Siheyuan: a game system with you

Chapter 127. 125. Entering Lin'an

Emperor Song already hated Li Yongxuan to the bone, resisted the edict and did not obey it, supported his troops with self-respect, and the most important thing was to distribute He Nan's land to the soldiers and the people on his own initiative without even saying a word, and even proposed to exempt from tax for three years .

Li Yongxuan buys people's hearts, and his wolf ambitions are open.

How could Emperor Song fail to see it, and how could he agree to supply Li Yongxuan with food and grass?
He ruthlessly tore the memorial written by Li Yongxuan into pieces and threw it on the ground. He still didn't understand his hatred and stomped on it a few more times.

Seeing the emperor's fury, the maids and father-in-laws on the side did not dare to breathe, they were so frightened that they died.

Fortunately, after a while, Emperor Song gradually calmed down.

He summoned a few confidants to discuss countermeasures.

Someone suggested that Li Yongxuan be promoted to a higher rank, deceived to the capital, and then interrogated!

Some people suggested that it is better to take Jincheng first and lead troops to accept it. If Li Yongxuan dared to raise troops to fight against it, it would be chaos, and everyone in the world would be punished.

Emperor Song felt that it made sense, and immediately ordered another pacification envoy to take office in Jincheng, and at the same time ordered Yu Jie, the Sichuan-Chongqing system envoy, to lead an army to accompany him for protection.

He heard that Jincheng has developed very well recently, and can also produce a large number of artillery and firearms equipment.

If you can hold Jincheng in your hands, the combat effectiveness of the Song army can be greatly improved.

Soon, Li Yongxuan got the news from Yan Guifei, so he sent someone to detain the imperial envoy.

Right now, it was time to attack Guanzhong, and he didn't want to quarrel with Emperor Song, so he could only try to delay the time.

Although Concubine Yan Gui was the work of the Mongols, she admired Li Yongxuan's character and ability very much.

No one has ever known why Yan Guifei, as a Han, helped the Mongols to harm the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty?

She didn't know it herself, but her master took refuge in the Mongols and sent her to Song Emperor Zhao Yun's side to help the Mongols...

However, over the years, after hearing that the Mongols were burning, killing and looting in the Central Plains, Concubine Yan began to doubt her life.

Is it right for her to help the evildoers like this?

Concubine Yan Gui asked herself, she was at a loss.

Maybe it's because she really appreciates Li Yongxuan, or because she wants to atone for her sins, that Concubine Yan often helps him.

In short, Concubine Yan Guifei will inform Li Yongxuan as soon as possible if there is any situation on Emperor Song's side.

Therefore, Li Yongxuan specially changed the teleportation point of Lin'an to a place that Yan Guifei often goes to, and will teleport there from time to time to check the situation.

The place he chose was so big that even if Concubine Yan set up a trap, she couldn't confirm Li Yongxuan's location, let alone when he would appear there.

Li Yongxuan attacked Chang'an, Jingzhao states surrendered one after another, and Luoyang gradually became an isolated city.

Kublai Khan thought that the city of Luoyang was dilapidated, and people changed their minds. Finally, he decided to order the Mongolian army to voluntarily withdraw from Luoyang and go north, so as not to be surrounded and completely fell.

Although Tongguan is still in the hands of the Mongolian army, the east, west, and south of Luoyang are all surrounded by Li Yongxuan's troops. It is almost impossible to resist the fierce attack of Li Yongxuan and artillery based on Luoyang's broken city walls.

Besides, there are not a few soldiers and people in Luoyang City who want to surrender, how can they defend?

If you clearly know that you can't keep it, if you want to stick to it, you will only lose manpower, material resources, and financial resources in vain, which is meaningless.

Li Yongxuan led his army westward to take over Luoyang, taking advantage of the trend to recover He Nanfu, Songzhou, and Shanzhou.

At this point, the whole of He Nan was recovered and fell into the hands of the Song people again.

Among them, the Song army occupies the territory of Tangzhou, Shouzhou, Sizhou, and Suzhou, and the other state capitals are all under the control of Li Yongxuan.

The Mongolian army withdrew from Luoyang, and the nearby state capitals surrendered one after another. The Mongols even gave up on Luoyang, so why would they care about their lives?
After a short rest for three days, Li Yongxuan continued to lead the army to conquer.

In just over three months, he recovered all of Jingzhaofu Road, Fengxiang Road, Yanyan Road, Qingyuan Road, and Lintao Road, connecting He Nan, Jingzhao, and Sichuan and Chongqing together.

In order to restore the vitality of Guanzhong as soon as possible, Li Yongxuan continued to divide the land evenly, exempted from tax for the first three years, and collected [-]% of the tax after three years.

At the same time, he also divided the land equally in Lizhou, promoted tax exemption, encouraged production, and continued to expand the army, ready to fight at any time, with a total strength of 30.

Soon, Emperor Song received the news from the front line and ran away.

He thought that cutting off Li Yongxuan's supplies would force Li Yongxuan to bow his head, but what he didn't expect was that Li Yongxuan went deep into various places in Henan alone, and even drove out the mighty Mongolian army.

Emperor Song's plan to consume Li Yongxuan with the Mongolian army failed. Instead, Li Yongxuan took the opportunity to grow bigger, and his troops grew to more than [-].

Song Emperor then wanted to use the gold medal to bring back Li Yongxuan's class teacher, but all the imperial envoys did not see Li Yongxuan for several months.

In desperation, Emperor Song decided to send someone to acquire Jincheng first.

Unexpectedly, the three groups of people he sent were all detained, and until now they have not arrived in Sichuan and Chongqing, let alone Jincheng.

Obviously, several imperial envoys were detained by Li Yongxuan's people, and Li Yongxuan clearly wanted to rebel.

The more Emperor Song thought about it, the more annoyed he became, wishing he could arrest Li Yongxuan and dismember him.

What right does Li Yongxuan have to detain imperial envoys, divide land equally, promote tax exemption, and buy people's hearts?
After discussing with several confidants, Emperor Song decided to send a navy to take over Jincheng.

He wanted to see if there was anyone who dared to stop them and raise troops to rebel.

Soon, Li Yongxuan received the exact news and decided to fight back.

Originally, he wanted to regain Hedong, Hebei, and Ludong as soon as possible. The problem was that Li Yongxuan had neither money nor food, so how could he send troops?

If it weren't for his super perception ability, he had found a lot of gold and silver treasures from Luoyang and Chang'an, Li Yongxuan would have been deeply in debt long ago.

Since Emperor Song wanted to make trouble, Li Yongxuan simply went to the south of the Yangtze River and looted a wave. It was better for him to let the Mongolian army loot.

Li Yongxuan made up his mind and led an army of 15 to march eastward.

Recently, he asked Guo Jing to train troops in Luoyang, and ordered Wang Jian to lead his army to garrison Chang'an to guard against the Mongol invasion. Fan Yongji was still garrisoned in Bianliang, managing Ho Nan, Lizhou, and Jincheng as before.

When Kublai Khan and Wu Liang received the news together, they felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

They wanted to face Li Yongxuan head-on, but they were still unable to do so.

Every time Li Yongxuan attacked, he would avoid the main force of the Mongolian army, and he would only attack cities with relatively weak defenses.

He will not divide troops to garrison, but only distributes the fields to those soldiers and people, exempts them from taxes, lets them guard the city, and never exploits and oppresses them.

On the contrary, the Mongolian army slaughtered and looted, and did not treat the people of the Central Plains as human beings.

Let me ask, will the soldiers and common people of the Central Plains under the brutal Mongolian army lean towards the Mongols or Li Yongxuan?

This is also the reason why Li Yongxuan's power can grow rapidly.

The people under the Mongolian rule hoped that Li Yongxuan would lead an army to attack there as soon as possible, so that they could live a stable life, so that they would not live in a humble and humiliating way under the shadow of the Mongolian army, and fear of being killed every day.

Even if the land is not divided and there is no tax exemption, they are willing to help Li Yongxuan, at least life safety can be guaranteed.

Kublai Khan and Wu Liang were also very helpless. Every time they attacked a city, they would encounter very fierce resistance, and they had to pay a heavy price to capture it.

But Li Yongxuan was different. Before his soldiers attacked the city, the soldiers who defended the city couldn't wait to surrender. How could such a battle be fought?
There were few Mongols in the first place, and now there are not 300 million people. They had to enslave foreigners and rule them with iron and blood.

If it weren't for the fear of the Mongolian army's suppression, the soldiers and people under the rule would have surrendered to Li Yongxuan long ago.

Soon, Li Yongxuan led the army to attack Xuzhou, the defenders of Pengcheng killed the Mongolian defender and surrendered, and the surrounding Jezhou, Tengzhou, Yizhou, Pizhou, and Haizhou surrendered.

Either the defenders of the Mongolian army abandoned the city and fled, or they were beheaded by the defenders of the city, and the whole city surrendered to Li Yongxuan's men.

Li Yongxuan's Eastern Expedition went smoothly unexpectedly.

Originally, he was only robbing Emperor Song in the name of the Eastern Expedition, but he did not expect that so many cities would surrender voluntarily.

So Li Yongxuan let the defenders who surrendered flee to the south, and he led the army to chase after him.

All the way from Xuzhou to Sizhou, Suzhou, Shouzhou, Yangzhou, until Lin'an, where they passed, they took the initiative to join.

Li Yongxuan went all the way south, and within two months, he killed Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

He led an army to station outside Lin'an City, looking at this bustling city with emotion.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty established its capital in Lin'an, it has become the center of political governance. Taxes and tributes paid to the court from all over the country will be concentrated here. Scholars will come here to take exams, and big landlords and businessmen who fled from the north will also come here one after another. settle.

Soon, Lin'an became prosperous.

In order to satisfy the vanity and enjoyment of the emperor, princes and nobles, the imperial court recruited a large number of migrant workers to expand the urban area and build palaces, which more than doubled the urban area and built it into a large city with a surrounding area of ​​more than 70 miles.

It also recruited skilled craftsmen from all over the country to make various luxury items for the royal family.

These craftsmen are actually handicraft slaves, without any personal freedom, and their lives are very poor.

Other craftsmen engaged in handicrafts such as wood, bamboo, lacquerware, and paper, as well as some bricklayers, plasterers, etc., lived a hard life.

In order to maintain their livelihood, some craftsmen have to walk around the streets, mending pots, sharpening knives and scissors, hooping barrels, repairing shoes, etc. Their lives are not guaranteed and they often suffer from hunger.

There are also some small businessmen who operate on a small budget. They carry the peddlers' burdens and hand-operated peddlers' drums to attract customers. Although they can earn some small profits, they are often extorted by the government and live a precarious life.

In addition to the above-mentioned people, there is also the most discriminated labor in Lin'an City, that is, those laborers who sweep the streets and empty the toilets, and those who collect corpses and carry coffins.

They work the hardest, dirtiest and tiring, get the least wages, and live the poorest.

On the streets of Lin'an, in the twelfth lunar month of winter, there are often a large number of unemployed homeless people sleeping on the streets, crying out for hunger and cold, and finally dying by the roadside, ending their painful lives.

Lin'an City seems to be prosperous, but it is actually formed by the accumulation of blood and tears of countless poor people.

At this time, the population of Lin'an City was about 39 households, more than 120 million people. Among them, the royal family, bureaucrats, landlords, and businessmen were only a small number, and the vast majority were poor working people.

On the contrary, the ruling class only wants to keep half of the country and continue their desolate life, without the determination and courage to regain lost ground.

For example, Jia Sidao, the favorite minister of Emperor Song, was in charge of the political power.

He built a huge villa in Geling, West Lake, named "Banxiantang", for his own enjoyment. The "Half Xiantang" has five steps and one floor, ten steps and one pavilion. It is very luxurious. There are also many parks. There are gorgeous pavilions in the parks, which are more beautiful than the imperial gardens in the palace.

Jia Sidao often dispatched a group of hooligan thugs to rob civilian women, imprison them in tall buildings and deep pavilions, and force them to be maids and concubines.

The Emperor Song and his princes and ministers were afraid that their extravagance would arouse the resentment of the people, so they preached Buddhism to anesthetize the working people.

They built many Buddhist temples in Lin'an City. There are more than 600 Buddhist temples in Lin'an City alone, which is more than the number of Buddhist temples in Jiankang, the capital of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties.

Lingyin Temple in West Lake is a famous Buddhist temple, which is majestic and large in scale, and was built by the blood and sweat of the working people.

As soon as the news that Li Yongxuan led his army to Lin'an came out, the government and the public were shaken!
Emperor Song thought that Li Yongxuan had come here by forcing the palace this time, and wanted to usurp the throne, so he was so frightened that he ordered people to guard the city, and at the same time ordered all walks of life to enter Jingqin King to protect him.

Knowing that Li Yongxuan was so arrogant, Emperor Song would not have dared to take Jincheng's idea.

There are still honest ministers in the imperial court who take the initiative to go out of the city to question Li Yongxuan what he wants to do?
Li Yongxuan said that they came to chase the Mongolian army and ask for payment by the way.

Said it was chasing the Mongolian army, but in fact it was deliberately driving those who wanted to surrender to him to run south, occupying the territory, and blowing the autumn wind by the way.

Li Yongxuan said that since the Northern Expedition for more than two years, he owed countless money and food, but the court did not give him any supplies, and if he did not pay the army, the soldiers would not be able to afford food.

Hearing what Li Yongxuan said, the minister seemed to make sense, so he went back to report to Emperor Song.

When Emperor Song heard that Li Yongxuan was not here to force the palace, he was slightly relieved.

But when he heard that Li Yongxuan asked for the army's salary for the two years of the Northern Expedition, he sat up.

Li Yongxuan spent two years in the Northern Expedition with 30 million soldiers. How much does it cost?
If it was just a little money, Emperor Song could reluctantly accept it. The key is that Li Yongxuan's appetite was too big, how could Emperor Song agree?

However, Emperor Song didn't dare to refuse. If Li Yongxuan led an army to attack the city, he might not be able to defend it.

So, while asking people to bargain with Li Yongxuan, he ordered the surrounding generals to come and rescue him.

No one expected that someone in Lin'an City had hated Emperor Song for a long time, and they heard that Li Yongxuan's martial arts were world-class and generous, so they united a group of people to open the city gate and welcome Li Yongxuan's army into the city.

When Emperor Song heard the news, he almost died of fright and passed out on the spot.

Li Yongxuan led his army into Lin'an City, he felt like he was dreaming.

He just wanted to come to ask for salary, but he didn't expect to enter the capital without any effort.

After only a moment, Li Yongxuan completely calmed down.

He realized that the current self is a bit like Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty, who easily entered the capital and was the master of the house. At this time, he must not drift away!
Li Yongxuan asked people to control the gate of Lin'an City, and ordered that no one was allowed to disturb the people, and everything was in order, and then he found Emperor Song who was stunned in Concubine Yan's bedroom.

(End of this chapter)