"Eighteenth brother, Ye Gong, Ping Xiabo (Liu Zhengyan), Luchengzi (Miao Fu), I am not willing to accept thieves as my father, but I was detained by the gold man, and the eldest brother refused to spend money to redeem me, so I had to beg for food. Jinying, in order to survive, had to recognize Wanyan Wu as his adoptive father.
I think there were so many brothers who were captured back then. Big brother, everyone was redeemed, but they didn’t redeem me... Wuwuwu..."
In the Imperial City of Pizhou, in the Chongzheng Hall, Zhao Gou and probably Wanyan Zonggou were confessing their crimes.
He was now tied up and thrown on the cold floor tiles, without even a cushion under his butt. But no matter how cold his butt is, his heart won’t be cold! Look at these people in front of you... Yue Fei, Liu Zhengyan, Miao Fu, each one is more terrifying than the last!
But the scariest thing is the eighteenth-year-old Zhao Zhen, who is also looking at him with a murderous expression - are these still brothers? Wanyan Zonggou really couldn't remember where he had offended Zhao Zhen? Is it because he considers a thief his father?
But Wanyan Zonggou felt that he really didn’t blame him for recognizing a thief as his father!
Back then, so many princes, eldest sons, and officials were captured by gold thieves. Big brother Zhao Huan redeemed them all, but Wanyan Zonggou was left out... Couldn't you just spend a little more money to redeem them? You don’t even need to spend more, it was “packaged and wholesaled” back then, so having one more is just an extra expense.
But he happened to be forgotten!
"Then you don't have to recognize your father?" Zhao Zhen said angrily, "Even if Wanyan Wu begged to buy because he had too few sons, so he took your son by force, you shouldn't marry his daughter Wanyan Yan, this always happens You volunteered, right?"
As he spoke, Zhao Zhen also pointed to a stack of "dirty materials" placed on the table in front of him - exposé materials written by two "undercover agents" Kang Lu and Lan Gui, which focused on describing how Wanyan Zonggou and Wan Yanyan got it together.
Zhao Zhen looked stern and said, "Boss Kang and Lan have already written about your affair with Wanyan Yan... the plot is really unspeakable! You are such a good man, why? How can you be so shameless? Where is your integrity as a prince of the Song Dynasty?"
After hearing this, Wanyan Zonggou didn't know what to explain to the Song Dynasty prince who had been living in "heaven".
If Wanyan Zonggou had not been reduced from a "man in heaven" to a prisoner with nothing, he would not have looked down upon Wanyan Yan, a female gold thief... Although Wanyan Yan is indeed good-looking, her facial features are a bit thick, but her skin is snow-white , the figure is extremely graceful!
But when Wanyan Zonggou was the king, he was surrounded by a large group of beauties and Yanyans. Wanyanyan among her could only be said to have a different taste, but he would never be able to outshine the others.
But Wanyan Yan has a fatal attraction for the Wanyan clan who is in extreme poverty!
And what moved Wanyan Zonggou the most was that Wanyanyan didn't think he was poor and helpless at all, and was willing to support him. After sleeping with him, she also carried out things for him and looked for a future. Without Wanyan Yan, Wanyan Zonggou would not have been a king of the Song Dynasty or a military governor at all, let alone a later official.
If the Battle of Yangshan hadn't damaged his life, Wanyan Zonggou believed that he and Wanyan Yan would live happily together now... For this, Wanyan Zonggou was confident enough!
Thinking of the happy life in the past, Wanyan Zonggou couldn't help but burst into tears!
As soon as he cried, Zhao Zhen's anger subsided a little, and she snorted coldly: "Do you know you were wrong now? It's too late..."
It is indeed too late...Wanyan Zonggou regrets it! If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have worked so hard. Wouldn't it be enough to just stick to Wanyanyan and eat soft food every day? She doesn't necessarily want to be a queen or empress.
Zhao Zhen sighed again and gestured to a soldier behind him. The latter immediately brought a plate and placed it on the table respectfully.
The plate was covered with a yellow cloth. Zhao Zhen reached out and pulled off the yellow cloth, and saw what was on the plate - a scroll, two bow strings, and a ball of white cloth.
"Brother Ninth," Zhao Zhen said in a serious tone, "This is the last time I will call you Brother Ninth!"
What?
the last time?
Wanyan Zonggou had already heard that something was wrong and stopped crying. He raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhen with a horrified expression. Of course, he also noticed the scrolls, bowstrings and white cloth placed on the plate.
"This scroll is the imperial edict of Third Brother...the edict granting you death!"
What? Give death?
Wanyan Zonggou opened his mouth wide, too frightened to speak.
"There are two bow strings here," Zhao Zhen said, "one is made of beef tendon, and the other is made of silk... The third brother ordered you to strangle you with the bow string! I will prepare these two bow strings for you, If you feel that these two strings are uncomfortable to use, there is also a three-foot white silk, which I prepared for you without permission."
What a good brother!
Zhao Zhen thought to herself: The third child said that I would strangle you to death with a bowstring. I thought of my brotherhood and was afraid that you would die uncomfortable, so I also prepared a white silk... What a big deal this has to bear! Where can you find such a good brother?
Wanyan Zonggou didn't think Zhao Zhen was a good brother, so he immediately screamed, "Brother Shiba, you can't kill me, I am your brother... I want to see the third brother, I If you want to talk to Third Brother, please take me to Beijing!"
Zhao Zhen frowned and said to herself: Why don't you appreciate it?
"Wanyan Zonggou!" His tone was already serious, "Since you have recognized the thief as your father, why are you talking about brothers? If you want to discuss brothers, you should discuss it with the sons that Wanyan Wu begged to buy! The Gu family is the prince of the Song Dynasty. I'm not a brother to you!
If you have anything to say to the official family, the Gu family can tell it to you! "
Wanyan Zonggou could already hear the decisive meaning in Zhao Zhen's words!
"Brother Eighteen, Brother Eighteen, listen to me..." Wanyan Zonggou said with a trembling voice, "Although I was captured by you, Wanyanyan still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers and two to three hundred A warship! I can write a letter to recruit Wanyanyan to surrender for third brother... Third brother can take Huainan and Jiangnan and dominate the world if he gets Wanyanyan's warship and troops!
If you kill me, Wanyan Yan will definitely occupy the island and become a bandit. By then, there will no longer be peace in the coastal areas of Shandong..."
After Yue Fei heard this, he snorted coldly: "Wan Yanyan, Li Cheng, Liu Lin, Kong Yanzhou and other thieves will be captured sooner or later, and they will not escape death!"
When Wanyan Zonggou heard this, he changed his words and said: "What Mr. Ye said is absolutely true. I think this pseudo-official is Wanyan Yan's fault... This witch is the most hateful and should be cut into pieces with a thousand swords!" I can write her a letter saying that the officials have pardoned her and trick her into coming to Pizhou, and then I can capture her alive!"
Zhao Zhen said with a look of disdain: "You have become a fake official yourself, how can you let your wife stand up to you? Even if you have to be chopped off, you should be the one!"
"No, no, no...she is the main culprit!" Wanyan Zonggou quickly put the blame on his wife, "She was the one who forced the yellow robe to be put on me! And she didn't really want me to be She is a pseudo-official, but to let that bastard Zhao Shanzhen become an official and she herself becomes the queen mother..."
"Is Zhao Shan really a bastard?" Yue Fei asked angrily, "Who is the biological father?"
This pseudo-prince’s real father can’t let him go either!
Among the nine implicated clans, there is a "father" clan!
"No, I don't know..." Wanyan Zonggou gritted his teeth, "Just take her to Pizhou and torture her!"
Yue Fei shook his head gently. This Wanyan Zonggou was really nothing...but since the matter involved royal blood, it was inconvenient for him to talk.
Yue Fei didn't speak, and Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu certainly couldn't speak either.
Only Zhao Zhen can decide this matter.
Zhao Zhen said: "Wanyan Zonggou, then write a letter to Wanyan Yan!"
The soldiers in the palace went up and tied up Wanyan Zonggou, and then brought over a small table and the Four Treasures of the Study, asking him to write a letter by himself.
In order to survive, Wanyan Zonggou couldn't care less about the affection he had in the past, so he picked up his writing brush and wrote a letter of persuasion to surrender full of false love to Wanyan Yan who was hiding on Yuzhou Island.
The letter was handed into the hands of Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen looked at it and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he said to Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu: "Uncle Ping Xia, Luchengzi... you can send Yan Zonggou a ride! That's it!" Use that beef tendon bowstring to make him feel better!”
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu did not shirk, and immediately stood up to accept the order, then took the tendon bow string and came to Wanyan Zonggou with a smile.
When Wanyan Zonggou saw the two killing gods, he was paralyzed with fear and could not even speak.
Before he could ask for mercy again, the soldiers around him had already restrained him, and then two generals had already strangled him with beef tendon bowstrings!
The bowstring tightened tighter and tighter, until Wanyan Zonggou couldn't breathe at all...
...
The news that Wanyan Zonggou was strangled to death was of course kept secret!
After all, there were still many state capitals in Shandong that had not been recovered at this time, and there were still many traitors who were not tolerated by the Northern Song Dynasty and were stubbornly resisting - Zhao Kai's policy was quite unfavorable to these traitors and quasi-traitors!
It’s not that you will definitely be beheaded, but you will definitely lose your land!
Even if Zhao Kai did not intend to turn the hometown of the Pseudo-Song Dynasty into Yingtian Road - according to Zhao Kai's vision, the hometown of the Pseudo-Song Dynasty would be divided into two parts, one part of which would be merged with Xijing Road to become Henan Road, and the remaining part would become Shandong Road.
Among them, Henan Road is the camp road, and the newly allocated land will also be allocated to meritorious soldiers in the future.
Shandong Road will become a transit road...but the wealth of Shandong landlords will still be confiscated!
We cannot let the Shandong landlords who have been traitors or quasi-traitors keep their land, while the scholar-bureaucrat landlords in Shaanxi, western Beijing, and Hedong who have not been traitors or quasi-traitors are forced to buy their properties and lose their land. This is unjustifiable!
Therefore, all the land on Shandong Road will become official land. These official lands will be equally divided among farmers for farming, and land rents will be charged higher than the land tax.
Under this line, the turmoil in the hometown of the Puppet Song Dynasty will definitely continue for a long time!
In addition, there are still many remnants of the pseudo-Song regime!
When Wanyan Zonggou died, Dengzhou City, Chenjia Island in Mizhou, as well as Qushan and Donghai in Haizhou were all in the hands of the remnants of the pseudo-Song Dynasty. It would be best if they could be lured to surrender.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen temporarily blocked the news of Wanyan Zonggu's death and sent Kang Lu as an envoy to Yuzhou East Island to recruit Wanyan Yan to surrender...
