Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 288 0283 [Liangshan Gathering]

Lin Bing is still very strong, this guy directly deducted the goods of the tea horse company, and transported them to Jiazhou to find Lu Youcheng to buy grain.

"Prefect, do you really want to deliver food to Lizhou?" the general judge Kan Mian asked.

Lu Youcheng, the prefect, sighed: "All the goods have been delivered, how can it not go according to your wishes? This Yu Wenchang and Zhu Ming, together with the traitor Lin Bing, deliberately provoked a border war in order to seek military merit."

Kan Mian said: "If these three are defeated, the barbarians of Jiazhou may also cause trouble. We must make preparations early."

Lu Youcheng said: "You go to inspect the villages in the south and keep an eye on the movements of the barbarians."

"Yes!" Kan Mian accepted the order.

Lu Youcheng is already quite old, his father is called Lu Huo, he participated in the support of Song Yingzong Zhao Shu, and he was also good friends with Sima Guang, Fan Zhen and others.

With Lu Youcheng's ability and achievements, he shouldn't be just the prefect of Jiazhou.

But his father belonged to the old party, and he himself was an official with grace, and it was difficult to get promoted after many great achievements.

At the beginning of the Dengzhou mutiny, the county was occupied.The officials ran away in fright. Lu Youcheng, as a small official collecting wine tax, went alone to appease the soldiers who were making trouble, and actually settled the mutiny.

Wang Zhongli and Chong Er conquered Lingzhou. The weather was freezing and the food was exhausted. All the peasants from other counties and counties fled.Only none of the civilian husbands sent by Lu Youcheng to accompany the army escaped, and persisted hungry until the end of the war.

Historically, Lu Youcheng fought against the Jin Dynasty in Shandong, and his family of more than [-] died for the country...

After receiving the goods from Lin Bing, Lu Youcheng immediately summoned the grain merchants and ordered them to sell them at a fair price, and then recruited civilians to send them to Lizhou.

This kind of nanny service is not because Lu Youcheng is afraid of traitors, but because he is afraid that Yu Wenchang and Zhu Ming will lose the battle.

Lizhou is in chaos, and Jiazhou will also be in chaos. The Ministry of Void and Hate actually belongs to Jiazhou.

"The country will be in chaos, and there will be many evildoers!"

Lu Youcheng stood on the tower and watched the grain transport team go away, so angry that he couldn't help cursing.

Both Yu Wenchang and Zhu Ming were regarded as monsters by Lu Youcheng, who believed that they fought because they wanted to make military achievements.

Two months later, grain arrived in Jiazhou, and the army rations were immediately sufficient.

Ju Ming was not stingy with flattery, and praised: "Lin Qiju is really brave to do things. He even dared to withhold the property of the Tea Horse Company. I admire him so much."

Lin Bing smiled and said, "As long as we can win the battle, there will be no trouble."

This guy is a wonderful flower in the traitorous party. Others who become traitors are nothing more than making money for officials, and they will basically not offend officials of the same camp.However, he often did it blindly. During his tenure as governor of Kaifeng, he dared to punish merchants with powerful backgrounds.

Now it is even more unscrupulous to seek refuge with Tong Guan, and he detains the property of the Tea Horse Division, anyway, the Tea Horse Division must belong to Cai Jing.

Lin Bing said: "A war requires sufficient food and wages. I don't think the food is enough. I will urge them to bring another batch of food over there on Chengdu Fu Road."

Ju Ming flattered: "If you win this battle, your Excellency will take the greatest credit!"

Lin Bing stroked his beard and smiled: "We need to rely more on Yuwen Taishou and Zhu Zhixian."

"For the sake of the court and the officials, I will go all out!" Ju Ming said quickly.

A guy who can mispronounce words, but can stand out among many villains, how can he be a white lotus that emerges from the mud without staining?
Zhu Ming thinks on his knees, and knows what Lin Bing is thinking.

This guy wants to be the head coach as soon as he arrives, and he probably wants to take away all his military achievements.

At that time, the battle of Lizhou will be planned by Tong Guan, and Lin Bing himself will be in charge of the front line, and Zhu Ming and Yu Wenchang will become the foil instead.

If unfortunately defeated, all the responsibilities can be pushed to Ju Ming and Yu Wenchang!
Lin Bing is using Zhu Ming as a gunman, but why isn't Zhu Ming like this?

The two get what they need.

……

When Zhu Ming was training and preparing for war, the envoy sent by Song Huizong to the Kingdom of Jin was detained by Wanyan Aguda and placed under house arrest.

Didn't it say earlier that the Kingdom of Jin sent many valuable gifts?
Song Huizong regarded this as a tribute, so he asked Hu Yanqing to bring the imperial edict to the Kingdom of Jin.

Wanyan Aguda was furious because of this, and said to Hu Yanqing: "What I brought to the State of Song was a letter of state, but you sent an imperial edict. Am I a subject of the emperor of Song? Five hundred soldiers), to be in charge of the negotiations between the two countries, the emperor of Song is contemptuous of me!"

The negotiations between Song and Jin came to a standstill.

Da Song is really nonsense, even diplomacy can make such an oolong.

What's even more outrageous is yet to come... Let's not press it for the time being.

But it is said that Tong Guan lost [-] soldiers of Song Dynasty in order to join forces with Jin to attack Liao Dynasty.Xixia took advantage of the victory to pursue, surrounded Zhenwu with heavy troops, and several reinforcements from the Song Dynasty rushed to rescue.

Among them, the Song army (Lanzhou soldiers) captured the three cities of Shuibo, Gaizhu and Pulong in Xixia.Threatening Xixia's Zhuoluo City by encircling Wei and saving Zhao, the prince of Xixia, Brother Li Cha, immediately withdrew his troops.

Before leaving, Brother Li Cha pointed to Zhenwu City and said: "Don't destroy this city, keep it as a diseased part of the Southern Dynasty."

This sentence is half blunt and half true.

Zhenwu City is too far away, and there is barren land along the way.If Song Dynasty wants to occupy it for a long time, it has to consume a huge amount of supplies every year.Just a few years later, the food and grass reserves in the frontier were less than a month, and the military fortresses along the line were like paper.

The two sides stopped their troops, declaring the end of the war, and the Song Dynasty took control of the Hengshan area.

Tong Guan was in the limelight for a while, and his arrogance even overshadowed Cai Jing.

Song Huizong asked people to engrave a stele to commemorate, and wrote a special book about the brilliant results of the battle: "The whole territory of Qingtang was captured, 20 princes and three tribes were sent, 24 were captured and killed, and four states, one army, one pass, six cities, and ten cities were captured. Twelve strongholds. Occupy thousands of miles of land in Xixia, set up a new army, seven cities, and [-] forts in Wuzhai, break through eight Xixia cities, capture [-] enemies, recruit [-] troops, and behead [-] enemy troops."

If you don't count the casualties of the Song army, and don't look at how much food Song lost, this is indeed a brilliant victory.

Xixia's finances have been blown up, and it will be difficult to recover in the short term.

With the victory of foreign wars, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty practiced feudal superstition, conferring Zhuangzi as the true monarch of Wei Miao Yuantong, and canonizing Liezi as the true monarch of Zhixuguan Miaozhen.

However, this year, there were floods on the roads in the southeast, drought on the East Huainan Road, and famine on the Northwest Road in Beijing.

The water is moored in Liangshan, and it is gathering righteousness!
The cottage was originally built by Chao Gai, who robbed a large number of treasures two years ago and planned to lie dormant for a while.So he took Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong), Liu Tang, Qin Ming, Yan Qing, Ruan Jin, Ruan Tong and others to Liangshanbo to build a cottage.

Song Jiang fled in the Yellow River Flooding Area of ​​Hebei, and also arrived in Liangshan a while ago. Just when Chao Gai died, he was elected as the leader by Wu Jialiang and others.

Zhao Qi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and others commented on Song Jiang as "brave and cunning" and "brave and arrogant".

This guy is by no means the submissive image in "Water Margin". He appointed Wu Jialiang as his deputy and began to recruit water bandits, fishermen, and bandits near Liangshanbo.

Two years ago, a large area of ​​Liangshanshuipo was heavily taxed by the government, and the fishermen were miserable.After Song Jiang showed his strength, fishermen joined the gang one after another, and there were thousands of thieves in a blink of an eye.

In autumn, Liangshan heroes began to rob tank ships, and then went ashore to plunder towns.

The county magistrate of Yuncheng sent archers to arrest him, but they were defeated.

The magistrate of Jeju mobilized the soldiers from the countryside, but they were also unable to destroy them.

Both of these officials concealed it and did not report it until the beginning of winter, when Song Jiang led people to attack the county seat of Yuncheng.The local officials finally couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly reported to the court, requesting to mobilize officers and soldiers from Yunzhou and Jeju to suppress it.

The Song Jiang uprising was not large in scale, but the movement was not small. The reason was that he blocked the Caohe River and blocked the water transportation of the Jingdong Road, Huainan East Road, and Liangzhe Road!

These are all tax-heavy places, making the financial difficulties of the Song Dynasty even worse.

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In the back house of the government office in Hanyuan County, Zhu Ming has been training soldiers for several months.

The servant brought a plate of delicacies, and Zhang Jinping introduced: "This is my husband's hometown dish, called a fragrant bowl. I asked the cook to try it out, and now it is finally done."

Where is the hometown dish?

Zhu Guoxiang has a colleague who is from Sichuan, and Dongpo meat is learned from this person.After Zhu Ming was taken into the city by his father, he often went to this house to grab a meal. His favorite food was the incense bowl, and he would watch it every time he came and went.

Yu Wenchang took a piece to taste, and nodded in approval: "It's delicious in this world!"

Zhu Ming said: "It's very well done. Pork is minced and filled with fat and meat. The thinner the better. Add green onion, ginger, cornstarch, salt and egg white, stir and beat repeatedly, then spread the egg yolk on the surface, and steam for two quarters of an hour on high heat. That's it. Cool and cut into pieces, steamed and boiled can be eaten."

Yang also took a bite and praised: "The cooking is simple but extraordinary. I have never eaten such delicious pork."

Yu Wenchang said with a smile: "Success has the elegance of Mr. Dongpo."

The two families chatted and laughed for a while, and Yu Wenchang began to talk about business: "If the name is not right, the words will not go well. What is the name of the teacher who conquered the Sichuan barbarians in Qiongbu?"

Zhu Ming said: "Baomao can't enter, and the king's sacrifice can't be shared, so there is no way to shrink the wine."

"Haha, wonderful!" Yu Wenchang laughed.

It was about Duke Huan of Qi's attack on Chu, and the king of Chu sent an envoy to ask, "You are in the north, I am in the south, and I didn't provoke you, why did you send troops to attack me?"

Guan Zhong replied: "The state of Chu does not pay tribute to thatch, and the emperor cannot filter the wine dregs, so it is difficult to sacrifice to the state of Qi to ask for tribute."

Does Zhou Tianzi lack those thatch straws to filter wine?

Just find any reason.

There are too many excuses for Lizhou to send troops to attack the Sichuan barbarians in Qiongbu, just say that they have not paid tribute for several years.

Yuwen often said: "After half a month, you can send troops."

Zhu Ming reminded: "Order the five barbarians and the Xuhen Ministry to send out barbarian soldiers to help, willing to give the best to the soldiers, and condemn them afterwards if they don't give soldiers!"

"It should be so." Yu Wenchang nodded.

After eating and drinking, the two families went to the garden to drink tea.

Halfway through the drink, Yu Wenchang's relatives suddenly came in: "My lord, the two Linmen asked for help. Their villages in the northeast mountains were attacked by the Qiongbu Chuanman. The ghost owners of those villages were all beheaded to sacrifice to the ghosts. "

"How dare you!"

Yu Wenchang slapped his thigh fiercely: "Needless to say that Baomao is invincible, the Sichuan barbarians of the Qiong tribe have repeatedly violated the boundary, and it is difficult to be at peace if they are not subdued!"

Although the barbarians in Lizhou belonged to the Jimi state, the Song Dynasty also set up states, a total of 54 Jimi states.

Often dozens of villages, or even more than a dozen villages, together with large surrounding mountains, are set as a state by the imperial court.

Due to the continuous expansion of the Sichuan barbarians in Qiongbu, the divisions of these Jimi prefectures were beyond recognition.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was even more extreme. The territory of the two Linmans was completely changed, and they were beaten all the way to the south.

Don't take the imperial court seriously at all!

(End of this chapter)