In February of the third year of Jianwu in the Song Dynasty (AD 1232), Daxing Mansion, Yanjing Road.
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi fought against the Liao Kingdom at the Gaoliang River. The Song army was defeated and the Sixteen States of Yanyun finally came to nothing. The Liao Dynasty established Yanjing as its companion capital. The Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Dynasty and established its capital in Yanjing, which was called the Central Capital. Then the Mongols rose up and captured Yanjing in the eighth year of Jiading (1215), thus establishing the Daxing Prefecture on Yanjing Road.
This winter was particularly cold, with several heavy snowfalls in February, so that by the end of February, the cold had not yet passed. Moreover, the flying sand and dust brought by the cold current in the north made the city of Yanjing smoky and the people complained endlessly.
In the evening, the cold wind is howling, snowflakes are flying, and everything on the houses, branches, streets and alleys is pure white. There are few people on the street, and frozen corpses can be seen from time to time in the streets and alleys, with no one paying attention.
It's dark, deserted, and bone-chilling outside. Inside the "Huixian Tower" located east of Xuanhua Gate, at this moment, the lanterns are on, the clothes are fragrant, the shadows are on the temples, the laughter is loud, and it's as warm as spring.
"Why hasn't Li Xingshou come out yet? Do you still want to open the "Huixian Tower"?"
In the lobby on the second floor, a drunken man with a red face slapped the table, looking very arrogant.
"Call Li Chaoyun out quickly, or we will smash your restaurant!"
"Li Xingshou, come out quickly!"
The few elders next to the dandy were also drunk and shouting loudly.
"Mr. Zhang Daguan, Mr. Shi Daguan, it is inconvenient for Li to travel. She has distinguished guests, so we should choose another beautiful lady."
The madam bowed her head and said with a smile.
These are all powerful children of Daxing Mansion, and she really can't afford to offend them.
"What kind of distinguished guest is this birdman? Let him come out!"
Zhang Daguan drank a little too much and waved his hand very domineeringly.
"That's right, let him get out of here!"
"Get out! Or we'll kill him!"
The other dandies, blushing and thick-necked, seemed to be making the building collapse.
"Dear officials, Li Xing is accompanying Mr. Chongshan of Yanshan Mansion. You'd better change it to another young lady."
The madam smiled brightly, and the few dandies were stunned for a moment, then quietly left.
Nian Zhongshan was the Zuo Prime Minister of the Zhongshu Province, and Yelu Chucai was the Zhongshu Ling. One was in charge of the government affairs of the Han region, and was a Marquis of Ten Thousand Households, with a large number of troops; the other was in charge of taxation, and they were both trusted confidants of the Mongol Khan Wokuotai. , who dares to make a mistake?
The dandies, accompanied by other women, continued to have fun, and the excitement was restored upstairs.
"Ms. sir, are you leaving now?"
In the room, after the lingering and joyful moments, they regained their strength a little and were about to leave.
Li Chaoyun helped him arrange his clothes, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked softly.
"The army is heading north, and I have to go to Taiyuan City to arrange the response. It's really too busy!"
Nianhe Zhongshan replied, thinking of state affairs, his brows furrowed slightly.
"Isn't the army attacking the Jin Kingdom in the south? Why do you want to go to Taiyuan to support it? You men are just making fun of the situation and don't tell the truth."
Li Chaoyun said helplessly, and she pouted, looking pitiful.
"How could I lie to you? The Great Khan Ogedai almost destroyed the Jin Kingdom, but the army from the West Route went south and encountered in the Song Dynasty..."
The words that stuck together came to an abrupt end. He realized that he should not say too much about military and national affairs.
Adhesion Chongshan looked solemn, and Li Chaoyun immediately smiled and comforted Adhesion Chongshan.
"Mr. Chongshan, you big men have important things to do. The slave family is here to wish the army good news."
"A great victory?"
Adhesive Zhongshan shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Everyone Li, I'm leaving first. At this time, you have to be careful!"
Li Chaoyun personally walked Nian Zhongshan to the door and then closed the door.
Turning his head and returning to the table, Li Chaoyun's face immediately became sad.
In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people.
During the Meng-Jin War, Yanjing was captured. Many Jin princes and nobles who had no time to escape were ruined and their families were destroyed overnight. Many aristocratic women were forced to become prostitutes and earn a living by selling their sex.
This is the case with Li Chaoyun, the Li Xingshou mentioned by the dandy.
Li Chaoyun's father was originally a Jin noble from Yanjing, and his mother was the Jurchen Wanyan family. In the third year of Zhenyou of the Jin Dynasty (AD 1215), the Mongolian army attacked Yanjing City, the capital of Jinzhong. No one in the Li Mansion, including Li Chaoyun's parents, survived. The young Li Chaoyun was lucky enough to escape, but he had no choice but to hide his name, wash away all his glory, and fall into the Fireworks Willow Alley, where he lived to survive.
From the luxurious life of fine clothes and fine food to the humble life of a brothel, Li Chaoyun has tasted the pain and impermanence of life in heaven and on earth. Today's life is just helpless.
"The Tatar army went south, and they advanced in three directions! Can the Song army withstand the strong attack of the Tatar cavalry?"
For the first time, what Li Chaoyun thought of was not her home country, Da Jin, but her employer, Da Song. The mother country, like Mongolia, brought her disappointment, endless humiliation and pain, while the Song Dynasty gave her the hope and confidence to destroy Mongolia.
And this is what she needs most.
During this period of time, she also learned about this kind of news from various people, but today she learned more from Nianhe Zhongshan.
According to information received from various sources, the Mongolian army borrowed its way to the Song Dynasty from Fengxiang Mansion. However, will the tough Song Jun agree? Will the fierce Emperor Song bear the humiliation?
I'm afraid not!
"Nianhe Chongshan, Yelu Chucai, you scum of the Jin people. My Great Jin Kingdom, why do you make people so sad!"
Thinking of his mother country, Li Chaoyun murmured to himself and shed tears.
In fact, Nianhe Chongshan and Yelu Chucai were both surrendered ministers of the Jin Dynasty, but they did not do anything to abuse the people of the Jin Dynasty. However, seeing how submissive and obedient they were like dogs in front of the Mongolian kings and nobles, Li Chaoyun became extremely angry.
If you don't behave well as a human being, but you are willing to behave like a dog, isn't this self-degradation and shamelessness?
During the Genghis Khan era, the Mongolian army marched westward to the Western Regions and had no time to govern the Central Plains. The officials in the north accumulated too much private wealth and a huge amount of goods, but the government had no reserves. There was no food or cloth in the Canglin treasury, and no one from the Mongolian Khan's court or government collected it. Endowment. Until Wokuotai ascended the throne as the Mongolian Khan, no effective ruling order was established in the Central Plains.
Wokuotai adopted Yelu Chucai's suggestion and set up ten tax collection envoys along the two rivers. Each road appointed chief and deputy tax envoys, all of whom were Confucian scholars from Jindi. The selection of the Ten Road Tax Envoys was the first time after Mongolia conquered the two rivers that officials were selected from outside the Mongolian nobles and local tycoons. All principal and deputy officials were Confucian scholars, achieving the goal of being the best choice in the world.
According to the information she received, after the Lianghe tax, Yelu Chucai and Nianhe Chongshan prepared 500,000 guan of money, 80,000 pieces of cloth, and more than 400,000 shi of grain for Wokuotai to attack the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty. Use troops.
Once the Mongolian Great Khan Wokuotai and the Mongolian nobles taste the sweetness of obtaining the huge wealth of the Central Plains without fighting, they will continue their strategy, the foundation of their rule will be more solid, and there will be a steady stream of money and food to help them defeat the southern invasion. war.
The Kingdom of Jin is her mother country, and she laments her misfortune and is angry at her incompetence. The Song Dynasty was her employer. Compared with the declining and sluggish Jin Kingdom, the Song Dynasty was prospering. The Song Dynasty, which defeated the Mongolian army in the northwest in the year of Ding Hai, might be able to avenge the unspeakable hatred deep in her heart.
She had passed by her mansion more than once, and it had already been occupied by doves and became the private residence of Mongolian nobles.
From being the daughter of a noble to becoming the head of the royal family in Yanjing, her once good family education, the indispensable beauty, and the mysterious veil of the down-and-out Jurchen royal family made her become the head of the court in Yanjing City, so that The high-ranking Mongolian officials in the city flocked to her and spent a lot of money on her.
Mongol officials like Nianhe Chongshan and Yelu Chucai were mostly her guests and guests. By selling her body, she could often get the information she needed from these people, especially the military and political secrets of Mongolia in the Land of Two Rivers.
As for the secret military intelligence report of the Mongolian army going south to invade the Song Dynasty and conquer the Jin Dynasty, including the Mongolian army on the west route passing through the Song Dynasty, she had already spread it out. The Song army should have been prepared.
The Mongolian army suddenly moved north at this time. Could it be that they defeated the Song army and destroyed the Jin Kingdom?
This news must be spread quickly. As for how to deliver it, she is not worried, and there is no need to worry. She is not struggling alone.
"Master Li, there is a high-ranking official who wants to see you. He is willing to pay thousands of gold for you, just for a moment of spring breeze."
Li Chaoyun was deep in thought when the Madam's gentle voice sounded outside the door.
"Mom, I'm very tired and don't want to see guests. Please help me push."
Li Chaoyun frowned and politely declined the madam's request.
She was already so distracted that she didn't have the heart to meet her benefactor.
"Everyone Li, the senior officials have sent gifts and greeting cards. You should take a look at them first and then decide whether you want to see him or not."
The madam's voice was almost pleading.
In front of Jin Yin, her integrity had already been shattered to pieces.
"Mom, bring it in first."
Li Chaoyun had no choice but to open the door.
Who knows if this high-ranking official respects great gods, maybe she really can't afford to offend him.
After the gifts were delivered, Li Chaoyun opened the greeting card and was slightly startled when he saw the poem on it.
"The woods in front of the palace of Yutai in Song Dynasty,
Ten years of being a solitary guest?
A melancholy guest in the world..."
Li Chaoyun sat on the chair and savored it carefully. Suddenly he was startled and stood up.
"Mom, please come up, your honor."
A Confucian scholar in his late twenties came in. He was an ordinary person, the kind that no one would pay attention to in the crowd. He smiled kindly, bowed his hands respectfully to Li Chaoyun.
"There is no way out of mountains and rivers, and we meet each other everywhere in life. When I was in the Eastern Song Dynasty in Xiashan, I met the Li family."
"I've met Song Daguan!"
Li Chaoyun returned the greeting, waited for the servant and the madam to go out, and closed the door.
"If life is just like the first time we met, what's the matter with the sad autumn wind painting the fan? The slave family has met the officials of the Song Dynasty."
Li Chaoyun whispered softly, and there was something in his words, testing the other party.
"The autumn wind blows over the river, and the wild fields enter the dome. Today, I can see the Li family, which is a great comfort for the rest of my life."
Song Shiren looked around the room before sitting down at the table with Li Chaoyun. Li Chaoyun said excitedly:
"Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day and night. The Song Dynasty..."
"Shh..."
Song Shiren softly stopped Li Chaoyun's words. He walked to the door and listened carefully. Then he came back, sat down, and whispered.
"Everyone Li, let me tell you some good news. The official army of the Song Dynasty defeated the Tatar army in Hanzhong. The 70,000 Tatar army was wiped out. Even the clan kings such as Tuo Lei and Kuo Duan were beheaded. The official army of the Song Dynasty has advanced into Shaanxi."
He had also just received the news of the great victory in Hanzhong. The 70,000 Mongolian army was wiped out, and the generals Subotai and Kuoduan were killed in battle. He was also excited about such a happy event and could not calm down.
"Song official, are you saying that the Tatar army was defeated in Hanzhong and both Tuo Lei and Kuo Duan died?"
Li Chaoyun's heart jumped suddenly.
She also did not expect that the Mongolian army would suffer such a defeat.
"That's right! Mr. Li, Wang Division defeated the Tatar army in Hanzhong, and our northwest frontier army entered Shaanxi. There is news from the army that Wang Division may choose to go north to restore the two rivers."
Song Shiren was also secretly frightened. The war in Hanzhong and Shaanxi was immediately reported to Yanjing by the Intelligence Department. The Intelligence Department is so efficient that it is indeed intimidating.
"Song Dynasty official, Wang Shi's Northern Expedition to restore the two rivers, are you telling the truth?"
Li Chaoyun's tone was urgent and impatient.
"How can the news from the Intelligence Department be false?"
Song Shiren looked solemn and asked seriously.
"Everyone Li, Wang Shi's Northern Expedition, we have to prepare for a rainy day. Do you have any important news on your side?"
"Mr. Song, please sit down and let me explain in detail."
When the codes were matched, Li Chaoyun was secretly surprised by how alert the other party was.
The Song Emperor's subordinates were all these brave warriors. Maybe it won't be long before the Song army will move north, and then the Mongolian army will have its own good harvest.
"In this way, if Lianhe Zhongshan goes to Taiyuan now, he should be able to meet with the troops to retreat northward to Wokuotai. Now is the time for the Northern Expedition!"
Song Shiren's eyes shone and he became excited unconsciously.
The Mongolian army was withdrawing northward, and the Central Plains was empty. It was a good time for the Northern Expedition.
"As a high official of the Song Dynasty, Shaanxi is in ruins, and there is still the Jin Dynasty in Henan. Master Wang may not go north immediately."
Li Chaoyun said thoughtfully.
Yuan Jia was in a hurry and looked north in a hurry. Although she wanted the Song Army to make an early Northern Expedition, she did not want the Song Army to start in a hurry and end in failure.
"No matter what, we must do our part to avoid being in a hurry when the time comes."
He had prepared early and planned for a rainy day. He had been dormant for six years, and he couldn't wait any longer.
"Master Li, the Tatar army defeated the Jin army at Sanfeng Mountain in Henan. The Jin army's more than 100,000 troops were wiped out. Wanyan Heda, Wanyan Chen and other famous generals died in the battle. The Tatar army was defeated in Hanzhong. Only then did Wo Kuotai Withdraw troops.”
Song Shiren speculated on Li Chaoyun's thoughts and said carefully.
"It should have been destroyed long ago! Let's die early and be reborn!"
Li Chaoyun said bitterly, feeling discouraged and hating that iron could not become steel.
"Just keep an eye on it. When Master Wang restores the two rivers, everything will be over."
Song Shiren comforted Li Chaoyun.
"I hope that day comes soon."
Li Chaoyun nodded, his eyes confused.
Could it be that all this, all this humiliation, all this hard work and hardship, might be coming to an end?
