Chapter 015: Acquaintances

“…… You're scolding me again, I'm not going to be fooled. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info "Wen Nan was really blinded by Hong Tao at first, and gritted his teeth and prepared to educate Hong Tao, so that he could understand what it means to love the country and not love the beauty. But soon understood that Hong Tao would not do this, his interest in women is really indifferent from the emperor's level, and this is nothing more than digging a hole for himself.

"Where are they held?" Seeing that Wen Nan was not fooled, Hong Tao stopped teasing him, and he still had something to do. The imperial city cannot be locked down all the time, and there will be big trouble after a long time, and now it is necessary to convince the Great Song monarchs and ministers as soon as possible to agree to manage this huge empire in their place. As for how to persuade him, Hong Tao immediately had in mind countless professional institutions, such as the Dregs Cave, the White Mansion, No. 76, Tegaoke, the Gestapo, the Mossad, the KGB, and the CIA...... Whether it works or not depends on seeing these captives and trying them before we can be sure.

"In the big courtyard to the west, just go through the high wall in front of you." The Marines in charge of patrolling the area gave Hong Tao a general direction.

"It should be the vertical arch hall, which is the emperor's reception room, and things that do not need to be discussed openly in the court are generally discussed with several close ministers in the vertical arch hall. Let's go from here, and we will arrive at the inner palace. Wen Nan determined the specific location based on the general direction alone, and walked south along the west bank of Xiaoxi Lake with Hong Tao.

"You're quite familiar with the emperor's harem! There are no outsiders here, you tell me honestly, when you were the foreign minister of the Empire, you often stayed in Lin'an, did you just run around the harem when you had nothing to do? Knowing that Wen Nan didn't like to make this kind of slightly meaty joke, Hong Tao couldn't help but blurt it out. The palace design of Lin'an is really easy to make people reverie, and the last dynasty has to pass through the harem, especially a personable and funny guy like Wen Nan, won't he meet a beautiful woman or something? Isn't it all like this in court dramas in later generations, if you don't wear a green hat, you won't be embarrassed to say that you are the emperor.

"......" Wen Nan didn't intend to answer this question at all, quickened his pace, left Hong Tao behind, and protested with his actions,

The vertical arch hall is located on the west side of the Daqing Hall of the main hall of the Lin'an Imperial Palace, which is regarded as the emperor's private office and meeting room, and has become a temporary prison at this time. The emperor and ministers were all locked up in this courtyard, and the rest of the palace personnel, including the emperor's family, were locked up in the Daqing Hall next door because there were too many of them.

"What's going on with these people?" To go to the Vertical Arch Palace, the nearest road is to take the west gate of the Daqing Palace. When Hong Tao and his party entered the courtyard of the Daqing Palace, they immediately saw more than a dozen corpses piled up in the corner, with bullet holes on their bodies, some of which had not dried up yet, and they had obviously just died. Judging by their costumes, they are not the Imperial Forest Army, they are not young for a few years, they have a lot of beards, and they don't look like some martial arts masters, how can they be killed.

"These people don't listen to orders, they shout and shout, and they insult the sun god, and we are going to burn them at the stake here, and we are waiting for people to bring the divine oil." The answer to Hong Tao's question was a lieutenant with a silver star on his shoulder, this is currently the highest-ranking officer in the Marine Corps, there are only a few in total, and above them is the self-proclaimed general Swan.

"Carry it to the river and burn it with the other corpses. I'm going to live here in the future, don't just kill people in the yard, it's very unhygienic. Send a signal to the docks, let the management detachment come in, cooperate with our swallows, first screen the officials of the Royal Forest, find out their families, and then take the people who can be controlled to the courtyard next to it, and I will go there first. For these Indian soldiers, Hong Tao can neither blame nor indulge. They are very simple, and the outside world is very little to see except the rainforest. This kind of person will be very weak and easily deceived if he does not have a strong leader. But if there is a strong leader, they are not afraid of death, tiredness, and scolding, and they are not afraid of the machine, and they are not afraid of doing anything, and they have no concept of right and wrong at all.

They were very good soldiers in the war, but the work of pacification, screening, division, and management after the war could not be entrusted to them, and there were 500 intensively trained managers in the fleet, who were ready to do these jobs. In addition, the swallows arranged by Cixi near Lin'an will also rush to the dock with all their helpers to join the fleet this morning, and it is estimated that they have arrived at this time. It would have been much better for them to deal with the captives with five hundred administrators.

"How many people are in there? How is it the same as a toad pit! Before he reached the gate of the courtyard of the vertical arch hall, Hong Tao heard the sound of noise coming from the courtyard.

"Four hundred and forty-three people, according to their uniforms, divided into three places to guard. These people are so loud that we don't understand what they're saying. The divine messenger said that he should treat these people preferentially, as long as they did not try to resist and make some noise. "The guard here is also a lieutenant, and he is good-tempered and not noisy.

"Where is that emperor locked up?" Hong Tao leaned on the crack of the door and looked in, except for the marines, there was no shadow of any Song Dynasty officials in the courtyard, and it seemed that they were all locked up in the house.

"In the small house opposite, we held him in solitary confinement, and there were three Marines who were closely guarded, with their hands and feet tied, unable to see, hear, or speak." The lieutenant pushed the courtyard door a little more open, and pointed to a small house next to the main hall, which was supposed to be where the palace personnel stayed.

"Bring him here, and you send men to stand guard around and let no one come near." Hong Tao looked left and right, and there was no room that was too suitable, so he simply used the gatehouse of the vertical arch hall as the interrogation room. Anyway, Emperor Lizong has also suffered a lot, so he shouldn't care where he is.

"You actually ordered the official family to be tied up, he is the emperor anyway, he shouldn't be so rude!" When everyone left the gatehouse, Wen Nan began to question Hong Tao again. This time he was really not very happy, in his opinion, the emperor is the head of the scholars, so naturally he should not be humiliated.

"It's really not my order, it's just that I ordered him to be safe, and that he can't be killed or killed. The soldiers had never seen another emperor, and of course they didn't know any etiquette. Don't be too demanding, we're here to fight, not to visit the door for the holidays. Hong Tao also felt that it was a bit impolite to tie up Emperor Lizong, but it could not be said that it was the fault of the soldiers, they strictly carried out their orders and should be praised.

"Alas...... In this way, the treatment of other officials can also be imagined, humiliating them like this, it will be difficult to get along with them in the future, and they will not cooperate with us. Wen Nan didn't want to blame Hong Tao, he was worried about his future work. These Great Song officials will have to use it for a period of time in the future, and it is best not to tear their faces. You can defeat the court of these scholars of the Great Song Dynasty, but you can't humiliate them personally.

"I don't think it will have much impact, if they can really do it rather than give in, then let's pack up our things and leave quickly, I can't lead people with too high moral standards. Don't be tortured with me, even if you are not an official of the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, you can't personally force your former emperor to hand over your rights, that would be a destruction of human nature. Hong Tao is not sure whether his plan will succeed or not, according to the records in the history books, the Song people are still quite backbone, willing to follow the emperor all the way to Yashan to fight to the death and not surrender. Regardless of whether they win or lose in the end, throughout the dynasties in history, few have been able to do this, most of them are scattered, and it is very righteous if they can not fight back.

“…… You are really considerate, and the officials will not insult me too much because of their status, but those ministers have no worries, and the more they scold me, the more they can show their loyalty. Zheng Xiang has been gone for four or five years, and the only person who can still talk is gone, and the current Prime Minister Zuo is Dong Huai, who is upright and stubborn. Right Prime Minister Ding Daquan is authoritarian and self-indulgent, and he is a pure villain. Privy envoy Wu Qian, I don't need to introduce him, even if you and I have had a relationship with him, but when we meet under such circumstances, the first person to spray my saliva will have to be him! Wen Nan misunderstood Hong Tao's kindness and thought that Hong Tao was throwing off the burden again. This can't be blamed on Wen Nan's heart, Hong Tao's usual style of acting is like this, and no one has to doubt it if it suddenly changes.

Who is Dong Huai, Hong Tao has never heard of it, he has not paid much attention to the Great Song Dynasty in these years, and he still listened to Cixi before coming this time. Zheng Qingzhi died of illness four years ago, and he was replaced by this Dong Huai, and the two of them were also companions of the main battle faction before. Wu Qian became a privy envoy, and it was the first time Hong Tao had heard of this matter, but it was not good for him. This old man is also a tendon, more rigid than Wen Nan, who was just arrested back then.

"Ding Daquan? Wait a minute...... Ding Daquan...... Do you know that there is another person named Jia Nidao among the courtiers? But the name of Ding Daquan is familiar to Hong Tao, and in any book that tells the history of the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, the names of two people will be mentioned, one of them is the traitor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jia Yidao, and the other is Ding Daquan. The reason why the Yuan Dynasty army was able to break through the Yangtze River moat and capture Xiangyang was all due to the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty. It can be said that without Ding Daquan, the Southern Song Dynasty would have been able to survive for at least ten more years.

Jia Ru said...... Jia Guifei's younger brother, when I was in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as an envoy along the Yangtze River, and he was also a faction that supported the Northern Expedition, and now he should be the coastal envoy, the prefect of Lin'an, the Privy Council, and the founding prince of Linhai County, and he is a person who is very trusted by the official family, and Brother Hong still knows him? Although Wen Nan went to Kalamba Harbor to teach, he never let go of the politics of the court in his heart, not only concerned about the political pattern of the Jinhe Empire, but also did not relax on the side of the Great Song Dynasty. After arriving in the Americas, there was information about the Great Song Dynasty brought by Cixi, and he only needed to make up the lessons to memorize the names and positions of most of the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty, at least the top positions would not be missed.

(To be continued.) )