Qian Song

Chapter 297 The Kingdom of Jin Grows in Another Way (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
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Jinren deserves to be the strongest party in this era of the original time and space.

Leaving aside the character and so on, Jinren, especially the Jurchens among them, are really outstanding.

It can be said that if Li Cun did not appear, in this era, whether it is the people of Song, Liao, Xixia, Goryeo, or the tribes of the grassland, they really cannot compare with the people of Jin.

This is not aimless.

At the beginning, Li Cun defeated the Jin people in the Yanyun area and drove the Jin people to the north of the Great Wall. Li Cun thought that without the blessing of talents and financial resources from the Yanyun area and the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the development of the Jin country would be greatly restricted.

Unexpectedly, the Jin people abruptly changed the major strategic strategy that was mainly developed in the Song Dynasty in history, and instead developed in the direction of the grassland area and Koryo.

Speaking of which, Li Cun has a lot of responsibility for this situation.

First of all, of course, it was because under the command of Li Cun, the Dagan Dynasty captured the Yanyun area from the Kingdom of Jin, completely sealed off all the intersections going south, and defeated Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang who were determined to invade the south. Realized that it would be difficult for them to develop further south in the future.

This undoubtedly greatly restricted the development of the Kingdom of Jin, especially after the Kingdom of Jin had completely digested the political heritage of Shangjing, Tokyo, and Zhongjing of the Daliao Empire.

In addition, after Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang's defeat, their prestige among the Jinren plummeted. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have even changed from the heroes of the Jurchens to the disgrace of the Jurchens.

——Wanyan Wu begging for money is not a good bird, he just took advantage of that opportunity to whip the two thorns, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, to demonstrate his imperial power.

But then again, if Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang surrendered so easily, they would not be the biggest executioners of Jingkang's shame in history.

Soon, Wanyan Zonghan proposed that he wanted to take the blame and make meritorious deeds to recover the territory that originally belonged to the western region of the Daliao Empire.

Moreover, Wanyan Zonghan also claimed that he had received reliable information that Kedun City had hundreds of thousands of horses that could be ridden.

There is no doubt that as long as they can get these hundreds of thousands of war horses, the Kingdom of Jin with countless excellent knights is equivalent to having hundreds of thousands of cavalry. Then on the grassland, the Kingdom of Jin can be said to be almost invincible.

This actually involves the second good thing Li Cun did, that is, he killed Yelu Dashi and captured Yelu Yali, which ruined the possibility of the establishment of Xiliao, and also ruined the possibility of the continuation of the Northern Liao, making the vast expanse of western Liaoning All the lands of the land became unclaimed.

It is precisely because of this that the strategic concept proposed by Wanyan Zonghan is entirely possible to realize.

But there is one thing, that is, Xizheng is too hard, and it is impossible for people with great perseverance.

Ordinary people, even if they know that there are hundreds of thousands of war horses in Kedun City, they are not willing to go, and they may not be able to reach Kedun City, which is separated by the seemingly endless sand sea.

Therefore, this task finally fell into the hands of Wanyan Zonghan.

Soon, Wanyan Zonghan personally led the remaining 2 people under him to start the Western Expedition.

The difficulty of this process cannot be overstated.

It is only said that Wanyan Zonghan led his men and horses, and after suffering a lot, they finally came to Ketun City and captured those hundreds of thousands of horses as they wished.

Not only that, Wanyan Zonghan also led his men and horses to conquer the Liao people in seven military states including Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, and Tuo, as well as the rhubarb Shiwei, Die, Wangji, and Cha. Chila, Yexi, Bigude, Nila, Dalaguai, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Uguri, Zub, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Humusi, Xide, Jiuerbi Wait for eighteen tribes.

After Wanyan Zonghan took control of the real power in Ketun City, he did not leave in a hurry, nor did he continue to march westward as he and Wanyan Wu begged for what they said. Instead, he used the land of Ketun City to recuperate and slowly digest him. get everything.

Ketun City has pastures with lush water and grass, a large number of cattle and sheep, and certain food crops.

This provided Wanyan Zonghan with an economic foundation.

There is a wide desert area in the south, which becomes a natural line of defense, which is convenient for Wanyan Zonghan to recuperate.

This made Wanyan Zonghan's department suddenly expand to a strong strength of 10,000+ people and hundreds of thousands of horses in just two years.

Let’s talk about Yan Zongwang again.

When Wanyan Zonghan chose to go west, Wanyan Zongwang chose to fight their Jurchens' old rival Goryeo.

In 910 A.D., Yelu Abaoji was promoted as the leader of the alliance.He was smart and talented since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was burly and strong in martial arts.He quelled the tribal rebellion, and designed to get rid of other tribal leaders. He founded the country in [-], named Khitan, and was the Taizu of Liao Dynasty.

The word Khitan means "镔铁", which symbolizes that this is an indestructible country.

——Wanyan Agu said when he played the name of Jianguo: "The Liao used Bintie as its name, whichever is stronger. Although Bintie is strong, it will eventually deteriorate, but gold remains unchanged. The color of gold is white, and the color of Wanyan is still white. .”, so the country was named “Dajin”.

In 920 AD, after the Khitan destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, they sent troops to the north in an attempt to conquer Heishuimohe, but met with fierce resistance from various tribes in Heishuimohe.

The Khitans called these rebels Jurchen.

Jurchen or Zhulizhen has the meaning of "stubborn person", "unconquerable person" and "untamed person" in Turkic, Mongolian and Tungusic languages.

However, Heishui Mohe was eventually conquered by the Khitans.

Yelu Abaoji was worried that the Jurchens would be troubled in the future, so he persuaded thousands of households of the Qiang clan to move to the south of Liaoyang in order to disperse their power and prevent them from communicating with each other.

Those who moved to Liaoyang and became naturalized as Khitan were called "Mature Nuzhen".

The Mohe people living in the north of the Sumo River and the northeast of Ningjiang Prefecture occupy an area of ​​more than a thousand miles and have a household registration of more than [-]. They are divided into dozens of tribes. They promoted Xionghao as the chief, and the small ones had thousands of households, and the big ones had thousands of households. These Heishuimohe people were called "Shengjuzhen". Their lifestyle was mainly hunting, with fishing, farming and animal husbandry.

Let's not talk about the mature Jurchen, but only the birth Jurchen who later established the Kingdom of Jin.

In terms of relations with the surrounding ethnic groups, they either surrendered to Goryeo or the Liao Kingdom, rebelling against impermanence.

Later, Jurchen no longer focused on fishing, hunting and gathering. Agriculture and animal husbandry have made great progress, and they have mastered iron smelting technology.

As a result, the Shengjuzhen tribal alliance centered on the Wanyan Tribe in the Yachuhushui River Basin grew stronger, and its leader Ugunai (respected as "Jingzu" by the Jin Dynasty) was Du Bojin (that is, the leader of the alliance), and the Liao He was granted the post of Jurchen Jiedu envoy, but he refused to accept the Indian nationality, so as to expand his power, from the subordinates of Baishan, Yehui, Tongmen, Yelan, Tugulun, and even the leaders of the five countries, all obeyed his orders.

His sons Huanlibo (Jin Shizu), Polashu (Jin Suzong), and Yingge (Jin Muzong) successively succeeded to the throne. The national power of the Liao Empire also continued to decline during this period. Gradually unified by the Wanyan Department.

As for Goryeo.

Although Goryeo was formally a centralized state, its royal power was not always stable, and the power of the powerful and nobles was very strong.

——Goryeo Moonjong, who created the prosperous age, married the aristocrat Li Ziyuan and gave birth to many princes, which laid the hidden danger of civil strife in the future.

In July of the first year of Shouchang in Goryeo, Li Ziyi, the grandson of Li Ziyuan, launched a rebellion, which was quelled by Jilin Duke Wang Xi. Soon after, Wang Xi accepted the "abdication" of his nephew Wang Yu and became king, Suzong of Goryeo.

After Wang Xi came to the throne, he started to strengthen the royal power, and carried out measures such as strengthening the status of the prince, supporting the Tiantai sect introduced by Wang Yitian from the Zhao and Song Dynasties, building Nanjing, and minting currency.

In this process, the upstart group headed by Yin Guan rose;
On the other hand, Wang Xide's position was not right, and people's hearts were unstable, which made the domestic political situation in Korea turbulent.

Under such circumstances, launching a war abroad became a risky but effective means for Wang Xi and the Yin Guan Group that supported him to divert conflicts, unite people's hearts, and consolidate royal power.

And the friction between Goryeo and Wanyanjurchen around He Landian's belonging is a good breakthrough.

In the end, Li Risu from the Koryo side reported to Wang Xishang that "Jurchen is weak and not to be feared. If you lose the present and don't take it, you will be troubled in the future." Lin Gan, the servant, also urged Wang Xi to attack the Helandian Jurchen.Some Koryo officials also proposed to control a dangerous fortress called "Yingxiang" in the Helandian area, so as to prevent the Jurchens from going south. There are also some pro-Korea Holandian chiefs such as Xiangdan, Pongduli, and Xibihan. Add fuel to the flames.

Therefore, Wang Xi insisted on provoking a war with the Wanyan tribe for Helandian.

This war was fought for six years before and after, and finally ended with He Landian belonging to the Wanyan Jurchen.

This is the famous battle of Haolandian in history.

The war between the Jurchens and Goryeo defended the Jurchens' territory for generations, curbed Goryeo's expansion to the north, promoted the unity of the Jurchen tribes, and accelerated the process of the Wanyan Jurchen's unification of the tribes. Dare to conquer the Daliao Empire, which was still regarded as a great country at that time, and finally established the current Jin Kingdom.

However, Koryo lost all the Jimi states, and the country's prestige plummeted. As a result, the northward policy it had actively promoted since the founding of the country was finally frustrated.

If, as in history, the Kingdom of Jin focused its strategy on the more affluent Zhao and Song Dynasties, and wanted to develop to a more affluent south, Goryeo could survive such a situation, and then the King of Goryeo slowly followed the powerful and nobles. fight.

But now Li Cun has blocked all the passages for the Jin Kingdom to go south, forcing the Jin people to target Goryeo.

The current king of Goryeo, named Wang Kai, is the eldest son of Emperor Ruizong Wang Yu of Goryeo Dynasty. His mother is Li Shi (Queen of Shunde), the daughter of Li Ziqian, the largest aristocrat of the Goryeo Dynasty.

In addition to being Wang Kai's grandfather, Li Ziqian is also Wang Kai's father-in-law, um... To put it simply, Li Ziqian married his eldest daughter and second daughter to Wang Kai's father, Wang Yu, and Li Ziqian's second daughter gave birth to Wang Kai , and then Li Ziqian married his third and fourth daughters to Wang Kai, yes, Wang Kai married his own third and fourth aunts.

Some people may ask, isn't this a mess?
That's right.

However, this is a normal thing in Korea.

It is not an exaggeration to say that marrying one's aunt is nothing at all. The royal family of Korea has done everything such as elder brother marrying younger sister, niece marrying uncle.

The "instigator" of the inbreeding marriage relationship in the Goryeo Dynasty was Wang Jian, the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Wang Jian did not have a prominent family background, but was just one of many local wealthy families in the late Silla period.

Later, Wang Jian took refuge in the Gong descendants of Goguryeo, made many military exploits under the Gong descendants, became his powerful generals, and established his own prestige among generals and wealthy families. He was able to create a generation of hegemony because of the dissatisfaction of his father and son.

Although Wang Jian founded the Goryeo Dynasty and ascended to the throne, the early Goryeo regime was actually a joint regime of wealthy families, and some wealthy families under separate regimes had the strength to challenge the royal power at any time.

In order to stabilize the political power, Wang Jian adopted a variety of methods to win over wealthy families from all over the country, one of the most important methods was to marry the daughters of wealthy families from various places as concubines.

Wang Jian married a total of 29 concubines in his life, many of whom had wealthy backgrounds.

These 29 concubines gave birth to 25 princes and nine princesses for Wang Jian.

Of the nine princesses, six were married to their half-brothers.

Not only that, throughout the Goryeo Dynasty, except for very rare cases, princesses could only marry members of the clan, and foreign marriages were prohibited.

After that, the Koryo royal family made fun of the close relatives' marriage. It can be said that there is no Koryo royal family who dare not play as long as you can't think of it.

Uh... that's a long way off.

Wang Kai was only 14 years old when he came to the throne, and his uncles were eager to follow in the footsteps of their father Wang Xi.

After Wang Kai ascended the throne, he granted Li Ziqian the title of Meritorious Officer, Shou Taishi, Zhongshuling, and Marquis of Shaocheng, and in October of the same year, he was granted the title of Duke of Hanyang.

Later, Li Ziqian used the excuse of Han Anren, Wen Gongmei, etc. to try to support Daifang Gongwang, and purged a group of opposition parties, thus consolidating his power.

Soon after, Wang Kai granted Li Ziqian the title of "Duke of Chao Xian Guo", concurrently serving as three high-ranking officials, judges, and the Ministry of War. He opened the mansion and built the palace. Congratulations from Li Ziqian's mansion, the etiquette is higher than that of the crown prince, and the birthday is also called "Benevolence and Longevity Festival" like an emperor, which can be said to be an extremely human minister.

Of course, Wang Kai didn't really let Li Ziqian take him off, it was just a stopgap measure.

In fact, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian had already fought openly and secretly. Li Ziqian poisoned Wang Kai, intending to poison Wang Kai to death, and then plot to usurp the throne. As for dying young.

At the time when Wang Kai and Li Ziqian were fighting fiercely, the Daliao Empire, the former suzerain of Goryeo, was on the verge of extinction under the attack of the Jin Kingdom. this matter.

Wang Kai and Li Ziqian hurried to a temporary truce, and sent envoy He Zebao to the Liao Empire by sea to confirm the authenticity of the matter.

But He Zebao couldn't find the court of the Daliao Empire at that time, so he had to return to Korea.

After that, Goryeo stepped up its guard against the Kingdom of Jin.

At that time, the Zhao Song Dynasty also strengthened its ties with Goryeo.

Lu Yundi and Fu Moqing, messengers from Zhao Ji’s sending country, arrived in Goryeo with gifts, imperial edicts and sacrificial ordinances made by Zhao Ji, and paid homage to Wang Kai’s father, Wang Yu, and reminded that the Daliao Empire was about to perish and that Goryeo could return to the Zhao and Song Dynasties and restore the Zhao and Song Dynasties. The dynasty's mandate is to be a vassal state of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

But as soon as Wang Kai and Li Ziqian discussed it, they declined the Song envoy's proposal on the grounds that "worry about the system is not yet over".

In the following year, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian sent Li Zide, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and Jin Fuzhe, the imperial censor Zhongcheng, to the Zhao and Song Dynasties to express gratitude and offer gifts.

In May of the same year, Goryeo sent envoys to the Kingdom of Jin, but the envoys from Goryeo only brought the letter of credence, not the form of surrender, and they did not profess their vassalship to the Kingdom of Jin.

This undoubtedly gave Jin Guo an excuse to attack Goryeo.

It happened that Wanyan Zongwang had just experienced a big defeat at that time, and needed a victory to restore his reputation and stabilize his position.

Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang took the initiative to beg for a job from Wanyan Wu to attack Goryeo.

After Wanyan Wu begged to buy and agreed, Wanyan Zong hoped to advance by land and water, and led his headquarters and his fourth brother Wanyan Zongbi's troops to attack Goryeo.

On the Korean side, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian were fighting each other, no one expected that Wanyan Zongwang would lead an army of [-] to [-] to march straight in.

In short, taking advantage of Goryeo's unpreparedness, Wanyan Zongwang led an army of [-] to [-] to the capital of Goryeo, Kaijing, and then defeated Goryeo's second army and six guards, scaring Wang Kai and Li Ziqian to follow Wanyan Zongwang desperately. peace talks.

As a result, Wanyan Zongwang extorted a large amount of gold, silver, silk and women, and returned with a full load. In a word, Wanyan Zongwang almost copied the first time in history that the golden men surrounded Bianliang City in Tokyo.

The only difference is that after that, Zhao Huan was always wary and uncertain, which led to the second siege of Bianliang City in Tokyo by the Jin people, which in turn led to the shame of Jingkang, but Wang Kai and Li Ziqian gave full play to their Koryo people's scumbag survival Instinctively, he unswervingly recognized Jin Guo as the suzerain country.

In the words of Li Ziqian: "Jin used to be a small country, and the affairs of the Liao Dynasty reached me. Now it is booming, the government is strong, the military is strong, and it is getting stronger day by day, and it is close to our territory. It has no choice but to do things. In the way of the former king, it is advisable to send envoys to ask questions."

Li Ziqian said so, and Wang Kai, who was at Li Ziqian's mercy, had no choice but to order to bow to Jin Guo.

The outward expansion of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang in the past two years has allowed Jin Guo to grow in another way.

At the same time, Li Ganshun, the leader of the Western Xia Dynasty, was terrified when he saw that the Dagan Dynasty had defeated the Zhao and Song Dynasty so easily.

Li Qianshun is not a waste monarch like Yelu Yanxi, Zhao Ji, and Zhao Huan who are ambitious and talented. On the contrary, Li Qianshun is very shrewd.

——This is not difficult to see from the fact that Li Qianshun in history was able to preserve Xixia and allow Xixia to develop to a certain extent in the face of such a powerful Jin country.

Li Qianshun was soberly aware that once Li Cunqian overthrew the Zhao Song Dynasty, the next one to overthrow must be his Xixia.

Then surrender to the Dagan Dynasty and become a vassal state of the Dagan Dynasty?
Li Qianshun was not unwilling.

But the problem is that Li Qianshun is soberly aware that Li Cun, who has even recovered the Yanyun area, is definitely aiming to restore the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties. In this way, the important area that the Xixia ruled and cut off the Silk Road, It must be a territory that Li Cunzhi must win.

Therefore, Li Qianshun concluded that if he went to vote for the Dagan Dynasty, Xixia would definitely follow in the footsteps of the Zhao and Song Dynasty in a short time.

After repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, Li Qianshun decided to submit to Jin Guo, and told Jin Guo that Li Cun is the next Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, and Tang Taizong. If they sit back and watch Li Cun annex the Zhao and Song Dynasties, Li Cun's next step will definitely be to send troops to sweep the grassland Therefore, they must contain Li Cun's development, and they must not let Li Cun destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Li Qianshun's views have been recognized by most of the Jin people since Wanyan Wu Qimai, and Wanyan Zongwang even took the initiative to invite Ying to attack the Daqian Dynasty in order to support the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Zonghan, who was originally in Kedun City, also led his troops to withdraw from Kedun City after learning that the Kingdom of Jin was about to start a war with the Daqian Dynasty, expressing that he wanted revenge.

Later, the Kingdom of Jin sent envoys to Xixia to discuss with Li Qianshun. Finally, the two countries jointly decided that Xixia sent troops to support the Zhao and Song Dynasty, so that the Zhao and Song Dynasty would not be wiped out by the Dagan Dynasty, while the Jin Dynasty sent troops to harass the border of the Dagan Dynasty. Put pressure on the Dagan Dynasty, so that the Dagan Dynasty could not destroy the Song Dynasty with all its strength.

In fact, this matter had already begun to be planned as early as Li Cun's second attack on the Song Dynasty.

It's just that Li Cunqian's speed is too fast.

In addition, communication in this era is really too slow.

As a result, Li Cun almost overthrew the Zhao Song Dynasty before Jin Guo and Xixia negotiated terms.

Seeing this, Li Qianshun urged Jin Guo to stop talking and act quickly, otherwise the Zhao Song Dynasty would be gone, and Xixia and Jin Guo would also be in danger.

This is how Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang assembled their troops in Swallow City and Bei'an Prefecture.

By the way, Wanyanzong saw that his troops were insufficient, so he coerced and lured Goryeo to send him [-] troops.

In other words, now there is a big unfavorable situation where the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Xixia Dynasty, and the Goryeo Dynasty hit one Dagan Dynasty.

in fact--

Yuwen Huangzhong, who had penetrated into the Kingdom of Jin, had already reported the actions of Xixia and Kingdom of Jin to Li Cun.

But Li Cun, who was determined to overthrow the Zhao and Song Dynasties first and complete the unification, really couldn't take Jin Guo and Xixia into consideration.

To be honest, Li Cun also thought about sending people to sabotage the plan between the Kingdom of Jin and Xixia.

But Wanyan, Wu Qimai and Li Qianshun are both too shrewd to fall into the trap.

In addition, Li Cun felt that to fight against the outside world must be settled inside first.

Moreover, Li Cun is very confident in the defense of the Yanyun area, and feels that Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Su Dong will definitely be able to block the Jinren's attack.

That's why Li Cuncai never cared about the collusion between Xixia and the Kingdom of Jin, and focused on overthrowing the Zhao and Song Dynasties first.

This is actually one of the reasons why Li Cun was anxious to pacify the Central Plains first.

No, Li Cun hurried to hurry, because Zhao Gou ran too fast, and he was one step behind Jin Guo and Xixia.

At this time, Li Cun couldn't help but fell into a dilemma. Should he continue to work in the Song Dynasty, or should he first clean up the Jin Kingdom and Xixia that he wanted to die?
By the way, there is also Goryeo who doesn't know how to live or die...

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