In terms of Wang Fu's vital interests, he could never allow the prince to ascend the throne. For so many years, he has been the main force in promoting Prince Yun to replace the prince. The Fan Dang case has even made a precise blow to Prince Zhao Huan, and it is almost successful. At this time, the emperor was about to abdicate, and Wang Fu suddenly felt that the building was about to collapse.

Wang Fu lay on the ground, crying in tears, saying, "The disaster of the Jin army is not your majesty's fault. The Song-Jin alliance has received support from all the civil and military officials of the court. The Jin army defeated Liao, and the empress was strongly recommended by me. If I ask this, I should die. What does it have to do with Your Majesty?"

Zhao Ji sighed, "What's the point of saying this now? I am ashamed of my ancestors and subjects all over the world. I will bear the responsibility I deserve."

"Your Majesty, changing commanders at the last stage is a taboo for military strategists, and the country is also the same. Now the country is in crisis. Your Majesty should stabilize the overall situation. The king and his subjects are united and their interests are cut off. As long as the king and his subjects work together to fight against the barbarians, they will definitely be able to expel the Jin soldiers. The villain has ulterior motives and rudely advises Your Majesty to abdicate. This will kill the country. Your Majesty must not listen to it."

Zhao Ji nodded slightly, "The king and his subjects are united, and their strengths are used to cut off gold. This is very good, and the king has his heart."

He asked Cai Jing again, "What do you think of Xianggong Cai?"

Cai Jing kept silent, standing aside to observe every change in Zhao Ji's expression and figure out his thoughts.

Cai Jing can see now that it may be because of the situation that forced the government to abdicate, but in fact he was unwilling to abdicate at all. Under Wang Fu's quibbling, the idea of ​​the government abdicate had quickly faded. At this time, it would undoubtedly be a humiliation to persuade the government to abdicate. Although Cai Jing wanted the prince to immediately take the throne and severely punish Wang Fu, decades of official experience told Cai Jing that he must adopt a conservative attitude at this time.

Cai Jing said slowly: "Now the Jin soldiers have just broken through the first defensive line. We still have 100,000 elite soldiers in Xiangzhou. King Kang led his army to defend Xiangzhou to the death. I believe that His Highness Kang will definitely live up to the holy grace and extinguish the arrogance of the enemy. Besides, there is a natural danger in the Yellow River, and it is difficult for the Jin soldiers to leap even if they have wings. Your Majesty does not need to be too anxious. The situation is far from worsening."

Cai Jing's comfort completely supported Zhao Ji's confidence. He nodded, "But I do have a responsibility. This is undeniable. The situation is critical now, and I am exhausted and I am afraid I am unable to take charge of the overall situation. Therefore, I am considering letting the prince supervise the country. I go to Hangzhou for summer vacation and recuperation. Do the two husbands think it is feasible?"

If the prince is in charge of the country, he does not have to abdicate himself, and he will also blame himself, nor will he issue an edict to be guilty. Moreover, even if the battle is not good, he can put the blame on the poor supervision of the country. No matter how you look at it, this is the best solution.

Wang Fu could accept this plan when the prince was in charge of the country but did not abdicate, but Wang Fu thought it was inappropriate when he went to the south to avoid chaos. Once the prince was in power and the official family was far away in Jiangnan, the prince forced himself to ascend the throne, and the official family was beyond reach.

"Your Majesty asked the prince to supervise the country, and I also think it is feasible, but as Mr. Cai said just now, the situation is far from worsening, and there is still natural danger in the Yellow River. I think your Majesty can better stabilize the morale of the army and the people in the capital. I hope your Majesty will think twice!"

Zhao Ji was a little hesitant, as if Wang Fu was right. Now he was a little too anxious to go south. He looked at Cai Jing again, and Cai Jing bowed and said, "Your Majesty changed Hangzhou to Nanjing Prefecture. I agree. Your Majesty went to the south to rest. I also agree. However, Hangzhou had suffered from Fang La's tragedy. The city had not been completely restored, and there was no palace for Your Majesty to live in. It would be better to send someone to Hangzhou to build a palace first. If the situation is really bad in half a year, the palace had been repaired at that time, and it would not be too late for Your Majesty to go south to rest."

Cai Jing was actually against Zhao Ji's going south, but he was more implicit. After understanding Zhao Ji's weakness of greed for enjoyment, he used the Hangzhou city block to destroy it. Without a palace living, he attacked Zhao Ji's intention to go south. Zhao Ji pondered for a moment. He was indeed a little embarrassed. He led a large number of imperial concubines and palace maids to go south. How can he not live in a tent? You can't live in a private house!

"Okay! I'm thinking about it, you guys step down first!"

"I'm going to leave!"

Cai Jing and Wang Fu retreated, Zhao Ji walked a few steps behind his hands, and he remembered the historical incident cited by Li Gang. If the prince really took advantage of his opportunity to ascend the throne without authorization, it would be troublesome. Zhao Ji resolutely made up his mind to not leave for the time being and to monitor the prince, how could he allow him to easily seize his throne?

One hour later, Emperor Zhao Ji issued an edict from the ban, announcing that the prince would supervise the country and be fully responsible for the fight against the Jin soldiers. Except for the appointment and removal of court officials above the fourth rank, the prince would handle all the political affairs of the military and military affairs in the court.

Although Zhao Ji threw a lot of bad things to the prince Zhao Heng, he still firmly controlled the power of personnel in his own hands.

‘Bang!’ A inkstone hit the ground hard and suddenly fell to pieces. Zhao Huan was so angry that his face turned red and shouted in anger: “It made a mess in the world, but I asked me to clean up the mess, and I called the selves. After the selves are cleaned up, would you kick me away again? It would be better if you don’t want such a selves!”

Wu Min silently picked up the fragments on the ground, handed them over to the palace maid next to her, and sent her out. Then he whispered to Zhao Huan: "Although your highness is the crown prince, he is also a minister. The father and son are in a normal state. There is a difference between the king and the minister. No matter what Your Highness said just now, I am not right. Please calm down and be patient, and don't give anyone a handle!"

Zhao Huan slowly calmed down and sighed, "The treacherous ministers are in power, and the country is weak. What else do I have to do to turn the tide? I am under a lot of pressure!"

"Your Highness, pressure is also a responsibility. Your Highness is not determined today for the crown prince. This is the responsibility that Your Highness must bear. As long as Your Highness responds actively, you will be able to turn the tide and achieve great things that will never happen."

Zhao Huan nodded, "Then what should I do?"

"First of all, Your Highness will go to the palace to thank you and make a positive statement. Secondly, Your Highness must come up with a clear plan to retreat to the enemy, so that the officials can hand over the power to Your Highness with confidence. These two matters are top priority."

"But where do I have a clear plan to retreat to the enemy?"

Wu Min pondered for a moment and said, "Weiqian advised your highness to talk to Li Gang first. Weiqian felt that his thinking was very clear, and perhaps it could give you some inspiration."

"Will the father misunderstand when summoning Li Gang now?"

"Your Highness, the enemy is facing each other, and you can no longer care about these minor details."

Zhao Huan thought that his father had given up his decision to abdicate and he really had no good worries, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! I'll summon Li Gang now!"

Li Gang just scratched his scalp and was well ill after being treated by the imperial physician. He had already gone home to rest, but received an urgent summon from the prince. He had to hurry to the East Palace. At this time, the prince had already declared the prince a supervisor. So the prince was normal to receive ministers, and many previous surveillance measures were also cancelled.

Under the guidance of a eunuch, Li Gang walked into the Qinzheng Hall of the East Palace, "Please please, Shaoqing Li! Your Highness is waiting in the study."

Li Gang quickly walked into the Prince's study room in the back hall, and saw Prince Zhao Huan standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back. Li Gang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "I'm going to see His Highness the Prince!"

"Li Shaoqing doesn't have to be too polite, please sit down!"

Seeing that a chair had been set up next to him, Li Gang sat down. At this time, Zhao Huan turned around and looked at Li Gang, "It doesn't matter Shaoqing's forehead, right?" he asked with concern.

Li Gang touched the paste on his forehead and shook his head and said, "Thank you for your concern, but you just scratched a little skin, it's okay!"

Zhao Huan didn't want to talk about this issue anymore. He sat down in front of the table and said slowly: "The father has appointed me as the governor. Does Shaoqing know?"

"I have heard of it!"

"But this ruling country is not easy to be a ruling country!"

Zhao Huan sighed, "The situation is very serious. Where should I start? Can Shaoqing teach me?"

"I am just a little bit of a humble opinion and cannot be given a pretext." Li Gang was a little modest.

Zhao Huan smiled slightly, "Li Shaoqing, but it's okay!"

Li Gang knew that this was not a humble time, so he was no longer polite and said frankly: "Weichen believes that there is an important issue that we must first figure out why the Jin Kingdom chose to invade the south at this time?"

"You said!" Zhao Huan suddenly became interested.

"Any major military and national decision will have a clear strategic purpose, and the Jin Kingdom is no exception. At this time, if the Jin Kingdom invaded the capital of the Great Song Dynasty and wanted to gain benefits through war, then I would say that it was a very unwise decision for the Jin Kingdom to attack the Great Song Dynasty in the summer. First of all, the natural danger of the Yellow River cannot be overcome. The Jin Kingdom's intention to attack the Great Song Dynasty for a long time! Why can't I stand it for half a year?

If they really want to attack the capital, why don’t they wait until the Yellow River freezes in winter to go south, then they can directly kill to the city of Tokyo. We understand this principle, and the Jin Kingdom understands better, but they still launched a war in June, so I can say with certainty that the strategic goal of the Jin Kingdom’s invasion south is not the capital.”

"Where will that be?" Zhao Ji asked anxiously.

Li Gang said slowly: "Taiyuan!"

Zhao Huan's face suddenly turned pale. Yesterday he asked Zhao Jici to send a secret letter to Li Yanqing's father, asking Li Yanqing to give up Taiyuan and withdraw back to Tokyo. He originally thought that his father had decided to abdicate, so he needed Li Yanqing's army to protect himself from ascending the throne and gain power, but his father finally changed his homage. Now it seems that his decision is really too unwise and even too hasty.

Zhao Huan was really a little restless. He had to send a letter to Li Yanqing immediately to destroy yesterday's decision.

Li Gang did not understand Zhao Huan's thoughts, and he continued: "Since the Jin Dynasty's goal was Taiyuan, then the Jin soldiers in Hebei were more to restrain the Song army from supporting Hedong. It is basically certain that the Jin soldiers will never risk crossing the Yellow River at present."

"Then what should I do?" Zhao Huan asked again.

"The Jin soldiers are not only in the Yellow River now, which does not mean that they will not come at the end of the year. So before the Yellow River freezes, we have half a year. Please use this six months to actively prepare for war, consolidate the defense of the capital, and establish a defense line in the Yellow River. This is what Your Highness has to do in the next six months, but"

"But what?" Zhao Huan was in a daze when he heard this, Li Gang stopped at the critical moment. He urged anxiously: "Speak quickly!"

"I want to say that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapons. If Your Highness wants to effectively mobilize the army to strengthen its defense, it may not work with the current court, unless Your Highness has the absolute right to appoint important officials."

"But my father only gave me the right to appoint officials under the fourth rank."

Li Gang smiled and said, "Most of the officials who have real power in the court are below the fourth rank. I suggest that Your Highness establish a wartime military conference hall, which is fully in charge of military and material mobilization, and even the Zhizheng Hall must not interfere."
Chapter completed!