Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Li Bangyan said that if the Jin army is defeated in this battle, the country will be in danger of overturning. The safe way is to first agree to make peace and let the Jin army retreat.

After the Jin army is far away from the capital, our army can send heavy troops to pursue and attack the Jin army in front and back of Hebei.Such a victory is more certain.

It should be said that Prime Minister Li Bangyan's proposal to seek the country from time to time is more secure. It not only avoids stimulating the Jin army and bringing greater danger to the capital, but also takes care of the emotions of the main fighters and the Jin army for a decisive battle.

The ministers all agreed with Li Bangyan's opinion, and Li Gang's proposal to take the initiative to attack was aborted.

However, Li Gang still retained his plan to attack the Jin army in his heart.

Chapter 897 Zhang Bangchang who catches the ducks on the shelves

After Li Gang's military adventure proposal was rejected, the peace faction in the Song court gained the upper hand and decided to accept the terms of the Jin army, signed a peace treaty with the Jin country, and let the Jin army withdraw as soon as possible.

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Zhao Huan asked all the princes who would be willing to send an envoy to the Jin army. Kang Wang Zhaogou said that he would go to the Jin army camp as a hostage on behalf of the Song Dynasty.

In history, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, who ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor and established the Southern Song Dynasty, was only 19 years old at this time. Compared with his mediocre brothers, he still had such a heroic spirit.In any case, at this moment of national crisis and crisis, he, the pampered prince, dared to be the first to stand up and take responsibility for his brother Zhao Huan.

Emperor Zhao Huan greatly appreciated his ninth younger brother and agreed to let him go to the Jin Army barracks.

Before departure, Zhao Goumi played to the emperor's brother Zhao Huan, saying that if he finds the right time to attack the Jin army, please put the country's society first and send troops to attack immediately, instead of missing the opportunity because of his safety as a hostage.

Emperor Zhao Huan was deeply moved, and agreed to Zhao Gou's secret performance with tears.

Because the Jin army also asked to send a prime minister as a hostage, Emperor Zhao Huan ordered the young prime minister Zhang Bangchang to go on an envoy with Kang Wang Zhao Gou, so that all the princes and prime ministers requested by the Jin army were assembled.

Unexpectedly, the timid Zhang Bangchang was so frightened that he burst into tears on the spot after receiving the imperial decree to send the Jin army as a hostage.

Because Zhang Bangchang knows that it is still unknown whether the Jin and Song Dynasties will be peaceful or not. After he enters the camp of the Jin Army as a hostage, once the court changes his mind, the peace talks with the Jin Army break down, or the two armies go to war again, he is very likely to be angered. Jin Jun killed to vent his anger.

Besides, will the imperial court have any scruples about him as a prime minister?Not at all.

Zhang Bangchang was once a member of the party of Wang Fu, the favorite minister of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, but Wang Fu has now lost power.

When Wang Fu was in favor, he used the slander of Prince Zhao Huan in front of Song Huizong in an attempt to shake Prince Zhao Huan's position and replace him with Song Huizong's favorite third prince Zhao Kai.

At that time, if Liang Shicheng, another favorite minister of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, stood by Prince Zhao Huan and said a lot of good things for Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai might have taken the crown prince long ago, and Zhao Kai would inherit the throne now.

After the new emperor Zhao Huan ascended the throne, the first unlucky one was of course Wang Fu.

After learning that the new emperor Zhao Huan had ascended the throne, Wang Fu went into the palace to celebrate in panic, but the palace gate official said that the emperor did not accept his congratulations and turned him away.

When the Jin soldiers approached Bianliang City in Tokyo, Wang Fu felt uneasy. Before the order came, he took his wife and children out of the city and ran eastward, trying to follow the Taishanghuang's team.

Emperor Zhao Huan issued an imperial edict to demote Wang Fu to be the deputy envoy of the Chongxin Army Jiedu, and he did not belong to his family.

Wu Min and Li Gang asked Wang Fu to be killed, and handed over the matter to Kaifeng Yin Niechang.

Nie Chang had a good relationship with Wang Fu at first, but after he followed Prime Minister Cai Jing, he was slandered by Wang Fu and dismissed from his post as the prefect of De'an, so he had an old grudge with Wang Fu.

After Nie Chang received the secret order, he sent soldiers to chase after him to Fugu Village, south of Yongqiu, and killed Wang Fu's family.

Emperor Zhao Huan pretended that Wang Fu had been killed by bandits because he had just ascended the throne and killing ministers would be detrimental to benevolent government.

Coincidentally at this time, the Taishanghuang's fleet was also attacked by Ximenqing's pretended Jin army in Xiangyi County, southeast of Yongqiu, and there was chaos outside Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Now that Wang Fu has been killed, Zhang Bangchang, as Wang Fu's remnant party, has not been purged yet, but he is obviously out of favor with the new emperor Zhao Huan.

The reason why Zhang Bangchang has not been dismissed is only because the emperor Zhao Huan encountered the siege of the Jin army just as he ascended the throne.

Jin Jun asked for a prime minister, why didn't the two prime ministers, Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong, take risks, but chose Zhang Bangchang alone?

Zhang Bangchang knew in his heart that this was no coincidence.Therefore, Zhang Bangchang thought that this mission would be more or less auspicious, and the emperor and the ministers around him would not care about his life, so how could he not be afraid?

Kang Wang and Zhao Gou didn't know that Zhang Bangchang had so many worries in his heart. He looked down on Zhang Bangchang's ugly appearance of fear of death, and told him that this was the mission of a man in the Song Dynasty, and Zhang Xianggong should not do this.

Facing Zhao Gou, who was not afraid of death, Zhang Bangchang returned to normal, gritted his teeth and rushed out of the city to the Jinjun camp with his brother Zhao Gou.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Wanyan Zongwang, the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army of the Jin Army, saw Kang Wang Zhao Gou and Shao Zai Zhang Bangchang. After knowing that the Song Dynasty was willing to accept all the terms of the peace negotiation, he was overjoyed and ordered him to entertain the two distinguished guests.

Immediately afterwards, Wanyan Zongwang ordered someone to write a letter to Emperor Zhao Huan of the Song Dynasty, saying that the Song Dynasty was willing to accept the terms of the peace negotiation, which made him and the Kingdom of Jin very satisfied, and the Jin army would retreat back to the north immediately.Moreover, in order to show the sincerity of the Kingdom of Jin, he is willing to halve the annual annual coins of the Song Dynasty from 200 million taels to 100 million taels.

Wanyan Zongwang also promised to release King Kang Zhaogou as soon as possible once the negotiation is over.

With both sides expressing their sincerity, Song Jin negotiated and reached an agreement that both sides accepted.

In order to allow the Jin army to withdraw as soon as possible, the Song Dynasty began to raise the promised military supplies.

The most difficult of these is the 500 million taels of gold.Because Song Huizong was extravagant, he had been spending a lot of money on Huashi Gang, and he had already emptied the gold in the treasury.

Seeing that the amount of gold deposits was far from enough, Emperor Zhao Huan issued an order to the officials in Bianliang City, Tokyo, ordering that all the gold belts given by the previous court must be handed back in their original form, and those who concealed them and refused to hand them in would be severely punished.

In this way, the Song Dynasty continuously transported the gold, silver, silk and other labor materials collected in the city to the Jin Army camp for delivery.

Three days after Kang Wang Zhao Gou and Shao Zai Zhang Bangchang entered the Jinjun camp, a heavy snowstorm suddenly fell in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and the temperature inside and outside the city dropped sharply.

Due to the cut off of traffic inside and outside the city, the food and charcoal supplied to Bianliang City in Tokyo could not be transported into the city, resulting in the death of countless people in the city from hunger, cold and disease.

After Emperor Zhao Huan got the report, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, so he had to order someone to revise the book for the Jin army commander Wanyan Zongwang, and send fine wine and rare treasures, in order to urge the Jin army to withdraw as soon as possible.

The next day, Emperor Zhao Huan personally went to Xuandemen to comfort the guards and soldiers, encouraging everyone to help each other and persevere through this period of internal and external difficulties.

It took only [-] days for the Jin army to reach the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, and many people in the city had no food, and the whole city was in trouble.Therefore, if there is no strong enough field army outside the city to cover the internal and external passages, such a large city with a large population is the most difficult to hold on for a long time.

Li Gang's scholars don't understand military affairs, so how can they understand the truth of this.

Just when Emperor Zhao Huan and his ministers were trying their best to deal with the Jin Army's East Route Army, a lot of news came from Hedong Road.

Liu Sichu, the guard general of Pingyang Mansion in Jinzhou in the south of Taiyuan Mansion, rebelled and joined Yan Zonghan's army in the Kingdom of Jin.After the West Route Army of the Jin Army captured Pingyang Mansion, it also approached the north bank of the Yellow River.

It turned out that when Wanyan Zonghan led the West Route Army of the Jin Army to besiege Taiyuan City, some Song generals in Taiyuan City broke through the siege and fled south, passing by Pingyang Mansion.

There are [-] righteous victorious troops stationed in Pingyang Mansion, commanded by Liu Sichu.

After breaking through the siege and fleeing to Pingyang Mansion, Liu Sichu asked about the situation in Taiyuan Mansion and the arrangements for the Yisheng Army.

The general confided that in order to protect the safety of Taiyuan Mansion, the imperial court might kill all non-Han soldiers in the army.

After the news came out, the Yisheng Army was furious, and Liu Sichu approached Yuwen, the Zhizhou of Pingyang, to ask whether the news was true.

Yuwen was shocked at the time, and even said that there was absolutely no such thing, and ordered people to post a bulletin in the city to refute the rumors.

However, the Yisheng Army no longer trusted the Song court, and the chief general Liu Sichu also decided to rebel. He ordered the Yisheng Army to station outside the city, actively prepare for the war, and look for the right time to revolt.

Chapter 898 Kind of Teacher

When news came from Taiyuan that the Jin army had defeated the [-] Song army led by Zhekeqiu, the prefect of the prefecture, Liu Sichu, the leader of the Yisheng Army in Pingyang Prefecture, made up his mind to invest in gold.

At dawn the next day when he got the news, Liu Sichu led the Yisheng Army to rise up and occupy the city tower of Pingyang Mansion.