Jia Rudao said: "This is not simple? The Great Khan is completely distracted, as long as you are willing, Jia can still give Suzhou to you, and there is a lot of territory in the Great Song Dynasty, and Song Duzong can't manage it at all. ”

Kublai Khan laughed, "In that case, then please ask Prime Minister Jia to take me to see these courtyards, I still want to have them."

So they left Suzhou Mansion and walked the streets, and soon came to a courtyard, which was privately owned.

After everyone entered the interior, Jia Rudao gave an order, "Come on, arrest all the masters of this place for me and put them to death, and from now on this place will belong to Mongolia." ”

Dozens of Great Song generals ran out, and they quickly killed many people, who would not have thought that they would die at the hands of the Great Song people, and they had no idea that they would have today.

Dozens of corpses were carried out and thrown into the street, and passers-by did not dare to look at them or ask questions, so they had to pass by quickly.

Kublai Khan was overjoyed to see such an environment, which was even more beautiful than he imagined, with ponds, lotus flowers and fish, pavilions, and ancient buildings of the Great Song Dynasty, and the environment was as beautiful as flowers.

"Great Khan, from now on this place belongs to you, this place is up to you, there is no problem how long the Great Khan wants to stay, I have no opinion."

Saying that, Jia Rudao secretly scolded in his heart, he was a traitor, but in order to survive, he had no choice but to do so.

If Song Duzong knew about this matter, Jia Rudao thought to himself that he had designated no one to be good, and now he had to completely suppress this matter and not be known by anyone.

Kublai Khan was even more overjoyed, "Since this is the case, then thank you Prime Minister Jia, come here, prepare to roast the whole sheep, today I want to eat and drink with Prime Minister Jia."

Some people immediately took action, and all these Mongol soldiers entered the courtyard, and you can see how big this place is.

Soon the fragrant smell spread, very tempting, and the two of them ate while drinking barley wine.

"Prime Minister Jia, I want to know, once you leave, how will you explain this matter to Song Duzong? You must know that I didn't tell me about this, for fear that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty would be unhappy. "The emperor won't say anything, and even your ministers have opinions, don't dare to be careless about this matter, Prime Minister Jia."

Jia Ru said: "What's so difficult about this? If you don't say no, it's over? Regarding this matter, I don't say a word about it, no matter how powerful this Song Duzong is, I don't know what is going on?"

"At the same time, the Great Khan, Song Duzong will not talk about it, but in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, it can be said that no one dares to provoke me, and Jia's rights are second only to Song Duzong.

"At the same time, Jia also wants to say a good thing, that is, the Great Song Dynasty has succeeded in disarming four million, and at present, the Great Song Dynasty has only four million soldiers and low morale, like a team with a plague."

"For this team, Jia is very unconfident, this team is born to defeat the battle, don't say that it is against the Mongolian army, it is the thief below, it is estimated that they will not be able to exterminate it."

Kublai Khan was taken aback, "Why did Prime Minister Jia say this?" The team of four million is not to be underestimated, if you want to say that you can't fight the thief, I don't believe it very much. ”

Jia Rudao said a lot more, and the two of them were already drunk at the moment, and they almost walked unsteadily.

But Kublai Khan apparently did it on purpose, and the Mongols never got drunk when they drank. He deliberately asked tentatively, "I said.... I said Prime Minister Jia, you are like.... You are so bold to bring my team into Suzhou, are you.... Aren't you afraid that my team will go to war with the Great Song?"

Jia Rudao was already very drunk, and his speech was very unclear.

"Great Khan, what did you just say? Jia.... Jia didn't hear clearly.... Can you ..... Can you say that again?"

Kublai Khan said, "I mean,... You took my Mongol army... Bring it to Gangnam. Bring this Suzhou, you are not afraid.... Aren't you afraid that my Mongols will start attacking the Great Song Dynasty?"

As he spoke, he stared at Jia Rudao.

The latter laughed and said, "What is there to be afraid of?... Sweat, like ..... If you're going to attack the Great Song, then hurry.... As long as you win, can you give Jia a certain official a seat when the time comes?"

Kublai Khan immediately said, "Hehe, no... An official, I promised you, only.... It's just that you and I have been drinking for a long time, and we are also drunk, and we are sleepy at the moment..... Come on, quickly help Prime Minister Jia to the house to rest.

"It's the Great Khan."

As soon as Jia Rudao walked on the front foot, Kublai Khan on the back foot had already sobered up, and his eyes became fierce, very murderous.

"Nurhachi, do you think this Jia Yidao is really completely drunk just now? Why can't I see it?"

"It's... Back to the sweat, this person has already drunk several bowls of wine, this is 100% drunk, it should not be drunk, but whether it is true or not, it is uncertain.

"It is said that it is drunk and spit out the truth, and some people say that it is drunk and talking nonsense, which is more difficult to figure out."

Kublai Khan's heart sank, and then he said: "Nurhachi, you immediately return to Mongolia with a team, transfer 10 million people to me, remember to prepare enough food on the road."

"It's the Great Khan, but I'm going to start attacking the Great Song Dynasty?"

Kublai Khan nodded, "Now is the best time, there are only four million people in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is a rare opportunity for us to wait, and at the same time, this team is all sick cats, and they have no combat effectiveness, so they can't fight against us at all." ”

"It's the Great Khan, I'll do it."

"Well, about this Jia Rudao, I will trap him here for a while, at least when the big team does not come, he will not be allowed to leave, otherwise if I go to inform the Lin'an Palace, the harem will be unimaginable.

Nurhachi had soon run out, leaving Kublai Khan alone to drink, and he was even more happy when he looked at these courtyards, an environment that he had almost always wanted in his dreams.

Lin'an Xuande Palace, after the early dynasty at this moment, Song Duzong came to the back garden with hundreds of civil and military officials, and they once again put the crickets together, ready to eat and drink.

Someone said: "Your Majesty, these days, your skills in fighting crickets are really much more powerful, and I am not your opponent anymore."

"Yes, yes, the emperor, we admire the emperor very much, just like the water in the river, the emperor deserves to be the emperor, and our courtiers can't fight the emperor no matter what."

Song Duzong accepted these compliments without modesty, and even felt that it was not enough.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't just envy me, don't you know, I have recently put all my energy on crickets, how can you be an opponent?"

"Besides, there are countless crickets in this palace, although they were poisoned by drugs during the Song Dynasty, but it's been many years, hasn't it?"

Everyone kept echoing, no matter what Song Duzong said, he would follow and say yes, anyway, things have come to this point.

After a game, Song Duzong's crickets were still intact, and some crickets were beaten to death, and the adult seemed to be indifferent after losing, and immediately took out fifty taels of silver and handed it over.

"Emperor. Shang is worthy of being the emperor, I am really envious, the emperor, Wei Chen admitted, Wei Chen is indeed inferior to you, you won this game.

Accepting the silver, Song Duzong said: "This Aiqing, don't worry, besides, I am not an ordinary person, there is no shame in losing to me, no shame."

"Ladies and gentlemen, who else wants to compete with the real one? Come, if you lose, I will give you silver, and if you win, you will give me silver. ”

Such a noisy quarrel lasted for several hours, and in the past half a day, Song Duzong has lost hundreds of taels from winning at the beginning to losing now.

"I thought that your Aiqing's strength was extremely inferior, but I didn't expect it to be even more powerful than me, you Aiqing, you are really amazing, I really admire it."

Everyone was very polite and didn't dare to admit it.

"Okay Aiqing, now I want to know, how is the exam of the whole Song Dynasty? When will the 300,000 literati I want come to the Hall of Virtue?"

Someone said: "Back to the emperor, I am already working fast, or it won't be long before this matter comes, at most a month's work, after all, the following prefects, prefects, and prefectures are in a hurry."

"No matter how bold I am, I don't dare to delay the emperor's affairs, right? Your Majesty, please give Weichen a month, and all the people will be brought outside the Xuande Hall by then.

Song Duzong was relieved a lot, what he was worried about finally did not appear, and he was still a little relieved at the moment.

"Okay Aiqing, it's not too early now, in my opinion, I'll go to dinner, I'm very ashamed to delay you for so much time today.

The crowd did not dare to refuse, and followed suit.

In Longzhou County, on this day, Song Qing brought many prisoners to the lobby, and after interrogation, most of them were unjust cases, and some of the sentences had expired, and Song Qing let them all go.

Now just wait for the people of the court to come down.

"By the way, the deputy general of the DPRK, has the illegal gains of this Zhizhou Xie Kui, as well as the history of the book, all been confiscated? All this silver has been charged to our barracks.

"Lord Hui, Xie Kui has a total of more than 70,000 taels of illegal gains, and there are also thousands of taels of book history, all of which have been handed over to the barracks."

"It's just my lord, now I'm still worried, if this matter is known to Song Duzong of the Xuande Palace, will it be a felony for us and others? I'm afraid that people with a heart will make a fuss. ”

Song Qing doesn't care at all, now the Great Song Dynasty has not been able to do so for a long time, who cares about this?

"Deputy General Chao, you just do it, once there is something in this matter, it is a big deal for Song to bear it, besides, he gave us 10,000 people, if you don't give the silver, could it be that all these people will be hungry?"

"It's my lord, I'll make it."

"Well, but the money in the yamen, that is what really belongs to the imperial court, I can't move this money, otherwise I can't tell if it is reasonable in the future."

Night fell, the lights in the yamen had been lit, and Tang Yueyue walked in from outside the house at this moment, with a worried face.

"My lord, something is wrong, something is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Song Qing couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, could it be the Elector Palace, what's wrong? Is Song Duzong dead? Or Empress Dowager Xie?

"Miss Yueyue, what's going on? Don't say half of what you say, just tell the truth of the matter. ”

Tang Yueyue said: "My lord, in fact, I heard on the street just now that a large group of Mongolian troops has entered this Suzhou, and the leader is still the Great Song Dynasty."

"The Mongol army entered? A large number?"

Song Qing had already expected something, this situation seemed to come a little quickly, the Mongol army didn't need to think that it was Kublai Khan's people, why did they come here?

Could it be ..... Already planning for the offensive? And with Han people leading the team, you don't have to think about who else can there be besides Jia Rudao? After all, he is an official in Xiangyang.

"Hey, if Song didn't expect this to be wrong, this group of Mongolians would not have left easily after they came in, the Great Song Dynasty was finished, it was in the hands of its own people, and there were too many traitors."

.“ Yes.. What do you mean... Is this Kublai Khan already about to attack the Great Song Dynasty? Wasn't there a rumor before? Kublai Khan is going to destroy the Great Song Dynasty in 1275?" Everyone looks like they are going to die, the matter is too serious, it seems that it has reached the point of no return, plus the Great Song Dynasty disarmed four million, and now it is not an opponent.

They are lost, things are very difficult to solve, it has reached a very difficult moment.

Song Qingdao: "You may not know, it is now a very difficult time,

The entire Great Song Dynasty was already surrounded by the Mongols, and if Song was not mistaken, Kublai Khan would soon send the Mongol army south.

"Now, even if General Yue Fei is alive, he can't save the Great Song Dynasty, it has been delayed for many years, and with disarmament, I'll wait to be a slave to the country!"

"My lord, can we write a letter to the Xuande Temple? Tell this Song Duzong about his current situation? No matter what happens, you can be a little prepared, right?"

Song Qing shook his head, he didn't want to care anymore, and only at this moment did he understand why his father didn't want to be an official himself, and now, no one can save Da Song.

Unless it is a god descending to earth, but are there immortals in the world? Will the gods intervene again? No, I can't.

"Okay, Miss Yueyue, we don't care, we're disappointed, even if we notify Song Duzong, it's not good, now, there's no chance.

Everyone sighed, the taste of being a slave to the country is not comfortable at all, he will go south in Mongolia, maybe there will be many people of the Great Song Dynasty to help.

In Suzhou City, night fell, Jia Rudao had woken up from drunkenness, he only felt a terrible pain in his head, got down from the bed, and came outside the house.

A Mongolian soldier said: "Prime Minister Jia, I will wait for the Great Khan to invite Prime Minister Jia to eat in the house together, and Prime Minister Jia will come with me."

Jia Rudao whispered, "This Great Khan is too polite, these days, Jia has eaten mutton every day, and now it has been made up." ”

"Soldier, since this is the case, then you can take Jia Ye and me there, the Great Khan is warmly invited, how can you not go?"

The two of them walked for a while, and soon came to a house, where a bonfire was lit, and it was still the early spring season, and it was warm all around under the fire.

The aroma of mutton is spreading, very tempting, Jia Rudao strode in, Kublai Khan looked at it, got up and said: "Prime Minister Jia, come on, come on, I have been waiting for a long time." Jia Rudao said: "Great Khan, you and I are both monarchs and ministers, and at the same time we are not outsiders, and the Great Khan is so polite every time, which makes Jia really moved."

"But Da Khan, your roast mutton tastes good, Jia has been eating it every day these days, and I have to say that the taste is really delicious."

Ordering his subordinates to retreat respectfully, Kublai Khan smiled and said: "What Prime Minister Jia said is that although the Great Song Dynasty has the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, my Mongolian barbecue is a must, and the Great Song Dynasty must not be able to compare with this."

"At the same time, I also have good wine in Mongolia, and the barley wine is a must, which is more delicious than the daughter of the Great Song Dynasty and other brewed wines."

Jia Rudao said: "Don't say anything else, Jia Mou very much agrees with the words of the Great Khan, and the Great Song is beautiful."

Jing, for wine, it is indeed slightly inferior, but Da Khan, you don't have to worry, about the country of the Great Song Dynasty..."

Kublai Khan had already sensed something, and the two looked at each other and smiled, except for their respective identities, they could be regarded as old acquaintances.

"Prime Minister Jia, I let you drink too much yesterday, and I have some tea at the moment, I heard that the people of the Great Song Dynasty just like to drink tea, I don't know, how does Prime Minister Jia feel at this moment?" Jia Rudao said: "The sweat is completely serious, don't hide it, in fact, Jia has nothing, since the wine has woken up, then the body is back to normal, and the sweat has prepared tea, how can Song not drink it?"

After a sip of dry, the two looked at each other and smiled, very, very polite.

"Great Khan, I don't know what is the Khan's impression of this place when he comes to Suzhou, Jiangnan? Do you feel used to it? The weather here is pleasant, but in winter, it rains almost every day.

Kublai Khan said: "Regarding this point, in fact, Prime Minister Jia is serious, saying that I not only feel that there is nothing unaccustomed to here, but also like it very much, it is really worthy of the beautiful scenery of the Great Song Dynasty, which is dazzling."

At the same time, there are countless beauties here, and there are many literati and students, and there are beauties and talents from the south of the Yangtze River, which is the blessed land of the Great Song Dynasty.

Kublai Khan continued: "Prime Minister Jia, since this is the case, how about I hope you can pay me to stay here for a month? Besides, besides, you and I have already made friends, and in Xiangyang City, you don't have to guard it to the death, do you?"

Jia Rudao didn't dare to refuse at all, Kublai Khan's words were holy decrees, which were more effective than what Song Duzong said, and they were completely holy decrees.

"Great Khan, since you have said so, how can Jia refuse? In this case, then Jia agreed, but staying in the hospital every day is boring, why don't you and I take a small team and go out to play?"

Kublai Khan replied loudly, very satisfied.

The two continued to drink wine for a long time.

At this moment, Song Duzong received the excerpt written by Song Qing, but after he looked at it, he smashed it to the ground and began to roar.

He was originally in a good mood, but at the moment he was in a haze, and he couldn't figure out why a Zhizhou was also a corrupt official? Although Song Duzong is not a Ming monarch, he also hates this kind of incident.

"Ladies and gentlemen, take a look, this is the excerpt written by the criminal officer Song Qing just now, Xie Kui, the governor of Longzhou City, was corrupt and perverted the law, and also deliberately created countless unjust cases, so that many people were imprisoned."

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are also a minister, or an official residence, you can tell me, how should this matter be?"

These ministers had never seen Song Du angry, and there was a hint of timidity in their hearts at the moment, but after all, they were not bold enough to dare to confront Song Du.

Someone said: "Your Majesty, no matter what dynasty the corrupt officials are, they all make us hate them very much, since Song Tixing has discovered this corrupt official, I hope that the emperor will punish him severely." There are also humanitarians: "Yes, the emperor, we are fully supportive of this decision, you must know that if the corrupt officials are not eliminated, there will never be a peaceful day in the Great Song Dynasty, these people are moths, and they will be killed early and quiet."

Song Duzong said: "Actually, this Zhizhou Xie Kui has been killed by Song Qing, so I am very angry, almost every time he goes to a county, the local prefect of the county and the prefect of the prefecture are all corrupt officials and corrupt officials, why do you say this?"

"Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty is really incorruptible? How about forcing me? Are you trying to force me to capture them and cut off their heads with a single sword?"

"The emperor is wise." All of you are on your knees.

"Wise? What's the wisdom of the law?" Song Duzong stared at them and said to Sun Daren. "Master Sun, tell me how I should deal with these corrupt officials?" Is there any other way to chop all these people with a knife? Or do they not dare to be corrupt and refuse to be corrupt?"

The latter was stumbling for a long time and couldn't say anything, which was embarrassing.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks it can be like this, first of all, corrupt officials will have it no matter which dynasty it is, and no matter which dynasty it is, it is cracking down on corrupt officials, but the emperor. , these dynasties have had little effect, just take the Tang Dynasty as an example.

"It seems to be very prosperous and has the reputation of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but after all, it can't withstand An Lushan's rebellion, and although it failed in the end, it also gave the Northern Song Dynasty an opportunity."

"Your Majesty, the demise of a country is not decided by corrupt officials at all, but by the mandate of heaven, as the so-called heaven wants to destroy you, no one can stop it, you look at the Tang Dynasty, is it destroyed by corrupt officials?"

"No, the emperor, Weichen has never heard of that dynasty destroyed in the Tang Dynasty, but the emperor thinks about Xia, Shang and Qin, plus the Sui Dynasty, which of these dynasties is like this?" But the emperor, the only threat is the high merit and shock, the emperor, think about it, how did the Tang Dynasty come about? How did he, Li Yuan, take over the country from the Sui Dynasty and establish the Tang Dynasty?' At this moment, Song Duzong was silent, he felt that what these ministers said was very reasonable, and he couldn't find a refutation for a while.

That's true, the merit is high, didn't the Northern Song Dynasty kill General Yue Fei like this back then?

Wang Dadao: "Your Majesty, what Lord Sun said is completely reasonable, we don't dare to come nonsense at present, and we don't dare to mess around, Your Majesty, although the officialdom is chaotic now, but this is also the root of our protection of the Great Song Dynasty, if the officialdom is gone, what else will the Great Song Dynasty talk about?"

Song Duzong knew everything in his heart, although there are many corrupt officials, but he can't do without them, if a country has no officialdom, then what country is it talking about? Do you want to be alone?