Chapter 18: Rumors
The subordinates dare to act, but the superiors are not steady. Zhao Ta tossed so much, and Jin made Wang Wei show respect to him, and the recent anti-Jin voice in the DPRK and China has a resurgence of momentum, which makes Zhao Huan, Geng Nanzhong and others feel even more uneasy, after the two of them discussed secretly, they think that Zhao Ta has reached the time when he can not be removed, if he does not resist, it is just right to remove him from his post and take back all his power. If he follows the order, he kills the Jurchen generals and defeats the Jin army in a row, he will definitely end up with King Su, and there will be no return.
So Zhao Huan quickly decided to accept the unreasonable demands made by the Jin people in its entirety, and immediately sent someone to draft the edict. replaced Zhao Gou, who was preparing to envoy to the Jin State, and prepared to use Zhao Ta as the peace envoy to envoy Jinying. But before Zhao Tan proposed to find a companion, the golden envoy Wang Wei also said that peace was a major matter, and it was necessary to send a minister with cronies, Zhao Huan did not dare to refuse, so he sent Geng Nanzhong as an envoy.
How do you know that Geng Nanzhong usually talks about peace one by one, but when the matter comes, he doesn't dare to go, and repeatedly refuses. Zhao Huan had no choice but to send Nie Chang, that is, Nie Shan, who he regarded as having the courage of Zhou Chang, but he didn't dare to go to Nie Chang, and he deduced that his parents were old and that the family couldn't do without people, which made Zhao Huan so angry that he sighed with tears and trembled.
"The imperial court usually raises ministers with high lords and Houlu, in order to use them on the day of trouble. Today's minister cowered, is there no one else in the DPRK? If Your Majesty is not incompetent, you can go alone, and the minister will never give up! I only hope that the royal brother will look at the past achievements of his brother and treat his family well! Zhao Ta suddenly stood up and said, no one expected that the usual main battle Yan Wang would express his willingness to take on this 'death trip' alone at this time, and he did not pull everyone to accompany him.
"Alas, it's still a brother when it's critical!" Zhao Huan sighed and said. "Zhu Yannian was promoted to a scholar of the Baohe Palace, the Duke of Xu, and his concubine was the Lady of Chu. King Yan plus Taishi! ”
"With Nie Chang as the chief envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and Zhao Tan as the deputy envoy of the peace envoy. Wang Yun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Geng Yanxi, the senator, accompanied him, immediately issued an edict and set off on a certain day! Zhao Huan no longer discussed with them, and made a decision on the spot to set the list of envoys, Nie Chang was like ashes, Geng Nanzhong was also like a knife, although he escaped, but the emperor sent his son, it seems that he really offended the emperor...
Zhao Ta knew that the Jurchens used the strategy of 'promoting the attack with peace'. He always gives you a goal, when you just agreed, and he proposed a new goal, and this goal is only a little higher than the previous one, as if you just endure it, and the disaster will pass, so that you can promise again, consume your money, and offset the determination to resist the war. As the target increases. There will come a time when you feel that you can't do it, but by this time it is too late, and you have become a frog in warm water, and you can't escape if you want to.
Although the emperor's brother blindly compromises. He did not hesitate to cede all the territory north of the Yellow River to the Jin state, but the result was still to no avail. Because all of this is just a smoke bomb put on him by the Jin Kingdom. No matter where it is cut, there is no point, and there is only one goal for the Jin country. It is to completely overthrow the Great Song Dynasty, and this goal has not been completed. They won't stop...
Shaozai and Zhongshu Lang Tang Ke has always advocated peace, but the discussion has brought the Jin army to the edge of the Yellow River, and he also realized that the peace agreement could not stop the Jurchens from advancing south, so he wanted to encourage the emperor to run away, he said: "The Tang Dynasty started from the Anshi Rebellion, and the reason why the people who repeatedly lost their social power and were able to revive it was because the Son of Heaven was outside and could command the Quartet. At present, it is better to leave the prince in charge of the country, and His Majesty will tour Luoyang to the west, summon the heroes of the world, and restore Xu Tu according to the dangerous place. ”
At this time, Zhao Huan was also very hesitant in his heart, the veteran breeder Dao died in grief only a few days after returning to Beijing, and the Great Song Dynasty had no more available generals, so he intended to hide out of the capital first. After hearing about this incident, Yin Heli of Kaifeng hurriedly entered the palace to meet him, and said to Song Qinzong that Su Shi had a point of view that 'the Zhou Dynasty lost its deer, it is better to move eastward', so it is best not to act rashly. There is also some truth in this point of view, the Zhou Dynasty gradually lost control of the princes after moving the capital from Haojing to Luoyang, and at this time the Emperor Taishang was still in Beijing, once he ran out of Lu, the court may split.
In fact, this is also the case, the emperor is the lord of a country, unless he is undefended and unable to return to the sky, otherwise he will flee from the strongest capital and flee elsewhere without authorization. As Li Gang said at the beginning, there is no city in the world that can be as strong as the capital, if you flee without permission, the golden soldiers and horses are fast, and they are caught up in the plains, why should they be ashamed?
Two opinions, diametrically opposed. Are the walls strong? Do you want to defend or flee at this moment? It is related to the survival of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also related to the life of the true dragon emperor. Zhao Huan's mind became quick, and after listening to it, he immediately changed his position, stomped his feet violently and said loudly: "I should stick to the community!" "I don't want to run away again.
Since he didn't want to go, the lord and the faction were not popular, Zhao Huan issued an order to dismiss the lord and send Tang Kexiang, re-use He Li, worship as the right servant of Shangshu and the servant of Zhongshu, and perform the duties of Zhongshu Ling, that is, the prime minister. The post of Kaifeng Mansion Yin was presided over by Xu Bingzhe, who was the same governor as him.
This He Su is a shit luck, a few days ago Nie Chang was set to envoy to the Jin State, and the Kaifeng Mansion Yin who was taken over by him was promoted to an official in less than ten days before and after taking office, but although the time was short, he was the Kaifeng Mansion Yin, but it was recorded indispensably. Such a big personnel transfer did not cause any repercussions, because everyone is used to it, from the first month to the present, it has only been ten months, and the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion has changed eight, and the average person is only one month!
Zhao Ta's fellow Privy Council has also become a fictitious title, and he is left with an official waiting for death, although the eldest brother has made a gesture of defending the city, but Zhao Ta is still not optimistic. He Li, the prime minister who presided over the city defense, was not an ideal candidate, although he was the main battle, he was a scholar, and when the war situation was extremely urgent, he still drank and wrote poems to show his leisure. Sun Fu, a member of the Privy Council who is in charge of military affairs of the country, and Cao Fu, a member of the Privy Council, who is in charge of the country's military affairs, are also the same, they are both literati who have never seen blood.
Several people were reluctant in every way, and the matter of the envoy was delayed until the end of October, and it became clear that the Jurchens were really going to cross the Yellow River. Of course, Zhao Huan did not want to give up this hope, so he began to urge everyone to leave Beijing, and issued an edict that preparations must be made before the fifth day of November. But on the same night that the holy decree came down, rumors began to spread in the capital that the emperor sent King Yan out of Beijing was not actually a peace negotiation, but a decisive battle with the Jin army to recapture Zhending... (To be continued......)