"Ahem......"

The capital of the Dajin Kingdom coughed violently again. Hearing his cough, the Goryeo attendants who were waiting outside the temple knew that their master had woken up. Immediately carrying toiletries, the fish rushed in, ready to wait for Ah Gu to get up.

Only 54 years old this year, Ah Guta looks very old, with a sallow complexion and a white beard. If you look closely, you can see that his arms and head are shaking slightly.

His trachea and lungs are not very good, and he gets sick every winter, coughing violently, and sometimes coughing up blood!

In addition to the involuntary shaking of the body and diseases of the trachea and lungs, beauty has also become a poison that erodes the originally strong body of Aguta.

The elderly Ah Guda can be said to be lustful as life, almost to the extent of sparing his life. The beauties of Tianzhu and the Western Regions who were sold to the court of Shunyi Mansion by the merchants of Liangguo became Aguta's favorite. And the various aphrodisiac drugs sent with the beauties accelerated the overdraft of the little essence that Ah Guda had left.

Last night, it was a beautiful girl from Tianzhu who was just over the age of Tianzhu, who was wrapped in a quilt at this time, her hair was scattered and lying on the side, and there were still a few tears on her face.

This girl is said to be the princess of a small country in Tianzhu, and the country was broken by the Xia Liang coalition army, so she became a trophy and was sold to Shunyi Mansion by thousands of miles, and became the plaything of Ah Guta. Yesterday, after taking the medicine, Ah Guda showed his strength on this girl, and after the girl, while sobbing and matching, she had to pinch his shoulder and knock his back, and he fell asleep after knocking on Ah Guda.

Although his physical condition is deteriorating, Ah Guda's mood during this time is not bad. Because the military reform in the past two years has been quite smooth. After the Second Battle of Linhuang during the Chonghe period (the name of the Song Dynasty, which lasted only a few months), the important ministers and generals of the Dajin Kingdom finally realized the urgency of military reform.

In this battle, the 20,000 Eastern Liao army led by the Empress Dowager Xiao Sese of the Eastern Liao first broke through a medium-sized fortress of the Jin State, and then went straight to Linhuang Mansion. On the grassland south of Linhuang Mansion, he fought with the 35,000 Jurchen-Menggu coalition forces commanded by Wanyan Xianye.

In this battle, the Eastern Liao army of Xiao Si set up a "camel city" on the grassland in winter, that is, thousands of camels were tied to the ground, with boxes on their backs, covered with wet felt, and arranged in a ring to form a temporary city.

Some of the camels also set up a kind of carriage artillery weighing less than 100 pounds and rotating back and forth, called "camel cannon".

Although the caliber of this artillery is not large, the weight is similar to that of the "Tiger Squat Cannon". However, it is relatively well-made, easy to reload, and has a relatively long effective range. Up to 150 steps away when firing a single projectile! It is still possible to hit targets within 80 blocks when reloading.

For the golden soldiers who do not have any firearms, the "camel cannon" is simply a killer feature!

No matter how powerful the bow and arrow of the golden soldier is, can it still shoot against the iron sand bullet of the "camel cannon"?

With the "camel city tactics" and "camel cannons", Xiao Sise's martial arts were much better than Geerdan, who adopted the same style of play in the Battle of Ulan Butong in history.

In the battle known as the Second Battle of Linhuang, she repelled 35,000 Jurchen-Menggu coalition forces with 20,000 Eastern Liao troops! Over 5,000 kills and injuries! And its own casualties were only a few hundred.

This is the Khitan people who defeated the Jurchens with less victory! Ever since Akuta raised his troops, nothing like this had ever happened.

After the victory, Xiao Sese even came to the city of Linhuangfu, so he showed off his might. And the defeated Wan Yan Xian had to stay behind closed doors, and only under the protection of a sudden snowstorm, he barely held the castle.

Although Linhuang Mansion has not been lost, the initiative on the Horqin grassland has fallen into the hands of Xiao Sese.

In the first year of Xuanhe and the third year of Xuanhe, Xiao Sese attacked twice and besieged and broke through the six fortresses of the Jurchens with camel city tactics. Only in the second year of Xuanhe, because of pregnancy and childbirth, there was no use of soldiers.

Under such circumstances, the military reform initiated by Aguta will naturally not encounter tremendous resistance.

Because anyone with a discerning eye can see the power of the "camel city tactics", this style of play is equivalent to the perfect fusion of the mobility of the cavalry and the solidity of the hard village. Coupled with the "camel whirlwind cannon" that can perfectly restrain bows and arrows, it immediately raised the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Liao Army to several levels.

The current Eastern Liao Army can completely defeat the "invincible" Jurchens in the field with fewer victories - no matter how brave the Jurchens are, they can't use cold weapons to break the camel city armed with "whirlwind cannons"!

However, it was lucky, after obtaining the Black Mountain Castle in the Liang Kingdom, the Jurchens also learned to build fortresses, and built many small and medium-sized fortresses in the tug-of-war of the Horqin grassland.

With these fortresses that could withstand artillery bombardment, the Jurchens, who had lost the initiative, could finally delay the arrival of defeat and thus buy themselves time for reform.

And the method of military reform of Aguta is to form its own artillery unit! He did not hesitate to purchase a large number of bronze artillery from the Great Song Dynasty. He also sent the sons and daughters of the Jurchen relatives to Kaifeng Mansion to learn how to operate cannons, cast cannons and prepare gunpowder.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe, the military reform of the Dajin State has finally achieved initial results, and it has the strength to fight with the Eastern Liao and the Great Zhou State behind the Eastern Liao.

……

"Meet my father."

The champion of the Dajin State, the secretary of the Pingzhang political affairs and the military department, the deputy marshal of the capital, Shen Guogong Wanyan Zongbi strode into the hall, and saluted to Ah Guda, who was sitting behind the imperial case and looking down at the chapter.

"Wushu, you're just in time." Ah Guda asked in a hoarse voice, "Is there any news from Xi Yin?" ”

Wanyan Xiyin is now the minister in Kaifeng Prefecture, and during this time, he was secretly discussing with the Great Song Dynasty about the joint attack on Zhou.

Although Dajin had a new army, it was still no match for Zhou. And if you want to destroy the Eastern Liao, you have to fight a decisive battle with the Zhou State.

Therefore, while carrying out military reforms, Aguta did not forget the plan of joining the Song Dynasty and the Zhou.

"Yes." The Golden Vulture handed a notebook to the Goryeo chamberlain, who in turn handed it to Aguta.

Jin Wushu said at the same time: "The condition proposed by Ji Yi is the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!" ”

"What?" Ah Guda frowned, "Why do you want to be in the clouds?" ”

In the clouds is the area around Datong Mansion, including Shuozhou, Yingzhou, Ulzhou, and Fengzhou. It is the core territory of the Dajin Kingdom today, how can it be handed over to the Song Kingdom?

"Isn't it that Ji Yi's treacherous minister who is making things difficult for us?" Jin Wushu said, "That guy doesn't want to start a war with Zhou at all. ”

"How so?" Ah Gu said, "Didn't they all say that the Song Kingdom has suffered from the losses of the Zhou State in the past few years?" The gold and silver flowed to the Zhou State, and even the copper coins were manipulated by the profiteers of the Zhou State to cause several turmoil. The contradiction between the two countries was even greater at sea, and the Zhou State openly sent a fleet to threaten the Japanese State to sign a Rausch Treaty, only opening the door to the Zhou State, and not allowing the merchants of the Song State to do business...... It is said that on that frog island, the Song and Zhou kingdoms also used sword soldiers! ”

In the fourth year of the Republic, that is, in 1118 of the Western calendar, the Zhou State took advantage of the "Bohai Invasion Incident" to send a fleet to oppress Japan.

The conditions were not harsh, that is, the Zhou State was allowed to set up concessions on Hakata, Namba, and Sado Islands, conduct "Sunday free trade", open Tenri Academy, spread Confucian teachings, and so on.

Since the previous "Sino-Japanese trade" was divided equally between Mingzhou merchants and Tianjin merchants, as soon as the "Sunday Free Trade" came out, it was equivalent to squeezing out the share of Mingzhou merchants.

Therefore, the contradictions between the merchants of the Song and Zhou dynasties suddenly intensified!

At the same time, due to the manipulation of Zhou Guoda banks such as the Bank of Tianjin, the price of copper fluctuated violently in the past few years, causing great problems for the financial industry in the Song Dynasty, and making it difficult for copper coins and bank bills linked to copper coins to become settlement currencies for foreign trade - because the copper content of copper coins was never uniform.

Even after Ji Yi abolished the money prisons in various places and concentrated on minting money in Xuzhou, he still could not ban private minting. On the contrary, because of the dispersion of a large number of coin-minting craftsmen, the private minting of copper coins became more rampant, and inferior coins became rampant.

In contrast, the price of silver and silver coins are much more stable. And the phenomenon of private minting and counterfeit coins is relatively rare - one or two silver coins are worth 1,700 Da Zhou Tongbao, who got their hands on it and tested it again and again? Even a single silver coin is worth 170 Great Zhou Tongbao. Ordinary people in the Song Dynasty may not be able to earn this amount in a day, and of course they can't be treated sloppily.

However, what annoyed the Great Song court the most was the encroachment of the Java Island Concession Chamber of Commerce of the Zhou State on the Java County Palace.

The island of Java is now one island, two systems, with the territory of the Java Concessionaire Chamber of Commerce to the west and the territory of the Java County Royalty of the Great Song Dynasty to the east. Although both the Chartered Chamber and the Prince's Mansion were colonizers, they were far from each other.

The former was a bourgeois colonial company, the latter a bureaucracy-led feud. There is no comparison in terms of efficiency, and the directors of the Chartered Chamber are the real owners and need to consider the long-term interests of the Chamber. And the bureaucrats serve a term of office for a few years, and they leave when they are full......

Therefore, there was a situation where the Han people of the Kingdom of Java voted with their feet and fled to the territory of the Java Concession Chamber of Commerce. Instead of stopping it, the concessionaire offered preferential terms to lure them.

As a result, the grudge between the two sides deepened, and eventually turned into an armed conflict. As a result of the conflict, the Kingdom of Java was defeated one after another.

"Father, it's not Frog Island, it's Java ......Island," Jin Wushu said, "It's not that Song and Zhou have used swords, but that Zhou's Java Island Concessionaire Chamber of Commerce and Song's Java County Mansion have fought." ”

Ah Gu waved his hand and said coldly: "Anyway, it's a fight!" Why doesn't Ji Yi want to join us for a week? He thought that our Dajin Kingdom was going to be defeated, would there be a peaceful day in the Great Song Dynasty?

Let Xi Yin go and tell the Song people that now the Tokyo Road is already in danger, and if I can't hold it, my Dajin will be cut in half by Dongliao. There are only ten Meng'an on the side of Shangjing Road, and most of them are also unsafe.

At that time, our Dajin country will have to move westward! ”

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