"My, Liu Yu is willing to be a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, live as a Song minister, and die as a Song ghost!"

"I wish to be a Song minister in life and a Song ghost in life..."

Well, when he went out of the city to surrender to the enemy, he made up his mind to be a traitor. As a result, he met a King Kang outside the city who regarded the thief as his father but was loyal to the Song Dynasty. As a result, he had to shout together, "Being a Song minister, and being a Song ghost after his death." Liu Yu and his men are now disgusted. Are they loyal ministers? Or are they traitors? Is this King Kang in front of him a good king? Or is the bad king with ulterior motives?

Zhao Gou looked at Liu Yu, the "loyal minister of the Song Dynasty" and laughed, "Okay, okay... Since Liu Qing said that, then I'll bother Liu Qing to go to Yangzhou to meet the official family for me!"

Is this going to drive the king forward?

Liu Yu didn't stand up, and knelt down and said to Zhao Gou: "King, I am all infantrymen, and there are not many people, only more than ten thousand. I'm afraid it's not Zhao... The opponent of the official family, can the king send hundreds of Jintian soldiers to help?"

"What did you say?" Zhao Gou looked at Liu Yu, "The Lone King asked you to come to the court to meet the emperor...not to lead your troops to usurp the throne!"

What?

Liu Yu became more and more confused as he listened. What exactly did Zhao Gou want to do? Didn’t he come to usurp the throne?

Zhao Gou looked serious and said, "The Lord is not here to be the position of the crown prince, but to fight against Zhao Kai's unjust!"

Liu Yu couldn't help but reminded Zhao Gou, "Big, king... Zhao Kai is in Luoyang!"

Zhao Gou nodded and said, "But the person who named Zhao Kai the Crown Prince is in Yangzhou! If he doesn't get rid of Zhao Kai's title of crown prince, how can the Lone King attack him?"

Liu Yu was completely confused and couldn't understand what Zhao Gouxiang was doing. So he asked again: "If the king is not a crown prince, who can be a crown prince?"

"The official family has a son," Zhao Gou said, "Of course, he should make his son the crown prince. How can he pass it on to his younger brother?"

You called for Zhao Chen's throne? Liu Yu looked at the 22-year-old Emperor Kang of Song in front of him and thought to himself: Zhao Chen is 11 years old this year... When the queen was pregnant with him, Emperor Kang of the maximum, right?

After thinking about it, Liu Yu still couldn't understand what Zhao Gou wanted to do, and then asked: "I wonder what the king wants to be?"

Zhao Gou said: "The adoptive father of the Gu Wang, Emperor Dajin, has given the four states of the Huaibei including Xuzhou, Huaiyang Army, Suzhou, Bozhou and other Huaibei. The Gu Wang also wanted Haizhou and Lianshui Army... a total of two armies of the four prefectures and two armies, which are the fiefs of the Gu Wang. The Gu Wang also had to assist the title of King Chu of the State, and also had a salary of 3 million yuan a year.

In addition, the 3 million yuan you should give to Shangguo is not worth a penny!

As long as the officials agree to these conditions, the king and the superior country can take responsibility for the Song Dynasty and the world will be peaceful."

Of course, Zhao Gou's ultimate goal was to usurp the throne! Wu Qimai sent Wanyan Zongbi to protect him from the south, and also to allow him to eventually seize the throne of the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, Zhao Gou did not have the strength to seize the throne. Even if the Jin Kingdom helped him with all his strength, Zhao Gou could be the king of Jiangbei. It would be impossible to cross the Yangtze River.

After all, the Southern Song Dynasty now has the world's number one naval army, and the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinling, is also in a solid state, so it is impossible to attack and break through.

Therefore, Zhao Gou could only set Zhao Kai, who was far away in Luoyang as a target, and then put on the position of supporting Zhao Chen and anti-Zhao Kai to win the support of Zhao Huan and the Southeast scholars and officials... First become the King of Chu of the Song Dynasty, and then wait for the "seriously ill" Zhao Huan to die of illness, so he sent troops from Huaibei to Jinling, first support Zhao Chen as the emperor for a few days, and finally find a chance to kill this kid, so he could naturally become the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty!

......

When Liu Yu brought Zhao Gou's stamp and a hundred followers... including Cai Songnian, who represented the Great Jin Kingdom, arrived in Yangzhou City, the Jiangbei City had been renamed Jiangdu, and it was considered the Northern Capital of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Zhao Huan, the official of the Southern Song Dynasty, is now in the big city among the three cities of Jiangdu, preparing to fight the Jin thieves who are heading south.

This capital of Jiangbei, which Zhao Huan regarded as the anti-Jin fortress, is actually somewhat similar to the capital of Jiangnan. It is not only commercial cities and water transport hubs, but also has multiple cities.

Jinling now has a new city, an old city, a Mufu Mountain City, a Zhongshan City, and a Xuanwu City, which are five cities in one place. Jiangdu has a blessing city, a Jiacheng, and a Jiangdu city, which are three cities in one place.

In addition, in Guazhou Du, which is not far from the river, there is now a Guazhou Water City. If the Jiangdu City is not protected, Zhao Huan can also take a characteristic copper armored ship out of the city and follow the canal to go south to Guazhou Du.

The so-called copper-armored ship is a water battle weapon specially created by Li Gang, the right Privy Council, for the possible Yangzhou defense battle - it is to surround the decks of several large canal ships that can only navigate the canal, and then set up a copper-sized roof on the baffle of the ship. In this way, those hiding in the ship's door can be foolproof!

When Zhao Huan crossed into Jiangdu from Guazhou this time, he rode a copper-armored ship and arrived safely under the escort of 30,000 iron-armored soldiers - a sense of security!

The three cities in Jiangdu were also built and repaired under the leadership of Zhang Shuye, the general manager of Huaidong and the general manager of Lianghuai (at the beginning, the general manager of Huaidong). The outer moats, sheep and horse walls, li trenches, li trenches, horse faces, quetai, and the forts built along the canal to Guazhoudu, were built all the way to build the castle. Now the Southern Song Dynasty also learned to use straw bags and sandbags to build castles (of course, I learned that Zhao Kai had someone imported a large number of straw bags and sacks from the Southern Song Dynasty), so the cost of repairing the city was greatly reduced, and the guards from all over the Jianghuai River were rushing to build cities to show their achievements.

In addition to building a city and building a building, Zhang Shuye also set up a baojia in Lianghuai, and relaxed the control of paper armor, spears, and crossbows. He also ordered local tyrants and evil gentry from all over Lianghuai to repair earthen forts in his hometown (also made of straw bags and sacks). So what Cai Songnian, who went south with Liu Yu, and several other Dajinshishi saw was a fortress everywhere and Huaidong with defenses everywhere!

What surprised them even more was that the brigades that appeared in Jiangdu City were carrying large crossbows, long spears, or shields, and iron armored soldiers with long handles of swords and axes on their backs!

These soldiers... look very powerful!

The queues are neatly, and the weapons and armor are polished, and they can patrol the city in full armor... This shows that they are very physically strong and often train and wipe weapons. It is completely different from the Song army guarding Haizhou and Lianshui Army! They do not look like the same army as the Song army they met during the Xuanhe period - they are not! This new Southern Song army was completely rebuilt!

Although all the officers from all over the country were amateurs, they were very motivated and had no bad habits. They didn't know how to occupy the service, how to deduct, and how to drink blood from the soldiers. They didn't even know that the soldiers' families could live with the camp... They had studied it. Zhao Kai's squad did not bring their families when they were on the market. Only the officers who served the Long March could have family members. The same was true for the Jurchens, and there were no family members to accompany the army. Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Gang and others did not allow the soldiers below to "check in and join the army" with their families.

Since you don’t take your family, you can practice hard at 997! And if you practice so hard and don’t take your family, you will certainly not be able to serve for the rest of your life... Therefore, the new army of the Southern Song Dynasty stipulated the age limit for service. Ordinary soldiers worked until they were 30 years old (save enough money to go home to get married), low-level officers (no Jinshi) worked until they were 35 years old (returning home to the local master), intermediate officers worked until they were 40 years old (and then they went to make money as civil servants). Only high-ranking officials such as Privy Councilors and Pacifiers were not subject to age restrictions.

In addition, the weapons and armor of the New Southern Song Army have gone up to several levels compared to the previous Northern Song Dynasty imperial guards!

All their weapons are new, and they do not use any coal to smelify iron - this thing is only available in the north, and there is no in the south!

Therefore, although their armor is hot forged and its quality is not as good as Luoyang cold forged armor, its output is high enough and its quality is acceptable. It is most suitable for "contract mercenaries" - cold forged armor can be passed on to families, so it is suitable for the soldiers of the palace. The hot forged armor cannot be taken away by retired mercenaries, so don't expect good maintenance and maintenance. You have to buy new ones after ten or eight years, so the output cannot be too low.

The large crossbows they used were also very exquisite - this large crossbow is an improved type of the Divine Arm Bow, which is more powerful than the Divine Arm Bow! Moreover, their crossbow arms all use high-quality buffalo horns. This thing is rare in the north, and only the paddy fields in the south require a large number of buffaloes.

After seeing the fortresses in Huaidong and the elite soldiers, Liu Yu, Cai Songnian and others met Zhao Huan in Jiangdu Palace with a sad face. Can Zhao Huan be worried? Zhao Kai is already so restless, and now Zhao Gou is going to be the Nine Wise Kings!

The people who worried him even more were not the two of them, but the Zuo Shumi Zhao Liangcheng and the civil servants who trained soldiers with Zhao Liangcheng... The more Zhao Kai thought about it, the more he was wrong!

What is the difference between the current left and right Privy Council and the past in front of the palace?

Except for not being a martial artist, everything else is the same!

The current situation is that Zhao Kuangyin passed the Jinshi... If he passed the Jinshi, he would not be able to get the yellow robe? Nothing is true! Not to mention the Jinshi, what if he passed the Jinshi, what if he won the top scorer? Didn’t Zhao Kai win? And Yelu Dashi, who ran away to Mobei, seemed to have won the championship too!

This scholar is in charge of soldiers, which seems to be similar to a martial artist in charge of soldiers!

"The official family can't give King Kang and Jin Thief so much money!"

"The official family now has defenses everywhere in Huaidong, and Jiangdu is even more solid. There are also 100,000 new iron-armored troops. The Jin thieves come, but they can't do anything to us!"

"Yes, giving them 6 million for no reason will definitely make the soldiers feel disappointed! The official family thinks twice!"

Liu Yu and Cai Songnian just mentioned the conditions proposed by Zhao Gou, and a group of civil servants who led the troops started to yell, and some of them mentioned that the soldiers were heartbroken... This made Zhao Huan feel so frightened!

Why are the soldiers still so disappointed when they get so much money? What do they want to do?
Chapter completed!