Xie Fangde obviously did not expect that the imperial boat would leave the brigade to pick him up. When he saw the two of them get off the boat, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. However, Cai Qiao's eyes were on the side of the boat. He saw the little emperor, but he did not dare to board the boat without permission, nor did he dare to visit him rashly, so as not to reveal His Majesty's identity. Zheng Yong walked to him and whispered a few words. He immediately showed surprise and boarded the boat with them.

"I (member) pay homage to Your Majesty!" Xie Fangde and Cai Qiao boarded the boat and gave a big gift to worship.

"Don't give me a favor!" Zhao Bing helped the two of them up with one hand, "Huguang has made great efforts in this Northern Expedition, and I am very pleased!"

"I dare not, I just want our court to drive the Tartars out as soon as possible and restore my great Song Dynasty!" Xie Fangde politely said again.

"I feel very guilty when I cannot serve in front of the imperial court!" Cai Qiao then politely said.

"You have the responsibility to guard the territory, so don't think too much!" Zhao Bing comforted him.

"Outsider Xie, thanks Your Majesty!" At this time, Xie Fangde's family came on board and saluted the emperor under the guidance of the old lady.

"Mrs. Don't need to be too polite, it's just a simple task!" Zhao Bing quickly supported him.

"It is a great honor for me to be able to walk with Your Majesty. My whole family is grateful!" Mrs. Xie thanked again.

"If there is anything wrong on the boat, the old lady will give you instructions, so don't be polite!" Zhao Bing waved to an eunuch and asked him to lead someone to help carry the ceremony. Wang De diligently led the Xie family upstairs.

"Your Majesty, the servants are vulgar and do not understand the rules. I will leave first and go and take care of you!" Xie Fangde knew that Cai Qiao was his Majesty's confidant minister and had been walking in front of the imperial court for many years. When he got on the boat together, he must have something to say and avoided it with tactfulness.

"Since I left the capital, I miss Your Majesty very much. Whenever I think of the time when I was in front of the imperial court, I feel sad!" Cai Qiao saw that all the outsiders avoided it, and then knelt down and bowed and said sadly.

"No need to do this. I have changed the landscape of Ezhou along the way. The city has been renovated and the wilderness has been reclaimed into thousands of hectares of fertile land. This is all your contribution, and I feel very comforted." Zhao Bing helped him up and said.

"I am a little talented and knowledgeable, so I can only do my best and do my best to do my best to do my best!" Cai Qiao bowed and said.

"Well, you are now a high-ranking official in charge of the territory. This time, you also serve as the Huguang Transportation Commander. You must be diligent and not slackened!" Zhao Bing nodded and said, "Huguang is familiar, and the world is sufficient. I will keep you and Lin Zhiwu in Huguang to serve, not only to protect this land, but also to work together to turn Huguang into the rice granary of my Song Dynasty."

"I will definitely live up to your Majesty's expectations, and I will do my best to repay you!" Cai Qiaoyan said.

"I can trust your abilities. Even if I let go of my hands and feet, I will make decisions for you and support you." Zhao Bing said, "Five years later, I will launch another northern expedition and expel the Mongols from the Central Plains."

"I remember that I will work together to train elite troops to make the granaries abundant and help Your Majesty get their ambitions!" Cai Qiao nodded and said.

He knew very well that the weight on his shoulders was that the two major regulatory authorities have been abolished, and the country was basically divided into seven major regions: Jiangdong, Fuguang, Huguang and Huaidong, Huaixi and Sichuan and Zhili. Among them, Huguang is the largest area, with the only population in Jiangdong. Now Jingxiang has been recovered, the strategic depth has been increased, and the Yangtze River is in danger, and the hinterland is far away from war.

If a peace agreement is reached with the Mongol Yuan, the Huguang area will usher in a period of relatively peaceful development for a period of time. Your Majesty also wants to use this to get a breather, further consolidate internal affairs, recuperate with the people, and lay a solid foundation for the future Northern Expedition. Cai Qiao also understood that the court had never stopped criticizing Your Majesty for "appointing private individuals". Although he and Lin Zhiwu and others were scholars, they had never participated in the imperial examinations, but they held important positions and were criticized by others.

When His Majesty handed over the government power of Huguang to himself and Lin Zhiwu, he actually took certain political risks. Cai Qiao knew that the CPC had been abolished, and Huguang was headed by him and Lin Zhiwu. It can be said that the military and political power was in control of the local government. When they made mistakes in their rule, they would cause attacks from the conservative forces in the court, forcing His Majesty to implement modifications to the established policies, so the responsibility was owed to heavy.

"Well, after the Northern Expedition, some changes will occur in the court. I originally planned to let you return to Beijing to serve, but after thinking about it, I would rather not let you trek into this muddy water, so as not to get deeply involved in the struggle between the court. Instead, it would be better to do something locally. But it also made me lose my words!" Zhao Bing and Cai Qiao leaned on the side of the ship and looked at the rolling river water and said.

"Your Majesty, don't feel guilty. It's because your subordinates are incompetent and cannot share the worries for the king." Cai Qiao understood that the emperor did not allow them to return to the capital, and intended to protect them. But he also understood that at the end of the year, Ying Jieyan and Liu Fu and other old ministers were going to retire. His Majesty would inevitably be alone and be held in a elbow. The court was not calm, and there were always conflicts between the old ministers in the secret residence and the old officials in the court and the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Once those respected old ministers withdrew from the court, they would dare to guarantee that they would not take the opportunity to cause trouble.

After a moment of silence, he said: "The subordinates have heard of it. Your Majesty has promoted the taxpayers and gentry. The government and the people are dissatisfied and want to take the opportunity to cause trouble. Some people also want to take advantage of the peace talks to welcome Emperor Deyou to the court, and their intentions are self-evident. Now, Duke Zhuang is in Yingtian Prefecture, and his subordinates are in Huguang. There are only a few new members who have just joined the bureau. The subordinates are very worried and must be more careful on the way."

"Don't worry!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and smiled, "As long as you can stabilize the place, firmly promote it, and achieve results, the criticism will naturally disappear. And I will sit more and more steadily. It is not easy for those little kids to murder me. With Ni Liang by their side, they will not get any benefits!"

"I'm so handsome!" Cai Qiao said to Ni Liang, who was standing beside him.

"Master Cai is so serious, protecting Your Majesty is the responsibility." Ni Liang hurriedly returned the salute, and thought about it and said, "Brother Cai, don't worry, as long as the family is still alive, you will not let the evil people get close to Your Majesty."

"Please give me this!" Cai Qiao said politely again.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Dieshan's family and luggage have all been on the boat!" Zheng Yong came over and reported.

"Take care, your Majesty, I'm leaving!" Seeing that the fleet had ended, Cai Qiao knew that it was time to get off the ship, but she seemed to have something in her heart and had not finished speaking, and she choked and bowed deeply.

"Take care, let's see you again in the capital in the future!" Zhao Bing helped him up and held his hand tightly and said emotionally.

Cai Qiao shed tears and got off the boat. He watched the boat pull up the gangway, lifted the iron anchor, and carried the boat away from the dock with long poles amid the sound of the sailors. Then, with the drum sound, the oars and oars, the boat slowly sailed off the shore and entered the waterway in the middle of the river.

"Take care, your Majesty, the journey is smooth..." Cai Qiao looked at the rising sails and could no longer suppress his emotions. He threw himself on his knees and roared in tears.

"Take care!" The people who followed the farewell saw him realize that Xie Fang was the Imperial Zhou, and the one who had just spoken to the prefect was the pilgrimage, and he quickly knelt on the ground and saluted the Imperial Zhou.

"Long live, long live, long live!" The people on the dock woke up when they saw this. This was the fleet that His Majesty returned to triumphantly. The imperial boats that docked, they all knelt down to salute on the ship, shouting long live!

"Long live, long live, long live!"

"Long live, long live, long live!"...

Amid the sound of the mountain, the imperial boats merged into the fleet and raised the sails. Zhao Bing waved to the officials and people on the shore on the deck. Wang Yinglin, Xie Fangde and others bowed deeply to the shore.

"Get wine!" The boat gradually moved away from the city. Zhao Bing looked at a small hill in the west of the city. "The ones buried there are the soldiers who died in the battle of Ezhou who followed me to conquer Ezhou. I cannot go ashore to worship, so I can only worship each other from afar."

"stand at attention!"

"salute!"

The officers and soldiers on the boat gathered on the deck with Ni Liang's command, raised their hands to salute in the direction of Lingshan, raised the imperial flag on the imperial boat, and half of the military flags came down to express their grief. The cannons were set off in the air. Amid the rumbling cannons, Zhao Bing slowly poured the wine from the altar into the river and sang: "Do you say you don't have clothes? You are with you. Wang Yu is the same as you. Wang Yu is the same as you build your army and build your spear. You are the same as you build your spear and halberd. You are the same as you build your spear and halberd. You are the same as you build your clothes! Don't you say you don't have clothes? You are the same as you build your armor and soldiers. You are the same as you..."

Under the infection of the emperor, the army sang the ancient military songs that had been passed down for thousands of years on the imperial boats. Soon, the surrounding warships also sang, spreading the entire fleet in an instant. The sad songs resounded across the river, covering the sound of the surging river water, echoing on the river for a long time...

"Your Majesty, Ezhou City is no longer visible, Mr. Dieshan is still waiting." As the fleet went away, the majestic Ezhou City gradually disappeared under the horizon. The emperor was still standing on the deck and looking into the distance, Wang De said softly near.

"Oh, I'm trance again!" Zhao Bing raised his hand to wipe away the two tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, don't be sad!" Wang De sighed lightly.

"Alas, we went from Qiongzhou to Jiangnan, fighting to the death, and many people fell on the way and died on the battlefield. Now, in the Northern Expedition, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers have sprinkled blood on the battlefield. I feel ashamed of their family." Zhao Bing sighed. Although he had been accustomed to seeing corpses and blood in the sea of ​​blood, his heart still couldn't stand up.

"The death of all the troops for the country and the people is the righteousness and the place of death. If they have spirits in heaven, they know that Your Majesty still remembers them and will also bless me from the Song Dynasty." Xie Fangde stepped forward and persuaded him.

"Yes, my country in Song Dynasty was exchanged for thousands of warriors, flesh and blood and sacrifices, and we should not forget it!" Zhao Bing said.

"Your Majesty's benevolence is the blessing of my great Song Dynasty!" Wang Yinglin also sighed from the side.

"Haha, you don't have to praise me!" Zhao Bing smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and said, "Mr. Dieshan has been in Huguang for two years and has managed Huguang in an orderly manner and has made great contributions. What do you think when he is resigning from his post and returning to Beijing?"
Chapter completed!