Chapter 287 The world is full of loyal ministers who die

"Bang!"

A fine porcelain vase was thrown on the brick surface, and the porcelain vase worth more than fifty guan was immediately shattered, and the palace maids and attendants kneeling on the ground trembled, and no one dared to speak loudly.

The war on the front line was unfavorable, and the gold lord Wanyan Shouxu was full of liver fire for more than ten days, and the staff killed four chamberlains and palace maids who served him, dropped more than 20 porcelain, and knocked over six tables. He originally boasted of being a Ming Jun, and he had always been generous, but during this time, he was actually depressed, so he acted like this.

First Ilabha, and then Wuxian, who suffered a great defeat in Qinglong Fort and Xuzhou respectively, captured Xuzhou, and seized the technology and wealth of the Song people for the country's plan, which has been completely shattered, and now he is facing the revenge of the Song people.

What disappointed him the most was Meng Yuan, in the secret recital from Irabuha and Wu Xian, they all criticized Meng Hu's arrogance and rudeness, and Wu Xian even put all the responsibility for the defeat of Xuzhou on Meng Yuan's head: Polu's arrogance and unconspiracy, strict cunning and insidiousness, and Meng Hu's greed and stupidity, these are the reasons for the failure.

Wanyan Shouxu had no interest in the reasons for the defeat, he was concerned about how to deal with the current situation. Marshal Wanyan Heda only has 50,000 people in his hands, and it is not enough to protect himself, let alone rescue the martial immortals who are besieged in Yongzhou, and to mobilize troops and horses from the rest of the country, it is just to take some farmers who are used to hoes to force them to replenish their combat strength.

"200,000 people were surrounded by 60,000 Song troops...... Ridiculous, ridiculous! ”

Thinking of what was said in the military report, Wanyan Shouxu's face was a strange bright red, and he couldn't help coughing.

He didn't know that in Wu Xian's military report, 60,000 Song troops were already exaggerated figures.

"Wanyan Pingzhang asks to see." When his anger was not completely contained, a trembling voice came to him, which found him an outlet for his anger, and he flew up with a kick, kicked the waiter who dared to interrupt his thoughts, and said viciously: "Come, drag it down, and kill it with a rod!" ”

"Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life......"

The chamberlain begged for mercy hoarsely, but his companion did not give him time at all, and one of the chamberlains who dragged him out gagged him with a cloth, while secretly rejoicing in his heart.

According to the usual practice, the rod to death of this chamberlain means that His Majesty will not kill others with the rod for at least two or three days, and they are temporarily safe.

Wanyan Shouxu heard the sound of the horn outside, and his mood was a little happier: no matter what, he is still the supreme emperor of this empire, and no one dares to disobey his orders.

At this moment, he heard the commotion outside, and the anger that had just poured out rose again, he grabbed a bottle and was about to drop it again, when suddenly his heart moved: "Go and see, what is going on." ”

The chamberlain who was signaled by him was heartbroken, but he didn't dare to disobey, he ran out in a hurry, and when he got out of the steps of the palace, he was nervous and tripped himself, but he didn't care about the pain and ran to the place of noise.

After a while, he ran back tremblingly, and as soon as he entered the temple, he fell to his knees and kept prostrating. Wanyan Shouxu saw him like this, and his heart was even more irritable: "Say it quickly, what happened, if you don't say it, you will be killed!" ”

"Your Majesty...... Wanyan Heda Pingzhang said that there was an urgent military situation to ask for a ......"

After learning that Wuxian was besieged and the Jingxiang Military Region of the Song State invaded Nanyang, Wanyan Shouxu first ordered Wanyan Heda to save Wuxian, and after the two rescues were repulsed, he recalled Wanyan Shouxu, and at the same time issued an edict to King Qin, wanting to use this last strength to defend Bianliang. When he decided to kill the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Heda never admonished him, so now after he is in trouble, Wanyan Shouxu can't help but be angry with Wanyan Heda, if he tried to stop himself at that time, how could he make such a big mistake!

"Emergency military situation, what emergency military situation can he have, but where is the defeat...... Wanyan Shouxu roared, raised his foot and was about to kick this chamberlain, but took it back: "Could it be ...... Could it be that Wuxian broke through the siege successfully? ”

If Wuxian breaks the siege, the general gathers to defend Bianliang, with the danger of the city, it may be able to support for a period of time, and it is even possible to stage a good reversal under Bianliang City, and it is not unheard of in history, the Song people come from the south, and they are not tolerant of the severe cold in the north, as long as a cold wave is enough to make them freeze to death......

Wanyan Shouxu's mind was full of such cranky thoughts, and at this time, he completely lost his ability to judge calmly.

"Let him in." He returned to his throne and commanded.

Wanyan Heda trotted into the main hall, his face was silent, he couldn't see any joy, but his eyes flashed with uneasiness, looking at him like this, Wanyan Shouxu's hope immediately came to naught.

"What's the bad news?" Wanyan Shouxu asked lazily.

"Menghu has broken Suidezhou, this is the news before the twelfth." Wanyan Heda stared at Wanyan Shouxu tightly: "Your Majesty and the tiger are ...... skin"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help choking up, and didn't say anything after blaming Yan Shouxu.

"What!"

Wanyan Shouxu was mentally prepared, even if he heard that the entire army of Martial Immortals was exhausted, or that the soldiers of the Song State were approaching the city, he would not be so surprised.

"Wokotai ignored our peace treaty with Tuolei, and he took the opportunity of our army's eastward crusade to mobilize troops and horses to attack Suide Prefecture. This is the news from 12 days ago, counting the time, we have just gone down to Qinglong Castle, and Menghu has already launched. Menghu is full of cavalry, and he travels quickly, at this time...... I'm afraid it's very close to Bianzhou. ”

Wanyan Shouxu's eyes straightened, and he collapsed softly, and his entire body fell into the throne, and then he didn't know what to do.

The Mongols were attacking at a rapid pace, and unlike Ogedei, he was not very interested in occupying the Central Plains, and his only purpose in this southward expedition was to plunder. In the past two years, Tuo Lei has amassed a large amount of wealth through indirect trade between Goryeo and the Song State, and used these goods to buy off the tribes under Ogedai. Ögedei, on the other hand, was busy suppressing the steppe tribes that had rebelled because of Temujin's death, and could only occasionally go to the Jin Kingdom and Western Xia to plunder, which made his tribes even more dissatisfied. After receiving the promise of the Emperor of Song, he immediately decided that no matter what the situation of the war between Jin and Song, as long as Jin reduced the defense force on the border, then he would take the opportunity to invade south.

For the good thing that can find some trouble for his younger brother to drag the mine and spoil him, Wokotai is very happy.

Therefore, when Wanyan Shouxu got the news, Wokotai had already broken through Chang'an and Huayin, and came east along the Yellow River. The troops he brought were not much, only 50,000 people, mainly vassal tribes, but the territory of the Jin country was empty, and everywhere they went, almost all the prefectures and counties abandoned the city and left, and the governor of Wokotai drove straight into the realm of no one, although the state capital he passed through was not rich, but in Chang'an he still grabbed the wealth he wanted.

The desire is hard to fill, and Chang'an's "bumper harvest" not only did not satisfy Wokotai, but stimulated his greed even more: Chang'an has so much wealth, so what about Bianliang, the capital of the Jin Kingdom? It was the capital of the Song and Jin dynasties for hundreds of years, and when the previous generation of gold lords moved to Bianliang, they brought all the wealth hoarded by the Jin country for more than 100 years to Bianliang.

"Your Majesty, Menghu has broken Luoyang, and now Bianliang's troops are insufficient, whether to stick to the city or hunt in the south, please decide your majesty!"

Menghu advanced too fast, and did not give Wanyan Shouxu too much time to be drowsy, and on the fifth day after Wanyan Heda came with bad news, Wanyan Heda brought even worse news at the court meeting of the Jin Kingdom. At present, there are 50,000 defenders in Bianliang, which is the remnant of the army brought by Wanyan Heda, the morale is lost early, and the combat effectiveness is extremely low.

"Where is Monk Wanyan Chen?" Wanyan Shouxu asked weakly.

The more than 10,000 people in the hands of Monk Wanyan Chen are the only mobile troops in the Jin country that still retain combat effectiveness, because he did not go to Xuzhou, so he has never suffered a fiasco, and his morale is still high.

"Your Majesty, yesterday the minister has reported that Meng Yuan plundered along the way when he returned north from the territory of Dajin, broke through countless prefectures and counties, and held more than 300,000 people hostage, and the monk Wanyan Chen took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack his rear army, won a complete victory, rescued nearly 200,000 people, and now confronted Meng Yuan in Kaizhou......."

"Why did he provoke Meng Yuan at this time, Meng Yuan wanted the people, so he gave the people to them! At this time, all he had to do was come to save Bianliang in the starry night! Wanyan Shouxu roared hysterically, and he kicked over the imperial case in front of him, as if it was Wanyan Chen Monk himself: "He is trying to harm me, put me to death!" ”

All the ministers held their breath, and not one of them spoke.

The Jin state is now embattled, and with the defeat of Xuzhou, the alliance between the Jin and Yuan has lost the basis for maintenance. On the way back to the north, he inherited the tradition of never returning empty, plundering the prefectures and counties along the way, making it seem as if they had been washed by water along the way. Meng Yuan broke the promise in front, and Monk Wanyan Chen attacked him in the back, how can this be regarded as the crime of Monk Wanyan Chen, could it be that if Monk Yan Chen didn't save those people, Meng Yuan would easily let him go back to the army?

Everyone knew that the gold lord was talking angrily now, and he had been swallowed up by fear and despair, and he had no idea at all.

"Your Majesty, make a decision!" Seeing that the high-spirited lord of the country has become what he is now, he feels uncomfortable in his heart, originally this young king was wise and studious, and had the style of a famous king, but now he was dumb and confused, and he couldn't even speak.

"What to decide, how else to decide?" Wanyan Shouxu said in despair: "Retreat from the dynasty, retreat from the dynasty!" ”

He shouted as he left the throne and walked backwards for five days in a row. Wanyan Heda was anxious, and took a few steps forward and grabbed his sleeve: "Your Majesty, by all means, if you don't make a decision today, it's too late to get out!" ”

"So what, what then?" Wanyan Shouxu struggled, but he didn't break free, so he said in a trembling voice: "As long as Pingzhang has a plan, but Pingzhang is the master!" ”

"Today...... Now there is only one solution. Wanyan Heda's face was pale, and he grabbed Wanyan Shouxu and didn't let go: "Ask for peace with the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"I have sent twelve envoys, all of whom have been driven back, and I have gone from being called a brother to a nephew to a son and then to a grandson in the national letter, but this national letter can't cross the border at all, how can I make peace?" Wanyan Shouxu blushed: "Pingzhang, this and I can't ask for it." ”

"Your Majesty, if you ask for peace with empty words, the Song people will naturally not allow it." Wanyan Heda's face was full of despair, he was the pillar that supported the country, but he had lost confidence at this moment: "Your Majesty remembers the Northern Aggression of the Song Dynasty during the opening of the Jubilee?" At that time, the Song State wanted to seek peace, but I didn't allow it, so the Song State sent a letter to the Song State with the first performance of the Prime Minister and Han Xuan......"

Wanyan Shouxu's eyes widened suddenly, staring at Wanyan Heda.

"Your Majesty, the minister is a matter of the world, the move of the Eastern Crusade is the minister's one force, and now the army is defeated, the country is unbearable, since the minister is beheaded to thank the Song State, and the first achievement of the minister is to Anbian. If the peace is successful, the siege of the Martial Immortals will be relieved, and His Majesty will have soldiers available in his hands......"

When he said this, his voice began to rise high: "Can save the country in danger, why should the minister regret this body, but after the death of the minister, Your Majesty should remember the lesson, the Song country is like a father and ancestor, can no longer open the border, Your Majesty is working hard, and forge ahead, I Dajin sits on the Central Plains shaped land, underground coal and iron mines, in order to trade with the Song Dynasty, in exchange for the capital to raise soldiers, after the recovery of the army, Your Majesty should restore the land and open up the territory in the north, and finally the world of the Emperor of the Song State, can not look south!" ”

"In this way, although the minister is under the nine springs, he is also smiling!" After Wanyan Heda finished speaking, he finally let go of his hand and bowed to Wanyan Shouxu: "Your Majesty, take care." ”

"Pingzhang!" After changing Yan Shouxu this time, he grabbed Yan Heda, his face was full of tears, and he shook his head again and again: "Pingzhang is the pillar of the country, how can you easily say death?" Although I am dim, how can I be like Song Ningzong, the head of the ministers to Anbian? Hugh Ti, Hugh Ti! ”

After settling down, Wanyan Shouxu said again: "I have made up my mind, Nan Hunt Caizhou, Pingzhang will go to arrange the matter of Nan Hunt!" ”

Wanyan Heda bowed again, but did not answer, he took two steps back, took a deep look at Wanyan Shouxu, and then suddenly pulled out the sword from the waist of the guard from the temple, crossed the sword around his neck, stopped, and seemed to want to say something to Wanyan Shouxu, but all the words turned into a long sigh. He closed his eyes and twitched the blade of his sword, blood running down the blade.

The whole hall fell into a dead silence, although Yan Heda had just said those words, but no one thought that he had made up his mind to die and would kill himself in the palace. Until the sword fell to the ground, the body of Wanyan Heda was still standing, his eyes closed, and his face was withered from the loss of life, as if he had fallen into eternal contemplation.

Wanyan Shouxu came to his senses at this time, he hugged Wanyan Heda's corpse, and cried loudly: "Pingzhang, why is this so, open the border provocation without permission, for my fault, what is Pingzhang doing?" ”

The ministers are also mourning, in the past few years, Wanyan Heda has assisted Wanyan Shouxu to support an increasingly narrow country, although his intelligence is not superb, but he has also done his best. If it weren't for his hard work, Jin Guo would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, and at the last moment, he also chose to extinguish the anger of Song Guo with his first performance in order to save his last hope.

Although this made the ministers feel admired, at the same time they quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps, if Wanyan Heda's first achievement is given to the Song people, the Song people will really stop, the Jin Kingdom can continue, and their glory and wealth can be maintained......

"Pingzhang, how confused you are!" Wanyan Shouxu came to his senses completely, he thought about Wanyan Heda's last sigh when he looked at him, he should be thinking about admonishment, and he should not be so depressed anymore. However, doesn't he understand that the current situation is different from that of the Song State during the Northern Expedition, at that time, the Jin State was not able to destroy the Song State, so he agreed to the Song State's request for peace, and now, the Song State did not waste much energy to destroy the Jin, and they would still agree to sue for peace?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Wanyan Shouxu hugged Wanyan Heda's corpse and cried for a while, and the ministers began to cry a few times in a sneering manner, but thinking of Menghu, who was approaching Bianliang, they quickly restrained Qi Rong. Someone came to pull away Yan Shouxu: "Your Majesty's mourning, Heda Pingzhang was martyred, Your Majesty should live up to his dying will, make a big policy quickly, and settle the heart of the country's army and people!" ”

"Do you mean to let me write to Pingzhang's first achievement to make peace?" Wanyan Shouxu wiped away his tears and stared at the minister in a daze. The minister looked ashamed, but still nodded: "It's come to this, you have to give it a try!" ”

"Yes...... Yes, you have to give it a try...... Wanyan Shouxu was about to be angry, but remembering Wanyan Heda's dying sigh, he pressed his anger down again, he took a deep breath, and repeatedly warned himself not to make Wanyan Heda's death meaningless.

Hearing his words, there was a faint voice of relief among the ministers, Wanyan Shouxu had already reined in his mind, he glanced coldly in that direction, Wanyan Heda did not die for these shameless people.