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In mid-November, Li Hu presided over a meeting of the imperial department.  All the ministers in charge of the East and West Prefectures of Beijing, the governors of the three provinces, the chief admonishment chief of Taiwan, Jing Zhaoyin, and the three commanders of the imperial army participated in this meeting.  At a glance, the central officials in the lobby are almost all tiger warriors, and most of them are warriors who came from the army.  There are Dong Xiaoyao, Luo Qinghan, Hou Gai and Zhe Keqiu in Xifu, and the three commanders of the Forbidden Army are Chu Xiaoyao, Fang Jin and Wang Dazhong.  There are Huang She, Chai Yun, Fan Zhichang, Wang Yuan, Song Jiang, Gao Yuan and Changsun Kangning in Dongfu.  The chief minister of the Han Dynasty is Shi Hutu, the chief minister is Shi Yuanye, and Jing Zhaoyin is Yang Keshi.  Among them, although Zhe Keqiu and Yang Keshi were from northwest generals, both the Zhe family and the Yang family had defected to Li Hu early, and now they can be considered half Hulie people.  The only remaining old bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were Li Gang, Yu Wenxuzhong, Zhao Mingcheng, Liu Yanqing and Wu Min.  Among them, Zhao Mingcheng is Li Hu's closest relative. The relationship between the two families is extraordinary. At the critical moment, Zhao Mingcheng will definitely abandon his own ideas and absolutely support Li Hu. There is no doubt about this. Unless Zhao Mingcheng puts the interests of the family under the interests of the kingdom, he will not  choose.  Since the Tiger Army annexed the Northwest Army, Liu Yanqing's importance has plummeted, and his position in the center is also in jeopardy.  This time Li Hu arranged for him to come to Taiwan to admonish him, which actually transferred him away from the center. Liu Yanqing also knew himself. In order to preserve the status and power of the Liu family, he tried his best to stay consistent with the Hu Lie people.  Since Li Hu took power, Tai Jian's authority has been greatly weakened.  This time, Li Hu asked Liu Yanqing to serve as the chief of the Taiwan Admonition. His intention was very clear, which was to further weaken the power of the Taiwan Admonition, so as to prevent the Taiwan Admonition from overly interfering in military affairs and reform, so as to better play the central role.  The main role of Taijian in the official system of the Song Dynasty was not supervision, but decentralization of power. Especially during the period when the power of Taijian increased, Taijian directly interfered in military affairs and divided the power of the prime minister, and the function of supervision became secondary.  .  When the emperors of the Song Dynasty appointed prime ministers, they often admonished and arranged the prime minister's opponents in Taiwan to check each other.  Wang Anshi's reform was deeply influenced by Taiwan's advice.  When Cai Jing came to power, he drove the Yuanyou party members out of the court, and this situation was changed.  If the prime minister and the admonishment chief come from the same faction, it will be much easier to make decisions on major military and state affairs.  When Zhang Xiaochun served as the chief admonishment officer, he and Prime Minister Li Gang supported each other and repeatedly caused trouble for national decision-making.  When Luo Sinan established the imperial department, he had no choice but to do so due to the heavy pressure from the meeting hall and Taiwanese remonstrances.  Now that Li Hu has driven Zhang Xiaochun out of the center and put Liu Yanqing in charge of admonishment, he hopes to use Liu Yanqing's "flexibility" to further weaken the power of admonition and to do his job of "supervising all officials" honestly.  As for Yu Wenxuzhong and Wu Min, they defected from the southeast not long ago. Although Li Hu promised high positions, they retained their official positions as prime ministers.  However, from Li Hu and Luo Sinan to ordinary officials in the central government agencies, their trust in them has been greatly reduced.  In a sense, allowing them to stay in the center of Chang'an is mainly to appease the southeastern bureaucrats and speed up the process of pacifying the southeast.  In fact, this did play a role. Many southeastern officials followed suit after hearing that Yu Wenxuzhong and Wu Min remained in their original posts after defecting to Chang'an.  Now that the peace of the Southeast is imminent, Li Hu used thunderous means to drive Li Fu, Zong Ze, Liu Kai, Zhang Xiaochun and other former officials of the Song Dynasty out of the center. Next, it will be their turn. This is just a matter of time.  , so Yu Wenxuzhong and Wu Min kept a low profile, and their previous ambitions were wiped out in front of the huge storm launched by Li Hu. They had no strength to stop Li Hu from seizing the Zhao family's empire in the Song Dynasty, and could only watch Li Hu helplessly.  Dominate Middle-earth.  Li Gang is very isolated. So far, Li Hu has no intention of touching him, but from a realistic point of view, Li Hu will not touch him for the time being.  Middle-earth is too big.  There are too many local agencies and a huge bureaucracy is needed. Now the new bureaucracy does not have any advantage in numbers and is seriously insufficient in administrative experience, so it must rely on the old bureaucracy.  Although the storm started by Li Hu is unstoppable, the old Chinese bureaucrats are like a big tree with lush branches. This storm may blow away all the branches and leaves of this big tree, but if  It is absolutely impossible to uproot it, so Li Hu needs a leader of the old bureaucracy with considerable prestige like Li Gang to continue to sit in the center and stabilize the old bureaucracy in China to a certain extent to avoid an uncontrollable situation.  Li Gang is still the prime minister of the Song Dynasty. He will still have great power for some time to come, but this power has been severely restricted and can no longer affect the highest decision-making.  = Li Hu proposed the Northern Expedition plan.  The lobby was very quiet and no one raised any objections.  Prior to this, Li Hu had already met with Huang She and Chai Yun alone, asking them to put aside the differences within the Hulie people and first put aside any issues that could endanger the survival of the Hulie people.The old bureaucratic forces in the Song Dynasty were defeated. To this end, everyone worked together and unanimously faced the outside world.  The disagreements within the Hu Lie people mainly focus on reform, and their most acute contradiction is the struggle for power between civilian officials and military generals.  The literati despise the generals, which seems to be the inherent arrogance of the literati.  Literati generally believe that giving too much power to military generals will pose a threat to the country. Therefore, the strategy of governing the country in peacetime throughout the dynasties was to emphasize culture over military force. In the Song Dynasty, they even used culture to control military force, and simply drove military personnel out of the decision-making level.  .  Trampled firmly underfoot.  Li Hu¡¯s reform, one of the most important principles in the official system reform is to pay equal attention to civil and military affairs. However, as the Tiger Army won one victory after another on the battlefield and occupied a large amount of territory, more generals began to enter the court.  Li Hu's approach was obviously "overcorrected" in the eyes of civilian officials, so he consciously hindered this reform process. However, both Li Hu and Luo Sinan fought it out with swords and guns on the battlefield, and their trust in military generals  Far greater than trust in civil servants.  Li Hu left Beijing for two years. After returning, he made drastic changes and accelerated the reform process. One of the things he did was to transfer a large number of generals into the central government.  Huang She and Chai Yun took a negative attitude towards this, believing that Li Hu's approach would seriously endanger the security of China and Turkey.  Li Hu knew that this matter involved the struggle for the interests of civil servants and military generals. If he spent his energy on this, it would inevitably delay the great cause of unification, so he clearly told Huang She and Chai Yun to put aside the dispute and concentrate on unifying China first.  Let¡¯s talk about it later.  Huang She and Chai Yun did not dare to offend Li Hu's authority.  There can be arguments and struggles within the Hu Lie people, but they must not exceed the bottom line that Li Hu can tolerate. If this bottom line is exceeded, Li Hu will definitely take action to rectify it.  Li Hu also personally visited Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao.  Therefore, their feelings for each other are extraordinary.  So Li Hu was very candid and said everything that needed to be said, except that he did not clearly tell Zhao Mingcheng and his wife that I was going to be the emperor.  This cannot be said yet, it is not yet time to say it, but Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao know it clearly.  The situation has developed to this point. Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao have no choice at all. Even if they violate morality and conscience, they must firmly support Li Hu. This is not only related to the future of the Zhao family and the Li family, but also the future of China.  Which one is more important and which one is less important is clear at a glance.  If you oppose Li Hu out of blind loyalty to Emperor Zhao, you will be asking for disaster.  Both the Zhao family and the Li family suffered heavy blows before and after the Yuanyou Party case. To be honest, their loyalty to Emperor Zhao was indeed limited.  Many times, they converted their loyalty to China into loyalty to the Zhao family and the Song Dynasty. Li Hu established a new dynasty to replace the Zhao family and the Song Dynasty. There was no conflict with their loyalty to China.  = The silence in the lobby made Li Gang realize for the first time that the Zhao Song Dynasty was really over, and there was no possibility of turning around.  Li Hu's strength was too strong, and the Zhao family was basically defeated in the Song Dynasty, leaving only an illusory righteousness. But this righteousness was fragile in the face of the storm launched by Li Hu, and would be torn apart and completely ruined in the blink of an eye.  , the Song Dynasty will soon become history.  Li Gang raised his head and looked at Yu Wenxuzhong and Wu Min.  These two people also looked solemn, with endless sadness in their eyes.  Guo Zuo's survival depended on strength, to be more specific, it relied on force. However, the military force of the Song Dynasty seemed to be strong. Tens of millions of military resources were invested every year, but in the end, Guo Zuo was defeated. What was the reason?  Why was the Song Dynasty¡¯s army so vulnerable?  Why can the Tiger Army be invincible?  The Jurchens who came from the wilderness destroyed the Liao Dynasty and severely damaged the Song Dynasty with only 20,000 iron cavalry. Why?  The national power of the Song Dynasty was unparalleled in the world. Such a powerful national power did not have a powerful army. It took more than eighty years for such a powerful national power to defeat the party members and regain the lost territory in the northwest. Why?  Thinking about it now, the defeat of the Zhao family in the Song Dynasty seems to be reasonable.  When the overthrow of the Song Dynasty was imminent, Li Hu and the Hu Lie Army entered the Central Plains and took advantage of the situation to rise. Since the Zhao family was unable to stop the Song Dynasty, the change of dynasty was inevitable and no one could stop it.  Take a step back and say that.  Even if the prevention is successful, can the Zhao Song Dynasty rise again?  In fact, it is absolutely impossible. The instant defeat of the Southeast Song Dynasty is a living example.  Emperor Zhao and the Song Dynasty court were like a rotten tree, its roots were completely rotten. It only took a violent storm to collapse it.  Yu Wenxuzhong and Wu Min remained silent. The discussion of the Imperial Council was basically just what Li Hu and Hu Lieren said. Even if they objected, it would be meaningless.  Li Gang stood up and firmly opposed.  In the hall of Nuo Da, only Li Gang objected.  The reason for Li Gang's opposition was simply that the domestic situation was unstable and the court's financial resources were seriously insufficient.  "I want to ask you something." Li Hu said, "In today's world, is there more land owned by government officials or by wealthy businessmen?" ThisThe answer is simple, of course, there are a lot of official fields.  After all, there are only a limited number of wealthy merchants in the world. Of course, the land owned by big landowners and merchants cannot be compared with the amount of official land. Especially after Cai Jing set up a land scraping station in Xicheng, the government unscrupulously occupied people's land. Today, the number of official land has been far exceeded.  far exceeded the middle period of the Song Dynasty.  "My army has been fighting for several years, and all its military supplies came from loans from wealthy merchants. Excuse me, the amount of official land is so huge, where did the money and food go?" Li Hu shouted sternly, "Give me an answer."
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