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Chapter 35: Forcing the King to Resist Gold

When Zhao Kai, who is familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", was using conspiracies to deal with Guo Yao's daughter, he never expected that at this moment, there were also people in Daming Prefecture that he, the Prince of Yun of the Song Dynasty, who was suspected of selling his country and seeking honor.

"What a prince Yun. He forced his father to resist the Jin Dynasty in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo. When he arrived at Daming, he bowed to the Jin thief. Today he also gave the female Jin thief dozens of cars of wealth. He has never seen such a shameless person!"

The person who spoke was a young official with a treacherous head and looked really angry. He was glaring at the same time as he spoke. The official was named Hu Yin, whose courtesy name was Zhongming. He was 26 years old and a Jinshi in the third year of Xuanhe. Before the Jin soldiers headed south, he was a proofreader of the Secretariat. In the promotion map of civil servants in the Song Dynasty, the Secretariat was a good position. If a new Jinshi could become this official, he would generally have a good future. However, facing the situation where the Jin soldiers invaded and the mountains and rivers were broken, Hu Yin resolutely surrendered to the disciple of Li Gang, the commander of the Tokyo Camp, and was sent to Hebei in early January of the eighth year of Xuanhe to raise military rations for the soon-to-be-bessed Tokyo city.

When he heard that he was talking, there were Zhang Jun, Chen Dong, and Deng Su, the three small officials who had arrived in Daming Mansion a few days later than him. They were also active officials under the Tokyo Camp Command, and the purpose of coming to Hebei was said to be to raise grain. The three of them and Hu Yin's destination should have been Cangzhou, but somehow, when they arrived at Daming Mansion, they did not move again.

For more than ten days, they kept walking around Daming Prefecture City. They kept meeting with the leaders of Hebei Shilin who were hiding in Daming Prefecture City and officials who went home for the New Year, and the students of Taituo were promoting anti-Jin and opposing peace.

Because the scholars and officials in Daming Prefecture all knew who was behind the four of them? Moreover, the scholars and officials in Hebei also hated the Jin thieves invading their hometowns, and most of them rebuked the war with them. So in just a dozen days, they had contacted a large number of like-minded scholars and officials.

With the help of these Hebei scholars and officials, their eyes and ears became more versatile. Now they knew the general content of Zhao Kai’s conversation with Guo Tiannu in the palace city.

This is really a shameful country!

"What are those dozens of cars of wealth? It's just some silk, satin and fine wine, which may not be worth ten thousand yuan together... Compared with three million yuan of wealth, it's just a drop in the bucket!"

"It would be fine if you spend 3 million to buy the gold return thief once and for all, but now you have only been able to get the promise that the gold thief will not enter the Daming Mansion."

"I heard that to buy the East Army of the thief who returned the gold thieves, I would need to give another 30 million yuan of wealth, and I would also need to give three million yuan of annual monies every year in the future!"

"There are 20 more emperors and the Yanshan Mansion must be cedeed!"

"With Grand Duke Li here, the court will not agree to such terms of peace talks!"

"That's true, but what should I do here in Daming Mansion? There are no people like Li Xianggong here..."

"Don't be afraid, we are there in Daming Mansion! There are so many scholars and officials who have read the books of saints, and hundreds of thousands of good people who are unwilling to be enslaved by the Jin people... Even the imperial guards, soldiers and strong people in Daming Mansion will not be willing to surrender without fighting."

"Yes! As long as everyone can stand up, Prince Yun will not dare to sell the country and seek peace... Let's act separately and mobilize the scholars and officials in Daming Prefecture City!"

"Okay! Without further ado, let's take action separately!"

......

"Haha, I found Guo Yaoshi's troops... The number of people is similar to what Lu Yihao said, about 10,000, of which less than 2,000 cavalry were coming to the west bank of the Yellow River. The flag was booming and the momentum was huge. It seemed that I wanted to scare the Lone King!"

Not long after Zhao Kai returned to the Daming Mansion Palace City, he quietly followed Guo Tiannu's large group of troops (Guo Tiannu left 500 cavalry on the west bank of the Yellow River and dozens of large cars) and discovered the location of Guo Yaoshi's army. In fact, Guo Yaoshi did not want to hide his traces. He came to Daming Mansion to scare people. How could he hide his head and tail?

After obtaining the specific situation of Guo Yaoshi's troops, Zhao Kai immediately summoned the civil servants and generals below to the palace to conduct military discussions.

The military generals who participated in the military discussion included He Guan, Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong, Xiang Ke, Huang Wuji, Liu Yan, Ma Kuo, Liu Qi, He Ji, He Yu, and two eunuchs who led the army, Liang Fangping, Wang Shide and others. The civil servants who participated in the military discussion were Cai Mao, the Hebei Transportation Envoy and the Instructor of Daming Prefecture, Du Chong, the Hebei Marshal's Office Chief Shi, Qin Hui, the Hebei Marshal's Office Sima Chen Ji and others. The civil and military officials sat on both sides, and everyone looked solemn and worried... That was a 10,000-strong army! With the imperial guards that were pieced together in more than 11,000 east-west areas in Daming Prefecture, there is no problem in defending the city, but how can you win the field battle?

Zhao Kai's soul is new, how can he know the power of the Changsheng Army? So he is still full of confidence and eager to try: "Guo Tiannu has been deceived by the Lone King. Guo Yaoshi will definitely think that the Lone King is cowardly and does not know the soldiers, so he will not be careful...Gu just takes advantage of his contempt to launch a surprise attack, and he will definitely defeat him!"

"King," reminded Liu Yan, a veteran general who has been familiar with Guo Yaoshi for a long time, "The medicine master has been using troops for a long time and has courage and strategy. Even if he underestimates the enemy, he will not be unprepared. It is difficult to succeed in the raid."

After hearing the disagreement, Zhao Kai looked at Han Shizhong again and asked, "Good minister, what do you think?"

"King," said Han Shizhong, "I also think that Guo Yaoshi is not so easy to fight. It is better to stand firm and clear the fields and wait until the pharmacist soldiers retreat and then cover up and kill them. They will definitely win."

Zhao Kai was thrown into cold water by Han Shizhong and frowned a little, but he was chosen by nature and his self-confidence was certainly more than that of ordinary people.

"Good minister," Zhao Kai asked, "If the Lone King personally led all the elite infantry to attack, led by example, and attacked the Medicine Master camp with the determination to die, can we win?"

What?

Lead all the elite cavalry to attack?

Do you still have to lead by example and personally take the lead?

Do you also have to fight the enemy with a decisive heart?

The civil officials and generals present were stunned when they heard this, and they were thinking in their hearts: Are you, the king, really joking with us?

Stop making trouble. Since Zhao Kuangyin, there are no such powerful people in your family? If Zhao Kuangyin reborn and Daming led his troops to attack Guo Yaoshi at night, he would definitely win... But are you that fierce?

When they saw the people below, Zhao Kai laughed out loud, "Although you don't say anything, the Gu King has known everything. Although the Medicine Master has been using troops for a long time, he has never seen the Grand Commander of the Song Dynasty who dared to kill thieves in front of the battle, let alone a king like Gu. The generals dare not be on the battlefield, the generals cannot be on the occasion, the soldiers are unwilling to work hard, and the rewards and punishments cannot be clearly distinguished. These are all the disadvantages of the use of troops in this dynasty, and I should be eliminated!"

As soon as Zhao Kai finished speaking, someone made a statement, "How can the king's body of a thousand golds be taken into danger? If there is any mistake, what hope does the millions of people in Hebei still have?"

When Zhao Kai looked at it, it turned out that it was the treacherous minister Qin Hui... the words of the treacherous minister cannot be listened to!

"In the past, Zhuge Wuhou attacked Cao Wei for five times, and they were all in front of the battle! At the age of 53, he still led the army and refused to resist Sima Yi in Wuzhangyuan. He was young and strong, able to wear dozens of kilograms of iron armor, able to open a bow of one stone, and could ride a fierce horse and run around. How dare he not come to the battle? Besides, Gu is the chosen one of the heavens, and he is protected by God. Even if he is exposed to arrows and stones, he will be unharmed!"

The civil officials and military officials present didn't know what to say about Zhao Kai's confusion!

What kind of chosen one is stupid and bold?

Just when everyone didn't know how to persuade him, Bai Sidd, the eunuch of the Daming Palace City, suddenly flew over and entered the hall. Before he could stand firm, he shouted loudly: "Your Highness, there is a change in the Daming Palace City! There are gentry and people in the outer city causing trouble!"

"What? Causing trouble?" Zhao Kai hurriedly listened, and indeed heard some noise.

He turned his head and looked at Cai Mao, a matter of Daming Mansion.

Zhao Kai asked in a deep voice: "Are they chaotic people? What do they want to do?"

Belsid said: "People from Daming Mansion came to report that tens of thousands of people gathered outside Xi'an Gate in the outer city, saying that they were... saying that they wanted to petition the king!"

"Petition?" Zhao Kai thought of "petition", a lot of troubles popped up in his mind - he was thinking of the mess in the imperial city store.

Cai Mao, who was standing beside him, gritted his teeth and said, "King, this must be a troublemaker for the people. I will immediately transfer the troops and the people to suppress them!"

"No!" Bai Side shook his head, "I don't know that the lucky master is the one who leads the trouble, the gentry and officials here in Daming Mansion!"
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