Chapter 699: The Possibility of Founding a State and Becoming an Emperor
A place like Luoyang, which used to be the capital of the Han people, the people are superior, and the sense of belonging is stronger than that of ordinary people
Zongyun's righteous army has a good reputation, every time it passes, the people do not commit any crimes, and the military discipline is strict, even to the point of harshness, that is, the righteous army bullies the people, and takes a bun and does not give money, and this kind of thing will also be severely punished by military discipline.
And everyone who joins the rebel army has undergone strict screening, and has a strong sense of doing big things, and they will not make mistakes in such small things.
Of course, it is not for nothing that there are people who do some evil things in private, but in addition to spying on the military, the Shenxing Flying Fu Battalion is also responsible for the internal supervision of the rebel army.
Battalions such as the Black Fox Army and the Red Flag Gang used to be organizations focusing on espionage and assassination, and it was not very difficult to really investigate the insiders.
In addition, Zong Yun's prestige is unparalleled, and everyone in the rebel army bows down to their ears and never dares to offend, so similar things rarely happen.
After the people of Luoyang felt and experienced it personally, they supported the righteous army even more.
And Luoyang City is not just ordinary people, there are more century-old families or wealthy families.
With the recognition of these local forces, with the help of these scholars and wealthy gentry, the whole Luoyang will settle down and soon get on the right track, and the power of these noble clans and wealthy lords is all over the place, and under some propaganda, the prestige of the righteous army is even more prosperous.
As for those hidden in the people or traitors, they have long been frightened by the rows of corpses hanging at the head of the city, and they can't wait to flee Luoyang in a hurry, how dare they do evil.
Outside the city of Luoyang, there are also several large Beijing temples built with the heads of Mongolians, and no matter who sees it, they feel shocked and frightened in their hearts, and the situation will naturally settle down.
There is no doubt about how important Luoyang is, even for the layout of the whole world, it is extremely heavy.
After defeating Luoyang, it is no exaggeration to say that Zong Yun's righteous army already has the qualifications to fight against the Southern Song Dynasty.
Even if Zong Yun is now the emperor of the country, it is already reasonable.
Throughout the dynasties, many peasant armies who raised their banners and rebelled would occupy a place that was once the capital of the country, and use it as a base to justifiably become the emperor, but unfortunately there are not many who can do this.
When it comes to the founding of the country and the title of emperor, the minds of the people of the righteous army are also lively, and it can be said that they have their own ghosts.
The so-called interests, wealth and power will corrode people's hearts and make them greedy and even evil.
These people followed Zong Yun, are they just expelling the Mongol barbarians?
No.
Although they don't want to admit it, but the ultimate goal, who hasn't had the luxury of being able to be a founding father who has made meritorious contributions to the dragon?
The people of the righteous army all know how to think like this, but what should the people of the world think? What should the Southern Song Dynasty court think?
The army of the imperial court was originally behind the ass of the rebels, but they could not be satisfied with picking up people's teeth and picking up advantages after the rebels after all.
It seems that some small military towns in Huainan, as well as some state capitals in Huaibei, may be willing to take it into their pockets.
Perhaps they will be happy to see the rebels march forward, or perhaps they will be behind them, using the rebels as vanguard and cannon fodder.
But now that the rebel army has conquered Luoyang, it has long been beyond their control, if it is not contained, Zong Yun is very likely to be the emperor of the country!
After the news spread, it was naturally shocking to the world, and people with lofty ideals frantically rushed to Luoyang, who would let go of such an opportunity!
Although the economy and culture of the Southern Song Dynasty once again reached a peak, capitalism was budding, the gap between the rich and the poor became more and more serious, the imperial court, corrupt officials and corrupt officials recklessly looted and squeezed, and social contradictions became increasingly intensified.
With such a high reputation and strength of the righteous army, and the weak and useless but common people of the Southern Song Dynasty, everyone can make a correct judgment.
Those who have grievances against the imperial court naturally want to take refuge in Luoyang, and those who support the vested interests of the imperial court have begun to be alarmist in the court, please play Zhao Yun, as soon as they send troops to Luoyang, exterminate the rebels!
The title of the righteous army in the imperial court is enough to illustrate the problem, they already know that they cannot Zhao'an the righteous army, but they are afraid of the strength of the righteous army, and they have not expressed their attitude for a long time.
But now that the rebels have occupied Luoyang, if they tell the world and define the rebels as rebels, then they must send troops to encircle and suppress them.
The civil and military officials of the imperial court also fell into the debate for days because of this matter, and some people still held the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and were willing to watch the rebel army challenge the behemoth of the Mongol Khanate.
Judging from the current situation, the righteous army is very likely to achieve great things, and the imperial court sits in the rear and looks down on the world, which is also more in line with the military thinking of the Han people.
Of course, there are more opposing voices in the court, and the generals have a feeling of raising their eyebrows, and when they return home, they can't say that they have to drink three bowls to secretly celebrate, after all, this is a great achievement that has not appeared since Grandpa Yue Fei.
At the beginning, the Southern Song Dynasty united with the Mongols and destroyed the Jin State, and the Southern Song Dynasty launched Duanping into Luo, but unfortunately it ended in failure.
In other words, Song Lizong Zhao Yun mobilized the whole country, overrode public opinion, and finally failed to take Luoyang, so that Zongyun, a rebel army that had risen wildly in just two years, did it!
Zhao Yun paid a great price for Duanping to enter Luoyang, and also suffered a lot of consequences, for Luoyang, it can be described as disgraced.
But when it came to Zong Yun's side, it was like a cloud, as if the hearts of the people in the world had begun to flow to Luoyang!
The frenzied rise of the peasant army in history is not nothing, far from it, just the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations is one of them.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also rose wildly in just one or two years, from Jintian in Guangxi, all the way to Nanjing, and Nanjing was once the capital of ancient times, and Hong Xiuquan was in Nanjing to establish the Celestial Empire!
But this kind of regime is usually a blazing fire, and it comes and goes faster, and it only takes a few years from the initial response to the final rebellion.
Because this kind of regime has no foundation, no dynastic heritage, and the social form of the time does not give them the soil to grow up, plus the leaders have lost their ambition, only the courage to charge into battle, but not the grandeur of governing the country.
In any case, the Southern Song Dynasty already regarded Zong Yun as the biggest threat, even greater than the Mongols!
The Mongols wanted to march westward, fight for power and seize the throne, and perhaps negotiate peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, divide the river and rule, open border affairs to each other, and develop together, so that the Southern Song Dynasty could continue to survive.
But now that the rebel army is rising frantically, chasing and fighting the Mongols, and the Southern Song Dynasty court is also deeply affected, it is natural that it cannot be indifferent.
It's just that if it really declares to the world and defines the rebel army as a rebel army, then it is a declaration of war, and then the imperial court will have to really send troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army.
Therefore, on this issue, the civil and military officials in the court are also discussing and arguing, and it will not last.
They also kept sending angels to contact the rebels, and even asked Li Tingzhi, Du Shu and others to find out what Zong Yun meant, persuade Zong Yun to accept the court's recruitment, and even threw out the ** who wanted to crown Zong Yun as the king!
This makes people laugh and cry.
Zong Yun now has the qualifications to build a country and be the emperor, if you lose the condition of a county king, won't it make people laugh off their big teeth.
It's just that these are ordinary people's opinions, in the eyes of the courtiers, this is the most appropriate, and it is also the greatest tolerance for Zong Yun.
However, the result was a little different from what they imagined, or rather unexpected but reasonable.
Zong Yun naturally would not accept the canonization of the county king, and he had no intention of becoming the emperor himself, or he did not have this intention for the time being.
In the eyes of others, Luoyang is a blessed land, even a land of Longxing, which is most suitable for building a country and becoming an emperor.
But Zong Yun doesn't think so, even if he wants to be the emperor, he won't be in Luoyang, but will wait for him to conquer Kaifeng!
Bianliang is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, if Zongyun can recover Bianliang, and then build a country and become the emperor, even if it is not justified, it is enough to convince the people of the world!
Because the Southern Song Dynasty drove foreign enemies out of Bianliang, and they were able to recover it for more than a hundred years, Grandpa Yue Fei saw that there was hope to conquer Kaifeng and take back the capital, but he let his own emperor give it back.
Many people scolded Qin Hui for being a traitor through the ages, but didn't Qin Hui carry the black pot for Song Gaozong Zhao Gou?
If it weren't for the emperor's fear of Yue Fei, who was a master of high merit, how could he have issued eighteen gold medals?
Since you can't keep your own capital, and you can't recover it, you have been defeated by the Mongols, and you have been driven south of the Huai River, and you are still being expelled to the south.
The Southern Song Dynasty court did not have the ability to take back the Kaifeng Bianliang, so that it was born in two years, and the crazy rise of the Zong Yun rebel army was recaptured.
Zong Yun didn't want to be the emperor, he just saw the incompetence of the Southern Song Dynasty court, so he formed a righteous army and fought the world by himself.
He just felt that Luoyang was far from being a place to rest temporarily, not enough for him to slow down, and not enough for him to be satisfied with the status quo.
If the country is established in Luoyang at this time and proclaimed the emperor, the righteous army will be relaxed, and everyone wants to get a higher position and seek greater benefits, whether it is for the righteous army or the people, it will be a great disaster, not a great blessing.
I don't look at it from afar, just look at the short-lived Yongle Dynasty established by Fang La, and you can know what a sad end it will bring to being an emperor at an inappropriate time.
On the contrary, if Zong Yun did not become emperor, these rebels would continue to fight, and this desire in their hearts would accumulate more and more, turning into the motivation for conquest, and the more crazy it would be!
Luoyang, you are not the emperor, so what about Kaifeng? Or in Youzhou?
As long as Zong Yun is not in a hurry, the righteous army will be able to continue to maintain its vitality, maintain the ambition and motivation to conquer the world, once the emperor is proclaimed, the righteous army will think that it is done, and it will be impossible to drive the Mongols out of the Han people's rivers and mountains!
Zong Yun knew this, but the imperial court would not give him time, which was also a hidden danger in Zong Yun's heart, and Yang Jing was naturally able to see this clearly.
That's why Yang Jing knew that Luoyang was not the end of Zong Yun, let alone the end of his Yang Jing.
He had to continue south, back to the court, back to the court that he had been avoiding and unwilling to go back to.
He wanted to buy time for Zong Yun, ease the relationship between the imperial court and the rebel army, and snuff out the fire that the imperial court wanted to encircle and suppress the rebel army.
Otherwise, Zong Yun would be like Grandpa Yue Fei again, when the matter came to an end, he fell short, he did not lose to the Mongols, but he lost to the weak behemoth behind him, which could only cause regret and embarrassment through the ages.
As for the righteous army occupying Luoyang, capturing Henan Mansion, constantly recovering the boundaries of Henan Mansion, and preparing for the capture of Kaifeng, these are not things that Yang Jing can consider, all he has to do is to continue south!