The rise of the prince

Chapter 347 Similarities in History
This news came as a shock to many people.

The previous emperor continued: "Now the Jurchens have established themselves as the Kingdom of Jin and occupied Liaoyang Mansion as the capital. Most of the Tokyo Road has fallen into the hands of the Jurchens. The Jurchen envoys have arrived at Yingtian Mansion. Please tell me how to deal with it."

After the emperor's voice fell, the court had already exploded. Many people were dumbfounded when they first heard the news.

Because the various tribes of Jurchen were originally subject to the Liao Kingdom, and they have been divided for a long time.

For many people, this is too incredible.

Li Xingzhou looked at the prince next to him, and saw that he was also flustered. The reason why the Liao Kingdom is strong is because it has always had two largest horse farms.

The plains of Nanjing and Xijing, as well as the Huaihai Plain in Tokyo, are all in the hands of Liao.

Among them, the Huaihai Plain was the main horse farm in the Han Dynasty, and the power of the Han Empire was inseparable from it, while the horse farm in the Land of Nether Clouds was the main horse farm of the Tang Empire, and it was also inseparable from the strength of the Tang Empire. The two horse farms were originally the same In the hands of the Liao people.

Now, the area around the Huaihai Plain has fallen into the hands of the Jurchens.

Although many people were talking about it, but Li Xingzhou took a general look, and most of them were happy. The prince probably couldn't digest so much information at once, so he was stunned and didn't know what expression to use.

But Ru Degong, Zhong Daoyu, Wen Daoli and others all had happy faces.

This is actually incomprehensible. After all, Jurchen and Jingguo do not border each other, and are separated by Liao Kingdom Shangjing, Zhongjing, Xijing, and Nanjing thousands of miles away.

However, the border between Liao State and Jing State has always been a serious worry for Jing State, and it still occupies the lost land of the previous dynasty, Youzhou, Yunzhou, etc.

Now that the Liao Kingdom has suffered such a great loss, everyone is naturally happy. An enemy's enemy is a friend, not to mention a friend who is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

Therefore, Zhong Daoyu, who had been sick for several days to hide from the emperor's questioning, also stood up at this time: "Your Majesty, I think that you should meet the Jurchen envoy, and you should meet carefully. If the Jurchen exerts strength in the south and east, the Liao Kingdom will definitely fall into two sides. This is a heaven-sent opportunity!"

Then he changed the subject: "But now the Jurchens only occupy the Liaodong Mansion, half of the Tokyo Road, and it is not enough to shake the Liao Kingdom. It is good to say, but the best policy is to wait and see for a few years."

As soon as he said that, everyone nodded in agreement.

Jurchen is in the east of Liao, and Jing is in the south of Liao. As long as Jing and Jurchen unite, Liao will be in a state of being attacked on both sides in an instant, and the southeast is more than a thousand miles away, so it is difficult for Liao to take care of both.

But even so, Jurchen is just a few scattered tribes now, and there are at most ten thousand soldiers in one place, so they don't need to pay so much attention.

When he said this, the eyes of the first emperor also lit up, and his fingers tightly grasped the armguard of the dragon chair, as if he was thinking about something.

Li Xingzhou knew what the emperor was thinking, and many ministers also vaguely guessed, to take back the land lost by the previous dynasty!

Youzhou and Yunzhou, which are now Xijing and Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom, were lost by the previous dynasty. The emperor had long wanted to regain it. He sent troops to attack Liao ten years ago, but it never came to an end without a problem. He must be unwilling.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, and most of them agreed with Zhong Daoyu's statement that the Jurchen envoys could be seen, but the overall situation had to wait and see.

After that, everyone expressed their opinions, and some said that Jurchen was weak and didn't need to care about it, such as Tong Guan.

There are also people who say that the etiquette is inconsistent and that one should not be degraded to see the Jurchen envoys. Those who say this are Meng Zhiye and others, but there are different opinions.

On the other hand, Li Xingzhou was wandering in the sky, and couldn't help but think of the rise of the Jurchens in his previous life.

The rise of Jurchen can be said to be legendary, and it all started with Wanyan Aguda reusing the Han people in the Bohai Sea area.

After merging the Jurchen tribes, he also realized that there were many backward cultures and ideas in the Jurchen tribe, which greatly restricted the development of the tribe. For example, in the marriage system, if a woman’s husband died, she would serve her brother, and if her brother died, she would serve her son, etc. Legacy custom.

Therefore, he reused the Han people in the Bohai Sea area, slowly used the Central Plains culture to change the life and production laws of the tribe, created his own Jurchen script based on Chinese characters, and quietly grew.

When Jurchen accumulated strength and suddenly attacked the Liao Kingdom, it was like a landslide and tsunami in an instant.

In a short period of time, they conquered Dongjing Road, Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Xijing Road in the Liao Kingdom. At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty saw that the Jurchens were unstoppable, so they sent envoys to join the Jin Dynasty against the Liao Dynasty and take back the lost land in Nanjing. .

Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda agreed.

But it happened that Fangla rebelled in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Tong Guan, the most trusted eunuch by the emperor, went to Fangla to rebel. After two years of peace, the Kingdom of Jin had defeated the Liao Kingdom in the past two years, leaving only Nanjing for the Northern Song Dynasty, and stopped marching north of Juyongguan.

It's not that the Jurchens couldn't defeat Nanjing, but that according to the Song-Jin Haihai alliance, Nanjing and the Northern Song Dynasty fought on their own, and after they were defeated, they returned to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Then the embarrassing thing came. The Northern Song Dynasty sent troops twice, and each time a [-] army marched north.

At this time, the Liao Kingdom had been beaten by the Jin Kingdom to the point where there were only remnants and defeated generals left. The famous general Yelu Dashi and others ordered the establishment of a new master, lingering in Nanjing.

As a result, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty was defeated by these remnant soldiers, and they were beaten more with fewer troops. They were beaten twice with a huge disparity in strength. The wealth accumulated by the dynasty was also almost lost in these two wars.

Naturally, someone has to take the blame if they lose. As the commander-in-chief, the emperor's eunuch and his favorite minister Tong Guan are fine, but Daocheng Daocheng, a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty who was really capable of fighting, was sacked.

These two battles also allowed the Jurchens to fully see the true combat power of the Northern Song Dynasty, a great country in the Central Plains, and began to despise it from the bottom of their hearts.

In the end, Tong Guan begged the Kingdom of Jin to send troops to capture Nanjing, and then used money to redeem Nanjing, crediting himself, and returned to the court swaggeringly.

The army of the Liao Kingdom was like wolves in front of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was like Mianyang in front of the Jurchen. When the Jurchen came, the Liao Kingdom was instantly defeated and almost completely wiped out.

Since then, Jurchen completely looked down on the Northern Song Dynasty, and laid the groundwork for the shame of Jingkang and the loss of half of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In fact, from Li Xingzhou's point of view, there is no right or wrong between the two families, they are all conflicts of interest, but the Northern Song Dynasty is really too embarrassing. Jin Guo probably thought everyone was a butcher, so he planned to divide the pig of Liao Kingdom with the Northern Song Dynasty , It turned out that the Northern Song Dynasty was not a butcher at all, but another pig that was weaker and fatter.

Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda valued the culture of the Central Plains, because the reuse of Bohai Han talents slowly created the rise of the Jurchen, but now it looks like a big country in the Central Plains is just a weak chicken.

After occupying half of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin also practiced Chinese traditions, believed in Confucius and Mencius, read the Six Classics, dressed in cultural relics, and was similar to China. He claimed that he was the successor of Chinese culture, while the Southern Song Dynasty who retreated to the south was a barbarian in the south and did not deserve to be called China. Heir.

Naturally, the Southern Song Dynasty didn't do it, so they called Jin a northern barbarian, and they fought for many years.

The Southern Song Dynasty still continued the characteristics of the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty who was not promising, but there were a few talents who could fight, such as Yue Fei, so he was able to resist the Jurchen from continuing to go south and pay Sui Gong for peace.

These all happened in the previous life, but the current state of Jing, although the system is very similar to the Song Dynasty, and there is also a trend of Wenyue Wuxi, but it is not to the extent of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Jingchao army still has combat power, and it is okay to be in a stalemate against the Shangliao people, not to mention winning.

But the problem is that the rise of the Jurchens is indeed like a myth. More than 2 people fought an army of more than 70, and they made great strides all the way, annexing the Liao Kingdom in a short period of time.

The most astonishing thing is that the rise of the Jurchen was considered to be very terrifying, but after the Jurchen there is Mongolia, which can be described as turbulent.

He was wandering in the sky, and the officials in the court were noisy, and there was no consensus on what attitude should be towards the Jurchen envoy.

Until the end, the emperor waved his hand impatiently to let everyone retreat, and then left a few important officials, Wang Yue under the same Shumen, Yu Chengan, the political advisor, Zhong Daoyu, the privy envoy, and Wen Daoli, the deputy privy councilor. Wait to stay.

Just when Li Xingzhou was about to leave, he was also stopped by Mr. Fu'an and went to the apse.

Liu Xu was a counselor under Emperor Wanyan of the Kingdom of Jin. Jurchen had already occupied Laidong Road, formed an alliance with Goryeo, and claimed to be the Kingdom of Jin.

This trip to the south to unite with Jingguo is also what he strongly advocated.

In Yingtian Mansion, a group of more than a dozen people temporarily lived in the post house, accompanied by officials, and they were free to move around, so they went into the city to see the scenery of a foreign country.

(End of this chapter)