The rise of the prince

Chapter 565 New Developments in the North

When the prince returned to Beijing, many officials went to greet him when he arrived at Yuanmendu.

After all, he is the crown prince. After all these years in the East Palace, he has more or less his own wings. It would be a lie to say that he is not nervous, but he must compromise on this matter. If he does not compromise, the people who go to the ferry to pick up the crown prince will be in chaos.

Once these people are in chaos, the court will not be peaceful. If it is normal, you can take the time to clean it up slowly, but at this time, the army is out, and the court must not be chaotic.

Otherwise, maybe it will lead to the regret of when Zhong Daoyu attacked the Liao Dynasty more than ten years ago. The army fought successively, but was dragged back by his own people, anticlimactic.

If Zhong Daoyu hadn't been held back by the domestic affairs back then, and had regained the land of Youyun in one fell swoop, Nanjing and Xijing would be no problem, then there would be troublesome things that many people would die today.

The return of the crown prince will inevitably weaken him, King Pingnan, but what he has to do now is to handle the affairs of the Privy Council, and the rest will be considered after this battle is over.

In the past few days, three more apprentices have been sent out from the Wangfu. Gillian and Yue'er are very excited, leading a few people to burn glass in the new workshop in the back mountain every day. Li Xingzhou did not set any restrictions, let them do whatever they want do what.

In fact, judging from the unearthed cultural relics, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the manufacturing technology of glazed wares was already very good, and the only difference was in the processing technology.

The little girls were happy, and each of them could produce more than ten pieces a day. This is not surprising, because glass blowing is not a physical job. A good master can shape one piece in a few minutes. The difficulty lies in the high temperature. It is no longer a problem in the palace to rule over the master of this era.

These transparent glass utensils include cups, kettles, and even Gillian's special glass inkstone. They are indeed talented women.

However, inkstones are not blown, but made with moulds, because the mixture of high-temperature sand and caustic soda in Wangfu can be directly fired into liquid instead of barely gelatinous, so it is very simple to make glass with moulds, and it will be made in the future. The clear glass of the block was simple, too.

In the office of the Privy Council, Li Xingzhou has long been familiar with everyone here, and everyone is willing to listen to him.

Although Wen Daoli was born as a literati, he was a person who guarded the frontier. If he was a military general, he was a little more sophisticated.

He understood Li Xingzhou's status, and he also intentionally moved out of the way, and never blocked him, so all the documents of the Privy Council came directly to his desk, instead of Wen Daoli, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

Later, the emperor directly decreed to add another "Privy Council Affairs" to him. The Privy Council Affairs Officer, like the Privy Council Deputy, was the second in command and shared the worries of the Privy Council Envoy, but the Privy Council Envoy was no longer there. Boss, on the same level as Wen Daoli.

Because the emperor promised to welcome the prince back before, no one dared to object this time. Politics is such a trade-off. Li Xingzhou made concessions for the princelings and did not object to the prince’s return to Beijing. The emperor added him to the Privy Council, and the princelings also understood Can't jump out and get bigger.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Daoyu was dismissed for contradicting the emperor by accident, and it turned out that Li Xingzhou took control of the Privy Council, which he himself did not expect.

The Privy Council keeps in touch with several armies, and the fast horses will enter Beijing every day.

Under the leadership of Yang Hongzhao, the army on the middle road has gone northward along the east side of Taihang Mountain, and arrived at Mozhou. The handover of food, grass and luggage has been completed, and they can go northward and enter the territory of Liao State at any time.Under the leadership of Wei Chaoren, the army of the East Road arrived at the north of Yingzhou City, [-] miles south of Mozhou, and the handover was also completed, and they could enter the Liao Kingdom to fight across the border at any time.

To the east of the Taihang Mountains, the border towns are Bazhou and Xiongzhou. In the next step, the East Route Army led by Wei Chaoren will enter Yizhou of Liao from Xiongzhou.

The army led by Yang Hongzhao will enter Yizhou, Liao Kingdom from Xiongzhou, and then the two armies will advance east and west.

However, Yang Wenguang's West Route Army is still handing over food and grass. This is not surprising to Li Xingzhou, because Chengdu Fulu is not close to Taiyuan, and it is normal to be slower than the other two armies.

And Yang Wenguang also revealed some intentions in his letter to the Privy Council, saying that he did not plan to send troops from the west of Taihang Mountain, directly into Weizhou on the West Jingxi Road of Liao State, and then transfer to Zhuozhou of Liao State, cutting off the back road of the Liao people.

This trick is very old-fashioned, Zhuozhou is located in the north of Yizhou, if Yang Wenguang invades Zhuozhou, it will be tantamount to cutting off the back of Yizhou, and if the two states are in turmoil, the victory is sure.

On the other side, Wu Zhengqing replied in a hurry, saying that after the spring rain, the Pengxi River in the northwest of Zizhou burst its embankment, hindering the progress.

Relieved, Li Xingzhou stretched himself, then left the office desk and opened the door. There was a lush bamboo forest on the rockery in the patio, but there was no sunlight overhead. It was almost time to go home.

As soon as he thought about it, someone came in. The person who came was a young man named Qian Xi. "Long history.

This person was originally from the imperial examination, he was literate and knew a lot, so he was Li Xingzhou's right-hand man in the Privy Council.

"What's wrong?" he asked looking up.

"My lord, it's a letter from Guan Beifang."

Li Xingzhou nodded and said, "Let me have a look."

Qian Xi handed it over, and he opened it to see that it was the seal of the Privy Council, which contained all the information on Liaoguo Jingxi Road that the spies under the Privy Council of Guan Beifang had inquired about.

According to information, the Jin people have besieged the capital of Xijing Road, Xijing Datong, but they have not been able to conquer it. They have increased their troops several times. At first, it was the army of the second son of the Jin Lord Wanyan Wugunai, Wanyanli, and then the eldest son Wanyan Bright army.

Afterwards, Wanyan Wugunai's right-hand man and his most powerful general Wanyan Zongbi also marched west to join the siege, but Datong Town still stood firm, and it was still not broken under the high-intensity siege for more than two consecutive months.

The price Jin Guo bought grain from Jing Guo has more than five times that of last year!
Seeing the news, Li Xingzhou was overjoyed. Xijing Datong and Nanjing Yanjing, these two dangerous passes are on both sides of Taihang Mountain, one west and one east, and they have blocked Jingguo's northward road for hundreds of years.

It's not so easy to break through, as long as Jin country can't attack for a long time, it will be great news for Jing country.

If Xijing is not broken, the Kingdom of Jin will not withdraw its troops, and if the Kingdom of Jin does not withdraw its troops, the Liao Kingdom will not be able to concentrate its forces to deal with the Northern Expedition of the Kingdom of Jing, and there is no need to worry about the sudden defection of the Kingdom of Jin, which is not good for the Kingdom of Jing, and the situation is very good.

Once Xijing is breached too early, the Kingdom of Jin will stop advancing, and the last resistance force of the Kingdom of Liao will be concentrated in Nanjing. At that time, Kingdom of Jing will not only face the resistance of the whole country of the Kingdom of Liao, but also guard against the Kingdom of Jin at any time. Once the Xijing Road falls into the hands of the Kingdom of Jin, Then Jingguo and Jinguo are neighbors.
Li Xingzhou rubbed his head and felt a headache. Baoding, Ninghua, and Jiaozhou, the important towns that used to be adjacent to the Liao State, would become bordering on the Jin State.

"The Kingdom of Jin," Li Xingzhou said to himself, "is much more difficult to deal with than the Kingdom of Liao." The fighting power of the Jin people is unquestionable. The crushing victory against the Liao Kingdom, the direct slap in the face against the Northern Song Dynasty, and Lien Chan against Mongolia at the beginning Lianjie, until he was killed by Mongolia in a state of pride and arrogance
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