Gain and loss.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were dispatched, two ways of attacking, and a lot of financial and civilian resources were expended, and in the end the Song army only got Hejian Mansion and several surrounding county towns close to the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

After Xijin, which suffered losses in the early stage of the war, contracted the defensive front, took advantage of the Song army to attack Dongjin in the north, concentrated its forces and took the initiative to attack, rushing to attack Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion, seizing a large area of land in Dongjin in one fell swoop, and almost completely cutting off the connection between Yanjing and Liaoyang Prefecture.

Therefore, the biggest gain in this battle was the beautiful Xijin who suffered the loss first.

The Great Song Dynasty rashly sent troops, and at the same time attacked Xijin Hejian Mansion, Dongjin Pingzhou, and Laizhou lost morality, which seemed to be menacing, and also recovered some land, but in fact, the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Xijin and Dongjin became extremely passive.

In this war, of course, the one who suffered a big loss was Dongjin, whose strength has become more and more inflated in recent years, and it originally occupied a great advantage in the relationship between the three countries.

The territory of Dongjin originally did not border with the Great Song Dynasty, and there was no direct conflict between the two countries, so they could let go of their hands and feet in the battle with Wanyan Liang of Xijin, and they did not have to worry about being attacked in the rear or other places, but the border between Xijin and the Great Song Dynasty was too wide, and every time there was a war with Dongjin, the Great Song Dynasty had to be distilled, so every time Wanyan Yong and Wanyan Liang went to war, Wanyan Yong would eventually have an advantage.

But after the Song army suddenly attacked northward this time, Wan Yan Yong suddenly found that his advantage was gone, and Dongjin was also within the scope of the Song army's attack.

Due to the withdrawal of the Xijin forces from Hejian Province and the shrinkage of their forces to the west, the original barrier between the Great Song Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty disappeared, and the territories of the two countries began to border, and the situation between the three kingdoms changed suddenly.

Originally, because there were few direct conflicts between the Great Song Dynasty and Dongjin, Bianjing was able to negotiate peacemakers between Xijing and Dongjin, and by the way, he could also get a lot of benefits. Now Xijin took advantage of the situation to retreat, so that the Great Song Dynasty and Dongjin directly bordered, so that the three kingdoms formed a stalemate between Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, and Yanjing, and no one dared to move lightly.

The change in the situation in the north suddenly became extremely unfavorable for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanjing.

Before the situation changed, if the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty could concentrate on attacking Zhending Mansion directly, at the same time, Wan Yan Liang would also divide his troops to garrison Hejian Mansion, and the embankment Wan Yan Yong would go south from the direction of Yanjing to take advantage of the fire to rob, no matter how many troops Wan Yan Liang had in Zhending Mansion, it would not be possible to withstand the simultaneous attack of the two countries from the north and south, so once the war was fully prepared, Zhending Mansion would definitely be captured, and Hejian Mansion would become a Xijin enclave, and there was no other way but surrender or annexation. Then, the Great Song Dynasty regrouped, and the army went north, so that Yanjing could be taken directly.

But now because Wan Yanliang withdrew from Hejian Mansion and let the Great Song Dynasty intervene in the territorial dispute with Dongjin in advance, the Great Song Dynasty army could not attack Zhending Mansion with all its strength, nor did it dare to attack Yanjing with all its might, and Yanjing did not dare to send troops south to attack Zhending Mansion.

Not only that, once Wan Yan Liang's pressure in Zhending Mansion disappeared, he could concentrate his main energy on managing the north in Datong Mansion, compressing Yan Yong's living space from north to south and from west to east, gradually retaking the land of Dongjin and reunifying the north of Jin.

The unification of the Jin State, the disappearance of the civil war, the national strength will inevitably be greatly improved, and when the Great Song Dynasty does not talk about recovering Yanjing, I am afraid that even Hejian Mansion may not be able to keep it, and even the threat of the Jingkang Rebellion will once again loom over Bianjing's head.

The far-sighted people in the Bianjing court were already aware of the dangers posed by the change in the situation in the north, but the vast majority of the short-sighted people were still boasting about the reconquest of Hejian Province.

At the beginning of March, Wan Yanliang sent an envoy to Bianjing to ask the Great Song Dynasty about the responsibility of breaking the treaty and attacking the allies without authorization, and demanded that the Great Song Dynasty compensate for the losses, and the compensation amount was 200,000 taels of silver, 100,000 horses of brocade, and 1 million quintals of grain, but he never mentioned that the Great Song Dynasty should return Hejian Mansion.

Some ministers of the DPRK and China secretly rejoiced when they heard that Xijin had put forward the conditions, and in their opinion that although Bianjing was not well-off, these compensation could still be taken out, so they were willing to talk to the Xijin envoys and were ready to accept it as long as the other party's demand for compensation was lowered.

However, they did not get their way, and in the end, Shi Hao was under tremendous pressure, argued with reason, and proposed another solution before dismissing the Xijin envoy.

Shi Hao's plan is that the Great Song Dynasty will return Hejian Mansion to Xijin, and for the losses caused to the people of Hejian Mansion in the previous war, the Great Song Dynasty is willing to open up grain trading in unlimited quantities, and the price of grain will be reduced by 30% compared with the past!

There is a shortage of food in the north, and there will always be a food shortage every winter, especially in the spring of the following year after the white plague, hundreds of herdsmen will always starve to death, so that the various parts of the steppe will plunder and war.

If he could buy enough food from the Great Song Dynasty, Wan Yan Liang would be able to focus more on dealing with Wan Yan Yong, so the Xijin envoy returned directly to Datong Mansion after getting the plan of the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty, because this plan was worth considering.

However, after the envoys of Xijin left Bianjing in April, until July, Shi Hao did not wait for Xijin's reply, and did not even mention compensation, let alone claim the land of Hejian Mansion from Bianjing, just like the Song army's seizure of Hejian Mansion never happened, and like Hejian Mansion originally belonged to the Great Song Dynasty.

Wan Yanliang didn't ask about Hejian Mansion, Bianjing had already rewarded the soldiers who had recovered the lost territory, and it was impossible to order the troops stationed in Hejian Mansion to withdraw to the Great Song Dynasty, so the Great Song Dynasty formed a de facto occupation of Hejian Mansion, and no country had any objections or doubts about this.

But what followed was a complete change in the situation in the north, Xijin lived, the Great Song froze, and Dongjin was passive.

It was precisely because of the great changes in the situation of the Three Kingdoms that the Great Song Dynasty was in a stalemate and made it more difficult to recover Yanyun, so Zhou Zhen, the Privy Councillor and Governor of the Privy Council, who led the war against Xijin and Dongjin at the same time, was dismissed from his official position by Zhao Yan.

Now that the situation in the north is already like this, it is no longer possible to take Yanjing directly.

However, fortunately, after Yang Congyi led the Northern Expeditionary Army to capture the Daimyo's Mansion, he made some preparations to capture Yanjing, and the progress has been relatively smooth in these years.

Since you can't take back Yanjing, you can only fight hard one battle at a time.

The next day, Yang Congyi answered the call and entered the palace to face the saint.

"The minister has seen the emperor!" Yang Congyi entered the hall and bowed.

"After a year of recuperation, are you feeling better?" Zhao Yan sat in front of the imperial case, saw Yang Congyi come in, put down the red pen in his hand, and asked with a smile, just like asking a close friend.

"The minister has gotten better, thank you for your concern." Yang Congyi replied respectfully.

"Sit." Zhao Yan smiled.

"Your Majesty." After Yang Congyi saluted, he slowly sat down.

"Tell me about what you saw in this outing."

"The people lived in peace, the fields were cultivated, and they went north and south, and nothing special happened along the way. There is even less to see and hear, and the minister rarely comes into contact with outsiders along the way, mainly in the mountains to recuperate. Yang Congyi replied more cautiously.

Those messy things in the local area are better to talk about less, and if you talk about them, they can't solve much of a problem, but they just add to the troubles.

"The barren fields of the past few years were cultivated by the people?" Zhao Yan didn't believe it a little, the Song and Jin countries fought for many years, and many people moved south, I don't know how many fertile fields were abandoned because no one cultivated them, and it was only how many years before they were all planted?

"I don't know anywhere else, and wherever the minister goes, there is almost no barren land." Yang Congyi replied very sincerely.

"Well, as long as the people have land to plant, they will not go hungry." Zhao Yan was very happy, it seemed that the household department did not have much lies.

But what Zhao Yan didn't know was how much of the reclaimed fertile land was owned by ordinary people, and how much was the family of eunuchs and wealthy families.

In order to stabilize the land and the people as soon as possible, the Northern Expeditionary Army went all the way north and regained the old land, so they directly distributed most of the unclaimed and cultivated wasteland to the local people for reclamation and cultivation.

But after that, the world gradually stabilized, and the Jin people were driven out of Bianjing and driven back to the north, the land that was allocated to ordinary people and did not have a title deed was slowly recovered by those powerful and powerful families and official eunuchs and squires with the title deeds they didn't know where they got it.

That is to say, ordinary people reclaimed the abandoned land, and after raising it, almost all of them were taken away by others with land deeds, and those land deeds had official platforms, and ordinary people had no way at all.

Yang Congyi only learned about these things in recent years.

At that time, he was the master of those lands and distributed them to the local people, in order to let the people restore agriculture as soon as possible, so that the army could purchase military rations from the market, but when the world was stable, he entered Bianjing from the local area, and he could no longer interfere in local affairs, and his emergency policies were naturally abolished quickly.

Land annexation is a difficult problem to solve, although Yang Congyi sympathizes with ordinary people, but he can't do much to help them, he can only give them a peaceful world as much as possible, and prevent them from dying in the war, after all, in this era, it is a kind of luck to be alive.

"You've heard about the war in the north." The smile on Zhao Yan's face gradually faded, and his eyebrows were full of worries.

"The minister has seen the detailed information in the Privy Council in the past two days, and it is basically clear." It turned out that what the emperor cared about most was the Northern Expedition and the domination of the world, and Yang Congyi had the bottom in his heart.

Zhao Yan nodded slightly, stared at Yang Congyi with both eyes and asked, "Then what do you think?" ”

"Since the east has fallen into the deadlock of Hejian Mansion, Zhending Mansion and Yanjing, the east side will give up for the time being. If we look at it from another angle, it is not a good thing for us, although Yanjing cannot be recaptured in one fell swoop, but at least the Daimyo Mansion and Jinan Mansion are absolutely safe, then we can transfer our main energy to other places, and we can recover Yanyun in a roundabout way. However, in this way, more troops and financial resources will be needed, and more officials and local governance talents will be needed. Yang Congyi replied very calmly, for the Northern Expedition, he would definitely not mess up.

"Oh, how to detour?" Zhao Yan asked urgently.

"Take Hedong first, recover Taiyuan and Pingyang, and cut off the connection between Datong Mansion and Guanzhong, and then take Guanzhong as if it were a bag to get things. Then, based on Taiyuan Mansion, the army gathered to take Datong Mansion directly. Seize Datong and gain a firm foothold, our army will be able to surround Yanjing from west to east, and Zhending Mansion will also collapse without a fight. ”