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Chapter 274 The last day of the Northern Expedition, ask for a monthly ticket

Chen Dexing had already sat in the study in the Imperial Academy.

Those who can extend this place are naturally followers of Chen Dexing, including those who joined before the Lin'an Incident, and those who came to join after the Lin'an Incident.

The princess was seized in Deshou Palace, the rebel soldiers in front of Yuhang Gate, the cannons were fired outside the Tianmen Gate, the real gold was refined in the concierge courtyard, and the country of meditation was forced to be... In addition, the traitor Hao Jing was killed, and the organized "collected" a lot of money and materials craftsmen in Lin'an, robbed the grain from Lincao Town, and robbed horses from the herds prison and other things, and it was completed in just a few days.

All these things combined to tear off the last fig leaf on the Song Dynasty court - letting the whole world know that this court actually has no force. A court without force naturally cannot punish lawless warlords like Chen Dexing.

Therefore, Chen Dexing did not evacuate Lin'an immediately as planned. Instead, he settled down in Lin'an Imperial College, which is Yue Fei's old house. He also publicly posed the banner of "Northern Expedition Army"!

From now on, the official name of Chen Dexing's armed forces is not called the Imperial Pili Navy, of course it is not called the Chen Family Army, but the Northern Expedition Army!

In the northern expedition to the Central Plains, expel the barbarians, first promote the Han family, then divide the fields, everyone is happy and share peace!

This is the slogan of the Northern Expedition Army, and it is also the political program of the Northern Expedition Army and the Fuxing Society. Of course, the land in which the land in the south of the Yangtze River is not divided into the fields in the south of the Yangtze River, but the land in the north, including the land in the Central Plains, Yanyun, Liaodong, Western Regions, Goryeo and other places, is all distributed!

However, it is not equally divided, but rather the distribution of the Chen Family Army (Northern Expedition Army) based on the size of military merits and the level of official titles. The Chen Family Army (Northern Expedition Army) will be distributed in the morning and evening! Those who have made great contributions and those who have high official titles can all get more points. On the contrary, they can only have less points. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, the people who have moved from the south to the north can only get the most basic division.

This political program that combines the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the distribution of land was not only promoted within the Chen family army, but also told the people of Lin'an City in the form of posting notices and sending tabloids. In addition, the Chen family army, who occupied Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture and Shazhou County, Yangzhou, also received the order from Chen Dexing to raise the banner of the Northern Expedition Army, and at the same time began to publicize the Northern Expedition Program to the people.

The purpose of promoting the Northern Expedition Program is naturally to recruit people to raise funds. The Northern Expedition Army recruits soldiers, recruits students with the camp military academy, and also notices to recruit warriors in Huaihai Town are also posted everywhere. Outside the Yuhang Gate Guards and outside the Lin'an Imperial College, there are idle refugees who have no food to line up to join the army every day. Naturally, local residents born in Lin'an will not join, but some single refugees who came from Sichuan, Jinghu, and the two Huai Rivers are willing to join the Northern Expedition Army to fight for wealth. Within just a few days, Chen Dexing's troops in Lin'an expanded to about 10,000 (of which there were about 5,000 Ming people).

However, the soldiers recruited from Lin'an City were somewhat affected by the habits of the common people. If they were not trained hard for a while, they would not be able to compare with the children of the two Huai Rivers and the Han people in the northern regions. It would be okay to use them to strengthen their momentum, but they would not be able to fight a tough battle.

In addition to the refugees and Ming sects who joined the army, some scholars who were wandering in Lin'an also came to Chen Dexing to try their luck. Although the large group of scholars and officials in Jiangnan supported the Song Dynasty, there were always some frustrated scholars who had poor backgrounds, poor knowledge, and failed to take the exam repeatedly.

These people either go to join high-ranking officials and big businessmen as their clients, or go to Lin'an to find errands or do some small business.

But these scholars were all very thoughtful and thought they were Jiang Ziya and Zhuge Liang. How could they be willing to waste their lives in the lower classes of society? Seeing Chen Dexing doing such a career in Lin'an City, he came to join him and try his luck no matter what kind of rebellious or traitors.

Chen Dexing also tried his best to win over these frustrated scholars, regardless of the other party's literati or warrior. His group is now weak in literature and strong in martial arts. There are very few literati who can fight with chariots, but there are very few literati who can dance and ingenuity.

At this moment, Chen Dexing was in a study where Yue Fei had used, and together with Zhao Fu and Chen Huaiqing, he cordially met with more than a dozen scholars who came to serve. He also asked these self-righteous scholars who thought they were Zhuge Liang to advice.

In fact, he had already made up his mind to plunder some money in Lin'an, Qingyuan, and Shazhou, and then took over tens of thousands and 200,000 people from Lin'an, Qingyuan, and Shazhou to fight against Mongolia, and traveled east to Goryeo and Liaodong to start a foundation. Here in Lin'an, let his father and a group of civil servants compete!

Therefore, Chen Dexing was not moved at all because of how ordinary literati advocated the allusion of "Wei Wu hosted Emperor Xian" - these literati only knew Cao Cao, but did not see Dong Zhuo and how Li Jue died!

Even when Chen Dexing attacked Chaotian Gate, Zhao Yun had six or seven thousand troops, including 1,500,500 battles in front of the palace with strong combat power!

In addition, Wang Jian, Wang Yan and his son also had more than a thousand personal soldiers brought by Sichuan, and four or five thousand yamen were captured by them!

In other words, even when Chen Dexing was the most arrogant, there were more than 10,000 troops loyal to the Song Dynasty in Lin'an, of which no less than 2,500 were able to fight!

In the past few days, while Chen Dexing stepped up his military expansion, Jia Sidao, who had just taken charge of the power, was also fighting his life to capture the army.

First, Wang Jian was appointed as the Minister of the Privy Council and the Lin'an Punishment Envoy, allocated 100,000 stags of copper from the sealing warehouse to allow him to expand his army to 20,000, and gave him the title of commander of the guards' personal army. It turned out that all the guards' cavalry and infantry in Lin'an were dismissed and dismissed, so the army organized by Wang Jian was the new guards' personal army!

Then, Jia Sidao asked Han Zhen to expand the personal army in front of the palace based on the thousands of people guarding the palace! He also gave Han Zhen the title of the Privy Council Officer and Lin'an Punishment Envoy, and also 100,000 jin of copper funds!

In addition, he sent a letter to Yangzhou to transfer Li Tingzhi to Lin'an to bring 20,000 Wu Rui Army to the guards. Li Tingzhi himself served as the pacification envoy of eastern Zhejiang, and was the commander of the Lin'an Prefecture and the commander of the Wu Rui Army. This appointment broke the boundaries of civil and military affairs and allowed a civil official with the title of bachelor's title to serve as the commander of the first army.

At the same time, a major edict was issued in the name of Zhao Hu, appointing Zhao Kui, a former general who had always been loyal to the Song Dynasty, as the ambassador of the Liangjiang River (East and West) and the commander of the Yangtze River. He fully reorganized the defense of Yanjiang River and Liangjiang River. Du Shu and Xiang Shibi were also appointed as the appeasement envoy of Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road in Huaixi, respectively, to cooperate with Zhao Kui.

Some of the six ministers were out to control each other. Jiang Wanli, who had served as a pacifier in Fujian, was once again appointed as the Fujian Road Pacifier and the Coastal Commander. The left prime minister Wu Qian went to Zhejiang West Road to serve as the prime minister, and the governor of Zhejiang West, and was appointed as the Qingyuan Prefecture and the Coastal Commander. Ma Guangzu went to Guangzhou to serve as the chief minister, the Duanming Palace scholar, and was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

After some arrangements, the Southern Song Dynasty court held a total of seven pacification envoys, including Liangjiang, Liangzhe, Fujian, and Guangdong, and Guangxi, and at the same time mobilized and recruited 60,000 troops to protect Lin'an. It was trying to stabilize its position.

The court also made unimaginable concessions to the warlords of Jinghu, Lianghuai, and Sichuan. Liu Zheng served as the Jiedushi of Lizhou, Yu Xing served as the Jiedushi of Yizhou, Lu Wende served as the Jiedushi of Eastern Sichuan, Lu Wenhuan served as the Jiedushi of Jiangling Town, Zhang Jue served as the Jiedushi of Xingyuan Town, Gao Da served as the Jiedushi of Xiangyang Town, Cao Shixiong served as the Jiedushi of Tanzhou, Zhang Sheng served as the Jiedushi of Ezhou, Yang Wen served as the Jiedushi of Southern Sichuan, Xia Gui served as the Jiedushi of Huaixi, Liu Xiongfei served as the Jiedushi of Zizhou, Li He served as the Jiedushi of Yangzhou, Cheng Dayuan served as the Jiedushi of Zhenzhou, Fan Sheng served as the Observation Envoy of Haozhou, and Chen Dexing's Haidong and Liaodong Jiedushi, 15 Jiedushi and Observation Envoys were sealed out in one breath.

The situation of military leaders rampant in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties returned to the world overnight!

However, there is still a difference between a vassal state and a rebellious town. In addition to Chen Dexing having greater ambitions, the other fourteen vassal state lords were already very satisfied with being the governor of a town. According to the experience of the Tang Dynasty, only when the court wants to reduce the vassal state or interfere with the inheritance of the vassal states, it is easier to cause rebellion in the vassal states.

So from this perspective, the current situation in the Southern Song Dynasty is not worse than in history. In history, the Southern Song Dynasty court had not found a balance point that could coexist with the vassal states before Liu Zheng's rebellion, or in other words, the court officials led by Jia Sidao never gave up their efforts to restore the situation of using civil war to control the military, until the Liu Zheng's rebellion broke out! The Liu Zheng's rebellion, coupled with the previous attack on the Wuchen Group by Jia Sidao in the name of a plan (some civil officials who were not in harmony with Jia Sidao were also hit), had seriously damaged the national defense power of the Song Dynasty.

The Liu Zheng rebellion caused Jia Sidao to restore his efforts to defend his martial arts with his civil servants and his complete bankruptcy, and he could only rely on the warlords of Anfeng to survive. However, the power of Anfeng generals was not enough to resist the invasion of Mongolia. Therefore, Xiangyang was besieged for several years and the imperial court had no reinforcements to send.

In the end, Jia Sidao had barely pieced together 130,000 "elite soldiers of all the way" that Jia Sidao had barely broken down in Dingjiazhou. Obviously, the Southern Song court did not take advantage of the respite brought by the Mongolian civil war to train and organize truly useful elite soldiers.

At present, the 60,000 "Central Army" that the Southern Song Dynasty was forming seemed to be stronger than in history. At least the officials who were responsible, except Han Zhen, were not very useful, Li Tingzhi and Wang Jian were all top generals in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty court, stimulated by the Lin'an Incident, showed such a sign of cheering up!
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