On September 17, the Ming army was ready to attack the city. Thirty-six general artillery batteries surrounded the Lin'an city wall on all sides and could launch artillery attacks on Lin'an city at any time.
On the same day, the Southern Song Dynasty negotiation team headed by Shen Gai entered the Ming army camp and started negotiations with the Ming Dynasty negotiation team headed by Zhang Yuejing.
Shen Gai got straight to the point anyway and told Zhang Yuejing the conditions he had obtained for the Ming Kingdom.
"The office can be set up and compensation can be negotiated. Regarding the cession of land, His Majesty has already relented. Huainan West Road and South Jingxi Road can be ceded. General, His Majesty was stubborn before. In order to get His Majesty to agree to this condition, we have spent a lot of money. It took a lot of effort.”
Seeing Shen Gai asking for credit, Zhang Yuejing felt a little funny.
"what about others?"
"this……"
"The Ming Dynasty made five demands, but you have only agreed to two of them. What about the remaining three? Don't think too much, none of these five demands can be missing, and this is still the current basic condition. The Ming army is coming over the mountains and ridges. Now that we’re here, the conditions will increase.”
"ah?"
Shen Gai and the Southern Song negotiating team were shocked. Just as they were about to say something, Zhang Yuejing raised his hand and held him down.
"This is now. If you don't all agree immediately, once the Ming army launches an attack, you will never give up until the Lin'an city wall is breached. By then, you will have to agree to more conditions, which will be even more difficult for you to accept.
You have also seen that the Ming Dynasty has a lot of artillery. Once it roars, the Lin'an City Wall is like a piece of paper. It will not be difficult for the Ming Army to break through the Lin'an City Wall. By then, the price you have to pay will be even more. "
After Zhang Yuejing finished speaking, the Southern Song team was speechless.
Seeing that they were unable to make an immediate decision, Zhang Yuejing asked Shen Gai and the Southern Song Dynasty negotiation team to go back, tell Zhao Yu and others in the court what he meant, and let them weigh the pros and cons and think about the next step. Which way to go.
Of course, they only have one day. If there is no reply at this time tomorrow, the Ming army will attack the city immediately and will not stop until they break the Lin'an city wall.
By then, the Southern Song Dynasty will be nothing but fish and meat, and the Ming Dynasty will be in danger. Either the country will be destroyed, or they will have to agree to even more humiliating demands.
So how to choose is up to you.
There is another particularly important point - as the chief criminal, Yu Yunwen must be handed over alive, and dead ones will not be counted.
Shen Gai and others returned to Lin'an City with worried faces. They looked at each other and saw the depression and helplessness on each other's faces.
"What should I do?"
"Your Majesty has been so angry before. If he finds out about this again, won't he want to fight to the death? Wouldn't Lin'an City be in trouble by then?"
"We are all going to suffer! Once the city is defeated, we will all be prisoners. How can we be free?"
"What can I do?"
A group of old men gathered around and felt miserable, and some even started wiping away tears, which made Shen Gai feel upset for a while.
"Cry, cry, you know how to cry. You guys cry day and night. Can you cry to death for Yu Yunwen or Su Yonglin? A man who is a great man should not shed tears lightly. One or two of them are just like women!"
Shen Gai said angrily: "If you have time to cry, why don't you think carefully about the next step and how to persuade the officials to agree to the Ming people's conditions! If you don't agree, the Ming people will attack the city! Our wealth and life are all But it’s all gone!”
A group of people immediately stopped crying and quickly discussed what to do.
But no results could be obtained.
Shen Gai could only bite the bullet and ask to see Zhao Hao and tell Zhao Hao what Zhang Yuejing meant.
As expected, Shen should be scolded for a while, and in a fit of rage, Zhao Hao smashed the teacup on his head with his hand, causing blood to flow and he fainted on the spot.
The officials who followed him quickly called the imperial doctor, who quickly took him away and bandaged him for treatment. He finally stopped the bleeding and used acupuncture to revive Shen Gai.
After Shen Gai regained consciousness, he looked at the wound on his head with a livid face and said nothing.
Not long after, Zhao Hao issued an order to remove Shen Gai from his position as Shangshu Youcheng and let him await the final judgment as a guilty person.
At the same time, he ordered Pingzhang Army State Affairs, Privy Envoy, and Lin'an City Defense Envoy Yu Yunwen to fully command the troops in Lin'an City to prepare to defend the city and fight to the death with the Ming army.
He issued an edict stating that the country was greedy and wanted to overthrow the Song Dynasty. The officials and people of the Song Dynasty needed to work together to fight the Ming army to the death.
As the emperor, he will always stay in Lin'an City and fight side by side with the officials and people of the Song Dynasty until his last breath.
Now is the moment of life and death for Lin'an City. Men, women, and children in the city must take up arms, fight hard, defend the Song Dynasty together, and live and die with the Song Dynasty.
This news reached the ears of Shen Gai and others, and caused a group of people to cry and howl like mourning for their heirs.
They didn't want to live or die with the Song Dynasty at all.
And Shen Gai looked at this miserable scene, with a cold light in his eyes.
Using the clairvoyance in his hand to watch the Song troops at the top of the city preparing to harvest, Zhang Yuejing finally knew whether Shen should have accomplished the task or not, but Zhao Min still advocated resistance.
Putting his clairvoyance into the bag on his waist, Zhang Yuejing smiled at Chen Qiaoshan, Zhou Zhi and He Feihu beside him.
"I know that these Confucian scholars and civil servants are useless. After all, if everything in this world can be done with just one mouth, what are we soldiers doing?
The meaning of our existence as soldiers is to use our strength when words fail. Now it seems that it is time for us to use our strength. "
All the generals laughed.
Zhou Zhi even laughed and spoke.
"I have read several of the Chairman's articles recently, and I know that these Confucian scholars and civil servants are good at talking, but there are very few who can actually get things done, and when they do get things done, they often sacrifice tens of thousands of dollars. It takes hundreds of thousands of lives to achieve something, but more often than not the price is paid, but if the thing is not done well, it is really of no use.”
"If they had succeeded, the Southern Song Dynasty would have gone north to regain the Central Plains. But they didn't care about the great situation and killed their most capable general. From that moment on, this small court was destined to be unable to accomplish anything big. .”
Zhang Yuejing shook his head and said: "I have read several of the Chairman's articles. They are so well written, especially the article "The Blood and Tears of the People Behind the Genealogy of Emperors, Generals and Prime Ministers". I read it three times. It really made me angry." I can't wait to fly into Lin'an City immediately, take those bastards out and behead them!
We have to work really hard to build the Yellow River. Just like our Ming Dynasty, after several years of hard work, there is nothing that can't be accomplished. However, those stupid and bad people finally caused the Yellow River to collapse and drowned in a flood. Hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands!
In the end, it was all mentioned in just a few strokes. I'm afraid they didn't want future generations to know what bastard things they had done, so they blew the big things to the sky and tried their best to cover up the bastard things they did Don’t let people know that there are such bastards in this city! "
Zhang Yuejing pointed at Lin'an City and cursed.
Zhou Zhi and He Feihu both nodded, indicating that they were deeply touched by this matter.
"Speaking of which, we have been preparing to repair the Yellow River since the second year of Hongwu. I heard a while ago that we plan to repair the Yellow River in the eighth year of Hongwu. I think the Kaifeng section has been completed. What about your place? How is it?"
Zhang Yuejing looked at Zhou Zhi who was stationed in Huaidong: "I heard that the two Huaihe Rivers were the most sad after the Yellow River burst."
"That's natural. The Yellow River took the Huaihe River and entered the sea. The land of the two Huaihe Rivers was washed away into a piece of white land. The most dead people were the two Huaihe Rivers. At that time, Premier Tian personally led people to Huaidong to make arrangements and directly mobilized people from Haizhou, Xuzhou and other places. There are more than 40,000 migrant workers.
And our army of 30,000 people also took turns to go into battle. They worked hard day and night on the construction site and built countless dams. Finally, we finally brought the situation there under preliminary control. Then we recruited refugees, reclaimed wasteland, drained water, and The land has been washed away several times, but now we can grow food and survive. "
He Feihu smiled.
"That's good. When I led the troops south, I heard that the Shandong area had already been repaired by Jinan, and it was repaired farther east. Now the entire Yellow River Command has been moved to Jinan. I guess the completion date is not far away. .”
"yes."
Zhang Yuejing turned his attention to the north.
The generals also turned their attention to the north.
Everyone knows that the day the Yellow River diversion project is completed is when the Ming Dynasty sweeps the world.
It is also the end of all superior men and oppressors.
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