Chapter 499: Where is the Eye?
The next day, in the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Fengyun once again gathered everyone in the valley at Guanwutai, worshiped Gongsun Wuxian as a military division, and had the right to lead the Tibetan army valley and guerrilla battalion. He also held a feast in the Tibetan Army Valley to celebrate the New Year.
On the second day, on the first day of the first month of the fourth year of Kaiyun (Note 1), Li Fengyun left the Tibetan Army Valley with Su Yunong and two personal soldiers and went to Jiangnan to ask for flowers.
Along the way, all kinds of news kept coming.
Fu Yanqing struggled back from the Ghost Gate Pass, and after his body recovered slightly, Yelu Deguang specially summoned him and asked him why he repeatedly confronted the Khitan, Fu Yanqing replied: "At the beginning, the minister only knew that he would do his best for the Jin Lord, and today he will decide whether he will live or die." "Shut your eyes and wait for death.
Yelude just listened to it, laughed, now that the Central Plains is Dingding, there is no need for him to kill Fu Yanqing to ruin his reputation, and after the battle of the Hutuo River, Fu Yanqing has become an enemy with Du Chongwei, just to contain Du Chongwei, so he let Fu Yanqing go.
Hearing this news, Li Fengyun breathed a sigh of relief, one of those friends at the beginning, finally survived.
Jing Yanguang was also arrested, and the invincible general did not resist and was captured. With his martial arts, it is not impossible to break out of the encirclement, but he can escape, but hundreds of clans can't.
Soon after, Jing Yanguang committed suicide in prison.
This news made Li Fengyun embarrassed. He has no deep friendship with Jing Yanguang, and he has never even met, but Jing Yanguang is a momentary figure after all, a martial arts master, and he can be said to be loyal to the Great Jin, but the way of doing things is not appropriate, and the result is that the hero is twilight, but he can't return to the hidden field forest, and finally dies in prison, which is sad and sighing.
However, Li Fengyun's teacher Lu Guogong Feng Dao was safe and sound, and Yelu Deguang sarcastically said a few words to him, saying that he served the Jin Kingdom, but he did not achieve anything.
Jerod asked, "Why did you come to see me?"
Feng Dao replied: "I have neither territory nor soldiers and horses, how dare I not come?"
Yerod laughed, "What kind of old man are you?"
Feng Daodao: "I am a talentless, virtuous, stupid and dull old man. ”
Jerod could not take him alone, and did not trouble him any more.
The world has changed greatly, and this old fox is really as Li Fengyun expected, and he can still escape the catastrophe without incident.
On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of the Great Jin Dynasty, on the same day that Li Fengyun left the Tibetan Army Valley, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang also led 300,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River south and came to Kaifeng.
The civil and military officials of the Jin State bid farewell to the Great Jin Emperor Shi Chonggui in the north of Kaifeng, changed to wear white clothes and hats, greeted the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang, and bowed to the side of the road to plead guilty.
The Khitan Emperor Yelude wore a mink hat on his bald head, wore a mink fur, and was wrapped in iron armor, and immediately stood on the high post, and ordered the surrendered officials to stand up, change their clothes, and comfort the hundred officials.
An Shuqian, the general of the left guard, stood up from the ranks of the hundred officials and said something nonsense to Yelu Deguang. Yelu Deguang said: "Are you 'An Wuzi'? When you were guarding Xingzhou, you had lost your sincerity to me many times, and I have never forgotten this matter. ”
Uncle An was overjoyed, cheered and jumped, and thanked him and left.
The Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty and the Empress Dowager greeted the Khitan Emperor outside the Fengqiu Gate, but Yelu Deguang refused to see each other.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, he decreed that the Emperor Shi Chonggui of the Great Jin Dynasty was the Marquis of Negative Righteousness, and ordered him to be placed in Huanglong Mansion, and temporarily moved Shi Chonggui and his family to Fengchan Temple. On the seventeenth day of the first month, Yelu Deguang ordered Shi Chonggui and Empress Dowager Li, Concubine An, Empress Feng and her younger brother Shi Chongrui, his son Shi Yanxu and Shi Yanbao to be escorted to the north, and there were about 100 people in the harem. The Khitan sent 300 iron horsemen to escort, which was actually an escort, and ordered Zhao Ying, the former secretary of the Later Jin Dynasty, Feng Yu, the privy envoy, and Ma Jun to command Li Yantao to accompany them.
On the road, they often fasted because the supply of grain and grass could not be connected, and none of the old subordinates dared to come to greet them, only Li Ying, the assassin of Cizhou, paid respects on the side of the road.
The monarch and the minister wept relatively, and Li Ying said: "The minister is incompetent and has failed His Majesty." So he gave all his possessions to Shi Zhonggui.
Walking to the middle bridge, seeing Du Chongwei Village, Shi Chonggui sighed: "God! What a burden my family has, because this thief broke it!"
Poor Shi Chonggui had heard that the Khitan Emperor was going to cross the Yellow River in the south, and wanted to go to the front with the Empress Dowager to greet him in advance, in order to ask for the name Yelu Deguang, hoping to make the Jin State breathe.
The officials of the Jin State also wanted to let Shi Chonggui follow the ancient example, with his mouth and hand in hand, and the minister pulled the coffin on the car to the suburbs to meet the idea of the Khitan Emperor.
Yelu Deguang said: "I sent strange soldiers to take the beam directly (Note 2), not to surrender. ”
Obviously, Yelu Deguang did not intend to let the Great Jin continue to exist, even if he carved out a piece of land of more than ten miles, he would not give Shi Chonggui the opportunity to let the Great Jin take care of the last face.
Shi Chonggui's hard work turned into nothing. The Great Jin Dynasty died as a result, known as the Later Jin Dynasty in history, which is different from the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty hundreds of years ago. Shi Chonggui, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, was escorted to the north and finally died in the bitter cold, and was known as the emperor in history.
Since Shi Jingjiao colluded with the Khitan and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, he prospered because of the Khitan, stepped on the Central Plains, destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty, and established the Great Jin Dynasty, but it was passed on to two generations of emperors, and the national Zuo that lasted for ten years was destroyed because of the Khitan after all. Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He, a lifetime of achievements, scattered with the wind, disappeared without a trace.
However, the people of the Central Plains have gone through several wars in vain, their wives have been separated, countless deaths and injuries have been lost, and the important barrier blocking the Central Plains, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, has been lost, and the Khitan has become big and out of control.
On the second day of the first lunar month, Yang Chengxun (Note 3), the defense envoy of Zhengzhou, was arrested, and Yelu Deguang was charged with the crime of killing his father and betraying the Khitan, and ordered him to eat him left and right. Then his younger brother General Yulin accepted the letter as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, and was awarded by his father Yang Guangyuan's old soldiers.
It was also on this day that Gao Xun was instructed to accuse Zhang Yanze of killing his family to the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang.
Yelu Deguang was about to clean up the hearts of the people, cut off Du Chongwei's wings, and immediately ordered Zhang Yanze and Fu Zhu'er to be arrested together, and asked the hundred officials: "Zhang Yanze, should you kill or not?"
At the beginning, Zhang Yanze plundered Kaifeng, and all the officials suffered from it, and they all said: "Kill!"
The people of the city hated Zhang Yanze's cruelty, and hated him for betraying the country to seek glory, so they also rushed to hand over the petition and write Zhang Yanze's crimes.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Yelude Guang ordered Zhang Yanze and Fu Zhu'er to be beheaded in Beishi, and ordered Gao Xun to be beheaded.
Zhang Yanze sighed and said, "Is this the end of being a slave with others? I knew this earlier, but I would have died in battle!"
After Zhang Yanze was beheaded, the descendants of the doctors who were killed by him carried a mourning rod and scolded and beat Zhang Yanze's corpse angrily.
Gao Xun also ordered his wrists to be cut off, the corpses removed from the shackles, and the hearts of those killed by him were sacrificed.
The people of Kaifeng were proud of smashing his head, taking out his brain, chopping up his flesh and eating it.
One of the people in the crowd shook his head and sighed: "In the end, I will not escape that day in this life." Zhang Yanze deserved to die, but how many of the people he killed did not deserve to die? When Zhang Yanze led his troops into the city, how many people resisted? In a huge Kaifeng city, only one dead person was taken out of anger, which is sad and lamentable!
It was Mo Qingyan, who had already resigned, who spoke.
Those who heard the rumors around were not ashamed to hide their faces and leave.
In the end, Mo lightly collected Zhang Yanze's body and buried him in a mass grave outside the city.
The poor generation of fierce generals also killed the enemy in the battlefield for the country, took a wrong step, worked hard for the enemy chieftain, and finally gave away his life, and ended up with a broken corpse and a bad death.
On the contrary, those who are in the corpse and even collude with foreign enemies can still live in the temple, the glory is still the same, the wealth is enjoyed, but there are few people who are really punished, if the sky has eyes, where are the eyes?
Note 1: i.e. 947 A.D.
Note 2: Daliang, that is, Kaifeng, the ancient name of Kaifeng, the capital of Wei during the Warring States Period.
Note 3: Yang Chengxun, that is, Yang Guangyuan's eldest son, when Yang Guangyuan was besieged, Yang Chengxun led his younger brother to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, as explained above.