Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

That night, Zhao Chen and others rested in the Zhongjing Palace.

Many soldiers of the army have also entered the palace! They have just arrived in Zhongjing City and haven't built a military camp. The place is vast and they happen to live here! Of course everyone knows that the palace is important, and no one dares to walk around at will, let alone flip or destroy things!

Early the next morning, when the sky was just getting light, Zhao Chen led the army generals to inspect the situation in Zhongjing City.

There was a lot of snow outside, and it didn't take long before everyone's heads were already white.

After walking for a full quarter of an hour, they came to a porridge shed in the south of the city. They saw a few cauldrons placed there. The cauldron was radiating heat. A dozen soldiers stood in front of the cauldron. The common people of Zhongjingcheng scattered porridge.

There are many people in the surrounding city of Zhongjing, all of them in ragged clothes and hungry faces. Among these people, there are elderly women and young men, but the young men are also weak and weak. They crowded together and pushed each other. The scene was very chaotic.

The cold faces of the children were flushed, and they were holding broken bowls in their hands, looking eagerly at the cauldron of porridge in front of them, with saliva flowing from the corners of their mouths.

The number of people is extremely large, and there are soldiers around to maintain order.

Zhao Chen and others have already arrived here. The soldiers are performing their missions, so it was a simple military salute. Zhao Chen nodded and these soldiers continued their work.

"The people here have not eaten enough for a long time." Qu Duan said.

"Don't say they are full, they are considered lucky if they didn't starve to death." Liu Qi said.

"Yanjing city will soon have food delivered, let them spend this winter anyway." Zhao Chen said.

They were talking here, only to see a woman stumbled up to them and was stopped by the guard.

This woman is extremely thin in dress, her body is extremely thin, almost skinny, she doesn't have much hair on her head, and she looks prematurely aging! Her face is yellowish and her lips are chapped! After she came to the crowd, they discovered that she was still holding a two-year-old baby in her arms. The baby was also small, thin and skinny. The baby seemed to be crying, but the voice was too small for everyone to hear. clear.

"Masters, please give me something to eat?" The woman knelt there and kept kowtow, her voice also weak. But listening to her voice, this is a Han Chinese woman.

Seeing such a scene, Zhao Chen sighed slightly.

"Give them some of the food we brought!" Zhao Chen said.

When they came out of the palace, some meals from the general were brought out to cope with this situation.

At the moment, a guard took a few steamed buns with fat in them, and they handed it over to the women.

After the woman took the steamed bun, she could see that her body was shaking. This was because she was too excited!

She didn't have time to say more, and hurriedly gnawed the steamed bun in her hand. After a few bites, she started to feed her child! The child was crying, but after eating, the cry stopped immediately! After another while, a smile appeared on the child's face! Seeing the child’s smile, the Han woman’s eyes filled with tears. She once again kowtow to Zhao Chen and others to express her gratitude.

"Master, let's do it!" When people around saw the scene here, they were rushing towards here. The guards tried their best to block these people, and then all these people knelt on the ground and kept pointing at Zhao. Chen and others kowtow.

"Distribute all the food we brought! Give more to the elderly and children! Don't mess up, don't grab!" Zhao Chen said.

At the moment the guards were distributing the food, and the citizens of Zhongjing who had received the food desperately stuffed it into their stomachs. Many people hadn't eaten the food for many days, and they were all excited at this moment.

After these people had finished eating, there were people lining up at the cauldron for making porridge, but most of them bowed and bowed and thanked them.

There are Khitans and Hans, and their numbers are not very different. The Han people have lived in the northern grasslands for more than two hundred years, and they have long been regarded as aborigines here. Under such difficult conditions, the Khitan and Han people no longer have ethnic estrangements between each other, which is very different from the situation in Yanjing City. Shangjing and Zhongjing were among the first places to be invaded by Jurchens. The exploitation of Jurchens here was much more fierce, while the city of Yanjing was captured by Jurchens before the fall of the Song Dynasty. In addition, the 16th prefecture of Yanyun was originally a rich land. It's not as hard as here. The Han and Khitan people in Zhongjing City are at the bottom of society and cannot survive. In the past, even if there were ethnic conflicts, they have long since disappeared. In such an era, who is better than those?

"Get up all, I have something to say!" Zhao Chen couldn't help but say when he looked at the people of Zhongjing City who knelt down and bowed.

Some of the people stood up, but there were also people who were weak and had difficulty getting up. They had to crawl to get up slowly.

"I am Zhao Chen, Emperor Xuanwu of the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Chen said.

what!

Hearing this, the citizens of Zhongjing City stayed there all of a sudden, and then everyone hurriedly knelt down again! In ancient times, the emperor held the supreme position, regardless of the Liao and Song dynasties! When these people heard that the person in front of them was the emperor, they were both terrified and surprised! Since ancient times, it is extremely rare for the emperor to personally provide disaster relief, and it is generally only an official relief. It is rare that the emperor went to see the victims in person.

There were long live voices all around, and the citizens of Zhongjing who were vying for porridge, saw the scene here, and knelt down in a hurry! Everyone knows what "long live" means, which means that the emperor has arrived.

"I want to ask you, how have you been in these years?" There was silence around, Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

The surrounding people were stunned. They didn't know what the emperor meant, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense. After a while, the Han Chinese woman with a child said, "Your Majesty, we had a bad time! When I was young, although the family worked hard, but I still had food, but when I was ten years old, the Jurchen invaded, and until now, our life is not as good as the previous dog."

Hearing this, there was a burst of laughter around.

"Yes, the life of the people in the north is not as good as that of a dog in the past! I also want to ask you, do you hate war?" Zhao Chen said.

This time, there were voices that should be, and countless people nodded.

"From the rise of Jurchen, first the battle of Jin Liao, then the battle of Jin and Song, it has been more than 20 years together! In the past 20 years, the people have suffered so much, and everything is because of Jurchen! I led the army to come today. Here, I defeated Jurchen in one fell swoop! And in the Central Plains, I have defeated two hundred thousand Jurchens and captured the second prince of Jurchen alive! Now only one hundred thousand Jurchens of Liaodong are left, but they are definitely not my opponents of the Great Song Dynasty! From now on, the world will be peaceful and there will be no more wars! Just like twenty years ago, you can live a peaceful life! From now on, you will no longer have to suffer from wars!" Zhao Chen said.

The people around were startled in consternation and then in disbelief, and soon there was a whispering voice from below.

"There will be land, clothes, and food. This is my promise to you from the emperor of Song Dynasty! As long as you follow me and Song Dynasty, everything will be fine, just like 20 years ago. , Even more than twenty years ago!" Zhao Chen said.

No one has ever said such words to these poor people. After hearing these words at this moment, the people's faces are full of surprise expressions. This is an expression of imagining a happy life in the future!

"Whether it is the Khitan people, the Han people or the Xi people, they are all people of the Song Dynasty. Under the rule of the Song Dynasty, everyone can live a happy life. This is the responsibility of the court and the government!" Zhao Chen said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Finally, there were waves of grateful voices from below.

The porridge shed is still serving porridge. Zhao Chen, Qu Duan and others have already left here and headed for the next place. In the alleys by the roadside, you can see many dead people who died of freezing and starvation. There is nothing in the whole city. Animals like cats and dogs, those animals have either been eaten by humans or have escaped from this desperate city! Don't talk about cats and dogs, even a mouse is hard to find in the city!

Zhao Chen once again saw what it means to let the people fail to live, and what it means to be charcoal! Historically, from the rise of Jurchen to the south of Mongolia, the people of the world suffered from wars, and the population of the Han was reduced by more than half. As for the Khitan, Xi and other famous clans in ancient times, they have completely disappeared in later generations! The Northern War has been going on for so many years, now is the time to let it end.

They went from one porridge shed to another porridge shed, constantly pacifying the people and using the situation in Beijing.

When passing by another congee shed in the afternoon, there was a girl in white clothes in the alley quietly watching the scene here, listening to Zhao Chen and others talking to the people.

The girl's face had a thoughtful expression.

"The people all over the world have suffered so much. Now is the time to let the suffering end. He was right!"

"Guo Yaoshi wants to assassinate him. If Guo Yaoshi is really successful, the world will be in chaos and the people will suffer disaster again, so I must not let this happen, I will stop Guo Yaoshi!"

The girl stood here for a while, heading towards the east of the city.