Qian Song

Chapter 205 Qian Song’s Excuse Has Been Made (Ask for a Monthly Pass!)
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The Jin army stationed in Yundi for more than a year and consumed a lot of property. Before leaving, they looted all the gold, silver, money and things in Yundi, as well as the common people's temples.

Many wealthy people in the Liao Kingdom fled into the valley because they were afraid of the Jin people, leaving many empty houses like hanging chimes.

The people who stayed in the city were also living in increasingly poor and embarrassing conditions.

The key point is that this is not only the case in Xijing City, but also in Wu, Wei, Fengsheng, Guihua, Confucianism, Gui and other states.

What's even worse is that before the Jin army left, they destroyed all the vital points of the city walls and sculls, and even filled in trenches and dug the city, completely destroying the defensive facilities of Yundi.

This is obviously a preparation for the fight back.

Therefore, many people in Yundi are spreading rumors that the Jin people will definitely attack Yundi after Wanyan Agu is beaten to death.

Even Zhao Liangsi once said to people in private: "I am afraid that the Song Dynasty will not occupy this cloud land for long."

Everyone in Yundi knew about this, but no one dared to speak out.

Tan Zhen and others then gave Zhao Ji a congratulatory form:

Gongwei Your Majesty, who knows the signs of the demise of the northern captives.In the eighth year of Zizhenghe, the Kingdom of Jin sent envoys to communicate with each other, and they agreed to attack. In the fourth year of Xuanhe, the host of the captives moved, and Yeluchun usurped the establishment.Your Majesty obeys the people's hearts, and specially ordered the ministers to send out the general army to appease them, so that Natu would be attached.The ministers and others led the army, entered the Yunzhong Mansion to appease the army and the people, and proclaimed the Holy Ze.When the whole division wins, the voice of the sky will be revitalized; if the whole country comes to success, it will be the city in the clouds.There is no insult in all directions, and there is light for all ages.The temples and societies are closed, and the subjects Xu Qing.The ministers and others heard that the Zhou Dynasty's attack on Yanyun only reached Taiyuan, and the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu but only expected to go to Weishang.Although it attracts its species, or reprimands it in Fengqi.They all only survive in the name of opening up the frontier, but there is no such thing as the power of mixing the universe...

Just as the Zhao and Song dynasties were celebrating the historical feat of recovering Yundi, Li Cun ordered that all efforts should be made to plant the spring.

Li Cun could see clearly that the current war in the Yanyun area is a food war, and whoever has food will have the last laugh.

This is also the reason why Li Cun obviously could send troops to attack Yundi immediately after the Jin people withdrew from Yundi, but he didn't do it for a long time.

——Yundi is easy to fight, but the burden of Yundi is not so easy to carry, especially after Li Cun has already carried the huge burden of Yandi.

Therefore, Li Cun has to solve the self-sufficiency problem of Yandi first, and then he can recover Yundi. Otherwise, even if he is as rich as Li Cun, he may be dragged down by Yanyun area, just like the Zhao and Song Dynasties in history .

You know, the Zhao Song Dynasty in history also owned the Jiangnan area, so it was still dragged down by the Yanyun area.

In the final analysis, the politics and economy of the Yanyun area have not been done well, and blood transfusions have to be made by other areas.

In order not to make that stupid mistake that the Zhao Song Dynasty made in history, Li Cunning would rather slow down, but also take steady steps to get all the food and economy in Yandi first, and then regain Yundi.

Li Cun had this patience, but Yelu Yanxi did not.

When Yelu Yanxi learned that the Jinren he feared the most had withdrawn from Yundi, he quickly led an army of [-] fine cavalry and [-] Xixia troops to attack Yundi.

Xi Xia started first.

Under the leadership of Xixia general Li Liangfu, [-] Xixia elites crossed the Yellow River from Jinsuzhou and Heqing Army, captured Tiande Army and Yunnei Prefecture along the way, and then attacked Wuzhou and Shuozhou, which were already under the control of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

For the Yunzhong area, Xixia has long coveted it.

In the past, Xixia was afraid of the strength of the Liao Kingdom and the difficulty of messing with the Jin Kingdom, so they suppressed their coveting of Yundi.

Today, Yelu Yanxi has given part of Yundi to Xixia, and the Jin people have withdrawn from Yundi.

In view of the actual situation that the Liao Kingdom has declined.

How could Xixia not want to take this opportunity to take the entire Yundi, and even the Yanyun area as his own, completely getting rid of the embarrassing situation of being trapped in a remote and tiny place?
Tan Zhen was defenseless against this.

——Tan Zhen is currently busy searching for rare treasures, gold, silver, pearls and jade, to fill his own pockets, and to operate to squeeze out Tong Guan to become the military No. 1 of the Zhao Song Dynasty. In the defense of stabilizing the cloud for the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

This made the Zhao Song Dynasty caught off guard by the Liaoxia coalition forces.

By the time Tan Zhen reacted and hurriedly ordered Li Siben to lead the righteous victorious army to fight, the Liaoxia coalition army had already entered Yundi.

At the very beginning, the Yisheng Army played well.

——In the early days, the Yisheng Army and Xixia's army fought several times, and both sides had their own victories and losses.

But Xixia's army has been refusing to retreat, and abruptly dragged down the main force of the Yisheng Army.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yelu Yanxi personally led an army to take the original Liaoxi capital (now Yunzhong Mansion).

Back then, Wanyan Zongwang led an army to attack Liaoxi capital, and Xiao Cha, who stayed behind in Liaoxi capital, saw that the situation was over, so he had no choice but to open the city and surrender the gold.

Who would have thought that after the Jin army led by Wanyan Zongwang entered the city, they burned, killed and looted wantonly, leaving only a part of the army with the generals to live in Xijing City.

The Liao people hated the Jin people for burning, killing and looting in Xijing, so they killed Liuwo and others to rebel when Xijing stayed empty.

As a result, they were suppressed by Wanyan Zonghan and others who responded in a timely manner.

Because Wanyan Zonghan's younger brother Wanyan Zhabaodi died in that battle, and the Jinren suffered heavy casualties when they captured Liaoxijing for the second time, Wanyan Zonghan carried out an extremely cruel massacre of the Liao people in Xijing.

Since then, the Liao people in Yundi have had a blood feud with the Jin people.

For more than a year, the Liao people rebelled against the rule of the Jin people whenever they had the opportunity.

This is also one of the reasons why Wanyan Aguda gave up Yundi.

Then it was the turn of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to rule Yundi.

The Liao people in Yundi thought that they could finally live a stable life.

But who would have thought that the Zhao Song Dynasty was weak and let the Jin people take away all the wealthy households among them.

And all the fields and houses of the wealthy households in Yundi were quickly occupied by the Yisheng Army and the Ever Victorious Army.

The Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army, especially the latter, are arrogant and domineering everywhere, and there have been many incidents of encroaching on the people's fields, so the people in Yundi are struggling to survive.

What is even more tragic is that the family members of some former Liao ministers turned into beggars. They suffered humiliation everywhere, and were even killed innocently by the Changsheng army, but they had nowhere to sue.

It can be said that after the Zhao Song Dynasty took over Yundi, due to the looting and harassment of the Song army, the policy mistakes of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and the weakness and bewilderment of the Yunzhong Mansion represented by Wang Anzhong, many families in Yundi became more displaced. , making the Zhao Song Dynasty lose the hearts of the people.

The people of Yundi were very disappointed with the Zhao and Song Dynasty they had hoped for.

In their view, the Jin people are not as good as the Khitan people, and the Song people are not as good as the Jin people.

Now, Yelu Yanxi, whom the Liao people were looking forward to, finally came back.

The Liao people in Yundi rebelled one after another, and cooperated with Yelu Yanxi inside and outside. After the first battle, the Yisheng Army and Changsheng Army were driven out of Xijing City, and then Yelu Yanxi was welcomed into the city.

Xixia then made an effort to drive away Sun Tuanlian of Shuozhou and Su Jing, the Jiedu envoy of Yingzhou, and killed Chen Yi, the minister of Weizhou.

The main force of the Changsheng Army is not in Yundi, but in the Zhuozhou area.

The main force in Yundi was the Yisheng Army led by Li Siben.

In order to regain Yundi, Li Siben led the righteous victorious army to face the Xixia and Liao allied forces, but was defeated and fled in embarrassment.

Xixia captured Shuo, Ying, and Wei prefectures, and then successively captured Feihu and Lingqiu.

In this way, the Liaoxia Allied Forces controlled Yundi—Xixia controlled Yunnan and Yunxi, and Liao controlled Yunnan and Yundong.

The Zhao Song Dynasty was completely driven out of Yundi.

One of the five capitals, Xijing, was regained in one shot, which made Yelu Yanxi very proud.

Yelu Yanxi issued an imperial edict calling on the Liao people to rise up against the invasion of the Jin Kingdom and the Dagan Dynasty, and Chen Bing was in Juyongguan, making a gesture of regaining Yanjing.

To Yelu Yanxi's call, the people in Yandi reacted very flatly, and even hated that this faint king came to disturb their peaceful and happy life again.

Moreover, a large number of courtiers from the original Liao Kingdom, such as Liu Yanzong, suggested that Li Cun must get rid of Yelu Yanxi's future troubles, otherwise it would be easy to become unstable.

Li Cun wanted to see, after more than a year of meticulous governance, would there be any stubborn people in Yandi who would follow Yelu Yanxi, a foolish emperor?

If there is, Li Cun can just take this opportunity to get rid of the last hidden danger in Yandi, so as to save Yandi's backyard from being caught on fire when he goes to the Zhao Song Dynasty in the future.

Unexpectedly, Li Cun didn't wait for someone to jump up here in Yandi, but he waited for Zhang Jue from Pingzhou to show up.

Zhang Jue was a native of Yifeng, Pingzhou. When he was young, he was admitted as a Jinshi in the Liao Kingdom, and was later awarded the Deputy Envoy of the Liao Xingjun Jiedu.

When the Liao Kingdom was in great turmoil, the militiamen of Pingzhou killed the envoy of the state, and Zhang Jue led people to destroy it, and became the chief official of Pingzhou.

After Yeluchun's death, Zhang Jue felt that the Liao Kingdom must perish, so he secretly recruited troops and bought 5 horses, and then recruited heroes, gathered food and grass, and selected generals to train soldiers.

At the same time, Zhang Jue recruited talented scholar-bureaucrats to participate in the conspiracy, secretly preparing for the hegemony.

When Xiao Puxian was in power, she sent Prince Shaobao Shili'ai to know Pingzhou.

After Shi Liai took office, Zhang Jue respected him on the surface, but actually rejected him everywhere.

When Shi Liai noticed that Zhang Jue had different ambitions, she often said that she would not be sick, and all major military and political affairs in the state were decided by Zhang Jue.

After Li Cun entered the land of Yan, he attached great importance to the strategic position of Ping, Luan, and Ying, and planned to send Wu Jie to capture Pingzhou.

But at that time, Li Cun had to regain the whole territory of Yandi and guard against Song and Jin's attacks on him, so the troops in his hands were really stretched.

After all, Zhang Jue had [-] troops in his hands, and the three prefectures of Pingluanying were easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it was not easy to attack.

In addition, Zhang Jue took the initiative to submit a letter to Li Cun, stating: "There are eight roads in the Liao Kingdom, and the seven roads are dead. There is only one Pingzhou road left. How dare you have hope? The reason why the ministers sent soldiers to the countryside It has not been disarmed and returned to the fields, mainly to defend against the Jin people's invasion and plunder, and it must have other intentions."

Later, Zhang Jue presented many treasures and thirty beauties to Li Cunjin.

Li Cun knew that Zhang Jue was trying to slow down the army, but because of the situation at that time, Li Cun still transferred Shi Liai back and appointed Zhang Jue as the governor of Linhai, and still knew Pingzhou.

Now, knowing that Yelu Yanxi has recaptured Yundi, Zhang Jue feels that his chance has come.

Zhang Jue immediately summoned a group of officials and generals on Pingzhou Road to hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

Someone took this opportunity to recommend Li Shi, a Hanlin scholar, to Zhang Jue, saying that he was born as a number one scholar, wise and resourceful, and he could be consulted with him.

Zhang Jue then sent someone to invite Li Shi.

After some secret discussions, Zhang Jue and Li Shi had the same ideas. They both believed that this was an opportunity for historical change, and they should seize the opportunity to do something big.

Li Shi said to Zhang Jue: "Xiao Ke heard that Your Majesty has visited several Tatar tribes, and the army has recovered. There are now [-] elite cavalry. It is because he is afraid of His Majesty's majesty. If Duke Ming can hold high the banner of King Qin at this time, sing righteousness to the world, and welcome His Majesty, then the revival of the Liao Kingdom will be just around the corner."

Zhang Jue said: "This is an important matter, don't make a hasty decision."

In fact, Zhang Jue still had someone paint a portrait of Yelu Yanxi and hung it in the lobby. After that, no matter how big or small it was, he went ahead and began to implement the old official system of the Liao Kingdom in the three prefectures of Pingluanying.

Li Cun was not in a hurry to deal with Zhang Jue before, but the secret agents of Wu Desi, the pro-military Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department had already penetrated into Zhang Jue's side.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Jue made a change, Li Cun knew about it.

Li Cun found Wu Jie and gave him a month to restore the three prefectures of Pingluanying.

At the same time, Zhan Du also inquired about Zhang Jue's betrayal of the Dagan Dynasty, and reported this information to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji has now realized that the Great Song Dynasty is very dangerous.

This made Zhao Ji start to attach importance to the plan of Song and Jin joint attack.

If the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty want to unite, there must be a channel for the Jin people to go south. Otherwise, even if the Jin Kingdom wants to help the Song Dynasty, it will not be able to help.

If Yundi is still in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, even if it is in the hands of Jin Guo, there will be no embarrassment of not having this passage.

However, before Zhao Ji warmed up, Yundi was gained and lost again.

Zhao Ji wanted to recover the land of Yun, and even more so of the land of Yan.

But Zhao Ji took a closer look at the cards in his hand, and he was really powerless.

There is no way, Zhao Ji can only settle for the next best thing, and see if he can get through the Liaoxi Corridor.

——If Zhao Ji can regain the three prefectures of Pingluanying, then the Great Song Dynasty can connect with the Kingdom of Jin through the Liaoxi Corridor. At a critical time, the Great Song Dynasty can open the Liaoxi Corridor and let the Jin people enter the pass.

Therefore, Zhao Ji gave Zhan Du the highest instruction that he must recruit Zhang Jue at any cost.

Zhan Du then sent someone to find Zhang Jue's in-law Wang Yi, and asked Wang Yi to go to Pingzhou to send a message to Zhang Jue to show his friendship.

Zhang Jue also knew that his act of rebellion would definitely attract the attack of the Gan army, and Li Cun would never let these people from Pingzhou go.

And if the Zhao Song Dynasty is willing to accept them, then, if they lose to the attack of the Gan army, the Song Dynasty will become their retreat.

Therefore, Zhang Jue immediately sent Zhang Xingyou to contact Zhan Du to find out the true intention of the Song Dynasty.

The two sides quickly reached a consensus, and Zhao Ji sent Zhang Jue's younger brother, Zhang Jun, to Pingzhou to recruit Zhang Jue with the Taining military badge, edict, edict, and imperial edict.

But at this moment, Wu Jie was ordered by Li Cun to lead the Yulin Army to attack the three states of Pingluanying.

Facing the sudden attack of the Habayashi Army, Zhang Jue was unprepared, and was caught off guard by the Gan Army, and was beaten back steadily.

As a last resort, Zhang Jue could only take a small number of cronies and fled from Rabbit Ear Mountain to the Song Dynasty for help.

The Habayashi Army soon surrounded Pingzhou City.

Zhang Jue's cousin Zhang Dungu and Zhang Jue's nephews led the army and civilians in Pingzhou City to stand by for help—they hoped that the Song Army near Zhuozhou could come to rescue them.

And Wu Jie was also ready to encircle and fight for aid, just waiting for the Zhao Song Dynasty to send troops, and then the Daqian Dynasty would have an excuse to attack the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Who would have thought that it was true that Zhao Song Dynasty wanted to obtain Pingzhou, but in the face of the fierce offensive of the Habayashi Army, the Song Army did not dare to come to fight with it.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Song Dynasty's attitude towards Pingzhou is actually just to seek but not to gain.

Seeing that the Song army had no intention of coming to rescue Pingzhou at all, Wu Jie was very disappointed, and then ordered to attack Pingzhou, and then divided his troops to capture Luanzhou, Yingzhou and Yuguan.

Zhang Jue's mother, wife and other family members are not in Pingzhou, but in Yingzhou.

After Yingzhou was captured by the Habayashi Army, Zhang Jue's mother and wife were both captured by the Habayashi Army.

Zhang Jun is a dutiful son. He heard that his mother was captured by the Habayashi army, and saw that the Song army was unwilling to rescue Pingzhou at all, so he secretly returned to Pingzhou, and then gave Zhang Jue the imperial pen Jinhuajian hand with the Zhao Ji he was carrying. The edict, as well as documents such as imperial edicts and orders, were all dedicated to Wu Jie. He hoped to exchange his mother's life in exchange for this.

After Wu Jie got these, he was overjoyed!
Now, anyone who is not stupid can see that Li Cun has the potential to unify the world.

However, Li Cun is still short of a high-sounding Qian Song excuse.

in fact--

It's just that some people eat salty radishes and worry about it.

Li Cun has never been troubled by this trivial matter.

Because of the best excuse, Zhao Kuangyin had already found Li Cun a long time ago—how could someone else snore on the side of the couch.

However, Li Cun was deeply scheming and never told anyone that he was going to use Zhao Kuangyin as an excuse to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty.

In the opinion of many people under Li Cun, Dagan should have a reasonable excuse for Qian Song in order to become famous as a teacher.

Therefore, a group of military officials of the Dagan Dynasty who were planning to become officials of the Great Unification Dynasty have recently been helping Li Cun find an excuse for the Qiansong Dynasty.

Wu Jie felt that it was a very good excuse for the Zhao Song Dynasty to recruit the traitors of the Dagan Dynasty.

Therefore, Wu Jie hurriedly sent someone to properly send these evidences to Yanjing and dedicate them to Li Cun...

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I'm much better, but now I'm weak, I don't have much energy, I have a bad cough, and I still have chest pain.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will try to resume normal updates.

(End of this chapter)