In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 199 Are you willing to help me take the blame

In the Chuigong Hall behind the Daqing Hall, Zhao Yurui kindly asked Peng Yibin to sit down.

Zhao Yurui chatted briefly with Peng Yibin first, where is Hou's hometown in Jinan?Why did you join the army?
Peng Yibin was a little cautious at first, but he let go after a few words.

He is also a bold person, and he quickly blows up in front of the emperor.

Just as they were blowing vigorously, Zhao Yurui suddenly changed their tone: "I heard that in the turmoil in Chuzhou that day, Du Gao captured Li Quan's son and wife alive, how did he kill them later?"

"..." Peng Yibin was taken aback.

After a while, brushing, his face was flushed, and he stammered: "The last general - the last general will arrive in two days, and most of the things in Chuzhou city are heard."

"What did the Marquis of Jinan hear?" Zhao Yurui asked with a smile.

Peng Yibin hesitated, gritted his teeth and said, "Someone asked Du Zhifu how to deal with it, and Du Zhifu immediately ordered to kill him. He also said that if His Majesty asked, he ordered it."

Zhao Yurui's expression remained unchanged, and she listened quietly.

After Peng Yibin finished speaking, he got up and plopped down on his knees: "The final general is willing to guarantee with his life. Du Zhifu's heart is for the court, so he killed it well."

Peng Yibin doesn't know how to lie, he first asks for facts, and then he also expresses his opinion, saying that Du Gao killed well.

He is very similar to Du Gao, the two have never met before, only heard about each other's deeds and names.

Du Gao also vouched in front of the emperor that Peng Yibin was a true righteous man, and now Peng Yibin reciprocated, and it was the same.

Both of these two have straightforward personalities and don't know how to beat around the bush. However, if they meet ordinary leaders, they hate their self-assertion. They will definitely not be reused, and they will even be suspected.

Zhao Yurui didn't say anything more, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, "To be honest, the Marquis of Jinan is a general, not a handsome talent."

"The final general understands that the final battle basically depends on courage and the support of his brothers." Peng Yibin blushed and readily admitted that his ability was limited.

He doesn't have much technical content in the art of war, he just does it directly.

Last time, Zhao Yurui's people taught him to attack Qingzhou and Jinan, which saved a lot of trouble. If he did it himself, he would probably have to raise troops to attack directly. Hit it.

After easily conquering Jinan and Qingzhou, he thought that the people on the emperor's side were very skillful and better at fighting than him.

"The final general has already prepared, please send someone to take over the Shandong capital." Peng Yibin said at this time.

The emperor appointed him as a deputy, so he knew that sooner or later someone would replace him.

"I'm not trying to seize your military power. Shandong's soldiers, you take care of them first. As long as you promise me, you can't continue the Northern Expedition without receiving an order from the court. It's not that I don't want the Northern Expedition. If you lose the Northern Expedition now, you will basically die. You, Peng Yibin, are not afraid of death, and your tens of thousands of brothers will die with you?"

Peng Yibin should have understood it, and made a statement in front of the emperor, and everything will be subject to the imperial court's order in the future.

Zhao Yurui got a satisfactory answer, and asked again, from the perspective of the Marquis of Jinan, who is the biggest enemy of my Song Dynasty now?

"Mongolia." Peng Yibin said without hesitation, "The troubles of Mongolia are ten times worse than gold——"

Peng Yibin has been in Shandong all year round and has fought against the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols. He has never met the main force of the Mongols, but he already feels very difficult, and he is deeply impressed by the defeat of the Mongolian Kingdom against the Jin Kingdom.

If he knew the history, he would definitely thank Zhao Yurui. Without Zhao Yurui, he would be sent back to Chuzhou to fight Qingzhou. He is now on the way to the Northern Expedition and was wiped out by the Mongols.

"It's fine if you understand this truth." Zhao Yurui said, "I'm asking you."

"If a wolf bites you, but a tiger comes in front of you, and now only you have to join forces with the wolf first to save your life temporarily and resist the tiger, what should you do?"

Peng Yibin didn't hesitate: "The last general thinks that we should appease the Kingdom of Jin and fight against Mongolia first."

"Okay." Zhao and Rui jumped at each other.

Then Zhao and Rui taught Ji Yi face to face.

The imperial court wanted to use Dongping as its base to conduct private transactions with the Kingdom of Jin.

From Dongping to the southwest is Caozhou, which can enter the hinterland of Jin Kingdom in Henan by land, not far from Kaifeng.

There is also an important water post road on the edge of Dongping, which connects Qingzhou to the sea in the east, and Lianghuai in the south.

The imperial ship can go on both sides now, but Pizhou and Xuzhou are still in the hands of Jin Guo. If you go this way, it will be too obvious to do business with Jin.

In order to keep it secret, I still go to Qingzhou.

Then from Qingzhou to Dongping, and then from Dongping to Nanyang Lake, the two sides traded at Nanyang Lake.

"The imperial court can't openly say that it has traded with Jin Guo, so if someone finds out and reports it, you have to come out and take the blame."

"At that time, it will be said that you, Peng Yibin, traded with Jin Guo."

"Peng Yibin, are you willing to take the blame for me?"

Peng Yibin said loudly: "The general is willing to bear it all."

"Okay." Zhao Yurui supported his shoulders and said loudly: "The Marquis of Jinan has done a great job in guarding Shandong. In the future, on the day of the imperial court's northern expedition, I will fight with you again."

Peng Yibin was so excited that tears filled his eyes. He didn't know how to speak. Anyway, he felt that the emperor was a very nice person, and he was able to talk to the emperor.

Zhao Yurui finally asked again, who is the guard of Dongping?

Peng Yibin said that it was Yan Shi, who was originally a Jin man, who first surrendered to Mongolia and then surrendered him.

Zhao Yurui's complexion changed slightly: "This kind of person is always on the move and cannot be trusted. He was able to surrender to you last time, and he will be able to surrender to Mongolia in the future?"

"You have to get rid of him. If you don't want to, let him guard Linqing. Dongping must be replaced by your people. All the soldiers and horses must use your own people."

"The final general obeys the order." Peng Yibin was still soft-hearted, he only wanted to transfer Yan Shi to guard against Linqing, and he didn't want to get rid of Yan Shi.

Before leaving, the emperor asked him to go back to Shandong, cooperate with Zhao Yurui's men to train and rectify the army, gradually reduce Yan Shi's military power, repair and strengthen the city defenses of Qingzhou, Jinan and other places, and raise horses in the fields to prepare for war.

Peng Yibin agreed one by one.
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Dasan Pass is the pass of the scattered kingdoms in the Zhou Dynasty, so it is called San Pass. It is one of the four passes in Guanzhong. It is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains in the southern suburbs of Baoji City in later generations.

In the fourth year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1130), after the failure of the Song Dynasty in the battle of Fuping, the Song general Wu Jie collected the remnants of the soldiers and settled in the monks.

Some people persuaded Wu to move to Hanzhong and keep the pass into Shu. Wu thought: "I will protect this, and the enemy will never dare to overtake me! A strong wall is close to it, and he is afraid of me following behind. That's why I protect Shu." Sure enough, he was defeated. The invading Jinbing.

In May of the following year, Jin Meili Langjun and Biejun folded Wulu and entered the bandits in two ways. Wu sent Wu Lin, Lei Zhong, etc. to meet the enemy with strong soldiers with "garrison arrows".He also used cavalry to cut off his food road, and fought more than 30 times. Yan Zongbi was shot by an arrow and retreated. The Song army won a big victory in this battle.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty firmly guarded the Dasan Pass, it established the boundary for the subsequent Shaoxing peace talks.

In the 11th year of Shaoxing (1141), the Southern Song Dynasty negotiated peace with the Jin Dynasty. The north belongs to gold; the Song Dynasty pays 25 taels of silver and silk to the gold every year. Since the 12th year of Shaoxing, it has been moved to Sizhou every spring for payment.The Shaoxing peace agreement confirmed the politically unequal relationship between the Song and Jin Dynasties, which became another shame of the Song and Song Dynasties after the shame of Jingkang.

As one of the four passes in Guanzhong, Dasan Pass must pass here when entering Shu from the Central Plains, so for a long period of time, it supported the defense line of the Southern Song Dynasty in the northern Qinling Mountains.

But there is no impenetrable fortress in the world.

The key is who is guarding the gate.

When Wu Jie and Wu Lin were there, the Jin soldiers could not break through.

But a few years ago when the Jin soldiers came to attack, the defender Wang Li fled without a fight, and directly abandoned the Dashan Pass. After Tuo Lei came, the Dashan Pass was broken again. The unbreakable Dashan Pass became like a vegetable market. , anyone can come in.

Just because they knew the importance of Dashan Pass and Sichuan, after Zhao Yurui took power, he immediately replaced the original Sichuan envoy, Zheng Shun, Shi Miyuan's confidant.

Zhao Yurui had no impression of Zheng Sun, nor did he know how talented he was, but Zheng Sun was Shi Miyuan's confidant, and Cui Yuzhi was a famous official in the Southern Song Dynasty, so he would definitely use Cui Yuzhi first.

And in history, it was Zheng Sun, the trash who gave up the five states outside the pass, that allowed Tuo Lei to easily break through the Dasan Pass.

So Zhao and Rui Yin got the right person by mistake.

But the problem now is that Cui Yuzhi is no longer young.

In June of the first year of Baoqing.

Cui Yuzhi, who is nearly 67 years old, stood at the top of Dasan Pass with the support of two young men.

In history, Cui Yuzhi still went to suppress the rebellion in his 80s, so the spirit of this meeting is still good.

But the altitude of Dashan Pass is more than 1000 and [-] meters. After he climbed up, he was also a little out of breath, and stood there for a long time without speaking.

The two young men supporting him were brothers Meng Gong and Meng Zhang.

At this time, Cui Yuzhi was looking at Dashan Pass, beside him were brothers Meng Gong, and behind him was the guard of Dashan Pass, who was about to send Zhang Xuan.

A few years later, Tuo Lei sent Su Buhan to enter Sichuan by way. It was Zhang Xuan, who had been promoted to the governor of Mianzhou, who sent him angrily, because Zhang Xuan also knew that he could not use the way to the Mongolian army.

"Cuizhi's mansion, look at the Heshangyuan on the east side, where Wu Shuai defeated the Jin soldiers back then. The Heshangyuan is steep all around, with a wide and flat top. It is a dangerous place for troops to guard. The west side is full of cliffs, and the bottom is as deep as— —”

Zhang Xuan is introducing Dashanguan to Cui Yuzhi.

Cui Yuzhi had once served as the envoy of the Sichuan government, and Zhang Xuan was promoted under him.

But looking back after so many years, Dasanguan has not changed much, but is slightly dilapidated.

But this cannot be blamed on Zhang Xuan. The imperial court has always had little support for Sichuan. Sichuan is the only place recognized by the imperial court in the Southern Song Dynasty and can cast iron coins by itself.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Sichuan was relatively autonomous, and the handsome officials stationed there were more like feudal officials. They could mint money, conscript and train troops at will, and farm fields at will. They could do everything by themselves without reporting to the imperial court. There is little support.

Don’t even think about paying military salaries, they are all self-raised locally in Sichuan. Sichuan also has its own financial system called the General Consulate, which is separate from the imperial court. It operates and spends by itself, and the surplus money, food and taxes do not need to be handed over to the imperial court. , just report a number.

Now Zhao Yurui values ​​​​Sichuan very much, Cui Yuzhi listened to Zhang Xuan's explanation, but Meng Gong's letter from the emperor flashed in his mind.

The emperor said that guarding Sichuan means guarding the population, and we must not let the Mongols and Jin people plunder and slaughter our population.

The city can be lost, but the people must protect it.

To keep the people is to keep the productivity, keep the source of troops, and keep hope.

Cui Yuzhi took the emperor's words seriously, and it was the emperor's words that moved him that he was willing to come out again.

(End of this chapter)