After hearing Zhang Su's words, Zhu Lian sighed: "It's not easy for Li Gang to have not forgotten the king yet."

Zhang Suo just sighed and said nothing.

If he could bring Li Gang's words to Zhu Lian, he would have done his best. What should he do next? To be honest, he had no idea.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhu Lian swept around the hall and saw a group of ministers and royal families hanging their heads without saying anything. He already knew in his heart that these people didn't want to tread this muddy water because they couldn't understand what Zhao Kai was thinking?

The Song Dynasty official seemed to have forgotten to issue an edict to remove Zhao Huan from his throne and his own positions, and did not say that he would offer a reward to capture him. Could it be that he wanted to kill this elder brother quietly?

It’s better not to get involved in this matter so as not to flatter you and end up losing all the consequences!

Zhu Lian smiled and said, "I will block some officials for the king, but there is no need to close the city gates to avoid affecting the livelihoods of the people."

Zhang Su was stunned when he heard this and said to himself: How can you stop Zhao Kai if you don’t close the city gate?

However, he would not tell this question and he could help Li Gang speak, which is worthy of Zhao Huan.

"Sister-in-law, how can we resist the third brother when we open the city gate?"

If Zhang doesn't ask, it doesn't mean that others don't ask. The person who asked was a pink and tender boy, who was twelve or thirteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a long body.

The young man was named Zhao Xiang, and he was the 32nd son of Zhao Ji. He was only three years old during the crisis of Xuanhe and was named Duke of South Korea.

Originally, he should have been teaching in the Imperial College now, but now it is a special period. The Imperial College stopped classes, so he followed a few older brothers as a little tail and was taken to the Kunning Palace Hall.

Zhu Lian looked at this brother-in-law who was younger than his eldest son and smiled and said, "It's so good for Uncle Thirty-two to know that you, sister-in-law, have read military books, and know that there are thirty-six strategies and can use the empty city strategy. As long as my empty city strategy is used, your third brother will not dare to enter Jinling City even if he has millions of soldiers."

Zhao Xiang looked disbelief, "Sister-in-law, don't lie. Now, the third brother will definitely take Jinling. Even if there are really a hundred thousand troops in Jinling City, he can't be fooled. What's the use of an empty city plan?"

Zhu Lian smiled and did not explain much to the child, but turned his attention to the three brothers, King Jing, Zhao Qi, King Ji, Zhao Xu, and King Yi, Zhao Qi.

"Uncle Six, Uncle Seven, Uncle Eight," said Zhu Lian, "I hope you three will go and welcome the third brother, and ask him to live in Xiyuan at the foot of Niushou Mountain to not enter Jinling City, and let his army not enter the city for the time being."

"Sister-in-law, this may not work!"

"Sister-in-law, the third brother won't listen to us."

"Sister-in-law, the third brother came with a million troops!"

King Jing Zhao Qi, King Ji Zhao Xu, King Ji Zhao Qi, and King Yi Zhao Qi were willing to take on this ridiculous job? Not to mention that the relationship between Zhao Kai and Zhu Lian is innocent, even if they have any shameful things, Zhao Kai would not not go to Jinling City just because of Zhu Lian!

Zhu Lian smiled and said, "As long as you tell the third brother the empty situation in the Wu Kingdom's treasury and the sealed treasury, the third brother will not enter Jinling City for the time being because once he enters the city, he will have to reward the millions of troops below. If one person gives 10 or 20 stakes, he will have to take out 10 or 20 million!"

Zhao Kai was actually in "crowdfunding war" and his "million-million army" brought his own dry food without taking him a penny (dry food on the way to the previous dealership), and brought his own horses and equipment. Some even brought their own government soldiers and came to help him fight. These "no money" government soldiers were actually small shareholders of this Southeast Battle.

If Zhao Kai defeated Li and their bad luck, they would win a great victory now. Zhao Kai would have a satisfactory reward from his subordinates!

If Zhao Kai cannot afford the money, he will have to allow the people below to rob it. Now Zhao Kai has ordered that the robbery is prohibited, and he also declares that he should be unscrupulous and protect the private land of Southeast gentry and merchants.

In this case, he needs a lot of money or silk cloth to reward the three armies as money.

"Sister-in-law," Zhao Qi frowned, "One or 20 million is not a decimal."

"Yes," Zhao Xu also said, "Can we give that much money?"

Zhao Qi frowned and said, "If you can't take it out, you're afraid that the third brother's soldiers will come to the city to torture the salary."

When Zhao Kai's army was attacking Shandong, he arrested the officials under Zhao Gou and punished them. He squeezed out more than 10 million yuan and also ruined his reputation.

Zhu Lian was confident enough to know that he had such a big size, so he must have a lot of materials.

She smiled and said, "You three go and tell the third brother that you will wait in Niushou Mountain Li Palace and the palace will go and talk to him about money.

Let me tell him clearly that King Wu’s territory was originally recorded in more than 50 million a year. If he still wanted to receive this number, he would wait in Niushou Mountain! It would be possible if he wanted to grab it and get 10,000 yuan at one time, but it would be gone in the future!”

King Jing Zhao Qi, King Ji Zhao Xu and King Yi Zhao Qi knew that Zhu Lian was not talking nonsense. The wealth in the southeast was in industry and commerce. If you grab a lot of money in the sea trade, the losses would be huge. In the following years, it would be normal to reduce income by two-thirds.

King Jing Zhao Qi said: "Sister-in-law, I will immediately go out of the city to welcome the third brother!"

King Ji Zhao Xu added: "Sister-in-law, we three can't leave empty-handed!"

Zhu Lian smiled and said, "Those who will not let you leave empty-handed have already prepared millions of goods."

King Yi Zhao Que said: "Sister-in-law, Yu Wen has been at home for several years. Why would you please let him follow us to welcome the third brother?"

Yuwen Xuzhong, who represented Zhao Kai's interests in the Southern Dynasty, was promoted to the palace as a scholar of Guanwen Palace a few years ago, almost retired and retired.

Zhu Lian said, "Okay, the three uncles will come and invite him to go with you."

"Sister-in-law, I want to go too." The little brat Zhao still admires his third brother, and he has heard a lot about Zhao Kai's heroic deeds!

Zhu Lian waved his hand and said with a smile: "Then let's go together and go quickly!"

The three princes of the Zhao family and a duke did not delay. They immediately withdrew from the imperial city, went to summon servants, and found Yuwen Xuzhong and went out of the city to welcome the third brother together.

Seeing the four of them leaving together, Zhu Lian said to Zhang Su again: "Zhang Longtu, have you thought about it? Should I surrender to Jinling City or Pingjiang Prefecture?"

Zhang Su frowned deeply, and it seemed that he had been thinking about this problem.

"Empress, I'm going to Pingjiang Prefecture," Zhang Su said, "Is it possible that I want to invite the king back?"

His meaning is to "tied up" Zhao Huan and invited him back

"No need to invite the king back," Zhu Lian shook his head, "but you have to take control of Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou, Huzhou, Pingjiang Prefecture, and Xiuzhou! These two prefectures and three prefectures, plus Jinling, Jiangdu, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, and Yuezhou, are the richest places today. The government came to the south, isn't it just for these territories?"

Suo Zhang immediately understood!

Zhao Kaixing mobilized many troops not to kill Zhao Huan, but to the southeastern money. Since it is important to make money, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou, Huzhou, Pingjiang Prefecture and Xiuzhou can "take all".

So as long as Zhang Suo can control these five prefectures and don’t have a big mess, the previous battle with Zhao Kai was nothing.

Zhang Su was overjoyed and immediately saluted Zhu Lian and said, "I understand, I will lead my troops out of the city immediately!"

"Let's go," Zhu Lian said, "Zhang Longtu, do you know where Li Yuanshu and his soldiers are?"

Zhang Suo replied: "The day in Xuanzhou should lead the troops to leave first. Li Yuanshu led the cavalry behind the hall and took away the soldiers who were left behind. He told me that if the road along the river was cut off, he would push into Xuanzhou and take a detour back to Jinling."

Zhu Lian nodded and said to Zhao Ji's eleventh son, King Qi Zhao Mo: "Uncle Eleven, take King Taiping to Xuanzhou to find Li Yuanshu. If you can find him, let's protect King Taiping to Jiangnan West Road with Li Yuanshu."

The King of Taiping is the Prince of Taiping, named Zhao Jin, and is the second son of Zhao Huan. Zhu Lian arranged for him to go to Jiangnan West Road, of course, because he wanted him to become king in Jiangxi in the future.

In addition, she asked the Zhang State to take over the Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou, Huzhou, Pingjiang Prefecture and Xiuzhou, in order to arrange for Zhao Huan's third son Zhao Xun and her son who had just given birth to Zhao Huan.

Just when Zhu Lian was busy arranging an empty city plan and a few sons (including his concubine's sons), Zhao Kai was still far away in Tongling, and his four armies also had a large amount of equipment, supplies, and civilians. It was not like crossing the river. After working for several days, he built two floating bridges on the Yangtze River, crossing the Yangtze River to all tens of thousands of people.

However, before the entire army completed crossing the river, Zhao Kai had already sent Li Shifu to lead the Second Army headquarters, which was the first to cross the river, to advance eastward along the Yangtze River.

Just as he was about to lead the entire army that had completed the crossing of the river to march towards Jinling Prefecture, the news that Yue Fei had captured Jiangdu and Zhao Huan and crossed the river was delivered.

"Hahaha" Zhao Kaixing in Tongling City heard the laughter of the Song Dynasty officials, "Zhao Huan ran away from the southeastern routes, and he could make an appointment. Jinling Prefecture City is also my possession."

"Official family," Yu Yunwen, who was following Zhao Kai, reminded at this time, "King Wu is still King Wu now. He still has less than 200,000 elite troops and the territory of Guangdong, Guangxi, Liangzhe, and Fujian! How should the court deal with him? Should he issue an edict to remove his official position and offer a reward? If the official family thinks of his brotherhood, he should also issue a clear edict and transfer it to Lingnan. In this way, the court can justify the fertile land of the seven routes in the southeast!"

Zhao Kai smiled when he heard this: "What you said, let me think about it carefully and wait until I arrive in Jinling before making plans!"
Chapter completed!