Objectively speaking, Liu Yu's complaint about Wan Yanchang is reasonable.

The puppet Qi regime existed for a total of eight years.

During this period of time, Liu Yu's father and son did their best to serve the Jin State, not only handed over a large amount of money, grain and property for the Jin State, but also managed the puppet Qi regime for the Jurchens in a clear manner, at least there was no chaos.

Although it was taxed on the high side, it was mainly to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the Jurchens; Although various anti-Jin uprisings emerged in the territory, most of them would be suppressed by Liu Yu; Although many Han Chinese questioned the legitimacy of the puppet Qi regime, Liu Yu also gathered a large number of Han elites and put a lot of pressure on the Southern Song regime.

Liu Yu's loyalty to the Jin State is beyond doubt. In order to show his loyalty to the Jin State, he rejected Emperor Gaozong's many overtures, and even when he stepped down, he never had contact with the Southern Song Dynasty.

From the perspective of the Jin State, on the whole, the rule of the puppet Qi regime was still successful.

Now, the puppet Qi regime was abruptly abolished, leaving the Southern Song court the sole beneficiary.

When the news of Bianliang City in Tokyo came, the Southern Song Dynasty reacted quickly, especially the military, the two major military regions of Yue and South Korea made a lot of small moves, sent people across the river to contact the forces of all sides, and did everything possible to take advantage of the turbulent situation to recruit the puppet Qi army and extradite the puppet Qi people, and so on.

On the folk side, a large number of people in Henan and Huaibei crossed the river and joined the Southern Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, after years of war, China's population declined sharply. Nowadays, a large number of people have gone south to annex it, which means that the Southern Song Dynasty regime has increased the source of soldiers and increased tax revenue, which is equivalent to the increase in the national strength of the Southern Song regime.

The gains on the part of the army are even more surprising:

In just a few months. There are the troops of Li Qing, the fierce general of the original pseudo-Qi, the troops of Cui Hu, the governor of the Linru army, Liu Yongshou, the governor of Caizhou, and the subordinates of Bai'an, and even the army of Ru in Jinguozhen, the troops of the Ma army under Hu Qing, and so on. They came to the Song Dynasty one after another.

Furthermore. There was also Wang Zhen, the commander of the Jin State, who led Cui Qing and Li Jin, Hua Wang, Meng Gao and other soldiers, launched an uprising of more than 20,000 people and went south to the Song Dynasty.

The situation on the land of China suddenly came to a great reversal, and it became extremely favorable to the Southern Song Dynasty

The situation was very good, and the two commanders of the military region, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, sent more scouts to infiltrate farther Henan and other places. Prepare for the next offensive move.

The army has moves, and the imperial court is certainly not willing to be lonely, but the imperial court's views and angles of looking at the problem will definitely be very different from the military.

Emperor Gaozong received a message that there was a limerick poem in Bianliang City that had been widely circulated recently, and it was said that this limerick poem was deliberately spread by the Jurchens.

The content of this poem is: "You don't need to sign the army, don't want to be exempt from money, don't want five cents, kill the appearance for you, please come and sit here." Teach to be happy. ”

You don't have to do conscription, you don't have to pay taxes. Maintain law and order for you free of charge, and bring your old master back to rule over you, so that you may live happily.

This is the reason why the Jurchens are explaining the abolition of Liu Yu, and it is also a promise to the Han people in the occupied areas.

Could it be that the Jurchens are alive and thunder?

The answer, of course, is no.

And Emperor Gaozong received the true intention of the Jurchens to want peace talks from these simple limericks, and also smelled a hint of threat hidden in the poems.

"Please come and sit here."

What is the last name of the old owner? The surname is Zhao.

In other words, the Jurchens wanted to vacate this vast land and let the surname Zhao manage it.

According to this statement, Emperor Gaozong, also surnamed Zhao, was naturally one of the candidates.

In the same way, Emperor Qinzong, who was still detained in the Jin State itself, was also one of the candidates for the Jin State, and even the sons of Qinzong who grew up in the Jin State were also eligible.

As soon as he thought of this, Emperor Gaozong was terrified, like sitting on pins and needles.

After thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Gaozong brought Zhao Ding and Qin Hui to discuss. The result of the discussion between the three of them was to send the envoy Wang Lun to the Jin State to listen to the tone of the Jin State in the name of visiting his dependents

The situation of the Jin State and the Puppet Qi became clearer and clearer, and the situation on the battlefield became more and more favorable to the Southern Song Dynasty.

As a result, Yue Fei submitted a report to the imperial court: "It is advisable to take advantage of the abolition of the establishment, pound it unprepared, and drive for a long time to take the Central Plains."

Indeed, the puppet Qi regime was abolished, the entire government management agency was paralyzed, and the people in Hebei, Henan and other places were panicked.

However, Emperor Gaozong's reply to Yue Fei was: "The upper territory is too vast, and it is impossible to increase troops if the land can be reduced." ”

Emperor Gaozong said: The upstream area you are defending is indeed vast, but I would rather reduce the defense area than add soldiers and horses to you.

Why did Emperor Gojong say that?

Left Pass? There is a cloud in "The Eleventh Year of Zhao Gong": "The end must be broken, and the tail will not fall." ”

The meaning of this sentence is: if the treetop is too big, the tree will definitely break; If the tail is too big, it can't shake.

Now the armies of the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty are difficult to separate. Although the situation is not serious, instead of increasing the strength of the generals, it is better to add a few more troops so that they can be separated.

The above is probably the thoughts of Emperor Gaozong and his prime ministers.

Heaven does not take it, but suffers from it; When it doesn't work, it suffers.

With this idea in mind, Yue Fei gave Emperor Gaozong another note, explaining: "If you miss today's opportunity, he will work hard and spend money every day, and he will never make up for his work!" ”

Emperor Gaozong's reply to Yue Fei was quite perfunctory:

"Lan Qing came to play, I was prepared to see loyalty, and I sighed deeply. I didn't dare to forget the matter of recovery for a day, and it was Lai Qing and others who took the opportunity to anticipate the enemy in order to make a great achievement. If Qing is a sergeant and a horse elite, the discipline is clear, and the drum is used, it can be preserved and won, and the Qing is exempted, and the deputy pays attention. ”

After receiving Emperor Gaozong's reply, Yue Fei was silent for a few months. However, seeing that the good situation was wasted, the upright Yue Fei finally couldn't bear it. He made his last move against the emperor - he resigned.

Yue Fei once again proposed to Emperor Gaozong: "If you don't raise troops this year. Don't be free on the festival. ”

If you can't go north this year. He would rather hand over the festival of the envoys of the two towns to the imperial court, disarm and return to the field, and absolutely do not want to have a vegetarian meal in the corpse position - occupy an empty position and do nothing, and eat for nothing.

For this bull-like commander, Emperor Gaozong was speechless.

In the end, I am the emperor or you are the emperor, how many times you want to pick your son to resign, and threaten me with this, what are your intentions?

But. For Yue Fei, the protector of the Southern Song Dynasty, Gaozong didn't want to force him too much, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb and refused to answer Yue Fei's recital

At least on the surface, the Southern Song Dynasty lost a good opportunity to recover the Central Plains

With the advent of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Qin Hui era, the domestic chaos in the Dajin Kingdom became more and more intense. The death of Wanyan Muhan and the abolition of the pseudo-Qi Liu Yu marked the temporary upper hand of the doves of the Jin State.

There are two main leaders of the Jin State doves faction: one is the son of the previous Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai - Wanyan Zongpan; The other is Qin Hui's boss and financier - Wan Yanchang.

Wan Yanchang's chess game is very big:

He wanted to secretly contact Qin Hui, who was in the Southern Song Dynasty, befriend Gaozong, and hand over Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and other places occupied by the Jin people to the Southern Song Dynasty; In this way, Emperor Gaozong is bound to be grateful to him. With this, he will get the support of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even control the entire Southern Song Dynasty.

On the other hand. Because he could not only save the people of the Jin State from the suffering of the soldiers, but also get a large amount of annual tribute income from the Southern Song Dynasty, his influence in the Jin State will also increase greatly.

Next, after he finishes Yan Chang, he will be able to control the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom at the same time, and he will have supreme power.

To be clear, the above statement is purely personal speculation and has no substantiated evidence.

The problem is that only by applying the above statement can we explain Yan Chang's next moves

Wan Yanchang secretly met with Wang Lun, the envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, and agreed to cede Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and other places to the Southern Song Dynasty without the authorization of the imperial court and the consent of Jin Xizong.

Just as Wan Yanchang imagined, Wang Lun was stunned by Wan Yanchang's conditions.

This is no longer as simple as dropping a pie in the world, it is clear that Lao Guang, who has been single for decades, was suddenly forcibly XXOO by a group of Lin Chiling and Li Jiaxin on the way, and he wanted to die.

A group of Lin Chiling and Li Jiaxin drooled just thinking about it.

With the heavy results in his arms, the envoy rushed back to Jiangnan in a hurry, reporting to Emperor Gaozong as soon as possible to discuss further "cooperation matters".

Obviously, Wan Yanchang's proposition is bound to face a lot of resistance.

From the perspective of the Jin State, returning the territory to the Southern Song Dynasty court without a fight is not a "traitorous claim", and how is this worthy of the Jurchen warriors who shed their blood on the battlefield?

As a result, in the court of the Kingdom of Jin, the doves and the hawks formed a confrontation.

The theory of the doves was that if we handed over those lands in Henan and Shaanxi to the Southern Song Dynasty, they would surely be very grateful to us.

Their original words were: I am with the earth, and the Song must be with me.

The hawks were dismissive of the doves' theories, and they angrily retorted:

"We killed his father, raped his mother, his wife and daughter, and sent his mother, wife and daughter to be comfort women. This hatred cannot be resolved in a day or two. If the land were to be handed over to them now, it would be clearly financing the enemy, and it would be impossible to get their gratitude in exchange. ”

Although the doves were refuted to the point of being speechless, there is one thing that the military power is now in the hands of the doves. The hawks can only protest verbally, and nothing else.

Of course, the doves have another reason: in recent years, the war between the Jin State and the Southern Song Dynasty court has won fewer and lost more. Moreover, with the current situation in Henan and other places, if the Southern Song Dynasty was determined to forcibly recover it by force, the Jin State would not be too sure of the success of defending the territory.

The hawks automatically ignored the doves and ignored them.

In this way, Wan Yanchang's proposal was adopted amid fierce opposition. And the big guy who finally made the decision was the Taishi of the Jin State and the leader of the three provinces...... (To be continued......)

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