Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Zhao Huan naively thought that as long as he admitted defeat and satisfied all of Jiang Hongfei's demands, the Yuan army would withdraw, the war would end, and he could learn from Goujian's efforts to make himself stronger.

But even though Zhao Huan had already accepted it, Jiang Hongfei still had no intention of leaving, and even had no intention of letting him return to the city.

Zhao Huan panicked!

Zhao Huan quickly arranged for Xie Kejia to find Wu Yong to inquire.

Wu Yong said to Xie Kejia: "This matter all originated from King Kang. Your Majesty has already known that King Kang has established the Grand Marshal's Office in Weicheng and wants to raise troops to fight. How can you let your emperor return to the city?"

At this time, with the help of Wang Boyan, Zhao Gou had recruited more than 10,000 troops, and Zong Ze was also recruiting troops in Huazhou.

However, the combined forces of Zhao Gou and Zong Ze are actually less than 20,000 at present.

Many people felt that with Zhao Gou's small number of troops, it was not worth Jiang Hongfei's attention at all.

Only Jiang Hongfei knew that although Zhao Gou was incompetent, his Grand Marshal's Office should not be underestimated. If it was allowed to develop, there would be a lot of trouble in the future.

So Jiang Hongfei wanted to trick Zhao Gou back.

Jiang Hongfei handed the matter to Wu Yong.

After Wu Yong received the order, he set his sights on Zhao Huan.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Huan had realized that just accepting the situation might not make Jiang Hongfei withdraw his troops. If he wanted to successfully drive Jiang Hongfei and the Yuan army away, he had to show the military power of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Huan did not want to transfer Zhao Gou back. He wanted Zhao Gou to gather a large army and then deter Jiang Hongfei.

Zhao Huan called He Li, Sun Fu, Chen Guoting and Cao Fu, who he trusted most, and told him his idea.

He Li and others agreed with Zhao Huan's idea. They all agreed that Zhao Gou could not be allowed to return now and fall into the trap. Only when Zhao Gou led troops outside could he pose a threat and containment to the Yuan army.

Cao Fu asked for permission to personally tell Zhao Gou about Zhao Huan's idea.

Zhao Huan then issued two edicts to Zhao Gou. The explicit edict was to ask Zhao Gou to disband the Grand Marshal's Office and come back to negotiate peace; the implicit edict was to ask Zhao Gou to quickly reorganize the army and then come to the rescue.

How could this little trick of Zhao Huan and his ministers fool Jiang Hongfei?

As soon as Cao Fu left Qingcheng, Jiang Hongfei asked Yan Qing to capture Cao Fu and then replaced him with Mo Chou, who had surrendered to the Yuan Empire, to meet Zhao Gou with Zhao Huan's explicit edict.

Historically, after Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan became prisoners of the Jin people, Mo Chou surrendered to the Jin people, led the Jin envoys to inspect the treasury, ran back and forth, and actively conveyed the Jin people's edict to establish Zhang Bangchang as emperor. He was called the "quick ghost" by the people in Bianliang at that time.

You know, such a person, if you coerce and lure him a little, and threaten his family, he will do anything despicable.

In fact, not only Mo Chou, but also a large number of Song officials have recently expressed their intention to serve the Yuan Empire, and some even contacted the ministers of the Yuan Empire by any means.

For example, Wu Kai took out a genealogy book that was not sure whether it was true or false, saying that he and Wu Yong were both from the Wu family of Helong, and recognized Wu Yong as a brother.

Wu Yong had no bottom line, so he readily recognized Wu Kai as his brother.

As a result, Wu Kai successfully changed from a Song official to a minister of the Yuan Empire.

Such examples are everywhere.

The main reason for this is that Jiang Hongfei's ambition for unification is now known to everyone. Anyone with a little bit of brains can see that the Zhao Song Dynasty is definitely over, so those who don't want to be buried with the Zhao Song Dynasty must want to change ships.

The key is that Jiang Hongfei is also a Han emperor, and the Yuan Empire is also a Han dynasty.

The key is that Jiang Hongfei does not discriminate against people who have served as officials in the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Not to mention that all the former Song officials who had surrendered to the Yuan Empire through various channels before were appointed by Jiang Hongfei, just recently, Zhang Bangchang, Tang Ke, Cai Huo and others have participated in the court of the Yuan Empire.

Moreover, many people from the party of Cai Jing and Cai You, including many children of the Cai family, have now begun to help the Yuan Empire.

—— Helping Jiang Hongfei manage Lehe, the outer city of Bianliang City, has a large number of people under Cai Jing and Cai You.

Even Cai Jing, who was exiled by Zhao Huan, and Cai You, who was imprisoned by Zhao Huan, have now returned to their homes in Bianliang City.

Of course, because Cai Jing and Cai You have a bad reputation, and one is old and the other is incompetent, they will definitely not be able to be officials anymore.

But it is not a problem for Cai Jing and Cai You to have a good end.

There is no way, because Cai Jing's daughter, Mrs. Cai, was taken in by Jiang Hongfei early.

The key point is that Cai You's first confidant Le He was actually an undercover agent sent by the Yuan Empire into the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The Cai family completely turned to the Yuan Empire.

Cai Huo also sent four legitimate daughters of the Cai family to Jiang Hongfei on behalf of the Cai family.

Jiang Hongfei gladly accepted it.

In other words, the Cai family has gained power again.

This is certainly not just because of the relationship between Mrs. Cai and Le He.

In fact, this is mainly a political marriage.

You must know that the officials of the party of Cai Jing and Cai You, father and son, accounted for at least one-third of the Zhao Song Dynasty, if not half.

By accepting the Cai family, Jiang Hongfei is almost equivalent to accepting one-third of the officials of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In addition, Zhang Bangchang was actually promoted by Wang Fu and was Wang Fu's absolute confidant. Many officials of the Zhao Song Dynasty during Wang Fu's era had friendships with Zhang Bangchang.

This gave another group of Song officials a channel to surrender to the Yuan Empire.

As for Tang Ke, Jiang Hongfei sent someone into the city to find him.

In addition, there were many capable officials from the Zhao and Song Dynasties like Tang Ke who were specially recruited by Jiang Hongfei in the name of discussing matters.

They are all political, who can't see that Jiang Hongfei wants to use these people's thoughts?

In other words, Jiang Hongfei has already begun to recruit Song Chen.

Let’s talk about Zhao Huan.

Knowing that Jiang Hongfei might go south to attack the Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan did not make full preparations for the war and be prepared to deal with the Yuan army going south to attack the Song Dynasty. He continued to provoke Jiang Hongfei, and used party strife to eliminate old ministers from the Zhao Ji era and constantly carry out liquidation. and infighting.

Moreover, Zhao Huan was a young man who was timid, cowardly, and self-willed. He was an expert in internal fighting and an outsider in external fighting. He also lacked the overall situation and political acumen.

The key point is that Zhao Huan imprisoned his biological father, which was inhumane.

In short, Zhao Huan is not a qualified supreme ruler, a qualified emperor, or even a qualified person at all, especially when compared with Ying Mori, who is strategic, open-minded, knowledgeable, and good at appointing people. After comparing Jiang Hongfei, who had no plans, no troops, and determined the great cause.

Therefore, many Song officials were extremely disappointed with Zhao Huan.

Furthermore, literati emphasize that "the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important."

Nowadays, it is obvious that Jiang Hongfei has the tendency of unification. For the sake of the common people in the world, these Song ministers should also join the Yuan Empire.

Of course, in fact, these Song officials were greedy for life, afraid of death, and afraid of losing their glory and wealth.

I have to say that such a person is definitely not good in terms of character.

But if you want to achieve great things, you must have room for people, otherwise the road will only become narrower and narrower.

A few days later, when Jiang Hongfei saw that the situation was completely under his control, he simply asked officials from the Zhao and Song Dynasty, whether they were in office or retired, to come out of the city to see him every three days.

In this process, Jiang Hongfei detained all those who were unwilling to surrender to him, including He Li, Sun Fu, Zhang Shuye, Liu Kai, Fu Cha, Li Yi, Li Ruoshui, Wu Ge, Ouyang Xun, etc., and actively surrendered to him. Those who were close to him, such as Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, and Fan Qiong, were sent back by Jiang Hongfei to govern the inner city of Bianliang City.

Under Wu Yong's instructions, Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, Fan Qiong and others, after returning to the city, took control of the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

In fact, not long after the Yuan Empire broke through Bianliang City, Wu Yong took Xiao Rang, Xiao Rong, Wu Kai and others to collect all the documents and archives of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, especially the royal family and clan records of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. His documents and files were brought to Qingcheng.

In addition, a large number of internal servants from the Zhao and Song dynasties surrendered to the Yuan Empire, many of whom were in charge of the palace.

These chamberlains had to distribute monthly money and benefits to the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty every month, so they knew the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty well.

As a result, not only the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty from Zhao Guangyi's branch, but also the Zhao Song Dynasty clan from Zhao Kuangyin's branch were all wiped out by Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, Fan Qiong and others, and the men and women were separated and locked up in the palace.

Crucially, Jiang Hongfei also sent ten ministers from the Yuan Empire, including Wu Yong, Lehe, Chai Jin, Li Ying, Xiao Rang, Han Fang, Xiao Rong, Fang Xuandu, Xu Cai, and Shi Liai, to the Zhao and Song Dynasties to take charge. .

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei sent people to recruit troops in Bianliang City, and the target was the original Song army.

That's right.

The purpose of Jiang Hongfei and his ministers was to completely disarm Bianliang City.

As we all know, the military pay and treatment of the Yuan Army are simply not comparable to that of the Song Army. The Yuan Army not only takes care of all food, clothing, housing and transportation, but even gives wives and concubines to meritorious soldiers. The key point is that the social status of the Yuan Army is far beyond that of the Song Army. of.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Gui, Zhu Fu, Gu Dasao, Sun Xin and others had already let the wind go. Jiang Hongfei wanted to punish those who dared to take advantage of the chaos in Bianliang City. The Song army was unwilling to surrender to the Yuan army. , they will most likely be labeled as thugs, scoundrels, and scoundrels.

Therefore, after learning that the Yuan Army was willing to recruit them, group after group of Song troops came to the recruitment points of the Yuan Empire to accept the call.

The movements of the Dayuan Empire are getting bigger and bigger, and it is impossible for Zhao Huan not to notice them.

To take a step back, even if Zhao Huan is too stupid to find out, there is still He Li, Sun Fu and others. It is impossible for them not to tell Zhao Huan that if something goes wrong, Jiang Hongfei may destroy the Zhao family and occupy Bianliang City.

Zhao Huan was shocked!

After thinking about it, Zhao Huan actually asked Jiang Hongfei to send someone to take over the treasury of the Zhao and Song dynasties, that is, the internal treasury.

This internal library also has a very famous name - Fengchun Library.

When Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was in power, he was very upset about his inability to regain the sixteen states of Yanyun and allow the Zhao and Song dynasties to complete the true unification. Therefore, all the money left by the Zhao and Song Dynasty every year was put into the Fengchun Treasury and stored until the goods arrived. When there is plenty of money, use the money to redeem the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, or use the money to reward soldiers to regain the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

For this reason, Zhao Kuangyin also left an edict: descendants should not use the money in the sealed pile library for any other purpose.

Later, Fengchunku gradually evolved into Neizangku and became the treasury of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty wrote an imperial poem about Feng Chunku, saying:

"In the five seasons, the picture is lost, and the 玁狁hole is blazing. The ancestors of art build a country, and the foundation is to recruit scholars. The mother is free and generous, and she must abide by the inheritance. How can success be achieved if the gift is overwhelming. The dragon and the tiger bring prosperity, and the mountains and rivers control the capital. The turtle Chou Yan Bao Zuo, the phoenix virtue manifests the spiritual talisman.

This poem has a total of seventy-two words, and each word is the number of a library in the list.

In this way, Fengchunku has seventy-two warehouses.

After nearly two hundred years of accumulation, each warehouse of Fengchunku was full of various treasures.

In fact, what Zhao Huan didn't know was that Jiang Hongfei had already sent Li Ying and Chai Jin to seal all the warehouses in the inner storage warehouse and sealed them, and sent Ruan Xiaoqi and Liu Lin to lead 3,000 guards to protect the warehouses.

That day, Hua Rong suddenly came back from Bianliang City to report that tens of thousands of monks and elders in Bianliang City wanted to come to see Jiang Hongfei and thank Jiang Hongfei for saving the lives of the people in Bianliang City by setting up porridge distribution points and medical tents in various places in the outer city.

What made the people in Bianliang City feel at ease was that Jiang Hongfei not only accepted the meat and wine they sent, but also rewarded them with ten strings of spiritual money each.

More importantly, Jiang Hongfei took time out of his busy schedule to meet with ten representatives of public opinion in person, encouraged them in person, and told them that the matter in Bianliang City was about to end. In a month at most, all the gates of Bianliang City would be opened, and then people would be able to enter and exit freely.

Later, at the request of the representatives of public opinion, Jiang Hongfei also allowed people in Bianliang City to trade freely, and opened Donghua Gate to allow people outside the city to transport daily necessities into the city, allowing people in and outside the city to trade freely.

Seeing that Jiang Hongfei was so reasonable, the representatives of public opinion felt relieved, and they also brought the news back to Bianliang City.

Zhao Huan heard that the people in Bianliang City actually came to Qingcheng to entertain the troops, and he became more and more anxious.

But what made Zhao Huan anxious was that even if he gave all the accumulation of the Zhao Song Dynasty for two hundred years to Jiang Hongfei, Jiang Hongfei still had no intention of letting him return to the city.

It was Zhao Ji in the city who saw Jiang Hongfei's ambition.

After discussing with the royal family and clan members of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji wanted to give Jiang Hongfei a title and ask Jiang Hongfei to return power to the Zhao family.

In fact, the Zhao Song Dynasty wanted to give Jiang Hongfei a title a long time ago.

This was proposed by Tang Ke.

At that time, Tang Ke was still the prime minister.

Tang Ke analyzed the situation and believed that the Song army could not defeat the Yuan army at all. To fight a national war with the Yuan Empire in a short period of time would be to destroy oneself. Therefore, Tang Ke advocated giving Jiang Hongfei a title: Ji Tian Ji Tong, Zhao De Ding Gong, Dun Ren Ti Xin, Xiu Wen Zhen Wu Guang Sheng Emperor.

At that time, the situation of the Zhao Song Dynasty was already precarious, and Zhao Huan was afraid of it, so he followed Tang Ke's advice and ordered Wang Zao, the Shaoqing of Tai Chang, to draft the enthronement document, and then sent Feng Xie as the envoy to meet Jiang Hongfei and wanted to give Jiang Hongfei a title.

But as soon as Feng Xi and his party arrived in Huazhou, they heard that the Yuan army had crossed the Yellow River, so they returned to Bianliang City.

In Zhao Ji's view, it was now a matter of life and death for the Zhao Song Dynasty, so Zhao Ji asked Jiang Hongfei to agree that Prince Zhao Kai and other royal and clan members of the Zhao Song Dynasty would give Jiang Hongfei an emblem.

—— They wanted to take this opportunity to ask Jiang Hongfei to let the Zhao family go and preserve the ancestral temples and the state of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji also said on behalf of the royal and clan members of the Zhao Song Dynasty that if Jiang Hongfei hated Zhao Huan, they could also make someone else the emperor, and even Jiang Hongfei could choose someone to be the emperor of the Zhao Song Dynasty, as long as that person was from the Zhao family.

Not only did the royal and clan members of the Zhao Song Dynasty beg Jiang Hongfei to preserve the ancestral temples and the state of the Zhao Song Dynasty, but many civil and military officials of the Zhao Song Dynasty also begged Jiang Hongfei to preserve the ancestral temples and the state of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

What surprised Jiang Hongfei was that Qin Hui's name was also on the list.

In addition, there was a man named "Xu Kui" who brought many students to Nanxun Gate and asked Jiang Hongfei to release Zhao Huan back to Bianliang City.

Jiang Hongfei ignored all these requests.

In Jiang Hongfei's view, Zhao Ji was extravagant and ambitious; Zhao Huan was stubborn, stupid, timid and cowardly; Zhao Gou was the most shameless. His father, mother, wife, five daughters, and all the clans were captured by the Jin people and humiliated in every way. However, he was determined to escape, only caring about his own survival and enjoyment, without thinking about rescue and revenge. He was unworthy of being a man! So, Zhao Shi also deserved to enjoy the beauty of the country? !

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei's goal has always been to overthrow the Zhao Song Dynasty and replace it himself.

Now that this goal has been initially achieved, how could Jiang Hongfei change his dream and hand over the hardworking and brave Chinese people to the hands of Zhao's trash just because of a group of people with the surname Song, a group of conservative Song officials and a group of impulsive students?

In short.

After everything was ready, Jiang Hongfei led the civil and military officials of the Yuan Empire into Bianliang City without any hesitation...

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