Chapter 423: Slap in the face, shame!
The Liangshan army light cavalry lightning raid, Lin Chong and Lu Jiang two roads of men and horses have converged in Baimajin, Huazhou, more than 40,000 cavalry troops can reach Bianjing City in one day.
When the news came, the entire Kaifeng Mansion of Bianliang City suddenly fell into a huge panic!
Originally, since Cai Jing came to power, he used the Fangtian method and the salt tea method to indiscriminately issue banknotes and plunder the world's wealth, and Cai Jing had his own set of "Fengheng Yuda", similar to the theory of "stimulating consumption and stimulating the economy" in later generations.
Therefore, in the early years of Cai Jing's reign, the wealth of the whole world was concentrated in the center of the imperial court, and the so-called "the world is all the private wealth of the Son of Heaven, and the money of the Quartet is all in the central capital, overflowing and leaking, and the people are in great difficulty", but the "people" mentioned here do not include the people of Bianliang who have a Tokyo hukou.
Therefore, Cai Jing looted the wealth of the whole world, in addition to Zhao Ji's squandering and enjoyment, poverty and luxury and enriching his own pockets, but also provided super high benefits to the officials and people of Bianjing.
In Bianjing City, as long as you have a household registration in Kaifeng Mansion, whether it is all year round, festivals, or clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death, Kaifeng Mansion has a very complete welfare system.
It is precisely because of this that Bianliang City is rich and prosperous, almost everyone is leisurely and happy, even the poorest people wear brocade clothes on the street, you have to wear a cloth to go out, and you don't have the face to greet people.
In addition, since Zhao Ji became the emperor, the Yellow River does not know why, but there have been three "Heqing", the so-called "Yellow River is clear and the life of a saint." This terrible Zhao Ji and the hundred officials of the court were so happy, they all celebrated each other, and sang praises in various forms.
Therefore, no matter how popular discontent boils in other areas, bandits are everywhere; Regardless of whether the Jurchens in the north rise or not, whether they will invade the south. Anyway, in the eyes of the artist Emperor Zhao Ji, as well as most of the officials and people in Bianliang City, everything is so beautiful!
Fengheng Yuda, wealth and prosperity, Haiyan River Qing, it is simply a prosperous scene, all these people also believe that such a good day of singing and dancing will continue for thousands of generations.
But when Lin Chong led 45,000 cavalry troops and was about to kill Bianjing City, all the people in Bianjing realized that they had forcibly whitewashed this peaceful and prosperous world, which was so fragile and illusory.
In addition, Lin Chong has always let Zhang San and Li Si, and Wei Tong and Zheng Qiao released various Hebei Hedong Road and Jinghu Road in Bianliang City are not very peaceful; Jingdong Huainan Road, Jiangnan and Fujian are full of information about bandits.
Only then did everyone realize that the Great Song Dynasty, which they had always thought was singing and dancing, had already been full of bandits, reckless everywhere, and could turn into a big riot in various places at any time.
At this time, Lin Chong's gang led the troops to Bianliang City, and the central authority of the imperial court was seriously damaged, and the illusion of strong and weak branches was punctured at once, I am afraid that the world will really be turbulent, and even fall apart and the world will be in chaos.
What the wise people of Bianliang City can figure out, how can the elites of the group of people in the center of the imperial court, Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, and Wang Hao, not understand?
Thinking of these such serious consequences, thinking that they could still encourage to maintain the peace of the world, if they destroyed Western Xia again and recovered Yanyun, it would be a proper prosperous Zhongxing, but they were all destroyed by Lin Chong.
Including Zhao Ji, as well as Cai Jing and many other high-ranking officials of the imperial court, they all hated it, and they hated Lin Chong with a thousand knives, but hate to hate, and the next crisis had to be dealt with.
For a while, I don't know how much I was frightened by the minister's advice, and many students who were full of food every day and had a pain in their idle eggs also gathered day and night, knocking on the que, saying that they should quickly transfer the Western Army over to quell the chaos.
After all, the western thieves are thousands of miles away, and they are just a disease of ringworm scabies on the border, even if the western thieves take the opportunity to become bigger and occupy the land of Guanzhong in turn, the Great Song Dynasty still has Tongguan and the Yellow River to resist.
But the gang of thieves of the Liangshan Army was under the nose of Bianjing City, and the cavalry attacked quickly and quickly, and it took only two days.
On the side of the couch, how can others snore and sleep, but there is a big man-eating insect lying next to Bianjing City, and hundreds of thousands of gate control troops are not their opponents, this is really too terrifying and terrifying!
It is to eradicate this group of rebels as soon as possible even at any cost, as for the external troubles of the Western thieves and the Jurchens, after solving the big trouble of Liangshan, we will slowly figure it out!
These panicked officials at all levels, as well as college students, just discussed every day, scolded Fang Xuan, and pointed out the country; And the high-ranking officials at the top of the imperial court who really rule this empire naturally think more than these people.
Even if the Western Army is to be transferred to quell the rebellion, the current crisis must be resolved first; Moreover, the gate control army has rotted into the current state, and everything has to be pointed at the Western Army, once the Western Army has a different heart, won't it be too bad in the future?
Is it said that there are a thousand ways and ten thousand, or the imperial court must have a reliable and capable army that can fight in battle in its hands, which is the fundamental way to solve the problem.
After learning that the Dumen Forbidden Army was so unbearable by Gao Yu, Cai Jing, as the prime minister of the dynasty and the Taishi, immediately suggested to Zhao Ji that the Dongfu Political Hall would preside, and the Xifu and Sanya would fully cooperate to select 80,000 Gongwei Forbidden Army among the hundreds of thousands of Gongwei Forbidden Army, and train diligently, looking forward to forming a good Gongwei Bianjing as soon as possible.
But these are all later words, the current top priority is to see that the Liangshan rebels are about to fight under Bianjing, how to retreat from the enemy?
"The saint doesn't have to worry too much, according to the old minister, don't look at the Liangshan rebels, but in fact, they are in danger!"
In the vertical arch hall, Cai Jing said unhurriedly: "The wall of Bianjing City is four zhang high, five zhang and nine feet wide (Note 1), which can not only accommodate enough soldiers to defend the city, but also can set up countless catapults and bed crossbows, and there are sharp weapons such as the divine arm bow to defend the city, not to mention guarding it for ten days and half a month, even if it is guarded for half a year!"
Moreover, there is a steady stream of reinforcements from all walks of life, and there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Fengqiu County to fight for the horns, once the Liangshan rebels attack the city is frustrated, our more than 100,000 troops can counter-encircle the rebels on the periphery, and completely solve this big problem! ”
Cai Jing is right, the walls of Bianjing City are so tall and strong, and the moat is wide and deep, how can it be attacked in a moment?
Even in real history, Jingkang's shameful Bianjing City was not defeated by the Jin army, but the Liuding Liujia Divine Soldiers of Guo Jin's demons opened the city gate themselves to let the Jin soldiers in.
(In fact, the Jin soldiers only took the opportunity to take a section of the city wall and burned the city gate, but they did not dare to go down the city.) So strictly speaking, in fact, the Jin soldiers did not break through Bianjing City at all!
It's just that the Great Song Dynasty was too cowardly, and when he saw that the city wall was occupied, he directly extinguished his determination to resist, and was coaxed by the Jin people to negotiate peace, and was calculated by the Jurchens little by little, so he asked for sesame seeds first and gave it; and asked for watermelons, and gave; In the end, I gave everything.
The Second Emperor of Huiqin was deceived by the Jurchens and forced by the civil officials to go to Jinying and was detained; Song Huizong's wife and daughter were also betrayed to the Jurchens by these civilian officials and the Imperial Forbidden Army, who were supposed to protect them. The cowardice and shamelessness of the Song people are simply outrageous, and this is the real situation of Jingkang's shame. For details, please search "Jingkang Chronicle").
As soon as Cai Jing finished speaking, Wang Hao, Cai You, Li Yan, Su Yuanjing and others all nodded in agreement, feeling that the biggest harm of Lin Chong's move was to slap the face of the imperial court, puncture the illusion of the imperial court's strong cadres and weak branches, and seriously hit the authority of the imperial court's center.
But in fact, it still doesn't threaten anyone in the city for now.
Zhao Ji didn't think so in his heart, but no matter what, the dignified Song Kingdom was surrounded by a group of anti-thieves, and the army in the city did not dare to go out of the city for a decisive battle, this was a slap in the face of Hongguoguo, and it was a great shame for him as the emperor!
It is because Zhao Ji has always had an excellent demeanor, and his elegant face has been blue at this time, and his eyes are full of anger, but he can't come out of it, and he is angry for a long time, and finally finds an outlet.
"Tell me the will! Levy the people to defend the city, double the reward, order all the artillerymen, bows and crossbows on the city wall, and those who can kill Lin Chong, the bounty is 200,000 yuan, and the marquis is sealed! ”
The ministers couldn't help but smile slightly bitterly when they heard this, but speaking of which, this official family is such a frivolous and easy character, and many times they think of what it is, but fortunately, they don't reward an extra 100,000 yuan of gold and silver, and it is nothing to seal out an extra marquis.
Therefore, everyone just laughed secretly in their hearts, but no one admonished them, so they should vent their anger to the officials.
At this moment, I heard a little yellow door hurriedly running in, and Liang Shicheng on the side hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, panicked, the Liangshan rebels have hit the city?" ”
The little yellow door hurriedly said: "No, it's Uncle Zhang who came back at night!" ”
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Note 1: Here is the Song Dynasty standard for size, one foot is 31.68 cm, one zhang is 3.17 meters, and the height in the book is Han ruler, one foot is 23 cm, Lin Chong is 1.84 meters tall, Lu Junyi is 2.07 meters, and Song Jiang is 1.38 meters. The wall of Bianjing City is 12.7 meters high and 19 meters wide, which is very high and very wide.