Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 227

Master Miaoxin sighed too, "That General Fan is really hot-tempered, and the court wants to hold him accountable. In fact, with the help of Li Gang and other upright ministers, there is still a great chance of returning to the army. It is really a pity."

Mu Qingyan frowned slightly, and said: "General Fan has always been a person who would rather bend than bend. He has long seen the decay and darkness in the court. This time, I went to Beijing to see if I could help him. The benefactor Tong Guan.

He really didn't expect Tong Guan to plot against him on the spot, but he didn't know how disappointed he was.A hero like this is really a hero, Song Ting does not deserve to have it. "

Master Miaoxin looked at this disciple in astonishment, and couldn't help but said: "During the Five Dynasties, our sect was repeatedly attacked by demons and warlords, and almost wiped out.

Fortunately, with the help of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, there is a foundation for standing. Since that generation of Zhaizhu, this faction has made an oath to the royal family of Zhao Song.

When Zhao and Song Dynasties are about to perish, we must do our best to save them and ensure that they turn the crisis into safety.Qing Yan, no matter how much you sympathize with that General Fan, as the next generation head of the faction, you also need to remember the oaths of the past dynasties. "

Mu Qingyan said: "But since Patriarch Dini established the sect, isn't the purpose of this sect always to protect the peace of the world and bring order out of chaos.

If what the royal family of Zhao Song did violated this intention, would they still insist on their vow to support and protect the Song Dynasty? "

Master Miaoxin was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "In principle, it is natural that the purpose of our sect is the most important thing. This Zhao Song royal family is indeed too stupid."

At this time, Mu Qingyan's senior sister and brother-in-law Qian Hongyu and Sikong Zhan came to visit together.

After Qian Hongyu knew that Qiu Hanying was Mu Qingyan's new disciple, she happily taught her martial arts, and then met Mu Qingyan and Mrs. Miaoxin.

After reminiscing about the old days, Qian Hongyu said: "Master, junior sister, the imperial court has negotiated a peace with Jin Guo, but the content is really humiliating!"

Sikong Zhan, who has never spoken much, also said bitterly: "It is obvious that General Fan and the heroes of Yandi have joined forces to defeat the Jin army and even kill famous generals. Song Ting actually agreed to pay tens of millions of compensation, and will give another million every year in the future. The consistent unreasonable demands have left the world dumbfounded!"

Qian Hongyu said: "I already vaguely know from the Gusu area that the imperial court seems to be restarting the new law and increasing the world's taxes in order to strengthen the border defense!"

Mu Qingyan and her master listened to the news in shock, but in fact, the troubles after Song Jin negotiated peace were more than that.

The Kingdom of Jin used Song Ting's failure to hand over Fan Zhuoyuan's head as an excuse, and at the same time accused it of failing to protect Wanyan Baye and other Jin envoys, forcing Song Ting to pay 100 million Guansui coins every year.

In order to keep the achievements of Yanyun, Song Ting agreed without hesitation, and immediately paid the gold envoy with millions of year-old coins back then, and sent them to Liaodong.

After that, Song and Jin countries entered into a peace cycle again.

one year later……

Thanks to the Sixteen States of Yanyun, Song Ting found that although his strategic situation had greatly improved, he was about to face the same problems he had faced in the past Han and Tang Dynasties.

That's the border issue!
The Song Dynasty used to be neighbors with the Liao Kingdom. After the Tanyuan Alliance, only 30 Guansui coins can buy border tranquility every year, and it is only the opponent of the Northwest Xixia that has to be dealt with.

Therefore, the defense is all exported to the northwest, and the cost of capital is not so serious, which indirectly contributed to the prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

But now, not only the northwest, but also Shuofang, Yunzhong, Youyan and other places are the frontiers.

Although the Song and Jin Dynasties negotiated peace, no one in the court could guarantee whether this group of Jurchens, who were far more barbaric than the Liao people, would go crazy again one day and enter the pass to fight Caogu.

Therefore, it is natural to allocate a large amount of money to strengthen border defense. All of a sudden, Song Ting's financial burden suddenly increased.

In the past, the royal civil servants clamored that because there was no Yanyun Sixteen States, the strategic environment was very poor, and there were no war horses, so they had to be restrained.

Now that there are sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, the strategic environment has been improved, and there is no longer a great shortage of war horses, but they have to bear the border pressure faced by the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Based on the economic situation of the Song Dynasty, there are still redundant officials and soldiers. Unlike the original history of Jingkang, the redundant officials and soldiers were killed by the Jin people. On the contrary, the finances have become more abundant.

The current economy of the Song Dynasty is also very difficult, which has caused many civil officials to complain.

They found that the situation was as good as going back to the period of the Song-Liao confrontation. There is no way now. In order to spend on defense, on the one hand, they wantonly restored the new law of Wang Anshi's reform. It is enough to collect money, which makes the officialdom environment even more smoky.

At the same time, it had to go to the southeast and Yan to increase taxes again. Naturally, these taxes were not collected by the scholar-bureaucrats, and most of them were borne by the common people.

In the past, the heavy taxation had already made the southerners unable to feed themselves in a good year. Since the increase of various taxes again, it has made the people's life unsustainable. Besides, Zhao Ji, the dog emperor, has all kinds of programs. Naturally, the people are already boiling. Against the sky.

Aware of these situations, in order to ease the pressure on the landlords and farmers, the scholar-bureaucrats proposed to increase the commercial tax. This move was not wrong, but because the Song Dynasty’s rule of Guangzhou was too indulgent, especially the indulgence of the Arabs Set up settlements in Guangzhou and other places.

So much so that one year after increasing the agricultural tax and commercial tax, not only did peasant uprisings break out again in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, but the scale of the Fangla uprising was comparable to that of the old Fangla uprising.

At the same time, the Arabs in the Guangzhou area jointly resisted the imperial court’s increased taxation on business, blatantly killed officials and separatist regimes, forced to spread their religion, declared that they would establish an independent country in China, destroyed Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, and massacred those who disobeyed Common people and Buddhist monks.

These people have the habit of pirates, and they slaughtered and occupied Guangzhou in the late Tang Dynasty.

Later, Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising army, broke through and slaughtered the Arabs, Yici Leye people, Persians and other Hu merchants in Guangzhou with his backhand, which can be regarded as a successful revenge.

At present, the imperial court saw the fire in the rear, and the local Xiang army could not be used at all. It had to call up the Western army again, and ordered the leader of the Zhongshi division to go south to suppress it.

The situation in the world is in chaos again.

There was a rebellion in the Song Dynasty, from the time when the Song court summoned [-] Western troops, until the peasant uprising in Jiangnan and other places was completely put down, and the Arab riots, it took a whole year and a half, which also seriously injured the Song court.

This counter-insurgency did not completely suppress the Fangla Rebellion in just over two hundred days like the first time it was put down. This time the peasant army was extensive and scattered.

It mainly occurred in Lianghuai, Jiangnan East and West Roads, Liangzhe Road and other areas, covering almost the entire southern important area of ​​the Song Dynasty.

Most of these insurgents were the remnants of the last Fangla uprising scattered among the people. They had certain combat experience and had also learned from Fangla's lessons in strategy.

At the beginning of the uprising, they quickly captured the important places of Jinling and Jiangzhou, marched into the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and even besieged the important town of Xiangyang.

Once the important town of Xiangyang falls, it means that the natural danger of the Yangtze River will completely fall into the hands of the rebels. Seeing this situation, the senior officials of the Song court were extremely panicked.

(End of this chapter)