Chapter 327 War-weariness

Half a month after Chu Tianya returned to Beijing with the emperor, the excitement of the government and the people of Tokyo slowly calmed down. The order of the court, which was previously destroyed in the war, has been slowly established and restored, and the people are also actively working hard to manage their lives and begin to look forward to live and work in peace and contentment.

In recent years, since the joint destruction of Liao by Song and Jin, the Song Dynasty has been in constant war. During this period, millions of people were affected by the war. Many people lost their loved ones and homes. More people were displaced from their hometowns under the impact of the huge waves of the war. From then on, they were infinitely eager for a peaceful life.

When the war came to an end for the time being, everyone coincidentally had this wish - no war, hope for peace!

Including the army, some "war-weariness" is gradually spreading. Although the voice was not loud, it finally reached Chu Tianya's ears.

In fact, Chu Tianya is not like others. He hopes that the war can end earlier and live a comfortable and stable life. And he is in the upper position and knows better than anyone that the Song Dynasty can't fight anymore. Among other things, the wealth accumulated by the rich Song Dynasty in a hundred years has been almost exhausted in the war in recent years!

Especially in Hebei and Hedong, which were devastated by the war, the people were devastated. In addition, Tokyo, the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty, was twice under the city by the Jin army, causing serious damage to the Central Plains, the economic and political center of the Song Dynasty. The wealth and economic foundation accumulated in the 100 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty have almost collapsed under the destruction of the wars in recent years.

In the war in the past few years, countless refugees fled from Hebei, Hedong and the Central Plains to the south, crossing the Yangtze River to the south without experiencing war. Refugees have also brought great impact and instability to these places.

In a word, the war has brought great wounds to the Song Dynasty. After the sore, everyone wants to heal the wound and recover.

As a result, the feeling of "war-weariness" began to spread in the temples and the people. As the military power of the Song Dynasty, Chu Tianya obviously felt the pressure of demand from all aspects.

At the same time, the south of the Yangtze River is also spreading such a voice - hoping that Hangzhou and Tokyo can reconcile as soon as possible and stop the civil war.

The people's hearts are so difficult that Zhao Gu and his son are facing greater pressure than Chu Tianya. After all, they provoked this war, and now they have become a complete "rebellious minister" and a sinner who provoked the civil war in the eyes of the world.

After barely deadlocking on the south bank of the Huaihe River for nearly a month, Zhao Gu was under pressure from all aspects and had to withdraw his troops!

With the defection of soldiers, the suspension of logistics supply in Hangzhou, the attacks of public opinion and political pressure from all aspects, Zhao Gu had to make such a compromise.

Zhang Shuye did not take the opportunity to pursue, but a few days after Zhao Gu withdrew his troops, he did not rush to cross the river. First, he recovered Luzhou, which was seized by Zhao Gu's rebels, and then approached the Yangtze River step by step and continued to put pressure on Hangzhou.

At this time, Hangzhou has completely collapsed from the inside. The strong desire of the army and the people to "stop the war" forced Zhao Ji and Zhao Gu to pay attention to it, thus starting the "peace negotiations".

Zhang Shuye was authorized by Chu Tianya to negotiate with Hangzhou and reported the news to the Tokyo court from time to time. Chu Tianya also gathered all the ministers and officials to discuss countermeasures in the court. In order to take into account the overall situation and avoid this war of internal consumption, Chu Tianya's tough attitude has also changed slightly and made some concessions. First of all, Tokyo is willing to pardon the treason of Zhao Ji and all the officials and soldiers under his command. Hangzhou will hand over all the military power to be led by Zhang Shuye. The former Hangzhou officials continued to be retained, but the officials who followed Emperor Zhao Ji from the south of Tokyo must return to Tokyo with Zhao Ji, Zhao Gou and others to meet the emperor and admit their mistakes to the officials and the court.

Other conditions are reasonable; but the last item directly stunned Zhao Gu. Originally, their plan was that Tokyo would be exempt from the crime and let Zhao Gu's father and son and his subordinate officials stay in Hangzhou, so everything is negotiable. But now, the Tokyo court has asked them to "go back to Beijing to admit their mistakes", which seems to them to be a big banquet. Zhao Gu, who was guilty, did not dare to leave his army at all and went to Tokyo alone!

But Zhao Ji doesn't care. Relying that he is the emperor and the father-in-law of Chu Tianya, he is convinced that he can be fine if he goes to Tokyo. At most, he will withdraw from the power center and become a superintentive from then on. Anyway, he lives like this in Hangzhou. What's the matter if he goes to Tokyo?

In the face of the final conditions and final spies issued by the Tokyo court, the contradiction between Zhao Ji and Zhao Gou was once again stimulated. Zhao Gu, who held military power, was forced to do nothing about it. He launched a small secret mutiny, directly imprisoned Zhao Ji, and then issued a statement saying that the Tokyo court "must" put the emperor and King Kang to death. The officials ignored the affection between father and brother and must be cruel.

Then, Hangzhou tore its face, hung a self-help flag on the head of the city, and openly declared war!

At this point, the Tokyo court and Chu Tianya also gave up the peace talks and ordered Zhang Shuye to start - attack Hangzhou and suppress the rebellion by force!

Soon, more than half of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Liu Ziyu, who had just been removed from the battlefield of Jiyuan, were transferred to the south of the Yangtze River and handed over to Zhang Shuye, along with infantry generals Xue Yu and Liang Xing. The ravines in the south of the Yangtze River are complex, which is the place where the Qingyunzhan infantry is used.

With the help of this battle-refined battle, Zhang Shuye's confidence doubled and immediately began to plan the rebellion across the river. At the same time, soldiers and horses around the Central Plains and Shandong gathered in Luzhou one after another. Jianghuai Cao Cheng and others, who were previously attached to Chu Tianya before and after the Battle of Wutongyuan, are now in charge of soldiers and horses in the Shandong area, and now they have to respond to the greetings of Chu Tianya one after another. They were so worried that they were in a hurry, and now they had a place to use it again, that is, they had the hope of getting promoted and making a fortune, so they rushed to Luzhou and followed Zhang Shuye's command to participate in the rebellion.

Within a month, Zhang Shuye's soldiers and horses have expanded from less than 50,000 at the beginning to 200,000!

Soon, Zhang Shuye's rebel army was divided into three ways, and the soldiers came to the city of Hangzhou! Along the way, Yang Zaixing, the vanguard of the enemy, broke through several lines of defense laid by Zhao Gu in front of Hangzhou. All the way was unstoppable. All the way, Xue Yu's Qingyun cut the infantry elite, specializing in attacking the thick pool of the hard city. The other way was the main force of the Chinese army personally led by Zhang Shuye, which swept Hangzhou with the momentum of destroying the withered and rotten oppression. All the rebel strongholds and forces around the state have steadily surrounded Hangzhou.

Zhao Gu has become the turtle in the urn.

At this time, Chu Tianya issued a military order in Tokyo - except for the war criminal Zhao Gou, the rest of the rebels are willing to surrender, but they can avoid death! Those who get the head of Zhao, reward him!

Zhang Shuye, surrounded Hangzhou without attacking, listened to the military division's strategy of love, and once again launched a psychological offensive in Hangzhou. Countless leaflets were shot into Hangzhou by arrows.

In this way, Zhao Gou once again became the target of public criticism. Inside and outside Hangzhou, whether it is generals, soldiers or beggars, they all want to kill Zhao Gu to quell the war and win a way to survive or even develop for themselves!

Zhao Gu's head is worth a hundred times overnight!

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The rebellion in Hangzhou has lasted for nearly half a year. Chu Tianya has been living in Tokyo for almost two months. On this day, a letter came from Luoyang, saying that Princess Wei was about to give birth.

Chu Tianya has been thinking about Xiao Linglong and the child in her belly for a long time. Anyway, the situation in Tokyo has also stabilized. Hearing the news, he immediately began to prepare to return to Luoyang.

So, the king of Wei and the emperor set out east again for Luoyang. This trip to the east is not as hasty and embarrassed as the last time. In addition to the large number of imperial army escorting the whole journey, there are also 90% of civil and military officials, literary and book files of the most famous government office, and most of the materials and treasures of the treasury.

In other words, this is obviously the relocation of the capital!

Because of the previous "Xixing", this "quasi-to-relocation" did not cause too much panic. The government and the opposition have long expected this matter, and most of the officials, generals, soldiers and civilians have also been prepared, so everything is carried out in an orderly manner.

On the contrary, some stubborn old men saw the vast emperor driving men and crying there and saying, "The century-old foundation of the Song Dynasty was destroyed". As a result, they were all bombarded away. At the same time, they also arrested some particularly stubborn and bad guys to go to prison for "criticism and education".

Whenever it is old and new, it is always inevitable to encounter such a thing. Chu Tianya ordered to suppress these voices and things, and did not let it affect the whole "big picture of the capital".

Just as the emperor's lucky team was about to set off, a report flew from the south of the Yangtze River and sent a piece of good news--

After more than two months of the siege of Hangzhou, Hangzhou finally collapsed from the inside. Zhao Gu, the leader, was killed in a military admonstration. Emperor Zhao Ji, who had been weak all his life, was tough this time. He stabbed his own son with a knife, assigned several confidants to kill Zhao Gu, and at the same time lured Liu Guangshi and several other sworn followers of Zhao Gu. Then, Zhao Ji opened the gate of Hangzhou and surrendered to Zhang Shuye.

It was sent with the Jiebao, as well as the heads of Zhao Gu, Liu Guangshi and others!

The rebellion in Hangzhou has been put down!

The news came, and the government and the opposition cheered together with the people. Chu Tianya held a celebration banquet at the ceremony before the emperor's driver Ma Xi's trip.

Hearing this news, the world in the Song Dynasty is full of joy, singing and dancing. The calming down of the civil war made the people rejoice far more than beating away the female invaders.

The matter of the emperor's luck was delayed for a few days.

Just as Chu Tianya was about to set off again, he received the news from Luoyang Kua Ma Xingye - Xiao Linglong, Princess of Wei, gave birth to a baby boy!

Almost when Chu Tianya received the good news from Hangzhou, Xiao Linglong successfully gave birth to the son, and the mother and son were safe!

Being a father for the first time in his life, Chu Tianya was really happy!

From the officials to ordinary civilians, they all came to congratulate the king of Wei and asked the king of Wei to name the prince. Chu Tianya's heart was in full bloom. How could he think of a good name? He was excited for a moment and said - according to the family tree ranking of my Chu family, the son was the "ke" generation; when he was born, he was born with the good news of Hangzhou, so he named him - Chu Kejie!

Zhao Huan, an official, is also generous. A few days after Chu Kejie was born, he had a name and was awarded the title of "King of Longcheng" Shiyi Hundred Households, which was regarded as a record of meeting for the sons of the Chu family!

Longcheng Taiyuan is the hometown and birthplace of Chu Tianya. The official named his son the prince of Longcheng, with extraordinary intentions.

Now there is only one word that can describe Chu Tianya's mood - the heart is like an arrow!

So, the emperor's driver set off immediately and looked at Luoyang.