Zhao Dian only felt that his head was as big as a fight, and his eyes were dazed, and he sat on the dragon chair in a daze, looking at the ministers below who were blushing and thick-necked, and did not say a word. I don't know how long it took for the ministers to realize that the emperor had not spoken, and then they felt that something was wrong, and gradually calmed down, and they all looked at Zhao Dan.

At this time, Zhao Duan stood up from the dragon chair, still did not speak, only shook his sleeves, turned around and walked back. When he saw the inside, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "Retreat from the dynasty-"

After returning to the inner room, Zhao Yan was still thinking about the quarrel in the court, only to feel that his mind was still buzzing, when he was the prince in the past, because Zhao Yan only had him as a prince, no one came to compete with him for the position of the prince, so he never had to protect the position of the prince with his heart, just treat Zhao Yan carefully. You don't have to worry about the safety of the country in these military affairs. But he didn't expect to face such a sinister situation as soon as he succeeded to the throne.

The stakes of using Yang Yan's success or failure, Zhao Yan made it clear to him with scriptures. And Zhao Yan also taught him the way to control Yang Yan, but now it is really his turn to govern, Zhao Dian is panicked in his heart, today's dispute in the court will undoubtedly reveal all the problems that Zhao Dian is unwilling to think about, so that Zhao Dian has to think: Can I really control Yang Yan?

Zhao Dian is not unintelligible, now Yang Yan has more than 100,000 male soldiers, and there are two vast lands as the foundation, in terms of strength, far more than his own temporary court, if you want to repel the Jin army, you must reuse Yang Yan, the first emperor let Zisi after repelling the Jin soldiers, take back part of Yang Yan's military power, but it is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, if Yang Yan can really repel the Jin soldiers, and make great achievements, can this military power be recovered? In such a complicated situation, even a veteran who has been in power for many years will feel a headache, let alone Zhao Dan, who has just sat in this position.

But the more difficult it is to choose, the more you have to choose. Zhao Dian only felt panicked in his heart, fidgeting, and didn't even bother to pay attention to Empress Li's tea. When the other maids saw that his face was not right, they did not dare to come to spare. Zhao Dian sat for a while, and suddenly ordered someone to invite Zhao Yueru to come.

After a short time, Zhao Yueru came, and when she saw Zhao Dian's sad appearance, she couldn't help asking, "What's going on with the official family?" But are you worried about the big things in the court? ”

Zhao Dian sighed and told him what happened in the court today. said: "Speaking of which, today's events were all caused by Yang Yan, but I didn't expect it to become out of control and become like this." It's annoying to think about. ”

Zhao Yueru frowned and said, "Don't the officials still understand?" This is obviously because Long Dayuan and his gang were exposed because of the excesses of money and food, and they were intent on revenge, so they made something out of nothing and deliberately made trouble. The officials could not believe their words. ”

Zhao Dian hesitated for a moment before he said, "I have also thought about this, but what Lin Li said is not unreasonable, if it is according to the ancestral system, Yang Yan should indeed not continue to be in charge of the army. ”

Zhao Yueru said: "The official family, when the first emperor was in power, I was promised to Yang Yan by the scriptures, so when it comes to Yang Yan's affairs, I shouldn't say much, but I just want to ask the official family a few words, in the past few years, Yang Yan has made many meritorious contributions to the Southern and Northern Wars of the Great Song Dynasty, and what achievements have Long Dayuan, Shi Hao, Zeng Mao, and Zhang Shuo made this group of people?" When the Jin people invaded, what did Long Dayuan, Shi Hao, Zeng Mao, and Zhang say that this group of people did? What did Yang Yan do? Please also think twice. ”

Zhao Dian was silent for a moment, and said: "When the first emperor was in power, he once said to me: If it is about the way of using soldiers, I am afraid that no one in the Great Song Dynasty can compare with Yang Yan. I want to reuse Yang Yan. I also believe that Yang Yan is still loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, but I am willing to give Yang Yan all my military power, once Yang Yan has a rebellious heart, who can restrain him. ”

Zhao Yueru was silent for a while, then suddenly got up and came to Zhao Dian, bowed to the ground, and said: "Official, please rest assured, I dare to guarantee that Yang Yan has no second heart for the Great Song Dynasty. ”

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After Yang Yan and his entourage returned to Longxing Mansion, all the people and horses in Guangnan had arrived. Now more than 90,000 people have gathered in Yijing on the front line of Longxing Mansion, plus Bi Zaiyu stationed in Fuzhou, Meng Zongzheng in Chizhou, and Liu Bao in Jianchang Army are all under Yang Yan's control, so now Yang Yan can mobilize more than 130,000 men and horses, which is not far from the 150,000 troops he envisioned to counterattack Lin'an Yijing.

In addition to the soldiers, the more than 700 war elephants obtained in the pacification of the Dali Rebellion are also in place, and there are 200 elephants equipped with modified elephant crossbows, and the elephant soldiers are also well-trained and can go to the battlefield. In addition, 150 bed crossbows, various firearms, and other vehicles, equipment, and military supplies were also brought from Quang Nam. Grain and grass were also collected by Jingtun nearly 300,000 stones.

And during this period of time, the Ordnance Department of Longxing Mansion was also completely established by Wei Chang, which was supervised by Wei Chang, and recruited more than 700 craftsmen of all kinds, divided into four departments: iron superintendent, firearms superintendent, civil engineering superintendent and quartermaster superintendent, of which the iron superintendent and civil engineering superintendent were supervised by Wei Chang, the firearms superintendent was supervised by Sun Wei, and the quartermaster superintendent was in charge of Dong Yuan, and all began to produce various tools with the scriptures. It can be said that at present, all the top preparations are ready, and as soon as Yang Yan arrives, he can start marching.

At this time, Chen Liang and Zhao Ruyu, the governor of Guangzhou, were also in Longxing Mansion, Chen Liang was sent by Xin Qiji to help Yang Yan deal with government affairs, and Zhao Ruyu escorted the supplies to Longxing Mansion and waited for Yang Yan here. After meeting Yang Yan, Chen Liang and Zhao Ruyu immediately asked about Tanzhou, and Yang Yan also told everything that happened.

When the two of them heard this, they couldn't imagine that such a thing would happen just after the establishment of the new imperial court, and they couldn't help but feel disappointed in the new imperial court. Yang Zhaofu, if these people are allowed to come, I am afraid that the Great Song Dynasty will not be far from the day of the death of the country. ”

Yang Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Why don't I think so, in fact, now all the work of Longxing Mansion is ready, and it is possible to send troops to recover Lin'an, but the imperial court is like this, which is difficult to reassure." ”

Zhao Ruyu and Chen Liang also nodded yes. Chen Liang suddenly said: "Xianggong, Zhao Zhizhou, with all due respect, if you act according to the imperial court, you are afraid that you will never have any hope of recovering Lin'an, so in the following opinion, you should act cheaply in everything now, and you must not obey the imperial court in everything." ”

Zhao Ruyu also nodded, and said: "Yang Zhaofu, the lower officials also think that Mr. Chen's words are reasonable, in extraordinary times, you can't follow the old rules, now the land of Liangguang is still to appease and control, when the strength of Guangnan is used to resist the Jin army, after returning to Guangzhou, a supply should still be sent to Longxing Mansion for the purpose of appeasement." ”

Yang Yan nodded and said, "That's it." ”

After Zhao Ruyu left, Yang Yan immediately ordered Bi Zaiyu, Meng Zongzheng, Liu Bao and others to come to Longxing Mansion to discuss the offensive plan of sending troops to counterattack the Jin army.

However, at this time, the temporary court of Tianlin Mansion sent Zhang Yan, a scholar of Hanlin and Zuo Zhengyan, to Longxing Mansion to deliver a decree, and the court sent Wang Zhiwang and Lin Li as an envoy to Lin'an to negotiate peace with the Jin State, and before the outcome of the peace was decided, all the armies were required not to act rashly. In addition, now there is a shortage of money and grain in Tianlin Mansion, and Longxing Mansion is required to immediately allocate 3 million copper coins and 200,000 stones of grain for Tianlin Mansion to use.

When Yang Yan got the news, he couldn't help but be surprised, why did the imperial court suddenly want to negotiate peace with Jin Guo again.

It turned out that Emperor Wan Yan Yong adopted Zhang Hu's strategy and found the Song Dynasty's ministers to express their willingness to make peace with the Song Dynasty. Asked which of them could manage to communicate with the temporary court of Tanzhou, among the ministers, Wang Shiyong and Li Yao had always had some friendship with Shi Hao, and they also knew that Shi Hao had always agreed to negotiate peace with the Jin State. Therefore, he immediately stepped forward and said that he was willing to go to Tanzhou in person to express Jin Guo's opinion to Shi Hao. And said that Shi Hao was moved to promote peace with Jin Guo.

Wan Yan Yong saw it, he was very happy, and immediately crowned Wang Shiyong as the doctor of the six genuine products, and Li Yao as the doctor of the six products, and asked the servant to write a big letter in the name of the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, and asked the two to take them to Tanzhou.

The two took more than a dozen personal entourage, pretended to be businessmen, left Lin'an Mansion, and came to the outside of Tanzhou City. first sent a servant into Tanzhou to see Shi Hao, expressing the intention of Jin Guo to negotiate peace.

In fact, Shi Hao had long wanted to suggest that Zhao Dian negotiate peace with Jin Guo, because Shi Hao did not understand military affairs, and the court thought that Chen Junqing, Han Yanzhi, Liu Heng and others were all fighting with one force, and Shi Hao exerted his fundamental strength. Therefore, the imperial court can only negotiate peace with the Jin State, and Shi Hao can be useful. It's just that now the call for the main battle in the court is quite high, and I don't know what Jin Guo's attitude is, Shi Hao didn't dare to express his position easily for a while.

But at this time, when he saw that Wang Shiyong and Li Yao sent someone to express that the Jin State was willing to negotiate peace, he was in Shi Hao's arms, and immediately sent his family out of the city, picked up Wang Shiyong and Li Yao into the city to his own mansion, warmly received them, and inquired in detail.

Wang Shiyong and Li Yao saw Shi Hao asking seriously, so they naturally swore an oath and told Shi Hao that the Jin Kingdom had no intention of destroying the Song Dynasty, and this time the southern expedition was actually just to retaliate against the Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition three years ago. and showed the letter written by the Jin Dynasty's left prime minister, Sanzhongyi, to Shi Hao.

With the assurances of these two people and the letters of loyalty and righteousness of the servants, Shi Hao was even more in his heart, and first communicated with Long Dayuan and others that night, and when he went to court the next day, he immediately proposed to negotiate peace with Jin Guo in the court.