Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 570

Today, at a certain time, Dang Jin led his subordinates to patrol the city according to a route that was inquired and arranged in advance, and saw a man from afar, wearing a crown, scarf and fine attire, carrying an eagle in his hand, ostentatiously passing through the city.Dang Jin secretly thought that something was coming, but he shouted angrily on his face: "Which lawless person dares to openly feed an eagle?"Unexpectedly, the man was not in a hurry. He turned around and smiled sarcastically at Dang Jin, and said, "You dare! This is the eagle of Kaifeng Mansion." Feeding falcons and taming falcons.Dang Jin's expression faltered all of a sudden, and the people around him saw that Dang Jin was afraid of Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi's power and arrogance, so he didn't dare to provoke him.

Dang Jin immediately turned his anger into a smile, repeatedly apologizing, and said in his mouth: "Oh! It turns out to be the eagle of Kaifeng Mansion, you must take good care of it, and don't let greedy dogs and cats hurt it."

Seeing this, the onlookers couldn't help laughing, Dang Jin's face flushed, and he hurriedly left with an excuse.After leaving the street, Dang Jin's expression returned to normal, he called a soldier and said, "Go and tell that man named San Lang that his master's favor has been repaid by Dang Jin."

When Dang Jin was on patrol, the incident of being ridiculed by a domestic slave of Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi in the street was fueled secretly by Zhao Pu. In just half a day, it spread in Kaifeng City and became a joke for a while.

Dang Jin is a veteran with outstanding military exploits. He is one of Zhao Kuangyin's uncompromising favorites. Trembling with trepidation, Zhao Guangyi's power and influence can be seen from this.

At the same time, it was also revealed that Zhao Guangyi often wins over the ministers of the DPRK and China by means of treating guests and giving gifts.

For example, one of the secret letters clearly mentioned: Liu Wensou, the former censor Zhongcheng, was a man of integrity and honesty, and his family was very poor.Zhao Guangyi felt that making good friends with clean and honest officials was also a kind of capital, and if they were pulled over to become his cronies, it would be beneficial to improve his prestige.Therefore, he sent government officials to send 500 taels of gold to Liu's house at night.Fearing Zhao Guangyi's power, Liu Wensou dared not refuse in person, so he had to accept it and temporarily store it in a cabinet in the west house of Yushifu, and asked the government officials to affix a seal label.On the Dragon Boat Festival of the second year, Zhao Guangyi sent someone to give Liu Wensou small gifts such as millet and fan.The person who gave the gift was precisely the government official who came to give the gold last year. When he came to Xishe, he saw that the label pasted on the cabinet last year was still intact.As for the gift from Zhao Guangyi, Liu Wensou neither dared to reject it, nor dared to be greedy for ink, and naturally he dared not come forward to report it. This was revealed by a servant in Yushi's mansion.

For another example, someone said in a secret letter that Zhao Guangyi sent someone to send twenty altars of fine wine to veteran Tian Chongjin.Tian Zhongjin refused to buy it, and returned it rudely.The person who came to give the gift was surprised and asked, "This is from the governor of Kaifeng, why didn't you accept it?" Tian Zhongjin replied with a smile, "Thank you to the governor of Kaifeng for me, just say that I, Tian Chongjin, only know that there is an emperor." .”

These are just a few things revealed in the play, which may just be the top of an iceberg above the water, and more serious ones may not be revealed yet.

"This imperial brother is sparing no effort to win over ministers, cultivate party members, and try his best to expand and strengthen his faction. What is he going to do? Is he going to run Kaifeng Mansion into an independent kingdom that can't be splashed or needles inserted? Could it be? Does he really have the heart of disobedience? Really want to stand against him in today's increasingly powerful and full-fledged world?" Zhao Kuangyin felt shivering all over his body, and shuddered.

But he thought about it, this is impossible. Although his younger brother is greedy for power, he has always loved and loved him very much. After all, he is his own elder brother. How could he treat himself like this? Maybe he is aiming at him Prime Minister Zhao Pu, by the way, it must be so.Zhao Pu is also developing his own power. As the first and assistant prime minister, he has a high position and a high position, with power in the government and the public.Guangyi, as Zhen's younger brother, was also the Minister of Zuo Ming who made great contributions in the Chenqiaoyi Mutiny, but he was only granted the title of Yin of Kaifeng. He was dissatisfied in his heart, and he didn't want Zhao Pu, an outsider, to overshadow the sky.Therefore, he deliberately expanded his power and networked his cronies to compete with Zhao Pu.

After much deliberation, Zhao Kuangyin felt that this possibility was the greatest.If this is the case, it would be a good thing. Allowing these two huge political forces to contain each other, offset each other, and adjust themselves in the middle to grasp the balance will be of great benefit to maintaining the stability of the government.

Jin Wangfu.

After Zhao Guangyi learned that General Liu Yonggang of the Forbidden Army spoke ill of himself in front of His Majesty and that his slaves ridiculed the party's progress in the street, he felt that his internal organs were burning, and he was burning with anger.He first had the domestic slave who mocked Dang Jin beaten half to death, and then sent someone to prepare a generous gift and send it to Dang Jin along with the domestic slave.

For Dang Jin to send a heavy military general with such strength, Zhao Guangyi has always been a man, if it is too late to make friends, he will offend him.Unexpectedly, a house slave let him not talk about his antagonism, and this kind of thing still happened at this juncture.Just imagine, if this matter spreads to His Majesty, it is bound to generate more suspicion and dissatisfaction towards him.He has always been very good at hiding in front of his emperor's brother, maybe because of this incident, the emperor's brother really began to doubt him.

Zhao Guangyi frowned and pondered, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was really strange, and there were at least two doubts in it.

First, with Dang Jin's personality, he may be afraid of his own power, but he will never behave so unbearably in front of a domestic slave in public.

Second, although Dang Jin likes to do things by himself, he likes to stay on the city wall most of the time. Although there are patrols in the city, the frequency is not many. In addition, Kaifeng is such a large city with a population of 80, and the number of streets and roads is unknown. The chances of meeting someone in a certain place within a certain period of time are too small.If it was purely a coincidence that Dang Jin met his domestic slave walking the bird, it could only be said that this coincidence was too coincidental.Such a coincidence is not a coincidence for Zhao Guangyi, who is used to plotting and has a dark heart, but a conspiracy of the enemy.

"The old thief Zhao Pu was able to instigate Liu Yonggang and Zhao Jin. It really is a good way. If this is the case, then we can't wait any longer." Zhao Guangyi muttered to himself, his eyes flickering coldly.

Zhao Guangyi secretly made up his mind to bring down the old thief Zhao Pu as soon as possible.After some contemplation, he knew that his Majesty must have noticed the secret fight between himself and Zhao Pu. At this time, if he stepped forward to do something at this time, it might be counterproductive, so he began to look for candidates among the civil and military ministers. He wanted to find those talents, A person whose qualifications and prestige are enough to compete with Zhao Pu, and who can be trusted by Zhao Kuangyin and dare to speak.But to pick and choose, the most suitable one is Ludoxun.

Ye Chen was about to die. Zhao Guangyi thought that moving Zhao Pu to him was not a big problem, but it was not a big problem. However, he did not expect Zhao Pu to fight back so sharply, and even Zhao Pu was able to order the important generals of the forbidden army. This made Zhao Guangyi feel a sense of urgency. He has a sense of crisis, so he has to seize the time to make friends with Ludoxon, carefully search for evidence, and discuss the plan of "downfall".

Just when the army of the Song Dynasty attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty, Feng Gang, one of the three Gods of Wealth of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Huaxia Weifu, was ordered by Ye Chen to come to the foot of the Northeast Wanda Mountain from the sea, and gave it to the largest tribe of the Jurchen tribe here. The royal family of the Jurchen tribe - the Wanyan tribe sent [-] shi of grain and easily became the distinguished guest of the Wanyan tribe.

During this period, the Jurchens had a wide distribution: from the Yalu River and Changbai Mountains in the south, to the middle reaches of Heilongjiang in the north, and to the Sea of ​​Japan in the east.Living between the northeast of Xianzhou (now Kaiyuan, Liaoning) and the Shumo River (now Songhua River), with the Huifa River Basin as the center, it is called "Huiba" (Huiba); living north of the Songhua River, Ningjiang Those who live in the northeast of Fuyu Prefecture (today's Jilin Fuyu Stone Town) and reach the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang are called "Sheng Jurchen"; those who live east of the Wusuli River and near the East China Sea (Japan Sea) are called "Donghai Jurchen".

The Khitan people's policy towards the Jurchens is to implement "divide and rule".They deceived Qiangzong's surname to the Liaodong Peninsula, and incorporated it into Khitan nationality.These people are "mature women".The other part lived in the north of Sumoshui (the northern section of the Songhua River) and the east of Ningjiang Prefecture (now Fuyu County, Jilin Province). These people were "Sheng Juzhen".The descendants of Heishui Mohe are the main body of giving birth to Jurchen.Later, the Wanyan tribe of the Jin Dynasty was established, which was a branch of Shengjuzhen and a direct descendant of Heishui Mohe.

The Wanyan Tribe lived in the upper reaches of the Yalu River and the Tumen River Basin. The Jurchen tribe was composed of Zhuli real people in this area, and they were related to the residents who collected pearls.As a branch of Heishui Mohe, the Wanyan tribe migrated from the meandering river to the bank of the Ash River.The Wanyan family is the royal family of the Jurchen family.The Jurchens moved from Changbai Mountain to the middle reaches of Heilongjiang, while the Wanyan tribe settled in Wanda Mountain.Wanda Mountain, according to legend, is the place where King Jurchen, a member of the Wanyan tribe, has been. The main peak is in Russia on the north bank of the middle reaches of Heilongjiang.

The Liao Dynasty also specially set up some palaces for the purpose of ruling Jurchen with Jurchen.The Northern Jurchen is distributed in the middle reaches of the Liao River, under the jurisdiction of the Northern Jurchen King's Mansion and the Northern Jurchen Military Division in Liao Dynasty.Southern Jurchen: Distributed on the Liaodong Peninsula, under the jurisdiction of the Southern Jurchen King's Mansion and Southern Jurchen Tanghe Division in Liao; It is under the jurisdiction of Changbai Mountain Jurchen Grand Palace; Pulu Maoduo Department; distributed in the Hailan River Basin, Liao established the Pulu Maoduo Department under the jurisdiction of the Grand Prince's Mansion.

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