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In mid-November, Li Hu presided over the convening of the Imperial Front Office. All the ministers and ministers in the east and west of Beijing, the chief ministers of the three provincial governors, the chief censors of the censors, the chief censors of Jingzhao Yin, and the chief commanders of the three imperial guards all participated in the convening.

Looking around, the central officials in the lobby were almost all fierce men, and most of them were warriors from the army.

There are Dong Xiaochou, Luo Qinghan, Hou Jiao and Zhe Keqiu in the Western Prefecture. The three commanders of the imperial guards are Chu Xiaoyao, Fang Jin and Wang Dazhong.

There are Huang She, Chai Yun, Fan Zhichang, Wang Yuan, Song Jiang, Gao Yuan, and Changsun Kangning in the East Prefecture.

The chief of the Han Palace, Hu Tu, the chief of the Han Palace, Yuanye, and the Yin of the Jingzhao was Yang Keshi.

Among them, although Zhe Keqiu and Yang Keshi were born in the Northwest General Sect, both the Zhe family and the Yang family had already defected to Li Hu early, and are now considered half a fierce tiger.

The only old bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty were Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong, Zhao Mingcheng, Liu Yanqing and Wu Min.

Among them, Zhao Mingcheng is Li Hu's close relative, and the relationship between the two families is extraordinary. At the critical moment, Zhao Mingcheng must betray his ideas and absolutely support Li Hu. There is no doubt that unless Zhao Mingcheng puts the interests of the family as the interests of the kingdom, he has no choice.

Since the Hu Lie Army annexed the Northwest Army, Liu Yanqing's importance has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and his position in the center has also been in danger. This time, Li Hu arranged him to the censorate, and in fact transferred him from the center. Liu Yanqing also knew that in order to maintain the status and power of the Liu family, he tried his best to stay in line with the Hu Lie people. Since Li Hu took office in power, his power has been greatly weakened. This time, Li Hu asked Liu Yanqing to serve as the chief of the censor, and his intention was very obvious, which was to further weaken the power of the censor, so as not to excessively interfere in military and political and reforms, so as to better play the role of the center.

The main role of the censors in the Song Dynasty was not supervision, but decentralization of power. Especially during the period when the power of the censors increased, the censors directly interfered in military and national affairs, divided the power of the prime minister, and the function of supervision became secondary. Emperors of the Song Dynasty often arranged opponents of the prime ministers in the censors and restrained each other when appointing prime ministers. Wang Anshi's reforms were deeply influenced by the censors. When Cai Jing took charge of the government, he drove the Yuanyou party out of the court, and this situation was changed. The prime minister and the chief censors from the same faction, so it was much easier to make decisions on military and national affairs.

When Zhang Xiaochun became the chief censor, he supported each other with Prime Minister Li Gang and repeatedly caused trouble for national decision-making. When Luo Sinan established the Imperial Front Office, he was forced to do it under the pressure of the deliberation hall and the censor. Now Li Hu drove Zhang Xiaochun out of the center and let Liu Yanqing take charge of the censor, hoping to use Liu Yanqing's "flexibility" to further weaken the power of the censor and honestly do a good job in "supervising officials".

As for Yuwen Xuzhong and Wu Min, they joined from the southeast not long ago. Although Li Hu promised to have a high position to retain their position as the chief executive, their trust was greatly reduced from Li Hu to Luo Sinan to ordinary officials in the Central Government. In a sense, continuing to stay in the center of Chang'an was mainly to appease the southeast bureaucrats in order to speed up the process of pacifying the southeast. In fact, this did play a role. Many Southeast officials were still in office after hearing that Yuwen Xuzhong and Wu Min defected to Chang'an.

He took up his original position and then followed suit. Now that the Southeast is about to pacify, Li Hu used thunder to drive Li Fu, Zong Ze, Liu Wei, Zhang Xiaochun and other former ministers of the Song Dynasty out of the center. Next, it was their turn. This was just a matter of time. Therefore, Yuwen Xuzhong and Wu Min were very low-key, and their previous ambitions were wiped out in the face of the huge storm launched by Li Hu. They had no strength to stop Li Hu from seizing the Zhao Song Dynasty. They could only watch Li Hu dominate Middle Earth.

Li Gang was very isolated. So far, Li Hu had no intention of touching him, but from reality, Li Hu would not touch him for the time being. Middle Earth was too big. There were too many local institutions and needed a huge bureaucracy. Now the new bureaucracy has no advantage in number and has serious lack of administrative management experience. It must rely on the old bureaucracy. Although the storm launched by Li Hu was unstoppable, the old bureaucracy in Middle Earth was like a big tree with lush branches and leaves. This storm may blow away the branches and leaves of this big tree, but it is impossible to get rid of it. Therefore, Li Hu needed a leader like Li Gang, a very prestigious old bureaucracy, to continue to be in the center, and to a certain extent, stabilize the old bureaucracy in Middle Earth to avoid an uncontrollable situation.

Li Gang was also the prime minister of the Song Dynasty. He still had great power in the future, but this power was seriously restricted and could no longer affect the highest decision.

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Li Hu proposed the plan for the Northern Expedition.

The lobby was very quiet and no one raised any objections.

Before this, Li Hu had already made an appointment with Huang She and Chai Yun alone, asking them to put aside the internal differences between the Hu Lie people and to defeat the old bureaucratic forces of the Song Dynasty that were enough to endanger the survival of Hu Lie people. For this reason, everyone worked together and went to the outside world.

The differences among the tiger and fierce people were mainly concentrated on reform, and the most acute contradiction was the struggle for power by civil officials and military generals. Literary people despise military generals, which seemed to be a kind of innate arrogance that literati were born with. Literary people generally believed that giving military generals too much power would pose a threat to the country's destiny. Therefore, in all dynasties, the governance strategies of peacetime have always been focused on literature and over military military. In the Song Dynasty, they even used civilian military commands, and simply drove military personnel out of the decision-making level and stepped on them.

The most important principle in the reform of Li Hu's reform is to emphasize both civil and military affairs. However, as the Hu Lie Army won one after another on the battlefield, occupying a large number of territory, more military generals also began to enter the court. Li Hu's approach was obviously suspected of "overcorrecting the wrongs" in the eyes of civil officials, so he consciously hindered the reform process. However, both Li Hu and Luo Sinan were all made from the battlefield with one sword and one shot. Their trust in military generals is far greater than that in civil officials.

Li Hu left Beijing for two years. After returning, he made drastic moves and accelerated the reform process. One thing was to transfer a large number of military generals into the center. Huang She and Chai Yun were negative about this, believing that Li Hu's approach would seriously endanger the safety of Middle-earth.

Li Hu knew that this matter involved the struggle for interests between civil officials and military generals. If he spent his energy on it, it would inevitably delay the cause of unification. So he clearly told Huang She and Chai Yun to put aside the dispute and concentrate their efforts to unify Zhongtu first, and then talk about the future.

Huang She and Chai Yun dare not violate Li Hu's authority. There can be debates and struggles within the Huliu people, but they must not exceed the bottom line that Li Hu can tolerate. If this bottom line is exceeded, Li Hu will definitely take action to rectify it.

Li Hu also visited Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao and his wife in person. Therefore, their relationship was extraordinary. So Li Hu was very frank and said everything he should say, but he didn't tell Zhao Mingcheng and his wife clearly that I was going to be the emperor. This cannot be said yet, and it is not time to say it, but Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao knew it clearly. The situation has developed to this point, and Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao have no choice at all. Even if they violate morality and conscience, they must firmly support Li Hu. This is not only related to the future of the Zhao family and the Li family, but also to the future of Middle-earth. Which is more important and clear at a glance. If you oppose Li Hu in order to blindly be loyal to the Emperor Zhao, it is to cause trouble for yourself.

Whether it was the Zhao family or the Li family, they suffered heavy blows before and after the Yuanyou Party Case. To be honest, their loyalty to the Zhao family was indeed limited. Many times, they transformed their loyalty to China into loyalty to the Zhao family Song Dynasty. Li Hu established a new dynasty and replaced the Zhao family Song Dynasty, which had no conflict with their loyalty to China.

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The quietness in the lobby made Li Gang realize once that the Zhao family's Song Dynasty was really over and there was no possibility of turning around again. Li Hu was too strong, and the Zhao family's Song Dynasty was basically defeated, leaving only an illusory righteousness, but this righteousness was fragile in the face of the storm launched by Li Hu, and would be torn apart in the blink of an eye and completely ruined. The Song Dynasty would soon become history.

Li Gang looked up at Yuwen Xuzhong and Wu Min. These two were also solemn, with endless sorrow in their eyes. The survival of the country's destiny depends on strength, to be specific, it depends on force. However, the power of the Song Dynasty seemed to be strong, and tens of millions of military funds were invested every year, but in turn, the defeat of the country's destiny was returned. What is the reason? Why is the army of the Song Dynasty vulnerable? Why can the Tiger and Lieutenant Army be invincible? The Jurchens from the wilderness destroyed the Liao Dynasty with just 20,000 iron cavalry and severely damaged the Song Dynasty. Why?

The Song Dynasty had the best national strength in the world. Such a powerful national strength did not have a strong army. Such a powerful national strength had not defeated the Dangxiang people for more than 80 years and recovered the lost land in the northwest. Why?

Think about it now, the defeat of the Zhao Song Dynasty seemed to be reasonable. Li Hu and the Hu Lie Army rushed into the Central Plains when the Song Dynasty was about to overthrow and rose. Since the Zhao Song Dynasty was powerless to stop it, it was inevitable to change the dynasty and no one could stop it. Take a step back. Even if the stop was successful, could the Zhao Song Dynasty rise again? In fact, it was impossible. The instant defeat of the Southeast Song Dynasty court is a living example. Emperor Zhao and the Song Dynasty court are like a rotten tree, with their roots completely rotten. As long as there is a storm, it will collapse with a bang.

Yuwen Xuzhong and Wu Min remained silent. The discussions of the Yuqiansi were simply the one-man show of Li Hu and Hu Lie Ren, and even if they objected, it would have no meaning.

Li Gang stood up and firmly opposed it.

In a huge hall, only Li Gang opposed it.

Li Gang's reason for opposition was nothing more than the unstable domestic situation and the serious lack of financial resources in the court.

"I want to ask you something." Li Hu said, "When today, is it that there are a lot of official land, or does it have a lot of land that giant merchants and wealthy merchants have?"

The answer is very simple, of course, the number of official land is large. After all, the huge merchants and wealthy merchants in the world are limited. Of course, the land owned by the landlords and merchants cannot be compared with the number of official land. Especially after Cai Jing set up a Xicheng Bada Station, the government unscrupulously occupied the land of the people. Today, the number of official land has far exceeded that of the mid-Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!