Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 604 Sending troops south again (please subscribe!)
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After the court was over, Li Yan originally wanted to go back to Wende Hall to continue reviewing the memorials.

But before Li Yan walked out of the hall, the servant came to report and Wang Zezhen asked to see him.

Li Yan's westward trip this time is really to open up trade routes, because only in this way can Shuibo Liangshan truly become strong.

Therefore, Li Yan attached great importance to merchants, especially these maritime merchants.

For this reason, Li Yan even planned to visit Wang Zezhen's two daughters again, and then raise their status to show encouragement to Wang Zezhen and other maritime merchants.

Based on this, Li Yan asked Wang Zezhen to come to the side hall to meet him.

Not long after, Wang Zezhen came to the side hall to meet Li Yan.

Wang Zezhen knew that Li Yan was busy, and it was impossible to waste too much time on a small person like him, so she went straight to the point and introduced Xu Derong for Li Yan.

Hearing from Wang Zezhen, Xu Derong earned [-] million yuan from international trade at sea in just a dozen years. Li Yan was a little interested in Xu Derong, so he asked Wang Zezhen to bring Xu Derong in.

Xu Derong is indeed very familiar with the current situation in India and the Arab world.

Under Xu Derong's introduction, Li Yan had a very clear preliminary understanding of the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia.

Li Yan immediately appointed Xu Derong as a censor.

In the next month or so, Xu Derong introduced to Li Yan the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and the West every day.

After Li Yan fully understood the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and the West, Li Yan appointed Xu Derong as the country's messenger and Xi Changshi as the deputy envoy. Discuss the matter of international trade by sea.

In order to demonstrate solemnity and strength, Li Yan ordered Tong Wei to take two treasure ships, [-] large ships, a battalion of sailors and corresponding sailors, and ordered Shangguanyi to take [-] cavalry from the first battalion to go to India with Xu Derong. countries...

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Although Wanyan Zongwang had reached an armistice agreement with the Song Dynasty on behalf of the Jin Dynasty and withdrew the Eastern Jin Army from the Song Dynasty, the West Jin Army still refused to withdraw from the Hedong area, and Taiyuan City was still surrounded by the Jin Army among.

Wanyan Yinshu and Wanyan Loushi commanded the West Road Golden Army. They had a clear division of labor, one was in charge of besieging Taiyuan City, and the other was in charge of reinforcements.

Relying on such tactics, Song General Zhong Shizhong rescued the siege of Taiyuan with an army of [-]. Ten thousand rescuers are in Yuci.

At the beginning of June, Zhao Huan directly issued an imperial edict to Liu Fan, Xie Qian, Zhe Yanzhi, Zhang Hao and other front-line generals, asking them to send troops immediately to rescue Taiyuan.

Zhao Huan really couldn't afford to lose Taiyuan City.

If Taiyuan City is lost, Hedong's defense line may collapse completely.

In this way, there will be no more obstacles to the north of the Yellow River, and Gong County, the emperor's mausoleum in the Song Dynasty, will also be exposed under the iron hooves of the Jinren.

The tombs of Yong'an in Gong County were buried here by seven emperors of the Song Dynasty, and the tomb of Zhao Kuangyin's father Zhao Hongyin was also moved here from Kaifeng, so there is a saying of seven emperors and eight tombs.

The eight tombs are in order: Xuanzu (Zhao Hongyin) Yongan Tomb, Taizu (Zhao Kuangyin) Yongchang Tomb, Taizong (Zhao Guangyi) Yongxi Tomb, Zhenzong (Zhao Heng) Yongding Tomb, Renzong (Zhao Zhen) Yongzhao Tomb, Yingzong (Zhao Shu) Yonghou Tomb, Shenzong (Zhao Xu) Yongyu Tomb, Zhezong (Zhao Xu) Yongtai Tomb.

Next to the imperial mausoleum, there are more than 300 tombs of concubines, royal family, royal family and minor descendants, as well as meritorious officials, forming a large-scale imperial tomb area.

The capital of the Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng, but the imperial mausoleum area was located in Gong County, far away from the capital. Why?

This is mainly related to Feng Shui.

There is Songyue Shaoshi in the south of the Yong'an Emperor Mausoleum area, and the natural danger of the Yellow River in the north. Fengshui treasure land.

If Zhao Huan lost all his ancestral tombs, not only would he lose his family, but his ruling position would be seriously affected.

Therefore, Zhao Huan desperately rescued Taiyuan City.

The generals saw that the tone of Zhao Huan's edict was so severe, and no one dared to be negligent, and organized troops separately——Liu Fan set out from the Pingding Army, and Wang Yuan, the head of Zhending Mansion and the governor of the capital, set out from Liaozhou, Jie Qian and Zhe Yanzhi Starting from Weisheng Army, Zhang Hao and Zhe Keqiu set off from Fenzhou.The Fourth Route Army marched towards Taiyuan from the east, south, and southwest.

But the Jin army first showed weakness, and then deceived the Song army without a unified command, luring the enemies one by one to go deep, and then defeated them one by one, defeating the Song army.

Later, Song general Zhang Sizheng recruited many defeated Song troops, recruited a large number of volunteers, gathered an army of 10,000+, and rescued Taiyuan City again, but was defeated by the cavalry of the Three Thousand Golden Army.

At this point, Zhao Huan completely gave up the idea of ​​fighting the Jin army again, and instead advocated for peace without hesitation, and sent Li Ruoshui as an envoy to seek peace. The land of the government.

But what Zhao Huan didn't know was that because of the repeated defeats of the Song army, especially the Western army led by famous generals such as Zhong Shizhong and Yao Gu, the Jin people who were not planning to go south to attack the Song Dynasty began to discuss going south again. thing.

The reason why the Jin people were going to go south again was not only because Zhao Huan and his ministers were extremely idiots in military and politics, which made the Jin people believe that the Song State was extremely weak and deceitful, but also because Zhao Huan and his ministers made another stupid move at this critical moment. .

Zhao Huan actually planned to use Jin envoy Xiao Zhonggong to instigate against Jin general Yelu Yujian, let Yelu Yujian raise the banner of resurrecting the Liao Kingdom, and then cooperate with the Song Dynasty to destroy Jin together.

If it is said that Zhao Huan lacks the insight to assess the situation in terms of internal affairs and military affairs, then in terms of diplomatic issues, Zhao Huan is simply mentally retarded.

There are no trivial matters in foreign affairs, and we should be cautious and careful, but Zhao Huan actually regarded diplomatic affairs as a trifle, and sent gold envoys to instigate against the gold people!
Is there anyone more stupid in the world?
Some people may say that this is all the problem of the minister in charge. Zhao Huan was just inexperienced and misunderstood by the minister.

shit!

It's not that there are no capable ministers around Zhao Huan, nor are there no ministers who can see the situation clearly. Li Gang and Zhong Shidao have all given Zhao Huan good strategies, and not only one or two strategies, but Zhao Huan just didn't adopt them and only believed in Li Bangyan. , Geng Nanzhong, what's the answer?
As soon as Xiao Zhonggong returned to Yanjing, he immediately handed over the wax pill secret letter written by Zhao Huan to Yelu Yujian to Wanyan Zongwang.

After Wanyan Zongwang saw it, he was extremely shocked, and immediately sent a fast horse to Xijing to hand over the wax pills to Wanyan Zonghan——Yelu Yujian is currently serving as the supervisor of the West Route Army under Wanyan Zonghan.

After Wanyan Zonghan read it, he immediately sent someone to go to Beijing, and handed over the wax ball secret letter to Wanyan Wu for begging.

At the same time, there was another secret letter that was presented to Wanyan Wu for begging, written by Zhao Huan to Li Yan, the content of which was to jointly raise troops to destroy gold.

Unfortunately, this secret letter was also intercepted by Wanyan Zonghan's subordinates during transmission.

After Wanyan and Wu Qimai read the two secret letters written by Zhao Huan, especially the letter to Li Yan, he was shocked, and immediately ordered to thoroughly investigate whether Shuibo Liangshan had the intention to join forces with the Song Dynasty to send troops together?
After the Jin people got the accurate news that Li Yan was still in the Indochina Peninsula, and had destroyed several countries in the Indochina Peninsula not long ago, and it was impossible to return in a short time, Wanyan Wu Qimai immediately called a meeting to discuss how to punish the Song State.

After deliberation, Wanyan Wu Qimai finally decided to send troops to the south again to crusade against Song...

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(End of this chapter)