Chapter 590: Turmoil in the DPRK, public sentiments boiling over
Author: grid fish
Go to Beijing.
A Jin Kingdom caravan left the simple Shangjing City unimpeded and slowly headed south.
Although this is a private trade team under the banner of an ordinary caravan and is inconspicuous, in fact they are trade representatives sent by various powerful families in Beijing.
In other words, this is no ordinary caravan.
Therefore, he almost walked sideways in the Kingdom of Jin.
In the caravan, a man in his thirties was wearing a bamboo hat and riding a maroon horse. His body was tilted and he seemed to be drowsy.
But as he followed the caravan farther and farther away from Shangjing, there was a faint light of anger in his eyes.
He turned back on his horse and looked at Shangjing City in the distance.
He looked around at the golden people around him with his well-hidden indifferent eyes, almost endless anger surging in his heart.
This person is Li Long, one of Jinyiwei's hidden sentries in Shangjing.
News of the Yongzhou Massacre had spread to Shangjing. At this time, it was impossible for the Jin Dynasty court to completely block the news.
Moreover, there is a black hand behind it that is adding fuel to the flames.
The people of Wanyan Zongpan and his group wished that this news would reach the Yan State earlier and shock the Yan State's government and the public, thus leading the Yan army to invade.
He was able to lead his army to meet the enemy, achieve military success again, and suppress his second brother Wanyan Zonggu who was gaining momentum.
One hundred thousand Han people died tragically in the wilderness of Yongzhou. Not to mention Li Long as a Jin Yiwei, but also ordinary Jin people were horrified by it and shed a few tears of pity.
Therefore, when Li Long passed the news back to Beijing through a special secret channel, Wanyan Zongpan's people had actually set off in advance, speeding up their eight-hundred-mile horse to spread the news to the border of Dayan.
In order to increase the turmoil in the Yan Kingdom, the troops under Wanyan Zongpan also expelled hundreds of Yongzhou Han survivors whose lives were deliberately left alive by the Jin people and fled to the border of Dayan, including young Han people whose father and brother were killed by the Jin people's butcher knives.
, Sun Aniu.
A large number of refugees in ragged clothes were expelled by the Jin soldiers into Bei'an Prefecture, and gradually came towards the border of Yan State.
This immediately aroused great vigilance from General Niu Gao, the commander of the Gubeikou Pass garrison and Yue Fei's command.
Niu Gao immediately sent out exploration horses. When he discovered that these were actually a group of Han people who had survived, Niu Gao couldn't help but ordered a thousand troops and horses to go outside the pass to respond.
What surprised the Yan army was that the Jin cavalry, which was originally far behind the Han refugee group, suddenly retreated without warning when they saw the Yan army's banner.
Hundreds of frightened Han people with their families and families were repeatedly screened by the Yan army to make sure that no Jin spies were among them, and then they were released into Guan Lai.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Niu Gao, who can be regarded as a rough and careful person, specially gathered these hundreds of people in one place and sent people to closely monitor them.
Hundreds of Han people were lucky enough to survive and finally returned to their homeland after three years away. Thinking of their compatriots, flesh and blood and fellow villagers who died tragically under the Jin soldiers' butcher's knives, every one of them couldn't help but feel sad and burst into mourning.
The wailing of hundreds of people was certainly noisy.
Niu Gao stood on the gate tower with a solemn expression, staring at the group of crying people at his feet, feeling extremely sad in his heart.
The news actually reached Gubeikou before this group of refugees arrived.
But Niu Gao was a little hesitant after all.
Because there was a question mark in his mind as to whether the news from the Jin Man was true or false.
The arrival of this group of refugees undoubtedly once again confirmed the authenticity of the Yongzhou Massacre.
But even so, Niu Gao was not entirely convinced.
But just before tea time, Jin Yiwei's secret report arrived at Gubeikou.
With the three-phase confirmation, there is no doubt about this matter.
Niu Gao punched the tower with a heavy fist and said angrily: "Come here, bring the refugee Sun A Niu up. I will question him carefully."
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Two days later.
Double secret reports from Gubeikou guards Niu Gao and Jin Yiwei were rushed to the capital for 800 miles.
The two cavalrymen galloped into the city from Yongning Gate, shouting "Urgent military report, the idlers are waiting to retreat quickly" along the way. The merchants and common people in the capital retreated on both sides of the street suspiciously, watching the messenger soldiers passing by like a gust of wind, and talking about it.
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When Yan Qing received the notice, his face was shocked.
He hurriedly entered the palace to see the emperor. At this time, Wang Lin was taking a lunch break in Duan Wanqing's palace garden.
It was supposed to be lunch break, but Duan Wanqing, with her enchanting appearance and picturesque features, served her tenderly and tenderly. Wang Lin could not hold back, so he just ate it.
After two or three in-depth emotional exchanges, Duan Wanqing helped the emperor to bathe in a gauze and was getting dressed. The female officer Shangguanqing stood outside the door and called softly: "Your Majesty, Gubeikou General Niu Gao and Jin Yiwei are reporting an urgent military report!"
Gubeikou? Wang Lin was shocked.
Gubeikou is an important pass on the border between Dayan and Jin. Military reports coming from Gubeikou should not be taken lightly.
Wang Lin didn't have time to dress neatly, so he suddenly opened the door with his outer robe on. When Shangguan Qing saw the emperor's black hair scattered behind his head and only the outer robe, which was full of hollow and toned chest, he knew that the emperor and Duan
The concubine was getting intimate, but he came at the wrong time, so he couldn't help but blush with shame, and lowered his head slightly.
But she immediately remembered that the matter was urgent, and said with shame, "Your Majesty, Marquis Yan is waiting to meet you outside the Imperial Study Room!"
Wang Lin frowned, hesitated, and said, "I'm going to change my clothes. You order Yan Qing to come to Concubine Duan!"
Wang Lin went back and asked Duan Wanqing to help him change clothes. Not long after, Yan Qing had arrived at the palace garden.
"What's going on?"
When an urgent report came from Gubeikou, Wang Lin subconsciously thought it was the Jin Kingdom sending troops to invade the Yan border.
Yan Qing took a deep breath and presented the double secret report from Niu Gao and Jin Yiwei with both hands.
Wang Lin took it and looked at it carefully, his expression changed drastically.
In the wilderness of Yongzhou, the Jin soldiers massacred 100,000 Han people for no reason. These Han people were all Han people who had been kidnapped when the Jin invaded the Central Plains or invaded the border over the years. Some of them had stayed in the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom for several years.
One hundred thousand Han people were massacred!!!
Wang Lin's hand holding the military newspaper was visibly shaking.
His expression at this time was slightly ferocious.
This shows the shock and rage deep in his heart.
The golden man is provoking!!
While angry, Wang Lin certainly would not lose his mind. He had to consider whether the Jin people had another conspiracy.
"His Majesty……"
Wang Lin gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Xiao Yi, this matter cannot be hidden, and it cannot be hidden.
You immediately order the general's report and the Jinyiwei's report to be submitted to the cabinet, which will inform all the ministries of the imperial court.
In addition, the decree was quickly sent to all passes, and our army was ready to guard against the invasion of Jin soldiers!"
Yan Qing did not dare to neglect, and immediately bid farewell to the emperor and left the palace to rush to the cabinet.
Wang Lin looked at Yan Qing's back with a blazing fire in his eyes.
Duan Wanqing on the side gently handed over a cup of hot tea without saying a word.
She could tell that the emperor was in a very bad mood.
Although she couldn't understand the emperor's mood at the moment.
Throughout the dynasties, many Han people were massacred.
In front of Wang Lin's eyes, the tragic scene of corpses strewn across the fields of Yongzhou seemed to appear. The corpses of Han people were piled up into mountains, blood flowed into rivers, and even the sky seemed to be reflected in blood red!
Wang Lin's shoulders were shaking slightly.
He thought of Wu Huan Hua.
The number of Han people in the Central Plains dropped sharply by tens of millions.
He was reminded of the Mongol invasion.
The number of dead Han people is at least 50 million.
He was reminded of the Manchu invasion.
On the tenth day of Yangzhou, there were three massacres in Jiading, Suzhou, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Jiangyin, Kunshan, Jiaxing, Haining, Jinan, and Jinhua... Han people were massacred by the Qing army.
Over 30 million!
He also thought of the Japanese invaders entering China.
Nanjing Massacre.
Originally, the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Song Dynasty. According to historical records, nearly ten million Han people were also massacred.
Wang Lin did not expect that during his administration, hundreds of thousands of Han people would be massacred!
This can no longer be described with words of hatred, but can only be said to be a national humiliation for the entire Han nation and the Central Plains Dynasty!
But in addition to anger, Wang Lin also has deep anxiety and worry.
The Jin people chose to massacre the Han people at this time just to stimulate Dayan to launch a war of revenge.
Once this matter is exposed, it will definitely cause strong shocks in the government and the public, and arouse unanimous national indignation.
This kind of sentiment will have a very obvious negative effect on Wang Lin's ongoing plan for foreigners to enter the court as officials.
It is conceivable that the public opinion that those who are not of our race must have different opinions will once again spread.
And the hundreds of foreign civil and military officials who have just passed the civil and military courses and entered the DPRK to serve in the army will also face a difficult situation.
Those officials in the DPRK and China who oppose the appointment of foreigners as officials will definitely come out again and talk endlessly about impeachment.
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It was just as the emperor expected.
Chen Zixuan and other six ministers, who had been silent for some time, finally took advantage of this incident to rise to prominence again.
Of course, as the saying goes, one learns from every experience. This time, Chen Zixuan and the others did not choose the "group petition" method. Instead, they chose to attend the court meeting the next day, together with the six of them, leading many officials from the six ministries, a total of more than a hundred people.
, bowed before the emperor, and strongly requested the emperor to do two things:
One is to expel foreigners who have entered the court or served in the army.
Second, the entire army came out to avenge the massacre of 100,000 Han people.
Seeing Chen Zixuan leading a group of people kneeling in the hall and making noise, Wang Lin felt agitated, but his expression remained unchanged.
In fact, Wang Lin has not yet fully figured out how to deal with this matter.
Simply sending troops to provoke a national war between the two countries will undoubtedly fall into the conspiracy of some people in the Jin Kingdom. At this time, Dayan is in the process of rapid development. Launching an all-out war against the Jin Kingdom at this time will interrupt this development process.
, the overall situation with Dayan is unfavorable.
Moreover, at this time, Dayan did not have the strength to completely destroy the Jin Kingdom.
After all, resisting the invasion of the Jin soldiers and invading the Jin Kingdom's mainland are two different concepts.
In order to protect the homeland and the country, the three hundred thousand golden soldiers will definitely unleash a stronger will to fight.
Moreover, the whole country of the Jin people fought for the war, and even the old, weak, women and children could mount their horses and fight.
Of course, it is not possible to completely ignore this matter.
At least, domestic sentiment cannot be appeased.
Moreover, as far as Wang Lin is concerned, it would not be in line with his character if he did not retaliate against the Jin people like a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye.
But now he is not an ordinary citizen of Dayan, but the emperor of Dayan.
From his standpoint, he must first consider national interests.
When Chen Zixuan saw that the emperor was silent, he said with emotion: "Your Majesty, the Jin people slaughtered one hundred thousand of our Han people. Such a bloody lesson is enough to wake up our Han people!"
Your Majesty has said that those who are not of our race must have different hearts. Foreigners must not occupy our Great Yan Dynasty Hall and enslave our Han people! Please also ask Your Majesty to expel all foreigners who enter the court as soon as possible! Your Majesty!"
Dong Haoda, Peng Zhengning, Gong Chao, Zheng Lan, Jiang Wanhai and others even cried bitterly in front of the palace, shouting long speeches that foreigners cannot be trusted, and kowtowed when they were excited.