The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

Jianye!

The current location of the southern court is indeed the secondary capital of Da Qi.

After the annihilation in the north, the ministers here naturally became the "remnants" of the Great Qi.

The emperor they supported, Zheng Wu, grandson of Prince Zhao, is now known as "Emperor Hongzong".

This guy is a typical lazy and uneducated person.

After all, he was a vassal prince, and he was taught since childhood that he could eat and play as much as he wanted. The more he ate, drank and played, the more confident the emperor would be in him.

Similarly, this group of civil servants in the south supported him to become emperor. Did they really need an emperor?

No! All we want is a legal system!

The civil officials of the Great Qi had a bad habit. They liked to sideline the emperor. Everything was decided by cabinet voting, and the emperor was just a decoration!

Imperial power and prime ministerial power have been in opposition since ancient times.

Later, the prime minister was abolished, but the emperor could not handle so many state affairs alone, so he set up a "cabinet", which actually divided the power of the prime minister! The power of the prime minister was split among the cabinet.

But who could have imagined that after these cabinet members formed a group, the struggle between imperial power and prime ministerial power resumed.

What should we do at this time?

A smart emperor would simply support another right to compete and act as the referee himself!

This right can be granted to eunuchs, relatives by marriage, or even nobles!

Only when the civil officials and the second force are fighting, and the emperor acts as a referee, will everyone need the emperor, which is commonly known as the "imperial mindset."

The previous emperors did a good job until the idiot empress came to power. She couldn't see the situation in the court clearly and couldn't wait to take power. She also thought that Li Jize was the greatest noble and the most powerful minister. If she didn't remove him, she would never be able to take power!

Who would have thought that the nobles, the emperor, and the civil officials formed a stable triangle, the three legs of a table.

After the empress removed Li Jize and broke the balance, the civil officials came to power, and she ended up in tragedy.

The same is true in the south now. The civil officials of the court have taken control of the power, and the emperor has been sidelined. Emperor Hongzong Zheng Wu is lustful! He has established a huge harem and is selecting concubines every day, as long as they are beautiful.

Regardless of whether they were from good or bad families, even the wives of common people were summoned into the palace.

Zheng Wu didn't want to be the emperor. He knew he was just a puppet and wanted to enjoy himself for as long as possible.

At today's morning court, a group of civil officials were chattering and arguing below, while the emperor, who had been having a great time last night, was dozing off above.

The focus of the debate among the civil officials was whether to send troops to help Li Jize (to seize land) or to keep the troops in place and pacify the other two families in the south.

In fact, these are all extravagant wishes, fantasies, and fantasies!

With the ability to pacify the other two families and integrate the entire south, how could he not want to recover the north?

If you don't have the ability, what are you dreaming about? If the other two families don't send troops, do you dare to send troops?

But this is also a characteristic of civil officials!

I have to show that I am loyal to the emperor and patriotic. I want to recover the land, so I support sending troops to recover it, and then I will have a good reputation in history books.

In the end, all the arguing was useless. Instead, they came to a ridiculous and very stupid conclusion.

Li Jize announced that the emperor he rescued was actually the Empress! In other words, the Empress should be alive now!

So what are they trying to do by arbitrarily supporting an emperor, Hongzong, to take power? You want to rebel! You are a traitor!

When you sent troops to help Li Jize, you acknowledged that Li Jize was the Grand Marshal of the Army and that the empress in his hands was real!

What is this called?

This is called contradicting oneself! It's a confession! We are a fake regime!

So the final conclusion is that we shouldn’t send troops!

Holy shit! What kind of logic is this? What kind of crazy conclusion is this?

then……

Naturally, some people in the court began to argue, thinking, "It's already this late, and we're still thinking about these trivial things? We should respond to the King of Qin's call and fight the barbarians together! The barbarians are now our biggest enemy!"

Who is this person who keeps clamoring to send troops and respond to Li Jize's call?

Ruan Daying!

Ruan Daying's experience is a legend. He was an official in the generation of the empress's grandfather, and was later convicted of embezzling several thousand taels of public funds.

This is not uncommon, especially in the turbulent times of the Great Qi Dynasty. Compared with a greedy guy like Ye Xianggao, who embezzled thousands of taels of public silver and then made up for it when he had money.

You have to say that this kind of official is of high moral character!

But Ruan Daying was reported by someone.

Afterwards, he was exiled to the south to guard the imperial mausoleum. (The mausoleum of Taizu's parents, not the imperial mausoleum in the north)

His real trick is that he has a good relationship with General Gao Pan, they are from the same hometown! Ruan Da Ying helped him in the past.

Everyone knows what happened to Gao Pan later. He joined the rebel army and was recruited.

Who went to seek amnesty?

It’s Nguyen Daying!

At this point, Nguyen Daying was rewarded for his contribution in recruiting Gao Pan, so he entered the high-level position of the southern secondary capital.

The so-called high-ranking officials in the secondary capital are actually a bunch of idlers waiting to die. They have no power. The real power comes from the north, from the group of officials around the empress.

Afterwards, the empress disappeared, and none of the northern officials escaped. They surrendered to the rebels and then to the barbarians.

The officials in the southern secondary capital ushered in a glorious moment. They set up a new government and supported Zhao Wu as emperor.

It was Ruan Daying again who, relying on his relationship with Gao Pan, brought this general into the service of the southern court.

So far...

Ruan Daying relied on a "fellow villager" to complete a counterattack and became the cabinet minister and minister of war of the southern court.

He was determined to send troops to the north to recover the land.

It’s a pity that no one in the southern court, from the small ones up, cared about whether to launch a northern expedition or recover the land.

What they want is to hold on to their existing power, status, glory and wealth!

From the bottom up, even up to the emperor, no one wanted to go to the north.

What does this feel like?

Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, Northern Expedition? Who said I want to Northern Expedition?

He gained power by running to the south alone, and he was able to become emperor because there was a river in the middle that blocked the Jin people on the opposite side.

With this river, wouldn't it be nice for me to live well in the south? Every day, I can enjoy good food and wine, and there are beautiful women around!

Why would I want to commit suicide? Why would I spend countless money, manpower and material resources to launch a Northern Expedition to fight against the extremely difficult Jin people?

The most infuriating thing is that there is always a guy named Yue who keeps clamoring for a northern expedition to bring back the two saints!

They are back, what should I do?

Then I leave?

Isn’t it different now with Zheng Wu?

Why the Northern Expedition? Are the barbarians so hard to defeat?

Isn't it good for them to hide away across the Tianjiang River and enjoy wealth and glory?

Even if I run over there with all my strength and win, what if what Li Jize said is true? The Empress is not dead! He has the Empress in his hands, what should I do?