The extortion letters, coughs, and letters of state from the pirate state were sealed and specially marked as being personally opened by Emperor Zhao Ji himself.

The Song court received the letter of state from the pirates, and was frightened, and all kinds of speculations wanted to immediately understand what was written in the letter of state, but it could not be dismantled privately without being discovered by the emperor, and the letter of state was also taken over by Tan Zhen, who took over Liang Shicheng's position and became the chief eunuch of the Great Inner and also the secret spy department of the Great Inner Department.

Tan Zhi is known as a figure like Tong Guan, although he is a eunuch without eggs, he does not lack male heroism, and he is also familiar with military affairs and leading troops to fight, and now he is favored by Emperor Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji, after reading the national letter, he suddenly became "crazy", and he couldn't cultivate anymore because he was eager to become an immortal as soon as possible and go to the fairy world to enjoy greater happiness, so he scolded.

Scolded pirates for being greedy, despicable, and shameless

This is far from enough, in a very angry state, Zhao Ji also threw the national letter on the ground and wanted to stomp on it, but his feet were about to be stomped up, but he couldn't complete what the pirates wanted according to the list, and the consequence was most likely to be in a luxurious and safe palace.

But if he didn't step on the pirate's face, he stepped on the national letter as hard, and Zhao Ji was really uncomfortable.

In the history of Jingkang's humiliation, the trophies looted by the Jin army from the Song capital Tokyo included more than 0 million taels of gold, more than 20 million taels of silver, and 0 million horses of silk, including law drivers, halogen books, chariots, crown clothes, legal objects, ritual vessels, sacrificial vessels, musical instruments and cultural relics books.

In terms of historical knowledge, Zhao Yue is only familiar with the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty and the early Southern Song Dynasty because of the Water Margin, and he knows Jing Kang shame very well, and he is also deeply impressed after living for two lifetimes, and remembers the huge gains of the Jin army in breaking Tokyo very clearly, and the blackmail letter formulated by Zhong Xiang is mainly based on this, but the reality has changed, the Song Dynasty in this world is undoubtedly richer and more prosperous than in history, and the emperor Zhao Ji and the traitors in the court are richer than in historyUnder Zhao Yue's obsession with the intention of rectifying and teaching the Song Dynasty a lesson to the big pests that harmed the Han nation, the list of extortion was heavier and more detailed than that borne in Jingkang, not only to extort the collection of the Guang Palace and the thieves' family funds, but also to extort the silver and copper coins in the treasury, the wheat and millet in the Xia Fu inventory, and the soybeans and corn that had just been paid in the autumn tax were going to be blackmailed to the point that Zhao Ji and others were so painful that their hearts ached to death, so that although these people would not bear the pain of being captured by the Jin Army this time, they would not die, but they would be sad and embarrassed in the future. There is no longer a good life to be arrogant, willful, powerful, and wanton to squander and enjoy.

On the list, from the rare treasures treasured in the Imperial Palace, to gold, silver and jade, to the Dharma driver, chariot, crown and clothing, ritual objects, ritual vessels, sacrificial vessels, musical instruments and cultural relics books, to the ginseng and other medicinal materials stored in the palace, and even the palace decorations that show the royal style, such as copper crane lanterns, copper tripods, incense burners and other utensils. Like the Dasheng chime, this kind of national code heavy equipment will not be let go, and it is naturally in the column. There is also the jade seal of the "Shou Yongchang" heirloom that mysteriously disappeared in history, and Zhao Jichao miraculously appeared in the folk fields and found it casually. Zhao Yue doesn't care whether it is a trick tacitly made by Zhao Ji and sycophants to prove that Zhao Ji is the true son of heaven, and he doesn't care whether the jade seal is true or false, whether it is true or false is just a stone for a science student like him, a stone with special historical significance, but it is also necessary to blackmail, there is no other use, and other rare cultural relics are listed in the museum for the imperial people to visit and have fun by the way, and by the way, collect some tickets to make up for the cost of maintaining cultural relics.

It was this kind of exhaustive and mean list that made Zhao Ji want to go crazy in anger.

If you want gold, silver, money, and food, you have to take away the slightest eye-catching things in the palace, which is a treasure that has been slowly formed after hundreds of years of accumulation in the previous Zhou and the world of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and what is even more excessive is that the seal of the Son of Heaven, the temple sacrifices, and the royal ceremonial guards are also extorted, and even the emperor's dignity and royal face are also shaved clean.

What's even more infuriating is that the pirate actually knows more about the situation in the palace than he himself, and he doesn't know what the master knows, but the pirate knows everything about it.

What is incomprehensible and ridiculous is that the pirate also named those masterpieces of calligraphy and painting that he himself made, why did he still attach importance to my works when he despised me so much? Is it to equate me with those lowly painters and craftsmen?

If you agree to blackmail, what is the difference between breaking the capital and destroying the country? Where is the royal face? What is the legal system and majesty of the Great Song Dynasty?

Of course there is a difference.

If the thing is gone, you can get it again. As long as people are okay and the power is still there, they can continue to be called lonely and widowed, and they can manipulate all the people in the world without shame, and they can still enjoy wealth and nobility.

Zhao Yue didn't want the Song Dynasty to end like this.

Zhao Ji's gang has to continue to be a scourge for a few years, and the tens of millions of scum scourges abandoned by the pirate empire on this land can be automatically cleaned and screened.

Zhao Yue also knew very well how shameless Zhao Ji's gang was, and he was sure that after looting the Song Dynasty and sweeping away its face, these people would continue to support the power and wealth.

For Zhao Ji, even in the deep palace where the news was closed, he understood that the current situation was obvious: he couldn't fight against the pirates who were in the midst of their ferocity.

agreed to the blackmail, the pirates got what they wanted, and if they were satisfied, they should not destroy the Great Song.

If you don't agree?

It would most likely be that there was nothing left, including his own life.

The pirates undoubtedly had the ruthlessness and power to easily overthrow the Song rule.

This pirate invasion is different from the previous Liao invasions, and it is not possible to move the capital to avoid trouble.

Where to move the capital?

Where can you escape?

Gangnam?

It's not that different from a pirate's backyard.

Jiangnan is under the nose of pirates, the waterways are vertical and horizontal, the water traffic extends in all directions, and the pirates are free to move. Going to Jiangnan is equivalent to taking the initiative to go to the pirate's house and throw yourself into the net.

The west side needs to think about it.

Pirates are coming from the west to the east. Even if you want to flee to Shuzhong, where the mountains and rivers are dangerous, there is no way to go, and if you go, you are afraid that you will be caught in the net.

North?

Don't think about it.

What is so difficult for pirates to sweep away a horseback national power like Western Xia in a short period of time, and to sweep the territory of Shandong and Hebei in the Great Song Dynasty with greater coalition strength?

Besides, the Liao State was robbed by pirates and was so poor that it was crazy, lacking money, food, cloth and clothing, and lacking everything except the mouth for eating.

Without the confidence of the Western Army, Zhao Ji did not dare to arbitrarily rectify Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family, and at this time, he did not expect Zhao Gonglian's Cangbei Army to block the Liao Army. Cangbei has too few soldiers, and it is an army that has just absorbed monks and prisoners. The monks are hating the imperial court, who knows if the Liao army will kill them, and these monks will rebel blatantly.

This is really internal and external troubles, no, it is internal and external difficulties, in a desperate situation, and there is no way out.

The enemy who had been fighting each other for decades, the Western Xia Kingdom was gone. The Song State has been bullied for too long, and the Liao State, which is too domineering and strong, has also softened. The situation of the Song State was even more difficult

After Zhao Ji vented his temper and regained some sanity and calmness, he realized that it was useless to think about anything at this point, so he had to honestly follow the pirate's.

He was dizzy for a while, he was in a hurry, and he fainted when he thought about it, and the first thing he did after waking up in the palace was to make a decree: "The crown prince can be the emperor, and the sect leader Daojun will retire to Longde Palace." "To Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, and Tong Guanwenwu, who gathered in front of the bed, he said that he was not in good health and could no longer bear the heavy responsibility of the emperor, and that he should concentrate on cultivating and recuperating in the future, and hoped that everyone would continue to be loyal to and help the prince govern the country.

This is, of course, an excuse.

Zhao Ji was only about forty years old at this time, just in the prime of life, the corrosion of the wine-colored pill for many years, the body is not so strong, but he likes to play juju sports, and his body is good, and he still has the power to govern as a flower and bird emperor. At this moment, he was willing to give up the throne and not be the emperor, but he refused to bear the shame and leave an infamy in the history of the pot. In addition, I am really tired of dealing with tedious and boring government affairs and hard work every day, and I want to have more free time for cultivating, writing poems, painting and having fun.

The most important thing that cannot be said is that he is a eunuch, in the prime of life, and there are birds and eggs but he can't be humane. The taste of being an emperor is greatly weakened.

This is the biggest blow to Zhao Ji, but it is invisible, the ministers don't know about it, including his concubines, but Zhao Ji is a little disheartened.

However, it is precisely for this reason that Zhao Ji is more willful and indulgent than in the same period in history.

The thieves in front of the bed didn't know the pain of the emperor's internal illness, but they were all old and treacherous, and they understood Zhao Ji's intention to suddenly abdicate at this time, and they tacitly understood the emperor.

Sure enough, Zhao Ji also said: "The prince is still young, and he is not very proficient in managing the country, so the secretaries are trying to help." If you have any important matters that are difficult to decide, you can ask me at any time. ”

This is clear, that is, the crown prince ascended the throne, but he only said that the emperor was a "labor coolie" who withstood the chores of governing the country, and he might even be abolished at any time to replace or 'take the initiative' to abdicate and then let Zhao Ji continue to be the emperor's temporary worker. All major matters are still Zhao Ji, who retired as the emperor, has the final say. Naturally, the position of key officials must still be held by the person Zhao Ji trusts and wants to use, and the emperor cannot change it at will. The military regime is still in the hands of Zhao Ji.

His position is still there, the power is in his hands, and the civil and military ministers represented by Bai Shizhong, the head of the civil official, and Tong Guan, the head of the military attache (at this time, he has been promoted to the privy envoy, and the old guy who has hated Zhao Ji's former literati privy envoy has cut the official and gone home to eat himself) The civil and military ministers understood Zhao Ji's intentions, and naturally shouted Long live the saint's wisdom

In addition, the ministers were also speculating about what the so-called pirate letter said, which could cause Zhao Ji to faint and fall ill, and even the emperor did not want to be the emperor.

It must be a big disaster.

Could it be a sign of the destruction of the country?

Emperor Zhao Ji is like this. The thieves were also terrified and troubled.

The more they don't know the inside story, the more anxious they are and worried, they all show their magic powers, and do everything possible to find out the inside story from the palace first, so as to seize the opportunity and be the first to start, but Zhao Ji strictly ordered, the palace is extremely strictly controlled, and everyone in the palace is walking on thin ice, and if one is not careful, he will be killed, and no one dares to leak it privately at this time.

I don't know the specifics if I want to leak it.

Only Zhao Ji read the letter alone, and it was always in his hands. Even Tan Zhen, the chief manager of Ouchi who was serving by his side, knew almost nothing.

Prince Zhao Huan, born in 00, is only one year older than Zhao Yue, and he is just a teenager at this time, and he has not yet married.

In history, Zhao Huan's wife, Zhu Lian, the beautiful but fierce and humiliating Queen of Renhuai, was praised by Jin Taizong himself: "Huai Qing is clean, and he has to be chaste." The crowd is drunk and sober, unyielding. Forever dwelling shirts. The only palace concubine in the Song Dynasty who wanted chastity and dignity and did not want her life, and decisively committed suicide and refused to let the magnates of the Jin Kingdom sleep, naturally she had not yet become the crown princess.

In addition to the reason why Zhao Huan is still young, Zhao Huan has not been able to get married so far, let alone marry an outstanding woman like Zhu Lian, which is naturally caused by Zhao Yue's indirect influence and direct intervention.

In recent years, Zhao Yue has either passively or actively stirred up the Song Dynasty's thrilling and unpreparedness of accidents and disasters, and the emperor Zhao Ji eunuch has been rectified, and his temperament has changed greatly, and he only cares about his own private affairs, private desires and personal pains, and ignores and has no intention of caring about the marriage of a straw bag son like Zhao Huan, who does not like or care.

The ministers are also in the treacherous situation of the court all day long into a fierce struggle for power and profit, intrigued, struggling to cope, often anxious, naturally will not have the leisure to care about the prince who is ignored in the cold palace and the position is shaky and will fall at any time, whether to marry or not, and who to marry, which is regarded as a trivial matter in the hearts of the ministers.

It's not that no one mentioned and wanted to promote the prince's marriage, such as the prince's palace servant who had been in office for 14 years, and he couldn't keep the crown prince of Zhao Huan but seemed to be a very gentlemanly and loyal historical celebrity - Geng Nanzhong.

But the situation is turbulent and difficult to understand; The population is also quietly losing a large number of people, unknown; Families who can be good matches for the royal family are rapidly becoming scarce for various reasons. It is becoming more and more difficult for the prince and prince to marry each other, and it has really become the same big problem as the famous Song princess in history, and it is several times more difficult than the princess to marry.

The princess is difficult to marry: talented and ambitious good men are unwilling to marry the princess, and from then on, he will be a concubine who cannot be a serious official and hold power and do business. But for the royal family, there are always a lot of people who can be eye-catching, and they can choose at will.

In this world, it is difficult for the princes and grandsons of the Song Dynasty to marry, but there are few girls who can be eye-catching, and they even become more and more completely unchosen.

The famous and good daughters with rich and rich status have all been taken away by pirates by various means. Whether it is robbing, abduction, waiting for the opportunity to be drugged, in short, resolutely abducted.

is like the home of his daughter-in-law Zhu Lian, whom Zhao Ji was optimistic about earlier.

Empress Zhu's father is called Zhu Bocai, who is the envoy of the Wukang Army, holding military and political power, and is a hegemon-level tycoon stationed in the place, and his own ability is also good, and he is also trusted by Zhao Ji, but when the Song people defected on a large scale last time, he had already run away with his family to the pirate country. Zhu Lian's brothers, Zhu Xiaosun and Zhu Xiaozhang, were both generals in the southern army of the pirate country at this time, and they were not very outstanding talents, but they did a good job and mixed well. The key is that the family lives a happy and relaxed life in a stable and down-to-earth manner, and they didn't suffer from the sinister officialdom of Song Guan. As an official in a pirate country, as long as you abide by the law and are willing to work, you don't have to worry too much about survival and development.

And Zhu Lian and Zhu Fengying, the sister who married Princess Yun in history, and other three sisters, were young, and they were still studying carefree at school at this time, living a free and happy hip-hop youth that only girls in the 21st century.