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Bangchang and Geng Nan Zhongzheng were in charge of harmony, insisting on resolute internal stability before fighting foreign countries. The most critical issue they saw was that the emperor must consolidate the throne and firmly control the imperial power. The throne of the young emperor was unstable and the imperial power was not solid. As long as there was a disturbance, let alone recovering Youyan, Hebei, even the great Song Dynasty could not be preserved.

Wu Min and Li Gang were in charge of the war and insisted on recapturing Hebei and Youyan first, and then stabilizing the country. In their opinion, the interests of the Song Dynasty were supreme, and the interests of the country were supreme. The interests of the emperor must obey the interests of the Song Dynasty. If the interests of the country were not guaranteed, how could the interests of the emperor be guaranteed? The Song Dynasty was in danger, could the emperor's throne be firm?

Both views are correct. After several days of argument, the central ministers who held this view finally compromised with each other and came up with a strategy.

Judging from the current situation, the old emperor in the southeast, the little emperor of Bianjing and the prince of Yun in the northwest basically formed a confrontation. If there is confrontation, there is a balance. The key to maintaining this balance is not the strategy of Bianjing, but Li Hu's strategy. If Li Hu is loyal to the Song Dynasty and the little emperor of Bianjing, then it is also possible to maintain this balance temporarily. The three parties work together to provide money and grain in the southeast, and Bianjing and the northwest send troops to defeat the Jin army first and recover the Youyan in Hebei first. However, after this battle, Li Hu's feudal states became stronger. Not to mention long-term concerns, close worries mean that Li Hu may exert influence on Bianjing and then influence the ownership of the imperial power. In other words, the little emperor may eventually lose the imperial power because he did not consolidate his throne in time.

The result of the compromise between the two factions of the main war and the main peace faction was to first use Li Hu's strength to solve the old emperor in the southeast. The southeast has now become the lifeline of the Song Dynasty. The sufficient money and food in the southeast are obviously guaranteed by the Song army to recover the land of Youyan, Hebei, so Bianjing must control the southeast, otherwise the regaining of Youyan, Hebei is simply nonsense.

It takes time for Bianjing to resolve the old emperor in the southeast, and Prince Yun may take the opportunity to control the northwest and form a confrontation with Bianjing. At this time, Bianjing used the Jin people to threaten Li Hu to give up the king. The Song and Jin alliance formed an alliance and jointly attacked Li Hu, and Li Hu would definitely be unable to resist. What's more serious is that this move may cause trouble to the Song Dynasty and shake the foundation of the Song Dynasty. Since Li Hu launched the Taiyuan mutiny, he is sure that he is unwilling to see the Song Dynasty split and collapse, so this threat is absolutely effective.

As long as Li Hu gave up Prince Yun, the Song Dynasty joined forces with him to recover Youyan, Hebei, and classified Youyan, and even Taiyuan as Li Hu's vassal state. This temptation to Li Hu was very great, and Li Hu probably would be difficult to refuse.

When the Song Dynasty became stable, the little emperor of Bianjing worked hard to regain his vitality and spent two or three years to recover his vitality. Then he could do his best to solve the threat of Li Hu, a vassal state.

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On February 28th, Yuwen Xuzhong went north to Taiyuan and discussed with Li Hu specifically about the attack on Youyan, Hebei.

On the same day, the young emperor of Bianjing sent an envoy to the supervisor to ask the old emperor to return to Bianjing to preside over the state affairs.

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March in the first year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty (1126 AD).

On the first day of March, Datong urgently reported that the Tiger Lieutenant Army repelled the Jin army and saved Datong. However, Fengshengzhou was lost. The Jin army therefore connected Yunzhonglu and Yanshan Prefecture as a unit. The counterattack was extremely difficult.

On the same day, Liu Ji, deputy envoy of the Xuanfu of Hebei, reported to Bianjing. The two imperial guards and the Huliefu Dihu Guards of Zhendingfu and the Huliefu Dihu Guards. Under the command of Yue Enclave, the Tiger Guards of Zhendingzhi Prefecture were recovered. Unfortunately, Dingzhou (i.e. Zhongshan) and the northern prefectures and counties in Hejian Prefecture were all captured under the attack of the Jin army.

This news caused a shock in Bianjing. Although many places were lost, from the perspective of the entire battle situation, the Song and Jin armies were in a stalemate. However, the two armies of Li Hu and Zhe Yanzhi have returned to the front lines of Datong and Taiyuan one after another. The Song army has already achieved the strength to go from defense to offensive.

The call for the main battle in Bianjing was getting higher and higher. On the second day of the lunar month, the young emperor issued an order to remove Zhang Bangchang from the position of prime minister and transferred to the position of Zhongtai Palace Envoy. Li Shangshu was removed from the position of Right Chief of the Palace Envoy and transferred to the position of Hongqing Palace Envoy.

On the same day, Xu Churen was appointed as the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Sect, and served as the Prime Minister. Wu Min was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister. Li Gang was appointed as the Chief of the Privy Council, and Xu Han was appointed as the Chief of the Privy Council. The heads of the East and West governments were both war-oriented factions, and the little emperor of Bianjing finally decided to recover Youyan, Hebei. However, in order to limit the power of the war-oriented faction, the young emperor appointed Tang Ke as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Lang Geng Nanzhong as the Secretary of the Left Prime Minister and the Secretary of the Shangsect, and He Li as the Right Prime Minister. These three are the leaders of peace.

On the tenth day of March, the young emperor heard that the Hebei rebels turned their fingers and cooperated with the official army to counterattack the Jin army. Long Yan was very happy and immediately issued an order to pardon all rebels in Hebei and Shandong, requiring the governments in Hebei and Shandong to find ways to recruit rebels. As long as these people were willing to fight in Hebei and attack the Jin army, they could be reorganized into imperial guards on the spot and immediately enter the battlefield of Hebei to fight.

On the 14th, Liu sued Bianjing again. Yue Fei led his army to attack Anxi, Dingzhou Zhifu, but because of insufficient troops, he was defeated and retreated. For this reason, Liu begged the emperor and asked Hulie's Mansion for help, and asked Han King Li Hu to send reinforcements into Hebei to fight again.

Liu's plea was rejected by the little emperor and the central government.

The Hu Lie Army is too strong. Once they occupy Hebei, it will be a terrible disaster for the Song Dynasty. However, the situation in Hebei is very good now, and it is the opportunity to recover the Youyan land in Hebei, so you should not miss it. Li Gang strongly suggested that the young emperor launch an attack immediately. The biggest advantage of this is that he can use the Hebei rebels' enthusiasm to fight against the Jin Dynasty, recruit them immediately, and transform them into an official army, so that they can not only increase their troops quickly, but also do not waste any effort.

The Hebei rebels can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The emperor had a concern that the Southeast was controlled by the old emperor and that Bianjing did not have enough money, food and weapons, so how could he support the Hebei War?

Li Gang couldn't take care of that much. He now had to go north as quickly as possible, firmly control Damingfu Road and Zhending Road among the fourth Hebei routes, waiting for the advantage of troops to be gained, and solve the problems of the southeast and northwest. The army received the support of food and grass and Li Hu, and then could counterattack. At least, it would take back Dingzhou (Zhongshan) Road and Hejianfu Road, and confront the Jin army across Baigou. This is the bottom line.

After some discussion, on the 16th, the emperor issued an order to destroy the Song and Jin alliance, defend the three towns, and once again appointed Zhong Shidao, appoint Zhong Shidao as the Xuanfu envoy in Yanshan, Hebei, and Liu as the deputy envoy, and was fully responsible for the battlefield in Youyan, Hebei. Yao Gu was the commander-in-chief, and Zong Shizhong was the deputy commander-in-chief, and quickly led his army northward to attack the Jin army.

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The little emperor decided to counterattack, but there was a news that shocked him from the southeast.

Shortly after the young emperor punished Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, Song Huan returned to Kaifeng. He went to Bianjing to see the situation under the order of the old emperor. Since the Jin army had withdrawn, the old emperor also wondered if he had the chance to return to Bianjing.

The little emperor wanted to punish Song Huan, but Wu Min and Li Gang believed that Song Huan was the best candidate to deceive the old emperor to return to Beijing. The little emperor summoned Song Huan enthusiastically and summoned him to interview for two consecutive days. The little emperor was blunt. Under the current situation, the old emperor's approach was to split the Song Dynasty, which led to the crisis of the country. He begged Song Huan to start from the overall situation and trick the old emperor back to Bianjing to ensure the stability within the Song Dynasty.

Song Huan is also a smart man, especially after hearing that Li Hu launched the Taiyuan Mutiny and imprisoned Prince Yun and Tong Guan, and publicly expressed his respect for the little emperor, he knew that there was no future to continue to follow the old emperor, so he agreed immediately and vowed to be loyal to the little emperor.

On March 4, the young emperor appointed Song Huan as the commander of the Jianghuai, Jingzhe and other routes, and immediately returned to the southeast to serve the palace. At the same time, he appointed Zhao Ye, the assistant minister of the disciple, as the envoy of the Supreme Emperor's palace, and Tan Shiji, the deputy envoy of the Huiyou Pavilion, and Li Xi, the secretary of the Central Secretariat, as the deputy envoy, and brought the old emperor back to Bianjing.

Song Huan galloped day and night, and arrived at Fuli within three days. At this time, he was surprised to find that the old emperor had left Zhenjiang and headed north to Hong County (now Si County, Jiangsu). Song Huan paid homage to the old emperor on the boats in the Huai River.

Why did the old emperor go north? He can't stay in the southeast anymore.

Since the establishment of Huashigang in the Song Dynasty, the Southeast region has been the hardest hit area of ​​this policy. Although the old emperor and his favorite ministers have a deep foundation in the southeast, the people are extremely angry. Tong Guan conquered Fang La and killed more than one million people. How many of them were Fang La's uprising troops? They are all the people, and the people in the southeast hated him to the core. Zhu and his son were the initiators of Huashigang. The father and son had poisoned the Southeast for more than ten years. The people of Liangzhe were afraid of it like tigers, and the people in the southeast wished they could eat their meat and drink their blood. With the tide of uprising in Shandong, Hebei, the court even imposed heavy taxes in the southeast. The situation in the southeast was very tense, and a mutiny was about to break out.

Under such circumstances, the old emperor went to the southeast and still did not change his luxury, harassing the people along the way. Wherever he passed, the barriers were empty. After arriving in Zhenjiang, he repaired palaces, transplanted flowers and bamboos, bought gardens and ponds, and was licentious and luxurious. The daily expenses of officers and soldiers alone reached more than 6,000, while the monthly expenses of the palace exceeded 200,000. Where did this money come from? Of course, exploited people from the southeast.

The old emperor did not know the suffering of the people, and it didn't matter, but the local officials in the southeast were very scared. Although the Fang La Uprising was suppressed a few years ago, the rebel army gave them a head-on attack, and the anti-rebellion army made the Southeast even messed up. These local officials were worried about repeating the same mistakes, worried that their interests would be seriously damaged, and they all obeyed the secrets. When the news of Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Cai You, Zhu and others being killed and dismissed reached the Southeast, these people knew that the old emperor was no longer able to do so, so they simply abandoned it and defected to the little emperor of Bianjing.

At the same time, the ministers around the old emperor were still fighting for power and profit, fighting each other, and the old emperor's idea of ​​building another court could not be realized at all.

When the old emperor saw that the situation was not good, he did not dare to stay in the southeast. Song Huan advised him to go back, but he really hesitated. Perhaps the young emperor was a filial son and would return the power to himself.

At this time, the letters from Prince Yun and Tong Guan arrived. Tong Guan warned the old emperor not to return to Bianjing, and took the "things in the west" as an example. The so-called "things in the west" was that after the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang returned to Chang'an from Sichuan. As the Supreme Emperor, he entered Xingqing Palace, that is, the south. His son Emperor Suzong of Tang put Xuanzong in the west (i.e. Taiji Palace). Soon, Emperor Xuanzong died in a bad mood. Gao Lishi and others around Emperor Xuanzong were only removed after returning to Chang'an, and the old emperor's confidant ministers had been cleared at this moment. Wasn't he looking for death when he returned?

The old emperor thought for a long time and decided to go to Luoyang, Xijing. This was a delaying strategy. Once the situation in Bianjing was not good, he could immediately go to Taiyuan to meet Prince Yun. The old emperor made this request, and the young emperor could not refuse to agree. He could not kidnap the old emperor back.
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