According to the official history, he was originally one of the emperors of the Jin Dynasty who was very well-known in later generations. After his death, he was deposed as a commoner. He attempted to usurp the throne through regicide. However, he was also killed by his ministers because he killed ministers without permission, which led to rebellion and alienation.
Wanyan Liang, King of Hailing. He was smart and studious since he was a child, and had a solid foundation in Chinese culture. He often drank tea and played chess with Han people from the Jin Kingdom and Khitan celebrities, talking about the past and the present. He was also ambitious and talented, eloquent, happy and angry.
He is intangible and has a well-rounded manner. He has been widely praised in the Wanyan clan since he was a child. Based on his reputation, it can be seen that Wanyan Liang is indeed a talent, and can even be said to be a genius.
However, Xiao Tang remembers more clearly that in the official history, the 25-year-old Wan Yanliang relied on his "superb acting skills" to cry bitterly and talk sweetly, so that he gave up the idea of inheriting the throne of the Jin Dynasty according to the original trajectory.
He relied too much on the support of elders such as his adoptive father Wanyan Onben and his uncle Wanyan Zongbi. After the deaths of those auxiliary ministers, he became arrogant and lewd, which made the moody Jin Xizong suspicious. However, only two years later, he cried to the sky to express his loyalty.
Wanyan Liang, who spoke out about their blood ties, walked into the palace of the Jin Dynasty Emperor, who was raised by Wanyan in the same country and had a brotherly relationship. According to historical records, he and the two bribed men
The officer of the bodyguard "Ali came out of the tiger and slashed first, suddenly Tutu was second, Xizong suddenly fell down, Hailing slashed again, blood spattered on his face and clothes"...
What's more, after Wan Yanliang usurped the throne by regicide, he was more cruel than Jin Xizong. Just to stabilize the imperial power, he would rather kill indiscriminately than let anyone go. He unjustly killed all the descendants of Taizong's direct sect and taught Wu Qi to buy the queen, and the rest included
There are more than 30 descendants of Nianhan, more than a hundred descendants of Xieye, more than 20 descendants of Mouliye, and even countless other clan officials who have been exterminated... Therefore, they are considered to have the hatred of their father.
It is not unique in the past dynasties for people who hated their country and surrendered to the enemy. However, Wan Yanliang pretended to burst into tears and bluntly stated that he was willing to surrender to his clan for the sake of his clan, but Xiao Tang would not believe him at all.
Although it seems that the rules of life at his age may not have been finalized, Wan Yanliang's words now suggest that he is good at pretending. This allows Xiao Tang to basically conclude that he has bad intentions. At this age, he must have already begun to try
Obtain high power and high positions through various deceitful means.
As for Wan Yanliang's ambitions, after he usurped the throne, he unabashedly mentioned it to his courtiers: "I am responsible for all major national affairs; I am the only one who can lead an army to attack a distant place and take charge of the emperor's leadership.
The second is: "No matter how close or distant he is, he has the most beautiful women in the world and his wife is the third"... It can also be seen that he is the kind of person with extremely strong material desires, and he will use any means to satisfy all his extravagant desires.
In the same way, you will continue to drive yourself to have enough ability to obtain everything you want.
However, when Wan Yanliang held the power of life and death, he did not know how to restrain himself at all, and his desires were unsatisfied. In order to annex the Southern Song Dynasty and unify China, he worked hard to rectify the government, vigorously promoted Chinese culture, and extremely strengthened centralization.
Brothers, sisters, nieces... the wives and daughters of many blood relatives of the clan who were slaughtered by him were not satisfied with his molestation, and they still wanted to embezzle all the beauties of the Han family in the Song Dynasty.
There is already a beast incarnated by a strong desire in the heart. It is now lying down with its ears muzzled, but it will show its sharp claws when it gets the chance. It wants to devour any living thing it sees, and it will never know how to do it.
Suppress your desires...
Therefore, Xiao Tang could fully expect that Wan Yanliang would wait for the best time and would definitely rebel.
After a period of silence that was almost suffocating, Xiao Tang suddenly spoke, but his tone turned soft and said: "It's rare for you to have such insight at your age, and I don't want to commit murder for no reason. When your grandfather
Emperor Aguda was indeed a man of great talent and strategy. Not only did he initiate the Yuan Dynasty and found the country, he also used kindness and power to make many Khitan people obey and obey... Now that the power of the Jin Kingdom has been exhausted, we must be gentle and appease the Jurchen people to submit to our Qi Dynasty.
It is also indispensable for you to wait for the surrender of the Jin Dynasty clan and your full cooperation. When I am employing people, I must be a meritocracy. If you can work together and be loyal, you must also be promoted, receive titles, and be rewarded. You...
Do you understand?"
After hearing this, Wan Yanliang burst into tears of gratitude and shouted "Long Live the Mountain". He kowtowed to the ground and thanked him repeatedly. However, when he was led away by the sergeant, Wan Yanliang's lips seemed to have a faint smile, and he
There seems to be a hint of ferociousness in her eyes that are red from crying with gratitude and sorrow, but Wan Yanliang is also convinced that since she has initially gained Xiao Tang's trust... instead of openly talking to you
Fight to the death, as long as I can lurk by your side secretly, you, Xiao Tang, will not be able to notice how I, Wan Yanliang, will plan and act...
At least that's what he thought.
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Although the Jin Kingdom fell, there was no guarantee that after three or four hundred years, Jianzhou, Haixi, Donghai... and other ministries would still appear on this land with the same name as Jurchen, and after unification, they would be renamed Manchuria.
If we want to fundamentally solve the border troubles and even national subjugation that the Northland has caused to the Central Plains dynasty in the past, Xiao and Tang still focused on eliminating the disputes that would inevitably arise over time between farming, nomadic, and fishing and hunting civilizations in this era through assimilation.
of difference.
The Jurchen tribes now under the control of the Qi Dynasty were dispersed according to the decrees of the Xiao and Tang Dynasties, like stars falling into the clouds, and were placed in counties and towns dominated by Han people in the three northeastern provinces of later generations. They ranged from hundreds of people,
There may be as many as nearly a thousand people, and naturally they may plow the fields and plant crops. After all, even in this era, the Liao and Jin dynasties included a huge number of Han family members in the north. However, although there were large areas of land in eastern Liaoning where wind and snow were raging,
, it is sparsely populated, and in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, it can be said to be a bitter, cold, remote and barbaric land. However, nowadays, there may not be conditions for large-scale reclamation of wasteland for farming.
Although the frost period in the Northeast Plain, which was known as the national food and grass in later generations, was long and cold-resistant crops had to be planted in large quantities, such as corn, potatoes, alpine rice, etc., were either introduced during the Ming Dynasty or through cross-breeding.
Grain products are of course hard to come by in this era. However, agriculturally grown grains such as japonica rice, spring wheat, soybeans, sorghum (sorghum), etc., which are also the main crops in the Northeast in later generations, were already planted on a large scale in the Song Dynasty. Even today in later generations
The Nenjiang Plain in northern Heilongjiang Province still lacks the conditions for agricultural mechanization to reclaim and transform the "Great Northern Wilderness" into the "Northern Great Cang". However, the wave of migration to the Guandong region that began in the late Qing Dynasty also taught tens of millions of people to take root in the black soil of the Northeast.
Now, are you still worried about not being able to accommodate the Jurchens, whose number is probably far less than a million?
What's more, some Jurchen leaders, such as Shi Tuhei of the Wulin tribe, who took the initiative to surrender, also had the approval of Xiao Tang, who allowed the entire clan to move inland and were given fiefs for resettlement. However, these were limited in number and moved to Yanyun and even Hebei and Jingdong.
The rate of assimilation will only be faster for the surrendered ministers and people of the territory. For example, in the official history, nearly two million people of the Jurchen tribe who lived and multiplied in the middle of the Jin Dynasty moved inland to the Central Plains, living in mixed areas with the Han people and living on farming. In the Jin Kingdom,
At the time of its demise, it had already integrated into the Han people.
In this way, any Jurchen ethnic group who is willing to submit to the rule of the Qi Dynasty should open up wasteland, be granted a title, and move inward... For them, the power of the leaders of each tribe corresponds to that of the Qi Dynasty.
were preserved, and the livelihood of the people of each tribe was guaranteed. For Xiao Tang, the first step in order to permanently eliminate the hidden dangers that would come from the Northeast to the country of the Central Plains has basically been implemented.
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Just like the establishment of the Wei League system to recruit and resettle the Mongol and Wei tribes in the desert, Xiao Tang also knew very well that the governance and control policies for the Jurchen tribes also had to go through a process of gradual improvement according to the times. However, when he first met
The heroes of the Water Margin gathered together for righteousness, recruited all kinds of wise and brave people, and took the wrong direction. The original intention has been achieved up to now. After all, the Jin Kingdom can no longer swallow up half of the Central Plains as it did in its original trajectory, along with another part of the desert.
As a nation, they will probably not build the huge empire that destroyed the Song Dynasty. Xiao Tang also knew very well that the next goal he would focus on was to unify the world and annex the Zhao family to the Song Dynasty...
After all, to wipe out the evil and sweep across the eight wastelands, what China and China in this era need to achieve is the unification.
(The end of "Volume 9 of China's Mountains and Rivers", the preview of the final volume of "Volume 10 of Our Water Margin"...)
Note: When I wrote the last volume, I tried to combine Water Margin and official history as much as possible, but I have persisted until now. Many times, I have been exhausted mentally and physically. However, according to the way of writing the romance in the legendary storybook, it mythologizes the heroes of Liangshan and infinitely weakens the real-name generals in the history of Song and Jin.
After all, it is too unrealistic to use military power and national power to unify the country. But if the context is sorted out as reasonably as possible and the focus is on official history, the flavor of Water Margin will inevitably become diluted. I have already discovered the problem.
As for the last volume, we should try our best to focus on the fate of the people in the Water Margin, just like the characters such as Chao Gai, Bai Sheng, Shi Jiedu and others who have been explained before. In addition to Yue Fei's line, there are also stories about the struggle for hegemony and siege of cities and territories.
, I will only try my best to give a general and reasonable summary of the political battles and conspiracies, and there will also be interspersed with chapters where the characters in the Water Margin are coming to an end one after another, so that the explanation will not be complicated and unclear at the end. In short, I will try my best to persist until the end.
