Qian Song

Chapter 193 Pillow Wind (Ask for a monthly pass!)

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Bo Jin means the leader of the Jurchen tribe.

Wuxie is the leader of a small tribe among the out-and-out Nursing. Originally, there were only less than a hundred households in his hands, and he was generally the village head of a very small village in later generations.

In terms of character and ability, Wu Xie is not bad in power, wealth, sex, and alcohol, and he is not good at anything in martial arts and martial arts.

However, Gao Qingyi was different. He was born in the Gao family, a noble family in Bohai Sea. He received an elite education since he was a child.

In addition, Gao Qingyi is cautious by nature, good at calculating, and able to restrain his desires.

At the beginning, Gao Qingyi was actually just a small translator in Wanyan Zonghan's army.

But Gao Qingyi seized every opportunity to show himself in front of Wanyan Zonghan and even Wanyan Aguda, and often offered advice to the Jurchens.

Through all kinds of unremitting efforts, Gao Qingyi finally won the favor of Wanyan Zonghan and became one of Wanyan Zonghan's confidantes.

Comparing the two, it is not difficult to see that Gao Qingyi is much higher than U Xie in every aspect.

However, even so, Wu Xie was the chief envoy and Gao Qingyi was the deputy envoy.

No way, in the Kingdom of Jin, regardless of how uncouth the Jurchens are, the Jurchens are all nobles, and no matter how good the foreigners are, they can only be second-class or even third-fourth-class.

This is the inevitable phenomenon brought about by the rise and fall of nations.

Han Fang has a deep understanding of this.

When Han Fang and Xiao Rong were on missions in the past, Han Fang was always the deputy envoy, while Xiao Rong, who was inferior to Han Fang in all aspects, was always the main envoy.

There is no other reason, Han Fang is Han, Xiao Rong is Khitan.

But after Li Cun captured Yanjing City, Han Fang immediately became the chief envoy, and Xiao Rong became the deputy envoy. Moreover, Han Fang had already entered Li Cun's field of vision. It can be imagined that it would not take long. Han Fang will prosper and gain greater power.

This change is not only reflected in Han Fang, but all Han officials in the former Liao Kingdom have this profound experience.

Things have to start after Li Cun took over Yanjing.

After becoming the owner of Yanjing, Li Cun actually felt a little difficult to manage the mixed situation of Han and Han people in Yanjing.

Historically, the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties both ruled the grasslands and the Central Plains at the same time, but these two dynasties adopted a dual model targeting two regions respectively.

The Liao Kingdom, on the other hand, uniquely established a two-house system between the one yuan and the two yuan.

The two-chamber system of the Liao State is different from the dual imperial rule model. He did not simply set up a guard house or a military town to rule the emperor remotely. Instead, he set up two courts from the central to the local, based on the Confucian culture and the grassland. The model governs Han Chinese and people of other races.

This two-chamber model is different from the national hierarchy system established by the Mongolian and Yuan courts, but a relatively equal but targeted governance model.

To be fair, this can be regarded as a relatively advanced governance model.

but--

Li Cun is not too satisfied with this governance model.

Li Cun's ideal governance model is like that of the Ming Dynasty, which truly achieves unification, not just unification under compromise.

But then again, the ethnic policy of the Ming Dynasty actually had a lot of compromises.

For example, in the minority areas in the south, the Ming Dynasty first implemented the chieftain system since the Yuan Dynasty, granting hereditary official positions to the leaders of the ethnic minorities who surrendered, and managing the areas under their jurisdiction by themselves.Later, the land reform was gradually implemented, and the chieftain's jurisdiction was brought into the direct rule of the central government.

For example, in the north, northeast, and northwest regions, the Ming Dynasty mainly set up military institutions to guard, such as the capital and guards, to consolidate the stability and unity of the country.Then encourage economic and cultural exchanges between other races and the Han people, and gradually assimilate the foreign races.

For example, for powerful ethnic groups such as the Jurchens in the Northeast, the Ming Dynasty mainly adopted policies of appeasement, restraint, and divide and rule.

Also, for other ethnic groups inhabited in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Huguang, the Ming Dynasty retained the chieftain system of the Yuan Dynasty, and appointed the upper-level figures of the local ethnic groups as native officials to rule. In government agencies at all levels, the chiefs are all hereditary.

Even in later generations, for the sake of stability, what should be compromised must be compromised.

This is actually the nature of politics.

Therefore, in the current situation where stability is more important than anything else, Li Cun can still accept the transition to the bicameral system.

But the implementation of a bicameral system is the implementation of a bicameral system.

The bicameral system led by Li Cun is definitely different from the bicameral system dominated by the Khitan people.

The first difference is that Li Cun strengthened the power of the South Court controlled by the Han people, making it over the North Court, and reversed the original state that the North Court was actually greater than the South Court.

Secondly, based on the governance of the North Academy, it is definitely impossible for the Khitan clan to dominate.

Even the Xi clan, which is second only to the Khitan clan in number and power, will not have the opportunity to take charge of the North Courtyard.

Of course, in order to stabilize the current situation, Li Cun temporarily let Xiao Yixin, a Khitan who had contributed to the dedication of the palace, serve as the Privy Councilor of the North Court for the time being.

But it's certainly just a transition.

Li Cun was not satisfied with Xiao Yixin's background and ability, so he would definitely not let Xiao Yixin serve as the Privy Councilor of the North Court for a long time.

In fact, Li Cun has always wanted to find someone who is not only a Fan, but also proficient in the culture of the Han and other ethnic groups, who is smart and capable, and who can manage the Fan people well to take charge of the North Academy.

In Li Cun's mind, this person had better have two characteristics: one is from a small clan, and the other is the consciousness of being a "traitor".

But Li Cun never found such a person.

After Li Cun saw Gao Qingyi, he immediately felt that he had found this person.

The Bohai people are actually not considered a small family, but the Bohai people originally gathered in the Liaodong area. After the Jurchens destroyed the Great Bohai Kingdom established by Gao Yongchang, the Bohai people were actually annexed by the Jurchens.

In other words, the number of Bohai people is not small, but now they are mostly among the Jin people. In the Yanyun area, the number of Bohai people is far less than that of the Khitan, Xi, Zub, Shiwei, and even women. There are many real people.

As for the traitors, Gao Qingyi is not a very talented person because he worked so hard for the Jurchens who defeated the Bohai people and annexed them.

In addition, in history, Gao Qingyi has been staying behind in Xijing to help the Jin people manage Yundi and Kyushu. Later, after Jin Xizong came to the throne, the official system was changed, and Gao Qingyi took the post of Shangshu Zuocheng (equivalent to deputy prime minister).

The point is that Gao Qingyi has always been Wanyan Zonghan's confidant, and has helped Wanyan Zonghan with his ideas for half his life. Even if Wanyan Zonghan could listen to him, he would not be defeated by Wanyan Zongpan.

So, leaving aside the character and so on, this Gao Qingyi is definitely a very capable talent.

As for Gao Qingyi, he is now from the Kingdom of Jin, not from the Kingdom of Dagan?

This is so easy to handle.

As soon as Gao Qingyi arrived in Yanjing City, he took the Daqian Dynasty and let them live in the Wangjing Pavilion in the suburbs. He didn't let them live in the embassy in Yanjing City.

The meaning behind the words is all threatening the Daqian Dynasty, in fact, they have been helping the Jin people to test Li Cun's bottom line.

Later, Wu Xie and Gao Qingyi discussed with Han Fang the real purpose of their mission in private.

Wu Xie took out the copy of the "Alliance on the Sea" between Song and Jin, pointed to the year coin on it, and said that Yanjing was left to the Song Dynasty by their Great Jin Kingdom, and the Great Song Dynasty promised to give them the Great Jin Kingdom Year The Dajin Kingdom only kept Yanjing, which had already been beaten to the last breath by their Dajin Kingdom. Now that this benefit has been obtained by the Daqian Dynasty, the Dagan Dynasty should replace the Dasong Dynasty and give them the Dajin Kingdom Year coins, so that there can be long-term peace between the two countries.

Wu Xie also gave the reason for their Great Jin Kingdom, that is, their Great Jin Kingdom had spent so much effort to beat the Jin army here in Yandi to such a small extent, they deserved the financial income of Yandi, but Because the Dagan Dynasty wanted to govern Yandi, their Dajin Kingdom couldn't calculate how much Yandi's financial revenue was, so the two simply negotiated an amount of old coins, once and for all.

Gao Qingyi frantically tested Li Cun's bottom line.

Gao Qingyi said that the Zhao Song Dynasty also promised to give them all the non-Han population in Yandi to the Kingdom of Jin.

In addition, Gao Qingyi also proposed that the two countries should draw a good line to avoid military conflicts in the future.

Regarding the division of national borders, Gao Qingyi specifically pointed out that the Dajin Kingdom only licensed the counties of Yanjing, Zhuo, Yi, Tan, Shun, Jing, and Ji of the Daqian Dynasty and the Han people in the households under their control, and the rest of the territory and people of the original Liao Kingdom were ignored. Fanhan are all owned by their Dajin Kingdom.

During this process, Gao Qingyi specifically pointed out that the Kyushu at the back of the mountain and the three prefectures at Luanying were not within the scope of the franchise granted by the Dajin Kingdom to the Daqian Dynasty.

Gao Qingyi even carefully pointed out that Fujiakou must also belong to their Dajin Kingdom.

Fujiakou is 390 miles east of Yanjing, where there are two major salt fields, Xincang and Yongji, which were the main sea salt production areas in the former Liao Kingdom.

Historically, when the Song and Jin Dynasties were negotiating to draw a map, these places were drawn in the territory of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. However, when Yao Pingzhong was sent by the Xuanfu Department to actually explore and demarcate the boundary, he fell into Gao Qingyi's trick and mistakenly placed this place in the Jin Dynasty. within the country.

This is a very serious mistake.

Later, here in Fujiakou, the Zhao Song Dynasty failed to compete for the Kingdom of Jin.

As a result, the salt price in Yandi skyrocketed, and the people in Yandi couldn't even eat salt. In the end, the people in Yandi hated the Zhao Song Dynasty's governance of Yandi.

Now Gao Qingyi has used this trick on Li Cun again, which shows how hard Gao Qingyi is to his master.

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The next day, Your Majesty the Long Live Hall.

Wu Xie and Gao Qingyi stood at His Royal Highness and saluted Li Cun seemingly respectfully.

At the end of the ceremony, Li Cun asked with a smile on his face: "Your emperor said, I will give you big Jinsui coins. I will live in Yanjing, Zhuo, Yi, Tan, Shun, Jing, Ji and counties. Give it all to your family, and also take away my Xincang and Yongji two saltworks, so that you and I can have eternal peace?"

As soon as Li Cun said this, all civil and military officials, regardless of Fan Han, all glared at Wu Xie and Gao Qingyi.

This is simply deceitful.

As soon as Li Cun opened his mouth, Gao Qingyi realized something was wrong.

If Li Cunzhen wanted to accept their Dajin Kingdom's conditions, it would be absolutely impossible for him to speak out in public to arouse conflicts, and the key is impossible not to bargain with them.

So Gao Qingyi concluded that Li Cun might be angry.

Subconsciously, Gao Qingyi wanted to remind Wu Xie not to talk nonsense.

But without waiting for Gao Qingyi's reminder, Wu Xie, who had a reckless personality, blurted out: "Your Majesty can get Yanjing, it's all thanks to my great gold to destroy the Liao Dynasty. You should know how to repay your kindness and be content and always be happy."

After Wu Xie said what Li Cun wanted to hear, Li Cun asked all his courtiers: "You have heard what the envoy Jin said, so let's talk about it, how should I reply to Wanyan Aguda?"

Listen to the gongs and drums, and listen to the sounds when you speak.

As soon as Li Cun called Wanyan Aguda's name directly, Liu Yanzong realized that their new emperor was angry and wanted to go to war with Dajin.

Liu Yanzong immediately weighed in his heart, Qian Jin started the war, the victory and defeat and gains and losses of the Daqian Dynasty.

But Liu Yanzong had this consideration, but others did not. Some people even wished that the two invaders, the Daqian Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom, would hurt each other, and it would be best to die together.

For example, Yeluning was deployed in the southern camp, and he came out and said: "Beiliao was destroyed by Your Majesty, and all the territory of Beiliao should belong to Your Majesty. Jurchen is just a remote and vulgar tribe. An dare to point fingers at Your Majesty. I suggest that Wu Xie, Gao Qingyi, start a war with Jurchen."

Xiao Yixin used to support the gold investment. Now, in order to redeem his wrong political views, he immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the Jurchen deceived me to do nothing. I am willing to lead the army and fight to the death with the Jurchen."

Zuo Qigong and Xiao Yixin have the same embarrassment.

Back then, the old guy Zuo Qigong almost jumped into the arms of the gold man and said he wanted to invest in gold.

Later, when Li Cun led the army to attack the palace city of the Northern Liao Dynasty, Zuo Qigong also gave Xiao Puxian a plan to delay the army in order to resist Li Cun, a Han Chinese, from annexing the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Now, Li Cun has taken over the city of Yanjing and slept with Xiao Pu Xiannv, completely becoming Zuo Qigong's master.

Zuo Qigong's erroneous political views and unwise actions in the past, as well as Zuo Qigong's "banana man" values, all made it difficult for Zuo Qigong to gain a foothold in the new dynasty.

Zuo Qigong is over 70 this year.

Ordinarily speaking, Zuo Qigong is at this age, even if he becomes an official, it doesn't matter.

But the problem is, if Zuo Qigong resigned during this period of dynasty change, then their Zuo family might be finished.

For the sake of his descendants, and for the Zuo family in Yanjing not to decline, Zuo Qigong can't get out of the court no matter what.

Based on this, he finally seized the opportunity to show his left bow, and immediately came out and said: "From the day when the Northern Liao Dynasty established its dynasty, it has owned the six roads of Yan, Yun, Ping, Shangjing, Zhongjing, and Liaoxi. Now Your Majesty will destroy the Northern Liao. These six roads should all be owned by His Majesty, how can you allow the little Jurchen to come to me to blackmail and threaten?!"

Zuo Qigong said with righteous indignation: "Jurchen is greedy, cunning, capricious, shameless and vicious, lustful and indiscriminate, and what she wants must not be satisfied, otherwise she will become worse. Your Majesty should drive the Jurchen out of our university with the force of thunder." Dry the territory and frighten the younger generation."

Then, one after another, the original Liao people jumped out, scolded Jurchen, and suggested that Li Cun go to war with Jin Guo.

For these original Liao people, Li Cun allowed them to scold and yell, without any intention of stopping them.

The original Liao people were beaten from north to south by the former subordinate Jurchens, and then from east to west. The Jurchens dug up their ancestral graves, and the women were also robbed by the Jurchens. In the end, only a small piece of Yandi was left. At that time, they wanted to beg with the Jurchens without shame or hatred, and were rejected by the Jurchens five times in a row. They were extremely aggrieved and useless for a long time.

Now, Li Cun gave the original Liao people a vent. All the original Liao people, regardless of Fan Han, were filled with righteous indignation and wanted to fight the Jurchens again and seek revenge from the Jurchens.

It's like a dog, being abused by other dogs, finally waits for its master to come, of course it will grin its teeth and bark desperately, what if the master can really take it to revenge?

In fact, it's not just the ministers of the former Liao Kingdom.

When Wuxie and Gao Qingyi entered Yanjing City, a large number of original Liao people followed them.

If there were not a large number of troops protecting Baoxie and Gao Qingyi at that time, they might have been eaten alive by the original Liao people who hated them to the bone.

Also, since Miss Xiao Puxian learned that Jin Guo sent envoys to Yanjing, Miss Xiao Puxian changed her previous passiveness and tried her best to please Li Cun. Pillow wind, I want Li Cun to lead the army and civilians to fight against the Kingdom of Jin.

It can be said that from top to bottom in Yandi, they all hope that Li Cun can lead them to fight Jin Guo again and avenge their hatred.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Qingyi quickly reminded Li Cun: "Your Majesty, the people of Liao hate you and my family for destroying their country, and if you want our two families to kill each other, we must not fall for it."

Uxie was also horrified, realizing that he might have said the wrong thing...

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