Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Not only the Song Army in Qingyuan Prefecture was mobilizing its troops, but the Song Army in Jizhou also contacted the rebels there on a large scale in the Shenzhou area, and launched distributed attacks on various counties.

These counties had previously surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin.

However, due to the small city walls and sparse population in this area, the Kingdom of Jin did not station a large army here.

The main force of the Jin army is mainly stationed in Zhending, Zhongshan, and Hejian.

Although it was a small-scale attack, the relationship between the two parties suddenly stiffened to the extreme.

Interestingly, the Jin envoy has arrived in Tokyo, ready to conduct peace talks between the two sides.

On July [-]th, Wan Yanjing returned to Yanjing and told his majesty how he met Zhao Ning.

After listening, Wanyan Zongwang knew that Zhao Guan's family would not really launch a war.

If the Zhao official family really wanted to start a war, they would not say that they went to their own territory to suppress the bandits, but directly threw out the crusade against the bandits.

Moreover, just after such a big event happened in Hebei, the Song army's logistics were not easy.

Chapter 301 New Situation (Second Update)

Zong Wang's guess was right.

Zhao Ning had no intention of launching a war at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of July, and Zhao Ning sent people to collect information every day, and Li Cue also took people around Zhending Mansion every day.

The Song army wandered around, but the Jin army stood still.

For a whole month, both sides seemed to be fulfilling the promises made at the last negotiating table.

Suddenly all became loving and peaceful.

On this day, Hu Quan said: "Your Majesty, it is very strange that the Jin army has been standing still."

Zhao Ning is reading the newspapers of Qingyuan Mansion for the past two days.

"It's not surprising," he said as he read.

"I'm stupid."

"The Golden Army may have really put a large number of troops in Shangjing."

"Pressed on Shangjing?"

"Maybe go west."

"Who is the golden man marching west?" Hu Quan looked puzzled.

"Mongols."

"Mongols?"

The Mughals were very unfamiliar to the Song people, and the Song people didn't know much about the conflicts within the Jin Kingdom, and it was even less likely that the Jin Kingdom had troublesome enemies.

"Mongolian Shiwei."

Now Hu Quan remembered that Shiwei was a branch of the Xianbei people. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, it was also called "Tatar" in historical documents.

They are active on the grasslands outside the pass, mainly in the remote Mobei.

Khitan is also a descendant of the Xianbei people, and later Shi Wei surrendered to the Khitan Liao Kingdom.

"How does His Majesty know?"

"I also speculate. I heard scouts say that the relationship between the Kingdom of Jin and the Mongol Khan is at a standstill. The Mongols are not convinced by the Jin people. There must be a fierce battle between the two sides."

Yang Cunzhong, who had been silent on the side, suddenly said: "Even if the Jin Kingdom marches westward, it will not stand still. The Jin army fights fiercely and will never retreat."

Zhao Ning sighed, and said, "There is another reason."

"what reason?"

"The situation in the Land of Yanyun may be even worse than we imagined."

The two of you looked at each other, and they didn't quite understand the meaning of Zhao Guanjia's words.

"The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were looted by the Kingdom of Jin when the Liao Dynasty fell, and sold to Tongguan for a few empty cities. Most of the population was taken captive to the Northeast."

Yang Cunzhong said: "I have heard about this matter, but I don't know how many people have been kidnapped."

No one knows, no one is sure, not even Zhao Ning, the time traveler.

A large number of migrants was a national policy implemented by the Jin Kingdom in the early days.

The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom valued Shangjing, the land of Jinyuan Zhaoxing, very much, and they called the Shangjing area "inland".

The Shangjing area is located on the banks of the Huntong River (the name of the Songhua River in the Liao Dynasty), which is already very far north and backward in development.

After Jin Taizu Wanyan Agu defeated the Liao Dynasty, he began to build the "inland".

After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, Jin Guoqiang ordered a large number of people to migrate to the "inland", including countless Khitan nobles, Bohai people, and Han artisans.

The ancestors of these Han craftsmen can be traced back to the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Central Plains was in chaos and a large number of Han people moved north to seek refuge.

Later, Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen States of Yanyun to Khitan, and Khitan grew rapidly, relying mostly on the internal governance of the Han people.

Now under the "inner prosperity" strategy of the Kingdom of Jin, the Yanyun Sixteen States are weak and powerless.

If the Jin army continues to maintain its military advantage over the Song Dynasty, it can use war to support war. Unfortunately, the third Song-Jin battle and the fourth Song-Jin war both shattered Jin's idea of ​​supporting war with war.

Wanyan Zongwang put forward the strategy of stabilizing and developing Yanyun last year.

If Yanyun cannot stabilize, there will be a large number of vacuum zones from northeast to north China, coupled with domestic ethnic conflicts, Jin Guo wants to use troops against Song Dynasty, and the logistics will be dragged down by himself.

But now, Zhending, Zhongshan, and Hejian, the southernmost places of the Kingdom of Jin, maintain a large population at fixed points, forming a coercive force against the border defenses of the Song Dynasty.

Now Shangjing has mobilized another army to prepare for the westward expedition.

Assuming that Song and Jin went to war suddenly, in case of a stalemate, the Jin army wanted to continue to mobilize the source of troops, food and grass from the northeast, which might result in a desperate situation in the case of two-front combat.

No one would put all their eggs in one basket unless they had to fight a war?

That is very dangerous.

In view of the current situation, Zong Wang still gave Wanyan Yinshu an order not to act rashly, unless Song Jun took the initiative to open it.

That's why there is this magical situation where both sides are "peace-loving" this month.

Hu Quan said: "If the land of Yanyun is empty, can our army seize this opportunity?"

Zhao Ning said: "It's not the time yet, there are still a lot of gold army reserves in Zhending Mansion, Zhongshan Mansion and Hejian Mansion."

Of course, Zhao Ning didn't know how many there were, but it would be stupid to start a war rashly now.

Jin country's logistics is not very good, that is compared to general wars and protracted wars, if you want to fight short-term wars, the Jin army can definitely fight.

For the protracted war, Song's logistics is worse than that of Jin.

The Great Song Dynasty now has thousands of miles of red land in Hebei and Hedong, the administration is corrupt, and the people are in dire straits.

If we really want to start a war, if the war expands, who can control it?

Once the war expands, no one can stop it with a single order.

During World War II, Little Japan launched a war against China, but the result was that it hit the back, and the more it fought, the harder it became, until its finances collapsed, and the domestic economy directly collapsed.

But still not stopping?

why?

Because at that time, the situation cannot be controlled by one or two people.

Neither can the Emperor.

At that time, there was no bombing of Pearl Harbor, and there were a lot of voices for a truce in Japan, and they were still high-level.

But the middle and low-level soldiers refused to agree, and had no choice but to continue fighting.

So the collective has no independent consciousness.

Even though Yingjiang said at the time that he would use force against the mainland of Little Japan, the high-level officials of Little Japan thought it was time to surrender, but the middle and low-level officers still refused.

Finally, the atomic bomb fell, and everyone was quiet.

The same is true for fighting China, and it cannot be stopped unless all the last resources are exhausted.

In this world, there has never been a single person who can truly control the overall situation, not even the emperor, nor the emperor.

If Yang Guang understood this, there might be no such thing as Datang.

Having said that, Wanyan Zongwang was unwilling to act. After all, from the political level and the level of combat opportunity, it is a bad idea to act hastily.

Zhao Ning is also unwilling to do anything, after all, the internal affairs are still a mess.

The two sides performed tacitly in this way.

Neither side knew the other's real strength, provisions, and intentions.

It wasn't until August that Zhao Ning finally confirmed that the Jin army really wouldn't go to war in a short time.

Even if Zhao Guan's family is on the northern front, this battle can't be fought, which shows that the Jin army really has great concerns

This is exactly what he wanted.

In this way, he can really go back and let go of his hands to rectify the interior.

On the first day of August, Zhao Ning quietly left Qingyuan Mansion and headed southward like lightning.

"Zhengfu!"

Yang Cunzhong said: "The minister is here!"

"You went to Qingyuan Mansion this time, and saw the border troops of Qingyuan Mansion, how do you feel?"

"Compared to the past, today's frontier army has stricter military discipline!"

Yang Cunzhong is a very serious person, and also a very down-to-earth person. He and Zhang Jun are almost the opposite.

He said that military discipline is strict, so it must be strict military discipline.

Zhao Ning said with emotion: "Zong Shuai is good at running the army!"

He suddenly said again: "But it is not enough for the military discipline of the Hebei Imperial Army to be strict. Shaanxi, Hedong, Jingdong East Road, and the entire Song Dynasty's military and government are the same as Hebei. Why can't we go to the Northern Expedition?"

"Your Majesty said it very well."

"Zhengfu, do you know why I bring you by my side?"

"I don't know, Your Majesty please make it clear."

"There is still one person short of the Military Governor's Mansion."

Yang Cunzhong was taken aback, and quickly said: "Your qualifications are still young."

"My military governor's mansion is not a place to talk about qualifications!"

Aren't you going to kill Liu Guangshi?

I will let you kill yourself!

Kill those titans of the Western Army to see!

Chapter 302 Dangzhen's court is a vegetable garden? (third change)

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, Zhao Ning returned to Tokyo in a low-key manner.

According to the "Mid-Autumn Festival" volume eight of "Tokyo Menghualu": ​​"On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, your family decorates the terraces and pavilions, and the folks compete to occupy the restaurant to play with the moon, and there is a lot of silk. Residents near the inner court hear the sound of Sheng Yu in the middle of the night, It's like a cloud. The children in the village play all night long. The night market in Piantian, as for understanding."

In a word: very lively.

Zhao Ning went back and took a shower first.

It was evening, the heat dissipated slowly, gusts of evening wind blew by, and the golden leaves in front of the Wende Hall fluttered gracefully.

That's autumn.

Not long after, the sky gradually dimmed, and a round of golden full moon appeared above the sky, hanging between the well-arranged palaces and pavilions.

Gao Qiu hurried into the palace.

"See the official."

"You came."

"Your Majesty returned to the capital, but the minister failed to welcome him from a distance. He is guilty."

"Okay, don't care about these things, I have come to discuss something important with you."