The sudden appearance of a man like Du Chong comforted Emperor Zhao. In fact, it was snowing that night, and Zhao Jiu returned to the palace. On the one hand, he summoned Du Chong's second son Du Yan to issue an order, and on the other hand, he asked Du Chong's son-in-law Han Ru to enter the palace. Then, with Xiao Lin and Yang Yi Zhong by his side, he asked Du Chong about his resume and background in detail... It was obvious that he was still a little worried.

But after listening to it, I could only nod my head repeatedly and sigh in silence.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to point fingers at Du Chong and say that he had problems. At this point, Du Chong had only two problems. One was that he was too "fierce" in his early anti-Jin resistance. When he was guarding Cangzhou in the border area, he killed the common people who fled from the north to the south as spies of the Jin army; the other was that he abandoned the city when he was in Daming Prefecture.

However, these two things are really not a big deal these days.

There were many murderous generals in the Song army. Even though Du Chong attracted criticism, it was only because he was a civil servant, and it was a bit beneath his status to be accused of indiscriminate killing. In addition, Zhao Jiu, who was probably the only one in the court who was sensitive to such things, was not very clear about the events in the early years of the Jing Kang period. When he heard the vague words three years later, it was unlikely that he really knew what had happened at that time.

As for escaping back from Hebei...to put it bluntly, who didn't escape back from Hebei?

In fact, after this person fled from Daimyo Prefecture to Tokyo, he still maintained his treatment and was appointed as the prefect of the old capital. In fact, he became a senior official of the Tokyo Lyushusi, which shows the attitude of both the upper and lower levels towards this person.

At that time, Zhao Jiu had not yet seized power, and many things were entrusted to four ministers. Now, when he thought about it again, he simply suspected that the candidate Du Chong was just like Zhang Suo he designated, who was the backup of the Tokyo Liaison Office designated by the capital province.

Because it’s so suitable!

That’s right, compared to those two black spots, there were many things that Du Chong and the Tokyo Liaison Office had in common.

In terms of qualifications, this person was a Jinshi during the reign of Emperor Zhezong, and he also served as the governor of Daming Prefecture. His age and resume are very stable; in terms of his native place, his Xiangzhou origin is particularly eye-catching...

It must be emphasized here that the reason why this native place is eye-catching has nothing to do with the fact that he is from the same hometown as Yue Fei... Zhao Jiu will pay attention to these, but Lu Haowen and others will not care about these... The main reason is that the native place of Xiangzhou, Hebei, has great significance to the Tokyo Liaison Office.

You know, the army is divided into factions. For the previous Song Dynasty, it has always been divided into three factions according to the region: the Western Army, the Hebei Imperial Army, and the Tokyo Direct Imperial Army.

Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, Daxin, Xiaoxin and Tangxin are all from the Western Army.

The troops of the Tokyo Garrison had mixed origins, and were brought together by Zong Ze's personal charm and ability. Among them were a small number of Western Army troops, such as the commander Sang Zhong, who was a lieutenant under Zhong Shidao; there were also many local imperial guards; but most of those who dared to fight and were able to fight were still mainly military bandits, refugees, and rebel forces that had fled from Hebei and Hedong. This group of people naturally had the local color of Hebei, or it could be said that it was precisely because they were born in Hebei that they dared to fight and were able to fight, and because they had a personal feud with the Jin people.

Yue Fei was the backbone of this faction, and Yue Fei had a fellow countryman named Zhang Yong, who was also the commander of the Tokyo Residential Office. If Kong Yanzhou is included, when the front line was at its peak, there were a total of four officials above the commander level from Tangyin, Xiangzhou (including Wang Gui).

This shows the importance of the issue of native place there.

In other words, once Zong Ze, the de facto founder of the Tokyo Liaison Office, dies, only a senior official from Hebei can stabilize this huge refugee military group!

Zhao Jiu even suspected that if Zhang Suo didn't die, but Zong Ze died, then Zhang Suo, who was born in Jingdong, might not be able to suppress the troops of the Jingdong Liaison Office, and Du Chong would have to step in at that time... You see, Zong Ze should just have a health problem at this time, and he is not dead yet, so this group of people ran to the southern part of Jingdong to wait and see.

The natural instability of the refugee group is obvious. When away from their hometown, the sense of security of the title of fellow villager is extremely important.

As for the appeal of Emperor Zhao himself?

Well, unless he goes there in person to sacrifice the emperor's face, it seems a bit hopeless, because the Tokyo Garrison does not pay military salaries!

That's right, Zhao Jiu could only support the Tokyo Garrison with food and money as much as possible, and he really couldn't pay them the full salary... As for half of the country, before seeing the results of the financial reform, it was already a great achievement to be able to support hundreds of thousands of the left, right, and rear troops of the Imperial Camp through the central finance.

That's it. The right army and the rear army of the imperial camp were directly transported from the southeast and the accounts were transferred to Nanyang.

Back to the present, for some reason, after Emperor Zhao thought about it and confirmed that Du Chong was indeed suitable and almost the only candidate, he returned to his residence in the harem and went to bed, but he still couldn't fall asleep and was still worried about the current situation.

There was even a faint feeling of strangeness that was hard to explain but somehow familiar.

Besides, the reason why I came to Nanyang in the first place was naturally to take care of Guanzhong... Although I had anticipated this invasion and didn't expect to sort out Guanzhong this year, judging from the mess that Qu Duan, Wang Xie, Wang Shu, and Zhe Keqiu, the four actual leaders of Guanxi, had made in the past six months, Emperor Zhao really had no face to say that he had control over Guanzhong.

Qu Duan is domineering and arrogant to the point of being sickening; Wang Xie (the one who went to Hanzhong to invite Zhao Jiu to Sichuan) is obviously incompetent; Wang Shu is a seemingly useful civil official, and was also nominally the highest political figure in Guanzhong before Yuwen Xuzhong entered Guanzhong. He did not fear fighting, but judging from his previous defeats and his inability to control Qu Duan and manage Wang Xie, he is obviously a person with a military level roughly equal to Li Gang and a political level roughly equal to Lu Haowen. The only redeeming feature of his position is his pro-war stance.

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