Qian Song

Chapter 206 The Captured Concubine Liao and Princesses of the Liao Kingdom (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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Because Tan Zhen lacked a clear understanding of the movement of the Liaoxia coalition forces, he was helpless as he watched the Liaoxia coalition forces attack the city and plunder the village, which eventually led to the loss of Yundi.

Zhao Ji was very angry about this.

Zhao Ji dismissed Tan Zhen as Taiwei and Xuanfu envoy, and demoted Tan Zhen to be deputy envoy of Jiedu of Shunchang army.

After this incident, Zhao Ji completely understood that Tan Zhen still couldn't do it, and he couldn't compare with Tong Guan at all.

Then, Zhao Ji reused Tong Guan again, let Tong Guan re-in charge of the Privy Council, and continued to serve as the Xuan Fu envoy of Hebei, Hedong, and Yanshan Fulu, with Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan, as the deputy Xuan Fu envoy.

At the same time, Zhao Ji gave Tong Guan two tasks.

The first one is to send someone to negotiate with Li Cun to hand over the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to Zhao Song Dynasty according to the previous agreement between the two parties.

Zhao Ji also knew that this was impossible.

But what if Li Cun kept his promise and agreed?
Zhao Ji told Tong Guan that as long as Li Cun agreed to give the Zhao Song Dynasty the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying, Li Cun would do whatever he wanted.

And the second task Zhao Ji gave Tong Guan was to look for opportunities to welcome Yelu Yanxi to live in the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Zhao Ji knew very well that it was impossible for Li Cun to give the Zhao Song Dynasty the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying. Opportunity to destroy the Zhao and Song Dynasty and complete the unification.

Don't talk about trustworthiness or anything else, great unification is the greatest righteousness in the world, and a word of serving the country and the people is enough to overshadow any dishonesty or morality.

So Zhao Ji had to deal with Li Cun.

The current situation is that

The three prefectures of Pingluanying have been occupied by the Dagan Dynasty, and Li Cun was guarded by General Wu Jie. It was difficult for the Song Dynasty to open up the Liaoxi Corridor.

As for Yandi, Li Cun personally guarded it, and the Jin people didn't even have to think about going south from here.

In this way, the only possible channel for the Zhao Song Dynasty to open up is Yundi.

And even the passage of Yundi, the Zhao Song Dynasty could not use force to open it.

Zhao Ji can only try to recruit Yelu Yanxi to see if he can spend some money to buy the channel of Yundi.

On the other hand, Zhao Ji also wants to unite with Jinliao, including Xixia, to see if the four families can deal with the Dagan Dynasty together, so as to relieve the crisis of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

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Not long after Tan Zhen lost Yundi, Wang Fu felt that Zhao Ji began to alienate him, and he, the prime minister, would not interfere in many things.

What made Wang Fu even more uneasy was that Zhao Ji began to adjust the top management of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji first called Cai You back from the front line and asked Cai You to replace Zheng Juzhong, who was already seriously ill, to lead the Privy Council; then he promoted Bai Shizhong to serve as Tejin, Dazai and servant Ying, the right minister; Shushilang is the prime minister on the left.Soon after, Zhao Ye was appointed Zuo Cheng of Shangshu, Chengzhi Yuwen Cuizhong, a scholar of Hanlin, was appointed as Youcheng of Shangshu, and Cai Maotong, the prefect of Kaifeng, was appointed Privy Councilor.

Together, these people constituted the high-level decision-making team of the new government of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Cai You, who can't write well, can't do martial arts, has no learning and skills, only fights for power and has fun, a complete jester, without any talent.

Although Bai Shizhong was a Jinshi, and he had successively held important positions such as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Youcheng of Shangshu, and Minister of Zhongshumen, the real reason for his success was not because of his knowledge and political achievements, but because he was in charge of editing. The various auspicious omens played in the local area are well edited. In other words, what he is good at is flattery, not ruling the country, let alone saving the country.

Li Bangyan, the so-called "Li Langzi" and "The Prime Minister of the Prodigal Son", is not a figure who "helps the building from falling and turns the tide from falling".He grew up in the market, accustomed to obscenity and vulgarity, easy to deal with, good at laughing and cursing, can play Cuju, and often uses street slang as lyrics and songs, which are passed on and sung by others.

In recent years, Li Bangyan and Wang Fu have been constantly competing for favor, and he is always against Wang Fu.Wang Fu advocated the recovery of Yanjing, so he opposed sending troops to the Northern Expedition.

When Wang Fu accompanied Zhao Ji to the banquet, he often performed vulgar performances on the stage in person, entertaining himself with laughter, and Prince Zhao Huan hated it when he heard about it.

As a result, conflicts arose between Wang Fu and Zhao Huan.

Knowing that Zhao Ji liked Zhao Kai, Wang Fu secretly plotted to depose Zhao Huan and make Zhao Kai the crown prince.

On the other hand, Li Bangyan was tit-for-tat, defending Zhao Huan's crown prince with a clear-cut stand.

Li Bangyan is very sociable, very good at flattery, long-sleeved and good at dancing. Served as left prime minister.

Li Bangyan once said that he wanted to enjoy all the flowers in the world (this flower is not the other flower, but the flower of the brothel), play all the balls in the world, and be an official in the world.

At this time when the life and death of the Zhao Song Dynasty was in danger, Zhao Ji used three jesters as the highest decision-makers of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

It is not difficult to see from this that there are indeed huge problems in Zhao Ji's way of employing people.

Zhao Ji no longer trusted Wang Fu, not only because Wang Fu was Tan Zhen's sponsor and backer, and the two made Zhao Song Dynasty so passive, but also because Zhao Ji discovered the secret between Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng.

In other words, Zhao Ji finally found out that there is a small door between Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng's family.

Zhao Ji immediately understood why Wang Fu understood him so well.

It turned out that Wang Fu was not Zhao Ji's confidant at all, but Liang Shicheng had tipped Wang Fu off.

This made Zhao Ji feel that he had been deeply deceived.

For a long time, Zhao Ji felt that there was nothing wrong with the choices he made, and the clever Wang Fu would always think of going with him.

Therefore, Zhao Ji resisted all opinions and promoted Wang Fu in an extraordinary way.

It can be said that Zhao Ji placed high hopes on Wang Fu.

The treatment Zhao Ji gave to Wang Fu was also the highest, and his favor was even far higher than that of the ignorant Cai Jing. He not only bestowed Wang Fu's mansion, but also personally named Wang Fu's mansion "Dexian Zhiding", and even personally Inscribed to Wang Fu are seven monuments including Zaigeng Hall, Gaolu Hall, Chongguang Pavilion, Shifeng Pavilion, Laoshan Pavilion, Rongguangzhai, and Yin'an.

In the end, Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng really knew how to act.

Wang Fu was outstanding in intelligence and eloquence. He was not only good at seizing power and accumulating wealth, but also good at flattery, which gradually won Zhao Ji's trust.

But Liang Shicheng has a different style, he is stupid and humble, honest and kind, he can't speak, he doesn't know how to speak, but he is good at observing words and manners, and he is seasoned in dealing with things, and he is also deeply trusted by Zhao Ji.

In recent years, Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng have sang together in front of Zhao Ji, admiring them in public but contradicting them in secret, playing Zhao Ji in the palm of their hands.

This broke Zhao Ji's heart.

In any dynasty, it is taboo for ministers to associate with servants, and the emperor is very sensitive to this.

Ministers and eunuchs are not allowed to make friends, which is also an important principle of the Zhao and Song Dynasties to prevent eunuchs from monopolizing power.

According to regulations, if the two communicate with each other, they will be punished.

It's just that Zhao Ji didn't take it seriously before.

This makes it a common custom for eunuchs to associate with court officials during the period when Zhao Ji was in power, especially since Xuanhe.

And because Zhao Ji especially favored eunuchs, almost all scholar-bureaucrats went to the door of eunuchs, learned from each other, and they were all proud of being attached to the servants.But all the eunuchs with great power have their own families. They set up their own families and accept bribes publicly to sell officials and titles.

It can be said that all of this was caused by Zhao Ji.

The attitude of the emperor is the code of conduct for many ministers.

Seeing that Zhao Ji no longer favored and trusted Wang Fu, Li Bangyan, who had been against Wang Fu for many years, immediately fell into trouble. He found the censor Zhongcheng He Li, who was only 35 years old, and Shangshu impeached Wang Fu.

He Li played seven chapters in a row, listing Wang Fu's [-] crimes, including treachery and arbitrariness, tyranny and tyranny, forming a party for personal gain, plundering and plundering, arrogance and lust, and asked Zhao Ji to remove Wang Fu and punish him according to the law.

Wang Fu knew that Zhao Ji did not trust him, and he would not be able to continue as a prime minister no matter what.

Moreover, the current situation is getting worse and worse for Wang Fu.

So Wang Fu took the initiative to write a chapter to ask for his appointment:
"Officials and ministers can't do enough, and ministers can't do anything..."

Zhao Ji quickly approved Wang Fu's request. He wrote in his imperial pen: "Wang Fu Chen begs to become an official, the number of people who should be beneficiary, the number of ceremonies, etc., will be implemented in accordance with Cai Jing's regulations, and the Jiedu envoy will still be paid."

It has to be said that Zhao Ji was quite generous to his courtiers, Wang Fu hurt Zhao Ji's heart so much, and Zhao Ji did not settle accounts with Wang Fu after autumn, so Wang Fu left the political circle smoothly and retained his glory and wealth.

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In the golden autumn and August, the land of Yan had a bumper harvest, and a total of 350 million shi of new grain was obtained.

Li Cun survived the greatest crisis.

On the other hand, Yundi, which is controlled by the Liaoxia coalition forces, is not like the people of Yundi at all. As expected, they can live a good life when Yelu Yanxi returns.

On the contrary, Yelu Yanxi is still the fatuous Yelu Yanxi. As soon as he entered Xijing, he started to build a luxurious palace in Xijing, and then slowly regained the Liao territory occupied by Qianjin with Xijing as the center. , without considering the reality that the people of Yundi can no longer survive.

In the past two years, Yundi was first occupied by the Jin people, then by the Song people, and then by the Liaoxia coalition forces.

None of the three parties managed the land of Yundi with all their heart.

What's even more tragic is that when Jinxia jointly attacked Yundi, it happened to catch up with Chunpeng, which made Yundi completely miss Chunpeng.

As a result, there was a great hunger in Yundi, parents ate their sons, and even dead bodies were marked on the market by inserting paper, and people sold them for food money.

This is true of the soldiers, and the situation of the people is even more conceivable.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current Yundi is almost like hell.

Faced with this situation, Xixia actually worked hard to rescue.

One stone of grain can be transported from Xixia to Yundi, and the freight along the way will cost more than ten or even twenty stones of grain.

Xixia is a small country. It doesn't have much surplus food, let alone a large population. How can it support the consumption of Yundi's population of 10?
A large number of people in Yundi fled to Yandi in order to survive. They begged Li Cun to send troops to drive away Yelu Yanxi and Xixia people.

A group of generals headed by Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Su Dong, Yue Fei, and Zhao Li also called for the battle.

Li Cun felt that the heat was enough, so he ordered his troops to leave Juyongguan.

Li Cun gave the first order to Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing who were the vanguards, ordering them to lead the Po Enemy Army and You Yi Army to attack Yunzhong Fucheng, lock the Yunzhong Fucheng, and prepare to catch Yelu Yanxi, who is especially good at escaping, in the urn, lest he Continue to make trouble for Li Cun.

After Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing received the order, they led the Podi Army and You Yi Army out of Juyongguan, and then rushed to Yunzhong Mansion for a long distance.

Immediately afterwards, Li Cun ordered Yue Fei to be the vanguard of the left, and led the Longxiang army to take Feihu and Lingqiu first, and then all of Yunnan. the area.

Although Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing had moved very quickly, Yelu Yanxi, who had been vigilant against the invasion of the Dagan Dynasty, learned of the invasion of the Dagan Dynasty soldiers from Juyongguan at the first time.

However, what is more unexpected is that Yelu Yanxi did not choose to escape this time, but chose to face the army.

in short.

After Podijun and Youyijun received Li Cun's order, they quickly led their troops to Yunzhong Mansion.

Yelu Yanxi personally led more than [-] Liao troops, and set up a camp in the west of Yunzhong Fucheng, preparing for a decisive battle with the Qian army.

At the same time, Yelu Yanxi sent people to ask Xixia for help.

Xixia quickly sent [-] elite riders to reinforce Yelu Yanxi.

The intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department quickly found out this information, and desperately delivered the news to Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing who were rushing to Yunzhong Fucheng.

After Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing received this information, after discussing it, they felt that the [-] Xixia reinforcements should be destroyed first.

The [-] Xixia reinforcements who came from Yingzhou were fought by Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing [-] miles east of Yunzhongfu City.

The two attacked from left to right, and took advantage of the force. In the first battle, they wiped out Xixia's [-] reinforcements.

Facing the [-] fine riders led by Yelu Yanxi, Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing had a disagreement.

Zhang Xian felt that [-] vs. [-] was unstable, and wanted to wait for the big troops to come up before fighting.

But Yang Zaixing felt that [-] versus [-] was enough, and he wanted to fight Yelu Yanxi directly.

Before coming, Li Cun ordered Zhang Xian to be the general.

Ordinarily, this matter should be up to Zhang Xian.

But Yang Zaixing was not reconciled to losing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to capture the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, so he told Zhang Xian: "I heard that the Lord of Liao is cowardly and cowardly, and is very good at escaping. This time he must know that our soldiers are not as good as horses." There are many of them before we dare to fight. If we wait for our army to come, the Lord of Liao will flee away after hearing the wind. The Lord of Liao is His Majesty's confidant. If this opportunity is missed, when will His Majesty get rid of this confidant and when will he go south to complete it? Datong, I wait for the general, and I will share the worries for His Majesty."

Zhang Xian was persuaded by Yang Zaixing, and the two led an army of [-] to face the [-] cavalry led by Yelu Yanxi.

Yang Zaixing guessed right.

Yelu Yanxi saw that the vanguard of the Gan army was small, and the Han cavalry was not as good at riding and fighting as the grassland warriors, so he wanted to take advantage of the absence of the large army of the Gan army to stand up first.

Of course, this is also because Yelu Yanxi, who has escaped for several years, really has nowhere to escape.

Therefore, the two armies of Gan and Liao fought a battle under the city of Yunzhongfu.

As soon as the war started, Yang Zaixing personally led thousands of troops under his command to rush into the center of the Liao army.

——Yang Zaixing actually had the idea of ​​capturing the king first.

Yang Zaixing killed hundreds of people one by one with one gun and one horse, causing the Liao army to retreat one after another.

The generals of the Liao Army from Yelu Yanxi have never seen such a strong general as Yang Zaixing, and they were caught off guard by the Qianjun.

On the other hand, Zhang Xian ordered the rest of the Po enemy army and You Yi army to shoot the two wings of the Liao army with bows and crossbows very calmly.

The Liao Army was quickly defeated by Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing, and fled back to Yunzhongfu City.

Soon after, Su Dong led the Huzhi Army to the city of Yunzhong Mansion.

Su Dong ordered people to build a cloud platform higher than the city wall, and placed tiger squatting cannons and bed crossbows on it, which perfectly implemented Li Cunfu's fire suppression style of play.

Under the suppression of the overwhelming firepower, Zhang Yong led his subordinates to ascend first, and fought fiercely with the Liao army defending the city.

The generals of the Liao army, led by Liao general Yelu Mage, fought hard and held on to the city. They even wanted to take advantage of a towering Buddhist pagoda in the west of the city to resist stubbornly.

It's a pity that Wang Gui personally led someone to put the door on his head, forcibly attacked to the bottom of the pagoda, and then used explosives to blow up the entire pagoda, and thousands of Liao soldiers were smashed to death in the pagoda.

Seeing this, the Liao army surrendered one after another.

The city of Yunzhongfu was broken.

When capturing Yelu Yanxi, something unexpected happened.

——After Su Dong led people to conquer the imperial city, he did not find Yelu Yanxi, not only that, even other members of the royal family and clan were not in the imperial city.

turn out to be--

When Yelu Yanxi built the palace, he specially built a secret road leading to the outside of the city.

When the city was broken, Yelu Yanxi took the royal family and members of the clan into the secret passage, intending to escape secretly from the secret passage.

fortunately!

The secret agents of the pro-military Duwei Mansion had already found out this secret way, and sent this information to Su Dong in time.

Therefore, before Su Dong attacked the city, he first ordered Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing to guard the secret road.

As a result, all the imperial clans of the Liao Kingdom, including the concubines and sons and daughters of Yelu Yanxi, and the concubines and sons and daughters of clan members, were all wiped out by Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing.

Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing also seized more than [-] vehicles prepared by Yelu Yanxi in advance.

What needs to be explained is that Yelu Yanxi's 200 BMWs, which run [-] miles a day, and his [-] bags of peerless treasures that the Liao Kingdom has accumulated for more than [-] years are all listed here.

After Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing consulted Su Dong for instructions, they immediately sent Yelv Yanxi and other captives back to Yanjing and dedicated them to Li Cun...

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much better.

But he was still weak, and he broke out in a cold sweat when he moved.

Also coughing badly.

My wife frightened me, saying that many people died suddenly at this stage of hard work, and asked me to raise them for another two days, don't miss these two days.

What she said was quite scary, so I decided to listen to her and raise it for another two days.

(End of this chapter)