Chapter 267 Solve

Jin Si was promoted to the fifth-rank commander for his military achievements. He mailed Ouyang a lot of gifts from Hebei East Road to express his gratitude. Some people ginseng, pearls and other items were all top-quality goods. Ouyang instructed Jin Niang: "Give these things to Zhang San and the others tomorrow morning."

Jin Niang nodded and asked in confusion: "Sir, why do you like to date such people?"

"Jin Niang, Jin Si sent gifts to let others know that his backer was me. How could I not accept them?" Ouyang said: "You see, Jin Si was indeed a chief of the eighteen clans who had achieved great results and captured and killed the chief of the eighteen clans. The three tribes announced their enlistment to the Song Dynasty, which killed many people. Although his behavior was because of selfishness, it is undeniable that he did something that made contributions, not only for Song, but also for the Jurchens."

Jin Niang understood this truth, but she brought out even greater doubts: "Adults hope that fewer people will die, but why should we fight hard?"

"This question is quite complicated. I can only say that it is not only Liao and Jin, but also Mongolia will conquer in the future." Ouyang said: "At least I will not give up on their attacks just because they surrender. These are not whether I am willing to do it or not, but must do it. Even if the emperor does not agree, I will find a way to change the emperor's will."

"What about the future Tubo and Dali?"

"..." Ouyang thought for a while and said, "So I did not agree with the emperor raising taxes and profits, and to ensure the quantity, quality and sustainable use of the imperial guards."

Jin Niang took a breath: "Sir, is the advocacy, the Song Dynasty continues to use foreign troops? But the old saying goes: Fighting will lead to death."

"What the ancients said may not be justified." Ouyang said: "But you don't need that expression. The emperor can listen to me destroying Mongolia. Even if it is amazing, the emperor will definitely not attack Dali and Tubo."

"You Ouyang is so ambitious." Because Ouyang and Jin Niang were in the same room at night, they didn't close the door. They entered Ouyang's room alone, held a torch with their left hand and held a hand-swinging gun in their right hand and said, "Don't do anything randomly, I've made this line of fire short, and two numbers will explode." After pulling the clothes, there were two left on his waist.

"Wanyan Lan?" Ouyang sighed: "You are not tired of it. If you have nothing to do, you will cause trouble for me."

"Sit down" Wanyan Lan closed the door with her feet and pointed at Jin Niang. Jin Niang could only sit next to Ouyang. Wanyan Lan inserted the torch, then took out the rope behind her and threw it over and said, "Tie Ouyang up."

I am not afraid of the Jurchens playing with weapons, but I am afraid of the Jurchens playing with firearms. Why? Because they are all human bombs. Ouyang said to the hesitant Jin Niang: "Bind it. How did you come in?" There were four yamen runners on duty at the door.

"Is it difficult to come in?" Wanyan Lan said: "Come over the wall. For the sake of beauty, your subordinates only design the wall is more than four feet high. Turn around and I'll take a look."

Ouyang turned around helplessly, Wanyan Lan looked at the knot tied back for a while, nodded: "Sit back."

Jin Niang said: "Princess Wanyan, Lord Ou is just a loser..."

"Haha, he has no power to tie a chicken?" Wanyan Lan said: "I will not be fooled by him again."

"What do you want?" Ouyang asked.

"The formula of gunpowder, the money of your money house, Song Gongdao Juzhen secret, salt, gunpowder, iron, cotton... I want it all." Wanyan Lan said: "But as long as you cooperate with me to give me the first three items, I will let you go."

"I will just say any gunpowder formula, you don't know whether it is true or not. As for the money shop, I will make some trouble and make sure you can't get out if you go in. There is also the fact that Song attacks the Juzhen, I can also make up." Ouyang Xiao asked: "You should not be more practical, such as 1,000 guan."

"You think I'm a beggar."

"Okay, I have a secret to exchange." Ouyang asked: "Do you know why the Jurchens lost so quickly? Is Changbainan not able to resist at all?"

"Edited, just write it, I will never believe anything about you again."

Ouyang smiled bitterly: "Since you don't believe it at all, why are you threatening me? You won't have any benefits to kill me. You should know that with me, the Jurchens will be better in the future. If I don't have me, it's hard to say."

"Gunpowder formula." Wanyan Lan said unmoved: "If you give me a fake formula, I will cut off one of your arms first."

“Yeah, one to one to one.”

"Ouyang, do you really think I'm joking?" Wanyan Lan pointed at Jin Niang: "Then I'll kill her first."

Ouyang asked back: "How do you know that one to one to one is fake?"

"This..." Wanyan Lan was stunned.

Ouyang said: "The first process of gunpowder is grinding, and the second process is accurate formula. It must be one to one, and some mistakes will reduce the power. Why is Yangping gunpowder good? Because there are balances, very fine balances."

Wanyan Lan asked, "What is a balance?"

"Golden Girl"

Jin Niang replied: "The balance is like a seesaw. One side is heavier than the other side and it will sink. Both sides are as heavy as it will maintain balance."

"By the way, this thing was found very early." Ouyang added.

"Draw it."

Jin Niang said helplessly: "I have never seen it before, I have heard from the adults."

Wanyan Lan thought about it and said: "Money"

Ouyang smiled bitterly: "Sister, if you tie me up, you can't do anything. I don't need tokens to withdraw money, but I use letters."

"Then what are you going to do to the Jurchens?"

"This can be answered, erode the south of Changbai Mountain. Eliminate internal resistance forces. Force the Huanglong Mansion to force the main force of the Jurchens to fight with the imperial guards." Ouyang said: "At the same time, Yue Fei will land in and lead the Bin Mansion to restrain your troops. After destroying the Jurchens' main force, he will start to recruit tribes and divide you. Stable occupying the area, and then head north to drive your remaining forces to the sea."

"So cruel"

Ouyang said: "Well... it's still more cruel. If you don't join the Chinese nationality in the occupied areas, you will be killed. This is the opinion of Tong Guan and Zhang Jun, to exterminate the Jurchens. You Jurchens are actually only 200,000. Bai Qi killed 400,000 people overnight. So you should thank me and the emperor for being so kind. In the end, the emperor accepted it. "

"Hmph" Wanyan Lan heard the threat. If I, Ouyang, die at your hands, then the court may change its measures against the Jurchens. After all, the cost of extermination is better than comforting, and it can be done once and for all.

"Open that cabinet." Ouyang signaled with his head.

"Huh?" Wanyan Lan asked, "What's inside?"

“There is something you want.”

"Oh?" Wanyan Lan thought for a second, and in order to prevent any changes, she walked back and picked up the torch, then walked to the cabinet and hooked it open with her little finger. When she saw that the cabinet was empty, she turned her head in confusion, but saw a chair flying over. Then she saw Ouyang's hand that there were no signs of being tied up.

Wanyan Lan quickly rolled over and avoided the chair. Ouyang had already arrived. Wanyan Lan lit the hand-shaking cannon. Seeing the fire line of the hand-shaking cannon burning, Wanyan Lan was stunned for a moment. When she was stunned, she reached out her hands and grabbed the fire line and pulled it out. The fire line was pulled out of the hand-shaking cannon. Then there was a hand-to-hand fight.

Only then did Jin Niang know why Wanyan Lan tied up Ouyang's hands. Ouyang's skills were really good. Although they were not good at making moves, their moves were practical. Soon he completely subdued Wanyan Lan. Ouyang raised his hand: "Handcuffs"

"Well" Jin Niang hurriedly opened a drawer and threw the handcuffs made of steel inside. Ouyang skillfully pulled and pulled Wanyan Lan back.

Then Ouyang took away the hand-swinging cannon and stood up to breathe: "Are you tired when you do this every time?"

Wanyan Lan snorted and asked, "How did you loosen your ties?"

"This is a little magic." Ouyang said: "Actually, it was two ropes that tied me up, and I pulled the rope head in the palm of my hand. It was just a little trick."

Someone knocked on the door outside the door, and a yamen runner on duty said, "Sir, the yamen came to pass the message, saying that someone came to report it, and saw Wanyan Lan in Yangping."

"knew."

"Sir, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Ouyang said: "You go and do it, huh... let Lord Zhan come over."

"yes"

"What do you want?" Wanyan Lan asked when she walked away.

"I don't know either." Ouyang La Wanyanlan sat on the chair. Jin Niang helped organize the scattered items. Ouyang said with a headache: "Why can't you get along with me? I have let you go again and again. I want to ask you, what do you want? You should know that even if you hold me hostage, you can't get out of Yangping. What do you want to do?"

"We Jurchens..."

"We Jurchens, you Jurchens, I'm tired of hearing it. I've submitted a submission to the emperor. There will be no Jurchens, no Khitans, no Qiangs, no Hans, all of them are called the Chinese nation. You spoil your tails to the sky. What do you think is the difference between your Jurchens? Do you think you Jurchens are the god-given tribes? You Jurchens are bullied by the Liao people, so how can we calculate that we were almost exterminated by the Five Barbarians invading China?" Ouyang said angrily: "This is not the knowledge of your farming skills of the Han people, and gunpowder is not the knowledge of the Han people. You Jurchens are so amazing, don't use the skills of the Han people. Damn, the ethnic groups with close relatives and intermarriage think they are so awesome."

"you……"

"Am I not saying the truth? Your capitals are all imitating Tokyo construction. Jin Niang also asked me why I support war. I tell you, I support war because they are jealous of the rich life of the Yuan Dynasty, but they are unwilling to create it themselves. If you do not destroy you, they will be destroyed sooner or later by you." In various countries, Xixia has been influenced by the Yuan Dynasty and has gradually become a feudal state, while Liao is a semi-feudal and half-slave. Jin is a semi-slave and half-primitive. Although there is no objective reason for the construction, Ouyang can see the disadvantages of the Jurchen plunder and occupation of the Jurchens very clearly.

"Sir" Zhan Ming shouted outside the door.

"Come in"

Zhan Ming pushed the door and looked at the chaos and Wanyan Lan who was locked and wiped her cold sweat and asked, "Sir, are you okay?"

"fine."

"Kill it to avoid future troubles." Zhan Ming said: "Even if it is sent back to Danei, it will be executed secretly."

"Hu Wansan said it well, he can't watch Jin Niang die in front of him." Ouyang said: "Help me send her to Cangzhou Prison and be an unregistered prisoner."

The basic prisons of the Song Dynasty were very interesting, and only used to detain defendants, witnesses and cases. The prisoners after the sentence did not serve in prison, and they were temporary detention places. The reason for the appearance of the Cangzhou prison was related to Emperor Wu of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

A Confucian scholar wrote a letter to Emperor Wu of Han about the unity of man and nature. One of them was to ask for the prisoners to be executed after the autumn. Of course, the reasons were nonsense, or they could not trust the ancients. In the Song Dynasty, except for the crimes of rebellion, such as subordinates killing superiors and slaves killing masters, other death rows could not be executed in the spring. However, there were temporary prisons everywhere, and these facilities were not perfected, so each route designed a Cangzhou prison to escort and execute prisoners to spend the spring in prison.

Later, not all the prisoners were killed. Some of the criminals were punished because they could not be implemented, and they were sentenced to the Criminal Court, or Dali Temple, and some people who had to go through procedures to re-examine the crime, so they were temporarily detained in various prisons. Unless troops were sent to attack in these places, there was no possibility of escape from prison. Each prison was supervised and managed by the Ministry of Justice. It can be said that it was the most strict place, and it was more systematic than the several Heavenly Prisons in Tokyo.

Ouyang planned to secretly detain Wanyan Lan in such a place. Ouyang took out a stack of silver notes and handed it to Zhan Ming: "Don't make a difference in food. Let her take a shower every few days. He told the people inside not to do anything randomly."

Zhan Ming nodded: "I understand what the adults mean is that they eat and drink well, but they must not leave the cell for half a step."

"kindness"

Zhan Ming said: "I'll go find a carriage and let Zhang San help him."

"good"

"You kill me." Wanyan Lan gritted her teeth. She knew that in those places, the cells were made of iron and embedded on the stone walls, and there were big bluestones on the ground. There was only a small window at a four-meter high. She also knew that Ouyang was definitely not intimidation. With Ouyang's ability, he could do it easily, and even let himself die of old age.

"You don't cherish the glory and wealth for you." Ouyang said: "Don't think you are a princess, and Da Nei won't do it. Da Nei has been murdering several times. I have been protecting you in front of the emperor. The emperor sees my face and has specially sent a few inner guards to monitor you. Don't worry, don't stay for a long time. When the Jurchens are finished, I will let you out. Jinniang, help get some food and send her on the way."

"Okay" Jin Niang nodded and left.

Ouyang said: "If you need anything, just say it."

"No" Wanyan Lan is very stubborn.

Zhan Ming and Zhang San arrived soon, Ouyang asked them to wait, Jin Niang's red bean porridge was cooked, and after persuading Wanyan Lan to eat, Wanyan Lan was taken on the carriage. The carriage was out at night and headed towards the prison.

Wanyan Lan's affairs finally came to an end. Soon it was the annual business association again. Before the meeting, there was still a secret meeting of three people. The focus of everyone's discussion this time was about Mengsheng. Ouyang said: "According to the investigation, people, especially young people, can accept such a society. The most intuitive thing is that many young people began to resist the marriage arranged by their families. They elope to work in some more prominent areas of Yangping, and found ways to settle down. They rely on their own hands to earn a life."

Su Qiandao: "Some people in the court have begun to pay attention to the story of sleepwalking."

"I heard that it was proposed by the Minister of Rites first." Zhou An smiled and said, "Before his daughter got married, she eloped to Yangzhou with a private school teacher. No wonder he was angry and said that Sleepwalking is a demon book."
To be continued...