Ten days ago, at the banquet held by Yelu Chucai, he learned that Ding Haijun had cried for poverty for a whole year, but finally gave away a mountain of wealth, and the Song Dynasty was completely used. At that time, he was frightened
He was as angry as a stormy sea, but he actually suppressed it. Not only did he not show his anger, he also praised Duke Zhou's benevolence and righteousness. When he got emotional, he even wrote a poem on the spot.
After returning to the official residence, Xuan Zhen couldn't control his emotions and broke several cups in succession. The lights in the bedroom remained on all night.
The next day, he asked to see Yelu Chucai again, hoping to accompany the army.
Yelu Chucai still smiled and agreed.
This Dinghai navy's offensive against the Kaifeng imperial court was divided into three lines, which were launched one after another.
Monk Luo, Guo Zhongyuan's troops and Liu Erzu's troops in Taishan, under the leadership of Guo Ning, had already attacked Kaifeng from Pizhou, Shandong. Li Ting's troops set out directly from Hebei East Road, which he owns, to the west, with the goal of Wanyan
There are two troops, Heda and Mo Niu Jinzhong.
The ones who moved slightly slower were Zhao Jue and others who were the successors of the first line of troops. Zhao Jue, Han Xuan and Shi Tianni commanded 35,000 men, respectively, from Xuandezhou, Dadingfu and Gaizhou.
Starting from Haizhou, each relied on sea transportation to go south, gathered at Haizhou, and then marched westward.
This poses a great challenge to the carrying capacity of Haizhou Qushan Port and the local reserves of grain and supplies, and it is extremely dependent on the coordination ability of government officials.
The Shandong Privy Council had already made preparations, and not only expanded the port to the maximum extent, but also at the beginning of the launch of the Ding Navy, 20% of the first fleet that followed Guo Zhongyuan to the south carried not soldiers and horses, but Laizhou.
Port officials in Dengzhou and other places.
These civilians have received several times the benefits, so they are naturally willing to contribute. Moreover, many ports in Shandong were expanded under the unified planning of the Dinghai Navy. The geographical environment may be different, but the management regulations and command are no different. Therefore, the civilians
They got started quickly.
Even so, Yelu Chucai could not completely rest assured that important matters would be left in the hands of his subordinates, so he entrusted the central capital to Xu Ding. He also brought a large number of subordinates to Haizhou to directly dispatch the huge amount of troops and supplies.
transport.
As soon as he arrived in Haizhou, many processes were sorted out quickly, but some omissions in the process were also discovered, and even officials who were derelict in their duties were discovered.
Just the day before yesterday, I heard that the grain and fodder figures sent from Gaizhou did not match up. The official in charge tried his best to explain in front of Yelu Chucai, but the reasons he gave did not make sense. At that time, some people suspected that it was Hainan.
Something went wrong in the warehouse in the state. Someone was hurting the public and enriching private interests, but there was no turning back.
This kind of thing can never be avoided. According to common sense, people from the Recording Department should be sent to conduct a thorough investigation and then clarify the canon and punishment. But this is not possible at this time, no one is free, and there is no way to wait.
The always good-tempered Yelu Chucai took the golden sword awarded by Guo Ning and immediately ordered the beheading of the responsible officials. In addition, he sent a group of people to Gaizhou by boat at night to behead all the people in this line.
What was sent back to Haizhou together with a dozen heads were perfectly matched books and sufficient amounts of food and supplies were being shipped one after another.
Xuan Zhen watched this all the time and could only express his admiration.
However, Xuan Zhen was a guest from the Southern Dynasty, so he could just watch and do nothing. Now that the overall situation had been decided and all he had to do was wait for the move, no one felt the need to restrict his actions.
So Xuanzhen took his leisure time to observe the military and political affairs, so he took a few followers to look for secluded places.
At this moment, he arrived at Kongwang Mountain.
Legend has it that this mountain is where Confucius climbed to look at the sea. There are also Guiyun Cave, Guiyuan Temple and Buddhist cliff statues on the mountain, but Xuan Zhen's spirit is not actually in these scenes.
He stood on the top of the mountain and looked eastward, where he could see the huge harbor in the sea.
The scale of Haizhou Port is naturally not comparable to that of Dinghai Port in Qingyuan Prefecture. But at this moment, a large number of ships are pouring in, and its busy scene is quite different. Within the scope of vision, the fleet moves slowly from north to south, almost connected end to end. Countless.
Small boats shuttled back and forth between the big ships, some were tow boats, and some were fast boats responsible for conveying orders.
Under normal circumstances, surrounding the big ship, there would be small boats selling snacks and supplies needed for ocean voyages under the names of local merchants, and even flower boats from local prostitutes. However, at this time, these small boats were strictly isolated.
, they may have been ordered not to sail in advance.
Therefore, the waterway appears to be very spacious. Military ships are moored on the trestle one after another, and groups of soldiers are constantly coming down.
At this time, the rising sun was rising in the east, shining brightly, and the sea surface was shining with golden light, and the rows of sails were also shone brightly. Under the sun, red flags were fluttering, the soldiers were filing in, and some war horses got off the ship.
He kept his head high and screamed, running wildly.
Even if you can't see the figure clearly from a long distance away, you can still feel the high-spirited spirit.
"This army is the soldiers and horses of Han Xuan, the military commander of the Liao Navy under the command of Duke Zhou. It is said that they were so powerful in the northeastern hinterland that they suppressed hundreds of Jurchen tribes and bowed down, which was the basis for the rise of the Jurchens.
The old place is now full of Ding Haijun's lackeys... It can be seen that these are teams of bears, tigers and leopards!"
Xuan Zhen said with emotion.
A follower next to him came to Haizhou from Tianjin and finally had free time to play. When there were no eyes around him to watch, he immediately shook his head: "That Guo Ning killed his lord and usurped the throne, went on a military rampage, and followed the path of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.
Even if the general's tactics succeed for a while, there will be backlash sooner or later."
According to the philosophy of the Song people in the Southern Dynasties, the greatest political incorrectness would be to rule the country as a warrior. When these words were spoken, everyone around him nodded.
"Killing the master and usurping the throne? Going to war?" Xuan Zhen read a few sentences softly and laughed a few times.
The government was in turmoil because of the regicide and rebellion, and the territory was divided into two parts. The people were in poverty because of the aggressive military tactics, and money and food were exhausted. This was the initial impression that Zhou Guogong's regime left on the Song Dynasty. Xuan Zhen himself boarded the ship to
They also thought so when they were both countries, and the Song Dynasty indeed designated policies for these two points, trying to gain the upper hand in the diplomacy between Song and Jin.
But Xuan Zhen came to understand once he went to Tianjin Mansion. The so-called crime of regicide and treason was of no use to Ding Haijun, and it was meaningless even to the officials of the Imperial Court of the Kingdom of Jin.
Since the third year of Da'an, the Jin Kingdom has gradually been at a disadvantage in the war with Mongolia. In the following years, millions of soldiers and millions of people died in the war, and hundreds of cities were destroyed. The situation is said to be
Hell is not an exaggeration.
Even Daxing Prefecture, the central capital of the Jin Kingdom, was besieged twice by the Mongols and captured once. There were two coups and riots in the city itself. The number of casualties exceeded half of the population of Daxing Prefecture at its peak.
If a dynasty is in such a state of embarrassment, it will almost lose the ability to save itself. The only hope lies in whether there are heroes who will rise up to repair the cracks in the world amid the earth-shaking changes.
The Song Dynasty experienced such a tragic situation a hundred years ago. Fortunately, the Song Dynasty was orthodox after all and was kind to the people, so it established a foothold in the south, and it lasted another hundred years.
But the people of the Kingdom of Jin did not have such a deep relationship with the Kingdom of Jin. Most of them had lost confidence in the court, and even the Jurchens who were the foundation of the Kingdom of Jin were tired of it.
Six months ago, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin was kidnapped and attacked at the Marshal's Mansion, and then fell to his death. After this happened, those who were still a little obsessed with the Jurchen regime fled to Kaifeng one after another.
Those who stayed in Zhongdu, whether they were Han, Khitan, Jurchen or Bohai people, no longer cared about what happened to the imperial court.
Xuan Zhen had vaguely tested him several times, and this was true for everyone he tested, whether they were officials, merchants, or even ordinary soldiers.
In other words, there is no such thing as regicide and usurpation. If Guo Ning wants to do something, within the scope of the Jin Kingdom, it will at least be as popular as Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty.
I am afraid that he is more popular than Emperor Taizu, but it is unknown. After all, Emperor Taizu did not defeat the Khitan at that time, and Guo Ning actually solved the imminent threat of the Mongols.
As for the militancy...
Xuan Zhen turned around and looked to the west of Kongwang Mountain.
Haizhou is part of Shandong East Road, and it fell into Guo Ning's hands not long ago. However, because it is close to Denghai, where the Dinghai Navy was first operated, the three states of Ninghai were once again used as the base of the Red Coat Army, so it is basically
very good.
At this time, looking west of the city, all I could see were excavated canals, smooth roads, villages rebuilt from the ruins, and towns that were slowly changing from temporary to long-term.
This vibrant land was built by Guo Ning and his men in two or three years.
The Dinghai Navy relied on a large-scale military household and household system as its political foundation, and used maritime trade and commerce as a lubrication and supplement. In addition to expanding its own scale, the benefits of maritime trade and commerce were partly consumed in bridges and roads.
, water conservancy, and disaster prevention and relief; part of it supplemented mining and military industry; the other part was invested in improving the governance system, such as the increasingly large-scale ordinary schools and military academies.
The reason why Guo Ning was able to launch such an attack suddenly was because he had already accumulated enough strength and was able to obtain huge amounts of supplies from the Song Dynasty. This was also his ability.
If we have to say that it was the Song Dynasty that allowed maritime trade to create all this, I cannot be wrong.
But in the final analysis, the order in which the navy was built created all of this.
This is of course not an act of militarism, but what it should be like when an ambitious regime first rises.