Of course, the emperor has to pay for the army himself, of course, this does not need him to manage, and his own armies are busy with their own baggage. Zhao Hao has one request, the meat must be enough, and the wine must be drunk well. If they wanted tens of thousands of people to have a good meal at the same time, the materials needed were also massive, so they bought almost all the chickens, ducks, guineas and sheep in the surrounding twenty miles of towns and villages, and fished and fished for shrimp in the lake, and finally made up this good meal. And since it was the army that there must be wine, he had already prepared for this, and when he came, he purchased a large amount of wine in Shaoxing and drank it with the army.

Of course, Zhao Yu's money is not spent in vain, and the first is to show his recognition of their contributions; Second, it is used to improve morale, and wine and food are also a kind of spiritual comfort for these men who lick blood all day long; The third is to buy people's hearts, naturally it is impossible to make people return to their hearts with just one meal, but they can show that they are in the army and want to go to the battlefield with them.

The next day, the entire Song army camp was filled with the aroma of wine and meat, and Zhao Yu ordered the feast to be placed on the point field of the Chinese army's big tent, and hundreds of tables were densely placed, and the scene was very amazing. But tens of thousands of troops, not to mention being able to share the table with the emperor, even those present at the same time felt very lucky. Before the banquet, a commendation order was issued to commend those who had made meritorious contributions to the battle between the Wynne and Weisheng armies.

Xu Hanqing was posthumously presented as the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and his wife was named the lady of Jian'an County. It is said that Mrs. Xu has made meritorious contributions, and her husband is not stained, let alone a dead man, but in ancient times, this rule was that a wife was honored by her husband, and if she wanted to give Mrs. Xu a knight, she could only promote her deceased husband first. According to the system, Xu Hanqing is just a Jinshi background, an official is no more than five grades, his wife can only be a lady, and people call him a lady but an honorific title. But now she lives up to her name and has become the lady of the county of Sanpin.

Later, Xie Ao and Xie Fang were crowned as doctors of Yinqing Guanglu, and they were ranked as third-grade officials; Ten more people under the command of the two ministries were promoted to the commander of the capital, thirty were the commanders, and 100 people were in command. In addition, in addition to being promoted, junior officers and soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in combat are all rewarded, with hundreds of more and dozens of less, and they are immediately distributed, and for a time the whole army is boiling and morale is greatly boosted.

Zhao Yu knew very well that although these rebels were based on the forbidden army sent as the backbone, after all, they were far away from the center, and their 'enlightenment' was still poor, and it was not good to only grant titles without benefits. Therefore, it is more important to take care of things than to give only an honor, fame and fortune are the highest ideals of most people, and only a very small number of people can detach fame and fortune from the world. And he often regarded himself as an ordinary man, and he was never ashamed of loving money, what did he use to maintain the operation of the dynasty without money, and how to feed this army.

A military banquet of tens of thousands of people is naturally happy and happy, but Zhao Yu didn't eat this meal well, and now there is no queen mother to 'block the gun', everything has to be dealt with by himself. And he didn't like this kind of noisy scene, but it was also a growing pain, and he had to adapt to this kind of formality, even if it was full of hypocrisy, even intriguing and conspiratorial feasts......

Zhao Yu thought that the Yuan army would take advantage of the first arrival of reinforcements, everything was not yet complete, and the laxity after the banquet launched an attack, but after staying overnight, the night attack did not happen, but it was spent safely. After he got up and washed, he took a turn in the new palace, only to find that he actually lived in the same courtyard with the immortals, and it turned out that the place Wen Tianxiang chose for himself was actually a separate courtyard of the Dragon King Temple. Thinking about the time in Lin'an, the ministers prevented themselves from moving in on the grounds that Deshou Palace was converted into a Taoist temple, but Wen Tianxiang took the initiative to choose such a place for himself, and he couldn't help but feel funny.

Of course, if it can be used as a palace, it must be a spacious place with many rooms. And Zhao Yu turned around, found that this dragon king temple is quite large, covers an area of 100 acres, the temple has a total of three entrances, the front hall is dedicated to the White Dragon King, the main hall is dedicated to the Buddha Rulai, the apse is to have nine heads, twenty-seven eyes, thirty-four arms, sixteen legs of the blue-bodied fearful King Kong statue. Zhao Yu knew that in Tibetan Buddhism, this Buddha-figure was an incarnation of Manjushri. On the other two sides, there are houses for monks to stay and a scripture building. His residence was only a temporary residence for pilgrims and laymen, but it was also spacious and clean.

After looking at it, Zhao Yu felt more interesting, and felt that this temple had some meaning of selling dog meat with a sheep's head, thinking that it must have been built here to worship the Buddha of Buddhism, but the incense was overwhelming, and there were not many believers. And the monk also wants to live, in the face of this bleak scene, the introduction of the 'dragon king', here close to the Yangtze River, the shipping is developed, and the people who beg for life on the water will go to the temple to give alms, incense, so relying on the foreign gods developed, gradually have a scale. When the Mongols came, in order to adapt to the change, they invited the gods who were enshrined in the apse to leave, and replaced them with Tibetan Buddhist figures.

Zhao Yu felt amused, and felt that the monks in the temple seemed to be burning incense from which immortal 'spirit', and there was a suspicion that the slippery business should not be done by the monks who jumped out of the red dust. But he knows that growing bigger is the law of the development of things, and a seed is trying to become a big tree, especially in a complex human society, which is the instinct of biological competition. It's just that human beings are different from other animals and plants, and human beings can consider the balance of social ecology and constantly change to adapt to the situation for the sake of broader and longer-term interests.

The monks in the temple may not understand these truths, but they know how to keep their incense burning alive and their followers undiminished. However, this time it seems that the wrong god was worshipped, and now a monk in the temple is gone, it is said that Wen Tianxiang was furious when he chose a place to stay for the emperor, and found that there were foreign gods and Buddhas enshrined here. On the grounds of the disloyalty of these monks, all the monks were included in the army for hard labor, and the temple property was confiscated, but the apse was not destroyed because of the urgency of time.

Zhao Hao could only shake his head and smile bitterly at this jealous and hateful right minister, a group of monks can be charged with a crime, it seems that he has time to talk to him. And when he returned to the palace, Wen Tianxiang had already led several subordinates to accompany him. After he finished eating, the two sides discussed the matter of receiving reinforcements, and then the generals of each army were ordered to change the defense and rearrange the camp. And he had to go to inspect the terrain around Ezhou in order to decide how to break the city next.

Although the Sheji is comfortable to sit on, the large hull is not conducive to action, while the dragon boat is much more flexible, and the draft is shallow, suitable for sailing in the rivers and lakes, coupled with good protection, Zhao Yu still chose the dragon boat to travel, Wen Tianxiang, Xie Ao and Xie Fang have to accompany them, and Chen Dun led the guard battalion to accompany the guards on the dragon boat.

Ahead of them were led by two dragon boats, with the Warrior in which Zhao Hao was in the center, followed by two dragon boats that broke down, and they entered the South Lake and turned westward. He and Wen Tianxiang were in the front room of the top cabin, where the view was wide and the situation ahead was unobstructed. The lake was calm and calm, the dragon boat was very fast under the urging of the oarsman, he took the telescope to look north, the Song army was about eight miles away from the city and set up camp on the lake, dug a ditch, built an earthen city, built a watchtower, confronted the enemy, and set up a wooden fence along the lake for a fence, but on the whole it was still on the defensive.

"Wen Xiang, is that the Yellow Crane Tower?" Getting closer and closer to the city, Zhao Yu saw that there was a tall building in the south of the city, and he felt that the position was wrong, so he turned his face and asked Wen Tianxiang.

"Your Majesty, this is the South Tower, not the Yellow Crane Tower!" Wen Tianxiang glanced out and said.

"South Building?" Zhao Yu searched in his mind, thinking about the four famous buildings and the four major study buildings, none of them said the south building, and said with a little doubt.

"Your Majesty, the Yellow Crane Tower is the wartime watchtower of the Sun Wu period, and then became a place for feasting and drinking, but it has also been damaged and rebuilt several times, until the Tang Dynasty reached a great victory, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Jia Dao and Bai Juyi and other famous artists have left masterpieces, and Cui Hao's chapter is a swan song for the ages. After entering our dynasty, there are small pavilions, curved corridors, and Hua pavilions around the building, and it is still a place for literati and ink writers to chant and express their feelings. However, after the southern crossing, this building has long been abandoned, and the site no longer exists. Wen Tianxiang saw the ignorance on the little emperor's face, and hurriedly explained.

"It turns out that the Yellow Crane Industry is really gone!" Zhao Yu sighed when he heard this, but he regretted it, but he also felt glad that his attack on the city would inevitably be damaged, and now at least the notoriety of the destruction of this ancient famous building will not fall on him.

"It is truly regrettable that such a magnificent scene was destroyed. The south building was built by our dynasty, on the top of the Yellow Bird Mountain in the south of the state rule, and the middle taste was changed to Baiyun Pavilion. The system is Hongwei, the climb is especially victorious, and there are many buildings in Ezhou, and this is the only important meeting of the country. After this, the scribes of our dynasty went to the south tower to climb and sing, but the Yellow Crane Tower was gradually forgotten, and the statement was far less than the south tower. Wen Tianxiang said.

"Hehe, the first floor is booming, the first floor is declining, but the rise and fall of the country is nothing more than that!" Zhao Hao couldn't help but smile and sighed when he heard it. From this, he thought of the law of the development of things, and the change from prosperity to decline is like a spell that controls the world, and this is the case with buildings, people, and history. After becoming the emperor, the important teaching task of the masters was to let him know the reasons for the rise and fall of the country and learn lessons from it, and he knew that the next eight hundred years, so he naturally had a deeper understanding than these people.

As long as anyone who has studied history knows that there is a historical cycle law in Chinese history, Zhao Yu is naturally no exception, speaking of China's 5,000 years, which has experienced I don't know how many regime changes, and any regime will experience the rise and fall of chaos, and the cyclical phenomenon presented by the reciprocating cycle. Extreme injustice will lead to the collapse of the original social system, and then the chaos will be restored, so as to achieve a new relatively fair and balanced social development model, and the cycle continues. The Great Rule sometimes lasts for hundreds of years, and the Great Chaos sometimes lasts for hundreds of years.

With a history of several thousand years, China has long been an agricultural country dominated by agricultural civilization, and land resources, as the most basic means of production, are essentially survival resources. When the land, which is the basic means of production on which the majority of peasants depend, is gone, the economic resources on which the common people depend, especially the land resources, will gradually be taken away by the magnates, scholars, and landlords, and then the imperial power will gradually be hollowed out. When someone begins to lead them in the revolution, a new political force will be formed to overthrow the ancient imperial power, and this force will be large enough to lead to a change of dynasty.

Zhao Yu also knew that in the past dynasties, although some of them were due to the emperor's mediocrity, he also understood that sometimes the regime change was not entirely due to the emperor's mediocrity, but the accumulation of difficulties and sudden catastrophic events. The most typical case is Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who lived a simple and diligent life in the government, but the Ming Dynasty has been full of holes in his hands, and the interest groups have been seriously grouped together to make it difficult to shake it, and even the upper and lower information is seriously disjointed, and a large amount of real civil information is difficult to reach the heavens in time. Eventually, the dynasty collapsed, and he was hanged from a crooked neck tree in a coal mountain with his hair covered.

"Your Majesty, you can realize the rise and fall of the country with the rise and fall of the first floor, which is comparable to when Tang Taizong took the mirror as a mirror and understood the rise and fall of the country." Wen Tianxiang saluted

"Yes, Your Majesty has been reading the books of the sages all these years, listening to the words of the sages, and practicing the way of benevolence and filial piety. Now the recovery of Jiangnan is close at hand, and the country will be governed by the way of a saint, he will be able to expel the tyrannical yuan one day, and the Central Plains in the north, and will be able to let me pass on to a hundred generations, and it will not fade for ten thousand years! Xie Fangde also nodded.

"Where can I compare with Taizong to be wise, I just want to recover my homeland, and it is enough to see my ancestors and ancestors not being beaten in the future, and the people not scolding me for being a dumb king!" Zhao Yu waved his hand.

He knows very well that if you look at a big history with personal emotions, it is often difficult to understand it objectively, and many historical events can only be truly evaluated objectively and historically after historical precipitation. It should be said that both slave society and feudal society were advanced in the initial stage of their development, and you should not belittle the previous institutional innovations and historical processes because they later developed a capitalist society or a socialist society. Even if the Mongols were tyrannical, it cannot be completely denied that they created an empire that was unparalleled in the world, connecting the East and the West, and promoting the prosperity of international trade.

As for Zhao Yu's statement that they govern the country with Confucianism, he still disagrees. Because Confucianism is, to a certain extent, a doctrine that has no sense of history and lacks vitality, it can only be swayed by historical inertia. Because the core proposition of Confucianism is that individuals should set an exemplary high and complete benevolence and virtue in the course of their own lives, which is contrary to the natural law of the finite life of human beings.

Therefore, governing the country according to Confucian ideals will inevitably result in a continuous cycle in a closed interval, and it is impossible to achieve reform and innovation. However, Zhao Hao is now learning to be obedient, he doesn't want to argue with the ministers on this issue, because he has experienced strong winds and waves, he knows that as long as an argument falls into endless debates, causing party disputes and political disputes, once it gets out of control, wouldn't it be a repeat of the disaster of the year of Shenzong, how can the country still be stable, let alone develop, especially in this special period, it is better to put aside the argument and bury your head in things......