Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"What's wrong?" Xilin Helu asked in confusion.

"The State of Song wants to make a five-way Northern Expedition!"

"Nonsense! When did Song Gou get so courageous!" Xilin Helu grabbed the newspaper, glanced at it, and stood there dumbfounded.

It was written in the newspaper: The Son of Heaven is benevolent and can't bear the suffering of the people of the two countries. Today, he is ordered by the heaven to establish a century-old reconciliation with the Kingdom of Jin. The imperial court wants to raise millions of troops, to make a five-way northern expedition, prestige the northern enemy, and regain the homeland!

Oh shit!In the morning, it was said that peace should be maintained, and after lunch, the newspapers announced that the five-way northern expedition was going to be launched!

Chapter 528 Zongze goes to Jiangning (third update)

Li Shanqing shouted loudly: "This is Song Dog's trick! They will never dare to make a five-way northern expedition!"

Xilin Helu also wanted to say the same, but couldn't help but said: "What if it is true? It has already been published in the newspaper."

yes!It's all in the papers!

Li Shanqing said angrily: "Talk to us in the morning to maintain peace, and after dinner, he said that he will make a five-way northern expedition. How can there be such a fast newspaper? This is clearly prepared in advance!"

Xilin Helu blinked his big eyes, looked at Li Shanqing, as if saying: That's right, it was prepared in advance, what can we do?

"There are troubles in the south! Song Dog will never dare to make a five-way northern expedition! Absolutely not!"

Xilin Helu sighed, seeing Li Shanqing make a fool of himself, he was even a little proud.

Xilin Helu was in charge of the diplomacy with Song before. Since the Taiyuan battle, he was so angry by Yu Yunwen that he vomited blood. The upper management thought that his ability was limited, so they sent Li Shanqing over.

Although the surface is cooperative, but the heart is definitely dissatisfied.

"What if, what if the Song army goes to war?"

"Then fight!" Li Shanqing was furious, "I am invincible, and I am afraid of a group of Song dogs?"

"But that's not the order the second prince gave, is it?" Xilinhelu suddenly became calm, "Just think about it, none of us know how many troops Song Gou has transported in Liaodong, what is the defense of the second prince?" What?"

Li Shanqing was stunned for a moment, cold sweat began to break out on his forehead, he became a little hesitant: "This matter is confidential."

Xilin Helu said: "Don't tell me, this makes me very embarrassed. We are completing a very important thing in Tokyo now. If, I mean if, the second prince dispatched too many troops to Liaoyang, so that it really Ding, Hejian, and even Yanyun are in trouble."

"What nonsense are you talking about! How could the second prince make such an arrangement, Liaoyang itself has a heavy deployment of troops!"

"Then don't worry, the Song army is going to make a northern expedition, so we will fight with them." Xilinhelu said.

"No! The bottom line given by the second prince is a truce."

Xilinhelu guessed right, now it is either true, or Zhongshan or Hejian has insufficient troops, or the court has not adjusted the new strategy to deal with the Song army, or...

Zongwang and Zongpan want to suppress the war and have their own political intentions.

Prevent Zong Han from regaining power by fighting Song Dynasty?

"What now?"

"Talk again!"

Xilin Helu said: "How about a re-negotiation?"

"What do you say?"

"Recognize Song's territory in Fuzhou?"

"That's the only way, or you want to return Yan Yun to Song?"

In this way, the newspaper about declaring war on Jin was published at this turbulent noon.

Now, the agents stationed in Tokyo couldn't sit still.

Secret reports were frantically sent northward.

The ruling and opposition parties in the city of Tokyo were still eating melons for tax reduction and exemption in the morning, and in the afternoon there was a melon for a full-scale declaration of war against gold.

And the news was being sent out like crazy, especially to the south.

What does the Northern Expedition on the Five Routes of the Imperial Court mean?

Means sky-high military spending?

Where does military spending come from?

Where can military spending come from?

Come from those places where there is no tax exemption!

Of course, what ordinary people who eat melons see is that now Zhao Guan's family has turned the table, and the Northern Expedition is about to begin.

But actually?

Official: I'm just posting news, don't get excited, I want to tell everyone that we want peace, and now the golden people don't want peace, we are fighting back.

Alright, the news that the peace-loving Zhao official family is going to fight back was quickly distributed to various places.

In fact, it was only sent to Huaidong and Jiangdong.

From this moment on, the internal public opinion of the Great Song Dynasty changed drastically: You want peace, and I, the Zhao family, agreed to you, but the Jin people did not agree to us!Everyone has seen it!

In the past few days, Li Shanqing and Xilin Helu wanted to see Zhao Ding again, but Zhao Ding refused to see them all because of his busy schedule.

On the first day of July, Jiangning Mansion.

Yang Bangyi was lying at home, and people from outside rushed in: "Yang Tongpan, something is wrong!"

"What's the matter?"

"The five supervisors in Jiangning County were all injured, and two of them died!"

"What! Who did it!"

"I don't know, it's a group of gangsters!"

"This is a rebellion!" Yang Bangyi was furious, "Even the court ordered officials to dare to kill! Eighty percent of them were sent by Liu Biao!"

Yang Bangyi stood up and got dressed.

"Officer, your injury hasn't healed yet."

"This group of people is really lawless!" Yang Bangyi put on his official uniform.

"Officer, don't go out now, it's dangerous outside, many people are making trouble, it is said that there are many thieves and gangsters outside the city..."

Yang Bangyi didn't listen to the persuasion, he walked out with a few yamen servants.

Those yamen servants were also terrified.

When Yang Bangyi went out, the streets of Jiangning City, which used to be prosperous in the past, were now in a mess. The vendors on the side of the road were gone, and someone wrote on the wall the words "Peace, kill treacherous ministers".

There were still people shouting loudly in front: "The imperial court is going to fight gold thieves again, and the imperial court is going to increase our taxes! Don't let us live!"

The person who shouted was a scholar, who looked like a human being.

"If we don't unite and resist now, those treacherous ministers will take away our last ration!"

Yang Bangyi walked over and cursed: "You are talking nonsense! Hurry up and disperse! Don't gather people to plot rebellion!"

The man immediately shouted: "This man is a traitor, kill him!"

Everyone immediately rushed forward.

At this time, in a manor in the south of Jiangning City, Liu Biao summoned some influential businessmen from the Jiangning Mansion.

"Brother Liu, things are getting so big now, it's different from what you told us back then!" Wang Chu said dissatisfied.

"That's right! The matter has become so serious, if the court pursues it, how will they explain it?" Another businessman also said.

Liu Biao said, "Why are you so afraid of this! We have Lu Sicao and Chen Zhifu supporting us!"

"So the court won't pursue it?"

"When things get serious, the imperial court will choose to calm down. Now that the northern line is tense, the imperial court will never dare to take action against us!" Liu Biao is quite confident. Don't worry! After the matter is completed, our fields can be exempted from tax!"

He looked at these people and emphasized again: "Remember, crying children have milk. Everything we do now is to prevent the imperial court from implementing the New Deal in Huaidong, otherwise we will all go bankrupt!"

Everyone nodded involuntarily.

Wang Chu said: "Now that the Jiangning City government is under siege, thieves and bandits from other places are taking the opportunity to make trouble, and even some salt sellers want to negotiate business with us. Once this matter is out of control, think about Fang La back then!"

Liu Biao slapped the table angrily and said, "Didn't I tell you that there is going to be a war on the northern front, and the imperial court will not attack the south at all, and the imperial court's appeasement documents will come soon! Let your people surround the yamen better, Build momentum!"

A cavalry came back quickly, and he said: "Mr. Zong, we have found out that the order in Jiangning City is now in chaos."

Zong Ze asked, "Is the city gate closed?"

"The city gate is not closed."

"Okay, let me enter the city with this old man, I want to see who dares to make trouble here!"

Chapter 529 Zongze’s Peace of Chaos (Part [-])

Under the scorching sun, the wind and waves came from a distance and blew on people's bodies, without the slightest cooling, but scorching hot.

Jiangning Mansion is notoriously hot.

This season, the wheat fields have been harvested, and clusters of golden rice are embellished between the green and green rice.

Zhai Jin couldn't help feeling: "The wealth in the southeast is better than Luojing, and far better than Hebei."

Zhai Jin is from Luoyang and has a rich military career. He was already the number one general in the west of Beijing during the Xuanhe period, and the prefect of Luojing in the first year of Jingkang.

In the third battle between Song and Jin Dynasties, Zong Han's army went south to the Yellow River, and when it arrived in Luojing, it was Zhai Jin who was stationed in Luoyang.

Zong Han's army couldn't attack Luoyang, so he changed his way to Nanyang and went to Xiangyang.

And he also assisted Zhao Ning to intercept Zong Han's army going north in Luoyang, and filled the forbidden army to participate in the battle of Shangdang.

Because of meritorious service, Zong Ze recommended him as the military commander of Hebei West Road, and his elder brother Zhai Xing was Hebei West Road's strategic envoy, and cooperated with the old rules to comprehensively establish the depth of Hebei West Road's defense.

Zhai Jin was assigned to the southeast, and he will be in charge of the rectification of the Xiang army in the southeast, which shows Zhao Ning's determination for the stability of the southeast.

Zong Ze said to Zhai Jin: "Jiangdong is densely populated, the rivers are like a net, and agriculture is prosperous. It is one of the important taxation areas in the Song Dynasty!"

Zhai Jin asked curiously: "Mr. Zong, you are from eastern Zhejiang. How do the two Zhejiang roads compare?"

Zong Ze said: "Liangzhe Road is more densely populated than Jiangdong, with more rivers and more developed commerce, especially tea gardens and handicraft workshops."

A northerner like Zhai Jin was rather curious.

The southeast of the Great Song Dynasty mainly refers to Lianghuai, Liangjiang, and Liangzhe.

Lianghuai has the most fields, with 9736 million mu on the book, but in fact it has exceeded [-] million mu.

Liangjiang refers to Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road. In addition to wheat, there are also a lot of rice here, and the output is extremely high.

Especially Jiangxi, with a population of nearly ten million.

At this time, the population of Jingbei Road and Huaidong Road was only over 300 million.

Of course, Liangzhe Road is the most densely populated place in the Song Dynasty, and it is worthy of the name that it has exceeded [-] million.

Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yuezhou are all big cities, and Mingzhou is one of the most developed coastal commerce and trade places in the Song Dynasty.

Zhai Jin didn't know the whole picture, but after he came to Jiangdong and entered Jiangning Mansion, he clearly felt the abundance here.

The yield per mu of paddy fields visible to the naked eye is much higher than that of wheat per mu in the north, and the rivers are densely covered with sufficient water sources.

In some places, he also saw the combination of paddy fields and hillsides, which can not only feed cattle, but also raise fish, grow rice at the same time, and provide abundant grass for livestock to eat.

Zong Ze continued: "The "Nongshu" written by Chen Tan is actually aimed at the south, and it can be used in many places."

"It's no wonder that the imperial court deployed heavy troops in Shaanxi to attract gold thieves to the west. This southeastern land is indeed the top priority of the imperial court."

"Nowadays, there are people in the southeast with evil intentions." Zong Ze sighed, "There is no peace in the country, and the north is already poor, but it has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of fighting against the gold. If the south is unwilling to join in, it is impossible to regain the lost ground."

Zhai Jin said: "Why is the South unwilling to contribute?"

Zong Ze said: "I'm from the east of Zhejiang, and I was born in the south. The people in my hometown are simple, love the homeland, and want to repay the country's favor. How can the southerners not be willing to contribute?"

Yup!

Zong Ze is a southerner, how could a southerner be unwilling to contribute?

Zongze was 67 years old, and he could have enjoyed his old age in the south, but he went to the imperial court, and when the building was about to collapse, he threw his pen into the army.

The land of Jiangdong has been outstanding since ancient times, and famous generals have emerged in large numbers. It is definitely not a place where you are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Zhai Jin asked: "Then why is there such a commotion in Jiangdong?"

"The apparent reason is that His Majesty severely punished borrowing in the Xiangyang Mansion. There are probably many landlords and gentry borrowing money in Jiangdong, but the root cause is some selfish people who try to distort public opinion and sway the court!"

Zong Ze glanced ahead, and Jiangning City had already come into view.