After a while, Ren Baozhong returned and said straightforwardly: "Reporting to the emperor, we have captured another one. I don't know what to do with him."
"Who is it this time?" Zhao Jiu didn't care. "They were all killed. Meng'an and Mouke killed dozens. If there is anyone, just report it directly..."
"They are the family members of the Jin Kingdom's Taiyuan Military Command..." Ren Baozhong bowed his head. "We just found them in the warehouse in the northwest corner of the inner city."
"The women in Balisu's family?" Zhao Jiu suddenly realized.
"Not only Balisu's family, but also Zhehe's own family, as well as the families of some other Meng'an and Mouke who were directly under Taiyuan, and the families of local officials. All of them were previously settled by Zhehe in Balisu's mansion in the inner city. As soon as the war broke out, they fled to the warehouse under the leadership of Balisu's concubine Dashi and put up a desperate resistance."
"Da family?" Zhao Jiu seemed to be thinking about something.
"The Bohai Da clan." I don't know if it's an illusion, but after the battle today, Ren Baozhong's behavior has become more cautious. "The Da clan is a noble clan of Bohai. Bohai's status in the Jin Kingdom is second only to the Jurchens. Many high-ranking officials in the Jin Kingdom are married to the Bohai Da clan and Gao clan. For example, the current ruling crown prince Wanyan Wuben has a concubine named Da. His oldest surviving son, the second son Wanyan Liang, is from the Da clan."
Zhao Jiu became more and more aware, and then asked again: "Then what? Are you asking me how to deal with it?"
"Yes." Ren Baozhong was still respectful and careful. "Those Jin women and boys are very bad... I dare not bring them to the emperor, please let the emperor make the decision directly."
"They are quite bad." Zhao Jiu thought for a moment and gave an answer that he had been preparing for a long time. "Then keep an eye on them first. When there are enough of them, send them to Lanzhou and hand them over to the Western Liao officials. Tell them that these people are the descendants of the Liao Kingdom... and ask them to exchange them for war horses, Persian and Hezhong specialties."
As soon as these words were spoken, the hall suddenly became quiet, but unexpectedly, there was no voice of persuasion or opposition.
As for Ren Baozhong, although he was well-informed, he was also stunned at this moment, but after being stunned for a while, he had nothing to say... Aren't the Bohai people and the Jurchens the ancient tribes of the Liao Kingdom? Yelu Dashi came over and could not deny this.
However, the man still spoke: "There is one more thing."
"Tell me."
"The commander who captured the female family members said that apart from the old foreign women and young men who behaved somewhat like rogues, there were also some people who took the initiative to plead for release. One of them claimed to be Li Shishi from Tokyo..." Ren Baozhong continued to report seriously.
The hall was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. Even Wang Yan and Wang De just pricked up their ears and lowered their heads, not to mention Wu Jie and others who were looking up at the roof.
However, Emperor Zhao smiled without any pause and said, "This is strange... Liu Ziyu's younger brother Liu Zihui once told people that he had seen Li Shishi in Jiangxi... How come this Li Shishi has come to Hedong again?"
Ren Baozhong didn't know how to respond for a moment.
Zhao Jiu, on the other hand, obviously didn't care. Instead, he sneered: "Forget it, whether it's true or not, it's nothing more than survival... And even if she's not Li Shishi, she's also a Han woman who was robbed during the Jingkang period. According to the military rules, such people can be directly dismissed and resettled as long as they ask for it. So according to the established practice, give her a resettlement fee and let her return to Tokyo... As for whether she is Li Shishi or Wang Shishi, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we can't send her to Shaolin Temple, right? Wouldn't that be humiliating the Emperor Taishang Daojun?"
Ren Baozhong nodded heavily, then turned and walked away to make special arrangements.
It was just a small episode, not worth mentioning. Just like that, a few more small matters were dealt with, such as sending out the imperial guards to supervise military discipline and taking over the inspection of the warehouses and storage. By the way, one Meng'an and two Mouke were captured, but still no one was willing to surrender, so they were all killed with a knife. However, after a while, it was completely dark. It can be imagined that today's temporary incident will also come to an end, but what follows seems to be the main course.
Sure enough, after dark, Han Shizhong, Li Yanxian, and Ma Kuo who were originally scattered everywhere, came one after another, including the senior commanders of various departments, and together they gathered together. In addition, there were Wu Jie, Wang Yan, Yang Yi Zhong, Liu Yan and others who had always been by the emperor's side and had not even washed their hands, as well as Wang De who had captured someone on the way... Basically, it can be said that in the entire Taiyuan Basin, except for Li Shifu and Li Qiong who were monitoring the Jin army on the east and west sides at this time, most of the Song army's senior officials gathered together again.
This time, due to the chaos in the city, there was actually no special decree for a military meeting, but almost all senior generals with rich military experience realized that this meeting should be held.
In response to this, Emperor Zhao took advantage of the situation and directly started a military meeting.
"I only have one thing to say, that is to send an envoy to tell Hebula that if he doesn't come again, then don't come." Zhao Jiu replied simply. "The rest, Wu Jie will say it, I will be responsible for conveying the order."
There was a slight commotion in the hall where the candles were already lit, but it soon died down because none of the three men with big banners, Han Shizhong, Li Yanxian and Ma Kuo, said a word. Especially Han Shizhong, the nominal Marshal of Hedong, who always puffed out his chest and held his belt, did not say a word. Although Wang Yan and Wang De had some problems in their personalities, for some reason, perhaps because the capture of the city today was too shocking, they actually held back... With all the generals and ministers like this, it was naturally difficult for the rest of the people to say much.
"So that the emperor knows," Wu Jie stepped out of the line with his black hands folded, saluted the emperor first, then bowed to the other governors, and then turned around to continue to be respectful to Zhao Jiu. "I think that the first priority right now is not to take Jingxing, but to quickly dispatch some elite troops to the north to Yanmen Pass, unite with the main force of the imperial camp, the Yinshan Khitan-Western Mongolian coalition, and the Kublai Eastern Mongolian army that the emperor sent to notify, and try to encircle Datong... There are two reasons. First, Datong still has two Jin troops. If it can be taken in one fell swoop, it will be enough to shake the foundation of the Jin army; second, after taking Taiyuan and taking Datong, the effectiveness of Jingxing blocking Hebei and Hedong will be in name only... In comparison, taking Jingxing suddenly at this time, Yelu Ma Wu is a good fighter, it will inevitably be time-consuming and laborious, and attacking Shangdang is just a matter of course..."
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