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Section 63 Mutiny

So Zhang Shuye asked for another imperial edict, which was regarded as the emperor's guarantee letter. However, Zhao Huan was careful and asked Sun Fu to supervise the loan together, using Mei Zhili as the "clothing envoy". The borrowed money can only be used to purchase winter clothes and cannot be used for other purposes.

The day after Zhang Shuye asked for the imperial edict, Song Jiang brought someone: "This Cao Yuanwai, he is willing to lend 50,000 ounces."

Zhang Shuye looked closely and saw that Cao Yuanwai knelt on the ground, lowered his head, and said, "Stand up and talk." Cao Yuanwai raised his head. Zhang Shuye saw that the man had a fat face, like a butcher, and asked in confusion: "What kind of business does Cao Yuanwai do? Can you donate to the government army?"

The person who came was Cao Zheng. He brought his family to Bianliang. With the help of his old friend in Bianliang, there was more than 100 people in Caojiazhuang. He had no money for a while and had no money to make a living. At this time, Zhang Yanju, a military officer under Hu Yangeng, found Cao Zheng and asked him to open a money shop at the Bianliang Imperial Army's garrison.

The old garrison of the Bianliang Imperial Army had long been transformed into a business shop. The generals took out the barracks for rent, and the soldiers and soldiers turned into peddlers and barracks. Therefore, Bianliang is known to have 800,000 imperial troops, but even 180,000 soldiers could not get together.

Through Hu Yantong's relationship, Hu Yangeng conveniently opened a pawn shop in the military camp, allowing Cao Zheng to become the shopkeeper. At the moment, the military and military officials in Bianliang had already stopped their lives. Hu Yangeng asked Cao Zheng's pawn shop not to charge interest for the time being, and the military officials pawned the family's affairs in order to let the whole family survive this winter. Cao Zheng's pawn shop started like this.

Now, Cao Zheng replied to Zhang Shuye's words: "The villain opened a pawnshop in Shuiguan Camp to make a living. The villain's hometown is Mengzhou, and most of the tribesmen were killed by the Jin thieves, so they were willing to help the official army."

"It turns out that he is a pawn shop and wants to seek revenge on the thief," Zhang Shuye thought, "It makes sense." Then he asked, "I am willing to lend 50,000 jin? Do you want profit?"

"Caomin is willing to lend it for half a year and make a monthly profit of one cent."

The profit was not high, but Zhang Shuye still frowned: "Where is the national justice, why does Cao Yuanwai still charge interest?"

Cao Zheng showed a honest smile: "Caomin has never read the books of sages, and he has never received any benefits from the court when he was a soldier. He was only ordered by the generals. Later, he made a living by killing pigs and saved some wealth. When the Jin thieves came, they did not see the court to save me. When they fled to Bianliang, they did not get help from the court. On Xuande's building, he had a lot of money to spend. He only had to borrow 50,000 jin, but he had to borrow from Caimin."

Zhang Shuye was speechless and stunned for a while before saying, "Then let me borrow 50,000 guan from Cao Yuan and another 100,000 guan. I will strive to get the nobles from all over the place to get together."

Hu Yangeng estimated the cost of winter clothes of 150,000 guan. During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the price of rice was 2,600 guan per stone. After the Jin soldiers besieged the city in the Jingkang year, the price of rice rose to 3,000 guan. According to this price, it took about guan to buy a winter clothes for each military man. Therefore, Hu Yangeng asked Cao Zheng to lend 150,000 guan. This fee was paid in the national tax cut by Hu Yangeng in Zezhou. In order not to leak the news of the national tax, Shi Bingyi, the deputy envoy of Hedong Road Transportation, and this upright scholar-official, were under house arrest by Hu Yangeng.

He asked Cao Zheng to lend 50,000 guan to avoid scaring Zhang Shumi at once, nor would he attract too much attention from hungry wolves.

The nominal owner behind Cao Zheng's money was not Hu Yangeng, but another noble son - Shi Xingfang. A few days ago, Shi Xingfang stood in front of Hu Yangeng with great force: "Naeweng told you that if you don't let blood come out, your father will go to sue the imperial court. The entire family of 600,000 yuan of military funds is just like this."

Xuanzan and others obtained a total of 3 million jin of military funds and 600,000 jin in Zezhou. After returning to Bianliang, they handed over the annual funds as much as possible, but 600,000 jin of military funds were deducted by Hu Yangeng.

Since returning to Bianliang, Shi Xing has been running home conveniently, and Hu Yangeng is too lazy to care about him, but today he suddenly appeared. After retreating from the left and right, Shi Xingfang issued his request: "Nai Weng wants half of it."

From the perspective of a businessman, Shi Xingfang is very smart in doing this. If he reported it, the huge sum of money would only be taken away by the court. Shi Xingfang could only get a drop in it. Now he wants half of it, and he leaves half of it for Hu Yangeng, most of which Hu Yangeng can give it.

Sure enough, Hu Yangeng began to bargain, and finally the two reached an agreement to lend the loan to the Privy Council, and borrowed it to Cao Zheng’s pawnshop in the name of Shi Xingfang. After Cao Zheng took back the loan to the Privy Council, he handed it over to Shi Xingfang with principal and interest. At the same time, Hu Yangeng asked Shi Xingfang for merit in the name of assisting military affairs.

How much does the Privy Council borrow from Cao Zheng, and how much does it pay back to Shi Xingfang even with the principal and profits, with the lower limit of 50,000 guan as the upper limit of 150,000 guan as the upper limit

Shi Xingfang was not in a hurry to ask for cash. At the port where the Jin soldiers besieged the city, Hu Yangeng was really forced to make him desperate. He might be defeated.

So, Cao Zheng said to Zhang Shuye: "This money was loaned to the Shi family, the founding nobleman."

"The Shi family has received national favors, but I didn't expect to make money from the national crisis and get a penny of profit." Zhang Shuye couldn't help but feel frustrated, but then he thought, other nobles were unwilling to borrow even if they were not willing to borrow. The Shi family was pretty good.

At this time, Wu Yong led another person in. Zhang Shixiong, a wealthy family member who opened a quota in Tokyo. He came to Zhang Shuye a few days ago to offer advice: “The army soldiers are hungry and cold on weekdays. When they are employed today, they are exposed to the wind and snow. Isn’t it difficult to resist the enemy with all their lives? Please include the wealthy family members in Beijing. Each family provides ten people with cotton jackets, cotton prayers, socks, etc., and they should not use hemp except shoes. If they are too worn and damaged, they will be fined and ordered to be re-made. If they send ten thousand families, they can get warm clothes for 100,000 people. In this way, the army and soldiers will be happy to fight and forget to die! Shixiong also opened a quota and was willing to give them twice as much as the crowd. "The original intention was to donate winter clothes, but now that Zhang Shumi is rich, he does not need to donate. Zhang Shuye told him to contact the wealthy families in Kaifeng: each family prepares 200 sets of winter clothes, "It can be sold."

In this way, Uncle Zhang finally solved the problem of the defenders' winter clothes on paper. As for the actual winter clothes and the soldiers who were given to them, it would take some time to wait. The officers and soldiers guarding the city had to let them freeze first.

As a result, only three days later, on the evening of the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month, someone sent an order: "The Ximen Army killed Xin Yongzong and called Yan Geng to quickly quell the rebellion."

Hu Yangeng left the camp and saw a man dressed in a literati standing aside. When the literati saw Hu Yangeng, he stepped forward to greet him: "General Hu Yan, Zhang Shumi ran around under the gate of the writing machine Yi Wu Yong, and Shumi asked me to go to the east gate with you."

Xin Yongzong was the third son of Xin Shuxian. He was Xin Xingzong, the former commander of the Western Route Army in the Battle of Yanyun. He led Xin Qizong of Chenzhou's troops together with Liu Guangguo. This time he was guarding Bianliang, he was also arranged to guard the west under Liu Yanqing's command.

Liu Yanqing's troops returned too late, and the other three fortifications had been roughly formed, and the west had not started construction, so Liu Yanqing ordered the generals who were rotating every day to urge the army to work day and night. For a moment, complaints were heard that in order to promote the promotion, Liu Guangguo, Xin Qizong and others beat the army to make mistakes. The resentment had already gathered, waiting for a burst of Mars.

As the Jin soldiers besieged the city, no matter the generals and leaders of the Han people on the west wall, they still knew who was the enemy. This contradiction was temporarily covered up. However, after heavy snow fell, the Song soldiers and Han were in a state of freezing and hunger. Moreover, although the city was sufficient for the army to use for three months, the people still had to buy grain according to the market price. As the merchants hoarded the food, the price of grain in Bianliang had risen to 3,500 ciders per stone.

The military han under Liu Yanqing's subordinates were composed of his old foundation in the Huanqing army and the Duomen's Guardians. Most of the families of the Duomen's Guardians lived in Bianliang City. The families of these military hans had begun to lose food at home. So the Duomen's Guardians asked Xin Yongzong, who commanded them, to ask for food to be distributed to the families of the Duomen's Guardians.

Xin Yongzong did not think that whether the people were starving to death at the home of the Capital Access Army had anything to do with him, so he led his personal guards to suppress the enemy.

A military military officer of the capital's access control army shouted: "Xin commands collude with the Jin people, and no food is allowed." Thousands of Han people gathered on the city walls to the west and beat the drums of the drums. Xin Yongzong ordered the guards to shoot arrows down the city tower, and the soldiers and the people were in chaos.

Some soldiers on the city tower fired arrows to scare the people instead of shooting real arrows, and Xin Yongzong scolded them. So the soldiers advocated that Xin Yongzong was a relative of Tong Guan and a spy from Jin. The soldiers on the city were in chaos. Some people opened the passage of the city tower and put the people up to the city. Thousands of people rushed up and cut Xin Yongzong into meat paste.

As early as when Xin Yongzong was trapped by his subordinates, Xin Qizong, Xin Daozong, Xin Kangzong and other brothers brought their confidant subordinates to rescue people, but there were too few people and could not squeeze in. With Xin Yongzong being killed, Xin Qizong was also anxious and immediately led the old subordinates of Huanqing Army to attack the Capital Access Army.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Jin soldiers were not effective in fighting, but the emperor was used to being alone, so he would not take the local buns from the northwest seriously. Although he had no backbone general, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spontaneously drew his sword to attack the Huanqing army. The two sides fought in a melee on the city wall on the west.

When Hu Yangeng led Wu Yong and the guards to the west city wall, the situation had gradually subsided. Liu Guangguo finally persuaded the Xin brothers, and Yao Youzhong suppressed the imperial guards. Xin Qizong said to Liu Guangguo: "My brother was harmed by a traitor, and the court could not ban it and he would not be punished. Therefore, all matters were tolerated and the orders were not implemented."

Hu Yangeng saw that Liu Guangguo, Xin Qizong and others had arrested hundreds of people and tied them to the base of the wall with ropes. He heard Liu Guangguo say, "When he got the rest of the thieves, he would behead them and show them to the public."

Hu Yangeng rushed forward: "Liu General, Xin General, Hu Yangeng came to wait for the order."

"Shukang came just right." Xin Qizong said: "Be a witness for the Sa family, and all these traitors will behead them later."

Hu Yangeng said: "Sukeshi should report such a big event."

Xin Qizong was furious: "Why should I report to Privy Councilors when the family killed some rioters?"

Wu Yong said: "I am the writing skills under the sect of Zhang Shumi. Zhumi already knows this matter, so I should ask Zhumi to make a decision."

Xin Qizong was waiting for another fight, Liu Guangguodao said: "I'll ask the Privy Council to make a fair decision, so don't let the generals be disappointed." Liu Guangguo's arrogance has been restrained since the defeat of Yanjing. Moreover, the components of the access guards are complicated. Even the most inconspicuous soldiers do not know which official will be involved in the twists and turns.

"I will detain the criminal on the west wall. We will go and ask the Privy Council to inform you."

Xin Qizong, Hu Yangeng and others came to the Privy Council. Zhang Shuye comforted Xin Qizong for a long time, and ordered that about ten people who took the lead and killed Xin Yongzong themselves beheaded and displayed to the public, and the heads of the Nine Gates.

However, the families of the Capital Access Guard and the food and supplies of the civilians in Bianliang were not resolved. This storm finally alarmed Zhao Huan in the deep palace.
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