Faced with the unexpected event and a wave of internal waves in the court that seemed sudden but was actually expected, Emperor Zhao still chose to maintain the established policies and political structure, which was the simplest way to make some repairs... To put it bluntly, during the national war, internal stability always comes first.
Tolerate each other for the sake of the country, tolerate each other for the sake of the country, that's probably what it means.
As for letting Lu Yihao go to the southeast, different people must have different interpretations, but from Zhao Jiu's point of view, Lu Yihao is definitely the most suitable one:
First of all, this person is capable and courageous. He can get things done after he takes charge of a place. Moreover, this person was driven from Yangzhou by Li Gang. He is very familiar with Yangzhou and the southeast. He can get started when he returns. But being able to get things done is the most important thing at the moment.
Secondly, it was the so-called political considerations... Zhao Jiu was not deaf or blind, he certainly knew that Prime Minister Lu Shu had recently aroused public anger in Tokyo City, and sending such a person to the southeast was both a protection for Lu Yihao himself and a certain punishment for him, a compromise with some officials in the palace that day, but also a kind of warning.
After all, Lu Yihao's trip to Yangzhou this time, like Li Gang's previous role in the southeast, is like a hanging sword, reminding some people at any time not to mess around.
Li Gang can't suppress you anymore, and Lu Yihao, just do your job honestly.
However, in general, everyone still knew the big picture, and the prestige that Emperor Zhao had just accumulated had not yet been exhausted, so the conflict in the palace that day was ultimately limited to the Chongzheng Palace and did not spread too much.
Even if it really spreads, it doesn't seem to matter.
You have to know that at this time, Dongjing City was basically an empty city with a population of less than 200,000 except for the soldiers. No matter how lively the discussion was, it could not form the so-called public opinion, let alone cause political influence and cause the students to bang on the door... because there were no students! Even a certified student who came back would basically be directly admitted and then sent to various places in Henan to serve as an official.
In short, the sudden incident was bound to be of far-reaching significance and was bound to have countless chain reactions, but if it was only discussed at the highest level, the tone would be set early and quickly implemented... Let alone other things, the most direct one was that when the Jin envoy Gao Jingshan heard the "preconditions" of Emperor Zhao, he remained calm, just smiled, and did not say anything more, and directly asked for his leave.
It was obvious that the Jin army was just testing the waters. Seeing that the Zhao Song Dynasty was so determined, they simply gave up the negotiations. They neither pretended nor made empty threats.
It can only be said that if the Battle of Huai River only made Wanyan Wushu, Ali and Olubu, the three high-ranking Jin army leaders, realize the change of their opponents, then the recent great invasion made the entire Jin Kingdom realize the top-down change in the Zhao Song court.
Therefore, at this time, there is no point in pretending or making false threats.
Of course, after all, they were sending the princess back, and Gao Jingshan and his party were not buried in the Genyue ruins for no reason. At the end of March, in late spring, this Jin official came and went in a hurry, leaving the city almost at the same time as Lu Yihao, and crossed the river from Huazhou, preparing to return to Daming Prefecture.
Moreover, at this moment, as the Zhao Song government returned to the old capital, there were heavy troops along the Yellow River, and Daming Prefecture was the key point for the Jin army to control the Yellow River. On the left, it could support Liu Yu in Jinan, Jingdong, and on the right, it could guard against heavy troops around Tokyo, and it could retreat to sweep the Hebei Plain. However, after the withdrawal of troops and when a military confrontation was formed, they immediately followed the arrangement of Nianhan and stationed more than 20 Meng'an and four or five generals here, which became the front-line hub of the Jin army.
Therefore, when Gao Jingshan arrived in Huazhou, people from the other side of the river had already sent a boat to pick him up... The person who came was none other than the former Wanhu Da?, who was under the Changsha City.
The two men crossed the river in separate boats. It was already dark when they reached the other side, so they simply stayed at the ferry and asked someone to get fresh fish from the river. They found a house at the Hebei ferry, lit a fire, made fish soup, and then drank wine together.
You know, Gao Jingshan and Da? are naturally acquaintances... Thanks to the great development during the Sui and Tang Khitan periods, Liaodong has become a civilized highland from a cultural perspective, but geographically it is a civilized frontier. The Jurchens, Bohais, Goryeos, Khitans, Xis, Hans, and even some Mongols live together there, and have their own set of cultural characteristics and logic of behavior.
The reason why the Jurchens were able to rise to power, apart from the corruption of the Liao and Song dynasties and the heroes of Wanyan Aguda's generation, was that they had the support of the Liaodong region, which had a developed civilization, or at least a fairly developed military civilization.
In fact, after Wanyan Aguda started his rebellion, he spent a lot of energy and time to integrate the Liaodong ethnic groups in the form of tribal alliances. As soon as the Jin Dynasty was established, in the so-called most basic Meng'an Mouke system, people from the Xi, Khitan, Goryeo, Bohai, and Han ethnic groups all held high positions. The so-called Jurchens, who numbered less than 10,000, were by no means a single Jurchen ethnic group that emerged from the deep mountains and forests.
Of course, Liaodong was a place that was too chaotic, with civilization and barbarism, backwardness and advancement coexisting. This did lead to a chaotic system within the Jin Dynasty, but this chaos was concealed by the Jin Dynasty's continuous and powerful expansion.
Back to the present, the Gao family behind Gao Jingshan, you can say that he is from the Bohai ethnic group, but it is also fine to say that he is from the Goryeo ethnic group, because the two ethnic groups are actually one family. It is nothing more than that there is a political entity of the Goryeo Kingdom now, and whether you can depend on it is the only difference... In fact, some of Gao Jingshan's fellow tribesmen once raised troops in Liaodong to fight against Wanyan Aguda, trying to seize control of Liaodong.
It's just a defeat.
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