Chapter 61 expected mutiny

During the transfer of military power in Huaixi, Liu Guangshi was surprisingly docile, and in exchange, he offered Zhao Gou eight thousand gold. As soon as he got the eight thousand pieces of gold, he compared himself to Tao Zhugong and Fan Li when he met everyone, with a look of happiness on his face. "Although Fan Li has a virtuous name, how can his and Goujian's righteousness as rulers and ministers compare with ours? Haha!" Zhao Gou said with a big laugh.After laughing, he appointed Liu Guangshi as the young teacher and the envoy of Wanshou Temple, and gave him a large number of treasures and antiques.Liu Guangshi was both surprised and delighted, "watching at night while holding candles, until the fourth watch", so excited that he couldn't sleep.

A few days later, Zhang Jun officially announced that Wang De, the observation envoy of Xiangzhou and former commander of the left guard army in the battalion, would be the commander of the Huaixi Army Capital, and Li Qiong, the commander, would be the deputy.At the same time, Lu Zhi was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War and Military Staff of the Governor's Mansion, and went to Luzhou in Huaixi to appease the troops. Lu Zhi, styled Anlao, was born in Jianyang and was a Jinshi in the third year of Xuanhe (1121).He was upright by nature, and was demoted to be a general judge in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) because of his outspoken comments on political affairs.During Zhang Jun's announcement of the establishment of the capital Jiankang, he wrote the book "Convenient Defense in the Southeast" and submitted it, saying: "Those who establish a country in the southeast should contact Huaidian and Jingxiang. Lin'an is located in the sea, so it should be moved On the river, then you can tie the heart of the southeast." The same as Zhang Jun's political views, since then, he has been supported by Zhang Jun.

As a result, Lu Zhi talked more about his "ambition to defeat the enemy", looking like an expert. This time the Huaixi Army changed generals, Zhang Jun entrusted him with a heavy responsibility and pushed him to the position of warlord. A political adviser surnamed Zhang told Zhang Jun in private: "Lv Zhi is a scholar. He is not trained in the military. He may not be able to take up a big job. He should be replaced by someone who has prestige and can control the army." But Zhang Jun said eloquently: "Isn't Lu Zhi just such a person? Apart from him, there is no other suitable candidate."

Lu Zhi was even more grateful for Zhang Jun's kindness, and before leaving, he swore to heaven: "Now that I lead an army, I will definitely capture Liu Yu and his son alive, and restore the old frontier. I will live up to the expectations of my kindness." Zhang Jun grinned with satisfaction.Lu Zhi is one of his own, and Wang Deneng's promotion to be the commander of the Western Army was entirely facilitated by himself, and he will definitely serve him wholeheartedly in the future. In a sense, the Huaixi Army has already fallen into his own hands.However, what he never imagined was that everything that happened next would develop according to the plot that Yue Fei had expected before, every detail and exactness!

Wang De and Li Qiong were the well-known second generals of the Huaixi Army. In the past, whenever Liu Guangshi wanted to do something, he had to do it together.In the beginning, because of work needs, the two called each other brother and brother, drinking and playing dice together.But with the passage of time, the two have been secretly competing for promotion, advancement, and job titles. When they met, they even showed that they wanted to swallow each other alive, and they turned against each other long ago. Wang De's unexplained promotion this time made Li Qiong very angry. Why mention him as the governor of the capital? !

Li Qiong couldn't swallow this breath, and organized a large group of people to resist the court's personnel arrangements.They came to Lu Zhida incessantly to speak ill of Wang De, saying that Wang De was rude, ineffective, often withheld military pay, was corrupt, had a problematic life style, accepted sexual bribes, and so on. Lu Zhi had just arrived, and many places were relying on Wang De's help, so he defended Wang De in every possible way, saying: "What you are talking about is just a small problem, and the flaws can't hide the good! The flaws can't hide the good! Let me tell you, Zhang Jun appoints people only based on their talents. If you don’t care about your style of life, don’t talk about it anymore.” The complaints of Li Qiong and others were not accepted.

Li Qiong observed his words and expressions and understood.Since you have already got together with Wang De, let's stop talking nonsense with you, go, let's change places to petition!They accused Wang De and Lu Zhi of colluding with each other, and that Wang De was a fish and meat soldier in the army, and they reported the illegal acts of corruption and bribery to Yushitai. Because the incident involved senior executives from one of the five major military regions in the Southern Song Dynasty, the relevant personnel of Yushitai dared not accept it and presented the matter to Zhao Gou.Zhao Gou felt that stability overwhelmed everything now, and to avoid mutiny in the army, Wang De had to be transferred first.So with a transfer order, Wang De's 8,000 troops were transferred to Jiankang Mansion, and the Huaixi Military Region was directly in charge of the Governor's Mansion Zhang Jun.

Zhao Gouman thought that in this way, things would be peaceful and the world would be peaceful. But he pressed the gourd and picked up the ladle.When Lu Zhi found out that Li Qiong had skipped himself to complain to his superiors and got Wang De away, he was furious, and immediately took revenge.He played ruthlessly and made a statement to the court, slandering Li Qiong and others for being arrogant, scheming, and rebellious, and asked Zhao Gou to get rid of them as soon as possible to avoid accidents.Rebellion was a big hat, and it was put on Li Qiong's head, which clearly punished him to death.

Zhao Gou, who has always been nervous, saw the word "rebellion" and did not investigate or study it. He immediately appointed Zhang Jun as the Huaixi Propaganda Envoy, and Yang Yizhong as the Huaixi System Envoy, who was fully in charge of Huaixi military affairs. Set off overnight to Luzhou. Since ancient times, it has been like this. If the emperor doubts the minister, he will kill him, and if the minister doubts the emperor, he will turn against him.This time it was confirmed again. Zhao Gou's hasty decision finally triggered a big explosion! Li Qiong, who received the wind, took action quickly without hesitation. He summoned the generals of Huaixi, hijacked Lu Zhi, and led an army of 40,000 people to cross the Huai River and defected to Liu Yu.

It was only at this time that Lu Zhi realized that the game was going wrong, and he shouted anxiously: "Lu Zhi is at fault, you can kill it, why do you betray the country and surrender to the enemy, and fail the court!" Li Qiong sneered and did not answer, leading the soldiers to gallop away . Lu Zhi was anxious and annoyed, he struggled and refused to move forward, and shouted: "Liu Yu is a great traitor who everyone can kill, how can I see him! Since you don't want to turn back, please kill me immediately As soon as the words came out, "The crowd was very moved, and more than a thousand people could not stand around." The soldiers reined in their horses, the soldiers bowed their heads and stopped, and the morale of the army was in turmoil.Seeing him yelling and cursing, Li Qiong was afraid that his words would disturb the soldiers and things would change midway, so she quickly ordered someone to kill him.

Lu Zhi, a frail scholar, showed a strong character when he was about to die. He cursed Li Qiong endlessly, "died with a broken head and broken teeth". He was forty-six years old. The news of the Mutiny in Huaixi was like a heavy bomb rolling across the sky at midnight after autumn. The Southern Song dynasty was shocked and couldn't recover for a long time... Among them, Zhang Jun and Zhao Gou were undoubtedly the two most frightened.According to history, "Zhang Jun regretted not using Yue Fei's words", and he was heartbroken and regretful.Zhao Gou put all the responsibility for the mutiny on Zhang Jun's head, and said bitterly: "I would rather subjugate the country than use this person any more." Afterwards, Zhao Gou immediately wrote to Li Qiong, coaxing him to say that everything before was a misunderstanding, as long as you can come back, General Li, "the crimes committed in the past are not small or big, and don't ask about everything."At the same time, he issued an edict to Yue Fei, saying, "Wen Qiong and Qing are in the same hometown, and they have always obeyed Qing's prestige", asking Yue Fei to write a letter to help persuade Li Qiong's prodigal son to turn around, claiming that "don't ask about the past, and give you the official title."At this time, Zhao Gou humiliated Li Qiong and begged for mercy, without any spirit of "the only one who violates my law is the sword ear". Li Qiong ignored Zhao Gou's call, led an army of more than 40,000 people, threatened more than 100,000 people, swept away money, food, troops, horses, and luggage, and surrendered to the puppet Qi Liu Yu without looking back. His departure not only caused great economic losses to the Southern Song Dynasty, but also caused the Huaixi strategic defense line that the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty painstakingly built to collapse. Half of the country in the Southern Song Dynasty was crumbling...