Then, Zhao Jiu continued to send messengers to tell Zong Ze that Huang Qianshan was dismissed from his post and that he had re-employed Li Gang. So Grandpa Zong immediately wrote back, explaining the difficult situation around Tokyo and bluntly stating that Tokyo was suffering from famine, and then asked for soldiers, money, and food... Zhao Jiu could certainly understand this, and although he naturally had no soldiers, he still had a little bit of money and food in stock, so he almost tightened his belt and tried his best to support Grandpa Zong. He even scraped the gold powder off Daozu Jin's body and melted it and sent it over!

Then, after about seven or eight days, Li Gang had just returned to the Huaixi area, but he encountered a rebel named Ding Jin who had just emerged from the Huaixi area and blocked his way. So Prime Minister Li sent a document remotely, stating his political program first, and asked the governor to prepare everything here, and wait for the governor to arrive before going to Nanyang with him... Unexpectedly, this document attracted the attention of Grandpa Zong because it was delivered by a detour. The latter immediately sent a document to the governor, saying that the grain price in Tokyo had calmed down a lot, and he now had a million troops, which was enough to resist the enemy, so the governor should not go to Nanyang, but go directly back to the old capital!

This is simply too absurd. Not to mention that they needed soldiers and food just now and said that there was a famine in Tokyo, and the next thing they said was that the food prices in Tokyo had stabilized. The key is the million-strong army... There were definitely a million refugees in Tokyo, but a million-strong army is too much of a joke!

At this time, Zhao Jiu really felt the helplessness of being looked down upon, and this helplessness was probably even more serious than what Zhao Gou felt before. After all, if he was like the previous Zhao Gou, who was only thinking about fleeing south, he would have ignored these words and ran to Yangzhou. The key point was that Zhao Jiu vaguely understood Zong Ze's thoughts!

The reason why Zong Ze lied to Zhao Jiu so openly and fooled Zhao Jiu so much was that he was afraid that Zhao Jiu would run away again! And once Zhao Jiu started to escape again this time, as long as he ran to Yangzhou on the Yangtze River, even if he didn't cross the river, what Grandpa Zong said in his memorial would come true - the Central Plains and the people of Hebei were there. Once they gave up, it would take more than ten years and hundreds of thousands of troops to take it back!

And precisely because he understood Zong Ze's painstaking efforts, Zhao Jiu couldn't ignore the other party's intentions. But the problem was, if he really went to Tokyo as Zong Ze wanted, it would definitely be a dead end, right?

Although Zhao Jiu did not understand the historical details, in history, Jin Wushu chased Zhao Gou all the way, searching the mountains and seas, and only exhausted his strength when he attacked the south of the Yangtze River. On the way back, he still defeated Han Shizhong's main force and successfully returned north. This shows that the main direction of the next wave of Jin army's attack would be where Zhao Jiu was, and Jin Wushu's main force was actually targeting Emperor Zhao himself!

In this situation, even if Grandpa Zong has defended Tokyo for several years like a pillar in history, which is a miracle, but once I go there and attract Jin Wushu's 100,000 main forces to Tokyo, if I really use that million-strong army to resist, I'm afraid I will be wiped out, right?

However, what is even more frustrating is that when Zhao Jiu told Zong Ze about his concerns about the third southward march of the main force of the Jin army, Grandpa Zong did not believe it at all. According to Grandpa Zong, the Grand Marshal and Second Prince of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Wulibu, are dead, and the three people in the Jin army, Nianhan, Talai, and Wuzhu, will inevitably fight for power. In the short term, no one can be the commander-in-chief to lead the main force south. Please don't worry... By the way, Grandpa Zong also updated the data. There are now two million troops in Tokyo!

This is the most helpless thing for Emperor Zhao - it would be fine if he didn't have the power temporarily, but after he drove away the treacherous ministers, the loyal ministers actually didn't believe him!

Especially, Li Gang has been proven to be a prime minister but not a general, and although Zong Ze is not good at leading troops in battle, he is one of the most outstanding generals of this era and the biggest reliance he had thought of before!

The sun rose in the east. Zhao Jiu stood by the Wo River and looked towards the northwest. If it weren't for the fact that Tokyo was a place where it would be difficult to get out once you entered, he really wanted to ride a horse to Tokyo and reveal his heart to Zong Ze... and by the way, see if Yue Pengju, whom he was obsessed with, was there.

Of course, with Grandpa Zong’s attitude, Zhao Jiu became less and less confident about what the 24-year-old Yue Pengju could do.

"It's getting light, Your Majesty. Let's go back as soon as possible, otherwise people will be uneasy." Seeing Zhao Jiu looking at the ancient capital again, Liu Yan was moved but he did not forget his duty, so he took the initiative to step forward to persuade him.

"Let's go." Zhao Jiu glanced towards the northwest again, finally sighed softly, and then turned around to go down the embankment.

He knew that Zong Ze's correspondence would probably stop in the next few days, because Li Gang would soon take a detour from Huaixi to Bozhou, and then this Prime Minister Li would preside over the transfer of the imperial court to Nanyang, and might even further enter Guanzhong from Nanyang... In this environment, Zong Ze would not be able to compete with Li Gang, the banner of the pro-war faction, otherwise he would not have submitted letters so repeatedly before Li Gang returned.

But if we ignore Zong Ze and listen to the arrangements of other ministers, and retreat a few steps to a strategic location, be it Guanzhong, Jingxiang, or Yangzhou, and quietly accumulate strength, farm and train soldiers, as long as we don't make mistakes, it seems that we can win by just changing a dog. The only thing is that we have to wait for more than ten years and hundreds of thousands of soldiers will die!

As the saying goes, fame and fortune turn to dust at the age of thirty... In history, when Yue Peng won the twelve gold medals, he must have been at least thirty-five years old, right? That means it was at least twelve years later.

It is said that the knights had just got down the embankment and mounted their horses, when unexpectedly a goshawk suddenly flew across the sky, gliding from the southeast to the northwest, attracting the knights to look.

Zhao Jiu also looked back in surprise, feeling doubtful and suspicious, but ultimately at a loss as to what to do.