Chapter 313: Zheng Zhi, if I die, you must remember me
State affairs are never simple, and the matter that Zheng Zhi negotiated with Wanyan Aguda face-to-face, and it is the turn of the officials who really write the covenant to actually operate, but it is not so simple. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun include the entire territory of Beijing and Tianjin in later generations, as well as the northern regions of Hebei and the northern regions of Shanxi. Yan (You), Ji, Ying, Mo, Zhuo, Tan, Shun, Yun, Confucian, Confucian, Concubine, Wu, Xin, Wei, Ying, Huan, Shuo, a total of 16 states.
The border of the Liao-Song Dynasty is to the line from Yanmen to Cangzhou in Shanxi, and in the middle is a place that is very famous in later generations, Xiongzhou. The land of Xiong'an New Area is Xiongzhou. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiongzhou has always been a place of developed commerce, and the main trading grounds on the Liao-Song border for a hundred years were concentrated here.
The barrier of Yanyun is Lingbei, the place where later generations will see the Great Wall of Beijing. If you lose Lingbei, Yanyun will be in trouble. Losing Yanyun, there is no danger to defend in the Central Plains. This is the Central Plains Heshuo of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Without Yanyun, the Central Plains will always be under the nomadic iron hoof.
The wine is cloudy and the minced meat is dull.
On the side of the bonfire, only the Jurchens sang and danced, and there was a bold smile of Sticky Han, and there was another person beside the young Sticky Han, who was an even younger Wushu.
Wushu is still a child, about ten years old, but he likes to follow Sticky Han around, listening to Sticky Han talk about bending bows and riding horses, fighting in battle.
Zheng Zhi, who came from civilization, was also full of curiosity about primitiveness, as the wisdom of human beings, although the Jurchens were backward in civilization, they were no less intelligent than any race.
Sticky Han was full of wine and food, and ordered the servants around him to say a few words, and the servants brought two women dressed in Song costumes to Zheng Zhi's side.
"Brother Zheng Zhi, these two women are the daughters of the Khitan officials in the Huanglong Mansion, and I will give these two to you tonight." Sticky Han said, pointing to the two women.
Zheng Zhi looked at the two women in front of him with their heads down, and he couldn't see their faces clearly in the bonfire, but he remembered something else, this sticky wife's room seemed to be the eighth daughter of Huizong Zhao Ji, Zhao Yingluo. It was snatched when he was in Jingkang.
The Jurchens had such a habit of rewarding women to their ministers and warriors.
Zheng Zhi looked at what he was thinking about, and said with a smile: "Haha... Brother Zheng Zhi, these two Khitan women were rewarded to me by the emperor, and I stayed here in a hurry to go south, and now I will give them to you to take back to the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Sticky Han seemed to want to explain something, as if he wanted to explain that he had not touched these two women, or to express a little understanding of chastity to Zheng Zhi, a Song person. The Jurchens also have a strong sense of private ownership of women.
Zheng Zhi listened to Sticky Han's words, looked at the two Khitan women who were no different from the Song people in dress, turned around and said to Sticky Han: "I accepted the heart of the Sticky Han brothers, and it just so happened that the two brothers under my command did not have women, so I gave them to be concubines." ”
"Whatever is given to you is your property, and it is at your disposal. Brother Zheng Zhi has a wife? "Sticky Han wants to give these two women to Zheng Zhi, which is also to express a kindness, and a little gratitude to Zheng Zhi for giving him two hundred sets of iron armor.
"I have three wives and a son, and I'm almost two years old. When he was born, I was fighting against the Dangxiang people in the northwest, and that battle drove the emperor of the Dangxiang people out for more than a thousand miles, and since then in the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, I can no longer see the figure of the Dangxiang people. Zheng Zhi motioned to Niu Da to take the two women in front of him down, and said to Mu Han intentionally or unintentionally.
Niu was naturally happy, took the rope that tied the two women, looked left and right, and saw that the two women could not see any difference from the Song people, and was even more happy, listening to Zheng Zhi's words, Niu Da also knew that one of the two women would be his own, and he didn't even have to give a bride price or a pawn.
Niu laughed and looked at Luda again, and when he saw that Luda didn't react, he led the two women to the camp tent in the distance.
Generally, the sinicization of the Khitan people has reached the point where they are no different from the Han people, and they are the same as the Han people in terms of dress, that is, they can speak both Chinese and Khitan languages. Except for the Khitan tribes on the steppe, the rest of the Khitans are like this. In particular, the families of Khitan officials, who were officials everywhere, were proficient in Chinese.
"Brother, you actually have a son, the son is good, the three wives are too few, you need more wives, have more sons, strong warriors will also give birth to strong warriors, we Jurchens want to have sons, sons will be warriors in the future, Jurchens are not afraid of any enemies, only afraid of no warriors." Sticky Han looked at Zheng Zhi with envy, since he saw Zheng Zhi, Sticky Han really only envied Zheng Zhi for two things, a well-made iron armor and Zheng Zhi's son. But the reason is that it is all about war.
Listening to the translation, Zheng Zhi smiled and nodded: "There are more than hundreds of millions of Song people, so I don't miss a few more." ”
Sticky Han was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked: "There are so many Song people, why are they still occupied by the Liao people?" If my Jurchen has a population of one million, I will definitely kill not a single Liao person. ”
"Sticky Han, there are too many reasons for this, you may understand it next time you see me." Zheng Zhi really didn't know how to explain to Sticky Han, and Zheng Zhi didn't want to explain the reason in detail, and it was also about a kind of weakness in the face of the future Jurchen at this time. If Zheng Zhi had enough strength to face the Jurchens, this kind of weakness of heart would be gone.
"Haha... Zheng Zhi, you don't dare to say your shortcomings, I guess, it must be that most of you Song people are cowardly, not as brave as our Jurchens. Isn't that the truth? Sticky Han smiled, being able to say this also shows Sticky Han's intelligence.
"The men under my command are all brave, no worse than you Jurchens." Zheng Zhi retorted, and there was no more explanation.
When Mu Han heard this, he looked at these ironclad men who were around not far away, and said with a smile: "This is also true, the men under your command are not bad, that is, the generals of your Song people are too bad, not as brave as your brother." ”
"Perhaps, when the Khitan first came down from the mountains, forests and grasslands, they were as brave as you Jurchens and had a large population. At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was still in the midst of war, divided into many large and small countries, and fought together. The Khitans got Yanyun because a country had to face the war in the Central Plains, and when the Great Song Dynasty unified the Central Plains, it became such a situation. The Khitans were a formidable opponent. Zheng Zhi replied.
Yanyun was not forcibly occupied by the Khitans, and Shi Jingjiao ceded Yanyun to the Khitans in order to get the support of the Khitans. The Khitans sent troops to help Shi Jingjiao destroy the Later Tang Dynasty and establish the Later Jin Dynasty. The Later Jin Dynasty was eventually destroyed by the Khitans and became the Later Han. In the end, Hou Zhou unified the world, but the world of Hou Zhou was taken by Hou Zhou's leading general, Zhao Kuangyin. After that, it was the Great Song Dynasty.
"It's the Khitan people who take advantage of the danger, and the Khitan dogs are all doing such villain things." Sticky Han probably understood a little at this time and made such an evaluation.
"If you want to be strong, you must be united within yourself, and if you don't unite, the enemy will be strong." Zheng Zhi said this, ceding Yanyun is something that Shi Jingjiao is willing to fight and suffer. It was the tragedy of that troubled time at that time.
"That's the truth, only by uniting oneself can one make oneself strong, when the Jurchens are not united, they can only let the Khitan dog bully, and now that my Jurchen is united, I will occupy the city of the Khitan dog. Now that the Jurchens and the Song people are united, they can kill all the Khitan dogs. ”
The campfire flickered, shining on their faces. When the words came to this, they had already sunk down, no longer as easy as before, the newly established Jin State was still in danger, even if Sticky Han was not afraid of death at all, but he also had to face the counterattack of the Liao State, this battle was not the life and death of Sticky Han alone, but the life and death of the entire Jurchen Dajin.
The sun was still rising, and Zhao Liangsi didn't sleep all night, but he was full of joy and eating breakfast, chatting and laughing with several officials who came with him. Obviously, I've seen the beauty of returning to Tokyo.
Niu Da followed Zheng Zhi who walked out of the tent, and kept helping Zheng Zhi tie the knot behind the iron armor.
"Zhao Liangsi, take last night's covenant with me." Zheng Zhi looked at Zhao Liangsi not far away and shouted.
When Zhao Liangsi heard Zheng Zhi's words, his face turned pale, he glanced back at Zheng Zhi, reluctantly stood up, took out a wooden box and walked towards Zheng Zhi.
Zheng Zhi took the wooden box, took out the white cloth inside, and quickly read the text on it, which was not different from what he talked about yesterday.
Stuffed the cloth back again, returned the wooden box to Zhao Liangsi, looked around and said, "Pack up your things and set off home." ”
The soldiers began to pack up their things, and Zhao Liangsi and the others stopped talking and laughing, and found a few ropes to tie the wooden boxes one after another.
Sticky Han brought hundreds of Jurchen men under his command to converge. The crowd headed south again.
This time, the path is different from the last time, the general direction is similar, but it is the old road that will not be taken again. Sticky Han went south and sent Zheng Zhi to sea was one of them, but he still had to loot again, and he couldn't go in vain.
In this plunder, Zheng Zhi and Sticky Han slowly cooperated more and more skillfully, Zheng Zhi led two hundred ironclad men under his command to advance head-on, and Sticky Han's seven or eight hundred Jurchens flanked on both sides, and the results became more and more huge, and the harvest was extremely rich. Even Zheng Zhi also had thoughts about these war horses, but he couldn't bring them back, and even the two hundred horses that sat down could only be left for Muhan to take back to Huanglong Mansion.
Liaoyang again, Liaoyang on this day is completely different from the last time, the flag is planted all over the city, the four city gates are also open, and people and horses are constantly entering and exiting.
Zheng Zhi, who was a few miles away, already understood what was going on, and hurriedly said: "Sticky Han, let's go, I go to sea, you go back quickly, Yelu Yanxi is here." ”
Mu Han also hurriedly pulled the horse and said, "Zheng Zhi, if I die, you must remember me." ”
Zheng Zhi knew that Sticky Han would not die, so naturally he didn't care about Sticky Han's words, nor could he see the solemnity on Sticky Han's face, so he only said: "You wear iron armor, you can't die." ”
"Zheng Zhi, my name is sticky and didn't drink, and the sticky of the Wanyan tribe didn't drink. Don't forget me. Sticky Han kept beating the horse forward, and his words sounded somewhat hypocritical to Zheng Zhi, but at this time, no matter what kind of person he is, he will have this hypocrisy after all. In fact, it is not hypocrisy, but it is regarded as death.
The Jurchens are accustomed to life and death. Either die on the battlefield, or die from the beasts of the woods, or maybe die from a mouthful of food. There was no fear in Sticky Han's words, just a little sadness.
Not far from the sea, the big ship is still parked there.
Zheng Zhi slowly unloaded the iron armor, laid it out on the ground after tidying it up, and said to Sticky Han: "Sticky Han, this set of iron armor has allowed me to live until now, and I will give it to you now, take care." ”
Sticky Han didn't say a word, looked at Zheng Zhi, watched Zheng Zhi get on the boat, and slowly walked away.
until they saw the great ship set sail as well. Sticky Han looked at the iron armor on the ground, picked it up piece by piece, put it on his body, got on the horse, looked left and right, and shouted: "Follow me to kill Liao dog!" ”
Sticky Han didn't listen to Zheng Zhi's words and hurried back, but went to Liaoyang Mansion, not to send him to death, but to inquire about the military situation in Liaoyang Mansion.
The real first step in the rise of the Jurchens is at this time. Sweeping across the entire Liao Kingdom, from Siberia to the Mongolian steppe, the Jurchens are about to truly enter the stage of history.