In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 191 Give the court a blow

Not long after Meng Gong left, Emperor Zhao Yurui came to a certain courtyard in Lin'an City.

He changed into his normal clothes and entered a room. After waiting for about half a quarter of an hour, there was a sound from outside.

After a while, Yang Miaozhen appeared again.

"Congratulations to shopkeeper Yan, congratulations to shopkeeper Yan." After Yang Miaozhen came in, she congratulated repeatedly, and leaned against Zhao Yurui involuntarily.

She basically comes to Lin'an every two or three months, mainly to buy goods for Li Quan.

Li Quan was responsible for sending the population to Jeju Island, and she came to collect supplies such as sugar and copper coins.

Zhao Yurui asked her to come in person every time, and then the two would have a tryst in this yard.

After a few rounds, Yang Miaozhen's attitude towards Zhao Yurui softened a lot.

This is the case with women. They may be very resistant for the first time, but after a few times, the man behaves well and usually slowly let go.

"I also want to congratulate the fourth lady, congratulations to the fourth lady." Zhao Yurui laughed loudly, stepped forward and stretched out his hand, hugging her in his arms unceremoniously.

Yang Miaozhen blushed and asked shyly, "Where does the joy come from?"

When she left two or three months ago, the new emperor had just ascended the throne and had no power.

Now that he entered Beijing again, he found that Lin'an had changed, and the emperor took charge of the government and gained great power.

As for the Yan family who had been on good terms with King Wei and had business dealings with them, they will surely become popular in the future.

Yang Miaozhen came here this time just to find out.

Zhao Yurui said decisively, the emperor has gained power, our Yan family is about to prosper, and my father has already entered the court as an official and served as the general judge in Jiankang Mansion (Jiankang where Yan Kang and Zhao Fan went together).

"I'm also going to be an official in the near future."

"Then congratulations to shopkeeper Yan." Yang Miaozhen's eyes flashed a hint of charm, and her expression became even more charming.

Zhao Yurui said again, I also heard the news that the emperor had just seized power and ascended to power, and he was afraid that the people below would be dissatisfied and buy people's hearts everywhere.

Yang Miaozhen also said, I've heard that, with the support of Qin Zhuo, the emperor used the Qin family's money to spend everywhere and buy generals from all over the place.

Ma Junsi of Jiankang Mansion is queuing up to receive the money.

Zhao Yurui said again, do you know what the emperor is most afraid of?

Yang Miaozhen said, what are you afraid of?
Zhao Yurui said that the emperor was afraid of Li Quan, so he wanted to reward Li Quan heavily and appease Li Quan.

Last year, Zhao Hong's mutiny in Huzhou, Li Quan said that he sent troops but did not send troops, which scared the emperor half to death.

So this time the emperor intends to reward Li Quan heavily for the sake of local stability. Do you want to congratulate him?

Yang Miaozhen was overjoyed and believed it.

The new emperor has just seized power, so he certainly doesn't want local opposition and turmoil.

If Li Quan raises troops at this time, the government and the public will be in turmoil. If I were the emperor, I would have to appease the local commander.

"How to reward?" Yang Miaozhen asked quickly.

Zhao Yurui said, originally the emperor wanted to reward [-] guan and add a small official, but I will intercede for you personally.

The emperor wants to reward hundreds of thousands of guan, and he will be named a Marquis, and he may even be sent by an envoy. Fourth lady, would you like to thank me well?

Yang Miaozhen immediately said that she must thank shopkeeper Yan. In fact, she didn't think so, probably because the emperor wanted to win over Li Quan, and the surname Yan deliberately asked for credit, but she was quite happy when she found out about it.

Zhao Yurui said at this time, in the future, we can trade sugar, iron and other materials with Li Quan in large quantities, as long as you have people to come and exchange them.

Yang Miaozhen immediately agreed.

Yang Miaozhen was also very cooperative that day, allowing Zhao and Rui to ask for it.

After finishing the work, she left the yard in a hurry, boarded the boat and left Lin'an.

At this time, she thought in her heart, after returning home, let Li Quan negotiate with the emperor, and the court will provide sugar, and she will never come to An'an again, which is cheaper than the shopkeeper Yan.
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Chuzhou was an important town in Huaidong in the Song Dynasty, and the envoys of Huaidong in the Southern Song Dynasty were stationed in Chuzhou.

When Xu Guo was the last system envoy, Li Quan was stationed in Qingzhou, and his wife Yang Miaozhen led people to station in Chuzhou.

Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty's strength here is limited, because it has few troops, it still depends on Li Quan's wink.

Of course, when Xu Guo was in office, he often withheld materials issued by the court, which also caused Li Quan's great dissatisfaction, which eventually led to the Chuzhou Rebellion. Xu Guo's staff member Zhang Meng was killed first, and Xu Guo himself committed suicide.

After Xu Guo's death, Shi Miyuan chose Xu Xiji as the envoy of Huaidong.

Shi Miyuan also had a purpose in choosing candidates. Xu Xiji once guarded Haizhou, and Li Quan was also in Haizhou at that time, and the relationship between the two parties was not bad.

Li Quan was also very happy to hear that Xu Xiji was appointed as the envoy of the system. He immediately returned to Chuzhou from Qingzhou, and then pretended to blame his general Liu Qingfu for not stopping the turmoil in Chuzhou. The lining is all there, and this matter has been exposed since then.

Shi Miyuan chose to swallow his anger, fearing that Li Quan would make trouble again, but in Li Quan's view, Song Ting could bear the death of such an important local official as the Huaidong Governor, which shows how incompetent Song Ting is.

From then on, Li Quan hardly took Song Ting seriously.

When Xu Xiji took office, Li Quan was quite in awe. At that time, because Li Quan had many soldiers and horses, abundant supplies, and a large territory, Xu Xiji represented the imperial court and asked Li Quan for horses and equipment.

Li Quan was a little unhappy, and complained to his subordinates after drinking one day, and the subordinates immediately said, we are now in Lianghuai with strong troops, the court should look at us, why should we give horses and armor to the court, shouldn't the court give us?

Li Quan's heart was moved when he heard the words, and he decisively rejected Xu Xiji's request the next day, and in turn asked Xu Xiji for horses and weapons.

As a result, Xu Xiji was scared to death, and he obediently agreed and would report to the court.

Now it's all right, since then Li Quan has become more and more arrogant, and he no longer has the court in his eyes.

At the end of April in the first year of Baoqing, when Meng Gong left Beijing, Li Quan directly sent people to rush into the armory of the Chuzhou imperial court and emptied all the thousands of long guns hoarded by the imperial court. Xu Xiji dared not say a word , also called him 'Enfu'.

Communicate with Li Quan completely in a low voice.

So far, Li Quan has become less and less concerned about the Song court and the new emperor.

At the beginning of May, Yang Miaozhen returned to Chuzhou and came to see Li Quan immediately.

When Yang Miaozhen's boat entered Chuzhou, he felt the dense flow of people at the gate of the city, as well as the mobilization of soldiers and horses, and he couldn't help but secretly marveled.

Chuzhou is an important town in the East of Huaihe River. The main local defenders are the Zhongyi Army (that is, Li Quan's soldiers and horses) and the imperial court soldiers and horses.

Among them, the Zhongyi Army has about 3000 people in Chuzhou. There are only about [-] soldiers and horses belonging to the imperial court, and they are at a disadvantage.

Now that Li Quan is in power, even Xu Xiji has to look at his face, and there are more and more loyal troops in Chuzhou City. Li Quan transferred two thousand soldiers from Qingzhou last month to firmly control Chuzhou.

But today when Yang Miaozhen just entered the city, he felt that there was a mobilization of soldiers and horses, and he couldn't help being slightly surprised.

When she arrived at Li Quan's mansion, she saw many generals coming and going inside and outside, it seemed extremely lively.

"Si Niangzi is back." As soon as Yang Miaozhen entered the courtyard, someone greeted her from afar.

Yang Miaozhen looked up, Liu Qingfu, Wang Wenxin, Guo Anyong, Yan Tong and other generals of her husband were in the residence.

"What happened, are you going to use troops?" Yang Miaozhen asked.

Liu Qingfu laughed loudly and waved: "You came back just in time, come in and say."

When everyone came to the inner hall, Li Quan was already sitting in the middle, with his son Li Fen beside him.

Li Quan had a beaming look on his face, and when he saw Yang Miaozhen came back, he said happily: "Si Niangzi doesn't need to go to Lin'an in the future, our good days are coming."

Li Quan already knew that the new emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty would reward him heavily.

The imperial decree sent by the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty to appease Li Quan is already on the way. I heard that the emperor wants to appoint him as the deputy envoy of Huainan East Road Zhizhi, and he will also be named a marquis. But now Li Quan is asking for more than these.

He summoned the generals today to discuss major issues.

"Wanyan Congke, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, quietly arrived in Chuzhou yesterday, and I temporarily arranged him in Chuyuan." Li Quan came up and broke the news.

Everyone was shocked, the Song envoy was about to arrive in Chuzhou, why did the Jin envoy also come?
Li Quandao and Wanyan Congke were ordered by the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Shouxu, to meet with the envoys of the Song Dynasty and ask for an alliance again. If the Song Dynasty did not agree, the Kingdom of Jin would threaten to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty.

The last time they went to Lin'an, the Lin'an scholars gathered in front of the embassy to shout and kill, and Xu Ding died of illness, so he didn't dare to go to Lin'an, and wanted to meet Song envoy here.

Yang Miaozhen said, if we arrange a golden envoy, will the imperial court be angry?
Li Quan laughed and said, angry ass, Wanyan Congke is right, now is the time for us to ask for prices.

It turned out that Wanyan Congke told Li Quandao that the new emperor of the Song Dynasty had just seized power and wanted to appease all walks of life in the world, especially a general like him. You should take this opportunity to ask the new emperor for the post of envoy of the Huaidong System and give Xu Xiji to him. Kick him away, and he will be the leader of East Huainan Road.

The emperors Zhao and Rui gathered together to win over generals from all over the country, for fear that some places would rebel, so they will definitely agree to your request.

The Kingdom of Jin also came to threaten an alliance. If they did not form an alliance, they would say that they would send troops to attack the Kingdom of Song. For the sake of domestic stability, the Emperor of Song would definitely agree.

When Li Quan heard it, it made sense. It is said that the emperor rewarded him with a large amount of money this time, and even made him a marquis, obviously because he was afraid of him.

So Li Quan thought that after the Song envoy came this time, he would definitely be able to get some benefits.

In order to give the envoy Song a warning, he mobilized some elites into the city and arranged them near the city gate and the water gate, and let them see the might of his army.

After Li Quan finished speaking, everyone felt that they could use this to show off their power and obtain reasonable rank and benefits.

The new emperor of the Song Dynasty had just captured Shi Miyuan, and the current stability of the whole country was his first task.

At this time, there is absolutely no reason to force against Li Quan.

After listening to Yang Miaozhen, she also felt that it was feasible.

At present, several people had a good discussion about how to show the military power of the loyal army to Song envoy, so as to ask for benefits.

While they were discussing, Chu Garden not far from here.

Wanyan Congke, the former crown prince of the Kingdom of Jin, walked up and down the Chu Garden irritably with his entourage.

Wanyan Congke was established as Prime Minister You in the first year of Da'an (1209), and the crown prince in the second year. Originally, he belonged to the throne of the Kingdom of Jin.

But in the first year of Zhining (1213), King Wei Shao was killed by Hu Shahu, and he and his brothers were abolished to live in Zhongdu (now Beijing), and then moved to Nanjing (now Kaifeng).

After that, the successive emperors of the Kingdom of Jin were a little jealous of him, because he was a former prince after all, so he never had a real position or power.

This time Wanyan Shouxu suddenly arranged for him to come to Chuzhou as an envoy, and secretly met with the envoys of the Song Dynasty, asking for an alliance, Wanyan Congke faintly felt a trace of uneasiness.

Wanyan Shouxu is afraid that he has made two plans. It would be best if he can form an alliance with Song Guo. If he angers Song Guo, can he kill me?
The entourage around him seemed to know his intentions, so he stepped forward and whispered: "Don't worry, Your Highness, for the sake of stability, the new emperor of Song Dynasty will definitely agree. Even if he doesn't agree, there will be no danger."

Xu Ding was fine when he was in the capital of the Song Dynasty, but what happened when we went to Chuzhou?
Wanyan Congke felt better after hearing this.

(End of this chapter)