Qian Song

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The Daqian Dynasty has always had spies in various places in the Western Song Dynasty, especially in the small courts of the Western Song Dynasty. I don’t know how many spies have been planted. Among them, Mo Chou, the highest rank, has now entered the decision-making level of the small courts of the Western Song Dynasty.

This made Li Cun know everything about the Western Song Dynasty like the back of his hand.

The most intuitive manifestation is that at the beginning of the Miao Liu Mutiny, Li Cun had already learned this heavy news through Fei Nu.

Yes.

Li Cun is going to let the Daqian Dynasty recuperate for three years.

But this premise is that Zhao Gou must not give Li Cun the opportunity to easily destroy the Western Song Dynasty.

Otherwise, Li Cun will be patient when things happen, and if there is a chance, Li Cun will of course be ruthless.

Everything you do has a cost. The more you sell, the more you pay, the less you pay, but you lose your principal.

Therefore, those who achieve great things must learn to endure and learn to wait for opportunities. Sima Yi has sharpened his sword for ten years, and it only takes a moment to swing his sword.

In Li Cun's view, now is the time to swing his sword!
in fact--

Li Cun originally thought that his chance would come sometime in three years.

The reason why Li Cun thinks this way is, of course, because Li Cun feels that since he has given Zhao Gou three years of precious time, Zhao Gou must use these rare three years to stabilize the situation in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, and then vigorously develop In the Sichuan-Shanxi area, we are planning to fight the Daqian Dynasty again in the future, and the Sichuan-Shanxi area is just such a big place. Zhao Gou, relying on his name and righteousness inherited from the Zhao and Song Dynasty, as long as he manages it carefully, he will be able to stabilize Sichuan-Shanxi The situation in the region, and then keep a low profile.

But Li Cun never expected that Zhao Gou didn't cherish the three years he gave him at all, and he still didn't think about making progress. The country is even more important than his life. He has no intention of governing the country, no intention of running the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, and even less of striving for strength. They rose steadily, causing dissatisfaction among many people, and then the Miao Liu Mutiny broke out, which Li Cun thought would never happen.

Then don't blame your father, I'm sorry for you.

Your father, I have given you a chance, but you are useless.

did not say.

Li Cuncun made a decision as soon as he received the news of the Mutiny of Miao and Liu from the spies of Xingyuan Mansion, and took advantage of this precious opportunity to recover the Sichuan-Shanxi area in one fell swoop and complete the real unification.

It has to be said that the reason why Li Cun is so decisive, besides this opportunity is too good, there are two main reasons:
The first one is that the Sichuan-Shanxi area has been easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times. If Zhao Gouzhen manages the Sichuan-Shanxi area well, Li Cun will have to pay a great price if he wants to regain the Sichuan-Shanxi area, and it may even appear. Even if Li Cun paid a huge price, he might not be able to recover the Sichuan-Shanxi area.

The second is that the conditions for recovering the Sichuan-Shanxi area are actually very mature.

In other words, Zhao Gou was also unlucky.

During this period of time, not only Wu Jie and others quelled the pro-Song armed forces, bandits, and rebels in Hebei and Hedong areas, and came to Bianliang City in Tokyo to receive rewards, Zhao Li and others also quelled the rebellion in the south, that is, Zhong The rebellion of the same gang.

In the past two years, Zhong Xiang and his group of rebels have been in the area around Dongting Lake. Taking the lake as a danger, they set up a stronghold near the lake. Timber, big cars and big ships, the momentum is really not small.

Even Zhao Han'er, Sun Sandai, and Zhang Goudan were a little helpless against Zhong Xiang and his gang.

Of course, this is also because Zhao Han'er, Sun Sandai, Zhang Goudan and others needed defense everywhere because of the war between Qian and Song Dynasties, so they couldn't concentrate all their efforts to encircle Zhong Xiang and his gang of rebels.

It was not until the Qian Song Dynasty negotiated peace that Zhao Han'er, Sun Sandai, and Zhang Goudan were finally released.

At the same time, Zhao Li and others also led the army to the Dingli area.

After that, the Gan Army immediately organized to encircle and suppress the various bandits, water bandits, and rebels in the south. After the other bandits, water bandits, and rebels were wiped out one after another, Zhao Li, Zhao Han'er, Sun Sandai, Zhang Goudan, Liu Kai, etc. People transferred the water army to attack Zhong Xiang's water village by car, boat and loach boat, both by land and water.

As the vanguard, Liu Qi first sent Zhong Xiang and his group of rebels to lure them to surrender, splitting up and disintegrating the group of rebels;

Tempted by Liu Kai's flexible policy of recruiting and surrendering, the leaders of this group of rebels, Yang Qin, Liu Heng, Jin Cong, Liu Shen, Huang Zuo, etc. surrendered one after another, but Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao, Xia Cheng, etc. still remained in the village. solid.

Liu Kai knew that the waters of Dongting Lake were unpredictable, so Nayangqin suggested that he send people to open the gates to release the lake water, put giant rafts to block the port branches, and spread grass on the lake to break the advantage of the rebels' vehicles and boats.Later, with Yang Qin as a guide, he entered the water villages of Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao, Xia Cheng and others.Zhong Ang, the son of Zhong Xiang, and Yang Yao led the water army to fight. Because of the shallow water, the wheels of vehicles, boats, and engines were entangled in grass, and they were unable to move. They were defeated by the Qian army. Cheng and others were all caught.

Li Cun decreed that Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao, Xia Cheng, etc. would bring disaster to the country and the people, and die every inch of them, to make an example to others.

So far, the Jinghu rebels who had been young for two years successively were wiped out.

Zhao Li, Liu Kai and others also came to Bianliang City, Tokyo to receive rewards for their great achievements.

It is worth mentioning that the reason why Li Cun named so many generals Tokyo Bianliang City was not only to reward them for their great achievements, but also because Li Cun was going to re-divide the defense area and re-deploy the defense, so he needed advice from these generals.

At this moment, the Miao Liu mutiny broke out in the Western Song Dynasty.

Look at Li Cun again.

Yes.

The Yellow River has not yet been well governed.

However, with the vigorous governance of the Daqian Dynasty in the past two years, the Yellow River is now barely able to flood in a large area, and it has achieved preliminary governance results.

And this year, the Dagan Dynasty had a bumper harvest of grain, which allowed the Dagan Dynasty to survive the food crisis and at the same time allowed the Dagan Dynasty to have a certain amount of grain.

The key point is that as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn will be vigorously promoted nationwide next year, the grain output of the Dagan Dynasty will only be higher next year.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the management is done properly, there will be no major military disasters, natural disasters, etc. After the Dagan Dynasty, there should be no worries about food.

economically.

Li Cun encouraged trade and vigorously developed maritime trade, making the economy of the Dagan Dynasty far surpass that of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Last year, the fiscal revenue of the Dagan Dynasty reached 6000 million yuan in one fell swoop, almost double the highest annual fiscal revenue of the Zhao Song Dynasty, which reached [-] million yuan.

And this year, the fiscal revenue of the Dagan Dynasty should be even more.

Moreover, unlike the Zhao and Song Dynasties where most of the money was in the hands of the gentry and nobles, a large part of the Dagan Dynasty's money was in the hands of the court.

In other words, the Dagan Dynasty is now rich.

militarily.

All the rebellions in the Dagan Dynasty have been quelled, and there is no longer any armed force in the country that can contain the troops of the Dagan Dynasty.

Suffering from abroad.

With Li Cun's announcement that the Dagan Dynasty will rest for three years, and will not take the initiative to launch wars outside the country during these three years.

And because Jin and Xia not only didn't take any advantage in the war on the border, on the contrary, both countries suffered a lot.

Jin Guo will not say much.

One of the important commanders of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang's branch and the general Wanyan's mother's branch, were wiped out by the general Yue Fei of the Daqian Dynasty.

Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan's mother, and the men belonging to the two branches of the Jin Kingdom's royal family and clan were all hacked into pieces, and all the women were brought into the harem by Li Cun.

Jin Guo has never been able to find this venue.

As for Xixia, they also suffered a big loss during the battle between the two sides.

Last spring, under the orders of Li Qianshun, the commander-in-chief of the Western Xia Dynasty, King Chage of Jin led more than [-] troops on foot to attack Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, and the Baguan area of ​​​​Hedong. , Attacked the Tianduzhai of the Dagan Dynasty, and then crossed the Yellow River, attempting to withdraw after looting.

As a result, he was defeated by the Qian army.

The reason why the Qian army was able to win that big victory, apart from the hard work of the Qian army, there is another big factor, that is, the Zhe family, which has guarded the border for the Han people for more than 300 years, surrendered under the leadership of its owner Zhe Keqiu. dynasty.

To be honest, Zhe Keqiu really didn't want to lead the brave Zhe family to this step.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhe Keqiu and Zhejia were really forced to do nothing.

In the past few years, the Dagan Dynasty has risen strongly, occupying most of the areas that originally belonged to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and at the same time occupying the Yanyun area that originally belonged to the Liao Kingdom.

For Zhejia, whose base is in Linfu Fengsanzhou, it was completely pushed to the front line, and Xue was half surrounded by the Daqian Dynasty.

Facing the incomparably powerful army, the Zhe family was already struggling to support it.

This is because the Dagan Dynasty always wanted to recruit the Zhejia, a big family that had guarded the frontier for the Han people for 300 years, and it was not ready to recover the Sichuan-Shaanxi area for the time being, otherwise the Zhejia would have been wiped out by the Gan army.

However, when the Zhe family was already in such a difficult situation, Zhao Gou also forced the Zhe family to let the Xixia people who had a blood feud with the Zhe family borrow the way from Linzhou to attack the Daqian Dynasty.

Facing Zhao Gou's order without thinking, Zhe Keqiu immediately sent someone to tell Zhao Gou that the Zhe family and the Xixia people had a deep blood feud, and if the two sides came into contact, there would definitely be friction, or even a big fight.

Moreover, the Zhao Song Dynasty has opened up many channels for Xixia, so there is really no need to open Linzhou to Xixia.

in fact--

The reason why Zhe Keqiu made such a request was mainly because the Zhe family was worried that the Xixia people who hated the Zhe family to the bone would pretend to attack Guo, plunder the Zhe family wantonly, and even destroy the Zhe family.

Historically, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Army under the leadership of Wanyan Loushi went down to Yan'an, Qingjian, and Suide.Zhe Keqiu's son, Zhe Yanwen, happened to return to Hedong from the capital and was captured by the Jin army.Wanyan Loushi took Zhe Yanwen as a hostage and forced Zhe Keqiu to surrender. Zhe Keqiu, who was already unable to fight any more, could only agree to surrender gold in Linfu, Fengsanzhou and Jiubaozhai.Later, Wanyan Loushi sent people to kidnap Zhe Keqiu's father, son and other clansmen to persuade him to surrender, and promised him the land in Guanzhong. Jiubaozhai surrendered.

Afterwards, the Jinren discussed supporting the puppet regime. Since Zhe's family lived in Fuzhou and had a high reputation in Fuzhou, Linzhou, Fengzhou and other places, Zhe Keqiu also became a candidate for support.

However, after weighing the balance between Zhe Keqiu and Liu Yu, the Jinren finally chose to set up Liu Yu.

Later, Wan Yanchang abolished Liu Yu.

Because Zhe Keqiu held a heavy army, in order to prevent turmoil, before Liu Yu was abolished, Wan Yanxie also promised Zhe Keqiu that Zhe Keqiu would replace Liu Yu, but Wan Yanchang rejected it in the end.

Wanyan Xie was also afraid that Zhe Keqiu would be resented for his dishonesty, which would lead to a mutiny, so he planned to poison Zhe Keqiu to death.

Afterwards, Xixia's Zhe family had no leader and seized the opportunity to capture Fuzhou. Zhe Yanwen was forced to flee to Hedong with his family, and Xixia then occupied Fuzhou.

The Xixia people hated Zheshi's long-term resistance to the Xia Dynasty, and destroyed all the tombs of Zheshi, gouged out the graves and flogged the corpses to avenge the century-old revenge.

It is not difficult to see from this that the hatred between the Zhe family and the Xixia people is deep.

This is actually understandable.

Fuzhou borders the Yellow River in the east, grasslands and deserts in the northwest, and overlooks the Hexi states in the south. The geographical location is very important.

As for Zhejia's achievements, the most important thing is to fight against Xixia.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the Zhe family made numerous military exploits in the war against Xixia.

Its record is particularly eye-catching in the Song and Xia battles, among the records of the Zhao and Song Dynasties who lost more than they won.

In this case, there is nothing wrong with folding the family to guard against the Xixia people.

But at that time, Zhao Gou regarded Xixia and Jin Guo as his life-saving straws. Not to mention that Xixia just borrowed Linzhou from him, even if Xixia asked him for Lin, Fu, and Fengzhou, he would definitely agree without hesitation.

Therefore, Zhao Gou mercilessly rejected the request that could be obtained.

There is no other way but to agree to the Xixia people borrowing from Linzhou.

In the end, the thing that Zhe Keqiu was most worried about happened, because of the deep hatred between the Zhe family and the Xixia people, after the two sides met together, even if the Zhe family and Xixia's top management tried their best to restrain their own people, the people below the two sides still appeared There was friction, and then it turned into a group fight, and finally turned into a war, causing thousands of casualties on both sides.

At this time, Wang Shu, who was responsible for cooperating with the Xixia people in attacking the Dagan Dynasty, favored the Xixia people and even suppressed the Zhe family to a certain extent because he followed Zhao Gou's will.

This aroused strong dissatisfaction among the folding family.

The key point is that Li Cun had already sent Zhe Yanzhi, Zhe Kecun, Zhe Keyu, Zhe Keshi and other Zhe family members who had surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty to contact Zhe Keqiu and others, asking them to recruit Zhe Keqiu to surrender.

The key point is that Li Cun personally wrote a letter to Zhe Keqiu, with the words "Screen China inside, and barbarians outside", flaunting the 300-year achievements of the Zhejia family.

Moreover, when Li Cun chatted with Zheyanzhi, Zhekecun, Zhekeyu, Zhekeshi and other Zheke family members who had surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty, he said like a few treasures:
"Zhe Weichang, his younger brother Zhe Weixin, and clan uncle Zhe Haichao, died for the country in the battle against the Xixia army."

"After the Battle of Zihehan in the first year of Dao Dynasty, Han Dewei took advantage of Zhe Yuqing's illness to invade the south again. Zhe Yuqing forced his sick body to meet the enemy, but the enemy soldiers did not dare to enter after hearing about it. Zhe mother sent someone to call him back, Zhe Yuqing He said to those who came: "The world has received the grace of the country, the border bandits have not been destroyed, and the crime of Yuqing is also.Today, facing the enemy, abandoning soldiers is at your own discretion, but it is impossible to die in the army.For Mrs. Bai, don't miss me, how can loyalty and filial piety be both! ", Tears fell like rain after speaking. He died in the army the next day at the age of 38."

"The second son, Zheweichang, knew the affairs of the state. In the seventh year of Dazhong Yufu, Hedong Road transported grain to Linzhou. He was ill and led the army to help. Liao Zuo advised him to take a break for the time being. He replied: "The ancients were ordered to forget their homes and died in the State affairs, division also ". Marching against the wind and sand, died in the middle of the road, only 37 years old."

"The family of the Zhe family is the heir to the battle. Father, son and brothers are all brave and good at fighting. You have lived in the frontier for generations, and you have insight into the situation of the Tibetans. You have a lot of plans for the defense of Zhao and Song's northwest. The Song Dynasty has 200 years of history, and the Zhe family is well-deserved."

"Nowadays, Zhao and Song are not virtuous, and they have lost their country. The Zhe family has rescued them several times, and they have done their duty as a minister. However, the Zhao family has not lived up to it. It has exhausted its strength. Don't blame the Zhe family for abandoning it. The world has its own justice."

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Compared with Zhao Gou, who only knew how to use the emperor's prestige to force the Zhe family to obey unreasonable orders, Li Cun, who knew that the Zhe family had defended the border and defended against the enemy for 300 years, was obviously more worthy of the Zhe family's loyalty.

More importantly, the general trend of the world is now clear, those who follow Li Cun will surely prosper, and those who go against Li Cun will surely perish.

Therefore, Zhe Keqiu finally led the Zhe family to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty.

Afterwards, the Zhejia army and the Qian army attacked the Xixia army back and forth, causing the Xixia army to be defeated.

If Brother Cha hadn't been extremely experienced in commanding troops, quick enough to respond, and had been guarding against Zhejia, the Xixia army might have been beaten back to Xixia in that battle.

Now, with the transfer of a large number of dry troops to the border, the Jin and Xia countries have not benefited from the border.

Moreover, if the Jin and Xia countries were not careful, they might be attacked by the Gan army, causing a large number of casualties.

This can't help but make the Jin and Xia countries have changed from continuous invasion to passive defense on the border, especially after Wanyan Zonghan's Jin army withdrew from Shaanxi.

Also, unlike the people who don’t want to fight anymore, the military, especially those new military personnel who joined the Dagan Dynasty, like Liu Kai, Li Yanxian, the former pro-Song armed forces in the East of Hebei Province, and the former Zhongxiang’s subordinates, etc. However, they very much hope that Li Cun will send troops to destroy the Western Song Dynasty, so that they can also take this opportunity to get rewards, seal their wives and sons, and honor their ancestors.

Combining all the above, it can be said that the Dagan Dynasty occupied the right time, place and people to destroy the Western Song Dynasty.

In addition, the Miao Liu mutiny caused by Zhao Gou's fatuousness also made the Western Song Dynasty weaker, even unprecedentedly weak.

Under the ebb and flow, if Li Cun does not destroy the Western Song Dynasty, then there may be only one reason, that is, Zhao Gou is really Li Cun's own son.

But Li Cun knew that he was playing Webster, but it must not have been more than 20 years ago, so Zhao Gou could not be his own son.

Therefore, Li Cun really has no reason to let go of this opportunity to destroy the Western Army and complete the real unification.

As for the peace treaty between the Qian and Song Dynasties that was just signed for more than a year?
Do you think Li Cun will consider this waste paper? !

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