Chapter 149: The Prelude to the Northern Expedition

"This stinky Tartar is just a stubborn mouth." Jiao Yu was very dissatisfied and muttered, rubbing his fists constantly. From time to time, he pinched his knuckles and made him squeezing. Looking at his appearance, he wanted to hit Zhen Jin with an old punch.

As Li Jun expected, real gold is really not soaked in water and fire. The mouth is very tight and the water is not leaking. The response is very clever. No matter what Li Jun and the others say, they will respond calmly, neither humble nor arrogant. Li Jun and the others have tried a lot of verbal talk, but they have not pried open his mouth and have not obtained anything substantial. Jiao Yu, who has a somewhat irritated personality, will be extremely unhappy when he thinks about it. If Li Jun hadn't stopped him, he would have smashed the real gold to the ground.

This is not a fault for Jiao Qi being impatient. No one could stand it. He accidentally grabbed the real gold in the face of his great fortune. He thought that such a big fish would have made an extremely important discovery, but he never expected that he would not reveal any news. Anyone who remembered it was extremely unhappy.

"If a person of this level pried his mouth open easily, "History of Yuan Dynasty" would not have such a high evaluation of him." Li Jun smiled in his heart, laughed Jiao Yu's anxiousness, waved his hand, and the special forces went out with real gold.

Li Jun stood up and smiled at Qingfengzi and said, "The tiger father has no dog son. Zhen Jin is worthy of being the son of Kublai Khan. We have a law to deal with it, advance and retreat in an orderly manner. It is difficult for us to gain. It is really not easy for the Mongolians to be able to do such a momentum for decades. It is definitely not easy for the Mongolians to become a powerful nation that conquered the Eurasian continent. It is definitely not the luck of God, but the result of their own struggle. The precious quality of Zhen Jin's unafraid and fearlessness is the extremely important reason for their strength."

Qingfengzi nodded in agreement: "The emperor said this very thing. I traveled to Dadu in the past and understood the Tartars. I summarized four words: There is no lack of tiger spirit! Whether it is the Tartar royal family, court officials, or civilians' original surnames, they are all full of vitality, and these are beyond the reach of the court in the past. Emperor, I am wrong, I am wrong." He said it casually for a moment, and even said bluntly about the court's faults, saying that the Southern Song Dynasty was not as good as Mongolia.

"What's the point of blaming yourself? It's a fact. For thousands of years, future generations have thought so." Li Jun thought in his heart, and smiled and said, "What the Taoist priest said is the truth, and I think so too. The court at that time had too many ills and too many problems in all aspects. Power and treacherous people were in power, proclaiming officials to play power, turning black and white, and not making good achievements. Even if there were active resistance from the vast number of soldiers and civilians, they were still unable to turn the world back and could not defeat the enemy outside the country." Thinking of the unbearable Southern Song Dynasty, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

All dynasties have been extremely taboo about the affairs of the dynasty. It is rare to denounce the Song Dynasty like Li Jun. His words are like a bombshell, which shocked Liu Hezi and the others. They were all shocked like a dumb goose, looking at Li Jun foolishly. Even Qingfengzi, who was not in his arms, did not expect to say such a heavy word. After a while, he bowed deeply to Li Jun and said, "Your Majesty, if you are so alert, the court will prosper!"

His behavior immediately reminded Liu Hezi and the others, and he saluted Li Jun and said, "Your Majesty, the court will prosper!"

Li Jun smiled and said, "What you said is better than singing. What I said is the truth. You are so disturbing. If you say this every day, I will become a little fluttery when I hear it. If you hear it, your sins will be awesome." Pointing to Qingfengzi, he smiled and said, "Especially the Taoist priest, the laity, actually took the lead in flattering, it would be unbearable."

You don’t have to think about it and know that Li Jun is in a very good mood. Jiao Yu is a real person. He can’t figure out the truth. He stomped his feet and complained: “Emperor, the real Jin Tartars do not cooperate, we have nothing to gain. I am so anxious. You are still laughing so happily.”

Li Jun looked at him and said, "If you don't laugh, then cry, okay?" He tugged Jiao Yu at the corner of his mouth mischievously.

Jiao Yuwan didn't expect that Li Jun would make a fuss with him when he beat the snake and followed the stick. He was stunned for a moment and said nothing. He stomped his right foot heavily on the ground, making a bang.

Liu Hezi, Qingfengzi looked at Jiao Yu, smiling without saying a word, as if you don’t understand Junxin.

"General Liu, Taoist priest, what's wrong with you?" Jiao Yu looked dazed and said, "It's winter, there are no mosquitoes on my face, what's so good about it?"

Qingfengzi stroked his white beard and smiled and said, "There are mosquitoes on General Jiao's face, here, here." The whisk in his hand brushed out and slapped Jiao Yu's face.

Jiao Yu turned his head, dodged away, and blamed him: "Old fairy, why are you as inappropriate as the emperor?"

"On the surface, Zhen Jin didn't say anything, but in fact he had told us. We have made great gains." Qing Fengzi reminded Jiao Yu: "Have General Jiao ever thought that Zhen Jin was the prince of the Tartars, why did he come to the Central Plains?"

Jiao Yu blurted out without thinking, "The feet are on him. If he wants to come, he will leave. Who can control it?"

"Have General Jiao ever thought that the prince is the crown prince of a country, how could he leave Dadu easily? Especially now, it is the moment when the two countries are fighting hard. If the real gold is not going to other places, he will come to the Central Plains?" Qingfengzi enlightened again.

Jiao Yu touched his head and muttered, "There is also a mystery? Old fairy, what mystery? Old fairy is a paranoid, not a worldly fireworks, and the land gods can do it, so they must know." In a hurry, he actually flattered Qingfengzi.

Qingfengzi smiled happily and said, "The Emperor just said that the crime of flattery is very serious. If you flatter me, I can't tell you." Qingfengzi always speaks with the word "I'm sorry" and rarely uses the word "I", which only means that he is in a good mood.

"If you don't say it, don't say it. What's so great about it? You don't know it alone." Jiao Yu muttered and said to Li Jun: "Your Majesty..." Li Jun shook his hand and interrupted his flattery and said with a smile: "Think about it, what can people like Zhenjin have to do when they come to the Central Plains? It must be the military and political affairs of the Governor of the Central Plains, and are ready to deal with the upcoming crisis. This fully shows that Kublai Khan has already felt the crisis and felt the huge threat posed by the court to the Central Plains. In other words, the conditions for the court to restore the Central Plains are ripe!"

Since the Jingkang Shame, the restoration of the Central Plains has always been the voice of the Song people. I don’t know how many people sacrificed their lives and shed their blood. The emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty have also been working hard to restore the mountains and rivers. For various reasons, not only did not take action, but the Southern Song Dynasty became weaker and weaker, almost ending its destruction.

The saying "The conditions for restoring the Central Plains are ripe" has sacred significance for the Song people, that is, no one has the ability to say it. Now, this saying comes from Li Jun's mouth. For Jiao Yu and the others, it is ten thousand times better than Tianyin Fairy Music. Jiao Yu jumped high and shouted: "I can restore the Central Plains!" Then he hugged his head with his hands, squatted on the ground and sobbed.

Qingfengzi, Liu Hezi, Xu Guanghan, Yang Ming and Yangfeng were also wiped their tears like Jiao Yu and started crying softly.

A man doesn’t cry easily, but he just doesn’t feel sad. This sentence is wrong, and it should be changed to "A man doesn’t cry easily, but he just doesn’t succeed" to meet the situation in front of him.

The revival of the Central Plains has always been the greatest wish of the Song people. For more than a hundred years, I don’t know how many people of kindness have worked hard for it. Some people abandon their wives and children, some people die in the past, and some people are disabled in their bodies, but they are not realized. When this moment is about to come, it is completely imaginable how strong the excitement in Liu Hezi and the others is.

Li Jun understood their feelings very much and said, "The Northern Expedition is extremely important, let's make a good decision."

Although the conditions for the Northern Expedition were ripe, there were still many things to do. Everyone wanted to get such a big thing, which involved too many things and had to solve them in a lot of ways. They had to make a good summary. Qing Fengzi and the others nodded silently and followed Li Jun out excitedly.

"Guanzhong has been settled, the gate to the court's eastward advance has been opened, the Shandong war between General Zhao Liangchun and General Zhao Qian, the Dali war led by General Zhang Jue is about to end, General Jie Jin's actions in Guanzhong are very smooth, the situation in the court is getting better and better, and this is all the emperor's wise!" Qingfengzi said slowly and expressed his opinion: "I think that the war in these places will end in the spring of the next year. The court should take advantage of the battle to win the northern expedition to the Central Plains and restore its homeland!"

It was a foregone conclusion that the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of his hometown was a sure thing. Not to mention a discerning person like Qingfengzi, even an impatient person like Jiao Yu knew that even the most ordinary people in the Southern Song Dynasty knew that it was nothing new at all, but Qingfengzi said this with both voice and emotion, and anyone could hear it. He was speaking with sincerity, full of confidence and excitement.

In this situation, Liu Hezi and the others were obsessed with hearing it as if they had drunk wine. Anyone who is familiar with history could imagine that countless people in the Central Plains of the Northern Expedition had shouted out, including heroes and emperors, but that was just shouting. No one knew whether it could be realized or not. They could only pursue it as an ideal to urge themselves. Now it is different. It is said that the Northern Expedition is definitely the Northern Expedition. The goal that Liu Hezi and the others fought for, and the goals that countless ancestors worked for were about to be realized. It is impossible to not be obsessed with it.

Qingfengzi said intoxicatedly: "Your Majesty, I think that the current urgent task is not to use real gold to negotiate with the Tartars, but the emperor should return to Lin'an immediately to prepare for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains."

It is certainly a good thing to seize real gold, but it is unlikely that the idea of ​​using him to get too many benefits will work. The reason is very simple. The Southern Song Dynasty wanted to restore the old mountains and rivers. For Kublai Khan, their appetite was too big. He could not return the large areas of rivers and mountains to the Southern Song Dynasty just because his son fell into the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The restoration of the rivers and mountains can only be achieved through real swords and guns, and it depends on the soldiers' blood and life.

Qingfengzi's words were very visionary. Li Jun nodded and agreed: "What the Taoist priest said is very true, and I think so too. The Central Plains is the fundamental important place of China. Whoever wins the Central Plains will get the world. When the imperial court attacked the Central Plains, it was the time to fight the Tartars in the decisive battle. Now, there are frequent reports of great successes from various armies, and the situation is gratifying, but there are still many problems. It is time to plan the Northern Expedition first."

I think the importance of the Central Plains is known to all Chinese people. There are many words related to the Central Plains. The most familiar one is the four words "Competitioning for the Central Plains". These four words well illustrate the importance of the Central Plains to China. For today's China, the economic center of gravity moves south and eastward and the political center of gravity moves northward, and the strategic position of the Central Plains has been relatively reduced. On the contrary, Guanzhong was seriously damaged by Chang'an at the end of the Tang Dynasty and its strategic position was much lowered, and the importance of the Central Plains was much greater than before.

As Li Jun said, the Southern Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains would inevitably be a decisive battle, a strategic decisive battle, and the fortune of China must be taken seriously. Needless to say, Kublai Khan had already realized the importance of the upcoming war, so he sent real gold to the Central Plains to prepare for the upcoming life and death battle. If the Southern Song Dynasty did not start preparing for the Northern Expedition immediately, the consequences would be very serious.

In such a life-and-death battle, there are too many things to prepare for, such as the mobilization, deployment, weapons and equipment, the delivery of troops, logistics support, strategic planning, tactical use, and the recruitment and training of reserve troops. If these nouns are summarized, it will be enough to write a thick noun index.

So many things were not Li Jun, the soul of Li Jun, the chief designer of the Southern Song Dynasty strategy, and the highest decision-maker Li Jun, the participation. The best place to prepare for the Northern Expedition was of course Lin'an, the political center at that time. It was precisely based on this understanding that Qingfengzi advised Li Jun to rush back to Lin'an.

After a pause, Li Jun continued: "Catching real gold is a good thing after all. His role is much smaller than the upcoming decisive battle, but this is also a move, and we must make good use of it. Four liang of thin bones can make two liang of oil. The prince of a dignified country is at least valuable than four liang of thin bones, right? He must use it well." A faint smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

Liu Hezi, who was familiar with Li Jun's smile, knew that when Li Junzhong's businessman-like smile appeared, there must be something good. He asked expectantly: "Master, how should you use the real gold?" He obviously wanted to know how Li Jun would play the real gold card, but this was very tactful and did not reveal any trace.

Jiao Yu and the others also wanted to know Li Jun’s thoughts and looked at Li Jun with great anticipation, even Qingfengzi was no exception.

"The specific situation is hard to say now. What I mean is to send someone to Dadu, or do you have to work hard to talk to Kublai Khan and see his reaction. The real gold is in our hands, and we have the initiative, and we are not afraid that he will not offer conditions." Li Jun smiled and predicted, "It can be imagined that the conditions offered by Kublai Khan will not be bad. If we add a little more, the benefits will be more."

"Little bit, you, the profiteer, have learned more than a little bit of skills." Liu Hezi secretly laughed at Li Jun's business philosophy in his heart.

Qingfengzi agreed and said, "I also agree with what the emperor said. I think that it is better to take the real gold back to Lin'an." Li Jun must have to personally inquire about such a major event, so it is better to let the real gold go to Lin'an.

Li Jun smiled and said to Xu Guanghan, "In this way, we have to work hard for General Xu to take the real gold back to Lin'an from Qinling Mountains."

Xu Guanghan took the order and said, "I obey the order."

Liu Hezi heard Li Jun’s implication and asked, “May I ask, will the emperor be with General Xu?”

"Yes." Li Jun nodded and said, "I want to go back to Lin'an from Zhongyuan and take a tour of the Central Plains." He said it lightly, as if he was really going to visit the Central Plains.

The Central Plains is still under the control of the Mongols. Li Jun went to the Central Plains with the dignified Supreme of Nine Five, which was tantamount to taking risks. It was a tragic abyss. One bad thing was that the sheep entered the tiger's mouth. This was an extremely dangerous thing. Qingfengzi took the lead in expressing his objection and said: "No, the emperor, never. This is a dangerous place, and the emperor and the world are in charge, so you must not take this big risk."

His words were immediately responded by Liu Hezi and the others. He stood up together, bowed to Li Jun, and said, "Please take back Cheng's life."

Li Jun shook his hand and asked them to sit down, saying, "This matter is decided. Zhongyuan, I really want to go and see it, maybe there will be unexpected gains."

In the Middle East War, Israel defeated the Middle East countries. One of the most important reasons is that the commanders of the Israeli army were very pragmatic and dared to go to the enemy's territory to reconnaise the enemy situation. The best example was the Israeli Minister of Defense, who personally reconnaissed the terrain, and the offensive plan formulated by him was a masterpiece.

Li Jun clearly wanted to reconnaissance the situation in the Central Plains himself. With his cleverness, he would have gained a lot if he went to the Central Plains. If he, the highest decision-maker, understands the actual situation, he can imagine how much the role it will play in the Northern Expedition, but it is really unexpected that it will be an unexpected gain.

Li Jun spoke very easily, and everyone could hear the firm meaning of the words. Liu Hezi and the others knew that Li Jun had made up his mind and could not change it. Liu Hezi said: "Emperor, please let me follow the emperor and follow the work of running around."

Li Jun smiled and said, "There is no need for this matter. General Liu has something more important waiting for you. Although Guanzhong has recovered, the gates in the north have not been closed yet. It is the cold and cold season, and it is not the season for military use. When spring is warm, General Liu will lead his army to completely close the gates in Guanzhong."

"What the emperor said is reasonable, General Liu doesn't have to accompany the emperor. Let me go. I haven't been to Lin'an for many years. I don't know how gratifying Lin'an is now. I want to see it." Qingfengzi touched his white beard and rushed to speak, looking forward to it.

Qingfengzi is extremely talented. If he had him accompany Li Jun, there would naturally be no problems. Liu Hezi and the others agreed deeply and said, "Please allow the emperor."

"If you can be with Taoist Master, you will be happy in life." Li Junda exclaimed and said, "It's a pity that Taoist Master still has a heavy responsibility. In the new land of Guanzhong, all industries are waiting to be promoted and are extremely eager to be restored. The Taoist Master must take on this great responsibility."

During the decisive battle in the Central Plains, Guanzhong must be the strategic base and springboard of the Southern Song Dynasty. Before the Northern Expedition, there must be large armies gathering. The conditions must be prepared for the army. The task is very heavy and a capable person must be a must. Qingfengzi can do the best.

"Your Majesty, General Liu is enough to take on this great task..." Qingfengzi was still waiting to speak again, interrupted Li Jun and said, "Master, don't say anything more. General Liu is responsible for the training of the army, and Taoist priest is responsible for the regaining of the people's hearts. You and the two of you must work together. Taoist priest, you must know that there is not much time left for the court. The court must make the Northern Expedition as soon as possible and do not let the Tartars recover."

Qingfengzi was silent for a while and said, "Since that's the case, I have nothing to say. Please rest assured, I will do it well."
Chapter completed!