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Ding Daquan pressed him step by step, but Jia Sidao came to him politely at this time, arched his hand to him, and said: "prime minister Ding, you are in such a hurry, in fact, it is not because you have any personal grudges with me, Jia Sidao, but out of loyalty to today's God. From this point, I understand you very much."

Usually in the court hall, both of them are against Mai Mang, and no one will let him. But at this court meeting, Jia Sidao was still so peaceful when Ding Daquan attacked him, which made Ding Daquan a little confused. He said: "what does Jia Sidao mean today? Is it because he has caught hold of him and wants to fight against him It's impossible for me to be soft. "

But when I think about it, I don't think it's possible. In the end, it's either you die or I live. With such humility, there is definitely a conspiracy behind the scenes.

At this time, Jia Sidao continued: "everyone, since we moved to the south of the Song Dynasty, there have been constant wars. It can be said that the common people have suffered from the war. Just a few months ago, I went to inspect the soldiers on the front line, ate and lived with them, and finally learned the general's voice."

Hearing Jia Sidao say so, Emperor LiZong knew that he should cooperate with Jia Sidao. He asked, "Jia Aiqing, you all know what the generals and men think. Come on and listen to it!"

I will abide by the holy will. Jia Sidao bowed to Emperor LiZong and replied.

Jia Sidao is a treacherous official, but he is also good at buying people's hearts. Otherwise, there would not be so many people willing to be driven by him.

When he arrived at the front line of Huaihe River, he did not live in the residence prepared for him by the local officials at all. Instead, he lived in an ordinary tent like the soldiers. When he saw the wounded soldiers, he went forward and personally served them with soup and medicine.

At night, when they saw some soldiers sleeping in the open air without even a quilt, they immediately took off their fur cloak and put it on them. These moves have puzzled many people. Many soldiers say that Prime Minister Jia, as a product of the current Dynasty, has no airs at all. It's really admirable.

On the day before Lin'an, he called a lot of soldiers, including some junior officers, and invited them to drink and eat meat together.

After drinking for a while, Jia Sidao touched the wound of his right arm, which was cut off by Mongolian soldiers, and asked with concern: "little brother, does it hurt?"

The wounded soldier was moved with tears in his eyes. He fell on his knees and replied, "thank you for your love. It's much better now."

Jia Sidao waved the wounded soldier to sit down, sighed and said: "everyone, you see, this is the cruelty of the war. This little brother has suffered so much just because he broke an arm."

After that, he accentuated his tone and said, "let's try to think about those brothers who died for their country. In their families, their parents, wives, children and children are looking forward to their reunion, but they will stay here forever. They will never go back. If we think about these, we can't sleep."

After listening to these words, the soldiers who drank with him all nodded and praised them.

After drinking a mouthful of wine, Jia said: "for this reason, the prime minister has been thinking of a way to let you go home as soon as possible and reunite with your family."

"If that's possible, thank you, Prime Minister." They all fell to their knees and cried out.

Jia Sidao sighed and said, "but now there are strong enemies invading the north. If the prime minister orders you all to go home, then there will be no one to defend the frontier. The Prime Minister of the imperial court is not easy to deal with."

After listening to Jia Sidao's words, all the soldiers were dejected and said, "prime minister Jia, that is to say, it seems that you still can't be the master."

The change of these people's expression, Jia Sidao naturally is to see in the eye, say: "want to let you go home, that has a premise."

"What premise?" Asked the officer sitting there.

Jia said: "the premise is that the world can no longer be harmonious."

At this time, he did not look at the reaction of the people, and said: "for this reason, my Lord is ready to propose to the imperial court to negotiate with Mongolia, so that the Mongolian cavalry will no longer go south and herd horses, and we just don't have to send hundreds of thousands of troops to guard the border. The two countries live in harmony, and the military and the people share peace and prosperity. Isn't it beautiful?"

After that, Jia Sidao winked at his entourage.

I saw this man immediately took out a red banner about several meters long and put it on the ground.

Jia Sidao pointed to the banner on the ground and said: "everyone, it's no use just for the prime minister to return to the imperial court to report the situation here. Only when the present emperor can see the voice of the soldiers guarding the border, the emperor will change his mind. If you want to go home as soon as possible, please sign your name on the red banner with brush money to show your will. ”

after that, Jia Sidao picked up the brush and took the lead in signing his name on the red banner.Of course, Jia Sidao was angry with his military cronies in advance. After he signed, his cronies naturally signed along with him, creating momentum for the plan.

Those soldiers were really homesick, and after drinking, they all scrambled to sign on it.

After Jia Sidao said this, he took out the banner and presented it to Emperor LiZong's Dragon case.

The banner was very long, and Emperor LiZong looked at it very carefully. After a while, he finished reading it.

But after reading it, Emperor LiZong did not immediately express his opinions. Instead, he ordered Dong songchen around him to take the banner to the courtiers below and let them pass it on one by one.

While these officials were looking at this, Emperor LiZong looked at Jia Sidao again and said, "it's really the right person to appoint Jia Sidao as my prime minister. Originally, this negotiation is what I mean, but let him do so, instead, it becomes the voice of the soldiers fighting on the front line. I'm going to negotiate with Mongolia again, instead, it becomes compassionate. This man is a good man What a talent. "

Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting: "Your Majesty, Jia Sidao is so hateful. He is making use of the soldiers' ignorance of the situation of the imperial court to find an excuse for his peace. It's time to kill him."

The emperor LiZong of the great song dynasty looked at Dong Huai, who had been dismissed as a privy envoy by himself, and asked, "general Dong, I didn't blame you for the past. How did you get dissatisfied with Prime Minister Jia this time?"

the emperors of the great Song Dynasty were very generous to their ministers, especially to those influential officials The killer.

After dismissing Dong Huai from his post and appointing him as an envoy without real power, Emperor LiZong did not find it difficult for him to go to the court and participate in politics. Of course, his envoy was an empty post and had no real power.

"As soldiers at the border, the most important thing is not to be afraid of sacrifice, but to recover the old capital and the territory of the Song Dynasty. However, master Jia Sidao went to relax his morale and let all the soldiers go home. In that case, the Mongols would drive straight in, but they would not be able to protect Lin'an." Dong Huai is not busy.

Zhang Yihong, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, stood up again and said, "I dare not agree with general Dong's words."

"You are a civil servant. You know something about military affairs." Dong Huai retorts.

As soon as he said this, Zhang Yihong caught hold of it. He immediately said, "general Dong, I don't agree with you. Many of the civil servants in the court today have led soldiers to fight wars. Moreover, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, many of the Privy envoys are civil servants, not military generals. Don't these people understand military affairs?"

Originally, what Dong Huai meant was that Zhang Yihong, the Secretary of the Ministry of household affairs, did not understand military affairs. But after Zhang Yihong said that, it became Dong Huai's saying that all civil servants did not understand military affairs.

You know, in the imperial court of the great Song Dynasty, the emphasis on literature was always less on martial arts, which had an impact on the courtiers. As a military general, Dong Huai looked down on all civil servants.

Of course, Dong Huai also recognized the taste of Zhang Yihong's words, and quickly explained: "Mr. Zhang, don't make something out of nothing. I don't mean that."

"What do you mean by general Dong? You know it yourself, and all the adults present know it, so there's no need to say more." Zhang Yihong, Secretary of the Ministry of household affairs.

Then he took the red banner, raised his hands, and said: "everyone, you have seen the red banner. The names on it were signed by Prime Minister Jia personally watching the soldiers at the border. Naturally, there will be no fake."

"Of course, if there is an adult who thinks that Jia Sidao has cheated, he can bring it up and let the emperor and the imperial edict go to the military camp to confirm this matter. I will certainly cooperate with him actively without any second words." Jia Sidao said after Zhang Yihong's words.

When Emperor LiZong saw that Jia Sidao was so confident, he said, "yes, Dong Aiqing. If you think Jia Aiqing has made a fraud, I will immediately issue an imperial edict for you to confirm it."

"Your Majesty, I don't suspect Prime Minister Jia of fraud, but that it's improper for prime minister Jia to do so in the army." Dong Huaidao.

Emperor LiZong said, "the prime minister is the head of all officials. One of his important duties is to observe public opinion and report it to me. Why not?"

At this time, the discerning people could see that the emperor LiZong was deliberately avoiding the heavy and taking the light. Dong Huai's duty to Jia Sidao was to bewitch the army, while the emperor LiZong was deliberately involved in the duty of prime minister.

Dong Huai still wanted to argue. The emperor of LiZong pretended to be a little impatient and said, "Dong Aiqing, in the past, you committed a serious crime, but I'm still very kind to you. But don't think I really dare not. What about you? If you are pestering like this, don't blame me for being merciless."

"That is, today's sage is very wise. General Dong, the sage has his own judgment on what you say. Are you trying to force the palace Dong Huai asked.

Dong Huai and Ding Daquan are also political enemies. Originally, someone attacked Dong Huai, so he should take the opportunity to go down the well. But today's situation has completely changed, Dong Huai and his old rival Jia Sidao of Ding Daquan have done it, and today's thing is what he started.Now he felt that Dong Huai was no longer his enemy, but a comrade in arms in the trench.

The enemies and friends in this world are not absolute. At a certain time, they may have dramatic changes. This is the relationship between Ding Daquan and Dong Huai.

At this time, Ding Daquan felt that he should help Dong Huai, so he began to say: "everyone, as you all know, general Dong and I, Ding Daquan, have not had a very friendly relationship. Even general Dong's original position was that the prime minister was dismissed after he told the emperor. At that time, the prime minister did so because he was wrong with general Dong. As a minister, he had the responsibility to report to his majesty, But today, Prime Minister wants to stand on the same line with general Dong. "

Today, the courtiers whispered something wrong

Of course, this was beyond Dong Huai's expectation. He did not expect that Ding Daquan would support himself at this time.

Dong Huai thought, "if Ding Daquan really wanted to help himself, why was he so anxious at the beginning?"

He knew how cunning and changeable these old politicians in court were.

But when Ding Daquan said that, Emperor LiZong was a little unhappy. He said, "you ding Daquan are really fickle. At the beginning, you strongly advised me to remove Dong Huai. But now you say that again. Do you want to play me with applause?"

Of course, Ding Daquan knew that his saying was in line with emperor LiZong's idea, or in a sense, he was against emperor LiZong.

Considering these, he said to Emperor LiZong: "Your Majesty, I think that as the prime minister, your majesty, your right arm, you should really investigate the following situation and report it to you afterwards, but your majesty, you didn't let him walk in the general army, which is wearisome of war?"

"Yes, your majesty, you are a descendant of emperor Taizu of the great song dynasty. At first, Taizu set his capital in Nanjing and the world was unified. Now we are on one side. He said that Prime Minister Jia took a walk in the army. Who would be in the mood to fight in the future?" Dong Huai asked.

Ding Daquan went on to say: "if the soldiers are all demobilized and returned to the fields, it is not self destruction of the Great Wall for us in the Song Dynasty. Even if we sign a contract with Mongolia, they will go back on their deeds and go south again. What should we do? Should we sit and wait for death?"

"Ding Aiqing, you think too much. Now we just allow the Mongolian mission to enter the country, but we haven't talked about anything. How can you be so sure to suffer losses? It's too arbitrary." Emperor Li Zong of the great song dynasty.