At the turn of spring and summer in the second year of Zhenyou's reign, the Mongolian army finally retreated.
For this reason, the Jin Dynasty invited Princess Qi, the daughter of Emperor Jingzong, to marry Genghis Khan and gave her a batch of wealth as a dowry. Fortunately, the assets that the Mongolian army asked for were not very large. They were just some gold and silver treasures, some boys and girls, some silk and grosgrain, colorful embroidered clothing, and three thousand horses.
As a dowry for the princess, these dowries are considered rich, but as compensation for the contract between the two big countries, these materials are pitifully small.
Perhaps it was because after the Mongolian army repeatedly looted Zhongdu, Hebei, Hedong, Shandong and other places, the harvest was so abundant that their appetite was full and they could not eat any more food.
In fact, inspired by the victory in Shandong Dinghaijun, the Jin armies everywhere were not as fearful of the enemy as tigers. After the new emperor of the Jin Kingdom succeeded to the throne, he indeed promoted some capable generals and formed a more resilient army. He fought several fierce battles with the Mongolian army near Zhongdu. Although there were few victories in the field battles, the defenders The city is more than enough.
If the two countries are compared to two people who are fighting fiercely, then the Kingdom of Jin is like a rich man with a fat head. Although he is dripping with blood and has a rotten stomach, his body is still strong and he will not die. Mongolia, on the other hand, is a thief who has been hungry for a long time, so he is extremely ferocious. After all, his physical strength still needs to be restored, and he is eager to go home, light a fire, and feast on the food he robbed from rich households.
Therefore, since the beginning of Zhenyou's second year, the war between Jin and Mongolia has reached a stalemate. As the weather gets hotter, the Mongolian army is even more unsuitable. Many people in the court noticed this situation. They did not support the peace negotiation at all, and asked the emperor to continue fighting with the Mongols.
They believed that once they showed weakness in the peace talks, they would inevitably arouse the ambitions of the Mongols and instead prolong the war.
However, the emperor himself has been very insistent on this. He always believed that Dajin's troubles were not external but internal. In any case, only by ending the battle with the Mongolian army as soon as possible could he be free to sort out state affairs calmly.
In the past few months, many of the emperor's ideas could not be implemented because of the presence of senior ministers like Tu Shanyi. But when Tu Shanyi died, the ministers gathered around him would inevitably be divided. The emperor is always an emperor. As long as he has basic political means, it will be difficult for the ministers to confront his opinions head-on.
The collaboration between Jin and Mongolia was quickly completed.
At this time, Princess Qi's carriage had already left Gongchen Gate and was slowly heading north along the long street. Many of the houses on both sides of the long street were demolished on their own initiative, and the dismantled masonry and wood were used to defend the city. So after two rows of guards and soldiers along the street, some people gathered among the ruins, silently took a look at the convoy, and then continued to pick up bits and pieces of usable things in the ruins.
The common people know that after the princess leaves the city, the war between Jin and Meng has come to an end. The millions of soldiers and civilians in Zhongdu who have been under the threat of death for the past six months can all take a breather.
This was good news, but the people did not face it with joy and excitement.
Almost every family among the refugees died in the war, and they themselves had fled into Zhongdu for several months. Now they were in rags and skinny. Many of them were just one breath away from starving to death. They were not in the mood to cheer.
As for the local people in Zhongdu, months of fighting, death, hunger and fear have almost shattered their spirits and destroyed their confidence in Daikin. They instinctively knew that even if the Mongolian army retreated this time, the ant people's difficulties had just begun.
So, on the day when the collegial agreement was reached, there was deathly silence in Zhongdu.
Watching on both sides of the long street were officials with complicated expressions.
The officials' thoughts were more complicated than their faces. Some Jurchen officers were complaining in low voices, feeling that their side was still capable of fighting and would not be so eager to humiliate themselves and seek peace. There were also Haner officers who tried their best to maintain their demeanor. Occasionally, they would make eye contact with their colleagues, and they knew that both sides had remembered the history books. Those dynasties that were going into decline...or, the Liao Kingdom of the Khitans.
"This is not okay!"
Qingshannu from the Attendance Bureau stood on the Gongchen Gate, seeing this situation, he shook his head repeatedly.
He immediately summoned a waiter: "Go to Miao Daorun and tell him, this is a major and happy event accomplished by the emperor, how can it be so lifeless? Let the soldiers under his command shout long live! Let's celebrate!"
The little one in the outer tent took the order and left. After a while, an officer led the soldiers and raised their arms and shouted. The cheers seemed feeble, and no one else responded except the defenders and a small number of soldiers guarding the pro-army. However, the emperor was in Zhaoming Palace at the moment, separated by two high walls, so he could only hear a general idea, and Qingshan Nu could easily handle it.
Just as I was thinking of this, a chamberlain hurried over and said, "The emperor has summoned me."
Qingshan Nu quickly stood up, and before leaving, he whispered to a waiter in the tent: "Go and keep an eye on the princess too. Before the princess leaves the city, all the troops must shout loudly and loudly! Can't stop!"
Seeing Xiaodi running out of the palace gate, the Qingshan servant nodded slightly to the chamberlain. The two of them walked quickly along the palace corridor. Qingshan Nu lowered his eyelids and looked at the servant's hurriedly moving feet. He was thinking about how to depict the joy and joy of the soldiers and civilians in Zhongdu.
At the same time, Shanzhou City was thousands of miles away from Zhongdu.
During the Jianyan period of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty, dug up the Yellow River embankment in an attempt to use the river water to stop the Jin army. As a result, this water attack failed to stop the Jin army from moving freely, but instead drowned more than 200,000 Song people and displaced tens of millions of people.
Du Chong himself later surrendered to Dajin and became the third envoy and right prime minister of Yanjing.
At that time, no one in the Dajin Dynasty thought that Du Chong would cause such a big trouble, otherwise he would never end well. After the Yellow River was dug by Du Chong, it continued to flood for decades, which cost the court countless manpower and resources, but could not be controlled.
Because the Yellow River flows from Si into the Huaihe River, the Yellow River is roughly the dividing line between Shandong and Nanjing. On the Nanjing Road side, only Shanzhou and Caozhou are located east of the Yellow River.
During the Mingchang period, the Yellow River burst again. This time, the river branched into a northward stream at Yangwu, first poured into Liangshanbo, and then divided into several rivers. The most important one is roughly parallel to the old road. After detouring around Jeju and Xuzhou, it merges into one in Pengcheng.
So Caozhou, Shanzhou, Jeju, and Xuzhou became areas surrounded by the Yellow River and its tributaries and continuous siltation lakes.
Nowadays, the two states of Cao and Dan are under the control of Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu; the two states of Ji and Xu are used by the Red Coat Army as the base for advancing westward armies; the four states are like a natural battlefield.
In Shanzhou City, Wanyan Heda, who was appointed by King Sui as the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, strode out of the commander's mansion. He was covered in heavy armor, and the sturdy iron armor leaves made a clanging sound when he stepped on it.
However, when he walked outside the handsome man's house and stood in a slightly open area, the sound of the collision of nails and leaves was immediately covered up by another sound. The sound came from outside the city, from the camp of the Red Coat Army. The shouts poured into his ears like a tsunami.
That was at least tens of thousands of people shouting one after another.
The shouts came from the wide front, irregular, noisy and chaotic. It's a little low here, and it's suddenly high there. After shouting for half a cup of tea, different people and different slogans slowly became unified.
An assistant general on the side said: "They are shouting long live the mountain! It's the rebel Yang An'er who is here! This guy... really wins the hearts of the people!"
"Long live? Win the hearts of the people?" Wanyan Heda just sneered.
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