The Han Dynasty was a society with all-round development of administrative and organizational capabilities, economic power, and cultural power, so its rise was slower than that of the Jurchens in the early days, but its stamina was deep and extensive. Especially after getting Shandong as a large piece of territory on the mainland, the situation quickly opened up.

Although the Jurchens are also a nation with a strong learning ability, after all, the starting point is too low, so the development of the Jin State is actually very unbalanced: the tactical and technical things are learned quickly, but the social structure, economic structure and cultural power are still maintained at a low level, even though a small number of Jurchen nobles have reached a high level of sinicization with their own ingenuity, but as far as the whole nation is concerned, it has not formed a high-level, sustainable intellectual group. Even if intellectuals such as Bohai and Yanyun joined, because these people were not from their own ethnic group, it was difficult for them to enter the core of power and have a fundamental impact.

And this time Han Fang's betrayal was undoubtedly worse for the living environment of intellectuals in the Jin Kingdom, and Zong Han Zongfu did not forget to carry out a major internal purge while dealing with the Han Ministry, in an attempt to eliminate those possible spies! In this purge, although Han Qixian had already pre-processed the traces of his leakage to Han Fang, there must be someone in the Western Route Army camp who was responsible for this matter, so soon after Zong Han returned to the Yanyun area, Han Qixian was dismissed from his post and went home to relax.

Although there is such an opportunity for the Jurchen warriors to surrender to the literati, there is such an opportunity for Zhiyan to escape, but the deep-seated reason is that it is difficult to achieve a high degree of mutual trust between the Jurchens and the foreign races, so as soon as there is a stir, the concept of "if it is not my race, its heart must be different" will easily explode.

In the middle of 1680, just when Yang Yingqi was proudly married, Han Qixian and other Hanchen were trembling in this purge! In addition to investigating the officials involved in Zhiyanchong's escape, Zong Han also investigated all the officials related to Han Fang, and asked these scholars to report each other. As a result, a large number of "tainted witnesses" appeared, friends "exposed" friends, classmates "exposed" classmates, and even relatives "exposed" relatives! How many of the civil officials and scholars in the Jin Kingdom have not dealt with the Han Ministry? At this time, as soon as it became sensitive, almost all scholars were suspected of being "spies"!

The consequences of this purge came as a surprise even to Zong Han, as almost one-third of the civil servants who served the Jin regime were either killed or imprisoned in the purge, and almost all the scholars in the country were spared! In the end, Jin Guo had to appoint a large number of "own people" to take over the work of these civil officials who were brushed down, and it is conceivable that the vast majority of these "own people" in Jin Guo are illiterate! In the Huining and Monan areas, it is fine, but in the Liaohe River valley and Yanyun region, where the economy and society are already quite developed, it is bound to cause great chaos if barbarians take over the civil affairs of civil officials! And once this chaos breaks out, it can't be controlled if you want to! After Zong Gan, Zong Han and others found out that the destructive power of this purge was too serious, it was too late to stop!

At the end of April, Wu Qimai hurriedly issued an amnesty order after the situation at the top level of the Jin State was wrong, and a large number of civil officials involved in the case who were tortured to death were released from prison, and Han Qixian and other Hanchen administrative posts were restored, but the normal administrative order in the Yanyun and Liaohe areas lasted until July and August, when they began to get back on track.

Even if the amnesty was obtained, the civil official clique within the Jin State had also been dealt a big blow, and most of them knew that one of the most important reasons why the Jurchen high-level would issue an amnesty so quickly was because the Han Ministry was watching, and Wu Qimai was afraid that the Han Ministry would take advantage of the situation, so he would issue an amnesty to stabilize people's hearts. However, "What if there is no Han in the world?" "Many people are scared when they think of this, they finally understand that a barbarian regime is a barbarian regime, even a Han child prime minister like Han Qixian is just acting with a snort, and Allah's sneezing may kill them! Even life hangs on the balance, let alone wealth and dignity?

This purge, which lasted for more than half a year, and its subsequent effects dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the intellectuals in the Jin regime. Many civil officials who had already made up their minds to be loyal to the Jin Kingdom also changed their minds after being released from prison.

Originally, the hardliners of the Jin army had planned to launch a large-scale military operation in the scorching heat before and after the Huaxia Enlargement Conference, but this political chaos disrupted the entire plan of the military!

The Han government took over Shandong in an all-round way after the "Huaxia Enlarged Conference", and Yang Yingqi returned to Jinmen in mid-August, and then came to Liaokou seven days later. At this time, the internal integration of the Xinhan regime had been preliminarily completed, and various undertakings in the new territory were flourishing. Because the Southern Song Dynasty regime also needed a relatively stable external environment in order to sort out its internal government affairs, and was unable to go north to interfere in the affairs of the north for a while, the Han and Song dynasties reached a consensus, and the external environment in the south also became reassuring, and the commerce and trade of Huaizikou and Xuzhou developed rapidly, becoming important money bags for the New Han Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty respectively.

It can be said that in the foreseeable period the situation in the south has become completely clear, but the situation in the north, especially in the northeast, is obscure and even somewhat absurd!

What an absurdity? It turned out that Yang Yingqi's attitude towards Jin was handled by two sets of parallel and complementary methods in the Central Plains and in the Northeast. In the Central Plains, Yang Yingqi has always held high the banner of anti-Jin, shaping Zhi Yanchong into the image of an anti-Jin leader. In the northern country, Yang Yingqi tried his best to deal with the relationship between Jinmen and Huining as a contradiction between the Han and Wanyan tribes, so as to prevent the Han tribe from becoming the common enemy of the northern tribes, and locked the target opponent of the struggle in the Wanyan clan, or even the Wanyan tribe of the anti-Dafang (Wuyashu and Zongxiong lineage). Therefore, on the ground of the Northeast, the relationship between the Han Department and the Wanyan Department in people's minds is fundamentally different from the relationship between Hu and Han in the minds of Hu Anguo and other scholars. This may have been unthinkable in the era of information, but in this day and age, this is the case. The middle and lower classes of the northern tribes and even the Jurchen people did not regard Zhi Yanchong as an outsider, and in their opinion, the struggle between Zhe Yanchong and Wu Qimai and Zong Han was just a struggle for the upper class.

So up to now, the Han Ministry has not officially declared independence from the Jin State. The things that were openly discussed at the "China Enlarged Conference" were all about how to improve the people's livelihood, how to restore the people's strength, and how to improve the living standards and cultural standards of all ethnic groups in the northern country. This arrogance of the proposal had already hinted at the Han Ministry's intention to take over the Huining regime. But the hint is only a hint after all, as long as Zhiyan Chong does not declare independence for a day, then the Liaodong Peninsula and the entire Northeast Plain are in name only.

This is true on the Han side, and the Jin side also has their own problems. After hearing that Zhe Yanchong had fled back to southern Liaoning, Wu Qimai immediately sent an additional army to Liaoyang Mansion to closely monitor the movements of the Han military. However, due to the laziness, Zong Han and Zong Fu's delay in negotiating the offensive and defensive strategy, coupled with the "Great Purge Turmoil" that occurred later, the actions of the defenders of Liaoyang Mansion became very conservative, and Zong Jun, who was guarding here, was not enough to block the vast ground that continued from Liaokou to Subin Mansion, and the Liaoyang Army and the Liaokou Army were separated by hundreds of miles from each other, and the people-to-people exchanges between the Liaohe River Valley and the Liaodong Peninsula were able to maintain the status quo!

When Yang Yingqi came to Liaokou, the goods from Anpo were still being transported from the north. This trade route not only provided a lot of resources for the handicraft industry in southern Liaoning, but also provided a lot of tax revenue for the Jin State, so although the war was on the verge of breaking out, as long as there was no war one day, the whole Jin State was unwilling to cut it off.

Yang Pu pointed to the people who came and went: "The war is together, this trade line will be broken, although we have hoarded a lot of materials over the years, but the war must be resolved quickly, otherwise the people may not be able to stand it." ”

Yang Yingqi shook his head and said, "You are wrong. It's good to be able to win quickly, but even if we get caught up in a protracted battle, we're not afraid. ”

Yang Pu said: "But the coal and iron we need ......."

Yang Yingqi: "We can transport these things from another place. ”

Yang Pu said: "You mean...... Hedong? ”

"Not bad." Yang Yingqi said: "And Japan." In fact, now the businessmen are already transferring funds in order to reduce the risk, so Zhao Lumin and the others are so interested in the coal mines in Hedong, and they will have conflicts with those merchants in Hedong. However, we must not get too involved in the competition between them, as long as we mediate from an impartial position. In short, if the battle starts here, it may lead to a shift in the economic vitality within our Han Department, and it may also make some people bankrupt and some people rich. However, it will not let Hanbu as a whole fall into a predicament. After all, the current Han Department is no longer the Han Department of the past. ”

Yang Pu said: "In this way, Seventh General, you are also in favor of attacking the Northeast first?" ”

"Of course!" Yang Yingqi said: "During my time in Shandong, my eldest brother has been deploying this matter!" Now the 30,000 elite soldiers in Shangshi Village and the 20,000 elite soldiers in Liaokou have been assembled and ready to go. The people on the fifth brother's side are almost ready. In addition, the 50,000 recruits recruited after the eldest brother came back, and after training for more than half a year, it is time to prepare for the battlefield experience. We have saved money, food, and manpower for so many years, isn't it just for today? ”

Yang Pu groaned: "So, when will war be declared?" ”

Yang Yingqi smiled: "Don't worry. Judging from the turmoil of the Great Purge of the Jin Kingdom, their internal positions have been chaotic, let's burn another fire and let them toss again. ”

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