Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

A carriage went to the dock, and Yelu Yujian watched the street scene along the way.

Once upon a time, Nanjing (Beijing) of the Liao Kingdom was also so prosperous and lively. Now everything is in vain, the population of Youyun Prefecture has dropped sharply, and the people of the Northland are no longer alive.

From the Kingdom of Jin to the Kingdom of Ming, the further south you go, the more it feels like you are coming from hell to the human world.

Unfortunately, before I could stay in Kaifeng for a few more days, I had to go to Shandong to meet Prince Zhu.

After their father and son entered the city, they didn't even have time to wander around the streets. After meeting the Ming Emperor, they were invited to contact Shi Yuangong. Officials from the Generalissimo's Office, the Privy Council, the Ministry of War and Honglu Temple also came to listen and ask questions, reminding them what information they should recall and tell.

"Ouch, bite him with your mouth, bite his hand!"

"Pick up your crotch and catch him!"

"Kang Kang is so skilled that he can turn this over."

"Prince Yun, quickly poke his eyeballs..."

The onlookers who crowded the streets moved out of the way to avoid the carriage, and Yelu Yujian finally saw the situation clearly.

Yeludong really couldn't understand Chinese and didn't take the two fighting seriously.

Yeluyu was extremely surprised when he saw it, and asked the officials accompanying him in the car: "Why are there still King Kang and King Yun?"

The official glanced at it, embarrassed and amused: "It's just the former royal family, general, don't be too surprised."

"Can the royal family of the previous dynasty move around freely in the Ming Dynasty?" Yeluyu asked.

The official said: "Officials are benevolent. The former emperor is still an official in Shandong."

Hearing this, Yelu Yujian felt even more relieved. The royal family of Zhao and Song Dynasties would receive preferential treatment, and he, a member of the Liao clan, had nothing to fear.

In the center of the street, before the patrol soldiers arrived, the three brothers had already dragged Zhao Kai and Zhao Gou away.

Just as Zhao Yan was about to complain that they were embarrassed, Zhao Gou had already walked away, and Zhao Kai also limped in the other direction.

Except for his brothers, no prince treated Zhao Kai with envy, jealousy or hatred. In the past, we had to curry favor with him, but now who cares? Zhao Gou had long wanted to beat him!

Zhao Kai raised his sleeves and covered his face, rented a carriage and headed straight to the countryside.

He didn't want to go home for the time being, and he didn't dare to go back to the city again.

After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kai always regarded himself as the big brother. When he was under residential surveillance, he often went to his brothers' homes to catch the autumn wind. Later, when he got rich, one of his younger brothers asked him to borrow money, and he lent it out without saying a word.

These behaviors were all taken for granted by Zhao Kai.

He is the big brother, so of course his younger brothers should help him when he is in trouble, and they should also help him when he is prosperous.

Zhao Gou's words and deeds today broke Zhao Kai's heart. It turned out that he was nothing in the eyes of his brothers.

"parking!"

Zhao Kai reached for the money and planned to find a tavern for a drink.

After touching around, he found that he had forgotten to bring money. Zhao Kai couldn't care less about his sadness and said awkwardly: "I have something to do at home. I'm going to the southwest. I have to go home to get something first."

Zhao Gou went to Yuanshe to play football with his friends.

Nowadays, there are two main popular rules for Cuju in Tokyo. One is of a performance nature, following the Song Dynasty gameplay; the other is of a competitive nature, using the rules improved by Prince Zhu.

Either way, they are welcome.

"Hey, Kuro is here again." The libertines had a mocking expression.

These guys, with the powerful children of the new dynasty as the core, also attracted many merchant children, and at the bottom were a large group of helpers.

And Zhao Gou is essentially a helper.

He didn't want to mix up like this, but the real scholar circle was wary of Zhao Gou's identity. He could only increase his presence in the circle of lower-class scholars while running to help these dandy boys. While eating and drinking all day long, he could also find some opportunities to climb up.

Zhao Gou bent down and held up his hands to please him with a smile: "Brothers, you have been waiting for a long time."

"Has the engagement been broken off?" asked a libertine.

Zhao Gou replied: "Retreat and don't care about the Naluo family."

Another libertine laughed: "How much did you lose?"

Zhao Gou replied: "Not much, and it's not for money."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Everyone started laughing. They liked to play tricks on the Zhao and Song royal families, and had a perverted pleasure in trampling on the nobles.

Zhao Gou could only smile and follow these guys to have fun at night, eating and drinking in high-end entertainment venues.

After the wine was over, Zhao Gou wandered on the streets of Tokyo, looking up at the bright moon in the night wind.

He felt that this was not a way out, especially since he had a fight during the day and became a laughing stock among the people in Tokyo.

After saving money for another six months, you can try to write a letter to the court and request that you take your wife and children to move elsewhere. The more remote the place, the better. The gentry in the backcountry has little knowledge, and he, the former royal family, can be respected.

When you go to a small place, spend money to buy real estate and make friends with local celebrities, and you will be better off for the rest of your life.

Whoever wants to live in this broken Tokyo city can live there, and Zhao Gou doesn't want to stay for a long time anyway.

…

But it was said that Yeluyu saw his father and son being escorted out of Tokyo and took a boat all the way to Shandong.

From Kaifeng to Jinan, the whole journey can be taken by water, and you have to pass through Liangshan Water Park in the middle.

The surrounding prefectures and counties in Liangshanbo also experienced a sharp decline in population, and even the number of fishermen became very few, but after all, it was no longer the chaos of previous years.

People did not want to experience war disasters again, and even the scattered bandits in the mountains were recruited one by one as people and assigned to reclaim the land without owners.

"The Kingdom of Jin will definitely not be able to defeat the Kingdom of Ming." Yelu Dongzhen said.

Yeluyu said: "Of course we can't win. As long as the Ming Dynasty defends the city, there will be civil strife in the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom has food but lacks soldiers. Wanyan Zonghan has soldiers but lacks food. If Wanyan Zonghan cannot go south to plunder, Wanyan Zonghan will Sooner or later, we will have to fight with the Emperor of Jin!"

Yelu Dongzhen said: "My child is saying that as we travel along the way, all the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty are full of merchants and fertile fields. On the other hand, over there in Yunzhong (Datong), all industries are in decline under the rule of Wanyan Zonghan. As long as the Ming border troops do not lose the city, even if If you lose ten or twenty battles, you can still continue to fight in the coming year. And what about Wanyan Zonghan? After three or five defeats, he will be unable to continue."

"Indeed!" Yelu Yujian nodded.

More than a hundred years ago, the Jurchen tribes were still in the primitive society of clan communes.

In the past hundred years, the Jurchens have finally developed from clan communes to slavery.

However, the specific situation is extremely complicated. During the transformation of civilization from "hunting" to "farming", clans and slavery have always been mixed.

From clan communes, to large family communes, and then to small family private ownership, this civilizational process of jumping several levels was carried out almost simultaneously in all parts of the Jin Kingdom.

Until half a century later, decades after Yue Fei's death, the Kingdom of Jin was still "privately owned by small families and farmed by big families." During busy farming times, the clan leader could mobilize all resources, including the slaves of the small family, to uniformly direct the work on the entire family's land.

In the past two years, the Jin Kingdom not only migrated a large number of Xi people and Bohai people, but also migrated the Jurchen tribe to the north, and brought the Meng'an Mouke system with them.

The tribal aristocratic slavery system of large and small families began to be implemented in the Sixteenth State of Youyun. Countless Jurchen slaves were redeemed as free people, and countless Han and Bohai people became slaves, launching very inefficient production activities in the Youyun area.

Those places were even worse than when the Liao Kingdom ruled. Every month, people fled south, or simply rebelled and fought guerrillas in the mountains.

For example, the monks in Mount Wutai, under the leadership of the abbot, united the local gentry and common people, and have been fighting against the Jin people in the valleys for more than a year.

The Jin people's messy rule in the north was noticed by Yelu Dongzhen. At that time, he didn't think anything was wrong. After he came to the Ming Dynasty and visited the Ming Dynasty, he realized that the national power of the Jin Kingdom was too fragile.

Yelu Yujian sighed with emotion: "The Liao Kingdom did not die from the Jin Dynasty, but died from civil strife. As long as there is no civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, why should we fear the Jin Kingdom?"

This is the truth in Yelu Yujian's heart. Even now, he looks down on the Jin people, thinking that they are a bunch of uncivilized mountain barbarians.

As for the terrifying fighting power of the Jin soldiers, Yelu Yujian selectively ignored them.

Seeing Ju Ming in Jinan, Yelu Yu bowed to him when he saw him, knelt on the ground and said with tears: "Yelu Yu, a survivor of the Liao Dynasty, pays homage to the crown prince of China in the Ming Dynasty!"

"General, please get up quickly." Zhu Ming smiled and helped.

Yelu Yujian said: "The Jurchens are barbarians, and the Ming Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, and Song Dynasty are all China. The Liao Dynasty and Song Dynasty did not cultivate moral governance, so they could be seen by the barbarians. Now the Ming Dynasty is invaded by all the people, and the Jurchens will be driven back." Savage land!”

Zhu Ming took Yelu Yujian's hand and said, "The general is wrong, that is not a barbaric land, it is actually the homeland of China. The Jurchen people have lost their education for a long time, so they became barbarians, and they were deceived by ambitious people, and then they became They are as barbaric as animals. Now that the general is here, he should help me regain my homeland in China and re-educate the people there. If there are people who are stubborn and would rather die than submit to the king's rule, then they can only kill them."

Yeluyu was startled when he saw it, and then he looked excited: "The prince's talents and strategies really make me ashamed. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers. Those Jurchen barbarians really deserve to be educated."

Ju Ming asked: "The Khitan tribe was moved inland by the Jurchens a lot?"

Yelu Yujian said: "Except for those who died of famine and war, nine out of ten Khitans and Han people in Yanshan were moved away by the Jin Kingdom. Last year, the Xi people and Bohai people were moved to Yanshan, which can be regarded as replacing the people there. . The various ethnic groups that were relocated have a lot of resentment in their hearts, and who is willing to stay away from their homeland? It’s just that there are few Jurchens, and they are afraid of rebellion by various ethnic groups, so it will be easier to rule after random migration."

Ju Ming asked: "If you cross the sea from Shandong and follow the army to the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, can you be sure to instigate rebellion against the Khitans?"

Yelu Yujian said: "My tribe was moved to Chenzhou (Gaixian) by the Jin Kingdom. As early as the beginning of the migration, many tribesmen joined forces to rebel against the Jin. As long as I lead troops to kill them, the tribesmen will definitely come to surrender." .”

“Excellent!”

Ju Ming smiled and said: "Before the war started in Hebei, you crossed the sea with the army in Shandong and went to Chenzhou to recruit the old Khitan troops. I will provide you with soldiers and armor, form an army on the spot, and shake up the entire Liaodong!"

"I will live up to the prince's trust!"

Yeluyu was so excited that he immediately knelt down. He could finally command the army again, and the soldiers under his command were still his own people.

Yeludong really couldn't understand Chinese, but seeing his father's behavior, he guessed what happened and quickly knelt down to thank him.

(I got the wrong number one scholar in the previous chapter. I have corrected it. Sorry.)