Li Que quickly said: "Deputy Marshal Zong, since it is the officials who agree to negotiate a peace, if we send troops again and disturb the Jin people, will the Jin people be unwilling to negotiate a peace?"

Li Que is obviously afraid of the Jin people.

Historically, in the first month of the second year of Jingkang, Zongze went to Kaide Mansion and wanted to fight the Jin army, but Li Que did not dare.

Zongze was furious and threatened to behead Li Que in front of the generals.

Li Que was forced to fight under pressure. As a result, the Jin army was defeated and Li Que won.

This incident tells us: people are forced out.

As soon as Zongze heard Li Que's words, he immediately said in a deep voice: "The gold thief is cunning and cannot be trusted! Pass the command to the commander and the entire army will march to Puyang immediately!"

"Deputy Marshal..."

Li Que wanted to persuade him, but Zongze immediately got angry: "Are you afraid of the golden thief?"

"No... no..." Li Que turned around and ran out, "General, I will mobilize my troops right now."

The seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Tokyo City.

The homes of Wang Shiyong and Fan Qiong were all confiscated, totaling 200,000 yuan.

There were 350,000 guan before, and 30,000 guan was spent on the salary of the weapons supervisor, and there was still 320,000 guan.

Including the 200,000 guan currently confiscated, the total is 520,000 guan.

During the last large-scale defense of the city, 10,051 people were killed and 22,450 seriously injured.

According to the new pension rules, the pension for those killed in war is as high as 320,000 guan, and for those seriously injured it is as high as 340,000 guan.

A total of 660,000 pounds are needed.

It's simply not enough.

not enough?

How could it not be enough?

Just yesterday, the Ordnance Supervision corruption case made great progress. A total of 10 officials were involved, from the Ministry of Household Affairs to the Ministry of War.

The person with the highest official position is Li Zhi, a doctor in the household department, and five other officials from the Du branch are involved.

The branch is in charge of financial revenue and expenditure, and all departments must go through it when preparing their budgets.

The eldest among the five officials was Cao Yuan, the doctor in charge of the Du branch. He used his power for personal gain, made false accounts, and conspired with Li Chong, the weapons supervisor, to pass off inferior goods.

There are several other officials from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.

As soon as these people confessed last night, the people from the Imperial City Division went to knock on the door: open the door and send warmth to the community!

This afternoon, after all the money was calculated, including the officials handed over by the Ministry of Punishments before, there was a total of 150,000 yuan.

Adding in the current 520,000 guan, it is 670,000 guan.

Zhang Shuye's pension application has been submitted for several days. Today, Zhao Ning finally made a stroke of a pen and stamped it: Take the money and distribute it!

In the end, there was only 10,000 yuan left in the treasury.

Being poor is definitely really poor, but there is nothing you can do about it.

In the evening, Zhao Ding came into the palace to report on the recent exchange of grain from China and France.

"Guan family, in the past half month, a total of 1.5 million guan of salt has been exchanged for export. About 100,000 guan can be exchanged every day."

"How much food is there?"

Zhao Ding hesitated for a moment and said: "A total of 300,000 stones of grain were exchanged."

"Exchange so little?"

One stone of food and five strings of food?

I'll be a good boy!

The price of food is going crazy.

You should know that during the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the price of grain was only 700 wen per stone, which is 0.7 guan.

Zhao Ding said: "There is a shortage of food now, so... I am guilty."

"It's not your fault." Zhao Ning sighed, feeling a little annoyed.

This exposed a problem.

what is the problem?

The wealthy people in Tokyo City need discipline!

The previous Song Dynasty court was too kind to them.

In the midst of a national crisis, you are still asking me for an exorbitant price.

I have already given you a lot of face, so I will exchange it with salt!

I have remembered this account today.

Zhao Ning said: "Have all the redemption lists been saved?"

"Everything is saved."

"Okay, just keep it. Don't worry too much. Raising the food and distributing it is more important than anything else."

Zhao Ding was quite moved. He was afraid that after Zhao Guan's family heard about this, they would be reluctant to continue the exchange.

After all, those people charge too high a price.

But obviously the Zhao Guan family knows that the overall situation is the most important thing.

There are currently 1.2 million people in Tokyo, and about 800,000 of them may be short of food in three months.

Each person needs to replenish their food supply for two more months, so they can eat sparingly. Each person eats one pound of food per day.

It consumes 800,000 jins in one day and 48 million jins in two months.

48 million kilograms is approximately 400,000 shi, which means there is still a shortfall of 100,000 shi.

This goal is not far from completion.

Zhao Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief on this matter.

Next, it’s up to Zongze.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the sky gradually darkened.

A group of troops quickly moved eastward from the Huazhou area.

According to the information Yue Fei had received before, the Jin army had established a large number of camps from Huazhou to Puyang.

Wuyi doctor Liu Hao was forced to evacuate to the east. Hearing that Zongze's army was about to go south to Kaidefu, Liu Hao planned to go to Kaidefu to join Zongze's army.

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Liu Hao encountered Zongze's army in Linhe.

Both sides mobilized their troops here, with a total of 20,000 troops, and quickly advanced towards Puyang, Kaide Prefecture.

Liu Hao was originally unwilling to fight head-on with the Jin army. He persuaded Zongze to go north with him to Daming Mansion to find Zhao Gou, but Zongze angrily rebuked him.

Then he followed Zongze and marched eastward to Puyang.

On the 24th of the first lunar month, Zongze's letter had arrived at Zhao Ye, the general manager of the North Road, Fan Ne, the Xuanfu envoy on the Northeast Road of Hebei Province, and Zeng Mao of Zhixingren Prefecture. He hoped that they could send troops to command their troops in Tokyo City and fight to the death with the Jin people.

Zhao Ye: Zong Ze is a scholar, extremely arrogant!

Fan Ne: Zongze only knew Cizhou last year and had never led troops to fight. How dare he despise the Jin people so much? He is not overestimating his own capabilities!

Zeng Mao: Zongze is committing suicide by going here. We should go to Daming Mansion to pay homage to the Generalissimo!

Obviously, all armies are unwilling to go south.

Why?

Because they are afraid!

On the evening of the 25th of the first lunar month, Wanyan Xiyin received a military report from the rear, saying that a Song army suddenly appeared in the area of ​​Kaide Mansion.

He reported the news, but Wanyan Zonghan didn't take it seriously.

It was not until three days later that another military report came that the two castles in Kaide Mansion were captured by the Song army!

This news caused a small stir among the top brass of the frontline Jin Army, but they did not take it seriously.

On the 27th of the first lunar month, another news came: Puyang City in Kaide Prefecture was recaptured by the Song Army!

This shocked Wanyan Xiyin, and also attracted a small amount of attention from the top brass of the Jin Army.

But it was only a small-scale attention, because the top leaders of the Jin Army simply did not believe that the Song Army could play any big things later.

When the Jin army was still disapproving, Zongze's army recaptured Wankaide Mansion and quickly headed west, with great momentum all the way, reaching Huazhou north of the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

Thirteen battles and thirteen victories!

As long as the Jin army heard that Zong Zejun was coming, they would all be frightened and some even shouted "Grandpa Zong".

In this unexpected war, an unknown soldier also shined. His name was Yue Fei.

It was not until the 29th of the first lunar month that news of the sudden change in the situation north of the Yellow River came, which attracted the attention of Wanyan Zonghan and others.

By this time, Zongze had already become famous in Hebei.

All the soldiers and civilians in various states cheered and wanted to join Zongze's tribe.

In just half a month, Zongze tore a hole in the blockade established by the Jin Army north of the Yellow River.

Zongze's army was like a sharp sword, hanging behind the Jin army.
Chapter completed!