Just now he was so nervous that all the muscles in his body were tense, but fortunately the Taoist priest didn't notice.
As soon as he relaxed, his whole body was immediately covered in cold sweat.
"Stop showing off your lies." A voice came from the woods behind him.
The man let out a sigh of relief, turned around and said to the forest: "Yes, sir, I'm not sure whether that man is a spy."
"Whether it's the Jin people or the Song people, they may kill us."
"yes."
"Catch him and kill him." The person who spoke revealed a stern face under the light of the night fire.
He had just turned forty, about the same age as Yun Kong, but his thin face was covered with scars from the years. His originally elegant face was carved into hard lines, and his tightly pursed lips seemed to always be in the air. endure.
When he said "kill him," he wasn't giving a command.
He was making a completely correct decision.
It’s a decision that you have to make, and you will regret it if you don’t make it.
The man who was roasting the chicken felt a chill down his spine, and he couldn't help but said, "Yes."
Even though he said this, he still looked at the fire in his master's eyes and forgot what he should do.
"Chicken, is it roasted?"
"Yes, it's baked."
"Give it to me." The man handed the chicken over.
"Okay, go chase the Taoist priest and kill him."
The man shivered for a while, stroked the dagger tied to his calf, and ran towards Yunkong.
After watching the man walk a certain distance, the man in the forest tore off a chicken leg and handed it to the woman next to him. Then he divided the chicken into several portions with a knife and distributed them to several people in the forest.
As soon as they got the food, they immediately started devouring it.
Only this man, whom the man who roasted chicken called "Sir", did not forget to open his eyes in the dark and keep his ears alert for the movement around him.
To survive. he told himself.
No matter what the Taoist said is accurate or not, we must live on.
When something is good, it becomes bad; when it is bad, it becomes good. That's right.
It is good luck to be a Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, to be young and proud, and to be admired by everyone.
It is bad luck to have a changeable official career and to be repeatedly ups and downs in party struggles.
The Jin people came to Beijing and elected Zhang Bangchang, who had a different surname, as emperor. He petitioned in the name of justice and gained the reputation of a loyal minister, which was auspicious.
Because of the lawsuit, the whole family was captured and sent to Yanshan in the north, which was terrible.
Time flies so fast that three years have passed.
He should be grateful for these three years.
In the past three years, he has seen a lot of truths.
He saw the two emperors, the lord of all people and the True Dragon Emperor, wagging their tails to the golden man and begging for mercy.
He was captured by the Jin people and sent to the north. They asked him to follow Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan. A few old ministers accompanied the old emperor. It was pitiful that it was like a small court. It was called "Shuo Ting" in history books, which means "Northern Emperor". 's imperial court".
The old emperor was still a king, and he was still a minister. The ministers had to serve the king carefully. This king often asked for food or drink, and often asked this "minister" to beg from the Jin people in a low voice. Some meals.
This king couldn't stand being ordered around by the marshal of the Jin people, so he wrote to the Jin people many times, hoping to exchange conditions, cede land in exchange for the emperor's position, and voluntarily become a vassal state of the Jin country.
The land of the Song Dynasty was already in the pocket, and the Jin people ignored him.
The Jin people abducted all 200 people, including the emperor and the clan, in order to cut off the Zhao family's retreat and prevent anyone from establishing another emperor named Zhao, and then they continued to invade the south.
In Qin Hui's heart, he became increasingly dissatisfied with this old king.
The king, the king, and the ministers have always been shackles to them like a curse. What you say is the holy words, your walking is the dragon's steps, and your farts are the holy energy. Once you lose the token, it turns out to be nothing more than that.
"It's useless to want to be emperor again." He thought contemptuously in his heart.
Serving this old ghost who indulged in lewdness all day long and caused civil unrest in the world... He thought with disgust of Zhao Ji, his thin face with excessive indulgence, and his son Zhao Huan, who was supported by his father as a scapegoat... two of them The emperor, one old and one young.
Yes, the scapegoat.
When Kaifeng fell, didn't Guo Jing take thousands of his men as scapegoats, open the city gate, and escape on his own? He also left a city full of scapegoats, including the emperor, to be destroyed by the Jin people.
Even the emperor made his own son a scapegoat and retired to the throne of the Supreme Emperor.
The Jin people wanted Wang Shiyong and other officials who stayed behind to recommend Zhang Bangchang as emperor. Zhang Bangchang also realized that he was a scapegoat and wanted to refuse, because if the Zhao family was revived, he would be the first to die. , he was also the first to suffer.
So why not himself?
If Zhang Bangchang should be the emperor, let him be the emperor. He didn't want to have any objections, but his colleagues insisted on objecting and wrote a petition, insisting that he, the chief censor, should sign his name as the first discussant!
scapegoat.
Do you want to accompany the two emperors in trouble until they die of old age, be a loyal minister, and rot in the northern grasslands?
no need? Being a scapegoat doesn't have to be so thorough.
He still serves the two old emperors who are like big children.
He also took advantage of the convenience of delivering letters to Jinying for the emperor to display his talents.
The long campaign finally paid off.
He was separated from the two old emperors when they were moved again.
He became the "appointment" of Wan Yanchang, the left supervisor, that is, the "deacon".
He already has enough political capital, whether he is in the Jin Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, he can take advantage of it.
He knew that Zhao Gou had proclaimed himself emperor in the south.
Three years ago, before the capital Kaifeng was about to fall, Zhao Gou was named "Kang Wang" and led the army to fight against the Jin Dynasty.
King Kang established himself as the "Generalissimo of Arms and Horses" in Xiangzhou, and the generals and soldiers of Xiangzhou joined his ranks and became his main military force. I heard that there were several very powerful characters, such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.
After the fall of Beijing, King Kang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing.
As soon as the Jin people left Kaifeng, the new emperor immediately returned to Kaifeng, and Zhang Bangchang immediately surrendered, thinking that the emperor would remember their friendship with him when they were captured together in the north, and sympathize with him for being forced to wear a yellow robe. Unexpectedly, he would still die in the end.
How could the new emperor tolerate the man who once sat in his seat?
Later, the Jin people attacked Kaifeng southward again, and the new emperor began to flee again, fleeing all the way south to Yangzhou and Hangzhou.
As an "appointment", Qin Hui can easily obtain this information.
Staying with Wan Yanchang, he is a very useful person, because he knows the Song Dynasty very well and can help attack the Song Dynasty.
Although Wanyanchang treated him well, he must have a different heart if he is not of my race, and he also knew that the Jin people could kill him at any time.
He wants to go back to the Song Dynasty.
After returning to the Song Dynasty, he was also a useful person, because these three years made him the person who understood the Jin Kingdom best.
Yes, he has political capital on either side...
The opportunity has come.
Wan Yanchang, the left supervisor of the Jin Kingdom, led his troops south to pursue the new emperor.
Because he was trusted by Wan Yanchang, he also brought several "entourages" with him.
His "entourage" is recorded in "Xuzhi Tongjian".
His wife, Wang, was the daughter of Wang Gui, the famous prime minister during the "Yuanfeng Reform".
His domestic slaves Yantong and Xing'er.
His original subordinate "Yushitai Street Secretary" Weng Shunhe, and his close confidant Gao Yigong.
His plan was to escape back to the Song Dynasty by taking advantage of the army's march south.
It's not easy to escape with so many people.
This was a huge bet. Once it succeeded...he remembered the words of the Taoist priest..."If you want to become rich, you must go through extraordinary things."
Something extraordinary.
Yes, the bet was all their lives, and the same bet was to be had twice.
The first time was to escape from Jin Camp.
Wan Yanchang appointed Qin Hui as "military staff officer" and "transport envoy with the army", which showed Wan Yanchang's trust in him. This not only increased his chances of winning, but it also meant that if he failed, his death would be even more miserable.
Wan Yanchang marched to Huaiyin and attacked the city of Chu. The city soon fell.
On the first day after the city was broken, Qin Hui had prepared everything.
On the third day after the city was broken, the Jin soldiers who entered the city had relaxed their guard, and everyone was busy looting, committing adultery, and dividing the spoils.
So he ran away.
A group of people took a small boat and came to the border of Lianshui Army ("Army" means "county" with a military base) on the other side.
This is the second gamble.
If you escape the golden man, you must also escape another kind of person.
Song people.
He knew, he knew very well how deceitful and vicious the Song people were. He had been a scapegoat, and he had also let others be a scapegoat.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that the Song people, who are a cultural country, are more difficult to deal with than the Yi people!
He parked the boat among the reeds on the river bank, and everyone quietly went ashore and hid in the woods. Then he ordered his slaves Yantong and Xing'er to find some food.
On an October winter night, after nightfall, the little heat on the earth quickly dissipates, and the cold wind sweeps across the water. If you weren't hiding in the forest, you would be so cold that you would grit your teeth.
