The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 339 Tong Guan decided to plan, Fang La planned

In the second year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qingxi County fell, and Chen Guang, the county magistrate, fled to Muzhou.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhixin'an in Muzhou Prefecture fell, and the officials Cai Zun and Yan Tan sent to support by the West Zhe Road appeasement department died in battle.

Ye Juzhong and Tong Shu, the commander of soldiers and horses, were sentenced to die for the country. Zhang Huiyan, the magistrate of the state, was sentenced to sentence Zhang Yuan. Chen Guang, the magistrate of the county, fled to Hangzhou.

On the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, six counties under the jurisdiction of Muzhou, Qingxi, Jiande, Suian, Shouchang, Fenshui, and Tonglu, all fell.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yue Yue mobilized Guo Shizhong, the defender of Shezhou on Jiangnan East Road, to attack Fang La, and Guo Shizhong died in Chuanxinling.

In the third year of Xuanhe, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Shezhou prefecture ruled Shexian County and fell.

On the 29th of the first month, six counties under the jurisdiction of Shezhou, Xiuning, Guixi, Jingde, Yixian, Qimen, and Jixi, all fell.

Fangla's army has quickly gathered [-] to [-] people, Liangzhe Road, Liangjiang Road, Lianghuai Road, all the leaders of Mingjiao, big and small, rose up to respond, causing chaos in the southeast.

On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon looked up.

Fang La purged the army below and divided his troops into two groups. One of them was led by himself to Hangzhou, the capital of western Zhejiang, and the other was led by Fang Qifo, heading south to Quzhou on East Zhejiang Road...

At this moment, within the Department of Pacifying Envoys on Zhexi Road, Chen Jian, the Pacifying Envoy of Zhejiang West Road, looked at the three people in front of him with a sad face.

The pacifier of Jiangnan East Road, the pacifier of Huainan East Road, and the pacifier of Zhedong Road.

All the officials of the three frontiers at the border with western Zhejiang gathered in Hangzhou.

Naturally, Chen Jian didn't have that much face to invite three people over, and these three people were transferred by Zhu Xi.

Just now, Zhu Xi gave them a council to discuss how to get rid of Fang La, and then returned to Suzhou in a carriage.

Chen Jian said with a wry smile at the moment: "Master Zhu said just now that he didn't want to disturb Shengjia, and asked me to wait for Silu to find a way to solve this matter. Do you have a good plan?"

The three people in front all frowned and said nothing, Chen Jian sighed: "We only have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the west of Zhejiang, and I heard that the bandit army has reached [-]+, how can we break it?"

Wang Hanzhi frowned and said, "Although Mr. Zhu said he was afraid of alarming the officials, he really didn't report it to the authorities. If the matter is serious, wouldn't he be charged?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "How could I not have thought of this festival? It's just that Zhang Huiyan of Muzhou had reported to the capital once before, but he was reprimanded by Prime Minister Wang and asked me to deal with it at home in West Zhejiang."

Wang Hanzhi and Chen Jian have a good relationship, and after thinking for a while, he said: "I see that Fang La is powerful, and it's completely unreasonable to keep it a secret. If it's true that the whole west of Zhejiang is lost, it's fine if you can't escape, but even if you can escape, It is also a felony!"

How could Chen Jian not have thought of this, but Zhu Xi had been trying to hide it all the time, so he could only obey, now he gritted his teeth and said, "What can Yan Zhao teach me?"

Wang Hanzhi glanced at the other two, and the two appeasement envoys closed their eyes slightly and fell asleep. He said, "Although I have no good plan, I can show Shurong a way."

Chen Jian nodded hurriedly: "Yan Zhao, please tell me quickly, if you can solve the crisis in western Zhejiang, I will be very grateful."

Wang Hanzhi stroked his gray beard: "Chen Yu, the transshipment envoy of the Lianghuai River, is on standby in Beijing. I heard that he has been promoted to a direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, but the dispatch has not yet come down. You are resting at home. You two are old acquaintances. Why don't you?" Ask him for help."

Hearing this, Chen Jian suddenly realized that he and Chen Yun had known each other for many years and discussed the same clan, so he couldn't help clapping his legs and shouted: "Yan Zhao just reminded me, I will write to Humber right now, begging him to move."

Wang Hanzhi continued earnestly: "Walking is walking, Shurong must remember not to lose his hands."

Chen Jian was trying to comfort him all the way, he didn't know what was going on, he gritted his teeth and said, "I know it myself, thank you Yan Zhao for pointing it out."

After all, he didn't shy away from the other two appeasement envoys. They wrote the letter directly, sealed it in a moment, and summoned their relatives to accompany them. They also picked out two confidant officers in the department, brought fifty brave men, and escorted a large cart of valuables. Quietly go to Tokyo...

But in Tokyo Prime Minister’s Mansion, Wang Fu was watching Zhu Man’s secret letter. He looked shocked and said to himself, “Muzhou is broken? This emblem is useless too!”

At this moment, he felt a headache, and hesitated whether to report this matter to the Emperor Daojun. Now that the Emperor Daojun is intoxicated with Feng Hengyu's rhetoric, if he starts to talk about the chaos in the southeast, he will definitely be furious, scolding him for being incompetent in handling political affairs. Evil consequences!Maybe he will be removed from the position of prime minister and demoted to the outside world. Therefore, the last time Zhang Huiyan, the magistrate of Muzhou, reported Fang La for making troubles, but instead he scolded him for being indiscriminate and panicked, and ordered him to suppress it in a timely manner.

But if he didn't report the truth to the officials, Fang La's thieves would become more and more powerful in the future, and even attack Jiangbei, and the Taoist emperor punished him for the crime of deception, and his fate would not be much better.

Wang Fu didn't know what to do, and he was depressed for a while, so he took a few trusted servants and a few loads of specially made candles to Miyagi.

When we arrived at the palace, the Taoist emperor was wearing an embroidered gold and red back clip, and a sapphire crown on his head. The waiter in front was carrying a carved silver incense burner filled with cigarettes, and the maid in the back was holding a glass inlaid jade palm fan, and went to Linqing Baolu Palace to chant scriptures and enlighten Taoism. .

Wang Fu quickly greeted the ceremony and said: "I would like to report to the officials, the ambergris incense candle made by the minister has arrived, and I invite the officials to try it out."

The Emperor Daojun asked him to light it for a try. Wang Fu lit a pair of incense candles. After a while, he saw the flames of the candles flickering, wisps of green smoke rose, and bursts of quiet and elegant fragrance came to his nostrils. The spleen opens the menstrual flow to the bone, clears the mind and regulates qi, and has a long-lasting fragrance.

The Emperor Daojun smelled the fragrance and couldn't help boasting: "Aiqing is really capable. She actually made such a wonderful scented candle, which is rare in heaven and earth! Today I just took this candle to the Qing Baolu Palace to honor the gods. There are many Aiqings. Supervise and make some, and this incense candle will be used in the palace in the future."

"Follow the order of the official family!" After Wang Fu responded, he didn't dare to mention the southeast matter, and after sending the Taoist emperor off, he hurried back to the mansion.

After returning to the mansion, he hesitated more and more in his heart. After repeated consideration, he still decided not to report the matter of Fang La...

Most officials in the southeast were afraid of offending Cai Jing, Wang Fu, and Zhu Yu, but one of them who was not afraid was Chen Xun, the transshipment envoy of Lianghuai Road.

During the Zhenghe period, this Chen Yu was once relegated to his hometown because of his outspoken words that offended Cai Jing. Unexpectedly, there must be a way to appease the envoy.

He is straightforward and good-looking. In the eyes of the Emperor Daojun, he is a lonely and loyal courtier. The Emperor Daojun finds him pleasing to the eye, so he is promoted all the way.

Chen Xun was originally a Beijing official and once bought a family business in Tokyo. At this time, he was waiting for the imperial order at home, and then received a letter from Chen Jian.

When he saw what was written in the letter, he was immediately taken aback, and hastily inquired carefully about the person who came. He heard that Fang La's army was approaching Hangzhou, but because of Wang Fu and Zhu Man's deceit, the imperial reinforcements delayed sending troops to the southeast. Big evil in my heart.

Chen Xun was loyal to the Emperor Daojun, so he thought about it left and right and didn’t report it, but Wang Fu got in the way, so he had to find a way to bypass Wang Fu and report directly to the Emperor Daojun. Even if you go to court, you can't enter the palace, so you have to think of another way.

In the end, he thought about it, looked at the gold and silver belongings Chen Jian had given him, and thought of Zhang Di, the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Zhang Di loves money, so as long as he uses money from Zhang Di and asks Zhang Di to help hand over the memorial, then the matter will basically be accomplished.

Chen Yun did what he said, and tried to find a way to ask Zhang Di out that night. When he told the story, Zhang Di was shocked, and saw a carload of gold and silver, so he took over the matter.

On the second day of court, Emperor Daojun went to Taiqing Xiaozhu to copy the scriptures. Zhang Di looked around and thought about the cart of gold, silver and jewels. In the letter, tremblingly said: "The official family, there is a huge disturbance in the southeast, and the slaves dare not report it to the official family!"

The Emperor Daojun is not afraid to hear the words "Tianxia Taiping", he can listen to it thousands of times, and the more he listens, the more he likes to listen to it, but he only hears this "big chaos" once, and he feels harsh, so he frowned and looked at Zhang Di .

Zhang Di didn't understand Emperor Daojun's temperament, but he was from a rascal background. Now that he opened his mouth, he simply continued to do it all the way. At worst, he would be punished.

He said: "Officials, Muzhou has fallen, Shezhou has fallen, the bandit army from the south of the Yangtze River has already approached Hangzhou!"

Emperor Daojun was taken aback when he heard the words, stepped forward angrily, pulled the folder in Zhang Di's hand, and opened it to look.

At this glance, his face was ugly, and then he threw the memorial on the table fiercely. After staying for a while, he suddenly shouted: "Zhang Di!"

"Bei Nu is here!" Zhang Di was startled, thinking that the Emperor Daojun was going to blame him, so he regretted taking the car of gold and silver.

"Quickly summon Tong Guan for an audience!"

"Yes, official!" Zhang Di breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, got up and ran out.

Half an hour later, Tong Guan and Zhang Di entered the study, sweating profusely.

Emperor Daojun handed Chen Yun's memorial and Chen Jian's letter to Tong Guan. After Tong Guan read it, the two whispered a few words. come over!"

Another half an hour later, Wang Fu came in, saw the expression on the face of the Emperor Daojun, and Tong Guan who was staring at him with angry eyes, and knew in his heart that something might have happened in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Wang Fu, Fang La made a rebellion, and there was a great earthquake in the southeast, how dare you lie to me and keep silent?" the Emperor Daojun asked.

Wang Fu hastily "thumped" and knelt down, took out the emergency memorial that he had prepared a few days ago, and said with tears: "I have long wanted to play the memorial, but I was afraid that your majesty would be distracted from cultivation, so I delayed it for a while. Sharing worries for the country deserves death!"

Emperor Daojun took the memorial and read it again, and his face gradually eased: "The bandits are so rampant, attacking the city and trapping the state, what good strategy do you have?"

Wang Fu rolled his eyes at Tong Guan who was next to him, and said: "The minister ordered Zhao Ting, the prefect of Hangzhou, to stick to Hangzhou, and Chen Jian, the pacifier of Zhexi Road, quickly dispatched troops to suppress the bandits."

Tong Guan sneered and said, "Cai Zun and Yan Tan, the governors of West Zhejiang Road, have already sacrificed their lives for the country, and Chen Jian, the appeasement envoy, cannot protect himself!"

Emperor Daojun threw Chen Jian's letter to Wang Fu: "Look for yourself, Liangzhe Road and Liangjiang Road are rich places, and they are my dynasty's granary and money bank. If the southeast half is lost, the country will not be in danger!"

Wang Fu didn't dare to speak when he heard the words, Tong Guan said: "Officials, I have a plan!"

Emperor Daojun hurriedly said: "Tong Aiqing, come and listen."

"The officials should quickly draw up an edict and issue an edict to appease Fang La. If he is best recruited, if he does not recruit, he will be stabilized first with the edict, and then take advantage of this opportunity to inspect the Imperial Guards in Gyeonggi and at the same time announce the transfer of the elite Western Army. Go south to seek thieves!"

Emperor Daojun heard the words and said: "This plan is very good. I will issue an edict to appease Fang La, and then organize the army to prepare for the robbers!"

Outside the city of Hangzhou, Fangla's battalion continued continuously, almost completely encircling the city of Hangzhou.

At this time, a Chinese military officer entered the commander's tent and reported: "Sheng Gong, there is an envoy from the State of Song outside the tent, claiming to come from Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, and a group of more than ten people want to see Sheng Gong."

Before Fang La could speak, Fang Baihua next to him immediately said, "Where is the axeman? Hurry up and bring the envoy of the Song Dynasty in and chop it up in public!"

The knife and ax hands drank the prestige, each with a knife and gun to catch the messenger, suddenly a person from the class next to him said: "Wait a minute!"

When the generals saw that it was Chen Fan, Fang Baihua frowned and asked, "What did General Chen say?"

Chen Fan said: "You can call the envoy to come in first, see what he said, and find out what the Song army's true and false news is from it. It's not too late to kill after making countermeasures."

Fang La couldn't help nodding after the case: "General Chen is right, call the emissary to come in!"

The envoy sent by Tokyo is surnamed Zhang Mingzhong, he has the status of a fifth-rank official, and he is Tong Guan's godson. He doesn't have any special skills, but he has some courage. Now when he is called outside the tent, he takes a square step Head straight.

After entering the commander's tent, there were rows of soldiers, all of them holding halberds and spears, carrying knives and swords, the cold light was shining, Zhang Zhong couldn't help but shuddered in his heart, took a breath of cold air, and couldn't help but think to himself, this mission as an envoy point, I'm afraid there will be more bad luck than good luck.

He bite the bullet and walked forward, announced his family name, and then explained the reason for his visit, only to see everyone on both sides glaring angrily.

Fang Lachong pressed his hands on both sides: "Does Zhao Ji have a letter?"

Hearing the words, Zhang Zhong immediately took out the imperial decree from his body, and he didn't dare to make the other party bow down, so he just started to chant loudly:

The emperor of the Song Dynasty called for peace, I heard that in Muzhou and other places in the south of the Yangtze River, the mountains and wild mountains have long lost their kingship, so they advocate chaos, and they all abolish the reason of Confucianism. There is no peaceful day in the country, how can my heart be at ease?
As he was reading it, he annoyed dozens of generals. Zheng Biao was so angry that his beard stood on end, his eyes widened, his right hand pressed the hilt of his sword, and his left hand pointed at Zhang Zhong: "You are just a traitor raised by the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Puppy, how dare you violate the name of my Shenggong emperor, even the faint king Zhao Ji will come by himself, and he will kneel and kowtow when seeing my Shenggong!"

"Kneel down! Kneel down!" All the generals on both sides yelled.

Fang Nineteen pulled out the sword from the shark's scabbard and yelled, "You son of a bitch, hurry up and kneel down! How many heads do you have, how dare you despise the Holy Duke?"

"Kneel down! Kneel down! Don't kneel down and break your dog's legs!" The generals and school under the tent roared again.

Zhang Zhonghe had seen this before, even though he was originally bold, he was panicked and soaked in cold sweat, his legs softened, and he knelt down on his knees with a plop, and said tremblingly, "I kowtow to the Holy Duke..."

Fang Nineteen stepped forward to grab the imperial decree and gave it to Fang La. Fang La opened it on the handsome case and looked down:
...Since the world has been enshrined by itself, Zhu Xi has violated my will several times and abused the corvée, causing the fields to be barren, starving, and the people of Yuan Yuan displaced.There may be rumors of demons gathering bandits and advocating chaos, causing disturbances all over the world, or killing officials and robbing riches, attacking cities and looting land, swarms of robbers, and wailing everywhere, which is terrible.I have always been charitable and merciful. As long as Fang La and others can lead the crowd to return, the party members they belong to are fierce and stubborn, and they will be exempted from everything.

This!

Fang La didn't say a word after reading it. After a long while, he suddenly stretched out his hand to wipe the edict. After his palm passed, the edict was shattered like crumbs. He raised his arms, and the crumbs went straight to Zhang Zhong's face. The face was bloody.

Zhang Zhong was so frightened that he quickly kowtowed on the ground, "Shenggong, the two countries are at war, so don't behead them!"

Fang La snorted coldly, swordsmen came from both sides, first knocked off his official hat, then tied his shoulders and wrists tightly, and dragged him out of the big tent.

After Zhang Zhong was beheaded for a while, the people accompanying him outside were scared out of their wits and were escorted into the tent.

Fang La looked at the passers-by and said coldly: "Bring that man's head back to Tokyo and give it to the faint king Zhao Ji, and say that the Holy Father will take Tokyo to take his life sooner or later. Is it possible?"

A group of people hastily kowtowed and agreed, just asking to leave here as soon as possible.

After beating these envoys out with sticks, Fang La said: "Zhao Ji learned that the envoys were killed, and the recruiting failed. He will never give up. The soldiers will come soon. What is the strategy of the generals?"

General Lu said: "Shenggong should quickly seize Hangzhou, and then send troops to attack Jiangning, Runzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou and other places in separate ways, guard the Yangtze River's natural moat, and prevent the Song army from crossing south. The officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan states are weak and helpless. , Shenggong will contact the heroes from all over the world to hunt in Jiangzuo and win half of the south of the Yangtze River, just like what he said, even if Cao Mengde is born again, Sun Quan will be helpless!"

"Mr. Lu is the theory of gold and stone." Old Buddha Wang Gong also said: "There is a saying in the art of war, soldiers are valuable and fast, and slow troops will lose the army. Shenggong should rush to Hangzhou and continue to go north to seize the land along the river."

Fang La nodded: "According to this strategy, we will storm the city tomorrow and take Hangzhou within seven days!"

(End of this chapter)