Chapter 157: Colossal Entity

"What reason does a man who leads the landlords and gentry of the world to feast on our flesh and drink our blood have to be called our lord and father? Although I lost my father since birth, I will not acknowledge this so-called lord and father, for the very reason I have no father is because of you."

"This sword is to tell you to use your brain before using your mouth next time you speak." Guo Jing finished coldly and immediately ordered the envoy to be carried away for treatment.

"How is it? Are you a bit less angry?" Zhang Chu'an said as he handed over a bowl of tea.

After taking Zhang Chu'an's tea, Guo Jing drank it all in one gulp and said, "It's not about being angry; it's just that thinking of countless people shedding their hot blood for such people is truly unbearable. Confucianism has harmed people greatly."

He could not deny the role Confucianism played in unifying Chinese civilization, but as time passed, its role grew smaller and its poison grew greater.

When a thought can only speak of its merits while turning a blind eye to its flaws, that thought can no longer be called a thought; it should be called a religion. Confucianism is no longer Confucianism; calling it the Confucian Religion is more accurate.

The Confucian Religion must be overthrown; those rules that advocate for people to kneel in a high-minded way, those rules that constantly remind others of hierarchy and nobility versus baseness, should be abolished, because the laboring people are never base.

Wang Dan, with one arm chopped off, returned to Great Song just like that. Seeing Wang Dan in this state, Song Ningzong could not bring himself to utter words of blame, only sighing, "My lord, you have worked hard."

However, as soon as his words fell, someone in the court stood up and spoke passionately, "Your Majesty, Wang Dan was sent on a mission but had an arm chopped off by others. In terms of national prestige, he has utterly disgraced our Great Song; in terms of the national situation, he has caused northern powers to declare war on our Great Song. How many lives will be lost in our Great Song then?"

"If such a person is not severely punished, how can the national law be upheld?"

Song Ningzong looked up at the person who spoke, his eyes filled with venom. Originally, he had agreed with the Mongols in the north and the Han rebels on a strategy to destroy the Jin, and it was about to succeed.

Just at this moment, Shi Miyuan jumped out, killed his Prime Minister, and took control of the court to negotiate peace with the Jin people.

If he had not jumped out, the best result would have been nothing more than the northern rebels breaking the alliance agreement.

However, Wang Dan, looking at the jumping Shi Miyuan, said nothing. He handed the memorial given to him by the People's Government to Shi Miyuan and said no more.

Besides the conditions proposed by the People's Government, their entire conversation was recorded in it.

He believed Shi Miyuan would be greatly shocked upon seeing this memorial.

Sure enough, when Shi Miyuan glanced at that memorial, he was as if suddenly attacked by a cold wind and sudden rain, his whole body trembling involuntarily. Anger and fear, like two sharp arrows, instantly pierced his heart.

His face was pale, his eyes flashing with flames of anger, as if he wanted to burn that memorial to ashes. And fear, like a cold snake, coiled around his heart, making him feel suffocatingly oppressed.

"They are too insulting! Do those mud-legs think they have us completely cornered?" Shi Miyuan angrily threw the memorial on the ground, causing everyone around to become curious. They simply could not figure out what conditions the northern rebels proposed to make this spineless man throw such a tantrum.

Seeing Shi Miyuan in this state, Wang Dan felt like laughing and immediately asked a question to add fuel to the fire: "Minister Shi, do you know what the Tenth Clan is?"

What Tenth Clan? The Nine Clans already kill all your relatives: four paternal clans, three maternal clans, and two wife's clans.

The four paternal clans refer to one's own clan, the married paternal aunts and their sons, the married sisters and their nephews, and the married daughters and their grandchildren.

The three maternal clans refer to the maternal grandfather's family, the maternal grandmother's natal family, and the maternal aunts and their sons.

The two wife's clans refer to the father-in-law's family and the mother-in-law's natal family.

That has already killed everyone clean; there are no relatives left. Where does the Tenth Clan come from?

"Your students count as the Tenth Clan; without students, your teachers and friends all count as the Tenth Clan. Their leader said they would chop up all the dog officials who once forced their whole families to flee to the desert. Minister Shi, you can punish me to your heart's content, but how will you resist the northern revolutionary army's attack?" Wang Dan finished and couldn't help but laugh heartily.

"You are right; they are indeed too insulting. But do you have a way? Minister Shi, I suggest you present the memorial to Your Majesty to see how arrogant the revolutionary army's spirit is." After Wang Dan finished speaking, Song Ningzong immediately ordered a eunuch to pick up the memorial from the ground; he also wanted to see what exactly was written on it.

But after he finished reading the memorial, this emperor, who was always known for his gentleness and patience, suddenly became furiously angry like a lit firecracker. The calm on his face was replaced by an unprecedented rage, his eyes flashing with cold light, as if he wanted to freeze the surrounding air.

"These rebels without lord or father are truly too arrogant! Do they have any sense of ritual and law left in their eyes? What do they think I am? What do they think Great Song is? Huh?" Song Ningzong was about to explode with anger; he had seen arrogance before, but never this kind of arrogance.

The former Jin people were not cursed as dirtily as they were, although it might be because they were barbarians who knew little history.

That Zhang Chu'an was good, slandering from Taizu all the way to Emperor Zhenzong. Look at the nicknames they gave: "God of Chariots at Gaoliang River," a short nickname that directly narrated Taizong's frantic flight driving a donkey cart.

Of course, compared to the nicknames of Song Gaozong, that was nothing: "Unbeaten in the South," "Flying Man of the Sea," "Loyal Subject of Great Jin," "Wanyan Gou."

However, he also knew why Shi Miyuan was so frantic: because the northern powers wanted to kill all the Peace Faction and the Surrender Faction.

Seeing this condition, Song Ningzong couldn't help but feel a bit smug in his heart. "See? You want to surrender, you want to seek peace? Fine, but first contribute your Tenth Clans."

"Minister Wang, are you saying the Mongols and the northern Han rebel army have combined and are about to establish a government named the Huaxia People's Republic?" Song Ningzong asked hurriedly.

Both of these powers were stronger than their Great Song and even the former Great Jin; one destroyed Western Xia in three months, and the other simply destroyed Great Jin. If they didn't combine, their Great Song would still have to pay annual tribute to seek peace; if they combined, to be honest, he really didn't know how to fight.

"That's right. Nowadays, the leaders of both powers have gathered in Zhongducheng to form a committee. With Guo Jing, the commander of the Mongol army, as the Chairman of the Military Committee and General Secretary, nowadays Mongolia, Western Xia, and the former Great Jin have become one country."

"All armies obey the command of this Military Committee, and the state power is decided by this People's Government." After Wang Dan finished speaking, the civil and military officials in the court began to whisper, truly not expecting these two powers to combine to this extent.

This showed that these two powers might have been in the same camp for a long time; now their Great Song faces a colossal entity that has combined the territory and population of Western Xia, Mongolia, and the Jin Kingdom.