As we all know, when Qin Hui was kidnapped to the Kingdom of Jin, his experience and mentality went through a gradual process.
At first, it was because he wrote well and was the most charming and courteous among the Song Dynasty officials, so he was favored by Nianhan, and then he received preferential treatment during his journey north.
As far as this is concerned, it actually means nothing.
Then, he received protection and preferential treatment from Jin Kingdom dignitaries such as Wu Qimai and Ta Lan one after another, and became a strange figure between a guest and a prisoner of Jin Kingdom dignitaries. Although in theory he acted passively, there has been a quantitative change.
It triggered a process of qualitative change. Because in this process, Qin Hui had gradually begun to do literary work for these Jin Dynasty nobles, received a certain amount of gold, silver, and silk as rewards, lived in a big house, and even had the ability to use the Jin Dynasty nobles to
exerted influence on some things.
So finally one day, he started to follow Talan in the army, write documents to persuade people to surrender, and do staff work. At this time, the nature of his behavior was completely undoubted, and it would be difficult to clean it up.
But at this time, Qin Hui himself has always been cautious, or deliberately concealed.
The reason is self-evident. Qin Huizhi had already had his heart and lungs drawn out during the historic meeting with Hong Ya. This man who became the censor Zhongcheng in his thirties is not a fool. He knows deeply that no matter what, it is best to
The result is that he will return to the south and continue to serve as an official in his lifetime... He is a southerner, a Jinshi, the grandson-in-law of the prime minister, and a student of another prime minister. After witnessing the barbarism of the Jin people and the fate of the plundered soldiers and civilians in the north,
, his ultimate pursuit is to get out of this quagmire and return to the south to continue to be a great man. He would only choose to stay in the north to become a high-ranking official as a last resort.
It is precisely for this reason that he always acts cautiously, trying not to show his face in public, and does not seek any official positions in the north. He just hopes that one day he can successfully return to the south and make a grand appearance... And what is interesting is that the top brass of the Jin Kingdom have always given it their approval.
convenient.
However, all the ingenious ideas and careful calculations were smashed time and time again by the Zhao Guan family in the south... just like a hammer smashing porcelain, it can't be more direct.
Sometimes, Qin Hui couldn't help but feel suspicious. Is it because the official in the south was too young and a fool? Then he comforted himself, wondering if the other party would change in the future? But after comforting him, he
I can only lament my situation - how can I be able to relax even if I am huddled up all day long?!
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that once evil thoughts arose, Scholar Qin became a little more aggressive... Whether he was pursuing peace talks and returning to the south, or pursuing a high position in the north through peace talks, he could not tolerate Nianhan's behavior.
exists.
It’s only the other person’s fault for standing in front of him!
The so-called murderous intention is the same, and everything is disregarded.
Of course, to put it another way... breaking the jar and breaking the pot also roughly means the same thing.
No matter what happened, it's just that Qin Huizhi was stimulated and lamented his situation. For a moment, he tore the flinch on his head, and then came back, but he just carried chestnuts and talked to Wanyan Wushu, who had revealed some of his feelings before.
After a stick of incense, he left directly. But after Qin Hui left, Wanyan Wushu tossed and turned again that night, unable to sleep for a while.
This is not to say that Qin Hui's idea is not feasible. On the contrary, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom had never imagined that a white-faced scholar could see the situation so thoroughly, and point out such a simple and direct way as easily as a cook trying to understand a cow.
But there is a path that is very possible to implement. It really feels like making a huge difference... And with such a prosperous road so clearly laid out in front of him, the fourth prince actually flinched.
It's not that he doesn't dare. After all, the fourth prince has stepped on the last step of the founding of the country. How can he be afraid of this after rolling in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood... His momentary hesitation was just that he was worried that such a treatment would
It will not bring further turmoil to the country, but will only leave a gap for the owner of the dragon mask in the south.
That’s right!
The fourth prince who narrowly escaped death from Yaoshan was no longer the proud and arrogant fourth prince he had been before. His pride, arrogance, and arrogance had long been affected by the heavy rain on the night of the battle at Yaoshan, and the torrential turbulence when crossing the river later.
Lang gave it a clean wash!
Not only that, that battle was full of blood. Whether it was Wanyan Loushi's Shenwu charge, the dragon's banner pressing down on the top of Mount Tai, or Han Chang's laughter by the river, they all left an indelible impression on him.
He no longer had any doubts about the revival of Zhao and Song Dynasties, nor about the decline of the Jin Kingdom's military power. Moreover, when he was holding the white wooden dragon in the river that day, he had already sworn in his heart that if he could get it
In life, he must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and must shoulder the important responsibilities of his family and country... No matter what, he will never allow himself to witness the scene of the dragon rolling down Yanjing.
Within two days, Wu Shu was conflicted in his heart, but it didn't show on his face at all. As a result, Qin Hui could only suppress his uneasiness and pretend that nothing happened... Until the morning of the third day, the two came to the Marshal's Mansion again to attend court.
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"That's all about today..."
Nianhan stood alone in a high position, drank a cup of tea, and then clapped his hands. "Besides these, there are a few things that need to be done proactively. The first one is. I think Goryeo has to send an envoy over to ask for tribute. This time
It has to be doubled. Why? Because after the death of Oriyan (Lou Shi) in the battle, Goryeo immediately sent envoys to Bianjing. It can be seen that we are fundamentally dissatisfied with it, but the more dissatisfied we are, the more strict we should be.
It’s better to be harsher.”
Wushu and the rest of them all nodded in disbelief.
I have to say that Nianhan's handling was quite right... In the poor place of Goryeo, when the Jurchens were in Liaodong in the past, they really regarded it as a strong enemy, and they really regarded the Goryeo Dynasty as a place of wealth, but later they swallowed Liao.
, overthrew the Song Dynasty, and got the precious land like Hebei, and then looked at the miserable place of Goryeo, and felt that it was too lazy to even use troops.
And since you have no intention of destroying the opponent, it is extremely necessary to use diplomatic means to intimidate him.
Nianhan did not look at anyone else. He only saw Wushu nodding, so he no longer hesitated and nodded directly. Then he continued to speak in the audience: "Then it's settled. There is one more thing. Yelu Mawu sent a message.
It is said that Yelu Yujian has been behaving strangely these days... What do you think?"
Wu Shu and the others looked at each other, how could they think of this nonsense?
A high-level demoted general who was deprived of his military power was once a Khitan man who served as the marshal's right-hand supervisor of the army in the Kingdom of Jin. When Taizu was here, this man was begging for children and concubines in the army, which triggered Taizu's anger.
Wanyan Aguda's suspicion; later when the Jin army went south to destroy the Song Dynasty and create the Jingkang Rebellion, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wrote a letter to induce him to surrender, which further aroused the suspicion of the Jin Dynasty's top brass, so that after Jingkang, he gradually deprived him of his military power; and now,
Loushi died in the battle, and then the king suddenly suffered a stroke. You Nianhan also became the marshal of the country's Bojilie and the capital. The living girl is still making trouble with Balisu across the river. Yelu Yujian, if he is not behaving strangely in the west,
That’s weird!
So what do you think? Just sit and watch!
Anyway, there is no soldier left, can we still find flowers?
"What I mean is, let Ba Lisu kill him." Nianhan thought for a moment and continued. "It saves him the chance of running to the other side of the river and shaking the morale of the army."
"That's true, but if Yelu Yujian is really killed, what will happen to Yelu Ma Wu and the rest of the Khitan troops in the East and West Route Army?" Wu Shu said seriously. "With the current situation, wouldn't it still shake people's hearts?
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Nian Han shook his head: "Of course I know that it is all about shaking the morale of the army, but things have to be looked at from other places. He ran to the other side of the river, whether he surrendered to the Song people or the Xixia people, or went to the Mengwu to see Yelu Dashi, what happened?
When the flag comes, the morale of the Khitan army will always be shaken. If we kill, it will only be temporarily shaken. As the saying goes, long-term pain is not as good as short-term pain, and we can also take the opportunity to show our authority to the Khitan people and Xi people in the army..."
Wu Shu immediately woke up and nodded.
But at this moment, Nianhan continued: "Moreover, he has occupied this position in the Marshal's Mansion for many years. Apart from him, it is convenient for people like Lisu and Huonv to come up."
Everyone cheered up together.
To put it bluntly, the Kingdom of Jin still had to talk about military power... Yelu Yu saw that it was because he had no military power that he was treated like a pig and discussed how to kill him and when to kill him.
The military power of the Jin Kingdom can be roughly divided into three areas.
The field armies are naturally the two armies of the East and West, each with nearly one hundred thousand soldiers at their peak. In addition to the two armies, there are also a certain number of left-behind troops and garrisons scattered in Yanjing, Huanglong Prefecture, Liaoyang Prefecture, Datong...
...That is, for all the places in the original Liao Kingdom, this number, if you add in bits and pieces from east, west, north, south, would be one hundred thousand.
300,000 was the highest peak in the Jin Kingdom during its heyday, the year after the Jin Kingdom created the Jingkang Incident.
Of course, the garrison does not count after all. If the garrison were to be included, the Song Dynasty on the opposite side could now claim five to six million. Even everyone here knows that it is impossible not to leave troops in these places.
, at most, it is just a transit channel to select some elites to join the East and West armies.
Therefore, the key lies in the east and west armies.
But back to the present, even if we only talk about the East and West armies, the situation seems a bit strange.
First of all, the losses in the defeat of Yaoshan, including dead, injured and non-combat attrition, plus the previous losses in Fangzhou, calculated all the way, it is similar to what the Song army had guessed, the exact losses of more than 10,000 are indeed there. Moreover,
Most or even the vast majority of them are the core troops under the Meng'an Muke system. In other words, during the Battle of Yaoshan, the ratio of Meng'an Muke and supplementary troops in the Jurchen field troops directly changed, and then the
The ratio of Jurchen soldiers to other ethnic groups' soldiers and horses has also changed... Just now Wushu was worried that killing Yelu Yujian would cause the morale of the army to be shaken. This was also the reason.
There is no way, this is the tragedy of the small Juche ethnic group, and it is also the fundamental reason why the Battle of Yaoshan only killed 10,000 or 20,000 people, but it shocked the entire Jin Kingdom, so that the country's leader became angry. The loss of these soldiers and horses,
In addition, there are two East Route Army households with a total of 10,000 households, which is due to the collapse of the organizational system. This cannot be compensated by supplementing the figures completely.
However, this is only a direct loss. Another serious problem at present is that the command authority of the army was split after the war.
The West Route Army was divided into two, with the main part on the east bank of the Yellow River, but a small number of core troops stayed in northern Shaanxi with live women; the East Route Army also split, but this split was not caused by fighting, but
When the top brass of the Jin Kingdom were greatly shocked by the defeat of Yaoshan, Nianhan suddenly went south to Damingfu in order to protect himself and took away the military power from Talan.
Not only that, at that time Wanyan Wushu was in Huguan and Wanyan Yinliduo was in Hezhong Mansion. Of course, the two brothers had no intention of handing over the troops. However, the two brothers were brothers after all, and they had always been relatively harmonious, which was superficial.
It can only be called a road.
But in fact, everyone knows that this fourth prince has suffered repeated defeats, but his political status has been rising again and again. Especially because of his previous contribution to bringing Nianhan back to Yanjing, he is now qualified to form an independent faction.
In other words, the current main field force of the Jin Army has been artificially divided into five. Among them, the West Route Army is divided into two. One is in Yan'an, controlled by the eldest son and daughter of the Lou family, with about ten thousand people; the other is in Taiyuan,
Under the control of Wanyanba Lisu, there were about thirty or forty thousand households; and the East Route Army was also divided into three. Wushu controlled two complete ten thousand households in Huguan and Hanoi areas; Daming Prefecture had three ten thousand households, and the original commander
The first was Talan, the representative of the country's leader Wu Qimai, but was directly taken away by Nianhan riding south alone; then there were three thousand households, plus the original troops left behind by the West Route Army in Hezhong Prefecture, and the elite soldiers used by Lou Shi
The 20,000 Han soldiers who were left behind after the strategy were all there.
"What are you going to do with Marshal Du?" Yin Shuke, an old man, asked cautiously. "Do living girls also need to be promoted?"
"Simple, the arrangements have been made according to the previous post-war arrangements. The third prince and fourth prince don't need to move anywhere. Don't worry about the soldiers and horses of the West Route Army at the third prince's place. They are all for the country... Just let
The third prince will continue to be the left deputy marshal, and the fourth prince will be the right deputy marshal. There is no need to give special orders to the living girl. He will be given the title of Northern Shaanxi Marching Department and Marshal Right Superintendent, and he will conduct some defense in northern Shaanxi and lead the way.
Where can I go outside the river... Ba Lisu will be the marshal's right supervisor and stay behind in Taiyuan." Nianhan's face was as usual and he spoke easily. He actually pointed out several important marshal positions in the marshal's mansion. "Talan is promoted.
Marshal Zuo Jianjun is in charge of my duties here in the Marshal's Mansion, but in Daming Mansion, why not let Gao Jingshan be Marshal Zuo Dujian and watch over Henan from Daming Mansion."
Everything mentioned above was pretty good. Only Yin Shuke was a little depressed because he couldn't deal with the live girl. But in the end, almost everyone turned pale... because in the end, it was not just a waste of time, but also Nian Han.
It means directly swallowing up the three thousand households in Daming Mansion!
And if you think about it carefully, the two armies of the East and West are completely empty, and the military power is divided into five, with Nianhan alone leading the third. In addition, controlling the Bojilie Conference and the Marshal's Mansion is equivalent to controlling the left-behind and garrison troops in various places.
With all the military resources in hand, the power of appointing and removing local officials is not a problem.
And based on this calculation, this marshal is two points stronger than Taizu when he was at the height of his power!
In fact, the following situation in the hall really verified this point. During the Taizu period, people could still discuss these important appointments at will, but now, after Nianhan finished speaking, no one refuted it for a long time.
Who dares to refute?
Being stripped of everything idle? He wanted to refute, but he didn't want to serve the king. Yin Shuke naturally had objections to his brother's failure to completely take over the West Route Army, but he had raised it several times.
It was just refuted by Nianhan, so it was destined to be useless.
After a long pause, the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu sighed inwardly, and then looked at the faces of everyone in the hall one by one. Nian Hanzhi was complacent and did not mention it, while the eldest brother Wanyan Oben looked livid and glared at them;
Brother Wanyan Liduo remained silent; he bowed his head too lazily and did not meet his eyes; Wanyan Yinshu was deep in thought... And finally, just as Wushu set his sights on Wanyan Xiyin who was eager to try, someone suddenly spoke
Already.
Everyone looked around, only to find that it was the eldest prince Wanyan Bunben who had almost become an idler from the top contender for the reserve position in just half a year.
"Even though the Du Marshal's Mansion is self-contained, is there no need for the Du Marshal to report such an arrangement to the king?" Wanyan Offen stood up and shouted fiercely in front of everyone. "What kind of rule is this? From the time when Taizu raised his troops to the moon
This has never been said before!”
Nianhan's expression suddenly changed, but he twirled his beard and sneered in the audience: "Your Majesty is right! That's good. In two days, the eldest prince and I will report to the king to see if the king has anything else to say. You
Seems feasible?!"
Wanyan Oben was furious for a moment, but he had no choice but to glare at his two younger brothers, and then walked away.
Wu Shu, on the other hand, suddenly spoke at this moment, as if to interrupt and ease the atmosphere: "Marshal Du, if the troops and horses are almost deployed, it is time to transfer some troops and horses from Liaoyang and Huanglong Mansion to replenish the damage before the battle, right?"
Nianhan quickly became vigilant after hearing this: "I will handle this matter personally..."
Wu Shu immediately sighed: "Marshal Du, I just want to say that the soldiers and horses mobilized this time are nothing more than others. Why don't the two thousand households of the Eastern Route Army find a big city to camp alone instead of enfeoffing Hebei?
You must know that since the East Route Army was assigned to the Hebei area, they have been gambling, fighting and hunting all day long, making the local people miserable, and their own fighting strength has gradually been reduced..."
Nian Han raised his eyebrows slightly, and Wanyan Xiyin below also became serious, but after thinking for a moment, the powerful marshal still shook his head: "It's not easy to shake the morale of the army... A true soldier who gave birth to a girl from Liaodong, after seeing
Everyone else has servants and household items, but I don't have any, so I can't help but feel resentful. Besides, this time at least 20,000 households have to be replenished. If the replenishment reaches a city, who will take care of it? Is it better to set up a marshal's mansion to supervise the army?
Leave it to your fourth child?"
When Wu Shu heard these words, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he smiled softly, but then he said nothing.
Behind him, Qin Huizhi, who was sitting there, looked at the side of the fourth prince's face and the corners of his mouth, and when he saw the other prince smiled softly, his whole body froze.
By the way, things have become very obvious. Qin Huizhi has seen it clearly these days. Everyone here has something they want... For example, Qin Hui wants to be transcended from the sea of suffering and enjoy wealth and power; and like Wanyan Wushu, he wants something.
Reorganize the army and rebuild the great Jin Dynasty.
And what about Wanyan Nianhan?
The marshal of the capital was pushed to this dangerous position by accident. On the one hand, he was complacent and wanted to work hard to maintain this unscrupulous situation. On the other hand, he was wary, fearing that once he lost his position, he would fall into the hands of the country.
The situation is like begging for money... Therefore, on the outside, Wanyan Nianhan monopolizes power and is wanton, but on the other hand, he is cautious and never dares to touch the interests of the army without authorization and cause real danger.
And this is the real reason why he treats beautiful women, woos unskilled women, and is idle and lazy.
But coincidentally, Wanyan Wushu had already decided that to realize his great rationality, he had to start with preparing the army. There was a structural conflict between the two, and there was no room for maneuver.
In other words, Qin Huizhi just saw the Fourth Prince's smile and knew clearly that his strategy was going to work. Then I dare to ask, why didn't he feel as if he had seen a beautiful woman and his whole body went numb?