The rise of the prince

Chapter 811 Hidden danger + Liao king comes out of the mountain
Pu Chayi quietly watched the gray-haired mother cry and bid farewell to her young son. Even though she was absolutely unwilling, the soldiers with machetes stood in the middle to separate them.

From time to time, small crying sounds could be heard from around, far or near, the atmosphere was sad, the woman over there who was reluctant to part with her son was pushed and sat on the muddy ground outside the house.

Her young son yelled in anger, but was dragged away mercilessly by the soldiers.

Pucha's horse was also agitated in the uneasy atmosphere, and the hostile and hostile gazes around him were likely to engulf him. Horses are spiritual animals, and they probably felt the hostility, so they also became agitated.

He has many soldiers under his command, and the hostility of these unarmed men is meaningless and worthless.

Zhengding lasted until the afternoon, and the large army led the young man away under the hostile eyes of everyone.

Pu Chayi was indifferent to all the gazes, riding on a tall horse, and slowly walked out of the village. This was not the first time that the Kingdom of Jin recruited men this year.

In other words, he couldn't remember how many times the horse's hooves trampled on the muddy path. After a while, the horse couldn't walk, so he had to dismount and walk. The surrounding villagers ran far away and dared not approach. Like a leopard.

A hidden worry arose in Pu Chayi's heart. He was King Qi of the Great Jin Kingdom, but this King of Qi was different from other people who deserved the title of king.

There are also military achievements, but they are not remarkable enough, and they pale in comparison to Yan Zongbi, the king of Wanliao. His greatest contribution is to provide political resources and organize the court for Emperor Taizu to manage the land of Longxing well.

Because the Pucha family has been running Liaodong for hundreds of years, they understand politics better, have read poetry and books, and what they see is different from generals who can only kill people.

The politically astute Puchayi was very disturbed by those stares that made him shiver.

This is not the first time he has seen this kind of situation. When the emperor of Liao Kingdom was greedy for pleasure, he was so happy that he extorted the Xiren and Jurchens in Liaodong.

Hatred, anger, but they are suppressing and enduring, until Wan Yan is born out of nowhere, with a wave of his big hand, the entire Liaodong is turned upside down almost instantly, and the suppressed people rise up one after another. The Great Liao Kingdom fell apart within a few years and disappeared.

This kind of lesson is too profound, but now...he seems to have this feeling faintly.

But Dajin Kingdom had to conscript troops. Last night, another intelligence came from the front. Li Xingzhou had captured all the villages, towns and small towns around Ningyuan. Ningyuan City is now an isolated and helpless city.

Jing Jun's muskets and cannons continued day and night, causing great casualties to the defenders. If there is no reinforcement, Ning Yuan will break the city sooner or later.

All of a sudden, the government and the people were shocked, and the emperor and ministers panicked. They thought that Ning Yuan could hold out for a little longer, and dragged Jing Guo's army back, but they didn't expect to be in a hurry so soon.

The main reason is that many of the forts established in the western Liaoning Corridor did not work at all.

There are two main fortresses for the border defense of the Dajin Kingdom, one is in the north to guard against the Tatars. It is named after Wusha Fort, and there are 76 forts in total.

There is also the West Liaoning Corridor in the south. The average width of the West Liaoning Corridor is only sixty or seventy miles, and there are not as many fortresses as there are in the north. Shanhaiguan is in front, and Ningyuan and Jinzhou are behind. Who would think that Shanhaiguan is so unbeaten?
In a hurry, all the ministers discussed to discuss the transfer of the army originally stationed in Jinzhou to the south, and at the same time proposed to recruit troops.

Li Xingzhou was frightened by those wine bags and rice bags in the court, and now even more, when he heard that Zheng Ding agreed, he even lowered Zheng Ding's age to 16 years old!
Xiao Hongqi objected again and again, because this year is not the first time recruiting!

Originally, there was a routine conquest once. After knowing that the Jingguo army went north, they conscripted again in various places, and when the Jing army broke through Shanhaiguan, they conscripted again. Now that the Jing army is attacking Ningyuan, they will conscript again!
Within a year, there were four strong men, and the standard was lower each time.

At the same time, it was accompanied by tax increases. Without tax increases, the newly collected soldiers would not be able to support them. The war tax would have been increased in wars.

The young and strong laborers of the people were all taken to fight, no one was grazing and working, and the tax rose again and again. Pu Chayi was frightened, and he saw the shadow of the Daliao Kingdom.

If the people's hearts are not stable, no amount of soldiers is useless. Maybe the outside enemy is not defended, and the inside is in chaos.

But the royal family and nobles naturally wouldn't listen to him. They were frightened by Li Xingzhou, and they only wanted to send people to Liaoxi, and send more people to Liaoxi. No matter how many people died, as long as Jing Jun It's good to be blocked, their completeness, the wealth they lost, and their power can be preserved.

Xiao Hongqi was extremely disappointed when he saw those courtiers and dignitaries who were flushed with righteousness and awe-inspiring righteousness, but in fact benefited their own interests. In the end, he stopped arguing and shut up silently.

Now he has finally discovered one of the biggest weaknesses of the Great Jin Kingdom, that is, the royal family and nobles completely control the court. To put it bluntly, in the whole country, except for one Liu Xu, most of the high-ranking and powerful people are relatives and friends of Wanyan's family.

If cronyism is a taboo in Jingguo, at least make a fuss or try to avoid such a situation, then cronyism is the norm in Jinguo.

This kind of structure can indeed improve the cohesion of the country in the short term, because it is basically a family, not a family, but also relatives and friends. As long as someone can take charge of the situation, everyone will work hard.

But as time goes by, various disadvantages will appear, power is becoming more and more concentrated, and when national interests and family interests or even personal interests conflict, the latter is most likely to win.

And because the country is run by a family, the titles of officials are almost hereditary. It is impossible to seriously engage in technology like Jing Guo. There is no upward channel for the people, and the bottom has no right to speak.

No matter how powerful such a dynasty is, it will not last long. After retiring from the dynasty, Pu Chayi fell into deep thinking and worry.

He knows the past and the present, governs the place, has a lot of knowledge, and has a great reputation, so he thinks more than others.

I also understand a truth that to govern a country well, the most important thing is to let the bottom have an upward channel, no matter how big or small the channel is, at least let ordinary people have hope and hope, so that the place can be stable and the country can have long-term stability.

Jingguo's technological system is like this. It guarantees the chance for the people at the bottom to stand up again, so that ordinary people at least have hope. In fact, Jingguo has indeed had several civilian prime ministers. All these are telling the public that in Jingguo even the most People at the bottom also have the possibility of being under one person and above ten thousand people.

As long as there is this possibility, people will have hope, and only with hope can they live a stable life instead of revolting.

So Pu Chayi felt that a country like Jing Guo, no matter how weak it was, would never perish easily.

The situation in the Kingdom of Jin is very dangerous. The royal family and noble families completely control the officialdom of the court. Ordinary people hardly have any upward channels. Once they are born, their fate is sealed for a lifetime.

People who have no hope may get up and try their best at any time. In this case, it is useless no matter how powerful the Kingdom of Jin is. A rebellion can be suppressed by force, but if the root cause is not resolved, the resistance at the bottom will never end. Sooner or later, the Kingdom of Jin will be killed. Life.

But he couldn't change the current status quo. The royal family and nobles who controlled the government either had great military exploits, or had a good relationship with the emperor, or the Jurchen clan was deeply entrenched.

It was the first time Pucha Yi felt so disheartened.
What also caused him a headache was that the most hated recruitment also fell on him.

Thinking of all these things, Pu Chayi sighed, this time he will be scolded by the people again.

Fortunately, it is not all bad news. There is also good news that the emperor is finally willing to invite Liao King Wanyan Zongbi to come out of the mountain to replace Wu Linhuang as the general of the world's soldiers and horses, and to be in charge of all the soldiers and horses of the Jin Kingdom except the imperial guards.

On the day King Liao left the capital, the emperor took all the officials to see him off. Pu Chayi found that King Liao had lost a lot of weight in the crowd. His face is thin, and his whole body can be seen to be strong only with a broad frame.

The emperor toasted the king of Liao without saying a word, and drank it with one hand, without etiquette, without kneeling, without saying any words of gratitude, not even a polite word.

Everyone has noticed the subtlety of the atmosphere.

Pu Chayi hadn't seen King Liao for a long time, and he didn't know whether the gossip about him being imprisoned by the emperor was true or not, but the two were old comrades-in-arms, so he stepped forward excitedly.

The king of Liao also noticed him, but he just nodded, and then he got on his horse and left, taking only six soldiers with him and heading south.

Pu Chayi came to his senses, the reason why he wanted to conscript despite the infamy of the people was to obey the emperor's order, but obeying the order can also be done in a submissive manner, after all, who can tell what age is.

The important thing is that he believes in the King of Liao. If the King of Liao is the commander-in-chief, the battle may turn around, so he must recruit enough soldiers for the King of Liao.

Thinking of Pucha looking up, there has just been a rain in the sky, and the dark clouds are still piled up in the distant sky, covering the sun, and in the farther sky, the mountains are undulating, majestic and spreading to the south.

Dajiang's majestic and colorful mountains and vast expanse fascinated him, but when he raised his head, he saw dark clouds in the sky that could not be dispelled.

Politically sensitive, Pu Chayi, who has rich experience in grassroots governance, has an intuition that if this battle continues to lose like this, Li Xingzhou will not need to do anything, and there will be big problems within Daikin.

It's not that Pu Chayi is selfless, but his Pucha family's daughter is the queen!
This alone is doomed for him to fight to the death for the Kingdom of Jin, and there is no way out.
You must do your best in this battle, even if you don't win, you have to draw with that monster Li Xingzhou.

Thinking of this, he sighed again. He knew that maybe he shouldn't have let his daughter marry the Wanyan family back then. Even if he didn't have the current status, he still had room for mediation, so he wouldn't be in a deadlock like now.

It is not unreasonable for them to always be able to gain a firm foothold in Liaodong. They can always see higher Some, some longer.

"Fortunately, Liaodong is always safe." Pu Chayi said to himself, consoling himself.

Jinzhou, the most important town in the west of Liaoning, extends in all directions and guards the throat. This place is also different from Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan.

Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan can be called important defensive towns, while Jinzhou is a major transportation town. In this sense, Jinzhou is a strategic location. Losing Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan can still be defended.

If Jinzhou is gone, it will be a big problem for the Jin army to defend even where, because the offensive routes will suddenly become extremely numerous.

Therefore, at the strategic level, Jinzhou's position is the most important.

There is chaos here, the sky is full of dust, there are shouts of killing, and there are big camps everywhere. The troops drawn by the Kingdom of Jin from Liaodong and Shangjing are assembled here. A fiery scene.

Today is very different, all the generals and officials in Jinzhou have left the city for fifty miles, staring at the sun as if expecting something.

After waiting for more than an hour, everyone was so hot that they hid under the roadside trees to rest. Finally, at the far end of the avenue, a few sparse figures appeared in the steaming and distorted air.

A total of seven horses and seven people walked slowly towards this side.

"Here we come!" Someone shouted excitedly.

The generals and officials on the side of the road slapped the dust on their buttocks, and then stood up neatly, waiting for the people on the other side of the road to approach.

"The subordinates are waiting here to welcome the commander in chief!"

Hundreds of people knelt in unison on the loess in the avenue.

The person who came got off his horse, it was the thin Wanyan Zongbi, many of the people here were Wanyan Zongbi's former subordinates, seeing him like this after not seeing him for more than half a year, couldn't help crying.

Wanyan Zongbi nodded, "Get up, everyone."

Everyone stood up, and some couldn't help complaining, "Marshal, you're finally here, if you don't come, Li Xingzhou will be killed in the city of Jinzhou!"

Wanyan Zongbi continued to walk forward, someone led his horse, everyone moved out of the way, surrounded him in the center.

"There is an old man here, don't worry." He spoke in a calm tone, and his voice was not loud, but it made everyone feel at ease.

"Where's Wu Linhuang?" He asked as he walked.

"That kid was besieged by Jing Jun in Ningyuan City, and now Ningyuan is an isolated city." Someone said contemptuously that they didn't think highly of Wu Linhuang.

Wanyan Zongbi didn't ask any more questions, he didn't care about Wu Linhuang's life or death, "Where is Yelu Tuohu, do you have any definite news about him?"

There was silence around for a while, and then someone whispered: "Dead, died in Shanhaiguan, he let most of them flee north, and brought a few people to fight with the people of Jingguo."

"The imperial court also said that he lost Shanhaiguan, that he did not obey the command of the commander, and was self-willed."

His voice became lower and lower, Wanyan Zongbi took a deep breath, but in the end he didn't say anything. After half a year of house arrest, he understood more things, not just generals who only know how to fight and kill.

Yelu Tuohu, who he once regarded as a brother, who was born and died together, now has such a fate, it is impossible not to be disappointed.

But his heart has long been chilled, after he was tricked into surrendering his military power, and then imprisoned by his own nephew, the current emperor.

If it hadn't been for the people from Jingguo to call this time, he might not be able to make it out for a lifetime, which is really ironic.

But "Since the people from Jingguo have come, we can't let them go back safe and sound!"

(End of this chapter)