Wang Shi's suggestion sounded very unreasonable, and she actually wanted to threaten Cai Jing with the evidence of letters, so that he could be used by the promotion society. The specific way is to give up Gao Dejun as a scapegoat, save Cai Jing's life, and it doesn't hurt to lose the position of prime minister, so that he can find a way to transfer to Chengdu Fulu.

In this way, the officialdom of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Fourth Road is basically in the hands of the promotion society, and it cannot be said that it can do whatever it wants, and it can also do its best to cover up the changes that have taken place in recent years, and prevent the imperial court from attacking Sichuan prematurely before the new army enters.

As for Cai Jing's question, Wang Shi believes that it doesn't matter whether there are good people or bad people, as long as it is beneficial to promote social work, they can be temporarily united, or used.

Wang Shi thought Cai Jing through and was sure that this person would not dare to break the net, as long as he could meet some of his needs, let alone fall to the king of Qi, even if he surrendered to Western Xia or Liao, it would be no problem.

In fact, Cai Jing chose this way, after only two negotiations and less than five days of consideration, he threw aside the emperor who was talking about it every day, and immediately went to Chengdu Fulu to take up his post without a moment's delay, and went to work for the new master.

This time, the emperor and the court were defeated again, and they originally planned to use King Qi's unwarranted accusations as an excuse to resolve the deadlock, but they shouted with great fanfare for a long time, and finally found out the inner ghost, and it was even more difficult to refute King Qi's suggestion.

It is said that Zhao Hao was stunned again when he learned about this, and his left arm was still a little disobedient after waking up. Others may not be very clear, hearing Hong Tao's ears, they immediately make a judgment, this is a slight hemiplegia. It seems that the old Zhao family not only has a genetic history of cardiovascular disease, but also cerebrovascular disease.

Half a month later, Zhao Hao responded and appointed the privy envoy Zhang Ji to replace Cai Jing's position, and An Tao was appointed as the privy envoy. and instructed these two men to take full charge of the affairs of the king of Qi and the new army, and he himself hid in the palace to recuperate.

At this time, the eighth year of Qinghe also came to an end, perhaps to celebrate the extermination of Western Xia, or it may be to change luck, Zhao Hao changed the name of the year, not called Qinghe, changed to Zhongxiang, 1096, the beginning of the first year of Zhongxiang.

At the end of the first month, thousands of new troops arrived at the Gangneung wharf in a mighty southward march. The forbidden army and the government here were not too panicked, they had already received a notice from the imperial court that they would not hinder the new army all the way.

The new army did not entrench in Gangneung Fortress either, and then boarded the sea ships that had arrived in advance, and one by one went down the river. The people of Jiangling only had time to stop near the dock to see what this strong army that exterminated the Western Xia was like, and there was no ceremony.

It took only five days for the fleet to arrive at Guazhou Town, and dozens of large sea ships sailed straight downstream without even lowering their sails, but two ships broke away from the team and slowly docked at the dock of the Yangtze River College.

The new army also walked down from the two ships, but they looked much younger than when they left, and they were clearly not a group of people. It seemed that it was the first time they had seen two huge whale skeletons at the main entrance of the academy, and they craned their necks to look at them as they disembarked, but they did not forget to line up.

At this time, there were also three or four hundred people standing on the pier, led by a man and a woman. The man's green shirt is headed, with three strands of long hair, and he is dressed as a standard reader. The women's shorts and shorts, colorful and green, and wearing a helmet like a small basin, are no different from the new army.

"My lord, please bow down to the students!"

"The Headmaster is mighty! The new army is mighty! As the man in the green shirt swept to the end, hundreds of people behind him also made the same action, but the words shouted were different.

"Daddy, local officials and non-academy insiders have all been driven away by my daughter, and the academy has been checked inside and out, and there is nothing abnormal!" As soon as the shouting stopped, the female recruits strode forward and whispered a few words in the ear of a man who had just disembarked.

That's right, Hong Tao is back! The people on those dozens of ships were all Jiang Erlang and Xiao Wuna's Jeju Island New Army, who had completed their mission and were about to return to their hometown.

These 300 new troops were stuffed by Fu Ji and Wang Da, the second generation of pioneers on Ganliang Road in Qingyishui, who were most loyal and worshiped to King Liang, and were willing to defend the left and right, and would not repent of dying!

How could Hong Tao return to Yangzi Town? This has to start with his letter to Empress Pang. In the letter, Hong Tao broke open and crumpled and analyzed the past, present and future of the Great Song Dynasty, and pointed out that if this continues, the throne of the old Zhao family will not be stable, and it is likely to be wiped out by the newly rising Jurchen clan.

The current Liao State is a living example, a huge country, in just a few years has been swept away most of it, only the western part of Xijing Province and Zhongjing Province remains. It is estimated that it will not take half a year to be eaten away, and then the Great Song Dynasty will face a country that is more fierce than the Khitans.

If a Jurchen regime alone is not too fatal, and there is the terrain of Youzhou Road to rely on, as long as there are no big mistakes, it can still be done to block the Jurchens from going south. If we take advantage of the Liao Civil War to snatch back the mountainous areas in the south of Xijing Road, we will have a greater certainty.

But the Great Song Dynasty had to face more than just a Jurchen tribe, this time along with the Tangut people invaded the south with the northern Bu tribe. They had already occupied most of the Shangjing Province of the original Liao Kingdom, and it is said that the remnants of the northern part of the Western Xia Kingdom had also taken refuge in them.

The Tangut people brought not only gold and silver treasures and population, but also various advanced smelting and forging technologies. The fierce steppe riders, coupled with steel plate crossbows, siege crossbows and rockets, not only did not weaken their combat effectiveness compared to the Tanguts, but became stronger.

According to the living habits of the divination people, they have no city to defend, they have no scruples to fight, they come and go like the wind, and it is even more difficult to defend, and the only solution is to strike first.

Before they had exhausted their new territory and population, and had not yet fully agreed among the various ethnic groups within them, they hurriedly sent a new army to the north and eastward to strangle the danger in the cradle, and only in this way could peace be ensured for the next hundred years.

But with the current state of the Great Song Dynasty, there is really no such ability, not to mention anything else, the good Weiqiao Town and the Daimyo's Mansion Workshop were ransomed by the imperial court within three years and rotted to the bones, and the good forbidden army became a waste in less than five years. With this level of internal friction, not to mention the Northern Expedition, whether the country will collapse first is a big question.

If you want to change this state and keep the throne of the Zhao family, there is only one way, and that is the new deal on Ganliang Road. Hong Tao implored the emperor to allow the king of Qi to rule the Ganliang Road, the western part of the Qinfeng Road, and the area around Xingqing Mansion in Xinda. First, it will take three to five years to recuperate and recuperate, expand armaments, and then go on a northern expedition to the east when the time is ripe, so as to solve the century-old crisis in one fell swoop.

As for the question of who is orthodox and who is rebellious, don't fight now, it's useless to fight, if the new army wants to push the king to the throne, it can kill the horse gun in minutes, and it can capture Kaifeng City in less than a month. It's just that in this way, all the dead and injured are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and 100% of the relatives and enemies are happy, and it is not good for outsiders to see jokes.

Afraid that the new army will go south, right? Hong Tao proposed a compromise solution, he gave up the new army and returned to Yangzi Town to continue to build rivers and pave roads, and honestly became a hostage, neither supporting the king of Qi nor making trouble for the imperial court.

Wait for three or five years to discuss what is right and which is wrong. If there is no great development under the rule of King Qi at that time, then he will order troops to capture King Qi back. If the new policy can really make the Great Song Dynasty rich and strong, the throne will naturally be returned to other people's children, and the peaceful transition of uncles and nephews is also a beautiful talk.

This suggestion was supported in principle by the emperor's envoys, Zhang Wei and An Tao, and the prime minister Zhang Dian and many courtiers were also optimistic. Although there were still many courtiers who opposed it, a few people were still clamoring to crusade against the disobedience of King Qi and King Liang.

But the vast majority of courtiers and emperors knew in their hearts that they couldn't defeat the new army by fighting hard, not to mention three or five years of war, and if they couldn't hold out for even a year, they would have to be broken by the new army and open the city.

It's really hard to say whether the throne is still surnamed Zhao at that time, so whether you are happy or not, the situation is pressing, you have to recognize it first if you pinch your nose, and you are not afraid of no firewood to burn.

And this time, King Qi and King Liang saved face for the court and the emperor, and did not put this thing in the newspaper and made it public, the two sides only negotiated privately, even if the court suffered, it would not be seen in the eyes of the people.

The most heartwarming thing is that King Liang promised to train the forbidden army for the imperial court, only training without commanding and not military power, and could provide the same weapons as the new army for the forbidden army of the imperial court.

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