The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1039
Eunuch Liu also saw the contents of the letter, he smiled all over his face, and said softly: "This old slave congratulates the emperor, congratulations to the emperor."

Zhao Dongting nodded lightly, and said with a smile: "This matter is really worthy of congratulations. Fuzhou has settled down, and Kublai Khan will not be able to make peace if he wants to."

Even if he received Huang Hua's secret letter before, he was still a little bit unconfident, but now, he is really full of confidence.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Dongting began to write a letter to Huang Hua.

Dear friends, you have made great achievements in the battle in Fuzhou. You should set an example for us in the Song Dynasty.

I agree to what Huang Anfu said about erecting a monument, and I will only consider the matter of beheading the general, and make a decision after discussing peace with the Yuan Dynasty.Prior to this, Huang's appeasement must leave those generals alive.

These are the contents of Zhao Dongting's reply letter.

In previous battles in various places, many soldiers in each army had made military achievements.It is impossible for him to award all the rewards now.

Because it needs careful consideration.

After the ink on the paper dried up, Zhao Dongting asked the eunuch to send the secret letter to Yi Shiyu's Pigeon Breeding Department.

Then he didn't continue to stay in the imperial study, but went back to the bedroom.

On the streets of Changsha city.

Hundreds of officials including Gao Manshan and Guanshu were paraded in prison cars.

The prison cars spread across several streets.

I don't know how many people stopped to watch on the side of the street.

This battle was even similar to when Zhu Haiwang and Zhu Hecong returned to the city two days ago.

Officials from the Ministry of Inspection and the Ministry of Law rode in front of the prison car on tall horses. There were hundreds of soldiers in silver armor behind them and on both sides of the street.

Moreover, there are masters from Wudingtang hidden in it.

In this kind of battle, even if someone is bold enough to intercept the prisoner, they can only seek their own death.

"Corrupt officials!"

"sinner!"

The people on both sides of the street heard the official of the Ministry of Supervision shouting the guilt of Gao Manshan and others, and the crowd gradually became angry.

Many people threw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, etc. at the officials in the prison car, until they were very embarrassed.

These people should be executed for their crimes.In addition to collaborating with the enemy, many people have other crimes.

All the way, scolding all the way.

When they finally arrived at the vegetable market, Gao Manshan and the others could no longer see their original appearance.

They have different expressions, some are disappointed, some are sad and angry, and some are sad.

Things have developed to the point where they probably have no resentment in their hearts.Because the Procuratorate all condemned them according to the law, which can be regarded as extremely fair.

The emperor didn't use that kind of torture, such as Ling Chi, snake pit, etc., to deal with them, but beheading them, such a happy way of death, is already considered the utmost benevolence.

At the Meridian Gate.

Supervisor Zhang Shijie has already been waiting here in person.

This time the officials involved a lot, and the forces involved were also a lot, and he personally supervised the execution.

There were more soldiers at the Meridian Gate than those escorted, and even a lot of guards in the palace were dispatched.

When the suspects arrived, many civilians also followed.

Zhang Shijie's eyes swept across the faces of Gao Manshan, Guan Shu and others, and his eyes were a little complicated.

Having been colleagues for many years, he really never thought that Gao Manshan and others would be Dali's pawns.And, now it will be up to him to see them off.

An official handed the crime to Zhang Shijie by the side.

This crime alone is a very long piece of paper.

After all the soldiers escorted Gao Manshan and others into the prison car, Zhang Shijie read aloud: "The sinner Gao Manshan, former minister of the Ministry of Social Security, collaborating with the enemy and treason...execute him."

"The sinner Guan Shu, the former minister of the Ministry of Finance, collaborating with the enemy and treason...execute him."

It took more than ten minutes to read the crimes of more than a hundred criminal officials.

The area around the execution ground has long been quiet.

Countless people were shocked.

Because the identities of these officials far exceeded their expectations.Especially Gao Manshan and Guan Shu, this is already a big official they don't even dare to think about.

And among the hundreds of people with the lowest official rank, they are all from the seventh rank.There are no petty officials without rank.

God knows how many vacancies there will be in the surrounding cities of the imperial city.

"It's noon..."

Suddenly, an official with a cloud cap let out a long roar.

Gao Shijie took out a bamboo stick from the stick on the desk in front of him, threw it on the ground, "Chop!"

There is a scarlet "cut" character on the bamboo stick.

On the execution platform, the chopsticks took away the signatures behind Gao Manshan and the others.

Feeling lucky.

Heads rolled to the ground one by one.

A headless corpse fell down.

Blood splattered.

There are more than a hundred dead souls at the Meridian Gate.

The case of collaborating with the enemy, which had been raging in great numbers in the Song Dynasty, has finally come to an initial conclusion.

It's just that the aftermath obviously doesn't end there.

The beheading of more than a hundred officials at the Meridian Gate always arouses a lot of discussion among the people.

Not long after, the eunuch delivered the news of Gao Manshan and others being executed to Zhao Dongting's bedroom.

Zhao Dongting, who was accompanying Zhao An and Zhao Ru, had read the memorial written by Zhang Shijie himself, and just sighed softly.

He didn't want to comment on people like Gao Manshan, and he didn't know how to comment.

In fact, such as Gao Manshan, Guan Shu, and even Xie Fangde, the deputy supervisory order of the official supervisory province, they have the ability to be able to occupy this position.Over the years, they have also contributed a lot to Song Dynasty and made a lot of contributions.It's a pity, after all, each is his own master.

The losses they caused to Da Song cannot be offset by their credit.

Zhao Dongting also had to behead them.

The law is unforgiving.

After a long silence, Zhao Dongting said to Eunuch Liu next to him, "Let's tell the news to everyone!"

"promise."

Eunuch Liu just took the order and walked outside.Of course he could see that Zhao Dongting was in a heavy mood at the moment.

Dozens of riders left Changsha.

Hundreds of homing pigeons headed all over the place.

Another day.

Yuan Zhongdu.

After receiving Zhao Dongting's letter, Zhou Xingyan, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty stationed in the Yuan Dynasty, showed joy on his face, and immediately took the letter to the Yuan Palace to ask to see Kublai Khan.

At this time, the emperor Kublai Khan in the Yuan Palace was already sick in bed with anger.

He is old after all.

He received the news of Jiangling Mansion's defeat and the complete defeat of the army before, which already made him furious.

And the night before, he received another Fuzhou defeat report.

Fuzhou's defeat was even worse than that of Jiangling Mansion. Except for the carrier pigeons, almost no soldiers escaped from the city, and even Ashu had no news.

This naturally made Kublai Khan very angry.

The moment he saw the letter, he just felt a surge of reverse blood suddenly rushing to his head, and then passed out directly.

The five-way army united Dali, Xinsong, and Yueli dynasties to attack the Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan really never thought that this would be the end result.

He even thought before that even if the Xin Song, Dali, and Yue Li dynasties were defeated, his strength in the Yuan Dynasty alone would be enough to compete with the Song army.

But now the reality told him that his Da Yuan's military strength was no longer comparable to that of the Song Army.

In just a few years, the State of Song came back from a desperate situation, and now it is the biggest overlord in the Central Plains.

Although he still has more than 20 troops in northern Xinjiang, it is impossible for this small number of people to be the opponent of Song State.

summation...

Before seeking peace, Kublai Khan watched the successive defeats of Dali, Xinsong, Yueli Dynasty, and Jiangling Mansion, and wanted to retreat to preserve his strength in order to continue to compete with Song State in the future.

But now, he can't do without asking for peace.

With Kublai Khan's mind, he could of course predict that he would be at a disadvantage in this peace negotiation.

He no longer has the capital to negotiate with Song Guo.

The more you think about it, the angrier you get.

So after Kublai Khan fell ill, he didn't recover quickly.This is a heart disease, just like Duan Xingzhi did back then, it is not so easy to heal.

After Zhou Xingyan asked for an audience at the gate of the Yuan Palace, he waited for a long time at the gate before being led in by the eunuch.

When he went inside, he couldn't see Kublai Khan, but was taken to Zhongshu Province, where he met Sang Ge.

Yeluzhu was captured, Ashu committed suicide, and only Sang Ge remained among Kublai Khan's top think tanks.

Zhou Xingyan was quite surprised to see Brother Sang.

Sang Ge sat on the chair, glanced at Zhou Xingyan, and said: "The emperor occasionally feels cold and unwell. I specially ordered this official to come and see you."

He could see the confusion on Zhou Xingyan's face.

As for Kublai Khan's illness, it was impossible for him to tell Zhou Xingyan.Even this matter is a secret in the palace.

It's not because of anything else, but just because the prince Zhenjin is still in the northern border of the Song Dynasty.

If Kublai Khan can't survive this catastrophe...the prince doesn't return to the court...the situation of the Yuan Dynasty will be hard to imagine.

(End of this chapter)