Among the three major battlefields of the Song Dynasty, Lianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan and Shu, Sichuan and Shu had been occupied by Li Ni, and Lianghuai bordered the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. Therefore, when it was determined that the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties were no longer able to go south, the Song Dynasty focused its defense
Moved to Jinghu battlefield.
Lu Wenhuan, Xia Gui, and Jia Sidao's hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed at Jinghu to prevent the rebels from flowing down the Han River and Yangtze River.
At this time, once Huaixi was suddenly lost, the Song army's hundreds of thousands of main forces lost their rear, food routes, and retreat, and were afraid they would collapse.
This is what Chen Yizhong said was Li Ni's strategy of taking Huaixi first. Liu Fu came here to stop this.
However, when he arrived, on the first night, he looked around and saw Xia Fu swallowing his saliva and opening his mouth to speak.
"General, no!" Liu Fu said anxiously: "Li Ni is just bluffing. His troops are still in the north. He has no troops to attack Huaixi. What Lu Fengtai's soldiers did was to scare the general. In fact, they didn't have many in the city.
people."
Wang Xun casually crumpled the map drawn by Chen Yizhong into a ball and stuffed it into Liu Fu's mouth.
"You southerners just keep talking and keep talking." "Woo! Woo!"
There were only two people outside the public house who had arrived early and were talking. "The official family."
All the ministers knelt on the ground.
"Li Ni will attack the Song Dynasty soon, faster than everyone in the court expected."
Just as they were talking, footsteps sounded in the public room, and the two stopped talking. After waiting for a long time, the official held a small stack of documents and placed them on Xie Daoqing's desk.
Liu Fu tried to struggle, but was soon dragged down.
Regarding that party dispute, Shen Yi didn't know what to do.
I think Lin'an must be unprepared, otherwise the changes in the situation may catch the government and the opposition by surprise.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. The war between Xiao Song and Zhao Yu has never stopped. It's just that no one in the court made arrogant talks about peace, delaying the opportunity to fight."
After seeing his subordinates at this time, he expressed sorrow and said: "There are no powerful officials in this dynasty who have committed misfortune as much as Zeng Yuanzi! Please punish me severely, Your Majesty!"
"Have all the incriminating evidence been collected?"
After two months of fighting, the peace faction had occupied a small part of the supervisory censor's positions and controlled the mouthpiece of the court. They were only waiting for the beginning of the new year to directly accuse Zeng Yuanzi.
On the 80th day of the twelfth lunar month, it was just dawn, and the all-night silence still lingered in the small streets of Hangzhou.
That year was the Year of Jisi, the Year of the Snake.
"Xie Yiming was bribed by Zeng Yuanzi?" Zhang Jian asked doubtfully, "Is that to help Zeng Yuanzi praise the enemy's friendship in order to support his troops and respect himself?"
Shen Yimin was more panicked than any other minister. When he opened his mouth to drink, the beaded crown under his head fell to the ground.
"We should still find a way to make Zeng Yuanzi lose the trust of the Queen Mother." Liu Fu wanted to pass the news back to Lin'an.
Shen Yimin then finished handling official duties. When I turned to one of the documents, I frowned.
Zhang Jian drank a cup of tea. He stood up and walked to the door to leave. He turned around and took the letter from Xie Daoqing. After reading it, he was surprised.
"Tell me it's fake!" But I didn't expect the news to be like that. "It's fake!"
"It is possible." Xie Daoqing mused: "Perhaps Zeng Yuanzi gained the trust of the Queen Mother by wooing the Xie family.
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Xie Yiming also said that judging from the movements of the rebels, there seemed to be no sign of attacking Xiao Song, and many generals in the army were so judged.
However, this imperial edict has just been lifted up and put down again, but no one cares about it anymore.
Liu Fu was startled and knew what to do. "Bang!"
The ministers are still planning.
"Chen Yizhong felt relieved again, saying that if Li Xia went south immediately, it would be best to push Shen Yimin too slowly at this time."
It was one of the first official matters dealt with by the Privy Council after the New Year holidays.
Shen Yi is actually still afraid of Shen Yimin, but after all, I am far away, and the important ministers surrounding me are more intimidating at this moment.
I wanted to offend both sides, so I pretended to be sick and rested for a while on Quan Jiu's suggestion, but that time I was forced to do it by Tai Qian.
~~"I am not guilty!"
It's hot and clear in the Privy Council. It's New Year's Eve tonight, and many officials haven't taken a break yet.
So, after the first day of the first lunar month, memorials like snowflakes were sent back to the palace. Jia Sidao was a little angry, and his anger surged. After that, he overturned the imperial case and shouted: "It's useless! What are the Eight Prefectures?
If eight states and eighty-eight counties are lost, is the war still over? The war is still over!"
Our voices were very low, and all of us had shaggy hair and beards, full of angry faces.
Everyone got down one after another and said in unison: "Your Majesty, please remove Zeng Yuanzi from his post and call him back to the court for questioning!"
It was a letter sent back by Xie Yiming, the commander of the Hubei military force, saying that the rebel Jiang Cai tribe had not yet reoccupied Kuimen, and had gone up the Yangtze River and captured Zigui.
The Xiao Song court was not able to catch some clues that could prove the imminent safety, but it was when a party struggle was at its most intense, and the energy of the ministers was mainly focused on eradicating the traitorous party.
The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year, and as the night passed, it was the tenth year of Xianding in the Song Dynasty and the seventh year of Jiantong in the Tang Dynasty.
When another impeachment memorial was read, Jia Sidao opened his mouth to remind Liu Fu who was sitting here drowsily.
Gradually, your inner position shifted to the opposite of Zeng Yuanzi, and you increasingly believed that Shen Yimin was lying about the military situation to support his troops.
Jia Sidao still sat in front of the bead curtain, listening to the ministers' impeachment. "I am just too careless. How could Shen Yi go south so slowly?"
"Wait a minute, from now on, Taiqian no longer believes that Zeng Yuanzi raised the bandits and respected himself.
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"It's a pity that we have to wait until the end of the New Year."
"It's bad. From lying about the military situation in the Ezhou War to the public land law harming the people, his crimes are too numerous to describe. And he has also been impeached by the imperial censor."
It was night, and the lights in Lin'an City were still bright, and the sky appeared in the sky. Jia Sidao stood up in a roundabout way and walked out of the bead curtain.
Then he saw Jia Sidao nodding his head and saying, "Let's give the order." Liu Dai seemed to have woken up just then and turned to look at Jia Sidao.
Xie Daoqing's pupils trembled. Only then did he realize that His Highness did not have Zeng Yuanzi's people, and even when the situation reached this point, he still forgot about internal fighting.
In a peaceful year, the officials in Lin'an would spend almost seventy days in solitude during the entire first lunar month. But this year, many people wanted to do a small thing, that is, to overthrow Zeng Yuanzi.
You just saw the panic of the ministers, so you guessed that there was no good news. You tolerated us discussing the bad news first.
It wasn't until a few more documents were hurriedly delivered from the Privy Council that Xie Daoqing took the next step and reported: "The official family, a trivial matter has damaged the eight prefectures, eight prefectures, and eighty-eight counties in Huaixi, and they have surrendered to Zhao Yu."
Liu Fu was in charge of that. Seeing that the imperial edict was drafted and copied, he stamped it with a small seal, and looked forward to returning to the front palace to drink and have fun.
During the process, no one from Dahuangmen rushed over. It seemed that the Privy Council did not respond to the military situation urgently, and no one discussed it loudly with His Highness.
And Zhao Yu is obviously going to make an expedition to the south today, and instead of giving him a head start, he directly occupies half of Xiao Song's current territory.
The officials and the Queen Mother had no choice but to summon the ministers in the evening of the first day of the lunar month to discuss the results and come up with a result, which would be announced at the court meeting on the fourth day of the lunar month.
Lin'an.
In short, it was agreed upon, and he immediately asked the Zhishe Renyuan to draft a decree. "Mr. Zhang, take a look at that."
"Is this the order?"
Liu Fu was frightened again and murmured loudly: "Where is Huaixi? Is the situation very bad?"
He turned his head desperately and looked at the brightly lit lobby, and saw that in front of Xia Fu, Lu Fengtai suddenly slashed a general who was shouting and refused to surrender to the ground with a knife.
"The Prime Minister is here to command the troops, but he takes the initiative to resign when faced with impeachment time and time again. The Queen Mother will definitely see through my ambitions."