Chapter 71 three

On the fifth day of February in the Bingzi year (February 21, 1276), Emperor Song Gong led his ministers of culture and military affairs to pay homage to the north in his bedroom, Xiangxi Hall, and issued an edict to descend to the Yuan Dynasty.After the event, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs left Lin'an Mansion on horseback, and went to Chaozhou to meet Boyan and the officials of Xingzhong Secretary. According to Kublai Khan's will, Boyan changed Lin'an Mansion into the governor's mansion of Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces. He led A Shu, Meng Qi, Lu Wenhuan and other Yuan Dynasty civil and military officials to inspect Lin'an, check the Song military and civilian household registration and the amount of money and grain, count the warehouses, and dismiss the Song Dynasty government offices. All the officials ordered to accept Song Ting's talisman books.A group of "new talisman officials" took Xie Daoqing's letter of surrender and rushed to Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian and other places to recruit surrender.So far, the surrender ceremony between the Song and Yuan Dynasties has been fully completed.

On the day of accepting the surrender, Boyan kept his promise and released Wen Tianxiang. However, from this moment on, the Zhao and Song Dynasties that ruled the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River for more than three hundred years no longer existed. The next day, Xie Daoqing ordered Jia Yuqing, Wen Tianxiang and other ministers of civil and military affairs to be envoys, entrust the form and seal, and go northward to Dadu together to present the surrender form and Xie Daoqing's own form to Kublai Khan. That evening, when the last ray of sunlight disappeared on the western horizon, Boyan finally finished writing "He Ping Jiangnan Table" dedicated to Emperor Kublai Khan.

Chen Boyan and others led the army to perform the punishment of heaven respectfully. They flowed out from Xianghan and crossed the Yangtze River in Wuchang. The defense line along the river collapsed and the flames of war burned to Qiantang.The Song Dynasty was still overwhelmed, but incidents of killing envoys and destroying imperial edicts occurred.The emperor personally gave the order, and it was advisable to take the root of it first, so he ordered Ashu to march on Dusongguan, Dong Wenbing to take the sea route to the south, and the minister and supervisor to lead the Chinese army, pointing directly at Lin'an, the puppet capital;After the capture of Changzhou, it was determined by the order of the counties, and the generals led the army to join forces in Lin'an as scheduled.The Song family was at the end of the road, and they kept begging for help. First, they asked to be called nephews to accept coins, and then to be called ministers and seals.In order to promote its attachment, he led his elite troops to the outskirts of Lin'an, recruited the ruling ministers of the Song court, and dismissed his imperial guards.Although the Song people wanted to struggle, they had no strength to fight, and it was impossible to escape, so they finally decided to surrender.On the fifth day of the second lunar month, the king of Song paid homage to the north and respectfully attached himself to the dynasty.All warehouses and other items are now sealed and on standby.I would like to take the order of leniency to appease the officials and the people, so that Lin'an will be orderly and prosperous as before.

On the 11th, Kublai Khan issued the "Return to An Minzhao" plastered all over the important places in Lin'an City.In the streets and alleys of Lin'an City, restaurants and teahouses, literate Confucian scholars or illiterate Baiding, acquaintances or strangers all whispered to each other about the content of the "Anmin Zhao". On both sides of the archway in front of Lizhengmen (south main gate), there are conspicuously hanging the "Return to Anmin Zhao" covered with the jade seal of Emperor Kublai Khan: There is a big bright red seal on the signature below.