Chapter 641: Civil strife gradually arises

However, the Great Song Dynasty is in the rising period of national strength after the founding of the country, and naturally there are a group of loyal ministers and good generals, honest and pure ministers, when most of the ministers were suppressed by the imperial pressure, an old minister with an elegant face took the lead in replying: "Your Majesty, although the delay in the payment of taxes cannot spare those who are corrupt, but we cannot ignore the root cause." The voice is calm and clear, the words are powerful, and there is a great Confucian exhortation.

It was Fan Miao, the Taifu of the dynasty.

"What Master Fan said is good, and the minister has also heard about it. Another veteran also stepped out of the queue and started playing. It is the Privy Councillor's Table. "It is said that the demon disaster in the southeast region has risen again, and there are more monsters attacking the city, and there seems to be a demon clan behind the push, if it is not for many folk righteous people fighting bravely, I am afraid that many towns will be broken. Even so, the southeast has been seriously injured, and the people are withering, and I am afraid that it will be really difficult to pay taxes this year. ”

"Oh, I will send someone to investigate, and if this is true, I will issue a decree to exempt the affected lands from paying taxes this year. However, why didn't you, the Privy Council, who is in charge of the whole country's soldiers and horses, discover the actions of the demons in advance? Such a big action must not be planned by a small group of demons, and there were no clues that were revealed before? Could it be that there are still people who have neglected their duties?!" Zhao Kuangyin listened, although he did not resolutely demand the payment of taxes in the southeast region, but he was very angry that the Privy Council did not warn in advance.

"The ministers don't dare! The ministers are guilty!" Zhao Kuangyin was furious, and the ministers of the Privy Council, who knew that they were out of responsibility, immediately knelt down and apologized.

"Your Majesty is angry, the appearance of the southeast demon disaster this time is indeed very strange. Privy Deputy Dylan raised his head and said sincerely, "Because in the early days, it was only the teams that regularly cleared the wild monsters in various places that accidentally provoked the monster lair, attracting a large number of monsters, and had to retreat to the town. But it was originally only one or two areas, but then similar incidents occurred repeatedly in various parts of the southeast, and then the monsters accumulated more and more, and they couldn't be killed, which eventually led to the monsters attacking the city and causing a demon disaster.

The Privy Council also analyzed and discovered the anomalies after collecting intelligence, such as the sudden increase in the frequency of encounters with wild monster nests, the extraordinary density of monsters in the nests, the monsters attacking the town and not retreating, and the excessive number of high-level monsters and demons, etc., which led to the conclusion that there were demons behind the scenes. And these anomalies come almost without warning. The Privy Council suspected," Wei Lan gritted his teeth and said word by word: "This sudden demon disaster, maybe, is just the beginning of the demon clan's plan!"

Zhao Kuangyin was the wise and martial founding emperor after all, he was not carried away by anger, and immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, immediately announced his retreat from the dynasty, and then left high-level officials, ministers and senior generals, and asked the intelligence department to collect intelligence, and the monarchs and ministers studied the strangeness and discussed countermeasures.

Three days later, the Great Song court conveyed a series of orders from Zhao Kuangyin to all parts of the country:

The central forbidden army has entered a state of combat readiness, officials at all levels must strengthen their guards to prevent the assassination of demons, and all local armies will clean up the wild monsters within 30 miles of the station, and the worship pavilions in various places will be put into this clean-up operation in addition to guarding important officials and factories. In addition, civilian armed forces in various localities can participate in this operation, and can be awarded the post of military attache according to the meritorious service, and all prefectures and counties are required to transfer part of their elite troops to the Central Plains to form combat readiness troops.

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It should be said that the reaction of the Great Song Dynasty was not slow, and Zhao Kuangyin, who had commanded the army for many years, keenly discovered the signs of a big war from a series of intelligence, so he began to prepare. But after all, it is still faster than the demon who has been planning for a long time.

Three days later, the city of Hangzhou was suddenly broken, the monsters poured in, invaded the Quartet, a large number of refugees retreated to other states and counties on the Liangzhejiang Road under the protection of the cultivators and warriors such as Daming Temple and Yang Wei Dart Bureau;

For a time, the war swept through dozens of prefectures and counties in the southeast, and there were many careerists and bandits who assassinated officials, looted property, or divided themselves, or set themselves up as kings, and some people had the support of demons and evil cultivators behind them, taking advantage of the chaos to expand, and it seemed more and more rampant.

As soon as the local government received the order of the imperial court, the various operations had just begun, and they were rushed by the impact of this chaotic situation, and most of the areas in the southeast were still stable, except for the state and county seats, the order in other weak and remote areas was directly paralyzed, and the army was powerless to rescue them.

Under the premise of preserving human strength, local armed forces are allowed to be formed, and civil forces are allowed to be rewarded and promoted, and the potential within human forces can be stimulated when the order is chaotic to resist the killing of demonic forces. As for the future that will lead to the tail of local forces and cause division and division, that is also after the end of the demonic calamity and the human forces gain the upper hand.

There are priorities, under the righteousness of fighting against demons, any separatist force wants to stand out from human beings, and under the premise of external pressure, internal contradictions will be transformed into external contradictions, which can be said to be a wise decision made by Zhao Kuangyin under years of conquest and rule. He is very confident, unless he is determined to rebel immediately, even those ambitions and heroes will temporarily lurk minions, because the rafters rot first, and smart people don't want to be the first birds.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin's judgment is not wrong. Those forces who are eager to secede and establish themselves as kings are all some mountain bandits and demonized humans who are outlaws, either desperate and short-sighted, or have been demonized to the point that they have lost their minds and are completely controlled by demons.

And a real hero like Yang Jiao, but still lurking in the Great Song Dynasty, constantly using the information from the devil to eliminate those miscellaneous monsters and demons, while receiving rewards for meritorious service, step by step promotion, by the way, he can also eradicate dissidents for the demonic forces behind him;

Because they know that the turmoil in the southeast is only the beginning.

This is Rose's initial plan, to trigger riots in some areas, on the one hand, to attract the attention of the Human Empire, to reduce the pressure on plans in other regions, and on the other hand, to make these chess pieces lurk deeper and higher, once they break out, the damage caused will be even greater!