Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 857 This is Dali, or Da Song!

People generally look at their own problems, and they don't see them very clearly and objectively.

But looking at other people's problems, that's called seeing things clearly.

Therefore, generals like Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) who can clearly realize that the time to attack the Southern Han Dynasty has not yet come, and who can resist the temptation to destroy the country and remain cautious are really rare.

Generally, those who have this ability can be said to have the basic conditions to become a generation of famous generals.

Compared with Zhang Zhaojun, Liu Sheng, the lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, can only see others clearly, but not himself.

He clearly saw that the king of Dali, Duan Sicong, was a dead bone in the tomb, and the Dali army was exhausted by Wumeng Mountain and the Lushui River.

But he still has a lot of misjudgments, or wishful thinking, about the situation inside and outside the Southern Han Dynasty.

This Liu Sheng was already a little schizophrenic, but now he's just gotten into the horns.

He stubbornly thought that as long as he could marry a daughter of the Zhang family, he would be treated like Qian Hongchu.

Not only can you keep the family temple, but you can also gain the power to open the government, and you can even make Zhang Ting trust him and let him continue to rule in Lingnan.

And the reason for Liu Sheng's misjudgment, apart from his brain being out of order, must be caused by me, Saint Zhang.

Looking at the royal families who were destroyed by Zhang Tie in these years, except for Yelu Deguang and Yelu Ruan who died on the battlefield, and Ma Xie who committed suicide and was beheaded, the rest are alive and well.

Among them, Qian Hongchu, the most knowledgeable, became the king of Lu and had the right to open the government. King Jing Gao Baorong was also running a big business in Tokyo, and lived a very happy life.

And the shy Li Jing not only became the king of Wu, but Zhang Tie also left him hundreds of thousands of property.

Now this old man has completely let himself go, and has become the happy king of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo. Every day he either listens to music or holds poetry conferences.

Although the queen Zhong Shi was born beautiful, but I, Zhang Shengren, held back and didn't make any mistakes.

So after letting go of the burden of family, country and society, Li Jing's life is still very happy.

He can even sometimes let the memory of being a loner in the past rush to his mind, and then he doesn't make sense no matter what happens when he gets up.

Whenever there is a verbal conflict with someone, the debate is just like using material methods to reason. Most people will choose to give in at this time, considering his identity.

But if you walk at night for a long time, you will see ghosts. Last month, Li Jing and Zhang Huaiqing's son Zhang Chengfu of Nanyang County "ignited sparks" in arguing whether the young Li Du could be comparable to the big Li Du.

Others might give in to Li Jing, but Zhang Chengfu always claimed that he was also the son of the emperor, and his blood status did not need to be lower than that of Li Jing. In addition, he was not well-educated, so he didn't know what to give up.

These two high-ranking dignitaries from the Zhang and Zhou dynasties fought outside the gate of Xinzheng, and a Lakshiel ceremony took place in full view.

Li Jing has been pampered and pampered for so many years, how can it be Zhang Chengfu, the opponent of the rough man in the northwest, his nose is bruised and his face is swollen, and his mouth and nose are bleeding, which is very obvious.

In a rage, Zhang Huaiqing asked Zhang Huaiqing to beat Zhang Chengfu twenty times with his own hands, and then rushed to Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion.

Li Jing was also fined to be confined at home for three months because of fighting with his elders, and he was not allowed to go out to wander.

This is a small episode, which is the talk of Tokyo people after dinner, but it also reveals an essence.

That is, a subjugated person like Li Jing had a really good life in Tokyo. Zhang Tie didn't deliberately restrict his freedom, and Li Jing didn't live in panic all day long.

Because if it weren't for the extremely relaxed political environment and absolute trust in his own safety, Li Jing wouldn't be in the mood to wander around and dare to argue with people.

Except for Li Jing, who can barely be regarded as a soil offering, and the king is doing well, the rest are purely captured Meng Chang. Without real power, they are simply Ma Xiguang who was promoted to power, and Shi Chonggui who was rescued from the Anton jungle. All are doing well.

This gave Liu Sheng the illusion that he could also choose to decide whether to donate soil at the last moment. Anyway, even if he was captured, he would still be treated well.

So in his heart, he knew that it was impossible for him to fight against the Great Zhou of the Central Plains, but he still wanted to strive for as many benefits as possible for him before the last moment came, such as marrying a daughter of the royal family.

In addition to these, Liu Sheng also did some good gestures.

For example, when Dazhou transferred all its water forces to Korea and Wa to provide guarantee for Murong Nobunaga's eastern expedition, as the only Southern Han in the world that still had a good navy, he did not choose to harass Jiangnan.

Liu Sheng even wrote a letter to Zhang Tie, expressing his intention that he would not do this, and was praised by Zhang Tie.

In addition, when Zhang Tie encountered resistance in promoting Champa rice in Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces, Liu Sheng took the initiative to ask Zhang Tie to distribute some Champa rice seedlings for trial planting in the Southern Han Dynasty.

In addition to the Pearl River Delta in the Southern Han Dynasty, there were also a lot of sloping land and dry land. Liu Sheng ordered that one type be 10,000+ mu, which is almost more than the entire Jiangnan province.

This provided a lot of help for Tiangongyuan to further screen rice seeds and expand the scope of experiments. Now there are still officials and students from the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of the Ministry of Households and Tiangongyuan in the Southern Han Dynasty.

As for other small taboo moves such as changing the Zhaoyang Hall into the Tongming Hall, there are countless.

This is Liu Sheng's confidence, and it is also the reason why Zhang Zhaojun said that the time to attack the Southern Han Dynasty has not yet come, and he personally wrote a memorial to Zhang Yu, explaining the situation in detail.

This Lingnan was originally far away from the Central Plains, and was naturally separated from the Central Plains people. Although the two kings of the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu and Liu Sheng, were cruel to the ruling class and their relatives, they did not impose violent taxes on the people.

On the contrary, because of the appointment of a large number of civil servants as governors and county magistrates, the people in Lingnan can live in troubled times.

Now Liu Sheng is considered very respectful, and Zhang Tie himself has issued an imperial edict to praise him. If he continues to call him for no reason, it will easily arouse the resentment of Lingnan people.

They will turn Zhang Zhou's move to unify the world into the bullying of the people in the Central Plains against the people in Lingnan. In addition, Liu Sheng is not without means. With a little organization, this battle can be turned into a bad one.

Of course, this is not to say that Zhang Zhou has nothing to do with the Southern Han Dynasty. If he really wants to fight desperately, it is not difficult to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty in a year and a half with Zhang Zhou's court's elite soldiers and strong generals.

But after that?If the people are not convinced, the cost of governance will increase exponentially, just like when Emperor Wu of Han destroyed Nanyue in the past, Nanyue was destroyed, but it has not been able to be effectively governed.

If Zhang Tie only wanted to be an old-fashioned feudal emperor, he naturally didn't care about these things, as long as he unified quickly, the rest could be dragged slowly with the locals.

But what Zhang Tie has to do is to be the next ruler of Xia Junyi after Wu Wang Ji Fa, which requires him to restore the vitality of the Central Plains as soon as possible and minimize internal friction in the country.

And in the next 1000 years, the gradual southward shift of China's economic center of gravity is already a historical trend, and Nanyang, including Jiaozhi, will become more and more important in the future.

If you want to choose some Chinese people to slowly develop Nanyang, besides the people from Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of Lingnan and the people from Fujian next door, who else can you count on?
To colonize outwards is not just about sending people there.

Let's put it this way, if you want to send people from Hedong and Hebei to Jiaozhi from the south of Jiaozhi, you are killing them. It is no exaggeration to escape from death, because their physique and living habits simply cannot adapt.

But if you are from Fujian and Guangdong, Guangxi, you can barely do three deaths and seven lives. Only with the survival rate can you talk about colonization.

That's why Zhang Ting didn't want to attack the Southern Han by force, and he didn't want to make the people beaten by the Southern Han miserable.

Because they are all the precious wealth of this country, it is enough to replace the upper class in the war and relocate a group of middle class people, and the lower class people still need to be protected.

It can be said that Zhang Tie's unification war along the way basically followed this path.

Southern Tang wanted to take the initiative to attack because it recruited Hucile and Du Chongwei.

Meng Shu even sent troops to attack Guanzhong when Zhang Wei was still fighting the Liao army.

Ma Chu's purpose is to help the justifiable king Ma Xiguang to quell the chaos.

Jing Nan negotiated with Gao Congjiao, Gao Baorong and his son that Wu Yue simply donated money to the country, and Liu Congxiao from Zhangquan and Quanzhou also voluntarily donated soil.

In this world, the only ones that were really attacked by Zhang Tie for no reason were Dali, Koryo, and Wa.

Among the three, Dali will definitely end up forcing Duan Sicong to surrender in the end. After all, white people and Han people have the same origin, so there is no need to make it too ugly.

Therefore, the only ones who were attacked for no reason and ravaged severely were pure outsiders like Goryeo and Wa.

This tone for the country was set by Zhang Tie himself according to his needs, so he must abide by it and not mess around.

Maybe when the Dali envoy came last time, Zhang Tie deliberately and severely humiliated the Southern Han envoy.

He just wanted Liu Sheng to do something irrational after being stimulated, but in the end, this kid was not good at anything, so he was very stable!
Therefore, the military action against the Southern Han Dynasty must be delayed for a while. If Dali can be successfully taken down, let the monkeys kill the chicken and show it to the monkeys. Maybe it will change the starting point of Liu Sheng and the Southern Han Dynasty.

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Wumeng Mountains, this is a huge mountain range that runs through the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in later generations. It is high in the northwest and slightly lower in the southeast.

The average altitude in the west is over 2000 meters, and the slightly lower southeast is also 600 meters.

The entire Wumeng Mountains are full of deep valleys and canyons with huge drops. The Niulan River, Pudu River, Beipan River, Nanpan River and other large and small rivers pass through the territory wantonly, cutting the mountains into canyons and dams of different sizes. .

It can be said that the Wumeng Mountains are the most important and the last line of defense of the Dali Kingdom at this time. The central plains courts have always come to attack, and the natural dangers of the Wumeng Mountains alone are enough for them to drink a pot.

And if Wumeng Mountain can't be defended, then Dali's monarchs and ministers can send people to Shanchan Mansion (Kunming) to use the undulating Wumeng Mountains to consume the supplies of the Central Plains court, infinitely increasing the difficulty of transporting supplies, and at the same time Various tribes in the mountains and forests can also wait for an opportunity to sneak attack.

Once this step has been achieved, there is often no need to fight much, and the imperial army can be exhausted just by exhaustion.

But today is different from the past. The opponent Dali encountered this time is Guo Rong, who has a great strategic vision and is also extremely cunning.

And Zhang Tie's deputy to Guo Rong, Zhang Xiaobao Zhang lame Zhang Fei, is quite calculating, sinister and doesn't care about face.

Most importantly, the existence of Zhang Fei greatly made up for Guo Rong's irritable and easy-to-boss problems.

Guo Rong can ignore other people's words, but Zhang Fei can't.

He married the daughter of Meng Chang's elder brother Meng Yiye, and even pretended to be the uncle of the emperor's favorite concubine Zhao Rongniang, and now the fake has become real.

His elder brother Zhang Cheng is the emperor's most trusted general. He is also the first and only one in the past few decades who has been able to win from among the four known as the Four Eagle Dogs: Barbarian Bear, Dun Zhu, Qiong Re Duo Jin, and Wang Communication. Squeezed into the saint's side.

With a strong background and extraordinary ability, even Guo Rong must respect Zhang Fei's opinion, thus achieving a perfect complementarity between the two.

There are two people like this who have stayed in Nanxi Mansion (Yibin) for four full years. How could Duan Sicong, a third-generation power who loves luxury and fun, outsmart these two people.

So during these four years, Guo Rong successfully made all the tribes in the north of the Wumeng Mountains let go of their guard, then wiped them all out, and finally reorganized, and even Wumeng City (Zhaotong) was taken down.

So what Dali can still defend now is not the entire Wumeng Mountains, but only this small piece of Wumeng Mountains in Shanchanfu (Kunming).

But this mountain range is not a condescending and dangerous pass, on the contrary, it is high on the opposite side, and the geographical advantage can almost be said to be lost.

At this time, the Dali Kingdom could only form a defense system along Shicheng County (Qujing) - Changcheng County (Haoming) - Cimicifuga (Xundian), which is not considered a very dangerous valley and dam.

And this time, they didn't dare to give up the Shanchan Mansion. Originally, Shanchan Mansion could fortify the walls and clear the wilderness. That was because it was difficult for the imperial army to pass through Wumeng Mountain to supply supplies.

But now, 37 of the 21 Diandong Heichuan tribes in Wumeng Mountain have been returned to the imperial court. Now that the Shanchan Mansion has been surrendered, they can come in directly and become a local tiger, which is troublesome.

But this is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that when the Dali Kingdom conscripted the army and shrunk the defense line along these three cities, it was equivalent to handing over most of the control of the Wumeng Mountains.

They were in the city, and the Zhou army was in the forest. The Zhou army could easily observe the deployment of the three cities and observe the movement of the Dali army from a high place. Therefore, only a small number of troops were stationed in the forest to achieve perfect monitoring.

But the Dali army didn't know the situation in the mountains and forests, and didn't know how many Zhou troops were outside the city. If the troops were withdrawn, there would be no time to recruit the Zhou troops if they suddenly appeared.

This is why Liu Sheng said that Duan Sicong was dead. It seemed that the Dali army blocked the Zhou army from moving forward, but in fact it was the Zhou army who used a small amount of troops to exhaust the Dali army on the front line and could not move a single bit.

It seems that it can still support it now, because the treasury of Dali Kingdom is continuing its life, but this kind of price is very high. Not only do you have to provide military rations, but you also have to take care of the families of the [-] to [-] troops.

They were stationed on the front line, and the farm work in the rear was all supported by the old and the weak, women and children. If Duan Sicong didn't provide money and food subsidies or reduce or exempt land rent and taxes, the army might mutiny.

Guo Rong and Zhang Fei are so thieves!Seeing this situation, he immediately ordered people to build a cottage along the opposite side of the Dali Army in the Wumeng Mountains and do a good job of defense first.

Then built a wooden tower for observation on the high mountain to look at the situation of the three cities, and divided the 21 army and the [-] soldiers of the [-] Eastern Yunnan Division into four divisions to repair in turn.

This confrontation lasted for a full fourteen months. Although there were indeed reasons for too few troops to attack frontally, the bigger idea was to consume Dali's national power.

. . . .

Shanchan Mansion, Tuodong Jiedu Envoy Office, Dali King Duan Sicong is stationed here.

Speaking of the Dali Kingdom, it is a little bit similar to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Duan Siping, the founding emperor, can be regarded as a Zhao Kuangyin from the Southwest.

Before Duan Siping, since Ge Luofeng, the king of the Five Dynasties, the real power of Dali had been controlled by the Han people. At that time, the Qingping officials (prime ministers) in Nanzhao were basically Han people.

These Han people were either taken into captivity, or they came here directly. Because of their outstanding abilities, they were entrusted with important tasks by the Nanzhao royal family. Of course, they also used the Han people as foreign forces to suppress the local lords.

After hundreds of years of development, the power of Han Qingping officials in Nanzhao has grown rapidly. From Zheng Maisi who established the Dachanghe Kingdom, to being supported by Datian Xingguo Zhao Shanzheng, and then being promoted by Dayi Ningguo to Yang Qianzhen, They are basically from the Qingping official family of Han people.

Under such circumstances, Duan Siping, who was born in a white family (Bai ethnic group), offended the king Yang Ganzhen, and has been persecuted continuously, so he had no choice but to rebel.

During this period, Duan Siping reviewed the situation and put forward the slogan of "half the tax and food, and three years of corvee", which successfully attracted the support of the war-torn and turbulent people in this land.

Therefore, in less than eight years, Duan Siping successfully overthrew Dayining and restored the territory to the heyday of Nanzhao.

However, before Duan Siping could completely solve the domestic problems, just like Zhao Kuangyin, he suddenly let go and returned home, and then Duan Siping's son Duan Siying succeeded to the throne.

But at this time, Duan Siliang, Zhao Guangyi from Dali appeared, and this second younger brother of Duan Siping quickly kicked his nephew out of power, forcing him to become a monk.

Poor Duan Siying, who has only been the king for eleven months in total, can only escape into Buddhism sadly.

The current king of Dali, Duan Sicong, is the son of Duan Sicong, Zhao Guangyi of Dali, and his character is simply possessed by Song Zhenzong.

She likes extravagance, loves literature, loves face, has soft ears, thick skin, wants to engage in some conspiracy and tricks, but still has a bit of affection, which leads to the final thing that is really difficult to stretch.

You say he is not capable, it seems to be a little bit, you say he is capable, it seems that he is a bit hot-eyed in doing things.

Zhu Xi's comment on Song Zhenzong's "Zhenzong was enshrined in the east and worshiped in the west, he wasted a lot of money, and he never did a single thing" is really suitable to describe Duan Sicong.

Now, this Dali Song Zhenzong Duan Sicong, after the initial excitement, began to feel that something was wrong.

Because in these fourteen months, he traveled from Yangjumei City to Shanchan Mansion three times, and the scenes he saw and the reports he heard made it more difficult to mobilize the army rations each time, and the resentment of the people was visible to the naked eye.

In the government office, on the left of Duan Sicong stood Qingping official Gao Fang, this is an old man who followed Duan Siping in the uprising, and the Gao family is the largest white family.

With the addition of this seniority and strength, plus Duan Sicong's inaction, the political power has actually fallen into the hands of Gao Fang.

Gao Fang is not a fool, so he realized that Zhou Jun wanted to drag Dali down.

But what Zhou Jun used was a conspiracy, and Gao Fang had no good way to fight it for the time being.

He can only choose to reduce the frontline troops slightly and return some conscripts from various ministries to the various ministries to slow down the consumption of supplies.

Gao Fang took the written memorial and presented it to Duan Sicong, "Saint, I summoned officials at all levels of Santuo and Liucao and made careful calculations. We only need to keep 4 people on the front line.

Among them, Changcheng County (Qujing), the most important, kept [-] people, Shicheng County and Cimicifuga each kept [-] people, and the remaining more than [-] people stayed in Shanchan Mansion as backup. This can greatly save the supply of military rations and materials. "

Duan Sicong nodded. Although he didn't know how much military rations could be saved, it was certain that 2 people would be lost.

The [-] strong men cost five or six hundred shi just to eat for a day, and they couldn't bear the [-] shi when they were transported.

He was about to agree, but he heard a cold snort beside him, and Dong Sankuo, the general standing on the right, said suddenly:

"Officer Qingping said it's easy. It's easy to disband this army, but it's difficult to recruit it. If Zhou's army suddenly comes to attack at this time, 4 people can defend the Great Wall, Shicheng, Cimicifuga, and large and small forts. ?
Even if we can hold on, how long can we hold on if the [-] troops are out for a long time?

Now the Zhou army is still conquering Goryeo, and the army has not yet arrived. Let's continue to defend. When the Zhou Lord and the whole country's soldiers come, who can resist?

The minister believes that we should take the initiative to attack now when the army is gathering, regain Wumeng City, and bring back the 21 Heicuan Department, otherwise there will be big problems sooner or later. "

Dong Sankuo's father, Dong Jialuo, was originally Duan Siping's national teacher, with a high status, and made great contributions to the establishment of Dali Kingdom. The Dong family is also the most wealthy family under the Duan family in Dali.

As a result, Dong Jialuo did not support Zhao Guangyi and Duan Siliang's usurpation of his nephew's throne in Dali. Therefore, after Duan Siliang came to power, the Gao family who supported him usurped the throne received a large reward, while the originally prosperous Dong family was suppressed.

Therefore, Gao and Dong are at odds with each other. Basically, if Gao agrees, Dong must oppose it. Currently, they are fighting fiercely.

Hearing Dong Sankuo's words, Duan Sicong felt that there was some truth to it. Zhou's army only had partial divisions in the Wumeng Mountains, and they were not going to attack them now. When Zhou Lord sent soldiers to arrive, what chance would Dali have?
Gao Fang's eyes were about to burst into flames, he pointed at Dong Sankuo and shouted angrily:
"Zhou's army occupies a favorable location, Jiajian is powerful, and the big and small forts are stuck in a dangerous place. Hei Cuan 21 has already been used by him. How can we win if we abandon the strong city and go counterattack?"

Duan Sicong thought again, this is quite reasonable!

However, the offense is not good, and the defense is not good, so how should we fight this battle?
　I've been on a business trip, and yesterday I was escorted to drink by the leader, so I really can't spare time, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)