Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 147
Knowing that what Chen Yu said must be true, Pan Mei picked up the horsewhip and slapped Chen Yu hard, causing his face to be bruised, and shouted sharply: "How dare you lie to me, tell the truth!"

Chen Yu is just a treacherous and sycophant who relied on self-eunuch to get to the top, how can there be half a bone in his body?He covered the welts on his face and screamed, and then trembling, he told the truth.

His narration is rather cryptic, most of the things are not clearly explained, and some important joints are skipped.

But after listening to it, Pan Mei still roughly figured out what happened to the small court of the Southern Han Dynasty in these days.

It turned out that since the Song army broke Yanguan and Anxiongguan, the small court of the Southern Han Dynasty had lost its natural danger. Liu Wei was frightened for a while, and he was indeed moved to surrender. The Song Dynasty has always had the habit of treating the vassal kings of various places favorably, such as Wuyue Qian and Nantang Li Yu are still living well in Tokyo. Although they are powerless, their personal safety is still guaranteed, and they are a proper rich man.

Liu Xuan once summoned his ministers to discuss this matter, but because he still had concerns in his heart, and there were some objections among the ministers, he did not take action for a long time.

However, within a few days, the Song army beheaded Liu Deyi, the captured guard of Yanguan, and Du Fengzhi, the guard of Anxiong, who surrendered voluntarily. The big reversal, especially Liu Deyi, as the clan of the Liu family, failed to receive any favors after being captured. Instead, he was beheaded immediately. Most of my thoughts were extinguished at once.

Liu Wei was unwilling to surrender, but some of the officials and dignitaries below were willing.The small imperial court of the Southern Han Dynasty was weak in military preparations and weak in military strength. The reason why it was able to establish a country in a corner of Lingnan for more than [-] years before was only because the Central Plains had been in constant chaos, and there was no time for him to take care of it for the time being.At present, the Song Dynasty not only settled the Central Plains, but also successively wiped out the separatist regimes in Sichuan Meng, Wuyue, Southern Tang, and Jingxiang Ma. There is only one Liu family in the Southern Han Dynasty who is still lingering.

Anyone with a little bit of brains knows that using Lingnan to fight against the great powers of the Central Plains is bound to fail. Liu Kun changed his attitude and was unwilling to surrender because he was afraid, and the very few ministers who supported him did so out of the idea of ​​"eating the emperor and being loyal to him" "things" integrity.

Unfortunately, however, the number of ministers who were able to maintain the luxury of integrity in the smoky Southern Han court was obviously very small.More and more people just want to quickly take refuge in their new master and hug Da Song's thick legs first. Only in this way can they preserve their wealth and status.

The next thing is going to be a matter of course. Since Liu Wei and a very small number of pedantic ministers do not enter the coffin and do not cry, of course these smart people don't mind, and they sell their king and those who don't know the current affairs for a good price. .

Therefore, these smart people quickly hooked up in private, and after a secret discussion, they recommended Chen Yu to sneak out of Panyu City with more than ten attendants and valuable gifts, and took the initiative to seek Song Jun to surrender.

"...General Mingjian, we are sincerely submitting to the Song Dynasty, and I beg the general to accept it!" After Chen Yu finished speaking, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to Pan Mei
Pan Mei felt a little dizzy. The complexity and weirdness of the current situation was beyond his expectation. I'm afraid it was also not in Zhao Dezhao's expectation. If the king does not surrender, the minister surrenders, what the hell is this? one thing?So does this count as surrender, or are they allowed to surrender?

He put on a serious face and said coldly: "So, are you going to contact me privately behind Liu Yuan's back?"

A flattering smile appeared on Chen Yu's face, and he said respectfully: "I'm so stupid and incompetent, I want to drag the people in Lingnan to resist the Heavenly Soldiers of the Song Dynasty. , know the current affairs, know where the destiny of the destiny is, I really can't bear Liu's selfishness of his family, let the people donate their flesh and blood to the grass, so I have to come to contact the Song Tianbing, it is definitely not intentional betrayal of the master!

After saying that, Chen Yu took out a letter from his arms, raised his hands respectfully above his head, and said respectfully: "The details are all in this letter."

Pan Mei raised her chin as a gesture, and immediately a soldier took the letter and forwarded it to him.

This is a letter of request for surrender. The body is rich in rhetoric, but there is no real content. It is just some gossip that goes through the motions, nothing more than trying to exaggerate the meaning of sincerity and submission.Pan Mei is just a samurai who is fluent in writing and ink. He is neither interested in these things nor has the intention to read them carefully. The paper, this is the useful and serious content.

Nowadays, this piece of paper has a special title called "Fu Kai", which is usually used to describe some content that is inconvenient to write in the text.The content of this enclosed letter is to request Song Bing to preserve their family property as a whole after entering Panyu City, and a list is attached at the end.

The first name on the list was Chen Yu, who was the Minister of War in the Southern Han Dynasty and was also titled the Crown Prince and Tutor. Each name was followed by his current official position, which was exactly what Pan Mei expected. , these people are almost all highly respected and hold important positions.

Pan Mei counted them silently. There were 23 names in total, which accounted for almost half of the prominent and important positions in the Southern Han Dynasty. Such a group of people would rush to lead the way. If the Liu family's court could still survive, it would be impossible. That’s right.

A few days ago, Zhao Dezhao ignored everyone's advice and killed the captured Southern Han clan general Liu Deyi. Pan Mei strongly disapproved of it at the time. Although he was still respectful to Zhao Dezhao in words, he hit him. From the bottom of my heart, I thought that His Highness was simply acting recklessly. He killed and surrendered prisoners so wantonly. How could the enemy dare to surrender and surrender later?
But today, after witnessing the ugly appearance of a dignified Minister of the Ministry of War and the Prince Taifu of the small court of the Southern Han Dynasty, and seeing the list of leading parties of the small court of the Southern Han Dynasty presented by this person, Pan Mei suddenly felt a little nervous. I can understand Zhao Dezhao now - such a group of shameless and greedy silverfish really can't allow them to surrender smoothly, and they really have to find an opportunity to kill them all and clean them up!

Otherwise, once they are allowed to change their families smoothly and become the courtiers of the Song Dynasty, not to mention that the Song Dynasty court not only added many redundant officials for nothing, but also allowed them to do evil in the local area, the future troubles will be serious!
(End of this chapter)