Great time travel

Tokyo Bianliang, Kaifeng Mansion, Great Song Taimiao

There are many courtyards, halls and pavilions, as many as hundreds of couplets.It can be called the largest building complex in the entire Tokyo city except for the imperial city.

Today, the Taimiao of the Great Song Dynasty, which is hidden in the wind and snow, looks extraordinarily solemn.

Thousands of tall guards guarded inside and outside the Taimiao.Everyone wears the best armor on their bodies. The fine iron heavy armor is polished to a smoothness, and the bright red hairpin tassels flutter in the wind on the helmet.The straight waists of the soldiers are more attractive than their armored swords and guns.

Inside the Taimiao, drums and music blared together.The chime bells, jade exhaust, and Huang Zhong Dalu's court music have been spread a few streets away.

——After all the Jin soldiers who besieged Bianliang were wiped out, the first thing that Emperor Zhao Huan thought of was to worship the Taimiao, offer incense to the ancestors, pay homage to the ancestors, and then send some heads of cattle, sheep and pigs to the emperor by the way. The ancestor showed off his illustrious martial arts, and swept away the aggrieved and bad luck since he took the throne.

Therefore, at this time, he finally took off the superman tights suit that he refused to leave for a moment in recent days, and put on a set of "big fur crown" in black clothes and red clothes specially for the emperor's sacrifice. The fashionable style of the Song people is to hang twelve strings of shining beads, to be specific.It is the so-called "Twelve Crowns" in "Zhou Ritual"... These are the imperial costumes of the pre-Qin and Warring States period, which have been completely eliminated by the Song Dynasty. The Song emperors of all dynasties would not wear this kind of clothing whether they were in normal times or in court. Clothes unearthed from ancient tombs are only retrofitted during sacrificial offerings.

Accompanied by the melodious court music, Zhao Huan entered first, followed by a group of princes and grandchildren of the Zhao family, and civil and military officials also lined up and entered one after another.As soon as they entered the main courtyard, the gate opened in front of them, and looking from the distance, the deepest Mingtang hall was half a mile away.

The Mingtang is where the spiritual seats of successive emperors are located, and the gods and priests who serve the courtiers and clans of the Taimiao are placed in the side chambers on both sides.At present, this Mingtang, which was rebuilt by Song Huizong Zhao Ji at a huge expense, is a hall with a width of twelve feet and a height of more than six feet.The front door is also more than two feet high. The thick beech door panel is painted red, and the brass door nails on it are all polished.

The sacrificial Shao music is performed one after another, according to the etiquette, without repetition. It will take at least half a day to play all 24 scheduled pieces for a round.Amidst the elegant music, Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan walked through a series of gates and walked step by step to the front of the Ming Hall.Twelve patterns of the sun, moon and stars are embroidered on the thick blue-black coat and the yellow-red clothes inside, symbolizing that everything in the world is with you.Following his steps, the twelve bead strings on the crown swayed slightly, but the emperor's demeanor, which had been trained for a long time, kept the bead strings from shaking as little as possible.

The door of the Ming Hall is open, showing everything in the hall to everyone. In the middle of the Ming Hall, on the confession case with a width of five feet, there are seven spiritual tablets of the ancestors of the Zhao family lined up in a row: Taizu Zhao Kuangyin , Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi, Zhenzong Zhao Heng, Renzong Zhao Zhen, Yingzong Zhao Shu, Shenzong Zhao Xu and Zhezong Zhaoxu... the next Emperor Huizong is currently being imprisoned in the deep palace, and cannot easily come and go.

Standing in front of the door, Zhao Huan couldn't help but be thoughtful as he looked at the several-foot-high sandalwood gods on the confession case.

——It has only been a short year since he ascended the throne, and the many turmoil and turmoil he has experienced makes people feel like a lifetime away.

It has only been a little over a year since the Jin captives entered the bandits and the Supreme Emperor lost his throne, but in the eyes of the Bianliang monarchs and ministers, it seems that they have been tormented in a sea of ​​suffering for a lifetime.The fertile soil of the Central Plains, which had not been affected by war for more than a hundred years, became the center of the vortex of war in this year. Almost all the military forces of the Song Dynasty were lost in this tragic meat grinder. Millions of Li people The common people lost their families because of this.

The catastrophe suffered by the people of the Song Dynasty in this year is more than ten times more than that in the previous 100 years combined!
However, this crazy and terrifying nightmare is finally coming to an end now.

Although hundreds of prefectures and counties in Henan and Hebei are still dilapidated, although the vast Central Plains are still full of ruins and scorched earth, although there are already thieves in the east of Hebei, and although Wan Yanxie, the nominal supreme commander of the Southern Expedition of the Kingdom of Jin, is still in Yan Beijing holds a powerful field army... But after the 15 main force of the Jin Dynasty and a large number of Jurchen warriors were completely destroyed under the city of Bianliang, a major reversal in the Song and Jin Dynasties has been quietly doomed.

——The Jurchen Wanyan tribe who established the Jin Kingdom was originally a small tribe with only 2000 soldiers and horses, with poor knowledge and connections.Although it was like a divine help after Wanyan Agu fought against the Liao Dynasty, he established a large empire with an area of ​​thousands of miles in just over ten years, but after all, the background is shallow and the foundation is not stable, almost all due to the fact that "Jurchen is dissatisfied and invincible" "The myth of war can barely suppress the resistance of the tribes.

And how many soldiers and horses does the Jurchens have at this time?It's very pitiful, even if all the young adults are confiscated, there are only 6 people.

Therefore, after losing most of the direct troops in an instant, this glamorous Dajin Kingdom has fallen to the brink of collapse!
Of course, Zhao Huan didn't have such a clear strategic insight at this time, but he was just thankful for the blessing of his ancestors, and Song escaped again.

——He went to the table, knelt down on the ground, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, saluted like a rite, then got up and read aloud the prayer carefully drafted by the servants of the Imperial Academy, and then burned the prayer little by little with the candle , The embers were swept away by the wind in a blink of an eye.

Although a large area of ​​the country is still occupied, and although the flames of war are far from subsided, at the very least, the country of Song Dynasty is barely preserved...

In Zhao Huan's mind, he can at least breathe a sigh of relief quietly, thinking that he is worthy of his ancestors.

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When Superman Emperor Zhao Huan temporarily stopped the court meeting to pay homage to his ancestors, the court officials had no time to spare.

At this time, it was almost the end of the year, and the land of the Central Plains was snowing again.Compared with the blizzard last month, the current snow is much lighter.However, the old snow had not yet melted, and the new snow came again, which made Prime Minister He Su's hair turn gray a lot.

——It has never been an easy job to control the court and rule the world, let alone at this sad time when the country is broken.

With the destruction of Jin Bing, the communication between Bianliang and the outside world has also been restored.Before the court officials in the besieged city had time to celebrate, they were overwhelmed by a series of bad news - after several months of fighting, the court treasury was empty, the price of food in the capital had risen to the sky, and the people in the market were complaining. .However, the Bianhe River has long been frozen, and the food and rice from the south of the Yangtze River cannot be transported to the capital by water before the spring.As for the land route...hehe, the huge cost of transshipment for thousands of miles was simply unaffordable with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, although the imperial treasury is scarce, there are mountains of rice, wheat, soybeans and millet in the noble mansions of the capital and the warehouses of grain merchants, but if the imperial court wants to extract some from them, it will be extremely difficult... People originally hoped that the price of food would rise to the sky, so that they could make a fortune, but who knew that the seemingly sturdy golden soldiers were wiped out so quickly, which already dissatisfied the bosses of these heartless dignitaries. If He Su still uses administrative means to force them to open warehouses to release grain, believe it or not, they can immediately mobilize all civil and military officials to force the emperor to change the prime minister?
To make matters worse, with the demise of the Jinbing soldiers from the south and the restoration of smooth roads, hungry people from all directions are also pouring into the capital. The "magic weapon" burned into a piece of red land, not to mention crops, people and animals, even cockroaches and fleas can't even think about surviving.And in a place a little farther away, from Luoyang, Zhengzhou to Bianliang, they were all ravaged by the horseshoes of Jurchen cavalry, and almost half of the crops in the Central Plains were not expected to be harvested.As for Hebei and Hedong, which were repeatedly ravaged by the Jin soldiers, it is even more important.

In desperation, these Song people turned their expectant eyes to Bianliang, hoping to find a way out at the feet of the emperor.

However, the food supply in the capital was already extremely tight, and now that there are so many mouths waiting to be fed, it will add to the chaos... Seeing that the food looting riot is about to break out, Prime Minister He Su's mood can't be better.

What also worried him was the large number of so-called "rebels" who were active in hundreds of states and counties in Henan and Hebei—these "rebels", good and bad, were mainly composed of soldiers from the Song army who were defeated and fled, poor refugees who rose up, and ambitious Local tyrants constitute.Most of these "rebels" are "vigorous social groups" who "proclaim themselves rebels but are actually bandits". The people of the Central Plains suffered another crime, which also posed a serious threat to the ruling order of the Song Dynasty.

According to the mature experience of the past hundred years, the imperial court should recruit the leaders of the rebel army as officials, and organize the troops into the Xiang army to prevent them from causing chaos.But all of this requires a lot of money, and the court is currently short of money to the extreme, and can't even hold the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky in the southern suburbs.

——The so-called worshiping the sky in the southern suburbs and worshiping the ground in the northern suburbs.According to Zhou rituals, on the winter solstice every year, the emperor has to go to the southern suburbs to worship Haotian God in person, in order to hope for peace in the world.However, because the cost of suburban sacrifices is too high, and even the consumption and rewards often cost millions of guan, so in the Song Dynasty, sacrifices were generally made every three years or longer.Now Bianliang, Tokyo, is in danger, and a catastrophe has disappeared. Qinzong Emperor Zhao Huan, who has not held a suburban sacrifice since he ascended the throne, is of course thinking of offering a sacrifice to the heavens to express himself The emperor is still doing well.

But the problem is, given the current situation where the Bianliang treasury is so empty that mice can run away, the emperor really cannot tolerate such extravagance... So He Su and Qin Hui had no choice but to bite the bullet and talk to the emperor. The sky has shrunk to worship the Taimiao, which saves the cost.

But then how to raise funds and food, relieve refugees, repair the city...

Of course, compared with the myriad chores, there is a bigger hidden danger right now, which weighs heavily on the hearts of every court official.

He Su sighed, raised his head from behind the tall pile of documents, and looked blankly to the northeast of Bianliang City.

There is Gen Yue, the royal garden where Guo Jing, the real protector of the country, is currently staying.

Immortal Taoism, which used to be just a legend, has now become an ironclad shocking fact.

Millions of citizens in Bianliang, Tokyo, will never forget the raging fire that burned all the gold captives and reached the sky a few days ago.

Therefore, all the traditional Confucian scholar-bureaucrats who claim to "respect ghosts and gods and stay away" have fallen into unprecedented confusion and fear.

——True Immortal descended into the world, Dao Fa enlightened the gods, destroyed the world with one blow...

Is this earth-shattering upheaval in the world a disaster or a blessing for the current precarious Song Dynasty?