choke element

Chapter 814 Tiger Skin

According to the records in the book, the Song officials who asked to see Guo Ning were Zhao Fang and Xuan Zeng.

At this time, except for a part of the Song army still stationed in the area of ​​Nanxunmen and Yuanqiu, and confronting the soldiers of the Ding navy, most of the Song army had retreated to the original camp, tens of miles away from Kaifeng.

These two people were the ones who led the Song Army's repetitions before the battle and caused a large number of Ding Haijun's deaths. Before that, they had only brought dozens of entourages and wandered around the city with a lot of courage.

However, the officers and men of the Dinghai Navy did not give them any good looks. The Fanyan Mansion, Longde Palace, and even Daxiangguo Temple and other places they wanted to go to were all under military control, and they could not enter, but could only look at them from a distance.

The two of them felt that these relics from the early years were overhanging and lacking in eaves, and there was no restoration of the old view. They also wanted to go to Miyagi to clean up the relics of Bianliang, Tokyo in the Song Dynasty, so they sent people to spread the word. I also want to eliminate the misunderstanding between the two parties through direct communication.

In the evening, an envoy from the Ding Navy came and said that Zhou Guogong was busy with official duties and would discuss military and political matters with all parties overnight. If Song envoys are interested, they can wait in the Xingjiao Temple where Zhou Guogong stayed. If Zhou Guogong is free, he will meet Meet at the end.

Zhao Fang and Xuan Zang didn't dare to neglect, they went right away.

As a result, he waited all night and asked several times, but was delayed by Guo Ning's orders.The two of them could not be rude, so they had to sit neatly in the guest courtyard for a whole night, not daring to lean on the bed and doze off.

At first, Zhao Fang thought that Guo Ning was angry at Song Jun's repetition and Shi Xiang's conspiracy, so he specially arranged to meet at this time to toss his old bones.It turned out that it was not a lie that Zhou Guogong was busy with official duties. He looked out through the gate of the courtyard and saw the exchange of civil and military officials.

A young man dressed in a senior official's uniform walked past the gate of the courtyard where Zhao Fang was.He took several officials with him, all of them were holding heavy files, and some were loaded on carts, and they were going to another brightly lit courtyard. It seemed that there were not only many things at hand, but also urgent ones.

It wasn't until dawn that Guo Ning sent his attendants to summon him.

When he was about to set off, Zhao Fang suddenly thought of something else.

He is the general who guards the frontier, and he has been very cautious in the ups and downs of his career for decades.He can make many decisions about the situation without getting clear permission from Xingxing, but he is not suitable for diplomatic contact with Guo Ning.

What's more, facing the rapidly rising force of the Dinghai Navy, there are too many things that are hard to figure out. , it is very likely that some things cannot be known to outsiders at all.

So Zhao Fang accompanied Xuan Zang and waited in the inn for one night, but at the end of the day, he did not participate in the meeting with Xuan Zang.

This decision seemed right, because when Xuan Zang returned the next morning, he looked extremely tired.On the contrary, Zhao Fang had dozed off for half an hour, and was still able to lead Xuan Zang out of Xingjiao Temple slowly.

At the turn of summer and autumn, dawn comes early.In the early morning, the soldiers who experienced the battle yesterday woke up one after another. In the temples and houses taken over by the soldiers on both sides of the street, the shouts of the soldiers' drill gradually came.

After a big battle, the army will rest for a period of time, and there is no order to get up in the morning, and there is no need to line up for training.Zhao Fang also already knew that there was no such thing as requiring the main army to participate in hard labor in the Dinghai Navy.On this, they followed the customs of the Jurchen army, and kept a large number of Arixi, that is, auxiliary soldiers, in addition to the main army.The auxiliary soldiers will do all kinds of miscellaneous things. Now the main army only needs to eat and sleep, and their main task is to accumulate energy and recover from injuries.

At the corner of the street came the sound of wheels grinding against the ground, that was the auxiliary soldiers carrying food in carts and sending them to their camp.

Everywhere in the courtyard, there are also auxiliary soldiers living in the kitchen.But these carts are loaded with meat, and a lot of spices are used in the cooking. Zhao Fang can smell the strong aroma from a long distance away. Both the spices and the meat.

Obviously, although the food reserves in the hands of the Nanjing court have almost bottomed out, the nobles in the city have hidden a lot of good things, so that the soldiers of the Ding Navy who have cleaned the city can eat a big meal.

It is estimated that the soldiers will enjoy it very comfortably in the past few days.

For warriors who have been training and fighting all year round, this kind of relaxation after victory is the most enjoyable.A great victory was won, countless enemies were killed, the capital of the enemy was captured, and the regime of the enemy was destroyed. The significance of such a great victory is not limited to military affairs.Every soldier knows that this will inevitably lead to the establishment of Zhou Guogong's system of proclaiming the king, and it will definitely be accompanied by a large number of rewards.

Of course, it would be even more pleasant if he survived and could enjoy the upcoming reward.

Zhao Fang and Xuan Zeng stood in the middle of the road and saw a soldier waving a weapon casually, exercising his muscles and bones. After practicing a few times, he couldn't help but began to sing.Immediately, someone catered to them and sang together. Sometimes they sang military songs, and sometimes they sang some funny ditties, which made others laugh.

Zhao Fang looked around on both sides of the street and saw that the faces of the soldiers were not very good, even gloomy.

That must be because Brother Paozawa or a good friend died in the battle yesterday.

Zhao Fang is very familiar with this feeling.The mood of these soldiers will remain low for a long time, and they are irritable and irritable, which can easily become the cause of troubles in the army, and may even cause camp screams.So suppressing and monitoring these people is also very important.

But then he saw that some officers from the navy went to comfort them, and even gesticulated and said something, which made these soldiers nod repeatedly.

Zhao Fang took a few steps closer to listen to what an officer said.

The accent of the northerners is very different from that of the southerners. Fortunately, this officer is just an ordinary junior officer at the grassroots level, and his eloquence is not very good, and he repeats simple words over and over again.So Zhao Fang guessed and understood several paragraphs.

The general meaning is that this battle is no small matter, the dead will definitely be enshrined in the Hall of Martyrs, and will be cared for for generations, and the old gods of the Quanzhen Sect will be the ones who will not listen to them.In addition, the families of the war dead will be exempted from taxation, will be given land, and their children will be eligible to go to school.

How can these things be dealt with by orphans and widows alone?The military households need to help each other when they have nothing to do. Since you have a deep friendship with the war dead, you should come forward and set up a household for them!

You have taken good care of your good brother's family, which is better than putting on a face for everyone to see here!You can take better care of them if you keep getting rewarded for your service!

When the officer spoke later, his tone was serious, as if he had given an important task to the soldiers.The soldier's complexion improved little by little with the officer's words, and he patted his chest to assure the officer that he would take care of himself and do certain things.

Thinking about it carefully, these words and sentences are not incomprehensible to Zhao Fang, and the Song Dynasty also has various compensations for the fallen soldiers.But that was mostly given to generals.Most ordinary soldiers died when they died. If the family members could not survive after death, at most they could get support from the lawsuit according to the standard of widowhood and loneliness, so as not to starve to death.

Zhao Fang often took out money to help the families of soldiers who lived in hardship, which was considered a rare act of kindness.How could it be possible that, like Ding Haijun, ordinary soldiers can discuss such high-level affairs after death, and then there is really a set of procedures for dealing with it?

Zhao Fang's expression became more and more serious.He walked slowly along the road, watching more and more soldiers wake up and went out of the courtyard to visit; watched them eat and drink, and then habitually picked up their weapons to practice twice, and then remembered that they could rest today.

Those soldiers who finally relaxed sat down and chatted at the gate of the courtyard, and some climbed to the top of the courtyard wall to look at the tall and low buildings in the distance, and then heard the singing of their former companions, and they should sing along.

When Zhao Fang walked near Duanmen, thousands of people were awakened by singing and cheering, and joy spread to even more people.

During the night before, the soldiers hadn't recovered from the exhaustion of the battle. Until now, they were cheering and jumping, and many of them threw their helmets into the air, causing the officers to laugh and curse.They held up their swords and guns, like a jungle swaying in the wind, and their blades shone coldly in the morning mist; they waved their flags, and the flags fluttered high, just like the mood of the people.

Occasionally, a messenger rode to a certain courtyard to issue orders to the soldiers stationed here.The cheering soldiers immediately packed up their weapons and luggage without any delay.

Suddenly Zhao Fang couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked Xuan Zeng in a low voice, "What did you talk to Zhou Guogong about last night?"

Xuan Zeng smiled wryly: "Where did last night come from? We just finished talking, and it's already morning!"

Along the way, Xuan Xian did not speak.He felt very tired, and he believed that his complexion was not good-looking either. Just walking along the street like this, his back and waist were sore and numb.

He is really not young anymore, running from south to north and from north to south in the past two months has exhausted his energy so much that the belt on his stomach can be tightened more than three times at this moment.

Xuan Zeng often thinks of when he was young, he used to read and practice essays every day and night, never letting go of the scroll, constantly thinking about how to get ahead and show off his talents, and finally won his current position.

Then there will be success and fame, glory and wealth, but when I turn around, I find that my back is hunched, my hair is gray, there are more wrinkles on my face, and my energy is not half as good as when I was young, and I feel groggy after a little fatigue.

Most of the people in the court of the Great Song Dynasty were like me. In fact, the Great Song Dynasty itself was as tired as I was.

Think about how energetic Zhou Guogong Guo Ning met last night.Think about those officials who control the key points of the city overnight, establish military strongholds, and count people's property, the number is more than a hundred?Looking at the cheering soldiers at this time, Guo Ning has more than a hundred thousand soldiers like this?

Each of them is scrappy and ambitious!So they gathered in one place, and after establishing a political power, their momentum of expansion was as if they were riding the wind, destroying the Great Jin Kingdom, like destroying it!

At that time, both civil and military officials in the Song Dynasty said that there were billions of Han sons in the north, but there were absolutely no heroes. If there were, why not afford to die.Now the heroes of the North have risen, and the death of Dajin is only a matter of flipping.So, what is this hero's attitude towards Da Song, and how should Da Song respond?

This is what Xuan Yan asked to see Guo Ning and wanted to understand.

Xuan Yan stood still and looked at Zhao Fang.

He said slowly: "Yesterday, I wanted to discuss with Zhou Guogong the division of Tang, Deng, Ying, Cai and other prefectures on the grounds of collecting old Song Dynasty relics in the imperial city, and whether there is any cooperation between the two states in Longshang, northern Sichuan. Possibly. Zhou Guogong ignored what I said, but asked me to convey a request to Shi Xiangye."

"What request?"

"Zhou Guogong said that since Song Zuo was transferred, Jurchen entered the main domain with Beidi. Huai, will kick Qin Gong. In this situation, he holds the elite soldiers who control the strings and holds the arrows, and has the prestige of thousands of followers. It is inevitable to take advantage of the situation to replace Dajin. However, he is humble and less educated. Studying the history of the classics, he was afraid that the future generations would laugh at his negligence. So he asked, if he inherited the imperial line of the Dajin by abdicating according to Yao and Shun's code of conduct, would the Song Dynasty be able to send officials to the north to celebrate the new dynasty? Zhao Jian, secondly, also assist in the ceremony of abdication?"

Zhao Fang frowned: "Does this mean that we are going to rush forward and win his new dynasty?"

"Without our intervention, Dajin must be finished."

Xuan Zeng smiled wryly and said, "His surname is Guo, and he uses Zhou as his country name. Outsiders will inevitably feel that this new Great Zhou has something to do with Guo Wei's Later Zhou. Against the dynasty, there will be big trouble between those two families! On the contrary... ahem, if we send people to participate in the process of his abdication, it will be like the assistance between brothers. Since it is a country of brothers, what will happen in the future? Things are easy to communicate."

"A country of brothers? Did Guo Ning say it himself?"

"He didn't say it directly, but that's what he meant. In addition, he didn't ask us to take the initiative to send people to congratulate, but would arrange for envoys to come to Lin'an respectfully, first to pay tribute to the court and officials, and then, Invite me, a famous Confucianist from the Song Dynasty, to give lectures in Zhongdu."

"That makes sense."

Zhao Fang nodded: "I don't know who the envoy will be, but it must be the important minister under Guo Ning's command?"

Both of these two have dealt with Ding Haijun, but they are really not familiar with Guo Ning's distaste for pretense.From Guo Ning's point of view, the envoy of the Dinghai Navy is already in Lin'an, so why send additional people?

ten days later.

Outside Lin'an City, on the banks of the Shangtang River, in the Banjing Pavilion exclusively for envoys, Li Yun seriously washed his face, combed his short beard, and then changed into a decent official upper body.He took a picture of himself in the mirror, and felt that the person in the mirror was really a spirited young man.

After adjusting his clothes for the last time, Li Yun walked out slowly with square steps.

He was in Lin'an before, and he was accompanied by Ding Wei and Hou Zhongxin as escorts.But at this moment, the person who brought people to greet him outside the Banjing Pavilion was replaced by Shi Miyuan's confidant, Xue Ji, a new Duanming Palace scholar.

Behind Xue Ji, hundreds of people bowed and saluted.

This scene made Li Yun jump.He couldn't help murmuring:

"In the past two years, I have been running around with the tiger skin as a banner. Now, the tiger skin has become more and more majestic, but it makes me a little nervous, and I feel that my family is crowned with monkeys!"