Let's not talk about Wanqi Xie, who said something different to different people, and then went back to rest. On the other side, Li Guang and Li Taifa, the imperial censors in the palace, were slightly refreshed after hearing the other party's words, and they brought their own hot water kettles back to their residence, soaked their feet first, and then went to bed early, but after going to bed, they tossed and turned and had difficulty falling asleep. In the middle, they took out a book to read, but they felt confused.
After all, Wanqi Xie's attitude just now seemed to be strict, but it was just empty talk and perfunctory. Therefore, although Li Guang was comforted for a while, his doubts in his heart were never dispelled. In fact, now this Li Yushi's mind is still full of thoughts that Nanyang is safe, while Emperor Zhao made mistakes and caused the overall situation to collapse.
This was not an idea that had just emerged recently, but one that he had discussed with friends such as Lin Qi before the siege, and which arose after he received a letter from Li Gang, the benefactor who was far away in the southeast, reminding him. However, Lin Qi and others were now driven to Xiangyang by the angry Emperor Zhao and Lu Yihao, and then the city was besieged, and the correspondence had stopped. There was only Li Guang, an important official from the Li Gang faction, in the city. Seeing that Emperor Zhao had been in a bad mood recently, he was really worried, so he had to discuss it with others.
However, Li Yushi lay on the couch, thinking over and over again, worried and at the same time unable to figure it out... Although he said to Wanqi Xie today that he was worried that the emperor would not go to Xiangyang, in fact, if the emperor really did not go to Xiangyang and really stayed in Nanyang, in his opinion, it was not impossible.
After all, as a Palace Censor with supervisory power, Li Guang was very clear about the current situation in Nanyang. There were sufficient supplies and room for city defense. Emperor Zhao and the Minister of War Chen Gui had made preparations for things that everyone had expected or not… For example, Li Guang was considered an old minister who had participated in the siege of Tokyo during the Jing Kang period, but he really didn't expect that Emperor Zhao would be so thoughtful as to dig a reservoir in the city in advance to store coal?
Not to mention the practice of sending away the extra residents early and turning the city into a large military camp.
In the past few days, seeing that the Jin army's various siege tactics were repeatedly restrained, he, the censor, sometimes felt that even if the city walls were gone, Nanyang could still fight the Jin army with the military camps in the city! And the Song Dynasty would never repeat the shame of Jingkang and fall into the danger of national destruction again!
That's right. Even Li Guang now feels that as long as they continue like this, even if Tokyo and Changsha are completely lost and the Jin army sends tens of thousands of reinforcements, they will sooner or later be exhausted by the scorching heat and casualties, and finally flee in embarrassment.
In other words, when facing Wanqi Xie just now, Li Guang certainly had to express himself according to his political stance, but deep down, he had already been secretly convinced of the young official in front of him these days, and was not so pessimistic about the situation... It's just that, as an old minister, and a typical Confucian official at that, he had some instinctive fear of the fact that Official Zhao acted so detached from the bureaucracy.
It was precisely because of this contradictory psychology that he was easily fooled by Wanqi Xie.
In fact, it was not just Li Guang who had conflicting thoughts. Just opposite Li Guang's residence, in a room where the lights had been turned off long ago, Wanqi Xie, looking at the dark ceiling, actually agreed with Li Guang after a series of wild thoughts - he now felt that compared with Tokyo, Nanyang was definitely defensible; and compared with the two saints, Emperor Zhao was definitely an official who could be relied on.
Otherwise, given his character, he would not have followed the official to stay in Nanyang and take this gamble.
Moreover, unlike Li Guang, who had an obvious Confucian attitude and a distinct faction, Wanqi Xie's ideas were more open-minded. In the eyes of this man who dared to think about anything, the two saints were actually heavily involved in the loss of Tokyo and the Jingkang Incident.
Among them, Emperor Taishang Daojun (Emperor Huizong of Song) was cowardly and incompetent. He fled when he encountered the enemy. He first lost his army in Hebei, and then passed the throne to the south to shake the morale of the army. However, Emperor Yuansheng (Emperor Qinzong of Song) was a typical follower of the wind. He listened to this today and that tomorrow. When the Jin army arrived at the city, he was weak. When the Jin army left, he was still optimistic and took risks... In the end, the situation became very bad!
Regardless, although the official in Nanyang City today was a little flustered at first because he had just ascended the throne, he made a quick decision after the Jin invaded the south last year and effectively learned the lesson of the two saints:
First, he set an example by firmly resisting the Jin army and never mentioned any talk of peace;
Secondly, he had a firm stance, and he was consistent in both employing people and doing things. Li Gang and Li Boji, who looked down on him, Zong Ze and Zong Rulin, who obviously did not trust him, the somewhat incompetent Lu Haowen, and Han Shizhong, who had many problems, were basically able to put aside their past grudges and serve his term to the end!
As for the previous turmoil between the old and new parties caused by Xu Jingheng, although he had not yet entered the officialdom at that time, after Wanqi Xie heard the whole story from others, he actually felt that this official actually had some demeanor of a sage monarch.
Even now, it seems that this emperor has not let down these ministers, and these ministers, if taken individually, have absolutely no intention of letting down Emperor Zhao. But judging from the results, it seems that these people have let down Emperor Zhao, and no one knows what is going on.
Was it luck? Was it the aftermath of the actual demise of the country and the displacement of the court after the Jingkang Incident? Or was it simply because the Jin Kingdom was so powerful at that time?
Speaking of which, Zhong Xiang from Dongting Lake in the south was a recognized traitor. Everyone knew that he was going to rebel, but he did not do so at this time. It seemed that he had not let down Emperor Zhao, which was incredible.
Just like this, Wanqi Xie had a treacherous mind and no stance. After drawing some strange conclusions from the perspective of human selfishness, his thoughts kept wandering and he didn't know when he fell asleep.
But on the morning of the next day, he was suddenly awakened by a whistling sound. He quickly got up, dressed hastily, and went out to investigate the situation.
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