Goryeo Kaikyung, in the half-moon city.

Half Moon Castle is the inner city of Kaijing, and it has a large area, but most of the area is occupied by the densely forested Songyu Mountain, and there is not much flat land. However, even if there is not much flat land, most of it is a "forest park", and only on both sides of the avenue leading from the south gate of Half Moon Castle to the full moon platform of Miyagi, there are some buildings that resemble the landlords' compounds of the Song Dynasty. Most of them are the various yamen of the Goryeo Kingdom and the residences of a group of high-ranking officials and nobles, and there are also a few magnificent temples of Goryeo monks.

Similar to the situation in the Liao Kingdom, the Goryeo Kingdom was also a place where monks and nuns were flooded. Even among the royal family of the Wang family, there are many princes who have been seen through the red dust and shaved their heads to become monks.

Next to a temple called Huayan Dong Temple, there is a large mansion with a large area wrapped in a tall rammed earth wall. The door of the house was closed, and there were a few murderous-looking warriors standing guard outside the door. If you look at this posture, you can see that the person who lives here is a great person.

Outside the door of the house, a row of bolted horses were tied to one or two dwarf Tamromas (this kind of Tamna bantam no longer existed on Tamna Island, and was sold to Goryeo and Japan, and the horse farms on Tamna Island were all used to breed Tianjin horses). There were also slave guards, squatting at the foot of the rammed earth walls, and some with odd-looking wheelbarrows, which were also used by Goryeo officials. In these years, Goryeo was not popular to sit in a sedan chair like the Song Dynasty, and officials went out on horseback, donkeys, and then this kind of wheelbarrow. Therefore, it is not surprising to see a high-ranking official in neat robes and a long beard sitting sideways in a wheelbarrow on the streets of Kaegyeong, Goryeo, pushed by a skinny poor middle peasant.

The slave guards gathered at the base of the earthen wall outside the gate of the house were idle, and began to talk about it. The thing he said was not a parent's shortcomings, but a military priority.

It's not that these inferior people of Goryeo suddenly become so concerned about national affairs. But the Goryeo Kingdom has really reached the precipice of destroying the country and destroying the people!

Perhaps it will not be long before the barbarians from the northern mountains and forests will enter Kaegyong and kill all the Koreans.

What could be more serious now?

"What can I do? The barbarians have been besieging Xijing for a long time, and although Marshal Yin is defending the city, the barbarians can't attack it. But how much grain can there be in Xijing City? Once it's finished, I'm afraid that Xijing City will fall, and will Goryeo perish at that time......"

"No, our Goryeo Kingdom is a vassal of the Liao State, and the Liao Kingdom will not watch us be destroyed by the barbarians."

"But the Liao State is at war with the Song State, and I heard that even the Nanjing Road has been lost!"

"What then?"

"Have you heard? At present, several ministers of the DPRK and China have proposed to sue for peace with the barbarians, to cede the eastern and western boundaries, and to move the capital to Tokyo. ”

"Do you want to cut the east and the west? Do you want to move the capital to Tokyo? How can that work? No, our homes are all near Kaijing......"

"I won't cut the land, I won't move the capital, we still have Wu Pingzhang! He is a loyal minister who resolutely opposes the relocation of the capital and the cession of land! ”

"Yes, there are so many nobles who have come to Pingzhang Mansion today, they must be discussing how to rescue Xijing, right?"

"I hope I can save ......"

Speaking of which, a group of Shengdou people from the Goryeo Kingdom all turned their eyes to the closed door of this mansion.

This is the residence of Wu Yanchong, the secretary of the Goryeo State Shou Si Air Scholar, the Shou Situ, the Shou Tai Lieutenant, the Supervisor of the History of the State, the Upper Kingdoms, the Judge of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Judgment!

Such a large list of official names are actually the prime minister and the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War! It's really powerful, and I don't know how worried I am.

It is usually a good thing to be in power, but at the moment, there is a feeling of being on the edge of the abyss and walking on thin ice.

Goryeo has reached the point of life and death, thousands of Jurchen troops besieged Xijing, by the capital marshal Yin Qiang, the deputy envoy of the northern camp Tuo Junjing, and the main force of the Beiwu class led by the general Wang Zizhi are now trapped in Xijing. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees in Xijing City, and the small city is stuffed to the brim, and the food consumed every day is an astronomical amount!

And the Goryeo Kingdom has been fighting a tug-of-war with the Shengjuzhen for eight years, and in order to supply the front line, the treasury of the land has long been emptied. Even in the city of Pyongyang, Xijing, there is not much savings, and only God knows how long it can last.

It is precisely because of this desperate situation that Cui Hongsi, who was the same prime minister as Wu Yanzhong, and Cheng Jinyuan in the imperial history continued to impeach Yin Qiang, Wu Yanchong and others who fought the main battle, and advocated cutting the map and moving the capital to avoid the edge.

In all fairness, the current Wu Yanpet also thinks that he can't fight anymore. The Eight-Year War had exhausted Goryeo's national strength. Although it also trained such an elite as the Bewu Class, the role of the Bebu Ban was only to allow the Shengnuzhen barbarians to invest several times their strength to conquer Goryeo - from the original 500 army to 3,000 troops!

Wu Yanzhong knew very well that the 3,000 Jurchen army was a force that Goryeo could not defeat at all, and even if it could be temporarily resisted, the Jurchens could continue to increase their strength.

Therefore, the war of resistance is certain!

However, the responsibility of ceding land and seeking peace is something that Wu Yanzhong, an outsider who has misled the country in the main war, cannot afford it.

So until now, he is still on the hard top.

But the hard top is the hard top, let him take the remaining troops of the Beiwu class to rescue Xijing, and he didn't dare. Because there is only one result of doing that, and that is total annihilation!

So these days, Wu Yanpet is dying. Every day, after the court dealt with the lord and the faction and the king who was more anxious than him, he returned to the mansion to discuss the matter of war with a group of helpless cronies.

But there is still no way to discuss and discuss.

Today, I didn't see the group of subordinates who couldn't think of anything, but hid in the Buddhist hall at home to chant scriptures and ask the Bodhisattva for blessing.

Of course, it was not read alone, but with his cousin, Wu Yanen, who had just escorted a batch of military funds from Tianjin Mansion.

……

"What? Big brother, what do you say? ”

The door of the Buddhist hall was closed, and the two brothers inside had finished reciting the scriptures and were discussing something.

"That's it!" Wu Yanen looked at his cousin, "Brother Fool has pondered repeatedly, and this is the only way out......

"But, but this is a rebellion!"

Wu Yanpet's age is obviously much younger than Wu Yanen, but now he looks very old, his beard is white, and he is already an old man.

For Wu Yanen's proposal, his reaction was not only frightened, but incredible.

This is to plot the usurpation of the throne!

And it was at a time of national crisis......

"No, it's not a rebellion." Wu Yanen stroked his beard, "It's to save the country and save the people!" Xijing City can't be defended, and Nanjing City will have to be lost in a short time.

Without Xijing and Nanjing, can Kaijing, which is sandwiched in the middle, still hold on?

Want to move the capital? How to move, where to go? Even if you can get to Gyeongju, how can you maintain a country with those valleys to the south? The Kingdom of Goryeo has always been raised by the plains of Xijing, Kaijing, Nanjing and Jeonju! ”

The topography of Goryeo is a bit of a nourishing plain on the west coast, and the rest of the world is mountainous. In ancient times, when the productive forces were not developed, the plains could provide more food than the mountainous areas many times. And food means national strength, it means population. With the food and population of the West Coast, Korea was able to exist as a unified nation.

If the West Coast all fell into the hands of the Jurchens and moved to the imperial court in the mountains of Gyeongju (Tokyo), it would not be possible to suppress the wealthy clan and maintain the country.

"Not really, right?" Wu Yanpet looked at his cousin with a solemn expression, "It's not so fast, right?" Xijing and Nanjing are both fortified cities, how could they fall in a short period of time? ”

"Believe in the foolish brother," Wu Yanen said, "both cities will fall in a day!" Because the Youzhou Army has a sharp weapon called a cannon to break the city! ”

"Cannon?"

"It's a kind of large cylindrical bronze vessel, hollowed out in the middle, which can be filled with gunpowder and fired iron balls, which are indestructible. Not to mention the second capital in the southwest, even if the opening of Beijing is only ten days away! Therefore, the second capital in the southwest will be lost, and the Youzhou army and the Jurchen army will soon open Beijing. The imperial court and hundred officials of Goryeo would not even have the opportunity to retreat to Gyeongju. If you don't want to lose your country, you have to rely on you! ”

"Rely on me?" Wu Yanpet's heart was pounding, "How to do it?" ”

Wu Yanen said: "Sweep away the traitors and seek peace by war!" ”

"Peace by war?" Wu Yan looked at his cousin, "Didn't you say that the Youzhou Army has a sharp weapon to break the city?" ”

"That's right, but whether you use this weapon or not, it's up to King Yan!"

"King Yan's condition is ......" Wu Yanpet took a breath, he already understood that he had no other way out. If you don't want your family to be ruined, you can only cooperate with King Yan.

"Ceded Tamna-gun, Busan-gun, and Gyeongwon-gun, and paid an indemnity of 2 million yuan, and opened up trade."

"What!?" Wu Yanpet stood up suddenly, "The compensation is 2 million, and Qingyuan County will be cut, which is the gateway to Nanjing......"

Tamna and Busan can't take care of it, one is not actually controlled by the Goryeo Kingdom at all, and the other is also on the southern seaside, so don't do it.

But Gyeongwon-gun was the later Incheon! This is going to be cut out, and the capital of Goryeo is under the front of the people's soldiers, can there still be Ningri?

In addition, the indemnity of 2 million yuan is also something that Goryeo cannot afford. There is no such thing at all, what to give?

"Don't worry, don't worry," Wu Yanen beckoned to his brother and motioned for him to sit down and speak, "There is a way to pay compensation, you can borrow it...... The Bank of Tianjin can make a loan, borrow 2 million yuan first, and then slowly repay it. As for the cession of Qingyuan County, in fact, for the Goryeo Kingdom and our Wu family, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. ”

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