The imperial city of Jinling, the fortresses are covered with solemnity.

Kong Fan led two young girls in Korea, followed his brother Kong Jie, and a very mighty Hemen envoy walking through the heavily guarded imperial city. There were full-armed imperial city officials everywhere.

The second son of the Yansheng Gong Mansion also visited Kaifeng Mansion and was summoned by Emperor Zhuangzong. He entered Kaifeng Imperial City. He had seen the decent and people-friendly style of the Zhao Song royal family. However, he did not expect that the official who ran to Jinling City would build such a difficult imperial city.

Although it is an era of chaos in the world, it is not wrong to strengthen the defense of the imperial city. However, it is indeed a bit too much to build the imperial city into layers and even build a mountain city (built on Lion Mountain).

In addition, there are a lot of relatives in the imperial city, and they are wearing full armor and standing guard in the imperial city!

It doesn't look like a palace at all, but like a military camp.

I don’t know how long it took, and even the young and strong Kong Fu walked a little sore in his waist and legs, he came to a building on Lion Mountain. The two girls following Kong Fu almost stopped and were about to hit him on his back.

Kong Fan looked up and saw a hall in front of him, with a sign hanging at the door, with three big characters written on it: Chongzheng Hall!

Kong Jie turned around and said to his brother: "Old Wen, let's wait here for a while!"

When he was speaking, the envoy of the Hemen had already strode into Chongzheng Hall, and then he heard the loud voice of the Hemen's envoy: "The official family has an order, and Kong Fu, a student of the Imperial College, went to the hall!"

Only Kong Fan!

An internal official guarding outside Chongzheng Hall made a gesture to Kong Fan: "Siucai Kong, please."

Kong Fan bowed to the eunuch, and then walked into Chongzheng Hall.

The lighting in Chongzheng Hall was not very good, and there were no one. Apart from Cao Xun, the envoy of the Dongshanghe Gate who had just brought the Kong brothers into the palace, there were only four eunuchs from the Imperial Medicine Academy, and a middle-aged man who looked about forty years old, wearing red emperor uniforms and long-legged heads.

He should be Zhao Huan, the official of Jinling of the Song Dynasty. He looks older than his actual age!

Kong Fan was the nephew of Yan Shenggong and the second heir to his elder brother Kong Jie. He was also in the Imperial College in Kaifeng Prefecture, so he was naturally familiar with etiquette. He immediately followed the rituals of the king and his subjects and bowed to Zhao Huan for peace.

On the desk table in front of Zhao Huan, there was a memorial from the Left Privy Councilor Zhao Liangcheng and a handwritten letter from Zhao Gou.

Zhao Liangcheng reported an incredible news on his memorial that Zhao Huan had become the elders! He is now the uncle of the Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Great Liao Dynasty!

In the memorial, Zhao Liangcheng assured Zhao Huan that this incredible news was absolutely true!

The eighteen tribes of the Great Liao Kingdom in the northern part of the Great Liao Kingdom held a meeting of deliberations and jointly supported Zhao Kai, the emperor of Luoyang of the Great Song Dynasty, as the father of the Great Liao emperor Yelu Yanxi, who was captured by the Jurchens.

This matter may seem a bit ridiculous at first glance, but if you take a closer look at the Khitans in Mobei, they should have formed an alliance with Zhao Kai by recognizing their father for Yelu Yanxi.

This of course also shows that Zhao Kai has an absolute advantage in this alliance!

It also shows that the remnants of the Liao Kingdom in the northern part of the desert have received strong support from Zhao Kai. The situation is becoming increasingly beneficial to Zhao Kai.

Zhao Gou's letter was brought to Jinling by Kong Fan.

Zhao Gouxian introduced the situation of the Battle of Montenegro in the letter in detail, especially highlighting the terrifyingness of Zhao Kai's new weapon "tube"!

With fried pots, "hot pots" and "tubes", and the powerful but unknown gunpowder, Zhao Kai's army has already achieved the strength to defeat the Jin army in the plains and field battles.

Although the Jin Kingdom was also very strong, their national population was large, and they could also get military replenishment from the barbarians in the northern desert and outside the Great Wall. It was completely affordable to lose 20,000 to 30,000 (national warriors) every year.

However, in the Battle of Black Mountain, Zhao Kai's Song army fought an unacceptable exchange for the Jin Dynasty. Although Zhao Kai's Song army won both victory in the previous Battle of Niangziguan and the Battle of Henan Great Wall, the personnel lost between the two sides were actually not much different.

Don’t think that the one-to-one exchange rate is just how much advantage Zhao Kai takes is. It’s not that.

Because Zhao Kai had no ability to mobilize all the Han people in the territory to join the army to fight, otherwise the Jurchens would have been defeated long ago!

Of course, when the Song Dynasty court did not take the initiative to give up the heads, the Jurchens could not fight against the more regular Song army, and they could not fight one to ten or even more. How many soldiers could fight in the Song Dynasty during the Xuanhe period? If the Jurchens could really fight one to ten, one to twenty, the Song Dynasty would have perished long ago.

The real situation is that the Song army is not that large (a large population does not mean a large army), and the Jin army is not that strong either.

The maximum number of troops that Zhao Kai can mobilize is slightly more than the total number of military households in the palace (and can also recruit some utility). He now has more than 400,000 military households in the palace, which means that if he tries his life, Zhao Kai's Luoyang court can pull out 500,000 troops.

Of course, this is an extreme number and cannot be maintained for a long time!

Therefore, before the emergence of black technological means such as granular black gunpowder, hot pot, and casserole cannons, it was very difficult for Zhao Kai to rely on the military command to recover Hedong. Yan Yun lost his territory because in defensive battles, being able to make a one-to-one exchange ratio and repel the enemy does not mean that he can also achieve the same exchange ratio and victory in offensive battles.

But the Battle of Montenegro is a milestone battle!

The strength and weakness between the Song Dynasty (Luoyang Court) and the Jin Dynasty had been subverted. Now the Northern Song Dynasty is in a strategic offensive situation, while the Jin Dynasty is in a strategic defensive situation.

So after Zhao Gou talked about the situation of the Battle of Black Mountain, he immediately put forward the suggestion that "there is no war between the Song (Southern Song) and Jin Dynasty will not have to sign any alliance, as long as the two sides can have a tacit understanding.

In fact, Wanyan Zonggu's fiefdom was a buffer country that separated the Great Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.

As long as Zhao Huan's Southern Song Dynasty did not take the initiative to cross the Huai River and attacked Zhao Gou (Wanyan Zonggou)'s fiefdom, Zhao Huan also promised to restrain his own fiefdom army and would never invade the south.

At the same time, Zhao Gou also hopes that Zhao Huan will not attack his territory in Goryeo, nor will he attack the Kaijing and Xijing areas of Goryeo, which is Zhao Gou's place to avoid disaster!

If the Dajin could not resist Zhao Kai's offensive, Zhao Gou would have to escape his vassal state in the Central Plains and spend the rest of his life in Haizhou, Goryeo.

The world is so big, Zhao Huan, the eldest brother, has many places to grab. I'm embarrassed to grab my brother's refuge, right?

"So, Zhao Gou only wants to protect Kaijing, Xijing, Haizhou? He doesn't care about other parts of the Goryeo Kingdom?" Zhao Huan looked at Kong Fan and asked slowly.

Kong Fan was secretly happy when he heard Zhao Huan's question. Because this was not only a question, but also the answer given by Zhao Huan, he agreed to divide the sphere of influence in Goryeo and Zhao Gou, so he naturally would not attack the Song Kingdom in Huaibei again.

Because the west of the Song Kingdom is a yellow spill area that is difficult for large troops to pass through, the north is Wanyan Zonghan's territory, and the east is the sea. As long as Zhao Huan in the south does not fight, the Song Kingdom can live a peaceful life.

"Of course, no matter what, the king hopes that the imperial soldiers can occupy a certain territory in the southern part of Goryeo," said Kong Fan, "In this way, the monarch and ministers of Goryeo will have to rely on the king to protect them."

"Haha," Zhao Huan smiled, "King Su has already set off with his fleet, not to Haizhou. Because Haizhou has been looted, and last year he asked Goryeo Wang Kai for the reason that Haizhou soldiers are never tired of deceitful, he still understands it."

It is now March of the fifth year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty (the fourth year of Hongwu). Zhao Shu and Zhao Buqiu have led dozens of vehicles and ships (warships carrying water wheels) and more than 100 merchant ships, and brought 10,000 infantry toward the southern coast of Goryeo.

Their goal this time was to seize a port that facilitates trade with Japan and gain trade privileges. Then they established a transit port for Song, Japan and high trade. Using this as a base, they marched into Japan to find a port along the coast of Japan.

Zhao Huan paused and said to Kong Fan: "When you go back, tell my ninth brother that I am in poor health and may not last long, so I appointed the Crown Brother early. In the north, the Crown Brother will be the one who takes care of it.

I don’t care, I can’t control it. What I think now is the same as him, I just want to find a place for Chen’er to avoid disaster!”

What he said was half true and half false, and he had ulterior motives.

He was unwilling to give up the throne, and his health was not a big deal. Zhao Kai wanted to wait for him to die and ascend the throne, but he was afraid he would be white!

However, he really wants to find a way out for Zhao Chen now. As for where he can find a way out, it depends on Zhao Shu and how capable Zhao Buqiu’s naval “tube fleet” is to fight?

As for this, don’t be careful, of course I want to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight!

He wanted to tell the senior officials of the Jin Dynasty through Zhao Gou that he wanted to observe the Central Plains War, so that they would not consider the Southern Song Dynasty and concentrate on dealing with Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai is so fierce now, and Zhao Huan is afraid, so he can only rely on the Great Jin Kingdom to deal with it.

However, Zhao Huan's meaning did not quickly spread to the Great Jin Kingdom, because when Kong Fu returned to Haizhou, Goryeo with Zhao Huan's meaning, Zhao Gou had already left there to go to Nanjing Road in the Jin Kingdom.

Because his "wild uncle" Wanyan Xie also died of illness in the residence in Yanjing City in April of the eighth year of the Great Jintianhui because of his "worrying about the country and the people" and not adapting to the climate of Nanjing Road.

As soon as he died, Dajin Anbanbujiji's seat was vacant!

Therefore, as long as important members of the Dajin royal family can get out, they must go to Nanjing Road to participate in the selection of the new Anbanbojilie.

Wanyan Zonggou was the prince consort of the Golden Sword, and he also participated in the genealogy of Wu Qimai. He was the "Crown Prince" of his descendants, so of course he had to attend the meeting.
Chapter completed!