Although the two Jin Kingdoms in the east and west are incompatible with each other, they are inextricably linked.
Since last year, Guo Ning's power has become stronger and stronger, and his posture as a powerful minister has become more and more powerful. The Jurchens in Zhongdu, Hebei and other places saw it and were inevitably horrified. When the emperor fell to his death tragically, the imperial court was righteous and strict in his speeches.
The marshal's loyalty is unspeakable; but the Jurchens from all over the country are not fools, and they set off a wave of fleeing south one after another.
In particular, the Hebei East Road Prefectures' Zengdepusan Anzhen operation was a place where the Meng'an Mooke organization was relatively complete. Li Ting, who was in charge of this place, did not recognize the existence of the local Jurchens at all. Although he forcibly broke up many people's attempts to unite, he also
It will inevitably intensify the local Meng'an Muke's restlessness.
Guo Ning didn't particularly mind this kind of escape, and even sent a message to Li Ting, who was busy sharpening his sword, asking him to show his favor. According to Yousi's statistics, in just six months, about three to four hundred thousand Jurchens fled from it.
, Hebei and other places fled with their families to Damingfu, Xingzhou, and Xiangzhou areas, and then a considerable number of them crossed the river south and gathered around Kaifeng.
These are all members of Dajin's inner clan, Chinese people, and they are able to do this because of their loyalty to Dajin. From any angle, the Kaifeng court cannot treat them harshly, but instead spends a lot of money to settle them. And these people include many officials
Guiwei, their relatives, friends, and old disciples still live in the area controlled by the Zhongdu imperial court.
After the second half of last year, with the retreat of the Mongols, social order in the Central Plains and Hebei gradually stabilized, and the collapsed road traffic began to recover. There were fewer refugees everywhere, and pedestrians did not have to worry about being killed by them on the way.
Adult breasts; in the mountain stronghold where people gathered to protect themselves, the leaders gradually received official positions granted by Duke Zhou, and began to consider taking their subordinates back to their hometown to continue farming.
As a result, it was difficult to interrupt personnel exchanges along the thousands-mile-long border between the East and the West. Since the exchanges were convenient, the Jurchens who fled south began to call their friends, which in turn caused another wave of inescapable escape.
Fortunately, at that time, King Sui Wanyan Shouxu ascended the throne and founded the country, recruiting heroes from all over the world. The expenses were already huge. At this time, there were hundreds of thousands of Jurchens in Nantou, which Kaifeng could not afford. And although the Kaifeng court claimed to have inherited the great wealth,
Tongxu, those who hold the power in the court include Tian Zhuo, Hou Zhi and other Han officials. They may not be willing to flood the court with a large number of Jurchen nobles and break the original balance. The scale of this wave is far less than that of the previous ones.
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Even so, there have never been fewer Jurchens fleeing south, and the more Jurchens who arrived in the south, the stronger the Kaifeng court's ability to find out the inside story of Zhongdu.
Even if Guo Ning used the excuse to eliminate many suspicious elements, the effect would be limited after all.
The Dinghaijun regime has always tried to fully inherit Dai Jin's operations in the southern grasslands and the Northeast interior. This is a military and political requirement, and it is also a necessary economic guarantee. To win over countless foreign races in the Northeast interior, he cannot always be right.
The Jurchens were shouting to beat and kill.
The Liao and Jin Dynasties had ruled the north for hundreds of years, and many of the Ding navy were Hu'er or people with Hu'er ancestry. It was impossible for Guo Ning to issue an order to kill the Hu'er and single out the Jurchens and kill them.
As a result, Zhongdu's military and political intelligence was rarely considered secret in Kaifeng.
Guo Ning's efforts to restore boundary trenches and forts behind Monan Mountain, move soldiers and civilians to farm, and recruit rebel tribes on the grassland could not be hidden from Kaifeng.
He recruited Jurchen warlords on Beijing Road and the northeastern hinterland, and continued to bribe many chiefs with financial resources. His tactics could not be hidden from Kaifeng.
With Zhigu Village on Zhongdu Road as the center, he mobilized a large number of civilians to build a Bafu, named it Tianjin, and tried to expand maritime interests based on this. This still cannot be hidden from Kaifeng.
To a certain extent, these inside stories continued to spread to the outside world, and even prompted the Kaifeng court to go south to plunder.
After all, the whole world knows how brave and powerful the Ding Navy is. If Guo Ning, with two to three hundred thousand troops, looked at him eagerly, and showed a posture of eager to conquer the world, the Kaifeng court would not only dare not act rashly, but also
We must make every effort to strengthen the military defense from Datong Prefecture to Daming Prefecture.
But as so much news continued to come in and was aggregated in the Kaifeng Center, everyone saw clearly:
After the entire north was raided by the Mongols, it was already in a mess. Since Guo Ning took over this mess, he had to struggle to maintain it.
Since ancient times, maintaining a mess will consume huge political and economic resources. What's more, when Guo Ning first took power, he regarded many things as simple. He not only maintained it, but also seemed to be trying his best to mend and repair it, hoping to restore people's livelihood and then lay a new foundation.
The foundation of the dynasty.
Not to mention anything else, just the management of Tianjin Mansion and the restoration of the Monan Defense Line are almost a bottomless pit. As a result of King Hailing spending all his money to build the Central Capital, Emperor Zhangzong exhausted the manpower and material resources of the country for the boundary trench.
The past events are still vivid in my mind. How much financial resources does Guo Ning have to do this?
The important ministers of the Kaifeng court have calculated accounts for Guo Ning many times. They are very sure that if Guo Ning wants to find new sources of wealth, he can only start at sea, and to start at sea, he must first invest huge amounts of money.
Balance the account.
Furthermore, the ministers also determined that under this situation, there was no possibility of Ding Haijun taking any major action in a short period of time.
So, what if there is only an offensive of 10,000 or 20,000 troops?
Genghis Khan was defeated miserably in a head-on confrontation with Guo Ning's tens of thousands of elites. There were many veterans in Kaifeng, but no one thought he was better at fighting than Genghis Khan.
However, the navy had previously dispatched 10,000 troops to Shandong with the intention of intimidating the Southern Dynasty. In the end, the thunder was loud and the rain was light. They attacked a small Baoying County for three days without success, so they had to retreat in frustration!
This shows that the wealth previously accumulated by the Ding Navy has indeed been greatly consumed. Their food is not enough to support long-term operations, and a large number of elite soldiers have been dispersed into the newly formed army, resulting in a decline in the combat effectiveness of the army.
In contrast, Kaifeng's control area includes mountains and rivers in the north, the important town of Damingfu in the south, and a series of solid military strongholds along the Yellow River such as Weizhou, Huazhou, and Caozhou. Guo Ning's command
Since a small force could not do anything to the weak Song Dynasty, it was even more unable to do anything to the Jin Dynasty.
This is a rare opportunity for the Kaifeng court, and it is also an opportunity that must be seized.
It's not that they are going to attack Shandong and Hebei. After all, the Dinghai navy is fierce. Even if it is not enough to attack, it is more than enough to defend. Even if the Kaifeng court wants to die, it will not do this. The way they came up with is to take advantage of Guo Ning's busy rectification.
Government affairs, sending troops south.
If you go south, you can plunder, and use the plunder to maintain the new army of the Thirteen Captains.
By going south, you can train your troops. Through fighting with the Song people, you can take the opportunity to adjust the candidates for the generals of the two military command departments in Shaanxi and Henan, and then test whether your own military revitalization is effective.
Going south can force the Song Dynasty to hand over the annual coins, and even give the Kaifeng court the capital to continue to organize the army and develop military skills!
Nowadays, the world is divided into three parts, and the military force of the Southern Dynasty is the weakest. This plan of the Kaifeng court is almost their inevitable choice, and it cannot be said to be unreasonable.
Even if there is some risk involved, it is necessary to strive for unification.
If you don't dare to take any risks and just sit in Kaifeng as a watchdog, then there is really no need to establish a separate Jin Dynasty. It is better to surrender directly to Guo Ning.
Because the troops of the Thirteen Captains were gathered in Kaifeng and were intensively organized and trained; the Jin army in Kaifeng suddenly went south, and the Song people were not prepared in advance, let alone Zhongdu, which was far away.
But the Kaifeng court did not expect that the Song State was indeed weak, but it still had the power to protect itself. They did not expect that Guo Ning's infiltration of the Song State was very smooth, so the time it took to learn about the movements of the Jin Army in Kaifeng was actually longer than the Song State's.
The trip to Lin'an was earlier; and Guo Ning had more resources at his disposal than the Kaifeng court had imagined.
Marshal's Mansion in Zhongdu.
Xu Ding, who had been busy in Tianjin Mansion for several months, entered Fengyi Gate, then turned into Marshal's Mansion, and went straight to see Yelu Chucai.
He stepped back and said in a low voice: "No wonder the Tianjin government always feels that the supply of grain and fodder is insufficient! We spent a lot of money to buy merchants in the Huainan direction, and then opened up the route for smuggling grain through the canal... But the grain shipped from there
It has not reached the north at all, nor has it reached Dengzhou or Laizhou!"
He took two steps closer and lowered his voice: "I personally went to read the copies of the books of the left and right departments! The records of Qushan Port in Haizhou clearly contain these grains... Where did they go?"
Yelu Chucai looked up from the pile of documents and laughed.
Yidu Privy Council.
Wanyan Chenghui came here once in a while, so he approached Du Shisheng by a familiar route: "Mr. Jinzhi, we haven't seen Master Huifeng for a while, right? The Duke of Guo passed through Yidu at the beginning of the month, and he didn't come out to greet him. You
Do you know where he went?"
Du Shisheng pretended to be dumbfounded: "Yes, yes, I haven't seen him for a while. Where has he gone?"