Chapter 18: The Empty City Plan
It has been a month since the siege of the Mongol army, and there is still no good news, or that the connection between the central capital and the outside world has been completely cut off, and the imperial city of the central capital has become an isolated city.
Since that terrible night, the Emperor Majesty has finally been in power, but it was obtained under the high-pressure rule of the Yulin Army, and now everyone in the middle capital is in danger, and those lower-level officials are shocked by the cruel methods of the Emperor Majesty, coupled with the strong intervention of the forbidden army, all opposition voices have completely disappeared.
Dajin State was established by force, but in the course of a hundred years of development, it has been implemented Sinicization, the civil official system gradually grasped the power, Confucianism has become the foundation of governing the country, all dynasties, civil officials and military attaches are always fighting, but there is a very clear, that is, the military is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the military interference in politics is the beginning of the disaster.
Yang Kang's approach is undoubtedly an extreme, he reminded those civil officials who are obsessed with power, your life is nothing in my eyes, Yulin Army participated in governing the country as the defender of the palace, in the eyes of Confucianism, this is a historical regression, and the Jin State has been implementing Confucianism for many years to govern the country in a flash at this moment.
Despot!
Although those officials did not dare to resort to words, they put this label on the emperor in their hearts, and they continued to keep the imperial city running normally under the supervision of the Yulin army, but this kind of high-pressure rule obviously could not last, and Yang Kang stood on the opposite side of Confucianism.
Emperor Xi à didn't know this kind of evil consequences, reputation is a very important thing in this era, think about Song Jiang is just a small official, but the heroes on the rivers and lakes have to call him brother when they meet, that is because he has the reputation of "timely rain", but if an emperor is crowned with the notoriety of a tyrant, try to ask the world's virtuous people who will take refuge in him.
However, Yang Kang does not regret it, this is a troubled era, and only Xiaoxiong can survive in the troubled times. He imagined what he would do if Wanyan Honglie was in his kind of situation, and His Majesty the Emperor finally decided that Wanyan Honglie would kill more than him, although Wanyan Honglie was already dead, Yang Kang felt that Wanyan Honglie had a deeper and deeper influence on him.
In order to maintain the normal operation of the imperial city, His Majesty the Emperor did not kill those lower-level officials who really did things, and at this moment he did not need those ministers who only knew that they were bent on negotiating peace with the Mongols. Instead, the whole city should be united, stick to the central capital, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.
What Yang Kang wants to fight for is time, and he only hopes that Yiqiē will not come too late.
However, a month has almost reached the limit, this is not to say that there are no supplies in the central capital, as the capital of the Dajin Kingdom, even if it sticks to it for a year or two, there is no problem, but the evil consequences of high-pressure rule have appeared, and those lower-level officials have begun to slacken. The morale of the soldiers defending the city was low, the people complained, and the most important thing was that they could not see hope, thinking that reinforcements would not come, and the imperial city of Zhongdu would be broken sooner or later, and the Dajin Kingdom would be finished.
Under the influence of this pessimism, the Mongol soldiers almost broke into the city several times, and the central capital reached a critical moment of life and death. His Majesty the Emperor knew that it was time to make a decision again, and he didn't know if King Rong's reinforcements would arrive. I don't know what Lou Shidao has done in the Western Regions, and I don't know if I can defend it for a few days......
Since you can't hold it, then run away!
His Majesty the Emperor thought so, as long as he was alive, whether he went to Chang'an City or Kaifeng Mansion, he could rebuild the court of the Jin Kingdom, even if the central capital city was breached. The Jin court will still have zài, and holding the central capital is to buy time, and escaping the middle capital is also to buy time.
After the siege of the imperial city of Zhongdu for a month and a half, His Majesty the Emperor asked the Yulin Army to publicize the Mongols' habit of slaughtering cities in the city, and also asked Li Chengzhen, the prince of Western Xia, to show up and tell the story. The miserable situation of the people in the city after the Zhongxing Mansion of the Western Xia Kingdom was broken by the Mongols was not to strengthen the determination of the people in the city to defend the city, but to let the people flee from the central capital.
His Majesty the Emperor frantically opened the treasury of the Jin State, distributed the gold, silver and treasures in the treasury according to the rank of officials, and also distributed the grain and materials in the treasury to the people.
These officials and people have a lot of wealth, naturally do not want to be robbed by the Mongols, the emperor announced that he will open the city gate to let the people escape from the central capital, but there is only one chance, if you miss it, you will be caught and killed by the Mongols.
So in the middle of the night, the nine gates of the imperial city of the central capital were opened, and hundreds of thousands of people in the city flocked out and fled from the imperial city with money, which is the group effect, hundreds of thousands of people did not dare to flee from the Mongolian camp, but hundreds of thousands of people dared to attack the Mongolian military camp together.
The Mongol army was shocked by this crazy scene and sent troops to chase after these people, but the Mongols only had tens of thousands of troops, and it was not easy to stop hundreds of thousands of people, among these people there were also fleeing Jin soldiers, and the fighting could be seen everywhere outside the central capital, and the Mongol soldiers began to slaughter the fleeing people.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the emperor, dressed as a peasant, quietly fled.
Those who fled at the same time with Yang Kang included Mu Nianci, Concubine Rong and the little prince Wan Yanxu, the six children, the princes of Western Xia, Li Chengzhen and Murong Yan, Wu Qinglie and Hou Tonghai, of course, they didn't leave together, the goal was too big, and only Mu Nianci and Concubine Rong's mother and son really walked with His Majesty the Emperor.
After a lapse of four years, escape expert Yang Kang once again escaped from the central capital.
I'll be back!
In the night, His Majesty the Emperor looked back at the city and thought secretly.
In 1216 A.D., in the autumn of the second year of Jin Tianci, the Mongol army broke through the imperial city of Zhongdu, the capital of the Dajin Kingdom, but when Temujin entered this Xiongcheng, he found that it had almost become an empty city, except for some timid people who did not dare to run, they did not find any members of the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, and did not find any high-ranking officials and dignitaries, because those people were killed by Yang Kang, and even the imprisoned Li Shi'er also died, and the emperor could not bear to let the empress dowager who had gone through the ordeal suffer from the destruction of the Mongols again.
The Mongol army searched the city for a day, but the harvest was very small, the treasury of the Jin country was open, there was nothing in it, there were some valuable things in the palace, but it was difficult to move, they found a large amount of property on some of the people who were intercepted, and when they inquired, they found that the little emperor of the Jin country had distributed the wealth of the whole country to the common people.
Is this a madman or a saint?
Temujin was extremely annoyed, he sent troops to pursue the emperor of the Jin State in two directions, one was to Kaifeng Mansion, the other was to Chang'an City, and then our emperor His Majesty has always been unusual, when the prince of the Jin State Wanyan Hongyu sent countless soldiers and horses but did not catch Yang Kang, and Temujin was even more so.
In early autumn, Yang Kang and Mu Nianci walked on the country road again, but this time there were more Concubine Rong and the little prince. (To be continued......)