Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Is it really just because Jiang Hongfei loves women that Jiang Hongfei took all the daughters of the royal family and the royal family of the dynasty he destroyed into his harem?

In fact, the reason why Jiang Hongfei did this was indeed because he loved women, and he really liked to conquer women of status.

But this is only one of the reasons.

Another reason is that if Jiang Hongfei does not take these daughters of the royal family and the royal family, it will be difficult to deal with them.

Let these losers continue to enjoy beauties and have many wives and concubines?

Why? !

Marry these daughters of the royal family and the royal family to the ministers?

What if they whisper to Jiang Hongfei's ministers and let Jiang Hongfei's ministers help them restore the country? Or they sow discord and let Jiang Hongfei and Jiang Hongfei's ministers kill each other?

This kind of thing must be prevented.

The key is that Jiang Hongfei took the daughters of the royal family and the royal family of the destroyed country, which is actually another form of marriage.

You know, one of the reasons why the Zhao family was able to rule the Zhao Song Dynasty was that after nearly 200 years of intermarriage, a large number of the powerful and noble classes of the Zhao Song Dynasty were firmly tied to the Zhao family, forming a strong interest entanglement between them, and they rose and fell together.

Take Zhu Lian as an example:

Zhu Lian's father, Zhu Bocai, had a half-sister who was selected into the palace in her early years and became a concubine of Song Shenzong.

Because Zhu was particularly beautiful, she was deeply loved by Song Shenzong. She gave birth to two sons and one daughter for Song Shenzong and was named Defei. Moreover, her eldest son, Zhao Xu, was lucky enough to inherit the throne, namely Song Zhezong, so her status was even higher.

-In theory, Zhu was the biological mother of the emperor and was the empress dowager, but because Empress Dowager Xuanren Gao and Empress Dowager Qinsheng Xiang were both alive in the harem at that time, Zhu could only condescend to get the title of imperial concubine.

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Xiang were both powerful figures, and Concubine Zhu did not dare to compete with them, so she could only lower her head and obey them.

This made the two empresses very satisfied, and they continued to improve Concubine Zhu's status and her family's status. Concubine Zhu's biological father Cui, stepfather Zhu Shi'an and adoptive father Ren were all posthumously awarded the titles of Grand Tutor and Grand Guardian.

Zhu Bocai also gradually entered the officialdom because of his sister, and eventually became the governor of Wukang Army.

Later, because Zhu Lian was beautiful and talented, she was very famous among the celebrities in the capital, and even Zhao Ji was moved by this woman and specially betrothed her to Zhao Huan, who was still the prince at the time.

After Zhu Lian entered the East Palace, she introduced her cousin Zhu Shendefei to Zhao Huan.

Another daughter of Zhu Bocai, Zhu Lian's biological sister Zhu Fengying, was betrothed to Zhao Kai, Zhao Ji's favorite son, Prince of Yun.

Although Zhu Fengying was a successor, she was also the legal wife and a proper princess.

With the help of the three sisters Zhu Lian, the Zhu family undoubtedly became the new nobles of the Zhao Song Dynasty, with many retainers and resources.

If Jiang Hongfei accepted the three sisters Zhu Lian, the Zhu family would be bound to Jiang Hongfei instead of Zhao, and the power and talents of the Zhu family would definitely be used by Jiang Hongfei.

In fact, many people in the Yuan Empire gave high praise to Jiang Hongfei for his willingness to accept all the daughters of the royal family and clan of the destroyed country, and believed that Jiang Hongfei was very politically wise.

Of course, there must be many flatterers among them.

But then again, Jiang Hongfei accepted the marriage relationship that the royal family and clan of the country he destroyed had worked hard to cultivate for many years, which would indeed be of great help to the Yuan Empire in governing the newly conquered areas and digesting the talents in the newly conquered areas, and it would also allow the Yuan Empire to quickly stabilize the situation.

In fact, even if Jiang Hongfei accepted so many women, there were still many people who felt that Jiang Hongfei had not done enough.

Soon after Jiang Hongfei conquered Yanjing and founded the country, officials from the Yuan Empire submitted a memorial to Jiang Hongfei, asking him to conduct a nationwide selection of beautiful women.

At that time, the Ministry of Rites proposed that all the beautiful women should be selected from the daughters of the civil and military officials of the Yuan Empire, and the daughters of the former Liao Dynasty officials who had just joined the Yuan Empire were the main ones.

That was a large-scale marriage.

Now, Jiang Hongfei has taken over the central city of Bianliang in the Zhao Song Dynasty and accepted a large number of officials from the Zhao Song Dynasty.

For the stability of the Yuan Empire and to appease the hearts of the former Zhao Song Dynasty officials, there must be another selection.

In fact, someone has already whispered to Jiang Hongfei.

What they mean is that there are many women in Jiang Hongfei's harem, but there are too many women from the former Zhao Song Dynasty, and there are also many women from the former Liao Dynasty, while there are relatively few women from the Yuan Empire. They hope that Jiang Hongfei will accept more women from the Yuan Empire to avoid an imbalance in the women in the harem and cause trouble.

Wu Yong, Le He and others told Jiang Hongfei frankly that many people were waiting for this opportunity to get close to the emperor, and suggested that Jiang Hongfei should not let his subjects down.

This is indeed the case.

Recently, Zhang Bangchang, Tang Ke, Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, Fan Qiong and others have been sending their daughters to Jiang Hongfei's harem.

However, Jiang Hongfei can't take care of these things at the moment, as he has too many things to do.

Among them, the two most important things are to control the central system of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Bianliang City, by political means, and to gradually disintegrate the resistance of the Zhao Song Dynasty from a military perspective.

Jiang Hongfei has basically achieved the political control of Bianliang City, at least it is in progress.

However, the gradual disintegration of the resistance of the Zhao and Song Dynasty militarily went astray.

To be honest, I also blame Jiang Hongfei for this matter.

Previously, Jiang Hongfei said on the surface that he valued Zhao Gou, but in fact he really didn't take Zhao Gou seriously.

Before that, Jiang Hongfei felt that his main enemies were Zhongshidao and Yaogu who had entered Hebei and Hedong, as well as the Song army stationed in Xingren Prefecture.

Jiang Hongfei and his ministers made careful arrangements for these three Song armies.

Jiang Hongfei sent Qiao Daoqing, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhe Keqiu, Yelu Dashi and others to deal with Yao Gu, and also sent Chen Xizhen, Yue Fei, Liu Qi, Wang Yan, Wu Lin and others to deal with Zhong Shizhong.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei sent Xiao Jiasui, Wang Zhen, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and others to deal with the Song army in Xingren Prefecture.

All three paths went smoothly.

Qiao Daoqing and others defeated Yao Gu. Yao Gu led the remaining defeated soldiers to withdraw from Hedong and return to Shaanxi.

Chen Xizhen and others defeated the Zhong Division, and Zhong Division died in the battle. His troops were routed south and withdrew from Hebei.

The threats from Hebei and Hedong were easily eliminated.

As for Xiao Jiasui, there was basically no fighting.

Since Gao Qiu ran away and Zhang Shuye was transferred out of Xingren Mansion, Xingren Mansion was given temporary control to Liang Fangping, and Liang Fangping was transferred to guard the Yellow River. The Song army in Xingren Mansion was actually a leaderless bunch. status.

In the past few years, Xiao Jiasui successively defeated Wang Huan, Xu Jing, Jing Zhong, Xiang Yuanzhen, Han Cunbao and other remaining Jiedu envoys. Jing Zhong abandoned his troops and fled without a trace, and almost the entire army of Shijiedu was destroyed.

After Jiang Hongfei captured Bianliang City, Xiao Jiasui went to the Song Army camp alone to recruit surrender.

After assessing the situation, most of the Song troops in Xingren Prefecture felt that the Zhao and Song Dynasty had no hope. Sooner or later, the world would belong to Jiang Hongfei, so they chose to surrender to the Yuan Empire.

These include Generals Water and Fire, Yang Wen, Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, Hu Chun, Cheng Ziming, Liu Menglong, Ji Anbang, Tie Fangliang, etc.

The real problem was with Zhao Gou and his Generalissimo's Mansion.

Before, Jiang Hongfei had always wanted to trick Zhao Gou back and eliminate the Generalissimo's Mansion without any bloodshed, so he did not use military means to eliminate the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Who would have thought that there were experts around Zhao Gou who played a trick on Jiang Hongfei and used a delaying tactic to stabilize Jiang Hongfei.

Of course, this was also because Jiang Hongfei had previously focused his main energy on capturing Bianliang City.

As a result, taking advantage of this period, Zhao Gou, in the name of the general marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, gave an order to the prefectures and counties still under the control of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, asking them to immediately raise troops and come to join him.

Not long after, Qin Fu, Yan Qi and others, deputy general managers of the North Road, led their troops to join Zhao Gou.

Moreover, because the middle part of the Zhongshi division was defeated by the Yuan army, its defeated army was leaderless. His general Zhang Jun and others gathered many troops and surrendered to Liang Yangzu. Liang Yangzu also led Zhang Jun, Miao Fu, Fan Shi, Qi Chao, Gai Yuan and other generals came to surrender to the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Soon, Deputy Marshal Zongze also led two thousand troops to report to the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

Then, other defeated troops also gathered towards the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

In short, the troops who were still willing to accept the rule of the Zhao and Song Dynasties moved closer to the Generalissimo's Mansion.

This made the Generalissimo's Mansion famous, and Zhao Gou's men also gathered a hundred thousand troops.

At this time, Mo Chou came to the Grand Marshal's Mansion with the edict from "Zhao Huan".

Seeing Zhao Huan's edict stating that the Yuan and Song Dynasties had negotiated peace and the war was over, Zhao Gou was asked to immediately dissolve the Generalissimo's Mansion and return to Bianliang City. Zhao Gou immediately covered his face and wept: "This edict must have been taken by the Yuan thieves." What was written under compulsion must not be His Majesty’s true intention.”

Wang Boyan didn't think so. He felt that the peace talks between the Yuan and Song Dynasties were probably true, but he firmly opposed Zhao Gou to go back and die. He also said that Zhao Gou could only contain the Yuan army if he was outside.

Zongze said more directly that Jiang Hongfei was cunning and could never easily negotiate peace with the Zhao and Song Dynasty. The so-called peace negotiation was just Jiang Hongfei's tactic to slow down the war and deceive them, King Qin's division, into disbanding.

Zongze also believed that Bianliang City had been surrounded by the Yuan army for a long time, and they had to go south to Qinwang to rescue them as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Seeing Zhao Gou's hesitation, Zongze said to Zhao Gou: "My father hopes that King Qin's troops will rescue him more than hunger and thirst. The king should immediately gather his troops and go straight to Kaide Mansion to build forts in order to relieve the siege of the capital. If the enemy has other plans, our troops are already under the city, so he will not dare to act rashly."

Although Wang Boyan did not agree with Zhao Gou's return to Beijing, he also opposed Zong Ze's suggestion to go south to King Qin.

Wang Boyan firmly believes that with the current number of people in the Generalissimo's Mansion, going south is going to die. He must do things according to his ability. The top priority now is to find a safe place first, and then continue to summon King Qin's troops. He should also give Fan Ne and Wang Xiang and Zhao Ye wrote a letter, asking them to bring all the soldiers and horses they took away to the Generalissimo's Mansion. They also wrote to Shaanxi and asked the Western Army to come and join them. The key was to write to Tong Guan and let Tong Guan accept it. The commander of the Generalissimo's Mansion waited until the Generalissimo's Mansion gathered all the soldiers and horses from all over the country before he could go to King Qin to rescue him.

Wang Boyan also suggested that Zhao Gou first go to Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing, which is well connected in all directions. The key is that there are no Dayuan troops active there yet.

Neither Zongze nor Wang Boyan could convince anyone.

Zhao Gou, on the other hand, was undecided.

On the one hand, Zhao Gou felt that what Wang Boyan said was obviously more reasonable.

But on the other hand, Zhao Gou was worried that if he didn't rescue him, his mother Wei Shi, his princess Xing Bingyi, his concubines Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei, and his five daughters would be in danger. After all, Jiang Hongfei was a good daughter. Sex is well known to the world, and Jiang Hongfei is particularly good at seizing the wives and daughters of his enemies. In addition, he is also worried that the Zhao family's country and country will not be preserved.

After Geng Nanzhong learned about this, he arranged for Pan Yongshou, the official of Zhihanlin Medical Bureau, to take his daughter Pan to visit Zhao Gou.

That night, Pan stayed to comfort Zhao Gou's hesitant mind.

The next day, Geng Nanzhong told Zhao Gou the story of Liu Bang abandoning his son and escaping for his life, and then told Zhao Gou the story of Liu Bang's father, wife and all his family members being captured by Xiang Yu.

Zhao Gou was greatly inspired and felt that even if Jiang Hongfei really played with his wife and concubines, what would happen? Why should a man be without a wife? Then he made up his mind to go south to Nanjing to seek refuge in Yingtian Mansion.

Regarding Zhao Gou's decision, most people in the Generalissimo's Mansion had no objections and even praised Zhao Gou for being wise.

Only a few people, including Zongze, firmly opposed Wang Boyan's deployment. They believed that Zhao Gou's choice was a big mistake and the consequences would be disastrous. He insisted on leading his troops to Kaide Mansion.

Zhao Gou could not defeat the stubborn Zongze and agreed to let Zongze lead his 3,000 troops to the Kaide Mansion area, and said to Zongze: "The deputy marshal can tell people along the way that King Kang is in the army.", he thought. Let Zongze help him attract firepower.

Zongze was not afraid because he only had 3,000 troops, but went to Kaide Mansion without hesitation, preparing to go south to King Qin to rescue him.

After Zongze left, some people, including Chen Que, the commander of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Liu Hao, the commander of the former army vanguard, and Shang Gongxu, the commander of the right army, privately said that Zhao Gou was unfaithful, unfilial, ruthless, and unjust. His mother, wives and concubines, five daughters, and the entire clan were trapped in Bianliang City and were humiliated by the enemy in every possible way. However, he only focused on escaping and only cared about his own survival and enjoyment. He did not think about rescue or revenge. He was a man in vain and praised the sect. Ze is a loyal minister and good general, and he will become a hero in the future.

Zhao Gou blushed and did not dare to refute because of his guilty conscience.

Seeing this, Geng Nanzhong gave Zhao Gou an idea and asked Zhao Gou to take this opportunity to send those who did not obey Zhao Gou's command to reinforce Zongze.

Zhao Gou felt that Geng Nanzhong's idea was very clever, so he appointed Chen Que as the commander of Zongze's department, Liu Hao as the commander of the front army of Zongze's department, and Shang Gongxu as the commander of the left army of Zongze's department, and ordered them to respectively He led his troops to reinforce Zongze.

The next day, Zhao Gou appointed Chang Jing as the commander of Zongze's right army and set out with his troops; he appointed Wang Xiaozhong as the commander of Zongze's rear army and led his troops to set off.

During this period, Zhao Gou activated a large number of loyal and capable generals such as Zhang Jun, and threw all the thorns in Zongze's hands. Now the army in the Generalissimo's Mansion not only obeys Zhao Gou's command, There is also a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

If Zhao Gou led this group of troops to rescue Bianliang City with Zongze, not to mention, it would indeed pose a certain threat to the Yuan army.

But Zhao Gou didn't want to kill an egg with a stone now. He planned to escape to the south of the Yangtze River to join Tong Guan, and then slowly "rescue Bianliang City."

Jiang Hongfei learned from Zhu Gui and Yan Qing that Zhao Gou was about to run away, and sent someone to warn Zhao Gou that if he did not immediately dissolve the Generalissimo's Mansion and return to Bianliang City, he would attack his mother Wei Xianfei and his concubines; otherwise, he would attack his mother Wei Xianfei and his concubines. , if he returns to Bianliang City, he will return his mother, Concubine Wei Xian, and his concubines to him, and also make him the Marquis of Shuntian, making him prosperous and wealthy for the rest of his life.

Who would have thought that Zhao GouNiao would not follow Jiang Hongfei and led his army to the south without hesitation...

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