Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 185 The golden age of rebellion is here (please subscribe!)

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Among Ximenqing's wives and concubines, Wu Yueniang, the main wife who will continue to marry, is a decent woman who abides by the "three obediences and four virtues" of the feudal society's moral code for women. None of the others are good things, they are all silver baby sluts.

With Ximen Qing's death, even if Li Yan didn't let someone copy his house, his family would be doomed, not to mention Li Yan also asked someone to copy his house.

Of course, Li Yan didn't do anything wrong. He still asked people to leave 100 taels for each of Ximen Qing's concubines, and [-] taels for each of Ximen Qing's servants and maidservants. Li Yan didn't let anyone take away the things that he didn't want to leave, so he left a way for them to survive.

But then again, even so, most of them will not end well, and it is likely that they will end the same as they did in "Jin Ping Mei".

Li Yan is not a Bodhisattva, so he can't control so much. Besides, these silver baby sluts are not worthy of his control. Li Yan only pulled Wu Yueniang out of the flames, accepted her as a righteous sister, and then made her a concubine for Wu Song.

Some people might say that taking Wu Yueniang away, forcibly adopting her as a righteous sister, and forcibly marrying her subordinates, such a shameless practice, and saying that saving Wu Yueniang out of the sea of ​​fire, isn't it a bit too shameless?
The person who said this may not know Wu Yueniang's tragic end in the future.

Although compared to Ximenqing's other wives and concubines, Wu Yueniang, who also had a pair of servants to take care of her to the end, looks better, but don't forget that she has also been displaced for a long time, suffered a lot, and suffered a lot. Later, her only son became a monk, so she had to adopt a former servant as an adopted son, and let the adopted son inherit Ximen Qing's family property and provide for her until the end of her life.

In this era, women who are not protected by strong men are very miserable. They are absolutely vulnerable groups, and the whole society will be in turmoil in a few years, and it will be their end at that time.

"Great Jin Guozhi" records that Jin Taizong Wan Yansheng ordered Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, who had been captured successively, to be demoted to common people.

The commander-in-chief of the Jin army, Wanyan Zonghan, ordered someone to register a list of Zhao’s royal family members, and arrested and detained Zhao Ji’s prince, concubine, concubine, Zhao Huan’s concubine, Meiji, etc., and went north with the main force of the Jin army and the captives. .

The army of the Kingdom of Jin withdrew from Bianliang, the capital, and returned north in seven batches.

Along the way, the Jin people wantonly insulted the subjugated monarchs and their families in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and others were finally taken to Shangjing, which is the Huanglong Mansion mentioned by Yue Fei in "Man Jianghong".

Along the way, of the more than 3000 people who went north with Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, there were less than 1000 left, and the rest were all insulted and killed by the Jin army.

"Da Jin Guo Zhi" records that after arriving in Shangjing, the gold master Wanyan Sheng deliberately humiliated the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Under the coercion of the golden army with swords, spears and halberds, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were stripped of their robes, and the others were all stripped of their shirts, put on a sheepskin fur, and entered the ancestral temple for the ceremony of leading the sheep.

Then Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, the queen mother, and the empress all changed into Jin people's civilian clothes and went to meet the gold master Wanyan Sheng.

Other kings, sons-in-law, noble relatives, clan women, and civil and military officials were all stripped of their clothes. All of them had white flags on their hair buns, and wrote "Capture the Second Emperor of Song Dynasty", "Capture the Second Empress of Song Dynasty", "Capture the Rebel Slave Zhao Gou's mother and wife", "Capturing the son-in-law and concubine of the Song Dynasty", "capturing the kings of the Song Dynasty", "capturing the female relatives of the two palaces of the Song Dynasty", "capturing the ministers of the Song Dynasty", etc.

The captives were forced to kneel three times and kowtow nine times to the gold master one by one, just like leading a pig and sheep to sacrifice.

After the ceremony, the gold lord Wanyan Sheng still felt that he was not satisfied, so he ordered Zhao Ji to be the Duke of Hunde, and Zhao Huan to be the Marquis of Heavy Hun, doing his best to humiliate him.

Three hundred concubines and concubines of the Northern Song Dynasty were not registered as slaves, but they were rushed to the Shangjing Huanyi Bureau to do hard labor.

In addition, more than 400 young and beautiful palace family members were sent to the Marshal's Mansion Women's Concert Hall for selection by the nobles of the Jin Kingdom.

Later, Jin Taizong selected more than 100 women from the Huanyi Bureau to enrich the harem.

The kings and nobles snatched more than [-] people from the Huanyi bureau and the women's music hall.

When Wanyan Zongbi (Jin Wushu) led his troops to invade the south again, he took away more than a dozen women from the Northern Song Dynasty to join the expedition.

The Huanyi Bureau and the Women's Music Hall were all empty.

Zhao Ji's six daughters were bestowed by Jin Taizong to the royal families as wives.

Zhao Huan's queen, Empress Zhu, was molested by a small leader of the Jin army when she was drinking with her. She couldn't stand the humiliation and threw herself into the river.

As for the humiliated emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, why did no one commit suicide or resist?
Just think about it, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northern Song Dynasty were defeated, and almost the entire army was wiped out. What's the use of a few weak women's counterattacks?

A small number of daughters of captive princes and ministers chose to commit suicide, but none of them tried to fight back. Most of them chose to endure humiliation and survive.

A few years later, the daughters of those high-ranking princes and ministers are still like this, let alone a helpless woman like Wu Yueniang?
Therefore, Li Yan promised Wu Yueniang to Wu Song as a concubine, which really saved Wu Yueniang from the flames.

Whether others, including Wu Yueniang himself, think so, then Li Yan has nothing to do with it, anyway, he doesn't want Wu Yueniang to reciprocate.

Having said a lot, in fact, regarding Ximenqing's family, Li Yan just gave a few orders, and someone else will do it.

Afterwards, Li Yan focused on the really big things.

Now that Yanggu County has been defeated, I'm sorry, everything before is not counted, who made you dilly-dally.

public trial……

beheading...

ransacked home...

food distribution...

recruitment...

Recruiting farmers to open up wasteland on Jeju Island...

The people in Shuibo Liangshan, which has conquered three state capitals, are quite proficient in this business.

The only thing that surprised everyone in Shuibo Liangshan was that this time it went extremely smoothly.

A small Yanggu County actually allowed Shuibo Liangshan to recruit more than 4000 good soldiers, which was more than that recruited in Jeju Prefecture. As for the farmers, there were even more, and more than 200 households were recruited.

Later, after visiting the callers, Li Yan knew that the reason why this time went so smoothly was because of the severe drought this year and the lack of harvest, they couldn't survive, at least it was very difficult. have a full meal.

Based on this situation, Li Yan pondered: "Should we take advantage of the trend and lay down a few more counties?"

It doesn't take much, if you take another three or five counties, Shuibo Liangshan's strength will be nearly doubled, and there will be enough people to open up wasteland on Jeju Island.

But Li Yan quickly dismissed this idea.

For one thing, it's not easy to be too ostentatious recently, so don't draw back the eyes of the Song Dynasty court that has been diverted with great difficulty.

Second, why bother?If Li Yan remembers correctly, from this year until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the regions of the Great Song Dynasty, especially Hebei and Shandong, were either drought, flood, or locusts. Anyway, there were not many good years. Therefore, As long as there is food, people will be recruited more and more easily.

The golden age of these rebels has come...

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(End of this chapter)