The answer to this question is also very simple - Meihua Han is nothing! How many control departments does he have?

However, Lu Yihao did not directly answer this simple question. Instead, he became a little serious, because he realized that Emperor Zhao's "worry" must be more than that, so he simply lowered his head to eat the still hot steamed bun.

Sure enough, Zhao Jiu saw that the other party was silent, but he continued to chatter:

"I am also worried that after the war, the North will not be able to resume production for a while, and will then need blood transfusions from the South for assistance. Will the South be able to tolerate this? Will there be another division between the North and the South? Will the people in the South feel that I am deceiving them and lose confidence in the court?"

"What I am worried about is that Yanjing is fine, but the land outside the Great Wall is the foundation of the Jin Kingdom. If Hebei can win, can we win outside the Great Wall? If we go out of the Great Wall to pursue and lose in one battle, will the Jin Kingdom rise again and fight against the Song Dynasty repeatedly?"

"What I am also worried about is that Dali and Nanyue are fine, but how can we maintain the balance between the Song Dynasty and Western Liao, Eastern and Western Mongolia, and Goryeo after the war? If we cannot directly attack Huanglong, will Goryeo turn around and form an alliance with the Jurchens to be hostile to us? And if we wipe out the Jin people in one go, but cannot control the areas outside the Great Wall, will Mongolia...especially Eastern Mongolia, take the Khitan Dasonglin and Huangshui old lands, and rise from the north for the third time after the Khitan and Jurchens, and become the new major concern of the Song Dynasty?"

At this point, Zhao Jiu finally sighed, "Prince Lu, of course I know your character, and I also know that you came here to persuade me to send troops. I also know that you came here because you learned about the Hebei announcement and knew that the Jin Kingdom had tried to dig up the river bank... But how could I not know what you know? In fact, I have decided to send troops after hearing about this from Qu Duan this afternoon. Datong Prefecture also has an urgent matter, asking Wu Jie to make a prompt decision and try to bring as many trustworthy troops as possible to quickly join us in the south... However, my decision to send troops does not mean that I cannot be worried, and I should not be worried...Prince Lu, how do you think these things should be handled?"

After finishing the third roasted bread, Lu Yihao was silent for a long time before he bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty's thoughts are deeper than I thought... This time I was reckless... But please forgive me for being frank. All the post-war internal and external affairs are worth worrying about, but as long as Your Majesty grasps one point, none of them are worth worrying about."

"Please give me some advice, sir." Zhao Jiu remained calm.

"As long as the emperor still has 300,000 soldiers in the imperial camp, he will be able to look down on the world and suppress the people." At this point, Lu Yihao raised a cup of wine to the emperor, and then drank it all. "By then, the emperor will have the power to destroy the Jin Dynasty and control the elite forces in the world. What does it matter if there are some problems?"

"If that's the case, I have one last worry." Zhao Jiu suddenly laughed again. "Prime Minister Lu, if we win this battle, the Jin Kingdom will be weak. Why should the country use up all its annual revenue to maintain 300,000 troops in the imperial camp? Even if I want to control the elite forces of the world by threatening to destroy the Jin Kingdom, 300,000 troops are too many. It would be better to reduce the troops and withdraw the generals, right? Would it cause riots? Would it cause disunity in the army?"

Lu Yihao also laughed again: "This is what I really want to say... Your Majesty, I would like to ask, no matter how difficult the post-war situation is, is it as difficult as the situation after Jingkang ten years ago?"

"Of course not." Zhao Jiu smiled.

"At that time, even the imperial camp was not organized, and even Han Shizhong's subordinates almost killed Prime Minister Zhao, causing the emperor to almost flee in embarrassment... Then, may I ask the emperor, will the suspicion among the people after the war be more serious than it was then?"

"Of course not."

"Then how did the emperor survive back then?" Lu Yihao suddenly became serious.

"It's nothing more than the feeling that there are still some trustworthy and respectable people in this world." Zhao Jiu answered fluently.

"Yes, there are always some people like Zong Zhongwu who go against the tide and go down in history." Lu Yihao thought. "Moreover, I also understand what the emperor means. As the saying goes, we can share adversity, but not wealth... People who are trustworthy today may not be trustworthy tomorrow when the situation changes."

"Will there be one?" Zhao Jiu asked without further ado.

"There will be some, but they are few after all." Having said this, Lu Yihao raised his head, looked at the bright moon in the sky and sighed. "Your Majesty, I want to ask you one more question. People like Zong Zhongwu, Han Junwang, and Li Jiedu are of course hard to find in the world, but the rest of the people around you... I won't say those general words, just say that today, there are hundreds of thousands of people in and outside Taiyuan... These hundreds of thousands of people gathered under your dragon flag, not hesitating their lives, to attack Jin and Song, why? Are they all the heroes of ancient times, are they all the same as Yan'an Junwang and Zong Zhongwu?"

"Of course not."

“So can they be trusted?”

"Of course it's credible."

“Are they respectable?”

"Of course it's respectable?"

“Why are they trustworthy and respectable?”

Zhao Jiu suddenly fell silent.

"When can you pick the moon? Worry comes from it, and it cannot be stopped." Lu Yihao pointed to the moon in the sky, but lowered his head to look at Emperor Zhao, and spoke seriously. "That's because you, the supreme ruler who holds the power of the world, have spent ten years proving again and again that they can trust you and respect you... It is because you treat people with sincerity that they can trust you, and they can trust you; it is because you follow the trend of the Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty and remain unshakable that you can respect them, and they can respect you... Even Zong Zhongwu, if he didn't trust Your Majesty, how could he have entrusted you with the task that day?"

Under the bright moon, Zhao Jiu was in a trance for a moment... Is that so?

"Even Lü Haowen, Li Gang, Xu Jingheng, and even the likes of Zhao Zhang, Han Li Yue, Wu Ma Wang in the army, and me... Isn't it because of your trust that we have the grace of the monarch and his subjects today?" Lü Yihao put down his fingers and sighed. "Your Majesty, as the emperor, is concerned about the world, and it is normal to have those worries, but if you yourself have not changed your sincere heart after the war, if you have not betrayed the public and enriched yourself, if you can share hardships but not happiness, how can the people of the world change? The mountains are never too high, the sea is never too deep, Zhou Gong spits out food for food, and the world is at peace... The world is like this, please relax."

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