Chapter 387: Four Poetry Pavilions

From then on, no one in the DPRK and China dared to say a word to Hu Shahu again, so he transferred all the Jin troops stationed in the north to stay in Zhongdu, Pingzhou and other big towns, and ordered the cavalry to garrison Jizhou, so that the vast northern border of the Jin State became a borderless place.

Hu Shahu thought that he was safe and sound, and he could sit back and relax, so he simply lived in the palace, hugged left and right all day long, laughed and had sex with the palace concubines, and shamelessly threatened: "I want to sleep with all the concubines in the palace, and after a while, it is not the emperor's addiction." ”

Later, his cronies Wanyan Chounu entered the palace and persuaded him: "If a new emperor is not elected, the ministers will rebel en masse, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Hu Shahu had to move out of the palace and was forced to welcome Wanyan Jing, the nephew of King Yongji of Weishao, to inherit the throne, that is, Emperor Jin Xuan. After Emperor Jin Xuan took over the throne, in the face of the situation of internal and external difficulties, he was still helpless, he was intimidated by Hu Shahu's power, so he had to rely on him in everything, and named him as the Taishi, Shang Shuling, Marshal of the Capital, supervising the history of the country, Feng Ze Wang, awarded Zhongdu Lu and Lu Hutu hereditary Meng'an and other official titles of nearly 10 people.

Hu Shahu's younger brother, son, and his party friends were also promoted to the rank of knight, making Hu Shahu a very popular minister in the court, and his power was overwhelming, and he became the tiger's buttocks, and no one dared to touch it. This period was the darkest and most corrupt period in politics since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty by Wanyan Aguta, which provided good conditions for Genghis Khan's third attack on Jin.

The news of the coup d'Γ©tat of the Jin Dynasty soon reached Mongolia, and the wise and wise Genghis Khan took the opportunity to seize the opportunity of the internal chaos of the Jin State, and in the autumn of the same year, he personally led an army of 100,000 to launch a third attack on the Jin State.

Genghis Khan still insisted on the indisputable gains and losses of one city and one pool, intending to eliminate the living forces of the Jin Dynasty, plundering a large number of financial, manpower, and material resources of the Jin State, emptying the enemy's belly, leaving only a few empty cities in the huge Jin Kingdom, and finally forcing the Jin Dynasty to surrender to Mongolia.

So Genghis Khan ordered the generals to lead 5,000 men and horses, continue to besiege the central capital, and then divide the troops into three routes to the south, they were: Genghis Khan ordered the prince Jochi, Chagatai, and Ogedei to be the right army, and went south along the Taihang Mountain; He himself and his young son Tuo Lei and others were the Chinese army, and they went south from Yizhou, and went straight to the area of Dengzhou, Shandong, and reached the seashore, attacked and plundered the entire territory of Shandong, and stepped on the vast fertile land in Shandong.

Genghis Khan's capture of Jinan, the capital of Shandong, a large city in the Central Plains founded in the 13th century, opened his eyes. This capital of Shandong, with abundant water sources and developed culture, has a lake in the city, and there are huge water lilies in the lake. There is a park in the city, and the ancient trees and forests in the park are full of flowers and plants, and the fragrance hits people. The city is also home to the Thousand Buddha Mountain, a mountain with numerous statues dating back to the seventh century, and the city produces magnificent silks that are exported to Southeast and Central Asia.

When Genghis Khan saw this, he expressed his heartfelt admiration, never expecting that the ancient civilization of the East would be so brilliant and magnificent. He ordered the looting of property and the brutal massacre of innocent people.

When the Mongol army attacked the city, it continued to follow the method they had repeatedly used, forcing the captives and the rural people to surround the city and keep them at the forefront of the Mongol army. The soldiers and civilians in the besieged city, seeing their compatriots being driven to the forefront of the enemy's charging ranks, had no choice but to refrain from resisting. In this way, most of the cities fell one after another, except for a few cities that were really unbreakable.

Genghis Khan's plundering led his troops to wealth of gold and silver, silk livestock, and thousands of boys and girls, and one poet wrote with grief after witnessing the tragic situation.

"The white bones are like a mess, and the mulberry has turned into dragon sand in a few years; ”

One day, Genghis Khan led the army of the middle route to the border between Shandong and Jiangsu, and saw a pavilion next to the road, and there was a large pond under the pavilion, and the clear water in the pond was crystal clear, and the fish could be counted. He had an idea, ordered the army to rest on the spot, and led his young son and the generals into the pavilion, and took a closer look, and it read: "Four Poetry Pavilion." ”

When Genghis Khan saw it, he couldn't help but ask Shi Bingzhi, the golden general who had surrendered to Mongolia: "Why is it called the Four Poetry Pavilion?"

This Shi Bingzhi was originally from Shandong, but only because he was forced by the ethnic discrimination and oppression of the Jurchens to surrender to Mongolia. He also has two sons, the eldest son Shi Tianni and the second son Shi Tianze, both of whom are strong in martial arts, and they carry gold together.

Genghis Khan has always attached great importance to the foreign generals who surrendered, left Shi Bingzhi by his side, and let his two sons lead the troops, Shi Bingzhi heard the Great Khan ask about the name and origin of the pavilion, so he had to say carefully: "This pavilion has five fours, it is worth people's attention, it is a four-cornered stilt, four pillars are neutral, surrounded by vermilion fences, and beautiful scenery on all sides." ”

Wokotai hurriedly asked, "What about the fifth four?"

Shi Bingzhi said with a smile: "This fifth four is called the Four Poetry Policeman. ”

At this time, Tata Tonga, who knew Chinese, asked: "Since he is called a policeman, what is written in this poem? ”

Shi Bingzhi looked at Genghis Khan, saw him nodding, and asked him to introduce it, so he said: "It is said that for many years, a Xiucai ran for the lawsuit of his neighbor Hu, and when he passed by here, he rested in the small pavilion for a while. This Xiucai sat on the stone bench and couldn't help but think of this lawsuit, his neighbor Hu was greedy for wine all day long, and used wine as food, and drank all the little family business left by his ancestors, and his body was also poured into the yellow soup and became skinny. When people saw him like this, they advised him to quit the things in the cup, but Hu just didn't listen, so that his family was poor and couldn't get by. ”

In desperation, he had to borrow ten taels of silver from the rich man in the same village to live, but he was unable to return it later. This rich man was a womanizer, and when he saw that Hu's wife was very attractive, he often came to the door to ask for money on the grounds of collecting debts, and when Hu was away, he first verbally teased his wife, and then used his hands and feet, openly teasing and seducing, and finally made the fake come true and hooked up into adultery. ”

On this day, Hu went home drunk again, pushed open the door and looked, and saw that the rich man Huang and his wife were naked and hugging each other, and they were doing the good deeds of the goddess of the Xiangwang Society, and he was immediately angry, like a tiger going down the mountain, rushed to the bed, pulled the rich man Huang off the bed, punched and kicked. ”

Who knew that Hu relied on his alcohol strength and was too heavy, and the rich man Huang was beaten to death by him. Hu's wife also felt that she had no face to see people, and she was unprepared, so she also fell into the well and died. For this reason, the Huang family sued Hu in court, and the two families started a life lawsuit, the Huang family is rich and powerful, and they open up joints everywhere. ”

When he thought of this, he was full of emotion and excitement in his heart, thinking that this lawsuit was all caused by wine and wealth, so he took out his pen and ink and wrote angrily on the south pillar of the pavilion. ”

"Wine is a poison that pierces the intestines, color is a boning steel knife, wealth is the root of trouble, and qi is a beast that descends the mountain. ”

After this show was written, he put away his pen and ink and went to run around for Hu's lawsuit again. After a few days, a Xiucai passed by here, and also rested in the small pavilion, saw the four lines of poems written on the pillar, read them several times, felt that this person's evaluation of wine and wealth was a little biased, and after thinking for a while, he took out his pen and ink, and wrote four lines of poetry on the east pillar of the pavilion. ”

"After all, there is no banquet without wine, people in the colorless world are thinning, who is willing to get up early without wealth, and is bullied everywhere without gas. ”

After this Xiucai finished writing, he read it twice more and walked away. Not long after, another Xiucai passed by the small pavilion, and when he was resting, he saw the poems on the two pillars, and felt that the poems of these two people were well written, and each had its own truth, but the views on wine and wealth were a little one-sided. So he thought about it for a while, and wrote four lines of poetry on the pillar of the pavilion on the north side. ”

"Drinking is not drunk, the amount is high, the color is not fascinated by the real heroes, the wealth is not taken, and the anger is forgiving. ”

After the showman finished writing, he thought that the content of his poems was both substantial and comprehensive, which could be described as a masterpiece, so he left proudly. After some time, there was also a Xiucai passing by here, and after seeing the three poems in the pavilion, he thought that although the three poets had their own opinions, their understanding of wine and wealth was not high, and it was easy to lead people to the evil road. So he thought about it for a while, and the inspiration came, and he also wrote four lines of poetry on the pillar on the west side of the pavilion. ”

"There are four walls of wine-colored wealth, everyone is hiding inside, who can jump outside the wall, not a god will live a long life. ”

The showman considered himself the best of the four poems he had written, and he recited them several times before leaving the pavilion satisfied. ”

Genghis Khan thought that Shi Bingzhi's words were reasonable, so he did not mention the matter of negotiating peace with the rebels, and immediately ordered the troops to return to the central capital.

At the same time that Genghis Khan's middle army sacked the Great Plain of North China, the right army led by his three princes attacked south along the Taihang Mountain, plundering and looting all the way, regardless of the golden silk, children, cattle, horses, sheep and livestock, all swept away, and those who could not be taken away were burned to the ground, so everywhere they went, all became scorched earth.

After the Mongol army invaded Baozhou, they ordered the people in the city to gather in the square, and the Mongol soldiers regarded killing people as entertainment. Two days later, Jochi and the others ordered all the old people and children to be killed, but the craftsmen were left behind.

At that time, there was a man surnamed Yang, in order to save his life, he pretended to be a craftsman, so he was not killed. Someone in the Mongol army offered to check on the self-proclaimed craftsmen, and he was overwhelmed.

At this time, a person next to him reminded him in a low voice: "If you can see, you can be a carpenter." ”

That Yang finally got through the difficulty, and everyone who pretended to be a craftsman was spared. Thanks to the Mongols' emphasis on handicraft technology, those who had a skill, or pretended to be a skill, were able to survive death.

The more repression, the more fierce the revolt. When the Jochi brothers led their soldiers in a brutal massacre of the people in Baozhou, their stables were set on fire and sprinkled with thistles. This fire killed more than 2,000 horses, and hundreds of horses were killed by thistles.

The sky-high fire did not make the Mongols sober their minds much, and other generals also took similar atrocities of massacres in the captured cities, even including Mu Huali, when they captured Mizhou and returned the army to dominate the state and Zhuozhou, they also killed the people several times, swept away the gold and silver property, burned the houses, and ruined the city.

The third team led by Hazar set out from Zhongdu and first captured Jizhou, then followed the sea to the east, crossed Pingzhou, and captured Shanhaiguan and Zhuolu. In the city of Zhuolu, the Mongol army indulged in looting, slaughtering and burning houses, and the general Bo Ra and his lieutenant Bu Gu were cowardly, and when a family was molesting women, they were caught by their families and hanged alive from a tree.

When Hazar heard the news, when the general Chen Nayan proposed to take revenge on the nearby people, Hazar said: "No matter how many people are killed who resist, it can be justified, and the two of them insult women, which is a violation of military discipline, and the Great Khan will not forgive him if he knows about it." ”

Hazar ultimately did not accede to their request for revenge, which shows that the brutal massacres and treacherous acts were also unpopular among the Mongol generals.

The Left Route Army of Hazar then invaded the Liaoning region and occupied the birthplace of the Jurchen people, namely the Taoer, Nashui, and Songhua rivers in Upper Manchuria, and the vast area of the Amur River, the Heilongjiang River basin. At this time, Jin Xuanzong concentrated his main forces in the central capital, unable to protect the local prefectures and counties, and the generals of the Jin Dynasty in various places had to find their own way out and surrendered to the Mongol army one after another.