Empress Dowager Meng's voice was faint, she still didn't have any emotions, but she didn't know how serious what Qin Hui said.
Qin Hui seemed to have expected it for a long time. He raised his head and said without delay: "Marshal Yue Feiyue is indeed loyal and righteous in his life. Although the minister had misunderstood him, he also believed in Yue Shuai's character. Therefore, although the minister was quite puzzled about Yue Shuai’s actions after he learned of Lin’an, he never intervened. Even though this move was so big, it was a real change that hadn’t been seen in the Song Dynasty in a century. Advise and appease the leaders of the various ministries and academies, and do not conflict with those forbidden troops. After all, they will lose peace. It is the great taboo of the country, and the ministers dare not be careful.
Empress Dowager Meng nodded slightly, and said, "Qin Xianggong has worked so hard to find a country, and he is really wronged!"
Qin Hui smiled faintly: "The Queen Mother is serious, but the original minister also thought that Yue Shuai was misunderstood. For a moment, as long as the minister retreats more, Yue Shuai will eventually understand and resolve the suspicion with the minister. It's just that the minister just received a front line today. The battle report, contacted the time when Yue Shuai suddenly launched this action, but there was a terrible inference, so he didn't dare to drag it any longer, so he came to the Queen Mother in a hurry!"
Empress Dowager Meng pondered slightly, and finally asked for the first time: "I don't know how the frontline military situation is? What kind of inference Qin Xianggong has made?"
Qin Hui smiled in his heart, took a deep breath, and said with a solemn expression on his face: "The emperor's official Shengjia is surrounded by 600,000 Jurchen troops in Shuzhou City, but there are less than 30,000 defenders in Shuzhou City. The disparity is huge, and the Jurchens are on the offensive and urgent. When the battle report came, the defenders in Shuzhou City could hardly be able to resist. Seeing that the city was broken, it was already between the two..."
No one knows better than him how important the Queen Mother Meng is to the plan in his heart.
In the Song Dynasty, due to the lack of blood in the royal family, there were often young masters ascending to the throne, so the Queen Mother was in charge of power, which is nothing new. Since the Zhenzong dynasty, it has become a common practice for Empress Dowager Liu and Empress Dowager Gao to sit in the dynasty successively. During the Renzong dynasty, Empress Dowager Liu even wore the emperor's attire and worshipped the emperor to the temple. However, a step away, the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee did not disagree with this, and did not think there was anything unacceptable.
Of course, this is because of the Song Dynasty, the family lineage has long been disintegrated, and the hundred officials in the courts were all born in scientific research, and they started from the people. They are no longer as big as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and their dependence on the royal family is no longer as good as in the previous dynasties. The time is serious, the literati’s subjective status is high, and their loyalty to the royal family is more due to conscious compliance with the Confucian ethical regulations, rather than just knowing that death is loyal to the emperor, and the queen mother is the emperor. For the elders, filial piety is the first priority and the queen dowager governs politics. As far as Confucian ethics is concerned, it is not a sudden thing, so those literati do not have much resistance to this.
On the other hand, it’s because in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the queens and concubines all came from big clans. They taught women's language, women's virtues, women's skills, and women's appearance in accordance with the standards of aristocratic ladies since childhood, but they spent all their time on these. The real practice is often ignorant, and there are Song generations but they don’t choose their elder brothers. Even these empress dowagers who were originally queens and concubines are mostly from poor families. They were born in the folk since childhood and are no strangers to reality. Therefore, the Song Dynasty is different from the previous dynasties. When the female protagonists of the previous dynasties were in charge of the country, they often quoted their relatives and made a mess. However, when the Song Dynasty empress dowagers were in charge of the courts, they often had a clear and clear government. Empress Liu and Gao even had "girls middle schools". The name "Yao and Shun" is extremely rare.
When the Ziguan’s family was not in the right position today, because his father and brother were dusty and ascended to the throne, at the beginning of his ascension, he urged the Queen Mother Meng, the only elder of the royal family at the time, to drape the curtain, but the Queen Mother Meng had a deep understanding of the way to advance and retreat and hurriedly retreated Lian, the power is handed over to the current emperor's official family. This has never happened again. However, at this time the emperor's official family is out of war. When this chaos occurs, if the Queen Mother Meng is willing to come forward to govern, he will naturally respond. , Everyone hopes.
Since he came in to see the Queen Mother Meng, he has always been alarmist and deliberately irritating the Queen Mother Meng, because the wrong situation is really out of control, and even Gu Jian is enough to shake the great Song Jiangshan, I am afraid this cautious one The Empress Dowager Song will never change her self-effacing image and step onto the foreground to preside over the overall situation.
Right now, Queen Mother Meng kept turning aside the subject, and now she asked herself about the current situation. She was obviously worried about the current situation step by step.
"What?" The Queen Mother Meng behind the curtain exclaimed slightly. After a while, she suddenly asked: "From the front line to Lin'an, the horse is slacking fast, but it takes a few days?"
"The battle report was delivered by someone, and I kept changing horses all the way. I also walked for five days and four nights. What's more," Qin Hui frowned: "The battle report was delivered directly into the hands of Yue Fei, who was left behind in Lin'an. The battle report that Yue Fei forwarded to various ministries and academies and handed over to the Weichen was actually backlogged in Yue Fei's hands for two days, so..."
"Two days backlog?" Empress Dowager Meng frowned, silent for a moment.
Qin Hui nodded and said: "Yes! According to the rule, every day there will be war reports arriving in Lin'an, and they will be handed over to Yue Shuai, who will then forward the relevant places. Since the day before yesterday, it has been stopped for two consecutive days. I felt quite strange in my heart, and then I took a closer look, and from this, I discovered that the battle report handed over to the minister today was obviously two days ago!"
"Five days and four nights..." Empress Dowager Meng pondered slightly, "Could it be that the battle reports within two days..."
Qin Hui looked at the Queen Mother Meng and slowly nodded: "Yue Shuai made such an uncharacteristic decision to order the Forbidden Army to take over the various ministries in Lin'an, but it was only within two days."
He watched the Queen Mother Meng stay silent, and continued: "It takes five days and four nights for the battle report to reach from the front line. If you look at the battle report in his hand, I'm afraid... I'm afraid Shuzhou City..."
There was another suffocating silence.
The Empress Dowager Meng was still calm, thinking slightly, and said: "Yue Fei is a human, but he doesn't seem to be..."
Qin Hui nodded and said: "Yue Fei has been in the army for a long time, and what Xingping has said here is nothing more than to raise a force to fight with the Jurchens and return to the Central Plains. This is certainly a determined recovery and aggressive move, but it also requires When judging the situation and assessing the situation, one cannot ignore the cause of the situation. If there is a change in the front-line battle situation, the emperor official will be lost to the hands of the Jurchen, and the ministers will naturally take the overall situation into consideration and safeguard the emperor official’s completeness as the first priority, but then However, Yue Shuai had a deep hatred for peace with Jurchens, and even dismissed him as a traitor, regardless of the reason. The minister was most afraid of misunderstandings in this situation, in order to prevent the situation from going to the Song Dynasty. The Jurchen talks about peace, even if he blatantly launches a mutiny, then it’s just..."