The rapid changes in the current situation are really dizzying. One turn after another, making the people in this troubled world feel breathless.

Wu Haogu's ten-year layout in Yandi, once harvested, has completely broken the balance between Song and Liao that has been maintained for a hundred years. The great empire of the Khitans is clearly crumbling!

However, with the cooperation of Zhao Ji, a good opponent, Yelu Yanxi, who was standing on the edge of the cliff, bloomed with dazzling military talent, defeated Zhong Fu and Gao Yu one after another, and burned the war from Hebei to Hedong, making Zhao Ji, known as "Emperor Genghis", tired to cope. In the summer of the fourth year of Daguan, it played a big detour that was enough to go down in history, and instantly smashed the defense line of Yanmen Pass, which the Song people had painstakingly operated for a hundred years.

More than 100,000 Daliao elites, the tide passed through Yanmen Pass, quickly broke through Daizhou Prefecture to govern Yanmen County, seized a large number of materials stored there by the Song army, and then successively broke through Laoxian County and Yangwu Village, and fought a beautiful and roundabout Xiao Gan division in Xinkou Village.

At this point, the road to Taiyuan City, the capital of Dasonghe East Road, has been unimpeded!

The Khitan people's distant horses have long been galloping back and forth outside Taiyuan City.

Taiyuan City is surrounded by regiments, but it is only a matter of time!

But at the same time as the crisis in Hedong and the world shook, Xiao Baoxian, the envoy of Yelu Yanxi's request for peace, knocked on the gate of the Wujiakou (there is no Zhangjiakou) gate under construction.

Speaking from the heart, Yelu Yanxi's move to sue for peace with Youzhou is still very clever. Because he has recognized such a reality. His Liao army can beat the genuine Song army, but it can't beat the republican army in Youzhou! Even if the powerful soldiers and horses of Yandi who defected to the republic could defeat the elite of the Khitans.

The republican army is a system, including the command of the staff group, the efficient management backed by the industry and commerce of Tianjin, the citizens of the soldiers (there are also a large number of citizens in the Yandi Haoqiang army, as long as the soldiers who are not paid to give fields, they are citizens), and the multi-arms cooperation of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, all of which make the Youzhou Republican Army an era ahead of the Liao army!

Even the new heroes and horses will show their most powerful combat effectiveness in this system!

However, the system of the Youzhou Republican Army is not invulnerable. According to the widely accepted view of later generations, the big workers and businessmen are short-sighted and cannot play big chess compared to the feudal bureaucrats.

Although the current Youzhou has the strength to destroy the Liao State, it does not have the ambition to prosper on behalf of the Liao and crisscross the grassland desert.

Because at the end of the industrial and commercial industry, it is always necessary to make small calculations and calculate economic accounts. From an economic point of view, it is certainly a good deal to seize the swallow land.

First, Yandi has the raw materials needed by Tianjin's industry and commerce. Including timber, carboniferous, iron ore, cotton, animal husbandry products, etc. - don't look at the current prosperity of industry and commerce in Tianjin, but the overall scale is still not large. Most of the raw materials needed can be supplied by Yandi, and if there is still a shortage, it can be supplemented by maritime trade with Liaodong, Goryeo, and Japan, and there is no need to obtain them from the vast and inconvenient grasslands and deserts.

Second, the land of Yandi can be used to maintain an army with the main force of the citizen soldiers who grant land. The cost of maintaining an army with land and citizenship (knights and soldiers are all citizens) is much lower than spending money to hire an army. And for a period of time (decades or more), an army of landlord citizens was more loyal and combat-ready than mercenaries. Such a cost-effective army can open up markets for Tianjin's industry and commerce, as well as a production area for cheap raw materials, and can also protect the security of Tianjin itself, which is a very cost-effective deal.

But if such an army based on land and citizenship were to be used in a war between the steppe desert or the white mountains and black waters, the benefits would be far from covering the costs. The land of the grassland and desert is not attractive to the landlords, and the land in the valley of the Liao River and the Daling River is still of some value, but the Tokyo Road of the Liao State is now a powder keg, and it is easy to fall into the quagmire and unable to extricate oneself from rushing into it.

It is more cost-effective to use the army of Yandi to conquer the Liao kingdom of Tokyo Province than to use it to acquire colonies in Goryeo and Japan. Because these colonies could help Tianjin industry and commerce to occupy the market and obtain profits, they could also get some rich and comfortable land to distribute to the landlord citizens. With one stone, you can get more with one stone, and you don't spend much, and the income is quite guaranteed.

At the same time, the war in the Tokyo Province of the Liao Kingdom would provide a huge market for the industry and commerce of Tianjin, and it would be more profitable to sell arms than to get involved themselves.

Of course, not participating does not mean that it is impossible to acquire a small stronghold in Liaodong that has extremely high strategic value and is easy to defend.

It was for these reasons that Xiao Baoxian, the envoy of the Liao State, who had already recognized the reality, was once again warmly welcomed by Wu Haogu, the short-sighted general leader of the Tianjin bourgeoisie.

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Tianjin City.

Compared with before the Song Liao war, the lively scene of carriages, horses, merchants and merchants shuttling back and forth in the Jiehe Merchant City. At this time, Tianjin, which has been transformed into the capital of Youzhou and the capital of the republic, seems a little cold and depressed.

It's summer, and in the past few years, summer and autumn have been the most prosperous and lively seasons in Jiehe Commercial Market.

And now, this commercial market cannot be said to be completely depressed. But there are far fewer businessmen and pedestrians on the streets. Most of the shops are still open, but they are also cold. Xiao Baoxian, who rode along Gonghe Avenue, the widest street in the southern city of Tianjin, also saw the construction site stopped halfway through construction from time to time. I don't know if the boss ran away, or if the workers all went to the army to fight?

It seems that Wu Haogu's days in Tianjin are not as beautiful as imagined! Xiao Bao first turned his head and glanced at Wu Haogu, who was walking with him.

This man, who has almost become the "lord of a country", is much thinner and older than the last time Xiao Bao saw him first, but he also has a little more of the spirit of a king above people.

Maybe he has now realized the difficulty of being an emperor and a king, right? He seems to be powerful now, but in fact, he is sandwiched between the two behemoths of Song Liao, taking advantage of the knife and licking blood.

Once the war between Song and Liao is stopped, and then they join forces to oppress Yandi, the royal industry of Yandi may come to an end, right?

Wu Haogu is indeed a little annoying, and the growing depression in Tianjin is a factor.

Although Wu Haogu has been working hard to retain the wealthy businessmen in Tianjin, his confrontation with the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao still scared away many investors.

Even those businessmen who were not scared away reduced their investments because of the uncertainty about the prospects for war.

In addition, although Ji Yi, who took over the Hailu City Shipping and Purchasing Division, fulfilled his promise and continued to trade with Tianjin Municipality in the "North Malaysia, North Grain, North Medicine, and North Wood", the trading of North Land Fur was basically not affected because of the monopoly position of Tianjin.

However, there are no new orders from the Hebei Transshipment Division. Tianjin's masonry, marl, iron smelting, military industry, woodwork, shipbuilding and other industries have gradually fallen into a downturn.

Finally, Tianjin's financial sector has also performed poorly, and funds continue to go into exile in Haizhou's Jingdong Market. Some of the gold and silver silk shops and quality warehouses that were afraid of having anything to do with the "anti-thieves" also withdrew from Tianjin. Although Bank of Tianjin and Jingdong Bank took the opportunity to expand their business and occupy the market, they basically maintained sufficient funds in the market.

However, Tianjin's status as a "financial center" is also giving way to Jingdong City......

However, in Wu Haogu's view, Tianjin's downturn is only temporary. Because Tianjin also has the best educational resources of its time, a strong army and navy, a large and technologically advanced manufacturing industry, and most importantly, tens of thousands of armed citizens.

So he didn't worry much about the Tianjin exchanges.

What really annoyed Wu Haogu was the disagreement between the "republicans" and the "monarchists" within the Youzhou group.

This disagreement exists in Wu Haogu's back house, and it can even be said to be the birthplace of disagreement!

The leader of the "monarchy" is Ximen Qing and the characters on her line, Ximen Anguo, Zhao Zhongge, Murong Parrot, Murong Wangwu, Zhang Jue, Zhang Xizai, Hua Mancang, Chai Li, this big gang. If you are a little more broad, there are also the major powerful families in Youzhou that have been subordinated to the republican government, and they are all monarchs.

They all hoped that Wu Haogu would soon ascend the throne in Tianjin and rule in the name of King Yan or simply in the name of the Emperor of Great Zhou!

The "republican faction" is backed by Pan Qiaolian, including a group of Kaifeng generals who also follow Wu Haogu, wealthy merchants from Kaifeng and Haizhou, scholars from Yuntai Academy, and knight generals who are not from Yandi (the Ximen family and the Chai family are considered to be from Yandi).

They all hoped that Wu Haogu would keep a "low profile" and act in the name of the republican government, so as not to exacerbate the contradictions with the Great Song court. Even if Zhao Ji had decreed that Wu Haogu would be named the "King of Yan", Wu Haogu would not rule Yan Land in the name of "King".

Because once the founding of the country is crowned king, between the two countries of Song and Yan or between the two countries of Song and Zhou, it will inevitably be a life-and-death struggle.

However, these two factions have the same opinion on the matter of negotiating peace with the Liao State.

Youzhou can't be opposed to the two behemoths of Da Liao and Da Song at the same time! Now Tao Jiefu has tens of thousands of troops stationed in Qingzhou and Cangzhou, no matter how you look at it, he has a bit of a desire to attack. With these tens of thousands of people here, Youzhou must always be vigilant, and deploy heavy troops in Tianjin, so it will not be able to attack Liao on a large scale.

Moreover, Youzhou has no ambitions for the Saibei grassland at the moment, and its requirements for Liaodong are only the territory of the Suzhou Anfu Army, which can be taken soon. Maybe it can be obtained through peace talks with Liao, so why bother to fight endlessly?