【Break the wall】
The eldest daughter of the Jiang family is very beautiful, with a faint pink blush on her face, as if broken by a bomb, and her eyes are like black grapes in clear water. Her gentle smile can really lift people's soul to the ninth heaven. .
Unexpectedly, when she reached the age of eighteen, her reputation spread like wildfire. An official in Taiyuan Prefecture heard about it and tried to coerce the merchant family so that he could hand over his daughter to the emperor.
"There is a good rock in the Jiang family's backyard, and the emperor wants it." Guan'er gave the order, and the ministers immediately dispatched.
The wall in the Jiang family's backyard was demolished, saying that the rock was to be transported out to avoid damaging a good stone. The Jiang family master hurriedly mounted his donkey and rushed to see the official.
"Who dares to disobey the strange stone that the emperor wants? Move it today and ship it to the capital tomorrow!" After the Hua Shi Gang incident caused Fan La's rebellion five years ago, the imperial court originally abolished Hua Shi Gang. After Fang La was suppressed, the emperor returned to his old ways. , so the official threatened Master Jiang with this.
"Young man can offer you rocks, but I just ask that you don't tear down the wall..." Mr. Jiang begged, but the official's face was very cold.
"That's it, unless..." Guan'er laughed obscenely and was about to get to the point.
A servant rushed in.
"presumptuous!"
"Master..." The servant was panting like an ox, his face was like gold paper, and his hands and feet were waving wildly, "It's broken! It's broken!"
The official was about to introduce the main topic, asking Mr. Jiang to send his daughter, but the servant interrupted the conversation without realizing it, and immediately said angrily: "Oh! Bad luck! What happened?"
"I know... the prefect ordered the city to be locked down."
"Okay, why are you locking up the city?" As soon as he finished speaking, Guan'er immediately realized, and his face was like gold paper: "Could it be..." He didn't dare to say it, for fear that it would come true if he said it.
If the wall in Jiang's house had not been destroyed, the result might have been different.
The family has no master, there is a war going on outside the city, the city is in chaos, and the Jiang family has a broken wall, which is not a good thing.
Mrs. Jiang asked her servants to guard the broken wall, but there was a strong wind and snow. The servants shivered from the cold and had no strength. A group of gangsters who took advantage of the opportunity broke in and entered as soon as they broke in.
The servants were knocked to the ground and allowed to be rummaged through by the gangsters. The women in the family had no choice but to scream and scream.
After a while, the gang of hooligans came out swaggeringly carrying large and small bags, and still went out through the broken wall.
Coincidentally, the dutiful son was getting up from the snow, slowly walking around the corner of the alley, and bumped into this thing.
What he hates the most is others taking advantage of chaos and causing trouble. For a moment, he was so angry that he shouted loudly: "Hey! Stop leaving!"
"The wind is tight!" shouted a gangster, "Zhahu!"
"Hey, he is alone and there are five of us, how afraid of him?"
The gangsters put down their stolen goods and walked towards the dutiful son with murderous intent, intending to teach this ignorant boy a lesson.
Their budget is to beat the filial son to death.
The filial son was shocked and angry. Before they could come, he raised his hand to catch them.
He realized he had made a mistake.
He felt his hand sinking into a mess, and when he grasped something thick and hard, there was a "gr" sound, and a gangster's neck hung down ten steps away.
The gangster's neck is like a doll with its strings cut off, and a piece of skin is attached to the head, hanging on his chest.
The dutiful son looked at his hand in horror, and it was indeed a bloody mess.
The gangster fell to the snow.
The other four people were startled for a moment, then rushed forward.
The filial son also panicked and grabbed them randomly.
All four gangsters fell to the ground dead before they could reach him.
The dutiful son started to tremble all over, shaking out of control.
Not because of the cold.
It's because, in his hand, there is an eyeball, a kidney, a rib and a brain, which are still exuding wisps of heat in the heavy snow.
He screamed and threw the things away.
He ran like crazy, desperately running.
He's afraid of himself, he's afraid of himself, he's afraid of himself.
He didn't find solace until he ran to a temple with lights and saw the statue of Guan Gong, who was righteous and awe-inspiring, and he felt at ease.
【Envoy】
In the ice and snow, only the sparse black branches stand out.
Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan, stood on the city wall and looked out. However, the city wall of Taiyuan Prefecture was not high, so Zhang Xiaochun was guarded by soldiers with bows and arrows ready to go, and thick tiger signs were erected in front of him.
He saw several cavalry rushing from the southeast, carrying the banner of the Song Dynasty, but they entered the camp of the Jin soldiers.
He stared at the Song flag with unyielding eyes, staring so hard that his eyes almost froze, and then he lowered his head and blinked.
It was the Song Army, yes, but it was certainly not reinforcements.
Could it be that the emperor surrendered?
Zhang Xiaochun didn't know that Kaifeng, the capital of the country, was heavily surrounded by Jin soldiers. The emperor had already abdicated, the reign title had been changed, and the "Top Emperor" Zhao Ji had also abandoned his son and fled south for his life.
Zhang Xiaochun lowered his head and looked at the residential houses outside the city. They were densely built along the city wall, like a layer of outer clothing for the city. The Jin soldiers set up camp outside the city, so the people outside the city must have suffered a lot, right?
After waiting for an hour or two, in the dusty Jin camp, those Song people appeared again, this time followed by several Jin soldiers.
They came to the north city gate, and the bows and arrows on the city immediately aimed downwards.
"Who is coming?" Zhang Xiaochun shouted hoarsely, without losing his majesty.
"The Emperor has a decree!" the leader replied, "Prefect Zhang has accepted the decree!"
"It's okay to accept the order, but golden dogs are not allowed to enter the city!" Zhang Xiaochun shouted, and the guards on the city wall all cheered, and some cursed, and the roar was like thunder.
"The Emperor's decree must be respectfully received and must not be disobeyed!"
Zhang Xiaochun raised his hands in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion in the south: "Your Majesty ordered me to defend the city. I will be outside today, but I have not accepted your order!"
The people in the city discussed for a while, and saw the Jin man shouting a few words to the Song envoy. The Song envoy hurriedly bowed his head and bowed. After being humiliated under the city for a while, he raised his head and shouted in a majestic manner: "Zhang Magistrate, please let us enter the city now, while the envoy Jin will stay outside the city, and receive the order quickly, so as not to miss the important event!"
Zhang Xiaochun agreed, but he only opened the city gate enough for a horse to pass through, and then stopped opening it.
"Zhang Xiaochun, how dare you deceive me! I am an official of the imperial court, how dare you treat me like this?"
"It is not easy to open and close the city gate. To prevent the enemy from attacking, I feel sorry for you." Zhang Xiaochun said calmly, then took a few steps back and bowed with his hands.
The envoy had no choice but to come in.
Zhang Xiaochun led him into the military camp and knelt down to receive the order.
The envoy announced: "By God's blessing, the emperor has issued an edict that today's Taiyuan Prefecture, Zhongshan, and Hejian will be ceded to the Kingdom of Jin. The magistrate will be fully responsible for this matter, and our army will return to the court and set off today. I hereby express my gratitude to you." …”
Zhang Xiaochun did not get up to receive the order.
The envoy's face was livid, and he wanted to shout "disobedience to the emperor's order, treason", but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the kneeling generals around him had put their hands on the hilts of their swords, as if waiting for Zhang Xiaochun's order.
Suddenly, the angry expression was squeezed out by fear and cowardice, and his face was twisted into a look that didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Sir, please come back." Zhang Xiaochun was still kneeling, waving his hands gently as a farewell gesture.
The envoy stammered: "You are so brave, be careful of being exiled..." As he said that, all the surrounding generals showed their weapons, and the cold light instantly covered the envoy's figure.
This time he was so surprised that the envoy ran out of the military camp, ran out of the city gate, and galloped away on horseback.
【search】
"Master Magistrate, it is indeed the same today."
Zhang Xiaochun finally decided to go and have a look.
It has been a month since the Jin soldiers surrounded Taiyuan. Due to the rapid consumption of food and grass in winter, the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan are gradually feeling exhausted. They have been saving food and firewood for a long time. However, human endurance is very limited. It is so cold every day. Who can stop eating? Didn't you light the fire for so long?
Everyone thinks about living one day at a time. Besides, in the cold weather, if you don’t eat, you will be more afraid of the cold, so you don’t really save on eating. Sooner or later, you will run out of food, and there may be riots in the city. By then, Taiyuan will be destroyed. .
Zhang Xiaochun sometimes couldn't help but think: Maybe he showed his integrity by driving away the envoys and refusing to surrender, but he harmed the people in the city...
"Taiyuan is an important gateway of the Song Dynasty and the foundation of the country!" Zhang Xiaochun told his subordinates, "When Taizu unified the world, the imperial commander could not conquer Taiyuan personally. Now I am asked to surrender to the enemy and teach me how to fight under the underworld in the future. Explain?"
"What the prefect said is true." Wang Zhen, the deputy general manager of the city who jointly defended the city, also nodded in agreement.
As a result, Taiyuan became an isolated city, and no food or firewood could get in.
"Master Prefect."
Zhang Xiaochun came back from his thoughts.
Recently, a close acquaintance told him that a Taoist temple distributed food every day, which began shortly after the Jin soldiers besieged the city, which made him very curious.
