The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 164: Mongol Expedition to the West, Encounter with Hong Qigong
On the way back, the family heads met with the neighboring tyrants, "Old Song, we underestimated that guy. Although he is young, he is not so easy to fool. The Zhang and Li families are the chickens he killed, and we are the monkeys who were scared. No matter how many fields and people we have, they cannot compare to family inheritance. This time when we go back, I plan to persuade those elders to honestly spit out those fields and people."

"No matter how good the things are, you have to be alive to get them. We are in-laws, and we must stick together and tide over the difficulties together."

The guy called Old Songtou was a middle-aged man with gray hair. His forehead wrinkled deeply when he was thinking. "You're right. Those two families were killed as an example because they were too greedy. We don't want to be the next one."

"That's right, that's right. Let's go back and get this done."

……

Five days later, each family handed in their household registration data one after another. When the total was accumulated, there were actually 200,000 more households. Adding all the previous calculations, the number reached a staggering 500,000 households.

Guo Jing knew very well that they must have hidden a lot of people. The information from the Jin government was already several decades old and had not been re-counted over the years. A few decades was enough for two generations to grow up.

Of course, doubling it is definitely impossible, but it is certain that the number of households will exceed 500,000. However, Guo Jing does not plan to continue investigating. Too much is as bad as too little. If he really pushes them too hard, the gain will outweigh the loss.

At the same time as handing over their household registration, the powerful families also handed over a lot of arable land. This amount of arable land was not a small amount. Guo Jing had people register it and then arranged for the government to organize the people to resume farming.

Even if this matter has passed, it is of course only temporary. If there is a chance in the future, Guo Jing will definitely arrange people to continue investigating. The powerful are a factor in social stability, but they are usually also a cancer. We must ensure the stability of the powerful, but we cannot let them become too powerful. For example, building fortresses must be strictly prohibited.

Hua Zheng looked at the thick stack of documents, her eyes sparkling with admiration, "Guo Jing, you had expected this, right?"

Noticing his wife's gaze, Guo Jing smiled faintly, "Well, I guessed their reaction from the beginning. These people are not easy to deal with. If you are too nice to them, not only will they not be grateful, but they will think you are weak and easy to bully."

"Look at the powerful people in other places. They don't dare to bargain in front of the Khan and Mu Huali, but people on my side dare to do so. I killed too few people when I attacked Jinzhong!" There was a hint of cold murderous intent in his words.

In his mind, this matter is not over yet. The compromise now is just a temporary measure. There is still a long way to go in the future.

In the following year, Shanxi began to recuperate and accumulate money and food, but the war did not stop.

Although Guo Jing was stationed in Taiyuan, his troops were sent out to join Mu Huali in conquering many counties in Hebei. After all, Genghis Khan took most of his troops back to the grassland to recuperate, leaving only a small army for Mu Huali.

The people in Hebei are tough and brave. If Mu Huali had few soldiers, he would not be able to intimidate them. So he simply borrowed troops from Guo Jing.

In fact, it was the same for Guo Jing. Genghis Khan gave him only a few thousand cavalrymen, but he relied on the infantry he trained to defeat the Jin army and took on the tough challenge of Shanxi.

To date, the cavalry under his command has expanded to 15,000, of which 10,000 are elite Han cavalry. After several major battles, the cavalry under his command has gradually formed combat effectiveness. Now the majority are Han people. After the Mongolian cavalry are injured, they will retreat to the second line and teach other Han cavalry.

Although Guo Jing gradually shifted his focus to the infantry, it did not mean that he gave up the cavalry. Fighting in the north without cavalry would be like being a fool, and it would be impossible to fight a nomadic country without cavalry.

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At the same time, the situation in the grassland was not peaceful.

Genghis Khan swept across the grasslands and established the Mongol Empire, but this did not mean that they had no opponents on the grasslands.

Six years after Quchuli usurped the throne of Western Liao, he sent people back to his hometown to recruit remnants in order to restore the Naiman Khanate. Some former ministers of the Merkit remnants were also active in the area west of the Naiman hometown. The two remnant forces gathered together in an attempt to make a comeback.

The Tumat tribe of the people in the forest also took the opportunity to rebel. After Genghis Khan got the news, he quickly returned north to consolidate the rear for fear of accidents.

In 1217, Genghis Khan sent General Borokhule to the Tumati tribe to quell the rebellion, but he was killed in an ambush. Then, he sent Generals Borohuan and Duoerbo to lead the army to conquer the Tumati tribe and won the victory. When conquering the Tumati tribe, Genghis Khan sent envoys to the Qirghis tribe to request troops for support, but the tribe not only refused to send troops, but even raised troops to echo the Tumati rebellion.

If you don't cooperate like this, wouldn't that be a slap in his face?
As a result, Genghis Khan sent his eldest son Jochi to lead an army to fight.

Jochi was brave and good at fighting. He pursued and conquered the Qirghis rebels and the forest people's tribes such as the Us, Hanhanas, Tieliangwu, Kshidimi, and Huoyin Yirgan in the area from the upper reaches of the Yenisei River to the Yershi River, and quickly consolidated the rear.

This year, the Western Regions were very unstable.

However, just as the war was about to subside, Muhammad of the Western Liao Dynasty learned of the great changes in the northern great country and sent a delegation to the east to inquire about the war between Mongolia and the Jin Dynasty. Temujin received the envoys, expressed his willingness to trade with Khwarezm, sent envoys to return the visit, and organized a caravan of more than 400 people to trade with Khwarezm.

When the caravan arrived at the Khwarezmian border town of Otrar (now Qimur in the east of the middle reaches of the Syr Darya in Kazakhstan), the governor of the city, Hajir Jilantu, coveted the caravan's property, framed them as spies, killed them all, and seized their goods.

Unfortunately, the work was done too roughly. A camel driver who escaped the disaster fled back to Mongolia and reported it. Temujin was extremely angry and sent three envoys to question the crime. One of them was killed by Muhammad, and two were expelled from the country after being shaved. The Otrar incident became Temujin's excuse to send troops to Central Asia, and war between the two countries was inevitable.

Shah Muhammad of Khwarezm brazenly killed Mongolian caravans and envoys, sent spies to Mongolia to gather intelligence, and sent troops to occupy Turkestan, which was already Mongolian territory.

Only Mongolia has ever occupied other countries. Which other country would dare to challenge it?
Especially when Genghis Khan defeated the Jin Dynasty and became the overlord of the north, he was furious when he received the news. Now, he had no choice but to fight. He had originally planned to go south three times to completely destroy the Jin Dynasty, but now, he could no longer care about the Jin Dynasty.

In a sense, the Khwarezmian monarch was also a very good man. He attracted the Mongols' firepower for the Jin Dynasty. If it weren't for them, the Jin Dynasty might have been destroyed during the reign of Genghis Khan.

In August 1217, Genghis Khan appointed Mu Huali as Grand Tutor and King, giving him full authority to command a Mongolian army of more than people, soldiers from the Wanggu tribe, and the Yao and Han troops who surrendered to Mongolia to attack the Jin Dynasty. He also ordered him to recruit heroes from the Central Plains and establish a province.

At the same time, Genghis Khan appointed Guo Jing as Wanhu and Hanhou, and appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the northern war together with Mu Huali, while Genghis Khan himself led the main Mongolian army to the west.

In other words, there are now two people in the Central Plains who can open a government office and lead the war in the north. Although Guo Jing's title and control are not as good as Mu Huali's, he is not under Mu Huali's control.

The two sides attacked in different directions. Mu Huali attacked Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places, while Guo Jing was responsible for the wars in Guanzhong, Longxi and Liangzhou.

In terms of military strength and territories controlled, Guo Jing had the advantage. Genghis Khan did not want his subordinates to have conflicts over the initiative in the war, so he simply let them fight on their own, as long as they could fight the Jin Kingdom.

…On the official road, a figure walked forward with a sword on his back, his clothes fluttering, and he could cover a distance of several feet with one step.

"When prosperity comes, the people suffer; when decline comes, the people suffer. How sad and lamentable!"

Su Ming walked on the official road, looking at the abandoned fields and exposed corpses on both sides of the road, and sighed softly. The once prosperous north was now shrouded in war. The villages where smoke rose from chimneys were now in ruins. There were dilapidated towns everywhere, and the roads were unmaintained and overgrown with weeds.

Compared to the devastated Hebei, Henan became visibly prosperous. After the Jin people moved their capital, they mobilized heavy troops to defend near Kaifeng, just like the Northern Song Dynasty in history.

Most of the people in Zhongdu were also relocated. This was originally the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. It gradually declined after the Jin army conquered the city. But even so, Kaifeng was still the Nanjing of the Jin Dynasty and had an extremely high status.

"kill!"

"Golden Dog, after all these years, you are still the same!"

Suddenly, an urgent voice was heard in the air. Su Ming's ears moved slightly, and he took a wrong step and was several feet away.

The scene before him was horrifying. A group of Jin soldiers were burning, killing and looting in the village. The bodies of villagers were scattered all over the ground. As he got closer, he could hear bursts of explosions and the angry curses of the Jin soldiers in the air.

"boom!"

A dragon-shaped palm force swept in all directions. Several Jin soldiers were unable to dodge. The huge force hit them head-on. They flew backwards like broken sacks and fell heavily to the ground without a sound.

The ground around was littered with corpses of Jin soldiers. A rough look revealed that there were no less than a hundred of them, and all of them were wearing military uniforms and well-equipped. It was obvious at a glance that they were elite troops, not just an ordinary ragtag army.

In this world, the only person who can use the dragon-shaped palm power and has such skills is Hong Qigong. At this moment, he was walking among the soldiers with a little girl on his back. The little girl was holding on to the corner of his clothes tightly, her face full of tension.

Seeing this situation, Su Ming understood clearly that Hong Qigong wanted to kill all the Jin soldiers before leaving.

At this moment, Hong Qigong looked at the Jin soldiers who surrounded them, his eyes flashing coldly. All the Jin dogs should be killed!

At this moment, a huge palm force came from a distance, condensed in the air in a short moment, and slapped towards the Jin soldiers. The reverse airflow blew them crookedly, and they couldn't even maintain their formation.

Hong Qigong, who was reaping the lives of the Jin soldiers, suddenly changed his expression, and left the Jin soldiers' camp in a flash, rushing several feet away.

The palm print hit the Jin soldier. In an instant, the Jin soldier standing in the front was shaken, and his bones made crackling sounds. With a "bang", he exploded, and flesh and bones flew everywhere. Only a head fell to the ground and rolled around.

Hundreds of Jin soldiers exploded at the same time, leaving no trace of their bodies.

Hong Qigong, who had fled far away, saw this scene, his eyelids twitched, and he was amazed, "What a domineering palm power!"

With his strength, killing these Jin soldiers was easy, but he couldn't kill so many people with one palm. Among the Five Great Masters, only Ouyang Feng and Huang Yaoshi had such means, and the martial arts of the others tended to be single combat.

Hong Qigong was extremely alert and quietly exerted his strength to guard against the person in the dark. However, a familiar voice came into his ears, "Seventh Brother, long time no see!"

"It's you!"

Hong Qigong stared at Su Ming with eyes wide open, extremely surprised.

"Seventh Brother, you're still as charming and elegant as ever after all these years." Su Ming walked forward slowly with a smile in his eyes. He really didn't expect that he would meet Hong Qigong on this trip.

Hong Qigong bent down and put the little girl down from his back. He walked up to Su Ming with the dog-beating stick and clasped his fists, saying, "Mr. Su, long time no see. Why are you here?"

Su Ming smiled slightly and looked around. "I've been in the south for too long. I want to move around. This is not the place to talk. Let's go first."

"Wait, let me collect the bodies of the villagers first."

As they spoke, they went to the village to move the bodies. Su Ming looked at the little girl, said nothing, and went forward to help collect the bodies. The two of them worked for more than half an hour, and finally gathered the bodies of more than a hundred people in the village together, dug a big pit and buried them.

As for those golden soldiers, they were just left there and ignored. According to Hong Qigong, these golden dogs did not deserve to be buried in peace, but only deserved to be buried in the mouths of wild beasts.

The three of them buried the body outside the village and erected a tombstone. The little girl kowtowed ten times in silence and was taken away by Hong Qigong.

"Seventh Brother, why are you here? And you are fighting against the Jin soldiers."

Hong Qigong sighed deeply, looked at the little girl holding his hand, and a trace of pity appeared in his eyes. "I was originally going to the north to inspect the various branches, but I didn't expect to encounter a village where everyone was killed a day ago. I tracked them for a long time before I found these golden dogs."

"It's a pity that I was a step too late. When I arrived here, she was the only one left alive in the village. So, I was furious and confronted these golden men. But then again, these golden dogs are different from the ones I encountered before."

Su Ming asked curiously, "Oh? What's the difference?"

Hong Qigong's eyes flashed with contemplation. "This group of golden dogs are very ferocious when they start fighting, and they are fearless. Even though I killed so many of them, they didn't collapse. According to common sense, they should run away after I killed thirty of a hundred-man team. Today, I killed so many, and they didn't run away?"

Su Ming was greatly surprised, "Is there such a thing?"

If this is true, an army like this can be used as a trump card on the battlefield. Why did the Jin people let them out to massacre the village?
"When I get back, I'll have to ask the gang to investigate what the Jin people are doing."

(End of this chapter)