Although he figured out the reason why Jiang Jin wanted to withdraw from the court, his use of such fierce methods still made Zhao Bing feel a little incredible. He could have retired after seizing Xiangyang. Anyway, in this era, there was not even an individual thermometer, let alone CT and MRI. If you insist that you are sick, then put on a sick look, no one can find out the true or false.

Even officials know that powerful ministers and royal families are most suspicious, and the emperors are largely the highest powers of the same era. It is easy for him to find your fault. Most of the ministers who are suspicious have outstanding abilities and are proud of their contributions, have obvious political teams and are not united with the emperor. In this way, the ministers face the emperor's suspicion and thus take defensive measures.

Zhao Bing also understood that officials actually have two lives, one is his own life and the other is his political life. Once suspicious, political life will be over, and personal safety is difficult to be guaranteed. Even if you save your life, it will be difficult to live. Just like in a movie "The Head of State is Back" I watched in my previous life, there is a line: "I can't do anything except in politics."

But Zhao Bing knew that he didn't know. Will those who have been the head of state still go to the streets of Vienna to sell paintings? Isn't politicians like this? Zhao Pu will not teach again, and Han Xin will not go to eat free meals again. He lost the throne and will not go to the boatyard to be a craftsman. For these people, if they lose politics, they are just a group of walking dead.

What Zhao Bing can't figure out now is that he has always trusted Jiang Jin and has never suspected that he would be unfaithful. Not to mention talking to others, he never had this idea in his heart. Therefore, there is no need for Jiang Jin to be so scared that he forced his retreat with abnormal means at this time is equivalent to giving up the glory and wealth of the rest of his life, affecting future generations, and even causing suspicion.

Of course, Zhao Bing was also very confused. Could it be that his unintentional words and deeds made Jiang Jian misunderstand? He felt that it was necessary to figure out this issue, otherwise it would affect the stability of the court. After all, a serious official who guarded one side suddenly resigned without any faults, which was enough to arouse countless imaginations in the court and the public.

Could it be that Zhao Mengjin was changed to the Hongqing Palace Envoy and gave up military power and retreated to the second line? Zhao Bing suddenly thought of this, and Wang Yinglin just happened to talk to him about the Anshi Rebellion. Did it imply that Jiang Jin was going to leave the post? After finding the clue, he couldn't help but be surprised that it was the matter of adjusting the original Jiangdong Division that made him feel, so he simply quit the court with a "decent" reason for his injury.

After discussing the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Ting had already shown obvious geographical differences in the handling timing and method of handling the crisis of the great army. Tang Ting was most concerned about Guanzhong, the political center of the empire. Therefore, although several major factions in Guanzhong had made important contributions to suppressing rebellions or resisting foreign races, Dezong first suppressed the Shuofang Army here, the Beiting Army in the Four Towns and the Youzhou Army that later settled in.

Although the suppression caused such a serious crisis as the "Fengtian Dilemma", the problem of the Guanzhong vassal states after the incident subsided was indeed the first and most thoroughly solved by the Tang court. In fact, from the relationship between the court and the local government, before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Empire, which had Guanzhong as its political center, gradually deployed its military power on the border, and government departments needed to continuously go to Dongdu, Henan to obtain food.

The opening of Henan Yunlu Road and the transfer of grain and wages to Jianghuai into Beijing, allowing a court that was originally mainly independent of Guanzhong, to now have to transfer military and economic power to other regions, and it is gradually disintegrating the "Guanzhong-based policy". The era of feudal states after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion only accelerated the process of this transformation and made it more "effective".

The so-called "benefit" means that the empire now only needs the three regions of Guanzhong-Henan-Jianghuai to maintain its rule. It does not need to personally participate in the military deployment of Hebei, because Youzhou, which was in a semi-independent state after the Anshi Rebellion, had already assumed the responsibility of resisting the empire's foreign races. Therefore, in terms of ruling benefits, sacrificing the financial resources of the Jianghuai and sacred western aliens that threaten the heart of the empire, to use the imperial guards or Henan vassal army to recover the Hebei region, which has no economic value and may lead to military pressure, is obviously of little significance.

Compared with Guanzhong, Jianghuai and Henan, the empire's attitude towards Hebei is much more complicated. Since the Anshi Rebellion originated in Hebei, the threat from the Pinglu forces in Youzhou and Pinglu forces to the empire was undoubtedly the earliest and most serious. However, after the chaos, Hebei was still occupied by the former rebel generals of the Anshi Group. This abandonment was not only a question of whether the Tang court had the ability to recover Heshuo, but also a question of whether the Tang court was willing to recover Heshuo.

In the attack on Heshuo, the Tang court now had to rely more on the financial resources of the Jianghuai River, as well as the forces of the Guanzhong Imperial Army and the Henan Vanguard Army. Therefore, the maintenance of the empire is mainly based on, and almost only by relying on the first three regions, so the "recovery" of Heshuo seemed to have become a loss-making transaction in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers.

In fact, the current situation facing the Song court has many similarities with the late Tang Dynasty, but the current economic center has been transferred from Guanzhong to Jiangdong. It can be said that the expenses of the court mostly come from Jiangdong's taxes, and military rations are also taken from this. Moreover, Lin'an is located in the hinterland of Jiangdong. Facing the frontal threat from the enemy, it must be the top priority in defense, and has invested huge military strength here.

Although the Huguang area has a grand strategy to guard the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and block the enemy's access to the south of the Yangtze River. However, the Huguang area is not as modern as it is, and its economic and political status is weaker than that of Jiangdong. The nearby Guizhou and Yunnan are both places of residence for generations of the Li people. The ruling power of the court has been weak in all dynasties and is not taken seriously. As long as there is no chaos, they will let it live and die.

The important reason for launching the Northern Expedition this time was to occupy the Lianghuai, increase the strategic depth, and protect Jiangdong, the political and economic center, from threats. The Jinghu battlefield was mainly to support the main battlefield, protect the security of the Dong Group's flanks, and seize Xiangyang to improve the passive defense situation in Jiangdong. Of course, the main forces were also invested in the Lianghuai battlefield, and Zhao Bing personally commanded it.

However, Zhao Bing did not think that Jiang Jin resigned because he was ignored, and it was only a small part of it. The main reason was probably because he reconstructed his military layout, split the army, and abolished the Jiangdong System Division, and transferred the commander and the empty post back to the capital. He only used the army to guard the military important areas and assigned administrative affairs to the civil service system.

Because the will was sent to various armies, Zhao Bing estimated that it was this will that made Jiang Jin feel the crisis and strengthen his ideas. In addition, he came from a prime minister and had a more thorough understanding of the system of the Song Dynasty and more sensitive to the adjustment of policies. He also knew very well about Taizu's release of military power with a cup of wine and Gaozong's deeds of "suppressing the vassals and revitalizing the dynasty".

Jiang Zheng now understood the emperor's approach as a way to consolidate the imperial power and crack down on the officials in the border area, and transformed from reconstructing the imperial structure to a more substantial national policy of "promoting civil and suppressing military power". That is, he began to further divide and weaken the power of generals holding military power, eliminated those old generals who had influence in the army, and appointed some emerging generals with low background and lack of background to enter the backbone of power.

In fact, Jiang Jin's understanding of the policy part was not wrong. At this time, the court had entered a period of alternation between the old and the new. The provinces, including Yang Jieyan, Ma Tingluan, Chen Zhongwei and Xu Zongren, and other important officials of the ministry were all in their seventies and requested to retire many times. Although they worked hard for the country for many years, they were still old and weak. It was difficult for them to persist in going to the court to discuss politics. Zhao Bing wanted to stay and could not ignore their lives or death. This also required a group of newcomers to fill the space left.

In addition, although Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and Liu Fu can barely be called the prime minister, they have been in the prime minister for more than ten years and have been at the highest level, and are almost at the point where they cannot be sealed. In my heart, these people have cooperated with them for many years and are easy to use, but they have become "stumbling blocks" for emerging officials, which is not conducive to the stability of the imperial structure and may also form a political group.

Therefore, Zhao Bing wanted to use the power of the Northern Expedition to adjust the power structure of the court, so that the old ministers with outstanding achievements would retire gloriously, and allow some promising middle-aged ministers to enter the power center of the court, and set up corresponding positions for several important officials who had been in high positions to continue to participate in the central affairs. However, his intention was not to abandon the generals who made great contributions in the restoration of the country, but to transfer them back to the capital and re-enter the court, and strengthen the strength of military officials in the court.

Obviously, Jiang Jin's inertial thinking made him think that the emperor wanted to take action against the border officials who held high power to eliminate the danger of separatist. He guarded the southwestern border, took Fanli as his neighbor, and controlled some areas of Ezhou and Jianghan. His subordinates were all subordinates for many years. If he was seizing Xiangyang, he could control the vast area in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. In this way, no matter who looked at it, he had the conditions to seize the separatist side, bargain with the court, and sever the territory.

In Jiang Jin's opinion, the emperor is also a human being, not a fool, and will not let himself develop. Even if he has been careful to avoid it, who can guess the emperor's thoughts? Because he was dismissed from his post because he was suspicious of his Majesty and returned to the court in shame, it would be better to choose a slightly decent way to leave the post. This will make the emperor feel that he has been loyal for many years and can spend the rest of his life safely and benefit his descendants.
Chapter completed!