Many people didn't sleep well that night.
Whether it's Han Chang or Wanyan Saili.
We all know that we have caused great trouble, but when people get into trouble, it is difficult to admit it directly.
On the contrary, the trace of luck in my heart will get bigger and bigger, until it completely occupies my heart.
At this time, it doesn't matter whether it was a fluke or not. What matters is that you can deceive yourself.
The Song Dynasty did this to the Liao Dynasty, and it did the same to the Jin Dynasty later.
And now...
Maybe...it's not a big deal.
Swords have no eyes, everyone may die on the battlefield, and it is not a big deal if he dies suddenly.
If the Thousand Iron Pagodas are lost, they are lost. The Song people did not have the habit of using such heavily armored soldiers, so they should be regarded as lost in battle.
Whoever goes to war has to lose something.
He said so, but the cock crowed twice in the morning, and Han Chang saw Wanyan Saili at the South City Gate.
"You Prime Minister got up so early, he is really worried about the country and the people."
King Gaitian turned around and looked at him, and both of them saw the bitterness in each other's eyes.
The defeats of Dajin since the founding of the People's Republic of China have all been concentrated in the past two years.
And this Yingzhou City seems to have become an unknown place for them.
Why, I just let myself encounter it.
Saili didn't sleep all night, but he didn't feel sleepy at all:
"The news here, I sent someone to Kaifeng overnight last night. I don't know how the fourth prince will treat the two of us if he finds out."
The soldier next to him brought up a chair, and Han Chang sat next to Sai Li:
"Although I am a Han Chinese, I grew up in the Liao Kingdom. Later, I joined my father in Daikin. When it comes to dealing with Han people, I am not as good as You Prime Minister."
"What does this mean, Marshal?"
Although it is September now, there is still a chill in the morning. Han Chang puts a blanket on his legs and sits more comfortably:
"Du Gongmei is dead."
Du Gongmei is Du Chong, who used to be the prime minister of Zhao Gou and later became the third envoy of Dajin.
He died this year. The peace agreement between Song and Jin had just been reached, and this man was already dead.
Sai Li didn't know what he wanted to say. This was not new news. Neither Han Chang nor himself had a deep relationship with Du Chong.
"But now it's Tu Hesu who dies."
Han Chang shook his head. Although this man was known as the wise general of the Jin Kingdom, except for marching and fighting, his mind seemed to be just like that.
"When Du Chong was in office in the Southern Dynasties, he first directly abandoned Hebei... At that time, although Dajin was powerful, there were countless rebels and unruly people in the land they occupied... If I remember correctly, most of the time, within one day Seven state capitals rebelled one after another. You Cheng knew very well that if the Song Dynasty insisted on resisting at that time, we would not have been able to take so much land so easily."
Wanyan Saili knew that what he said was the truth, but he still didn't understand why he said this.
Fortunately, he had dealt with Han people a lot, and he had a very calm temperament. He knew that Han Chang must have something else to say, so he listened patiently.
"Later, Du Chong fled south to Jiankang, leaving Zongze alone to carry it in the north. This also allowed us to acquire a large area of land north of the Yangtze River with almost no effort."
"This was the prefect in Cangzhou. At that time, the two countries had just fought, and the outcome was still unclear. Du Gongmei was worried that the Han people in Liaodong were our internal agents of the Jin Dynasty, so he killed them all, men, women, old and young."
"He claimed that he could not only strategize, but also personally lead troops into battle. But as soon as the Second Prince's heavenly soldiers arrived, the only thing he did was to open the Yellow River embankment in an attempt to stop the Second Prince... But in addition to drowning 200,000 Song people, Not even one of our men or horses was hurt."
Saili doesn't want to hear this man's story, this man is not important at all!
It's not important to be alive, and it's even less important to be dead.
Rather than talking about this, it would be better to think about how to face the cross-examination from Si Taizi!
"When the Marshal has something to say, he says it bluntly. We are all gentlemen and there is no need to go around in circles."
Han Chang didn't care about Saili interrupting him, but waved his hand, and the soldiers brought a wooden plate.
What was riding on it was a human head.
Saili stood up suddenly:
"What do you mean?!"
This man was the fast horse he sent to Kaifeng to report the message last night, and he turned out like this!
Han Chang pulled Saili's sleeve:
"Prime Minister, don't disturb me. Sit down first. Sit down first."
"You must give me an explanation!"
"Hey..." Han Chang shook his head, "Prime Minister, there is a ready-made example in front of us. Why don't you follow it?"
"Who in the world has made greater mistakes than Du Chong? This pig and dog lost half of the people of the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. What was the final outcome? He was praised by Emperor Zhao as 'predicting the enemy when the opportunity arises, as has ancient times' The wind of general! 'It's 'forgetting one's country and one's family, and gaining the courage of one's father-in-law'!"
"Du Chong was not demoted but promoted instead, so he became the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty. Then he surrendered to me, Daijin, and still achieved the position of prime minister."
"What I mean is, why do we need to explain things so clearly?"
Sai Li came back to his senses... Han Chang wanted to falsely convey military information, but this was a capital crime!
Admitting your mistake now may save your life, but if you make the same mistake again and again, you will be dead.
But the examples Han Chang gave are really convincing. After all, he worked hard all his life to achieve the wealth and glory he has today. It would be too frustrating if he lost everything because of a sudden change of speed!
Seeing that he was a little moved, Han Chang pulled him to sit down. This time King Gaitian did not resist, and was still thinking about Han Chang's words in his mind.
"Anyway, these are the same words. We say them backwards and forwards. It's all up to us."
"It's easy to explain why Tuhesu underestimated the enemy and rushed in, but... But if the Iron Buddha Temple is lost, how should we explain it?"
Han Tong looked at him as if he were a fool: "Where do I need to explain?"
"Um?"
"If you don't tell me, if I don't tell you, the Iron Buddha Temple will always be in Yingzhou. As for our Dragon and Tiger King... As long as we hold on to Yingzhou, we will be able to help the Fourth Prince in his plan." It’s not difficult to balance the merits and demerits.”
"Then..." Saili finally nodded, "I'll give it to the marshal."
Han Chang wanted to comfort him a few words, but saw many figures in front of him.
Saili also saw it, and the two of them were shocked. Did it come so fast? !
He quickly asked the guards to blow horns and gongs to alert the entire army, but they saw that the person coming was not a Song sergeant.
Instead, they were people dressed as ordinary people, men, women, old and young...Looking at these figures, there must be at least tens of thousands of them.
Saili sneered:
"The Nanman have underestimated me and others. If we come here at this time, there must be a lot of spies among them!"
"The marshal should ask people to shoot arrows quickly. There is no reason to kill by mistake!"
Needless to say, Han Chang was pretty much what he thought.
but……
"There is indeed a shortage of people in the city right now. Why don't we do some investigation? If we really identify the Song spies, it won't be too late to kill them then."
Saili quit this time: "We just relied on these unruly people yesterday and we suffered a big loss. Today we can't let them go at any cost!"
Saying that, no matter how the people below shouted to open the city gate, Saili arranged the archers on his own.
He had already made up his mind... Han Chang had originally agreed to kill him, so he might have to think about it.
But since Han Chang objects, he must agree.
Firstly, it was to vent his anger, and secondly, he wanted to tell Han Chang that he could, and could,
You don't have to listen to everything he says.
Seeing his persistence, Han Chang compromised.
This person is tied to himself in the same boat, so there is no need to offend him over these small things.
Although he is Han, Han Chang feels that identity can change according to the situation.
This is the reason why he doesn't do things right. Who knows if one day he will become a general of the Song Dynasty?
And the most important point is that he had already used the lives of the people of Yingzhou to bargain with the other side yesterday, so he should make Captain Zhang suffer some pain.
To put it bluntly, it was Wanyan Saili who killed him, what does it have to do with Han Chang!
"We are all Dajin citizens, and our families all live in Yingzhou City. Why don't you open the door?"
"Don't you regard Yingzhou as the capital of the Great Jinzhou? Do you want to imitate the Song people and abandon us?"
"There are still old acquaintances of my relatives in the city. If you don't believe it, ask them to come out and recognize me and you will know!"
…
The people below were noisy louder and louder. All the archers called by Saili were already in place. As long as he gave the order, a hole would be opened in these people immediately.
"Cunning Southern Barbarian!"
Sai Li waved his hand...only halfway before he was told to stop.
"No shooting! I'm from the Tudan family! No shooting, I'm from the Tudan family!"
It was because of these words that Saili retracted his hand abruptly.
This person was not requesting, but directly using the tone of command.
The order was given by King Gaitian of the Kingdom of Jin and Right Prime Minister Wanyan Saili.
He exchanged looks with Han Chang in surprise, and the latter swallowed:
"How come people from the Tushan family...appeared in Yingzhou?"
"How can you manage so many things!"
Regardless of whether this person is real or fake... Even if he is fake now, Saili will not dare to do anything wrong before his identity is verified.
The Tushan clan is a wealthy Jurchen family and has been married to the royal family for generations.
The men in his family are princesses, and the women are married into the clan. Currently, there are three queens... Counting from Wanyan Aguda, there are only three emperors in the Jin Kingdom!
It is said that after Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda gave birth to more than a dozen sons, his first daughter, the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Ulu, married Brother Tudan Ding of the Tudan family.
The first daughter of the Wanyan family, Jin Taizu doted on her very much. In addition, all the brothers loved this sister. Her status was more noble than that of many princes.
This Wanyan Wulu and the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu are real compatriots from the same mother, and now the Kingdom of Jin is the fourth prince himself.
No matter where you start, apart from the Wanyan family, the Tudan family can be said to be the truly No. 1 wealthy family in Daijin.
And now, some people say it's from his family.
Both Sai Li and Han Chang were in high positions, and the relationship between the Jin Kingdom and the Song Kingdom was not as complex as that of the Song Kingdom. He did not dare to rush in at this time, so he just led his own soldiers out of the city:
"I wonder which member of the Tushan family it is?"
The man seemed to know Saili's identity, but he didn't show off. He bowed first, then stood up and said:
"I'm just a slave of General Fengguo's family. How dare I bother the general to pick him up in person?"
He said that, but his commanding tone just now did not regard Saili as a general at all.
And the General Feng Guo he mentioned was Tu Dan Gong, brother Tu Dan Ding's biological brother and uncle of the eldest princess.
This man, who once served as Yin of Taiyuan, boasted that he had seen the real Buddha and ordered people to collect gold in Taiyuan to build a pure gold Buddha statue.
In the end, the gold was collected, but the Buddha statue went into his pocket.
The people of Taiyuan hated him for his insatiable greed and privately called him "Manager Jin".
Saili saw him take out the bronze arrowhead of the Tushan family again, and talked to him in Jurchen for a few words. The man's answers were fluent and flawless, and King Gaitian was already very convinced.
Quickly, we must invite him into the city.
But this one waved his hand: "General, if you want to enter the city, we should enter the city together."
Saili looked at these people with some hesitation on his face:
"But you don't know that we just fought against the Nanman yesterday. The location of Yingzhou City is very important. We don't dare to make any mistakes. Otherwise, we won't be able to explain it to the Fourth Prince."
He couldn't refuse directly, so he had to use his name as Wanyan Wushu, hoping that this person would be more sensible.
But it was obvious that this person was not very discerning, or that he did not want to give face to King Gaitian.
"I was down there just now, and I heard what these people said, and I thought it was very reasonable."
"Yingzhou is my big metal land? If so, then they are naturally my big metal people. People of big gold can't enter the city of big gold. What's the reason?"
"Besides, they are all people who escaped from Yingzhou yesterday. I met them on the way north, so I gathered them together and brought them back... Could the general be suspicious of the villain? "
This housekeeper who has been working in Prime Minister Qin's Mansion for more than ten years has become very good at pretending to watch people talk. Although Saili's status is nobler than him, he was intimidated by his confident appearance for a while.
He looked at Han Chang for help, and the latter paused. This was not someone he could afford to offend.
But as the commander of the first army, he still had to put Yingzhou's safety first, so he stepped forward and said:
"Of course we trust you sir, but the matter is really important and we don't dare to act rashly..."
Seeing the man's brows gradually frowning, Han Chang finally sighed:
"In this case, we will ask the people in the city to come and recognize the person. If there are indeed people we know in the city, we will let them in."
This was considered a huge concession. Mr. Qin also knew that telling the name of Tu Shan's family would achieve the greatest effect, so he no longer forced it.
"It just caused more trouble for the two generals out of thin air. Don't blame the two generals."
"Sir, what are you talking about? It should be, it should be."
Everyone looked peaceful.
People outside the city reported their names, and the Jin soldiers in the city went to look for them. After verifying that they were correct, they were released into the city.
It just made many people a little strange. A woman took her man back, looked at Wang Qi and Wang Shun who were following her, and asked in a low voice:
"Master, when did you get these relatives in your family?"
"You're a woman, why are you talking so much!"
…
The spies of the Imperial City Department reported back the news of the people entering the city. Medical Master Guo really admired the Emperor.
If he was just surprised before, now, he is indeed a little convinced.
"Aren't you afraid that the Jin people will reveal your plan again and they will set up an ambush waiting for us to pass?"
Liu Bang's mouth was so crooked that even a blind person could see his disdain.
"People in the world have their weaknesses after all. Qin Da Qin San is not afraid of death. What he is afraid of is that their family members in the Kingdom of Jin will suffer disaster."
"And if, no matter what, their family members will suffer, if it were you, would you have done something with me to save your life and still make some money...or would you have died in an unknown way?"
As he spoke, he did not say how he threatened Qin San, but looked at the map of Yingzhou City and ordered:
"Yue Yun went from east to west, Zhang Xian went from west to east, Wang De and Uncle Liu Xin attacked the south gate directly, Zhang Jun was waiting thirty miles to the north, and no one was allowed to escape!"
Everyone said 'Nuo', and Liu Bang said again:
"Remember, replace all the flags with mine! After this battle, I want everyone in the world to know..."
"I am in Yingzhou!"
And you, Wanyan Wushu, do you dare to come?
Happy Dragon Boat Festival and good health, eat more rice dumplings
Does anyone think meat dumplings are heresy?
I really don’t understand why some people like to eat meat rice dumplings.
(End of chapter)
