Although the two countries signed the Lin'an Treaty, Shi Hao could not believe the credibility of the Ming Dynasty, especially Su Yonglin.

He also needs the ministers to realize immediately that this is a time of life and death for the Southern Song Dynasty. Please let go of your political struggle immediately and start doing serious business for me immediately. Don’t continue to pursue Zhang Jun’s remaining party, otherwise you will be able to die together!

After receiving Shi Hao's submission, Zhao Sheng was also scared and sweated.

Most of the Jiangnan West Road was occupied by the bandit army?

Is this a bandit?

This is a separatist warlord!

Zhao Xing immediately realized that he had greatly underestimated the impact this bandit army could have, and overestimated the resistance and reaction power of local governments in Jiangnan West Road, so he missed the opportunity to watch the bandit army grow bigger and occupied most of Jiangnan West Road.

Now this bandit army is definitely not a simple bandit army. They are separatist warlord forces that threaten the Zhao family regime in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xing was both afraid and annoyed, so he issued an order to the Shangshu Province, asking the Shangshu Province to immediately clarify the significance of the war.

This is not a bandit suppression battle, it is a counter-insurgency battle, a counter-insurgency battle that concerns the life and death of the country.

Zhao Xing went to the palace at this stall to pay homage to Zhao Xing and demanded to expand the political struggle and completely eliminate Zhang Jun's remaining party, without saying a word, Zhao Xing directly went to prison and sentenced him to ten years, and his property was confiscated and confiscated.

If you dare to say such things again and delay the serious business, this is the end.

All the officials were frightened and trembling, and they immediately never dared to mention cleaning up Zhang Jun's remaining party.

At the same time, Zhao Xing personally entered Wanshou Palace and found Zhao Gou and told Zhao Gou about this.

He said it was quite tactful, but Zhao Gou could still hear that the bandits in the west of Jiangnan were getting bigger and the first wave of expedition failed. Now a second expedition was needed to solve the problem.

Zhao Gou didn't care about Zhao Xing's words. He knew very well what the problem was, so he was so scared that his face turned pale, and then pointed at Zhao Xing's nose and scolded him.

He scolded Zhao Xing for being incompetent, and by the way he regretted passing the throne to Zhao Xing so early, without taking into account that Zhao Xing was simply pushed to the throne at that time.

Zhao Xing didn't care about this, but looked at Zhao Gou anxiously.

"The Jinghu army suffered heavy losses, and the Jiangbei defense line was empty. At present, only the Xiangyang area still maintained its defense. Once the news of bandits came to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty learned that our Jinghu army suffered heavy losses. It would be a bad intention, and the consequences would be unimaginable. The Song Dynasty would be cut off in half."

Zhao Gou was anxious.

"Then what are you still doing here? Go and do things! Fill in the vacancy and wipe out the bandit army! Go quickly!"

"Taihuang, I need an army! I need a lot of army!"

Zhao Xing said anxiously: "Shi Hao suggested that I send the Lin'an Imperial Army to fill the gap in Jinghu Lake, and the number I can mobilize is only 30,000 Imperial Army. This number is far from enough. I need to mobilize the army of the Palace Front Office to assist in the war! I hope that the Emperor will agree to me for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Sheng bowed to Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou was stunned for a while, thinking about it, restlessly, walking around, and circled around.

Good guy, I know that you are uneasy when you come here, but you didn't expect that the idea of ​​hitting me is my life.

Zhao Gou wanted to refuse, but he thought that it would be of no benefit to him if he refused. What if the Song Dynasty was over, what would happen to his later years?

No matter how crazy Zhao Xing was, he would not attack him, so it was nothing to give him any army... but not too much!

So Zhao Gou made a decision.

"If you can't give it all, if you give it all, it will be broken if the Ming army comes again. I won't be able to protect me. Then I'll give you one... No, it's too small, then 20,000, and 20,000 people will be given to you!"

"Taihuang! I need more troops! More troops, the better. As for Taihuang's safety issues, I promise that I will protect Taihuang with my life!"

Zhao Xing eagerly stepped forward and bowed and asked for it.

Zhao Gou took a few steps back and said anxiously: "You protect me? How do you protect me? What to protect me? You can't even protect yourself and still protect me? I know you want the army, so I don't want it?

Now I have given you 20,000, and the remaining 20,000 cannot be given to you no matter what! That is my imperial guard! Do you want me to have no army? Or do you want to harm me?!"

Zhao Xing looked at Zhao Gou in surprise, not understanding why he could still have such a big idea at this moment.

What's the benefit of killing you?

Zhao Xing wanted to explain, but he soon realized that the explanation was invalid and Zhao Gou would not listen to him at all.

In desperation, Zhao Xing could only accept Zhao Gou's proposal, and obtained the army of the Palace Front Division. With the 30,000 imperial guards he controlled, he formed 50,000 imperial guards reinforcements, handed them over to the Privy Council and Shi Hao to be responsible for dispatching.

But Shi Hao was not happy.

Because the composition of this army is problematic.

To be precise, this army has problems at the command level.

Zhao Gou did hand over 20,000 troops to Zhao Sheng for dispatch, but he had a prerequisite, that is, these 20,000 troops must be handed over to his designated generals.

This person is Qi Fang.

General Qi Fang, who had just been caught by Zhao Gou from the death cell.

Zhao Xing's face suddenly turned bitter and compared with Coptis chinensis.

He believed Zhang Jun's statement at that time and almost killed Qi Fang. Qi Fang must have no loyalty to him and must only obey Zhao Gou's orders, which of course guaranteed Zhao Gou's ownership of the army to the greatest extent.

Zhao Gou used Qi Fang to command the troops, which clearly did not trust Zhao Xing and clearly wanted to divide the military power with Zhao Xing.

The 50,000 troops that finally gathered together still cannot be unified?

But this is Zhao Gou's attitude, and Zhao Xing was helpless.

Shi Hao could not agree, so he personally entered Wanshou Palace to lobby Zhao Gou, hoping that Zhao Gou could hand over all the troops to the Privy Council for the sake of national crisis, and Qi Fang could participate in the war, but he would not become the commander of the first army.

But letting him speak out, it was useless. Zhao Gou was determined to let Qi Fang lead his 20,000 troops and refused to allow Zhao Xing to interfere with the 20,000 troops.

Zhao Gou still believes that Zhao Xing has the possibility of taking the opportunity to seize command of his army.

Even now, the Southern Song Dynasty is in danger.

Shi Hao, who was so angry about this behavior, cursed Zhao Gou on the way back to the Privy Council, scolded Zhao Gou for being short-sighted, and scolded him for only caring about himself and disregarding the Song Dynasty and not even caring about his own honor.

But there was no way. This army was just Zhao Gou's imperial guards. They could not forcefully seize them, so they had no choice but to do so.

Shi Hao could only settle for the second best and seconded Zhao Gou to the palace commander Yang Cunzhong as the head of the army.

He felt that Yang Cunzhong himself was the chief general of the palace commander, and he had a deep experience. Even the new army under Zhao Sheng could be convinced.

As a result, Zhao Gou hadn't said anything yet, and Zhao Xing was not happy.

Zhao Xing distrusts Yang Cunzhong, and thinks that Yang Cunzhong is Zhao Gou's confidant and does not respect him enough. He thinks that handing over the army to Yang Cunzhong will affect his control over his army.

Yang Cunzhong has a strong experience and high prestige. If he led the army to win a battle, wouldn’t the guards’ Ma Junsi and the Guards’ Infantry Division, which he had finally controlled directly, completely become Zhao Gou’s troops?

Shi Hao almost fainted.

Are you really a father and son?

But you obviously have no blood relationship!

My Majesty! You are descendants of Taizu! You are descendants of Taizu!

In the face of crisis in the country, are you actually thinking about this?

Consider whether your throne is still stable!

Shi Hao then felt helpless to do ideological work for Zhao Sheng, saying that state affairs were the most important. Yang Cunzhong was a veteran general. Although he was under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Emperor and was loyal to the Supreme Emperor, he was also quite loyal to the country.

When I was guarding Lin'an, wasn't it Yang Cunzhong who stood up to stabilize the morale of the army, so that the Ming army did not attack Lin'an?

When the Supreme Emperor is alive, Yang Cunzhong will certainly protect the Supreme Emperor, but the Supreme Emperor will sooner or later become the Great Emperor. Will Yang Cunzhong still follow the Supreme Emperor?

Zhao Xing thought about it and felt that there was no way. At this time, the best candidate was indeed Yang Cunzhong, who was highly qualified and respected. So after Shi Hao's repeated pleas, Zhao Xing let go.

After finally convinced Zhao Sheng, Zhao Gou was unhappy again.

It turned out that Zhao Gou felt that Yang Cunzhong was the only military general he could truly trust, the last and most important line of defense for his safety. No matter what problems arise, he would have to protect him before he could feel at ease.

If you want Yang Cunzhong to fight, what if someone wants to murder me when he goes to fight?

Faced with this problem, Shi Hao was almost crying.

"If someone plots to murder the Supreme Emperor, Shi Hao should protect the Supreme Emperor with his life. The person who wants to murder the Supreme Emperor stepped directly over my body! Otherwise, it would not have thought of touching the Supreme Emperor's hair! Please agree!"

Shi Hao's eyes were cracked, and he kowtowed to the ground three times in a row, causing dull sounds on the ground.

But Zhao Gou was not moved by this.

"You are indeed unfaithful to me. You just want to die by yourself, gain a good reputation, and be your loyal minister recorded in history books, but you don't even think about what I should do after you die? Do you want me to die with you?

If you die, no one will protect me, I will die. This is your purpose? Yang Cunzhong would not think so. He will lead the army to protect me until the ends of the world.

His attitude is to protect my life even if he dies. Let me be safe first and then die. This is the true loyal minister, so don’t say anything more, I will never let Yang Cunzhong fight.”

Zhao Gou's strange and paranoid thinking pattern made Shi Hao exhausted.

He was desperate, and he withdrew from Wanshou Palace powerlessly, told Zhao Xing about this matter, and asked Zhao Xing to make a decision.

Zhao Xing was furious and was very dissatisfied with Zhao Gou's behavior. He felt resentful and felt that Zhao Gou was unreasonable.

Then he refused to accept Yang Cunzhong's proposal to be the chief general, but decided that 50,000 troops would set out separately and attack their own.

The Guards and Horse Army Office went to Chizhou to make up for the defense line of the Chizhou army, and the Guards and Infantry Army Office went to Jiujiang to make up for the defense line of the Jiujiang army.

Then Qi Fang was appointed to lead the army of 20,000 palace front office to counterattack Jiangnan West Road.

Of course it was not Qi Fang's army, and Wu Gong was also ordered to lead the remaining Ezhou army of 20,000 troops from the Tian Division Central Committee to attack the bandits on Jiangnan West Road. The two of them embarked on the journey several months ago from different directions and different routes.

It means that the strategy has been reopened.
To be continued...