Chapter 447 The Golden Man Invaded

Chapter 447 The Golden Man Invaded

Zhang Heng grinned and smiled silently at Guo Yaoshi: "Does Lord Guo know that our family was once a pirate in Dengzhou, but later the court surrendered and became an official army. Later, Hu Yanchuo defeated the Liangshan brothers and surrendered to Liangshan..."

Yaoshi Guo pressed his waist knife with his hand and looked at Zhang Heng with a smile. He thought Zhang Heng was bored. What did he do when he said this nonsense?

Zhang Heng took a breath and continued, "When I followed Liangshan, our family was wandering and was shocked every day... Whenever I recalled the days when I was ten acres of land, a cow, my wife and children were warm on the kang, that was a normal life. After the court's kindness, I failed and did not cherish it. Alas... So when I saw another opportunity, I stopped wandering around, so our family had to sacrifice my life to repay.

Hehe, Lord Guo just said that you have 50,000 people. I said that you have at most 30,000 people, but this difference is nothing. I only brought two hundred people, and there are only 30 people on the top of the city. However, Lord Guo can try it, kill me and see what the consequences will be?"

Guo Yaoshi sneered: "I joined the army at the age of twelve, and now I am fifty-three. I have been killing people for 41 years. I don't have more than you, but I don't have less. Don't tease me easily?"

Zhang Heng replied with a smile: "Why don't you try it - I promise, you will die in front of me, and your whole family will die in behind me."

Pharmacist Guo narrowed his eyes, and the air around him suddenly became cold: "Tell me, what are you going to do?"

Zhang Hengha said: "Mr. Guo, to put it in a word that my parents often say: It is not my duty to teach people to be smart. Do you want to know the result? Just try it and let you know this kind of thing in advance, which is not what I like to do."

Pharmacist Guo stared at Zhang Heng, and the latter still smiled at Pharmacist Guo without fear. After a long time, Pharmacist Guo smiled: "We are still allies... You just said right, it is not my habit to wait for death. Whoever wants to try to find out."

What Guo Yaoshi said about "try" does not mean killing Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng laughed to the sky: "Okay, those who know the times are heroes. Since Lord Guo is on the road like this, I will remind you - since the Jin people can regard your Tanggu as a thoroughfare, and even your butler is helping them, can't we buy a few people?"

Pharmacist Guo turned his head and looked at his entourage one by one with fierce eyes. He was thinking about who was suspicious and who might be bought. Zhang Heng continued, "But, Lord Guo, since I told you this strategy... would you guess if I will use it again next time?"

Yaoshi Guo was furious - your adult is smart, so you can't play tricks on others like this. If you throw this problem out, do you still let me trust my confidants? Isn't this a cheating father?

"Ally, we are still allies, right?" Guo Yaoshi didn't know how to continue the following topic, so he just kept chanting.

"Of course, it's an ally. What I said just now is pretty good. As long as Lord Guo knows, we are honest with you, we will never interfere in your affairs, we just ask you to delay and strive to stick to this city until my Lord decides to take action. This is not difficult."

"Okay, deal"

Guo Yaoshi relied on Tanggu City to recruit soldiers, and the Changsheng Army quickly grew to more than 100,000 people. These soldiers needed more than 100,000 hu of grain per month. Except for the time being transported through secret places, all the grain was supplied from Hedong and Hebei. At this time, the road was difficult to move due to civil war, and the food was often cut off. When the officers and soldiers lacked food, they plundered wealthy households, blocked the road, and squeezed out the food and grass of other troops. Local officials and imperial censors impeached one after another. Seeing this, Daojun wanted to recruit Guo Yaoshi back to Beijing, but Guo Yaoshi refused to go to Beijing on the pretext of being busy with military affairs and severe enemy situation.

In October of the fifth year of Xuanhe, after Wang Anzhong resigned, Yanjing had no leader, so the court issued an edict ordering Tan Zhen to temporarily serve as the envoy of the Xuanfu Envoy of Hebei.

Tan Shen was once Tong Guan's deputy, and he was the guy who was stupid to him and clapped his hands and praised him. As soon as this guy took office, he immediately offended the two popular powerful ministers of the Jin Kingdom.

First, he offended the fierce Zong Han - according to the agreement between the Song and Jin Dynasties, the Jin Kingdom took 200,000 yuan of money from the Song Dynasty and wanted to grant Shuozhou, Wuzhou and Weizhou in Yunzhong area to the Northern Song Dynasty. Zong Han was the commander of Yunzhong and was responsible for handling the delivery matters. However, after Wanyan Aguda died, Zong Han heard the bad news that Jin Taizu returned to the west, and rushed back to attend the funeral, so the matter was put aside.

If Tan Zhen was a person who understood the truth, then he would go to be filial and mention the things about Yunzhong by the way, which is also a normal diplomatic etiquette. At least he had to keep the same status and wait for Zong Han to come back. But Tan Shen was anxious to make political achievements as soon as he took office. He gave a list of articles to recruit the people of the three states into Yanjing, and then immediately expressed his merits to Emperor Daojun. Emperor Daojun became angry and ordered Tan Shen to send a large army to accept Shuozhou, Wuzhou, and Weizhou... Oh, and by the way, he drove out the Jin army like a tiger and wolf.

Zong Han was immediately angry when he heard the news - in fact, the Jin Kingdom was originally going to exchange three states, but when countries interacted with each other, they had to respect each other a little, right? Come over in advance and say hello, will you, Tan Shen die?

Zong Han immediately expressed his opposition to the exchange to Emperor Taizong of Jin Wu Qimai, the Southern Dynasties were distrustful, and repeatedly destroyed the alliance, and recruited surrenders and rebels. Judging from the documents seized from Zhang Jue, the State of Song also planned to subvert our Great Jin regime; secondly, the terrain of Shuozhou, Wuzhou and Weizhou was dangerous. If we handed over, the Song people attacked him, how could they defend it? Thirdly, the remaining Liao Kingdom's intention to destroy the Jin Dynasty was not dead, and the three states were almost the key to Liaodong and should not be discarded.

In fact, the last reason is pure nonsense - when you signed the agreement and collected the money, why didn’t you expect that the three states were the “key to Liaodong”?

Jin Taizong did not agree with Zong Han's statement - mainly because Wu Qimai was a guy who only did not talk. Now that the military rations are not fully prepared, he just ascended the throne, people are unstable, and he felt that it was meaningless to make a statement too early.

Later, Zong Han had a plan, and the military rations could not be collected, right? Let the second prince Zong look to the Song Dynasty to ask for the 200,000 shi of military rations that Zhao Liangsi promised. Previously, less than 50,000 shi of military rations were delivered. After all, the remaining military rations were collected, the food for the attack on Song Dynasty was complete. Tan Shen indeed sent a handle to the Jin people to start the war. He replied disdainfully: One day the emperor and one day the ministers, the military rations that Zhao Liangsi promised, it has nothing to do with me if you ask Zhao Liangsi to go.

Zong Wang was furious and asked: Zhao Liangsi, as a minister of the Song Dynasty, replaced the court's military rations to promise me. Are you not an official of the Song Dynasty? You don't mean the court? The Song Dynasty owes me military rations, so the Song Dynasty should give me. Now you are responsible, take out the food... Tan Shen decided to send the envoy sent by Zong Wang out so that the other party would not be able to answer the questions raised by him.

In mid-November, Zong Han returned to Zhongjing after attending the funeral, and immediately encouraged Zong Wang to send troops into Weizhou to expel the Song army. By the way, he seized the Xuanfu documents sent by the Northern Song Dynasty court to these three prefectures. Later, the Jin Dynasty instructed the Western Xia to attack the Wu and Shuo prefectures controlled by the Northern Song Dynasty, and also captured the Feihu and Lingqiu counties belonging to Yingzhou of the Northern Song Dynasty, and clearly announced that the Song Dynasty court should not want the Yunzhong area. We will not return it.

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Emperor Daojun dismissed Wang Fu for the charge of "colluding with the inner official Liang Shicheng", and Cai Jing resumed his prime minister for the fourth time. Later, Emperor Daojun felt that Tan Shen was more unreliable than Tong Guan's work. Yunzhong spent 200,000 yuan in silver. Not only did the five states behind Shanhou not take them back, but the flying fox was lost. Lingqiu two pieces of land that originally belonged to the Emperor Song Dynasty, which was really depressed... Cai Jing suggested to replace Tan Shen.

So, the idiot Tong Guan came out again. In order to comfort this old hero, Taoist king rewarded Tong Guan with the honor of "Guangyang County Prince". As a result, Tong Guan became an unprecedented eunuch prince in Chinese history.

In the same month, Emperor Tianzuo was captured in the Song Dynasty, and the handwritten letter written by Emperor Daojun to Emperor Tianzuo was also presented to Zonghan and Zongwang's table. Emperor Daojun promised in the letter that once Emperor Tianzuo returns to Song and is responsible for inciting the Liao people to oppose the Jin Dynasty, he would give Emperor Tianzuo 1,000 houses and 300 beauties, allowing him to enjoy the treatment of the Emperor's brother of the Song Dynasty, and his status is above the King of Yan and King Yue...

On the same day, Zong Han also learned that the "Yanjing tax money" given to the Jin Kingdom by the Song Dynasty was rejected by merchants of the Song Kingdom in Fuzhou. The reason for the rejection was that this batch of money was "as ten coins", and one coin had only one ordinary copper plate weighing, but it contained less copper and had high quality and counterfeitness, but it had to be used as ten copper plates... According to the merchants of the Song Dynasty, it was almost the same as three of these money as one normal copper plate.

Zong Han's head buzzed and exploded: One million, two hundred thousand generations of taxes, according to the conversion method of the merchants of the Song Dynasty, was actually worth 40,000 yuan... There was no bullying like this. So Zong Han and Zong Wang jointly wrote a letter asking to attack the Song Dynasty.

At this time, Tong Guan came and secretly arrested Guo Yaoshi with the mission of Emperor Daojun. Tong Guan led his confidants to Tanggu City. Before Tong Guan could do it, Guo Yaoshi invited Tong Guan to parade. Tong Guan and Guo Yaoshi came to an empty space outside the field, and the surroundings were quiet. Tong Guan was wondering whether to start. Guo Yaoshi suddenly waved the flag, and saw ambushing soldiers rising up, with great momentum, as if coming out of the underground

Tong Guan was frightened and hurriedly praised Guo Yaoshi for his military training. He didn't even know how to train Tanggu City, so he hurriedly fled back to Yanjing. Later, in order to check and balance the Changsheng Army, Tong Guan, Cai You recruited Yanyun's powerful people and organized them into Zhongsheng Army. He had more than 200,000 people in total, but the government had no money and rice. The more than 200,000 people fled to the Central Plains on their own and made a living by looting. The local government was powerless.

Guo Yaoshi is a tiger and wolf-like nature. Such people should either not provoke them. If they provoke them, they should do it all the time. Tong Guan was in a hurry to play with Guo Yaoshi's IQ when he was applauding. Since he had provoked them and alarmed the other party, he was also insidious and had no courage and was at a loss to deal with them, he would instead make Guo Yaoshi's unreliable and moral...

At this time, the military reserves accumulated in the Song Dynasty since Xining and Yuanfeng had been exhausted, and the Zuozang Deposit and the treasury in various places were empty. In the past two years, more than 62 million chunks of banned husbands (Yanjing tax money) were collected, resulting in chaos in the world and people's grievances. In the winter of the fifth year of Xuanhe, natural disasters were frequent, and earthquakes were followed by earthquakes in Tokyo, Xihe, Hebei and other places. Jingdong, Hebei, Liangzhe and other roads suffered major floods. The people could only eat tree bark, wild vegetables, and even people were eaten. The government did not go to provide relief and continued to impose taxes.

Later, civil rebellion broke out everywhere and thieves were rampant. Because there were few officials and soldiers, they could no longer use force to settle the rebels. In order to "maintain stability", Emperor Daojun decided to block the word "civil chaos" - from then on, there was no "civil chaos" in the Song Dynasty. Local officials had to focus on recruiting and pacifying, but after recruiting and pacifying, they were unable to resettle them. Many places rebelled again...

At the end of the twelfth month of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Emperor Daojun walked into Li Shishi's private curtain with a secret road in the palace, listened to the song and was happy with Li Shishi. Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty, Wu Qimai ordered the attack on the Song Dynasty. The crown prince of the Jin Dynasty, "An Banbo Jilie (Crown Prince) Wanyan Gao (Wanyan Xieye)" heard this order and said with a smile: Yin Keshu said that there are many beautiful women in the Song Dynasty, now we can go to the flower world to have a good time, hahahaha

At the beginning of the war, the border was very calm. The Jin Kingdom first issued a document asking for an official meeting to return Yunzhong with the Song court. The envoys sent to the Song court were very enthusiastic. Of course, the envoys sent to the Western Xia Kingdom were also very enthusiastic. The envoys sent to the Western Xia Kingdom were also very enthusiastic. The Jin envoys who went to the Western Xia notified the Xixia that they shared the secret agreement of the Song Dynasty and could be initiated.

At this time, the army transferred to Pingzhou and Yunzhong reached its peak in scale, even exceeding the number of local residents. However, these armies abide by discipline and will never provoke any disputes on the border - but almost all border officials of the Song court issued warnings to the court, with the warnings being the same: the Jin people wanted to attack the Song Dynasty.

At this time, snow began to fall in Bianliang City. The snow fell for more than ten days in a row, and the snow was buried with the city wall to climb high. Such heavy snow restricted the transmission of information. The court's prime minister (the prime minister on duty, known as "holding the ruling pen"), and the Dazai Bai Shizhong received an alarm and searched for the emperor's advice everywhere in the palace. The eunuch replied: There is a platoon in the official family.

The meaning of this code is: The emperor is with Li Shishihapi in his outer room.

Bai Shizhong sighed and then asked Tong Guan to investigate in the name of governing. Before the news was sent to Yanjing, the Jin Dynasty had already issued an ultimatum to the Xuanfu Department of Shaanxi, Hebei and Hedong. The Jin Dynasty envoy went to find Tong Guan and handed over the letter of transportation.

The document reads: "My Emperor Taizu of Jin abides by his oath and gives the captured Yan land to Song. King Zhao Ji of Song is betrayal and absurd, colludes with Zhang Jue, the minister of the border of the Golden Border, rebelliously and rebels, kills ministers, and seduces the residents of Yan land in private, and does not pay the silver and silk every year on time... Now, he is honored by the emperor, and the king's army is promoted to punish the people and attack the crimes. He advances both east and west and west to recover the original land to the Song State. If Zhao Ji knows the crime and regrets it, the two countries can be the boundary of the Yellow River. This is a punishment for provoking trouble and recruiting rebellion!"

Tong Guan suddenly felt like five thunders thunder, and the sky was spinning. He asked the Jin envoy tremblingly: "Why didn't you discuss it with me in advance for such a big thing?"

The Jin envoy laughed wildly and replied: "We are going to war with you. Let's discuss your IQ, you really don't know how to get into this seat?"

Then, the Jin Marshal's Office issued a proclamation to the prefectures and counties north of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty. In addition to proposing the betrayal of Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty, the proclamation also revealed that he was betrayed nothingness and forged destiny; he valued eunuchs and provoked border affairs; he was extremely wasteful and had all five poisons; he harmed the people and acted without justice; he was as harsh as a ox. He ordered officials and military and civilians of various prefectures and counties to choose good things and take advantage of them. If they receive money from the army, they could make meritorious service and receive rewards and take office as their original positions. Wherever the army arrived, all the harsh and miscellaneous taxes of the Zhao Song Dynasty were exempted from all the harsh and miscellaneous taxes, so that the people could live and work in peace and recuperate.

The evil flower finally bears the evil fruit. The frivolous and evil encroachment of the government made the public resentment like a volcano erupting. The people in Hebei and Shaanxi, who suffered from the labor of the two Northern Expeditions, were talking about it: they were usually bullied by officials, but the people had no choice but to endure it. This time... Hehe, God has long eyes.

In the first month of the sixth year of Xuanhe, the Jin Dynasty's Zhongjing, Shangjing, Tokyo, Pingzhou, Liaoxi, Changchun, Meng'an Mouke military households, as well as Yunzhong and other places, a total of 120,000 surrendered troops, crossing the Song-Jin border in two routes. At this point, the war broke out in full swing...
Chapter completed!