It was the eighth day of March in the seventh year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty.
Damingfu City.
In the Yuancheng County Yamen outside Xi'an Gate, several Daijin officials wearing wide-collar leather robes, bald heads and no hats were sitting dejectedly in the lobby of the Yamen. Everyone's faces are pale, you look at me, I look at you.
Yuan Chun, the magistrate of Yuancheng County, sat behind the desk and looked at a military order left for him by Han Chang, a member of the Han'er Army in Weibo Town and an official of the Daming Prefecture, without raising his head.
In this military order, Han Chang informed Yuan Chun that the army of the Luoyang court of the Song Dynasty had entered the Daming Mansion area, so he followed the order of Wei Wang Wanyanqi, the Jiedushi of Weibo Town, to avoid the enemy's attack first. However, the city of Daming Prefecture cannot be left undefended, so I would like to ask him, the acting magistrate of Yuancheng County, the capital of Daming Prefecture, to lead the gentry and people of Hecheng to resist the violent Song Dynasty, and wait for the counterattack of the King of Jin Dynasty...
This is really a big joke!
Han Chang, the magistrate of ten thousand households in the Kingdom of Jin, escaped overnight, and also took away all the Han soldiers of the Jin Dynasty in Damingfu City... but lost a bunch of Sesame Mung Bean officials, including Yuan Chun. Be a scapegoat in the city. Do people do this kind of thing? If this guy named Han wants to run, you can take everyone with you. It doesn’t take much trouble!
Everyone's family members are not in Daming Mansion, but in Qingchi County, Cangzhou, where the Jiedu Envoy Division is based.
Although everyone has set up an outhouse in Daming Mansion and made some fortune...but in order to escape for one's life, what can't be given up?
What to do now?
The rural soldiers guarding the city just now came to report that a large number of soldiers wearing red scarves and turbans appeared outside Damingfu City. They looked very powerful!
These red scarf soldiers should be the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court, right?
Is it time to abandon the darkness and embrace the light?
Seeing that Yuan Chun had no idea, several officials from the magistrate's yamen and the county magistrate's yamen started talking about it.
"...We were not the cause of the troubles caused by the Xuanhe War, and we came out to be gold thieves. No, we were gold thieves. Officials were forced to do nothing. We should not do it. There are many people who want to be... ...And we haven’t done anything to offend our conscience!”
"Isn't that right? I'm a good scholar and have already passed the exam twice. If it hadn't been for the golden thief calling me, I might have won the Jinshi..."
"Me too! If it weren't for the difficulty of declaring peace, I would probably be a Jinshi by now!"
"Old man is the worst offender. He is already a famous figure and has become an official. If there was no difficulty in declaring peace, he would have become an official!"
Hearing the discussion, Yuan Chun also felt upset. It seemed like he was at a loss. He was originally a member of the Pingding Army, but he was possessed by some evil spirit and moved to Xinzhou. As a result, after a few years of stability, the gold thief suddenly came calling. He was a scholar and had a family with a mother and a young child. How could he escape? As a result, he was robbed by gold thieves. He was originally going to be a slave, but he met a noble man named Wanyan Xiyin. He actually knew that most of the Yuan surnames in the Hedong area came from the Tuoba family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who was the "predecessor" of the golden thief!
So Yuan Chun was given a chance to become an official... Yuan Chun was not an official in the Song Dynasty. He was just a Confucian scholar. What reason was there for him to prefer to be a slave rather than serve as an official for the Jin people in order to be loyal to the Song Dynasty?
Moreover, there is an old mother at the top and a young child at the bottom!
So he followed the Jin people and became an official. He first served as an official in Wanyan Zonghan's army, and then was sent by Xi Yin to serve as an official in Zhongshan Mansion. Later, Wanyan Zongwang was in charge of Hebei's military affairs, and he also took a fancy to his talent, so he transferred to Zongwang's sect, where he remains today.
He originally thought that he was a figure in Zongwang's sect, but he didn't expect that he would not want it now... But the golden thief could not want him, but he could not want himself!
Thinking of this, he could only sigh: "Although we have all received great favor from the official family of Dajin and are ministers of Dajin. But we are also the parents of the people of Daming Mansion, and we always have to make decisions for the people. Self-declaration Since the war, Daming Mansion has been in chaos. The household registration has been reduced by 70%. I don’t know how many people have died... If the chaos continues, it will be really bad!
So now we have to lead the gentry and common people of Daming Mansion to welcome Master Wang, and then ask the Luoyang court for a way for the common people to survive! No matter what, we must first exempt the people from paying taxes for three years so that the people can regain their strength.
In addition, Daming Prefecture had been occupied for seven or eight years, and none of the scholars in Daming Prefecture had participated in a single examination, and had not even passed the examination. If the imperial court can restore Confucianism in Daming Palace as soon as possible and give some preferential treatment to the scholars of Daming Palace during the next competition, the people of Daming Palace will be able to calm down. "
"Your Excellency, is it not appropriate for us to mention this now?" Some officials immediately raised objections, "We are officials of the Jin people..."
Yuan Chun glanced at the man and said quietly: "That's even more important... We are already officials of the Jin people. If we can't win over the gentry and people of Daming Mansion, I'm afraid we won't even have a chance to abandon the dark side and join the bright side. ah!"
As soon as he said these words, the people below were speechless... Now you want to abandon the darkness and turn to the light? Will the imperial court accept it?
Yuan Chun glanced at everyone, "Don't be stunned, go and contact the famous people in the city... Let's welcome Master Wang together! Find more people, so that we can show that we are capable!"
Most of the officials in the county government hall were local scholar-bureaucrats in Daming Prefecture, and they still had some mobility. In a short time, hundreds of scholar-bureaucrats were pulled out, and some of them even wore official uniforms from the Song Dynasty. It seemed that they were still big officials. Song Yilao!
When these local officials of Daming Prefecture went to summon the scholar-bureaucrats in the city to meet the king's master, Yuan Chun was not idle. He sent three squads of government officials out to go door to door in the bustling areas of Daming Prefecture to open up deals. Ask them to send someone to follow someone else's shop in Damingfu's name, and bring some food and drink along the way.
This is called Tao Shi Hu Jian, to welcome the King's Master!
...
This Master Wang... there's something wrong about it!
After leaving the city gate and seeing Master Wang at close range on the official road outside the city, all the gentry and officials in Daming Mansion felt that they had "met the wrong person"... No matter how they looked at Master Wang, something was wrong!
The dressing up is wrong!
In the past, Master Wang always wore a fan yangli when not wearing a helmet. Why did he change it to a red scarf now? Is it too economical?
However, although they saved Fan Yangli, they spent a lot of money on that armor!
Not only does everyone have armor, but all of them are iron armor (cold-forged armor only accounts for a small part, but hot-forged armor is available to everyone), and it sparkles under the sun!
And their weapons are not like the King's Division. The King's Division is equipped with a large number of divine arm bows, followed by ordinary bows and arrows. The number of hand-to-hand combat soldiers is very small, and of course there are even fewer horse-mounted cavalry.
However, the more than 10,000 royal troops appearing outside Damingfu City are not equipped with divine arm bows, and most of the infantry are equipped with spears... At the same time, they also seem to be equipped with bows and arrows!
What does it mean? One king master is going to do the work of two people? How many people does he take money from?
In addition, this king's division has too many cavalry! And they are all equipped with one person and two horses... When did the horses in the Song Dynasty become so numerous?
What made these people feel that something was wrong the most was a few domineering military attachés from the King's Division. Riding a horse and leading a group of foot soldiers who looked very ferocious, he galloped up to these scholar-bureaucrats. He neither dismounted nor saluted, but raised his whip and pointed at a few people wearing Song Dynasty civil service uniforms and asked: " Who are you? Why are you wearing the old-fashioned civilian uniforms of the Song Dynasty? Isn't Daming Mansion the territory of the gold thieves? Where are you from? "
Listen, is this what a military attache should say to a civilian official?
One of them, an old civil servant who had never held a fake position (he was born in Te Zuo Ming), was also adamant and retorted at that time, "I am a professor of Fu Xue in a famous mansion in the Song Dynasty... What kind of official are you?"
"Oh, it turns out he's an academic officer." The military attache didn't take it seriously at all and said with a smile, "I am the preparation general (deputy battalion commander) of the 2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry General of the Ninth Army! I want to ask you, where have all the gold thieves in the city gone? When did they leave Damingfu City?"
All the famous gentry and officials present were shocked!
A small preparation would be so rude to a Fu Xue professor... Daming Fu Xue is not an ordinary Fu Xue!
Daming Mansion can bear the name of Beijing of the Great Song Dynasty!
However, this prepared general didn't think there was anything wrong. He had the rank of sergeant and was an eighth-grade military attache. And he is about to accumulate enough merit to be promoted to a doctor, and his official position will also be promoted by then.
And how can the status of a junior official be compared to that of a small local academic official? In the Luoyang imperial court, all the professors of government studies were "technical officers", who were recruited by the local government. And if a doctor wants to be transferred to a local official, he should at least be a county magistrate, no bigger than you, a professor?
And the old man's professor has expired... The current Northern Song Dynasty court has reopened, but only selectively recognizes officials from the "previous dynasty", officials at the level of government officials and academic officials. The Luoyang court is basically Don't recognize it.
So this is just a common man!
Yuan Chun, who felt something was wrong with the scene, had no choice but to step forward and talk: "I am the magistrate of Yuancheng County, Daming Prefecture, and my name is Yuan Chun. Now I am leading the officials of Daming Prefecture and Yuancheng County, as well as the gentry and the people to welcome Master Wang into the city. !”
"Oh," the preparer nodded, "then you must know where the golden thief went, right?"
Yuan Chun shook his head, "I don't know..."
"So when did the gold thieves from Daming Mansion leave? How many people were there before they left? How much food and grass reserves are there in Daming Mansion City? How much goods are there in the treasury?"
"The gold thieves in Damingfu City left last night...I don't know exactly when. Before they left, they had a total of about 3,000 people, and the commander was Wanhu Han Chang. Daming There is not much food, grass, and goods in the treasury. The current Daming Mansion is no longer the town of the gold thief Wei Bojun, so all the goods, money, and food that were originally stored in Daming Mansion have been transported away."
"That's it..." The prepared general nodded, seeming to understand something, "Yuanzhi County, the last general has been ordered by the general to take you and all the pretenders to meet the king of the Ninth Army. Control! Please come with me!"
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