirmed that when the Western Army roads were blocked, he now had an imperial camp and a military force left by the Tokyo-behind Zongze. The imperial camps were all in the Jingdong two routes (Shandong area) and Huainan two routes (Two Huai areas) and the Huainan two routes (Two Huai areas) and even less than half of them had just been suppressed. At that time, he might need to rotate and repair the bandits in various places to deal with them.
In other words, there is currently no large-scale army that can be fought!
In fact, this is the fundamental reason why Zhao Jiu did not deal with Wang Yuan and Wang Boyan. In the current situation, they could not hold on to the military power at all. The troops were all in the hands of various military leaders, and Zhao Jiu could communicate directly on his own.
Apart from having no soldiers and no money, what made Zhao Jiu feel the most collapse, or what really made Zhao Jiu worry these days, was the Grandpa Zong Zezong he had been most looking forward to!
No, Grandpa Zong really doesn't take him seriously, he really treats him as a naughty child.
First of all, when Zhao Jiu issued an order to find Zong Ze to be the Privy Councilor in Tokyo, Grandpa Zong took over the position of Privy Councilor, but he was unwilling to come to Bozhou to see Zhao Jiu. The reason was that the war in Tokyo was critical because Jin soldiers had already appeared in Sishui Pass, and the war was very anxious.
Then, Zhao Jiu continued to send an envoy to tell Zong Ze that Huang Qianshan was dismissed from prefecture and that he had re-activated Li Gang. So Grandpa Zong immediately replied, explaining the difficulties of the situation around Tokyo, and bluntly said that Tokyo was famine, and then asked for soldiers and money and food... Of course, Zhao Jiu could understand this, but he naturally did not have the soldiers, but there was still a little in stock of money and food, so he almost tightened his belt and tried to support Grandpa Zong. Even the gold powder on Daozu Jin was melted as soon as it was scraped off!
Then, after about seven or eight days, Li Gang had just returned to Huaixi area, but encountered a rebel Ding Jin who had just emerged from Huaixi to block the road. So Xianggong Li posted a message from a distance, first expressing his political program, and he should prepare everything here. After he went to Nanyang with him... However, this document was sent by detour, but it attracted the attention of Grandpa Zong. The latter also quickly posted a message saying that the price of grain in Tokyo had been quenched, and he now had a million troops, enough to defend the enemy. So, the government should not go to Nanyang and just go back to the old capital!
This is simply ridiculous. Not to mention that there is a famine in Tokyo, it turns into Tokyo's food prices. The key is that there are millions of troops... There must be millions of refugees in Tokyo, but millions of troops are too ridiculous!
At this time, Zhao Jiu really felt the helplessness of being looked at by a child, and this helplessness was probably even more serious than Zhao Gou's previous feelings. After all, if he was like Zhao Gou before, he was determined to flee south and ignore these words and run to Yangzhou, it would be fine. The key is that Zhao Jiu vaguely understood Zong Ze's thoughts in his heart!
The reason why Zong Ze lied to Zhao Jiu like this and fooled Zhao Jiu was essentially because he was afraid that Zhao Jiu would run away again! And once Zhao Jiu started to escape again this time, as long as he ran to Yangzhou on the Yangtze River, even if he was not in the river, a sentence from Grandpa Zong’s memorial would become a reality - the Central Plains, where the hearts of the people in Hebei were placed. Once he gave up and wanted to take it back, it would take more than ten years and hundreds of thousands of people!
It is precisely because of understanding Zong Ze's painstaking efforts that Zhao Jiu could not ignore the other party's intentions. But the problem is that if he really goes to Tokyo according to Zong Ze's wishes, it will definitely be a dead end, right?
Although Zhao Jiu did not understand the details of history, in history, Jin Wushu chased Zhao Gou all the way to search mountains and seas, and attacked Jiangnan for the best efforts. On the way back, he still defeated Han Shizhong's main force and successfully returned north. This shows that the main direction of the next wave of Jin army attacks was where Zhao Jiu was. Jin Wushu's main force was staring at him, Zhao Guan's himself!
In this case, even though Grandpa Zong has been defending Tokyo for several years as a pillar in history, it is a miracle, but once he goes through it, he will attract Jin Wushu's 100,000 main force to Tokyo. If he really uses the millions of troops to resist, he will probably be taken over in one fell swoop?
However, what is even more disastrous is that when Zhao Jiu told Zong Ze about his concerns about the third full-scale move south by the main force of the Jin army, Grandpa Zong did not believe it at all. According to Grandpa Zong, Grandmaster Jin and the second prince Wanyan Olibu were all dead. The three of the Jin army, Nianhan, Talai and Wushu, will inevitably compete for power. No one can be the commander-in-chief and the main force to move south in the short term. Please rest assured... By the way, Grandpa Zong also updated the data. Now there is a two million army in Tokyo!
This is the most helpless thing about the Zhao Guan family - it would be fine if they don’t have the power for the time being, but after driving away the treacherous ministers, the loyal ministers actually didn’t believe him!
In particular, Li Gang has been proven to be the prime minister but not the chief minister. Although Zong Ze was unable to lead troops to battle, he was one of the most outstanding chief ministers of this era and the greatest reliance he had thought about before!
The sun rises eastward, and Zhao Jiu stands on the banks of the Wool Water, looking northwest. If it weren't for Tokyo, it would be difficult to withdraw once it entered. He really wanted to go to Tokyo and show his heart to Zongze... By the way, if Yue Pengju, who was so obsessed with him, was there.
Of course, with Grandpa Zong's attitude, Zhao Jiu became increasingly unconfident what the 24-year-old Yue Pengju could do.
"It's dawn, the official family, let's go back as soon as possible, otherwise people will be uneasy." Seeing Zhao Jiu looking at him again, Liu Yan was moved, but he did not forget his responsibilities, so he took the initiative to come forward to persuade him.
"Let's go." Zhao Jiu glanced at the northwest again, and finally sighed quietly, and then turned around and went down the dike.
He knew that Zong Ze's documents would probably stop in the past few days, because Li Gang was about to detour from Huaixi to Bozhou, and then the Prince Li would preside over the transfer to Nanyang and might even further enter Guanzhong from Nanyang... In this environment, Zong Ze could not compete with Li Gang, the banner of the pro-war faction, otherwise he would not have written a letter repeatedly before Li Gang came back.
Chapter completed!