The struggle of the reborn prince

A rooster with phoenix feathers will not turn into a phoenix after all. Fortunately, after receiving the tacit approval of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty and returning to the city, he pretended to be the plenipotentiary agent of the Song Dynasty and began his reckless performance in Huining City. His behavior also completely disappointed the officials and common people in the city, and they understood that he was not a bodhisattva, but just a cowardly rascal who harmed the country and the people, followed his influence, and was as timid as a mouse.

The good news is that first of all, the imperial family of the Wanyan family who traced back three generations from the Taizu was detained in the imperial city in the name of protection, and their cronies were sent to take care of them, and they were forbidden to leave the palace, and they were not allowed to run around.Because he knew that these people must be the targets of the Southern Dynasty, and he could use this to get rid of all the blood of the clan. Then people with royal status will become rare in the future, and his family must be alone, without any competitors.

In order to express his sincerity in being a minister, Kexi thought that nothing could express his loyalty better than white silver and golden gold, and the Southern Dynasty also had to receive 50 taels of gold and 1000 million taels of silver as military expenses before he was willing to retreat.But the problem is that the Jin Kingdom has been living a tight life these years. Apart from paying the old coins, most of the real gold and silver have been taken by Wushu to repair the boundary trenches. In addition, in order to cope with the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, the treasury has long been empty. , Cleaner than some people's faces.The fact that there is no money in the treasury does not mean that there is no money in the personal pockets. Those royal relatives and important ministers have made a fortune in the previous wars of aggression. It is estimated that they have not been defeated for so many years, and they all have a large number of slaves and slaves. There must be a lot of savings in the family, and those who fled to the capital from all over the country have many wealthy businessmen, and they also bring their family wealth with them.Fortunately, he set his mind on these people, and a silver campaign was launched in full swing.

Although there was a failure in the Kuoli operation at the beginning of the siege, Wanyan Kexi didn't care. He thought it was because Wanyanquan and others were too gentle that they failed. possible.There is nothing in the world except cutting flesh.It just hurts to spend money, the country has reached the brink of extinction, and the emperor and the army can't count on it.Only money can make people feel at ease and help themselves survive in this chaotic time.Naturally, no one is willing to hand over.

Huining City, which had already turned into a purgatory on earth, was upgraded to an eighteen-story hell in a blink of an eye. The scope of the search this time included the palaces of the princes and even officials in the city. It can be said that no one was spared from top to bottom.The gratifying method is very simple, just fight if you have no money, and it is by no means frightening, but beat to death until the last penny is squeezed out.For a while, there was another bloody storm in the city. The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army were not good people.It is definitely an expert in doing this kind of thing. If anyone doesn't follow, he will be served by torture.Wanyan Qi is Han Buli's eldest son. As a clan, he was awarded the title of General of Zhenguo. Later, his father moved in and was granted the title of envoy of the Anwu Army. The third-rank salary, stay in the capital to serve the court.After hearing about Kuoyin, he immediately offered 2 taels of silver in order to pass the test.Fortunately, I am very happy that it has made a good start.He also gave a verbal reward, but he didn't expect someone to report that there was a lot of silver hidden in his home.

Fortunately, people went to search immediately, and 10 taels of silver were dug out from the yard.He hated him for concealing it and immediately ordered a severe punishment. Wanyan Qi was terrified and immediately recruited, and "donated" hundreds of taels of gold and a large amount of jewels.Seeing that this move worked well, he was gratified and thought that Hanli had not attacked Khitan back then, went south to Bianjing twice, and plundered countless gold and silver treasures, there must be more than this, so he sent his other two sons Wanyanjing He Wanyanwen was arrested and interrogated, and ordered to kill him.

Wan Yanjing also relied on his status as the eldest son to get a Hanlin scholar Chengzhi.He also studied national history, but he was actually an official who mixed up his salary in name.Everyone thought that he had no money at all, and that his family didn't have much money left.After tossing for a long time, I won't make much money.Fortunately, I don't believe in evil, and I personally went down to the hall and slapped my cousin with a dozen big mouths, intimidating him.Wan Yanjing was so frightened that he peed on his pants, claiming that there was silver under the hall in his house.Send someone over to dig, and the floor is covered with silver.

Everyone cheered up when they saw this, thinking that the poorest guy had so much wealth, and the youngest, Wan Yanwen, had to interrogate carefully. He was dismissed from office and seized the title only after embezzling more than 1 yuan in tax and silver, which must be lucrative.So when he came up, he was tortured, all ten of his fingers were pinched off with a pincer, and he was forced to tell where the silver was hidden. Poor Wanyan Wen was already punished when he was dismissed from office, and he has been idle for many years. There is no way to get the money, and the savings in the family are almost exhausted, and the two elder brothers were implicated and suffered a serious crime. In the end, they were burned in a small fire, and the big board was smashed. After a night of torture, the father was finally in great pain and die.

Zisong, another hero who invaded the Song Dynasty, Zong Han, was of course not spared.His brother Sun Xie is also a master who can grab money. He once served as the Jiedu Envoy of the Suguan, and later served as the Metropolitan Governor of Tokyo. However, he was investigated for private use of official property and was punished with death. It can be seen that the misappropriation of public funds is by no means a small amount. , Only because of his grandfather's meritorious service was he expelled.Later, he was re-activated, but his bad habits did not change, and he was dismissed because of accepting bribes. He originally wanted to escape from the capital before the Song army besieged the city, but he couldn't do it because of too much family property. It was cheap and gratifying.

Such a big tiger not only has a rich family, but also has the ability to make money. Of course, he must be taken care of, and he is required to spend 50 taels of silver.Brother Xie became a model of frankness and strictness. Before handing over a sum of money, the punishment was upgraded once. In the end, he begged bitterly that the family was really gone, but no one believed it.Fortunately, Yan ordered the soldiers to intensify the torture, and "served" him for five days and five nights. In the end, Brother Xie's bones were all broken, his head was cracked by a splint, and his brains flowed out to death.However, Zong Han's eldest grandson, Wanyan Bingde, escaped because he was captured in the Battle of Jinzhou. I really don't know how to feel...

In just ten days, Wanyan Kexi collected 500 million taels of silver, and the large and small carts were sent to the Song camp, but the emperor of the Song Dynasty was very dissatisfied. If everything is needed, he will send troops into the city to help him complete the task, but the peace negotiation will have to be rediscussed.It is gratifying to hear the horror, and ordered to take all means to suppress the silver.

In order to get enough military expenses for the Southern Dynasty, Kuo Bank took action to make the nobles of the Dajin Kingdom suffer. He ordered the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army to collect money at will, even on the roadside and on the street.The Tiger and Leopard Army lived up to the expectations and racked their brains to search for property and fill their pockets. 'Everyone has to use punishment, and punishment can be used everywhere' has become the most commonly used method.All of a sudden, the stick flew wildly.Burning and burning, gouging eyes and cutting intestines, the screams of Dajin officials resounded everywhere. They even arrested the yamen servants or long squads for interrogation.Let them reveal where the gold and silver secrets of a certain official are hidden, and then go to plunder them.As a result, countless people were tortured to death.

The tiger and leopard army, which seeks the greatest pleasure in money and brutality, has completely lost control. They have squeezed out the money of the rich and powerful.Regardless of officials, rich people, or residents, as long as they look rich in their families, they will definitely be tortured, and more than a thousand people died under torture.The whole capital was plunged into white terror.

Seeing that the Tiger and Leopard Army made a lot of money in Kuoyin, the Jin Army who had fought bloody battles with the Song Army had nothing to do with them and could only live on some horse feed. Fornication and looting.As a result, the streets are full of soldiers with ropes in their hands. Seeing that they are well-clothed and fat, they suspect that they are rich people, and they are immediately tied up and executed. off."

While chasing wages from the rich and powerful, it is not a good life for the common people.In broad daylight, shops and residents were often robbed, all salaries and rice were looted by soldiers, and folk horses, mules and bronze wares were all ordered to be transported to the camps, so the people in the city were all exhausted for military use.Fortunately, he ignored him, and his connivance turned Kuoyin from looting into adultery, and soldiers went into private houses to rob money and commit adultery.Incidents of robbing civilian women also occurred frequently. In Xiangfu alone, more than 300 women were raped to death overnight.

Fortunately, when I first came to Beijing.The people in the capital had placed high hopes on the army of King Qin led by him, but he soon imprisoned the emperor.The soldiers burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil.Facing such a brutal army, the residents in the city are naturally miserable, and more and more people want to escape.In order to prevent the residents from escaping, they even used the method of sitting together.They ordered ten families to protect one, and if one family escaped, the ten families would be beheaded together, and they would sit back and watch these assets be gone, and the people who had been plundered would freeze and starve to death.

Those who were released finally fully understood that the Dashun Dynasty they wanted to serve was a bunch of bandits, and they must not hold any hope.At this time, the Dashun Army had indeed transformed into a group of bandits. After the detainees were released, the torture did not stop. The frenzied Liu Zongmin continued to attack civilians and businessmen, and the damage to military discipline was still serious.

At this time, the officials of the Kingdom of Jin finally understood that the gratification of their current allegiance is actually an unreliable person and a person who lacks political acumen, but with this kind of thinking and character, being a black boss Almost, being a politician is far from enough!

This is not only in terms of what he does, but also when he looks at the people he employs.Although the most elite tiger and leopard army under him are brave in battle, they are bandits and hooligans after all. They are not enemies, but now they have fully recovered their 'original duties' and become a group of robbers who do all kinds of evil.

If you are a sensible person, you should be wary of these undisciplined and brutal guys after you take power, but it is good that you have given them the job of Kuo Yin, which is very oily and easy to get out of control.Maybe it was because he thought that there was no one he could trust around him, maybe he wanted to use this as a reward to reward those who followed him, or maybe it was out of loyalty that he entrusted him with this important task.But now it's too late to understand...

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Wan Yanquan sat alone behind the imperial case and poured himself a drink in front of the hall that could accommodate hundreds of people at the same time, but outside the hall from time to time there were loud noises of soldiers smashing doors and picking locks, and women's screams. Huh, there is also the man's smirk, he knows that it is the tiger and leopard army guarding the palace, moving property from the warehouse, molesting the maids and concubines in the palace.But all he can do now is turn a blind eye, listen and not hear, powerless to stop this offending Long Wei.

"How is Your Majesty?" Just as Wanyan Quan was secretly feeling sad, the palace door was pushed open, and Wanyan Kexi walked in. Actually, strictly speaking, he broke in, he slightly arched his hands at the emperor and said.

"Fortunately, the king of Liao needs to take care of himself after working day and night for state affairs!" Wan Yanquan got up and said with a smile, but his heart was already burning with anger. The treasured swords used are all acts of transgression, and the crimes should be punished by the nine clans, but there is nothing he can do.

"Your Majesty, I have something to discuss!" Wanyan Kexi said carelessly, sitting next to the emperor.

"The King of Liao will take care of important military matters, so you don't need to ask me." Wan Yanquan waved his hands and said, this sentence may be the most he said in his life.First it was Zong Qian, then Zong Han, Zong Jin, Wu Shu, and now it was Ke Xi.

"Your Majesty is responsible for this matter, and no one else can replace it!" Looking at the emperor's cautious look.Fortunately, he said with a bit of a smile.

"Please speak, King Liao!" Wanyan Quan said with a smile.

"The Great Emperor of the Southern Dynasties asked for a huge amount of military expenses, and even though he raised it in various ways, there is still a long way to go. Seeing that the five-day period is approaching, I would like to ask His Majesty to go out of the city to explain to the Great Emperor for a few more days." Wan Yan Kexi sighed Said.

"Isn't it enough to donate all the things in the palace?" Wanyan Quan was taken aback, this was obviously a deal that never came back, but it was obvious that he didn't dare to go so he let himself go to die.

"Your Majesty, the imperial concubine has long been empty, and the things in the palace are still being checked and calculated. I don't know if I can make up enough. If I had known that the country was so dilapidated, why should I go into this muddy water?" Wan Yan Kexi cast a glance The emperor sighed regretfully and said that it was obviously because he thought he was prodigal and made the treasury empty, which made him work very hard to make money with extraordinary means.

"I am the king of a country, if I go out of the city to go to Songying and be detained, the country will have no owner." Wan Yanquan had to remind Kexi that he is still the emperor, and if he is detained in Dajin Kingdom, it will be over.

"This..." Wanyan was delighted to be stunned, he still understood the truth that if there is no skin, the hair will not be attached, the country is gone, and he is still in charge of the country.This was something he hadn't considered in advance.

"King of Liao, I have been on the throne for more than [-] years, and I know that there is no great evil. There is no hatred in death. The ancestors of the hated ones have only been passed down for decades, and they will die when they come to me. Only this is Jie Jie Er." Looking at the joy, Wanyan Quan suddenly said with a sad expression.

"What does your majesty mean?" Ke Xi frowned and asked, he understood the emperor's words, which meant that he had been emperor for more than 20 years and had not done any serious evil. I was actually not afraid of death.But he wished he could not continue the state of the Jin Kingdom and destroy the foundation of his ancestors.He is the same king of subjugation as those licentious and violent kings, but the emperor seems to be confessing the funeral.

"I want to pass it on to you. To continue the national line!" Wan Yanquan stared at Ke Xi and said his decision word by word with difficulty.

"..." Happiness turned into petrification in an instant. He didn't expect that the emperor would pass on him, and the huge pie falling from the sky would hit him, but his heart was not ecstasy, but rather a faint sense of anxiety and bewilderment...

Ascension to the throne is something that Wanyan yearns for and fears at the same time. When he was far away in the frontier, his biggest dream was to become a king, like Wushu, to be a powerful minister under one person and above ten thousand people.Therefore, when he learned that the capital was besieged and knew that his chance had come, he would lead the troops here desperately after receiving the imperial edict from King Qin.But due to long-term inertia, he didn't dare to act rashly after entering the city. He knew that his foundation in Beijing was still shallow. Even if Wu Shu was seriously ill and was ignored by the emperor, he didn't dare to challenge him. .

Another more important reason is that since ancient times, the superiors have regarded themselves as the Son of Heaven, advocating that their throne is due to God's will, thus establishing political legitimacy.The so-called will of God is a political means of those who achieve great things, and it is also a real need in their hearts.Fortunately, it is the same. He yearns for the power and glory of the emperor, but he is afraid of being cast aside and condemned by God and others after seizing the throne. Therefore, when he actually controls the power in the court, he dare not usurp the throne, so he still acts under the banner of the emperor. , dare not cross the last line.

Now that the emperor is in the Zen position, I am glad to think that this is also God's will.In the middle of the night, Wanyan Quan called all the officials and the clan to hold the last court meeting that he presided over, preparing to pass the throne to Wanyan Kexi, and went out of the city to the military camp to negotiate in order to relieve the suffering of the people and let them retreat.But he is very clear that this trip may never return, he has no heirs or brothers, but he is also a descendant of Taizu, and now he is in charge of supervising the country, so he can succeed to the throne and continue the line of the country.

Under the current situation, Kexi has already controlled the whole city, even if he tries to snatch it by force, no one can do anything to him. Since the emperor is on the Zen throne, all the officials naturally agree with it, and Kexi also accepted the throne with tears in his eyes.Even though the country is broken, the ceremony is still indispensable. Everyone decided to carry out the ceremony of abdicating the throne tomorrow morning.The next day, under the witness of all the officials, Wanyan Quan and Wanyan Kexi went through the procedures for the handover of the throne. All the officials said that after the congratulations, Wanyan Quan became the former emperor.

On September 25th, after the Zen ceremony, Wan Yanquan drove to the imperial city immediately to Songying. He stared intently at the hazy stupa in the mist, at the devastated Huining city in front of him, and fell again. Sad tears.He knew that his walk might be the point of no return, and he would never have the chance to return to the capital.He knows very well that there has been no country that is not immortal since ancient times, and the king of a subjugated country is often imprisoned, sacrificed for captives, or humiliated by the court, closed in an empty valley, and subject to all kinds of insults.What awaits them ahead may be a humiliating and tragic fate. In order to continue the Jin Kingdom, Wan Yanquan must make a painful and cruel choice...