Is killing useful?
Killing people doesn't necessarily work.
But if you don’t kill people, it will definitely be useless.
Liu Bang looked at Pharmacist Guo, his eyes seemed to be drunk. He shook the wine glass gently and paused for a while before continuing:
"I also believed your kid's lies, saying that the voices of these people are very quiet... You also saw it today, there are so many names on those two things... Damn it, they are still in the capital city I don’t know how many people in the county or elsewhere want to ask for peace.”
"You are very evil-minded. You wish that the Song Dynasty would be in chaos, and you wish that I would die."
"If I don't fight, I will be a king properly. I will still be prosperous and wealthy."
For a moment, Pharmacist Guo's nose, which was sharper than a dog's, was really unable to tell whether what the emperor said was true or false.
Just thinking about that thing like the Book of Ten Thousand People... No matter which emperor saw it, he would definitely be shocked.
"You really don't have to be so pessimistic. The old man said it in the daytime. The identity of those people is very thin. But why do they only have the identity of Han in front of the Jin people?"
"It's not because the Jin people don't treat them as human beings."
"Human nature is just like this. When they gain a foot, they think about it. In the Song Dynasty, when they became prefects, they thought about becoming prime ministers. In the Jin Dynasty, they had nothing to do. The last thing they thought about was to save their lives first. Come down."
Liu Bang curled his lips: "What are you talking about about human nature? This is just the human nature of your Song people!"
Pharmacist Guo did not feel dissatisfied and walked to the door of Chui Gong Hall. He leaned against the doorpost and watched the rain for a while, then turned around and said:
"Have you seen Lin'an at this time?"
The emperor was very honest: "No."
"Do you want to see Lin'an at this time?"
I hesitated for a moment. After all, the rain outside was really heavy. If I got cold, I would be the only one who would feel uncomfortable.
After drinking all the wine in the cup, Liu Bang felt the heat coming out of his body. He looked at Pharmacist Guo:
"You kid, you'd better give me something to use...otherwise, I will send you to Xiang Guangshi's house."
Pharmacist Guo was so young that his eyelids couldn't help but twitch several times after hearing the emperor's threat.
It was a lively conversation here, but ever since Yang Yizhong left, there has been an awkward atmosphere in Chui Gong Hall.
Without the music and the accompanying dancers, the girl next to me wanted to speak out of breath...
If this was flower wine, it would probably be the most unpalatable flower wine in the world.
Xiang Guangshi, who had been dormant for a long time, licked his face and rubbed his face for a long time. Zhang Jun and the others did not give any respect to his family, and they couldn't find anyone to toast to.
I was already sitting still, but now I seemed to hear the emperor calling his name. The old boy seemed to be at an age where he knew his destiny. Like a rabbit, he jumped to the emperor's side in a few seconds:
"Guanjia, you called me?"
Liu Bang rolled his eyes at him: "I asked you to go out in the rain, do you want to go?"
Xiang Guangshi was stunned for a moment, then said with a flattering smile: "At my age, I'm afraid I won't be able to get wet..."
At this time, boating on the West Lake was considered a popular hobby, and many literati liked to go boating on drizzly days... However, it was not a choice that normal people would make during such a downpour.
After all, the emperor has long been out of his element.
He was afraid of spoiling the emperor's temper, so he spoke again: "But I have a granddaughter who is now just around the age of hairpin. She knows some poetry, poetry, and poetry. She is also good at playing chess, calligraphy, and painting. Let her accompany the official family, and she can also It’ll add some fun to you.”
This man really spent a lot of money, even giving up his granddaughter for the sake of his family's wealth.
However, Liu Bang didn't know where Yaoshi Guo would take him, and he had no idea of rowing on the West Lake. At this time, his first thought was to reject him.
It's not a good thing that someone from his mother's family is capable, but he is very sensible when it comes to Xiang Guangshi's granddaughter.
"What's her name?"
But to think about it differently, the Zhong family can use it. Although this Guangshi is a bit weak, it still has prestige in the Song Army. Now... it can be said that it is no different from the Zhong family. They all need opportunities.
Thinking of this, he asked politely, but in his heart he was already prepared to change his pillow partner today.
"The girl's family doesn't have a serious name, but layman Yi An gave her one, called Liu Yu... Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu."
I have had the surname Liu all my life, but eventually my surname was changed. That does not mean that I can change it back.
However, as soon as these words came out, the emperor's face turned even redder than before. Xiang Guangshi didn't know what happened. He was about to speak, but was interrupted by the emperor:
"No need for anyone else, just you kid, follow me out!"
After that, he called the other three generals in the palace... They all thought that the emperor was drunk, but thinking about what happened today, none of them spoke to persuade him.
But if they knew that the current tour guide was the former leader of the resentful army, they didn't know what their reaction would be.
Lin'an Imperial City has an advantage...after all, it has learned from the past, so the Li Zhengmen of the palace is very close to the Jiahui Gate of Lin'an Mansion. If something big happens, the emperor can run out immediately.
After all, just outside Jiahui Gate is the Qiantang River.
When the Qian family ruled Wu, this place was already well managed. Zhao Gou got a bargain by making it the capital.
The carriage was not running very fast, and the rain was too heavy, covering the eyes of the imperial guardsmen who were driving. All the nobles in the carriage had put on their clothes, as if no matter how big something happened outside, it had nothing to do with them.
Liu Bang opened the curtain to take a look from time to time, and then quickly pulled it away... In just this short moment, Xiang Guangshi, who was close to the car curtain, was sprayed with a few drops.
"Isn't this where the Infantry Division is stationed? It's late at night and you want us to see the horses?"
Pharmacist Guo returned to his enigmatic look and just replied: "Please be patient for a moment. Just go a little further and we'll be there."
Just as he said, the carriage stopped along the river, just for a cup of tea.
It was useless to hold an umbrella at this time. Everyone took out their thick raincoats and put on bamboo strips and bamboo hats that had been papered. Although they could still be stained by some rainwater, they were already much better.
Liu Bang looked ahead and saw something.
The lights were right in front of us, but when they were blocked by the rain, they all became hazy.
Even so, he could still tell that there were many brightly lit places here...even more than the flower boats on the edge of the West Lake.
"here it is……"
Not to mention the emperor, even commanders like Liu Qi, whose infantry division camp was stationed not far away, seemed to be coming to this place for the first time.
Pharmacist Guo bowed slightly: "Everyone, if you move forward, you will naturally see it."
Liu Bang was suspicious, but he was not slow at all. Yaoshi Guo led the way, and he followed closely behind.
When I got closer, I discovered the true appearance of this place.
A place like a pavilion... Of course it is not the kind of pavilion in the palace. Four pieces of wood as thick as one person are inserted into the ground, with many bamboos inserted across the top, and an unknown amount of thatch is spread on it...
This place is very big, and it has already sheltered twenty or thirty people from the wind and rain. With the few coming behind them, there is still some free space.
Everyone was just sitting around... They were wearing thin clothes, many of them didn't even have shirts, and even the addition of a group of people failed to attract their attention.
But they were guarding the oil lamp in the middle, with different expressions on their faces.
Only when he got closer could he see it clearly.
There was also an old man sitting in the middle... He was the storyteller at Sibei Tower that day. He kept talking and it seemed that he was still running his business.
He cast a questioning look at Pharmacist Guo, who came closer to the emperor’s ear:
"This person is not from Sibeilou. He will tell stories wherever someone gives him money in Lin'an City. He is also here, but the little old man didn't expect it."
"It's raining so heavily. You brought me here just to listen to stories? Who are these people?"
"These..." Pharmacist Guo paused and said, "These are fishermen on the Qiantang River. This is the time for them to fish."
"Your Majesty the Emperor, since you are here, how about you listen?"
Listen... just listen, Liu Bang pushed away the boy in front of him. The man was dissatisfied, but when he saw how he was dressed, he swallowed his anger.
He just gathered all the way, only gathered three or four people, and then he was close to the seat in the middle circle.
Then he took off his coir raincoat and hat. He felt much more relaxed and sat down on the spot.
When the old man saw this, he closed his mouth.
"You should keep talking."
Pharmacist Guo smiled and said: "One copper per person is cheaper than Sibei Tower."
It turned out that they wanted money... There was no point in bringing money with them when they came out.
Fortunately, there was no money, but there were a lot of valuable things. Liu Bang took off the jade pendant hanging from Zhang Jun's waist and threw it into the gong of the child beside him.
"Keep talking, keep talking."
The old man stroked his beard and thought for a moment: "I just talked about Han Liangchen and Huang Tiandang, but today I have a new explanation."
He pointed at Liu Bang and said, "Thanks to this guy, I won't hide my clumsiness anymore, old man. You guys are blessed."
He said this to the group of people, but no one had any objection.
Instead, they got the approval of Zhang Taiwei and Xiang Guangshi: There is a fishy smell in this shed, and I don't know what the emperor is thinking, but he doesn't dislike these despicable people.
Fortunately, the civil servants are not here now, otherwise, they would have been talking about this matter for several years.
"Do you know how many people there were in the harem when Emperor Huizong surrendered?"
A boy next to him interjected: "What does the emperor's harem have? It's just a queen and a few concubines. Old man, don't show off, just tell the truth."
People who make jokes like him happen to be the favorite type of storytellers. At this time, the old man smiled and said:
"There are more than 100 titled concubines and female officials, and there are more than 500 untitled concubines!"
"There are so many people... the emperor can't turn around just one person a year."
Everyone laughed obscenely, Xiang Guangshi wanted to explode, but saw the emperor laughing the loudest.
"But what we are talking about today are not concubines or female officials, but the daughters of Emperor Huizong, the thirty-four princesses of our Song Dynasty!"
"On the day when the city of Kaifeng was broken, the emperor led everyone to surrender, and that night he was given a banquet by the Jin people... It was said to be a banquet, but the dancers and wine drinkers were all members of our Zhao Guan family."
"Emperor Huizong naturally refused, but instead he offended the Jin people... It is said that he asked all the royal relatives to take off their clothes and just keep company with them..."
These words were extremely excessive. Not to mention the generals behind him, even Medicine Master Guo glanced at the emperor worriedly... He was afraid that this man would become angry out of humiliation.
But the emperor just stopped smiling and listened very seriously.
"The eldest princess, Zhao Yupan, was originally married to Zuowei General Zeng Wei, but the emperor used it to pay off the debts owed to the Jin Renhe, and she married Wanyan Zongpan as his concubine. Zongpan was killed by the moneymaker last year, and his whereabouts are unknown."
"The second princess, Zhao Jinnu, was married to Wanyanchang, who was twenty years older than her."
"The fourth princess Zhao Jinluo... the fourth princess was the most miserable. She was... ravaged to death in the Jin camp."
"The fifth princess, Zhao Fujin, has the most beautiful appearance... She was wanted by Wanyan Zongwang, and later she married Wanyan Xiyin... You only heard that it was a remarriage, but that beast of the Jin Kingdom doesn't know how to marry. It only took one year for the fifth princess to die. In Wanyan Xiyin's village... you all have to think about it for yourself, the old man doesn't dare to say anything anymore."
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"The thirty-fourth princess Zhao Xiaojin was only one year old during the Battle of Jingkang, but she was hacked to death by the Jinmen."
The old man talked boastfully, without even taking a breath, and detailed the whereabouts of more than thirty princesses.
Later, I also added a sentence about Zhao Gou's queen.
"Queen Xianjie, Xing Shengren, was pregnant when she was captured. She was forced by the Jin to ride a horse, and she fell off the horse and damaged her fetus... Everyone, it doesn't matter who you are, who is a relative of the Heavenly Family, that Jin is so ruthless, no matter what It’s all just one life.”
"Now that Princess Twenty-one is back, how many sins she has suffered and how many disasters she suffered in the Jinguo Laundry House... We just pretend that we don't know, and we have to let her live a clean life."
Everyone was thinking about their own thoughts, except for the few people who came in from behind, their eyes fell on the leader.
This person also thought for a while before he said:
"The Jin people are so ruthless, we in the Song Dynasty should consider peace as the most precious thing."
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Jun and Xiang Guangshi looked at each other, knowing that the emperor was being suppressed by hundreds of officials today. At this time, they heard about the past affairs of their sisters and their wives, and they may have already made plans.
Only Liu Qi sighed secretly and clenched his hands into fists, extremely excited.
But the other people in the shed quit, and everyone looked at him with contempt...
With that look, if he hadn't been neatly dressed, he would have been punched.
The more courageous ones even shouted directly:
"Don't you think you're like a bird? If you're kind, we'll repay you, but if you're kind, we won't repay you. What's the point?"
"No matter how powerful the Jin man is, he is not the only one whose life is taken care of by his father and his mother. If we can't defeat him alone, if ten people can't defeat him at the head office, then let's use fifty people."
"What a fucking bad luck!" Another person spat, "Hiding from the rain with a fucking pustule! I won't listen!"
With that said, he collected the fishing net and walked out in the rain.
With such a heavy storm, the price of fish in Lin'an City is likely to rise a lot tomorrow.
With this person taking the lead, he also alerted many people in the shed. After a while, only Liu Bang and the others were left here, as well as the fisherman who wanted to be lazy.
He was scolded several times, but Liu Bang didn't have the slightest thought of getting angry.
He looked at Pharmacist Guo, who understood and said:
"There are at least a hundred sheds like this along the Qiantang River."
"There are more than tens of millions of people fishing in the Song Dynasty."
"You think Qin Hui's voices are loud because you can only hear their voices, but this group of people..."
Pharmacist Guo pointed at them: "If they want to speak, millions of Qin Hui can't speak as loudly as them."
"But, don't you and your ministers all regard their voices as the chirping of cicadas, the croaking of frogs, the noise, and a gust of wind that cannot be heard,"
"His Majesty the Emperor, you are the Son of Heaven, the king of the people of the Song Dynasty, not just Qin Hui, not just the king of the ministers in the court, as long as you want..."
"You can."
