I am Da Song

Chapter 12
Under the watchful eyes of countless imperial guards, Zhao Huan boarded the Suzaku Gate.Pairs of curious eyes stared at the current Da Song official family like watching a monkey show.

Holding a sharp sword in his hand, Zhao Huan looked at the sluggish army in front of him.Although the country is in danger, the society is in turmoil, and the people are dying, Zhao Huan does not intend to tell them any feelings about his family and country.

Because in their eyes, Zhao Huan only saw selfishness, despicableness, and cunning, but very little real great wisdom and great loyalty.Most of their self-confessed cunning can be evaluated as "no great wisdom, but love to play tricks", and their plan is to give up resistance when disaster strikes, and leave their military uniforms to hide among the people.

The poem "14 people took off their armor, and none of them was a man" is like a curse. It flowed out in the Song Dynasty, and it also deeply cursed the armies of the two Song Dynasties.

After attracting the attention of most of the imperial guards, Zhao Huan turned his head and said to Li Ruoshui who was following him, "Go and pour out all the prepared things."

Li Ruoshui took the order and immediately walked down the city wall, leading hundreds of officials and subordinates from Kaifeng Mansion to the donkey cart in front of Suzaku Gate.

The imperial guards had long been concerned about the donkey carts full of large boxes in front of Suzaku's gate, but the Kaifeng government officials guarded them tightly, and the low-status imperial guards did not dare to go forward to investigate.

After all the officials stood beside the donkey cart, Li Ruoshui held up a red flag.The command flag was swung down suddenly, and all the officials simultaneously overturned the wooden boxes on the donkey cart to the ground one by one.

Accompanied by the loud sound of the wooden box falling to the ground, a ray more dazzling than the sun shines from the inner city of Tokyo, rushing straight to all directions.

The chirping and noisy voices of the imperial guards fell into silence for an instant.

All the cunning, despicable, and selfish gazes disappeared, replaced by incomparable fanaticism and greed.

What is the concept of Jinshan and Yinshan in front of you?
All the imperial guards in front of them had a clear understanding, and countless people swallowed excitedly.

If it weren't for knowing that the gold and silver in the city belonged to the Jin army outside the city, the imperial army near the Vermilion Bird Gate would have rushed forward and robbed it frantically.It's a pity that there is a mutual guarantee system in the city, even if I grab the gold, I have to hand it over to the government.

While everyone was frantically staring at the gold and silver, Zhao Huan's voice sounded like a devil's temptation, resounding in the ears of all the guards: "The gold and silver mountains in front of you are full of 15 taels of gold and 200 million taels of silver! In addition, there are millions of pieces of silk. They should have been delivered to the Golden Army outside the city in five days, and they have nothing to do with you."

"But I changed my mind, as long as you can hold on for ten days! As long as within ten days, the golden army can't break into the inner city! The 15 taels of gold, 200 million taels of silver, and millions of silks are all yours! , I will personally present this batch of rewards to each of your soldiers. I will never let anyone miss a single cent."

In an instant, the silent inner city erupted into extremely fanatical cheers and roars.

15 taels of gold, 200 million taels of silver, and millions of pieces of silk!What is this concept?
Calculated on the basis of 1 imperial troops, each person can get 15 taels of gold, 200 taels of silver, and hundreds of pieces of silk.After fighting the ten-day battle, I will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life.Everyone can buy hundreds of acres of fertile land, build a large manor, and buy more than a dozen beautiful maidservants.

Don't measure the Northern Song Dynasty by the value of silver in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of later generations. The purchasing power of silver in the Northern Song Dynasty is astonishingly high.

Shen Kuo bought Mengxi Garden in Zhenjiang and only spent [-] guan.Su Zhe was demoted to Xunzhou, and bought ten old houses to live in, which cost only fifty guan.Before the Jingkang disaster, one tael of silver could be exchanged for at least two taels of money.

After the Jingkang disaster, because the Song Dynasty gave all the gold and silver to the Jin Dynasty.In the third year of Shaoxing, Mr. Hou Peng of Zhiteng Prefecture wrote a letter saying that he had 160 taels of salt left over from the sale of salt in the state, and bought more than 800 taels of gold and [-] taels of silver.At this time, the price of silver has soared to nearly five per tael.

At this time, in Jingkang, silver had already been inseparable from tens of millions of taels in the first battle of Kaifeng, and the price of silver had begun to soar.This also means that the gold and silver distributed by Zhao Huan to the imperial army is enough for each imperial soldier to buy a manor and live the life that Shen Kuo, a well-known scholar like Shen Kuo, can live.Became a rich man in a single step, and from then on, he was well-clothed and well-fed.

How could the imperial guards not be fanatical?
It doesn't take long, just stick to it for ten days!

ten days!The luxurious manor that was unimaginable before, and dozens of soft and pretty maids are all included in the bag.Since then, singing and singing every night will not be repeated for 30 days in January.

The trade-off is worth it!

Looking at the frenzied mob in the audience, Zhang Shuye sighed deeply, and said to Zhao Huan: "Officials, the rewards are too generous, and I am afraid that the soldiers will avoid the battle and cherish their lives."

Zhao Huan withdrew his gaze from the bottom of the city, looked at Zhang Shuye, who was mature and prudent, and said with a sarcasm, "Your Prime Minister's remarks are extremely funny. Just this group of mobs below, without my reward, will not evade the battle and will spare their lives." I have personally witnessed this group of people fleeing without a fight. I have also witnessed them, disregarding my edicts as nothing, ignoring the fighting of friendly troops, watching coldly from the rear, and causing the death of the warrior."

"They are rotten to the root. Even if I reward them, how can they avoid the battle? At least now, Prime Minister, if you drive them away with sticks, they won't leave the city wall."

After Zhang Shuye heard Zhao Huan's words, he could only remain silent.The army of the Song Dynasty was indeed of this virtue. As the privy envoy who nominally commanded the army and "Zuo Tianzi was in charge of the military administration", he couldn't find any words to justify them for a while.

After all, if the Forbidden Army had a little bit of responsibility and something to use, the officials would not have turned to seek illusory divine power to let Guo Jing form Liujia Zhengbing.

Then Zhang Shuye asked worriedly: "After that ten days, how will Your Majesty plan to hold on? The money in Kaifeng City has been exhausted, and it is impossible to use so much wealth to motivate the soldiers."

With his hands behind his back, Zhao Huan held his sharp sword and looked towards the dilapidated outer city outside the city wall.As far as the eye can see, the houses are continuous and the people are dense.This should be a vibrant city, but now it seems to be covered with a layer of gray color, a desolate and hopeless doomsday scene.

"Does the Prime Minister know what is the most important thing in the apocalyptic world?"

"Food?" Zhang Shuye didn't know why the officials suddenly asked this question, so he could only choose the answer he thought.

"There is food, what about the Jin army that may appear at any time?"

Zhang Shuye only felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he had grasped something.

"A barrier that cannot be breached." Zhao Huan said firmly, "plus a granary that stores a large amount of grain and grass."

Zhang Shuye's thoughts became clear in an instant.With these two points, it represents the hope of living.

And all this, only one place in Tokyo can provide.

That's the inner city!
This is also the purpose of the officials asking the Imperial Army to guard for ten days, so that the inner city can be seen from inside and outside the city of Tokyo.As long as they enter the inner city, it means that they have gained all hope of survival.

It's just that Zhang Shuye still doesn't understand a little bit. Even so, what's the point?Didn't the officials say that regardless of the life and death of the people in the outer city, let the people in the outer city fight against the Jin army under the impetus of killing Hu Ling?
Zhao Huan patted Zhang Shuye's shoulder, and said lightly: "Master Shu, give me ten days, and I will let you see that not every army in this world is as disorganized as my Great Song army!"

In the distant sky, the sky is full of smoke and dust, and Hu Ma is noisy.Zhang Shuye clenched his fists, and let himself fight for the ten days for the officials, and wait and see what kind of different atmosphere the officials will bring to Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)