The conversation was scattered until midnight, and their topics were no longer limited to Zhending, but expanded to the way of governing the country. The status of Confucianism in the country and even involved the current strategy of governing the country in the Song Dynasty. After the dispersion, Liu was still unable to calm down and could not fall asleep because he realized that this would be another major historical change after the Yuan Dynasty pacified the Southern Dynasty and became accustomed to the north and south.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, the northern nomadic peoples had repeatedly conquered half of the mountains and rivers in North China, but failed to pacify Jiangnan and unify China. The Yuan Dynasty was the first conquering dynasty founded by the nomadic people and ruled the entire China. Its unification of China ended the four hundred years of division and disturbance since the late Tang Dynasty, but on the other hand, it had a great impact on the cultural and social order of China, especially Jiangnan.

Liu knew that among the northern ethnic groups that established conquering dynasties in ancient times, the Mongolians had the greatest gap between the Han culture and the Han Dynasty, so he respected the traditions of the Central Plains least. When Mongolia destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains region suffered extremely severe damage, and the local social and cultural heritage was also greatly damaged. Han literati even felt the destruction of "the sky was broken, the earth was broken, and human relations were destroyed."

After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, the Yuan Dynasty government had adopted the Han system on the surface, but its respect for Central Plains culture and social traditions was still limited. The Yuan court adopted an equal attitude towards the culture of all ethnic groups, was impartial to various ideas and religions, and honored them. Confucian scholars in the Central Plains also faced new pressure from two ideas.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the country was in a state of slump, and foreign races in the north were invaded, and the thoughts of literati in Jiangnan changed. Among them, a few Confucians abandoned the Confucian traditional cultural universalism and world view, and believed that "China" was the Han people. China "is the righteousness of heaven and earth, the beloved of destiny, the meeting of human hearts, the end of clothing, rituals and music, and the reason why hundreds of generations of emperors inherited it." In other words, China is a nation with common land, blood, history, and culture, so it has a strong sense of exclusion from barbarians.

However, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, compared with the culturalist view of Chinese and foreign countries, this "archaeotype nationalism" did not have the upper hand among scholars and officials. Whether scholars can accept the Mongol Yuan regime depends on their personal evaluation of the importance of "barbarians and Xia", "practice", "loyalty to the emperor", etc., and their choice of personal interests and good or bad luck.

Liu learned Neo-Confucianism introduced to the Southern Dynasty and was influenced by the theory of the North and South. He fantasized about the beauty of unity and suffered from the troubles under the rule of the Yi tribe. He became obsessed with learning and gave up the idea of ​​becoming an official, but it also made their lives fall into poverty, and made him fall into contradictions and feel that his future was bleak.

Now the battle between the north and the south is revived, the Mongol Yuan is defeated, and the Southern Dynasties rise again. From the inheritance of nationality and Confucianism, Liu Yin naturally tends to the Southern Dynasties psychologically, but because he is in the Central Plains, he can't help but feel angry at the invasion of the Southern Dynasties. At this time, the Southern Dynasties were at the city, and in order to save the tens of thousands of people in the city, he persuaded Shi Ge to surrender, but he felt humiliated in his heart.

When Liu was suffering from conscience and grievance, the Southern Emperor said that he would be ruined because of this. At first, he didn't care. He asked for his life for the people and saved the lives of tens of thousands of people. Why should he care about his gains and losses? But when the success or failure is not yet determined, after careful consideration, he was really "spoken" by someone as a fool.

If the Zhending request to surrender, he would stay in the Southern Dynasty military camp. Wang Silian, Chen Fu and others returned to the city at night without fear of life and death and "persuading surrender" to surrender. Not only did they have the great righteousness of saving all the people under the war, but they also made the Southern Dynasty soldiers who were completely free from bloodshed and obtained this important central city. This was naturally a great achievement. He received the reward from the Southern Dynasties and had a bright future. As for the destination of the Shi family, it was no longer important.

Someone may not mention his own merits. I am afraid that the first thing he should do is to take the opportunity to take the initiative to "submit to Song" and sell off his old masters, and betray the people of Zhending, which made the Yuan court hate him to the core. And he contradicted and ridiculed the Southern Dynasties during the negotiations, and offended the Southern Dynasties' monarchy, and the outcome would not be too wonderful.

If this matter is defeated, Wang Silian and others can naturally hide in the city and not return, and make suggestions for Shi's guarding the city. Although the future fate is unknown, they can temporarily protect their lives. In the rage of the Southern Emperor, his hostage must be used to swear to sacrifice to the flag, and even his old wife will be implicated.

Thinking of his old wife, Liu Yin felt even more sad and wet his eyes. His parents died early, and his two sisters died one after another. Only his wife was with him in poverty and never abandoned him, and he got a son only when he was forty, but he died of illness. He had no need to say about his sorrow and suffering. And he died because of this, how would he live without any support?

It was difficult to fall asleep while tossing and turning. Liu Yin looked back on his miserable life and suddenly smiled bitterly. Although he made a lot of statements about his studies, he was completely defeated. His life was a mess, and he had no choice but to be poor in food and clothing. He had no face to see his ancestors, but he also responded to the saying "The most useless is the scholar."

What made Liu Yin even more worried was that after the three beats of the Gentou, Zhending still did not turn around. At the time of Yin, the sound of golden drums came from the other side, and the shouts of the commissar and the neighing of the horses could be heard. He put on his clothes and went out to look north, but he saw the lights under the city, and the Southern Dynasties army had already lined up outside the city to prepare to attack the city.

"Your Majesty, the time has not yet arrived, so you can't start a war..." Liu Yin shouted loudly, but no one paid attention to him. The soldiers on duty just watched him shouting in the yard with a cold look.

Already weak and not sleeping for another night, Liu Yin quickly collapsed on the ground, but he still murmured, "Don't start a war." And his heart became more and more miserable. He was defeated and spared no effort to save the people in the city, but the result was still difficult to reverse.

"Envoy Liu, don't cry, Shi Ge surrenders to the city, please come with you!" Just as Liu was in great pain, the postmaster came to salute.

"Don't you betray me?" The reversal came too quickly, and Liu Yin was a little disbelief and looked up and said in confusion.

"As such a big deal, how dare I talk nonsense, I, a little postmaster!" said the postmaster.

"It's so good!" Liu Yin believed it when he saw that he was serious, but he couldn't stand it for a while. The postmaster smiled bitterly and shook his head, waved to someone to raise it up, and helped him into the postmaster to wash and change clothes...

Shi Ge was unwilling to enter the court to be an official, saying that Zhending produces mulberry and hemp. He had a lot of experience in brocade weaving and wanted to pursue his career. Zhao Bing agreed and appointed him as Zhending Marquis, with a fief of 2,000 households, a thousand taels of gold, 100,000 guan of money, and a mansion. He was appointed as the chief of the Weaving Temple in Suzhou, and his clan members were appointed to Suzhou and were given 5,000 mu of fertile land to be resettled. Two children from the clan could be selected to be trained in the Imperial College.

Three days later, the Manchus of Shi family left the city as promised and moved to Jiangnan. Shi Ge was a bachelor. After thanking him, he contributed the land of the Zhending clan to the court, cleaned up the fine and soft work, and led more than 500 people, young and old, and servants from the family to Suzhou to serve. The people in the city saw farewell together, all thanked the kindness of Shi family to guard Zhending and protect the people, and also saved Zhending from the destruction of swords and weapons.

Wang Silian was appointed as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and was granted Gu'an, and was granted 500 taels of gold. He then went south to work; the student Zhansi went to the Imperial College to study; Chen Fu was granted 200 taels of gold, and was appointed as the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and temporarily managed the rituals of the camp. However, Liu Yin was angered by the emperor because of his disrespectful words, and his wife was also implicated and detained in the army.

When the Shi family left the city, the Song army entered the city to take over the city defense, confiscated weapons, and maintained the public security in the city. At the same time, the imperial officials received the granaries, account books, counted money and grain, placed retained officials, and gave the list to safeguard the people. Liu was watching the Shijia convoy cross the bridge and headed south in the car, and was lost and followed the camp northward...

Zhending surrendered, and surrounding prefectures and counties surrendered one after another, and Tian Zhong led his troops to advance to Baozhou. Zhang Gui died in battle, and all five personal troops of the guards of the Yuan and Han Army were annihilated. Baozhou's strength was greatly damaged, and the city was captured within two days. When the city was broken, Zhang Hongluo and his family threw themselves into the Lianchi pond to sacrifice their country. The prefectures and counties under Baozhou Road surrendered or fled, and all fell into the hands of the Song army.

At the same time, Han Zhen led the Western Route Army to advance rapidly. After conquering Cangzhou, he seized Qingzhou, cleared obstacles around the canal, repaired the locks destroyed by the enemy, and opened up the entire canal route. Then the Song Dynasty naval army escorted the baggage fleet to land in Qingzhou, expanded the dock and established a supply station, which greatly alleviated the tightening supply of food and grass in the Northern Expedition Army.

In early March, after Tian Zhong's army took the lead in capturing Zhuozhou, Han Zhen also led his army to arrive, and the Northern Expedition Army once again joined forces. After ten days of rest and replenishing baggage, the army headed north again. At this time, the distance was less than 200 miles. It can be said that the troops were at the city and the decisive battle with the Mongol Yuan was about to be.

After the Western Route Army obtained the emperor's modification of the combat target, Jiang Qi and Ni Liang also left Xinzhou, first defeated Wanzhou, and then obtained Daizhou, and crossed the Great Wall from Shanyin to invade Datong Road. This move cut off the passage from Shanxi through Feihu to Dadu, causing panic among the Mongolian Yuan grassland army stranded in Datong. In this way, they could only bypass Xuande Prefecture and enter Dadu through the outer wall.

At this time, Ni Liang's troops faced the most elite Northwest Army and Mobei Army of the Mongol Yuan, whose qualities were far greater than those of the Guards and Wanhu Army stationed in the Central Plains.

Among them, the Anxi Army was specialized in preventing the invasion of the Chagatai Khanate. He stationed his troops in Liupanshan. Kublai Khan appointed his third son Bengola as the King of Anxi. After his death, his son Ananda succeeded him and commanded a 150,000 army to station in Anxi. This time, he led 50,000 troops to the capital of the Wei Dynasty.

Mobei is not only the birthplace of the Mongol Empire, but also has a large number of core troops with strong combat effectiveness. The Yuan army stationed in Mobei has 19,000 households. In addition, there are also the son-in-laws of the Wanggu tribe and the son-in-law of Chiqilei. This time, the more than 20,000 households of the troops were commanded by King Helin, Mingli Timur of the Helin, and a total of about 50,000 troops entered the guard.

According to the Mongolian army's practice of going out to fight, except for the Aolu Camp, the logistics supply was provided by the prefectures along the way. When they entered the ward in the cold winter, not only was it difficult to march, but the supply was also difficult to obtain. When they braved the wind and snow, the food and grass supply was almost exhausted, and Datong was the most critical supply point along the way...
Chapter completed!