Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 104
Zhao Guangyi was choked by a single sentence, he couldn't help but glared at his nephew, and immediately said: "Chang Rui is brave and good at fighting. Competent enough to…”

Zhao Dezhao immediately continued: "It's even more inappropriate! Expeditions of thousands of miles and the destruction of a country are not only about defeating the enemy, but also about soothing people's hearts after the war. Therefore, you need a high-ranking and respected person as commander. If it’s not enough, how can we recommend him as handsome?”

Later, Zhao Guangyi successively proposed several candidates who could lead the expedition, but Zhao Dezhao found various flaws in them and opposed them.

He had already made a good plan for the current scene, thoroughly researched the famous generals of the Song Dynasty, their respective military history, current position, and their strengths and weaknesses, and kept them in mind, for the purpose of Can occupy an absolute advantage in the court debate.

Zhao Dezhao is prepared against the unprepared, how can Zhao Guangyi argue?Every time he proposed a candidate, he was rendered speechless by Zhao Dezhao's few words.

No matter how good Zhao Guangyi's energy-raising skills are, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said coldly with sarcasm: "Erlang! This person is not good, and that person is not right. Could it be that you want this king to recommend you to lead the battle?"

Zhao Dezhao smiled slightly, and bowed to Zhao Guangyi: "My nephew thanked my uncle here. Since my uncle recommended my nephew so strongly, how dare my nephew covet comfort and not stand up and contribute to our Great Song Dynasty?"

Zhao Guangyi couldn't help being extremely astonished, and almost became angry on the spot. He was able to say the angry words of recommending Zhao Dezhao as the commander because he never expected that Zhao Dezhao would have such courage. Let me ask a young man who has never had any combat experience, how can he bear the burden? The commander-in-chief who led tens of thousands of troops for thousands of miles?Isn't this a joke about national affairs!
The courtiers in the palace were even more uproarious. Most people thought much the same as Zhao Guangyi. They thought that Zhao Dezhao was simply whimsical, and that he was too frivolous in dealing with state affairs. Lead the army to go out?If your father can fight, it is your father. It has nothing to do with you. Liu Zhiyuan, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was also very good at fighting. Isn't his son Liu Chengyou completely defeated within two years after he came up?

"I believe that the king of Tianshui County has never led an army to fight, and he must not be a commander. Otherwise, it will be Zhao Kuo's incident, which will reappear in today's Song Dynasty!"

"I think that King Jin's words are not bad. Leading troops on an expedition of thousands of miles, it is quite inconvenient to communicate with the center and report, and you need to rely on veteran generals!"

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Many ministers were emotional and came forward one after another to protest against Zhao Dezhao being the commander of the Southern Expedition.

Zhao Kuangyin's complexion changed. Seeing that the ministers' opposition had formed momentum, he suddenly stood up from the throne and waved his hands: "Let's discuss this matter again, and retreat!"

Zhao Dezhao watched the emperor's father's back turn into the back of the palace, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.

These ministers almost all felt that they were young and inexperienced, unable to lead soldiers and fight wars, and looked unreliable. I am afraid that the old man thought the same way in his heart. Obviously, the old man was still not at ease with himself.

As for how to persuade the emperor's father to agree to his command of the Southern Expedition, Zhao Dezhao was a little confused. After the dynasty was over, he did not go to Funing Palace to accompany him as usual, but went straight out of the palace city and returned to the county palace.

After returning to the mansion, Zhao Dezhao plunged straight into the study, ordered the servants in the mansion to get materials such as millet and cowhide glue, and ordered someone to get some maps of the south from the Secretary of the Ministry of War for reference, and began to personally Make sand table models of Guangdong, Guangxi and the area by hand.

Zhao Dezhao's idea is very straightforward. If he wants to convince the emperor's father that he can take on this important task, the best way is to convince the emperor's father that he wants to lead the army after careful consideration, and it is definitely not a sudden impulse. Then Even if this is half done.

This is like the last time I proposed to the emperor's father to pay the deed tax. At first, the father didn't think he was fooling around, but when he handed over a detailed deed tax plan, he immediately hooked the emperor's father, and his attitude suddenly Make a big change, and make a terrain sand table in the Southern Han Dynasty and submit it to Dad, which will have a similar effect!
The candidate for the head coach will not be left in the air for too long, and the time is very tight. Zhao Dezhao has been busy in the study for two days, day and night, and he just made a rough outline of the terrain sand table, and he doesn't know how many mistakes he made.

"Ms. sir, what kind of sand table is this? Haven't you finished it yet?"

For the past two days, Wang Xiuzhi had to come to the study several times a day to inquire. Seeing her husband's eyes turn red because he made such a bad thing, she felt distressed, and she couldn't help at all.

Zhao Dezhao buried his head in front of the still-formed huge sand table, grabbed his hair with both hands, and wailed in pain: "It's hard!"

This time it was really difficult, much more difficult than Zhao Dezhao's military sand table in the north last time.

In the years when Zhao Dezhao worked as a long-distance truck driver in his previous life, the area in the north of Shanxi and Hebei he traveled the most and was the most familiar with, so the sand table of Yanyun Sixteen States that was given to Zhao Kuangyin as a birthday gift last time went very smoothly. save trouble.

The territory of the Southern Han Dynasty was mainly in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas of later generations. Zhao Dezhao rarely went to Guangdong and Guangxi when he ran freight, and the terrain was very unfamiliar, not to mention that the area was densely covered with water networks and criss-crossed. I'm afraid it won't be of much value if I forcefully make it out of my memory.

As for the several maps of the Southern Han Dynasty that were used as a reference from the Ministry of War, Zhao Dezhao felt that it was better to forget them. Each of them was drawn like an abstract painting.

Wang Xiuzhi really felt sorry for her husband, so she couldn't help persuading her softly: "Sir, if you can't make this sand table, then don't do it."

"You can't do it."

"If you don't make a sand table, it will be difficult for my father to believe that I have carefully prepared to lead the army to the Southern Han Dynasty."

"My father doesn't believe me, so I can't be the coach of Nanzheng."

"If I can't be the coach of the Southern Expedition, I won't be able to build military merits."

"If I can't build military merit, I'll—"

Zhao Dezhao spoke extremely fast, and the anxiety accumulated in his heart in the past two days poured out like a flood that opened the gate.

But fortunately, at the last moment, he stopped his mouth in time, turned to snort at Wang Xiuzhi, and said, "I told you that you don't understand! You are a woman, don't bother with men's affairs!"

"Who says I don't understand?" Wang Xiuzhi pursed his lips and murmured softly, "Isn't it just to build military merits so that I can gain some prestige in the army and compete with your uncle Prince Jin for the heir apparent?"

Zhao Dezhao was pinching the Wuling Mountains in the south with millet mixed with kraft glue on the sand table. Hearing this, his hands shook violently, and immediately collapsed the Wuling Mountains into a big hole. He turned his head to look at Wang Xiuzhi in astonishment.

(End of this chapter)