Chapter 4 The Ambitious Sura Hague
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However, everyone needs such a ritual to strengthen psychological comfort, or to anesthetize themselves, as for what kind of singing and crying things will happen in the future, we will talk about it later.
The first island that Yun Er wanted was not a dilapidated island like Sea Donkey Island, but he was going to go directly to a place like Changshan Island, and he really wanted to find a suitable place to settle before the Yun family began to conquer the ocean on a large scale.
Yun Da always said that the Changshan Islands were the most suitable places, and Yun Er always felt that those islands were too small. Yun Da joked that it was Yun Er's big heart......
The power of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith is not as great as that of a fist, and it has been verified again on Sea Donkey Island......
With Boss Yan and others, Yun Er had no choice but to be a poet, evil was at the bottom, and grace was from above, Boss Yan thought that the evil things of killing people and seizing power should be done by them, and after Shi Zhongxin transported the supplies, it was the time for Yun Er to come out.
Sea Donkey Island is at the easternmost tip of the Great Song Dynasty, and the geography here is very important, and it should be an important supply point when the Yun family's fleet sets off from Changshan Island in the future.
It is also a very important thing to build this island, but the most important thing at present is to mix sand ā on the island, wāww. son, it is impossible for the Yun family to hand over this built island to outsiders.
Half a month later, the Shi family's follow-up fleet arrived at Sea Donkey Island, and Yun Er deliberately downplayed the storm, he didn't want his eldest brother to know that he had died once.
The shopkeeper of the Shi family obviously didn't care about Yun Er's falling into the water, what attracted his attention was this inconspicuous island, there was a small lake on the small sea donkey island, which in their eyes was a gift from God.
Yunda's letter didn't say anything. It's just that Yun Er is not in a hurry to tell Yun Er, the Great Song Dynasty is also in a quagmire now, and he will not have time to take care of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for a while and a half, and once this war starts, it will not end in a while and a half, and the Great Song State can only truly occupy the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun by completely defeating the military strength of the Liao State. Otherwise, this place is the battlefield of the Song and Liao countries, and it would be bad if there was a tug-of-war, because such a scene was what the Tangut people liked to see the most.
Qin Guo's letter made Yun Er's nose sour, so he had to quickly fold the letter and put it in his arms, and wait until the night to lie in the quilt to see the best, so as not to make a big man laugh with tears streaming down his face.
Qin Guo begged him to go back before the child was born, but Yun Er carefully weighed this and found that he couldn't do it, the battle to seize the island had already begun, and there was no way to stop it. For the first time, he felt indebted to the Qin State, so he cut off a lock of hair from his head and put it in an envelope with the letter he had written, asking the Shi family to send someone to Dousha Pass.
Shi Zhongxin's supply came just right, and the panicked islanders finally settled down after seeing the piles of supplies, just as Boss Yan said, after Yun Er personally presided over the reward ceremony, the people on Sea Donkey Island finally recognized Yun Er as the master.
Winter arrived as scheduled, and Yun'er headed for Liaodong with a fleet of six giant ships. In December, Liaodong was already covered with heavy snow, and there was already the shadow of sea ice near the coast. If the fleet is delayed for another half a month, it will be impossible for the fleet to get close to the coastline, and once the big ship is surrounded by sea ice, the only fate for the big ship is to be crushed by the sea ice.
Starting from Haidonkey Island, it took half a month to slowly approach Liaoyang Mansion in Liao State, and Changshan Island is on the sea near Liaoyang Mansion.
Yun Er did not rush to Liaoyang Mansion. Sail down and anchor on the edge of the first island they encountered, the situation on Changshan Island is very complicated, this is basically the pirate's lair, the sinners of the Liao Kingdom, and the Jurchen barbarians. The pirates of Goryeo, the exiles of the Great Song Dynasty, and merchants from various countries formed a kingdom that was not governed by any power.
As long as the slightest touch will attract the intervention of the Liao State and the Goryeo State, the Liao State set up a state capital in the southernmost part of Liaoyang Province, called Suzhou. Unlike Suzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, the lord of the city here was called Sula Hague, who named the city after the first syllable of his name.
Sura Hague was not a Khitan, he was a descendant of the Sumo leader Da Zuorong, Yun Da had discussed this person with Yun Er, and they agreed that this person was very ambitious, judging by the various news sent back by the caravan, this person was likely to have ambitions to rebuild the Bohai Kingdom.
The birth of a country is often related to the decline of another country, and the reason why Da Zuorong, the leader of the late Su Dynasty, was able to establish the Bohai State and pass it down for more than 15 generations for more than 200 years, is related to the military decline of the former Tang Dynasty in Liaodong.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan leader Li Quanzhong and others killed Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou Prefecture, and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, providing an opportunity for the new nobles of Su Mo to create a national regime.
The main reason for this change was that Zhao Wenhui and others relied on the power in their hands to exploit and oppress the ethnic minorities in the northeast more and more heavily, arousing great dissatisfaction among the people of all ethnic groups, and Li Quanzhong and others took the opportunity to start an incident. The Su Mo Tatar people living in Yingzhou joined the anti-Tang ranks.
After the incident, Wu Zetian sent Cao Renshi to lead the army to suppress it, and Da Zuorong's father, the beggar Zhongxiang, and another leader, Qi Sibi Yu, led his troops to cross the Liaoshui and flee eastward.
In order to disintegrate the anti-Tang alliance of the ethnic minorities in Northeast China, the Tang Dynasty adopted a policy of appeasement against the Sumo Jin Ya while encircling and suppressing the Khitan by force, and named the beggar Sibi Yu as the Duke of Xu Guo and the beggar Zhongxiang as the Duke of Zhenguo. Qi Sibi Yu did not believe that the Tang Dynasty had this sincerity, and refused to accept the order, and was beheaded by the Tang Dynasty's pursuers.
At this time, the beggar Zhongxiang died of illness in the run, and Da Zuorong stood on behalf of his father and led his troops to continue to flee east. Wu Zetian sent the Khitan general Li Kaigu to the crusade and pursued closely, and in September of the fourth year of Tongtian, the Tang army chased Da Zuorong to Tianmen Ridge, and Da Zuorong, who was good at using soldiers, with the help of the complex terrain of Tianmen Ridge, combined with the people of Goryeo and Jin, defeated the Tang army, and Li Kaigu only returned with his body.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks invaded the Tang Dynasty's Fuzhou, Danzhou, Dingzhou, Zhaozhou and other places, and the Khitan and Xi were attached to the Turks, so the road from the Central Plains to the Northeast was blocked. Da Zuo Rong judged the situation, established the Shen Ya regime in today's Ao Dong City, and with the honorific title "Big", created his own surname Da, and Wu Zetian sealed his father as the "Zhen Country" of the Duke of Zhen Guo, and called himself the King of Zhen, which created the predecessor of the Bohai Kingdom.
The reason why Sura Hague was able to get an opportunity to establish a city as the leader of the slave chieftain was related to the decline of Liaoli.
Song Liao fought in Hebei until the front line of Yanmen Pass for half a year, with heavy losses, and was later defeated again by Wuzang Pang in the area of Daheisheng, which caused Liao's troops to be overstretched, and had to stop the battle to conquer various tribes in the northeast, and tightly withdrew his own forces around several capitals, a large part of which needed to warn Yeluxin.
Only then did he have to use the leader of the Slave Chieftain to secure his borders.
Sura Hague is also considered a generation of heroes, after he established Suzhou City, he wantonly recruited troops, regardless of tribe, regardless of race, as long as there are talented people are within the scope of his recruitment, but he still does not dare to easily offend the Liao State, so he put all the people he recruited on some islands in the nearby sea, quietly waiting for his time to come.
Liaodong is also because of the existence of Sura Hague, commerce and trade flourished again, one of the best business is the sale of weapons, I heard that Sura Hague proposed a mouth-watering price to buy the new gunpowder of the Great Song Dynasty, so that Di Qing heard that after hearing it, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "If it is not related to military affairs, why not sell him some gunpowder." ā
Gunpowder is an invalid thing, not that it is a good thing to store more, but the main thing is that it is very troublesome to preserve, and after a long time, gunpowder will be damp, and its effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
At the suggestion of Yun Zheng and Di Qing, the Great Song Dynasty had a wall-to-wall attitude towards Sura Hague to him, and Pang Ji, Han Qi and others were also happy to see Sura Hague establish the Bohai State, so they did not prevent the Great Song merchants from making some deals with him.
Even the Great Song Dynasty has always controlled iron tools very strictly, and there are no special regulations when facing Sula The Hague, so in Suzhou City and even on the nearby islands, the Great Song merchants will always be a popular existence.
Yun Er's identity this time is the son and nephew of a great Song dynasty businessman, and the goods he brought happened to be the best quality blades and a small amount of Great Song gunpowder, he wanted to use these things as stepping stones to knock on the door of Liaodong, and personally go to see if there was a chance for the Yun family to settle down on the Changshan Islands.
The shopkeeper of the Yun family, who specializes in Liaodong Commerce, is surnamed Sun, who used to be the deputy of Lao Zhao, the second housekeeper of the Yun family, and has been operating the Liaodong Business Road for the Yun family for many years, and now he is also one of the core shopkeepers of the Yun family.
But all the power of the Yun family in Liaodong was controlled by him, and after Yun Er came over, he handed over his control. He returned to serve as Yun Er's deputy.
"Second son, our family's business in Liaodong does not have the signboard of the Wenxin Marquis Mansion, so except for the shopkeeper of the Shi family who knows the identity of you and the old slave, no one else has any way of knowing.
Now, Sura Hague is eager to expand its power, and it has almost reached the time of starvation, and the old slave brought these ordnance eliminated from the army, Sura Hague will definitely swallow it, and as for the gunpowder you personally bringed, you will definitely become the guest of honor of Sura Hague. ā
Yun Er smiled and said, "Who doesn't want gunpowder in the Great Song Dynasty?" The Emperor of Liao, the Minister of Western Xia, and the Emperor of Goryeo, which one is not salivating, bait Sura Hague with gunpowder, even if it is poisonous, he will swallow it. ā
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