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Chapter 69 The Kingdom of the Kingdom of Chang'an (1)
On March [-]th of the second year of Yuanchang, the army of the Eastern Expedition captured Guazhou, the economic center of the Xiaoting Dynasty, and went straight to the outside of Jiankang City.Zhang Zhiyan, the sub-father of the Xiaoting Dynasty, King Wu, closed the city gates tightly and adopted delaying tactics.The king of Ningkang County cut off the supply of water and materials, and attacked it with new speedboats from the waterway, trying to capture Jiankang several times.However, Yafu has been sticking to the city gate.In order to speed up the progress of the war, Jun Mo Wen, a member of Ziwei She, offered a plan to print thousands of copies of persuading surrender paintings. Dayuan is benevolent. As long as the King of Wu surrenders, he can live in peace and work in peace and contentment, and everything will remain the same as before.The king of Ningkang scattered tens of thousands of kites into Jiankang City.The life of the people in the south of the Yangtze River has always been stable and prosperous, and they were not willing to fight at first, and the morale of the army was shaken for a while.In May, water and food were cut off, and life was miserable, so some court officials suggested that it would be better to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty in time to save their lives.

Jun Mo Wen had an old relationship with the King of Wu, so he wrote a sincere letter to persuade him to surrender: Since the Yuan Clan regained the capital, the army has been abundant, which is more than ten times that of the Eastern Wu.For the sake of Jiangdong's elders, why not turn hostility into friendship?Both Jun Mowen himself and the King of Jin will keep the people of Jiangdong safe as before, and all the officials and family members in the Xiaoting Dynasty, as well as King Wu himself, will also be preserved.After analyzing the situation in the world and the direction of people's hearts, Zhang Zhiyan was really moved.

"Old Original Book Taizu Benji":
On the seventh day of the sixth month of the Gengshen year, King Ningkang defeated Zhang Zhiyan in Guazhou and approached Jiankang.The king of Ningkang sent thousands of letters of persuasion to surrender. Zhang Zhiyan's army was shaken, and after several months of stalemate, he surrendered.

In the second year of Yuanchang, on the seventh day of June, King Wu of the Xiaoting Dynasty finally opened the gate of Jiankang to welcome King Ningkang into the city.The general trend of the world has been determined, and there are many people who come to Chang'an to lead their tribes. Zhang Shixi, the former minister of Dou Zhou who fled abroad in July, Dou Ting, the Minister of Rites, and Gao Ji, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, surrendered; on the eighth day of the seventh month, Zhang Zhiyan led the false emperor Xuanyuan Wing down into Chang'an.

Emperor Yuzhi Yan, Dou Ting, and Gao Ji Nian were all old, and they repeatedly recruited them with books. Gao Ji Nian killed many envoys.Holding the bottle tightly, he smiled lightly and said: "Xuanyuan loses its deer, and the whole world chases after it. Since your majesty has got it, how can you be angry with fellow hunters and ask for the crime of fighting for meat!"

Whether it is official history or unofficial history, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is described as a person who "has the universe in mind, knows people and makes good use of them, takes advantage of opportunities to win, is full of momentum, calm and resourceful, talented in the world, has been a soldier all his life, diligent in government and love for the people, benevolent and filial." Historians believe that for Xuanyuan Dezong, Emperor Taizu valued the deep friendship between them personally, and had great sympathy for Dezong's unfortunate life. Among the more than 100 poems for later generations, all those that miss Dezong and Empress Xiaoxian Chunyi are all excellent poems, and the rare thing is that the feelings in them are very sincere.

Therefore, the emperor hated the person who betrayed Xuanyuan Dezong more than the person who betrayed himself.

At that time, the emperor entertained these high-ranking ministers in the Zichen Hall where he received Chinese and foreign guests.Zhang Shixi was Pan Zhengyue's former subordinate and successor. He once led his troops to set up an ambush on the emperor's way back to Chang'an during the Gengxu Revolution.Gao Jinian repeatedly killed the envoys appointed by Emperor Dezong back then, and helped Dou Yinghua force Xuanyuan Xizong to death, so without any hesitation, the emperor took the sword himself in front of Zhang Zhiyan, and killed Gao Jinian.

Then because of Dou Yinghua, he wanted to vent his anger on Dou Ting, the last patriarch of the Dou family, but Dou Ting was a well-known righteous man. He once publicly scolded Dou Yinghua for opposing Dou Yinghua's insulting of the late emperor and his attempt to usurp the throne.Historians speculate that the emperor at that time may not have really killed Dou Ting, but it was most likely just to give Zhang Zhiyan a blow.

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