The world trend in the second half of the eighth year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty was definitely a surprise to most people. The land of China, which has been chaotic since the Xuanhe crisis, suddenly reached the point where the two Song dynasties were united in the winter of this year.

The Southern Song emperor Zhao Huan, who thought he would use the "Battle of Red Cliffs" to resist the soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty, actually chose to "subjugate" without fighting. He went to the imperial title and submitted his condemnation to the King of Wu in the Song Dynasty. He led ten places including Lianghuai, Liangjiang, Liangzhe, Liangguang, Fujian, etc.

Although Zhao Huan's Wu Kingdom still had a vast land, a large population, abundant wealth and a very capable army of water and land. However, the behavior of ceding land, paying tribute, and sanctioning has greatly affected the morale of the people around the Southern Song Dynasty. Even the Southeastern scholars and officials who have always supported Zhao Huan felt discouraged. No one was calling for a fight or a killer, but they all inquired about the rules of the Northern Dynasties' imperial examination. As long as there was an opportunity to become an official in the exam, even if it was difficult to take the exam, everyone could have a direction to work hard, so they didn't want the wealth of killing and setting fire.

However, under this calming surface, there is still a surging undercurrent.

Just in the twelfth lunar month of the eighth year of Hongwu, Beijing heard that the emperor would visit Shandong to worship Confucius in the spring of the ninth year of Hongwu!

The territory of Shandong Road in the Northern Song Dynasty is not much the same as that of Shandong Province in later generations. The dividing line between Shandong Road and Huaidong and Huaixi Roads is the Huaihe River. In other words, the current people from Xuzhou, Haizhou (Lianyungang), Bozhou, and Suzhou are all from Shandong!

The headquarters of the Shandong Road Transportation Office, which is the capital of Shandong Road, is not in Jinan, but in Pizhou City, the former capital of Zhao Gou.

In addition, the Shandong Road Xuanfu Office established to eliminate Zhao Gou's pseudo-Song Dynasty has not been abolished now. Shandong Road Xuanfu Yue Fei is still the top military and political leader in Shandong. The several armies brought to Shandong by Yue Fei are still in high combat readiness.

Zhao Kai, an official, would not have no army without a escort when he visited Shandong in the south. With the few armies controlled by Yue Fei, the number of Northern Song troops on Shandong Road is likely to reach a huge amount of 200,000!

What are so many troops doing in Shandong?

Just to worship Confucius?

Of course, undercurrents not only surge in Shandong, but also undercurrents everywhere under the calm surface of Jinling City, the capital of Wu.

First of all, the "tube pot factory", "frying pot factory", "gunpowder factory", "armor factory", and "shen arm crossbow factory" under the supervision of the weapons rooms of the Privy Council are all working day and night to create various weapons, ammunition and arrowheads. They are even not allowed to rest during the Chinese New Year, and even pay five times the wages for craftsmen to work overtime.

Secondly, Zhao Huan promulgated the "Advice for Vietnam" on the twelfth lunar month, established the Annan Road Army Chief General Manager of the Navy and Army Chief General Manager, and ordered the Crown Prince Zhao Chen to come out to slaughter the army and serve as the chief general manager, and ordered King Su Zhao Shu to be the deputy chief general manager, and also ordered Prince Zhao Chen to pacify Guangdong and Guangxi. Zhao Chen's teacher He Su was the ambassador of Transportation of Guangdong and Guangxi. In other words, Zhao Huan had handed over the military and political power and the navy and land army in Guangdong and Guangxi to his son Zhao Chen!

Zhao Huan's son Zhao Chen is not an ordinary prince. He not only is he a violent prince trained by Zhao Kai, a tyrant, but also has a full set of full-time Eastern Palace officials.

The original rule of the Song Dynasty was to "doubt everything". Everyone looked like ancestors (Zhao Kuangyin). Military generals had to be careful, civil officials could not directly touch military power. Princes had to be surrounded by artists. Even the crown prince who was preparing to take over the throne had to be surrounded by the moment before he sat on the dragon throne. His Royal Highness could not have a large group of personal soldiers and officials. Otherwise, it would be difficult to guarantee that the prince would not have a yellow robe to put on his body.

Zhao Chen was the first prince to truly have his own personal soldiers and have all his subordinates.

This complete set of Eastern Palace officials is a lot of institutions! There are "teachers" led by "Three Masters" and "Three Young Masters". There are attendants called the Prince's guests. There are officials in charge of the Eastern Palace, the Zhanshi Mansion, which is the assistant to the Prince's government affairs. There are the left and right Chunfang who assists the Prince to issue orders and pass documents. There are also a lot of bureaus in charge of the Prince's food, clothing, housing and transportation. In addition, the Three Temples of the Eastern Palace are not temples that burn incense and worship Buddha, but Jialing Temple, which are the family temples, leading the temples and servant temples, which are in charge of the Eastern Palace industry.

In addition to the above civil servant systems, Zhao Huan also prepared a military officer system for Zhao Chen. Zhao Chen's 3,000 young new army was led by the 10th young mansion. Each army was only 300, which was only equivalent to one battalion, but it was equipped with an officer of a general. All the officers of the tenth general were from martial arts and Jinshi, and they led troops in the new army and had practical experience.

If we consider the high quality of the young new army itself, the foundation of the Donggong Ten Race is enough to support an army of tens of thousands of people.

On the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Chen's officials from the East Palace, the Ten Leaders of the East Palace, and 3,000 young new troops gathered in the corridor in Yuejiangmen. Everyone was dressed up, and some were accompanied by their families. However, the families did not wait in the corridor in Yuejiangmen, but got on the sea boats moored on the dock of Yuejiangmen in advance.

Zhao Chen bid farewell to Zhao Huan and Zhu Lian in the Xuanwu Hall in the northern gate of the palace.

Zhao Huan, Zhao Chen and Zhu Lian were all crying to the point of tears, and they were almost the same as when they were separated from each other!

Zhao Chen has been traveling thousands of miles, and he may never come back in his life, so how can he not be sad? He is a good prince of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he may have to become a Nanyang official. What is this?

Zhao Huan was even more sad that his son ran away. When could he run away? He had experience in running away. The key points were two. One was that he was determined and decisive to listen to the yelling of those officials, and that would not be able to escape!

Second, someone will have to cut off the back!

Back then, the late Emperor Zhuangzong was hesitant and did not force Zhao Kai to hold his ministers on the dragon throne and put on a yellow robe, so he died for the country. Otherwise, the one who was free and easy in Jinling City would be him.

With such a lesson, Zhao Huan will certainly not make the same mistake again and the person he chose to cut off the rear is now sitting beside him and crying!

Yes, it is Zhu Lian, the princess of Wu!

In order to keep Zhu Lian in Jinling City with peace of mind, Zhao Huan has tried to hold hands with her in the past two months, and finally made Zhu Lian, who was in his thirties, pregnant again.

If you are pregnant, of course it is not convenient to run away. If you give birth to a son, it is just right to fill in Zhao Chen's vacancies.

Zhao Huan has twelve sons, except for the eldest son Zhao Chen, the second son Zhao Jin, the fourth son (the third son died), Zhao Yi, and the sixth son (the fifth son was gone), Zhao Xun, who are already relatively old. Zhao Huan is planning to take them away. As for the other sons and daughters, they will stay in Jinling City and leave them to Zhu Lian for care.

The twelve sons took away four, and only eight were left. If one could be born and nine were just formed, then the nine roads of the Kingdom of Wu were just broken into nine small countries, and Zhao Huan's nine sons were each one of them!

In other words, if you have to run the road, you can’t let go of the benefits of the country!

There is no one else in Zhao Huan's wishful thinking.

Zhu Lian, who was "entrusted with a great responsibility" by Zhao Huan, cried and said to his son: "Dalang, you are a good man. You should be determined in all directions and do not think about your mother. If you have your mother guarding Jinling, there will be no major problems. You should take care of yourself in the south!"

No matter how she said it, it was not unfounded. In the letter written to her by her sister Zhu Fengying, she had given full guarantees that Zhao Kai would guarantee the status of the vassal king of Zhao Huan and his descendants, even if she had no real power, a prince's title and a wealth of separation with the country could still be guaranteed.

In addition, Zhao Kai also promised to let Zhu Lian stay in Jinling and continue to live in the Jinling Palace. He could also own all the industries held by Zhao Huan's sealed pile warehouse. He would just give Zhao Kai a bonus of three million every year.

So Zhu Lian is still relatively at ease now and is willing to sit in Jinling for Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen after they leave and face Zhao Kai

Zhao Huan wiped his tears and said, "I originally wanted to keep Dalang, you will leave after the New Year in Jinling, but I had no choice but to blow the sea breeze north in spring, so it will be inconvenient to go south at that time."

In fact, Zhao Huan's purpose of asking his son to leave quickly was not entirely because of the wind direction, but because he hoped that the ships that sent Zhao Huan to the south could return to Guazhoubu in Jiangdu (Yangzhou) as soon as possible. After the New Year, Zhao Huan would go to Jiangdu in the name of preventing pirates, and personally command the defenses of the two Huai Rivers, perhaps he would defend it?

If he could defend himself, then Zhao Huan could continue to be his Southern Song emperor, Zhao Chen could also return to Jinling, and Zhu Lian would not have to worry about being captured by Zhao Kai.

The family can be together beautifully again!

Thinking of this, Zhao Huan sighed again and said with tears in his eyes: "It's getting late and it's time to set off! Chen'er, I'll send you on the boat for my father!"

Get on the boat to colonize!

When Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen and his son walked out of Xuanwu Gate in tears, there was already a burst of crying in the corridor between Xuanwu Gate and Yuejiang Gate.

It’s not all that I can’t count on running from Jiangnan to Lingnan. I have to go to Vietnam, Chameng, Zhenla, and Sanfoqi in the future. It’s so sad to think about it!

At the same time, in the Linhuang Mansion City, far away on Beijing Road, Great Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongxian, Wanyan Xiebao, and several sons of Wanyan Zongxian were also crying in the remains in the Si Mansion!

They are sad too!

What a great place to go at the foot of Daxinganling Mountains, east of the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest? Now we have to leave. After the New Year and the beginning of spring, the grasslands will be green. And we don’t know where to go, we only know that we have to cross the boundless grasslands and cross mountains and ridges, and finally reach the temporary landmark Luntai City.

After regaining their vitality in Luntai City, they had to continue on their way, either to Baghdad or to Roman with a weird name, which must be not a good place!

But it is impossible not to go, but it is impossible not to go. Because of the combination of "dwarf fort" and "camel tube", life in the Great Jin Kingdom is getting harder and harder! Not only is it difficult to get through the Yanshan Pass in the south, but there are now many dwarf forts with "camel tubes" on the grasslands in the south of the desert now appearing on the grasslands in the south of the desert now.
Chapter completed!