In late September, when the wind was howling, Zhao Jiu had a dream in the back hall of Mingdao Palace. He dreamed that he could travel back and forth between this era and nine hundred years later through the well, so he began to change his career and become a middleman official. In the modern era, he enjoyed the technological life and unlimited historical data, while in the Song Dynasty, he enjoyed the desire for power and the reputation of the Holy Emperor.
However, suddenly one day, Jin Wushu led 100,000 cavalrymen to the south. As the road was flat, they approached Bozhou in just a few days. Emperor Zhao could not leave this well, so he used the slogan of resisting Jin in the Central Plains and was unwilling to go south. As a result, more than 10,000 people in the imperial camp were surrounded by 100,000 Jin cavalrymen on the plains.
Next, these civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty surrendered one after another, and handed over the materials brought by Emperor Zhao to Jin Wushu for nothing. He was forced to jump into the well and escape. Back to modern times, when we open the history books, we only see that the Song Dynasty fell to Zhao Jiu. Therefore, he had great ambitions but little talent, and finally jumped into the well and died. He was given the title of the Well Emperor by the Jin people, which made him a laughing stock for thousands of years.
Zhao Jiu woke up in the early morning with sweat all over his head, but he just raised his head and sighed softly, then carefully lifted the quilt and got up, so as not to wake up Concubine Pan beside him.
Several young eunuchs came forward and, at Zhao Jiu's signal, skillfully helped the emperor dress and tie up a leather belt for archery and horse riding. When Emperor Zhao came out of the door, he saw that it was Liu Yan on duty outside, so he didn't say much, but just nodded slightly, and the latter understood what he meant.
Soon, dozens of Liaodong cavalrymen escorted Emperor Zhao on his journey, and joined Yang Yizhong and several other riders who had caught up with them, and then they headed north under the dim light in the east.
In this period, with Yang Yizhong's betrayal and Zhang Jun's rise to prominence, Huang Qianshan and Kang Lu's small group, which had no foundation at all, or whose foundation was originally his, Emperor Zhao's, collapsed overnight:
Kang Lu was executed on the spot for speaking ill of others in the palace;
Huang Qianshan was dismissed from his post as prime minister, left his post in the Academy of Scholars, and was appointed to manage the Dongxiao Palace in Hangzhou, and moved to Lizhou.
However, apart from the two core members, the Prime Minister Wang Boyan was promoted highly and then gently put down, from the head of the Privy Council to the co-head of the Privy Council, because of the fear that people's hearts would be shaken if both the East and West Prime Ministers were dismissed in one day; in addition to this, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Camp Wang Yuan was also pardoned after he specifically went to Zhao Jiu to cry and complain.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Jiu didn't dare to clear out the court.
After this, the current situation in the court was that before Li Gang had time to return, Shangshu Youcheng (Deputy Prime Minister) Lu Haowen actually held the position of Prime Minister of the East Palace;
Wang Boyan still controls the Western Palace Privy Council;
The commander-in-chief of the imperial camp was still Wang Yuan;
Zhang Jun was promoted to the position of Chief Censor, in charge of the Imperial Censorate;
Lan Gui, another chief guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, hurried back from Bozhou City, but Zhao Jiu almost absurdly handed over half of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' duties to Yang Yizhong, and the two of them jointly led the Red Heart Team. Liu Yan basically replaced the guard duties;
In addition, Zhao Jiu, with the recommendation of Lu Haowen, Zhang Jun, Yang Yi and others, promoted a large number of close attendants such as Hanlin, Zhongshu Sheren, and Hemen Zhihou, and issued an edict to summon a group of old ministers who were unemployed at home, calling them to the imperial court in the name of library positions to provide advice on governance... This complex group is actually the so-called traditional secretarial team of the Zhao Song official family.
All of these, together with the six ministries that gained some real power after the Yuanfeng reform, constitute the actual core power department of the present day.
However, these alone are not enough, otherwise Zhao Jiu would not have fallen into the current dilemma of being unable to advance or retreat, and he would not be so anxious that he would worry in his dreams at night, and he would not have to ride a horse to relax every morning.
There are three problems, and these three problems are very clear just by looking at the personnel above.
First of all, finance.
Moreover, although the Yuanfeng Reform returned the financial power to the Ministry of Revenue, which was then directly under the prime minister, the Ministry of Revenue was simply like a cook without rice in the current situation. To put it bluntly, the real source of funds still depended on the deportations from the Yangtze River Basin. To be specific, Liang Yangzu, who was the editor of Jiying Palace, the attendant of Huiyou Pavilion, the prefect of Yangzhou, the transport envoy of Jianghuai and other routes, and the person in charge of tea and salt affairs in the southeast, needed to send the financial resources from the southeast.
This important official who took in the remnants of the Western Army, including Zhang Jun, Yang Yizhong, Miao Fu, and Tian Shizhong, and who almost saved Emperor Zhao's life, was actually the God of Wealth of the entire exiled small court. But at this time, he had probably just arrived in Jiangnan...
In a word, there is still no big money to really do anything here!
Beyond that, there is the army.
After fully coming into contact with the government, Zhao Jiu was basically certain that, with the Western Army's road blocked, he now had only one Imperial Camp and one army from Zong Ze, the governor of Tokyo. The commanders of the Imperial Camp were basically busy suppressing bandits in the two routes of Jingdong (Shandong area) and the two routes of Huainan (Lianghuai area). Even at this point, they had only suppressed less than half of the bandits, and by then they would probably need to rotate and rest before they could almost get rid of the bandits in various places.
In other words, there is currently no large-scale army that can truly fight here!
In fact, this is the fundamental reason why Zhao Jiu did not deal with Wang Yuan and Wang Boyan. In the current situation, they have no control over the military power at all. The troops are in the hands of various military leaders, and Zhao Jiu can communicate directly with these military leaders, big and small.
Apart from having no soldiers and no money, what made Zhao Jiu feel most overwhelmed, or what really made Zhao Jiu so worried these days, was Grandpa Zong Zezong, the person he had been looking forward to the most!
There was no other reason. Grandpa Zong really didn't take him seriously and treated him like a naughty kid.
First of all, when Zhao Jiu first sent an edict to Tokyo to find Zong Ze to be the Privy Councilor, Zong Ze accepted the position of Privy Councilor but was not willing to come to Bozhou to see Zhao Jiu at all. The reason was naturally that the war in Tokyo was critical, because Jin soldiers had already appeared at Sishui Pass and the war was very intense.
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