As we all know, when Qin Hui was kidnapped to the Kingdom of Jin, his experience and mentality went through a gradual process.

At first, it was because he wrote well and was the most charming and courteous among the Song Dynasty officials, so he was favored by Nianhan, and then he received preferential treatment during his journey north.

As far as this is concerned, it actually means nothing.

Then, he received protection and preferential treatment from Jin Kingdom dignitaries such as Wu Qimai and Ta Lan one after another, and became a strange figure between a guest and a prisoner of Jin Kingdom dignitaries. Although in theory he acted passively, there has been a quantitative change.

It triggered a process of qualitative change. Because in this process, Qin Hui had gradually begun to do literary work for these Jin Dynasty nobles, received a certain amount of gold, silver, and silk as rewards, lived in a big house, and even had the ability to use the Jin Dynasty nobles to

exerted influence on some things.

So finally one day, he started to follow Talan in the army, write documents to persuade people to surrender, and do staff work. At this time, the nature of his behavior was completely undoubted, and it would be difficult to clean it up.

But at this time, Qin Hui himself has always been cautious, or deliberately concealed.

The reason is self-evident. Qin Huizhi had already had his heart and lungs drawn out during the historic meeting with Hong Ya. This man who became the censor Zhongcheng in his thirties is not a fool. He knows deeply that no matter what, it is best to

The result is that he will return to the south and continue to serve as an official in his lifetime... He is a southerner, a Jinshi, the grandson-in-law of the prime minister, and a student of another prime minister. After witnessing the barbarism of the Jin people and the fate of the plundered soldiers and civilians in the north,

, his ultimate pursuit is to get out of this quagmire and return to the south to continue to be a great man. He would only choose to stay in the north to become a high-ranking official as a last resort.

It is precisely for this reason that he always acts cautiously, trying not to show his face in public, and does not seek any official positions in the north. He just hopes that one day he can successfully return to the south and make a grand appearance... And what is interesting is that the top brass of the Jin Kingdom have always given it their approval.

convenient.

However, all the ingenious ideas and careful calculations were smashed time and time again by the Zhao Guan family in the south... just like a hammer smashing porcelain, it can't be more direct.

Sometimes, Qin Hui couldn't help but feel suspicious. Is it because the official in the south was too young and a fool? Then he comforted himself, wondering if the other party would change in the future? But after comforting him, he

I can only lament my situation - how can I be able to relax even if I am huddled up all day long?!

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that once evil thoughts arose, Scholar Qin became a little more aggressive... Whether he was pursuing peace talks and returning to the south, or pursuing a high position in the north through peace talks, he could not tolerate Nianhan's behavior.

exists.

It’s only the other person’s fault for standing in front of him!

The so-called murderous intention is the same, and everything is disregarded.

Of course, to put it another way... breaking the jar and breaking the pot also roughly means the same thing.

No matter what happened, it's just that Qin Huizhi was stimulated and lamented his situation. For a moment, he tore the flinch on his head, and then came back, but he just carried chestnuts and talked to Wanyan Wushu, who had revealed some of his feelings before.

After a stick of incense, he left directly. But after Qin Hui left, Wanyan Wushu tossed and turned again that night, unable to sleep for a while.

This is not to say that Qin Hui's idea is not feasible. On the contrary, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom had never imagined that a white-faced scholar could see the situation so thoroughly, and point out such a simple and direct way as easily as a cook trying to understand a cow.

But there is a path that is very possible to implement. It really feels like making a huge difference... And with such a prosperous road so clearly laid out in front of him, the fourth prince actually flinched.

It's not that he doesn't dare. After all, the fourth prince has stepped on the last step of the founding of the country. How can he be afraid of this after rolling in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood... His momentary hesitation was just that he was worried that such a treatment would

It will not bring further turmoil to the country, but will only leave a gap for the owner of the dragon mask in the south.

That’s right!

The fourth prince who narrowly escaped death from Yaoshan was no longer the proud and arrogant fourth prince he had been before. His pride, arrogance, and arrogance had long been affected by the heavy rain on the night of the battle at Yaoshan, and the torrential turbulence when crossing the river later.

Lang gave it a clean wash!

Not only that, that battle was full of blood. Whether it was Wanyan Loushi's Shenwu charge, the dragon's banner pressing down on the top of Mount Tai, or Han Chang's laughter by the river, they all left an indelible impression on him.

He no longer had any doubts about the revival of Zhao and Song Dynasties, nor about the decline of the Jin Kingdom's military power. Moreover, when he was holding the white wooden dragon in the river that day, he had already sworn in his heart that if he could get it

In life, he must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and must shoulder the important responsibilities of his family and country... No matter what, he will never allow himself to witness the scene of the dragon rolling down Yanjing.

Within two days, Wu Shu was conflicted in his heart, but it didn't show on his face at all. As a result, Qin Hui could only suppress his uneasiness and pretend that nothing happened... Until the morning of the third day, the two came to the Marshal's Mansion again to attend court.

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"That's all about today..."

Nianhan stood alone in a high position, drank a cup of tea, and then clapped his hands. "Besides these, there are a few things that need to be done proactively. The first one is. I think Goryeo has to send an envoy over to ask for tribute. This time

It has to be doubled. Why? Because after the death of Oriyan (Lou Shi) in the battle, Goryeo immediately sent envoys to Bianjing. It can be seen that we are fundamentally dissatisfied with it, but the more dissatisfied we are, the more strict we should be.

It’s better to be harsher.”

Wushu and the rest of them all nodded in disbelief.

I have to say that Nianhan's handling was quite right... In the poor place of Goryeo, when the Jurchens were in Liaodong in the past, they really regarded it as a strong enemy, and they really regarded the Goryeo Dynasty as a place of wealth, but later they swallowed Liao.

, overthrew the Song Dynasty, and got the precious land like Hebei, and then looked at the miserable place of Goryeo, and felt that it was too lazy to even use troops.

And since you have no intention of destroying the opponent, it is extremely necessary to use diplomatic means to intimidate him.

Nianhan did not look at anyone else. He only saw Wushu nodding, so he no longer hesitated and nodded directly. Then he continued to speak in the audience: "Then it's settled. There is one more thing. Yelu Mawu sent a message.

It is said that Yelu Yujian has been behaving strangely these days... What do you think?"

Wu Shu and the others looked at each other, how could they think of this nonsense?

A high-level demoted general who was deprived of his military power was once a Khitan man who served as the marshal's right-hand supervisor of the army in the Kingdom of Jin. When Taizu was here, this man was begging for children and concubines in the army, which triggered Taizu's anger.

Wanyan Aguda's suspicion; later when the Jin army went south to destroy the Song Dynasty and create the Jingkang Rebellion, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wrote a letter to induce him to surrender, which further aroused the suspicion of the Jin Dynasty's top brass, so that after Jingkang, he gradually deprived him of his military power; and now,

Loushi died in the battle, and then the king suddenly suffered a stroke. You Nianhan also became the marshal of the country's Bojilie and the capital. The living girl is still making trouble with Balisu across the river. Yelu Yujian, if he is not behaving strangely in the west,

That’s weird!

So what do you think? Just sit and watch!

Anyway, there is no soldier left, can we still find flowers?

"What I mean is, let Ba Lisu kill him." Nianhan thought for a moment and continued. "It saves him the chance of running to the other side of the river and shaking the morale of the army."

"That's true, but if Yelu Yujian is really killed, what will happen to Yelu Ma Wu and the rest of the Khitan troops in the East and West Route Army?" Wu Shu said seriously. "With the current situation, wouldn't it still shake people's hearts?

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Nian Han shook his head: "Of course I know that it is all about shaking the morale of the army, but things have to be looked at from other places. He ran to the other side of the river, whether he surrendered to the Song people or the Xixia people, or went to the Mengwu to see Yelu Dashi, what happened?

When the flag comes, the morale of the Khitan army will always be shaken. If we kill, it will only be temporarily shaken. As the saying goes, long-term pain is not as good as short-term pain, and we can also take the opportunity to show our authority to the Khitan people and Xi people in the army..."

Wu Shu immediately woke up and nodded.

But at this moment, Nianhan continued: "Moreover, he has occupied this position in the Marshal's Mansion for many years. Apart from him, it is convenient for people like Lisu and Huonv to come up."

Everyone cheered up together.

To put it bluntly, the Kingdom of Jin still had to talk about military power... Yelu Yu saw that it was because he had no military power that he was treated like a pig and discussed how to kill him and when to kill him.

The military power of the Jin Kingdom can be roughly divided into three areas.

The field armies are naturally the two armies of the East and West, each with nearly one hundred thousand soldiers at their peak. In addition to the two armies, there are also a certain number of left-behind troops and garrisons scattered in Yanjing, Huanglong Prefecture, Liaoyang Prefecture, Datong...

...That is, for all the places in the original Liao Kingdom, this number, if you add in bits and pieces from east, west, north, south, would be one hundred thousand.

300,000 was the highest peak in the Jin Kingdom during its heyday, the year after the Jin Kingdom created the Jingkang Incident.

Of course, the garrison does not count after all. If the garrison were to be included, the Song Dynasty on the opposite side could now claim five to six million. Even everyone here knows that it is impossible not to leave troops in these places.

, at most, it is just a transit channel to select some elites to join the East and West armies.

Therefore, the key lies in the east and west armies.

But back to the present, even if we only talk about the East and West armies, the situation seems a bit strange.

First of all, the losses in the defeat of Yaoshan, including dead, injured and non-combat attrition, plus the previous losses in Fangzhou, calculated all the way, it is similar to what the Song army had guessed, the exact losses of more than 10,000 are indeed there. Moreover,

Most or even the vast majority of them are the core troops under the Meng'an Muke system. In other words, during the Battle of Yaoshan, the ratio of Meng'an Muke and supplementary troops in the Jurchen field troops directly changed, and then the

The ratio of Jurchen soldiers to other ethnic groups' soldiers and horses has also changed... Just now Wushu was worried that killing Yelu Yujian would cause the morale of the army to be shaken. This was also the reason.

There is no way, this is the tragedy of the small Juche ethnic group, and it is also the fundamental reason why the Battle of Yaoshan only killed 10,000 or 20,000 people, but it shocked the entire Jin Kingdom, so that the country's leader became angry. The loss of these soldiers and horses,

In addition, there are two East Route Army households with a total of 10,000 households, which is due to the collapse of the organizational system. This cannot be compensated by supplementing the figures completely.

However, this is only a direct loss. Another serious problem at present is that the command authority of the army was split after the war.

The West Route Army was divided into two, with the main part on the east bank of the Yellow River, but a small number of core troops stayed in northern Shaanxi with live women; the East Route Army also split, but this split was not caused by fighting, but

When the top brass of the Jin Kingdom were greatly shocked by the defeat of Yaoshan, Nianhan suddenly went south to Damingfu in order to protect himself and took away the military power from Talan.

Not only that, at that time Wanyan Wushu was in Huguan and Wanyan Yinliduo was in Hezhong Mansion. Of course, the two brothers had no intention of handing over the troops. However, the two brothers were brothers after all, and they had always been relatively harmonious, which was superficial.

It can only be called a road.

But in fact, everyone knows that this fourth prince has suffered repeated defeats, but his political status has been rising again and again. Especially because of his previous contribution to bringing Nianhan back to Yanjing, he is now qualified to form an independent faction.

In other words, the current main field force of the Jin Army has been artificially divided into five. Among them, the West Route Army is divided into two. One is in Yan'an, controlled by the eldest son and daughter of the Lou family, with about ten thousand people; the other is in Taiyuan,

Under the control of Wanyanba Lisu, there were about thirty or forty thousand households; and the East Route Army was also divided into three. Wushu controlled two complete ten thousand households in Huguan and Hanoi areas; Daming Prefecture had three ten thousand households, and the original commander

The first was Talan, the representative of the country's leader Wu Qimai, but was directly taken away by Nianhan riding south alone; then there were three thousand households, plus the original troops left behind by the West Route Army in Hezhong Prefecture, and the elite soldiers used by Lou Shi

The 20,000 Han soldiers who were left behind after the strategy were all there.

"What are you going to do with Marshal Du?" Yin Shuke, an old man, asked cautiously. "Do living girls also need to be promoted?"

"Simple, the arrangements have been made according to the previous post-war arrangements. The third prince and fourth prince don't need to move anywhere. Don't worry about the soldiers and horses of the West Route Army at the third prince's place. They are all for the country... Just let

The third prince will continue to be the left deputy marshal, and the fourth prince will be the right deputy marshal. There is no need to give special orders to the living girl. He will be given the title of Northern Shaanxi Marching Department and Marshal Right Superintendent, and he will conduct some defense in northern Shaanxi and lead the way.

Where can I go outside the river... Ba Lisu will be the marshal's right supervisor and stay behind in Taiyuan." Nianhan's face was as usual and he spoke easily. He actually pointed out several important marshal positions in the marshal's mansion. "Talan is promoted.
To be continued...