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At the same time, in Lin'an, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty in the comfortable and prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, the news that Chen Dexing was the descendant of the Ming King and the Lubu report of the Northland Recruitment Division almost came from the front and back!

The news that Chen Dexing was the king of the Ming Dynasty was brought by the Tiandao disciples (Ming disciples) in Lin'an and the merchants who returned from Ganghwa Island. Of course, it also includes the miracles of the heavenly sphere, and many merchants also claim to have seen the miracles of the heavenly sphere with their own eyes!

And Lubu's victory is the victory of Haijin Town and the victory of Zhuangshui! The Northern Expedition army has already reached Yanyun and Liaodong! He also defeated the Mongol army on the bank of the Haihe River, and is now stationed in Tanggu, ready to march west to Yanjing at any time to drive the Mongol forces out of the Central Plains!

The combination of these two news suddenly caused an uproar in Lin'an City, which was a little calmer. What is the origin of King Ming, who doesn't know the big people in Lin'an City? Chen Dexing claimed to be the king of Ming, and this is to stand on behalf of the Song Dynasty! As for the gods and goddesses, most of the characters who have read the books of the sages do not believe it.

And the news that Chen Dexing's army has arrived in Yanyun and Liaodong is also a dangerous signal in the eyes of many people. Once Chen Dexing captured Yanyun, he did something that the Great Song Dynasty had not done in 300 years! With this credit, it is enough for him to have the prestige to replace the Great Song Dynasty!

West Lake Geling, in the back garden of Jia Xiangdao's back house, a family banquet is at the time of the guests and hosts. Now that the New Year is approaching, the garden is full of snow, and it is really a good time to drink and enjoy the snow.

The banquet in Jiafu is naturally extravagant, and it is placed in a flower hall with carved beams and paintings. Eat at separate tables. There are some brocade couches in the flower hall of Nuoda, and there are all kinds of fine wine and delicacies. Under the floor tiles of the flower hall, a fire tunnel dragon for heating is also built. The heat is transmitted to the house, and the flower hall is as warm as a spring day.

There were not many people at the banquet. It is a few of Jia Rudao's henchmen, as well as Wu Qian and Jiang Wanli, who have just returned from Guangdong and Fujian. However, there are a lot of people who are waiting, all of them are beautiful women raised by the Jia family, all of them are gorgeous, which can be called stunning, even in the palace.

There was also a singer drinking the piano and singing poems at the banquet, all of which were improvised by Jia Nidao, Jiang Wanli, Liao Yingzhong, Li Tingzhi, Qingyang Mengyan, Lu Xiufu, and Chen Yi, who had recently become Jia Nidao's confidant. It's not a good sentence, it's just a word for the occasion, and it comes when you open your mouth. Few can be sung.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the singer also stopped singing, and nodded with a smile to Chen Yizhong, who had just written a poem. Let the young and merry, Chen Dacai, who has already met countless people in Lin'an Wa, also blushed slightly, but still smiled.

"Hui Niang, there's nothing to do with you here." Jia Yidao didn't seem to see it, but just waved his hand to let the concubine named Li Huiniang retreat. Then he added: "All those who serve stand down, all stand down." ”

The concubines knew that Pingzhang Gong was going to talk about business, so they were blessed and retreated. Flower Hall. Suddenly it became empty, and the atmosphere became solemn and low.

"Pingzhanggong, take a look. Look, it's a mess. Even the Flying Immortals have come out. Unheard of, unheard of! How can there be any living immortals in this world? It's clearly pretending to be a ghost. This Chen Dexing is afraid that he wants to be the emperor and already wants to go crazy, and when he calms Yanyun, he will probably go across the sea to take Lin'an! We are all Song Chen, we should prepare early! ”

It was Jiang Wanli who spoke, he spoke slowly, with an elegant bearing, but he said a little helplessly, holding a cup of tea and just sighing. This governor of political affairs, signed the Privy Council, Fujian pacification envoy, coastal control envoy, and important ministers who also knew Fuzhou, said that he was also a soldier of the army, and everyone in the world recognized him as a good choice for one party's ministers. However, Wenchen, who knows the soldiers, is difficult to compare with Chen Dexing, a professional soldier who has been able to reach the level of a military god.

In the first year of Jingding, Chen Dexing's foundation was not deep, and his popularity was insufficient, although he once controlled Lin'an, but there was no possibility of usurping the throne, and Dingtian was a coercive prince of heaven - although this matter was a prelude to usurping the throne, Chen Dexing's strength and popularity were not in place, and it was difficult to succeed in usurping the throne. And as long as he is nested in the muddy pit of Lin'an, with Jia Nidao, Jiang Wanli, Ma Guangzu, Wu Qian, and other old ministers who have been in the officialdom all their lives, there are really too many ways to set a trap for Chen Dexing. So if you fight, Da Song's side will not necessarily lose!

But this Chen Dexing retreated half a step and dragged the army to Goryeo. originally thought that he wouldn't be able to make any waves in ten or eight years, but he didn't expect that he would break out of the world in just over a few years.

Not only did he control half of the Goryeo Kingdom, but he also waved into Yanyun, and what is even more exaggerated is that he also made himself a Ming King to descend into the world, turning from a big living person into a living immortal, and making it more real!

Li Tingzhi had been frowning when he was drinking and chanting poetry just now, and now he was even more frowning: "What immortals, what Ming kings, are all fake...... Only the handle of the knife is real, and the forces in the hands of the imperial court are still weak...... The new army of the Sanya has to speed up the formation and training, and now the soldiers have been recruited, but there is a lack of officers, and the officers of the original Sanya Army are not very useful, and the two Huai generals are eyebrow-raising with Chen Dexing. Now it seems that the only way to win a soldier is to rely on force......"

In the past year, because the original Sanya Army was disbanded, a lot of military salaries were saved, and the financial subsidies of the imperial court to various feudal towns were less than the original era of "using literature to protect the military", plus they copied Pu Shougeng and their family. The finances of the Southern Song Dynasty court actually returned to the light, and there was a surplus of revenue and expenditure that had not been seen in 30 years.

Under the condition of relative financial abundance, the military expenditure allocated to the Sanya New Army was naturally sufficient, and the strong men, clothing, and equipment were all in place. But in the selection of officers, it is very nerve-wracking.

Before the formation of the Sanya New Army, the armed forces of the imperial court were more than 10,000 Wurui troops brought by Li Tingzhi from Yangzhou, more than 1,000 backbones brought by Wang Jian from Sichuan, and more than 1,000 people from all classes in front of the palace.

Among them, Li Tingzhi's Yangzhou soldiers and Chen Dexing are fellow villagers, and Chen Dexing himself is also from the Wurui Army. The officers who came out of the Wurui Army really didn't dare to use them much, and now they can only reluctantly use them to train their troops, but they don't dare to really hand over the army to them.

And Wang Jian, Wang Yan and Chen Dexing also have a good relationship, in the Lin'an change last year, the Wang family father and son did not move, sitting and watching the success or failure. Therefore, Jia Yidao and Li Tingzhi did not dare to trust Wang Jiajun. Taking the opportunity to deal with the Pu family in Quanzhou, Wang Jian, Wang Yan and his son were transferred to Fujian. Now he has appointed Wang Jian as the pacification envoy of Guangnan West Road and the governor of Guizhou, and kicked him to Guangxi.

The only reliable ones left were more than 1,000 people from all the classes in front of the temple. But most of these people are only proficient in martial arts, although everyone has official status, but most of them have no experience in leading troops. And it is impossible to send more than 1,000 people to lead the troops, so that there will be no one in the classes in front of the palace, who will guard the palace? Who did the emperor let to protect?

Therefore, Li Tingzhi thought of using the method of "winning soldiers with martial arts", using the imperial examination competition in the second year of Jingding to select a group of people with both civil and military skills, and use them to master the new army of Sanya.

Wu Qian, the left prime minister, who had just returned to the imperial court, shook his head: "Take the warrior with force? Aren't they all the children of the feudal town? How can a good reader compare to those people? ”

Li Tingzhi glanced at Wu Qian, and the old man Wu was a little unpleasant to say - Li Tingzhi himself was born as Meng Hui's disciple, and Meng Heng is afraid that he is also a feudal town now. But it is indeed the truth, Chen Dexing's proposal to use force to win the warriors is to win over the children of the feudal town! After these "Wu Jinshi" from feudal towns became officials, they were 100% of the Chen family's henchmen, how could they be allowed to take charge of the new army?

Ma Guangzu, who came from Qingyuan Mansion and now holds the military and political power in western Zhejiang, smiled and interjected: "Jiangnan scholars also have martial arts practitioners, and most of the martial artists in the past are still talented people in Jiangnan Wulu. Moreover, the big competition in the second year of Xianchun is still in the hands of the imperial court, and this examiner cannot fall into the hands of Chen Junzhi. However, he has now mastered a martial arts and has recruited less than 2,000 Huaishang disciples as students...... This has to be treated carefully, last time his son used 3,000 people to turn Lin'an City upside down! ”

Since the beginning of the discussion, Jia Nidao has not spoken, the corners of his mouth have been curved, and he has an indescribable look of stubbornness and silence. Hearing Ma Guangzu mention the martial arts that Chen Huaiqing single-handedly operated, he just sneered.

"Where can this be compared? Chen Dexing's 3,000 people were sharp soldiers who fought on the battlefield, and Chen Junzhi's 2,000 people were just scholars who practiced martial arts. ”

Jia Rudao's brows suddenly twisted: "What is really piercing now is not Chen Junzhi's two thousand people, nor Chen Dexing's attack on Yanyun and Liaodong, but Chen Dexing's immortal identity!" ”

"It's a lie!" Wu Qian, Ma Guangzu, Jiang Wanli, and Li Tingzhi almost spoke in unison.

Jia Rudao just shook his head: "People who have been to Jianghua Island say that Chen Dexing is a true immortal!" This is the ...... It's weird! ”

Several people present looked at each other, their eyes full of disdain. Pretending to be a ghost has not been a big deal since ancient times.

Jia Rudao frowned: "Then who will work hard and go to Jianghua Island to see what is going on?" He saw that several people were looking at each other suspiciously, and smiled bitterly, "Chen Dexing, this thief, is good at demagoguery and pretending to be a ghost...... It must also be for the sake of demagogy, and it must be exposed as soon as possible, lest he use the Heavenly Taoism to bewitch the ignorant people. ”

"Pingzhang Gong, why don't you take a trip to Ganghwa Island later?" Liao Ying is a small official, and she has no qualifications to speak in front of a group of rulers, but she must take the lead in running errands.

"I would like to go to life later."

"I would like to go with me."

Chen Yizhong and Qingyang Mengyan are both Jia Yidao's disciples, and when they saw Liao Yingzhong asking for their lives, they naturally couldn't fall behind, so they both stood up and asked for their lives.

"Okay, all go, all go." Jia Yidao smiled and nodded, but his eyes looked at Li Tingzhi and Jiang Wanli.

Li Tingzhi understood what the other party meant, and hurriedly smiled: "Pingzhang Gong, if you don't go down to the official, you can also go." It's just that...... In what name did you go to Goryeo? ”

Jia Rudao stroked his palms and said, "What name do you want?" It is best to have a private interview with WeChat, so that you can see it really. (To be continued......)