Qian Song

Chapter 174 Zhao Ji: Li Cun is back? ! (Ask for a monthly pass!)
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After the envoys from various countries left, Li Cun ordered that all the seized items on Dingnan Road be shipped, and another part of the ship was sent to Annan City (formerly known as Shenglong City) to ship all the seized pieces by Li Cun on Annan Road.

Li Cun also ordered: The Habayashi Army everywhere will hand over to the Annan Army and Dingnan Army as soon as possible, and prepare for a triumphant return.

——The Dingnan Army was a new army formed by Li Cunchuan after he pacified Champa, using serfs and slaves from Champa and one-third of the Annan Army. It was mainly used to guard Dingnan Road.

After explaining all the things that should be explained, Li Cun found Tian Zhuang and asked Tian Zhuang directly: "How long will this batch of treasure ships last?"

Tian Zhuang replied truthfully: "The flat-bottomed treasure ship can be used for three to five years, and the ship used by the governor can be used for at least ten years."

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Seeing Li Cun's puzzled expression, Tian Zhuang took the initiative to answer: "The materials used for the Royal Governor's boat are dried, not much worse than those dried in the shade."

Li Cun suddenly realized.

But it's normal to think about it, how could Tian Zhuang dare to cut corners on Li Cunyu's boat?

As for why those flat-bottomed treasure ships did not use dried wood, Li Cun can guess without asking. It must be because the cost of using drying technology to build these flat-bottomed treasure ships is higher or even much higher than that of using dry wood. Or dry wood with a slightly lower quality to build flat-bottomed treasure ships.

Li Cun estimated that the wood used to build one of his own royal ships may be enough to build ten treasure ships.

Li Cunxin said: "Fortunately, the two treasure islands now have a large amount of shipbuilding timber, otherwise, such a waste, I will definitely feel distressed."

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After being defeated by the Liao army, Tong Guan and Cai You, who had only arrived in Xiongzhou for a month, were going to lead the army back.

But at this moment, Li Chuwen, the Han Prime Minister of the Northern Liao Dynasty, suddenly wrote a secret letter to his friend Zhao Liangsi, asking Zhao Liangsi to tell Tong Guan that Yeluchun was seriously ill and might die soon, and he was going to lead his troops to revolt at that time Dedicate Yanjing City to the Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Liangsi was still called Ma Zhi, he and Li Chuwen were best friends. Seeing that Yelu Yanxi was extremely stupid, they both felt that Liao Kingdom had no hope, so they once wanted to go south together and join the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Liangsi and Li Chuwen also held incense in the Beiji Temple in Yanjing as an alliance, and agreed to promote the Song-Jin alliance to destroy the Liao Kingdom.

Today, Li Chuwen is highly valued by Yeluchun. Yeluchun not only made Li Chuwen the prime minister of the Northern Liao Dynasty, but also gave Li Chuwen a sum of money to recruit an army.

——Yeluchun also personally wrote a letter (that is, a letter of appointment) to Li Chuwen, conferring on Li Chuwen the post of Marshal of the Fanhan Mabu Army.

In addition, Li Chuwen's secret letter also told Tong Guan and others an important news, that is, there are really a large number of people in Yanjing who want to vote for Zhao Song Dynasty.

It's just that Yelu Dashi, Xiao Qian and other generals who currently hold military power are resolute main fighters. They hold heavy troops and are full of murderous intent. They were kidnapped, which made no one vote for the Song Dynasty.

Li Chuwen also introduced in detail the number and deployment of Liao's troops.

Li Chuwen pointed out in the secret letter that after the Song army was defeated last time, the Liao army itself also suffered a lot of casualties. At present, there are only more than 3 horses left, of which [-] are the ever-victorious troops stationed in Zhuozhou.

Li Chuwen reminded Tong Guan and others that the predecessor of the Changsheng Army was a resentful army composed of Han Chinese in Liaodong and Bohai refugees. As the Liao Kingdom was about to perish, as long as the Song Dynasty had a proper strategy, it would definitely be able to recruit the Changsheng Army .

As for the more than 3 horses in the Liao Kingdom, after defeating the Song army, most of them were arranged by Yeluchun to Juyongguan and the north to defend against the invasion of the Jin people. Their place is very empty now, except for the ever-victorious army stationed in Zhuozhou In addition, there are only about 2000 troops led by Xiao Helu, the Niulan Supervisor.

Li Chuwen's secret letter solved all the doubts of Tong Guan and others, and let Tong Guan and others know that they did not find the wrong timing to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, they just lacked some luck.

Moreover, Li Chuwen's secret letter and the news brought back by Ma Kuo can completely correspond.

Be it Tong Guan or Cai You, even Zhao Liangsi and other members of the Xuan Fu Department were unwilling to go back in such a disheveled manner.

You know, if they really go back in such a disheveled manner, they will not only lose power, but may also be nailed to the pillar of shame forever.

The key point is that the Liao Kingdom has only its last breath left. It would be a pity not to seize this opportunity.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition army led by Tong Guan and Cai You did not withdraw, but continued to stay in Xiongzhou to observe the situation in Yanjing.

Tong Guan and others had great hopes for Li Chuwen and his Yan people who had a heart for the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Wouldn't Li Chuwen have an army of his own soon?

Isn't Yeluchun going to die soon?

Beiliao is now not only facing tremendous pressure from their Song Dynasty, but also from the Jin people. In addition, Yelu Yanxi, who is in Jiashan, also claims to lead an army to attack Yanjing.

It is impossible for Beiliao to survive such a difficult situation.

Tong Guan and other people who came to recover Yanyun Sixteen States all thought that they must calm down, and the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen States would definitely turn around!
Tong Guan and the others made the right bet.

Not long after, in the face of the Zhao and Song Dynasties having millions of soldiers on the southern border of the Liao Kingdom, and the Jin Kingdom having already assembled large armies in Fengsheng Prefecture in the west and Bei'an Prefecture in the north, Yelu Yanxi sent people to shout that he would personally lead [-] elite troops. Under the tremendous pressure of the cavalry to attack Yanjing, Yeluchun, the emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty who was already in poor health, died after less than three months as emperor.

Before his death, Yeluchun issued a will: to welcome the fifth son of Yelu Yanxi, King Yelvding of Qin, to succeed him; the Han official Li Chuwen and other ministers assisted;

While all the people in the palace were busy making arrangements for Yeluchun's death, Li Chuwen quietly left the palace.

Li Chuwen was going to close the gate of Yanjing, and keep Yelu Dashi, Xiao Qian and other generals who advocated fighting the Zhao and Song Dynasty to the death from outside Yanjing.

Yanjing City is definitely one of the strongest cities in the world.

As long as Li Chuwen can close the city gate, the Liao army, which is not good at attacking the city, will definitely not be able to enter.

At that time, Li Chuwen will send someone to inform Tong Guan to lead the army to come, and Li Chuwen's victory in Yanjing City will be considered successful.

However, Li Chuwen reacted quickly, but there were others who reacted faster than Li Chuwen.

Xiao Pu Xiannv sent someone to send news to Xiao Qian when Yelu Chun appeared to return to the light, and asked Xiao Qian to lead troops into the city immediately.

When Li Chuwen arrived at the Yingchun Gate, he learned that not long ago, Xiao Qian had personally led [-] elite cavalry into the city.

Li Chuwen knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly turned around and ran back.

But when Li Chuwen ran back to the palace, Miss Xiao Puxian had already "enthroned" to become Empress Dowager Xiao with the support of Xiao Qian and others.

Xiao Puxian issued an order to change the year name to "Dexing".

As we all know, Miss Xiao Puxian is the concubine of Yeluchun, so the title of "Dexing" can't help but make people imagine.

As soon as Miss Xiao Puxian "ascended the throne" to take charge, she asked Xiao Qian to take back the letter written by Yeluchun in Li Chuwen's hand to Li Chuwen, that is, the imperial edict that Yeluchun appointed Li Chuwen as the Marshal of the Fanhan Horse Army.

Unlike Yeluchun who advocated voting for the Zhao Song Dynasty, Xiao Puxian, who only worshiped the strong and heroes all her life, looked down on the treacherous and weak Zhao Song Dynasty.

Let's put it this way, if Xiao Pu Xiannv had to make a choice between Song and Jin, Xiao Pu Xiannv would not choose the Zhao and Song Dynasties even if she chose Jin, which destroyed Liao.

This is actually the thinking of many Liao people.

Of course, as a very ambitious woman, surrendering to the Kingdom of Jin is not the choice of Miss Xiao Puxian. She is dreaming that she can turn the tide and repel the alliance of Song and Jin with the Beiliao, which is only a corner, and even regain the lost ground. , if it can be smoother, she will choose to destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty, which she hates so much.

But it may be the relationship between hating the house and Wu.

——Because of hating the Zhao and Song Dynasties, Miss Xiao Puxian even hated the Han people in Yanjing City. She even wanted to order that all Han people in Yanjing City be killed.

That's right.

The reason why Miss Xiao Puxian wanted to get back Yeluchun's edict appointing Li Chuwen as the Marshal of the Fanhan Horse Army was only because Xiao Puxian didn't trust and hate the Han people, not because Xiao Puxian found out that there was something wrong with Li Chuwen.

As a result, Xiao Qian stopped by Guo Yaoshi’s house while he was in the process of asking for the recruitment letter, and then learned from a servant in Guo Yaoshi’s house by accident that Li Chuwen had asked his son Li Shi An army of 3000 people was organized, and they planned to hijack Xiao Puxian and surrender to the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Xiao Qian hurried to the palace and told Xiao Puxian about this.

Under the guise of having something to discuss with Li Chuwen, Xiao Puxian deceived Li Chuwen into the palace, ordered her personal guards to arrest Li Chuwen and put him to death.

However, Li Shi and other people who were going to donate the city of Yanjing to the Zhao and Song Dynasty were caught by Xiao Puxian and found out one by one, and all of them were executed.

The Zhao Song Dynasty lost another chance to recover Yanjing.

If the Song army hadn't been timid, but directly drove millions of troops to the extremely empty Yanjing City, with Li Chuwen and his son cooperating inside and outside, Yanjing City might have been defeated in one battle.

However, Tong Guan and others were not only afraid of Zhao Ji's three border patrol strategies, but also had no confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Song Army, which had a lot of problems and had just suffered a major defeat.

Therefore, Tong Guan and the others didn't have the courage to go directly to the army, they could only look forward to the good news from Li Chuwen and his son.

But Tong Guan and the others waited and waited, but what they finally got was: Li Chuwen was bestowed to death by Miss Xiao Puxian, and Li Shi was struck by a bolt from the blue.

While regretting endlessly, Tong Guan reported the matter of Li Chuwen and his son to Zhao Ji.

After Zhao Ji read the secret letter sent back by Tong Guan, he was also very regretful, and began to regret that he didn't let Tong Guan and the others take the initiative to attack.

Today, Zhao Ji can be seen that it seems a bit unrealistic to recover Yanyun sixteen prefectures without fighting a war.

Not only to express his gratitude for the loyalty of Li Chuwen, Li Shi and his son, but also to buy bones with a thousand dollars, Zhao Ji chased Li Chuwen as the king of Guangyang County, and Li Shi as the military envoy of Baoning, in order to commend Li Chuwen, Li Shi and his son's contribution to the recovery of Yan by the Song Dynasty. Beijing's efforts.

Soon, Yintai Division received a memorial from Zhan Du, then the prefect of Zhongshan.

Zhan Du said in the memorial that since the death of Yeluchun, a large number of Yandi people crossed the border and came to the Song Dynasty.

These Yan people who fled to the Great Song Dynasty said that now the Liao Kingdom has no owner, and it is only supported by Xiao Puxian, a woman. The Kingdom of Jin is about to send troops to attack Yanjing. Recover Yanjing.

Zhan Du felt that now was the best opportunity to send troops northward to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Zhao Ji was tempted again.

The failure of the last time made Zhao Ji very unwilling. Obviously, he was only a little bit short, and he could complete the magnificent feat of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which the successive emperors of the Zhao and Song Dynasties could not accomplish, and became the emperor of the ages.

But it happened to be so small that Zhao Ji missed the huge achievement of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Nowadays, the situation in Yanjing is even worse, and there are really many people in Yanjing city like Li Chuwen, Li Shi and his son who hope that the Zhao Song Dynasty will recover Yanjing and give them a stable living environment.

The point is, after such a long investigation, Zhao Song Dynasty has basically confirmed that Yanjing is really the situation now.

Zhao Ji felt that if he didn't take back Yanyun Sixteen States, he would be too useless.

But at the same time, Zhao Ji really couldn't believe the fighting power of the Song Army that had disappointed him time and time again—Zhao Ji was really afraid that the Song Army would give him another "surprise".

All in all, Zhao Ji now wants to take this opportunity to recover Yanjing, and then use Yanjing as the basis to recover all the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Pingluanying.

After much deliberation, Zhao Ji sent someone to find Wang Fu to see what the Prime Minister Wang Fu said.
At this time, Wang Fu was burning incense and worshiping Buddha in the Grand Hall of Xiangguo Temple, wishing to bless the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures smoothly, so that he could secure the position of prime minister.

Xiangguo Temple is a royal temple located in a prosperous place in Bianliang City, Tokyo. It has a large scale and a majestic palace. There are nearly a thousand monks. It is the largest temple in contemporary times.

Xiangguo Temple is open to the public on the first, fifteenth and eighth day of each month.

At that time, Xiangguo Temple became a big market, and people came from all directions, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, setting up stalls for business, wandering and watching jugglers, all kinds of people had everything that one expects to find, and it was extremely lively.

Today is not an open day.

But it doesn't matter, if Wang Fu, the prime minister, wants to come in, who would dare to stop him?

That's the benefit of power.

After burning the incense, Wang Fu wandered around the Xiangguo Temple like a leisurely stroll.

Before he knew it, Wang Fu came to the corridor of the main hall.

There are some celebrity calligraphy hanging here.

Wang Fu came to a poem with ease:
All things are born between the heaven and the earth, and the ups and downs are grand.The luck of the four seasons is endless, and the meaning of the world's articles comes first.

This is what Cai Jing left behind.

Cai Jing's handwriting is excellent, with charming brushwork and bold and vigorous handwriting.

Cai Jing's poems are also very artistic.

But these are not what Wang Fu cares about.

What Wang Fu cares about is that Cai Jing's inscription - Sikong Kaifuyi and the third division Zhongtaiyi Palace envoy Shangshu Zuo Pushe Taiwei Taishi leads the three provinces Lu Guogong Cai Jing.

——The longer the inscription, the older the seniority, the higher the position, the greater the credit.

The person Wang Fu admired the most in his life was Cai Jing, the person he admired the most was also Cai Jing, and similarly, the person he most wanted to defeat was Cai Jing.

But if he followed the rules, Wang Wei felt that he might never see Cai Jing's taillights in his entire life.

Fortunately, Wang Fu met the god-sent opportunity to recover the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

Song Shenzong left a will that year: the king who regained the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Wang Fu felt that this prince was prepared for himself.

Don't you see, is Yanjing dying?
Wang Fu felt that as long as there was an opportunity, he would be able to persuade Zhao Ji, who also wanted to regain Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

At this moment, a servant came and said that Zhao Ji was in a hurry to see him.

Wang Fu didn't dare to neglect, and hurried to the palace to meet Zhao Ji.

When Wang Fu heard from Zhao Ji that Zhao Ji wanted to send troops north to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, he immediately expressed his approval, and then helped Zhao Ji carefully analyze the situation, and said with certainty that the Song Dynasty would send troops again Recovering Yanyun sixteen prefectures will definitely succeed in one fell swoop.

Zhao Ji felt that Wang Fu's analysis was very reasonable, so he made up his mind to send troops to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

However, there is a problem now, that is, who can be assigned to take charge?

But before Zhao Ji and Wang Fu could discuss a suitable candidate, Cai He, the magistrate of Yangzhou, suddenly reported urgently: Li Cun is back!

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(End of this chapter)