Wan Yanchang on the other side interjected: "Your Highness, the strength of the Song army is different from that of the past. Our army has just suffered a defeat, its morale is not uniform, and its logistics are weak. It may not be beneficial to us if the army goes south again. I think we should send an envoy before us.

Go to Bianjing to negotiate peace and make the Song Dynasty pay tribute every year."

Wan Yanchang suffered a huge defeat this time. When Wan Yan Zongfu wrote the battle report, he placed almost all the blame on Wan Yan Chang.

But our God of War Wan Yanchang... doesn't recognize him!

Wan Yanchang: You are the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front. How can you put all the responsibility on me when you lose the battle? Oh, I just don’t admit it! What do you do to me? You whip me with a whip! Come on! Harder!

Not only did Wanyanchang deny it, but on the way to Beijing when he was recalled, he also ran to Yanjing to find Wanyan Zongwang. The meaning behind his words was that he hoped Wanyan Zongwang could intercede for him in the court.

He also knew that Zong Wang was not someone who was eager to destroy the Song Dynasty, and he just went along with it.

In fact, the Zhuhe faction was on the rise in the Jin Kingdom, and Wanyan Zongpan went to Beijing to vigorously promote Zhao Ning's "On the Early Stage of the War between Song and Jin Dynasties", analyzing the current situation of the Song and Jin Dynasties from many aspects of the third war between Song and Jin Dynasties.

It was very impressive, and quite a number of peace advocates appeared in the Jin Dynasty court.

Although the Jin Kingdom had consumption, the Song Dynasty obviously consumed more.

When it comes to analyzing the comprehensive strength of both sides, the warring factions believe that the Song Dynasty is now at the end of its war effort. Even if the Jin Kingdom is damaged during the period, it can grit its teeth and go south to fight a local war.

Both sides hold their own opinions.

Wanyan Zongwang, the leader of the peace faction, was assigned to Yanjing to preside over military affairs, which made it difficult for people to see through the changes in the internal situation of the Jin Kingdom.

Zong Wang said: "I am quite interested in Zhao Guan's new policy. For those with more than fifty acres of land, five out of ten will be drawn. This is to suppress local powerful people. And I heard that he quietly launched the land equalization policy last year. Liu Pushe

, what do you think about this matter?"

"This behavior of the Zhao Guan family has the intention of restraining the tyranny. Judging from his rectification of the clan, it has been shown that the clan case is just a pavement of the current new policy. The official believes that the Zhao Guan family is taking a risk. If it succeeds, the national treasury will be full, but if it fails,

…”

"Then what?"

"The Song Dynasty was divided and divided, and civil strife abounded. It would collapse if it did not attack."

Zong Wang thought for a moment, couldn't help but nodded, and asked again: "How likely do you think he is to succeed?"

"Less than 10%."

"Why?"

"Since ancient times, the only dynasty in the Central Plains that could be successfully restructured was the Qin State. However, when Shang Yang carried out his reform, the Qin State had a small territory and limited household registration, so the difficulty was relatively small. The subsequent Central Plains dynasties have a vast territory, a large number of people, and are extremely complex internally.

, how can it be restructured at will?"

Zong Wang nodded, obviously agreeing with Liu Yanzong's words.

What Liu Yanzong said is indeed reasonable. China had a large population, limited transportation and limited information transmission in ancient times, and it was extremely difficult to reform the system.

Humanity has entered the industrial age from the agricultural era, and the continuous innovations since then are essentially two types: the transportation revolution and the information revolution.

Solving transportation and information circulation has greatly accelerated exchanges between various places, broken geographical isolation, entered the commodity era, spawned capital groups, and further accelerated the arrival of the capital era.

The information revolution is even more terrifying, flattening and shrinking the world, and unprecedentedly strengthening the court's effective control over various places.

These are changes in productive forces and social models, reforms that have spurred progress, and those who follow will prosper, while those who go against will perish.

But in the Song Dynasty in the 12th century, if productivity remained unchanged, did you want to make earth-shaking changes?

That goes against the law of development of human society.

Although he was not optimistic about the restructuring of the Zhao Guan family on Gyeonggi Road, Zong Wang still became strongly curious about it.

Unlike Zong Han's tough approach to destroying the Song Dynasty, Zong Wang hoped to resolve the internal conflicts within the Jin Kingdom as a top priority.

The Jin State annexed the Liao State in a short period of time and took over a piece of territory in the Song Dynasty. The internal governance was very chaotic.

He hoped to learn from the Central Plains Dynasty and integrate into the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of official system and culture to stabilize the internal situation of the Jin Kingdom.

At that time, the Liao Kingdom was able to truly establish a country because it absorbed many things from the Central Plains Dynasty. It evolved from a nomadic khanate into an empire.

It can be said that the Liao Kingdom was the most successful empire in history that combined nomadism and agriculture.

It has one country with multiple systems, and the role played by the Han people in the country cannot be ignored.

Zong Wang said: "Then let's wait and see what happens and see what tricks this Zhao Guan family can play."

He then added: "But there is one thing I am very curious about. The intelligence from the front said that officials from the Song Dynasty besieged the New Deal Yamen and two officials were captured, one named Yang Bing and the other named Wang Chen. But the front line said that we did not

Place these two people."

Liu Yanzong was slightly startled and immediately said: "Your Highness, this is a trick used by the Emperor of Song Dynasty!"

Zong Wang understood immediately. Not only was he not angry, but he laughed and said, "This kind of killing with a borrowed knife is really beautiful. I am becoming more and more interested in Emperor Song."

In order to prevent Shangjing from getting extremely excited after hearing this information, Zong Wang immediately wrote a summary of the current information about the Song Dynasty.

Including a group of generals newly conferred by the Zhao Guan family, including Yue Fei, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, Han Shizhong and others.

The implicit meaning is that it is best to suspend the troops first and not to think about fighting again.

If we have to fight, can the Jin Kingdom fight?

Really capable of fighting. In official history, the early Jin Dynasty never stopped attacking the Song Dynasty. Even though Wan Yanchang and Wanyan Wushu were defeated successively, the Jin Kingdom continued to move south and continued to carry out military attacks on the Southern Song Dynasty.

After all, war is politics, and external warfare is the most important way to alleviate conflicts within the Jin Kingdom.

If we really force the Jin Kingdom to stop now, internal conflicts will explode.

While the two were discussing, Wu Shu's letter arrived.

Zong Wang read Wu Shu's letter and shook his head: "Wu Shu wants to persuade me to send troops."

According to Wanyan Zongwang's current prestige, it is really not difficult for him to send troops.

Zong Wang made great contributions in the first two Song-Jin wars, but did not participate in the third Song-Jin war, and instead avoided the risk of defeat.

It can be said that Zong Wang's prestige in the court now even seems to slightly exceed that of Zong Han.

This is also the reason why Wanyan Wu begged to summon Wanyan Gao back to Beijing, while Liu Zongwang was in Yanjing to preside over the frontline military affairs.

Liu Yanzong said: "The war in Taiyuan has not yet ended, Hebule has not yet arrived in Beijing, and the envoy to Xixia has not returned. Everything is not clear yet, so it is not appropriate to send troops."

The war in Taiyuan that Liu Yanzong mentioned naturally refers to the siege of Taiyuan by Wu Jie. As for Hebule, it refers to the incident in which Emperor Wanyan Wu of the Jin Dynasty begged for money and summoned Hebule, the Great Khan of the Mongol Khanate.

Emperor Jin agreed with Wanyan Zongwang's proposal and summoned Hebule, hoping to win over the Mongol people. He would use both kindness and power to implement Jisi rule.

They even sent envoys to Goryeo to do business with Goryeo.

He also sent envoys to Xixia to put pressure on Xixia.

Zong Wang still replied to Wu Shu with a letter, implying that he should not rush things too hastily.

But Wu Shu apparently planned to send an army to attack without authorization, catching the Song army by surprise.

Soon, some ups and downs within the Song Dynasty reached Beijing and reached the ears of the Jin Kingdom's decision-makers.
Chapter completed!