Chapter 359: Dying

From the time.

At this moment, the Mongolian army was still in a state of sweeping across Europe and Asia and being invincible in the world.

The Southern Song army, which was struggling to hold on, dared only curl up in the fortress and fortress, and did not dare to fight the Mongolian cavalry in the field.

The Xiangfan city defense that the Southern Song relied on in the past was declared to be useless with the surrender of Lü Wenhuan, the main general defending the city.

There were many smart people in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Or, smart people could not be officials in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

These people knew that the Southern Song Dynasty was on the verge of extinction, and the Mongolian army was about to swallow up the entire south under the order of Kublai Khan.

So, did the most powerful ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty take any action?

The answer is no.

This is human inertia.

When everyone can see the end of the building's collapse, no one dares to point it out.

The emperor still spent his time in wine and women and ignored the government.

Most of the important affairs of the court were handled by Jia Sidao, a powerful minister.

This person is interesting.

During his years as prime minister, he excluded dissidents and held great power, but he liked to fight crickets.

Therefore, he was called the Cricket Prime Minister by outsiders.

However, Jia Sidao was not a treacherous person like Qin Hui.

When Kublai Khan's army marched south, he personally led 130,000 of the last elite navy of the Southern Song Dynasty to fight a bloody battle with them, but was defeated and fled in the end.

Looking back at Jia Sidao's life.

He seemed to really think that he had the ability to turn the tide and save the collapsing building.

However?

Facts have proved that Jia Sidao was just a civil official and Confucian scholar, and he could not be Prime Minister Zhuge.

Finally, on the way to being demoted, he was questioned and beheaded by a lieutenant.

Back to the present, Lin'an Jia Mansion.

Jia Sidao's mansion can be said to be extravagant.

During the years he served as prime minister, he collected a large number of rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

Looking at the magnificent lobby of Jia Mansion, a middle-aged man wearing a white short shirt, holding a folding fan, sitting on a wooden chair and playing with a cricket pot.

He looks handsome, but his unruly sitting posture is incompatible with his status.

If you don't know his background, who would have thought that this person is Jia Sidao, who has great power in the court!

The servants of Jia Mansion are not surprised.

"En Xiang!"

I saw several high-ranking civil servants in the court came together and saluted respectfully.

This group of people are Jia Sidao's followers.

Now Song Duzong ignores the government, Jia Sidao is the only one in power, and he just suppressed several opponents with different political views not long ago.

Looking at Jia Sidao's smiling face, you can know that he is very satisfied with this result.

As for the upcoming Mongolian army, it seems that he, Jia Sidao, doesn't take it seriously.

A glimpse of the leopard in the cage shows the absurdity of the Southern Song Dynasty court.

Obviously, there is a big enemy at hand.

The officials in the court can still focus on impeaching political enemies!

"Wenran, look at this!"

When Jia Sidao saw his confidant coming to pay his respects, he carefully handed the cricket pot in his hand to the man with sheep beard named Wenran.

As the saying goes, what the superior likes, the subordinates will follow.

Jia Sidao loves crickets, and his subordinates have become masters of this art.

"Is this the cricket called Jinwei General written in the book of En Xiang?"

Hearing the compliment from his confidant, Jia Sidao's smile became more and more intense, and nodded: "That's right!"

"This thing was specially found by someone."

Several confidants heard this and couldn't help congratulating.

However, one person couldn't help it and said carefully: "En Xiang, there is news that the Mongolian Tartars are about to go south. Should we report it to His Majesty and make preparations early?"

As soon as these words came out, Jia Sidao's smile faded, and he was full of unhappiness.

"Why do we have to discuss this kind of court affairs in my private residence? If outsiders hear it, they will impeach Jia for treating state affairs as private affairs?"

Jia Sidao's words sounded righteous.

In fact, he was scolding the other party because he was disturbed.

The man who just opened his mouth froze when he heard this, and shook his head repeatedly, saying that he dared not, dared not.

"Forget it."

Jia Sidao felt bored when he saw his confidant acting like this, and put down the so-called General Jinwei.

How could he not know that the Mongolian army was about to go south?

It was nothing more than raising military rations and recruiting elite troops from all over the country.

Just like in the past, he was prepared to rely on the southern water network to block the Mongolian cavalry.

It was just that Xiangfan was lost, which was a big trouble.

Jia Sidao thought of something, and couldn't help but cursed Lu Wenhuan in his heart, saying that he was not a son of man!

"Oh, by the way, my Lord!"

One person seemed to have thought of something and said, "I have heard recently that there is a military riot in Fengxiang Prefecture of Mongolia!"

"Oh?"

Jia Sidao frowned when he heard this and motioned for the latter to continue.

Seeing this, the latter hurriedly continued to talk about the news he had received.

"A few days ago, Fengxiang Prefecture suddenly appeared..."

"Oh, a Song army went to Fengxiang Prefecture?"

After listening to what his confidant said, Jia Sidao looked incredible.

"According to the news I received, Mongolia said so."

"Heh."

Jia Sidao showed a sarcastic look on his face.

Let him believe that a Song army that fled to Mongolia could defeat and destroy three Mongolian cavalry of 10,000 people in Fengxiang Prefecture in just half a month?

It would be better to believe that Kublai Khan had a stroke while having sex yesterday!

Jia Sidao didn't believe it. He just felt that there was indeed a military riot in Fengxiang Prefecture.

If so, at least the Mongolian army's southward march could be delayed for a few more years.

After all, according to the news, the entire Fengxiang Prefecture has fallen into the hands of the Song army!

"In that case, you can arrange officials to go to Fengxiang Prefecture to contact the leader of the rebel army, promise him some official positions, and let him mess up Fengxiang Prefecture." Jia Sidao said disapprovingly.

But then again, Fengxiang Prefecture is the hub of the Mongolian expedition to the west.

With such a rebel army, it should be able to delay some time.

For the dying Southern Song Dynasty court.

What happened far away in Fengxiang Prefecture has nothing to do with them.

Jia Sidao never took the leader of the rebel army in Fengxiang Prefecture, a guy named Lin Chen, seriously.

Even Mongolia.

Because of the lack of information, it is unknown what happened in Fengxiang Prefecture.

Only the many Mongolian officials in Fengxiang Prefecture and the Han Marquis know what kind of opponent they are facing!

Fengxiang Prefecture has a total of 32 counties and prefectures, with a population of no less than one million!

As the front line between Song and Mongolia, there are more than 100,000 Mongolian troops stationed here.

Of course, there are 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, and the rest are the troops of the Han Marquis.

For the Mongolian nobles.

The changes in the past few days made them not know what happened.

When they came back to their senses.

In the huge Fengxiang Prefecture, only the prefecture city was still in their hands!

There was no news from other prefectures and cities.

This made the Mongolian noble Wuda, who was the general manager of Fengxiang Prefecture at the time, confused and hurriedly summoned the Han officials in the city to discuss matters.

It was because when Kublai Khan first ascended the throne, he took the attitude of getting close to Han literati and successfully won the hearts of many northern Han people.

Countless talented people from the north came one after another, willing to serve, and even called him the orthodox Han family.

However, they did not know that once Kublai Khan achieved the unification of the Central Plains, his true colors would be revealed.

His so-called approach to the Han people was just to win over and use the northern Han people.

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