Chapter 158: Jiang Ning
In the spring of the second year of Jianyan of the Great Song Dynasty, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangning Fucheng, although the winter has passed and there is no snow, but with the heavy rain coming one after another, the entire Jiangning City is immersed in a rain and fog, and the cold wind is biting.
The Jin soldiers continued to move south, ravaging Lianghuai, capturing Yangzhou, and then turning to Jinghu two roads, close to Jiangning City, the people in the city were already frightened birds, people were panicked, everyone was worried that the Jin people would attack Jiangnan, and the soldiers would come to the city and poison the living beings.
The continuous heavy rain came unexpectedly, the temperature in the city plummeted, and everyone put on heavy cotton clothes. Even if the Jin people stopped their offensive because of this, there was still an endless stream of people fleeing south.
The entire houses in Jiangning Mansion were shrouded in rain and fog, and a gust of cold wind poured into their faces, making people shiver, and even goosebumps on their bodies rose.
The spring cold in Jiangning Mansion is really coming.
The appreciative pavilion on the city of Xiashui Gate, down to the Qinhuai River, the victory of the extreme viewing, was built by Ding Wei, the prefect of Jiangning during the time of Song Zhenzong. Under the pavilion is a mooring place for moving boats.
When I woke up, the heavy rain turned into a misty drizzle, and on the Qinhuai River, in the slanting wind and drizzle, there were Song people boating everywhere. The smoke and rain are misty, the landscape is picturesque, the area of the smoke and moon of the six dynasties, and the place where the gold powder gathers. Singing and laughing everywhere, the green house is drunk, which can be described as extremely erosive and prosperous.
It's just that inside this prosperity, there is an inexhaustible cold wind.
"I heard that the soldiers have occupied the land of Shandong, fought two Huai, and are about to arrive in Yangzhou, but I don't know if it's true or not?"
"Regardless of whether it is two Huai and Shandong, Jiangning City is blocked by a big river, and the soldiers can help me. Or drink a glass of wine first, and have fun in time. There is wine today, drunk today, and sorrow tomorrow comes. ”
"I heard that Wang Song set up a banner of resistance to Jin in the east of the river and Hebei, cut off the Jurchen Emperor's own brother, and the head of the third prince was beaten by A Gu, and the Jurchens killed were rivers of blood and corpses were piled up into mountains. Those big turbans, bear soldiers and shrimp generals in the imperial court, eating the people's and drinking the people's, all day long, they know that the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty, chanting poems and lyrics, and the soldiers are coming, but they are fleeing one by one, it is really a fucking nest, and it has lost the face of my Great Song Dynasty!"
"What kind of face does Da Song have! If there were, I wouldn't cede the three towns today, and the north of the Yellow River tomorrow, and let Fanzi slaughter the people and enslave my Song people at will!"
"Who's to say it isn't. I heard that the Jurchens have fought again, and they have already captured Chuzhou and Yangzhou. The imperial court wanted to run again, and this time I heard that it was going to move to Lin'an Mansion. In this way, Jiangning City is afraid that it will face the attack of the soldiers again, but I am afraid that the city will not be protected!"
"Lin'an Mansion? Just run to Zhancheng and let Wang Song be the emperor!"
"Dude, you must be quiet. If they are discovered by those eagle dogs in the government, you and my brother will be beheaded!"
"Sooner or later, it's going to be death anyway! Either die under the sword of the Jurchens, or starve to death and drown. If I die at the hands of these dog officials, I will kill a few dog legs first, and then I will have no way to live!"
There is a lot of discussion among the people, and the sentiment is high. Since the Jin soldiers went south, prices have skyrocketed, all industries have been depressed, and refugees from Lianghuai have poured in like a tide, filling the streets and alleys of Jiangning Mansion. The public order situation in the city is much worse than before, and robberies and murders occur from time to time.
Many people from Jiangning Province fled to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, and the imperial court also had the idea of moving south.
The Jin people approached the Yangtze River, and it seemed that they were going to connect the Great Song Dynasty to the end. Scholars, relatives of the emperor, dignitaries and others were panicked, and many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death were ready to move, and the urgency and determination to continue to go south and survive became stronger.
Everyone is already a high-ranking official, prosperous and wealthy, once the Jiangning Mansion City falls, it will be a mess, and if it is not good, it will become a prisoner of the ranks, for its people, it is no less than from the sky
Don fell into hell.
The scourge of the golden man is nothing but the moss of the skin. Personal gains and losses are the troubles of the henchmen.
The Jin people went south, invincible, and invincible; Thieves swarmed, destroyed the city and uprooted the village, and the two Huai, the north and south of Jinghu were eroded.
Now, the Jin people have set up another Han emperor Liu Yu in Jinan Mansion, sitting on the land of Shandong and Lianghuai, directly cutting off the connection between the imperial court and the Central Plains and Shaanxi.
The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was panicked, and even Li Gang, the head of the Qingliu, was suffering from gains and losses, and began to cater to the discussion of the official family's move south.
Even if the scholars and doctors are Qingqi, they still have to stand brilliantly on the main hall. If you are reprimanded and retreat into the wilderness, then everything is over.
The Jin people now occupy Yangzhou, and their troops are on the Yangtze River, and their letters have been sent asking for the cession of the land south of the Huai River, including the land of Shaanxi and Long. Otherwise, they will cross the river and go south, and chase and attack until they die.
At this time, the ministers in the palace, including the official Zhao Ji, were a little grateful to Wang Songlai. If it weren't for Wang Song's death in Hebei, I'm afraid that the Jin people would have already crossed the river and attacked Jiangnan.
After the Jin people broke Yangzhou, they hesitated, it is said that it was because Wang Song broke the Jin soldiers in the middle and killed the commander of the middle route army, Pucha Shijianu. And Zhang Heng, a subordinate of the loyal army stationed in Xuzhou, blocked the momentum of Liu Yujun's expansion to the southwest. The Jin people failed to cross the river immediately, and they were afraid that the back road would be cut off, so they did not dare to make a desperate bet.
"Everyone, when the country is in danger of survival, if you have any good plans, tell them."
On the empty hall, Zhao Ji's shrill voice floated out, making the ministers below with different thoughts feel a pang in their hearts.
Since moving the capital to the south and arriving in this Jiangning Mansion, the temper of this official family has become bigger and bigger, and the whole person is irritable. Suspicious, sensitive, suspicious, and suspicious, his body is also like the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty, which is getting worse and worse.
Since going south to Jiangnan, Zhao Ji has stayed in the palace all day long, rarely coming out, and even some things are handled by the ministers of the court and King Kang Zhao Gou.
Compared with Bianjing, the winter in Jiangnan is not so sad, but the homesickness is still difficult to part. Even if this small bridge in the south of the Yangtze River flows, the green mountains and green waters, it is not as good as the dilapidated Jinming Pond and Genyue strange stones in Bianjing City.
The mountains and rivers are broken, the passage of time, and the discomfort and confusion brought about by the deep strange place and unfamiliar environment often make him irritable, and even go violent from time to time.
Just like now, his roar in the temple is snarky, where is there still the appearance of an emperor.
Seeing the official's questioning, all the princes, clansmen, and scholars all lowered their heads, and everyone was silent.
It's not that the ministers don't say nothing, but they really have nothing to say. Even if the imperial court has trained tens of thousands of new troops, it is difficult to say whether it can be used or not. Expecting them to fight against the soldiers, the precedent of Yangzhou City is in front of us, I'm afraid it's too child's play.
Zhao Ji's face turned pale, and he said angrily again: "The country has raised soldiers for a hundred years, and the battle is righteous and righteous." You and other high-ranking officials are generous, with fine clothes and jade food, and the court treats them well, why is the palace full of useless people, what use does the court want you to wait, what is the use of me asking for you?"
What is the use of the imperial court? What's the use of waiting?
After Zhao Ji's words were finished, the red-faced civil and military officials could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Zhu Shengfei, who has been promoted to the Privy Council of Tongzhi and the envoy of the two Zhejiang systems, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the Jin people are going south, and they are unstoppable. The two Huai are eroded, and the Jinghu bandits are everywhere. Today's plan, one is to move the capital to Zhenjiang, Lin'an Mansion or Chengdu Mansion to avoid the sharp edge of the Jin people; The second was to take advantage of the geographical strategy to protect the defense lines of Gyeonggi, Jingxi and Shaanxi with Xijing, Tokyo, Shaanxi, Jingzhaofu and Shaanxi 5 Roads, restore Shaanxi, make it difficult for the Jin people to take care of their heads and tails, and reduce the pressure on the imperial court in Jiangnan. ”
Zhao Jijun was too powerful, and all the ministers in the hall also looked at his face
Hue. He is now proposing to move the capital, which is in line with the intentions of many scholars and doctors, and even some ministers who oppose it are silent, and do not want to stir up this pool of stagnant water.
Zhao Ji's face finally softened a little, and he nodded: "What Zhu Qing's family said is very true. Zhenjiang can only defend one side, if the Jin people cross the river from Tongzhou to Gusu, what should they do? Qiantang has the danger of heavy river, and it can temporarily avoid the edge of the gold people, and wait for the gold people to retreat, so that they can slowly go north. ”
Zhu Shengfei bowed solemnly and said, "Your Majesty Shengming."
Slowly north map?
Li Gang shook his head unconsciously, and his heart was sad. The imperial court is going to flee to the ends of the earth, and what is there to talk about the northern map.
Zhao Ji coldly swept over the ministers in the palace, and said in a deep voice: "According to the book, the Jin people want to take the Huai River to the Qinling Mountains as the boundary, and want me to cede the Shaanxi Road, Jingdong, Jingxi Road, Lianghuai, and Henan Mansion, and forever strike the sword soldiers." It's hard to decide, I don't know what the Qing family thinks?"
It's hard to decide, but I'm afraid that I already have a plan in my heart. Today's court is just a formality. Anyway, everything in the world is decided by the official family alone.
If there are those who are not long-sighted, they will either denounce them or cut officials for the people, and the dissatisfaction of both sides with each other will reach the limit.
Li Gang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, standing on top of the court, looking at Zhao Ji above, speechless for a while.
In such a shameless and shameless cession of the country, the official family took it to the court to discuss it with great vigour. Don't you know that the Son of Heaven protects the country and the people, and the land of the ancestors cannot be lost.
The ministers in the palace were dumbfounded, no one expected that it was only more than half a year before the two countries signed the Jianyan Peace Conference, and the Great Song Dynasty ceded the two rivers, and now the Jin people openly tore up the peace agreement and continued to invade the south.
"Your Majesty, the Jin people are ambitious, in the first year of Jianyan, the two countries reached a peace agreement, who knew that in less than a year, the Jin people went south to invade the Song Dynasty. The Jin people are in full swing, and it may be difficult for our army to compete with them, so it is better to avoid the edge for the time being, and lie down to taste the courage. ”
Qin Hui stepped forward, and after a few words, Zhao Ji nodded lightly. Sure enough, he was a pillar of the country, and his words were concise and to the point, which happened to Zhao Ji's heart.
"Your Majesty, Wang Song occupied the two rivers, resisted the Jin people several times, and even killed several people from the Jurchen royal family, which angered the Jin people and brought unwarranted disasters to my Great Song Dynasty. According to Weichen, the Jin people's southward movement is closely related to Wang Song's perverse behavior. ”
There were even ministers in the palace who said this, but they attributed the responsibility of the Jin people to the south to Wang Song.
Li Gang, a bachelor of the Guanwen Palace and the new envoy of Huguang Xuanfu, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the heart of the golden man and the tiger and the wolf, destroy our society, if it is clearly revealed, it will not be possible to cut the land again." Now it is advisable to move the capital to avoid the edge. The Jin people are afraid of the heat, invade the south in autumn and winter, and return to the north in spring. Between spring and summer, our army can return to the entrenched areas to advance and recruit people, and the places that cannot be taken into account by the military can also be administratively recovered. Your Majesty need not worry. ”
Zhao Ji's face immediately sank. My Zhao and Song Dynasty are naturally in charge of me, so let you scholars and doctors be ugly in front, pretending to be ghosts, and I will be worried and frightened in the back, and I will wipe your ass for you.
If the scholars can rely on the score and win some battles, then they can do it. It's just that since the Jin people went south, the various deaths of these big turbans have really made people unable to survive and die.
He pondered for a moment, turned his eyes to the solemn King Kang Zhao Gou, and said softly: "King Kang, now that the Jin people are going south, and there is erosion in various places, how to deal with the situation in front of you, do you have any suggestions?"
Zhao Ji looked at the hall again, and felt a little sad in his heart. On the huge hall, the royal children who can rely on it now don't know where they are.
The talents of the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty withered. Now only this Zhao Gou can pick up the burden, and it is difficult for him.
Li Gang looked at Zhao Ji's demeanor, and his heart was half cold.