Chapter 1: Yanjing
In February of the third year of the Great Song Dynasty (1232 AD), Yanjing Road, Daxing Mansion.
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, fought with the Liao State in the Gaoliang River, the Song army was defeated, and the sixteen states of Yanyun finally came to naught. Liao established Yanjing as the accompanying capital, Jin destroyed Liao, and built the capital in Yanjing, called the middle capital. Then the Mongols arose, and in the eighth year of Jiading (1215), they captured Yanjing, and then became the Daxing Mansion of Yanjing Road.
This year's winter was particularly cold, with a few heavy snowfalls in February, so much so that by the end of February, the bitter cold had not yet passed. Moreover, the flying sand and dust brought by the cold current in the north made Yanjing City smoky and miasma, and the people complained bitterly.
In the evening, the cold wind is howling, the snowflakes are flying, and the houses, branches, streets and alleys are white. There are few pedestrians on the streets, and frozen corpses can be seen from time to time in the streets and alleys, and no one cares.
The outside is dark and cold, bleak and cold, located in the "Huixian Building" in the east of Xuanhua Gate, but at this moment it is the beginning of the lanterns, the clothes are fragrant and the sideburns are shadowy, laughter and laughter, warm as spring.
"Why hasn't Li Xingshou come out yet? Do you still want to open this "Huixian Building"? ”
In the lobby on the second floor, a drunken man with a red face slapped the table, full of arrogance.
"Tell Li Chaoyun to come out, otherwise we will smash your restaurant!"
"Li Xingshou, come out quickly!"
A few ointment beams next to the squirt are also smoky and shouting loudly.
"Zhang Daguan, Shi Daguan, Li Xingshou is inconvenient, she has distinguished guests, a few of them should order other beautiful women."
The old bustard bowed his head and said with a smile.
These are all the children of the powerful in Daxing Mansion, and she really can't afford to offend.
"What a birdman guest, let him come out for me!"
Zhang Daguan drank too much, waved his hand, and was very domineering.
"That's it, let him get out of here!"
"Get out! Or kill him! ”
The other gentlemen, blushing and thick-necked, seemed to be about to collapse the building.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Li Xingshou is accompanied by the glued mountains of Yanshan Mansion. Let's change to other little ladies. ”
The old bustard smiled, and several gentlemen were stunned, and then quietly left.
Glue Chongshan is the left prime minister of Zhongshu Province, Yelu Chucai is Zhongshu Ling, a person in charge of the government affairs of the Han land, a marquis of ten thousand households, holding heavy troops; The other is in charge of taxation, and they are all the henchmen of the Mongolian Great Khan's Wo Kotai, who dares to make a mistake?
The gentlemen, accompanied by other women, continued to have fun, and the upstairs was again lively.
"Xianggong, are you leaving?"
In the room, after the lingering and joy of death, after recovering his strength a little, he was about to leave.
Li Chaoyun helped him tidy up his clothes, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked softly.
"The army is heading north, and I have to go to Taiyuan City to arrange for pick-up. It's too busy! ”
Gluing back to the mountain, thinking of state affairs, his brows furrowed slightly.
"Didn't the army attack the Jin Kingdom in the south, why did you go to Taiyuan to meet it? You men, you are acting on the spot, and you don't have a word of truth in your mouth. ”
Li Chaoyun said helplessly, she pursed her lips, pitiful.
"How could I lie to you? The Great Khan of Ogedai almost destroyed the Jin Kingdom, but the army of the Western Route went south and encountered ...... in the Song Realm"
The words of the glue to the mountains came to an abrupt end. In military affairs, he realized that he should not talk too much.
Bonding Chongshan's face was solemn, and Li Chaoyun immediately became smiling, comforting Bonding Chongshan.
"Heavy mountain ministers, you big people have big things to do. The slave family is here to wish the army good news. ”
"A big victory?"
Adhesive Shigeyama shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Everyone, Li, I'll go first. At this time, I have to be careful! ”
Li Chaoyun personally sent the gluing heavy mountain to the door, and then closed the door.
Turning his head and returning to the table under the table, Li Chaoyun's face immediately became sad.
In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.
During the Mengjin War, many of the Jin princes and nobles who had no time to flee were ruined overnight, and many aristocratic women were forced to fall into the dust and make a living by selling their hues.
This is the case with Li Chaoyun, the head of Li Xing, in the mouth of the gentleman.
Li Chaoyun's father was originally a Jin nobleman in Yanjing, and his mother was the Jurchen Wanyan clan. In the third year of Dajin Zhenyou (1215 AD), the Mongol army broke through Yanjing City, the capital of Jinzhong, and none of the people in the Li Mansion, including Li Chaoyun's parents, survived. The young Li Chaoyun escaped by luck, and in desperation, he could only hide his name, wash away the lead, and fall into the fireworks and willow lane, surviving for a long time.
From the luxurious life of fine clothes and jade food to the humble career of the Qinglou, in the sky and on the ground, Li Chaoyun has tasted the pain of life and the impermanence of the world. Today's life is just helpless.
"The Tatar army is going south, and in three directions! Will the Song army be able to resist the onslaught of the Tatar cavalry? ”
For the first time, Li Chaoyun thought of not her home country, Da Jinguo, but her employer, Guo Da Song. The mother country, like Mongolia, brought her disappointment, endless humiliation and pain, while the Song country brought her hope and confidence to destroy Mongolia.
And this is what she needs most.
During this time, she also learned about this kind of news through various people, but today she learned more from Glue Shigeyama.
According to the news obtained from all sides, the Mongolian army borrowed the Song realm from Fengxiang Mansion. However, will the hard-line Song Jun agree? Will the fierce Song Emperor endure humiliation?
I'm afraid not!
"Glue Chongshan, Yelu Chucai, you scum of the golden people. My Dajin Kingdom, why do you make people so sad! ”
Thinking of his mother country, Li Chaoyun muttered to himself, and tears fell.
In fact, Glue Chongshan and Yelu Chucai were both vassals of the Jin Dynasty, but they did not do anything to abuse the people of the Jin Dynasty. However, seeing that they were submissive in front of the Mongolian kings and nobles, obedient like dogs, Li Chaoyun was indignant.
When a person is not good, but a dog is willing, isn't this self-willing, incorruptible and shameful?
In the era of Genghis Khan, the Mongol army conquered the Western Regions in the west, and there was no time to govern the Central Plains. Until the accession of Ogedai to the throne of the Mongol Great Khan, no effective ruling order had been established in the Central Plains.
Wokotai adopted Yelu Chucai's suggestion, and set up ten roads to levy taxes on the two rivers. Each road appointed a chief and deputy tax envoy, all of whom were Confucian scholars from Gemdale. The candidate for the Ten Roads Taxation Envoy was the first time after the Mongol conquest of the two rivers that officials were selected outside the Mongolian aristocracy and local tyrants.
According to the information she received, after the two rivers were taxed, Yelu Chucai and Glue Chongshan prepared 500,000 guan money, 80,000 pieces of cloth and silk, and more than 400,000 stones of grain for Wokotai to use troops against the Jin State and the Southern Song Dynasty.
Once the Mongol Great Khan Ögedai and the Mongol nobles tasted the sweetness of the great wealth of the Central Plains without the need for soldiers, they would continue their policies, the foundation of their rule would be more solid, and they would have a steady stream of money and food to help them win the war of southern invasion.
Jin is her home country, lamenting its misfortune and angry at its incompetence. The Great Song Dynasty is her employer, compared to the Jin Kingdom, which is thriving and thriving, and the Great Song Dynasty, which defeated the Mongol army in the northwest, may be able to repay the unspeakable hatred and hatred that she hides deep in her heart.
She had passed by her mansion more than once, which had already been occupied by doves and had become the private residence of the Mongolian nobles.
From the daughter of the nobles to the head of Yanjing, she once had a good family education, as well as the indispensable appearance of flowers and moons, as well as the mystery of the down-and-out Jurchen royal family that covered her, made her the head of Yanjing City, so that those Mongolian high-ranking officials in the city flocked to her and spent a lot of money.
Just like the Mongolian officials such as Glue Chongshan and Yelu Chucai, most of them are her guests and guests in the curtain. By selling her body, she often got the information she needed from these people, especially the military and political secrets of the Mongols in the Land of the Two Rivers.
And the secret report of the military intelligence of the Mongolian army going south to invade Song Vajin, including the Mongolian army on the West Road through the Song realm, she has already spread it, and the Song army should have been prepared.
The Mongol army suddenly went north at this time, could it be that they defeated the Song army and destroyed the Jin state?
These news should be spread out as soon as possible. As for how to pass it, she is not worried, and there is no need to worry. She's not struggling alone.
"Everyone Li, there is a big official who wants to see you, and he is willing to pay a thousand gold for you, just asking for a spring breeze."
Li Chaoyun was pondering, and the bustard's gentle voice sounded outside the door.
"Mom, I'm tired and don't want to see guests. Could you please push it for me? ”
Li Chaoyun frowned, and politely declined the bustard's request.
She was already distraught, where did she still have the heart to see any benefactors.
"Everyone Li, the big officials have sent gifts and stickers, you can take a look at it first, and then decide whether you want to see him or not."
The bustard's voice was almost pleading.
In front of gold and silver, her temperament has long been shattered.
"Mom, let's send it in first."
Li Chaoyun had no choice but to open the door.
Who knows if this big official is a great god, maybe she really can't afford to provoke her.
When the gifts were delivered, Li Chaoyun opened the sticker and was slightly stunned when he saw the verses on it.
"Song Yutai front palace forest,
Ten years of solitude?
The world is melancholy ......"
Li Chaoyun sat on the chair and savored it, but suddenly his heart was shocked and he stood up.
"Mother, please come up."
A twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old Confucian came in, ordinary, the kind that no one paid attention to in the crowd, he smiled kindly, looked at Li Chaoyun respectfully, and bowed.
"There is no way out of doubt, and there is no place to meet in life. When he was in the Song Dynasty in Xiashan Mountain, he met everyone Li. ”
"I've seen Song Daguan!"
Li Chaoyun returned the salute, waited for the people and the bustard to go out, and closed the door.
"If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan. The slave family has seen the Song officials. ”
Li Chaoyun whispered softly, with something in his words, testing the other party.
"On the river in autumn, Ono enters the dome. Seeing everyone Li today is comforting to live a life. ”
Song Shiren looked around the room, and then sat down at the table with Li Chaoyun, Li Chaoyun said excitedly:
"10,000 years is too long. Great Song ......"
"Shh......h
Song Shiren softly stopped Li Chaoyun's words, he walked to the door, listened carefully, and then came back and sat down, whispering.
"Everyone, Li, I have good news for you. The official army of the Great Song Dynasty broke the Tatar army in Hanzhong, and the 70,000-strong Tatar army was wiped out, and even the kings of Tore and Kuoduan were killed. The official army of the Great Song Dynasty had advanced into Shaanxi. ”
He also just got the news of the victory in Hanzhong, the 70,000 Mongolian army was wiped out, and the main generals Subutai and Kuoduan were killed in battle.
"Song officials, do you mean that the Tatar army was defeated in Hanzhong, and both Torre and Kuoduan died?"
Li Chaoyun's heart jumped suddenly.
She didn't expect the Mongol army to be such a big defeat.
"Not bad! Li everyone, Wang Shi defeated the Tatar army in Hanzhong, and our northwest frontier army entered Shaanxi. There was news from the army that Wang Shi might choose to go north and restore the two rivers. ”
Song Shiren was also secretly frightened. The war in Hanzhong and Shaanxi, the Intelligence Department immediately transmitted to Yanjing. The efficiency of the Intelligence Division is truly daunting.
"Song Daguan, Wang Shi's Northern Expedition to restore the two rivers, is what you said true?"
Li Chaoyun's tone was hurried, and he couldn't wait.
"How can the news from the Intelligence Department be fake?"
Song Shiren's face was solemn and he asked solemnly.
"Everyone Li, Wang Shi's Northern Expedition, we have to take precautions. Is there any important news on your side? ”
"Mr. Song, please sit down, let me tell me carefully."
The code was on the right one, and the other party was so alert, which made Li Chaoyun secretly surprised.
Emperor Song's subordinates are all these brave warriors. Maybe it won't be long before the Song army will go north, and then they will have their own good fruits to eat.
"In this way, when he went to Taiyuan at this moment, he should meet the army and retreat north to Wokotai. At this moment, the Northern Expedition is at the right time! ”
Song Shiren's eyes lit up, and he unconsciously became excited.
The Mongol army retreated north, and the Central Plains was empty, which was a good time for the Northern Expedition.
"Song Daguan, Shaanxi is ruined, Henan still has the Jin Dynasty, Wang Shi may not go north immediately."
Li Chaoyun thought about it and said.
Yuanjia grass, hasty north. Although she wanted the Song army to go on an early Northern Expedition, she didn't want the Song army to be overjoyed and defeated.
"No matter what, we have to do our part so that we don't get in a hurry."
Preparing early, preparing for a rainy day, and hibernate for six years, he can't wait.
"Li everyone, the Tatar army broke the Jin army in Sanfeng Mountain, Henan, and the Jin army of more than 100,000 troops was wiped out, and famous generals such as Wanyan Heda and Wanyan Chen were killed. The Tatar army was defeated in Hanzhong, and Ogedai withdrew. ”
Song Shiren pondered Li Chaoyun's thoughts and said carefully.
"It's long overdue! Die early and live early! ”
Li Chaoyun hated a sentence, he was disheartened, and he hated iron and steel.
"Let's look away. When the king restored the two rivers, everything was over. ”
Song Shiren comforted Li Chaoyun.
"Let's hope that day comes sooner."
Li Chaoyun nodded, his eyes confused.
All this, all this humiliation, all this lying down, maybe it will come to an end?