Qian Song

Chapter 227 Surrounding Bianliang City, Tokyo (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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According to the usual practice, after the new emperor ascends the throne, the yuan must be changed.

"Changing Yuan" is also a symbol of a new emperor officially ruling the world.

Zhao Huan knew that the Yuan change was important, so he handed over the matter to Prime Minister Bai Shizhong.

Bai Shizhong, who is not capable enough, has been so busy recently, how can he have time to name the year name himself?

So Bai Shizhong handed over the matter to Shangshu Youcheng Yu Wencuizhong and Zhongshusheren Zhu Shengfei.

Soon after, Yu Wencui extracted the word "Jingkang" from the two sentences "Rijing Sifang" in "The Book of Songs" and "Yongkang Zhaomin" in "Shangshu". It was suggested to use "Jingkang" as the year name, containing " The meaning of "Jing Nan Ankang and the world is peaceful".

After the court discussion, the reign title "Jingkang" was approved.

After that, Bai Shizhong asked Zhao Huan for instructions with the year name "Jingkang".

Zhao Huan felt that the word "Jingkang" was very good, so he formally issued an imperial edict to change the Yuan: "On the first day of the eighth year of Zixuanhe, it can be changed to the first year of Jingkang. Announcement to many parties, embodying my intentions."

One day, Zhao Huan was discussing state affairs with the civil and military officials of the Zhao and Song Dynasties in the Hall of Yanhe. "Five Thieves", the leading student is named Chen Dong."

Chen Dong is a child from a poor family, but this has not affected his self-motivation. He has a free and easy personality, a heroic spirit, and refuses to be inferior to others.

When Cai Jing and Wang Fu were assisted in the government, people were afraid of Cai Jing and Wang Fu's dictatorship and dared not publicly comment on the gains and losses of the government, while Chen Dong was outspoken and often talked loudly.

Therefore, sometimes when Chen Dong appeared at certain banquets, some guests worried that Chen Dong's reckless speech would hurt them, so they often avoided the banquet.

To put it bluntly, Chen Dong mainly used this method to attract attention and realize his own political ambitions.

Zhao Ji took the Zen throne, and the emperor was replaced by Zhao Huan. Chen Dong believed that this was the opportunity to reverse the corrupt political situation, so he united many Tai students to write a letter to Zhao Huan:
"...Today's events, Cai Jing was in chaos before, Liang Shicheng was defeated in the interior, Li Yan became grudges in the northwest, Wang Fu and Tong Guan were grudges against the Liao Kingdom, defeated the alliance of the ancestors, lost the trust of China, and created a frontier These five thieves have different names and the same crime. May your Majesty capture these five thieves, spread them all over the city, and spread them to the four directions to thank the world... Now the thieves are invading, and it is precisely because of these five thieves. It was caused by a thief, does your majesty tolerate this to endanger the world? If Tang Minghuang punished Yang Guozhong early, Lushan may not have an excuse. Fortunately, your majesty has no tolerance for this. Your majesty will not punish him because he is afraid that the world will rise together and punish him It’s over. Hushun’s removal of the four evil spirits was also seen at the beginning of the Zen position, and I have never heard of his hesitation, can we learn from it?”

The Tai student movement led by Chen Dong was supported by the conservative ministers of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. They felt that this was a good time to overthrow Cai Jing and other reformist ministers.

With the help of these conservative ministers, this matter has had a great political impact.

In addition, many ordinary people in Bianliang City, Tokyo also strongly supported the Tai Student Movement initiated by Chen Dong and the others.

As far as Zhao Huan is concerned, Wang Fu has a deep hatred with him, and he can also use the opportunity to clean up Zhao Ji's favorite ministers such as Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Li Yan, and Liang Shicheng to eradicate Zhao Ji's political power and gain power by the way. , to consolidate his own dominance.

Therefore, Zhao Huan defined the student movement as a righteous patriotic action, and began to attack the "five thieves".

When Wang Fu learned that Zhao Ji was in Zen and Zhao Huan became the emperor, Wang Fu knew that the end of Zhao Huan, who had wanted to abolish him, was coming.

Wang Fu once went to see Zhao Huan at the first time when Zhao Huan ascended the throne, but was told that the new emperor was unwilling to see him.

Wang Fu knew that something was wrong, so he asked to be released.

But Wang Fu's request was quickly rejected.

In desperation, Wang Fu went out of the city by boat without authorization, intending to escape to the Daqian Dynasty.

After Zhao Huan learned about this, he demoted Wang Fu seven levels in a row, but felt unhappy, so he asked Nie Shan, who had a grudge against Wang Fu, to send someone to hunt down Wang Fu.

Nie Shan dispatched capable killers to chase all the way to a place called Fugu Village, and finally caught up with Wang Fu, then killed Wang Fu, and brought back the head.

At the same time, Zhao Huan issued an edict to search Wang Fu's home and confiscate all property in Wang Fu's mansion.

In the end, gold treasures amounted to hundreds of millions.

In addition, Wang Fu had many concubines, among whom there were as many as 18 concubines—eight wives and ten concubines.

In the end, most of these women were divided up by the dignitaries of the Qinzong Dynasty. Only one concubine named "Su'e" had the best relationship with Wang Fu, and she followed Wang Fu all the time. When she heard that Wang Fu was "killed by robbers", Su'e was very sad. He died in less than three days.

After executing Wang Fu, the second person Zhao Huan wanted to get rid of was Liang Shicheng.

Liang Shicheng is indeed a treacherous minister.

But to be fair, Liang Shicheng did not fail Zhao Huan.

——In these years, if Liang Shicheng hadn't protected Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan would have been abolished by Wang Fu long ago.Moreover, in the process of Zhao Huan's succession to the throne this time, Liang Shicheng did his best.

But Zhao Huan is different from Zhao Ji.

how to say.

Zhao Huan is a bit like Chongzhen, that is, he doesn't miss any old love, kindness, family affection, nothing is important to Zhao Huan, he is the kind of extremely ruthless person.

Take Liang Shicheng as an example.

Zhao Huan didn't think about it at all. Liang Shicheng had protected him many times to protect his position as the prince. He only saw Liang Shicheng as a treacherous minister and Liang Shicheng had a lot of gold, silver and jewels in his hands.

Therefore, Zhao Huan has been thinking about how to execute Liang Shicheng and get a large amount of gold, silver and jewels from Liang Shicheng's hands.

Ever since Liang Shicheng knew that he had been included in the list of the "Five Thieves", he had been in fear all day long, especially when he heard that Wang Fu was "killed by a thief", he was even more cautious. , He didn't even leave Zhao Huan's side even when sleeping or eating, even when Zhao Huan went to the bathroom, he would always follow Zhao Huan.

As a result, Zhao Huan had no chance to deal with Liang Shicheng.

——After all, Liang Shicheng is indebted to Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan can't be ungrateful openly, can he?
Until the commoner Zhang Bing also wrote a letter accusing Liang Shicheng of being Li Fuguo of the current dynasty, Zhao Huan felt that the opportunity to get rid of Liang Shicheng had come.

However, Liang Shicheng was hanging around Zhao Huan all the time, which made it difficult for Zhao Huan to do anything.

Zhao Huan then used a trick to send Liang Shicheng out, and then asked Li Bangyan to detain Liang Shicheng, and in the name of Liang Shicheng's collusion with Wang Fu, he demoted Liang Shicheng to the deputy envoy of the Changhua Army Jiedu, and placed him in Huazhou.

Later, Zhao Huan followed his plan and asked Nie Shan to send someone to secretly execute Liang Shicheng on the way to escort him.

Kaifeng government officials escorted Liang Shicheng out of Bianliang City in Tokyo, and hanged Liang Shicheng to death in a place called "Bajiao Town".

Upon receiving news of Liang Shicheng's death, Zhao Huan immediately ordered that Liang Shicheng's home be confiscated.

Liang Shicheng, who was kind to Zhao Huan, and Zhao Huan were all killed, and Li Yan, who had completely lost power, was killed by Zhao Huan's words?

In fact, as early as when Chen Donggang found out about the "five thieves", Zhao Huan had Li Yan killed without hesitation, and then ransacked Li Yan's home.

It was precisely because Li Yan's first pot of gold in his life was copied from Li Yan's house that Zhao Huan killed Wang Fu non-stop, and then killed Liang Shicheng in a frenzied manner.

After killing Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng and Li Yan, the three treacherous ministers, Zhao Huan's financial problems were greatly alleviated at once.

This made Zhao Huan a little obsessed with murdering and extorting goods, no, it should be obsessed with questioning crimes and ransacking homes.

Zhao Huan even somewhat understood why Li Cun liked to raid his house so much. It was really, how fast money came from this thing.

As for Cai Jing and Tong Guan, Zhao Huan did not dare to act rashly.

Because Cai Jing and Tong Guan are not ordinary ministers, they are the two ministers that Zhao Ji has relied on most since he was in power for 26 years.

Zhao Huan had to be cautious about how to punish Cai Jing and Tong Guan.

More importantly, Tong Guan, Cai Jing, Cai You and others are no longer in Bianliang City, Tokyo at this time.

After the Zen throne, Zhao Ji moved out of the palace and lived in Longde Palace.

Longde Palace is the original Duanwang Mansion, which is located in the outer city, on the north bank of the Jinglong River.

After the inner Zen, Zhao Ji has been paying attention to the changes in the current situation.

When Zhao Ji heard that Li Cun was about to hit the Yellow River, Zhao Ji suddenly felt the urgency of the situation.

So, at the time of the second drum that night, Zhao Ji quietly left Longde Palace, drove east to Tongjin Gate, and then went down the river and took a boat.

At this time, only Cai You and a few servants and followers followed Zhao Ji.

After Zhao Ji and his party boarded the boat, they left the city overnight along the Bian River.

The water flows in the night, and the boat moves on the water.

At this time, it was the cold winter season, and the water level of the Bian River was relatively shallow, so the speed of the boat was slightly slow.

Zhao Ji felt that the traveling speed was too slow, so he abandoned the boat and went ashore and took a sedan chair instead.

But after sitting in the sedan chair for a while, Zhao Ji felt that the speed of the sedan chair was not as fast as that of the boat, so he changed back to running like a boat.

Zhao Ji had a great talent for escaping. On the evening of the next day, Zhao Ji fled to Luoyang, Xijing.

After arriving here, Zhao Ji was slightly relieved.

At the same time, after learning that Zhao Ji ran away overnight, the Empress Dowager Zheng, all the concubines, and the princes and concubines also hurriedly fled Bianliang City, Tokyo with their families, and went west to chase Zhao Ji.

On this day, there were still many officials and gentry of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. After hearing that Zhao Ji had left Bianliang City in Tokyo for Chang'an, they also fled westward.

Zhao Ji and his party didn't stay in Luoyang for too long. After they bought the horse mule, they continued westward.

On the way, passing a village, Zhao Ji was tired and wanted to rest his feet. When he saw a bamboo door half-closed, he knocked on the door and entered.

There is only one old woman in this family, so Zhao Ji started a routine with her.

The old woman asked Zhao Ji's surname, and Zhao Ji replied: "My surname is Zhao, I live in Tokyo, and I have retired. I recommend the eldest son to take over."

After another two days, Zhao Ji and his party finally arrived at Tongguan.

Tongguan, adjacent to the Yellow River in the north and on the mountainside in the south, is the east gate of Guanzhong.

After entering Tongguan, Zhao Ji finally felt relieved.

Not long after Zhao Ji rode a mule into Tongguan, he ran into a fish seller.

Zhao Ji bargained with the fish seller and bought back two fat fish.

In the process of Cai You cooking fish, Zhao Ji was quite touched, so he wrote a small poem "Linjiang Fairy": "Crossing the water and crossing the mountains to go, there are more than a thousand poems. The Huaibo is cold and rainy. The smoke is sparse. There are herons on the cage beach, and people sell them on boats and fish. In the ancient temple, you can live in a secluded house, and sleep in the monk's house late at night. The dream soul wakes up and whimpers. Worry and worry, write a letter with tears."

At this time, Yu Wencuizhong, the deputy envoy of the palace, Tong Guan, Gao Qiu and other ministers all chased up from behind one after another.

Tong Guan was originally appointed by Zhao Huan as the left guard in Tokyo, but when Tong Guan heard that Zhao Ji had escaped, he immediately led the Shengjie army out to chase Zhao Ji.

Gao Qiu is the same as Tong Guan.

Gao Qiu also led three thousand forbidden guards to protect Zhao Ji.

In addition, there are Cai Jing, Cai You, and Song Huan's families. There are about a thousand of their relatives, disciples, and former officials, but none of them stayed in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

There are actually many people like Cai Jing, Cai You, Tong Guan, and Gao Qiu who escaped from Bianliang City in Tokyo and came to Shaanxi without authorization.

As a result, the Zhao and Song courts have appeared now, officials have lost three out of ten, and the court is half empty.

And these people fled, on the one hand, they must have avoided the military disaster caused by the army going south, on the other hand, they were the emperor and the courtiers. They saw that Zhao Huan was a ruthless person. There must be more bad luck for the city.

Zhao Ji was afraid that Li Cun would go to Shaanxi to catch him, so he left Gao Qiu to guard Tongguan.

The reason why Zhao Ji chose to take Tong Guan and keep Gao Qiu was mainly because the Shengjie Army was good at fighting, and the Gyeonggi Imperial Army was not strong enough. Moreover, Tong Guan was well-known in Shaanxi and enjoyed a good reputation.

Gao Qiu is unwilling to guard the gate, he wants to continue to follow Zhao Ji.

After Tong Guan learned of this, he decisively ordered the Sheng Jie army to shoot arrows at the imperial guards, scaring Gao Qiu so much that he no longer dared to follow.

A few days later, Zhao Ji arrived in Chang'an...

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Knowing that Zhao Ji abdicated the throne to Zhao Huan as in history, Li Cun became anxious.

For a long time, Li Cun was not afraid that he would not overthrow the Zhao Song Dynasty. He was only afraid that Zhao Ji would run away with his dozens of sons.

Because after such a thing happened, it meant that even if Li Cun overthrew the Zhao Song Dynasty, he would definitely have endless troubles.

Therefore, Li Cun ordered an urgent march and rushed to Bianliang City, Tokyo as soon as possible.

Li Cun hurried, but he arrived in Handan on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Seeing that Li Cun was really in a hurry, Guo Yaoshi volunteered to seize the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge.

Li Cun knew that Guo Yaoshi was good at long-distance raids, so he sent Song Jiang and Yang Zhi to lead Yang Zhi's [-] horse army and Guo Yaoshi to capture the Yellow River Bridge in Junzhou.

Seeing that Li Cun didn't let him command the army, Guo Yaoshi was very disappointed.

But in order to protect himself, Guo Yaoshi still worked hard to lead Song Jiang and Yang Zhi to gallop day and night, and rushed towards the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge fiercely.

It was nearly three hundred miles from Handan to Junzhou. Under the urging of Guo Yaoshi, Yang Zhi's 1 horses quietly arrived outside the city of Junzhou in just one day and night.

Liang Fangping, who shouldered the important task of defending the Yellow River Bridge in Junzhou, never expected that the army would come so quickly.

In addition, Liang Fangping's Gyeonggi Forbidden Army is a group of mobs organized temporarily.

Therefore, when they saw tens of thousands of cavalry soldiers and generals of the Daqian Dynasty, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and did not even carry out the planned burning of bridges in advance.

This is actually mainly due to Song Jiang.

Song Jiang felt that their troops were sufficient, so after discussing with Yang Zhi and others, while heading straight to Junzhou City, Song Jiang personally led 3000 troops to directly attack the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge.

The soldiers of the Song Army guarding the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge saw thousands of people roaring towards them, so they had no time to burn the bridge and could only run away.

It can be said that the Dagan Dynasty seized the crucial Junzhou Yellow River Bridge without any effort.

And He Guan's troops, who were in charge of guarding the south bank of the Yellow River, saw Liang Fangping leading the remnants fleeing in the direction of Bianliang City in Tokyo.

In this way, from Heyang in the west to Daming Mansion in Beijing in the east, on the hundreds of miles long Yellow River moat, the Zhao and Song Dynasties no longer had a single guard. Self broken.

At the suggestion of Guo Yaoshi, Yang Zhi led his horse army to pursue the Song army while advancing towards Bianliang City in Tokyo.

It is less than three hundred miles from the bank of the Yellow River to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

For the pure horse army, this is at most a journey of two days and nights.

Soon, Li Cun also learned that Guo Yaoshi, Song Jiang, and Yang Zhi captured the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge.

Li Cun made a decisive decision, separated his cavalry and marched, and then personally led an army of [-] horses to encircle Bianliang City in Tokyo...

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