After bidding farewell to Yelu Dashi, Zhao Jiu returned to Xingqing Mansion. After processing some official documents, he led the Imperial Guard to cross the river to Lingzhou. He stayed there for two days, but then chose to go south along the Lingzhou Sichuan River and pass through Weizhou.

Cross the vast sea and arrive at Huanzhou.

From here, he went all the way south along the Jinghe River, passing through Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Ningzhou, Banzhou, Yaozhou and other places, staying at least one or two days, sometimes three or four days, or inspecting the autumn harvest.

Either to inspect the treasury or to go deep into the villages and towns. In addition to the time spent on the journey, it was not until the beginning of August that we entered Jingzhao.

By the time we arrived in Jingzhao, the results of the chaos in the northwest had been spread throughout the world, and even the details of the Jinhebo Alliance were known to the world.

And just as Zhao Jiu thought, this time, the Song Dynasty was the first to attack the enemy, and the second was to attack the enemy. Whether it was using skill to destroy the century-old enemy Xixia; or taking advantage of the Jurchens' strategic contraction to sweep the northwest;

Or the alliance with a foreign country as a concubine, all were unprecedented deeds, and they really aroused the excitement of everyone in the Song Dynasty.

There is no way, since Jingkang, the entire Song Dynasty has been full of bad news, even the Yaoshan War was a defensive war. Although in the eyes of a truly understanding person, this result is caused by the Jurchens' own strategic contraction, it still seems like a dream.

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After all, even those who understand have to admit that Zhao Song's official move is really powerful... Everyone in the world thought it was a Jurchen who was beaten and stepped back! What's more, he defeated the court and defeated the conspirators.

Fighting, using general trends and strategies to avoid fighting and gaining so much territory and results is also something that is extremely in line with their values.

Relatively speaking, they were more regretful about the haste in their alliance with Jinhebo and regretful that they could not participate in this grand event.

Therefore, after Zhao Guan's family set off from Xingqing Mansion, Zha Zi never stopped writing congratulatory memorials along the way. After Chang'an, they became aware of the violent political, military, and even cultural and economic reactions brought about by this great march.

For example, after Zhao Jiu arrived in Chang'an, he discovered that the Tubo tribes had already sent envoys to wait here in large numbers, and pilgrim envoys from all over the Western Regions also gathered... According to Yu Wenxuzhong's report, this time the Tubo tribe was north of Jinchuan

Almost all the tribes in Qinghai have arrived. After losing the protection of Xixia and the Western Regions becoming the territory of the allies of the Song Dynasty, these tribes have completely lost the foundation of their independent existence and can only surrender.

On the other hand, over in the Western Regions, calculating the time and distance, I am afraid that caravans took the opportunity to pretend to be envoys to defraud money... It can also be regarded as a traditional art of the city-states in the Western Regions.

In this regard, Zhao Jiu will not be taken advantage of? Of course, the Tubo people who come here must be kind to them, they should be given official posts, they should be included in the system, they should be given business treatment, but there is no extra money and food for them.

As for the 'envoys' in the Western Regions, Zhao Jiu just asked Yu Wenxuzhong to meet with them in unison, and proposed the plan of setting up an independent, low-tax large market in Lanzhou for east-west transportation, and invited experts like them to participate in the discussion.

Of course? The affairs of Tubo and the Western Regions are just scraps after all, and the violent internal reaction is the real key.

First, there is the administrative division plan... In Tokyo? I don’t know who came up with it? They directly proposed a plan for the integration of Kansai Six Roads.

According to this plan, the entire Guanxi Sixth Road, including several states in Hewai and Hedong that have not yet been included in the administrative coordination, will be unified and merged into three roads.

It is Chang'an and Shaanxi to the north, including part of the east side of Hengshan Mountain, all the way to the three prefectures outside Hewai and the northernmost Dongsheng Prefecture, unified into the Shaanxi Road.

After removing some prefectures and counties in Hengshan, Ningxia Road will gain Huaidejun, Huizhou, Xi'an Prefecture, Zhenrongjun and other places in the south.

As for the remaining part, Qinfeng Road is the core to unified control of the northwest region, including Lanzhou, the northwest hub, to form a new large Qinfeng Road.

This arrangement certainly makes sense. For example, on Shaanxi Road, there is Chang'an as the center of relations in the south, and there are envoys sitting there, but the north is mostly a war zone, with Han Shizhong and his imperial camp left army, as well as the imperial camp rear army units led by Wu Jie.

It is obviously necessary to set up defenses here, so as to facilitate the unified dispatch of logistics and command and response to the military confrontation with the Jurchens.

The layout of Ningxia Road and Qinfeng Road is also said to be a design to divide the core area of ​​​​Dangxiang people, and also to incorporate some traditional Han-controlled areas into Ningxia Road, which is conducive to sinicization.

Zhao Jiu approved this plan in principle, but made a slightly slower suggestion. This was because various places had just emerged from military operations, people's hearts were unstable, and the autumn harvest in some areas was currently in progress or had not yet been completed.

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In a sense, this method objectively reduces taxes in these places for half a year, and provides convenience to some generals in the military-occupied areas.

At the same time, Zhao Jiu himself was not idle either.

You must know that there is already an envoy named Yu Wenxu here. According to some unwritten rules since Jianyan, the emperor and the prime minister can basically exercise the highest power in a legitimate way...especially the sensitive ones.

It is far better to decide personnel issues here than to do it back to Tokyo.

Specifically, the Qinfeng Road Strategy enabled Wang Yan to receive commendations and additional rewards for his contribution to logistics planning. At the same time, he recalled the imperial camp to control the imperial camp capital, led the Privy Council to accept the decree, and also led the Privy Council to participate in the military.

Hu Yin's Fifth Road Transport Envoy was revoked and changed to Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but he had to be transferred after the reform of Shaanxi Road was successful.

Liang Yangzu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was transferred to the deputy prime minister of the capital and provinces. He also directed the capital and the Ministry of Rites to discuss his various achievements since Jingkang, and prepared to add a title to the title... This is what it means to give the prime minister status and then retire. Considering Liang Yangzu himself

His political posture and consistent stance are probably what he wants.

As for Wang Yuan, Zhao Jiu also thought of his hard work and promoted him to the position of Deputy Privy Council Envoy, allowing him to retire as a deputy national leader.

In addition, in Shaanxi, Zhao Kai, the transfer judge of Bashu Nine Roads, was transferred to Qinfeng Road for his merits. He was a transfer judge from a place during the Jingkang Rebellion in the past. After several years of hard work, he officially entered the highest level of the imperial bureaucracy.

The transfer of Hu Yin and Zhao Kai also means that the nine-way transfer system and the five-way transfer system that were used exclusively during the Kansai War were abolished.

At the same time, Lizhou Road Economic Envoy Liu Ziyu was transferred to the Ministry of War, Chengdu Road Economic Envoy Lin Jingmo was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Jiangxi Road Economic Envoy Liu Hongdao was transferred to the Ministry of War and Water Prison, and Hubei Economic Envoy Ma Shen was transferred to the Criminal Department

Shangshu.

Hu Shijiang, the Minister of the Ministry of War, was transferred to Shaanxi Road Economic Envoy, Lin Qi, the Minister of Hubu, was appointed as the Military Envoy of Lizhou Road, Wang Shu, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, was appointed as the Military Envoy of Chengdu Road, and Lu Zhi, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was appointed as the Military Envoy of Jiangxi Road.

As for the other various filling vacancies, they are also coming in waves.

It can only be said that a series of personnel arrangements were enough to shock the court. At first glance, I thought that the Zhao family, which always values ​​the stability of the court, was going to cause trouble.

But in fact, if you take a closer look, you will understand that it is nothing more than taking advantage of the opportunity of Northwest Integration and Liang Yangzu's retirement to exchange internal and external officials who had previously performed well or outstandingly.

Not to mention being compared with the Shao-Song Revolution, this kind of exchange seems to be weaker than the round of adjustments after Yaoshan, because at that time, adjustments were made directly at the level of the governor, and this time,

In order to maintain the consistency of the court's policies, and in response to the excellent performance of the governors in previous years, the four governors in the court and the two envoys of Chang'an and Southeast did not move at all.

However, the same move, from a high-level perspective, certainly showed that the Zhao family did not intend to take drastic measures, but in the eyes of others, it still resulted in some misjudgment from one perspective.

Just when Zhao Guan's family was making large-scale personnel adjustments in Chang'an, suddenly, there was an official who had worked hard and became the magistrate of Huangzhou. He had served in the army as a scholar and as a capital official.

A person named Liang Jiaying who followed Hu Hongxiu on a trip to the Western Regions wrote directly to advise Zhao Guan's family not to return to Tokyo, but to stay in Chang'an and not move away!

There are certainly sufficient reasons. After pacifying Xixia and sweeping the northwest, the entire Guanxi has become completely stable. Moreover, the return of the Xingling grain-producing area and the opening up of the trade route between the Western Region and the Hetao will also greatly stimulate the revival of Chang'an. Conventional sayings such as the topography of Guanzhong

, no need to ask more, it has been tested for thousands of years.

In addition, this memorial also mentioned a point of view, that is, from Yaoshan to this chaotic war in the northwest, it has confirmed the correctness of the views shared by the commander-in-chief Yue Pengju and the minister Lu Zhi to destroy the Jurchens.

It is necessary to build a commanding position, sweep through Guanxi, and then go out to Hedong and capture Taihang. Only from a high position can we capture all of Hebei and advance to Yanyun.

In this case, it is better for the Guan family to stay in Guanzhong to operate and accumulate strength to go out to Hedong.

Although Liang Jiaying is a rising star, he himself is not worth mentioning at all, but today his memorial is truly groundbreaking, completely shocking Chang'an and Tokyo, and even the whole world.

Even Zhao Jiu had doubts for a moment.

And then, after waking up, local officials in Kansai wrote letters to express their approval. Immediately, memorials from Tokyo also flew in like snow flakes... But the interesting thing is that not all objections were expressed in Tokyo. My family is in Bashu, here.

It was said that the Privy Councilor Zhang Jun, who was almost mad with regret because he did not follow Zhao Guan's family to participate in the alliance event, took the lead and actually expressed his approval!

Several central officials who were about to be transferred to Kansai also immediately changed their positions and agreed with Lu Zhi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to move the capital.

Several commanders on the front line, including Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Qu Duan, and Wang De, also wrote letters immediately, advising the officials to stay... Yue Fei, who was still in Lanzhou and was responsible for wiping out the Xixia Shou Baotai Military Division, was also cautious.

He wrote a letter expressing a certain degree of agreement.

However, bureaucracies at all levels in Tokyo, mainly the provincial ministers, have expressed their opposition.

Just before our eyes, the situation that completely separated them due to their choice of capital in the early years of Jianyan was about to happen again.

However, Zhao Jiu hesitated for a moment and followed the advice of the provincial minister Zhao Ding and Chang'an envoy Yu Wenxuzhong, and gave up the idea. Again, the country needs a long-term stable situation, and policies need a sustainable political situation.

Guarantee, the uncertainty brought by moving the capital is too great.

As for the future counterattack from Hedong, in fact, the distance between Chang'an and Tokyo is not exaggerated to this extent. At worst, he, an official, will just come to Chang'an when the time comes.

Now that he had made up his mind, Zhao Jiu gave up his original plan of waiting for Shangshu Xiaolin and others. As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival was over, he went directly eastward with Wang Yan, who arrived first, and took Yuqian Banzhi with him... just passing by on the way.

There was a brief pause in Shaanzhou to discuss the possible future Hedong strategy with Li Yanxian face to face, and asked Wang Yan to cross the river as much as possible to support Ma Kuo and go south again, and then set off again to cross Luoyang to worship Wang Boyan. Finally, at the end of August,

Returned to the city of Tokyo after a long absence.

Back in Tokyo, when this great victory came and the Western Xia Dynasty was about to be destroyed, naturally the ministers came out of the city thirty miles away to greet them. Zhao Guan's family took advantage of the opportunity to go to the mountain platform and led the ministers to worship the unnamed tablet. Then they returned to the city and saw each other holding their arms.

He brought a son...that is, two ugly babies, Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Dezuo...to welcome his two noble concubines.

This is destined to be another thing worth talking about, and there will definitely be a lot of troubles in the future. Just meeting once will give the Zhao Guan family a headache... Of course, raising a son is not a troublesome thing for any family?

Even if his family, Zhao Guan, has real estate, they can't hide.

What's more, for the Zhao Guan family at this time, the two sons had greater political significance, and were boring compared to their daughters.

As a result, Zhao Guan's family simply picked up their favorite little princess Yiyou and went directly to the palace over their two sons.

After returning to the palace, in the next few days, everything was complicated and people came and went.

Not to mention other matters, such as the exchange of the six ministers and local envoys, as well as the integration of administrative divisions in the northwest, both involve a large number of personnel... Those who are above are only those above, and a large number of middle-level officials are appointed, removed and transferred.

is the most terrifying thing. In addition, there is the issue of promotion and rewards for the officers and soldiers in the imperial camp who have made great achievements this time.

Under such circumstances, Zheng Zhichang, an international friend who had made great contributions this time, bid farewell and did not even go to Zhao Guan's family to see him off.

However, during this period, in early September, something suddenly happened, or the arrival of a person, which unreasonably attracted the attention of the entire empire... Regarding the extremely serious personnel issues of the court and the political situation, all of them

As this person arrived, he was temporarily covered up.

If someone comes to call you, please give me a discount.

In fact, Zhe Keqiu did not really come alone. This time he brought many children of the Zhe family, as well as Xixia clan general Weiming Yunge, Xixia Prince Li Renxiao, Yue King Li Renyou, and Xixia leader Li Qianshun

's head.

This is probably the reason why he delayed going to Beijing to meet the saint until now.

In fact, Zhe Keqiu did perform outstandingly this time. First of all, the timing was very good, and the Song Dynasty soldiers almost captured the states outside Hebei without a single blow. He also drove away Wanyan Huonv, controlled the Khitan tribe outside Hebei, intimidated Hengshan, etc.
To be continued...