On the eighth day of the eighth month of the first year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, on the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the Magpie Bridge, a group of figures wearing Tang-style narrow-sleeved round-necked official uniforms had gathered outside the Dingding Gate in Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Song Dynasty.

Various narrow-sleeved round-necked uniforms and black soft-footed heads have now become common clothes for officials and emperors of the Luoyang court of the Song Dynasty. This kind of clothing looks neat and easy to wear on the body... So Zhao Kai especially admires such clothing. Of course, there are also wide-sleeved dresses. It can be taken out and worn once during various sacrificial activities. Just keep them well in your daily life!

In addition to being more neat and energetic in the clothing, the officials of the Luoyang court now also have straight swords! The fish talisman bag is hung on the right side of their belts, and a long sword is on the left. No matter whether it is civil servants or warriors, everyone is like this!

So today, the ones gathered outside Dingding Gate were a group of sword-bearing officials, who looked fierce and seemed to be chopping people. However, they were not here to kill people outside Dingding Gate, but to pick them up. And they were not here to pick them up, and they were not ordinary people. Just look at the reception hall and the colored archway that had just been built outside Dingding Gate. After the Song Dynasty reopened, such a grand welcome scene was really rare!

Last time, Zhao Kai returned in triumphantly. When he returned to Luoyang, he did not set up any archways or pavilions. It was just that all civil and military officials greeted him outside Dingding Gate and were finished.

Zhao Kai's Luoyang court is now quite powerful. Once more than 300,000 soldiers were pulled out, it was really crowded. No one was afraid of any other level in terms of force and the Jin Kingdom.

But the taste of this grass-roots team is still quite strong... poor! Save as much as you can! Even the official uniforms worn by officials are so "tight" and they are used in inferior Shu Jin. You can tell at a glance that they are bargains.

But this time I don’t know who came to Luo to welcome him, but the atmosphere was different from the past. Not only did I set up archways and pavilions in a very extravagant way, but early in the morning, a large group of infantry from the Tiance Imperial Instrument Army drove over to maintain order. After a while, a team of Yulin Knights and a team of Imperial Instrument Knights came... These are the personal soldiers of the official family!

If you see a few more heroic female squads wearing chain armor, you will almost certainly be the official family coming in person!

As the sun gradually rose and the time was approaching noon, a large number of imperial tent soldiers implemented martial law on the streets inside and outside Dingdingmen. Infantry wearing iron armor, carrying spears, and carrying crossbows, were on the long streets with five steps and ten steps.

Now all the new and old Luoyang people who had traded on both sides of the long street understood that the emperor of Luoyang was about to appear!

These days, with the advancement of the land reform of Yingtian Fourth Road, many landlords who lost their land began to bring wealth and cloth tickets to Luoyang, Nanyang and Xiangyang, the three cities located on the north-south transportation routes of the "Northern Song Dynasty" - the "Northern Song Dynasty" that established its capital in Luoyang. The military relied on the military soldiers of Yingtian Fourth Road, but economically relied on the supply of Sichuan and Jinghu. The rice, iron, silk, tea, copper (money) from Sichuan and Jinghu had to be transported to Luoyang through the Yangtze River-Hanshui-Baihe-Ruyi Road-Yi Water Road. The porcelain (Ru Kiln, Jun Kiln), livestock, green salt and other important commodities produced by Yingtian Fourth Road were also transported to the south through this route.

Therefore, as an important transit and terminal station on this transportation line, it is impossible for the three cities of Xiangyang, Nanyang and Luoyang to develop without development!

Among these three cities, Luoyang is the fastest and best city to develop. Not only because Luoyang is Zhao Kai's capital, it has received the most "policy support", but also because the city is close to Kaifeng Prefecture and Hebei West Road, which is under the threat of war, can successfully accept industries from Kaifeng Prefecture and Hebei West Road. Moreover, Luoyang City is already extremely large and is likely to be the largest city in the world at that time. It does not require expansion to absorb a large number of migrant population and industries.

Therefore, in August of the first year of Hongwu, Luoyang, there was already a little popularity. On both sides of the very wide street, there were also people watching the fun. Some people were still asking each other, wanting to know who was so handsome that they could come out to greet the officials.

Among the crowd watching the fun, there were really some old Bianliang who were familiar with people, and they really knew who was coming.

"You don't know yet, right? Our Song Dynasty will be reunited soon... We need Zhao Guiyi!"

"What? Did the King of Xiangyang have led his troops to Jinling?"

"What's the matter? It's time to fight to Jinling... The Jinling official family and our Luoyang official family are brothers! Our Song Dynasty is kind and filial, and our brothers are friendly and respectful. Where can we meet each other in a war?"

"How can we unify without encountering each other?"

"Why can't you be unified? Let me tell you... The Jinling official family is seriously ill and will die soon. His son is young and cannot be the emperor in troubled times. So he planned to make a brother and pass the throne to our Luoyang official family. Therefore, he sent five kings, six kings and seven kings to Luoyang to share the conversation with our official family. Three kings came at one time. Can this scene be small?"

"Can you still do this? Is your news accurate?"

"Why is it not accurate? I am a person from Tong Taishi's mansion... Look, it's Tong Taishi's carriage! Tong Taishi is here, and the official family is coming soon, right?"

The news from this person in Tong Taishi’s mansion is still not very impressive. He didn’t know that the official family had actually left the city!

Zhao Kai left the city early this morning. He went out of the city to welcome Zhao Shu thirty miles away, Zhao Qi and Zhao Xu, and now he is almost back to Luoyang City.

Zhao Kai and these three younger brothers haven't seen each other for more than a year or two, and so many things have happened during this period. Now, we have to talk about it carefully when we meet.

Zhao Shu, Zhao Qi and Zhao Xu all talked about Zhao Huan’s illness along the way!

Zhao Huan seems...really sick!

Zhao Shu, Zhao Qi and the three of them were going to set off from Jinling City in early April, but later because Zhao Huan was seriously ill, he stayed for more than half a month before setting off on April 25th.

"Brother is really not going to work..."

"San brother, just let him go for a while, don't force him too much!"

"Third brother, my sixth brother, and my seventh brother are not the crown brothers, and my starling brother is gone again. If you don't...then it's the ninth brother who has come to ascend the throne!"

What? Brother Jiu? Wanyan Gou? Zhao Kai was a little annoyed when he heard this. This is not OK! How can Wanyan Gou become the official family in Jinling?

Zhao Kai snorted: "If this is the case, it will be a war!"

Seeing him with murderous aura, Zhao Shu, Zhao Qi and Zhao Xu also felt strange... Why did the third brother hate Jiu Ge so much? There seems to be no grudge between them!

However, Zhao Kai fell into deep thought at this time, frowned, and he knew that he was in a fierce ideological struggle - in fact, he was trying to recall Zhao Huan's life span.

How old did Zhao Huan die? Is he that short-lived? It’s only two years since Jingkang, so he’s going to die?

Isn't it right? Yue Fei hasn't been clamoring for "welcoming back the two saints" in history, but it has made Zhao Gou angry. At that time, Yue Fei was still in his thirties... This shows that Zhao Huan's life span was at least ten or eight years.

In Heilongjiang, you can live for ten or eight years (in fact, you can live for 20 years, and you didn’t die of illness, but was killed by Wanyan Liang). Now that you are the emperor, you enjoy life every day, so you enjoy death? Impossible?

Thinking of this, Zhao Kai was already a little suspicious that Zhao Huan was using fraud... Although Song Qinzong in history was a little scared, he was very capable of using fraud!

"By the way, when you three left Jinling, all the Jin thieves who invaded Huainan retreated?" Zhao Kai changed his mind and asked about the situation of Wanyan Zonghansou again.

"We are retreating, but we have not retreated completely." Zhao Shu replied, "It was not until we arrived in Ezhou and waited to cross the river that we received news that we had retreated. It was the end of May."

Zhao Qi took over the topic and said, "I heard that there was a plague in the Jin thieves' army, and 10,000 or 20,000 people died of illness. It was only better in late April, so he retreated and returned."

The epidemic of dysentery in Wanyan Zonghan's army was prevalent, which should be caused by the lack of clean drinking water and diet during the withdrawal. The situation was already very serious by the time of Anfeng. If Zhao Huan had made up his mind to send troops to seek revenge for his father, Wanyan Zonghan would be in trouble.

Zhao Huan's army did not have to defeat Zong Han. He would entangle him and prevent his people from recuperation. It was possible to die an extra 20,000 or 30,000 more. In ancient times, more soldiers died of epidemics were sometimes more than those who were beaten to death!

However, Zhao Huan did not dare to send troops and gave some supplies to the Jin soldiers, allowing them to overcome the difficulties...

Before Zhao Qi realized how serious Zhao Huan's sin was, he said with a smile: "Third Brother, this is a great victory! In addition to those who died in front of the formation and on the way to retreat, Wanyan Zonghan lost at least 30,000 people in this battle! It seems that he will not go south again rashly in the future."

Zhao Xu also said: "Third brother, when the Jin thieves recover, you should also take over the official family in Jinling. By then, our Song Dynasty will be unified, and you are still afraid that you will not defeat the Jin thieves?"

Can it really be unified?

Zhao Kai is not that naive, and he has a little ability to predict the future, knowing that Zhao Huan's life span is not that short... But he cannot refuse the three brothers in one go, because he is not ready to send troops to deal with Zhao Huan now!

The productivity in ancient times was low!

Moreover, Zhao Kai did not have enough financial resources to pay enough wages and food to his 300,000 to 400,000 soldiers in the palace... he could only let them integrate the soldiers and farmers. Now he has just divided the land, and many people may not have been divided. How many years can they be given to recuperate?

In addition, the Yellow River needs to be cured!

After the Jin thief dug the river, he ignored it, and Zhao Huan ignored it. The blame was all Zhao Kai. If he did, he would take it back and flooded the good places on West Jing Road. Who would Zhao Kai ask for?
Chapter completed!