Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Xiemao Ali comforted Wanyan Zongwang: "Second prince, you don't let the army enter the city to disturb the people, it is your kindness to the people in the city. That Zhang Dun is stubborn and unrepentant, trying to use an isolated city against our army of the Jin Kingdom, it is nothing but Wishful thinking. Such repeated villains will surely have their day of defeat, the second prince calm down."

"Xiemao Ali, you lead the army to break through the counties and counties under the rule of Pingzhou, and turn this Pingzhou city into a truly isolated city. My mother and uncle and I set up camp outside the city, trapping the rebels in the city to death!"

Wanyan Zongwang said to Xiemao Ali.

"The last will obey!"

Xiemao Ali took the order and took an army to recover the prefectures and counties of Pingzhou and Luanzhou.

Wanyan Zongwang's army set up camp outside Pingzhou City, surrounded Pingzhou City, and threatened the defenders to offer the city and surrender.

After Zhang Jue's defeat, he fled into Yanshan Mansion in a hurry and took refuge in the Changsheng Army of his old acquaintance Guo Yaoshi, hoping to use the strength of the Changsheng Army to counterattack the Jin Army.

At this time, Zhang Jue's brother Zhang Qi parted ways with Zhang Qi halfway, and secretly returned to Pingzhou City.

It turned out that Zhang Qi also fled to Yanshan Mansion with Zhang Jue. Halfway there, the soldiers who had fled from Pingzhou City chased him up and told him that someone in the city had arrested his parents and handed them over to the Jin Army.

Hearing that the Jin army had captured his parents, Zhang Qi was eager to save people, so he took the emperor's handwritten edict of the Song Dynasty and gave it to his brother, and rushed to the Jin army's camp overnight to surrender, intending to exchange the edict. The lives of parents, sister-in-law and nephew.

But when Zhang Qi arrived at the camp of the Jin Army, all his family members had been killed by the Jin Army.After Zhang Qi, who was kept in the dark, presented the imperial edict written by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was also killed by Wanyan Zongwangjun.

After the Jin Army obtained the imperial edict of the Song Dynasty emperor to surrender Zhang Jue in Pingzhou, it can be said that he had grasped the ironclad evidence of the Song Dynasty's betrayal of the alliance.

The entire Jin army was resentful and resentful because the Song Dynasty tore up the contract.

Wanyan Zongwang led his army to besiege Pingzhou City, claiming to flatten Pingzhou.On the one hand, he sent the imperial edict of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty back to the capital and handed it over to Emperor Wanyan Wu to beg for it. He complained bitterly about Song Guo's treachery, and asked the emperor to beware of Song Guo's betrayal of the alliance and stop ceding the land of Xijing.

At this time, in Huining City, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, Ma Kuo and other envoys from the Kingdom of Song were negotiating with the new emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai about the delivery of the Yunzhong prefectures in Xijing after mourning the Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda.

Suddenly, the undeniable evidence that the Song Dynasty betrayed the alliance and accepted Zhang Jue came back from Yingzhou, which disgraced the envoy of the Song Dynasty Ma Kuo and others, and the results of the negotiation were also wasted.

Fortunately, Wanyan Wu Qimai had just ascended the throne and was busy balancing several major political forces in the country. He was not yet willing to turn against the Song Dynasty because of this matter, so he did not embarrass Ma Kuo and others.

Even so, Ma Kuo and others were too embarrassed to stay in the Kingdom of Jin to ask for land, and they immediately packed their bags and set off to return to the Song Dynasty in a disheveled state.

After Zhang Jue fled to Yanshan Mansion, he was taken in by his old friend Guo Yaoshi.

Soon, Guo Yaoshi received information that Zhang Jue's general Zhang Dungu was holding on to Pingzhou City, and the Jin army had not won the city.

Therefore, Guo Yaoshi took Zhang Jue to see Wang Anzhong, and Zhang Jue asked Wang Anzhong to send all the soldiers on Yanshan Fulu to help him repel the Jin army and break the siege of Pingzhou.

How dare Wang Anzhong go to war with the Jin army? He comforted Zhang Jue, saying that the Song and Jin countries are still allies, and he must not rashly send troops to fight.

Wang Anzhong asked Zhang Jue to hide in Guo Yaoshi's army to avoid the limelight and wait for the imperial court's order.

Zhang Jue questioned inexplicably, Pingzhou has now been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty, it is the land of the Song Dynasty, and he is also the Jiedushi of the Song Dynasty.Why did the Jin army attack Pingzhou, but the Song army had to watch from the sidelines?

Wang Anzhong was speechless, and could only forcibly send Zhang Jue away in the name of needing the court's decision.

Zhang Jue had no choice but to change his name to Zhao Xiucai and hide himself in the Changsheng Army.

At this time, Ximenqing and his party also rushed to Yingzhou, and met with his wife and uncle Wanyan Zongwang in the camp of the Jin Army.

Wanyan Zongwang read the letter from Emperor Wanyan Wu begging to buy, and heard Ximenqing say that it was because he agreed to his mother's request that he came all the way to help him. He was overjoyed and left Ximenqing in the army to advise him. .

A few days later, the first batch of grain and grass promised by Ximenqing was shipped to Yingzhou by sea, so that Wanyan Zongwang's army no longer had to worry about food shortages.

At this time, someone from Yanjing City came to the Jinjun Camp to report that Zhang Jue had fled to the Changsheng Army of Guo Yaoshi in Yanshan Prefecture.

After Wanyan Zongwang received this information, he immediately sent someone to Yanjing City to ask for someone from the Song Dynasty with the negotiating documents asking for Zhang Jue.

The covenant between Jin and Song stipulated that fugitives and refugees from the other side could not be hidden, and Pingzhou belonged to the state of Jin according to the agreement between the two countries. Therefore, Zhang Jue, a traitor from the state of Jin, fled into the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty should arrest him and hand him over. To Jin Guo.

Encountering this difficult problem, Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so they went to the court to ask Song Huizong to decide Zhang Jue's life and death.

After Song Huizong received the urgent report, he ordered them not to surrender Zhang Jue.

Wanyanzong saw that the Song Dynasty refused to surrender, so he repeatedly sent people to Yanjing City to ask for the fugitive Zhang Jue.

Wang Anzhong was overwhelmed, and he didn't dare to offend the Jin army, and he didn't dare to disobey the imperial court's order, so he ordered someone to find a person who looked similar to Zhang Jue, executed him, and handed over the body to the Jin army, trying to confuse him. pass.

Chapter 866 The Betrayed Zhang Jue

In the city of Yanjing, there were many survivors of the Liao Kingdom who opposed the cession of Yanjing to the Song Dynasty by the Kingdom of Jin, and soon informed the Jin army of the real situation in Yanjing City.

What's more, Wanyan Zongwang has occupied the entire surrounding counties of Yingzhou and Pingzhou, and there are also people in Pingzhou who have taken refuge in the Jin army.There are quite a few people who are familiar with Zhang Jue in these places.

Wang Anzhong's plan of "changing the civet cat for the prince" did not succeed.After Jin Jun received the body, he asked someone to identify it, and soon confirmed that it was not Zhang Jue who was killed.

After confirming that Wang Anzhong, the appeasement envoy of Yanshanfu Road in the Song Dynasty, had cheated himself, Wanyan Zongwang was furious, and sent people to Yanjing City again to accuse Wang Anzhong of deceiving the Kingdom of Jin.

How could Wang Anzhong admit it, insisting that the person he killed was Zhang Jue.

Unexpectedly, the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin were well prepared. They not only revealed the true identity of the person who took the place of death, but also said that the Kingdom of Jin had already grasped the situation in Yanjing City and knew that Zhang Jue was now hiding in Wang Xuanfu's Jiazhan Treasury. Inside.

The envoy of the Kingdom of Jin threatened Wang Anzhong and said, "Wang Xuanfu, you have deceived our Kingdom of Jin with falsehoods. Don't you know that my Jurchens value faith the most?"To tell you the truth, the Second Prince was already annoyed. Before leaving, he told me that if your country persisted in not surrendering Zhang Jue, our Dajin Kingdom would send troops to Yanjing City to take Zhang Jue's head himself.

Wang Anzhong heard what the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin said, and knew that he could no longer deny it, so he had no choice but to say that he was deceived by Chang Shengjun's men, and he didn't know about it.Wang Anzhong promised that after he found out the truth, he would give Jin Jun and the second prince Wanyan Zongwang an explanation.I hope that the envoy will bring a message to the second prince, and hope that he will put the friendship between the two countries and the safety of the people as the most important thing, and don't lightly use the sword to provoke a war between the two countries.

After temporarily comforting the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin and sending them away, Wang Anzhong wrote a secret letter to the court without telling Guo Yaoshi, reporting the situation to Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and said that if Zhang Jue was not handed over, the Jin army might be killed. Taking this as an excuse to take military action to attack Yandi, I am afraid that Yanjing City will lose it again.

Wang Anzhong suggested in the secret letter that in order to keep Yandi and prevent the Jin army from invading, Zhang Jue had to be sacrificed.

After receiving Wang Anzhong's secret letter, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty and his ministers just realized that Pingzhou was really a hot potato, and it was not so easy to get.

Now that the mutton is not eaten, it has caused a commotion. Da Song offended Jin Guo by recruiting Zhang Jue and Pingzhou. There is a possibility of military conflict between the two countries.

Faced with such a situation, Da Song had only two choices:

Either in order to take back Pingzhou, he did not hesitate to go to war with the Jin army, and mobilized troops from Yanshan Prefecture, Hebei and other places to enter Pingzhou eastward, and fought a decisive battle with the Jin army commanded by Wanyan Zongwang.

Either give in to the Jin army, hand over Zhang Jue, give up the siege of Pingzhou, and let Pingzhou, which is still holding on, be captured by the Jin army.

When Wang Anzhong sent people eight hundred miles to rush to Beijing to present the secret letter, Ximenqing also quietly came to Yanjing City from Pingzhou, and then continued south to Xincheng County, Zhuozhou.

At the beginning, Yelu Dashi, a famous general of the Liao Kingdom, stationed troops in Xincheng County, Zhuozhou, and defeated Zhong Shidao and Yang Keshi's army in Baigouyi.

But Ximen Qing didn't come to pay tribute to the battle between the Song and Liao armies, he came here to visit Shi Li'ai, a famous scholar from Yandi family recommended by Zuo Qigong.

Shi Li's Aijia is a big family in Xincheng County, because of their kindness and generosity, they are very popular in the local people.After Ximen Qing made some inquiries, he found his residence without much trouble.

At this time, Shi Liai was already 67 years old, but she was healthy and vigorous.

After reading the letters from Zuo Qigong, Yu Zhongwen, Cao Yongyi, Kang Gongbi and other friends, Shi Liai understood Ximenqing's intention.

After Shi Liai pondered for a moment, she frowned and said to Ximen Qing that although she didn't like the rule of the Song Dynasty, she vowed not to be an official in the Song Dynasty.However, Xincheng County has been included in the Song Dynasty, and the Shi family has also become a citizen under the Song Dynasty.

Although Shi Liai could leave by herself, but Shi's family has a big business, and it is impossible for the hundreds of members of the family to abandon the family business in Xincheng County and go north with him.