In the three years since he took the throne, Zhao Tong has worked hard to develop the economy, expand production, and reorganize the army. Maybe God has also seen his difficulties. The weather has been smooth every year, and there have been no major natural disasters in the country. Even Kaifeng has been threatened by floods for eight out of ten years.

None of them were threatened by floods. After all, the Song Dynasty had a solid foundation and occupied a fertile land. After several years of recuperation, various industries were revived and border trade flourished, thus quickly recovering its vitality.

While strengthening himself, Zhao Tong not only stopped paying annual tribute to the Jin Kingdom, but also cut off land transportation to the Jin Kingdom, robbed the annual tribute paid to Jin by other countries, and also blocked coastal ports and blocked all ships entering the Jin Kingdom's waters.

No matter where they came from, they were all sunk. They also constantly sent troops to harass the Jin Kingdom, forcing them to support a huge standing army. These methods depleted the Jin Kingdom's fiscal revenue and the economy tended to collapse. By the fourth year of Xingguo's reign, the Jin Kingdom's economic situation had further deteriorated.

, which cannot be invaded at all.

But at this moment when the situation was improving, Zhao Yu couldn't figure it out. In the past, he clamored for the Northern Expedition to the Kingdom of Jin every day, and the call to welcome back the late emperor became weaker and weaker. When he came to the throne, such memorials were often piled on his desk, but now they are.

Became a rarity, taken

Instead, there were memorials demanding reductions in military expenditures, armaments, and troop reductions. The government and the public seemed to have forgotten the "Jingkang Shame" of just a few years ago, and were completely immersed in the good days of economic development, political leadership, and people.

'If you forget to fight, you will perish'. This is such a simple truth. Like everyone else, Zhao Tao also likes to live a peaceful life and is tired of war. But if he enriches the country without strengthening the army and rushes to dismantle and return to the fields just after the crisis, he will inevitably follow the old path. He will work hard.

Bala's

The purpose of developing the economy and restoring people's livelihood is not only to defend against powerful enemies externally and to secure the people internally. But when the powerful enemies are not eliminated and the national humiliation still exists, they forget too quickly, and a book by Yue Fei, the commander of Dingzhou Road soldiers and horses,

The memorial caused a commotion in the court...

Yue Fei wrote to Zhao Tao, saying, "The army and horses have been trained, and there is sufficient food and grass. However, the Jin army is getting weaker and weaker, so they should launch an expedition to the north, recapture Yanyun, march directly to Huanglong, and welcome back the late emperor." Some courtiers said that they were warlike and that the country had just stabilized.

The bandits have just been calmed down, and the beacon smoke has not been extinguished, but war will start again, which will be detrimental to the country and the people.

And his remarks about destroying money also aroused criticism. They thought that they should take this opportunity not to fight again, but to negotiate peace to exchange for the late emperor, even if it costs money. Some people thought that the old realm of Liao and Song Dynasty had been restored, and they also seized the Yun Dynasty.

The state has taken advantage and can make peace with Jin. Reproduce the hundred years of peace after the "Chanyuan Alliance" of Liao and Song Dynasties...

Zhao Yu heard clearly from above, and understood in his heart that the specific historical conditions of invasion by foreign enemies and constant wars constantly improved the status of military personnel, increasing the power of military generals, and improving their status and prestige. This conflicted with the Song Dynasty's traditional national policy of using civility to control military affairs.

.The contradiction between the traditional national policy of using civil society to control military power and the increase in the power of generals will always exist. And this contradiction will also rise and fall with the changes in the anti-golden situation. Now that the world seems to be at peace, this contradiction will begin to intensify.

Yue Fei was just a minister on three sides. A memorial caused them to make so many fierce remarks. He was just worried that if the war resumed, the warriors would be re-employed and further threaten their status. Instead, it would be better to take advantage of the present opportunity to stop it.

The outbreak of the war. Serving the country and the people was mostly an excuse. Zhao Tao unusually did not express his own views on this matter, nor did he refute their remarks, but remained silent. However, the matter did not calm down, but continued to ferment.

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First, hundreds of Taixue students paid homage to the martyrs of the Jingkang Rebellion on Qingming Day. The crowd was so excited that they wrote a memorial in blood and went to the palace. Xuandemen once again staged the "Fukue Letter".

At the end of the drama, the imperial students read out a petition for gold, recited the poems of the martyred ministers, and shouted slogans, attracting a large number of people to watch. Some anti-war courtiers were chased, beaten, and insulted, and had no choice but to hide in the palace.

The day after the Tai students submitted the letter, students from various military academies also 'spontaneously' petitioned the Privy Council to send troops to the Northern Expedition. However, their attitude was much more 'civilized' than that of the Tai students, and they always maintained a strict military appearance and advanced and retreated in an orderly manner.

Military discipline was strictly observed, and there was no beating or swearing. He always maintained restraint.

After the students from the civil and military schools submitted a letter in groups, various guilds in Beijing jointly submitted a letter. These people gathered in front of the palace gate from various markets, including not only big bosses from various industries, but also stall owners who killed pigs and sold meat.

There are all kinds of entertainers in Wazi, bathing in restaurants, chefs cooking stoves, traveling Taoist priests and monks, all with different costumes.

In the past, it was said that there were seventy-two rows, but during the Song Dynasty, which was a period of great development, there were 108 rows in Beijing, which could be said to cover every grassroots level in all walks of life, and there were so many people that no less than ten thousand people came to the palace.

Their "big parade" caused a sensation in the whole city, but they were much more economical than the students' parade, donating all kinds of materials and a total of millions of dollars to support the military.

The incident got bigger and bigger, and the officials got angry for a while and started reporting one after another. Some asked the emperor to issue an order to appease the people; some thought that this trend could not be encouraged and used it to blackmail the court, and troops should be deployed to suppress it to avoid causing unrest;

They say that the voice of the people should be listened to, and the court should respond to what the people want; others believe that the people's support is a good opportunity for the Northern Expedition to destroy the Jin Kingdom and avenge the national humiliation.

The emperor still did not express his attitude, and the governors did not dare to judge. But things were still developing, and the debate about war or peace spread from the court to the people, from the capital to the surrounding prefectures, and to the south of the Yangtze River, and officials from various places also

In the previous chapter, their attitude was rather clear, they advocated the Northern Expedition and launched war against Jin Dynasty, and most of these people were the main battle officials replaced by Zhao Tao after he came to the throne.

Instead, the voices advocating for peace mostly came from some scholars and bureaucratic groups who had been suppressed by Zhao Tao. Their purpose was simple to provoke conflicts between civil and military forces, so that scholars such as Li Gang could re-align themselves, thus forcing the emperor to re-enable them.

These

People made peace with Jin. The voice of the people in Jiangnan was much weaker than that in Jiangbei. Many of them had not experienced the Jin invasion and had less feelings about the country's subjugation. But Jiangbei was swept away by the Jin army. Their families were destroyed and they hated the Jin country.

It penetrates into the bones.

Just as the two sides were arguing, Zhao Tong suddenly received a report from the Dengzhou navy, saying that they had captured a merchant ship sailing from Liaodong during the patrol, but the person on the ship claimed that he was Qin Hui, the imperial censor of the Song Dynasty. They

Find someone to identify and confirm that it is Qin Hui who was kidnapped by the Jin army when the city of Bianjing was destroyed. Now let the emperor make a decision.

Zhao Tong is a little funny. His appearance has changed the fate of many people. Many good generals have become silent and disappeared from history because of his appearance. He originally thought that traitors like Qin Hui would eventually be rolled over by the wheels of history.

He turned into dust in the mortal world and disappeared without a trace. Unexpectedly, he reappeared in his sight. I don’t know why he came to die again...

………

After Qin Hui landed, he showed his identity and his experience of "escaping from danger". He was immediately treated with courtesy and received warm hospitality from the local scholars. It was only because of his vigorous resistance to the Jin during the Jingkang Incident that he was tabooed by the Jin people and took him prisoner.

He is a loyal minister and righteous man in everyone's mind. This gave Qin Hui some peace of mind and some confidence in his return mission, but he was a little worried about the new monarch's attitude towards him.

It turned out that the Jin Kingdom had formulated several strategies against the Song Dynasty before, but they were unable to implement them, and the situation became increasingly unfavorable to them. For this reason, the top Jurchen decision-makers of the Jin Kingdom gathered again for a meeting at the beginning of the year. The central content of the meeting was

Discuss how to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty

At the meeting, King Chen Wanyan, the distant nephew of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda, was worried about the "re-promotion of the Song family", but military power alone "cannot be used by force", so he thought that he should find ways to destroy it from within the Song Dynasty.

In order to implement the plan of using peace to support attack and war,

They further analyzed the situation of the ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty and believed that Li Gang and others were interested in revenge, while Zong Ze and others were accustomed to military affairs and were more powerful. These people "succumbed first when the situation was difficult" and could not be the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom.

Taking advantage of it, they discussed sending a traitor to the Song Dynasty as an internal response.

So someone proposed that only the Song ministers who were sent to the Jin Kingdom should return first to intimidate the Song Dynasty and make them submit. We "pretended not to accept it". Everyone thought this strategy was good, but who should be sent? They proposed that Sun Fu

and others, but Zong Han denied it, thinking that he had "lost his integrity" and was resented by the Song Dynasty. He would not gain his original status if he returned, so he suggested that it would be better to send Qin Hui back.

Zong Han said that he liked Qin Hui very much, so he "put him in the army". Within half a year, "all his words came true." He believed that Qin Hui had not only defected to the Jin Kingdom, but also acted very strategically. "If

Even if he returns home, he will definitely be successful and help me in my affairs."

At the same time, it is also believed that in the last years of Jingkang, Qin Hui sent a letter to the Kingdom of Jin asking to keep the Zhao family, and became a prisoner. He also left a reputation of "loyalty" in the Song Dynasty court, and was therefore "the highest in the world". With this charming coat

By pretending to be a traitor and sending Qin Hui back, it would be easy to cover up his true identity as a traitor and gain the trust of the Song court.

Others also felt that what Zong Han said was reasonable. After Qin Hui sold himself to the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, he did continue to use practical actions to show that he was sincerely serving his masters of the Jin Kingdom. However, everyone still felt uneasy about Qin Hui and his gang.

The people tested Qin Hui many times and finally came to the conclusion - 'Nanchen is poor, but Hui is warm and solid'. In other words, after many tests of Qin Hui, they can completely trust Qin Hui!

Therefore, the Jurchen rulers of the Jin Kingdom informed Qin Hui of their decision, asking him to "serve as a domestic helper in the peace talks" after returning to the Song Dynasty. That is to say, they asked Qin Hui to return to the south and act as a traitor to undermine the Song Dynasty's anti-Jin cause from the inside. Of course, Qin Hui was very happy.
Chapter completed!