Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 621 The Flower Hall Proceedings 2.0

Song Jue looked at Wanyanxi who was prostrating in front of him, sighed softly, and motioned for Song Qiyun to help him up.

"Your Majesty, you..." Wan Yanxi looked at Song Jue blankly, "What do you mean?"

"Don't be nervous, we will definitely help you with this favor, but you need to discuss how to help with the Duke and the General." Song Jue looked at Wanyan Xi with a smile, "However, in Before that, in order to let you have a deeper understanding of Wanyan Ping, it is better to let the general and Qiyun talk to you about Wanyan Ping's affairs, which can be considered to have a deep understanding of her and get acquainted with her How is your style of acting?"

"Everything is subject to His Majesty's arrangement, and the foreign ministers have no objections."

"Very good." Song Jue raised an eyebrow at Song Qiyun, "Qiyun, you come first, and the general will make up for the forgotten points."

"Yes!" Song Qiyun drank two sips of tea, moistened his throat, looked at Wan Yanxi who was sitting on the opposite side, and chuckled, "Don't be so nervous, Mr. Wanyan, we are not friends, just treat it as a chat between friends That's it." Seeing that the other party relaxed a little, he exchanged glances with Shen Cha and said, "I'm not particularly clear about what happened too early, so I'll start talking about it three years ago. At that time, This is the first time I have faced Wanyan Ping on the battlefield."

"What's your impression?" Wan Yanxi blinked, "Isn't she beautiful?"

"Pretty?" Song Qiyun rubbed his chin, "I didn't notice it, but I thought this person was not easy to figure out, and I couldn't see what was going on in her mind. In my opinion, this person has a lot of scheming and thoughts. Delicacy, before you notice it, has quietly laid a trap for you. When you are happily preparing to celebrate your victory, you will never imagine that you have fallen into her trap without knowing it .”

"Are you feeling so emotional because you have been fooled?" Song Jue tilted his head and looked at his younger brother, "The ending was tragic?"

"It's very tragic." Shen Cha glanced at Song Qiyun, who was a little ashamed, and a smirk flashed across his face, "If Brother Xiaotian hadn't stayed behind and waited for an opportunity to rescue him, my brother and I might have come to apologize to His Majesty Yes. But that was the first time he faced Wanyan Ping, negligence is inevitable, even elder brother, me or Brother Xiaotian, can't figure out her thoughts every time, they can only keep probing. "

"Is Wanyanping so good at using soldiers?" Song Jue had heard from Shen Haolin and Shen Cha that Wanyan Ping was good at using soldiers, and thought that she might be evenly matched with these two people, but she didn't expect them to be so afraid.

"It's not that great, there are many strange tricks, and her layout is beyond our expectations a few times. If it were us, we wouldn't do that. Later we summed it up, she..." Shen Cha spread her hands, " We used all the intrigue tricks in the court to fight. We are not very good at this, and we didn't think about it. Therefore, it is easier to be confused by her. The first two times we met her, it was indeed a shame. A lot of losses."

"This kind of scheming is not so powerful. Usually generals don't think of it. They don't like this kind of fight at all." Song Jue looked at Wanyanxi, "Young Master Wanyan still has to be careful about this. Keep it in mind so that you don’t make the same mistakes again.”

"Yes, foreign ministers will remember." Wan Yanxi bowed slightly, he looked at Song Qiyun, then at Shen Cha, "Actually, I want to know more, they... oh, I mean Wanyan Zongcheng and Wanyan Ping How did you get to this step of betrayal? Just... Brother Yuwen once sent me a letter. A few years before Wanyan Zong became king, the people still supported them. After all, the people don’t understand the struggle for royal power. They will support whoever feeds and clothes them. But why has their reputation declined so much during this period of time? Did they really do something unforgivable?"

"In addition to what we just said, in fact, these years, the Kingdom of Jin has not been so peaceful. The merchants of the Kingdom of Jin in Jiapingguan City have a deep understanding."

"Businessmen from the Kingdom of Jin?" Wan Yanxi was stunned, "Oh, I remembered, there are many shops opened by Jin and Liao people on Changxing Street."

"Border trade is one of the most important parts of the border. We have no objection to businessmen from the Kingdom of Jin to do business, as long as they don't violate our laws and don't do things they shouldn't do." Shen Cha nodded, "About It was three years ago, when His Highness faced Wanyan Ping on the battlefield for the first time, the merchants of the Kingdom of Jin began to hear their complaints about her."

"Are they... very harsh on the merchants of Jin Kingdom?" Wan Yanxi frowned, "Brother Yuwen once said that the life of merchants is not easy."

"It's not very easy. We also learned some things. Wanyan Zongcheng and Wanyanping divided the merchants of Jin Kingdom into several levels. Those merchants who do business with Xia, Liao and other countries have the heaviest tax burden. Then there are those big merchants who are backed by nobles as backers, and the other small merchants are not particularly affected, but in general, the additional taxes that need to be paid are at least double what they were before."

"Wanyanping holds most of the military power in the Kingdom of Jin. Since ancient times, raising soldiers has been a big expense. Moreover, she has no property of her own, so she can only rely on this method to make money. Otherwise, her military power The power is about to be lost." Bai Meng sneered, "When Wanyan Zongcheng first became king, he seemed to have reduced a lot of taxes, and the people of the Kingdom of Jin were quite happy. The main reason for Yan Zongcheng and Wanyan Ping. Unexpectedly, two days after the good times, the nightmare came."

"Increasing taxes is one thing, and another thing is that since Wanyan Zongcheng became king, he didn't dare to fight against the clan and nobles. Even if his daughter has a heavy soldier in his hand, he is not willing to turn against these people, at least not publicly. So, whenever a son of a clan or aristocrat makes a mistake, as long as the opponent is an ordinary commoner, even if he has a little foundation, he will calm down. At best, he persuades the clan to discipline his children, symbolizing Sexually give the sufferer a little money as compensation."

"Even if it's such a serious crime as murder and arson?"

Wan Yanxi couldn't believe his own ears, he knew that some sons of the clan and nobles were more dandy, idle around all day, doing nothing, it was the same when his father and elder brother were still around.But at that time he was young, no matter how noisy he was, he couldn't make any flowers. He didn't act like the clan and nobles now, but it was really beyond his imagination.

"That's right." Shen Cha nodded, "Even if the crime is such a serious one, as long as the family standing behind the offender is a family that Wanyan Zongcheng doesn't want to turn against, he can get away with it and continue to live his little life."

"Confused!" Wan Yanxi's face became even uglier with anger, and shrank into a ball tremblingly, "They... since they got the throne, why don't... not treat it well, but destroy it instead? What good will it do them to destroy the Kingdom of Jin?"

"The advantage should be that the Wanyan clan and those big nobles began to reflect. If they hadn't supported Wanyan Zongcheng and Wanyanping's rebellion, or hadn't stood by when they rebelled, all this would not have happened. If they If you are still silent now, sooner or later, the bad luck of those civilians will also befall them." Song Qiyun patted Wan Yanxi lightly, "So, they started to find another way."

"These people either support you sincerely, or use the name of supporting you for their own little calculations, but in the end they are divorced from Wanyan Zongcheng and Wanyan Ping. Moreover, in order to further attack Wanyan Zongcheng and Wanyan Ping, you have to fight against them no matter what, just like the continuous natural disasters in the Jin Kingdom for the past year, if you can handle it properly at the beginning, the situation will not be so serious, and there will not be as many refugees as there are now .”

"What... what do you mean?" Wan Yanxi swallowed, "Is this situation man-made?"

"It is said that Wanyan and Master Wen were the first to express their disapproval of disaster relief, and other clansmen and nobles followed suit, leading to the current situation."

"Impossible, Brother Yu Wen is not this kind of person!" Wan Yanxi shook his head like a rattle, "He said in the letter he wrote to me that he has sent people to relieve the disaster and resettle the victims. He is absolutely Won't lie to me!"

(End of this chapter)