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The source of the Huang River sounded the head, and the waves flew and flowed eastward. Shangjing was once Liaoxing, and the imperial capital was built in the ancient west building.

Backed by the three mountains to attract the sun and the moon, in front of the reed Crouching Tiger Hill. Liao Zu bent his bow to shoot the golden scorpion, and he was determined to kill the four yi.

Thousands of armies roared tigers, and thousands of horsemen roared angry lions. Take the fertile soil where the wind sounds, and seize the city and state when the war drums sound.

The eight mountains and rivers were unified, and the foundation of the country was established for two hundred years. Nine days to open the palace, all the nations to worship the crown.

has been leading the way for decades, and has changed the old country. It has been passed down from the Nine Emperors to Tianzuo, and the golden soldiers and iron armor are the imperial capital.

The lord of Liao lost his country cowardly, and the hundred-year-old king secretly collected himself. The glory of the past can be seen now, only the ruins remain on the ground.

It is difficult for the resident birds to perch on the abandoned city ramparts, and the jackdaws swim around the remnants of the tower. Cattle and sheep grazing fields all over the place, full of mountains and green grass vines and ditches.

The rain falls on the earth and gives birth to grains, and the clouds soar into the sky and fly to the top. In ancient times, heroes were nowhere to be found, and princes were buried next to the grass pile.

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Jin Shangjing Huining Mansion was the capital of the Liao Dynasty at the earliest, also known as the West Building.

Actually-

The earliest Jinshangjing Huining Mansion was not in Liaoshangjing Linhuang Mansion.

After Yan Aguta established the Jin Kingdom, he set the capital in the area on the left bank of the Ash River and regarded it as the capital of the Jin Kingdom.

But that Shangjing, there was no city at all, the Jurchens were scattered at that time, and the area that was the capital had neither a city nor a temple, and the hundred officials of Wanyan Aguta and the Jin Kingdom were scattered on the barren grassland.

That is to say, after the founding of the country, Wanyan Aguda was busy stabilizing the political situation and tired of the war, and he had no energy to take care of the construction of the capital of the Jin State, and the so-called Jin Shangjing at that time was just a large piece of grassland.

Later, with the continuous development of politics and military after the founding of the Jin Dynasty, in the late period of Wanyan Aguta's rule, the situation in the so-called Jinshangjing area at that time changed slightly.

After eight years of development after the founding of the country, before the death of Wanyan Agu, the Jin people finally renamed the places named after the title of residents at the beginning of the founding of the Jin State, such as "Emperor Village" and "Guoxiang Village", and built it as Jin Shangjing, and the scale of the so-called Jin Shangjing at that time was also expanded.

——At this stage, the Jurchens lived in a fence based on wood and surrounded by a fence, so it was called a village, and the so-called Jin Shangjing at that time also became a union of one village after another.

If we continue to follow the historical development, until Wanyan Wu beggars to the throne, the development of the military situation became more and more favorable to the rulers of the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin people successively destroyed the Liao State and then the Northern Song Dynasty, reaching a military peak. Military victories and political stability provided an important guarantee for economic and cultural development, and the vast wealth plundered through the war provided the material basis for the construction of the capital.

However, due to Li Cun's birth, the Jin State only annexed part of the Liao State, and the key Jin people had no chance to get involved in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

This left the Jin people with no economic strength to establish their own capital at all.

There was no way, Wanyan Wu Qimai could only lead the nobles of the Jin State to move to the Linhuang Mansion in Liaoshangjing, and renamed the Linhuang Mansion in Liaoshangjing as Huining Mansion in Jinshangjing, so that the Jin Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty could share a capital.

This place of Shangjing is surrounded by mountains, the middle is low and flat, it is a basin, there is a small river flowing through it, this river is called Shahe, because the water source is abundant, the pasture is luxuriant, the reeds are continuous, the Khitan people call this place the reed.

——The Khitan people are a typical nomadic people, especially fond of grasslands, so they chose this place as the place to build their capital.

Yelu Abaoji shot here with a golden arrow, and built the Longmei Palace at the place where the golden arrow landed, as a place for it to stay.

This is the earliest palace building in Shangjing.

In the third year of Yelu Abaoji's reign as emperor, the Liao people built a city wall around Longmei Palace, called the imperial capital.

The person who presided over the construction of Shangjing was Kang Moji, a Han bureaucrat in Jizhou, who built Shangjing according to the ancient customs of the Khitan Shangdong.

Shangjing City is divided into two parts, the Imperial City in the north and the Seoul in the south, separated by a wall in the middle.

The imperial city and the Seoul, one south and one north opposite, and the structure of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties is similar, there are four gates of east, west, south and north, and there is a huge urn city outside the city gate.

The streets in the imperial city are vertical and horizontal, there are many buildings, there are four longitudinal streets in the north and south, and two horizontal streets in the east and west. Ouchi, where the emperor lived, was located in the middle of the imperial city; The south of Ouchi is the government office, workshops, and temples; The southeast corner is Linhuang Mansion and Linhuang County; The southwest is Guozijian, Changtai County, Chongxiao Temple and Confucius Temple.

- It's just that this Confucius is a left-hand man, that is, a Hu person.

To the south of the Imperial City is Seoul, and there are also vertical and horizontal streets in Seoul.

Because Seoul is inhabited by ordinary people, the defense of Seoul is not strong.

During the Liao Dynasty, many Central Asian merchants came here to do business, among which the Uighur merchants were the most numerous, and they trafficked many goods from Central and West Asia here.

It is worth mentioning that since the beginning of the Liao Dynasty, there have been a large number of Han people who have come to the capital to do business, and these Han people are mostly Han people in the states of Merge, Fen, You, Ji, etc., and there are many Han people in the Central Plains, and even in the south, whether it is the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, this matter is not prohibited.

- Because these Han people can traffic tea and wine, grain, salt and iron, silk, porcelain and even all kinds of luxury goods, and take away the animal skins, cattle and sheep, and horses of the Liao or Jin people, they can revitalize the economy of the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, so whether it is the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, these Han people who come to the Northeast to do business are very welcome, and even give these Han people a certain amount of protection.

Therefore, Shangjing City became the end point of the Grassland Silk Road, an international metropolis, and the capital of the world.

It is precisely because of this that the previous Central Asia, West Asia and other regions only knew the Khitan, did not know the Song Dynasty, they even thought that China was the Khitan, and the Khitan was China, so that Eastern European countries called the Chinese Khitan.

After the Jin people inherited Liao Shangjing, they inherited almost all of this, except for changing their name to Jin Shangjing.

In other words, before that, Shangjing, even if its owner was changed from the Liao people to the Jin people, was still the end point of the Grassland Silk Road, an international metropolis, and the capital of the world.

However, since the beginning of the Great Qian Dynasty's invasion of Jin, especially since the period when the Qianjun army and a group of rebels surrounded Jin Shangjing, Shangjing can never return to the end of the original grassland Silk Road, and the status of an international metropolis and the capital of the world is no longer the protagonist of any prosperous era.

This is destined to be reduced to history.

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After the Jin army was defeated by the cadres in the decisive battle, almost overnight, the defenders of the Jin State near Jin Shangjing abandoned the city and fled, turning into birds and beasts, from east to west, from north to south, the military force that could defend Jin Shangjing was gone, as if only the tens of thousands of remnants of the Jin State led by Jin Wushu were fleeing to Jin Shangjing, and a Shangjing city stood alone on the huge Northeast Plain.

In fact, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan father and son have been closely observing this epic decisive battle between the Qianjun and the Jin army.

When Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang father and son learned through Tanma that the Golden Vulture was defeated, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang father and son immediately convened the prime minister and held an emergency meeting.

There is only one topic on the agenda of this emergency meeting, that is, the Golden Vulture has been defeated, and the capital is in danger, what should we do in the Dajin Kingdom?

The other Jin ministers were shocked by each other, and they didn't know what to do, only the right prime minister Han Qi came out first and said: "Your Majesty should strike the army when he fights with him." ”

Han Qixian said that the years of war between the Jin and Jin Dynasty have greatly weakened the Jin State in terms of economy and military, especially the defeat of the Jin Wushu, which has further exposed the weakness of the Jin army, so that the Jin State will no longer have the ability to wage war against the Great Qian Dynasty in a short time.

Under such circumstances, one can only wholeheartedly seek peace with the Great Qian Dynasty.

Han Qixian recommended a few ministers of the Jin State who had originally followed Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Chang, hoping that Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang would hand over the matter of bending to the Daqian Dynasty to them for peace, and other ministers were not allowed to participate.

In addition, Han Qixian said that this time it was a bad thing for Jin Wushu, if it weren't for Jin Wushu killing Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongjun, scaring Wanyan Chang away, and killing more than a dozen Jin ministers of the Lord and faction in one go, and bent on a decisive battle with the Daqian Dynasty, things would not have developed to this point.

Unlike the Han Qi ancestors, Yuwen Huangzhong then stood up and said that there are still tens of thousands of horses in the capital, and the Jin Wushu has also brought back tens of thousands of horses, and there are enough grain, grass, and armor in the capital, so it is better to defend the city, and must not learn from the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Dynasty, and stupidly negotiate peace with the Daqian Dynasty, otherwise the royal family, royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Dynasty will be everyone's end.

Yuwen Huangzhong also said that if Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son are willing to fight again, he is willing to lead the army to fight.

After listening to the ideas of Han Qixian and Yuwen Huangzhong, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Huangzhong, they all agreed that Yuwen Huangzhong was a loyal minister of their Dajin Kingdom.

However, the situation has come to this point, and Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan father and son have not punished Han Qixian.

In the end, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang father and son decided to take a two-pronged approach.

On the one hand, let Han Qi first be responsible for sending people to negotiate peace with the Daqian Dynasty, and take the initiative to ask for tribute to the Daqian Dynasty;

On the other hand, let Yuwen Huangzhong and Wanyan Zongqiang, the eighth son of Wanyan Agu, organize an army together and prepare to defend the capital.

Actually-

These two paths are not the paths that Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan father and son really want to take.

The path that Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan father and son really want to take can also be said to be a real countermeasure, which is very simple, just one word - run.

If you put a direction in front of this action, it is to run west.

To the west is the land of Liaoxi, which is now the place where the grassland tribes are fighting.

This is actually not a good place to go, because there are also many old grievances between the Jin Kingdom and the grassland tribes, for example, the Jin Kingdom and the Mengwu Kingdom have been fighting for several years, and the grievances are very deep.

This time, the Mengwu State sent 50,000 steppe cavalry to support the Jin State, not because of the war with the Jin State, but because Hebule also realized that the Daqian Dynasty was a hundred times more dangerous than the Jin State, and the Jin State promised to give the Mengwu Kingdom 100,000 cattle and sheep and 10,000 women after the end of the war.

In other words, it is all about politics and an exchange of interests, and it has nothing to do with friendship.

If there is a choice, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son will definitely not be willing to flee west.

But there is no way, the east is the sea, the north is the Northeast Anti-Jin Coalition Army is active, and the south is the millions of troops of the Daqian Dynasty.

This is actually one of the reasons why Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Ling's father and son have not chosen to flee before.

Now, the Jin Kingdom has been completely defeated and will not flee, but I am afraid that Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son will have to follow in the footsteps of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan's father and son.

In fact, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son had long been prepared to flee in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, in other words, they had already made up their minds that if the situation was not good, they would flee from Shangjing at any time.

Of course, this was a top-secret plan, and no one knew about it except for the reliable Jin royal family and clan, close to the eunuchs, favored concubines, and a very small number of important ministers of the Jin State.

If the emperor and the royal family and the clan want to escape, of course, the fewer people who know about it, the better.

So the bell rang as usual the next morning.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Wan Yan also put on makeup and went to the Qinzheng Downstairs to announce that he was going to drive the expedition in person.

When the subjects of the Jin Dynasty heard about Yan Yan's promise to drive the expedition in person, they all took it as a joke.

Jin Wushu led an elite army of 1.5 million, all of which were defeated by the cadre army, and these tens of thousands of horses in the capital, even if the tens of thousands of remnants of Jin Wushu were defeated, there was no chance of winning in the city, let alone going out of the city to fight with the cadre army.

In fact, at the moment when Wan Yan announced that he was going to drive the expedition, the escape plan of the royal family and clan of the Jin Kingdom was already in full swing.

After the plan was almost prepared, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang father and son urgently appointed Yuwen Huangzhong as the guard in Shangjing, and was fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Shangjing and guarding Shangjing, in fact, it was to let Yuwen Huangzhong stay as a substitute for the dead ghost, and at the same time appointed Han Qixian as the ambassador of peace and personally went to negotiate peace with the Daqian Dynasty.

Yuwen Huangzhong, who received the order, didn't say a word, and immediately said: "The minister is here, and the capital will be there; If the capital is unfortunately lost, the minister will never survive! ”

Yuwen Huangzhong's words made Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son more and more pleased, and they even regretted letting Yuwen Huangzhong stay and die.

However, Han Qixian, after learning that Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son were going to lead the royal family and clan of the Jin Kingdom to escape, his face was like ashes, and he persuaded Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son: "If Your Majesty and the Taishi take this step, the Dajin Kingdom that my Jurchen ancestors paid countless costs to establish can end up in the third generation, I hope Your Majesty and the Taishi will think twice before acting!" ”

Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son were furious, and even almost beheaded Han Qixian on the spot.

Fortunately!

At the critical moment, Yuwen Huangzhong pleaded for Han Qi first, and said that killing important ministers at a time when people's hearts were fluctuating might cause unnecessary panic.

Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan and his son handed over the tiger talisman of the troops to Yuwen Huangzhong, and told Yuwen Huangzhong to do his best to guard the capital, they went to ask for troops from the grassland and Western Xia, and when they asked for a million more troops, they would definitely come back to rescue Shangjing.

Yuwen Huangzhong took the tiger talisman and solemnly bowed to Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Kang's father and son three times, and then pulled up Han Qixian and left without looking back.

After seeing Yuwen Huangzhong and Han Qi leave first, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Kang, father and son hurriedly continued to prepare to lead the royal family and clan of the Jin Kingdom to flee the capital......

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I was busy all day today with something to do, so I wrote this chapter, sorry, I made my brothers wait for a long time!

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