Chapter 54: Each Mind [4000 Words]
The floats were rushing along, the thick curtain covered the cold wind, and the gorgeous fox fur wrapped the delicate body, but Zhao Fujin, the emperor of Maode, was cold in her heart - although she had been awake for more than an hour, she still couldn't accept the loss of power that she was abandoned by her father and brother and sent to Jinying by her husband. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
The tears had long since flowed, but she didn't know what else she could do but sob.
"Auntie? Auntie! β
I don't know how long it took, Zhao Fujin's shoulder was pushed twice, and then he woke up from the state of 'heart like ashes', and looked up blankly, but saw that there was a plump woman in the car at some point.
She recognized this woman, it was the wife of Cai You's eldest son, Cai Xing, Tong, in terms of generation, Zhao Fujin's niece and daughter-in-law - but if you really want to talk about it, this Tong is actually six or seven years older than Zhao Fujin.
At the beginning, because Cai You was on the same page with Cai Yan and Cai Xuan, Zhao Fujin had never had much communication with this niece and daughter-in-law, but I only remembered that she seemed to be quite arrogant and not a person who wanted to be with her.
But today, Tong's face can no longer see half of the domineering, but a bit of servile flattery, seeing Zhao Fujin's dazed expression, he cautiously persuaded, "Auntie, you must cheer up, whether our Cai family can turn over in the future depends on your performance today." β
The Cai family?
Zhao Fujin showed a trace of sadness on his face, the Cai family had already been defeated, and now that she was treated like this by Cai Ying, how much more nostalgia could she have for the Cai family?
But if you think about it carefully, I am afraid that Cai Yan is not to blame for this matter, after all, he also succumbed to the emperor's order, so he did such a shameless thing - and that emperor's order was given by his own father and brother!
Thinking like this, Zhao Fujin felt that life was worse than death.
"Auntie, it's actually ......"
Before Tong could say something more, there were two impatient dry coughs outside, and her expression suddenly changed, and she said in a panic: "Auntie, seeing that there is King Kang's camp in front of me, Li Ze and Zheng Wangzhi want to talk to you to see how to convince His Royal Highness King Kang." β
Li Ze and Zheng Wangzhi were the chief and deputy envoys sent by Emperor Qinzong to Jinying, and they were also well-known capitulationists in the imperial court, and they always advocated a strategy of compromise and appeasement towards the Jin, which would not have survived until now.
According to Zhao Fujin's mood at this time, he didn't want to meet with the two envoys at all, and he didn't bother to discuss anything with them.
But looking at Tong's pitiful appearance, she couldn't help but feel that she was also a fallen person at the end of the world, and her heart softened, so she bowed her head slightly and agreed.
Seeing this, Tong's heart finally fell back into her stomach - as the wife of a criminal minister, if she eviled the two 'court pillars' outside, I am afraid that the fate in the future will not be better than falling into the hands of Jinren.
And at this time, with Zhao Fujin's 'credit', she was not only worry-free in a short time, but she could even fake the tiger.
Under the joy, she didn't care about the reserve of any noble lady, reached out and jerked the curtain, and greeted crisply: "Two adults, please come in, the emperor has agreed to see you." β
Li Ze and Zheng Wangzhi, who were standing outside the carriage, looked at her chest in unison-it turned out that Tong's kung fu had opened a small gap in the apricot red big puff on his body, revealing half of the softness.
Tong Shi hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover it, blushed and said again, and the two messengers supported each other and climbed onto the float.
"Minister Li Ze [Zheng Wangzhi], see Emperor Maode."
After the two of them finished paying homage in a proper manner, they knelt on the wheel of the car in unison, the upper body leaned into the car, but the lower body was still outside the car, not only to avoid suspicion, but also to prevent the Jurchens escorting the convoy from eavesdropping.
Zhao Fujin was really in no mood to go around in circles with them, and when he saw the two of them sitting down, he asked straight to the point: "If the two adults have anything to explain to the palace, please just ask." β
Li Ze said 'don't dare', glanced at Zheng Wangzhi, and lowered his voice: "I wonder what His Highness plans to say after seeing King Kang?" β
Zhao Fujin shook his head: "This palace is in a mess, I really don't know what to say to the ninth brother." β
Li Ze glanced at Zheng Wangzhi again, then hesitated for a while, and then gritted his teeth and said: "From the perspective of Yichen, the Jin people seem to be a little weak-hearted, or they are very afraid of His Royal Highness King Kang's soldiers and horses!" Otherwise, the second prince of Wanyan will only have to send me to wait...... Well, there is also His Royal Highness the Emperor Ji to go together, there is no need to present these more than 100 family members together, and more than a dozen carriages have been specially allocated. β
Zheng Wangzhi said: "Not bad! When Bianliang City was besieged for the first time, that kind of division had also hit the city, but I didn't see the Jin people showing weakness like today, which shows that His Royal Highness King Kang's soldiers and horses should not be underestimated! β
Li Ze took over the conversation again, and said with a straight face: "Therefore, when I wait in front of His Royal Highness King Kang, I must not persuade him to surrender to the Jin people!" β
Zhao Fujin originally just said a few perfunctory words and then sent them away, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but open his cherry mouth in astonishment - aren't these two people a firm surrender faction? Why did you tell yourself that you must not persuade King Kang to surrender?
Li Ze observed the words and guessed what she was thinking, so he sighed again and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, if my soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty can compete with the Jin people, how can we surrender with one force?" Now that King Kang has been born, we will naturally do our best to help each other and go to the national disaster together, and we will not drive the Jurchen barbarian out of the Central Plains, and we will not give up! β
Speaking of this, he suddenly felt as if he had said it, what if Emperor Maode was enthusiastic and instigated King Kang to fight to the death with the Jin people?
So Li Ze hurriedly went back and said: "But the Jin people should not be underestimated, we only need to persuade His Highness to stick to the camp and contain the Jin army, and we must not force it to take the initiative to seek war!" β
Next, the two of you, you and I, will be in front of His Royal Highness King Kang, how to play in front of His Royal Highness King Kang, what to do with the envoy of the Jin people, what to do when there are no Jin people, how to urge King Kang to make a request to the Jin people, so as to save the lives of Cai Ying, Zhao Ji, Zhao Gou and others......
kneaded all this and broke it up, poured Zhao Fujin into it, and waited until she confirmed that she remembered the meaning of herself and others, and then Li Ze and Zheng Wangzhi left unsatisfied.
After sending off the two envoys, Zhao Fujin rubbed his swollen temples and sighed unconsciously.
At this moment, I only heard a yin and yang strange voice from the corner: "Auntie, do you think that these two are actually great loyal ministers, and everyone has misunderstood them before?" β
Only then did Zhao Fujin remember that the Tong clan had actually been watching from the sidelines.
She looked sideways, but saw that Tong's goose egg face was full of contempt and mockery, and couldn't help frowning: "The two adults can be called exhausted in order to reverse the decline of the imperial court, how can you put on such a face?" β
"Exhaustion of wisdom is exhaustion of wisdom."
But seeing Tong's sneer, he said: "But their real purpose is actually just to use your mouth to make a good impression in front of His Royal Highness King Kang - after all, according to their analysis, His Royal Highness King Kang is very likely to force the Jurchens to withdraw their troops. β
After listening to Tong's analysis, Zhao Fujin was half-convinced, she was not a person with brains, otherwise she would not have known that she was regarded as an abandoned son to please Jin until Cai Yan took the initiative to tell the truth.
At this time, I felt that my head was in a mess, as if I had filled a mess of paste.
Tong Shi hurriedly took the opportunity to say: "Auntie doesn't have to care about these mundane things, after seeing His Royal Highness King Kang, I just need to talk about the shortcomings of the parents and the friendship between sisters and brothers, as long as King Kang is willing to take care of one or two in your affection, our Cai family ...... The fifth uncle will not be in any danger! β
Undoubtedly, this Tong clan also hopes to alleviate his family's predicament by currying favor with Zhao Gou.
It's not that she has fallen to the current situation, and she thinks about the Cai family in everything, but because women are dependent on men to survive these years, the people of Li, and the princes and nobles, she still has a grudge in her heart that Cai Xing sits back and watches herself being sent to the Jin army camp, and she still has to plan for the Cai family.
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Wrong!
It's really wrong!
Because the envoy was sent in advance to inform the identity, the convoy entered the 'King Kang Camp' unimpeded - this could have been a good start, but after crossing the half-built camp gate, Li Ze felt that everything was strange!
The soldiers in charge of the reception didn't seem to take them seriously at all, and there was a bit of disdain in their words and demeanors, and even the most amiable General Yue also showed some embarrassing estrangement and alienation.
This is absolutely inconceivable in the noble and lowly Great Song Dynasty - even if Bianliang City often collapses, without the emperor's order, those forbidden army Qiu Ba still have to be respectful to the civil officials?
At first, Li Ze only thought that they were 'loyal to King Kang' and did not want to have too much to do with Emperor Qinzong's envoys, but after careful inspection, it seemed that this was not the case.
Is there any reason in this that I don't know?
"Yaga! #*#&*β¦β¦β
Just when Li Ze was pondering how to knock on the side and find out the truth from General Yue's mouth, he suddenly heard someone shouting loudly from the diagonal bottom, but it was a Jurchen 'guard' who somehow clashed with several soldiers in the battalion, and one of them, a short and ugly colonel, couldn't help but pull out a short knife and shouted violently.
Although I couldn't understand what 'dialect' he was shouting, it wouldn't be a good word, and the bright and dangling short knife showed his determination to use force at any cost!
Oops!
Li Ze's heart suddenly rose to his throat, although he had already made up his mind to put aside the task given by the Jin people, and strongly persuaded Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, to hold on to the military power and not surrender - but his original intention was to let Zhao Gou preserve his strength, not fight to the death with the Jin people!
Even if Zhao Gou has some elite soldiers, can the Jurchens be easy to mess with?
In case King Kang is defeated, won't he and the others have to be cattle and horses under the Jurchens again?
This is something Li Ze absolutely does not want to see, so as soon as he gritted his teeth, he planned to step forward to stop itβat least let General Yue beside him stop it.
Syllable~
At this moment, a short middle-aged man suddenly sprang out of the oblique down, and without saying a word, he stepped forward and gave the little colonel holding the short knife a slap, this slap was so heavy that the soldier who only hit turned around for most of the time, and he almost couldn't even hold the short knife in his hand!
Seeing this scene, Li Ze immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that whether it is the forbidden army or the soldiers and horses under His Royal Highness King Kang, when facing the guests of the Jin Kingdom, they are all the same 'humble and introspective'.
At the same time, he still has a faint sense of superiority in his heart, that is, the superiority of the old traitor to the new traitor.
However, the middle-aged man's conversation with the school made Li Ze's sense of superiority disappear.
"Bastard!"
I only heard the middle-aged man scolding in blunt official language: "As a 'Chinese', how can you use lowly local language to scold an uncivilized Hu person?" Our Tian family's face is almost lost by you! β
The so-called Chinese nationality is a kind of name given to the outstanding Japanese traitor family after the founding of Wu Kai, which is similar to the Manchu Dynasty's 'raising the flag', and after having the identity of the Chinese, you can enjoy the same treatment as the meritorious class of the Han army - of course, it will inevitably be treated differently in specific matters, but compared with the general natives, it is already a great preferential treatment.
In order not to be ostracized by the Han nobles who occupied the mainstream, these Chinese people, led by the Tsushima clan, learned from the Han people everywhere and regarded themselves as the descendants of Xu Fu, and hated the original 'decadent indigenous culture'.
The little school was woken up by his father's slap, and he felt remorse and shame, and then saw the Jurchen man beside him with a smug face, so he hugged his fists and said angrily: "Father, please allow me Tian Boguang to use the blood of this Jurchen barbarian to wash away Fang Cai's mistakes!" β
This small school was originally called Fujita Boguang, but later Wu Kai ordered all Japanese to change their surnames to Han, and his family went to the rattan character in front.
It is said that this request is clearly suspicious of anger, but the middle-aged man surnamed Tian did not refuse, but turned his head to look at Yue Fei's side.
Yue Fei groaned, but Niu Gao on the side jumped out excitedly, and said with a smile: "Brother, the order we received was to welcome the Song envoys, but we didn't say that we would receive these Jurchen barbarians!" What's more, this guy has to spy on our firearms, it is clearly a bad intention, according to me, it is better to kill these golden dogs! β
As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted the echo of many people.
Li Ze hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "This general, there is a way that the two countries are at war without killing them, these ......"
"Aren't you confused, old man?!"
Niu Gao pushed it casually, and almost threw this Li Ze to the ground, but he didn't even mean to help him, and laughed: "Even if I haven't stayed in the Great Song Dynasty for the past two years, I know that the golden dog has killed a lot of Song envoys, and if they kill it, I can't kill Grandpa Niu?" β
Li Ze was about to say something about repaying grievances with virtue, so as to persuade the young man in front of him, but saw that Yue Fei waved his hand and said: "Okay, how to deal with these Jurchens, it depends on Your Majesty's intentions, you can take them all down first." β
Niu Gao pursed his lips dissatisfiedly, pulled out a revolver from his waist, and shouted: "Take down these golden dogs for me, if you dare to resist, break the dog's legs!" β
There are also many people on the Jin side who can understand Chinese, and they immediately drew their weapons one after another, and a scuffle is inevitable.
But Li Ze couldn't care about this at this time, stepped forward and grabbed Yue Fei's arm regardless of it, and said in a trembling voice: "Listen to the general's meaning, could it be...... His Majesty King Feikang has already ascended the throne?! β
This is 108,000 miles away from his imagination, he wants to praise King Kang as the emperor, but the premise is Zen Rang, not self-established emperor!
"King Kang?"
Yue Fei glanced at him and sighed helplessly: "My Majesty has someone else, and your lord should also recognize it, but it is definitely not King Kang!" β