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Chapter 174 Grief

"Just a month ago, my daughter-in-law was walking on the street and was seen by a Jin soldier! The Jin soldier humiliated my daughter-in-law in the street. My son couldn't stand it and wanted to fight with the Jin soldiers! Several Jin soldiers rushed over and pressed my son to the ground. They raped my daughter-in-law in front of my son! The daughter-in-law couldn't bear the humiliation and bit her tongue to commit suicide! The Jin soldiers cut my son into several sections! Later, they found out the address of my family and threw the body of my miserable son into the house. After that, they snatched the body of my miserable son in my house, and then they snatched all the valuables from my house. All the valuables were taken away by them! My two daughters who were not yet married were also humiliated to death by them! Lao Sheng was thrown to the ground by them and could not get up. They stepped on Lao Sheng a few times before leaving!" The old man cried.

Zhao Chen frowned.

"Your Majesty, the Jurchens are cruel and not human! My child is only four years old. When he was playing outside, several Jurchens came over. The Jurchens didn't know what they were saying. Then they grabbed my child! A Jurchens threw my child into the air. When my child fell, the Jurchens next to him kicked my child into the sky with their feet! My child was screaming and they kept laughing there! I was about to rush up, but they were pressed to the ground! Later, my child's voice became smaller and smaller. When the Jurchens left, my child had already died. I still remember the painful expression when he was dying! He was only four years old, and was tortured like this!" A middle-aged man cried bitterly.

"Your Majesty, my husband was also killed by the Jurchens! The Jurchens asked them to do labor, and there was no time to rest from morning to night to morning. My husband just accidentally took a nap and was beaten to death by them with a whip!" A woman cried.

There were crying sounds everywhere, and the people in Chang'an City were crying and telling the miserable life over the past two years! In the past two years, there were countless Han people who were brutally beaten to death and killed. As for suffering, exhaustion, cold and hunger, there were many people. Almost all Han people in Chang'an "enjoy" such treatment!

Zhao Chen felt very uncomfortable standing there!

Originally, he was in a state of great excitement to conquer Chang'an! But at this moment, he was only sad!

In two years, the people of Chang'an City encountered so many disasters! For example, in other parts of the Central Plains, needless to say, the people there will never encounter fewer disasters than those of Chang'an! Historically, when the Jurchens went south, more than 10 million Han people died, and when the Mongols went south, more than 50 million Han people died! Every foreign invasion is a huge disaster for the Han people! For example, the wars within the Han people, although there are wars, they will never be destroyed in the country and the tribes. No one of their own tribes can be completely exterminated! Only foreign tribes are so cruel!

"Don't worry, I will definitely avenge you! I will definitely not let you go! I will lie in Hanzhong for two years, conquering Guanshan and conquering Chang'an is only the first step! In the future, I will conquer the entire Central Plains, I will conquer the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that were lost during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and I will also attack the Jurchens' hometown, completely subdue the Jurchens, so that they will never dare to have any ambitions, and make them pay the price for their past sins!" Zhao Chen said.

"What Your Majesty said is true?" the old man who was the first to speak asked excitedly.

"Of course it is true! Speaking of which, it is my Zhao family who is sorry to everyone! My father, the emperor and his grandfather did not do well, the country was corrupt and the military was lax, which led to the Jurchens invasion, which caused the people of the world to suffer disasters! In fact, what Taizu and Emperor Taizong did was a bit bad. They promoted literature and suppressed martial arts, which made our Song Dynasty less powerful than the other generations. This led to various disasters that followed. Whether it was the Khitan, Xixia, or Jurchens could invade the Song Dynasty, they could harm our people! From now on, I will change the rules of my ancestors and will never promote literature and suppress martial arts again. I will do my best to develop military skills and compete with the Jurchens!" Zhao Chen said.

Wang Shu next to him was shocked and thought that Zhao Chen wanted to completely change the national policy. If this was spread to Hanzhong, Jiangnan and other places, the scholars from all over the country would be in an uproar! You should know that after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the national policy of promoting literature and suppressing military affairs had been implemented for more than a hundred years and had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! In the hearts of the common people of the Song Dynasty, the status of literati was far higher than that of the military people, and scholars from all over the world looked down on those ordinary soldiers. In their opinion, those soldiers were all humble! Even ordinary soldiers and military men, they naturally believed that their status was not as good as those scholars! But now, Zhao Chen actually wanted to change all this! If this was passed back to Hanzhong, wouldn't it be a mess?

Wang Shu was nervous and thought that the news must not be allowed to spread! He looked at the soldiers of the Imperial Camp around him, thinking that he would definitely warn these Imperial Camp soldiers later and told them not to talk nonsense!

But these Chang'an City people were very happy when they heard this! After experiencing such a great disaster, the people of Chang'an City wished that the Song Dynasty's troops were invincible in the world, and they had long begun to despise the so-called "promoting literature and suppressing martial arts"!

"Your Majesty is wise!" Countless people fell to their knees and said excitedly.

"I swear today that I will expel the Tartars in my lifetime! I will devote all my time and energy to this matter and fight for it! I will definitely compensate the people and let them live a better life than before the Jurchens invasion!" Zhao Chen said.

Needless to say, he felt sad, at this moment Yue Fei came to the city wall and strode towards Zhao Chen.

"Is the war in the city completely over?" Zhao Chen said.

"The war in the city has ended, and the only Jurchens and Khitans left in the city have been subdued by us... Your Majesty, I will finally get a piece of news." Yue Fei hesitated for a moment and said.

"What news?" Zhao Chen said.

"This..." Yue Fei stopped talking.

"Tell me quickly!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, these words cannot be heard by others!" Yue Fei said.

Zhao Chen nodded, and he and Yue Fei came to the side and said, "Can you tell me this now?"

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has passed away!" Yue Fei said softly.

"What!" Zhao Chen was stunned and stayed there!

The so-called Empress Dowager is the Empress Zhu of Song Qinzong, and Zhao Chen's biological mother! Empress Zhu was taken to Huining Mansion by the Jurchens. The Jurchen Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai wanted to insult Empress Zhu, and Empress Zhu jumped into the river and committed suicide! Yue Fei got the news when he was interrogating several Jurchen generals, so he hurried to report!

Zhao Chen stayed there, tears flowing out of his eyes!

He only stayed in Kaifeng for more than half a year and was with Empress Zhu for only half a year! But he knew that Empress Zhu really loved him, and he really felt the existence of maternal love from Empress Zhu! There was also a mother-son relationship between them! In this era, men and women got married early and had children early, and Empress Zhu was only sixteen years older than him. In short, Empress Zhu died at the age of thirty! At this age, she was in her prime, but she died at the hands of the Jurchens! His mother died at the hands of the Jurchens!

"Your Majesty!" Yue Fei knelt on the ground and said.

"I remember this hatred in my heart! I will settle accounts with the Jurchens in the future! Our strength is not as good as theirs now, so we will develop for a few years before we talk about it!" Zhao Chen gritted his teeth.

*******

Half a month has passed since the Battle of Chang'an, and it has already reached the first day of the second month!

At this moment, Guan and Shaanxi have gradually calmed down. Zhao Chen did not launch an attack on northern Shaanxi. On the one hand, there are many Jurchen troops in northern Shaanxi. On the other hand, there are still many rebel troops in northern Shaanxi. The situation there is very complicated! Moreover, the imperial guards, Jingyuan Army, and Huanqing Army have suffered many casualties and injured after a war. New troops need to be replenished! Chang'an and other places have just been defeated, and they also need to have a rest and have to let the people in these places live first. Therefore, the war here has stopped in a short period of time!

However, in the Central Plains area of ​​Henan, there are still endless wars here!

Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi led a 150,000 Jurchen army here, and Zongze arranged more than 2 million rebels here!

Zong Ze was also a famous minister of a generation and was quite wise. At this time, Zong Ze actually adopted the guerrilla tactics of Hedong! Two million rebels were distributed in various parts of the Central Plains. They did not fight head-on with the Jurchens, but instead kept sneaking into the Jurchens' food routes, which made the Jurchens run away!

Occasionally, Zong Ze also commanded the rebel army to launch some attacks, which also caused a lot of losses to the Jurchens!

Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi was trapped here and it was difficult to get out for a while!

However, the two were just irritated and had no worries! In their opinion, these rebels were only guerrilla, and it was almost impossible to cause large-scale damage to the Jurchen army!

They are just waiting for the arrival of food and grass now. At that time, they will ignore these and go straight to the south!

On the third day of the second month, Wanyan Loushi was in Kaifeng City, and they had already beaten down here again! At this time, several Jurchen soldiers ran over!

"What happened?" Wanyan Loushi asked immediately.

"General, the big thing is not good. The Han people in Guanshan launched a large-scale attack. The female general Wanyanhuo was defeated by them. Now his life and death are unknown!" A Jurchen man knelt on the ground and said.

"What? How is it possible?" Wanyan Loushi was shocked and said.

He frowned, shook his head after a while, and said, "This must not be true! The Han people are incompetent and cowardly, and they will not be our opponents! There are many soldiers and horses in the living girl. Our Jurchens are invincible and will never lose!"

The Jurchens below knelt there and said, "General, this is true, it's true!"

Wanyan Loushi felt a little anxious and said, "I'll go and say to the second prince. If possible, I'll go back and take a look!"

At this moment, Wanyan Loushi asked to see Wanyan Zongwang. Wanyan Zongwang felt that Wanyan Loushi was completely over-thinking, but Wanyan Loushi was very persistent, so Wanyan Zongwang ordered Wanyan Loushi to lead 10,000 people to Tongguan!
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