Chapter 389 The ancient city of Baozhou, the multifaceted history
(Thanks to Chen Yunyan and QQ reader user Chuhe for their tips this week...)
Although the inn where Xiao Tang and others stayed was quite large, the food they served was really unsatisfactory. The stewed fish soup was rotten, a few vegetables and meats could only be considered freshly cooked, and throat-burning liquor had a very bad taste.
In the inns of this size in the Song Dynasty, people usually pay attention to the food and the food. It was fine for a day or two at first, but as the days went by, Shi Jin got angry and scolded the innkeeper: "
Wu, you fellow! Our money has never been less than yours. You are bullying us! You are trying to offend us with this kind of rotten food. Isn't it easy to be a master?"
The innkeeper was originally a wealthy Bohai man in Baozhou City. Hearing Shi Jin scolding him, he was about to get angry, but when he saw that Xiao Tang, Shi Jin, the Yan brothers and others were all fierce and brave, they also had weapons at their disposal.
It seems that he is not easy to deal with, so he secretly said to Shi Jin that it would be better to do more than to do less, and said to Shi Jin with a sigh of relief: "Sir, the current situation is not peaceful. In the past few years, the Jurchens and the Koreans have been fighting constantly. Recently,
At that time, the herdsmen were hit by the white plague, and the farmers' harvests were very meager. The government was unable to help, and the people in the city stopped from ten times to three or four times. It is not easy for me to open the inn and do business, but I don't mean to neglect you."
When Xiao Tang saw that the Khitan, Bohai, Jurchen, Goryeo and other ethnic groups were mixed in Baozhou City, and it was an important town on the border between Liao and Goryeo, he said: "It is like the heroes, Ba, Ansu Army, Guangxin Army, Xincheng Army between Song and Liao Dynasties.
There are several forecourts. When the two countries trade with each other, the local business is very prosperous. Baozhou is adjacent to Korea. If there is a forecourt here, the place will not be so depressed."
Xu Guanzhong knew that Xiao Tang intended to invade Liaodong, so he spent a lot of time studying the situation in the coastal states south of Liaodong. After hearing what Xiao Tang said, he replied: "Brother Xiao Tang is right. In fact, the Liao Dynasty
When Yelu Hongji was in power, he intended to set up a quarry market in Baozhou and other places. However, the Koryo Kingdom was afraid that the Liao Kingdom would encroach on the territory on the east bank of the Yalu River and begged the Liao Dynasty to stop the quarry market, so the Liao Kingdom had no choice but to give up.
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Later, Xiao Tang listened to Xu Guanzhong's detailed explanation. At that time, the Koryo Kingdom was actively engaged in territorial expansion and had been trying to annex the old lands of the Goguryeo Kingdom. According to the Koryo Kingdom's vision, the area north of the Yalu River, including the Tokyo Road of the Liao Kingdom, and the vast land of Liaodong were
It was once the territory of Goguryeo, so it should also belong to Goguryeo.
But how could Daliao, which had already founded the country in the Yuan Dynasty and had just annexed the Bohai Kingdom, endure it? On the western front, the famous Liao generals Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xiezhen defeated the Yongxi Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty, forcing the Song Dynasty to adopt a strategic offensive.
After switching to strategic defense, Yelu Longxu, the reigning Emperor of the Liao Dynasty at that time, immediately used the name "The great dynasty (Liao Kingdom) has already lost its old land of Gaogouli, and now your country has invaded the territory, so we came here to fight for it".
He ordered General Xiao Hengde to lead hundreds of thousands of troops across the Yalu River, thus completely frightening Goryeo and making it dare not look north again to covet Liaodong.
After hearing this, Xiao Tang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Too many people in later generations of China only remember the heroic sacrifice of Yang Laolinggong Yang Ye, the first generation of Yang family generals in Yongxi's Northern Expedition, and always regarded the Liao Kingdom as occupying the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Hulu barbarians. But how many people know that Daliao, the Northern Dynasty also in Chinese history, defeated the Goryeo Kingdom's ambition to occupy the vast land in the Northeast several times?
In later generations, many people in South Korea have been clamoring for the Bohai Kingdom and Goguryeo in history. The leaders were the old lands of their homeland. However, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the emperors and ministers believed that the land of Goguryeo was "the country of Jizi in the Zhou Dynasty, and the Xuantu County of the Han Dynasty! Wei, Jin "Already in front, close to the title" Therefore, after conquering Goguryeo, all its territory was classified as an area directly under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty.
Even Xiao Hengde, the Liao general who conquered Goguryeo, once warned Goguryeo very domineeringly: The Silla your country inherited has nothing to do with Goguryeo. It can only occupy the land of Silla. If the Liao Dynasty annexed Bohai, it should be from Bohai. Take over the original land of Goguryeo. You, Goguryeo, are clearly bordering our country, but through the sea route you intend to collude with the Song Dynasty in plotting against our country. If we don’t fight you, who will we fight? Give up all the homeland of Goguryeo and pay tribute to me, Daliao. What will happen next? It is easy to discuss. (Original text in historical records: "Your country prospered in the land of Xinluo. I own the land of Gaoguli. However, you eroded it and joined the land with me and crossed the sea to the Song Dynasty. Therefore, we have today's division. If you cede the land to offer it But there is nothing wrong with cultivating imperial appointments").
However, the Song Dynasty, which had always been regarded as the Zhengshuo of China at that time, wanted to compete with the Liao Kingdom for the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, so they did not insist on the idea that the hometown of Goguryeo was "close to the title" like the Tang Dynasty. What's more, for the Song Dynasty At that time, Liaodong and even the entire northeastern region of China in later generations was a foreign land. Therefore, in order to make an appointment with Goryeo to attack the Liao Kingdom, the Song people adopted a tacit attitude towards the statement that Goryeo was the successor of Goguryeo. This view was also continued in "History of Liao", "History of Liao", and "History of Jin", which was also an important basis for South Korea to later clamor "Goguryeo and Bohai are ours".
Tong Guan, Cai Jing and others raised the banner of "restoring the Han family" and joined forces with the Jin Dynasty to conquer the Liao Dynasty. Instead, the Jin Kingdom established by the Jurchens took advantage of the situation and destroyed half of the country in the Central Plains that occupied the Northern Song Dynasty. If Yongxi really allowed Cao Cao during the Northern Expedition The 200,000-strong army led by famous Song generals such as Bin, Pan Mei, and Yang Ye killed the Liao Kingdom and severely damaged it. How could the Koryo Kingdom not take this opportunity to invite the Song Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty and occupy the entire territory of Liaodong?
The historical situation of any period must be viewed from many angles. For the Central Plains, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are certainly an important barrier to defend the north. Even the Song and Liao countries did kill for this area several times, but for those Therefore, as for the people who are desperately trying to demonize the Khitans in Saibei, another ethnic group of the Chinese nation, if everything goes as they want, China will probably lose more now.
Sometimes Imperialism is really undesirable...
Xiao Tang also heard from Xu Guanzhong that although Goryeo had surrendered to the Liao Dynasty, it secretly made small moves from time to time: secretly absorbing immigrants from the Bohai Sea, instigating the relationship between the Jurchen tribes and the Khitan, building cities and fortifications on the border, and not sending troops to the border on time. The Liao State paid tribute, and even had an affair with the Song State again...
Furious, the Liao Kingdom built Fuliang on the Yalu River and built Baozhou City as a military stronghold to threaten and control Goryeo. With such a nail stuck in front of them, the entire Goryeo Kingdom was even more uneasy, not to mention the Liao Kingdom building the Gongkou Gate. , postal booths and the opening of fields and nunneries near Baozhou made the Goryeo people think that this was Daliao's preparation for invading their country. Therefore, Goryeo sent envoys to the Liao State several times, using the excuse that the construction of Baozhou and other castles would affect farming. "Stop building a castle east of the Yajiang River".
At that time, Emperor Tianzuo's grandfather Yelu Hongji, the Daozong of the Liao Dynasty, would not pay attention to those duplicitous Korean envoys. Don't you Koreans like to make small moves? I just want to station troops and build a city here so that I can give you a warning!
However, in recent years, there have been frequent civil strife in Liao. Goryeo, which originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to expand northward, did not expect that the fierce Jurchen tribes led by Aguda became increasingly powerful. During the six-year war, Goryeo devoted all its efforts to the north.
It was defeated by the barbarian tribes in the Black Water of Qunbai Mountain, and its plan to occupy the Northeast was completely curbed. The situation in Baozhou and several state capitals on the east and west sides of the Yalu River was also chaotic. The control of the Liao government was also getting weaker and weaker. Now
Many tribal leaders in the Liao Kingdom had already rebelled. Emperor Zuo was busy traveling and having fun that day, so how could he care about these extremely remote border military towns?
That's good... Baozhou is not far from overseas Pidao and other places. The more chaotic the situation nearby, the less likely it is to attract the attention of the Liao Dynasty officials by setting up a stronghold and a town here...
Xiao Tang was thinking in his mind. At this moment, he saw Xiao Yi walking into the inn with a fair and handsome man. The man was wearing a bamboo hat and couldn't see his appearance clearly for a while. But when he saw Xiao Tang, he immediately said happily: "
Brother Xiaotang, I haven’t seen you for a long time, it’s hard to think about it!”
