The first year of Kaiyuan, December 27th.

Hall of Qinzheng.

Because Li Xun's memorial arrived, Zhao Xun held a temporary meeting of a small court meeting, with only more than 20 people attending the meeting, all of whom were core officials of the third rank or above, and mainly discussed three things.

First, the aftermath of Lingnan and the urgent raising of money and grain were transported to the Lingnan area.

Second, the pension issues for soldiers who died in battle include Zhao Baian, the chief marching chief.

The third is the reward issue for those who have made meritorious services at all levels.

As the New Year approaches, all departments and ministers at all levels are basically in a state of leisure. Government affairs will be kept for the next year before handling them. Zhao Xun summoned all the ministers, not to discuss the results immediately, but just told everyone this news, so that everyone can know what to do and prepare in advance. When the next year, the official court meeting on the fifth day of the lunar month will be the main issue of the court meeting, and a decision and treatment result will be made.

Today is just a meeting, so the meeting did not last long, and it ended in less than an hour.

After the meeting, most of the people left, but a few people were kept by Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun sat on the dragon throne and quietly watched the memorial in his hand.

Because Li Xun's memorials have a lot of content, there are more than one book, but three books. In the memorials, he introduced in detail the entire battle situation in Lingnan, and talked more pertinently about the performance and actions of generals at all levels in this battle.

When Li Xun was in Hedong and Henan, because he was not far from Fengjing, he would basically send memorials to Zhao Xun every three or five days, introducing his work progress and status in detail. On the third day after entering Lingnan, after relatively understanding the situation, Li Xun wrote another memorial and sent it back to Fengjing. The content was relatively relaxed and optimistic. He said a lot of good words from Zhao Bai'an, Huang Hui, Kou Xiong and others, saying that the emotions of the major generals in the army were still very stable and harmonious with each other. Moreover, the war had ended, and everyone would go their own way in the future and would not really break up and cause a big deal.

But just today, the second memorial after Li Xun entered Lingnan has arrived. When Zhao Xun opened it, he was shocked. He thought that the Lingnan War had ended, but he didn't expect that in less than ten days, there would be such twists and turns in the future and dangers.

Zhao Xun put down the memorial in his hand and sighed, "Li Xun may not be able to come back for the New Year."

Zhao Xun's voice was very soft, and the ministers below didn't hear what he was saying clearly, but Xiao Lezi, who was standing beside him, heard it clearly. He glanced at Zhao Xun, bowed and replied in a low voice: "Prime Minister Li is worried about the country, and he has really worked hard to stop in the border area."

Zhao Xun was silent and sighed a lot in his heart.

This time, sending Li Xun out was not Zhao Xun's original intention, but the disaster in Henan could not be calmed down for a long time. He had just ascended the throne and wanted to make some political achievements. The disaster in Henan happened to be a breakthrough. In addition, Li Xun was very dedicated to this matter, and later something happened to Wang Shaoqun, Li Xun found Zhao Xun and said heartfelt words very sincerely.

Li Xun's words touched Zhao Xun, so after thinking about it over and over again, Zhao Xun finally decided to let Li Xun go out and handle the disaster in Henan with all his powers, and gave him great power to let him go.

From the beginning to the end of the Battle of Lingnan, Zhao Xun did not expect three unexpected things.

First, from Zhao Bai'an entering Lingnan to defeat Shi Hu, he directly took down Qianzhou, and the soldiers surrounded Jia Yancheng. Both sides were secretly preparing for war. The Cold War lasted for a few months and the hot war was over for five days. The speed was so fast that no one expected. After all, Shi Hu and Cao Shi joined forces to occupy geographical advantages, and their strength was no less than Zhao Bai'an. Before Zhao Bai'an entered Lingnan, most of the ministers in the court opposed it and felt that it was too risky to pacify Lingnan by force. Even if Zhao Xun finally made a decision, he would officially appoint Zhao Bai'an as the marching major.

The general manager, with a full authority to control dozens of war generals and 50,000 soldiers, marched into Lingnan, but the imperial edict given to him was also relatively neutral and tactful, meaning that if you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will not fight. You can do it yourself. If you can't find a way to defeat the enemy within two months, the court will officially appoint Shi Hu as the governor of Qianzhou in exchange for this, so that he can give up his help to Cao Shi. In this way, Zhao Baian can concentrate all his troops and concentrate firepower to attack Jiayan City. If Cao Shi is destroyed, it will be considered an explanation for the subjects in the world. The court is decent in terms of face.

Zhao Xun actually did not have much confidence in the battle in Lingnan. The reason why he chose to send troops in the end was just to express an attitude, the emperor and the justice attitude. But who would have thought that after Zhao Baian entered Lingnan, he would have been in a simple five days and then attacked overnight, and suddenly defeated Shi Hu's main army. Then he successfully conquered Qianzhou. Finally, he concentrated all his troops and besieged Jiayan City. The originally dark and difficult-to-clear situation suddenly became completely clear. The overall situation was decided and the war was about to end.

The second unexpected thing was that Zhan Po really dared to invade the territory of Dajin, and it was quite large, with an army of 50,000. This was enough to show that Zhang Zhong's ambition to march into Lingnan was definitely not small.

After Zhang Fu usurped the throne, his relationship with the Jin Dynasty was very bad, and many wars occurred. Zhan Po's army once entered Lingnan, and went deep into hundreds of miles and dozens of cities. But that was not a country. Instead, taking advantage of the extreme emptiness of the great Jin Dynasty in Pingzong's later years, Zhang Fu joined forces with small countries such as Dali and Funan to join forces to form a scale. Otherwise, no matter how brave Zhang Fu was, he would not dare to mess with the great Jin Dynasty.

Zhang Quan was the fifth generation king after the founding of the Champo Kingdom, and he was also the king who had been in power for the longest time. He had been in power for twenty years. Although he was a tyrant, he was definitely not an idiot. Otherwise, he would not have been firmly on the throne of the king for twenty years under such fierce internal struggles between Champo. Since he dared to let his brother Zhang Zhong lead an army of 50,000 to challenge the Jin Dynasty, there were only two possibilities. One was that the Zhanpo country was strong and had this strength, and the other was that the intensity of the internal struggle had reached its limit, so he could only vent the pressure externally.

The former is still the latter, which is obvious at a glance. Zhan Po would not be the opponent of the Great Jin Dynasty, even if it develops in the future. The geographical gap cannot be made up by simple military forces.
Chapter completed!