Eagle Byzantium

Soon, a large camp for peace talks was set up under the city of Samarkand, spread out for dozens of miles. Gawain's imperial camp was decorated with gold, while Li Yuanxun's camp was green and black. Several camps were also erected to do business here. There are tens of thousands of merchants and prostitutes. Previously, Gawain warmly invited Li Yuanxun to come to the city of Samarkand for negotiations. Li Yuanxun did not refuse, and led the entire army like guests 150 kilometers deep, arrived at the beautiful and fertile city of Samarkand, and began to negotiate with the Great Emperor Fu Fu. .

At this time, Tong Guan was wearing white linen clothes, with his hair disheveled, sitting quietly in a heavily guarded prison next to the imperial camp, picking up a pen and carefully writing a narrative on the snow-white Seleucia paper.

When Pharmacist Guo came, he was timid and still didn't dare to look at Tong Guan head on. As soon as he came in, he stayed in the corner and turned his face away.

"Don't be embarrassed, come on, come on, the incense car escorted by Tong is the true identity of the King of Justice. Pharmacist, don't you really want to know, hahaha." Tong Guan looked at Pharmacist Guo and raised the written Narrating and laughing loudly.

After hearing Tong Guan's words, Medicine Master Guo rushed over and knelt on the ground across the wooden fence. With a flattering smile on his face, he said, "Tong Xiang, you are really a first-class loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, but now Emperor Fulu probably wants to Extradit you to Di Tang, and you and King Ping Ping will also have to As for the outcome of death, it is better to give me this narrative to take credit. Life or death is up to you. I will only be a good official of Fulu. Later, when Di Tang returned to Anxi, Guo took root in the river and endured the humiliation and heavy road. Sooner or later the Song Dynasty will be revived.”

Tong Guan's face was filled with emotion, and he also moved his face towards me, and whispered to Pharmacist Guo, "This is true, but your surname is Guo!"

"What's the point of being a child?" Yaoshi Guo immediately became excited, "The Zhao family usurped the power of the Chai family. Where did the power of the Chai family come from? It belongs to Guo Que'er again. So the wind and water have turned, and my Guo family has become the emperor again. No problem, at worst, he will change his surname and adopt another ancestor like Di Tang, and he will still be the Tong Xiang of the Song Dynasty. "

"In that case, I'll leave it to you, the pharmacist."

"Guo's heart to revive the Emperor and Song Dynasty can be learned from the sun and the moon!"

After expressing his position, Tong Guan laughed again, folded the text describing the ins and outs, and handed it into the hands of Yaoshi Guo through the gap in the wooden fence. Yaoshi Guo suddenly felt that his hands were heavy, as if he were holding a newborn baby. He stuffed it into his arms and turned to leave.

In the Roman imperial camp, Gawain opened Tong Guan's document and asked the interpreter to read it to him sentence by sentence. He finally understood it completely:

It turned out that before Tong Guan left the country, the Liao Dynasty had been destroyed, and the Song Dynasty was also in danger, so Tong Guan sent an envoy to negotiate with Xixia, which had also ceased war before, and asked the Xia ruler to abandon the country and organize a group of elites to accompany him in the western expedition to find a way to survive. . But the Queen Mother and the King of Xixia were very stubborn, saying that they could provide passage and supplies for Tong Guan, but I still had millions of soldiers in Xixia, and the Khitan was still unable to destroy me at that time, and the same was true for Gaotang.

As a result, Xixia perished almost at the same time as the Song Dynasty. The empress dowager and the king of the country burned themselves to death, and all the beautiful party girls in their harem were captured. The minister of Gaotang wanted to enrich Li Hui's harem, but Li Hui refused, and these group of women were taken away. Xia's women and all the treasures they obtained were rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and Later, he announced the rebuilding of the "Anxi Protectorate" and gathered 100,000 soldiers to follow Tong Guan's footsteps. "Everything must be done to eradicate evil and not be known as the Overlord." He also launched a massive Western Expedition. The goal was not so much to capture the King of Justice, but to Ning said that he was going after Tong Guan, the real powerful person.

In addition, there is another item in the document that makes Gawain break into cold sweat again.

It turned out that Tong Guan and everyone had made a big joke, of course it was played on enemies or semi-marginalized companions (such as Guo Yaoshi, Yelu Dashi, etc.), and the targets included Gawain, "There is no such thing as a fair king. Xiaoxiang What is displayed in the car is the remains of the deceased Emperor Daojun. Emperor Daojun took the former king's title as his title for fairness, changed his name to Ji, and changed his pen to Tian. Due to the embalming technique, The legacy of the Western Expedition is immortal."

Naturally, this secret was also known to some senior bureaucrats such as Lu Yihao. They praised the emperor to the outside world that the emperor was always ill and disliked seeing others, and that Tong Guan handled major affairs arbitrarily. In fact, many middle- and lower-level people certainly guessed what the Fair King's true identity was, but everyone seemed to have a tacit consensus that no one could tell. Even Guo Yaoshi and Yelu Dashi were dubious, but no one would really expose it during the Western Expedition, because in a difficult war, everyone needs a spiritual pillar of support.

At the end of the document, Tong Guan said that "the birds are mourning when they are about to die" and begged Emperor Dafu to treat the captured Song Dynasty bureaucrats, craftsmen, military families and soldiers kindly, and extradite himself to Gaotang, even if his body was broken into pieces, his liver and brains were shattered, Die without regrets.

Gao Wen sighed, and then wrote in purple ink under Tong Guanwen's letter, "Song soldiers were mostly deceived and coerced. They were not guilty in the first place. According to the new laws of Rome, they will serve for free in various workshops in the empire for three years." After obtaining the qualifications of a new citizen, he can live together in the suburbs of the imperial capital. As for Tong Guan, he committed an unforgivable crime and was handed over to the Tang Empire for execution, as well as the rest of Lu Yihao and others. "

Then, in the camp under the city of Samarkand, Gawain handed over the Qibao Incense Cart to General Li Yuanxun. Sure enough, there was a corpse wrapped in a golden robe placed in it. His features were generally clear. Li Yuanxun asked several of the previous Palace officials who had served Emperor Daojun of the Song Dynasty came to identify it, and they all agreed that it was the remains of Zhao Ji.

But Li Yuanxun was still a little uneasy, so he asked for Tong Guan's letter and compared it with that of Lu Yihao and others. As expected, there was no discrepancy. Only then did he make up his mind and thanked Emperor Gaowen repeatedly. Gaowen also entertained Li Yuanxun and his soldiers to the utmost, and the guests enjoyed themselves for several days.

Finally, Tong Guan, with his white hair, formally put on the linen clothes to mourn for Zhao Song, bowed three times and kowtowed nine times to the fragrant carriage carrying the remains of the Taoist emperor, and calmly stepped onto the prison carriage. Under the supervision of the Gaotang soldiers, he headed towards the desolate east.

The cavalry soldiers of Gaotang played the flute, hujia, flute, and drum, and sang "He Chao Huan" in a loud and vigorous voice;

"The imperial wind covers the four seas,

The thousand-year-old virtue water is clear.

No more military uniforms,

Today we declare success!"

They also sang "Po Zhen Yue":

"Accepting the law and resigning from the head of state,

There is no wrong version in 16-9-1 book-1 bar!

We will fight against the traitors.

Sing Po Zhen Yue together,

and enjoy the peace people together!"

Then 10,000 elite cavalrymen, surrounded by vehicles, returned eastward.

When they arrived at Hezhong Prefecture, Li Yuanxun beheaded Tong Guan here, and then Zhao Ji's body was transported back to the country for burial. Li Hui also gave him an ironic posthumous title-"Second-rank Hun Hun Jingxi Gong".

As for Lu Yihao and others, Li Hui took pity on their talents and recruited them for his own use. He also recognized their official qualifications in the old dynasty and promoted them to the new dynasty.