Qian Song

Chapter 211 Li Cun is one step closer to the eternal emperor (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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After being defeated by Wu Jie, the three states of Pingluanying have been unstable—the people in the three states of Pingluanying tend to rebel all the time.

This is not only because the people in the three states of Pingluanying are rebellious and unwilling to obey the control of the Han people, but also because Zhang Jue, who fled to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, from time to time colludes with the people of the three states of Pingluanying to encourage them to rebel.

Finally, at the beginning of September, at the instigation of Zhang Jue, Zhang Dungu led the gentry and nobles in Pingzhou to rebel in an attempt to recapture Pingzhou.

Fortunately, Wu Jie had been prepared for a long time. As soon as Zhang Dungu and the others made a change, Wu Jie extinguished their rebellion.

After Li Cun learned of this, he was furious and ordered Wu Jie to arrest all the families of noble gentry and nobles in the three prefectures of Pingluanying, and then sent special personnel to conduct a public trial.

As soon as this butcher knife was opened, none of the aristocratic families in the three states of Pingluanying survived, and blood flowed into rivers in the three states of Pingluanying.

This was Li Cun's first massacre after he went to the north, and people finally knew that Li Cunzhen was not a good man and a faithful woman, so don't make Li Cun angry.

And this is not over, Li Cun also confiscated all the remaining "one" land.

Afterwards, Li Cun distributed the fields of the aristocratic families in the three prefectures of Pingluanying to the people of the three prefectures of Pingluanying in the form of labor relief.

Then, Li Cun exempted the people of the three prefectures of Pingluanying from paying taxes for one year.

In addition, Li Cun also specially opened an Enke for the literati in the three prefectures of Pingluanying, held imperial examinations to select scholars, and filled the Daqian Dynasty.

After using all these methods, the three states of Pingluanying finally stabilized.

But the three states of Pingluanying have stabilized, but Li Cun has not forgotten Zhang Jue, who has caused him a lot of trouble.

The point is, if Li Cun can make the Zhao Song Dynasty kill Zhang Jue, it will make the Zhao Song Dynasty chill the hearts of the Liao people who surrendered to the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, the Ever Victorious Army and the Yisheng Army, which the Zhao Song Dynasty relied on as trump cards, might be self-defeating.

This may save Li Cun a lot of effort on the road to unification.

Just ask, how could Li Cun not implement it?
However, Li Cun didn't worry about this personally. He just asked Han Fang to send someone to ask Zhao Song Dynasty for Zhang Jue, and told Han Fang that if Zhao Song Dynasty didn't give Zhang Jue to him, he would send troops to attack Zhao Song immediately. dynasty.

Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department have all been investigated. Zhang Jue fled to Zhuozhou and is now in the Changsheng Army.

At present, the Ever Victorious Army only has more than 5 elite cavalry, including all the township soldiers. The Ever Victorious Army claims to have 30 soldiers.

The "30" army all obeyed Guo Yaoshi's command.

Zhang Jue could see very clearly that Guo Yaoshi was powerful and a real power faction, and he even had the tendency to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement.

Therefore, Zhang Jue voted for the Zhao Song Dynasty in name, but in fact he voted for Guo Yaoshi.

Guo Yaoshi felt that he was powerful enough to fully protect Zhang Jue, so he assured Zhang Jue that no one would be able to move Zhang Jue if he came.

Guo Yaoshi's current arrogance is not only reflected in his daring to protect Zhang Jue, but also in his disregard for anyone.

What's more, Guo Yaoshi and his subordinates wore left jackets grandly, that is, they never wore Song clothes, only Liao clothes, and became the only "clear stream" in Yanshan and Hebei, as if they were the last Liao clothes. people.

Zhuozhou Zhizhou Zhandu was very dissatisfied with Guo Yaoshi's actions.

Zhan Du is a native of Jinyun, Zhejiang. He was born in a family of officials. His grandfather was an official to the Minister of Rites. .

Zhan Du himself is very talented. When he knew Zhenzhou in the early years of Zhenghe, he was excellent in the examination of the imperial court, and he was added to Longtu Pavilion. At the age of 36, he served as a transshipment envoy of East Zhejiang and West Zhejiang, in charge of the two routes of wealth and supervision. The power of local officials in prefectures and counties.In the third year of Xuanhe, he served as the general manager of the Mabu Army and the comfort envoy of Zhongshan, guarding the strategically important Zhongshan Mansion in Hebei.

This time, the Zhao Song Dynasty sent Zhan Du to guard northern Xinjiang, and Zhan Du knew the heavy responsibility.

So Zhan Du didn't dare to relax at all.

For Guo Yaoshi, a surrendered general, who was greatly favored by the Zhao and Song Dynasties, but still regarded himself as a Liao minister, Zhan Du was extremely disgusted.

The point is, Zhan Du felt that Zhao Ji gave too much power to Guo Yaoshi.

If something goes wrong with Guo Yaoshi, then Zhao Song Dynasty will be in danger.

Therefore, if Zhan Du wants to limit Guo Yaoshi's power, it is best to split part of the Changsheng Army and join the Forbidden Army.

In this way, the forbidden army and the ever-victorious army can contain each other and complement each other.

Zhan Du is the magistrate of Zhuozhou and the nominal military and political director of Zhuozhou.

But in fact, except for the Ever Victorious Army, the Forbidden Army here in Zhuozhou only has 9000 troops, which is incomparable with the Ever Victorious Army that claims to have "30".

In this way, if Zhan Du wants to take full control of the army, he must let Guo Yaoshi obey his orders.

However, the Zhao Song Dynasty has always been at odds with Zhan Du and Guo Yaoshi on the matter of who is older and who is younger.

Guo Yaoshi believes that in Zhao Ji's imperial edict, he has the title of "Jieyue", and his power position should be higher than that of Zhan Du.

But Zhan Du believes that the order of ranking in Zhao Jiyu's pen is the order of power position, his name is at the front, and Guo Yaoshi's name is at the back, which shows that his power position should be higher than that of Guo Yaoshi.

Neither of them could convince the other, and the conflict became more and more acute.

In the end, the two had no choice but to give memorials to Zhao Ji respectively, asking Zhao Ji to explain that his status was higher than that of the other party.

Zhan Du is even ready, as long as Zhao Ji supports him, he will start to limit Guo Yaoshi's power, divide the Ever Victorious Army, and then strengthen the strength of the Forbidden Army in his hands.

But Zhao Ji felt that the border guards could not do without Guo Yaoshi and Changsheng Army, so he issued an edict to exchange Zhan Du with Cai Jing, the prefect of Hejian.

Cai Jing is not as sharp-edged as Zhan Du, and he does not compete with Guo Yaoshi for military power, and accommodates Guo Yaoshi in everything.

In addition, Guo Yaoshi also understands that if he fights away the good-tempered Cai Jing again, the Zhao and Song Dynasty should suspect that he is the one with the problem.

The key point is that Cai Jing really doesn't want to control the ever-victorious army.

So Yaoshi Guo restrained his arrogance and began to cooperate with Cai Jing's work.

However, the military power on the border has always been firmly controlled by Guo Yaoshi.

Xiao Rong, who was sent by Han Fang to ask for Zhang Jue, came to Zhuozhou with the official document issued by the Ministry of Rites of the Dagan Dynasty, and asked Cai Jing for Zhang Jue, and said that if the Zhao and Song Dynasty did not hand over Zhang Jue, the Dagan Dynasty would send troops. Attack Zhao Song Dynasty.

Cai Jing hurriedly reported the matter to the Zhao Song court.

After hearing this, Zhao Ji was both angry and helpless.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji ordered Cai Jing to hide Zhang Jue, not to admit that Zhang Jue was in the Zhao Song Dynasty.

But as soon as Cai Jing told Xiao Rong that Zhang Jue didn't know where he was and wasn't in the Zhao Song Dynasty at all, Xiao Rong honestly pointed out that Zhang Jue was in the armory of the Changsheng Army.

Cai Jing couldn't bear the pressure, so he went to ask Zhao Ji again.

Zhao Ji simply ordered Cai Jing to kill a man who looked similar to Zhang Jue and hand it over to Xiao Rong to calm the situation.

But Xiao Rong took the head back to Yanjing City and showed it to people familiar with Zhang Jue, who immediately recognized that Zhang Jue was a fake.

At the same time, Wu Desi, the pro-military Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department also found out that Zhang Jue was still alive and was hiding in Guo Yaoshi's home.

Xiao Rong came to Zhuozhou again and said harshly: "If your family doesn't surrender Zhen Zhangjue, His Majesty will raise his troops to take it for himself."

At this time, although the Song and Jin Dynasties had reached an agreement on a joint attack, the armies of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang had not yet arrived, and the Zhao and Song Dynasties did not dare to fight the Dagan Dynasty alone.

Zhao Ji ordered Zhang Jue to be executed out of fear of the Daqian Dynasty and his small intolerance to cause chaos, and sent Zhang Jue and Zhang Jue's party members to Li Cun.

After Zhao Liangsi learned of this, he hurriedly sent a memorial to persuade Zhao Ji not to hand over Zhang Jue, otherwise the surrender of Yan would be unstable with the Changsheng Army.

But Zhao Ji didn't think that a little Zhang Jue could have such a big influence.

Therefore, Zhao Ji insisted on letting Cai Jing continue to carry out this order.

Soon after Zhang Jue was hanged and killed, his head was stained with mercury, and together with Zhang Jue's two sons, they were sent to Yanjing and handed over to the Daqian Dynasty.

After the news spread, General Yan Zhijiang and the Changsheng Army all cried for Zhang Jue.

Guo Yaoshi even publicly said indignantly to others: "If Daqian wants Zhang Jue, the imperial court will give it to him. If he asks for a pharmacist, will he do it? If he wants a pharmacist, what can he do?"

The generals of the Changsheng Army such as Zhang Linghui were also very chilled by the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and even gritted their teeth with hatred.

From then on, the Changsheng Army became even more suspicious of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

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Not long ago, the Dagan Dynasty and Xixia had a decisive battle at the Sanggan River.

Yue Fei and Zhao Bingyuan defeated the [-] Xixia army with Li Cun's tactics of defeating the Tata'er tribe.

At that time, it was raining heavily in autumn, mountain torrents broke out, and the river swelled sharply. Xia's soldiers and horses drowned and countless people died.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yue Fei swept across the Yunnan states and drove all Xixia troops to Wu and Shuo states.

At the same time, Sudong also swept across the states of Yunnan.

The Qianjun Zaiyun is in a tough situation, and it seems that they are about to completely regain the Yundi.

Li Ganshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, saw that the fighting power of the Gan army was too strong, and the Xixia army could not stop the attack of the Qian army, so he sent envoys to the Daqian Dynasty for peace.

The envoys sent by Li Qianshun showed the treaty of Yelu Yanxi's cession of land to Xixia, that is, Yelu Yanxi's treaty of ceding Wushuo Erzhou, Tiandejun, Yunnei Prefecture, and Hedong Baguan to Xixia.

The envoy sent by Li Qianshun said tactfully that as long as the Dagan Dynasty agreed to cede these places to Xixia, Xixia would be willing to regard the Dagan Dynasty as the suzerain state, and the two sides would sign a non-aggression treaty.

Wu and Shuo prefectures belonged to Yundi, how could Li Cun ceded them to Xixia, causing loopholes in his defense?
And the eight pavilions in the east of the river, namely Douda, Sici, Hedong, Yeque, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda, and Yumin eight pavilions, belong to the inherent territory of the Zhao and Song Dynasties in the northwestern part of Shanxi in later generations. The Zhao Song Dynasty swallowed it as a whole, how could Xixia take a piece of it?
As for the Tiande Army and Yunnei Prefecture, they neither belonged to the territory that Li Cun must win, nor did they belong to the inherent territory of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Of course, not long ago, these two prefectures were recovered by Yelu Yanxi. Li Cun captured Yelu Yanxi and destroyed the Liao Kingdom. He insisted that the Tiande Army and Yunnei Prefecture were the territory of the Dagan Dynasty, which made sense.

but--

To be honest, the Tiande Army and Yunneizhou are actually tasteless existences for Li Cun who only wants the Yanyun area to keep the Hu people out of the pass, that is, it is tasteless to eat and it is a pity to discard them.

But even so, Li Cun was still very strong and said: "Yelu Yanxi was captured by me, Liao Kingdom was destroyed by me, and all the territory of Liao Kingdom should belong to me. Why do you Xixia ask me for territory? If Li Qianshun wants my territory, go ahead and send troops to fight. If he is really capable, all of my cadres will belong to him. If he doesn't have this ability, he will go back to Xixia and anger me. Xixia was also recovered."

Li Qianshun asked Li Cun for Wushuo Erzhou, Tiandejun, Yunneizhou, and Hedong Baguan. In fact, it was mainly to test Li Cun's bottom line and see if Li Cun would do something to Xixia in the face of the Song-Jin alliance attacking the Dagan Dynasty. Compromise and concessions.

After all, if Xixia also fell to the Song-Jin Alliance, it would be a one-on-three situation for the Dagan Dynasty.

I don't want to, Li Cun is so strong, in the face of the Song and Jin alliances, not only did he not win over Xixia, he even let Xixia come over, and even said it, which angered him, and he would take Xixia back.

For Li Cun's bad attitude, Li Qianshun was not only not angry, but he also saw something that others did not see, that is, Li Cun was not afraid of the Song-Jin alliance, and Li Cun was not afraid of the addition of a Xixia.

Li Qianshun locked himself in the bedroom for a day and a night.

In the end, Li Qianshun made a decision that disappointed his son Li Ren'ai, the prince of Xixia - Xixia withdrew its troops from Yundi in an all-round way, and did not get involved in the struggle between the Daqian Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom.

Li Renai has a deep affection for Yelu Yanxi.

Back then, when Yelu Yanxi fled to the west, Li Renai wept bitterly after hearing the news, and then asked Li Qianshun to send troops to rescue Yelu Yanxi.

As a result, the reinforcements sent by Xixia were defeated by the first battle of the Kingdom of Jin.

Li Renai cried for almost a month because of this.

Now Yelu Yanxi was captured by Li Cun, and the concubines, six daughters and daughters of the clan were all accepted by Li Cun as concubines, and they were humiliated.

After Li Renai heard about this incident, he sympathized with Yelu Yanxi very much. He asked Li Qianshun to send troops to defeat Li Cun, rescue Yelu Yanxi and the royal family and clan members of the Liao Kingdom, and then help Yelu Yanxi restore the country.

Unexpectedly, Li Qianshun not only did not save Yelu Yanxi and the royal family and clan members of the Liao Kingdom, nor helped Yelu Yanxi restore the country, but also withdrew his troops from Yundi, completely ignoring Yelu Yanxi and the Liao Kingdom.

Li Renai tried his best to cry and remonstrate, hoping that Li Qianshun would change his mind and join forces with the Song Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom to attack the Dagan Dynasty.

But Li Ganshun didn't listen, and directly withdrew Xixia's army from Yundi, and even from Yunxi.

Not long after, Li Ren'ai heard that Yelu Yanxi was sent to Yingtianfu, the capital of the Dagan Dynasty, by Li Cun, and that Yelu Yanxi's Yuan concubine Xiao Guige, Yelu Yanxi's six daughters and Yelu Yanxi's different sons The young concubines are already pregnant with Li Cun's child, Yelu Yanxi has become a complete joke, and the Daliao Empire has completely perished.

Li Renai felt that this was a great shame and humiliation, and hated Li Qianshun for not caring about his family. As a result, he died of depression at the age of 17.

In the same month, Li Qianshun's queen, Yelu Nanxian, was saddened by the death of her beloved son, saddened by the demise of the motherland, angry at Li Qianshun's ruthlessness, and then died of a hunger strike.

Losing his beloved son first and then the queen was a great blow to Li Qianshun.

Li Qianshun suddenly aged a lot.

Many people advised Li Qianshun to mourn and change.

And the radical ones said that Yelu Nanxian and Li Ren only cared about the Daliao Empire, not Xixia, and they didn't consider issues from Xixia's point of view at all.

In any case, Xixia died first of the prince and then of the queen, and fell into a national mourning for a while.

At the same time, the Daqian Dynasty was celebrating throughout the country.

Jin Guo left Yundi.

Zhao Song Dynasty was beaten out of Yundi.

Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Kingdom was captured by the Dagan Dynasty.

Xixia voluntarily withdrew from Yundi.

In the current cloud land, only some remnants of the Liao army are left to resist stubbornly and guard some key places.

In this case, if there is no external intervention, it is definitely only a matter of time before the Qian army completely recovers the Yanyun area.

In other words, the Yanyun area, which has been away from the Han people for more than 200 years, is about to be recovered by Li Cun.

Li Cun is one step closer to the Emperor of the Ages...

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