The couple met again here, and they would not mention how they hugged each other and cried bitterly.

On the island of Benzhou, Zhang Shijie took Qi Shu to see Zhao Dongting, and was praised and left with satisfaction.

Qi Shucai was broken into pieces and died of death by the car.

All night, although the soldiers were exhausted, they were full of energy to clean the battlefield. They couldn't stand the sleepiness, so they ran back to the barracks and hurriedly fell asleep. Then they tossed and turned by the joyful excitement of their hearts, unable to sleep well, and ran out of the barracks to continue cleaning the battlefield.

All the gains were handed over to the tenth master, who handed over to the centurion, and the centurion personally escorted them to the gathering point where the spoils were piled up.

Siege equipment, armor and weapons, scattered silver coins, piled up into several small hills.

The grain chariots of all sizes were shuttled through the streets and alleys, and even the street chariots were temporarily used to transport spoils, as well as the corpses of the fallen soldiers.

After two days, the battlefield was cleared. The ruins in the palace were broken, but the destroyed houses were not in time.

After the body was burned, Zhao Dongting was afraid that the soldiers would be exhausted, so he issued a strict order to return to the camp to rest. When he saw someone walking on the street, he would deal with it with military law. The excited soldiers then returned to the camp to sleep.

That night, the soldiers who woke up after sleeping were hungry and ate all the food stored on Benzhou Island.

The next morning court, Zhao Dongting announced that he would reward the three armies outside the south city gate three days later.

Chen Jianghan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, no longer made careful calculations and took out the money in stock to buy food. In two days, dozens of warships sailed to Leizhou Prefecture and bought wine, fruits, vegetables, grain, livestock, etc., and the things were often filled with warships, and hundreds of chefs from various counties along the coast were invited to return.

In order to prevent pirates from hijacking the ship, Wen Tianxiang personally led 5,000 soldiers to plunder the formation, flags fluttered, and the army was solemn.

Hundreds of craftsmen on the island rushed to make wine tables, working hard day and night.

Liu Hongyi was concerned about the soldiers of the Feitian Army. He accompanied his wife at the Kangding Escort Agency for two days and also took a boat back to Benzhou Island.

On the fourth morning after the battle, Zhao Dongting got up early, and Ying Er and Le Wu helped him dress up carefully, and it took about half an hour to go. Among them, Le Wu girls were mostly helping the poor and wasted time.

When they arrived at the Political Affairs Hall, all the ministers had arrived.

Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang separated from each other, with Zhang Shijie, Su Liuyi and others following closely.

As soon as Zhao Dongting sat on the dragon bed, he asked, "Mr. Lu, how are you preparing for the reward?"

Lu Xiufu stepped forward and replied, "Report to the emperor, the wine table and banquet are ready. Just wait for the auspicious time, the emperor can climb the city tower and reward the three armies."

"good!"

Zhao Dongting said loudly, and his heart was also excited.

The battles on Benzhou Island have been fierce, and they have won one after another, and their morale is high. He is naturally happy as the emperor.

The casualties have been counted long ago. Sixty thousand Leizhou troops attacked the island, the three armies surrendered, and the remaining 30,000 were killed, except for more than 3,000 people who surrendered on their knees. More than 4,000 Yuan troops and mutiny surrendered soldiers were also annihilated. The Southern Song court harvested more than 1,000 pieces of armor, hundreds of siege equipment, countless weapons and arrows, and 362 warships, and Qian Bao did not count.

The imperial guards lost only more than 2,300 soldiers, and the surrendered troops killed more than 8,600.

Most of these soldiers were killed in bloody battles in the city, and the Flying Army and the Powerful Army lost as many as 3,000 people.

At this time, there were 12,000 imperial guards, 7,000 flying troops, 7,800 guards, 6,900 Huzhou troops, 8,400 Yuan troops, and more than 3,600 surrendered soldiers on the island of Chanzhou. After two major battles, the Southern Song Dynasty's imperial court increased from 20,000 to nearly 50,000, which was a great victory. Although Zhao Dongting regretted the fallen soldiers, he was also happy about such a great victory.

If it weren't for the mutiny of the Yuan army and the lack of arrows, and with the convenience of defending the city, the imperial guards and the surrendered troops would have suffered less losses.

Zhao Dongting felt guilty towards the soldiers who followed Lin'an but were buried in this foreign land, but also knew that this was a war.

It is war, and casualties are inevitable.

At this time, Zhang Shijie suddenly walked out and said, "Emperor, how do you reward the commander of the three armies?"

The emperors in the past often discussed with their close ministers as soon as possible, but now the reward is imminent, Zhao Dongting never mentioned this. Not only him, but the rest of His Highness's ministers were also confused.

"I have a certainty in my mind."

Zhao Dongting waved his hand and said slowly: "My Song Dynasty court first acquired Leizhou, and everything is in ruins. I have decided to implement the new policy."

New policy?

The ministers in the hall, including Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and others, were all surprised because Zhao Dongting had not even revealed any noise before.

Zhao Dongting's eyes swept over their faces, and then said to himself: "I have decided to abolish the ancient laws and re-establish the official system. Abolish the left and right prime ministers, the three provinces and six ministries, and the twenty-four departments..."

As he said, the faces of His Highness and ministers became even heavier.

The abolition of ancient methods is a major event related to their interests.

At this time, Zhao Dongting continued: "From this year, the Ministry of State, Military Affairs, Supervision, and Law will be established. The four provinces are ranked side by side, and they are in charge of the functions of state affairs, military, supervision of officials and case-based decisions. The Ministry of Defense, diplomacy, education, finance, justice, personnel, construction, agriculture, science and technology will be established below the Ministry of State, and each performs its duties."

All the ministers in the palace were confused.

They heard Zhao Dongting say that the new policy would be implemented, but they did not expect it to be implemented so thoroughly, almost very different from before.

They naturally didn't know that Zhao Dongting had thought about it.

According to the old laws of the Southern Song Dynasty, most officials held high power and low positions, but Zhao Dongting came from time to time and did not care about these things.

According to his idea, it is to keep useful official positions, and remove useless official positions.

In the past, the Southern Song Dynasty had a huge bureaucracy, and just raising idle jobs for eating was a huge burden on the national finances. At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was in danger and almost started over again. Of course, Zhao Dongting would not miss the opportunity to implement the new policy in this way. He traveled through time with modern ideas, and naturally wanted to promote the modern official system in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In any case, the modern official system is always much more mature than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

His system is completely a modern social system that we learn from.

Someone of His Highness wanted to ask Zhao Dongting to think twice, but then he thought that the emperor had not announced the chief officials of various provinces and ministries at this time. What if he could serve as the chief officials of various provinces and ministries?

Therefore, the ministers kept their pressure and did not say anything.

Zhao Dongting knew what they were thinking, and smiled slightly outlined the corner of his mouth, saying, "Lu Xiufu came forward to listen to the seal."

"I'm here!"

Lu Xiufu walked out of the ranks.

Zhao Dongting said: "In this great victory, all the pillars and our soldiers have made contributions. I have said before that, once this battle is over, I will reward you. Lord Lu will assist in political affairs and govern the government affairs. I will also give you the title of State Council of the State Council, in charge of government affairs in the court, and in charge of various ministries."

Lu Xiufu was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed: "Thank you, the emperor."

In fact, there were still lengthy procedures for the appointment of a senior official in the Southern Song Dynasty, but at this moment of danger, everything was simple.

Zhao Dongting nodded slightly and said, "Wen Tianxiang came forward to listen to the seal."

Wen Tianxiang walked forward.

Zhao Dongting said: "Prime Minister Wen has made great contributions to the fight against the Yuan Dynasty and has great prestige among the people. I have promoted you to the Military Affairs Commission and Commander of the whole country."

Wen Tianxiang burst into tears and his eyes were red, "Thank you, the emperor!"

He just felt that his ambitions could finally be displayed.

Your Highness and ministers were stunned, and Zhang Shijie felt sweat on his forehead.

The State Council and the Military Affairs Bureau shall govern the military and political affairs, which is equivalent to taking all the power in the court, just like the previous Secretariat and the Privy Council.

Chen Yizhong fled. Zhang Shijie used to be the deputy envoy of Privy Councilor, which was equivalent to being the Privy Councilor. But now, the title of the military commander has not fallen on him. Doesn’t this mean that his military rank has been deprived?

Although he knew that the emergence would make Zhao Dongting displeased, he still couldn't help but step forward and said, "Your Majesty, everything is important to implement the new policy. Do you have a long-term plan?"

Of course, apart from him, few of His Highness’s ministers are qualified to raise objections.

Seeing him stand up, some officials close to him quickly followed and walked out of the line, "Please think twice!"

If Zhang Shijie takes charge of the military power, their entire faction will be a great blow.

Moreover, many of them were officials of the six ministries. They were quite alienated from Lu Xiufu because they were close to Zhang Shijie. If Lu Xiufu was in charge of various ministries, they would not have to change their families. At that time, the interests involved in the middle would be incalculable.

The atmosphere in the Political Consultation Hall suddenly became solemn and very subtle.

Zhao Dongting looked at this scene, not surprisingly. Since ancient times, there has been many obstacles in the reform of officials.

He knew that these ministers in the court had their own factions and would not easily allow him to touch their interests, but this also strengthened his determination to reform.

At this time, there were three or two big birds in the Southern Song Dynasty. If they could not be restructured, they would only become more difficult to restructure when they grow stronger in the future.

At this moment, his face became cold and he said heavily: "I have made up my mind. If anyone has any objections, he can resign and retire!"

He made up his mind that even if he lost a lot of talent, he would completely remove the chaotic and huge official system.

Zhang Shijie and the others were shocked when they heard Zhao Dongting say this. No one expected that the little emperor's courage was so great.

The officials from the Zhang Shijie faction dared not say anything anymore, and looked at Zhang Shijie in front of him in a vague way.

Zhang Shijie felt a dilemma at this time. If he retreated, the military power would be unsecured, but if he insisted on giving advice again...

He was wondering if Zhao Dongting would really let him resign and retire, but then he was shocked to find that he was in a state of vain.

Since Zhao Dongting took charge of the government, many actions have made him unable to figure out. Although he is a humeral minister and has power, he cannot tell whether Zhao Dongting will really abandon him. Moreover, with Zhao Dongting's current prestige, even if he resigns from office, he will probably not be able to make any big fuss.

More importantly, Zhang Shijie never thought of resigning and retiring.

Although he likes to win over factions and play with power, his heart is still towards the Song Dynasty and Zhao Dongting.

"The Emperor's Holy Spirit..."

Finally, Zhang Shijie sighed in his heart and slowly retreated back to the line.

Although he couldn't bear to give up his authority, he used to want to save the Song Dynasty from danger. At this moment, the emperor was wise, what else could he fight for?

When the ministers who were in the wind of his direction saw him retreat, they all followed him back to the lineup.

Even Zhang Shijie compromised, so they naturally would not overestimate their own abilities and advise them again.

Zhao Dongting nodded slightly and agreed with Zhang Shijie's actions. If Zhang Shijie dared to say more, he would really have the idea of ​​dismissing Zhang Shijie from office.
To be continued...