Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Ximenqing knew that Wanyan Zonghan was testing himself.

At this time, the Zhao family still had many supporters in the Song Dynasty. Of course, Jin Guo could abolish the Zhao family by force and establish a new king.

However, this newly established emperor will undoubtedly be regarded as the puppet emperor of the Jin Kingdom by the local officials, tyrants, and scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty.

As a puppet emperor, it is even more difficult to ask for the allegiance of the people of the world willingly.

Therefore, Ximenqing can seize power and become emperor in the future, but he must not directly accept the canonization of the victorious country Jin, otherwise his reputation will not be very good.

At this time, Jin Guo must first confer the title of a weak and incompetent emperor, and then Ximen Qing will use his strength to seize the throne from him.

In this way, not only will Ximen Qing's reputation not be damaged, but he will even be regarded as a hero by many Song people.

In short, before Ximen Qing ascended the throne, he needed a puppet emperor who would replace the dead ghost to be enshrined by the Kingdom of Jin.

Isn't Zhang Bangchang, the land envoy of the Great Song Dynasty who is still a hostage in Wanyan Zongwang's army, the best candidate?

Chapter 951 The Savior of Tokyo City

Faced with Wanyan Zonghan's temptation, Ximenqing replied clearly that he asked Wanyan Zonghan to find another person to be canonized, and he would take the throne by virtue of his strength.

After hearing this, Wanyan Zonghan smiled when he met Wanyan Zongwang, and said in his mouth: "Brother Ximenqing really understands it! Then the three of us brothers have agreed on this. Before our army withdraws, our Dajin Council canonize a new emperor. We After returning to the north, the south will be handed over to Brother Ximenqing."

Ximen Qing clasped his fists and replied, "Thank you two brothers for your success."

Wanyan Zongwang has now become more eager than Wanyan Zonghan. He asked Ximen Qing: "Brother Ximen, are you sure? There are many powerful people in the Southern Dynasty. Is there anyone who needs our army to help you get rid of them by the way?"

Ximen Qing said with a smile: "Brother's kindness, brother's heart. But the Song Army's millions of elites have been defeated by the two brothers, and the remaining Song Army is no longer my opponent. As for the other places, they are just some locals. It's just a chicken and a dog, nothing to worry about!"

Wanyan Zonghan heard the words and said: "Brother Ximenqing, don't you really need me to help you?"

Ximen Qing shook his head, and said to Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, "No, I have a few important matters, and I need the help of my two elder brothers."

"What's the matter with Brother Ximen, but it's okay to say!"

Wanyan Zonghan said.

"The first thing is that the younger brother wants to buy the hearts of the people in Bianliang City, Tokyo, so he wants to redeem some people from the two elder brothers."

Ximenqing told Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang that he knew that the Song court could not raise enough compensation and had arrested many civilian girls in Bianliang City, Tokyo to pay off the debts. He was willing to pay to redeem these captured civilian girls so that they could Go home and reunite with your parents.

The government of the Song Dynasty sent more than 600 women to the Jin army to pay off their debts. Of course, Ximen Qing would not buy them all.

For those concubines, princesses, emperor concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, maids, Cainv, clan wives, and clan wives of the Zhao and Song royal families, Ximen Qing Neither wanted to rescue them.

Ximenqing wanted to take the opportunity to seize the Zhao family's country, so of course he didn't want to deal with these women of the Zhao family.Even if there are some outstandingly beautiful people among them, Ximen Qing will not get involved.These women, of course, let Jin Jun take back to the Kingdom of Jin and completely cut off the inheritance of the Zhao family.

The ones Ximen Qing wanted to rescue were mainly those city girls who were not from the royal family.

Among them, there are 310 singers captured by the Kaifeng government from brothels and Goulan Washe, and 26 ingots of silver were allowed, which paid off the 310 ingots of silver debts owed by the Jin army. There were 33 nine women, and one hundred ingots of silver were allowed, which paid off the [-] ingots of silver debt of the Jin Army.

Therefore, there are 630 non-royal singing girls, noble relatives, and official women that Ximen Qing wants to save, and they can be redeemed with only 59 ingots of silver.

It can be expected that when Ximen Qing rescued these women and sent them back to Tokyo Bianliang City to reunite with their parents and relatives, how much reputation Ximen Qing could win for entering Tokyo Bianliang City.

So, in order to win the hearts of the people in Bianliang City, Tokyo, is Ximen Qing worth spending so much money?

For officials Ximen Qing, it is certainly worth it!

Because the wool came from the dog, the silver that Ximen Qing used to redeem people was not Ximen Qing's, but the money of the Song Dynasty.

In Xuzhou City, southeast of Yingtianfu, Nanjing, there is a treasury of the imperial court.The tax money collected by the imperial court from various roads in the southeast was transported by water to the Xuzhou treasury for storage.When the court needs money, it will be transported to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

After the Jin army went south, the road from Xuzhou to Bianliang City in Tokyo via Yingtianfu in Nanjing was blocked, and this large amount of white money could not be sent to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Therefore, the war indemnity demanded by the Jin army from Zhao Huanjun and his ministers was not that the Song Dynasty could not afford it, but that a lot of the court's income was still sealed up in various places and could not be transported into the capital, which resulted in there not being so much gold and silver in Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Seeing that the emperor Zhao Huan has surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, the Song Dynasty is about to end, and the huge wealth in Xuzhou City's treasury will also become ownerless, how can Ximen Qing sit idly by?

Before Ximenqing led the army to Bianliang City in Tokyo, he had already attacked Xuzhou City in advance, captured Xuzhou, and took the gold and silver in the imperial treasury as his own.

This time westward, Ximenqing's five thousand navy transported not only artillery, but also a lot of gold and silver looted from Xuzhou.

Therefore, using the money of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huangou's father and son to buy people's hearts for himself, the official Ximen Qing would not feel distressed at all.

Both Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang were leaders among the Jurchens, and they immediately understood that Ximen Qing wanted to use this method to buy people's hearts in Bianliang City.

Those more than 4000 women are backed by more than 4000 families, plus their relatives and friends in the city. I am afraid that the number of people in Tokyo who are grateful to Ximen Qing will be as many as tens of thousands, more than 10.

Moreover, there are also officials, relatives, and wealthy businessmen among these women.Ximen Qing saved them and sold them a big favor.

With the merit of rescuing more than 4000 civilian women in Tokyo City, Ximenqing is enough to become the savior of Bianliang City in Tokyo, and then get the support of the officials and people in the city.

Brother Ximenqing really was a big deal. Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang immediately decided on the beauty of adulthood and agreed to exchange the more than 4000 women with silver.

Originally, what Jin Jun wanted was Lao Jun's silver. Because Zhao Huan and his ministers couldn't afford the money, Jin Jun reluctantly agreed with them to use the women in the city to pay off the debt.

Now that Ximenqing has a lot of money to send to Laojun, and Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang have also confessed to their soldiers, so why not do it?

Ximenqing and Wanyan Zonghan quickly agreed on the matter of buying more than 4000 civilian women, and laid the first chess piece for entering Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Urgently, Ximenqing gave Wanyan Zonghan and his wife a detailed list of members of the near and side branches of the Zhao family, so that the Jin army could search for them one by one according to the map, to ensure that no one slipped through the net.

This list was obtained by Ximenqing's detailed investigation by Lu Xiaoyi over the past few years, and it has been checked and confirmed by Li Shishi, Tong Guan, Xu Ning and other insiders. It is already very detailed.

Wanyan Zonghan also has a directory of royal family members presented by the ministers of the Song Dynasty, which is confirmed by Ximenqing's information. It should be possible to check for omissions and make up for the gaps, which will be of great help to the Jin Army's next move.

This step is to clear the obstacles for the future, and Ximen Qing and Wanyan Zonghan also coincidentally.

After Yan Zonghan accepted the list, Ximenqing made another request to him, that is, to take two more people from him.

Of these two people, one is the concubine of the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, Murong Guifei.

Because Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, had been friends with Ximen Qing for many years, and Ximen Qing couldn't bear to let his sister live in the north, so he specifically asked for Noble Concubine Murong.Ximenqing is going to send her to Qingzhou to further win the heart of Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou.

The second person Ximenqing asked Wanyan Zonghan in advance was Qin Hui, the censor of the Song Dynasty.Ximenqing and Qin Hui are friends, so of course he has to give him a hand at this time so that Qin Hui can use it for himself in the future.

Loyalty and treachery aside, Qin Hui is indeed a prime minister!

Chapter 952 Saved Many Beauties

Before Ximen Qing proposed to ask for Concubine Murong, he had already inquired clearly that Concubine Murong, the concubine of the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, had not given birth to a son and a half for Zhao Ji in so many years, and she is not pregnant now.

Therefore, leaving Noble Concubine Murong behind will not bring political troubles and hidden dangers to Ximen Qing.

Regarding this point, Ximen Qing also truthfully informed Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zonghan didn't care too much about this, he believed that Brother Ximenqing would not deceive himself and keep some posthumous son for the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji.