Hebei, Hebei!

What Fang Xuanling said can be said to have completely broken and crumpled Du Mu's words, making Zhenguan both civil and military bow their heads thoughtfully.

Li Shimin even looked back and carefully looked at the map of China that he had read many times.

The mountains are like a sickle, the river is like a folding fan, the ground is flat like a mirror, and the sea is as wide as a plate.

It's a vast land that has been overlooked for generations.

And on this fine map, Guanzhong, which is praised as "being brought by mountains and rivers, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and winning in the world, is nothing more than this", and its size is less than one-tenth of Hebei.

Li Shimin still remembers his words of persuasion to his father after Jinyang raised troops.

"Guanzhong heroes rise together, the unknown is attached, if the drum goes west, caress and has, like the ears in the bag!"

Such an opinion must not be wrong, but after a hundred years of peace, things have changed.

The Anshi Rebellion dealt a heavy blow to Li Tang, and Li Shimin seemed to be able to see a thin scholar raising his arms and shouting to his descendants:

"Hebei lost the Tang Dynasty, just like a person who lost his pearl and can still live; Tang lost Hebei, just like a person lost his legs, it is difficult to call the country! ”

Then, more than 200 years later, a peasant son from the end of the Wei Dynasty also raised his arms and shouted for the Northern Expedition in the face of the Son of Heaven who fled south.

The young man was determined to connect the leg of Hebei for his Song dynasty.

Cross the river, Northern Expedition!

In the end, Li Shimin's heaviness sighed again:

"What a pity that the hero was humiliated by the hands of Yongjun!"

[Yue Fei has always had far-sighted ambitions, and when he became an adult, he happened to meet the Song and Jin sides to conclude a maritime alliance, and cutting Liao and taking Yan was the main theme of this period.

As a result, joining the army became a matter of course.

It should be noted that General Yue's first battle in the army was quite dazzling.

Thanks to the fairly complete system for selecting soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei stood out with his extremely outstanding physical fitness and the marksmanship and archery skills he learned in his hometown, and successfully became the leader of a team of thirty people and became a junior officer.

And after reporting to his superiors and leading 200 people to quell the bandits in his hometown and try the knife for the first time, Yue Fei was already excited to make immortal achievements.

But unfortunately, soon, the Northern Song Dynasty gave Yue Fei a heavy blow first.

At the same time that Yue Fei rushed to the battlefield with his troops, Yang Keshi, a general of the Northern Song Dynasty, together with Guo Yaoshi, a slave surnamed three of the Northern Liao generals, led 3,000 people to attack Yanjing at night, and took advantage of the emptiness of Yanjing's defense to easily attack Yanjing.

When things developed to this point, the second battle of the Northern Song Dynasty to conquer Liao and Yan can be said to have gone smoothly beyond everyone's expectations, but the situation soon took a sharp turn for the worse.

The first thing the Northern Song army that invaded Yanjing did that night was to massacre the Khitan and Xi people in the city.

"The Han people all climbed the pheasant moat, accused the Khitan, Xi and other families, killed thousands of people, and shed blood"

And before the Northern Liao Palace was conquered, the Song army was already ugly in Yanjing:

"Drinking, Stealing Property, and Committing Adultery"

The military discipline of the Song army made the battle in Yanjing City fall into a stalemate, and the Khitans who desperately resisted in the city successfully dragged the Liao generals back to help, and finally combined forces to attack inside and outside to make the Song army annihilated, only the commander Guo Yaoshi Yayang Keshi and others "only escaped with their lives" and successfully escaped.

The destruction of Yanjing's strange soldiers was only the beginning, Liu Guangshi, who was stationed in Zhuozhou to lead the forward army, saw Guo Yaoshi and others fleeing miserably, mistakenly thought that the main force of the Liao army was coming, and burned the baggage camp tent and retreated.

Tens of thousands of troops saw the flames in front of them but did not see the orders of friendly troops, some took the initiative to retreat, and some chose to wait for military orders, which eventually caused tens of thousands of people to be in chaos, and eventually led to "self-trampling" and trampling, with many casualties.

Seeing this, the Liao army pursued and broke the Song army on the front line of the Baigou River, and the number of casualties was "unknown".

The only highlight of this battle was that Han Shizhong, a 32-year-old general of the Western Army, led more than 50 cavalry to break through the battle at Hutuo River, and captured the flag and broke through with more than 2,000 Liao cavalry, retaining the last trace of face for the Song army.

Considering that Han Shizhong had done a single horse into battle to kill the Western Xia Supervisor Army and cause the enemy army to disperse, it is not outrageous for more than 50 people to ride their faces to capture the flag and break through.

But everything that happened was still too exciting for Yue Fei, who had just entered the battlefield.

The prepared broadsword and spear were not used, and the well-maintained bow was not pulled, and the young fierce general retreated with the large army in such a daze, and before he could react, the Northern Song Dynasty's expedition to Liao and Yan ended in a farce-like way.

Shortly after the withdrawal, the family letter of his father's death was sent to the army, and Yue Fei simply chose to return home to keep his filial piety.

For the Northern Song Dynasty, the two expeditions to Liao and Yan ended in failure, and in the end, Song Huizong and other monarchs had no choice but to choose to "ransom" Yanjing with goods from the hands of the Jin people who destroyed the Liao State, so as to save face for the whole court.

The Jin people are not stupid, what they sold to the Northern Song Dynasty were the six states of Yanyun that had been captured and plundered, and Yanjing, which was almost an empty city, and watched Huizong's performance.

Huizong did not live up to the expectations of the Jin people, first showing the generosity of the previous dynasty and exempting Yanjing from taxes for several years, but soon the erosion of Yanjing's finances forced him to find a way.

In this regard, Huizong can only say that he has returned to his old job, first encroached on the land of the people of Youzhou, and after passing it through himself, he handed over the remaining land to Guo Yaoshi and other Liao generals for distribution.

Subsequently, the salt introduction method of the Great Song Dynasty was implemented in the Youzhou area, which doubled the price of salt, and then the price of salt increased nearly tenfold after the operation of officials sent here from the south.

The simple two-handed operation made the people in Youzhou miserable, and the result was that when the Jin army was in trouble again, the Jin people just ordered the three surnamed slaves Guo Yaoshi and others to return the houses and land to the original owners and stabilize the price of salt, and they successfully made the "Yan people return to their hearts".

At the same time, under the operation of the Huizong Imperial Court, a miscellaneous tax called "Yan Qian" was added to Hebei to subsidize the finances of Youzhou.

The result is actually not surprising: Youzhou did not get subsidies, Hebei's finances were even more erosive, and Yue Fei, who had slipped into a tenant farmer, could not get by, leaving a record of borrowing grain from the landlord's house this year.

In the same year, the number of thieves in Hebei who were struggling to make a living skyrocketed, and some of them even bullied Yue Fei's doorstep.

And after destroying a group of thieves, Yue Fei made a decision in amazement:

Otherwise, join the regular army to see if you can keep the world peaceful? 】

Zhang Fei: Will this Song be a fool?

Hey, look at what you said, if the Northern Song Dynasty can support it, it won't be able to support it at all.

The people of Youzhou still had some fantasies about the Great Song Dynasty in the early stage, for example, they did help the Song army when they were in the Gaoliang River, but later......

Regardless of whether the emperor's surname is Yelu or Zhao or Wanyan, whoever loots less and pays less taxes will be Mingjun!

In fact, if you break down history, it is not difficult to find that how many years has Hebei been separated from Germany from the Central Plains? Li Yuan killed Dou Jiande Hebei Rebellion, Erfeng attacked Liaodong Hebei and was convicted, Wu Zetian came to power and allowed the Khitan to invade Hebei, not to mention the Anshi Rebellion, from this point of view, Zhao Da's vision of insisting on recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun is still quite advanced.

You can even calculate further, Guangshen's three expeditions to Goguryeo did not make Hebei suffer, and the Guanzhong nobles oppressed Hebei for more than a day or two, and it is no wonder that the Hebei people at the end of the Sui Dynasty supported the native Dou Jiande.

Zhao Kuangyin: The sixteen states of Yanyun will be returned to the Song Dynasty, so that the country will be flawless!

Dude, don't laugh...... Yanyun's sixteen states are complete, no matter how you say it, you have to bring it to Jiaozhou.

Jiaozhou is not complete, it is all open to the sea, take Yizhou Island, and fish for Ryukyu by the way.

Then it's not too much for the Western Regions to come back, right?

Zhao Da still thinks about how to deal with his younger brother first. 〗

(End of chapter)