In order to stabilize Ren Dejing, a notorious Song rebel in history, Zhao Ji pretended to smile and said:
"I have heard that Sihu from Xi'an Prefecture joined the army and was honored with a 'virtuous name'!"
"My imperial commander personally went to Xixia, and Ren Dejing knew my intentions well. He sent his subordinates to send me military supplies, and he also personally wrote a beautiful chapter to praise me!"
"From my perspective, Ren Dejing is truly a "loyal minister"!"
When Zhao Ji said this with a smile, his face was filled with a spring-like smile, but in his heart he was thinking about which of the ten torture methods to use to torture Ren Deyi, the great rebel in history, and his three younger brothers to death!
Zhao Ji remained calm on the surface and said to the reporter with a smile:
"Since he has entered Lingzhou City with his two brothers and a clan brother, and he wants to pay homage to me, I should receive him; but I am preparing to board the ship and lead the expedition myself. It is really not a coincidence!"
Everyone present was stunned by Zhao Guan's words.
"Pass on my decree, let Ren Dejing lead his three brothers out of Lingzhou City, follow me on the imperial ship, board the ship and join the army in the Northern Expedition."
The herald immediately bowed and clasped his fists and said: "I obey the order."
"By the way! I think about it, doesn't Zhang Jun, a member of Zhongshushe, still stay in Lingzhou City?"
"The official sage is exactly like this..."
"According to my decree, Zhang Jun, a member of Zhongshushe, will lead twenty imperial city ministers and officials to be responsible for 'protecting' the four brothers of the Ren family! When I lead the army to attack the capital of Xia Kingdom, I must not let the four brothers of the Ren family pass.
What happened, brother?"
"According to the decree."
The reason why Zhao Ji arranged this was because Zhang Jun, a famous official in history, was able to control the situation after the Miao and Liu rebellions, and used him to suppress the four brothers and prevent them from seeing the danger and running away.
Of course, with Zhao Ji's great dignity, he now summoned Ren Dejing, his two younger brothers and his clan brothers to the bank of the Yellow River, and did what he said "It's okay to inflict crimes on him", and immediately cut the four of them in half.
Okay, who would object to throwing the body into the roaring Yellow River? Who would dare to object?!
However, in Zhao Ji's heart, although he really wanted to kill the four Ren brothers who had killed Shangguan and their colleagues before surrendering to the enemy, he still wanted to wait until the spies who secretly collected evidence of the crimes of the four Ren brothers came back.
The four brothers Ren Dejing were first nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and then the four of them were publicly executed.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ji, in order to squeeze out the last value of Ren Dejing and his three brothers who were like lambs to be slaughtered, first gave hope to the four Ren brothers, and then crushed the colorful bubbles blown by them with one foot.
Such fantasies made the four of them desperate before they died!
He then said: "I will pass on my decree again, and let the four brothers of the Ren family go out with the army and write a composition to record it."
"According to the decree..."
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When Zhao Ji boarded the battleship, he looked back east and saw the towering towers of the original Xixia Xiping Mansion in the distance. He couldn't help but sigh:
Although I sent troops to destroy Xia, I can still regard the people of Xia as my subjects. I will never implement the strategy of massacre when Mongolia destroyed Xia more than a hundred years later. I should be regarded as a benevolent king!
Historically, in 1226 AD, the second year of Baoqing in the Southern Song Dynasty and the fourth year of Qianding in Xixia, the rising Mongolia rebelled against Xixia. Genghis Khan Temujin was furious. Regardless of his 64-year-old age, he insisted on conquering Xixia himself and launched a large-scale The battle to destroy Xia.
Genghis Khan personally led an army of 100,000 troops, entered the Xia border from the north, crossed the sand moraine and penetrated deep into the west of the river, and broke through Heishui City.
After that, the Mongolian army divided into east and west and attacked Xixia. Genghis Khan personally led the main army to conquer Ganzhou and Liangzhou. At this point, all the Hexi Corridor of Xixia Kingdom fell. Xia Xianzong Li Dewang died of fear, and his nephew Li Hu succeeded to the throne. The last emperor.
In August of the same year, Genghis Khan led his army through Shatuo, marched to Jiudu of the Yellow River, and captured Yingli (Zhongwei of Ningxia). Then he divided his forces and captured Xiazhou. The main Mongolian army surrounded Xiping Mansion in Xijing of Xia Kingdom for several months until the cold winter, and failed to break through. Xiping Fucheng.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ji felt that after the Song Dynasty, when he brought artillery to this world in advance, the Song army used firearms to attack cities, which was much stronger than the Mongolian army that was good at conquering and fighting in history.
When the late Xia emperor Li Han heard that Xijing was besieged, he sent veteran general Wei Minglinggong to lead an army to rescue Xiping Mansion in Xijing. The Mongols and Xia fought in a decisive battle on the frozen Yellow River. The battle was extremely brutal. The weather was not conducive to Xixia. At this time, A major earthquake occurred in Xiping Prefecture, causing numerous casualties and the city collapsed. The Mongolian army took the opportunity to invade Xiping Prefecture, a military town in Xixia...
Because the soldiers and civilians in the city had previously put up fierce resistance, the Mongolian army, in order to vent their anger, massacred the city, burned, killed, looted, and captured all the men, women, and children in the city. They also excavated the tombs of party nobles in Xiping Prefecture and stole a large amount of gold and silver treasures.
In 1226 AD, the second year after Xiping Prefecture was massacred, the Mongolian army surrounded Zhongxing Prefecture (the Xingqing Prefecture before its name was changed), the capital of the Xia Kingdom. They also divided their troops and went south to capture Jishi Prefecture, Xining and other Xixia territories, and stationed troops in Xia Dynasty. At the foot of Liupan Mountain in the border area.
On the way to conquer Xixia, Genghis Khan was injured due to hunting and had a high fever, but he still refused to retreat.
At this time, only Zhongxing Prefecture in the capital city of Xixia remained. In the second year of Baoyi in Xixia (i.e. 1227 AD), after the late Emperor of Xia was besieged in Zhongxing Prefecture for half a year, the late Emperor of Western Xia was forced to send envoys to ask for surrender...
On August 25, 1227 AD, which was the twelfth day of the seventh lunar month in the twenty-second year of Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan was critically ill and died of illness in Qingshui County at the foot of Liupan Mountain at the age of 66.
Before Genghis Khan died, he issued a secret edict: After his death, there should be no mourning to prevent Xixia from regretting it; even if Emperor Li Xian of Xia surrendered, he would still be killed to avoid future troubles.
According to Genghis Khan's will, Tuo Lei kept the funeral secret and killed Xia Wei Emperor Li Sui who was forced to leave the city to surrender. Xixia was destroyed...
After the Mongolian army entered Zhongxing Mansion, the capital of Xixia, they adopted extreme measures of genocide and launched another massacre. They stopped after Chahan advised them, but the population in the city was already small. Xia Jing's palaces and cemeteries were burned to the ground, and Xixia The tombs of emperors of all dynasties were robbed and emptied.
When Zhao Ji's thoughts came to this point, he couldn't help but secretly sigh: "'A generation of genius only knows how to bend a bow and shoot a big eagle'; but it's nothing!"
"Start the official report!" General Wang Zhen boarded the ship, bowed and clasped his fists, and asked for instructions from the official Zhao family:
"My troops and General Yao's troops have all boarded the ship and are ready. Please tell me when to set off for the expedition?"
Zhao Ji was so proud that he stood on the deck, waved his hand and said loudly: "Go to war immediately!"
"I obey the decree..."
The Yellow River was rolling and the waves were surging. Zhao Ji took the king of Yun, Zhao Kai, and the king of Kang, Zhao Gou, and other entourages. They sat on the best warship in the army, followed Wang Zhen and the army of Yao Gu, and set sail to the north, down the river...
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Two quarters of an hour later, Zhang Jun, who was in the city, received the secret edict and edict from Zhao Guan's family sent by twenty imperial city officials.
After he quickly read the secret edict, he put it away, took the imperial edict, and led twenty imperial city officials to rush to the post house where the four brothers of the Ren family who had just entered the city were staying.
Zhang Jun, a member of the Zhongshu family, read out the imperial edict to the four Ren brothers who were kneeling on the ground...
After listening to the imperial edict, Ren Dejing was overjoyed and extremely excited: "I succeeded in my speculation, and I was so valued by the Zhao Guan family! The day when I will rise to prominence is not far away!"
After the four Ren brothers knelt down to thank the emperor for his kindness, they were immediately closely 'protected' by twenty imperial city officials led by Zhang Jun. They all rode out of the city on fast horses and headed for the Yellow River ferry outside the city.
On the way, Ren Dejing chased Zhang Jun on horseback. He took out something of gold and jade from his arms and wanted to give it to Zhang Jun, a newly promoted member of the Zhongshushe family in Zhao Guan's family.
Zhang Jun sternly refused.
Angrily, Ren Dejing took the valuable thing he handed out and put it back into his arms.
Ren Dejing secretly scolded Zhang Jun for not knowing good and evil, and he secretly vowed to trample Zhang Jun under his feet when he became famous.
When Zhang Jun led 20 imperial city officials to "escort" the four Ren brothers to the Yellow River ferry, they learned that Zhao Guan's family had already boarded a ship with the army to march in person.
Out of concern for the safety of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun naturally did not dare to ask more about when the Zhao Guan family boarded the ship and what ship they took.
However, Ren Dejing was a little disappointed. He wanted to visit Zhao Guan's family in person so that he could curry favor with the emperor.
After Ren Dejing took his three younger brothers and boarded the warship with Zhang Jun, he couldn't wait to take out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone. In order to please the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, he never dared to forget the errands assigned to him by Zhao Guan's family, and was brewing
How to write an article about accompanying the army to conquer Xia, and prepare to praise Zhao Guan's family...
Zhang Jun had already received a secret order from Zhao Guan's family to take good care of the four Ren brothers. When he saw Ren Dejing and his three brothers in the boat, racking their brains to draft an article, he couldn't help but secretly praise the wise Zhao Guan's move.
Absolutely wonderful!
Zhang Jun looked at the four Ren brothers and couldn't help but secretly smile: The day you see Zhao Guan's family, I'm afraid it will be the time for you to submit to the law!