At the turn of spring and summer in the second year of Zhenyou's reign, the Mongolian army finally retreated.
For this reason, the Jin Dynasty invited Princess Qi, the daughter of Emperor Jingzong, to marry her to Genghis Khan, and gave her a batch of assets in the name of dowry. Fortunately, the assets the Mongolian army asked for were not many, nothing more than gold and silver. There are some treasures, some boys and girls, some silk and grosgrain, colorful embroidered clothes, and three thousand horses.
As a dowry for the princess, these dowries were rich, but as compensation for the treaty between the two big countries, these supplies were pitifully small.
Perhaps it was because after the Mongolian army repeatedly looted Zhongdu, Hebei, Hedong, Shandong and other places, the harvest was so abundant that their appetite was full and they could not eat any more food.
In fact, inspired by the victory at Dinghaijun in Shandong, the Jin armies from all over the country were not afraid of the enemy. After the new emperor of the Jin Kingdom succeeded to the throne, he did promote some capable generals and formed a more resilient army. We fought several fierce battles with the Mongolian army near Zhongdu. Although there were few victories in the field battles, we were more than able to defend the city.
If the two countries are compared to two people who are fighting fiercely, then the Kingdom of Jin is like a rich man with a fat head. Although he is dripping with blood and his intestines are rotten, he will not die because his body is still strong. But Mongolia is A thief who has been hungry for a long time is extremely ferocious. After all, he still needs to build up his physical strength. Moreover, he is eager to go home, light a fire, and feast on the food he robbed from the rich.
Therefore, since the beginning of the second year of Zhenyou, the war between Jin and Mongolia has reached a stalemate. As the weather gets hotter, the Mongolian army is even more unsuitable. Many people in the court have noticed this situation. They are not in favor of negotiating peace at all, and instead propose The emperor continued to fight the Mongols for attrition.
They believe that once they show weakness during peace talks, they will inevitably arouse the ambitions of the Mongols, which will instead prolong the war.
However, the emperor himself has been very insistent on this. He has always believed that Dajin's troubles are not external but internal. In any case, only by ending the battle with the Mongolian army as soon as possible can he be free to sort out state affairs calmly.
In the past few months, many of the emperor's ideas could not be implemented because there were senior ministers like Tu Shanyi sitting in charge. But when Tu Shanyi died, the ministers gathered around him would inevitably divide. The emperor will always be the emperor, as long as he has the basic skills With such political methods, it is difficult for ministers to confront his opinions head-on.
The collaboration between Jin and Mongolia was quickly completed.
At this time, Princess Qi's carriage had already left the Gongchen Gate and slowly headed north along the long street. Many of the houses on both sides of the long street had been demolished, and the dismantled masonry and wood were used to defend the city. . So after two rows of guards along the street, some people gathered among the ruins, silently took a look at the convoy, and then continued to pick up bits and pieces of usable things in the ruins.
The common people know that after the princess leaves the city, the war between Jin and Mongolia has come to an end. The millions of soldiers and civilians in Zhongdu who have been under the threat of death for the past six months can all take a breather.
This was good news, but the people did not face it with joy and excitement.
Almost every family among the refugees died in the war, and they themselves had fled to Zhongdu for several months. Now they were in rags and skinny. Many of them were just one breath away from starvation, and they were not in the mood to cheer.
As for the local people in Zhongdu, months of fighting, death, hunger and fear have almost shattered their spirits and destroyed their confidence in Dajin. They instinctively know that even if the Mongolian army retreats this time, the ant people will The hardships have just begun.
So, on the day when the collegial agreement was reached, there was deathly silence in Zhongdu.
Watching on both sides of the long street were officials with complicated expressions.
The thoughts of the officials were more complicated than their expressions. Some Jurchen officers were complaining in low voices, feeling that their side was still capable of fighting and would not be so eager to humiliate themselves and seek peace. There were also Haner officials who tried their best to maintain their demeanor and occasionally exchanged glances with their colleagues.
When they cross each other, you will know that both sides are reminded of the declining dynasties in the history books...or the Liao Kingdom of the Khitans.
"This is not okay!"
Qingshan Nu from the Attendance Bureau stood on the Gongchen Gate, seeing this situation, he shook his head repeatedly.
He immediately summoned an undercover clerk: "Go to Miao Daorun and tell him, this is a major event accomplished by the emperor, a happy event, how can it be so lifeless? Let the soldiers under his command shout long live! Let's celebrate!"
The little one in the outer tent took the order and left. After a while, an officer led the soldiers to raise their arms and shout. The cheers seemed weak. Except for the guards and a small number of soldiers guarding the army, no one else responded. However,
, the emperor is in Zhaoming Palace now, separated by two high walls, he can only take a general idea, Qingshan Nu can easily handle it.
Just as he was thinking of this, a chamberlain hurried over and said: "The emperor has summoned me."
Qingshan Nu quickly stood up, and before leaving, he whispered to a waiter in the tent: "Go and keep an eye on the princess too. Before the princess leaves the city, all the troops must shout loudly and loudly! Can't stop!"
Seeing Xiao Di running out of the palace gate, Qingshan slave nodded slightly to the chamberlain. The two of them walked quickly along the corridor in the palace. Qingshan slave lowered his eyelids and looked at the chamberlain's hurriedly moving feet, thinking in his mind
I was thinking about how to depict the joyful and jubilant soldiers and civilians.
At the same time, Shanzhou City was thousands of miles away from Zhongdu.
During the Jianyan period of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty, excavated the Yellow River embankment in an attempt to block the Jin army with river water. As a result, the water attack failed to prevent the Jin army from moving freely, and instead drowned twenty Song people.
More than 10,000 and tens of millions of people were displaced.
Du Chong himself later surrendered to Dajin and became the third envoy of Yanjing Xingtai and the right prime minister.
At that time, no one in the Jin Dynasty thought that Du Chong would cause such a big trouble, otherwise he would never have a good end. After Du Chong dug up the Yellow River, it flooded continuously for decades, and it was a waste of money.
The court has lost countless human resources and resources, but it cannot be managed.
Because the Yellow River flows from Si into the Huaihe River, the Shandong and Nanjing roads are roughly divided by the Yellow River. On the Nanjing Road side, only Shanzhou and Caozhou are located east of the Yellow River.
During the Mingchang period, the Yellow River burst again. This time, the river branched off into a northern stream at Yangwu. It first poured into Liangshanbo and then divided into several rivers. The main one was roughly parallel to the old road, bypassing Jeju, and after Xuzhou
, merged into one in Pengcheng.
So Caozhou, Shanzhou, Jeju, and Xuzhou became an area surrounded by the Yellow River and its tributaries and continuous siltation lakes.
Nowadays, the two states of Cao and Dan are under the control of Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu; the two states of Ji and Xu are used by the Red Coat Army as the base for advancing westward armies; the four states are like a natural battlefield.
In Shanzhou City, Wanyan Heda, who was appointed by King Sui as the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, strode out of the commander's mansion. He was covered in thick armor, and the sturdy iron armor leaves made a clanging sound as he stepped.
However, when he walked outside the Marshal's Mansion and stood in a slightly open area, the sound of the collision of armor leaves was immediately covered up by another sound. That sound came from the camp of the Red Coat Army outside the city. The shouts were like a tsunami.
It poured in and poured into his ears.
That was at least tens of thousands of people shouting one after another.
The shouts came from the wide front, with no rules, noisy and chaotic. They would be slightly lower here, and suddenly higher there. After shouting for half a cup of tea, different people and different slogans slowly became unified.
An assistant general on the side said: "They are shouting long live in the mountains! It's the rebel Yang An'er who is here! This guy... really wins the hearts of the people!"
"Long live? Win the hearts of the people?" Wanyan Heda just sneered.
