Since the rise of Emperor Guo Ning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he has been shouting about hoarding grain and building high walls every day, but he has always been forced by the current situation and made rapid progress. {What? You don’t know yet|.Read.ＯＭ, read the correct chapter| Just google it} It was not until the surrounding situation became less turbulent in the past two years that he could calm down and start governing the country in a stable manner.
The emperor was determined to move slowly, and his subordinates naturally did not object. So many people had struggled for many years on mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and they really wanted to slow down, so Dazhou had always been cautious in its operations in northern Xinjiang.
At first, the generals from all sides thought that they had to push the control area back to the boundary trench, restore the control area of the three recruitment divisions, and at least take back Changzhou. Later, after calculation, they felt that the defense line should be restored on the grassland. Repairing the thousands of miles of border walls and trenches and more than 400 military forts is simply a bottomless pit that swallows up money, food and supplies. When the new dynasty was founded, there were so many things to do and so many people crying for food, but there was really no financial resources to maintain them.
Even if some financial resources are squeezed out... the ministers in the court petitioned to invest them in maritime trade to gain profits, but they really don't want to see unnecessary consumption.
More importantly, the military system of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not compatible with such a line of defense.
In many aspects, the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty inherited the advantages of the early years of the rise of the Jin Kingdom, namely the so-called "four strengths" of cavalry, heavy armor, bows and arrows, and perseverance. To maintain these four strengths, every soldier needs to be highly respected. status, extremely generous treatment, extremely arduous training, and extremely complete equipment, so the total size of the army has an insurmountable upper limit.
The Ding Haijun back then and the current Zhou Army never had more than 200,000 regular troops. As long as these 200,000 soldiers and horses are strong, it is feasible to control the vast territory and maintain a huge threat to the enemy. But If 200,000 people were crammed into a military fort, they wouldn't even be able to fight.
After the conflict between the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia, they continuously mobilized troops from all over the country to maintain the boundary trench defense line. What was the result?
Meng'an Muke in various places were first evacuated, then the town defense army, the grain shooting army, and then they began to forcibly recruit strong men. So many people filled the defense line, what's the point?
Without a sufficient number of elite troops that can respond quickly, there are military fortresses with hundreds of people everywhere. The Mongolian cavalry can only stand in front of the Mongolian cavalry, waiting to be killed. They continue to die, continue to fill up, and then continue to die. The entire defense line is not a noose to restrain Mongolia. , but instead became a fatal wound that caused the Kingdom of Jin to continue to lose blood.
With the Jurchens as a lesson learned from the past, the Great Zhou Dynasty was not in a hurry to restore military control over the grasslands. The Great Zhou Dynasty's defense line in northern Xinjiang strived to be stable, but it did not care about the depth for the time being.
But this also gave rise to a problem that made the officials of the Manchu Dynasty a little embarrassed, that is, Changzhou, where the emperor was born, was still in the hands of the Mongols.
Guo Ning himself doesn't mind this. He certainly has many memories in Changzhou, but it's hard to say how beautiful those memories are and how deeply he feels about the bloody life on the frontier.
But the Confucian ministers in the court were inevitably worried about this. The reason is very simple. The parents of the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty were buried in Changzhou. How could a son become an emperor and abandon his parents in a foreign land? The three founding capitals Year has passed, the emperor's biological father should be granted a posthumous title, a posthumous temple name should be determined, and a mausoleum should be built... These things should have been done in the first year of Longwu, so how could there be any reason to keep delaying it?
How many people in the world are watching these things. Your Majesty, you often use your Han identity as an excuse, so you should show some Han culture and governance. We, the Zhou Dynasty, cannot always behave like a rough team!
Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the martial arts style has been extremely strong, and the Han people in the north have been under the rule of foreigners for hundreds of years, and they are indeed somewhat tainted by Hu Feng. However, to govern the country stably, after all, it is inseparable from scholars, and scholars always have their stubbornness, and they also like
Go up and down the line, elevate certain things to a special level, and stir up a little movement from time to time.
Governing the country with filial piety has been the guiding principle of governing the country since the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it has also been the political correctness that has lasted for thousands of years. Guo Ning is not a cool person, and he also appreciates the loyalty of the civil servants, so he motioned to the Confucian officials to lower their voices to avoid letting the Mongols listen.
When the news came out, the emperor was worried. At the same time, he also signaled the generals in the north to put more effort into the Mongolian Qianhu who controlled Changzhou so that they could take action later.
As an important town in the northern Xinjiang of the Jin Kingdom, Changzhou itself attracted attention, and green salt was also a hot commodity in northern Xinjiang and the grasslands. So Yeli Yasi did not think too much and lived a good life for two years.
The cooperation between the two families has always been smooth, and Dazhou sent officials there from time to time to discuss many details of cooperation. The more times they went, the more Yeli Yasi got used to it, and he even sent people to Jinshan to purchase. The exchanges between the two parties almost formed a regular pattern.
On the surface they are sworn enemies, but secretly they are good partners who make a fortune together.
This time, Jinshan notified Yeli Yasi half a month in advance that a large-scale caravan would arrive at the old site of Changzhou. Zhao Xuan and Lu Wusi, the powerful figures who led the business dealings between the two companies in the Jinlianchuan area, also
I will come with you, and I want to talk to Yeliya if I have anything to do.
The talks were, of course, real talks. What Yeriyasi didn't notice was that under the cover of Zhao Xuan and Lu Wusi, another person with a special status who did not participate in the talks came to the bank of Gouluo in Changzhou.
That is Guo Ning's brother-in-law, Lu Shu, who is fourteen years old this year.
Lu Shu and his companion Aduo came here to determine the current situation of Wusha Castle and to find the parents of the emperor and empress to prepare for their subsequent relocation.
Ordinarily, it would be better to send a clever subordinate to handle such a matter secretly, and the queen's brother should not be allowed to put himself in danger.
However, Wushabao is a key place for Dajin to strangle the grassland. The Mongolian army deployed heavy troops to attack this place and killed many people. When the defenders fled, they were chased and killed by Mongolian cavalry along the way. They barely survived and escaped to the wild.
A group of people from Fox Ridge soon encountered a failure in the Battle of Ye Fox Ridge. It was an even more terrible failure, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood that made people completely despair!
Not to mention, there would be wars for several years after that. Even a man as skilled as Guo Ning could barely save his own life, let alone others?
Guo Ning has never been shy about his origins as a pawn in Wushabao, Changzhou. After he became the emperor, there were often people who used the banner of the emperor's old people to try to gain benefits. But these people were soon confirmed to be charlatans. Guo Ning
One thing is confirmed:
The massacres in troubled times were so brutal. Except for Guo Ning, his wife, and Lu Shu, there were 700 regular troops in Wushabao, nearly a thousand Ali Xi, more than 300 ordinary civilians, dozens of expelled people, and more than 2,000 old, weak, women and children.
The neighbors, elders, colleagues and even playmates that Guo Ning and his wife and Lu Shu had known since childhood were all dead.
At the same time, Wusha Castle itself was deliberately destroyed by the Mongols. All the buildings at that time were trampled into ruins by thousands of horses. Lu Wusi once secretly sneaked to Wusha Castle to visit, and the broken walls and ruins he saw were basically in ruins. It's impossible to tell what it looked like in the past, and it's impossible to determine where the graveyard outside Wusha Castle was.
In this case, besides Lu Shu, who else can go to Wusha Castle to confirm with his own eyes the location of his ancestors' tombs?
Lu Shu grew older and his temperament became much more steady. But when he walked on the road, he could see black traces of fire on the ground, and he stepped on broken bricks or broken bones from time to time. He thought that the situation in Wusha Castle must be worse than Chang's. The situation in Zhoucheng was ten times more miserable, and it was inevitable that I would feel depressed.
At this time, he heard a few merchants chatting casually, and they even got the location of Usha Fort wrong. He couldn't help but explain it, and even drew the directions to make sure that the merchants would not get it wrong, and then he felt a little more comfortable. .
Hearing A Duo casually announce Zhao Xuan's name, which attracted everyone's glances. He also reached out and patted A Duo's arm to signal the Bohai man to be more cautious.
After all, he was young, so this little move could not be hidden from the merchants. The merchants immediately thought that the stupid-looking Bohai man had not taken a general like Zhao Xuan seriously, and this young man's His status is obviously higher than that of the Bohai people... This young man must be a noble person, a thigh worthy of being caressed!
The businessman who joked around before was actually very popular during the trip. Because he was used to hearing him talk nonsense, no one cared about the carelessness in his words. With a smile on his face, he took a few steps closer to Lu Shu with cupped hands. : "This young gentleman..."
There was a whoosh, the sound of a bone whistle cutting through the air, suddenly covering up his words.
A Duo was startled and shouted: "This is Ming Dy!"
Just a few feet in front of Ado, the merchant who was smiling and trying to talk had already turned over and fell to the ground, with a hammer nailed to his face and blood spurting out from the edge of the arrow shaft.
Lu Shu suddenly pulled A Duo to squat down, and the two of them rolled sideways almost at the same time until they leaned against the abandoned fence next to the road.
After a while, he slowly raised his head and looked outside, only to see people running in fear everywhere. He couldn't find the person who shot the arrow at all, but he could conclude that it was not just the merchant who was shot to death by the arrow. A group of lunatics have come from nowhere and are killing people in this reservoir area!
Aduo shouted from behind: "The Mongols have gone crazy! Let's go back quickly and join Zhao Xuan and the others!"
Lu Shu nodded repeatedly and pointed in another direction: "Go lead our horse first!"
At this time, a Mongolian knight riding a strong war horse jumped out from the fence behind the two people and suddenly appeared behind Lu Shu. The knight's dead gray eyes swept over the crowd, and he casually took out the arrow from his quiver. A horn bow was attached.
