For decades, the Kingdom of Jin dominated the territory. Its moral destiny was to inherit the Song Dynasty, and its military power was planned to be in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Looking around, the Southern Dynasties, Xia Kingdom, and Korea are small countries, and the grassland tribes are the barbarians sharpening their blades.
With the billions of Han children under his rule as loyal slaves and riches.
Such a big country would be in turmoil for years and be massacred by powerful enemies. Seeing this, all the wise people in the world felt the signs of impending chaos. When the Central Capital suddenly changed again, Han'er Guo Ning took control of the court with tyrannical force.
, I don’t know how many people rejoice about it, and I don’t know how many people lament about it day and night.
Guo Ning is not the only one who shoulders the expectations of many people but feels as if he is facing an abyss and walking on thin ice. As the leader of a force who has been stationed in the military camp for a long time and who increasingly regards the military as his foundation, Guo Ning is not the only one.
one person.
April.
Nanjing, Kaifeng Prefecture, Kingdom of Jin.
When the Song Dynasty occupied the Central Plains, this place was the capital of the Song Dynasty. It is said that there were millions of people and it was extremely prosperous and prosperous. However, after the rise of the Jin Dynasty, from the fourth year of Tianhui to the eighth year of Tianhui, they continued to fight with the Song army around Kaifeng.
In the end, all the land in Henan was sunk, but Kaifeng still persisted, and officials picked wild vegetables to eat. When the city finally changed hands, the people in the city were less than 10,000, and the situation was almost desolate.
Later, the Jin Dynasty established the Xingtai Shangshu Province in Kaifeng to slightly restore the city's vitality. However, in the third year of Zhenyuan, a fire burned half of the city and all the palaces left by the Song Dynasty were destroyed.
At that time, Wanyan Liang, the king of Hailing, was ambitious and wanted to dominate the world and make Kaifeng his capital again. This situation greatly displeased him, so he ordered Feng Changning, who was left in Nanjing, and Zuo Ying, the capital transfer envoy, to be transferred with a hundred sticks each, almost on the spot.
These two were beaten to death. The deputy left-behind officer Guo Anguo, the left-behind judge Daliang Shun, and the Nanjing military commander Wu Jun were even more unlucky, with a staff of 150. Many of the officials below were beheaded because of the fire.
King Hailing immediately mobilized manpower and material resources to rebuild the Kaifeng Mansion. The officials responsible were Liang Hanchen and Kong Yanzhou. It is said that Liang Hanchen was originally a servant of the Song Dynasty, and he wanted to use this to drain the national power of the Jin Dynasty, so even the cost of one palace was no longer enough.
Liang Hanchen would always say that the plan was not perfect enough and immediately withdraw it.
During the Zhenglong period, Zhang Hao, the left prime minister, built the Central Capital and continued to be responsible for the construction of Nanjing. His power and position were superior to Liang Hanchen, and he used greater power.
King Hailing was eager to go south to destroy the Song Dynasty after completing the palace, so he raised up the army, civilians, and craftsmen from all over the world. The civilians were limited to five and they served three, and the craftsmen were limited to three and they served two, totaling as many as two million people. They also transported trees, flowers, and stones from all over the world.
The palaces, terraces and pavilions that had been built before were replaced with new ones, even though the pillars and pillars were no longer used, and the tiles were not used. As for the red and red couplets carved with regular scripts, the walls carved with majestic buildings, the walls made of mud, and the pillars made of jade, they were extremely gorgeous and incomparable.
count.
It is impossible to calculate the specific expenses at that time. We only know that in order to build the palace, timber from Hedong and Shaanxi was floated down the river and passed through the mainstays. Therefore, the cost of transporting one piece of wood was as much as 20 million yuan. Such wood,
How many thousands or tens of thousands were used in the palace?
Unfortunately, King Hailing was quickly defeated and died. After Emperor Sejong ascended the throne, he did not consider mixing things up and never set foot in the palace of Kaifeng Mansion in Nanjing.
The city's most glorious time has passed.
When Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu went south, he started everything from scratch and lacked money and materials, so he really took the idea of Zhongdu Palace. He moved the original site of Longde Palace of the Song Dynasty and the adjacent Xiefang and Jiejing Eryuan.
It was completely demolished and connected with the open space to the east to serve as a military camp for the new army.
It is said that the open space to the east was originally the place where the Song Dynasty garrisoned troops. The first commander of the imperial city's chief minister and one of the squad commanders, Yu Longzhi, were stationed there. This is very flattering.
Wanyan Shouxu has been stationed in this military camp in recent months. Especially after he heard that Zhongdu suddenly changed and Guo Ning came to power brazenly, he did not leave the military camp for more than ten days in a row.
On this day, Tian Zhuo, the transfer envoy of Henan Road, came to the barracks to ask for a meeting.
At the entrance of the barracks, the door was tightly closed, with deer antlers on the outside, and soldiers on the watchtower on the wall were patrolling. It was very strict. Before he could get close, there were sentries shouting questions. Tian Zhuo quickly held up the token to announce his name and asked them to report.
King Sui.
After a while, a junior high school student opened the door and came out, performed a military salute, and led Tian Zhuo into the school grounds to the east of the military camp.
When King Sui first took over Nanjing, he was very ambitious. He planned to train tens of thousands of elite troops to conquer Shandong first, unify Guan and Shaanxi, and then go north to support the central capital. Therefore, the scale of this school field was huge, enough to accommodate two people.
Thirty thousand people trained.
When I came in now, I saw that the school grounds were extremely empty. The sounds of people training were quickly dispersed in the wind, so that nothing could be heard outside the military camp.
There are two to three thousand people training at the moment. Most of them are holding wooden guns and wooden knives, following the officers' slogans and performing assassination and slashing movements. There are also some cavalry riding horses to practice their shooting skills. Look at the people beside the Chi Road.
There were many arrows densely packed on the target, and the hit rate was not bad.
On the high platform in front of the school ground, Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu was watching intently. Because he had been sitting for a long time, his body and face were covered with dust. He was obviously only sixteen years old, but he was forced to
I feel the kind of tiredness that only middle-aged people have.
Tian Zhuo had finished paying homage to him, but Wanyan Shouxu was not in a hurry to talk to him.
After watching the training for a while, he sighed and said: "This unit is the newly established Jianwei Captain's Department. It was originally planned to be equipped with ten thousand elite soldiers. It must be trained strictly and strong and vigorous. It must not be able to do those things.
The old road used to defend a thousand-household military camp."
"Your Highness is wise."
"However, the weather was not good last year, and it seems that there will still be a severe drought this year. Fengqiu said that all the forks of the Yellow River have stopped flowing, and all the water mills have been shut down, so they can barely increase the water to irrigate the fields and alleviate the disaster a little.
Moreover, Zhongmou, Chenliu, Weishi and other places have already reported that there are locust infestations. I finally gathered the strong men who planned to fill the Jianwei Duwei Department, but most of them were summoned by the Mongolian Gang to cull the locusts!"
Having said this, Wanyan Shouxu grinned: "Only two thousand people were left for me! What use can two thousand people do?"
He said to Tian Zhuo dumbfounded: "Qi Zhi, have you seen the military report? After Guo Ning took control of Zhongdu, he called himself the marshal of the capital. He immediately set up military envoys and soldiers in Hebei, Shandong, Zhongdu, and Liaodong.
The general manager of Madu. Each Jiedushi envoy has at least 10,000 elite soldiers under his command. Those six Jiedu envoys are 60,000 elite soldiers!"
"more than."
"ah?"
"The six military governors currently appointed by Guo Ning do not include his two direct generals Wang Shixian and Qiu Huiluo. Those two men are the main force that followed Guo Ning north to Zhongdu. Once the rest is completed, there will be no
Less than 20,000 people." Tian Zhuo stretched out a finger.
"In addition, Guo Ning's command has also gathered 100,000 soldiers originally from Beijing Road, just waiting for subsequent training. Yin Chang, the governor of the Xingde Army he placed in Jinan Prefecture, also has strength in his hands." Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger.
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"After Guo Ning became the marshal of the capital, he still served as the military governor of the navy. That was his old foundation in Laizhou, a real elite soldier in hundreds of battles. Now even if there is no drastic expansion, there will be no less than ten thousand people.
"Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger.
"Also, Guo Ning is very powerful in Liaodong, including officials such as the Xuanfu envoy of Liaodong, Judu Afu, and many local Huli Gai, Khitan, Goryeo, Bohai and other tribes also work for him. Listen.
It was said that when they fought in Mongolia, they only needed a few days to assemble tens of thousands of warriors from various tribes." Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger.
Four fingers were wagging in front of King Sui, who didn't even have the energy to sigh.
Tian Zhuo originally wanted to raise his fifth finger and say something about the naval strength of the navy, but looking at King Sui's look, he finally didn't say anything.
On that day, King Sui went south with a number of his cronies, which was Tu Danyi's political maneuver, and Guo Ning also cooperated with it. The people who followed King Sui south were all outstanding people who were favored by Tu Danyi; they had already participated in the last Hu Shahu coup.
At that time, most of them had seen with their own eyes the ferocity of Guo Ning's troops.
Later, when King Sui came to Kaifeng, Tian Zhuo and others had been paying close attention to the movements of Guoning in Shandong. Especially since last year, the expansion of the Ding Navy was like a furious tide. They first captured Liaodong, and then took advantage of King Sui's troops to fight Yang An'er to capture the entire Shandong Province.
East Road, and then without stopping, broke through Mongolia and entered Zhongdu.
The speed of this rise was as fast as lightning, and its powerful force frightened King Sui and his officials. So in the past few months, Tian Zhuo sent many spies to closely inquire about the movements of Zhongdu, and even Shandong
He sent people to copy every document made public by the authorities and studied it carefully.
Speaking of his understanding of Ding Haijun, Tian Zhuo is probably the most complete person in Kaifeng Mansion. Even he started to forcefully implement farming last year, and there are many places that imitate Ding Haijun's policy. Now that the situation has reached this point, Tian Zhuo hopes that Kaifeng Mansion will
The grassroots civil and military forces must not waver, and the core figures, including King Sui, must at least understand what kind of opponent they are facing.
King Sui was young after all, so he was suddenly frightened when he heard about such a huge force.
He hesitated for a while and asked: "Guo Ning's rapid rise and bravery in leading troops to rampage are really rare anomalies since ancient times. Now that he has territory, soldiers and horses, and power, people who follow him
Countless people also have weapons. In your opinion, what will happen to the Kingdom of Jin next?"
The young man stretched out his hand, took Tian Zhuo's arm, shook it, and said sincerely: "Tell the truth, okay?"