The ministers refused to obey the edict and refused to accept the order, not only Zong Ze and Kaide Mansion. In addition to the Shizhou retainers who surrendered by edict, the vassals, soldiers and civilians of Hebei and Hedong prefectures and counties all resisted the order and refused to hand over the city.

Ouyang Xun, who was ordered to go to Shenzhou (now Shenxian County, Hebei) to handle the land cession, passed on the decree even more to Jin Bing. As soon as Ouyang Xun arrived at the city of Shenzhou, he cried loudly, and shouted loudly to the soldiers in the city: "The court was mistaken by traitors and fell into this situation. I am just a death today, you must be loyal to the country, and swear to defend the country's territory to the death..."

The Jin people were furious, and knocked Ouyang Xun to the ground and beat him violently, Ouyang Xun was beaten so that blood from his mouth and nose gushed out, and when he was dragged away, he was still shouting to the city: "The land of the ancestors, the size cannot be ...... with people"

After Yan Sticky heard the report, he was both surprised and annoyed. He ordered Ouyang Xun to be burned to death as a police officer. He also ordered the soldiers to release the families of the Shizhou guards first, and severely tortured and tortured the families of the other 35 guards in Hebei and Hedong, so that they could know the fate of their disobedience.

As soon as Zhao Gou led his army from the Daimyo's Mansion, a fast horse sent Zong Ze's military intelligence report: Zong Ze had led his troops to Kaide Mansion, only forty miles away from Weinan County, where the Jin soldiers were stationed. Zong Ze suggested that Zhao Gou immediately lead the whole army to Kaide Mansion to preside over the overall situation, and spread the army of King Qin, who was in Hebei, Hedong, Huaibei, Huainan, and Shaanxi, to directly harass Tokyo.

Zhao Gou asked Ji Wang Boyan how to reply to Zong Ze, and Wang Boyan said: "The king, can you reply that you must wait for the soldiers and horses of all roads to meet before going south, or let Zong Ze directly raise the banner of the generalissimo first, claiming that the king is now in Kaide Mansion." ”

"Then will the Jin soldiers gather heavy troops to attack Zong Ze first?" Zhao asked.

"Zong Ze will deal with it, the king doesn't have to worry." Wang Boyan said lightly. He secretly thought in his heart that as long as Jin Bing thought that King Kang was in Kaide Mansion, we would be much safer here. Zong Ze was beyond his strength. shouting and shouting and killing every day, let him compete with Jin Bing!

Zhao thought about it. The most important thing now is to keep yourself in order to achieve a great cause, and the future Great Song still needs yourself!

………

Zhao Heng knew very well in his heart that 10 million horses of silk could be enough, but the 1 million ingots of gold and 5 million ingots of silver promised in the oath could not be made up in any case. He originally thought that as long as all the money in the capital was sent to Jinying, showing enough sincerity, the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom would be more or less reasonable and allow him to make up for it in the future.

So Zhao Huan sent someone to Jin Ying to explain, but He Li complained to the second marshal of Jin Guo. begging for a reduction in the amount of gold and silver. Wanyan Muhan was furious and yelled at He Li. Then he sent an envoy to Kaifeng Mansion to ask Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe: The amount of gold and silver paid so far is less than one hundred compared with the agreed amount, is it deliberately delaying and prevaricating, and trying to break its promise?

Zhao Huan saw that Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan were afraid that they would never withdraw if they did not take enough gold and silver, and if the Jin soldiers continued to besiege like this, the consequences would be unimaginable, so Kaifeng Mansion posted another list in the afternoon of the same day - continue to include gold and silver. From the queen and crown prince, to the ministers at all levels, and the rich and noble families. Down to the people of Limin, all of them will hand over the gold and silver, and if they dare to hide, they will be dealt with by military law!

This list is out. The people of the capital were panicked. The Genkuo officials headed by Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe were ordered to collect the whole city. The officials went from house to house to force the payment of gold and silver, and when they suspected that anyone had hidden the gold and silver, they tied them up and tortured them in public; Some of the wealthy families of the official eunuchs were hidden and did not hand them over. Denounced by slaves and maidservants, officials dug up cellars in their homes. put them in prison; Some people really couldn't hand it over, and they were forced to commit suicide by hanging beams into the water. The capital is full of sorrows, sighs, wailings, and lamentations...

A few days coming. The imperial court used tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to carry silk horses, and the number of 10 million horses was almost delivered. If they complain, tell them that the second prince and I are very angry, and ask them: Is it because my army is still under the city, and I want to betray the alliance? ”

Zong Han's temper became bigger and bigger with the repeated compromises of the Song people, and those who were "invited" out of the city by others came in an endless stream, and the Jurchen soldiers carefully searched and found gold and silver and other things in their luggage. And the Song official in charge of the looting in the city has long claimed that it has been cleaned.

Shangshu Mei of the Ministry of Households, Yin Chengli of Kaifeng Mansion, Anfu of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Zhizhi of the Ministry of Industry served as the officials of the four walls of the southeast, northwest and northwest. After digging for more than ten days in a row, although there was a small harvest, it was too far from the number demanded by the Jurchens. Mei Zhili privately discussed with a few other people, and now the peace agreement has been decided, but the Jurchens forcibly invite gold and silver, if it is really handed over in full, it is even the copper and iron in the city, I am afraid that it will not be, Zong Han does not know this fact, it is better for a few of us to appeal by name, and the matter will end.

A few people felt in their hearts that the days like debt collectors every day were really unpleasant, and it was not a way to watch the people cry and cry every day and be pointed at and poked to greet the ancestors, so several people even wrote with their names: The gold and silver have been exhausted, and there is no baht, if you lie, you will be willing to accept military law.

Looking at the full warehouse of gold and silver, Zonghan didn't believe it, and suspected that there were still goods in the city, and at this time, a person who took refuge in the Jurchen came up with a clever plan, so he came to see Sticky Han and offered a plan: "Now what the people in the city lack is not the Son of Heaven, but food, send someone to root it, it is better to let them take the initiative to offer it, so and so on." Sticky Han was overjoyed when he heard it, and acted according to the plan.

The next day, Sticky Han ordered Kaifeng Mansion to open a warehouse of rice, and deliberately set up a field Boyi, gold can buy four buckets of rice for every two buckets, and silver can buy one bucket of rice for every two buckets. Seeing that the Jurchens were stationed outside the city, they had already turned against the guests, and there was no sign of retreating, and the people in the city were more concerned about survival, in order to survive and not be starved to death, no matter how high the price was, they had to "endure" and "recognize".

Now Kaifeng Mansion has opened a granary, stabilized the price of rice, and provided relief to the hungry, how not to make them happy. No matter how deep the gold and silver are hidden, it is not very safe, if these unsafe factors are replaced with food, there is no panic in the heart of the family, at that time, it is sweet to eat, and it is safe to sleep, as for who will be the son of heaven on behalf of Zhao Guan's family, it is not too late to care about it after eating. The people were of the same mind, and the people took the gold and silver that had been buried deep in the depths and went to buy rice.

In this way, Zong Han even suspected that Song Chen in the city was ineffective. Intentional deception. Mei Zhili and the other four assured that the ink on the letter was not dry, and they faced questioning. I can only be speechless. Zong Han sent people to take the four out of the city and beat them to death with big sticks. In addition, several Song ministers who were responsible for urging each whipped fifty backs. The old and frail Yushi Hu Tang Lao couldn't bear it. He was beaten to death. Four people died unexpectedly, and their bodies were in different places. The Jurchens also sent a message and asked the families of the four to ransom the corpses with gold silks. The others returned to the city and wept.

Immediately afterwards, Zong Han sent an envoy into the city to preside over the affairs of the roots, and this new receiving officer was the head of the Golden Emperor's family, and at the beginning of his tenure, he showed the violence of the outstanding crowd. First, he kept the stick in his hand. In order to increase the deterrent effect, his subordinates also put weapons such as knives and guns on several cases to intimidate the Song people.

The new official took office three times, and soon, this Lang Jun became famous inside and outside the capital. Because of the small amount of donations, a Song official was ordered by his subordinates to beat 30 rods on the spot, in order to "kill the mighty stick". Another Song official didn't like it in his eyes, so he immediately pulled him in front of him and slapped him wildly, and the Song official's mouth and nose were dripping with blood. That's when I stopped.

If this Lang Jun was in a bad mood one day, he first sat in front of Nanxun Gate and ordered the Song officials to prostrate themselves and listen to the training, pointing to the heavens and the earth. He shouted insults for a long time. The Song people didn't know why he was angry, and they didn't know what "Lang Jun" was talking about, and everyone in Song Shimin looked sideways. Knowing that what he said was definitely not a good thing, he dared not speak out. When the people of the city saw this, they were even more frightened, and they did not know when the nightmare would end...

It has been more than half a month since the Jin army captured Bianjing City. The Jurchens also became bolder, and they couldn't help but disobey the military order and began to take advantage of the darkness to plunder and burn the people, which made the city soldiers and people even more frightened, and they all speculated that the Jurchens were not interested in gold silk, but "the drunkard's intention was not in wine"!

Zhao Huan heard that the crowd in the city was turbulent, and hurriedly sent a message to appease, hoping that the people in the city would wait for God's mercy with peace of mind like him, and the Jurchens would be kind. The people don't think so, now that the officials themselves are difficult to protect, and the swords and guns have been taken away, how to take care of the small people in the city, it is best to take care of the small people in the city, it is best to take precautions yourself, so some residents in the city began to build knives, guns and weapons, ready to protect the small property of the family.

It is said that 'a good dog protects Sanzhai, and a good man protects Sanzhuang', and there is no shortage of chivalrous and righteous people in Bianjing City, and they also spontaneously organized to patrol the streets and protect the house to protect their neighbors. They killed a lot of the Jin army that they had taken advantage of the night to go down to the city and plunder. When the matter reached the ears of the courtiers of the Song court, they panicked. If the golden man is to blame, no one will eat the sin.

So the Kaifeng Mansion posted a list to inform the people that those who dared to gather to advocate chaos and build ordnance without permission would be arrested by the government and severely punished by law. And searched all over the city, captured some Song people who had built weapons and gathered people to form associations, and immediately beheaded 17 of them in Tongqu.

Throughout the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, all the orders were not strict, military discipline and state law were like a fictitious, those who fled in battle were not severely punished, and those who died on the battlefield were not compensated, the rewards and punishments were unclear, the military discipline was sloppy, and the confrontation with the Jin people was either fleeing from the wind, or they were collapsing at the first touch. The treatment of the soldiers and civilians in the city is both ferocious and brutal, and it is ruthless to arrest people and kill the poor people.

These seventeen people were originally wrestlers in the city, the leader was Li Bao, the people in the rivers and lakes were called Xiao Guan Suo, and the remaining sixteen people were mostly his disciples. The people in the city are all in danger, so they stand up to protect the people in the city from being bullied by the Jin people, who knows that Lu Dao did not die in the snowy night of fighting with the Jurchens, but was "relevant government departments" in the downtown area, the head is different, the man should be self-reliant, but he does not know that the country is not strong, and the good man will occasionally die tragically at the hands of his own people!

Although the officials in Kaifeng City held their breath in front of the Jurchens and did not dare to speak loudly, they were still unscrupulous in front of the soldiers and people in the city. Treating the small people so painfully and bloodily suppressing them made the friends of the gold people also surprised. And at this time, in addition to asking for more blessings and praying to the heavens, the small people are sitting at home and waiting to die...

In the past few days, Zhao Huan and his ministers have been sending the collected gold and silver to the gold camp one by one. However, it has not yet reached one tenth of the agreed amount. Prime Minister He Li and the servant Li Ruoshui had to go to Jinying again to beg for mercy. And the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom knew that they had come to beg to reduce the amount of gold and silver again, in fact, they knew in their hearts that after several digging and scraping, the gold and silver in Tokyo City had been scraped almost.

"If the gold and silver in the capital are exhausted, this matter is not unnegotiable." Zong Han pondered for a moment and said, "There are three major matters agreed upon by the two countries in the peace treaty: first, to cut the land north of the Yellow River; 2. Compensation for gold and silver, mules, horses, and silk; 3. Give the Dajin Emperor the title of honorific. Now you will not cut it, and you will pay less than a tenth of the silver and gold of the restitution. The honorific title is not on it either. If none of these three things are fulfilled, the gold and silver will be commuted. I'm afraid it doesn't make sense. ”

"Cutting the land, you said that the emperor has issued an edict. It is the state and county guards who resist the decree, and you have nothing to do; The indemnity, you say, is huge, and the gold and silver in the capital are exhausted, and you can't do it; Give me the title of Emperor Dajin, won't you be helpless and beyond your power? Of the three things, you choose to honor one of them, and then you can discuss the others. Han Li didn't take the words and said.

Seeing that Yan Muhan's tone was loosened, He Li and Li Ruoshui were both happy and nervous. Afraid of losing the opportunity, they glanced at each other, and they all knew in their hearts that the matter of giving the Dajin Emperor the title was the most insignificant, so they immediately chose this matter, but they didn't know that they had jumped into the pit of the Jurchens again.

"As long as you promise peace between the two countries, you can negotiate a reduction in gold and silver." Wan Yan said suddenly.

"We are courtiers, and this kind of thing is not something we can play." He Li was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly replied.

"Then please ask your emperor to come here to discuss peace. If you are close to each other, everyone will be a family, and it will naturally be easy to negotiate the reduction or exemption of gold and silver. "I can't leave it.

"If the two countries are friendly, they should not see each other again in the future. The world can finally be peaceful from now on. Zong Han nodded and said, "You don't have to ask for this matter, when the emperor and the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom discuss the title of Emperor Dajin." The second prince will naturally ask the emperor. ”…

After He Li and Li Ruoshui returned to the city, they told Zhao Huan that the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom wanted to invite the emperor to go out of the city in person. Discuss the matter of giving the Dajin Emperor the title of honor.

"I'm going to Jinying again?" Zhao Huan couldn't help but be frightened when he heard about it.

"As long as Your Majesty personally goes to the gold camp, the amount of gold and silver will be reduced. It can also enable the Jin State to withdraw its troops as soon as possible. Li Ruoshui said.

"Do I have to go myself?" Zhao Huan frowned and said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom will definitely not embarrass Your Majesty." He Li and Li Ruoshui had already seen that Zhao Huan was unwilling to take risks again, and He Li said busily.

"In the opinion of the ministers, what the Jin people want is land, gold and silver, and they have no intention of destroying the Great Song Dynasty. His Majesty went in person, and he could show his sincerity; Second, it can be decided on the spot. The capital is running out of firewood and rice, and the people are not able to make a living, so they really can't send envoys back and forth, and they can't make a decision for a long time. If it drags on, I am afraid that there will be chaos in the capital. Li Ruoshui also said.

"Rong Zhen thought twice...... Zhao Huan nodded, then shook his head again and said, he thought about it for a day and a night, but he still couldn't make up his mind.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to come out in person, you just need to write an oath to the title of Emperor Dajin, and let the Prime Minister and Prince go, I don't know what the holy will thinks?" When Zhao Huan was still in a dilemma, the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom sent a messenger to deliver a letter, asking Zhao Huan to go out of the city again to discuss the title of Emperor Dajin.

Zhao Huan listened to it and made a calculation, if the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom wanted to detain me, he should insist that I go out of the city in person, but now the envoy of the Jin State also said that I don't have to go out in person, and it seems that there is no intention of detaining. Besides, if He Li, the timid prime minister, was not absolutely sure, he would not dare to persuade me to leave the city.

Thinking of this, Zhao Huan settled down and announced that he would go out of the city tomorrow to discuss with the Jin army, and let He Su accompany him. He Li was overjoyed when he heard this, and when he thought that a peace agreement was about to be reached, Da Song was about to escape, and He Li's long-suppressed mood suddenly became comfortable.

Zhao Huan was not as easy as He Li, he secretly summoned the privy envoy Sun Fu at night, and appointed Sun Fu as the guard in Tokyo, he said to Sun Fu with tears: "I am worried that there will be accidents on this trip, but there is not enough gold and silver, and the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom will definitely kill and plunder." I had no choice but to leave the city and leave the crown prince in charge of the country. If anything happens to me, I will entrust the future to Qing..."

"Even if the minister is broken and his bones are broken, he will not dare to bear the heavy trust of His Majesty..."Sun Fu bowed to the ground and took over the heavy responsibility of trusting orphans.

"I entered the gold camp, and life and death are all in the hands of the gold people. Qing can recruit brave people who will die, and in times of crisis, protect the emperor and the prince to break through! Zhao Heng told again, but he still thought of leaving a root for his family...

On the 10th day of the first month of February, Zhao Huan's car drove out of the city from Nanxun Gate again, and more than a dozen ministers such as Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, He Li, the prime minister, Feng Lu, Cao Fu, the chief servant of the Ministry of Officials, Wu Qi, Mo Yan, the scholar of the Zhongshu, Tan Shichang, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Zao, the Taichang Shaoqing, and the deputy commander of the guards and the Ma Army, accompanied by Guo Zhongxun, and went out of the Nanxun Gate to Qingcheng.

Hearing that the official's family went out of the city again, the people came to see them off, and they were praying in their hearts, hoping that the emperor's trip would allow the Jin State to reduce the gold and silver, and pull out the village and withdraw the army. They are also sincerely wishing their emperor, after all, this son of heaven has entered the tiger's den for the sake of the country and the people.

In the afternoon, the people who were waiting for the emperor's return at the city gate suddenly saw the emperor's honor guard returning, and the crowd immediately burst into cheers, the emperor had returned so soon. However, the news brought back by the honor guards immediately extinguished their newly ignited enthusiasm like a basin of ice water, and the second marshal of the Jin Kingdom reduced the number of Zhao Huan's honor guards, sending back more than 700 people in advance, leaving only 300 guards.

After hearing this, everyone suddenly had an ominous premonition, and the front of Nanxun, who was still jubilant just now, quieted down... (To be continued......)