After Zhao Jun finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Everyone looked at each other with different expressions.

Zhao Zhen frowned, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui and others seemed to be thinking about something, and Yan Shu and Cai Qi were frightened.

Lu Yijian's hair stood on end and cold sweat dripped down his back.

People say that Fan Xiwen has an upright character, but no one expected that when it comes to setting traps, he is more vicious and cruel than anyone else. He is truly extremely sinister.

"Lü Yijian?"

Hearing the name he was expecting, Fan Zhongyan perked up and immediately pressed the issue, asking, "Didn't you say before that Lü Yijian was a good man?"

"He's a good person, but even good people have different views."

Zhao Jun said, "Lü Yijian has controlled the government for so many years, and he has so many followers. Wouldn't Fan Zhongyan's reforms have killed his own people? So for his own benefit, he would definitely oppose it."

Upon hearing these words, Lu Yijian actually began to tremble, and stood up from the chair trembling unconsciously. He no longer felt honored to be able to sit on the stool.

He glanced at Zhao Zhen beside him and saw him glance at him calmly, without any eye signal, just a calm glance.

Almost expressionless.

But it is precisely because there is no fluctuation in that look that it is the most silent and wonderful look.

This glance made Lu Yijian terrified and uneasy, as if he had fallen into an icy cave.

"So, according to you, was it Lü Yijian and his men who blocked Fan Zhongyan's reforms that ultimately led to the demise of the Song Dynasty?"

Fan Zhongyan asked again.

Lu Yijian was sweating profusely and thought to himself, Fan Xiwen, you are so vicious!

"You can't say that."

Zhao Jun thought for a moment and said, "Although Lü Yijian played a conservative role in the Qingli New Deal in his later years, clashing with reformers like Fan Zhongyan, which earned him a poor reputation in the eyes of later generations and the reformers of his time, the court and the literati at the time still held Lü Yijian in extremely high regard. At least, historical records have a very positive evaluation of him."

"There were many reasons for the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. A poorly managed civil service system was one of them, but the main reason was the military's combat effectiveness and the emperor's stupidity. During the Jingkang Incident, the Jin army surrounded Bianjing. The 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were so resistant that they frightened the Jin army into refusing to attack and instead proposed peace talks."

"As a result, that useless Song Huizong immediately passed the throne to Song Qinzong. Song Qinzong didn't dare to go to the Jin camp to negotiate and sent people to ask for peace. The Jin soldiers instead demanded that Song Qinzong personally go to the Jin camp to negotiate. Song Qinzong, that idiot, actually went. Then the Jin soldiers detained Song Qinzong. After Song Qinzong was captured, he was forced to order all the troops to stop advancing on Kaifeng and suppress the people who spontaneously organized to resist."

"Later, because the two brainless Song emperors compromised, surrendered, and attacked pro-war generals, the Jin army launched a massive attack on Bianjing, eventually succeeding in breaking the city. The Jin soldiers burned, killed, and looted Tokyo for four months. The people of Kaifeng, who had been completely plundered, suffered a merciless onslaught of hunger and cold. Countless people froze to death or starved to death, and the Grand Canal was littered with corpses."

"The most disgusting thing is that the Jin army demanded compensation. One of the demands was that two imperial concubines, four princesses from the royal family, four princesses from the clan, 2,500 palace maids, 1,500 female musicians, and 3,000 craftsmen of various kinds be handed over to the Jin army. If the compensation could not be paid on time, the imperial women would be sold to the Jin army to make up for the gold and silver."

"The specific price is: 1,000 gold ingots each for the Imperial Consort and Princess, 500 gold ingots each for the Imperial Consort, 200 gold ingots each for the Imperial Consort, 500 silver ingots each for the Imperial Consort, 200 silver ingots each for the Imperial Consort, and 100 silver ingots each for the Imperial Consort."

"In other words, if the gold and silver payments weren't made, almost all of the women in the Zhao clan would be doomed. The majesty and dignity of the Zhao Song royal family were completely shattered. This is a unique event in all of ancient Chinese history, and it's why the Song Dynasty is considered the worst dynasty ever."

"The Jin soldiers, having plundered the Song Dynasty's treasury, as well as the gold, silver, and silk belonging to officials and civilians, didn't return until winter, taking the two captive emperors and a group of royal nobles with them. Many of the imperial concubines were bullied, and even the two idiots themselves were forced to dance for the Jin soldiers. The Song Dynasty's corrupt rulers' policy of captivity brought unspeakable suffering to the people of Kaifeng."

"Afterwards, these idiots were escorted to Shangjing, where a captive-surrendering ceremony and a sheep-leading ceremony were held. The captured Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, concubines, royal family members, and ministers were forced to strip naked, covered in sheepskins, and tied with ropes around their necks. They were led like sheep to worship the ancestors of the Jin Dynasty. The Han people's dignity was completely humiliated by these bastards."

"That's fine, but the most shameful thing is that the Jin army captured a large number of Han women. Thousands died on the way. I can't even imagine the torture, rape, and humiliation they endured. There was even a Southern Song envoy who saw the emperor's concubine reduced to singing and dancing when he visited the Jin Kingdom. These Jin people are truly a bunch of beasts."

By the end, Zhao Jun's own blood pressure was skyrocketing. He slapped his thigh with his chicken-grease-covered hands and cursed, "But in the final analysis, the Song Dynasty emperors were even worse beasts. A jerk like Song Huizong wouldn't be enough to satisfy my hatred even if he died a thousand times. The Song Dynasty was rotten to the core, rotten from top to bottom. It was a shame that the Northern Song Dynasty had many famous ministers and the Southern Song Dynasty had many famous generals. With useless emperors and an unchanged system, how could they not perish? What a damned rubbish dynasty! A disgrace to all dynasties!"

Everyone was scolded so much that they dared not say a word, because only now did they realize how deep the shame of the Jingkang Incident was.

Even the princess of the emperor was captured and played with, and the majesty of the Zhao emperor was completely destroyed.

There was silence for a long time.

No one spoke.

Even though they had not experienced the Jingkang Humiliation, just listening to Zhao Jun's talk made them clench their fists and feel the humiliation of national hatred and family feuds.

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