One Piece of Song Dynasty

In the blink of an eye, four years of Jianyan passed. After four years and one year of Jianyan, Li Xin basically controlled the entire Song Dynasty. Now Li Xin is waiting for Zhang Jun to come to Lin'an. After subduing Zhang Jun, Li Xin can conquer the two The imperial edict has been made public.

After dealing with Liu Guangshi, and after screening by Wang De and Fu Xuan, Liu Guangshi's original men were reduced to . Now they have moved to Lin'an to start training. The original defense area of ​​​​Liu Guangshi was taken over by Zhang Jun. Of course, Zhang Jun's men were definitely not enough to take over Liu Guangshi's defense zone, so Li Xin transferred another men from Fujian, the rear area, to strengthen Zhang Jun's strength. Fujian was taken away by Li Xin After people, there are only Imperial Guards and troops in each county. Currently, only Fujian and Guangdong in Li Xin's control areas are the most stable places from which to mobilize excess military strength.

Zhang Jun, who had strengthened his military strength, was appointed by Li Xin to be the commander of the camp's left guard army. Li Xin's direct command of the camp guard army was equivalent to the Imperial Forest Army. Currently, in addition to Zhang Jun's camp left guard army, there is only Yang Yizhong's camp camp. The right guard army, the front, middle and rear armies have not yet been found, but Li Xin plans to organize Wang De's troops into the camp front guard army in the future.

In order to strengthen the military strength, Li Xin ordered the recruitment of another new soldiers in Zhejiang and another new soldiers in Xinghan. At the same time, Li Xin appointed Chen Gongfu as the Zhejiang Road System Envoy and Zhong Xi as the Zhejiang Road Propaganda Envoy to rectify Zhejiang's military and political affairs.

After everything was arranged, Li Xin wrote to Liang Hongyu, who was far away in Xinghan, asking her to bring all the ladies and children to come to Lin'an. The family had been separated for a year, and it was time to reunite. In addition to his family members, Li Xin also sent letters to Xu Wenchang, Zhu Xuan, Ouyang Hao, Zhang Yi, Yan Yunfei, and Liu Yi, asking them to come to Lin'an, and specifically asked Xu Wenchang to bring some students from the Agricultural College and the seeds.

While waiting for Liang Hongyu and others to arrive in Ling'an, Zhang Jun arrived first, but Li Xin did not meet Zhang Jun and asked Zhao Ding to meet Zhang Jun first.

When Zhang Jun saw Zhao Ding, he said, "Yuan Zhen, I am ashamed of my entrustment to the emperor. The emperor must be very disappointed with me now."

Zhao Ding sighed: "Deyuan, in fact, the emperor is gone a long time ago, a year ago."

Zhang Jun stood up in shock and said: "Yuan Zhen, what do you mean by this? The emperor is missing."

Zhao Ding took out the two imperial edicts and handed them to Zhang Jun and said, "Deyuan, please read it yourself."

After Zhang Jun read the edict, he trembled and dropped it to the ground. Zhao Ding picked it up and said, "Deyuan understands."

Zhang Jun said angrily: "Yuan Zhen, this is a mutiny. Are you just watching the mutiny happen without taking any action?"

Zhao Ding said calmly: "It's a mutiny. We have all gone through the whole process of the mutiny. The prince's mutiny is different from the Miao and Liu mutinies. The prince acted carefully and chose the sea as the place for the mutiny. That is the sea. All of us No one had ever thought that a mutiny would happen in Hainan, and the news was blocked after the mutiny. At that time, Zhang Jun was still resisting the Jin army in Mingzhou, and Han Shizhong was near Zhenjiang, which meant that the emperor did not have any reinforcements available at that time. ."

Zhang Jun asked again: "Then you haven't done anything since you arrived in Quanzhou?"

Zhao Ding replied: "The prince has calculated everything. He sent the emperor away two days after the mutiny. I still don't know whether he is alive or dead. And do you know how many troops the prince brought to Quanzhou after the mutiny? Fifteen thousand Thousands of people, infantry and cavalry, all well-equipped and well-trained, are simply not comparable to other armies of the Song Dynasty, and Deyuan knows who the commander-in-chief of the prince's army is."

Zhang Jun shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zhao Ding said: "Liu Fa, the former famous general of the Western Army, is as famous as Zhong Shi Dao."

Zhang Jun was shocked and said: "Isn't Liu Fa dead?"

Zhao Ding shook his head and said: "He is not dead. He was rescued from the battlefield by the prince. His death is just an illusion created by the prince. Deyuan, you know, those generals of the Western Army who are usually domineering in front of the emperor, met Liu Fa Just like a mouse meets a cat, everyone obeys him, Zhang Jun is like this, Han Shizhong is like this, even Liu Guangshi, who was beheaded by the prince some time ago, also accepted death when he met Liu Fa."

Zhang Jun said in disappointment: "So you just gave in."

Zhao Ding continued: "Not only because of Liu Fa, there is also a group of talents gathered around the prince, including Zhang Xiaochun and his son, Li Miao, descendants of the Zhong family, Lu Deng, Zhe Yanzhi, Ma Kuo, Zhao Liangsi and others. They all I am willing to be used by the prince, and more importantly, I have the support of Empress Zhu and the emperors and concubines beside me. It turns out that the empress Zhu and the emperors who disappeared during Jingkang were rescued by the prince."

Zhang Jun smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty is really thoughtful. He is not even a bit better than the Miao and Liu people. I'm afraid that Your Majesty has been preparing for this mutiny for several years."

Zhao Ding nodded and said: "Yes, not only that, the prince also has an island as a foundation outside the Song Dynasty. The prince's name is Xinghan. At the time of the mutiny, it had a population of more than . Now it is almost It has a population of two million, and Lu Yihao and I both went there to see it in person, and it was only after we had been there that we were willing to be used by the prince."

Zhang Jun wondered: "What did you see there?"

Zhao Ding said: "We saw the hope of the Han people to rise again in Xinghan. Deyuan, in fact, in addition to these two imperial edicts, the prince also asked the emperor to write an imperial edict during the mutiny."

Zhang Jun quickly asked: "What was written in that imperial edict?"

Zhao Ding glanced at Zhang Jun and said: "That imperial edict is a Zen edict, but it will not be effective until the prince regains the Central Plains and Yanyun."

Zhang Jun was surprised: "Recover the Central Plains and Yanyun"

Zhao Ding nodded and said: "Exactly, this is what the prince himself requested. This shows the prince's ambition."

Zhang Jun was silent for a while and said: "Yuan Zhen, can I go to Xinghan to have a look?"

Zhao Ding said: "Of course, but the conversation I had with you today must not be spread out."

Zhang Jun asked: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Ding replied: "Because the Kingdom of Jin has sent spies to the Song Dynasty, if you spread the news, I'm afraid it will ruin the prince's important affairs."

Zhang Jun said: "Who is the secret spy?"

Zhao Ding replied: "Qin Hui, I just came back not long ago."

Zhang Jun asked: "Then why didn't the prince kill him?"

Zhao Ding explained: "Because the prince needs to pass Qin Hui to deliver false news to the Jin people. Moreover, we also need time now. The Northern Expedition cannot be carried out in a short while."

Zhang Jun nodded and said: "Yuan Zhen, I understand. Don't worry, I understand the severity."

Zhao Ding then took Zhang Jun to see Li Xin. After Zhao Ding explained Zhang Jun's request, Li Xin immediately agreed and immediately arranged for someone to take Zhang Jun to visit Xinghan.