Chapter 280 The Sword Points at Japan (31) A dull knife kills people, but no edge is the sharpest
Sichuan, pacifying the Japanese war route.
"The emperor hopes that the Jurchens will move south to Xianjing Road?" Gao pragmatic touched his chin, frowned slightly, and asked the white-faced and beardless Dongchang Dajun in front of him: "Is this the emperor's intention, or is it the cabinet's suggestion?
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Daxuan said respectfully: "Returning to the Marquis is the cabinet's suggestion, but the Emperor seems to be quite interested in it. Of course, what the Emperor cares about most is your opinion, so why don't I just leave it to you?"
Hurry up and catch up with this grain ship and come to ask for your instructions face to face."
"Well..." Gao pragmatic pondered for a moment and said: "When you go back, tell the emperor that northern Korea has most of the minerals in the entire peninsula, and the reserves are huge, and they must be firmly in the hands of Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I think
The three northern roads of Korea, Jingdao, Ping'an Road and Huanghaidao, should not be handed over to the Jurchens under any circumstances.
If the emperor believes that moving the Jurchens southward will help consolidate Liaodong, or even use it as an opportunity to rebuild Nuergandusi, then I suggest that the three major Jurchens simply move further south, to Gangwon Province and Gyeongsang Province, or even
It wouldn't be a bad idea to give them the Jeolla Road as well."
Dongchang Dajun was shocked and stammered: "Hou, Mr. Hou, this is the three southern roads of Korea. It is said that the climate is mild and the water source is sufficient. Although Gangwon Road and Gyeongsang Road are mainly mountainous, most of their mountains are hills.
There are many fertile fields.
Not to mention Jeolla Province, it is one of the granaries of Korea. How can such a wealthy place be advantageous to the Jurchen barbarians? The Jurchens are nesting in the old forests of Manchuria. It will be quite troublesome for us to suppress them. Once such a land rich in money and food is
If you give it to them, it will be difficult to handle if something unexpected happens in the future!"
"Hahahaha!" Gao Pragmatic laughed and shook his head: "Do you think letting them nest in the mountains and old forests is the best way to suppress them? You are wrong! Let me tell you, the Jurchens nesting in the mountains and old forests are the most difficult to deal with.
Yes, but let them go to the so-called wealthy land in your mouth. In less than twenty years, the Jurchens will no longer pose a threat to our Ming Dynasty."
Daxuan was stunned and puzzled, and said hesitantly: "What the Marquis said... I forgive my ignorance, it is really difficult to understand. I would like to ask the Marquis to give me the reason, so that I can reply to the Emperor after I return to the capital."
"Renwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes." Gao Pingshi smiled faintly, but sighed softly for some reason, and said: "Go and talk to the emperor, and ask the emperor to recall my views on the decline of the Jin Kingdom when we discussed the history of the Jin Dynasty with him.
I believe the emperor will understand my intention."
"Is that all?" Da Jue was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Do you want to add something more and be more detailed?"
"No need, the emperor will understand." Gao pragmatically waved his hand.
"Yes, Lord Marquis, I understand." Daxuan did not dare to ask any more questions. After a pause, he asked again: "Master Marquis, is there anything else you want to tell the Emperor?"
Gao pragmatic pondered slightly and said: "Well... you tell the emperor that no matter how big the changes will be in North Korea's political arena, and no matter how many complaints the court receives from North Korea, you only need to answer one sentence: 'North Korea affairs have been settled by the Japanese Economic Strategy.
Just take full authority to host it."
"Ah, this, this..." Da Ju couldn't help swallowing, as if his throat was dry, and he hesitated: "Master Marquis, if you say this, I'm afraid the cabinet and the government and the public will inevitably criticize..."
"I know." Gao Pingshi nodded solemnly, but still insisted: "If you tell the emperor, you will do a lot of things in the future. Someone will inevitably bear the infamy in the history, but the emperor is the master of the Ming Dynasty and the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty, and is destined to be glorious for all generations.
There must never be such a stigma attached to it.
I was already prepared to take responsibility before I came to North Korea. If someone has to bear the infamy, then let me be pragmatic. After all... even if such a big infamy is passed on to others, it actually doesn't matter.
Gotta push."
Dongchang Dajue was greatly shocked when he heard this. He looked at Gao Pragmatic with an inexplicable expression for a while. Finally, he took a deep breath, bowed to the ground respectfully, and kowtowed: "No one is more loyal than the Marquis in the world! What the Marquis said
I will convey the message to the Emperor verbatim, please rest assured."
Gao pragmatic nodded slightly, gently helped Da Jue up, and said, "By the way, say hello to Duke Lingang for me."
Daxuan said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, I understand."
The so-called Linggang Gong is Chen Ju, and Linggang is his nickname. Although he is no longer directly in charge of Dongchang, since the fall of Zhang Jing and others, Dongchang has almost no "hostile forces" - at least it is clear that
Not on the surface.
In addition, he has maintained a good alliance with Gao Pragmatic, the emperor's first confidant, for many years. Therefore, although he does not care about Dongchang, Dongchang has to actually obey his orders. Therefore, his old department in Dongchang is now also
Everyone is prospering, and today this Dajue is also a close confidant of Chen Ju - a close confidant who calls Chen Ju his godfather.
After Da Yue left, Gao Jingshi ordered three people named Gao Qi, Gao Wuzheng, and Gao Wuruo to come to see him. Not long after, the three of them came to see him together. Gao Jingshi did not waste any time and directly informed them of the news he had just received.
, and then let the three of them express their opinions.
The younger brother Gao Wuzheng was the first to speak this time, but he did not express his opinions immediately. Instead, he asked: "Brother, when you were discussing the history of the Jin Dynasty with the emperor, what exactly did you say?"
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "Of course we are talking about the Kingdom of Jin - especially why the Jin Army declined so quickly."
Gao Wuzheng said in surprise: "Isn't it because the Mongols are too powerful?"
"Don't read on the surface without asking for a deeper understanding." Gao said in a pragmatic and edifying tone: "In the last years of King Hailing, envoys from the Jin and Song Dynasties interacted with each other, and there were often ceremonial archery banquets between exchanges and banquets. During these archery banquets,
During the bow banquet, the Jurchens, who were originally said to be 'invincible if there are not even ten thousand Jurchens', were often no match for the soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty. Do you think this has anything to do with the Mongols?"
Gao Wuzheng really didn't know that there was such a thing, so Hao Ran couldn't help but bowed and said: "Brother taught me a lesson, but I realized I was wrong."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yeah." Gao Pingshi didn't blame him harshly, but said: "Since you want to know, let me briefly explain the reason." Then he continued.
When Gao Pragmatic came down, he analyzed for Gao Wuzheng and the other three people what "Rouwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes".
In 1125 AD, the Jin generals led Jurchen soldiers to attack Nanjing City of the Liao Dynasty (today's Beijing) and captured Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty. The Liao Dynasty, which had been in power for 210 years, was destroyed by this barbarian tribe that originated from the White Mountains and Black Waters.
In 1127 AD, the Jin soldiers continued to attack the Northern Song Dynasty in the south with the power of destroying the Liao Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty court was corrupt and incompetent. It inexplicably lost a defensive battle that should have been winnable, and suddenly lost the capital Kaifeng. After that, the north fell, and the Song Dynasty
Shi Nandu was known as the "Shame of Jingkang" in history, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
Later, if Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others had not resisted bravely in the Jianghuai area in the later period, and the Jin soldiers could not adapt to the Jianghuai terrain with dense river networks, even the Southern Song Dynasty might have been in vain.
Within three years, two major powers in East Asia were destroyed. This powerful emerging force was the Jin Dynasty. The Jurchens who established the Jin Dynasty were originally subordinate tribes of the Liao Dynasty. Starting from the 12th century, the Liao Dynasty declined and increased its influence on the Jurchens.
Under the leadership of Wanyan Aguda, the Jurchens finally chose to resist the oppression of the tribe.
Soon, Wanyan Aguda unified all the Jurchen tribes and established the Jin Dynasty in 1115. However, at this time, the Jin Dynasty was actually just a loose tribal alliance, which was far behind the Liao and Song Dynasties. But that's it
It took less than 15 years for a new force to unify northern China. This shows how powerful the Jin Dynasty's army was at that time!
However, what is quite paradoxical is that just 100 years later, the combat effectiveness of this great army that once traversed East Asia has experienced a cliff-like decline.
When facing the Mongolian cavalry, the Jin Army performed in a mess and was completely unable to parry. They even came up with a way to build the Great Wall to deal with it - no, although you started out as a fisher and hunter, after defeating the Liao Kingdom, you can be regarded as half fisher and half hunter.
You are nomadic, so why do you still use the national defense strategy of farming people?
The Battle of Yehuling was even more speechless. All 450,000 Jin troops were killed in one battle, which really shocked the world. Anyone who heard the news couldn't help but ask, where did the once powerful Jurchen warriors go? In fact, the answer is very simple:
It's gone.
At first, the Jurchens were almost in a primitive society, living in the harsh white mountains and black waters. The Jurchen warriors were naturally fierce and ferocious. The "Dajin Chronicle" recorded that they were "good at riding and shooting, and good at fishing and hunting."
Hungry and thirsty, hard work, good at riding, going up and down cliffs like flying, crossing rivers without boats, just floating horses to cross." This is what it means.
It can be seen that they were very brave warriors at that time, but this bravery was mostly forced by the harsh environment of the white mountains and black waters. Before the industrial age, without the addition of modern technology, they were fierce and organized.
The powerful barbarian army is extremely terrifying. It is precisely because of this that the Jin army destroyed the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
But after the Jingkang Incident, the Jin Dynasty sought to enrich the Central Plains, and the situation immediately changed. Since the Chu and Qi puppet regimes it supported were no match for the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty decided to abandon this buffer strategy and directly rule the Central Plains.
This also caused the Jurchens to move to the Central Plains in large numbers.
Obviously, they naturally became the ruling class of this land. At this time, the production capacity of the Central Plains was quite high, and the environment was far more comfortable than that of the Northeast with its white mountains and black waters. There was a large amount of land here and a large amount of Han labor force, so these people naturally became
The property of the Jurchen warriors.
With land and slaves, you can live a stable life just lying down, so who is willing to live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife? The Jurchens slowly deteriorated in this "gentle land", even if the imperial court ordered the Jurchens to
Even if you work on your own, you can't stop this trend. Next, naturally, the trend of extravagance and laziness will continue to prevail.
There is a record in 1183: On average, each Moukemengan household owned 275 acres of land and 2.2 slaves. It can be said that the Jurchen warriors of the Jin Kingdom have completely turned into landlords and slave owners. These people have lived comfortably for too long.
Can we still fight a war?
Moreover, as time passes in the mainland, the Jurchens' Hanization is inevitable. After one or two generations, these Jurchen descendants live like young masters and are exposed to Han culture. They enjoy land rent and are served by servants.
, as a result, "I don't know how to farm, drink and gamble in groups, and laziness has become common." Not to mention that I can't inherit the bravery of my parents and ancestors, and even my physical fitness is declining day by day.
As Gao Pingshi said just now, by the end of King Hailing's reign, the individual combat effectiveness of Jin Dynasty soldiers could not be compared with that of the Southern Song Dynasty. By the time of Jin Xuanzong, the Jurchens were completely "untrained in riding and shooting, and had no military service."
A complete military waste!
For the country, if the army is not strong, it can only rely on the right time and place. However, the geopolitical situation of the Jin Dynasty is not good. The Mongols in the north are looking at it with eager eyes. The Song Dynasty in the south has been preparing to avenge the country and the family, and the domestic Jurchens and
The conflicts between the Han people continued to intensify. As a result, the death knell of the Jin Dynasty gradually sounded.
In the end, the Southern Song Dynasty rejected the Jin Dynasty's request for an alliance and united with Mongolia to avenge it. In 1234, the Jin Dynasty, which had been founded for 120 years, perished. Although this was actually a stupid move by the Southern Song Dynasty, as stupid as the alliance with the Jin Dynasty to attack the Liao Kingdom, but no matter what
Said that this was always the worst news for the Jin Kingdom at that time, and it determined that the Jin Kingdom could not continue to exist.
As for why Gao Pragmatic is so sure that "Wenwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes", it is not only because the Jin Dynasty and the "Houjin Dynasty" are both composed of Jurchens, but the original period of history has proved that the Eight Banners Soldiers of the Manchus are the same as their ancestors.
As soon as he entered the colorful world of the Central Plains, his fall came as expected.
Some people in later generations have calculated the speed of this decline. The most exaggerated statement is that just ten years after the Eight Banners of Manchuria entered the customs, their combat effectiveness dropped by more than one level. By the time of the San Francisco Rebellion, the so-called Eight Banners of Manchuria could only play soy sauce.
The real battle depends on the green camp.
Although the Central Plains is a world of flowers, the conditions in North Korea are naturally not as good as those in the Central Plains, but according to what Gao Pragmatic just said, the southern 2-3 roads of North Korea that are planned to be allocated to the three Jurchen parts will be colder than the current Little Ice Age.
There are so many good things to do in Northeast China!
Considering that the Jurchen population at this time was much smaller than when they entered the customs in history, and although the North Korean population has lost a lot due to the wars in recent years, it is still enough for the Jurchens to enslave. In addition, due to the war, they were
Much of the land in southern Korea that the Japanese army has controlled for a long time has become "unclaimed land." Once the Jurchens move south, will there be a wave of "land encirclement"?
What happens after this? As long as the Ming Dynasty can frighten them for ten or twenty years, can the Jurchens, who are still relatively strong at the moment, not degenerate into the same parasites in history?
At that time, whether the Ming Dynasty took action directly or secretly caused the local Koreans to rebel, there were many ways to deal with the so-called Jurchen threat.
What else did the three major Jurchen tribes have to rely on at that time? Population, technology, and combat effectiveness were probably all sparse. If the Ming Dynasty was still willing to let them govern the local area, then they might be able to work as monks for a day and beat the clock for a day. Once the Ming Dynasty was too lazy to
If they pretend and show their cards, they will just disappear into thin air and disappear completely.
As for whether this disappearance is a direct physical disappearance, or whether the independent national consciousness disappears and is sent to various parts of the Central Plains and assimilated into the Han people, it depends on how the Ming Dynasty considered it. In short, everything is no longer up to them.
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A dull knife kills, but a sharp knife is the sharpest.
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