Chapter 592: The Man Who Bears the Pot
Zhao Hao couldn't figure out how to take Kublai Khan's eyes away from Qiongzhou for a while, but he also knew that he had killed the Zhang Hongfan brothers in Yashan and wiped out his southeast coastal navy, and it was impossible for him not to worry about himself. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but still try to avoid Kublai Khan from using all the troops that are preparing to capture the city and Japan on himself, that is really a disaster for Qiongzhou, but how to do it, he really didn't think about it for a while.
In the following days, in addition to sleeping lazily and playing in the water, Zhao Yu spent almost all of his afternoon discussing with Ying Jieyan how to implement his plan and improve the "Practical Record of Military Training". The change in the attitude of the little emperor made Ying Jieyan also relieved, and his willingness to talk to himself showed that he no longer hated himself for intermarriage with Daning Village, and of course he did his best to personally write and revise it.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and the master and apprentice feel very comfortable about the small days in front of them, and they have a sense of joy. But just when they were enjoying this rare leisure, suddenly Fucheng sent an urgent report with an expedited report of 800 miles. Zhao Hao was very puzzled that if there was nothing to say, there would be nothing, and if there was something, it would be a big thing, it was rare that the Yuan army was ready to attack Qiong, but the information sent by the Affairs Bureau did not reflect that the coastal enemy army was abnormal?
"Your Majesty, it's the Empress Dowager and Emperor Deyou who have sent an envoy to Qiong!" Ying Jieyan opened it and hurriedly looked at it.
"Hey, aren't the Empress Dowager and the Imperial Brother both imprisoned in Yanjing? How to send an envoy to Joan! Zhao Yu said in surprise when he heard this. He knew that after the Yuan army captured Lin'an, the Empress Dowager Xie asked to surrender, and then his second brother Emperor Deyou was sent to Dadu by Boyan, and then the Empress Dowager Xie and the captured ministers, palace maids and more than 3,000 workers were also sent to Dadu.
"Your Majesty, it is not stated here. The minister thought that he should have been ordered by the enemy chief to send a letter and come to persuade him to surrender. Ying Jieyan replied with a frown.
"Hehe, let's surrender, isn't that a joke!" Zhao Hao pursed his lips and sneered.
"Your Majesty said this, but it is also very tricky to deal with at this time!" Ying Yan did not comply, but sighed lightly.
"What's this, let's ignore it, how can he endure it!" Zhao Yu sneered, now that the Empress Dowager Xie, including the Empress Dowager Quan and the imperial brother Zhao Xian, are already prisoners of Kublai Khan, what kind of storm can the fallen phoenix set off.
"Otherwise, although the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager and Emperor Deyou have moved north, they have been removed from their titles by the thief chieftain. But after all, Emperor Deyou was appointed by the mandate of heaven and the decree of the Empress Dowager before the fall of Lin'an; And Emperor Jingyan was elected by the ministers to succeed him after the loss of Guozuo. But at that time, Emperor Deyou did not abdicate, and the Empress Dowager was still there, so ......" Ying Jieyan said, but the little emperor stopped talking again.
"What Mr. means is that Emperor Jingyan has a loss in gaining the throne, and I, the emperor, is not rightly named." Zhao Yu didn't care, and said it for Ying Jieyan.
"......" Ying Jieyan did not speak, but bowed his head slightly.
"The capital was lost, the first emperor was captured, and Emperor Jingyan was supported by the ministers in Fuzhou to ascend to the great treasure, and this kind of thing is not without precedent!" Zhao Yu was a little puzzled, when the second emperor of Huiqin was captured by the Jin State, he escaped a Zhao Gou alone, and then was supported as the emperor by the ministers, inherited the unification, and continued the national lineage for more than 100 years. It can be like this, but why can't it be done when it comes to this matter!
"What Your Majesty said is good, Emperor Gaozong still respected the second emperor of Huiqin after crossing to the south, and vowed to recover the Central Plains in the Northern Expedition and welcome back the second emperor, but he also hesitated and failed to complete his long-cherished wish!" Ying Jieyan hesitated.
"What does this have to do with Emperor Huiqin?" Zhao Yu was a little strange, what did the unsuccessful Northern Expedition have to do with the two deposed emperors.
"Our dynasty established the country with benevolence and filial piety, and Emperor Gaozong was filial. In the first year of Shaoxing, Empress Zhu and Empress Dowager Zheng were tortured to death by the Jurchens. In the fifth year of Shaoxing, Hui Zongxue was imprisoned on the grass shop in the Five Kingdoms City. Two years later, Gaozong learned that Huizong and Empress Zheng had died...... "Ying Jieyan talked about the past of that year." And this history is also familiar to Zhao Hao, but there are also secrets that he doesn't know.
Zhao Gou not only wept bitterly over the death of his father and Empress Zheng, but also worried more about the fate of his biological mother, Empress Xuanhe. Just when Yue's army won a series of victories in the battle with the Jin soldiers, he bent himself to the Jin State and sued for peace, and at the same time relieved Yue Fei of his military power, he sent his ministers to the Jin State to propose peace. Subsequently, the Jin State sent a review envoy to the Southern Song Dynasty. Gaozong said to the golden envoy: "I have the world, but I can't raise my relatives, and Huizong can't do it." Today, I swear that I will return to my queen mother, and I will not be ashamed. ”
After the Jin envoy returned to China, Zhao Gou sent his ministers to sue for peace again. Jin Guo finally agreed to Zhao Go, but put forward four conditions: to be a vassal to Jin; The annual tribute is 200,000 taels of silver and 250,000 horses of silk; cut the four states of Tang, Deng, Shang and Qin; Kill the anti-gold boss Yue Fei. Zhao agreed one by one, and on Chinese New Year's Eve at the end of December in Shaoxing, he and Qin Huan killed Yue Fei and his son Yue Yun on "trumped-up" charges. One of them died, and the achievements of the Northern Expedition were wasted......
"That seems far-fetched, doesn't it?" Zhao Yu frowned and said after hearing this. said that Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei for the sake of filial piety, gave up the Northern Expedition, cut the land and sued for peace, and killed him would not believe it. Judging from his experience as an emperor for less than two years, he killed Yue Fei more because he was disobedient and involved in the abolition of the royal family, in a broad sense, it was also to prevent the generals from sitting on the throne and threatening his throne. He believes that if someone in the DPRK dares to compete with him for military power, he will not hesitate to slaughter him.
And for another reason, Zhao Hao thought it was because of power. Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne that year, and there was no edict for succession, and there was no decree of the Queen Mother. In order to show that he is not a usurper, he can only find a deposed empress of Zhezong to inherit the throne. It is precisely because of this that he has always been weak and does not dare to pretend to be right. But the more he had a heart disease, the more troublesome the result became. If the Northern Expedition is successful, and the two emperors, one old and one young, are really brought back, and it will be a bit unclear to be the emperor himself, and his words will not count; If you want to give up the throne, how can you be willing? So, Zhao Gou first killed Yue Fei, who was disobedient, and kept shouting for the Northern Expedition, and then put on a big filial piety hat to cover people's eyes and ears, fooling the world.
"Your Majesty, there may be other reasons for this. But if you ignore the Empress Dowager's decree and insist on refusing, you are afraid that you will be criticized by the world! Of course, Ying Jieyan also knew that Zhao Gou was also selfish, but the courtiers couldn't talk about the emperor in vain, so they could only talk vaguely, and then talk about the matter.
"Then our monarch and ministers will be lowered, sir, are you willing!" Zhao Hao asked rhetorically.
"Chen would rather die than Shi Yuan!" Ying Jieyan said without hesitation.
"That's it, we don't want to reduce the yuan, and we don't care what they do, and we don't allow the envoy to land in Qiongzhou!" Zhao Yu spread his arms and smiled bitterly.
"Your Majesty, but they have already landed in Lingao and are rushing to Fucheng." Ying Jieyan also said with a wry smile.
"Oh......" Zhao Yu was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart that these housekeepers are too ignorant, why do these troublemakers let them go ashore. But now that he has gone ashore, he has no choice, so he sighed and said, "Come on, maybe it's not what we think, we just want to ask about the situation at home!" ”
"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't look like it. It was the enemy dynasty's Ministry of Rites Shangshu Liumengyan and the Criminal Department Shangshu Wang Jiweng, if it was a private message, it was not necessary to come with two important ministers, it should be ordered by the enemy chief to come to the book. Ying Jieyan shook his head and analyzed.
"Sir, is this Liumengyan the former left minister who moved north with Emperor Deyou!" Zhao Yu heard the name familiar, and asked rhetorically.
"Your Majesty, if there is no accident, it should be this thief!" Ying Jieyan's face turned blue and said hatefully.
"Well, this thief really deserves to die, and he will harm his descendants!" Zhao Yu is also like thunder to this guy, if it is the end point of the fall of Lin'an and the surrender of Emperor Deyou to the Great Song Dynasty, Liu Mengyan can also be regarded as the last prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty.
Liu Mengyan's background is really good, he is a high school champion, but he has a bad reputation among his colleagues, and they all say that he is treacherous and rudder. As for his qualifications, Zhao Yu can't remember, but he was appointed by the Empress Dowager Xie in the first year of Deyou as the Privy Council and Governor of the Council, and worshiped as the right prime minister and privy envoy, and the governor of Zhulu Military Horse. Although he was ordered to be in danger, he retreated, saying that he was sick at home, and he did not become the prime minister of Zuo until the queen mother came to his home in person. But he was unable to turn the tide, but instead split the court, and finally presided over the surrender work, which did not vote for a new master, and became a high-ranking official of the enemy.
If he fights for a point and does not reduce his anger, people can still tolerate his evil deeds, but he is willing to degenerate into a famous traitor in history. Pu Shougeng's descendants were beaten into pariax after the death of Yuan, and they were slaves and prostitutes for generations. The descendants of Liumengyan are not much better, Zhejiang people once said: There are Liumengyan in the two Zhejiang, and the shame of the two Zhejiang. Until the Ming Dynasty, all descendants of those who left their surnames to participate in the imperial examination had to declare that they were not the descendants of Liumengyan before they were eligible for the examination. Therefore, Zhao Yu said that he would not curse him if he caused harm to his descendants.
"Your Majesty is the king of benevolence and filial piety, you still need to be patient for the time being, don't act rashly!" Ying Jieyan knew that the little emperor hated rebellion the most, and the blood was flowing in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and it was not impossible to slaughter Liumengyan in a fit of anger, so he hurriedly persuaded him.
"Well, which one is Wang Jiweng? Is it a northerner? Zhao Yu hummed perfunctorily, and then asked another.
"Your Majesty, that thief was also an important minister of my court,......" Ying Jieyan sighed and said helplessly with a bitter face, and elaborated on this person's experience.
Speaking of which, Wang Jiweng's academic performance is not as good as that of Liumengyan, he entered the country to study, and made up for the official position in the shade, Zhao Yu is estimated to be equivalent to the current university degree, relying on the merits of his ancestors to mix into the civil service. Don't look at his learning is not very good, he has no talent in the world, and he has no backbone, but he is well versed in the art of power and strategy, and he is familiar with the truth of which kang is hot and which one sleeps.
Wang Jiweng fled with Empress Dowager Yang and Zhao Yu when Lin'an fell, and he can be regarded as a person who has the merit of supporting the dragon, but unfortunately Zhao Yu will not be in the future, and he doesn't know which green onion it is. After the establishment of the Xing Dynasty, he was appointed as the envoy of the Fujian system, but as soon as the Yuan army arrived, he offered the Fujian map to reduce the Yuan to the internal response, and was retained by the Yuan Dynasty and reappointed as the deputy envoy of Fujian Daoxuanfu to guard Fuzhou. Later, he was promoted to the general manager of Fuzhou Road, the Yin of Fuzhou Mansion, and then changed to the Fujian Road Propaganda Envoy. I don't know when he was summoned to Beijing by Kublai Khan and became a high-ranking official in the court.
"So it seems that these two people are night owls coming to the door!" The two traitors came in a row, and it was definitely not a good thing to think about it with their feet, Zhao Yu said after listening.
"Your Majesty, not many people in the court know about this matter now, Prime Minister Zuo asks Your Majesty to come back quickly to discuss how to deal with it." Ying Jieyan also nodded and said again.
"At this time, I remembered that I was here, what should I do earlier, let them deal with it!" Zhao Yu snorted coldly.
"Your Majesty, this is not the time to be rash, you still have to plan early." Ying Jieyan knew that the little emperor was suspicious of staying behind, and these few people did not ask about the situation, so he let the two go ashore, making it difficult to ride a tiger now. But if left unchecked, it can cause chaos and is not conducive to stability.
"I think it's better not to go back for the time being, and I will make a decision after I find out the purpose of their coming to Qiong and the opinion of the Queen Mother!" Zhao Yu also knows that the stakes are very high and cannot be taken lightly. And he was not afraid of seeing people, but he was worried that Empress Dowager Yang would disagree with him, would he listen or not at that time? It's better to hide here now, so that there is a buffer room.
"Well, Your Majesty is very worried. But be careful, don't let them visit some secrets! Ying Jie Yan admonished.
"Since we have calculated that they have bad intentions, we don't have to greet them with great fanfare, let the Ministry of Rites send a small official to Lingao to take them to the capital city, and then temporarily place them in the post house, restrain their actions, and do not meet guests casually!" Zhao Yu thought for a while.
"Okay, according to Your Majesty's wishes, the minister will revise the book and inform Zuo Xiang and the others." Ying Jieyan agreed, laughing in his heart that the little emperor was simply humiliating the two of them by doing this. Thinking that the prime minister of Liumengyan was the prime minister back then, how to say that he was also the old leader of these people in the Xing Dynasty, and he was still so despised with the letters of the Empress Dowager and Emperor Deyou, it was even more embarrassing than beating them.
"Sir, I thought that the two of them were visiting Qiong at this time, in addition to writing a book, perhaps as Mr. said that there was a purpose to spy on my reality. Can we ...... from this?" Zhao Hao thought about it again, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign envoys actually had the responsibility of collecting intelligence, especially in ancient times when there were fewer channels to obtain intelligence, and they would not let go of this opportunity. And now I am worried that I can't find the 'back pot', aren't these two 'back pot men' who fell from the sky.
"Your Majesty's intention is to use the two of you to influence the decision of the enemy chieftain Kublai Khan, so as to gain time to recuperate and prepare for war!" Ying Jieyan knew that the little emperor was planning this, so he understood the meaning as soon as he heard it.
"Yes, the opportunity is rare, how can you do it right if you don't tease them!" Zhao Yu squeezed his eyes and said. The old man also stroked his beard, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile, so the master and apprentice retreated left and right and muttered together until the time the lamp was lit......