Probably he was telling Zhang Xianggong in a private message that the role of Zhuge Wuhou was to be the governor of logistics, and the current situation was not Zhuge Wuhou's Northern Expedition, but Liu Zhaolie's decisive battle in Hanzhong... Of course Zhuge Wuhou had to stay in Chengdu to prepare logistics, and Fa Zheng would definitely accompany him!

Zhuge Wuhou personally led the Northern Expedition, and it could only be when Liu Chan was in power!

It was half comforting and half warning. After writing it, there was no need to seal it, nor to call Lu Yihao and Fan Zongyin over. Instead, he used the signature of Zhao Jiu from Cangzhou, and then found Liu Yan and Ping Qingmori, and explained the matter to them in person. He asked Ping Qingmori to send the letter in secret, but in fact, he did not alarm anyone and directly delivered the letter to Zhang Xianggong in Tokyo overnight.

After the letter was sent out, Zhao Jiu had not received a reply yet. In the middle of the night, he received a letter of apology from Zhang Jun, in which he asked to withdraw the memorial and apologized to Emperor Zhao. This made Zhao Jiu feel a little better... He just thought that the guy was caught off guard and got emotional.

Just like that, the next morning, Emperor Zhao met Zhang Rong again at Shaoxingjin in Shaoxing. However, because Zhang Rong had to rush to Zilusha to meet Yue Fei, the two sides did not have much communication. They just shook hands and said goodbye, and said some words that were half formal and half sincere, asking him to cooperate well with Yue Fei, and then they parted ways.

On the road again, Zhao Jiu had lost his previous high spirits because of Zhang Jun's mischief, but his mood was still positive overall. By the afternoon of that day, the official was in high spirits again because he had seen the mobilization of the laborers along the river.

South of the Yellow River, countless laborers have begun to be recruited. Among them, the Linhe laborers that Zhao Jiu saw with his own eyes were mostly from military settlements and civilian settlements that had been resettled previously. Most of these people were those who had lost their homes during the chaos in the Central Plains and the displacement in Hebei, as well as old soldiers who retired from the army in the past five or six years.

They would receive simple weapons, restore a certain degree of military organization according to the garrisons, and then undertake the corvée labor of transporting military rations to Hebei. When necessary, they would serve as auxiliary troops and even become the necessary military force to defend the Yellow River defense line.

However, they did not receive any military pay, only the necessary food, and only those who crossed the river to serve as auxiliary troops received a small amount of financial subsidies.

There is nothing we can do about it, just like the South has to increase taxes and levies, there is nothing we can do about it.

But even so, this scene of the rich contributing money, the strong contributing manpower, and the whole country working together to move north still made Zhao Jiu feel a little excited and a little extra confidence, because he deeply understood the power of this force.

Moreover, Zhao Jiu already had some plans for post-war compensation in his mind, but it was too early to talk about it now.

All in all, this is how Emperor Zhao is. His mood is up and down all day long, but he quickly becomes happy again. And when the emperor is happy, everyone is naturally happy too.

But that evening, Emperor Zhao, who had arrived in Zaocheng, received another piece of news that made him furious - a huge military loophole had occurred in the Yuetai camp.

It turned out that the imperial edict was issued from Zilusha in the evening of September 20th. The knights of the Red Heart Team followed the military stations that had been set up along the Yellow River, changing horses and men along the way, and it took only one day and one night to deliver the imperial edict to Tokyo City, more than 300 miles away. After receiving the imperial edict, the imperial cavalry of the Yuetai camp hastily assembled under the leadership of Qu Duan, marched westward first, and the entire army was mobilized directly on September 22nd.

It's incredibly fast.

However, Li Shifu, deputy commander-in-chief of the Imperial Cavalry, actually forgot about the Poxi Army, which was just assigned to him last year and was so-called newly formed and stationed in the open area in the south of the city!

Poor commander of the Poxi Army, Weiming Yunge, had always been conscientious and had not dared to slack off for a moment over the years, wholeheartedly helping the Song Dynasty court to restore the establishment of the Poxi Army. After receiving the imperial edict this time, he immediately prepared 300 camel cannons of his own army at his base, as well as three times the number of spare camels and twice the number of small crossbow cannons with replacement devices... As a result, after hastily preparing them, he still did not receive any direct military orders until he found out that almost all of his 30,000 imperial cavalry had left, then he hurriedly went to find the Ministry of War and the Privy Council.

The Privy Council and the Ministry of War were also stunned. Finally, it was the Minister of Works Hu Yin, who was in charge of military supplies on the front line, who made a prompt decision and assigned the Poxi Army directly to Emperor Zhao's imperial carriage, asking him to wait temporarily and prepare to act with the imperial guards. Only then was the matter resolved.

It was under such circumstances that Emperor Zhao received the memorial.

To be honest, these two incidents, plus Wang Gang's previous defeat, have made Emperor Zhao completely alert. He is keenly aware that since ancient times, there has been no contingency plan for such a large-scale war.

In other words, the preparations for such a large-scale war would have been a disaster for everyone in the feudal era.

There are probably the same or even more civilians for 300,000 combat soldiers. Even if the number on the other side of the river is much smaller, it is of the same order of magnitude. A war of this scale is probably one of the most common in the entire history of Chinese feudalism.

The reason why he didn't dare to say it was unprecedented was because Zhao Jiu knew that the scale of the mobilization of the five routes to attack Xia during the reign of Emperor Shenzong was very large... However, that time, the Song army was directly collapsed by its own poor logistics.

Coming back to the present, after a little psychological preparation, Zhao Jiu immediately adjusted his mentality, then called Li Qiong and asked him to continue marching properly, but decided to lead the entourage and the imperial guards to speed up and return to Tokyo... Because Tokyo is where the army is the most densely populated, the bureaucracy is also the most densely populated, and the political effect must be the most obvious... The mistakes made must also be the most ridiculous.

Li Qiong certainly had nothing to say, and although some of the accompanying civil and military officials felt that Emperor Zhao was a little neurotic, they would certainly not make any suggestions on such matters.

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