Transmigrated as Emperor Lizong of Song, I Called Off the Duanping Campaign from the Start

On my first day transmigrated into Zhao Yun, Emperor Lizong of the Song, the edict that would drain the Southern Song of its last strength and doom the dynasty lay on the imperial desk: the campaign to reclaim Luoyang. [National fortune: 15/100 (On the brink of collapse)] [Historical warning: The edict will be issued in 72 hours. Sixty thousand elite soldiers will freeze to death by the Yellow River, national fortune will fall to 5, and the Song will never recover!] The entire court roared with fervor for the “reclamation of the Three Capitals.” Zheng Qingzhi delivered an impassioned speech, Zhao Kui drew his sword and volunteered to fight, and everyone was pressuring me to sign this death warrant. I slammed the table and rose to my feet. “Stop the Luoyang campaign at once! I will not sacrifice the lives of sixty thousand of my men!” From that day on, the Song dynasty changed. I summoned Meng Gong to build three defensive lines around Jinghu, appointed Yu Jie to construct mountain fortresses and defend Sichuan, and sent Zhao Kui to develop Liuqiu and build an invincible navy. Gunpowder was refined into grains and issued to the troops; copper hand cannons shattered Mongol shield carts. Meng Gong presented the remains of Emperor Aizong of Jin, avenging a century of humiliation since the Jingkang Incident. When the scholar-officials accused me of “corrupting the Way of the Sages with the methods of a tyrant,” I said only, “I gave them wings not so they could fly, but so they could live.” This time, the Song will not fall in 1279!