Chapter 82: The Choice of the Hero Guo Jing

Among the five forces, the territory of the Tubo State is the largest, about twice the territory of the Mongolian State. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, in terms of military strength, the national strength of the Tubo State is very weak, only a little stronger than the Dali State, and even the Red Turban Army led by Guo Jing is inferior.

When the Great Sui Dynasty ruled the world, the tribes on the Tubo Plateau were just a group of wild people, and they didn't even have a feudal dynasty that could be recorded in history, even if they wanted to pay tribute to Emperor Yang's grandfather, they were not qualified.

It's a pity that Emperor Yang's grandfather wanted to learn from the first emperor to be the first emperor of the ages, open the imperial examination, build canals, develop the smooth Silk Road, and create a tributary system.

The Qin and Han dynasties all died because the emperor was mediocre, but the Great Sui Dynasty died because the emperor was too wise and powerful.

After the death of the Sui, the Han nation was no longer strong, until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang was short-lived.

Before the First Emperor ruled the world, this world was the world of the princes of the world.

After the First Emperor ruled the world, this world became the world of the family in the Han Dynasty.

The traverser Wang Mang usurped the Western Han Dynasty in 30 years to establish a new dynasty, but unfortunately although the traverser Wang Mang has the knowledge of the world 2,000 years ahead, he does not know much about historical knowledge, and the reform of the new dynasty emperor Wang Mang is as big as the grandfather of Emperor Yang, and as a result, Wang Mang was overthrown by the family valve of the world in 16 years of reign.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Uprising of the three Zhang Jiao brothers became an opportunity for the family to support the army and respect themselves.

After about a hundred years of melee between the princes, although the world was unified in the Western Jin Dynasty, the family gate valve was difficult to control from then on.

Even Yang Jian, the founder of the Great Sui Empire, was a relative of his relatives and the support of the family lords, so he usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty and finally ruled the world.

The fall of the Sui was followed by the Tang Dynasty. To say that the Song Dynasty, which is famous for its Tang poetry and lyrics, was a weak country, and the Tang Dynasty was a strong country, it is really a joke that only a brainless fool would believe.

The Great Sui Empire built many granaries in various places, and the storage of grain was more than one million stones.

In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Ma Zhou, the superintendent of the imperial history, said to Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, [The Sui family is the prince of Luokou, and Li Mi is because of it; It is also for the use of the state, and it has not been exhausted so far].

The Sui Dynasty fell for twenty years, but the grain stored in the warehouse of the Sui Dynasty has not yet been eaten.

The so-called prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the rule of Zhenguan are just eaten by Emperor Yang's grandfather and spent the money in the treasury of Emperor Yang's grandfather's mansion.

When Emperor Wen of Sui first ascended the throne, the population of the country was 4 million, and when Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, it had reached 9 million households, and the population of the whole country was no less than 50 million based on one household of six, and this number was not reached until the time of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

It was not until after the death of Tang Taizong that Tang Gaozong succeeded to the throne. There are 3.8 million households.

At the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there were 7.6 million households and 41 million people in the country.

Later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and although the Li Tang royal family quelled the rebellion, it fell into the control of the government by eunuchs and the division of feudal towns.

In the end, the Li Tang dynasty was a three-hundred-year reign, and the population of Li Tang never caught up with the 50 million population of the Great Sui Empire.

As for how the martial arts of Li Yuan and Li Shimin, the father and son, were boasted of and how wise and martial they were, it was even more of a joke.

Decades ago, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty with the support of the family's gate valves.

Decades later. Li Yuan and Li Shimin also usurped the Great Sui with the support of the family gatekeeper.

When he finished eating the grain in Emperor Yang's granary and the money in the treasury, the inferior nature of the Li Tang royal family was quickly exposed.

It is Li Shimin, the emperor of Tang Taizong who was touted as the ancestor of Tang Zong and Song. killed his brother and forced his father to bully his brother and daughter-in-law to force his son to death, and after a bunch of, he didn't forget to give Emperor Yang's grandfather the pot for killing his brother and killing his father.

Of course, these are really too far, let's go back to Tibet.

When Emperor Yang's grandfather sat in the country, the Turks were grandsons, and Tubo was not even qualified to pay tribute.

When Li Shimin sat in the country, the Turks were grandfathers. Tubo is his own father.

Relying on the money and food left by Emperor Yang's grandfather to counterattack the Turks and become a grandfather, Tubo invaded the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin did not have Emperor Yang's grandfather's ambition to destroy the enemy country, but instead offered the defeated Tubo as his father.

The Li Tang royal family began to be close to Tibet from Li Shimin, sending women, money, grain, land, and righteousness to Tibet. In short, you can send whatever you can.

Later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Tubo, who had always regarded himself as a nephew, immediately counterattacked and restored the identity of Li Tang's royal father.

After Li Tang overthrew the Zhao Song Dynasty and founded the country, the Zhao and Song royal families did not send women, money, food, land, or righteousness to Tubo, and there was no brain-dead royal family like the Li Tang royal family who regarded the Turks as their own fathers.

Back then, there was the son of the Li Tang royal family who had been strengthening the strength of Tubo, and after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo immediately occupied a large area of Longyou and Hexi.

During the reign of Trisong Detsen, the territory of the Tubo Dynasty was greatly expanded, and the east and Li Tang were roughly bounded by Longshan, north to Helan Mountain in Ningxia, and Nanzhao as a subject state in the south.

According to Tibetan historical records, Tibet also advanced to the north bank of the Ganges River south of the Himalayas.

Because Li Shimin, his own son, took the lead in raising Tibet, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tibet once became the first power in Asia, and the lord of Tubo was also the real heavenly khan on the Asian land.

It's a pity that the Zhao and Song royal families didn't raise Tubo as their own father, and Tubo, who was beaten back to its original form, couldn't help even a small country like Dali.

Now that the general trend of the Jin State to unify the world has been achieved, small countries such as Dali, Western Xia, and Tubo did not have the courage to jointly attack the Jin State.

However, the Mongol territory in the Western Regions bordered the Western Xia and Tibet, and if the Western Xia and the Tibetan were unwilling to jointly attack the Jin State, the Mongolian army of 100,000 would take the lead in defeating the Western Xia and the Tibetans.

Although Dali was not threatened by Mongolia, the Dali Duan family has been in Tiannan for hundreds of years, and in order to keep the throne of the Dali Duan family, they took the initiative to send 30,000 troops to attack the Jin State.

Western Xia and Tubo each sent 50,000 troops, but Mongolia had an army of 100,000 all marching eastward, and they had to fight with the Jin State.

When Yang Ming took Huang Rong and the silly aunt all the way to the land of Guanzhong. The allied forces of Mongolia, Western Xia and Tubo had a total of 200,000 troops, claiming to be 500,000, and they went straight to Chang'an from Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia.

The 30,000 troops of Dali and Guo Jing's 20,000 Red Turban Army rebels, a total of 50,000 troops, known as 100,000, also rushed to Chang'an from the south.

In order to compete with the five-party alliance in the land of Guanzhong, the emperor of the Jin State, Wan Yan Kang, led an army of 200,000 to the south.

All of a sudden, the whole of Asia became turbulent.

Not only the Han people in the world, but even the small countries that were not involved in the war are also paying attention to this war that is related to the national fortune of the century.

When Yang Ming took Huang Rong and the silly aunt to the vicinity of Chang'an. Along the way, the land of Guanzhong was full of refugees fleeing.

The vanguard troops of the Mongols, Western Xia, and Tubo kingdoms had entered the land of Guanzhong, and they not only burned, killed, looted, and bullied women everywhere, but also captured the Han people as two-legged sheep and cannon fodder for siege.

The tragic situation she saw along the way made the foolish aunt angry, and Huang Rong even wanted Yang Ming and Huang Yaoshi to cut off the heads of Temujin, the lords of Western Xia and Tubo as balls.

Although Yang Ming also had the intention of killing people in his heart, he did not take Huang Rong and Silly Gu into the area occupied by Mongolia, Western Xia and Tubo, but went south to meet the combined forces of Dali and Guo Jing.

The predecessor of Dali was the Nanzhao Kingdom, which was originally a vassal state to Li Tang.

However, after the son of the Li Tang royal family fattened his father Tubo, Nanzhao became a vassal state of Tubo after the Anshi Rebellion.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Tang Jiangshan began to decline from prosperity. The sons of the Li Tang royal family could no longer afford to raise their father Tubo, so the once prosperous Tubo also quickly turned from prosperity to decline.

Less than 50 years after Nanzhao declared himself a vassal to Tubo, he dared to turn his back on Tubo and proclaim himself a vassal to Li Tang, which shows how quickly Tubo was beaten back to its original form without the sons of the Li Tang royal family.

Twenty-five years after the fall of Nanzhao, Duan Siping established the Dali State for hundreds of years, and the Duan clan of Dali has always been a vassal to the Song State.

This time, the combined forces of Dali and Guo Jing entered the Central Plains, although they did not commit any offence against the Han people. But he didn't do anything about burning, killing and looting everywhere.

When Yang Ming took Huang Rong and the silly aunt to Guo Jing's military camp to ask to see him, Guo Jing, who was already the commander of the righteous army. He actually came to meet the three people outside the barracks.

And Yang Ming also unexpectedly saw Yang Tiexin, Lu Guanying, Cheng Yaojia and a group of beggars dressed as people in Guo Jing's military camp.

It seems that Guo Jing was able to support 20,000 righteous troops, not only with the financial support of the Baoying Cheng family and the Taihu Lu family, but also because of the beggar gang to deliver news to them.

It is no wonder that the Jin army encircled and suppressed several times, but was easily broken by the righteous army led by Guo Jing.

"How could it be you?"

Outside the barracks of the Red Turban Army, Guo Jing led a group of soldiers of the Righteous Army to look at Yang Ming and the three of them suspiciously.

"Now that we belong to the enemy country, Yang Ming, you came here to kill me!"

looked at the vigilant appearance of the rebel soldiers behind Guo Jing. Yang Ming said with a smile.

"Guo Daxia really thinks too much. If I really want to kill you, even if you have thousands of troops around you, you can't stop me. Now I'm here to see you, just to invite you to see something. If Guo Daxia is truly for the country and the people, please come with me!"

After Yang Ming's words were finished, the generals of the rebel army around Guo Jing persuaded him to reject Yang Ming.

But Guo Jing only hesitated. He handed over his talisman to Lu Guanying, and then took off the general's armor on his body.

"No matter what Yang Ming wants me to see, it won't change my determination to go on a northern expedition to the Jin Kingdom. Even if you do kill me, there will be thousands of righteous people who can take my place. ”

Seeing that Guo Jing seemed to be determined to die, the smile on Yang Ming's face became even stronger.

After leaving Huang Rong and Silly Gu in the barracks of the Red Turban Army, Yang Ming took Guo Jing to perform light skills and rushed to the occupied areas of the Three Kingdoms of Mongolia, Western Xia and Tibet.

While Yang Ming easily used his body technique to lead Guo Jing, he also teased Guo Jing, who barely caught up with [Jin Yangong] with all his might.

"Guo Daxia, do you know that if you refuse to come with me this trip, I will kill you immediately just now. ”

"It's not too late for you to kill me!"

"Whether I want to kill you or not, I want Guo Daxia to make a decision after I have seen some things!"

"What the hell do you want to show me?"

Yang Ming smiled and did not answer.

When the two came to the occupied areas of the three kingdoms of Mongolia, Western Xia and Tibet, at first they saw only a fleeing team of Han people dragging their families and mouths.

But after the appearance of the Mongol cavalry, what was seen was the scene of the Mongol cavalry killing the people and driving the Han people like two-legged sheep.

And when Guo Jing wanted to show his identity as a golden sword and horse to stop those Mongolian cavalry, Yang Ming stopped Guo Jing, and then grabbed Guo Jing's shoulder and led him to continue to go deep into the occupied areas of the Three Kingdoms of Mongolia, Western Xia and Tibet.

Although the main people who did evil and bullied the Han people were Mongols, Western Xia and Tubo were not much stronger.

Along the way, the place where the Han people lived in Guanzhong seemed to have become a hell on earth, and I don't know how many innocent Han people died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Mongolian cavalry.

At the beginning, Guo Jing was still a little unconvinced, but after seeing more and more, Guo Jing finally became numb.

After taking Guo Jing around the occupied areas of the Three Kingdoms of Mongolia, Western Xia and Tibet, Yang Ming took Guo Jing back to the barracks of the Red Turban Army.

After returning to the barracks, Guo Jing got into the tent and did not come out again, obviously what the Mongolian cavalry did hit him hard.

It was already the night when the moon hung in the sky, and after Yang Ming borrowed a military tent for Huang Rong and the silly aunt to live in, he came to Guo Jing's handsome tent alone.

"After seeing what the Mongolian cavalry did, how does Guo Daxia feel now?"

"I don't know ......"

Guo Jing lowered his head depressedly, and during the day, he would rather die than the will of the Northern Expedition to the Jin Kingdom disappeared cleanly.

"If Guo Daxia doesn't know, why don't I help you make a choice!"

Yang Ming walked over and patted Guo Jing on the shoulder.

"After a hundred years of Jingkang's shame, the current power of the Jin State has long been in the hands of the Han warlords and civil officials, and even the emperor of the Jin State, Wan Yankang, is also a Han person, and you know this Guo Daxia. But Guo Daxia, you would rather die than go north to the Jin Kingdom, then simply do it to the end. Destroy the Jin State, so that all the Han people in the world will be trampled by the hooves of the Mongolian cavalry, and all the Han people will become two-legged sheep grazing by the Mongols. ”

"No...... I want to go north to the Jin Kingdom to restore the Zhao and Song dynasties, and to enable the Han people in the whole world to be upright and upright. Instead, let them become slaves of the Mongols. ”

Although Mongolia had a military second only to the Jin state, it was still a slave tribal confederation state.

Guo Jing grew up in the desert since he was a child, and naturally knew that if Mongolia invaded the Han people, all the Han people in the world would become slaves of the Mongols.

"That's the case! It turns out that Guo Daxia, you also know that compared to the current Jin Kingdom, the Mongols are the real disaster! Then how should you choose, you shouldn't need me to teach you!"

"But...... Am I going to help the Jin State defeat the Great Khan of Temujin? If the Jin State wins, won't we Han people become slaves to the ruling Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom?"

Bang!

Yang Ming finally couldn't help it, and was afraid of a slap on Guo Jing's elm head.

"My Guo Daxia! Although Wan Yankang grew up in the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, you also grew up in the tribe of the Mongols. The Mongols treat you as their own, but you still choose to be a Han. Since you can make this kind of decision, why do you think Wan Yankang will really be the emperor of the Jurchens?"

"But ......"

"But what? Do you think the Jurchens and the Wanyan clan will let a Han man be their emperor? Now Guo Daxia, you have a good relationship with the beggar gang! When we help the Jin State win the war this time, we can use the beggar gang to spread the Han life history of Wan Yan Kang, and when the time comes, whether Wan Yan Kang wants it or not, he will be a good Han emperor, so that the Han people in the whole world can have a good life. (To be continued.) )