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Chapter 418 0414 [Shandong Navy appears]

After returning to Gaoyou, the Song Dynasty sent a letter the next day, requesting that peace talks be restarted.

"How to say?"

Shi Wenhui asked with a half-smile.

Chang Yukun said confidently: "The old rule is to let him go for a few days."

Peace talks and peace talks, to put it bluntly, whoever has the bigger fist is right.

Now that they have the initiative, they are naturally not in a hurry, but Zhao Song is in a hurry.

Zongze's confidence was nothing more than the Qingzhou Army's setbacks in Xiangyang and Yangzhou, but in Chang Yukun's view, it was nothing at all.

Letting it sit for a few days will make the other party impatient.

Secondly, I am also waiting for an opportunity!

……

Jinling.

In the palace, a group of ministers were quarreling over the peace talks.

A group of officials headed by the Wang family took the opportunity to impeach Zongze, saying that he was arrogant and reckless, which led to a deadlock in the peace talks, and asked Zhao Ji to punish him.

There is also a small group of Qingliu who support Zongze and feel that the Qi envoy is just bluffing.

The battles of Xiangyang and Yangzhou are evidence of this.

With the natural danger of the Yangtze River, the Qingzhou Army could not attack the south at all, so Zongze had merit but no fault.

The remaining officials caught Han Zhen and scolded him, saying that he ignored human ethics and so on.

Anyway, no one mentioned the Zen position.

This is taboo, don't touch it.

You must know that Li Gang, Wu Min and other Qingliu people planned for a long time to abdicate Zhao Ji, and with the opportunity of Jin Ren and Han Zhen going south, they finally succeeded.

If you dare to mention the Zen position rashly now, you will die without knowing how.

In the end, Zhao Ji just issued an order to give Zong Ze a meal.

The content of the admonishment was neither painful nor itchy. It was completely different from the admonishment given to Zhang Shuye a few years ago.

……

July twenty-four.

One thing broke the deadlock in the peace talks.

The Shandong Navy is here!

Above the vast ocean, two groups of Shenzhou warships, one behind the other, fought through obstacles and headed straight for Tongzhou along the Yellow Sea coastline.

Li Nanjia was wearing paper armor and standing proudly on the deck of the Shenzhou. He was holding a strange-looking long tube in his hand and looking into the distance.

This long tube, called a telescope, is the latest invention of the Academy of Engineering Sciences.

As the quality of glass becomes more and more pure, telescopes will naturally be improved.

The hunting sea breeze blew by, letting a few strands of hair on the temples float in the wind.

At this moment, a messenger came over: "Brigade commander, the Qingzhou ship has sent news that it is about to arrive at Tongzhou Bay twenty miles ahead!"

Tongzhou Bay belongs to a section of Fan Gong Dyke, which was built by Fan Zhongyan a hundred years ago.

Strictly speaking, Tongzhou Bay is not a bay.

Not only is it small, but it also changes with the tide. Boats can be docked when the tide is high, but it becomes a shoal when the tide is low.

The man at the helm is an old boatman. The changes in the tide in Tongzhou Bay are most obvious. It is the time of high tide.

After arriving in the Tongzhou waters, the Qingzhou ship in front did not stop and continued sailing, heading straight for the Yangtze River estuary.

The Yuzhou ship led by Li Nanjia turned its rudder and sailed into Tongzhou Bay.

There are three salt fields in Tongzhou Bay, namely Fengli Field, Shigang Field and Jinsha Field.

"Main gun ready!"

As they gradually approached the port, Li Nanjia gave an order.

Ni Mu led his gunners and immediately began to adjust the angle of the muzzle and fill the ammunition.

When they were close to the fort set up by the seawall in Fenglichang, Li Nanjia ordered in a cold voice: "Fire!"

Chi Chi Chi!

The match rope burned quickly and made bursts of sound.

boom!

The next moment, a deafening loud noise accompanied by a burst of thick smoke rose from the deck and echoed above the sea.

The cannonball accurately hit the fort, and you could clearly see through the telescope that the fort was directly penetrated by the cannonball, creating a big hole.

Boom boom boom!

After some indiscriminate bombing, several fortresses were completely reduced to ruins.

At the same time, the two passenger ships broke away from the battleship group and headed straight for the port terminal.

After arriving at the dock, teams of sailors quickly disembarked from the ship.

After the assembly is completed, advance inland.

……

the other side.

The Qingzhou ship led by Kuang Zixin has arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

More than a mile away, the main battle gun on the bow deck was aimed at the county town and bombarded it indiscriminately.

After bombing more than a dozen guns, the Qingzhou ship did not stay too long and continued upstream, crossing Chongming Island and arriving at Jinghai County.

Here, he encountered the navy of Zhao Song.

Facing the Shenzhou giant ship loaded with field artillery and siege artillery, the small inland river boats of the Zhao Song Navy were not of the same magnitude at all. They were completely dimensionality reduction strikes.

With just a few shots, three of the five warships of the Zhao Song Navy were sunk, and two others saw that the situation was not good and fled in panic.

After taking care of the navy, the Qingzhou ship easily took over the port and the navy successfully landed.

In just one day, Tongzhou fell!

The battle report was sent back to Jinling, and the government and the public were shocked for a while.

The Shandong Navy arrived, and as soon as they appeared on the scene, they showed terrifying combat power.

Originally, Zhao Ji was still lucky, but this solid slap completely woke him up.

Before, it was just relying on the navy under Han Zhen to defend Xiangyang and Yangzhou. Now the navy came and took Tongzhou with thunderous means, and the situation took a turn for the worse.

Zhao Ji was afraid. Since the Shandong Navy could hit Tongzhou along the Yangtze River estuary, was it possible to hit Jinling?

Thinking of this, he immediately issued an order to Zongze and Qin Hui, agreeing to become brothers and allies with the state of Qi, and respecting Han Zhen as his brother.

After doing this, Zhao Ji ordered people to find Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai is now focused on developing his own power and intercepting his eldest brother Zhao Huan at the same time, without even knowing what is going on.

Under the watchful eyes of all the courtiers, Zhao Kai stepped into the main hall and bowed in greeting: "My son, I have met my father!" Zhao Ji said with a sincere face: "I am getting older, and I am a little unable to do what I do. When I was in Bianjing earlier, , I have given the throne to your elder brother, and now that I have risen again, it is just a helpless move, in order to stabilize the government. Now that the south is stable, I want to give the throne to you!"

After all, he wanted to save some face and could not respect Han Zhen as his brother and his own daughter as his sister-in-law.

But if the Zen position is given to Zhao Kai, there is no such concern.

With Zhao Kai supporting him from the front, he could still control the court from behind and live his own happy life.

boom!

Zhao Ji's words were like thunder exploding in Zhao Kai's ears.

In his original plan, his father was still in good health and would be the emperor for another ten years.

And he himself is young and can afford to wait.

As long as the eldest brother Zhao Huan is intercepted and killed, the throne will definitely belong to him.

But Zhao Kai never expected that happiness would come so suddenly.

A surge of ecstasy surged from the depths of his heart.

"My father is so powerful that he is now in his prime, so there is no need to talk about Zen status."

Zhao Kai knew he couldn't laugh at this moment, but he couldn't control the corners of his mouth rising, so he had to pinch his thigh hard to hold back from laughing.

No matter what, the etiquette of three pushes and three concessions must be completed.

Otherwise, how will the courtiers in the palace view themselves?

Zhao Ji waved his hand: "I know my body best. It's not getting better every year. Don't try to persuade me again."

"Father, please don't mention the Zen throne again. I am really scared."

Zhao Kai leaned over and knelt.

All the courtiers looked on expressionlessly as the father and son showed off their acting skills.

"Among all the princes, I think highly of you the most, so don't refuse."

Zhao Ji walked down the hall, helped Zhao Kai up with his own hands, and then led him up to the hall step by step.

Pressing him on the dragon chair, Zhao Ji said seriously: "From today on, you are the emperor of our Song Dynasty."

Sitting on the dragon chair, Zhao Kai was extremely moved, with admiration on his face: "Father, please be at ease. I will definitely be filial to my father from now on."

Seeing this, Zhao Ji smiled with satisfaction and said: "Good boy, if you have this heart, I will be satisfied."

Compared to the unfilial son Zhao Huan, the third child was much more well-behaved and less troublesome.

What a scene of loving father and filial piety.

If it spreads, it will definitely become a good story.

"Greetings to your Majesty, may your Majesty be blessed!"

At this time, all the ministers in the palace knelt down and knelt down to worship the new emperor.

Although everyone knows in their hearts that the new emperor is a puppet, they still have to give him face.

Looking at the ministers kneeling before His Highness, Zhao Kai's heart surged.

The throne went round and round, but didn't it fall into his own hands in the end?

……

……

Yangzhou.

At the inn in Shaobo Town, Qin Hui was scolding Zongze.

"Xiaoguan has long said that peace talks between the two countries should be magnanimous. Now, the Shandong Navy has arrived and captured Tongzhou. What if we go up the river and hit Jinling?"

Zongze retorted: "The Shandong navy is all sea-going ships, with wide ships and high poles. It is the limit to reach Tongzhou and they dare not move inward."

Qin Hui laughed angrily at him, feeling like he was playing the piano to a cow.

In his opinion, all of this was due to Zongze's insistence on going his own way, which angered Qi State.

Now not only has the peace talks gone bad, but Tongzhou has also been compensated, and the good situation has been completely broken.

Thinking of this, Qin Hui said coldly: "I will report to your majesty at the meeting. Please take a copy!"

"Please!"

Zongze didn't like him either.

"The imperial edict has arrived!"

At this moment, a song came from outside the inn.

The two immediately stopped arguing and walked out of the inn quickly.

Because it was an urgent edict, no eunuch was arranged to read the edict. The postman directly handed the imperial edict into Zongze's hands.

Zongze couldn't wait to open the imperial edict, and Qin Hui on the side also leaned over.

"This... Your Majesty is confused!"

Zongze's complexion changed drastically, and he looked up to the sky and sighed.

His Majesty actually agreed to respect Han Zhen as his brother and urged them to resume peace talks with Qi as soon as possible.

Finally, Qin Hui was asked to be responsible for the subsequent peace talks, with Zongze assisting.

Although there was no warning, the temporary change of dispatch showed that His Majesty was extremely dissatisfied with Zongze.

"Humph!"

Qin Hui glanced at Zongze and snorted proudly.

Zongze looked completely lost.

Returning to the inn, Qin Hui wrote another letter and sent someone to rush it to Gaoyou.

……

Gaoyou.

In the Guanyi, Shi Wenhui and Chang Yukun were playing chess.

Shi Wenhui chuckled and said: "Chang Xiang, Zhao Song has compromised."

The Shandong Navy's attack on Tongzhou was originally planned.

Now, everything is going according to the script they set earlier.

"The time has come, and it's time to pick the fruits. If we delay it any longer and miss His Majesty's coronation ceremony, it will be unsightly."

Chang Yukun said, picked up a chess piece and dropped it.

"Too."

Shi Wenhui nodded with deep understanding.

Chang Yukun ordered: "Reply a letter later and agree to continue the peace talks tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)