The identity of the man in Chinese attire is very special. His name is Dong Juyi. He was a daily servant of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. He was a promising political star in the central government. Later, he served as an envoy to Sichuan.
Why did this king become an envoy to Sichuan, and why did he stay away from Sichuan and the border of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, and came to Gongzhou, which was controlled by the Xia Kingdom, to communicate with Mongolia? There are quite a few ups and downs in the story, and we have to start from the beginning in detail.
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At that time, Wu Xi, the leader of the Wu family who had been in Sichuan for generations, rebelled against the Song Dynasty, which directly caused one-third of the Song Dynasty's territory to change hands. It was all thanks to the army transport officer An Bing and others to kill Wu Xi's party and restore the old territory. An Bing used this great contribution
, was awarded the title of Xuanfu Envoy of Sichuan, Bachelor of Liqian Zizhengdian, Ambassador of Sichuan Zhizhi and Zhixingyuan Prefecture, etc., and controlled the military and government of Sichuan for the next ten years.
Three years ago, the new dynasty in the Central Plains was founded, which shocked various parts of the north. When the Kaifeng regime of the Jin Kingdom collapsed, the Jin troops in various places in Guanzhong were also panicked. An Bing did not wait to ask the court for instructions, so he sent his confidants An Fan, He Jiuling and others
Leading a heavy army to the north, intending to get a share of this chaos.
However, the soldiers and horses of the Southern Song Dynasty had been sparse for a long time. When the soldiers and horses of the Zhou army, Li Ting's command and the Xia Kingdom arrived one after another, the Song army was forced to retreat.
When the soldiers and horses retreated to Mianzhou, Wang Dacai, the commander of Mianzhou, intercepted the army and killed He Jiuling and seven others on the spot. He then reported to the court that An Bing had gathered a crowd to raise troops without authorization and must have different ambitions.
An Bing was talented, but he was very jealous and cruel. He made his fortune by putting down the Wu Xi Rebellion, but he was very suspicious of Yang Juyuan, Li Haoyi and other generals who also contributed to putting down the Wu Xi Rebellion, and murdered them one after another.
In addition, he has a strong regional bias in employing people, and has always been very hostile to non-Sichuan people in charge of Shu. As time goes by, his desire for power becomes stronger and stronger, and he places confidants everywhere. In the eyes of the court, it seems that Wu Xi is going to
, here comes Wu Xi again.
On the other hand, the Shixiang Party, which has controlled the center of the Song Dynasty in recent years, has benefited from the huge benefits brought by maritime trade, and its power has expanded rapidly. They also intend to extend their hands into Sichuan and use the many state-sponsored funds from the Bashu territory to
Status is a tool used by politicians to reward mediocrity.
Therefore, with an excuse, the imperial court immediately issued an edict, first appointing An Bing as Tongzhi Privy Councilor and guest of the prince. Shortly after An Bing left Sichuan and Shu with the order, he was appointed as a bachelor of Guanwen Palace on the way, knowing Tanzhou and appeasing Hunan.
The messenger firmly placed him in Tanzhou, a place he was unfamiliar with.
After An Bing left, the person sent by the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty to replace An Bing as the Sichuan envoy was Dong Juyi, a middle-aged man in Chinese clothes who was facing Tu Lei.
Dong Juyi is not a core figure of the Historian Party. To a certain extent, he served as the Sichuan envoy to suppress the local civil and military forces in Sichuan for the imperial court and the Prime Minister, and to eliminate the remnants of the Wu family and the An family.
Hand the certificate of surrender to the Prime Minister.
Dong Juyi was once ordered to go to the Kingdom of Jin as an envoy. He was very visionary and courageous, and his attacks were even more violent. In just one year as the envoy to Sichuan, he drastically abolished the garrisons in many places, dismissed many generals from their posts, and even cut off their positions.
He killed dozens of heads of unruly people. Of course, he also amassed a large sum of gold and silver in an honest and unceremonious manner.
Through a series of means, a lot of local official positions in Sichuan and Sichuan were indeed vacated. However, the result of the crazy suppression of local forces was that the Sichuan envoy lost the support of the people, which led to continuous civil rebellions and mutinies in various places.
The most serious incident was that of Zhang Fu, a sergeant on Lizhou Road. Mo Jian could not bear the oppression of his superiors and revolted angrily. The rebels killed Yang Jiuding, the leader who was exploiting wealth, cut open his stomach and filled it with gold and silver.
At that time, Dong Juyi, as a local military and political official, had no capable soldiers around him, so he could only flee in confusion, and he has not been able to suppress the mutiny so far.
In that difficult time, it was Tuo Lei who extended a hand of friendship to him.
Since the year before last, there have been rumors from all over Sichuan that the Mongolian army was afraid of the Zhou Dynasty and turned westward to open up transportation from the Western Regions to the Tianfang Kingdoms. Immediately afterwards, merchants from the Uighur and other tribes began to pass through the territories of Xixia and Tubo tribes.
Heading south, they started trading by the river, and most of them brought a small group of Mongolians to protect them.
Dong Juyi wanted to make money, so naturally he would not let go of these business travelers. While squeezing the business travelers, he suddenly discovered that the leader of one of the business travelers was actually the fourth prince of the Mongols, Tuo Lei.
In fact, many officials of the Song Dynasty were deeply afraid of the powerful enemies in the north and regarded them very highly. This was true for the Khitans and Jurchens. In theory, they should also be like this for the newly rising Mongolian Tatars.
.Who said that the fourth prince of the Mongols was reduced to being a caravan leader? Dong Juyi absolutely did not believe it.
However, in recent years, there have been frequent exchanges between the north and the south. People from all over the Southern Dynasties have often heard that the Zhou Dynasty sent its troops deep into the grasslands to tear flesh and blood in the hinterland of the Mongols. Therefore, many people think that maybe the Mongols are just ordinary tribes that are rising and dying on the grasslands.
, not on the same level as the Khitan and Jurchen.
As for the story of the fourth Mongolian prince Tuo Lei being captured by the Zhou emperor Guo Ning in the midst of thousands of troops, many opera troupes sang about it, and even women and children in Sichuan knew it. Dong Juyi estimated that the fourth prince fell out of favor because of this, so he had to
Find your own way to survive.
Dong Juyi was not a useless official who was easily deceived. He immediately summoned Tuo Lei and inquired about the situation in the north and the purpose of Tuo Lei's visit. After questioning, he found out that the fourth prince of Mongolia was proficient in Han language and had also tried to read several Han books.
.Although he is not very polite, he is very different from ordinary Mongolians.
Speaking of the tragic defeat of the Mongolian army at the hands of the Zhou army, Tuo Lei smiled bitterly, but did not shy away from it. Even when his own family became a prisoner of Guo Ning, and even when his father, Genghis Khan of Mongolia, was defeated by Guo Ning, he also
Able to speak out calmly and openly.
Dong Juyi talked with Tuo Lei several times and learned a lot of information about the north, so he no longer regarded Tuo Lei as an ordinary barbarian. Because the north of Lizhou Road faced Jingzhao, Fengxiang and other military towns of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was under heavy pressure
Under a certain amount of military pressure, he also vaguely felt some sympathy with Tuo Lei.
And because there is another advantage of dragging mines, it is that you can get a lot of bribes. After going back and forth, the two parties developed a bit of friendship.
At the beginning of last year, the sergeants on Lizhou Road rioted and gathered thousands of people. Dong Juyi was running for his life in embarrassment and bumped into Tuo Lei in Baocheng. After hearing the news, he rushed to help.
The number of Tu Lei's subordinates was small, but they were all good at bow and horse, and they were more than enough to protect Dong Juyi's safety.
On the way the group of people took refuge, Dong Juyi met another Han subordinate who was dragging mines.
The man's name was Guo Baoyu. He was an officer of the Jin Kingdom in his early years and was later taken to the grassland. He told Dong Juyi that after the Mongols were forced to leave the grassland, although they attacked various countries in the Western Regions, they actually gained very little and many of their tribes were in poverty. . Many capable and capable heroes had to work for others and were driven like cattle and horses.
Dong Juyi was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately took out the gold and silk, asked Tuo Lei to come forward, and recruited dozens of Mongolians as his direct bodyguards.
After trying it out for a few days, he felt that although this breed was still wild, it also had unique benefits. It was like a domestic fierce dog that could be driven like an arm. So he successively recruited some more. In order to prevent this breed from rebelling with the locals in Sichuan. The rebellious warriors were mixed together, and he set up a separate military camp for the Mongols, with Guo Baoyu as their commander.
Guo Baoyu had been living in a foreign tribe for many years, and he had suffered a lot. He escaped due to Dong Juyi's promotion. He thanked him profusely and pledged his loyalty. However, the number of Mongolian guards was limited after all. If he wanted to make a comeback for Dong Juyi, he would have to be extremely powerful. But not enough.
During that time, the soldiers who rebelled on Lizhou Road successively conquered Langzhou, Guozhou, Suining Prefecture and Puzhou. The vanguard army reached Zizhou and Hanzhou and approached Chengdu. Sichuan was shaken. Dong Juyi suffered from both the government and the opposition. Huge pressure.
He wanted to suppress the rebellion as soon as possible. But many of the soldiers who participated in the rebellion had been in the army for generations and had intricate connections in the local area. As an annoying outsider, why should he defeat them? To say the least, he couldn't even unite them. An army that can be safely sent out to counter rebellion!
In order to get out of the predicament, Dong Juyi worked hard, and finally, with the joint promotion of Tuo Lei and Guo Baoyu, they formulated a plan.
This plan roughly followed the method of organizing Hehuangfan soldiers to defend the border villages when the Song Dynasty was strong. Tuo Lei gathered the scattered Mongolians in the plateau area on the border between Xia Kingdom and Tubo and brought them to the Song Dynasty. And the Mongolians The first task was to pass through Gongzhou controlled by the Xixia people, transfer to Baihuan Fort of the Tianshui Army in the Song Dynasty, then pass through Baima Pass and Qifang Pass to break into Xingyuan Mansion where the rebels gathered, and kill them all in one breath. .
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In the middle of formulating the plan, something troublesome happened. It turned out that Shi was very dissatisfied with the chaos in Sichuan. He was impatient, so he directly dismissed Dong Juyi from his post and sent out his real cronies, who were listed among the "Four Woods and Three Fierces". "Nie Zishu succeeded Sichuan as the envoy.
For a moment, Tuo Lei was disappointed, and Dong Juyi became furious and almost broke up with the official who delivered the order.
Who would have expected that there is always a road ahead? When Nie Zishu was in Lin'an, he was still a humble gentleman. When he arrived in Sichuan, his desire to scrape land and make money was even more ferocious than Dong Juyi's. And he was concerned about the intensifying mutiny and civil commotion, and he had a close relationship with Dong Juyi. Generally helpless.
So Tuo Lei patiently spent half a year to get on Nie Zishu's path again. One day, he took Dong Juyi, who was unwilling to visit Sichuan and Shu, to grandly launch the plan again.
Nie Zishu's status in the history party was much higher than that of Dong Juyi, and he had already had glory and wealth at his fingertips. Although he also wanted to put down the rebellion, he was unwilling to take risks, let alone make fun of his own future. So no matter how Tuo Lei recommended himself, Nie Zishu
He only made one request: since this plan was proposed by Dong Juyi, it should be completed by Dong Juyi.
If it works, it is indispensable for Nie Zishu's high-level advice and good command; if it doesn't work, it is just a whim of a retired official. No matter how innocent Dong Juyi is, he has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty government.
Since ancient times, officials have been like this, full of selfishness. But Dong Juyi agreed on the spot.
His great career was ruined in Sichuan, how could he not try his best to make a comeback? What's more, the people who caused him to be dismissed from office were those rebel soldiers who overestimated their capabilities. He was indeed full of anger and had to kill them all to relieve his hatred.
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In this way, the two Sichuan envoys in just three years all reached an agreement with the four Mongolian princes. The entire plan was not obvious on the surface, but was promoted intensively in secret.
Today is the day when this plan is officially launched.
But as soon as the plan started to be implemented, it was completely different from what Dong Juyi had expected.
When Tuo Lei turned toward the palace tent, Dong Juyi kept his eyebrows down, but couldn't help but raise his head and glance at the Mongolian army's queue.
The moment he raised his head, the cold light of thousands of swords and guns shone, and countless ferocious faces were reflected in his pupils, getting closer and closer, getting bigger and bigger, it was so overwhelming that it made people dizzy and made their legs weak.
It is obvious that Dong Juyi was deceived by the Mongols. Not only himself, but also Nie Zishu was deceived; the subordinates he had secretly sent to the Xixia territory and had secret meetings with the Mongolians Qianhu were also deceived.
Those who were in contact never told Dong Juyi that the Mongolian army had such a huge scale and such terrifying power!
It is obvious that this army is not only barbaric, but also definitely elite in hundreds of battles! The arrogant aura cultivated by slaughtering cities and annihilating countries over and over again has simply turned into reality, making people subconsciously hold their breath. Compared with the loose and loose troops in various parts of Sichuan
Compared with the Song army, the Mongolian army was hundreds and thousands of times stronger!
In fact, I should have figured this out a long time ago. I am too stupid! Dong Juyi said to himself.
As an official of the Song Dynasty, he knew best how terrifying the power of the Jurchens was. However, when the Jurchens were at their peak, they tried their best to build a defense system in the north and used hundreds of thousands of troops to prepare for the danger. As a result, the wolves in the north were still
He easily went south, killing soldiers and civilians wherever he went, leaving no one alive. He killed Dai Jin until he was riddled with holes, and then he picked peaches for some frontier soldier.
In this case, how can the Mongols be easy to deal with? They are at least much more terrifying than the Jurchens, and they are a huge force that can compete with the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Such a force dispatched such a powerful army to crush the dignified Gao Kingdom, which controlled hundreds of thousands of people, just like crushing a child. Would they really cooperate with the border guards of the Song Dynasty for the small profits they promised? Would they really do what they promised?
So, do a small good deed?
Everyone had agreed before to open a few passes and release a few fierce dogs to clear the door. But the Mongolians we saw in front of us had a few fierce dogs. They were clearly tens of thousands of tigers and wolves!
What bad luck, something big is going to happen now! It’s over!
Cold sweat poured out from Dong Juyi's head, flowing like a waterfall among the dust and turf debris on his face. His hair and beard were also soaked, and the lining of his robe was already soaked. The more he sweated, the more he became
I feel cold all over.
He didn't dare to think about it further, but he had to think about it... even the Mongolian Khan was dispatched. They were not there to quell the rebellion at all. This... I'm afraid this was not to wipe out the Song Dynasty!
But Dong Juyi had no way to object.
The whole thing is imminent and has to be launched. In the past month, more than a thousand Mongolian elites have sneaked into the Lizhou Road of the Song Dynasty under the cover of Song Dynasty officials pretending to be business travelers, and they have been distributed in many key places under various banners.
.This military action initiated by Dong Juyi cannot be stopped at all!
Facing Tuo Lei's smiling instructions, Dong Juyi didn't even dare to hesitate at all. He could only suppress the huge panic in his heart and even said yes.
That's all, the worst is not to lose face and become another Liu Yu!
But the moment he lowered his head, he thought of Liu Yu's fate and felt dizzy for a while, feeling only fishy and sweet in his throat.
"Don't panic! Don't panic!"
After Tu Qiongdeng saw it, Tuo Lei's attitude inevitably became a little more arrogant, but he still seemed to be well-intentioned. He grabbed Dong Juyi's shoulders and shook him, laughing and saying: "The Mongols can really help you! And the Mongols never
Framing a friend!”
"What?"
"Look over here, who do you see?" Tuo Lei asked.
Dong Juyi turned his head and heard Tuo Lei Xunxun's words: "This is Li Zunxu, the king of Daxia. He had no possibility of succeeding to the throne, but we sent elite soldiers to help him depose the previous king Li An'an;
At this time, we are also coming forward to help him kill all those who may be rebellious and rebellious in the Xia Kingdom. All Li Zunxu has to do is to be our friend."
He also dedicated his own daughter.
This thought flashed through Dong Juyi's mind. Of course he didn't dare to say it out loud, so he just murmured: "But I..."
He struggled for a moment, but his shoulders were held tighter by Tuo Lei.
The arms of the fourth Mongolian prince were like iron pincers, pressing Dong Juyi's bones and rattling: "Ambassador Nie and his subordinates are also friends of the Mongols. We will never make things difficult for our friends. So after killing all the rebels, we will also
I will never stay in your country!”
"Really?" Dong Juyi's heels suddenly gained strength and his waist became straight again.
Tuo Lei continued directly: "However, when the army is dispatched, it cannot return empty-handed. So we have to trouble Ambassador Nie and his subordinates to continue to deal with us and clear a way out."
"What way?"
Tuo Lei said with a smile: "How could you forget? It's what we once said, the road to the east along the Han River...do you remember?"
Dong Juyi's eyes widened.
He suddenly remembered that Tuo Lei had half-jokingly told him and Nie Zi earlier that with the Mongols' ability to travel long distances, it would only take a month to travel from Guanshan to the east via the Lizhou Road and along the Han River over the mountains and ridges.
In just a short time, you can reach the hinterland of the Central Plains.
At that time, Dong Juyi and Nie Zishu laughed loudly, thinking that it was no wonder that the Mongols were beaten to pieces by the Zhou army. These barbarians had no brains at all, thinking that humans and horses could run as well, and that they could survive for several days and nights without rest.
Now he understands.
The joke Tolei made was serious.
The Mongolian army can really do it.
The Mongolian army has always regarded the Zhou State in the north as its mortal enemy. This time, they planned to drive thousands of miles and take the Lizhou Road of the Song Dynasty, thus bypassing all Zhou State's defenses from the northeast to the northwest; they planned to directly attack Zhou State's softest territory.
Rampage through the hinterland, tearing apart this giant’s entrails!
By the way, I’ve been reading the novel City Mouse in the past two days, and it’s really interesting.
