Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Of course, in order to appease the anger of the people, after Li Gang was reinstated, he still ordered all the servants in charge of the city to be dismissed, so as to relieve everyone's fear.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, in addition to public disturbances and Li Gang's reinstatement, Kang Wang and Zhao Gou also returned to the capital.

After Su Wang Zhao Shu and Princess Rongde's husband and wife Du Wei Cao Sheng went to Wanyan Zongwang's army as hostages, the Jin army released Kang Wang Zhao Gou.

However, Prime Minister Zhang Bangchang did not exchange ministers, and was kept in the camp of the Jin Army as a hostage.

In order to appease Zhang Bangchang, Emperor Zhao Huan decreed to give him the title of Dazai.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Zhao Huan decreed that in view of the national crisis, all royal gardens in the city that could be used as temporary shelters should be converted to civilian use.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Kaifeng government issued another notice, saying that according to the imperial decree, anyone who gathers people to make trouble and spread gossip will be sentenced to death.Those who report and expose illegal assemblies will be rewarded with a thousand guan.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Zhao Huan again issued an imperial decree, saying that the responsibilities of the servants had been strictly defined since the establishment of the Song Dynasty.The sage is wise and has already noticed the disadvantages of the servants and eunuchs interfering in politics.

However, the emperor's decree once again emphasized that although the eunuchs in the house were wrong.But they have all been dealt with by the court.

Therefore, the folks, regardless of anyone, can no longer punish and kill the servants on their own, and those who violate it will be severely punished.

After several days of tossing, order was finally restored in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

During this period, Qin Hui, Ximenqing's old friend, was not willing to be lonely, and wrote to the court, saying four things about military plans:

[-]. It is not advisable to be too weak against the Jin army invading south, and all officials should be called to discuss the strategy against Jin in detail.

[-]. Continue to strengthen the defense of Bianliang City in Tokyo and show the power of the Song Dynasty to the Jin Army.

[-]. Place the Jin envoys outside the city, and don't let them enter the city to spy on the reality of the court.

[-]. Even if peace is to be negotiated, at most Yanshan Road can be ceded, and the three towns cannot be ceded.

Yes, Taixue Xuezheng Qin Hui is now a staunch main combat faction.

There is no evidence to prove that it was Qin Hui who impeached Liang Shicheng and requested the reinstatement of Li Gang and Zhong Shidao by the imperial student Chen Dong, but if these imperial students were not influenced by Qin Xuezheng at all, it may not be so.

The Tai students gathered a crowd to make trouble, and Qin Hui, who is an academician, could hardly escape the blame.At this time, Qin Hui still came out to write a letter suggesting to be tough on Jin, he really didn't avoid suspicion at all!

For Qin Hui, who actively advocated resistance to Jin and opposed the cession of the three towns, Emperor Zhao Huan and the prime ministers assigned him a new position as the envoy of land cession, and accompanied Dazai Zhang Bangchang to the Kingdom of Jin to hand over the land of the three towns.

Qin Hui almost vomited blood due to anger, but he couldn't resist the order and disobeyed, so he had no choice but to take up the post humiliated and endured the humiliation, and went to the camp of the Jin army.

It has been a month since the Eastern Route Army of the Jin Army has besieged Bianliang City in Tokyo. The ruling and opposition parties in the city are looking forward to the withdrawal of the Jin Army as soon as possible to resolve the immediate crisis.

On February [-]th, the good news finally came. Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the East Route Army of the Jin Army, sent an envoy with a farewell letter.

In his farewell letter, Wanyan Zongwang was very polite to Zhao Huan, the new emperor of the Song Dynasty, saying that since the Song Dynasty had already realized the wrongness of the previous treachery, the Kingdom of Jin would no longer pursue it, and was still willing to maintain a friendly relationship with the Song Dynasty.

In order to show the sincerity of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang also specifically allowed the Song Dynasty to reduce labor costs by [-] collars of gold, [-] ingots of silver, and [-] pieces of cloth.

In addition, Wanyan Zongwang also sent ginseng as a gift in return, in order to thank the Song Dynasty emperor for the previous gift.

Considering that it was difficult for the Song Dynasty to raise enough gold and silver in Bianliang City, Tokyo, Wanyan Zongwang agreed that the Song Dynasty would pay the rest of the war reparations in monthly installments in the remaining months of this year.

It should be said that Wanyan Zongwang's farewell letter to the emperor of Song Dynasty fully demonstrated the demeanor of the Jin Kingdom and Wanyan Zongwang's diplomatic etiquette.

Wanyan Zongwang wanted the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty to understand that the Dajin Kingdom, which almost annexed the entire Liao Kingdom, was not a barbaric country, but a great country with the same civilization.

Emperor Zhao Huan was overjoyed after receiving the farewell letter from Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the Jin army. He immediately sent someone to entertain the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin grandly, and wrote back to express his gratitude to Wanyan Zongwang.

On February [-], Wang Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, requested that the temporary city defense troops organized by the people be disbanded on the grounds that the threat of war had been lifted and the food supply between the DPRK and China was difficult, leaving only the regular army.

Emperor Zhao Huan approved Wang Yu's performance.

On February [-], Wanyan Zongwang wrote back again, saying that the army of the Kingdom of Jin was going to set off on the [-]th, and sent an additional [-] weights of ginseng to Emperor Zhao Huan.

After Emperor Zhao Huan got the reply, he considered that he was only negotiating peace with Wanyan Zongwang's East Route Jin Army, while the threat from Wanyan Zonghan's Jin Army West Route Army had not yet been lifted.

In order to let the West Army of the Jin Army know that the Song Dynasty had negotiated peace with the Kingdom of Jin, so as to prevent Wanyan Zonghan from continuing to attack the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Huan ordered Yundi of Shizhonglu to be sent to Wanyan Zonghan in Hedong, explaining to him that the two countries had concluded a new peace treaty .

At the same time, Emperor Zhao Huan also asked Lu Yundi to go to Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian to inform the local officials and defenders that the imperial court had handed over these three places to the Kingdom of Jin, and asked them to cooperate with the delivery of the Kingdom of Jin, so that there should be no further incidents.

In order for the Jin Army to leave as scheduled, Emperor Zhao Huan ordered Li Yue to be responsible for sending the 1000 million taels of labor silver taels that he promised to the Kingdom of Jin immediately to the Jin Army Camp.

Li Yue personally went to the inner treasury to raise 1000 million taels of silver and sent it to the Jin Army camp.

On the same day, Wu Min asked the emperor to restore Li Bangyan to the position of Dazai on the grounds that several prime minister positions were now vacant and the country was in urgent need of employment.

Li Bangyan was forced to resign in order to appease public anger when Tai students and the public were making trouble.

Emperor Zhao Huan immediately agreed to Wu Min's proposal.

As a result, Li Bangyan, the minister of the main peace faction, was dismissed only a few days later, and sat on the throne of prime minister again.

Chapter 9 Chapter Seventeen

Wanyanzong saw that the peace talks between the Jin and Song Dynasties had been settled, so he prepared to withdraw his troops.Before retreating, he picked seventeen strong cavalry and set off immediately to rush back to the Kingdom of Jin to report the situation on the front line to the imperial court.At the same time, Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army in the Yanjing area, and others were ordered not to lead troops south.

Wanyan Zongwang did not expect that the seventeen cavalry he sent back would create another miracle of war that is rare in the world.

When the seventeen cavalrymen of the Golden Army crossed the Yellow River northward and reached Cizhou, two thousand troops led by Li Kan, a soldier of the Hebei Road Army, came to intercept them.

The leading Jin general saw a Song army appearing on the road ahead, so he said to Li Kan, the leader of the Song army: "Listen, General Song, you and I have negotiated peace and stopped fighting. Seventeen of us are the second princes. Wanyan Zongwang sent back to deliver news, please let your army clear the way."

Because Li Kan did not receive any news of the truce from the court, he did not believe the Jin army's statement at all.

Li Kan said that the final instruction given to us by the imperial court is to let us cooperate with the northwest reinforcements to cover up and kill the Jin army. Maybe you are the defeated Jin army!

Li Kan ordered two thousand sergeants to form a battle against the seventeen Jin troops.

Seeing that Li Kan still wanted to use force, the seventeen cavalrymen of the Kingdom of Jin flew into a rage and rushed forward to fight with bows and arrows.

The seventeen cavalry of the Jin Army were divided into three groups, with seven in the front and five in each of the left and right groups.The three-way Jin army rushed straight to the Song Dynasty army without fear.

These 17 people were carefully selected knights with superb riding skills. They charged and shot at the same time. They really hit the arrows, and many Song soldiers fell off their horses one after another.

It should be said that although the seventeen knights of the Jin army were brave, they only shot and killed less than a hundred people just now.Unexpectedly, these sergeants of the Hebei Imperial Army were greedy for life and afraid of death, and retreated one after another after the battle, resulting in chaos in formation.

A strange thing in the history of war was born. Outside the city of Cizhou, seventeen cavalrymen from the Kingdom of Jin chased and killed the Song army with more than two thousand soldiers.

Due to the stampede on each other, more than half of the two thousand Song troops actually lost.After defeating the Song army, none of the seventeen Jin cavalry was injured!

This record is even more brilliant than Guo Yaoshi's record of killing thousands of enemies by the Yellow River in Liyang a month ago, and only three of his own troops were killed.

With extreme contempt for the Song army, the seventeen Jin cavalry rushed to scatter the Song army blocking the way, laughing and walking away.

Li Kan was frightened and hid in Cizhou City, never daring to mention the matter of intercepting the Jin army.

After sending a messenger to report the letter, Wanyan Zongwang also led his army back to the north.