After thinking for a while, Zhao Chen agreed to Wu Jie's request!

Indeed, Jiangnan does not need so many troops to station now! Instead, fighting north is now in need of troops! Moreover, after the war in the north is over, the army will still go north to attack Huanglong, completely eliminate the Jurchens, and even clear the grasslands. These all require troops!

Wu Jie's navy was only used to pacify the south of the Yangtze River, which was really a bit useless.

In the following days, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Liu Guangshi, Li Qiong and others led more than 100,000 troops to snipe the remaining Dongting Lake Rebel Army.

Almost effortlessly, the remnants of Dongting Lake were wiped out.

In fact, most Dongting Lake rebels had no intention of fighting again after hearing the news that Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo were killed.

Over the years, they have lived such a worried life. Zhao Chen's imperial decree is that as long as they surrender, they will not blame all their sins, so no one is willing to resist.

By July 15th, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Dongting Lake were either wiped out or surrendered, and the war here was basically over.

At this point, the Dongting Lake Rebellion was quelled!

At noon, the red sun was roasting the earth and the weather became extremely hot again.

Zhao Chen had arrived in Dongting Lake from Miluo County at this moment. He and Wu Jie, Wu Lin and others sat on a large ship.

The waves were sparkling and dazzling, but the three of them were discussing strategies to pacify the two Huaihe Rivers.

"Leave 20,000 troops in Dongting Lake. Wu Lin, you lead 30,000 troops north, which is enough to pacify the two Huaihe Rivers!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, I want to follow you north too." Wu Lin said.

"This is not possible. Jiangnan needs a general to guard it." Zhao Chen said with a wry smile.

He could understand Wu Lin's idea. Wu Lin also wanted to make achievements, but Jiangnan was so important that there must be no turmoil. Therefore, it is certain that the generals were stationed in large numbers! Wu Jie and Wu Lin were both famous generals in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since Wu Jie followed him to the north, Wu Lin had to stay.

"Just let Wu Gong stay here." Wu Lin said.

Wu Gong is Wu Jie's eldest son, only fifteen years younger than Wu Jie. He also joined the army early and is now also a general in the army.

"He can't do it. He is too young to handle big things." Wu Jie said without hesitation.

Wu Gong is actually a famous general in history! In the original history of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Wu family guarded Sichuan and Shu for three generations. It was not until the Mongols finally came that the Wu family destroyed with the demise of Sichuan and Shu! The Wu family emerged in many generations, and was a famous family of famous generals in history. However, as Wu Jie said, Wu Gong is still too young now, only twenty years old, and is not enough to guard such an important place in Jiangnan.

"I understand." Wu Lin felt a little unhappy.

"Putting down the two Huaihe Rivers is mainly to pacify the six counties of Xiangyang! As long as the six counties of Xiangyang are pacified, the two Huaihe Rivers will naturally be stable, and the remaining bandits can only hide in the mountains. At that time, they can be slowly wiped out." Wu Jie said.

"I understand." Wu Lin nodded.

He was quite dissatisfied with it. There were about 100,000 bandits in the Lianghuai River, but they were divided into countless groups. These bandits also occupied several cities, but they did not develop the economy, but they could only burn, kill, loot, and the local people hated these bandits. These bandits had no organization, and when they fought, they were like the Dongting Lake rebel army. Under the leadership of the leader, the minions rushed forward. In Wu Lin's view, such a mob was vulnerable, and he was confident that he could wipe out the Lianghuai River within a few months. In history, Yue Fei led 30,000 troops to completely eliminate the Lianghuai River within a few months. The strength of the Lianghuai River was indeed too weak.

"After pacifying the two Huaihe Rivers, there will be bandits in Henan and other places, and you will also destroy bandits in these places! In addition, if the Jurchens in the Central Plains are completely defeated, some remaining troops may go south, and you will also be responsible for eliminating them! Also, there are some pirates in the south of the Yangtze River, and these are also under your management! In short, your task is also very heavy! If you can handle these well, the great contribution will not be to pacify the Central Plains! After all, there is no problem in pacifying the Central Plains and destroying the Jurchens is a foregone conclusion. On the contrary, you will lead 50,000 troops to station in Jiangnan and let the people in Jiangnan live and work in peace and contentment. This is a great contribution." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"I will understand it in the end." Wu Lin said.

"Wu Jie, let's go back to Lin'an in the afternoon. After arriving in Lin'an, we will go to the sea and head north along the sea route! I originally wanted to take Liu Guangshi, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others from land to the north. Now Liu Guangshi, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others have also left them to Wu Lin to deal with!" Zhao Chen said.

"Okay!" Wu Jie agreed.

*******

On that afternoon, Wu Jie led an army of 50,000 to a large ship, took a large ship to the north of Dongting Lake, and then entered the Yangtze River from there.

Wang Shu followed Zhao Chen to the north! In the past three months in Jiangnan, he had established a branch of the Propaganda Department here and sent elite personnel to manage it! Now the Central Plains War is about to break out. Once the Central Plains is conquered, the Propaganda Department's task will be even heavier, so he must also bring the remaining Propaganda Department elites into the Central Plains and be ready to work at any time.

Kang An originally led 10,000 imperial camps to follow Zhao Chen to the south and enter Jiangnan. Now he left five thousand people to be commanded by Wang De, and he brought the remaining five thousand people to the north with Zhao Chen.

Originally, Kang An was only responsible for Zhao Chen's security, but now he has taken over the Intelligence Department and is responsible for reporting important information to Zhao Chen at any time.

The fleet headed north with a breeze. After all, it was autumn, and by dusk, the weather had become cooler.

Zhao Chen and Song Qingyao stood at the bow of the boat.

Zhao Chen held Song Qingyao's hand and gently kneaded it. Song Qingyao looked at him with some anger.

"I have been in Dongting Lake for a long time. Now I want to say goodbye, and I feel a little reluctant." Song Qingyao said.

"The scenery here is so beautiful. There are so many reed marshes over there... Look, so many water birds!" Zhao Chen pointed ahead and said in surprise.

"Well, the products here are also very rich, and there are many fish in the lake! This radius is 800 miles, and I don't know how much production is in a year!" Song Qingyao said.

"Eight hundred miles of Dongting! In another thousand years, I'm afraid you won't be able to see these scenes!" Zhao Chen said.

"One thousand years? How do you know you can't see it?" Song Qingyao argued.

"I guessed." Zhao Chen laughed.

In fact, there is Dongting Lake a thousand years later, but the area of ​​Dongting Lake has been reduced by more than half, far less than now! In later generations, due to ecological destruction, many lakes and rivers can no longer be found! For example, the Yellow River, originally had a huge water flow and rolling waves, and it is called the mother river of the Chinese nation. It flooded almost every year. After the reform and opening up, ecological destruction, the Yellow River was flooded, not to mention flooding, it was already very good to be able to keep flowing! Of course, it may also be other factors! For example, Liangshanpo in the Song Dynasty was a big positive surface, and it was the largest lake in the north, called "Little Dongting", with a radius of hundreds of miles. The Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty took place there! Later, when the Jin Dynasty invaded and the Mongols invaded, there were rebels fighting guerrillas and resisting with foreign Tartars, but because the Yellow River changed its path, Liangshanpo had completely disappeared!

Zhao Chen hopes that the Han people will not follow the old path of ecological destruction, and hopes that all these beautiful scenery can be kept!

He secretly vowed that he would urge the people to protect the ecology in the future and make China's ecology consistent.

"Husband, you have all my junior sisters caught me! In the past, they just practiced martial arts with me and hardly participated in the rebellion. You let them go." After a while, Song Qingyao suddenly said.

"Okay! I'll let them go. They're just some little girls, and it's not interesting for me to lock them up! After I let them go, when I leave Jiangnan, someone will be with you." Zhao Chen said.

"I don't want to stay alone in Jiangnan." Song Qingyao gritted her silver teeth and said.

"I go to the north and have great things to do! I am the emperor of the Song Dynasty, so I must go! You are pregnant now. If you follow me all the way, I am afraid that the child will be affected! Besides, the war in the north is likely to happen, and I cannot let you take risks! You stay in Lin'an, wait until the war in the Central Plains ends, or after the child is born, you come to the north again, or I send someone to pick you up, and it is possible that I will return to Jiangnan by myself." Zhao Chen said.

"I can't bear to leave you." Song Qingyao's eyes were slightly red and she said.

She didn't know what was wrong with her. She didn't meet Zhao Chen before, and although she missed her, she was not as unsuccessful as she could not let go. However, in recent days, she has been with Zhao Chen every day, feeling Zhao Chen's tenderness and affection, and only a few days later, she was unwilling to be separated from Zhao Chen no matter what, and just wanted to be with Zhao Chen.

In the past, she was just unrequited love, but now she is in love, so it is naturally different.

She didn't understand so much, she just didn't want Zhao Chen to leave.

"You have only three or four months left. In a few months, will you follow me on the battlefield with your big belly?" Zhao Chen said.

"Hate." Song Qingyao said angrily.

"Okay, you'll stay here! I miss you every day in my heart. I will write to you about some things that happened in the north, and you can also write to me." Zhao Chen said.

"Okay." Song Qingyao nodded slightly.

Although she couldn't bear to let it go, she also knew that Zhao Chen must go north. At the moment, she leaned against Zhao Chen, and she knew that she could stay with Zhao Chen for more than ten days, and it was time for the real separation when she arrived in Lin'an.

"Can you let the master go?" After leaning like this for a while, Song Qingyao suddenly looked up and said.

"The Demon Queen?" Zhao Chen frowned gently and said, "You can't let her go now! But don't worry, we won't abuse her. I will detain her in Lin'an prison, alone! After arriving in Lin'an, you can also go see her, talk to her, bring her some books and other things, but you can't let her go! When the world is truly unified, the court is stable and the White Lotus Sect will no longer have any threat to the court, and I will let her go."

Song Qingyao sighed softly and nodded.

She knew that this was the best ending for the master.

She and her master grew up together and treated her master as a mother. As long as the master can live and still be free in the future, she will be relieved. As for the master's ambition, she will never help the master realize it.

"I really don't want you to leave!" After a while, she turned around, hugged Zhao Chen tightly, closed her eyes gently, Zhao Chen reached out and hugged her tightly, kissed her lightly on her face, and then let go.

The ship walked north like this, and even the night did not stop. After arriving in Yueyang, the fleet entered the Yangtze River and then headed south.

On July 25, the fleet came from Qiantang River to Lin'an, Hangzhou.

Zhao Chen brought Song Qingyao to the palace and placed Song Qingyao in Lin'an Palace.
Chapter completed!