Chapter 322: Sinners

"You're ......"

"I'm sorry, uncle, when I first came to vote, I was ordered by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty." Li Rui straightened his waist and said with a faint smile.

With his words, the guards behind Li Rui all took out the hidden revolvers and pointed them at Li Quan and Li Quan's guards. The distance between the two sides was no more than ten paces, and within ten steps, the revolver could easily penetrate the weak points of their body.

And the subordinates who followed Li Rui into the city occupied the city gate and restrained the sergeants next to the gate, and after them, a steady stream of troops drove in.

"So you're a thin one?" Li Quan still couldn't believe it: "You're not Rui'er?" ”

"I'm Li Rui." Li Rui sighed: "The official family of Mengda Song will not give up, and give me a heavy responsibility, so that I can sneak into Mengyuan and do some practical things." ”

"Over the years, I have used a large amount of money and materials in Menghu to cast artillery that is not very useful in the confrontation with the Song people, and I have built roads and mines everywhere in the territory of Mengyuan and Yuan, all of which are just to weaken the combat power of Menghu and facilitate the construction of the Great Song Dynasty after seizing the Northeast. Now that the road in the northeast has been built, the major mines have also been surveyed, and the craftsmen and workers have accumulated a certain amount of experience, the Great Song Dynasty is naturally going to harvest the fruits. ”

When Li Rui said this, he smiled faintly: "Uncle has been in the field in the past few years, and the grain and millet accumulated can also come in handy in the future." ”

"I see......"

Li Quan had thought about the situation of being caught by Da Song countless times, but he never thought that the person who caught him would get along with him day and night in the past few years. In the past few years, Li Rui has tried his best to make suggestions and do his best for the infrastructure construction of Meng Yuan, and the initial suspicions of him and Tuo Lei have been dispelled, and now that I think about it, all this he has done is something that Meng Yuan can't move away and can't be broken, as long as the Song people come, then these things can be used by the Song people immediately.

Moreover, whether it is road construction or mining, in the process of construction, there are countless people of all ethnic groups killed and injured, this account is naturally to be counted on the head of Meng Yuan, now that the Great Song Dynasty is coming, the Great Song Dynasty Tianzi took out some money, food, clothing, and silk, which can appease the hearts of the people of all ethnic groups in Liaodong, so that they feel that they have been able to get out of the dire situation, and they can easily accept the hearts of the people, and they have a good calculation and a good strategy!

"Virtuous nephew Qing is better than blue out of blue, and sending you to Liuqiu is indeed the most correct decision in my life." Li Quan smiled miserably: "Now that the matter has come to this, what does the virtuous nephew want to do with me?" ”

"In Liaodong in the past few years, my nephew has made some contributions, and I have played the Son of Heaven, and I am willing to exchange my uncle's life for a small amount of work." Li Rui stared at him for a long time: "If the Son of Heaven allows it, my uncle will be an honest citizen, the money I have saved is enough to buy some property for my uncle, so that my uncle and my little brother and sister will not suffer from cold and starvation." ”

Hearing this, Li Quan was stunned, although Li Rui was not sure that he could be forgiven, but from his tone, it could be judged that he was still somewhat sure that Li Quan would not be executed. This made Li Quan's heart quite moved, Li Rui sneaked into Meng Yuan, it was really a work with his head, and it was not a day or two days, he insisted on it for five or six years, how could this kind of credit be a small achievement, he took it out in exchange for his own life, and his life was too valuable......

Thinking of this, Li Quanchang sighed: "No need, I can't live if I do my own evil, so I can do whatever I want." The Great Song Tianzi has clear rewards and punishments, and the crime is not as good as his wife, I have no hope, Rui'er, you still have a great future, and I am very relieved to have you take care of your younger brothers and sisters......"

"If my uncle is willing to cooperate, a righteous action is always indispensable, and my uncle has been in Tuntian in Liaodong for many years, and these credits are also there." Li Rui said sincerely: "Uncle should choose how to choose, I don't need to say more about the little nephew." ”

Li Quan nodded slightly, in fact, at such a point, it was impossible for him to insist on it.

As Li Quan gave up resistance, the last bit of Meng Yuan's sin in the northeast also came to naught, and Li Yunrui, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, appeased the people on the one hand, and on the other hand played the good news to the imperial court, which increased the pressure on Yanjing. On June 1 of the seventh year of Yanhuang, there was a mutiny in Yanjing City, which was almost starved of food, and Yan Shi, Shi Tianze and others were captured by the generals, all of them were sacrificed to the Song army, and 200,000 people surrendered to the city. In this way, before the autumn of the seventh year of Yanhuang came, there was no organized resistance in the whole territory of Mengyuan.

The failure to catch Tuolei, Meng Ge and Kublai Khan disappointed Li Yunrui to some extent, and Tuolei's wife instigated Lu Heteni and his other two sons-in-law, Hulegu, Ali Buge, Yan Shi, and Shi Tianze, to become the targets of prisoners. The high-ranking officials and magnates of the Mengyuan Yuan were to be sent to Lin'an to offer prisoners, and what to do with the soldiers of all ethnic groups who were captured and surrendered became a problem for Li Yunrui. Nine out of ten Menghu who were captured on the battlefield were buried, but they were not obtained from the battlefield, and it was impossible to say that they would be killed again.

On June 25, the seventh year of Yanhuang, Jinan Mansion ushered in a group of "guests".

Because of Xuzhou's strength, Jinan's development is somewhat dwarfed, and today it is a medium-sized city with a population of 400,000, and its main industries are cotton spinning, papermaking, coal and flour. In the territory of Mengyuan, there are not many cities of this scale, so when this group of "guests" entered the city, they were very surprised.

"Mother, is this the city of the Song people, is their city so beautiful?"

Under the construction of Li Rui, Huanglong Mansion, the capital of Mengyuan, can be regarded as neat and well-rounded, but there are still many gaps compared with Jinan Mansion. Ali Buge, who was young, sat in a cart and passed through the streets of Jinan Province, and couldn't help but ask his mother, Lu Heteni.

As a Nestorian believer, she was religious, as a daughter, her husband's father killed her, as a wife, her husband committed suicide to avoid humiliation, but left her two minor sons in her care, as a mother, she did not know if she could protect her two sons.

"Lord, bless me and my son, I beseech you, I have lost my husband and my two elder sons, do not take them away from me again......" She was praying silently, so she did not immediately answer after hearing Ali Bugo's words. After a while, she raised her head and looked at her young son with sad eyes with tears in her eyes: "Brother Ali, the Song people are wise and full of wisdom, and the city they built is as beautiful as a garden. My child, if you want to survive among the Song people, you have to be as smart and wise as they are, you understand? ”

"When I grow up, I want the Song people to build the most beautiful city in the world for me, just like my father asked Li Rui to build the Huanglong Mansion for him." Ali Buge did not answer his mother's question, and at his age he could not understand what was hidden in his mother's words.

Instigating Ruhe Teni to look out of the car, where Li Rui, who had built the city for her husband and Ali Buge's father, was riding on horseback. Li Rui is now wearing not the "official uniform" that Yan Congyuan and others drafted for Meng Yuan, but the uniform of the Song Guards. Instigated Lu Heteni's heart moved: This young Song man, who has been lurking by her husband's side for five years, has made such a great achievement, and wants to be able to protect his mother and son safely?

"Mother!" Hülegü called in a low voice, bringing Ruheteni back to her senses, she was not ashamed of how she was thinking about how to seduce Li Rui, and now she was willing to do anything to protect her two sons.

Hulegu is already sixteen, he understands much better than the instigated Ruheteni who is not yet sensible, his face is gray, but he is calm, trying his best to control himself, not to show his sadness and fear: "Mother, we are the descendants of Genghis Khan, the wives of Emperor Tulei, and we cannot be insulted by the southerners. ”

"Shut up." "If you don't want to be insulted, don't insult your conqueror with the southerners - your grandfather conquered my father's tribe, so I became your mother, and now your father's country has been conquered, all you have to do is live well and don't let your father's blood be cut off in you." ”

"The emperor of the Song people will not let us go, and he will not let the blood of the enemy continue." Hülegü shook his head: "It's like grandfather won't let ......"

"The emperor of the Song people is not your grandfather, your grandfather acted according to the rules of the steppe, so he was defeated, and he also died." Seeing that the guards did not stop the whispers of their mother and son, he leaned into Xu Wulie's ear and said: "If the emperor of the Song people wants to kill us, there is no need to send us from the Huanglong Mansion to Lin'an, as long as you don't anger him, then he will give you a way to live, you have to remember for me, no matter what humiliation, you have to endure it, you still have a mother and a brother to take care of!" ”

They are orphans and widows, and they are naturally not very tightly guarded, but Yan Shi and Shi Tianze's side are not like them. The two men were riding in a prisoner car, and the prisoner car had a huge wooden sign with the word "traitor" written on it. Everywhere they passed, everyone pointed and pointed at them, and many of them shouted and cursed, and some even took earth and stones to hit them. At the beginning, the two of them also defended loudly, saying that they were Jinren, and they were forced to surrender to Mengren, not traitors, but the more they quibbled, the more people scolded, and the guards on guard also turned a blind eye.

"Brother Yan, it seems that you and I will inevitably die." Shi Tianze was quite arrogant, and he said to Yan Shi in the midst of a shouting and scolding.

"As for this, it is beyond the power of man." Yan Shi sighed and said: "After this strange humiliation, it is better to commit suicide at the beginning, and still be famous in history." ”

"You can't live and die, how can you and I choose for ourselves, just let them suffer less sin, so let them love as they want."

"Hehe, Brother Shi Xian can see it."

While the two were talking, the convoy had arrived at the Jinan Railway Station, where a special train was waiting for them. For Li Rui, the train is also a rare thing, he got off the horse, and when he was looking left and right, a voice sounded: "Li Rui, Li Yongxin!" ”

"Yongxin" is Li Rui's word, but he asked Li Yunrui to take it for him when he begged, and there were not many people who called it, after being stunned, he looked back, but saw Meng Xi's smiling face.

"Mr. Meng!" Li Rui hurriedly went over to salute, Meng Xisheng gently patted him on the shoulder to signal that there was no need to be polite, looked him up and down again, and nodded with satisfaction after a while.

"Li Yongxin, don't say for a few years, you have endured humiliation and burden, it's really hard, but doing such a big deal, changing a country in a few years, it's a good deal, haha."

"Mr. Meng is still the same as he was back then." Li Rui said with a smile: "Where is Mr. now, is he still in Nanyang?" ”

"I'm gone, I'm coming back to finish my work, Your Majesty dismissed me from the Nanyang post and appointed me as the governor of Xilan, but I have a loose temperament, and I don't want to go to Xilan for a while, so I came here to see what good business there is to do in the Northeast." Meng Xisheng said with a smile: "Look at this kid next to me, do you still know him?" ”

Of course, Li Rui wouldn't really think that Meng Xisheng came here to break in, in fact, Meng Xisheng was the most transcendent among Zhao and Ju's righteous boys. He turned to the kid beside Meng Xisheng, because it had been five or six years, and he thought for a while before he remembered: "It's Zhao Yi, isn't this kid following behind Mr. Qiu?" ”

"Qiu Shuang resigned from his job, and now he specializes in medicine, and this kid has no interest in medicine, so he can only float around with me. His Majesty also intends to cultivate him, and when he returns to Dongshengzhou in the future, His Majesty has high hopes for him. Meng Xi said.

The two talked for a while, Li Rui said goodbye to Meng Xisheng, Meng Xisheng remembered something, and said in a low voice: "Your uncle's matter, don't worry too much, Wang Yu's death at the beginning, although it was related to him, after all, it was still the hand of Menghu, the official family is generous, and your uncle is an old acquaintance, so the death penalty should be avoided." ”

What Meng Xisheng said was similar to what Li Rui had guessed, he answered, and thanked Meng Xi. When he first asked for immigration from Liu, Meng Xisheng also dealt with Li Quan several times, and then met Li Quan again. Compared with Yan Shi and Shi Tianze, Li Quan's treatment is much better, although he is also in the prisoner car, he is a single car, and there is no "traitor" sign on the car. When he saw Meng Xisheng, he was ashamed: "Mr. Meng is really flattered that he can come to visit me, a sinner. ”

"You are indeed a sinner, but you also have merits, although you have harmed many people in Tuntian in Northeast China over the years, you have also saved many Han people." Meng Xisheng inevitably scolded lightly, but did not say deeply, but asked some minerals in the Northeast, obviously, this is the real purpose of his northward trip.

Because the train was delayed, it didn't take long for Meng Xisheng to say goodbye to Li Quan and Li Rui, and Li Quan took the time to ask a few people about their current situation. Peng Yibin, who competed with him at the beginning, is now the governor of the military region, and he has seen it when he was in the Daimyo's Mansion, and Liu Quan has been raised in Lin'an after retiring from the Huaibei Tuntian envoy, and Zhao Zi is still the governor of Xuzhou, but he may be transferred to Yanjing as the prefect of Yanjing in a few months, and some of the original acquaintances have their own positions. These news made Li Quan even more ashamed, if he did not betray the Song Dynasty, he would probably be the governor of the military region with the military power of the handkerchief, and he could also be the governor of a province all the way if he became a civilian, how could he become such a prisoner.

After saying goodbye to Li Quan, Meng Xisheng went to see the mother and son of Lu Heteni again, which was purely to see the excitement. The mother and son didn't know what kind of character this smiling man from the Song Kingdom was, but seeing that Li Rui was very respectful to him, they didn't have too long to deliberate, and with the whistle sounding, the special train was finally about to leave.

Note 1: This Ali Buge fought with Kublai Khan for the throne after Möngke's death, was defeated and captured, and was poisoned by Kublai Khan.

Note 2: In some texts, she was a beautiful, wise, and far-sighted woman who believed in Nestorianism, or the Nestorian sect, and was the niece of Wang Han.