Chapter Eighty-Three: Before the Storm
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This thing seems dangerous, but in fact, there is no need to be afraid at all.
The reason is simple, first of all, the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia were originally the kind of life-and-death relationship, without the support of the Liao State, the Western Xia is now almost from death, and the Great Song Dynasty does not need to be afraid of the Western Xia at all!
The second is the Liao State, in fact, the Great Song Dynasty does not have to be afraid of him at all.
During this time, Lin Chong inquired around through various channels, and was already ninety percent sure that the battle of Liaojin Hubu Dagang had occurred two years ago, and the Jurchens defeated the 700,000 army of Liao with 20,000 troops (only more than 100,000 actually participated in the war), and then a large-scale rebellion occurred in the north of Liao, and the chaos is still being quelled.
Moreover, the Jurchens took advantage of the big victory two years ago to integrate the mature Jurchens and Bohai people of the Liao State, and at the same time recruited the rebels to increase several times, and they were aggressively attacking Liao, as if they had occupied the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo of the Liao State last year.
Therefore, the Liao State came to the Song Dynasty this time to stand for the peace of the "little brother" Xixia, in fact, it was just relying on the fact that the Great Song Dynasty did not know the inside story of the Liao State to scare the Great Song Dynasty!
On the one hand, the Great Song Dynasty was used to it, and he was afraid of the Liao State for more than a hundred years, but he was really frightened; On the other hand, there was the struggle for power, power, faction, and faction within the Song Dynasty.
Speaking of which, Cai Jing, a big traitor, seized power, and formed a party for personal gain, which caused the dissatisfaction of other courtiers.
In the end, there was a situation in which Tong Guan was outside, Liang Shicheng was included, these two people were the leaders, and Cai You, Wang Hao and others were the pioneers, and Cai Jing, Zhu Mian, and Cai Jing's countless protΓ©gΓ©s Ma Zai Group fought in the ring.
In fact, Cai Jing took too much power, and the court and the place were full of his people, even Zhao Ji was extremely jealous of her, so he dismissed Cai Jing twice;
But Cai Jing is indeed a talented person, not only will he pay money indiscriminately, but other means of collecting money are also first-class, and the finance and economy of the Great Song Dynasty really can't play without Cai Jing, so Cai Jing can always return to phase quickly after every strike.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Cai Jing has become more and more fearless, in order to maintain his prestige and stabilize his power, Cai Jing must oppose anything that Tong Guan Liang Shicheng's faction wants to do, and if he can't oppose it, Cai Jing must also find a way to obstruct it.
This time, Tong Guan led the Western Army to fight smoothly all the way, and it seemed that he could capture the entire Hengshan and Hehuang, and there was no barrier in Western Xia, and the entire hinterland was about to be exposed to the Western Army, Cai Jing naturally panicked.
If Tong Guan really wiped out the Western Xia in one fell swoop and made such a miraculous feat, the status and power would inevitably rise, the officials would trust him more, and more and more people would take refuge in them.
Therefore, as soon as he saw the envoys of the Western Xia running to sue for peace, the Liao State was also very cooperative and threatened to hint: "If you continue to attack the Western Xia, I will not sit idly by", Cai Jing immediately mobilized his henchmen to create public opinion and preach how strong the Liao State was, once the Liao Xia attacked the Great Song Dynasty at the same time, the consequences would be unimaginable, so it was better to agree to sue for peace.
And then the two sides have been arguing until now......
But he is a person who knows the situation in Liao, Cai Jing can create public opinion, can't he be?
I believe that as long as I get the bottom of the Liao State out, Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng's henchmen will naturally help build up the momentum.
Moreover, I am a time-traveler who knows history and sees things more clearly than everyone else.
Lin Chong knew that although Zhao Ji was a frivolous and absurd emperor, he was also a great emperor in his bones and felt very good about himself.
Several generations of the Zhao Song official family have wanted to destroy Western Xia and recover Yanyun, and Zhao Ji is naturally no exception!
In the past, Lin Chong was too lazy to care about this matter, because he knew that Tong Guan's side was more in line with Zhao Ji's mind in this matter, and in the end, Tong Guan's side would definitely win.
Moreover, in the original history, Tong Guan did push all the way to Hengshan and Hehuang, if it weren't for the fact that he was too confident and rash to attack the enemy, Western Xia would have been destroyed.
So, I didn't want to care about it, but now that I'm also involved, it's better to push the gears of history forward as soon as possible.
Lin Chong had already made up his mind, and it was not good to continue to hold it to Shi Xingfang, so he said: "Brother Shi, let's not hide it, although Lin Chong is only a deputy commander of the tea and wine class now, in fact, what he desires most in his heart is to be able to lead the troops to fight and eliminate Hu Lu for national merit."
So during this time, I have not been idle, I have been asking the Liao businessmen who came to Bianjing to do business, and at the same time, I also asked my friend who was overseas to go to Liao to inquire about intelligence, you know, my friend's things are so good, and they are naturally very popular in Liao.
Don't say it, I really got some important news...... These pieces of news are true, and I ask Brother Shi to help me spread them......"
it! 20,000 Jurchen barbarians defeated the 700,000 Liao army and captured half of them!
it! The northern border of Liao is in rebellion everywhere, and the emperor of Liao is extremely stupid!
it! Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo of Liao State is occupied by Jurchen barbarians, and 5,000 Jurchen barbarians can chase after 100,000 Liao soldiers!
it! Dong Pang'er, a Liao man, revolted in the south, and the Liao army could not be wiped out after thousands of miles, and they all reached Yingzhou and Shuozhou!
it! This time, the Liao Dog Messenger is just bluffing to scare our Great Song!
Shi Xingfang's eyes widened suddenly, he couldn't believe that the Liao State, which was once incomparably powerful and almost invincible in his previous impression, was now so vulnerable and in such a mess in the country!
"Brother Lin, what you said is true? When did Liao Dog become so unbeaten? It's no joke! β
Lin Chong said very seriously: "Naturally, you just have to spread all this news, if there is trouble, you just have to bring your brother out!" β
Shi Xiaofat nodded suspiciously, and Lin Chong said again: "Also, you go and help me inform Zhang San and Li Si, these news will not only be spread among the forbidden army generals, but also among the ordinary people, in short, we must create a momentum!" β
Zhang San and Li Si are now amazing, with a family of generals of the Bianliang Forbidden Army, they integrated almost half of the gangsters in Bianliang City, and set up a workshop specializing in processing honeycomb coal, small coal stoves and furnace cores.
Before this, although Bianliang City also burned coal, it was very inconvenient to use firewood to light coal every morning.
As a result, honeycomb coal and well-designed small coal stoves were immediately popular, and now the two of them are in charge of thousands of people, delivering briquettes to every household every day.
It's great for them to spread the word.
Shi Xingfang left, Lin Chong also finished lunch, and immediately took Lu Zhishen home, he was afraid that Lu Zhishen would be arrested when he returned to the vegetable garden of Daxiangguo Temple, and he would have to catch him when the time came.
"Thirteen, come to my little study."
Guo Shisan followed in with an excited face, Lin Chong quickly wrote a letter and handed it to him: "You go and give this letter to your second uncle Huan, remember not to be discovered, let alone let others see this letter, it's better for you to pretend to be a little beggar!" β
When Lin Chong was nervously planning, there was a lot of noise in the imperial city at this time, and Zhao Ji, who had not caught the murderer of his daughter, was in an extremely irritable mood, but when he heard that they were arguing so much, he was even more angry, and immediately said angrily: "What about Lin Chong? Go and call Lin Chong's guy over to me! β
Cai Jing on the side laughed and said: "This guy has caused such a big disaster, if you don't come to the palace to ask for guilt, I'm afraid I'm going to run away!" β
"Then let the people of Yulong Nao and the Imperial City Division arrest him!"
The old thief Cai Jing was very happy, he thought that this was simply a godsend, Lin Chong killed the envoy of the Liao State, the Liao State would definitely not give up, Lin Chong was naturally not sorry to die;
But at this time, the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to refute the face of the Liao State and forcibly attack the Western Xia, otherwise wouldn't the Liao State have more reason to attack the Song Dynasty?
So agreeing to the sum of Western Xia is almost a foregone conclusion!
On the other hand, Liang Shicheng, Wang Huang, Cai You and others also hated Lin Chong more and more: Straight mother thief, isn't this causing us trouble?