Qian Song

Chapter 200 Zhao Ji: My Song Dynasty is not a soft persimmon (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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After listening to Yuwen Huang Zhong explain Li Cun's family history in detail, from Wanyan Aguda down, all the Jin people showed serious expressions.

Wanyan Aguda spent eight or nine years leading the Jurchen Lien Chan and Lian Jie to take down four of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom. He is already extremely amazing and talented, and he can be regarded as a first-class hero in the world.

But compared with Li Cun who annexed half of the territory of the Song Dynasty in just two years, swept across the Indochina Peninsula, and regained the land of Yan at once, it is still not so interesting, even if Wanyan Agu beat them. I don't even know where the Indochina Peninsula is.

Yuwen Huangzhong said: "Li Cun is both civil and military, he uses soldiers like a god, makes no mistakes in his decisions, and almost never makes mistakes. He is like a peerless swordsman. If he doesn't move, he will stop. If he moves, he will seal his throat with a sword. There is no extra action, he is Huo Qubing among the emperors, the most capable emperor since ancient times, and he is wise, open-minded, generous, good at knowing people, and happy to use them."

It took a while for the golden people to digest, before Yuwen Huang Zhongcai continued: "And he was ambitious and determined to sweep the world, so he didn't choose to herd Nanshan after he captured most of the territory of Song Dynasty. Land, he must first seize Yanyun, then destroy our Great Song Dynasty, and then send troops to the grassland to restore the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, so you Dajin is also the target of his destruction."

Yuwen Huangzhong's evaluation of Li Cun was too high. Looking at history, Qin Huang, Han Wu, Tang Zong can be compared with him, Song Zu Zhao Kuangyin is not qualified.

This made the complexions of all the golden men all the more serious.

Then, Yuwen Huangzhong defended the Zhao Song Dynasty again: "With the situation not long ago, if our Great Song Dynasty did not use tricks to trick Li Cunyu to Yanyun, Li Cun would cross the river and attack the whole territory of our Great Song Dynasty. Helpless, my Great Song used the land of the Five Routes to trick Li Cun to Yanyun, I guess, my Great Song must join forces with other families to exterminate Li Cun, so that all families are safe and peaceful."

Wanyan Zonghan heard the words, and said lightly: "I don't think so. I'm afraid your Da Song is not the idea of ​​making my Da Jin compete with Da Gan's snipe and clam, and then your Da Song fisherman will benefit."

Wanyan Pu's servant also took out the three letters and handed them to Yuwen Huang Zhongguanzhi, and said: "If the Great Song Dynasty is really as you said, you should send an envoy to explain this matter to my family, instead of recruiting Yundi prefectures and counties without authorization. , Yundi is now occupied by my family, and the two families have not discussed the ownership of this place, and you Da Song did not say a word beforehand, what is the reason for doing this?"

Yuwen Huang Zhong said neither humble nor overbearing: "This is for officials to harm the country. When I return to the Song Dynasty, I will definitely report to my emperor and send envoys to discuss with your family about a joint attack."

Wanyan Zongwang laughed and said: "My family will send an envoy to explain this to Da Song, so you stay at my house and help my family deal with Li Cun."

in fact--

Wanyan Zongwang had seen Yuwen Huangzhong's appearance and literary talents a long time ago, loved his talent, and didn't want to let Yuwen Huangzhong go.

Now, seeing that Yuwen Huang Zhong really knew Li Cun's details like the palm of his hand, of course he would not let Yuwen Huang Zhong go.

Yuwen Huang Zhong hurriedly said: "I have been imprisoned by Li Cun for more than two years, and I managed to escape from Longtan and Tiger's Lair while he was busy and had no time to take care of me. Now I am returning home, and I hope Your Majesty and all the wolf lords will be happy."

Wanyan Aguda didn't speak, obviously he also wanted to leave Yuwen Huangzhong who knew Li Cun very well, and slowly analyze Li Cun.

With Wanyan Aguda's attitude, Wanyan Zongwang immediately walked out with his arms around Yuwen Huangzhong's shoulders, and at the same time said with great enthusiasm: "Hey, you have been away for more than two years, and you will be away for three to five years. There are many misunderstandings between Dajin and Dasong, and Shutong is urgently needed to plan for the two countries. Shutong will stay with Dajin for a few years, and discuss Shutong's return after Dajin and Dasong jointly destroy Dagan It's not too late for the Song Dynasty."

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original--

Tong Guan and Cai You have always been in charge of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun for the Song Dynasty.

But Tong Guan and Cai You were not good at doing things. They sent troops for a year, and the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun failed to recover. As a result, the Song Dynasty had to face the threat of the Daqian Dynasty. The gold and silver that were mined were exchanged for the Dagan Dynasty leading troops northward.

This made Zhao Ji extremely dissatisfied with Tong Guan and Cai You, especially the performance of the former.

Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng saw Zhao Ji's attitude towards Tong Guan, and felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so they jointly recommended Tan Zhen to replace Tong Guan as the Xuanfu Envoy of Hedong and Hebei Roads.

Zhao Ji hesitated again and again, feeling that Tong Guan and Cai You could not do without Tong Guan and Cai You for the time being. Besides, after all, Tong Guan and Cai You had surrendered the Changsheng Army and regained Zhuozhou, and they were also actively recovering Yundi, so they accepted Tan as the governor of Hedong. The envoy is responsible for recovering Yundi Kyushu.

Zhao Ji knew that Tan Zhen had a good relationship with Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng, but had always been at odds with Tong Guan. The key point was that Tan Zhen's prestige and power in the army were far from being comparable to Tong Guan's.

Zhao Ji was worried that Tong Guan would interfere with Tan Zhen's work, so he ordered Tong Guan to be deprived of his position as envoy of Hedong Xuanfu, and let Tong Guan concentrate on watching Li Cun in Yandi.

The last time the Jin people massacred more than 3 Liao people in Xijing, it aroused great resentment among the Liao people. The Liao people felt that the lowly Jurchens did not regard them as human beings at all, so they all had antagonism.

After Wanyan Aguda transferred Wanyan Zonghan to Weizhou, Shuozhou Jiedu Envoy Han Zheng and Yingzhou Jiedu Envoy Su Jing immediately secretly sent people to Taiyuan to contact the Xuanfu Department, expressing their willingness to accept the soil and return to the Song Dynasty, and even Even Chen Yi, a local tyrant in Weizhou, and others were worried that the Jin people would commit a massacre in Weizhou, so they sent people to Taiyuan to contact the Xuanfu Department, expressing their willingness to accept the soil and return to the Song Dynasty.

As soon as Tan Zhen took office, he was overjoyed to receive such a big gift package for newcomers, so he quickly sent someone to contact Sanzhou.

Soon, Shuozhou and Yingzhou were vying to betray gold, and even Weizhou was about to move.

After Zhao Ji heard the news, he was very happy, and immediately renamed the three states of Shuozhou, Yingzhou, and Weizhou as the Shuoning Army, and Tan Zhen hurriedly sent troops to guard them.

Tan Zhen didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly dispatched Li Siben, the former Liao general who had just surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and Geng Shouzhong, the former Liao general, to lead the army to defend.

Tan Zhen recruited and surrendered the half guards of Shuozhou, Yingzhou and Weizhou without any effort, and regained two and a half states for the Song Dynasty, which was one more state than Tong Guan, who was a year younger. half territory.

This can't help but make Tan Zhen proud.

but--

At this moment, the situation here in Yundi is very complicated.

Jin Guotun's army is waiting in the Yundong area for the Daqian Dynasty to come out to fight it.

The Dagan Dynasty eyed Yundi covetously.

Yelu Yanxi also led a total of [-] elite Khitan and Tatar troops out of Jiashan, down to Yuyangling, and successively captured Tiande Army, Dongsheng, Yunnei, Ningbian and other states. Pointing directly at the cloud.

In addition, Yelv Yanxi promised to transfer the large tracts of land north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan Mountain, and west of Yishiyira Tululuo, namely Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, and Hedong Douda, Sila, Hedong, Yeque , Shenya, Yulin, Baoda, Yumin Baguan, and the Jinsu and Heqing Second Army in Hexi, ceded to Xixia, and asked Xixia to help him regain his homeland and restore the country.

And because Yelu Yanxi also ceded a small part of Yundi to Xixia, Xixia is also eyeing Yundi here.

It can be said that Yundi is now the focus of the game between the Dagan Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Jin Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom, and the Xixia Kingdom.

It can even be said that Yundi is now a powder keg.

In view of such a severe situation and the combat effectiveness of the five scumbags of the Song Army, Tan Zhen made a request to Zhao Ji to form another elite army of 5 horses in Hedong, mainly to recruit "returners" from the Yun and Shuo areas, and let them They were stationed in the key points of each prefecture and county, called the Yisheng Army, and Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong were appointed as the chief and deputy commanders.

The so-called "returned people", "returned people" and "returned people" refer to some special groups in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, which were formed when the Zhao and Song Dynasties dealt with the surrounding Fanmin and their state power.

Returning to righteousness refers to people who were originally Chinese, but later fell into a foreign country, and later returned to the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Returning to the Ming people refers to people who were not Chinese, but ethnic minorities outside of China, who came to return to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, which means abandoning darkness and turning to the Ming.

The returnees specifically refer to the Han people who came from the original Yanyun area to return to the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

In fact, the main reason why Tan Zhen made this suggestion is because Tong Guan has such a high prestige in the army, and a large reason is because Tong Guan has a victorious army in his hands.

——Tan Zhen feels that he is not as good as Tong Guan in any other aspects. If he can also control an army with a combat effectiveness comparable to that of the Jie Jie Army, he will definitely be able to take over Tong Guan's class smoothly in the future and become the Great Song Dynasty Military No.1 of the Dynasty.

Moreover, Tan Zhen has already seen that Zhao Ji's dissatisfaction with Tong Guan is almost unbearable. As long as he can show his ability to succeed Tong Guan, it may not be long before he will become the military commander of the Song Dynasty. No.1.

Zhao Ji was really disappointed with the original Song Army's combat effectiveness. He felt that if the original Song Army hadn't beaten everyone up, he would not have fallen into such a difficult situation. God.

Zhao Ji felt that Tan Zhen's suggestion was very good, so he quickly approved it, and promised that Tan Zhen would give money, people, and horses, as long as Tan Zhen could increase the combat effectiveness of the Yisheng Army.

Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong were originally returnees, and they are very familiar with everything here in Yundi.

The key point is that due to successive years of wars, Yundi already has a large number of returnees, and most of these returnees are good at riding and shooting, and they are naturally good soldiers.

It is worth mentioning that in order to seize the strong army of the Yisheng Army, Tan Zhen paid the Yisheng Army very high treatment. With Tan Zhen's efforts and Zhao Ji's support, the Yisheng Army's monthly food and The clothing is twice as much as that of the other forbidden army, and the soldiers of the other forbidden army can only eat old food, but the soldiers of the Yisheng army can eat new food every day.

——The salary is doubled on the basis of the Forbidden Army, which is much higher than that of the Daqian Dynasty.

This caused a large number of returnees who met the recruitment requirements to sign up, and even many soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army secretly fled to Yundi to join the Yisheng Army after hearing about this incident.

Guo Yaoshi was very panicked by the establishment of the Yisheng Army, especially when the soldiers of the Changsheng Army kept secretly going to join the Yisheng Army.

In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, Guo Yaoshi ordered that the marks of the Ever Victorious Army be engraved on the faces of all the soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army to prevent them from escaping.

But Guo Yaoshi's actions aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Changsheng Army, which made everyone complain, and the morale of the army became even more unstable.

Guo Yaoshi quickly found Tong Guan and Cai You, and implicitly expressed that the treatment of the Yisheng Army was really good, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among the soldiers of the Ever Victory Army. Recently, a large number of soldiers of the Ever Victory Army fled The Yisheng Army discussed with Tong Guan and Cai You to see if they could give the Changsheng Army a raise and allow the Changsheng Army to expand.

Guo Yaoshi is a person who is very good at dealing with people and disguising himself, so that both Tong Guan and Cai You have a particularly good impression of Guo Yaoshi.

Especially the former.

Every time Guo Yaoshi saw Tong Guan, he paid homage to Tong Guan with a very solemn etiquette.

Tong Guan was unwilling to accept it, and said, "You and I are at about the same level, so there is no need to pay respects."

But Pharmacist Guo insisted: "Xuanxiang, father, the only thing a pharmacist knows is to worship his father! How can he know anything else?"

Tong Guan felt that Guo Yaoshi knew how to repay his kindness, and he loved Guo Yaoshi very much.

When Cai You came here, Guo Yaoshi was willing to give gifts.

Knowing that Cai You was not used to living in the front line, Guo Yaoshi gave Cai You dozens of beauties to help Cai You get rid of loneliness.

And one of the purposes of Cai You's going north this time is to cultivate his own power so that he can go back to fight for power in the future.

Guo Yaoshi gave Cai You the feeling that it was very worthy of his vigorous training.

These are actually not the most important.

The most important thing is that Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng brought Tan Zhen here and helped Tan Zhen build the Yisheng Army, obviously targeting Tong Guan and even Cai You.

How could Tong Guan and Cai You not fight back against this kind of thing?
Therefore, Tong Guan and Cai You repeatedly wrote memorials to Zhao Ji, saying that Li Cunyou had the intention of leading the army to the south, and saying that most of the other Song troops were too weak to fight, so they created panic to Zhao Ji and persuaded Zhao Ji to concentrate financial and material resources to build it. A strong army or two.

Tong Guan reported that it was the Shengjie Army.

And Cai You reported to Chang Shengjun.

Zhao Ji is suppressing Tong Guan and promoting Tan Zhen, how can the strength of the Sheng Jie army be strengthened?

Not only that, Zhao Ji also consciously separated the Shengjie Army, leaving only five thousand Shengjie Army for Tong Guan as Tong Guan's pro-army.

Tong Guan knew that Zhao Ji no longer trusted him, and he was also a little disheartened. He was going to make up for it with a few more credits, so he went back to serve as an official for the elderly.

On the contrary, the ever-victorious army proposed by Cai You, who is extremely aware of current affairs, gave Zhao Ji a very good feeling.

Zhao Ji then ordered Guo Yaoshi to take the generals of the Changsheng Army to Beijing to go to the palace. He wanted to see for himself whether Guo Yaoshi could become the general of the Song Dynasty to succeed Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing.

Cai You, who had already placed eyeliner beside Zhao Ji, immediately disclosed the news to Guo Yaoshi unreservedly, and said that Zhao Ji had prepared a surprise for him.

Guo Yaoshi was overjoyed and hurriedly led the crowd to Beijing to meet Zhao Ji.

From Zhuozhou to Bianliang City in Tokyo, the total distance is only [-] to [-] miles, and it is all plain terrain. The post roads are flat and wide, and horses can gallop wildly.

From the perspective of military defense, there is no other pass to rely on except for a Yellow River that can be used as a dangerous obstacle. After crossing the Yellow River, you can reach the city of Bianliang in Tokyo soon.

The road to Bianliang City in Tokyo is so smooth, which is quite beyond Guo Yaoshi's expectations.

Guo Yaoshi is a very scheming person, he has a clear understanding of the terrain along the road.

After arriving in Bianliang City, Tokyo, Guo Yaoshi knew that the surprise Zhao Ji had prepared for him was a mansion with a very large area.

This mansion is located on Zhuquemenwai Street, south of Longjin Bridge, next to Cai You's mansion.

Guo Yaoshi is not an ignorant Jurchen. He clearly knows that such a large mansion must be worth a lot in Bianliang City, Tokyo, where every inch of land is expensive.

Moreover, there are hundreds of beauties and a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.

——All these were rewarded by Zhao Ji to Guo Yaoshi.

And Guo Yaoshi didn't take it all alone, but distributed all the gold, silver and jewelry that Zhao Ji rewarded him to his generals equally.

The generals of the Changsheng Army were overjoyed.

After that, Zhao Ji arranged for someone to take Guo Yaoshi and the others to have fun in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Powerful and rich.

After Guo Yaoshi and other generals of the Changsheng Army realized that the background of the Song Dynasty was indeed not comparable to that of the newly-emerged Daqian Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom, Zhao Ji met Guo Yaoshi.

Seeing that Guo Yaoshi was still wearing Liao clothes with a left lapel, Zhao Ji couldn't help frowning, but Zhao Ji didn't show it immediately, but first spoke highly of Guo Yaoshi's ability to understand righteousness and lead the army back to the Song Dynasty, and praised him Both civil and military, is a rare handsome talent.

The groundwork was almost done, and Zhao Ji asked, "Why doesn't Aiqing change into my Song military uniform?"

Guo Yaoshi, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately responded: "Daliao is the old country of the minister. The old country perished and the old master disappeared, so the minister surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Today, the minister knows that the old master is not in trouble. He just hid in Jiashan Among them, I should have led the army to go, but your majesty treated me with such kindness as a mountain, so that I dare not give birth to a rebellious heart. At this point, I can only blame good fortune for tricking others. Today, I wear the Liao military uniform, which only means that my minister I am not a generation of three and four. The minister swears by the sky that the minister is absolutely loyal to the official, just like the former minister was also loyal to the old master. Please learn from the official. If the minister is against the old master, how can the minister be loyal to your majesty? ? I hope the official family will forgive the minister's crimes."

After speaking, Guo Yaoshi burst into tears.

Although the Changsheng Army was not established for a long time, it has already betrayed its old master twice (the first time was Yelu Yanxi and Yeluchun, and the second was Northern Liao Dynasty and Zhao Song Dynasty). traditional army.

Therefore, what Guo Yaoshi is most afraid of is that others, especially the monarch, will doubt his loyalty to the Changsheng Army. Therefore, Guo Yaoshi ordered the Changsheng Army to wear the left lapel uniform of the Liao Army from him to show that they have not forgotten their homeland and the old master. .

Zhao Ji did not doubt the loyalty of Guo Yaoshi and Changsheng Army because of the nonsense that Guo Yaoshi made up. On the contrary, Zhao Ji really felt that Guo Yaoshi and Changsheng Army were forced to sacrifice their city to the Song Dynasty due to the situation, and their loyalty is commendable.

Based on this, Zhao Ji waved his hand and allowed the Changsheng Army to expand its army by [-], and allowed Guo Yaoshi to recruit the soldiers of the Changsheng Army on his own.

At the same time, Zhao Ji issued an edict to appoint Guo Yaoshi as the Shaobao of the inspection school and the deputy envoy of Hebei Xuanfu.

In this way, in terms of military affairs, Guo Yaoshi became the third in command of the Hebei region, second only to Tong Guan and Cai You, and the direct commander of the Song Army.

From the performance of Zhao Ji, including Tong Guan, Cai You and Tan Zhen, it is not difficult to see that they were very disappointed with the combat effectiveness of the original Song army, and felt that only foreign monks could recite scriptures.

After Guo Yaoshi returned to Zhuozhou, he began to recruit a large number of soldiers.

However, Guo Yaoshi did not recruit all returnees like Tan Zhen and the others, but recruited a large number of people from Bohai and other races, so that Guo Yaoshi had absolute control over the Changsheng Army.

Soon after, the military structure of the Song Army in the north underwent tremendous changes.

In the Hebei area, there are hundreds of thousands of troops dominated by the Ever Victorious Army.

In the Hedong area, there are hundreds of thousands of troops dominated by the Yisheng Army.

in fact--

There is a reason why Zhao Ji made such a major adjustment in the military.

If it is said that Zhao Ji had avoided direct confrontation with the Liao Kingdom or the Dagan Dynasty before.

So from now on, Zhao Ji has been expecting that he spent a lot of money to build the Changsheng Army and the Yisheng Army, which can give him a face, win a few beautiful victories, and shock the neighbors, so that no one will look at the Song Dynasty. A soft persimmon, I can't help but want to pinch it...

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Still burning.

Just burned to 39.1 degrees.

After eating some Enrique that had expired for more than three months, it became 38.9 degrees.

Today is only this chapter, please forgive me.

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