"Is there anything wrong with Duke Chong coming today?" Zhao Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Haha, I can't come if I'm fine?" Wu Qian looked at Zhao Qi with a teacup with a smile.

"Uh... this... can come naturally, but the broken kiln is really cold. If you come, say hello in advance. I can clean up. Look at it, there is no place to stay!" Zhao Qi shook his head awkwardly and explained.

"It's probably too late to say hello in advance. I thought you would visit me at my house, but I couldn't come after waiting for you. I had to put my face down!" Wu Qian glanced at Zhao Qi with a reproachful look on his face.

"This... I'm sorry, I'm quite busy at the harbor recently, and my family is also repairing a house. I'm really unable to take it off. I originally planned to visit Duke Chong in Yin County after the autumn begins!" Zhao Qi explained with a laugh and cry, and asked with a little confusion, "Duke Chong is coming in such a hurry, is it because something happened to the capital?"

When Zhao Qi asked about the serious matter, Wu Qian's face gradually became serious. He put down the teacup and nodded slightly and said, "Yes, there is something wrong in the capital. Since Mengge Khan personally led his troops to attack our Song Dynasty, the court has begun to dispatch all troops to resist. Now, the magistrate of Bozhou Lu Wende has been transferred to Sichuan. After I wrote a letter, Your Majesty still attaches great importance to it. He also recruits food, grass, and military pay to supplement the military preparations on the front line of Jingxiang. At present, Jingshan has the Huaiyuan Army as the main force, and the nearby Shouchun Anqing Prefectures are both strong, with more than 100,000 troops in total. I think there is no big problem. The only thing I worry about now is Sichuan. In fact, after destroying Dali four years ago, Mengge sent the Mongolian Governor Wuliang.

Hetai led tens of thousands of troops to attack Sichuan in three directions. He originally planned to meet with Hechuan, but was defeated by the commander Zhang Shi and the governor of Xuzhou Shi Jun in Mahujiang. He had just retreated in the spring of last year. The war in the previous two years caused many cities in Sichuan to be destroyed, and most of them had not yet been repaired. However, this time Meng Ge personally attacked Sichuan. I am afraid that the defenders of Sichuan could not bear it. Although Lu Wende made outstanding achievements and was the most valued general of the court, it would take at least two months to provide assistance from Bozhou. I am afraid that it would not be too late... The front-line war is now unknown, but the casualties must be very heavy. I am extremely worried, so I wrote to the court to request the transfer of Jingshan or Sichuan to go to the front-line to resist the Mongolian army..."

Zhao Qi was stunned for a long time before asking with a strange face: "Did the emperor agree?"

"I agree. The edict has been passed to the government office the day before yesterday, and I will go to the capital to listen to the order within five days, but it is still unknown where it will go!" Wu Qian nodded.

Zhao Qi pinched his chin and began to think.

The late Southern Song Dynasty was relatively chaotic, and many things were messy, but Zhao Qi still had some important things roughly, such as the outline of the Third World War in Mongolia and Song Dynasty, including Diaoyucheng, Xiangyang, and Ezhou, and the court knew a little less about the matter, but the main characters also knew a little.

Wu Qian served as prime minister again after Ding Daquan fell, but after working for about two years, he was kicked off by Jia Sidao. During this period, he didn't seem to have heard that Wu Qian had any experience of going to the front line.

However, Zhao Qi didn't even know that Wu Qian was the prefect of Qingyuan Prefecture at the beginning, so it is not known whether Zhao Qi was involved in history.

At present, Wu Qian took the initiative to request to be transferred to the front line of the Anti-Mongolia, which would be an uncertain thing. There may be some or no in history, but none of these matters. What is important is that if Meng Ge really dies this time and Wu Qian predicts this matter in advance, he can gain a lot of political benefits. If he can replace Jia Sidao to win the battle in Ezhou, he will be able to get more support in the future.

Jia Sidao in history stood out in the Ezhou War. Although this guy is not as good as Ding Daquan at the moment, he has risen faster. First, he is based on his sister Concubine Jia, and second, this guy is indeed somewhat capable, much stronger than Ding Daquan. However, this guy has been a gangster since he was a child. After becoming the prime minister, his gangster's nature was fully exposed. He not only engages in corruption and plunders of people's wealth and crickets, but also forcibly implements the Public Field Law and the Plan Method when internal and external troubles cannot be subsided. The Public Field Law offended a large number of nobles and nobles, and the Plan Method directly took the generals on the front line and arrested many outstanding generals in the name of swallowing military salaries.

Even if the public land law is not good, it is not good. In fact, the acquisition of private ownership can be regarded as a historical regression. Although the people of the Song Dynasty lost land, these land was still rented by tenants and were not abandoned. Moreover, the proportion of agricultural tax in the Song Dynasty's finances was not high, and there was also strong industrial and commercial support. The unemployment rate of civilians was not high. It was just that a large number of public and nobles occupied a large amount of private land and hoarded food, resulting in insufficient military supplies. In addition, the court's expenditure was huge, Jia Sidao wanted to use the public land law to increase the court's grain income and reduce the issuance of paper money. Unfortunately, this step offended almost all the landlords.

The plan was even more confused. While Jia Sidao accepted bribes himself, he also retaliated against generals who were not in line with his wishes. Because he looked down on him, many upright generals took the opportunity to retaliate against him. Therefore, the plan was on the evil path from the beginning.

The famous anti-Mongol generals Xiang Shibi and Cao Shixiong were arrested and imprisoned by Jia Sidao in the name of plan method, and finally killed in prison. Liu Zheng, the general of the Southern Song Dynasty naval army, was also frightened by plan method. Seeing that Cao Shixiong and Xiang Shibi were killed, the commander Lu Wende made things difficult for him to investigate the embezzlement of his military pay, Liu Zheng directly surrendered to Mongolia when he felt desperate, which made the Mongols gain thousands of warships and tens of thousands of naval troops out of thin air.

It can be said that the devastating defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty began with the implementation of the plan.

In the face of national crisis, he first attacked the generals stationed in various places. This situation of provoking civil strife and self-harm directly destroyed the most remaining trust and strength of the Southern Song court.

"Donald Chongguo is familiar with Jia Sidao?"

When Zhao Qi sorted out the outlines of the Second Song and Meng War in his mind, he naturally focused on Jia Sidao, who was about to use this war to climb to the center of the highest power of the Song Dynasty.

If the direction of history is not wrong, Ding Daquan no longer needs to pay attention to.

"I was very familiar with this. Jia Sidao has had several conversations before. This person was a Jinshi in the second year of Jiaxi. In Chunyou, he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Yangtze River and the prefect of Jiangzhou as a direct scholar of Baozhang Pavilion. Later, he was transferred to the commander of Jinghu and the prefect of Jiangling. In the second year of Baoyou, he was appointed as the chief of the Privy Council and the title of Duke of Linhai County. In the fourth year of Baoyou, he became the chief of the political affairs officer of the magistrate of the Privy Council. Last year, he was appointed as the chief of the Privy Council. He is now the envoy of the Xuanfu of the Two Huai Rivers. He is in charge of the border protection and settlement on the front line of the Huaihe River. He was awarded the rewards and the officials attach great importance to it..." Although Wu Qian did not understand why Zhao Qi suddenly asked Jia Sidao, he still roughly introduced his resume to Jia Sidao.

"If Duke Chong enters the center in the future, remember to be careful of this person!" Zhao Qi did not explain, but instead looked at Wu Qian seriously.

"What does this mean by nephew?" Wu Qian was even more puzzled.

"I just inferred based on some clues. I heard that Jia Sidao was the younger brother of Concubine Jia. He was a bit arrogant and domineering in the capital before, and often fought cocks and dogs with a group of slutty children. This person may have some talent, but he did not climb up with his real skills. During this Mongolian invasion, Jia Sidao, as the highest official in charge of the front line of the two Huai Rivers and also the affairs of the Privy Council, would inevitably be valued by the emperor and might be asked to preside over the battle against Mongolia. According to my previous speculation, if Mengge sent troops to Sichuan was unfavorable, Mongolia would most likely withdraw troops quickly. Then, with the victory of this anti-Mongol War, Jia Sidao would inevitably be promoted to the Pudong Mansion to take charge of military and political affairs. If so, Duke Chong will inevitably conflict with him in the future!" Zhao Qi explained.

After hearing this, Wu Qian grabbed his beard and didn't say anything for a long time. It was obvious that he was also measuring how credible Zhao Qi's words were, but after some thought, he suddenly realized that what Zhao Qi speculated should be very reliable.

Whether judging from his status or familiarity with military affairs, Jia Sidao seems to be the best choice for the court at present.

Wu Qian looked up at Zhao Qi with a weird face, as if he wanted to chop Zhao Qi's head to see how it was growing inside, and how could he go beyond the current complicated situation to pay attention to someone who almost no one paid attention to.

Jia Sidao's current status is similar to Wu Qian himself. Both of them are from the first-rank founding duke. Wu Qian himself is a founding official in Qingyuan Prefecture and is also appointed as the coastal commander. Jia Sidao is appointed as the pacifier of the Lianghuai. His military status is higher than that of Wu Qian, but he is not in charge of civil affairs. The two are in the same position in the court, but Jia Sidao has two advantages. One is that he is young and in his forties; the other is that he has always been in charge of military affairs, and he can be regarded as an experienced military commander, and has always fought with the Mongolians on the front line. He is much more familiar with the experience of fighting with the Mongolian army than Wu Qian.
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