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"No matter how Taiyuan is, he is in charge of the Taixue, no matter how preventing autumn is, but he is in charge of spring and autumn, no matter how hushi is, no matter how hushi is, no matter how shushi is, no matter how shushi is, no matter how sang Yanshan is, no matter how sang Nieshan is, no matter how Tokyo is, no matter how sang Cai Jing is, no matter how sang Hebei is, no matter how sang Chen is, no matter how sang the second prince is, no matter how sang the prince is."

This is the most popular "Ten Nothing" in Bianliang City, Tokyo, which shows the disappointment of the Tokyo people with the court.

This disappointment was mainly due to the current magistrate Seo Chu-in and Wu Min.

Before becoming the Dazai, Xu Churen worked as a left-behind in Daming Prefecture, Beijing, and had a high social reputation.

Both Tai students and the people in the capital thought that Xu Churen was relatively mature, honest and had political experience. If he was asked to serve as prime minister to assist the young Zhao Huan, he would definitely make a difference.

Seo Chu-in served as Dazai from early March to early August, which was exactly five months old.

These five months were the time when Song State was in trouble and the critical period for Song State to reverse the crisis.

Talismans and edicts from all over the country flew like snow, and the court urgently needed to make a wise decision.

However, many complex political, military, diplomatic issues made Xu Churen a little dizzy.

Although Xu Churen has experience in politics, he lacks the political vision and wisdom needed to deal with the national crisis. He deals with a series of problems, either in a timely manner or makes major mistakes.

For example, in order to prevent the Jin people from invading again in autumn, Zhong Shidao suggested concentrating various troops in Heyang area to guard the Yellow River defense line, but Xu Churen refused to adopt it. He believed that since the Jin people had retreated, how could they come back? It is not advisable to disturb themselves first to show weakness.

This shows how short his political vision and how weak his political insight are.

Xu Churen became prime minister and was recommended by Wu Min to Zhao Huan.

Wu Min felt that he was young and had little experience, and was worried that he could not control the current disasters and difficulties of the court, so he recruited talents and created momentum.

When Xu Churen first arrived in the court, he had a relatively consistent political opinion with Wu Min and Li Gang, and the cooperation between them was quite smooth.

But later there was a serious disagreement between Seo Chu-in and Wu Min.

Wu Min was young and energetic, and had insufficient experience in handling political affairs. When the staff submitted various military and political documents to him for instructions, he was confused and did not know how to punish the commission, but just said: "It is still possible to do so."

Xu Churen was disliked very much. Wu Min was incompetent and liked to take over power. In addition, Wu Min changed from the previous ruling battle to the ruling peace and was regarded as a traitor by Xu Churen. Therefore, the two began to fight openly and secretly.

Gradually, the relationship between Seo Chu-in and Wu Min became worse and worse. Every time they held a meeting, the two of them slandered each other and slandered each other.

Wu Min once recommended several officials to the Ministry of Personnel, including his own relatives.

When Xu Churen reviewed the list, he bluntly called out Wu Min's relative's name.

Wu Min came to the East Mansion angrily and asked Xu Churen to discuss the list.

But after a few words of conversation, the two started a fierce argument.

At that time, Xu Churen was drafting documents with a brush.

In anger, Xu Churen threw the brush at Wu Min, hitting Wu Min's face, so that Wu Min's lips and nose were all black.

This incident soon spread throughout the court and had a very bad influence.

Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, and Nie Shan had long wanted to oust Xu Churen and Wu Min and replace them.

Therefore, they immediately seized the matter and took the opportunity to instruct the Chief Censor Li Hui to impeach Xu Churen and Wu Min.

Li Hui reported:

"The Grand Priest Xu Churen was highly valued because of Cai Jing's recommendation. Since the Jin people retired, Your Majesty promoted him to Taizai because he had the ability to govern the local area. However, his weapon was rude, his intelligence was stagnant, and his intelligence was stagnant, and he was not familiar with the times and could not lead all officials at all. The Young Priest Wu Min was actually Cai Jing's best friend. He was in the prime minister and was in power and wanted to be loyal and favored. Xu Churen and Wu Min were incompatible, which led to the deterioration of the world. Now, the Jin people were rampant, and heavy troops were in the face of the border. The battle of Hedong was in short supply, and the world was worried about it. Xu Churen and Wu Min were defeated, and the crime was unforgivable. I hope Your Majesty would cancel the two traitors and not seek to appoint them."

The few months Xu Churen and Wu Min were in power were indeed a very important period. The Song court should have seized the opportunity to make strategic arrangements overall, actively prepared for the Jin people's re-invasion south, and made various plans, including the emperor's plan to withdraw from the capital in time.

However, Xu Churen and Wu Min took insufficient attention to border defense and were incompetent in handling the situation, which wasted great opportunities.

Wu Min also submitted a memorial suggestion that scholars should add a course in "Spring and Autumn" and said that Wang Anshi's "New Meaning of the Three Classics" are all evil sayings, and so on, they were not the priority at the time.

In addition, through Xiao Zhonggong's instigation of Yelu Yuji, this bad idea was also given to Zhao Huan by Xu Churen and Wu Min.

As prime ministers, Xu Churen and Wu Min are indeed neither competent. At least, with their talents, they cannot be the priests of the Song Dynasty during this chaotic period, and they cannot drive this big ship that is almost sinking.

Soon, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Shan and others who moved to Xu Churen and Wu Min took power and were promoted to Shaozhan. Because there was no Taizhan, Tang Ke was the prime minister. Nie Shan was the chief minister and the minister of the Privy Council. Geng Nanzhong was the left chief of the Shangshu.

The new prime minister Tang Ke was a Jinshi in the first year of Shaosheng of Emperor Zhezong. He served as a county magistrate, prefect, transfer judge and other local officials.

He started from the grassroots level and was gradually promoted to the central court.

In May of the first year of Xuanhe, Tokyo was flooded by storm, and the situation was very critical. Tang Ke, who was then the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was ordered to control the water in the face of danger.

Some people suggested breaking the south dike to relieve the floods in the palace.

Tang Ke opposed this kind of act of harming the people. He said: "The water rises and the dikes are broken and floods the residents. There is nothing we can do about it. Now we will soak them. This is a fish, turtle, and our people."

Tang Ke ignored his personal safety and rode a boat to inspect the actual situation of the riot in order to take advantage of the situation.

Finally, the golden dike was broken and the storm of water poured into the Yellow River.

In less than half a month, the water in the capital receded, and Zhao Ji praised Tang Ke very much: "The country is safe and the country is the power of you."

This water control showed that Tang Ke had a certain degree of courage and ability to resolve crisis events.

When the Jin army first arrived in Tokyo, Tang Ke served as the governor of Hangzhou.

Li Bangyan recommended him to return to Beijing and serve as the head of the Privy Council, hoping that he could participate in military decision-making.

After he returned to the capital, Zhao Huan decided to reuse him and directly appointed him as the Minister of the Secretariat.

At that time, ministers were keen to discuss political affairs during the Xuanhe period and were committed to exposing and criticizing the "Six Thieves", hoping to reform the current problems and rectify the chaos.

Tang Ke disagreed with this. He said to Zhao Huan: "The current problems of reform should be carried out gradually. Today's border affairs are very urgent, so we should first discuss border affairs. Those who speak disregard the general and get involved in the past, and to be quick to get angry for a moment, wouldn't it hurt the hearts of the Supreme Taoist lord? Cai Jing, Cai You, Wang Fu, and Tong Guan's disciples have been demoted, so it's okay. After the border affairs are settled in the future, I will tell you to ask for an edict to abandon it with the world. Who said that's not?"

It can be said that Tang Ke was still very accurate at this time.

Zhao Huan also thought Tang Ke was very knowledgeable, so after dismissing Xu Churen and Prime Minister Wu Min, he appointed Tang Ke as the young master.

Zhao Huan had high hopes for Tang Ke, hoping that he would be as brave and responsible as he had in the water control, dare to take responsibility, and save the current situation.

The court thus formed a new team with Tang Ke as prime minister. The other members of the team were: He Li was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat, Geng Nanzhong was the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat, Chen Guoting was the Right Prime Minister of the Secretariat, Li Gang was the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat, and Nie Chang was the Staff of the Secretariat.

The new team with Tang Ke as prime minister still had a lot of differences in judgment and countermeasures on the situation at this time and still had endless debates.

When Nie Chang first took office, he opposed cede land and negotiated peace, and was very confident in defeating the Jin people. Zhao Huan ordered Nie Chang to be fully responsible for military work and be able to act cheaply. However, not long after, Nie Chang saw that the Hedong official army was defeated repeatedly, so he changed his views and agreed to negotiate peace.

Geng Nanzhong, who was deeply trusted by Zhao Huan, advocated peace talks from beginning to end. He advocated following the method of the Battle of Chanyuan and redeeming the land of the three towns with taxes in exchange for peace between the two countries. If the Jin people disagree, they must endure the pain of ceding land for peace. In his opinion, war will surely perish.

He Li, who was famous for overthrowing Wang Fu, firmly opposed the cemetery of land and seeking peace. He said: "The three towns are the foundation of the country, but once they are abandoned? Besides, the Jin people are deceiving and unpredictable, how can they guarantee their trust? They will come if they are cut, and they will come if they are not cut!"

After Tang Ke judged the situation, he finally chose to negotiate peace.

Zhao Huan was still the same, fighting and reconciling, fighting and reconciling one after another.

At this critical moment, the state of Song was unable to form a unity, which made the entire state of Song even more messy.

In such an environment, it is difficult to do things even if you are willing to do things.

Take Li Gang as an example.

After Li Gang was excluded from the court by Wu Min and others, he wanted to train elite troops to fight the Jin army.

But the imperial court directly commanded the generals of each army to let them fight, and then defeated, which made Li Gang disheartened!

Li Gang was passively stranded in Huaizhou, holding his troops unmoved, and talked loudly with his staff members Zou Bian and Zhang Mu every day.

If the generals want to report to Li Gang, they must first ask Zou Bing and Zhang Mu.

The soldiers complained about Li Gang because of this.

Later, Wu Min was dismissed, and people in the court said that Wu Min was a clan of the Cai family and the confidant of Cai You's in the court.

This made Li Gang unacceptable.

Li Gang believed that this must be Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, and Nie Chang who fabricated facts and turned the truth into black and white, deceived Zhao Huan.

At the same time, Li Gang suddenly had an unknown premonition, and he felt that soon he would be likely to follow Wu Min's footsteps.

Therefore, Li Gang, who had already lost his mind, had decided to leave.

When Li Gang was in the court, he not only had different views from the prime ministers such as Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Chang, and others, but also in many ways they were out of place.

Therefore, instead of being ordered to be dismissed, it is better to resign yourself.

However, Zhao Huan refused to criticize Li Gang's resignation.

Li Gang did not give up. He made continuous comments, repeatedly saying that he was not capable of being competent. He also said that he had recently suffered from a disease of disarray and that if he did not dismiss his post, it would definitely delay national affairs.

In the memorial, Li Gang also specifically mentioned Zhao Huan's words in front of his bed.

At the beginning, Li Gang didn't want to be the Hedong Xuanfu envoy to lead troops to rescue Taiyuan because he felt that he didn't know the military and could not be competent for this position.

But Zhao Huan insisted on letting Li Gang go, and Wu Min, who turned from the ruling faction to the ruling faction at that time, also wanted to kick Li Gang, who was in charge of the ruling faction out of the court.

Therefore, Li Gang reluctantly accepted the position of Hedong Xuanfu Envoy.

However, before leaving Beijing, Li Gang and Zhao Huan had an agreement.

In order to allow Li Gang to serve as Hedong Xuanfu Envoy, Zhao Huan led his troops to rescue Taiyuan, and once recruited Li Gang to his bed and promised Li Gang: "You can return to the court after inspecting the border defense for me."

Li Gang asked: "If the court's resolution is not firm, then the minister should be resigned. Your Majesty should be aware of the loyalty of the ministers in order to maintain the friendship between the king and the ministers."

Now, the imperial court's diplomatic policy towards the Jin Dynasty has changed from a war of resistance to peace talks.

The situation that Li Gang was worried about at the beginning had already emerged.

Zhao Huan was in a disadvantaged manner, so he had to agree to Li Gang's request and ordered Zhong Shidao to patrol the border as a member of the Privy Council, to go to Huaiyang, and to hand over the Xuanfu Department with Li Gang. At the same time, he ordered Li Gang to return to the capital and asked him to patrol and inspect the defense preparations along the banks of the Yellow River.
To be continued...