Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 36 Side Provocation
  Rationally speaking, Liu Ling believed that since the Song Dynasty took in Zhang Jue, he should be a good person and do it to the end. However, what happened next in history fully reflected the second-hand style of the Song Dynasty bureaucrats.

Zhang Jue surrendered to the Jin Kingdom as a Liao general, and then regretted that he wanted to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Both the Zhao family and the officials believed that this pie in the sky was not for nothing. Zhang Jue occupied a piece of Pingzhou, that is, The Jin Kingdom's current "Nanjing" also boasts of having a hundred thousand soldiers under its command.

According to the actual situation that Liu Ling has grasped, this guy definitely does not have 100,000 troops, but there must be at least 50,000.

"The Jin people will never give up."

Chen Liang said worriedly: "General, are you planning to agree to them?"

Liu Ling looked up at him but didn't answer. Chen Liang immediately realized that he was just a businessman, but he had to shamelessly discuss military aircraft with others. Wasn't he asking for trouble?

He said a few words, then made an excuse to do something, and left quickly.

Liu Ling unfolded the map. The ancient map was not very clear. Some places were only marked roughly. Even compared with another map of the same place, even the place names of some of the same locations were very different.

According to military reports sent back from the front line: Pharmacist Guo has recovered Shimen Town, and the next step is to recover Jingzhou.

Xiao Qian's defeat was imminent, and Liu Ling could rely on his achievements in "killing the rebels" and guarding the city to get his official position to be promoted to a higher level by the court.

The official positions given by the Song people were actually of little practical use in the Yan region, unless they were high-ranking officials with real power. At the local level, the military chiefs within the Ever Victorious Army actually held the real power.

For the latter, whoever has a bigger fist will naturally have a higher right to speak.

There is no doubt that in today's north, the Jin people have the biggest and hardest fists.

Less than a day after Zhang Jue's envoy left, the Jin's envoy arrived. After entering the city, he took the warrant from Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, and read out an imperial edict demanding that Chang Shengjun and others, including Song officials, They are not allowed to interact with the traitor Zhang Jue, and they are not allowed to take him in in the future. If he violates it, Da Jin will immediately use all his heavenly troops to attack him.

The Jin people showed a sense of honesty and honesty in their work. After reading out the second prince's order, the Jin people's envoy raised his head and smiled at him in Liao dialect: "I dare you to ask whether you shot the fake Liao Empress Dowager to death or killed the Song general in anger. , General Liu who hangs a coffin to guard an isolated city and scrapes bones from the top of the city to cure poison?"

What kind of deeds are these?
  Liu Ling hesitated for a moment, and then remembered that he had asked Chen Liang's caravan to help him "promote" his reputation in the past few days.

Because Zhuozhou had to be guarded next, a large number of people in Zhuozhou were moved to the Kingdom of Jin. At the same time, Yanjing also needed population replenishment, so the people in Zhuozhou were moved by the Song people.

The basic market that Liu Ling obtained can be said to be true.

Therefore, he could only focus on some of the refugees who did not want to be moved to the Kingdom of Jin, so they were still wandering in the wilderness.

It seemed that the effect was very good. Those merchants moved around and probably produced a "said Liu Quan Zhuan" within a few days, and even the Jin people heard about it.

When the other party left, he left some gifts and specifically stated that these gifts were gifts from the "Second Prince of Dajin". The implication in his words was already obvious.

In their view, Zhang Linghui was now a general of the Song Army, but Liu Ling killed him, Liu Shunren and others like chickens. The Song court would definitely not tolerate Liu Ling.

After the Jin envoy left, Liu Ling planned to take a good nap, but the soldiers over there came over again to report that the grain team from the rear had arrived, and Liu Ling was asked to check and count it in person.

With the fierce momentum of Guo Yaoshi's advance, Yuyang City has become a storage point in the middle of the grain road due to its geographical location and solid city defense.

There was actually no need for Liu Ling to personally handle the matter of storing grain, soldiers and other items in the city treasury, but he still ordered his soldiers to remind him when the grain team came over, just for this moment.

"Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty."

Standing in front of him was the grain transport officer of the Song Dynasty. Liu Ling walked over with a big smile. After saluting him, he quietly turned sideways so that the grain transport officer could see the contents of the carriage behind him. The grain transport officer looked at the situation and immediately understood what Liu Ling meant. They both burst into laughter, and everything was understood without saying anything.

"Xiaguan has prepared good food and wine in the city. The northern land is barren, but there are still a few beautiful singers. Please forgive me, and leave the matter of storing grain, grass and soldiers to your supervision."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, General."

The grain transport officer was very satisfied. After he got into the carriage, he couldn't help but open a small box at his feet and slowly grabbed a handful from it. Hearing the sound of gold and silver utensils falling back, he couldn't help but close his eyes. Close your eyes, smile at the corner of your mouth, and hide this happiness in your heart.

There were three such boxes in the carriage, filled with gold and silver treasures. Some were gifts from the wealthy families in Yuyang City, and some were "filial piety" from the caravans under Chen Liang.

Liu Ling was not sure how big his caravan was, but Chen Liang had told him before that he had taken over all the business from Zhuozhou to the Baigou River on the original border of Northern Song Dynasty.

The money he earned was not enough to support thousands of troops, but it was enough for Liu Ling to go to Jiangnan in the Song Dynasty and become a wealthy man with a fortune of millions.

Now, the money was transferred to an unknown grain transport officer.

Just for this moment.

Liu Ling couldn't help but rub his hands. After the soldiers opened the door to the treasury, a rotten smell came to his face, mixed with the pungent smell of leather. But at this time, Liu Ling took a deep breath and felt My previous efforts were worth it.

There has always been a tradition among the Song army to drink the blood of soldiers and eat empty pay, but what he is responsible for is the food and salary task of Guo Yaoshi's army. If something goes wrong, Guo Yaoshi will most likely not spare him when he comes back.

However, the battle on the front line is going smoothly, and it is expected that the troops will be ready within half a month at most.

The remaining grain, grass, soldiers and armor naturally became a confused account and became the benefits to be divided between the Ever-Victorious Army and the Song Dynasty's border army.

This time, Liu Ling was able to get at least 10,000 hu of grain, 500 pairs of armor, and a lot of luggage. In comparison, the gold and silver vessels sent out were worthless.

After the inventory was completed, Liu Ling ordered the treasury to be sealed and would not be opened again until it was time to access it. At the same time, he warned:

"Register everything. These are things shipped by the imperial court. If one thing is missing, don't blame me for holding your heads up to account!"

After finishing his training, Liu Ling looked back with some reluctance at the items in the treasury.

"Close the door."

Time flies by like a horse. During the two months of recuperating in Yuyang City, Liu Ling's left arm injury gradually improved, and news of Guo Yaoshi's victory also came back from the front.

At the same time, news from the Kingdom of Jin slowly spread.

Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Dynasty died, his temple name was Taizu, and he was posthumously named Emperor Wuyuan. His younger brother Wanyan Wu begged the public to support him as emperor. At this time, according to the Song and Jin peace treaty, the land of Yanyun that should have been returned to the Song Dynasty was still There are still two or three states that have not been returned.

Wanyan Wu Qimai himself had no good opinion of the Song Dynasty, and when Wanyan Aguda was still alive, he also opposed returning the land of Yanyun to the Song people.

And because the Song Dynasty accepted Zhang Jue, the Jin people used this as an excuse to not only refuse to hand back the remaining part of Yanyun's land, but even had a vague intention of sending troops to attack the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)