Chapter 256: The Cunning Clan
The leather curtain whirled past his cheeks, and the cold air came to his face. At this time, the camp fire in the army was booming. Cows and sheep were hanging from each fire, and each was flanked by five white yurts. The flame is the stamen that breathes a warm breath, and the yurt is the pure and immaculate petals, blooming in the vast snowfield. The smell of the meat when it is half burnt, the freshness of the iron when it is polished, the shouting, the singing, the neighing of horses, just like the flowers are flourishing, giving birth to the strongest stretching sound. The first yurt can accommodate a group of Jurchen warriors, and in these 10,000 yurts, there are 50,000 Jurchen troops.
Looking out over his military camp at such a moment was one of Wanyan Go's favorite things to do, and it often reminded him of the story of Kim Taejo Wanyan Aguta and his warriors. When he was just a child, the Wanyan clan was just a weak and scattered tribe cramped between the white mountains and black waters. When night falls, he will serve the elders' charred meat with his hands stained with wolf blood, and then he will be able to hear about the fabulous people and deeds. That year, Wanyan Aguta led his army against the Liao army and ended the declining Liao state. However, he is only the usher in the opening of a larger, more chaotic stage.
Through the war to destroy Liao, the Jurchens also saw the true face of the Song State side by side with the Liao State.
Originally, the Song and Liao countries agreed to join forces to destroy Liao, and the Liao army, which fled in front of the Jin army, broke out with amazing combat effectiveness in the face of the Song army, and even won more with less, and defeated 200,000 Song troops.
The dignified Song Dynasty, such a behemoth, is actually just a silver-like wax gun head, a paper tiger. Haha, if I knew this, I should have adjusted the policy in the first place, and the fat meat should have the treatment of fat meat.
From then on, the Jurchens no longer regarded the Song State as a strategic partner.
Since the place that was originally attacked by the Song army was not defeated, Wanyan Agu fought Yanyun in person. After Yan Aguda was still a long way away from Yanjing City, the Liao people began a great escape. They left Youzhou, fled from the Gubeikou Yanyun Territory, and headed all the way west to find the Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, who had escaped farther and more thoroughly.
The battle of Yanyun of the Jin army almost did not use sword soldiers, and it was a city that rode directly into the city. After entering the city, the heads of all the Jin troops were dizzy...... Too blissful, is this the legendary city of perfection?
What they saw was unprecedented prosperity, even if they had occupied four of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom before, they had never seen such a world. The sixteen states of Yanyun are special, it has the characteristics of the Liao people, and it is more of the color of the Song Dynasty. It was the southernmost point of the Liao State at that time, and it was the area closest to the civilization of the Song Dynasty, and it was almost synchronized with the Song Dynasty in terms of material and style.
Don't go.
Going anywhere, led by Wanyan Aguda, the Jurchens indulged in the joyful songs and lights of the sixteen states of Yanyun, shopping every day, killing people, robbing some women, and doing house raiding games, and lived a very fulfilling life. Of course, in a good mood, they did not forget to pursue the Liao people to the west. At the same time, full of fun and fantasy, the Jurchens set their sights on the south.
It is a kind of torture to fantasize about wealth in poverty, and it is a kind of enjoyment to yearn for greater wealth in wealth. And when yearning can be infinitely upgraded like a fantasy, and it can become a reality at any step, how will the Jurchens feel?
The Jin people no longer had a good face for the Song people, they scolded the Song envoy for a bloody dog, and the Song envoy could only listen, the two countries agreed to attack at the same time, and the Song State made the Jin State wait for half a year in vain; When the envoy of the Jin State arrived in Kaifeng, he didn't talk about anything, and it took time to hang it aside; As a result, Song Guo suddenly sent troops again, wanting to take advantage of loopholes, etc., until he lost the battle, he didn't think of his allies, and he simply regarded Jin Guo as a fool!
All this must be compensated with money!
The Jin people began to extort: in addition to the original agreement that they would only give the twenty-four counties of the six Song states and collect the annual currency of the entire sixteen states every year, the property of the Han people in the Song State was only given to the twenty-four counties of the six states, and all the population and property of the other Xi, Khitan, Bohai and other ethnic groups belonged to the Jurchens.
This is too harsh and vague, as long as there is a little black heart in the implementation, all the people and property in those states and counties can be removed. But because the Song army was so embarrassed, the Song people had nothing to say but to agree.
After Jin Jun entered Yanyun, for the first time, he was not satisfied with the New Year's coins and wanted to pay taxes. Taxes, that is, taxes, are the foundation of a country. The reason why land is valuable is that it can live in people and generate taxes, if even this has to be abandoned, what is the meaning of land?
In this regard, the reason given by the Jin people is that Yanyun was defeated by the Jin army and is the property of the Jin people, so the taxes are all from the Jin country. Now even the land and rent tax are given to the Song State, which is really a big loss. If you don't agree to pay taxes alone, you will ask Song Guo to leave immediately, and don't talk about Yan Yun's matter anymore.
In order to get Yan Yun, the Song people agreed to pay taxes. Jin Ren also said that Yanyun was beaten at the end of last year, so the New Year's coins should be counted from last year. As soon as he said this, the silver of 400,000 taels of white flowers was immediately in hand. The emperor of the Song State didn't give a discount at all, and he gave it a year if he wanted it, and there was no ambiguity at all.
The Jin people also told the Song people that since Emperor Tianzuo, Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and others of the Liao State have not been caught, returning Yanyun at this time really leaves you with hidden dangers. In this way, Jin Guo will take care of it for you, but there is a problem with grain and grass.
200,000 stones.
Song Guo also agreed.
When the grain arrived, the Jin people put forward new conditions, saying that the 8,000 people in the Guo Yaoshi Division, the resentful army of the Liao State, were in the Song State, which was also a mortal enemy and must be handed over.
This time, the Song State "bought" the resentful army at the cost of more than 30,000 households with more than 150 family properties in the jurisdiction of Youzhou City.
At the delivery stage, the gold people have to implement the specific amount of tax agreed before, one million taels of silver per year. This has nothing to do with the annual annual coin, that is, after the Song State returned to the six states and twenty-four counties in the Yanyun region, it would hand over 1.4 million taels of silver to the Jin State every year. And this annual tax of one million taels cannot be paid with money, but with kind. The Song people also agreed, but there was one condition, they wanted Xijing. For Xijing, the Song people gave another 200,000 taels at one time. After all this was done, the Jin people were silent, they racked their brains, thought about it again, and couldn't think of any reason to delay and blackmail again. So, the Jin people collected their troops and left to make way for the Song people.
At this time, it has been nearly half a year since the Jin army entered and occupied Yanyun, and taking Youzhou City as an example, it has been changed beyond recognition. Kill all who can, rob all that can, and burn all as bonfires on some happy nights...... In this way, before leaving, the Jin army also plundered "two or three thousand people from the Central Plains Scholar's family, sister-in-law, Lise, Guangmei, and Juan Xiufan, and returned to their country in the north." Singing and feasting, only knowing the entertainment of sound and color".
When the Song army entered Youzhou City, they saw such a scene: Yan Yun had been looted to nothing, and as for Xijing, Jin Guo received the money, but did not return it at all.