Chapter 330: Hanyi fights
The reinforcement army was all withdrawn to the country in September, and at the same time brought back more than 20,000 captive people, Zhao Ta was a reward, Zhao Yongjin was a captain, and he could wear a sword to the palace. Later, he met with the envoy of Goryeo, Jin Fushi, and the two sides resolved the matter of the two states and the lazy state in a friendly atmosphere, of course, the premise did not change, but only gave Goryeo a few large export orders to alleviate the economic difficulties caused by the invasion of the lower Jin country. The emperor spoke, and although Goryeo felt a little at a loss, he also received benefits, and of course it was inconvenient to fight again.
At the same time, the negotiations between the Song and Jin countries have also come to an end, and peace has arrived, but Zhao Ta still does not dare to be sloppy, and after the turmoil caused by Zhao Huan's return to China subsides, he once again shifts the focus of intelligence work to Jin, collects information on its military, political and economic aspects, and changes in all aspects of Jinguo after the peace talks, and sees what the old opponent of Wushu does......
In the Wushu realized that with the current situation, the possibility of defeating the Great Song by force was almost none. Therefore, with the foresight of a politician of the Dajin Kingdom, he completed the transformation of himself and influenced the monarchs and ministers of the Dajin Kingdom to the main peace, and with the support of Xizong, he negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty, and changed from frequent military attacks and defenses to skillful political struggles.
Relying on the unremitting efforts of the god of war, the Jin State finally signed a peace treaty with its powerful neighbor in the south, the Southern Song Dynasty, which won the greatest national interests for the Jin State in the economic, political, and territorial aspects, and gave it a chance to breathe.
This is definitely good news for the Jin country in the strategic encirclement and economic crisis under the Great Song Bu. The world is finally safe, and the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom can sleep well and have a good dream at night. So is the world of the Golden Kingdom really safe and sound? The answer, of course, is no.
Vultures are not fools. He also knew very well that the so-called peace treaty was nothing more than a piece of waste paper, and the Great Song Dynasty could find a new excuse to start a war at any time. And the unruly nomads in the south and north of the desert are still rebellious and impermanent. Not only harassing the northwest border. Therefore, Wushu thought that the most effective way was to follow the example of Qin Shi Huang more than 1,000 years ago and build border fortifications. to stop the attacks of the Great Song and the nomads.
In the north, the border fortifications built by the Wushu were built along the Song-Jin ceasefire line in the west, and extended to the edge of the desert along the mountains and rivers to the north. The southeast defense line extends to the coast based on the original Qin Liaodong Great Wall, and in order to defend against the attack of the Song Dynasty from the sea, the coastal prefectures and counties also choose dangerous passes and passes to build fortresses. However, the way it was built is still very different from the Great Wall built by the Central Plains Dynasty in previous dynasties.
Wushu learned the lessons of the battle with the Song Dynasty and the experience under the Xijing City, the obstacle system of the Great Wall is composed of a double barrier structure combining a trench and a wall, and there is a trench behind the city wall, even if the cavalry can cross the city wall, it cannot cross the second trench, and the auxiliary trench and the auxiliary wall are also added in the key areas, which is equivalent to a quadruple obstacle. The cavalry simply could not cross. Border forts and beacon towers were set up at certain distances along the Great Wall, and elite soldiers were set up in the border forts to guard them, which basically made the defense of the northern nomads foolproof, and the Song Dynasty still needed to be further tested.
While strengthening the strength of the defense, on the other hand, the Wushu also strengthened the army's overall training and training. In his many years of warfare, he realized the importance of Tiefutu and Kidnapper, and in peacetime, the Wushu Society always took these two special forces with him, but he would not fight under normal circumstances. If the battle is extremely unfavorable, or the city cannot be conquered, the Vultures will send these two special forces to fight.
Although in the battle against Song, these two ace troops repeatedly lost. However, their importance cannot be denied, as they often charged forward against the Song hussars, and when they retreated, they served as a rearguard to resist the pursuit of the Song dragoons. Wushu attributed the reason for the defeat to the sharpness and well-trained firearms of the Song army. In addition, the veterans of their own side have lost all their veterans after years of fighting, and the new recruits have a complicated background. It is no longer only the Jurchens, but also a large number of Khitans, Bohai, Xi, and Tatars. Loyalty is greatly reduced, and these people often go into battle without being well trained.
Therefore, Wushu was determined to reorganize these two special forces, and in order to maintain the absolute loyalty of the troops, he also required all the soldiers to be served by Jurchens, and undergo rigorous training, in order to reach the peak state of the year, to be able to confront the cavalry of the Song army. On the other hand, Wushu also strengthened the construction of artillery troops, set up a special catapult unit, and improved its long-range strike capability. As for the navy, the defeat in the Battle of the Korean Gulf had already broken his heart, and he could not afford to rebuild a large-scale naval army now, so he turned to the establishment of a small-scale naval division to fight on inland rivers and near the sea.
The dawn of peace has put the country on the right track, but the change in policy has also led to various domestic contradictions. The peaceful situation brought about by the vultures did not bring good news to the Jin State for many years, because after resolving the external crisis, the Jin State inevitably embarked on the old path experienced by previous dynasties, and the party strife and civil strife in the Jin court began from there......
As long as there is an emperor and the imperial court, the phenomenon of party struggle cannot disappear, that is, after the emperor disappears, the phenomenon of party struggle in the country continues his unfinished story! Although the Jin State is a country established by the Jurchen ethnic minority in the northeast, it is not exempt from vulgarity, with a series of reforms of Wan Yan Yan, the Jin State began to embark on the road of feudalization, and the feudal etiquette system began to improve day by day, so the phenomenon of party strife inevitably occurred within the Jin State.
After returning home from Goryeo, Wushu found that the queen had signs of unauthorized power, and immediately stopped it. In fact, from the analysis of modern medicine, Wan Yan Kang most of them suffer from intermittent schizophrenia, with a good and bad personality, and capricious. And in June, his concubine Zhang gave birth to a son for Wan Yan Kang, which gave him new hope. Wan Yan Kang, who was happy again, was really happy for a while, but he obviously did not learn the lesson of Prince Ji'an, and he couldn't wait to seal Yan Daoji as the king of Wei and stay in Zhongjing, and his condition also tended to ease.
In the ancient harem, basically the popular principle is that the mother is more precious than the son, who can give birth to a son for the emperor, who can get the emperor's favor, although Empress Pei Man also gave birth to a son, but bad luck, the son died of illness less than a year old, then according to the rules, the successor of Wanyan Kang should be Concubine Zhang's son Wanyan Daoji, this is definitely not good news for Empress Pei Man, maybe after Daoji ascends the throne, the glory of her and her family will cease to exist. But after all, the emperor is Wanyan Kang, and Empress Pei Man has to go through Wanyan Kang's consent if she wants to intervene in the government affairs, and under the deliberate suppression of Wushu, she soon fell into silence.
However, the situation in the DPRK and China was still unfavorable to the Wushu. He suffered great losses in the use of foreign troops several times, causing widespread dissatisfaction among the government and the opposition, and the emperor became more and more depraved the more he drank after losing the crown prince, and had no intention of governing the government at all. Due to the internal strife that lasted for more than ten years, the Jurchens in the court were greatly weakened, and Wushu led his troops to Goryeo and was trapped in Xijing, which gave the Han ministers a good opportunity to seize power.
After the death of Yan Xiyin, Han Fang, who was appointed by the emperor as the right prime minister, took the opportunity to start a large-scale promotion of Han officials, among which the more famous ones were Tian Jue, who served as the servant of the Shangshu Provincial Officials, and Meng Hao, who served as the left secretary of Shangshu Province. For a time, most of the officials in the entire Shangshu Province came from Han Fang's disciples, and the Han officials of the Jin State represented by him gradually formed a huge civilian-official group, which was a very great danger to the Jurchen party represented by Wushu.
And Wushu is not a good stubble, in addition to leading troops to fight, he is also very good at political struggle, otherwise it is impossible to kill Zong Pan, Tart Lai, Xi Yin and other influential figures in one go, he knows that the fortress must be broken from the inside, and to deal with the Han Qixian Group, it must be disintegrated from within the Han official group, first provoke a fight between them, and consume the strength of the Han officials.
The object of disintegration that Wushu is looking for this time is named Cai Songnian, who is a subordinate of the original Song Dynasty. Cai Songnian was stationed in the Yanshan area with his father Cai Jing in his early years, and after the Jin soldiers went south, Guo Yaoshi led the Song army in Yanjing to surrender to the Jin State, so Cai Songnian also became an official of the Jin State. After arriving in the Jin Kingdom, he once served as the Langzhong of the Criminal Department, and served as the six ministers of the army when the Wushu ruled Yanjing, so he was very appreciated by the Wushu.
However, in the civil official group of the Jin State court at that time, Han Fang's protégés Tian Jue and Meng Hao held important positions in the Ministry of Officials, which was equivalent to the Personnel Organization Department of the Jin State, responsible for the birth and relocation and demotion of thousands of officials large and small in the Jin State. Of course, Cai Songnian will take the initiative to make friends with Tian Jue and Meng Hao, hoping to curry favor with these two personnel ministers and make his promotion road smoother.
But Cai Songnian's sycophants obviously shot the wrong object, because Tian Jue himself is a very upright person, and he despises people like Cai Songnian who like to shoot horses like Cai Songnian, and Tian Jue also moved out of Cai Songnian's old account and satirized Cai Songnian with Cai's father and son's abandonment of Yanshan. Therefore, Cai Songnian and Tian Jue have formed an enemy, and like Cai Songnian, Tian Jue despised and ridiculed Cao Wangzhi, the right-hand master, and Xu Lin, the imperial historian.
As a result, Cai Songnian and Cao Wangzhi, Xu Lin and other like-minded people formed a group of Han officials, most of the main members were from the former Song Dynasty's vassals, and defected to the military and political manipulator Wushu of the Jin State, hoping to rely on the big tree of Wushu to fight against the Tian Jue group. Most of the members of Tian Jue's group are from the former Liao State vassals, and Han Fang is the old Khitan vassal...... (To be continued......)