The battle to attack the capital has lasted for a whole month, both the offensive and defensive sides have suffered heavy casualties, the Jin soldiers failed to build the earth mountain siege, and launched more than a dozen siege battles in a row, all of which were stubbornly repelled by the defenders, the continuous siege failure made the Jin soldiers casualties have exceeded 50,000, and the casualties of the Song army have been nearly 10,000, but the city of Tokyo is still standing majestically.

However, the siege of the city for a month also made the pressure on the soldiers and civilians in the city to the limit, and there were successive smashing and looting incidents in the capital, which made Zhao Huan Longyan angry, and dismissed three Kaifeng governors in a row, and handed over the order in the city to Li Yanqing.

On this morning, the Jin soldiers stopped the offensive, and Li Yanqing, who had just stopped easily, received another report, "There is an accident on Panlou Street." ’

Li Yanqing had no choice but to fight his spirit and ride to Panlou Street.

The place where the accident occurred was Qingfeng Restaurant, which caught fire in the middle of the night, and the entire restaurant was burned to ruins, and seven bartenders who lived in the restaurant were also burned alive at night.

At this time, the main store of Qingfeng Restaurant has been blocked by the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, and idlers are not allowed to approach, and the two sides are crowded with thousands of people who came to see the excitement, pointing and pointing, but most of them are a little gloating in their eyes, but it is no wonder that high-end restaurants like Qingfeng Lou are burned, and for ordinary middle and lower class people, they may not be sympathetic.

Li Yanqing rushed to Panlou Street, turned over and dismounted, he saw the Qingfeng Restaurant that was almost burned to the ground, and the Qingfeng Teahouse next to it was also affected and burned half of it, speaking of which, the Qingfeng Restaurant was originally the property of the Cao family, and was later transferred to the Pan family.

At this time, Yin Nieshan, the new Kaifeng Mansion, hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and saluted: "See Dutong!" ”

Nie Shan served as the position of Shaoyin when Li Yanqing was appointed as Kaifeng Yin, and was a subordinate of Li Yanqing, although he has now been promoted, he is still quite in awe of Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing bowed back and asked, "Nie Fuyin, what's going on?" ”

Nie Shan sighed and said: "It has been investigated, last night a group of people drank until midnight, which affected the closure of Qingfeng Restaurant, and had a quarrel with the bartender, the two sides moved, this group of people was drunk and couldn't beat the bartender, and they were all thrown on the street, as a result, this group of drunkards held a grudge, and gathered more than 100 people in the middle of the night to set fire to Qingfeng Restaurant. ”

Li Yanqing frowned, he actually gathered more than 100 people, could it be a rogue ruffian in Tokyo?

"Did this group catch it?" Li Yanqing asked.

"More than a dozen of them were caught, and the others were hiding, and they didn't know where they were hiding!"

Li Yanqing snorted heavily, the recent chaos in the capital is largely due to the government's ineffective arrest and indulgence of the perpetrators.

Li Yanqing immediately said: "I will send 5,000 troops to search and arrest the whole city, and we must capture and behead all the arsonists for public display." ”

"All beheaded?" Nie Shan was a little stunned, and said for a while: "Is it enough to severely punish the first evil?" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "If you want to cure a stubborn disease, you have to take fierce medicine, if you don't deter it fiercely, the capital will be chaotic again, and the internal will be unstable, which will seriously affect the defense of the city!" ”

"I understand, Li Dutong wants to make an example."

At this moment, a eunuch hurried over, accompanied by several personal soldiers, "Finally found Li Dutong!" The eunuch shouted excitedly.

Li Yanqing knew this eunuch, it was Zhang Baolian, a confidant eunuch beside Zhao Huan, the son of heaven, Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "Is there something wrong with Gonggong Zhang?" ”

"Of course there is something urgent, the official family summoned Li Dutong, follow me into the palace!"

Li Yanqing nodded, turned around and instructed the two generals to cooperate with Nie Shan to lead the army to search the city, and then he followed the eunuch and hurried to the palace.

Zhao Huan's imperial study is located in the left hall of the Ziwei Palace, that is, next to the imperial study of his father Zhao Ji, Li Yanqing came to the front of the steps of the Ziwei Palace, but happened to see Li Gang also hurrying over.

"Li Xianggong, long time no see!" Li Yanqing smiled and slowed down, he was a little sorry for Li Gang, Li Gang was bent on catching the Jin State intelligence scout, but he was cut off by himself.

"Is Li Dutong going to see the official's house?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Li Xianggong is the same!" ”

Li Gang looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "The official family has been very irritable recently, so you must pay attention to what you say. ”

Li Yanqing suddenly remembered Kaifeng Yin, who had recently been deposed continuously, and asked, "Is it for public security?" ”

"That's just the official's venting, the reason is not there, but ..... War. ”

Li Yanqing suddenly understood that the protracted war not only brought great pressure to the soldiers and civilians in the capital, but even Zhao Huan, the son of heaven, couldn't bear it, he groaned and asked, "Is this why he summoned me?" ”

Li Gang nodded, "It probably has something to do with this." ”

As he was talking, the eunuch Zhang Baolian walked out of the apse quickly and said to them: "Li Dutong, Li Xianggong, summoned by the official family, please come in!" ”

Li Yanqing and Li Gang walked into the imperial study, only to see Zhao Huan standing in front of the window with his hands in his hands, and he could see that he was in a very heavy mood, speaking of which, this new emperor was much more diligent than his father, and he came to the imperial study early every day and left very late, not to mention that there was any major event for him to make decisions now, but this attitude was still good.

There was another person in the imperial study, it was Xiangguo Wu Min, but he was relatively silent, standing aside like a statue, without saying a word, and without greeting the two people who came in, Li Yanqing couldn't help but glance at him, Li Yanqing suddenly had an intuition, Zhao Huan summoned him today, there must be something big.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!"

The two of them saluted, and after a while, Zhao Huan said slowly: "Li Dutong has worked hard. ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, this didn't seem right, but he still said respectfully: "This is the responsibility of Weichen." ”

Zhao Huan turned around and took a deep look at Li Yanqing, then sighed and said, "Taiyuan has fallen!" ”

"What!"

Li Yanqing and Li Gang were taken aback at the same time, and Li Gang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, when did this happen?" ”

"It's this morning!"

Zhao Huan took out a roll of pigeon letters and handed them to Li Gang, "I have a contact person in Taiyuan, and this is the pigeon letter he sent." ”

Li Gang took the pigeon letter with trembling hands and looked at it carefully, but Li Yanqing next to him was very uncomfortable in his heart, what kind of contact person was clearly the secret spy sent by Zhao Huan, maybe there was such a person by his side.

Although Li Yanqing felt uncomfortable, he was also very concerned about the situation in Taiyuan now, Taiyuan fell, what happened to his many subordinates, is there anything wrong with Han Shizhong?

Li Gang gave the pigeon letter to Li Yanqing, and Li Yanqing hurriedly unfolded the pigeon letter, saying that Tongzhi Wang Ding was killed when the city was broken, and Han Shizhong led thousands of remnants of the army to withdraw from Taiyuan and evacuate to the south.

Seeing this, Li Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he also knew that how could a famous anti-gold general die early, but he was concerned about it, after all, he changed history and changed the life trajectory of many characters, Han Shizhong is one of them.

At this time, Zhao Huan hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "The Jin soldiers have been attacking the capital for a month, and they have never been able to take the capital. ”

'Peace? ’

Li Yanqing was stunned, as if he had been slapped head-on, when Zhao Huan was the prince in the past, whether it was Liao or Jin, he was the most staunch main battle faction, and he wanted to negotiate peace with Jin State for less than two months after he ascended the throne.

Li Yanqing's heart was as uncomfortable as swallowing a cockroach, and for a while, he endured his disgust towards Zhao Huan, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, although it is not good for the Jin soldiers to attack the capital, they have already captured Taiyuan Mansion, and their morale should rise greatly, and Weichen feels that it is unlikely that they will compromise." ”

Zhao Huan's face was suddenly a little unhappy, and he said coldly for a while: "Are you really so sure?" ”

Li Yanqing also felt that Zhao Huan was dissatisfied in his tone, but he didn't want to give in to this kind of peace negotiation, unless Jin Bing himself proposed to negotiate peace, how could he let the Great Song Dynasty take the initiative to negotiate peace, not to mention that he had already defended the capital under the premise.

Li Yanqing said decisively: "Weichen believes that it is far from the time to negotiate peace. ”

At this time, Wu Min, who had been silent, finally spoke: "Li Dutong, Your Majesty is worried that after the Jin soldiers capture Taiyuan, they will continue to go south to capture the entire Hedong Road, and then attack the Shaanxi Road to the west. ”

Li Yanqing was silent for a moment and said: "Jingzhao Mansion still has 30,000 elite soldiers to guard, and there is a kind of handsome in charge, Wechen believes that the Jin soldiers will not be able to break through Tongguan and Pujin Pass, as for Hedong Road, Wechen thinks that Wanyan Zonghan will lead the army into Hebei now, and he has no time to take care of the area south of Taiyuan Mansion." ”

"Why?" Zhao Heng stared at Li Yanqing sharply, "You give me a reason?" ”