"Most of the elite soldiers and generals of the imperial court are in Jiangnan. The south is humid and humid. It is autumn summer. Your Majesty heard that there are many epidemics in the army. He could not bear to die too many soldiers, and he was even more worried that the epidemic would be rampant. If too many soldiers died, it would be worth it for our dying dynasty to get Jiangnan. Therefore, he wanted to temporarily withdraw his troops to Guangling and let the soldiers and horses rest, thinking that it was the future map."

That makes sense.

The Song Dynasty, the Jiangnan and Song Jiu, had never been to the area of ​​Dongting Lake. Because there were few circumferences and polder fields, there were large areas of lakes or swamps in many areas. There was a saying in Bai Juyi's Pipa Sing, living near the Fengjiang River is low and wet, and yellow reeds and bitter bamboos are growing around the house. Xunyang is Jiujiang, which is such a good place, both lukewarm and hot, with Mount Lu and a large river and lake, it is difficult to understand this wetness. It can even be ignored why Dayu divided the nine states in the world and classified Yangzhou as the lowest state.

That's the wet word.

In summer, these vast waters are steaming, and the world is like a big steamer. Yangzhou has been developed long ago, so the Tang and Song dynasties have become a first-class place. However, many areas in the south of the Yangtze River have not been developed yet, including today's Shengzhou, which is many areas around Jinling. Perhaps the southerners can't feel where they stay for a long time, but northerners will be very uncomfortable in summer. If Lu Duosun did not explain the epidemic, Song Jiu would have thought that Zhao Kuangyin had asked the old monk Zanning to wash his head.

He asked, "Why is General Cao not in a hurry to attack Jinling?"

Originally, Song Jiu thought it was Zhao Kuangyin's intention and wanted to force Li Yu to surrender, but now Zhao Kuangyin is planning to withdraw his troops first, which seems not to be the case.

"I am a political affairs officer in charge and have the right to assist the prime minister in handling government affairs. I can occasionally ask about finance, but how do I ask about military affairs?"

"I know this," Hou Zhi said: "I heard that your father, General Pan, was eager to attack Jinling, General Cao disagreed. He was the chief general, and General Pan had no choice but to do so."

“Why?”

"Your Majesty won't yu too many people died in the pacification of Tang Dynasty this time. It seems that General Cao was also worried. Therefore, Xu attacked him, first dismantled all the checkpoints outside Jinling, then occupied the wharf, blocked the navy, and waited for the Wuyue army to merge with our army to take down Runzhou. Runzhou was a group and surrounded by all sides. At that time, the Tang soldiers would have no courage to resist, and there would not be many deaths."

"This is too stable..." Song Jiu murmured. It seems that Cao Bin's military ability is not good. Indeed, Cao Bin's military ability is limited, not as good as Pan Mei. However, Cao Bin also had Cao Bin's hesitation. The Song Dynasty destroyed several countries, and several main generals Wang Quanbin and Li Chuyun would not mention the fate. Let's look at the three generals of the Southern Han Dynasty. The brave general Wang Jixun died of illness as soon as he stepped into the Wuling Mountains. Yin Chongke also died of illness in Guangzhou after Song Jiu returned to Beijing. Not to mention the two prefectures and two transshipment envoys, just saying that this appointment, Pan Mei became his own deputy general, which means that the emperor was still very dissatisfied with Pan Mei's mistakes. Therefore, this battle is not easy to fight, and he cannot kill many people. He also has to take down the Southern Tang Dynasty and save the property in Jinling City. Originally, he was a slow man in using troops, and this turned into a snail crawling.

Lu Duoxun took a sip of tea and all the matters of the two had to be resolved. Hou Zhi was not Lu Duoxun's person, and Lu Duoxun dared not form factions like Zhao Pu. However, the two had a tacit understanding of a comrade in the trench system. He had to help, and he had to take care of Song Jiu's affairs. He still owed him a favor and could not help. However, Song Jiu's affairs were even more troublesome. He put them behind first and looked at Hou Zhi and said, "Biaodong, what if you made a vulgar little order, everyone was ashamed of?"

"Mr. Lu means..."

"If you ask Jiulang to be a small order, no matter whether Jiulang's small order is good or not, everyone will go to watch after hearing this, and your affairs will fade. This is called diverting your sight. Although Your Majesty is tired of soldiers, he will be deteriorated. The ending of this retreat is not easy to say, so Your Majesty has been hesitating. You come from the front line and tell Your Majesty that the front line is in trouble, and your Majesty will divert your sight. Compared to taking down the lives of more than 100,000 soldiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty, what is your thing?"

"Mr. Xie Lu."

"Don't thank you, but Kyuro's affairs are really not easy to deal with. If you hadn't made a lot of money for the country and so many people died, you would have been troubled."

"Yes, I'm just worried about it."

"Tell me about the situation in the south." Lu Duosun was obviously interested, everyone had the gossip. Of course, he was also thinking about a solution.

Song Jiu said it and suddenly said, "What if I wrote a letter to find the Ocean Island I mentioned?"

"What ocean island?" Hou Zhi asked.

"It is a large island in the South China Sea, with an area of ​​about three times the size of our dynasty, including grassland plains, rivers, mountains, and desert plateaus. There are not many natives on it, and there will be no more than one million households. The civilization is very backward, similar to the country I just mentioned. Most of the weapons are wooden sticks and stones, and at most they will use some bamboo bows and arrows coated with poison, or sharpened short spears. Most tribes cannot even smelte iron and use stones as tools. I once talked to Your Majesty that when it comes to internal governance, compared with historical books, no one has ever been perfected in our dynasty, and the population will inevitably surge in the future. Now there is a lack of population and the population will be dense in the future, which will cause crisis. For example, these backward places can be built. Once the population is dense, they can migrate to these strongholds, and the country will not have population and land pressure. Although it is still a bit far away, we can plan ahead and open up a small territory first for the future."

"What a big island?"

"What my husband said is also what people said. It is unknown whether it is accurate or not. It may be twice as large as my terrain, three times as large or four times large. Anyway, the servants on the boat have already stepped on it. After walking for two days, they stepped onto a mountain in a mountain range. They stood on it and looked at it with a telescope. They never saw the end and did not see the crowd. They wanted to explore it, but they were afraid that their companions would worry, so they returned."

“Where is it too hot.”

"No, that island is very big, like our dynasty, there are tropical and temperate zones. And where is the south of the earth, the warmer and pleasant the weather goes south, and it is almost the same as the capital. But the seasons are reversed, and the winter is hot and the summer is cold. Can you make this contribution?"

"It's a credit, but that's too far away, Kyuro."

"Discovering a new continent and proving that the sky is round and the earth is round, is it considered a credit?"

"That's not even more credit, and you'd better not say it, otherwise the Confucian scholars will attack you." Lu Duosun thought for a long time and said, "Let's do this, I have a way."

"consult."

"You'd better hide this from it first."

"No, once the pension is paid, people will definitely know."

Lu Duosun didn't ask how much the pension was, and there was no need to ask. I think it was indispensable, but no matter how many people were, the problem was that it had nothing to do with the pension. He asked again: "With the advantages of yours, it's probably not difficult to get some armor for changing clothes."

"This is probably not difficult..." Song Jiu replied hesitantly. In recent years, steel has increased, and more soldiers have become more armored. Leather, cloth, and paper armor are decreasing. Some elite troops have begun to replace old armor and put on new armor. Song Jiu did not participate in this matter, but I heard that some armor has been replaced and continued to be used for secondary troops. Some armor is really unusable, so I returned to the furnace and re-smelted. This is military supplies. If it is the latter, it should not be difficult to use some connections to make some. Although it is a ban, there is no big problem.

"With armor, weapons and bows, it's not difficult to catch a few kings and come back."

"If a slightly larger country like Champa Sanfoqi is advanced in civilization, it cannot be done, but if it is a small country like Xindang, and a backward country like Dihu, it can still be done when it comes back to catch a few kings."

"Didn't you leave the ships behind and continue to look for people? Therefore, the news of death cannot be made public at this time. The northwest wind will soon rise. Take enough weapons and armor to the wind, and catch a few kings to come to the capital, so that they can offer their land and surrender. At that time, the problem of announcing the news of death will not be serious."

"What's the use of this..." Song Jiu refused to go back. Although many people died this time, there were many positive sides in public and private. But what Lu Duosun said was exactly what Song Jiu had never thought about. If hundreds of people were fully armed together, even if they were wearing the most eliminated armor, it would be enough to deal with those bamboo bows, bamboo arrows and spears. Some countries are only tens of thousands of people, and they are not their opponents. But what is the function of catching the capital? They gave them food and drink, and then brought them with them, and brought them a painless official title. The Song Dynasty will really rule here in the future? But when they think about it carefully, he thought it was useless and it was really useful in this era. What a great joy to come to the court for overseas countries thousands of miles away? By the Ming Dynasty, it almost reached its peak.

"Thank you," Song Jiu left with Hou Zhi with a wry smile.

Since you are going to capture a few emperors or kings, you have to prepare.

Hou Zhi was sick. God knew whether he was really sick or fake. Because he was sick, he could not see the emperor. Zhao Kuangyin was furious and asked the soldiers to take him to the palace. Hou Zhi was prepared for a long time. He first bowed and then shouted: "Your Majesty, Jiangnanping is in the morning and night. What can Your Majesty stop the army? I hope to take it urgently. If you misled Your Majesty, please ask the three tribes of the Yi ministers."

Lu Duosun's trick was so good. Zhao Kuangyin immediately stepped back and asked him to approach and speak. Hou Zhi then said all the edicts of Zhao Kuangyin's withdrawal of the army were written and almost sent out. After listening to it, he pondered for a long time, but finally refused to stop the army. Of course, Zhao Da also "forgot" to pursue Hou Zhi's greed and illegal behavior.

Jiangnan continued to procrastinate. Liu Cheng, the chief general of Runzhou, surrendered, and the general disagreed. Liu Cheng said: "The Song army failed to conquer for a long time. I was worried that like Zhou Shizong, I would attack Chuzhou for a long time. After a long time, I was defeated and slaughtered them in anger."

With just one sentence, no one of the soldiers dared to speak again. Runzhou City surrendered.

Ding Deyu sent thousands of surrendered soldiers to Jinling and fled halfway. Cao Bin issued an edict to gather and came to gather for a while. Soon he was worried that something might change, so he killed them all. In the memorial, he said that he had defeated thousands of defeated soldiers in Runzhou and beheaded 700 people.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin felt a little regretful, but what Zhao Kuangyin said before Cao Bin's trip was that you were in charge of this trip. In fact, you were recruiting a large army to go back to Guangling to rest, and the second intention was to replace the head coach. But his introverted personality never said it.

There are so many people eating and drinking, which is an astonishing number, including at least 200,000 people and war horses. Jinghu cannot provide supply, so he had to write an edict to the people of Hexian County, Hanshan and Wujiang County to dig across rivers and open the grain channels to transport the Jianghuai food to the front line. In the end, Cao Bin took over Jiangnan and did a good job, but not many people killed, and almost all the wealth in Jiangnan was lost. Otherwise, he would be very sad this time in the south.

Seeing that Runzhou was broken, Li Yu began to rescue himself. While urgently summoning Zhu Lingyun to return to the rescue, he organized the people to serve as soldiers. Without armor, he had to wear paper armor and weapons, so he had to use agricultural tools as soldiers. Then he sent a high-ranking Taoist priest Zhou Weijian and Xu Xuan to send the capital together to ask the Song Dynasty to withdraw their troops. Before Xu Xuan, Li Yu said to Xu Xuan: "After you go, I will stop the reinforcements in Shangjiang and do not order them to go east."

Xu Xuan replied: "I may not be able to resolve the problem when I travel this time. The people in the city are still reinforcements, so how can I stop it."

Li Yu said: "Isn't it dangerous for you to ask for good things and call again? "

"We must use the plan of the social su and place the ministers outside the jurisdiction."

Li Yu cried and immediately called the Left Pushe to know the internal affairs of the left and right. In fact, Li Yu was not evil, better than Song Jiu imagined, and even better than Zhao Ji. He was not able to use people and ignored the state affairs, which caused the country to be misleading. Xu Xuan and the other two paid a visit to Cao Bin first, and Cao Bin politely sent them out of the military camp. The two of them worked without stopping, and almost only took less than ten days to arrive at the city of Tokyo.

When the ministers heard the talented man, they were very nervous. This person was so eloquent and talented. Unless he was like the scoundrel practices like Zhao Kuangyin last time, no one could tell him. Many ministers told Zhao Kuangyin that Your Majesty should not be too careless, and should be prepared before receiving him. Zhao Kuangyin said happily: "Just call him up, don't care about the others."

When Xu Xuan saw Zhao Kuangyin split, the first sentence was a loud voice: "Your Majesty, Li Yu is not guilty, Your Majesty is not famous!"

It is too rude to send a large army to destroy the country just because Li Yu did not participate in any firewood festival.
Chapter completed!