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Chapter 37: The Scarlet New Year (Part II)

Although there are so many literati and artists in ancient and modern China and abroad who do not eat the fireworks of the world, they imagine the idyllic life in the isolated countryside as an incomparably beautiful peach blossom source. But just as the intellectual youth who went to the countryside always thought about the big city, the rural life of any era also made the city people bored.

Especially in this era of barbarism and ignorance, the Jurchens, who are on the edge of the civilized world and in the bitter cold land, live even more miserable.

For most of the Jurchens of this era, they toiled every day to grow crops, hunt, fish, pan for gold, feed livestock, and tann hides...... They live in low, damp grass huts that leak on all sides; He wore clothes that were rough and piercing animal skins or even tree bark, and ate dried meat and fish that lacked salt and smelled of rancidity, and moldy coarse grains mixed with sand. Then when it gets dark, there is nothing to do, let alone any plays, lectures, or even oil lamps and candles...... I had to drink a few bowls of bad wine, and I hugged my wife and tossed around blindly. Occasionally, when you trek hundreds of miles to a small county town to see the goods and utensils of those market vendors, you will be shocked.

Even if you are a chief, you can only be trapped in the quagmire of violence and poverty for the rest of your life. Life is neither happy nor safe: if you scratch a little skin, you risk dying of infection. If you catch a cold, you may die from a cold. Clans often fight each other, so it's easy to lose arms and legs...... The people are precarious, and the nobles live in chaos. Each tribe's settlement is like a concentration camp, only less hygienic and less humane. The people who lived in it were all tangled, and they were crawling with lice. Their mouths smelled like swill jars or gutters, and their faces were covered in pus, scars, and a thick layer of dirt made of sweat, mud, and dander...... Every Jurchen barbarian who has never seen the world can only be like a beast, struggling in this uncivilized and ignorant world, born in the mud and dying in the wilderness, and from generation to generation, accustomed to it.

But as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu Qimai has seen the world. He had seen the lavish tents of the Khitan emperors, and invaded such magnificent cities as Shangjing and Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom. The kind of wonderful life that the Jurchens could not dream of, the lethality of the prosperous scene of the big city, and the temptation of the luxury and magnificence of the nine-fold palace were simply beyond words. So much so that after he returned to his hometown of Huining, he felt that it was dilapidated everywhere and difficult to see, so he did not hesitate to be scolded by the elders of the clan as a loser, and he also had to build a decent imperial city and palace.

Fortunately, now it is not as good as it was back then, as the Jurchen clan was blessed by God, won many battles, defeated the Khitan old enemy, and swept the entire northern land, the savings of the Wanyan Department have already been a hundred times that of the past, and there is the capital that allows him to buy the emperor a little extravagant. And every time the good news from the front line comes, it also means that more good things are about to be sent to Huining...... Recalling the few beautiful Song courtesans who had just been escorted to the palace yesterday, the moving style of being as delicate as a flower, skin like jade, and flowing eyes, Wanyan Wu Qimai couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and felt a burst of heat under his crotch - in most of his life spent by the tiger water before, how could he have ever seen such a delicate and beautiful woman? She is the most beautiful girl in the Jurchen tribe, where does she have such delicate skin? Have such a delicate demeanor? Is there such an infinite charm that flows from the eyes?

A few years ago, I broke through the palace tent of the Liao State and caught a few Khitan nobles wearing silk and fat powder on their faces...... Now compare it with the new Song courtesans - that's really a lot of goods to throw away!

- You must know that a woman's beauty is always maintained and made up, even if she is a beautiful embryo with outstanding talents, if she is born in a wild tribe in a poor country, she does not apply fat powder all day long, her face is facing the sky, she wears rough fur clothes, she cannot bathe for a winter, and she has to farm and graze, fish and hunt...... Ten ** will also darken and rough the skin, and at the same time bring a disgusting smell. Often as soon as you take off your clothes, there is a room full of salted fish and goats - no matter how beautiful such a "beauty" is, how many people with heavy tastes can eat it?

Moreover, Wanyan Wu Qimai had vaguely heard that even such a delicate and gentle little lady was just an ordinary courtesan plundered from Hebei Prefecture in the Song Kingdom, and it was far from being first-class in the Song Kingdom...... I don't know how the Jurchen Iron Cavalry swept across the Central Plains and broke through the world of flowers in Bianliang, how the palace concubines and concubines who were caught from the Song Dynasty palace should be the peerless beauty of the country and the city?

-- Due to the thousands of miles of Guanshan barrier, Wanyan Wu begged to buy at this time, and he did not know the bad news that the two armies of the Jin Kingdom were wiped out under the city of Bianliang.

And what he didn't know was that the black hand that had just destroyed the main force of the Jin Kingdom had crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and quietly descended on his side!

-- The last dusk of the Jurchen Kingdom was so brilliant and brilliant that the whole sky was as red as blood......

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On the outskirts of Huining, in a woods covered with thick snow, several hazy white figures were quietly moving at this time.

-- Wang Qiu, Guo Jing, Doraemon, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and others, each wearing a snow camouflage cloak, cautiously poked their heads out of the snow, and looked at Huining City on the other side of the tiger water with binoculars.

Even by the standards of this era, it was a rather rudimentary, if not very shabby, human settlement.

First of all, what made everyone present in the Song Dynasty unbelievable was that this "city" didn't even have a city wall, just like a grass market in the countryside!

Secondly, from the distance on the other side of the Hushui River, although there are several unfinished palaces in Huining City that are spacious and covered with glazed tiles, the scaffolding has not been dismantled. But the vast majority of people still live in mud houses and thatched huts, or huts built on mud ground with thatch and branches, and even if there are occasional brick houses, they are roofed with thatch and a few stones pressed. Houses often have no doors, just barricaded with twigs, reed mats, animal skins and other miscellaneous items. Most of the houses in the city are very low, and it is now a cold winter, and many of them have been buried by snow, so that the people who live in them have to dig holes in the roofs...... It feels quite a "simple" style that belongs to the cave tribes of the primitive society.

“…… Tsk, this kind of broken city is the capital of the Jurchen Kingdom? Not to mention Bianliang and Yanjing, even the county seat of my hometown Tangyin is far inferior! From my point of view, this city is full of calculations, that is, two or three thousand households, one or two thousand people, and there is no trace of the atmosphere of the imperial capital! ”

Yue Fei bit a straw stick and said with a little contempt, "...... When I faced the sword of the Golden Warrior on the battlefield before, I was always thinking about which handsome landscape raised such a strong man. But now when I come here to see it with my own eyes, I am very disappointed......

“…… But it was these vulgar barbarians who came out of the poor mountains and bad waters that it only took ten years to beat the Khitans to the point of almost extinction. In less than two years, it crushed dozens of prefectures and counties in the east of the Great Song River and Hebei, and twice the troops came to Beijing under the city of Bianliang! ”

Han Shizhong glanced back at him and replied lightly, "...... The Hebei Forbidden Army fought against it for many years and was almost invincible; The two or three hundred thousand carved faces of the Kansai Forbidden Army were all killed...... The so-called poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, Pengju still don't underestimate these Tartars! ”

“…… This matter is naturally provincial. Yue Fei smiled and nodded, "...... When I kill people and set fires later, I will not be soft! ”

Although the so-called cities of these Jurchens were dilapidated enough to make many "civilized people" who came to peep shake their heads, there were still people who lived more miserably than them—on the small dirt slope about a stone's throw away from Huining City, tens of thousands of slave coolies who were ready to cut wood, quarry, build palaces, and build cities for the Jurchens were most likely Khitans, Bohai people, Xi people, Liaodong Han people, and Song people who had been captured by the Jin army from the war. The timber and stone they had dug down and hewn out under the cold wind of Saibei were piled up as high as a hill on the outskirts of Hoeryeong City.

But at this time, the construction project had just begun, and even the Jurchens were still living in grass huts, and when it was their turn to be these slaves, they simply did not even have a house. Their so-called dwelling at the moment is to find a place to dig a pit in a high place, make a roof with some dry grass and branches, and then wrap it in rags or animal skins, and shrink into a hole in the ground to "cat winter...... A humble dwelling like this is not as warm as a cave where a bear hibernates! Coupled with the lack of food and clothing, the lack of water and soil, and when a cold winter survives, I am afraid that half of the people who will freeze to death and die of illness are all normal situations!

“…… In the slave camp over there, I vaguely saw many of the forbidden army's Chu red uniforms, all dirty and torn, about to turn into rotten strips of cloth. ”

After Guo Jing carefully observed it with a telescope for a while, he looked back at Wang Qiu with a look of compassion and sighed and said, "...... This gang of waste firewood and soft eggs refused to fight to the death at the beginning, and surrendered as soon as their bones were soft, but they were escorted here by the Jin people, and they worked hard all day long...... It's a shame that we're here right now, otherwise by the time the Huining Imperial City is completed, I'm afraid that nine of these guys will have died out of ten......"

But Wang Qiu paid attention to another aspect, "...... This slave camp ...... Seems to be very lax? There were no walls or trenches, no barbed wire, just a mess of shacks, and few Jurchen soldiers patrolling...... Aren't they afraid of slaves escaping? ”

“…… Barbed wire? Hehe, not to mention whether the Song Dynasty had the technology to pull out iron wire in large quantities, do you know what price pig iron can be sold for in Saibei today? Guo Jing sneered, "...... As for the escape...... Where do you think this is? This is Gyeonggi of the Jin Dynasty, the birthplace of the Jurchens! Separated from the Central Plains by thousands of mountains and rivers! How can a lonely escaper escape so easily?

Now that it is the harshest winter of the year, with water dripping into ice everywhere and the cold wind blowing like knives, how far can these frail and ragged slaves run? Not to mention the pursuit of the Jurchen cavalry, how to solve the food on the road? Don't forget, there are hundreds of miles of uninhabited primeval forests around here, and you can't find a place to rob or steal! In such a snowy day, even the native Jurchen hunters may not be able to find prey to feed themselves, let alone them as strangers - in short, they work hard to make cattle and horses for the Jin people, and have a mouthful of food to eat; If you escape recklessly, you will be fed to the hungry wolf's stomach in the blink of an eye...... What do you think these captives will choose?

Of course, now that we're here, these POWs might be a great help if they are planned properly......"

After explaining the desperate situation of these slaves, Guo Jing looked up at the sky again, the winter days at the end of December were really short, and the westward sun had slowly fallen behind the treetops, making the heavens and the earth appear darker, and everything around him looked hazy, so he turned to everyone and announced, "...... Well, the enemy situation of the Jurchens has been almost explored. How to fight this battle in Huining, presumably you should have a spectrum in your heart. Now let's go back and join you while it's still dark! lest they wait there in a hurry...... When you get back, you should immediately hurry up and eat and rest, and everyone should recharge their energy - tomorrow will be the death of these Jurchen Tartars! ”