After learning that Taiyuan had been taken back by the Song Army, Wanyanjing was so angry that he jumped up and down in Yanjing.

The Jin army in Zhending Prefecture and Zhongshan Prefecture also had strong military strength.

However, no one currently has the power to send troops on such a large scale.

It was not until December 25th that the news reached Shangjing.

Shangjing, which was already in a turmoil due to Wanyan Gao's death from illness, immediately became more tense after learning that Taiyuan was taken back by the Song army.

On the afternoon of December 25th, Wanyan Wu begged for help and urgently summoned Zhu Bojilie and Wanyan Zongwang, who served as Yanyun's military envoy.

There was dead silence in the main hall, and the people at the core of the Jin Kingdom's power hierarchy all looked cold.

Wanyan Zonghan was the first to speak. He said: "Song Gou dares to take the initiative to attack our country. Isn't this condoned by you?"

Wanyan Zongpan said: "I have long said that the land of the three towns will be returned to the Song Dynasty, and the two parties will do business. If you follow what I said, you will never lose the 15,000 troops! Maybe you have more at home now.

All kinds of silks, teas, countless copper coins, endless delicacies from the mountains and seas, beauties from the south..."

Zong Han said angrily: "It's because of your naivety that you indulged the Song dog! Now this dog is going to bite its owner! You must be responsible for this!"

Wanyan Zongpan said: "What have you gained after fighting for so many years? The Liao Kingdom was not able to destroy the Song Dynasty for a hundred years! Since the Song Dynasty cannot be destroyed, why not do business? Don't you want to make your life better?"

"Shut up! Your thoughts are helping the Song Dynasty!"

Wanyan Zongpan was very thick-skinned. He smiled and said: "I am helping everyone here. Think about it, can one Yanyun Sixteen Provinces support the life needs of a huge noble? No! Those people outside every day

You only know how to enjoy yourself. When the supplies were divided up and there was far less than enough, you Wanyan Zonghan chose to rob. But your plunder was too long and you might lose. Once defeated, our country would have even less supplies. What did you do?

Then deal with the increasingly dissatisfied nobles!"

Wanyan Zongpan's tone was sonorous and powerful, as if what he said was the truth.

In fact, in the official history, the peace advocates headed by Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyanchang have repeatedly advocated returning the Central Plains to the Song Dynasty and handling relations with the Song Dynasty like the Liao Kingdom.

Why?

Because in the official history, the Jin Kingdom fought for several years and found that it could not destroy the Song Dynasty, and domestic resources were being depleted every year.

When a militant faction like Jin Wushu came to power, and after ten years of fighting against Shaoxing, they finally found that they could no longer conquer Shaoxing, and the internal finances of the Jin Kingdom might collapse if they continued to attack, so they agreed to negotiate a peace.

However, before negotiating peace, he wanted to conceal the crisis in his country and trick Zhao Gou into killing Yue Fei.

After Yue Fei's death, Song and Jin Dynasties entered a period of peace.

It was because the Jin Kingdom itself could not move south any further. As for Wanyan Liang's subsequent move southward with all his strength, he reaped the dividends of Wanyan Quan's reform and Chineseization.

In the final analysis, war is destruction. It not only destroys the enemy country, but also consumes oneself. As long as there is no profit in the war, it is definitely a loss.

Once losses are incurred and domestic resources are reduced, interest groups will inevitably panic, and they will intensify their efforts to plunder the bottom, triggering domestic class conflicts.

This law applies to any empire in ancient times.

The scene fell into a brief silence.

This shows that everyone present has acquiesced in Wanyan Zongpan's words, and even Zonghan cannot refute his rhetoric.

The Kingdom of Jin is facing an extremely uneven distribution of resources, and the lives of the nobles are deteriorating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The contradictions between the Han people, Jurchens, Bohai people, and Khitan people have also become more and more prominent.

In the past two years, the Jin Kingdom has not expanded externally, and conflicts cannot be transferred out, and they have broken out on a large scale internally.

The death of Wanyan Gao and the conflict that broke out over the fight for the crown prince are one of the examples.

Wanyan Wu Qimai looked at Zong Wang and asked, "What do you think of Zong Wang?"

Zong Wang said: "We must face a real problem."

"what is the problem?"

"The Song Dynasty in the fifth year of Jingkang was different from the Song Dynasty in the first year of Jingkang."

After he said this, everyone fell into a brief silence.

In the first year of Jingkang, when the Jin Dynasty attacked the Song Dynasty, they were pressed to the ground and rubbed from Yanyun to the city of Tokyo.

This friction is extremely long-lasting.

But the competition between Song and Jin in the past few years has always told the people of Jin that the Song Dynasty is changing.

Wanyan Wu Qimai said: "Why is it different?"

Zong Wang said: "Because of the restructuring of Zhao Guan's family."

The scene fell into silence again.

Wanyan Wu Qimai asked: "Is the restructuring of the Zhao Guan family really effective?"

"At least judging from the results, it does have an effect."

Zong Han sneered and said: "Who told us to go to the Song Dynasty before, saying that we were afraid of their restructuring, inducing the Zhao Guan family to transform, and intensifying internal fighting?"

Wanyan Zongqian coughed and said, "I said that."

Wanyan Wu Qimai said: "Zong Wang, are you really sure that the restructuring of the Zhao Guan family will work?"

"According to the latest news sent back by the agents stationed in Tokyo City, after the restructuring of the Zhao Guan family, the food price in Kaifeng Prefecture has initially returned to normal, and the Zhao Guan family used us a few months ago to target the conservatives in the court.

A major purge has been carried out, and the reformists have fully taken over the dominant position."

"Use us?" Wanyan Wu asked in confusion.

"It was because we were afraid of the Zhao Guan family's restructuring that we let the news go. The Zhao Guan family used this to defeat all the opponents and turned them into minions we installed in the Song Dynasty. Even the Kong family was not immune."

At this time, the scene fell into dead silence.

Everyone's faces became extremely ugly.

Finally, Wanyan Wu Qimai smiled and said: "This official Zhao's methods are really amazing."

"I heard that this time, he copied 20 million yuan and had a large military expenditure." Zong Wang said calmly, "I think that many soldiers and civilians must have been mobilized to Taiyuan Prefecture now."

Wanyan Wu Qimai said: "What should we do now?"

Zong Wang said: "I agree with Zong Pan's suggestion. Since the Song Dynasty broke the peace agreement first, it is better to use this as an excuse to blame the Song Dynasty and force the Song Dynasty to open up trade and trade like Song and Xia. This can alleviate our internal supply shortage.

need."

"No!" Wanyan Zonghan directly rejected his proposal, "We must work hard to get Taiyuan back!"

Zong Wang asked: "What can we get by taking Taiyuan back?"

Zong Han said: "We received tax revenue and used it as a stronghold to attack the Song Dynasty."

Zong Wang continued: "Compared with the taxes recovered and the benefits obtained from direct trade, which one is more generous?"

Zong Han said: "If we take Taiyuan back and then send troops south to get Hedong, we will get more than if we trade with the Song Dynasty."

"But now Wushu's western expedition has consumed too much. If we go south again now, if we cannot win quickly, it will be detrimental to us." Zong Wang said.

The dispute between the two actually reflects the current class conflicts in the Jin Kingdom.

The resources that the Jin Kingdom had previously plundered from the Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom had rapidly gathered towards the Jurchen nobles in these years.

The nobles were rapidly corrupting, and their material requirements were getting higher and higher, so they spent more money to enjoy themselves.

Although Wu Shu's Western Expedition achieved considerable success, because Mobei was so big, even if the Mongol troops were defeated several times, the Jin Kingdom could not gain anything.

After all, the annuity country's treasury has been unable to come in these years.

Zong Han believed that the immediate problem could be solved through military plunder, which was commonly known as making the Jin Kingdom cake bigger through expansion.

Zong Wang believes that there is a problem with the internal resource allocation of the Jin Kingdom. Money is being used for enjoyment, and the Jin Kingdom will be over sooner or later.
Chapter completed!