1501. Chapter 1501 Open up the territory, the world's military marshal (2)
During the negotiations, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan no longer had any room for bargaining, and among the courtiers who accompanied the second emperor to discuss with Xiao Tang, it seemed that most of them had the idea that a gentleman should not stand behind a dangerous wall.
Yu accepted Xiao Tang's proposal.
What's more, the conditions proposed by Xiao Tang were very simple: first, the imperial court issued an edict to grant Xiao Tang the military commander to resist the invasion of the Jin army, with the power to set up his own general office, and according to the needs of the war, he could recover the Jin army.
After the army invaded the area, they set up official offices and officials on their own;
Second, in terms of finance, military merit, and military decision-making and command, the general offices established are not subject to the control of the imperial court. Moreover, the invasion of the Jin Dynasty in the north involves the life and death of the country in the Central Plains. This is different from the fact that in the early Song Dynasty, the imperial court ordered the generals to guard the frontiers and screen China.
, the situation was similar to the foreign war against the barbarians. Xiao Tang could not only appoint and remove the staff officials of the government offices under the Shuai Si Fu Office, but the court could not reclassify the government offices under the Shuai Si Fu Office as government offices under the rule for no reason;
Third, the Song Dynasty initially used it either to compensate for the peace, or to use the teaching musicians, skilled craftsmen, huge amounts of money and food, books and maps, treasures and artifacts, war horses and weapons that the Jin army robbed in Bianliang, Tokyo...
...and all captive supplies, whether used to help the victims when returned to Bianjing, or used as military supplies for the rebels, will be handled by Xiao Tang's troops with full authority.
The conditions proposed by Xiao Tang were nothing more than to allow the court to recognize that the rebel army under his command could establish an autonomous force that had many similarities with the clans of the Han and Wei dynasties, the vassal towns of the Tang Dynasty, and the Japanese shogunate. In fact, in the official history, Zhao Gou, the king of Kang,
After fleeing south to establish the Southern Song Dynasty regime, an edict was issued stating: Hebei's pacification, Hedong's economic system and pacification envoys were all appointed to have generals, assistants and subordinates.
After being ruined, the officials were dismissed, and various departments were tempted to fill the gaps. They all accepted their posts first and then paid their bills. So the governors and generals of the prefectures and counties all changed their officials in the name of military prosperity...Due to frequent wars with the Jin army.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Gou had no choice but to expand the military functions of the Song Army's general's office, which was fighting on the front line, and to appoint officials conveniently. However, due to the influence of events such as the Miao and Liu rebellions and the Huaixi military rebellion, Zhao Gou began to tend to negotiate peace with the Jin State, and
They became more and more wary of the self-respect of military generals in supporting their troops, and began to deprive Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and other anti-Jin commanders of their military power. The status of the military generals in the imperial court, which had been slightly improved in the early Southern Song Dynasty, was suppressed in the end.
It's just that the autonomous authority of the Shuaisi Mansion that Xiao Tang asked Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan was in the vassal and town system that the imperial court could not easily dismiss.
Compared with negotiating with the Jin army's Tatars who were pushing their limits and demanding more than they could satisfy, the conditions offered by Xiao Tang were extremely fair and reasonable. Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan were naturally overjoyed, so how could they not agree? Although the two emperors were mediocre,
The ministers who followed them to negotiate with Xiao Tang and even Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Li Zhu, Zhu Wu, Chai Jin, Chao Gai and other leaders were not mediocre people who were dizzy because of the urgent situation. Some of them also realized that once the imperial court
Setting this precedent is equivalent to allowing Xiao Tang not only to no longer be an anti-military bandit leader who is at odds with the Song Dynasty, but also to legally expand his private army and territory like the Tang Dynasty vassal town Jiedu, nominally subordinate to
In the imperial court, he did not have to obey the orders of the officials, and if the war against the Jin State went smoothly, there would actually be enough conditions to establish his own independent kingdom.
However, among the courtiers Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan appointed to negotiate with Xiao Tang, there were no hard-line civil servants known for their strong and paranoid temperaments. They seemed to be afraid of offending Xiao Tang again at this juncture, so they could sit down
Most of the courtiers at the negotiating table were the former peacemakers in the court when the Jin army came to Bianjing City. One of them caught Xiao Tang's attention. That person was Longxi Jushi, who is now an official and senior official.
Yu Wenxuzhong, a great scholar in the palace.
However, although Yu Wenxuzhong had previously advocated for the imperial court to negotiate peace with the Jin State, and believed that the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian could be ceded to the enemy as one of the peace leaders, Xiao Tang also knew very well that he was definitely not that person.
He is a treacherous minister who is so honest and shameless that he does not hesitate to cede territory and pay indemnity in order to protect himself, and he bows to foreign invaders. This is because it was this Yu Wenxuzhong who wrote a letter strongly opposing betraying the alliance and destroying the Liao Dynasty. He bluntly said that the neighbor's house was invaded by bandits, and not only did he not help
The neighbor drove away the robbers, and even occupied the neighbor's house with the robbers. Since then, the neighbor has been replaced by a robber, how can his family live in peace? And from the beginning, he realized that the female Jinguo would eventually become the real enemy of the Song Dynasty. Xiao Tang even remembered Yu Wenxu
Zhong Zai's official history could only be detained as an envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin Kingdom, and he simply stayed in the north to be reused by the Jin people. In fact, he endured the humiliation and secretly sent his cronies to the Southern Song Dynasty to send secret messages to the Jin Kingdom to tell the truth and falsehoods. Later, he was killed.
, and the tragic end of being massacred together with more than a hundred members of his family...
As for the cause of Yu Wenxuzhong's death, several emperors with a tough attitude in the Jin Dynasty, including Xiaozong and Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty, posthumously gave him, a minister who invested money, the posthumous title Sumin, the temple title Renyong, Shaobao, and the surname
Judging from the Zhao family's deeds, it is very likely that Yu Wenxuzhong was exposed by Qin Hui when both parties in the Song and Jin Dynasties had "Infernal Affairs" internal agents. Zhao Gou intentionally exposed his identity and was executed by the Jin Kingdom.
At least for the moment, Xiao Tang could roughly figure out the concerns and thoughts of the layman Longxi in front of him.
The reason why Yu Wenxuzhong advocated for peace with the Jin State at the beginning should be out of the purpose of allowing the Song Dynasty court to resolve the imminent disaster, temporarily tolerate it and have a chance to breathe, and then pursue a long-term confrontation with the Jin State. The current situation is even more so.
In this way, he seemed to have considered that as long as the Zhao family and the Song Dynasty could be preserved, all the conditions proposed by Xiao Tang could be met.
But at the negotiation table, Yu Wenxu looked at Xiao Tang meaningfully, and still couldn't help but ask: "Although Leader Xiao has made a great contribution to rescuing the country and restoring the country, it's just that although he wanted to carry out vassal affairs, he led all the righteous troops to the north to seize the Jin Dynasty and establish the Song Dynasty.
Ping Fan...and Leader Xiao must have also known that the feudal towns of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties had their own troops, and those who wanted to quell the gold thieves' chaos, but the feudal town could also be called a disaster and cause chaos...if one day the gold thieves invaded from outside
When the war is over, what does Leader Xiao have planned?"
Facing Yu Wenxuzhong's tentative inquiry, Xiao Tang smiled calmly and replied: "Master Yuwen, now we can open the sky and speak openly. The Jin army's invasion of the Central Plains is a foreign invasion for the Song Dynasty, and I lead the rebel armies.
Rebelliousness to the imperial court was indeed an internal trouble for the imperial court. However, the current situation in the Song Dynasty was corrupt, the military was weak, and the disaster for the survival of the country was just around the corner. However, the military and political affairs of the imperial court were completely collapsed, and several divisions of the Western Army that were good at fighting passed through the south of the Yangtze River.
Fang La, the Yanyun war... Now the vitality has been severely damaged. How many chances does the Jin Kingdom have to win when it goes south again?
Recruiting soldiers in feudal towns is conducive to selecting the best and forming a strong army, but it goes against the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty. However, I have betrayed the imperial court before and set up a general office without restraint, so I will inevitably be jealous of the imperial court. But if I am willing to be recruited, I am afraid that the imperial court will
Even more can't tolerate me. Since we will be jealous of the imperial court no matter what, and I and my brothers still want to protect the Central Plains from being harmed by gold thieves, we might as well give it a go and counterattack the foreign barbarians and go straight to the hinterland of the Jin people. So with this
It is inevitable to conquer the captives in the name of the vassal town, so as not to fight the internal strife of the imperial court, and at the same time find a way out for me and all the brothers. As for the day when the trouble of the gold thieves can be finally put under control...for now, it is just a way out
Take one step, count one step, and just follow the trend when the time comes."
Although Xiao Tang was ambiguous at the end, Yu Wenxuzhong's shrewdness and ability immediately thought: The golden thieves destroyed the Liao Dynasty and annexed the entire Northern Dynasty, but you, Xiao Tang, planned to counterattack the north and establish a new Northern Dynasty in the Jin Dynasty.
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But now it has been proved that the smoky Song Dynasty court alone cannot resist the invasion of the Jin army. Although it is unimaginable to allow an anti-thief autonomous vassal town, the two emperors and all the royal heirs were almost defeated by the Jin army.
No dynasty in the history of the Central Plains had ever experienced such a shame and humiliation as being kidnapped and made into slaves, but didn't it make the world more unbelievable?
Since Xiao Tang was a traitor and rebel, he had no loyalty to the Song Dynasty. However, it was obvious that he never wanted to see the Jurchen Tartars invading and causing trouble in the Central Plains. Even if he was ambitious and could lead various rebel armies to replace the Liao and Jin Dynasties,
Another country was established in the Yuan Dynasty, and became the neighboring country to the north of the Song Dynasty. Now the Song Dynasty has bought the remaining time, and can use the original disaster to fight against another greater threat. Where can there be expedient measures to survive the disaster?
What choice is there?
When Yu Wenxu thought about this, he looked at Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, who were frightened and uneasy, as if they couldn't wait to agree to the conditions proposed by Xiao Tang.
, the country is in danger of being destroyed, but Leader Xiao and all the righteous men under his command have done a good job in saving the country. They are willing to contribute to the country and pardon the crimes committed by the old acquaintances as much as possible. Leader Xiao should also be ordered to be given a generous seal and set up a commander's office to deploy.
It will be of great benefit to lead the generals and men under their command, subdue the gold thieves, and enable these righteous men to perform meritorious deeds and serve the country."
