The Southern Dynasty was in chaos, completely chaotic.

After Hu Anguo's thousands of letters were delivered to the officials of the Southern Dynasty who were about to move and wanted to return to the north, in just a few days, hundreds of officials from Lianghuai and Jinghu fled to Henan and Shandong with their families and children.

Then there was a huge momentum, and the escape of the officials who had passed out and almost fell from the dragon chair to the ground in shock spread to the entire Southern Dynasties.

Of course, those who fled first were already wealthy, or had no chance to collect money at all, or some people who really wanted to be clean officials.

What made Zhao Gou even more headache was what happened next.

King Kang wants to make a change that is doomed to fail from the beginning, right? Wow, those officials who don't have a lot of money, but have more hearts that have been given to the north by Zhao Gou, have begun to shout long live and support the change of the law on the surface.

Didn't they want to flee to the Northern Dynasty and defect to Liu Xing, why did they shout long live to Zhao Gou and support King Kang to change the law?

That's because these officials who have power but no money know very well that once they really start to change the law, once the leaders of the Southern Dynasties led by Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan really start to change the law, those two guys will immediately turn this change into a tool for them to make a lot of money.

Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan are greedy for money and profit, don't Zhao Gou know anything about it?

The answer is that of course he knows, but it is precisely because of Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan's greed for money and lust that they will have the opportunity to keep up with Zhao Gou in the first place. It is precisely because these two guys are greedy for money and lustful that Zhao Gou will rest assured of him.

This is not a rumor in the streets, nor is it a speculation about the delicate relationship between Zhao Gou and Wang and Huang after Liu Xing sent people to the Southern Dynasty to maliciously slander him, this is an indisputable fact.

So could it be that Zhao Gou did this. Didn't he realize that this was a wrong approach, a faint one's approach? Since he wants to be the emperor. Aren't you afraid of being greedy by people like Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan? Did it end up ruining his court?

The answer is also yes, Zhao Gou is not afraid.

Why wasn't he afraid? Because the selfish and self-reliant Zhao Gou, like many ancestors of the Zhao family, has a different plan in his heart.

What's the plan? This calculation is that Liu Xing wants civil officials not to be greedy for money, and military generals are not to be killed, which is unreliable, and people must have shortcomings to be used.

Among the civil officials, the greedy for money are, at most, some floating wealth. The emperor was not happy, and he could kill those people at any time and turn the proceeds of his corruption into gold and silver in the treasury. As long as the civil officials are greedy for money, they will inevitably offend many people in order to compete for those wealth, and those people are the best helpers when the emperor turns his face and cleans them up.

The military general can not die. But if you are neither greedy for money nor lustful, you will never be able to use it.

The Great Song Dynasty began to understand the military generals from Zhao Kuangyin's generation that they fought the world for the sake of happiness, and there was no danger for those who were content with wealth, and the most dangerous thing was that Zhao Kuangyin was neither greedy for money, nor lustful before he ascended the throne, but also harbored evil intentions and ulterior motives.

Each family has its own different traditions, and the traditions of thousands of families of the Chinese nation have finally merged into the traditions of the entire nation.

The tradition of the Zhao family is that they would rather believe in the greedy than in honest officials. I'd rather use a womanizer than believe in loyalty and righteousness.

This tradition even influenced the millennium later, until a certain bald man accepted the family tradition early and deeply hid it from the Zhao family because his hometown was very close to the capital of the Zhao family.

The idea of "preferring to be with foreign thieves rather than domestic slaves" formed by this tradition made him say the absurd "classic saying" that "if you go outside, you must first settle inside......

It is also this family tradition that determines that Zhao Gou dares to trust Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan. It is precisely because they deeply understand the tradition of the Zhao family that those officials of the Southern Dynasty who want to flee north but do not have enough money, calligraphy and paintings to exchange with Liu Xing for the Order of the Dragon will become extremely supportive and look forward to the rapid start of the reform of the Southern Dynasty.

What about Zhao Gou? Facing half of his country. In just a few days, more than 2,000 officials moved their families to the north, but he didn't expect that those big officials and small officials who suddenly actively supported the change of the law wanted to take the opportunity to follow Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan to collect money, and then roll up the money and take the family to join Liu Xing?

Of course, he thought that Zhao Gou was not really stupid. It's just that sometimes he doesn't have Liu Xing's more than a thousand years of experience, hearing and thoughts, and he always has to be half a beat slower.

You want to be greedy, right? Zhao Gou is not afraid of the greed of officials, but he is afraid that more people will hang their seals in the office.

So when Liu Xing began to temporarily put aside the shorting of the Southern Dynasty, and temporarily handed over the entire overall situation to Zhang, who was good at using the rules of officialdom and controlling the hearts of the people, and began to personally command the war in Western Xinjiang.

Zhao Gou made a move, and his first punch was swung towards Huainan East Road and Jinghu North Road, which were suffering from "banditry". How did he hit that punch?

He first ordered Han Shizhong, who had just arrived, to mobilize a total of 180,000 troops from Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road and Fujian Road to quickly go north, so that Han Shizhong could return to Huainan. Five miles and one pavilion, one mile and one card, Zhao Gou asked Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun to use people to pile up a layer of iron bucket arrays in the border areas near Shandong and Henan.

Huainan has Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Liu Zhengyan. Although Liu Zhengyan is also a money-greedy and womanizer, with Han Shizhong by his side and Zhang Jun above his head, Zhao Gou believes that he will not dare to let any official who wants to defect for money and run away from the territory of the Southern Dynasty for money......

Huainan has set up an iron bucket array, and Jinghu Zhao Gou will naturally not relax.

Just when Han Shizhong and his troops had just arrived at Huainan North Road, Liu Guangshi, who was still secretly in contact with Wu Lu and Liu Ziyu, was transferred from Huainan West Road to Jinghu North Road by him.

Then, Zhao Gou appointed another confidant, who is it? Liu Yu, who had just been driven into the sea by Wu Lan from Shandong, fled south in a hurry like a duck, and served as the envoy of Jinghu and Liangjiang.

How did Liu Yu become Zhao Gou's henchman, didn't he just lose the Ning Navy in the south of Dengzhou, and it stands to reason that he is a defeated general who should lose his head after losing the city!

This is what Zhao Gou's family tradition decides, and it makes people laugh and cry.

It turned out that after Liu Yu fled back to the Southern Dynasty from the sea and ran into Lin'an City, he did not report to Zhao Gou at the first time, but ran into Wang Boyan's mansion first.

As soon as he saw Wang Boyan, three sea pearls the size of a bull's eye, a box of large and small pearls, and a large box of gold and silver that he had scavenged from Shandong were stuffed into Wang Boyan's warehouse.

Accepting money from people and eliminating disasters with others, Wang Boyan naturally pulled Huang Qianshan at the subsequent court meeting to speak well for this "returning loyal general".

As a result, Zhao Gou personally summoned Liu Yu, who was exquisite and very good at acting, and sometimes cried and wiped tears when he saw His Majesty the Emperor, and sometimes he was full of righteous indignation. After some conversation between the monarch and the minister, Zhao Gou found that Liu Yu was very angry with him, so Liu Yu became Zhao Gou's confidant like Wang Boyan. (To be continued......)