Lü Haowen did not get the support he deserved, which made him panic. However, the palace was full of elites of the Song Dynasty, and there were always some who understood.
For example, Scholar Kobayashi, who hasn't spoken in the court for a long time.
For various reasons, this Hanlin scholar lost the desire to express himself on these things after the Xiangyang Incident, but he knew very well what was going on.
To put it bluntly, the crisis in Nanyang has been temporarily resolved, and whether the emperor stays in Nanyang or goes to Xiangyang does not seem to be a choice related to his life and property and the future of the country, but rather an ambiguous situation. In this case, everyone can put aside the national interests and discuss the issue from a personal standpoint.
Generally speaking, the half of the central government officials who stayed behind in Nanyang probably didn't want the honor and political capital brought by this battle to be diluted and shared by their colleagues in Xiangyang... They felt that they had paid the price for holding on under tremendous pressure for the first fifteen days, and the victory was contributed by them.
Why should the emperor go to Xiangyang when Nanyang has been defended?
Why was it that they were the ones who had to use their badges to get hot water and live in shared housing, but the credit for this final battle should be divided evenly, and the political resources that should have been exclusively enjoyed by them were divided up by others?
And to be honest, only the civil officials in the palace were a little more reserved. If Wang De and Fu Qing, who had participated in the bloody battles under the city and performed well last month, were asked to speak out, they would probably not say anything. They only wanted to secretly kill the messenger from Xiangyang and not let the emperor see it! Only a spoiled young master like Xin Yongzong would take the opportunity to curse and mock Zhang Jing and Qiao Zhongfu for being nothing and daring to steal the credit at this time?
Of course, if he goes to find his two brothers, that would be acceptable.
If you think about it carefully, it was because Lu Haowen, as the prime minister, had no room for promotion and was determined to be a court paperhanger. He had no need for military achievements or qualifications, so he was confused for a while and did not understand what everyone meant.
If we look at the original supporters who turned against us, such as Li Ruopu and Li Guang, they all had specific reasons:
Among them, Hanlin scholar Li Ruopu is Li Ruoshui's younger brother. He agreed at that time for the sake of the overall situation, but since there is no interest involved now, from this person's position, he will never take the initiative to ask the emperor to back down.
As for Li Guang, after communications were restored, previously accumulated information about the southeast came from the south of Xiangyang, giving people a rough idea of the situation in the southeast... It turned out that the prolonged delay of the rebellion in the southeast was directly caused by Li Gang!
Furthermore, after Wang Yi rebelled, Li Boji was worried that the generals of the rear army of the imperial camp had close ties with Wang Yi, so he temporarily replaced the generals. He chose an old general who had been idle in the southeast for decades, Wang Shunchen, the governor of Yueyang Army, to serve as the main general on the front line and command the battle in Jiangning.
However, Wang Shunchen was a famous general of the Western Army when he was young, and he had performed exceptionally well on the battlefield, but that was decades ago. Later, his daughter married Emperor Daojun and became one of the two royal concubines (all of them went to the north to hunt), so he was promoted to Jiedushi and enjoyed wealth and honor... In short, this man had lived a life of luxury in the so-called rich land of Jiangnan for decades, so how could he have the capital to be a general? Who could obey him?
In fact, the reason why the second rebellion broke out at that time was because there were rumors in the army that the rear army of the imperial camp had Commander-in-Chief Yang Lao Taiwei as the main general in Yangzhou to guard the empress dowager, and Wang Shunchen as the main general on the Jiangnan front. It was because Prime Minister Li Gang could not stand young generals, and wanted to appoint all old men as generals, taking the opportunity to purge... Therefore, the rebel suppression army mutinied halfway under the leadership of a group of core officers, and Wang Shunchen could only flee back to Yangzhou in embarrassment under the escort of Xin Yanzong.
Well, at a time like this, Li Guang was a man who kept his promises. How could he dare to stand up and go against the wishes of so many colleagues in Nanyang and make enemies for Prime Minister Li?
How to say it?
This kind of thing has nothing to do with morality, nor is it harmful, it is basically human nature. However, for Scholar Kobayashi, who had just withdrawn his gaze from Li Guang, he always felt a sense of annoyance... because it was meaningless.
Moreover, Bachelor Kobayashi was certain that Emperor Zhao was also annoyed, but he had no choice but to face these things.
"What the Prime Minister said is a bit outdated." In the cold atmosphere, the one who could oppose Prime Minister Lu so easily was naturally another Prime Minister Lu. Lu Yihao put his hands together without blinking. "This is a different time. Let's not talk about anything else. The situation in Tokyo and Huaixi is still unclear. If the front line is still in a stalemate, the emperor in Nanyang can at least calm the people on the front line, right?"
Lu Haowen was startled when he heard this, but then he smiled awkwardly: "I was too impatient, let's wait until the situation is clear."
Unexpectedly, Lu Yihao did not pursue the matter relentlessly, but nodded slightly: "That's exactly what I meant. Let's wait until the situation is clear before discussing this matter!"
The two gentlemen reached an agreement and forced the matter to stop. The emperor did not say anything, and the hall fell silent again. They talked a little more about city defense, supplies, and merits, and then dispersed.
However, this delay was destined not to last long. Just a few days later, as the Jin army intentionally or unintentionally further relaxed communications from outside Nanyang City to inside the city, Emperor Zhao finally learned the military intelligence from the front line that he had been waiting for for a long time, from all directions, from the east, south, west and north.
But to be honest...the situation is not very good, or it can be said to be very bad.
First of all, although the cities between the Five Rivers (Yingshui, Weishui, Qishui, Shangshui, and Rushui) were attacked in a scattered manner, that is, the Jin army did not have many troops besieging the cities, one of them still fell in the previous half month - the smallest city, Wuyang, was broken by the Jin army's Wanhu Pucha Hubalu, and the defending general Li Bao, nicknamed Bing Guansuo, tried to break out after the city fell. Now his life or death is unknown. Some people say that he has died for his country, while others say that he fled to Ye County, Ruzhou, and became a bandit.
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