Jin began the second winter offensive against Liao, the first winter offensive, Liao's Shangjing was conquered, Jin carried out a large-scale plunder, robbed a large number of supplies, cattle, sheep and horses after a winter, the Jurchen soldiers who recuperated in the spring of the next year were the Liao State lost troops, so that the Tianzuo Emperor drove to Xijing.

This is the second winter offensive, and Shangjing and thirty-one state capitals that Xiao Ming worked so hard to recover for the Liao State have fallen again, and this time it was Yelu Yujian who personally led the Jin soldiers to capture them! Under the strong reinforcement of the Jin State, the momentum seems to be about to attack Nanjing in one go!

Xiao Ming quickly got in touch with the people at the Liaodong base with the help of the long-range flying kite at the Hangzhou headquarters of Richanglong, and fully understood the origin of the matter.

It turns out that this matter has to start with the station of Yelu Yujian, Yelu Yujian led an army of 100,000 troops to garrison Shangjing, but the station was not in Shangjing, but in Xianzhou, north of Shangjing, and his brother-in-law Yelu Tart Geli and Xiao Zhonggong and others were also stationed in Xianzhou, Yelu Yujian's wife and Yelu Tart Geli's wife were originally sisters, and one of the three sisters was married to Emperor Tianzuo's concubine Xiao Sese.

Concubine Wen's sisters and sisters live in the army with their husbands all the year round, and they miss Xiao Seseer very much, and it is understandable that several sisters are deeply affectionate, but Yelu Tart Geli's wife and Yelu Yujian's wife actually went to Beijing behind their husbands to visit their sisters, which caused a disaster!

As we all know, Xiao Fengxian, the king of Lanling, has always wanted Emperor Tianzuo to crown the son of his sister Concubine Yuan as the crown prince, but among the six sons of Emperor Tianzuo, only the king of Jin, Yelu Aolu, is smart and sensible, strong in martial arts, very generous to people, very capable, and stands out among the princes, and the government and the opposition have high hopes for him. Some courtiers even hoped that he would succeed him in the future in order to revive the Khitan Empire, and the Jin king was the son of Concubine Wen Xiao Sese.

Xiao Fengxian knew that as long as Yelu Aolu was there, it would be impossible for King Qin to be crowned the crown prince, so he had already targeted Emperor Tianzuo's brother-in-law and brother-in-law, and had been thinking about dealing with Yelu Yujian, but he had been struggling to seize a good opportunity, and this time he finally found an opportunity.

In the Liao system, all people in the army are not summoned to the palace as rebellion, although the Khitan army is all men, they have always been men and women, if women are in the army, then you are also in the army, but Xiao Fengxian did not make a fuss about this, but secretly went to find Emperor Tianzuo.

He reported to Emperor Tianzuo: "Yelu Yujian, Yelu Tart Geli and others colluded with Xiao Yu to prepare to make King Jin emperor, and to force you to abdicate and become the emperor. Now they sent their wives into the palace to connect with Concubine Wen, it is estimated that they are discussing this matter, Your Majesty can send someone to see if you don't believe it, they are in the palace"

Yelu Yanxi, who had just passed the abolition of Yelu Zhang's slaves, is now in a sensitive period, and he will be angry when he hears any words about the abolition, and sure enough, Emperor Tianzuo was furious when he heard the report, and immediately issued an order to give all the three sisters of Concubine Wen to death, and sent someone to give death to the king of Jin, Yelu Aolu!

This matter is not over, Yelu Yujian's mother and the concubine of the first emperor, Guruhan, heard that Emperor Tianzuo was going to kill Yelu Aolu, and the persuasion was fruitless, so he committed suicide by taking poison and dying Mingzhi, Yelu Yujian was furious after learning about it, and pulled out his sword to destroy his face, meaning that he would not see the Khitan ancestors after his death; cut off his tongue, meaning that he would never speak Khitan in this life, and he cried with his head on the ground.

Worried about being punished in vain, Yelu Yujian, under the persuasion of his subordinates, led his family and more than 1,000 soldiers to defect from Emperor Tianzuo and defected to the Jin Kingdom. Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu Qimai was overjoyed after getting Yelu Yujian, and his brother Wanyan Aguda had told him more than once about the talent of the famous Liao general Yelu Yujian, and now he can come to vote for it.

In the battle with the Jin army, Yelu Yu saw that he had repeatedly made military exploits and posed a certain threat to the Jin army. After capturing the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Aguta personally wrote a letter to Yelu Yu to surrender, but he refused. Now seeing that he took the initiative to vote, Jin Taizong was overjoyed, and immediately personally met with Yelu Yujian and his subordinates, and washed the dust for him with the courtesy of the prime minister, sealed his official position, entrusted him with important tasks, and made him receive awards for meritorious service.

Liao State in Beijing was in a panic, not long ago, Yelu Chun was escorted to the capital to give poisoned wine, but the Liao clan relatives all pleaded, Emperor Tianzuo was extrajudicial and pardoned him, but deprived him of all titles and degraded to a concubine, this time to give death to the king of Jin, and the emperor sent someone to hold the festival, it is bound to escort the king of Jin into Beijing and dispose of it.

Emperor Tianzuo himself felt that it was a bit excessive, and changed his will halfway, and did not give the king of Jin to death for the time being, but he had to be escorted into Beijing, but he did not wait for the king of Jin, but waited for the Jurchen soldiers of the Jin Kingdom to press the border!

At the beginning of November of that year, the Jin State launched a winter offensive, under the leadership of Yelu Yujian, went straight to Shangjing Linhengfu, and broke through Shangjing again in only three days, Emperor Tianzuo fled in panic, and fled south into Nanjing Mansion to hide, the Jin army followed the pursuit, and the soldiers pointed directly at Nanjing, but they did not attack Tokyo, so the entire Liaodong was still in the hands of Xiao Tart.

After Xiao Ming got the detailed information, he couldn't help but sigh, although he worked hard to delay the Liao State for two years, but now the Liao State is still approaching destruction, and it is precisely because Emperor Tianzuo destroyed the Great Wall and forced Yelu Yu to reverse the final destruction in history, and now such a thing still happens!

It's not so much that the state of Liao is extremely weak, but that the inertia is at work, and it seems that there are already arrangements in the dark, which makes Xiao Ming very depressed!

Now fortunately, Liaodong has not fallen into the hands of the Jin State, there is still room for redemption, this matter can not be delayed, he must rush to Liaodong, when the Jin soldiers did not attack Nanjing, establish a minimum base in Liaodong, so as to restrain the Jin State not to dare to go too deep into Liaodi, Xiao Ming knew that everything he was doing was to buy time for the Great Song Dynasty.

"Two more years, two more years!" Xiao Ming said in his heart.

Judging from the development of the Hangzhou base now, the military preparations have not yet been completed, and the arsenal is only in the planning, if the Liao State is destroyed at this time, the Jin soldiers will immediately make a move to the Great Song Dynasty, counting on the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Song Dynasty to resist the wolf-like Jin soldiers, it is simply a fool's dream, so Xiao Ming decided to train the army by himself.

But now Xiao Ming must rush to Liaodong, without further ado, he immediately went to see Ding Jianpeng, told him about the current situation, and asked him to build an arsenal as soon as possible to produce the necessary weapons of war, if the weapons that cannot be mass-produced at present, then use manual construction first.

Ding Jianpeng said: "Time is very tight, if the time is sufficient, the arsenal can still be built, but the output is not at all, let's plan, the number of guns and ammunition, if you want to fight a medium-intensity war at this stage, what is the approximate consumption"

Xiao Ming said: "There are many examples of cold weapons and hot weapons clashes, the British and French coalition forces in Gengzi Nian defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty's 8,000 Mongolian cavalry and tens of thousands of green battalions with an army of less than 3,000 people, I think it will be according to this intensity, maybe the consumption of ammunition will be larger, what I am worried about is the training of soldiers, can you find out the outline of modern army training from the computer?" ”

"I need to go back and rummage through this, if not, we can only make it up ourselves, fortunately, it's not difficult, I'm thinking about how many people are needed to make firearms by hand, and maybe I need to recruit talents" Ding Jianpeng sighed and said: "I think I'm a lay man who believes in Buddhism, but now I'm trying my best to make a sharp weapon to kill!" It's really a trick."

"But thousands of Han people will also be saved because of this, which is also your merit! You don't want my Han people to be treated as two-legged sheep by the northern Tartars in front of your eyes, do you? ”

Ding Jianpeng shook his head and continued to fiddle with the drawings in his hand, which were the component drawings of his decomposition of the structure of the Mauser gun, Xiao Ming was silent, and after a long time, he threw down a sentence: "You don't need to save money, you need as much as you want!" And he left.

Xiao Ming has just taken over the entire Richanglong and is leaving, so the things that need to be arranged are very complicated, fortunately, the most difficult financial accounting has been completed, Shen Bei'er and Jiang Jing are almost paralyzed, and the remaining accounts are handed over to a few capable account offices to do, Xiao Ming looked at the assets of Richanglong on the accounts, and couldn't help but be startled!

But judging from the liquidity on the books, Richanglong doesn't have much money, but his fixed assets are converted into an amazing amount! It has reached the amount of 50 million taels of silver, which is converted into iron money, and it is estimated that the iron money minted in the Great Song Dynasty in a hundred years is not enough to be compared, which is not counting some bad assets and bad debts.

Judging from the cash flow of the accounts, the profitability of several iron factories and cement glass factories together is not as good as that of Richanglong, that is because of Richanglong's perfect agent system, and the shops and merchants who come to purchase goods from all over the country have always been full of cash, which does not include several large dealers.

It seems that the Qianzhuang Bank plan that he has been preparing for a long time can be implemented, Xiao Ming immediately sent someone to send a letter to Aiqili in Nanjing, asking him to come to Hangzhou quickly! At the same time, An Daoquan, who was in Weihai, Shandong, also arrived in Hangzhou quickly, and now he has at least more than half of his 600,000 catties of gold unused, which is just used as the start-up capital of Yinzhuang.

Maybe he can't stay in Hangzhou for a long time for the time being, if he wants to keep Liaodong, he still needs artillery, Ding Jianpeng let him take away all the steel cannons he made before this time, but there is still a shortage of ammunition, Xiao Ming estimates that he can easily hold out in Liaodong until the beginning of spring next year, this time is enough for Ding Jianpeng to produce enough ammunition for him.

Xiao Ming's preparation and the final arrangement of things are almost done, on this day he came to Su Mansion to think that Su Yi and Song Wu resigned, Su Bi's health has been getting worse and worse these days, lying on the bed to recuperate, he took his daughter Su Caier's hand and said to Xiao Ming: "I know what you are going to do, this matter should be done by others, but at the moment only you may be able to do it"

He looked at his daughter and said, "You can go with confidence, I will let Cai'er help you host, but I don't know if I should say a sentence or not?" ”

"Shou Weng, please will, I will listen to you"

Su Bi said: "I know Cai'er's thoughts, she and Bottle'er are interested in you, and you also have this heart, I think you should take the time to marry them, it's not that I'm in a hurry to marry my daughter, but I'm worried about my body, I'm afraid that I won't be able to see Cai'er's beautiful marriage when the time comes!" ”

"Daddy——!" Cai'er cried and threw herself into Su Bi's arms.

Xiao Ming was a little hesitant, he didn't think about marrying two wives at a time, he wanted to find a time to think about what to do, and now is not the time to talk about marriage, but seeing Su Cai'er crying sadly, and Su Bi's eager gaze, Xiao Ming gritted his teeth and said: "This is the case, at most a few months, I will definitely come back to marry Cai'er and Bottle!" ”

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Hangzhou Bay, Gu's shipyard, on a deep-water wharf built, Xiao Ming got on the Gu's treasure ship, Su Cai'er who saw off on the slipway cried into tears, Shen Bei'er was also full of tears, Gu Shouzhen and Luo Wen, who came to see them off, supported the two daughters, but Ding Jianpeng was busy but did not come to see them off.

Xiao Ming waved his hand on the boat and said: "This trip to Liaodong will be five months at most, at least three months, I will definitely come back to Hangzhou, but life is not death, don't be sad, when I keep Liaodong is equivalent to keeping the Great Song Dynasty, at that time you will give me the wind and dust" and then turned around and instructed the sailors on the ship.

"Sail ——!"

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