The outer city of Kaifeng City was inherited from the outer city of Bianliang in Tokyo during the Song Dynasty. It was built by Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty and later underwent many large-scale additions by the Song people.
In the fourth year of Dajin Tianhui, the famous generals at the founding of the People's Republic of China, the second prince Zong Wang and the later King Wanyan Zonghan of Jinyuan County, led the entire country's troops and attacked Kaifeng twice. Zong Wang took control of Kaifeng, which was shaped like a crouching cow and had a high altitude in the northwest. Due to the characteristics of being low in the southeast, the terrain in the southeast corner of the outer city was determined to be convenient for attack.
Immediately, the Jin army built fire ladders, fire ladders, side bridges, ramming poles, goose carts, tunnels and other equipment, and attacked the city. They also built more than 200 gun emplacements in the city, and placed seven-shot, five-shot, whirlwind, and tiger guns. Squatting down and waiting for the cannon, they threw huge rocks weighing fifty kilograms, and even stone tablets, stone mills, stone sheep, stone tigers, etc. outside the city, destroying all the buildings on the city.
Later, King Wan Yanliang of Hailing mobilized two million military and civilian craftsmen to repair Kaifeng, with the idea of locating in the world and connecting with all nations. All the time was spent on repairing the palaces and buildings in the city, paying attention to red inscriptions, inscriptions, and carved walls. The walls are made of gold and the pillars are made of jade. They don't care about city defense.
Therefore, it was not until King Sui arrived in Kaifeng that he felt the pressure from the Central Capital and the Southern Song Dynasty at the same time, and he began to have the intention to repair the city defense. Considering that the outer city was more than ten miles away, there was a hasty police presence, and it was difficult to defend, so he decided Relying on the old foundation of the inner city of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty, a new city was built.
Shortly after this decision was made, there was a farce in Zhongdu that the emperor fell from a building, which triggered a series of changes in the court. Kaifeng naturally had to deal with it. For example, it had to first arrange important ceremonies and support the king's enthronement. Wanyan Shouzhong, the Emperor Xingding who was suffering from illness in Zhongdu, protested in separate court.
Not long after, the changes in Zhongdu caused Jurchens in Hebei and other places to panic and fled one after another. Kaifeng successively accepted nearly one million Jurchens who fled from Hebei, Zhongdu and other places.
After Dajin occupied the Central Plains, the Jurchen military households that moved from the northeastern interior to the Central Plains, Hebei, Shandong and other places reached 130 Meng'an and nearly 4 million people.
However, because the poor Jurchen households were not good at farming, no matter what kind of preferential policies the imperial court gave, the Jurchens who belonged to Meng'an Muke continued to disperse. Coupled with the losses of the wars over the years and even those who died in the continuous Han'er uprising, to During the Da'an period, there were only about forty or two million people left in Meng'an, which was fully controlled by the imperial court.
On the one hand, they try their best to protect the Jurchen privileges, even at the expense of forcing the tens of thousands of people of all ethnic groups under their rule to grind their teeth and suck blood. On the other hand, they actually cannot protect the interests of the Jurchen group, so that the number of the entire group does not increase. Minus. This shows the poor governance of the Jin Kingdom over the past century since its founding.
Two million people may seem like a lot, but you must know that the land of Longxing of the Jurchens can now be controlled by Guo Ning. The number of Meng'an Mooke in the hands of the Kaifeng court is very small, and there is no way to replenish it.
Therefore, the Kaifeng court must take over these Jurchens who have escaped through countless hardships and deaths no matter what, and must place them in place as the foundation of the Jin Dynasty.
To accommodate them, we must first come up with money and food. Kaifeng Mansion's original savings were immediately spent like water, and the finances that were still able to maintain, and even seemed a bit surplus, suddenly became tense.
In order to make up for the shortfall, the Kaifeng court doubled the land tax within the Nanjing Road area, or followed the old method of classifying the fields owned by local people as wasteland and then allocating them to the Jurchens for farming.
In the process, the local people's power was exhausted, not to mention that there were many conflicts between Jurchens and Han'ers on Nanjing Road, causing no less than a dozen riots.
Since King Sui arrived in Nanjing, he relied mostly on Tian Zhuo, Hou Zhi and other Han ministers for government affairs. Another Mongolian gang with a higher status was a Jurchen, but he was also a Jinshi and served as an assistant to the emperor, so he was a proper Confucian scholar. So.
The entire regime has always shown the traditional Confucian attitude of a wise king. It has the generosity to regard the Jurchens and Han'er as one family, and the benevolence of working hard to govern and being deeply aware of the sufferings of the people.
As a result, this generosity and kindness were all lost after King Sui ascended the throne and became emperor.
From the standpoint of Tian Zhuo, Hou Zhi and other Han ministers, there is still no way to persuade them. No matter what, the problems are all there. If we don’t find a solution from the Han’er on Nanjing Road, we will have to sit back and watch the Jurchens who defect to us starve.
Death, who dares to make this decision?
In the next few months, Tian Zhuo focused his energy on Henan Prefecture, while Hou Zhi was given the title of Third Secretary-General and concentrated on building the city.
He gathered people at the beginning of April and started building a new city. It didn't take long before he encountered a shortage of money and food from the court. At first, the people could only drink some thin drinks, but later even the basic supplies were cut off. Hou Zhi simply decided to cut the price.
A lot of unnecessary content was removed in an effort to reduce costs, and people were sent to demolish the Nanjing Imperial College nearby and use it as a source of materials.
The Kaifeng court itself was also trying to figure out how to solve this situation, so it sent several waves of people to Lin'an to press for the New Year coins.
As a result, it was clear that Lin'an Xing was weighing between the two Jin dynasties, and seeing that he was moved by the benefits of trade, he became more and more inclined to Zhongdu.
Kaifeng and the Song Dynasty were close to each other, and a lot of spies were sent out. So at that time, someone got an extra piece of extremely confidential news, saying that the Song Dynasty would jointly open Qianjian in Huainan and Zhongdu, and the output of the Qianjian would be used to make up for it.
The currency required for trade.
Doesn't this mean that delicious dishes with full flavor and aroma were fried under the nose of the Kaifeng court and then served to the rebels in Zhongdu?
Is it tolerable or not?
At present, the Kaifeng court sent all the troops of the thirteen captains to go south, intending to plunder the Song Dynasty and seize supplies.
At the beginning of the war, many battles were won in succession. All the ministries reported that our army might not be able to deal with the rebels in Zhongdu, but it had more power to control the weak Southern Dynasty. In just half a month, in the two directions of west Beijing and Huainan,
They all brought back a lot of money and food.
This is good news.
At that time, the ministers discussed together and felt that the traitors in Zhongdu had made more messes than the Kaifeng court, and the scale of the court they had built was larger than that of Kaifeng. It was impossible to launch a war in a short time. We had Wanyan Heda in Hebei and Wanyan Heda in Hebei.
, there are Mo Nian Zhongzhong in Xijing, and there are Bilan Arudai and others on Damingfu Road, which are enough to intimidate.
Therefore, the money and food looted in advance are not rushed to the north, and Wanyan Heda and others are allowed to tighten their belts and hold on for a few more months. The city in Kaifeng has been repaired first, so that everyone can sleep peacefully at night.
Hou Zhi got the money and food, and continued to work quickly. By July, he finally felt that things were quite good. He reported to the court that exhibition buildings had been built on both the north and south sides of the inner city, and the towers and other buildings were all available. The outer city had also been slightly repaired.
They can be used as a basis for city defense.
This is of course good news. The emperor personally inspected the two circles of the Great Wall inside and outside Kaifeng. He felt like a Jincheng hot spring. He was very satisfied. He praised Hou Zhi's ability in government affairs on the spot, cited his merits, and was promoted to an official rank.
But now, the war with the Southern Dynasty has become a mess, and the powerful enemy from the north has come again. No one can tell clearly whether the construction of this city is pros or cons, a merit or a fault.
"Both marshals, Mo Ni Jinzhong and Wanyan Heda, were defeated in both battles? Bilan Aru was too timid to fight and just sat back and watched the enemy troops move south?"
"I have already said that Bilan Alu is incompetent, but Mo Niian Jinzhong and Wanyan Heda each have 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers, how can they be defeated? Maybe Guo Ning is spreading rumors and disrupting the morale of our army...
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"Then Guo Ning's general Zhao Jue has led his troops to Ligudu! More than a hundred soldiers guarding the pontoon escaped back. They all saw it with their own eyes. What else is there to be suspicious of? Look at Guo Ning personally leading his troops from there.
The troops are approaching Qi County from the east... This, the troops are really approaching the city, Your Majesty!"
"Fortunately, the two walls of Kaifeng City are newly built and extremely strong, able to withstand a long-term fight..."
"Speaking of the city wall, I want to scold you Hu Tu! Marshal Wanyan Heda had to carry out a dangerous night attack because his army had no reserves. If the imperial court did not spend money and food on building the city wall, it would be transferred to the north to replenish the army in Hebei.
How could the defenders allow people to rush to the Yellow River crossing so easily?"
"You're just Hutu! Is now the time to dwell on this matter? If the city wall hadn't been strong now, Guo Ning's ferocious force would have already invaded the city and killed your whole family!"
The young emperor felt dizzy listening to the nonsense of the Jurchen nobles.
He smiled bitterly and turned his gaze to Tian Zhuo: "Mr. Qi, can you please ask Hou Zhi to talk about the preparations for city defense..."
Tian Zhuo had been privately persuading the emperor for the past two days to be prepared in case he abandoned Kaifeng and fled to Henan or Jingzhao with a small number of elites. But when he came to see him today, Tian Zhuo's eye circles were a little dark, but his expression was calmer:
"I have already gone to see Hou Zhi and asked him to patrol the city carefully. Looking at the situation in the past few days, there is no need to worry about the enemy attacking the city for the time being. We still have time and available reinforcements... Your Majesty, we still have a chance."
"Mr. Qi, I don't have much education, please don't trick me!"
