One Piece of Song Dynasty

"Master, I can't be loyal in literature, and I can't serve the country in military force. We will follow the court wherever it goes. This is the last bit of loyalty we have left." Zhao Mingcheng shook his head. Li Qingzhao was puzzled: "Does the Jin army have to go south every year? Why did they withdraw before the war started?"

Zhao Mingcheng replied: "The Jin army will definitely come after the autumn, and Jiankang will not be saved sooner or later. The emperor issued an edict asking the people to follow the Queen Mother to Hongzhou. This is still false."

Servant Zhao Chun came in and said that the whole city had been searched and only thirty-four cars were hired. Li Qingzhao said: "How can this be enough for 2 volumes of books, 2000 volumes of gold and stone inscriptions, hundreds of calligraphy and paintings, thousands of antiques, plus the clothes and utensils left by my mother-in-law."

Zhao Mingcheng sighed: "It's not enough. It seems that we have to trouble Shopkeeper Zhang of Tianxiang Tower again."

Li Qingzhao frowned and said: "We haven't repaid Shopkeeper Ding's favor last time, so why don't we bother them again this time?"

Zhao Mingcheng shook his head and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. We can't just leave these things behind. I'll go find Shopkeeper Zhang right now."

Zhao Mingcheng came to Tianxiang Tower of Jiankang Mansion. Zhang Zhen saw Zhao Mingcheng coming and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "How come Mr. Zhao is free?"

Zhao Mingcheng said embarrassedly: "I came this time because I have something to trouble Shopkeeper Zhang."

Zhang Zhen said in confusion: "Oh, if there is anything you can do, Mr. Zhao, please tell me."

Zhao Mingcheng said: "Don't I have a batch of antiques at your master's house? It's autumn soon. Seeing that the Jin people are coming again, the emperor has ordered the withdrawal of Jiankang Mansion. My family is also preparing to evacuate, but there are still a batch of antiques at home. I can’t move the antiques, so I don’t want to ask shopkeeper Zhang to think of a solution.”

Zhang Zhen understood and said: "Zhang understands what Mr. Zhao means. Our master has also sent a letter to Zhang. We are also preparing to evacuate Jiankang. Mr. Zhao's matter is easy to talk about, but we take the waterway directly to Quanzhou. .”

Zhao Mingcheng nodded and said: "Okay, let's move the things to Quanzhou first. I would like to thank shopkeeper Zhang and your family in advance."

Zhang Zhen cupped his fists and said, "No thanks, this is what Zhang should do. Mr. Zhao will come to Quanzhou to play when he is free in the future."

Zhao Mingcheng replied: "Okay, I will definitely go to Quanzhou to visit your master's family."

After bidding farewell to Zhang Zhen, Zhao Mingcheng returned to the house and ordered: "Leave all the bulky ones for Shopkeeper Zhang of Tianxiang Tower to take away. We will only take the light ones with us."

Li Qingzhao, Zhao Mingcheng, Xing'er and Zhao Chun sat in carriages respectively and started their escape journey again. As soon as the carriages filled with boxes and cages drove out of the Jiankang City Gate in an endless stream, they ran into the Tokyo Remaining Division team that had just evacuated to the south of the Yangtze River.

At this time, Yue Fei had consciously taken the initiative to contact counselors and civil servants. At this moment, he was riding on a horse, holding a poem in his hand and reciting: "You will be a hero in life, and you will be a hero in death. I still think about Xiang Yu, but he refuses to cross Jiangdong. It's amazing." Li Xianggong, as soon as he entered the city, he went to find out where the hero who wrote this poem lived. Yue Fei wanted to become his brother."

"This poet-general can't afford to be a sworn sworn friend." Staff officer Li Ruoxu said with a smile. Li Ruoxu was the elder brother of Li Ruoshui, one of the three victims of the Jingkang Incident. He stayed in Kaifeng after the fall of the country. Yue Fei always respected Li Ruoshui, so he kept Li Ruoxu as his staff officer. He asked Li Ruoshui in confusion: "How can I become a sworn sworn brother and not look at his poems? He is obviously a sweet-tempered person and not a sleazy person. I will definitely sworn sworn friends with him."

"This Li Qingzhao is a heroic woman, how can the general become sworn sworn kinsmen with her?" Li Ruoxu couldn't help but laugh. Yue Fei was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide and sighed: "A woman has such heroic ambitions. If I don't make meritorious deeds, I will be ashamed to death."

Yue Fei took Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and Li Ruoxu into the city along with the Tokyo garrison and the newly appointed deputy privy envoy Du Chongliu. Zhao Gou immediately summoned Du Chong, but he pretended to be ill and refused to see Du Chong. Zhao Hua thought about it and guessed that although he was promoted to deputy privy envoy, he still felt that it was not enough, so he promoted himself, so he waited for another two days before meeting Du Chong at Shenxiao Palace in Jiankang on the pretext of holding an imperial meeting.

When Du Chong met Zhao Gou, he first confessed, saying that Wang Shan, a giant thief from Hedong Province, surrendered to the Jin Kingdom and led thieves into bandits. Kaifeng had been deprived of food for nearly a year. He had no choice but to abandon Bianjing in compliance with the order and asked Zhao Gou to punish him. Zhao Ding next to him remembered that Wang Shan was surrendered by Zongze. Why was it that Zongze was doing well when he was there, but he surrendered as soon as Du Chong left?

Du Chong said again: "On my way south, I surrendered the giant bandit Li Cheng. However, the bandits rebelled in the morning and evening and have no faith. I ask that I kill Li Cheng to avoid future troubles."

As soon as these words came out, Lu Yihao, Zhao Ding, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun all looked at Du Chong in horror, unable to believe their ears, thinking that Du Chong was indeed a ruthless person. Although Zhao Gou refused to agree to kill Li Cheng, he admired Du Chong's courage to intimidate everyone in an instant: "Since you have surrendered him to me, why bother to kill Li Chengsu and Sizhou as promotion envoys, and give silk Twenty thousand horses.”

Du Chong still wanted to argue, but Zhao Gou had already changed the topic to the autumn prevention strategy. Zhao Gou had sent envoys to establish good relations with Xixia not long ago, and Zhang Jun was on the west road. He was very relieved, so he asked Lu Yihao if he could hold the Huaihe River on the east road.

"I was ordered in May and arrived in Huaihe in June. The soldiers have not been recruited and the soldiers have not been trained. Now we can only withdraw from Huaidian and deploy defenses along the Yangtze River." Lu Yihao reported truthfully. Zhao Ding became anxious when he heard this: "Zhang Jun repeatedly warned before leaving that if we abandon Huaidian, the natural dangers of the Yangtze River will disappear."

"If I want to garrison Huaidian, I will have to add 5 elite troops, unless Your Majesty mobilizes the front army." Before Lu Yihao could finish speaking, Zhao Ding got on top of him: "The front army only has 15000 people, and the guard Jiankang is especially inadequate. , how can we be transferred to Jiangbei?"

"The Remaining Department in Tokyo has 8 soldiers. The imperial court now has three armies. Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun each form an army, with a total of 6 soldiers. Your Majesty, if each of you borrows half of the troops, you can get 7 soldiers." Lu Yihao said from He had his own plan, but unexpectedly Zhang Jun blurted out: "It's okay to borrow troops. When I went back to King Qin last time, Han Shuai lent me two thousand soldiers and I haven't returned them yet. Today I just borrowed them from Prime Minister Lu."

"Boying knows how to do favors," Han Shizhong was embarrassed. Zhang Jun said: "With Privy Zhang as your guarantee, if you dare to default on your debt, I would rather lend you my wife than my soldier."

Zhao Gou frowned. They were all soldiers of the imperial court and they were also serving the imperial court. Why should we care about you and me? Liu Guangshi seemed to have guessed the emperor's thoughts. He laughed and said: "Old Han is just cheating. Although we are both soldiers of the imperial court, Horse, but what’s yours is yours, what’s his is his, and what’s mine is mine. Prime Minister Lu borrows troops, and the subordinates dare not disobey, for fear that the children under him will refuse.”

Zhao Gou was shocked when he heard this and secretly gasped.

Lu Yihao looked at the generals angrily and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, I have no choice but to abandon Huaidian and retreat to the Yangtze River to defend against the enemy."

"Your Majesty, Lu Yihao, is the prime minister and is in charge of military affairs, but he cannot mobilize troops and generals. I impeach Lu Yihao for being incompetent and shying away from the enemy." It's not that Zhao Ding doesn't understand Lu Yihao's difficulties, but he really can't stand the arrogance and demeanor of Lu Yihao when he speaks. Tone.

Lu Yihao said sternly: "I have never been afraid of an enemy. I just didn't dare to offend Your Majesty with arrogant soldiers and lazy generals."

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