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The Jin people are worthy of the strongest party in this era of the original time and space.

Putting aside the character and anything, the Jin people, especially the Jurchens among them, are really good.

It can be said that if Li Cun does not appear, in this era, whether it is the Song people, the Liao people, the Western Xia people, the Goryeo people, or the grassland tribes, it really can't be compared with the Jin people.

It's not a no-brainer.

At the beginning, Li Cun defeated the Jin people in the Yanyun region and drove the Jin people to the north of the Great Wall, Li Cun thought that without the blessing of the talents and financial resources of the Yanyun region and the Zhao and Song dynasties, the development of the Jin Kingdom could be greatly restricted.

Unexpectedly, the Jin people abruptly changed the historical strategy of developing mainly to the Song Dynasty, but instead developed to the grassland region and to Goryeo.

Speaking of which, the reason why such a situation occurred was that Li Cun had a lot of responsibility.

First of all, of course, it was because under the command of Li Cun, the Daqian Dynasty seized the Yanyun region from the Jin State, completely sealed all the southbound intersections, and defeated Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, who were bent on invading the south, so that everyone in the Jin Kingdom realized that it would be difficult for them to develop southward in the future.

This undoubtedly greatly limited the development of the Jin State, especially after the Jin State thoroughly digested the political heritage of the Great Liao Empire's Liaoshangjing, Liaodong, and Liaozhongjing.

In addition, after that defeat, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang fell sharply in prestige among the Jin people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they even changed from Jurchen heroes to Jurchen shame.

- Wanyan Wu is not a good bird, he just took that opportunity to whip Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, the two thorns, respectively, to show his imperial power.

But then again, if Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang had admitted it so easily, they would not have become the biggest executioners of Jingkang's shame in history.

Soon, Wanyan Zonghan proposed that he wanted to make meritorious service and recover the territory that originally belonged to the western region of the Great Liao Empire.

Moreover, Wanyan Zonghan also claimed that he had received reliable information that Kedun City had hundreds of thousands of horses to ride.

There is no doubt that as long as you can get these hundreds of thousands of war horses and have countless excellent knights, it is equivalent to having hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and in the grassland, Jin can almost be said to be invincible.

In fact, this involves the second good thing that Li Cun did, that is, he killed Yelu Dashi and captured Yelu Yali, which ruined the possibility of the establishment of Western Liao and the possibility of the survival of Northern Liao, making the vast territory of Western Liao all borderless.

It is precisely because of this that it is entirely possible to realize the strategic concept put forward by Wanyan Zonghan.

However, there is one thing, that is, the expedition to the west is too hard, and it is impossible for people with great perseverance to do it.

Ordinary people, even if they know that there are hundreds of thousands of war horses in Kedun City, they are not willing to go, and if they go, they may not be able to reach Kedun City, which is cut off by the seemingly endless sea of sand.

Therefore, this task finally fell into the hands of Wanyan Zonghan.

Soon, Wanyan Zonghan personally led the remaining more than 20,000 horses under his command to start the western expedition.

The hardships of this process will not be detailed.

It is only said that Wanyan Zonghan led his men and horses, and I don't know how much hardship he endured, and finally came to Kedun City, and captured the hundreds of thousands of war horses as he wished.

Not only that, Wanyan Zonghan also led his men and horses to conquer the Liao people in seven military prefectures, including Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, and Camel, and eighteen tribes such as Dahuang Murowei, Dira, Wang Jira, Chachira, Yexi, Nose Gude, Nira, Dara, Dara, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Wuguli, Zubu, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Humusi, Xidi, and Jiaoerbi.

After Wanyan Zonghan took real power in Kedun City, he did not leave in a hurry, nor did he continue the westward expedition as he said with Wanyan Wu begging them, but used the land of Kedun City to recuperate and slowly digest everything he had gotten.

The city of Kedun has pastures with abundant water and grass, a large number of cattle and sheep, and a certain amount of food crops.

This provided an economic foundation for Wanyan Zonghan.

There is a wide desert area in the south of it, which has become a natural defense line, which is convenient for Wanyan Zonghan to rest and recuperate.

This made it only take two years for the Yan Zonghan Department to swell to a powerful strength with more than 100,000 people and hundreds of thousands of war horses.

Let's talk about Yan Zongwang again.

When Wanyan Zonghan chose to go west, Wanyan Zongwang chose to fight their old Jurchen rival Goryeo.

In 907 A.D., Yelu Abaoji was promoted as the leader of the alliance. He was smart and intelligent since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was burly and strong in martial arts. He quelled the rebellion of his tribe, and designed to get rid of other tribal leaders, and founded the country in 916, with the name Khitan, which was the Taizu of Liao.

The word Khitan means "iron" and symbolizes that it is an impregnable country.

——Wanyan Agu said when he hit the founding of the country: "Liao takes Bintie as the number, and takes its strength." Although Bin Tie is strong, it will eventually deteriorate, but the gold will not change. The color of gold is white, and the color of the face is still white. Then the country name "Daikin".

In 926 A.D., after the Khitan destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, they sent troops north to try to conquer the Heishui Sect, but they were fiercely resisted by the various tribes of the Heishui Sect.

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The Khitans called these rebels Jurchens.

Jurchen or Jurichen means "stubborn man", "unconquerable man", "untamable man" in Turkic, Mongolian and Tungusic languages.

However, the Black Water Turtle was finally conquered by the Khitans.

Yelu Abaoji was worried that the Jurchens would be in trouble in the future, so he persuaded thousands of families with the surname of Qiangzong to move to the south of Liaoyang in order to disperse their forces and make them unable to communicate with each other.

These people who moved into Liaoyang and became naturalized Khitans are called "mature women".

And living in the north of the end of the river, the northeast of Ningjiang Prefecture, the people of the indigen, covering an area of more than 1,000 miles, have more than 100,000 households, they are divided into dozens of tribes, according to the old boundaries scattered in the mountains and forests, each tribe promotes the heroes as chiefs, the small ones are thousands of households, the large ones are thousands of households, these black water people are called "born Jurchen", their way of life is mainly hunting, both fishing and hunting, farming and animal husbandry.

The mature girl really didn't say it first, but only said that the birth of the Jurchen who later established the Jin Kingdom.

In terms of relations with the surrounding ethnic groups, they were either subordinate to Goryeo or subordinate to the Liao State, and rebelled and impermanent.

Later, the Jurchens no longer focused on fishing, hunting and gathering, and made great progress in agriculture and animal husbandry, and mastered iron-smelting technology.

As a result, the alliance of the Jurchen tribes with the Wanyan Department of the Hushui Valley as the core became strong, and its leader Wu Gu Nai (posthumously respected as "Jingzu" in the Jin Dynasty) was the capital Bo Jin (that is, the head of the alliance), and Liao conferred the post of the Jurchen Jiedu envoy, but he refused to accept the Indian lineage, so as to expand his power, from the Baishan, Ye Cheng, Tongmen, Ye Lazy, Tugu Theory, and even the chief of the five kingdoms, all obeyed orders.

His sons impeached Libo (Jin Shizu), Po Rashu (Jin Suzong), and Ying Ge (Jin Muzong) later succeeded successively, and the national strength of the Great Liao Empire also continued to decline during this period.

And the Goryeo side.

Although Goryeo was formally a centralized state, its royal power was not always stable, and the power of the gate lords and nobles was very strong.

——The marriage between Goryeo Moon Jong and the aristocrat Lee Zi Yuan, who created the prosperous era, and gave birth to many princes, buried the hidden danger of civil strife in the future.

In July of the first year of Goryeo Shouchang, Li Ziyuan's grandson Li Ziyi launched a rebellion, which was quelled by Wang Xi, the prince of Jilin, and soon Wang Xi accepted the "Chan concession" of his nephew Wang Yu and became the king, which was for Goryeo Suzong.

After Wang Xi ascended the throne, he set out to strengthen the royal power, and implemented measures such as strengthening the status of the crown prince, supporting the Tiantai sect introduced by Wang Di Yitian from the Zhao and Song dynasties, building Nanjing, and minting currency.

In this process, the upstart group led by Yin Qian rose;

On the other hand, Wang Xi's improper position and unstable people's hearts made the domestic political situation in Goryeo unstable.

Under these circumstances, waging war abroad became a risky but effective means for Wang Xi and the Yin Zong clique who supported him to divert contradictions, unite people's hearts, and consolidate royal power.

And the friction between Goryeo and the Wanyan Jurchen around the belonging of Lazy Dian is a good breakthrough.

In the end, Li Risu, the border general of Goryeo, said to Wang Xi that "the Jurchens are weak and fearless, and if they don't take it now, they will be in trouble in the future", and the inner servant Lin Gan was also instigating Wang Xi to attack the Jurchens in Lazy Dian. Some Goryeo officials also suggested that a dangerous fortress called "Bottle Neck" in the Holadian area should be controlled to prevent the Jurchens from moving south, and some pro-Goryeo chieftains such as Xiangdan, Penduri, and Xibihan also contributed to the trouble.

As a result, Wang Xi insisted on provoking a war with Wanyan to compete for Lazy Dian.

This war lasted for a total of six years, and finally ended with the Jurchen of Wanyan being owned by the Lazy Dian.

This is the famous battle of Lazy Dian.

The war between the Jurchens and Goryeo defended the Jurchens' territory for generations, curbed the momentum of Goryeo's expansion to the north, promoted the union of the Jurchen tribes, and accelerated the process of unifying the Jurchens of the Wanyan tribe.

Goryeo lost all its feudal states, and the country's prestige plummeted, so that the northward expansion policy that it had been actively promoting since the founding of the country was finally frustrated, and the gate lord aristocracy remained dictatorial, the ruling group was frequently infighting, and the domestic situation was turbulent.

If, as in history, the Jin State focused its strategy on the richer Zhao and Song dynasties, and wanted to develop to a richer south, Goryeo could still survive such a situation, and then the king of Goryeo slowly fought with the gate lords.

But now Li Cun has blocked all the passages of the Jin Kingdom to the south, forcing the Jin people to target Goryeo.

The current king of Goryeo, named Wang Kai, is the eldest son of King Ruizong of Goryeo, and his mother is the daughter of the largest gate lord of the Goryeo Dynasty, Yi Ziqian, the lord of Yeondeok Palace (Queen Shundeok).

Li Ziqian is not only Wang Kai's grandfather, but also Wang Kai's father-in-law, hmm...... To put it simply, Li Ziqian married his eldest daughter and second daughter to Wang Kai's father Wang Yu, Li Ziqian's second daughter gave birth to Wang Kai, and then Li Ziqian married his third and fourth daughters to Wang Kai, that's right, that is, Wang Kai married his own third and fourth aunts.

One might ask, isn't this a mess?

That's right.

However, this is a normal thing in Goryeo.

It is not an exaggeration to say that marrying one's aunt is not a matter at all, what brother marries a sister, niece marries an uncle, the Goryeo royal family has done it all.

The "initiator" of the consanguineous marriage relationship of the Goryeo Dynasty was Wang Jian, the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Wang Jian did not have a prominent family background, but was only one of many local wealthy families in the late Silla period.

Later, Wang Jian took refuge in the bow descendants of Later Goguryeo, and made many military exploits under the bow descendants, becoming his right-hand man, and also established his prestige among the generals and the wealthy family.

Although Wang Jian founded the Goryeo Dynasty and ascended to the throne, the early power of Goryeo was actually a coalition of wealthy clans, and some of the divided wealthy clans had the strength to challenge the royal power at any time.

In order to stabilize the regime, Wang Jian adopted a variety of methods to envelop the wealthy families in various places, one of the important methods was to marry the daughters of the wealthy families in various places as concubines.

Wang Jian married a total of 29 concubines in his life, many of whom had wealthy backgrounds.

These twenty-nine concubines gave birth to a total of twenty-five princes and nine princesses for Wang Jian.

Of these nine princesses, six were married to half-brothers.

Not only that, but throughout the Goryeo Dynasty, except in rare cases, princesses could only marry members of the clan, and it was forbidden to marry outside.

After that, the Goryeo royal family played with this close inbred marriage, and it can be said that only if you can't think of it, there is no Goryeo royal family that does not dare to play.

Belch...... Far from it.

Wang Kai was only fourteen years old when he ascended the throne, and his uncles coveted their father Wang Xi's footsteps, while Wang Kai's grandfather and father-in-law, Li Ziqian, took advantage of the opportunity to support Wang Kai's accession to the throne and seize power.

After Wang Kai ascended the throne, he named Li Ziqian as the meritorious hero of the conspiracy Anshe, the master of Shoutai, the Zhongshu Ling, and the Marquis of Shaocheng, and in October of the same year, he was crowned the Duke of Hanyang.

Later, Li Ziqian used Han Anren, Wen Gongmei and others to conspire to support Wang Li, the prince of Obifang, and purged a group of oppositionists, thus consolidating his power.

Soon after, Wang Kai crowned Li Ziqian as "the prince of the country", concurrently served as three high-ranking officials and judges, the military department, opened the palace and built the palace, Wang Kai also went out of the Qiande Palace outside the door to pass the edict, 100 officials advanced to the palace to congratulate, and then went to Li Ziqian's house to congratulate, the number of ceremonies is more than the crown prince, and the birthday is also called "Renshou Festival" like the emperor, which can be said to be to the point of a very human minister.

Of course, Wang Kai didn't really let Li Ziqian empty him, this was just an expedient measure.

In fact, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian have already fought openly and secretly, Li Ziqian poisoned Wang Kai, wanted to poison Wang Kai, and then sought to usurp the throne, it was Wang Kai's two aunts and princesses who stopped this matter in time, so that Wang Kai would not die young.

Just when Wang Kai and Li Ziqian were fighting the hardest, the former suzerainty of Goryeo, the Great Liao Empire, was on the verge of extinction under the attack of the Jin State.

Wang Kai and Li Ziqian hurriedly made a temporary truce, and sent an envoy to the Great Liao Empire by sea to confirm the authenticity of the matter.

However, Ha Zebao could not find the location of the court of the Great Liao Empire at that time, so he could only return to Goryeo.

After that, Goryeo strengthened its vigilance against the Kingdom of Jin.

At that time, the Zhao and Song dynasties also strengthened ties with Goryeo.

Zhao Ji sent messengers Lu Yundi and Fu Moqing to Goryeo with gifts and edicts and sacrificial texts made by Zhao Ji, to pay tribute to Wang Kai's father Wang Yu, and remind that the Great Liao Empire was about to fall, and Goryeo could return to the Zhao Song Dynasty and restore the Zhao Song Dynasty's ordination, that is, to be a vassal state of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

However, as soon as Wang Kai and Li Ziqian discussed, they rejected the Song envoy's proposal on the grounds that "the system is not over".

In the following year, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian sent Li Zide, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and Jin Fuzhe, the deputy envoy of the Imperial History, to the Zhao and Song dynasties to thank him and offer gifts.

In May of the same year, Goryeo sent an envoy to the state of Jin, but the envoy of Goryeo only brought the letter of state, not the table of surrender, and did not pay tribute to the state of Jin.

This undoubtedly gave the Jin state an excuse to attack Goryeo.

It just so happened that Wanyan Zongwang had just experienced a major defeat at that time, and he needed a victory to save his reputation and stabilize his position.

So, Wanyan Zongwang took the initiative to ask Wanyan Wu to ask for help and attack Goryeo.

After Wanyan Wu begged to buy, Wanyan Zongwang advanced by land and water, and led the men and horses of his headquarters and his fourth brother Wanyan Zongbi to kill Goryeo.

On the Goryeo side, Wang Kai and Li Ziqian were fighting among themselves at that time, and no one expected that Wanyan Zongwang would lead an army of 50,000 or 60,000 to drive straight in.

In short, taking advantage of Goryeo's unpreparedness, Wanyan Zongwang led an army of 50,000 or 60,000 until the capital of Goryeo, Kaijing, and then defeated the second army and six guards of Goryeo, which frightened Wang Kai and Li Ziqian to negotiate peace with Wanyan Zongwang desperately.

As a result, a large number of gold, silver, silk and women were extorted by Wanyan Zongwang, and they returned with a full load, and the image is that Wanyan Zongwang almost copied the first time in history that the Jin people besieged Bianliang City in Tokyo.

The only difference is that Zhao Huan was always fighting and uncertain, which led to the second siege of Bianliang City in Tokyo by the Jin people, which led to the shame of Jingkang, while Wang Kai and Li Ziqian exerted their survival instinct of the Goryeo people and unswervingly recognized the Jin State as the suzerain.

In Li Ziqian's words: "In the past, Jin was a small country, and the affairs of Liao and I were not only prosperous now, but now it is violent, the government and the army are strong, and they are becoming stronger day by day, and they are bordering on our border, so they are bound to do things; And with small things and big things, the way of the king, it is advisable to send an envoy to ask first. ”

Li Ziqian said so, and Wang Kai, who was at the mercy of Li Ziqian, had no choice but to issue an order to the Jin State to accept the minister.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang's outward expansion in the past two years has made the Jin Kingdom grow stronger in another way.

At the same time, Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia Dynasty, was extremely frightened when he saw that the Great Qian Dynasty had defeated the Zhao and Song Dynasty so easily.

Li Qianshun is not a waste monarch like Yelu Yanxi, Zhao Ji, and Zhao Huan, who are ambitious and talented, on the contrary, Li Qianshun is very shrewd.

——This is not difficult to see from the fact that Li Qianshun in history, in the face of such a powerful Jin State, was still able to preserve the Western Xia, and let the Western Xia still get a certain development in the cracks.

Li Qianshun clearly realized that once Li Cungan overthrew the Zhao and Song dynasties, the next one to overthrow would definitely be his Western Xia.

That surrendered to the Great Qian Dynasty and became a vassal state of the Great Qian Dynasty?

Li Qianshun is not unwilling.

But the problem is that Li Qianshun clearly knows that Li Cun, who has even recovered the Yanyun region, has an ironclad goal of restoring the territory of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Therefore, Li Qianshun concluded that if he went to join the Great Qian Dynasty, it would definitely not be long before the Western Xia would follow in the footsteps of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

After repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, Li Qianshun decided to surrender to the Jin State, and said to the Jin State that Li Cun was the next Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Tang Taizong, if they sat back and watched Li Cun annex the Zhao and Song Dynasty, Li Cun's next step would definitely be to send troops to sweep the grassland and seal the wolf Juxu, so they must curb Li Cun's development, and they can't let Li Cun destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Li Qianshun's views were recognized by the vast majority of the Jin people below Wanyan Wu Qimai, and Wanyan Zongwang even took the initiative to ask Ying to attack the Daqian Dynasty in order to deal with the Zhao and Song dynasties.

And Wanyan Zonghan, who was originally in Kedun City, also led his men and horses to withdraw from Kedun City after learning that the Jin State was preparing to start a war with the Daqian Dynasty again, saying that he wanted to take revenge.

Later, the Jin State sent envoys to the Western Xia to discuss with Li Qianshun, and finally the two countries jointly decided that the Western Xia would send troops to deal with the Zhao and Song dynasties, so that the Zhao and Song dynasties would not be exterminated by the Great Qian Dynasty, while the Jin State would send troops to harass the borders of the Great Qian Dynasty and put pressure on the Great Qian Dynasty so that the Great Qian Dynasty could not destroy the Song Dynasty with all its might.

In fact, this matter had already begun to be planned as early as the beginning of Li Cun's second war against the Song Dynasty.

It's just that Li Cun's speed of doing Song is too fast.

In addition, communication in this era is simply too slow.

So much so that before the Jin State and the Western Xia could negotiate the conditions, Li Cun was already about to overthrow the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Seeing this, Li Qianshun urged the Jin State to stop talking about it and act quickly, otherwise the Zhao Song Dynasty would be gone, and then the Western Xia and Jin States would also be in danger.

This is why Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang gathered people in Yanzi City and Bei'an Prefecture.

By the way, Wanyan Zong saw that his troops were insufficient, so he coerced and lured Goryeo to send him an army of 50,000.

In other words, now there is a great unfavorable situation in which the Zhao and Song dynasties, the Jin state, the Western Xia, and the Goryeo dynasty are fighting against one Daqian dynasty.

Actually-

Yuwen Huangzhong, who had penetrated into the Jin Kingdom, had already reported the actions of Western Xia and the Jin Kingdom to Li Cun.

But Li Cun, who was bent on overthrowing the Zhao and Song dynasties first to complete the unification, really couldn't take care of the Jin State and Western Xia.

To be honest, Li Cun also thought about sending people to sabotage the plot between the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia.

But Wanyan Wu Qimai and Li Qianshun are too shrewd to be tricked.

In addition, Li Cun felt that if he was outside, he must first settle inside.

Moreover, Li Cun was very confident in the defense of the Yanyun region, and felt that Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Su Dong would definitely be able to block the attack of the Jin people.

Therefore, Li Cuncai never cared about the collusion between Western Xia and the Jin State, and was bent on overthrowing the Zhao and Song dynasties first.

This is actually one of the reasons why Li Cun was in a hurry to pacify the Central Plains first.

I don't want to, Li Cun hurried to catch up, or because Zhao Gou ran too fast, and Jin Guo and Xixia were one step slower.

At this time, Li Cun couldn't help but fall into a dilemma, should he continue to do the Song Dynasty, or should he first clean up the Jin Kingdom and Western Xia who were looking for his own death?

By the way, there is also Goryeo who doesn't know whether to live or die......

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