Chapter 15 Touching the Gold Colonel
After handling government affairs for a day in Bianjing, Yuwen Xuzhong returned to his elegant and luxurious mansion. As the prefect of Bianjing, he relied on Wanyan Nianhan to take office.
Yuwen Xuzhong was also doing his best to restore the vitality of Bianjing, calling on the people to resume production, re-rule order and laws, and finally restored some vitality to the dilapidated capital.
Bianjing City was once inhabited by millions of people. Although it is only 200,000 to 300,000 now, it is more prosperous than ordinary cities.
Beside Yuwen Xuzhong, Yang Yizhong, the governor of Bianjing garrison, said:
"Sir, although Wanyan Nianhan delegates power to us, he still has great precautions on military power. Bianjing still has a place of 10,000 soldiers, and we have only a few thousand people in total, which is difficult to compete with."
Yuwenxu smiled bitterly:
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now we can slowly intercept part of the tax revenue. Although the Jin people still account for the majority, as long as we do it with our hearts, we can always contribute to the Emperor Song."
Yang Yizhong continued:
"It's true. I never expected that Zhe Keqiu, a traitor, had surrendered to the enemy and rebelled. Now he has transformed into the Emperor of Qin. I wish I could kill this thief with his own hands."
"When it comes to becoming emperor, General Yang wants to help me. Since he has been elected as emperor, we must also take Hebei as the foundation, Bianjing and Kaifeng as the capital.
We can also establish an empire and become emperor. We cannot lose to the Qin Dynasty in terms of justice. Otherwise, we will be under others and will not be able to do something shameful. Besides, after the empire is established, we can still recruit soldiers openly and kill two birds with one stone."
Yuwen Xuzhong had been thinking about it for a long time. No wonder when he went north, the official family held his hand and asked him to consider becoming an emperor or becoming a prince at his discretion. It turned out that the official family had plans for a long time, and he was really far-sighted.
He is worthy of being a wise master.
Yang Yizhong smiled and said:
"This is natural. Wanyan Nianhan has a great say in the Jin Kingdom now. If you persuade me, we will get satisfactory results. If you bribe me, you will definitely win the championship.
Speaking of this, I never expected that the Zhao Guan family really defeated Jin Wushu and ran back in shame with his tail. Not only did he lose his troops, he was also severely scolded by the King of Jin. It is said that even the military power was taken away."
Yuwen Xuzhong shook his head and said disapprovingly:
"These are just superficial skills. Jin Wushu is a ruthless man himself, and he still has a lot of his heart and a lot of it will take him to recover without much time, so it's better not to mention it.
What I really care about is Zhe Keqiu, Liu Yu, Liu Lin and his son, Kong Yanzhou, Li Cheng, Lu Hui, Xu Dekai and others. These chaos are our biggest enemies, and they are all disasters."
Soon, someone suddenly came to report.
"Report, Lord Yang, General Yang, Liu Yu and his son came to Bianjing with tens of thousands of troops, and these people rushed to the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty. The people we arranged there were all dismissed. It seems that they are going to move the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty."
Yang Yizhong was so angry that he was furious that Yuwen Xuzhong felt his body swaying, and his eyes turned black and he almost fainted.
Finally, he waved to the confidant and asked him to go out.
In the room, Yuwen Xuzhong took off his official hat and took the south place, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, and shed tears in her eyes and said with red eyes:
"My dear Yuwen Xu was incompetent and could not use the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty. He swears to the sky that he would steal the thief of the imperial tomb in the future and cut them into pieces to comfort the heroic spirits of the ancestors of the Song Dynasty and thank the world."
Yang Yizhong acted the same way, and the two were in disgrace and angry, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
Yuwen Xu said in the middle:
"Go and order the troops and horses quickly. Wanhu left by Nianhan will also inform him and let him come quickly with his troops."
Yang Yizhong was stunned for a moment and said:
"Although the subordinates are not afraid of death, it's hard to tear them apart at this time, right? Besides, those Jin people will help us?"
"Oh, how can I tear my face at this time? I just want to get a piece of the pie. I can't get the benefits from them, and I can't get them all.
How to explain to Marshal Nianhan at that time? In addition, the time for us to establish a country has come. For the sake of the continuation of the Song Dynasty, we can only aggrieved the ancestors and ancestors' late emperors."
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The Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb is located in Xicun, Zhitian, urban area and Huiguo Town in Gongyi City, Henan Province.
The nine emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, except Hui and Qin, were captured and killed by Jin soldiers, outside the Five Kingdoms City. The other seven emperors and Zhao Hongyin (the father of Zhao Kuangyin) were all buried in Gongyi, commonly known as the "Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs".
In addition, there were nearly a thousand tombs of the concubines, princes, princes, and other meritorious officials and generals such as Gao Huaide, Cai Qi, Kou Zhun, Bao Zheng, Yang Liulang, and Zhao Pu. The Song Mausoleum was built in 963 AD and the business lasted for more than 160 years.
The wealth accumulated in it is jaw-dropping. It is a miracle that it has not been stolen for so long.
In fact, after Liu Yu became the emperor of Qi supported by the Jin army, he directly ordered the excavation of the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty.
According to the order of time, the eight tombs are the Yong'an Tombs of Song Xuanzu, the Yongchang Tombs of Song Taizu, the Yongxi Tombs of Song Taizong, the Yongding Tombs of Song Zhenzong, the Yongzhao Tombs of Song Renzong, the Yonghou Tombs of Song Yingzong, the Yongyu Tombs of Song Shenzong and the Yongtai Tombs of Song Zhezong.
When Liu Yu saw that Zhe Keqiu became the emperor of Qin, he felt unbalanced. However, he had just returned from the south and it was useless to find his backer Wanyan Tadalai. How could he succeed if he didn't bribe him?
What should I do if I lack money?
If there are subordinates, they say that the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty is rich.
After Liu Yu had the plan to steal the Northern Song Dynasty imperial tomb, he immediately put this plan into practice.
He immediately mobilized tens of thousands of rural soldiers to participate in the tomb robbery activities. In order to steal the treasures in the tomb as soon as possible, he sent his son Liu Lin to personally preside over the tomb robbery activities.
In order to increase the attention of his subordinates to tomb robbers, he learned from Cao Cao and set up a special tomb robbery organization, which was also the second recorded official robbery organization in Chinese history.
The tomb robbers he set up include "Henan Taosha Official" and "Bianjing Taosha Official" and so on.
Liu Lin led a large army to the location of the Eight Tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty and excavated the tombs. Their tomb robbing process did not encounter any resistance, and it went smoothly. They also had a good way to rob the tomb.
For those larger imperial tombs, holes are made from the side of the tomb. After the hole is made, pry open the top of the tomb to cover the tomb, and then tie the rope to the waist of the tomb robbers, go down the rope and you can directly reach the core position of the tomb and find the coffin.
For those smaller burials, the soldiers were asked to wield shovels and other tools to dig the top of the tomb directly and steal treasures.
Their targets focus on tombs that were not robbed by Jin soldiers, and they did not let go of those tombs that were visited by Jin soldiers and carried out secondary tomb robbery.
For a time, the Northern Song Dynasty Mausoleum area was full of tomb robbers, and abandoned white bones were everywhere. The Fengshui treasure land that was originally the imperial tombs became a messy tomb. Except for the imperial tombs, the Houling tombs, the concubines tombs, and the tombs of the ministers around them were not spared. After the corpse of Song Zhezong Zhao Xu was dug out, they were abandoned randomly on the ground.
When Yuwen Xuzhong led his troops to arrive, there were shocking scenes everywhere, which made people indignant. Yuwen Xuzhong suppressed his anger and went to visit Liu Yu.
Chapter completed!