Chapter 57 Familiar Untitled
The next day, the Mongolian army launched an attack. Relying on the advantage of the city wall, Guo Jing held on tightly against the Mongolian army's repeated attacks.
In this world, Hua Zheng did not overhear Guo Jing's plan to run away, so she did not tell the secret. Therefore, she did not feel guilty towards Guo Jing. Instead, she was filled with anger for being abandoned.
Guo Jing and Tolui are sworn brothers, but there is a word of righteousness after all. Facing his abandoned and sad sister, it would be a joke to say that Guo Jing has no complaints. Besides, he dare not plead for mercy in front of his sister.
As a result, there was no Hua Zheng and Tolui to help Guo Jing plead with Temujin, which resulted in Genghis Khan feeling deeply betrayed and having raised an ungrateful person. In addition, after hearing the news from the spies, he learned that it was Guo Jing who was guarding the city, and Huang Rong was by his side. Now he just wanted to capture Guo Jing and kill him.
Wang Ming was also on the city wall watching the battle below, and couldn't help but ask Guo Jing beside him: "Why did Temujin lead his troops here in person?"
Although Guo Jing was concerned about the situation on the battlefield, he still patiently replied to Wang Ming: "This time I know that the Mongolian attack on the Song Dynasty was caused by Tore Anda. The letter said that it was because of my defection that aroused the anger of the Khan, and because I escaped too smoothly, he thought I had connections with the top leaders of the Song Dynasty. He was afraid that if time was delayed, the military defense of the Song Dynasty would be strengthened, so Xixia brought troops here before the end."
Wang Ming was puzzled: "I remember that in the original novel, Temujin was about to die of illness during this period?"
Looking at the Mongolian army with flags flying outside the city, Wang Ming's face suddenly became strange. He remembered reading an article in his previous life, which said that Genghis Khan's death had a lot to do with the Xixia princess.
The Xixia princess, Gulberjin Guowahatun, was a princess of a country, and naturally she was a beauty. After the princess was presented to Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan wanted her to be his concubine, and the princess agreed on the surface. But she was unwilling to be humiliated, and she, who had family hatred and national hatred, took advantage of Genghis Khan's excitement during the night of the marriage and took his...
Ahem!!! It was bitten off and blood gushed out immediately.
A 67-year-old man who has been fighting outside for many years has never encountered such a thing, nor can he withstand such a torment. The mixture of shame and hatred is really fatal.
Because this was a shameful incident that happened to the emperor, it was kept secret, and the only thing that was said to the public was that the Khan was seriously ill due to injuries caused by falling off a horse. The Xixia princess, who didn't want to live in the first place, knew that Genghis Khan would not let her go, so she committed suicide.
"Could it be that I arranged for Li Mochou to rescue Li Ping, which made their escape too smooth and prevented the killing of Guo Jing's mother? The fire of betrayal in Temujin's heart could not be vented, so that he would not even want to reap the spoils? He was going to cut off Guo Jing's head? Then wouldn't it be that my butterfly wings saved his life?"
Wang Ming continued to watch the battle for a while, then walked down from the city wall. There was no point in continuing to watch, as this battle would be lost.
After getting down from the city wall, I began to adjust my condition to get into the best shape.
Yang Guo's killing of Mengge was largely due to luck, otherwise there was a high possibility of failure.
"Give me armor."
The two soldiers beside him began to put on the pieces of armor for Wang Ming one by one. Wang Ming wore two pieces of armor at one time, one chain mail soft armor and the other heavy infantry armor of the Song Dynasty army.
In fact, Wang Ming did not want to assassinate Genghis Khan. Don’t think it is easy. Wang Ming is not the protagonist like Yang Guo. Without the halo of the protagonist, there is a high possibility that he will die. He has never faced an army of millions.
It was said to be an assassination, but in fact it was a murder.
It was simply impossible to sneak in quietly. He had tried it when he entered the city. Genghis Khan's tent was heavily guarded, and no one who was not familiar with him could get close to the tent's field of vision. Otherwise, he would have killed Genghis Khan directly and not entered the city.
Don't think that Wang Ming has a system that can save him from death, but the number of times is limited. Originally, he could save himself three times, and "Number One Under Heaven" died once, so he still has two more times.
In "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", he was afraid that his emotional ties with Yue Buqun and others would deepen, which would hold him back and cause him to leave early.
Wang Ming didn't care at first, thinking that he could avoid death twice, but this time when he came to the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, he almost died in the desert, which really gave Wang Ming a warning. If the system throws him into the crater of a volcano next time, and into the vast ocean the next time...
Two resurrection armors are not enough!
I had originally planned to stay alive as long as possible in the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the longer the better, so that the system could be charged up as much as possible and recover the lost chance of resurrection.
So Wang Ming was waiting, hoping that the Song Dynasty would send reinforcements to withstand the attack of the Mongolian army, so that Wang Ming would not have to take risks.
He had never received any care from the emperor of the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty, and had no obligation to fight for him. If he had not seen the tragedy of the Mongolian army massacring the city, he really would not have wanted to come.
Wang Ming felt that the Song Dynasty was beyond salvation because its taxes were extremely heavy.
The old and the young come to the south to rely on each other, and the southerners have no food to eat in a good year, this is what Wang Anshi said; the methods of exploitation in ancient times are all available in this dynasty, this is what Zhu Xi said.
It is unknown when the harvest will be harvested in autumn, but there is still enough grain to pay taxes to the government warehouse. This is what Liu Xun, deputy editor-in-chief of Zizhi Tongjian, said. These two sentences mean that farmers have been busy for a year, but they don’t know whether the grain after the autumn harvest will be enough to pay taxes to the government warehouse.
The status of the Song Dynasty was not low in later generations. That was because those who wrote history were all literati, and all literati yearned for the Song Dynasty. The status of literati reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.
I had seen the flourishing flowers in the Qingming Shanghe Tu in my previous life, but it was only after coming here that I understood that the economic system of the Song Dynasty was based on one country supporting one city. The capital of the Song Dynasty was indeed a paradise on earth, with everything you could eat, drink, and have fun, even take-out food appeared.
This was how Zhao Kuangyin prevented local governments from becoming too powerful. Local governments were only allowed to keep basic expenses, and the rest were sent to the capital. Wouldn't it be bad for a country's money to be used in one city?
Wang Ming was reading history books when he was in Huashan Sect. He came across a quote by Chao Shuozhi, an official of the Song Dynasty: "Taxes and labor service in Song Dynasty were dozens of times higher than those in Han Dynasty."
The taxes in the Song Dynasty were really varied. In addition to various basic common taxes, there were also various taxes, such as tea taxes, flower and stone taxes, birthday taxes...
Wang Ming was not interested in fighting for the Song Dynasty, but this time he was fighting for the ordinary people of the Song Dynasty.
In other words, Wang Ming was not that great or self-aware enough to risk his life for the people.
He witnessed the tragedy of the massacre, which left a deep shadow in his heart. If he did not do something about it, it would become a demon in his heart in the future.
This time he did not want to leave an indelible crack in his heart. After breaking through the innate state, Wang Ming gradually discovered that the influence of his state of mind on his cultivation was becoming more and more serious.
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