Chapter 24 A nasty begging letter

After Miao Liu's change was over, Zhang Jun was appointed as the Privy Council official and became the leader of the ministers. Zhang Jun was a hardliner on the metal. Once he took office, he once again raised the issue of the country's capital. Regarding this issue, Li Gang once clearly pointed out during his term of office: Tokyo is the foundation of the world, and it is the best choice for establishing the capital. As an accompanying capital. Many people of insight have also suggested that there are four options for establishing the capital: First, the Song Dynasty and Xixia fought for years, and the country's military center has been moved to the northwest. Therefore, we can leave important officials to guard the south of the Yangtze River, send generals to Fuhuaidian, and then make Chang'an the capital. Use the soldiers from Longyou to defeat the enemy's plan. It is the best plan and the best strategy to take back the land of Hebei and return to the heart of the world.

Second, if you feel that the road to the northwest is far away, you can choose the next best thing, set the capital in Wuchang or Xiangyang, take Jinghu with you, control Sichuan and Guangxi, recruit volunteers, connect with Heshuo, station troops upstream, and use them as a barrier to defend the center. It is also a good choice, and it is a middle strategy. Third, stationed in Jinling, established the capital in Jiankang, actively built military defense lines on both sides of the river, drilled the navy, and boosted morale.But this is only a strategy of sticking to it, and if the danger of the Yangtze River is lost, it must be prepared to migrate. Needless to say, this is a strategy for the next step.

Fourth, if you covet the dangers of the rivers and lakes, hope that the enemy will not come, and stay in Hangzhou hesitantly and procrastinate, once autumn goes and winter comes, and the Jin people drive boats and boats, and march along the rivers and rivers thousands of miles away, at that time, only floating On the sea, without a fixed place to live, it is a sign of helplessness to take one step at a time. Chang'an is too far away, Wuchang is too dangerous, Zhao Gou is looking at Jiankang. All the suggestions above were not listened to by Zhao Gou. He decided to set the capital in Jiankang and refused to move his nest.

Zhao Gou hoped to survive in a peaceful situation. In Jiankang, he wrote an extremely nasty long letter to Nianhan, the commander-in-chief of the Jin Dynasty. The general idea is as follows: This letter was written "to the end of the mournful prayer", which can be called an excellent model essay for a surrender letter. As soon as this letter came out, it has become a must-have text for the desks of countless subjugated kings.Hundreds of years later, Zhu Youlang of Nanming copied and pasted this letter and wrote it to Dorgon. So, can such an excellent model essay move Nianhan's heart?

Of course not.Zhao Gou's letter had the opposite effect and aroused the greed of the Jin people. From the letter, I learned that the Southern Song Dynasty did not even have a formed army, and it was such an easy task to capture Jiangnan. After reading it, Nianhan was elated, "Since it is so easy, I will do it myself. It is a pleasure. The army comes They’re all here, so why not grab a vote?” In the third year of Jianyan (1129), after a short summer rest, seeing the autumn coming to the winter solstice, the horses were fat and strong, and the troops were assembled again to launch a winter offensive.

It is still the old routine, and the troops are divided into three groups: Zuo Jianjun Talan leads the East Route Army to attack Shandong and Huaibei; Prince Wushu led the Central Route Army through Yingtianfu to directly attack the Jiangnan area, and vowed not to return the army if Zhao Gou was not captured. The naive Zhao Gou probably didn't expect this at all. Is this the so-called shooting himself in the foot?