The Jin army besieged the city, and the Song emperor’s daughter died

Chapter 108 Does this damn place deserve to be called a mansion?

It is the fifth day of April in the first year of Jingkang of Song Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianhui of Jin Dynasty.

Sima Pu led the envoy into the Kingdom of Jin and went to Beijing to Huining Mansion.

Unlike the envoy from Liao Tong in those days, there was no greeting or greeting ceremony for the envoy. There was only a group of Jin soldiers cursing and pushing, pushing dozens of Song envoys into the city gate like escorting prisoners.

"The Jin people are vulgar! The barbarians have not been transformed! How can they treat other countries' envoys like this?"

King Yun Zhao Kai was unhappy and cursed secretly.

The anger in his heart must be revealed on his face. The Jin soldiers beside him saw that Zhao Kai was displeased. When their eyes met, the Jin soldiers spat: "What are you looking at?"

Although Zhao Kai has learned a lot of greetings from Jin people along the way, he wanted to reply politely, "How do I look at you?"The words were on his lips, but in the end he could not say them out, successfully avoiding a tragedy.

The only reason why he couldn't say it out loud was because Zhao Kai was stunned by the sight of Jin Kingdom going to Beijing in front of him: "This... is Huining Mansion?"

Zhao Kai felt at this time, like a native from a magical city who suddenly came to northern Myanmar. The huge contrast will inevitably lead people to question: "Is this a place where people live?"

In Zhao Kai's view, the Jinguo Ning Mansion is a great insult to the word "mansion".

No matter how bad a mansion in the Song Dynasty is, it is hundreds of times better than this damn place.

Sima Pu explained at the side: "King Yun doesn't know that there is no mansion here. When there are more people living here, it becomes a mansion."

The explanation is very philosophical.

"What kind of mansion? This is just a village. It's not as good as a good village."

Sima Pu smiled and said: "Yes, Jin people are still used to calling Huining Mansion the Emperor's Village."

Zhao Kai frowned and said nothing, looking around. The sight in front of him made him extremely uncomfortable.

The streets are potholed, dirty and messy, and there are almost no decent houses. Most of them are cramped and short shacks. It is rare to see a few houses made of earth tiles, which are not beautiful at all. They are surrounded by a circle of adobe bricks of different heights. Rough as a pigsty.

There are almost no shops on the street, not to mention restaurants and tea shops, and there are almost no grain stores. The most popular shops are blacksmith shops.

Occasionally, you can see a few brightly dressed people. These people usually hold hemp ropes in their hands. What is tied to the other end of the hemp rope is not cattle, horses and mules, but living people, including men, women, and even half-brothers. Big kids.

Most of the people who were being led like animals were half-clothed, their eyes were dull, and they looked like zombies.

Sima Pu explained: "The Kingdom of Jin is different from our Song Dynasty. Male slaves and female servants, like pigs and sheep, can be bought and sold. Those who were roped just now are the slaves they bought and are about to take them home."

Zhao Kai frowned even more when he heard this.

You must know that a hundred years after the founding of the Song Dynasty, although the household registrations were divided into good and bad, the buying and selling of people as slaves did not exist at all. Not to mention the people in the market, even those who served the royal family's food, clothing, housing and transportation were all employed. If you don't like it, you can just give up the job.

Song people were completely independent and free in personality.

Even eunuchs, who are called eunuchs to the inside and middle-level officials to outsiders, are treated with great respect.

Therefore, psychologically, it is difficult for Zhao Kai to accept this kind of behavior of trading and humiliating people like pigs and sheep.

Not long after walking forward, we came to a river. The water was not as clear and green as the Bian River, but appeared pitch black. The so-called White Mountain and Black Water must have got its name from this.

This river is called Shali River. There is a pontoon bridge on the river. After crossing the pontoon bridge, you will reach the inner city of Huining Prefecture.

Although this area is called the inner city, there is no city wall as a boundary, and they still live scattered. However, most of the people who can live here are people close to the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, except for the emperors of the Wanyan Nine Clan. In addition to relatives and ministers who followed Aguda to conquer the world, they also included important ministers and family members of the Liao Kingdom who had paid gold.

So the feeling here is very different from the outer city on the other side of the river.

There are restaurants, shops selling clothes and fabrics, and even tea and porcelain shops.

Yes, but not many.

As for romantic places like brothels and brothels... Today's Jin people are not in the habit of spending money to sleep with women.

Why spend money when you can use it?

Who do you look down on!
Not long after, they came to the post house, which was renovated from the former slave shack when Wanyan Sheng just succeeded to the throne.

For this reason, Wanyan Zonghan once criticized him: "It's a waste of money. We have a lot of money. Who do we need to entertain in the post house? It's better to build more shacks and imprison more subjugated slaves."

Wanyan Sheng did not give in on this matter. After establishing a country, he had to behave like a country, and not act like bandits on Changbai Mountain.

If you have this awareness, how can you become an emperor?

It's just that this post house is called a post house, but the layout inside is actually not much different from that of the prison in Kaifeng Mansion.

There is just one more hot kang in each house.

Zhao Kai smiled bitterly, those who knew thought he was on a mission to the Kingdom of Jin, and those who didn't knew thought he was here to be imprisoned.

On the first day I came to Huining Mansion, I wanted to open the city.

On the second day after coming to Huining Mansion, I wanted to open the city.

On the third day of arriving at Huining Mansion, the manager of the post house finally came, Wanyan Xiyin.

As the most educated and Sinological person in Daijin, Wanyan Xiyin's attitude towards Sima Pu was quite respectful. At least he brought some tea when he came instead of holding a jar of shochu.

Lifting the tea bowl, he picked up a handful and threw it into the bowl. Then he poured boiling water on it and said, "Sima Xianggong, please have some tea."

Sima Pu seemed to be following the local customs, and took the tea bowl with a smile: "If the God of Grain has the opportunity to come to Kaifeng in the future, I will personally make tea for you."

Wanyan Xiyin twisted his beard and said with a smile, "It's up to you."

Zhao Kai, who had no tea to drink, was stunned for a moment and muttered in his heart: "Can this word be used like this?"

Sima Pu smiled awkwardly and said: "Before leaving, our officials praised Gu Shen for his knowledge of Chinese studies and his great love for our Han Chinese etiquette scriptures. It turns out that I am here to prepare a small gift..."

As he spoke, he stood up and took out several Sima Guang's collected works from his bag, including the rubbing version of "Zizhi Tongjian", and handed them to Wanyan Xiyin: "These are all written by my ancestors. The God of Grain smiled and accepted them." .”

Wanyan Xiyin was so happy that he took the collection of essays, looked at the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" on the top and sighed: "Are you really going to give this kind of strange book to me?"

Sima Pu was stunned and said: "Of course." He sighed in his heart: "What the officials said is indeed true. Gu Shen really loves Sinology."

Wanyan Xiyin couldn't wait to flip through two pages and frowned: "Isn't it a military book?"

Zhao Kai and Sima Pu looked at each other in confusion, not knowing how to reply for a moment.

God’s fucking book of war!
"My ancestor wrote this book, which means that in view of the past, he is qualified to govern." Sima Pu explained.

Wanyan Xiyin seemed to notice that Sima Pu and Zhao Kai were looking at him a little strangely, and closed the book of scriptures with a smile: "I understand, I understand, it's a book about healing the Dao. Can it heal rivers and land roads, right?"

Zhao Kai, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help it anymore: "Are you the God of the Valley? Wanyan Xiyin?"

When Wanyan Xiyin heard this, he was unhappy: "Can it be fake? According to you Han people, if it's fake, I'll give you a replacement!"

Seeing this situation, Sima Pu was roughly able to make a judgment.

Although Wanyan Xiyin was famous for his understanding of Chinese in the Jin Kingdom, he was actually a half-hearted person who was less than half a pot and more than half a pot. He was probably at the level of having read the Three Character Classic. He did not learn to write or read classics in the Jin Kingdom. In the big environment of the Song Dynasty, he can still pretend to be cool and think of himself as a cultural person. If you really want to put him in the environment of the Song Dynasty...

He is only qualified to sit at the same table with children who have just attended a rural school for a few days.

Sima Pu hesitated for a long time, but finally took out the autographed letter from Emperor Daojun, bowed and said, "Please Gushen to submit it to His Majesty the Emperor Dajin."

(End of this chapter)