"Want to get away with it?" Hearing Cao Ying's reminder, Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood, and couldn't help but stand up and smile bitterly, "No wonder I always feel that the Queen Mother's performance today is a little weird, it turns out that she actually won this idea, but she also underestimated me too much!" ”

"Giggles, the Queen Mother is a woman, women will always think more than men, and Your Majesty's age is indeed a little young, so it is natural for her to use this method to test her husband's attitude." Cao Ying smiled again at this time, although her sons are about to get married, there are not many traces of time on Cao Ying's face, and her life is easy and carefree, which makes her look younger, and she usually stands with her son Zhao Jia but is more like a sister and brother.

Zhao Yan was also a little helpless when he heard this, he didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Gao said that letting him govern with Zhao Hao was just a temptation, in fact, she had already made up her mind to let Zhao Xu contact government affairs, but she was afraid of Zhao Yan's prestige and influence, and was worried that he would block this matter, so she came up with such a way to tempt, poor Zhao Hao still believed it, and it was estimated that he would definitely say something to the Empress Dowager Gao after he left, but unfortunately it was destined to be impossible to let him take power.

"The Queen Mother is worried that I will block Xu'er's pro-government, and I am also worried that she will not hand over the power of the court, speaking of which, if she is not seriously ill this time, and refuses to let me take power again, I am afraid she will not hand over the power in her hands to Xu'er!" Zhao Yan said angrily at this time, these are the truth, with the usual performance of the Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Yan is really worried that the Empress Dowager Gao will hold on to the power, fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty is different from the Tang Dynasty, otherwise with the wrist of the Empress Dowager Gao, maybe it will become the second Wu Zetian.

"Okay, I guess the queen mother is also unwilling to hand over power this time, but there is a husband in the court. The Queen Mother didn't dare to do anything too out of the ordinary, plus she was very old, especially in the past two years, I heard that the Queen Mother's health was very bad, and this serious illness made her body worse, and the Queen Mother couldn't do it if she didn't want to hand over the power. Seeing that Zhao Yan was angry, Cao Ying smiled and persuaded at this time.

A few days later. Empress Dowager Gao really issued an order, the power of the court was temporarily handed over to Zhao Xu, and assisted by Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren and other ministers, as soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a lot of shock in the court, because this marked that the Empress Dowager Gao began to hand over power to Zhao Xu, and also marked that there will be a storm of power alternation in the court. And if you don't grasp it well, you may fall from a high position, or even collapse.

Zhao Yan naturally didn't pay attention to this storm in the court, because no matter how fierce this storm was, it couldn't blow him on, so his eyes were no longer limited to the Great Song Dynasty, but mainly abroad. For example, Liao, such as Nanyang and other places. The last time Nanyang Port launched an attack on the Sazi Kingdom, it was actually a link in his plan to seize the Strait of Malacca.

In the study, Zhao Yan sat there with a calm face, and Zhao Jia, who was the eldest son, sat opposite him, watching one piece after another of information in his hand, which was collected by Zhao Yan through various channels. Some were sent by the Imperial City Division of the Imperial Court, and some were collected by him through the channels of his own subordinates.

"Jia'er, have you finished reading, do you have any ideas?" After Zhao Jia finished reading the last piece of information in his hand, Zhao Yan asked, and the expression on his face was also very solemn.

"Father. This Wanyan Department is really ghostly, last time we had given them an almost devastating blow, but it has only been two years, they have recovered again, and their strength is stronger than before, on the other hand, Liao's control over the north is getting weaker and weaker, if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will really fulfill your conjecture father, and Wanyan is afraid that it will really rise. Zhao Jia also frowned at this time.

The information in Zhao Jia's hands is all about the Liao State and the Wanyan Ministry, two years ago, the Wanyan Department defeated the Liao army and robbed countless materials, relying on these materials, it only takes a few years to rise rapidly, but unfortunately Zhao Yan let people reach the Jurchen sea area by boat at this critical moment, and carried out a fatal blow to the Wanyan Department before the winter, almost blowing up all the materials stored in the Wanyan Ministry, and according to the harsh natural conditions of the local area, the tribe that robbed the materials almost had to wait for death.

It's just that Zhao Yan didn't believe that Wanyanbu would perish in this situation, because he had lived there for nearly a year, and he knew very well about the survival ability of this barbarian tribe, in fact, it was indeed as he guessed, after the winter of that year passed, Wanyanbu really survived tenaciously, although the population of the entire tribe had shrunk by more than half, but at least Wanyanbu still existed.

As for how Wanyan survived, Zhao Yan also asked people to conduct a detailed investigation, and even asked spies to penetrate into Wanyanbu, and finally figured out the reason.

It turned out that after the materials of the Wanyan Department were burned, Ah Guta and Wu Qimai immediately made a decision after discussion, that is, to rob the other Jurchen tribes, after all, although their materials were burned, the casualties were not large, and almost no one in the surrounding tribes was their opponent, so in this case, they divided into several units and began to rob the various tribes frantically, collecting all the materials that could be used.

For the crazy attack of the Wanyan Ministry, the other tribes also reacted quickly, none of them were the opponents of the Wanyan Ministry, but they were also very smart to join forces to clear the walls of the Wanyan Ministry, which also made the Wanyan Department finally grab a lot of materials, but also paid a great price, and also formed a mortal enmity with the surrounding tribes, but these are secondary to Akuta, for them, only survival is the most important.

However, Wanyan's crazy robbery didn't last long, a biggest snowstorm since the beginning of winter finally fell, and the snow on the ground was more than a foot thick, not to mention robbery in this weather, it was impossible to even go out, and this finally interrupted Wanyanbu's crazy action, making them lie dormant in a sheltered valley and suffer from the winter.

Although the Wanyan tribe looted a lot of supplies, their tribe was already more numerous than other tribes, so if these supplies were evenly distributed, it would not be enough for everyone to support until the snow melted. In this case, Aguta turned his tribe into a cave of beasts, where the elderly, infirm, and disabled were put to death, and then the corpses were stored as food for the winter.

Although the above practice was very cruel, the Jurchens were originally like a group of semi-civilized barbarians, there was no one to talk about benevolence and morality, for them survival was the only goal, for this purpose, they could give up everything, so this order of Aguta was quickly executed.

It is under this condition that all the people of Wanyan are turned into beasts, and when the food they have stolen is eaten, they will eat the corpses of their own people, and when these corpses are also eaten, they will kill another batch of people, and finally even the most important war horses in the tribe have killed a group, you must know that for the Jurchen tribe of Wanyan Ministry, war horses are sometimes more important than weapons in their hands, and some tribes would rather starve to death than use war horses to satisfy their hunger, which shows the importance of war horses to them.

It is also by relying on this beast-like survival ** that Wanyanbu finally really survived this winter, and when the snow melted, the first thing Akuta did was not to hunt to supplement food, but to migrate immediately, because they had offended all the surrounding tribes before, and many tribes were eager to kill the people of Wanyanbu and hurry up, and these tribes had united, if Wanyanbu did not escape, they would only face the joint attack of these tribes, and Wanyanbu was at the weakest moment at this time, It is simply impossible to survive the attack of so many tribes.

Thanks to the decisiveness of Ah Guta, the Wanyan Department once again escaped the catastrophe, although it was unable to replenish too much food when migrating, making some people starve to death on the road, but at least the core strength of the Wanyan Department was retained.

In the next year or so, Ah Guta led Wanyan to expand everywhere again, this time he was even more crazy than before, almost unscrupulous in order to strengthen himself, such as once he had just reached an alliance with a tribe, and even asked Wu Qimai to marry the daughter of the other party's leader, but on the second day after the wedding, while the tribe relaxed its vigilance, he led the army into the other tribe and slaughtered the other tribe, This made Ah Guta's murderous reputation almost reach the level of hearing among the Jurchens.

In just over a year, under the leadership of Aguta, Wanyan not only recovered its original strength, but was even stronger than before, in addition, he also controlled several other Jurchen tribes that were not weak through various means, which also made Aguta's ability to use an astonishing 10,000 troops, perhaps in the eyes of Liao and the Great Song Dynasty, 10,000 troops are nothing at all, but for the Jurchens in the bitter cold land, 10,000 Jurchen troops are already an incredible number, This also made the Wanyan tribe the most powerful tribe among the Jurchens, and even had a tendency to unify the Jurchens.

Thinking of the above information about the Jurchens, Zhao Yan couldn't help but pouted with a toothache, he now regretted more and more that when he was in the Wanyan Department, why didn't he find an opportunity to kill this little cub? In this way, I don't have to worry about the Jurchens anymore, but it's a pity that it's too late to regret it now, the other party's wings are full, and it just so happens that he can't mobilize the army head-on, so that Ah Guda is like a Xiao Qiang who can't be killed, although he can't threaten the Great Song Dynasty for the time being, but he can disgust people. (To be continued.) )