Poor Family Chapter 755

  Chapter 755 Situation Escalation

   Li Gang's dismissal was undoubtedly like a boulder falling into a pond, causing huge waves in the government and the public. However, the reason why Li Gang was dismissed was that he failed to stop the southward migration, which obviously cannot convince the public.

The large-scale southward migration began last year, and the dignitaries and giants have all moved southward. Now they suddenly want to stop ordinary people from moving southward. Speculation of some kind of conspiracy theory was born.

This is even more reminiscent of many follow-up negotiation issues. Li Gang's dismissal is undoubtedly a major setback for the main combat faction, especially Geng Nanzhong, the main force of the main peace faction who replaced Li Gang as the prime minister. A lot of worries.

Li Gang left the capital at night without alarming anyone. At night, the Xinzheng Gate slowly opened. Li Gang and a few entourages rode through the Wengcheng and walked towards the gate. He looked back at the capital for the last time, full of ambition melancholy.

   At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes from behind, and a cavalry passed through the inner city gate and rushed towards the urn city.

   "Brother Bo Ji, please stay!" Someone shouted from behind.

  Li Gang stopped the horse, he recognized the voice, it was Li Yanqing calling him.

  Suddenly an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart, and his nose became sore.

  A moment later, Li Yanqing galloped over on horseback, reined in his horse, and said with some dissatisfaction, "Why did Brother Bo Ji leave Beijing at night?"

  Li Gang sighed, "The imperial court requires me to leave the capital today. I have to clean up during the day and go through the resignation procedures. I can only leave the capital at night."

   "However, fifty miles to the west from the city gate is deserted, and there is no place to live. If you encounter thieves, the consequences will be disastrous. Didn't Brother Bo Ji think of the potential danger here?"

   Li Gang's expression changed. Of course he understood what Li Yanqing was secretly referring to. It was not a thief, but someone would pretend to be a thief to assassinate him.

  Li Yanqing said again: "I will send a team of cavalry to **** Brother Bo Ji to Jingzhao, and when we arrive at Tongguan, there will be someone to meet him there to ensure that Brother Bo Ji is safe and sound all the way!"

   Li Gang was moved in his heart, cupped his hands and said: "Thank you Li Dutong for your care, Li Gang will remember it in his heart!"

   "Brother Bo Ji, take care, I believe we will still have a chance to fight against gold side by side."

  Li Gang nodded, "The Jin people are treacherous and untrustworthy, and the compromise faction in the court is rampant. I hope that Li Dutong will protect himself well, and it will also save the life of my Song Dynasty. Take care!"

   After finishing speaking, Li Gang turned his horse's head and urged the horse to rush out of the city gate. A group of more than a hundred cavalry followed closely, guarding Li Gang and heading west.

  Li Yanqing stood at the city gate, silently watching Li Gang go away. Li Gang's resignation made the anti-gold faction in the court extremely isolated.

Li Yanqing was not depressed. The tragedy of history was not caused by some accidental factor. It was the inevitable result of years of accumulated evils. The trajectory is a little bit to that side, maybe it is the saying, if you don't break, you won't stand.

In the morning of the next day, Li Yanqing came to the military office as usual. These days, he was busy planning the defense plan along the Yellow River. This was another major move after the defense of the capital. 10,000 cannons, 200,000 heavy troops and 300,000 civilians will be deployed, and 100,000 thunderbolts will be produced at the same time. This is only a preliminary plan, and a lot of detailed and comprehensive calculations will be required to form the final reporting plan.

  The specific planning was of course not done by Li Yanqing himself, but by Mo Jun who led more than 30 civil servants in the military government to be responsible for the establishment.

  Li Yanqing came to the military office, but found that the military office was a bit deserted, and there seemed to be a lot of people missing, so he asked the soldiers on guard, "Has Mr. Mo not arrived yet?"

   "Report to Dutong, Mr. Mo went to the south bank of the Yellow River with a dozen civil servants early this morning."

  Li Yanqing patted his forehead. His recent memory is really a bit problematic. Mo Jun told himself the day before yesterday that he was going to inspect the south bank of the Yellow River for three days today, but he actually forgot.

   "I see, is there anything else?"

   "Just now His Royal Highness Kang Wang sent someone to deliver a letter, which was placed on the table in the capital's official room."

  Li Yanqing was slightly taken aback, Kang Wang Zhao Gou actually came to him at this time, he pondered for a moment, then walked quickly to his official room.

Sure enough, there was a letter on the table in the room. There was no signature on the cover, but only the words "Tokyo Defense Envoy Li Dutong respectfully." Drinking tea at Zhu Kukulou Teahouse, Li Yanqing recognized at a glance that it was indeed Kang Wang Zhao Gou's handwriting.

Since Zhao Huan ascended the throne, no matter Zhao Gou, Zhao Kai or other royal families have been very silent, almost never showing up, and none of Zhao Huan's rewards involved the royal family. Both sides seem to maintain a certain tacit understanding, but Li Yanqing I know that the reason why the royal family is silent is because Zhao Huan has arranged strict surveillance on his brothers, so Li Yanqing was somewhat surprised when he received Zhao Gou's note today.

  At this time, a soldier outside reported: "Report to Dutong, Sun Xianggong is here!"

  Li Yanqing quickly put away the note, went out to greet him, and saw Sun Fu coming in at the gate of the courtyard, Li Yanqing smiled and saluted: "Sun Xianggong is here, Yanqing is far away to welcome him!"

  Sun Fu chuckled, "I was the one who came so abruptly, I should be the one who apologized."

   "Sun Xianggong, you are welcome, please come in and sit down!"

  Li Yanqing invited Sun Fu to the reception hall next to the official room, the two sat down separately, and a soldier came in to serve tea.

Sun Fu was also Zhao Huan's master, and he belonged to the centrist faction in the imperial court. He was consistent with Li Gang's initial position, advocating peace with the state of Jin, but the interests of the Song Dynasty should be guaranteed, especially the land should not be ceded. Gao Shen together form the three pillars of the centrist.

Sun Fu sat down and said to Li Yanqing: "Earlier this morning, the officials have officially approved the list of rewards for soldiers, and decided to allocate 100,000 hectares of land from the official farmland on Jiangnan East Road and Jinghu North Road to reward meritorious soldiers and compensate those who died in battle. , and at the same time exempt from taxation for three years, due to the financial constraints of the imperial court, and facing a large number of recruits, it is really impossible to give gold, silver, and silk as rewards, please forgive me for this."

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Rewarding military exploits with land has become the consensus of the ruling and opposition parties and the three armed forces. As long as the imperial court can allocate reward land in time, I have no objection."

"Thank you Li Dutong for your understanding. The Ministry of Household Affairs will soon come up with a specific plan for land division. The Privy Council will allocate the payment to the individual within a month. The states and counties will also actively cooperate to ensure the smooth connection of land rewards. In addition, regarding the promotion of officials The plan is still under discussion, and the result will probably come out within ten days, please Li Dutong tell the generals to be safe, and the court will try its best to ensure fairness."

Li Yanqing just smiled lightly. He originally had only one copy of the military achievement report, but it was split into two by the court. Needless to say, he can also guess that something will happen in the subsequent promotion of generals, and he will wait and see. .

   "Yesterday Li Xianggong was dismissed as Prime Minister. I wonder how Sun Xianggong feels?" Li Yanqing brought the topic to Li Gang.

A complex expression flashed in Sun Fu's eyes. In fact, he knew the reason why Li Gang was dismissed. The officials had already decided to end the Song-Jin War by means of compromise and peace talks. Naturally, they couldn't tolerate a spoiler like Li Gang appearing in the Zhizheng Hall. , In fact, Li Yanqing is the same, if it is not because Li Yanqing holds military power, I am afraid that he will also be kicked out of the capital by the officials. Driving Li Gang away, first of all, the military-political alliance between Li Yanqing and Li Gang will be dismantled.

Sun Fu smiled wryly and said: "Recently, the situation in the imperial court is very complicated. After the official ascended the throne, he faced the defense of Tokyo. Many things that were to be done have been put down. Now that the war is over, the things that were delayed before are brought up again. Li Dutong can be understood as the officials are rectifying the imperial court.”

   "Rectifying the court is to make Li Xianggong dismissed?"

  Li Yanqing stared at Sun Fu sharply, "I really can't understand, can I ask Mr. Sun to clarify?"

Sun Fu pondered for a while and said: "Today or tomorrow, some important ministers and eunuchs who made serious mistakes in Jin's southern invasion will be liquidated, but this will inevitably cause serious dissatisfaction with the Supreme Emperor. In order to calm the anger of the Supreme Emperor, the officials can only Wrong Li Xianggong first, so that many people's mouths can be blocked, and the Supreme Emperor's heart can feel a little more balanced."

   "Is Mr. Sun leaking secrets?" Li Yanqing laughed.

   "It's not a leak. Li Dutong is the military commander and has the right to know about it. I also came to say hello to Li Dutong in advance."

   "I don't know who will be liquidated?"

"Wang Fu is the first to bear the brunt, followed by Liang Shicheng and Li Yan, and Cai Jing, but Cai Jing is old, and the officials may let him go once, and Cai You and Gao Qiu, they will not escape this liquidation. They are not in the court, but it does not affect the court's punishment of them."

  Li Yanqing was silent for a moment and said: "Gao Qiu has a large army in his hands. Will it be beneficial to the stability of the country if he is punished? Please Zhizhengtang carefully consider this point."

   "I will definitely bring Li Dutong's opinion to the officials and Zhizhengtang. It's getting late, so I'll take my leave first!"

   "Sun Xianggong, please wait a moment!"

Li Yanqing went back to his official room, took a letter and handed it to Sun Fu, "The intelligence department arrested a Jin Kingdom spy yesterday, and this is a letter that Wang Fu wrote to Wanyan Xie. Ye's reply, this is also the ironclad proof that Wang Fu has colluded with the Kingdom of Jin.”

  Sun Fu was overjoyed, took the letter and asked, "Where are the secret agents of the Kingdom of Jin?"

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "I'm sorry, the spy has committed suicide by taking poison, but if you search Wang Fu's house now, you will definitely find the letter Wanyan Xie also gave him."

   "Thank you Li Dutong, I'm leaving!"

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Tell the officials for me that although Liang Shicheng was on the wrong team at the critical moment, he once saved Zheng Pianfei's life. I hope the officials will handle it as appropriate."

  Sun Fu took a deep look at Li Yanqing, "I will report the truth to the officials!"

  He bowed his hands to Li Yanqing and hurried away with the letter. Li Yanqing sent Sun Fu out of the gate, watched Sun Fu's carriage go away, Li Yanqing turned back and asked, "What time is it?"

   "Report to Dutong, it's almost noon."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "I'll go out for a while, I'll talk about it in the afternoon if I have anything to do!"

  (end of this chapter)

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