Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

That night, Zhao Chen and others rested in the Zhongjing Imperial Palace.

Many soldiers of the army have also entered the palace! They have just arrived in Zhongjing City, and they haven't built a military camp yet. The place here is vast, and they happen to live here! Of course, everyone knows the important status of the imperial palace, and no one dares to walk around in it, let alone flip or destroy things!

Early the next morning, when it was just dawn, Zhao Chen took the generals of the army to inspect the situation in Zhongjing City.

It was snowing heavily outside, and after walking for a long time, everyone's heads were already white.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, they came to a porridge shed in the south of the city. They saw several large pots placed there, and the heat was emitting from the large pots. A dozen soldiers stood in front of the large pots, People in Zhongjing City spread porridge.

There are a lot of people in the surrounding Zhongjing City, all of them are ragged and hungry. Among these people were old women and young men, but the young men were also weak and weak. They crowded together and pushed each other, and the scene was very chaotic.

There are also children whose faces are flushed from the cold, and they also hold broken bowls in their hands, looking longingly at the cauldron for cooking porridge in front of them, with saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths.

The number of people is extremely large, and there are soldiers around to maintain order.

Zhao Chen and others have already arrived here, and the soldiers are performing their tasks, so it is just a simple military salute, Zhao Chen nodded, and these soldiers continued their work.

"The people here haven't had enough to eat for a long time." Qu Duan said.

"Don't talk about being full, they are very lucky that they didn't starve to death." Liu Kai said.

"Food will be delivered from Yanjing City soon, at least let them survive this winter." Zhao Chen said.

They were talking here when a woman stumbled to them and was stopped by the guards.

This woman was wearing unusually thin clothes, and her body was extremely thin, almost skinny, with not much hair on her head, she looked prematurely aging! Her face was yellow and her lips were chapped! After she came to the crowd, they found that she was holding a two-year-old baby in her arms. The baby was also small, skinny and skinny. The baby seemed to be crying, but the voice was too low for everyone to hear. clear.

"Masters, please give me something to eat?" The woman knelt there, kowtowed continuously, her voice was also weak. But listening to her voice, this is a Han woman.

Seeing such a scene, Zhao Chen sighed softly.

"Give them some of the food we brought!" Zhao Chen said.

When they came out of the palace, some meals from the general were brought out, just to deal with this situation.

Immediately, some guards brought over some steamed steamed buns with fat inside, and they handed them over to the woman.

The woman took the steamed bun, and it could be seen that her body was trembling because she was too excited!

Before she had time to say more, she hurriedly gnawed on the steamed bun in her hand, and after a few mouthfuls, she began to feed her child! The child was crying, but after eating, the crying stopped immediately! After a while, a smile appeared on the child's face! Seeing the child's smile, the Han woman burst into tears, and she kowtowed to Zhao Chen and others again to express her gratitude.

"Master, please do me a favor!" Seeing the scene here, people around rushed towards this place, and the guards tried their best to block these people, and then these people all knelt down on the ground and kept rushing towards Zhao Zhao. Chen and the others kowtowed.

"Distribute all the food we brought! Give more to the elderly and children! Don't mess around, don't grab!" Zhao Chen said.

At that moment, the guards distributed the food, and the people in Zhongjing City who got the food desperately stuffed it into their stomachs. Many people hadn't eaten food for many days, and they were very excited at this moment.

After these people finished eating, there were people queuing up at the cauldron for cooking porridge, but most of them knelt down and kowtowed to this side.

There are Khitan people and Han people here, and there is not much difference between them. The Han people have lived in the northern grasslands for more than 200 years, and they have already been regarded as the aborigines here. Under such difficult conditions, the Khitan people and the Han people no longer have ethnic barriers between each other, which is very different from the situation in Yanjing City. The areas around Shangjing and Zhongjing were the first places to be invaded by Jurchen. The exploitation of Jurchen here is much more fierce, while Yanjing City was conquered by Jurchen before the fall of the Song Dynasty. In addition, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were originally a rich place. It's not as difficult as it is here. The Han and Khitan people in Zhongjing City are at the bottom of the society and cannot survive. Even if there were ethnic conflicts in the past, they have long since disappeared. In such an era, who cares about those?

"Get up, I have something to say!" Zhao Chen couldn't help saying, looking at the people in Zhongjing who were kneeling and prostrating.

Some of the people stood up, but some were so weak that it was difficult for them to stand up. They needed to crawl to stand up slowly.

"I am Zhao Chen, Emperor Xuanwu of the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Chen said.

What!

Hearing this, the people of Zhongjing City stayed there for a while, and then everyone hurriedly knelt down again! In ancient times, the emperor had the supreme status, regardless of the Liao and Song Dynasties! When these people heard that the person in front of them was the emperor, they were both terrified and surprised! Since ancient times, it has been extremely rare for the emperor to provide disaster relief in person, and it is generally only officials who provide disaster relief. It is rare to hear that the emperor went to meet the victims in person.

There were voices of long live all around, and those people in Zhongjing City who were scrambling for porridge also knelt down in a hurry after seeing the scene here! Everyone knows what "long live" means, which means that the emperor is coming.

"I want to ask you, how have you been doing all these years?" Zhao Chen thought for a while in the silence and said.

The people around were all stunned. They didn't know what the emperor meant, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense. After a while, the Han woman with the child before said: "Your Majesty, we have a very bad life! My year When I was young, although the family was hard, we could still eat, but when I was ten years old, the Jurchens invaded, and until now, our life is not as good as a dog before."

Hearing this, there was a burst of laughter from around.

"Yes, the life of the people in the north is not as good as a dog in the past! I want to ask you, do you hate war?" Zhao Chen said.

This time there were voices of what should be heard everywhere, and countless people were nodding their heads.

"From the rise of the Jurchen, first there was the battle of the Jin and Liao, and then the battle of the Jin and Song Dynasties. It has been more than 20 years! In the past 20 years, the people have suffered a lot, all because of the Jurchen! Today I led the army to come Here, defeat the Jurchen in one fell swoop! And in the Central Plains, I have already defeated 200,000 Jurchen, and captured the second prince of the Jurchen alive! Now there are only 100,000 Jurchen in Liaodong, but they are definitely not the opponents of my great Song soldiers! I want to tell you, from now on From now on, the world will be peaceful, and there will be no more wars! Just like twenty years ago, you can live a peaceful life! From now on, you will never suffer from war again!" Zhao Chen said.

The people around were shocked at first, and then they couldn't believe it. Not long after, there was a sound of whispering from below.

"There will be land, there will be clothes, there will be food, this is my promise to you, the emperor of Song Dynasty! As long as you follow me, follow Da Song, everything will be fine, just like it was twenty years ago , even more than twenty years ago!" Zhao Chen said.

No one has ever said such words to these poor people. After hearing these words at this moment, the people's faces are full of surprise expressions. This is the expression of imagining a happy life in the future!

"Whether they are Khitan people, Han people, or Xi people, they are all citizens of the Great Song Dynasty. Under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, everyone can live a happy life. This is the responsibility of the court and the government!" Zhao Chen said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Finally, there were bursts of grateful voices from below.

The porridge shed is still distributing porridge. Zhao Chen, Qu Duan and others have already left here and headed for the next location. In the alleys by the roadside, you can see the bodies of many people who died of cold and starvation. There is no one in the whole city. Animals like cats and dogs, those animals have either been eaten by humans or have escaped from this hopeless city! Not to mention cats and dogs, even a mouse is hard to find in the city!

Zhao Chen once again saw what it means to live in dire straits, and what it means to live in misery! Historically, from the rise of Jurchen to the south of Mongolia, the people all over the world suffered from the flames of war, and the population of the Han nationality decreased by more than half. As for the Khitan, Xi and other famous ancient clans, they have completely disappeared in later generations! The Northern War has been going on for so many years, and it is time to bring it to an end.

They went from one porridge shed to another, constantly appeasing the people and using it to deal with the situation in Beijing.

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When passing by another porridge stall in the afternoon, there was a girl in white in the alley quietly watching the scene here, listening to Zhao Chen and others talking to the people.

The girl had a thoughtful expression on her face.

"The people of the world have suffered a lot, and it is time for the suffering to end. He is right!"

"Guo Yaoshi wants to assassinate him. If Guo Yaoshi really succeeds, the world will be in chaos and the people will suffer disasters. So I will never let this happen. I will stop Guo Yaoshi!"

The girl stood here for a while, then headed towards the east of the city.