Dengzhou. Qinbei Pavilion
The sound of artillery fire in the thick fog woke up everyone in Dengzhou Prefecture.
"What's going on? Where's the sound coming from?"
Wang Shizhong, the magistrate of Dengzhou, hurriedly ran out of the back hall without even putting on his official uniform.
"Master Magistrate, it's from the Swordfish Village!"
A servant pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and said.
"Swordfish Village! What's going on?"
Wang Shizhong looked in the direction of Daoyu Village and was puzzled. There were two thousand sailors stationed there. It was foggy these days and it was impossible for the navy to go to sea. Why was there such a big movement at night?
"Gather your troops quickly!"
Wang Shizhong roared. Although Dawu couldn't see clearly what was going on, he knew from the sound that something big was going on.
The drums of the civil war in Dengzhou Prefecture sounded, and groups of soldiers came out of the military camps. Even if it was very foggy in the city, they could still see the direction according to the houses and roads.
"Prefect Wang, what happened to Daoyu Village?"
Dressed in official robes and wearing a sword, Zongze, the general magistrate of Dengzhou, rushed to the magistrate's Yamen on horseback with several guards. There was a loud noise from Daoyu Village for a long time.
"Zong Tongpan, I don't know what happened. Over there at Daoyu Village..."
Wang Shizhong pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and was about to speak, but his expression suddenly changed.
"Fire! It's on fire!"
Wang Shizhong said with a trembling voice. Although it was obscured by thick fog, the red firelight had dyed the white fog in the darkness red.
"How could that be? That's the Swordfish Village!"
Zongze couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Mr. Magistrate, Mr. Tongjian, the troops and horses have been assembled!"
Pan Shanyu, a regimental trainer from Dengzhou, came with his troops on a red-maned horse and a purple-gold tree with a dragon pattern in his hand.
"General Pan, quickly take people to Daoyu Village to find out the situation!"
When Wang Shizhong saw Pan Shanyu coming, he immediately pointed in the direction of Daoyu Village and ordered.
"Let's go to Daoyu Village!"
Pan Shanyu waved his hand with the dragon-patterned purple golden tree and left with his troops and horses.
"Mr. Magistrate, the situation is unclear now. There is thick fog outside and it is still night. It may be dangerous for the army to go out."
Sun Li, who was in charge of the troops in Dengzhou, quickly thought about the way of holding fists in Wang Shizhong.
"What's the danger? There are just some thieves near Dengzhou. The biggest ones are those in Dengyun Mountain, and they are only eighty or ninety people."
Wang Shizhong waved his hand and said, no one near Dengzhou can threaten the army. Pan Shanyu even brought a thousand soldiers and horses this time. What's the danger?
Seeing that Wang Shizhong had already said this, Sun Li did not dare to say any more, so he clasped his fists and backed away.
"Sun Tiha, the situation is unknown now. You lead people to patrol the city. There will be no chaos in the Prefecture!"
Zongze looked at Sun Li and said.
"Yes, Mr. Tongsuan!"
Sun Li cupped his fists and led the people away.
"Zong Tongpan, come into the mansion. The results will come after dawn. Let's have a cup of tea first."
Wang Shizhong invited Zong Zedao.
"Wang Zhizhou, what's the matter?"
Zongze understood the meaning of Wang Shizhong's words. He had just been transferred from the county magistrate of Laizhou's Ye County to Dengzhou Tongpan not long ago. He was not close to Wang Shizhong, so inviting him to tea at this time must have something to do.
Wang Shizhong smiled, but said nothing. He just pointed to the north with his finger.
Zongze nodded silently, understood what Wang Shizhong meant, and followed Wang Shizhong into the house.
The servant quickly came up with fragrant tea.
"Zong Tongpan, you must have been an official on Jingdong East Road for many years."
Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze and asked.
"By the grace of the Holy Spirit, Laizhou Glue and Laizhou Ye County were each appointed magistrates."
Zongze answered directly.
"Laizhou and Dengzhou are adjacent to each other and are both state capitals near the sea. Zong Tongpan should know something about the situation on the other side of the sea."
Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze and continued to ask.
"Wang Zhizhou says what he has to say."
Zongze said directly that the situation outside the city was unknown now and he had no time to play riddles with Wang Shizhong.
"Does Zong Tongpan know about things in the north?"
Wang Shizhong pointed to the north and said.
"Are you a Khitan from the Liao Kingdom?"
Zongze asked with a frown.
"No, not the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom, but the Jurchens!"
Wang Shizhong said mysteriously.
"Jurchens? I have also heard that in the early years when the Bohai Kingdom was not destroyed by the Liao Kingdom, there were also Jurchens who crossed the sea by boat from Suzhou (now Jinzhou, Dalian, Liaoning) to exchange for some cloth, tea and ironware. But since the destruction of the Bohai Kingdom, the Jurchens have Never showed up again.”
Zongze opened his mouth and said that he had served as magistrate for two terms in Laizhou. He had been in office for 8 years and he knew a lot of things.
"Yes, but now the Liao Kingdom is weak and the Jurchens are rising. Years ago, the Jurchens defeated the Liao Kingdom in several battles. Now they have established a country in Huining Mansion, and the country is named Jin! The Liao Kingdom has retreated to Zhongjing Road and Shangjing Road, and most of the Tokyo Road has fallen into the hands of the Jurchens.”
Wang Shizhong said.
"Does this mean that most of the state capitals in Tokyo, Liao Kingdom, are controlled by the Jurchens?"
Zongze's face changed drastically. This was explosive news. The invincible Khitans were actually defeated and lost the Tokyo Road.
The Liao Kingdom divided its territory into five Jingdao Roads, the Tokyo Road was the entire eastern Liaoning; the Shangjing Road was the entire Mongolian grassland; the Xijing Road was east of the Hetao, west of Yanshan, north of Taihang, and south of Mongolia; the Zhongjing Road was the north and south of Yanshan; and the Nanjing Road was Yanshan. Cloud sixteen states.
"Yes, this news is absolutely accurate. Before the fog, a group of exiles from Suzhou, Liaodong arrived near Dengzhou. They are now being held in a dungeon. Is Zong Tongpan interested in interrogating them together?"
Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze and asked. Although he had a higher official position than Zongze, his official experience was not as good as Zongze's. The exiles from the Liao Kingdom were of great importance, so he must be more cautious.
"Listen to Wang Zhizhou!"
Zongze said seriously that the news of the exiles from the Liao Kingdom was of great importance. The existence of exiles proved that there was a big problem in the Liao Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty, which bordered the Liao Kingdom, must also be more vigilant.
The two soon came to the dungeon. In a relatively clean cell, three people were lying on a bed of hay. One of them was actually a monk. They were Gao Yaoshi, Cao Xiaocai and monk Lang Rong who were exiled in Suzhou, Liaodong.
"Wang Zhizhou, we did not intend to intrude into the territory of the Song Dynasty. Please Wang Zhizhou let us go!"
When the three of them saw Wang Shizhong coming, they immediately stood up and kowtowed. The three of them took more than 200 family members and relatives on two large ships. They originally wanted to go to Korea, but because they didn't understand hydrology, they were carried by the current to the vicinity of Dengzhou. He happened to be caught by the Dengzhou navy.
"Let me ask you three, what is the current situation in Liaodong?"
Zongze looked at the three people and asked.
"Reporting to your lord, Liaodong is now dominated by the Jurchens. Since the Jurchens raised their troops last year, more than a year ago, they have captured Huining Mansion and Huanglong Mansion. A few months ago, they defeated the Liao Emperor's 700,000-strong army. Now we are going south to capture Binzhou and Xianzhou, and we are even starting to attack Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo!"
"The Jurchens are truly uncivilized barbarians. They burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil. We were worried that the Liaoyang Prefecture could not stop the Jurchens, so we took a boat to go to Goryeo, but we did not want to break into the Song Dynasty!"
Gao Yaoshi quickly replied that the Jurchens were originally a tribe in the white mountains and black waters. The cruel environment made their behavior extremely cruel, with no etiquette and morality at all. After the Tokyo Prefecture was conquered, everyone from officials and nobles to common people... They were really worried about being trapped in hell on earth, so they thought of finding a way out by going into exile overseas.
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