Chapter 18 Heavenly Sword
Zhao Chen retreated to the cloth robes again, and he picked them up, but saw that there was dust on them! No one had touched the things here for many years!
Zhao Chen rubbed it carefully with his hands. He felt that it didn't look like a cloth coat, but rather a leather coat.
"What is this?" Zhao Chen turned his head and asked.
"Your Highness, this is a piece of clothing made of ape's skin!" The eunuch looked at the record and said.
"Clothes made of monkey skin? What's the precious thing about this?" Zhao Chen said in surprise.
"This monkey skin is different! When Taizu conquered the world, everyone praised Taizu for his martial arts skills, but Taizu said that his martial arts skills were not the best, and there was still someone in the world who could surpass him..." The eunuch said slowly while looking at the record.
"Oh? I wonder who can beat Taizu?" Zhao Chen interrupted and asked.
"Taizu said it was Chen Tuan." said the eunuch.
"Who is he?" Zhao Chen said. After all, he is just a high school student and doesn't know much about this famous Taoist figure.
"This person is a senior of the Taoist sect. Legend has it that this person once lived for hundreds of years." said the eunuch.
"Absurd! Who can live hundreds of years?" Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"What the prince said is, but the people highly respect Chen Tuan! According to legend, this person dreamed of a god when he was young, and was taught sleeping skills by the gods, so he could sleep for several years! Many emperors of all dynasties summoned this person, and several emperors at the end of the Tang Dynasty had summoned him, and the Emperor Taizu of my Song Dynasty had also summoned him. Later, Taizong and Emperor Zhenzong also summoned him repeatedly! This person is very famous in Taoism, so the Taiji diagram was created by this person!" said the eunuch.
"Is the Tai Chi diagram actually created by this person?" Zhao Chen originally thought the legends were very absurd, but he was surprised when he heard this.
"Yes, the Tai Chi diagram was created by this man! The skin of this ape was a gift given to Taizu by Chen Tuan after Taizu unified the world! Taizu made the clothes and placed them here! As for what the clothes do, there is no record of them." The eunuch said.
Zhao Chen nodded gently. Although he thought Chen Tuan's legend was still absurd, since he was able to create such a world-famous thing as "Tai Chi Tuan", it must be extraordinary! At that time, Zhao Kuangyin was the Emperor of Central Plains. How could Chen Tuan give the Emperor of Central Plains simple?
"I took this thing away!" Zhao Chen said.
"Yes! The villain will write it down now!" the eunuch said hurriedly.
He walked around the arsenal again and never found many useful things! Here, he found several famous swords, but these swords were still a certain difference from the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword in his hand, so he did not move those swords! He, a prince, brought a large number of swords to the Eastern Palace. If someone reported it, it would be a good thing! He only took one sword to practice martial arts, and others had nothing to say.
Since he had finished picking, he would go and see Wang De! He found that Wang De was now parked in a corner, and Wang De's eyes were staring at a sword, his face full of excitement!
Zhao Chen walked over and found that it was a blue sword! Unlike the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword in his hand, this sword was much longer, and it was a four-foot sword!
"General Wang has taken a fancy to this sword?" Zhao Chen said.
"This sword is... it is the Yitian Sword!" Wang De breathed a little rapidly and said.
"Puff..." Zhao Chen almost laughed out loud and said, "What did you say? The Sword of the Heavenly Sword!"
Wang De nodded and said, "It's the Yitian Sword, nothing wrong! There is seal script on it, which is the word Yitian! The style of this sword is exactly the same as the legendary Yitian Sword!"
"There is the Sword of the Heavenly Sword, is there a Dragon Slaying Sword?" Zhao Chen couldn't help asking.
"Dragon Slaying Sword?" Wang De was stunned and shook his head, "I have never heard of this sword!"
At this time, the old eunuch next to him said, "Your Highness, have you not heard of this Sword of Heaven?"
"No!" Zhao Chen shook his head.
"Your Highness, this sword is one of the famous swords cast by Cao Cao!" said the eunuch.
"Oh?" Zhao Chen nodded and signaled the eunuch to continue speaking.
"Cao Cao unified the north when he unified the north. He gathered all the famous craftsmen from the north and cast two swords, one called Yitian and the other called Qingyan! Cao Cao used Yitian Sword to show his power and used the Qingyan Sword to kill people! The Three Kingdoms says that Taizu thought he was willing to be Zhuo's life, and suspected that he wanted to kill eight people at night with his sword. He used the Yitian Sword! In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, a poet of a generation, was the top master in the world. He was also very envious of Yitian Sword. There was a poem saying, "How about the Yitian Sword, crossing the sea to kill the long whale. This is Cao Cao's Yitian Sword, which is also the result of Emperor Taizu collected that year!" said the eunuch.
"So there is such an allusion!" Zhao Chen was stunned, and he vaguely remembered some things.
When he was in high school, he once read Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which contained a chapter called Zhao Zilong riding alone to save the master. It seemed that Cao Cao had two swords, and it seemed that he had the three words "Yingtian Sword"! It turned out that this Yitian Sword was cast by Cao Cao. The real Yitian Sword has nothing to do with Jin Yong's novels, and there was no dragon-slaying sword that opposed the Yitian Sword.
"So that's it! General Wang, have you taken a fancy to this Sword of Heaven?" Zhao Chen said.
"This...this..." Wang De's face showed a hesitant expression.
"Do you don't like it?" Zhao Chen said in surprise.
"Your Highness, this sword is Cao Cao's sword! Cao Cao is a thief, usurping the Han Dynasty and leaving a bad reputation for thousands of years! Although this sword is good, it cannot be used by the last general!" Wang Dedao.
Zhao Chen then understood Wang De's concerns and smiled and said, "Why can't you use the sword Cao Cao used? Can you become a treacherous minister even if you use his sword?"
"This..." In fact, using Cao Cao's sword may not necessarily become a traitor, but Cao Cao's reputation is really bad. If an official in the court uses Cao Cao's sword, others will inevitably slander them as unjust! Therefore, Wang De was worried about it and did not dare to use this sword!
"I order you to pick up this sword as the prince and use this sword to protect me in the future!" Zhao Chen said decisively.
"Thank you, Your Highness, Prince!" Wang De said happily.
He actually liked this sword very much, but was afraid that others would talk nonsense! Now that the prince is speaking, he is naturally nothing!
"Apart from the Sword of the Heavenly Sword, what else do you like? Just take it!" Zhao Chen said.
"This is a treasure collected by my kings of all dynasties in the Song Dynasty. It is already a great blessing for me to obtain the Sword of Heaven. I will never dare to take anything else!" Wang Dedao.
"It is a waste to put weapons here. If you want to go to the front line to kill the enemy, you should pay attention to whatever you value, just take it!" Zhao Chen said.
Wang De just shook his head! Zhao Chen smiled. He walked forward and personally picked an axe and a piece of armor for Wang De. Then he left with Wang De! As for things such as the Heavenly Sword, someone would be sent to Wang De's mansion. Wang De cannot sway in the palace with weapons, which is a serious crime! Zhao Chen was holding the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword in his hand, and he seemed to be much better and no longer so depressed!
"The prince gave the last general a magic weapon. Such great kindness will never be repaid forever! Wang De will be loyal to the prince and will always follow the prince!" After walking for a while, Wang De said excitedly.
"You don't have to be polite!" Zhao Chen said with a smile.
Zhao Chen felt that he was generous to others! Until now, he did not regard the palace as his home, nor did he regard the things in the palace as his own! He still does not truly recognize the identity of the prince!
"Be careful on the battlefield... Do you still remember what you said at that time?" Zhao Chen said.
He reminded Wang De not to forget to save himself when Kaifeng City was broken!
"Of course I remember! Don't worry, if the day really comes, the last general will climb to the palace and save the prince!" Wang Dedao.
"Okay!" Zhao Chen nodded, and Wang De knelt down and said goodbye!
Looking at Wang De's back, Zhao Chen sighed softly. He didn't know if there was still time to meet after Wang De's trip! For a moment, he felt countless melancholy in his heart.
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On November 10, the Song Dynasty court began to plunder again on a large scale, and there were cries in Kaifeng City again! Now, almost no gold, silver and wealth are left in the people's homes!
One afternoon, Li Bangyan went out of the city and sent out the batch of gold and silver!
Li Bangyan smiled when he came back. He reported to Emperor Qinzong of Song that although the gold and silver had not met the Jurchens' requirements, the Jurchens were very happy that the Song Dynasty was so hard to plunder gold and silver. They had already agreed to retreat ten miles away!
Sure enough, early the next morning, the Jurchen army retreated ten miles!
Song Qinzong was overjoyed. He ordered his ministers to collect all the gold and silver that had been "owed" to the Jurchens! But now Kaifeng City has no gold and silver. The wealth accumulated by Kaifeng City over the past hundred years has been plundered by the Song court! Now Song Qinzong ordered the surrounding prefectures and counties to plunder gold and silver and send gold and silver to the Jin army! The court helped foreigners to plunder gold and silver from their people. This was the biggest joke in the world, but it was the real thing that happened back then! The shame of Jingkang not only included the destruction of Kaifeng City and the capture of the two emperors, but also many ridiculous things that happened before the destruction of Kaifeng City! These are unprecedented great shames in Chinese history!
On November 15, the Song Dynasty court once again delivered gold and silver to the Jurchens! After this time, there was no more gold and silver in the palace!
Li Bangyan returned from the Jurchen army and said that the Jurchens allowed the court to use supplies to replace gold and silver! Song Qinzong was overjoyed again. From that day on, a large amount of food, weapons, daily necessities and other stored in Kaifeng City were sent out by Song Qinzong. In the end, the soldiers on the city walls were not wearing armor!
From November 15 to November 25, in just ten days, nothing valuable was left in Kaifeng City!
On that night, a huge disaster came!
It was snowing heavily, the weather was extremely cold, and the imperial soldiers on the city wall were extremely cold!
The Imperial Guard was the weakest army in the Song Dynasty, but at the beginning of the founding of the country, the Imperial Guard was the strongest army! Zhao Kuangyin relied on his troops to become the world, so he was particularly wary of mutiny! For this reason, he took many measures, one of which was the "strong, weak branch". He concentrated all the country's most elite soldiers in the capital, and the number of Imperial Guards far exceeded that of the border troops, and at the most reached 800,000! Zhao Kuangyin wanted to rely on these 800,000 imperial guards to suppress the border troops and prevent the border troops from rebelling!
It’s just that 800,000 imperial guards stayed in Kaifeng City and it was almost difficult to get on the battlefield! Such an army has not participated in the war for more than a hundred years, so you can imagine what it would become!
They never train because they don’t have to participate in the war! Their weapons are never wiped, and many imperial soldiers even sold their weapons and then changed to drink! In addition, the most chaotic military system in the world adopted by the Song Dynasty to prevent mutiny, the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the soldiers to develop to the extreme among imperial soldiers! Most generals have not seen their soldiers in a year!
There is no "suspense" at all when relying on such an imperial guard to defend Kaifeng City! Not to mention the Jurchen army at its peak, any army can defeat Kaifeng City as long as it reaches Kaifeng! The imperial guards are just decorations!
The Southern Song Dynasty was able to be more peaceful in later generations because it was not the imperial guards, but the peasant army! Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, the four famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, were all new troops established by recruiting peasants, which was able to resist the continuous invasion of the Jurchens! At that time, the imperial guards had already been wiped out!
The military discipline of the imperial guards was also extremely loose. At night, countless imperial guards actually ran home to sleep! Moreover, these days, the Jurchens kept sending people to discuss peace talks, and the Jurchens' attitude became better and better. Even ten miles behind, the imperial guards' soldiers became more and more relaxed. This is also one of the reasons why countless imperial guards ran home to sleep! At this moment, only a few people stood on the wall of Kaifeng!
When he heard the sound of horse hooves, the few imperial soldiers on the city wall finally became panicked!
"The Jurchens are the Jurchens! What do they want to do?!"
One hundred thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed towards Kaifeng City frantically. They came to the city and crossed the frozen moat. They raised the ladder and rushed towards it frantically!
Chapter completed!