Kang Xian dismissed his family, leaving only more than twenty relatives and loyal servants at home to make the final resistance. Before the Jurchens arrived, a storyteller came to ask for an audience. Kang Xian received him with some surprise.

Face to face, he asked the storyteller carefully about the situation in the northwest, and finally sent him away. This was the first and last indirect communication between Ning Yi and Kang Xian since the regicide.

Advising him to leave, Kang Xian refused.

Jun Wu, who was far away in the southwest, had no way of knowing about this small episode. He met Ning Yi again a few years later. Not long after, the old man named Kang Xian left forever in Jiangning.

Human world.

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In the Northland, the cold weather continues, and the prosperity and tragedy of the world are also happening at the same time without interruption.

The Jingping Emperor Zhou Ji, who liked to seek divination from gods all his life, and who soon after he ascended the throne enlisted the Heavenly Master Guo Jing to fight against the Jin Dynasty, was the Emperor of the Wu Dynasty who was kidnapped to the north and was living a miserable and unspeakable life here. He was captured by himself.

Zhou Ji, who had been "conferred" as the Duke of Hunde by Wu Qimai since the Northern War, was now a special slave used by the Jurchen nobles for fun. He was locked up in a small yard near the imperial city, and was provided with a small amount of food every day.

Every time there was a Jurchen gathering, he would be taken out and humiliated to demonstrate his martial arts skills.

At first, Zhou Ji, who was pampered and pampered, naturally couldn't adapt. However, things were simple. As long as he was hungry for a few days, he would be able to swallow the food that looked like pig food. The Jurchens named him "gong", but in fact they regarded him as a "gong".

Pigs and dogs, the guards guarding him can beat and scold them at will. Whenever food is brought, he has to kneel down and thank the guards.

These are not the most unbearable ones. Some of the royal women who were captured and sent to the North were his sisters-in-law and nieces—the wives and daughters of Emperor Jinghan Zhou Zhe—and some were his biological daughters and even wives and concubines. These women would be

Being caught and humiliated in front of him, of course, what if you can't tolerate it? If you don't dare to die, you can only endure it.

The winter in the north was cold. When winter came, the Jurchens did not give him enough charcoal fires or clothes to keep out the cold. Zhou Ji could only hug the queen who followed him to keep warm. Sometimes the guard was in a good mood, and the queen would give him physical aid or he could go

Kowtow to get some charcoal and clothes. As for the Jurchen banquet, Zhou Ji was called out. Every time he knelt on the ground, he praised the Jin Kingdom. He even wrote a poem praising the Jin Kingdom's civil and military achievements. He brought the blame on himself.

If the other party is happy, he or she may be able to get a normal meal in exchange. If he is not convinced enough, he may be beaten or starved for several days.

We cannot judge whether this emperor who has only been in power for a short time has to endure such huge humiliation for the Wu Dynasty, nor can we judge whether Ning Yi did not kill Zhou Zhe and let him bear all this is a more just outcome. Between countries

In this time, the loser can only endure misery, and there is absolutely no justice. And in this northern country, it is not just the emperor who lives the most miserable life. Those nobles and royal women who are sent to Huanyifang are not the only ones who live the most miserable life in this winter.

Nearly half of them died of cold and starvation, and most of the captive slaves lived a life worse than death. In the first year, more than half of them died miserably.

The Jurchens did not care about the death of slaves, because more would be captured from the south one after another.

This second winter in the past was even more difficult for Zhou Ji. The Jurchens were searching the mountains and seas in the south but failed to capture the new emperor of the Wu Dynasty. However, the battle situation from the northwest came, and the Jurchens were facing Zhou Ji.

Their attitude was even worse. At the end of the year, they summoned Zhou Ji to a banquet and asked him to write some poems to praise the Jurchens, and then asked him to write several edicts.

One of the edicts was that he, as the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, advised the people of the Southern Dynasty to surrender to the rule of the Jin Kingdom, denounced the resisting troops as rebellious people who were worse than animals, cursed him, and at the same time taught Zhou Yong earnestly,

Advise him to stop hiding and come to the north to share His Majesty’s grace with the Kingdom of Jin.

In the second copy, he once again denounced the treason and regicide committed by the Wurui camp in the northwest, and called on the people of the Wu Dynasty to jointly attack the common enemy of the world who fled after the regicide.

The third part was that he passed on the virtuous man Liu Yu, the magistrate who surrendered at the gate of Jinan City, and ordered him to establish the Daqi regime south of Yanmenguan. He would regard the Kingdom of Jin as his brother, guard the territory and borders, and appease the people.

inverse.

Then, the people of the Jin Kingdom compiled Zhou Ji's eulogies, poems, and edicts into a volume, and sent them to the south for free just like last year...

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In the northwest, a brief period of peace continues.

After the beginning of spring, Ning Yi came to Yanzhou City to visit Zhonglie. At this time, the people in this area were in a state of high morale, and the surrounding area was like a house. Most of the forces close to the Jurchens had shrunk.

It was quite a difficult time.

Many people have chosen to join the Chinese Army or the Zhong Family Army, and the two armies have now formed an alliance.

"The crowd is so excited." Ning Yi and Zhong Lie stood on the city wall, looking at the scene of people signing up to join the army below.

This is the last excitement.

The fall of the Central Plains has become a reality, and the northwest has become a lonely corner.

"There is no way out." Zhong Lie pressed his hands on the city wall, his tall body showing the unique heroism of a man from the northwest, "Then fight out a way!"

After the battle against the Jurchen West Route Army, his whole life seemed to be burning. Ning Yi watched from the side without speaking.

On January 29, Jiangning fell.

He thought of that city.

There are many things that are broken and gone. The dark light and shadow are crushing and crushing everything, and are about to press here. This is a darkness that is harder to resist than ever before, but it is still difficult to explain clearly now.

In what form will it come?
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