Chapter 40 Pseudo-Qi Jianguo Ji

In the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), after a heated discussion among the military leaders of the Kingdom of Jin, they focused their attention on a man named Liu Yu, and planned to hand over the new puppet regime established in the Central Plains to this man. . Liu Yu, courtesy name Yanyou, was born in Fucheng, Jingzhou (now Chongxian, Hebei).Farming for generations for a living, in order to change his destiny, he got up early and worked hard every day, studying hard, and finally became the first in the Yuanfu year, leaping into the dragon gate. Ordinarily, this is a scholar who is willing to endure hardships and promises, and should be respected by many people.

And that's not the case. He is selfish, greedy, mean, and vain, and is despised by many people.According to his fellow countrymen, when he was studying, he often stole mouth cups and underwear from his classmates in the same dormitory, and even refused to let go of some small objects such as inkstones and pen covers. It is very shameless to engrave my name on it, and I don't know what "shame" is. In the early years of Jingkang, the Jin people invaded the south, and Liu Yu served as a criminal officer in Hebei. In order to save his life, he abandoned his official position and absconded in disguise. He hid in Zhenzhou (now Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province) for two years.

In the first month of the second year of Jianyan (1128), Zhao Gou reappointed Jinan Prefecture. To be honest, this is a good use for officials who have the taint of escape, but Liu Yu was very dissatisfied, saying that now Shandong bandits are everywhere, and if I go to Jinan, wouldn't that be death?Like a ball of chewing gum, sticking to the Jiankang mansion, refusing to go to the post. It's fine if he refuses to take up the post. He turned to Zhao Gou and proposed "please change a county in the southeast" and asked to be a county guard in the southeast.People are not enough to swallow elephants!Huang Qianshan and others who were in power were completely enraged, and they demanded Zhao Gou's strict order to order Liu Yu to go to Jinan to work on schedule.Liu Yu went reluctantly.

The world is big, and there is love around the corner. For Liu Yu, the corner of life has come. In the winter of this year, Ta Lan led the army to besiege Jinan and lure Liu Yu to surrender. Liu Yu "punished his former anger and plotted against him", and he was very angry and wanted to surrender the city-Emperor Dajin, I sell my soul to you, all I want is glory and wealth! Although the people in Jinan did not study as many as Liu Yu, they were very upright. They gathered and stopped in front of the Jinan government yamen, raising their arms to condemn Liu Yu and not allowing him to open the city.Looking at the angry people, Liu Yu was terrified. He chose to compromise and verbally agreed to the general public, saying that he would live and die with Jinan City.At night, they sent someone to secretly strangle the Jinan guard "Big Sword" Guan Sheng. Taking advantage of the night, he escaped from the city and surrendered!

When Jinan was obtained, Talan appointed Liu Yu as the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture (now Dongping County, Shandong Province), and ordered his son Liu Lin to know Jinan Prefecture.From then on, Liu Yu and Ta Lan established a relationship between a parasite and a host. Within the Kingdom of Jin, Liu Yu was not the only candidate for the puppet emperor at first. Fearing that he would lose the election, Liu Yu secretly sent dozens of carts of gold, silver and jewels to Tarlan, asking him to help him with his activities.Talan, who has benefited from it, spares no effort to help him with errands, and speaks well of Liu Yu in front of his boss Nianhan.

Nianhan is the leader of the three provinces of the Jin Kingdom, the king of Jin, and the Marshal of the capital. He is in charge of the military and state power of the Jin Kingdom. Liu Yu was worried that he would not be able to pass Nianhan.But it turned out later that his worries were completely unnecessary. In order to ensure that he has more initiative in this "blasphemy" activity, Nianhan is also looking for candidates everywhere, worrying that he can't find someone who can control him.Hearing that Talan praised Liu Yu so much, his mind was already a little moved. A few days later, he sent a delegation to Henan to "consult the military and civilians who are suitable to stand up". The people who greeted the delegation were all extras arranged by Liu Yu in advance. In order to get the labor fee smoothly, the actors all shouted: "Liu Yu Yili!"

When the inspection team came back to report the results, Nianhan made a decision on the spot: "That's him." In July of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), Jin Taizong Wu Qimai officially issued an edict to confer Liu Yu as the son emperor, the country name Daqi, and the capital Damingfu. Wu Qimai's imperial edict is very interesting. He said that Liu Yu, as the "Emperor Son", is both the monarch of the neighboring country and the son of Dajin. From then on, he only needs to stand in front of the Emperor Dajin and his envoys. In addition, the etiquette of the emperor can be exercised. ("Now Li Yu is the son emperor, not only the king of neighboring countries, but also the son of the great dynasty. He sees the envoys of the great dynasty, but the envoys first meet and ask about daily life and face-to-face speeches. Then stand, and the rest follow the emperor's ceremony.")

In September, Liu Yu took the false throne, enshrined Jin as Zhengshuo, called Tianhui for eight years, and amnesty all states and counties in the territory. This is clearly a farce. Zhao Gou, who was far away in Lin'an, heard the news, but he didn't dare to explode. Instead, he ordered Liu Yu's puppet court officials to stay with his family members in the southeast, and "provide generous compensation", hoping that Liu Yu and the people in Liu Yu's group would change their minds Play for Song Dynasty. Liu Yu is not Zhang Bangchang. He became the emperor and felt good about himself. He regarded his mother as the "empress dowager", made his concubine Qian, who was a court lady of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, the queen, and appointed his son Liu Lin as the queen. Shangshu Zuo Prime Minister, the general manager of various soldiers and horses.

In the following year, the Yuan was changed to "Fuchang", the capital was moved to Tokyo, the old capital of the Song Dynasty, and even the tablets of his family's ancestors were moved to the Northern Song Dynasty Taimiao.According to the history books, Liu Yu's move caused anger and resentment, "It's a day when a storm blows the flag and shakes the roof tiles, and the scholars and people are terrified." At the beginning of the establishment of Puppet Qi, it did bring some direct benefits to the Jin people.The most obvious one is to share the pressure of the Jinren on the three battlefields of Huaidong, Huaixi and Jingxi. In addition, the Jinren also took advantage of Liu Yu's "traitor effect" to attract a large number of shameless people who devoted themselves to the puppet wars. Qi, acting as minions.

Among them, the most outstanding performance is the giant thief Li Cheng. In the second year of Jianyan (1128), Li Cheng was driven out of Chuzhou by Yue Fei, and his life was very miserable. However, in troubled times, swords and guns are king.He got what he wanted with a knife and a gun. In addition to Li Cheng, there were many refugees, refugees, soldiers, and thieves who were starving... Many soldiers and refugees kept gathering around Li Cheng in order to feed themselves and survive.In just two years, Li Cheng actually assembled another 200,000 to 300,000 people. Like all restless people in history, when money and women were no problem, Li Cheng began to yearn for higher and greater power, hoping to establish a separate regime of his own and enjoy the addiction of an emperor.

Someone asked him, "When will the world be settled?" Li Cheng chanted pretendingly: "If you don't ask about the Marquis's affairs, you will be successful in one shot." Zhao Gou once asked him for peace, and Li Cheng also pretended to surrender, saying himself: "I hate Li Guangzhi's unparalleled, and I hope to follow Yan Huizhi." He doesn't know a single word, but he likes to use random words, which is ridiculous! One of Li Cheng's generals, named Ma Jin, captured the Linjiang army under his orders, and obtained a set of twisted gold small panlong red robes in the military treasury. It was originally a tribute from Sichuan to the imperial court.In order to please Li Cheng, Ma Jin handed it over.Unexpectedly, Li Cheng looked at the dragon robe and sighed, "Don't you Ma Jin understand Li Cheng's heart?" He burned the dragon robe. However, shortly thereafter, he repeatedly sent horses to invade Hongzhou (now Nanchang, Jiangxi). Zhao Gou was very angry at Li Cheng's duplicity. He took advantage of the golden people's attention to build and package the fake Qi, and wiped out Li Cheng in one fell swoop. In December of this year, Zhao Gou appointed Zhang Jun as the recruiter of Jianghuai, and was fully responsible for destroying Li Cheng. Zhang Jun was terrified. Just after the New Year, he hurriedly went to the court to resign, "speech Li Cheng's crowd", and persuaded Zhao Gou to forget it. Zhao Gou was angry and said dissatisfiedly: "How can you shirk the burden of sharing the state's worries? Besides, now the generals in the court have made meritorious deeds, only you have not accomplished an inch of merit, so you need to work harder. " Zhang Jun was very anxious and argued, "Why do you say that I haven't accomplished an inch?" Zhao Gou said: "Look at Han Shizhong's outstanding achievements in capturing Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, and then look at yourself." Zhang Jun was terrified and had no choice but to bite the bullet and accept the order. However, he made a request to Zhao Gou—— "Please use the flying army to hunt down the thieves together", asking Zhao Gou to call Yue Fei's whole army to follow him to hunt down the thieves.Yue Fei is now his heart booster, if there is no Yue Fei accompanying him, he will absolutely not be able to accept his orders. Zhao Gou had to agree.It seems that Yue Fei is indispensable in the Southern Song Dynasty!