This time, Lu Haowen suddenly showed his responsibility, resulting in losses for both sides, which made Zhao Jiu reflect on many things.

He realized that it was too early for him to do whatever he wanted... and that this bureaucratic group, which had not played any decisive role in Nanyang before and had made him a little annoyed, was by no means his enemy.

In a word, everyone has to get along like this and they absolutely cannot get divorced, or it’s pointless to get divorced... We are Adam and Eve, why are we still hurting each other?

In fact, the controversy over the edict of guilt in this court meeting and the controversy over the previous peace talks, taken together, can be seen as a mutual test between the two sides after they returned from Nanyang to Dongjing, in an attempt to find a new position for both sides:

The first wave was considered a victory for Zhao Jiu, so the authority of the Zhao family undoubtedly grew significantly;

The second wave tested the bottom line. Faced with the serious issue of moral principles, both sides stopped after a little probing.

But then again, after this court meeting, both sides entered a cooling-off period, and things actually began to make progress - a very ridiculous thing was that Yue Fei actually succeeded in suppressing the rebellion directly, and his document reporting victory actually arrived together with the letter from Concubine Pan requesting to accompany the emperor.

Even the Privy Council doesn’t dare to believe it!

The military rebellion in Jiangning, the southeast, which had been going on for half a year and had caused serious political, military and economic obstacles to the revival of the Song Dynasty, ended on the fifth day after Yue Fei's troops crossed the river.

Yue Fei's military report was also written with extreme sincerity and honesty:

On the day of crossing the river, they fought with the enemy at Shibu Town, east of Jiangning Prefecture, and won; the next day they fought a big battle at Jiangshan (now Zhongshan) and won again; after a day of rest, they attacked Jiangning at night and conquered it; the next day, the commander of our unit, Zhang Xianfu, pursued the enemy to Niutou Mountain, southwest of the city, captured the bandit leader Wang Yi, and captured more than 10,000 rebels.

The Privy Council once expressed cautious skepticism about this battle report.

The reason for their caution was that they also knew that the fighting power of the Jiangning rebels could not be too strong. As long as they fought honestly and step by step, this group of rabble could not be the opponent of Yue Fei's elite imperial camp who had fought bloody battles with the Jin army.

However, the question is, in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, have there ever been generals and troops who would go to war honestly and step by step without any unnecessary actions or additional conditions?

Di Qing?

Di Qing also engaged in political speculation when he was the Privy Councilor! Although Wen Yanbo's words were abominable, General Di was not so innocent in the context of the incident that triggered these words.

Han Shizhong?

This guy just forcibly conscripted soldiers in Huaixi and almost caused a civil unrest.

So, don't we need to stay in the prosperous southeast for a few more days? Don't we need the Queen Mother in Yangzhou to give us some rewards? Don't we need to coordinate the deployment of friendly forces and logistics after Lu Yihao takes office?

Just cross the river, fight, attack the city, chase the enemy, and it's settled?

Not to mention the Privy Council, even Zhao Jiu, although he knew it was definitely true, still felt that this military report was absurd... Thinking of him running to Jingou at night, he would rather lose his country than chop off a head, and cross the Huai River at night with a head in his arms, who would serve him? When did he not risk his life to show off?

Isn't it absurd that you know it is true, but still feel it is too unreal?

Not to mention, there is Qu Duan right now who provides a sharp contrast.

Therefore, Emperor Zhao, who was rarely in good spirits, issued an edict to commend Yue Fei, and at the same time ordered Lu Yihao to quickly clean up the situation in the southeast and hand over the materials from Liangzhe and Fujian that had been blocked by the war to Yue Fei's troops for escort to Tokyo.

At the same time, on the one hand, he replied to allow Concubine Pan to enter the capital, and on the other hand, he sent Chief Censor Hu Yin as a special envoy to go out of Guanxi to meet Yuwen Xu Zhong and the generals of Guanxi. This was both a kind of help from Emperor Zhao to Hu Yin, hoping that he could get out of the inappropriate state after the previous self-criticism edict, and also to make a thorough decision on the situation in Guanxi.

You must know that it's not just a matter of the southeast. A few days ago, Zhang Jun, who was stationed in Bashu, also brought good news. According to him, the financial reforms adopted by Zhao Kai, which were previously recognized by the court, have achieved miraculous results... Zhao Jiu can now understand this reform a little. It means that although the Song Dynasty court had a developed economy in the past, it emphasized the control of the official economy. At least the income in special areas such as tea, salt, wine, alum, copper and iron must be ensured to be a state monopoly. However, because of the need to ensure control, the actual market size demand in remote areas such as Bashu is far greater than the official quota. Zhao Kai's reform is to completely open up the market in the current situation where the central government is extremely short of money, so as to obtain the maximum possible financial benefits from these exclusive economies.

As a result, the entire Bashu region earned nearly one million strings of extra interest from tea alone within a year (one string refers to a string of money, and due to the copper price issue, the actual exchange rate is far less than one thousand coins, and the amount is uncertain, but it is better representative of purchasing power).

To put it bluntly, one million strings of cash is nothing compared to the total fiscal revenue of over 100 million in the Song Dynasty before the war. It is also not a big number compared to the fiscal revenue of nearly 10 million in Bashu and Southeast China. Moreover, the final benefits of Zhao Kai's fiscal reform will take time to complete the fiscal cycle...

But the key thing is that after Zhao Kai's reforms and Zhang Jun's unified pressure, the Bashu area encouraged tea merchants to engage in tea-horse trade. In the first year alone, more than 10,000 horses were directly exchanged from the Hengduan Mountains and the northwestern Tibetan areas!

Well, in this case, not to mention the issue of transportation efficiency after the financial situation of Bashu has improved on a large scale... it would definitely be most efficient to use it directly in Guanxi... just the issue of transportation and distribution of war horses has made the solution to this mess in Guanxi urgent.

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