The Most Powerful Man in the World

Gao Chong is just arrogant, but he is not stupid. He will naturally bow his head when it is time to bow his head. Besides, for Chu Yi, Gao Chong is really convinced.

Except for those with a high level of cultivation, those ordinary soldiers can't see the scene above the sky at all. At this moment, everyone who sees Gao Chong bowing down in front of Chu Yi's eyes shows that as expected. look.

No one doubted Chu Yi's ability to subdue Gao Chong at all, especially for someone with a temperament like Gao Chong, Chu Yi didn't have to do anything, just subduing Gao Chong was enough.

The two walked down from the sky, one after the other, and Gao Chong followed Chu Yi with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, obviously already assuming their identities.

Chu Yi glanced at Yue Fei, Niu Gao, Chen He and the others. These military generals who showed off what they had learned on the ring were naturally recorded.

After recruiting Lin Chong and Lu Da, Chu Yi gave some orders. After all, the new army Chu Yi had already handed over to Lu Da and Lin Chong to take care of it, so Chu Yi naturally gave the right to appoint generals in the army. Two people, so Chu Yi did not appoint anyone directly, but just took Gao Chong away.

Lu Da and Lin Chong are naturally quite reluctant to take away Gao Chong by Chu Yi, but thinking of Gao Chong's arrogant temperament, they are not sure to surrender Gao Chong like Chu Yi. Some discomfort, rather than leaving him in the army, it is better to let him follow Chu Yi.

The fourth year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty

The huge Bianliang City was once again shaken by a news that Chu Yi, the general manager, would lead the army to the north in three days.

As soon as the news came out, the whole city of Bianliang was shaken by it. The world map was spread that day, and many people got a copy of the world map through various channels.

The land in the north of the Song Dynasty was originally the land of Dajin, but now it is included in the map of the Song Dynasty, but in the land of the north, there is a country that is extremely conspicuous on the map of the world.

That is the country of Goryeo entrenched in the northeast.

Koryo is entrenched in the northeast, and has never stopped moving south. Especially in the past few years, taking advantage of the great war between Dajin and Daliao, it seized Baozhou and changed it to Uiju, and successfully extended the territory of Koryo. Pushed to the Yalu River.

However, Goryeo occupied the land of Uiju, but it was a small move, and there was a great tendency to cross the river and invade the south when the Song Dynasty was not paying attention to the land in the north.

Chapter 930 The Ambition of Snakes and Whales

Under normal circumstances, Goryeo needs to directly confront the Dajin Dynasty, which is expanding, but because of the appearance of Chu Yi, it directly led to the collapse of the Dajin Dynasty.

The direct consequence of the collapse of the Dajin Dynasty was that the pressure on Goryeo was greatly reduced. In addition, after Chu Yi overthrew the Dajin Dynasty, attention turned to the two countries of Xixia and Tubo in the northwest. Such a small country didn't take it to heart at all, and it was in this situation that Koryo's frantic expansion, stunned, extended its territory to the banks of the Yalu River.

At this time, the Song Dynasty court finally slowly digested the territory of Dajin, and a large number of officials were dispatched to the locality, completing the initial rule of the former Dajin territory.

It is conceivable that when the Song Dynasty began to complete the rule of the Dajin territory, Goryeo's little actions naturally could not hide the court's attention.

Not long ago, the magistrate of Anyi, a small town adjacent to the Yalu River, finally couldn't stand the harassment from the Koreans. After a few months, a memorial arrived at Bianliang, the capital, and appeared on Zhao Gou's desk.

When Zhao Gou saw the report, he was quite angry. If Song was said to be the most powerful country in the world, no one would be able to deny it, but there were still people who dared to harass the frontier of Song Dynasty, especially It was a small border country like Goryeo that harassed the Song Dynasty border.

From Zhao Gou's point of view, Da Song didn't go to Gao Li's troubles, and Gao Li should be very fortunate. Now Gao Li dares to harass Da Song's border.

In the court and even in the capital, I don't know how many people are guessing which country Chu Yi will attack next.

However, when he received the official's memorial, Zhao Gou sent someone to invite Chu Yi, then handed the memorial to Chu Yi, and asked Chu Yi if he could choose Goryeo as the next target of conquest.

So it didn't take long for news came out of the capital that Chu Yi, the chief general, was about to use his troops in the northeast, aiming to destroy the Goryeo who harassed the borderlands of the Song Dynasty.

As far as Chu Yi is concerned, as long as he can obtain luck, he will have to go to any of the surrounding small countries. Then it is logical to choose Goryeo as the first target of dispatching troops.

This year, when the spring flowers bloomed, the emperor Zhao Gou personally led hundreds of officials and sent the chief general Chu Yi to send troops.

This time Chu Yi sent troops with only [-] troops and horses, of which [-] were new troops, Yishui cavalry.

If this was the case in the past, let alone 5 people, it would be twice as many. I am afraid that few people would dare to believe that with so many people, a country could be wiped out.

No matter how small Goryeo is, it is still a country that has been passed down for hundreds of years, isn't it? There is a reason for it to exist for so many years.

But who made Chu Yi have the precedent of destroying Dajin, Xixia, and Tubo, which can be called storming countries? Even Xixia, Tubo, and Dajin were all destroyed by Chu Yi, so it seems that the mere Koryo is no problem. what.

As for the question of how many soldiers and horses Chu Yi brought, everyone subconsciously ignored it. Anyway, as long as Chu Yi is willing, there are as many as one million soldiers and horses in the world. Isn't it just a matter of Chu Yi's words?

Besides, in the eyes of everyone, the small country in the Koryo district, if Chu Yi personally went into action, would already look up to Koryo.

Tens of thousands of cavalry troops set off for the expedition, and the momentum can be said to be extremely amazing, especially the well-trained new army soldiers gave people a high-spirited attitude. Many people who saw the new army for the first time saw the tens of thousands of soldiers. When the new army saw it, they were stunned.

Not to mention the fact that he saw the people of the new army, as well as the civil and military officials, even Zhao Gou looked straight. Although he said that Zhao Gou was incapable of military and horses and had no talent for generals, there was one thing he could see. of.

Elite soldiers and strong generals are the same as the old, weak and sick. As long as they are not blind, who can not see it.

And these new troops are the kind of soldiers and horses that can be seen at a glance, and they did not waste Lin Chong and Lu Da's training.

With the training method given by Chu Yi, coupled with the execution ability of Lin Chong and Lu Da, and the fact that those soldiers are all strong men out of ten, it is really not difficult to train such a strong soldier.

Just as Chu Yi led tens of thousands of cavalry towards Goryeo in a mighty manner, Zhao Gou, who was returning to the dynasty, had already begun to instruct Zhang Shuye, Zong Ze and others to recruit officials, ready to go to Goryeo to accept Goryeo's orders at any time. land.However, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty took it for granted, which shows everyone's confidence in Chu Yi.

However, the upper echelons of Koryo were in a situation of power struggle. Since the death of the previous Koryo King Ruizong, Wang Kai, the son of Ruizong, was succeeded by Renzong, but Renzong was young, and his grandfather Li Ziqian was assisted in the court.

The master and the young ministers are strong, and the consequence is that the power will fall by the side, Renzong has become Li Ziqian's puppet, and even Li Ziqian, in order to further control the power, married his two daughters to Renzong, realizing a deeper marriage between Qingyuan Li and the royal family. On the other hand, he was proclaimed as a duke, with great power in his hands, and a very noble minister, reaching the pinnacle of his life.

Li Ziqian controlled the power of Goryeo, and controlled the military power of Goryeo through his relative Tuo Junjing, and completed the control of the military and political power.

However, due to domestic public opinion, Li Ziqian did not accept it, but put Renzong under house arrest.

On this day, Li Ziqian entertained his in-law Tuo Junjing in his luxurious palace, which was comparable to a royal palace.

At this moment, Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing have just joined forces to completely control the military and political power of Goryeo, and they are in the honeymoon period, so the relationship between the two is extremely close.

Seeing Li Ziqian's smile, he raised his glass to Tuo Junjing and said: "Come, today is a special celebration for my relatives, once Anyi City is broken, I can gain a foothold on the other side of the river, as long as we keep coming. Going to the south will definitely make my Goryeo territory bigger and bigger, this is all the merit of my family, and it will definitely be famous in the history of the future, and it will shine in the history books..."

As a famous Korean general, Tuo Junjing is quite reserved, facing Li Ziqian's praise, Tuo Junjing smiled slightly: "My family is just joking, it's just a mere Anyi city, but it was broken in one day. , there is no difficulty at all. At least it is much easier than in the old days when the big gold was still around.”

Li Ziqian nodded slightly. Although he said that most of Gao Li's military power is in the hands of Tuo Junjing, this does not mean that Li Ziqian really believes in Tuo Junjing completely. At least the soldiers and horses in the royal city are in the hands of their Qingyuan Li family. And what Tuo Junjing controls are only local troops and horses.

Looking at Tuo Junjing, Li Ziqian said, "Our spy heard the news that Dasong had used troops against Xixia and Tubo not long after Dasong destroyed Dajin. According to his relatives, how many troops did Dasong use in Tubo and Xixia this time? Winning chances?"

Tuo Junjing stroked his beard and said with a confident expression: "It's not that I look down on that Chu Yi, if he waits until Da Song has completely digested Da Jin before deploying troops in the northwest, there may still be some chance of winning, but Such a hasty use of troops is a big taboo of the military family, and I dare to say that the Song Dynasty will undoubtedly defeat Xixia and Tubo this time."

Seeing Tuo Junjing's confident appearance, Li Ziqian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If that's the case, then it would be even better, as long as the Song Dynasty is defeated, it will definitely take several years to recover. During this period, we can just seize the opportunity, slowly expand, and occupy a large territory..."

Li Ziqian said with a bit of excitement: "It is best to let the Great Song fight against Xixia and Tubo continuously, and have no time to take care of the Northeast. When the Great Song and Xixia and Tubo are both defeated, I have already risen in the northwest. When the army goes south, it is not impossible to enter the prosperous land of the Central Plains..."

Tuo Junjing couldn't help but let Li Ziqian wake up from the daydream. He noticed that Tuo Junjing looked at him a little strangely, Li Ziqian smiled awkwardly and said, "This is a certain goal, although it seems It's ridiculous, but I firmly believe that as long as we persevere, there will always be a day when it will come true."

Tuo Junjing looked at Li Ziqian noncommittally and said: "My in-laws have such grand ambitions, and I fully support them, but such grand ambitions of my in-laws require a large number of soldiers and horses to achieve, and now there are more than [-] soldiers in the borderlands. There are so many, more than one-third of them have no standard weapons at all, so please also ask your in-laws to allocate a batch of ordnance materials..."

Li Ziqian looked at Tuo Junjing with a look of difficulty when he heard the words: "My family also knows that Korea itself is a weak country and a lack of people, and the Ordnance Department has only been reluctantly equipping the central garrison with troops and horses after all these years of hard work. Just tidy..."

Tuo Junjing was not at all surprised by Li Ziqian's resignation. This is not the first time Li Ziqian has rebuffed like this. No one knows who Li Ziqian said. Part of what Li Ziqian said is indeed true, but although Gao Li is weaker, But it is not as exaggerated as Li Ziqian said.

At least as far as he knew, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could be raised as long as Li Ziqian wanted to, and Li Ziqian said that because he wanted to limit the military power in his hands.

Thinking that in order to overthrow Renzong Wang Kai and deal with the ministers who were loyal to the royal family in the court, the two of them joined forces and completely united in terms of military and government, and completed the erosion of the royal family and the suppression of ministers in the court.

At that time, the two were close to each other and had no time to cooperate. It was also at that time that Tuo Junjing gradually mastered the local military and horses except the capital guarding troops and horses.

It was also the completion of the allusion to Renzong. The relationship between the two was obviously no longer as harmonious as before. At least Li Ziqian began to get stuck with him in terms of food, salaries, ordnance and other materials, and even the tens of thousands of soldiers recruited by Tuo Junjing. Horses are not equipped with weapons now.

It seemed that he felt that he was so stuck with Tuo Junjing that it was a little unreasonable, Li Ziqian coughed lightly and said: "Well, I will think of a way to try to allocate 3000 military supplies for you. If there are more, it will really take time gone."

Tuo Junjing sighed slightly: "Since the imperial court is so difficult, I will trouble my relatives."

Li Ziqian waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, the border situation still requires the in-laws to sit in person. I don't know how long the in-laws are going to stay in Beijing this time, and when will they return to the army."

Tuo Junjing knew very well that Li Ziqian was worried that he had been lingering in the capital for too long, so he almost didn't drive him away, but now that Li Ziqian was in power, Tuo Junjing did not intend to compete with Li Ziqian, so he pondered for a while. : "The main purpose of returning to Beijing this time is to raise ordnance materials for the soldiers. As long as my relatives can provoke some of the materials, I can return to the military camp at any time."

Li Ziqian stroked his beard and looked at Tuo Junjing with admiration and said: "The border land cannot be separated from the in-laws, so I will order to first transfer some of the ordnance materials from the Wangcheng garrison for the in-laws to use, and the frontier military is the most important thing. ."

Just as the two of them were playing with their own scheming, there was a burst of hurried footsteps, and a figure came hurriedly. When they saw Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing, the person who came to Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing bowed and said: "I have seen my father and father-in-law."

As Li Ziqian's eldest son, Li Fang married Tuo Junjing's daughter, which can be said to be a bridge between the two marriages.

Glancing at Li Fang, Li Ziqian nodded slightly and said, "I'm in a hurry, but is there something wrong?"

Li Fang first glanced at Tuo Junjing, but after a little hesitation, he said to the two of them: "Father, father-in-law, just now, the news from our spies in the Central Plains, Chu Yi conquered Xixia and Tubo, and destroyed Xixia in one sentence. , The two countries of Tubo have already returned to the dynasty."

Because of the distance, the news obviously has a strong hysteresis. On the bright side of Goryeo, there are only two heavenly people, Tuo Junjing and Li's ancestor. Considering the possible existence of a heavenly person in the royal family, it is fully calculated. There are two or three heavenly beings in Goryeo.

In this case, in Goryeo, the existence of the Grandmaster and Grandmaster level is also a strong person, and it is obviously impossible to want such a strong person to be a messenger to convey the news.

Therefore, it is obvious that the spies that Goryeo placed in the Central Plains want to send the news back to Goryeo, and it obviously takes a long time to travel. So it is possible that the Song Dynasty has already dispatched troops here, and the news received by Goryeo is still there. a few months ago.

Li Ziqian stood up suddenly, and even knocked over the table in front of him, and spilled the tea on the ground. Li Ziqian's eyes widened and he stared at Li Fang in disbelief: "You... What did you say?"

Obviously, Li Ziqian was stunned by the sudden news. Not to mention Li Ziqian, even Tuojun Jingdu, who was on the side, was dumbfounded. You must know that just now, he also vowed to tell Li Ziqian that the Song Dynasty conquered Xixia, Tubo will definitely be defeated.

In the end, it took a while. Li Fang actually brought the news that Xixia and Tubo were destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty. How could this not make Tuo Junjing deeply shocked.

Tuo Junjing's hand that was wiping his beard shook violently, and several beards were pulled off, and he couldn't care about the pain. Tuo Junjing stared at Li Fang and said, "My son-in-law, is the news true?"

Li Fang smiled wryly and nodded, "The news is true."

Tuo Junjing sat on the stone pier, his face was full of disbelief, and he murmured: "How is this possible, how is this possible... Those are the two great powers of Tubo and Xixia, how can you lose if you say defeat? what?"

Chapter 930 Untitled

In comparison, both Xixia and Tubo are naturally powerful countries in the eyes of Gaoli, but in the world's impression, the Song Dynasty rarely won victories in foreign expeditions, although it is said that Chu Yi overthrew Dajin, Zhaoxian The strength of the Song Dynasty.

But this deep-rooted impression is difficult to change, otherwise, Xixia would not be able to find ways to unite with Tubo to fight against the Song Dynasty when facing Chu Yi's conquest, isn't it for a fight?

In the same way, although the Song Dynasty in Gao Li’s eyes showed signs of rising, in the bottom of Tuo Junjing’s heart, his views on the Song Dynasty did not change much, so he was so sure to tell Li Ziqian that the Song Dynasty would definitely Defeat at the hands of Xixia and Tubo.

As the saying goes, no matter how big the expectations are, the bigger the disappointment is. Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing hoped that Da Song would be defeated by Xixia and Tubo with all their hearts. In this way, the defeated Da Song must have no spare energy to take care of the borderlands. conflict.

After all, the northeastern frontier is thousands of miles away from the capital of the Song Dynasty.

Only in this way can they seize the opportunity to expand externally.

But now Li Fang has brought such a shocking news. If the news is true, doesn't it mean that the Song Dynasty has destroyed the three great powers of Dajin, Xixia and Tubo one after another?

After all, Li Ziqian is a powerful minister of a country, and his temperament is naturally unusual. He came back to his senses and looked at Tuo Junjing and said: "My family, if Xixia and Tubo are destroyed, it is difficult to guarantee that the attention of the Song Dynasty will not be transferred to us. The expansion of the land must stop."

Tuo Junjing took a deep breath and nodded towards Li Ziqian. The fool also knew that if he went to provoke Da Song again at this time, he would be really ignorant of current affairs.

I only heard Tuo Junjing say: "When I go back, I will gather my men and horses, and keep a low profile enough during this time, not to stimulate Da Song."

Hearing what Tuo Junjing said, Li Ziqian felt a little more at ease: "I hope Da Song won't notice what's going on here, but although we, Gaoli, are not a strong country, we are not afraid of things, so when my in-laws go back this time, we must Take the time to train your soldiers and horses, just in case."

As a famous Koryo general, Tuo Junjing certainly knows that he is not afraid of [-], but if Da Song doesn't bother them, that's all, but once Da Song has his eyes on them, then Koryo is not a slaughtered generation. , it's always a fight, isn't it?

After all, the war between Goryeo and the Central Plains has not happened once or twice in the past thousand years. Although there have been major defeats and losses, there have also been times when they defeated the Central Plains Dynasty. Therefore, although Tuo Junjing and Li Ziqian were quite worried in their hearts, they did not agree. Not too scared.

His eyes fell on Li Fang, and Li Ziqian said to Li Fang, "My son will immediately go to the Central Plains for a walk. I must find out the information and bring it back as quickly as possible."

Li Fang was ordered to leave.

As the largest clan in Korea, the Qingyuan Li clan is naturally not bad, not to mention the ancestors of the gods and people in the clan, even if they have gathered more than one strong person.

The Cheng Qi worshipped a great master who was supported by the Li family. With the footsteps of a great master, it really didn't take much time to go back and forth.

On the third day, when Li Ziqian was busy preparing ordnance supplies for Tuo Junjing, Li Fang walked into Li Ziqian's study with a secret letter with an extremely ugly expression.

When Li Ziqian was handling government affairs, he hated that someone would break into the study to disturb him, so the disturbed Li Ziqian looked up angrily. When he saw Li Fang, Li Ziqian frowned slightly and said, "What's the matter?"

Li Fang didn't understand how her father's temperament was, and she knew in her heart that she was disturbing Li Ziqian's handling of government affairs, but Li Fang presented the secret letter in her hand and said, "Father, this is the information that Cheng Qi brought back as an offering. In a hurry, I invite my father to see it in person.”

Reaching out to take the secret letter, Li Ziqian opened it, his eyes swept over, his complexion suddenly changed, his whole body trembled, and the inkstone beside him was touched by Li Ziqian and fell to the ground.