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Seeing that Shi Li'ai couldn't make up his mind to go north to invest in gold because he was worried about his family, Ximenqing also expressed his understanding and did not persuade him to go north.
At this time, Ximen Qing couldn't tell Shi Li'ai that in about two years, the Jin Army would capture the Yanjing area, and the Shi family in Xincheng County would become subjects of the Jin Kingdom.
It's better to let this kind of appalling prophecy rot in your stomach, don't frighten the old man Shi Liai.
Shi Liai chatted with Ximen Qing, and after discussing the various misadministration of the Song Dynasty in the Yanjing area, she said to Ximen Qing that although it is inconvenient for her to leave the new city and go north, the friendship of old friends cannot be ignored.Therefore, he also planned to write some letters for Ximen Qing to bring back to Pingzhou and send people to the people in the city, trying to help Ximen Qing and Wanyan Zongwang recruit the generals of Pingzhou.
Shi Liai once served as the Jiedu Envoy of the Liaoxing Army in Pingzhou and the commander of the Han Army. The officials and generals of the former Liao Kingdom in Pingzhou and Yingzhou were all his subordinates.Although Zhang Jue, who was sent by local forces to control the military power in Pingzhou, caused Shi Li'ai to be emptied for a time and was unable to command Zhang Jue, the deputy governor of the Liao Xing Army, but except for Zhang Jue's confidantes, many middle- and lower-level officials and soldiers were very concerned about Shi Li'ai. Li Ai is still very respectful.
These letters of Shi Li'ai may really have some effect.
After Ximen Qing received Shi Li'ai's autographed letter, in order to avoid complications, he left Shi's house very quickly, and took Jiao Ting and other subordinates on the way back to Yingzhou.
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In Bianliang City, Tokyo, after some secret discussions between Song Huizong and the ministers, he was still afraid of the strong force of the Jin army and gave up the plan to take back the two states of Ping and Ying.This also means that Zhang Jue, Zhang Dungu and others have lost their use value and have become abandoned sons of the Song court.
After discussing with the important ministers, Song Huizong replied to Wang Anzhong with a secret decree, ordering him to behead Zhang Jue in a secret place first, and then hand it over to the Jin army, and use his head to calm the anger of the Jin Kingdom over the Pingzhou incident.
After Wang Anzhong received the secret decree, he ordered people to trick Zhang Jue from Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army into his own mansion, and arrested him.After announcing Zhang Jue's various crimes of supporting his own self-respect, attempting to restore the Liao Kingdom, and destroying the friendship between Song and Jin, Wang Anzhong ordered Zhang Jue to be strangled to death.
Zhang Jue never expected that the Song Dynasty, which he had placed high hopes on, would be so weak that he would betray himself in order not to offend the Kingdom of Jin.
Before he died, Zhang Jue yelled at the Song Dynasty for being capricious. He was blind and believed in these perfidious Song people.However, Zhang Jue woke up at this time, but it was too late, and Wang Anzhong ordered someone to strangle him to death unmoved.
After Zhang Jue's death, Wang Anzhong ordered his head to be chopped off, filled with mercury, and then ordered the messenger to send the head to the camp of the Jin Army outside Pingzhou City.
Wang Anzhong and Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty in Bianliang City in Tokyo thought that killing a Liao general who had lost his army and territory would calm the incident and restore peace to Yandi. Planted the seeds of unimaginable disaster.
Like Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng Army, Zhang Jue was originally a general of the Liao Kingdom, and then defected to the Song Dynasty one after another.
Now that Zhang Jue was executed by the Song Dynasty as a political victim, everyone in the Changsheng Army grieved and wept for him.
Guo Yaoshi was originally from Liaodong, so according to the covenant agreement between Song and Jin, he should also belong to Jin.With tears in his eyes, he said to the people around him, "I don't know how the imperial court will deal with it if the Jin people come to ask for my head?"
Chapter 867 The Aftermath of Zhang Jue's Rebellion
Song Dynasty thought that by killing Zhang Jue, he would be able to erase the stain of betraying his allies, so how could he know that the trouble would not be so easy to settle.
The death of Zhang Jue not only chilled the hearts of Guo Yaoshi and the soldiers of the Changsheng Army, but also made the Han people in the land of Yanyun dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty. protect them as their own people.
At the same time, Jin Jun was also relentless and entangled endlessly.
After Zhang Jue's head was sent to the camp of the Golden Army in Yingzhou, Wanyan Zongwang sent a letter to Wang Anzhong, the appeasement envoy of Yanshanfu Road, saying that since the two countries have an oath of alliance, it states that Pingzhou belongs to me, and now we Dajin attacked Pingzhou to fight against the rebels, and you Dasong should subsidize our food and wages.
Wanyan Zongwang's request was definitely not unreasonable.It was stipulated in the covenant between Jin and Song that when the Jin army attacked the Liao Kingdom in Yanyun, the Song Dynasty had to provide food and grass for the Jin army.
When Zhang Juejun rebelled in Pingzhou, he used the banner of the Liao Kingdom to the outside world.The Jin army attacked Pingzhou. According to the covenant, the Song Dynasty should supply food and grass.
Facing Jin Jun's forced demand, the Song court knew that it was in the wrong, and the reason for colluding with Pingzhou was in the hands of Jin Jun.In order to calm things down and not to tear up the face with Jin Guo, the Song court had no choice but to meet Wanyan Zongwang's request.
Therefore, Da Song, who had just named Pingzhou as the Taining Army, now sees Pingzhou being besieged and dare not rescue it.On the other hand, Yanshan Mansion also sent them a large amount of food and grass according to the requirements of the Jin Army.
The people of Yan became more and more aware of the weakness and incompetence of the Song Dynasty. People of insight such as Shi Liai were unwilling to go out to serve the Song Dynasty.
After Ximen Qing returned to Yingzhou with the letters provided by Shi Liai, he cooperated with Wanyan Zongwang and sent people to send these letters one by one.
Some of these letters were written to aristocratic families in Ping and Ying prefectures.
Those aristocratic families originally formed their own villages to protect themselves and stayed behind closed doors, secretly watching the competition between the Jin and Song Dynasties for Pingzhou.
After receiving Shi Li'ai's personal letter, the big families in Pingzhou and Yingzhou responded to the call and threw themselves into the arms of the Jin army one after another, contributing money, food and labor to the Wanyan Zongwang army, and Pingzhou city was completely isolated.
After Zhang Jue was killed, there was no leader in the city of Pingzhou.
Ximenqing and Wanyan Zongwang seized the opportunity to send Shi Liai's letter into the city, and hung Zhang Jue's head outside the city of Pingzhou for public display.
After learning that Zhang Jue was betrayed by the Song Dynasty to the Jin army and Pingzhou had no foreign aid, the people in Pingzhou were panicked, and many people lost their fighting spirit.
After reading Shi Li'ai's letter of surrender, city officials Zhao Minyan and Zhang Jun led dozens of people and gold, silver and jewels in the official treasury to flee the city and join the Jin army camp.
After Wanyan Zongwang accepted the gold, silver and jewels with a smile, he gave them to Ximen Qing in a blink of an eye as a reward for purchasing Ximen Qing's food.
With the supply of food and grass provided by the Song court and the support of the big families in Ying Erzhou, Wanyan Zongwangjun solved the problem of food and grass, and there is no need for Ximen Qing to transport it by sea for the time being.Therefore, Ximenqing transported the subsequent grains from the sea to the mainland of Jin.
The conscience of senior official Ximen Qing will not hurt at all for distributing the war wealth of the Jin and Liao countries.
Some people in Pingzhou City went out of the city to invest in gold, but Zhang Chungu, who was regarded as the governor, still led the soldiers in the city to guard against death, and did not bow to the Jin army.
With food and grass guaranteed, the Jin army was not in a hurry to attack the city desperately. Instead, they deployed troops and horses outside the city, blocked the Pingzhou army in the city, and waited for them to sit on the mountain and surrender without a fight.
In order to break the stalemate, Zhang Dungu led troops out of the city to fight the Jin army several times in an attempt to break the Jin army's blockade, but he was Wanyan Zongwang's opponent, and was defeated by the Jin army every time he tried.
Facing the powerful Jin army, Zhang Dungu's army finally lost the confidence to stick to it.After holding on for two months, Zhang Dungu accepted the Jin army's offer to surrender, and surrendered to the Dajin Kingdom conditionally.
The so-called condition is to hope that Jin Guo will retain Zhang Dungu's post as the governor of Pingzhou, and let him and his Han army continue to station in Pingzhou.
After discussing with Ximenqing and others, Wanyan Zongwang accepted Zhang Dungu's conditions.
Therefore, Zhang Dungu opened the gate of Pingzhou city and led the crowd to surrender to the Jin army.
Just like when they attacked Liaodong in Liaodong, the Jin army did not enter the city after accepting Zhang Dungu's surrender outside the city.
After the battle of Pingzhou was over, Wanyan Zongwang was about to return to the capital, Ximenqing completed the task of assisting him, and followed him to leave Yingzhou and head north to Huining City.
The Jin army stationed in Yingzhou City was once again handed over to the command of Wanyan's mother.
In the Kingdom of Jin, the influence of the Zhang Jue Rebellion subsided temporarily, but in the territory of the Song Dynasty, the troubles and influences were still fermenting.
When Zhang Jue rebelled, he published an article to encourage the Yandi Han people who had been relocated by the Jin army to return to Yanjing City, saying that the Song court would properly accommodate them.Many Han people in Yandi believed it was true, and returned to Yanjing City from Pingzhou excitedly.
However, these Yandi Han people still don't understand that it was the Song court who betrayed them in the first place.
The Song Dynasty asked the Jin army to forcibly relocate these wealthy Han people in Yandi, in order to occupy their land for free and distribute it to the Changsheng army for cultivation.
Therefore, when these people returned to Yanjing City, they realized that their land and property had been divided up by the soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army, and they became paupers with nothing.
Many Yandi Han people who fled back to Yanjing City were not reconciled, so they went to the magistrate's yamen of Yanshan Prefecture and the Xiongzhou Xuanfu Division's yamen to file a lawsuit, demanding that the Changsheng Army return their land and property.
However, Guo Yaoshi's tens of thousands of ever-victorious troops played an important role in Yanshan Mansion, and these lands were given to them by the imperial court to settle down. Now that the land is planted, can they be easily taken back?
The conflict between the Han people in Yandi and the Changsheng Army fighting for land became a headache for the Song Dynasty court, and Song Huizong's monarchs and ministers couldn't solve it for a while.
This incident was originally an extremely shameless thing that the Song court did to the Han people in Yandi.
If the Jin army moved these people to Liaodong smoothly, of course this dirty thing would not be exposed in broad daylight.
However, Zhang Jue made such a fuss in the middle, but unexpectedly broke the shady scene of this matter.