Chapter 21: The Golden Camp is the Pledge
After a brief panic, Zhao Pu calmed down in his heart. It's nothing big to go to the Golden Camp as a hostage. Zhao Gou, the king of Kang back then, also went to Jinying as a hostage, didn't he run out in the end? In the end, he became the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. If it weren't for leaving a huge stain on the killing of Yue Fei, maybe it would be another generation of Ming Jun.
And the worst outcome is death. He had already died once, and there was nothing to fear if he died again. Say that it must still be famous in history?
Later generations will write: "When the Liao State was destroyed by Jin Jun, there were dozens of martyrs; , and when the Song Dynasty fell, there were only two people who died, Li Ruoshui and Zhao Pu, the king of etiquette. What a pity! What a pity! Pitiful, Zhao Song has been raising scholars for a hundred years, and it is even more said that he will rule the world with scholars, but the country will die, and scholars are mostly greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are shameless. ”
And after death, it is famous through the ages, and it is not in vain to travel the last time.
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"Your Highness, there are dozens of princes and grandchildren, why is it Your Highness?" At this time, Ruixue began to cry. The beautiful woman cried, and it was always pitiful.
"Although there are many princes and grandchildren, all of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, and only I have some ability. If I don't go, who will! Zhao Puman said indifferently, "Kong said to take righteousness, Meng said to be benevolent, as a prince, I can't just talk and not practice, when I should sweat, I have to sweat; When it is time to bleed, blood must be shed. Death is nothing remarkable, the head is just a scar the size of a bowl, and in another eighteen years, he will still be a man! ”
"The Jin army is a barbarian, the most rude, righteous and shameful, this time His Royal Highness went to the Jin army camp, like a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, nine deaths. Can Your Highness be replaced by someone else? Shu Wenxiu didn't cry, but her heart was also blocked.
"Don't worry! Those are just barbarians. Barbarians may not pay attention to etiquette, righteousness and shame, but they are definitely not stupid. As long as my Bianliang City is not broken, I am safe and worry-free; But if Bianliang City falls, then everything will be over! Zhao Pu said, "This time I went to the Jin military camp, life and death are uncertain, I don't know when I will be able to come back, I am a little worried about you." If I am still here, and I am afraid of my identity as a prince, no one will be embarrassed for you; But now that you go to the Jin Army camp, you have lost your support, and someone will be difficult for you! ”
"I originally planned to let the imperial brother take care of you, but after thinking about it, forget it! It's not easy for the imperial brother, he has been busy with state affairs recently, and he has already been anxious, so he doesn't have the leisure to care about these little things at all. ”
Zhao Pu said, "If my prediction is good, not long after, some elite Jin troops of the Western Army will come to Bianliang, and there will be enough soldiers and horses at that time." Although it was unable to repel the Jin army, the Jin army was also unable to break through Bianliang, and there would be a stalemate phase at that time. At that time, after the Jin army extorted the last sum of money, it would retreat. Then pack up some gold and silver, and flee quickly, to the south, preferably Yuhang. No, Yuhang is not safe, it should be Quanzhou, it really can't. Be prepared to flee to sea! ”
"Anyway, get away quickly. Safety first, I went to the Jin army camp to be humiliated, it's tragic enough, but I don't want you to be captured by the Jin army, the Jin army is not a gentleman, and he will not treat women preferentially! ”
At this time, the Great Song Dynasty was full of wind and rain, and soon the Jin army would retreat. But soon, the Jin army will besiege it for the second time, when the Jin army will be more prepared, and the internal party strife in the Song Dynasty will be even stronger, and then Bianliang will fall. Then, in ten years, the Jin army will maintain a strong attack, and the Song Dynasty from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from Bianliang to Jiangnan, there is no place to live, there are beacons everywhere, and there are wars everywhere.
It was not until fifteen years after the fall of Bianliang that a general defeated the Jin army, and at that time the trend of the Jin army's offensive was curbed, and the Jin and Song Dynasty moved towards a confrontation.
In the past 15 years, the vast area north of the Yangtze River has been hit by war, a large number of fields have been barren, wars, plagues, hunger, banditry, and so on have sharply reduced the population, and the population of the north has been decimated, and the population of tens of millions has been sharply reduced to several million.
"Your Highness, be careful along the way, the Jin people kill people without blinking, don't provoke the Jin army!" Ruixue instructed.
"Don't worry, the egg touches the stone!" Zhao Pudao.
"Your Highness......" Ruixue wanted to say something, but in the end she still cried.
"Don't cry!" Zhao Pu hugged this maid who had followed her since childhood, and comforted: "Sima Qian said that people are inherently dead, either heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao, and dying for the country and the people is heavier than Mount Tai." Besides, I may not be dead, I may be back in a few years! ”
"Your Highness, I'm going to give myself to you......" Ruixue said shyly.
"Forget it! I'm the unlucky man, so don't bother you anymore! Hearing that the little beauty was going to dedicate herself, Zhao Pu's heart was not joyful, but a faint helplessness. At this life-and-death juncture, what a luxury love is! It may be that today the cave house is just a house, and tomorrow the woman will be widowed; Maybe today is just a joy of fish and water, tomorrow will be ruined by the gold thief.
"Wenxiu, I'm a little sorry for you. Originally, you were an eldest lady who lived happily, but you encountered me and was forcibly asked by me. Now that I have arrived at the Jin Army camp, I am even more uncertain about my life and death, I am so sorry for you! Thinking of the ridiculous things that his predecessor had done, Zhao Pu had a headache.
The predecessor is really full of food and support, why do you want to do these things that lack virtue and smoke.
"Your Highness, I ......" Shu Wenxiu wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, just his eyes were red and tears were rolling in his eyes.
Looking at the aggrieved appearance of the two women, Zhao Pu's heart fluctuated rapidly, he couldn't stand it anymore, turned his head into the study, and began to pack up some salutes. The salute was simple, a flintlock pistol, some spare parts, a dagger, clairvoyance, and a mink coat.
The flintlock pistol is carried with you, in order to defend yourself, and at the critical moment, killing one is enough, killing two to earn one. The dagger was pinned to the trouser leg, but immediately found that it was a little inconvenient, so he simply put on his boots and pinned them to the boots. It's just that the quality of the boots of this era is not very good, far less than that of later generations, and they are a little cuffy on the feet. But I had to use it reluctantly.
In the story of Lu Ding, Wei Xiaobao, whose kung fu belongs to the waste slag, relied on the dagger in his boots to escape again and again, and won a glimmer of life in his life. In order to live, even if you are giggling, you have to endure it.
Clairvoyance is extremely useful, so naturally you have to bring it.
And the mink coat is brought to protect against the cold, after all, it is a hostage of a weak country. Hostages in weak countries have no human rights, don't go to the end, freeze into a cold, and hang up in the end, then it will be a tragedy.
Packing up his things, Zhao Pu checked what was still missing, and it seemed that he had brought it all, but his intuition felt that there seemed to be something missing.
"What's missing?" Zhao Pu walked back and forth, thinking constantly, "By the way, I brought less food." Paralyzed, a grandson like Jin Jun is not a thing, don't starve Lao Tzu to death! ”
Actually, the Jin Army is really not a thing. After the city of Bianliang was broken, Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, members of the royal family, princes and ministers, and residents were all taken prisoner, and the number was nearly 100,000. Along the way, more than half of them starved to death. It is said that the number of princes and grandchildren who starved to death was quite large.
He will inevitably be subjected to all kinds of difficulties when he goes to the Jin army this time, and he must be mentally prepared to starve. Don't starve to death in the end, he doesn't want to be Ye Mingshen and starve to death in India.
"Nine deaths!" Zhao Pu said worriedly
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In this world, there are only two kinds of countries, one is strong and the other is weak.
As a weak country, we must have the consciousness of a weak country, we must be mentally prepared to be soft, and we must be mentally prepared to pay compensation for land and recognize our grandchildren. Otherwise, they will only be beaten to death, such as Saddam. He didn't have much ability, but he provoked the United States and was finally beaten to death.
And thousands of years ago, in this land of East Asia, the rise of the Jin State, first to destroy the Liao State, and then to coerce the Western Xia, so that the Western Xia submitted, and now it is even more soldiers under the city of Bianliang, which can be said to be a well-deserved overlord. Everywhere the Jin Army's iron cavalry went, they trembled.
And what about the Song Dynasty? The Song Dynasty had the comprehensive national strength of the United States, military spending was comparable to that of the German fascists, the combat effectiveness of the army was only the level of Italy, and the people lived a hard life like Afghanistan.
This doomed the Song Dynasty to be a weak country, playing the role of Iraq, despite the country's terrifying GDP, huge standing army, huge population, strong culture, prosperous science and technology, and so on.
Reparations for land can be ceded, but it is the mainstream.
Even Li Gang, the main battle faction, subconsciously believes that the compensation for land cession is a foregone conclusion. It's just that the thought of the dignified Heavenly Empire going to the kingdom to cede land and pay reparations is too embarrassing, and the blood in his heart makes him hold on to it and resolutely refrain from signing unequal treaties.
But he can die to save face and suffer sin, and he doesn't care about all this. But the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty would not, and neither would the emperor Song Qinzong. And the people in the city will not, after all, they originally lived at the feet of the Son of Heaven, happy and happy, who would have expected that there would be troops to surround Bianliang, the canals outside the city were all cut off, grain and grass could not be transferred in at all, prices soared, and some poor people even began to run out of food. If you can pay compensation, you can pay compensation, anyway, Da Song is not short of money, and the problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. Cut the land, just cut the land, anyway, it's not to cede Bianliang, and it won't damage them at all.
In the call for peace between the upper and lower dynasties of the Manchu Dynasty, Li Gang's opposition was drowned out. There are still debates, but they are no longer entangled in whether to negotiate peace, but in which terms are agreed and which are not. After arguing, the peace treaty was finally signed.
One of them is to send hostages, a prime minister, and a prince.
The prime minister is Zhang Bangchang, and the prince is Zhao Pu.
There was not much delay, and it was only a day from the time the decree was pronounced to the time it was issued.
At the parting banquet, Song Qinzong praised him lavishly, with tears on his face, and even said that he would pass the throne to him after a hundred years. And Zhao Pu also cried bitterly on his face, looking like he was smeared for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty. And the surrounding ministers are also constantly persuading, looking like loyal ministers and filial sons.
In fact, everyone knows that His Royal Highness King Yi will definitely die when he arrives at the Jin military camp, and no matter how many good things he says to the dead, no matter how much exaggerated words he says, it is not too much. And Zhao Pu is also very interested in catering to their show, you show off and I show off, but I pity my eyes, and I use ginger to stimulate my eyes again and again, and my eyes are a little offended.
So, after a farewell party, Zhao Pu and Zhang Bangchang were sent out of Bianliang City, accompanied by a cart of gold and silver, as well as a shameful national letter, and a princess of the royal family, Zhao Pu didn't know what it was called. After all, that cheap dad is too good to give birth, and there are too many princesses and princes.
It's just that after getting in the car, I asked Zhang Bangchang to find out that this princess is Emperor Fujin, that is, Cai Jing's daughter-in-law.
This poor emperor became an "imperial prostitute", was whitewashed, and was given to the golden people for spoil.
Sitting in the same carriage, Zhao Pu looked at Zhang Bangchang opposite and looked at this traitor through the ages.
The national policy pursued by the Song Dynasty was that the emperor and scholars ruled the world together, and treated scholars the most favorably, but this was also the greatest era of traitors. Among the many civil ministers, Li Gang of the Northern Song Dynasty and Wen Tianxiang of the Southern Song Dynasty can hardly find a loyal minister, but there are traitors and traitors, Cai Jing, Qin Hui, and Jia Nidao.
And the pseudo-Chu was established by him.