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Chapter 405 Originally born from the same root, killing chickens to show the monkeys!

When Zhao Kai saw the iron shell cannon ship drawn by Zhao Zhi, he suddenly felt angry - hey, Zhao Huan, I haven't seen him for nine or ten years, you even have an iron armored ship!

You have worked too hard to fight with your brothers? How great is it to have this momentum when you fought against Jin and Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty. When Kublai Khan came, he had already had a strong ship and a powerful cannon, and he was spreading all over the world. Will he jump into the sea for 200,000 yuan?

"Third brother, it seems that it is not possible to go to the Han River and go east to the Yangtze River..." Zhao Zhi put down his brush and said to Zhao Kai, "In addition to this iron-shelled cannon ship, the eldest brother also built the Jiangxia Fort and the Chibi Fort in Ezhou, and the Chengling Pass Fort in Yuezhou. It is reported that the cannons on the three forts in Jiangxia, Chibi and Chengling Pass are all over 200 doors... The Han River and Jingjiang have been firmly blocked!"

Good guy, three turrets have 600 cannons! And ironclad ships... This equipment is enough for Opium War!

This thief Zhao Huan is so hateful!

Zhao Kai secretly gritted his teeth, but his mouth was full of benevolent, righteous and moral words: "Our big brother is really a gentleman who can judge my gentleman's ambition with a villain! I and him are born with the same roots, so how could they fight each other too quickly?"

As he said this, he was thinking in his mind: Flowering bullets...How to make flowering bullets? Use copper shells or iron shells? Should I add a wooden tail wing?

In addition, the camel cannon has to be cast more vigorously. Now that I am tight, the camels are not enough. I can only cast a little less, so I will cast 1,000 doors first!

"The third brother is a kind and righteous gentleman," Zhao Zhi agreed, "The position of this official family is originally the third brother. My ministers and I have heard from the fifth brother and the eighteenth brother that our father had passed away and he issued a will to pass the throne to you. However, when the eldest brother ascended the throne, he didn't know this matter..."

This position was originally my! Zhao Kaixin said: My father had long wanted to pass the throne to me... It was because I wanted to go north to fight against the Jin Dynasty, so I didn't have time to ascend the throne to Zhao Huan to pick up a fake emperor of the Southern Dynasty for nothing!

"Then do he know he is wrong now?" Zhao Kai asked calmly.

"This... I don't know about this." Zhao Zhi shook his head, "I haven't seen my elder brother for many years."

"Then go and see you!" Zhao Kai suppressed his anger and smiled. "Now that the Jin thief has been expelled by me, the world should be unified again. I and my elder brother are brothers, so I must not be polite first and then soldiers. I always have to give him a chance to surrender to the court!"

It's the boss' turn to be unlucky! Zhao Zhi thought to himself: But he probably refused to surrender, right? If he wants to surrender, there will be no danger to the Yangtze River. Relying on a corner of the Wu Yue Kingdom, it will be able to resist the Celestial Empire? Sooner or later, like Qian Chu, the last King of Wu Yue, you will be deceived to Beijing... Moreover, he was an emperor and was completely different from Qian Chu, who had always been a minister to the Central Plains.

But if he wants to resist to the end, he will not use my brother as a sword to sacrifice the flag, right?

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhi hurriedly said, "Third brother, I am not very familiar with the elder brother, so why not let the eighteenth brother go, he is more familiar with the elder brother."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "That's fine. I originally wanted the Eighteenth Brother to go to Pizhou to persuade Zhao Gou to surrender... If you want to change it with him, then I will let him go to Jinling, and you go to Pizhou."

Go to Pizhou to persuade Zhao Gou? Zhao Zhixin said: Then it would be safer to go to Jinling... There are a lot of brothers on the side of my brother. If he wants to kill me, someone can ask for forgiveness. If he goes to Pizhou and falls into the hands of the bastard Zhao Gou who recognizes the thief as his father, there will be no way out.

"I should go to Jinling," Zhao Zhi looked serious, "I have hated Brother Ninth since I was a child, and I have nothing to say when I meet... I should go to Jinling! But my elder brother is suspicious by nature, and I am afraid he won't believe that Brother Third treats him sincerely."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "I know he is suspicious, so I plan to grant more vassal kings and divide the southeastern roads so that he will not feel lonely... I let him be the king of Wuyue. I let the fifth brother is changed to the king of Yue and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. I let the sixth brother is changed to the king of Fujian and the governor of Fujian. I let the seventh brother is changed to the king of Chu and the governor of Huaixi. I let the eighth brother is changed to the king of Gan and the governor of Jiangnan West Road. I let the eleventh brother is changed to the king of Huai and the governor of Huaidong. I can be the left-behind Nanjing to control Jiangnan East Road and look at Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture for me."

"I have conferred so many vassal kings all at once?" Zhao Zhi was confused without Zhao Kai's way, "Third brother, are you really not afraid of creating a Seven Kingdoms Rebellion?"

"Seven Kingdoms?" Zhao Kai turned his fingers, "Big Brother, Fifth Brother, Sixth Brother, Seventh Brother, Ball Brother, Eleventh Brother... There are only six in total! Twelve Brother, don't you count yourself as well, right?"

Zhao Zhi waved his hand quickly, "I dare not, I dare not... I am loyal to my third brother!"

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "I trust you too, so I let you be the one who stays in Nanjing! Moreover, the fifth brother, the sixth brother, the seventh brother, the starling brother, and the eleventh brother are not kings, but are governed by the princes... This dynasty has a Jiedulu, and now there are Jiedulu and the Datong Jiedulu. I just plan to set up five Jiedulu in the southeast and let the Jiedulu collect taxes for me for a few years."

Then there is only the eldest brother, the king... Zhao Zhixin said: He was still the king of the emperor, it was so pitiful!

Zhao Kai also said to Zhao Zhi: "I also plan to establish the Six Ministry of Nanjing as the reserve officials of the Beijing court... Jinling City and Jiangnan East Road are both under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Left-behind Department and the Six Ministry of Nanjing. As for the officials of the Six Ministry of Nanjing, all the officials of the former Jinling Court shall be responsible for the officials.

In addition, the Nanjing Left-behind Department is also responsible for presiding over the Nanjing Examination. The scholars from Lianghuai, Liangjiang, Liangzhe, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian can all go to Nanjing to participate in the Examination. We can get a little more Jinshi, each session will be held for one session, and each session will be won by hundreds of students.

Later, local officials in Lianghuai, Liangjiang, Liangzhe, Liangguang and Fujian, both civil and military, were appointed by Nanjing Jinshi. Those with outstanding talents among the Southern Jinshi could also become officials in Beijing court."

Zhao Kai has finished his benevolence and righteousness this time!

Of course, setting up five military governors, starting six Nanjing ministries, and holding Nanjing tests are all ways to appease the rights and interests of the Southeast.

Once the situation in the southeast stabilizes, it will still be cancelled one by one. All the Jiedu Roads will become transshipment roads, and the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing and Nanjing Examinations will not last long... It is not that it is not possible to be an official in the exam, but that the Jinshi who can reach the top in one step cannot be taken too many. You must leave enough positions for the wise officials, officials in charge of affairs and officers who lead troops to fight.

According to the current rules of the Northern Song Dynasty, wise officials are equivalent to ordinary civil servants who do business and are also selected through examinations. However, older soldiers in the office will get "plus points" when taking wise officials. The whistle officials are staff officers of local or military generals, not from the examination, but from recruits. The officers come by judging merits, talent or recruits (the staff in the army can also be recruited). Among them, judging merits depends on the size of merits, and judging merits are examining military schools. The whistle officials are like judging merits, depending on the mood of the superiors.

Under this official system, the openness, fairness and transparency of the appointment of officials have decreased. But at the same time, it also gives the superior more personnel power - the superior can command the subordinate officials! It also gives lower-level civil servants more opportunities for promotion. When doing business, the Jinshi who was tested in the exam may not be as good as the senior officials from the grassroots level!

However, Zhao Zhi didn't know that Zhao Kai was full of bad water. After hearing his words, he finally felt that it was not much risky to go to Jinling, so he happily took Zhao Kai's job and then went back to his house to prepare for a long trip.

I won’t leave immediately, I have to leave after the New Year!

On the second day after Zhao Zhi accepted the task of tempting the south, Yue Fei returned from patrolling Shanhaikou. Zhao Kai immediately asked him to enter the palace and held a banquet in the Yaochi Hall to greet him. By the way, he talked to Yue Fei about the attack on Zhao Gou...

"Pengju, are you still satisfied with the title of Duke of Ye County? Have you visited your Fengzhuang? It's right next to Diaoyutai at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain... This is a good place, it will definitely be very valuable in the future!"

Zhao Kai treats Yue Fei very well! He gave him the land in Yuyuantan, Beijing... a total of 6,000 acres! If this is passed down to the 21st century, Yue Fei's descendants will send it!

Yue Fei felt relieved and bowed his hand and said, "Officials, my brother is certainly satisfied. I have received great grace from the official family. I have simply been promoted to the army and regarded it as my confidant. Now I am a high-ranking minister... With such great grace, I only want to fight more battles for the official family and kill more barbarians to be at ease."

Those great heroes who understand politics should lie down and pretend to be dead and avoid suspicion when they reach Yue Fei's position, and do nothing... However, Yue Fei's enthusiasm for doing things is still as high as ever!

"Okay!" Zhao Kai was waiting for what he said, "I will give you a title on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. After the 15th day of the first lunar month, you will be ready to send troops... to attack Zhao Gou!"

"Beat Zhao Gou? Isn't it to persuade Zhao Huan to surrender?" Yue Fei's news was quite well-informed, and he already knew that Zhao Kai wanted to persuade Zhao Huan to surrender.

Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai were born with the same roots! Of course, they could not fight each other and kill each other... And Zhao Gou did not have such treatment. Didn’t he recognize the thief as his father? Now he is Wanyan Zonggou, so of course he can kill and scare Zhao Huan.

Zhao Kai shook his head and said, "I want to persuade the surrender of King Wu, not Zhao Gou... King Wu is a monkey, Zhao Gou is a chicken, I want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey!"

Zhao Gou would definitely be dissatisfied when he heard this: Why? They are all brothers, why should Zhao Huan be a monkey and a chicken? It's unfair!

However, Zhao Gou is not here now, and Yue Fei will not speak for Zhao Gou... Somehow, he hates this Zhao Gou very much!

Zhao Kai said again: "Zhao Gou is my brother after all, and you are my righteous brother... It is inappropriate for you to kill Zhao Gou!"

Is it not suitable? Yue Feixin said: It's nothing...

Zhao Kai said: "So I am going to appoint Zhao Zhen as the chief minister, and go to war with you with the edict to kill Zhao Gou and the bowstring who strangled him... He is responsible for killing Zhao Gou at that time!"

How considerate! Even the procedure for giving death was prepared for Zhao Gou... And Yue Fei personally led the troops to fight, Zhao Gou didn't have to worry about anything, just wait for death honestly.
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