Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Qin Hui and Zhao Ding have been staying in Funing Hall for many days, and they have been detained here and are not allowed to go out.

However, their living conditions are much better than they were half a month ago.

When they were imprisoned by the soldiers of the Jiangnan imperial camp, they ate the cold food left by the soldiers of the Jiangnan imperial camp every day, and they were often not full. Now they have fish and meat for every meal, so they can eat as much as they want.

In addition to fish and meat, they can also ask for some pens, ink, paper and inkstones, so that they can read and write in Funing Hall.

The morning sun was very bright, Zhao Ding was standing at the entrance of Funing Hall, watching the scene outside.

"I don't know how our family is doing now?" Zhao Ding said leisurely.

"I don't know, I hope they are safe and sound." Qin Hui said.

At this moment, Qin Hui is sitting in front of a table and writing.

His handwriting is very good.

In the early years, when Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was in power, Qin Hui was the Zuo Sijian of Yushitai. He found that there were different official scripts across the country, so he used his official business leisure to study various fonts. A unique typeface was created based on it. This font is neat and uniform and easy to learn. He used this font to write memorials to Song Huizong. After Song Huizong saw it, he appreciated it a lot, so he ordered Qin Hui to send his writing model to all parts of the country, and asked officials all over the country to uniformly write official documents and memorials according to the model font. The font is the famous "Song Ti" in later generations, which was invented by Qin Hui.

At this moment Qin Hui was writing in Song style, and he stopped after a while.

Zhao Ding came to Qin Hui's side, looked at the words on the table, and showed a sneer on his face.

"My talents are born to be useful, and I will come back after all my money is gone! Master Qin, you have great ambitions! We are imprisoned here, and you still have such ambitions! Admire! Admire!" Zhao Ding said.

"When Emperor Jianyan was alive, the world was divided, and I did not do many important things. Now Emperor Jianyan is dead, and Emperor Xuanwu has ruled the world. From now on, the strength of my Great Song Dynasty has greatly increased, and I can also show my ambitions. It's really good when you think about it." Qin Hui said with a smile.

"Loyal ministers don't matter to two masters! Both of us are courtiers of Emperor Jianyan. Now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, even if we don't die to die, we must not do things for Emperor Xuanwu." Zhao Ding said.

"Lord Zhao, I don't agree with what you say! Emperor Xuanwu was originally the crown prince conferred by the Supreme Emperor, and he has the Jade Seal in his hands. It is a matter of course for him to become emperor! On the contrary, Emperor Jianyan is usurping the throne! When I escaped from the Kingdom of Jin and fled to the south of the Yangtze River, I had no choice but to work for Emperor Jianyan. In fact, I always wanted to go to Guanshan and join Emperor Xuanwu." Qin Hui said.

"You, shameless!" Zhao Ding said angrily.

Qin Hui smiled, and was about to argue, when his expression suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ding asked in surprise.

"Listen!" Qin Hui pointed to the outside and said.

Zhao Ding listened intently, and after a while, his expression also changed slightly.

Outside was the sound of countless bowstrings being pulled, swishing and swishing, and in the end, the Funing Hall was filled with such sounds, and almost no other sounds could be heard.

"What happened?" After a while, the vibration of the bowstring stopped, and Qin Hui asked with a pale face.

"I don't know." Zhao Ding shook his head with a pale face.

After a while, bursts of bloody smell came from outside.

"It's so bloody, how many people will die?" Qin Hui said.

"Why did Emperor Xuanwu kill people?" Zhao Ding murmured.

Both of them were fidgeting at the moment, Qin Hui strode to the gate of the palace, and was immediately stopped by two soldiers.

At that moment, Qin Hui took out a piece of silver from his bosom, handed it to the soldier, and said with a smile: "This strong man, do you have anything to ask?"

However, before he finished speaking, the soldier had already stuffed the silver into his hand, and the soldier's face became cold.

"This..." Qin Hui was stunned.

"I'm a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty, and I will never accept bribes from others! If you dare to do this again, I will not be polite to you!" the soldier said coldly.

"Ah! It turned out to be like this! Strong man, I just tried you just now to see how the military discipline of Emperor Xuanwu's soldiers is! Now it seems that the military discipline is as good as a mountain! Qin admires, admires! Kang Wang's rebel, his soldiers and horses Military discipline is chaotic, far inferior to yours." Qin Hui smiled.

"Naturally, how could the subordinates of King Kang's rebels be on par with us?" The soldier's expression changed and he smiled.

"I don't know what happened outside?" Qin Hui asked again.

"General Wu has an order not to tell you anything outside." The soldier shook his head.

Qin Hui asked a few more questions, but the soldier simply shut up and said nothing, Qin Hui had no choice but to return.

After returning, Qin Hui praised: "Emperor Xuanwu's soldiers and horses are really extraordinary. Look at them standing there, motionless. It has been almost two hours since the morning. None of Kang Wang's rebels can do that." so!"

Zhao Ding said coldly: "Lord Qin, Emperor Jianyan used to be our lord, don't say that about him!"

Qin Hui smiled and said no more.

Throughout the morning, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

In the afternoon, the smell of blood became stronger, and the faces of both of them became more and more ugly.

*** ***

The sky has gradually darkened, and candles have been lit in Funing Hall.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside.

"See Your Majesty!" The soldiers at the door had already knelt down one after another. Qin Hui and Zhao Ding hurriedly looked outside, only to see Zhao Chen coming here surrounded by a group of generals and soldiers.

I haven't seen him for many days, but Zhao Chen hasn't changed much. He still has a heroic appearance, as if he is always full of vitality and energy.

"Stay flat!" Zhao Chen said casually.

The soldiers at the door stood up now, and Zhao Chen had already entered the Palace of Funing.

"My humble minister, Qin Hui, sees His Majesty!" Qin Hui knelt down and said.

Zhao Ding was just stunned for a moment, instead of kneeling down, he stood there all the time.

"Qin Aiqing die! Zhao Ding, why didn't you kneel down when you saw me coming in?" Zhao Chen looked at Zhao Ding and said.

When Qin Hui heard the words "Qin Aiqing", he was overjoyed and immediately stood up with a respectful expression on his face. As for Zhao Ding, he looked at Zhao Chen with a complicated expression.

"I, Zhao Ding, am a courtier of Emperor Jianyan, not your majesty, so I won't kneel down!" Zhao Ding said after a while.

Zhao Chen smiled, he didn't care about Zhao Ding not kneeling, he found a chair and sat down by himself, pointed to the rest of the chairs in Funing Palace, and said, "Find chairs to sit on yourselves!"

"How can there be a seat for a humble minister in front of Your Majesty?" Qin Hui asked hastily.

"I tell you to sit down, so you sit down!" Zhao Chen shouted lightly.

"Your Majesty is generous, you are truly a benevolent monarch through the ages!" Qin Hui sat down.

"Emperor Xuanwu, I want to know what happened today?" Zhao Ding was still standing there, recalling the smell of blood that he smelt today, he couldn't help saying.

"It's not a big deal. In Lin'an City, someone actually tried to create a new king, usurped the throne and conspired against him, and he was killed by me!" Zhao Chen said.

"What?" Qin Hui and Zhao Ding stayed there.

"How is it possible? Your Majesty, you have an army of 100,000 in Lin'an City, and there are still people who dare to appoint a new king? How could there be such a foolish person?" Zhao Ding said in disbelief.

"There are such foolish people in this world! That day when I was assassinated in the West Lake, Yang Shi, Li Tong and others thought I was dead, and they actually found a person among the descendants of Taizu, and made that person the new king! Today In the morning, they took that person to the Ancestral Temple, and then they even took that person to the imperial palace! Among the six ministers of the Jiangnan court, many of them followed these clowns to mess around and set up a new king." Zhao Chen sneered.

"There is such a thing? I understand. Your Majesty, you deliberately pretended to be assassinated and died, didn't you? You are so despicable!" Zhao Ding said.

"I didn't pretend to be assassinated and died! My assassination was real, and I didn't let people say that I was dead. They thought I was dead. This will make a new king!" Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Your Majesty, how are you going to deal with these people who will become the new emperor?" Zhao Ding said.

"Qin Hui, tell me, how should we deal with them?" Zhao Chen said.

"They are rebellious, so naturally they should kill the Nine Clans!" Qin Hui said.

"That's right! That's what I did! Yang Shi, Li Tong, Luo Congyan and others, all killed the nine tribes! The six tribes obeyed the rebels and killed all the nine tribes!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, how...how could you do such a thing? Mr. Yang and the others are all well-known Confucian scholars in the world, shouldn't you do this?" Zhao Ding said.

"Scholars pay attention to loyalty, and they conspire to usurp the throne. They are unfaithful and unrighteous. Shouldn't they be punished?" Zhao Chen said.

"They were just confused for a while! They just thought that if His Majesty dies, the country cannot be without a king for a day, so they want to be an emperor! Your Majesty should spare them! They are all great Confucian scholars. If you kill them, Your Majesty, don't you be afraid that all the scholars in the world will rise up?" Are you against you? Are you not afraid of rebellion by scholars?" Zhao Ding said.

"Student rebellion?" Zhao Chen was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at, Your Majesty?" Zhao Ding asked.

"I once heard a poem, which said, 'Liu Xiang didn't study before the ashes were cold in Shandong'. Qin Shihuang ruled the world, and he was most vigilant against scholars. He thought that scholars could cause cholera, so he burned books and tortured scholars. Who Knowing that the ashes of Confucianism have not cooled down, the world began to be in chaos. None of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who led the rebellion were scholars. Since ancient times, there has been no reason for scholars to rebel." Zhao Chen laughed.

"Since ancient times, there has been no reason for scholars to rebel? Isn't Your Majesty looking down on scholars all over the world?" Zhao Ding said coldly.

"I don't look down on scholars, I'm just telling a fact! Since ancient times, there have always been only two kinds of people who rebel, one is poor people who can't survive, such as Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Liu Bang, etc., and the other is nobles and powerful officials, such as Xiang Yu , Cao Cao, Li Yuan, Li Shimin and the like. Zhao Ding, you are very knowledgeable, please find me an example of a scholar who rebelled, and let me listen to it." Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding froze there, unable to speak.

"Listening to His Majesty's words today is really better than reading a ten-year book!" Qin Hui was already praising him from the sidelines.

"I came here today to ask, you are all important ministers in the south of the Yangtze River, now that Emperor Jianyan is dead, and I rule the Song Dynasty, are you willing to work for me?" Zhao Chen stopped talking about this topic and said immediately.

"My minister Qin Hui is naturally willing to be loyal to His Majesty! Your Majesty is the orthodox of my Song Dynasty. King Kang usurped the throne, and I was forced to work for King Kang back then. In fact, my minister has always been in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han. I want to seek refuge with His Majesty!" Qin Hui said immediately.

"Okay!" Zhao Chen nodded.

Although this Qin Hui is the most treacherous minister in history, he has outstanding talents. He passed the Jinshi examination in his early twenties, and was favored by Wang Gui, then Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and betrothed his granddaughter to Qin Hui. After that, Qin Hui became Taixue Xuezheng when he was less than twenty-five years old, and became Zhongcheng, the imperial censor of the Great Song Dynasty, when he was less than thirty years old. Before the Jurchen invasion, what he did was remarkable and he had a lot of political achievements. It was only after returning from the Jurchen that he changed dramatically. Now that Zhao Chen came to Jiangnan, he only valued his talents. Whether he was a traitor or a loyal minister, the first thing he valued was talent. As long as he has talent, as long as he is willing to rely on Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen can use it. Zhao Chen has generals and soldiers in his hands, since ancient times political power has emerged from the barrel of a gun, and he is not afraid that these people have other ideas. In the future, the system will naturally be used to bring the talents of these people into the right track.

Moreover, in this era, Qin Hui did not have the evil deed of killing Yue Fei, and it was the decision of the entire Jiangnan court to negotiate peace with the Jurchen, especially the will of the emperor Zhao Gou, which was not something that Qin Hui could decide alone, so Qin Hui did not The reason to kill.

Hearing that Zhao Chen was willing to use him, Qin Hui was overjoyed.

Zhao Ding was standing there at the moment, looking to the side, without saying a word.

"Zhao Ding, you don't want to do things for me?" Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Loyal ministers don't care about two masters!" Zhao Ding said coldly.

"Loyal minister? Loyalty includes great loyalty and minor loyalty. I don't know if you, Zhao Ding, are major or minor?" Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

"Oh? What is Da Zhong? What is Xiao Zhong?" Zhao Ding asked curiously.

"When the country is in crisis, stand up, shed blood, sweat and even sacrifice for the country. This is called great loyalty! The saint once said that the people are the most important, the king is the least, and the community is second. Serving the country and the people, this is great loyalty! The so-called petty loyalty, also known as foolish loyalty, no matter whether an emperor is right or wrong, he is loyal to the emperor. But he wants to keep festivals for the emperor. Just like King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, he was tyrannical and harmed the people. King Wu of Zhou punished the people for crimes. Boyi and Shuqi tried to dissuade King Wu of Zhou with the words of a father, regardless of the safety of all people in the world. Loyalty." Zhao Chen said.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding froze there.

"Since the Jurchens invaded, the people of the world have been persecuted! Now that I have come to the south of the Yangtze River to rule the Song Dynasty, it is time for talents! You seem to be doing things for me, but in fact you are doing things for the people of the world! Zhao Ding, you were born in the Song Dynasty! , the common people take out their own harvests as taxes, and these taxes support you and become your salary! The people of the Song Dynasty are kind to you, and you have all the talents. Now the people of the Song Dynasty need you, but you are not willing to come out to do things This is called ungrateful." Zhao Chen said again.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, Zhao Ding's expression became more complicated.

"Zhao Ding, I have one more sentence to tell you, 'Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country'. I think you are not as good as a man." Zhao Chen said coldly.

"I..." Zhao Ding opened his mouth, wanting to defend himself, but he couldn't speak.

"Think about it carefully! I came here today, and I want to discuss with you the strategy of stabilizing Jiangnan! Qin Aiqing, what good idea do you have?" Zhao Chen looked at Qin Hui and said.