Chapter 924: The heart rejoices and regains the fierce general

The Song Dynasty was historically divided into the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.

In historical records, from the accession of Zhao Kuangyin in 960 A.D. to 1127 A.D., it lasted 168 years from beginning to end, and a total of 9 emperors were handed down. Because the capital of this period was Tokyo in the north, it was known as the "Northern Song Dynasty" in history.

From the Song Gaozong in 1127 A.D. to 1279 A.D. Yuan army captured Yashan, the beginning and end lasted 153 years, and a total of 9 emperors were also transmitted. Because of this period, Lin'an, the capital of the south, was known as the "Southern Song Dynasty" in history.

Compared with the Northern Song Dynasty, which has a complete territory, the Southern Song Dynasty, which has only half of the country left, is much inferior, and there are not many characters who can be remembered in later generations, among which there are several faint kings and traitors, but there is only one person known to the world, and that is Yue Fei! Yue Pengju!

Looking at the young Yue Fei, who was kneeling on the Jinluan Palace, who was only in his twenties, his life history suddenly appeared in Li Nan's mind.

Yue Fei was born on March 24, 1103, the word Pengju, a native of Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, Song Dynasty, a famous anti-Jin general, a famous military strategist, strategist, calligrapher, poet, anti-Jin hero, national hero, ranked first among the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei in the late Northern Song Dynasty, after the Jingkang disaster, surrendered to the army, from the second year of Jianyan to meet Zong Ze to the eleventh year of Shaoxing for more than ten years, led the Yuejia army and the Jin army to fight hundreds of battles.

After the difficulty of Jingkang, because the Song Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji and Qinzong Zhao Huan were taken away by the Jin, Gaozong Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne, and Yue Fei was recruited to participate in Zhao Gou's army as the generalissimo in Xiangzhou.

The Jin army went south to the south of the Yangtze River, and Yue Fei was unique, insisting on resisting Jin and recovering Jiankang. In the third year of Shaoxing, he was appointed as an envoy along the Yangtze River, and he never forgot to recover the Central Plains.

In the spring of the following year, Yue Fei recovered the six counties of Xiangyang. Shaoxing led the Northern Expedition in six years, and successfully captured Yi, Luo, Shang, Yu and other prefectures.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, after Yan Wushu destroyed the alliance to attack the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei waved his army to the Northern Expedition, successively recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places, and defeated the Jin army in Yuncheng and Yingchang, and marched to Zhuxian Town. Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, who were helpless and fearful of gold like a tiger, insisted on seeking peace, and ordered Yue Fei's class with twelve "golden plates". was falsely accused and imprisoned by Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and others.

In January 1142, Yue Fei was killed on trumped-up charges, along with his eldest son Yue Yun and his subordinate Zhang Xiantong. When Song Xiaozong, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and reburied in Qixialing on the bank of the West Lake. pursued Wu Mu, and then pursued Zhong Wu and crowned the king of Hubei.

Regarding why Gaozong Zhao Gou and Qin Hui killed Yue Fei, later generations have made countless guesses based on limited historical information.

Generally speaking, it is believed that Yue Fei is invincible in military talent, but he lacks emotional intelligence and political concepts, not only has he established an increasingly powerful Yue family army, but also because he intends to win back the captured Huizong and Qinzong, so the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Gaozong Zhao Goucai, must get rid of him.

Li Nan has never believed in historical records, because he has never believed in things that he has not experienced.

According to Li Nan's understanding, he was invincible and invincible, and he also had a strong army under his command, which was the main reason why Yue Fei was killed, and as for the return of Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong, the threat to Gaozong Zhao Gou, who had completely controlled the Southern Song Dynasty court, was not very threatening.

The Zhao family of the Song Kingdom, since Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added, every descendant seems to be very afraid of the military generals with too much power, for fear that similar events will be staged, so there is a basic national policy of advocating literature and suppressing martial arts.

Li Nan, who is now sitting on the dragon chair, because of the change of identity, also understands the psychology of the Zhao family and basically agrees.

The country is people-oriented, but more importantly, it is necessary to master the army in order to grasp power, if you can't even keep your own rights, then it is useless to say anything else.

The Chinese Empire was now becoming more and more powerful, and Li Nan sometimes considered the question of loyalty, which was not a problem in his generation.

Because whether it is Spartacus, Cress, or Asha and Artemisia, they are all his followers, and they have systematic constraints, and they can't rebel against him at all.

If Li Nan puts himself in the position of Gaozong Zhao Gou, he naturally does not want to see a military general who has fulfilled the dreams of all the people, whose prestige will become higher and higher, and who also controls a powerful army.

If such a figure appears in any country, then at least the means of weakening and balancing must be implemented, and Gaozong Zhao Gou just did it too urgently, too explicitly, and too extremely.

After thinking about it for so many seconds, looking at the brave and resourceful martial artist like Yue Fei in the hall, Li Nan, who lacked all kinds of talents, was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and walked down from the high platform.

Stretching out his hands to help Yue Fei up, Li Nan looked at him and said with a smile: "General Yue is so young, he can fight with the generals under my command inextricably, he is really a rare talent, the empire welcomes your arrival!" ”

The first time they met, they could get such recognition from the emperor, even Yue Fei, who was worried, couldn't help but be moved, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has praised it falsely, you are a general of the defeated army, and you can't afford to be a talent!" ”

"Hahaha......" Li Nanchang smiled: "I have always been right about people. In this way, when General Yue first came, he first served as a deputy general in the Sixth Army of the Empire under the command of Li Gang, and he was familiar with the experience in the army, and then I will reuse it for you! ”

Yue Fei also knew the general structure of the Imperial Legion, and now when he heard that His Majesty the Emperor had asked him to go to the army of 50,000 people to serve as a deputy general, he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.

After receiving Yue Fei, Li Nan was in a good mood, looked around at the ministers, and praised him: "When Zong Ze and Spartacus were busy outside, they didn't forget to discover talents for the empire, this move is very good, I am happy in my heart, and I should reward them heavily!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!" No one would dislike the reward, Zong Ze and Spartacus smiled and thanked in unison.

After dealing with Yue Fei's affairs, Ashur, the Minister of Commerce, Energy and Industrial Strategy, came out and began to introduce the recent business situation of the empire.

Nowadays, the main taxes of the empire are on commerce, especially the long-distance trade with overseas countries, which is very profitable, and it can be said that the commercial tax of the empire completely exceeds the agricultural tax.

When the people were rich, they would buy the goods sold by the merchants when they had surplus money in their hands, and the merchants would pay taxes after making profits, and such a good circular system also kept the empire's economy on a steady upward trend.

The Song Kingdom originally had many ports, such as the four major ports of Guangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Dengzhou, but because of the island country's lockdown policy, Dengzhou gradually declined, and it was not until the empire forcibly opened the door of the island country that the situation improved.

During the Song Dynasty, long-distance voyages generally departed from Quanzhou or Guangzhou in China in winter, arrived in Aceh, Sumatra after more than 40 days, and then sailed to Kerala, India, in January at the beginning of the following year.

Then sail in a small boat for a month to reach the Arab region. Aceh and Gulin are both important transit stations for China's ocean routes, as well as important areas for ocean trade.

The Arabian region was not the terminus for the Chinese Song dynasty merchants who traded as far as the Great Eclipse, and for a small number of Song dynasty merchants, it is said that the Chinese merchants had reached as far as East Africa.

The ocean-going ships loaded with Chinese silk, porcelain, copper and iron, medicinal materials and other goods, and brought back spices, jewelry, ivory, rhino horn, tortoiseshell and other specialties from Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and other places.

Since the establishment of the Chinese Empire, due to the encouragement and support of the state, and even the fleet to maintain the security of the seas, the ocean-going trade has become more prosperous.

Today, there are countless ocean-going cargo ships in major seaports, and the empire has become the largest exporter in the world.

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