Zhao Yu did not rush to leave after getting the news, but stayed in Xuzhou, he knew very well that after this big battle, the various departments were exhausted, especially the imperial guards who undertook the main combat tasks needed a period of rest, so he ordered the departments to turn to rest on the spot, while assisting in clearing the remnants of the enemy, suppressing the rebellion, and assisting the imperial court to establish power.

Another reason for staying in Xuzhou was that in addition to Zhao Hao's desire to personally inspect the actual situation of Li Guojian, he also understood that with the recovery of Yingtianfu, the operational objectives of the Eastern Group had basically been completed, and the Western Group had also completed the campaign preparations, and it was only a matter of time before Xiangyang was recovered. Therefore, a decent armistice is needed now, otherwise the armistice will not be able to be explained to the court and the army if the situation is favorable to oneself.

It is a pity that there was no United Nations in this era, and there were no surrounding countries that matched the national strength of the Song and Yuan dynasties, from which they mediated. And going to Yingtianfu at this sensitive period is likely to make the Mengyuan side have the misunderstanding that they want to continue the Northern Expedition, which will stimulate them to continue to increase their troops and prepare for war, resulting in the war being dragged on and the confrontation going on indefinitely, which will then affect the economic recovery and strategic layout of the Lianghuai region in the later period.

At this time, it has entered early summer, the weather is getting warmer, flowers are red and willow green everywhere, it is already a scene full of vitality, Zhao Hao also wants to go out for a walk, but because of his identity, and because he is in the war zone, he is hugging the front and back, and the officers and soldiers who follow him will be thousands, which is really disturbing the people. He could only sit in the camp honestly and review the pieces that had recently been accumulated, deal with some urgent matters, or summon officials to inquire about the formation of local government and solve the problems arising therein.

"Your Majesty, news came from the Secretariat that Meng Yuan had adjusted the officials of the DPRK and China, relieved Yue Chi Cha'er of the Privy Council, and replaced him with Bo Yan, the right prime minister of the Central Library; An Tong is the left prime minister of Zhongshu Province; and Li Qian and Wan Ze were assigned to Pingzhang political affairs; Sango and Buhumu are participating in political affairs; Ye Li is the imperial historian; Enable Ali as the head of the household; He ordered the great emperor to concurrently serve as a co-advisor to the Privy Council, responsible for reorganizing the guards and pro-army. At this time, Zhuang Gong, the head of the Imperial Office, said from inside.

"Oh, Meng Yuan has adjusted the central ministers again this time, adding two new faces!" Zhao Yu took it and looked at it.

"Your Majesty, Wan Ze and Bu Humu are not unknowns, they are the leaders of the new generation of officials." Zhuang Gongcong said from the side, he has been in the Imperial Front Office for many years, and he knows all about important officials inside and outside, so he thought about it a little.

"Wan Ze was born in the Tubetsu Yan clan. Zutuxue, from Taizu Shuofang, Ping Zhubu. Taizong cut gold, ordered the younger brother Ruizong to enter the division from the right of Shaanxi, in order to attack its unpreparedness, Tuxue as the vanguard, then went to Wuxiu Pass, crossed the Han River, slightly Fang City and the north, and broke the gold soldiers in Yangzhai. Jin died, from the attack on Xingyuan, Lang, Li Zhuzhou, the marshal of the capital. Take Song Chengdu, behead its general Chen Longzhi, and give 600 households of food. Father Quan Zhen, the guard is forbidden, and he is in charge of the imperial meal. At the beginning of the Central Unification, from the ancestors to the north. For four years, he worshiped the right prime minister of Zhongshu and discussed the dynasty system with the Confucian ministers. Wan Ze used to be the Zhan Shi of the East Palace, and he was an old man of real gold, but it is said that he was sleek and sophisticated, and had a relatively close relationship with all parties. ”

"Buhumu is from Kangli. Grandfather Hai Lanbo, with Wang Khan, was captured by Genghis Khan, father Yan Zhen, mother is Goryeo. When Yan Zhen was young, he was raised by Concubine Tuolei at the instigation of Lu Heteni, and later became a confidant of Kublai Khan. Meng Ge had a gap with Kublai Khan, and Yan Zhen advised Kublai Khan to go south to ease the conflict between their brothers. After the collapse of Meng Ge, Ali Buge competed for the throne, and Yan Zhen led Kublai Khan to stay in the army and escort Kublai Khan's wife to the south, which contributed a lot. ”

"Buhumu is the second son of Yan Zhen, who studied in Guozixue at an early age, and served as a young eunuch in the fourteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty. For fifteen years, he served as the deputy envoy of Yannan Hebei Province. In 19 years, he was promoted to the post of procurator. Twenty-one years, the Senate in the book to save trouble, in a few years successively served as the secretary of the ministry, the ministry of work, and the criminal department. After Zhenjin succeeded to the throne, Bai Hanlin undertook the decree and learned the history of the country. It is honest and dedicated, and enforces the law fairly; Not afraid of the ministers, dare to admonish; He opposes accumulation, sympathizes with the people, and is highly regarded by the people in the DPRK and China. ”

"They are all people with big roots, where did that Ali come from?" Zhao Yu nodded and asked again.

"Ali should be a close official when Ahmad was in power, and he was later implicated and dismissed, and this re-appointment should be the recommendation of Sange, and serving as the head of the household may be the only way to manage money!" Zhuang Gong replied.

"This time the Mengyuan court adjusted the center, Boyan is a capable person, and he is also very prestigious in the government and the opposition, Zhenjin uses him to revive the dynasty and straighten out the relationship between the forces of all parties, but it is a big enemy for our dynasty. The two new entrants to the center were both Mongols, but Han Chen was not adjusted to a substantive post in order to increase it, probably in order to ease his relationship with the old Mongol sect and use them to hold half of the river. Zhao Yu thought for a moment and said.

"Boyan is indeed an immortal talent in governing the country, but Meng Yuan, with his prime minister, military and political affairs, is not useless to our dynasty at the moment!" Zhuang Gong said.

"Oh, where do you say that?" Zhao Hao smiled.

"After our dynasty entered the south of the Yangtze River, Boyan was in charge of the two Huai and repeatedly wanted to invade the south, but they were all defeated by our army, and he has realized that it is no longer possible to invade the south by force, at least in a short period of time. Therefore, he changed his strategy, rebuilt the city along the river, built forts, and switched from offensive to defensive. Zhuang Gong said.

"Now that the Meng Yuan has suffered defeats and countless losses, especially the serious loss of troops, the Han army has been devastated, so that the Meng Yuan has to rely on the Mongol army to stabilize the situation. This broke Kublai Khan's consistent strategy of 'ruling the Han with Mongolia and the Han with the Han to coerce the Mongolians' mutual checks and balances, and the steppe kings had always rejected the Han law from the imperial court, which made Mongolia in danger of splitting. In order to avoid this situation, Boyan must reorganize the Han army, but it will take time, so he can only take a defensive position against our dynasty and make peace with our dynasty. ”

"What if I don't want to negotiate peace with him, but want to continue the Northern Expedition and capture Dadu in one fell swoop, without giving it time to regroup?" Zhao Yu nodded, and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty also thinks that Boyan is a great enemy, and he can naturally see through the current situation, knowing that our forces have poured out, and the two battlefields of Jingxiang and Sichuan and Shu are still in progress. If our army continues the Northern Expedition, it will not hesitate to give up most of the capital and go all out to reinforce the other two battlefields, which may break the crisis and threaten Jiangnan, which is empty of troops, and put our DPRK in a situation of neglecting one and the other. Therefore, in order to maintain the battle line, we will not continue the Northern Expedition and go deep into the Central Plains, and what we are fighting for is only one city and one pool. Zhuang Gongcong explained.

"If our dynasty negotiates peace with Meng Yuan, where do you think it should be advantageous for our dynasty?" Zhao Yu nodded and said, saying in his heart that this Zhuang Gongcong is smart, this battle stopped at Ying Tianfu He has not mentioned it to anyone, and he has already thought of this section. But he didn't know if it was learned from his unintentional words, or if he analyzed the situation by himself, so he had the heart to take the exam.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think that they can follow the relevant regulations in the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" to discuss the demarcation with Meng Yuan!" Zhuang Gongcong was also surprised to hear His Majesty ask him, but he still said his thoughts.

"Well, the situation is the same ......as it was back then," Zhao Yu said with a frown.

He knew that the Shaoxing Peace Conference was a peace treaty signed between the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin in the Shaoxing year. At that time, the Song army had achieved a certain victory in the counterattack against Jin's invasion, but Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui were afraid of hindering the peace negotiations with Jin, so they relieved Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Yue Fei of their military powers, and even created Yue Fei's unjust imprisonment, so that the anti-Japanese war parties could not oppose the surrender proposal and activities.

In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, the two sides reached a peace treaty: Song Xiang Jin was a minister, and Zhao Gou, the king of Song Kang, was the emperor; The boundaries are demarcated, with the middle stream of the Huai River in the east as the boundary, the Dasanguan in the west as the boundary, the Song in the south, and the Jin in the north; The Song Dynasty paid 250,000 taels of silver and silk to Jin Na every year, and since the twelfth year of Shaoxing, it was moved to Sizhou every spring to pay. The Shaoxing Peace Conference established the political inequality between the Song and Jin dynasties, ending the state of war that lasted for more than a year, and forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south.

From the perspective of the situation, since the fourth year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty and the eleventh year of Shaoxing before Yue Fei was killed, the military power balance between the Song and Jin dynasties has gradually changed in favor of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty changed from weak to strong, and the Jin State turned from prosperity to decline. Wanyan Zongbi, the commander of the Jin State, despised the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty in the past, believing that the Song Dynasty could be destroyed by force, so he was "determined to defeat the alliance and raise troops to march south".

However, the result of the southern invasion was that the Jin army was "defeated by Shunchang, Yuncheng, and Zhegao", and the Jin army was defeated again and again, so that Wushu saw that the Jin State had lost its military advantage, and it was impossible to destroy the Song Dynasty by force. The spirit of the main battle faction of the Jin State was frustrated, so the commander of the Jin State changed his strategy after Yan Zongbi, and re-proposed to make peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, and then started "to make peace at the beginning, and the north and the south have nothing to do".

Obviously, if the Jin soldiers could win on the battlefield, then the ruling clique of the Jin State, which had always despised the Southern Song Dynasty, would not make peace with the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be seen from this that the Song and Jin reached a peace agreement as soon as possible was not only the wish of the Southern Song Emperor Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, who was reluctant to steal peace and suspicious of the generals, and Qin Hui, the traitor who betrayed the country to seek glory, but also the need of the Jurchen rulers of the Jin State.

With this demarcation, the Southern Song Dynasty geographically relied on the Huai River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River to provide geographical protection for itself. Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic for the Mongols to take the capital directly like the Jin people during the Battle of Jingkang. The Southern Song Dynasty took the initiative to attack, not only by using the newly acquired land of the Jin State to provide a buffer for its own defense, but also by taking advantage of the fact that the Mongols continued to take the initiative to attack the north before they established a firm rule over the Central Plains, or when attacked, they could clear the wilderness and use the Huai River and the Yangtze River behind them to stabilize their northern defense line.

On the whole, it can be said to be consistent with the purpose and war situation of Zhao Hao's Northern Expedition......