On the fifth day of the fifth month of the 9th year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty, the area around Longjiang Shuimen in Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing was so vigilant!

The Longjiang Water Gate is built at the entrance of the Qinhuai River. It is called a Water Gate, but it is actually two forts that look across the Qinhuai River and a wooden bridge mounted on the river surface. The two forts are connected together by wooden bridges, which is convenient for scheduling troops and better blocking the entrance of the Qinhuai River during wartime. It is solid.

However, Longjiang Shuimen is not very cautious on weekdays, because it is also the main way to the water trade in Jinling City. Merchant ships traveling from south to north must enter Longjiang Shuimen as long as they want to enter the prosperous land of Jinling.

Therefore, in addition to the forts on both sides of Longjiang Shuimen, which are military forbidden areas forbidden to leave, the wooden bridges at Longjiang Shuimen and the two sides of the Qinhuai River south of the wooden bridge are all good places for people to come and go. Among them, the two sides of the Qinhuai River are also the locations of the extremely large Longjiang tariff cards.

This place is very busy all year round, and the tax customs wharf is full of merchant ships waiting to pay taxes. Near the wharf, there are restaurants and taverns, and each one is full of business. As soon as meal time comes, there are merchants waiting to clear the clearance and officials from Longjiang tax officials...

But today's situation is a bit special. On the wharf and wooden bridge where merchants gather, there are now all new army infantry wearing iron armor. About half of them are carrying divine arm bows, while the rest are holding long spears. Whether it is a warrior holding divine arm bow or a long spear, there are short-handed iron hammers on their waists, and there is a side card on their left arm. Although the iron armored soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty cannot reach the level of "preparing for three battles", they have improved to the level of "preparing for two battles"!

In other words, all the iron-armed infantry mastered two tactics at the same time, either long spears and shield hammers, or divine arm bows and shield hammers. The flesh-making ability of this unit is much stronger than that of the Song army before Xuanhe, and is not even inferior to the Jin thief hard army and the Northern Song Dynasty prefecture soldiers!

In addition, the "speed-firing" weapon of the bow has disappeared from the standard equipment of the Southern Song infantry, and has been replaced with an expensive but powerful Divine Arm Bow. After the replacement, the new army infantry's arrow rate has decreased, but the actual fire density is not much worse than that of the old Song army, which can reach up to 80% of the previous crossbowmen in Xuanhe, before.

The reason is of course that the divine arm archers are stronger - all of them are muscular men under 35 years old! And better training and organization - muscular men are not allowed to bring their families into the camp, so they can be in the camp all day and have three exercises a day. The training intensity is not comparable to that of the old imperial guards. Moreover, they will not shoot an arrow and ask for money. They are all professional soldiers with high salaries and strict management and training, and their quality is quite high.

Therefore, in the battles that harass Goryeo, "help" Ryukyu, protect Chameng, and Tongannan, Zhenla, Zhuluo and other countries, the damage caused by the wooden feather arrows of the Southern Song army exceeded that of the bombs and large tubes!

Now, if this Southern Song army, which is entirely responsible for "civil officials", travels together to the Xuanhe crisis, it will definitely be able to fight against the reckless Wanyan Zongwang, who will suffer heavy losses!

Of course, this powerful army is not without shortcomings... They are too expensive!

If Zhao Kai had not set up a protective umbrella for the Southern Song Dynasty in the north and drove the northern industrialists and commercial workers to the south in waves, Zhao Huan's Southern Song Dynasty could not have afforded such a expensive army at all.

Even with the current financial resources of the Southern Song Dynasty, the total strength of their new army of the new army could only be maintained at a mere 150,000 people... So when facing the Northern Song Dynasty, which had as many as 600,000 people, and had complete artillery, infantry and cavalry craftsmanship, and had almost no shortcomings, there was still no chance of winning.

But it is definitely not without the power of a battle!

Today, there are so many iron-armored soldiers coming to Longjiang Pass to stand guard in order to allow Zhao Zhi’s delegation to come from afar, as well as merchants from all over the world gathered near Longjiang Wharf to watch the fun, that the Southern Song Dynasty not only had a strong naval army, a strong city, a developed economy, but also a capable land army. All you, Northern Song Dynasty, shouldn’t bully our Southern Song Dynasty...

"Look, the young army of King Jinling is here!"

Someone shouted in the crowd watching the fun, and then everyone turned to look at the intersection of Xihua Street leading to Jinling Imperial City.

Before people could see it, they heard the sound of gongs and horse hooves. With the "silent" shouts, the King of Jinling of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Chen, the prefect of Yingtian, and his 3,000 young soldiers appeared in people's sight.

These 3,000 young soldiers are amazing. They are all selected by Zhao Huan from tens of thousands of candidates for "Northern Orphans"... A total of 6,000 people were selected. After several years of rigorous training and learning, half of them were eliminated, and now only 3,000 people are left!

All of these 3,000 personal soldiers took the military camp as their family, Zhao Huan as their father, Zhu Lian as their mother, and Zhao Chen as their brother. They were simply the Iron Guards of Zhao Huan, Zhao Chen and his son!

Zhao Chen, who is only 18 years old this year and is born with a heroic appearance, is now surrounded by a group of emperors and ministers, leading his own soldiers to Longjiang Pass majesticly to welcome the twelfth uncle Zhao Zhi who came from afar.

This time his mission is not only to welcome his uncle Zhao Zhi, but also to negotiate with Zhao Zhi with his mother Zhu Lian... Because his father Zhao Huan was too sad because of the death of his ninth uncle Zhao Gou, he was once again unable to get sick!

Well, this Southern Song official's body is such a tenacious tofu shit. I don't know how many times it is that it's been so sick... but I'm sick and never die!

Not only did he not die, but he also did not hinder his wife. Over the years, he gradually added more than 20 concubines, gave birth to twelve sons and fourteen daughters, and his fertility was almost as good as that of Emperor Zhuangzong of Song.

However, although Zhao Huan has many sons, Zhao Chen is the only one born, and he is still the eldest son, and he already has a son!

If it weren't for the third uncle in Beijing, Zhao Chen's status would be unshakable. He could inherit the throne by lying down.

But he just had such a third uncle...

What annoyed Zhao Chen even more was that his pair of living parents could not be hard on this third uncle who had "unscrupulous plots and wasting himself to be emperor".

When his father heard that the envoy of the third uncle was coming to negotiate the unity of the world, he became cowardly.

His mother was even more annoying. She actually thought that the third uncle was orthodox and that her father should give up the throne!

How can my father be given up the throne? If he gives up, what will he do in the future?

I get angry when I think about it!

As he was angry, Zhao Chen had already arrived at the Longjiang Pass Wharf, and there was a sound of cheering around him.

"Welcome to King Jinling..."

"King Qiansheng!"

"Please pay tribute to the king..."

"I'm glad to Your Highness the King!"

These are the spontaneous calls from merchants from all over the world gathered near the dock!

These merchants support Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen and his son very much! And not only them, but most of the gentry and people in the Southern Song Dynasty supported Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen.

Zhao Kai, a "tyrant" who expelled the barbarians and recovered lost land, was simply unpopular in the Southern Song Dynasty. Not only did he value martial arts and over literature, but he also seized civilian land and killed scholars and officials. He was simply a tyrant who did things against the enemy!

The calls from people on the dock had already reached the passenger boats that Zhao Zhi and Zhao Qi, who had just been docked.

The two brothers had already changed into various robes - Zhao Zhi was wearing official uniforms from the Northern Song Dynasty, with neat narrow-sleeved purple long clothes, three-foot long sword hanging on the waist, and a simple black hat on the head. Zhao Qi changed into long-distance civil servants from the Southern Song Dynasty, with wide clothes and large sleeves, and a long-winged official hat on the head.

Hearing the cry from outside the cabin, Zhao Qi smiled bitterly and said to Zhao Zhi: "Twelfth brother, have you heard it? This is the human heart!"

Zhao Zhi sneered: "Isn't the hearts of Kaifeng Mansion like this in the past? What's the use? Didn't it just rely on the third brother's iron-blooded thunder to restore the lost ground?"

Zhao Qi shook his head, not knowing what to say? He had to say to Zhao Zhi: "Twelfth Brother, let's go out... King Jinling is coming soon."

Zhao Zhi didn't move for a moment, and sat down on the chair.

Zhao Qi looked at him, and then Zhao Zhi said, "Gu is the prince, Jinling King is the prince. Gu's father is the emperor, and Jinling King's father is the king. Moreover, Gu is the uncle of Jinling King, an elder, or an angel of the official family. Jinling King should get on the boat to pay tribute to Gu, and then Gu gets off with him."

"This..." Zhao Qi frowned, "King Jinling is just a prince in name, but in fact it is..."

Zhao Zhi smiled: "Now is the time to set rules... The lonely family will no longer be abusive to King Jinling! Otherwise, how will the next negotiation be carried out?"

Zhao Kai didn't ask him to come to Nanjing to talk about the crown prince or the crown uncle... because Zhao Kai did not recognize Zhao Huan's throne at all!

So Zhao Zhi cannot regard Zhao Chen as the heir to the throne now.

Zhao Qi sighed and said, "Then you wait here... Brother, I will talk to King Jinling. If it really doesn't work, I will go to the palace to talk to my elder brother, sister-in-law."

......

"What? The twelfth brother really said that?"

In the imperial city of Jinling, in Wangjiang Pavilion, Zhao Huan, who was recuperating, heard Zhao Qi who was rushing to talk about the "etiquette dispute", and immediately jumped up from the sickbed and roared, "Okay, he also bullied me, my elder brother with Zhao Kai. I am so sick, can't he tolerate me once?"

Zhu Lian, who was sitting next to him, could only shake his head when he saw her husband's lively appearance, "The official family... This country is originally the third brother. We just need to be the king of Jiangnan. Why fight for this title? If we really want to fight, can we beat the third brother?"

"What is the king of Jiangnan? What did you say?" Zhao Huan became even more angry when he heard this. "What will happen to Li Yu? And that little Zhou Hou..."

Zhu Lian's cheeks turned red when he said, and he whispered: "Official family, what are you talking about? How could I be the Queen of Zhou? Moreover, Emperor Taizong was fortunate to be the Queen of Zhou just a folk legend..."

Zhao Qi next to him also helped explain: "Sister-in-law is right, how could the third brother be lucky? The third brother and sister-in-law have known each other since childhood..."
Chapter completed!