The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

The subordinates dared to act, but the superiors were not at ease. Zhao Tan was so troubled, and the Jin envoy Wang Rui showed respect for him. In addition, in recent days, the voice of resistance to the Jin Dynasty between the DPRK and China has revived, which made Zhao Huan, Geng Nanzhong and others

They felt even more uneasy. After a secret discussion, the two of them decided that it was time to get rid of Zhao Tong. If he refused to resist the order, he could be dismissed from his post, reduced in rank, and take back all his power. If he complied with the order, he would kill him.

The Jurchen general, who lost to the Jin army again, will definitely end up like King Su, and will never return.

So Zhao Huan quickly decided to fully accept the unreasonable demands made by the Jin people, and immediately sent someone to draft an edict. He replaced Zhao Gou, who was about to go to the Jin Kingdom, and prepared to use Zhao Tan as the peace envoy to Jin Ying. But Zhao Huan hadn't waited for Zhao Gou.

Zhao Huan proposed to find someone to accompany him, and Wang Rui, the envoy of Jin, also said that the peace negotiation was a major matter and that he must send his trusted ministers as an envoy. Zhao Huan did not dare to refuse, so he sent Geng Nanzhong as an envoy.

Unexpectedly, Geng Nanzhong usually negotiated peace one by one, but when the matter came, he did not dare to go and repeatedly refused. Zhao Huan had no choice but to send Nie Chang instead, that is, the Nie Shan who he regarded as having the courage of Zhou Chang. Who knew that Nie Chang did not dare to go

Go, hesitating and reasoning, saying that his parents are old and cannot live without their children. Zhao Huan was so angry that he sighed in tears and trembled all over.

"The imperial court usually treats ministers with high titles and generous salaries in order to use them in times of need. Today, the ministers are afraid. Is it possible that there is no one else in the court? If your majesty does not think that my younger brother is incompetent, just one person can go there, and I will be responsible for ten thousand people."

I will not hesitate to die! I just hope that the emperor will take note of my brother's past achievements and treat his family well!" Zhao Tong suddenly stood up and said, no one expected that King Yan, who usually fought in the battle, would express his willingness to bear the death of this time alone.

OK', and I made a mistake and didn't get everyone to accompany me.

"Oh, we are still brothers at the critical moment!" Zhao Huan said with a sigh. "Promote Zhu Yannian to the rank of Bachelor of Baohe Hall, and make him Duke of Xu. His concubine is the Lady of Chu. The King of Yan will add Grand Master!"

"With Nie Chang as the chief peace envoy of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Yu as the deputy peace envoy. Wang Yun, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Geng Yanxi, the counselor, accompanied him. He immediately issued an edict and set a date to set off!" Zhao Huan stopped discussing with them and made a decision on the spot.

When the list of personnel for the envoy was decided, Nie Chang was ashen-faced, and Geng Nanzhong was also heartbroken. Although he escaped, the emperor sent his son. It seemed that he had really offended the emperor.

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Zhao Tong knew that the Jurchens used the strategy of "promoting attack with peace". He always gave you a goal, and when you just agreed, he proposed a new goal, and this goal was just a little higher than the previous one, as if

As long as you endure it for a while, the disaster will pass, allowing you to agree again, consuming your money and canceling your determination to fight. As the goal increases, there will come a time when you feel that you cannot achieve it, but by now it is too late.

You have become a frog in warm water, and you cannot escape even if you want to.

Although the emperor's brother insisted on compromise and ceded all the territory north of the Yellow River to the Jin State, the result was still to no avail. Because all of this was just a smoke bomb given to him by the Jin State. No matter where it was cut, it was meaningless. The Jin State's goal was only

One is to completely overthrow the Song Dynasty. They will never stop until this goal is accomplished...

Tang Ke, the young prime minister and the assistant minister of Zhongshu, had always advocated peace talks, but the repeated talks brought the Jin army to the edge of the Yellow River. He also realized that the peace talks could no longer stop the Jurchens from advancing south, so he wanted to encourage the emperor to run away. He said

: "Since the An-Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has repeatedly lost its state but has been able to revive it. This is all because the emperor is away and can give orders to all directions. At the moment, it is better to leave the prince to supervise the country, while your majesty visits Luoyang westward, summons the world's heroes, and seizes the dangerous fortress.

Land, Xu Tu recovered."

At this time, Zhao Huan was also very hesitant. The veteran general Zhong Shidao died in grief and anger only a few days after returning to the capital. The Song Dynasty had no more available generals, so he deliberately hid from the capital first. And Kaifeng Yin Heli heard about this

Afterwards, he hurriedly went to the palace to pay an audience and told Song Qinzong that Su Shi had a view that "the best way to lose a deer in the Zhou Dynasty is to move eastward", so your majesty had better not act rashly. This view also has some truth, because the Zhou Dynasty removed the capital from the capital.

After Hao Jing moved to Luoyang, he gradually lost control of the princes. Moreover, the Supreme Emperor was still in the capital at this time. Once he ran out, the court might be divided.

In fact, it is the same thing. The emperor is the master of a country. Unless he is undefeable and unable to recover, he will flee the strongest capital without authorization and flee elsewhere. If he is lucky, he can only save half of the country. If he is unlucky, he will be completely defeated.

.As Li Gang said at the beginning, no city in the world can be as strong as the capital. If you escape without authorization, the golden soldiers and horses are fast, and they are overtaken in the plains, why should you rely on it?

The two opinions are completely opposite. Is the city wall strong? Should we defend or flee at this moment? It is related to the survival of the Song Dynasty and the life of the True Dragon Emperor. Zhao Huan changed his mind quickly and immediately changed his position after hearing this

, stamped his feet violently and said loudly: "I will defend Sheji to the end!" I didn't want to run away.

Since he did not want to leave and the Zhuhe faction was no longer popular, Zhao Huan issued an order to depose the Zhuhe faction as Prime Minister Tang Ke and re-appointed He Li as Shangshu's right servant and Zhongshu's minister. He performed the duties of Zhongshu and became the prime minister. Kaifeng

The post of Fu Yin is presided over by Xu Bingzhe, who is also the Fu Yin.

He Su was just unlucky. A few days ago, Nie Chang was appointed as the envoy to the Kingdom of Jin. He was appointed as the governor of Kaifeng. He was promoted in less than ten days after taking office. However, although the time was short, he had

The appointment of the governor of Kaifeng is indispensable in the record. Such a big personnel transfer did not cause any reaction because everyone is used to it. From the first month to the present, it has only been ten months, and eight governors of Kaifeng have been changed. Counting

The average time spent per person is only one month!

Zhao Tong's colleague, the Privy Councilor, also had a false title and was replaced by another person. He was left with an official waiting for death. Although the eldest brother made a gesture of defending the city, Zhao Tong was still not optimistic about it. The prime minister in charge of city defense, He Li, was still not optimistic.

, was not an ideal candidate. Although he was engaged in fighting, he was still a scholar. When the war situation was extremely urgent, he still drank and composed poems to show his leisure time. Sun Fu, the Tongzhi Privy Councilor who was responsible for national military affairs, was appointed as the Privy Councilor Cao who signed the letter.

The assistants are all the same, they are all literati who have never seen blood.

Several people were reluctant in every possible way, and the mission was postponed until the end of October. Seeing that the Jurchens were really about to cross the Yellow River. Of course, Zhao Huan did not want to give up this glimmer of hope, so he began to urge everyone to leave the capital, and issued an edict that they must leave the capital before October.

Preparations were made before the fifth day of January. But on the same night when the imperial edict was issued, rumors began to spread in the capital that the emperor's sending King Yan out of the capital was not actually for peace talks, but to fight the Jin army and regain Zhending... (To be continued...

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