Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 3 Where are my confidants?

Yang Yizhong’s arrival made the young Zhao Jiu very alert. It was a terrible feeling to be under surveillance all the time!

That evening, Emperor Zhao got angry like a cat with its fur standing on end. He ordered the ice cream made by Concubine Pan... which was actually some kind of milk-skin dessert... to be distributed to the soldiers of the Red Heart Team, and then he simply forced himself to stay in the team's tent!

Kang Lu sent people to invite Emperor Zhao again and again for this matter, but they were all driven back. Yang Yi Zhong and Liu Yan, the commander of the Chixin Battalion, who also arrived early but dared not speak, knelt on the ground to persuade him, but they could not shake Emperor Zhao's determination.

In the end, there was no choice but for everyone to let the government do as it pleased.

However, that evening, the autumn wind was blowing hard. Zhao Jiu was sleeping in the middle of the night when he suddenly heard a commotion outside the tent and saw a bright light of fire illuminating the tent. He jumped up in surprise.

"What happened?"

Just as Zhao Jiu was about to go out, he noticed a familiar figure illuminated by the bonfire outside the tent, so he actually lay back on the couch.

"Good instructor, I know that a few thieves from the Red Heart Team probably misunderstood your previous words because of rumors, and thought that the Jin army would be here soon, so they wanted to rebel and kidnap you to join the Jin army..." Yang Yizhong whispered across the tent.

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"But don't worry, Your Majesty. Most people still remember your kindness. Liu Yan also has the support of the Red Heart Team. There are only three or five traitors, and they were tied up by the people in the same camp just now."

"I'm not worried!" Zhao Jiu, who was lying on the couch, was upset and could only sigh. "I just don't know where the future lies!"

"If the emperor really does not want to go to Yangzhou, he might as well discuss it with the ministers again." After a moment, Yang Yizhong gave a reluctant answer.

But the response to Mr. Yang was silence.

Having said that, Zhao Jiu really had no fear or worry, nor was he angry about the sudden appearance of a few traitors in the loyal team in the evening... This is not to say how strong his heart is, how wise his mind is, or how broad his heart is. To put it bluntly, he still did not have a strong sense of substitution for this body and the current situation. He still felt that he was out of place.

As for the reason for this incompatibility, apart from the lack of necessary time to settle down, it was largely because he didn't know what he could do.

Logically speaking, a time traveler who came to this era would definitely fight against the Jin Dynasty. This is true from the perspective of national justice and morality, and also from a selfish perspective... After all, who wants to end up with the reputation of Zhao Gou in another time and space? The most despicable or irresponsible way is to sing and dance in Lin'an while supporting Yue Fei's attack on Huanglong, right?

From a rational point of view, we must also resist the Jin people. Even if Zhao Jiu had no historical knowledge, he had at least received nine years of basic compulsory education. He at least knew that it was impossible to surrender to a barbaric nation like the Jin people. As long as the Jin people felt that they had the opportunity and the strength, they would definitely take the initiative to fight you!

The more you give in, the more they will bully you!

Even if Zhao Gou was able to successfully negotiate peace in history, wasn't it because of the fighting on the front lines by Yue Fei and Han Shizhong?

Even from a supernatural perspective, we should resist the Jin Dynasty!

Thinking about how Zhao Jiu traveled through time in the Taoist Temple, if there really were gods and monsters, it was impossible that the Taoist sent him here to let him lead the Song Dynasty to surrender to the Jin people and complete national integration earlier, right?

So, Zhao Jiu had thought it through very early on. If he couldn't go back here, he had to fight against the Jin! This was the main mission of himself as a time traveler, and he couldn't avoid it!

Historically, the Song-Jin War was in fact the main contradiction in China for decades to come.

But, for the moment, he really doesn't know how to fight against the Jin?

You must know that as the Emperor Zhao, Zhao Jiu has not been idle these days. Even if some people are deliberately isolating and fooling him, he has learned some information from other directions (mainly from the lower-level shifts) about the current chaotic scene and situation... For example, the army of the Song Dynasty has basically not had any military victory since it tried to retake the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and the army has been defeated again and again!

Song and Jin joined forces to attack Liao, and Tong Guan sent 200,000 of the most elite field troops to Youyan!

The first invasion of the Jin army to the south opened the first half of the Jingkang Shame. Liang Shicheng first sent hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei! Then, under the city of Taiyuan and the city of Bianliang, the wise men of the Song Dynasty and the famous generals of the Western Army, of course, the most important ones were the so-called two saints Huizong and Qinzong, who jointly sent another 200,000!

After finally getting through this wave with the efforts of various royalist troops and the pro-war factions in the city, the two saints destroyed the Great Wall and disbanded their troops. As a result, when the Jin army suddenly invaded the south for the second time, which was the recent one that led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were actually no soldiers left under the city of Tokyo!

As a joke, the Song Dynasty had been plagued by redundant soldiers for hundreds of years, and Wang Anshi worked hard to solve it but failed. However, it was solved by the Khitans and Jurchens in just a few years!

Of course, the country also perished, and its finances went bankrupt... Hundreds of years of policies of strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches had concentrated the essence of the country in a small city of Tokyo. So once it fell, the entire country's army, finances, officials, craftsmen, and strategic reserves were emptied overnight!

This is also the reason why this body is clearly the biological son of Song Huizong, and he ascended the throne in Nanjing (Shangqiu), but is called a new regime.

Now, back to the present, the only organized, large-scale professional army in the entire Song Dynasty is now in Guanzhong and the northwest, which are the so-called remnants of the Western Army. However, the roads are blocked by Wanyan Loushi, the ever-victorious general of the Jin Dynasty. The southeast, Jingxiang, and Bashu, which can collect taxes, also need time to transfer and coordinate.

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