Fenghou

Wanyan Helisa was puzzled and said: "Could it be that Chen Qing pities the people in the city and refuses to fight us in the streets? But the way he burns the city is just as ruthless, even more vicious than ours. At least we won't directly set fire to the houses. But they went straight to it!"

"Xiaozhi thinks that if he leaves Daxing City, the reinforcements will..."

"Are you still counting on reinforcements?"

Wanyan Lisa interrupted him impatiently, "The city has been besieged for 20 days, do you think there will be reinforcements? There will be no reinforcements. I can only rely on myself. Whether I can escape back to Liaodong depends on God's will."

"The marshal never thought about it. Could it be that Yuguan fell into the hands of the Western Army and the reinforcements couldn't get through?"

Wanyan Heli Sa Teng stood up, his eyes were full of horror, he said anxiously: "It should not be possible! Absolutely impossible."

"Marshal knows Chen Qing very well, will Chen Qing leave Yuguan alone?"

Wanyan and Lisa sat down slumped, he finally understood that Chen Qing forced him to leave Daxing City because all escape routes were blocked and they had nowhere to go.

"Could it be that we can only die in Daxing City in the end?"

Pucha A'hu's lips moved, there was something he didn't say, but they could still surrender.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and reported: "Marshal, there is an eagle message from Shangjing!"

Wanyan and Lisa hurriedly asked, "Where is Yingxin?"

The soldier presented the eagle letter box, Wanyan Helisa took out a roll of yellow silk from it, he and Pucha Ahu were startled, the yellow silk was the hand letter of the emperor.

Wanyan and Lisa hastily unfolded the yellow silk, and the two leaned forward to read it. The content inside made them look at each other, and the emperor ordered them to surrender, and then he would redeem them with a huge amount of money.

Pucha Ahu nodded and said: "This may be the best way to save the lives of the brothers. The Han people have a saying: If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about no firewood. As long as you keep the lives of the Jurchens, the Kingdom of Jin will still have a chance." Get strong again."

Wanyan Lisa hesitated and said, "I'm afraid that Chen Qing will carry out the extermination order and kill us all!"

"Probably not. This is not a battlefield. He has no reason to kill prisoners of war who voluntarily surrendered. At most, he will let us go to mines to mine. But as long as Chen Qing is satisfied with the ransom from the imperial court, he will let us go."

Wanyan Helisa nodded, "Okay! Why don't you go to the Western Army camp and express to Chen Qing that we are ready to surrender."

"Humble job, get ready and go!"

……

In the Western Army camp, Chen Qing was discussing with several generals the plan to start street fighting after the siege. He had hesitated for 20 days to apply pressure, but the Jin soldiers still refused to withdraw from the East City, and Chen Qing finally lost his patience.

The generals all agreed that there were many Khitans and Jurchens in Yanjing City, and many civilians would probably take up arms against the soldiers of the Western Army. Therefore, as long as men appeared on the streets, no matter how old or young they were, they should all be regarded as enemies.

Chen Qing also deeply agrees with this point.

At this moment, a soldier reported at the tent door, "A Jurchen general came to the city, named Pucha Ahu, who said he was the deputy general of Wanyan Helisa, and he came here to ask for surrender!"

"Surrender?"

Chen Qing and the others also looked at each other, the news was also beyond their expectations, Niu Gao smiled to Chen Qing: "Thinking about it carefully, it seems that surrender is their wisest choice!"

Chen Qing nodded, and ordered: "Bring him in!"

Not long after, the soldiers brought Pucha Ahu in. Pucha Ahu knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists and said, "There are thousands of households in the Dajin Kingdom, the deputy general of Daxing City, Pucha Ahu, is here to meet His Royal Highness King Yong!"

Chapter 370 Yanshan

As soon as Chen Qing waved his hand, the soldier moved a chair, and Chen Qing said calmly, "Please sit down!"

Pucha Ahu sat down and said sincerely: "We know we are defeated by the Western Army, and we don't want soldiers to die in vain on the battlefield, so we sincerely ask you to surrender!"

After speaking, he presented a letter to Chen Qing, "This is a begging letter from our coach!"

A soldier stepped forward to receive the letter and presented it to Chen Qing. Chen Qing didn't read the letter, and said coldly: "How many Han people have you killed, and now you want to surrender again when you are damned. Is there such a good thing in the world?"

"Your Highness is bad. It has been more than twenty years since the Jingkang Incident, and the soldiers who committed evil have long since died. The current Jurchen soldiers are all young people who grew up later, and have nothing to do with the past."

"Father's debt is repaid, it's only right and proper, not only young people like them, I will kill all the Jurchen men, so that their wives and daughters can also taste the taste of being ravaged by the army."

Pucha's face changed, "Your Highness, you don't accept our surrender?"

Chen Qing tore Wanyan and Lisa's letter in half, "I will never accept it!"

"Okay! Let's fight to the death!"

Pucha Ahu got up to say goodbye, Chen Qing waved his hand, several soldiers rushed up to hold him down, Pucha Ahu shouted anxiously: "The two countries are fighting each other, don't behead them!"

"You are not worthy, push it out and behead it!"

Pu Cha's Hu felt too regretful, he thought Han people were all about etiquette, but he didn't expect Chen Qing to be so cruel, if he had known, he wouldn't have come.

He yelled and was dragged out by the soldiers. Chen Qing said to everyone: "Everyone may wonder why I didn't accept the other party's surrender? Because the Jurchen soldiers in Yanshan Mansion were captured by me at the beginning and sent to Red Copper Mountain to mine. The imperial court exchanged the captive Bianliang people back, and I have said it beforehand, if we meet again on the battlefield, I will never forgive them!"

Only then did everyone suddenly realize, Yang Zaixing said: "The humble officials also remembered that they were the captured soldiers, no wonder His Highness did not accept the surrender."

Chen Qing said again: "Our innocent people have been killed by more than ten million, and women have been abused by more than one million. If we are tolerant to them, how can we explain to the dead people?"

Everyone said one after another: "Your Highness is right, tooth for tooth, blood for blood!"

Not long after, the soldiers brought up a head, and Chen Qingling said: "Take the head with a long bamboo pole and stick it under the city!"

The soldiers took out the heads, and Chen Qing said coldly to everyone: "The Jurchen army has no way to surrender, and they will definitely go out of the city to break through tonight. Tonight, the whole army will encircle and suppress the Jurchen army who broke through the siege. If you don't accept the surrender, you will count your merits with your head!"

All the generals stood up together, "obey the order!"

……

Wanyan and Lisa were restless in the mansion, pacing back and forth like ants on a hot pot, he always had an intuition in his heart that Chen Qing would not let him go.

Suddenly there was the sound of hurried running in the courtyard, and a soldier reported from the hall, "To the Marshal, the soldiers of the Western Army picked a head on the top of the wall, it seems to be...General Ahu!"

Wanyan and Lisa turned pale with shock, "Is it General Ah Hu?"

"It should be, with red hair!"

Wanyan and Lisa sat down slumped, Pucha's Ahu was actually killed, he began to feel fear, Chen Qing must have decided to attack the city, staying in the city would only lead to death, he escaped and hid in the mountains, and used the golden cicada to escape his shell Maybe I still have the possibility of surviving, no!Must evacuate.

Without Pucha Ahu's stop and persuasion, Wanyan Helisa returned to his own way of thinking. This is his character. When he encounters danger or despair, the first thing he thinks of is to escape. This is the case in Hanzhong. The same is true in Guanzhong, and it is still the case now. This is nature and cannot be changed.

Wanyan Holisa made up his mind and immediately ordered the whole army to pack up their belongings and leave Daxing City tonight.

……

Under nightfall, the East City Gate opened and the suspension bridge was lowered. Wanyan Helisa led [-] Jurchen cavalry to rush out of the city gate like lightning, and rushed to the east. The cavalry in front also began to intercept. At the same time, Niu Gao led [-] infantry into Daxing City and imposed martial law throughout the city. The Western Army quickly took control of key departments such as government offices, warehouses, barracks, and palaces.

At this time, 2 Jurchen cavalry were surrounded by 16 large legions about 16 miles away from Daxing City. , In the dark, arrows shot at the Jurchen cavalry like a storm, and the Jurchen cavalry fell off their horses one after another, but none of the cavalry surrendered. The 16 army went on a killing spree. Shooting with arrows meant that the tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry guarding Yanshan Mansion were completely wiped out.

The coach Wanyan Helisa also died among the rebellious army, but the Western Army never found his body. In the end, they only found a corpse with a disfigured face. Through the gold medal on his neck, it was finally confirmed that this person was Wanyanhe Lisa.

But what Chen Qing never imagined was that Wanyan Helisa did not evacuate at all. Not long after he led the army out of the East City Gate, he used the golden cicada's trick to get out of his shell, found a soldier who was similar in figure and appearance to him, and put on Putting on his armor, wearing his gold medal, pretending to be him and continuing to flee with the army, but he himself pretended to be a soldier, left the team with two soldiers, and hid in a forest.

After dawn, the three of them disguised themselves as merchants and went into Lu County to hide. A few months later, Wanyan and Lisa crossed Yuguan as a medicine merchant and headed for Liaodong.

This is the cleverness of Wanyan and Lisa, sacrificing the entire army and letting himself live. Although his life was saved, his reputation was completely ruined. He was ordered to be imprisoned for questioning, but he always insisted that he had succeeded in breaking out of the siege, and the Kingdom of Jin had no evidence to prove that he betrayed the army. In the end, he had to remove all his titles and be demoted as the guardian of the imperial tomb, and was called the escaped general by the people of the Kingdom of Jin.

In the afternoon of the next day, Chen Qing led an army of [-] into Daxing City. At this time, order had been restored in Daxing City. People came and went on the streets in an orderly manner. Patrolling soldiers of the Western Army could be seen everywhere, monitoring all suspicious people.

Five porridge sheds also appeared on the street, and there was a long queue in front of the sheds, and the soldiers were cleaning up the burned houses, clearing out the useful stone, bricks and tiles, and clearing out the useless broken bricks, rotten tiles and soil Outside the city, all the families whose houses were burnt down were temporarily resettled in a child-mother account. On behalf of Chen Qing, Niu Gao promised that the common people would pay a certain amount of compensation, which seemed to appease thousands of families.

After entering the city, Chen Qing went directly to Cangcheng. This was also the thing he was most concerned about. He knew that the Kingdom of Jin had designated Daxing City as the central capital and was planning to move the capital. Due to his sneak attack on Yanshan Mansion, it was too late to transport these materials and wealth away, which was also an important reason why Wanyan Helisa defended Daxing City to death.

The warehouse in Daxing City is also a warehouse city, located in the north of the city, covering a large area. Hu Yanyun led 100 soldiers to guard this warehouse city consisting of more than [-] warehouses.

The Hebei transshipment envoy Zhao Geng came out to welcome Chen Qing. He stayed up almost all night last night, checking and sorting out various data in the warehouse. His eyes were red from the heat, but he still couldn't hide his inner excitement.

"It seems that the harvest is good!" Chen Qing smiled slightly.

Zhao Geng was the son of Zhao Kai, the counselor, and he served as the transshipment envoy of Hebei Road. He followed Niu Gao to Yanshan Mansion, and Chen Qing entrusted him with the important task of counting the warehouses in Daxing City.

Zhao Geng rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "The humble job was once in charge of the inventory of Daming City's warehouses. I was amazed at the abundance of storage in Daming Mansion's warehouses, but Daming City's warehouses are nothing compared to Daxing City's warehouses."

"Is it such an exaggeration?"

"Your Highness, it's not an exaggeration at all. The copper ingots that I counted last night alone amounted to 5000 million catties?"

"How much?" Chen Qing was also surprised.

"The 5000 million catties are almost all copper ingots in the Bianliang official treasury. They were robbed by the Jin soldiers to Daxing City. They were originally intended to be used to make coins, but they robbed too many copper coins and could not use them up. Therefore, the copper ingots have been preserved to this day."

The first thousand and 370 chapters of Yanshan

There is a misunderstanding about the copper coins circulating in the market. Many people think that the money of the Song Dynasty was circulated in the Song Dynasty. In fact, this is not the case. The Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty is still circulating in the market, accounting for a considerable proportion.

However, almost all the money in circulation in the Southern Song Dynasty was iron money. On the one hand, the economy in the Southern Song Dynasty was developed and the demand for money was great. Another reason was that a large amount of copper coins were looted by the Jin Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Jin occupied the land of the Song Dynasty for only 20 years. It was basically at the end of the fishing, hunting and nomadic society.

The Western Army seized the Daming Mansion before, and the wealth they obtained was only a small part of the wealth plundered by the Jin Kingdom, but it has greatly improved the finances of the Yong Kingdom, and captured the central capital of Daxing Mansion. The wealth stored here is [-]% of the wealth plundered by the Jin Kingdom. The money and goods inside can be imagined.

There are not only 5000 million catties of copper ingots, but also millions of catties of white copper, more than one million taels of gold, 700 million taels of silver, 2000 million copper coins, millions of pieces of cloth and silk, as well as jewels and jade, bronze ware, lacquer ware, porcelain, Precious wood, precious medicinal materials, etc., are piled up like a mountain.

In addition, there are 50 shi of grain, 70 dans of fodder, 30 catties of black beans, and military supplies such as armored bows and crossbow tents. There are [-] tents alone, and every warehouse in Cangcheng is full.

After reading the briefing, Chen Qing sighed: "This is only [-]% of the plundered wealth in the Song Dynasty. You can imagine the prosperity in the Northern Song Dynasty."

Zhao Geng said with a smile: "Your Highness, Bianliang, Tokyo, used to gather half of the world's wealth, and other famous cities, Luoyang, Daming, Yingtian, Taiyuan, and Jingzhao were almost all looted by the Jin soldiers. The wealth of the Song Dynasty, as well as the wealth left over from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty, I found that among the many precious porcelains, there are a large number of Tang Dynasty celadon, secret color porcelain and white porcelain, and other wares are the same, many of which come from the Tang Dynasty court."

Chen Qing nodded and said with a smile: "The next step is to consider how to transport it back to Jingzhao. You are the transfer envoy of Hebei Road, and this is your business."

"The humble staff had already considered it last night. First, transport it to the mouth of the Juma River by a [-]-stone cargo ship, where it will be transferred to a tens of thousands of stone ships. The fleet will follow the old course of the Yellow River, all the way west to Shanzhou, and then transfer to a [-]-stone cargo ship. To Jingzhao, you only need to transfer twice."

"This plan is good!"

Chen Qing turned his head and said to Niu Gao: "Allocate [-] troops to be responsible for the transfer of this batch of wealth and materials. The expenditure needs of Yanshan Mansion will be allocated by Jingzhao Finance."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

After a pause, Niu Gao asked again in a low voice: "Your Highness, what do you mean, let the humble official sit in Yanshan Mansion?"

Chen Qing nodded with a smile, "From now on, you will lead an army of [-] to serve as the envoy of Yanshan Road. Niu Dutong, Yanshan Road is not Hebei Road or Shandong Road!"

Niu Gao nodded silently, he felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

……

Chen Qing immediately came to the imperial palace, which was the residence of the emperors of the Liao and Jin Dynasties. The Kingdom of Jin was planning to expand and move the capital, but construction had not started yet.

Because of the preparation for expansion, all the items of the palace were transported to the warehouse, making the palace look empty, with only a few hundred court ladies and eunuchs.

The age of the court ladies is generally very young, most of them are only in their teens. They are basically the descendants of the palace ladies of the Song Dynasty. But he was a young eunuch in the Song Dynasty palace, and now he has become an old eunuch.

These court ladies and eunuchs all grew up and lived in the palace, completely out of touch with the outside world, and they would not be able to survive if they were released.

Chen Qing thought about it, after the Jingzhao Palace was completed, a group of court ladies and eunuchs would also be needed, and these court ladies and eunuchs were just in use.

At this time, the maids and eunuchs were staying in their respective dormitories. Everyone was in panic, for fear that the disaster of war would fall on their heads. They had lived in the palace for many years, and everyone was extremely timid.

At this time, a palace lady was brought to Chen Qing. The lady was about [-] years old. She was a maid from the former Bianliang Palace. One is the emperor's concubine, the other is the leader of the palace maid, and this female official belongs to the latter.

She was brought in front of Chen Qing, knelt down and performed the Wanfu salute, "The palace servant Liang is joining His Royal Highness King Yong!"

"Are you from Bianliang?"

"Yes! My family is from Bianliang, Tokyo, and has been in the Northland for 20 years."

Chen Qing beckoned her to come forward, the female officer knelt and stepped forward, Chen Qing raised her face, and saw that she had a pretty face, fair skin, and a plump figure, which was exactly the type he liked and could temporarily meet his needs.

"how old are you?"

The female officer timidly lowered her head and said, "My family is thirty-two."

Chen Qing nodded, seeing that it was getting late, he said with a gentle smile: "I want to take a bath, you come and serve me!"

……

That night, Chen Qing stayed in the palace. Liang also knew that she was too old to become King Yong's concubine. Wang, she also worked very hard to serve King Yong, and it rained several times a night, which completely released the desire that Chen Qing had accumulated in his heart.

After serving King Yong wholeheartedly for two days, Liang was once again appointed as the head of Yongwang Palace by Chen Qing. She set off by boat with hundreds of maids and eunuchs, and they went to Jingzhao with the first batch of belongings to start their new life. Life.

Chen Qing also led his army to leave Daxing City and continued eastward to inspect Pingzhou, while Niu Gao stayed in Daxing City to stabilize the situation.

Yanshan Road includes Yanshan Prefecture, Weizhou, Yizhou, Zhuozhou, Tanzhou, Jingzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou and Guihua Prefecture.

The entire Jin army was destroyed. After the Western Army captured Yanshan Mansion, the entire Yanshan Road was under military control. Every state and every county had Western Army stationed there. Most of the officials abandoned their official positions and went back to seclusion, unwilling to work for Chen Qing, which is completely opposite to that of other places in the Central Plains.

This is also the reality of Yanshan Road. It has been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for more than 100 years. The Liao Kingdom also tried its best to win over the Han people and gave them land and slaves, so that they also became vested interests. His descendants no longer recognized the Central Plains Dynasty at all, and the Jin Kingdom was just a continuation of the Liao Kingdom to them, with little difference.

In the last years of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty briefly occupied Yanshan Mansion, but because of the lack of support from the local gentry, Tong Guan's 20 army was defeated by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian's [-] old and weak troops, and the Jin Kingdom was also planted. The seeds of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chen Qing had also arranged for intelligence spies to lurk in Yanshan Mansion before. After collecting intelligence for several years, he had a deep understanding of the people's conditions in Yanshan Mansion.

The Han people are more inclined to the Liao and Jin Dynasties in terms of emotion and belonging, and will not easily recognize the Western Army, while the lower-level Han people have a relatively neutral attitude towards the Central Plains Army. They are neither hostile nor supportive. The key is to look at their interests. If it is profitable, they will support it, and if it loses their interests, they will firmly oppose it.

On the contrary, the Khitan people and Xi people who lived on Yanshan Road were more supportive of the Western Army. They had a feud with Jin Guo to destroy the country, and were brutally squeezed by Jin Guo. Almost all young and strong men were sent to the Central Plains battlefield by Jin Guo, and almost died in battle.