From Tongzhou to Zhongdu, the waterway is the Tongji River Cao Canal, while the land route is parallel to the Cao Canal. This fifty-mile water journey is also the only way for the wealth of the Central Plains to flow into Zhongdu, so Wanyan Chenghui came here when he was young.
, I once saw the shadow of sails covering the sky on the river, and the trackers on the bank were as dense as ants.
However, starting from the Cheng'an period, the internal struggles within the imperial court became more and more intense. The emperor fought against the clan kings, the Jurchen military nobles fought against the Haner officials, and within the Haner officials, there was also a dispute between the so-called "gentlemen" and "villains".
In the end of the fight, officials who were more familiar with specific government affairs were probably negligent in taking political sides, so everyone was unlucky. In Wanyan Chenghui’s impression, the then Dushui Supervisor Zhang Jiazhen was imprisoned for a crime.
"Although he is talented, he is not known for his virtues and likes to run around to gain snobbery", and then he was kicked out of the center of the imperial court.
From then on, the imperial court no longer cared about water control. The Yellow River overflowed and the Cao River became silted up. The canal connecting Tongzhou and Zhongdu, and the water coming from the Jinkou Gate, will not cause siltation. The problem is that the amount of water is increasing.
There was little and the water was very strong, and water transportation quickly became inactive. Therefore, transportation from Tongzhou to Zhongdu was switched to land transportation. During the Da'an period, as many as 60,000 civilians were mobilized between the two places on a daily basis, and the number of transfer vehicles was also around 10,000.
, officials, businessmen, and civilians crowded shoulder to shoulder on the road.
Compared with the prosperity of water transportation in the past, this kind of prosperity is already the result of the domestic weakness of Dajin. But even this prosperity did not last long. Three years after Da'an, the war between Dajin and Mongolia intensified and the wars were repeated.
After the defeat, there were several wars around Zhongdu.
Wanyan Chenghui went from Tongzhou to Zhongdu. Along the way, he saw only abandoned houses, cleared woods, burned fortresses and camps. There were even more refugees prying cautiously in the fields in the distance, and dogs barking in the distance. How about this?
Wanyan Chenghui didn’t know how else to describe the scene of the apocalypse.
Although he was forced by the situation and had to go to Zhongdu to surrender to Guo Ning, he knew very well that the sudden rise of this Han'er who controlled powerful force would lead to the gradual disintegration of the Jurchens' regime.
The Jurchens know very well how terrifying the Mongolian army is, and Guo Ning's ability to defeat the Mongolian army several times in a row proves that his force is enough to crush the entire Daikin. In the future, there may be further differences between Guo Ning and Genghis Khan.
However, the regime of the Great Jin Kingdom is probably coming to an end.
The next thing is nothing more than leaving the stage earlier or later, nothing more than striving for a dignified exit, and seeing if the political capital in the hands of the Jurchens can be exchanged for something, so as to avoid the conflict between the two parties breaking out and causing a river of blood.
The reason why Guo Ning was able to force himself to take the initiative to meet him was because he knew that he would never let go of this opportunity to gain the last bit of dignity.
Every time he thought about this, Wanyan Chenghui felt very bad, and he didn't know what kind of attitude to use to see Guo Ning. So, he didn't move very fast. After walking for a while, he stopped to look at the scenery.
, the result was so desolate that the more I looked at it, the more uncomfortable I became.
The next morning, the cavalry was still more than ten miles away from the Zhahe camp, but it happened to encounter thick clouds, and there would be showers. The weather has been bad in the past few years, and there has been a drought near Zhongdu for a long time, so rain is naturally a good thing.
.But the schedule was delayed, which made Wanyan Chenghui a lot more depressed.
Fortunately, we could find many abandoned buildings on the roadside, including a very large restaurant, where the cavalry team could take shelter from the rain. Wanyan Chenghui and his men rushed over, and soon the rain started pouring down, and the rain was really strong.
It was so small that even the water surface of the canal was rising visibly to the naked eye. Wanyan Chenghui stood by the window and stared blankly. In less than two moments, many dry low-lying tidal flats on the inside of the dam were already covered by river water.
When his mind was in turmoil, he often wandered away, and when he turned around and came back, he was startled.
It turns out that on this floor of the restaurant, many pedestrians taking shelter from the rain gathered in a short period of time. Most of these people were capable, and they were obviously coming on horseback. However, Wanyan Chenghui came from Tongzhou and saw no one traveling with him along the way.
.And even though they gathered together, they all held their breath and concentrated, as if they didn't dare to disturb anyone.
Good guys, I recognize you! Are you here to see my show?
Wanyan Chenghui started his career as a close official of Emperor Zhangzong. When he was young, he was famous for his extensive knowledge of classics and history. He was in charge of criminal justice, money and grain transportation, and civil affairs. He suppressed the favored concubines and concubines of two emperors in the court, and served as a disciple.
Yi's political opponent. He later joined the military, fought with the Song people in the Southern Dynasties, defeated the civil uprising in Shandong, and was also the first official to govern Jinshan. As a result, he and Wanyan Chengyu lost hundreds of thousands of troops in Yehuling.
.
In recent years, the Jurchens' famous ministers and generals have gradually withered away, and the few rising stars are all under the command of King Sui of Nanjing. In the huge Zhongdu Road, Shuhu Gaoqi rebelled, and Anzhen died.
San Duan is too old to be a director, so now he seems to be the only important minister who is qualified to serve as the representative of the Jurchens.
Although he has never really reached the position of a powerful official in the court, he has been in the officialdom for decades and has a wide range of knowledge, and his eyes are not filled with sand.
This situation was weird, and he immediately realized it. It turned out to be this bunch of bastards in Zhongdu City. None of them dared to come forward. They insisted on waiting for me to come forward. They were also afraid that I would betray them, so they came here to keep an eye on them for fear of missing something.
What clues!
In the past, Wanyan Chenghui would definitely have asked the guards to arrest these people and beat them up, so that the masters behind these people would suffer. But now, he was full of sorrow and helpless. Even though he knew there was something weird, he didn't pay attention to it at all.
.
At the moment, he just sat down at the table and chairs occupied by his entourage, and took a bottle of water to drink from. The leader of the guard beside him was a little nervous, holding the handle of the knife in his hand, and constantly looking around.
"Captain, when the rain subsides, we will leave immediately." The guard leader said softly: "These people have been secretly looking at us. I think something is wrong!"
"Don't be nervous." Wanyan Chenghui sighed: "As soon as we set off, they will follow us immediately. So there is no point in leaving early and late? Look at the table next to the door. They are not Pusanduan's son, Su Zhi's general servant
Did Sannatan come out? Most of them sneaked out of Zhongdu and came specifically to meet me!"
"This..." the guard leader frowned: "Why is this?"
"They want to see if I can be Yuan Tianmu of the Great Jin Kingdom..."
Wanyan Chenghui sighed one after another, as if there was no end to his bitterness: "Thank you for their kindness, allowing me, a man in his sixties, to work hard! Why, if I become Yuan Tianmu, will they still be able to give me a Yuanzi?"
Are you coming?"
Just as I said this, I suddenly heard a young man from behind ask: "Who is Yuan Tianmu? Who is Yuan Ziyou? These two names sound familiar."
The abandoned hall was very quiet. Apart from the roar of the wind and rain outside, everyone was almost silent. Wanyan Chenghui's words were very soft, but everyone could hear him. Everyone could also hear the young man's voice.
Because it had just rained heavily, everyone was in a hurry and rushed into the hall. After entering, they all stared at Wanyan Chenghui. No one really took a closer look at the companions in the hall. Suddenly, I heard someone speaking in a careless manner,
Everyone turned to look.
I saw only the inner side of the hall, where there were no less than thirty or fifty powerful guards sitting, all of them tall, carrying crossbows on their backs and long knives on their belts. These people had obviously rested here before the heavy rain, Jurchen nobles
The representatives sent out on the road had never seen them.
Surrounded by the guards was the young man who had spoken just now.
The young man asked, and a tall scholar with a thick beard next to him explained: "Yuan Tianmu was an important minister of the Yuan clan who was in the same party as Er Zhurong in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. He became the king of the Shangdang County and had great power in the government and the outside world. Yuan Tianmu was in the same party as Er Zhurong.
Ziyou was the Emperor Xiaozhuang of the Northern Wei Dynasty who was favored by Er Zhurong. Later, he trapped Er Zhurong and Yuan Tianmu to death, and his own family was hanged to death by Er Zhu Zhao."
The young man patted his forehead: "Yes, yes, I remembered it. We talked about this period of history a few days ago. At that time, I said that Er Zhurong was the chief of Qihu, and his tribe was short of talented people. Therefore, its power
While expanding rapidly, it had to rely on the Yuan and Wei imperial courts and use Yuan Tianmu as the middle man between the two families."
Having said this, he laughed twice: "Haha, haha. Our Dinghai navy has nothing to rely on the court of Dajin. It doesn't actually matter whether there is a Yuan Tianmu or not."
Having said that, no one knows his identity yet!
The representatives of Jurchen nobles in the hall stood up with a roar, some ran outside the hall despite the heavy rain, and some fell to their knees directly.