Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 524 Combine Vertical and Horizontal (please subscribe!)

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Recently, Li Yan can be said to be proud of himself.

Yue Fei captured Songting Pass without much effort, and then set up an important pass outside the Great Wall, giving Yandi an extra protection.

And Fang Xuedu and Liu Min took down Tanzhou City and Shunzhou City successively, and have begun to clean up the armed forces in the prefectures and counties under their jurisdiction. I believe that it will not be long before Tanzhou and Shunzhou will completely belong to Li Yan.

The situation in Yizhou and Zhuozhou was similar to that of Tanzhou and Shunzhou. Wang Yan, Zhang Xian, Li Xuan, and Han Shizhong each allocated half of their troops and began to clean up the armed forces in the counties under the jurisdiction of the two states.

What pleased Li Yan the most was that Fang Qifo captured Jizhou and advanced to the mouth of the Haihe River. The Land of Clouds will also be completely merged into Li Yan's territory.

In addition to suppression, Li Yan also recruited——Li Yan recruited those rebels hiding in Yanshan with a loose policy, allowing them to join the Liangshan Army or restore them to good people.

Li Yan started out as a bandit, so he was naturally close to these rebels, and the rebels also believed that Li Yan would not always distrust them like the three kingdoms of Liao, Song, and Jin.

Therefore, as soon as Li Yan's banner of calling for security was raised, more than a dozen rebels immediately came to vote.

There are many rebels who are not small in size.

For example, Dong Pang'er, who had surrendered to Song State, was named Zhao Xu by Zhao Ji.

Not long after Li Yan raised the banner of Zhao'an, Dong Pang'er led nearly [-] volunteers to vote.

Zhang Guanyu is also in a similar situation to Dong Panger.

Zhang Guanyu originally wanted to vote for Song Guo, and even started flirting with Song Guo.

However, in the end, Zhang Guanyu brought more than 1 volunteers under his jurisdiction to vote for Li Yan, whom he trusted more.

In addition, there are rebels in the Liaohai area, including Wu Chuangtian, Yun Dui, Hai Dui and other rebels.

From the perspective of the Han people in the Song State, the Han people in the original Liao State (mainly the Yanyun area) belonged to the Fan race. From the emperor, scholar-bureaucrats to the common people of the Song State, they all called the Han people in the original Liao State as "captives".

Therefore, the Han people in the original Liao state were not recognized by the Han people in the Song state, causing them to be discriminated against, distrusted, and humiliated. These are the Han people in the original Liao state, including many of the original Liao state who had defected to the Song state The civil and military bureaucrats, in the later Song and Jin wars, finally chose to abandon the Song State and seek refuge with the Jin State. An important reason.

Rebels like Dong Pang'er and Zhang Guanyu who had surrendered to the Song State already felt this kind of discrimination, but Li Yan did not have this kind of discrimination at all. Therefore, Li Yan set up a banner to call for security, and they immediately brought their men to join come over.

For these rebels, from Li Yan down, all the people in Shuibo Liangshan are treated equally, and they are screened completely according to the recruits they have recruited. Then distribute the land and allow it to become a good citizen again.

All in all, things are completely developing in a direction that is beneficial to Shuibo Liangshan and Li Yan.

Under such circumstances, Jianguo's voice is getting louder and louder.

Finally one day, Li Yan issued a clear order—to discuss the title of the country.

All the dynasties in ancient China did not use "China" as their country name, and they all used China as their general name.

When Western missionaries came to the east in the late Ming and early Qing, they called the Ming and Qing dynasties the "Empire of China," or "China" for short.

The Sino-Russian "Treaty of Nerchinsk" concluded in the 28th year of Kangxi was the first modern treaty between sovereign states that demarcated borders between China and a foreign country.

The Chinese government that signed this treaty was the Qing court, but the country name used was China.

For example, the full title of Suo'etu, the chief representative of China, is: "Minister of the Imperial Envoy of the Great Sage of China, the Minister of Discussion, the Minister of State, and the Minister of the Guards", that is to say, he is the imperial envoy of the Chinese Emperor and exercises Chinese sovereignty.

The "Nerchinsk Treaty" used the terms "China" and "Chinese" for the division of boundaries and the ownership of the peoples of the two countries.

This is the first time that "China" has been used as a proper title for a sovereign state in the form of an international treaty.

In short, "China" cannot be regarded as a country name, as long as it takes control of the Central Plains, its country is considered China.

Since "China" cannot be used as a country name, it is necessary to have another country name. You can't always call yourself Shuibo Liangshan or Dong'an Dufu, right?
Therefore, with the development of Shuibo Liangshan to this extent, it is bound to establish a country and have its own country name.

To this-

There was a lot of discussion up and down the water park Liangshan.

It is said that the name of the country is "Liang" in Liangshan, the birthplace of Shuibo.

It is said that "Qi" or "Lu" is the name of the country.

It is said that "Le" or "Lang", which Li Yan originally enshrined as the Duke of Lelang County, was used as the country name.

It is also said that "Yan" or "Yun" is the name of the country.

however--

Under such a good situation, they were discussing what to use as the name of the country in Shuibo Liangshan. information:

"The Song Dynasty raised 30 troops, claiming to be 100 million. They were led by Yao Gu, Zhong Shizhong, and Guo Yaoshi, and assembled in Daizhou, Xiongzhou, and Guangxin Army. Moreover, Zhao Ji strictly ordered that 30 troops go north at the same time in ten days."

"Western Xia raised 30 troops, claiming to be [-]. They are divided into two groups. One goes to the Heqing army, and the other goes to the Jinxiao army, and they come straight to Yunzuo."

"The Kingdom of Jin raised 15 troops, claiming to be 50. They were divided into two groups. One went straight to Songting Pass and the other went straight to Yuguan."

In other words, the three kingdoms of Song, Xia, and Jin attacked Shuibo Liangshan at the same time, preparing to attack from all directions.

Faced with such an unexpected situation, how can Li Yan and others still be in the mood to build a country?

Li Yan immediately summoned all civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

When all the civil and military officials arrived, Li Yan directly questioned Zhu Gui, Chai Jin, and Yan Qing, the three intelligence chiefs: "Why was there no news before?"

The three of Zhu Gui were extremely ashamed!

The Three Kingdoms launched such a big incident at the same time, and they didn't find out about it before, which was obviously their negligence.

In other words, the intelligence system of Shuibo Liangshan is still not developed enough and needs to be vigorously built.

Li Yan then challenged Yanqing again: "How did you go to the Kingdom of Jin as an envoy, and how did you come into contact with Xixia? How did you allow these two countries to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Song?"

Hu Yanqing kept silent, but silently accepted Li Yan's reprimand.

In fact, Hu Yanqing is not to blame for this matter.

Who is to blame?

Blame Li Yan.

Li Yan's diplomatic principles are too tough, no matter whether it is to the Kingdom of Jin or Xixia, he will not give an inch.

The opposite of Li Yan is Zhao Ji, who is courteous and courteous to Jin and Xixia, and is willing to spend money to buy peace, that is to say, he is willing to offer New Year coins to the two countries.

More importantly, both Wanyan Aguda and Li Qianshun are outstanding people of this era. They know very well that it is more beneficial for them to be their neighbors, Li Yan or Zhao Ji.

Furthermore, apart from that idiot Zhao Ji, who is not uniting the weak against the strong?
Therefore, Jin Guo and Xixia did not struggle too much, they chose Song Guo as their ally and Shuibo Liangshan as their enemy.

These things are actually not difficult to analyze.

After Li Yan's anger passed, a group of counselors under Li Yan quickly helped Li Yan figure it out.

Li Yan patted Hu Yanqing on the shoulder to show that Yanqing was wronged, and expressed his apology.

However, Li Yan did not regret his diplomatic principles.

Weak diplomacy, although it can survive for a while, but it will cause endless troubles.

Tough diplomacy may seem passive, but as long as we survive the immediate predicament, we can achieve long-term peace and stability.

Just when Li Yanjun and his ministers were discussing the countermeasures, the servant suddenly ran in and shouted: "Governor Governor, something is wrong!"

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(End of this chapter)