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Yuwen Xuzhong took this opportunity to introduce to everyone the matter of the Song Dynasty generals and the generals’ families guarding the border.

Li Hu, the general of the Zhe family, had never heard of it. Apart from Zhe Saihua, he knew nothing about the general of the Zhe family. Now, he heard Yuwen Xuzhong telling it that in the Song Dynasty, the general of the Zhe family was the real hero of the generals and was passed down for hundreds of years. Compared with the general of the Zhe family, the generals of the Yang family were much inferior in history, reputation and military achievements.

The Song Dynasty has been established for more than 160 years. Many generals and sects have been passed down for three generations and declined. The four routes of Shaanxi have maintained their prosperity for generations. The Yao family, Gao family, Wang family and Liu family, while the Zhe family, Yang family and Cao family on Hedong Road have been established. These generals and sects have been in the border towns, resisted the Khitan in the east, and ruled the Dangxiang in the west, and controlled the northwest, making great contributions to the garrison of the northwest borders of the Song Dynasty.

Thinking of the strength of the Yang family generals and the Zhe family generals who were more powerful than the Yang family generals, Li Hu felt a little excited and became increasingly determined to ask for help from the Song Dynasty.

This war is different from previous battles. In the past battles of the rebels, they often won with less and won by surprise, and basically fought in the field. During the Chengzhou War, the rebels faced 100,000 Liao troops and joined forces with the Jin army. In the Pingzhou War, although the Liao army had more than 200,000, the five armies marched, giving the rebels the opportunity to defeat each. This time, the 300,000 Jin troops formed a group and rushed directly to Datong, forcing the rebels to defend head-on. Although the rebels and the Liao army joined forces, they were at a disadvantage in terms of military strength.

This kind of battle is about strength and consumption. The rebel army is not as strong as the Jin army. If it is consumed equally, the rebel army will be over. If retreating to Hengshan or Taihang Mountain is equivalent to giving all Datong and Jiuzhou behind the mountain to the Jin people, and also to giving Daibei to the Jin people. Then how can the rebel army survive?

In order to survive, the rebel army needed Datong, Jiuzhou behind the mountain, and even more needed Daibei, so this battle could only win but not lose. Therefore, the only way to win was to ask for help from the Song Dynasty, ask the Song Dynasty to send troops to fight against the Jin Dynasty.

Survival is the first goal. When survival is in danger, it makes no sense to talk about other things. Dao. Fuckingly, if the rebel army defended Datong and defeated the Jin army. If the survival problem is solved, other problems will be solved. The personal turn against each other faster than the storm. In order to protect his own interests, he can do anything. The promise of the covenant is waste paper and a lie to him. If Datong defends and the Jin army retreats, Li Hu will definitely try every means to drive the Song army away. Continue to do his own tricks, so that he will not obey the mercy of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Li Hu needed to create a critical situation as a reason for his return to the Song Dynasty. If the generals and officials who opposed joining the Song Dynasty were not held on their necks and their own interests would not be protected, they would not agree to join the Song Dynasty. The current situation could help Li Hu solve the problem.

Li Hu and the General's Mansion have unified their opinions, and the next problem will be easier to deal with. Li Hu can use the situation to convince the generals who oppose the defection to the Song Dynasty to face up to reality and accept his own proposal to seek help from the Song Dynasty, while sending people to Bianjing to request assistance from the Song Dynasty emperor.

Before Li Gang left Datong, he suggested that Li Hu send people to Bianjing. However, because the military situation was too tense, this matter was postponed. Now the situation of the war has changed new that is unfavorable to the rebel army, and going to Beijing to seek help is imperative. However, Datong is about two thousand miles away from Bianjing, and it will take at least two months to go back and forth. Even if Bianjing agrees to send troops to support and send the emperor's imperial edict to Hedong Road as quickly as possible. The Jin army will rush to Datong at least fifty days later. As for the current situation, this time is too long. Two months later, even if the rebels and local troops can still support it, the money, food and weapons will definitely be exhausted, and the rebels are still unable to persist.

"Can you ask the Grand Tutor for help?" Li Hu asked Yuwen Xu Zhong. "The Grand Tutor is the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong and Hebei. The commander of the Northern Expedition Army. He is fully in charge of the Song army to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. The battlefield behind the mountain is also within the command scope of his place. He has the right to order the Jin army to enter Datong and also has the right to allocate money, grain and weapons to me. If the Grand Tutor is willing to help, the problem will be solved immediately."

The Taishi was Tong Guan. Last August, after Tong Guan pacified Fang La, he was appointed as the Taishi. In October, he led Shaanxi and the Xuanfu Envoy of the Two Rivers. He unified the Northern Expedition. In March this year, he led Hedong and Hebei Xuanfu Envoys to preside over the Northern Expedition. The emperor handed over the Shaanxi military to others. Tong Guan led the army to attack Youyan wholeheartedly.

Now Tong Guandi Xuanfu Department is in Xiongzhou, Hebei (now Xiongxian, Hebei). He maintained contact with Li Hu through Yuwen Xuzhong and Datong. When Dong Yun came to Datong, he made an agreement with Li Hu. Both sides informed each other of military information. There must be letter exchanges every day. Li Hu and Tong Guan often wrote letters in person. After a while, Li Hu's impression of him has greatly improved.

Li Hu's impression of Tong Guan is from "Water Margin". Some of them come from the story of Daddy. In my impression, Tong Guan is a favored official, a treacherous minister, and a bad guy. The defeat of the Song Dynasty has a great relationship with him. But with the correspondence, Li Hu discovered that this old man who has been in charge of the Northwest military for more than ten years has an admirable passionate blood. He is eager to regain Yanyun's hometown, and is eager to regain the western desert. He is eager to open up the territory of the Song Dynasty in his lifetime. He is eager to establish fame and fortune for all generations.

But this old man was an internal official, a close servant, a favored minister of the emperor. If he had no trust from the emperor, he would have nothing. So whether in the northwest battlefield or in the Bianjing court, he would obey the emperor's orders and obey the emperor. He wanted to fight for survival. He would fight mercilessly when he would harm him or his opponents. He even joined forces with other favored officials of the internal official to drive Cai Jing out of the court.

Struggle is everywhere. In the court, the northwest, and the army is full of struggles. For more than ten years, this old man has exhausted his efforts, fought against the enemy, fought against his own people, and fought with his white hair and was about to die. He is in his sixties and has not had much time. So this Northern Expedition is the last chance this old man has realized his ideal. He devotes all his efforts to this. He is even very polite to the young Li Hu. His purpose is to regain his hometown before he dies.

The latest military information will take some time to send to the Hebei Xuanfu Office, but it is obvious that because the Jin army invaded a large-scale invasion, the mountain was in danger, if it was lost, and Youyan had not set off, the prospects for the Northern Expedition can be imagined. The plan for the Northern Expedition, which had been prepared for seven or eight years, may fail, so Li Hu believes that Tong Guan will definitely help.

"It is not very clear about the matter of the Song Dynasty." Yuwen Xuzhong smiled, "If the Taishi wants to transfer troops into Datong, it must obtain the emperor's consent. As for money, food and weapons, the Taishi has no right to allocate."

Li Hu frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "Is the Taishi not the Lianghe Xuanfu Envoy? He is in charge of the Northern Expedition, so how could he have no authority to transfer troops and food?"

"The envoys and the commissioners and the transfer of troops and grain are not within the scope of the power of the Xuanfu envoy."

Yuwen Xuzhong immediately explained the powers of the Xuanfu Envoy to Li Hu.

The Xuanfu Envoy followed the old system of the Tang Dynasty. In the past, the imperial court sent temporary envoys to the local government to preside over disaster relief and appease the people, and withdrew immediately. Later, because of years of fighting with Xixia, the military and political power on the front line needed to be concentrated to facilitate the war, and the power of the Xuanfu Envoy changed. From a temporary envoy who appeased the people to command the military and political heads of the regional military combat field. Because of its great power, most of the officials in this position were deputy prime ministers of the imperial court, deputy envoy of the Privy Council and other prime ministers, that is, the Xuanfu Envoy was the regional military and political chief. Their power was mainly the battlefield command. According to normal understanding, the military and political chief should be the only head who monopolizes the power of regional military and political chiefs, but this was not the case in the Song Dynasty.

The local administrative divisions in the Song Dynasty were basically two-level systems, namely, counties were at the first level, prefectures, prefectures, military and supervisors were at the first level. The military supervision of prefectures and prefectures was "road", such as Hedong Road, "roads" and "roads" at the first level, including supervisors and supervisors.

The supervisory department includes the Caosi Department. It is the Transport Department. The chief is called the Transport Authority, responsible for the financial and supervision along the way; the Constitutional Department, which is the promotion of the Criminal Prison Department, which is responsible for the criminal prison department along the way; the Constitutional Department is the promotion of the Changping Department, which is responsible for the warehousing along the way. The Constitutional Department and the Constitution also have supervision responsibilities, so the road level can be regarded as the supervision area.

The Supervisor is also called the Fushu Department, or the Fushu Department. The chief is the Fushu Department. As usual, the Fushu Department serves as military officials such as the General Manager of the Ma Infantry Army of the Imperial Military Region, and also serves as the local officials of a certain state and a prefecture or prefect. Therefore, the Fushu Department has a guardian in charge of military affairs and a Cao official in charge of local affairs.

The pacifier is also the leader of the imperial guards and the local chief, and has a wide authority. In order to prevent the pacifier from causing harm due to excessive power, the pacifier must be under supervision by the first-level supervisory authority of the road, and at the same time be under the "stop-horse bear" surveillance of the subordinates. The "stop-horse bear" can directly report the situation of the pacifier to the court.

Because the four powers of military, government, finance and supervision at the first level were scattered, and there was no authority in the local officials and officials in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the local administrative divisions and officials in the Song Dynasty never formally formed a three-level system. For example, Hebei established two east-west transportation envoys, but it also set up four roads and commanders at the same time, so there was also a different route of transportation and comforting in the Song Dynasty.

Take Tong Guan as an example. He was the Xuanfu Envoy of Hedong and Hebei. In terms of military affairs, Hedong and Hebei must be controlled by him. There is a one-way peacekeeping sanctuary in Hedong and four-way peacekeeping sanctuary in Hebei. The imperial guards led by these five-way peacekeeping sanctuary in Tong Guan were all under the command of Tong Guan, and the wing troops of each prefecture, prefecture, and army were also under the command of Tong Guan, but he had the power to command the battlefield and the power to transfer troops to the Privy Council. The Privy Council issued an order, and then the emperor issued an order, so the army could be transferred to the front-line commander, which is the so-called leading minister.

Therefore, Tong Guan had neither the power to mobilize troops nor the power to transfer grain. He had no effect on asking Tong Guan for help, so he had to go to Bianjing to ask for help from the emperor and the court.

Li Hu understood that in order to prevent local ministers from being too concentrated and forming separatist, the emperor of the Song Dynasty found ways to disperse power and concentrate all the power to the center and himself.
Chapter completed!