CHAPTER XVI

In the palace, only the rumbling sound can be heard, and outside Kaifeng City, the earth is shaking violently at this moment!

The snow is falling, and you can see far away even at night! On this night, countless people outside Kaifeng City looked into the distance in horror!

A black line appeared in the distance, and it was this black line that caused the earth to tremble! The black line is getting closer and closer to Kaifeng City, and gradually you can see that it is a boundless cavalry! If you get closer, you can see that these cavalrymen are all dressed strangely, they are all bald, and only there is an unusually ugly money braid on the back of their heads! Although their appearance is extremely ugly, their bodies are unusually strong! All of them were swarthy and bulging muscles, with sharp knives in their hands and huge curved bows on their backs! These are the standard Jurchen dress, and the army in front of them is the invincible Jurchen Iron Cavalry that has been invincible in the world for ten years!

"Kaifeng, Kaifeng! The front is Kaifeng! Wanyan Zonghan's face was excited, and he laughed!

"Dashuai, we have finally come to Kaifeng City! In these hundreds of miles, we didn't even encounter any Song army, and we traveled unhindered all the way! Wanyan Lou followed Wanyan Zonghan's side, and he was also laughing at the moment.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiaoyaozi!" Wanyan Zonghan looked at a scholar beside him and said with a grateful expression.

"You're welcome, we have the same purpose! I will also destroy the Song by your hands! "Xiaoyaozi is still a chic duster! He rode on a horse, marching day and night all the way, but he didn't even have a trace of dust on his body, this was because his martial arts were too high, he had reached the innate Great Perfection realm, and the true qi in his body was all over his body, and any dust and debris had not yet touched his body and had been bounced away from afar! This is really the supreme realm of martial arts, and there are only three or five people who can reach such a realm today!

Ordinary people can't comprehend such a realm, but Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Lou are the top masters among the Jurchens, and they can naturally comprehend such a realm! Along the way, their bodies were covered with dust and dirt, and the two of them admired Xiaoyaozi to the extreme!

"Sir, we will attack the city today! With the strength of my Jurchen army, Kaifeng can be broken in a few days! Wan Yan Zonghan said.

"You don't have to attack the city right now!" Xiaoyaozi shook his head.

"We're already under the city, why don't we attack it?" Wanyan Zonghan said in surprise.

"We are still making peace!" Xiaoyaozi said.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Lou stayed there, and the peace was originally used to paralyze the Song Dynasty, and the so-called "boiled frog in warm water" was also, but now that it has successfully come to Kaifeng City, why continue to negotiate peace? Isn't that a waste of time?

Xiaoyaozi said with a smile: "First, His Royal Highness the Second Prince has not yet come to Kaifeng City, and it is somewhat difficult to conquer Kaifeng with the strength of the handsome, after all, this Kaifeng is the largest and strongest city in the Great Song Dynasty!" Second, we can still use peace to paralyze the Song Dynasty court, so that they think that the reason why we came to the city is to negotiate peace, so that they agreed to our conditions! Let the forbidden army of Kaifeng City relax! ”

"Yes!" Wanyan Zonghan nodded.

"Another point, if the marshal defeats Kaifeng City, will he want to loot and loot?" Xiaoyaozi said.

"It's nature! I have long heard that Kaifeng City is the richest place in the world, and we have worked hard to come here from the north, how can we not rob it? Wanyan Zonghan said without shame.

"Why should we do it ourselves?" Xiaoyaozi laughed.

"Oh?" Wanyan Zonghan was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what Xiaoyaozi meant.

"Let's negotiate peace with them and let the court of the Great Song Dynasty loot all the gold and silver in Kaifeng City, so we don't have to do it ourselves? If we do it ourselves, the people in Kaifeng City will still resist, and then we will still have some casualties, which is not good! Do you know Yerod Light? Xiaoyaozi said.

"Naturally, I know Yelu Deguang, he is the second emperor of the Liao State, a generation of heroes, and the sixteen states of Yanyun were taken from the Han people by this person!" Wanyan Zonghan said.

"Yelu Deguang once went all the way south to Kaifeng City, just like the current Jin soldiers!" Xiaoyaozi said.

"Oh!" Wanyan Zonghan nodded, he looked at Xiaoyaozi, expecting Xiaoyaozi to continue.

"It's just a pity that Yerod Guang let the soldiers and horses rob everywhere! That Kaifeng City is the largest city in the world, with millions of people, and the people have rebelled! The Liao State had few soldiers, and half of them died because of the resistance of the people, and finally had to withdraw from Kaifeng City! Originally, Yelude was only going to use Kaifeng City as the capital of Da Liao! Therefore, now I suggest that the peace be negotiated and let the Great Song Dynasty take away all the gold and silver of its own people and give it to us obediently. Xiaoyaozi said.

"So there is such a thing!" Wanyan Zonghan suddenly realized.

A gust of north wind blew, and Xiaoyaozi's clothes were blown away! He is already in his forties, but now he still feels so chic, as if he is a good son of the turbidity! At this moment, he looked at Kaifeng City in front of him, and his eyes were full of sneers!

"Zhao Kuangyin, you have taken away my Houzhou! You can't imagine that your Great Song Dynasty will also have such a day, right? Now I not only want to exterminate all the children of the Zhao family, but I also want the children of the Zhao family to suffer humiliation before they die, leaving behind the infamy of eternity! Xiaoyaozi said secretly.

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The Jurchen army came to Kaifeng, and this time Kaifeng City was really shocked!

The people of Kaifeng City are hiding in their own homes and dare not come out! On the surface, it's not as chaotic as last time! Last time, many people wanted to escape, but this time the city gate was closed, and now no one can escape! What's more, the Jurchen barbarian army is outside, who dares to go out?

The court of the Great Song Dynasty was frightened at first, but in the morning of the same day, the Jurchen envoy entered Kaifeng City! In addition to the Jurchen envoys, Li Bangyan, who was sent to bargain with the Jurchens, also returned!

Song Qinzong hurriedly summoned Li Bangyan in the Funing Palace.

"Li Aiqing, aren't the Jurchens going to attack the city?" Li Bangyan had just stepped into the main hall, and Song Qinzong immediately asked.

"No, they just want to make peace! Our gold and silver have not been delivered, so they came to Kaifeng outside the city to beg for money! Li Bangyan said.

"This ...... This ...... "For a while, Song Qinzong burst into tears, and he cried tears of joy! As long as the Jurchens are not besieging the city, then he is at ease! He has already decided, as long as it is a peace, regardless of any conditions, he will agree to the Jurchens!

"Heaven will not die, my Great Song!" For a long time, Song Qinzong sighed.

"Your Majesty, the Jurchens said that none of the 10 million ingots of gold, 20 million ingots of silver, and 10 million horses of silk should be missing! Only after giving away all their belongings can they retreat! Li Bangyan said.

"But there is not so much gold and silver in the treasury! These days, I and the ministers have been raising money, but we can't raise so much gold and silver! Song Qinzong said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, there are millions of people in Kaifeng City! Now that the golden soldiers are surrounding Kaifeng, everyone should contribute, and everyone should donate their belongings! The retreat of the Jin soldiers is good for all the people in Kaifeng City! Li Bangyan said loudly.

"This ......" Song Qinzong hesitated for a while.

"Your Majesty, don't hesitate! Only by keeping the country and the society can you repay the people in the future! If you don't do this now, the country will fall! When the Jurchens entered Kaifeng, the people's gold and silver wealth at that time also belonged to the Jurchens! Li Bangyan said.

"You're right! It's just that this matter is very important, and the ministers should be convened to discuss! Song Qin Zong said.

At that time, Song Qinzong convened the ministers to discuss this matter, and the ministers of the court, except for a few people such as Li Gang who opposed it, thought that they should go all out to resist Jin, and the rest of the ministers actually agreed to collect gold and silver from the homes of the people of Kaifeng City to meet the needs of the Jurchens!

The collection of gold and silver first started from the merchants of Kaifeng City! In the afternoon of that day, countless soldiers of the forbidden army rushed into the merchants' homes and began to loot the gold and silver treasures one by one!

That night, the soldiers of the forbidden army broke into the homes of ordinary people and began to rob them of their belongings!

The entire Kaifeng City was in chaos again, and there were cries everywhere!

"It's a pity that I'm just a ten-year-old prince, with no position and no power! The enemy army pressed the border, and the court did not deal with the enemy, but even oppressed its own people! There are 1.5 million people in Kaifeng City, if we distribute weapons and let the people resist the Jin soldiers, there are only 100,000 Jin soldiers, and we can repel them if we fight them in the streets! Late at night, Zhao Chen couldn't sleep, looking out the window, he clenched his fists!

It was on this night that he desperately wanted to be in control of the country! For the first time, he had a little sense of identity with the identity of "prince"!

"Your Highness, it's chaotic these days! Those eunuchs and palace maids ran around, and now they can still hear the crying in the distance, what happened? Xiao San'er stood aside and asked a little strangely.

"Nothing! The public has been stolen these days, so thieves are being caught in the palace! You must not go out, if someone finds out, just think you are a thief, I am afraid that it is the crime of Ling Chi! Zhao Chen said.

"This ...... This ......" Xiao San'er was startled and trembled all over.

Xiao San'er naturally knew what kind of punishment Ling Chi was, the flesh on his body was cut off piece by piece, it must have been extremely painful!

"Don't worry, prince, I will never go out!" Xiao San'er said hurriedly.

"That's good!" Zhao Chen nodded.

It's November 3rd, and there is another sound of horses' hooves outside the city that night, which is the arrival of Wanyan Zongwang! The two armies of the Jurchens finally converged, and a total of 100,000 iron horsemen galloped under the city of Kaifeng, and the cheerful laughter of the Jurchens could be heard everywhere.

On this day, the first batch of gold and silver from the Great Song Dynasty was also sent outside the city! When the Jurchens got the gold and silver, their hearts were even more happy, needless to say!

In the next few days, gold and silver were sent out almost every day! But there are more and more cries in Kaifeng City, I don't know how many families have been ruined!

The weather is getting colder and colder, the cold wind is howling, the snow sometimes stops and falls again, and the sky of Kaifeng City has always been gloomy!

Zhao Chen still followed Wang De to practice martial arts every day, but when he came to Jujing Garden on this day, he saw that Wang De seemed to have a trace of anxiety on his face.