Chapter 368: A Deal
No matter how big the news is, time can easily defeat it. The original sensational Fuque Shangshu, Chen Dong, who was famous in Tokyo at the beginning, quickly became a thing of the past when the Liangshan Army broke through the Guangji Army, attacked Xingren Mansion along the Wuzhang River, and seemed to be going all the way to Tokyo.
The idea of moving the capital arose in Zhao Ji's heart for the first time.
The city of Tokyo is full of wind and rain.
"Drive, drive ......" Lin Chong led the cavalry like an angry dragon, rushing straight down the avenue to Tokyo.
This huge city in the world today, Liang Shanjun did not want to capture it, but the horses raised in the Tiansi Prison of Mu Huogang outside Jingyang Gate were Lu Qian's must-haves.
One or two thousand horses, even if only half of them can be used as war horses, that is a huge fortune.
So much so that the Liangshan army broke through the Guangji army and easily entered the territory of Xingren Mansion, he bluffed to attract the attention of the Song family on the one hand, and on the other hand, he sent the leopard head to lead the main cavalry under his command and rushed straight to the city of Tokyo.
Lu Qian was worried that if he took a step slower, Zhao Ji would pull all the horses of the Heavenly Prison into Tokyo City.
And now the reaction of Tokyo City should not be so fast, after all, Liang Shanjun is still far away in Xingren Mansion, even though it is only one step away from Tokyo, but in the end it still hasn't hit Tokyo City, and now Zhao Ji should be busy recruiting the remaining soldiers and horses in the state capital near the economy to escort King Qin, just in case.
As a result, Zhao Song, who had been in power for one hundred and sixty years, was killed by the enemy army outside the capital for the first time. Or a cavalry!
The inside and outside of Tokyo exploded in an instant.
Those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, those wealthy families, those princes and grandchildren, for the first time, really felt the threat of the butcher's knife.
Liang Shanbo's attitude towards officials has always been clear, the dignitaries and dignitaries in Tokyo City weigh their own weights, if the city is really broken, how many of them can survive?
But the cavalry led by Lin Chong was only a false alarm after all, they just plundered Jin Mingchi, and then they went all the way to the Tianxi Prison, not only drove the horses in the inner to the east like sheep, but also packed the eunuchs, grooms, and servants in the horse farm to bring back to Shandong.
One or two thousand horses is not a trivial matter, but what is this loss to the entire Zhao Songlai?
For Zhao Ji in the Imperial Palace, for the dignitaries and dignitaries in the entire Tokyo City, and for the hundreds of Zhao clan relatives in the city, the Liangshan thieves are just like this, and it is already a great luck in misfortune.
Otherwise, Lin Chong would just burn and loot in the suburbs outside the city, and if he looted and burned all the manor mansions that had no power to resist everywhere, the loss of the Song family would be ten times that of the Heavenly Prison.
What's more, the Liangshan thieves then carried the package on their backs, drove the cattle and sheep, and swaggered back to Shandong under the response of the Xingren Mansion thieves, which means that the threat of Tokyo City is gone. That's the most important thing, right?
Zhao Ji was like a knife around his neck that had finally moved away, timidity and horror went away, and his consciousness gradually recovered. Or maybe the self-esteem is starting to revive. That turned into an endless rage.
Liang Shan thief was slapping him in the face, or slapping him frantically in front of the subjects of the whole world. His imperial dignity was completely trampled on and insulted, and the majesty of the entire court was also desecrated to the slightest.
"Lu Qian, Lu Qian......"
In Yanfu Palace, I saw that the bodies of eunuchs and palace maids were carried out one after another in the past few days. However, the dignity of the king of a country cannot be saved by the lives of a few eunuchs and palace maids, and even greater anger was vented by him on Tong Guan, Cai Jing and others.
degraded Tong Guan to the general of the left guard, successively demoted his officers, and became the envoy of the Zhaohua Army; dismissed Cai Jing and demoted him to secretary and supervisor. Yang Jian threw away the hat of the Taifu, and the three towns of Zhen'an, Qinghai, and Zhendong were stripped clean. There are also Liang Shicheng, and even Zheng Juzhong and Bai Shizhong.
But one thing to remember clearly is that the Song family was separated from official positions. An official rank is an official rank, and a position is a position. Although these people have been degraded in rank, they still hold real power in dispatch.
Tong Guan's conjecture is not false at all, Zhao Ji's imperial power still needs them to support, and Zhao Ji will not really punish him severely. It's like they also need Zhao Ji's imperial power to protect them......
Zheng Juzhong's proposals, Zhao Ji accepted them all.
Lu Qian's attack on Xingren Mansion was just a bluff, and Lin Chong's sweeping of the Heavenly Prison was the real purpose. You must know that the tens of thousands of Song troops in this Puzhou city [the original defenders plus some defeated soldiers] are still like a nail, nailed to the bank of the Yellow River. And Lu Qian is very interested in Puzhou.
Although the Liangshan army had occupied the ferry and wharf outside the city, cutting off the water transportation of Puzhou City. But there were many routs in the city, and there were even more officers of the Western Army, and Liu Zhongwu had already controlled the overall situation in the city.
After learning that the remnants of the Western Army had fled into Puzhou City, Lu Qian's interest in Puzhou City soared. Wang Yu, Wang Gan, Wang Yuan, Yao Gu, Yang family brothers, plus Liu Zhongwu father and son. The value of these people in Lu Qian's eyes is more important than the money, food, and armor in Puzhou City.
Yes, he asked Lin Chong to just drop Zhao's face slightly, and then he was in a hurry to withdraw from Tokyo City, the first of which was to leave a face for the Song family.
Cheng Wanli was staying in Dongping Mansion with a bitter face, looking at the document handed to him by Wen Huanzhang, crying with a sad face. I'm still not Lu Qian's cheap brother-in-law? How could you push the old man into the fire pit. If Tong Guan read this document, he would not be angry and cut himself into pulp. This so-called deal is also too big.
This is the second is that Lu Qian wants to turn around and take a good look at Puzhou.
Just when Lin Chong led the cavalry to frantically rush into the Tiansi Prison, Ruan Xiaoer also received Lu Qian's latest military order. They want to officially test the Sado Island of the book.,At the same time, go all out to increase the scale of the sailor.。
These two orders were simply a foreshadowing that he would soon send out a sailor to attack Tamna County. Because the sea route between China and Japan is long, at least for this era, it is unrealistic to go directly to Japan by sea route from Shandong. Even if it occupies Tamna-gun, which is Jeju Island in later generations, it will be even more difficult to occupy Sado Island in the next step.
This is because the sea route from Tamna Island to Sado Island is more than 2,000 miles, and there are also Tsushima Islands and Oki Islands on the way, and then Sado Island.
The owner of the Tsushima Islands is now the Abilius, and the Tsushima clan of later generations has not yet been seen. Lu Qian is even more ignorant of the history of Japan, and he can remember that the Tsushima family is also because of this name in the history of China, Japan and the DPRK hundreds of years later, the reason why the sense of existence is constantly brushed. For example, during the Mongol expedition to Japan (known as the "Battle of Bunei" in history), Tsushima Island bore the brunt. Zong Zhuguo, the head of the Zong clan, led more than 80 of his subordinates to rush to the more than 40,000 Mongolian Goryeo coalition troops that were landing, this move was tantamount to using the mantis arm as a car, presumably they must have been ready to die in battle, and died in the battle of Komotahama, and there is still the body and head mound of Zong Zhuguo on Tsushima Island hundreds of years later. During the second eastern crusade of the Mongol army (known as the "Battle of Hong'an" in history), his son Zong Shengming led the army to resist the attack of the Mongol and Goryeo coalition forces, and had many military exploits. Then there is the Korean battle in the three major expeditions of Wanli, and there is also the figure of the Tsushima clan. This made Lu Qian have a little impression, and as for the Abidius clan, he had never heard of it.
The distance between the Tsushima Islands and Tamna Island, and the distance between Tsushima Island, which is no less than 700 miles, is a famous island of exile in Japan.
Relying only on the current naval army in Liangshanbo, such a long-term sea route is obviously impossible to take care of in all aspects. What's more, Lu Qian couldn't directly explain to his leaders and ministers that he was going to the gold and silver mines of Sado Island. The latter is a true treasure island on the sea.
In that case, it must be regarded as hysteria by Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen.
Lu Qian has only one explanation for this, that is, he used the island as a base to isolate Goryeo and Japan, and plundered the money and grain of Goryeo and Japan to make up for his own deficiency.
This reason is a perfect score.
Although the people of the country today are very serious about the Liao State, they do not pay any attention to Goryeo and Japan. At the moment, Japan is still China's little brother, and it hasn't thought about bargaining for big brother.
Lu Qian's explanation persuaded all his subordinates, and another important reason was that the division plan he had formulated before, the territory under his jurisdiction was only a small Jiaodong, and it was only a land of four states, how could he raise tens of thousands of soldiers? Then the external supplement becomes a necessary option. Since he could no longer use a knife to cut meat with Zhao and Song, and the future of trade with Fang La was uncertain, it became a very feasible option to rob Goryeo and Japan.
Although both countries are small countries, they have also been established for hundreds of years, and there must be a lot of accumulation within them. With the strength of the two countries, it is enough to raise the soldiers and horses of Liangshan. As for whether this is fair to Goryeo and Japan, hehe, who else is waiting here to think about this.
In the past time, the men sent by Yangsanpo were brought into the threshold of maritime trade by the Chai clan, and they also arrived in Goryeo, but they were very unfamiliar with Japan. I just heard from the maritime merchants of Denglai that the southern tip of Goryeo is Nagasaki, Japan's trading powerhouse. There was also trade between Goryeo and Japan, but the route was relatively simple, and they all passed through Tsushima Island for transit.
Some of the maritime merchants of Denglai also used to transit through Korea to Japan. It's just that the number of ships in this line is limited, and compared with the sea route to Japan, it is more convenient to come to Jiangnan, and the connection between the Northland maritime merchants and Japan is much inferior.
Therefore, Liang Shanbo and Fang La really can't be in short supply. Now Fang Shenggong not only has the money and food that Liang Shanbo urgently needs, but also a large number of sea ships and sailors. Of course, compared to Laifangla, he was even more anxious, and after taking Hangzhou, he marched into Mingzhou. The latter was later known as Ningbo, which is now home to a large number of maritime merchants and shipyards.
The purpose was to gather as soon as possible enough materials for Liangshan, enough shipbuilders, enough sailors, enough wood, and even enough sea ships, and those big maritime merchants saw the Manichaean army kill Ben Mingzhou, and they themselves could run away by boat, but they would never take all the sailors and shipbuilders, let alone all the wood.
The first batch of transactions is 10,000 weapons, don't think that this number is not much, this can equip 10,000 people needed armor and weapons, including 3,000 iron armor 10,000 pairs of armor, 1,000 long and short cards, 1,000 divine arm bows, 10,000 spears, knives, axes, maces and other heavy weapons, 10,000 knives, iron swords, hammers, short axes, etc., as well as 7,000 pairs of war bows and 300,000 crossbow arrows.
With so many equipment, it is possible to arm an army of 30,000 men separately.
That is, the Liangshan Army, the armament of 10,000 troops needs so much.
1,000 sword and axemen, 1,000 divine arm archers, and 1,000 full-time armor soldiers. After that, 7,000 people need 7,000 warbows. Because everyone in the Liangshan army carries bows and arrows, the two professions of hand-to-hand combat and archer can be switched at will.
Not only that, but each soldier is also fully armed. The war knife and iron sword are only standard, and the real killing moves are hand hammers, short axes, bone duo, and iron whips. Of course, if you can't deal with an army that doesn't wear armor, just like that, the Fang La Righteous Army will not need this.
It's just that the real enemy in Lu Qian's heart has never been Zhao Song, nor Fang La, but the Jin soldiers in the north. In this way, the Liangshan Army's excellent armament is difficult to compare with the elite of the Western Army.
This is thanks to waves of funding from the city of Tokyo.
And looking at what kind of goods the Manichaean Doctrine Army, which swept half of the Jiangnan and expanded its strength to 100,000 people, you can understand Fang La's eagerness for this batch of military resources.