Xijing has been besieged for nearly a month, because there is no sufficient material preparation in the city at the beginning of the incident, and a large number of officers and soldiers who have fled from all over the city have poured into the city, coupled with the sergeants brought by Jin Fushi and the volunteers gathered, resulting in a sudden increase in the population of Xijing, and the supply of materials will inevitably fall into tension, so that the soldiers defending the city will have a shortage of military food, and those displaced people will rarely have a meal all day long.

Jin Fushi, who was sitting in Xijing, was also in a crisis at this moment, because there was no news from the Song Dynasty, and the ministers were worried that he would not be able to hold Xijing, and the voice of peace in the court and China rose again, so that the lord of the country took refuge in Ganghwa Island, and sent an envoy to negotiate peace with the Jin State and agreed to the conditions they proposed. Wang Kai's attitude also became ambiguous in the persuasion, although he did not leave Kaijing, but transferred the concubines and princes to Xihua Island for a temporary stay, and at the same time sent people to contact Wushu.

Jin Fushi knew that if Xijing was not defended, Kaijing would be lost, and Goryeo would become a vassal state of Jin again, and continue to be oppressed by it, and now the Jin army has been besieging the city for a long time, and I don't know when the siege will be lifted. He understands very well that there seems to be a shortage of food in the city now, but in fact it is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, there are a large amount of grain hoarded in the homes of the powerful people in those places, and they want to take advantage of the national crisis to sell it at a price, and it is difficult to make a fortune in the country, so it causes a shortage of food.

Jin Fushi had considered asking the nobles and powerful of Xijing to donate food to ensure the supply of military salaries and relief to the victims, but they united and refused, as mentioned earlier, Xijing was the capital of Goryeo, and its political structure was almost no different from that of the capital, and the local government had a lot of power. Whenever the arrogance of the capital was high, the Goryeo royal family always tried to shift its focus to Pyongyang, Xijing, in order to neutralize its political influence.

It is precisely because of the establishment of the capital system that Pyongyang has formed a political force, often in direct confrontation with the capital's aristocracy, and Kim Fushi, as a representative of the capital's power, is of course their potential enemy. He was parachuted here for a holy purpose. But the powerful nobles in Xijing didn't buy it, but fought against him. Jin Fushi is full of enthusiasm for serving the country, but he is overwhelmed by these political opponents, and he sighs in vain!

Another powerful force in Xijing is his sworn enemy Jin Fushi. If they want to kill him quickly, not to mention that they don't save him when they die, they also want to fall into the well and take this opportunity to get rid of him, and these people are the monks who are compassionate and often say 'Amitabha' in their mouths. But how can these special groups of monks, who are supposed to be outsiders, have the strength to influence a country? Speaking of which, this has a lot to do with Wang Jian, the founding lord of the royal dynasty of Goryeo.

Legend has it that there was a high monk Dao Shu who revealed to Wang Jian's father that Wang's mansion is a treasure of feng shui, and there will be saints in the future. The monk further suggested that in the future if a boy is born. He should be named "Built". Wang Jian's father was convinced of this and complied with it one by one, and the family has been prosperous ever since. The theory of the annexation is not credible, but it can be seen that Wang Jian has a family tradition of worshipping Buddhism.

When Wang Jianjun came to the side, this reverence for the gods and Buddhas was no longer just a personal belief, and in order to pray for the peace of the Wang family's temple community, he appointed monks as national teachers and actively supported various Buddhist activities. With strong official support, Buddhism began to exert great influence on national politics. The royal family gave land and slaves to the temple, and the upper monks were able to intervene in the affairs of the state.

Because Buddhism is too powerful. The culture of the Goryeo Dynasty has always had a strong Buddhist color. The state's excessive reverence for Buddhism finally showed its consequences, and the monasteries were embroiled in secular turmoil, and high-ranking monks entered the political arena. On some occasions, they have become indistinguishable from the powerful and powerful. Loan sharking and private monks participating in political struggles also became one of the important businesses of the monastic monks, and they fought against the elites.

The seventeenth king of Goryeo, Wang Kai, favored the monk Myocheong, and Myocheong was very powerful. Some theories suggest that this is the result of his use of the left side of the door to tend to inflammation. At that time, Li Ziqian, a nobleman in Kaijing, was powerful. It poses a great threat to the royal family, and not only has a noble lordship. And there is a military general Tuo Junjing who is Li Ziqian's strong backing. Because of all kinds of unique advantages, Li Ziqian was arrogant and domineering, and even thought that "the eighteenth son (Li) was the king" and tried to depose Wang Kai and stand on his own.

Wang Kai was unwilling to sit still, and secretly conspired with his close ministers to eradicate Li Ziqian, but was suppressed by Tuo Junjing's force, and Wang Kai himself was imprisoned. But soon Wang Kai recruited Tuo Junjing to eliminate Li Ziqian and his henchmen, and took advantage of the tour of Xijing to get rid of Tuo Junjing with the help of the two classes and monks in Xijing. After the fall of the Li clan in Renzhou, the two classes of Xijing headed by Miaoqing and Zheng Zhichang once gained power, and the power vacuum also made the contradiction between the two classes of Kaijing and Xijing increasingly intensified.

At that time, people were extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of the Kaijing aristocracy, and the voices of people of insight in the government and the opposition were growing to reform the government, and Myoqing put forward his own political opinions in response to the demands of the world. He believed that if he wanted to reform the politics of the imperial court, he must completely break away from the influence of the opening of the Jingquan Gate. Therefore, the first priority was to move the capital to Pyongyang, West Gyon. It's a cliché, but it's on the pulse of the times.

However, Miaoqing's proposal to move the capital to Xijing was resolutely opposed by the two classes of Kaijing, and under the advice of Jin Fushi, Wang Kai finally dispelled the idea of going to Xijing, and the struggle between the two classes of Kaijing represented by it and the two classes of Xijing represented by Zheng Zhichang finally intensified, and the Miaoqing party gathered a rebellion, claiming to be a great country, and setting the year name as the first year of Tiankai, and organizing the so-called "Tianpai Loyal Army" to occupy the key Chong Ling between Xijing and Kaijing.

Jin Fushi, who became the marshal of the counterinsurgency army, decisively killed Zheng Zhichang, Jin An, Bai Shouhan and others in the Xijing two classes in Kaijing before sending troops, and accepted the axe from Wang Kai in Tianfu Hall to obtain the monopoly of counterinsurgency. In the following year, under his auspices, there was chaos, Miaoqing and others were ambushed, and the strength of Xijing Buddhism was dealt a heavy blow. Moreover, although Jin Fushi is a Buddhist, he believes that it is better to use Confucianism to manage the country than Buddhism, so after he took charge of the government, he suppressed Buddhism, and the two sides also formed a mortal enmity.

In the period of quelling the rebellion, Jin Fushi used the method of long-term siege of the city to capture Xijing, although the people in the city were spared from the sword soldiers but were starved half to death, at this time it was his turn to starve, the attitude of the people towards him can also be imagined, no one is willing to help him is reasonable. There was a strong enemy outside, some people in the DPRK and China were elbowing, the local authorities did not cooperate, even the common people looked at their jokes, and the soldiers had no food and no fighting spirit, which put Jin Fushi in a desperate situation.

Jin Fushi knows that he is not a person inside and outside now, and he can't hold out for long in such a situation, if the Jin soldiers do not retreat, turmoil may break out in the city, leading the Jin soldiers into the city, although he has the heart of death, but he can not avoid the fate of the city and the country.

In a desperate situation, Jin Fushi still insisted on holding a glimmer of hope, during which he advocated a good alliance with the Song Dynasty, and declared himself a minister to the Song Dynasty to fight against the Jurchens and exempt the soldiers, and after the outbreak of the war, he proposed to join the Song Dynasty to resist the Jin, so he could only pin his hopes on the Song Dynasty to abide by the covenant and send troops to help, and after sending envoys, he was eager to see through the Song army, hoping that the heavenly soldiers would come as soon as possible......

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The natural geography of the southwest sea area of Goryeo has two major characteristics: first, the terrain is complex, with islands scattered and waterways criss-crossed, which is convenient for naval forces to rely on the shore of the island to attack the enemy in a covert and mobile way; Second, the tidal range is large, with an average of up to three zhang, which is rare in this area. At high tide, the water is surging and at low tide, the water level drops sharply, and large shoals are quickly exposed. If the ship does not move away quickly, it is in danger of running aground.

The warships of the Song army had a deep draft because they carried artillery, and the warships of the Jin army had an advantage at this time and were able to escape into the strait, and the Song army did not dare to pursue it because of the unknown situation, but now the Song army's marine brigade has successfully landed, seized several larger islands such as Shenmi Island, Linden Island, and Da, Xiaohe Island, and established artillery positions with them as the core to cooperate with the fleet in the open sea to block the main sea lanes, and blocked a large area of the sea with only the strength of a town water division, so that the Jin Navy can only shrink into it, and can no longer come out to make waves.

After Cheng Xishou succeeded, he immediately transmitted the news of the defeat of the Jin army to the second echelon waiting outside the Korean Bay, and Zhao Yong immediately commanded the fleet to march towards Nampo, preparing to go up the Datong River into Xijing in Goryeo...... (To be continued......)