It’s not okay to go east to Jingdong, nor to go north to Hebei, so where else can you go?

Wanyan Zonghan was a little dizzy when he heard his son say it. Now his army is in a bad state, with so many patients, there are already signs of epidemics... It is impossible to compete with Zhao Kai again in the west!

I can't go anywhere now?

Could it be that my 100,000 army will be destroyed in the Central Plains?

Thinking of this, Zong Han was covered in cold sweat and woke up from his fear of drinking. He just stared at his son in a daze: "Xibao, you, where do you think we can go now?"

"Go to the south!" Wanyan Xiebao said, "There is a big water in the north, the east, and Zhao Kai in the west, so you can't go, you can only go south!"

"Looking south?" Wanyan Zonghan thought for a while, "But there are Huaihe River and Yangtze River to the south. It is said that the water level is larger than that of the Yellow River. Can we get through it?"

"We don't have to cross the Yangtze River, as long as we can cross the Huai River." Wanyan Xiebao said, "We can travel east along the Bin River, turn to the south to the Cai River, and then travel south to Chenzhou, and then go south along the Ying River. There are many boats on the Huai River. We can collect ships along the way, and we can transport sick soldiers and supplies, and we can also use them to cross the Huai River. After crossing the Huai River, we will go west along the Huai River, and bypass the Yellow River, you can cross Huaibei and return to Jingdong."

Before the Yellow River diverted southward, the water transportation in the Central Plains, especially around Kaifeng Prefecture, was very developed. Natural rivers and artificially excavated ditches combined to form a huge water network. Kaifeng Prefecture is the center of this water network!

But now, the war is in chaos, and the Yellow River breaks the dam... all this has become the past clouds!

"But where is the sailor?" Wanyan Zonghan asked, "It's easy to find the Takashi Ship, where can the sailors go?"

Wanyan Xiebao said: "Dad, there are actually some sailors in our army... Many people from the Bohai Sea from Liaodong can drive ships. They used sea boats to transport grain to Yanjing!"

It turned out that under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, Yanjing also became a metropolis with a large industrial and commercial population. Although it could not be combined with the Five Capitals of the Song Dynasty (Kaifeng Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Xijing Luoyang, and Jingzhao Prefecture), it was difficult to support Yanjing's food consumption by relying on the villages around Yanjing, so hundreds of thousands of stones of wheat were transported from Liaodong every year.

The grain transport task was the people of Bohai in Liaodong. They used sea transportation to travel from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Bohai Bay, transported the grain into the Liao and Song border rivers, and then used small boats to transport it to Yanjing.

It is not many years since the fall of the Liao Kingdom, and many Bohai people who ran across the sea are still in their prime. It is not surprising that some were found in Wanyan Zonghan's army. In history, Wanyan Zongbi could search mountains, check the sea and capture Zhao Gou, which was mostly related to Bohai sailors.

When Wanyan Zonghan heard about the sailors, he was overjoyed and said, "Since there are sailors, it's easy to deal with... When the rain is getting lighter, we will march southeast, cross the Huaihe River, and head towards the Yangtze River to find Zhao Huan's bad luck!"

"Dad," Wanyan Xiebao heard his father say this and advised him, "There is no need to find Zhao Huan's bad luck. You can't force it too quickly. If Zhao..."

"Stop talking nonsense! Don't talk nonsense!" Wanyan Zonghan knew what his son wanted to say? It must be something that the two Zhaos joined forces, and the 100,000-strong army of Dajin was about to finish it!

You can't let this crow talk nonsense!

Wanyan Xiebao was shocked by his father - fortunately he was the "only son" (the only son) in the family, and his prince's status was as stable as Mount Tai. Otherwise, he would really suspect that this father would destroy himself and then make others the prince!

After training his son, Wanyan Zonghan also felt that he could not force Zhao Huan to be too anxious, so as not to make Zhao Huan anxious - Zonghan is not a tiger now, but a sick cat. Zhao Huan, a dog who guards the family, can still bit him to death!

"I have to send someone to talk to Zhao Huan so that he can know that we have no intention of invading the south, and just use the channel to return to Jingdong." Wanyan Zonghan thought for a while and asked again, "Who can be a military envoy?"

Wanyan Xiebao thought for a while and said, "Xiao Zhonggong, who was captured with Yelu Yanxi before, was in the army. He was proficient in Chinese and was familiar with the characters of the Southern Dynasty. He could let him go to Jiangnan and let him talk to Zhao Huan."

"Okay!" Wanyan Zonghan nodded, "This man is a gentleman. I believe he will do his best to follow Yelu Yanxi until the end."

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When the Yellow River was so strong that even the Yellow River was broken and Kaifeng Prefecture was about to become Kaifeng Island, the Yingtian Prefecture in Nanjing in the Song Dynasty was in a peaceful and prosperous scene.

As a symbol of peace and prosperity, in February and March of the second year of the Jingkang of the Song Dynasty, Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture held an unprecedented imperial examination competition!

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Although Zhao Huan, the Jinling emperor, only the territory ruled by Lianghuai Road, Liangjiang Road, Liangzhe Road, Liangguang Road, Fujian Road, Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road, this did not prevent the Jinling court from organizing the second year of Jingkang into an unprecedented prosperous era.

First of all, according to Zhao Huan's instructions, the number of candidates in this imperial examination competition will exceed 1,000 - this still does not include the number of genuine civil and military officials who are special titles.

Secondly, under the arrangement of Yuwen Xuzhong and Qin Hui, the number of candidates participating in this Jinling Competition was the largest since the imperial examination. Although the territory of the Emperor of Jinling was only ten roads and two states, the number of candidates entering Beijing could be increased by increasing the number of candidates issued by various places.

Third, this imperial examination competition particularly highlights the importance of both civil and military affairs! Not only do you need to win a large number of scholars, but you also need to win a large number of warriors. Moreover, after the civil and military examinations passed the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War, the two civil and military examinations, they must participate in the palace examination together. The Jinling Emperor Zhao Huan personally gave the test questions - whether the literati or warriors, they must work in the same hall inside and outside (if you can't stay inside, you can build a shed outside) and do the same test questions.

Zhao Huan will later select the top scorer of civil and military, the second scorer of civil and military, and the second scorer of civil and military, and the Tanhua of civil and military...

Finally, after the palace examination, the civil and military jinshi had to go out to the Donghua Gate in the Jinling Palace City to march together to show their favor.

This is really peaceful and peaceful, and a peaceful atmosphere!

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"This competition will be selected for 1,008 scholars, including 605 scholars in literature and 403 scholars in martial arts. They are all real talents and knowledgeable people. In time, they will definitely be pillars of the country. I will congratulate the officials first and congratulate the officials!"

On the morning of that day, at the Chongzheng Hall meeting in the old city of Jinling, Yu Wenxu, the Minister of Rites who was responsible for the civil and Jinshi exam, stood up and congratulated Zhao Huan. "There are especially congratulatory people who have the large number of martial arts and high martial arts skills and talent, far better than before. If the officials had not issued a clear edict before the competition, declared that both civil and military values ​​and called on scholars from all over the world to hold their pens and join the army, how could there be so many martial arts and Jinshi?"

"What Secretary Yuwen said is very true."

Qin Hui, the Minister of Rites, also followed closely and stood up to speak, "The court also values ​​civil and military personnel in order to carry out the method of scholars in charge of military affairs. He uses scholars with both civil and military affairs as generals to form a new army, compete with the north, and to complete the southeast! If the officials can truly implement the method of scholars in charge of military affairs, the revival of the Song Dynasty will be expected!"

It turns out that Zhao Huan is also very thoughtful!

Although he was timid, he was not unaware of the disadvantages of the Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture and over military affairs... It was because he knew that he was timid!

Since he knew this disadvantage, Zhao Huan certainly had to find a way to solve it!

His solution sounds good, called "both civil and military officials, scholars are in charge of soldiers." The so-called "both civil and military officials" is not to make the military men who lead the troops as "heavy" as civil and military officials, but to implement "both civil and military officials".

The purpose of his emphasis on the Wu Jinshi was to use Wu Jinshi as a middle and high-level officer and form a new army controlled by scholars to maintain his rule as the Emperor of Jinling.

Of course, Zhao Huan's thoughts made sense - it turns out that the army of the military generals of the Song Dynasty performed so disappointingly in the War of Resistance against Jin!

They could neither fight nor were loyal enough... Especially the Western Army, which was known as the elite, almost collectively surrendered to Zhao Kai. Only the brothers of the Chung family and a few Western Army generals such as Liu Guangshi led their troops to stand on Zhao Huan's side.

Moreover, the number of these troops is not large, with a total of only 30,000 to 40,000, which is simply not enough to defend the Song Dynasty.

Of course, it is imperative to form a new army.

Compared with the "poor madman" Zhao Kai, Zhao Huan also has his advantages in forming a new army... He is rich!

Although he has to give Zhao Kai 3 million and 3 million a year, it seems like a lot. But if he just searches the ten roads and two states in the southeast, he will earn tens of millions of dollars! After he takes out 6 million to buy Ping An, there are still many left.

Moreover, the army that needed Zhao Huan to pay money, including the warlords' troops, plus the "four soldiers" collected by Li Gang, Zhang Shuye, He Li and Wang Boyan, had only more than 80,000 people in total. The food and salary expenses were only four or five million.

Even with the officials and the palace expenses, Zhao Huan's Jinling court spent more than 10 million a year.

So Zhao Huan has a large amount of fiscal surplus at hand to control!

With money, of course he doesn’t have to do anything like Zhao Kai’s, just spend money to recruit soldiers!

However, Zhao Huan did not want to hand over the soldiers he had collected to the unreliable generals, but wanted to hand them over to the reliable scholars to master them.

Therefore, the martial Jinshi of the Song Dynasty, who had rarely joined the army, was pushed to the position of "scholars in charge of soldiers" by Zhao Huan. No matter how these scholars look at these scholars, they are more reliable than martial artists. Only when the new army is held in their hands can Zhao Huan's official family be stable!

It is precisely because of this that this imperial examination competition has brought the martial arts to the same position as the literary examination.

There are 403 Wu Jinshi who can serve as military officers now, and there is also some money to recruit soldiers. There is no shortage of strong men in the southeast half of the wall. It is no problem to recruit 100,000 or 200,000... So it should be no difficulty to establish a new army, right?
Chapter completed!